The recent introduction of stringent Federal security standards has prompted CEIA to release a series of walkthrough Metal Detectors expressly designed for high level applications. These metal detectors look similar to other models in CEIAs product offering, but feature a combination of advanced target detection and state of the art personal object discrimination.
Met-Identity technology: With Met-Identity technology, the 02PN20/EZHD allows you to know where, how much and what type of metal is being brought into the secure area.
Met-Identity technology for Identification of Threat Composition. The most advanced Security Standards require detection of all ferrous and non-ferrous metal weapons and of those constructed in special non-magnetic alloys. The 02PN20/EZHD detects firearms and knives of this type, even when they are hidden within body cavities, and accurately indicate the position of the threat, its intensity and its prevalent composition. Inspection personnel thereby acquire thorough knowledge of the metal item and can act, according to procedures, with maximum effectiveness and security.
High visibility of the control unit and the zone indication independent from the operator position and the installation environment. Accurate signaling is essential for best operation and flow management. The 02PN20/EZHD provides the user with fully-programmable signaling. Both entry-points can indicate with a high level of accuracy, even simultaneously, the vertical and lateral areas of transit of the threats detected, and can also be configured as 'traffic lights' to control transits through the detector.
Very High Precision Transit Counter: In-Bound Transits; Out-Bound Transits; Alarm Rate; Automatic Compensation for repeated transits of the same person. The Metal Detector provides an automatic count of the people passing through the access point in both directions and the related nuisance alarm percentage.
Cutting-edge discrimination technology allows personal effects to be ignored, creating rapid transit flow. The transit volume magnetic scanning system, invented by CEIA and applied since production of the first zonal Metal Detectors in 1986, allows state-of-the-art detection and discrimination results. The 02PN20/EZHD has an extremely low nuisance alarm rate even at the strictest Security Levels requested today, and therefore allows high transit flow rates and the minimum need for intervention by inspection personnel.
One touch automatic installation (OTS). Innovative function assisting the installation through an automatic step-by-step procedure.
Highly adaptable for installation in all environments.
Continuous self diagnostics assure monitored performance reliability.
Upper tie-down points available for stabilization in case of strong winds (up to 25 mph).
Up to 50 built-in Security Programs: Up to 30 International Standards; Up to 20 Customizable Levels. Setting the Security Levels could not be easier and more versatile than in the 02PN20/EZHD. Users can choose directly from the known International Standards or request implementation of a Standard personalized to their own requirements. Users can also create their own work program and save it in internal memory provided for the purpose.
Chip Card system for fast, simple and secure parameter changes (i.e. alarm volume and tone, counter reading, etc...) and security level selection.
Control remoto infrarrojo para la programación inalámbrica remota de la unidad de control.


Despite a massive exodus of its core, the San Francisco 49ers are not looking like a rebuilding team. Not after signing former Baltimore Ravens receiver Torrey Smith to a five year deal worth $40 million. This give Colin Kaepernick a small consolation prize after losing his offensive lineman (Mike Iupati to rival Arizona Cardinals), top running back (Frank Gore) and probably his top receiver (Michael Crabtree)—in addition to quiet the riots happening outside 49er headquarters.


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#5 out of 22 in 2013 Affordable Midsize SUVs
2013 Chevrolet Traverse Interior Review
Note: This interior review was created when the 2013 Chevrolet Traverse was new.
The 2013 Chevrolet Traverse's revised interior is spacious and comfortable, according to auto critics. Most reviewers agree that its standard third row is comfortable for adults, which is an uncommon praise for a midsize SUV. While not all test drivers appreciate all of the Traverse's interior touches, they do note that material quality has improved over the previous model. The Traverse also has plenty of cargo room.
"The interior is commendably quiet, which means front-row occupants don't have to turn around and shout at the third-row; normal tones are possible, even if they get no results. Turning around will, however, reveal the elegantly tapering roofline. It's easy to admire how well-done this big vehicle is." -- Automobile Magazine
"In the realm of people movers, the Chevrolet Traverse is one of those vehicles whose design makes sense the instant you enter the cabin." -- Road and Track
"The … Chevrolet Traverse's interior is a study in the fine art of form meeting function." -- Kelley Blue Book (2012)
"Stylish interior design presents well at a distance. Hard plastic is prevalent, but its texture lends substance. The available leather upholstery adds a bit more of an upscale touch." -- Consumer Guide (2012)
The 2013 Traverse has seating for eight, but buyers can equip the second row with captain's chairs, reducing seating to seven. Overall, reviewers say that the first and second rows offer a good amount of space and are comfortable over long drives. The Traverse comes with cloth upholstery and manually-adjustable front bucket seats, but power-adjustable, heated front seats and leather upholstery are optional.
Unlike many three-row SUVs, most test drivers like the Traverse's third-row seats and say they are comfortable for adults. One critic differs, however, saying that both the second- and third-row seats are too low to the ground for comfort. Even though this is a common complaint in crossovers, they say that the Ford Explorer and Flex offer higher seating positions. Rear visibility is good, but one reviewer notes that thick roof pillars may obstruct forward vision.
"As before, the Traverse's sliding second row eases access to the third row, which is actually roomy enough for adults." -- Edmunds
"Among the largest midsize SUVs, Traverse's cabin feels especially roomy. Big, supportive seats make for good long-trip comfort. … Outward visibility is good thanks to big mirrors and unobtrusive rear headrests. The view to the front corners is partially obscured by thick roof pillars." -- Consumer Guide (2012)
"Once seated, passengers will discover the Traverse's third row is actually quite accommodating to full-size adults." -- Kelley Blue Book (2012)
"Both rows in the Traverse sit too close to the floor, which leaves adults' knees raised. Squatting seats are the norm in many crossovers, but the Explorer - and Ford's other crossover, the boxy Flex - sit higher." -- Cars.com (2012)
The 2013 Traverse comes with features that include a backup camera and a 6.5-inch touch-screen display with a USB port and Bluetooth phone connectivity. Higher trims include features like Chevrolet's MyLink infotainment system, navigation, rear parking sensors, a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, a power liftgate and blind spot monitoring. Many of the available features are also offered on lower trims as stand-alone options.
One automotive critic thinks that the gauges and controls are easy to use and well-placed. Another test driver says that the contrast stitching and faux wood look out of place in the Traverse, but likes Chevrolet's new MyLink display. The new MyLink system wasn't tested extensively by the automotive press, so there is little reviewer opinion on how it works.
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"Although we weren't fans of the wood trim and awkward combination of blue contrast stitching in our particular test vehicle, this new interior did help set off the beautiful new 6.5-in. color touchscreen interface of the Chevy MyLink infotainment system." -- Road and Track
"As the volume-brand model, the Traverse doesn't have all the niceties of its more upscale counterparts like the Acadia Denali and Enclave, but 2013 brings some significant improvements to the interior trim, with soft-touch upper dashboards, ambient lighting, and the integration of Chevrolet's MyLink interface into the center stack." -- Truck Trend
"Big, bright, clear gauges are easy to read. Major controls are where you would expect them to be." -- Consumer Guide (2012)
The 2013 Traverse has one of the largest cargo areas in the class, with up to 116.4 cubic feet of space. This bests some large SUVs like the Chevrolet Tahoe. Behind the second-row seats, the Traverse holds 70.3 cubic feet of cargo and even with all the seats in use, there's an impressive 24.4 cubic feet. Reviewers appreciate the Traverse's overall cargo space and its generous number of cabin storage compartments.
"There's more usable space behind the raised 3rd-row seat than in most midsize SUVs, plus a handy under-floor compartment. Both the 2nd- and 3rd-row seats fold forward easily, though not completely flat. Several bins and cubbies provide ample interior storage." -- Consumer Guide (2012)
"Cargo room distinguishes the Traverse, which has 24.4 cubic feet - enough for a large cooler - behind the third row. … Fold all the seats, and the Traverse has 116.4 cubic feet of maximum volume. No direct competitor breaks 100 cubic feet." -- Cars.com (2012)
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Imagine the possibilities! This adorable ranch in a great downtown location is waiting to be brought back to it's glory! Corner lot with a nice flat yard, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Living room with big windows, eat in kitchen, mudroom with woodstove, master bedroom with cathedral ceiling. Trails at Star Hill right outside your door, locals views to the distant hills and walk to everything Lebanon has to offer - location, location, location!


The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans today denied a request to remove the Federal judge who is presiding over the two lawsuits brought by the Hunt brothers against 23 banks.
The Hunts asked the appeals court to act after twice petitioning District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. to recuse himself. The attorneys charged that, among other things, the judge had a financial interest in the outcome of the lawsuits.
Judge Sanders, who refused both requests for recusal, declined to comment on today's action.
Philip J. Hirschkop, who is representing the Hunt brothers, said that further legal action would be taken.


We recently had our second family outing to Bugz Family Playpark in Kraaifontein, and we had the best weather before the storm clouds rolled in. We got there really early, along with all the other parents with really young kids, and spent our time playing with new friends in the freeplay areas in the sandpit, the jungle gym and the dragon swing (the best).
Paige and I went on the choo choo train around the park, which was just long enough before she wanted off to play on the next ride (she was a like kid in a candy store!) She is still a little young at under 3 years for most of the token rides, and children around 4 years and older will get the most out of all the activities.
Remember to pack a costume and towel for the kids, so they can enjoy the water slides. What I like is even if it's busy, you can find a quiet spot to relax at a table shaded by all the trees, and appreciate the kids having fun.
If you want to move indoors, there is an indoor play area and Bugz Tent Kitchen for eats. There were plenty of parties going on that day, each in their own reserved area, which Paige did her best to gatecrash.
A fun morning out, and best of all they both slept in the car on the way home.
This is not a paid post but I was allowed free access to explore the park with my family. Images are my own.


In the cozy atmosphere of a historic Amsterdam canal house, Amsterdam Pipe Museum shows an overview of fashion and design in smoke pipes. The exhibition covers a period of 2,500 years, with particular objects from five continents. The collection is the life work of a serious collector who brought in forty years the world's most renowned pipe collection together.
The museum shows the pipe from its origins among American Indians more than 500 years BC to the present. Ranging from the famous long Gouda clay pipe artistic and pipes from the nineteenth century, carved from meerschaum and wood. Beautifully hand painted porcelain pipe bowls with miniatures from the German language. Especially the French smokers are known for the small works of art which they smoked their tobacco.
Visit permanent and temporary exhibitions during a visit to the Amsterdam Pipe Museum. This cultural trip is a must during your city trip or weekend break to Amsterdam. The museum is located in a beautiful historical building in the city centre of Amsterdam.


Isolation can make it difficult to maintain a balanced perspective on life and reality. The best cure for isolation is charity work, because it forces a shift in attention from self to others.
Our unique gifts should be shared with the community. The best way to share our gifts is with humility, empathy and patience. Self-consciousness makes it impossible to listen and empathize with others around us.
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With four generations of architecture artistry behind him, Spanish architect Javier Barba has created a legacy all his own.
Not every architect can tell you they belong to a lengthy dynasty of industry geniuses, but Javier Barba can. The founder of BC Estudio Architects in Spain is the fourth in a famed succession of designers that began with his great-great-grandfather Francisco Barba Masip, who attended Barcelona's first school of architecture.
The trail of structural legacies left by Barba's ancestors flows from Francisco's neoclassical style to the art nouveau leanings of his grandfather Alfonso Barba Miracle, to his father's involvement in the modern movement of Spain.
Barba says he doesn't have a style of his own, but there's a common thread through all his projects: clean lines and simple shapes come together to create a feel of tranquility, and despite the ultra-modern vibe that his buildings emanate, their minimalism is reflective of nature's purity.
While he doesn't confine his work with labels, Barba does prioritize the use of organic forms, integration into the landscape, use of local materials and orientation of the building to ensure privacy and avoid harsher weather elements. BC Estudio has also become a leading name in "green" architecture.
As metropolises around the world become clogged with buildings that consume and contradict nature, Barba's wholesome approach is warmly welcomed, and has been a smash success in many countries. His studio recently worked its magic on the visitor's centre at Stags' Leap Winery in Napa Valley, reimagining it into an earthy sanctuary, and on the Dunmow House in Athens, Greece, a residential space where lines, shapes and textures mesh together to create an organic yet modern atmosphere.
The Barba family's fifth generation has already cracked into the industry, with Barba's two sons, Gabriel and Jordi, joining the BC Estudio team. As for what this family will accomplish next, Barba hinted he'd love to design a project on Mars. And with the famous Barba track record going for him, that plan might just come to fruition.


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Absorb Fear: Former GE CEO Immelt Explains How to Lead Through Volatility
February 20, 2019 by Susanne Sclafane
When a former leader of GE spoke at a New York City forum late last year, recent media discussions about the decline of the industrial giant and his shortcomings at the helm were of little concern.Executive SummaryJeff Immelt, the former chair and CEO of GE, provided his thoughts on the makings of a leader who can take charge during uncertain times. Having started his GE tenure days after 9/11 and facing four other tail-risk events in rapid succession, Immelt believes that leaders facing similar turbulence need to have a point of view that guides them instinctively and to learn to see horizontal patterns of disruption. They also need to take action, he says, noting the ability to take a punch goes hand-in-hand with execution and action.
Jeff Immelt, the former chair and CEO of GE, provided his thoughts on the makings of a leader who can take charge during uncertain times. Having started his GE tenure days after 9/11 and facing four other tail-risk events in rapid succession, Immelt believes that leaders facing similar turbulence need to have a point of view that guides them instinctively and to learn to see horizontal patterns of disruption. They also need to take action, he says, noting the ability to take a punch goes hand-in-hand with execution and action.
In fact, Jeff Immelt admonished hundreds of senior executives in attendance from the Lincoln Center stage at the World Business Forum: "Don't read things…When you are the story, you don't have to read the story."
Less than a month later, Immelt's tenure as CEO would be detailed in an informative Wall Street Journal feature recounting the history of GE, "GE Powered The American Century ; Then It Burned Out," and a Bloomberg news story, "Investors Are Sick of Waiting for GE's Desperately Needed Reboot," among other press reports. But even if he became aware of the acclaimed WSJ article, his words at the Forum suggest that he has learned to move forward at peace with his accomplishments and unruffled by detractors.


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Jonatan Lillebror Johansson (Estocolmo, 16 de agosto de 1975) é um ex-futebolista e treinador de futebol finlandês nascido na Suécia que atuava como atacante. Atualmente comanda o TPS.

Carreira em clubes
Após defender Pargas e TPS, Johansson assinou com o Flora Tallinn em 1997, tornando-se o primeiro finlandês a jogar em um clube estoniano. Seu desempenho (9 jogos e 9 gols) fez com que o Rangers pagasse 300 mil libras para contar com o atacante. Após 71 partidas (47 na primeira divisão escocesa, 9 pelas Copas nacionais e 16 em competições europeias) e 25 gols, foi contratado pelo Charlton Athletic em 2000, disputando posição com Shaun Bartlett, Jason Euell e Kevin Lisbie. Somando todas as competições que a equipe disputou, Johansson atuou em 168 partidas e marcou 33 gols.

Passou também por Norwich City, Malmö, Hibernian e St. Johnstone. Após rejeitar propostas do Greenock Morton e de um clube da Alemanha (que não teve o nome citado), voltou ao TPS em 2010 para encerrar sua carreira, aos 35 anos. A aposentadoria, no entanto, só foi oficializada em março de 2011.

Carreira pela seleção
Nascido em Estocolmo, Johansson optou em defender a Finlândia em nível profissional. Sua estreia pela seleção foi em março de 1996, contra o Kuwait. Em outubro de 2009, disputou sua centésima partida internacional, e sua despedida foi em setembro do ano seguinte. Com 106 jogos, é o segundo jogador que mais vestiu a camisa finlandesa (empatado com Sami Hyypiä), e é o quarto maior artilheiro da história do time (atrás de Teemu Pukki, Jari Litmanen e Mikael Forssell).

Carreira de treinador
Virou treinador em 2012, comandando o time Sub-20 do Greenock Morton, função que exerceu também no Motherwell. Foi também auxiliar-técnico da Seleção Finlandesa e do Rangers entre 2016 e 2018, voltando ao Greenock neste ano para estrear como técnico principal.

Desde 2020, Johansson comanda o TPS, equipe onde iniciou e encerrou a carreira de jogador.

Títulos
Rangers
 Scottish Premiership: 1998–99, 1999–00
 Copa da Escócia: 1998–99, 1999–00
 Copa da Liga Escocesa: 1998–99

Links
 Perfil de Jonatan Johansson - OGol.com.br

Naturais de Estocolmo
Futebolistas da Finlândia
Futebolistas do Football Club Flora
Futebolistas do Rangers Football Club
Futebolistas do Charlton Athletic F.C.
Futebolistas do Norwich City F.C.
Futebolistas do Malmö FF
Futebolistas do Hibernian Football Club
Futebolistas do St. Johnstone Football Club
Jogadores da Seleção Finlandesa de Futebol
Treinadores de futebol da Finlândia
Suecos de ascendência finlandesa

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Walk for Autism a Big Success!!
The Autism Walk is finished for this year and we can't thank everyone enough who came out to support, and volunteered, for both school districts!! We had a great day full of walking, raffles, baked goods, music, face painting and fundraising. We want to thank everyone who helped in every shape and form, to put this walk together. It takes a team to make things like this happen, and this happened because of the wonderful team we have at our Eagles club. Again, a big thank you to all who participated in, and helped with, this event!!


Nobody likes a know-it-all. The problem is that today, with the world at your fingertips, google but a few clicks away, you are all just a bunch of know-it-alls. And so am I. And here's the problem with that; know-it-alls like us turn very quickly into card-carrying critics—because with five good minutes spent on Wikipedia, I can pretty well be an expert in anything, and then, a few more minutes to collect my thoughts and all my opinions, and I don't really care about your credentials, your long experience or wisdom, the letters after your name, or whatever authority you might have. I am ready with my judgements, and you can read them on Reddit.
These days, I can sit back, relax, and log in, and then rate my doctor and my waiter, my coach and all my professors, my neighbors, my preschool and my church. You can even rate the people who write ratings, and I assume somewhere you can even rate me. It is one of the many unintended consequences of the digital age: for better and for worse, everyone is now a card carrying critic. No one is immune or above reproach, and even if you are the Son of God, who comes down from heaven to give life to the world, the critics will find you.
And we find in our gospel today that, actually, this is nothing new. Now the crowds who find Jesus today have a right to ask their questions (again, criticism is not always for the worse). "Rabbi, where did you come form?" "What sign do you do that we may see and believe?" "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?" Sort-of critical questions, but fair questions. Perhaps, even your questions.
"Dear Jesus, how can you expect me to trust you when I cannot see any reason?" "Dear Jesus, I could really use a work of God right about now." "Dear Jesus, what should I do with my life; why can't I just hear your voice?" You have a right to ask your questions, too—even if they are flavored with criticism, tainted with frustration, confusion, or pain. Jesus heard the questions and criticisms of the crowds and he can handle yours.
But remember this. The problem with the critic is not that he speaks out against what he sees as wrong, or even that he questions those in authority. The problem with all the critics is not their criticism. The problem is that, so very often, they stop with mere criticism. They are content to sit back and relax, and log in, and tell the world what they think, and their words—their harsh, often hurtful words—are only ever just that: words.
Their words never become anything more. They never rebuild what they tear down. They never come along side and help whom they criticize. They tend not to listen, really. And they never reach out in love, to mend what they see is broken. To use the terms of John's gospel, the word of the critic is rarely a word become flesh.
Jesus answers his critics today and he answers their questions. In fact, he even has some criticism of his own: "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me...because you ate your fill of bread." "Truly, truly I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven." Jesus criticizes and corrects and teaches today and there is only one thing that keeps him from being just another critic.
In this Bread of Life Discourse, the question is, "What is meant by 'bread'?" The crowds may well have thought Jesus's 'bread which endures to eternal life' was the word of Jesus (some new instructions for doing the work of God, perhaps). This is how the prophet Isaiah speaks, likening the 'rain that comes down from heaven which gives bread to the eater' to the word of God.
But Jesus is the Word of God made flesh—he himself is the bread which came down from heaven, the bread of God, the bread of life. Jesus does speak to us today, and his word is good, even when it is critical, even when it calls us to repent of our empty words, of our loveless works, of our faithless hearts.
But there is one thing that keeps Jesus from being just another critic: the Son of God does not leave us with mere criticism. He is the Word of God made flesh, full of help, full of forgiveness, come to mend what he sees is broken. "Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst," says Jesus. Whoever comes to him will find more than a sermon.
He will find God in the flesh, a God who can be found, born of the Virgin Mary, come to give his life (the very life of God) on a cross, come to invest himself entirely in the cause of our redemption. He comes down out of heaven himself, not to give you something merely to think about, but something for your hunger and thirst—to embrace you and save you body and soul, in flesh and blood.
May our church never settle for a sermon. May we love the word of God and gladly hear and learn it. But Jesus is the Word of God made flesh. Let this place, then, ever be a place of eating and drinking—of feasting and of tangible love flowing out from the communion we share in the body and the blood of Christ. Let us gladly hear the Word of God ringing in our ears, and all the more gladly, let us receive it upon our lips.


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Christina Lowery
Christina is passionate about narrative storytelling as an engine of social awareness. In 2009, she helped found Girl Rising, serving as its Managing Director and in 2017 led its transition from a film production company to a non-profit. Christina is responsible for the strategy and execution of Girl Rising's expanding work around the globe including the production of new films and other media, implementation of GR's on the ground programs and ongoing engagement with public and private sector partners, foundations, media partners, educators, and grassroots supporters. Her passion for storytelling is founded upon decades of experience in documentary film and television, having contributed to and/or produced films for CNN, ABC, Bill Moyers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, among many others. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and a Masters in International Community Planning from the University of Texas, Austin. She lives in New York's Hudson River Valley with her husband and three children.
Martha Adams
Martha, an award-winning storyteller who produced the film Girl Rising, continues to produce stories to fuel girls' empowerment around the world. Most recently she traveled with Girl Rising Ambassador Meryl Streep to produce the CNN Films TV special We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World; now the highest rated CNN Film of all time. Adams is also a Senior Fellow at The University of Southern California's Marshall Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab which recognizes leadership at the intersection of business and social impact. She serves as a Film Expert for the U.S. Department of State diplomacy program American Film Showcase, and in 2015 Novus awarded her "Humanitarian of the Year."
Catherine Brandli
Chief Development Officer
For over 15 years, Catherine has worked to support social justice causes. She currently oversees Girl Rising's fundraising efforts. Most recently, she served as the Director of External Affairs for Learning Leaders, a NYC public school family engagement organization. Previously, Catherine was the Director of Development for Equality Now, an international women's rights organization. Prior development positions include: Helen Keller International, Columbia University Medical Center, and the San Francisco Boys & Girls Club. Catherine holds an M.A. in Modern European Studies from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont. She currently resides with her family in NYC.
Kayce Freed Jennings
Senior Producer/Director, Girl Rising Educators
Kayce has been with Girl Rising since its inception as part of The Documentary Group, which she co-founded. Before that she was a producer for ABC News, covering international and national news while based in London, Atlanta and New York. She produced for virtually every ABC News broadcast and was on the staffs of Nightline, World News Tonight and 20/20. Kayce currently serves on the board of Win, NYC's largest provider of shelter to homeless families, and the advisory boards of SOLA - School of Leadership, Afghanistan, the Jimbere Fund, and the Bridgehampton Child Care Center. She's a graduate of Brown University and studied government at the London School of Economics.
Chief program and administrativE Officer
Jill is leading Girl Rising's transition to a nonprofit 501c3 and advises on organizational strategy and structure. For over a decade, Jill was Managing Director of the Sundance Institute, where she spearheaded strategic planning, communications and branding efforts, led the development of new programs and revenue-generation, and oversaw program operations for the artist labs and the Sundance Film Festival. Jill has advised on programs throughout the world, including initiatives to reduce child malnutrition in India and to increase the number of girls attending middle school in Mali. She has supported global gender equity research and has worked with Utah's diverse refugee community in facilitating local integration. She holds an MPH in Global Health from the University of Utah, an MBA in International Business from The American University, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Utah.
Nidhi Dubey
Country Representative
Girl Rising India
As a trained lawyer, Nidhi brings an unwavering commitment to social justice in her role with Girl Rising. With nearly 20 years of experience, she has brought together the art of storytelling and powerful advocacy to positively impact marginalized populations. Nidhi has worked with Lawyers Collective, Heroes Project - Richard Gere Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University - Centre for Communications Program to fight discrimination against those living with HIV using advocacy strategies, mass media campaigns and the influence of celebrities. Most recently, Nidhi served as the Vice President of Global Health Strategies where she focused on improving access to new child health interventions through advocacy and communications. In her spare time, Nidhi enjoys traveling and spending time with her daughter.
Lauren Manning
Lauren joins Girl Rising with a passion for storytelling, mentorship, education, and international affairs. At Girl Rising, she has built both online and offline communities to inspire change for girls – most recently focused on GR's international programming and partner engagement. She has researched and reported across four continents and pursued projects including curriculum development for students, implementing grassroots economic justice campaigns, content production on post-conflict reconstruction, and digital storytelling for an education and service learning non-profit. She holds a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and is currently pursuing her Masters in Public Policy at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, where she is a Fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict.
Majo Aldana
Guatemala Country Manager
María José Aldana Asturias (Majo) is a Guatemalan, applied anthropologist, passionate about sexual and reproductive health. Most of her career, she has been an independent consultant, working for different local and grassroots organizations, international NGO's and for government institutions, in health and education issues. She began working in public health with WASH and child health, transitioning into maternal health, and then landing on sexual and reproductive rights and health with women, youth and members of the LGBTQIA community. She studied International Development and Global Health at the Korbel School of International Studies and has worked in Guatemala and abroad in the United States, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, and India, both in rural and urban contexts, doing applied research. She enjoys building relationships with people and finding better ways of working together to build more and more spaces where people can access their rights and empower themselves.
Richa Hingorani
Media & Communications Officer
Beginning her career with a leading news channel NDTV, Richa soon became one of its youngest producers. Keen to work with marginalized communities directly, she made a switch to the nonprofit sector, and joined a civil society organization called Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), where she set up its media and communications department and create robust communication models to spread awareness about women's empowerment and girls' access to education. She progressed to join a start-up, Indus Action, where she built an expansive campaign to bridge information gaps regarding a provision under Right to Education Act. She holds a Masters in Development Studies from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Cristina Marzo
Finance and Administration Manager
Cristina's experience includes working for over 6 years at Pro Mujer, a women's development, health and Microfinance nonprofit that provides its clients with a set of integrated services. Her latest position was as Finance and Grants Manager. Previously, she had worked as a Business Development Trainee at Citibank. She has also served as a PTA Treasurer at P.S. 89 in New York City. Cristina holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Universidad Federico Santa Maria and a Master in Marketing from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE. She is also fluent in Spanish and lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
Kathy Bartlett
Co-Director, Girl Rising-Global Education Fund
Kathy has been working in the field of International Education and Development for over 30 years. She currently works as Co-Director of the Girl Rising-Global Education Fund, a venture philanthropy fund. Previously she was the Executive Director of Global Education Fund (GEF) which provided small grants to local NGOs focused on quality learning in Guatemala, Kenya and India. Before that, Kathy worked with the Aga Khan Foundation's Education Program across 15 countries as Co-Director of Education. She currently is on the board for TeachUNITED, an NGO improving quality of teaching and learning in rural schools. She has authored and co-authored a range of articles and reports related to education and early childhood development. She has a Master's and Ph.D in Education from the University of Iowa.
Khuzama Rizwan Khan
Khuzama holds over fourteen years of experience working in the development sector in and outside of Pakistan on issues related to child protection, development education and women's economic empowerment. Program management and partnerships development are her greatest strengths that have helped her design and deliver various programs in development and humanitarian settings. She identifies as a trainer, a feminist, and a child rights activist. During her professional career, she has trained many teachers on life skills based education, positive disciplining, pedagogical skills and para-counseling skills. Her extensive work with educational institutions allowed her to successfully manage the implementation of Girl Rising's pilot program in Pakistan in 2018 as an in-country consultant. She holds a Master of Psychology from the University of Punjab, Pakistan and an MA in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Khuzama is a food-lover and a nature enthusiast: two traits that bring her peace and motivate her to work towards achieving an equitable world where all people can sleep on a full stomach and hold respect in their hearts for nature and life.
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Jacopo Bassano is the easily least known among the great Italian painters of sixteenth-century Venice. He was a prominent The Renaissance man. He often knew as Jacopo dal Ponte. He was born and also died in Bassano del Grappa (north Italy, near Venice) so he adopted his name Jacopo dal Ponte. He was the most celebrated member of artists family who took their name from the small town of Bassano. He mostly painted genre scenes and landscapes.
He was born in small town of Bassano del Grappa about in 1510; Bassano del Grappa is located about 40 mile (65 km) away from the Venice. His father, Francesco the Elder was a village painter and Jacopo always retained something of the peasant artist. By 1534 he had found his direction in the art of nearby Venice, learning as much from the chiaroscuro and luxurious color of Titian's works as from his teachers. Jacopo was trained under Bonifazio Veronese (also known as Bonifazio de Pitati) in Venice in around 1530. He earned some prestige in Venice itself, due to this in mid 1500s he became one of the Veneto's most influential painter. When he was in Venice he was in touch with the other famous Italian painter like il Pordenone, Titian, etc.
Even though most of his career was spent in small or middle sized towns on the mainland, he always remained alert to the latest developments in art, sometimes borrowing details from Lorenzo Lotto's works in his portraits. A pioneer in genre scenes and landscape painting, engravings were critical in forming Jacopo's style, particularly those by and after artists like Albrecht Durer, Raphael, and Parmigianino.
In 1539 his father Francesco il Vecchio died. And he came back in Bassano del Grappa permanently. He was married with a Elisabetta Merzari in 1546. He also had the ability to devise new ideas for compositions that possessed great force of expression. Jacopo Bassano's early works starts from 1530s and onward. Bonifazio de Pitati's influence clearly seen in his young pupil in early pieces work. Jacopo Bassano's earliest paintings exhibit his lifelong obsession with brilliant colors, particularly in Jacopo Bassano 's Supper at Emmaus (1538); that he had seen in Titian's beginning works. Bassano in almost all of his painting fills canvas with rich, luminous colors that help the distinguish the figures from their surrounding environment. These make different painting from any other painting. The person lady or gentleman that he painted in his painting they all are having unique in their dress. Instead of clothing his figures in the draping, shapeless fabrics many Renaissance artists equated with Classical Roman fashion, Bassano chose to feature figures in 16th-century clothing.
In Mannerism (European art period) Jacopo seceded from the local popular and virtuous tradition by studying prints by Raphael and developments. According to his early Mannerist paintings work we can say that he used elongated figures and brilliant colors. In 1540s he used his own painting technique with some fabulous new ideas and come with different type of paintings. In this phase proved crucial in the development by creating Supper at Emmaus, The Way to Calvary and Adoration of the Shepherds. Jacopo Bassano's popular realism was underpinned by the lifelike quality of the people and details, especially the animals, in his pictures.
Over the years his handiwork became sharply dramatic and massive. After that in 1550s he started a series of altarpieces (in Bassano, Treviso, Padua, and Belluno). This series is continuing until the end of his life. He treated biblical themes in the manner of rustic genre scenes. Jacopo's The Last Supper painting which he was created in 1542 shows his different interest in trend of Mannerism. After that from 1550s he experimented with light until 1570s. At that time Jacopo was one of the first artist who paint a "nocturne" or a painting in a nighttime landscape with some lighting. And also this type of painting was popular in local audiences. And Jacopo made many painting of this type.
Jacopo Bassano made many painting during his lifetime. The Supper at Emmaus (1538), Flight into Egypt (1542), Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, Baptism of Christ (1590) are his well-known work. From around 1560 his work showed a concern with novel effects of light. On 14 February 1592, Jacopo Bassano was died. Jacopo's workshop was a minor industry in Bassano, and his four painter sons. They all are continued his style until the next century. They are Girolamo da Ponte (1566-1621), Francesco the Younger (1549-1592), Giovanni Battista da Ponte (1553-1613) and Leandro Bassano (1557-1622). Francesco the Younger had a prone to hypochondria. In mid 1592 he committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window. Leandro's death in 1622 brought the artistic dynasty to an end. The work of the family is well represented in the Museo Civico at Bassano.


"Clearing" – the UCAS process of matching students and universities after results day begins on 15th August 2019, the same day you get your A Level results.
Even if you're confident you'll get the results you'll need it always worth having a plan in place to make the Clearing process easier. The first thing to do is create a list of courses and universities you would be prepared to go to.
You might want to consider slightly changing your course or doing joint honours or combined degree, such as Economics and Politics when you originally applied for straight Economics.
You'll find the official Clearing listings on the UCAS website or you could check the websites of the individual universities that you have on your alternative university shortlist.
Once you've found a university that you would like to apply to then the best way forward is to phone them directly. They'll then take your details and give you an answer straightaway or a short time afterwards.
Don't worry if the first university you phone doesn't accept you. The trick to Clearing is to keep calm and carry on phoning until someone accepts you.
If a university that you want to apply to isn't listed on the official Clearing listings then it's still worth giving them a call. Popular universities know that they'll be able to fill their courses without needing to advertise vacancies so you never know where you might be accepted.
Once you get accepted find out when their Clearing open days are being held so you have a chance to view the campus, accommodation, and local area. If there isn't an official open day being held you can probably arrange for a private tour by contacting the university.
You need to move quickly on results day to get a university place as vacancies on popular courses will fill by the end of the day, and for some courses, within a few hours.
The official date for Clearing 2019 applications through UCAS to end is 22nd October 2019 – after this you'll need to contact universities directly.


As one of the most polished models released by Vauxhall, it's surprising that the Antara has lagged behind in sales. Competitors have caught up with fresher takes on the original and have offered higher profile opposition for the soft-road vehicle market. But Vauxhall refused to be left behind; its most recent generation sports an extensive makeover. Don't let the similar, initial appearance fool you: the latest Antara features a brand new chassis, a redesigned interior, brand new diesel engines, improved vibration, harshness, and noise, just to name a few.
The latest Antara has introduced a front-wheel drive version for anyone after an entry-level vehicle. This kind comes with a 2.2 CDTi diesel, with a power of 161bhp and 258lb ft; its maximum torque peak is at 2000rpm. The more powerful alternative is the 181bhp at 295lbft, which also has a 2000rpm torque. The underfoot also sports more than enough torque into its automatic transmissions and six-speed manual.
The Antara also sports a long list of major improvements: the rigid steering gear, added windscreen lamination, improved NVH for the hydraulic engine mountings, sharpened steering precision, a stiffer front anti-roll bar, added detail to the front body frame, and vast ride improvements, Vauxhall made sure each aspect became a serious upgrade from its former life.
Upgrades and enhancements continue to the interior. New Antara owners will be treated to expansive storage space, classy and sleek instruments, seat upgrades, brand new door trims, and better lighting within the cabin. In terms of ride and handling, the Antara boasts of an impressive grip; suspension is able to firmly maintain body movement.
The cabin offers more than enough head and legroom. Plus the reclining seat and flat floor make the ride even more comfortable for people seated at the back. Five individuals can easily enjoy a long journey in the Antara.
Only two kinds of diesel engines are available for the Antara: the previously mention 2.2-litre diesel at 161bhp or at 181bhp. We recommend the latter over the former's power as the 181bhp hesitates when pickup starts to become sluggish. Expect some cabin noise and vibration from the 2.2-litre engine, particularly in the form of road noise when going on motorway speeds. Although the automatic offers a smoother and quieter ride, the compromise comes in an even more sluggish pace. There's a 2.4-litre petrol engine choice somewhere, but there's barely any feedback on that one.
The manual gearchange also tends to be obstructive, despite the claims of future improvement from Vauxhall. At the sixth or fourth gear, the central storage box forces a sudden crank on the arm. It can get exhausting, so you might want to consider the Antara 4x4 automatic. Although a bit sluggish, it shifts more smoothly in both four-wheel and two-wheel drive types.
All entry-level Antaras offer basic alloy wheels and air-conditioning, but only the four-wheel drive versions offer the parking sensors and cruise control as default equipment. SE Nav models are the only versions with Bluetooth and automatic wipers; significant bonuses in equipment are scattered and depend on the kind of vehicle version you prefer.
The Vauxhall Antara was introduced to the public with the goal of capturing the attention of the crossover SUV market. For this segment of the car market, the appeal lies in having a car that can take them seamlessly from the rugged roads to the urban jungle. The concept car was first introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2005 and has been on sale in the UK since 2007.
Towards the end of 2010, the Antara's manufacturer announced a facelift. The design on the front was revised, as well as the front and rear lights. There were also changes made on the diesel engine, chassis, interiors, and storage spaces, as well as making the electric parking brake and hill assistance system standard features.
In the UK market, there are currently three models available – the Exclusiv FWD, Exclusiv AWD, and the SE NAV. A main feature of the current Vauxhall Antara models is the All-wheel drive (AWD) wherein optimal traction is provided when driving in difficult conditions such as slippery non-paved roads. Another neat feature is the Descent Control System (DCS) which gives the care the ability to maintain a constant speed when descending.
Other lifestyle oriented SUVs that the Antara is up against are the Qashqai from Nissan, Kuga from Ford, Tiguan from VW, and the Sportage from Kia.


What are Your Fitness Goals? Fitness, Performance or Competition?
One thing that sets Invictus apart from other CrossFit gyms and online training programs, is that we recognize that everyone has different fitness goals, abilities and needs.
Instead of expecting you to do the same training program as someone with different goals or ability levels, we offer a variety of training programs to match your exact goals – so you can pick the one that works the best for you.
You may want to focus on quality of movement and strength gains while your neighbor might want to fine-tune their higher skill gymnastics movements.
With either (or any) goal, you can both train under the Invictus methodology and get a great workout that's perfect for YOU!
This is where our 3 [FREE] flagship goal-based programs come into play, and is a great place to start and get a feel for how Invictus programming may be different [and more effective] than what you're used to.
These are true functional fitness programs with methodologies and progressions that have been proven over the years in fundamental fitness and strength, and conditioning programs.
If you are new to fitness and want to be lean, active and healthy for the rest of your life – start with the Free Fitness Program.
This program is comprised of simple movements that won't require as much technical proficiency as some of our other programs, so you can feel safe doing the workouts without a lot of knowledge or experience.
You would also follow this program if you workout in a home gym or another facility that doesn't give you access to more than the basics like dumbbells and kettlebells, which are generally prescribed instead of barbells.
But don't be fooled, if you are a seasoned athlete, this program can also work well for you and is the perfect way to stay in shape without risk of injury from kipping gymnastics movements or one rep maxes (1RMs).
If you push your limits with the weights and reps prescribed, you are actually doing much more in each session as far as number of exercises, reps and longer time under tension – your breathing and heart rate will be elevated for the entire hour.
If you are experienced with functional fitness, or CrossFit, and love to train with a barbell, but aren't interested in competing…our Free Performance Program is perfect for you.
This is also a great program to progress to if you have done Fitness for a long time and are looking for more of a challenge as far as technical movements, like Olympic lifting, gymnastics, and skills like double-unders.
This program is a true general physical preparation ("GPP") program and touches on all energy systems and strength qualities. You will work mostly with a barbell (instead of dumbbells and kettlebells), there will be both strict and kipping gymnastics movements, as well as opportunities to test your 1RM on most lifts at the beginning and end of specifically focused training cycles.
And for those of you who want to compete in local competitions at any level, the Free Competition Program is what you should work toward.
This program is designed to push you in all aspects of the 'Sport of Fitness,' so you improve for your next competition. This program will prepare you for the demands that the sport of CrossFit, versus general fitness and preparedness like the Fitness and Performance programs.
Like any sport, CrossFit demands high levels of skill and coordination as well as strength, speed, power, and endurance. If you've been doing Performance for a long time, you may also choose to move on to the Competition Program- solely because you enjoy the challenge and want to improve in more high-skill movements like Olympic lifting, which you will do daily.
So what do you need to do to move to a different Invictus program, whether it be from Fitness to Performance or from Performance to Competition and what can you expect once you get there?
When an athlete is considering new fitness goals and wants to continue to explore their full potential, trying out the proper program is typically our recommendation.
However, making these jumps usually means a big change in your training, so here is some more insight into the differences and things you should consider.
There are no "set weights" or amount of weight that people need to have on their lifts to join any of the three programs. We recognize that athletes range in strengths and weaknesses and, in order to improve, they need to challenge themselves.
In the Fitness program, you are given a rep range on the longer end for your lifts, and usually at a tempo (slower pace). It's up to you to determine the weight to use that will give you the best and safest workout.
In the Performance and Competition programs, it is helpful if you know your one rep max for each lift because you will typically be prescribed to use a certain percentage of your max each session.
And due to the higher volume of kipping gymnastics work in the Competition program from the Performance program (Fitness typically doesn't include kipping movements), we recommend that athletes have at least 5-7 strict pull-ups as a baseline to avoid injury.
We've developed several supplemental programs that will help you build your baseline strength in both gymnastics and with the barbell. Consider one of these programs to help your transition into Performance or Competition.
The volume and loading of the Competition program is much higher and heavier than our other free programs.
We recommend adjusting the volume when you first switch to the Competition program if you know your body won't recover well from the accumulated volume over the course of the week.
We also recommend adjusting the loading, when needed, in the conditioning workouts if the weights are close to your 1RM.
A few months into the program and those weights will be very manageable but when first starting, you may need to adjust.
Check out this article to read about suggestions for adjusting weight in metcons.
The Competition program has more elements to it than the Fitness and Performance programs.
The Competition program is generally laid out with one to two strength progressions, conditioning and then accessory work – so there could be parts A, B, C and D where Fitness and Performance typically only have parts A and B.
Athletes need to plan for a comprehensive warm-up so as to prep their body for the demands of the program. We recommend that you have 90 minutes available for training in order to follow the Competition program where Fitness and Performance can be completed in 60 minutes or less each session.
No matter which program you choose, the number one thing you should consider is your goal(s) and where you currently are toward reaching them. Also, realize that since your goals and lifestyle may change over time so the program you follow should also change along with them.
Try not to look at Fitness, Performance, and Competition as a progression, rather view them as addressing certain needs of an individual.
You can move between any of the programs as long as they will help get you to where you want to be whether that's competing in the CrossFit Open or giving your kids a piggyback ride.
Still Looking for an Online Program That's More Specific to Your Goals?
We've developed several online training programs geared towards those you who have specific competition goals, or want to spend time improving gymnastics, endurance, weightlifting, etc.
Check out our Sample Programming Guide, where you'll see a training day from each of our online programs so that you can pick the exact training program to fit your goals.
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Greta was depressed but activism makes her happy, says father Svante Thunberg
Greta, described as a shy 16-year-old, has found herself in the role of spokesperson for a generation haunted by climate change.
Published: 30th December 2019 07:27 PM | Last Updated: 30th December 2019 07:44 PM | A+A A-
Greta Thunberg (File Photo | AP)
STOCKHOLM: Svante Thunberg, father of eco-warrior Greta Thunberg, thinks his daughter is happier being an activist but admitted in an interview he at first had reservations about her taking up the struggle.
The 50-year-old actor-turned-producer told the BBC he and Greta's mother -- opera singer Malena Ernman -- originally objected to their daughter's decision to become a climate activist.
"Obviously we thought it was a bad idea, putting herself out there with all the hate on social media," he said.
READ| Our house is on fire: Greta Thunberg sums up 2019 in five words
Greta, described as a shy 16-year-old, has found herself in the role of spokesperson for a generation haunted by climate change after she started sitting outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 with her "School Strike for the Climate" sign.
Instantly recognisable with long braids and impish looks, she has become the face of youth concerns over climate change, inspiring millions and being invited to address the United Nations climate summit.
Greta's family realised just how much the existential threat of climate change weighed on her when she became depressed at age 11.
She stopped eating, started missing school and even stopped talking.
Despite his initial apprehension Svante Thunberg -- who has accompanied Greta on two sail trips over the Atlantic -- also said he thought it was clear his daughter was much happier since taking up activism.
"She changed and she could do things that she could never have done before," he said.
Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Greta used to be able to eat only in her own home and "didn't speak to a single person".
She is now "an ordinary child", her father added. Greta has also faced severe criticism and been subjected to a swarm of online conspiracy theory.
Some have claimed she is a puppet of doomsayers, or paid by the "green lobby". But her father said she was prepared for the "hate" she would receive even before she started her protest.
"She knew exactly what she was doing and I think quite frankly she's very surprised that she has been so well received," Svante Thunberg told the BBC.
STOCKHOLM: Svante Thunberg, father of eco-warrior Greta Thunberg, thinks his daughter is happier being an activist but admitted in an interview he at first had reservations about her taking up the struggle. The 50-year-old actor-turned-producer told the BBC he and Greta's mother -- opera singer Malena Ernman -- originally objected to their daughter's decision to become a climate activist. "Obviously we thought it was a bad idea, putting herself out there with all the hate on social media," he said. READ| Our house is on fire: Greta Thunberg sums up 2019 in five words Greta, described as a shy 16-year-old, has found herself in the role of spokesperson for a generation haunted by climate change after she started sitting outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 with her "School Strike for the Climate" sign. Instantly recognisable with long braids and impish looks, she has become the face of youth concerns over climate change, inspiring millions and being invited to address the United Nations climate summit. Greta's family realised just how much the existential threat of climate change weighed on her when she became depressed at age 11. She stopped eating, started missing school and even stopped talking. Despite his initial apprehension Svante Thunberg -- who has accompanied Greta on two sail trips over the Atlantic -- also said he thought it was clear his daughter was much happier since taking up activism. "She changed and she could do things that she could never have done before," he said. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Greta used to be able to eat only in her own home and "didn't speak to a single person". She is now "an ordinary child", her father added. Greta has also faced severe criticism and been subjected to a swarm of online conspiracy theory. Some have claimed she is a puppet of doomsayers, or paid by the "green lobby". But her father said she was prepared for the "hate" she would receive even before she started her protest. "She knew exactly what she was doing and I think quite frankly she's very surprised that she has been so well received," Svante Thunberg told the BBC.
Greta Thunberg climate change


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Monty Taylor

http://inaugust.com/talks/now-what.html

 twitter: @e_monty

Who am I?

 Distinguished Technologist

 HP Cloud

Who am I?

Technical Committee

Foundation Board of Directors

Developer Infrastructure Core Team

What are we going to talk about?

OpenStack

My application

Your applications

As an application developer,

                  I want to deploy and run an application on the internet

                  so that my customers all over the world can consume it.

As an application developer,

                  I want to deploy the application across multiple clouds

                  so that my service survives issues in any one of them.

THIS WORKS

I'm doing it myself as we speak

10-20k VMs per-day

3 (soon to be 6) clouds

Only using OpenStack APIs

OpenStack Infra

Tooling, Automation and CI for OpenStack Project

2000 Developers

Gated Commits

Every commit is fully integration tested (twice) before landing

Each Test Runs on a Single Use Cloud Slave

This is that "cloud scale out" part

1.7 Million Test Jobs in the last 6 Months

15 Million Tests in a month

18 Terabytes of Log Data in six months

We have no servers

It all runs across HP and Rackspace Public Clouds.

Architecture

Gerrit

                          Traditional 'Enterprise' Java Application

Single Nova VM, Cinder Volume

Scale out farm of git replicas

Fun Numbers

2500 changes every week

15000 change revisions every week

10,000 new changes every 42 days

nodepool

Cloud Native

                          Purpose built in Python

Keeps a pool of ready to go nodes

Multi-cloud

Fully elastic - responds to demand

OpenStack Works!

What next?

Make it easier

Basic things you want to do

Get (make/fetch/find) a base image

Upload it to each cloud

Boot a VM on one or more of the clouds

Ensure it's on the Internet

We've made this harder than it should be

Get a base image

OpenStack diskimage-builder

packer

Download pre-built image from Ubuntu/RedHat/SuSE

Problem: hypervisor image file format

                          Rackspace uses VHD

                          HP uses qcow2

                          DreamHost uses RAW

Problem: image API version

                          HP uses v1

                          vexxhost uses v2

Good news! We made a plan for this at
                  the summit

Problem: image task vs. PUT

swift upload --object-name local-image-filename images image-name
glance task-create
   --type=import
   --input='{"import_from": "images/image-name",
             "image_properties" : {"name": "My Image Name"}}'

glance image-create --name=image-name --file=local-image-filename

Problem: Ensure it's on the Internet

Cloud has externally routable IP from neutron (RunAbove, OVH)

Cloud has externally routable IP neutron AND supports optional private tenant networks (vexxhost)

Cloud has private tenant network provided by neutron and requires floating IP (HP, Dreamhost)

Cloud only has private tenant network provided by nova-network and requires floating-ip for external routing (auro)

Cloud has externally routable IP from neutron but no neutron APIs (Rackspace)

Maybe in code ...

def get_server_external_ipv4(cloud, server):
    if cloud.has_service('network'):
        try:
            server_ports = cloud.search_ports(
                filters={'device_id': server.id})
            ext_nets = cloud.search_networks(filters={'router:external': True})
        except NeutronClientException as e:
            pass  # fall through
        else:
            for net in ext_nets:
                for port in server_ports:
                    if net['id'] == port['network_id']:
                        for ip in port['fixed_ips']:
                            if _utils.is_ipv4(ip['ip_address']):
                                return ip['ip_address']
    ext_ip = get_server_ip(server, key_name='public')
    if ext_ip is not None:
        return ext_ip
    for interfaces in server.addresses.values():
        for interface in interfaces:
            if _utils.is_ipv4(interface['addr']) and \
                    _utils.is_globally_routable_ipv4(interface['addr']):
                return interface['addr']
    return None

I think we can do better than that

What am I doing about it?

os-client-config

http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/os-client-config

A library to handle config information for openstack clients

Tracks differences in vendors that can't be discovered

In use in python-openstackclient and ansible

os-client-config

~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml

clouds:
  hp-mordred:
    profile: hp
    auth:
      username: mordred@inaugust.com
      password: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
      project_name: mordred@inaugust.com
    region_name: region-b.geo-1
  dreamhost:
    profile: dreamhost
    auth:
      username: montay6
      project_name: dhc2111978
      password: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
    region_name: RegionOne

shade

http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/shade

A library to wrap business logic around client libraries

cloud.create_image('image-name', filename='image-filename.qcow2')
cloud.create_server('my-server', image='immage-name', auto_ip=True)

In use in Infra Nodepool and ansible

ansible

Brand new modules, based on shade

Coming in 2.0 release

- os_keypair:
    cloud: hp-mordred
    name: mordred
    public_key_file: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
- os_image:
    cloud: hp-mordred
    name: Monty Ubuntu
    file: ubuntu.vhd
- os_server:
    cloud: hp-mordred
    name: my-server
    flavor_ram: 1024
    image: Monty Ubuntu

ansible

multi-cloud support

- os_keypair:
    cloud: "{{ item }"
    name: mordred
    public_key_file: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
    with-items:
    - vexxhost
    - rackspace
    - mordred-hp
    - ovh

What should we do about it?

                          Get back to basics

                          shade existence is a bug

                          Make some decisions about divergences in the basic levels

                          Take a stand even if one of our product managers disagrees

                          Ensure that simple things are simple

 Thank you!

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This could be fake news but this video claims that Hillary Clinton caught Bill Clinton staring at Ivanka Trump, he certainly appears to mouth "Ivanka" in the video. Notice how he peeps at Hillary and then turns his gaze back to the object of his apparent affection.
In the second clip I am almost sure it is an old college prof of mine from Penn. When the Lewinsky affair broke, he agreed to counseling once a week with him as part of his "rehab' during the impeachment. Small world. Both clips tell the story of why today we dodged more of the same behavior from these sociopaths.
I should say it was Tony Campolo.
The verse was coming to mind this morning: "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." Rev 3:16 Meaning they are not accepted 'into the Body' of God – hadn't thought of it that way before, but your words and take on this scene brought it to mind!
Interesting too about the verse # – does it bring to mind the signs that use to be held up at the football games ___ 3:16 (I'll let you fill in the Book name!).
"But he can't help himself, Steve! That's his nature!" Just like the women who are all jazzed up marching today. Had to turn off the 'supposed muslim' women yabbering away. Let those brainwashed american women go be one of the wives of that group who get beaten and down trodden! and then see if they wise up! Stupid women. Another sign of when 'men are feminized or are lacking in virtue'! women get goofy(ier)! No wonder Hilly went lez-booz-ian ~ no excuse I know but still! A moral and upstanding, ethical man is more appealing and a stabilizing force than a womanizer or limp wrist!
Insanity … that's what happen when leaders go after other gods (devils).
Glad Trump 'welcomed GOD BACK TO AMERICA!' GOD OF HOPE and SANITY! YAY!
I didn't watch any of the protests today but I just hope that soon this will all die down and people will just realize what a waste of time this is.
He mouthed fine lady. Not Ivanka. I am hard of hearing learned to lip read when I was a child. Definitely fine lady.
I watched it again after reading your comment and it still looks the same to me, of course I could be wrong.


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Each day when you awaken, in a fraction of a moment, the course of your day is set for you. There is brief moment in time that determines how the rest of your day will unfold for you. This small, yet profound, instant takes place before your eyes flutter open to meet the light of the day. You are awake in this moment, but are you aware?
As your eyes open and you begin to move about your day, the mind has already opened its floodgates to the thoughts. One-by-one the stream of thoughts rush in. Are you aware that you have anywhere between 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day? Assuming that you sleep eight hours per night and you are awake 16 hours of the day, on the low end that is 750 thoughts per hour and 3,750 on the high end.
Thoughts move in and out in a steady stream throughout our waking hours as you simultaneously move about your day; most thoughts going unnoticed, background noise at most. You might think that isn't true for you, that you are aware of all of your thoughts. But the reality is that you are conscious of about only 5% of your thoughts. That means that the unconscious mind is running you on its auto-pilot mode, 95% of the time.
And while you are running around on auto-pilot mode, 95% of your thoughts are exactly the same as the day before. Ever feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day? Do your days stream together without much differentiation between one to the next? That is because your thoughts are the same, you are basically reliving the day prior.
And if all of this isn't enough to wake you up to your thinking mind; 80% of your thoughts are negative. You are essentially living in the past of your negative experiences.
But this can change. You have the power to change your thoughts. To wake-up and break the cycles that are keeping you stuck.
There is a split moment between the awakening and the opening of the floodgates, a teeny, tiny moment before the thoughts begin to rush in. And it is in this moment that we have the power to set the course of our day.
1. At night, before you go to sleep, set the intention to have a great day the following day. Say to yourself "tomorrow will be a great day". Use this phrase or choose another phrase that resonates with you.
2. When you awaken, before you open your eyes, before any thoughts stream in, as quickly as you can remember, consciously say to yourself "today is a great day", or any other positive phrase that resonates with you. Then get up and begin your day.
That's it. It really is that easy. But it is a practice and you are working to reprogram deeply engrained patterns. Be patient and gentle with yourself as it may take some time to get in flow with it. These two simple, yet profound, steps hold the power to change the course of your day by breaking the negative auto-pilot thought loops and creating new positive ones. Continue this practice daily and begin to observe the changes in your life; at first they may seem subtle and then profound.
*Pro Tip- I like to leave note cards next to my bed to serve as a nightly reminder and morning reminder.
The side effects of anxiety can often be debilitating. Leaving its victims feeling restless and exhausted, consumed by fearful thoughts. I remember days where I was so consumed by anxiety that I would lay in bed, paralyzed, unable to move, as the mind ran rampant. I wanted so badly to shake it off, to get up and go live my life, but I didn't know how to do that. I felt stuck. Worse even; I felt like I was stuck in quick sand and quickly sinking, yet without the energy to even attempt to climb out.
I tried to open up to friends about my situation, which only left me feeling ashamed and alone, thus keeping me in the anxiety loop. No one seemed to understand what I was experiencing and the more I tried to connect with others, the more alone and disconnected I felt. My anxiety turned into depression. I began to self-medicate. I turned to cigarettes and booze to soothe my angst, but these only served as a temporary, and false, reprieve.
I looked to the Internet for help- Dear Google, please save me. But I became frustrated with the results that were returned to me. Take five deep breaths, one article recommended. Think more positive thoughts, suggested another. Go for a walk, said one. While I agree that these are all wonderful tools to have in your toolkit, I did not find these to be practical and effective tools to manage my anxiety when in a full-blown state.
Over the course of my recovery I did find practical and effective tools to manage my anxiety, both in the moment and preventative. Below are 5 powerful and effective tools that I hope you will be able to add to your toolkit as well.
1. Yoga Nidra- A guided meditation for deep relaxation. Simply find a recording you enjoy, lie down and listen. Yup, it's really that easy. And the healing effects are powerful. On the days that I was paralyzed by anxiety I would lie in my bed and turn on a recording of Yoga Nidra. Afterwards, I found that I was able to get up and go about my day with a greater sense of ease, calmness and focus. Over time my worries effortlessly melted away, little by little.
*I now have a few of my own recordings available online and create custom recordings for people to target specific needs.
2. Exhaust your nervous system. Go for a long run, up a steep hill, three times over, better yet five times over. Run until your little legs can run no more. Run until your heart feels like it is going to thump right out of your chest. Run until you are too exhausted to have any thoughts left, other than the thought about how exhausted you are. I love going for walks, and often I'll allow myself a nice long walk to think things out, but when anxiety is high I need to get out of my head and into my body. The best way to do this is to physically exhaust your body. This will also help you to sleep better if anxiety is causing you sleep disturbances as well.
3. Ashwagandha. An all-natural remedy for anxiety and depression. An easy and effective way to improve your health and quality of life. I personally use the powder form and drink it at night before sleep. It has an earthy taste to it, which I don't mind, but you may consider mixing it with warm milk or an alternative.
* I am not a medical professional and I am only offering information based on my own experiences.
4. Essential Oils. Get them. Use them. There are many that are helpful for anxiety but the two that I have found to be the most beneficial are lavender and vetiver. I use them mixed together at night in a diffuser next to my bed and I also rub them on the soles of my feet before bed, mixed with a carrier oil. There are a few reasons to use oils on the soles of the feet; studies show that the pores of the feet are particularly absorbent and quickly absorb the essential oil into the bloodstream and our feet ground us to the earth element, helpful when feeling anxious, spacy and ungrounded. You can also use vetiver during the day as well if you feel you need more grounding. * A note of caution- a little goes a long way with vetiver.
5. Acknowledge the anxiety. More often than not we resist anxiety. We've been taught that it's one of those bad, icky feelings. So when it comes on rearing its ugly face in ours, we, for lack of better words, freak out. No, no, no. Go away. I don't want you here today. And you've heard the saying, what you resist persists? Well it's true with anxiety. The more you resist it, the longer it sticks around. Acknowledge it. In a primal state, anxiety is there to protect us. Sit with it. Invite it in for tea. Ask what message it might have for you. Feelings just want to be heard and acknowledged, and often times that can be enough for it to then go on its merry way. Sometimes all I have to do is say "hello anxiety, I see you there" and that is enough for it to continue on its way past. And when it's not, I turn to the other four tools above.
If you are experiencing anxiety, know that you are not alone in your journey and that relief, as well as healing, are available to you. The most important thing I have found in recovering from and managing anxiety is sleep. Take care in getting good sleep and the rest will fall into place and/or fall away. When our sleep patterns are disrupted it affects all areas of our life and keeps us stuck in the anxiety loop.
Spring is upon us and it is a powerful time to cleanse the waste of our past and make room for our hearts desires to take root; to celebrate and embrace new beginnings. We are emerging from darkness (winter) and moving toward the light (longer days). We are awakening from our deep slumber, our hibernation and preparing ourselves for longer days filled with playfulness, vitality and joy.
Here are six ways that YOU can harness the energy of this potent season.
Begin with your home, your sanctuary. Where you can make space, organize or declutter? Is there a particular room in your house that could use a little organizing or maybe a whole new makeover? Go through your closets- if you haven't worn it or used it in three years toss it into a donation bag and give it to a local charity or host a clothing swap gathering with friends. Do the same with your kitchen cupboards- what can you eliminate, where can you make space? If you don't know the name or function of the item, toss it in the donation box. When your sanctuary is clean and organized you'll feel lighter and more at ease.
*Warning: this can be addicting. If you find yourself organizing and cleaning your entire house, invite your significant other, children and/or housemates to join in the fun- you can sing and dance or make a game out of it.
A great way to transition from one season to the next is with a cleanse or detox: a reboot for your system. Find a cleanse or detox that is practical for you- one that fits your needs and lifestyle. A 7-day juice cleanse is not for everyone, nor is eating raw; don't let these discourage you, they are not the only options. Have some fun with this- do your research and maybe even create your own mini detox or cleanse, perhaps invite a loved one or friend to join you- this provides accountability and motivation.
Now is a good time to check-in with your eating habits and routines. Where can you improve? What can you eliminate from your diet and what can you add?
When eating for the season, find locally grown produce that is available in your area. Not sure where to start- check-out this website. Get creative and make a new dish using only seasonal produce.
A good place to begin is to look back at your New Year's resolutions/ goals. Is there routine on your list that you meant to start but haven't, or maybe you did start and then lost momentum. If so, that's okay, if it's still something you wish to have in your life, make adjustments and start again.
Some other ideas might include; daily meditation, exercise, waking up earlier or going to sleep earlier.
Is there something you've been wanting to do, perhaps a home improvement project, or maybe take a cooking or photography class? Do it now! With longer days, we have more daylight hours to take advantage of. Harness the energy of the sun to fuel your desires and start movin and groovin.
Organize a gathering with family and friends. Invite everyone over and show off your clean and organized home. Wow your guest with your scrumptious seasonal grinds and share the blessings of the season with those you cherish most.
How I found a morning routine to be helpful in managing my anxiety and depression.
There was a period in my life where waking up in the morning was a real struggle. The dawn of the day marked the remembrance of my troubles and worries. Before my eyes fluttered to open, my mind was flooded with a surge of negative thoughts, my heart became heavy as it sank into my chest and worry drenched every cell in my body. I wanted to pull the covers up over my head and drift back into the unconsciousness of my being- where my worries and troubles did not exist.
My aversion of mornings put me in a salty mood, which unavoidably followed me around all day. I needed something to snap me out of my morning funk- something stronger than coffee. Thus, the creation of My Magical Morning.
Below are four things that I started doing every morning which transformed my relationship with mornings from dreadful to divine.
Say this phrase 5 times, with feeling, before you get out of bed.
I found that the first thing I was saying to myself in the morning, before my little eyes even fluttered open to the morning light, was "Oh cr*p, it's morning again. Another day of this sh*t." This was literally how I started each day and this phrase is what set the tone for my day. I was, unknowingly, sabotaging my day before it even began. So I set a little note with my alarm, a reminder, that said "Today is Magical" with some stars and hearts emojis (the unicorn had not yet debuted). From that day on, each morning, when my alarm would wake me up, I was kindly reminded that Today is Magical.
*Other options might be- Today is the best day of my life. I love my life. My life is fabulous and fruitful….. You get the idea.
Start with 5 minutes and work your way up as you see fit. There are many different forms of meditation and apps available to support your journey; sit in silence, follow your breath, visualize yourself being filled with love, or chant mantras, play around and find one that best serves you.
I like to tack this step onto my meditation since I'm already sitting with eyes closed, and typically feeling relaxed and receptive. I spend about 5 minutes visualizing, in as much detail and with as much feeling as possible, having all of my hearts desires; frequently creating a big ol' smile across my face.
You've likely heard about affirmations and the claims made about their benefits. I was once a skeptic myself and I avoided them like vampires avoid daylight. But the relentless buggers kept following me around; hiding out in books, making surprise guest appearances in movies and blurting themselves out in conversations. Eventually, I surrendered to their persistence and now I am an avid believer in powerful magic of affirmations. Write them out as though every word you are writing is the truth, and in time, it will be your truth.
I took great delight in experimenting with various activities and fine-tuning the details to create the perfect morning routine for my needs. I encourage you to do the same- have fun with this, play around with different options and fine-tune until you find a Magical Morning Routine that fits your lifestyle and meets your needs.
I didn't always dread mornings; there was another time in my life when I was having a magical love affair with them. I would wake up in the dark hours of the early morning to watch the sunrise over the ocean. I would sit quietly, in solitude, grateful for the stillness of the early morning; with sand between my toes as the gentle sea breeze would softly kiss my cheeks. Mornings and I, we had a real romance going on- it was the real deal kinda love. But when the seas of life got rough, and I was relentlessly tossed around as waves crashed over me, sometimes pulling me under, I found it difficult to catch my breath, hard to stay afloat. My Magical Morning Routine became my personal flotation device and through maintaining a daily routine I have become more buoyant and resilient when facing rough seas.
Sleep is an essential component to our physical and mental wellbeing. Unfortunately, in our fast paced culture, sleep seems to be put on the backburner: "I'll sleep when I'm dead"; the reality is, "you'll be dead if you don't sleep." When we sleep our body undergoes a restoration process; brain chemicals are restored and the body receives much needed rest.
Have you ever notice that you sleep more when you're sick? That's because your body is mending itself. Your body is physically making you slow down so that it can nourish and repair itself.
Without an ample amount of quality sleep, we experience burnout and fatigue and we are more susceptible to illness and plain ol' grouchiness.
A good night's rest not only leaves you feeling refreshed, alert and ready to take on the day but can improve your mood, lower stress levels, help maintain a healthy weight and decrease anxiety.
I consider myself to be a sleep queen in that I take sleep very seriously as it directly affects the rest of my life. Restless sleep affects my mood and behavior and increases my anxiety. Frequent nights of restless sleep can keep me in the anxiety loop. If you experience anxiety, I encourage you to make getting a good night's rest a priority and watch how the rest of your world begins to, seemingly effortlessly, change.
Learning your body's natural sleep cycles and honoring them with drastically improve your quality of sleep. It is important to note that not everyone needs the same amount of sleep during the night, some of us need more sleep than others to feel well rested and ready to take on the day ahead.
Experiment: Notice when you start to feel tired at night and begin your nighttime routine. Sometimes if we push ourselves past the time when we are feeling sleepy, we may experience an unwanted boost of energy later, making it harder to fall asleep. Note the time you wake up naturally, and relish in the bliss of waking up at your leisure. I recommend doing this experiment a few times to get an average idea of your personalized natural cycle.
* I recommend exploring your natural cycles on an evening when you're at home and do not need an alarm to wake up the next morning (you don't have to be anywhere at a particular time).
Personal example: I naturally begin to wind down between 8- 9pm and I put myself to bed between 9-10pm. If I push myself to stay up later this will often give me an energy boost making it more challenging to fall asleep and often resulting in restless sleep. I naturally arise anywhere between 5:30-7am. For you math wizzes out there, you probably already noticed that I require a longer period of sleep than most. I am a creature that operates best between 8-10 hours of restful sleep.
Essential oils truly are a gift from Mother Nature and they are a wonderful aide for sleep. I personally recommend lavender, vetiver and Serenity (a blend by doTerra). There are two ways to use essential oils for sleep: topically and aromatically.
When applying oils topically (to your skin) you will want to mix them with a carrier oil. I personally like sesame and almond oil. Since I know I'm going to use this blend regularly, I mix my oils into a 4 oz dropper bottle that sits next to my bed. The majority of the bottle is filled with my carrier oil. I then add 10-15 drops of lavender and 10-15 drops of Serenity. Vetiver is a heavier oil that I don't use every night. On the nights that I use vetiver, I mix 1-2 drops in my hand with 2-3 droppers of the lavender/Serenity blend.
Now for the good stuff- I then massage my feet with the oil. Why the feet? The feet have much larger pores than the rest of the body and they don't have sebaceous glands which acts as a barrier- making them the perfect place to apply oils- quick and effective absorption. Indulge in this experience, lovingly massage your feet and enjoy the relaxing sensations. *Be sure to place socks over your feet when you're done so that the oil doesn't get everywhere.
To use oils aromatically, you'll need a diffuser. You can purchase reasonably priced ones on Amazon. If you plan to leave your diffuser on while you sleep, be sure to purchase one that has an automatic shut off, like this one.
Fill the diffuser with water to the water line and add 2-4 drops of lavender 2-4 drops of Serenity and 1-2 drops of vetiver. Place your diffuser in a location where the scents will wash over you throughout the night.
*When purchasing oils be sure to choose quality products. I personally use and recommend doTerra and Young Living, but they can be pricey. Do your research to find an oil that best meets your needs.
Ashwagandha is an herb used in Ayurveda that is helpful in preventing anxiety, relieving insomnia and reducing stress-induced depression, amongst many other benefits. I first began taking ashwagandha in the morning to increase energy and stamina however, I personally found that it made me groggy and sleepy, and therefore I switched to taking it at night as a part of my bedtime routine. I use the powder form and mix about half of a spoonful with hot water and fresh juiced ginger cubes. Ashwagandha has an earthy taste to it, which some may not care for. You can also mix it with warm milk, which may help with the earthy taste.
I only recently discovered binaural beats and to be frank, I can't get enough of them. I find them to be profoundly healing for the body and mind. You can find a plethora of binaural beat tracks available on YouTube- for Free! What makes binaural beats unique is that you must listen to them with headphones on and the reasoning for doing so is that one frequency is being sent into one headphone while a different frequency is being sent into the other, voila- binaural beat. For sleep I recommend finding a sleep specific track or a theta focused one. Simply plug in and play as you rest in the comfort of your bed.
A regular practice of Yoga Nidra will improve your quality of sleep. The systematic technique is designed in enhance full body relaxation and rejuvenation. Through a regular practice the body and mind, effortlessly, learn how to relax more easily, to let go of the day and drop into the alpha-theta space of deep relaxation.
* The practices and information provided in this article are for educational purposes only. They are not meant to diagnose, treat, or cure physical or emotional conditions. They are not intended as a replacement for medical advice.
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