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Multinational telecoms company, Angola Cables has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Broadband Infraco.
Broadband Infraco provides extensive regional long-distance network coverage and SADC connectivity. Broadband Infraco currently has more than 14,960 km of fibre networks across South Africa. It also has 156 Points of Presence (PoPs) providing a high capacity, stable national network environment.
Angola Cables CEO, António Nunes, said that the partnership will facilitate internet connectivity into Africa. "With our international connectivity and reach through our submarine networks and the expansive terrestrial network of Broadband Infraco, there is a genuine opportunity for us to collectively fast-track connectivity on the continent" added Nunes.
"The very real possibility now exists to connect Brazil and South Africa to the other BRICS nations of Russia, India and China through a high speed, low latency connection," said Nunes. "Such a connection, together with our robust network, will accelerate international co-operation on multiple levels, promote economic development and fast track projects that will enable new opportunities for digital content exchange across the region."
Andrew Matseke, CEO of Broadband Infraco said that the partnership is pivotal in the development of digital connectivity within South Africa and Africa. "We have POPs and fibre connectivity options to all neighbouring SADC countries. Through the Angola Cables subsea networks, SACS and Monet, Broadband Infraco will have the ability to share international traffic and content that could unlock new business opportunities for SADC countries."
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Now that Habs have fired Pierre Gauthier, it is time to bring Pierre McGuire home to Montreal
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This one is overdue. I'm not going to step aside over some supposed professional code. I sincerely believe that Pierre McGuire would do a terrific job as an NHL General Manager. And I think it's about bloody time somebody in this town talked to him about the GM post of the Montreal Canadiens.
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Montreal - March 29, 2012 - This story was originally published on February 1, 2012, however in light of today's firing of Pierre Gauthier, it is appropriate to run it again.
This one is overdue. I'm not going to step aside over some supposed professional code. I sincerely believe that Pierre McGuire would do a terrific job as an NHL General Manager. And I think it's People don't realize Pierre was a hockey person for 10-12 years before he became a media person. He has tremendous work ethic and ambition. He's networked with so many people around the NHL for years. If you look at some people who have done good jobs, some of them, all they needed was an opportunity.
-Scotty Bowman on Pierre McGuire ("Melnick In The Afternoon TSN 990 Dec 23, 2011)
I believe that Pierre is the best hockey analyst in the business. Almost too good, it turns out, to return to work for an NHL franchise. He revolutionized the way the game is now described on television and more importantly, what hockey fans expect out of a telecast. The energy and passion he possesses is obvious. His knowledge of virtually any player anywhere on the planet, let alone an NHL ice surface, reveals his strong roots as a scout. That knowledge has never wavered from the moment I first met him, sitting in the old balcony at the Montreal Forum during a Canadiens playoff match up that I have since forgotten everything about except for the guy I was sitting next to. Regular members of the hockey beat would moan and groan about being dislodged from their regular press box seats at playoff time when numbers of the working media would swell beyond capacity. I eagerly would give up my seat above center ice and actually request a move to the balcony because I knew that's where a lot of scouts would find their assigned seats. I figured I might learn something. And that's how I discovered Pierre McGuire.
I spent two games in the company of Pierre. I learned more about hockey players in 120 minutes than I had in the previous 12 years. I also realized that after jumping from a "heritage" radio station to a new venture as a drive home host (CIQC Radio) I could use some help during the hockey season. Pierre agreed to come on the air with me, initially on a very occasional basis, while he was an assistant coach with the Hartford Whalers. He did join me the day he became the head coach of the Whalers but we didn't correspond a whole lot again until he lost that job and eventually went to work for the Ottawa Senators as a pro scout and an assistant coach. I remember him showing me around the offices of the new rink in Ottawa and introducing me to a man he later described as his best friend. The guy was Ottawa's assistant GM. His name was Ray Shero.
It got ugly in Ottawa (Pierre Gauthier was around) and Pierre found himself in the hockey hotbed of Baton Rouge, Louisiana as the head coach of the King Fish of the East Coast Hockey League (I vividly remember one off air phone call from Pierre during this time when he told me that Mike Keenan was looking for a centerman - Keenan was coach of the parent St. Louis Blues - and Pierre asked me if Brian Savage was playing the position much with the Canadiens. I said that while I knew that Savage had been drafted as a centermen, he'd been nothing but a winger in Montreal. Didn't handle the puck well enough for a center. Pierre mentioned that Keenan was having issues with Shayne Corson. A short time later the Blues sent Corson and Murray Baron to the Canadiens in exchange for Pierre Turgeon and Rory Fitzpatrick). Pierre started to appear on the air in Montreal on a more regular basis, especially through the NHL playoffs. I explained that although we had no budget I was certain that Ted Blackman at that old heritage station was always listening and would realize Pierre's potential and try to hire him as the radio analyst on Canadiens games. Sure enough, Pierre was back in the NHL, kind of, for the 1997-98 season. By then I was also hosting a television show called "The Habs This Week" and, naturally, used Pierre as our in depth analyst. His star was rising in a hurry. Most of you know that he eventually moved to Toronto to work for TSN full time before coming home again for a few years. But by then, Pierre was also lead analyst at NBC and being pressured to work for them on a full time basis. This past summer he moved to the New York area armed with the assignment to help grow the sport he loves. Only a deep and respectful love of Montreal and especially the Canadiens could bring him back.
As Scotty Bowman told me just before Christmas Pierre was a "hockey guy" long before he hit radio and television. Scotty met Pierre at St. Lawrence University in New York in the 1980's. He eventually brought Pierre to Pittsburgh where McGuire worked as a scout and assistant coach helping the Penguins win two Stanley Cups. He was considered an up and comer, especially after working so closely with the legendary Bowman (living closely as well. They were roommates for a year in Pittsburgh). When the Hartford Whalers hired Pierre as an assistant coach (he also served as assistant GM in Hartford) he was definitely on the fast track. When Pierre replaced Paul Holmgren as coach in November of 1993 he was just 32 years old. To his critics, McGuire "failed" as an NHL head coach. There were certainly well documented issues in Hartford. It didn't work out. You can say he "failed". Most would say that he simply wasn't ready to coach in the NHL at age 32. Who is? But here's something to think about - why was Pierre McGuire so highly thought of that an NHL organization would name him assistant GM and then head coach at the age of 32?
I think Pierre Mcguire should be running an NHL hockey management team. He interviewed for the GM post in Calgary that eventually went to Craig Button. Pierre told the Flames they needed to invest a lot of money to rebuild their infrastructure. The Flames, in the bad old days of the low Canadian dollar, thought otherwise. They're still looking for that second Stanley Cup. Pierre almost became the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Yep, I believe it's a matter of record by now. The Leafs wanted to bring Scotty Bowman in as head of hockey operations. Scotty would have named Pierre GM. But the Leafs refused to move John Ferguson Jr. out of the picture. Bowman said no. Ferguson, finally fired by Toronto a year later, now scouts for San Jose. Pierre came very close to getting the Wild GM job in the wonderful hockey market of Minnesota but lost out to Chuck Fletcher. Ironically, if Pierre had agreed to become Ray Shero's assistant in Pittsburgh when his old friend came calling it might have eventually landed him that Minnesota job. The Stars hired Fletcher after he worked under Shero in Pittsburgh.
Pierre McGuire has his detractors. For them, it's not about hockey knowledge. It can't possibly be. It's personal. Or it's based on Pierre's personality. As I said to Pierre when he began in radio, "Be yourself. Say what you believe and say it forcefully. Strong opinions are the lifeblood of talk radio. But as you rise in popularity so will the number of your critics. Stand your ground". Once in a while Pierre can get prickly. He's entitled. He works long hours and literally doesn't stop from the moment he wakes up (with 7 AM appearances on Toronto radio, plus Ottawa and elsewhere before he finally hits the air with us at 5:05) until he shuts it down after the final whistle from the west coast. There are some who believe that Pierre carries a bit of a chip on his shoulder. I don't believe Pierre is envious of anybody - he has a highly successful high profile job that pays him handsomely and even more importantly a terrific young family - so he's in a good spot. But I have never met anybody in any pro sport who isn't ultra competitive. And if Pierre does have a chip it's because he sees at least a couple of guys in the NHL, especially the one in his beloved hometown of Montreal, who simply do not know players the way he does. There are some Canadiens fans who believe McGuire hates their team. Because he doesn't work for them. It's actually the complete opposite. I don't know if he'll appreciate me telling this story but here's an example of how much he cares...
June 30, 2009 - Having already delivered a well deserved verbal beat down on the radio earlier in the day after the Canadiens announced they had acquired Scott Gomez from the Rangers ("An elite player", said Bob Gainey in the press release. "Did they see him play this season?" asked Pierre. We were both shocked that the Habs had taken the Gomez contract and threw in first round pick Ryan McDonagh in the deal), I was making my way home trying to figure out what Gainey and his head of pro scouting Pierre Gauthier had just done when my cellphone rang. It was Pierre. "Listen, this is bad. Really bad. I'm concerned. They're lost. They have no clue. Bob Gainey is not being well served here. Somebody had to step up and say we can't do this. If you speak to him tell him I'm willing to help. I'm serious. He needs help, badly". I will always have an enormous amount of respect for Bob Gainey. And while I was tempted I never did make that call. I frankly didn't think it was my place to suggest to the then current GM of the Canadiens that he ought to spend less time listening to some of the people he hired ("The man I trust the most").
Almost three years later Scott Gomez, the NHL rookie of the year and two time Stanley Cup winner has been forgotten. Replaced by an actual joke. The Rangers, using the money freed up by moving Gomez to the Habs, signed Marian Gaborik while McDonagh has already developed into a top end NHL defenseman who averages over 25:00 a game. The Rangers are atop the NHL's Eastern Conference. The Canadiens are trying to stay out of the basement.
Barring the biggest last minute turnaround since Harry Truman beat Tom Dewey to win the U.S. Presidency in 1948 the Montreal Canadiens are going to miss the playoffs under a GM who has already fired two coaches, re-signed an injured defenseman who can barely skate, signed two other veteran defensemen who are softer than marshmallows (one armed with a contract than can be termed Gomez-Lite), only realized halfway through the season that most goals scored these days are from "dirty areas", calls everybody "Mr." and generally acts like he's from a lost galaxy. And Pierre McGuire has to watch this crap after warning anybody who would listen that the Habs were headed down this road? It didn't have to be this way.
I'm not saying Pierre McGuire is the only qualified candidate to become the next GM of the Canadiens. But who else is, like Pierre, perfectly bilingual, has strong ties to the city, married to a French Quebecer, understands this market and knows what it takes to win a championship?
Bring him home.
Do it now.
It's about bloody time somebody in this town talked to him about the GM post of the Montreal Canadiens.

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Technology is increasingly becoming a strategic enabler in every industry. Businesses have started depending on IT more than ever before to compete effectively and get an edge, and business leaders want information technology platforms that can enable new business models quickly. They want to be able to quickly deliver new products and services based on market demand, to get rich actionable insights about their customers and operations, and so on. But IT infrastructure today cannot deliver what business needs. So let's talk about how we got here.
15-20 years ago, applications ran on dedicated physical servers with storage directly attached. This worked great when there were few applications that businesses relied on, but became more complex to manage as the number of apps grew. You also had resource inefficiencies because applications running on over-utilized servers couldn't use the available capacity on free servers.
Virtualization solved this problem by decoupling applications from physical servers and making compute a scale-out resource. In order for virtualization to become enterprise-ready, you needed features like live migration or vMotion, VM high availability, DRS and load balancing and so on. This created the need for shared storage across physical servers. While the SAN wasn't created with virtualization in mind, it was the only proven technology available at the time.
Architecturally, the SAN is a scale-up storage system. You figure out how much storage capacity and performance you'll need in the next few years, and pick an appropriate size storage controller ahead of time. As your storage needs grow, you end up with multiple storage systems that become resource silos. The problem with this is that with virtualization, compute is a scale-out resource but it's trying to work with storage that is a scale-up resource.
This legacy architecture makes every step of the infrastructure lifecycle more complex, from buying and deploying, to managing, scaling and supporting. You buy storage in big increments, and need to figure out how much capacity and performance you'll need in the future. So you're buying for the future end state, and if you didn't predict your needs correctly, then you take on that risk. Many enterprise customers end up overprovisioning storage to mitigate some of this risk.
Deploying this infrastructure stack takes days or weeks. You have to install solutions from 5-6 different vendors. This includes the SAN itself, one or more fibre channel storage networking switches, the servers, an HBA that goes in the server and talks to storage, a data networking switch and a virtualization solution. You have to make sure that the components work together based on their interoperability matrices, configure the fibre channel network correctly and so on. Companies typically have dedicated teams of specialized IT professionals focused on each part of this infrastructure stack. As the infrastructure footprint goes, the sheer complexity of coordinating between these teams goes up.
This complexity extends into managing the infrastructure stack as well. Admins need to look at element managers from each of the different vendors in the stack, including storage, networking, servers and virtualization. They need to piece together a complete picture of what's going on in the infrastructure stack based on these limited views. Because you have so many different disparate pieces working together, automating things end-to-end is next to impossible. Even in so-called converged infrastructure stacks that provide a single UI to manage the stack, admins often have to go back to the element managers to do anything beyond the most basic and routine of tasks.
As your needs grow, scaling servers is easy because of the scale-out architecture, but storage and the storage network are painful and take days or weeks.
Finally, if you encounter some issue, for example an application slows down or becomes unresponsive, diagnosing the root cause is again very challenging and often involves dealing with many different vendor support teams and multiple hand-offs.
All this complexity means that IT teams spend a lot of their time standing up the infrastructure stack and dealing with day to day management and firefighting rather than focusing on things that actually drive business value.
Now that we've seen what the problem is, let's look at what an ideal solution looks like.
Public cloud services have raised the bar for how infrastructure needs to be delivered in the enterprise data center.
Business leaders want the agility and elasticity of the cloud which allows them to tackle uncertainty. They like the fractional consumption model that lets them pay for resources when they need them. Public clouds are also incredibly simple to use, and even IT generalists can manage cloud resources easily.
At the same time, enterprise customers also want the security and control that private data center infrastructure offers. They can define SLAs to their business units and provide more assured data privacy. Datacenter infrastructure needs to deliver on all these requirements.
Let's now look at how Nutanix solved this infrastructure challenge. Nutanix pioneered the concept of hyperconverged infrastructure. Hyperconvergence natively converges compute and storage into x86 servers with attached flash and hard disk drives that are deployed as a cluster.
Customers can start with a small footprint — three nodes in as little as 2U of rack space, and can add compute and storage capacity when needed. Hyperconvergence radically simplifies how infrastructure is deployed and managed, and reduces the footprint of IT infrastructure by up to 90%.
The Nutanix solution is built with the cloud in mind.
First of all, Nutanix allows you to deploy infrastructure that provides cloud-like agility, simplicity and fractional consumption with enhanced security all within your private datacenter.
In addition, Nutanix is building a number of technologies that provide a bridge to popular public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, allowing customers to use the public cloud for data backup, disaster recovery and a destination for applications.
When Nutanix set out to solve the problem of legacy infrastructure, we looked at how hyperscale companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon solved the problem in their datacenters. These companies started pushing the limits of their infrastructure in ways that traditional businesses did not.
They need greater business agility and the ability to push out new applications and services faster and grow their footprint on demand more quickly. They ran into the limitations of legacy infrastructure architectures. They hired systems engineers and PhDs to come up with a new approach to infrastructure and IT operations, what we now call web-scale IT that is built around a fundamentally different architecture. They started with commodity, off-the-shelf x86 servers with storage and built system software that pools available resources.
All intelligence is in the software layer, and the software is 100% distributed so that there are no hotspots or bottlenecks as the system grows. They built layers of resilience in the software, knowing that hardware can fail. Their infrastructure is built for always-on operations so that there's no downtime if there's a failure or when they need to do maintenance on parts of the system. When was the last time Facebook had to bring down its service for a scheduled maintenance event?
These systems use extensive automation and rich analytics to achieve a couple of orders of magnitude better operational efficiency. In the average enterprise datacenter, you have one admin managing between 200 and 400 servers. In the web-scale world, you have one admin managing 20,000 servers. This is possible because the system is fully automated.
Web-scale architectures gave these companies a competitive edge. They were able to grow their footprint linearly and predictably on demand without limits. They are able to lower TCO and deliver greater business agility.
Nutanix brings the power of web-scale to enterprise infrastructure. The Nutanix solution is built from the ground up using the same web-scale technologies and architectures and is engineered to meet the needs of enterprise environments. So customers get the benefits of web-scale architectures without having to handcraft their own web-scale infrastructure solutions to run enterprise applications.
Let's take a look at the Nutanix architecture. The Nutanix solution is deployed as a cluster of servers or nodes — starting with at least three. Each node has CPU, memory, flash storage and hard disk drives, and has a hypervisor installed. The nodes are connected to each other over a 10 Gig Ethernet switch - any standard switch will do. The Nutanix software runs in a user-mode VM called the controller VM on each node in this cluster. The Controller VMs or CVMs talk to each other and create a single storage pool using the storage drives on all the nodes in the cluster. This is called the Distributed Storage Fabric or DSF.
DSF distributes data and metadata across all the nodes in the cluster, and provides enterprise storage features such as deduplication, compression, cloning, tiering and resilience in a truly distributed way with no single points of failure or hotspots in the cluster. This scale-out architecture allows you to grow the cluster by adding nodes when needed without limits. You get linear predictable performance and capacity increases as the cluster grows.
The Nutanix solution delivers data locality to provide the best VM and cluster performance. All I/O requests from a VM are handled by the local controller VM on that node. When a VM writes data, one copy of the data is always written to the local node. That way, read requests can be handled immediately using data on the same node without going over the network. If the VM moves to a different node, then over time the data also migrates to the remote node to restore locality.
The Nutanix solution is 100% software-defined and doesn't rely on custom hardware for any capabilities. Current Nutanix customers can get the benefits of software innovation by installing the latest software release with a single click.
This analysis is based on a detailed excel model which breaks out all key operating tasks with owning server, storage, and networking.
Chart 1: 3 Year TCO over different number of virtual machines. As you can see, Nutanix is linearly increasing, while with legacy you are doing constant forklift updates.
The distance between the two is also increasing overtime – with scale the benefits really amplify, see more and more savings as your environment gets bigger.
Nutanix makes the entire infrastructure lifecycle much simpler. With the scale-out architecture and fractional consumption, you no longer need to overprovision resources or buy infrastructure ahead of when you need it — you can get just the right amount of infrastructure to meet your application needs today, and grow your footprint incrementally as your needs grow.
The turnkey solution can be deployed in minutes — there's on more dealing with the complexity of setting up fibre channel networks, configuring LUNs, RAID sets and so on. Because the solution is converged and works with all standard 10 Gig switches, there is no real interoperability challenge to deal with.
Nutanix provides a single pane of glass to manage the entire infrastructure stack. This intuitive management platform provides a consistent and unified view of the full stack and allows admins to see and control their compute and storage resources. For the first time, IT generalists can manage compute and storage infrastructure in the datacenter without requiring deep domain expertise. This simplifies the IT organization significantly.
Nutanix clusters can be scaled incrementally on demand in just a few minutes. Admins can do this without bringing down the systems. As nodes are added to a cluster, capacity and performance improve in a predictable way without limits.
Finally, Nutanix world-class support stands behind the entire infrastructure solution. With an industry-leading net promoter score, Nutanix support delivers unparalleled experience to customers and dramatically reduces the time to resolve issues.
Nutanix's approach to infrastructure offers real, tangible, material benefits to customers in terms of greater agility, faster time to value and lower Total Cost of Ownership. A study conducted by IDC to quantify the benefits of Nutanix infrastructure found that customers get over 500% Return on Investment over a 5 year period, and up to 60% lower TCO with a 7.5 month payback period. The biggest benefits are in terms of lower operational expenses – Nutanix systems reduce management time by over 70% and reduce unplanned downtime occurrences by 98%.
To understand what Nutanix is doing with virtualization, let's go back to the traditional infrastructure architecture for a minute. Because SANs were not designed with virtualization in mind, they don't understand the concept of VMs and VM-level storage. You have one part of the infrastructure solution, the compute side, that looks at the world in terms of VMs and virtual disks and performs I/O at that granularity, and another part of the solution, the storage side, that sees and understands data in terms of more coarse-grained entities called LUNs. Someone needs to translate storage requests coming from VMs into LUN-level requests that the SAN understands, and on the other side present storage to VMs at a finer granularity. Today, in order to deal with this discrepancy, each hypervisor provides the translation functionality in its own way. It offers storage services like snapshots, clones and data protection on a per-VM basis. This results in tight coupling between VM data and the specific hypervisor. How does Nutanix solve this problem?
The Nutanix distributed storage solution is built to work in virtualized environments, and natively understands virtual machines. All storage operations are provided at VM granularity. Every part of the infrastructure stack talks VMs and vdisks, which means you no longer need a separate translation layer to go from vdisks to luns. This makes the overall infrastructure stack simpler.
Nutanix now natively integrates enterprise-class virtualization right into the product. The hypervisor comes pre-installed on all Nutanix appliances, and cluster and VM management is built into the integrated management platform that is also part of the standard product. No additional components to install or manage. Powerful virtualization features such as VM high availability, live migration and one-click hypervisor upgrades come standard and can be fully managed using the same management interface. Admins can configure their Nutanix clusters in minutes and start deploying applications right away.
First, this is a fundamentally simpler approach to datacenter infrastructure. When compute, storage and virtualization are delivered as a turnkey solution that you can manage as ONE system from a single pane of glass, you don't have to deal with installing and managing disparate solutions. The entire solution is fully supported by Nutanix. You don't have to deal with multiple vendors and issues that seem to fall through the cracks.
Nutanix web-scale engineering goes into how every part of the infrastructure stack is designed and built, and this includes virtualization and infrastructure management. So right out of the box, you have highly resilient management capabilities and enterprise-class virtualization that can scale to any size. You don't have to deploy external databases and manually configure your management tool for high availability.
Finally, because the different parts of the infrastructure stack are purpose-built to work with each other, many services that aren't required in the hypervisor can be turned off. This reduces the attack surface area and makes the entire stack more secure. Security is deeply ingrained in the Nutanix culture and product development methodology from the top down.
Many of the transformative technologies in our lives are things that we don't even think about. They just work, remove constraints and limitations and eliminate the need for guesswork and prediction. We are not even aware of them.
As technology becomes increasingly central to how a business operates, the way it stays competitive and relevant to its customers, IT infrastructure needs to become invisible as well. Applications and services need infrastructure, but you don't want to spend all your time dealing with infrastructure issues. It is the plumbing that makes your applications run. You want it to work in a flawless way without much effort. This is what the Nutanix solution does for you.
Gartner has published their first-ever Magic Quadrant report for "Integrated Systems." As you can see, Gartner analysts have recognized Nutanix as having a very compelling vision in this fast-growing market.
In addition to the strong position for Nutanix, this is a compelling win for web-scale architectures and how the vision of web-scale is transforming how enterprise datacenters are designed, managed and scaled. Ultimately, it continues to disrupt the overall IT vendor landscape.
Additional Note if asked about being in the lower right rather than upper right: It's important to properly interpret this MQ. Typically, readers of Gartner MQ reports immediately focus on the "Leaders" quadrant. This makes good sense for mature markets that are focused on execution with incremental innovation. However, in dynamic segments, such as the one in which Nutanix competes, it is the company with the clearest vision who will ultimately lead in building the next-generation of datacenter infrastructure. This is why Nutanix is extremely proud of its position as the most visionary.
22. 22 Gartner Magic Quadrant Integrated Systems 2015 Strengths Nutanix is a complete infrastructure solutions company, providing its customers flexibility in their choice of hypervisors and cloud usage Nutanix has gained market credibility and established a worldwide presence The Acropolis scale-out architecture, along with the ability to scale compute and storage independently, enables users to grow Nutanix deployments incrementally to meet application needs.


Since he has been inaugurated as Governor, Ricketts has visibly struggled in his job. The Department of Corrections continues to disintegrate and Ricketts has failed to come up with any solutions – much to the frustration of the legislature. At the same time, Ricketts' regressive and partisan agenda has been stymied by a coalition of Democratic and moderate Republican state senators. The death penalty was repealed over his veto, his large property tax cut plan didn't even make it out of committee and the effort to change the electoral vote law was halted by a filibuster.
Perhaps Ricketts' biggest mistake so far is his cover up of the Bill Kintner scandal. Ricketts was aware of Kintner's sordid behavior as early as July 2015 and didn't tell anyone about it for about 13 months. It has become increasingly evident that Ricketts covered this up in order to "own" Kintner during the most recent legislative session. It was Kintner's vote that enabled Ricketts to kill the bill to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. This was legislation that had overwhelming bi-partisan support and was even supported by the Chamber of Commerce.
Ricketts and Kintner have yet to answer any questions why they covered up the right wing Senator's unacceptable behavior for over a year. Moreover, the press has largely failed to ask this question or follow up on this issue. Both Ricketts and Kintner owe the voters an explanation. If they refuse to address these questions, they should both resign.
Nebraska's rookie Governor isn't only presiding over a budding scandal, he is also looking at major budget crisis. Nebraska currently faces a potential budget shortfall in excess of $350 million through 2019, due to declining tax revenues stemming from income tax cuts enacted during the Heineman Administration and sagging commodity prices. There is already talk about a special legislative session this fall to address this impending budget deficit.
Even though Nebraska is facing its most serious budget crisis since the Bush recession of 2008-09, Ricketts and his right wing allies in the Unicameral are talking about an income tax cut that would largely favor the wealthy. The Ricketts founded and funded Platte Institute has proposed a tax cut plan reminiscent of the one that blew up the Kansas economy and budget. The Platte Institute's plan would finance a tax cut for the wealthy and the corporations with an expanded sales tax on services.
The Platte Institute's plan wouldn't be a real tax cut – it would be a tax shift. Wealthy Nebraskans would pay less at everybody else's expense. An expanded sales tax would constitute a tax increase on the middle class and the poor. Moreover a big Kansas style tax cut would result in higher property taxes and budget cuts to education and infrastructure.
Ricketts will continue to push for a budget busting tax cut for the wealthy even though Nebraska faces a grave budget crisis. This is because Ricketts is an extremist who emphasizes ideology over empirical evidence. A well placed Republican insider speaking on background told me that: "Ricketts is a true believer conservative." The Nebraska Governor is especially dangerous because – unlike many Republicans – he is well behaved. Consequently, many reporters and voters mistakenly believe he is a moderate.
Nebraska's Governor is a billionaire who is used to getting his way. Ricketts will do everything he can to elect a legislature that will enact his extreme agenda. Already, in the primary cycle, Ricketts most likely spent over $100,000.00 of his own money to purge Senators who have stood up to him. He will spend whatever it takes this fall to elect radical Republicans who will support his agenda.
As Democrats, we must do everything we can to elect more Democrats to the Unicameral. We have recruited an excellent slate of candidates and we will be running in a very favorable cycle. The GOP has nominated the worst and most unpopular Presidential nominee in U.S. history. We can have a good cycle and thwart Ricketts if we work hard. I know we can do it!


After you make the decision to concealed carry, your next step is finding the perfect way to do it. There are several types of holsters for concealed carry, and this guide outlines them all.
Safety Hack: Most experts say you should never concealed carry without a holster. A quality concealed gun holster keeps your gun secure and positioned exactly where you expect it to be, and it prevents anything from getting in the trigger well and discharging the firearm.
Appendix carry. Appendix carry refers to carrying your gun in front of your body, to the side of your belly button (near your appendix).
Cant. The cant is the angle at which the gun sits, measured in degrees.
Cross-draw. A cross-draw holster is one you wear on your support side. Meaning, you have to cross over your body to draw it.
Printing. Printing is the term that describes the outline a gun can make when you're trying to carry concealed (and failing).
Rake. Rake is another term for the gun's angle in the holster, also measured in degrees.
Ride. Ride is where the holster attaches to your belt, relative to the trigger.
Small of the back. Small-of-the-back or SOB holsters attach at your spine or just to the side of it.
Strong side. Your strong side is your dominant side. If you're a right-handed firer, your right side is your strong side.
Support side. Also called your weak side, your support side is the opposite of your strong side. If you're a right-handed firer, your left side is your support side.
A shoulder holster lets you carry your firearm on your side, beneath your armpit. These types of holsters usually carry a spare magazine on the opposite side of the gun, and you can easily conceal them under a jacket or coat. You can also buy a V-neck holster shirt or sleeveless holster shirt that lets you carry concealed in a casual or off-duty environment.
An inside the waistband holster – commonly called an IWB holster – clips to your belt. The gun's grip rides above your waistband, while the rest of the gun stays concealed in your pants. A good example of an IWB holster is the ThumbDrive® Holster for Glock 17 and 22 models.
An inside-the-pocket holster is typically a holster pouch that has adjustable locking straps. Pocket holsters are designed for small guns, and their primary purpose is to cover the trigger and keep your gun from printing.
Ankle holsters wrap around your ankle with elastic or hook-and-loop fasteners. They can be tough to conceal if your pants are snug, and they can be difficult to reach in a sticky situation. It's also tough to run safely when you're wearing an ankle holster. Usually, an ankle holster is best used as a backup.
You have a range of concealed carry holster options and finding the right one is mostly about personal preference. Head over to your local 5.11 to test out a few and see what feels right. Whatever type of CCW holster you ultimately choose, it's incredibly important to practice, practice, and then practice some more so you get comfortable wearing it and can be as effective as possible in an emergency.


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Pain vs Pleasure: The Importance of Context in Sound
by Douglas Bushong on July 11, 2011 at 12:00 am
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Team Fortress 2 is a first person shooting game that places you on a team – red or blue – with a predetermined goal. There are multiple character types, each with their own capabilities and personalities.
The play mode that I enjoy the most is called "payload." In this mode, the blue team as an atomic bomb on a train cart, and it needs to move it into the red base. If the bomb makes it, the blue team wins; if not, the red team wins. Generally, when I am playing on the red team I like to play the engineer, while on the blue team I prefer to play the sniper.
The engineer has the ability to build and repair sentry guns, medical/ammunition supply dispensers, and teleporters. He generally doesn't get directly involved with the combat; instead, he builds his support machines and tries to keep them running. By banging away on his machines with a wrench, he keeps them running and repaired.
From a sound perspective, the engineer can be incredibly annoying. As I write this, I am playing the audio track from a play session, and I find myself wincing with every stroke of the wrench. Initially, the engineer isn't directly involved in combat; he just builds things while the other team members push, or push back against, the bomb. When the enemy catches up to his sentries, however, all you can hear is wrench banging, damage warning alarms, and heavy machine gun fire.
Listening to these sounds without seeing them is really uncomfortable. This fascinates me because I was never really bothered by the sound while playing the game. In this way, visual context completely changed the sounds.
The first time you play this video, minimize the video and just listen to it sounds. Pay close attention to how the sounds make you feel, and the potential stress you experience.
The sniper delivers a very different experience. The sniper holds a single shot rifle that has to be manually reset after each round is fired. he has a thick Australian accent, and is very opinionated. Throughout the video below, you will regularly hear him commenting about his team's failure to move the bomb.
After the initial rush out the door, sniper players tend to find good cover positions to shoot from. The idea is to find a spot where you can pop out, fire off a round, and quickly hide again. Since the sniper likes to shoot from far away, the sounds of battle tend to be further away, too; it's not nearly as loud as playing with the engineer. These quiet sounds tend to be punctuated by the fire of the sniper's rifle and occasional comments.
Once again, when you watch this video, just listen to the sounds. Try to identify what the character is doing at the moment that the sound occurs, and write down any sounds that don't make sense to you. Then go back and watch it to see what changes.
The lesson here is that context can change the experience that you have as you listen to the sounds around you. If you are constructing a soundscape, it's important that the sounds you create aren't offensive to the ears when they are removed from the visual context that they come from.
How does the context of the video change the experience for you?
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Adobe Flash, Reader,Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari get 'pwned' on Day 1 of Pwn2Own 2014, bounty of $ 482,500 gets paid
Pwn2Own 2014 which started today at Vancouver, Canada has already had a record payout of $482,000. Out of this $400,000 was paid to security research firms and individuals in the competition section and remaining $52,000 was paid to charity in the sponsor only category. Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash and Reader were the products in which the competitors found vulnerabilities and were awarded. Most of the money awarded on the first day went to a France based security research firm, VUPEN. VUPEN's researcher managed to put up a total of four 'Proof of Concepts' for vulnerabilities.
The important aspect of this years Pwn2Own 2014 was that most of the competitors were able to 'PWN' or demonstrate their exploits in 5 minutes flat. The standard period allowed to the researchers to prove their concept is 30 minutes. As stipulated in the primary conditions, as soon as the researchers demonstrated the exploits, they headed to the disclosure room where they presented the details of their exploits to vendors.
The vulnerabilities proved out by Team VUPEN are as follows :
Against Adobe Flash, a use-after-free with an IE sandbox bypass resulting in code execution.
Against Adobe Reader, a heap overflow and PDF sandbox escape, resulting in code execution.
Against Microsoft Internet Explorer, a use-after-free causing object confusion in the broker, resulting in sandbox bypass.
Against Mozilla Firefox, a use-after-free resulting in code execution.
They were able to find out a use-after-free with an Internet Explorer sandbox bypass in Flash. The issue can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. A heap overflow and PDF sandbox escape in Adobe reader also resulted in code execution. The other flaw that VUPEN experts were able to find out was also a use-after-free that can be leveraged for code execution in Firefox. The Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer 11 Browser was also found to be vulnerable by Team VUPEN. They managed to bypass the sandbox in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 8.1 with a use-after-free vulnerability that causes object confusion in the broker. For finding the above vulnerabilities, the Team VUPEN researchers have been rewarded with a total of $300,000.
Other security researchers who also managed to hog the limelight and grab awards on the first day of Pwn2Own 2014 were Jüri Aedla and Mariusz Mlynski.
Adela was able to find the following vulnerability in Firefox and was rewarded $50,000.00 for his efforts.
Against Mozilla Firefox, an out-of-bound read/write resulting in code execution.
While Mlynski found out two security holes in Mozilla Firefox and got $50,000 for his efforts.
Against Mozilla Firefox, two vulnerabilities, one allowing privilege escalation within the browser and one bypassing browser security measures.
The charity function was organised under the banner of Pwn4Fun which was sponsored by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and Google. Experts from Google and ZDI presented their exploits under Pwn4Fun and a total of $82,500 was been donated to the Canadian Red Cross.
The news from the first day was that nobody was able to find any vulnerability in Google's Chrome. Tomorrow is the last day of Pwn2Own 2014 and Chrome is expected to escape unbroken.
Resource : Pwn2Own 2014


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Q: How to get a block code from soapUI xml response and inject as request body? I have a soap ui response as below.
<Quantity>
<item id="0001" type="donut">
    <name>Cake</name>
    <ppu>0.55</ppu>
    <batters>
        <batter id="1001">Regular</batter>
        <batter id="1002">Chocolate</batter>
        <batter id="1003">Blueberry</batter>
    </batters>
    <topping id="5001">None</topping>
    <topping id="5002">Glazed</topping>
    <topping id="5005">Sugar</topping>
    <topping id="5006">Sprinkles</topping>
    <topping id="5003">Chocolate</topping>
    <topping id="5004">Maple</topping>
</item>
</Quantity>

Now I need to get all the data from <batters>...</batters> using soap ui groovy script and Send replace in a request body to other test. Say I have:
<Total>
<section id="0001" type="donut">
    <name>Cake</name>
    <ppu>0.55</ppu>
    <batters>
        <batter id="3333">Regular</batter>
        <batter id="4444">Chocolate</batter>
        <batter id="5555">Blueberry</batter>
    </batters>
    <topping id="5001">None</topping>
    <topping id="5002">Glazed</topping>
    <topping id="5005">Sugar</topping>
    <topping id="5006">Sprinkles</topping>
    <topping id="5003">Chocolate</topping>
    <topping id="5004">Maple</topping>
</Section>

I would like to replace the <batters>...</batters> section with the response from previous.
Or could you tell me how to get the block code between <batters>....</batters>

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Wozniacki untroubled by Radwanska
This was the 17th meeting between the two stalwarts and it's a match-up that rarely disappoints. This time, though, the Dane – who has reached four finals this year without success – was simply too strong for her Polish rival.
"I've known Aga since we were probably five and six or six and seven," said Wozniacki. "Nothing really changes, we go out there and we battle it out every time. Every match we just go out there and try our best."
Karolina Pliskova continues to enjoy life at the top of the rankings as she reached the last eight via a retirement. Her opponent, Naomi Osaka, quit after just one game in the third set with a reoccurring abdominal injury.
Sloane Stephens' comeback gathered pace as she thrashed former world No.1, Angelique Kerber, 6-2 6-2 to prolong her stay in Canada. No.2 seed, Simona Halep continues to make serene progress as she eased past Barbora Strycova for the concession of just one game in less than an hour.
Elsewhere on the grounds, Caroline Garcia ended Catherine Bellis' impressive run in straight sets and Lucie Safarova prevailed over the on-form Ekaterina Makarova 6-3 6-7(3) 6-2.


This article is about the 1633 Vincentian organization. For other religious orders, or branches, see Sisters of Charity. For other uses, see Daughters of Charity (disambiguation).
A painting of cornette-wearing Daughters of Charity by Karol Tichy [pl], depicting a funeral in an orphanage run by the sisters (National Museum in Warsaw).
The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (Latin: Societas Filiarum Caritatis a S. Vincentio de Paulo), called in English the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul, is a Society of Apostolic Life for women within the Catholic Church. Its members make annual vows throughout their life, which leaves them always free to leave, without need of ecclesiastical permission. They were founded in 1633 and state that they are devoted to serving Jesus Christ in persons who are poor through corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
They have been popularly known in France as "the Grey Sisters" from the color of their traditional religious habit, which was originally grey, then bluish grey. The 1996 publication The Vincentian Family Tree presents an overview of related communities from a genealogical perspective. They use the initials DC after their names. In the past, when they were known simply as the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, the post-nominals SC were used.
The institute was founded by Saint Vincent de Paul, a French priest, and Saint Louise de Marillac, a widow. The need of organization in work for the poor suggested to de Paul the forming of a confraternity among the women of his parish in Châtillon-les-Dombes. It was so successful that it spread from the rural districts to Paris, where noble ladies often found it hard to give personal care to the needs of the poor. The majority sent their servants to minister to those in need, but the work was often slighted as unimportant. Vincent de Paul remedied this by referring young women who inquired about serving persons in need to go to Paris and devote themselves to this ministry under the direction of the Ladies of Charity. Marguerite Naseau, a 34-year-old woman from the countryside in Suresnes, met Vincent de Paul with other priests of the Congregation of the Mission during one of his Missions of Evangelization. In 1630 she met up with Vincent and Louise in Paris, where they suggested that she help the Ladies of Charity.
These young women formed the nucleus of the Company of the Daughters of Charity now spread over the world. On 29 November 1633, the eve of St. Andrew, de Marillac began a more systematic training of the women, particularly for the care of the sick. The sisters lived in community in order to better develop the spiritual life so as to more effectively carry out their mission of service. The Daughters of Charity differed from other religious congregations of that time in that they were not cloistered. They maintained the necessary mobility and availability, and lived among those whom they served. From the beginning, the community motto was: "The charity of Christ impels us!"
The newly formed Daughters of Charity set up soup kitchens, organized community hospitals, established schools and homes for orphaned children, offered job training, taught the young to read and write, and improved prison conditions. The hospital of St John the Evangelist in the province of Angers was the first hospital entrusted to the care of the Daughters of Charity. Louise de Marillac and Vincent de Paul both died in 1660, and by this time there were more than forty houses of the Daughters of Charity in France, and the sick poor were cared for in their own dwellings in twenty-six parishes in Paris.
Daughters of Charity holy card. University of Dayton Libraries.
Anticlerical forces in the French Revolution were determined to shut down all convents. In 1789 France had 426 houses; the sisters numbered about 6000 in Europe. In 1792, the sisters were ordered to quit the motherhouse; the community was officially disbanded in 1793. An oath to support the Revolution was imposed on all former members of religious orders who performed a service that was remunerated by the state. Taking this oath was seen as breaking off with the Church while those who refused to do so were considered counter-revolutionaries.
In Angers, revolutionary authorities decided to make an example of sisters Marie-Anne Vaillot and Odile Baumgarten in order to demonstrate what refusal to take the oath would mean. In early 1794 they were publicly executed. At a ceremony in Rome on 19 February 1984 Pope John Paul II beatified ninety-nine persons who died for the faith in Angers, including Vaillot and Baumgarten. Their feast day is February 1.
Sister Marguerite Rutan was Superior of the community that staffed the hospital at Dax. The six sisters had refused to take the revolutionary oath. The Revolutionary committee wanted to remove the Superior of the Sisters and looked for a motive to arrest her. A false testimony allowed them to say that Sr. Marguerite was unpatriotic, a fanatic against the principles of the Revolution and that she tried to convince the wounded soldiers to desert and join the royalist army of Vendéens. On 9 April 1794 Sister Marguerite Rutan was condemned to death and guillotined at Poyanne Place not far from the prison. She was beatified Sunday, 19 June 2011 in Dax, France. Her feast day is June 26.
Sisters Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Marie-Françoise Lanel, Thérèse Fantou, and Jeanne Gérard from the House of Charity in Arras were guillotined in Cambrai 26 June 1794. Waiting for the cart to take them to the guillotine, the guards took their chaplets and, not knowing what to do, put them on their heads like a crown. They were beatified on 13 June 1920. Their feast day is June 26.
The order was restored in 1801, many former sisters returned, and it grew very rapidly throughout the 19th century.
Until 1964, their traditional religious habit included a large, starched cornette on the head.
A Daughter of Charity shown with the distinctive head gear, Ireland, 1964.
From that time and through the 19th century, the community spread to Austria, Australia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Portugal, Turkey, Britain and the Americas. During this period, the ministry of the Daughters developed to caring for others in need such as orphans and those with physical disabilities.
The first house in Ireland was opened in Drogheda, in 1855. By 1907 there were 46 houses and 407 sisters in England; 13 houses and 134 sisters in Ireland; 8 houses and 62 sisters in Scotland. They operated 23 orphanages; 7 industrial schools; 24 public elementary schools; 1 normal school to train teachers; 3 homes for working girls or women ex-convicts; and 8 hospitals.
The Convent of Saint Vincent de Paul was the first building established on Mamilla Street in Jerusalem, near Jaffa Gate, in 1886. Precipitating the future growth of that street as a commercial thoroughfare, the sisters put up a series of shops in front of the building and used the rent money for convent operations. The convent was integrated into the design of the Mamilla Mall pedestrian promenade, which opened in 2007.
The motherhouse of the Daughters of Charity is located at 140 rue du Bac, in Paris, France. The remains of de Marillac and those of St. Catherine Labouré lie preserved in the chapel of the motherhouse. Labouré was the Daughter of Charity to whom, in 1830, the Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have appeared, commissioning her to spread devotion to the Medal of Mary Immaculate, commonly called the Miraculous Medal.
The traditional habit of the Daughters of Charity was one of the most conspicuous of Catholic Sisters, as it included a large starched cornette on the head. This was the dress of peasant women of the neighborhood of Paris at the date of the foundation, a grey habit with wide sleeves and a long grey apron. The head-dress was at first a small linen cap, but to this was added in the early days the white linen cornette, from which they became affectionately known as "God's Geese". At first it was used only in the country, being in fact the headdress of the Ile de France district, but in 1685 its use became general. The institute adopted a more simple modern dress and blue veil on 20 September 1964.
The Charism of a religious society is the characteristic impetus which distinguishes it from other similar groups. Religious communities frequently describe it as a grace or gift given by God as inspiration to the founder, which lives on in the organization. The charism of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul is that of service to the poor.
In the United States, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, a recent convert to the Catholic Church, had hoped to establish a community of Daughters of Charity. Unable to do so because of the political situation during the Napoleonic Wars, on 31 July 1809 she founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph at Emmitsburg, Maryland. The nucleus of the little community consisted of five Sisters who were soon joined by others. Her desire to consecrate her life to works of charity led Mother Seton to request the Rules of the Daughters of Charity founded by St. Vincent de Paul in 1633. Bishop Benedict J. Flaget presented the request to superiors in Paris and in 1810 brought to Mother Seton the Rules by which she guided her community during her lifetime. At the time of her death in 1821, the community numbered fifty Sisters. In 1850, the community at Emmitsburg affiliated with the Mother House of the Daughters of Charity in Paris and at that time adopted the blue habit and the white collar and cornette. The community in Emmitsburg became the first American province of the Daughters of Charity.
By then, other communities had been established elsewhere in the United States. In 1817, Mother Seton sent three Sisters to New York at the invitation of Bishop Connolly to open a home for dependent children. Their services were urgently needed, for many parents were victims of the epidemics that frequently invaded the city, where there was as yet no system of sanitation. In 1846, the New York congregation incorporated as a separate order, the Sisters of Charity of New York. The Sisters in New York retained the rule, customs, and spiritual exercises established by Mother Seton, and her black habit, cape and cap.
During the American Civil War, the order provided nursing services to soldiers in field hospitals and in depots for prisoners of war.
The Spanish–American War of 1898 quickly demonstrated the important need for trained nurses, as hastily constructed army camps for more than twenty-eight thousand members of the regular army were devastated by diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid fever, and malaria – all of which took a much greater toll than did enemy gunfire. The United States government called for women to volunteer as nurses. Thousands did so, but few were professionally trained. Among the latter were 250 Catholic nurses, most of them from the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Reverend Mother Mariana Flynn, head of the Daughters of Charity, recalled their service during the Civil War and said her sisters were proud to be "back in the army again, caring for our sick and wounded."
In 1910, the jurisdiction of Emmitsburg was divided into two Provinces with the Eastern Provincial House in Emmitsburg and the Western Provincial House in Normandy, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
As of 2017, 18,000 serve in ninety-four countries, addressing needs of food, water, sanitation and shelter, besides their work with health care, HIV/AIDS, migrant and refugee assistance, and education.
In July 2011 the Daughters of Charity merged four of the five existing U.S. provinces – Emmitsburg, Maryland; Albany, New York; St. Louis, Missouri; and Evansville, Indiana. The process of unification began at a 2007 gathering in Buffalo, N.Y. The Province of the West, based in Los Altos Hills, Calif., was not involved in the merger. The newly constituted province is named for St. Louise de Marillac, who founded the congregation in France in 1633 along with St. Vincent de Paul to "serve Christ in persons who are poor." Administrative offices for the Province of St. Louise are located in St. Louis, Mo. The archival collections of the former provinces will be consolidated in a new facility located within the former St. Joseph's Provincial House, adjacent to The Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Seton Heritage Center, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The new province covers 34 states, the District of Columbia and the Canadian province of Quebec.
Many hospitals, orphanages, and educational institutions were established and operated by the Daughters of Charity over the years, including Saint Joseph College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, Marillac College in Missouri, Santa Isabel College Manila, Saint Louise's Comprehensive College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Saint Louise de Marillac High School in Illinois. Though no longer staffed and run by the Daughters, five of the hospitals which were founded by them in the USA continue to operate within the St. Vincent's Health Care System.
In Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, they help run the Asilo De Pobres and in the Philippines they run the College of the Immaculate Conception.
In the United Kingdom, the Daughters of Charity are based at Mill Hill, north London, and have registered charity status.
Daughters operate St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home near Washington, D.C.
Smyllum Park was founded in 1864 and closed in 1981, over which time it took in more than 11,600 children. When opened, the aim was to support homeless Catholic children from Scotland.
In April 2017 it was announced that the second phase of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry would focus on orphanages run by the Daughters of Charity: Smyllum Park in Lanark, Bellevue House in Rutherglen, St Joseph's Hospital in Rosewell, St Vincent's School for the Deaf/Blind in Glasgow and Roseangle Orphanage (St Vincent's) in Dundee. In 2018 the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry found that there had been physical, sexual, and emotional abuse at Scottish orphanages run by the Daughters at Smyllum Park (closed in 1981) and Bellevue House (closed in 1961).
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Advanced oral tongue cancer in a 22-year-old pregnant woman.
Cheung EJ, Wagner H Jr, Botti JJ, Fedok F, Goldenberg D.
Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 500 University Dr, MC H091, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Oral squamous cell carcinoma generally occurs in older men and is associated mostly with tobacco and alcohol as the primary risk factors. The incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma in younger patients has increased. We report a case of a young woman, 25 weeks pregnant, who presented with stage IV carcinoma of the oral tongue.
The following is a case presentation and literature review.
The patient presented with T4 N3 M0 oral tongue cancer. A team consisting of a head and neck surgeon, a radiation oncologist, a medical oncologist, and a maternal-fetal medicine specialist was assembled. The patient initially refused surgery. Chemotherapy was initiated until 32 weeks' gestation. After an infant boy was delivered via cesarean section, the patient began concurrent irradiation and chemotherapy, which induced complete regression of the primary tongue neoplasm with a partial response of the neck nodes. The patient underwent bilateral neck dissection followed by hemiglossectomy for recurrence.
Management of advanced oral carcinoma in pregnancy presents a unique set of challenges. Few studies have described chemotherapy and radiotherapy during pregnancy, and long-term results are needed. Care must be taken to balance appropriate and adequate treatment of disease and to ensure the safety of the patient and the fetus.


Hailed as a pianist "in the league of Carnegie Hall," a "rising star" whose playing is "lush, sensual and colorful: like a painting" (Sulzbach-Rosenberger, Germany), and a "powerhouse" (Victor Forman, CapRadio) who possesses an "extraordinary skill" (D. Frantztreb, S.C.C.), Jennifer Reason is a vibrant young performer in consistent demand, and the recipient of Sacramento Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 Award for 2016. She gave her first solo recital at the age of 5, and had acquired her first Staff Pianist position by the tender age of 12. She has since gone on to appear in solo and ensemble performances across Europe, the United States and Canada.
A widely versatile and experienced musician, Jennifer is an adept pianist and vocalist in a variety of genres. Recently she completed her 9th international festival tour, including twice appearing as a soloist to critical acclaim at the Interharmony International Music Festival in Germany, as well as at the Schlern and Orfeo International Music Festivals in Italy. She has also twice appeared in an ensemble setting at Carnegie Hall, as well as the Vatican, the Liszt Academy in Hungary, and the international Festival of Peace and Brotherhood in Italy.
Jennifer received her BM in Piano Performance at California State University - Sacramento under the tutelage of renowned Steinway Artist Richard Cionco. She has since gone on to develop a passion for collaborative performance and co-founded the 9 year old modern chamber sextet Citywater, currently Ensemble-in-Residence at CSU - Sacramento. (www.citywatermusic.com) Her collaborative interests expand well beyond her classical roots however, so in addition to classical heavyweights like Hope Briggs (San Francisco Opera), Steven Mackey (Composer-in-Residence, Princeton) and composer John Rutter, she has also shared the stage with such diverse acts as rockers Jonathan Cain (Journey), Michael Carabello (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Santana) and Jerry Martini (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sly and the Family Stone), Broadway stars Eugene Brancoveanu (Tony Award), and Jason Graae, as well as popular personalities such as Billy Bob Thornton, baseball's Tony La Russa and Governor Jerry Brown. Her latest collaborative project, a mash-up band by the name The ReAssemblers of Whimsy, has just been appointed Ensemble-in-Residence with the Townsend Opera Company.
Jennifer has shown herself to be an accomplished music director as well as performer, having made her international conducting debut in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City in early 2014. She is currently the Artistic Director for the Reconciliation Singers Voices of Peace, a 16-voice a capella ensemble who donates 100% of their proceeds to underfunded charities nationwide. (www.rsvpchoir.org), as well as the recently appointed Music Director of the Rogue Music Project, a music collective formed to challenge current perceptions of opera through unpredictable, adventurous, and socially conscious performances. She has also acted as music director, vocal coach, and lead keyboardist to over 30 theater productions, notably including the world premiere of Max Understood, a musical aiming to raise autism awareness (produced by Paul Dresher and directed by David Schweizer), and the Bay Area premiere and adaption of Disney's Shakespeare in Love (Marin Theatre Co, directed by Jasson Minadakis).
In keeping with her passion for collaboration, Jennifer has worked as Staff Accompanist at Sacramento City College, Cosumnes River College, CSU - Sacramento, Townsend Opera Players, and the Sacramento Children's Chorus, and continues to be called upon to accompany both vocalists and instrumentalists all over the state.
When not performing, Jennifer enjoys working as a freelance session player with Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, as well as maintaining an accomplished private studio. Her students have been accepted on scholarship to collegiate music programs such as the Hartt School of Music, University of North Texas, University of Miami Frost School of Music, CSU Long Beach, CSU - Sacramento, William Jessup University and Cosumnes River College. She is also serving as the newest piano faculty member at William Jessup University. To round out her endeavors, you can hear her on Capitol Public Radio as a stand-in classical host.
Jennifer is currently residing in California.


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Q: Position one div over another div with a certain length I'm looking to achieve the following layout:
I have to images which should be next to each other at the top.
Then I want a straight white line going from the left picture (x-coordinate) and nearly the top (y-coordinate) to nearly the bottom.
I have come so far in my design but when I change the window size it changes aswell: https://jsfiddle.net/toekttbu/
HTML:

CSS:

body {
  background-color: #000;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.container {
  height: 100px;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
}

#pic-1 {
  position: absolute;
  width: 35.35%;
  background-color: #f00;
}

#pic-2 {
  width: 64.65%;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
}

#white-line {
  width: 5px;
  position: absolute;
  height: 350%;
  background-color: #FFF;
  top: 100%;
  left: 7%;
}

I want the white line always to stay on the same position on the seagull. I know why it is not working, because the white line is being position using the 100px from the height of the container.
I would need to position it using a percentage of the height of the seagull. Is this possible using CSS only?
Also I want the white line always to be as long as the text which will be under the pictures. So it might have a different length across different pages. Is this also possible using CSS ?
Thanks very much

A: Something like this?
Edit: if you want the line higher and a bit longer than the text, you need to change some values, for example:
#pic-1,
#pic-2 {
  margin-top: -5%
}

p {
  padding: 20% 5% 20px 5%;
  margin-top: 5%;
}

DEMO

body {
  background-color: #000;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  color: #fff;
}

.container {
  height: 100px;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
}

#pic-1 {
  position: absolute;
  width: 35.35%;
  background-color: #f00;
  margin-top: -15%;
}

#pic-2 {
  width: 64.65%;
  position: absolute;
  right: 0;
  margin-top: -15%;
}

p {
  position: relative;
  padding: 10% 5% 0px 5%;
  margin-top: 15%;
  margin-left: 15px;
}

p:before {
  content: "";
  width: 5px;
  height: 100%;
  background-color: #fff;
  display: inline-block;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  margin-left: -15px;
}

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A: if the line will be always at the left side and start from 100px from top, why not using fixed position;
#white-line {
  width: 5px;
  position: fixed;
  height: 90%;//350% is 3.5 times the height of the parent. why ?
  background-color: #FFF;
  top: 100px;//is the picture always 100px tall ? play with the top position
  left: 30px;//no need to do with % because it should be at the same LEFT position
}

this is what I understand from the question, if I am wrong u can tell...
read about positioning: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_position.asp