Ever since I was in high school, I've had a habit of switching up my hair. Whether it be the cut or color (which my hair has been every color at one time or another) if I am feeling a need for change, my first course of action is to change my hair. Which while that is all fine and dandy, we all know that frequently processing your hair leads to damaged locks. (Which is why I'm back to my natural tresses, and will be for a long while.) So needless to say when my sponsor Influenster gave my the opportunity to try and review L'Oréal Paris' new hair Extraordinary Hair routine (Well new as of February 2016, this post is admittedly a little late but hey, better than never!) I jumped at the opportunity to give it a go. Because though I love my usual Amika products, I was running low and figured why not give a new product a try, especially when it was complimentary.
This shampoo is absolutely lovely. From it's smell (which the whole routine has a hint of honeysuckle and other floral scents) to the way it lathers. After using it my hair and scalp felt refreshed and even after my first use, I saw improvements in both my dry scalp and dull hair.
Just like the shampoo, this conditioner works wonders. Unlike other conditioners I've used this one does not feel oily or heavy. It's very light and made my hair feel silky smooth.
Until now, I had actually never used any kind of hair serum, and boy was I missing out! This part of the routine is actually a leave in step. After you've completed conditioning your hair you just put small amount of the serum in your hands and run it evenly through your hair. And let me tell you this stuff isn't lying when it says "instant shine". Before I dried my hair and unwrapped it from my towel, I immediately noticed that my locks already looked shinier and healthier!
This is the second leave in part of the routine, however you actually apply this to your tresses once your hair is dry. To apply it, you put a dime size drop in your hands and then apply it evenly throughout your locks. I really loved this finishing touch because it made my hair feel even softer and gave it just the right amount of extra shine.
My final thoughts on this routine are that for one, after just one week of use my hair has already became much softer and appears much more lively. This being said, I am most definitely switching to this routine for my everyday hair care. Not that I don't love Amika, but this routine has the same benefits and effectiveness but at a much more affordable cost. So I'll just be saving my Amika for my "treat yo'self" days. I also would recommend this product to anyone who has distressed hair, as well as to anyone who just wants a little more shine! So if you wanna give these a try, you can purchase these products at Target as well as online.
What are some of your favorite hair care products? Tell me about them in the comments below or tweet me them at @StarkRavingChic! Later babes.
P.S. Also note, that though I prefer cruelty free skin, hair, and makeup products, L'Oréal Paris is NOT cruelty free. Even though they claim to no longer test on animals, they still sell in China where animal testing is required by law. So though I love this particular hair care routine, it unfortunately cannot be considered cruelty free.
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Jezeh (, also Romanized as Jazeh; also known as Jaz) is a village in Jabal Rural District, Kuhpayeh District, Isfahan County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 646, in 205 families.

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Michael finished in 34th place at the Gold Strike Casino Classic, part of the Hooters Pro Tour.
Michael failed to qualify for the US Open. Better luck next year!
Michael will be "Walking in Memphis"
Finally found confirmation that Michael's US Open Qualifier will be in Memphis. There will be 110 golfers playing for 12 spots (+2 alternates) on June 8.
My parents spoke with Michael at Zach's graduation and report that he will be playing in a Sectional US Open Qualification tournament. It's a 36 hole, 1 day event. The top 20 players will qualify to play in the US Open. Michael got to skip to this last round of qualifier by making the cut in last year's US Open. Of the 13 sites holding a qualifier that day, I'm not sure which one he's playing in.


Nvidia has continued to roll out the GeForce 700 series this week with the GTX 760 -- the generation's first truly mainstream product, with pricing well under that of the GTX Titan, 780 and even the 770, which at $400 still costs more than the average gamer is willing to spend. In other words, the GTX 760 has the potential to be today's most relevant option for someone who needs a new graphics card.
Previous 700 series cards have been heavy hitters, with the GTX 770 packing about as much muscle as the GTX 680 for about $100 less. Assuming Nvidia doesn't throw us a curve ball, we expect the GTX 760 to deliver performance comparable to that of the HD 7950 with a price tag that's closer to HD 7870s -- a situation that would invariably benefit anyone shopping for a mid-range GPU.
Like the GTX 770, 680, 670 and 660 Ti before it, the GTX 760 is based on Nvidia's GK104 architecture. That said, the newcomer's core configuration has been cut down quite significantly when compared to last month's GTX 770. Before you close the tab, there is some good news: Nvidia has left the card's 256-bit wide memory bus intact, affording the GTX 760 quite a lot of memory bandwidth.
Gainward has given us our first look at the GTX 760 with the company's special Phantom edition graphics card, which features a heavily modified board design packing upgraded cooling and some factory overclocking. We're generally pleased with the results of partners' efforts to customize their products, though it definitely adds some complexity to determining a card's value proposition.
As was the case with the GTX 770, Gainward prepared its Phantom card in time for the GTX 760 release, touting a reworked PCB, factory overclocking and a massive triple slot cooler -- the last of which is the most noteworthy enhancement. Also like the GTX 770, the GTX 760 receives the new third-generation Phantom cooler with replaceable fans.
The new Phantom delivers better thermals while making less noise and boasting a sturdier construction. It's unlike any triple-slot cooler we've encountered before, featuring four 8mm heatpipes that extract heat from the base and distribute it evenly throughout the heatsink. Gainward claims that its Phantom cooler allows the GTX 760 to run 16 degrees cooler than the reference board.
The most unusual part of the cooler design is its fans -- their location, specifically. Fans are typically attached to the top side of the heatsink, but instead Gainward has embedded two quiet 80mm brushless PWM fans inside the heatsink. The fans are also removable, featuring a tool-less design. Similar to the way hot-swappable hard drive bays work, the fans slide out once a single thumb screw has been removed -- no cables, no fuss.
The heatsink measures 210mm long (the PCB itself is just 170mm long), 65mm wide and just 15mm tall. It has a black fan shroud that forces the 80mm fans to draw air in through fins above them and push it over the card below them at the same time. Unlike the higher-end GTX 770, the GTX 760 Phantom doesn't have a heat spreader over the memory chips, leaving them naked instead.
Nvidia has designed the GTX 670 with three graphics processing clusters, six streaming multiprocessors, 1152 CUDA cores, 92 TAUs and 32 ROPs. In the previous generation, this would place the GTX 760 in between the GTX 660 and 660 Ti. Despite that, we expect the card to be quite a bit faster than the GTX 660 Ti, as it's not only clocked faster but it has a wider memory bus (256-bit versus 192-bit). While the 660 Ti was limited to a peak memory bandwidth of 144.2GB/s, the GTX 760 enjoys a much larger 192.3GB/s of bandwidth.
By default, the GTX 760 core is clocked at 980MHz with a boost frequency of 1033MHz while the 2GB of GDDR5 memory operates at 6GHz. The GTX 660 Ti in comparison runs at 915MHz with a boost of 980MHz but its memory also operates at 6GHz.
Gainward has of course done some factory overclocking boosting the base core frequency to 1072MHz with a boost speed of 1137MHz. This is a 9% increase in core speed, while the memory has been overclocked by 3% to 6.2GHz.
The rest of Gainward's card remains fairly standard, including a pair of SLI connectors, two 6-pin PCIe power connectors and an I/O panel configuration consisting of HDMI, DisplayPort and two DVI ports.


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Chelsea defender in shock retirement following England rejection
Tom Gatehouse
Chelsea stalwart Ashley Cole revealed late on Sunday evening that he had received a phone call from Roy Hodgson confirming his omission from England's World Cup squad, and that he is to retire from international duty with immediate effect.
The 33-year-old defender, who has also been marginalised this season at club level under Jose Mourinho, wrote on Twitter that he had been given the bad news early, with the England squad for this summer's tournament in Brazil to be announced at 14:00GMT, which all-but-confirms Southampton youngster Luke Shaw's selection for South America.
I got the call from Roy and agree England team should be about the young players. I think it best I retire from England team now.
— Ashley Cole (@TheRealAC3) May 11, 2014
It had been deemed as a straight fight between the pair, with some seeing Cole's big game experience as the reason for his selection, while others deem Shaw to be the England's future in the position, and that he should be integrated into the set-up as soon as possible.
Shaw has apparently won the race, with Cole announcing his decision to retire from international football, rejecting the chance to be part of the seven-man back-up for the squad.
We have a great manager and team and I wish them only success. I will be supporting them like a true fan. Thanks to everyone for everything
Hodgson, who is primed to name a youthful 23-man squad for the World Cup campaign, said that this was"one of the hardest decisions of my career".
"He's been an incredible competitor for England," Hodgson told BBC Sport,
"To amass over a century of caps is a truly staggering achievement and he deserves enormous credit for the desire and brilliance which has shone through over the years he has represented his country.
"There are few players who can be considered among the very best in the world, but Ashley in his prime was the best left-back without question.
"In two years working with him he has shown nothing but relentless professionalism, and a great hunger to play for England. He is someone I have the utmost respect for and I wished him all the best, he in turn wished the team well this summer.
"Of course I must respect his decision to retire. He has been one of England's finest players, but I want to look to the future."
With his England career now over, the left-back could also see his time at Chelsea over by next month, with his contract set to expire, and Cole indicated that he could be moving on to pastures new with a heartfelt tweet to Chelsea fans worldwide.
Cole was seen weeping during the Chelsea lap of honour last week, and was handed the captain's armband for the win over Cardiff on Sunday. The Chelsea players took time to shake the 33-year-old's hand after the match, with all indicators pointing to a summer exit for the now-former England man.
What do you think? Is this the right decision from Hodgson? Should Chelsea hold on to him? Get involved in the comments below…

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Flying a traffic pattern is one of the most basic of skills, yet too many still manage to screw it up. How to keep your head while all about you are losing theirs.
Jeb Burnside
Everyone remembers their first solo flight. Mine was memorable for two reasons. First, the Cessna 150 I was flying had a habit of allowing its right-side window to pop open, seemingly at will. Of course, the airplane "willed" the window open
shortly after I became airborne on my third touch and go. Reaching across the 150s "cabin" to pull it closed wasnt a crisis, but it wasnt something I wanted to be doing right then, either.
The other memorable part of my first solo was fitting the 150 into the traffic flow. The non-towered airport had three runways, laid out in the WWII training-field triangle still so common throughout the southeast U.S. I was using Runway 21; a Baron was inbound for Runway 15 and someone else was a factor, perhaps on Runway 27. All of these aircraft were much faster than mine and, by definition, were being flown by more-experienced pilots. Still, all of us managed to fly proper patterns to our respective runways I was the last to land, unsurprisingly and no sheet metal got bent. And, yes, I still have the shirttail the local hangar rats clipped that day.
I tell this tale not to reminisce but to illustrate that flying a traffic pattern and fitting into the flow at the local non-towered airport isnt rocket science. If an eight-hour primary student on his first solo can do it, so can everyone else. But too many of us either forget how to safely and courteously fly a pattern or adopt an attitude, thinking their airplane is the most important one and that they have to be on the ground first. It doesnt have to be that way.
Im not going waste time describing or debating the FAA-recommended rectangular traffic pattern sorry. If youre not familiar with traffic pattern basics, nows a good time before you go out to the airport for your next flight, please to sit down with some training materials or the Aeronautical Information Manual and refresh yourself. However, let me highlight some of the stuff pilots need to do to prepare for operations at a non-towered airport.
Perhaps the easiest mistake pilots make and seemingly one of the most common is a failure to plan for the pattern. Basic information like field elevation, pattern altitude, CTAF and which way to turn in the pattern is necessary to do this correctly. If you dont know where this stuff can be found, or you dont know what to do with it, make plans right now to huddle with an instructor and revisit your preflight planning skills. With resources like the Internet, airborne databases and the FAAs Airport/Facility Directory, theres simply no excuse for not having this basic information in hand and plugged into your communications radio well before approaching the airport.
Once we know these basics, its time to get set up for the pattern. Plug the CTAF into the radio you plan to use and, presuming youre not talking to ATC or someone else, make it active. But before you do anything else, listen.
Patiently listening to whats going on at the airport youre approaching is the best way to get a mental picture of the traffic level, its flow, the runway in use and where youll probably fit into the pattern. For example, if there are three trainers plodding along and youre flying a faster airplane, youll need to get slow well before leveling off at pattern altitude. Depending on how clean a bird youre flying, that could take some time and miles. Planning is your friend.
Of course, if listening for a few minutes while approaching your destination doesnt result in any useful information, its time to make a radio call. Please dont transmit the overly hopeful "any traffic advise" nonsense: Just because no one answers doesnt mean no ones there. Instead, call the facilitys Unicom. If theres still no answer, transmit in the blind to the airports traffic your position and intentions. Usually, if theres someone in the area, and theyre listening, theyll answer. Of course, youre on the correct frequency and the volume is turned up, right? And, if you dont know what to say in such a blind call, you probably shouldnt be there in the first place. Do some research.
Entry/downwind
Planning is also your friend once you know which runway is in use and, based on the patterns direction, where youll need to enter it. For our purposes, lets presume youll be doing the standard, FAA-recommended 45-degree entry to the downwind leg.
By this time, you want to be at or very near pattern altitude and relatively close to the airport. You should be able to see it (this is, after all, primarily a VFR operation) and have a clear mental picture of your position relative to the pattern and how to gracefully enter it. With luck, youll also be able to pick out some of the traffic in the pattern.
Pay very close attention to whats around you scan left and right, as well as below and in front of you, for other traffic. Especially if its a busy pattern, also scan the active runways departure area for closed-pattern traffic turning crosswind or someone entering the pattern from an extended downwind. This cant be emphasized enough: Since a traffic pattern is, also by definition, where youll find a high concentration of other aircraft, scanning for traffic is an imperative. Further, failure to scan and locate potential traffic conflicts is a leading cause of poor patterns, botched approaches and bad landings, not to mention mid-air collisions.
But once youre established on the downwind, your task doesnt get any easier. In addition to flying and configuring the airplane while gauging your progress toward the runway, youve got to keep your head "on a swivel," looking for other traffic: Just because youve made the correct, safe pattern entry doesnt men the next guy or gal will. Keep looking in the directions from which its likely conflicting traffic will appear, but look in the other directions, too. Dont forget to announce your pattern entry on the CTAF.
Finally, a word about wide patterns versus narrow ones. Nothings more frustrating to the locals than the transient in the Bonanza who comes smoking in from the big city and then flies a downwind over the next county. Even the student in the Skyhawk can see the problems with a too-wide pattern. She also can turn well inside the Bo driver and be in the lounge sipping coffee by the time he lands. The problem only gets worse with faster, heavier airplanes.
While theres no fixed pattern width or lateral distance from the runway at which the downwind should be flown the rule of thumb I use is to fly the downwind no further from the runway than I want to glide in the case of engine failure. From the standard 1000-foot pattern altitude, that means Im fairly close. If youre flying a 747, that might be too close. But youre not in a 747, or you wouldnt be trying to land at Cow Pie International. Slow down, close up the pattern and mix with the traffic. Its the right thing to do.
Base/Final
The closer we get to the runway, the greater the risk of a mid-air collision. Think about it: Traffic patterns funnel aircraft to the runway and, as you get closer to a landing, the funnel gets smaller. As the funnel narrows, there is less room to maneuver and whatever is being put through it gets jammed closer and closer together.
At the end of the downwind leg, get ready to turn base. "Abeam the numbers" is the time-honored spot at which we earnestly begin configuring the airplane for landing. Depending on what youre flying, this means dropping gear, pulling off power, adding carb heat, extending a notch or more of flaps and re-trimming to establish an initial glide speed. It also means being absolutely clear on our sequence in the pattern, what traffic is in front of us and what is behind us.
If, as often happens, someone announces a position in the pattern ahead of us, we had best visually acquire them before we either begin the descent from pattern altitude or turn base. The area between the numbers and the turn to base is a good spot for this exercise.
When to turn onto the base leg? There are probably as many suggestions as there are instructors, but the one thing you never want to do is decide the point at which to turn base on a geographic landmark. Thats because, well, that landmark wont be there at any other airport. Duh. Best to use some other metric, such as time, altitude, angle of the runway relative to the airframe or our preferred method judgment.
Once we complete the turn to base, its again time to configure the airplane, consider our progress and look for traffic. As the sidebars below and on the previous page illustrate, looking for traffic on the straight-in approach is always a good bet, especially when the weather makes an instrument approach a reasonable procedure for someone letting down from altitude. There youll find the turboprops and jets inbound from the runways instrument approach. Since they may have gotten a late frequency change from ATC, they may not have been able to make a call on the CTAF. They can also be on the wrong frequency or just plain ignoring you.
Once weve determined the final approach path is clear, its time to turn final, the gauging of which is all about airmanship. Here, weve got to run a complicated equation involving the wind at our altitude, our position relative to the runway, our speed and altitude, and the touchdown point for which were aiming. Weve got to make the turn early enough that we dont over-bank, perhaps getting into a classic stall/spin on final, and we want to roll out with the nose pointed at the runway. Its not rocket science, but it does take some practice and judgment, along with the ability to fly the airplane while thinking about and doing something else.
Once established on final, we complete the pre-landing checklist, double-check that the gear is down and the power controls are configured for a go-around and land. You dont need me to tell you how to do that.
Roll your own/straight-ins
Even though the FAA-approved traffic pattern has several components, once they are broken down and analyzed, its easy to see the logic. The basic traffic pattern works well as long as no one acts as if theyre alone. When someone does act like their airplane is the only one for miles, tempers flare, go-around practice becomes commonplace and accidents can happen. The key to safe pattern work is, literally, getting with the flow.
Put another way, when someone decides to roll their own pattern, its a recipe for problems. Abbreviated downwinds, 180-degree and base-leg entries, flying a right-hand pattern when everyone else is on the other side of the runway and straight-ins are examples of these recipes.
The only "approved" maneuver of this bunch is the straight-in, which begs the question: Why fly the straight-in? The answer varies, but can involve the airports instrument approach, the aircraft being flown or an emergency. By far, a full pattern is preferred, not just out of courtesy but because it gives us plenty of opportunity to configure the airplane along with several visual cues.
But none of these tips will really matter if we dont pay attention to whats going on around us. Look for traffic and especially look where the traffic typically will be. That way, you can avoid a Bonanza sandwich. Or worse.
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Lil Wayne Reveals Cash Money Is Considering A Big Tymers Album With Drake
May 16, 2013 | 8:56 AM
by Jake Paine
Between 1998 and 2003, the Big Tymers released five albums. The early breakthrough duo for Cash Money Records included producer/rapper Mannie Fresh and label co-founder/rapper Birdman (p/k/a Baby). The group disbanded in 2003, after Mannie Fresh left Cash Money, citing financial disputes, before signing a solo deal at Def Jam Records.
In the last two years, there has been discussion of Mannie Fresh producing for Cash Money acts—namely Mystikal—with whom he was working with before the longtime No Limit/Jive Records act signed with CMR.
Lil Wayne made a bold revelation though, telling MTV's Rap Fix that there is a "possibility" of a Big Tymers reunion, with a multi-platinum addition. "[There is] a possibility of a Big Tymers album—adding Drake. But that kid is busy; there's all kinds of possibilities." At present it is unclear if the album would include Mannie Fresh.
Wayne also dismissed plans of immediate upcoming plans for Tha Carter VI album.
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UPDATE: Following last week's report, Birdman spoke to MTV's Rap Fix indicating that Mannie Fresh would not be included in the Big Tymers reunion. Following last Wednesday's airing, Mannie Fresh also contacted MTV. According to HotNewHipHop.com, the founding member of the Big Tymers was openly critical of a reunion without him. While reportedly praising the music of both his onetime protege Lil Wayne as well as Wayne's protege Drake, Mannie said, "[Lil Wayne and Drake are] not the Big Tymers."
Cash Money Records has yet to respond to Mannie Fresh's statement, or provided additional details on the potential next album from the revamped Big Tymers.
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When Markle and Prince Harry tie the knot on May 19, however, Williams sadly might not be in attendance. The wedding takes place during one of the 23-time Grand Slam winner's tournaments. "We'll see if I can make it," Williams, 36, revealed during a Thursday, April 26, appearance on Good Morning America.
Williams was on GMA promoting her new HBO docs-series, Being Serena. The mom of 7-month-old Olympia, hopes her daughter will watch when she's older.
"When I was younger my dad always shot video of myself and our whole family," she recalled. "I wanted to do the same thing for Olympia. And I wanted to start with, you know, her in my belly." The program will show fans a new side of Williams, where she is being completely herself at home.
Being Serena premieres on HBO on May 2 at 10 p.m.


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Hannibal Napoleon David Alfred Thomas ("Nap") Cordy (July 29, 1902 — January 30, 1977) was an amateur scholar in the field of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, who made some notable contributions in the 1930s and 1940s to the early study and decipherment of the Maya script, used by the pre-Columbian Maya of southern Mexico and northern Central America.

Life and accomplishments
Cordy was born in 1902 in Cheltenham, England. His family immigrated to the United States in 1913, settling in Globe, Arizona. The son of a coal and copper miner, Cordy briefly studied mining engineering at the University of Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1922.

While working as an electrician at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from 1922–62, Cordy became fascinated with the Maya civilization, especially Maya hieroglyphs. He wrote a number of articles on the subject for various publications, and was a respected contributor to the journal The Masterkey, published by the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. He was also a founding member of the Southwestern Anthropological Association. Cordy died in Los Angeles in 1977, aged 74.

His daughter, Alana Cordy-Collins, became an anthropologist/archaeologist, specializing in the Peruvian prehistory, especially the Chavin and Moche civilizations. She was a professor of anthropology at the University of San Diego. A cousin, Ross Cordy, is an anthropologist specializing in Polynesian civilizations. He was chief archaeologist for the state of Hawaii's Historic Preservation Division and teaches at the University of Hawaii.

Publications
Cordy's publications include:

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References

 California Arts and Architecture list (1932).

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1902 births
1977 deaths
Amateur anthropologists
Mayanists
American Mesoamericanists
Mesoamerican epigraphers
20th-century Mesoamericanists
People from Cheltenham
British emigrants to the United States


As expected, it went much more smoothly than last week's performance. Not only did we get our groove back, we learned that the groove isn't something that comes and goes mysteriously, but rather something that can be captured and improved through paying attention to the details.
There were still glitches, though, mostly my fault. For a couple of new songs I hadn't spent enough time on the lyrics, and so I blanked out twice–even had to keep a lyric sheet handy as we played one of them. But aside from that the new songs went well, and we also did a decent job on a few that we hadn't played in awhile.
It's still awkward to do MC work, so I haven't; folks are still much more interested in their own conversations than in listening to us. But we did see signs of attention–tapping feet, an occasional glance. For most of the evening the crowd was sparse, but then as we started our short final set at 9pm the place suddenly filled up with schoolgirls. Some of them were already fans (they'd seen us during our first Tuesday performance, and asked if we'd be available to play a birthday party), and were nice enough to applaud our songs and to dig deep for some change to put in the tip bucket.
The main goal is still to settle into a routine, getting used to regular performance and using it as an opportunity to polish our act. We'll add another four or five Stanley Brothers songs this week, then keep them in heavy rotation so we can get them down pat.
Woodshedding is the name musicians give to a session of intense musical practice. It can be an hour spent learning a lick, or days spent picking a song apart, or months spent studying an artist. Someone asked Doc Watson how he came to play fiddle tunes on flatpicked guitar. He replied that in the early 50s he was often called upon to play square dances without a fiddler; not knowing how to play fiddle tunes (nobody else knew either), he spent a summer woodshedding to develop the necessary techniques.
Neither Chris nor I are that intense yet about practice, although Chris has started to spend an occasional hour with a program that slows down music, using it to study and practice licks and breaks he particularly likes. But after coming back from West Virginia we decided that we needed to do a deep study of the Stanley Brothers and their singing. So we queued up some of their songs for upcoming Java J's setlists, some new and some we've sung for awhile, and set out to learn them in fine detail.
It turned out to be much harder work than we expected. Especially for me, since I have been pretty sloppy about learning melody lines exactly, and as a result I have a lot of subtle mistakes to unlearn. We had three ninety-minute sessions over the weekend, and worked through only four songs, studying them line by line to hear all the notes and ornaments right. There are four other songs we'll be working on; once we've studied them, we'll use Java J's as an opportunity to perform, review, and perform again until we have them learned thoroughly.
It's becoming more routine now. Our week was busy enough that we didn't have time to prepare specifically for the evening, except that I wrote out new set lists. We arrived around 6:30 and only took about fifteen minutes to set up. Amy, the manager who agreed to let us play weekly, was there; we chatted briefly, and she stayed to hear our first set.
We never did find the groove last night. But the good part is that we started without it, and spent the evening trying to figure out what was wrong. By the end of the evening we had improved a bit, and we had also gotten a lot of practice playing even when we felt a bit out of control. As I constantly tell Chris, "They only know what you did, not what you were supposed to do." I don't think we sounded bad, just not as tight and polished as we do on a good night.
No other performances aside from the weekly Java J's date are scheduled for awhile, so now we can get back to practicing new material. The next phase is to do a close study of the Stanley Brothers; tonight we ran through five Stanley songs we had played before, plus a couple of new ones. We'll spend the week listening to the originals and practicing them ourselves.
Chris and I drove to Whitesburg, Ky. last night to be part of the Roadside Theater's Christmas in Appalachia program, held at the Appalshop. It was a great night of local music, put together by Ron Short. And it was pretty popular—the small auditorium was packed, maybe a hundred or so folks in the audience.
The program consisted of short sets by local performers, interspersed with Christmas singalongs led by Ron. Chris was very impressed with a Christmas carol performed by a small choral group that turned out to have been written by Ron. We're always talking about whether it's possible to write a new "old-time" song, and to Chris' ear that carol sounded pretty old.
Chris and I helped out at a couple of points in the show, and performed three songs by ourselves to end the first half—Cherry Tree Carol, Corpus Christi Carol, and Lullay the Son of Mary. All three of them were well received. We heard lots of comments later about the third song, which is really the simplest of lullabies, but still very powerful.
That's it for our scheduled performances for now, except for the weekly date at Java J's. But we're hoping that something else will come along at the Appalshop. It's a two-hour drive, but it is also our favorite place to play by far.
Last night was our first Tuesday appearance at Java J's. We planned to show up at 6:30 but actually arrived at 6:15—good thing, since we had some trouble figuring out how to get the sound working properly (Brandon Story had set it up at our first show). There were quite a few people for a cold Tuesday night, 23 degrees and snow flurries.
We start our sets on the hour. I had increased the number of songs in each setlist, figuring I wouldn't be doing much MC work. And I didn't; people were rightfully involved in their own conversations and paying little visible attention to us, so stage patter would have been awkward. We finished the first set around 7:50; the second set ran long, ending around 8:55.
As we were about to start the 9pm set, the main counter guy came by with a broom and asked, "Are you guys just about done?" Not an unfriendly question—the shop closes at 10, and they like to have the music stop with enough time for people to finish up and leave before then. We asked him what would work best for him, and he said that ending by 9:30 would be best. So we played the better half of the songs on our third list and called it a night. It took about fifteen minutes to pack, and another 25 minutes to drive home.
Even if folks are ignoring you, there are still many things about playing in front of them that can't be replicated at home. For one thing, some of them might be listening, and that pushes you to do a better job. For another, there are lots of little things you have to learn about playing live on a stage—how and where to stand, how and where to move, how to set the tempo for a song reliably, how to work the microphone, how to play through mistakes, how to stop gracefully when a fatal mistake happens (e.g. Chris's guitar strap coming loose).
And we weren't totally ignored. During the first set a group of four high school girls watched us very closely, asked occasional questions—and pointed a cell phone at us while we were playing. It turns out that they are putting on a party for a friend who likes bluegrass a lot, and they asked us if we would be available to play at the party. (The friend was listening through the cell phone.) We said sure, and gave them a card in case they decide they want us. And there was another fellow who walked in, smiled to see us, and came and sat in a comfy chair so he could watch and hear us while he did some studying.
All it all, it was a good first Tuesday, and we accomplished some things. We hadn't had time to practice specifically for the performance, and I deliberately waited until the last minute to put together the setlists, starting with the setlists from last time and changing about half the songs; I wanted to see how we handled a performance with minimal preparation. We also did three new songs that we need to have ready for Friday; they were rough, but it helped to try them out. And I wanted to see if we could be relaxed enough not to burn out when we play weekly.
And my back cooperated. In fact, it may have benefited from three hours of mostly standing upright; I felt no worse at the end of the night than at the beginning, and I feel pretty good today.
Ever since Chris and I started performing, we've read and re-read Pete Wernick's "How to Make a Band Work", and we've never regretted taking the advice he has packed into that book. One of his suggestions is to try to secure a weekly performance somewhere; not only will you learn things about performing that can't be learned at home, but it also gives people an easy opportunity to stop by and check you out.
Our first regular date is now official, and we can tell people "Stop by and see us Java J's in Abingdon on Tuesdays between 7pm and 10pm." We'll be starting tomorrow night. We're also checking into a second possibility for one or two Saturday nights a month, at a venue that already has regular live music and so will provide a bit more of an audience than we'll start with at Java J's.
Saturday was a big day for us. Ron Short had invited me and Chris to accompany him to a singing at an Old Regular Baptist church in Blackey, Kentucky. Well, sort of–the church no longer meets there, and the building has been donated to the local historical society, which uses it for community events like a monthly singing. But a number of the folks who put on the singing were in fact Old Regular Baptists.
The singing was part performance, part singalong. Chris and I did three songs on our own, and we backed up Ron as he performed a few and then led some Christmas songs. After some encouragement, two Old Regular Baptist elders agreed to line out a hymn for us ("lining out" means that the leader chants the next line of the verse quickly, then leads the congregation in singing it veerrrry slooowly). It was a powerful experience; at the end of the hymn, I wanted to walk over to those fellows and beg them to take me home with them and teach me to sing like that.
The second best part of the trip, after the hymn singing, was the opportunity to talk with Ron at length. The drive from his place to the church took about 90 minutes, so we had three hours to get to know one another. Ron has been a professional peformer for thirty years, and is steeped in the culture of the area, so he has a lot to teach us. And we're pretty eager students.


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There are some super duper exciting things going down for me on the writing front in the New Year. For the record, I don't do New Year Resolutions. I don't believe in them. Every new year people make resolutions to change aspects of themselves they believe are negative. So, for the past few years I haven't made any resolutions. I set goals instead. And no, they aren't goals like 'land a husband', or 'lose weight', or 'quit smoking', or 'give up drinking for 3 months', or whatever. They are goals that I want to work towards. Goals that I have been working towards for years. These are goals that are 'achievement' goals towards my own hopes and dreams. Do I want to set myself resolutions to look like a magazine model? Oh yeah, sure, why not. But no matter what I look like, it's not going to give me any life satisfaction if I can't actually achieve what I have been working towards for years, now, can it?
So… as part of my goals to eventually become a full time writer – it means that I need to blow the dust off some of the old manuscripts and ideas that I have been hoarding around, and turn them into something useful. I did start doing this job this year, I must admit, but while I have the momentum going, I'm going to keep it up. I cannot become a full time writer if I don't have books out on submission.
Secondly, there is going to be another round of fairly serious editing of another manuscript (thriller) that has been sitting in my literary drawer for years. This has all come to a head from Merrilee Faber and her brilliant idea of Project 2012: From first draft to submission.
Thirdly… if all goes well, I will have two completed and edited thrillers ready for submission by the end of next year. Hopefully – all going well that is!
Juggling my writing year with Bumpkin on my hip who is meant to arrive in February. Obviously Bumpkin will always come first, but there are still goals that I would like to achieve along the way. However, I have made an agreement with myself not to be dissapointed or to beat myself up if my goal line has to move about a bit. That can't be helped, so I'm not going to worry myself over it.
After last weekend's success with the paddling pool, when I eagarly went to uncover it on weekend to dump myself in it, part of it had slowly deflated over the week, much to my disappointment. So, instead of using a pool that is going to deflate every week (and we will be going into water-restrictions for our area soon) my dear husband felt it best that we go and buy a new one, that won't deflate as easily. Happy birthday to me. I can just tell this thing is going to be my saviour over the next couple of months.
I'm still not ready for Christmas, but like it does every year – it will come, and it will go. This year I have been more than distracted by everything else going on in my life, and frankly, everything else is a hell of a lot more exciting. I would much rather nest, and get rid of junk in my house. I would also much rather potter about in my pool and cool down when I need to. It's amazing how other priorities just take over. And Bumpkin is a pretty damn big priority right now, and one that I am more than happy to turn my attention and focus on, and get ready for at my own pace.
So…. on that note, there are some interesting things happening. I'm really really looking forward to them. In the past I have written a few books a year. Next year – I'm planning on writing just the one, and editing two. I think that's pretty reasonable, bearing in mind that I'll have a newborn Bumpkin on board as well. I'm looking forward to it.
Who else has goals lined up for next year?
Good luck with your goals! You seem like you're further down your writing path that I ever am. I always have crazy dreams of actually finish writing something…except I don't think my longest piece of work has be more than 14 pages? Ahaha… I always lose interest!
One step at a time! That's all it takes. Or – perhaps one page at a time? Whatever works – just keep doing it.
Those sound like fantastic goals. You can totally do it.
You'll be one of the first to know! Good goals… solid. Nothing big next year. I'm not planning on writing a trilogy or anything… but who knows. I might get the momentum up!
Well, you know what I'm doing! lol And I'll be cheering you along as you go and doing my best to help you through those first months – it's totally possible to have a newborn AND get some writing goals accomplished. I know you can do it 🙂 Having a flexible outlook is the kindest thing you can do for yourself, so you've got your head in the right space for it! Roll on 2012, it's going to be EPIC.
Great goals, Leigh. I'll be cheering you on from the sidelines. 🙂 Do keep us posted on your progress.
I definitely want to sit down and make my measured goals before the new year, one of which is a WIP that I want to get out sometime next year. I have a lot of my plate that I want to do. While I think some of the goals I have in my mind are like yours, ones I've had for years, I think for me, the matter is breaking them down into bite sized bits, so that I can manage them and also have select points to where if I accomplish one part, I can move in a streamline towards the bigger goal.
I have actual planning documents of goals that I want to achieve every six months. They are small goals, but each is another step in the right direction. I find that writing these goals down, helps me draw a little more focus to achieve them. And, not only that – but it keeps me accountable to myself and what I want out of it all.
Goals are great things – you just have to work at them. For me – I never planned on writing full time until at least 2014. Now that Bump is on the way, I think I would like that to be a little sooner… but I'm okay with whatever happens.
No matter whether it is 3, 1, 2 or TMS… I'm very proud. Follow your inner voice and don't let anyone steal your cool. 2012 is gonna be a stunner.
Haha! Goals! Yes! I should do those. Or maybe I should try and get through this year first, given that I haven't got xmas presents sorted and half the people I buy for are overseas. But, like you, I'd really like to get my teeth into some bigger projects in 2012. Tentatively, that means to have one of my novels completed, edited and ready for submission, and to finish and self publish the short story collection I've been planning forever.
Good luck – I'm totally in awe of you planning to do this at the same time you have a new baby.
Lol – I have always been in awe of you and your monthly goals and writer's task list that you do!!
You have some pretty big goals yourself for 2012 😉 Those are solid goals, and totally achievable! I just hoping that Bumpkin will be a little lenient on me when it's born!
Can I have your pool? It's dripping here.
Well – you can't quite have it, but you can come and play in it! Quite right about Christmas… I'm never ready. This year, I'm really not ready!


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Q: state of the art in Java EE debugging and monitoring tools I'm digging into Java EE for the first time in years.  I'm looking for recommendations on Java EE debugging and monitoring tools.  I'd like to find a tool that lets me dynamically explore the threads space etc.
I'm primarily working with Tomcat.  update: and Java 5.  (Rats.)

A: If you are unable to use VisualVM (not sure how it plays with Java5 instances), take a look at Lambda Probe.
Lambda Probe may not have all of the features you want (e.g. threads), but does have quite a few monitoring features and works with Java 4 and 5.

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*Display of list of sessions for a particular application

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A: The state-of-the-art is probably VisualVM.

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Tim Cook 'Won't Allow' His Nephew on Social Media
Speaking at Harlow College in the U.K., Apple CEO Tim Cook warned against "overuse" of technology, and said he didn't want young members of his own family to use social media.
Cook's comments, reported by The Guardian, came as part of a tour of Europe to support Apple's Everyone Can Code training curriculum.
"I'm not a person that says we've achieved success if you're using [technology] all the time," Cook said in part. Discussing education specifically, Cook emphasized that technology shouldn't dominate even computer-specific courses, instead emphasizing the importance of "concepts that you want to talk about and understand."
That's very much in line with Apple's history. Founder and longtime CEO Steve Jobs famously focused on courses in the arts and humanities during his abbreviated college years, including a course on typography that would later influence Apple's focus on design.
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Cook also commented on social media. Cook doesn't have children. But, he said, "I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on. There are some things that I won't allow; I don't want them on a social network."
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So with Christmas only a few days away making full-blown meals right now is pretty much bust. With the hustle and bustle of the holidays we're all about snacking and grabbing small bites versus sitting down for a big meal. Well that is, until Christmas day.
Just a few days ago I shared with you how to make killer homemade potato skins. And as I told you, they are super easy. Plus they make the perfect edible food vessel! What I love about these potato skins is literally you can stuff 'em with leftovers you have in the fridge. This recipe happened because I had leftover Triple B (Bacon, Beef & BBQ Sauce) Burgers in the fridge. Since I wasn't feeling a bun I opted to use some of those puppies in a lovely tater skin.
Now me being me, I cannot eat a beef burger without bacon and cheese. I mean it's like unnatural. It's like peanut butter without the jelly, cookies without the milk or not breathing. So Bacon Cheeseburger Potato Skins it was!
To make these, honestly there were pretty simple – just fry up some bacon, warm up the burgers and chop up some cheese. Add them to the tater skin and pop 'em into the oven to bake. Easy Peasy! Since Mr. Fantabulous was working I just made enough for me as a snack. I swear to you that man has ninja food sniffing skills because as soon as they came out of the oven all ooey gooey cheese bubblin and bacon sizzlin' he walks into the door.
Sadly that was the last of the Triple B burgers that I had in the fridge and bacon. Yes… I had no more bacon in my house. I know, me – not have a reserve of bacon, how is that even possible? A house is not a home when there is no bacon in the house. So there I sat, watching my husband scarfing down those amazing potato skins as I sat there giving him mental evil death glares. Oh the things we do (and sacrifices we make) for our loved ones, eh?
Whoa! SWEET! So as I sat there and at my bowl of Cheerios since he ate my meal I planned out my following day. Early the next morning before sleeping beauty woke up I was at the gym then hit up Sam's club and my butcher for some much needed bacon and beef. I NEEDED these Bacon Cheeseburger Tater skins in my life…and in my belly!
Plus since I put in almost 2 hours at the gym this made for a great post-workout meal as it had carbs and protein. Yes I know sweet potatoes would have been a better carb choice but I can't get past the whole making sweet pototaoes savory thing.
Once I got home I got the Triple B burgers made and fried up the bacon. I just was about to put these all together when sleepy beauty came out to the kitchen rubbing his gorgeous eyes and yawning morning (even though it was almost noon). And then he spied the crispy bacon.
So while I made his eggs I fried up more bacon and fed him. I then got distracted with a few phone calls and laundry. Before I knew it, it was close to 4pm and I still hadn't eaten. This time I made a full tray of these babies because I knew my Ninja Food Sniff Master would sniff them out and want some (i.e., mine).
OMG seriously that first bite… AMAZING! The skins were crispy, the burger juicy, the cheese all gooey and that bacon… dear lord. But what seriously pushed it over the edge was the drizzle of bbq sauce in it! For his I also added some green onions and chopped tomatoes to give it more of a 'burger feel. He, again, went nuts over these!
Line a baking sheet with foil and place an oven-safe cooling rack on top.
Place the scooped out potato filling in a container and save for use.
Place the potato skin hulled side up.
Mix together the butter and oil.
Brush the inside of the halved potatoes with the butter mixture.
Place halved side up on the cooling rack and bake for 10 minutes.
Remove from the oven, flip over, brush with the butter mixture and bake for an additional 10 minutes.
Rough chop the Lord Have Mercy Triple B Burgers and bacon.
Place 1-2 Tbl of the Chipotle Maple BBQ Sauce in the potato skin and brush to coat the inside.
Place a few cubes of the cheese on top of the sauce.
Evenly divide the chopped burgers and bacon into each potato skin.
Place the cheese on top and try to push some of the cheese cubes down in between the meat filling.
Remove from the oven and garnish with green onions and bbq sauce (if desired).
I am so all over these things! These are total man food and perfect for the game this weekend! I absolutely LOVE your site! You make even me, who used to hate to cook, love it now! Keep 'em coming TKW!


Bind on application is over-ridden by netbalancer?
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It looks like the netbalancer seems to over-ride what interface/IP the packets are showing as their source even when it is specifically set with the 'bind' option.
For example doing the same on a ClearOS box does not ever show an issue like this.
As you can see here the LOCAL PROCESS is before the routing decission, MANGLE OUTPUT, MANGLE POSTROUTING and NAT POSTROUTING, so the content of the packet can change easily before the packet starts its journey on the wires.
In order to achieve what you want, you can do it the same way you do it in your other linux box. Set mark of 0x66 (this is an example, see what are the marks available in "ip rule ls") to the application you want to send over a specific interface and the netbalancer will do the rest.
I can just add rules like I have on my box for 101/103?
and I should be able to reliably bind a specific program to a specific IP?
If so I assume with dynamic IPs I would need to write a script that grabbed the IP of the interface. Where would the best place to put this script in Startup/Cron?
I don't know if that will work. Maybe you should try the iptables to mark the packet, depending on the source IP.
Ah, that might work! I do notice that netstat will even show the correct IP so I am hoping that will indeed work. I will just need to have it figure out the IPS when it running since my connections aren't static. Are there variables already assigned to the IPs or will I have to manually edit my stratup/cron options for firewall initialization and manually write a script that adds the correct iptable commands? I am guessing its in the NAT table so I will likely have to do that anyway eh? I already am doing that for my work's VPN is accessible from machines behind the NAT. I had to setup a custom VPN connection as my work uses tun instead of tap and I can't change that.
I figured the above code should help it work even if my IP address changes. Also I have it delete the rule first so other firewall changes dont make a bunch of duplicate rules in the NetBalancer chain.


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Cotton made in Africa Celebrates its Bathrobe Day Premiere
Celebrities, Hamburg testimonials, non-political organizations and textile companies flew the flag for Cotton made in Africa
On the occasion of the Bathrobe Day premiere, Cotton made in Africa kindled a beacon of engagement for smallholder farmers in Africa as well as for nature. In social media and at events in Hamburg, many supporters such as Valentina Pahde, Motsi Mabuse, Johanna Klum and Johannes Strate presented themselves publicly in bathrobes in order to set an undeniable signal for Cotton made in Africa. They flew the flag for the protection of our environment and hundreds of thousand cotton farmers in Africa.
On this day of action, the initiative, founded by Dr. Michael Otto, called upon everyone to improve the world by wearing a bathrobe. National celebrities such as Maite Kelly, Namika, Minh-Khai Phan-Thi or Laura Chaplin and Florian Ambrosius, characters from Hamburg such as Barkassen Meyer, businesses and non-political organizations followed this appeal and posted their selfies in the popular garment under #bathrobeday, #wearasmile, and @cottonmadeinafrica.
Famous statues in Hamburg such as the Beatles in St. Pauli, the Zitronenjette, Moai Angelito, and Störtebeker also appeared in bathrobes just like the rowing eight from the club Favorite Hammonia. A flash mob attracted attention in the city center of Hamburg: Bathrobe wearers trekked from the main station through Mönckebergstraße as far as the town hall market and demonstrated how easy it is to do something good whilst wearing and giving a smile.
Organizations such as the WWF, Welthungerhilfe or CARE, Hamburg institutions such the Hamburg Dungeon and the initiative 'Platz schaffen mit Herz' (make room with the heart) also participated in Cotton made in Africa's "Wear a Smile" campaign and appeared in a bathrobe on Bathrobe Day. Furthermore, renowned companies and textile firms such as bonprix, OTTO, the Otto Group, Tchibo, the Rewe Group, ALDI SÜD, Ernsting's family, and ABOUT YOU supported the campaign: Consumers can wear a smile with each Cotton made in Africa garment, support smallholder farmers through better working and living conditions and protect nature.
"Together with many supporters and with plenty of fun, we were able to bring 695,000 African smallholder farmers to public attention. We are very happy about the huge response in social media as well as with our local bathrobe campaigns," explains Tina Stridde, Director of the initiative Cotton made in Africa.
Further information can be found on the attached fact sheet as well as at https://www.wearasmile.org/.
A gallery of photos from the Bathrobe Day is available for download under this link.
HAKRO Announced as New Partner of "Cotton made in Africa"
HAKRO GmbH has launched its next sustainability project. The supplier of clothing for corporate fashion, work, leisure and sport has now signed a partnership agreement with Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) and will be buying CmiA-certified cotton in future. The cotton is produced in accordance with the CmiA certification without genetically modified seeds, harmful pesticides and artificial irrigation. It improves the working and living conditions of hundreds of thousands of smallholder cotton farmers and thousands of factory workers in Africa.
"Cotton made in Africa has won our support", said Carmen Kroll, the managing partner of HAKRO. "The standard takes account of both social and ecological aspects. And by signing up we can play a part in stabilizing the cotton sector in Africa and improving the living and working conditions in the growing countries."
Having recently launched a collection in organic cotton, the medium-sized enterprise has pledged commitment to Cotton made in Africa with a view to significantly increasing its proportion of sustainably produced natural fibers in the next few years. The enterprise sends the CmiA cotton to an independent production partner in Turkey which makes T-shirts, polo shirts, pull-on sweatshirts and zip-front sweatshirts for HAKRO. The company is subject to the conditions imposed by the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI).
Tina Stridde, Managing Director of the Aid by Trade Foundation, the umbrella organization of CmiA, appreciates new partnership, saying that "HAKRO shows that companies in the corporate fashion, work, leisure and sports branch of textiles can also increase their sustainability credentials with Cotton made in Africa and show their customers that they are committed to the cause. More and more companies with a focus on sustainability are demanding higher social and ecological standards of their workwear so we are pleased to have a prominent partner like HAKRO on board who will join us in our support for the smallholders in Africa and for a forward-looking approach to corporate fashion."
As the largest initiative for sustainably produced cotton in Africa, Cotton made in Africa constitutes a sustainable basis for the worldwide textile supply chain. It puts a face to the smallholders at the first link of the fashion industry chain. Hundreds of thousands of smallholders are benefiting from agricultural and business training courses which help them to improve their yields and cultivation methods. Women are gaining greater independence in their social and occupational roles, and factory workers are enjoying improved working conditions. In return, companies are getting a sustainable raw material which protects human rights and conserves the natural Environment.
About HAKRO
The family-run enterprise HAKRO, which was set up in 1987 as a limited liability company (GmbH), has its roots in the textile retail firm started up in 1969 by Schrozberg entrepreneur Harry Kroll (HaKro). The company specializes in high-end corporate fashion, workwear, leisurewear and sportswear. Customers can choose between 146 designs, 51 colors, 15 sizes and three fits in the current catalog – for women, men, children and unisex (T-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, shirts, blouses, pullovers, cardigans and socks), and the clothes are sold by authorized stockists all over Europe. The whole collection is certified as meeting the "Standard 100 by OEKO-TEX".
The company has seen strong growth in the last few years and achieved the best trading results in its history in 2016 with its 155-strong workforce. HAKRO sources its textiles from independent production partners in Turkey, Bangladesh, Laos, China and the Czech Republic. The quality management system is certified as conforming to ISO 9001. HAKRO has been a member of the UN Global Compact since 2009 and a member of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles since 2015. www.hakro.com
Dibella and Cotton made in Africa close a partnership agreement for the "Heimtextil Messe" (household textile exhibition) in Frankfurt
In time for the Heimtextil Messe (household textile exhibition) in Frankfurt, the Dibella company group and the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) Initiative are sealing their newly closed partnership. By using CmiA certified cotton, Dibella is putting the requirements of the industry for sustainable commercial textiles into practice. CmiA textiles are used in the hotel, restaurant and health industries via the textile service, whilst the Dibella companies group promotes sustainable cotton cultivation in Africa.
"With Cotton made in Africa, we have found a partner who supports us in integrating sustainable cotton efficiently into our textile supply chain. The use of Cotton made in Africa cotton improves our water and CO2 footprint; so we gain sustainable quality. Moreover, we support the interests of more than 650,000 small-scale farmers and their families on behalf of 5.6 million people with the standard for sustainable cotton, which is considered the most renowned in Africa," says a delighted Ralf Hellmann, Managing Director of the Dibella company group, founded in 1986.
With more than 30 textile companies and brands – including OTTO, Bonprix, the Rewe Group, Tchibo, Engelbert Strauss and ASOS – Cotton made in Africa has established itself as a sustainable cotton standard for the textile industry. Tina Stridde, the initiative's manager, is happy with this positive development: "Cotton made in Africa cotton is available in all the important production markets and is increasingly being processed for textiles in Africa. From bed linen and towels to jeans and fashionable tops, textiles are being produced with Cotton made in Africa cotton, which allows small farmers to become independent of charitable donations. We are delighted to have found a renowned partner in Dibella, who promotes small-scale farmers in Africa and the use of sustainably produced raw materials in the textile industry."
In 10 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers are supported with modern and efficient agricultural and business training programmes in order to ensure that their cultivation is based on environmentally friendly methods. Dangerous pesticides, genetically modified seeds, the felling of primary forests and artificial irrigation are forbidden. Cotton made in Africa ensures ethical working conditions for the small-scale farmers as well as the workers in the de-seeding plants in order to enable them and their families to have a better life.
The cooperation came into being through a joint partner, Bimeco, who - as a yarn manufacturer - merges both ends of the textile chain. Alois Busshaus, yarn expert at Bimeco emphasises: "For us the promotion of sustainable development by means of building trusting collaborations is firmly anchored in the company culture. It is even nicer for us to see the fruits of this commitment – such as the co-operation between Cotton made in Africa and Dibella."
About Cotton made in Africa
Cotton made in Africa (CmiA), an Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) initiative, has made it an aim to provide help by promoting self-help through trade in order to improve the living conditions of cotton farmers and their families in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently more than 650,000 small-scale farmers in 10 countries are participating in the CmiA initiative. Small-scale farmers receive training in efficient and environmentally friendly cultivation methods. This helps them to improve the quality of their cotton and to achieve greater harvest yields and better incomes for themselves and their families. About 30 companies in the international textile branch use CmiA-cotton for their products. Consumers can recognise these by a small, wine-red quality label with the Cotton made in Africa imprint. www.cottonmadeinafrica.org
About Dibella
Dibella is a competent partner in textile hiring services, providing long lasting commercial textiles in the hotel, restaurant and health industries. The service-oriented company has supplied the industry since 1986 with exclusive, professional products. Thanks to its steady growth, Dibella is now represented in international offices of the most important markets in Europe. For many years Dibella has promoted sustainable production to safeguard mankind and the environment. Its membership of many organisations is an expression of this commitment.
About BIMECO
Bimeco has been active on the market for high quality spun industrial yarns since 1986 and is one of the leading suppliers in Europe. During this time, Bimeco has imported over 250,000 tons of yarns from Africa and Asia into Europe. Leading manufacturers in over 20 countries value Bimeco's advisory and worldwide logistics service. The secret behind Bimeco's success lies in the consistent company philosophy from the very beginning – to be a reliable, competent and profitable partner for its customers and suppliers.
Cotton made in Africa Supply Chain Workshop in India
Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) certified cotton is processed all over the world in all major textile production countries. The aim of the Cotton made in Africa Supply Chain Workshop, held in Coimbatore/India mid-May, was to further establish CmiA in India where demand is also increasing. Some 80 experts attended the meeting, representing actors along the textile value chain - from spinning mills and ready-made garment and fabric producers right through to cotton traders and merchandisers for textile companies.
Christian Barthel, Director Supply Chain Management at Cotton made in Africa, presented examples of best practice, demonstrating how Cotton made in Africa can further be integrated in the textile supply chains in India - in a way which is transparent, traceable and economically viable. Including the Indian market, Cotton made in Africa works with over 100 players in the international textile production market.
One of the CmiA partners is the cotton trader Stadtlander. "As an internationally oriented company in the cotton trade, we attach great importance to reliability and dynamism. Cotton made in Africa also work in accordance to these values," said Maximilian Daebel of Otto Stadtlander during the workshop, "We are happy to partner with CmiA and thereby helping to improve the living conditions of cotton farmers in Africa who stand at the beginning of the textile supply chain." According to Lorenz Reinhart, working for the swiss-based, international cotton trader Reinhart, CmiA is a key component of the strategy of the company: "To work with Cotton made in Africa means for us to preserve internationally recognized sustainability standards for hundreds of thousands of smallholders in Africa."
Through its worldwide network along the textile value chain, Cotton made in Africa ensures that CmiA cotton can be purchased cost-neutral, all over the world and at any time. This enables companies on the one hand to combine their sustainability goals with their procurement targets in the best possible way. The initiative on the other hand can thereby pursue its aims which is to persuade companies to switch from conventional sources to Cotton made in Africa cotton. At the end, CmiA thereby maximizes its support for smallholders in Africa, helping them to improve their living and working conditions and to protect the natural environment. A global comparison shows that CmiA cotton saves over 500 liters of water on every T-shirt. Around 50 million textiles bearing the Cotton made in Africa label were brought onto the market in 2016. Around 30 companies currently market Cotton made in Africa products.
Otto Group saves 33 billion litres of water with CmiA
Through the use of the certified sustainable cotton with the "Cotton made in Africa" (CmiA) label, more than 33 billion litres of water were saved. Customers who buy articles from the Otto Group with the CmiA label thus actively contribute, among other things, to saving the precious resource of water, combatting poverty and improving the future viability of millions of people in Africa.
With Cotton made in Africa textile companies better get to know their raw material
This year's Stakeholder Conference of Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) and the Competitive African Cotton Initiative (COMPACI) was held from September 7 to 8 in Munich and was attended by over 100 experts in the textile value chain from over 20 countries. The two ends of the textile production chain met, with companies and brands like OTTO, Ernsting's family, Engelbert Strauss, Sportscheck and Jack & Jones at one end and cotton producers from Africa at the other end. They discussed how to achieve sustainability in the field, transparency along the supply chain, and new communication strategies for trading sustainable products.
Helmut Fischer, Head of the Division "Sustainability Standards" at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), opened this year's annual conference and underlined the importance of Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) as one of the main standards for sustainable cotton. Richard Rogers, Senior Program Officer for Global Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation summed up his work with CmiA and COMPACI which has spanned almost 10 years and said: "We have learned to listen to the smallholders. The Aid by Trade Foundation has done a good job of raising the interest of textile companies and brands in African cotton. My wish for the future would be that companies would pay as much attention to their value chains and, more importantly, to the farmers as they do to the consumers."
Once again, the conference followed the thread from field to fashion. The increased significance of sustainable cotton and textiles is fuelling the demand for transparency in the supply chain. Cotton made in Africa therefor offers solutions which can be easily put into practice with the help of new technologies and expert knowledge. The systems required to guarantee traceability are already in place and the databases are just waiting to be filled, according to Sanjay Gupta of Direction Software Solutions specialized in IT-based solutions for a transparent value chain. The participants included Anne Pattberg of PwC, expert in business philosophy Dominic Veken, Claudia Gersdorf of Viva con Agua, Dörte Lehne of OTTO, and Jaswinder Bedi, Manager of a vertically integrated textile factory in Uganda, and they all agreed that any sustainability strategy must be translated into a persuasive message which ultimately communicates the product to the customer.
Another item on the agenda was the training for the smallholders - a special service by COMPACI and CmiA. Representatives of the cotton companies and agricultural experts discussed how to cater even more effectively to the needs of the smallholders and concluded that gender-specific course content, new technologies, and the integration of food and cash crops must be central to the CmiA curriculum.
COMPACI (Competitive African Cotton Initiative)
The Competitive African Cotton Initiative (COMPACI) was founded in 2008 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on the back of the successful Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) pilot, with a view to subsidizing the income of African cotton farmers. The DEG (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH) and the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) were instructed to put the plans into action. In the first phase, COMPACI concentrated on Benin, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa and on Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia in the south-east of Africa. Then the initiative was expanded in the second phase to Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania.


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Q: Parsing with BeautifulSoup from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
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req = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.grupodpa.es')

soup = BeautifulSoup(req)
for link in soup.findAll("a", email=True):
    print link["email"]

Not getting printed the email address on that page, nor any error. Do you know what's wrong with this code ?

A: There is nothing wrong with the code, the email address is just not enclosed in an "a" tag. Probably to prevent scraping the email address by spammers.


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Q: Firestore Trouble with get() then add() New to Vue.js and Firestore, struggling to do something I feel should be simple.
1) I query an existing template doc in my firestore to retrieve some default values.
2) I want to create a new record in different collection using these default values.
I can console log the default values from the template and they show correctly (in the code below, the "console.log" shows the values presently in the template document, so I believe the variables beginning with "this." should now have my correct values, ready to use in creating a new document, yes?
But when running the subsequent .add() using these default values, the new document is created in 'nodes', but values are NOT the values retrieved in the first query, the values are instead what I initially initialized the variables to when creating them in data(), in this case, blank strings. The newly created doc in 'nodes' collection has the correct fields, but they are blank strings just showing "" with no value.
This function createNewLocation() is kicked off by a button press on the page if that matters. It seems to work, I just can't get the values to copy over.
I have tried this a few different ways. No matter what I do, I can't make the returned values from the query useful in the rest of my code. Does this have something to do with latency where the first query hasn't returned when the new doc is created? If so how to get around this?
Thank you.

<script>
import db from '../components/firebaseInit'
export default {
    name: 'loc-new',
    data () {
        return {
            //Values from entry form
            new_loc_id: null,
            new_loc_name: null,

            //Holders for default values used in location creation
            node_hw_ver: 0,
            node_sw_ver: 0,
            node_user_descr: '',
            node_user_name: '',
            node_type_class: '',
            node_type_id: 0,

        }
    },
    methods: {
        createNewLocation () {
            //get template /templates/(nodes)/node_templates/
            db.collection('templates').doc('nodes').collection('node_templates')
                .where('use_for_new', '==', true).get().then((querySnapshot) => {
                querySnapshot.forEach((doc) => {
                    this.node_hw_ver = doc.data().default_hw_ver
                    console.log("hw ", this.node_hw_ver)
                    this.node_sw_ver = doc.data().default_sw_ver
                    console.log("sw ", this.node_sw_ver)
                    this.node_user_descr = doc.data().default_user_descr
                    console.log("descr ", this.node_user_descr)
                    this.node_user_name = doc.data().default_user_name
                    console.log("name ", this.node_user_name)
                    this.node_type_class = doc.data().type_class
                    console.log("class ", this.node_type_class)
                    this.node_type_id = doc.data().type_id
                    console.log("id ", this.node_type_id)
                })
            })
            db.collection('nodes').add({
                    loc_id: this.new_loc_id,
                    addr: 1,
                    user_name: this.node_user_name,
                    user_descr: this.node_user_descr,
                    type_id: this.node_type_id,
                    type_class: this.node_type_class
            })
            .then(function(docRef){
                //do nothing
            })
            .catch(function(error){
                console.error("Error adding node document: ", error)
                return null
            })

        }
    }
}
</script>

A: I think I have it working. I understand it was not updating because the promise had not yet returned. I'm a bit fuzzy on syntax of js (I normally work in C), so this was just trial and error and may not be clean or correct, but this does work if anyone else stumbles on this post.
I have added the .add() query inside the .then of the first query. I understand this can be done using 'await' but I couldn't understand the syntax in the various examples I found. There may be a cleaner way to do this, but it works for now.
<script>
import db from '../components/firebaseInit'
export default {
    name: 'loc-new',
    data () {
        return {
            //Values from entry form
            new_loc_id: null,
            new_loc_name: null,

            //Holders for default values used in location creation
            node_hw_ver: 0,
            node_sw_ver: 0,
            node_user_descr: '',
            node_user_name: '',
            node_type_class: '',
            node_type_id: 0

        }
    },
    methods: {
        createNewLocation () {

            //get template /templates/(nodes)/node_templates/
            db.collection('templates').doc('nodes').collection('node_templates')
                .where('use_for_new', '==', true).limit(1).get().then((querySnapshot) => {
                querySnapshot.forEach((doc) => {

                    this.node_hw_ver = doc.data().default_hw_ver
                    console.log("hw ", this.node_hw_ver)
                    this.node_sw_ver = doc.data().default_sw_ver
                    console.log("sw ", this.node_sw_ver)
                    this.node_user_descr = doc.data().default_user_descr
                    console.log("descr ", this.node_user_descr)
                    this.node_user_name = doc.data().default_user_name
                    console.log("name ", this.node_user_name)
                    this.node_type_class = doc.data().type_class
                    console.log("class ", this.node_type_class)
                    this.node_type_id = doc.data().type_id
                    console.log("id ", this.node_type_id)

                    db.collection('nodes').add({
                    loc_id: this.new_loc_id,
                    addr: 1,
                    user_name: this.node_user_name,
                    user_descr: this.node_user_descr,
                    type_id: this.node_type_id,
                    type_class: this.node_type_class
                        })
                        .then(function(docRef){
                            //do nothing
                        })
                        .catch(function(error){
                            console.error("Error adding node document: ", error)
                            return null
                        })
                })

        })
    }
}
</script>


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