Although tidal and current energy technologies are still being developed and refined, there are already a few in operation. The following are some of the current installations around the world.
The SeaGen Project began in April 2008 when a 1.2 MW tidal energy convertor was installed in Strangford Lough. The expected duration of the Sea Generation Ltd project is five years. The turbine generates 3800MW hours per year to power approximately 1140 houses. What is unique about the turbine is that it has a lift mechanism in which it can rise out of the water in order for maintenance. Royal Haskoning Ltd is investigating the environmental impacts of the turbine. So far there has not been any significant evidence of negative impacts. These results are partially because little is known about the studies organisms such as seals.
Kvalsund, Northern-Norway is home to a .3MW Hammerfest Strom-turbine prototype. It was installed in 2003 as a test for a future 1MW device to that is scheduled to be installed in Scotland in 2011. Although the turbine is only 0.3MW it is significant because it was the first in the world to convert the kinetic energy of tides into electricity. Akvaplan NIVA, aquaculture and environmental research and consultancy, is studying the environmental impacts of the prototype turbine in Kvalsund. The study is on going but there has minimal effects on the environment, outdoor life and fishing. The company has received support from both UK and Norwegian authorities, as well as received the VIBES award for the international cooperation with the UK utility Scottish Power Renewables. The UK's Carbon Trust invested over 5.6 million dollars in to Hammerfest Strom. In order to prepare for commercialization, Hammerfest Strom is raising over 17 million dollars. Potential investors include industrial entities, utilities and venture funds. Currently, the study is focusing on the possible effects of the turbines on sea birds and mammals. Hammerfest Strom continues to investigate this renewable energy source and has plans to develop a turbine system that will be able to go commercial in 2012. Other plans include creating many new jobs in Scotland, and working to install a turbine system in Great Britain.
The East River in New York City is the first and only functioning tidal turbine system in the United States. A small power company, Verdant Power, began their Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) project in 2002. They have finally landed on an aluminum turbine design with a 5m diameter rotor. Currently six full-scale turbines are successfully demonstrating that the Free Flow System can be a viable source of energy. The project demonstration system is the world's first tidal turbine system that is connected to the electricity grid. It delivers 70MW hours of energy to two households and has 9,000 turbine-hours of operation. RITE is monitoring the operation of the turbine field via fixed underwater hydroacoustic sensors in order to determine its effects on the environment. RITE also characterized and analyzed the benthic habitat of the river. According to these observations, there has not been any significant evidence of increased fish mortality or injury. These observations have not indicated any irregular bird activity in the project area. However, they do suggest that fish tend to avoid the turbine field and instead populate the inshore area. Verdant Power is now awaiting the approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the pilot license in order to begin expansion into a 1MW, 30-turbine Free Flow System. If all goes as planned they also aim to expand in order to obtain additional two to four megawatts of capacity.
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All about electric vehicles
About electric cars
How does the car electrical system work?
What causes car electrical problems?
What is engine electrical system?
What are the electrical components of a car?
How do I know if my car has an electrical fault?
What causes a car's electrical system to suddenly stop working?
Is a car electrical AC or DC?
What causes a wire to melt in car?
What is electricity simple explanation?
What are car electrical accessories?
What are the three main parts of an electronic system?
What are the major components of a vehicle?
How do you check for an electrical short in a car?
What can drain a car battery when the car is off?
Your car's electrical system consists of the battery, starter and alternator. The battery provides juice to the starter. Then, the alternator gives that battery the energy it needs to power your car. … It pinpoints any problems that may occur with your electrical system.
The culprit could be a dying battery, loose wires, or a malfunctioning alternator belt. Corrosion of electrical systems may also be an issue.
(1) The engine electrical system includes circuits and components such as the battery, alternator, and devices used for ignition and engine control. Engine electrical wires fall under two categories, primary and secondary.
There are several key components that make up a car's electrical system. The battery, alternator, and starter are the three main parts of any vehicle's electrical system; all three of these parts work together to start a car and keep it running.
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Check the ground connection with your ohmmeter. If the ground connection is good, the fault is inside the component. If there is no voltage in the "hot" wire to the component, then the problem is in the wiring. Trace back through the fuse panel (or relay or circuit breaker) until you find voltage.
Loose battery connections can cause an electrical system to "shut down" and then start working again, as can bad fusible links, so the connections between the battery and the rest of the electric system should be checked out thoroughly before anything else.
Cars use DC, Direct Current. That's the type of electricity produced by batteries, and it flows in one constant direction. It's also the type of electricity produced by a generator, which was used in automobiles from the early 1900s up until the 1960s.
Coils of wire, such as extension leads, increases the magnetic electrical field current and produces heat. As the wire heats up, it can make the outer plastic coating softer, which strengthens the electrical field and eventually causes the coating to melt.
Electricity is the presence and flow of electric charge. Using electricity we can transfer energy in ways that allow us to do simple chores. Its best-known form is the flow of electrons through conductors such as copper wires. The word "electricity" is sometimes used to mean "electrical energy".
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Electrical accessories include music system, air conditioners, different sort of lights such as brake or fog light, etc. On the other hand, non-electrical accessories include the interior fitting in the car, seat covers, alloy wheels and much more.
One way of looking at an electronic system is to separate it into three parts: Inputs – Electrical or mechanical sensors, which take signals from the physical world (in the form of temperature, pressure, etc.) and convert them into electric current and voltage signals.
Digital circuits
Logic gates.
Counters.
(i) A steel frame, which is a major part. body and other accessories, which are not involved in the movement of the vehicle. (iii) Other major components include engine, transmission system, front and rear axle, steering system, suspension system, wheels, tyres and brakes.
Set your voltmeter to the DC voltage scale, at around 20 volts, and connect your meter across the fuse holder. If there's a short in the circuit, you meter should read some voltage. If you are using a test light, you can also connect the light across the fuse holder. When there is a short, the light will illuminate.
What may drain a car battery when it's off, however, are things such as interior lights, door lights, or even bad fuses. While your engine runs, the alternator recharges the battery — which is why you typically don't have to worry about the battery dying while you're blasting the radio on your drive to work!
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The HCS-D40 is a 32 Amp, Level 2 hard-wired station that can charge two
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Four Things Employers Should Do To Accommodate Political Diversity In The Workplace
In a recent discussion with the chief diversity officer at a Fortunate 500 company, my conversation partner pointed out that the workplace has become increasingly politicized.
He noted that the distinctions employers and employees used to make between work life and personal life have become less well-defined.
And, of course, he's right. Whether the blurring of that work/personal line is right or wrong is a reasonable question. But regardless of the answer, the reality is that the current moment makes such a separation impossible. The question on the table now is, given this fact, how can employers navigate this space knowing that politics are, by their very nature, contentious and controversial?
Making matters more complicated, we are experiencing the politicization of the workplace at the same time we're reaching new heights of self-censorship. The latest poll from the Cato institute, suggests that "Nearly two-thirds—62%—of Americans say the political climate these days prevents them from saying things they believe because others might find them offensive."
An environment in which people feel they have to step carefully around political issues while, at the same time, those same political issues permeate every aspect of our lives, can only result in tension.
This means that, whether employers like it or not, the challenge of how to keep the peace has landed at their doorstep. Organizations have choices in how they respond to the current sociopolitical moment. One option is to go the way of Ben & Jerry's who, in relation to the racial justice movement, decided to fully and publicly embrace political engagement. This approach has the advantage of sending an unambiguous message to employees and patrons. We all know where the company stands.
Other employers don't wish to go that route. This may be for any number of reasons, including the desire to welcome a clientele and a workforce with a wide range of views on politics and/or on the extent to which they want their employer to take a political stance. While it seems daunting, employers and organizations who wish to go this latter route can take certain steps to maintain a healthy climate.
Below are four points, some of which I touched on here, that employers can build into the workplace culture to ensure the climate is robust while respecting different perspectives. In situations where interactions are going to repeated, if political diversity is valued, attention must be paid to both the maintenance of strong relationships and to the goal of open communication. Honesty, clarity, humility, and compromise are the guiding principles here.
When workplace interpersonal interactions go sideways, recognize explicitly that intent matters, but it isn't everything. Having good intent doesn't eliminate the hurt that someone can feel.
When workplace interpersonal interactions go sideways, recognize explicitly that feelings are important, but they aren't the only thing that matters. The person feeling upset has an obligation to take the offending person's intent into consideration. Without this acknowledgement, any claim to valuing different political perspectives is empty as certain perspectives can and will be silenced as soon as someone feels offended.
Build into the workplace culture the understanding that someone's identity (racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) doesn't determine the topics on which they're permitted to express an opinion. To be sure, this doesn't mean asserting that lived experience doesn't matter or that all opinions are equally valuable. It simply means that, on the political and moral issues that arise, having the "wrong" identity doesn't disqualify someone from weighing in.
Recognize that, when it comes to disagreement on sociopolitical topics, it is impossible to please everyone all of the time. However, demonstrating a solid understanding that employees come with a diverse range of political views can help serve as a guide through the challenges that will inevitably emerge.
Again, organizations and institutions of any size, if they haven't already, are going to be faced with these issues. Hopefully, these four recommendations can help serve as a starting point for internal conversations going forward.
By: Ilana Redstone


March madness — for the players?
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Fran Dunphy stood courtside with arms crossed, clutching a sheet of notes in his left hand, as the Temple Owls made layups to start practice. The school fight song played over the public address system at the University of Dayton, a place where the 70-year-old coach has known heartache and exhilaration over the years.
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has introduced Jeff Boals as its new basketball coach, hoping the Bobcats' former captain he can revive a team that went 14-17 this season.
He succeeds Saul Phillips, whose contract was not renewed. Phillips went 81-77 overall and 40-50 in the MAC over five seasons.
Boals was hired Sunday and resigned after three years at Stony Brook. As a player, he led Ohio to the NCAA Tournament in 1994. Boals worked as an assistant at the school before spending seven seasons as an Ohio State assistant. He also has been on the staffs of Marshall, Robert Morris and Akron.
Boals inherits an experienced roster, which includes forward Ben Vander, the MAC's Freshman of the Year.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — With conference player of the year Jarron Cumberland running the show, No. 24 Cincinnati pulled away to win its second American Athletic Conference Tournament.
Cane Broome finished with 15 points and Tre Scott added 12 for Cincinnati (28-6), who had lost to Houston twice during the regular season, including 85-69 March 10 at Cincinnati. This time was different as the Bearcats shut down Houston's offense.
"We've had three terrific games with Cincinnati, at our place, at their place and (Sunday)," Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said. "Obviously, that's a difficult team to beat three times, especially over the course of five or six weeks.
In the second half, Houston shot a mere 27.8 percent, including making 3 of 18 from 3-point range. That provided Cincinnati, the tournament's No. 2 seed, the opportunity to build a double-digit lead – a margin that reached 15 three times in the final seven minutes.
Cronin had noted after Cincinnati's semifinal win over Wichita State that the Bearcats rarely lose to a team three times in a season — another point of motivation for his team, along with holding the tournament trophy.
After Sunday's victory, the Cincinnati coach said the championship win gives his team a hint of the things necessary if they are to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament, and with an emphasis on the thin margin between winning and losing.
While the Bearcat defense stifled Houston shooting in the second half, Cincinnati put the ball in the hands of Cumberland, voted the tournament's most valuable player, and he responded with 20 second-half points. Cumberland made 7 of 14 shots after halftime and also was 6 of 9 from the free throw line.
Cincinnati: The Bearcats are a seventh seed in the South Region and play Iowa, the region's No. 10 seed on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.


Are you looking for a career as a Lifeguard and kick-start your career in the leisure industry? Dorking Leisure Centre are looking for keen swimmers to join their friendly and supportive team!
As an apprentice you will be responsible for ensuring the comfort and safety of all users at the leisure centre and working towards your Apprenticeship in Leisure Operations and Leisure Management. You will also be required to provide customer service to the highest standard and you MUST be a strong swimmer.
- To act in a professional manner at all times.
Apprentices must be strong swimmers as you will eventually be providing the supervision and safety for swimmers within the leisure centre. You must also be able to work well within a team and have a friendly approachable personality.
What are we looking for in our apprentice?
No previous qualifications required but applicants must be strong swimmers. A swim test will be required to test your swimming strength as part of the selection process.
Possible future prospects of full time employment.
Places for People Leisure manage leisure centres on behalf of Local Authority partners offering affordable activities to help you to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. We have recently become a social enterprise as a result of the acquisition by property management and development group Places for People, a not-for-dividend organisation.


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Q: Browse definition in Coq-IDE In the Isabelle proof assistant, one can click Ctrl+click on a term and the IDE redirects him to the relevant definition.
Can this be done with CoqIde? With Proof-General?

A: Yes, the features you mention in your post and in your comment (as an aside, feel free to edit your question to incorporate your comment) are possible in Proof-General and/or company-coq (an Emacs package gathering IDE extensions of Proof-General):

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*to see the content of a definition def (equivalent of Print def.): C-c C-a C-p def RET

*to see the type of a definition def (equivalent of Check def.): C-c C-a C-c def RET

*to see the type and related metadata of a definition def (equivalent of About def.): C-c C-a C-b def RET

*to see all this in one go for the identifier under point (requires company-coq): C-c C-d

*to be redirected to the location of the definition under point (requires company-coq): M-.

*to make the definition under point show up without moving (requires company-coq): <C-down-mouse-1>
Reminders
Just to be self-contained, the Emacs keybindings C-c, M-., RET, <C-down-mouse-1> refer to Ctrl+c, Alt+., Return, and Ctrl+click (without releasing the mouse button).
Finally you can discover the list of bindings associated to the ambient mode by doing C-h m:
C-h k [describe-key] C-h m [describe-mode]:
C-h m runs the command describe-mode (found in global-map), which is
an interactive compiled Lisp function in 'help.el'.

It is bound to C-h m, <f1> m, <help> m, <menu-bar> <help-menu>
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Display documentation of current major mode and minor modes.
A brief summary of the minor modes comes first, followed by the
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Myanmar optimists losing hope after latest Rohingya crackdown
Aung San Suu Kyi is an international icon; a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Her years of house arrest made her a symbol of peaceful resistance around the world. However, one year after the world celebrated her party's historic victory at the 2015 elections, it seems things are only getting worse for the country's most vulnerable.
The Rohingya population is one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. Not officially recognised on Myanmar's list of 135 official ethnic groups, the group is denied citizenship under the restrictive 1982 Citizenship Law introduced by General Ne Win, effectively making them stateless. The government recognises the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, and the diplomats have been warned against even using the term Rohingya to refer to the group.
Increasing persecution
Since the beginning of October, alarming reports have been emerging from Rakhine State, home to the majority of the Rohingya population. On 9 October, an attack on three police outposts in Maungdaw District killed nine security officers and was immediately blamed on the Rohingya. In response, state security forces surged into Maungdaw and launched a violent crack down. Despite limited media access, reports continue to surface of killings, violence, arson and rape.
Aung San Suu Kyi's response to the escalating situation has been less severely lacking. Since August, two different investigation commissions have been launched, but both have been criticised for being 'toothless'. Humanitarian assistance to the northern villages of Rakhine has been restricted and access for journalists is limited. In response to allegations of homes being razed, the Ministry of Information blamed the Rohingya villagers, claiming that they had burned them down themselves.
One foreign journalist who reported on allegations of rape of Rohingya women by local security forces claims she was fired from the local English language newspaper, the Myanmar Times, as a result reporting on 'dozens of rapes' of local women by members of the security forces. In response to the claims, the official in charge of the investigation into the 9 October attack in Rakhine denied the possibility of rape because Rohingya women 'are very dirty'.
The United Nations estimates 30,000 Rohingya have been displaced to date, with approximately 10,000 fleeing across the border to Bangladesh. This adds to the estimated 160,000 who already live in internally displaced person camps inside the country in appalling conditions. Refugees arriving in Bangladesh are telling harrowing accounts of abuse by state forces.
While this is certainly not the first time that Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya has prompted outrage in the international community, it's the first major outbreak of violence since Aung San Suu Kyi's historic election victory. It seems ironic that a woman famed for her peaceful resistance to oppression is continuing a legacy of oppression in her own country.
A chance for ASEAN?
Although renowned for its preference for non-interference in sovereign affairs of its members, some have been calling for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to become involved to address the escalating violence.
For one, Malaysia has been calling for Myanmar's membership of ASEAN to be reviewed. This week the Prime Minister Najib Razak led a protest at which he labelled the treatment of the Muslim minority a genocide and described it an insult to Islam. Malaysia has been vocal in the past, while fellow Muslim-majority ASEAN-member Indonesia has also seen protests over Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya more recently.
Malaysia is home to approximately 150,000 refugees, around 90% of which are originally from Myanmar and about 55,000 of whom identify as Rohingya. While Malaysia provides some escape, it has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention, and thus refugees living in Malaysia have the same rights as illegal foreign workers.
Some argue that Najib Razak's outcry over this issue mainly comes from a desire to distract from domestic problems and ingratiate himself to voters. Whatever the reason, however, it's refreshing to hear someone speaking out within ASEAN.
ASEAN is fond of regional solutions to regional issues, such as trafficking and climate change. While one does not need to look any further than last year's sinking of a boat carrying 800 migrants to see how this is also a regional issue, it's highly doubtful many of the bloc's members will favour setting any precedent on assisting the Rohingya. Too many members would not wish international attention to stray too close to their own internal affairs.
Although so many voices are now calling for an end to the violence, the Rohingya have sadly heard this all before. Those who had last year's election would herald a change to the human rights situation in Myanmar have been sorely disappointed. Aung San Suu Kyi's silence on this issue is deafening.
Caitlin McCaffrie is the Indo-Pacific Fellow for Young Australians in International Affairs.


What makes a good facial? And which facialists offer the best treatments for tackling the specific issues that those with darker skin tones encounter? Funmi Fetto opens her beauty address book.
As one who loves to engage in discourse on all those critical, world- changing issues, I once had a deep dive conversation with a friend debating the merits of the facial. I'm a great believer that this thing of beauty can take bad skin to good, good skin to great and great skin to a level that could rival a game-changing filter. And so, I absolutely love facials. My friend, on the other hand, doesn't. She has a profound mistrust of these treatments, which she believes embody "the emperor's new clothes". It probably doesn't help that she doesn't actually like her face being touched. I mean, I don't particularly like that either; I don't enjoy the scrutiny, the word "makeover" brings me out in hives and the thought that a plethora of bacteria might be transferred from someone's hands to my face… No thanks, I have enough problems. However, inexplicably, when it comes to facials, these qualms go out of the window. So what do I consider a good facial (that distinction by the way, is all-important)?
Well, bottom line, it should leave me with skin that looks remarkably better than the one I walked in with. Hence, I have zilch patience for facial treatments that use flowery language in the hope of brainwashing you with pretty prose. Rejuvenating, nourishing, repairing, invigorating, refreshing… At best, these are subjective and, invariably, open to interpretation. At worst, they mean nothing and deliver even less (I have another term in mind but diplomacy has reined me in). There are quite a lot of facials I think are utterly pointless and I have a zillion stipulations that to my mind are perfectly valid. My biggest one is that my facial be conducted by someone well-versed in the issues that plague darker skin tones. Hyperpigmentation, excessive oiliness, keloids, eczema that leaves you with a rough, incredibly uneven skin tone, pimples that dry up only to leave dark scars… These are just some of the skin issues women of colour battle. Most facials do not accommodate them. Thankfully, the recently-launched Black Skin Directory is a way of connecting women with skincare specialists that really understand their needs.
The rest of my "good facial" requirements are arguably less important but here we go anyway. I don't like a facial that ends with the facialist proudly declaring, "gosh, your skin is really glowing" and then you look in the mirror and realise you look so greasy you could deep fry chicken on your face. I don't want a facial that is not bespoke to me. I don't want a facialist that thinks she's doing me a favour by finishing off with an SPF or a mineral powder that makes me look like my face has been dipped in cigarette ash (note to facialists, please stock up on SPF that actually blends well on darker skin tones). I don't want a "judgy" facialist who analyses my face, tuts and grandly tells me off for everything I am doing wrong. I'm all for correction but that kind of behaviour can be really detrimental to someone who comes in already feeling really insecure about the state of their skin so it's just nicer to be constructive or be quiet.
Then there's the whole issue of downtime. I personally don't want a facial that follows the "it gets worse before it gets better" mantra. For me, that simply translates as "you will look like a cross between Quasimodo and a moulting reptile for at least seven days". I applaud the women who go through this in their quest for perfect skin. Me, I have no time for downtime. So now my diatribe is out of the way, here are some of the facials I've found to work particularly well on darker skin tones.
The clever, express treatments at The Facial Bar at Neville's Hair and Beauty are all dermatological grade facials. At £60, they are relatively affordable (most facials these days, even the useless ones, are in the realm of three figures). There are several to choose from; I love The Pore Refiner for congested, acne-prone skin, and the Glow Getter is perfect for hyperpigmentation and uneven skin tones. With add-ons such as peels, boosters and extractions, they can all be adapted to your needs. Murad and Alpha H are two other brands that also have efficacious, high performance, bespoke facials without a prohibitive price point. Slightly pricier but totally justified is the beauty insider's favourite, Pfeffer Sal. They do incredible things to your skin hence they are usually booked up months in advance. This means last-minute appointments are something of an anomaly. But don't let that deter you; it is worth the wait. Especially if it is to see Ridah, the brilliant aesthetician that truly understands darker skin tones. Additionally she's not the kind of facialist that makes you feel like Satan just because you can't be bothered to double cleanse.
If you have a major event on the horizon, make a beeline for Dr Levy's Stem Cell Facial at Omniya, the medical clinic in Knightsbridge. It essentially awakens, exfoliates and brightens the skin on a level that is utterly mind-blowing. Which is probably why it costs £250. Not cheap, but easily one of the best facials I have ever had in my life. Jasmina Vico, the no-nonsense skin specialist at Dr Joshi's clinic on Wimpole Street in Central London is also worth a visit. She's always at the forefront of technologically-driven skincare and uses the most intriguing machines, gadgets and potions. You never really know what you're going to have done when you go in to see her; she simply looks at your skin and works her magic on perfecting it. Another skin perfector is Dr Rita Rakus. Her Hydrafacial - a deep-cleansing, exfoliating, extracting, hydrating and antioxidant 50-minute treatment - has long been a red-carpet favourite. It does exactly what it says on the tin so your skin is markedly clearer, brighter and smoother. Basically it really delivers. Which, essentially, is what every good facial should do.


At this morning's Board of Public Works and Safety meeting, the Board approved initial steps on the next phase of the Grant Line Road Project. This work will provide an additional northbound lane between Daisy Lane and Beechwood Avenue and mill and re-surface the roadway from Daisy Lane to McDonald Lane. It will add curbs and gutters, and provide a 5 foot sidewalk on the east side and complete the 8 foot multi-use path on the west side of Grant Line Road. These facilities will provide pedestrian connectivity on Grant Line Road from Daisy Lane to Mt. Tabor Road.
The project will also include intersection improvements at Daisy Lane, Beechwood Avenue, and Jollisant Avenue, adding additional turn lanes where needed, and will work to improve the flow of traffic at the Beechwood/Daisy/Grant Line Road intersection. Additionally, included in the project are pedestrian safety enhancements, including new pedestrian signal equipment and improved crosswalks.
This project is federally funded at an 80/20 level, with an overall project cost of approximately $5 million. Project officials are currently in the process of purchasing small parcels of right-of-way from 41 property owners along the construction area. Appraisals are currently underway. Adjacent property owners have been notified of the project.
The project is scheduled to let in January 2018, with construction beginning in Spring of 2018.


Jon Favreau has been one of the most reliable players in the Marvel bullpen. He helped launch the MCU by directing and co-starring in Iron Man 1 & 2, and scored a cool $1B with his live-action take on The Jungle Book. For years it's been rumored/expected that he would become part of the Star Wars universe in some way, too. And now it's finally happening as Favreau will take on what has been the white whale project for Star Wars fans.
Disney has announced Favreau will write and exec-produce a live-action Star Wars series for their upcoming streaming service in 2019. We have no idea about the plot, characters, setting...anything, really, but we do know that a handful of Star Wars projects are in development.
This Disney subscription service is going to be a monster, and this is only just the beginning.


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Home > Events & Lectures > The McCune Collection Presents the Fall 2008 Lecture Series
The McCune Collection Presents the Fall 2008 Lecture Series
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 2:00PM
PETER KOCH
Internationally renowned printer and award-winning publisher of fine arts editions, Peter Koch, of Peter Koch Printers premiers the Fall 2008 lecture series at the McCune. A native of Montana, Koch got his start in printing in Missoula when he founded Montana Gothic: A Journal of Poetry, Literature & Graphics , as well as founding the Black Stone Press in 1974, with artist Shelley Hoyt.
Mr. Koch describes his 2006 adventure in Italy, where he completed the printing of Joseph Brodsky's Watermark. The book is a series of meditations woven from the fabric of Venice in the late 20th century. Brodsky dedicated Watermark to his friend, the American painter Robert Morgan, whose photo-gravure images illustrate the book. One of the high points of this project was floating a printing press down Venice's Grand Canal to the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, where Peter was artist-in-residence that September.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 2:00PM
PAUL TOTAH
Paul Totah is in his 24th year of teaching English and editing the Genesis alumni magazine at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, A 1975 graduate of the school, he received a Bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University and an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University. He is the author of two books -- The San Francisco Fair: Treasure Island 1939-1940 and Spiritus Magis: 150 Years of St. Ignatius College Preparatory.
Mr. Totah will speak on the remarkable events that brought the Jesuits to the Bay Area where they built institutions that endure to this day, recounting stories of innovation and success as well as disasters that have marked the school's long history in San Francisco.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 2:00PM
KATHLEEN BURCH
Kathleen Burch is co-founder of the San Francisco Center for the Book and Vice-President of the Book Club of California. After studies at Mills College in English Literature and graduate work in the Book Arts department, she collaborated with Burning Books, an independent publishing house, which published her work on game theory and the culture of card-playing, Indicia, a Romance (monograph) in 1990.
Ms. Burch shares her extensive knowledge of symbolic communication through typographic languages in this informal and informative discussion of the history of the design and illustration of the tarot; providing us as well with an introduction to card games and divinatory systems in the context of the printed medium.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 084-13
DOD Announces the Distinguished Warfare Medal
The Department of Defense announced today the creation of the Distinguished Warfare Medal to recognize a service member's extraordinary achievements directly impacting combat operations.
Modern technology enables service members with special training and capabilities to more directly and precisely impact military operations at times far from the battlefield. The Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded in the name of the secretary of defense to service members whose extraordinary achievements, regardless of their distance to the traditional combat theater, deserve distinct department-wide recognition.
"I have seen first-hand how modern tools like remotely piloted platforms and cyber systems have changed the way wars can be fought," said Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta. "We should also have the ability to honor extraordinary actions that make a true difference in combat operations, even if those actions are physically removed from the fight."
Based on the order of precedence, the Distinguished Warfare Medal will sit directly below the Distinguished Flying Cross. It may be awarded for actions in any domain but not involving acts of valor.
"This new medal recognizes the changing character of warfare and those who make extraordinary contributions to it," said Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. "The criteria for this award will be highly selective and reflect high standards."
The medal, designed by The Institute of Heraldry, will be available in the coming months. The signed memo, criteria for the medal, along with the design, can be seen here: http://www.defense.gov/news/DistinguishedWarfareMedalMemo.pdf
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T-33 Flight through Grand Canyon
"They wouldn't be allowed to do it today" said an Air Force Pilot, "but back in 1959, experienced military pilots would sometimes buzz the Grand Canyon when flying out of nearby Nellis AFB". "At the time, RAF pilot Ron Dick was an exchange officer with the US Air Force, training students in a Lockheed T-33. Fellow instructor Bud Pratt recalls that during these Canyon flights, the pilots would fly low enough that water would spray up from the river".
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Jalonta Freeman of Arlington, Texas was approached by a stranger at a gas station, selling what he claimed to be a brand new $800 iPad, for just $200. Freeman and her family did not want to miss out on an offer they thought seemed great, so they gave him cash for the tablet, and the man quickly drove away. When the package was finally opened, the Freeman family discovered the elaborately wrapped "iPad" was actually just a mirror about the size of a tablet. Freeman said she felt stupid, but learned a valuable lesson, and offered this advice, "Don't buy nothing on the streets from nobody." An Arlington police spokesperson said that crimes of this kind always increase leading up to Christmas. Last year, incidents similar to this were reported in several states.


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queen kristina and rene descartes -- 10/20/20
Today's selection -- from Scandinavians by Robert Ferguson. Queen Kristina of Sweden and René Descartes:
"[One of] the most intriguing of Sweden's monarchs ... was Queen Kristina, the only child of Gustavus Adolphus. She reigned under a regent from the time of her father's death in 1632 to 1645, and in her own right thereafter until her abdication in 1654. If her own father and the male relatives who succeeded her took care of the military responsibilities involved in the creation and maintenance of this northern European empire, it fell to Kristina to provide it with the cultural identity and attributes proper to a country that had, almost overnight, announced itself as a Great Power. An occasional actress herself, she cultivated the theatre, the arts, music and literature, and she worked consciously to makes hers a sophisticated European court. As a woman of questing intellect, with a deep interest in religion, philosophy and Greek antiquity, she was culturally ambitious for Sweden and keen to mark its new-found status. She must have been delighted when René Descartes, the most celebrated and controversial philosopher of the age, accepted her invitation to join her as resident philosopher at the court in Stockholm.
"Hesitant at first, wary of finding himself reduced to a role as the queen's tutor, Descartes was relieved to discover, once he arrived in Stockholm, that Kristina was genuinely interested in hearing his response to the profoundly existential questions she had already raised with him in the correspondence that had preceded the appointment. They included: 'Which is worse, the abuse of love or the abuse of hatred?', 'What is love, and what are the effects of love and of its opposite, hatred, on a human life?' and 'What is the nature of the relationship between ordinary commonsense and religious revelation?' She also wanted to know whether a 'natural understanding' was sufficient for someone to love God; even before his arrival in Stockholm, the deeply modest Descartes had assured her that indeed it was.
Kristina, Queen of Sweden
David Beck, c. 1650
"By the time he arrived in the Swedish capital late in 1649 Descartes was, at sixty, already an old man by the standards of the day; but he was still pleased to wear a curly wig, embroidered gloves and the long, thin pointed shoes fashionable at the time. For much of his life it had been his habit to spend his mornings in bed, thinking, reading and writing, but this routine became brutally swamped beneath Kristina's own. As a queen in waiting, she had been disciplined from her childhood to spend ten hours a day in the study of religion, philosophy, Greek, Latin and several modern languages, including German, French and Italian. Happily for her, such discipline suited her temperament, and despite the wealth of new responsibilities that came with her coronation, these habits of study continued into her adult years. Poor old Descartes had to be fitted in somewhere, and that turned out to be 4am daily, in her library -- unheated, in what was even for Stockholm an unusually cold winter.
"There it was his duty to be brilliant and revelatory in discoursing on matters that were, as it turned out, of quite exceptional importance to the queen. Descartes had no doubt been hoping for a more comfortable and less demanding sinecure, but he was sufficiently impressed by Kristina's obvious sincerity not to mention his personal discomforts. His passionate advocacy of doubt as the only intellectually honourable position possible for an individual in search of answers to the most profound questions changed her life and dramatically reshaped her destiny. As a queen, though, it ruined her and caused consternation and confusion among her countrymen, for as things turned out the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, Lion of the North, Defender of the Protestant Faith, had somehow survived the childhood indoctrination of her Protestant tutors to find herself increasingly attracted to Roman Catholicism, a faith now so severely proscribed under Swedish law that conversion entailed the loss of all civil rights and automatic expulsion from the country.
"These prohibitions meant that Kristina's journey to Catholicism was undertaken largely in secrecy, and the progress of her convictions is hard to plot. What is certain is that a crucial earlier influence was the French ambassador to Sweden, Pierre Chanut, a rational, civilized, learned and tolerant man, whose very attributes suggested to her that most of what her Protestant tutors had told her about Catholics was exaggeration, prejudice and propaganda. It was through her friendship with Chanut that she first came into contact with Descartes. Whether or not those icy early-morning encounters in the queen's library took the form of some kind of instruction or intellectual soundings of the queen's curiosity about Catholicism is an issue that has been much debated; but whatever it was they talked about, there must have been a peculiar intensity to their discussions, as the queen struggled with a growing realization of the impossibility of being the Catholic ruler of a Protestant people. Descartes must have impressed her in the same way as Chanut, exhibiting a brilliant intellect suffused with enough honourable doubt to concede that even rationalism has its limits, and that left him free to adhere rather than cling to his Catholic faith.
"If indeed Descartes did have a crucial influence on the queen's thinking it was a final personal triumph. He suffered dreadfully from the rigours of Kristina's routine during their first full month as teacher and pupil, that bitterly cold January of 1650. By the time he arrived for their meetings, he would already be frozen to the bone by the coach drive to the palace, and as he walked the last few metres of the way across a little bridge, it seemed to him that in such extreme cold even men's thoughts must freeze like the water. Protocol required that he remain standing throughout their sessions, his head bare. By early February he was fevered, showing symptoms of pneumonia, and experiencing congestion of the lungs, which he gamely tried to treat with a medication of his own devising: liquid tobacco suspended in heated wine. As February dragged on, his strange concoction appeared to be having some effect, and one day he expressed a desire to get up from his bed and, with the assistance of his manservant Henry Schluter, sit for a while in an armchair. But even this mild exertion proved too much, and he fainted.
It seems he realized the end was close after regaining consciousness, and on 10 February a priest who had arrived to administer the last rites was given permission to proceed by a blinking of the eyes. The following morning, Descartes passed away."
Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North
Copyright Robert Ferguson, 2016


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Today was the first seriously warm day of summer. I was warm even in just my shirt and trousers. I took a walk and enjoyed the beautiful weather, before I get fed up with the heat. Â Luckily there were clouds that occasionally came before the sun, so I did was not too badly baked.


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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser
Dragon Age: Inquisition - Trespasser Review
27 September 2015 | 7 comments | By Chris J Capel
The last, most important and essential piece of story DLC for Bioware's epic RPG is here. But is it any good?
You may disagree, but we here at GameWatcher loved Dragon Age: Inquisition so much that we gave it Game of the Year last year. However the release of The Witcher 3 has made Inquisition's faults stand out more, and in our heart of hearts we preferred Dragon Age: Origins and its more story-based non-open-world style anyway. Now the tale of Inquisition is at last coming to a conclusion with Bioware's final piece of story DLC - Trespasser. Is it worth getting, even for the ridiculous price of £11.99/$14.99? Read on to find out.
One last time to catch up with old friends. And Sera.
Whereas the previous DLC for Inquisition have all taken place during the main campaign and so have felt a little inessential, Trespasser takes place two years after the defeat of Corypheus. All the Fade breaches have been closed and the kingdoms have returned to a state of peace. Now your Inquisitor has been summoned to a council headed by the Chantry, Ferelden and Orlais to decide the fate of the Inquisition. However things will not be that simple, as a new threat stands ready to conquer all if not stopped in time. It's a suitably epic finale with some neat twists and wonderful character moments, and that's not all.
The biggest criticism of Bioware's Mass Effect 3 was that despite making universe-changing decisions by the end none of it mattered. Trespasser feels like Bioware trying to make up for that error. While I can't say that choices made from previous Dragon Age titles carry over, many decisions I made in Inquisition had a huge impact on the plot of Trespasser. I don't want to get into spoilery territory even for the end of Inquisition but there are consequences all the way through Trespasser, from how you treated characters to who became head of the Chantry. It may be a small epic story but Trespasser feels distinctly personal, and as such is hugely satisfying to play - and even better, the choices keep coming! By the end your actions will have decided the fate of the Inquisition and all of the major characters, and there's even a Origins ending-style "what happened next" to read through. Even just being a DLC pack it honestly rivals Witcher 3 for its sheer amount of choice/consequence loveliness.
The Fade. Still a mind-f**k.
Dragon Age: Origins hangs heavy over Trespasser, for better or worse. After spending 3+ years creating a gigantic and insanely detailed open-world for Inquisition Bioware must've been disheartened by everyone saying they preferred Origins instead, and Trespasser feels like a return to that play style. Whether that is a good thing is up to you dear reader, since that means ditching the gigantic open areas in favour of a more confined, branching but slightly linear adventure. The reason I prefer this Origins style over Inquisition is that it cuts down aimless wandering and forces Bioware to concentrate on storytelling and combat, which is what Trespasser is all about and does well. If however you're expecting a Jaws of Hakkon-style huge new map to explore you'll be disappointed.
I'm fine with the more confined "just get on with it" style, especially as The Witcher 3 is threatening us with its own two giant expansions soon, but sadly there is another problem which is entirely down to an odd design point on Bioware's part. Let's put it this way for Dragon Age fans: a big part of Trespasser is a linear journey through the Deep Roads which you then have to backtrack the entire way, followed by a maze-like journey through the Fade which you then also have to backtrack through. That's the two most hated parts of Origins making a big re-showing here, and both require taking the same journey twice. It feels like a cutting-corners, length-padding measure, and if that's a reference to Dragon Age II's torturous level design it's an Easter Egg too far.
Expect an epic end that leads directly into Dragon Age 4.
Nevertheless for the most part it's really good, and even with the linear design Bioware still manage to pack in reasons to explore. One particular secret had me backtracking all over the Fade to work out, and I'm still not sure how to get rid of those annoying purple flames. Combat is the main focus though outside the fun story and character moments, and players can expect some of the most difficult battles of Inquisition - this ¬is the grand finale after all, despite the Inquisitor's powerful new Focus power. However I did appreciate how at least one epic boss encounter can be settled non-violently, something I wish happened more often in games. More irritating though was a constant bug I encountered during battles that froze my characters in place, and the only way to get them doing anything was to manually select them and jump. Hopefully that'll be fixed soon.
DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION - TRESPASSER VERDICT
Bioware have this annoying habit of making at least one of their expensive DLC packs indispensible to the overall series storyline, and they've done it again: if you're planning on playing Dragon Age 4 you need to play Trespasser. Fortunately it's worth it, although not without a big "but". The story continues well, brings in consequences to loads of your previous decisions then adds seismic new ones, and even takes time for some humorous moments. In terms of gameplay it feels more in tone with Origins than Inquisition, which I'm fine with… but if you're expecting a gigantic new area to explore like previous DLC Jaws of Hakkon you'll be sorely disappointed, and it won't last you more than a few hours so that £11.99/$14.99 price is still too high. Nevertheless for this Dragon Age fan Trespasser was a hugely satisfying end to Inquisition, and the final choice alone will have huge ramifications. Roll on Dragon Age 4.
TOP GAME MOMENT
Letting an epic boss go free. Or the "decide how Dragon Age 4 is going to start" ending.
Satisfying end to the _Inquisition_ storyline, with plenty of consequences to your decisions and some epic choices that'll affect _Dragon Age 4_.
Harks back to _Dragon Age: Origins_ in design, with some of the toughest enemies in the game.
Price! C'mon EA, stop gouging, especially as this is the "necessary" Bioware DLC.
Fairly short, not for anyone expecting a huge new open area to explore.
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Do you like romantic intrigue? Then you're going to LOVE the Turchetta series.
You met the Turchetta family briefly in both my Barrington and Betting on You series as they were called in to handle what no one else could. John Turchetta has made a promise, one that he intends to keep at all cost.
This will be a six book series coming to you in 2018.
Book One, For Honor, releasing in March!
Beckett Davis served in the Marine Corp and has the scars inside and out as a constant reminder. They say he's a hero, but he wishes he'd died along with those he lost from his platoon. It'll take a special kind of woman to heal this wounded warrior.
Danielle McKesson understands survivor's guilt. She's raising her nephew after he witnessed the death of his parents.
Beckett says he doesn't want her love. All he can offer is a week together. What started as a passionate indulgence that neither wanted to deny, becomes something that changes them both.
Doug Atwood is determined to help his fellow servicemen cope with PTSD so they can return to a normal life and their loving families. The one thing he never had.
Rose Davis wants to be respected as a woman with her own hopes and dreams. She is a trusted, capable, registered nurse in a busy emergency room. No one ever questioned her judgement, except her family.
Rose's family intrudes once again in her personal life by setting her up with Doug, her brother's friend. This time she decides to play along and beat them at their own game.
One innocent kiss changes all the rules and ups the stakes. Will their passion crumble the walls they've built around their hearts or will their own demons consume them?
Ross Whitman wasn't looking for love. He was content in his lifestyle, a renowned designer of luxury sail boats and one of the world's most eligible bachelors.
Jill Aragao was focused on one thing, proving she had what it takes to be successful in New York. When her make it or break it opportunity finally arises she is faced with only one obstacle and he's bound to be a major distraction.
Sparks begin to fly and they ignite something neither had anticipated. One night changes everything.
Falling for a man who says he's incapable of love is always a bad idea. Too bad her heart didn't get that memo!
Just another reason to Fall in Love with the Betting On You Series. Hope you enjoy Sharma's story as she finds sometimes a second chance at love can be even more powerful than the first!
Drew Navarro believed life was a gamble and he was all in. When it came to money, he'd lay a fortune on the table without hesitation. He'd risk anything to win big. That excitement was all he craved until he met Kathrine.
Katherine O'Malley spent most of her adult life caring for others as a trauma nurse. After suffering her own tragedy, and losing all she had ever loved, she was left feeling broken and lost.
To have her, he'd have to break his own rules and put more on the table than he could walk away from—his heart.
To be with him, she'd have to believe a player was worth the gamble.
Together they discovered they could have the ultimate jackpot—true love.


2018 Junior Winter Series is here!
The RQYS Junior Winter Series, commencing early May, is now available to enter by visiting our Club Racing page. The combined Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions outlines the training sessions that will be available through Winter for our Junior Sailors.
Along with the Green Fleet, Intermediate and Open Optimists, Laser 4.7s, Flying 11, Sabots and Bic Technos, the Pacers and 125s, which predominantly participate in Schools Racing, are also invited to compete!


Why am I doing this? I wondered as I listened to my boots hitting the sidewalk. I was cold and moderately lost, it was dark outside, and I was in Cleveland. Maybe I should just call and say that I'm not coming after all. So then I would have wasted $74 on bus tickets, but on the other hand, then I could spend the night in my nice warm bed instead of catching a few hours of sleep on a bus.
I backtracked and found the road that led to the Greyhound station.
The sheer irony of that thought was almost enough to snap me out of my funk. After all, I've traveled all over China. I've taken buses, planes, trains, and some less-than-entirely-standard forms of transportation. I've lived out of my backpack in Thailand. I've had mostly good experiences and I get bored when I'm stuck in a place too long. Yet being alone in an American city at night is enough to make me question myself.
As I walked down the sidewalk towards the station, wiggling my toes to try to get some feeling back into them, I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket.
It was my friend Rachy, the main reason that I was going to Indy. She's on her way to Japan for a year. We met under seemingly random circumstances in QinHuangDao, China, when I was teaching and she was a student. On her way from Texas to Japan, she was stopping to visit another friend, and we had figured I might as well come too. Confused yet? Don't worry, there's no quiz.
She was calling to let me know that her bus was going to be late getting into Indy. I sympathized, but there was really nothing that I could do about it, so after chatting for a few minutes, I went in and waited for my first bus to show up.
Greyhound bus stations, by the way, are -- in my experience -- equal parts creepy and intriguing. Creepy because, well, they have terrible lighting and everyone is kind of cranky, and that's at the less creepy stations. Intriguing because there are Amish people and a couple arguing in Mandarin and a guy who's confused and mostly speaks Russian. And I find myself wondering about all of them.
Eventually I got to Indy.
There were a lot of people in the bus station.
I went back into the main area and poked him. "Wo zai zheli!" I'm here!
The next 40 hours were filled with meeting people, hanging out with people I had met last time I was in Indy, eating, playing games (ever heard of Tribond? it was fun!), practicing shifting gears, a reunion with Rachy, getting to know another former CSP-er who's going with ELIC, watching a snowman be built (sort of), staying up late talking about...everything, driving through Indiana, watching The Soong Sisters, swapping stories of China. There was sign language, Spanish, and of course Chinese.
All too soon, it was time to get on my bus and come back to Cleveland. Tears, hugs, goodbyes. Things that make my heart feel stretched and worn. I don't think that goodbyes really get easier for me with the passing of time.
It's worth it because two days is a lot of time to make memories.
It's worth it because this was the time that I had a chance to actually see these friends. I don't always.
It's worth it for the new friends. For the laughter. For the stories. For the chances to relax and fellowship and to create new memories.
It's worth it because, hard as goodbyes are, they are a cleaner and healthier kind of hard than the regrets that come with not showing that I care.
:) I even feel like I could pass the quiz.


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Acura | A Type S version of the Integra in development
Autonomy and power | Important update for the Polestar 2 electric sedan
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Honda's luxury brand, Acura, has unsurprisingly announced that it will launch a Type S version of its Integra hatchback next summer.
This new performance livery will essentially be a Honda Civic Type R dressed up. Acura has already specified that the model will be entitled to the turbocharged 2.0L four-cylinder from the Civic Type R. The power will exceed 300 hp, it is specified in a short press release. The engine will also be supported by a six-speed manual transmission, the only one offered.
The first photos released by Acura show an Integra Type S in camouflage. There is more restraint in the changes to the bodywork. Thus, apart from the redesigned front bumper, the addition of a diffuser at the rear and the addition of larger rims, this Type S seems to want to target an audience less focused on the tuning traditional. Note also the absence of a spoiler at the rear, unlike the Type R. It nevertheless retains the three characteristic exhaust pipes of its cousin.
After the MDX, NSX and TLX, the arrival of this Integra Type S will confirm the marketing of the fourth model from this recently revived sub-brand at Acura. It will be very interesting to see how the latter will position itself against the Civic Type R in terms of price.
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Azure Service Fabric Mesh – A New Way To Orchestrate Microservices
Building an application or a microservice isn't quite as simple as writing code. You also need to think about storage, sharing, scalability, updates, and many other parts. Luckily though, Microsoft offers platforms that take care of a lot of these matters for you. Read on to learn how they'll help you develop better apps.
Service Fabric Mesh is a new Microsoft platform functioning as a service, where any developer can deploy applications without managing storage, networking or virtual machines.
Inside, the platform offers an orchestrator called Azure Service Fabric: a highly-scalable distributed system platform used to build and manage microservices, where many Microsoft systems are running.
Figure 1. Applications using Azure Service Fabric
The concepts behind these microservices have been around for many years, from object-oriented languages to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
The basic principle of service-oriented architecture is that services are independent of vendors, products and technologies. A service is a discrete unit of functionality that can be accessed remotely, acted upon and updated independently, such as retrieving a credit card statement online.
The idea is to build a module to be a part of an application, with well-defined interfaces and operations. Each module represents one feature of the application.
Microservices should be atomic and should integrate using HTTP or a service bus. Thanks to this approach, if something goes wrong with one service, the application can still work correctly while the developer or DevOps fixes the affected areas.
A good microservice should include the following:
independence from other services: when a service is independent, the developers can choose the best fitting implementation framework in each case
ease of understanding: any developer on a team should understand the code and service responsibility
reusability across the business: it should be possible to reuse the created service in a different application (e.g. payment service, ordering service)
multi-versioning: a microservice is atomic, so any service should allow for creating many versions of this service, without impacting other services. That way, that application can grow together with the business while retaining the old version and legacy processes.
Service orchestration
Orchestration refers to automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software.
It should manage and monitor resources. In my opinion, it should also take care of scalability, control of networking, and security.
Microsoft has created its service orchestration called Azure Service Fabric, which can be deployed on-premise or in any cloud.
Azure Service Fabric supports full Application Lifecycle Management of microservice-based cloud applications: from development to deployment, daily management, and eventual decommissioning. It also provides system services to deploy, upgrade, detect, and restart failed services; discover service location; manage state; and monitor health.
Figure 2. Azure Service Fabric features
You might be asking, why did Microsoft create Mesh if we already have Service Fabric? The answer is easy: because Service Fabric has a high entry threshold. This means a developer and the team must have knowledge about this platform and what you can do there.
At the time of writing this post, Mesh can only manage Docker container images. But, I am sure that in the future we will be able to write a native application and use the actor pattern stateful service on Mesh.
What is the Service Fabric Mesh?
The Service Fabric Mesh is an inter-service communication infrastructure that deals with workloads by tapping into applications running on thousands of servers that connect millions of users. The Mesh should therefore be:
web-scalable: address the volume of internet traffic and scale along with the addition of new devices
cloud-native: use a cloud hosting service that benefits from high availability and native elasticity
modular: work with independently developed modular services, without cross-dependencies
adaptive: react to the rapidly changing digital landscape in a dynamic fashion.
We manage the following information/options in the Service Fabric Mesh, while the system handles the rest of the requirements, such as:
auto-scale policies
container images
volumes.
Figure 3. Service Fabric Mesh interface
All services use the same private network on a defined address or an IP prefix. Thus, we cannot set a different IP address for a specific service. Instead, we leverage DNS for communication between services. Presently, the service can only communicate with other services within the same application.
The DNS address to a service is composed of an Application Name, a Service Name, and the exposed service port.
In a private network, all services have access to the internet to fetch data, but applications from the outside cannot see or ping any Mesh services.
Figure 4. High-level networking architecture
A Service Fabric Mesh runs on a private network that no other system can reach. In order to open an application to the outside world, we need to use a Gateway.
The Gateway is an Envoy proxy (Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications) that provides L4 routing and L7 routing for advanced HTTP(S) application routing.
The Gateway routes traffic from an external network into yours and then selects which service to route it to. The external network could be an open network (essentially, the public internet) or an Azure virtual network, thus allowing you to connect to other Azure applications and resources.
The Service Fabric Mesh has a Load Balancer that can be enabled at different layers in the OSI model for networking. It has two types of load balancers in layer 4 and layer 7, and the Gateway uses both.
In the OSI Model, we refer to this as the "transport layer."
Transport layers work transparently within the layers above to deliver and receive data without errors. The send function breaks application messages into segments and passes them on to the network layer. The receiving side reassembles segments into messages and passes them to the application layer.
Based on this quotation we can configure our Load Balancer in the transport layer. The Service Fabric Mesh supports TCP communication. However, this load balancer has a limitation – we can only use the IP address and ports.
In the OSI Model, we refer to this as the "application layer."
The application layer provides full end-user access to a variety of shared network services for efficient OSI model data flow. This layer has many responsibilities, including error handling and recovery, data flow over a network, and full network flow. It is also used to develop network-based applications.
Here, we can use more complex configurations. Because the layer uses HTTP, HTTPS or WebSocket, it allows for more advanced routing.
The platform provides an auto-scale policy that allows you to set conditions that trigger the service to be horizontally replicated. The auto-scale policy consists of two parts:
A scaling trigger: when describing a scaling condition, you can choose CPU scaling or MemoryGB (RAM). It's an average load mode (the only option supported at the moment), so if in a selected period the average value will be higher than defined, Mesh will start replicating the current service
A mechanism which defines how autoscaling should function (currently only supporting AddRemoveReplica). In this section, we need to define max and min count of replicas, and how many replicas should be created at any one time.
Other things what we can manage are volumes. These can include Azure Files Storage, or a temporary container disc called Service Fabric Reliable volume.
Volumes are directories that are mounted inside your container instances that you can use to maintain a persist state. They give you general-purpose file storage and allow you to read/write files using normal disk I/O file APIs .
The advantage of Service Fabric Reliable volume is speed, because it's a Docker temporary volume. However, it has a huge disadvantage of being only temporary. If the image falls, we lose all the data.
An alternative to that is the Azure File Storage, where all data is stored. Here, we can use an out-of-the-box reliable data feature, but the performance is lower because this feature uses the network to read and write data.
Figure 5. Example of defining autoscaling
Service Fabric Mesh and secret
The last feature that I want to mention is Service Fabric Mesh secret. This can be any sensitive text information such as storage connection strings, passwords, or other values that should be stored and transmitted securely.
In the code, you can use secrets like a standard I/O file, where you need to provide an absolute path using an environment variable "Fabric_SettingPath" and a name of your secret file.
The Windows or Linux environment variable "Fabric_SettingPath" contains the directory path to where files containing Secure Store Service Secrets values are accessible. This is "C:\Settings" for Windows-hosted and "/var/settings" for Linux-hosted Mesh applications respectively.
The Service Fabric Mesh is a young service that was announced at the MS Ignite 2018. It has big potential and I believe this year it will mature further.
At the time of my writing, early 2019, the service is yet not ready for production deployment. But you will see my first fully working application shortly.
The main problem that I noticed is that not all of the components are functional. But even with said limitations, I was able to deploy my application successfully.
Stay tuned. When I finish my application, I will write a white paper about its architecture, along with when to use the event sourcing and microservices approach. I am planning to deploy everything on Service Fabric Mesh!
Figure 6. A working microservice in Mesh
The whole concept is great. As a software engineer, I shouldn't care about the network stuff, scaling mechanisms and upgrading versions of my application. I just want to write my code and expect everything to work.
Using Service Fabric as the orchestrator and Mesh engine was a great idea. Since everything is tested by Microsoft (a lot of Microsoft applications use Service Fabric), I don't need to care about the inner-workings of my application. I trust that everything will be working according to design.
I promise that in 2020 I will write the next part about Mesh, where I will look over the changes.
Below you can find my template to deploy a Mesh application and my Dockerfile:
Mesh application
Wish to know more? Contact me!
A microservice concept implies that a service should be as small as it can be and have only one business responsibility, e.g. payment.
Service Mesh is the inter-service communication infrastructure, which deals with workloads by tapping into applications that are running on thousands of servers.
The Load Balancer in Service Fabric Mesh can be used on Layer 4 or Layer 7.
Service Fabric Mesh takes care of scaling, networking, upgrades, volumes and secrets.
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Jurassic World Tribute Store at Universal Orlando REVEALED
Marc N. Kleinhenz | May 7, 2021 May 7, 2021
In the six short years since the Tribute Store first debuted at Universal Orlando, it has become one of the most innovative and most beloved parts of the resort, popping up at more and more of its annual events. Now, it looks like the store is making another big leap forward – less than a week after its latest Mardi Gras iteration ended, it's already being rebranded as the Jurassic World Tribute Store.
While we have no official details as of yet, the apparent theming of the store is not only sure to make it instantly popular with guests who already have dinosaurs on the brain, but it also places this latest permutation in a very interesting position within Tribute's overall evolution (no pun intended). We've already covered in great depth the Tribute Store's origins and development over the years, but it doesn't hurt to just quickly touch upon it here, too: the shop first debuted at Halloween Horror Nights 2015 as a lightly themed retail space dedicated to the previous 25 years of that hallowed event. It was so successful, Universal wasted no time in having it return – and expanding it, adding on more rooms that were each fully devoted to one particular intellectual property or another, whether that be Stranger Things or Universal Monsters. Mardi Gras and Holidays Tributes followed in short order, bringing their own additions to the now-magic formula, most especially in the form of a sweets-and-baked-goods shop. The end result, as we entered into 2021, was a fully immersive space that, at times, could be a type of walk-through attraction of its own, but one that would only exist for a handful of weeks before being relegated to the dust bins of theme-park history (not unlike a Horror Nights haunted house, actually, which brings the store full-circle).
The Jurassic World version of the space also adds another interesting spin on the concept: should it last through most of the summer, to help celebrate the arrival of Jurassic World VelociCoaster at the next-door Islands of Adventure, it would essentially make Tribute a year-round presence at the resort. As it is, we've already seen a trend of having the store stay up for a longer period of time, such as last year's Halloween outing, which ran for a whopping three months (from the end of July to early November), or this year's Mardi Gras showing, which lasted nearly as long (the beginning of February to the beginning of May). In fact, should Horror Nights 2021's version of the retail space open up in July again (which is not at all a given, admittedly – especially if Jurassic World proves to be successful with the public), it isn't that difficult to see a mere two weeks off between the summer and Halloween renditions, just as what occurred between HHN and Holidays in 2020. This might even necessitate Tribute being put permanently on the park map! With all due apologies to the brand-new Universal Studios Store, we may just have a new, de facto flagship retail experience at Universal.
While we're waiting for the Jurassic World store to throw open its doors, you can peruse our collective tribute to Tribute:
Halloween Horror Nights's Tribute Store overview
Mardi Gras's Tribute Store overview
Inside Universal Orlando's first-ever Holiday Tribute Store
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And in case you were wondering, it seems that the recent editors have previously edited Palin's page in positive ways (as cited by someone on Slashdot).
And her follow-up, in which she clarifies her understanding of American history.
She's clearly received some handling in the interim.
She is the living example of philosophies like the best defense is a good offense and never retreat, always advance. You will never get an admission of mistake or wrongdoing out of her - she always finds a way to spin it back to "not only was I not wrong, those who are trying to critique me have a corrupt agenda." Regardless of her political stances, this psychological slipperiness is a trait I profoundly dislike. Her supporters do it too - never critique the substance of a criticism, critique the critic.
As the movie goes on, the attacks on Palin seamlessly segue into lions stalking and feasting on a defenseless zebra; an arrow protruding from the neck of a slain medieval archer; the most horrific car crash I've ever seen on film; a bridge (to nowhere?) collapsing; a man literally choking someone to death; a nuclear explosion; a volcano eruption; and, yes, sand being thrown onto the face of a nearly buried corpse. All that is missing is a depiction of Maureen Dowd taunting our dear Sarah while dancing the can-can with Osama bin Laden and setting the Constitution on fire.
this is also a "gotcha" question?
I heard the director interviewed yesterday. It bugged me how he kept calling her "the Governor" -- it made me snarl "she quit that job." I'm sure under general honorific protocol she might have the right to be called by that title even after not completing her term of office, but still, it's really not too cool.
It bugged me how he kept calling her "the Governor"
Sean Hannity does this too. I guess it sounds more respectable than "the Quitter".
Fox uses picture of Tina Fey in report about Sarah Palin.
[Paul Revere] is famous for riding from Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts with William Dawes on the night of April 18, 1775 ringing bells to warn the British that colonists would exercise their natural rights to both bear arms and use them in an effort secede from the United Kingdom in response to Big Government bullying and interfering with Colony's Rights. Coincidentally, this also served to warn the minutemen the British were coming[Citation Needed].
Someone on the Talk page for this entry asks, "Wikipedia already has the liberal version of events. Does Conservapedia need to cover the same ground?"
I wouldn't be so sure that Palin's supporters are the ones who first changed any pages.
That was raised in the Wikipedia discussion, but it's a really safe assumption. The whole thing was sparked by the initial change made to Paul Revere's page to help the account agree with and support Palin's remarks. There's no logical reason for anyone who doesn't support Palin to edit the page in a way that's ultimately favorable to her.
Besides that, trolling and "correcting" Wikipedia is just something ideologues do regularly. It would be a pretty oblique strategy for sabotage.
There's no logical reason for anyone who doesn't support Palin to edit the page in a way that's ultimately favorable to her.
Who needs a logical reason? The original perps could have done it simply for Palin's supporters to get blamed. This is the internet: trust nothing, particularly what you may perceive as motivation.
Put another way, I will bet that 98% of the more active members of Anonymous have wikipedia logins. I believe the phrase is 'public nuisance'.
The original perps could have done it simply for Palin's supporters to get blamed.
Eh, maybe so, but honestly, it's far too oblique to have much of a point. There's truly nothing to be gained and no discernible point to be made by playing that game - not even "aren't I clever" points.
I mean, if their goal is for Palin's followers to get blamed, but the supporters enthusiastically accept the blame and participate further in extended versions of this activity, it's functionally no different, and there's no reason for anyone to ever suspect any other complicated motivation than the fact that this celebrity person has a lot of impassioned supporters. If I hadn't seen verifiable, individualized examples of the same party line on Facebook and elsewhere, I might be more skeptical, but I have, and there's not much to be skeptical of. Ultimately it doesn't matter if a fake supporter or real supporter is doing it, if it's exactly the kind of thing real supporters do and real supporters immediately participate.
You are putting way too much thought into vandalism.
I don't believe it is vandalism. I expect horses here.
(And I think you might be the one with the too much thought, in your complicated many-masks, monkeywrenching scenario. That's got a lot of layers for a pretty basic news event).
Heh, I wouldn't put it past Slate to do it just so they could write about it. I put them on the same level as FoxNews.
Oh, for heaven's sake, who has the time? They really didn't need anyone to plant it. The conversation ("Sarah Palin got something wrong, bwah ha ha!" / "She didn't get it wrong, she actually got it RIGHT, you snide liberal!") had already begun in real life, on the radio, and on Facebook. Trust me - I live close enough to the Boston area, where this went down, to have heard about it immediately, and not first through major media but on the Twitter feeds of museum staff and history geeks who got a good chortle out of it. In other words, the incident and the response were already off and running before it popped up as a Wikipedia edit. Not surprising that it would, organically, since the argument sent so many to Wikipedia to figure out what Revere actually did do.
No, I don't think there was anything exotic about this.


When we started planning for our wedding we started planning for our honeymoon. We love to travel and wanted to do one of those 'once in a lifetime trips' to a place where neither of us had ventured before.
We had a great meeting with Andrew who talked through some of the ideas we had, gave helpful advice and guided us with his expertise in travel throughout Africa. We took some time to think the options over which was great as we didn't feel pressured to make any choices or sign up to anything there and then.
We considered our options and finally decided on our Honeymoon destination of Lake Manze in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania followed by 7 nights relaxation at the Pongwe Beach Hotel in Zanzibar. We were very excited!
The wedding all went without a hitch and we had the most amazing day (see photos attached). We had delayed our honeymoon for a couple of months following the wedding to keep something to look forward to, so our attention soon turned to finalising arrangements and getting things ready.
We met with Andrew shortly before our departure date at a mutually agreeable location (a lovely waterside pub on a sunny day), to go through the final arrangements and were presented with a full itinerary, printed travel vouchers and a booklet full of useful information all within a very helpful folder – so we were all set!
The journey itself was fairly seamless despite having to be housed in the waiting tent at Nairobi airport because of the massive fire that had occurred there about a few weeks prior to our departure!
As we got aboard a small Cessna plane for the last leg of our outward journey to Selous we definitely had the feeling that we were heading into a whole new environment and our game vehicle was ready and waiting to pick us up as soon as we landed in the middle of Selous Game Reserve. All the weariness of the travel disappeared as we took a 2 hour game drive en route to our camp seeing so many different species on the way! On arrival at Lake Manze we were met by the resident Massai security and the lovely Tricia who manages the camp. We were given a full brief on camp life, what to expect and also importantly camp safety.
If you want to be pushed slightly out of your comfort zone but still maintain a few of the luxuries of home (e.g. flushing toilet and private shower) then Lake Manze is just the place. The food there was amazing as was the service at the camp – they even did us special dinner on our veranda one evening, we had our own Massai guard keeping watch and we heard some noise in the woodland in front of us, he shone his torch and we saw a herd of elephant making their way through the trees – magical!
We honestly, truly did not want to leave but we made our way to Zanzibar where we were met by a very different but equally beautiful landscape.
We would strongly recommend anyone to consider speaking to Andrew before making travel plans. Not only did he take the time to get to know us and get to grips with what we were looking for, his expertise shone through and we felt very confident in taking his advice. The arrangements were seamless as was our holiday, thank you so much, it is a trip that we will never forget and will be speaking to Andrew when we next adventure somewhere special.
Before we started speaking with Andrew, we were keen on having some form to gift list to help with our honeymoon costs. We wanted to strive away from the typical ones from major retailers for electrical goods and also other mainstream travel agents as these were a bit impersonal. We were delighted when we met with Andrew that his gift list had been designed with the personal touch where guests could buy you something personal whether it be a seat upgrade or candlelit diner, we thought that this was by far the best way to go about it, plus guests can leave some personal comments which meant afterwards we can show them evidence of what they contributed towards.
Andrew was very good at putting together a list that made sense to us and the guests to use and broke it down in ways we didn't think of before. Andrew also kept us up to date throughout and gave good advice as to what we should include and at reasonable prices, the good thing being is that you know your guests and what people can afford which is completely customisable.


Here are some tips to improve your credit problems!
First you may need to go through the process of actually repairing your credit to improve the situation.
You can also discuss the issues with your loan officer.
A good and responsible mortgage professional knows there can be justifiable reasons for such problems.
Don't worry, whatever the issue, it can be worked with!
If you're looking to become a first time home buyer, then you surely have a long list of concerns. Right at the top of that list is the need to fix problems with your credit so that you can get approved for loans and financing.
You also want reasonable and affordable deals that won't hinder you financially. Use the following tips and suggestions to get rid of these problems and get on your way to buying a home.
The first and most important step you need to take to fix these problems is to learn to recognize the scams which are out there, because there's a ton of them, and they all want to trick you and take more of your money.
When a company makes outrageous and too good to be true claims, then it's almost a guaranteed scam. When the company makes you pay upfront, or doesn't tell you what they're doing, it's a scam.
If they try to get you to buy a new credit file or make blanket disputes of your credit, then it's a scam. Recognize scams first, and then you can make clear decisions to solve your problems.
You're entitled to get a free credit report every 12 months from the major reporting companies. Use this ability to always keep an eye on your credit and see what's on your record.
Dispute when Appropriate: When your credit reports show inaccuracies, that's when you can feel free to dispute. File dispute letters or claims, and use any evidence you have possible to show your position and why something is incorrect. This is part of the process to repair these problems.
Interest Rates: You always want to take care of the highest interest rates first in terms of which cards you focus on paying off. This will save you money over the long haul. Don't forget to call your credit card companies and ask for lower rates as well.
No matter how bad your credit may be, there's always a way out of it when you know what to do. Use the tips on how to fix these problems mentioned above and you'll be able to start moving in the right direction once and for all.
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Q: Can't ping Mountain Lion
I can't ping my mountain lion from the LAN, but my mac can ping any machine in the LAN.
I was digging into why this could be happening, I found that in network utility, in Netstat, it shows like gateway is localhost and Flags are UHS. This seems wrong. How can I change this to have my MAC address.
Your help would be appreciated.


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PDP wins Isoko North by-election
By Okungbowa Aiwerie, Asaba
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Jude Ogbimi, as the winner of Saturday's Isoko North Constituency by-election.
It said 11 parties contested the House Assembly poll.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Christopher Onosemuode of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), who announced the result yesterday, said Ogbimi scored 29, 421 votes to defeat eight other candidates.
He said the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Emmanuel Tabuko, polled 2,543 votes to emerge second, while the candidate of the ADP, Agose Ogagaoghene, came third with 66 votes.
Said he: "I, Prof. Christopher Onosemuode of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State, hereby declare that Ogbimi of the PDP, having scored the highest number of valid votes, is hereby pronounced as the winner of the Isoko North Constituency by-election in line with electoral guidelines."