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Q: Rails automatically loading has_one relation
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*Ruby version 2.4.4

*Rails version 5.1.4

*Devise version 4.4.3

I'm experiencing an odd issue in my application. In short, whenever I load a User record, it's associated Location record is automatically loaded.
User model:
class User < ApplicationRecord
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
     :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  has_one :location, as: :owner
end

Location model:
class Location < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :owner, polymorphic: true, required: false
end

In the rails console, if I enter simply User.last I see two queries:
User Load (1.5ms)  SELECT  "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."deleted_at" IS NULL ORDER BY "users"."id" DESC LIMIT $1  [["LIMIT", 1]]

Immediately followed by
Location Load (6.8ms)  SELECT  "locations".* FROM "locations" WHERE "locations"."owner_id" = $1 AND "locations"."owner_type" = $2 LIMIT $3  [["owner_id", 9], ["owner_type", "User"], ["LIMIT", 1]]

If I comment out the devise line, it no longer occurs. Any explanation as to what could cause this? No default scope is defined on either model.


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NASA releases amazing high-resolution image of Earth from the moon's orbit
By Jamie Lendino on December 18, 2015 at 11:37 am
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is still in orbit around the moon — just like it says on the tin — and its LROC three-camera system just delivered one of the most amazing high-resolution images of Earth we've ever seen.
Let's explain what's going on here. From what we see on the Earth's surface, the moon rising and setting always looks beautiful, although we're seeing the same side each time. If you're an astronaut on the surface of the moon, though, you don't see the opposite thing happen with Earth. Instead, the Earth always sits in the same spot right above the horizon, and changes only slightly thanks to the moon's own wobble. That said, the Earth's appearance does change, thanks to its rotation and changing cloud cover.
That brings us to the new images, originally snapped at approximately 83 miles above the surface in October, above the far-side crater Compton. The LROC team said in a statement that in order to first take the black-and-white image, the spacecraft first has to roll over 67 degrees on its side, and then slew (see video above) with the direction of travel to maximize the width of the horizon, all while the spacecraft is traveling at almost 3,600 miles per hour. Then, since the image comes back distorted, thanks to all of this motion, they then have to correct for it.
Then, for the color image, they image the scene repeatedly with the wide-angle camera while the narrow-angle camera shoots it just once, and then blend the images together to sharpen the Earth. Finally, they correct for the huge difference in brightness between the Earth and the moon's surface, so that you can see both in the same image.
LROC actually contains two narrow-angle cameras (pictured above) that deliver 0.5-meter-scale panchromatic images over a 3.1-mile region, as well as a wide-angle camera (pictured below) that snaps 100-meters-per-pixel images in seven color bands over a 37-mile portion of the surface. The cameras capture black and white as well as lower-resolution, multi-spectral images of the lunar surface.
The LRO launched in June 2009, and orbits the moon at anywhere from 30 to 125 miles above the surface. It sends images back to Earth in four passes per day of 310 gigabits each, or 155GB per day in total.
Earlier this year, a fear of NASA budget cuts led some to think that the agency would wind down the LRO mission as well as operating the 11-year-old Opportunity rover mission on the surface of Mars. It turns out those fears were unfounded, and NASA actually got a budget for 2016 that was bigger than expected. And back in 2013, NASA tried something else unexpected with the LRO: It beamed a digital version of the Mona Lisa to it via laser, in what was then the first time anyone achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances.
At any rate, click the image below for a 3,439-by-5,000-pixel version we made out of the new 302GB color TIF. Absolutely stunning.

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Denmark competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. 152 competitors, 151 men and 1 woman, took part in 46 events in 13 sports.

Medalists

Gold
 Ejler Allert, Christian Hansen, Carl Møller, Carl Pedersen and Poul Hartmann — Rowing, Men's coxed fours, inriggers

Silver
 Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier — Fencing, Men's Épée
 Men's Team — Football
 Men's Team (Swedish system) — Gymnastics
 Steen Herschend, Sven Thomsen and Hans Meulengracht-Madsen — Sailing, Men's 6m class
 Lars Madsen — Shooting, Men's 300m free rifle, three positions
 Sofie Castenschiold — Tennis, Women's singles indoor

Bronze
 Men's Team, free system — Gymnastics
 Erik Bisgaard, Rasmus Frandsen, Mikael Simonsen, Poul Thymann and Ejgil Clemmensen — Rowing, Men's coxed fours
 Niels Larsen — Shooting, Men's 300m free rifle, three positions
 Ole Olsen, Lars Madsen, Niels Larsen, Niels Andersen, Laurits Larsen and Jens Hajslund — Shooting, Men's Team free rifle
 Søren Jensen — Wrestling, Greco-Roman heavyweight

Athletics

14 athletes represented Denmark. It was the fourth appearance of the nation in athletics, which Denmark had competed in each time the nation appeared at the Olympics. Aage Rasmussen's fourth-place finish in the racewalk was Denmark's best athletics result in 1912.

Ranks given are within that athlete's heat for running events.

Cycling

Eight cyclists represented Denmark. It was the first appearance of the nation in cycling. Olaf Meyland-Smith had the best time in the time trial, the only race held, placing 25th. The top four Danish cyclists had a combined time that placed them 8th of the 15 teams.

Road cycling

Equestrian

 Dressage

 Eventing
(The maximum score in each of the five events was 10.00 points. Ranks given are for the cumulative score after each event. Team score is the sum of the top three individual scores.)

Fencing

Six fencers represented Denmark. It was the fourth appearance of the nation in fencing, in which Denmark had competed each time the nation appeared at the Olympics. Ivan Osiier was the only Danish fencer to advance to the final in an event, eventually capturing the silver medal in the épée. His second-place finish was the best in Danish Olympic fencing history at the time, as no Danish fencer had gotten to a final since Holger Nielsen won the bronze in the 1896 sabre competition.

Football

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Final rank

Gymnastics

Forty-nine gymnasts represented Denmark. It was the third appearance of the nation in gymnastics. Denmark had a team compete in two of the three team competitions. The Danish teams won the nation's first gymnastics medals, placing third of five in the free system and second of three in the Swedish system. Six Danish gymnasts competed in the individual competition, with Arvor Hansen's 26th-place finish the best of the six.

Artistic

Modern pentathlon

Denmark had four competitors in the first Olympic pentathlon competition. The Danish pentathletes had little success, with three of them not finishing and the fourth coming in last among the finishers, nearly 30 points behind the next nearest competitor.

(The scoring system was point-for-place in each of the five events, with the smallest point total winning.)

Rowing

Fifteen rowers represented Denmark. It was the nation's first appearance in rowing. Denmark's debut was successful, especially in the coxed fours events, with the team winning a gold medal in the inriggers competition and a bronze in the outriggers.

(Ranks given are within each crew's heat.)

Sailing

Three sailors represented Denmark. It was the nation's first appearance in sailing. Denmark sent only one boat, which took the silver medal in the six metre class.

(7 points for 1st in each race, 3 points for 2nd, 1 point for 3rd. Race-off to break ties in total points if necessary.)

Shooting

Fourteen shooters represented Denmark. It was the nation's fourth appearance in shooting, in which Denmark had competed each time the nation appeared at the Olympics. Madsen and Niels Larsen took second and third, respectively, in the 300 metre free rifle from three positions to take the nation's only individual shooting medals in 1912; both were also on the six-man team which earned a bronze medal in the team rifle competition. They were the first medals won by Denmark in shooting since 1900.

Swimming

One swimmer competed for Denmark at the 1912 Games. It was the third time the nation had competed in swimming. Hedegaard was unable to advance out of the first round in either of his two events.

Ranks given for each swimmer are within the heat.

 Men

Tennis

Ten tennis players, including one woman, represented Denmark at the 1912 Games. It was the nation's debut appearance in tennis. The lone Danish woman was also the lone Danish medalist, taking the silver medal in the indoor singles. She, along with Larsen, advanced to the quarterfinals in the indoor mixed doubles event as well. None of the other players advanced past the round of 16.

 Men

 Women

 Mixed

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Denmark sent nine wrestlers in 1912. It was the nation's second Olympic wrestling appearance.

Two of the three Danish bronze medalists returned in 1912. Andersen, the middleweight, was not as successful as four years earlier; he lost his first two matches to be eliminated at 26th place. Jensen, on the other hand, matched his prior bronze with another. He won his first three matches before taking his first loss to Saarela. In a loser-out fifth round match against Backenius, Jensen won and advanced to the medal round. There, he again faced Saarela; a second loss to the Finn put Jensen in a match against Olin. The winner of this match would face Saarela in the final while the loser would take the bronze medal. Olin turned out to be too much for Jensen, who finished the tournament with the bronze.

Four other Danes advanced to the fifth round before receiving their second loss and elimination. The team overall went 15-17 in the elimination rounds and 0-2 in the medal round.

References

External links
Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database

Nations at the 1912 Summer Olympics
1912
Olympics

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12/19- On this day in 1957, Elvis Presley was served his draft notice for the United States Army. Presley would go on to join the 32nd Tank Battalion Third Armor Corps, based in Germany.
12/20- On this day in 1967, folk singer Joan Baez was sentenced to 45 days in prison. The singer had been arrested during an anti-war demonstration protesting the Vietnam War.
12/21- On this day in 1985, Bruce Springsteen's famous Born in the USA passed Michael Jackson's Thriller, becoming the second longest-lasting LP on the US Billboard Top 10. The Boss's LP stayed atop the charts for 79 weeks.
12/22- On this day in 1981, at a rock and roll memorabilia auction in London, Beatles memorabilia was auctioned off to fans. A suit John Lennon wore onstage sold for £2,300, a letter from Paul McCartney sold for £2,200 and a sculpture of John and Yoko Ono sold for £4200.
12/23- On this day in 1977, English singer and songwriter Cat Stevens formally changed his name to Yusef Islam. Islam will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
12/24- On this day in 1965, The Beatles had the number one album in the US for the third Christmas season in a row. The Fab Four's Rubber Soul topped the LP charts in 1965, after Beatles for Sale and With the Beatles the two previous years.
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Student Bound for Ivy League Says Test-Prep Class Helped Her Ace Entrance Exam
By Margaret King
When Melanie Halko encountered a tough problem while taking the ACT college entrance exam, she would stop and ask herself, "What would my test-prep teacher say to do here?"
The strategy paid off. Melanie, a senior at Eastlake High School in Chula Vista, scored an impressive 33 out of 36 on the exam, ranking her in the 98th percentile nationally. She gives part of the credit for her strong performance to an ACT prep course she took through UC San Diego Extension.
"I found myself using all the techniques I had learned," she said. "That helped me finish the test under the time constraints. The class was very crucial to getting that score."
While colleges across the country have suspended the SAT or ACT requirement because of the pandemic, many students are still opting to take the exams. An SAT or ACT score is still required to apply for some scholarships, and a high score may give a student an edge in getting into certain selective colleges. UCSD Extension is offering several online SAT and ACT course sections in the coming months.
Melanie ultimately got into her top-choice school without relying on her ACT score. She received early admission to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and she will start there in the fall studying environmental science. The Ivy League school was among those that dropped the ACT or SAT requirement during the pandemic.
Yet Melanie still thinks it was worthwhile to sharpen her test-taking skills. "I recommended the class to a few of my friends, and they seemed to really like it, too," she said.
Benny Bing, who taught the ACT class, said Melanie was an attentive and motivated student. "Students can get to the next level if they practice these new methods they have learned," he said. "Melanie was that type of student. She even asked for additional practice problems, which I provided."
The ACT class was actually Melanie's second Extension test-prep course. A couple of summers ago, she took an SAT course taught by Bing. She later took an ACT practice test and decided it was a better match for her strengths than the SAT. "I liked the format better because there are different question formats and a science section, and I really like science," she explained.
"I knew that for the ACT, I wanted to take another course with Mr. Bing," she added. "I like how he teaches different strategies for solving the same problem, especially in math, and tells you to use whichever one works best. He gives a lot of useful tips and tricks."
Melanie enrolled in a six-week Extension ACT course taught by Bing in February of 2020 – the last in-person section before the pandemic forced classes to go online. After finishing the class, she signed up to take the ACT in April. The test was rescheduled several times during the early days of the lockdown before she could finally take it.
As she went through the exam, Melanie applied the strategies she had learned in different ways on different sections.
"Math is the hardest for me, especially on the ACT, because there's less time," she said. "You have to do a problem per minute. I needed help shortening how much time I took on each problem because the problems gradually get harder. Mr. Bing taught us how to allocate time for the harder problems and how to use time-saving techniques."
On the reading section, Melanie said, "there was one passage I had trouble understanding when I first read it, so I skipped it and moved on. And then when I came back to it, I was able to understand it and answer the questions much more easily."
She had a relatively easy time with the essay section, but even there, she made use of what she had learned. "For the essay, Mr. Bing gave us some tips for how to improve our score by just a few points," she said.
Melanie is looking forward to heading to New York to start at Cornell in the fall. "That was the very first school I applied to," she said. "I really like its location – it's in nature, and it's much different from California. I wanted a change of scenery.
"I also really like the academics there – specifically within my major, environmental sustainability; they have a great program with good professors and good classes."
Focusing on environmental science was an easy decision for Melanie. "I've always loved animals and nature and gardening," she said. She got deeper into the subject when she took an environmental science class in her junior year.
She has balanced her studies with a busy schedule of extracurricular activities. Before the pandemic, she started a tutoring club for students at a local middle school. She is also active in clubs at her high school for students with special needs. And she has completed two internships focusing on sustainability, including one at Chula Vista's Living Coast Discovery Center.
Melanie is still exploring career options. "I would like to have a career where I can do research and fieldwork," she said. "I am interested in Earth science and also conservation of animals."
One thing she's sure of is that she wants to play a role in ensuring the health of our planet. "After learning about climate change and all the other problems with our environment, I want to help solve them," she said. "I want to make an impact to protect the Earth."
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Main Street Natural Gas, Inc.
Main Street Natural Gas, Inc., Gas Supply Revenue Bonds, Series 2019 $675.430MM
Rating Action: Moody's assigns A3 to Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. Gas Supply Revenue Bonds Ser. 2019C
Rating Action: Moody's upgrades to A2 rating of six gas prepayment bonds
Announcement: Moody's has updated the sale description for Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. Gas Supply Revenue Bonds Series 2018F
Rating Action: Moody's assigns A3 to Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. Gas Supply Revenue Bonds Series 2018F
Rating Action: Moody's places A3 rating of six gas prepayment bonds under review for upgrade.
Moody's assigns Aa1 to Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. Gas Supply Revenue Bonds Ser. 2019B, 2019C, 2019D & 2019E
New York, April 18, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Aa1 rating to Main Street Natural Gas, Inc. (the Issuer), Gas Supply Revenue Bonds, Series 2019B, 2019C, 2019D and 2019E. (the Bonds).
The rating on the Bonds takes into account the following factors: (A) the credit quality of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) (Aa1) for payments due under (i) the Prepaid Natural Gas Purchase and Sale Agreement (GPA), (ii) the settlement agreement, (iii) the back-end commodity swap, (iv) the funding agreement and (v) the interest rate swaps for Series 2019C, 2019D and 2019E; and (B) the structure and mechanics of the transaction which provide for the payment of debt service and purchase price consistent with the rating assigned to the Bonds.
FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO AN UPGRADE
• Upgrade of the long-term rating of TD's senior unsecured obligations.
FACTORS THAT COULD LEAD TO A DOWNGRADE
• Downgrade of the long-term rating of TD's senior unsecured obligations.
Bond proceeds will be used to prepay the Gas Supplier (TD) for the delivery of a specified quantity of natural gas on a monthly basis over a 30-year period. The Issuer will sell gas acquired under the GPA to the Municipal Gas Authority of Georgia (the Gas Purchaser) under a Natural Gas Supply Agreement.
The Series 2019B Bonds will, at issuance, bear interest at a fixed rate for an initial long-term rate period and pay interest semi-annually. At issuance, the Series 2019C Bonds will bear interest at a LIBOR index rate mode (or any successor or substitute for such reported rate); the Series 2019D Bonds will bear interest at a SIFMA index rate mode; and the Series 2019E Bonds will bear interest at a SOFR index rate mode. The Series 2019C, 2019D and 2019E bonds will pay interest monthly. The initial long-term rate period and the initial index rate periods for all the Series end on December 1, 2024. On the business day following such date (December 2, 2024) the Bonds shall be subject to mandatory tender. The mandatory tenders will be funded with remarketing proceeds. If remarketing proceeds are insufficient, the tenders will be funded from a draw on the settlement agreement provided by TD. The settlement agreement is available to pay principal only on the Bank Purchase Date. After the initial rate periods, the Bonds may be converted in whole, by subseries, to the daily, weekly, LIBOR index, SIFMA index, SOFR index, long-term or commercial paper rate modes. TD's commitment under the settlement agreement cannot terminate without a mandatory tender funded with a draw on the settlement agreement in the event remarketing proceeds are insufficient. TD may not send a notice of termination to the trustee. The settlement agreement expires upon the earliest to occur of: (i) the Stated Expiration Date (the business day following the Bank Purchase Date); and (ii) the date no Bonds are outstanding.
The Trustee will draw on the settlement agreement, in accordance with its terms, in an amount sufficient to make payments of purchase price on the Bank Purchase Date, net of remarketing proceeds on deposit. The Trustee will draw by 10:30 a.m., New York time, in order to receive payment by 12:30 p.m. on the same day.
Moody's rating terminates upon termination of the settlement agreement currently scheduled for December 2, 2024 (the business day following the initial rate periods).
Pursuant to the GPA between the Gas Supplier and the Issuer, the Gas Supplier agrees to deliver to the Issuer natural gas on a monthly basis in daily quantities specified in such agreement. The Issuer will in turn sell daily quantities, billed on a monthly basis, of delivered natural gas to the Gas Purchaser pursuant to the Natural Gas Supply Agreement. The monthly price payable by the Gas Purchaser under the Natural Gas Supply Agreement will be equal to the Index Price for such month less a specified discount (the Contract Price), plus the premium (if any), plus any payments resulting from a change in delivery point. Payments for gas delivered will be due on the 20th of each month following the month of delivery.
In the event there is a deficiency on any interest payment date or principal payment date, the indenture instructs the trustee to demand an advance under the Funding Agreement provided by TD. Under the Funding Agreement TD is obligated to make up such deficiency (up to an amount equal to the highest two months of gas volumes at the fixed price under the commodity swap) which amount shall be sufficient to pay debt service.
Since the revenues received from gas sales to the Gas Purchaser are variable and the payments due to (i) the 2019B bond obligations and (ii) the 2019C, 2019D and 2019E interest rate swap obligations are fixed, the Issuer entered into a front-end commodity swap with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC or the Commodity Swap Counterparty), pursuant to which the Issuer receives fixed payments in exchange for the floating payments calculated using the applicable Index Price.
Since the interest rate payments due on the 2019C, 2019D and 2019E bonds are variable, the Issuer shall enter into interest rate swaps with TD. Under the terms of the interest rate swaps TD receives a fixed payment and pays the index rate due on the 2019C, 2019D and 2019E bonds. The rating of TD as interest rate swap counterparty is factored into the rating on the 2019C, 2019D and 2019E bonds.
Payments under the commodity swap will be made on a monthly basis. The netted payment, combined with payments for gas delivered and the interest rate swap payments for the 2019C, 2019D and 2019E bonds, will be sufficient to pay the debt service due to bondholders. Payments to or from the Commodity Swap Counterparty are due on the 25th of that month.
A failure on the part of the Gas Purchaser to pay for the delivered gas may result in a shortfall in the amounts required to be paid to the Commodity Swap Counterparty. Under the Natural Gas Supply Agreement, the Gas Purchaser is obligated to pay the Contract Price when gas is delivered. If the Gas Purchaser defaults in its payment, the Trustee shall (i) request an advance under the Funding Agreement as described previously and (ii) instruct the Gas Supplier to immediately suspend delivery of gas and to begin remarketing gas on a monthly basis. A monthly remarketing of gas under this scenario obligates the Gas Supplier to make a minimum payment at least equal to the Net Monthly Price.
The commodity swap and interest rate swaps include standard ISDA events of default and termination events. Termination of the commodity swap or interest rate swaps for (i) any default associated with the swap counterparty unless the swap is replaced and (ii) certain defaults of the Issuer will be an automatic triggering event under the GPA and a mandatory redemption event under the Indenture. If a swap terminates and is not replaced, the GPA will terminate, and an Early Termination Date will be declared on the last day of the month following the date of the termination of the GPA. On the Early Termination Date, the Gas Supplier will make a final payment sufficient to redeem the Bonds at the amortized value plus accrued interest to the redemption date which will be the first day of the month following the Early Termination Date.
Nonpayment by the Commodity Swap Counterparty prior to the redemption of the Bonds is covered by a custodial arrangement relating to the back-end commodity swap between TD and RBC. Payments by TD to RBC under the back-end commodity swap are at least equal to payments owed to the Issuer by RBC on the commodity swap. In order to address the risk that a nonpayment by RBC under the commodity swap could lead to an insufficiency in the payment due to the bondholders or result in an early termination event under the GPA and a redemption of the Bonds, all payments to be made by TD under the back-end commodity swap are deposited monthly with a custodian under a custodial agreement. If RBC fails to make a required payment under the commodity swap, the custodian is required, under the terms of the custodial agreement, to deliver to the trustee the funds provided by TD on the back-end commodity swap. Such funds will be applied by the trustee in the same manner as payments made by the Commodity Swap Counterparty and such funds will be sufficient to pay debt service on the Bonds. Therefore, the rating of the Commodity Swap Counterparty is not a factor in the rating assigned to the Bonds.
The Issuer and the Gas Supplier can replace the commodity swap or interest rate swap provider at any time with written confirmation from Moody's that the rating on the Bonds will not be lowered or withdrawn.
If the Gas Supplier fails to deliver gas for any reason including a force majeure, the Gas Supplier is obligated to make payments to the Issuer equal to the Index Price. This amount will be sufficient to pay debt service and amounts owed under the commodity swap and/or the interest rate swap.
An Automatic Triggering Event or a termination of the GPA at the option of either the Issuer or Gas Supplier will cause the GPA to terminate as of the Early Termination Date, which is the last day of the month following the month in which such event occurred. On the Early Termination Date, the Gas Supplier will make the Liquidation Payment, which will be sufficient to redeem the Bonds at the amortized value of the Bonds. Under the Indenture, the Bonds will be redeemed on the first day of the month following the Early Termination Date.
Automatic Triggering Events include, but are not limited to: (i) an Event of Insolvency of the Gas Supplier; (ii) failure of the Gas Supplier to make a required payment under the GPA; (iii) an Event of Default or Termination Event under the commodity swap or back-end commodity swap and the failure of the Issuer to replace either the Commodity Swap or back-end commodity swap; and (iv) an Event of Default or Termination Event under the interest rate swap and the failure of the Issuer to replace the interest rate swap. In the event of an early redemption of the Bonds because of a termination of the GPA, the Trustee will deposit the Liquidation Payment from the Gas Supplier in the Termination Fund in an amount sufficient to redeem the Bonds.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was Gas Prepayment Bonds published in March 2017. Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the credit rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular credit rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have affected the rating. For further information please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit support from the primary entity(ies) of this credit rating action, and whose ratings may change as a result of this credit rating action, the associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity. Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures, if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating review.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued the rating.
Please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com for additional regulatory disclosures for each credit rating.
Joann Hempel
Public Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
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NY Hospitality Alliance Tech Conference: Hospitality & Silicon Alley
February 27, 2015 / juan
Last Wednesday, February 25th, Harri joined industry leaders such as Michael Jacobs (Corner Table Restaurants), Shawn Kolodny (Innovative Advisory Group), Allan Anderson (LivingSocial) and Jed Kleckner (Delivery.com) for a discussion on how how technology is transforming the way the hospitality industry operates, from front-of-house, to back-of-house and beyond.
The first panel was titled "Hospitality & Silicon Alley". Below are the key points covered during the panel discussions and presentation.
How will technology impact the restaurant industry?
Mobile payments:
Since restaurants typically have a 45 minute window to work with patrons at a table, the industry as a whole fears that the introduction of technology will disrupt the connection between guest and servers, therefore, losing the foundation of why people are in the industry. The industry fears that perhaps the guest experience will be diminished since the "human touch" will be scaled back. Although there are and will be challenges incorporating new technology, restaurant owners and operations know they have to adapt to the times.
Data Integration:
Since the options currently available do not integrate with each other, there is tremendous room for improvement. Owners an operators have to constantly double check data to ensure it's correct because the systems do not speak to each other and there is no universal option available. Integration, contracts and costs cause a lot of conflict in terms of allowing restaurants to adapt to new technology because technology is constantly changing and improving.
Restaurant owners feel that spending hours pulling data is not an effective use of time. Data should be accessed with the click of a button, however, the real issue is not obtaining the data. Being able to easily read the data and making it actionable is the best case scenario. Another issue is that most restaurant tech companies hire engineers outside the industry who don't fully understand how the restaurant business works. In order to create the best resource possible, they should bring tech and analytical minds with restaurant experience together to create great products.
How to Engage Guests in Person or through Online Feedback:
Owners & operators have to learn to embrace feedback, whether positive or negative, it's part of doing business. The thing to keep in mind is that you're learning about operational improvements instantaneously.
Quick response time to an issue is key. If you don't respond within 10 minutes, patrons may go to Yelp or TripAdvisor and bash your brand. The days of 24 hour response time are gone.
If possible, catching issues the moment they occur and providing the solution on the spot is the best case scenario. At the end of the day, we, as an industry, are service providers and we need to make sure we're resolving customer issues and ensuring guest satisfaction.
Opening Restaurants:
Sometimes finding a location for your new concept is based on hunches instead of data. Technology allows owners to look at data such as demographics, yearly household income, etc. to help decide on the best location for their business.
An example of where a company fails at providing actionable data: OpenTable. It they wanted to, OpenTable could provide restaurants with actionable data such as the hottest zip codes for new restaurants, since they have collected a substantial amount of restaurant data over the years.
Workforce Management:
The entire industry is still posting on Craigslist and scraping through hundreds of resumes just to find one good candidate with great work experience. For example, it took two years to hire an assistant general manager at Per Se. Due to lack of quality local candidates, the company flew candidates in from all over the world. The job search began on Craigslist. Per Se is one of the top restaurants in the world and is still dealing with a problem all to familiar to the industry.
It's just as important to find the right employee for your business and it's also important that you take care of your employees while they're working with you. The sector showing the most growth in the restaurant industry is Human Resources. It has become very competitive.
Times are changing. The industry is moving from the filing cabinet to the cloud. The panel on stage believed that having a way to rate employers on how they treat their employees, would create a better work environment because of competition.
Why is the hospitality industry so far behind when it comes to incorporating technology?
Technology can't run the restaurant business, it's a people powered business, however, businesses need to realize that technology will only enhance the guest experience if it's used and implemented properly. Technology hasn't been implemented as much as the industry probably should have because of issues with integration, high cost, and imperfect solutions. Adaptation should increase as the restaurant and technology industries learn to work together more cohesively.
What do you think of the panel discussion? How do you feel technology is impacting the restaurant industry?
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Q: GDI+ - converting bitmap pixels to JPG format I have an array of a bitmap pixels. How can I convert them to JPG format and copy to another array? How to convert them back to bitmap from JPG pixels?

A: Checkout the Encoder CLSID function from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms533843(v=vs.85).aspx
Modified original code from https://vctipsplusplus.wordpress.com/tag/image-conversion-gdi/:
int main()
{
   // Initialize GDI+.
   GdiplusStartupInput gdiplusStartupInput;
   ULONG_PTR gdiplusToken;
   GdiplusStartup(&gdiplusToken, &gdiplusStartupInput, NULL);
   CLSID   encoderClsid;
   Status  stat;
   Image*   image = new Image(L"Bird.bmp");
   // Get the CLSID of the JPEG encoder.
   GetEncoderClsid(L"image/jpeg", &encoderClsid);
   stat = image->Save(L"Bird.png", &encoderClsid, NULL);
   if(stat == Ok)
      printf("Bird.png was saved successfully\n");
   else
      printf("Failure: stat = %d\n", stat);
   delete image;
   GdiplusShutdown(gdiplusToken);
   return 0;
}

Just change image/jpeg to whatever format you want to convert. The details are given on the MSDN link I mentioned above. Of course to work with the pixels, you'll need to convert the JPEG to BMP

A: You can create a memory stream using CreateStreamOnHGlobal or SHCreateMemStream, then use the GDI+ method Image.Save to save to the stream. Reverse the process to read back in.

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Q: accessing the json file in jquery template I want the json to be in the json file and want to access in the jquery template how can i do that your help be  appreciated
var movies = [
  { Name: "The Red Violin", ReleaseYear: "1998" },
  { Name: "Eyes Wide Shut", ReleaseYear: "1999" },
  { Name: "The Inheritance", ReleaseYear: "1976" }
  ];

var markup = "
${Name} (${ReleaseYear})
";

/* Compile the markup as a named template */
$.template( "movieTemplate", markup );

/* Render the template with the movies data and insert
   the rendered HTML under the "movieList" element */
$.tmpl( "movieTemplate", movies )
  .appendTo( "#movieList" );

now i am trying to access the name filed only how can i access the name field from json file
$(document).ready(function(){

        $.getJSON('dat.js', function(data) {
             $( "#movieTemplate" ).tmpl( data[i].name).appendTo( "#movieList" );
            });

});
want to access the field but  error showing as data[0] is undifined

A: Use jQuery.getJSON() to load the json file content:
var markup = "
${Name} (${ReleaseYear})
";

/* Compile the markup as a named template */
$.template( "movieTemplate", markup );

$.getJSON('movies.json', function(data) {

  // 'data' is the json loaded and parsed from the file
  $.tmpl( "movieTemplate", data )
     .appendTo( "#movieList" );

});


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Bertie's Retreat
Books / Fiction July 01, 2015
(Approx 135,000 words)
by George Macpherson
Bertie has had it 'up to here!' Despite working dawn 'til dusk in The City, and knowing he was the most effective man in the firm, the one role he wants goes to the Chairman's secret totty. He's lonely, frustrated and bored. Walking home through Hyde Park that evening, he makes a life-changing decision: he will not sign a new contract but pack a knapsack, disappear and take 'a year and a day' off, to seek his fortune! With his private income he can afford it. Who would believe that, within 24 hours, the shapely rear view of a bad-tempered young horsewoman might lead him into a series of events that would turn his life upside down in a way he never expected, deep in the Wiltshire countryside?
This is the humorous tale of how our hero got mixed up in the dwindling fortunes of an aristocratic widow whose late husband's last attempt at financial survival involved property development on land next to the River Avon. These meadows now flood annually. How can such a scheme, essential to paying off the estate's debts, ever go ahead? It's a situation that calls for a stroke of brilliance to give it any chance of success. That, together with a recalcitrant stallion, the Manor House cat and the Rector's daughter all conspire to map out Bertie's career and love life for the next decade or more. Some fortune! But then – when you've got everything, what more could you want?
A warning to those who prefer euphemisms and virginal purity when it comes to personal relationships. This book is for 'grown-ups' and contains a few graphic love scenes. Who was it who first said 'never explain, never apologise'? It seems to be an arrogant attitude and there are various claimants as to who coined the phrase: so let me explain that my plea for tolerance in this matter should be taken more as a warning on the packet, such as 'may contain nuts'.
Download a free sample from Amazon Kindle books, or buy a paperback version from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or your local Amazon website.


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Q: Django template doesn't output values to HTML table cells I have the following template:

         Monday
        Tuesday
        Wednesday
        Thursday
        Friday
        Saturday
        Sunday

    {% for row in table %}

        {% for i in week_length %}
        {{row.i}}
        {% endfor %}

    {% endfor %}

And the following view:
def calendar(request):
    template_name = 'workoutcal/calendar.html'

    today_date = timezone.now()
    today_year = today_date.year
    today_month = today_date.month
    today_day = today_date.day

    table = maketable(today_date) # Creates something like: [[None, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],[7, 8, ...],...,[28, 29, 30, 31, None, None, None]]

    template = loader.get_template('workoutcal/calendar.html')

    #Workout.objects.filter("Workouts lie between certain dates")
    context = {
        'workout_list': Workout.objects.filter(date__year = today_year, date__month = today_month, date__day = today_day),
        'table': table, # The calendar
        'week_length': range(7),
    }
    return HttpResponse(template.render(context, request))

When I access the page (localhost:8000/workoutcal), nothing except for the table headers is output. It looks like this:

I can't figure out why Django is not putting my output into the cell. I want no output for elements of the list that are None, and then simply the element content (all are strings) in for all other elements. Any ideas?

A: You're iterating over the wrong thing. Your calendar is a list of lists; you should iterate over each row, then each column in that row. week_length is completely irrelevant.
{% for week in table %}

    {% for day in week %}
    {{ week }}
    {% endfor %}

{% endfor %}

A: You are not accessing the items in the row object correctly. They are at index i not at the attribute named i.
You could just do the following:
{% for i in row %}
    {{ i }}
{% endfor %}

Because row is the list of elements you want to access. This would avoid the need to pass the week_length variable.


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When I was out of town last, my mother texted me a picture of a bridge my son had built between two concrete blocks. He likes bridges; at almost five years old, they make sense to him. You take two things and you connect them with whatever's handy. They're a means to an end, a way of getting from one place to another, bringing together two disparate places to continue a journey. While I was watching this last episode of Outlander's second season, I saw the bridge from what the show has been to what it will become.
Like the Golden Gate in San Francisco and Tower Bridge in London, "Dragonfly in Amber" is a beautiful bridge that is as lovely as it is strong and does the thing it needed most to do: whet your appetite for more.
This last episode for season two clocked in at a rare 90 minutes, literally the length of most Disney movies so a play-by –play synopsis is nearly a post unto itself. The episodes goes between 1968, twenty years after Claire's return in episode 2.01, and where episode 2.12 left off, April 16, 1746, the day the Battle of Culloden is to take place. The 1968 action is set around the funeral of Reverend Wakefield, the Randalls' friend and wee Roger's adoptive father; Claire and her adult daughter Brianna, who we met briefly at the open of 2.07, attend the funeral and meet an adult Roger. He invites them to stay in the Wakefield house after the funeral and thus the action of this last episode is set in motion.
1746: Jamie and Claire, still trying to avoid the disaster to come, discuss poisoning Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Jamie is understandably reticent, but Claire is desperate to avoid what she knows will happen.
1968: While Brianna and Roger go exploring the Scottish Highlands, Claire visits places from her time with Jamie. Her memories of that life clearly eat at her during this first trip back to Scotland in nearly twenty years.
1746: Dougal overhears Jamie and Claire plotting. He confronts them and attacks Jamie as he tries to defend Claire. The ensuing scuffle ends with Jamie, with some help from Claire, killing Dougal, which Rupert happens upon. Jamie asks Rupert for time to tie things up before returning to face the consequences of Dougal's death.
1968: Brianna, seeking answers about the nature of the relationship between her mother Claire and her father Frank, goes exploring an incident hinted at in letters between Reverend Wakefield and her father. Roger agrees to help her, offering up an attic full of the Reverend's journals and other documents to explore.
1746: Jamie signs a deed of sasine for Lallybroch, giving the property to his nephew, Jenny's son Jamie, so that the British can't take it from them after the Rising is over. He sends Fergus to Lallybroch to deliver the deed and then asks Murtagh to take the Fraser men away from the battle and back on the road to Lallybroch while Jamie takes Claire to safety. Murtagh promises to do that and then meet Jamie back at the field to fight alongside him.
1968: Brianna discovers clippings from her mother's disappearance and then accuses her of having an affair while married to her father Frank. Claire reveals Brianna's true parentage and they argue over the revelations. Brianna doesn't believe Claire's story. Roger tries to get Bree to listen so she can get the truth she's been looking for.
1746: Jamie takes Claire to the stones to send her back to the 20th century and safety after revealing that he knows she's pregnant again. Claire doesn't want to leave him; Jamie begs her to go, knowing he's a dead man already and wanting to have a piece of him survive this day. He can't keep her safe if he's dead. After a quickie, he dances her toward the stone and says goodbye.
1968: Having met Gillian Edgars, a.k.a. Geillis Duncan, Roger and Brianna tell Claire that Gillian was planning to leave 'to further the cause' very soon, causing Claire to suspect that Gillian will visit the stones soon to travel back to the time where Claire first meets her. Brianna resists when Claire suggests they try to stop her, not wanting to further her mother's 'delusion.' Roger persuades her to try it, to give her a chance to see what happens.
1968: The three arrive at Craigh Na Dun just as Gillian vanishes. Brianna and Roger both hear the buzzing as does Claire. She moves out of the circle, pulling the two young people with her. Roger goes to get help as Gillian has sacrificed her husband in her attempt to go through the stones. Brianna tells Claire that she believes her now.
1968: Roger reveals something that he and Brianna found while searching for information on what happened between Claire and Frank all those years ago. A document found in the Reverend's collection shows that a Fraser officer survived Culloden. His name? James Fraser. He survived. "I can go back," Claire says.
Whew! As you can see, quite a bit happened in that 90 minutes, concluding with a Scarlett O'Hara-esque moment of Claire's realization about what happened to Jamie and what it means for her. The entire episode is a literal bridge between what has happened in the first two seasons and what's to come in the next two. The introduction of adult Brianna and Roger, the questions about time travel, and the Battle of Culloden – which we actually haven't seen yet, by the way – drive us forward on our journey to the end of the Outlander series. Whether or not the show gets as many seasons as books remains to be seen.
The introduction of Brianna and Roger – we've met both characters as children already, but the adult versions were exactly as I had hoped they would be. I had forgotten how much I couldn't stand adult Bree when we first meet her, but Sophie Skelton played the bratty, stubborn version of her to the hilt (though the American accent could use some work). Richard Rankin had been the fan choice to play Roger Wakefield for nearly a year before he was finally cast in the role; the choice was clearly the right one. His Roger is the smitten, caring, and kind academic that we first meet in the book Dragonfly in Amber. The 'rat satire' that he bursts into while the two are excavating the Reverend's attic is charming to the point that I want to hug him each time I hear it.
The cuts between 1746 and 1968 – The episode spends a great deal of time in the present, but, as the episode wears on, it is clear why: everything that happens between Claire and Jamie on April 16th occurs over a very short span of time. Since the story is from Claire's point of view, we end at their parting, which is at mid-morning on that fateful day. In the three hours or so we do see, a number of things happen, including Dougal's death and Fergus's departure. We can't go forward without knowing what happened in the past, which makes those scenes necessary to the story told here. However, equally dividing the time between 1746 and 1968 would have taken too much away from the bridge. It needs its pillars – adult Roger and Bree's meeting, the time travel questions, and the Battle of Culloden and its aftermath – because those are foundation that will move us from Jamie and Claire's early years to what's next for both of them now that we know Jamie survived the battle.
Claire's despair – Mix sadness and despair with twenty years and you get Claire Beauchamp Fraser Randall (or Randall Fraser, take your pick) in this episode. Balfe's Claire is aged gracefully; she seems to have moved between the worlds of the 20th century and the 18th century and back with little more than a few grey streaks and the heavy weight of her separation from Jamie. As Bree says, Claire lives in her own world, her heart locked away in a quiet place that she only voices in this case when Bree sleeps or when no one is within earshot. Claire's sadness is palpable, but Balfe avoids the maudlin and infuses her despair with strength. It was a life she didn't want, but she lived it because Jamie asked her to, his final gift to her. What more could she do than step forward, albeit reluctantly? When Roger reveals Jamie's ultimate fate, the despair lifts from her shoulders and Claire and the world around her literally lights up. In that moment, Balfe is incandescent in her happiness, despite the hokeyness of the light behind the stones.
One of the best things about Outlander, the show and the series, is its richness in both story and character. It would be quite easy to go on longer about the series and this episode in particular, especially since this was the first episode of any television show that surprised me in how fast it went from open to close. This episode owned me from the get-go; everything felt familiar and new at the same time, an adaptation borders on the same absorption the book itself gives me.
Starz has renewed Outlander for two more seasons, with the next season set to begin filming later this year. Ron Moore and company reportedly are working on scripts for the new season with a minimum of thirteen episodes slated, though more may be possible as the story dictates. Thankfully, Starz realizes the juggernaut they have on their hands and gave the show two seasons, which promises to put us through both Voyager, the third book, and Drums of Autumn, the fourth book. We will be able to see where this bridge they have built leads us and, for that, I am grateful and excited.
Next week: final thoughts on Outlander's second season and a preview of what's to come in season three.
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It was a beautiful day to walk in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk and show cancer it has no place in our bodies, in Richmond, or in this world. Here's to a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
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Northern Lusofonia was a Manchester-based non-profit company dedicated to the promotion of British and Portuguese music as well as to the championing and commissioning of new music. Our musicians came from the finest music backgrounds, from celebrated international musicians to young music professionals trained or graduated at some of the UK's best conservatoires. They all shared a special affection for British and Portuguese music and were passionate about sharing it with our audiences.
Northern Lusofonia's events shared the passion and vibrancy of some of the best music written by composers from English and Portuguese speaking countries. Our concerts were naturally welcoming as they fostered cultural exchanges among a wider public through the finest music making and a creative programme.
Founded in 2015, Northern Lusofonia followed an ethos of inclusiveness by providing diversity in concert programming and high-level music making in an informal concert atmosphere at affordable prices. All concerts included small exhibitions of arts and crafts, literature or traditional cuisine and wines.
Miguel is an active composer, orchestrator and arranger graduated from Royal College of Music in London with a Master degree in Composition for Screen. He has collaborated extensively with InvisibleArts Productions Ltd and worked independently as an orchestrator. He organises the University of Westminster Students Film Orchestra and has had experience in festival, event and concert organising and team building.
Joao performed regularly in the UK and Portugal, and worked at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) in the Performance & Programming and Front of House departments, being responsible for the management and administration of hundreds of RNCM music events, including Classical, Folk, World, Jazz, Contemporary and other genres. He has been an eager independent project leader and collaborator.
André's professional career includes working in the areas of strategy and business development in the banking industry. He holds a Masters in Finance from University of Porto and is currently an MBA candidate at INSEAD.
In 2012, André was awarded the 9th edition of Inter Pares Prize by Santander Totta, McKinsey & Company and Portuguese newspaper Expresso.
An avid minigolf player, André represented the Portuguese mini golf national team in 11 international championships and won two individual national championships.
Cristina Sousa is a linguistic and holds a PhD in a translation studies. She's had a varied career in academia, industry and the public sector.


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There are efficient automatic data binders, including JAXB (and with proper settings, XStream), which could help. They are faster than DOM, because the main performance problem with DOM (and JDOM, Dom4j and XOM) is that tree models are inherently expensive compared to POJOs -- they are basically glorified HashMaps, with lots of pointers for convenient untyped traversal; especially regarding memory usage.


The new-to-El Paso restaurant features fondue in a variety of styles — cheese, broth, and chocolate — as well as expanded brunch and wine options.
Then you're in luck. The Melting Pot will open its first location in El Paso on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Fountains at Farah, 8889 Gateway Blvd West.
The restaurant specializes in fondue, which originated in Switzerland as bread on skewers dipped into a communal pot of melted cheese. The dish has expanded to include cooking meats in hot oils. placing bread in broth, and dousing fruit in melted chocolate.
The El Paso location, which opens at 11 a.m., will stand out even from other Melting Pots, because it will feature a broader selection of spirits, wine and cheese pairings, brunch options, and a variety of à la carte items.
It will look different than most other locations, as well. The Fountains at Farah location is only the second Melting Pot to feature "a new ambiance" based on "an inviting and modern, open design." The first Melting Pot with that design is in Red Bank, New Jersey.
The El Paso franchise is owned by Apex Franchise Management LLC, with Arturo R. Alluin as vice president.
The restaurant owners have owned and managed several restaurant concepts throughout Mexico, including La Baguette French Bakery, TCBY Frozen Yogurt and San Kai Sushi, according to a franchise industry publication, the Franchise Mall.
The Melting Pot operates more than 115 restaurants across 34 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and the Middle East. Additionally, there are more than 17 international locations in development.


People frequently ask me, "Where can I learn more about PowerShell?" Today's post will highlight popular video training options available directly from Microsoft.
Start here as a beginner. Meet Jeffrey Snover. Learn it straight from the source. Even though "3.0" is in the title, this content is completely relevant today.
Second day of PowerShell basics, continuation of the first link. Learn about functions and modules. Great stuff!
What's New in PowerShell v5 NEW!
Learn about the new features in PowerShell v5 from celebrities on the PowerShell team and PowerShell MVPs.
Free DSC training recorded midway through the WMF 5.0 release cycle.
Second day of DSC training recorded midway through the WMF 5.0 release cycle.
Practical training on PowerShell DSC resources from the experts.
One day of training I recorded to help everyone from beginner to advance learn how to script for Active Directory.
Great training from one of my PFE peers.
Another example of domain-specific PowerShell training on MVA.
Another avenue for free online PowerShell training is Channel9. Here you will find PowerShell video training from a number of sources and in a variety of languages in addition to English. This is a great place to find recorded sessions from TechEd and Ignite events.
For a while Microsoft offered a paid PowerShell class on edX. That course has been archived now, but you can look there for popular Microsoft technology courses. Many of these are free.
You have many choices for training these days, both online and in the classroom. Microsoft Virtual Academy titles usually move fast to cover a lot of content. These Premier titles will dive deeper and slow down the pace to help with learning. Customers prefer training from Microsoft PFEs, because they get knowledge that comes from real-world experience of engineers working with customers of all sizes.
Microsoft Premier customers can get full-length, quality PowerShell training directly from Microsoft via streaming video at your convenience.The video training is an add-on item for Premier contracts. Not all Premier customers may have purchased this option, but they can always add it.
As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer I teach many PowerShell workshops. Traditionally this has been classroom work, but over the last few years we have expanded our online offerings. We teach live remote workshops over Skype and use cloud-hosted labs. We also record training videos for you to stream on your schedule.
We call the online training videos Education as a Service and have given it the brand name Premier Workshop Library on Demand (WLOD). Check out a YouTube video explaining it here.
Find below the current list of PowerShell video workshops available for Premier customers through WLOD. The links below go directly to the courses once you are logged into the Premier Services portal.
Beginners start here. My buddy Gary and I will teach you all the essentials to start your journey as a PowerShell scripter. This is our most popular course of all Premier workshops!
Gary and I continue with deeper content on advanced functions, regular expressions, debugging, error handling, etc.
This course covers the new PowerShell features released since the recording of the Part 1 and Part 2 workshops. Find detailed training on the new features in PowerShell WMF 5.0.
Everyone is talking about it. Learn it here. Ben and I spent time with customers in the field doing DSC, and then we wrote this course for you to learn it.
Here I have only listed the PowerShell titles. Essentially all of our Premier workshop titles are available on video now, so PowerShell is only the tip of the iceberg.
We've received a great deal of positive feedback from customers who love this stuff.
Microsoft Premier customers with the WLOD subscription can access this offering; talk to your Premier Technical Account Manager (TAM) for more information and pricing. If you would like to become a Premier customer go here.
Log in with your Microsoft Account (Windows Live ID) that has been granted access to Workshop Library On-Demand. For questions contact your Premier TAM.
You will have access to watch hundreds of Microsoft Premier workshop titles.
The Premier Webcast – PowerShell Ramp-Up Series is a collection of webcasts created with the goal of teaching from basic to more advanced PowerShell skills. No prior knowledge is necessary.
This PowerShell Ramp-up Series offering allows developers and administrators to logon and view 16+ webcasts with a duration of approximately 2-hours each, which totals approximately 36 hours of PowerShell training. The content can be accessed anytime throughout the 3-month availability. Access starts on the first day of the first month and expires on the last day of the third month.
Sessions are delivered via on-demand streaming. In the recorded webcast, the instructor provides a combination of PowerPoint and demos in a rich and effective learning experience. Delivery time for each webcast is 90-120 minutes and the series contains a minimum of 16+ webcasts.
Contact your Microsoft Services Representative or TAM for more information and pricing.
What about non-Microsoft video training?
Of course YouTube is packed with other video options as well. I especially want to point out that you can find most of the PowerShell Summit presentations there. MVPs, Microsoft PowerShell team members, and other members of the community present fantastic topics that are usually 300-400 level at this annual event previously held in North America and Europe. You will see expert demos in these videos that you will find nowhere else.
There are many other video training options from MVPs and partners, ranging from free to paid. As a Microsoft employee I cannot endorse any one particular offering. However, I can tell you that many of the PowerShell MVPs record training for PluralSight. I have not watched any of that content, but I know many of these folks and trust them to do a great job.
One of my favorite resources for learning PowerShell prior to all of the video training options we have today has been the PowerScripting Podcast. This resource was created by two MVPs out of Atlanta, Jon and Hal. You can listen to interviews with many celebrities and MVPs in the world of PowerShell. They even have a chat room you can attend during the live podcast recordings to ask questions of the guests. I highly recommend this resource to customers as I deliver PowerShell training.
Surviving and thriving in the IT industry requires constant learning. PowerShell is a core skillset. Regardless of your current knowledge level of PowerShell, these resources will raise your game. Learn something new today!


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HomeUncategorizedGenital Herpes May Never Go Dormant
Genital Herpes May Never Go Dormant
Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Doctor in Herpes Treatment
Herpes, the sexually transmitted disease that causes genital lesions, never truly goes into a dormant state, new research suggests.
As a matter of fact, even when it's not causing an outbreak, the virus is shedding tiny bits of itself in the genital tract.
While the study did not specifically address whether or not the very small amounts of virus being continually shed are enough to infect someone else, the findings have the potential to change the way in which scientists view the life cycle of the disease.
The herpes virus is believed to hide out in the neurons around the spine during latent periods, then periodically travel down neurons that end in the genital tract, where it infects the skin cells, causing a lesion.
The accepted view is that the virus was largely inactive during latent periods, said study author Dr. Joshua Schiffer, a senior fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle.
"We've known for many years that herpes maintains a latent state in the nerves around the spinal cord. In effect, it hibernates there," Schiffer said. "The older idea was that it didn't do much while it was there … But what our model suggests is the virus is continually being released from the neurons."
The study appears in the Nov. 18 issue of Science Translational Medicine.
The study looked at herpes simplex 2 virus, not herpes simplex 1 virus, which causes cold sores or fever blisters, though it can also cause genital lesions. Schiffer said he suspected the findings would hold true for herpes simplex 1 as well, though previous studies suggest herpes simplex 1 may shed less often.
Schiffer and his colleagues used data from two previous studies. In the first, participants swabbed their genitals every day during an outbreak and until their lesions went away. In the second, patients swabbed their genitals four times a day for 60 days, even when they were asymptomatic.
The data was then put into a mathematical model to determine the probable rate of shedding. According to the study, 85 percent of shedding episodes were asymptomatic, or did not cause a lesion. About 60 percent lasted less than 12 hours.
About 45 million Americans, or one in five over the age of 12, are infected with the genital herpes virus in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many of them aren't aware they are infected because they've never had, or have never been aware of, their lesions. "Within their skin there is this constant battle going on within the virus and the immune system," Schiffer explained.
Typically, patients are counseled to avoid having sex during an outbreak and to use a condom to prevent transmission when they are not having symptoms.
Antiviral drugs available, including acyclovir, valacyclovir and famciclovir, can control many, but not all, outbreaks, Schiffer said.
Nancy Sawtell, a researcher in the division of infectious diseases at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said the study opens up new avenues for research. But it's too soon to suggest that low levels of viral DNA necessarily mean a person can still infect another.
She noted that the researchers tested for viral DNA, which is only a portion of the virus and doesn't in and of itself mean a person is infectious. "The presence of viral DNA does mean you are infected, but it doesn't necessarily mean you have an infectious particle there," Sawtell said.
Secondly, because the neurons themselves were not examined, it's possible the viral DNA that's present could have originated from somewhere else in the body. Previous animal studies have shown herpes does indeed go into an inactive state.
"It would be really nice to be able to look at the neurons in this human model to determine that the virus is coming from the spine, and wasn't just present in the genitalia and missed by an earlier swab," Sawtell said.
Couples trying to avoid infecting one partner should continue to take the same precautions they did prior to the study, including using condoms even when asymptomatic.
"I wouldn't panic over it," Sawtell said. "We have a lot to learn about how infectious these low levels of viral DNA actually are."
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Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution
Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution is a movie starring Kai Newkirk, Bernie Sanders, and Sabrina Shrader. At the crossroads of the 2016 presidential race and the fight for civil rights, economic fairness,...
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"Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Making of a Political Revolution" is the story of the attempt to build a 21st century progressive movement in the United States. Five remarkable individuals wrestle with persistent racial injustice, growing economic inequality, and the corrupting influence of money in politics against the backdrop of an extraordinary 2016 presidential race. From the presidential campaign trail with Senator Bernie Sanders to a local race in the failing economy of rural West Virginia, from a mass sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps to racially charged police commission hearings in Los Angeles, Waking the Sleeping Giant makes sense of this moment in American politics, probing widespread discontent during the 2016 election cycle, Donald Trump's dramatic electoral victory, and the challenges ahead for those building a re-energized progressive movement.
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IPL 2017 MI vs KKR Qualifier 2. Will KKR finally trump Mumbai?
Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Mumbai Indians at M Chinnaswamy stadium
Kolkata won the Qualifier 1 against Sunrisers Hyderabad to enter the final qualifier
Mumbai lost its previous match against Rising Pune Supergiants and has one last chance to enter the finals if they win this match
Kolkata Knight Riders are all geared up to take on Mumbai Indians and M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru today, May 19. Who will have an advantage in the match?
Mumbai has won 15 out of 20 head-to-head matches against Gautam Gambhir's side. Even in IPL 2017, Kolkata lost both games that it played against Mumbai in the group stages. The second defeat resulted in Kolkata Knight Riders losing its spot in the top two teams going into the playoffs.
Mumbai had a good start in the tournament and have consistently been one of the top four teams this season. The same can be said about Kolkata Knight Riders where players rose to the occasion whenever demanded.
However, the threat of rain looms large over the teams. As per weather reports at the Chinnaswamy Stadium rain accompanied with thunderstorms are expected in the night around 9 pm in Bangalore.
The M Chinnaswamy stadium's pitch has become more favourable for bowlers this year. The highest score this year was 160 as compared to 248 last year with an average first innings score of 155. Four times out of seven the chasing team has won this year. On Wednesday, spinners kept the batsmen in check in the first innings before the rain came down. Mumbai will bring back Harbhajan Singh, who has picked up seven wickets in the middle overs, the most among Mumbai bowlers.
The middle order of Kolkata has been weakened by the departure of Manish Pandey. The Kolkata batsmen need to play a more steady game, Robin Uthappa in particular, for them to make an impact. Many experts were unhappy with the outcome of Wednesday's game, claiming the decision to weigh heavily on KKR's side.
Although KKR will come into the match with the satisfaction of having won their last game, they need to use the bowlers to their advantage against a Mumbai side looking for revenge for having lost their previous match.
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