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Junior Girls Prize-Giving 2017
At the Claires Court Junior Girls Prize Giving Ceremony on Thursday 13 July, the pupils were delighted to welcome Dame Katherine Grainger as their guest of honour.
After performances by each of the year groups, the most decorated GB female Olympian gave an inspirational speech to the girls. She spoke of the importance of challenging themselves and setting goals, and believing that they can achieve. Dame Katherine encouraged the girls to take every opportunity and told them that school is all about opportunities, she said, "You must try everything so you can find out for yourself something you are good at." Dame Katherine then showed the audience her huge London Olympic Gold Medal and told of how it wasn't until she was 17 and at university that she had the chance to try rowing.
Leanne Barlow, Head of Junior Girls, parents and pupils enthused about her speech when they met for drinks on the lawn. They were delighted when Dame Katherine joined the Year 6 Girls as they released their balloons, tagged with their hopes and dreams for the future. So engaged with the pupils, the guest of honour wrote her own message on her reserved seat place card, which may well have now have landed in a Maidenhead garden. The School would love to hear if anyone finds it.
Miss Barlow said, "Today was incredibly inspirational. Katherine's words will echo in the ears of the girls for many years. Katherine spoke about her journey to the Gold Medal and wow what a journey. Her words matched the theme which ran through our prize giving this afternoon: opportunities, opportunities, opportunities! Our girls are outstanding in every way and today we celebrated them and their achievements of the year."
At the end of an unforgettable day, Dame Katherine spent time signing books and programmes and said, 'This was a fabulous occasion, I loved every minute. The girls are far more talented and able than me. I felt very inspired myself."
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package org.apache.druid.msq.indexing;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.google.inject.Injector;
import com.google.inject.Key;
import org.apache.druid.client.coordinator.CoordinatorClient;
import org.apache.druid.guice.annotations.Self;
import org.apache.druid.indexing.common.TaskReport;
import org.apache.druid.indexing.common.TaskToolbox;
import org.apache.druid.indexing.common.actions.TaskActionClient;
import org.apache.druid.java.util.common.io.Closer;
import org.apache.druid.msq.exec.Controller;
import org.apache.druid.msq.exec.ControllerContext;
import org.apache.druid.msq.exec.WorkerClient;
import org.apache.druid.msq.exec.WorkerManagerClient;
import org.apache.druid.rpc.ServiceClientFactory;
import org.apache.druid.rpc.indexing.OverlordClient;
import org.apache.druid.segment.realtime.firehose.ChatHandler;
import org.apache.druid.server.DruidNode;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Implementation for {@link ControllerContext} required to run multi-stage queries as indexing tasks.
 */
public class IndexerControllerContext implements ControllerContext
{
  private final TaskToolbox toolbox;
  private final Injector injector;
  private final ServiceClientFactory clientFactory;
  private final OverlordClient overlordClient;
  private final WorkerManagerClient workerManager;

  public IndexerControllerContext(
      final TaskToolbox toolbox,
      final Injector injector,
      final ServiceClientFactory clientFactory,
      final OverlordClient overlordClient
  )
  {
    this.toolbox = toolbox;
    this.injector = injector;
    this.clientFactory = clientFactory;
    this.overlordClient = overlordClient;
    this.workerManager = new IndexerWorkerManagerClient(overlordClient);
  }

  @Override
  public ObjectMapper jsonMapper()
  {
    return toolbox.getJsonMapper();
  }

  @Override
  public Injector injector()
  {
    return injector;
  }

  @Override
  public DruidNode selfNode()
  {
    return injector.getInstance(Key.get(DruidNode.class, Self.class));
  }

  @Override
  public CoordinatorClient coordinatorClient()
  {
    return toolbox.getCoordinatorClient();
  }

  @Override
  public TaskActionClient taskActionClient()
  {
    return toolbox.getTaskActionClient();
  }

  @Override
  public WorkerClient taskClientFor(Controller controller)
  {
    // Ignore controller parameter.
    return new IndexerWorkerClient(clientFactory, overlordClient, jsonMapper());
  }

  @Override
  public void registerController(Controller controller, final Closer closer)
  {
    ChatHandler chatHandler = new ControllerChatHandler(toolbox, controller);
    toolbox.getChatHandlerProvider().register(controller.id(), chatHandler, false);
    closer.register(() -> toolbox.getChatHandlerProvider().unregister(controller.id()));
  }

  @Override
  public WorkerManagerClient workerManager()
  {
    return workerManager;
  }

  @Override
  public void writeReports(String controllerTaskId, Map<String, TaskReport> reports)
  {
    toolbox.getTaskReportFileWriter().write(controllerTaskId, reports);
  }
}

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« Welsh paperwork rejected by bank in Wales
No Welsh please, we're Great Western Railway »
LibreOffice 5.4.2 released
Yesterday The Document Foundation (TDF) announced the release of LibreOffice 5.4.2, the second minor release of the LibreOffice 5.4 family. LibreOffice 5.4.2 continues to represent the bleeding edge in terms of features and as such is targeted at technology enthusiasts and early adopters.
TDF suggests that more conservative users and businesses deploy LibreOffice 5.3.6 with the support of certified professionals.
LibreOffice 5.4.2 includes approximately 100 bug and regression fixes. Technical details about the release can be found in the RC1 (release candidate) and RC2 change logs.
Download LibreOffice
LibreOffice 5.4.2 is available for download for all major platforms (Linux, MacOS and Windows).
Donate to LibreOffice
LibreOffice users, free software advocates and community members are invited to support the work of The Document Foundation with a donation. Donations help TDF to maintain its infrastructure, share knowledge, and organise events such as the LibreOffice Conference, with the next one taking place next week in Rome.
LibreOffice wins survey amongst Ubuntu users
LibreOffice was the runaway winner in a survey of Ubuntu Linux users for desktop productivity software with 85.52% of the votes. The closest competitors were Google Docs with 4.29%, WPS Office with 3.22% and Apache OpenOffice with 1.96%, while all other office suites accounted for less than 1% responses.
"Even with Windows shipping Ubuntu/Bash on their desktop, even with Google shipping Chromebooks with Linux+Chrome pre-installed, even with Mac OS running away with a premium segment of the desktop market, even with Android phones and tablets, there are many tens of millions of passionate Ubuntu desktop users who are eager to have their voices heard! And LibreOffice continues to be THE enabler of local office productivity on the Ubuntu Desktop," says Dustin Kirkland, Vice-President of Product Development for Ubuntu at Canonical.
The results of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Default Desktop Applications Survey were presented by Dustin Kirkland at the UbuCon Europe conference in Paris in September.
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Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming
Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears
By Hudson Institute
Earth Times 13 September 2007
Theme: Environment
In-depth Report: Climate Change
The following report emanates from the Hudson Insitute, which is supported by big business including the oil companies.
The suppression of this research on Global Warming, however, is nonetheless corroborated. And consequently we felt that it was important to bring this article to the attention of our readers. For further details, see our dossier on Climate Change
Moreover, there is evidence that big business is also supporting the Global Warming Consensus, which serves broad geopolitical interests.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. "This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850," said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.
Other researchers found evidence that 3) sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4) that our storms and droughts are becoming fewer and milder with this warming as they did during previous global warmings; 5) that human deaths will be reduced with warming because cold kills twice as many people as heat; and 6) that corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate.
Despite being published in such journals such as Science, Nature and Geophysical Review Letters, these scientists have gotten little media attention. "Not all of these researchers would describe themselves as global warming skeptics," said Avery, "but the evidence in their studies is there for all to see."
The names were compiled by Avery and climate physicist S. Fred Singer, the co-authors of the new book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, mainly from the peer-reviewed studies cited in their book. The researchers' specialties include tree rings, sea levels, stalagmites, lichens, pollen, plankton, insects, public health, Chinese history and astrophysics.
"We have had a Greenhouse Theory with no evidence to support it-except a moderate warming turned into a scare by computer models whose results have never been verified with real-world events," said co-author Singer. "On the other hand, we have compelling evidence of a real-world climate cycle averaging 1470 years (plus or minus 500) running through the last million years of history. The climate cycle has above all been moderate, and the trees, bears, birds, and humans have quietly adapted."
"Two thousand years of published human histories say that the warm periods were good for people," says Avery. "It was the harsh, unstable Dark Ages and Little Ice Age that brought bigger storms, untimely frost, widespread famine and plagues of disease." "There may have been a consensus of guesses among climate model-builders," says Singer. "However, the models only reflect the warming, not its cause." He noted that about 70 percent of the earth's post-1850 warming came before 1940, and thus was probably not caused by human-emitted greenhouse gases. The net post-1940 warming totals only a tiny 0.2 degrees C.
The historic evidence of the natural cycle includes the 5000-year record of Nile floods, 1st-century Roman wine production in Britain, and thousands of museum paintings that portrayed sunnier skies during the Medieval Warming and more cloudiness during the Little Ice Age. The physical evidence comes from oxygen isotopes, beryllium ions, tiny sea and pollen fossils, and ancient tree rings. The evidence recovered from ice cores, sea and lake sediments, cave stalagmites and glaciers has been analyzed by electron microscopes, satellites, and computers. Temperatures during the Medieval Warming Period on California's Whitewing Mountain must have been 3.2 degrees warmer than today, says Constance Millar of the U.S. Forest Service, based on her study of seven species of relict trees that grew above today's tree line.
Singer emphasized, "Humans have known since the invention of the telescope that the earth's climate variations were linked to the sunspot cycle, but we had not understood how. Recent experiments have demonstrated that more or fewer cosmic rays hitting the earth create more or fewer of the low, cooling clouds that deflect solar heat back into space-amplifying small variations in the intensity of the sun.
Avery and Singer noted that there are hundreds of additional peer-reviewed studies that have found cycle evidence, and that they will publish additional researchers' names and studies. They also noted that their book was funded by Wallace O. Sellers, a Hudson board member, without any corporate contributions.
The original source of this article is Earth Times
Copyright © Hudson Institute, Earth Times, 2007
Articles by: Hudson Institute


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SpectRx Fluorescence Technology
SpectRx, Inc. is developing a non-invasive test to screen for diabetes by measuring the intensity of fluorescence and scattering in the lens of the eye. Eye measurements are performed through an undilated pupil with the assistance of a pupil tracking system.
The SpectRx diabetes screening test is designed to be painless, provide easy access, equivalent accuracy, take approximately 20 seconds and will not require that the person be fasting. It is designed as a desktop system for use in medical settings to provide high quality results at costs below conventional screening methods. The technology has been licensed to (Boehringer Mannheim Corporation BMC) which is now owned by Roche. SpectRx estimates there are 50 million undiagnosed people with diabetes worldwide.
SpectRX is also developing the Altea MicroPor(TM) Laser which creates microscopic pores in the stratum corneum, the outermost layer of skin. This painless proceedure opens paths for interstitial fluid (ISF) to cross the outer skin barrier. Glucose can then by measured in the ISF that is collected in an external patch on the skin which contains a glucose sensor.
The laser device uses a low-cost, low-energy laser with a self-regulating feature to insure no damage occurs to viable tissues beyond the outer layer of dead skin cells. Being on the skins surface, the sensor aviods accuracy complications related to implanted sensors below the skin. Correlation between the ISF measured by this device and blood glucose measured with a commercial analyzer, over a three day period, was best on the first day at 0.95 gradually declining to 0.91 on day three. This device could also be rapidly adapted to Kumetrix's microneedle technology.
Research by SpectRx shows a direct correlation between glucose in the ISF and in blood, and that glucose in pure ISF can be measured with existing, off-the-shelf glucose test strip technology. The SpectRx personal glucose monitoring technology has been licensed to Abbott Laboratories, the world's leading in-vitro diagnostic company. Abbott appears to be satisfied with progress as they continue to increase research and development funding in SpectRx.
Data on SpectRx's meter correlates closely with current meters. SpectRx reports a correlation coefficient of 0.90 in the 60-400 mg/dl glucose range. The clinical results were from 280 comparisons involving 20 different people with diabetes. SpectRx's device is currently calibrated from a standard meter, but the company is attempting to bypass this need for calibration entirely.


What is it about our fascination with psychopathy? In comparison to the 'norm,' psychopaths are extremely compelling. Think Heath Ledger as the Joker seducing audiences in The Dark Knight, Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho or Rosamund Pike's Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. They are undeniably intriguing, but we don't usually want to be one. Would you honestly be happy with comparisons to Amy Dunne, even if you secretly admire aspects of her bold decisiveness and fearless ability to think on her feet?
There's no condoning antisocial behaviour that results from psychopathic thinking. However, we sometimes lack objectivity in our analysis of their characteristics. An association with psychopathy questions the validity of our own sanity and it's this cognitive dissonance that leaves us with a skewed or incomplete perspective. There are always two sides to every coin.
If a broken clock is right twice a day, psychopaths can't always be wrong, can they? Most of the time they are depicted as the stereotypical knife-wielding maniac. Leading psychologist Dr Robert Hare's renowned 'psychopathy test' highlights 20 points identifying commonality among the traits in much detail. However, what would these people look like if such characteristics were channelled in a positive light? You may be surprised to know they'd probably be a company CEO, a successful lawyer or even a self-made millionaire.
Board and Fritzon (2005) found that business CEOs – the very people you may aspire to be one day – actually possess more psychopathic attributes, including superficial charm, lack of empathy, persuasiveness, focus, independence and egocentricity, compared to 'so-called disturbed criminals' – they just refrain from criminal behaviour. However, we generate a much kinder pseudonym for their traits because of their positive positions. Superficial charm can be read as charismatic; manipulative behaviour can be seen as having the ability to influence; lacking emotion is interpreted as making hard decisions; and reduced stress as increased confidence. Successful achievements, then, are seen as the consequence of reaping the positive side of the coin. Do you possess any of these attributes? The chances are, you have probably exhibited some psychopathic thinking or unearthed a trait or two of your own.
The trick is to be able to harness these responses in a controlled manner. Possessing psychopathic traits doesn't mean you are the next case study for a Hollywood blockbuster. Far from it. So don't judge your boss or even yourself too harshly. However, you must recognise the attributes first, then practise a controlled application of specific traits. The successful result is likely to be positive enhancements to aspects of your decision-making and behaviour. Think of the lead detective who catches the antagonist at the end of the movie because he adapted to think like the psychopath… in a controlled manner.
There are three main characteristics that can be borrowed to positive effect. The first is the ability to 'exhibit reduced fear'. Many of us are crippled by fear, especially the fear of failure. Mastery of this could be useful in many situations, such as job interviews or taking opportunities that present themselves. So don't run, face your fears.
The second is the ability to 'detach from emotion'. This doesn't mean become heartless. We know emotions impede rational decision-making. The lesson is to practise not diving into decisions. Take a moment to think whether this something is right, as opposed to feeling right.
So in short, some traits that see psychopaths detach from people and their environments can be beneficial if used productively. It's good not to be at the mercy of your emotions. In professional settings, for example, reduced fear is likely to manage stress and understanding the processes of manipulation may minimise being manipulated yourself.
Successful people often already possess some 'psychopathic characteristics'. Raise your awareness of them to assist the development of your healthy mind, but remember, everything in moderation; you don't want to dance too close to the edge!
Martyn Stewart is a chartered psychologist and relationship coach, and is Head of Psychology at Doha College. He is also a published author and public speaker. Get in touch on Twitter via @martynpsych or @findasolutionuk, email info@relationship-solutions.co.uk. www.relationship-solutions.co.uk.


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What is L10 Life?
Author: Frank C Uherek
Categories: Bearings Gear
average bearing life
basic rating life of a bearing
bearing life expectancy
bearing rating life calculation
L10 life definition
L10 life of bearing
Bearings are a simple, but integral component in any industrial application. The premature failure of a bearing can mean costly unplanned downtime that could have been prevented using the proper predictive measures. When specifying the average lifespan of a bearing, I suggest using the American Bearing Manufacturers Association's (ABMA) preferred method, calculating for L10 life.
In the simplest terms, L10 life is calculating, with 90% reliability, how many hours a bearing will last under a given load and speed. There is a 10% probability that at the applied load and speed, 10% of a population of identical bearings would suffer a fatigue failure, typically pitting on the raceway of the bearing.. Note that this does not address failures caused by other conditions such as contamination, wear, misalignment, and improper lubrication. Average life, sometimes called Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), is about five times the calculated L10 life. If there is a significant difference in bearing lives between drives, a different reliability basis may have been used. Another cause of bearing life differences is the use of adjusted, or advanced, life calculation procedures based on ISO 281 or a bearing manufacturer's in-house calculation methods. These methods take into account oil viscosity, oil temperature and the contamination level in the oil during service. To achieve these calculated lives, it requires the end user to maintain oil quality and contamination to a specified level. This may require continuous oil filtration or frequent oil changes with new filtered oil to maintain the conditions specified by the calculations. When bearing life is quoted, it is important to understand what assumptions are made to arrive at that value.
The equation for L10 Life
The equation for L10 life can be seen above, where speed is the shaft speed in RPM, Dynamic Capacity is the C value obtained from bearing manufactures catalogs, Equivalent radial load is the applied load that the bearing sees as a function of actual radial and axial loading as well as bearing geometry. For an advanced L10 bearing life calculation, multiply the result by aISO. By completing this equation, you should be able to calculate, with relative certainty, how many hours 10% of bearings will have failed under the calculated load. As the equation is theoretical, it cannot account for variables such as improper installation and maintenance, but it is a good way to determine an expected lifespan based on your specific application.
For more information on Rexnord Bearings such as installation manuals, videos and product specifications, click here.
Frank C Uherek
Frank has been a Principal Engineer for the Rexnord Gear Group for over 10 years. Before his tenure at Rexnord, he spent time at Regal Beloit, Flender Corporation and Winergy Drive Systems Corporation. In addition to his responsibilities at Rexnord, Frank is an active committee chair on both AGMA and ISO rating committees. Frank holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration in Production and Accounting from the Illinois Institute of Technology.


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The SEIU Local 284 democratic process to elect a 2nd Vice President ( 3 year term), Trustee ( 3 year term), Member at Large ( 3 year term), and Senior Member is about to begin. An Election Committee will oversee the election.
**Please see below for Duties of Officers.
Nominations will be accepted at the February 25, 2023 Leadership Assembly during the General Membership Union Meeting. Any nominee who is unopposed shall be deemed elected without the necessity for further procedures. If there is more than one nominee, election shall be by secret mail ballot.
Election Schedule:
February 25, 2023 - Nominations accepted at General Membership meeting of SEIU Local 284. If no contested all officers will be sworn in and no further action is needed.
February 27, 2023 at 4:00 P.M. - Candidate Profiles due for any contested seats
March 6, 2023 - Ballot's mailed to all Members **Only if any seats are contested
March 22, 2023 at 3:00 P.M. - All ballots returned by U.S. MAIL and received by the Bureau of Mediation Services will be picked up **Only if any seats are contested
March 22, 2023 at 4:00 P.M. - All ballots will be opened and tallied at SEIU Local 284, 450 Southview Blvd, So St Paul, MN 55075 **Only if any seats are contested
March 23, 2023 at 6:00 P.M. - General Membership Meeting, Announcement of elected officers and swearing in. **Only if any seats are contested
SEIU Local 284 Officer Nominations
Contact Nadine Wikstrom, Director of Operations @ nadinew@local284.com for information and forms needed to nominate and candidate profile form.
Article V, Section 2-Any nominee who is unopposed shall be deemed elected without the necessity for further procedures.
Article V, Section 5- No member shall be eligible for nomination or election to the office of Trustee or Member-At-Large unless the member is actively employed under a collective bargaining agreement in Local 284's jurisdiction at the time of the election. Any member may be nominated and elected to the office of Executive Director, President, Vice President and/or Sergeant-At-Arms. No member shall be eligible for nomination or election to the office of Senior Member unless the member is 55 years of age or older, or retired from active employment in this Local Union's jurisdiction. No more than three of these five named positions shall be members who are employed by this Local Union. No member shall be eligible for nomination or election as an officer in this Local Union unless he or she has been a member two (2) years immediately preceding the nomination and continuously in good standing of this Local Union and is paying at least the minimum dues required for working members.
ARTICLE VII – Duties of Officers
Section 1 Executive Director The Executive Director shall be the chief officer of this Local Union and shall advise, direct, guide and effectuate programs to meet the needs of this Local Union. The Executive Director shall be elected for a term of three (3) years pursuant to Article V, Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Executive Director to hire personnel. If it should become necessary to terminate personnel of the union, the Executive Director shall have that authority also, subject to terms and conditions of the staff Collective Bargaining Agreement and approval by the Executive Board. The Executive Director shall designate staff to negotiate all contracts and agreements in conjunction with the elected steward(s) and elected negotiating committee subject to the mandate of the membership, and to sign them on behalf of this Local Union. The Executive Director shall see that all grievances when submitted are handled prudently and shall keep a correct record of all communications and contracts for the benefit of this Local Union. In the absence of a steward at any unit meeting, the Executive Director or designated staff person will conduct the meeting according to the rules. The Executive Director shall also preside at general meetings in absence of both the President and Vice Presidents.
The Executive Director shall be empowered to arrange for legislative assistance. The Executive Director and such members of the Executive Board, the membership and/or staff as the Executive Director may designate shall be authorized to travel and to attend such meetings and seminars as the Executive Director determines to be for the benefit of the Local Union and its affiliated members and the Local Union shall pay the expense incurred therefore.
The Executive Director shall be responsible for all financial records and transactions. The Executive Director shall collect all dues and other revenues of this Local Union and, upon request, issue official receipts for same, and notify all suspended members two (2) months in arrears of the amount of their indebtedness. It shall be the duty of the Executive Director to announce receipts and disbursements at each meeting; the Executive Director shall deposit all monies in a financial institution recommended by the Trustees; keep a correct record of all dues, payments, and all other money received and expended; submit financial statements quarterly at the membership meeting of this Local Union, pay all bills ordered by the Local Union; the Executive Director shall submit all books and receipts to the Trustees for their audit and approval when called upon to do so, and at the expiration of the Executive Director's official term of office shall turn over to the successor all monies and property of the Local Union that may be in the Executive Director 's possession. All funds shall be deposited in a financial institution in the name of the Local Union, and all checks must be signed by the Executive Director and countersigned by one other person as designated by the Executive Board. The Executive Director shall keep all membership records and application cards and a record of all members admitted by initiation or otherwise, as well as rejections and suspended or expelled members. The Executive Director shall send to the International Union an accurate record of all dues, payments, and other revenue and shall forward to the Secretary Treasurer of the International Union the correct names and addresses with proper ZIP codes and member identification number of all members initiated or readmitted, and of all other persons from whom revenue is derived, as well as those suspended for non payment of dues or for any other cause; also a correct list of those who take a transfer or withdrawal card. The Executive Director shall promptly forward to the International Secretary Treasurer copies of all annual audit reports and copies of all financial reports setting forth a statement of liabilities and a statement of receipts and disbursements which are required by law. It shall be the duty of the Executive Director to serve as a delegate to appropriate assemblies as required. The names and addresses and member identification number (including e-mail address and phone number, if available) of all members should also be sent to the State Council with which this Local Union is affiliated.
Section 2 President - The President shall be elected for a term of three (3) years pursuant to Article V, Section 1. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of this Local Union and conduct same in accordance with Parliamentary Rule and in conformity with this Constitution and Bylaws and the Constitution and Bylaws of the International Union; to execute the laws and order thereof; to vote on all questions where it is necessary, to appoint all committees unless otherwise provided for, of which committees the President shall be ex officio a member. The President shall, when authorized by the Local Union, have the full power and authority to sign all contracts and agreements or any other documents for or in behalf of the Local Union. It shall be the duty of the President to serve as a delegate to appropriate assemblies as required.
Section 3. Vice Presidents - The Vice Presidents shall be elected for a term of three (3) years pursuant to Article V, Section 1. There shall be two (2) Vice Presidents. The First Vice President shall be a member of the Executive Board and perform the duties of the President in the absence of that Officer. The First Vice President shall also be responsible for providing notification to the Secretary Treasurer of the International Union of the names and addresses, with proper ZIP codes, of all Officers elected to office within fifteen (15) days after the election. The Second Vice President shall be a member of the Executive Board and perform the duties of the First Vice President in the absence of that Officer. It shall also be the duty of the Second Vice President to keep a record of all proceedings of the Executive Board and General Membership, including minutes of all meetings, and keep a record of all Executive Board members present at each meeting of the Executive Board and General Membership. It shall be the duty of the Vice Presidents to serve as delegates to appropriate assemblies as required
Section 4. Trustees - Three (3) Trustees shall be elected for a term of three (3) years, with a Trustee elected each year pursuant to Article V, Section 1. The Trustees shall see to it that all funds are placed in a proper financial institution in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and Bylaws. It shall be the duty of the Trustees to conduct a quarterly audit of the Local Union. It shall be the further duty of the Trustees to supervise all funds, bonds, properties, securities and investments of this Local Union, subject to the instructions from this Local Union; to inform the financial institution officials as to the proper signatures on checks issued by the Local Union. They shall prepare and execute the bonds of the Officers with a licensed surety company. It shall be their duty to recommend such measures as will safeguard the funds of this Local Union. It shall be the duty of the Trustees to serve as delegates to appropriate assemblies as required.
Section 5 Sergeant At Arms - The Sergeant At Arms shall be elected for a term of three (3) years pursuant to Article V, Section 1. The Sergeant At Arms shall attend the door and register all members attending the meeting of the Local Union, assist the President when called upon in preserving order, and perform such duties as may pertain to the Sergeant At Arms office or which the Local Union or the President may direct; allow no person to enter who is not a member in good standing or to retire from the meeting without permission from the Vice President. It shall be the duty of the Sergeant At Arms to serve as a delegate to appropriate assemblies as required.
Section 6. Members At Large - Five (5) Members At Large shall be elected for a term of three (3) years, with at least one (1) Member At Large elected each year pursuant to Article V, Section 1. The Members At Large shall be members of the Executive Board and shall serve as delegates to appropriate assemblies as required.
Section 7 Senior Member - The Senior Member shall be elected for a term of three (3) years pursuant to Article V, Section 1. The Senior Member shall be a member of the Executive Board, is the Chair of the Senior Member Committee and shall serve as a delegate to appropriate assemblies as required.
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Which Cloud Platform Is Right for Me?
What are the different cloud platforms available to MSPs, and how do they compare in terms of security, scalability and cost-efficiency? Keep reading!
Cloud computing is a computing model where data is stored on remote servers accessed from the Internet. This remote computing platform is known as a cloud. When users access this cloud, computing resources such as processing power, information and storage are handled offsite at data centers that a user's local machine or device connects to. These data centers are often massive in size and scale, with an infrastructure capable of offering computing resources far beyond those that can be achieved on a local machine for a comparable price. And instead of having to build a costly and extensive on-premises, hardware-based storage solution, organizations can merely pay for the amount of cloud storage they need and just pay a flat monthly fee. This flexibility in pricing and storage space is a major incentive for many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to move to the cloud.
From the cloud provider's perspective, there is no cap on the size of cloud storage, allowing it to scale indefinitely—provided storage capacity hardware is available. In lieu of adding space, data can also be moved, replicated and stored across multiples zones, allowing for greater protection against data loss in a way that could not be achieved with physical storage.
Cloud computing platforms can differ greatly; the most common implementations are public and private clouds, all of which will be discussed further in this article. Regardless of which cloud is being used, the key advantages include simplified scalability, near-instant provisioning, virtualized processing resources and speedy server base expansion.
While cloud computing does have staggering advantages that are evolving the ways we interact with data, there are some tradeoffs as well. At the present time, low-latency connections via cloud-based platforms are not comparable to on-premises systems; however, the need for low-latency is niche and typically not a factor in adoption decisions. Another thing to consider is that pricing, terms of service and security standards are not standardized across all companies, so the consumer must be meticulous in their decision-making process to ensure their cloud provider meets their needs.
The Cloud—A type of computing that is not done locally on your desktop computer, servers, or small devices (phones, tablets, etc.).
Public Cloud—A multi-tenant cloud computing platform delivered by a service provider; makes applications, storage and other resources available to the general public over the Internet.
Private Cloud—A single-tenant, configurable cloud platform, typically maintained in-house, where hardware, storage and network resources are reserved for a single organization.
On-Premises Storage—A non-cloud computing environment that runs on computers on the physical location of the person or organization using that software.
Hybrid—A computing environment that uses both on-prem and cloud platforms.
Virtualization—More specifically, hardware virtualization, refers to the process of interacting with a host computer using another desktop computer or a mobile device by means of a network connection, such as through the Internet. Host computers are typically server computers, capable of hosting multiple independent virtual machines simultaneously for multiple users. Virtualization can take many forms, including memory virtualization, storage virtualization, data virtualization and much more.
Latency—The time it takes for electronic information to physically travel between two or more locations. All electric connections experience some form of latency, from the smallest nanocircuits to the largest bandwidth data networks.
Encryption—A complex algorithm that's used to encode data for the purpose of privacy, security, and compliance concerns. To decode the encrypted files, a user needs the encryption key, and to crack encrypted data requires massive computer processing power.
Authentication Processes—Requirements in a network for a user to create a username and password. Multi-factor authentication is becoming more popular to reduce exposure to account compromise, by necessitating another level of authorization via a code sent to an additional device tied to that user.
Learn how to introduce your clients to the advantages of cloud computing and security.
Public clouds are based on the standard cloud computing model, where a service provider makes applications, storage and other resources available to the general public over the Internet. They are considered multi-tenant computing environments, meaning that the user purchases a "server slice" in an environment shared with other users (also known as clients or tenants). This environment is often geographically spread far and wide, allowing for multiple redundancy points for user data, promoting a secure and stable environment for business continuity.
Public cloud services are either offered free of charge or on a pay-per-usage pricing model. They are typically inexpensive for the end user and easy to set up, because all hardware, bandwidth and development costs are paid for and maintained by the provider. Pricing is predictable, because users only pay for what they use, typically by the hour for computing resources used. And, as with all cloud platforms, public clouds are readily scalable, allowing for the spinning up and tearing down of virtualized computing resources as demanded by end-user need.
Currently, the largest public clouds are owned by technology giants such as Amazon, Google and IBM, and because of their sheer scale, private cloud platforms just cannot compete on price and resources, not to mention their spend on stability, security and development into advancing technology. These providers have top security experts in their employ, and consider security to be a core component of their cloud platform. Despite the open connotations of its name, the public cloud is anything but unsecure.
For MSPs, a public cloud can help them provide a more flexible pricing model because it is a cost-effective solution for their needs. Effectively, the MSP has the manpower, resources and storage of the public cloud vendor they choose to deploy.
It's important to remember that despite skepticism in the media, many compliance requirements no longer require a private cloud. In fact, the largest public cloud providers are leading in terms of healthcare and financial cloud adoption, assuring compliance regulations and security are maintained for these respective verticals to the highest degree.
A private cloud is a model of cloud computing that has IT services available over an IT infrastructure entirely dedicated for the sole use of one organization. Private clouds are typically managed by an organization's internal team. Instead of a server slice, they are single-tenant environments, and all resources are dedicated and available to the organization that owns that cloud. This is achieved by implementing in-house storage servers accessed via cloud computing technology running on infrastructure within an internal data center. Private clouds offer similar scalability as public clouds, however the costs for infrastructure must be factored in. Additionally, a private cloud can be configured to maximize performance in-house as well. Private clouds can often use older technology than public cloud; technology that, once in place, is not as frequently updated.
Privacy, security and compliance mandates are main drivers of private clouds, because many companies believe these can be configured and maintained in-house at a more secure level than a public cloud. However this adherence comes at a price as well, and significant resources, development, and labor must be invested to keep a private cloud on par and/or more secure than the current public cloud landscape. Despite these factors, many internal and external compliance controls across the healthcare, financial, and retail industries demand private clouds for data storage.
Instead of using resources at a server farm or in the cloud, on-premises software, often abbreviated as "on-prem," is a computing environment that is installed and runs on computers on the physical location of the person or organization using that software.
On-premises platforms are well established, well understood, and very costly, but they are fast. If you are looking for video editing or transaction processing applications, the fastest speed will be through some version of an on-premises appliance, because they are able to shift vast amounts of data in a short amount of time, given the low-latency connection. Additionally, certain security regulations, particularly in Europe, may require organizations to keep their data in-house for the present time, which would necessitate on-prem platforms. However, regulations involving the cloud are changing rapidly, and in short time this may not be the case. On-premises typically have substantial costs upfront, and require additional expenses to maintain over time. The total cost of ownership, including software licenses, ongoing annual hardware and software maintenance, electricity bills and labor to manage the system can be exorbitant, and these systems can become outdated quickly, depreciating over time. As such, the resources, security and functionality of an on-prem system can lag far behind that of a cloud platform if proper funding, expertise and personnel are not secured.
Some organizations use a hybrid approach to platforms, utilizing on-prem and cloud solutions to achieve distinct goals. For example, active and private data may be kept on location, while inactive and older data will be moved to the cloud, where cheaper, more expansive storage is available.
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Kunlun Red Star's Cory Kane controls the puck during the Kontinental Hockey League ice hockey match between Kunlun Red Star Beijing and Avangard Omsk in Mytishchi, outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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Note: Beijing Great wall tour is a must to see if you come to Beijing! You will enjoy the splendid scenery in Badaling Great Wall tour!
Beijing Great wall tour is a must to see if you come to Beijing! You will enjoy the splendid scenery in Badaling Great Wall tour!
Visit Badaling Great Wall and you will enjoy one day here. After visit, transfer back to Beijing airport.
Badaling Great Wall: Badaling is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of urban Beijing city in Yanqing County. Badaling Great Wall was the earliest part of the great Wall opened to tourists. It has attracted more than tens of millions of tourists both from home and other countries. More than 370 foreign leaders and celebrities have visited there.
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On September 26, 2015 By Gordon In Weekend Reading
Reading time: 5 mins
Back from my holiday, so a bumper edition for you! Ohhh and if anyone has any good sources for interesting articles (newsletters, RSS feeds, etc) then leave a comment. I'm always thirsty for more!
What It Means To Be Me
Navigating boundaries as a biracial agender person.A Roundtable Discussion – In my sophomore year of college, while navigating my gender identity and coming to terms with the fact that I might be a trans guy, I took a course called The Sociology of Gender.
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Why we crave what's cool
You probably heard quite a bit during the last 24 hours about the latest cool new products from Apple, iPads and iPhones, that in some circles quickly become the latest must-have gadget. But what exactly makes a product cool?
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Lower Blood Pressure Guidelines Could Be 'Lifesaving,' Federal Study Says
Declaring they had "potentially lifesaving information," federal health officials said on Friday that they were ending a major study more than a year early because it has already conclusively answered a question cardiologists have puzzled over for decades: How low should blood pressure go?
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Cool cartography: the art of mapmaking
One of the most prolific ski-trail mapmakers at work, Niehues is known for extreme attention to detail, giving unique form, structure and shadows to trees, or adding cars to resort parking lots. He usually begins by gathering images of his subject from various angles, including archival photos and flying around the area at various elevations. A medium-size ski resort takes two to four days to sketch and seven to 10 days to paint. Larger regions have taken weeks.
Read: http://ift.tt/1QpJZfz
The Dunce Cap Wasn't Always So Stupid
Sure, a dunce cap looks dumb now, but that wasn't always the case. The dunce cap has long been a visual symbol of idiocy and punishment, but was once seen as something closer to a wizard's hat.
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This Is The Current World Record For Stone Skipping
Kurt Steiner crushed the previous record of 65 skips with a whopping 88, the physics of which is simply mind-boggling.
Read: http://ift.tt/1NNohE5
Jonny Wilkinson interview: 'winning the World Cup was a danger for me'
As the last moments of the 2003 Rugby World Cup final were being battled out in Sydney, Jonny Wilkinson's mother, Philippa, was shopping in a Tesco near her son's Northumberland home, too nervous to watch her then 24-year-old's pivotal role in the England v Australia match.
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Why London's music scene is still one of the best
When it comes to underground and leftfield dance music, London's been leading the charge for decades.
Read: http://ift.tt/1L5r0IE
What the World Got Wrong About Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In the sleek, cold lobby of the Langham Place hotel in Midtown Manhattan, one of those thoroughly designed spaces in which one cannot find a right angle, much less a comfortable chair, the 68-year-old, 7-foot-2 former basketball star sits.
Read: http://ift.tt/1FP5vEm
Viola Davis gives stirring speech after historic win at 2015 Emmys – video
Viola Davis gives a stirring speech after becoming the first woman of color to win the best actress in a drama series award at the 2015 Emmys on Sunday.
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10 Tips from One Week as a Professional Baker
Be prepared to get your hands dirty and apply sprinkles liberally. Have you ever fantasized about quitting your 9-to-5 to bake cookies all day? Well, folks, I'm here to tell you the dream is alive and well.
Read: http://ift.tt/1Ljxgeo
The psychology behind why couples always fight when assembling Ikea furniture
If you have assembled a piece of Ikea furniture with a partner, then you have probably argued with a partner about assembling a piece of Ikea furniture.
Read: http://ift.tt/1KV5TZz
Take a Grand Tour of the World's Great Tattoos
A Grand Tour of Tattooing, hitting all the highlights, might start in New York and end in Montreal. But in between, it would circle the world. You'd travel to San Francisco, Japan, Beijing, St. Petersburg, and Berlin, before doubling back through Johannesburg, Jerusalem, India, and Bangkok.
Read: http://ift.tt/1FiOpUv
Scenes From a Human Flood
For the past several weeks, the world's attention has been riveted by the spectacle of migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East making their way across Europe. A principal entry point has been the Greek island of Lesbos, close to the Turkish mainland.
Read: http://ift.tt/1icSWgx
100 Wonders: The Everlasting Lightning Storm
The sky above this river never sleeps. Producing 3,600 flashes per hour, for 10 hours at a time, for most nights out of the year, the "Relampago del Catatumbo," has been raging, on and off, for as long as people can remember.
Read: http://ift.tt/1KsLR5s
The Self-Made Castaway Who Spent 16 Years on an Atoll With His Cats
The phrase "sole survivor" evokes scenes of violent disaster—a plane crash; an explosion in a mine; the eruption of a volcano whose lava destroys a city and all its inhabitants but one.
Read: http://ift.tt/1OpB0wX
When Ken Dornstein learned that Pan Am Flight 103 had exploded, he did not realize that his older brother, David, was on the plane. It was December 22, 1988, and Ken, a sophomore at Brown University, was at home, in Philadelphia, on winter break.
Read: http://ift.tt/1ircT3n
Hit Charade
The biggest pop star in America today is a man named Karl Martin Sandberg. The lead singer of an obscure '80s glam-metal band, Sandberg grew up in a remote suburb of Stockholm and is now 44. Sandberg is the George Lucas, the LeBron James, the Serena Williams of American pop.
Read: http://ift.tt/1KPjlOu
7 Insanely Inventive Movies You Have To See To Believe
Noodles like white worms in gray-green sludge, supposedly human flesh studded with suckers like an octopus, and a very unsettling ultrasound — even the seemingly innocuous opening shot of Evolution, of a boy swimming in the ocean, seen from below, is troubling.
Read: http://ift.tt/1QUuHzK
How Cocktail Culture Survived Prohibition and World War II
When Esquire made its debut in late 1933, repeal was imminent and Americans didn't know a damn thing about polite drinking.
Read: http://ift.tt/1MmOXbC
Here's Why Some People Are More Religious Than Others
When it comes to predicting the kind of people most likely to be religious, brainiac scientists used to be everyone's last guess. The more educated a person was, the thinking went, the more likely they were to question the supernatural.
Read: http://ift.tt/1V7hzxb
Psychologist reveals the 9 most common dreams and what they mean
Many psychologists have given up trying to interpret dreams, but we talked to one who hasn't. Psychologist Ian Wallace has interpreted over 150,000 dreams during more than 30 years of practice.
Read: http://ift.tt/1QZ0Czd
Sitting is basically the new smoking. An ever-growing body of research is showing that being sedentary and sitting for long periods of time are linked to poor health consequences, including a laundry list of risks for conditions ranging from obesity to heart disease.
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Why Everything Is Bad for You
When I was growing up in the same New Jersey suburbs so expertly described in Todd Solondz movies and Tom Perrotta novels, the usual lunch for me was a sandwich consisting of Wonder Bread spread thick with Land O' Lakes butter, a wad of Oscar Mayer bologna and a slice of American cheese.
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Netflix Data Reveals Exactly When TV Shows Hook Viewers — And It's Not the Pilot
Netflix crunched cold, hard viewing data for more than two dozen TV shows and says it has determined which specific episode grabbed most subscribers to the point where they watched the entire first season.
Read: http://ift.tt/1iMlCOh
Hey Gordon, question right back at ya! What are the places you are getting this stuff? Generally there is always one or two articles that you post that I have read, but other stuff is definitely new for me? Twitter is generally where I get my stuff these days. Some folk I follow just because every now and again they link to a magnificent article. Or they link to people who link to articles. And the stuff they link to are articles I would never have read otherwise.
A variety of places, some RSS feeds (Long Reads is a good one), and some email newsletters too. I can recommend NextDraft and Atlas Obscura probably the main two. I deliberately set out to find a way to get to stuff I wouldn't normally read either, so it's been fun!


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Cancer, Early Tumor Diagnosis and Tumor DNA moderator
2019 GoldLab Symposium Closing Remarks
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Chairman and Founder of GoldLab Foundation; Professor, University of Colorado Boulder; Chairman and Founder of SomaLogic; Founder of NeXstar and Synergen
DE-CRUIT® is an interdisciplinary program designed to help military veterans overcome the obstacles of transitioning from military service back into their communities. Countering the military's intense indoctrination and training, as well as the extreme trauma so commonly experienced as part of military service, DE-CRUIT delivers: a safe, non-judgmental outlet for processing military-related trauma without focusing solely on the trauma or on an assumed pathology within the individual veteran. DE-CRUIT® uses routinized techniques derived from principles of classical actor training (e.g., experiential analysis, symbolic representation, and techniques of breathing and spoken verse) to transform military camaraderie into camaraderie among treatment group members to communalize the process of healing from the trauma of war. The DE-CRUIT® treatment protocol integrates state-of-the-art therapeutic techniques from cognitive science and narrative therapy within a regimen of nutrition, writing, and analyses of trauma as represented by numerous veteran characters in Shakespearian texts. Treatment group members learn to narrate their own stories of trauma through a strengths-based approach that fosters the development of life skills, self-efficacy, and post-traumatic growth.
Dialogue with Julia and Timothy moderated by Art Krieg, M.D.
Julia Vitarello is founder and CEO of Mila's Miracle Foundation. Her life has taken her from Washington, D.C., where she grew up, to Amherst College, where she pursued a liberal arts degree, and then to Italy, where she lived and worked for many years
Truly Personalized Medicines for Ultra-Rare Diseases: New Opportunities in Genomic Medicine
Dr. Tim Yu is a neurologist and researcher at Boston Children's Hospital. A graduate of Harvard College, he completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at UC San Francisco and neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Why Would Anyone Study Rare Diseases?
Lynne has been a nurse for over 30 years and a Nurse Practitioner working with children and adults who have all types of rare diseases for 25 years.
A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist and author of several books including the New York Times bestseller Cure: A journey into the science of mind over body (2016).
The Host Cancer Interface: Obesity and Diabetes Promote Cancer Development and May Reduce Treatment Efficacy
Dr. Ann Thor is the Todd Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Colorado School Of Medicine, and the former Rader Professor and Chair of Pathology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan--Head coach Brett Berger and forwards Brittany Levasseur, Jessie Rushing and defenseman Sabrena Camp of the Adrian College American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I women's hockey program have helped the U.S. National University Team to the semifinals of the 2017 World University Games.
Team USA will play Canada to begin the "final four" on Saturday at 5:30 a.m. Eastern (4:30 p.m. local). The Americans bounced back from a tournament-opening 7-1 loss to Russia with a 3-2 victory over Japan--which won bronze in 2015--to close out preliminary-round Group B play. Russia eliminated Japan and the Americans were the second team from the Group to advance.
On Monday, the third-place game is set for 5:30 a.m. Eastern (4:30 p.m. local) followed by the gold medal championship at 9 a.m. Eastern (8 p.m. local).
LiveSport will stream the tournament and the link is here, including webcast schedule.
The U.S. Women's National University Team is coached by Shelley Looney, a 1998 Olympic gold medalist. Her assistant coaches include Scott Hicks (Miami University of Ohio) and Berger, who has piloted the Bulldogs to a current No. 2 ACHA national ranking and 16-2 overall record.
The Bulldogs trio is the second-most from one school on Team USA. Rushing is the team co-captain with Cassie Dunne from Penn State. Camp registered an assist in the one-goal win over Japan. Levasseur has joined Rushing and Camp with two games played.
Levasseur is a freshman out of Pepperell, Mass. (Lawrence Academy [Groton, Mass.]), who tops Adrian with 10 goals and has a third-team-leading 17 points. A graduate student from Hernando, Miss. (St. Louis Jr. Blues), Rushing has grabbed 10 points on two goals and eight assists. Camp (Rochester Hills, Mich./Compuware AAA), who is a junior, has registered three assists.


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import com.bagri.client.hazelcast.serialize.DomainSerializationFactory;
import com.bagri.core.model.Document;
import com.bagri.support.pool.ContentDataPool;
import com.hazelcast.nio.ObjectDataInput;
import com.hazelcast.nio.ObjectDataOutput;
import com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.StreamSerializer;

public class DocumentSerializer implements StreamSerializer<Document> {

	@Override
	public void destroy() {
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	@Override
	public int getTypeId() {
		return DomainSerializationFactory.cli_XDMDocument;
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My life doesn't seem to show any signs of slowing down, but I wanted to acknowledge a few recent developments.
Thank you to The Hungry Freelancer, for interviewing me on her blog.
Thank you to NM for a comprehensive review of Bombay Bhel, complete with pictures, and even a video!
And, most of all, thank you to everyone who has purchased the book and is keeping it up in the top rankings in its category on Amazon!
For all those celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday this week, may you enjoy good times with family, friends, and a good book.


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Anne Wojcicki
Anne Wojcicki Bio, Age, Wiki, Career, Personal Life, Relationships
Anne Wojcicki is known as American entrepreneur. She is most famous for being the cofounder and chief executive officer of the personal genetics company, 23andMe.
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Fame Background
Anne Wojcicki was born on July 28, 1973 in the San Mateo area of California. Wojcicki got a Bachelor's Degree in science from Yale University during the 1996 school year. She later worked as a researcher and as an investment examiner and analyst.
While going after her enthusiasm for the possibility to impact medicinal services through in home hereditary testing, Wojcicki helped to establish 23andMe with American researcher Linda Avey in 2006.
Wojcicki and her partner Avey trusted that people who were equipped with individual learning of infections would be engaged and better prepared to handle possible medical issues. The organization's central goa was to make hereditary testing and its results available to the general public. The tests would be including discoveries about possible infection and be accessible to any individual who was eager to pay for their genetic results.
Numerous authorities were worried about hereditary security and about possible defective test outcomes. Regardless of the negative discussion, 23andMe immediately picked up attention and steam in the business of customized human services. Their hereditary test created by scientists at 23andMe was named Time magazine's Invention of the Year in 2008. The test gave clients data about their hereditary qualities, including evaluations of their inclination toward different conditions.
Clients had the option to get to their test outcomes on the web. The organization experienced administrative audit by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2013 to 2014. During this time period, clients were permitted get test results identified with their family line only. In the evaluation period, Wojcicki administered various inside changes at 23andMe, which convinced the FDA that the organization's hereditary wellbeing related tests and the results they yielded were precise and accurate. As each day goes by, Anne's invention seems to be getting more popular.
Personal Life Relationships
Wojcicki had a previous relationship with Sergey Brin. Brin is famous for being a cofounder of the search engine and tech giant, Google. Along with Brin, Anne was a co-director of the Brin Wojcicki Foundation. It was private grant making association with different interests.
Wojcicki additionally drove a private real-estate holding company, Los Altos Community Investments which was known for its interest in the reasonable and sustainable development of Los Altos, California, where she resided.
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One morning you just woke up to the face of your dream.
I honestly wanted to run this race a little longer thinking it still wasn't the time yet but I realized maybe the running wasn't to further but to escape. I know I have learned to fit the positive version of myself, I worked the best that I can on my life to gain it but there comes a time still when I become quite a pain on my own neck when I fail to fully grasp when there is something given to me to celebrate and later ache for having that constant feeling of being stuck at the bottom. Last night (Wednesday) was a gift of heaven to have an exclusive time just talking to my best(soul)friend sharing this news that I have received the copy, and I had to confess how hard it was to look for that spark in me to feel the right emotion, I was having blues I couldn't understand, that's when I was told that I've been indulging fears, said I always don't give it all out reason why I don't have it all in return. I had it once, when a great dream was standing right in front of me, it's like I just gave a brief glimpse and walked away as if I didn't struggle alone to reach it. Oh God as human, I am still in the process, and I am willing to restore confidence so HERE I AM, RAW AND BRAVE to give you the key and get inside my universe. The door is yours. I won't miss another day of my life pretending it's still okay not to bring you light and even if there might be a source of negativity around taking advantage of my vulnerability, I have to remind myself I am alive because I choose to follow my heart. Also, a dream is more worth the fight if it isn't just the self in it but the Love you witness that you wish to speak to everybody's heart to grant God's incredible work of miracles and magic. I am not an aspiring praised writer here but just a mere child of the universe with infinite hopes to be an instrument of truth and love, and a soul wishing to FIND that RIGHT PLACE to send a message of gratitude.
PS:August is definitely my month. I admire my parents so much.


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Q: libGDX won't run on android i've done everything according to this tutorial: http://steigert.blogspot.cz/2012/02/1-libgdx-tutorial-introduction.html. Everything compiles fine but after start android app crashes. Here's log cat output:
10-23 18:33:34.128: E/dalvikvm(386): Could not find class 'cz.pohy.tyrian.Tyrian', referenced from method cz.pohy.tyrian_android_tut.MainActivity.onCreate
10-23 18:33:34.128: W/dalvikvm(386): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 1100 (Lcz/pohy/tyrian/Tyrian;) in Lcz/pohy/tyrian_android_tut/MainActivity;
10-23 18:33:34.128: D/dalvikvm(386): VFY: replacing opcode 0x22 at 0x0004
10-23 18:33:34.168: D/dalvikvm(386): VFY: dead code 0x0006-000c in Lcz/pohy/tyrian_android_tut/MainActivity;.onCreate (Landroid/os/Bundle;)V
10-23 18:33:34.188: D/dalvikvm(386): Trying to load lib /data/data/cz.pohy.tyrian_android_tut/lib/libgdx.so 0x40514fa8
10-23 18:33:34.208: D/dalvikvm(386): Added shared lib /data/data/cz.pohy.tyrian_android_tut/lib/libgdx.so 0x40514fa8
10-23 18:33:34.208: D/dalvikvm(386): No JNI_OnLoad found in /data/data/cz.pohy.tyrian_android_tut/lib/libgdx.so 0x40514fa8, skipping init
10-23 18:33:34.248: D/AndroidRuntime(386): Shutting down VM
10-23 18:33:34.248: W/dalvikvm(386): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: cz.pohy.tyrian.Tyrian
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at cz.pohy.tyrian_android_tut.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:16)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
10-23 18:33:34.268: E/AndroidRuntime(386):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-23 18:33:40.878: I/Process(386): Sending signal. PID: 386 SIG: 9

A: On the step 10 of the same tutorial, he mentions a ClassNotFoundException bug with ADT plugin version 17. There are instructions to solve the problem:
http://steigert.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/10-libgdx-tutorial-accelerator-and.html

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CASA of Bell & Coryell Counties
Take the first step to becoming a CASA advocate:
CASA volunteers are everyday people – teachers, accountants, health care professionals, retirees, and stay-at-home parents. CASAs are committed to making a difference for children who might otherwise slip through the cracks in an overburdened foster care system. They are appointed by judges to guide one child or one set of siblings through the system to safe, permanent homes as quickly as possible. CASA volunteers research case records and speak to each person involved in a child's life, including family members, teachers, doctors, lawyers, and social workers. They monitor the progress of the child and family throughout the case and advocate for the child's current and future needs in court, in school, and in agency meetings. Their independent evaluations allow the court to make better-informed decisions.
CASA volunteers truly get to know the child and can give each case the sustained and individualized attention it deserves.
We invite you to join our family of volunteers and make a difference in a child's life – and your own!
A Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) must:
Be 21 years of age or older.
Successfully pass screening and background check requirements.
Successfully complete initial training provided by the CASA of Bell & Coryell Counties program
(30 hours of initial training plus 3 hours of courtroom observation).
Be able to make a 12-month minimum commitment to a case.
(An average of 10-20 hours per month)
Complete 12 hours of continuing education per year.
Maintain confidentiality and work within established program guidelines.
First, please review the Volunteer Advocate Job Description before proceeding to the application.
Volunteer Advocate Job Description
Begin advocating for a child today!
Volunteer Advocate Application
Once you complete the initial application above, please complete the following two forms and return them to the CASA of Bell and Coryell Counties office (ATTN: Recruiter/Trainer).
CPS and SSN Consent Form
Volunteer Advocate Questionnaire
The online application will be automatically submitted to the CASA of Bell and Coryell Counties office. The additional two forms above should completed and returned to CASA of Bell and Coryell Counties staff (please send to the Recruiter/Trainer). They may also be dropped off or mailed to our office at the address below:
AttN: Recruiter/Trainer
112 North Main Street P.O. Box 1086
Belton, Texas 76513
Once your application is received, you will be contacted within one business week of the application submission date by a CASA staff member and, if your application is accepted, you will receive a formal invitation to join our next round of CASA Volunteer Pre-Service Training.
CASA Pre-Service Training
Volunteer Advocate Training consists of 17 hours of classroom training, 13 hours of home learning assignments/activities, and 3 hours of CPS courtroom observation.
CASA Volunteer Pre-Service Training at CASA of Bell and Coryell Counties has ended for 2019. Our next round of training will begin in January 2020.
We look forward to working with you as you begin your journey toward becoming a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Thank you for your willingness to take this first step in forever changing the lives of children!
If you have additional questions, please call our office at (254) 774-1881 or email casa@casabellcoryell.org.
Get the Volunteer Pre-service Manual.
Ready to speak up for a child who needs you?
Contact us today and make a difference in a child's life.
"To give a child a CASA is to give them a voice. To give them a voice is to give them hope. And to give them hope is to give them the world. I believe that with all my heart."
- Pamela Butler, former foster youth
Every Child Has a Chance – It's You!®
Listen, Speak Up & Advocate
"I trusted my CASA volunteer. She was the only person whose face I recognized after every move."
- Ashley, a former CASA youth.
CASA Volunteers Make a Difference
About CASA
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a national volunteer movement founded in 1977. CASA of Bell and Coryell is a member of the National and Texas CASA Associations. There are more than 1,000 CASA programs nationwide and 72 CASA programs in the state of Texas.
CASA of Bell & Coryell Counties is a United Way Participating Agency.
© 2021 CASA of Bell & Coryell Counties | A member of the National Court Appointed Special Advocates® Association
112 North Main Street, Belton, Texas 76513 MAP
Phone: (254) 774-1881 | Fax: (844) 270-3941 | Email: casa@casabellcoryell.org
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