THE NE,W YORKER start slowing down, we go back out to the row in the shad boat and get ready to lift the net. Quite often, we're way too early, and have to stop at the first pole and SIt there in the boat wIth our hands in our laps and bide our time. \\ e might sit there an hour If it's during the day, we sit and look up at the face of the Palisades, or we look at the New York Central freight trains that seem to he fifteen mIles long streaking by on the New York side, or we look down- river at the tops of the skyscrapers in the distance. I've never been able to make up m) mind about the New York sky- bne. Sometimes I think it's beautiful, and sometimes I think it's a gaudy damned unnatural sight. If it's in the nighttime, we look at that queer glare over midtown Manhattan that comes from the lights in Times Square. On cold, clear nights in April, sitting out on the river in the dark, that glare in the sky looks like the Last] udgment is on the way, or the Second Coming, or the end of the world. Every little while, we stick an oar straight into the water and try to hold it there, to test the strength of the tide. We have to tIme things very carefully. We want the net to stay down and catch fish as long as possible, but if we wait too long to get started the tide will begin to ebb before we get across the row, and belly the net in the OppoSIte direction, and dump the fish out. I sit beside the outboard motor and handle the boat, and I usually have three fishermen aboard. When I give the signal to let's get going, two of the fishermen stand up side by side in the stern, and one unties the net at the first pole. Then, while one holds on to the top of the net, the other pulls the bottom of it up to the top-that's called pursing it. Then they start drawing it into the boat, a little at a time. The third man stands a few feet farther back, and helps wherever he's needed most. We proceed from pole to pole, untying the net and drawing it in. As it comes aboard, the men shake it and jerk it and twitch it and seesaw it and yank it this wa} and that, and the fish spill out of it and fall to the bottom of the boat. The men tear a lot of holes in the net that way, but it can't be helped. As the net piles up in the stern, the fish pile up amidships. When we get to the end of the row, if we've had a good lift, we'll have over a thousand shad piled up amidships, bucks and roes all jumbled together, flipping and flopping and heat- ing the air with their tails, each and everyone of them fit to be cooked by some great chef at the Waldorf-Astoria and served on the finest china, and the 97 )' )) ) )) )) ) ) ) ) )) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )) ) I) ) ) ) I' m . In a pickle I lorgot to get her seamless stockings t dash out, sourpuss and pick up a dozen paIrs..


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title: Announcing The New Go Store
date: 2019-07-18
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**October 1, 2019, Update:** _The Go Store is currently offline._
_We are sorry for any inconvenience._
_We will update this post with any status changes._

We are excited to launch the new Go official swag and merch store, shipping worldwide.
We are even more excited to announce that **100% of the proceeds** from the Go store go directly to GoBridge.
[GoBridge](https://github.com/gobridge/about-us) is a non-profit organization focused on building bridges to educate underrepresented groups by teaching technical skills and fostering diversity in the Go community.

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Former WWE star Hornswoggle (Dylan Postl) to release new autobiography next summer
ECW Press passed along the following press release noting that former WWE star Hornswoggle (Dylan Postl) will be releasing an autobiography next summer.
The book will cover Postl's wrestling career and signing with WWE at the age of 21.
You can check out the full release below.
UPCOMING AUTOBIOGRAPHY FROM POPULAR WWE WRESTLER
People born with achondroplasia – a condition causing disproportionate dwarfism – don't tend to end up as champions in the world of wrestling. In fact, only one man has ever achieved this, becoming the World Wrestling Entertainment Cruiserweight Champion at the age of 21 and the height of 4' 5".
Wisconsin-born Dylan Postl worked and wrestled as Hornswoggle for the world leaders in sports entertainment for ten years, becoming the longest-tenured and unquestionably best-known little person performer in WWE history. In that time, he also appeared in Hollywood movies, bought his own wrestling promotion and, most importantly, became a dad.
LIFE IS SHORT – AND SO AM I is scheduled for a Summer 2019 release by ECW press and will see Postl collaborate with co-writers Ross Owen Williams and Ian Douglass to delve into the physical and emotional challenges of being a little person in both a big person's world and, often, a large person's industry, as well as charting Dylan's emotional path to parenthood, and varied relationships within his own family.
"Looking back through my life to this point has been crazy," says Postl. "It's just reinforced something I've always thought which is 'this should never have happened'. I can't tell you the amount of times I've found myself backstage at a big event or on a movie set, and even this last week over in Saudi Arabia in front of 60,000 people halfway across the world from where I was born, thinking 'how did this ever happen to me?' It's unreal."
Writer Ross Owen Williams, the co-author of both Bob Holly's highly-praised Hardcore Truth and upcoming Al Snow autobiography Self-Help commented, "I'm confident people will be impressed when they learn more about Dylan's background and, especially, his attitude about everything he's gone through with regards to his condition. Some people could see the condition he was born with as a curse or an excuse, but he just sees it as the way things are and gets on with doing his best to be respected in his profession and an exemplary father – both of which he succeeds at beyond question. He's an incredible guy with a huge sense of humour, one of the shortest, biggest-hearted people I've met and working with him on this book has been and continues to be great fun."
"Dylan has a highly unique story which we're certain will both inspire and entertain," says Michael Holmes, Executive Editor for ECW Press.
Postl returned to WWE TV this past week as Hornswoggle with an appearance in the promotion's 50-man Greatest Royal Rumble match, eliminating two-time NXT tag team champion Dash Wilder.

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This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide
by Geneen Roth
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Inspiring, personal, and often spiritual reflections on how women can find peace, make wise choices, practice everyday joy, and step into their power from Geneen Roth — author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Women Food and God.
From the beginning, Geneen Roth was told she was too sensitive, too emotional, too curious, too demanding, too intense, and too big. Yet gaining and losing weight for decades did not improve her self-worth or reduce other people's criticisms. Like most women who struggle with their weight, she believed that if she could resolve what seemed to be the source of her self-hatred — how and what she ate — she would be thin, happy, and free. That belief, she discovered, was false.
When her struggle with food ended — and didn't change anything except the size of her thighs — she kept trying to fix other broken parts of herself with therapy, intensive meditation retreats, and rigorous spiritual practices. Yet it was only when Geneen stopped trying to change or fix herself — that she was at last able to feel at home in her mind, body, and life. Now, she shares the wisdom of giving up what Geneen calls "the Me Project," and finding the freedom, peace and power that await us just beyond it.
With humor, compassion, and insight, This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women's feelings about their bodies, but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. This provocative, enchanting, and sometimes laugh-out-loud look at the imperfect path women take to step into their own power, presence, and ownership is based on the author's personal journey and her decades of work with thousands of women around the country.
Roth embraces everyone's unique and often unsung potential and shows us how to be open, curious, and kind with ourselves; how to say no to people and ideas that hold us back; how to let go of grudges and anxieties; how to pick ourselves up after setbacks; how to say a resounding yes to the world; how to move from fixing ourselves to finding ourselves; how to find joy in the ordinary; and how to experience the extraordinary right here and now in our bodies.
With a foreword by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a compelling and often quirky look at what it means to be an imperfect but unapologetic woman living a (mostly) magnificent life.
"Geneen Roth's secret sauce — the ingredients of which are warmth, wisdom, honesty and powerful self-scrutiny — are all blended to perfection in this lovely book, which will be a welcome companion to her legions of readers, and bring her many lucky new ones. There's a reason she's such a treasure." Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage and Devotion: A Memoir
"Geneen Roth's early work pulled my sister out of the abyss of eating disorders. My gratitude and admiration for Geneen has deepened still with her newest book. In This Messy Magnificent Life, we experience her signature divine wisdom and hilarious humanity — but Geneen also gives us something new and important. Here, Geneen shows us how our individual body and food obsessions are directly linked to our collective oppression as women — and how getting free from our personal prisons is crucial to seeking liberation at every level. This is a beautiful, funny, deeply relevant book — a vital work for this moment." Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder and president of Together Rising
"This Messy Magnificent Life delivers a brilliant, funny, and frank offering at the stroke of midnight (just when we need it). By page ten you're convinced she's your smartest and funniest best friend. This Messy Magnificent Life is — dare I say it? Yep. Messy. It's magnificent, hilarious and 100% the generous, complicated gift that is Geneen Roth's imagination, experience and soul, on a platter. 2018 will be made easier to navigate with This Messy Magnificent Life by my side." Kathy Najimy
"These chapters of simple advice are easily digestible, and reading one per day is a good way to start this practice. Empowering words for women — especially those struggling with body issues — to regain control of their lives." Kirkus
Geneen Roth is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Food Is Love, Lost and Found, and Women Food and God, as well as The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It. She has been teaching groundbreaking workshops and retreats for over thirty years and has appeared on numerous national shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Today show, Good Morning America, and The View. She lives in California with exaltations of hummingbirds, her husband, and Izzy the fabulous, eating-disordered dog.
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This is a "where have you been all my life!?" book of the highest order. I'm new to Geneen Roth's writing, and it's a game changer. She is funny, wise, humble and humbling, and relatable in the most comforting of ways. This field guide is truly a treasure trove of motivation, comfort, and life changing wisdom.
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While digital ad viewability probably won't be the "topic de jure" at CES 2017, GroupM is taking into account modifiers for U.S. feed-based video advertising as it takes its own viewability standards global, according to Chief Digital Officer Rob Norman. "It's pretty well known that the GroupM viewability standards aren't met by feed-based environments," Norman says in an interview with Beet.tv.
This isn't to suggest that GroupM does not have clients advertising in feed-based video. The media investment giant takes into account data showing the duration of views and uses that data "as a modifier when we're advising clients as to how they allocate their money between different video platforms," Norman says.
GroupM also is working on evolving viewability standards for such formats as outstream video, according to Norman. Outside of the mobile environment, the company "increasingly and almost exclusively" uses its standards for making client investment decisions.
Norman expresses disappointment that the market hasn't "responded in the way one had hoped in terms of producing platform-specific creative." In many environments, "I think for a lot of advertisers, very short format video remains a problem other than for simple brand recognition and depth point of view," he adds.
It's GroupM's view that most media will end up embracing standards that the company can trade to, but for a lot of feed-based media it will examine duration data "and use that as a modifier about what we're prepared to pay and how we allocate it," Norman says.
When discussing standards and modifiers, Norman says the goal is to find the best instruments to value the duration of a view in any given platform.
"The outstream issue is different from the feed-based one because you're not looking at it in a scrolling environment, you're often not looking at it in an autoplay environment," he says.
As for the difference between a standard and a modifier, Norman says it comes down to the specific use case.
"We thought the standard was absolutely necessary in the desktop display environment because we felt the physical nature of desktop publishing needed to be cleaned up to make ads viewable," he explains.
It's not the same scenario with regard to the mobile, feed-based environment. "It's the actual measurement of time and exposure that needs to be established. They're different use cases," Norman says.


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Will it bring them together… or tear them apart?
You'll have to read Instructing the Novice to find out.
Lizabeth Paige is mortified. Ever since a terrorist introduced the Xi-46 lust compound into the air ducts of the Mother Ship, she had been experiencing attacks of sexual needing that leave her helpless to resist her lustful urges. Much to her embarrassment, her assistant Lone helped her with the first attack, but she's been managing on her own (though not very well) ever since. She feels drawn to Lone, but he's much too young for her. Lizabeth tells herself it's better if they keep their distance.
Lone has been in love with his boss from day one. As a Twin Kindred who lost his twin at birth, he doesn't think he can call a mate but he wants Lizabeth with his whole heart. Helping her through her first needing attack was like a fantasy come true but now, for some reason, Lizabeth is trying to cut him out of her life. Desperate to bring her closer, he is elated when the Kindred High Council decides to send the two of them to The Tower of the Higher Mind for some extra training.
But there are dangers lurking at the Tower, which is located at the top of the Sacred Mountain. At its base live the Friezens—a tribe of savage, misogynistic natives who believe women are only useful for sexual-sacrifice. And in the Tower itself, some very strange customs hold sway. Lizabeth is now a "Mistress" and Lone must be her "Novice," serving her in every possible way. Pulled between two extremes, will the terrors of the Tower draw them together…or kill them?


A large number of household detergents and cleaning agents contain components called phosphates, which have been known to cause environmental hazards. The most controversial uses involve dish-washing and laundry detergents, and some states have imposed restrictions or bans on their use.
Phosphates began to replace soap for household purposes after World Way II, due to availability of resources and a growing problem of poor cleaning performance due to hard water.
Phosphates carry into waste systems and are hard to break down by ordinary wastewater processing systems. As they carry into streams, lakes and rivers, they increase algae growth and subsequently decrease the oxygen that is needed for healthy aquatic life, and contribute to the pollution of water bodies.
In the 1960's and early 1970's, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario were found to be heavily polluted with phosphates from detergents, and consumer agencies began calling for their ban. The detergent industry continues to use phosphates in their products on a large scale, but individual states can regulate their use in commercial products.
Phosphates are helpful in softening hard water and also aid in suspending dirt. In very high concentrations, they also are effective in reducing lead dust in places like windowsills.
After highly publicized campaigns against the use of phosphates in household detergents, as well as in outdoor cleaning jobs, some manufacturers offer phosphate-free alternatives for consumer cleaning. Many can be found in natural food stores.
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Liberia: Over 20 Women Died in Home Delivery
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Nimba County — -Health workers in Nimba disclose
Over 20 pregnant women reportedly died this year in Nimba County during home delivery, which is said to be on the increase in the county.
Several health workers told The NEW DAWN that the prevalence of home delivery in various towns and villages is because of lack of health facilities, including bad road network, among others.
The health workers, some of whom are officers in charge at various health facilities in the county, said most pregnant women giving birth at home usually do not survive.
They said most of the pregnant women cover long distances before accessing medication, while other districts lack health centers that expected mothers would move in and stay until they give birth.
According to report, out of the 20 pregnant women that died, ten of them passed while they were being transported due to bad roads, while the rest died due to lack of waiting rooms for pregnant women in their respective districts.
Statistics revealed electoral districts 4,5,6,7 and 9 recorded the number of deaths of pregnant women.
Some traditional midwives who perform home delivery said that boyfriends of young girls give them small cash that cannot cover medical fees and materials.
When contacted, the head of the Nimba County Health Team, Doctor Natee Joe, confirmed the death of pregnant women from home delivery but challenged the number pronounced by health workers.
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El Borussia Mönchengladbach II es un equipo de fútbol de Alemania que juega en la Regionalliga West, la cuarta liga de fútbol más importante del país.

Historia
Fue creado en el año 1980 en la ciudad de Mönchengladbach como un equipo filial del Borussia Mönchengladbach, por lo que no puede jugar en la Bundesliga, aunque sí puede jugar en la DFB Pokal y sus jugadores pueden jugar en el primer equipo.

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 Regionalliga West: 1
 2015

 Oberliga Nordrhein: 2
 2006, 2008

 Verbandsliga Niederrhein: 1
 1997

 Landesliga Niederrhein: 1
 1980

 Copa de Baja Renania: 1
 1997

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Equipo 2020/21

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 Clubes históricos: Borussia Mönchengladbach II

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Equipos de fútbol filiales de Alemania
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Equipos de fútbol del estado de Renania del Norte-Westfalia
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 1980
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The VR tour is to be on display at the sales office of The Reef, which is located in Two Rocks, which is located 61km North of Perth. A beautiful location, complete with amazing beaches, a busy marina and tranquil coastal parkland.
Viewport's task was to get on location and capture nine locations with 3D photography. Once all the locations were captured, they require extensive post production to generate them into dual panoramas, with each location having two panoramas, with a single panorama for each eye. The final result is to be able to see depth, which has the effect of actually being there when viewing through a Virtual Reality headset. We then created a custom menu and navigation system, added ambient sound, and then added 3D animation in the form of seagulls, waving flags and even children flying a kite to activate the static panoramas.
The VR tour can be experienced by visiting the sales office in Two Rocks, or by contacting us on 08 6219 8110 to ogranise a demonstration.
Check back again in a couple of days and this blog post will be updated with a link to a video of the project.
UPDATE: The project can also be downloaded from Oculus Share if you have an Oculus Rift. It will soon be available on the GearVR Oculus Store.
UPDATE: This project is now available for download on the Gear VR store worldwide! Search for 'The Reef Two Rocks Australia'. Enjoy!


(Mar. 20, 2019) THUNDER BAY, ON – On Wednesday, May 1, about 200 people are expected to attend a new Thunder Bay Health and Safety Conference hosted by Workplace Safety North (WSN) and Public Services Health and Safety Association (PSHSA).
The two provincial health and safety associations are responsible for province-wide health and safety training and services for specific industry sectors. WSN is based in North Bay and serves Ontario mining, forest products, and northern Ontario communities. PSHSA is based in Toronto and serves the public sector, including schools, healthcare, first responders, and municipalities.
"Together, we've teamed up with local businesses and government agencies in Thunder Bay to provide a community health and safety event that addresses the unique needs of resource-based industries and geographic challenges of northern communities," says Chris Serratore, WSN Director of Specialty Services.
The New Multigenerational Workplace: Welcome iGens!
The day after the conference, on Thursday, May 2, conference delegates can also register for a half-day workshop on Drug and Alcohol Awareness Training for Supervisors. The interactive and informative half-day workshop has a special conference price $25 (regular value $157.50). The workshop combines two courses and is developed and delivered by CannAmm, with of the most experienced and knowledgeable people in the drug and alcohol testing field today.
For more information, visit workplacesafetynorth.ca/events. Save $25: Early-bird conference price $100 until March 31. Sponsorship and trade show opportunities are available.
About Workplace Safety North – your local health and safety partner: An independent not-for-profit, Workplace Safety North (WSN) is one of four health and safety associations in Ontario, and the only one based in the north. WSN provides province-wide government-approved workplace health and safety services for mining and forest products sectors, as well as for businesses and communities across northern Ontario. With health and safety specialists located across the province, WSN and its legacy organizations have been helping make Ontario workplaces safer for more than 100 years. Businesses and communities call upon WSN for expert advice. For more information, visit workplacesafetynorth.ca.


Is OPEX your friend in IT?
It's funny to have the OPEX and CAPEX conversation with fellow technology geeks and sales people. Everyone says OPEX is better, and tells the CFO and CIO that today's solution is going to save you from CAPEX! I think most decision makers are getting tired of hearing that. So much –it's almost dismissed as sales buzz words. Probably because many consultants forget the deeper significance (AND when there are exceptions to the rule). What happens when you ask the geek and sales guy the significance of the two? What is the difference between CAPEX and OPEX?
Congrats to my buddy Ed Saipetch (fellow Indianapolis Cloud, Storage, and Virtualization contributor (http://breathingdata.com/) ). Here is a GREAT video he and some of his team created for the VMWorld 2010 conference this year. Listen close and you just may pick up a few deatial of the value of virtualization AND Cloud related IT services. Enjoy!
Below are the details to a LIVE webcast with the internal IT Operations team at VMware corperate. A lot of companies boast about how their backup product works for VMware, but what solution does the VMware team actually use internally for their own company data & VMware farm?
Wednesday, August 19, 10:00 a.m. PST / 1:00 p.m. EST / 5:00 p.m. GMT - everyone encouraged to ask questions of the guest speakers during the live Q&A session.
VMware Inc.'s first EMC Avamar deployment was in their Corporate IT datacenter, where Avamar solved their backup and recovery performance challenges, reduced reliance on tape, and enabled consolidation of their distributed remote office backup environment. The Avamar solution also provided secure offsite replication for disaster recovery. Corporate IT has since standardized on Avamar to protect their entire VMware environment with fast, daily full backups for approximately 400 Linux and Windows virtual machines. VMware Corporate IT relies on Avamar to protect terabytes of critical data, including file servers, SQL and Oracle databases, and customer-facing web applications.
VMware Inc. leverages several Avamar solutions to best meet their needs, including Avamar agents in each VM Guest, Avamar Data Store, and Avamar Virtual Edition virtual appliances.
Register for a complete list of US and international dial-in numbers and call instructions.
Setting the stage and expectations of iSCSI.
A lot of conversations on this topic seem to arise when talking about data center architecture. Most of my brethren in the enterprise, never dip their toes into these waters, because of legacy architecture standards, fabric technology investments, and team skills. A lot of people would go as far to say that Fibre Channel is actually easier to use.
Nonetheless, in the commercial sector where 80% of the business market exists, iSCSI many times is the way to go. Especially when throughput does not dictate more than real world iSCSI capabilities… and when your data center communication backbone is TCP/IP… and the team skills are primarily TCP/IP. Then iSCSI is arguably easier to use.
Real World statistics… iSCSI's best use is when throughput is below (<60MBps). While higher performance is possible with iSCSI, the increased cost (iSCSI HBAs) and complexity (dependence on load balancing) offsets the normal iSCSI "simplicity/cost" benefits, at least with today's Gigabit Ethernet. Generally speaking, many servers are usually below this 60MBps limit and are good candidates for iSCSI connectivity. The best way to find out are by collecting statistics through IOSTAT, Perfmon, or other built in tools that measure the OS and the applications. Email me to find out the mathmatic formulas to crunch the numbers.
The net of this if course is, make sure your architect or consultant is recommending iSCSI when it is appropriate for you. Not just because it is the only protocol his or her storage can leverage. That's like me going to ask a Ford dealer if he has any Chevy autos on the lot for sale. What do you think he will say?
With that being said… here are the nuts and bolts behind iSCSI best practices. Top 3 best practices.
One of my resources at EMC, and friend, Chad Sakac, posted a great article on using iSCSI on VMware, and how it works. This is a technical write up, and be really good to forward onto anyone who you know is a VMware or SAN storage engineer. There are of course many advantages to using just about any connection type (FC, IP/NFS, or iSCSI) and my company offers all. This is a unique opportunity to hear what all the major vendors are saying on iSCSI on a joint effort.
From Chad's introduction... "Today's post is one you don't often find in the blogosphere, see today's post is a collaborative effort initiated by me, Chad Sakac (EMC), which includes contributions from Andy Banta (VMware), Vaughn Stewart (NetApp), Eric Schott (Dell/EqualLogic), and Adam Carter (HP/Lefthand), David Black (EMC) and various other folks at each of the companies.
Together, our companies make up the large majority of the iSCSI market, all make great iSCSI targets, and we (as individuals and companies) all want our customers to have iSCSI success."
If there was one aspect of your life that you could virtualize, what would it be?
2> To have the ability to vMotion yourself from one country to another?
3> The ability to snapshot conversations you have with your wife? That way when you say something stupid, you roll it back, wipe out what you said, and pretend it never happened.
Way too funny! These are three opening quotes from this "Future of Virtualization" clip. Basically, after that opening – I was hooked. What follows is about 3 minutes of what customers are asking virtualization to do in their business... what are the future things you would ask for?
With the release of ESXi recently, you no longer need local storage for your ESX servers. By putting the ESXi code on a bootable USB Thumbdrive, you can easily turn your PC or Laptop into an ESXi server and learn ESX without having to dedicate any hardware. This enables you to create an ESX lab at home without any server hardware. If you repeat the process below for 2 different servers, you can actually create an ESX cluster and use many of the advanced features in VI3.5.
This document will show you how to setup an ESXi server using a bootable USB Thumbdrive with both iSCSI and NFS storage from a Celerra Simulator (if you are an EMC customer, you can download the Celerra (as a VMready appliance, from www.powerlink.com) and have "virtual storage" that is fully functional & great to learn about storage, how it works, and even for test and dev)). If you are not a customer, just email me, and I will send you a link. The only hardware needed for this process is a 512MB USB Thumbdrive, your laptop, and the temporary use of a home PC/laptop.
This is a first draft of a document created by one of my engineers, while configuring ESXi at home, so feedback is appreciated as people try to duplicate the steps. Some other Docs I have, setting up the virtual Celerra for example, are one's that I have been slowly modifying over the last year.
please view the comments section for new instructions on downloading the virtual SAN appliance & videos of how to do it. Also, you can use these two guides (below) as a supliment to the videos in the comments section. There may be a few typos on these docs, but they were the best I could come up with, on a limited time crunch. Again, I would just go to my links saved in the comments section of this blog post, to watch the video(s).
We've all been waiting for it.... if we could not attend. What happened at VMware World?
It's important for people local to Illinois to understand the press releases because out of approx 10K + attendees Illinois only sent a little over 300 people. Indiana too, becasue there were only ~100.
If those attendees did not bring back sufficient information to see into the future OR if we do not watch the wave, we get left behind. Not only in keeping an organized approach to being wise stewards of our organization's data centers -but also on saving and making money with our organizational data for true information lifecycle management.
Feedback from attending colleagues of mine surrounded mostly around VMware's focus on product announcements centered around "best blend of distributed and consolidated computing" as opposed to "infrastructure." I summarized about 6 of 14 overall announcements from VMware World by VMware. And 3 from EMC that are related to VMware's as a group, in my next post.
It's easy to see this word choice throughout each of their press releases. VMware wants you to understand they are not infrastructure specialists (although very good as a utilitarian use for solving those issues), but rather an enabler of IT in business to become an internal (or external) service provider via a consolidation and flexibility approach to managing IT. This is very good. It's their way to do what customers are asking for.
Al lot of products were renamed, classified, and some products announced in new and public ways.
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I remember a lot of conversations on this topic in the past. I am so proud of my colleagues in the industry for helping create the eco-system of this market. There are so many thought leaders around the globe who see open systems virtualization as the next big innovation for computing. On scale with similar impact that the Internet has had for us all. From many angles including (but not limited to) green initiatives, business influence, and even skills and trade.
I've been in countless conversations on this topic over the years. Several years ago, it was such a new concept for the datacenter (at least the open systems and network infrastructure divisions) to have complex economics. Today, I know that this is an evolving approach to the datacenter and can become very complicated. However, to the CIO and IT Director who exhibit thought leadership in their organization –this topic can define you and your influence in the business.
I am limiting the conversation to virtualization in general and storage systems for the information which our business lives. It can and should be discussed in great detail across many practices in the datacenter. None of these thoughts are my own, and have evolved from my interactions over time with many other highly trained individuals.
To realize economics and ROI on virtualizing the data center, and the storage where it resides, leadership must recognize and record costs and savings from the former generation of computing to the new. Manufacturing industries have been using components like shared and dedicated components for a long time… additionally fixed and variable costs have entered the stage. Take a look at Activity Based Costing for example. Harvard Business School (among many others) are known to teach this to their bright students.
If we can allocate and recover the costs of the infrastructure and management of it, then we can see the ROI and properly justify the investment to the business. It's my hope that more businesses adopt approaches like this, in order to align Business and IT… so investments are realized and costs are recovered easily on paper.
By using the Activity Based Costing model, let's carve our environment into these four segments.


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Where Have They Been?: Colby Cameron
Anyone remember this guy?
Colby Cameron flexing on Houston, 2012
Turns out he was ABSOLUTELY THRIVING™ overseas playing football in Japan.
Wait?
Japan…? Seriously?
Ex NFL TE Jordan Cameron visits his younger brother&Fujitsu Frontiers QB Colby at the X League playoff semifinal game in Kawasaki on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/5vQtEcV1F0
— Kaz Nagatsuka 🇯🇵 (@kaznagatsuka) November 26, 2017
After setting records as Tech's senior QB in 2012, Colby Cameron graduated and spent the summer of 2013 with the Carolina Panthers. When the Panthers waived him, Cameron packed his bags and went overseas to try his luck in the Japanese X League.
If you're wondering "What the hell is the Japanese X League???" right now, I don't blame you. Japan's top American football league is a bizarre amalgam of customer service representatives, former American college players, and Japanese nationals. But that's not as weird as it gets. Before we can get into Colby Cameron's tenure as an X League GOD, I feel the need–nay, the duty–to fully explore the Japanese league's peculiarities.
League Format
The X League was formed in 1971. It has three levels, each of which is comprised of three geographical six team divisions. So basically, the top level of the X League (X1) has 18 teams that are split into East, West, and Central divisions. X2 and X3 are also split into those same geographic divisions.
The league features what I consider to be the best thing in sports: promotion and relegation! At the end of each season, the worst team in each X1 division takes on the best team in the corresponding X2 division. The winner gets to play the following season in X1!
At this point, you're probably thinking: "This is all fairly standard so far. Where's the weird stuff you mentioned?"
Hold your 馬匹 !!! I'm getting there!
Okay. Qualification for the playoffs is where it gets bizarre. For clarity's sake, we're only going to talk about X1 from this point forward. Each season, the top 3 teams in each division form what is called the "Super 9." The bottom 3 teams in each division form what is called the "Battle 9." This is decided by each team's ranking at the end of the previous season. These distinctions help to determine a team's schedule for the upcoming season. In the X League, Super 9 teams only play games against other Super 9 teams and Battle 9 teams only play other Battle 9 teams.
At the end of the year, the top six teams from the Super 9 qualify for the playoffs based on their regular season results. The remaining two spots in the eight team playoff go to the top two teams among the Battle 9. From what I can tell, geographic division structure does not play into playoff seeding at all in the X League. So maybe this is better than the NFL?
To help explain this sort of complicated scheduling and seeding, I've made this handy dandy flow chart:
The playoffs are pretty straightforward. Winning teams advance, losing teams go home. All the way until the X League's championship game, which is surprisingly named the somewhat mundane "X Bowl." After this game, however, the X League Champion takes on the Japan collegiate national champion in a game called–no, seriously–the Rice Bowl.
Yet again, X League >>> NFL
If you thought the above section on playoffs and conference structure was strange, wait until I spill the beans on the truly wonderful and amazing secrets of the X League.
First of all, there are two types of teams: Company and Club. Company teams are comprised entirely of employees of the parent company. That means that every single football player for the Asahi Soft Drink Challengers must be an employee of the Asahi Soft Drink company. Club teams are less defined, and can hold open tryouts.
The fact that club teams can hold open tryouts makes it seem like they may have some sort of competitive advantage, right? Not so fast, my friend.
The Japanese X League limits each team to four total "Import" players (AKA players not from Japan). Beyond that, they limit each team to having no more than two import players on the field at the same time! For much of Cameron's time in the X League, he played with an American running back (Gino Gordon from Harvard). So when those two were on the field together, no other foreign-born players could play with the Frontiers.
Colby Cameron: American Frontiersman
The last time we heard from Colby Cameron, he had just packed his bags and moved to Japan. When he arrived, he began working in human resources for Fujitsu Ltd. You know, the laptop and scanner company?
Fujitsu is the proud parent company of the Fujitsu Frontiers, an X1 team that plays in Kawasaki, Japan. The team's colors are FUJITSU red, black, and white, and their mascot is Fronti the wolf.
From the team's formation in 1985 until 2014, the Frontiers were decent, but not great. The 2000s saw them win the Eastern division four times, but they never won the X Bowl.
That is, until our boy Colby arrived on the scene. The first American quarterback to play in the X League was former-UCLA signal caller Kevin Craft in 2012. By joining the league in 2014, Colby Cameron was one of the earliest American quarterbacks in the X League.
In 2014, the arrival of Colby Cameron pioneered a new era of Frontiers football. He hit the ground running passing. In his first game, the Frontiers won 93 to 0 over the Hurricanes. In his first season, Cameron led the Frontiers to an 8-1 regular season record and to their first ever X Bowl championship over the IBM Big Blue. They also defeated the perennial collegiate champion Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters in the Rice Bowl.
In 2015, our hero led the Frontiers to a 7-0 regular season, and back to the X Bowl, but they ultimately lost to the Panasonic Impulse 24-21 in the title game. Cameron and the Fujitsu squad led 21-10 midway through the fourth quarter, but a late interception allowed the Impulse to get back into the game. Later, Cameron admitted that "I still think about it all the time," and used the loss as motivation.
Despite this setback, Colby Cameron bounced back in a huge way in 2016. He led the Frontiers to an 8-1 record in the regular season. During the playoffs, the Fujitsu men made it back to the X Bowl, where they defeated the Obic Seagulls 16-3 and won a berth in the 70th annual Rice Bowl. During that game, which was attended by nearly 34,000 people at the Tokyo Dome, the Frontiers soundly defeated the Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters (note: KGU is seriously Japanese Bama) by a score of 30-13. For his heroics, Cameron earned the Paul Rusch Cup, given to the MVP of the X League. He also earned MVP honors during the X Bowl. When the Japan Times asked him about his MVP award in the X Bowl, Cameron replied, "Game MVP in football is kind of hard to get because it's such a team sport. It could've gone to every player on our offense, it could've gone to the special teams. But more than the MVP, I'm happy to have won, I think that's the most important thing. MVP is just a cherry on top."
Cameron with his X Bowl MVP (which says "NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle" on it, for some reason???)
Colby Cameron with his 2017 Rice Bowl MVP trophy
In 2017, Colby Cameron led the Frontiers to an undefeated season and back to the X Bowl, where they defeated the IBM Big Blue 63-23 and set a new points record for the Japanese title game. They also defeated Nihon University in the Rice Bowl, with Cameron leading the way at 20 of 27 passing for 311 yards and three touchdowns. He was named the game MVP for his efforts.
Here are the game highlights from the 2017 Rice Bowl:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RyMJdOPyj0&w=560&h=315]
Colby Cameron's X League Stats
Retirement:
After securing the Frontiers' third national title in four years, Colby Cameron decided to hang up his cleats and head back to America. When the Frontiers announced the news, their fans reacted on Twitter, with emotions ranging from melancholic to grateful. Here's some of what they had to say (through Google translate):
キャメロンと、村田。。。。
推してたんだけどなぁ。。。。
— ふるふる (@furufuru6068) March 12, 2018
"Cameron and Murata. . . . I was thinking about it. . . . It is lonely. . . . Congratulations. . . ."
キャメロンもゴードンもプレーで盛り上げてくれたし、終わったあとの写真やサインも優しくしてくれていたのが印象に残ってます。
お疲れ様でした。ありがとうございます。
— S-Shiny@ダーツ&スポーツ諸々&コトダマン (@Nao_Shiny) March 13, 2018
"Both Cameron and [former Harvard RB Gino] Gordon brought up with play and the impression that the pictures and signatures after we finished gentle also remain in the impression. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you very much."
来年はみにいけないなー pic.twitter.com/wwzQbt4sCc
— Sya (@y_sattuso) March 12, 2018
"I do not want to go next year"
コービー と ゴードンも引退か
連覇をありがとう
残ったメンバーで紡いでいきましょう
— ニッター (@maitonf0338) March 12, 2018
"Will Kolbe and Gordon retire? Thank you for winning the contest. Let's spin with the remaining members"
After his domination of Japanese American football, what will Colby Cameron do next? Well, his first order of business stateside was to weigh in on the Whataburger vs. In-N-Out debate raging through Texas:
Whataburger is like Cleveveland in this series… they just can't compete with In-N-Out Burger 🍔
— Colby Cameron (@ColbyCameronSMU) June 9, 2018
Next, he joined former Tech head coach Sonny Dykes on SMU's coaching staff. At least he wasn't around yet when Tech put the smack down on them back in December. At that time, Colby Cameron was still lighting up the scoreboard in Kawasaki.
For more on the Japanese X League and other American football leagues around the world, I recommend the website www.americanfootballinternational.com, which helped me piece together this article. I also used Japan Times articles that were thankfully translated into English without having to use google translate. For stats, I used www.american-football-japan.com
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News of Note Week of March 30th
April 3, 2015 Author - Abby KerstetterCedar BrantDoug CloudEJ LevyJohn WhalenKristin George BagdanovLeslee BeckerMatt TruslowNancy HenkeNate BarronNews of NoteRoze HentschellTodd Mitchell
Chloe' Leisure's (MFA, Spring 2006) recently published chapbook, The End of the World Again
CLA Spring Faculty/Staff Meeting and Awards Ceremony: Three of our MFA students — Abby Kerstetter, Matt Truslow, and Nate Barron — will be featured readers at the College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty/Staff Meeting & Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 8th. Past spring meetings have included entertainment from theatre and music students, and we are proud that Abby, Matt, and Nate were chosen to showcase the liberal arts and the creative writing program this year. Five English department faculty members will be recognized with awards for teaching, research/creative artistry, and service. Please come support not only our department faculty and students but also faculty from the rest of the college. This is always an upbeat and celebratory event. The ceremony from 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in the Durrell Center Seminar Rooms A & B. There is parking available near Moby.
Leslee Becker's story, "The Continental," has been accepted for publication in Ascent.
Next week, Doug Cloud will be giving at talk in Athens, Ohio at the third annual Ohio University Queer Studies Conference titled, "Coming Out Gay, Coming Out Atheist: Re-Thinking the Long-Term Influence of the LGBTQ Movement(s)." He'll also lead a workshop for queer students and students of color titled, "Queer in the Workplace, Queer in the World: Some Key Concepts for Talking About Categories of Difference in Public and Professional Contexts."
Roze Hentschell is attending the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America in Vancouver, B.C., where she presented a paper, "'They Sing': Comedy, Choirboys, and Actors at St. Paul's."
A French edition of EJ Levy's story collection, Love, In Theory, will be issued by Payots & Rivages on May 5, 2015.
This week, Nancy Henke learned that she received a Senior Teaching Appointment. She joins 19 other department faculty whose long-term, high-quality teaching and service have been recognized with this honor.
Todd Mitchell attended and presented two sessions at the Northern Colorado Writers Conference last weekend (one on developing layered characters, and one on developing engaging conflicts).
Todd Mitchell also launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the continued production of a graphic novel he's working on with the Irish artist, Patrick Mullholland. The story uses a matriarchal alien invasion to explore crucial environmental, social, and political questions. If you're curious, the first issue is produced and available for free off the Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/1OCQTP9
Mid-American Review interviewed Kristin George Bagdanov about her poem in their recent issue here: http://casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/mar-asks-kristin-george-bagdanov-answers/ She will also be reading at MAR's 35 year anniversary party at AWP next week: Friday, April 10th at 8pm, Gallery13 in Minneapolis.
The Moscow Arts Commission and Broadsided Press has selected Kristin George Bagdanov's poem "Earth Body" as one of the four ASLE-member poems to be broadsided for the "Broadsides on the Bus" program this summer in Moscow, Idaho. The broadside will be on display on the Moscow buses during the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) conference, and copies of the poem and accompanying original art will be on display in the Transit Center; the broadsides will also be downloadable.
Undergraduate Choice Award: The Graduate School partnered with the Office for Undergraduate Research and Artistry to sponsor the Undergraduate Choice Awards through which each category of the Graduate Student Showcase will be judged by a team of undergraduate scholars. This category is designed to expose undergraduates to graduate level scholarship, facilitate the training of undergraduates in the critical analysis of scholarly products, and to reward graduate students whose work is perceived to be among the highest quality by the undergraduate team of judges. Two Graduate students in the Department of English received awards. In the Creative category, Cedar Brant won second prize ($75) for The Hidden Hinge: Mapping Memory and Myth through Poetry, and in the Research category John Whalen won third prize ($50) for The Utilization of Web-based Resources for Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning
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"In Rotterdam, one in five children grows up in poverty," says teacher Peter den Hartog on stage.
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Wages must go up! This demand was clearly audible today in the Olympic Stadium at the FNV manifestation #NLverdientBeter. "We will therefore soon be coming up with a substantial wage demand," warns AObchairman Tamar van Gelder.
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"We want good compensation for inflation," says Van Gelder. "For the teaching staff, of course, but also for our students who are now sometimes without one filled stomach whether appropriate shoes come to school. Children cannot learn under those conditions."
hence de AOb today is present with a large delegation in the Olympic Stadium for the FNV manifestation #NLdeservesBetter to reinforce. Peter den Hartog, history teacher at VMBO de Meerpaal in Rotterdam climbs on behalf of the AOb the stage. "In Rotterdam, one in five children grows up in poverty," he says. "Children come to school without breakfast and with almost empty lunch boxes. I teach proud teenagers: they don't talk about poverty." Den Hartog is worried about his students. They don't get help with their homework. Parents have to work more to pay the bills. I am here today for an affordable home and sufficient wages to pay the energy bill."
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A colleague who works for the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen as an English teacher has been given a permanent contract after six years, but is tired of well-trained colleagues leaving again and again, while the work continues. "It is destruction of experience."
Joep van Dijk, a student in Amsterdam, summarizes the sense of solidarity on the FNV stage as follows: "Flex contracts are being abused. Students sink into debt. Unite, join: become a member of the union."
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      <step>  1. Preheat oven to 350'F.
  2. Grease and flour 2 9" layer cake pans.
  3. Add soda to buttermilk, stir to blend, and set aside.
  4. Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks one at a
  time and beat well after each addition.
  5. Sift flour with salt and baking powder onto waxed paper. Add flour
  mixture alternately with buttermilk to butter a little at a time and blend
  well after each addition. Stir in lemon rind.
  6. In a separate bowl beat egg whites until stiff, then fold into batter.
  Pour into prepared pans and bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes.
  Remove from pans onto cake rack until cool. Put layers together with
  Lemon-Coconut Filling, frost with Coconut Frosting, and sprinkle with
  coconut.

  *** LEMON-COCONUT FILLING ***
  Mix together sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. Add boiling water and
  lemon juice; stir in coconut. Bring to a full boil over high heat, stirring
  frequently. Reduce heat slightly and let boil, stirring constantly, for 1
  minute. Remove from heat and stir in butter. Cool to room temperature.
  Stir; spread between cakes layers.

  *** COCONUT FROSTING ***
  1. Combine all ingredients except coconut in top of double boiler. Beat 1
  minute to blend, then place over boiling water and beat with rotary hand or
  electric beater until stiff peaks form, stirring mixture up from bottom and
  sides of pan occasionally.
  2. Transfer to a large bowl and beat 1 minute more, or until thick enough
  to spread.
  3. Frost cake, then sprinkle generously with grated coconut.
  4. Makes sufficient frosting for sides and top of 2 9" cake layers.

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Vietnam faces waste management problems of almost unimaginable complexity, and consequently this dynamic country must go far beyond the usual practice of burning or burying waste. In this first installment of a series, a waste management concept is proposed that involves the integration of several well proven technologies such as mesophilic and thermophilic composting, black soldier fly and red worm bioconversion, duckweed water filtration, gasification and lactic acid fermentation. These technologies will enable Vietnam not only to solve its waste management problems, but also to transform many different types of waste into resources of great value.
There are many options available to us in the disposal of solid waste. But one of the most problematic and dangerous ways of dealing with waste is to dig a hole and bury it. The soil which nourishes and sustains us should never become a depository for waste. Once the soil comes into contact with waste, it becomes just as toxic as the waste that it entombs. Rainfall floods this hole and washes deadly chemicals and microbes into aquifers, streams, rivers and even oceans. Anaerobic bacteria proliferate in this watery grave, emitting methane and other greenhouse gases. Instead of solving a problem, we create a problem so big that it becomes thoroughly impossible to fix. Instead of wisely managing money, we uselessly throw it away.
Often we look outside of Vietnam to find models that make sense in dealing with waste. But Europe and America have little to offer. For many decades they have dug holes and buried waste. Only recently have they begun to understand in depth the health and environmental consequences of burying waste. They are just beginning to admit that the concept of a "sanitary" landfill is anything but sanitary. For within a few decades after the plastic sheet lining this hole is laid down, it breaks, and there is no feasible way to repair leaks underneath such a mass of rotting garbage. Over time hundreds of hectares in the vicinity of this hole, as well as thousands of kilometers of streams, rivers and aquifers, are irreversibly polluted.
While Europe and America struggle to solve their waste problems, Vietnam and other developing countries in Asia have a completely different set of options available to them. To the extent that Vietnam views waste, not as waste, but as one of the most valuable resources it could ever possess, it puts itself in the enviable position of leaving Europe and America far behind.
But for waste to have value, it must be dealt with in a commercial manner. As in any commercial enterprise, we need technologies and strategies that will allow us to minimize cost and maximize profit. Obviously the first big cost that we can eliminate is the huge cost of collecting, transporting and burying waste. Estimates extended out to the year 2020 situate at about $30 US dollars (600,000 VND) per household per year. To the extent that waste management authorities do not collect, transport and bury waste, they obviously save huge sums of money.
If we seek to maximize profitability, we must understand that waste is highly variegated, and that there is no single technology, no magic bullet, that will do the job. Each type of waste quite often demands a specific technology or combination of technologies to deliver the highest profit. At times the products derived from waste might command a price as high as $500 US per ton. At other times they might have a value of no more than $25 US per ton. But one thing is certain: there is no type of waste that must be handled and processed at a loss.
Assembling the right technology for the right kind of waste, however, is not enough. There's a powerful socio-economic reasoning specific to a country like Vietnam that we cannot ignore. It involves tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of the Vietnamese people who never walk away from the smallest opportunity to make money. It is this spirit that distinguishes the Vietnamese from the affluent people of the West who easily turn a blind eye to the value of waste. Let me give an example.
I know a middle-age lady who regularly walks the streets in Dalat in search of waste. She shoulders a flexible bamboo plank, and at each end is a large basket or sack filled with waste. She does not rely on garbage trucks to assist her in carrying out her task. She does not even use a push cart. She works for no one but herself, and makes on average about 60,000 VND or $3.00 US per day, a lot more than most laborers in a rice field.
This lady does not operate out of love for the environment. Yet very few people in Vietnam do more for the environment than she. She embodies the very essence of the small-scale entrepreneurial spirit that should pervade every aspect of waste management in Vietnam. This does not mean that all those involved in waste management should resemble her in every detail. But it does mean that the primary emphasis in waste management should be away from big companies with big capital and expensive equipment.
Many tend to view the 20,000 tons of waste generated each day in Vietnam as a large-scale problem demanding state-of-the-art garbage trucks, huge bulldozers, and massive craters that swallow endless quantities of waste. Nothing could be further from the truth. Vietnam has a large population (84 million inhabitants), but very little in Vietnam is large-scale.
Agriculture is still Vietnam's most important sector (almost 22% of its GDP), and more than two-thirds of the Vietnamese people work in this sector. There are over 11 million household farms in Vietnam, and about 90% of these farms cultivate less than one hectare of land.1 Rice is grown on about 84% of agricultural land,2 and it is cultivated in a highly labor-intensive manner. Almost all planting, fertilizing and harvesting operations are done by hand. Very seldom does one see on any of these 11 million household farms a tractor, a truck or some other large piece of equipment.
By contrast, rice farms in the USA can encompass hundreds, and at times, thousands of hectares. They employ large tractors and combines. Planting and fertilizing are not done by hand as in Vietnam, but by airplane.
If we attempted to employ this large-scale model in Vietnam, rice production would drop to nothing, and tens of millions of people would be unemployed. The large-scale model makes sense, perhaps, in Louisiana and Arkansas, but it makes absolutely no sense in Vietnam.
Likewise, the large-scale model of dealing with waste that we see in the United States and Europe, when applied in Vietnam, is equally problematic. The lady referred to in the above example operates on an extremely small-scale. Yet she and many others like her are among the few in Vietnam who approach waste at the proper level or scale, and actually know how to sort and collect waste profitably. It should surprise no one that this lady used to work as a laborer in a rice field. When she migrated to Dalat, she did not have to undergo extensive training in order to collect and sell recyclables. The transition was smooth and quick, and she now earns far more money than before.
If the technologies that we assemble to process specific types of waste are to be used effectively in Vietnam, they must align themselves with the socio-economic structure of Vietnam. They must be small-scale, low-tech and easily operated by someone like the lady in the above example. And most importantly, they must target all of the waste that she does not currently recycle.
Most of the technologies we will examine in this series are not new, but when aligned and integrated properly, they become powerful tools both in ridding our planet of pollution and in empowering the poor. Only to extent that environmental and social objectives become inseparably intertwined, do developing countries like Vietnam have a chance of addressing properly the many challenges they face as they enter the 21st century.
In the next installment of this series we will examine MESOPHILIC STORAGE AND REDUCTION, and the incredible economic opportunity it presents for residential waste management authorities.
Dr. Paul Olivier began his career in mineral preparation in 1981. In 1986 he invented and patented a unique bi-directional dense medium separator which was first applied to the separation of a variety of root vegetables. He has also designed technology that was not only used to recycle non-ferrous metals, but also used to prepare an organic stream clean enough to be used as an alternative fuel in cement kilns. In 1995 several trials were conducted in Belgium on 30,000 tons of municipal solid waste free of food waste. But the problem of what to do with source-separated food waste remained.
In 1997 while visiting his sister in Louisiana, Olivier saw a compost bin that she had set up in her garden. There he saw thousands of larvae, eating food waste and reducing it to almost nothing within a period of just a few hours. These larvae were the black soldier fly. Dr. Olivier set about designing several types of bins to exploit this behavior. In 2001 he invented the round bioconversion unit commonly referred to as a biopod. This device enables mature larvae to neatly self-harvest into a bucket without any mechanical or human intervention. Dr. Olivier's passion to design technologies to empower the poor instead of making large corporations wealthier drove him to begin designing waste transformation technologies for impoverished nations.
He began designing top-lit updraft gasifiers for the gasification of rice hulls, coffee bean husks, and other types of agricultural biomass. Initial designs have focused on placing this technology in the hands of households and small commercial enterprises. Other technologies that Dr. Olivier has been improving on are mesophilic storage units for source-separated biodegradable residential waste, urine-diverting composting toilets, thermophilic composting using the simple and inexpensive technology of a compost fleece, and lactic acid fermentation of food waste.
Currently he is working with Todd Hyman and Loren Cardeli, where they are designing recycling systems turning waste to profit to empower poor rural communities in developing nations. This series of documents are authored by Dr. Paul Olivier with the help of both Todd and Loren. They are currently setting up a social entrepreneurship business to market and spread these technologies around the world.
Throughout all of his environmental endeavors, Dr. Olivier has always been self-employed. He has never been on the payroll of a company or university. He has never received grants or subsidies in the development of any of the environmental technologies he has promoted. Up until now he has always been able to utilize profits from one venture to fund research on behalf of the next. In a sense this has not been difficult to achieve, for he has always viewed waste, in all of its many forms, as our single greatest resource.
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Les Jeux paralympiques d'hiver de 2022, officiellement appelés les , se déroulent du 4 au  à Pékin en Chine.

Il s'agit de la deuxième édition des Jeux paralympiques organisée dans la capitale chinoise après les Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2008.

La ville organisatrice a été choisie le  lors de la  session du Comité international olympique.

Organisation

Emblème
Le , le Comité d'organisation dévoile les emblèmes olympique et paralympique définitifs des Jeux.

Mascotte

Shuey Rhon Rhon () a été choisi pour être la mascottes des Jeux paralympiques. Elle prend la forme d'une Lanterne chinoise et elle est accompagné par Bing Dwen Dwen (), un panda qui est la mascotte des jeux olympiques.

Le comité d'organisation de Beijing 2022 a reçu plus de  dessins de mascottes de Chine et de 35 pays du monde entier dans le cadre d'un concours mondial de design. Les projets ont été examinés par des experts chinois et étrangers, et les sélections finales ont été effectuées par des équipes de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Guangzhou et de l'Université de Jilin des arts.

Impacts du Covid-19
Après avoir reporté les Jeux paralympiques d'été de Tokyo en 2021, la Pandémie de Covid-19 avait également largement bousculé l'accueil du public puisque toutes les parties prenantes (dont le CIO) avaient décidé que les Jeux paralympiques se dérouleront à huis clos sur l'ensemble des sites sans exception.

Six mois plus tard, la question se retrouve posée pour le comité d'organisation chinois mais le pays ne choisit pas le huis-clos et annonce en septembre 2021 que seules les personnes résidant en Chine pourront y accéder sans que les organisateurs n'annonce encore de jauge. Finalement, comme pour les jeux olympiques, aucune billetterie est ouverte et seules des invitations sont distribuées en petit nombre.

Relais de la flamme paralympique
À l'instar de celui consacré à la flamme olympique, le relais de la flamme paralympique est adapté pour répondre aux exigences sanitaires.

La flamme paralympique est allumée le 28 février à Stoke Mandeville par deux curleuses paralympiques britanniques  et , un village situé au nord-ouest de Londres reconnu comme le berceau des Jeux paralympiques. La flamme arrivera en Chine deux jours plus tard, où une cérémonie d'accueil sera organisé au Temple du Ciel de Pékin.

Plus de 600 porteurs seront mobilisés entre le 2 et le 4 mars, jour de la cérémonie d'ouverture où le dernier relayeur (Li Duan, ancienne sauteuse en longueur aveugle) enflamme la vasque ; la flamme parcourt les trois zones de compétition (Pékin, Zhangjiakou et Yanqing).

Sites paralympiques

Zone de Pékin
Stade national – cérémonies d'ouverture et de clôture
Palais national omnisports – para-hockey sur glace
Centre national de natation – curling

Zone de Yanqing
Centre national de ski alpin – ski alpin

Zone de Zhangjiakou
Stade de biathlon - ski de fond, biathlon
Parc de neige de Genting – snowboard

Cérémonie d'ouverture

La cérémonie d'ouverture a lieu le 4 mars 2022. Elle met en lumière la culture de la Chine, le défilé des nations et l'allumage de la flamme paralympique.

Cérémonie de clôture
Le maire de Milan, Giuseppe Sala, assiste aussi à la cérémonie de clôture pour la remise du drapeau paralympique, comme un symbole de transmission vers les prochains Jeux qui se tiendront en 2026 à Milan et à Cortina d'Ampezzo, en Italie.

Nations participantes
46 nations suivantes ont confirmé leur participation. Il s'agit d'une première pour l'Azerbaïdjan, Israël et Porto Rico. La Chine, pays hôte possède la plus grande équipe avec 96 para-sportifs ; la deuxième plus grande délégation est américaine avec 65 para-athlètes.

À 66 ans, Pam Wilson est l'athlète paralympique la plus âgée de Pékin 2022 et fera ses débuts paralympiques pour les États-Unis en curling en fauteuil roulant. La plus jeune para-athlète aux Jeux est la skieuse para-alpine autrichienne de 15 ans, malvoyante, Elina Stary.

La participation de l'Ukraine a été remise en cause deux semaines avant l'ouverture dans le contexte de guerre à la suite de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie en 2022 ; le président du Comité paralympique ukrainien a confirmé une semaine avant le début des Jeux que ses para-athlètes souhaitent concourir, mais qu'amener l'équipe à Pékin constituera un défi gigantesque. Finalement, les 29 sportifs de la délégation ukrainienne parviennent à Pékin tout juste avant le début des jeux.

En raison de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie, condamnée par la plupart des pays du monde et ayant fait des centaines de morts civils en Ukraine début mars, plusieurs pays menacent de boycotter les Jeux si la Russie et la Biélorussie (qui a facilité l'invasion) sont autorisés à concourir. Le , le Comité international paralympique exclut la Russie et la Biélorussie de ces Jeux. Le Comité explique que « le sport et la politique ne devraient pas se mélanger, mais, que nous le voulions ou non, l'écho de la guerre est aussi arrivé jusqu'aux Jeux », et évoque une ambiance délétère dans le village paralympique où les athlètes russes et biélorusses sont déjà présents. S'adressant aux athlètes exclus, Andrew Parsons, le président du Comité international paralympique, précise : « Nous sommes vraiment désolés que vous soyez affectés par les décisions de vos gouvernements la semaine dernière, qui ont violé la trêve olympique ».

Exclusion par étapes de la Russie et de la Biélorussie
En 2019, la Russie est exclue des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques 2020 et 2022 par l'agence mondiale antidopage pour cause de dopage organisé. Les Russes peuvent participer sous une bannière neutre « RPC » (pour ) aux Jeux paralympiques dans les mêmes conditions que la présence de la délégation d'athlètes russes aux Jeux paralympiques de Tokyo.

Le sort de la participation de la Russie et de la Biélorussie se joue fin février dans le contexte de guerre à la suite de l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie en 2022, que le CIO interprète comme une violation de la trêve olympique. Le 28 février, le CIO recommande qu'aucun athlète ou officiel sportif de Russie ou de Biélorussie ne soit autorisé à prendre partie sous le nom de Russie ou Biélorussie, ni même en tant qu'athlètes neutres.

Le 2 mars, l'IPC décide lors d'une assemblée générale extraordinaire, que les comité russe et biélorusse pouvaient participer en tant que comité neutres aux Jeux de Pékin, que les sportifs pouvaient concourir sous le drapeau paralympique et que la délégation ne serait pas incluse dans le tableau des médailles. Finalement le lendemain, à la veille de l'ouverture, le conseil d'administration du Comité international paralympique décide de refuser la participation des athlètes des comités russes et biélorusses aux Jeux paralympiques de Pékin ; les 83 athlètes russes et biélorusses engagés sur les Jeux sont amenés à quitter le village olympique.

Au total, 71 athlètes russes auraient dû concourir, avec une présence dans tous les sports inclus dans le programme de l'événement. Il y avait 33 athlètes qualifiés en ski nordique et en biathlon, 10 en  ski alpin, et 6 en snowboard. Le comité olympique russe russe alignait une équipe de 17 joueurs en hockey sur luge, troisième des derniers championnats du monde, et une équipe de 5 joueurs en curling en fauteuil roulant. Les Russes devaient concourir à 61 épreuves médaillées sur 78. Les athlètes étaient issus de Moscou (20 personnes), de l'oblast de Moscou (15 personnes), du district autonome de Khanty-Mansi (7) et de la région de Tioumen (5).

Côté biélorusse, plusieurs fondeurs (Yury Holub, Sviatlana Sakhanenka et Valiantsina Shyts) étaient revenus avec au moins une médaille des derniers championnats du monde de ski nordique handisport.

Compétition

Sports au programme
Les six sports des jeux 2018 sont au programme. Seules les disciplines du snowboard sont revues, passant de 10 à 6 podiums avec l'abandon du slalom géant.

Catégories
 Le curling se pratique en fauteuil roulant, par équipes de quatre et mixtes. Il n'y a pas de catégorisation précise.
 Le para-hockey sur glace concerne les athlètes handicapés de la partie inférieure du corps. Il n'y a pas de catégorisation précise. Les équipes peuvent être mixtes, cependant ce n'est pas une obligation.
 Pour les épreuves de ski alpin, ski nordique (biathlon et ski de fond) et snowboard, les catégories sont les suivantes :
 Malvoyants
 Debout
 Assis

Calendrier

Tableau des médailles

Le tableau suivant présente les dix premières nations au classement des médailles de leurs athlètes :

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Jeux paralympiques
 Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2022


MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - June 16, 2015) - Critical Elements Corporation (TSX VENTURE:CRE) (OTCQX:CRECF) (FRANKFURT:F12) is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered private placement, for an amount of $600,300.
The Company has issued 2,610,000 units of common shares at a price of $0.23 per share for gross proceeds of $600,300. Each unit consists of one common share priced at $0.23 and one half of one purchase warrant. Each whole purchase warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Corporation for a period of 24 months at a price of $0.35 per share.
The Company paid Jones, Gable & Company Limited and Mackie Research Capital intermediary fees of $28,152, along with 122,400 compensation options entitling their holders to purchase 122,400 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.35 per share for a 24-month period following the closing of the private placement.
All the securities issued under the private placement are subject to a mandatory hold period of four months and one day following the closing of the private placement.
At any time after this four months and one day, if the trading price of the common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange is equal to or exceeds $0.75 for 14 consecutive trading days, as evidenced by the price at the close of market, the Company shall be entitled to notify the holders of Warrants and Compensation options of its intention to force the exercise of the Warrants and Compensation options. Upon receipt of such notice, the holders of Warrants and Compensation options shall have 30 days to exercise the Warrants or Compensation options, failing which the Warrants and Compensation options will automatically expire.
The proceeds of this private placement will be used for working capital.


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Watch: Honda's stunning new advert featuring Ayrton Senna and Jenson Button
Honda is responsible for some of the greatest car adverts ever made, and the latest offering could be the brand's best ever
Honda has launched a new advert inspired by space flight featuring racing drivers, a robot and a nod to the NASA space program.
The Japanese car maker has rolled out the big guns for its latest space-inspired advert, with cameos from Ayrton Senna and Jenson Button appearing in the atmospheric video. Honda's ubiquitous robot, ASIMO is also present in the trailer, which was launched across Europe today.
The Honda HR-V and the Honda Civic Type R, which is currently sold out after launching in the UK, take centre stage in the new advert.
Set to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Mozart's Queen of the Night Aria and children's 1960s song A Trip on a Rocket Ship, Honda is hoping to secure the accolade of best advert of 2015 with a nod to its return to F1 and the first commercial flight of the Honda Jet.
Scott Dungate, Creative Director Wieden + Kennedy, the firm behind The Cog and the new advert, says: "Honda is a company that was founded on a challenging spirit. Racing was where it started, and it's great to see this spirit return so strong in 2015, with such an impressive and diverse fleet. We wanted to create a film that dramatised Honda's daring ambition across the range. Representing the fleet as a rocket at lift off, felt like it captured the anticipation, the daring and the human endeavour perfectly, in both an iconic and emotive way."
The new advert is called Honda Ignition and will appear on television from today.