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Q: formatting a new json from an existing list This is my original List
 this.userForm.value =
[
  {
    "runid": 5,
    "partnerid":8,
    "partnername": "test admin1",

  },
  {
    "runid": 6,
    "partnerid": 9,
    "partnername": "test admin2",

  }
]

Need to generate a json data for save, by using value from above list. Generate a json were above partnerid mapped to adminId.
this is the required format, where patieId is a hardcoded value.
[
  {
    "adminId": 8,
    "patieId": 123
  },
  {
    "adminId": 9,
    "patieId": 123
  }
]

Tried with below code, which gives unwanted fields also.
 let jsonData = this.userForm.value.map(item => ({
      ...item,
      adminId:item.partnerid,
      patieId: 123, //this.patieId
        }));

which returns this json, here these 3 fields are not required. "runid","partnerid","partnername"
[
  {
    "runid": 5,
    "partnerid": 8,
    "partnername": "test admin1",
    "adminId": 8,
    "patieId": 123
  },
  {
    "runid": 6,
    "partnerid": 9,
    "partnername": "test admin2",
    "adminId": 9,
    "patieId": 123
  }
]

A: The ...item inserts all the fields from item, Ie the ones you don't want.
Use:
 let jsonData = this.userForm.value.map(item => ({
      adminId:item.partnerid,
      patieId: 123, //this.patieId
}));

A: Just remove the spread operator.
let jsonData = this.userForm.value.map(item => ({

      adminId:item.partnerid,
      patieId: 123, //this.patieId
        }));

You will get only {adminId: 8, patieId: 123}
Hope that's help


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Internet fraud is one of the most common motivators of cybercrime. Millions of dollars are stolen every year from victims who are tricked into initiating wire transfer payments through social engineering tactics and computer breaches. This is typically accomplished using one of three methods: business email compromise (BEC), email account compromise (EAC), and spoofing.
All three of these methods can be attempted against any organization that relies on email for communication. Being a smaller company doesn't protect you from attempts at fraud - malicious actors target organizations of all size. When proper procedures and tools are in place, it can be relatively easy and inexpensive to protect against them, but failing to take precautions and ignoring the risk can have a negative impact on both your financials and your brand reputation. For example, your customers will not be happy if your organization unintentionally loses their money by sending it to bank accounts that don't belong to them. The good news is that each of these can be detected and prevented with proper tools and monitoring techniques.
Brian Krebs has published a fantastic article on the value of a hacked email account, which I highly recommend reading, to get a better sense of why the data held by companies is a lucrative target and why email fraud is so common.
Customer A (we will call them Able for this scenario) falls for a phishing scam and their email credentials are compromised. The attackers snoop around Able's email account and notice that they conduct business, including wire transfers and payments, with your company. The attackers use Able's email account to send a request for a wire transfer or payment that doesn't particularly stand out as unusual because it is similar to other requests you've received in the past. However, instead of using the bank account on file, they ask you to send the payment to a different bank account that's not on file. The scammer may even proactively offer some kind of reason for this, such as "Our accounts are under audit right now, please send to the account below instead".
Essentially, attackers in this scenario use a compromised email account to manipulate the trust between you and your customers. This can also happen in reverse. Your employee could fall for a phishing scam and then the attackers use his or her credentials to target your customers, hoping to initiate a fraudulent wire transfer in your company's name.
The FBI has reported that as of May 2016, over 15,000 organizations have become victims of business email compromise scams losing a combined total over $1 billion dollars. These victims range from small businesses to large corporations in a wide array of business sectors.
Thankfully, this type of fraud can often be detected and stopped by having standard operating procedures (SOP's) and processes in place that require your employees to verify transfer requests before initiating payment. In addition, you should never change bank account or address information for your customers or vendors via email; such changes should always require a follow up phone call at the very least for verification. Furthermore, enabling two-factor authentication for email where possible can mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to business email. As an added measure, it's important to be aware of the information relating to your employees and your organization available on social media. Many attackers do their homework before attempting these types of scams; the more information that's publicly available about your organization's structure, the easier it is for them to plan and execute their attacks.
Email account compromise scams are like business email compromise in that they both involve compromised email accounts. However, with EAC scams, attackers target internal employees using the compromised credentials of another employee. It's relatively easy to identify high-level employees with financial responsibilities within an organization, and this information can be exploited to facilitate fraud.
This type of scam can be difficult to detect, because attackers will send what might appear to be an authentic email from the victim's real email account. They may target accounting employees or financial officers that have authorization to initiate wire transfers. They may also use compromised email accounts to learn more information about your organization, such as lingo, employee titles, customers and vendors to make the attack seem more authentic.
This type of scam can also be stopped when SOP's are in place that clarify who has authorization to send wire transfers and other payments, how those payments are processed, and what checks should be in place to stop unauthorized attempts. The takeaway from this is that no employee should be able to authorize or initiate a wire transfer based only on an email, no matter what their title is.
The third technique involves the distribution of forged electronic documents that attempt to trick the victim into believing they have received a request from a specific person, when in reality, it came from a malicious third party. This technique is known as spoofing.
Normally, if someone was not authorized to send an email from your domain, SPF record lookups would fail and the email would never be delivered. However, DNS checks are not completed on your domain in this case. They are completed against "nerdsec.us" in the scenario above (the P1 header, not the P2 header). This is the essence of how fraud facilitated by email spoofing is done. Furthermore, an attacker is most likely to impersonate an executive and target a financial officer within your organization. Who says no to the CEO?
It's also common for attackers to purchase domain names similar to your companies' domain. For example, the domain "mycompany.com" is similar to "myc0mpany.com". If this domain name was available for purchase, a malicious actor could purchase it and use it to send emails to officers within your company, hoping that they would not notice the incorrect domain name.
Spoofing can be detected and prevented in a few specific ways. A common method used by many large organizations is modifying the subject line of all external emails coming into the organization with an identifier that helps employees identify that said email is coming from an external source. If your organization utilizes Microsoft Exchange, you can use a Hub Transport Rule to append the subject of emails with a label such as "OUTSIDE", "EXTERNAL", or "UNTRUSTED". When this label is seen by your employees, they will automatically know that the email came from outside the organization. As an example, if the CFO of your company receives a spoofed email that appears to be from the CEO, it would be easy for them to determine that the email was spoofed with little to no technical understanding of SMTP because the subject of the email would be appended with an untrusted label.
Perhaps one of the most effective ways of detecting and blocking spoofed email is by implementing DKIM functionality within your mail system. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) provides a way for verifying a domain name associated with an email message. At its essence, it's a check to ensure that an email that claims to come from a specific domain was authorized by the owner of that domain. DKIM is the most effective way to automate the detection and prevention of spoofed emails.
Similarly, by analyzing Microsoft Exchange logs, you could theoretically write a SIEM use case that detects a difference between the source user name field (the "from" address) and the X-Sender field. By comparing the "Return-Path" or the "X-Sender field" against the "From" field, you can easily detect spoofed emails coming into your organization. If these fields do not match, it's very possible that the email is malicious.
Large organizations that merge with or acquire (M&A) other companies can also be vulnerable to these types of attacks during the purchasing process. Smaller companies who normally consider themselves "off the radar" that don't have processes in place that specify how wire transfers are handled can easily fall victim when they are suddenly in the news affiliated with larger companies. Attackers monitor the news for these types of purchases because organizations find themselves more vulnerable to internet fraud scams because as the two entities figure out how to organize themselves into one, it can be a very chaotic and confusing time. For this reason, it's very important to ensure that your business understands this risk and that SOP's are put in place from the very beginning of the M&A process, no exceptions.
Internet fraud is one of the most common ways a criminal can steal money from you without having to write malware or otherwise utilize large amounts of resources to effectively target your organization. If a hacker were to send out 100 spoofed emails asking for fraudulent wire transfers to be sent, and just one of them was a successful attack, they still have a very large payday coming. This makes Internet fraud an easy vector of attack. It's important for all organizations both big and small to take steps to protect themselves from these common types of scams.
I'm a threat engineer, focusing on cyber security operations center triage along with security awareness and security infrastructure. I've been in the industry for 6 years with a bachelors degree in computer forensics along with gcia, gcih, gsec, and Cisco certified sourcefire admin.


The election of the West Midlands Mayor is a historic moment for the region.
Make sure you exercise your right to vote and have your say on who should lead and champion our region.
No other votes are taking place on the same day in the West Midlands. The 4th of May really is MAYoral DAY.
See further information from the Electoral Commission here.
Once registered to vote, you should receive a polling card through the post at your home address.
You are then ready to cast your vote in person on 4th May 2017 at your local polling station, which is identified on your polling card.
Polling stations open from 7.00am to 10.00pm.
When heading to the polling station on 4th May 2017, it's handy if you take your polling card along with you. Don't worry if you forget it; if you've received a polling card, you should be on the register at the polling station.
Volunteers working at your polling station will take your name and hand you your ballot paper (see below).
Local elections for a directly elected Mayor use the supplementary voting system. This means you can vote for your first AND second choice candidates. The short video below explains how this system works rather nicely.
In one of the private booths at the polling station, make sure you read and double check the question you are being asked on the ballot paper.
Then take notice of the two columns next to the name of each candidate, marked FIRST CHOICE and SECOND CHOICE.
Once you're happy, mark a cross in the first-choice column of the candidate you wish to vote for.
Then, mark a cross in the second-choice column of, well, your second-choice candidate.
Mark one cross in one box from each column only.
You do not have to mark a second choice if you don't want to, but you must mark your first choice.
Voters with a physical or visual impairment who are unable to mark their own paper may be assisted by one of the presiding officers.
You must then fold this paper in half and post it through the ballot box at the polling station.
Representatives of candidates (aka 'tellers') may be at the polling station to find out how you voted.
They are not allowed to campaign for your vote, but can ask how you voted.
More than anything, they will be interested in gauging turnout which might help them to assess how the election is shaping up.
However, you are not obliged to tell them how you voted or anything else.
Your vote is only yours – you do not have to tell anyone what you did with it!
The results centre is the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham.
The count takes place on Friday, 5th May 2017.
It is expected that candidates will congregate at the results centre.
Each local council within the WMCA area (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton) will count and declare their own results locally, feeding them into the regional hub at the Barclaycard Arena.
Birmingham's votes will also be counted and declared at the Barclaycard Arena. Once all seven councils have completed counting, the Round One result will be declared in Birmingham.
If no candidate secures more than 50 per cent of the overall WMCA-wide vote, a second round of counting will begin locally in the seven council areas under the Supplementary Vote system.
Counting for Round One is estimated to finish by 1pm. The Round Two vote counting (if needed) will then start at 2pm – with a final result expected by approximately 6pm.
Chamberlain Files will be reporting live from the Barclaycard Arena. Follow @ChamberlainFile and our live blog here to keep updated.


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Aquaterra Adventures has been to a great extent, responsible for opening more rivers to river running today, made possible by several path breaking trips on rivers like the Tons, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, Lohit and Zanskar river to name a few. Since our inception we have operated more trips and expeditions on rivers, never before offered on Indian rivers.1. An Aquaterra Adventures lead climb, summitted the 7035 metre high Satopanth in late June 2010.
Aquaterra Adventures opened up its international range in 2010, with trips in Nepal on the Karnali, Bhutan, and Kilimanjaro climb and the Zambezi river in Africa. It went on to the the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river to Chile and the Futaleufu Patagonia adventure 2011-12.
In 2008 and 2009, 2 years in a row, Aquaterra Adventures made it as to the list of the world's best adventure travel outfitters in the first Authoritative Rating of Adventure Tour Operators, selected in a global survey by National Geographic Society.
In Dec 2008 and 2009, we ran the first commercial expedition on the Subansari river in Arunachal Pradesh from Nacho and So Nala downstream, respectively. In Dec 2010, Aquaterra Adventures is operating the first raft descent of the Subansiri river from So Nala.
In October 2008, we ran the first commercial expedition on the Sutlej river from Rampur Bushair in Himachal Pradesh, dropping 1250 feet in the first two days.
"Outside" Magazine lists the Brahmaputra river trip, established as a regular commercial trip by Aquaterra Adventures, as one of the TOP TEN Adventures possible in India.
In the "Outside" magazine special March 2007 "The 30 Best Trips Ever" issue, our Tons valley trips have been featured, another feather in our cap. A 50 min film was also ready and was completed for international distribution!
We followed up our 5th Brahmaputra edition with the first open commercial descent of the Subansiri river, in December 2006. Another feather in our cap, firmly establishing us as pioneering river running expeditioning in the Indian Himalaya.
Celebrating a decade of offering the most varied range of adventure travel in India, Aquaterra Adventures completed the second raft descent in 19 years of the Tons river, in May 2005, it was also the first Indian descent. Running a continuous 120 km Class 4+ section of the Upper, Middle and Lower Tons, a full crew of 2 rafts, 2 catarafts and 2 kayaks completed this amazing journey. Featured on a "Paddler" magazine article in January 2006. We followed it up with the biggest trip ever on the river, with a 36 member team of the Hong Kong Outward Bound, completing the same trip in June 2006.
A trip to open the Sutlej River gorge for the first time as a fixed departure expedition, which ran in February 2004.
We ran the first complete descent of the Lohit River in Dec 2003, with an international team of Indian, Canadian and British paddlers. This river had never been run in its entirety. The trip comprised the likes of our river guides, Anvesh and Rana, Paul Skinny Jones, Lara Tipper, Pete Caterall, Jeff Boyd, Vicky Barlow, Rob Litherland, Bryan Smith, Tod Gourley and Mark Heard. We made this possible.
We ran our third edition of the Upper Brahmaputra river in Arunachal Pradesh in Nov – Dec 2004, making us the only outfit to offer one of the world's biggest rafting rivers, as an option to the adventure enthusiast.
We made the first Indian descent on the hardest section on the Tons river (Khunigad – Tiuni) in April 2003.
We followed it up by running the first fixed departure expedition on the Lower Tons, an exciting 75 km journey down this Class 4 section of the medium volume Lower Tons river.
In 2002, we opened the wild Brahmaputra river to anybody who cared to join – with the biggest rafting expedition (total strength 55 persons) as well as the first open fixed departure on the Upper Brahmaputra, conceived and run entirely by Aquaterra Adventures. And in style too, with the big names in adventure, expedition running, publishing, equipment, journalism, photography all adding to the salad bowl.
"Hyside", world's leading manufacturer of rafts, donated a cataraft to us as support for an outstanding effort. 'Adidas and Salomon' provided apparel. This was the first time the entire river run was filmed successfully, to be made into a 52 minute documentary for international distribution. Aquaterra Adventures was entrusted to carry very expensive film equipment safely down a big volume, Class 4+ run, and we delivered like no one else before.This path breaking effort is being covered extensively by the big names in print – 'Paddler", ` ABENTEUER and REISEN', `New York Times', `Action Asia', `India Today Plus', `Outlook Traveller', `Holiday Asia', `Economic Times' besides several others.
We are the only outfitter that runs a guaranteed to run fixed departure expedition on the Zanskar river, and down its spectacular canyon.
Our river guides were part of first descents on the Lohit, Subansiri, and first commercial exploratory on the Spiti, Tons and Upper Alaknanda rivers. Each year, many of our expeditions bring people closer to the outdoors.
Our river Camps on the Ganga and Tons rivers offer 10 months of camping, river running, kayaking, rock climbing, abseiling and allied activities.
We have run over 45 trips for the American Embassy School, New Delhi in the past 14 years, to destinations as varied as Rajasthan, Dharamsala, Chamba, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Tons valley, Ladakh, Meghalaya, Assam, and to our rafting base on the Ganga. We have also run several cultural exchange programmes for students from all around the globe.
When New York Times features writer Marcia Lieberman had to travel into the remotest parts of the Zanskar valley, she chose Aquaterra Adventures to outfit her 40 day expedition and followed it up with a trip into the Spiti valley the following year.
Chosen outfitter for large scale outfitting for India's first adventure reality game show "RAAAH" in Spiti valley, a shoot with over 70 persons in 2001.
The 2004 Frommers Guide, 2004 and 2000 Fodor's India Guide, (endorsed by the American Society of Travel Agents) recommends us as a leading adventure tour operator. Also, 1997 Let's Go India Guide recommends us as a leading adventure travel outfitter.


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PS5 VR Shortage: A Look Behind the Curtain of Sony's Debacle
PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan sat down with Washington Post reported to both confirm that a new PS5 VR is coming and explain the main reason behind the console shortage. Ryan noted that development kits for the new VR set would be out soon, but he was not ready for details like specs or horsepower.
In even better news, the new PSVR system for the PS5 is set to be a smoother and lighter experience, less bulky and full of wires—no more being wired up to the hardware, the PS4, the TV, and the PSVR processor. As Ryan explained to the Post: "Generational leaps allow you to sweep up the advances in technology … it gives us a chance to apply lessons learned." Including what's needed to attain a simple, one-cord hookup. Additionally, gamers will benefit from the upgrades of the DualSense controller. You can expect incredibly precise haptic feedback and really feel like you are in control of your movements and actions.
A day after Ryan's interview, Senior Vice President, Platform Planning & Management Hideaki Nishino posted on the official PS website to expound: "One of the innovations we're excited about is our new VR controller, which will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics."
While Ryan did not give any specific dates for release, Washington Post writer Gene Park pointed back to another interview in 2020, where Ryan noted Sony's interest in VR and estimated more information come 2021. Ryan also noted back then:
"I think we're more than a few minutes from the future of VR. PlayStation believes in VR. Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. Will it be this year? No. Will it be next year? No. But will it come at some stage? We believe that. And we're very pleased with all the experience that we've gained with PlayStation VR, and we look forward to seeing where that takes us in the future."
But like all businesses in the year 2020, Sony did not escape setbacks from the pandemic of COVID-19. In fact, Ryan explained, that is one major reason why there is a shortage of PS5 consoles. Apart from having to fight off scalpers at every sale, Sony is also having to compete with other retailers just to get the parts necessary to build the consoles, competing with businesses from rival Xbox to consumer electronics retailers due to a global shortage of semiconductor chips. Smartphone companies are the main competition for processors. Ryan notes that he's very sorry for these delays—despite sales exceeding four million through the end of last December. They managed to hit their sales expectations, but they also had to face a myriad of disappointed gamers who even today are constantly refreshing product pages to try and catch the next wave of stock.
"Demand was greater than we anticipated," Ryan admitted. "That, along with the complexities of the supply chain issues, resulted in a slightly lower supply than we initially anticipated." He also added that production was ramping up steadily. With widespread vaccine roll out and a move towards herd immunity, Ryan has high hopes that economies reopening brick and mortar stores will see a reduction in bot takeovers. In store purchase only will mean a fighting chance for gamers trying to hunt down a console, rather than trying to intercept a purchase before software programs snatch them all up for scalpers.
Until lockdowns are eased, however, Ryan and the team are reintroducing PlayStation's Play at Home campaign, giving away titles like Ratchet and Clank to help folks keep entertained while stuck at home. The campaign, like PS Plus and PS Now, is open to owners of the PS4, as well, so gamers have something to keep them occupied while waiting for the next batch of PS5s to hit shelves. The first title under the campaign's launch, "Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection," saw 10 million downloads. "Ratchet and Clank" was chosen as the next title to help build hype for the PS5 upcoming exclusive title, "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart" releasing this summer.
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Catan Game for Windows 8, 10 Gets Big Update, Download Now
Catan is a cool Windows 8 strategy game and we have talked about it thoroughly a while ago. It has been recently updated and we covered the latest features that it brought. Now, the game has received some more improvements that you'll find about below.
Catan is a fairly new Windows 8 game that you can download from the Windows Store (link at the end of the article), but it has already managed to acquire quite a follow-up in number of users. The game features the original "Settlers of Catan" rule set and what's really cool about it is that there's the multi-user game mode that you can play on your Windows 8 tablet with a customized user interface.
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"Catan", the legendary strategy game provides gaming fun any time, anywhere. True to the original game, you can compete with up to four players for the most settlements, the longest roads and the largest army. You can trade with each other and claim the precious land with all its resources. Various Catanians, each with their own individual characteristics, will prove themselves worthy competitors: the pirate Jean, who knows no compromise, Vincent the merchant, who never allows himself to be cheated, Sean the knight, who takes what is rightfully his…
According to the changelog on the game's page in the Windows Store, here are the things that have been improved – startup issues on Surface 2 devices, issues related to fog hexes in scenarios 6 and up, updates for audio playback (AI commentary), updated UI for spy card (this card can now always be played as intended). Also, the developer said that a new update will soon be made available to further improve some gameplay aspects. Currently, the game doesn't have a "brilliant" rating, and that's why the game has been updated so many times. Let's hope that the stability is now better and you will enjoy it even more.
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After three grueling days—ice carving is physically demanding—our Chef de Cuisine, Mike Dunlop, has completed another stunning sculpture for this year's Ice on Whyte Festival in Edmonton. Competing with international talent, Mike's team carved a familiar Christmas vignette titled Cindy Lou Who?
It's clear to see that Mike's artistic flair extends well beyond the kitchen. We are lucky to have such a talent in our rooftop restaurant, Vista 18. For more information about this year's Ice on Whyte Festival, and to see photos of last year's ice carvings, please visit www.iceonwhyte.ca.


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Also its countdown time 4 days till my bi-annual haircut and colour, 9 days till my birthday and 28 days till Christmas. Oh what an exciting month.
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Let's face it, setting a target pace and maintaining it throughout your run is an art. At first it seems easy—but before you know it, your mind starts to wander, or you get in the zone, and you're either way too fast, too slow or yo-yo'ing between the two.
Wouldn't it be cool if instead of just monitoring your average pace, current pace or splits, Runkeeper let you know when you're running faster, slower, or right at that sweet spot you hoped to hit? The good news is you can with a Target Pace Workout.
These workouts will let you set a Target Pace, and whenever your time Audio Cues trigger, it will announce whether you're behind or ahead of your Target Pace. To get started, tap the Workout Grid, select the Pace option and set this to the pace you're hoping to maintain. Check out the video out below for detailed instructions!
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Scientists recommend introducing regular sports breaks into the work schedule, which will not affect the performance of the enterprise, but, most likely, will make employees healthier and, as a result, more efficient.
– introductory gymnastics (prepares the person for the working day). The efficiency at the beginning of the work day is somewhat reduced, and it takes time for the body to fully engage in work and enter the normal optimal pace of the production process. Physical culture before starting work provides an accelerated entry into labor (training) activities, contributes to a high and stable performance, preventing early onset of fatigue.
In the complex introductory gymnastics usually include walking, running on the spot, bends, turns, exercises for arms and legs, stretching, squats, jumps, as well as exercises for accuracy of movement and concentration.
– physical breaks (active rest). The complex is a set of exercises in the hunt, warm-up (swinging) for arms and legs, squats, jumps, running, as well as exercises in relaxation of the most active muscle groups with dynamic efforts for others.
There is also the so-called "physical fitness", which prevents fatigue and maintains high performance. As a rule, physical exercise consists of 2-3 exercises that are performed independently. Physical fitness is recommended at the end of each hour of work.
It is also advisable to carry out production gymnastics during the lunch break, about 3-4 minutes before the start of work.
If possible, it is advisable to conduct production gymnastics in the open air, or in a ventilated room, with music. It is desirable to diversify physical exercises in the complexes, replacing them with new ones that are similar in effect on the body.
Fitness in the office is not only organized exercise. In modern companies, management often installs a pair of simulators where employees can relieve mental stress and work out for a couple of minutes.
Instead of sitting, the head can organize a simple walk in the fresh air, the park, with his staff (if the conference does not provide for a lot of statistical and graphic materials).
Talking on the phone, it is not necessary to sit at your workplace. It is better to get up and talk a little while talking.


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I don't know about you, but I love receiving cards in the mail. It can be a thank you note, birthday card, or wedding invitation–I just enjoy looking at each card's design. I believe stationery is a representation of who you are, and that's where Minted Stationery comes in.
With a plethora of products to choose from that fit any budget, free recipient addressing, custom designing, complete stationery suites, and free samples, it's easy to see why Minted stationery is so popular. There is truly something for every occasion in your life!
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Minted is a design marketplace comprised of independent artists from all 50 states and 96 countries, founded in 2007. Some artists are graphic designers and illustrators while others are stay-at-home moms with no prior design experience. Minted sources creative content from these independent artists and then sells them in the form of art, home décor, and stationery. Artists are then paid a commission on every sale that uses their design. Pretty cool, huh?
Independent artists submit content to the Minted website. Their designs are voted on by the "crowd", or anyone who uses the Minted website. Designs with the highest votes are declared winners and those winning designs are then sold on the Minted website.
What Products Can I Buy From Minted?
Minted Stationery comes on high quality paper, but there are other paper options to choose from, like pearlescent and double thick. Be sure to check out the foil-pressed items–they're absolutely stunning. Best of all, Minted offers free recipient addressing!
Planning your wedding? Minted is the go-to for wedding Stationery. With Save The Dates, Invitations for your wedding and all of the festivities beforehand, Will You Be My Bridesmaid Cards, and day of decor like Place Cards, Menus, and Table Numbers, Minted has everything you will need. You can even set up a wedding website through Minted!
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Epidemiology and outcomes of young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma: An analysis from a population-based database
Don C. Codipilly, Tarek Sawas, Lovekirat Dhaliwal, Michele L. Johnson, Ramona Lansing, Kenneth K. Wang, Cadman L. Leggett, David A. Katzka, Prasad G. Iyer
Background: Esophageal adenocarcinoma is a lethal cancer with rising incidence. There are limited data in younger (<50 years) patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma. We aimed to assess time trends in the incidence and outcomes of "youngonset"esophageal adenocarcinoma using a population-based database. Methods: We queried the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 9 database to identify patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma between 1975 and 2015. Patients were stratified into three age strata: <50, 50 to 69, and ≥70 years. Staging was stratified as localized, regional, and distant. Trends in incidence, disease stage, and survival were assessed in three periods (1975.89, 1990.99, and 2000.2015). Univariate and multivariate models were created to identify predictors of mortality. Results: Esophageal adenocarcinoma incidence has increased in patients <50 years of age, with an annual percentage change of 2.9% (95% confidence interval, 1.4%.4.4%) from 1975 to 2015. Youngonset esophageal adenocarcinoma presented at more advanced stages (regional + distant) compared with older patients (84.9% vs. 67.3%; P < 0.01), with increasing proportion of advanced stages over the study period. These patients also experienced poorer 5-year esophageal adenocarcinoma-free survival compared with older patients (22.9%% vs. 29.6%; P < 0.01), although this finding was attenuated on stage-stratified analysis. Conclusions: Young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma, while uncommon, is rising in incidence. Concerningly, the proportion of advanced disease continues to increase. Young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma also presents at more advanced stages, resulting in poorer esophageal adenocarcinoma-free survival. Impact: Patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma younger than 50 years present at more advanced stages with higher esophageal adenocarcinoma-specific mortality compared with older peers. Current diagnostic and management strategies for young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma may need to be reevaluated.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention
https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0944
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Codipilly, D. C., Sawas, T., Dhaliwal, L., Johnson, M. L., Lansing, R., Wang, K. K., Leggett, C. L., Katzka, D. A., & Iyer, P. G. (2021). Epidemiology and outcomes of young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma: An analysis from a population-based database. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 30(1), 142-149. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0944
Epidemiology and outcomes of young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma : An analysis from a population-based database. / Codipilly, Don C.; Sawas, Tarek; Dhaliwal, Lovekirat; Johnson, Michele L.; Lansing, Ramona; Wang, Kenneth K.; Leggett, Cadman L.; Katzka, David A.; Iyer, Prasad G.
In: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, Vol. 30, No. 1, 01.2021, p. 142-149.
Codipilly, DC, Sawas, T, Dhaliwal, L, Johnson, ML, Lansing, R, Wang, KK, Leggett, CL, Katzka, DA & Iyer, PG 2021, 'Epidemiology and outcomes of young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma: An analysis from a population-based database', Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 142-149. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0944
Codipilly DC, Sawas T, Dhaliwal L, Johnson ML, Lansing R, Wang KK et al. Epidemiology and outcomes of young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma: An analysis from a population-based database. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2021 Jan;30(1):142-149. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0944
Codipilly, Don C. ; Sawas, Tarek ; Dhaliwal, Lovekirat ; Johnson, Michele L. ; Lansing, Ramona ; Wang, Kenneth K. ; Leggett, Cadman L. ; Katzka, David A. ; Iyer, Prasad G. / Epidemiology and outcomes of young-onset esophageal adenocarcinoma : An analysis from a population-based database. In: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2021 ; Vol. 30, No. 1. pp. 142-149.
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The need for modern computers to store very large amounts of information has brought a rapid increase in the use of platinum to improve the data storage capacity of hard disks. The first hard disk drive, introduced by IBM in 1957, used fifty disks, each measuring 24 inches in diameter, to store just 5 megabytes of data. Nowadays, PC hard disks are available which can store 125 gigabytes (125,000 megabytes) of data, and capacity is increasing all the time. Manufacturers aim to continually reduce the average number of hard disks in each drive, so technology which can offer denser data storage is eagerly sought after.
Adding platinum enhances the magnetic qualities of the cobalt alloy, enabling data to be stored at higher densities and improving access times. Today, all hard disks contain platinum in their magnetic layers, compared with around 50 per cent in 1997. The proportion of platinum in the magnetic alloy has been increasing steadily over time, from less than 10 per cent five years ago to over 35 per cent, on average, today.
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Jerry's Chevrolet and Jerry's Motor Cars will pay a fired female employee $62,500 to settle a pay discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The federal agency's lawsuit alleged that the Baltimore County auto dealership fired a female warehouse dispatcher after she complained that she was paid less than a male dispatcher who did the same job. The female worker had complained to human resources and was told someone would look into it. She was fired a week later.
According to the lawsuit, filed last year in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the company said the worker was fired because she used a profanity during a break, though a male employee months earlier was given only a written warning for offensive behavior.
A representative of the dealership, located on East Joppa Road, could not be reached Friday afternoon.
The settlement includes a two-year consent decree prohibiting the company from discriminating in its wages based on sex and from retaliating against employees seeking equal pay. The dealership also is required to adopt a policy creating channels and procedures for employees to report unequal pay and to train managers on ways to prevent wage discrimination and retaliation.
"Women are still paid 83 cents to every dollar earned by men," Debra M. Lawrence, an EEOC regional attorney, said in an announcement Friday. "This problem cannot be fixed without women being able to speak out when they learn that they are paid less than male co-workers."


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California YIMBY's mission is to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family. Right now, millions of Californians live in crowded and substandard housing, with high rent burdens, exposure to health risks, and multi-hour commutes. As a result, many Californians are leaving the state, and fewer would-be Californians are immigrating. For many companies, the astronomical cost of housing is driving them to hire talent in other states. We need to reverse this trend, and we can.
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According to Meredith Mckinney in the Kyoto Journal article, who contributed to the translation of The Pillow Book from Japanese into EnglishThe Pillow Book is a special case, and it is a genre-bending miscellany of short, largely unrelated pieces. Three types of classification were proposed by Kikan Ikeda. It is composed primarily in Japanese hiragana, which is a syllabary that is actually derived from Chinese characters, and generally many of her short stories were written in a witty literary style.
Sunday, awake with this headache. I pull apart the evening with a fork. White clot behind the eyes. Someone once told me, before and after is just another false binary.
The warmed-over bones of January. I had no passport. Beneath the stove, two mice made a paradise out of a button of peanut butter. Suffering operates by its own logic. Its gropings and reversals. Ample, in ways that are exquisite. And how it leaves—not unlike how it arrives, without clear notice.
The stench making me look hard at everything. Summer mornings before the heat has moved in. Joy has been buried in me overnight, but builds in the early hours. The babbling streets of Causeway Bay, out of which the sharp taste of the city emerges. Nothing can stay dry here.
The dark cherries of eyes come and go, as they please. Let there be no more braiding of words. I want a spare mouth.
Exercise: plain English
My father taught me wherever you are, always be looking for a way out: Sharp enough to slice a hole for you to slip through. The stale odor of plush seats and sun-warmed cola. I grow adept at tunneling inward, a habit I have yet to let go of. I am protective of what eyes cannot pry open.
The infinite places within language to hide. A Zen priest once told me that without snagging on a storyline, the body can only take loss for ninety seconds.
The physical body has its limits, is what I heard. The imagination can break through them. Cotton thinning out into thread. Ice water from the spigot. The sacred and profane share a border.
In the desert, small droppings of unknown origin. Even when I was young, I loved peering at faces in films. The pleasure of watching and of not being watched.Who was the author of The Pillow Book?
3. In the Edo period, Zuihitsu found mainstream appeal through which group? 4. Which group began customarily writing in this style in this time period? 5. Matsudaira Sadanobu, a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, wrote what kind of text about his life as a daimyo? The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century Paperback – October 21, by Steven Carter (Editor)4/5(1).
Zuihitsu: the literary genre in which the text can drift like a cloud and parts in prose, whose function is to absorb the sentimentalism in a way that verse cannot. Reading or writing zuihitsu is Tagged: Japanese art, japanese literature, Kimiko Hahn, literary genres, literature, The Pillow Book Sei Shonagon, Zuihitsu.
RELATED POSTS. Japanese zuihitsu (essays) offer a treasure trove of information and insights rarely found in any other genre of Japanese writing. Especially during their golden age, the Edo period (–), zuihitsu treated a great variety of subjects.
In the pages of a typical zuihitsu the reader encountered facts and opinions on everything from martial arts to music, . The best writing for popular journalism is some of the best writing in journalism, and is hard to do. It is readily understandable, instantly readable and, if it is done well, makes you want to.
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It's certainly soup season and this is a must try. A tasty, easy way to hit your five a day and cooked tomatoes are a fantastic source of lycopene, a powerful antioxidant that helps prevent cancer and heart disease.
It's big, it's green and it packs a punch! This soup is perfect for the cold, frosty weather and is packed full of immune boosting nutrients to make you invincible this winter. This is a batch cooked recipe so perfect for a big family gathering or to be frozen ahead of time. Feel free to halve the measures to make a smaller batch.
Green leafy vegetables like kale, spinach and chard are just totally awesome when it comes to nutrients but their bitter taste can be difficult to get on with. This soup is the answer by smashing it together with tomatoes, carrots, coconut and lots of spices you'll be loving bowl after bowl and getting you 5 a day servings of veg in no time!
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Russell Westbrook suffered a knee injury that would have him miss the rest of the playoffs. After this injury, the Thunder and their playoff hopes fell on the shoulders of their big star, Kevin Durant. And at that point and time, Durant was not ready to shoulder the load. He was trying to do any and everything to help his team win, but he just had not expanded his game enough to handle those responsibilities. He had enough to beat the Rockets, but they fell in the Western Conference Semi-Finals to the Memphis Grizzlies in five games.
Heading into the offseason, it was not for certain when Russell Westbrook would return and many thought his absence would lead to more struggles from Oklahoma City. We never really got to witness early how the Thunder would look without Westbrook because he came back pretty early from his injury. And with Westbrook returning early, Oklahoma City served notice that they were a team to be reckoned with. But just like last year, Westbrook suffered another injury. The dynamic young point guard was again having trouble with his knee and his return to the team was not expected until after the All-Star break. And again the whispers began to come again about the Thunder falling back to the pack without Russell. But little did they know that this was only the time for Durant to obtain the glow.
For those that don't understand how Bruce Leroy obtained the glow or haven't seen this movie, you must understand that Leroy went through some trials to get to where he ended up. He passively fought some battles with the villain in the scene, Sho Nuff. But eventually, he learned from those situations in the past and looked deep inside himself to find the power he had all along. Durant, like Leroy, is a pretty passive person in his demeanor. And to his detriment sometimes, he does not have that alpha personality that you see from great players all the time. But one thing Durant has done this year is learn from the past. Instead of allowing the team to sink while Westbrook is out, Durant has taken the reins and taken over this team.
Currently, he has led the Thunder to nine straight wins and carried the Thunder offensively with 12 straight games of 30+ points. But it's not just that he is scoring, it's how he is doing it. Coming down the stretch of games, Durant is coming up with any and every clutch basket that his team needs. And unlike last year in the playoffs, he is also finding ways to be a facilitator and looks more comfortable in that role. The growth of Durant is undeniable. Just when you thought that he could not get any better, he acquires a keen killer instinct. And with his play so far this year, it seems like he may be the next person to hoist the NBA's MVP award. It's still a long season, but the gap is starting to close between two of the best players in the NBA, Kevin Durant and LeBron James.
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And true to his word in the press conference, he did not settle. He has guided the program to three straight bowl games and taken Vanderbilt from what some thought was a doormat to a team to be reckoned with. But just like the expectations and profile of Vanderbilt has risen, so has the profile of James Franklin. And now we enter another offseason of rumors of him leaving. Many thought that he would be the perfect fit for the University of Texas, but they chose Louisville's Charlie Strong. But the chase for Franklin's services did not end right there. The latest information has Franklin as the top candidate to be the new coach at Penn State University. So once again it is decision time for him. Will he stay or will he go?
Listening to the words of former Vanderbilt defensive lineman Alphonso Harvey, he has a couple opinions on what Franklin may or may not do. When asked whether Franklin will go or stay, Harvey said he believes that Franklin will "make the best decision for him and his family". Harvey also said: "Coaching at a sanctioned program (Penn State) is not the big time. Building a program in the toughest conference in America is." Harvey has a point. If Franklin was to leave and go to Penn State, he would enter a situation that would be even tougher than coaching at Vanderbilt in the SEC. As Harvey stated, there are serious sanctions still on the program at Penn State that could severely hamper what Franklin would like to do. And also, the expectations that would be heaped upon him could be something that he has never seen or could be prepared for. Is he ready for to take on the job at one of the storied programs in college football?
If he were to stay at Vanderbilt, he could continue to do some great things. And Franklin supporters like Vandy alum Zainab Muzzaffar feel that he should stay and be the coach here in Nashville, Tennessee. Muzzaffar stated: "Coach Franklin created magic at Vandy asnd did an amazing job. It was also our environment that was ready to embrace his ideas, his beliefs and basically let him build the program from the ground up." If Zainab gets what she wants, Franklin will continue to be here and take a program without expectations the likes of Penn State to heights that it has never been to all the while rewriting the history books.
But on the flip side of the coin, Franklin is coaching at Vanderbilt University. And although he is doing well right now, can he continue to have this type of success at Vanderbilt despite not being able to bring in all the top talents? Franklin has far and away exceeded any expectations that anyone had for Vanderbilt on the recruiting trail and on the field. But what happens when the expectation he set becomes not good enough anymore? What if things level off and the love that everyone has for him becomes frustration that the program is not progressing upward anymore? Those are things Franklin has to consider while going forward. He said he would like to bring championships to Vanderbilt and he has high goals, but the reality is that the odds are stacked against him to win an SEC championship let alone a national title. And in the end, although he is an outstanding coach, he will still not be able to bring the type of talent in that keep him competing in the long haul with the big boys across the country and the SEC.
Although Penn State is not in the SEC and is not the most attractive job by some people's standards, it still is a job that is considered big time. And in the coaching circuit, you cannot let too many chances pass when they are on the table. Like sports agent Steven Dolan of Team 31 Sports and Entertainment stated: "Franklin has to strike while the iron is hot. If not, a couple bad seasons at Vandy and he will be an average Joe." Dolan has a point there. In the coaching business, you have to take advantage of the opportunities. And as bad as the Penn State job looks right now, it's conceivable that he will have a better chance to win a conference and national title there then at Vanderbilt considering he can survive the sanctions that are there.
These are all the things that weigh on the brain of Mr. Franklin. Hopefully in the next few days we will find out what happens and what he chooses to do. If you were James Franklin, what would you do?
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	"time"

	"github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/build"
	"github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/crypto"
	"github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/modules"
	"github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/profile"
	mnemonics "github.com/NebulousLabs/entropy-mnemonics"

	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
	"golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal"
)

// passwordPrompt securely reads a password from stdin.
func passwordPrompt(prompt string) (string, error) {
	fmt.Print(prompt)
	pw, err := terminal.ReadPassword(int(syscall.Stdin))
	fmt.Println()
	return string(pw), err
}

// verifyAPISecurity checks that the security values are consistent with a
// sane, secure system.
func verifyAPISecurity(config Config) error {
	// Make sure that only the loopback address is allowed unless the
	// --disable-api-security flag has been used.
	if !config.Siad.AllowAPIBind {
		addr := modules.NetAddress(config.Siad.APIaddr)
		if !addr.IsLoopback() {
			if addr.Host() == "" {
				return fmt.Errorf("a blank host will listen on all interfaces, did you mean localhost:%v?\nyou must pass --disable-api-security to bind Siad to a non-localhost address", addr.Port())
			}
			return errors.New("you must pass --disable-api-security to bind Siad to a non-localhost address")
		}
		return nil
	}

	// If the --disable-api-security flag is used, enforce that
	// --authenticate-api must also be used.
	if config.Siad.AllowAPIBind && !config.Siad.AuthenticateAPI {
		return errors.New("cannot use --disable-api-security without setting an api password")
	}
	return nil
}

// processNetAddr adds a ':' to a bare integer, so that it is a proper port
// number.
func processNetAddr(addr string) string {
	_, err := strconv.Atoi(addr)
	if err == nil {
		return ":" + addr
	}
	return addr
}

// processModules makes the modules string lowercase to make checking if a
// module in the string easier, and returns an error if the string contains an
// invalid module character.
func processModules(modules string) (string, error) {
	modules = strings.ToLower(modules)
	validModules := "cghmrtwe"
	invalidModules := modules
	for _, m := range validModules {
		invalidModules = strings.Replace(invalidModules, string(m), "", 1)
	}
	if len(invalidModules) > 0 {
		return "", errors.New("Unable to parse --modules flag, unrecognized or duplicate modules: " + invalidModules)
	}
	return modules, nil
}

// processProfileFlags checks that the flags given for profiling are valid.
func processProfileFlags(profile string) (string, error) {
	profile = strings.ToLower(profile)
	validProfiles := "cmt"

	invalidProfiles := profile
	for _, p := range validProfiles {
		invalidProfiles = strings.Replace(invalidProfiles, string(p), "", 1)
	}
	if len(invalidProfiles) > 0 {
		return "", errors.New("Unable to parse --profile flags, unrecognized or duplicate flags: " + invalidProfiles)
	}
	return profile, nil
}

// processConfig checks the configuration values and performs cleanup on
// incorrect-but-allowed values.
func processConfig(config Config) (Config, error) {
	var err1, err2 error
	config.Siad.APIaddr = processNetAddr(config.Siad.APIaddr)
	config.Siad.RPCaddr = processNetAddr(config.Siad.RPCaddr)
	config.Siad.HostAddr = processNetAddr(config.Siad.HostAddr)
	config.Siad.Modules, err1 = processModules(config.Siad.Modules)
	config.Siad.Profile, err2 = processProfileFlags(config.Siad.Profile)
	err3 := verifyAPISecurity(config)
	err := build.JoinErrors([]error{err1, err2, err3}, ", and ")
	if err != nil {
		return Config{}, err
	}
	return config, nil
}

// unlockWallet is called on siad startup and attempts to automatically
// unlock the wallet with the given password string.
func unlockWallet(w modules.Wallet, password string) error {
	var validKeys []crypto.TwofishKey
	dicts := []mnemonics.DictionaryID{"english", "german", "japanese"}
	for _, dict := range dicts {
		seed, err := modules.StringToSeed(password, dict)
		if err != nil {
			continue
		}
		validKeys = append(validKeys, crypto.TwofishKey(crypto.HashObject(seed)))
	}
	validKeys = append(validKeys, crypto.TwofishKey(crypto.HashObject(password)))
	for _, key := range validKeys {
		if err := w.Unlock(key); err == nil {
			return nil
		}
	}
	return modules.ErrBadEncryptionKey
}

// startDaemon uses the config parameters to initialize Sia modules and start
// siad.
func startDaemon(config Config) (err error) {
	if config.Siad.AuthenticateAPI {
		password := os.Getenv("SIA_API_PASSWORD")
		if password != "" {
			fmt.Println("Using SIA_API_PASSWORD environment variable")
			config.APIPassword = password
		} else {
			// Prompt user for API password.
			config.APIPassword, err = passwordPrompt("Enter API password: ")
			if err != nil {
				return err
			}
			if config.APIPassword == "" {
				return errors.New("password cannot be blank")
			}
		}
	}

	// Print the siad Version and GitRevision
	fmt.Println("Sia Daemon v" + build.Version)
	if build.GitRevision == "" {
		fmt.Println("WARN: compiled without build commit or version. To compile correctly, please use the makefile")
	} else {
		fmt.Println("Git Revision " + build.GitRevision)
	}

	// Install a signal handler that will catch exceptions thrown by mmap'd
	// files.
	// NOTE: ideally we would catch SIGSEGV here too, since that signal can
	// also be thrown by an mmap I/O error. However, SIGSEGV can occur under
	// other circumstances as well, and in those cases, we will want a full
	// stack trace.
	mmapChan := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
	signal.Notify(mmapChan, syscall.SIGBUS)
	go func() {
		<-mmapChan
		fmt.Println("A fatal I/O exception (SIGBUS) has occurred.")
		fmt.Println("Please check your disk for errors.")
		os.Exit(1)
	}()

	// Print a startup message.
	fmt.Println("Loading...")
	loadStart := time.Now()
	srv, err := NewServer(config)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	errChan := make(chan error)
	go func() {
		errChan <- srv.Serve()
	}()
	err = srv.loadModules()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// listen for kill signals
	sigChan := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
	signal.Notify(sigChan, os.Interrupt, os.Kill, syscall.SIGTERM)

	// Print a 'startup complete' message.
	startupTime := time.Since(loadStart)
	fmt.Println("Finished loading in", startupTime.Seconds(), "seconds")

	// wait for Serve to return or for kill signal to be caught
	err = func() error {
		select {
		case err := <-errChan:
			return err
		case <-sigChan:
			fmt.Println("\rCaught stop signal, quitting...")
			return srv.Close()
		}
	}()
	if err != nil {
		build.Critical(err)
	}

	return nil
}

// startDaemonCmd is a passthrough function for startDaemon.
func startDaemonCmd(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) {
	var profileCPU, profileMem, profileTrace bool

	profileCPU = strings.Contains(globalConfig.Siad.Profile, "c")
	profileMem = strings.Contains(globalConfig.Siad.Profile, "m")
	profileTrace = strings.Contains(globalConfig.Siad.Profile, "t")

	if build.DEBUG {
		profileCPU = true
		profileMem = true
	}

	if profileCPU || profileMem || profileTrace {
		go profile.StartContinuousProfile(globalConfig.Siad.ProfileDir, profileCPU, profileMem, profileTrace)
	}

	// Start siad. startDaemon will only return when it is shutting down.
	err := startDaemon(globalConfig)
	if err != nil {
		die(err)
	}

	// Daemon seems to have closed cleanly. Print a 'closed' mesasge.
	fmt.Println("Shutdown complete.")
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Writing a business plan is a fundamental step to ensuring your business has every chance of succeeding. What trends are affecting your business in the following areas: social, technological, economical, political. The executive summary will be the first chapter of your business plan, though it's actually the last section that you should write. The risk analysis will allow management to put in place contingency measures that are essential for both safe-guarding the prospects of the business and for the successful delivery of the business objectives.
Seberapa baik business plan tersebut akan memberikan gambaran faktor-faktor penentu keberhasilan bisnis.Apakah faktor-faktor tersebut telah didefiniskan. Getting started with a business plan will help you to save money and time since you will be able to deal with issues before they become a problem. Since your business is growing and you have average or better credit, a microloan is a good option if you're looking for reasonable rates.
If you are pivoting or changing your business altogether, it is essential to revise your Business Plan. A more complex asset-based business – or one with complex working capital requirements – will need balance sheet forecasts as well. A good marketing strategy portrays the business owners or promoter as having a clear idea of how to get the product and services to the desired market.
The objectives can help you decide how much emphasis to put on various sections of your plan. You may also need to include a financial section if you are considering the help of a bank, lender or backer to help in your business. By having all those information, you can see that a business plan is very much like a blueprint that will help you or anyone start and manage a business regardless of its nature.
The more you comprehend your rival the more you can create your business methodology of being distinctive and beating them. This gives moguls extra security that the organization will execute on its plan of action. A business proposal write-up could be in the of a formal or official letter from an offer to an offered requesting for a grant or other facilitations.


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Jeremy SHARPE IAI Member
Tel: +1.613.266.4907 (Direct)
jks@jeremyksharpe.com
https://www.jeremyksharpe.com/
Nationality USA
Bar Admission New York - 2000
District of Columbia - 2004
Position Adjunct Professor - Georgetown University Law Center (International Courts and Tribunals: Theory and Practice (2012-2015); International Transitional Justice (2010-2011))
as Counsel Numerous international arbitration proceedings, ad hoc (including UNCITRAL) and under the Rules of the ICC, ICSID and AAA (mostly disputes regarding investment, oil and gas, transportation, construction, renewable energy, mining, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and infrastructure); proceedings before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; former Chief of Investment Arbitration in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State
Arbitration • Executive Editor (1997-98) and Staff Editor (1996-97), NYU Journal of International Law
• Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (2nd ed., Kluwer, forthcoming) (with C.N. Brower, L.M. Caplan, and J. Wong)
• "Designing International Law-Based UN Sanctions: Lessons from Iraq" (forthcoming) (with D.M. DeBartolo)
• "Negotiating from a Model Bilateral Investment Treaty," in Treaty-Making in Investment Law (forthcoming, IAI Series on International Arbitration No. 10)
• "FTAs with Appeals Mechanisms," (forthcoming, QMUL-SIA/ICSID)
• "Arbitral Tribunals' Inherent Powers in Corruption Matters," in Inherent Powers of Arbitrators 167 (F. Ferrari and F. Rosenfeld eds., Juris, 2019)
• "Trends in Investment Chapter/BIT Drafting to Address Environmental Protection," in COP21 Climate Change Related Disputes: A Role for International Arbitration and ADR (ICC Publication, 2016)
• "The Minimum Standard of Treatment, 'Glamis Gold', and 'Neer''s Enduring Influence," in Building International Investment Law – The First 50 Years of ICSID 269 (M. Kinnear et al. eds., Kluwer, 2015)
• "Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: The U.S. Experience," Transnational Dispute Management (2014), reprinted in Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of a Roadmap (A. Joubin-Bret and J. Kalicki eds., Martinus Nijhoff, 2015) (with K. Kizer)
• "The Potential Impact on Investment Arbitration of the ILC's Work on Customary International Law," Am. J. Int'l. L. Unbound (Dec. 23, 2014)
• "Possible Paradigmatic Changes in the Settlement of International Investment Disputes," in Proceedings of the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 193 (2014)
• "Representing a Respondent State in Investment Arbitration," in Litigating International Investment Disputes: A Practitioner's Guide 41 (C. Giorgetti ed., Martinus Nijhoff, 2014)
• "Determining the Extent of Discovery and Dealing with Requests for Discovery: Perspectives from the Common Law," in The Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration 307 (Newman & Hill eds., Juris, 3rd rev. ed. 2014; 2nd rev. ed. 2008; 1st ed. 2004) (with C.N. Brower)
• "United States," in Commentaries on International Investment Agreements (C. Brown ed., Oxford, 2013) (with L.M. Caplan)
• "Challenge Decision in Mauritius v. United Kingdom," 51 International Legal Materials 350 (2012)
• "The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal," in The Rules, Practice, and Jurisprudence of International Courts and Tribunals 545 (C. Giorgetti ed., Brill, 2012) (paperback ed. 2013)
• "Challenge Decision in Vito G. Gallo v. Canada," 49 International Legal Materials 23 (2010)
• "The Role of States in Fostering the Culture of Arbitration," in World Jurist Association Working Papers (2009)
• "L'état du droit en Irak," 35 Recueil Dalloz 2488 (2008)
• "Inoperative Arbitration Agreements Under the New York Convention," in Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and International Arbitral Awards—The New York Convention 1958 in Practice 297 (E. Gaillard & D. Di Pietro eds., 2008) (with C. Lamm)
• "Drawing Adverse Inferences from the Non-Production of Evidence," 22(4) Arb. Int'l 549 (2006)
• "Awards of Compound Interest in International Arbitration: The Aminoil Non-Precedent," in Global Reflections on International Law, Commerce and Dispute Resolution 155 (G. Aksen et al. eds., ICC, 2005) (with C.N. Brower)
• "The Creeping Codification of Transnational Commercial Law: An Arbitrator's Perspective," 45 Virginia J. of Int'l L. 199 (2004) (with C.N. Brower)
• "The Coming Crisis in the Global Adjudication System," 19(4) Arb. Int'l 415(2003) (with C.N. Brower and C.H. Brower II) (reprinted in 7 World Arbitration and Mediation Review)
• "Multiple and Conflicting International Arbitral Awards," 4 J. of World Investment and Trade 211 (2003) (with C.N. Brower)
• "International Arbitration and the Islamic World: The Third Phase," 97 Am. J. of Int'l L. 643 (2003) (with C.N. Brower)


Hygral Fatigue is a topic that I have mentioned in previous blog posts so I'm certain you have heard of it by now. If not, no worries, I will briefly explain what it is and how I work to combat it.
Let's touch on what happens to the hair fiber as water passes in and out of our hair strands during wash day. When hair is wet, the hair shaft expands and swells to absorb water and hair product. As water and product passes through our strands and evaporates, the hair shaft de-swells, contracts and shrinks back to normal size. The repeated process of expansion and contraction is stressful and damaging as it weakens the hair cuticle and cortex, thereby making it prone to damage. The damage that is done to the hair fiber from the expansion and contraction is known as hygral fatigue.
How Does Hygral Fatigue Occur?
How to Combat Hygral Fatigue!
Textured hair has a tendency to take in more water than other hair types which makes it susceptible to damage. In addition, our hair loses a little bit of protein each time we wash our hair. Therefore, protecting the inner protein structure of the hair shaft is important to combatting hygral fatigue.
Using oils prior to shampooing is one of the best ways to protect the inner structure of the hair. Pre-shampooing, or pre-pooing for short, means applying a (thin or heavy) coating of oil to our hair and allowing it to penetrate into the strands for 15-30 minutes or more before shampooing. Pre-pooing protects and buffers the hair against the harsh and drying effects of shampooing and prevents the loss of protein from the hair.
-it strengthens and reinforces the hair shaft from within.
The presence of extra virgin coconut oil reduces the amount of swelling within the hair shaft, thereby minimizing the potential for hygral fatigue. Therefore, extra virgin coconut oil makes for a great pre-poo treatment based on its overall benefits to the hair as well its ability to combat hygral fatigue!
How do you combat hygral fatigue?
Great post, Jay! I learn something new every time I read about hygral fatigue.


I've always thought people who took their dogs long-distance cruising were more than a little crazy. But after reading Peter Muilenburg's A Sea Dog's Tale: The True Story of a Small Dog on a Big Ocean, I'm no longer so sure.
I've always thought people who took their dogs long-distance cruising were more than a little crazy. But after reading Peter Muilenburg's A Sea Dog's Tale: The True Story of a Small Dog on a Big Ocean, I'm no longer so sure. Muilenburg's story concerns Santos, a schipperke who logged some 75,000 sea miles with Muilenburg's wife and sons, and in the process was twice given up for dead as a result of his many adventures, which included everything from a kidnapping to hurricanes. Bred to serve as guard dogs and rat catchers aboard Belgian canal barges, schipperkes, with their high energy and persistent bark, may not be everyone's cup of tea. But rest assured that with a schipperke aboard, there will never be a dull moment afloat. In Santos's case, the result is not just a good dog story, but a good sailing yarn, period—which should come as no surprise given Muilenburg's long writing career, which has included numerous articles in SAIL. We should all be such tenacious and loyal shipmates as Santos.


Kahlil Gibran wrote "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." And perhaps it's appropriate to quote Gibran's The Prophet when talking about French-born actor Reda Kateb, who embodies at once cultures as diverse as Algerian, Czech and Italian.
If you are not familiar with Kateb's name yet, you will be. I believe he's about to become the most sought-after actor in world cinema.
But back to generosity and Kateb. The two seem to go hand in hand, as the actor dedicated his time and energy to answering thoughtfully each and every question posed by a roomful of journalists who simply couldn't get enough of his wisdom. Kateb gave of himself, on a sunny but frigid afternoon, when one could tell he'd been doing press all day for Étienne Comar's Django -- this year's opening film at the Berlinale. Coming back from a break just outside, on the balcony of the suite in the Scandic Hotel, he excused himself by saying "if I give twice the same answer you'll forgive me," clearly tired from the day-long junket he'd been a part of. Yet once the questions started, Kateb was there, in the moment, present and giving, never holding back, always being sincere. And he never repeated himself.
Watching Django, I realized Kateb's Django Reinhardt redefined courage for me. His languid, truthful way of embodying the legendary Gypsy guitarist redefines an iconic figure and from now on, I'll never be able to listen to Django's music again without seeing Kateb's face. That face, so understatedly yet powerfully handsome, the way he smiles, also lacking any sign of self-importance, Kateb embodies true beauty. His sultry gaze and quiet passion, the kind you feel bubbling just below the surface, make Django irresistible and from a character in a film and a musical figure in our collective imagination, Kateb turns him into a real man right in front of our eyes.
There is also a playfulness to Kateb that sneaked out a couple of times during the interview, a break from his otherwise disciplined persona. At the start, he pulled a bright red guitar pick out of his pocket and started twirling it around in his fingers. When he accidentally dropped it, while his translator turned his French answers into English, he reached down to the floor and searched for it under the table. It made me giggle while I transcribed his thoughts later, giggle out loud at the thought of him searching for his red guitar pick, with the help of a journalist sitting to his left.
Interviewing Kateb made me wish my work for the day could end there. You know, when you've experienced the best and nothing could possibly top it? That's how I felt and I don't remember actually walking back to my hotel from the Scandic. But I remember crossing gaze with a few of my fellow human beings and finding new beauty in them.
When a film, a star, a meeting can do that, I say it's cinematic magic.
What is it like to do press all day? Does it get to be very surreal at this level?
Reda Kateb: Not surreal, but one tends to get tired.
How do you approach a genius that actually lived and still make the part your own?
Kateb: Right from the moment I read the script, and I knew very little about Django, I felt that I will have to look for a character that was much bigger than me, and almost bigger than life. Exactly like the great characters that you get in theater who are in a way some concentration of humanity. They are very full and very complex. And this is how I felt with Django. So it really was a challenge for me to understand who this character was that I will have to play. It was like having to go up a mountain really. The preparation work lasted for a year and when Etienne Comar was about to start shooting I required a little more time in order to prepare better because I didn't feel I was ready. When the shoot started lets say maybe the first week, I was trying to adjust and find out how I was going to do, but then after a week it was perfectly OK and I was ready to let go. When I put on my costume, I was Django.
Was it difficult to communicate in a different language in this film? Your language is acting whereas in this film you are using music so much to communicate what you are feeling, and who you are.
Kateb: I have a musical relationship with acting. And this for each part, I really find it has to do with the rhythm you give and it's some kind of music, and I absolutely love acting in another language. Last year I shot a film with Wim Wenders where I spoke in Somali and obviously I absolutely ignore the Somalian language so every morning and every night I was learning my lines, phonetically. My approach of the language was not any more something that had to do with the meaning of language, it was an approach that had to do with the vibrations, with the way the voice can actually be an instrument. I felt that when you are liberated from the meaning, you are as close as possible to the animal vibration that you feel when you speak. In a way we actors we do some kind of interpretation with an instrument, which is the voice, and my real preparation for Django was the musical preparation that lasted a year and this really was my gateway to the character.
How well did you learn to play and how much of it is in the film?
Kateb: The preparation lasted for one year so I played every day and during that year I shot two other films but I always had my guitar with me in my dressing room and I was playing, I was doing my scales. I started with simple tunes like some Bob Dylan music and then little by little I started playing with this three-fingers technique and I did exercises with rhythm. This is what I worked on for the film. What was most important for me was that other musicians watching the film should believe that I was the one playing. As I also wanted audiences of Gypsy origin to really believe that I was a Gypsy when they would watch the film. This was my challenge and what I concentrated on.
When we see guitar playing, is it always you doing it or is it a double?
Kateb: For the close-ups they are the hands of someone called Christophe Lartilleux but for any kind of wider shot it's really me.
Are you interested in the obvious political resonance of the film?
Kateb: Anytime I do a film I need to agree with the viewpoint, the stance of the film. To me the film was a way of paying homage to the grand icon of Gypsy music and also to the Gypsy community. It was also speaking of a specific period and it was in 2016 in France that the genocide of the Gypsy people was recognized so in a way it was my opportunity to take part in telling a history that was not necessarily in the textbooks. You can also see the film as the story of a family of refugees who would need to cross a lake in order to survive and obviously if were to see what this lake could be nowadays it's quite obviously the Mediterranean. It was for me important that the film not be merely some kind of historical postcard but to resonate with the bigger picture in our days. The film is not a statement, it does not deliver any kind of message. It is more a work of art that actually puts forth emotions and could enable the viewer to feel and maybe then start thinking.
It's inevitable to watch the film and draw comparisons with what is happening around the world, in the USA and specifically in France. Would you like to share your opinion about what happen in France if Marine Le Pen wins?
Kateb: How can I say this. First of all, I feel more like a citizen of the world, and I don't want to come here and deliver some kind of view on French politics. I think it's a global movement. In a way we are sort of going backwards. The world is becoming more right-wing orientated and it seems that people are in some sort of need for strong or dictatorial political figures. This is something that I can see, like many of us, and something that I find rather worrying -- as many of us do. But I don't think the question is whether it will be Marine Le Pen or François Fillon, I think the question is more about -- and this is something that has lingered in my mind for a long time -- is it a particular time that creates the great political figures or do great political figures exist and then are they going to shape the times, the era? I think it's the first that actually happens. There are moments in history that call for a certain type of figure and I think our times call for the type of more right-wing dictatorial figures. But having said that I think it's important to have a film that actually pays homage to a people without borders, who know no frontier, people who in a way are not money-oriented, who live their lives almost poetically and artistically, and I think this kind of film in our days is extremely necessary. I think it's a strong symbol to have it open the Berlinale.
Django, first refusing to play for the Nazis, then accepting. How do you relate?
Kateb: I imagine that some right-wing people may have bought some tickets to my films and as such, contributed to the funding of the films. Actually I doubt they are very numerous because the films I've made are not likely to interest these kind of people, but anyway I think like Django, if I were performing in a theater I certainly wouldn't ask the people what are their political views. Anybody can actually decide to buy a ticket to see a show or a film or to buy a record. You can't prevent people from coming to see you. But as an artist you can decide to align with, or to support some politician or some political party, and then you have to realize that this may have some consequences. This is where the line is drawn. As a citizen I would certainly like people like Marine Le Pen not to exist, but the question about political commitment of artists is a question that you should really ask yourself. I did a lot of research about how artists behaved during the Nazi occupation in France, and some of them like Django just carried on, kept doing their jobs, as did bus drivers, because they needed to survive. Others were actually far more involved with the Nazis. They went and shared dinners or lunches with them or did publicity, like Fernandel did on Radio Paris. This is where you can draw the line between what it is to carry on doing your job and collaborating.
But it's always difficult to judge people, to imagine what you could have been doing in this difficult period. I know for myself I certainly would not have been able to -- even if it was something that could help my career -- collaborate with this kind of regime.
Photos by © Roger Arpajou courtesy of Berlinale, used with permission.