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Photo by Sally Parker
Craig joined the Board in 2014. Craig is retired after a 31-year career with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources including being Director of Policy & Government Relations. Craig is a fourth-generation Western Washington native and grew up in Seattle. He received BS and MS degrees from the University of Washington. He values the chance to help Capitol Land Trust continue its conservation strategies for our south Sound community.
Audrey Lamb
Audrey was welcomed as a member of CLT's Board of Directors in 2017. Audrey holds a BA from Brandeis University and a Master's from the Evergreen State College with a focus on shellfish aquaculture. Having previously worked for a local land trust, Audrey has experienced firsthand the important role that land trusts have in our communities. Audrey grew up spending time outdoors and envisions a vibrant future where younger generations can hike, swim, and eat oysters along the shores of Puget Sound.
Skip McGinty
Skip was welcomed as a member of CLT's Board of Directors in 2017. Skip is a retired healthcare management consultant. His career also included 20 years as an executive with the Kaiser Permanente healthcare program, 2 years an official with the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, and 10 years as a Peace Corps volunteer and staff member. Skip has an AB from Occidental College and an MBA from Stanford University. He is an enthusiastic hiker, skier, kayaker and cyclist.
Barb Morson
Barb was welcomed as a member of CLT's Board of Directors in 2015. She earned a degree in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine. She spent her career in engineering consulting, working to investigate and clean up contaminated sites. She brings to the Board her positive energy, and commitment to CLT's long term conservation vision and stewardship needs.
Bob Van Schoorl
Bob joined the Capitol Land Trust's board of directors in April 2014. Bob is retired after a 32-year career in state and local government. He served for ten years with the Department of Natural Resources where he became very interested in conservation and land management. He sees a direct connection between the conservation of upland habits and the water quality in Puget Sound. Bob grew up in eastern Washington where he learned to camp, hike, fish, and boat.
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Elizabeth McManus
Elizabeth attended The Evergreen State College and received a degree in Field Biology. She works as a managing partner with Ross Strategic, an environment, natural resources, and public health works consultancy. She has also worked on environmental policy and state/federal relationships for the Washington State Department of Ecology and the US Environmental Protection Agency in Seattle and Washington D.C.
Jane Chavey
Jane was introduced to CLT through her work in the Communications Office of the Department of Natural Resources. Jane participates in the Marketing and Outreach Committee, which taps into her interest in communications. Jane is an artist, doing spatial design and painting. She also gardens and enjoys spending time with her husband, Steve, their kids and granddaughter.
Bill graduated from Washington State University and began his career working for the state legislature. For 30 years he worked for state government focusing on finance and budgeting. After leaving government, Bill became the Director of State Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy of Washington. He represented The Nature Conservancy and other environmental organizations on a variety of state legislative and agency policy issues.
Scot McQueen
Scot was raised in rural Colorado where he developed a deep appreciation for open spaces, working forests, and outdoor recreation. He moved to Washington almost 30 years ago and has raised 2 daughters in the beautiful outdoors we have here. He has an Environmental Science degree from The Evergreen State College and has developed a career applying technology to difficult resource management problems. Scot is an avid trail runner and regularly participates in marathons and ultramarathons. He believes that connecting people with the outdoors ultimately helps both the individuals and the conservation of wild areas. He also leads group hiking and running trips in the Patagonia Region of Argentina, South America.
Andrea supports graduate students from application to graduation as the Assistant Director of the Master of Environmental Studies program at The Evergreen State College. She's also an alumna of this program from 2013 where she focused on environmental education and communication. She has a decade of experience in outdoor leadership, trail maintenance and construction, and youth engagement. In her free time she explores trails of all kinds as a runner, hiker, and backpacker.
Jason Callahan
Jason is the Director of Government Relations with the Washington Forest Protection Association where he advocates for sustainable forestry. He has an undergraduate degree in wildlife resource management from West Virginia University and a law degree from Florida State University. Prior to his current position, he served as non-partisan staff to the state House of Representatives where he specialized in natural resource, agriculture, and environmental policy.
Sandra Kaiser
Sandra Kaiser is a third-generation Washingtonian, former communications director for the state Department of Natural Resources, and currently vice president for college relations at The Evergreen State College. She served presidents Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama for 28 years as an American diplomat and now lives on Totten Inlet in rural Thurston County.
Craig Hansen
Craig graduated from the University of Washington with a Master's Degree in Wildlife Management. He worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and as an environmental consultant for most of his career. Craig has over 35 years of experience in fish and wildlife management, applied aquatic and terrestrial ecology, and resolving species conservation technical and policy issues at local, regional and national scales. During this time, Craig developed a keen appreciation for natural resources in the Pacific Northwest, as well as an understanding of the need to conserve and restore ever-dwindling fish and wildlife habitat that so many of us enjoy. Craig currently serves as a Senior Advisor to companies developing habitat conservation plans for forestry and aquaculture management activities in Oregon and Washington.
Larry Fairleigh
Larry brings experience gained after a 41-year career in the planning, acquisition, development, stewardship, and management of public parks and habitat lands. He served nearly 20 years as an Assistant Director at Washington State Parks. Larry was a founding Board Member of Capitol Land Trust and now returns hoping to support the goals of Capitol Land Trust and pass on some of the wisdom and experience gained during his working years.
Bobby Hall
Bobby is Capitol Land Trust's 2019 Board Fellow. As a graduate student in Evergreen's Master of Environmental Studies program, Bobby is passionate about land conservation and eager to learn more about environmental policy. Bobby grew up here in Thurston County and graduated from Western Washington University with a political science degree. He currently works in the Governmental Relations office of the WA Department of Transportation and enjoys spending time hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
Dave Winter
Dave was born and raised in Olympia, WA where his childhood was filled with outdoor experiences. He majored in outdoor recreation at Western Washington University, and built his career focused on conserving outdoor places—to pave the way for future generations to share those same experiences. Most recently, David was Puget Sound Outdoor Programs & Outreach Manager for Seattle-based REI (Recreation Equipment, Inc).
Photo by Wes Kirkpatrick
Laurence Reeves
Conservation Director
Laurence oversees the acquisition, stewardship and restoration efforts at CLT. He is passionate about conservation and enjoys working with landowners to find creative approaches to conserving property. Prior to joining CLT in 2008, he worked in state government, academia and the army. He studied environmental science and forestry at Utah State University and has a PhD in forest economics from the University of Minnesota.
Photo by Greg Mennegar
Quita Terrell
Quita grew up in Olympia and received her BA in English from Western Washington University. She has been with Capitol Land Trust since 2012, keeping everything in the office running smoothly. Her first lesson in stewarding the land was picking up trash on Olympic Peninsula with her father when she was five and she now enjoys sharing similar experiences with her own children.
Thom Woodruff
Land Protection Manager
Thom has over 20 years of real estate acquisition experience. He spent ten years as the Real Estate Acquisition Supervisor for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, in Olympia, and partnered with CLT on our Black River Ranch acquisition project. Thom also spent 13 years working as a Lands Program Manager at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Missoula, MT.
Daron Williams
Restoration & Public Access Manager
Daron has worked in jobs associated with natural/water resources and conservation/restoration for five years for non-profits, federal and state agencies before joining Capitol Land Trust in 2015. He has a BA in Political Science, an AAS in Water Resources and a Master's degree in Environmental Studies. Daron's work experience includes a mix of conducting field-based scientific studies, designing and implementing restoration projects and working with community members and kids to promote environmental education.
Alison Beglin
Finance & Operations Manager
Alison has lived in Olympia since 2008. She has a B.S. in Planning, Public Policy and Management with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from the University of Oregon. When not at work, Alison spends time with her husband Hugh. They enjoy a vast array of activities: hiking, kayaking, biking, skiing, snowshoeing, recreational sports and hanging out with friends and family.
Sierra Jacob
Membership Engagement Manager
Sierra was born and raised in Maui, Hawai`i. She received her BA degree in English at Western Washington University and her MFA in Poetry at the University of Montana – Missoula. Most recently, she was Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Sierra is excited to live near the water again, explore all the new trails Southwest Washington has to offer, and spend some time in the Olympics. When not at work, Sierra and her fiancé love hiking with their dog (Milton), birding, reading, and taking road trips.
Photo by Bruce Livingston
Mike earned his J.D. at the University of Washington. Afterwards, he returned to college to study ecology at Evergreen State College—and later attended the University of Maryland graduating with an MS in Biology. Mike taught environmental science at South Puget Sound Community College. In 2004, he and his husband, Ernie Paul, donated a conservation easement to CLT on 23 acres of wetland and forest near Evergreen State College.
Mary Birchem
Outreach & Education Coordinator
Mary spent most of her life in the Midwest just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from the University of Washington. Since then, she has done environmental restoration work around the Puget Sound with various organizations as well as environmental education on Vashon Island. Mary enjoys hiking, skiing, birding, and photography.
Justine Mischka
AmeriCorps Restoration Coordinator
Justine grew up on her family's horse farm in Wisconsin. There, she discovered her love of public lands by hiking the National Scenic Ice Age Trail which runs alongside her farmland and throughout the state. She graduated with a BS in Community and Nonprofit Leadership with an emphasis in Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her undergraduate years, she has spent time volunteering and being a steward to the land of the Midwest, the Western and Southern United States, and in the Isaan region of Thailand! Justine loves visiting all kinds of parks, hiking, reading, looking at art, and smiling.

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Person re-identification is a recently introduced computer vision task that consists of recognising an individual who was previously observed over a video-surveillance camera network. Among the open problems, in this paper we focus on computational complexity. Despite its practical relevance, especially in real-time applications, this issue has been overlooked in the literature so far. In this paper, we address it by exploiting a framework we proposed in a previous work. It allows us to turn any person re-identification method, that uses multiple components and a body part subdivision model, into a dissimilarity-based one. Each individual is represented as a vector of dissimilarity values to a set of visual prototypes, that are drawn from the original non-dissimilarity representation. Experiments on two benchmark datasets provide evidence that a dissimilarity representation provides very fast re-identification methods. We also show that, even if the re-identification accuracy can be lower (especially when the number of candidates is low), the trade-off between processing time and accuracy can nevertheless be advantageous, in real-time application scenarios involving a human operator.


Seventeen-year-old precognitive Olivia Dresden is an optimist. Since different versions of people's futures flicker before her eyes, she doesn't have to believe in human decency. She can literally see the path to goodness in each person—if only he or she would make the right decision. No one is more conflicted than her mother, Chairwoman Dresden, and Olivia is fiercely loyal to the woman her mother could be. But when the Chairwoman captures Ryder Russell, a boy from the rebel Underground, Olivia is forced to reevaluate her notions of love and faith. With Ryder's help, Olivia must come to terms with who her mother is in the present—and stop her before she destroys the world.


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Is the metaverse the future of business?
November 8, 2021 | Blog
GlobalData social media research defines the metaverse as: "a virtual world where users share experiences and interact in real-time within simulated scenarios." It gained traction as being the future of business last year (2020) when it mutated beyond the entertainment sector and into mainstream business with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, stating he wanted to build an "enterprise metaverse" and more recently Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook stating that Facebook would become a metaverse company.
But what is actually driving the metaverse as the future of business, and what can we expect to come next?
The meteoric rise of gaming
One of the main trends of the past eighteen months that has been bringing the concept of the metaverse to the front of everyone's mind is the Coronavirus pandemic and the impact that that has had on the music industry, for one. Live music took a huge hit during the various lockdowns we faced, so the music industry turned to virtual events instead, such as rap artist Travis Scott's Fortnite concert, and Minecraft's full-blown music festival.
Game platforms, such as Epic Games, soon realised that events such as virtual concerts were a great way to attract huge audiences, as well as a great way for them to advertise their brand and allow celebrities to engage with their fans across the world.
Epic Games is at the forefront of the move towards the metaverse, but other gaming platforms such as Niantic and Roblox are also developing metaverses as well.
Facebooks metaverse
Metaverses are based around communities, and so it is no surprise that they have taken off in popularity in the field of gaming, but they are now moving into enterprise tech, encouraged by the development of Facebook Workrooms for one.
As you can see from the embedded video, Facebook is attempting to take on Zoom using virtual reality (VR) technology, and it is their first step towards creating a metaverse. Many see this as an attempt for Facebook to try and push VR technology into the mainstream, which it has been trying to do since it bought Oculus, the VR-headset brand, back in 2014.
But is the Facebook metaverse really the future of business? Well, metaverses, in general, are becoming more and more popular around the world, with one example being the metaverse alliance that was launched in South Korea in May 2021, allowing users to engage with each other in a shared virtual space via digital avatars.
Augmented reality (AR) is already a common feature on many social media platforms, with people using filters on Instagram and Snapchat (without realising they are using AR most of the time!). Again, social media may also be a force pushing the development of metaverses, but Facebook is the only platform that really seems to be running with the concept.
Are there downsides to the metaverse?
Although the technology is still in its infancy, many people are already predicting potential cybersecurity issues of a so-called open metaverse platform. If users are able to jump between services provided by different companies on a single metaverse, then it will also be vulnerable to third-party coders and hackers (potentially).
It may also lead to privacy concerns for users as well, as their data will need to be shared between all of the metaverse providers. This can be avoided through the building of privacy by design from scratch.
The metaverse for enterprise
Despite these potential issues, the metaverse is being developed for enterprise. Businesses are a critical market for AR and VR platforms and so will heavily influence the development of the metaverse in general. For example, BMW is using Nvidia's metaverse platform, Omniverse to build a digital twin for its factory – enabling it to represent a physical asset, process or system in the digital world.
While the adoption of the metaverse by businesses may start slowly, competition will soon heat up as the large tech companies battle for dominance in the market and non-tech companies keep their eyes focused on potential operational and revenue opportunities.
If you want to find out what the metaverse is, and what AR and VR can do for your business, please get in touch with ebb3 today. We are specialists in the metaverse and the virtualisation of remote workloads.


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Evo Morales describes as 'very dramatic' the situation in Bolivia by the rain
February 12, 2014 by KCBA-admin Leave a Comment
Peace, Feb 12 (Entravision) .- The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, today described as "very dramatic" the situation in your country caused by rains, which have so far left 48 dead, 15 missing, 54,443 families affected, 36,726 hectares of crop losses and 1,829 homes destroyed.
The agent explained in a press conference the updated data on the damage caused by the rains and floods, as well as the actions that the Government has carried out to help the victims, including the distribution of 251 tons of food and victuals.
Also, Morales announced that helicopters will be hired by private companies to assist in the rescue of the population in towns that have been isolated by the overflow of rivers and will be responsible to construction companies the repair of damaged roads.
According to the trustee, the Ministry of Rural Development has already helped to evacuate 360,000 cattle in boats in flooded areas.
The Federation of Farmers from Santa Cruz informed radio Fides that until today has been reported the death of 42,000 cattle in the Amazon regions of Beni and Pando, border with Brazil, which have caused an economic loss of over $26 million dollars.
In the view of moral, it is difficult to quantify the economic damage they have caused the rains and floods that have hit 130 municipalities in the country's nine departments.


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Q: Hadoop producing no output? I've recently started learning how to use the Hadoop system, and decided it's time to try writing some code. Before that, I wanted to try running the examples seen in the Getting Started page. However, it does not seem to produce any visible results.
I'm currently using Hadoop version 3.3.1 using a single-node setup,
and using jdk 11.0.11. I am running this on Windows 10 (due to current development requirements).
I've used the following command on cmd:
hadoop jar %hadoop_home%/share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-3.3.1.jar grep input /output 'dfs[a-z.]+'

The output to the command:
C:\Windows\system32>hadoop jar %hadoop_home%/share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-3.3.1.jar grep input /output 'dfs[a-z.]+'
2021-12-15 00:33:10,486 INFO client.DefaultNoHARMFailoverProxyProvider: Connecting to ResourceManager at /0.0.0.0:8032
2021-12-15 00:33:10,800 INFO mapreduce.JobResourceUploader: Disabling Erasure Coding for path: /tmp/hadoop-yarn/staging/E/.staging/job_1639519343908_0005
2021-12-15 00:33:11,029 INFO input.FileInputFormat: Total input files to process : 10
2021-12-15 00:33:11,108 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: number of splits:10
2021-12-15 00:33:11,281 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: Submitting tokens for job: job_1639519343908_0005
2021-12-15 00:33:11,281 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: Executing with tokens: []
2021-12-15 00:33:11,442 INFO conf.Configuration: resource-types.xml not found
2021-12-15 00:33:11,443 INFO resource.ResourceUtils: Unable to find 'resource-types.xml'.
2021-12-15 00:33:11,497 INFO impl.YarnClientImpl: Submitted application application_1639519343908_0005
2021-12-15 00:33:11,527 INFO mapreduce.Job: The url to track the job: http://DESKTOP-S15C716:8088/proxy/application_1639519343908_0005/
2021-12-15 00:33:11,528 INFO mapreduce.Job: Running job: job_1639519343908_0005
2021-12-15 00:33:19,611 INFO mapreduce.Job: Job job_1639519343908_0005 running in uber mode : false
2021-12-15 00:33:19,615 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 0% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:33:31,178 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 50% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:33:32,263 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 60% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:33:39,624 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 90% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:33:40,632 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 100% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:33:41,636 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 100% reduce 100%
2021-12-15 00:33:41,648 INFO mapreduce.Job: Job job_1639519343908_0005 completed successfully
2021-12-15 00:33:41,760 INFO mapreduce.Job: Counters: 51
        File System Counters
                FILE: Number of bytes read=6
                FILE: Number of bytes written=3021766
                FILE: Number of read operations=0
                FILE: Number of large read operations=0
                FILE: Number of write operations=0
                HDFS: Number of bytes read=31877
                HDFS: Number of bytes written=86
                HDFS: Number of read operations=35
                HDFS: Number of large read operations=0
                HDFS: Number of write operations=2
                HDFS: Number of bytes read erasure-coded=0
        Job Counters
                Killed map tasks=1
                Launched map tasks=10
                Launched reduce tasks=1
                Data-local map tasks=10
                Total time spent by all maps in occupied slots (ms)=89653
                Total time spent by all reduces in occupied slots (ms)=8222
                Total time spent by all map tasks (ms)=89653
                Total time spent by all reduce tasks (ms)=8222
                Total vcore-milliseconds taken by all map tasks=89653
                Total vcore-milliseconds taken by all reduce tasks=8222
                Total megabyte-milliseconds taken by all map tasks=91804672
                Total megabyte-milliseconds taken by all reduce tasks=8419328
        Map-Reduce Framework
                Map input records=819
                Map output records=0
                Map output bytes=0
                Map output materialized bytes=60
                Input split bytes=1139
                Combine input records=0
                Combine output records=0
                Reduce input groups=0
                Reduce shuffle bytes=60
                Reduce input records=0
                Reduce output records=0
                Spilled Records=0
                Shuffled Maps =10
                Failed Shuffles=0
                Merged Map outputs=10
                GC time elapsed (ms)=90
                CPU time spent (ms)=0
                Physical memory (bytes) snapshot=0
                Virtual memory (bytes) snapshot=0
                Total committed heap usage (bytes)=2952790016
        Shuffle Errors
                BAD_ID=0
                CONNECTION=0
                IO_ERROR=0
                WRONG_LENGTH=0
                WRONG_MAP=0
                WRONG_REDUCE=0
        File Input Format Counters
                Bytes Read=30738
        File Output Format Counters
                Bytes Written=86
2021-12-15 00:33:41,790 INFO client.DefaultNoHARMFailoverProxyProvider: Connecting to ResourceManager at /0.0.0.0:8032
2021-12-15 00:33:41,814 INFO mapreduce.JobResourceUploader: Disabling Erasure Coding for path: /tmp/hadoop-yarn/staging/E/.staging/job_1639519343908_0006
2021-12-15 00:33:41,855 INFO input.FileInputFormat: Total input files to process : 1
2021-12-15 00:33:41,913 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: number of splits:1
2021-12-15 00:33:41,950 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: Submitting tokens for job: job_1639519343908_0006
2021-12-15 00:33:41,950 INFO mapreduce.JobSubmitter: Executing with tokens: []
2021-12-15 00:33:42,179 INFO impl.YarnClientImpl: Submitted application application_1639519343908_0006
2021-12-15 00:33:42,190 INFO mapreduce.Job: The url to track the job: http://DESKTOP-S15C716:8088/proxy/application_1639519343908_0006/
2021-12-15 00:33:42,191 INFO mapreduce.Job: Running job: job_1639519343908_0006
2021-12-15 00:33:55,301 INFO mapreduce.Job: Job job_1639519343908_0006 running in uber mode : false
2021-12-15 00:33:55,302 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 0% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:34:00,336 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 100% reduce 0%
2021-12-15 00:34:06,366 INFO mapreduce.Job:  map 100% reduce 100%
2021-12-15 00:34:07,375 INFO mapreduce.Job: Job job_1639519343908_0006 completed successfully
2021-12-15 00:34:07,404 INFO mapreduce.Job: Counters: 50
        File System Counters
                FILE: Number of bytes read=6
                FILE: Number of bytes written=548197
                FILE: Number of read operations=0
                FILE: Number of large read operations=0
                FILE: Number of write operations=0
                HDFS: Number of bytes read=212
                HDFS: Number of bytes written=0
                HDFS: Number of read operations=9
                HDFS: Number of large read operations=0
                HDFS: Number of write operations=2
                HDFS: Number of bytes read erasure-coded=0
        Job Counters
                Launched map tasks=1
                Launched reduce tasks=1
                Data-local map tasks=1
                Total time spent by all maps in occupied slots (ms)=3232
                Total time spent by all reduces in occupied slots (ms)=3610
                Total time spent by all map tasks (ms)=3232
                Total time spent by all reduce tasks (ms)=3610
                Total vcore-milliseconds taken by all map tasks=3232
                Total vcore-milliseconds taken by all reduce tasks=3610
                Total megabyte-milliseconds taken by all map tasks=3309568
                Total megabyte-milliseconds taken by all reduce tasks=3696640
        Map-Reduce Framework
                Map input records=0
                Map output records=0
                Map output bytes=0
                Map output materialized bytes=6
                Input split bytes=126
                Combine input records=0
                Combine output records=0
                Reduce input groups=0
                Reduce shuffle bytes=6
                Reduce input records=0
                Reduce output records=0
                Spilled Records=0
                Shuffled Maps =1
                Failed Shuffles=0
                Merged Map outputs=1
                GC time elapsed (ms)=13
                CPU time spent (ms)=0
                Physical memory (bytes) snapshot=0
                Virtual memory (bytes) snapshot=0
                Total committed heap usage (bytes)=536870912
        Shuffle Errors
                BAD_ID=0
                CONNECTION=0
                IO_ERROR=0
                WRONG_LENGTH=0
                WRONG_MAP=0
                WRONG_REDUCE=0
        File Input Format Counters
                Bytes Read=86
        File Output Format Counters
                Bytes Written=0

Yet when viewing the contents of the now-made 'output' folder,
I receive the following result:
hdfs dfs -ls /output
Found 2 items
-rw-r--r--   1 E supergroup          0 2021-12-15 00:34 /output/_SUCCESS
-rw-r--r--   1 E supergroup          0 2021-12-15 00:34 /output/part-r-00000

I.e. there's no data written to those files!
May anyone please assist me?

A: If you have no data in your HDFS input folder that matches the grep pattern 'dfs[a-z.]+', then the output will be empty
From the linked docs (which are for Unix, not Windows), make sure this command completed
bin/hdfs dfs -put %HADOOP_HOME%/etc/hadoop/*.xml input

And you can grep dfs $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop/*.xml (at least on Unix) as well, locally, to verify there should be data output

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Asbury UMC sells building to school, transforms into 'Riverstone Church'
On March 1, Asbury United Methodist Church of Cleveland, Tenn., ceased to be. The physical symbol of the church had been bought by Trousdale School and preparations were made to modify the building from a 35-year-old church into a growing school for adults with intellectual disabilities.
Some may consider this the death of a church. Instead, it was the birth of a new congregation - Riverstone Church: A United Methodist Community. With it came a new location, new contemporary service, a lot of heartache and joy, and appreciation for how God works in the lives of the church and its members.
In 2006, the Rev. Tim Paul was appointed senior pastor of Asbury UMC. He soon realized that Asbury had acquired more than $400,000 in debt. The church at 3171 Hewitt Street S.E. had about 60 in average worship attendance.
"We prayed for a way to turn our curse of death into a way to reach people for the kingdom of God. And, the Lord sent Trousdale School," says Paul.
The school needed more space, and in 2007, rented Asbury's gym and a few more classrooms -- about 65 percent of the building.
"First of all, the school offered financial support to help stop the bleeding, which allowed us time to formulate a vision for ministry," Paul said. "We used that time to evaluate why we were here, what were the needs of our community, and how God wanted us to address them."
In 2008, after the congregation's time of reflection and evaluation, Trousdale made an initial offer to buy the gym and then the vacant property behind the gym. However, as Trousdale continued to grow and Asbury struggled financially, the school offered to purchase the entire property. After prayer, the congregation decided to accept.
"It was a perfect match for what Trousdale wanted to do as their vision and what we as a church had been praying about for our own vision," Paul said. "We could then use the resources gained from the sale to develop our own vision for meeting the needs of the community."
The purchase price was $800,000, netting the church about $330,000.
While waiting for the sale to be final, Paul and the congregation had another decision to make: continue their legacy as Asbury UMC? Or start anew? The congregation chose to preserve Asbury's past while starting a new congregation.
"We felt a desire to start a new congregation with a fresh vision and a new name," Paul said. The church chose "Riverstone" from Joshua 4:
"As the Israelites crossed over into the land promised by God, they were instructed by God to gather 12 stones from the river. They were to make a monument so that later generations would see it and remember the miracle God performed on their behalf," Paul said. "I thought 'riverstones' was a great image of what we were doing with the church."
The new Riverstone congregation rented office space in downtown Cleveland. They found a place to worship at Lake Forest Middle School, "a more common, neutral location for un-churched, under-churched people to feel invited."
Along with the decision to change the church name and location came the decision to begin a contemporary service.
"We really wanted to broaden the scope of people that we could reach in the church," Paul said. "We felt that there were a significant number of people, specifically in our area, that could benefit from a more contemporary service and who would be attracted to that type of worship service."
However, the congregation was intentional about remembering their roots and the people who made them Asbury in the first place, he said.
"We wouldn't be able to do the missional outreach that we're doing today without the heritage and foundation of Asbury," Paul said. "They made us into the church that we were and are helping us further ourselves into the church we want to be in the future."
The mission statement of Riverstone Church reads "Connect to God, love each other, and serve the world."
"Those are three of the things Jesus calls us to do: Connect, love, and serve," the pastor said. "We feel that if we aren't doing these things, there is no reason for us to exist as a church."
The sale of the Trousdale-Asbury building was final on March 1, 2012. "It was a win-win for both parties," Paul said.
On April 8, Easter Sunday, Asbury held its last worship service at dawn. The congregation celebrated the resurrection with the rising sun outside of their beloved church building.
A few hours later, at 11 a.m., Riverstone held its first-ever worship service.
Kirby Deal, an English major at Tennessee Wesleyan College, just completed a summer internship with the Greeneville Astros. Her father is the Rev. Tim Paul.
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I'm not a citizen or current resident (expatriate) of the US... Can I open a Self-Directed IRA and Rocket Dollar Account?
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All goals and highlights from Week 20 in MLS.
Every year around this time, as MLS's annual All-Star Game approaches, out come the articles questioning whether the match needs a reboot, or if it is still worth playing at all.
We get it. For a league that continues to insist that it must play on the same dates as some World Cup qualifiers because the calendar is just too crowded, scheduling a midseason exhibition match (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/WatchESPN) against an undermanned European squad preparing for its own campaign seems like an odd priority.
Coaches certainly don't love it.
"We maybe have a different view from players," admitted Sigi Schmid, who lost his job as Seattle Sounders coach on Tuesday. "Players appreciate the All-Star game because they get bonus money and an opportunity to play against a big-name club. But for a team like us that has had three midweek games in a row, to have an important guy play in another one seems sort of terrifying."
It's a valid beef, and it's not the only one dissenters have. Here's the thing, though: Despite being a glorified friendly match, MLS's midsummer classic still matters on a number of levels.
Mainly, there's the exposure. Thursday's match will be broadcast live in 166 countries, and playing Arsenal, which has been one of the world's most popular clubs over the last two decades, guarantees that the MLS product will reach fans that normally wouldn't give it a second look.
All-Star week has also become a celebration of the growing North American game, and doubles as the de facto American soccer convention since MLS Cup stopped being held at a neutral site following the 2011 season. On the business and marketing side, it is can't-miss, one-stop shopping for league and team executives, media and sponsors. More than anything else, though, the All-Star game matters because players on both sides actually try.
Unlike the farcical Eastern Conference versus Western Conference games of the league's early days -- the six East-West contests between 1996 and 2004 averaged nine goals scored -- the MLS-against-decorated-guest format has produced compelling, hard-fought soccer more often than not. When one thinks back to then-Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola refusing to shake hands with MLS boss Caleb Porter after the home side's 2-1 win two years ago, it's hard to argue with commissioner Don Garber's oft-repeated claim that his league boasts "the most competitive All-Star Game in all of sports."
There was plenty of spice in the MLS All-Stars' 2-1 win over Bayern Munich back in 2014.
The win against Bayern wasn't the league's only success, either. The MLS All-Stars have also beaten Chelsea twice, including just months after the Blues won the 2012 Champions League title. Last year, goals from Kaka and David Villa were enough for MLS to defeat Tottenham Hotspur, whose lone strike came from Harry Kane, a team that went on to finish third in the Premier League.
Those victories certainly don't hurt the league's credibility at home or abroad. And while there's always a risk of embarrassment when a hodge-podge All-Star squad faces one of the planet's richest and deepest clubs -- Manchester United out-scored MLS 9-2 in back-to-back wins in 2010 and '11 -- it's a gamble worth continuing.
There's also the novelty of it. Seeing a Thierry Henry turn back the clock against former France teammate Franck Ribery in 2014 was flat-out cool. So was watching Landon Donovan score against Manuel Neuer, or DeAndre Yedlin shut down fellow U.S. prospect Julian Green -- his roommate at the World Cup in Brazil -- in that game in Portland.
Other U.S. national teamers, including ex-MLSers Yedlin, Carlos Bocanegra, Michael Bradley, Tim Howard and Brian McBride have all played for foreign teams against the hosts.
"It's something I always looked forward to as a fan," said Philadelphia Union defender Keegan Rosenberry, who at 22 is the second youngest player on the MLS roster after Orlando City striker Cyle Larin.
Now Rosenberry is looking forward to making a mark alongside living legends and fellow first-time All-Stars like Didier Drogba and Andrea Pirlo against an opponent he couldn't have imagined facing this time last year, when he was still a college student.
"It's an honor for me, my family and my club to be part of it," Philly keeper Andre Blake, another first-timer, told ESPN. "It's an All-Star game, but it's still something that at the end of the day you want to go and showcase what you can do."
If Garber gets his wish, and MLS one day becomes capable of competing for the sport's best players while they are still in their primes, the All-Star game might become unnecessary. For now, though, it's an entertaining diversion that participants take seriously and supporters enjoy.


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Fregim é uma freguesia portuguesa do município de Amarante, com 10,37 km² de área e 2730 habitantes (censo de 2021). A sua densidade populacional é .

História
Foi uma comenda da Ordem do Hospital de São João de Jerusalém, de Rodes e de Malta, ou, simplesmente, da Ordem de Malta, como é hoje mais conhecida esta antiquíssima Ordem Religiosa e Militar. Razão pela qual o brasão autárquico ostenta a cruz da Ordem de Malta em chefe. Daqui também a razão pela qual a população de Fregim é conhecida por "Malteses".

Demografia
A população registada nos censos foi:

Património
Do seu património arquitetónico inventariado consta a Igreja Matriz de Fregim (Santa Maria), Casa de Pousada (Visconde da Granja), Casa da Capela, Capela de São Sebastião, Casa de São Miguel, Casa da Mó, Casa da Laje, Casa da Cidreira, Capela de Quintã (São Pedro), Casa da Obra, Ponte da Baia (CF), Casa de Guimarei, Casa da Pousada (Dona Emília de Sousa) e Capela da Senhora da Ajuda.
Do seu património arqueológico consta o Castro do Alto de S Jorge.

Economia
É atualmente uma das zonas mais industrializadas de Amarante, possuindo muitas indústrias como a Metalocardoso, Re-source, Metalurgia do Tâmega, Joriscastro, Serralharia Bertim, José Vitorino da Silveira & Filhos Lda, entre outras.

Cultura e lazer
A nível cultural e de lazer possui um Complexo Desportivo: a RTA (piscinas interiores e exteriores) e campo de jogos. Existe também um Campo de Golfe considerado um dos melhores do país.

Freguesias de Amarante

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Check out the extraordinary collection of cut foods captured by New York photographer Beth Galton.
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WFD supports individual parties and party networks, both regionally and internationally.
We have supported political parties in developing and presenting platforms and policies with coherent ideology, responding to voter priorities and the challenges that societies face, and adopting more inclusive practices.
WFD supports political parties through four dedicated programmes, which are led by UK political parties:
the Conservative Party;
the Labour Party;
the Scottish National Party;
our Multi-Party Office, which covers the other UK political parties.
This unique institutional arrangement has enabled UK political parties to play an active role internationally, supporting the development of sister parties, political movements and activists in developing countries.
The parties' work includes:
advancing women's political leadership;
developing more inclusive political organisations, including with young people, people with disabilities, the LGBT+ community, and other minority groups;
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New Office App Launched by Microsoft for Windows 10
by Megha Shah - March 4, 2019 March 4, 2019
Microsoft announced the launch of a new Office App, which will be made available to Windows 10 users. It is intended to replace the "My Office" app that currently exists and is designed to be a lot more useful to Office users.
It's essentially a hub for launching recent documents, accessing the Office desktop apps, or simply finding the free web versions of Office. It's a free app that will be pre-installed with Windows 10 and does not require an Office 365 subscription to use it.
The new Office app puts the focus on the free online versions of Office. Up until now, so many of Microsoft's consumers simply are unaware that office.com exists, and that Microsoft has free online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. A number of consumers also assume Office simply comes as part of Windows, so renaming this app to Office and surfacing online versions of Office apps seems like a good idea to promote brand awareness.
This new app also comes with tutorials, tips, and tricks for Microsoft's various apps and services. The tech giant is also allowing IT administrators to customize the Office app to allow businesses to brand it and provide access to third-party apps and Microsoft Search.
"The Office app provides users with a simple experience that helps them get to what they need quickly – whether that's an app, a document, or even a person in your organization," Microsoft's Senior Product Marketing manager – Office Apps Strategy, Bill Doll, wrote in a blog post announcing the launch. "Once you open the app, just sign in with your work, school, or free personal Microsoft Account to get started. The app works with any Office 365 subscription, Office 2019, Office 2016, and Office Online – the free web-based version of Office for consumers."
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White noise is a random signal that named from white light where the power spectral density is distributed around the visible band almost equally. White noise can enhance privacy, increase focus, improve cognitive function and mood. It's also visually attractive and can simply decorate your PC.
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If you have ever used the command line on an *nix system (Unix-based or Unix-like), chances are you've used the bash shell. bash (an abbreviation for "Bourne-again shell") is the default shell for many Unix-like operating systems. Common examples of Unix-like operating systems include GNU/Linux and macOS. Although many other shells exist for the terminal, one of the most popular shells is zsh, or the "Z shell". While bash is a perfectly functional shell, there are many valid reasons for switching to zsh. Some of the improvements offered by zsh include security, auto-completion, and many other features. This post will give an overview on the benefits of zsh, how you can set it as your default shell, as well as some configuration suggestions.
In 1971, the very first version of the Unix operating system came with the Thompson shell as its default shell. While lacking in scripting capabilities, this first shell established many of the standards for input/output redirection. With the release of Version 7 Unix in 1979, the new OS came distributed with bash as its default shell. Intended as a replacement for the Thompson shell, bash introduced significant improvements over its predecessor. Most prominent of these improvements was its capacity as a scripting language. Users of bash could write their own programs for automating tasks. These "shell" scripts were executable by typing the file name (typically with a .sh extension).
Aside from the significant power bash offered its users, its popularity can be partly attributed to other factors. The monumental book, The Unix Programming Environment, prominently featured the bash shell. First published in 1984, this book was widely-influential espousing the tenets of the Unix philosophy. Dozens of different shells have been released since bash's first release in 1977. Each of these new shells have offered a variety of different improvements and deviations from their precursors. One such of these (relative) newcomers is the Z shell, first released in 1990.
The commands and overall interaction for bash and zsh are essentially identical. However, zsh includes many useful features for both the beginner and advanced CLI user not available in bash.
zsh offers far superior auto-completion features for file paths, and popular applications, such as git. This not only saves time on typing but can help out when you're not exactly sure on the right command or file path.
The biggest advance in auto-completion that zsh offers is via the z command. To change directories in bash, you have to type cd followed by the full file path (relative to your current working directory). This can be tedious and requires knowing the full pathway for where you're trying to get to. With the z command, you can navigate to a frequently/recently visited directory just by typing z , followed by the directory name.
For example, say you have a directory newProject located at ~/src/2018/projects/newProject. If you were in the home directory, you'd have to type cd src/2018/projects/newProject in bash. In zsh, you can simply type z newProject. Even better, the directory does not have to be a subdirectory within your current path. You can be anywhere on your system, and z newProject will work the same way. This is a huge time saver, not requiring you to memorize the full file path for any commonly visited directories.
You should note that you have to navigate to a directory the "normal" way via cd at least once. After that z will commit this file path to "memory". After that you can just use the z command thereafter.
Similar to auto-complete, there is a feature available for command options. Most commands have numerous options available, designated with flags afters the main command (such as ls -l or ls -a). Unless you have the options memorized, you'd typically have to open up the man pages or search online. With zsh, you can just type the command, followed by -, then hit tab. zsh will then immediately display all of the available options for that command, along with a short description. You can then just tab through the available options, until you find the one you're looking for.
Another major benefit of zsh is error correction when you make a typo. Rather than just display error: command not found, zsh will try to interpret what you tried to type. zsh will accept this input as a valid command.
Related to error correction, the Z shell is also case insensitive. In bash, the case of a file or directory needs to be exact in order for it to recognize the command. Z shell is case insensitive. So for example, typing dropbox in bash would result in an error. zsh would treat either dropbox or Dropbox as valid. If you type in an incorrect case, zsh will correct it upon tab completion or hitting enter.
Another major benefit of zsh is better security over bash. In 2014, bash was found to have some security vulnerabilities existing from version 1.03, released as far back as 1989. While most computers will have patches installed to address the bugs, not all systems have addressed the security issues. Systems most at risk would be servers with remote access via superuser.
If it is already installed, you should receive an output message that states /bin/zsh as the file path for the shell. There is an off-chance that it may display another file path, if for some reason you moved the default installation directory.
For CentOS, Redhat, and Fedora Linux distributions, you can install zsh by running yum install zsh. Similarly, sudo apt-get install zsh will install the shell on Debian and Ubuntu distributions.
You can start using zsh even if bash is set to as your default shell. To temporarily try it out, you can just run zsh on the command line. This will temporarily switch the shell for your current session.
To get the most out zsh, it's also highly recommended to upgrade your terminal instead of using the default. Terminal is the default on Mac OS X. While it works perfectly fine, options such as iTerm 2 or Hyper offer an enormous amount of customization. I personally use iTerm 2, although Hyper is an excellent choice available cross-platform.
To start using zsh, just close your terminal window and open a new one — you will now be running zsh instead of bash.
If for some reason you'd like to return to bash as your default shell, first find out where bash is installed with which bash.
The default path output should be /bin/bash.
To change back, just use chsh -s /bin/bash.
Running bash will also temporarily switch the shell for that session.
Like bash's .bashrc, zsh uses a dot file to store user configuration settings, .zshrc. Stored in the home directory (~/.zshrc). By default there won't be a configuration file setup, so you'll need to create one in your home directory (~/.zshrc). Similarly, you can add a .zprofile file to your home directory. .zprofile is a script that will run upon login. You can add in any commands you'd like to run upon starting up a new instance of the shell.
Given the wide spectrum of customization available in zsh, it can be beneficial to use a dedicate configuration manager. Numerous options exist, including Prezto, Oh My ZSH, and Antigen.
Oh My ZSH is one of the oldest and most popular options for managing zsh configurations. Offering over 200 plugins and 140 different themes supplied by the community, Oh My ZSH is a great place to start in customizing the z shell.
This will download the executable shell script and install it on your system.
The default settings upon installing Oh My ZSH are a great place to start. By default, it will install the 'robbyrussell' theme (its namesake coming from the original developer of the project). Additionally, it will install a number of useful plugins. At least a few aspects of the terminal's display will appear immediately different.
One annoying aspect of bash is that you never know what directory you're in unless you type pwd (print working directory). Oh My ZSH solves this with a handy plugin that will add the working directory to the command prompt. This is very handy for quicker navigation and knowing exactly where you are in the file system.
Similar to the above, Oh My ZSH also adds a plugin that will display the current branch you are on in a git project. Appearing after the working directory in the command prompt, you'll always know which branch you're on. This way you never have to git branch to know the current branch. The git plugin also adds in several other useful features.
In the example below, the project directory is currently on the tests branch. We can also know that the working tree is clean, with no changes that you haven't committed yet. In this case, this is indicated by the fact that the display is green.
zsh significantly improves the Git workflow with these types of indications right in the command prompt.
As mentioned above, zsh comes with hundreds of different themes to choose from. robbyrussell will be the default theme, although you can easily change this. To find a new theme offered by Oh My ZSH, you can preview each on the Themes page in the project repo. Given the many choices available, chances are you'll find one available with almost exactly the features you're looking for.
Once you find one you like, open up your .zshrc file, in the home directory. Then, you'll just need to update the line starting with ZSH_THEME. Put the name of the name you want to use (inside of quotes), then save the file. Opening a new terminal session should now display the new theme.
You can even set random as your ZSH_THEME. This will load a new random theme each time you open up a new session in the shell.
Some themes may require additional packages or fonts, such as the popular Powerline fonts. The theme's installation's instructions should specify any additional required packages, though.
As we've looked at in this post, zsh offers numerous benefits over bash, with little to no drawbacks. If you're looking for extensibility, customization and advanced features not found in bash, zsh is an excellent choice. Regardless of what shell you choose, improved fluency on the command line provides countless benefits in efficiency, automation, and better understanding of your computer's inner workings. For an introduction to some of the most essential shell commands, check out our post on basic command line usage.
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This is not true. Bash is the default interactive shell on most Linux distributions and macOS, yes. It is, however, not the default – or even included in the base system – on any BSD variant I've come across. Commerical Unix systems, e.g. AIX, don't use Bash either.
Also, Linux is not Unix-based (based on original Unix code), but Unix-like (designed after the Unix way of doing things).
Thanks for pointing that out. The post has been updated to reflect this.
– With bash-completion installed and inputrc configured appropriately it is possible to setup Bash to have Zsh AUTO_MENU like completion (including option cycling).
– Command-click URLs are a terminal capability. In iTerm2 I can do COMMAND+CLICK on a URL and launch a browser.
Bash can do 90% of what Zsh can do, it just requires some tweaks.
"…unless you type pwd", not quite true. Take a quick look through the man page for bash/ksh and search (/ like vi) for PROMPTING. Here you'll find how to set up your prompts (PS1 is the primary and there are others for different uses PS2..4). Specifically to put he info you'd like – /w gives the path.
However, the scope for customization it is quite limited when compared to OMZ.
That click and open thing is a function of your terminal emulator, not zsh. Also option completion as well as the z command are plugins for zsh, which are in similar form available for bash too. colour higlighting of files is built into bash as well.
Why am I able to edit this blog?
How are you able to edit the blog?
thanks for the post, i love `z` command very much, didn't know of this plugin!
thanks for the feedback Phat Tran.


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July 2018 News and Updates
13Jul 2018 by nathan
Executive Summary – The Cyber Tech Cafe Managed Services program was, by all metrics, an overwhelming success. It's always good to see organizations taking a more proactive role in securing their infrastructure and even better to be able to play a part in it. There were significant updates from Microsoft and Adobe this month but Adobe certainly took the cake with over 100 patches issued.
Managed Firewall Services – We announced in April that we were considering offering a managed firewall option. The initial offer was very well received and we'd like to expand it to 5 additional clients. The price for the base package is $169 per month and includes a firewall and daily reporting on it's performance and activity. All of the routine management (license renewals, firmware updates, etc.) and a next-business-day replacement for faulty hardware are included in the $169. We are currently limiting the offer to environments with 5 to 10 workstations and 0 to 2 servers. If you would like more information or would like to be considered for the trial, please let us know.
DC770 – Cyber Tech Cafe is a proud supporter and co-sponsor of the DC770 DEF CON group that meets monthly at 7:00pm ET at Jefferson's restaurant in Cartersville on the first Tuesday of each month. More information is available at https://dc770.org .
MyIT Monitoring Only – We are excited to announce a new addition to the MyIT Services, MyIT Overwatch. As many of you know, the MyIT Services typically include monthly updates only (MyIT Bronze), monthly updates plus proactive monitoring (MyIT Silver) and monthly updates, proactive monitoring and 10 hours of support at a heavily discounted rate (MyIT Gold). We have a number of clients with internal patch management processes in place but they would still like to have a second set of eyes keeping watch over critical systems. If you would like more information on the Network Ninja or the MyIT program, let us know.
Microsoft – Microsoft reported 53 bugs, 17 of which were classified [by Microsoft] as critical, 34 as important, 1 moderate and 1 low. A number of the vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable and can lead to remote code execution on vulnerable hosts. The SANS diary mirrors the Microsoft data and includes a note that CVE-2018-0808 and CVE-2018-0940 have been publicly disclosed (though no known exploits are available at this time).
Additional details are available Here and Here.
Adobe – Adobe released patches for a whopping 112 vulnerabilities in products including Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat and others (the link below has a list). More than fifty critical vulnerabilities were patched in Arobat and Reader alone.
Java / Oracle – The latest update for Java is Version 8 Update 171, released on 17 April 2018. I have to imagine that, at this point, Oracle is enjoying not being Adobe (it wasn't really long ago that it was the other way around).
Java is a tool that's widely used by banks, online service providers and even security companies for SSL VPN connections. Java's 'official' release cycle is approximately quarterly but Java updates have been 'fast and furious' in recent months. It's worth noting again that, if you don't absolutely need Java on your computer, it's not a bad idea to remove it altogether.
Additional details are available from Oracle here.
Security News, Sponsored by Piratica – Security and compliance are often two very different things. Being secure doesn't necessarily mean that you're compliant and, being compliant often doesn't mean that you're secure. We see this a lot in the area of data protection and put together this article to try to shed some light on the topic.
The response to our free vulnerability scan has been overwhelming. More overwhelming though has been the organizations that took advantage of the free scan, found vulnerabilities (exposed servers, unpatched firewalls, thought-to-be retired Remote Desktop servers and more) and addressed them. To that end, we are happy to extend the free vulnerability scan (we haven't set an end date yet). If you would like to take advantage of this free scan, complete the request form on our website.
Piratica is a risk management firm. We work with client organizations to help them identify and understand the risks to their organizations so that those metrics can be incorporated into the organizations overall security strategy. We believe that the first step in any solution is to correctly and completely identify the problem. Additional information is available on our website, Facebook and Twitter or via our free weekly email newsletter (signup available on our website here).


Find out how the White House wants to give you more flexibility with your retirement savings.
Saving for retirement is important, and tens of millions of Americans use tax-deferred accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s to build up a nest egg for their golden years. Traditional IRAs and 401(k)s offer a trade-off: reductions in tax now in exchange for agreeing to pay taxes on withdrawals in retirement. Moreover, under current law, retirees can't just leave their money in their retirement accounts forever, as rules require you to take required minimum distributions once you reach a certain age or else pay a huge penalty.
However, President Trump is expected to issue an executive order today that could lead to a future change in these rules. That would potentially loosen the requirements for required minimum distributions, granting retirees more flexibility in deciding when and how much of their nest egg they take out.
The idea behind having required minimum distribution rules is to put a limit on the extent to which retirement savers can reap the tax benefits that IRAs and 401(k)s and offer. In order to do so, the rules require accountholders to calculate certain amounts that they have to take out each year, regardless of whether you actually need the money to make ends meet in retirement.
Specifically, the RMD rules state that you need to start taking withdrawals from traditional IRAs and 401(k)s during the year that you turn 70 1/2 years old. That's an odd age, but what it means is that if you were 70 in or before June 2018, then you'll need to take an RMD this year. If your 70th birthday wasn't until July or later, then you won't have to worry about taking a withdrawal until 2019 under the current rules. If 2018 is the year that you reach 70 1/2, there's a special extension that gives you until April 1, 2019, to take your RMD. Older retirees must take their distributions by Dec. 31 of the current year in order to avoid penalties.
Multiple news reports have said that the president will issue an executive order on Friday that will seek to change the rules on required minimum distributions. Few details were available, but most commentators speculate that the order will simply request that the Treasury Department look at the rules governing RMDs.
Many retirement advisors hope that the order will eventually lead to the loosening or removal of the RMD rules. The move wouldn't be unprecedented, as Congress and President George W. Bush created a law that waived the required minimum distribution requirement for 2009, during the worst of the financial crisis. That law, however, involved only a one-year waiver, not a permanent modification as some now hope the Trump administration will seek.
There are a couple of key reasons why some retirees would like to see RMD rules changed. The most obvious is that rule changes could allow them to enjoy a longer period of tax deferral, avoiding an unnecessary large jump in tax liability if they don't actually need their IRA or 401(k) money for their immediate financial needs.
In addition, the penalties for not taking an RMD have historically been onerous. Current law looks at the amount of the RMD you should have taken and then imposes a whopping 50% penalty if you don't take it. That's usually enough to convince retirees that the IRS means business, but it can lead to harsh results in cases involving simple neglect or ignorance.
Finally, some people find it challenging to calculate the actual RMD they need to take. The calculation involves taking the total of eligible IRA and 401(k) accounts, applying an IRS factor based on life expectancy, and doing some simple math. Yet many taxpayers find the IRS worksheet that governs RMDs to be less than clear, especially because it doesn't account for certain special situations, such as married couples in which there's a greater than 10-year difference in age between the two spouses.
Another reason why amending RMD rules might be attractive is that it would make the treatment of traditional and Roth retirement accounts the same. Roth IRAs don't require RMDs, giving retirees who use those accounts maximum flexibility in timing their retirement withdrawals. Those favoring the change in policy argue that if indefinite use of tax-free growth in Roth IRAs is OK, then indefinite tax deferral for traditional retirement accounts should be OK as well.
Even if the executive order comes out as planned, though, retirees shouldn't get their hopes up for a quick resolution. Rulemaking processes can be lengthy, and it's not entirely clear whether the Treasury Department could implement the move with a simple rule change rather than getting formal congressional approval. Nevertheless, if you have traditional IRAs and 401(k) accounts that you don't need to tap right away, changes to RMD rules could be exactly what you'd like for your financial plan in retirement.


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The backstory on our first two CNN appearances
The following is another brief excerpt from my yet unpublished memoir, "Muckville: Farm Policy, Media and the Strange Oddities of Semi-Rural Life." It deals with the backstory involving Eve and I's first two CNN appearances.
As the 1999 growing season progressed a devastating drought began to slowly affect the eastern seaboard. By mid-August the effects and toll taken on all sorts of crops began to become evident. In late August Eve and I were contacted by CNN. I got a call from producer Frances Causey. She had come across some of my materials regarding crop insurance and asked if we would mind being interviewed for a story about the drought and the problems with crop insurance. We happily agreed. I sent Frances a ton of information, and then we spoke a bit about Ken Ackerman. I related all that had happened in our meetings with Glickman, how Glickman and his operatives knew how poor the onion policy was, and how the buy-up policy in particular was essentially a rip-off. And how USDA officials, and Ackerman in particular, would continue to state untrue things like "CAT was free" and the onion farmers of Orange County were in a situation that was their own fault, because the failed purchase the buy-up. This was despite Glickman saying this sort of thing would stop. I also told her what happened with American Vegetable Grower and how USDA put pressure on the magazine to pull the USDA official's offending quote.
(Note: Frances Causey is the Producer and Co-Director of the fantastic documentary "Heist: Who Stole The American Dream." http://www.heist-themovie.com/theTeam.html)
She told me that CNN planned on interviewing Ackerman as they interviewed Eve and I for the story. I told Causey that Ackerman and the USDA would certainly try to pull the same sort of stunt that they did with American Vegetable Grower a year before.
On August 17th, 1999, veteran CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman and crew came to our farm to interview us. Like Randall Pinkston of CBS Tuchman was very friendly and kind. They spent much of the day interviewing Maire Ullrich, the vegetable crop agent at the time for Cornell cooperative Extension, Eve and me. The piece was outstanding (it had one small error, it stated I had CAT coverage at the time but in 1999 we actually had the buy-up, despite how bad it was.) It was a pretty devastating indictment of the current crop insurance program. Ackerman was interviewed separately in Washington by a stringer crew. And Ackerman, predictably, placed the blame everywhere but himself and the Agency. The piece reported:
"'Our program is often very bureaucratic,' said Ken Ackerman of the department. We have a number of legal restraints that make it difficult for us to respond to situations." Tuchman then states. 'But Ken Ackerman says that the current system of taxpayer-supported crop insurance, for which farmers pay just a small fee, often should be supplemented with so-called 'buy up' policies for extra coverage."
So, once again Ackerman attempted to mislead the press and public regarding the true cost or value of CAT and wrongly blame the farmers for their current predicament. Though very pleased with the piece, which ran the evening of August 17,1999 and also multiple times on CNN's Headline News channel, I was very angry about Ackerman's quotes and implied blame. After the piece aired I spoke with Butch May at USDA and told him to tell Ackerman that "I thought his mommy dressed him very nice for his TV interview."
You may wonder, even though it held such little value, why on earth did we buy the buy-up policy for the 1999 growing season? Because of Eve and my view that we did have a responsibility to assist in managing our risk. So, though a waste of money, we felt that the position of having bought it strengthened our ability to work within
the framework of the system to fix the policy. We figured, it would be kind of hard to argue for a "No Stages" program if we didn't actively participate within the system. So, we bit the bullet and bought it. And to this day we believe it was a factor in motivating Grau to put so much pressure on RMA/FCIC and the various bureaucrats to get us that pilot and listen to our concerns. Of course Congressman Gilman putting incessant pressure on them helped.
As the summer progressed into autumn it quickly began to sink in how bad the losses from the drought were and how little even our buy-up policies were going to help. In early October, CNN producer Frances Causey called us and asked how things were going. We told her the drought was worse than even we thought it would be and the year was going to be a real body blow. She asked if they could interview us for a rare follow-up story and we happily agreed. She also said that this time she would be coming out with reporter Gary Tuchman and crew.
Causey, Tuchman and crew arrived on October 14th to shoot the 2nd story. Once again Tuchman was very kind, matched only by the warmth expressed by Causey. As we re-capped what had developed since their first story Frances, while laughing, detailed what happened with the Ken Ackerman interview. She was simply amazed that Ackerman and USDA did exactly what I predicted they would do, how he would imply CAT was free and the farmers were at fault for not buying the virtually worthless buy-up (we told Frances the one small error in the piece was that we did in fact have the buy-up insurance for the 1999 crop year but inexplicably they reported again that we only had CAT) and she confirmed that Ackerman and USDA were very displeased with the portions involving him in the August piece. "Ackerman and the USDA implied we took him out of context but look at this," she then pulled out a document from her bag and continued, "this is the word for word transcript of his interview. He didn't say what he said just once, he kept repeating it over and over again." What a surprise … not.
The 2nd piece aired all day on October 15th and it too packed an incredible punch.
It was at this point that Eve and I kicked it into high gear in regards to not only fighting for changes to the crop insurance program but also for a special disaster aid program for the onion growers of Orange County. This was now the third devastating year out of four and we needed some sort of special assistance to continue to survive as an industry in our region. When we first started raising the possibility of such aid in 1998 we were told by Representative Gilman's press secretary that it was an "unrealistic request."
But when you are wiped out three out of four years you don't accept such a rejection. In 1999 President Clinton signed a $1.4 billion ad-hoc disaster aid package passed by Congress. The structure and formulation of that ad- hoc disaster aid program was based on the very same federal crop insurance program which made necessary that aid package to begin with. Well, we knew we would need more targeted help. In the October 1999 CNN piece Tuchman reported our assessment that the aid package would only provide us with pennies on the dollar on our losses. And when it was eventually appropriated we learned that we were correct.
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Q: list of sums to new list I have a list of items with a total value in each item..
Some are in a different layer.. As shown below
**Name, Layer, Value**
Item 1, Layer1, 100
Item 1, Layer1, 200
Item 1, Layer2, 700

Now
I want to combine these into a new list, and merge them together.. As shown below
**Name, List(Layer1Value, Layer2Value)**
Item 1, (300,700)

This is the code I have so far..
List<double> =
Enumerable.Range(0, t.Select(u => u.LayerName).Distinct().Count())
.Select(idx => t.Select(a => a.sum).Sum()).ToList()

This of course is wrong and puts the totals in all the value spots..
like this
Item 1, (1000,1000)

Unsure how to get it to work correct, any help would be great..
Thanks

Added help..
Starting with a list like this
private class Items
{
    public string Name;
    public string Layer;
    public double Value;
}

List<Items> MyItems = new List<Items>();

To a list like this
private class CombinedItems
{
    public string Name;
    public List<double> LayerValues;
}

List<CombinedItems> MyCombinedItems = new List<CombinedItems>();

It should output in a specific order..
Example, If there are 4 Layers..
Layer1, Layer2, Layer3, Layer4..
And item1 has values in Layer1, and Layer 4..
then the
List needs to be as (Layer1Value, 0, 0, Layer4Value)

A: list.GroupBy(x => x.Name)
    .Select(g => new {
          Name = g.Key,
          Elements = g.GroupBy(x => x.Layer)
                      .Select(g => g.Sum(z => z.Value))
       });

Edit :
var layers = list.Select(x => x.Layer).Distinct().OrderBy(x => x);
var result = list.GroupBy(x => x.Name)
                .Select(g => new
                {
                    Name = g.Key,
                    Values = layers.Select(x =>  g.Where(n => n.Layer == x)
                                                  .Sum(z => z.Value))
                });


Volkswagen revealed further details on its brand-new Polo BlueGT, a car that is the showcase of how economical a petrol engine can really be.
They went to enormous length to make the car as efficient as possible. In addition to the BlueMotion Technologies (Stop/Start system, battery regeneration, aerodynamic components), the BlueGT also gets the ACT or Active cylinder management. By temporarily deactivating the second and third cylinders under low to medium load states, fuel consumption in the EU driving cycle is reduced by about 0.4 l/100 km.
So the car ca average 4.6 liter per 100 km, while offering 140 PS and 250 Nm of torque. 0 to 100 is done in 7.9 seconds and the top speed is 210 km/h. It's pretty good, but then this little blue car is priced at a whopping 19,650 euro which is family saloon kind of money.
Volkswagen is presenting another Polo that has the potential to set new benchmarks: the Polo BlueGT. It combines the aspects of 'dynamics' and 'fuel efficiency' to create a petrol driven vehicle with previously unheard of levels of fuel efficiency. A technical highlight of the Polo BlueGT is its TSI engine with active cylinder management (ACT) – which automatically shuts off two of the engine's four cylinders. Volkswagen is the first manufacturer to implement such a system in a four-cylinder engine.
Sporty and economical. The torque-friendly 1.4-litre TSI fitted to the Polo BlueGT develops a power output of 103 kW / 140 PS, yet it has a combined fuel consumption of just 4.6* l/100 km (equivalent to 107* g/km CO2). When the Polo BlueGT is ordered with the optional 7-speed DSG transmission, fuel consumption is reduced to a low 4.5* l/100 km (105* g/km CO2). Nonetheless, the Volkswagen, which has a top speed of 210 km/h, accelerates to 100 km/h in just 7.9 seconds. Also having a positive effect on dynamics is the engine's high torque output. The torque curve is interesting in that it exhibits a plateau-like shape: the maximum torque of 250 Nm is available at a low 1,500 rpm and remains constant at this level right up to 3,500 rpm.


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Discover a heavenly hideaway nestled amongst Ubud's lush rice paddy fields at The Chedi Club, one of Bali's leading luxury hotels where you can enjoy private butler service. Includes daily breakfast, a hot air balloon ride or massage, guided rice paddy trek, daily refilled minibar, daily afternoon tea, yoga class, dining experiences, sunset cocktails and more.
Experience authentic Balinese luxury and tranquillity at The Chedi Club with a one-of-a-kind escape including more lavish extras than you could ever imagine.
Set across five-hectares, The Chedi Club is a true delight for the senses. Surrounded by undulating hills and lush rice paddy fields as far as the eye can see, you'll feel as though you've stepped into another world. Watch the sunrise over Bali's highest and holiest mountain, Mount Agung, pass picturesque lotus ponds and lakes on your way to breakfast and spend your day relaxing by the beautiful swimming pool designed to reflect Bali's famous water palaces.
As the former estate of one of Indonesia's most respected art collectors, each of the twenty rooms feature unique and original Balinese artwork from his private collection. Suites offer relaxing views of the lotus and lily ponds, with ample indoor and outdoor living spaces and tropical open-air bathrooms with dual vanities.
All the latest mod-cons are also within easy reach including complimentary Wi-Fi, iPod docking stations, a flat screen television and a Bose entertainment system. Plus, your complimentary minibar (including beers) is replenished daily and your helpful private butler is only a call away.
Start your days with delicious complimentary a la carte breakfast surrounded by panoramic views of rice fields and tropical garden. Your package includes your choice of a set lunch or dinner at the award-winning onsite restaurant, which features some of the freshest produce you'll ever taste. Singaporean Executive Chef Dean Nor creates a menu utilising rice, herbs and vegetables picked from the organic gardens surrounding the restaurant.
Enjoy an afternoon tea each day (4pm– 6pm) and nightly free-flow cocktails (6pm – 7pm) both served either in your room, in the bar or in the resort lounge.
It's easy to immerse yourself in the beauty of Ubud with your choice of either a 60-minute Balinese massage for two or a hot air balloon ride over the beautiful landscape. Packages also include a scheduled complimentary yoga classes and guided rice paddy trekking.
Explore ancient relics and ruins with complimentary entry for two to the Elephant Cave, which dates back to the 11th century or take the complimentary resort car into Ubud to discover local markets, art galleries, trendy eateries and the famous monkey forest.
This escape is ideal for those seeking tranquillity away from the popular tourist haunts of Bali. Recharge your mind and body at Chedi Club Ubud in a soothing and scenic location with luxurious extras including a private butler service, spa treatments and more.
Valid for travel until 20 December 2019 (bookings must be made before 20 October 2019).
Maximum Room Capacity: The maximum room capacity is two adults and one child (aged 11 years and under) or three adults. See below for more details.
Extra Guest Policy: One additional guest (aged 12 years and above) may stay for a surcharge of US$85++ per night, sleeping on an extra bed with accommodation, airport transfer and daily breakfast included. Payable directly to the hotel.
Child Policy: One child (aged 5 years and under) may stay for a surcharge of US$35++ per night, sleeping on existing bedding (one queen bed), with accommodation, airport transfer and daily breakfast OR one child (aged 6 – 11 years) may stay for a surcharge of US$65++ per night sleeping on a rollaway bed with accommodation, airport transfer and breakfast included. Payable directly to the hotel.
Baby Policy: An infant (aged 2 years and under) may stay free of charge and will count towards maximum room capacity. A cot can be provided by the resort, free of charge.
One-Bedroom Villa - Package valid for two adults.
Maximum Room Capacity: The maximum room capacity is two adults. No additional guests can be accommodated.
Two-Bedroom Family Villa - Package valid for two adults and two children.
Child Policy: Up to two children (aged 11 and under) may stay free of charge, sleeping on existing bedding (one queen bed in master bedroom and twin beds in second bedroom), with accommodation, airport transfer and daily breakfast. An extra rollaway bed can be supplied for a surcharge of US$65++ per night, payable directly to the resort.
Baby Policy: An infant (aged three and under) may stay free of charge and will count towards maximum room capacity. A cot can be provided by the resort, free of charge.
Resort car is available until 6pm only.
Getting to Bali is easy. Qantas, Thai Airways, Singapore Airlines, Virgin, and more have flights departing daily from most Australian capital cities with an average duration of six hours.
The Chedi Club is located a 60-minute drive from Bali's international airport with a one-way airport transfer included in your package.
We could not have anticipated how wonderful the Chedi was for our recent trip to Bali. They exceed great customer service. The yoga class was awesome, the meals were delicious, the pool was fun, grounds beautiful. Can't say enough good things. Highly recommend!
The Chedi Club Tanah Gajah was a phenomenal hotel. A hotel surrounded by rice paddy in Ubud The food was excellent, and the room was clean and comfortable. top notch service as what we expected what we paid for Enjoy the afternoon tea time at their restaurant surrounded by rice paddy We look forward to returning in the future and again experiencing this high level of service.
Wow. I loved the Chedi Club. The decor around the hotel feels truly authentic and charming. If you're looking for a taste of Bali lifestyle then this is the place you will find it. The Villas were stunning, with outdoor bathtub and shower area. You have the rice paddy fields in the background which you can take a short hike into with views of Mount Agung in the backdrop. Definitely want to return. Ask for the floating breakfast also!! True treat.