Tryton Business Solutions was founded by Richard Treston to provide cost-effective accounting and finance function assessment and review services to small private companies, owner managers and individuals.
Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Kieran Ryan & Co.
He is now a Fellow Chartered Accountant and prior to establishing Tryton Business Solutions he was Financial Controller with Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland Limited. Aside from tasks such as financial reporting and budgeting, his role involved latterly the takeover of the company (formerly Dolmen Stockbrokers) by Cantor Fitzgerald US.
Prior to working with Dolmen/Cantor Richard was with PricewaterhouseCoopers as an audit manager. A large portion of his client portfolio included small owner managed businesses, charities and not-for-profit organisations.
After completing his training with Kieran Ryan & Co., Richard was Financial Controller to a hotel and catering group of companies where his role primarily involved the restructuring of the group's finance function.
Richard is an economics graduate of University College Dublin and an accountancy graduate of Dublin City University.


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Q: What's the adj and adv form for 'quality'? I am wondering if qualitative and qualitatively is the adj and adv forms of quality? According to the Collins dictionary, quality itself can also be adjective.

*of high quality -- quality goods

It seems to me that quality and qualitative mean differently when being adjective.
Another dictionary on my phone says there is no comparative or superlative form for the adjective word - quality. Is it true? If yes, why?

A: Quality: Quality products. OK.
High quality products become: higher (or better) quality products or higher (or better) quality of product,  lower quality products or lower quality of product, the best quality products or the best quality of product; the worst quality products or the worst quality of product; the lowest quality products or the lower quality of product.
That is how to do the comparative. This is just like the comparatives for words like expensive. Many adjectives with two or more syllables. That's how you do it.
for adjectives of three or more syllables: expensive, inexpensive, illustrious, crushing, etc. Those are just examples that would follow this pattern.

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Files moving self to Trash?
Discussion in 'OS X Yosemite (10.10)' started by DangerMouse6, Dec 14, 2014.
This may sound silly but I can't wrap my head around it.
I just got a new Mac. After setting it up, and adding a few of my applications I went to delete an app. I threw it in the trash, and noticed that about 600 photos were also in the trash. The photos had to have been from one of two external HDs that I plugged into the computer. However, the App was the first and only thing I've dragged to the trash since purchasing the computer. I never dragged anything from the external hard drives except for a backup file for Paperless 2.
Not knowing why this happened, I took them out of trash and put them in a new folder on the desktop. With the trash emptied I searched some of the files in spotlight. Some of them were still in one of the HDs, some of them were in both, and some of them were in neither. But they absolutely had to be from one or the other. I can't make sense of why some stayed in the HD's and some did not. Or why they ended up in the trash in the first place.
I ejected the HDs at some point, trying to figure out a rhyme or reason to it, and once plugged back in, all the files are back in the trash.
The only thing I can think of is they were put into the trash on the old computer (would have never done this), but never emptied the trash before the computer crapped out on me. This marked the files as trash on the HDs. When I plugged them into the new computer it automatically stuck the files in its Trash.
Only thing I can think of, but it still doesn't make sense as to 1) How they got there in the first place and 2)why some show up still in the HDs using spotlight, and some do not.
Any ideas? Something silly I'm missing?
The Trash is a unified logical display of items that you intend to delete from any attached storage. If you Trash files on a drive that is attached to one computer and then move the drive to a different computer, then your Trashed files will appear in the Trash of the new computer. They will not disappear until you empty the Trash.
So what would cause some of the files that ended up in the trash on the new computer to remain on the HDs, and some of the files NOT remain on the HDs?


With the Fall season well underway, I am still dreaming of summer and this gorgeous wedding between two of the loveliest people I have ever met.
Thank you for allowing me to be part of your midsummer fairytale.
I can't tell you what an honor it has been to be part of this growing family since day one! Look how big these boys have gotten.
I have some of their shoots documented on my blog, and as I am tying this I realize that I should do a post with all the Franklin newborn shoots. *gasps to self in excitement* Yes, I think I will do just that!
For now, this is going to be a two part-er with maternity and then newborn shoot of the very latest Franklin brother. Enjoy the preciousness and be on the look out for part two later this week.
This was such a dreamy wedding; I could not get enough of the beauty. What's more, is the bride DIY'd ALL the decor!! Everything from the gorgeous cake stands, to centerpieces, to bouquet was handmade. And then there is the fact that the gorgeous couple got married at such a gorgeous venue. I am so excited to get to show off these portraits!
This beautiful July wedding took place at Panther's Creek Camp and Lodge in Farmersville, TX. Texas heat was greatly overpowered by the sheer fairyland elegance this couple brought to their special day. Seriously perfect!
This precious couple had their engagement session about a month out from their wedding at the wedding venue itself. How romantic! The venue was a rustic outdoor sort of place that suited them so well. As we walked around, they spoke of the big day dreamily while telling me what decorations would be where and how they would enter, and it was just the most perfect sort of feeling to have for an engagement session.
Cannot wait to post their wedding photos! Those will be up next.
Finally back to posting!!! I've had these sitting in my computer for months now, and I feel terrible denying the world the gorgeousness of this extremely photogenic little family.
These were taken back in August, so you can imagine the extreme heat of Texas and marvel at how they seem unfazed–might as well be cool spring day–which is quite a feat for this lovely woman who is nearly 9 month pregnant!!
I just can't! They are too pretty in this lighting!
Sisters!! You can clearly see that the gorgeous gene is genetic.
One could not have asked for a more lovely day to have a wedding as when Erica and Terry tied the knot at the Bingham House– a perfect backdrop to display the sweetness of this couple and their amazing and lovely girls. They are one of those couples that fit together so comfortably, so lovingly, that you could never imagine them ever having been apart. Not just in a peanut butter and jelly kind of way, but in a sun to sunshine kind of way. And seriously, their girls were the best! Gorgeous, kind, and absolutely hilarious! Can't tell you how many times I was trying to hold my camera still while laughing.
So happy I could be a part of their day to document all the gorgeousness!
A Disney Princess, that is what Angie wanted to be on her dreamy wedding day. Let me spoil it now for you: she raised the bar for Princesses everywhere. Everything from the tiara to the sparkles on the dress made her the most glamorous gem matched only by her enchanting persona.
The fabulous day started off with hair and make up for her and her bridesmaid and was followed immediately by a fun quick tribute to books and fairytales (and looking amazing) in a nearby books store.
The sweet Franklin family invited me over to their house to get some fun family portraits. It was around Christmas time, so I am very sorry to be getting these out on the blog so late!! But, it's too precious to hold off, so enjoy just a touch of Christmas in February.
2014 was their year to have Sam's little brother Milo and move into a cozy neighborhood with a big back yard. It's a perfect home for a family of four (and a little room to grow…*hint).
This family! Oh those two CUTE little guys! The baby brotherly love is killing me!
This might be my favorite part: PJ's and Dr. Seuss.


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could you please help me to solve this problems?
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Undefined index means that you array doesn't contain that 'key' in it.
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Ethical Issues in Working with Criminal Offenders
The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics
Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C.W.) van Staden
Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.6
Criminal Offending and Mental Illness
Criminal Responsibility and Mental Illness
Moral Responsibility in the Shadow of Neuroscience
The Perils of the Assessment of Risk
Psychiatry, the Social Contract, and Crime
International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
A Moral/Ethical History of American Psychiatry
Ethics and Values of Commissioning Mental Health Services
Advocacy, Ethics, and Values in Mental Health
Ethics of Public Mental Health in Developing Societies
Contagion, Identity, Misinformation: Challenges for Psychiatric Ethics in the Age of the Internet
"Belonging Bulimia": Ethical Implications of Eating Disorders as Group Contagions
Genetic Counseling in Psychiatry
Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice
Curing Financial Conflicts of Interest in Psychiatric Professional Organizations
The Psychiatrist as Community Member
Ethical Leadership for Psychiatry
Communication with Mass Media
Values-Based Involuntary Seclusion and Treatment: Value Pluralism and the UK's Mental Health Act 2007
Ethical Approaches to Dealing with Impaired Health Practitioners
The Professional Role of the Forensic Psychiatrist: A Tale of Two (or More) Loyalties
Ethical Issues in Secure Psychiatric Settings
Ethical Issues in Evidence-Based Psychiatry
Psychiatric Research Ethics: Informed Consent, Capacity, and Voluntarism
Safety Monitoring and Withdrawal of Psychiatric Research Participants
Service User Involvement in Research: Ethics and Values
Ethical Problems Concerning the Use of Animals in Psychiatric Research
Animal Welfare Considerations and Ethical Oversight of the Use of Animals in Psychiatric Research
Protecting Research, Preserving Trust: The Importance of Managing Industry Relationships in Psychiatric Research
Ethics and Values in Diagnosing and Classifying Psychopathology
Values-Based Assessment in Mental Health: The Three Keys to a Shared Approach between Service Users and Service Providers
Psychological Testing and Assessment
Ethical Issues in Brain Imaging in Psychiatry
Informed Consent to Treatment: Incapacity and Complexity Owing to Mental Disorder
Model-Based Science and the Ethics of Ongoing Treatment Negotiation
Professional Boundaries in Psychiatric Practice
Ethics of Psychopharmacology
Psychiatric Neuroethics I: Deep Brain Stimulation and Lesioning
Psychiatric Neuroethics II: Less Invasive and Non-Invasive Techniques
A Virtue-Based Approach to Neuro-Enhancement in the Context of Psychiatric Practice
Ethical Issues Common to All Therapies
Using a "Virtues" Approach to Ethical Challenges in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Projection and Introjection: The Uses of Paternalism, and Its Abuses
Ethical Practice of Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Ethics in Couple and Family Psychotherapy
Stories of Recovery: The Role of Narrative and Hope in Overcoming PTSD and PD
Handling Ethical Dilemmas in Multidisciplinary Teams: An Interprofessional Values-Based Approach
Ethics of Telepsychiatry
Ethics and the Paradigm Shift in Schizophrenia: The Early Intervention Story
Ethics in Relation to Caregiving and Caregivers in Mental Health
Ethics in Relation to Recovery from Mental Illness
Patient Responsibilities in a Psychiatric Healing Project
This chapter examines the ethical issues associated with criminal offending by presenting a conceptualization of crime within the context of social contract theory. It also considers two issues relevant to psychiatry: the common problem of the person with a mental illness and the professional ethics of psychiatry and its fundamentally contractarian nature. It begins by discussing the problem of criminal offending amongst people affected by mental illness, followed by an analysis of the problem of "evil" in relation to mental illness. It then describes problems surrounding the conceptualization of criminal responsibility in the setting of psychiatric disorder, as well as the putative contribution of neuroscience. Finally, the chapter assesses the contractarian responsibilities of professional psychiatric ethics in the area of criminal offending, paying particular attention to the ethical challenges faced by psychiatrists working with criminal offenders.
Keywords: criminal offending, crime, social contract theory, psychiatry, mental illness, professional ethics, evil, criminal responsibility, neuroscience, criminal offenders
Professor Michael Robertson, Centre for Values, Ethics & Law in Medicine, The University of Sydney

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In Beyond the Trauma Vortex, Gina Ross proposes a collaboration between the media, trauma researchers, and helping officials in order to break the vicious cycle of trauma and violence. The media, Ross suggests, can use their tremendous influence to promote peace rather than violence and to heal wounded psyches, communities, and nations. Delving first into the destructive nature of the "trauma vortex" through a variety of individual and historical examples, Ross then offers her insight into an alternate, restorative "healing vortex." By focusing on the interrelatedness of personal and collective healing, the author makes a compelling case for why—and how—media professionals can play an influential role in effecting widespread healing for their viewers and for themselves.
GINA ROSS, MFCC, is the founder and chair of the International Trauma- Healing Institute in the United States and the co-founder of the Israeli Trauma Center in Jerusalem. She specializes in trauma and has been involved in the understanding and treatment of trauma since 1990. She is trained in cognitive, behavioral, and somatic treatment approaches and is certified in the more innovative techniques of Somatic Experiencing (SE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Thought Field Therapy (TFT), and Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR). She was the founder and chair for seven years of the Cross-Cultural Committee under the Los Angeles, California, Association of Marriage, Family, and Child Therapists (MFCT) and serves multicultural clientele from over 50 countries in her cross-cultural practice.
Ross is a faculty member and teacher/trainer for the Foundation for Human Enrichment; she has presented at international conferences and has also appeared on radio and television. Ross sees that the media plays an important role in the way trauma is perceived by individuals, communities, groups, and nations. She and her institute have undertaken the goal of putting and keeping the issue of trauma on the global agenda, and developing resources and collaborating with organizations to further the healing of trauma at the community, national, and international level. Currently, she is working with Israeli and Palestinian society, and particularly the media, to bring about understanding of the role of trauma and the political trauma vortex in Middle Eastern politics. She is developing a model to work at national levels that can be applied to other regions as well. She is the published author of several articles. Beyond the Trauma Vortex: The Media's Role in Healing Fear, Terror, and Violence is her first book. Gina Ross can be reached at: ginaross@traumainstitute.org.


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text: Carl Phillips is the author of 14 books of poetry, most recently Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, called it as "haunting and contemplative as the torch song for which the collection is named." FSG will publish his forthcoming volume, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, in March 2020. His selected poems, Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, was published by FSG in 2007. Other books include The Tether (FSG, 2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Double Shadow (FSG, 2012), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Silverchest (FSG, 2014), a finalist for the Griffin Prize. A four time finalist for the National Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, his other honors include the Lambda Literary Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, for which he served as Chancellor from 2006-2012. His literary criticism and translations include The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2014), Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004), and Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches creative writing.


G2R Save the Pumpkin Man is another point & click escape game developed by Games2Rule. In this game, a pumpkin man was trapped in a pumpkin garden. Your mission is now to rescue the Halloween creature by finding useful objects, hints and by solving puzzles. Click on the objects to interact with. Good luck and have fun!


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Crime Fiction in the Scottish
Highlands and Islands
The Tartan Noir Phenomenon Has Penetrated the North of Scotland
August 14, 2018 By Paul French
It's summer! Time for a brief vacation away from the gritty back streets and seedy underbelly of the world's crime cities. A chance to breathe fresh air under the big sky of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. A quick definition may be in order. Basically, the H&I are the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and including the city of Inverness. For the purposes of this article (and Scottish geographers please accept it is only to be able include more books and not to redraw any boundaries north of the border!), I'm going to include all the Western Isles and all the Inner and Outer Hebrides too.
A place of big hearty breakfasts, long bracing walks with nobody around for miles, and a wee dram before a peaceful early night. Such a refreshing contrast from my usual beat of crack dens, meth labs, smoky bars and fetid police interrogation rooms. Surely, up here, in the majestic Highlands and Islands I can peacefully concentrate on nature, put aside that pile of yet-to-be read crime novels, and instead peruse Walter Scott or some Rabbie Burns?
Err, no. It turns out that, as far as crime novels go, this place is a sink of depravity and a den of iniquity to rival Hell's Kitchen in its heyday, with about as many murders as Al Capone's Chicago, or Victorian Whitechapel. The whole place is full of spree killers, Glaswegian gangsters-on-the-lam and desperate crimes of passion that the lads and lassies down at the tourist board would probably rather you didn't know too much about. The Highland and Islands, it appears, has hidden, and distinctly criminal, depths.
Technically crime set in the H&I is part of the larger Tartan Noir phenomenon—William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Val McDermid et al. But perhaps we need a sub-set: Tweed Noir? A perfect starting place would be Peter May's I'll Keep You Safe (2018) in which the owner of an actual tweed company is blown up in Paris. Back in the Hebrides the dead man's wife seeks answers while herself becoming the major suspect. Despite an excellent series of crime novels set in China (see Crime and the City Beijing) May keeps returning to the north of Scotland. The Lewis Trilogy, starting with The Black House (2011), sees Lewis-born Detective Inspector Fin Macleod return to the island from Edinburgh to investigate a murder in the close-knit community. The Lewis Man (2011) and The Chess Man (2012) continue the Fin Macleod series. May also has a number of stand-alone crime novels set in the Hebrides including Coffin Road (2016), which takes place on Harris where a man is found washed up on a deserted beach, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is or how he got there.
Anne Cleeves is as well known to TV watchers these days as to her loyal readers thanks to the success of Vera, with Brenda Blethyn as the decidedly unglamorous and dogged Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope of the Northumberland and City Police, as well as Shetland (with Douglas Henshall). Both have been big hits. Shetland is based on Cleeves's series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez. Despite his name Perez is Highlands & Islands through and through (his ancestors were Spanish Armada sailors shipwrecked on the island of Fair Isle—true story). He's been away working in Glasgow but a murder brings him to Shetland. The Perez series started with Raven Black in 2006 and eight more Perez novels have been published since, most recently Wild Fire (2018). Basically the prolific Cleeves seems to write one Vera novel, then a Perez, and then a Vera, and then a Perez… ]Given that Vera on TV is now in its ninth season while Shetland has just had its fifth season green-lit, it seems she'll have to remain prolific for a while yet.
A few more gruesome tales from the otherwise idyllic Highlands and Islands…
Highlands-based Margaret Kirk is the latest addition to the Tartan Noir roster of success. Shadow Man (2018), Kirk's debut novel, has been garnering much praise in Scotland. Two murders in Inverness on the same day: a daytime TV star and a police snitch executed gangland style. Can the murders be related? Detective Inspector Lukas Mahler is on the case.
Ian Rankin is of course most associated with Detective Inspector John Rebus and the back room of the Oxford Bar in Edinburgh. In Black and Blue (1997), the ninth Rebus novel, but in many ways a very different book, he heads north, to Shetland and out to the oil rigs of the North Sea. A killer seems to be imitating the (true life) Bible John killings of young women at dancehalls that occurred in Glasgow in the 1960s and were never solved. Did Bible John simply leave Scotland back then? Has he returned now, older, but still a killer? Black and Blue takes us to Glasgow, Aberdeen and, of course Edinburgh, but the Highlands loom large.
I'm going to include Compton Mackenzie's 1947 crime comedy Whisky Galore because whenever the movie version (1949) is shown on TV a new generation discover the story and love it. In World War Two a cargo vessel is wrecked off the remote, and fictional Great Todday and Little Todday in the Hebrides, with fifty thousand cases of whisky aboard. Naturally the government wants it back and the Islanders would rather keep it. A pompous official (English, of course!) is sent to the islands to reclaim the whisky. In fact the novel was based on a real story. In 1941 a cargo ship did wreck off the coast of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides carrying 28,000 cases whisky and rather a lot of cash. Not much of either was ever seen again.
Christopher Brookmyre is a prolific Glasgow author of comedy, social commentary, crime, and mixes of all the former. A couple of his books have been successfully made into video games. His best loved recurring character is investigative journalist Jack Parlabane, who's a bit of a wreck. In Dead Girl Walking (2015) Parlabane's career and marriage both seem over as he searches for a missing rock singer in the Highlands and Islands.
Louise Welsh is a Glasgow writer, though her work roams all over Scotland, frequently to Berlin too. Naming the Bones (2010) is one of her most chilling novels set largely in an archaeological dig on the island of Lismore in the Inner Hebrides. Welsh's writing always has a touch of the Gothic and she captures the windswept lonely nature of the Scottish islands beautifully.
Alex Gray's Detective Superintendent Lorimer series takes place mostly in Glasgow, but in Keep the Midnight Out (2015) he's on holiday on the island of Mull when the body of a red-haired young man is washed up on the beach. Could the body be a link to an unsolved murder in Glasgow twenty years ago?
And finally, the brilliant His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet, published in 2015. The book is quite remarkable for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was a massive success in the UK and published by a small independent Scottish press called Saraband. Secondly, it's a wonderfully crafted hoax; a psychological thriller masquerading as a slice of true crime. Macrae Burnet presents the reader with a cache of "found" documents relating to a brutal triple murder in 1869 amid a Highlands crofting community and the subsequent arrest of Roderick Macrae. The "found" documents includes Macrae's memoir written in Inverness jail while awaiting trial. Macrae Burnet claims to have discovered all these documents while researching his own Highland ancestors. It's revenge tragedy, courtroom drama, and description of the minutiae of Highland life in the nineteenth century. Yes, it's a gigantic literary hoax, but an un-put-down-able (a most overused term but applicable in this case) and utterly absorbing one. I promise you, you won't have read too many books like His Bloody Project.
And that was the many and varied Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Summer's drawing to a close now, the nights getting darker earlier: enough of washed up bodies, long buried secrets and closed communities. Back to the old routine next time of anonymous city streets, unclaimed victims, stressed out urban cops and corrupt municipalities. One last dram afore ye go?
Alex GrayAnne CleevesChristopher BrookmyreCompton MackenzieDenise MinaGraeme Macrae BurnetHighlands and IslandsHis Bloody ProjectIan RankinJohn RebusLouise WelshMargaret KirkPeter MayScotlandScottish Crime FictionShetlandTartain NoirTweed NoirVal McDermidVera
Paul French is a British author of books about modern Chinese history and contemporary Chinese society including Midnight in Peking and the 2018 release City of Devils.
The Essential True Crime Books of August
CrimeReads Brief: Week of August 19, 2018
These are boom days for writers and readers looking for thoughtful, hard-hitting stories about real-life crime. Whether you're...


The GAS Conference is Here!
The GAS conference is here! The GAS conference is here!
You can find the official event program there, which you should definitely peruse. For many of the events, you must register. But not for all! There are some very cool things that are completely free and open to the public. Of course, San Jose will be populated with a bunch of ... um ... colorful glass artists. Yes, "colorful". And that's free. I'm sure the city thanks us.
In addition, the Corning Roadshow is free and open to the public. I expect crowds, but it will certainly be fun to watch!
There's a student exhibition all weekend. Really great work, some of which you can actually purchase. Free (viewing...not purchasing). 80% of the proceeds go to the student, so you help propel a budding artist's career. How cool is that?
And I am greatly looking forward to the gallery hop. Many local galleries (the list starts on page 56 of the program) have exhibitions, all coinciding with the conference, of amazing glass art. So you can make an evening of visiting all of them, taking in the amazing diversity of expression in this amazing medium by some amazing artists. And (amazingly), that's free too! Many of the amazing shows have already opened, but the (colorful (and amazing)) glass artists are gonna bounce around to the galleries on Friday night. It would be amazing if you joined us. Be amazing and you'll blend right in.
Last, and this is a well-guarded secret, so don't tell anybody else, but if you mention the GAS conference at the Tech Museum you get a reduced entrance fee. There are lots of cool demos there (check the program). And the Tech Museum is just fun to visit anyway.


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DENVER - The Denver City Council held a public hearing Monday night on a marijuana initiative that asks law enforcement make arresting adults possessing marijuana for personal use their "lowest priority."
Citizens For a Safer Denver is behind the initiative. The group believes that marijuana is safer than alcohol and says Denver should stop wasting time and resources arresting adults who possess a small amount of marijuana. They say this would allow the city to focus on more serious problems and would not cost taxpayers anything.
Critics say this initiative does not really do anything because officers would still have to enforce state and federal marijuana laws.
City council has two options when an organization gathers the appropriate number of signatures for an initiative. They can either enact the initiative or send it to the voters.
Last week when the Denver City Council met, members decided not to enact the initiative. They did decide to hold a public hearing.
Council members will now put the initiative on an upcoming ballot and let Denver voters decide if it's a good idea.
Denver voters have already approved legalizing the possession of one ounce of marijuana. But a statewide amendment on the issue failed last November.
The City Council's meeting began at 5:15 p.m. and was held at the City and County Building.
Citizens For a Safer Denver held a rally outside the building, with a news conference at 5:00 p.m.
If the measure is adopted by Denver voters, it will join Seattle who adopted a similar measure in 2003. The city saw a significant decrease in the number of arrests for marijuana possession the years after it went into effect, according to the Seattle Times. Additionally, The Bay Area Reporter says San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica have also adopted similar legislation.


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Az Albán Szocialista Párt (albánul Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë) egy politikai párt Albániában. Az Albán Munkapárt utódpártja, hivatalos örököse. Elnöke Edi Rama, aki 2013 óta Albánia miniszterelnöke. A párt az Albán Demokrata Párt mellett Albánia két fő pártjának egyike.

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Miután 1991-ben megszűnt a kommunista ideológiájú Albán Munkapárt, a politikusai bejelentették, hogy egy demokratikusabb irányvonalat követő pártot fognak létrehozni. Így jött létre az Albán Szocialista Párt.

A párt elnöke Edi Rama albán miniszterelnök, aki korábban Tirana főpolgármestere volt. A párt jelenleg Albánia vezető kormánypártja.

Választási eredmények

Jegyzetek

További információk
 Hivatalos honlap

Albániai pártok
Szociáldemokrata pártok

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Arendal from A-Z
Here you have a map on sights, restaurants, and hotels in Arendal, Norway - my home town. Here are stories from this city and stay tuned for upcoming articles on Enjoy Food & Travel.
Stories on Arendal here on Enjoy Food & Travel
Rating Clarion Hotel Tyholmen, Arendal (June 19th 2010)
Park Inn Arendal (June 27th 2009)
The fabulous Melody Gardot on stage at Canal Street Festival (August 5th 2010)
Arendal anno 1528 (January 8th 2009)
The streets of my childhood (June 17th 2008)
Finally summer (May 13th 2008)
Arendal - Venice of the north (October 22nd 2006)
A trip to Norway's southern tip (August 7th 2007)
Danish frokost at Madam Reiersen (March 15th 2009)
Lunch with Madam Reiersen (September 8th 2008)
See this presentation of Arendal on YouTube
Scrumptious smoked salmon and cream cheese spread
I love bagels with cream cheese and lox (smoked salmon), as you may order in many Jewish delis in the US. Slicing a fillet of smoked salmon in very thin slices demands patience and a very sharp knife. A smoked salmon and cream cheese spread is an easy and delicious alternative!
It is the easiest thing in the world to make, if you have a blender in your house. I used a small handy one connected to my hand mixer to wizz up a small quantity.
This is a kind of spread where you may just improvise / experiment with what you like. The taste of the salt salmon will get milder when mixed with a creamy cheese. A good idea is to add sweetness. Ketchup provides colour as well as balance.
If you use plain cream cheese, you may flavour it with you favourite herbs. Dillweed is great to fish.
I took around 150 grams / 5 oz cream cheese. For cheese; pick what variety you want. I used Philadelphia cheese with chives. Then I just used 50 (2 oz) grams of smoked salmon and 2 tsp ketchup of sweet chili sauce for more balance.
I then just blended it all until it was completely smooth. If you want, you can mix in more diced smoked salmon for more taste.
Keep refrigerated.
Photo: National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
Moving out - moving in..........
This was how people moved in Salt Lake City in 1911. I will move out and into a new flat late September, thus leaving interruptions here on Enjoy Food & Travel
I announced my flat for sale earlier this spring and sold it in June. September I will move into a newer and larger flat at Høgåsen south of Oslo with view to city and the fjord. Closer to forests and coastline I will still live just a 13 minute ride with suburban train from Oslo city centre.
Enjoy Food & Travel for sale! - see story here
Enjoy Food & Travel tries to deliver at least one story a day, in average, and I am happy to say that we have managed this much this year. In August and September, however, our goal is a new story every second day, leaving time to pack for that ultimate magic moving date.
So have patience, my readers, as more stories will emerge when I move into my new apartment on travel and food from Oslo and beyond.
View Oslo on Enjoy Food & Travel - from A-Z in a larger map
Massachusetts Hall, Harvard University
The first image of Boston and the US I have, was the sight of Massachusetts Hall as I ascended the stairs at the Church street exit of Harvard subway station. That was in 1987. Massachusetts Hall is still one my favourite buildings in the Bay area.
Massachusetts Hall is the oldest building in what used to be Newtown in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was constructed in 1720, and is the second oldest educational building in the US.
The oldest, the Wren building at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, dates back as far as 1695, but it has been ravaged by fire, Massachusetts Hall has not.
It used to be the quarters of 64 students of Harvard College, and today freshmen of the university live on the 4th floor, whereas other functions have taken over the other floors.
Many famous Americans have lived in the old dormitory, including John Adams, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Elbridge Gerry, and James Otis.
Other stories on heroes of the American revolution on Enjoy Food & Travel
Deacon Larkin House - Charlestown MA (April 21st 2010)
Here stood the residence of John Hancock..... (August 8th 2009)
Along my Freedom Trail: Ebenezer Hancock house (March 14th 2007)
Along my Freedom Trail: Paul Revere House (March 14th 2007)
Best deal on hotels in Marrakech
We (i.e. me and two friends) have serious plans to go to Marrakech this winter. This will be my second visit to this beautiful city. I have already started my research on where to stay. Our brief is - top standard, good location, and a (heated) swimming pool at lowest possible price. Unless we choose to revisit the Eden Andalou Spa & Resort, that is!
When visiting this beautiful city in February, we discovered that picking hotels in Marrakech is a difficult job. Many of the highly praised and priced hotels and riads, received less than favorable reviews in tripadvisor.
We chose to consult this site again, as it has collected an impressive number of reviews of most major places of accommodation all over the world, and may be a good correction to glossy pictures on different websites.
Another challenge is location. Whereas most hotels in major European cities may offer precise information on location, on a city map we found that similar information for Marrakech was insufficient.
As we booked the Eden Andalou Spa & Resort last January, we did so believing that it was located close to the city centre. This was certainly not the case. We had consulted Google maps and found that the information there was misleading. It was, in fact close to 10 miles away from the city centre.
The best idea is to book a Riad hotel. Many of the old houses in the city are centered around one or two enclosed courtyards. An increasing numbers are converted into Riad hotels or guesthouses.
This time we would like to stay in a riad in the city's medina. I have already checked a number of Riads on tripadvisor and cross checked with prices on my favourite hotel booking sites www.venere.com, hrs.de and flight+hotel package available on www.norwegian.no.
The fare cost EUR 197, and there were no big differences between tripadvisor and venere, whereas hrs.de and Norwegian did not have the selection of hotels. I ended up with the following 4 hotels to look closer at:
Guest House Riad Les Trois Palmiers*****
Available at venere and tripadvisor
Lowest: venere.com 7 nights per fare EUR 897, highest: tripadvisor EUR 932.
Saves 5 EUR per night
Guest House Riad La Rose d'Orient
Lowest: venere.com 7 nights per fare EUR 715, highest: tripadvisor EUR 722
Guest House Riad Diana
Available at venere, tripadvisor and hrs.de
Similar price EUR 617 on all sites
Hotel Terre Resort & Spa*****
Available at venere, tripadvisor and Norwegian Air Shuttle
Lowest: venere.com and tripadvisor 7 nights per fare EUR 722, highest: Norwegian EUR 761
Saves 5,15 EUR per night
(Photo - middle top: Courtyard house in the Fez medina by Cuckooroo)


Energy is a state function commonly defined as the capacity to do work. Since work is defined as the movement of an object through a distance, energy can also be described as the ability to move an object through a distance. As an example, imagine that a bar magnet is placed next to a pile of iron filings (thin slivers of iron metal). The iron filings begin to move toward the iron bar because magnetic energy pulls on the iron filings and causes them to move.
Energy can be a difficult concept to understand. Unlike matter, energy can not be taken hold of or placed on a laboratory bench for study. We know the nature and characteristics of energy best because of the effect it has on objects around it, as in the case of the bar magnet and iron filings mentioned above.
Energy is described in many forms, including mechanical, heat, electrical, magnetic, sound, chemical, and nuclear. Although these forms appear to be very different from each other, they often have much in common and can generally be transformed into one another.
Over time, a number of different units have been used to measure energy. In the British system, for example, the fundamental unit of energy is the foot-pound. One foot-pound is the amount of energy that can move a weight of one pound a distance of one foot. In the metric system, the fundamental unit of energy is the joule (abbreviation: J), named after the English scientist James Prescott Joule (1818-1889). A joule is the amount of energy that can move a weight of one newton a distance of one meter.


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ACRU: ObamaCare Violates Religious Freedom
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Robert Knight on FOX and Friends
On Tuesday, April 13 at 7:45am ET, ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight will be on FOX and Friends to discuss comments by an Obama adminstration official about how America is not so great.You can view the video from the show here.
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Jan LaRue: Baby 'Bigots'
On September 18, ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing on American Thinker discussing the problems with Newsweek's latest cover story on babies and race.
John Armor On the Air in Huntington, WV
John Armor will be discussing Freedom to Listen on April 21, 2009 at 7:35am ET on The Tom Roten Show. The show can be heard on 800 AM WVHU out of Huntington, WV. Tune in if you live in the area or listen live online.
The ACRU to Talk About Freedom to Listen On the Air
On Sunday, April 12, 2009, at 4:30pm ET, John Armor will be on "Liberty Watch Radio," which can be heard on 690 KVOI in Tuscon, AZ, 930 KAPR in Douglas, AZ, and 1240 KJAA in Tuscon, AZ. He will be discussing both Freedom to Listen and Save Radio Free America. Tune in if you live in the Tuscon area or listen live online.Then, on Monday, April 13, 2009, Robert Knight will be on "The Sandy Rios Show" on 1160 WYLL in Chicago, IL. They will also be discussing Freedom to Listen. Tune in if you live in Chicago or listen live online.
Peter Ferrara On the Air in Wisconsin
On Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 5:09pm ET, Peter Ferrara will be on the Vicki McKenna Show on WIBA Madison and WISN Milwaukee. He will be discussing his Sunday Washington Times column and FreedomtoListen.org. Tune in if you live around Madison or Milwaukee or listen live online.
Peter Ferrara on G. Gordon Liddy
On Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at 12:30pm ET, ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara will be discussing his Washington Times column and FreedomtoListen.org. Tune in with your local affiliate or listen live online.
Ken Blackwell On Mancow
On Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:35am ET, ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell will be on The Mancow Show. He will be discussing FreedomtoListen.org and SaveRadioFreeAmerica.org. Click here to find your local station.
Ken Blackwell on the Sean and Frank Show
On Monday, March 9, 2009 at 8:35am ET, ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell will be on the "Sean and Frank Show" on Talk Radio 680 WCBM out of Baltimore, Maryland. He will talk about ACRU's latest projects, FreedomtoListen.org and SaveRadioFreeAmerican.org. Tune in if you are in the Baltimore area of listen line online.
Western Center for Journalism Picks Up Knight Piece
The Western Center for Journalism picked up ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight's piece that ran in Human Events on February 20, 2009.The piece, titled "Listen Up, While You Still Can," discussed the so-called Fairness Doctrine and the problems with it.


Lincoln Lutheran and the Lutheran Education Foundation would like to join with our Lutheran Congregations in encouraging all Lutherans in the Lincoln area to continue to give of their time and talents to promote Lutheran education.
To volunteer at one of our Lincoln area Lutheran schools, contact one of the people listed below.
The Lutheran Education Foundation also conducts events, produces mailings and participates in fundraisers throughout the year. As these events are planned, we will list the need in this area.
What places can you volunteer?
Please continue to check the site for events that may be of interest to you as a volunteer.


The EAT B-Sharp is a most enjoyable moderately priced turntable that does most things correctly …within the price category. Its speed accuracy and consistency made listening pleasurable and relaxing. Imaging was stable and well-defined as was soundstaging. The 'table and Ortofon Blue produced a satisfying spread and good sense of depth. In terms of colorations, as the tap test indicated, the B-Sharp tends toward a slight warmth in the upper mid-bass but the lower octaves are well-presented and bass through a system no doubt more robust and extended than with which this turntable is likely to be matched was well-controlled overall, deeper than expected and only slightly exaggerated.
I can say is that you won't regret buying this one.
Naturally its for sale in our store. Explore the B-Sharp.


The Palm Treo Pro is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone with tri-band 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS with a 320×320 touchscreen. It comes equipped with a 400MHz processor and 128MB of RAM. Word is they're only selling it unlocked through palm's online store for $549 in the fall.


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Q: When runing cucumber from main method giving me skeleton of my features When running the cucumber test runner from main class as per below screenshot just giving me the skeleton of the feature to define the steps. Whereas I have already written the code to achieve the steps.
Attaching screenshot to understand my code as well project structure.
Mainjarvish.java is the main file from where I am trying to run the TestRunner.java.

A: It fails because your class test/java/stepDefinitions/Contacts is not in the same class path scope as src/main/java/MainJarvish.
Assume following structure.
src/main/java/MainJarvish.java
src/test/java/stepDefinitions/Contacts.java
src/test/java/FeatureList/Smoke.feature

MainJarvish.java
import cucumber.api.cli.Main;

public class MainJarvish {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String[] options = {"--glue", "stepDefinitions",
            "src/test/java/FeatureList/Smoke.feature"};
        byte exitcode = Main.run(options, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
        System.out.println("exitcode = " + exitcode);
    }
}

Contacts.java
package stepDefinitions;

import cucumber.api.java.en.Given;

public class Contacts {
    @Given("^Submit message for execution$")
    public void submitMessageForExecution() throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("submitMessageForExecution");
    }
}

Smoke.feature
Feature: example feature

  Scenario: describe the test scenario
    Given Submit message for execution

compile the classes
mvn clean compile test-compile

it generates the class files
target/classes/MainJarvish.class
target/test-classes/stepDefinitions/Contacts.class

When you now execute ManJarvish
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=MainJarvish

the class Contacts is not on the class path and therefor the step definition is not found.
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.6.0:java (default-cli)
...
Undefined scenarios:
src/test/java/FeatureList/Smoke.feature:3 # describe the test scenario

1 Scenarios (1 undefined)
1 Steps (1 undefined)

As MainJarvish is located in src/java at its execution only the project classes below target/classes are added to the class path.
If the class Contacts would be on the class path, e.g. by changing the class path scope
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=MainJarvish -Dexec.classpathScope="test"

now are the classes below target/classes and below target/test-classes added to the class path and the step definition is found.
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.6.0:java (default-cli)
submitMessageForExecution
...
1 Scenarios (1 passed)
1 Steps (1 passed)

Depending on what you want to achieve you might consider to move MainJarvish to test/java or create a test runner class.
src/test/java/TestRunner.java
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        glue = "stepDefinitions",
        features="src/test/java/FeatureList/Smoke.feature"
)
public class TestRunner {
}

then you can run your feature test as
mvn clean test

output
-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running TestRunner
submitMessageForExecution

1 Scenarios (1 passed)
1 Steps (1 passed)


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Modern Desktop Management – Shift your Mindset, Not the Workload
By Solution Consultant at Data#3 Limited
Recently I was involved in a discussion in a Facebook group that asked the question "How do you find Intune suits your needs today?". The person asking the question continued to elaborate with some detail about how they tried to transfer their existing Windows 10 configuration, policies and customisations from their on-premises environment to Intune, and everything fell in a heap. They deemed Intune was unable to do what they wanted and therefore too complicated. The overall light in which Intune was painted was that it isn't fit for purpose.
The discussion brought to light a very important point regarding modern management, and this article elaborates on the context I put forward in which modern management should be viewed. If you're in a position where you're trying to explain modern management to someone, I hope this article can assist you.
Modern management requires a change in how we think about information technology. I know this has been covered many times by other blog posts and Microsoft slide decks, but there are still many organisations out there who are trying to get their head around the concept; or are having trouble articulating the concept to their stakeholders and management.
Classic IT
Firstly, we must understand how IT has evolved over the last 10-15 years. We can think of this past period until recent times as "Classic IT".
In the days of Windows XP and Windows 7, most users had desktop PC's or laptops that were predominantly used in a fixed location, and more than likely this was their only work device. The company owned it, and it was joined to the corporate domain network. The device was heavily managed by group policy, users were locked down in the environment, applications were deployed by configuration management tools such as SMS, SCCM, Tivoli/BigFix or Kace. If those endpoint management services didn't exist maybe a desktop support person would need to use a tool like TeamViewer or VNC to shadow the users' session and install software on their behalf. Typically, the application would be an MSI or a setup.exe that needed to be run as an administrator and would require further user input for configuration settings. The whole process was high touch, reactive and involved many steps (some manual) to execute the workflow.
The Transition – Then to Now
In 2007 something amazing happened. Steve Jobs announced the Apple iPhone. Many hardware vendors had tried to introduce mobile devices before in the form of tablet PC's or hand-held devices that required a stylus for input. Some tried slide-out keyboards (I'm looking at you iMate JasJam/HTC Tytn II) with limited success. But none of these devices set the world on fire like the first iPhone did.
Regardless of whether you like Apple or not – the iPhone kick started a push for user friendly, software driven devices. It put usable technology into the hands of anybody who could afford one, regardless of their prior computer literacy level.
People started using mobile devices not only for personal use, but now they were bringing them to work – connecting their email app to the corporate mail server, opening documents and replying to instant messages. All of this powered by an explosion of broadband internet capability around the world. 3G wireless connectivity gave way to 4G wireless wide area networks. Broadband internet became cheaper and cheaper, with more download quota, or no quota at all. People started working from home. As time went on people began not only using their mobile phone, but iPads, Android tablets, Surface Pro's, laptops, their old desktop PC, etc. They were using SkyDrive/OneDrive, Dropbox, Send Space, Rapidshare, Evernote, OneNote; and the list goes on. All these applications are freely available and easily accessed with an internet connection.
Having access to technology without being chained to a desk, fast internet from just about any location, and a myriad of internet-based services to make life easier have changed the fundamental way of how and when people work. While this has been great for productivity, employee flexibility and investors in Apple (AAPL) stock, it has also opened a pandoras box for organisations.
How do you control a device that is not connected to your network, isn't part of your domain, and you may not even own? That old "Classic IT" model is now almost impossible to apply.
Suddenly users and more importantly, your enterprise data, are now on a device that can be anywhere, attached to any network. The common point of interconnect is no longer the corporate LAN in a shared trusted location, but the global public internet. Yes, devices may come back to the corporate network from time to time (or even everyday), but what will they bring with them? Has the device been compromised while it was away from the network? How can you ensure someone is who they say they are when they are accessing your corporate resources?
It's easy to see the conundrum organisations are faced with in this new world. The traditional IT model that's worked well for so long is suddenly a square peg trying to go into a round hole.
This lack of control over data, identity validation and device compliance can expose organisations to data theft, embarrassment, brand damage and loss of confidence by peers and the public. These are very hard to recover from (if you can recover at all) – and doesn't even consider the financial impact of such an event.
So how can Modern IT solve this?
Where we are today can be considered "Modern IT". The end user technology landscape has changed and is defined by the following characteristics.
The devices, applications and services we use today are incredibly diverse. Almost every user has more than one device they access corporate services on, and these devices are commonly from different vendors, running different operating systems. Updating of the device is handled by the vendor whether that be iOS, Android or Windows 10 (we're all familiar with the cumulative update and feature update release cycle now). More and more applications these days are run from the cloud, and users expect certain freedoms of choice around what they can do with their device. Users want to be able to access corporate resources, but don't want their employers locking down their device or disabling some other capability of their access unnecessarily.
The line between work/personal device and work/personal data has been blurred. Classical management techniques are not capable of abstracting the difference and applying the intelligence required for today's modern IT world.
And it is because of that exact reason why a "lift and shift" approach of on-premises policies, applications and security restrictions to a cloud-based platform (such as Microsoft Intune) will be certain failure.
Shift the Mindset – Not the Workload
The point of Intune and cloud management is not to micromanage the endpoint. Locking down a device and controlling everything through access control lists and group policies is the old way. The thinking around security has now shifted higher in the stack. It's not just about the device and the user profile, but also securing identity, access, the applications and the data. These are things group policy just can't cover.
This is a huge shift in thinking and may even be challenging to accept for some of you reading this, however; let's break this down into three parts as to why this change in thinking may not be as big of a challenge as it seems.
The elephant in the room and my first point. Organisations felt the need to lock down their environments in the past using Group Policy Objects (GPO) in the name of security. GPO becomes irrelevant once you look at the modern management strategy. There were two things GPO's were used for; applying security settings and doing things on the user's behalf (e.g. drive mappings).
In modern management, security moves higher up and is applied at the data, network, application and identity levels. It's not so much about the device and restricting what the user can/can't do anymore. Sure, you may have some compliance settings you require (such as the device isn't allowed to be jailbroken), but security in the context of modern management is no longer about preventing the user from looking at the system files. It's about validating authentication and protecting data. This is performed several ways:
Conditional Access (grant or deny access depending on where the request is coming from)
Multi-Factor Authentication (require additional authentication when outside a trusted location)
Information Protection (data classification to prevent unauthorised access to information)
Application Management (Apply application specific security restrictions e.g. disable copy/paste, screen shots, require even further authentication etc)
Device Security (compliance, encryption and configuration settings for the device)
Historically any security or configuration changes applied through group policy were necessary for old applications. Many applications these days are SaaS applications, which removes the need for such settings to be locally applied.
Yes, I am aware there are still many organisations out there that run some specialised application that hasn't been updated in 10 years and there is still only an MSI or setup.exe installer available. I am also willing to bet that these same organisations are looking forward to the day when they don't need to deal with that application anymore. Quite possibly that application is what is holding them back from moving forward in their IT strategy. My advice in this instance is to question the viability of continuing to use such an application like that, especially when it comes to compatibility testing and how the vendor will continue to support that application.
Access to Local Resources
I get asked this question a lot. "How can I print to a printer right next to me if my devices & identity are in the cloud?" Again, this is a departure from how we've thought about IT for decades.
Traditionally a local resource needed local identity authentication to use it. These same local resources, whether they be file servers or printers can still be accessed in the modern management world.
Many people don't know this but when you are on the corporate LAN, you can authenticate to local resources via Azure AD. There is a catch though – you must have a Windows Server 2016 Domain Controller with line of sight to Azure AD. That means, no firewalls or proxies that may get in the way to make a mess of things. Without getting into the weeds of detail – this is how it works:
User logs into Windows 10 – credentials are validated against Azure AD.
Azure AD authenticates the user and sends back a Primary Refresh Token (PRT) and an ID token. The ID token contains 3 attributes (sAMAccountName, netBIOSDomainName and dnsDomainName).
Kerberos picks up these 3 attributes and uses the dnsDomainName to find an on-premises domain controller via the DC Locator process. If a domain controller is found the sAMAccountName attribute is used to authenticate against it.
When domain controller authentication occurs, a Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) is returned to the user and is held in cache by Windows 10.
When a user attempts to access local resources (File/Print Server, Web Server etc) authentication occurs through Windows Integrated Authentication and they get access.
Of course, the usual song and dance here would be to move data into SharePoint Online or OneDrive, but I realise this may not be possible or realistic for a lot of organisations. But using the above method to access these resources on-premises is a good alternative.
Device Management & Customisation
iOS and Android really come under Mobile Device Management and in the context of Intune these can be managed through security policies and Microsoft Application Management (MAM) policies.
When I say "device management" I'm really talking about Windows 10 here because Windows 7 & 8 were architected before "Modern IT" was a thing. Most of us are familiar with the traditional wipe & load methodology of deploying an operating system. We capture a master image that has applications built-in and deploy it on-mass. There may be issues with drivers, customisations, answer files, PXE booting, vendors changing chipsets on motherboards half way through a procurement cycle, Java suddenly wanting updates again even though it shouldn't be asking for it…. I could go on. This way of deploying an "SOE" worked well for its time, but it still involved a lot of effort and trouble shooting. I mean…it's better than finding a CRC error on floppy disk 20 of 21 when you're installing Windows by hand; but these days, refreshing an operating system should be a process, not a project.
This is where Windows 10 becomes the foundation of modern management in the enterprise. Windows 10 is the last of the OS deployments and for good reason. It is now provided "as-a-service" borrowing the same in-place security and feature update style as iOS and Android. I won't re-cap all the details about update cadence (you can read about that in the hyper-link just above), but what I do want to touch on here is OS customisation.
Again, many organisations still feel the need to customise the operating system heavily. It must have a certain wallpaper, the service desk phone number must be in "Computer Properties", icons must be arranged in a certain way etc. In modern management users can setup and configure their machines how they want. Things shouldn't really be enforced on the user unnecessarily. Naturally, you may have requirements for a corporate standard wallpaper, so nothing that can be considered offensive or "off-brand" can be seen on a corporate owned device. Or you may wish to deploy an internet browser homepage or a Wi-Fi certificate for the user just to save them some trouble. But all those little niggly customisations like pinned icons, desktop shortcuts, service desk phone numbers & support hours, forced locale etc – are they really required? I've never come across a business that folded because there wasn't a desktop icon for an installed application.
When thinking about customisations, consider the following.
Does this customisation enhance IT security?
Does this customisation protect the company brand and reputation?
Does this customisation empower the user?
If the answer isn't "Yes" to at least one of those questions – you don't need it. And here's a fun fact… if you look at all the security, compliance and configuration policies you can do in Intune now, you'll probably notice they are aimed at enhancing those three things.
Modern management is a new concept many organisations are still coming to terms with. It is a revolution in IT management methodology that takes time to implement. There is no single switch to make this happen overnight. It requires cultural change, which is not easy to do. It also requires a level of IT and organisational maturity to be successful. But it is here now, and it is not going to go away. The Anywhere Workplace and remote access to corporate applications and resources is going to become even more common place than it already is.
"Work is a thing you do, not a place you go".
Like all big changes, it's best to break it down into smaller, more manageable steps. Modern management is a journey that will see you slowly but surely unshackle yourself from old management platforms and put your management where your users now are – the cloud. This will then open the doors to do things you'd never dream of doing on-premises before. I like to use the example of conditional access and multi-factor authentication. To do that on-premises was an incredibly complex and expensive task. Now it's a tick box.
Throughout this article I've made modern management sound like the magic silver bullet to everyone's problems. I realise it isn't and there are still some gaps; but these gaps are shrinking every day. Microsoft for example continues to add an incredible number of new features to Intune every week. The speed at which the platform is developing is mind blowing. I look at it nearly every day and I have trouble keeping up. I tell a customer "Oh yeah Intune can't do that yet", and then 2 weeks later it can.
Even so, I understand there will still be some organisations out there who CANNOT move to cloud management. This may be because of the applications they use, some regulatory requirement, or even some political battle with end users. I've heard stories of end users saying things like "If you want to push applications to me at home and use my internet – you should be paying for at least part of my internet bill." etc.
These are all challenges outside the technical capability of modern management. But are challenges nonetheless.
Modern management is a new concept and we are still in the infancy of this concept. The noise of "Intune can't do this, can't do that" sounds very similar to when computer virtualisation first started coming out. "VM's are slow", "No way is this as good as a physical server", "This can't handle my workload", "This application isn't supported in a virtual environment" – and so on. But look at where we are now. Now it's weird if something ISN'T virtualised.
Modern management is the same. It's early days, but the onset of it will happen much faster than when virtualisation consumed the world. It may not be for everyone this minute, but it'll get there, and it'll happen a lot faster than you think.
You know what they call it when users take matters into their own hands and IT departments can't keep up? They call it "Shadow IT". Modern management puts a lid on that and helps you uphold enterprise security standards while allowing users the benefits of this modern world.
I'd encourage all IT Managers to start planning their journey towards modern management. Don't try to "lift and shift" your current environment to the cloud – it simply will not work. Start looking at things like SCCM co-management, Windows 10 and Intune. Start a proof of concept and start gathering telemetry and data about your environment. See who's using what and how they are using it. Keep up communication with users and make sure they have a say. See what workloads you can move to the cloud and what applications can be moved, retired or cut over to a SaaS version. If you need assistance, Data#3 can help. Little by little you'll make the journey happen, and it all starts with shifting the mindset.
If you would like to know more about starting your modern management journey, or maybe you already have but need help progressing it, please feel free to contact me.
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Board index ‹ Related puzzles ‹ Other logic puzzles
Sudoku molecule puzzle
For fans of all other kinds of logic puzzles
by Vadimkinu » Tue Dec 20, 2016 7:07 am
Please try my board puzzle for Android platform, it's free and ad free
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.vafgames.finship
There are two board sizes 5x5 and 6x6, number of levels w/o any limit. You will discover 6x6 to be very challenging.
Vadimkinu
Re: Sudoku molecule puzzle
by Smythe Dakota » Thu Dec 29, 2016 9:25 pm
I'm not sure I understand the rules, even after looking at your web page.
It was a while before I realized that the vertical bars along the bottom represent bonds, the same as the horizontal bars along the right side. At first I thought they were the digit 1, and I couldn't figure out why there were three digits at the bottom of each column but only two digits at the right of each row.
Now that I've figured that out, my next guess is that the object is to add atoms wherever necessary so that, in the final picture, the number of molecules and bonds in each row and column matches the numbers at the right and bottom.
But I still have a question. If I place an atom, does that also automatically generate a bond between the new atom and (any and all) atoms that are adjacent to it, vertically and horizontally?
I can't try your electronic version because I don't have a smart phone. My cell is a flip phone (remember those?). So I'm trying to work it out on paper.
Bill Smythe
Smythe Dakota
A few minutes ago, I wrote: .... If I place an atom, does that also automatically generate a bond between the new atom and (any and all) atoms that are adjacent to it, vertically and horizontally? ....
Now I realize that assumption is incorrect. In your sample puzzle, that assumption leads to a non-existent solution.
So my next hypothesis is that bonds are not automatic, but may be placed manually. There is no requirement that atoms in adjacent cells have a bond between them. However, at the end, the entire puzzle must be connected, i.e. it must be possible to get from any atom to any other atom via a sequence of horizontal and vertical bonds.
If all of that is correct, I now have one more question: Are circular bonds (such as benzene rings) allowed? For example, in your sample puzzle, would it be permissible to add an atom at r3c1, and bonds between it and the atoms at r2c1 and r4c1?
by Smythe Dakota » Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:20 pm
Upon still further study, now I'm even more confused.
I'll re-display the picture below for everybody's convenience.
Since two atoms must be added to the top row, and one to the bottom row, and none to any other rows, AND since two atoms must be added to the first column, and one to the third column, and none to any other columns, it follows that atoms must be added at r1c1, r1c3, and r5c1.
Now, what about the bonds?
The top row needs three new bonds, so that's easy: r1c1-r1c2, r1c2-r1c3, and r1c3-r1c4.
The bottom row needs two new bonds, so that's easy too: r5c1-r5c2, and r5c2-r5c4. But the latter is a non-adjacent bond. That requires me to further modify my original assumptions. Apparently, bonds don't have to be between two adjacent atoms, as long as there are no other atoms between the two in the same row (or column).
That takes care of the horizontal bonds.
Vertically, everything is already OK, except in the leftmost column, which needs two new bonds. These could be r1c1-r2c1 and r4c1-r5c1. But r2c1-r4c1 is also a legal bond, at least if non-adjacent vertical bonds are allowed, in the same way that non-adjacent horizontal bonds are apparently allowed (judging by the previously mentioned r5c2-r5c4).
Thus, the puzzle apparently has multiple solutions, which is a definite NO-NO in the puzzle business (whether sudoku, kakuro, or any other puzzle).
On top of that, the resulting solution is not connected. The rightmost column is isolated from the rest of the puzzle. That's a peculiar molecule!
And, there are circles (benzene-ring-type configurations) in all the solutions.
It seems to me, it ought to be back to the drawing board for this type of puzzle, or at least for this example. The improved version should also include a clarification of the rules.
by Mathimagics » Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:05 pm
Smythe Dakota wrote: I can't try your electronic version because I don't have a smart phone. My cell is a flip phone (remember those?). So I'm trying to work it out on paper.
Mine is still 2G. But they are switching off the 2G network in Australia soon, which is a real bummer ...
Anyway, my first impression was that it's a variation of a puzzle I'm developing.
If that is in fact the case, then the objective is create a single molecule that has the required number of atoms in each row/col match the clues, and ditto for the required number of connections in each row/col.
And there should be no circuits, ie: between any pair of atoms there should be exactly one path of connections that lets you get from one to the other.
Could that be it?
(PS) Oh, I now see that you have already established that circuits exist in the solution (but how do you know the solution without running the app?)
Mathimagics
by Smythe Dakota » Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:48 pm
Mathimagics wrote: .... but how do you know the solution without running the app?
The same way I solve sudoku and kakuro puzzles -- on paper!
.... Anyway, my first impression was that it's a variation of a puzzle I'm developing. .... If that is in fact the case, then the objective is create a single molecule that has the required number of atoms in each row/col match the clues, and ditto for the required number of connections in each row/col. .... And there should be no circuits .... Could that be it? ....
Those were my initial assumptions, too. Following those assumptions, I worked it out as follows:
In the top row, only 2 atoms are shown, but the clue calls for 4. The added 2 must be in the 1st and 3rd locations -- not the 5th, because column 5 already has 3 atoms, as specified by the clue for that column.
In the bottom row, only 2 atoms are shown, but the clue calls for 3. The added 1 must be in the 1st location, because the other two locations are in columns 3 and 5, which already have the required number of atoms.
Having added the above atoms in r1c1, r1c3, and r5c1, all rows and columns now have the required number of atoms. So it's time to turn attention to the bonds.
The top row needs 3 bonds, and there are only 3 places to put them -- in the 3 spaces between r1c1-r1c2-r1c3-r1c4.
The bottom row needs 2 bonds, and there are only 2 places to put them -- in the 2 spaces between r5c1-r5c2-r5c4.
Now all rows and columns have the required number of atoms and bonds, except for column 1, which needs 2 bonds. These can be any two of r1c1-r2c1, r2c1-r4c1, r4c1-r5c1. Since there are three ways to do this, the solution is not unique.
Further, this solution (these solutions) all have circuits, and all leave a disconnected "molecule", in that column 5 is separated from the rest of the picture.
This reasoning proves that there are no solutions satisfying the desideratum that "there should be exactly one path of connections that lets you get from one to the other". It also proves that, even among solutions not satisfying the desideratum, there are 3 solutions, not just 1, which violates the uniqueness rule that, by general agreement, permeates all of puzzle-land.
by Mathimagics » Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:34 am
Ok, you've done a pretty thorough job there.
I only had the briefest look, but I can see now that my "connnected acyclic graph" postulate can't be true in any case because 17 vertices (atoms) implies 16 edges (bonds), and the bonds here add up to 17. When I first looked I added them up wrongly to 16 and thought "aha!"
Since edges > (vertices - 1), the graph must contain cycles, regardless of whether it is connected.
by Smythe Dakota » Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:13 pm
So we're both left wondering what the original poster had in mind.
I had never noticed that, in a connected graph with no circuits, the number of vertices must equal the number of edges plus one, but now that you said it, it's trivially easy to see why this must be the case.
More generally, whether the graph is connected or not, if there are no circuits, then the number of vertices must equal the number of edges plus the number of connected chunks. (A connected graph consists of just one chunk.) This is assuming that "isolated vertices" (a "vertex" with no edges) are not allowed.
by Mathimagics » Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:38 am
It's convenient to regard isolated vertices as (trivial) components (chunks). Thus for an acyclic graph your formula, which translates to
NE = NV - NC
applies without exception.
by Smythe Dakota » Mon Jan 02, 2017 4:19 pm
Mathimagics wrote: It's convenient to regard isolated vertices as (trivial) components (chunks). ....
Hmm, you're right, of course. In fact, it's not only convenient, it's necessary, because what else could an isolated vertex be regarded as?
by Vadimkinu » Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:57 pm
Sorry for late response.
There may be a number of molecules and atoms (single items) on the board. Each column and line has two numbers - first one shows number of bonds if any (between neighbous atoms) and number of atoms. Program generate random levels, but minimum and maximum atom's number is limited, otherwise in some cases there are more than single solution.Trivial example is each column and number has only 1 atom and 0 bonds. There are many solutions, ex. two diagonals.
by Smythe Dakota » Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:07 am
Vadimkinu wrote: .... in some cases there are more than single solution. ....
In the world of puzzles, such as sudoku and kakuro which these discussion boards are about, it is regarded as a big no-no to have a puzzle with multiple solutions. You should make sure that any puzzle you put on your website has just a single solution.
Imagine what happens if a visitor to a sudoku or kakuro website is not aware that there may be multiple solutions. He will get only so far, and then he will believe that the puzzle is really, really hard because he cannot establish logically what the next digit might be. The site has then bamboozled him unfairly. Please don't do that.
by Vadimkinu » Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:28 am
Hello Bill!
Please advise why PUZZLE must have only single solution?
Could you give me proof of this criteria?
It's evident that gameplay often does not suffer from the fact that logical game has multiple solutions. Rubik'd cube, chess, { sudoku in principle} do have multiple silutions (http://www.ams.org/notices/200706/tx070600708p.pdf).
I tested generated by my algorithm variants and found that on 5x5 board with total number of atoms from 7 to 17 probability of multiple solutions is less than 1%. So I could filter this 1% of variants from playing programmably, but as I already wrote - gameplay does not suffer and gamer still has to think to solve.
by JasonLion » Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:55 pm
Having a single solution is a social agreement, not something you could ever "prove". It is traditional to either have a single solution, or to change to problem definition to be to enumerate all of the solutions. You are of course free to define things any way you wish. But if you wish to have others solve your puzzles it is polite to comply with standard practices in the puzzle community.
JasonLion
Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA
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Q: why can't I partition a LUKS mounted partition? A CentOS 7 server has to have LUKS encryption for everything but /boot and /boot/efi.  And the large LUKS encrypted remainder partition (1.8 TB) will then need to be partitioned further.  I was able to LUKS encrypt the required part of the hard drive during the CentOS 7 installation process, but now I am not able to create additional partitions within the large LUKS partition.  How can I create partitions within the large (1.8 TB) LUKS-encrypted partition?  Here is the actual terminal record of my attempts so far:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk label type: gpt

#         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
 1         2048       411647    200M  EFI System      EFI System Partition
 2       411648      1435647    500M  Microsoft basic
 3      1435648    105850879   49.8G  Microsoft basic
 4    105850880    121841663    7.6G  Linux swap

Disk /dev/mapper/luks-fb2eda94-fcff-4624-8b04-a9786845504a: 53.5 GB, 53458501632 bytes, 104411136 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/luks-08f8bdb9-85bf-45ef-9519-3f38906c489a: 1938.0 GB, 1938005426176 bytes, 3785166848 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

[root@localhost ~]# df -T -h
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/dm-0      ext4       49G  1.1G   46G   3% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     3.8G  8.7M  3.8G   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2      ext4      477M  110M  338M  25% /boot
/dev/sda1      vfat      200M  9.8M  191M   5% /boot/efi
/dev/dm-1      ext4      1.8T   77M  1.7T   1% /home

[root@localhost ~]# parted
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD20EZRX-00D (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16           EFI System Partition  boot
 2      211MB   735MB   524MB   ext4
 3      735MB   54.2GB  53.5GB
 4      54.2GB  62.4GB  8187MB  linux-swap(v1)
 5      62.4GB  2000GB  1938GB

(parted) unit compact
(parted) select /dev/dm
Error: Could not stat device /dev/dm - No such file or directory.
Retry/Cancel? cancel
(parted) select /dev/dm-1
Using /dev/dm-1
(parted) rm 5
Error: Partition doesn't exist.
(parted) print
Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm)
Disk /dev/dm-1: 1938GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Flags
 1      0.00B  1938GB  1938GB  ext4

(parted) quit
[root@localhost ~]# parted
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD20EZRX-00D (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16           EFI System Partition  boot
 2      211MB   735MB   524MB   ext4
 3      735MB   54.2GB  53.5GB
 4      54.2GB  62.4GB  8187MB  linux-swap(v1)
 5      62.4GB  2000GB  1938GB

(parted) unit compact
(parted) rm 5
Error: Partition(s) 5 on /dev/sda have been written, but we have been
unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are
in use.  As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use.  You
should reboot now before making further changes.
Ignore/Cancel?  cancel
(parted) quit
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

EDIT:

Per @TomHunt's suggestion, I re-installed CentOS 7 on the machine, this time using LVM as the partition type for all the relevant partitions, including the large 1.8 TB partition.  However, parted is still giving the same error when I try to rm 3 to prepare to partition the 1.8 TB partition.  Here is the terminal log for my most recent attempt:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.

Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk label type: gpt

#         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
 1         2048       411647    200M  EFI System      EFI System Partition
 2       411648      1435647    500M  Microsoft basic
 3      1435648   3906914303    1.8T  Microsoft basic

Disk /dev/mapper/luks-75fe4a52-a76f-4dfb-8cb9-da59ba955a55: 1999.6 GB, 1999602974720 bytes, 3905474560 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/centos-swap: 8187 MB, 8187281408 bytes, 15990784 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/centos-root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/centos-home: 1937.7 GB, 1937718116352 bytes, 3784605696 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

[root@localhost ~]# df -T -h
Filesystem              Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root ext4       50G  836M   46G   2% /
devtmpfs                devtmpfs  3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                   tmpfs     3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   tmpfs     3.8G  8.6M  3.8G   1% /run
tmpfs                   tmpfs     3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2               xfs       494M  115M  379M  24% /boot
/dev/sda1               vfat      200M  9.8M  191M   5% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/centos-home ext4      1.8T   77M  1.7T   1% /home
[root@localhost ~]# parted
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD20EZRX-00D (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16        EFI System Partition  boot
 2      211MB   735MB   524MB   xfs
 3      735MB   2000GB  2000GB

(parted) rm 3
Error: Partition(s) 3 on /dev/sda have been written, but we have been unable to inform
the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use.  As a result, the old
partition(s) will remain in use.  You should reboot now before making further changes.
Ignore/Cancel? cancel
(parted) quit
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

So how do I actually partition this drive?


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