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To gain a greater appreciation of that unique and historic research perspective and better understand why engagement has become so pervasive and important to companies around the world, Engagement Strategies Magazine (ESM) recently sat down with Curt W. Coffman, Senior Founding Partner of the Coffman Organization, to discuss the past, present and future of enterprise engagement.
ESM: Perhaps we can start by talking about your work with Gallup and their research in the area of engagement?
Coffman: I was with the Gallup organization for 22 years and specifically headed up both the employee and customer engagement consulting practice. And through those 22 years – and both before and since – I have always been interested in what it is that creates exceptional performance for employees within their jobs and, for customers, what creates that emotional loyalty toward the brands they use. As early as 1999, our research began to tell us that it wasn't simply about satisfaction with either employees or customers.
The best decisions come as close to the action as possible, and the great leaders of tomorrow are going to be those who involve the people closest to the action to be able to make those decisions and implement that strategy.
ESM: What was the key factor your research uncovered?
Coffman: It was the degree to which employees were emotionally engaged with both their organization and the customer – or with the people they did business with. That drove us to compile the research and write our first book, First Break all the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. In that book we tried to answer the question: What is it that makes up a great workplace? And specifically, what we found is that an organization really doesn't have one culture that's overriding. It has many of what I call "little C" cultures, which exist at the local level and are probably made up of the five or seven or nine people you work together with every day. In fact, an organization probably has as many "little C" cultures as it has managers and supervisors, because we found that the manager and the supervisor are a critical catalyst for creating that engagement.
Another thing the research told us was that people don't leave organizations. They leave a relationship with a manager that's gone bad. And now we get a sense all of a sudden that culture really is determined by how good the manager is and the relationships they have.
Coffman: Yes. And statistically we know that there are a lot more average to mediocre managers than great ones, and that's partially due to how we promote people to that role.
ESM: When did you begin to look at customer engagement?
Coffman: The follow-up book to First Break All the Rules was Follow This Path, which really focused on the customer. And probably the most significant thing we learned doing that book is that customers aren't loyal by nature. Customers are switchers by nature, but they're naturally predisposed to have emotional ties to the people they do business with. So once again it's not an attitudinal thing like customer satisfaction. It's the degree to which customers are emotionally engaged with the people they're buying from. And that research really changed how Gallup helped organizations approach both their employees and their managers.
ESM: And where has your post-Gallup work taken you?
So from that we focused the microscope a little more closely, and probably the most significant discovery has been around the fact that that, while an organization doesn't have one overriding culture, it has basically two dimensions to its culture. It has a broader what I call "big C" culture – which is really that mission, vision, values, strategy, broader perspective, largely driven by leadership. And then it still has the "little C" culture, which is the local level. And what's we've found is that one of the strongest predictors of success has to do with the degree to which those two [cultures] are in alignment.
ESM: Why is that alignment so important?
Coffman: This is going to be critical in the next few months because we're going to have a lot of organizations starting to emerge from this difficult climb with a whole new set of strategies. And if you think about it – if what keeps high-performing people is that relationship with the manager and the alignment of the big C and little C cultures – that's something CEOs have never had to think about before. Because now, their new strategies are going to be dependent on the culture to get them done – or, conversely, to help them fail.
ESM: Do you have any suggestions for managing those two cultures and keeping them in alignment?
Coffman: Absolutely. Let me start with the big C. The big C is now demanding a whole new leader. We're just coming out of a period where, for a number of decades, we've had "in-or-out leadership." Let me explain that.
Draw a circle and put a dot in the middle. Let's say that dot is the CEO, or it's the head of a department – a leader at that big C level. Then you put dots representing people inside the circle around that CEO, and you also put some dots outside the circle. Now, the greatest fear of the people within the circle would be getting kicked outside the circle. And the greatest fear of the people outside the circle would be never getting in – or losing their jobs altogether.
Now we're beginning to understand that great leadership is about collaboration – about having and knowing when you have enough information to make a good decision. And we know that diversity drives great leadership. That's the new big C.
Leaders are about creating a better tomorrow, while managers are about creating a better today. Leaders need to prepare managers to be able to make the broad message more individual, more specific and more focused.
ESM: So the new "big C" collects more input from all of the "little Cs" – or all of the employees in an organization – more so than in the past?
Coffman: Yes. But the true test of a leader is when they can still collect all that information without losing their mind. The leader of tomorrow is going to be the leader who knows when they've collected enough and they can crack off the decisions. My prediction is the best decisions come as close to the action as possible, and the great leaders of tomorrow are going to be those who involve the people closest to the action to be able to make those decisions and implement that strategy.
ESM: Empowering those on the frontlines to make leadership decisions on behalf of customers?
Coffman: Exactly. Just think of how many out-of-touch decisions upper managers make, and the people close to the customer can't imagine how or why they were made. We see that every day, and it's demoralizing for the customer and for the employee.
ESM: What are some of the things that make up the "big C" and the "little C" in organizations?
Coffman: Our research tells us that three things make up the big C and little C. One is growth. Either you're growing or you're dying. And when we talk about growth in the high-productive cultures we study, it tend to be people who are striving to build growth, not buy it.
Second is the quality of relationships within that culture. It's the degree to which we're all working together. The silos of yesterday are gone. The protectionism of individualism is gone. We have to have a broader purpose.
The third dimension is probably the most controversial, but we find it in the most productive organizations – and that is what I'd call, for lack of a better term, a servant focus. That's where "It's not about us – it's about the people we're bringing products and services to and how we're thinking about them, and how we can better serve them." The customer. The marketplace. And that can apply to internal as well as external customers. If you think about it, that servant focus reengages the person who has it or does it. When we're bringing something to somebody else, we are, in turn, receiving and becoming more engaged.
ESM: How important is the role of the middle manager in all of this? The managers in all those "little Cs" will have to share the vision and have all the tools and skills they need in order to create an engaging culture at the local level. That sounds like a big job.
Coffman: Well, first of all, let's get definitional. We've been treating managers as a rung on a ladder. And we've also been treating them as leaders in waiting. But the role of the leader and the role of the manager, we find, are very different.
I think about it in terms of an orchestra director – as having the focus of all the different pieces coming together. That's a leader. But I think about the manager as the first chair of woodwinds, and their focus is that group, that woodwinds group performing at exceptional levels and contributing to something broader.
So we may actually have too many leaders and not enough straight managers. And what we need to realize is that leaders are about creating a better tomorrow, while managers are about creating a better today. Leaders need to prepare managers to be able to make the broad message more individual, more specific and more focused.
ESM: Let's go back for a moment to some of the research on employee engagement and customer engagement. How closely are those two related? Is it a different process to engage a customer than it is to engage an employee?
Coffman: Yes it is. And that's where we've really missed the boat these last 20 years. Our research says the concept that the customer is always right – that customers know exactly what they want and the form in which they want it, for the price they want it – is just simply not true.
This really challenges conventional wisdom, and it's a pretty big "ah-ha!" You and I as human beings have needs that we can't meet ourselves. We're dependent upon somebody outside ourselves to meet them. Think about how you feel when you can't meet your own needs. You feel frustrated and vulnerable. And would a customer be a customer if they could meet their own needs? Probably not. If they could meet their own needs, why would they need you?
So they're coming in frustrated and vulnerable, and they don't necessarily like being in that position. But we've been treating them like they're always right – like they know exactly what they want. And what we've done is we've ignored the vulnerability.
Now, think about that. When someone ignores your vulnerability, that destroys loyalty. But when somebody connects to your vulnerability, sees you as vulnerable, sees you as a person who is coming in with needs that they can't meet themselves, and they connect with that, that's where trust and loyalty are built. It comes down to simply trying to understand where the person is and where they want to be.
We're not going to be more productive by working harder, we're going to do it through technology, having the right talents to fit the job and through the relationships by which we multiply our effectiveness.
ESM: And the dynamic on the part of the employee in terms of needs and vulnerabilities – how does that differ?
Coffman: The employee's vulnerability isn't the same as the customer, but there are some basic needs that are tickets to admission. Job security is a ticket to admission. So is being challenged by one's work. Feeling as though I'm fairly treated with pay and benefits is a ticket to admission.
Engagement is related to some broader issues – like being challenged by one's work, feeling as if my manager really knows me, walking away every day knowing the value that I bring to the organization. With employees there's a new need for relationship and collaboration and diversity because that's the only way they're going to be productive. We're not going to be more productive by working harder, we're going to do it through technology, having the right talents to fit the job and through the relationships by which we multiply our effectiveness.
ESM: Which comes first in your estimation – engaging employees or engaging customers?
Coffman: That is the age-old question that has no right answer, except to say that you have to do both. If you put me up against a wall, I would say let's start with engaged employees because I'll be darned if miserable employees don't produce miserable customers.
ESM: Gallup and others have been talking about engagement for a number of years now. Why has it taken so long for U.S. companies to understand and accept the need for engagement? What are some of the obstacles to that understanding?
Coffman: Well a lot of companies [like Gallup] – their product is a survey. They're out to sell a survey. And the problem is you don't fatten the cow by just weighing it every day. There has been a lot of focus on the survey, the data collection, the reporting of the data – and almost nothing on manager development. It's my mission going forward to use the survey dimension only to create a student of the manager and the employee. You get employees engaged in their own learning, their own growth and the building of a great culture. And with managers, you have to bring the learning to where they're at to give it relevancy. So you talk to managers about not just doing a job performance evaluation once a year; you talk about daily feedback. Those are the things that will create real transformation in an organization.
ESM: One thing that companies say about the supporting data on engagement is that we have research that correlates engaged workforces, engaged customers and high-performing organizations – but again it's a question of which came first. Does the engagement create the high performance or does the high performance create the engagement?
Coffman: Well, it's both. We know that strong culture is definitely tied to high performance. And engaged employees and engaged customers are part of that culture. But working for a company like Google has an engagement component as well. We should be thinking of it as a circle that each one drives. And the point of highly productive cultures is getting and keeping the circle moving in the right direction, so engagement drives performance which drives engagement which drives performance.
ESM: What kinds of initiatives are you working on now with the Coffman Organization?
Coffman: We're trying to help people understand that engagement is a dimension that's part of something bigger called a highly productive culture, which is really the goal. Now, within that is a new customer strategy. And in that is a new employee engagement strategy. And in that, most importantly, is the new manager development strategy. And that means clearly defining the difference between leadership development and manager development – all of the things we've been talking about.
So let's get past the survey stuff and manipulating the results and get to really engaging the culture in your organization. It's pretty simple, isn't it? And it makes a lot of sense. That's one good thing about research – when you do good research it brings you back to common sense.


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Marylinn Feher and Allen Rice pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the April 6 death of their newborn son, whom prosecutors say they put in a garbage bag.
Milladore couple pleads not guilty in death of newborn infant found in trash bag Marylinn Feher and Allen Rice pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the April 6 death of their newborn son, whom prosecutors say they put in a garbage bag. Check out this story on htrnews.com: https://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/story/news/crime/2019/06/12/milladore-couple-pleads-not-guilty-death-newborn-found-trash/1340995001/
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WISCONSIN RAPIDS - A Milladore man and woman charged in the death of their newborn son both pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Wood County Circuit Court.
Allen L. Rice, 20, kept his head down during the hearing Wednesday morning. When Wood County Sheriff's Investigator Sarah McCormick told Judge Todd Wolf how Marylinn A. Feher, 22, said she strangled her newborn infant son and hit his head against the toilet after giving birth, Rice wept at hearing the details.
Feher faces a first-degree intentional homicide charge in the April 6 death of her newborn son. Both she and Rice also face charges of child neglect resulting in death.
McCormick said Rice told officers he was the father of the infant. A paternity test verified that Rice and Feher were the baby's parents, McCormick said.
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The Marshfield Medical Center staff called the Wood County Dispatch Center after they became concerned Feher was in for treatment after giving birth April 6, but she had no baby and was denying having had one, McCormick said.
Marshfield police asked Rice where the baby was, but he said there was no baby, McCormick said.
Rice told officers he had been dropped off at the hospital and didn't have a vehicle, but officers found a Jeep Rice had been driving in the parking lot, McCormick said.
Officers found the baby in a tied plastic garbage bag in the back of the Jeep and took the infant into the hospital for treatment, McCormick said. The baby was born between midnight and 12:30 a.m. April 6. The newborn was found by officers in the Jeep parked near the emergency room and died about 16 hours later.
McCormick said a medical expert told her the baby would have felt pain during the time before he was found by police.
After the infant was found, Rice told officers the boy was born in the bathroom at a home in Milladore. Feher was bleeding heavily, and Rice wrapped the baby in a towel before taking Feher to the hospital with the baby in the back, McCormick said.
Rice said he believed the baby was stillborn, but he tried performing CPR on the infant three times, McCormick said. When Feher went into the emergency room, Rice stayed in the Jeep with the infant until Feher called him at 5 a.m. and told him she needed surgery, McCormick said.
Rice told officers he went back to the Jeep and checked on the infant, McCormick said.
Feher eventually told officers she put her hands around the baby's neck and squeezed before hitting the baby's head against the edge of the toilet, McCormick said.
Wolf determined there was enough evidence to move the case forward. Both Feher and Rice have their next court appearances scheduled for Aug. 22.
If convicted, Feher could face up to a life sentence, and Rice could face up to 25 years, nine months in prison.
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Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, waits for her preliminary hearing on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Feher, along with Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of her newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, listens to testimony during her preliminary hearing on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Feher, along with Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of her newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
Circuit judge Todd Wolf listens to testimony during a preliminary hearing for Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, and Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Feher and Rice are charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of their newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, hangs his head as he listens to testimony during his preliminary hearing on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Rice, along with Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of their newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, consults with defense attorney Michael Covey before being taken into custody after her preliminary hearing on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Feher, along with Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of her newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
A preliminary hearing for Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, and Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, proceeds on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Feher and Rice are charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of their newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
Marylinn Feher, 22, of Milladore, is escorted from the courtroom following her preliminary hearing on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Wood County Justice Center in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Feher, along with Allen Rice, 20, of Milladore, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the April 6 death of her newborn son, as well as with child neglect resulting in death. Tork Mason/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Tork Mason/USA Today NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Q: SSRS distinct lookupset function I'm using Join(Lookupset) to find unique group values which returns a sequence number.  This is my function:
Join(LookupSet(Fields!itemId.Value & Fields!UseByDate.Value & Fields!rackId.Value
    , Fields!itemId.Value & Fields!UseByDate.Value & Fields!rackId.Value
    , Fields!CustomerSeqNo.Value
    , "PickingList"), ",")

The problem is on some items there are multiple transactions. I want to remove the duplicates.
I found a blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bobmeyers/archive/2012/06/18/creating-short-lists-using-the-lookupset-function.aspx but could not get SSRS Report Builder to reference Linq assembly.  My issue is

How can I just show the unique values?

A: You don't need Linq, but you do still need custom code (in BIDS go to Report -> Report Properties -> Code)
You can put a RemoveDuplicates function in here, something like this:
Public Shared Function RemoveDuplicates(m_Array As Object()) As String()

    System.Array.Sort(m_Array)
    Dim k As Integer = 0
    For i As Integer = 0 To m_Array.Length - 1
        If i > 0 AndAlso m_Array(i).Equals(m_Array(i - 1)) Then
            Continue For
        End If
        m_Array(k) = m_Array(i)
        k += 1
    Next

    Dim unique As [String]() = New [String](k - 1) {}

    System.Array.Copy(m_Array, 0, unique, 0, k)

    Return unique

End Function

To use it in your Join:
Join(Code.RemoveDuplicates(LookupSet(...)),",")

A: I agree with @user3697615 that Report Code is best.  However, I prefer to build it straight into a string:
public shared function JoinDistinct(
  dups as object(),
  delimiter as string
) as string

  dim result as string = ""
  system.array.sort(dups)

  for i as integer = 0 to dups.length - 1
    if i <> 0 then result += delimiter
    if i = 0 orElse dups(i) <> dups(i-1) then result += dups(i)
  next i

  return result

end function

This way, we eliminate one nested function on the call:
=Code.JoinDistinct(LookupSet(...), ",")

A: If you're like me, you also want the elements in order based on frequency (descending order).
I created the following VisualBasic code to do so
Public Shared Function RemoveDuplicates(dataset As Object()) As String()
    Dim unique As New System.Collections.Generic.List(Of String)
    Dim frequency As New System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Integer)
    For i As Integer = 0 To dataset.Length - 1
        Dim index As Integer = -1
        For j As Integer = 0 To unique.Count - 1
            If dataset(i).Equals(unique(j)) Then
                index = j
                Exit For
            End If
        Next
        If index < 0 Then
          unique.Add(dataset(i))
          frequency.Add(1)
        Else
            frequency(index) += 1
        End If
    Next
    Dim uniqueArray As [String]() = unique.ToArray()
    Array.Sort(frequency.ToArray(), uniqueArray)
    Array.Reverse(uniqueArray)
    return uniqueArray
End Function

This is based off others' answers where the SSRS expression is the following
Join(Code.RemoveDuplicates(LookupSet(...)),",")
Note: I learned VisualBasic in about an hour to solve this problem, so my algorithm probably isn't the most efficient.

A: I liked pwilcox's idea, so I wrote this one which filters out null and blank values.
Public Function JoinDistinct(arr As Object(), delimiter As String) As String

    System.Array.Sort(arr)
    Dim result As String = String.Empty
    Dim lastvalue As String = String.Empty
    For i As Integer = 0 To arr.Length - 1
        If Not arr(i) Is Nothing And arr(i) <> lastvalue And arr(i) <> String.Empty Then
            If result = String.Empty Then
                result = arr(i)
            Else
                result = result + delimiter + arr(i)
            End If
        End If
        lastvalue = arr(i)
    Next
    Return result
End Function

Usage:
=Code.JoinDistinct(LookupSet(...), ",")

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Set in England during the late 1300s, Paul McGuigan's The Reckoning follows Nicholas (Paul Bettany), a young priest literally running from his past. After encountering a band of wandering actors, Nicholas is grudgingly allowed into the fold by the good-natured Martin (Willem Dafoe). When the troupe reaches an impoverished village, they get word of a strange murder and look into the story as the basis for a new play. However, Nicholas and Martin uncover more than they'd expected, and soon a deeper mystery emerges. Meanwhile, as Nicholas attempts to find justice, he also struggles to come to terms with his own troubled history.
A medieval murder mystery in the vein of the Name of the Rose, The Reckoning is based on the Barry Unsworth novel Morality Play. Under the artfully somber direction of previous collaborator McGuigan, Bettany turns in an excellent performance as a guilt-ridden priest struggling to atone for his sins. In addition to Dafoe, the film also features fine supporting actors such as Brian Cox and Gina McKee. Utilising its historical backdrop to the fullest extent, The Reckoning immerses the audience in its medieval setting, revealing the period's many hardships and enhancing the drama of this intriguing, unfolding mystery.
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Rapper Tory Lanez is facing the possibility of more than 22 years behind bars after being charged with assault in connection with the alleged shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.
The Canadian hip-hop star has been charged with one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
Lanez, 28, also faces a gun allegation and that he personally inflicted great bodily injury, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
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Prosecutors said the alleged incident happened on July 12 when Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion, a rising hip-hop star, were in an SUV in the Hollywood Hills.
The pair got into an argument, according to prosecutors, and when Megan Thee Stallion got out of the car, Lanez is said to have shot "several times" at the 25-year-old's feet, wounding her.
If convicted as charged, Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, faces a possible maximum sentence of 22 years and eight months in state prison.
His arraignment is set for October 13 at the Foltz Criminal Justice Centre in downtown Los Angeles.
Lanez had previously denied shooting at Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete.
He released an album last month and claimed he was being framed over the incident. In the song Money Over Fallouts, he asked how "you get shot in your foot, don't hit no bones or tendons?"
Megan Thee Stallion first directly accused Lanez of shooting her in August, saying in an Instagram Live video: "Yes … Tory shot me. You shot me and you got your publicist and people to these blogs lying. Stop lying!"
In earlier videos, Megan Thee Stallion had broken down while recalling the incident, telling fans she had to undergo surgery to have the bullets removed from her feet.
She described it as "the worst experience of my life" but said she felt fortunate not to be more seriously hurt.
The Houston rapper has enjoyed a hugely successful year and is one of the brightest rising stars in hip-hop.
Her single Savage was an international hit, with Beyonce featuring on a remix in April. Last month Megan Thee Stallion featured on Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world list.


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Drawing in part from a nascent Critical Physical Geography, Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro explores how soil pH is shaped by intrinsic soil properties, wider environmental processes, farming practices, as well as social relations of power. This is demonstrated by examining the ecosocial processes (linked biophysical and social relations) that have led to shifts in farmland soil pH along the northern banks of the Drava River (SW Hungary).
The research results illustrate how human-induced changes in soil characteristics and ostensibly technical interventions are underlain by unacknowledged political commitments and can contribute to reinforcing social inequalities. A main conclusion is that soil development dynamics are more objectively explained by extending the purview of the study of soils to include identifying and investigating social relations of power. This is because wider social relations shape soil-modifying activities and condition scientific conceptual frameworks. The political ramifications of these conclusions will be briefly discussed in relation to the study of soils and soil conservation.
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Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is professor at the Department Geography and Environmental Studies of SUNY New Paltz and chief editor for Capitalism Nature Socialism. His most recent books are Ecology, Soils, and the Left (PalgraveMacmillan), Urban Food Production (Routledge, with G. Martin), and Socialist States and Environment (Pluto). His research areas include soil trace metal contamination, soil acidification, urban food production, and socialism and environment.
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The gracious folks at H.B. Fenn and Company Ltd and Tor in Toronto recently sent me the 10th anniversary edition of Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. This is the first book in his epic fantasy series Tales of the Malazan Empire. I have been reading and following Malazan for years and while I haven't read them all, I am up to Reaper's Gale and can personally recommend the series for those that love intense world-building, huge casts of characters and wildly inventive stories.
Because I have read Gardens of the Moon and already own an earlier copy, I am going to have a Giveaway for this copy which is a great entre into the series. If you like it, just think eight of the ten books are already in print ready for you to devour.
Leave a comment and tell us what fantasy book you would most like to see made into a movie.
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Contest ends Midnight, June 14, 2009. I'll use Randomizer to pick a winner next Tuesday.
Open to everyone, anywhere (at least on planet).
Steven Erikson is a pseudonym used by Steven Rune Lundin, who grew up in Winnipeg, Canada and currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia with his wife and son.
He is an anthropologist and archaeologist by training and a graduate of the acclaimed Iowa Writer's Workshop. His debut fantasy novel, Gardens of the Moon, marked the opening chapter in the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence, which has been hailed as one of the most significant works of fantasy of this millennium.
You can visit the Malazan website here and the Steven Erikson Wikipedia entry here.
I'm relatively new to fantasy but since my introduction was 'Wheel of Time', I'll choose that as the one I'd like to see in a movie theatre. And since that series was mammoth (and unfinished!) I'm not so scared to start a new one. 'Gardens of the Moon' sounds great.
Since I recently review Vicki Pettersson's City of Souls and it's still so fresh in my mind, I would have to pick the Sign of the Zodiac Series. I just can't think of a series that would better translate to the big screen or TV. It would be an action packed fantasy adventure. It might also be neat to see it sort of like they did Sin City..sort of live action anime. I'm sure you know that Scent of Shadows is the first in the series. I think this would be too cool.
And of course, I already have this contest posted on my blog @ http://myblog2point0.blogspot.com/.
I have the BOOK for a movie: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I love this book.
I would like to see The Silmarillion made into a movie.
There's way too many great fantasy series to pick from. My favorite is Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. Not so sure if it would make a great movie, but I'd love that series in any form.
Hmmm, fantasy movie I'd like to see turned into a movie. If done right and not turned into the normal hollywoodized crap I wouldn't mind seeing "American Gods" on the big screen.
I think Abercrombie's "The First Law" trilogy would be a great movie.
Thanks for organizing this giveaway: rpgdnd (at) gmail (dot) com.
I'm also a follower on your blog.
I gotta say gaby317 beat me with saying the Codex Alera with Furies of Calderon as the first. I just finished Princeps Fury, and every book just keeps dragging me in further and further. Love the series.
A book I'd love to see made into a movie is WARBREAKER by Sanderson.
I'd love to see the Dark Jewels trilogy (Anne Bishop) turned into movies. That would be something absolutely new.
If it were done well, I think I'd like to see a movie version of Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon.
I'd like to see Stephen King's The Dark Tower series as a movie. If that doesn't count, then I'll choose Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry. Following now.
Vote number three for The Furies of Caulderon - LOVE this series, can't wait for the final novel! However, I think the first Kushiel's Legecy trilogy would be a very original movie experience.
I am a follower! Great blog!
Oh my gosh - one of the best ever would have to be William Hope Hodgson's HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND!!!
I'd love to see the Mediator Series by Meg Cabot turned into a movie.
I think the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris would make an awesome series of movies!
I would love to see Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy made into a movie.
Would love to see Artemis Fowl!
I am new to fantasy novels but would love to start getting into them. So as of yet I have no favorite that I would like to see made into a movie.
OK Hollywood are you paying attention? So far a great list of original properties that would make terrific movies. No rehashes, redoes or reboots. Some studio or director please step up to the plate!
I would love to see any of the Anita Blake books made into movies.
The Enduring Flame series by Mercedes Lackey would make a great movie.
I woudl also like to see the Dark Tower series as a movie. Or the Percy Jackson & The Olympians books.
I'd like to see Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead and THe Mortal instruments by Cassancra Clare turned into movies!
I would love to see the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon made into a movie!
Thanks to everyone that entered. Lots of great suggestions.
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As the generous readers of my Blog for Tomahawk Films will have realised, the German Occupation of the British Channel Islands between 1940 and 1945, is, alongside my passion for the German Soldier Song and the Military Music of the Third Reich, (an important & integral part of both my own and indeed Tomahawk's personal & professional life, in addition to producing my television documentary Channel Islands Occupied), still something I love writing about, at the drop of a hat..!
So I thought I would also pen another Blog combining the two and write something on the history of the German military musical presence in those beautiful islands between 1940 and the occupying forces' surrender 1945 and have actually subbed the 'Channel Islands Occupation' chapter from my book The Military Music & Bandsmen of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich 1933-45 as it offers some corking original archival photographs!
Sadly, Tomahawk Films and I have decided not to republish this 'mighty tome', for though it has been incredibly well received.. thanks to all that bought a copy..the enormous cost of re-printing is such that we have decided not to funnel such another huge amount of money into books as that it is not our core business..
However as many fellow military enthusiasts (and indeed fellow lovers of these Crown Dependent pieces of heaven), already know, the Channel Islands were the only British soil to be occupied by the forces of Nazi Germany during the Second World and make for one of the of the most amazing stories of the Second World War.
By dint of this, during that Nazi occupation there were actually 2 German military bands stationed on the two main islands (out of the total eight Channel Islands): one drawn from the army: Pionierbattalion 15, garrisoned on Guernsey, and the other being provided by the Luftwaffe's 40th Regiment, Flak Artillery, which primarily performed on Jersey.
The story of that Second World War occupation offers the incredible imagery of WW-II German Musikkorps performing on British soil alongside other rare and almost unimaginable images of German Forces on British soil and this sadly over-looked story is a historical study all of its own when it comes to the Second World War…
When the entire German garrison across the five main Channel Islands ultimately surrendered in 1945, their musical instruments, song books and many musical accoutrements were left behind intact and can be seen today on display in some of the superb island occupation museums. In addition, with the recent location of a number of rare photographs of these German military bands actually performing on British soil, it is possible to take a 'then and now' look at them and witness those instruments being played during the occupation:
The Channel Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful and evocative to be found anywhere in the world, but it wasn't always that way, and a half century ago the picture told a very different story..:
In the first months of the Second World War, following Hitler's lightning war against Poland, an uneasy peace settled over Europe, and to the Channel Islanders the problems on the continent seemed another life away. Besides, what would Hitler want with the Channel Islands anyway? However, in the spring of 1940 aircraft of the Luftwaffe began to appear in the skies above the islands, and the authorities introduced the first air-raid precautions; then on May 10th 1940, as Hitler launched his forces against the Low Countries and the BEF began its retreat to Dunkirk, it was just a matter of time before France fell and Adolf Hitler's eyes would then turn to his next target… Britain!
On June 19th 1940 the British government announced that the defence of the Channel Islands was no longer justified and withdrew the garrison; just 3 days later, France surrendered and fearing German invasion to be imminent, some 34,000 Channel Islanders left for mainland Britain, leaving a total population of 50,000 to face the unknown. But far from showing disinterest, Adolf Hitler knew that capturing a piece of Britain would not only provide excellent propaganda but give him an additional base from which to launch his air and sea attack on the British mainland.
Wrongly advised by German Intelligence that the islands were still heavily defended, 6 fully-laden Heinkel IIIs set a course from their bases in Northern France on June 28th and, mistaking a line of tomato lorries for a troop convoy, bombed Guernsey's St Peter Port harbour, killing 30 civilians, before flying on to strafe St Helier in Jersey, killing a further nine islanders.
Then on June 30th the German bombers returned, dropping written ultimatums demanding the unconditional surrender of all islands. Later the same day a lone reconnaissance Dornier 17 landed at Jersey's airport, the pilot, 25 year-old Luftwaffe-Leutnant Richard Kern, having the dubious honour of becoming the first German occupier setting foot on British soil.
Then came the first Ju-52 transports ferrying the advanced troops who, believing Britain was only days from invasion, settled in quickly under strict orders from Hitler (who still hoped for a settlement with Britain) to treat all islanders with respect. Nevertheless, communications between the islands and mainland Britain were immediately severed, batteries of flak-guns were sited, slit trenches dug and all Union flags were hauled down and replaced by the swastika'd Reichkriegsflagge.
Whilst German Military Forces under the command of Feldkommandantur (Field Command – FK) 515 co-operated with the local government and police forces, all Channel Island affairs now fell directly under the command of Berlin, thus beginning six years of what Guernseyman Frank Stroobant was to call a 'benign occupation'.
With the invasion of Britain abandoned, Hitler feared the Allies would launch an all-out attack to recapture the islands, and they soon began to reverberate to the sounds of shovels & concrete mixers as plans for their defence from air and sea attack were put into operation. Using forced labourers from Eastern Europe under the direction of the Organisation Todt (comprising German civilian technicians & labourers), massive flak and coastal gun batteries were built across the three main islands, turning them into the most heavily fortified part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall…
Guernsey & Jersey were initially garrisoned from July 1940 by units attached to the German 216th Infantry Division, plus Machine Gun Battalion No.16 on Guernsey and Panzerjäger Battalion No. 652 on Jersey. However, with Hitler's attack on Russia, the 216th was earmarked for the Eastern Front, and in the Summer of 1941 the 319th Infantry Division (who had already seen action in Poland and France) was ordered to the islands to take over the defence of Guernsey & Jersey, whilst the 83rd Infantry Division was sent to Alderney. The 83rd Division then found itself despatched to Russia at the end of 1941, and the 319th took over the garrisoning of all three main islands.
Alderney, with its civilian population having been totally evacuated by the German military, was an unpopular posting, so FK-515 ordered a 3-month garrison rotation with army units from Guernsey and Luftwaffe flak units from France, though Kriegsmarine units, (for some reason), were exempted from this rotation.
Mobile armour was provided by 17 captured French Char-B tanks on Jersey and 19 to Guernsey under the command of Panzerabteilung 213, whilst anti-aircraft firepower arrived in the shape of Luftwaffe Flak Regiment No.39 on Guernsey and No.40 on Jersey. The Kriegsmarine initially oversaw command of all army and naval coastal artillery batteries from March 1941, until they merged in 1943 to form Heeresküstenartillerieregt (Army Coastal Artillery Regiment) 1265.
As the war slowly turned against Hitler, his Naval High Seas Fleet found itself confined to their harbours in Germany by increasing Allied activity. As a result, the Kriegsmarine presence in the Channel Islands mushroomed, as surplus German naval manpower from Kiel, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven was transferred in to boost the size of the garrison. Indeed Jersey's last Kommandant was a senior Kriegsmarine officer, Vice-Admiral Huffmeier.
At the height of the Occupation in May 1943, some 26,800 German troops garrisoned the islands: 13,000 on Guernsey, 10,000 on Jersey & 3,800 on Alderney, including the Army Mobile Anti-tank Battalion 450; Luftwaffe Long Range Reconnaissance Group 123 & Fighter Group 53; Army Ost-Bataillon 823 & 643 (captured Georgians who changed sides and the Russian Army of Liberation); SS-Baubrigagde 1 and the Kriegsmarine's 2nd Patrol Boat Flotilla & 24th & 46th Minesweeping Flotillas.
Additional units included fortress construction battalions, bridge, railway & airfield construction companies, combat engineers, medical, veterinary, field-police, signals, customs, field- post and the Reichsarbeitsdienst and NS Kraftfahrkorps…
In fact an incredible assortment of manpower was crammed into the relatively small space of the three main Channel Islands, plus Sark, and all needing some form of entertainment in their off-duty hours; to this end the island's civilian cinemas provided one form of distraction, as did the soldier's own 'clubs', the Soldatenheime (Soldiers' homes) in St Helier and St Peter Port.
However, it befell the lot of the two military bands of the Luftwaffe and the Heer to provide light relief for both the German garrisons and the civilian population alike, and their concerts, many in the open-air, proved to be very popular, so much so that one wartime occupation edition of the Guernsey Evening Press in July 1943 ran a terrific story on Gerhard Anders, Obermusikmeister of Army Musikkorps Pionierbataillon 15:
"Thousands of Sarnians visited Candie Gardens on summer evenings last year to listen to the German Regimental Orchestra under the direction of Gerhard Anders.
Obermusikmeister Anders is himself a personality and our music critic 'Jubal' contributes a pen-picture of this gifted composer & musician, who intends to honour Guernsey with a composition on the island.."
Meet Bandmaster Gerhard Anders
"He is young, genial; has bright eyes that flash with the genius of music and in the two years he has been with us in Guernsey, training his accomplished military band of 30 musicians, he has acquired English, to make himself understood, thus adding another language to his German.
Bandmaster Anders was the conductor of Berlin's Operetta Theatre Orchestra of 80 musicians before the war, and his name is known throughout Germany as that of a young composer rising to fame. The upheaval of our time finds him writing band scores and composing music at his residence, 'Cote des Vauxlaurens', Cambridge Park, or conducting his devoted band at Les Cotils for two hours each morning in all genres of music".
'Jubal', goes on to write (in very quaint English as if the Guernsey patois was his first language and English second) that Anders was always noting down ideas for future scores in a series of little blue books that were always to be seen 'peeping out of his tunic pockets' and that his army band, Pionierbataillon 15, had 'over a thousand pieces in their repertoire to choose from'.
However, whilst Anders was said to 'find joy in helping Guernsey musicians in providing strings for their orchestras', 'Jubal' (aka William 'Billy' Vaudin, the Guernsey Press' chief reporter), noted that he 'found great difficulty in obtaining suitable quality manuscripts for scoring' as the on-going occupation resulted in a lessening of German and French supplies to the military garrison.
The long awaited relief of the Channel Islands, expected after the Allied invasion of Normandy, failed to materialise; instead the battle of France raged on and with the fall of St Malo the first of 600 wounded German soldiers arrived for treatment in the German underground hospitals on Guernsey & Jersey.
Meanwhile the Allied advance continued across North-West Europe and the islands were effectively by-passed; islanders and Germans alike were now cut-off and facing a very tough winter of 1944/45, existing on near-starvation rations and managing to hold on just long enough until the arrival of the Red Cross ship SS Vega in December 1944 with desperately needed food and supplies.
The final Allied drive into Germany continued and the death knell of the Third Reich was eventually sounded when on May 8th 1945 the Royal Navy's HMS Bulldog and HMS Beagle left Plymouth to rendezvous with the Germans off Guernsey's St Peter Port.
The islands' Kommandant, Vice-Admiral Huffmeier, initially held out for an armistice, but on the following day, May 9th 1945, capitulated and surrendered the German military garrisons of Guernsey, Jersey and Alderney without a shot being fired! (Incidentally the 'bristling' young Nazi officer pictured sitting, right, here in the surrender signing aboard HMS Bulldog, was later believed to have rejoined the new post-war German Bundesmarine, eventually becoming a very senior German Naval attache working within NATO!)
Meanwhile the musical instruments and sheet music of Guernsey's army and Jersey's Luftwaffe bands simply remained in their billets as the musicians themselves marched into captivity; after liberation, the islanders soon found them, and they were subsequently distributed to various island orchestras such as the Boys' Brigade and Salvation Army bands in the following first months of peace.
On Alderney, however, a number of bandsmen found themselves prisoners-of-war and held back to help with the massive mine and defence clearance operation that took place in the years immediately following the island's liberation. This was a most hazardous undertaking and sadly several former German garrison members were killed whilst attempting the recovery of many hidden mines & booby-trap bombs; but this task was finally accomplished and in 1947 the remaining German POWs performed a concert for the island's returning civilian population.
Nothing is known of the fate of Heeres-Obermusikmeister Gerhard Anders, (though the Guernsey Press' music critic & organ music aficionado, Billy 'Jubal' Vaudin, retired from the newspaper in 1948… and died in 1955 at the age of 73).
However, a footnote to the German occupation of Alderney was heard by myself in the early Summer of 1998, when Hans Schiffer, a former Kriegsmarine signals teletype operator at the former German Naval Signals Headquarters at St Jacques in St Peter Port, Guernsey, returned as the guest of honour at the opening of the newly refurbished bunker (and HQ of Guernsey's German Occupation Society), under the island's former 'Fortress Guernsey' initiative that I helped publicise:
During the celebrations, Herr Schiffer was heard to mention, when being interviewed on the possible whereabouts of former German service personnel based in the islands during the Occupation, that he had recognised one of the former Luftwaffe musicians he had previously seen performing for the troops on Alderney actually playing in a jazz-band in Düsseldorf in 1958… who'd have thought eh?
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Q: AS3 How can I create a loop that declares vars? I declare these three vars as MovieClips:
var bg_mc_1:MovieClip;
var bg_mc_2:MovieClip;
var bg_mc_3:MovieClip;

Then I put them in an array:
var bg_mc:Array = [bg_mc_1, bg_mc_2, bg_mc_3];

Then I do this loop to add the MovieClips into a MC that is already on the stage:
for(i=0; i<=2; i++){
    bg_mc[i] = new bg_class_1() as MovieClip;
    bg_holder.addChild(bg_mc[i]);
}

Is there anyway to make the first step dynamic? For instance something like:
for(i=0; i<=2; i++){
    var this["bg_mc_"+i]:MovieClip;
    bg_mc.push(this["bg_mc_"+i])
}

A: To create MovieClips dynamically :
for(var i=0; i<=2; i++){
    this["bg_mc_"+i] = new MovieClip();
    bg_mc.push(this["bg_mc_"+i]);
}

Altho if you don't need a reference to the MovieClip outside of the bg_mc array you can always do
for(var i=0; i<=2; i++){
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}


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module AuthorizedProjectUpdate
  class PeriodicRecalculateWorker
    include ApplicationWorker
    # This worker does not perform work scoped to a context
    include CronjobQueue # rubocop:disable Scalability/CronWorkerContext

    feature_category :source_code_management
    urgency :low

    idempotent!

    def perform
      if ::Feature.enabled?(:periodic_project_authorization_recalculation, default_enabled: true)
        AuthorizedProjectUpdate::PeriodicRecalculateService.new.execute
      end
    end
  end
end


Orange Nation hosted its third annual Mill Madness pep rally on Thursday, combining a pep rally with a dance party to start the winter sports season with spirit.
The night was complete with relay races, scavenger hunts, basketball competitions, performances from the drum line and k-pop dance group NOVA, and free wings from Wingstop. Social studies teacher Maxwell Bero hosted the event with help from seniors Lauren Flandrau and Taylor Dawson. The drum line, including freshman Ryan Pranger and sophomore James Warren, kicked off the event with a banging performance.
"It was a pretty fun event with the scooter race… the three-point [basketball] contest was a ton of fun, people went wild for that. Hopefully a lot of these activities will incorporate in future pep rallies and events," Orange Nation sponsor Maxwell Bero said.
Junior David Okoli won a Watkins Mill t-shirt during the scavenger hunt by finding five different people wearing glasses, earbuds, Watkins Mill merchandise, a hat, and someone who has curly hair. The scooter swimming race was filled with mishaps, falls, and fierce competition. Senior Deshaun McCrimmon won the race.
"Me and my friends watched the contest and stayed for the dance after. My favorite part was the three-pointer basketball game because [sophomore Alejandro Chaurand] out showed everyone and won," junior Melanie Torres said.
The basketball contest induced cheers from the crowd when Chaurand made three points in a row. Students jumped out of their seats cheering, screaming, and rushing the floor to support their fellow classmate. Chaurand and his teammate, freshman Johnnie Castro, won the basketball contest.
Senior Dominique Kennedy talked about what they could do next time to improve Mill Madness. "The more people [at Mill Madness] the more fun you'll have," Kennedy said. Because Mill Madness was on the same night as the opening night of the play and other people had practice, several people couldn't come.
Sophomore William Yondou dunks a basketball and makes the crowd go wild.
Sana Khan is a Senior at Watkins Mill High School and the News Managing Editor for The Current.


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Pictured: Prof Roger Whatmore and Dr Alan O'Riordan, Tyndall, and Minister Sean Sherlock
The development of a new nanosensor technology that can be up to 1,000 times more sensitive at detecting biological molecules that may indicate the early stages of certain diseases than current devices has been announced today by the Tyndall National Institute.
Details of the highly advanced sensor technology were revealed this morning at the Sensors & Their Applications XVI conference in Cork. Developed by a team of researchers at Tyndall National Institute, the technology is based on individual nanowires manufactured on a silicon chip using microelectronic fabrication techniques.
"The sensor technology can significantly out-perform current commercial detection devices by up to a 1,000 fold, in some cases," said Dr Alan O'Riordan, who leads the research team and is also chairing the conference. "As well as in health, it has tremendous potential in a range of sectors, including food and beverage, environment and security sectors, where highly sensitive detection is required.
"Many research teams around the world are looking at ways to detect the tiniest traces of the molecule called hydrogen peroxide," said O'Riordan. "Many recognise the molecule for its characteristics as a bleaching agent used in hair dyes. However, in biological systems, hydrogen peroxide is produced naturally and trace amounts exist in the body. Higher than normal levels may indicate the onset of a disease. For example, it may be produced at higher concentrations in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and it is also a key indicator molecule for detecting food spoilage.
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by

Josef Stříbný
@strzibny

Red Hat Developer Experience

Agenda

The Goal ∧ Vagrant

Vagrant components ecosystem

Using Vagrant as a developer

Creating your own box

Finding Vagrant boxes

Vagrant in Fedora

Demo

Presentations can be open source too

					https://github.com/strzibny/vagrant-presentation

The Goal

Isolated, reproducible, and portable development environments

How can Vagrant help?

Isolation, Reproducibility, Portability

+

Ease of Use, Convention, Extensibility

Hosts, guests, providers, provisioners

Boxes, Vagrantfiles

Host

Host operating system (Windows, RHEL), its detection and capabilities (NFS)

Guest

Guest operating system (Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Fedora), its detection and capabilities (halt, insert public key), virtualized environment

Provider

Provider of virtual machines or containers used (VirtualBox, libvirt, docker)

Provisioner

Configuration management system to set up (provision) your machine (Shell, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

Vagrant box

Package format including provider-specific image plus metadata

Vagrantfile

Definition of configuration and provisioning for a project on top of a given box

Using Vagrant

from a developer perspective

$ ls ~/project
... ... ... Vagrantfile
$ vagrant up # start and provision VMs defined in Vagrantfile
$ vagrant rsync-auto
$ vagrant ssh

$ vagrant halt
$ vagrant destroy

Creating a Vagrant box

Creating desired image

vagrant user

sudo rights and no password

SSH access

Packaging image as .box

Box depends on provider, operating system and provisioner.

SSH installed and running

CentOS 6

# yum install openssh-server
# service sshd start
# chkconfig sshd on
# netstat -tulpn | grep :22

SSH access

SSH keys for vagrant user

$ mkdir .ssh
$ curl -k https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub
 > .ssh/authorized_keys
$ chmod 0700 .ssh
$ chmod 0600 .ssh/authorized_keys

# visudo

# No password
%vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
...
# No requiretty, Fedora default
# Defaults    requiretty
...
# SSH agent forwarding
Defaults env_keep += "SSH_AUTH_SOCK"

Example box

vagrant-libvirt provider and Fedora 21 server

qcow2 image file named box.img

optional Vagrantfile with defaults

metadata.json

$ cat metadata.json
{
  "provider" : "libvirt",
  "format" : "qcow2",
  "virtual_size" : 40
}

$ tar cvzf vagrant-fedora-21-server.box ./metadata.json vagrant-fedora-21-server.qcow2

Creating a Vagrant box

in a sane way

$ gem install veewee
$ veewee kvm templates # list available templates for KVM
$ veewee kvm define centos7-x86_64 'CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-netinstall' -f
$ veewee kvm build 'centos7-x86_64' --workdir=/home/strzibny

Box already comes with Puppet and Chef

$ ls veewee/templates/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-netinstall/
base.sh
chef.sh
cleanup.sh
definition.rb
ks.cfg
puppet.sh
vagrant.sh
virtualbox.sh
vmfusion.sh
zerodisk.sh

Finding Vagrant Boxes

On Atlas (atlas.hashicorp.com), former Vagrant Cloud (vagrantcloud.com):

$ vagrant up chef/centos-6.5 --provider virtualbox

http://www.vagrantbox.es/ as unofficial alternative

$ vagrant box add {title} {url}
$ vagrant init {title} # Creates default Vagrantfile
$ vagrant up

$ vagrant box add name.box --name mybox

Getting started

Let's get a box first and add it:

$ vagrant box add fedora21 http://file.rdu.redhat.com/~jshubin/vagrant/fedora-21/fedora-21.box

This will add boxes in .vagrant.d/boxes:

$ ls .vagrant.d/boxes
fedora21/
$ vagrant box list
fedora21 (libvirt, 0)

Create a new Vagrantfile:

$ vagrant init fedora21

$ vagrant up

$ vagrant up
==> default: Uploading base box image as volume into libvirt storage...
==> default: Creating image (snapshot of base box volume).

$ sudo ls /var/lib/libvirt/images
fedora21_vagrant_box_image.img

==> default: Creating domain with the following settings...
..
==> default:  -- Image:             /var/lib/libvirt/images/user_default.img

user is the current directory (/home/user) and
default is the name of the VM.

==> default: Starting domain.
==> default: Waiting for domain to get an IP address...

libvirt uses dnsmasq program (DNS and DHCP server) which is automatically configured for each virtual network switch.

Running boxes

$ vagrant global-status

Vagrant in Fedora

						vagrant and vagrant-libvirt for Fedora 22, 21

# dnf install vagrant
# dnf install vagrant-libvirt

+ possible @vagrant group

Vagrant from Copr

						vagrant and vagrant-libvirt for Fedora 20, Fedora 21, RHEL

http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jstribny/vagrant-f20

http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jstribny/vagrant-f21

http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jstribny/vagrant1

Demo

Rails, PostgreSQL, Passenger multi-machine libvirt demo

Docker as a provider (MongoDB), Docker as a provisioner (Adminer)

Questions?


Most deaths from cancer are caused by uncontrolled growth of the tumour in vital organs. However, the second most common way that cancer kills is by triggering blood clotting resulting in thrombosis, such as pulmonary embolisms.
This causes blockage of major blood vessels – preventing oxygen and nutrients from reaching vital organs. Though often life-saving and life-prolonging, chemotherapy is associated with a six to sevenfold increase in the risk of thrombosis in cancer patients.
Associate Professor Alex McLellan says his team discovered cancer cells treated with chemotherapy release lipid-rich bubbles from their membranes that activate coagulation (clotting) processes.
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Illfonic is based in Colorado with offices in Washington state....... HOW MUCH WEED ARE THEY SMOKING!?!?! Guys, this job is too technical to be this high when working! I guarantee those offices REEK of weed. It's time to fortify those careers, guys. Put those goddamn bongs down and call that delivery guy and tell him to turn his car around. Starting today, no more weed for 2 months. We'll start with that and take it from there. Then you need to all watch a marathon of that business show The Profit...just one season. C'mon! Let's get it! Let's turn it around. You'll have our support.
@[IllFonic]Courier Why is it that we can't get public betas on Steam, to do real world testing of updates before they're released? Is that not a fair question?
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You can see how Schmock families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Schmock family name was found in the USA, Canada, and Scotland between 1841 and 1920. The most Schmock families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1841 there were 2 Schmock families living in Ayrshire. This was 100% of all the recorded Schmock's in Scotland. Ayrshire had the highest population of Schmock families in 1841.
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It's a simple mathematical fact — the sum of any even amount of odd numbers will always equal an even number. Hail to February, the second month of the year and the only month that has less than 30 days. Most of us pronounce it "feb-yoo-aire-ee" simply because we don't like or can't pronounce two r's that are so close by each other.
Roman superstition held that even numbers were unlucky, thus Roman King Numa Pompilius stuck this month with 28, the calendar's fewest number of days.
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It totals any columns with a dataIndex field defined as type "int" or "float".
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It might just be me, but I don't see any totals anywhere. Only a count of the number of selected records in the header.
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In the school practice, work on formation of skills to generalize in the primary study material is still poorly implemented. Not yet well-developed methodology for such classes, there is little corresponding methodical literature. When learning spelling generalization of knowledge is associated mainly with the work on the final stages – at the stage of consolidation and repetition of already learned material. However, in modern psychology and didactics it is well defined and the other, quite promising direction, orienting on a course of training, when the total is not absorbed in the final, but at the initial stage. With regard to the spelling as such may serve in common group orfogramm and regulations, how to use them.
Spelling as a system based on similarities and differences of language phenomena, contains the objective prerequisites for consolidation and differentiation of material primarily on the stage of the primary study.
The process of forming generalizations at this stage suggests some changes in the work of teachers and the organization of cognitive activity of students. What are the means and methods of teaching are activated?
the use of exercises that focus on the reasoning in the process of writing and graphic fixation of mental action on the synthesis and early differentiation spelling phenomena, the choice orfogramm under their alternative submission, the decision of cognitive tasks, receive feedback and self-realization.
In preparation for the study of generalized orthographic material must be realized the logic of a school textbook, to determine the most efficient sequence of interrelated subjects in the study and implementation of a system of exercises, appropriate to the new approach. The new approach involves the development of a new typology of generic lessons explore related themes and structure of the basic model of the lesson, gain the generalizing function of structural elements of the lesson. However – especially emphasize – Formation of theoretical generalizations in teaching spelling – it is only one, albeit a very important, a way of learning and methods of their application. Under the new approach provides unity of deductive and inductive way of knowledge, created the continuity of communication in the development of cognitive activity of students, and in addition, a motivational base for the Learning in the subsequent stages. The technique developed generalized study material can be used not only for teaching spelling, but also in the study of other sections of the course, as well as the study of other subjects. The positive results of experimental verification of the effectiveness of the developed method allows to recommend it for teachers, especially as its application does not require changes in school curricula and textbooks.
Below is a variant form of the lesson generalized knowledge in teaching spelling material on one of the most difficult for the students.


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