The ocean bottom is divided into three major areas: the continental shelf, the continental slope, and the deep ocean basin. The continental shelf extends underwater from each of the major land masses and can best be characterized as the submerged portion of the continents. The shelf has features similar to those we see on land, including hills, ridges, and canyons. The shelf varies in size--it may be virtually non-existent in some areas, while elsewhere it may extend out several hundred miles from the shore. The shelf's average distance is about 64 kilometers (40 miles). It is beyond the continental shelf that the 'deep sea' begins.
The shelf ends at a depth of about 200 meters (660 feet), giving way to the steeper continental slope, which descends about 3,700 meters (12,000 feet) to the deep ocean basin. Here, the ocean floor deepens sharply and its features again resemble those on land (i.e., great plains and mountains) only on a much larger scale. In fact, the Earth's longest mountain range lies under the sea. More than 56,000 kilometers (35,000 mi) long, this mountain range, called the Mid-Ocean Ridge system, snakes its way around the globe. The Mid-Ocean Ridge marks the areas where the Earth's crustal plates are moving apart and is one of the most geologically active areas on Earth. It is here that new sea floor is created, giving rise to hydrothermal vents and volcanoes.
The deepest known point on Earth is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a depression in the floor of the western Pacific Ocean, just east of the Mariana Islands. This trench is 1,554 miles long and 44 miles wide. Near its southwestern extremity (210 miles southwest of Guam) lies the deepest point on Earth. This point--known as the Challenger Deep--is where the ocean bottom lies at a depth of nearly 7 miles (variously reported to be at least 36,198 to 38,518 feet deep). In 1960, the Trieste, a manned submersible owned by the U.S. Navy, descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The depth reported is still only an estimate, based on a mathematical conversion from measured pressure (more than 8 tons per square inch), interpreted in terms of the integral of water density from the surface to the bottom.


After the great success of his recordings of Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Medtner Piano Concertos, Yevgeny Sudbin now presents a disc of solo works by Haydn. As Sudbin writes in his liner notes, one of the qualities in this composer which he finds particularly endearing is Haydn's 'delight in silliness, outrageous wit and the breaking of all conventions'. The works chosen for this recital are by no means mere light-weight 'musical jokes', however; for instance they include the profoundly beautiful Andante con variazioni in F minor, which some have suggested was written in response to the death of Mozart In an affectionate tribute to the composer, Sudbin ends his recital with Larking with Haydn, his own tongue-in-cheek arrangement of the Finale of the Lark Quartet.
...the liberties rarely sound wilful, almost always revealing alternative insights, whilst Sudbin's handling of his potential heavy modern Steinway D grand is a delectable display of crispness, lightness, luminosity and affectionate songfulness...there is never a dull moment on this disc.
The vitality of spirit that characterises this entire disc is immediately evident in the opening bars...Sudbin's touch is impeccable and deft, the piano tone both lucid and rounded, the ornamentation crisp, his senses alive to the nuances that make this music limitlessly fascinating.


We carry an ever-changing selection of interesting seating furniture from the 18th through 20th centuries. We strive to always have a large collection of antique French furniture, specifically chairs from the Louis XV and Louis XVI periods as well as Bellé Epoque reproductions of the French classics. The modern styles are particularly interesting, a divergence from the forms that came before found in the unique seating of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods and the austerity of the Mid Century Modern forms. But regardless of the period, style or designer, the most important aspect of any seating piece is quality: we look to acquire pieces that were exquisite in their era, cherished and cared for as valuable strike point pieces and that remain relevant in today's vastly different interior.


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OCBA Board of Directors Elections
Are you interested in helping your Oakland County Bar Association continue to provide unparalleled services to Oakland County lawyers?
Do you want to make a meaningful contribution to the legal profession?
Do you have good ideas and a passion to make a difference?
If you answered "YES" to any of these questions you should consider running for a seat on the OCBA's Board of Directors.
What do the members of the OCBA Board of Directors do?
The Oakland County Bar Association's board approves policy, oversees finances, reviews and evaluates the work of our numerous committees, and plans educational and social events. Unique to the OCBA is our ability to take a position on issues of public policy affecting the legal profession and to actively participate in the legislative process.
Am I eligible to run for the OCBA Board of Directors?
To be eligible to run for a seat on the board you must:
Be a REGULAR or PUBLIC SERVICE member of the OCBA
Have been a REGULAR or PUBLIC SERVICE member for at least the past four (4) consecutive years
Forward the following information to the OCBA executive director by the posted deadline:
Letter of intent to run for election
Completed Personal Data Form, including attachments
Completed and signed Board of Directors Responsibilities and Expectations Form
What will be expected of me as a member of the board?
In addition to attending the monthly board meetings and OCBA events, you will be expected to help shape the future of the association. The members of the board have a group, as well as an individual, responsibility to help carry out the OCBA's mission:
To serve the professional needs of our members, improve the justice system and ensure the delivery of quality legal services to the public.
Who selects the slate of candidates?
Submissions are reviewed and the candidates are selected by the Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee is chaired by the OCBA's immediate past president and four (4) OCBA members selected by the current president.
If I am selected for the slate of candidates, how many people will I be running against?
The number of candidates on the slate is based on the number of seats that are open for election. The OCBA's bylaws require that the Nominating Committee submit at least one name, but no more than two names, for each open board position.
What is the timeline for the election process?
The timeline below is based on Article IX of the OCBA Bylaws.
Beginning in December/January a request for nominations will be sent to the membership via email broadcast, will be posted on the OCBA website and will be sent to the OCBA Committee Chairs.
By February 4, letters of intent and supporting materials are due to the OCBA executive director by 5:00 p.m.
By February 15, the Nominating Committee will meet, and select and send letter to the slate of candidates.
By March 1, the roster of candidates, selected by the Nominating Committee, will be announced to the OCBA Membership via email broadcast, posted on the OCBA website and published in the E.D.itorial column in the May issue of LACHES. Additionally, eligible OCBA members may be nominated by petition, signed by at least 20 regular members, submitted to the OCBA executive director no later than March 31.
The OCBA membership will receive one (1) mailing from the candidates via email broadcast or postal service in April, before the ballots are distributed.
Biographies of the candidates will be available to voters on the website before the voting ballots are distributed. Biographies will also be included in the May issue of LACHES, and on the electronic ballot.
On May 1, ballots will be e-mailed to OCBA members who are eligible to vote. To confirm your voting eligibility or to make special arrangements to vote if you do not have an email address contact the OCBA at (248) 334-3400.
The online ballot will close sometime between May 8 at 5:00 p.m. and May 15 at 5:00 pm depending on how the calendar falls that year. The deadline will be posted.
Election results will be tabulated and all candidates will be notified of the outcome within 72 hours.
Candidates will have five days after notification of the outcome of the election to request a recount.
QUESTIONS? Email Jennifer Roosenberg or call (248) 334-3400.
2019 OCBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Elected to a three-year term ending June 30, 2022, listed in order of votes received:
Judge Edward Sosnick (ret.)
Julie L. Kosovec
Elizabeth L. Luckenbach
Victoria B. King
Jennifer L. Lord
Elected to a one-year term ending June 30, 2020:
Emily E. Long
Remaining candidates listed in alphabetical order were:
Joseph A. Doerr
Moheeb H. Murray
Ryan C. Plecha


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First mark entered in 1775 at Pelican Court, Old Bailey. Moved to Gutter Lane in 1776 and moved again to Lombard Street in 1781. Heal recorded him at Lombard Street until 1796. Land Tax assessment books show William Stephenson continued at that address until 1824. The will of William Stephenson, silversmith of Lombard Street, was proved for probate on 9 March 1823 (National Archives reference (PROB 11/1668/268). The Land Tax assessments on the property in Lombard Street continued to show his name in 1824, for one year in 1825 as Stephenson & Farrow, and William Stephenson alone in 1826 - suggesting perhaps a son carried on the business (Grimwade p. 670).
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While the public watches whether Congress defies the year-end fiscal cliff or compromises on looming 2013 tax hikes and spending cuts, Monroe County's new Republican congressman makes clear who he believes is responsible for the chaos.
The blame goes to congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama, said U.S. Rep. Tom Marino, R-10, in a written statement Friday.
"House Republicans have not only passed legislation that will avert the effects of the fiscal cliff," said Marino, whose district will include the north-central part of Monroe County beginning next week, "Republican leaders have even offered a proposal that would raise tax rates on top earners."
Republican House Speaker John Boehner proposed a bill to raise income tax rates on millionaires from 35 percent to 39 percent, but withdrew it before a vote took place after Boehner learned his own Republican caucus wouldn't approve it. President Obama has insisted on raising tax rates on income in excess of $250,000.
Marino, who already represents all of Pike County, noted the Republican-controlled House previously approved and sent to the Democratic Senate a bill that would extend the expiring Bush-era tax cuts for all taxpayers. But Democrats insist on wasteful and ineffective spending, he wrote.
"House Republicans have already passed legislation that will extend tax cuts for the middle class, but it is the Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid, and President Obama who are refusing to compromise," he wrote. "As the House waits for action from Senate leadership, I will continue to work for the people of Pennsylvania's 10th District and will remain committed to seeing that Americans do not bear the brunt of a $550 billion tax hike."
U.S. Rep.-elect Matt Cartwright, D-17, who takes office next week in a new district that includes eastern Monroe County, the West End and some of the mountain townships, has low expectations for averting the fiscal cliff before then. There just isn't enough time for a wide-ranging compromise on spending and revenue, he said in a phone interview.
"If they do anything it will be a Band-Aid solution for the next Congress," Cartwright said.
Cartwright campaigned on raising tax rates on earnings exceeding $1 million. He supports "modest" defense cuts, including reducing American military personnel around the world, and eliminating "waste" in Medicare.
But Cartwright is adamantly opposed to any reductions in Social Security retirement benefits.
"That's a nonstarter for me," Cartwright said. "We will not balance the budget on the backs of people who can least afford it."
The best thing Congress can do is settle on long-range spending and tax policies, so businesses have the certainty they need to invest in economic recovery, Cartwright said.
"The economy is poised to take off," Cartwright said. "That's our salvation. I see getting the economy moving again is the answer."
Lower unemployment will reduce jobless benefit claims while bringing in more tax revenue, he said.
All of Monroe County is currently part of the 11th Congressional District, represented by Republican Lou Barletta of Hazleton. The state Legislature approved new congressional boundaries that will entirely remove Monroe County from the 11th District next week.


The current federal income tax system is clearly broken — unfair, overly complex, and almost impossible for most Americans to understand. But there is a reasonable, nonpartisan alternative before Congress that is both fair and easy to understand. A system that allows you to keep your whole paycheck and only pay taxes on what you spend.
The FairTax is a national sales tax that treats every person equally and allows American businesses to thrive, while generating the same tax revenue as the current four-million-word-plus tax code. Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate. The FairTax rate after necessities is 23% compared to combining the 15% income tax bracket with the 7.65% of employee payroll taxes under the current system -- both of which will be eliminated!
Important to note: the FairTax is the only tax plan currently being proposed that includes the removal of the payroll tax.
For the first time in recent history, American workers will get to keep every dime they earn; including what would have been paid in federal income taxes and payroll taxes. You will get an instant raise in your pay!
Benefits will not change. The FairTax actually puts these programs on a more solid funding foundation. Instead of being funded by taxes on workers' wages, which is a small pool, they'll be funded by taxes on overall consumption by all residents. Learn More .
The FairTax provides a progressive program called a prebate. This gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free. The prebate prevents an unfair burden on low-income families. Learn more .
Be in control of your financial destiny. You alone can control your tax burden. If you're thrifty, you'll pay lower taxes than somebody who is not. Most importantly, you'll be taxed fairly. Learn more about what is taxed.
Tax evasion and the underground economy cost each taxpayer an additional $2,500 every year! But by taxing new products and services consumed, the FairTax puts everyone in the country at the same level at the cash register. Further, only legal residents are eligible for the prebate. Learn more .


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Nintendo Direct Slotted for September 6th
Written by Jordan Lucero on September 5th, 2018.
UPDATE: Due to a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan, Nintendo has delayed this week's Nintendo Direct. Nintendo has tweeted to expect a reannouncement "in the near future". Stay tuned at Launch Party Gaming for more updates.
Grab your popcorn! Nintendo has finally announced the long-awaited September Nintendo Direct. After weeks of speculation, fans were relieved to find that Nintendo has confirmed the rumors about a Direct coming this Thursday. At 6PM EST tomorrow, you can expect 35 minutes of 3DS and Switch news.
So what exactly can you expect in this Direct? Keep in mind, Nintendo has said multiple times that they haven't revealed their full 2018 lineup yet. After this year's lackluster E3, Nintendo's stock price took a hit. Nintendo will have to deliver lots of great games for the holiday season to appease investors and fans, and it's likely that this video announcement will involve some of those upcoming year-end titles. Lots of rumors are being thrown around and we'll have to see which ones turn out to be true.
Are you excited for tomorrow's Nintendo Direct? What do you think Nintendo will be offering for the holiday season? Let us know in the comments.
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Yet another Overwatch free weekend is approaching. If you still haven't played the blockbuster multiplayer shooter, now's your chance. From August 23-27, the game will be going free-to-play on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, with all maps and characters included. The only difference between the free version and full game is the absence of competitive...


Lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) release extracellular chemokines to guide the migration of dendritic cells. In this study, Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna report that LECs also release basolateral exosome-rich endothelial vesicles (EEVs) that are secreted in greater numbers in the presence of inflammatory cytokines and accumulate in the perivascular stroma of small lymphatic vessels in human chronic inflammatory diseases. Proteomic analyses of EEV fractions identified >1,700 cargo proteins and revealed a dominant motility-promoting protein signature. In vitro and ex vivo EEV fractions augmented cellular protrusion formation in a CX3CL1/fractalkine-dependent fashion and enhanced the directional migratory response of human dendritic cells along guidance cues. The researchers conclude that perilymphatic LEC exosomes enhance exploratory behavior and thus promote directional migration of CX3CR1-expressing cells in complex tissue environments.
Endothelial monolayer transmigration assay with fluorescently stained human mature MMDCs migrating in the presence of EEV fractions from ss LECs on primary LECs that were transduced with a lentiviral construct encoding CCL21. Brightfield and fluorescence images were acquired every 2.2 s for 40 min, and the last 30 min were used for generating the image sequence (frame rate, 90 frames/s; playback speed, 3.3 min/s). Transmigrated MMDCs have a spread out morphology and show decreased red fluorescence intensity. Bar, 50 µm.


With nurses in demand like never before, travel nursing jobs are on the rise. Travel nurses agree to leave their home and work at a facility in another city for a specific period of time. During their travel nursing job, typically called an 'assignment,' they provide staffing coverage, provide patient care, and help out on the unit. At the end of the predetermined travel nursing job, the traveler can opt to stay at the hospital for another assignment, or move on and take a new travel nursing job somewhere else. It's a great way to explore the country and hone your nursing skills-all while making up to 30% more than your usual salary! For over fifteen years, trustaff has been helping match nurses with great travel nursing jobs in all 50 states. trustaff travelers enjoy access to hundreds of premier jobs nationwide, great employee benefits, travel support, and (of course) industry-leading pay.
Interested in being a Travel Nurse?
Travel nurses make great pay, tax-free incentives, and have flexible options when it comes to their assignments, which typically are 13 weeks long. To become a travel nurse, you'll need a minimum of 1 year in your specialty and upwards to 3 years of experience for some specialties, as well as all of the education/certifications. You will also need a great travel nursing agency to help find you assignments. Luckily there are quite a few to choose from, though only a small selection of travel nursing companies have job options in all 50 states with the best pay rates.
Travel nurses work for and are paid by their travel nursing agency rather than the hospital where they are working. The pay schedule for travel nurses differs based on which agency you choose, though most pay on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. The pay schedule is typically handled through direct deposit, making it easy and convenient no matter where the travel nurse is currently stationed.


From light reading to profound literature, our Dutch teacher Mr Boom took us by the hand to explore these two sides of the literary spectrum with equal enthusiasm. So to speak from The Twilight Saga to The Tempest. Once introduced to the magical world of images conjured by words, the enchantment never left me.
This rubric showcases some of the columns and short stories I've written to date.
My Goodreads profile shows my reading history, often accompanied by personal notes about the works.


In the last two decades, we have seen more extensive application of IT and electronic technologies in modern vehicles. Many vehicle control systems, typically EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection), ABS (Anti-lock Braking System), SRS (Air Bag), TC (Traction Control), AT (Automatic Transmission), etc., are computerised. Computerisation makes the Control precise, quick, effective and safe. Consequently, a significant progress in vehicle driveability, fuel economy, power performance, comfort, emissions, and safety and so on has been made.
The Computer Control System consists of the on-board computer and several related control devices (sensors, switches, and actuators). Most on-board computers are located inside the vehicle behind the dashboard, under the passenger's or driver's seat, or behind the right kick panel. Some manufacturers may still position it in the engine compartment. The sensors, switches, and actuators are devices such as oxygen sensors, coolant temperature sensors, throttle position sensors, fuel injectors, etc., that are located throughout the engine and are connected by electrical wiring to the on-board computer.
All modern cars are controlled by an Electronic Control Unit (ECU). The main purpose of the electronic control system is to provide maximum engine performance with the least amount of air pollution and the best fuel efficiency possible. However, the complexity of the system may increase the difficulty for its troubleshooting. The function of self-diagnosis is for solving such problem with the electronic control system.
The computer assigns a numeric code for each specific problem that it detects, stores these codes in its memory for later retrieval and turns on the fault indicator on the dash panel to warn the driver.
The ECU contains three types of memory: ROM, RAM and PROM (or EEPROM). The ROM stores the programming information that can only be read by the ECU. The programme in the ROM is not editable. Power cut will not damage the data in ROM.
The RAM is for temporarily storing the inputted data, fault code and computed result. Power cut will make all information in the RAM erased.
The PROM is made by the manufacturer to suit the application of transmission, engine, exhaust control, driveability, rear axle ratio, etc. The PROM can be detached from the ECU and power cut will not damage the data in it. The EEPROM is similar to the PROM. The difference between the EEPROM and the PROM is that the EEPROM can be reprogrammed with a special device.
The diagnostic system of modern cars is equipped with a diagnostic socket or DLC (data Link connector). The fault code in the vehicle ECU can be read out by connecting a scan tool to the diagnostic socket. In early times, each vehicle system had its own type of diagnostic socket.
Since 1996, the SAE has specified a uniform system called OBDII on board diagnostic system. Each vehicle that is made in accordance with the system may have the same diagnostic socket, same definition of pin and same description of fault code. The control units of every system are connected to bus, so only one diagnostic socket is needed for readout of fault code. The OBD provides the possibility of reading data stream and displaying working status of switches and actuators. Moreover, the external scan tool can send commands to activate the actuators.
For preventing unexpected stopping of vehicle caused by problem with ECU, there is a backup circuit in ECU. When the backup circuit receives the signal of abnormality from the monitoring circuit, a spare control program will be started for keeping the engine running as preprogrammed. This programme is sometimes referred to as the limp home device.
This allows the vehicle to be driven at a limited speed to enable the driver to get to the nearest point for repairs, or better still, to safety. This should not be taken for granted, as future usage can cause extensive and very expensive repairs.
I want to find out good tyre brands I can buy for my car, besides Michelin or Dunlop.
What you should be concerned about is the tyre specification for your car. I am not that concerned about the brand as long as it meets the specs of your car.
I drive a Toyota Camry 'Tiny Light' and the A/C worked for over two years before I decided to top up the gas after the performance dropped and it's no longer cooling. Since then, I have not been able to get the A/C to basic working conditions. If accrued together, I have paid a lot fixing the A/C, from one workshop to the other. Please, do you have a certified A/C engineer that can fix the problem?
I stay in Sango Ota, Ogun State.
I don't have a particular person I can recommend at the moment. I still do it myself but I am busy at the moment with other projects and A/C system is not something you can just dabble in without the right attitude and knowledge.
I need an ABS replacement for my 2005 E320. Can I get one from you and how do I go about it?
Yes, you can get it from us, but you have to call our parts department for pricing on 07060607494. Or visit www.automedicsshop.com to get it, or other parts and lubricants, from our online shop.
My 2007 Pathfinder was vibrating, so my mechanic said it was knocked. He dismantled the engine and changed the rings. He started it but the vibration was still there. He changed something so the vibration could stop but the engine has now misfired and I can't even accelerate well or climb a hill.
You can definitely call me or send a text message. But I might have to physically see the vehicle to be able to help.
There is a loud single noise anytime I try to engage the gear into drive (D) or reverse (R). The technician checked the ATF and replaced it with new one. The noise subsided but started again and persists. Now, I observed no gear selection again. It would only move some distance of, say, 500m and start making a noise and generating heat.
Is there anything I can do to the gear or should I forget it completely? Your sincere and professional advice is needed. God bless you and all yours in Jesus' name.
As you said in your explanation, my honest opinion will be to replace or rebuild the transmission. But the engine will also need to be tuned up.
I drive a 2007 Honda Accord V6 hybrid, but the type of problem I am facing now is huge. The battery light would come up sometimes when I start the engine and would not go off, always killing my battery in the process and the car would not move. Please, advise me. I am in Abuja.
My first advice is to run a scan on the car. The results are what will instruct you on what to do. For scanning, you can take it to our workshop in Wuye, Abuja.
Where can I find your people or affiliates in Abuja? Those I was going to are not around anymore.
This is our Abuja branch: Plot 159 Reuben Okoya Crescent, off Olusegun Obasanjo Way, opposite Abiding Word of Light Church, Wuye, Abuja. 08095599919.
I'm really in need of some information about my 2000 Lexus RX300 AC compressor.
What specific information do you need?
I drive a 2006 Lexus 470 GX. The check engine came on and amp; VSC TRAC signs are permanently on the dashboard. The scan result is P0420, catalyst system efficiency below threshold. I need your input on the cause, implications and corrective measure. Thank you.
P0420: The Engine Control Module (ECM) monitors the switching frequency ratio of heated oxygen sensors 1 (front O2 sensor) and heated oxygen sensors 2 (rear O2 sensor).
A three-way catalyst converter (manifold) with high oxygen storage capacity will indicate a low-switching frequency of heated oxygen sensor 2. As oxygen storage capacity decreases, the heated oxygen sensor 2 switching frequency will increase.
When the frequency ratio of heated oxygen sensors 1 and 2 approaches a specified limit value, the three-way catalyst malfunction is diagnosed.
The code is detected when bank 1 does not operate properly, three-way catalyst converter bank 1 does not have enough oxygen storage capacity.
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Martin Weppler (né le ) est un ancien athlète représentant l'Allemagne de l'Ouest spécialiste du 400 mètres.

Carrière

Palmarès

Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme
 Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme 1978 à Prague,
  Médaille d'or du relais 4 × 400 m

Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme en salle
 Championnats d'Europe d'athlétisme en salle 1981 à Grenoble,
  Médaille d'argent sur 400 m

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Sprinteur allemand
Coureur de 400 mètres
Relayeur (athlétisme)
Champion d'Europe d'athlétisme
Naissance en février 1958
Naissance à Schramberg
Athlète (homme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1984

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You know the kind of day I mean! You're moody, irritable, and cranky. You've already stubbed your toe on the bed post. You spilled coffee on your suit. You had two flat tires before even getting into the car to drive away to work.
At which point, you start to recall all of the sniggering and remarks of your co-workers who give you a hard time.
You begin all the self-hate and self-deprecating self-talk. There are times when you feel bashed and blown about. Much like the flower in today's image.
We go through seasons of life. Springtime brings new life, happiness, and lots of fun. Summer brings warm smiles and great times. Autumn brings a slowing down and resting. Wintertime brings a time of darkness and hardship.
What do you do with these seasons of life? It's your choice. Will you let it beat you down? Or, will you use it to help you grow and build your character into a successful person? I choose growth and character building.
Comment your thoughts and let me know. Inquisitive minds want to know!
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Q: Sliding Expiration in Redis using Redisson Redisson implementation is not working when deployed to AWS Environment
I have built a POC With Spring boot application to implement Sliding expiration of a cache in Redis using redisson client. It is working fine in my Local Env. but now my challenge is when I tried to apply the configuration to our existing code and deployed it to AWS Env. it is not giving the cached values.
Is there anything I forgot to specify? config? annotations?
I have used below configurations for Redisson
 @Bean(name = "sessionCacheManager")
public CacheManager cacheManager(RedissonClient redissonClient) throws IOException
  {
    Map <String, CacheConfig> config = new HashMap <>();
    CacheConfig configItem = new CacheConfig(0,  Long.parseLong(maxIdleTime));

    config.put("sso_client",configItem);
    return new RedissonSpringCacheManager(redissonClient, config);
}

 @Bean(destroyMethod = "shutdown")
public RedissonClient redissonClient() throws IOException {
    Config config = new Config();
    config.setNettyThreads(Integer.parseInt(nettyTrade)).setThreads(64).useReplicatedServers()
            .setScanInterval(2000)
            .addNodeAddress(address)
            .setConnectTimeout(Integer.parseInt(connectTimeout))
            .setTimeout(Integer.parseInt(timeout))
            .setRetryAttempts(Integer.parseInt(retryAttempts))
            .setRetryInterval(Integer.parseInt(retryInterval));
    redisson = Redisson.create(config);
    logger.debug("RedissonClient Bean has been created");
    return redisson;
}

and this is how I get and update the cache
   @Component
   @CacheConfig(cacheNames = "sso_client", cacheManager = "sessionCacheManager")
  public class SSOClientAuthenticationService

   {
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(SSOClientAuthenticationService.class);

@Autowired
private CacheManager sessionCacheManager;

 @Cacheable( key = "#clientAccessKey",  unless = "#result == null")
public String getSSOSessionKey(String clientAccessKey)
{
    logger.debug("Inside getSSOSessionKey()" + clientAccessKey);

    org.springframework.cache.support.SimpleValueWrapper value = (org.springframework.cache.support.SimpleValueWrapper) sessionCacheManager.getCache("sso_client").get(clientAccessKey);

    if(value!=null && (value.get() instanceof String))
    {
        logger.debug("session active" + value.get());
        return (String)value.get();
    }
    logger.debug("session is out for ClientAccessKey" + clientAccessKey);

    return null;
}

 @CachePut(key = "#clientAccessKey", condition = "#result != null")
public String updateClientRequestMapping(String clientAccessKey, String sessionKey)
{
    logger.debug("Inside updateClientRequestMapping()");
    return sessionKey;
}

 @CacheEvict(key = "#clientAccessKey", condition = "#result != null")
public String removeClientRequestMapping(String clientAccessKey)
{
    logger.debug("Evict removeClientRequestMapping: " + clientAccessKey);
    return clientAccessKey;
}

}
This is the log I got from splunk
2022-07-02 22:38:27 DEBUG o.r.c.ReplicatedConnectionManager - Current master myr1xfltu6ld0ybp.cxsbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379 unchanged
2022-07-02 22:38:27 DEBUG org.redisson.command.RedisExecutor - acquired connection for command (GET) and params [[115, 101, 115, 115, 105, 111, 110, 83, 105, 109, ...]] from slot NodeSource [slot=0, addr=null, redisClient=null, redirect=null, entry=null] using node kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379... RedisConnection@599724954 [redisClient=[addr=redis://kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:6379], channel=[id: 0x0610f655, L:/10.4.11.206:35298 - R:kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379], currentCommand=null, usage=1]
2022-07-02 22:38:27 DEBUG org.redisson.command.RedisExecutor - connection released for command (GET) and params [[115, 101, 115, 115, 105, 111, 110, 83, 105, 109, ...]] from slot NodeSource [slot=0, addr=null, redisClient=null, redirect=null, entry=null] using connection RedisConnection@599724954 [redisClient=[addr=redis://kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:6379], channel=[id: 0x0610f655, L:/10.4.11.206:35298 - R:kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379], currentCommand=CommandData [promise=java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture@2121da78[Completed normally], command=(GET), params=[[115, 101, 115, 115, 105, 111, 110, 83, 105, 109, ...]], codec=org.redisson.client.codec.ByteArrayCodec], usage=0]
2022-07-02 22:38:27 DEBUG org.redisson.command.RedisExecutor - acquired connection for command (GET) and params [[115, 101, 115, 115, 105, 111, 110, 83, 105, 109, ...]] from slot NodeSource [slot=0, addr=null, redisClient=null, redirect=null, entry=null] using node kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379... RedisConnection@632704404 [redisClient=[addr=redis://kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:6379], channel=[id: 0x67d414b2, L:/10.4.11.206:35300 - R:kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379], currentCommand=null, usage=1]
2022-07-02 22:38:27 DEBUG org.redisson.command.RedisExecutor - connection released for command (GET) and params [[115, 101, 115, 115, 105, 111, 110, 83, 105, 109, ...]] from slot NodeSource [slot=0, addr=null, redisClient=null, redirect=null, entry=null] using connection RedisConnection@632704404 [redisClient=[addr=redis://kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com:6379], channel=[id: 0x67d414b2, L:/10.4.11.206:35300 - R:kyrld0ybp.cbjl.ng.0001.use1.cache.amazonaws.com/10.4.14.237:6379], currentCommand=CommandData [promise=java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture@6c2d2f7d[Completed normally], command=(GET), params=[[115, 101, 115, 115, 105, 111, 110, 83, 105, 109, ...]], codec=org.redisson.client.codec.ByteArrayCodec], usage=0]
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Q: How do I return a mapped data's value given a key in Swift? I am creating a Firebase a query that returns a set of data that I am converting to a map. I am then trying to access the value at key "postScore" but I'm receiving the error "Cannot subscript a value of type '[String]' with an index of type 'String". I have also tried using "value(forKeyPath: )" to no avail.
func getAccountScore(){
        let postsRef = db.collection("posts")
        let query = postsRef.whereField("UID", isEqualTo: Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid)
        query.getDocuments(){ (querySnapshot, err) in
            if let err = err {
                print("Error getting documents: \(err)")
            } else {
                self.numberOfPosts = querySnapshot!.count
                print("number of posts: \(self.numberOfPosts)")
                for document in querySnapshot!.documents {
                    let dataDescription = document.data().map(String.init(describing:)).sorted(by: >)

                    print(dataDescription["postScore"])
                }
            }
        }
    }

A: document.data() return type is an Optional Dictionary as per the documentation so you should get the postScore as below,
let postScore = document.data()?["postScore"]
print(postScore)

Currently you are trying to treat an Array of String(that you created using .map{}) as a Dictionary to get postScore value but compiler won't allow to use Array as a Dictionary.

A: It's not clear what you are going to do with dataDescription but on first glance it looks like you are just trying to get the postScore from each post.
@Kamran's answer is terrific but here's an alternate more Firestore way; you can use .get to access any of the child fields in a document.
for doc in snapshot!.documents {
    let key = doc.documentID
    let postScore = doc.get("postScore") as? String ?? "No Score"
    print(key, postScore)
}

Note that I added some nil coalescing in case a document is missing postScore the app won't crash or have a nil var.


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Lily returns to New York and finds herself powerless against her mother and her psychiatrist who are determined to cure her of madness, but Lily finds solace in her therapy with the handsome, kilt-clad Dr. Murdoch, who is fascinated by her tale of giants, gods, ghosts, and demons. The Twin Gods and Phoenix return to the story with dirty secrets and dramatic plots to usurp power from the Ruling Kings, but the trial of the Lesser Gods reveals more drama and intrigue than the Incubi can handle, as Lucian is served more justice than he deserves. Rory, the Red King, enters Gael through a harrowing birth that leaves Declan once again weighing his decision to bring Caraye into his world. The surprise visitors in Dorcha finally resolve the last of Amon and Marduk's tragic mistake, but their recent mistakes force the Elders to demand retribution that shakes up not only their own personal lives, but the entire state of Tosú-Críoch as well. However, when the Elders demand that the Revolution begin immediately, their motives are revealed, and Declan must take swift action to usher in a major power shift and an entirely new protocol for the Incubi and humanity. Cain meets both his Devil and his Conscience, and is happy with neither, but he must carry on if he is to survive the transition Declan sets into motion. Lugh makes a difficult decision in his attempt to keep Aaden in Gael after Aaden discovers the truth about Jade. The identities of Lily, Drake, and Samael are finally revealed in a surprising epilogue that uncovers a deeper mystery as the curtain closes on the final scene of the Children of the Incubi. The Gods are finally awakened by Humanity, and everything changes as everything is revealed.
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■"Knowledge Creation Process in Science: Key Comparative Findings from the Hitotsubashi-NISTEP-Georgia Tech Scientists' Survey in Japan and the US"
This paper reports the initial findings from large scale surveys of the scientists based in Japan and the US on the knowledge creation process in science from a comparative perspective. The survey in Japan was jointly conducted by the Institute of Innovation Research (IIR) of Hitotsubashi University and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) from the end of 2009 to the summer 2010. The survey in the US was implemented by the Georgia Institute of Technology, in collaboration with IIR and NISTEP, from autumn 2010 to early 2011. It collected around 2,100 responses from scientists in Japan and 2,300 responses from scientists in the US on their research projects that generated the scientific papers subjected to the surveys.


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50 years : the Age of Maturity for the European Parliament ?
22 mars 2008 , par Traduit par Peter Matjašič, Pauline Gessant
Two days ago the European Parliament blew its 50 candles. Half a century ago, on 19 March 1958 the new European parliamentary Assembly held its inaugural meeting – four years later in 1962 it was renamed into the "European Parliament".
In the beginning the European Parliament consisted of 142 members appointed by 6 countries and delegated by their national parliament in 1958, today however it counts 785 MEPs elected in direct universal suffrage and representing the 27 Member States of the European Union. This number will be reduced to 750 members plus the President once the Treaty of Lisbon currently in the process of ratification takes effect.
More importantly, it is the only multinational parliament elected in the world. It is also the only European institution directly elected since 1979, when the first European parliamentary elections took place.
Increasing powers…
The European Parliament saw its powers developing over time. During its creation, the European parliamentary Assembly had only consultative powers. The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 bestowed it with the power of co-decision with the Council of Ministers, which enables the EP to reject a legislative text. Initially limited to a restricted number of fields, this co-decision procedure nowadays relates to many fields : freedom of circulation of goods, workers and services, freedom of establishment, domestic market, employment, customs co-operation, fight against social exclusion, equal opportunity and treatment, education, vocational training, culture, health, consumer protection, research, environment… …
And the Treaty of Lisbon envisages a new extension of the fields in which the co-decision procedure applies, in particular justice and home affairs, common market policy and agricultural legislation. If the Treaty is ratified, 90 legal bases will be related to the co-decision procedure.
The European Parliament also has budgetary powers since it currently has the last word on the non-compulsory expenditure and has a right of rejection in entirety of the project. The Committee on Budgetary Control of the Parliament (Cocobu) supervises, moreover, the implementation of the budget and approves it every year. The Lisbon Treaty reinforces this capacity by removing the differentiation between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure.
An assertion of its role within the institutional triangle
The Parliament exerts a power of control of the European Commission since it must approve the President of the Commission appointed by the Council and the proposed college of commissioners proposed. It is notably because of the report of the committee of experts set up by the Parliament that the Santer Commission had resigned in 1999. In 2004, the European Parliament had also threatened the Barroso Commission by imposing its veto on the appointment of the Italian Rocco Buttiglione as Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs. In this field the Treaty of Lisbon envisages a further increase in the powers of the Parliament since the latter obtains the right to elect the President of the Commission on a proposal from the European Council which must take into account the results of the European elections.
The European Parliament knew how to contribute fully to the reinforcement of its powers by proving that it could make decisions in the general interest of the European citizens and by showing its independence by rejecting Commission proposals and the Council as it was the case with the directive on the liberalization of harbour services or the budgetary compromise of December 2005, or by rewriting several directives in a direction very different from that of the Commission (directive on software patents in Europe, the Bolkestein directive…). Its action in favour of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, in particular through the Sakharov prize which it gives each year, also contributes to secure the place of the European Parliament.
…but a democratic representativeness to be increased !
In spite of these increasingly important powers granted to the European Parliament and the capital role that it often plays for the citizens (let us remember for example the REACH directive on chemicals), the rate of participation in the European elections remains weak. For example in 2004 it exceeded hardly 45 %. And recent Eurobarometer shows that three-quarters of European citizens do not know when the next European elections take place - the correct answer would be summer 2009.
The democratic legitimacy which the European Parliament pulls of its election by the direct vote should not hide this problem of representativeness. Even if the Treaty of Lisbon reaffirms the European Parliament as the institution of representation of the European citizens on the level of the EU (the article 8A2 foresees that "the European citizens are directly represented, on the level of the Union, in the European Parliament"), the bond between the European Parliament and the citizens of the Union remains distant.
The election of the European Parliament must have a stronger European dimension…
At the national level, this bond is ensured by the political parties. However, the European political parties are struggling to ensure this role, in particular because, for the majority, they develop neither a European programme nor a European campaign. At the national level, the political parties assume clear roles : development of the programmes, designation of the chief candidates and returns on the decisions taken. At the European level, these roles are not assumed for the moment. Admittedly the European deputies sit by political groups and not by nationality, but that is not enough.
Towards a new stage in 2009 ?
The election of the European Parliament must have a visible stake : the choice of the president of the European Commission must depend on its result. The new methods of election of the President of the European Commission provided for in the Treaty of Lisbon should make it possible, if the Treaty is ratified, to structure the campaign around this stake as well as the programmes of the candidates. Still, it is necessary that the European parties play the game by designating their candidate with the presidency of the European Commission before each election of the European Parliament, by proposing transnational and multinational lists and by conducting true European campaigns.
The election of the European Parliament must have a stronger European dimension so that the voters can come to a conclusion about the orientation to give to the policies of the EU. And the national political parties must explain their position within the European political parties and the sets of themes which seem to them priority for the next European mandate.
A modification of the working rhythm of the European Parliament should perhaps also be planned in order to give to MEPs time necessary to give an account of their mandate in their district and thus to give an account of their decisions closer to the European citizens. It is undoubtedly only when the citizen notes wide powers of MEPs as sound, that it will carry out the impact of the European Union on his/her everyday life and that a European public space will be able to develop.
For European parliamentarians proud of their mandate
Although it does not have the right to initiate legislation, the European Parliament has an incomparable legitimacy to be expressed on the policy guidelines of the European Union as the only directly elected European institution. But in order to reflect the political choices expressed by the voters for European construction, it must be elected on the basis of a clear European campaign and not particular national interests.
A more democratic Europe and closer to its citizens, thus understood better, requires a Parliament with wide powers and clear accountability to its voters on a truly European basis. It is the responsibility of the politicians to seize this issue and not regard the European elections as second-rate elections or a consolation prize, for lack of a national function any longer.
If we can only be delighted by the increase in the powers of the European Parliament which constitutes a true projection as regards democratization of the European Union, we must remain vigilant as regards the Parliament's responsibilities with respect to the citizens which it represents. It is under this condition that the European Parliament will reach its maturity and will be able to determine the direction of the European construction, strengthened by its increasing powers and a legitimacy brought by 492 million citizens.
Image : European Parliament in Brussels ; photo made by Sergio Galletti, source : Wikimedia Commons
Pauline Gessant
Ancienne Présidente des Jeunes Européens Fédéralistes - JEF Europe (2011-2015). Ancienne rédactrice en chef de The New Federalist.
www.jef.eu
Traduit par Peter Matjašič
former Editor-in-Chief of thenewfederalist.eu 2006-08


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Study Island Benchmark Assessments provide a detailed, reliable, and structured picture of student progress toward preparing for state assessments. For the coming school year, we are introducing new assessments for Pennsylvania, PARCC, and SBAC, as well as updating benchmark tests for specific states whose tests are changing for the 2014–2015 school year. The updated Benchmark Assessments will include 1-2 Constructed Response questions, which must be graded by the teacher or administrator, and will contribute to a student's overall score on the assessment. Depending on the grade level and subject from which the test is administered, it may take 1-5 minutes to grade each question.
1. Run a Benchmark Gradebook Report for the class. This report can be accessed from the Benchmarking page or from the School Reports page.
2. Once the report loads, click on the "Grade Constructed Responses" button at the top of the report or "Grade" next to a student's name on the report.
3. By clicking the "Grade Constructed Responses" button, you are choosing to default the grading page to the whole class view. Once on the page, you have the ability to change your views by selecting a specific student from the Select a Student dropbox located above the question details.
4. The grading page will load with the first Constructed Response question in the test loaded and the student responses listed below.
5. By clicking "Grade" next to a specific student on the report, you will be loading the grading page for that specific student. Once on the page, you can choose to view a different student or the whole class from the Select a Student dropbox located above the question details.
6. The grading page will load with the first Constructed Response question in the test loaded and the student responses listed below.
7. Student responses that are waiting to be graded will be listed with a red header.
8. To apply a grade to a student, enter the number grade in the text field next to Score, located below the student's response. Once you have entered the number of your choice, the Save button will light up as green. Clicking the green "Save" button will store the student's score and change the student's header to blue, identifying them as graded. You may also enter a score from multiple students and click the "Save All Scores" button listed above the first student in the list.
9. Once you have saved a student's score, a date will be listed to the right of the "Save" button showing you the date the last score was saved.
10. Teachers can edit a student's score at any time within 90 days of when the student submitted their test. Also, listed to the right of the scoring section, you can see the date in which the student submitted their test.
11. A student's score cannot exceed the max score provided by the Rubric attached to the question. This Rubric cannot be changed by schools.
12. To move to a new question within the same test, choose a new question from the "Select a Question" drop box at the top of the grading page.
13. When you are done grading, you can click Exit or just close out of the browser window to return to your Benchmark Gradebook Report.
14. From your grading page, you can filter your students by who has or has not already been graded, by clicking the filter button located above the first student's response.
15. To collapse a student's response to reduce scrolling, click the collapse icon to the right of the student's name.
16. To view the full Rubric, click the yellow "View Rubric" button on the question details box.
18. To toggle between questions within the test, use the dropbox called "Select a Question".


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Crowd of 100 Turns Out to Scrutinize Northern Ave. Bridge Plans, Process and Budget
By Christian MilNeil
Supporters of a car-free replacement bridge hold up signs at a public hearing on the Northern Avenue Bridge project on June 3, 2019. Photo by Christian MilNeil.
A crowd of roughly 100 people crowded the Seaport's District Hall Monday evening to hear Boston Chief of Streets Chris Osgood and engineers from AECOM, the city's design consultants, present a range of alternative designs for a new Northern Avenue Bridge.
A new Northern Avenue Bridge would extend Northern Avenue in the Seaport, a relatively calm, 2-lane street, to end at Atlantic Avenue next to the Rose Kennedy Greenway downtown. It's a crossing that is expected to draw heavy pedestrian and cyclist traffic: consultants estimate that as many as 2,500 pedestrians and 250 cyclists will cross the new bridge during the evening rush hour.
For drivers, on the other hand, it's a connection that would offer only slight benefits, although it would offer a marginally shorter shuttle bus trip, albeit in one direction only, and through grueling traffic, from the Seaport to North Station. As reported previously, the wider bridge options that accommodate motor vehicle traffic would also add tens of millions of dollars to the project's costs.
At last night's meeting, dozens of supporters of sustainable transportation, carrying bright signs that read "PEOPLE FIRST," turned out to ask the city for a slimmer bridge design for bikes and pedestrians only.
There are signs that the study team is heeding concerns from those advocates. Since the most recent task force meeting, the project team has added a new 30-foot-wide bridge option for analysis. A bridge of this width would still be designed for bike and pedestrian use only, but the bikeway could be wide enough to accommodate fire trucks in emergencies.
In another positive development, the city is no longer entertaining the idea that the bridge would offer dedicated "carpool" lanes (which would include most ridesharing trips on Uber and Lyft). City officials admitted that such a restriction would be impractical to enforce.
But wider bridge options that include lanes for shuttle buses or general automotive traffic remain on the table. During a presentation, Joseph Allwarden, AECOM's vice president in charge of bridge design for the northeast region, stressed that wider bridge options added "flexibility," which was the evening's preferred euphemism for letting traffic in.
Richard Martini of the Fallon Company, who serves on the Mayor's task force for the new bridge, has been an outspoken proponent of designing a bridge to include motor vehicle lanes. The new Northern Avenue Bridge, whatever its form, will land right on the doorstep of the Fallon Company's Fan Pier complex, located on the north side of Northern Avenue.
"What I'm really concerned about is flexibility," said Martini at last night's meeting. "I'm just afraid if something occurs on the other bridges, like construction, we should be creating other options. There are only so many places you can cross the Fort Point Channel."
To date, the Fallon Company has not publicly committed any funding for the new bridge, although WS Development, which owns much of the real estate on the southern side of Northern Avenue, has committed $2 million as part of its permitting negotiations.
Currently, $58 million has been earmarked for a new bridge – which is not adequate to fund most of the bridge designs that would accommodate motor vehicles.
But Osgood gave the audience the impression that money would not be a constraint. Responding to a question about where additional funds for a more-expensive motor vehicle bridge would come from, Osgood answered that "we can develop a financing plan later."
The city will accept public comments on the bridge designs through June 20 – an online feedback form is available at the city's project website: www.northernavebridgebos.com/stay-in-touch.
UPDATE: (June 5): The city has posted an electronic version of their presentation, featuring the four design options and varying cost estimates, on the project website.
Filed Under: Street Design, Northern Avenue Bridge
Gov. Healey's Job #1 for the T: Better Union Contracts
"The combination of overworked staff and aging assets has resulted in the organization being overwhelmed," wrote agents for the Federal Transit Administration in a scathing report this August.
The MBTA's Bus Driver Shortage Is Getting Even Worse
After a year of intensified recruiting efforts, nearly one in four bus operator positions at the MTBA remains unfilled, and the shortage appears to be getting worse.
Zona Lenta 'Temporaria' En la Línea Verde Pronto Cumple Un Año
La zona lenta que tercamente persiste en el Viaducto de Lechmere en la Línea Verde, el puente arqueado sobre el Charles River, ofrece un ejemplo de lo difícil que es para la MBTA mantener credibilidad con pasajeros los cuales tienen que aguantar proyectos de construcción disruptivos pero sin ver todavía los beneficios. Desde el 2020, […]
City Declares Copley Open Street Pilot a 'Success' and Plans Permanent Improvements
72 percent of survey respondents expressed a "very positive" opinion about making the car-free plaza permanent.
'Temporary' Green Line Slow Zone Approaches 1-Year Anniversary
But in spite of all the work that's been done on the Lechmere Viaduct, a "temporary" slow zone that has forced trains to run at a walking-pace crawl is now approaching its one-year anniversary.


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Q: Where to install R packages on Linux server that are to be used by multiple users? We are running RStudio Server on an AWS-hosted CentOS Linux server. We have multiple users on the server each using RStudio Server. We'd like to have a common path for all users to install packages so that:

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*Each user does not need to install every package for their RStudio user profile

*If one person updates a package, every user will be using the updated

What is the best procedure to do this?
My proposed solution was the following, but it failed:
Save a list of my existing user packages:
> save.pkg.list <- installed.packages()[is.na(installed.packages()[ , "Priority"]), 1]
> save(save.pkg.list, file="pkglist.Rdata")

Remove user packages:
> remove.packages(save.pkg.list)

Then, my idea was to install the packages from save.pkg.list into a folder under root. There was already what seemed to be a shared folder /usr/share/R/library which contained one package in my library path:
.libPaths() [1] "/home/ursus/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.1" "/usr/lib64/R/library" "/usr/share/R/library"

To test it out, I attempted to install one package into the shared folder and see if other users on the server could use it in their R instances. The installation failed, most probably because it is under root and I'm assuming I need to use sudo privileges (which I have) but not sure how to pass those to R for the package installation process:
install.packages("dlm", lib = "/usr/share/R/library") Warning in install.packages : 'lib = "/usr/share/R/library"' is not writable

Eventually, I'm assuming there need to be some changes to the R_LIBS_SITE and R_LIBS_USER environment variables or something like that to control the default package installation / loading behavior. But, I'm not there yet.

A: I've never tried this, but I don't see why this wouldn't work:
You can use .libPaths() to set the library dir (not only to get it), so why don't you have everyone use a common directory that's writeable by everyone as the libpath?  Every user can put in their .Rprofile something like
.libPaths( c(.libPaths(), "/path/to/shared/lib") )

Then that path will be the default place where everyone installs/retrieves packages from.
One problem with this approach is that people will still have their original libPath per person, so if they're trying to update an existing package, it'll update their own version. You can overcome that by setting the libpath to ONLY the new path instead of appending to it.
Note that this can sometimes have bad consequences, sometimes person A's code depends on a certain version of a package, then person B updates the package, then person A runs his code again 5 minutes later and all of a sudden it breaks and they have absolutely no idea why.

A: A dirty hack would be to change write permission of /usr/share/R/library to a group to which all users belong to. Or give write permission to all.


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UW and Economic Growth
Ray Cross, UW System President
At a time when the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) is faced with declining enrollments, declining state support, frozen tuition, climbing student debt, a brain drain of its graduates to other states, faculty votes of no confidence in leadership on some campuses, the system's regents and executives have opted for the status quo.
They are hunkering down, hoping for adverse political winds to blow through. That would appear to be wishful thinking. Gov. Walker, who is no unabashed fan of UWS, has more than two years left on his second term and is talking about running for a third term, despite his lowered approval ratings.
With the governor not a fan of organized labor in any form, the faculty protests will only stiffen the resolve to lessen the political impact of organized faculty.
In addition, the Republican Party looks likely to keep control of the legislature, unless Donald Trump loses so badly to Hillary Clinton that he drags GOP candidates lower on the ticket into negative territory. More likely though, voters will see Trump as a bizarre aberration and will stay on their traditional side of the ballot for lesser contests. Trump may have no coattails, plus or minus.
So UWS' prospects for more friendly executive and legislative branches don't seem to be in the political cards.
Further, the biennial budget for 2017-2019 offers little solace for university's finances. Medicaid and state employee health costs, always rising and out of control, will chew up most of the added funds flowing into state coffers. There may be a couple of extra bucks, but not many, and those will have strings.
And Gov. Walker will surely seek to extend the UW's tuition freeze for a third term election. He will make a big deal of lowering college costs for students and parents. That message is playing well.
So, what can the Regents and UWS President Ray Cross do to position themselves more favorably in the minds of voters and politicians?
They could be bold the way President Katherine Lyall was a decade and a half ago. She called for economic summits to position the university in voters' eyes as a major engine of the state's prosperity. She had problems with the legislature, but not at the level of animosity displayed by the GOP today.
So if UWS leaders wanted to position themselves as proactive, what would "bold" look like?
• Cross could call another economic summit to assess where the state's economy has evolved to since the 2000-2003 summits. It would remind everyone in the state how much we need the university's graduates and its economic impact.
• The Regents could create a Blue Ribbon Commission to address the array of major issues facing the system. Such a commission could look hard at decentralizing its governance to the regional campuses of the state. The Madison-centricity of UWS does it little good politically. Legislators would fight harder for campuses in their districts if the shots were being called from there.
• To help solve the UWS financial bind, Cross could ask to carve the system out of the extremely expensive state employee health plan. If campuses could source their health care on a local basis, they could save at least $100 million across the system annually.
• The Regents could resuscitate the concept of independent authority status for regionally organized campuses. With state government providing an ever-smaller percentage of the UWS budget, more autonomy for the university makes some sense. On their own, the campuses would have to get more creative about expense control and the creation of new revenue streams.
• To earn credibility with political leaders, the regents need to inaugurate more complete, more rigorous and more transparent reporting. A consolidated, audited financial report, including all associated UWS assets, such as those of UW Health and all connected foundations, ought to be a matter of course. Other state universities do so.
• To mitigate the brain drain of UW-Madison graduates, UWS leaders should end the reciprocity agreement with Minnesota. A big majority of Minnesota graduates from UW-Madison do not stay here to work and pay taxes. The reverse is true of Wisconsin students going to Minnesota. They often stay there. It's a bad deal for Wisconsin, a state with a shrinking work force. The other 25 UW campuses need students; let the agreement continue there. UW-Madison has a bigger demand than it can satisfy from Wisconsin kids and their parents.
• Foundations associated with the UW campuses, especially those at UW-Madison with some $7 billion in assets, could do "impact investing" with a small slice of their portfolios on a statewide basis. They could invest in funds that launch startups and create jobs. UW-Milwaukee Foundation has already done so.
No one should expect UWS leaders to be so bold as to launch the full menu of available reforms. But it would be disappointing — and politically naïve — not to forward some of them.
They need to be, and appear to be, proactive in taking major initiatives to help themselves and their institution, arguably the state's best asset in Wisconsin after its natural resources.
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Elaine Davis has created a super versatile cut-apart alpha that comes in a ton of awesome colors! This set coordinates with the Illustrated Faith devotional kit "Doodles to Live By!" It features the same color palette & the same font used on the stamp set in the kit. This set includes 5 different alpha sheets in: Just Peachy, Hot Rose, Cherry Lollipop, Electric, & Raindrop Teal!


Paul McBride is one of Ireland's up and coming golfing stars, and in June 2018, he decided that it was time to join the professional ranks of the game. The 22 year old signed off on his amateur days ranked 41 st in the World Amateur Golf rankings.
Paul was selected to represent Great Britain and Ireland at the 2017 Walker Cup, following on from finishing runner-up in the individual standings at the 2017 European Team Championship, reaching the quarter finals of The Amateur Championship in 2017 and also finishing 3rd at the 2017 General Hackler Championship.
A very successful 2017 season on the collegiate circuit in America, saw Paul finish solo 2 nd at the Shoal Creek Intercollegiate, T2 at the ACC Men's Golf Championship (beaten in a play-off), solo 3 rd at the General Hackler Championship and T4 at the Irish Creek Collegiate.
Individual accolades for Paul in 2017 included earning Division 1 PING All-Region honours and being selected as the ACC Player of the Month in April. He was also the IGWA's 2017 Men's Amateur of the Year.
Whilst representing Wake Forest, Paul's best finishes in 2018 came at the ACC Men's Golf Championship, where he finished 4th individually and 3rd in the team standings.
Paul has enjoyed many team successes throughout his amateur career also, including representing Great Britain & Ireland at the 2017 Walker Cup, being a member of the winning 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Irish Home Internationals Team and finishing third at the 2016 Eisenhower Trophy with Ireland.
Paul made his professional debut on the Challenge Tour at the Hauts de France Open, followed by his European Tour debut at the BMW International Open and has been competing through invitations on both tours.
Paul is a huge GAA fan, and used to play hurling with Dublin before he fully committed to golf.


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Røen is a Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

John Røen (1903–1979), Norwegian cross-country skier
Sigurd Røen (1909–1992), Norwegian nordic skier

See also
Roen (surname)

Norwegian-language surnames


Inspired by the beauty of the steep Balinese rice fields, the hotel's architecture is blended artfully with its surrounding nature.
Each step of the structure has a unique function, be it a restaurant, Jacuzzi bar, or pool, and a rooftop offers epic views of the serene scenery. Earthy tones, lush plants and aquamarine water ensure a haven-like experience.