In recent days, I was assigned the task to implement a use case that I am sure many customers of Oracle have in mind but are not sure how to implement in OIM 11g. I even saw some thread inquiring about this very topic with no answer. Well, after some time I was able to put together an implementation of a Custom Approval process and a Custom UI based on ADF to request entitlements for users which in turn will be converted to Group memberships in OID (this also applies to any standard LDAP connector supported by OIM since the architecture is very similar for all of them). This article will be divided in 2 parts.
The WebService Data Control in the custom UI (ADF Web Application) inserts all the entitlements previously selected for this person into a Staging Table in Oracle Database.
Then an API call to UserManager service is issued to create the OIM user in OIM.
An Access Policy is evaluated against the recently created OIM user and an OID account is provisioned to the user.
If the entitlement doesn't require approval, the process task directly inserts the Child Record in the UD_OID_GRP child table, which in turn causes the connector to add the group in the target system (OID in this case).
If the entitlement requires approval, the process task creates a request to modify a provisioned resource using a pre-configured request template that has Template Level approval only (Request and Operation level approvals are configured with Auto-Approval flag on). The associated approval process is our custom composite, which will be described in detail later.
For entitlements that require approval, the BPEL process part of the custom approval process retrieves the Login ID of the Approver for the requested entitlement. Then it copies the value of the approver's login id into the task's owner (part of the input payload).
The Human Task picks the approver from the task owner and routes the request to the approver's queue.
The approver logs in to OIM and approves/rejects the request.
Even though the request type is MODIFYRESOURCE and the values for the child table attributes are submitted in the form, the child records are not inserted automatically after the request is approved. This has caused a lot of confusion for customers who have posted questions about how to accomplish this and no one had answered before. This is why one needs to implement the child record insertion logic and make it execute in the Approved block inside the BPEL process of the Custom Approval Process SOA composite. Later I will present such logic to you for reference.
Remember that Request Based Provisioning is not configured nor enabled out of the box in OIM 11g after connector installation. You need to import the Data Sets into MDS (This applies to any of the LDAP type connectors of OIM in 11g's world). I will provide the steps to accomplish this later in this post.
Make sure Auto Pre-populate and Auto Save form are enabled for all provisioning processes that are automatic (OID User and OID Group).
Java Process Task – The purpose of this task is to read the Staging table and for each entitlement assigned to the beneficiary user's login ID, either a request will be submitted for approval or a direct entitlement provisioning is performed immediately.
DB Adapter Web Service that retrieves the Approver Login ID for the requested Entitlement ID/Login ID combination.
JAX-WS Web Service that inserts the Entitlement as a group in the Child Table of OID User Resource.
Create Simulation HR Accounts that will be converted into OIM users.
Run the workflow to create OIM users and initiate the process of provisioning the LDAP OID Account and subsequently provisioning the corresponding entitlements as LDAP Groups.
Request Template for Entitlements – This component links the custom approval process with the request for entitlements. The configuration of this request template is described in detail later.
Approval Policy at Request Level – This Approval Policy is used to disable the out of the box Request Level approval that will send the request to the XELSYSADM user's queue. This policy is configured as auto approved.
Approval Policy at Operation Level – This Approval Policy is used to disable the out of the box Operation Level approval that will send the request to the XELSYSADM user's queue. This policy is also configured for auto approval.
This component is the one that does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating and submitting Modify Provisioned Resource Requests to OIM.
The figure shown next shows the method that obtains the entitlements for a given user and traverses the result set to submit requests for entitlements requiring approval or insert the records in OID User RO's child table which will trigger the addition of the user into the corresponding group on the target system.
Notice the method buildBeneficiaryData presented below. This is a very important method since it actually builds the main structure of the request before submitting it.
The RESOURCE constant has the value of "OID User".The RESOURCE_ATTR_NAME constant has the value of "Objects.Name". This is to work with OID User Resource Object, if you need to work with a different LDAP Server, replace the value of this constant with the name of your LDAP Server Associated Resource Object.
Configure this task to be a dependant of the Create User Task of the OID User Provisioning process. That will ensure that the task only executes when the OID User has been successfully provisioned. For details on how to accomplish this, please refer to the OIM documentation part of the Fusion Middleware 11g documentation set.
The invocation task labeled as callGetEntApprover. This Task gets the Login ID of the BeneficiaryDetails and the Entitlement ID taken from the ObjectDetails parts of the inputVariable's payload, which contains all the request data.
The invocation task labeled as call_addUserToLDAPGroup included in the block that is executed when the task gets approved. The Web Service takes two parameters:the login ID of the beneficiary and the entitlement ID of the requested entitlement. Both pieces of data come from the request data available in the inputVariable's payload.
Notice the value in the Scope of the policy: OID User. This is required for operation level Approval Policies. You have to select the Resource Object for which the Approval Process is defined. In my case it is the OID User but in other cases it could be iPlanet User, AD User, etc. The easiest way to do it is by Composite Name which is what I did for these two Approval Policies.


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A radio interview with the person who wrote this sentence, Part IV: Comfort and Joy and Dream Lover
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Here is a podcast/radio interview from my appearance on Morning Feed with Ed Feldman from October of 2011, when I was promoting the Medium Rare Cinema screenings of Dream Lover and Comfort and Joy. Like my other appearances on Morning Feed, the topics are wide ranging starting with Harry Dean Stanton and Death Watch and concluding 2 […]
In a movie filled with memorably bad dialogue, the one line that stands out in Megaforce, Hal Needham's highly expensive venture into homoerotic war movies, is the scene where Ace Hunter (played by Barry Bostwick with a headband and full body spandex) informs the villain Duke Guerera, played by Henry Silva, that he might as […]
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It's quite a bold move to try to explore mediocrity. Most of us never rise above it anyway. But if you have talent and you use it to look at those who can't get past the middle, it can be seen as condescending and/or gloating. That's why the context of mediocrity is so important; when […]
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It was then. That doesn't make it right. But that doesn't make it different either." – Comedian Greg Proops on why racist behavior in old movies shouldn't be excused, but it shouldn't make them worthless either. The above quote is a canny way to explain away dated material without condemning it for being what […]
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Here's a podcast with Ann Louise Bardach, journalist for The New York Times, Newsweek, Slate, etc., and the screenwriter of Dennis Hopper's Backtrack, the director's cut of which I reviewed here. Now Backtrack was an incredibly troubled production, sitting on the shelf for two years before being dumped by its bankrupt distributor in a cut […]
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Easy to use home automation is turning into the holy grail for tech-based companies. Big-time players like Apple and Google are diligently working to come up with the best solution.
Vivint, a Utah based security and home automation company, is also competing in this space. Recently, the company launched Vivint Sky. Vivint Sky uses dozens of sensors, in addition to a thermostat, which monitors and controls not just your heating and air conditioning system, but also your home's lighting, door locks, small appliances, video cameras, and security systems.
The SkyControl panel has a 7 inch touchscreen as well as a hard drive based DVR to store video clips recorded by the system's surveillance cameras. Users can watch live streams from those cameras or watch recorded video. The control panel can communicate with Vivint servers even if a burglar cuts the power to your home.
However, having the ability to control basic home functions and store video is not exactly revolutionary. Vivint Sky will track a homeowners' activity patterns, analyze all this data, and then send the customer suggestions as to how they can improve the home's security and energy efficiency.
Over time the system will come to recognize patterns of activity. Vivint has come up with algorithms which run on their servers and are consistently analyzing all data collected within in the home. This app promises nearly instantaneous updates to any change in your home. If a locked door is unlocked, the app updates instantly and can send you a notification.
The Vivint Sky home automation system is not included with regular Vivint home security plans. Consumers will have to pay additional fees in order to enjoy the benefits. Vivint Sky fees range from $53.99 to $69.00 a month with activation beginning at $99. Only new customers at this point can get the Vivint Sky home automation system.
Other parts can be purchased along with the Vivint Sky system. Equipment such as: sensors, key fobs, electronic door locks, cameras, lighting controls, and other components can be purchased separately.


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Resident Evil: Glossary of Good & Evil
"Conspirators in the shadows..."
Now in its twelfth year, the Resident Evil series has a lineage of chiselled heroes, ridiculously clichbad guys and enough viruses, monsters and high-level conspiracies to make Mulder and Scully scream in wide-eyed horror.
This glossary of good and evil will give you the lowdown on Resi 5's good guys, evil doers and the contagions that cause all the trouble in the first place - and perhaps a bit of backstory that you might have missed, too.
Chris Redfield: Former S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team leader turned BSAA agent, sent to Africa's Kijuju region to investigate reports of a growing Bioweapon threat. Haunted by flashbacks of the apparent death of his former partner, Jill Valentine, Chris will unwittingly stumble into the origins of Umbrella's entire research at the place it all began...
Sheva Alomar: Chris's new partner is a well trained, hard-as-nails Western Africa BSAA operative. Orphaned at a young age, she later discovered that her parents had been victims of Umbrella's B.O.W. research, and pledged her life to avoiding similar losses of life. In Resi 5, player two will be able to control Sheva, helping Chris with fully-integrated co-op gameplay.
Jill Valentine: Ex S.T.A.R.S. member Jill joined the BSAA with her partner Chris after the Mansion Incident, and fought bioterror outbreaks across the world. She was supposedly killed on a mission, which still haunts Redfield to this day. But is she really dead?
Kirk: Your aerial support at the outset of Resident Evil 5, Kirk shows up in his chopper to aid Sheva and Chris with handy rocket-propelled help at just the right time. What a guy.
BSAA: With the Umbrella Corporation dissolved, it wasn't long before their B.O.W, research slipped into terrorist hands. To combat the new biohazard threat, the United States government established the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance. With skilled personnel like Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar, advanced technology, and branches across the world, they are the best hope of avoiding another Raccoon City catastrophe.
S.T.A.R.S.: The Special Tactics And Rescue Service of Raccoon City's Police Department were the first on the scene when deaths were reported at the Spencer Mansion Estate in July 1998. Chris, Jill and Barry of Alpha Team, and Rebecca Chambers of Bravo team, survived, discovered Wesker's treachery, and went underground in a bid to bring down Umbrella.
Albert Wesker: Former Umbrella researcher, S.T.A.R.S. founder and the man who betrayed Chris and Jill during the Mansion Incident. Wesker injected himself with an experimental virus which allowed him to not only survive attack by a Tyrant, but resurrected him with super-powers. Now the series' omnipresent Machiavellian supervillain, aspiring to reform Umbrella in his own image.
Excella Gionne: A descendant of the Travis family which founded the TriCell Pharmaceutical Corporation, Excella was responsible for founding and installing TriCell's presence in West Africa. She can be seen in recent trailers handling both T-virus and Las Plagas samples, assisted by the beaked figure, and making romantic advances towards Wesker.
Irving: The BSAA's main contact regarding the rumoured viral outbreak in the Kijuju region. Finding him is the main objective at Resident Evil 5's outset - but this proves trickier than it sounds. Hordes of infected villagers, several B.O.W.s and a mysterious beaked figure stand between Chris and Sheva and their annoying, pipsqueak quarry.
Beaked Figure: This enigmatic, apparently female evil-doer wears a raven-beaked mask, long flowing grey cloak and high heeled boots, and can be seen turning a man into a writhing, snakelike B.O.W. in Resident Evil 5's opening cinematic. Seemingly Irving's personal protector, early trailers point to her also being a cohort of Excella Gionne.
Umbrella Inc.: Founded by Ozwell E. Spencer, James Marcus and Edward Ashford, Umbrella was a legitimate pharmaceutical company with a distinctly less legitimate sideline in bioweapon research. Their discovery of the Progenitor Virus eventually led to the T-Virus and G-Virus being created. Following the T-Virus outbreak in Raccoon City, the once-powerful Umbrella was dissolved and much of their research - both technological and B.O.W. related - fell into terrorist hands.
TriCell Pharmaceutical: Founded by the Travis family and now ran by their descendant, Excella Gionne. It would seem that TriCell were a rival to Umbrella, who have now acquired not only Umbrella's T-Virus, but the Las Plagas parasite which first emerged as the premier contagion in Resident Evil 4.
Progenitor Virus: The root of all evil, this Mother Virus is the basis for Umbrella's most successful bioweapons research, spawning the T- and G-Viruses amongst others. In Resident Evil 5, Chris and Sheva will unwittingly stumble upon the Progenitor Virus's point of origin.
T-Virus: Short for 'Tyrant Virus'. Created by mixing the Progenitor and Ebola Viruses with Leech DNA. the T-Virus is highly infectious, turning humans into zombies, and one in ten million people into a Tyrant. Spread through food, fluid and direct contact - including being bitten by infected. This virus turned Raccoon City into a nightmare after being carried by sewer rats into the water supply.
G-Virus: The G-Virus was created when William Birkin mixed the T-Virus and Umbrella's experimental NE-Alpha parasite. Unlike the T-Virus, it is not contagious - a host must be directly injected for it to take effect. The G-Virus causes rapid mutations which make for some of the more hideous monsters in the Resident Evil series.
T-Veronica Virus: Alexia Ashford's creation mixes the T-Virus with a virus secreted by the queen ant. It takes 15 years in cryostasis for a host's body to acclimatise to the virus, but the benefits are enormous power and mutagenic properties, while retaining the host's personality and intelligence (see left). Without the slow gestation, hosts mutate horribly, becoming a monster like that to the right - a Nosferatu; previously Alexia's father, Alexander.
Las Plagas: The Las Plagas are a breed of parasite, and the main contagion in Resident Evil 4. Plagas victims become stronger, highly immune to pain, and answer to the will of the master Plaga. Extreme mutations create grotesque monsters like El Gigante (right). In Resident Evil 5 it would appear that TriCell are experimenting by mixing T-Virus with Las Plagas to create new, even more terrible bioweapons.
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How 'The Voice' coaches got their start
jennifer valdez Posted on April 18, 2016
For the past 5 years, "The Voice" has provided upcoming artists with the opportunity to be discovered, hone their talent and potentially get that big break they've all been looking for. But the real backbone of the show is the coaches that train them. Every season, four world-renown singers dedicate themselves to coaching selected artists reach new heights in their artistry. The coaches train and critique the artists on their vocal performances. They work one-on-one with each artist and even bring in hand-selected superstars to advise their teams.
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Although all four coaches have made it big in the music industry, they did not receive the same level professional advice and mentorship they are now giving. In fact, some had quite the uphill battle before breaking into the entertainment world. Here's a look at how the Season 10 coaches of "The Voice" got their start in the music industry:
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BLAKE SHELTON (Season 1-10)
Blake Shelton was born in Ada, Oklahoma and had toured the bar circuit, gaining statewide recognition by the time he was 16. In high school he won the Denbo Diamond Award, the top award for young entertainers in Oklahoma. After high school, he moved to Nashville to pursue his singing career, where he started working for a music publishing company and, in 1997, he gained the support of Bobby Braddockwho helped him obtain a production contract with Sony Music.
In 2001, he signed to Giant Records and released his single, "I Wanna Talk About Me."However, the label considered the song unsuitable for a leadoff single and the song was later recorded by Toby Keith, whose version hit No. 1 as a single. Instead, Giant decided to release "Austin" as Shelton's debut single. Shortly after the release, Giant Records was closed and Shelton was transferred to Warner Bros. Records. "Austin" went on to spend five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
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ADAM LEVINE(Season 1-10)
Adam Levine was born in Los Angeles, California where he formed his first band, Kara's Flowers, while attending Brentwood School with fellow students Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick. The band was discovered by Tommy Allen in 1977 while performing at a Malibu beach party. Later that year, the band released its first album, "The Fourth World," as high school seniors. Kara's Flowers then released their single, "Soap Disco," which appeared on an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210." However, the young band found success to be a bit tenuous and decided to break up.
After high school, Levine and Carmichael moved Long Island, New York to attend Five Towns College, a music and performing arts school. Living in New York exposed the pair to an entirely new music scene, including large influences of R&B and hip-hop. Levine later expressed that living in New York had a large impact on his musical point-of-view.
In 2000, Levine and Carmichael dropped out of Five Towns to return to LA and reunite with their former band members, adding a new guitarist James Valentine. The band changed its name to Maroon 5 and released their debut album, "Songs About Jane," in 2002. After slowly climbing the charts, the album went platinum and Maroon 5 earned their first Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2004.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA (Season 1-3, 5, 8, 10)
Christina Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York where she developed a deep love of music and was locally known as "the little girl with the big voice." At an early age, Aguilera's big voice swept through a number of talent shows and local competitions, which caused spite from her schoolmates and even some parents. It got so bad that Aguilera's mother decided to home-school her. Despite the opposition, Aguilera continued to perform, and in 1990, she earned a spot on the national television program "Star Search." The 9-year-old prodigy won America over with her mesmerizing cover of Etta James' "A Sunday Kind of Love," and placed second in the competition.
In 1993, Aguilera landed a spot as a Mouseketeer on "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" with fellow castmates Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling and Keri Russell. The ambitious singer spent only two years on the program before moving to Japan with her mother, where she recorded her hit single "All I Wanna Do." In 1998, Aguilera was asked to sing "Reflection" for the Walt Disney film "Mulan," which peaked at No. 19 on the U.S.BillboardAdult Contemporary Chart.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS(Season 7-10)
Pharrell Williams was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he attended Princess Anne High School and always felt somewhat out of place until he met Chad Hugoat a summer band camp in seventh-grade. Williams played the keyboards and drums while Hugo played tenor saxophone. The pair began performing together and later included friends Shay Haleyand Mike Etheridge in their R&B group, the Neptunes. After performing in a school talent show, they were discovered by Teddy Riley, whose studio was right next to Princess Anne High School.
Upon graduation, the group signed with Riley, who asked them to contribute to "Rump Shaker" by Wreckx-N-Effect. Williams and Hugo later broke through as an acclaimed producing duo for rap artists such asJay-Z then branched out into pop music and worked with artists like Britney Spears and Usher.Williams also made vocal guest appearances on a few of the recorded albums. In 2003, he produced his first solo, "Frontin'." Williams, with the help of Hugo and Shae Haley, found more success with the rap-rock group N.E.R.D. (which stands for Nothing Ever Really Dies).
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I'm really sorry to hear that the phone line is still not working, and that the booked repul did not happen as planned on 11th January.
I've taken a look at this and can see that there is currently an open complaint raised on the account with regards to this issue.
I'm going to send you a private message so we can discuss things further.
I live on my own and have no telephone, yet I am being charged for that service, complaint not responded to, cable pull team did not show up and I lost an afternoons wage more upsetting was no telephone over christmas and the new year and despite my very best efforts to resolve this nothing has been done.
If this matter is not resolved by my next bill date I will consult in the martin Lewis forums on advice since I have made virgin media aware, and how to go about contacting the ombudsman service where you fail to respond in a timely fashion to a complaint you should offer a complaints reference number but sadly you do not all you promise is that its logged on our system, how very sad.
To anyone reading this I took this morning off work Thursday 31 January and lost another half days pay and sadly the works are still not completed.
the access point is not outside the bus stop as there is no cover there, please read my notes.
this has gone on now for too long.
Very sorry to hear this hasn't been resolved.


Join Pastor Robert, and other pastors/elders as they're available, for a relaxed and informal time to chat. It's great getting to know each other and chatting about a wide range of topics. Coffee and goodies will be served. Next meeting is March 7th from 7-8pm.


Katy Huff, Assistant Professor in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at Illinois, is the 2017 winner of the American Nuclear Society Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award.
Huff speaking at PyCon 2017. PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community that uses and develops the open-source Python programming language.
This is the third year in a row that NPRE faculty members have gained the national distinction. Clair Sullivan, who was with the department from 2012-2017, won two years ago. Zahra Mohaghegh, also an Assistant Professor in NPRE, won in 2016.
The award recognizes outstanding technical achievement by a woman in the nuclear industry, and Huff will be officially recognized October 30 at the ANS Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. A computational nuclear reactor physicist who joined NPRE in 2016, Huff has been cited for her tireless work to increase the adoption of modern, open source software development practices across the nuclear engineering community.
Huff has been instrumental in the work of the Software Carpentry Foundation, which holds workshops teaching best practice computational skills to researchers in science, engineering, medicine and related disciplines. In addition to leading in the organization of the workshops, Huff, co-wrote a book, Effective Computation in Physics, offering a long-form companion to the two-day workshop curriculum.
Huff has been extremely active in ANS since her student days, and was recognized with the 2016 Young Member Excellence Award for her involvement. She currently advises the ANS at Illinois student chapter. The student organization honored Huff earlier this year with the 2017 NPRE Teacher of the Year Award.
Huff earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 2008, and a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. Her PhD advisor, Paul Wilson, Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering, nominated Huff for the Oestmann Award.
Prior to joining NPRE, Huff worked as a postdoctoral scholar and data science fellow in the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California-Berkeley.


There's a pretty good reason why soda gets a bad rap these days. When the word soda is mentioned, our minds are often clouded by images of super-sweet drinks that pack on the pounds and make doctors wealthy. It's justifiably a dreadful feeling.
Commercial soda is bad for our health. Indeed, most commercial soda is loaded with sugar and other unhealthy sweeteners, including aspartame and high-fructose corn syrup. Most of it is full of carbs and calories, which are not only bad for your body but also your teeth.
But, what if we told you there's a flexible way to create your own sparkling drinks by controlling the flavor and fizziness to your personal level? It will definitely be music to your ears. And this is where the best sodastream comes into the picture.
There have been numerous iterations of soda making machines over the years, and sorting the best options suitable for your home or office needs can be quite a task. Luckily, we've scoured the internet and tested several top-rated models to bring you the best sodastream machine that will fit your needs and budget. In this soda stream reviews, we show you the top ten best soda makers that money can buy.
Without further ado, let's get straight to our soda maker reviews. Shall we?
SodaStream Fizzi MEGA KIT Sparkling Water Maker is the leading soda making machine on the market today. When you buy this model, you get a complete package that features numerous components including two 60-liter carbonators, two Fruit Drops 40-ml flavor syrups, and three 1-liter carbonating bottles. These impressive components will literally rock your taste buds! This model gives you the flexibility to spice up your drink with a choice of orange or lime flavor. Not only does it include those extra features, but it's also designed with snap-lock technology. This tech function helps you tap into sparling water in seconds. Thanks to its sleek and lightweight design, you can fit it in whichever decor you have in your kitchen. This sparkling water maker is itself tremendously easy to use and looks nice at your countertop. It's environmentally friendly, requires no batteries or outlets, and you can travel with it on the go. The two cylinders allow you to make up to 60 liters of Sparkling Water.
The volume of the liquid produced relies on your desired level of carbonation. The more the carbonation level, the less the volume of water you'll get. What's more appealing is that this device features an improved "buzz" sound, which typically comes with the Crystal and Jet versions.
Overall, SodaStream Fizzi MEGA KIT is powerful, energy-efficient and draws its power from the CO2 Cylinder. It is an excellent choice to buy, especially if you're a newbie to the whole bubbling thing. It's an amazing stuff comprising pretty much everything you need.
Would you wish to enjoy the freedom of making your own sparkling drinks in a matter of seconds? Well, the SodaStream Genesis Sparkling Water Maker could be your answer. The Genesis model comes with refined mechanics and is powered by a reusable CO2 cylinder, which enables you to convert your tap water into customized sparkling drinks in a jiffy.
The kit comes with Genesis Sparkling Water Maker, Mini CO2 Carbonator, 60-liter mail-in rebate, and one liter BPA-Free & Reusable Carbonating Bottle. Note that the Mini CO2 Carbonator can make no less than 9 liters of sparkling water.
This item comes in sleek and lightweight design featuring Twist-lock technology. So, it brings its sleek and slender elegance into your kitchen. It doesn't need batteries or electricity and you can make your sparkling drinks in no time. All you have to do is twist in the bottle and press the button to carbonate.
It can transform your water into carbonated beverages customized to your specific taste. Again, this unit is great for our Mother Nature. The CO2 cylinder, which you can buy separately, is not only refillable but also environmentally friendly.
Each cylinder generates more than 60 one-liter bottles, making it easy to produce your unique fizzy and sparkling drinks at home. You can either consume your sparkling drinks right from the bottle, or transfer it into glasses to share with your family and friends.
The SodaStream Crystal Sparkling Water Maker is another excellent model that is eco-friendly and can produce quality carbonated water. This is a manual pump machine, which doesn't need batteries or even electricity. Rather than using a cumbersome lever, it includes an easy-to-press carbonation button.
This model produces a "buzz" sound to indicate the level of carbonation when preparing sparkling water, soda, or energy drink. The sound may vary depending on the flavor mixes you added after the carbonated water is produced.
One of the best features included in the SodaStream Crystal mode is the glass carafe, which comes in handy when mixing and serving. This carafe is simple to clean, dishwasher safe, and more environmentally friendly than plastic bottle alternatives. Again, the Crystal starter kit features the standard CO2 carbonator.
This high-end stainless steel soda maker is sleek, and is designed for use with either glass bottles or a carafe. The setup is not only gorgeous, but the included carafe is long-lasting and friendly to the eco-system. It's one of the best soda makers currently available.
SodaStream Source Sparkling Water Maker Starter Kit is a popular model that has been one of the brand's mainstream offerings for some time now. This starter kit is your go-to option, more so if you're just getting into producing carbonated drinks at home.
The unit comes with a lightweight and portable Source Sparkling Water Maker Machine. The machine is so lightweight and portable that you can pack with you on a vacation or a camping trip. You don't need the batteries or electricity to power it, so you can imagine the convenience you'll have on your trip.
This is one of the few models with an integrated LED indicator. The LED indicator helps you monitor the level of carbonation produced with each manual pump. Using this device is a downhill task, and there's a video guide to help you.
What's more, the Source kit comes with several add-ons including a CO2 Carbonator as well as a 1-liter carbonating bottle. The former can produce up to 9 liters of sparkling water. The model is compatible with the 60-liter carbonator, plus there's an included mail-in rebate.
The SodaStream Jet Sparling Water Maker Starter Kit is another great model from the leading sparkling water brands globally. You get the freedom to adjust the volume you need, simply because the included fountain jet is compatible with bigger tanks like 130-liter CO2 tank. You can produce sufficient drinks for a whole gang of guests.
Obviously, you would wish to pop into your kitchen once, only having to leave your guests occasionally. In actuality, no one would wish to endlessly prepare fizzy drinks with the smaller tanks of about 60 liters. Well, if that's the case, you are in luck.
The JET is currently the only sparkling water that can seamlessly match with the 130-liter cylinder. You will be pleased to know that your product includes plentiful features like a Jet Sparkling Water Maker, a 1-liter BPA-free recyclable carbonating bottle, a Mini CO2 Carbonator, and a 60-liter mail-in rebate. Your Mini CO2 Carbonator can make up to 9 liters of sparkling water.
The soda making device comes in a lightweight and sleek design. It's a product of the future, which does not require either electricity or batteries. The Jet allows you to produce fizzy drinks in less than 30 seconds, literally. You can entertain your visitors while making water-drinking a fun venture.
The SodaStream Fountain Jet Soda Maker Starter Kit is a sleek soda maker, which is ideal for anyone who enjoys making sparkling water at home. This model has been around for more than 15 years and is still a favorite due to its intuitive design. To make carbonated water, you simply pop in the CO2 canister and push the button until a buzz sound emerges.
This Fountain Jet Starter Kit gives you all you need to turn your tap water into sparkling water – all in just 30 seconds. The unit, which is available in black or silver, includes one CO2 canister that can produce up to 60 liters of sparkling water. Since it requires no batteries or electricity, you can use it anywhere you want – in your kitchen, on your RV or boat, or even outdoors on your deck or patio.
Apart from producing fizzy water, the product offers up to 25 regular diet, energy as well as caffeine-free flavors of syrup (available separately). You can make more than 12 liters of soda (equivalent to 33 cans) with each 500-ml soda mix bottle. The diet soda mixes do not contain aspartame, while the regular soda mixes are free from high fructose corn syrup.
SodaStream Power Automatic Sparkling Water Maker is a useful appliance that converts your tap water into sparkling water at the press of a button. It enables you to carbonate water, add your desired flavor and enjoy quality drinks at home. The box contains a Power Black Sparkling Water Maker, a 60-liter CO2 Cylinder, and a 1-liter carbonating bottle.
This SodaStream model comes with the LED light carbonation indicator, which allows you to switch between levels in a convenient way. With it, no more storing plastic and lugging heavy bottles in your house. The included 60-liter CO2 aluminum gas carbonator can produce up to 60 liters of glistening water.
What's more, this machine gives you the best value for your hard-earned money. This Sparkling Water Maker is simple, smart, and offers a cost-effective way of making sparkling water at home. So, if you've been looking for a cost-efficient way to make sparkling water for your family and guests, rest assured this machine will never disappoint.
Drinkmate Beverage Carbonation Maker with 3oz Test Cylinder is the only carbonation system in the world that allows you to carbonate just about anything. Whether it is lemonade, apple cider, flat beer, tea, wine or cocktails, Drinkmate does it all. It is one of those soda makers that will give you ultimate freedom to accomplish whatever you have in mind.
What's more interesting is that this model a smaller foot print, which means it occupies very little space in your kitchen. It is easy to use, easy to clean, with no batteries or electricity required. The quick connect bottle is not only BPA-free but has a volume mark line for monitoring carbonation level.
The unit incorporates the patented Fizz-Infuser, which gives you maximum control over the level of carbonation you want. This tech function also offers ultimate control over the release of CO2 gas, giving you excellent carbonation for your drink.
Although this model will need you to go through a few more steps to carbonate your beverages, the fact is that it gives you more control over the release of CO2. Also, the device is suitable for use with 3 oz. and 14.5 oz. or 60-liter CO2 cartridges. For that reason, you will get all the convenience you've ever wanted.
The KitchenAid KSS1121ER Sparkling Beverage Maker is your ideal soda maker, especially if you need a durable and stylish soda maker and have a little extra to spend. This product comes from a partnership between KitchenAid and SodaStream. It's engineered, designed and assembled in Greenville, Ohio.
This Sparkling Beverage Maker is powered by SodaStream, and is extremely simple to operate. All you need to do is fill the bottle with tap water, then fizz up to your preferred carbonation level using the carbonation lever. Next, add your desired flavor and enjoy your carbonated water.
The unit features the same mechanics as SodaStream's other models, including over 60 seamless flavors. What sets it apart from other soda makers is a premium die-cast metal housing, which makes it compatible with other appliances from KitchenAid. This is an all-metal design, which is also simple to clean.
This Sparkling Beverage Maker includes several elements such as a 1-liter reusable bottle, 60-liter CO2 tank, and a one-year hassle-free replacement warranty. Apart from the Empire Red, there are other colors including White, Onyx Black, and Contour Silver.
This product is highly recommended due to its heavy-duty construction and chic design. It features carbonation lever with an extremely soft grip handle. The soft grip handle has four settings, giving you the convenience to add proper amount of fizz to your beverage.
The SodaStream Revolution Starter Kit model ends our list of the best and cheap soda maker models this year. When it comes to superficial looks, this model appears to stand out from the crowd. It is sleeker than many other soda makers in existence today.
The entire machine mirrors a fountain soft drink maker that is normally found at fast food restaurants. That doesn't mean it is unsightly, not at all. It sports nickel accents as well as the black casing that fits in nicely.
The full package comprises numerous components like those available in many SodaStream products. There is a recyclable carbonating bottle and a 60-liter refillable carbonator. The setup is also easier than expected.
The carbonating bottle needs no screwing; simply push it in its place. Once it's in press a button to produce your carbonated water. No manual pumping needed here, so it's tremendously simple to operate. All you need to do is push a button and the bottle gets filled to the desired level of carbonation.
1. Can you refill SodaStream cylinders?
Yes. You can swap empty CO2 canisters at any local store. Refilling is cheaper than buying new and its functions correctly.
2. How long does 60l SodaStream last?
A 60-liter SodaStream cylinder can make an average of 60 bottles of sparkling water. So, it will last for 8-9 weeks if you produce one bottle a day.
3. How long do sodastream bottles last?
Consumable packages from SodaStream are entirely recyclable and can be put to use even after they have outlived their useful lives. Carbonating bottles can be recycled up to 3 years before the replacement is required.
4. Why do SodaStream bottles expire?
SodaStream bottles can be made from either glass or plastic material, albeit most are made from plastic. These bottles are continuously under pressure, so replacing them after 18 months to three years is necessary. No need to worry because each bottle has an expiry date label.
5. Sodastream how many pumps?
Normally, only 3 pumps are needed to produce an average of one liter bottle. Only 2 pumps are sufficient if you're producing a little less than one liter.
6. How many liters does SodaStream co2 make?
If used as per the provided guidelines, one cartridge can produce as much as 60 liters of carbonated water.
7. How do I clean my Sparkling Water Maker?
Cleaning a sparkling water maker requires lukewarm water and a soft, damp cloth. It's recommended to use a non-abrasive cleaner. Always remember to detach the soda carbonator before cleaning.
8. Can I re-fizz a drink that has gone flat?
Yes. It's entirely possible. Simply drop a single raisin into the bottle to bring back the sparkle.
9. How do I know if my CO2 cylinder is empty?
When there's liquid CO2 in the tank, the gauge will indicate 1000 PSI. When the volume of CO2 liquid in the tank drops to the point only CO2 gas is remaining, the PSI gauge indicates a lower pressure. Also, you won't hear the buzzing sound even after repeatedly pressing the carbonating button.
10. How can I tell if there is enough fizz in my water?
The term "enough" is a very subjective one. The benefit of a sparkling water maker is that you have complete control over the level of fizz in your drinks. So, it all boils down to your preference.
It is pretty easy to clean sodastream bottle. But you have to see first what kinds of bottle you get with your sodastream. Most of sodastream model give us one or two bottle. The great things is the bottles are reusable. So it is hassle-free. But you have to clean the sodastream bottle regularly. It is so very simple.
SodaStream is a leading brand that manufactures small appliances for making sodas, sparkling waters, bubbly cocktails, or seltzers in an eco-friendly way and from the comfort of your home.
The company produces the SodaStream drinks maker, which is a device used to force CO2 gas into water to make it a fizzy drink. Typically, a complete product is comprised of the machine itself, a reusable beverage bottle(s), and the CO2 cylinder.
SodaStream has managed to put a twist on how we get the delicious fizz of soda without putting a strain on your wallet. It also cuts down the amount of packaging waste from store-sourced drinks. If you read various soda maker reviews, you'll realize that home soda machines have been around for some time now, but SodaStream is the pioneer brand.
The current market presents some of the best soda makers, including sparkling water makers and soda siphons for dispensing carbonated water to craft a fizzy beverage. It should be clearly noted that SodaStream was the first company to produce home soda making appliances.
How sodastream save your money? It is a little interesting. Most of people spent much money behind to take soft drink. If we calculate this amount, it will be a big amount at the end of the month.
SodaStream drink makers work in pretty much the same way as soda guns in restaurants. First, it carbonates water, and then mixes concentrated syrup to give the required flavor. SodaStreams are guaranteed to work with water, but some folks end up hacking these devices to carbonate other beverages.
To use the device, pour your boring tap water into the system and it will turn it into sparkling water in thirty seconds. You can choose from a selection of up to 60 flavored syrups in the water depot, and create your delicious flavored soda. These flavors comprise diet and regular combinations of lemon-lime, cola, red berry mix, exotic fruit flavors, pink grapefruit, ice tea, energy drinks, cocktail mixers, and much more.
Worth nothing, SodaStream entails 60% less sugar compared to a regular soda. Generally, there are two things to put in mind when making your sparkling water. That is: the sugar content and density or thickness of your liquid.
Most of the several soda maker has one or two reusable 1L bottle. We know plastic bottle and cans are harmful for our environment. The reusable bottle helps us to decrease plastic bottle and can.
SodaStream is a good system that gives you the freedom to make your own bubbly drinks depending on your requirements. Using sodastream is pretty easier than you probably think, and you can make your sparkling drinks in seconds. Each Sparkling Water Maker includes a plastic BPA-Free carbonating bottle.
Pour cold water into a bottle or jug and store it in a refrigerator for a couple of days. You will need to do this only if the temperature of water is slightly more than room temperature. Otherwise, this step is optional.
Screw your jug tightly onto the system.
Push the carbonating button on top of the machine several times until you get the right carbonation amount. You will hear a buzz when the bottle begins to fill with carbonation. Give a break in between the pushes.
Press the black button located on top of the system backwards from the edge of the system. Push it hard but gentle and firm.
Take off or unscrew your bottle from the machine. Doing this creates the fizziness of the drink water.
Lastly, shake the bottle to thoroughly mix the water and the soda filling. Enjoy it right from the bottle or share it into glasses to serve.
How to clean sodastream bottle?
There's no doubt that carbonating machines are genius. Forget the flavors, these devices provide delicious sparkling water to entertain your family and guests. Whether you want to just stay hydrated at work or you are a sober driver on the road, bubbly water gives you a fancy feel.
But, there's probably one annoying thing about these bottles – they are not dishwasher safe. It's not fun to wash up these bottles, and the flipside is that you don't want to drink from a bottle filled with sugar residue at the bottom. These bottles need proper cleaning on a regular basis.
It's important to clean a bottle of sodastream as soon you've finished your drink. A near empty bottle is highly likely to dry out inside and become harder to clean. So, clean the bottle right away if you have time.
Your sodastream bottle and lid are now clean, but there are soap suds covering them. Soap suds can affect the fizz power on your next batch of carbonated drinks. So, rinse it carefully using hot water.
Now, there you go. Your bottle and lid are now clean and awaiting your next use. Cleaning your bottle regularly can significantly prolong its durability or lifespan.
Standard sodastream bottles require replacement every three years. For those why may not know how old their bottle is, simply check your bottle and you will see a "do not use after" date mark on it.
It's not clear why these bottles do not exceed three years, but perhaps it's because they've only been tested for safety beyond three years. SodaStream is willing to guarantee these bottles for a maximum of three years as of now.
Before you go for your replacement bottles, ensure that your CO2 bottle has no more carbonation left. This is indicated by lack of visible bubbles when the bottle is filled with cold water. You can get your replacement CO2 bottle at various stores worldwide. The cost can vary but is relatively inexpensive.
We have finally come to the conclusion of this sodastream reviews. Hopefully, this review will come in handy when choosing the best soda maker model for your home or office needs. We tested all products reviewed above and we can guarantee that they are going to satisfy your taste buds. Have a blast!
Hi Kathy thanks for your a long review. Really it is a very informative content. From few days I am looking for a good sodastream. After read your review I get a sort list to choose my sparkling water maker. I was in a little confusion to choose sodastream. Can you please tell me which machine of them will be best for me?
Your are most welcome. Thanks for your opinion. You can try here Sodastream Fizzi or Sodastream Source sparkling water maker.
Last week I buy SodaStream Crystal Sparkling water maker. After buy this, I notice the bottle capacity is only 0.6 liter. But I want to make more sparkling water in once time. 0.6 liter sparkling water is very little for me. So I want to increase the volume. Can I use large bottle here to increase the capacity of sparkling water?
I use sodastream machine in my office for sparkling water. But I don't the approximate time of sodastream carbonator how long does it last? Sometime I confused about this. Few days ago I make 1 liter sparkling water. But within few hours it turn into like normal water. Can you please tell me how does it last?
From this list SodaStream Fizzi is my favorite machine. Last year I use KitchenAid but I didn't get enough comfort. After use this one year I order Sodastream Fizzi. By the way, to read your post I choice another soda maker for my home its Sodastream source. I like this soma machine so much. It is in my second list of my buying.
Hi Emma, thanks for your opinion. Yes, Sodastream Source is really a good soda machine. I also use this in my home. Hope you feel comfort to use this. Thank you.
I read your whole review. And hope you list here top product of the market. I choose my best product from this list but my budget is limit. Actually I am looking for check sodastream. I already choose some sodastream in cheap price. But the quality is not good. Can you please suggest a soda maker in cheap rate?
I am really think about BPA free carbonate bottle. With all soda maker machine they provide a bottle. But I am a little confused about that are those carbonator bottle are BPA free. Some of them say those are BPA free. But I don't get enough information about this.
Hi Morgan, don't so worry about this. Most of the manufacturer provide BPA free carbonate bottle with soda maker machine. In this post I write review on some sodastream machine. Those bottles are BPA free. You can try those carbonate bottle for ensure. Thank you.
I use SodaStream Jet in my home. But I am facing a little problem with sodastream bottle. After use few days it's dusty. But I want to use this bottle until expiration. So I am to clean the bottle for reuse. But I don't find any proper source to do this.
Can I use my favorite flavor in sparkling water? I get a six pack sodastream flavor with my machine. I mix those with my sparkling water and finish those. Now I want to mix my favorite flavor. So many different sodastream flavors are available in market.
Hi Brianna, thanks for your query. Yes, you can add your favorite sodastream flavor in sparkling water.
Thanks for awesome sharing. I used several sodastream model. But I didn't get good result. They didn't give me good sparkling water. So I am looking for real customer review. At last today, I get your post and get enough knowledge on soda maker. I really appreciate it. Thanks again for your sharing.
Hi Ellen thanks for your opinion. I really appreciate this. If you need to know any query feel free to ask. Thank you.
I use Sodastream Power water maker. When I bought the soda maker I get a 60L CO2 cylinder bottle. I want to reuse this. The seller tell me that the carbonator is reusable. But I don't know from where have to refill the carbonator bottle. It will be easy for me if the refill place is near me.
SodaStream Power Water Maker is a useful machine. I also use this machine. It is my favorite in my list. You can refill the CO2 cylinder bottle from any family store.


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BottleRock Drops Its 2023 Lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and More
The tenth anniversary BottleRock lineup and dates were just announced, with tickets going on sale Tuesday for a jam-packed roster of artists that includes Lil Nas X, Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
East Bay Second-Graders Who Covered Lizzo Song Get to Meet Singer In Person
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East Bay Second-Graders' Rewrite Of Lizzo Song Featured on 'Good Morning America'
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Q: How to add support for LFS (or alternative) in Gitolite? We have two projects which have to store huge blobs and I would like to add support for LFS (or an alternative) in my Gitolite server.
I have found two projects on github which allow for that:
https://github.com/HimaJyun/gitolite-lfs/tree/master/docs/Apache
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https://github.com/ddanier/gitolite-git-lfs
Both of the projects are not supported anymore by the authors.
I've tried searching for some other ways but I have found none, maybe I'm just not searching right.

A: (I know this is from almost a year ago, but I'm answering anyway).
I personally use git-fat with gitolite all the time. There's nothing special that you have to do to get it working with gitolite, but you do need to have somewhere, e.g. a vps, to which the files need to be rsynced (see the readme in the Github site). A closely related alternative to git-fat is git-jam. The readme of on its Github page provides details of use with gitolite.

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Just 31% of the Australian women surveyed said they were confident they earned at least the same salary as a man doing the same job.
Millennials, a growing group in the labour market, operate in an open-access culture where they are comfortable providing personal information on the internet, via social media networks. Head hunters share market pay information in order to encourage employees to change jobs. Organisations need some people to have access to pay information in order to ensure employees are paid the correct amounts. Secrets can be an invitation to hackers and disgruntled employees to release pay information.


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Cycling in the Valdichiana
Cycling from Ponti d'Arezzo to the Chiusa dei Monaci along the Canale Maestro
This journey runs along the Canale Maestro and passes through the orchards and vineyards in Civitella in Val di Chiana. The route is a unique opportunity to see the buildings erected in the 19th century for channelling water from the smaller canals into the Canale Maestro, literally main canal.
Shortly before the 56-km mark, you'll pass Ponti d'Arezzo. The modern, concrete structure that you can see today actually has a history that dates back many centuries: in the 14th century, the Siena-Arezzo road crossed the Chiana marsh over five small bridges, which were later transformed into a two-arch bridge, gaining six more arches in 1589. Sluices gates were applied to all of them in order to regulate the flow of the flood waters and to prevent the Chiana from merging with the Arno. A new brick and iron bridge was built in the 1800s after the Canale Maestro was widened and deepened. Bombed during the war, the hydraulic system was rebuilt in the reinforced concrete version we see today, making it the 5th bridge in its long history!
Chiusa dei Monaci in Arezzo - Credit: Enrico Caracciolo
Along the next part of the route, in the direction of Arezzo, there's a mix of traffic passing close to the Ponte alla Nave, which was described in one of Leonardo da Vinci's maps way back in 1502, when it was already an important structure on the road connecting the Valdarno and the Valdichiana. Near the Ponte alla Nave, the path is flanked by the Magazzino del Grano, built by the Order of the Knights of St. Stephen. This is where the Grand Duke's army stored their agricultural products before it was sent to the market in Florence.
After about 60 km, the journey will start to wrap up as you come across one of the greatest and most impressive hydraulic structures in the area, the Chiusa dei Monaci. This water gate existed as early as 1115 and belonged to the monks at the Abbey of Sante Flora e Lucilla until 1797. The Chiana waters drove the mill where the monks made flour. Only much later was it supplied with sluice gates to regulate the water flow, and the current version has been there since 1839, based on a design by the engineer Alessandro Manchi.
This is where we end our journey. Arezzo is only 6 km away, so you can head on to the city or continue following the Canale della Chiana, which flows all the way to the Arno River. Here, you can also admire the Romanesque Ponte a Buriano, which is most likely the bridge seen behind the Mona Lisa in da Vinci's great masterpiece.
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Cycling is the best way to delve deep into the soul of a territory. It allows you to reach the most beautiful places by taking the less-travelled


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In this part of the workshop, students will learn the basic commands to create statistical plots, understand the grammar of graphics behind ggplot, and master how to create more sophisticated data visualizations through hands-on exercises on real data sets.
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2018 saw an overwhelming rise in awareness of the very real threat human behaviour poses to our environment. Images of our plastic-filled oceans inspired millions to change the way we use and reuse, as world leaders vowed to make a difference.
In pursuit of our own implementation of environmentally sustainable business practices, we are delighted to welcome Pen Hadow, Time Magazine's "Hero of the Environment", to our London office on 27 March 2019.
As the only explorer to have trekked solo from Canada to the North Pole and a leader of scientific research missions, Pen has seen the impact climate change is having on the arctic sea ice. As well as sharing his fascinating experiences with us, we will consider together how we as individuals, and as businesses, can begin to tackle the unprecedented risks of rising global temperatures.


*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog "Here Comes Baby One" on January 18, 2012. I'm republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me!
How far along? 22 Weeks!
Total weight gain/loss: 8 lbs.. ouch!
Sleep: getting better but I wake up at random times in the night and baby always kicks my belly a lot before bed which makes it hard to fall asleep. I do get woken up my charlie horses too which are SO painful.
Best moment this week: shower invites are ordered and I can't wait for my shower that family is throwing!
Movement: He's a dancer for sure!
Symptoms: HORRIBLE charlie horses in my calves that wake me up in the middle of the night.. have had them over and over for the past few weeks, uncomfortable breathing and uncomfortable stomach pains.


WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now. That WebWorkerDaily article surely is a good read providing lots of insightful thoughts on what are some of the pros and cons of such a bold move. Well, here's my take: keep them! Turn comments on. They are worth it. And here is why.
As most of you folks know already, I have been blogging for nearly five years externally, and for seven years internally, and even today I still think comments on blog posts are essential to the overall experience of blogging. I have always been thinking that a blog without comments is just another Web site. There is no interaction. No dialogue. No conversation. No reaction. No nothing. You just basically consume the content… and move on. Just like you would do with a regular (1.0) Web site.
However, think for a minute, the kind of impact you would be provoking if you open up for comments in your blog. You are opening your front door for other knowledge workers interested about what you may have got to say to share their ¢2 with you. To help improve the original ideas through conversation, through open dialogue, through constructive feedback; with as little barriers of engagement as possible. Yet, the outcome being tremendously much more powerful, since a good bunch of those comments are bound to improve the original blog entry. Beyond measure!
Who wouldn't want to have that? Who wouldn't want to open up the door towards a more open, and rampant!, innovation by brainstorming online in some really good ideas that may have been coming afloat during that fruitful exchange? Here is an example: check out this really inspiring blog post put together by my good friend, the always insightful and KM extraordinaire , Jack Vinson, under the title "Helping the Experts and Stopping the Email Chatter". Over there you can see how over the last couple of days we have been having a rather interesting discussion on sharing your knowledge, collaborating and re-finding the content shared. Specially when talking about experts engaging in Q&A sessions.
And best part of it, which is why I am still so fond of blogs, is the opportunity to keep the conversation going forever or to come back and re-pick it up again where it was left off and continue further as if nothing happened. Yes, you may not have comments to your blog posts just yet, or you may have a few them but because of whatever the circumstance you may not have had a chance to respond back, but that's the beauty of it all: the door is still open for you to leave comments, whenever you would want to, or whenever you feel ready for it.
That's why I am enjoying quite a bit that soft transformation of the new @elsua into a new blogging style, because while I was readying to embark into it I have also decided to do something I have been neglecting for a while now: taking an extra minute and enjoying, once again, the little pleasures of leaving comments behind the already existing ones that folks may have left behind the original blog entry I shared.
That's what commenting on blogs would do for me; that's the kind of value they bring into my thinking and know-how; that's why I treasure them much more than the original ideas shared across. More than anything, because they will always improve the overall quality of the original thought behind that post. Oh, and that's why I am not so keen either on having a very popular blog. I want to enjoy that drink as it fully deserves. Time and time again!
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Comments? Yes! If my blog didn't get comments I would stop blogging.
There are two worlds out there: A world where blog comments are respectful and constructive, and they enhance the value of the blog. And the other world, were comments are often (sometimes unintentionally) abusive and often irrelevant.
I'm regularly impressed by how well comments work within the community of Lotus Bloggers.
This spirit of two way communications is hugely valuable.
I think the tone was set by an early expectation that people making comments would use their real names: or at least give verifiable contact details to the blogger. That engendered a culture of respect that is absent in the blogs of newspapers, magazines and many blogs or discussion forums aimed at special interests.
Hi Anthony! Thanks a bunch for the feedback comments and for dropping by! I think you bring in a very very good point as to splitting up the different levels of commenting and engagement there are out there.
I have been blogging for nearly 7 years now and all along I decided to help facilitate the kinds of conversations you described above in the first case scenario; being capable of putting a name, and perhaps a face, behind a comment makes it even so much more authentic and relevant to the real thing: face to face conversations.
That's why all along those are the comments I care about and participate quite gladly. They are the essence of social software interactions and a clear sign that blogging is healthy. No need to get hundreds, nor thousands, of them, but surely a couple of them here and there are the right step forward.
Good point, Tony. Even if I don't always get comments, if I didn't think I had people reading and _potentially_ commenting back (or writing on their own blogs – boy I wished Trackback worked properly), then I would have much less motivation to write.
Those are some interesting thoughts, Jack, adding further up to what Tony also mentioned, but here is a question that's been in my mind for a while now… I usually don't post entries with the aim of getting comments, even if I don't!, but I eventually share those posts more as my Personal Knowledge Management strategy; therefore my blog becomes my default PKM (Or Personal Knowledge Sharing) system.
Would I be looking for comments with that flavour for the posts I would regularly share? Somehow I feel that need may not be that much of a need anymore… Thoughts?
I see two main reasons for comments. One is for the blogger to learn. I make no secret of the fact that I started my blog in the hope that I would learn about what other people in my position are doing. It's completely selfish.
The other reason to allow comments is so that your followers can communicate with each other. Knowledge improves through discussion.
Those are some really really good points, Tony! And funny enough it all comes back to the beginnings of Web 2.0: me, me, me … but with a social context of wanting to learning more engaging with others are part of that knowledge exchange, rather between you and your audience or the audience amongst themselves.
Agree that comments are important … BUT, I tend to comment on other people's blogs way more than I expect comments on my own – in no small part due to the fact that I never started blogging for others; I started blogging for me; the comments were a nice addition, but lack of them isn't a problem.
I know, however, that I'm unusual in that – hence tending to comment on a fair proportion of what I read – as I know most bloggers blog for an audience. So I like to let them know I was there!
Thanks for bringing that point, Emma, and for dropping by letting us know "you are here!" 😀 I agree, that's, in part, how I think about blogging myself all along; if I were just blogging for an audience, I would have abandoned it already a few years back! I still do it every so often as my own Personal Knowledge Management / Sharing system where I can dump thoughts I would want to come back to at some point in the near future.
If folks comment on those blog posts all the better; it adds further up into my original thinking, but if not, it's ok. I will be developing that thought at a later time and if folks comment then that's fine. If not, I will keep maturing that thought even some more.
Luis, I guess there are other parts of the equation too, one of the most important is the style/size of the audiences you reach. Just imagine hundreds of comments to any of your blogposts made – would it be the same? Like if you write a post on losing weight (or something that everyone has an opinion about :), it pick-uped by the media and now all kinds of random people are coming to comment. It's one story if you enjoy that, but if you don't have time to participate on that scale and don't care about offering others a space to talk between themselves, why keeping the comments open?
In my PhD I distinguish between uses of a weblog for publishing, conversations with self (~inward focused part of PKM) and conversations with others. If publishing (and reaching audiences as big as possible) is your main interest than comments are not necessary. Conversations, especially those with others, are totally different story – in those cases comments are essential.
Hi Lilia! Great commentary and very thought provoking, indeed! I am wondering though, why would I want to close off comments on a blog for that kind of publishing of getting hundreds of comments if I can let (Or even better, facilitate) multiple conversations to happen. Yes, I am not involved in them myself, for sure, but doesn't mean that other folks may be interested in them and accordingly keep up with them.
I am sure you must have seen how different blog posts get "hijacked" by an audience engaging in those conversations without you having much more to add, or perhaps nothing at all due to time constraints. I think in that context having comments enable is still a good thing to do; it's part of the conversation.
I think the challenge would be to set up the right level of expectations with your readers as to how you would best engage in those conversations yourself, i.e. commenting on each and everyone of those comments or only on the ones you feel most compelled to comment on.
One thing I know for sure, specially after the three years I have been involved with micro-sharing/-blogging is that I don't need, nor want, to be a bottleneck for those conversations; or to close them off altogether; better let them be and see where the conversation flow.
Agree with you that things would not be the same anymore. It's like a "private" conversation amongst just a few going crazy into the hundreds / thousands, but still a conversation, don't you think?


I think the primary virtue of push is the way it releases content providers from the merciless ad-tracking capabilities of pull media.
Content providers working in traditional media all benefit from the vagaries of their respective ad-measuring systems: because there's no way to absolutely track how many of a magazine's million readers actually look at a given ad, the mag gets ad revenue for each one of those readers.
In a pull media environment, that benefit is (potentially) eliminated: You can tell an advertiser you have an audience of 100,000, but what if only 80,000 show up on the day that that advertiser's ad runs, or only 40,000 visit the page on which that advertiser's banner resides? For a while this seemed like a benefit to content providers as well as advertisers, because it gave them a reason to tell advertisers to spend their money on the web rather than on other media. But the implication of this benefit is that you should only pay for actual ad-views, and that's a less-than-compelling development from the content provider's perspective.
So, push media to the rescue. It restores "full use" of your audience - if they sign up once, they become a reader/viewer every time you've got something to publish. Now, just like with TV or print, no one really knows if anyone who's getting "pushed" is actually absorbing the pushed content. I could go on vacation, leave PointCast running on my desktop the whole time, and to them I am just as valid a subscriber as someone who's actually viewing their information; the important thing is that a transaction has been recorded - I am a viewer to whom information was sent. And thus, I have been leveraged for my full ad-revenue value.
In this respect, push seems like a real triumph to me, and if I ever create media where advertising plays a role, I will most definitely implement a push component.
G. Beato is a San Francisco-based freelance writer. His latest project is soundbitten.


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Q: solution for get maximum date from jqx widgets grid how to select max date from jqx widgets grid
Date
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Just some wildflowers for today.
If you are married, then you will be able to relate to at least a few of these tweets.
The Week in Photos , some are wonderful, some are hard to see.
Mr. Fallon does it again, giving us a few laughs about weird families.
Leaving you with a Mumford and Sons gem.
Linking up with Tanya today.
...pretty fleabane, this tweeting stuff ain't for me...just look at who does it, too many of them are disturbing, who isn't weird in one way or another, let hope that it is someday!
I love wildflowers, it's one of life's perks. I stopped watching Fallon, but I try to catch Seth Meyers if I'm awake.
Sweet photo catch of the Prince and Princess . . .
I've been enjoying the wildflowers lately!
Those marriage tweets - too funny!
The wildflowers are pretty. I had a few giggles over the tweets. Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend.


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US citizenship, legal residency may be out of reach for many in 2020, advocates say
Steep hikes in immigration benefits filing fees looming after public comment period ends
by: Julian Resendiz
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — With a substantial increase in filing fees for immigration benefits looming, advocates are urging migrants to get their applications in as soon as possible.
Once the fees go up, attorneys and nonprofits who assist migrants fear the benefits of U.S. citizenship, legal residency for relatives, work permit renewals and a host of other services will be out of reach for many of their clients.
"The cost is already substantial for these applications. A lot of people who are eligible hesitate to file or take a long time (to do so) simply because they have to come up with so much money," said El Paso immigration attorney Iliana Holguin. "With the fees going up, it's going to become even harder for people to pay."
Some of the changes include:
Citizenship applications going up from $640 to $1,170, an 83% increase.
Legal permanent residence status adjustment up from $1,225 to $2,195, a 79% hike.
Deferred Adjudication for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal up from $495 to $765, a 55% increase.
Establishment of a new $50 asylum petition fee.
Strict limits on fee waivers for citizenship applicants, renewal or replacement of legal permanent resident cards and other benefits.
The Department of Homeland Security proposed the hikes in November due to a projected $1.3 billion budget shortfall for Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that administers immigration benefits. The public comment period expired on Dec. 30, and advocates expect the increases to go into effect at the end of March or sooner.
Proposed fee increases would make it harder for legal immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship, advocates say. (AP photo)
A spokesperson for USCIS told Border Report that the agency spends a lot of resources in processing the applications and screening the candidates.
"USCIS is required to examine incoming and outgoing expenditures, just like a business. This proposed adjustment in fees esnrues more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimize subsidies from an already overextended system," the spokesperson said.
Also, the agency estimates that if left unchanged, the fee waivers would bleed the agency out of almost $1.5 billion. The proposed changes cap the foregone revenue to an estimated $962 million, a difference of $532 million. "Without the changes to fee waiver policy, fees would increase by a weighted average of 31 percent, which is 10 percent more than in the proposed fee schedule," according to the notice filed by DHS in the Federal Register.
But advocates note that money from the immigration-benefits agency has been diverted to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the branch of DHS that removes people from the country.
"USCIS has increased fees before, but never so much as now. The question is, if they have a shortfall, why are they transfering funds to ICE? Why use money meant for services for immigrants to fund the deportation of immigrants?" said Douglas Interiano, executive director of Proyecto Inmigrante, an Irving, Texas-based nonprofit.
Interiano, whose agency assists more than 7,000 migrants a year, said the higher fees will not only impact low-income migrants, but also U.S. citizens trying to obtain legal residence for foreign-born family members or spouse and also businesses. The L1 and H1B skilled worker visas would be going up from $460 to $815 and $560, respectively.
"That is a lot of money for bringing in your husband or wife plus the children. Only people with a lot of money or good jobs will pay. Many people are going to miss out on immigration benefits not because they're not eligible, but because now they're too expensive," he said.
Holguin, who is also chairwoman for the El Paso County Democratic Party, said the fee hikes will be an obstacle particularly for legal residents who want to fully integrate into civic life by becoming U.S. citizens.
"We see a lot of people who want to become citizens for whom it's already hard to come up with the $725, especially older, lawful permanent residents. It's now going to be much harder for them," she said.
Interiano and Holguin urged migrants to apply for the benefits before the fees go up. Interiano also cautioned against immigration fraud, for every time the federal government proposes or implements a rule change, some people try to take advantage of frightened or confused migrants.
For a complete schedule of the proposed new fees, click here.
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Q: Mysql query to get data from 2 tables and display sub categories under main category I am having some problem in retrieving sub categories from mysql database.I want to display the sub-categeories for the parent categories
The parent categories are stored in Menu table and sub_categories in ITEM table.
Menu table has columns menu_id,Menu_name and restaurant_id
Item table has columns item_id, item_name and menu_id (FK refrences menu_id of menu)
   $sqlmenu = "SELECT * FROM item t1 LEFT JOIN menu t2 ON t1.menu_id = t2.menu_id WHERE t2.restaurant_id = ?";
   $datamenu = DB::prepare($sqlmenu)->execute([$restaurant_id])->fetchAll();

    <?php foreach($datamenu as $rowmenu){ ?>

<?php echo $rowmenu['menu_name']; ?>

                                    <?php echo $rowmenu['item_name']; ?>

                    <?php } ?>

With above code, i am getting output like
    Main Category1
     -- Sub category1

    Main Category1
     -- Sub category2

    Main Category2
     -- Sub category1

    Main Category2
     -- Sub category2

Please help me out here. I know i including main category also in for loop but i want to do it with one query only not with multiple queries.

A: One way to accomplish this to use group_concat() the item_name in the query group by menu_name and then in the loop explode and generate the menu as
$sqlmenu = "SELECT
t2.menu_id,t2.menu_name,group_concat(t1.item_name) as items
FROM item t1 LEFT JOIN menu t2 ON t1.menu_id = t2.menu_id
WHERE t2.restaurant_id = ?
group by t2.menu_name";
$datamenu = DB::prepare($sqlmenu)->execute([$restaurant_id])->fetchAll();

foreach($datamenu as $rowmenu){

<?php echo $rowmenu['menu_name']; ?>

                    <?php
                        $items = $rowmenu['items'] ;
                        $items_array = explode(',',$items);
                        if(is_array($items_array) && count($items_array) > 0 ){
                        ?>

                                <?php
                                    foreach($items_array as $item_name){
                                ?>

                                        <?php echo $item_name; ?>

                                <?php } ?>

                            <?php }?>

<?php } ?>

A: Without using 2 queries, you could order by the menu Name, then check to see if you've got a new one or not.
 $sqlmenu = "SELECT * FROM
             item t1 LEFT JOIN menu t2
             ON t1.menu_id = t2.menu_id
              WHERE  t2.restaurant_id = ?
              ORDER BY t2.Menu_name";
   $datamenu = DB::prepare($sqlmenu)->execute([$restaurant_id])->fetchAll();
   $lastMenu = '';?>

    <?php foreach($datamenu as $rowmenu): ?>
                <?php  if($lastMenu != $rowmenu['menu_name']):
                             if($lastMenu != ''):?>

                           <?php  endif; ?>

<?php echo $rowmenu['menu_name']; ?>

                 <?php endif; ?>

                                <?php echo $rowmenu['item_name']; ?>

                 <?php
                   $lastMenu = $rowmenu['menu_name'];
                endforeach; ?>

I like the other answer better, but I just wanted to post this for clarity since I started telling you what I meant  in comments.

A: It's not exactly pretty, but I think this (untested) code will do what you what. The principle is that at each iteration of your data, you check whether there is a change in the main menu. This, however, assumes the list to be ordered by main menu.
Another strategy would involve iterating the data and build a multidimensional array.
MySQL only return in two dimensions per query, so you can't really do what you want in SQL alone.
<?php /* do the SQL  */ ?>

<?php
    $currentmenu = "";
    $first = true;
    foreach($datamenu as $rowmenu) {
      if ($currentmenu != $rowmenu['menu_id']) { //if new main menu
          if ($!first) {
                echo '
'; //end previous sub menu list
          } else {
                $first = false;
          }
          echo '
'.$rowmenu['menu_name'].'

'; //start new sub menu list
          $currentmenu = $rowmenu['menu_id']; //remember current menu
      }
?>

          <?php echo $rowmenu['item_name']; ?>

<?php
    }
?>


Exile, originally known as The Exiles as shown below, was a dance-flavored pop group most famous for the top 20 one hit wonder and number one hit song Kiss You All Over. After a few years as a pop group, Exile switched to country with much success.
Some Exile songs became more popular when others covered them. Take Me Down later became a 1982 number 5 song for Alabama. Also, the Alabama classic The Closer You Get was an Exile original. Heart & Soul later became a 1983 number 4 song for Huey Lewis And The News.
All songs listed on this page were released as single records except The Closer You Get, which was an original song by Exile later made famous by Alabama. Never Gonna Stop was released in the UK.


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A major shift in digital consumption habits is taking place. Now more than ever, users are interacting with content across a gradient of different devices. From 320px-wide phones to 2560px-wide desktop displays, and everything in between, the "one size fits all" aproach to the web is dead.
With this change in the way users consume the Web, our process as creators of the Web had to change as well. Fewer flat comps, more iterative design in the browser. Fewer fixed canvases, more room for elasticity. You ultimately realize that the harder you squeeze and hold on to old workflows, the quicker things slip through your fingers. And yet, an ugly solution that "works" on all devices is no better than a beautiful one that doesn't.
The Web site you're experiencing now is the result of this evolution. We couldn't be happier to unveil the new essentia creative 2.0.
There's really no better way to fully understand what it means to "be responsive" in this day and age than to take your own site apart and rebuild it to be more resolution independent and platform agnostic. While we certainly still made flat comps for most of this site, quite a bit of design took place in the browser, epsecially for non-desktop experiences. This allowed us to iterate quickly and ultimately create a more useful and, dare we say, more beautiful end product. We hope you agree.


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Home | NCBA CLUSA Hosts First Ever Cooperative Leadership Event in Madagascar
NCBA CLUSA Hosts First Ever Cooperative Leadership Event in Madagascar
By: NCBA CLUSA Published: Friday, February 10, 2017 Share: Print: Subscribe
This week over 200 agriculture co-op leaders and supporters are gathering in Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, for the first ever cooperative leadership conference in the country. From February 13 – 17 co-op leaders, researchers and co-op development organizations will examine the keys to strengthening the co-op sector in Madagascar.
The event is organized by the Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in partnership with NCBA CLUSA and its local partners, with the support of Madagascar's Ministry of Industry and Private Sector Development.
Around 100 Malagasy agriculture co-op leaders are expected at the forum as well as around 100 decision-makers, representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations, donors, private investors and service providers, researchers and students.
At the center of the program will be the capacity building of leaders of agricultural cooperatives. They will be trained on the "Cooperative Life Cycle Framework" and exposed to models of so-called new generation cooperatives. Participants will also discuss how the life-cycle framework can be applied in their cooperatives.
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At the same time, the forum will seek to collect as much data as possible about the cooperatives in Madagascar. Prior to the event, NCBA CLUSA conducted a CLARITY assessment of the co-op economy in Madagascar, a tool developed with the Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC), a network of leading international co-op development organizations including NCBA CLUSA. The results of this scientific research and the assessment will be presented at the conference, published in 2017 and added to the analyses already carried out following two similar forums in Malawi and Uganda last year.
During the last two days, the leaders of the cooperatives will meet with private investors, donors and representatives of government agencies to start a roadmap for the development of Malagasy cooperatives. Through discussion panels and presentations, the Forum will provide an opportunity to discuss the legal framework for cooperatives and the updating of existing legislation. The Ministry of Industry, which is in charge of legislation on cooperatives, will present its vision. Non-governmental agencies will discuss changes to development programs to enable cooperatives to continue generating employment in rural areas.
The program will also focus on access to finance for the growth of the cooperative sector as well as public-private partnerships for the promotion of agricultural cooperatives, sustainable procurement and certification. On the final day, the leaders of the cooperatives will propose recommendations to the government, investors and other stakeholders involved in the transformation of Malagasy cooperatives.
Follow the event on Twitter using the hashtag #CoopMadagascar.
To learn more about NCBA CLUSA's programs in Madagascar, you can read about our partnership with Catholic Relief Services on the USAID | Fararano program, or our volunteer opportunities with Farmer to Farmer.
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