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Homeless man dies after falling in between subway cars
By Steven Goodstein Posted on April 8, 2015
Carlton Phaison, 63, fell between subway cars and was killed at Pelham Bay Park station.
Community News Group / Steven Goodstein
An IRT 6 train stop in the Bronx was recently the scene of a deadly accident.
On Sunday, March 8, a 63-year old homeless man was killed after standing in between subway cars on a Pelham Bay bound train train, attempting to urinate, according to police reports.
The accident occurred at about 6:45 a.m. at the Pelham Bay Park station, the last stop on the northbound 6 train.
The homeless man, Carlton Phaison, whose most recent residence was in Brooklyn, was accompanied by an unidentified acquaintance or friend riding inside the subway car when he decided to go in between cars to relieve himself.
While his friend watched his bags, Phaison left the subway car. According to reports, when the train turned, Phaison hit his head on the door handles and was killed when he fell between cars.
At around 8 a.m. that same morning, MTA workers found Phaison's body on the tracks at the Pelham Bay Park station, more than an hour after the accident.
Police made the assumption that they believe he fell in between subway cars while attempting to stand between them and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The city's medical examiner determined the cause of death to be blunt impact to the head with multiple skull fractures and brain injuries.
The MTA's Rules of Conduct state that it is against the law for riders to move in between subway cars even if the train is not in motion, except in an emergency or when directed by a police officer, conductor or an authorized MTA or NYC Transit employee, and applies whether the train is moving or standing in a station.
Violators of this rule can be issued a $75 summons by an NYPD officer or NYC transit inspector who enforce the MTA Rules of Conduct.
Because of the MTA's direct and strict policy, along with the fact that both Pelham Bay Park and Pelham Bay Park station are both equipped with bathrooms, it's safe to say that this situation could have easily been avoided.
Reach Reporter Steven Goodstein at (718) 742–3384. E-mail him at sgoodstein@cnglocal.com.
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Microsoft has released its command-line shell and scripting language PowerShell Core for Linux operating system as a Snap package, making it easier for Linux users to install Microsoft PowerShell on their system.
Yes, you heard me right.
Microsoft has made PowerShell Core available to the Ubuntu Snap Store as a Snap application.
PowerShell Core is a cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell that is already available for Windows, macOS, and Linux OS and has been designed for sysadmins who manage assets in hybrid clouds and heterogeneous environments.
Snap is a universal Linux packaging system, built by Canonical for the Ubuntu operating system, which makes an application compatible for all major Linux distributions without requiring any modification.
A Snap package is basically an application compressed together with its dependencies and also includes instructions on how to run and interact with other software on various Linux systems.
"Snaps are great because they provide a single package format that works across many Linux distributions, much like how PowerShell acts as a single automation platform across operating systems," explains Joey Aiello, Program Manager of PowerShell at Microsoft.
"PowerShell Core from Microsoft is now available for Linux as a Snap. Built on the .NET Framework, PowerShell is an open source task-based command-line shell and scripting language with the goal of being the ubiquitous language for managing hybrid cloud assets," says Canonical.
To install Microsoft PowerShell Core as a snap package on a Linux-based OS, you first need to install snapd and then run the following command.
Once installed, open a terminal and run the command pwsh.
Alternatively, you can directly head on to this web page, and install PowerShell Core snap app on your system.
If you want to try out beta software, you also can install the official preview/beta version of PowerShell found here, or run the below command from the terminal.
The arrival of PowerShell Core on the Snap store is definitely a big deal.
Earlier this year, Microsoft even released a Skype Snap app. All these are a continued sign of Microsoft's support for open source community.


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Mortgage Fraud/
8 Real Estate Investors Agree to Plead Guilty to Bid Rigging
Allison Tussey — November 28, 2011 — 2 Comments
Charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against eight Northern California real estate investors. Each has agreed to plead guilty for their roles in two separate conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.
Gary Anderson, Saratoga, Calif.; Patrick Campion, San Francisco; James Doherty, Hillsborough, Calif.; Keith Goodman, San Francisco; Troy Kent, San Mateo, Calif.; Craig Lipton, San Francisco; Henry Pessah, Burlingame, Calif.; and Laith Salma, San Francisco.
According to the felony charges, the real estate investors participated in a conspiracy to rig bids by agreeing to refrain from bidding against one another at public real estate foreclosure auctions in San Francisco County and San Mateo County. Doherty, Goodman and Lipton participated in the conspiracy in San Francisco, and Anderson, Campion, Kent, Pessah and Salma participated in the conspiracy in San Mateo.
The primary purpose of the conspiracies was to suppress and restrain competition and to conceal payoffs in order to obtain selected real estate offered at San Francisco County and San Mateo County public foreclosure auctions at noncompetitive prices. When real estate properties are sold at these auctions, the proceeds are used to pay off the mortgage and other debt attached to the property, with remaining proceeds, if any, paid to the homeowner.
According to court documents, the eight real estate investors conspired with others not to bid against one another at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, participating in a conspiracy for various lengths of time between November 2008 and January 2011. The real estate investors were also charged with conspiracies to use the mail to carry out a fraudulent scheme to make payoffs to obtain title to selected real estate at fraudulently suppressed prices, to receive payoffs and to divert money to co-conspirators and away from mortgage holders and others with a legal interest in these properties.
Each violation of the Sherman Act carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for individuals. Each count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The maximum fine for the Sherman Act charges may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victim if either amount is greater than the $1 million statutory maximum.
These charges are the latest cases filed by the Department of Justice in its ongoing investigation into bid rigging and fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa and Alameda counties, California. To date, as a result of the investigation, 18 individuals have agreed to plead guilty.
The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas.
"The collusion taking place at these auctions allowed the conspirators to line their pockets with funds that otherwise would have gone to lenders and, at times, financially distressed homeowners," said Sharis Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. "The investigation into collusion at these foreclosure auction markets is ongoing, and the Antitrust Division will continue to pursue the perpetrators of these fraudulent schemes until they are brought to justice."
"The FBI and the Antitrust Division are working closely together to ensure that those who engage in fraudulent bid-rigging and other anticompetitive activities at foreclosure auctions are brought to justice," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephanie Douglas. "We will continue to hold individuals accountable for crimes that damage the real estate market and defraud unsuspecting victims of their right to a fair marketplace."
The ongoing investigation into fraud and bid rigging at certain real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California is being conducted by the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office and the FBI's San Francisco office. Anyone with information concerning bid rigging or fraud related to public real estate foreclosure auctions should contact the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office at 415-436-6660, visit www.justice.gov/atr/contact/newcase.htm or call the FBI tip line at 415-553-7400.
The charges are part of efforts underway by President Barack Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to wage an aggressive, coordinated, and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources. The task force is working to improve efforts across the federal executive branch, and with state and local partners, to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, combat discrimination in the lending and financial markets, and recover proceeds for victims of financial crimes. For more information on the task force, visit www.StopFraud.gov.
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Christina	April 10, 2013 at 6:28 pm
I have a friend who's Ex wife did a short sale on her house. She sold it to her boyfriend. Principal balance was over 500k and he purchased the home for 413k. Neither party disclosed to their realtors that they knew eachother. They also signed the arms length affidavit. What rights does my friend have? He signed a inter-spousal transfer because she said she was going to sell it and move and now she is still living in the house and doing remodeling for her new Landlord/Boyfriend.
lee	December 6, 2011 at 12:41 am
Punish the monkeys, and let the organ grinders go.

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I made these delicious homemade cookies as part of a Persian/Moroccan feast I had for friends, but they'd be perfect any time. They're simple to make, the only help I needed was a rubber spatula to blend the orange rind and ground saffron into the softened butter.
I hadn't planned on making them when I put together my menu, but I had oranges and saffron, and the recipe looked so simple I decided to try them. I was glad I did. We enjoyed their delicate and exotic flavor.
Leave the butter out to soften. Grind saffron threads to powder. Place the softened butter in a large bowl. Work the ground saffron and orange rind into the butter. Blend in the sugar. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, blending well. Add the flour, form into a soft ball of dough. Don't over mix. Wrap dough ball in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator.
Get dough out of refrigerator about 1 hour before cooking. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Break off a piece of dough and roll into 3/4" balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet (they don't spread much so you can put them fairly close together). Press tops down with tines of a fork. Bake 12-15 minutes, until edges begin to brown. Cool on rack. Store in airtight container.


The Abu Dhabi TV Network has caught the Arabic speaking world since 1969. During its years the network has witnessed tremendous changes to its programs, content and brand identity. In 2008 ADTV re-branded its off and on-screen identities, created by Lambie-Nairn.


With the declaration of polio as a public health emergency, Nigeria is intensifying its efforts to ensure polio is stopped for good. Communication and mobilization are critical elements of the polio eradication programme, particularly communicating with families and communities about the importance of taking the oral polio vaccine to prevent polio. Polio eradication continues to suffer from inadequate visibility and does not have a clear identity or brand/logo that resonates with all stakeholders – caregivers, service providers and leaders.
UNICEF and partners in Nigeria is requesting the services of an innovative design agency to design a package of communications materials to support polio activities in 2013. The scope of work and key deliverables will include the development of a logo/brand for Nigeria's polio eradication programme, together with the design of a package of communication materials which will include a slogan, flyers, banners, signposts, an advocacy package, a package of EC materials to support communications activities in communities, radio and TV materials, job aides for health workers.
Minimum of 7 years of experience in provision of similar services and implementation of similar contracts.
Interested service providers should complete and submit the Supply Profile Form (SPF), which can be downloaded from http://www.unicef.org/nigeria/about_3841.html, along with supporting documents. EOIs should be sent to e-mail: abujasupply@unicef.org, not later than 05 July, 2013. Please quote "EoI -NGR-2013-006" as subject in your correspondence.


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On the web site of the German Mathematical Society one can find an interesting report titled Traumberuf Mathematiker.
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Despite his lack of catamaran experience, former Match Racing World Champion Adam Minoprio proved his dominance on day two of the GC32 Austria Cup today, winning all his races to take the overall lead in this inaugural event of The Great Cup.
The competition also had a different complexion today, being held off the Allianz Traunsee Race Week centre of Gmunden at the northern end of Lake Traunsee. Away from Ebensee and 'Little Garda' where racing was held yesterday, there was a longer wait for the sea breeze to fill in. When it arrived, it did so slowly and with the light northeasterly breeze blowing straight off the land there were bullets of wind across the course, requiring tacticians to stay on their toes as once again they raced two lap windward-leewards.
Today the fleet has one light with a vital replacement part for SPAX Solutions Sailing Team due to arrive in Gmunden tonight. With only two of the Martin Fischer-designed GC32 catamarans available, so a fresh series was set up especially. This involved all six teams competing, first sailing a round robin where each team got to sail twice. According to their result in this, the teams were then divided into gold, silver and bronze matches for their finals, winner of the gold match claiming first place, etc.
Clearly comfortable with the boat on boat format (although it wasn't being sailed under match racing rules) Minoprio first dispatched AEZ GC32 Youth Sailing Team and then SPAX . . .


It is with tremendous joy and great pride that I announce that collectively you raised $150.1 million this year to support our ministry. These results are record-breaking and far surpass last year's fundraising efforts by $33.5 million. Our system-wide cost per dollar raised was $0.28—this is extremely efficient in the health care fundraising field and means that for every dollar spent, approximately $3.50 was returned.
You all are putting in the work to be thoughtful stewards of funds raised. One key metric to note was that net fundraising dollars increased to $108.1 million, compared to fiscal year 2017's $72.1 million, and was $29.4 million more than budgeted.
This year we saw also St. Bernardine Medical Center Foundation and Community Hospital of San Bernardino Foundation merge to create Dignity Health Foundation - Inland Empire, resulting in $500,000 of savings in the first year.
Our 2018 achievements would not be possible without the efforts of each and every one of our philanthropy team staff members. It also would not be possible without the support of our boards and the dedication of our medical staff. I encourage you all to pause, reflect, and truly celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of this last year.
As we know, in philanthropy we are always looking ahead to our next goal. We've budgeted $136.9 million in fundraising revenue for fiscal year 2019. This is $12 million – or 9.6 percent – more than was budgeted last year. Our goal was to budget 7 percent more, meaning that all of you stepped up and are pushing our teams to high standards!
I know you are already focused on success. Twenty three of our 29 foundations are currently in some stage of a fundraising campaign totaling over $216 million in philanthropic funds. Twelve of our foundations are now actively engaged in the grateful patient program and building strong relationships with physicians and donors. Seven sites are participating in some aspect of philanthropy's shared services to maximize resources around important work like gift processing, mail segmenting, and reporting and analysis.
This strategic work is building a bright future for Dignity Health. I am deeply grateful for your commitment to our mission and for your service.


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THE GLYCEMIC INDEX CHART- 2nd edition by Dhyana Tribe N.D.
Based on The New Glucose Revolution by Brand-Miller, University of Sydney Australia. The GI Chart lists common foods in 16 categories and is most relevant to those with blood sugar irregularities, those on low carbohydrate diets, and those wishing to burn fat and lose weight.
The Glycemic INDEX describes the ability of carbohydrates to raise blood glucose levels.
Glycemic LOAD is the amount of carbohydrate in a typical serve. Glycemic INDEX is the nature of the carbs. Watermelon is high GI at 70-85, but because most serves are only two slices & each slice has only a little carb in it, the GL is low at 4.
Glycemic Load is calculated by multiplying the GI of a food by the amount of carbohydrate per serving and dividing by 100. This is complicated to work out, so in our chart, we have tagged some Low Glycemic LOAD foods with a green box, showing the foods safe to eat in moderate portions.
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LAToken uses blockchain to tokenize and makes tradable assets ranging from debt and equity to real estate and art.
LAToken, creators of a peer-to-peer Liquid Asset Token (LAT) marketplace and wallet, and Rivetz International, today announced a partnership to bring hardware-based cybersecurity to the LAT platform.
The newly announced Rivetz token, RvT, provides a new decentralized model to protect and ensure that the transactions, identity and messages created on a mobile device are provably secure.
LAToken is building a global market using blockchain to enable a new model for freeing up the capital in fixed assets. It tokenizes and makes tradable assets ranging from debt and equity to real estate and art.
The companies will work together to support full protection of the light wallet keys and process using the Rivetz Trusted app and RvT services. Both the buyers and sellers of assets on the LAT platform will have access to hardware assured identity, provable electronic signatures and verified instructions.
The technologies are currently in development and the service is expected to support integration of the Rivetz capabilities by early 2018. Both companies are funding their project through the use of Token sales.


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Game Development and Rebuilding Microservices
with Luna Duclos
Luna Duclos joined the show to talk about rebuilding a microservice infrastructure with Go, game development, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Kubernetes Certificate Manager
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Go-kit 0.4.0 release
apd: An Arbitrary-Precision Decimal Package for Go
Go Contribution Guide
WWG to GC
Brian - Webpack
Erik - Helm
Luna - goa
Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of GoTime. Today's episode is episode number 40, and our sponsors for today are Toptal and The Ultimate Go Training Series.
On the show today we have myself, Erik St. Martin, we also have Carlisia Pinto - say hello, Carlisia…
And Brian Ketelsen…
And our special guest today is actually Luna Duclos. I don't wanna spoil a little too much about what we're gonna talk about, so I'll let you give a little introduction about yourself and what you're working on.
Luna Duclos
Alright, hi everyone! I'm Luna Duclos, and I am one of the few game developers that works full-time with Go. Today we'll be talking a little bit more about that - what I do day-to-day, how the development stack at my current job works, and probably a bit about my previous job as well, and some of the open source stuff I do, and some of the community involvement stuff I participate in.
The game development is one of the really exciting areas; you're one of the few people that I've heard do game development. Is this like backend server technology for MMOs, or is this actual frontend, OpenGL, DirectX stuff? Where is that line drawn with Go, versus other languages you might use?
In my case I don't touch the client computers at all. There won't be a single line of my code running on anyone's computer, except for our own servers. What I mostly work on is the web stack, as well as the game servers themselves.
In my case, I work on a game called the Hunter Classic. It is an online single and multiplayer game with regular competitions, leaderboards between hunters. A large website, regular competitions and that kind of stuff.
That's really interesting. So I guess understanding the game a little bit helps with what the infrastructure is, because different types of games have different needs. Is this like a zone based game?
No, it is a lobby based game. If you've played Diablo, it's a perfect example. Diablo has a lobby; you can create a game, you can join other people's games… In the Hunter's case, the actual multiplayer is peer-to-peer, so there is no involvement from the server for the actual multiplayer play in the game that uses [unintelligible 00:03:12.23]
What the servers do is they handle all the competitions, the whole scoring system, as well as regular rotations, an in-game store, inventory management, that kind of stuff.
Oh, excellent.
Basically, they handle all the stuff that persists between games, while the actual multiplayer within a game session is handled peer-to-peer.
And what sort of technologies are the client side the game's written in?
Like most other companies, we use C++ to write game clients. Avalanche Studios, which is my employer, has their own engine which they use to build all their games, so that's what's also being used for The Hunter Classic.
[00:03:59.28] So what was the motivation for using Go on the server side, with already having a development group that is familiar with C++ and stuff? Was there a productivity gain, or…?
There were multiple reasons. The main reason is that the existing servers before I started were not written in C++ to start with. They are written in PHP and Python, running on AppEngine. It works; the old servers are still powering the game and doing their thing, but Python being a weakly typed language means it's really fast to develop in, however it's really easy to break things in such a large codebase as the Hunter has, which is why there's now a process ongoing to start moving development of new features to Go.
We have several Go servers running on Kubernetes, and all new features are going to those servers, rather than the old Python app engine ones. We're also slowly migrating over all features to the new servers, as time allows. The main reason is mostly that Go is much faster, which means cheaper servers, and it's also much harder to break things with Go, compared to Python.
Okay, so this is kind of like a microservice based architecture, and inventory management is handled by one service; rather than kind of continuing to maintain that particular service that may be running in PHP or Python, you're slowly rebuilding these things in Go.
Okay. And what kind of performance and resource benefits or gains have you seen from that? Are you significantly less servers now that you're rolling these things over?
There's two performance gains we've seen. One, we're moving from Python to Go - that's the obvious one, Go is much faster, consumes much less CPU. But there's a second gain as well, and that's moving from App Engine to actual VMs. App Engine servers are quite small, and constrained on CPU despite that fairly high price, so we've seen there's much gain from switching from Python to Go, as from switching from App Engine to actual virtual machines.
You said you're also doing Kubernetes too, right?
Yeah, the whole new Go cluster is running in Kubernetes. It's running in Google Cloud on a GKE cluster, which is Google's managed Kubernetes offering. So we don't have to manage the cluster ourselves, Google does it for us.
One of the biggest things that I remember in the last couple of months that you did was the Kube-Cert-Manager extension for Kubernetes. Can you tell us about that? That's really exciting.
Yeah, it was actually from my previous job, though. As some people might know, I used to be self-employed and had my own business called Palm Stone Games. I was also running Kubernetes clusters at Palm Stone games, and as part of that we were using LetsEncrypt as our SSL provider.
We did not want to request certs manually every month - that's just asking for things to expire - and neither did we want to use Kubernetes Ingress objects, which was the only way to get LetsEncrypt to work automatically at the time.
So I ended up deciding to fork Kelsey Hightower's Kube-Cert-Manager project. I took all the documentation, as well as the basic approach of how things work, and I decided to rewrite the whole codebase to use Xenolf/Lego instead of a self-rolled Lego library, which meant that Kube-Cert-Manager, my fork, magically had support for over 20 DNS providers, while there was only one in Kelsey's version.
[00:08:11.11] That was the main motivation for everything. There were already documentations in place, there was already a designing place for how things work, it just needed to be fleshed out to work with more DNS providers and be easier to deploy and set up. So that's what I did with the rewrite of it.
Are these still two individual projects, or have they since been merged together?
They are two individual projects still, however there hasn't really been any activity on Kelsey's fork, so I'm not sure how alive it actually is.
Kelsey's was just a proof of concept that he wrote for a talk. I don't think he intended it to be a long-living project.
So that's really cool. I've used your extension and it's awesome.
And for anybody who might not be aware of what we're talking about, as you throw up individual services that may be publically exposed in Kubernetes, this is basically something that you can run inside your Kubernetes cluster to basically issue SSL certificates on the fly using LetsEncrypt for the things that you deploy, which is just awesome.
All of us remember struggling through – you have to go to your SSL provider and you have to get all the certs and then upload them to all the servers… All of that is gone. I hate getting the emails… I actually spaced out my SSL cert renewals so that I wouldn't have to do a bunch at one time. [laughter]
Now I get emails from LetsEncrypt that says my certificates are expiring and it's yet another reminder of failed projects… You know, this thing that I started up a couple months ago, isn't in use anymore, your certificate is expiring… "Oh yeah, I remember when I did that." [laughter] It's just like the domain's expiring. "Oh, I remember registering that domain. Oops…"
Whenever I get the domain renewals I have to question my motivation, like… I was pretty dumb for buying that before, and I've not used it for three years now. Um, I'm gonna renew it anyway…
Yeah, let's renew it. [laughter]
You know, it's that whole "One day this might be useful to me."
Well, I guess they cost little enough, that's actually a valid reasoning too.
So actually, here's proof… Brian had owned GopherAcademy.com for some reason long before we had ever considered a conference or anything like that, and it was like "Well, we kind of need an entity to run the conference… Hey, don't you still own GopherAcademy?"
Yeah, let me whip out my domain Rolodex and let's take a look.
So there is proof right there that this happens. It could be useful one day.
That's right. I'm validated. Thank you, Erik. I'm buying more domains now. I'll be back. [laughter]
You're like, "But one of them… One of them was actually useful!" So what other projects are you working on these days?
I recently released a project called Instrumented SQL. With the Go 1.8 release we had this nice context that we could pass to the database SQL package, but no one seemed to have started working on instrumentation using that concept, so I ended up needing instrumentation at work, and after checking with the big boss, I was allowed to open source that instrumentation, which is how Instrumented SQL was born.
[00:11:54.17] It's a wrapping driver, basically. It will grab another SQL driver, it will wrap it with instrumentation and logging, and you can then call the wrapping driver using just a regular database SQL package, and everything will automatically be traced and logged for you based on the tracer and logger object in the contexts that are passed along.
There is one caveat, and that's it grabs tracers and loggers from the context - that means you cannot use the non-context functions, because those cannot be traced, because it doesn't know what request they belong to.
Oh, interesting.
There aren't that many of the non-context functions in the 1.8 SQL though, are there? I'm trying to think…
They didn't remove any because of the Go 1.0 compatibility guarantee, so they're still all there… You just shouldn't be using them anymore if you want to instrument your SQL calls.
Yeah… What I was saying was there aren't that many that don't have an equivalent with context in the function…
Oh, yeah. You're right, there are none, to my knowledge, that don't have an equivalent, so… Yeah, it's just a matter of adding a bunch of context after every function call.
So what kind of data is logged from here?
The instrumented SQL function can trace calls, so it can use Open Tracing or Google tracing to build up traces from every call, and it can also log every SQL call, so it spits out the SQL along with all the arguments that were passed to a logger that you can pass in. That's it. It's really simple, but it's been quite useful.
Yeah, it's crazy powerful.
Even in the Rails space, being able to look through the log and see what queries were being run, and seeing time…
Yes, exactly.
Thank you, Active Record. [laughter]
Yeah, this is basically the same thing… It's five lines of code to get full tracing and full logging out of every SQL call that you do.
What kind of configuration is there? Could you have it only log queries that take longer than some specified time?
Not currently, no. Currently, you can either log everything, log nothing, trace everything or trace nothing, and that's it. There's currently no middle ground. But one of the things planned is to add more generic hooks, so you can add some logic to decide whether you wanna trace things or not.
It's still useful, especially with an open tracing backend to it to be able to submit to.
Yeah, that's really awesome. Really cool. That hasn't been out very long, has it? I think I probably first ran across that maybe two or three weeks ago.
It's a week old, so… Yeah, very new.
Now you understand my sense of time. [laughter]
Quite an interesting sense of time, actually.
I did wanna ask her a question that's related to gaming… I think I might have missed the boat.
No, no… I had some more questions, too.
Luna, did you use libraries? Were there useful libraries that were helpful in developing game-specific functionality?
With Go, honestly, not really… Most of the server stuff I do isn't game-specific per se. There's some specific things, like handling achievements, handling user accounts, handling leaderboards and scores, but there's not really any libraries for any of that. So I haven't really been touching any of the Go game-specific libraries. They're all mostly aimed at making game clients, rather than making game servers.
[00:15:54.13] Yeah, in the game world, most people use some sort of engine which provides all the physics and all the graphic support, and then there's usually scripting languages and things like that built into it too for a lot of the frontend work. A few places work on their own, but a lot of people just lease, or - is there a right term for that? But yeah, they basically pay for the rights to use an engine. But you're right, a lot of work goes on the back side now. Very few games are client-only anymore.
Yeah… There's a couple that get away with just peer-to-peer multiplayer, but I think that's the lowest you can get away with these days. But yeah, a lot of games end up using at least a little bit of server work.
Well, almost everybody has achievements, leaderboards or things like that… There's all kinds of things that need to happen there. And in the console world, you're starting to notice that even when they're single player games, content is being loaded in that may have been created through somebody else's game now, too.
That's true. On PC (at least) there's also a scheme that magically handles a lot of things for game devs… Like, Steam handles cloud saves, Steam handles achievements, Steam handles patching and all the hard infrastructure bits for a lot of game developers.
Yeah, that's a lot of stuff that used to be duplicate work, and now you can just kind of…
Indeed… Now you can just go "Steam, do this stuff for me", and you have it done.
And it's a marketplace… Almost like an app store or some things like that for mobile.
Yeah, indeed.
And even for, say, my Mac, I don't really shop the internet for software, I open up the App Store and I type in a keyword… Like, "Huh, there's all the apps that do that."
So with your interest in Go and game development, have you played with any of the game engine, client-side stuff written in Go?
The ones written in Go, no. I haven't had a look at them, except for a quick glance. The main reason for that is that they can't really compete with a fully-funded UE4, or a fully-funded Unity with a whole development team dedicated behind them.
Yeah, I guess that would be the thought… They'd be more targeted towards indie style games. A major title, you almost have to go with some of the common ones.
Unreal, Unity, Frostbite…
Yeah… If you're gonna build a major title, almost everybody uses those types of things, except for the people creating them.
I'd like to change the subject just a little bit… Or did you need to take a sponsor break, Erik?
Now is the perfect time for a sponsor break.
Okay, why don't you that, and then I will change the subject when we get back.
Alright, so our first sponsor for today is Toptal.
Alright, we are back, talking to Luna Duclos. Just before the break, Brian, you wanted to change the subject. What is your new subject?
I wanna talk about something that's near and dear to my heart, probably my favorite thing in the entire world, and that's frontend web development… [laughter] Luna, I know you've had a lot of activity in the GopherJS world, and way back when I was trying to figure out whether I could actually do GopherJS, you had written the Polymer bindings for GopherJS. Do you still spend a lot of time in GopherJS?
[00:20:15.25] I actually don't at all anymore… I haven't touched GopherJS since I changed jobs in December, unfortunately. Polymer is still a really interesting technology I'd like to spend more time on, as well. Unfortunately, currently I don't have enough time in a day to do so.
That's a shame.
I'm sorry. [laughter]
I love web development so much that, you know, it just breaks my heart.
Do I need to read some scrollback here, Brian? You love web development… [laughter]
I am so frustrated right now with frontend web development, I would be happy to just throw the whole thing out… Just the whole thing. Done. I'm done.
Well, don't get me wrong, I still do quite a bit of frontend myself. The web stuff most always ends up on the lap of the backend people, so I'm still doing web development with JavaScript as well, just not with GopherJS anymore, unfortunately.
GopherJS is sure getting cool, though. Every time I look for a binding for the bigger packages there is one now, which is really cool.
Indeed, yeah.
And it's not that difficult to make your own.
Actually, do you know if anyone has made a binding for the second version of Polymer? My binding sticks to V1, so I'm actually curious if anyone took the torch, so to speak, and made one for V2.
I don't think so, but I haven't looked recently. I was looking at the Angular ones.
Oh, there's an Angular binding… That's cool.
Yeah, there is, and there are two or three different React bindings now, there's Mithril bindings, there's Vue bindings…
I haven't played a lot with the bindings or GopherJS… I tend to just separate… There's the API, and there's kind of the frontend code.
Yeah, same here, pretty much. In an ideal world, I want to just deploy some static HTML, CSS and JavaScript and do everything on the REST API. But that's the perfect world scenario right there.
Yeah, my biggest problem with GopherJS is that although it's so much easier to write frontend code in GopherJS, I still have the lack of knowledge of frontend technologies, events, DOM, that sort of stuff… So now I've added another layer of translation that I have to make in order to use that, and it makes it harder for me, not easier.
Yeah. And there's also the fact that you're gonna have a hard time hiring someone that knows GopherJS already. You're almost always gonna have to teach them from scratch… At least if you hire a frontend dedicated developer. It's been one of the big show-stoppers for me for GopherJS, actually. It's not big enough yet to have a hiring pool.
Yeah, because typically in a larger organization you're gonna have your frontend people and your backend people, so you would have to teach your frontend people Go in order to use GopherJS.
That's interesting. And Brian, I think most of your struggles are usually because when you have to do fronted, you're usually trying to do it in a hurry. [laughter]
[00:23:43.02] That's not true. My struggles are because when I have to do frontend, it's a freakin' disaster. Has anybody actually looked at the JavaScript ecosystem recently? The problem I had - it was maybe two nights ago - was I was writing a TypeScript application for Angular 2, and then I had to bring in another library that wasn't TypeScript and it wasn't using the same module packaging format… Because I had to go down that rabbit hole, now I understand that there's AMD module packaging and UMD, and SystemJS and all of these different module packages… That's why I think the whole thing should just burn in a trash fire. [laughter] It's so complicated trying to make stuff work. It's frustrating.
I will not disagree with you. I've had my share of frustrations because of the same reason, and also because – it was my experience; this is not a diss to all the frontend developers out there, but a lot of frontend developers don't seem to know what they're doing. It's just lots of copy/paste embeds from various places, made to work forcefully in the current context without actually making sense entirely. A lot of the code I've looked at is that way.
Yeah, I think there's a couple of issues though, too… A lot of times you end up with frontend developers who are really designers and that's really where their interest is, and they're kind of forced to learn programming. Or you have backend programmers who are just trying to rush to get the frontend stuff done because that's not really what they wanna use…
It seems like there's a lot of fragmentation in that area, to Brian's point… There's so many different ways of doing those things, and I think it's one of the things I love about Go so much - enforcing these patterns. Mostly people do things the same way. There's not like "Well, how are you managing these things? How are you doing dependency management and asset pipelines and things like that?"
Yeah. I think if there was a Go equivalent - there thankfully isn't - it would be "Which context package are you using?" Thankfully, we haven't gone there.
Somebody on Twitter – when I made my snarky tweet about all of the different package management systems and dependency management in JavaScript, somebody said "Well, we've got 28 versions of vendoring tools in Go", and that's true… But we have one vendor standard.
Yeah, and regardless of which one you use, it pretty much works.
So that is quite a bit different, although I understand that we have fragmentation, at least in the vendoring side. Apps are apps in Go, and it is quite a bit easier.
We're slowly solving it, though. Hopefully Godep comes out and fixed all those issues… Though I have my doubts a little bit, but we'll see how that goes.
Where is Carlisia at?
I'm here… You guys are asking great questions. [laughter]
She's writing a new dependency manager for JavaScript for me. [laughter]
She's just sitting here thinking about like "Wow, I didn't realize how much Brian needed frontend." [laughter]
It's not that I hate it. I mean… I actually crossed a point recently where I feel like I can understand TypeScript, because it's got classes, it's got types, it's much more strongly typed than regular JavaScript… I kind of get behind that; it's not bad. And Angular is pretty easy to do for me; it's easier than most of the others. So if it's just TypeScript and Angular, it's cool. It's when I have to add in all the other stuff. It's that whole web pipeline and Sass compiling…
Once you get into having to mix Gulp and Bauer and Webpack… Just shoot me in the head, right now.
Brian, how much frontend work have you been forced to do lately?
I'd say 60% of my work in the last month has been frontend. Maybe a little more. Too much.
[00:28:08.24] Fair enough.
I'm getting better slowly. But I'm an old dog.
It's changed a lot in recent years.
It has.
It used to be so much involved there, until we got into the "minimize everything", and…
And now we're moving away from that again with HTTP/2, which actually advises people not to pack all their files together.
Yeah, I got the biggest kick out of that. The rabbit hole that I went down… The people were talking about – maybe it was on the SystemJS side, I don't remember, but one of the things was bundling to make a single file, but we don't do that anymore, because HTTP/2 means that you can send lots of multiple requests, so you need to decide whether your consumers are going to be HTTP/2 or not, because that affects completely how you bundle your whole app and what your pipeline is, and it's just yet another decision I don't want to make.
I guess it would depend on the way you've had things set up, too. I don't know with a lot of the asset pipeline stuff whether people are still doing this, but one of the tricks that has been around for years is to just have multiple asset domains, because really the browser's limitation is one connection per host; so if you had multiple hosts that your assets were on, it could fetch from each host.
Yeah. In fact, some CDNs actually do that for you automatically. They'll distribute your content across several domains, and you'll see C1.whateverCDN.com, C2.whateverCDN.com and so on. It's been quite interesting seeing how some apps are starting to integrate with their CDNs more.
I remember that was one of the first Rails plugins that I wrote – I don't even know what you would call that… A host multiplier that basically treated every server as if it were 20 servers, so you had 20 different asset servers instead of one; that was way back in the day. Asset hosts… Yeah, Steve St. Martin in the channel mentioned that. Before that existed, I wrote one of those… Back in 'Nam. [laughter]
I can see you back in 'Nam, sharing Rails development stories. [laughter] Alright, does anybody wanna talk about anything else - interesting projects, news?
There's a lot of interesting stuff that came out this week. Probably the most exciting one - or at least the most interesting one is the Goggles application. Did anybody see that? From Kyle Banks. GitHub.com/kylebanks/goggles, it's an application that lets you search your GOPATH for code, and it shows you the GoDoc… It's almost like a little admin interface for your GOPATH - it will show you all of the code, all of the GoDoc… It's very pretty and well-written, and it's got a cute little pop-up gopher that comes up when you're searching… A nicely done app.
Oh yeah, that… I've seen that on Twitter. I've been meaning to try it out, actually. I should do that.
You know, Brian, I'm actually really surprised that you installed it, because it requires working with NPM and Gulp.
I've got NPM installed, and Gulp, and Bauer, and Webpack, and… [laughter]
No, I just mean you're using those things so much…
It's all right here, buddy… It's all right here. My chops are getting strong.
I can picture it too, you're like "Wow, this looks really cool! Oh, NPM… How badly do I want this?" [laughter]
I wonder why this hasn't been all bundled in one neat, single Go binary that you can just start up.
[00:32:03.05] That's a good idea. I'm trying to get by without installing NPM and Gulp… I don't have those on this machine…
I can tell you, the reason for all of that is because it uses Gallium, which is the wrapper for the Chrome web app thing that makes it a native app, and I would bet you a dollar that Kyle does not have an Apple developer account, so he can't sign those web apps or sign those Gallium apps, which means that he can't distribute applications in the new MacOS, because they're not signed, so you have to build them yourself. This all boils down to developer signatures.
Is it Mac only though, or does it also work on Linux?
It's Mac only right now.
Well, it seems like most of it is written in Go and frontend stuff, so the Gallium part I think is just what wraps it into a native application. So in theory, there's no reason this couldn't be served up over HTTP and you could hit a local port or something, too.
Yeah, that's what I was expecting it to do, so… Maybe we should look at that.
If you dig through the source code, the whole system source file under package.sys is all Mac-specific, so it definitely will need at least Linux and Windows versions of that file before it's gonna fly.
They're very small files though, so it shouldn't be very difficult to get that done.
I'm sure he would happily take pull requests, too…
Every time I turn anywhere, I've seen this app on Twitter, on Reddit… It's gotten a lot of attention recently. I think it was even on the Go newsletter today, so it should be getting more attention soon.
Did that come too, already? I have not seen the newsletter today.
Yeah, I don't think it was that long ago, though. I think it was just maybe an hour before the show.
1:30 PM our time.
Alright. What else have we got?
I noticed that the GoKit team released their 0.4.0 release, and that moved to the inbuilt context library in Go 1.8, so no longer using the Xnet contact package anymore in GoKit, so that's a big release for them.
Oh, cool.
Very exciting to see all of the cool stuff coming out of that GoKit package.
And speaking of releases too, I think Gobot just had a release this week too, didn't it?
I don't know… If they did, I missed it.
I will google that.
Is it possible that I missed a release of something?
It's quite possible.
Oh yeah, Gobot 1.3, you're right. Now supporting the BBC micro:bit and DragonBoard. Very cool.
Is anyone using Gobot here?
I'm actually very curious about it, but I don't actually have one of those boards to try it out with.
Actually, you can use it with just about anything; if you have a Raspberry Pi, or BeableBone… You can run Gobot on anything that basically has GPIO.
Yeah, Intel Edison… You name it. It runs on everything. I have a project called Cupid, which is a barbecue controlling application that runs on a Raspberry Pi, and it controls my barbecue. That all runs on Gobot.
It really is cool. It's the only way to barbecue.
[laughs] You need to invite me to one of those.
Any day!
Hardware is interesting, because I don't think many of us think much about it, aside from using embedded devices. But actually developing against it is really cool, because we all love programming and we love seeing the things that come to life… But being able to see it interact with physical objects is just ridiculously cool, like the smoker controlling the temperature… Like, there's Go code controlling that, and Brian wrote it!
[00:36:08.27] It's really cool. I also have used Gobot to control AR Drone drones at my kids' school. We do a thing every year called The Great American Teach-In where parents come in and talk about what they do. I couldn't explain to the students that my work is actually that boring, so I did Gobot with drones, and the kids who were eight years old programmed the drone to fly around the room, and they did a little fly-by of a teacher, and it was really cool. And all that is Go powered.
That sounds awesome.
I wonder if there's a list somewhere of all the projects that are currently using it… They have interfaces with all kinds of cool little toys. Have you seen the Sphero? It's like a little ball that rolls around, and you can jump it, and you can play with it with your mobile phone… But they have an interface for that for Gobot. A ton of cool stuff. How about you, Carlisia? Did you see any cool projects or anything that you're excited about?
Oh, I thought you were going to ask me if I'm using Gobot…
Or Gobot…
[laughs] No… Yes, I wanted to mentioned that the Women Who Go – well, Sarah Adams, the founder of Women Who Go launched an initiative to send women Go developers to GopherCon. There are a lot of us who would not be able to afford and who don't have their company sponsor, so there's a crowdfunding effort for that. If people wanna contribute $10, $1,000… Anything is welcome, of course.
A million dollars… [laughter] And it's tax-deductible, because women who Go now is part of Bridge Foundry, same as GoBridge. I don't know how the tax-deductible part of this works for the Women Who Go for this initiative, but I think it is tax-deductible.
Yeah, the Bridge Foundry, which is a 501(c)(3) probably collects the money, which makes it tax-deductible.
I don't know, just because it's dumping at the website via this Generosity.com website, so I don't know how that applies.
And we should soon too be… So in addition to trying to help with that, we also will be doing a diversity and economic hardship type scholarship initiative too, once we finish getting some more planning in place for some of the other GopherCon stuff. But there will be ways for people to apply for assistance to come to GopherCon too, who may not necessarily be women.
Yeah. GoBridge is also going to be doing something… They'll make an announcement in a little bit…
Are there any plans for a GopherCon outside of the U.S. yet? I wonder…
We keep thinking and talking about that.
Oh, okay.
We've also been saying that about regionals, too… I think it comes down to time, because right now Brian and I have day job stuff that pays the bills, and it's already kind of demanding enough on our nights and weeks and stuff to do the one event. So that's why we keep talking about, "Well, how crazy do we have to be to do more than one?" [laughter]
The answer to that is "Really crazy."
But we keep talking about it, and if we can find ways to make that work schedule-wise, where we can have the time to work on more than one, yeah, we definitely keep talking about doing another one and where we might do it.
Sweden.
I would definitely dig Sweden, because I live there. So… Yes, please! [laughter]
[00:40:00.20] I've never been to Sweden, sounds like fun.
Spain… [laughs]
Spain would be awesome.
Spain, yeah… Southern Spain.
Sounds good, too… I have to admit.
One more thing I wanted to mention - there is now an official Go contribution guide. Steve Francia put it together recently (maybe last week). It gives you all the steps that you need to do to contribute to Go.
That's awesome. I haven't looked at it yet. I saw his announcement, but it's long overdue.
He works ridiculously fast. We've just had him on a couple episodes ago and we were talking about some of this stuff, and he's already on it.
That's a big doc, too…
Yeah, I can't believe I haven't even seen this.
I'll drop a link on Slack.
Alright, I'm leaving a tab open… That's a "read later", which gets demoted to "read tomorrow" and then "read this weekend"…
And then "read never"… [laughter]
And then Chrome blows up…
And then it becomes a bookmark… And two years from now I clean up my bookmarks. [laughter]
At least we're honest about it. You know, there was one more package that I wanted to talk about… CockroachDB actually had a blog post about it too, The Arbitrary Precision Decimal Package, so that they could manage data types at arbitrary precision with a little bit more speed than Go allows. So at GitHub.com/CockroachDB/apd there's a nice arbitrary precision decimal package. I don't have a link to the blog post, but maybe we can dig that up somewhere, too. I'm pretty sure there was a blog post that went with it.
Yeah, we'll find it and we'll drop it in the show notes before this episode is released. So I think now is a perfect time for our second sponsor break. Our second sponsor for today is The Ultimate Go Training Series.
Alright, we are back, talking to Luna Duclos. Before this break we were just talking about interesting projects and news and stuff, but let's get a little personal here… If you were not developing backend systems for games, what would you be doing? I think this would be a fun thing to start asking people…
That's a really good question… What would I be doing?
And it doesn't even have to be tech?
I think I would be full-time doing conferences, or working at some cloud provider somewhere on their cloud infrastructure… Or both.
By doing conferences you mean hosting them, or attending all of them that you can, speaking at them? All of the above?
[00:43:54.23] Speaking at them and attending, and maybe organize some smaller ones. I've been organizing FOSDAM when I can, because the Go team hasn't been able to do it, so I took that over. Stuff like that, and meetups that aren't too huge to organize. I wouldn't be able to organize something like GopherCon like you guys are… That's just crazy.
I don't even know if we can organize GopherCon…
Yeah, I think that's questionable.
It's grown to a scale far beyond our ability, so over the years we've hired people to help with different parts and logistics and things like that. It's interesting though… I love the involvement with the community and doing things for the community, especially the day of the event, seeing how excited everybody is… It's infectious.
We need to make one of those GopherCon excitement curve graphics where you show the day of the conference - excitement level 11, and then four months before the conference - excitement level -50. [laughter] It's almost like the adoption curve, maturity model… During the conference it couldn't be any better, it's the best event that's ever happened and it's so awesome getting the community together, but when you're at that point where the conference is two or three months away and all you're doing is making website changes and booking things for speakers, and fighting vendors, and contract changes… All of that stuff, it's like "I wish this conference just be over with, please!"
As much as I hate to make the comparison, the way I see it is it's kind of like women in pregnancy…
Oh, danger, Will Robinson!
"I'm never doing this again! I'm done!" Like, "I'm so ready for this baby…" and then later they see another cute baby, they're like "Oh, I want another one…" [laughter] It's the same thing for us. We go through our period where we're like "I don't know whether I wanna do this again" and then we're like "Oh my god, we need to do 20 conferences!" [laughter]
Yeah, three years in a row, we've said… And after the conference we're like "We're not doing this again!" [laughter]
You have been doing it again!
Yeah, it's amazing how that works.
I think we should make this fair, too… We're gonna go around the virtual room here - if you are not writing code, Brian, what would you be doing?
I'd be a professional hitman. [laughter]
I was not expecting that one.
I was expecting a full-time barbecue shop, actually.
There's no money in that… It's interesting, most of my older family members are in the restaurant business, and the restaurant industry has almost a Maslow's hierarchy of types of food, and barbecue is the lowest demand food when there is a recession in place. People eat barbecue last when there's a recession, so it's not a recession-proof restaurant… So I would just never open a barbecue restaurant.
Besides, I think you'd lose a lot of the fun if you were cooking for a paycheck instead of just cooking for the whole neighborhood, like I do.
What's really interesting about that though is it's the reverse of what you would expect. Barbecue actually started out in very poor areas, because you've got things like, the front quarter of a cow was almost waste for a long time, and they would just chop it up and grind it up and make sausage out of it, they'd slow cook it in the butcher shops and stuff like that to preserve it, and then they'd sell it with like chopped beef sandwiches and things like that. People would slow cook the toughest parts of the cow that nobody wanted until it was tender, and then eat it.
[00:48:06.07] Then it was somewhere along the line people started traveling to areas and tasting barbecue and being like "Oh my god, I love this!" and brisket went from 70 cents/pound to – I don't even know what is it, like $700/pound now… It's ridiculous.
Eight million dollars a pound…
[laughs] So it's kind of crazy that it's reversed like that, because the best way you could feed the most amount of people was to take a pig and throw the pig on…
Carlisia, you're not getting out of this… What would you be doing?
[laughs] The banter gave me time to think… I would be a professional investor, looking for opportunities to invest in things that would be not only profitable, but good to a certain standard - I'm not gonna get into it; I don't even know what that means. But whatever I think would generate good will in the world. And of course, a lot of it would be tech, because it's what I know and it's so crucial for the world.
I think it'd be a lot of fun.
If I win the lottery, I will definitely become an investor.
What about you, Erik?
Oh, I started this, I don't have to answer the question.
Oh, yeah, you do!
Yes, you do…
You could be my handler.
I don't know, it's really hard though… The investment thing would be fun; I love doing community and conference related stuff… Maybe something in information security probably. The hard part is know people in the field and I know the different roles and some of the stuff that you wouldn't wanna do… But if I could have the ultimate – like, I'd just get grants to sit around and hack technologies that they say are unhackable, I think that's be a lot of fun. Or inventing stuff.
Alright, I'm gonna go with that inventing stuff. Just sitting around with gadgets and electronics and coding, and just trying to solve problems.
You could be Q for me. That'd be awesome!
I could be Q?
Q… You know, like James Bond. He walks into the room and Q gives him new tech gadgets… [laughter]
Can I claim that I didn't know what they were being used for?
Sure. If it ever comes to a congressional committee, don't worry, you'll never make it to trial.
"He said it was for hunting… He didn't say people!" [laughter] Alright, did anybody have any other cool things they wanna talk about? Or do we wanna do #FreeSoftwareFriday?
Yes, we have to do #FreeSoftwareFriday because I have a huge shoutout that everybody's gonna be blown away by, surprised! [laughter]
I'm eagerly waiting for that one!
Are you ready? So my #FreeSoftwareFriday shoutout is to - drum roll, please - Webpack! And the reason it's to Webpack is because the documentation on their website is some of the absolute best documentation I've ever seen. I was whining about Webpack on Twitter, and three people came up and said "Did you even RTFM, dude?" And I went to the documentation and I was like, "Holy cow… I should have, because I would probably solve all of my problems if I read this wonderful documentation. So huge shout out to the Webpack team.
It looks like the docs are community-sourced, so everybody in the Webpack community, thank you for all those fantastic documents. Nice!
I think owe tremendous gratitude to anybody who works on documentation, because we all need it, and rarely do any of us want to actually contribute to the documentation. I think we have to show love to anybody who invests time in giving us great documentation. How about you, Carlisia?
I don't have one today.
[00:51:51.12] And Luna… I'm pretty sure you've kind of gathered the gist of this… Every week we give a shoutout to a project or a maintainer (or plurals of those) just to show our love and appreciation.
Yeah, my shoutout goes, without the shadow of a doubt, to Goa. Goa is a code generation framework that lets you declare a REST API, and will then generate all the validations, all the routes, all the security wrappers, all the middleware for you, without you having to do a thing.
It has saved me so much time, and it's taught me a lot by making designing the API an actual, explicit step of my development process, which is lacking in a lot of places where they just slap APIs together and see if it works afterwards, and to hell if it doesn't make sense.
I'm wearing my Goa shirt, so thumbs up to that one.
Yeah, Brian was preaching Goa for almost a year… What happened, Brian? [laughter]
Nothing, I still love Goa. I've been following the Goa 2.0 roadmap, and Goa 2.0 is gonna be amazing. They've moved everything into kind of a separation of concerns where your API is separate in the design from the delivery of your API, so you can have a beautiful REST API generated, as well as a nice gRPC API generated from the same design. It's gonna be really good.
I'm looking forward to that. How stable is it actually, do you know?
The Goa 2.0? It's not done… I was just reading the docs last night; it's not ready yet, but it's getting close. Knowing how fast Raphael codes, it's probably just a couple hours away, but I guess it's really just maybe two or three weeks based on the way it looked in my code review last night.
Very, very nice.
…which means I have to rewrite Gorma. Again.
I will need to start looking at Goa 2.0 then.
So that goes back to the whole argument about the fear of creating open source projects is you have to maintain them… Because people will start hounding you, like "Why is this not Goa2-compatible?"
I've actually experienced the reverse… When I open source things, people make pull requests and fix my bugs for me, without me having to actually do it.
Even that has some overhead, though…
I get a lot of GitHub chatter, though it ends up in a folder that I rarely check, and then I will feel bad because somebody submitted a pull request or something, and I don't see it for like 9 months…
And I'm like, "I'm a terrible person…" [laughter]
One ritual I have in the morning is when I wake up I go check my GitHub alerts, see if there's anything there. I respond… I can do this before I have my breakfast.
Yeah, I need a better schedule, but I feel like the time there… So my #FreeSoftwareFriday for today is Helm, which was worked on by the Deis group. I think it might be the first project that got graduated from beta directly into Kubernetes proper. So Helm is a cool tool – they have these things called "Chart", which are basically pre-packaged applications for running, say, MySQL or Postgres on Kubernetes.
Helm is the bomb.
Helm is awesome.
I need to try this.
Because prior to Helm, everybody was pretty much rolling their own stuff.
Yeah, and that's work. I mean, Kubernetes makes your life easier, but not during the part where you're wiring together 62 different Docker files and putting it into YAML format… Oh my gosh!
I still love Kubernetes, because the alternative is still worse.
[00:56:05.06] Oh yeah, don't get me wrong… I'm not complaining. Just saying that's the least favorite part.
You're like, "Oh, man… I have to configure this YAML file to deploy my app" and before it was like, logging into servers…
Right. Well, you know, anything but YAML. Every single time I touch YAML, there is a space somewhere, or a tab somewhere that beats me. Anything but YAML.
You realize that kubectl can eat up JSON files as well, right? You don't have to use YAML if you don't wanna.
I did know that, yes. And now they have nice YAML verification built into the latest kubectl, so it's not as bad as it used to be. But when I was a kid, back before Kubernetes was 1.0… Yeah, it was eating my lunch all day long.
Fair enough,
So on the question of what would you be doing - it wouldn't be Python programming, right? Even your spaces…
Oh, are you talking to me? [laughter] No… Actually, that's the biggest reason that I've never enjoyed Python, is because all of that white space means something. Stop, don't do that to me. Bad!
I used to love Python back when I was at school, and after school I went kind of like, "No, I don't actually want to use this to make real things! Too scary!"
I don't mind it… I guess I don't really have hatred for any language; I just prefer some languages over others.
Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not actually because of the white space in my case… It's more the weak typing and all the errors being runtime, rather than compile time. That kind of stuff scares me.
I've never had a runtime issue in production. If this was on video, my nose just grew, you know, like a mile long… [laughter] I love that about Go; you gain a lot of that stuff from dynamic languages, the way we write software and think about writing software, but that compile time safety is so nice.
You can't do that, you cannot pass a string where an integer is expected.
I tell you what, though… I was working on like a live admin app for Buffalo this weekend with Ashley McNamara, we were pairing on it on Saturday, trying to figure out a way to make it really nice, like Django admin or Rails Active Admin, but for Buffalo, and I actually hit a point where I wished that Go had generics… It's the first time in seven(ish) year that I was like "Damn, generics would be really useful here." That's the first time it's happened to me. I almost stopped in my tracks and wrote it down.
I guess it depends on the type of stuff you work on. There are some fields and problem spaces where I could see generics needing to be used regularly, but for most of us, we're like "Oh, that sucks… I wish I had generics", and we're like "Yeah, but there's another way, and I only have to do this once."
In code generation it helps.
Well, that's what I did. Instead of doing any generics, I just wrote a code generator that wrote a code generator, and now I'm done.
But who wrote the code generator?
I did. [laughter] Which came first? The code or the generator? The answer is the rooster. [laughter]
Carlisia, you're awfully quiet today.
I am, I don't know why. [laughs]
She's contemplating who she's gonna hire me to hit first. [laughter]
No, man… Sorry, you'd be out of business if you depended on me.
I'm gonna be starving.
World's shortest-lived hitman.
[00:59:59.20] I think you should just stick to popping gators with pellet guns.
Shhhh… This is a PG show.
Says the wannabe hitman…
[laughs] And we're done, so thanks everybody for coming to GoTime. Don't forget to hit us on GoTime.fm/ping, or something… [laughter] Oh, Erik… That was supposed to be our secret.
Remember, children… Don't shoot at alligators, but you can shoot at people. [laughs]
So the back-story here is that there's a seven-foot gator in the pond behind our house - right behind my house, and I've got a BB gun and every time he comes near my shore, I shoot him in the butt because he needs to stay away from my family. This has been going on for about a week now. And you know, we're talking a small BB gun and a big gator; there's no chance I could hurt him, but I would like to provide some negative reinforcement for my neighborhood, so every time he comes nearby I shoot him in the butt with a BB gun, and he goes away.
I'm hoping that at some point shortly he's going to learn, "Hey, the South shore of this lake is a really painful place to be", and he just won't come back. Because he's getting too big. Seven feet is big enough to eat my dog.
Now, what if you're not there?
Well, somebody else will have to shoot him, I don't know…
I don't know anything about the U.S., but don't big gators eventually get shot or picked up by a zoo, or something?
Here what happens is they will leave the gator completely alone until someone complains about it. And at the point that they complain about it, they send in a trapper, and the trapper will kill it and render it for meat, and sell it. So there is no gator relocation program… If you make a phone call and say "This gator is too big", they're gonna come and kill it, and I certainly don't want any animals to die unnecessarily, especially ones that I can't eat… So I don't see any point in calling and having the gator removed, because it's just gonna die.
I would like him to harvest his little party somewhere else, not on my little shore. So I'm just using some negative reinforcement therapy.
I keep telling him one of these nights that thing's gonna crawl under the window…
It's gonna try.
[laughs] The revenge of the gator!
Where did go off topic? So thanks for breaking out my story to the whole entire world, Erik. I appreciate that, I will remember this… Gator shooter…. [laughter]
It's better than the alternative. I remember the first time I learned they put him down; I always thought they relocated him, but…
…it turns out that is not correct. They're just worried because if they're a nuisance here, they may be a nuisance somewhere else, and it'll escalate.
Most of the time it's not a problem as long as people aren't feeding them, and things like that. It's usually when they keep coming up on people's properties and people are dumb enough to feed them, and then they start coming to looking for dogs, and things like that.
[01:03:03.18] There's a lot of them… Like, a million, or a hundred thousand in Florida… There's a lot.
They used to be an endangered species back in the late '60s, early '70s, and now they are so many of them that they're opening more hunting seasons… It's ridiculous. They're overpopulated now. So our conservation efforts did a great job of keeping the gator alive, and now we have a BB gun problem.
And now each citizen of the state of Florida is issued an alligator when they move here. [laughter] So with that, we should probably close out this show, and do a lot of this rambling in our after show… I don't know how many Go programmers are concerned about the gator population in Florida.
I don't know, but I think we just lost half of our listenership with this show… Between gators and hitmen, we're done. Maybe I'm just gonna get voted off the island.
Adam's getting emails now from sponsors… [laughs]
Yeah… This is not a PG show anymore…
Alright… So with that, thank you everybody for being on the show today. Huge thank you to our listeners, both live and everybody who will be listening to this when this episode is released; a giant thank you to our sponsors for today's episode - Toptal and the Ultimate Go Training Series.
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Bye! Thanks, Luna!
Thank you! Bye-bye!


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Ель восто́чная () — вечнозелёное дерево; вид рода Ель семейства Сосновые.

Ареал
Одна из лесообразующих пород горных лесов Кавказа, стран севера Малой Азии. Образует смешанные и чистые леса. Растёт на высоте 1345—2130 м над уровнем моря. Охраняется в заповедниках.

Описание вида

Дерево 32—47 (55) м высотой, с густой ветвистой конической кроной. Кора чешуйчатая, бурая, у взрослых растений тёмно-серая.

Молодые побеги жёлто-серые или красные, более зрелые побеги светло-серые или серые.

Почки 2—6 мм длиной, яйцевидные, красновато-коричневые, несмолистые, с треугольными чешуями, верхушки которых слегка отогнуты.

Хвоинки менее 10 (обычно 5—9) мм длиной, 0,8—1,1 мм шириной, четырёхгранные, притуплённые сверху, немного сплюснутые, грубые, ярко блестящие, на верхней стороне с одной — двумя устьичными линиями на каждой грани, а снизу — с двумя — пятью устьичными линиями; хвоя располагается более-менее настильно.

Шишки цилиндрические, 6—11 см длиной и 2 см толщиной, молодые красные, затем светло-бурые. Семенные чешуи обратнояйцевидные, с почти округлым цельным верхним краем,
на спинке вдоль штриховатые, с ярким блеском. Семена 2—5 мм длиной, чёрные, с более длинным желтовато-коричневым крылом.

Хозяйственное значение и применение
Может быть использована в качестве декоративного. Считается введённой в культуру в 1837 году. В России введена в культуру Ботаническим садом Академии наук. Растения, привезённые в 1981 году с Северного Кавказа, через 20 лет достигли высоты 1 м. Не адаптирована к низким температурам, в Санкт-Петербурге регулярно обмерзает, но всё же пережила ряд холодных зим.

Ель восточная образуют леса с запасом древесины до 2500 м³/га, однако основное значение горных еловых лесов — почвозащитное.

Ботаническая классификация

Таксономическая схема

Синонимы
Список создан на основе базы данных The Plant List:

Примечания

Ссылки

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Декоративные деревья
Флора Евразии

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According to adidas this particular AlphaBOUNCE features 'colours inspired by football's greatest tournament,' yet they offer no explanation as to what that actually means. All we can do is wonder what World Cup cues have been drawn upon. The grass is green, the balls are black and white, the trophy is gold and green, and the logo this year is red and blue. So it must be the logo, right? Although, that's really more of a burgundy.
Well, one thing we can be sure of is that the modern running silhouette is comfortable thanks to its BOUNCE foam and ridged Forgedmesh upper, which expands and contract with the flexing of your foot. So adidas, if you're listening, we'd like a better explanation please.
The adidas AlphaBOUNCE EM WC will be available through their online store on June 10.


Can you remember the physical sensations that went with it?
How about the intense emotions that accompanied it?
and wonderful in your life?
Is it something you would like to experience more often?
To be inspired implies an infusion of spirit — to be filled with a spirit of energy that can often feel powerful, exciting, stimulating, creative and even divine. Inspiration has been at the core of almost every great accomplishment known to human beings. But, for most people it seems to come and go at will, essentially uncontrollable. What if that was not the case? What if you could increase the frequency and intensity of inspiration with the proper use of certain techniques? Would you want to know more?
The experience of inspiration can become a regular part of your life if you are willing to follow the guidelines I have outlined below. They work for me and they will work for you.
Since we cannot control inspiration (trying to control it usually kills it), we need to learn how to invite it into our inner being. It is something that comes to us (or wells up within us) when we have created a receptive container. Here is how to do that.
Be willing to honor inspiration when it arrives. Be respectful.
Value imagination. Staying in your head (being rational and pragmatic) is the antithesis of creativity. Imagination is central and essential to the development of your inspiration.
Allow positive emotions to be part of the process. Feelings like wonder, excitement, joy, and enthusiasm nurture and encourage inspiration.
Practice stillness. Inspiration most often appears during times of quiet reflection. Excessive busyness will completely block the flow.
Finally, remember and trust in the following statement made by the great poet and philosopher, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). I have posted it on the wall in my office. You might do the same.
Economists Sara Solnick and David Hemenway recently conducted a survey where they asked participants if they would rather earn $50,000 a year while other people made $25,000, or earn $100,000 a year while others got $250,000.
Sit down for this one. The majority of participants selected the first option. They would rather make twice as much as others, even if that meant earning half as much as they could have with the second option.
This is completely nuts, of course. Yet other findings by Solnick and Hemenway confirmed the envious nature of contemporary culture. People said, for instance, that they would rather be average-looking in a community where no one is considered attractive than merely good-looking in the company of stunners.
When it came to education, parents said they would rather have an average child in a crowd of dunces than a smart child in a class full of brilliant students.
There's one problem, however. That doesn't work.
Of all the dissatisfactions we face, surely none is more menial than envy. It denies us contentment, is a waste of time, and is an insult to ourselves. Worst of all, it's completely self-imposed.
Face it. We all know people who are smarter, fitter, richer, funnier, more talented, or better looking. But so what?
Thinking this way only keeps you from appreciating your own uniqueness and self-worth, things that, not incidentally, do lead to greater happiness. Especially when combined with a strong sense of purpose.
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How import is it to practice positive thoughts in everyday things?
How important is it to make sure that you are focused on that which you really desire? It is very important to focus on what you want. We all have fears, but to focus on those fears do not better prepare us for them, nor does it avert them. Instead it creates them. The universe is impartial and will give us what we focus on. Instead of focusing on being late for a important meeting focus on getting there on time and all of your effort and energy will flow in the direction of achieving that, other wise you will find yourself experiencing a flurry of events guaranteed to make you late.
This is just a small example, we sabotage our lives like this everyday with out realizing that we are doing it. To stop this trend we need to be aware of our thoughts. If they are geared to negative/positive you are automatically creating what you are thinking of . When you find your thoughts headed in a negative direction you might want to redirect them to a positive outcome for the situation that you are thinking about. If you have always looked at the negative side of things it may be a bit of a challenge to train your mind to positive thought. That can be done by monitoring your thoughts and not letting your mind wander idly through the events of your life. Such as I don't have, I can't get, I am never going to make it etc…I don't have can be shifted to I always have what I need when I need it. Replacing the negatives with positive words is the first step in reminding your self that the negative outcome that you are thinking about you are also creating.
How do you respond when someone ask you for something? If someone ask you for money do you say to them "oh I am broke" or "I don't have any money"? If so you are creating a self fulfilling prophecy. Easier, more positive and more honest is I don't have money for that or for you, it may be tempered with "at this time".
It is all in how you think, and what you think, followed by what you say. You may be practical, honest, and realistic all while using positive thoughts and responses. Practice it until it becomes natural to address life in a positive state of mind. Positive thoughts and positive focuses create positive results.
Detachment is an incredibly powerful tool that I wish I had understood much earlier in life. There are many things from which you can detach yourself, and one of the most important is the habit of judging people, actions, and circumstances as being right or wrong, good or bad.
As Deepak Chopra says in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, when you are constantly classifying, labeling, and evaluating, you "create a lot of turbulence in your internal dialogue." The more internal bickering that takes place, the less time and room (in your mind) for constructive thinking.
Worry, irrelevant thoughts, and fears only add to this internal bickering. All of these are abstracts from which you should make a conscious effort to detach yourself. Even more important is the necessity to detach yourself from needing the approval of others. When you are attached to peer approval, you tend to make bad decisions.
Then there is the pain and discomfort of your present situation. The more you struggle against the unpleasant circumstances of the moment, the more time and energy you waste. It's okay to want things to get better down the road, but don't waste time and energy wishing things were different than they are right now.
Accepting your present situation means detaching yourself from the pain it is causing you. Philosophically, you should learn to accept pain as a normal part of life. Which means, paradoxically, that the best way to eliminate pain is to not try to eliminate it. The more you fight pain, the more it is likely to persist.
Above all, learn to detach yourself from specific results. Practice the art of being flexible. Understand that circumstances constantly change and that things rarely work out precisely as planned. The results you end up with may be much different from the results you were after, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will be less satisfying. If you are too attached to a specific result, it shuts down your creativity.
As with peer approval, when you are too attached to a specific result, you have a tendency to force decisions. And forced decisions are most often bad decisions.
The quickest and most certain way to achieve a goal is to mentally focus on what you want, and attach very strong feeling to wanting it. If you picture a result without attaching strong feelings to it, it's no more than a thought. And that's where the subtle connection between desire and letting go comes in.
Having strong feelings about wanting something in your life is a good thing. The stronger your feelings, the better. But, at the same time, you have to let go and allow it to come to you – perhaps in a different form than you expected.
If a specific objective becomes an obsession – if you believe that you can't be happy without achieving it – your feelings pass the point of diminishing returns and your focus becomes counterproductive.
When you become adept at detachment – from pain, from evaluating and classifying everything that crosses your path, from precise results – it gives you the time, energy, and mental clarity to focus on the single most important activity for overcoming an impossibly bad situation: exploiting opportunities.
What opportunities? The opportunities that are part and parcel of every "impossible" situation.
Based on personal experience, I am convinced that the greatest opportunities lie in the eye of the storm – at the very center of your worst problems.
Confusion about and dissatisfaction with your current situation is part of soul awakening too.
It has come to my attention that as some souls awaken the bodies experience a sense of confusion. There is a sense of things being out of sync in their lives. That is because the path that ego has had them on for many years have little to do with the path that belongs to their souls. Many feel something is missing and began to seek answers as to what could cause such dissatisfaction in what should be a "good life". This is when it is time to rethink your life's path. To seek within for the path that belongs to the soul and the body. Do not fear that this path will somehow make your life miserable. It will however change your life. What most do not understand about following the souls path is that the soul has envisioned a life that involves serving the greater good, but that does not mean living in poverty, giving away all of your assets to reach this place where peace once again prevail. Each soul understands the needs of the physical body that is a part of it… Souls do not require a life of struggle or of deprivation to serve the greatest good. It is aware that suffering and struggling does not direct you to the place in spirit that you need to be. [having a stomach ache does not drive you to become the CEO of your company instead your only focus is the pain and what to do about it until that is eased many things that you need to do will go undone] It is the same when we struggle in life many things are left undone because our focus is on what we are struggling with. It is therefore not how soul shows you the path that works for you and brings harmony, prosperity, love and all the things that you need to allow you to assist soul in serving the greatest good.
The universe supports the reality of your beliefs absolutely.
Does feeling good have anything to do with receiving your desire?
Yes. The more excited you are about your desire and the better you feel about yourself, the higher the vibrational energy that is emitted, connecting you directly to the universe.
Vibrations are the energy that is emitted from our thoughts, emotion, soul and mind. Depending on how you are feeling on any given day, those vibrations can be high or low. The higher the vibration the more positive energy. It's the same type of energy you emit when you are in love or when you have just purchased the house or car of your dreams.
The lower the vibration, the lower the energy out-put; it is equivalent to someone who is sick and their body and mind are not in sync.
Let's delve a little deeper into how vibrations play a part in bringing your dreams, desires and goals into fruition. Connecting to the universe for a desire is like telepathy; words are not necessary for the universe to respond, for it does not speak, hear or see in the same fashion as a human. It's all about your thoughts, feelings, and energy this is what the universe responds to the quickest.
Think about the last time you were having a conversation on your cell phone and the call dropped. Well, you were in-between cellular towers and your signal was interrupted because there was a void between your phone and the tower's signal. Once you were back in line with one of the cellular towers, the conversation was reconnected or you had to make the call again.
Dropped calls would be the equivalent to being sick, thinking negative thoughts not being aligned with your soul. In connecting to the Universe you must be aware of your feelings and your intentions. It all boils down to what are you thinking, and what are you feeling. Becoming aware of your thoughts and feelings will lead you to make better decisions and attract new wanted experiences. Sometimes a dropped call is your subconscious mind remembering an earlier experience and then disconnecting; not wanting to have the same outcome.
This is exactly how it works with in the Universal Law of Attraction. When you feel good you are directly connected. Subsequently, if you are feeling bad or are in a stressed situation, you are not directly connected to the Universe; hence, a dropped signal. In order to receive your desire, you must stay totally aligned with feeling good, believing and having faith.
Aldian Prakoso is a Personal Development Expert in Law of Attraction. He shows people around the world HOW to apply Law of Attraction in their life to attract more money, better health, and better relationships.
You have struggled with trying to change your approach. For some it is easy it is what they have been seeking their whole life. They have always known they were different now they know what is making them different. They embrace the souls chosen path regardless of how it will change their physical world they are ready to become complete and aware on all levels. Their Journey continues they are now ready to walk the path that only the being that has become en-souled is able to walk. They look at the path an realize that they would never have been able to travel this way without letting go and letting the soul lead actually they would not even have been aware of this path without their soul. They have begun the first steps of a journey that will be exciting and rewarding spiritually, and physically to them I offer congratulations and we will check in on them as they continue their journey.
Unfortunately here we will have to say good bye to some as well the changing of their approach was too difficult they could not release to soul. They felt unable to trust Divine Consciousness, Universal Spirit, God or Goddess Mind [a few of the names soul is know by] to take them down the path that was agreed upon before they arrive here. They still believed that the Divine Consciousness is only a small part of who they are and therefore not strong enough to take charge of their life path. They have made steps on the path and have found a spot they feel comfortable with. They feel safe in this spot. That too is okay. Until they choose to give their soul complete control to follow the path that was agreed upon we say adios to them here. Perhaps later the body will realize that the soul is the power that runs it. Maybe realize that the hopes, dreams and the very fabric of it's' existence revolve around the soul not the other way. When they embrace that Universal Truth their spiritual journey will begin again.
coming from the person we really are.
One of the big problems with following the original path of the soul is changing ones approach to doing things and dealing with life. You have mostly grown up with a hand on physical approach or an emotional approach to life and to relationships. You meet someone and you are physically attracted to them they exhibit qualities that you feel you need in your life…for instance they are good physical communicators, they are very attentive, and they like the same things you like. Unfortunately all of these things can change and do as the relationship progress. One day you realize you have "out grown" the relationship and you are off to find someone else to fill those physical needs. The soul does not waste time or energy pursuing those fleeting qualities. It seeks the soul connection the connections that have infinite qualities and the ability to change and grow as the people involved change and grow. This approach is slow and there are not always physical sign that it is working. In order to get a progress report on the soul approach to relationship and life you may have to look for the deeper feeling of peace that is a natural part of souls approach. You may realize that your own approach to people and things are gradually changing it is usually a smooth transition.
The problems arise when you suddenly realize that you are missing the rather shallow human connection the here today gone tomorrow connections. You desire communication your souls does communicate but it usually only communicate with those whose soul vibration match it's own that communication is done on a soul to soul level until the body is ready to accept their part in the souls path. The right person for you, the right career, the right friends and connections, are all waiting for you. But as long as you continue to use your human 5 sensory needs to try to bring those things into your life you will continue with a hit and miss situation. Unfortunately this approach is still used even as the soul seeks to take you to the things that will bring you what you seek. By following the soul's path you find those things you seek but they do not come in the way that you are accustomed to and they do not respond in the way you are accustomed to. Many at this time reject what the soul is offering because it is not presented in the familiar way or the physical 5 sensory way. At this point they shove aside the soul's path and run back to the painful but familiar approach to life. Rejecting what they really want because they can not see it or touch it in the physical yet. That approach is akin to being hungry and having to wait on the preparation of a banquet in your honor vs. nixing the banquet for cotton candy. The hard part about the soul path is the realization that for something to become physical it must first be created on the spiritual or soul level. If you really wish to walk the original path of soul you must realize that much baggage and many false beliefs and concepts including the urging to deal with your life on a 5 sensory level must be released and you must be the one to release them…Also you must work with the soul truly work with the soul to bring what you are seeking into the physical. It is a way of life it is a change to the way you view the world. You may have the cotton candy and still be hungry an hour later or you may help prepare the banquet and enjoy the feast. Cotton Candy [instant gratification] vs. banquet [work involved, prep time needed, but very fulfilling when done right] which will it be for you?


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If you're not already, you should consider using background music. Pick something without a lot of vocals (jazz and lounge and are always good, some movie soundtracks). Leave it playing continuously so if there's an emergency you can just just quickly fade it up. It can also help you with your speaking: pauses can sound much more deliberate when music's playing in the background, saves you from having to say "uh" and "booya". And, transitions from the music to just voice are always more abrupt sounding than when the background music fades up out of the previous track and then then your voice comes out over the top of it - it gives everything some flow.