Yesterday we heard that an iOS 7 jailbreak has been released, the software, which allows you to unlock your iOS device was developed by the Evasi0n team.
There appears to have been a bit of controversy over the jailbreak in the last 24 hours, ad the software comes with a cracked Chinese app store called Taig.
According to multiple reports, the Chinese company that runs Taig, paid the Evasi0n team to release the app store with the iOS 7 jailbreak.
The Taig app store apparently has some pirated software, which the Evasi0n team were not aware of before the app was released, they are against piracy, and have released a statement, which you can see part of below.
Preventing piracy is also extremely important to us. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed about the piracy that was seen today. All of us have spoken out vehemently against piracy in the past. We don't believe it's right for developers to not get paid for their work. In our agreement with Taig, we contractually bind them to not have piracy in their store. This was an extremely important precondition of working with them. In entering the agreement with them, we had hoped and continue to hope that our cooperation with Taig will improve the piracy situation in China. Many App Stores within China, including those run by large corporations, have many issues with pirated software. Promoting an app store that is required not to have piracy with our jailbreak, we believe, will help developers.
We are very upset that despite our agreement and review by their team, piracy was found in the store. It was not acceptable and they have been strenuously working to resolve the problem in good faith, and have removed all instances of it that we have brought to their attention. We are happy that it was not overlooked by the community. We've been so heads down working on the code that we didn't see this. We are sorry. We will continue to monitor this issue and work to resolve it completely. Taig will be pulled from the jailbreak if it cannot be resolved.
You can see the full statement from the Evasi0n Team at the link below, and you can also find details about the jailbreak over at their website.


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Some pursuits that use the aural style are playing, conducting, or composing music, and sound engineering (mixing and audiovisual work).
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If you are an aural learner, use sound, rhyme, and music in your learning. Focus on using aural content in your association and visualization.
Use sound recordings to provide a background and help you get into visualizations. For example, use a recording of an aircraft engine running normally, playing loudly via a headset, to practice flight procedures. Use a recording of the sound of wind and water when visualizing sailing maneuvers. If you don't have these recordings, consider creating them while next out training.
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Use the anchoring technique to recall various states that music invokes in you. If you have some particular music or song that makes you want to 'take on the world,' play it back and anchor your emotions and state. When you need the boost, you can easily recall the state without needing the music.
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Q: How to make custom settings data available globally in Yii 2? I'm creating an application which stores some settings in the database and ideally it would be good to load these settings during bootstrapping and make them available via an object globally.
Can this be done and added to Yii::$app->params somehow?
Such as you can create a class and return the details as an array or object instance?

A: Ok, I found out how to do it.
Basically you have to implement the bootstrapInterface, an example below for my situation.
Set the path to your class that implements the interface:
app/config/web.php:
$config = [
    'id' => 'basic',
    'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
    'bootstrap' => [
                    'log',
                    'app\base\Settings',
    ],
    //.............
];

So I have placed a class called Settings.php at the location: app\base\Settings.php.
Then this is my Settings.php file:
namespace app\base;

use Yii;
use yii\base\BootstrapInterface;

/*
/* The base class that you use to retrieve the settings from the database
*/

class settings implements BootstrapInterface {

    private $db;

    public function __construct() {
        $this->db = Yii::$app->db;
    }

    /**
    * Bootstrap method to be called during application bootstrap stage.
    * Loads all the settings into the Yii::$app->params array
    * @param Application $app the application currently running
    */

    public function bootstrap($app) {

        // Get settings from database
        $sql = $this->db->createCommand("SELECT setting_name,setting_value FROM settings");
        $settings = $sql->queryAll();

        // Now let's load the settings into the global params array

        foreach ($settings as $key => $val) {
            Yii::$app->params['settings'][$val['setting_name']] = $val['setting_value'];
        }

    }

}

I can now access my settings via Yii:$app->params['settings'] globally.
Extra information on other ways to bootstrap stuff here.

A: I'm a little late to the party, but there is a much easier way to do this.
$config = [
    'id' => 'basic',
    'basePath' => dirname(__DIR__),
    'bootstrap' => [
                    'log',
    ],
    //.............
    'params' = [
        'adminEmail' => 'admin@example.com',
        'defaultImage' => '/images/default.jpg',
        'noReplyEmail' => 'noreply@example.com'
    ],
];

Now you can simply access those variables with the following syntax
$adminEmail = \Yii::$app->params['adminEmail'];

A: Another way to do it is override init() method in the baseController.
class BaseController extends Controller{...
public function init()
    {
            if(Yii::$app->cache->get('app_config'))
        {
            $config = Yii::$app->cache->get('app_config');
            foreach ($config as $key => $val)
            {
                Yii::$app->params['settings'][$key] = $val->value;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            $config = Config::find()->all();
            $config = ArrayHelper::regroup_table($config, 'name', true);
            Yii::$app->cache->set('app_config', $config, 600);

            foreach ($config as $key => $val)
            {
                Yii::$app->params['settings'][$key] = $val->value;
            }
        }
}
....}

It`s up to you. I used to do this method in Yii1 but now I would prefer bootstrap method

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Modotti helped the young Álvarez Bravo shape his career by urging him to pursue his craft and making an introduction to Weston back in California. They were in a vibrant artistic environment and were drawn to the circle of activist artists such as Diego Rivera, Jean Charlot, Xavier Guerrero, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In contrast, Edward Weston 1886-1958 , recognised as one of the masters of 20th century photography, left a legacy that includes a collection of several thousand photographs, many of them icons of American Modernist photography. Modotti and Weston: Legacy in Mexican Photography - This small section will feature works by two Mexican photographers, Manuel Álvarez Bravo 1902-2002 and Mariana Yampolsky 1925-2002. Although the historic town of Udine was prosperous and in general politically conservative, the working classes tended toward Socialism and political activism. The £1million project fully funded by the Corporation of London designed by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, has provided an additional 140 sq metres of display area with the sealing of the central void and the removal of the large staircase down to the Library.
The flower for all of these women was a subtle assertion of female sexuality, and not only a nod to the theme of mortality and the transience and fleeting nature of life, but also paradoxically an attempt to capture life and give it duration beyond its natural cycle. Her dramatic life marked by her passionate affair with Edward Weston 1886-1958 and her affiliation with communism, has, until recently, detracted others from her singular contribution to the modern photography after her premature death in 1942. The Italian-born artist immigrated to the United States when she was 16. There, cultural and political expatriates like Weston and Modotti, , and Leon Trotsky moved in bohemian circles with Mexican intellectuals and artists such as and. The E-mail message field is required. She joined the Communist party in 1927, and thereafter her photographs focused on social and political issues in Mexico until she was deported in 1929. Prelude to Mexico: Los Angeles 1919-23 - The exhibition begins with photographs that set the social and artistic scene of the early 1920s in Los Angeles, where Modotti and Weston met.
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She took its folk art and landscapes as the starting points for her most abstract images. Weston detached his subjects from their ordinary contexts, focussing on their formal qualities. She was the third of six children born to Giuseppe Modotti and Assunta Mondini, and the family lived in the Northeastern Italian town of Udine, at the base of the Austrian Alps. The most varied versions of this beautiful prayer. The family moved, and Modotti spent much of her childhood living in Austria, where her father worked as a mason, and her mother stayed home with the children working as a seamstress to generate additional income. Comparable to other iconic of her generation, Modotti's pictures privilege sharp and highly defined close-ups, and reveal an inexhaustible interest in underlying geometrical pattern, both manmade and present in nature.
The following year, Mella was assassinated as he walked home with Modotti by his side. The Guest Curator of the exhibition is American art historian, Sarah M. In his brief time there, he had begun to organise an exhibition of painting, batik and photographs by Weston and others and Modotti resolved to see the show through when she arrived shortly before his death. In 1905, the family returned to Udine and Modotti left school to work in a textile factory. Ultimately she was deported from Mexico labeled as an enemy of the state, and in this respect, unlike her fellow artists, had in many ways sacrificed her art in the name of her political beliefs and the fight for Communism.
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In August 1923 Modotti and Weston arrived in Mexico City and set up a photography studio where Modotti was business partner and studio manager, and in return, Weston taught her photography. For access to motion picture film stills please contact the. Works by Manuel Álvarez Bravo 1902-2002 and Mariana Yampolsky 1925-2002 - Mexican photographers who were directly influenced by the work of Modotti and Weston will complement the display. Hommage to a Mexican poet. Álvarez Bravo began photographing during the mid-1920s at the height of the Mexican Renaissance. Modotti's father was among those influenced by such activism; he often attended demonstrations and meetings, including the May Day demonstrations that took place every year. Although she seems to have had little exposure to art as a child, her uncle Pietro Modotti did run a successful photography studio and school , where she may have worked as a teenager.


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Home/US/Utah monolith 'was hauled away in pick-up truck and "Bye b****" was scrawled in its place
Utah monolith 'was hauled away in pick-up truck and "Bye b****" was scrawled in its place
The mysterious triangular metal monolith that appeared in the remote Utah desert and captured the attention of the nation vanished on Friday and explorers searching for the pillar said it was hauled away in a pick-up truck and they found in its place the words 'Bye b****' scrawled into the ground and a puddle of urine.
The shiny 12-foot-tall pillar was first spotted on November 18 by Utah Department of Public Safety workers surveying bighorn sheep by helicopter.
Curious tourists and explorers flocked to the structure – even though officials never disclosed its exact location – and posed for photos with the enigma as the public wondered if it was an art installation, an inexplicable message from alien life or just a stunt.
But by Friday the prism was removed by 'an unknown party', the Bureau of Land Management said in a statement.
Adventurers Riccardo Marino and Sierra Van Meter trekked to visit the monument, located just east off Canyonlands National Park at 11.30pm on Friday, but found site in the red rocks eerily desolate.
'All that was left in its place was a message written in the dirt that said "Bye b****" with a fresh pee stain right next to it,' Marino said on Instagram on Saturday.
The mysterious triangular metal monolith that appeared in the remote Utah desert on November 18 and captured the attention of the nation vanished on Friday and explorers searching for the pillar said they found in its place the words 'Bye B****' scrawled into the ground and a puddle of urine
Adventurers Riccardo Marino and Sierra Van Meter trekked to visit the monument, located just east off Canyonlands National Park at 11.30pm on Friday, but found the red rocks empty. 'All that was left in its place was a message written in the dirt that said "Bye b****" with a fresh pee stain right next to it,' Marino said
This is the puddle of urine that was found at the site of the monument
Marino said during their journey to the pillar they passed by a pick-up truck hauling a large object and they believe that was the monolith being towed away. He also found fresh tire tracks at the site
'On our way out we discovered fresh tire tracks that were made by a dolly, clearly left by someone not to long before us,' Riccardo Marino, pictured above with Sierra Van Meter, said in a video shared on their social media after leaving the empty monolith site
'Someone had just stolen the statue, and we were the first to arrive at the scene,' he added.
Marino said during their journey to the pillar they passed by a pick-up truck hauling a large object and they believe that was the monolith being towed away.
'At about 10.45pm roughly four miles into Lockhart Basin we passed a truck that was hauling a large object strapped down In the bed with the hatch open,' he said.
'I thought for a second that it was the monolith but after driving 8 hours to get here we ignored it and convinced ourselves they were hauling off-road vehicles,' he added.
Marino shared video of the moment he and Van Meter arrived to the scene, only to find urine, the 'Bye b****' message and fresh wheel tracks in the dirt.
'On our way out we discovered fresh tire tracks that were made by a dolly, clearly left by someone not to long before us,' he said.
All that remains: The Bureau of Land Management shared photos of the site where the monolith once stood on Sunday. Now in its place all that remains is a metal triangle and a mark in the dirt from where it once stood
Utah's Bureau of Land Management shared photos Sunday of tire tracks in the area of the monolith, east off Canyonlands National Park, to demonstrate the influx of visitors this infrequently visited area received due to the mysterious pillar
One Reddit user shared a photo of the empty space where the monolith once stood after he also drove out late Friday night to visit the pillar only to find it gone in the early hours of Saturday morning
Marino added that on the way there they heard voices in the distance coming from the trucks he passed. When they left the monolith's remains they found the group had gone, leading him to suspect they could have collectiely been behind removing the structure.
The Bureau of Land Management in Utah said they weren't responsible for removing the structure.
'[We] did not remove the structure which is considered private property. The structure has received international and national attention and we received reports that a person or group removed it on the evening of 27 Nov,' the agency said in a statement.
The bureau said it will 'not investigate crimes involving private property' as they are 'handled by the local sheriff's office.'
To this day the origin of the monolith is not known, however there are several theories.
Many theorize that the pillar could be the work of the lae artist John McCracken. A spokesperson for his gallerist David Zwirner told the New York Times it could be one of his works.
The BLM said in a Facebook post on Saturday: 'We have received credible reports that the illegally installed structure, referred to as the 'monolith' has been removed from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands by an unknown party'
The three-sided structure was removed (pictured) by 'an unknown party' on Friday evening, the Bureau of Land Management Utah said in a statement
Reddit users theorized that the object was installed by an artist and taken away in the night
Others theorized referenced how Google Earth images show it has been standing since at least 2015 or 2016 and speculated federal agents could have removed it
Many noted the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths that trigger huge leaps in human progress in Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
Reddit users theorized that the object was installed by an artist and taken away in the night.
'I'd wager some dollars the artist took it. 1. They installed it, they know how to remove it easily. 2. Adds to the mystery; it was gone as soon as it appeared. 3. Feds were probably going to take it anyway. 4. It's going to show up somewhere else in Utah,' one user shared.
'It's been there for years,' another added, referencing how Google Earth images show it has been standing since at least 2015 or 2016.
A tourist stands with the triangular top of the monolith and posted their finding to Instagram
A man holds the triangular top that has been left of the monolith which remains in the desert
One explorer crouches beside the triangular top which has been left next to a stack of rocks
Colter Hoyt, from Boulder Town, Utah, drove nine hours to visit the monolith in the desert
Colter posed in a collection of fancy dress outfits in the desert including a silver skin-tight suit
Colter posed on stilts next to the monolith before it was removed (left) and also re-enacted scenes next to the monolith (right)
'The aliens took it back because of all the whiners,' another user added, believing the pillar was the work of extraterrestrial life.
Others wondered if a group of people stole the pillar to have it for their own means.
Bret Hutchings, the pilot who happened to fly over the obelisk, speculated that it had been planted by 'some new wave artist.'
Either way, Hutchings admitted it was 'about the strangest thing I've come across out there, in all my years of flying.'
Officials suggest it could be have been constructed by an artist or a huge fan of 2001: Space Odyssey – the structure resembles the machines found in Arthur C. Clarke's story (pictured)
Some observers also pointed out the object's resemblance to the avant-garde work of John McCracken (left) an American artist who lived for a time in nearby New Mexico, and died in 2011. He was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs (right)
'We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it,' he told local news channel KSLTV.
Utah has a history of 'land art,' unusual installations that cropped up far from population centers in the 1960s and '70s.
The most famous, Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot-long coil by artist Robert Smithson in 1970 that's composed entirely of mud, salt crystals and basalt.
Located on the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point, the jetty appears and disappears depending on water levels.
So far, no one has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the monolith, though.
The monolith was located inside a red rock cove but workers have withheld details about its exact location to prevent others from endangering themselves trying to get a closer look
Utah: Officials have refused to disclose the metal obelisk's location out of fear that curious sightseers would flock to the remote wilderness, but internet sleuths managed to pinpoint its position nonetheless. Google Earth images show it has been there since 2016 or 2015
A view of the mystery monolith in Magnuson Park in Seattle pictured on January 2, 2001
Colter Hoyt, from Boulder Town, Utah, drove nine hours to visit it before posing in a collection of fancy dress outfits for a series of selfies and pictures which he posted to Facebook on Saturday.
He captioned the pictures: 'The Obelisk! I know it will be photographed heavily in the near future until its demise, but I don't think too many people will do it quite as much justice as me.
'(I took a lot more pictures in a variety of outfits and places nearby, these are just a few. Was so fun!)'
A similar version of Utah's monolith appeared nearly 20 years ago on New Years Day in Seattle.
Just as with the Utah sighting, there was no initial clues left about the structure's creators or its origin.
Park officials said at the time no one obtained permits to install the structure and when they pushed against it, it would not give.
Then on January 3 it disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a concrete platform that was used to anchor it.
In its place was a single red rose with its stem snapped into two pieces, as per KIRO7.
It was then discovered the following morning on Green Lake's Duck Island.
Artist Caleb Schaber then came forward as a spokesperson for the monolith saying he and a band of anonymous collaborators calling themselves 'Some People' made the object and several smaller versions that were placed around the Seattle.
But he said his group had nothing to do with the monolith's disappearance.
Aliens or avant-garde art installation? Theories surrounding the mystery of the Utah desert monolith
Social media users were quick to note the object's similarity to the strange alien monoliths in Stanley Kubrick's classic sci-fi film '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
In the film, the monolith was a tool created by an alien race that trigger huge leaps in human progress.
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The structure has also drawn comparisons to the work of minimalist artist John McCracken.
McCracken, who died in 2011, was known for his freestanding sculptures in the shape of pyramids, cubes, or sleek slabs.
The monolith closely resembles McCracken's pieces, leading some to speculate this could be one of his own works of art.
Adding to the theory is that McCracken had lived and worked in nearby New Mexico and California.
A spokeswoman for his representative David Zwirner said it was not one of McCracken's works.
Zwirner later gave another statement in which he suggested the piece was indeed by McCracken.
'The gallery is divided on this,' Zwirner said. 'I believe this is definitely by John.'
NEW WAVE ARTIST OR SCI-FI FAN
Many have speculated the structure could just be the work of a new wave artist or sci-fi fan.
Pilot Bret Hutchings, who discovered the monolith, suggested it was placed by 'a big 2001: A Space Odyssey' fan.'
A David Zwirner rep said it was possibly by a fellow artist paying homage to McCracken.
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Not only did our daughter Skye fall in love with St. Olaf, but they fell for her too. photo by Rodney CurtisOur dear, darling daughter has finally made her collegiate decision, but it was not without fits and starts. We visited colleges from sea to shining sea over the past few years. Who knew she'd end up on top of a remote hill, in the middle of rural Minnesota?
It's not like our daughter's a rampant sinner or diametrically opposed to anything religious. On the contrary, she's very spiritual. It's just people make certain assumptions about things based on names alone. For instance, you wouldn't expect Conservatives to be conservationists.
During our college visits, we've seen a lot of campuses and taken a whole bunch of tours. No Admissions Department was as incredible as the one at St. Olaf. They're known for courting the whole family; I realized this as I munched on duck empanadas at the president's shindig for prospective parents.
Another dad I met there mentioned this was his fifth event so far. He told the story of being wined and dined with other Chicago-area parents at a lavish affair on the Magnificent Mile. They then all strolled down the street to an enormous cathedral and were ushered into the front pews of a standing-room-only performance of the St. Olaf choir. He contrasted that with a meeting he had at another college where a harried Admissions officer met him at a back table of a crowded Panera and he had to pay for his own coffee.
As other colleges showed varying degrees of interest in our daughter, St. Olaf phoned and wrote and offered scholarships. They even revised their awards upward after hearing about our financial concerns. In separate meetings on campus, everybody seemed to know Skye already. Kathy Ruby, the Financial Aid guru laughed and quoted one of our daughter's notes verbatim. And Brian Burgemeister (yes, his name is one letter shy of that guy in Santa Claus Is Coming To Town) deserves a medallion for dealing with Marci and I.
Skye loves them and they love Skye. There's nothing more important.
Any small town, though, that has a great Indian restaurant, has my vote. Cows, Colleges, and Curry for me. Not to mention Malt-O-Meal, but I'll get to that.
A student named Bjorn (what else would you expect at a college named after a Norwegian King?) told us if you don't like reading a lot, then discussing what you've read, don't come to St. Olaf. Skye was hooked. She immediately applied for and was accepted into their Great Conversations course, which meets for two years. Basically, you live with a bunch of other students who love to read, read, read then talk about what they've just read, read, read.
Voted amongst the top ten nationwide for college cuisine (see duck empanadas above) I know my kid's going to eat well during those cold Minnesota winters. I realize I'm sounding like a brochure for the school; can you tell I'm trying to sell myself on her being so far away?
I did my research though. I was worried about a lot of different things. Some rational (is it really a dry campus in the middle of a cornfield?), others totally irrational (yes, in fact they keep a thick file on ghost sightings in the cool, fun olde tyme buildings). So in my quest to ease "your" minds about the college in the middle of nowhere, I compiled this list of extremely pertinent facts.
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #1: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby dropped out of St. Olaf after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition.
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #2: Betty White's character on The Golden Girls came from St. Olaf.
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #3: That honey badger narrator is a graduate of St. Olaf. The internet meme has been viewed more than 43 million times.
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #4: Their fight song, Um Yah Yah, is the only college fight song in the U.S. that's a waltz. They also chant "Um Yah Yah" fourteen times in the song, which is fourteen times more than any other school in the world. Click on the link if you want to sing along. (The tipping point for Marci were their amazing Um Yum Yum cookies).
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #5: An enormous wind turbine that dominates their "skyline" saves the school a quarter million dollars in electricity costs every year. They were the first liberal arts college in the nation to construct one for the sole purpose of providing energy to the campus.
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #6: They make Malt-o-Meal, the delicious warm breakfast cereal, about twenty steps from campus. The smells waft over Carleton or St. Olaf, depending on the prevailing winds. (subfact: this blogging software can be horrible with lining up graphic elements, depending on the prevailing winds).
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #7: Their national-award-winning Rube Goldberg team has more girls on it than any of the other national Rube Goldberg teams. They made this fun ad for Target.
FUN ST. OLAF FACT #8: And last but certainly not least, there is a long history between Garrison Keillor and the school, including this past fall when he broadcast Prairie Home Companion from their Skoglund Center Auditorium.
My mentor, Bill Palmer of Alma College, has helped me come to terms with actually sending my kids away to college instead of keeping them locked under the stairs. He says St. Olaf has a wonderful reputation among educators so I'm loosening my clutches, albeit hesitantly. Even stranger yet, I found out during our conversation that Bill thinks I would make a good spokesman or Admissions guy for a college I believed in.
Maybe I can get a job there and move the whole family to join Skye. Are you listening Mr. Burgemeister?
I sometimes sit staring outside, wondering what became of Spring, or the fake, funny, vernal tease we had a month ago. It was an enjoyable prelude to things that will come. I've taken it as an allegory for my current, present, now.
The purple tree out front has been holding onto its blooms for what seems like a month or more. Frozen in mid-transformation, it's a cryogenic specimen of life waiting to spring eternal. For some artistic, mythic reason it has paused in its most beautiful and elegant form.
Normally, the temporary swing from Winter to Summer feels fleeting. The rebirth in all living things wants so desperately to spring forth, that their foot race to fruition blurs past us. I am honored to watch and enjoy the stop-motion photography taking place all around me.
This may not be a first — this lengthy, prolonged Spring — but it's a first for me, sitting in my armchair as witness. I haven't had the space or maybe the inclination in the past to sit still and see the stopwatch click on and click off.
Buds and bulbs push forth from me too. And as is happening with our climate, so too do the fits and starts keep me guessing. But it progresses nonetheless. Hope springs eternal and Spring eternally hopes.
Beth Gourley puts Marci through her paces like a rat in a maze or a wife on a deck.
Perhaps the very first thing you want to do, when it comes to taking a memory test, is remembering that you took a memory test. There might be something else, but I've forgotten it. Marci and I were part of a clinical study a month ago, but I simply forgot to write about it.
I have word retrieval issues, which isn't a bit scary, being a writer and all. Apparently I'm not alone. So much so, that a team from Eastern Michigan University is testing the phenomenon which — until recently — I've pretty much just chalked up to Chemo Brain.
But no, even though Chemo Brain is real and affects a large portion of cancer patients, apparently those of us who've invited someone else's stem cells to take up residence and play euchre in our bodies, have all had memory issues as well.
When I got an email asking if I lived within a few hundred miles of EMU, had a transplant, wanted to be part of a study, liked getting $25 for being part of a study and have never wittingly engaged in extra-marital affairs with a conch shell, I knew they'd found their patsy.
They wanted to study my "caregiver" too, so Marci and I had "the discussion" about shellfish love vs. un-shellfish love. Yes, she was clean too, but it's always nice to check. So we invited the team over to our house and were a bit nervous until Beth and Natasha showed up.
Beth Gourley, a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student and Natasha Fleming, a Masters Student in the Clinical Behavioral Program at EMU brought two different testing methods with them, computer-based and good old fashioned analog, 1970's psychology exams.
DISCLAIMER: No electrodes were used in the study of Marci and Rodney, much to my chagrin.
While Beth took me outside to test my memory, Natasha stayed indoors to test Marci. Then we flip-flopped. I won't bore you with all the crazy things we had to do. Some tests included remembering a geometric pattern, repeating a list of random words, tapping buttons in an increasingly complex order (much like that old Simon game) and trying to fit together shapes with our non-dominant hands.
I told them I wasn't comfortable hunting for cheese in a maze, so instead they sent me to get some brie at Krogers, but told me to go a different way.
Okay, the shellfish and brie things were made up, but if I were doing a memory test, I'd definitely include them. Maybe that's why I only made it to my sophomore year as a Psych. major.
The two women couldn't have been more gracious and accommodating. We even had a mutual connection as our good friend had shot one of their weddings and lives down the street from them. It only took a couple hours and we have two, brand-spanking new Target gift cards and a blog entry as our payment.
If you are about to get a bone marrow transplant or have had one in the past few years, Beth would love to come to your place and study you too. I know that sounds creepy, but you can contact her here.
DISCLAIMER: Never mix shellfish and brie if you expect to live to tell the tale.
I hate these sounds; stuffing of bags, crunching of paper, "hey, where's my _____," it means we're packing up and heading home. Tinny music blaring from an iPhone, cupboards and drawers being searched. An old instrument rolling around in the tub … What?
Skye found an ancient baritone at a street market today and after bargaining it down to £25, she's giving it a wash and polish. Ah the sounds of packing, Curtis-style.
We're going to miss jolly ol' London town. Yes, we visited the home Marci lived in when she was a child, so the continuity of then and now can hold us over. All the ladies want to move here. Their slightly more reasonable father points out that with the price of homes, the closest to London we could probably afford to live is maybe Wales.
You can tell you're smitten with a place when — like you feel with a lover — parting leaves you wanting so much more. Oh, we didn't get to the Olympic village or out to Oxford or do that silly four-of-us-strolling-across-Abbey-Road thing that I was planning on. You're welcome, everyone. But my legs and feet tell me we did so much, much more and really, seeing five shows in the West End eats up a lot of time (and money, although the discount ticket booths really helped).
But there's a part of this trip that I might miss more than anything else: that view. We found a cheaper than normal apartment for these previous 11 days. And it came with a spectacular view of our beloved city. The panorama grabbed me during the day, at sunset, late at night and early in the morning when everyone else was asleep, but I arose to swallow my ever-present medicine.
Thank you, view. I put coins in all the musician's cases as a way of repaying you. But you brought jazz to my trip. Your enormous London Eye ferris wheel winks back at me to let me know we're karmically cool.
The laptop needs to go night-night now. As we do the final sweep, our bags are noticeably heavier. Luscious London candy along with cool clothing, gifts and trinkets weigh us down. And also, we've added to our quartet. A funky brass instrument is tucked in amongst the socks and bras and underwear.


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WORCESTER, MA – The Massachusetts Pirates embark on a three-game road trip with the first stop in Tucson this week to face the Sugar Skulls. The voyage will take the team to Louisville and Frisco before returning home to face Bismarck at Phoenix Field at the DCU Center on July 10.
The Pirates (3-3) are coming off a 40-33 setback at the hands of the Frisco Fighters. Massachusetts held a 16-13 lead in the second quarter but the running of Fighters quarterback Jerrod Heard (13 carries, 58 yards, two touchdowns) led Frisco to a 40-26 advantage after three quarters. Pirates quarterback Alejandro Bennifield's two-yard touchdown run with 4:30 to play closed the deficit to 40-33, but that's as close as the Pirates would come. Bennifield ended the game 9 of 18 passing for 128 yards and three touchdowns. Two of the scores went to LaQuvionte Gonzalez who had three receptions for 27 yards. Thomas Owens led all receivers with 77 yards on four catches and a score.
Tucson (1-3) led in state rival Arizona 34-30 after three quarters last Saturday, but saw the Wranglers score twice in the fourth quarter to earn a 44-34 victory. Sugar Skulls QB Demry Croft finished 12 of 20 for 142 yards and three touchdowns against one interception. Croft also ran the ball 11 times for 61 yards and a touchdown. His top target was Kent Shelby II who had three receptions for 41 yards and a score.
This week the Pirates will enter the game scoring an average of 36.7 points per game while allowing just 30.8 which is second in the Indoor Football League. Massachusetts tops the league allowing just 153.5 yards per contest and also ranks third defensively in third down conversions with opponents having a success rate of 24.6 percent. Tucson is scoring 34.5 points per game while allowing 38.3 which is fourth in the IFL.
The Pirates Justin Stockton did not play last week vs. Frisco, still he leads the IFL in carries with 55 and is third with 245 rushing yards. Bennifield is tied for second in the league with eight rushing touchdowns and ninth gaining 4.8 yards per carry. Croft for Tucson ranks third gaining 50.3 yards per game. He is also fourth with 47 carries, sixth with 201 yards and fourth with four rushing TD's. Running back Mike Jones of Tucson ranks sixth in the league in scoring with eight touchdowns and a two-point conversion for a total of 12.5 points per game.
When it comes to throwing the football, Bennifield is among the top ten in every category as is Croft. Bennifield is 63 (2nd) of 117 (3rd) five interceptions (5th) 53.8 percent (9th) for 728 yards (3rd) with 15 touchdowns (3rd) for 121.3 yards per game (9th) with an efficiency rating of 143.3 (5th). Croft numbers are 58 (5th) of 93 (6th) four interceptions (3rd) 62.4 percent (3rd) for 559 yards (7th) with 10 touchdowns (6th) for 139.8 yards per game (8th) with an efficiency rating of 139.7 (7th). Croft ranks fifth in total offense with 760 yards while Bennifield is third with 824.
The top receiver taking the field Saturday at the Tucson Convention Center will be Thomas Owens of the Pirates. Owens ranks first in the IFL with 27 receptions and 393 yards. His nine touchdown receptions rank him second in the league. He is also third with 65.5 yards per contest, seventh with 14.6 yards per catch and ninth with 4.5 receptions per game. The Sugar Skulls Ryan Balentine has 16 receptions for 136 yards and two scores while Shelby II has 12 catches for 149 yards and four touchdowns. Sheldon Augustine rounds out the trio with 12 grabs for 106 yards and a score.
The edge in the kicking game goes to the Pirates. Josh Gable has emerged as one of the top kickers in the IFL. Gable is six of nine in extra points and five of nine in field goal attempts. Gable's five made FG's is fifth in the league and his percentage of 55.5 is third best. His 21 kicking points rank him sixth after just two games.
Two of the top returners will square off on Saturday as well. Gonzalez is number one in the IFL with an average of 24 yards per return for the Pirates. This season he has 312 yards (4th) on 13 returns and a touchdown. For Tucson, Cory Butler-Byrd ranks eighth in returns yards (179) and tenth in average (16.3).
When it comes to all purpose yards the Pirates have three in the top ten as Gonzalez is fifth with 413, Owens sixth with 393 and Stockton tenth with 326.
On defense, the Pirates have a half dozen players who show up among the league leaders. Martrell Spaight is sixth in the league with 35 tackles, first with seven tackles for a loss and fifth with 2.5 sacks. Tavarus Dantzler ranks sixth with five tackles for a loss and JD Griggs is eighth with 4.5. Griggs and Toby Johnson are tied for ninth with 1.5 sacks this season. In the secondary, Aarion Maxey-Penton is second with eight passes defended and tied for second with two interceptions. Harlan Miller is eighth with six passes defended.
The Sugar Skulls Michael Minter also has two picks this season and Butler-Byrd is tied for second in the IFL with two fumble recoveries.
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I have been busy over the last few days feverishly sipping iced coffee and working on plans for our upcoming school year. Although a few of my students were still finishing up stuff from last year as I worked, that small fact won't deter me from getting started on our plans for a new year. I will have five students in the coming year, and although I will be sending a few of my students to community college for some of their classes, it is still a tremendous amount of planning.
The very first step for me when planning our homeschool year, is to evaluate what went well in the year we just (nearly) finished. If a curriculum was causing a lot of frustration, then it it will probably not be used again. Same thing with classes and activities; because there are so many of us, I have to carefully evaluate what we spend our time and money on.
The homeschool planner by Alicia Hutchinson has been a great resource for me this year, as I work on this process. I usually pull together calendars and lesson plans from various sources on the internet, but when I saw that Alicia had put together a planner that was sold as a download so I could easily fit the pages into my existing binder system, I was really excited to try it.
One of the first pages that I used was the, "More Of This, and Less of This" page. Tools like this, really help me to nail down my thoughts so that my planning makes sense.
Once I had jotted down some thoughts there, I printed one of the lesson plan pages which I used to jot down ideas of which curriculum I would use for each child. This provided a helpful grid for remembering which subjects I needed to cover as I hashed out what resources I would need. As I filled in the squares with book and curriculum ideas, I then made notes at the bottom of the page about which subjects I would need to purchase. As a long time homeschooler, I am blessed to be able to pull from a stash of books that I have collected through the years. This is one of many ways that I am able to homeschool on a budget.
I also started a comprehensive list of what books we would be reading in the coming school year. I don't want our schooling to be just about getting through a textbook, but I want my children to interact with real ideas from living books, the kind of books that bring history to life. The planner from Alicia also included a helpful resource for book lists.
If only the work ended there, but unfortunately, the next task usually takes the longest. Before I can get my students baskets filled with their new books, I have to weed through the pictures and pencil stumps and (mostly) finished workbooks to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. I used to keep nearly every bit of work, until a helpful friend recommended just keeping a few samples. You could check with your state, but this article from HSLDA suggests keeping samples of work, attendance records and records of what curriculum you used, among other things, but doesn't say that I have to keep every single workbook page. Sweet relief.
I did find that since we moved away from using so many workbooks, and more towards integrating written and oral narration, our keepers are much more fun. I ended up stapling some of the best ones into a booklet that we could flip through later to remember our happy homeschool year. This amazing post by Jodi Mockabee gives some more clever ideas for saving your children's best work.
Once I had gone through and cleaned out the baskets, they were ready to fill with our new curriculum, which I am slowly compiling. As I filed last years school work, I also averaged out test scores to give grades to my high school and junior high students, and filled in simple report cards for all of them. We don't make a big deal about grades in our house, everyone is expected to give their best effort, but I do start coaching them on the importance of grades as they enter the junior high and high school years. That is when grades start adding up to money for college, if that is the path they choose.
Once all the grades have been logged and last years school work filed, I am left with empty baskets and a happy list of what we will be studying in the coming year. There is plenty more to do, before I officially start school, but I am super happy to have the most difficult jobs behind me so I can get back to reading aloud to my kids.
I was blessed with a review copy of the planner, which is well worth its bargain price tag. It had tons of options for planner pages, and is a great tool for getting your homeschool organized.
Thanks for this post! I have felt the need to end much frustration and pull away from workbooks. I was curious if you favor a language arts curriculum?


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Host Ira Glass talks about not being able to admit when he's wrong, as well as other traits he's not proud of, but can't seem to change. (3 minutes)
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O-I Glass worker dies after furnace leaks in Brazil
2 December, 2021Brazilian glass workers' union Sindicato dos Vidreiros held a two-hour protest on 1 December in São Paulo, Brazil, after O-I Glass worker Antônio Carlos Tola Júnior was killed in a preventable workplace accident.
The tragedy happened on 10 November when a glass furnace leaked at an O-I Glass factory in São Paulo, Brazil, resulting in injuries to four workers. One of the workers, Antônio Carlos Tola Júnior, 43, a batch and furnace coordinator, was admitted to hospital with burns to 75 per cent of his body. He died on 26 November leaving behind a wife and daughter. Immediately after the incident, the union organized a protest rally on 12 November. Another protest was staged on 1 December to commemorate the deceased worker. The lives of the three injured workers are no longer at risk.
Sindicato dos Vidreiros, a member of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate CNQ-CUT, is continuing its investigation into the incident, including negligence over the furnace handling. The union had previously received complaints from workers who operated the furnace that the equipment was old and that the warranty issued by the manufacturer expired three years ago. The furnace was almost 9 years old and had structural problems.
According to the union, the furnace has had a leakage problem since last year, but the company commissioned only minor remedial works without considering the imminent risk. After a decision by the competent body Workers' Health Reference Centre (Cerest), in collaboration with the union Sindicato dos Vidreiros, further use of the furnace is prohibited.
The union leader of the Sindicato dos Vidreiros de São Paulo, Josemar Souto, said that the incident was imminent, as the furnace in which the leak occurred had been operating at a higher capacity than recommended since 2013. The union will conduct a careful investigation of the facts. The maximum extraction was 280 tonnes per day, but the equipment was used to process around 340 tonnes per day.
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The multinational glass manufacturer Owens-Illinois, which trades as O-I, employs 25,000 people in North and South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
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Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And [yet] not one of them is forgotten or uncared for in the presence of God.
But, Peter and John, answering, said unto them - Whether it be right in presence of God, unto you, to be hearkening, rather than unto God, judge!
So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."
For if he was held to be righteous on the ground of his actions, he has something to boast of; but not in the presence of God.
As it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations." Abraham acted in faith when he stood in the presence of God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't yet exist.
by whom we have an introduction through faith into this state of God's favor, in which we safely stand; and let us continue exulting in the hope of enjoying the glorious presence of God.
As for you and your faith, keep your faith to yourself in the presence of God. The man is to be congratulated who does not pronounce judgement on himself in what his actions sanction.
And indeed though I wrote unto you, I did it not [merely] for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause who had suffered the injury, but that our diligent attention for you might be more abundantly manifested to you in the presence of God.
was [actually] taken up into Paradise. [Note: This is the same as the "third heaven" of the previous verse, and was a place in the presence of God. See Luke 23:43; Rev. 2:7]. There he heard inexpressible words which are not permitted for people to repeat.
Have you been supposing [all this time] that we have been defending ourselves and apologizing to you? [It is] in the sight and the [very] presence of God [and as one] in Christ (the Messiah) that we have been speaking, dearly beloved, and all in order to build you up [spiritually].
Now respecting the things which I write unto you, behold, in the presence of God, I lie not.
Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.
Then your hearts will be strong, blameless, and holy in the presence of God, who is our Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints.
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the chosen angels that you guard and keep [these rules] without personal prejudice or favor, doing nothing from partiality.
My brothers, stop trying to maintain your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious presence of God on earth, along with acts of partiality to certain ones.
Be humbled in the presence of God, so he will exalt you.
This is the purpose that the Gospel was preached to those who have died physically [for the faith]: It was so that, even though they had been judged physically [i.e., by suffering death at the hands of men], they could still live spiritually in the presence of God.
And there was an ocean, as crystal-clear as glass, in front of the throne. And at the center, surrounding the throne were four living beings, covered with eyes in the front and back of them. [Note: In view of Isa. 6:1-3 and especially Eze. 10:20ff, these "living beings" appear to be some special order of heavenly beings who inhabit the presence of God].
Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them.
And the smoke of the incense (the perfume) arose in the presence of God, with the prayers of the people of God (the saints), from the hand of the angel.
Then I heard a loud voice speaking in Heaven. It said, "The salvation and the power and the Kingdom of our God have now come, and the sovereignty of His Christ; for the accuser of our brethren has been hurled down--he who, day after day and night after night, was wont to accuse them in the presence of God.


Most businesses rely on offering a variety of digital-based experiences to connect with the target audience. These experiences include equipping the company with a website, a blog, a couple of social media profiles, email marketing campaigns, e-newsletters and so on.
Despite the popularity of online marketing channels, there is a growing breed of marketers who swear by the power of promotional products. What makes branded giveaways so popular? This article lists 5 reasons why marketers keep coming back for more!
1. Branded giveaways can establish better relationships with customers by winning their loyalty in quick time!
It's vital that a business successfully engages with the target audience. This task is made a lot easier with useful giveaways. A PPAI survey stated that 8 out of 10 people said their view of a brand positively changed after receiving a giveaway. The same survey stated that 83% of people who received a giveaway are likely to do business with the advertiser. These stats are proof that giveaways can invoke a sense of loyalty in customers, encouraging them to willingly trust the brand.
The low pricing associated with giveaways is a big motivator for marketers. For example, you could spend a hundred dollars on any of our quality pens without causing a dent to your marketing budget. These pens can offer an enjoyable writing experience for your target audience, helping them remember your brand for months if not years. Which other marketing channel offers such long-term visibility and ROI months after the marketing campaign is over?
Every business yearns for instant brand recognition. This can be achieved easily through giveaways such as bags, t-shirts or mugs. Imagine the free visibility your brand gains when recipients sport your goodies around town! Expect more people to sit up and take note of your brand.
A quality promo item given away by you has a 50.7% chance of invoking a call to action from the recipient. This is way ahead of response rates associated with TV and radio ads. So, make sure that your giveaway features a call to action such as encouraging recipients to visit your website or call you for a particular information. The leads and sales gained this way will do your brand a world of good!
Launch contests and distribute useful giveaways as prizes. Or distribute them as rewards or appreciation tools. In both scenarios, your brand will gain a lot of goodwill from employees and customers.
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How API Management Can Help Your Business
by Dibyani Das
Types of APIs
Components of API management tools
Advantages of API management tools
Measureable KPIs
Top 5 API management tools
Technology and its space for innovative growth are infinite.
Software has dominated our lives with its presence felt in every single thing that we use, every place we go, and every decision we make.
Think of the innumerable software components we get to work with every day. Or the smart devices that modernized our living rooms. Or even how software has made your life easier by communicating your demands to devices in a language they understand.
To understand this communication process, we dive deep into the world of application programming interfaces (APIs) and how they revolutionized the world of web services.
Think of an API as a server at a restaurant who takes your orders and relays them to the chef, brings your order from the kitchen, and is also responsible for the indirect communication between you and the kitchen.
What is API management?
API management is defined as the process of managing application programming interfaces. APIs are responsible for creation, deployment, policy governance, and performance analysis.
An application programming interface (API) is an interface between various software components in a system. It defines the interactions that can take place between the components, the kind of requests that can be entertained, and the data formats that are acceptable. APIs mask the underlying code and make it easier for developers to use it by providing them with the functionalities they need.
With thousands of APIs in use by technology-backed businesses,
API management has gained prominence by offering a slew of useful functionalities that help companies manage their interlinked APIs better. With a projected growth of $6.81 billion by 2025, API management has risen as a leading software product category in the world of tech.
3 types of APIs
With a rapidly growing market for cloud-native microservices and mobile applications, APIs are a primary component of any technology-backed company's software strategy. APIs can be majorly divided into three broad categories on basis of the functionalities they serve.
1. Remote procedure call (RPC)
Remote procedure call (RPC) helps a computer program request and use a procedure located in a different computer and network without the need to explicitly code the interaction. An RPC protocol allows a client to execute a remote code on the server. RPC-based APIs are very tightly integrated, making it difficult for the developers to make any changes in them.
2. Representational state transfer (REST)
Representational state transfer (REST) protocol provides a communication channel to a distributed set of computers over HTTP requests. It follows an architectural style that involves various applications interacting over multiple web services. REST APIs need to be stateless (retain no data), have a uniform interface to work on, ensure the independence of client and server, and be loosely coupled for easy changes.
3. Simple object access protocol (SOAP)
Simple object access protocol (SOAP) is helpful in the interaction between applications built on different operating systems and programming languages, via XML and HTTP. This web API protocol can handle stateful (requires data storage) operations without the need for extra code and has strong security measures in place.
API management tools streamline the API integration process and make it easier for the tech community to have centralized control over APIs. This is achieved through an intricate arrangement of components. These each have an important role to play in helping the API management system to carry out the tasks it was intended for.
Let's take a look at the common components of API management tools.
An API gateway is responsible for receiving API requests, protocol translations, and communicating the backend services response back to the requester. A scalable API gateway is a critical component to ensure API performance is not affected as the business grows and more traffic is brought in.
An API developer portal is an essential knowledge-sharing portal where API documentation is accessible to the tech team. API documentation helps in streamlining the onboarding, building, testing, automating, and deployment process.
API management solutions are responsible for monitoring metrics such as API usage, runtime, availability, compute time, and performance. The real-time analytics reporting helps in troubleshooting glitches in the applications and provides a better insight to the developers.
API lifecycle management
API management software is responsible for API lifecycle management from the initial conception to building, testing, authenticating, automating, and integrating the API with the existing on-premises infrastructure. API lifecycle management is primarily responsible for a holistic view of the API creation to retirement process.
API management software can monetize commercial APIs and decide their pricing, usage, load, and functionalities. APIs are products that require heavy personalization to be used by any organization, so they need to be scalable and cost-effective. API management software provides multiple monetization options for any owned API depending on the functionalities provided.
Advantages of using API management
API management holds the key to harness the full potential of the APIs available to an organization and helps them implement technology-driven decisions for the betterment of their business. Let's discuss the primary benefits of API management.
Faster API development and reusability
API management tools have full control over the lifecycle of all the APIs used in an organization. Thus, their autonomy over the creation of APIs effectively reduces the time required to create new APIs in an iterative manner. They ensure the reusability of existing APIs by taking care of the operational policies, security compliance, and coding standards.
Leverage existing digital assets
If your organization is reliant on legacy digital ecosystems, API management tools help you leverage their existing functionalities while giving them the advantage of having access to new APIs and SaaS-based platforms. This includes amalgamating your existing backend services into a single API and switching over to better security protocols over your existing code snippets.
Versioning APIs
Versioning of APIs refers to creating separate versions of the same API for different clients or business needs. API versioning is an important feature since it allows the developers to create and optimize multiple iterations of a working API suited to their own needs without touching the original API that may be in place for several important functionalities.
Gain valuable business insights
API management provides you with usage metrics, data analysis, and geographical usage statistics. These insights are valuable for organizations to make data-driven decisions for better digital transformation results.
Operational metrics indicate the stability of an API platform to help identify the ones that need to be retained or optimized. Business metrics comment on the performance of APIs over the business value or revenue generated from a particular API.
Provide excellent user experience
API management software ensures uninterrupted access to your business APIs and also takes proactive care of the issues that may be encountered by users on a regular basis. This includes reducing the hassle of configuration management for the developers and making cross-project collaborations easier for non-technical shareholders.
Customized plugin support
Business-specific needs for wash projects keep updating, meaning API management tools also ensure that extendible open-source plugins needed to support existing API programs are integrated with no hassle when needed.
A plugin is an additional component added to existing software to provide it with a bit more functionality than the original. With the advent of serverless and cloud-native architecture, customized plugin support has become a necessity to keep up with the ever-changing project workflows.
Measurable KPIs of API management tools
With billions of dollars being invested globally in API management software, it is imperative to have set parameters to evaluate their performance. Organizations need to judge them on a timely basis in order to understand what is working for them and what more can they get out of the software.
Here are the five most important KPIs for any API management tool.
An API management tool's dependability can be assessed by uptime metrics, API traffic, and its ability to handle its assigned quota of requests. End-users have a self-service option to take care of known issues without any developer intervention.
Multiple functionalities
When adopting APIs, developers need to have ample options available with them with regards to the functionalities, so that they can use them as needed. This is an important KPI since APIs are often used in multiple projects and having multiple functionalities helps brand them more critical to the company.
Quality metrics
The quality of an API management tool is assessed by comparing the day-to-day performance of it with respect to the functionalities promised. An API management tool should be able to manage tasks that were marketed as their functionality on a regular basis.
Processing power
API management tools need to demonstrate speed in areas such as accessing the proper APIs as needed and the volume of requests processed in a particular interval. These metrics are critical for business continuity.
Monetary value is obviously an important parameter to consider since no business likes to lose money on an obsolete tool. API management platforms need to ensure their customers are getting the quality of work that is expected for making an investment in them.
With a rise in the number of API management tools, it can be difficult to choose the right one for your business. Luckily we've rounded up the top five solutions to help you make a decision.
API management software is responsible for full API lifecycle management of business application program interfaces and assisting in the API design, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting of performance.
To qualify for inclusion as a top API management software, software must:
Provide analytics, performance, and security monitoring
Enable teams to customize and monetize APIs
*Below are the five leading API management solution providers from G2's Winter 2021 Grid® Report. Some reviews may be edited for clarity.
1. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is a hybrid integrated platform that takes care of applications, data, and devices both on-premises and over the cloud. It's also responsible for managing a common solution for iPaaS, ESB, and API management systems.
What users like:
"I like that it has several functionalities that enable us to build a better work environment, particularly one of its critical characteristics, which lets us create a system of connections between many systems of our business, with more than 100 connector choices."
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Review, Traci R.
What users dislike:
"Your user cannot be reused. Every time you have a new company project on Anypoint Platform, you need to create a new user and associate it with the new company. There is no way to have a single user and administrate the access or the projects."
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Review, Guilherme T.
2. Postman
Postman is a collaborative platform for API management with multiple features designed to make API creation easier and faster.
"You don't really need to be a programmer or a Computer Science major to understand how to develop a test for an API with Postman in sharp contrast with doing that by a normal text editor or by CLI, it makes it approachable to understand each of the values and parameters in an API. If you know what you are doing it can cut your time trying to write tests and executing them in half."
- Postman Review, Shakil B.
"I feel there is a need for some open-source Postman collation repository for all open source APIs available at a click from within the app. Because this is something all the developers will love to have. Webhook endpoints for all common open source APIs will also be very appreciated."
- Postman Review, Kumar P.
3. AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail is responsible for managing an organization's AWS activity trail and troubleshooting issues that may occur in your various applications.
"CloudTrail helps to troubleshoot a lot of permission-related issues in AWS. Also, CloudTrail can be enabled in the Master Organization account. No need to enable it in each and every child accounts."
- AWS CloudTrail Review, Manoj K.
"The tool can be made easier to read and use because it takes some time to understand how it works. A lot of people don't even know that this tool exists."
- AWS CloudTrail Review, Abhishek A.
4. SAP Cloud Platform
SAP Cloud Platform or SAP Integration Suite helps create and manage new applications in a SAP cloud computing environment. It acts as an open PaaS, connecting both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
"The SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) has an exceptional availability of the services. SCP has amazing security and updates which leaves us as the developers focusing on the more important stuff. Integration with the system is flawless, and when things go wrong, there are logs that provide the details as to where things went wrong."
- SAP Cloud Platform Review, Andrez Z.
"SAP Cloud platform is restricted for non SAP use cases. Neo is still used which is too old. Cloud foundry is better now. I recommend the Cloud platform only to leverage the existing business content available on SAP CP such as deploying."
- SAP Cloud Platform Review, Vyas S.
5. Dell Boomi
Dell Boomi is a scalable platform that unites your applications and documentations in an accessible manner for the whole organization.
"It is really simple to use the no-code flowchart canvas to imagine the workflow. There are a lot of built-in custom connectors that make it simple to create integrations. This product's ROI is outstanding. Without the need for deep technological expertise, basic integrations can be quite easily created. For more simple integrations, method diagrams are easy to read and understand. There is a plethora of knowledge in process papers, but what you are searching for can be difficult to locate."
-Dell Boomi Review, Garnette L.
"May need some time to train and there is some learning curve however extensive training material is available for this online"
- Dell Boom Review, Robert I.
Leverage the power of API management
API management is indubitably a significant process organizations are adopting for the benefit it provides to every aspect of their business be it monetary or productivity. Handling multiple APIs can be cumbersome for developers, and taking advantage of API integrations can be a task for non-technical people in the business.
API management tools not only take care of the existing APIs and providers, but also equip an organization to smoothly onboard new ones by providing a knowledge base of inter API functionalities accessible to everyone.
Organizations can reap the benefits of API management through proper user provisioning and ensure that every functionality is being utilized to its full potential.
Manage and monetize your APIs
Make the most out of API management tools by choosing the right one for your business.
Dibyani Das
Dibyani is a former Content Marketing Specialist at G2. In her free time, you can find her scribbling fanfiction and brushing up her knowledge on various fandoms (Harry Potter, mostly).
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United States National Museum. Department of Arts and Industries
Exhibition Records, circa 1887
This record unit consists of descriptive labels prepared for the collection by Edwin H. Hawley, preparator in the Department of Arts and Industries.
A collection of tools and materials used in Japanese lacquer work was presented to the United States National Museum by the Department of Education of the Japanese Government through Shiro Akabane, Secretary of the Japanese Legation in Washington, D.C. The donation was apparently made between 1885 and 1887.
Hawley, Edwin H.
Akabane, Shiro
United States National Museum
Engineering -- History
Science and industry
Art and industry
Industries -- History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 219, United States National Museum. Department of Arts and Industries, Exhibition Records
Folder 1 Hawley Labels of Lacquer Collection
Finding Aid encoded on: 10-4-2018


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HB3109 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Introduced 2/23/2011___________, by
105 ILCS 5/14C-1 from Ch. 122, par. 14C-1
Amends the Transitional Bilingual Education Article of the School Code. Adds as a purpose of the Article the establishment of approved alternative programs in public schools. Provides that an approved alternative program means a full-time program of instruction (1) in all of those courses or subjects that a child is required by law to receive and that are required by the child's school district; (2) that consists of a structured English immersion program in which school districts may immerse qualified children into regular education courses of mathematics, English, and science if it is determined through proficiency assessments that the children have achieved sufficient English proficiency; and (3) that does not require children in the immersion program to be taught by teachers with a Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language endorsement. Makes other changes.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY STATE MANDATES ACT MAY REQUIRE REIMBURSEMENT
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1 AN ACT concerning education.
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
5 14C-1 and 14C-2 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/14C-1) (from Ch. 122, par. 14C-1)
7 Sec. 14C-1. The General Assembly finds that there are large
8 numbers of children in this State who come from environments
9 where the primary language is other than English. Experience
10 has shown that public school classes in which instruction is
11 given only in English are often inadequate for the education of
12 children whose native tongue is another language. The General
13 Assembly believes that a program of transitional bilingual
14 education can meet the needs of these children and facilitate
15 their integration into the regular public school curriculum.
16 Therefore, pursuant to the policy of this State to insure equal
17 educational opportunity to every child, and in recognition of
18 the educational needs of children of limited English-speaking
19 ability, it is the purpose of this Act to provide for the
20 establishment of transitional bilingual education or approved
21 alternative programs in the public schools, to provide
22 supplemental financial assistance to help local school
23 districts meet the extra costs of such programs, and to allow
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1 this State to directly or indirectly provide technical
2 assistance and professional development to support
3 transitional bilingual education programs statewide.
4 (Source: P.A. 96-1423, eff. 8-3-10.)
6 Sec. 14C-2. Definitions. Unless the context indicates
7 otherwise, the terms used in this Article have the following
8 meanings:
9 (a) "State Board" means the State Board of Education.
10 (b) "Certification Board" means the State Teacher
11 Certification Board.
12 (c) "School District" means any school district
13 established under this Code.
14 (d) "Children of limited English-speaking ability" means
15 (1) all children in grades pre-K through 12 who were not born
16 in the United States, whose native tongue is a language other
17 than English, and who are incapable of performing ordinary
18 classwork in English; and (2) all children in grades pre-K
19 through 12 who were born in the United States of parents
20 possessing no or limited English-speaking ability and who are
21 incapable of performing ordinary classwork in English.
22 (e) "Teacher of transitional bilingual education" means a
23 teacher with a speaking and reading ability in a language other
24 than English in which transitional bilingual education is
25 offered and with communicative skills in English.
1 (f) "Program in transitional bilingual education" means a
2 full-time program of instruction (1) in all those courses or
3 subjects which a child is required by law to receive and which
4 are required by the child's school district which shall be
5 given in the native language of the children of limited
6 English-speaking ability who are enrolled in the program and
7 also in English, (2) in the reading and writing of the native
8 language of the children of limited English-speaking ability
9 who are enrolled in the program and in the oral comprehension,
10 speaking, reading and writing of English, and (3) in the
11 history and culture of the country, territory or geographic
12 area which is the native land of the parents of children of
13 limited English-speaking ability who are enrolled in the
14 program and in the history and culture of the United States; or
15 a part-time program of instruction based on the educational
16 needs of those children of limited English-speaking ability who
17 do not need a full-time program of instruction.
18 (g) "Approved alternative program" means a full-time
19 program of instruction:
20 (1) in all of those courses or subjects that a child is
21 required by law to receive and that are required by the
22 child's school district;
23 (2) that consists of a structured English immersion
24 program in which school districts may immerse qualified
25 children into regular education courses of mathematics,
26 English, and science if it is determined through
1 proficiency assessments that the children have achieved
2 sufficient English proficiency; and
3 (3) that does not require children in the immersion
4 program to be taught by teachers with a Bilingual Education
5 and English as a Second Language endorsement.
6 The transfer of children to regular school classes must not
7 be done without the consent of parents or legal guardians.
8 Teachers providing instruction to English as a Second Language
9 children in regular school classes and who do not have a
10 Bilingual and English as a Second Language endorsement shall
11 receive training by the school district on how to accommodate
12 the needs of bilingual children being immersed into regular
13 school classes.
14 (Source: P.A. 95-793, eff. 1-1-09.)