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Multi-layered security approach
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
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This course introduces you to important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You learn about, and compare, many of the computing and storage services available in Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. You learn about important resource and policy management tools, such as the Google Cloud Resource Manager hierarchy and Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Hands-on labs give you foundational skills for working with GCP. Note: •Google services are currently unavailable in China.
Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine (GAE), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing
This course is useful for those who wants to explorer google cloud platform\n\ne.g: what database engine should I use?\n\nwhat is more cost efficient for our application, Compute engine or App engine
This was one of the best learning I had. Very simple and easy way to do the labs and understand the concepts. Even though the content is around fundamentals, it helps to remember the terminologies.
Introducing Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform offers four main kinds of services: Compute, Storage, Big Data, and Machine Learning. This course focuses mostly on the first two, together with Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking. This module orients learners to the basics of Google Cloud Platform. It traces the evolution of cloud computing and explains what is unique about Google's approach to it. The module introduces the key structural concepts of regions and zones.
Welcome to GCP Fundamentals0:46
What is cloud computing?1:20
How did we get here?1:45
Every company is a data company0:26
GCP computing architectures1:23
The Google network0:44
GCP regions and zones1:59
Environmental responsibility1:13
Google offers customer-friendly pricing1:05
Open APIs1:22
Why choose Google Cloud Platform1:03
Multi-layered security approach3:48
Budgets and Billing2:27
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Because Google has seven services with more than a billion users, you can bet security is always on the minds of Google's employees. Design for security is pervasive, throughout the infrastructure, the GCP and Google services run-on. Let's talk about a few ways Google works to keep customers' data safe, starting at the bottom and working up. Both the server boards and the networking equipment in Google data centers are custom designed by Google. Google also designs custom chips, including a hardware security chip called Titan that's currently being deployed on both servers and peripherals. Google server machines use cryptographic signatures to make sure they are booting the correct software. Google designs and builds its own data centers which incorporate multiple layers of physical security protections. Access to these data centers is limited to only a very small fraction of Google employees, not including me. Google's infrastructure provides cryptographic privacy and integrity for remote procedure called data-on-the-network, which is how Google services communicate with each other. The infrastructure automatically encrypts our PC traffic in transit between data centers. Google Central Identity Service, which usually manifests to end users as the Google log-in page, goes beyond asking for a simple username and password. It also intelligently challenges users for additional information based on risk factors such as whether they have logged in from the same device or a similar location in the past. Users can also use second factors when signing in, including devices based on the universal second factor U2F open standard. Here's mine. Most applications at Google access physical storage indirectly via storage services and encryption is built into those services. Google also enables hardware encryption support in hard drives and SSDs. That's how Google achieves encryption at rest of customer data. Google services that want to make themselves available on the Internet register themselves with an infrastructure service called the Google Front End, which checks incoming network connections for correct certificates and best practices. The GFE also additionally, applies protections against denial of service attacks. The sheer scale of its infrastructure, enables Google to simply absorb many denial of service attacks, even behind the GFEs. Google also has multi-tier, multi-layer denial of service protections that further reduce the risk of any denial of service impact. Inside Google's infrastructure, machine intelligence and rules warn of possible incidents. Google conducts Red Team exercises, simulated attacks to improve the effectiveness of its responses. Google aggressively limits and actively monitors the activities of employees who have been granted administrative access to the infrastructure. To guard against phishing attacks against Google employees, employee accounts including mine require use of U2F compatible security keys. I don't forget my keys as much as I used to. To help ensure that code is as secure as possible Google stores its source code centrally and requires two-party review of new code. Google also gives its developers libraries that keep them from introducing certain classes of security bugs. Externally, Google also runs a vulnerability rewards program, where we pay anyone who is able to discover and inform us of bugs in our infrastructure or applications.


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Lululemon's Constant Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse
Kate Dries
We should all send condolences in the form of deep yoga breaths to those dealing with Lululemon's social media platforms, because they're at the mercy of a company making one bad decision after the next.
In the past couple weeks, Lululemon has been trying to quash their latest PR snafu that involves confusion over whether the resale of their goods by individual customers is "allowed." The company has a notably strict return policy and they recently changed their resale policy to clarify the following:
what is your reselling policy?
we completely recognize that once someone purchases our product they can do what they want with it. We do not, however, support those who acquire large volumes of our product to resell at an elevated price point.
How would Lululemon even know who was reselling their products? Well, according to multiple news outlets, Lululemon has tracked down customers selling their goods on eBay and then subsequently banned them from purchasing anything on the Lululemon website. The customers would receive a phone call telling them that they'd been found reselling products and that their IP address had been blocked. It all sounds so...NSA, but for stretchy pants.
Originally, a company representative told Business Insider that the policy was good for everyone: "Bottom line, if it doesn't come from us, we can't educate, we don't know the history of the garment, and we can't guarantee its' authenticity." But since then, they've backtracked. On Sunday, the company sent a statement to CTV which read:
We looked into it and realized that we had indeed gone too far, and have taken steps to fix it as quickly as possible. Our approach is simply intended to limit major reselling which results in assortments not being available to all of our guests. We are reaching out to apologize to the guests who were impacted.
It doesn't seem like this quick fix is working though. Lululemon's Facebook page is still full of comments from angry customers, which will make you slightly sympathetic for the Emily, Siya, Jamieson, Katelin etc. who run the page. There are also numerous complaints about quality control issues, which haven't been quelled since the controversy over their see-through pants, as well as references to company founder Chip Wilson's comments about fat legs making his pants pill.
Lululemon Founder Sorry He Said Your Fat Body Was Fucking Up His Pants
Last week, the co-founders of Lululemon, Chip and Shannon Wilson, went on Bloomberg TV to promote…
Though some analysts believe that Lululemon's appointment of a new CEO (and the a slight increase in their stock prices since) indicates that the company will bounce back, in order to do that, it's going to have to become a different company. Lululemon developed its cult following by being personable to its customers and obsessive about its product. It managed to create a lifestyle brand out of a clothing company. In that process, their attention to detail repeatedly put them in contact with their customers, which resulted in them making stupid decisions and saying stupid things under the guise that their customers were so loyal they'd understand.
Founder of Lululemon Steps Down But They've Got a New CEO
Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon, has announced he's stepping down as chairman of the company.
But Lululemon is too big now to be understood for those mistakes that would once have been forgiven by longtime customers. When you become a big company, you have to leave some of that person-to-person contact behind. The product has to be consistent (which Lululemon's hasn't been) and the personality of the company lessens. Though longtime customers might feel less connected to the brand if Lululemon shuts up a little, the company will actually be able to gain the new buyers they need in order to grow by avoiding the inevitable bad press that crops up from being so open and vocal.
This awkward transition state between expensive niche brand and global company is where Lululemon sits now (if it isn't doomed entirely). The woman who wrote on Lululemon's Facebook page that their "Customer service is embarrassing for a Canadian store!" knows Lululemon as the brand they're pretending to be. Others, like the "faithful customer and current stockholder" who wrote to complain that she'd "happily" sell her shares in the company "but it's tanked so badly that I now have to ride it out" knows that Lululemon is evolving to become a global brand. Global brands make a lot of money but rarely do they keep track of loyal customers, check to see if they are reselling their goods and then ban them from purchasing their clothing. They've got enough going on not to care.
Image via Lululemon Athletica/Facebook

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If you work for a living you "render service". What does your service look like? Is it an example to others that you serve God? Is your day filled with grumbling and complaining about how the "company" or "boss" is unfair and doing you wrong? Do you look at your day as "I can't wait to get through it so I can do what I want after work"? Are you always in a hurry for the weekend? In a state of hurry do you mistreat people or grumble under your breath that they are slowing you and your productivity down?
Do you look at your work as a gift from God to meet the needs of your family and yourself? Do you face each day looking to see how you can fulfill God's plan of salvation through your actions and attitude? Do you respect your authority as much as you respect God?
Is God not in control? Are the people in your life who slow your productivity not put there for a purpose? The purpose may be to teach you patience or perseverance or trust that God is in control. Or is that person there so you can be a witness of God's awesome mercy and grace?
It really is all about God. May God bless your work day.


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April 2, 2019 · 11:26 am
Blu-Ray News #230: The Brink's Job (1978).
Directed by William Friedkin
Starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, Paul Sorvino
After the box-office failure of his masterpiece Sorcerer (1977), William Friedkin turned out a gem of a heist picture, The Brink's Job (1978).
It's a shamefully overlooked movie — from a script by Walon Green who wrote Sorcerer and The Wild Bunch (1969), and I'm so happy to hear it's getting a Blu-Ray release from Kino Lorber. Can't wait.
Filed under 1978, DVD/Blu-ray News, Kino Lorber, Peter Falk, Warren Oates, William Friedkin
March 5, 2019 · 11:36 am
Blu-Ray News #226: Piranha (1978).
Directed by Joe Dante
Starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller, Belinda Balaski, Paul Bartel, Richard Deacon, Bruce Gordon, Stephen The Swimming Swine
I'm so happy to be putting this post together. Because yet another movie that I love dearly, Joe Dante's Piranha (1978), is getting a real Cadillac of a Blu-Ray release from Scream Factory this June.
One of the prop piranhas.
It's often called "the best of the Jaws ripoffs." But it's more than that. It's scary. It's funny. It parades a terrific cast of veteran character actors across the screen. And it just plain entertains. Released the same summer as Jaws 2 (1978), it's the better picture by far. After all, what could possibly beat a plot like this — scads of piranhas are released into a river, and at the end of the river lies a kids' summer camp. Pure genius.
Year ago, I was outbid on a 16mm print of this movie that turned up on eBay. This extras-packed Blu-Ray will certainly help right that wrong. Here's what you'll get —
4K Remaster from the original camera negative
New Audio Commentary with Roger Corman
Audio Commentary with Joe Dante & producer Jon Davison
"The Making Of Piranha" – Interviews with Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Dick Miller, Belinda Balaski & more
Behind-The-Scenes Footage, Bloopers & Outtakes, Additional Scenes from the TV version
Stills, Trailers, TV Spots, Radio Spots
All that, and it comes in one of those fancy steelbook packages. I can't wait sink my teeth into this. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Filed under 1978, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller, DVD/Blu-ray News, Joe Dante, Kevin McCarthy, New World Pictures, Roger Corman, Shout/Scream Factory
Screening: Piranha (1978) On Shout TV.
Starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller
I love Piranha (1978), Joe Dante's Jaws ripoff — produced by Roger Corman and written by John Sayles. I've seen it countless times.
Shout TV has a special event planned to celebrate the movie's 40th anniversary — August 3 on Shout TV's Twitch channel. To me, this is certainly a movie worth celebrating.
Filed under 1978, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller, Joe Dante, Kevin McCarthy, New World, Roger Corman, Screenings, Television, William Schallert
Screening: Piranha (1978).
Starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller, Belinda Balaski, Paul Bartel, Richard Deacon, Stephan The Swimming Swine
A 35mm print of Joe Dante's wonderful Jaws ripoff Piranha (1978) will be run as part of the festivities at the Hudson Horror Show on Saturday, May 20th at 7:55 and 10:40PM.
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One of the prop piranhas by Phil Tippett. How cool is that?
Piranha's a real favorite, and I'd love to be there. This was one I never caught in the theater.
The Hudson Horror Show's entire lineup is in 35mm. God bless 'em!
Filed under 1978, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller, Joe Dante, Kevin McCarthy, New World, Roger Corman, Screenings
January 6, 2017 · 11:52 am
Blu-Ray News #98: The Pink Panther Film Collection.
Directed by Blake Edwards
Starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, etc.
Shout Factory has announced the arrival in April of a very, very funny thing — The Pink Panther Blu-Ray Collection. It gathers up all six of the Peter Sellers Inspector Clouseau films, from The Pink Panther (1963) to the after-his-death thing, The Trail Of The Pink Panther (1982), and presents them in hi-def. We all have our favorite of these films, and our favorite gags — mine is A Shot In The Dark (1964) and the gag with the parallel bars in Strikes Again (1976).
Starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine
"Oh well, if you've seen one Stradivarius, you've seen them all."
A Shot In The Dark (1964)
Starring Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer
"Yes, it is my coat."
The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975)
Starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom
"Swine bird."
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Lesley-Anne Down
"It is obvious to my trained eye, that there is much more going on here than meets the ear. "
Revenge Of The Pink Panther (1978)
Starring Peter Sellers, Dyan Cannon, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk
"Ooohhh, sixteen chests on a dead man's rum, Yo-ho-ho in the bottle of the chest."
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk
"I am André Botot, mustard salesman from Dijon."
Personally, I'm glad they left out the non-Sellers pictures. This set is coming from Shout Factory's new Shout Select line, and they promise a slew of extras. Funny as all hell, and absolutely essential.
Filed under 1963, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1978, Blake Edwards, DVD/Blu-ray News, Peter Sellers, Shout/Scream Factory
Blu-Ray News #12: Convoy (1978).
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young and Franklyn Ajaye
OK, so it's really not all that good. But I'm so glad Kino Lorber is bringing Sam Peckinpah's Convoy (1978) to Blu-ray. (That's him with the headphones staring at Kristofferson.)
It's got a great cast, some incredible New Mexico scenery and as you'd expect, Sam's as good with crashing cars and trucks as with people getting shot. This was his next-to-last film (coming between 1977's Cross Of Iron and 1983's The Osterman Weekend), and his addictions and excesses were getting the best of him. His friend James Coburn was brought in as second unit director. Some say Coburn shot a great deal of what we see on the screen, as the picture went way over budget and behind schedule.
Filed under 1978, DVD/Blu-ray News, James Coburn, Kino Lorber, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Peckinpah
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The Hannibal 8 · Blathering on and on about movies from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.


Bart Pigram runs walking tours in the Kimberley and is an expert on the area's ancient and modern history.
Of all the varied holiday experiences, it's chance encounters with exceptional people that seem to stick most in the mind, demonstrating the power of personal connections to enrich our travelling lives.
When travel writers gather, our conversations are often not about the places we've been – something many of us have in common – but rather the amusing, crazy, passionate, eccentric, friendly folk that pop into our lives and people our most vivid recollections.
Such people make our trips unique. You won't find them in guidebooks or bucket lists. You just come across them in random places: in a kitchen or on a ship, in city back streets or remote rainforest.
Some have common occupations – winemakers and tour guides, chefs and store owners – and simply stand out through the force of their personalities and enthusiasms. Here are some of the great people we've met, and how you can meet them too.
In the Yukon town of Dawson City, where amputated toes float in your whisky (really), and locals gather for breakfast beers at a bar called the Snake Pit, Bill Donaldson barely even registers as an eccentric bloke. But to the rest of the world he's Caveman Bill, having lived in a cave across the Yukon River from the town since 1996 – even through the harsh winters that average minus-26 degrees. Bill is no standard hermit. His self-furnished cave has the likes of a computer and TV and he's always up for a chat with any visitors who swing by. Caveman Bill lives immediately opposite Dawson City. If you visit, come in winter and you can walk across on the frozen river.
With their bright "miniskirts", patterned singlets, vibrant beaded jewellery and armfuls of bangles, the Banna tribesmen of Ethiopia's Omo Valley are endlessly fascinating. Head to the dusty main drag of Turmi village, grab a beer at one of the ramshackle outdoor bars and watch the tribesmen work the street like a catwalk, dangling the customary tiny carved wooden stool from their fingertips. See benchafrica.com.
If you need reminding of how little in life we need to be happy, a visit to the Mongolian nomads could be in order. Living in small gers (the Mongolian version of a yurt), the nomads dismantle their homes seasonally, packing them onto the back of yaks before relocating to more weather-appropriate locations. A stay with them gives fascinating insights into their customs, cuisine (if boiled goat and yak vodka counts as cuisine), close-knit communities and daily life. See frui.co.uk.


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CFB notebook: West Virginia QB Grier to sit out bowl game
Sports Xchange
09 Dec 2018, 10:45 GMT+10
West Virginia quarterback Will Grier will skip the Mountaineers' bowl game against Syracuse.
Grier revealed his decision in a statement Saturday morning, explaining that he is bypassing the bowl game in order to prepare for the 2019 NFL Draft.
Although a number of high-profile college players also are skipping bowl games for the season reason, Grier is the first quarterback to go that route. Ohio State's Dwayne Haskins, a Heisman Trophy finalist, said he will be in the Rose Bowl.
Grier, who guided West Virginia to an 8-3 overall mark and 6-3 record in the Big 12 during his senior season, received the backing of Mountaineers head coach Dana Holgorsen for his decision to skip the matchup versus Syracuse.
A finalist for a number of high-profile awards, Grier threw for 3,864 yards and 37 touchdowns against only eight interceptions. He led the Big 12 with an average of 351.3 yards per game.
The NCAA's active leader with in passing yards per game (305.6), Grier had 71 touchdown passes in two seasons at West Virginia after transferring from Florida. He set a school record with 19 300-yard games.
-- Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins is unsure of his plans for next season. However, the Heisman Trophy finalist is certain of one thing -- he will be under center when the Buckeyes square off against Pac-12 Conference champion Washington in the Rose Bowl.
A number of top college players have opted to skip their team's bowl games in order to prepare for the 2019 NFL Draft. Haskins won't be among them.
"Just being a quarterback, it's your job to lead the team," Haskins told The Athletic. "And for you to say you don't want to play, you're not about the team or winning or losing. You just want to get out while you can. There was no doubt in my mind about playing in the game because I know I can help this team win."
Haskins was in New York City on Saturday night along with fellow quarterbacks Tua Tagovailoa of Alabama and Kyler Murray of Oklahoma for the Heisman Trophy presentation.
Haskins leads the country with a Big Ten-record 47 touchdowns and 4,580 yards.
The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Haskins has not said whether he plans to enter the NFL Draft, but he continued to boost his stock for the next level in the final three games.
-- Utah State could be turning back to a familiar face in its search for a new coach. Gary Andersen, who was the head coach at the school from 2009 to 2012, could be returning to the Aggies as a replacement for Matt Wells, multiple media outlets reported.
Wells, who succeeded Andersen as head coach at Utah State, was named the new head coach at Texas Tech on Nov. 30. Andersen, who moved onto head coaching jobs at Wisconsin and Oregon State after Utah State, currently is the associate head coach and defensive line assistant at Utah.
Andersen was 26-24 in four seasons with the Aggies, including an 11-2 mark in his final year in 2012. He also led Utah State to its first bowl win since 1993.
Andersen went 19-7 in two seasons at Wisconsin before heading to Oregon State, where he abruptly decided to leave the school midway through his third season in October 2017.
For his career, Andersen has a 52-54 record as an FBS head coach at Utah State, Wisconsin and Oregon State.
-- Ryan Day, who will succeed Urban Meyer as Ohio State's coach after this season, made his first official staff position move on Saturday by removing the interim tag for wide receivers coach Brian Hartline.
Hartline, 32, will be the permanent wide receivers coach for the Buckeyes, who are playing in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 against Washington.
Hartline joined the Buckeyes as a quality control coach with the wide receivers in 2017. He became interim wide receivers coach after former receivers coach Zach Smith was dismissed this summer in July following allegations of domestic abuse.
Hartline played at Ohio State from 2006 to 2008 and spent seven seasons in the NFL. He was a fourth-round pick of the Miami Dolphins in 2009 and spent six years with Miami before playing his final season with the Cleveland Browns in 2015.
-- Utah quarterback Tyler Huntley may not be done for the season after all.
Huntley, who broke a collarbone on Nov. 3, was a full participant in Friday's practice and could be available for Utah's matchup against Northwestern in the Holiday Bowl on New Year's Eve.
Huntley was able to throw during Friday's non-contact practice but he still must receive medical clearance to return to the lineup.
Utah rebounded from a loss at Arizona State with three straight victories behind backup quarterback Jason Shelley, including Pac-12 wins over Oregon and Colorado, before falling to Washington 10-3 in the conference championship game.
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Let Imaginations Fly at Bangkok's Outdoor Solar-Powered Art Exhibit
Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer
BANGKOK — A light exhibition in the heart of Bangkok encourages visitors to interpret the illumination in their own ways.
Jaras Light Fest, currently taking place at the forecourt and the third floor of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, is not just captivating to look at. The installation is also trying to raise awareness about the use of solar power as a sustainable energy source.
Supported by Power Development Fund, Office of the Regulatory Commission, the exhibits with light are powered by solar energy.
"Red Heart" by Krit Ngamsom, for example, is a two-meter tall steel heart stuffed with flashy second-hand car lights with wings made of solar-cell panels to power the heart.
The artist himself described his work as a work inspired by the sight of cars' tail lights at Pathumwan intersection turning the night-time street red.
He added that the heart-shaped sculpture has a connection to the intersection, which is at the heart of Bangkok.
Before reading the artist's description, I thought of the notion of love giving flight and solar-power creating love. Love gives you wings and with it you can fly and elevate yourself into a higher being, so I thought.
Another work, entitled "The Cycle" is a four-times-four meter cube with lights emitting from geometric forms such as circles and lines. It comes with electro music alternated with the sound of chirping birds.
Here, the work by H-Lab Collective said it was designed "to present the story of the energy crisis through light, color and sound. The working mechanisms are designed to achieve the most efficient and cost-effective use of energy, as energy and resource usage is continuing to grow making it difficult to reduce the scale of the use cycle."
Again, before having read the description, my interpretation was quite different. I thought the illuminated cubic cage would fit perfectly well at any red-light district or the backpacker party street of Khaosan Road. The cube and its accompanied music was alluring at night.
It reminds me of the Thai expression of "lured by the night light" (lhong saeng see) which described people who have corrupted by the vices of the nightlife.
Inside the BACC building, an informative exhibition about green energy can be perused. At Jaras Lab on the third floor, one reads a chronology of man's efforts to harness heat as a source of energy. We were told that in China, 460,000 BC, the world's earliest definite use of fire took place. By 500 BC, passive solar energy was used in Greek homes.
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In Thailand, the solar cell project was introduced at Sirindhorn Dam in 2007 with a total installed capacity of 1.012 MW. By last year, 2019, the Energy Regulatory Commission calls for a continuous promotion of solar-powered rooftop among the public in the next 10 years as their goal.
Those interested in solar-powered gadgets might want to learn that quality solar-cell panel lasts 25 years. Also, putting solar-cell panels on the roof doesn't make a house hotter.
Whether you are into arts or the environment, or both, the exhibit is worth a visit.
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So what happens when climbers with varying skills and ages get together on Denali for 4 weeks? Team work and support will undoubtedly come to the fore, so we're looking forward to hearing some great stories as we support a team of 7 heading out in May.
Scott Swalling gives us a quick synopsis of the team.
"In late May and June this year myself and 6 others are heading to Mount McKinley (Denali) for an un-guided expedition with a plan to attempt The West Buttress, other members of the team are also going to attempt the Upper West Rib and potentially attempt the Cassin Ridge also. However, this last objective will require a deep analysis of ourselves, conditions of the route and an appropriate weather window as it is considerably harder than the other routes. The team has a considerable amount of time on the mountain, which we hope will benefit us with our goals. Although we know this mountain can be extremely tough and as difficult as some of the bigger mountains in the Himalaya and Karakoram, so we are not taking any part of the expedition lightly.
The team consists of 7 people with varying skills in mountaineering, winter and ice climbing, ski mountaineering, navigation, rescue and we also have a fully trained altitude medic, with an age range from 20 to 50, we are Scott Swalling - Australian, Franca Serafini - Italian, Daniel Bergo - Norwegian and Will Hardy, Tommy Harris, Alex Erskine and Nick Mortley - all Brits and we all have different assets beyond the outdoor/mountain experience and medical skills we each bring to the team. For all but our medic Franca and Nick it will be the first trip to a big mountain outside of the European Alps, where we have all learnt and improved our trade as mountain climbers.
The team has been working well together organising logistics, route planning, equipment and each person has been adopting roles as we move closer to our departure date. We have been managing to get into the hills, on rock and even had most of the team attend the Peglers Ice fest this year to get some ice climbing done together. We have a few more training and kit testing weekends coming up that will let us get to grips with gear, each other's idiosyncrasies and naturally form roles in the group so we can function naturally as a team.


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Q: Ignore Java.exe from Path and use the one from directory I am in I setup Java 6 to be used by all other application. Normal setup with JAVA_HOME, JRE_HOME, etc. This is working fine.
I have another application that needs Java 7. I downloaded Java 7.exe and extraced tools.zip from it to a folder. Now I am trying to check the version going to the bin folder. When I type in java -version, I get the following error.
error occurred during initialization of vm
java/lang/noclassdeffounderror java/lang/object

where as java -fullversion shows Java 7. It looks like even though I am in the  bin folder where Java.exe exists, it still getting the one from PATH?!?!
How do I use the java.exe from a folder ignoring the one from PATH?

A: You need much more than java to run java. You need all the rt.jar and lib which come with Java. It sounds like you are missing some part of the JRE or it can't find your JRE.
I suggest you re-install the version you need and run it using the full path name like
c:\>"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_60\bin\java" -version
java version "1.7.0_60"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_60-b19)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.60-b09, mixed mode)

c:\>"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_45\bin\java" -version
java version "1.8.0_45"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode)

By using the full path name you can use any specific version from any directory.

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As you age, you might discover that your ability to remember things has started to wane. What is the best way to retain your memory as you get older?
Mnemonic devices are a fashion similar to how shorthand helps writers.
If you are not focusing, then your mind may not retain the full memory. Think hard about and burn the information into your memory.
Studies have shown that people who frequently think negatively or are stressed out aren't able to remember as well as people who avoid stress and negative thoughts hinder the memory. Consult with a physician to find healthy methods of stress relief advice.
Exercise is one of boosting your memory.Exercise improves memory by improving blood flow and directly impacts cognitive function.
Changing your surroundings often keeps the mind alert, and helps long-term memory become more effective. When your brain notices a change in surroundings, the mind re-awakens, making it easier to absorb information.
Go to the library to get books written by experts in the field of memory improvement.
Take a ginseng if you want to try and improve your memory. Ginseng has been shown to aid the brain better absorb information. It is also be of great benefit to your overall health. Green tea may also naturally help your memory loss.
Regular exercise can have a great strategy to help improve your memory. Even jogging or dancing each day can greatly help.
Don't try to absorb a ton of information into your brain. If you need to remember something, you should schedule multiple sessions to study. It will never be advantageous to learn information in one short session. Your mind may not be able to handle such a large amount at one time, just when you need it. Make sure you have regular study regularly so that your brain can remember things.
Even if you're not currently in college or school, it is vital that you keep learning new things. If you do not allow yourself to pick up new skills and knowledge, your memory section of the brain will begin to decay. When you do need to remember things, it is more likely that you will lose the ability.
If you have been provided with information and struggle to remember it, try putting it into your own words. It is difficult to retain ideas and words if they don't understand the concepts are foreign or complicated.
Use calenders and a day planner to keep track of events. Get yourself a planner and write down essential information that you absolutely need to remember. Make a schedule for yourself and look at it often. Writing things down will help your mind.
Eat the right foods for the health of your brain perform better. Healthy fats are essential for the health of your brain's health. Avoid unhealthy trans fats, and instead focus on sources of healthy fats such as fish, nuts, and flax seed and olive oils.
One way to help avoid memory is to cultivate many meaningful relationships. Studies have shown spending time with loved ones helps keep your memories in tact.
You need to focus entirely on it without distractions while studying. Information must be transferred to long-term memory for humans to be able to recall it effectively. It's hard to do this effectively if you don't give it your full attention.
Study more than what you have to know. You will remember information easier when you learn as much as possible about it. For instance, to remember a definition and a word, read the definition from a number of sources.
Memory lapses and failures might frustrate you on occasion, but overcoming them is actually rather easy. If you make use of the techniques this article has taught you, you should see a rapid improvement in your recall. With regular practice, you may find your memory is stronger than ever.


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Two favourite Nigerian entertainers have had their hearts broken after losing an international award.
Nigerian entertainers - Emmanuella and Davido - failed to win the favourite African star category of the 2018 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. They were defeated by Eddy Kenzo, an Ugandan musician who eventually won the award.
Nigerians had expected either Emmanuella or Davido to win the award owing to their popularity, but many were shocked as Kenzo took the award home.
The Ugandan star took to his Facebook page to share the news of his triumph.
Real name, Edrisa Musuuza, Kenzo is best known for his 2014 song 'Sitya Loss'. In 2017, he released 'Sembera Eno' and 'Jubilation', two songs which were big hits in Uganda.
The award ceremony took place in Inglewood, California, US, on Sunday. The winner was determined by voter preferences and other considerations.
Other African stars nominated for the award are Casper Nyovest (South Africa), Caster Somonya (South Africa), Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania), and Eddy Konzo (Uganda).
militants of the five sections of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement-CPDM in the Division for their political maturity. Shey Jones Yembe made the statement while presiding the First ever Joint Anniversary of the CPDM at the Nkambe Community hall on March 24, 2018 where militants gathered to celebrate the 33 years of continued existence of the party since its creation in Bamenda. The joint anniversary celebration which took place under the chairmanship of the Permanent Coordinator of the CPDM for Donga Mantung brought together militants and sympathizers of Donga Mantung I (Nkambe), Donga Mantung II (Ndu), Donga Mantung III (Nwa), Donga Mantung IV (Misaje) and Donga Mantung V (Ako).
In appreciating his comrades of the CPDM for their political maturity, Shey Jones Yembe said "I must say Donga Mantung Division has shown a lot of maturity. And we have just come here to encourage the people to continue to be supportive and support the CPDM party". According to Shey Jones Yembe the Division will have returns in terms of development given that the nation is aware of their support to the ruling party.
Harping on why Donga Mantung people should support the CPDM, Shey Jones Yembe heighted some of the major achievements of the party in the Division. More importantly, Shey Jones revealed that the stretch of the Bamenda Ring road from Kumbo to Misaje will be tarred. He used the occasion to congratulate CPDM militants of the five sections for the confidence and the moral support they have bestowed in the ruling party. "The President of the Republic is a human being. He needs all these people to support him so that he can continue to deliver for our nation. And Donga Mantung has been one of those Divisions that has been standing to the taste of supporting the unity of our country. So we came mostly to thank our people and to remind them that the country knows about it and we will have returns in terms of development", he told journalists in an interview.
On his part, Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological Development said the marriage between the CPDM and Donga Mantung is a genuine one. He emphasized that President Biya has done a lot to maintain national unity since crisis started in the North West and South West regions. He also reminded CPDM militants that government has taken the development of Donga Mantun Division as priority reasons why government has continued with its great efforts to look for finances to tarr the ring road. "Projects are on and government has made tremendous efforts to seek finances to continue the development of the Ring Road". He revealed that about 50 billion francs is tipped for the road and that technicians are on the feild mapping. Worthy to note that the delegate of Public works had summoned a meeting with all those whose structures are near the road to road so they are eventually compensated in case of damages.
Militants were reminded that this year is an election year and they should work hard to make sure that the CPDM emerges victorious in the entire Division.
Some of the speakers at the Joint Anniversary celebration in Nkambe included Ngabir Paul Bantar (Mayor of Nkambe) and Gerard Ngala (Section President). The celebrations ended with the reading of a Motion of Support which was addressed to the chairman of the CPDM, President Paul Biya.
The permanent Coordinator of the CPDM for Donga Mantung Division has applauded militants of the five sections of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement-CPDM in the Division for their political maturity. Shey Jones Yembe made the statement while presiding the First ever Joint Anniversary of the CPDM at the Nkambe Community hall on March 24, 2018 where militants gathered to celebrate the 33 years of continued existence of the party since its creation in Bamenda. The joint anniversary celebration which took place under the chairmanship of the Permanent Coordinator of the CPDM for Donga Mantung brought together militants and sympathizers of Donga Mantung I (Nkambe), Donga Mantung II (Ndu), Donga Mantung III (Nwa), Donga Mantung IV (Misaje) and Donga Mantung V (Ako).
On his part, Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological Development said the marriage between the CPDM and Donga Mantung is a genuine one. He emphasized that President Biya has done a lot to maintain national unity since crisis started in the North West and South West regions. He also reminded CPDM militants that government has taken the development of Donga Mantun Division as priority reasons why government has continued with its great efforts to look for finances to tarr the ring road. "Projects are on and government has made tremendous efforts to seek finances to continue the development of the Ring Road".
Former Minister of Water and Energy, Atangana Kouna will pass his first night at the Kondengui Prison. Sources say his interrogation started at 11:30 am at the Special Criminal Court over alleged financial mishap, the former Minister who was napped in Nigeria and brought back to Cameroon has been sent to Kondengui Prison in Yaounde. Sources also hinted that before was interrogated on the alleged financial malpractice, the investigators also quizzed him on how he managed to vamoosed out of the country when his movement were restricted.It is alleged that it is with the help of interpool that he was arrested in Nigeria.
It should be recalled that Basile Atangana Kouna was removed from his ministerial position during President Paul Biya's March 2 cabinet reshuffle. He had already been ordered not to leave the country yet he sneaked out to Nigeria.
Three high profile personalities including a former minister have been detained in Yaoundé for alleged financial malpractices. They were hawked by the famous anti-corruption operation "Sparrow Hawk". Reports say Louis Max Ohandja, former Secretary of State to the Minister of Public Works, in charge of roads, Jean William Sollo, former boss of a public company and Bruno Bekolo Ebe, former rector of the University of Douala, were placed Wednesday night in custody in Kondengui, the central prison of Yaounde .
They are accused of transforming state funds into private pockets, but according what we gathered the amounts will be known only after the judicial proceeding will be opened. It is said that the Special Criminal Court (TCS), a judicial body that indicted the three personalities is working round the clock interrogating other accomplices.
William Sollo, according to the same source, is subject to a procedure for alleged misappropriation of funds within the Cameroon water utilities corporation (Camwater). From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Sollo managed this public company, which recently took over water distribution service from a private company.


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* Nota - As três melhores equipes européias na Copa do Mundo feminina se classificariam. Entretanto, a Inglaterra não é reconhecida pelo COI (atletas ingleses competem sob a bandeira do Reino Unido). Suécia e Noruega disputaram um playoff pela terceira vaga do continente..

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"Post 2012 Earth Changes: Two Timelines Separated by Individual Frequencies" and "Evidence of Multiverses" by Courtney Brown, PhD. at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Courtney Brown is inviting the public again to participate in his latest remote viewing research project on 2013 predictions from his team of military remote viewers. His team remote viewed two parallel collective realities in which humanity attracts one or the other. One is where NY and DC are 50 feet underwater permanently post a flood and that Australia gets hit by a tsunami where no one survives. The other is where the NY/DC recovers from a flood where the water retraces and we rebuild back to normal and that Australia recovers from a tsunami with many survivors awaiting help in the high lands. He plans on measuring the statistical data in 2014 to his team's earlier predictions. To participate online, just subscribe to the Farsight Institute's website for newsletters that mark notice of his team's latest remote viewing predictions, watch the video below notation the predictions, and a follow-up newletter will be emailed to you in 2014 after the statistical data has been measured for accuracy. So, lets do this and see if remote viewing is as credible statistically as the research suggests. Get in on the fun!
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Dr. Brown is a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and leading military researcher about remote viewing techniques. This presentation is at the 29th Society for Scientific Exploration meeting. He and his team of military grade remote viewers have shown with tens of thousands of online participants that checked the validity of the remote viewing predictions accurate years after they happened. His team is informing the public that the quantum physics interpretation of simultaneous multiple universes are a scientific reality through his research in remote viewing. After 2013, the timelines of humanity is split into two parallel realities separated by matching frequencies. The timeline with a lot more devasting natural disasters and a downward spiral for humanity is in one timeline where the frequency is about our separation from each other and the Earth, war, hate, greed, manipulation, self-righteousness, and the overall perpetuation of our own self-interest that attracts that matching reality. In the other timeline that has fewer natural disasters, but overall, the planet is healthy, his team saw that it has a frequency where unity consciousness and unconditional love with each other and the Earth in harmonious oneness with the unbiased creator consciousness within each of us is a fundamental vibration that "eventually" leads humanity into a galactic open society like Star Trek. Regardless of whether these two very different realities are true or not, the evidence is compelling for the academic and scientific community to further explore. Dr. Brown is asking for the public to help him get accurate numbers to keep his research statistically clean to help prove that multiverses do exist to add to our current understanding of black holes, cosmology, time, and quantum physics to name a few. To participate in his remote viewing study, you can subscribe to the newsletter at: FarsightInstitute.com.
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Below is the academic history of military remote viewing research.
"Russel Targ on Nova: Remote Viewing Evidence" by Nova and PBS. Russell Targ is a cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute, his work in the psychic area has been published in "Nature, The Proceedings of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)" and the "Proceedings of the American Association the Advancement of Science(AAAS)". Targ has a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College and did graduate work in physics at Columbia University. He has received two National Aeronautics and Space- Administration awards for inventions and contributions to lasers and laser communications. In 1983 and 1984 he accepted invitations to present remote-viewing demonstrations and to address the USSR Academy of Science on this research. He was a senior staff scientist at Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. He is author or co-author of nine books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities and Buddhist approaches to the transformation of universal consciousness on a global scale during the age of information, including "Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability", and continues to publish many more books on the parallels of esoteric metaphysics in science. Russell Targ, PhD. and Harold Putoff, PhD's remote viewing research was on human's ability to use remote viewing techniques to see predictions of events in time and space through linking to the unified field (force) of data present in the holographic matrix we share and co-create in collectively and individually. Their research explains that the government developed Stargate technology in which they use to colonize Mars and time travel amongst the vast variety of data that is as entertaining as insightful. Many of the remote viewing research they conducted have been substantiated, which is why many are intrigued at the far out implications that has yet to be substantiated.
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"Remote Viewing Presentation" by Harold E. Putoff, PhD. Harold Puthoff earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has directed a CIA/DIA-funded program at Stanford Research Institute to investigate paranormal abilities in people in collaboration with Russell Targ, PhD. He has authored many books on the subject of remote viewing. What his research has discovered is fascinating and discussed in university and military circles.
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Below are fun listens from active remote viewers. Beware. Fun listens below.
"Remote Viewing: Stargates & UFOs" by Joseph McMoneagle and Open Minds TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAErRNM-iE
"Military Remote Viewing History: Funnel Tax Money for Secret Ops" by Bill Ray and Coast to Coast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxbo3rAjPGI
"Remote Viewing on UFOs at the 2012 Olympics" by Paul H Smith, Gerald O'Donnell, and City Talk Radio 105.9 FM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GssteBKLsiU
"TRV University Opens Door to Future of Remote Viewing" by TRV University.
http://www.trvnews.com/tsl/080202/index.html
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Settlement reached in Infirmary wrongful death suit
Posted by Jason Johnson | Oct 6, 2016 | Latest, News | 2 |
After three years of behind-the-scenes litigation, a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man "dumped" out of a wheelchair behind the emergency room at Mobile Infirmary has ended with a confidential settlement.
The family of LeJuan Johnson, who died in 2013, settled a wrongful death lawsuit against Mobile Infirmary on Oct. 6. (Facebook)
Despite previous attempts to reach an agreement, the suit brought by family members of 24-year-old LeJuan Johnson, proceeded to a jury trial before Judge Michael Youngpeter this week.
However, after presenting opening arguments, attorneys for the plaintiff and all three defendants settled the case before any witness testimony was given. While an assistant for Judge Youngpeter was able to confirm that a settlement had been reached, the details are confidential.
The lawsuit made headlines when it was filed over how Johnson was removed from Mobile Infirmary's campus after allegedly being "combative" during a visit to the emergency room on the evening of March 5, 2013. According to evidence highlighted during the brief trial, Johnson — who was HIV positive — had gone to the ER that night due to "extreme weakness, altered mental status and nausea."
However, around 10 p.m. that night, security camera footage from the emergency room's ambulance bay and the roof of a parking garage captured Sgt. Jerry Ripple and security guard Shawn Poff dragging Johnson out of the emergency room, placing him in a wheelchair and then dumping him on the other side of a fence separating Mobile Infirmary from the University of South Alabama's Children's and Women's Hospital.
Four hours later, another guard found Johnson before and reported it to security staff at the USA facility who finally called for an ambulance around 2 a.m. Johnson was transported to Springhill Hospital where he died almost two weeks later on March 18, 2013.
That footage, however, was never released to the public because Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Michael Youngpeter sealed it as evidence shortly after the case was filed.
Lagniappe has attempted to obtain a copy of that footage, and as recently as Wednesday, sent a formal letter requesting it be unsealed. That request was denied.
"We agree with you that this video, taken at the Mobile Infirmary — which receives hundreds of millions of tax dollars to render care to the poor and needy in our local community — is of legitimate and significant interest to the media and our fellow citizens," David McDonald, one of the attorney's representing Johnson's family, said via email. "Unfortunately, we remain bound by the Judge's order and verbal instructions not to release the video that the Mobile Infirmary has successfully kept from the public eye for the past three years."
With a confidential settlement, it's likely the footage will never be released. However, footage from both cameras was played one time during the opening arguments this week.
A photographer with Local 15 WPMI was able to obtain some clips of the footage being shown to jurors in Youngpeter's courtroom, and that footage can be seen here.
During the defense's opening arguments, attorneys representing Mobile Infirmary acknowledged that dumping Johnson off of the property in 40-degree weather was "poor judgement" that went against the hospital's "policies and its core values."
However, all the defendants maintained the events that occurred on March 5, 2013, at Mobile Infirmary had nothing to do with Johnson's death at Springhill Hospital two weeks later. Instead, the defense argued Johnson died because he had stopped taking his HIV medication,which caused several of his body's vital organs to fail.
Norman Waldrop Jr., who represented the hospital, also said Mobile Infirmary launched its own investigation within days of the incident and took corrective action long before Johnson's family hired an attorney.
While admitting dumping Johnson off of the property was not the proper way to handle the situation, Poff and Ripple's attorneys said both men were only acting to protect patients and staff at Mobile Infirmary from Johnson, whom they claim had become "combative," refused treatment and gotten angry multiple times.
"(Johnson) had to go somewhere," Poff's attorney Michael Upchurch told the jury. "I'm not saying it was a perfect decision, but there was never any intent to harm and (Poff) certainly didn't know (Johnson) was going to lay there for four hours."
Poff and Mobile Infirmary were also named as defendants in a separate lawsuit filed by Jennifer McIntyre — a suit the hospital ultimately lost earlier this year.
Poff was accused of using unnecessary force when he arrested McIntyre in February of 2013 while she was visiting her dying father at Mobile Infirmary. McIntyre filed her lawsuit after her criminal charges were dropped based on security camera footage from the incident.
While Poff nor Ripple are employed by Mobile Infirmary any longer, Ripple is still a member of the Mobile Police Department where he works in the narcotics unit.
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Gene test mix-up brings scrutiny to industry
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Last week, retired marketing specialist Nora Probasco called her brother with a half-serious, half-joking question: Was she adopted?
The issue came up after the 59-year-old genealogy hobbyist from Louisville, Ky., received the results of a test she took through 23andMe, a Google-backed firm that allows people to learn more about their ancestry and some medical conditions through DNA analysis.
"I was shocked," she said. "What it came down to, the way I know to read them, is that my mom is not my mom."
To her relief, it turned out to be a mistake. Last Friday, the Mountain View firm acknowledged in a post on its Web site that it mixed up the samples of 96 clients and sent them the wrong ones. The company corrected the mistake relatively quickly, but observers see the potential for similar errors that could lead individuals to make ill-informed decisions regarding their health.
The company, which was founded in 2006, said in an e-mail that the mistake occurred when a tray with 96 samples was misplaced. The company added that new procedures have been... see more
Sickle Cell Cure Brings Mix of Anxiety and Hope
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Terry Jackson lives a life dominated by sickle cell disease. The genetic disorder, in which misshapen red cells become wedged in blood vessels, causes him daily bone pain and lower back pain and has sent...
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The Food and Drug Administration is pressing pause on drug-company testing of experimental medicines more often, a side effect of the industry's move into promising but less-proven technologies.
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Skeleton Coast By Clive Cussler
by Clive Cussler
The latest entry in the "New York Times" bestselling Oregon Files series. A priceless treasure under the sea, a merciless threat on the surface--Juan Cabrillo can handle both.
Skeleton Coast Summary
Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a double-cross, Cabrillo takes action. He manages to save the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who's on a mission of her own, looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area.
What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry--a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them.
About Clive Cussler
Clive Cussler is the author of more than fifty books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, Oregon Files, Isaac Bell, and Fargo. His life nearly parallels that of his hero Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for lost aircraft or leading expeditions to find famous shipwrecks, he and his NUMA crew of volunteers have discovered more than seventy-five lost ships of historic significance, including the long-lost Confederate submarine Hunley, which was raised in 2000 with much press publicity. Like Pitt, Cussler collects classic automobiles. His collection features more than eighty examples of custom coachwork. Cussler lives in Arizona and Colorado.
Jack Du Brul is a graduate of the Westminster School and George Washington University. Du Brul has climbed Masada at noon, swam in the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow, explored war-torn Eritrea, camped in Greenland, and been gnawed on by piranhas in the Amazon River. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.
Oregon Files
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Symphonic Winds and Jazz Lab Ensemble to Perform
WHAT: The Illinois Wesleyan School of Music's Symphonic Winds and Jazz Lab Ensemble will perform in concert
WHERE: Westbrook Auditorium of Presser Hall on Illinois Wesleyan University's campus
WHEN: Thursday, April 3 at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public
WHY: The Symphonic Winds, an ensemble of approximately 50 students, presents three to four concert band performances throughout the academic year. The Jazz Lab Ensemble, featuring music and non-music majors, performs many styles of jazz with their main focus being jazz classics.
DETAILS: The Symphonic Winds, conducted by Roger Garrett, assistant professor of music, will perform: March for Brasses by Edwin Franko Goldman, An American Elegy by Frank Ticheli, Sea Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Second Suite for Military Band in F Major by Gustav Holst.
The Jazz Lab Ensemble, directed by Timothy Pitchford, assistant professor of music, will play: Teddy The Toad composed by Neal Hefti, Samba de Haps composed by Mark Taylor, Thaditude composed by Steve Wiest, I've Got A Crush On You composed by George and Ira Gershwin and arranged by Dave Barduhn, and Paranoid Android composed by Radiohead, arranged by Ken Schaphorst and featuring Joseph Plazak, assistant professor of music, on guitar.
CONTACT: School of Music Office at (309) 556-3061.


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Q: Directive to disable and show load sign on a button during http-request Consider this runnable example http://plnkr.co/edit/a88cOYDVORDHQV3b5NGJ?p=preview
angular.module('app', ['ngRoute'])
.controller('myctrl',['$scope', '$timeout', function($scope, $timeout){
  $scope.myjson = [{title:'one'},{title:'two'},{title:'three'}];

  $scope.remove = function(idx){
    $scope.loading = true;
    $timeout(function(){
      $scope.myjson.splice(idx,1);
      $scope.loading = false
    }, 700)

  }
}])
.filter('unsafe', function($sce) {
    return function(val) {
        return $sce.trustAsHtml(val);
    };
})
</script>

  <a class="btn btn-default"
  ng-bind-html=" loading?
  ( '' | unsafe) :
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The timeout is to simulate a http-request removing entities. This works if there is just one button (for example login or register). The problem is that each of the entities need to have their individual loading variable, and I don't know how to do it. I just want the button clicked on to show the loading symbol. For many buttons like this I think I need a directive...

A: This is why they invented Angular directives.
You can create a directive with an isolated scope, and apply it to each of your buttons.
angular.module('app', ['ngRoute'])
.controller('myctrl',['$scope', '$timeout', function($scope, $timeout){
  $scope.myjson = [{title:'one'},{title:'two'},{title:'three'}];
}]).directive('loader',function() {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    scope: true,
    controller: ['$scope', '$timeout', function($scope, $timeout) {
      $scope.remove = function(idx){
        $scope.loading = true;
        $timeout(function(){
          $scope.myjson.splice(idx,1);
          $scope.loading = false
        }, 700)

      }
    }]
  };
})

I've changed your plunkr to demonstrate.


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As we have been telling these days , rumors about the next iPad Mini Apple not stop out from under the stones. Although recent months have been prolific in terms of information about the upcoming Apple tablet, now that the storm has passed the iPhone 5 is increasing the frequency of the rumors.
However, the news that we bring today is not any. The source is the New York Times, which is usually wrong when it comes to predicting new iOS devices. This morning, one of the editors said that the factories of Apple's Asian partners have begun to mass produce the iPad Mini. Its objective is to support the presentation on 17 October, so that it hits stores in early November.
The editor, Lorraine Luck, says his sources are well-informed. The first features confirm what we know: 7.85-inch screen and a resolution lower than the third-generation iPad. This means we could see one like the iPad 2, 1024 × 768 pixels that there would be nothing wrong in a medium size.
He adds that the main motivation for Apple to get this new device has been nothing to compete with Google and Amazon in the tablet segment size and moderate price. Not surprisingly, the market share of the iPad has dropped in one year from 81% to 52%, mainly due to the launch of the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire around $ 200.
Dare to get this Apple iPad Mini? Will you use conventional resolution, or happen as with the iPhone 5, which incorporates an unprecedented number of pixels in the family of iOS?


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Vanderbilt is een plaats (borough) in de Amerikaanse staat Pennsylvania, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Fayette County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 553.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 526, een daling van 27 (-4,9%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
0,5 km², geheel bestaande uit land.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 12 km rond Vanderbilt.

Externe link

Plaats in Pennsylvania


I love Mantle of the Expert. I especially love it when I come back from working with the best teacher on the planet, Luke Abbott, and realise that there's so much more to learn. I went into my classroom today, after working with Luke and Tim Taylor all weekend and it was the best double lesson I've had in ages. My Year 9 English class (we're bottom, us) are on fire.
We've got rid of setting in Years 7 and 8 for our new English and Philosophy curriculum, but for the moment, Year 9s are still in sets. Having the set who, despite our best efforts to avoid the word, know and call themselves 'The Bottoms' throws up many challenges. For a start, all bar two are boys. Some are so disaffected by the idea of writing that they'd rather stick their pens in their eyes. And they do. They are hard to manage, have short attention spans, push boundaries and are deeply, deeply vulnerable. They think they are rubbish and they push those who teach them to confirm it. But they're not rubbish. They're actually really funny, imaginative and brilliant. And sadly bordering on illiterate. Almost all are dyslexic or have another language development problem. So I've been working on building on two areas to improve confidence and to get their pens off their eyeballs and onto the page: knowledge and vocabulary.
Another problem with this setting business is that sometimes, you wonder if the departmental scheme of work is quite right for the children you're working with. But it's what we have and so my job is to find the awe and wonder in our unit of work on travel writing. Last year when I had set 2, I tried to make 'writing to persuade' and 'writing to inform' more interesting by setting up an elaborate in-role enterprise which involved a failing travel company, a rebranding and marketing exercise and finally a complex liaison with various press and law enforcement agencies as our passengers sat as hostages on a cruise ship captured by Somali pirates. This year, I needed something simpler – the complexity of language required for those tasks was too difficult and the recent events in Kenya a little too raw. In addition, I was finding that this particular group didn't really care if our company failed or not. The tension that had captured the attention of the children in the higher sets did not work for these children. So I needed something simpler and something more enticing. God sent me Luke.
– Does anyone in your family have any medical problems?
– How long can you travel for?
– What did she mean by 'we'? Who is going on this holiday? Are there children?
At this point, as a teacher, I have a choice. I can go into role and answer all those questions, or I can build up their investment into the fiction and get them to do some of the groundwork. So I tell them that perhaps we should impress her by finding out a little about her family.
– We know that your eldest is in Year 11 so we assumed that you'd want to go after her exams?
– Are any of your children afraid of heights?
– Is there any particular weather that you'd want to avoid?
Already, an area of the curriculum is opening up to me. This is not a Geography lesson, but we are clearly going to have to learn quite a lot about Geography to fulfil this brief. We also need to build a notion of a 'responsible' team – a team which has moral purpose. And to do this, we need to tempt them with dilemma. They agree to meet with Mrs Snoop (don't ask!) next week and present her with a suggested itinerary and she leaves.
I ask them in pairs and threes if they could possibly show me some examples of the types of 'adventure' activities they have in mind. They are to represent them as if they are photographs in a holiday brochure. This allows me to manage chaos – photos can't move, leap off tables and punch each other. But it also allows the children to focus on detail. We see self conscious and slightly awkward representations of a scuba dive, skiing, a rainforest tree top canopy walk, skydiving and a tiger safari.
As we view each one, instead of asking 'what is happening here' I ask 'is there something interesting that you notice about this image?' It stops them making wild guesses and encourages more tentative answers.
By focusing on detail, two things happen. Firstly, the images begin to subtly become more clear – the children in the image respond to the comments. Secondly, the children are constructing fuller descriptions, not rushing straight to an answer. If I can develop this habit in speech, it will impact on their writing. In addition, by simply being asked to comment on what they notice, not on what is happening, they're more prepared to have a go and not feel compelled to get straight to a 'right or wrong' answer. This subtle shift in language was one of the key things I'd learned over the weekend while Luke had taken us through similar processes and it works.
The children caption their images with the words that would appear in the brochure under their photograph.
– Are there mountains in India?
-Do we have a map?
After pouring over a map and some globes and a couple of travel brochures, they decide to send the family to Nepal, India and The Maldives.
-I'll get some pictures and bring them in Miss.
They're off. Two figures on a beach, one laying face down, the other leaning over him, hands pressing on the injured man's back.
"Do you think you'd be able to cover a shark bite with the palm of your hand though?" Silence.
– Did he hurt himself on the wreck?
-Yeah, there was a sharp metal pin sticking out and he fell back against it.
-Why didn't it just hit his tank?
– Yeah, a big current of water.
– Climate change, Miss, Global Warming!!
A brief discussion starts about whether or not this would be possible and similar conversations crop up about the other images. The children are building general knowledge, vocabulary, belief and investment in the work.
– No we should keep quiet.
– or that it's their choice, or fault if something goes wrong.
-no, it'll put her off – on the back page, dead small.
We vote. Ten in favour of small print. Four against. We'll come back to that vote later.
They rush to pick up their pens.
Over the next few weeks, we'll track the Snoops on their holidays. We'll ask them to write postcards or contribute to our company travel blog and the children can write in role. We still need to do some homework on the climate of the places they've chosen and create a proper itinerary. We need to liaise with the organisations who plan and deliver the adventure activities and check their safety procedures. Of course, we'll be going in and out of role as Snoops, adventure companies and so on, and sooner or later there will be an accident….
There will be writing to inform, writing to instruct. There will be travel writing. But crucially, there will be problem solving, there will be dilemmas, ethical choices to be made, stories to be created. And there is knowledge. Lots of it. Geographical, scientific, legal, linguistic knowledge. There will be new words to be learned, texts to be written, artifacts to be made. And hopefully, if they continue to enjoy working on this, there will be children whose writing, speaking and willingness to engage with texts have improved. There will be busy, confident, agentive children who are learning that they are not rubbish. They are responsible and they have important stuff to do. So thank you Luke, Tim and NATD. I feel my teaching got a great boost of vitamins this weekend.
Utter genius. How would it be if everyone opened up the curriculum this way?
I love reading about your teaching – utterly inspirational. I am in awe!
They're not all like that!
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing this. I'm currently contributing to a Statement of SEN for one of those boys that sticks pens in his eyes and I can imagine just how much more skilled he would now be if he had experienced teaching like yours since he started school.
And I'm on a Mantle of the Expert Study Day at Woodrow on Wednesday. Whoop whoop!
Wow…just wow… this is fantastic, engaging and you seem to be really getting somewhere with this group. Please keep us updated on progress.


Startup Riot is entrepreneur and innovator Sanjay Parekh's latest attempt at jump-starting the startup culture and tech community in the Atlanta area. In essence it's a networking event focused around startup pitches to an audience comprised of recent grads looking for jobs, people involved in technology with other companies and investors as well as other startups.
By now you can probably come up with a fancy xkcd-like diagram in your head about how this should all meld together. Startups pitch everyone, people involved in technology with other companies can serve as early adopter customers to relevant startups, job seekers can find interesting local startups to work for and investors can buy us lunch meet intriguing startups looking for funding (theoretically).
The details are just coming out of the woodwork but there is now a date: Monday, May 19th, 2008 from 9am - 5pm at the Twelve Hotel in Atlantic Station. Better yet, there is actually a keynote speaker! Even better, I've actually heard of him before - Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.
Registration just opened so if you're local, please consider attending. I should be able to finagle a way out of my 2 or 3 summer courses that day and help pitch Skribit. I haven't been this amped about an Atlanta tech event since Startup Weekend.
Does your city have any events like this?