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Friday, December 4, 2015 Historical vs. sociological explanation Think of the following matrix of explanatory possibilities of social and historical phenomena: Vertically the matrix divides between historical and sociological explanations, whereas horizontally it distinguishes general explanations and particular explanations. A traditional way of understanding the distinction between historical and sociological explanations was to maintain that sociological explanations provide generalizations, whereas historical explanations provide accounts for particular and unique situations. Windelband and the historicist school referred to this distinction as that between nomothetic and idiographic explanations (link). It was often assumed, further, that the nomothetic / idiographic distinction corresponded as well to the distinction between causal and interpretive explanations. On this approach, only two of the cells would be occupied: sociological / general and historical / particular. There are no general historical explanations and no particular sociological explanations. This way of understanding social and historical explanations no longer has a lot of appeal. "Causal" and "nomological" no longer have the affinity with each other that they once had, and "idiographic" and "interpretive" no longer seem to mutually imply each other. Philosophers have come to recognize that the deductive-nomological model does a poor job of explicating causation, and that we are better served by the idea that causal relationships are established by discovering discrete causal mechanisms. And the interpretive approach doesn't line up uniquely with any particular mode of explanation. So historical and sociological explanations no longer bifurcate in the way once imagined. All four quadrants invoke both causal mechanisms and interpretation as components of explanation. In fact it is straightforward to identify candidate explanations in the two "vacant" cells -- particular sociological explanations and general historical explanations. In Fascists Michael Mann asks a number of moderately general questions about the causes of European fascism; but he also asks about historically particular instances of fascism. Historical sociology involves both singular and general explanations. But likewise, historians of the French Revolution or the English Revolution often provide general hypotheses even as they construct a particular narrative leading to the storming of the Bastille (Pincus, Soboul). There seem to be two important grounds of explanation that cut across all these variants of explanations of human affairs. It is always relevant to ask about the meanings that participants attribute to actions and social events, so interpretation is a resource for both historical and sociological explanations. But likewise, causal mechanisms are invoked in explanations across the spectrum of social and historical explanation, and are relevant to both singular and general explanations. Or in other words, there is no difference in principle between sociological and historical explanatory strategies. How do the issues of generalization and particularity arise in the context of causal mechanisms? In several ways. First, explanations based on social mechanisms can take place in both a generalizing and a particular context. We can explain a group of similar social outcomes by hypothesizing the workings of a common causal mechanism giving rise to them; and we can explain a unique event by identifying the mechanisms that produced it in the given unique circumstances. Second, a social-mechanism explanation relies on a degree of lawfulness; but it refrains from the strong commitments of the deductive-nomological method. There are no high-level social regularities. Third, we can refer both to particular individual mechanisms and a class of similar mechanisms. For example, the situation of "easy access to valuable items along with low probability of detection" constitutes a mechanism leading to pilferage and corruption. We can invoke this mechanism to explain a particular instance of corrupt behavior -- a specific group of agents in a business who conspire to issue false invoices -- or a general fact -- the logistics function of a large military organization is prone to repeated corruption. (Sergeant Bilko, we see you!) So mechanisms support a degree of generalization across instances of social activity; and they also depend upon a degree of generalization across sequences of events. And what about meanings? Human actions proceed on the basis of subjective understandings and motivations. There are some common features of ordinary human experience that are broadly shared. But the variations across groups, cultures, and individuals are very wide, and there is often no substitute for detailed hermeneutic research into the mental frameworks of the actors in specific historical settings. Here again, then, explanations can take the form of either generalized statements or accounts of particular and unique outcomes. We might say that the most basic difference between historical and sociological explanation is a matter of pragmatics -- intellectual interest rather than fundamental logic. Historians tend to be more interested in the particulars of a historical setting, whereas sociologists -- even historical sociologists -- tend to be more interested in generalizable patterns and causes. But in each case the goal of explanation is to discover an answer to the question, why and how does the outcome occur? And this typically involves identifying both causal mechanisms and human meanings. No comments: About Me I am a philosopher of social science with a strong interest in Asia. I have written books on social explanation, Marx, late imperial China, the philosophy of history, and the ethics of economic development. Topics having to do with racial justice in the United States have become increasingly important to me in recent years. All these topics involve the complexities of social life and social change. I have come to see that understanding social processes is in many ways more difficult than understanding the natural world. Take the traditional dichotomy between structure and agency as an example. It turns out that social actions and social structures are reciprocal and inseparable. As Marx believed, “people make their own histories, but not in circumstances of their own choosing.” So we cannot draw a sharp separation between social structure and social agency. I think philosophers need to interact seriously and extensively with working social researchers and theorists if they are to be able to help achieve a better understanding the social world. Open source philosophy Since 2007 this site addresses a series of topics in the philosophy of social science. What is involved in "understanding society"? The blog is an experiment in thinking, one idea at a time. Look at it as "open-source philosophy" -- a web-based, dynamic monograph on the philosophy of social science and some foundational issues about the nature of the social world. Recent publications Currently reading ... Digital editions of Varieties of Social Explanation Digital editions of Varieties of Social Explanation are now available on Kindle and iBooks for iPad. This edition contains the original text of the 1991 edition along with an extensive new introduction, "Philosophy and Social Knowledge."

"The Xbox One program has been in development for years, so calling it 'Rushed' is incorrect," wrote the Major. "Did we have a few challenges between May and August? Sure. But we are working on our own schedule - not any one else's." He added: "At Gamescom, every game in the Xbox booth was running on final Xbox One hardware. Every. Single. One.

I'm always interested in trying out new Apps on my iPhone. The best place to find out about new apps seems to be get reference from App store. But you should note that not every hot apps in the App store is what exactly you need. While you are not sure about it, you may take consider into otherís review or useful app listing like me! LOLHere are my current favís apps: 1. GoodReader ($0.99) - the best PDF reader for the iPhone and the iPad version is even better.It can not only view local files (and you can transfer files to it from iTunes), including PDF, Word, Excel, PNG, TXT, JPEG and more, but you can download files from a URL or connect to a web server. 3. Hippo ($4.99) - Turns your iPhone into a mouse/keyboard. Great if you hook your laptop up to your TV to watch video's and are too lazy (me) to get up to start the next video or to reply to an email/instant message. 4. Free Translator Ė This application provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages. Anyone else care to share their fav's? I haven't pulled the trigger on an iPad yet but am looking forward to getting the next generation iPad whenever it comes out. Soon I hope?! Photosmith, at least for Lightroom users. It allows for selecting and rating of pictures and integrates with Lightroom. Works well although I still have to test it a bulk of photos. This will happen when I'm on holiday in a few weeks time. - TuneIn Radio Pro I think one of the best i-net radios out there.- 360 Panorama Great fun Tool to make some 360 Panos. the quality is quite good, but iT#s not really about the image quality it's about how much fun it is to use the app. - Viewfinder Pro There are a few version out there. (Depending on what camera you use) It's a greta framing tool.- HD Photographic Wallpapers Ok, this last one is a little self promotion. Just finished the app. It has a Photo collection of some of my work. All optimized for Wallpapers. Adding to must have apps you can try out WorldCard Mobile app. WorldCard Mobile, the leading business card scanning application for iPhone, uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to instantly transfer information from business cards to the userís native contacts. With a simple click of the camera, you no longer have to manually input contact info from business cards or email signatures. May I add a question: has anyone done or found a review comparing photo editing apps for iPad? In particular, PhotoRaw and Snapseed seem to be the most recommended until last week, when iPhoto was added to the mix. I have no interest in doing this on the tiny screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch, so am just curious about apps adapted for the iPad. May I add a question: has anyone done or found a review comparing photo editing apps for iPad? In particular, PhotoRaw and Snapseed seem to be the most recommended until last week, when iPhoto was added to the mix. I have no interest in doing this on the tiny screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch, so am just curious about apps adapted for the iPad. I like City Maps 2Go (what a stupid name ). It let's you download maps for offline navigation and it knows about all kinds of points of interest. The maps are really nice and accurate and you can download as many as you want for free, once you have bought the app itself. In addition you can also by an add-on which downloads content from Wikipedia but this I haven't tried so far.Something similar is done by Wikihood. It uses your current position to show you all Wikipedia entries for places nearby. If you have some time to kill, try iBone and Cut the Rope. Both are really addictive. Eye-Fi app with an eye-fi card in my camera allows me to take pics with a real camera and then beam them directly to my phone and upload to my favorite sharing site. No WiFi network needed. Triggertrap with dongle to make your phone into an intervalometer, motion detector, lightning detector, or just plain shutter release maplets has downloadable brochures and maps for every national, state, and local park in the US ibird pro is a searchable bird guide with many identification photos and intelligent search by location, color, size, etc... also includes audio recordings of their songs to aid in identification or (if you consider it ethical) to lure the bird in to be observed. Evernote for keeping notes about anything and syncing them across multiple devices. I keep things like hyperfocal distance tables, calibration tables for my pano rig, or even business cards from people who won't make it into my contacts. weatherbug to enable me to see a weather for radar wherever I am RANT FOLLOWS-->I refuse to acknowledge that these phones have any image capture technology whatsoever, so you won't see me extolling instagram or hipstamatic apps. They all mostly suck. Take pride in your photos and use a proper camera that allows you to consistently and reliably capture quality images. <--RANT ENDS

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Study Class Isis Unveiled by Madam H.P. Blavatsky Thursday, December 12, 2013 Isis Study – April to June 2013 Summary and discussions Isis unveiled, vol. I Chapter XV –INDIA THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION Pages 584 – 590 India, the cradle of civilization Louis Jacolliot was severely critical of present day India’s degradation, which, he rightly attributed to the perversion of ancient caste system over the last few centuries. His rebuke of modern India is proportionate to his admiration for the intensity of her past grandeur. He points the source of ancient creeds, including the Book of Moses, to be ancient India, the cradle of humanity and the hotbed of the lost arts and sciences of antiquity. “To study India,” said he, “is to trace humanity to its source.” Says Jacolliot : In the same way as the modern society jostles antiquity at each step, as our poets have copied Homer and Virgil. Sophocles and Euripides, Plautus and Terrene; as our philosophers have drawn inspiration from Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle; as our historians take Titus Livicus, Sallust, or Tacitus, as models; as our orators, Demosthenes or Cicero; our physicians study Hippocrates, and our codes transcribe Justinian—so had antiquity’s self also an antiquity to study, to imitate, and to copy, and that was ancient India. It is quite logical. Peoples precede and succeed each other, knowledge acquired by one nation overflows into other nations. India of 6000 years ago, brilliant, civilized, overflowing with population, impressed upon Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece, and Rome, as these last have impressed upon us. The Age of the Code of Manu The evidence of the past glories of ancient India lies buried in her literature. Christian missionaries anxiously summon every argument in support of their contention that the Ordinances of Manu were compiled at various times and the oldest cannot be earlier than the Christian era. But impartial Orientalists are of a different view. Sir William Jones is of the opinion that the laws of Manu, such as we possess them, do not comprise fully the older text under the name Vriddha Manava or the Ancient Code of Manu which has not yet been entirely reconstructed, although many passages of the book have been preserved by tradition. Jacolloiot says that in the preface to a treatise on legislation by Narada, written by one of his adepts, it is said that Manu wrote laws of Brahma in 100,000 verses (slokas) which formed 24 books and a thousand chapters, and gave it to Narada, the sage of sages, who abridged it for the use of mankind to 12000 verses; that this was passed on to a son of Brighu, named Soumati, who, for the greater convenience of man, reduced them to 4000. Sir William Jones affirmed that the fragments which are the subjects of study of the scholars could not be the The Ancient Code of Manu. Jacolliot, after consulting authorities and after his own research, wrote :“The Hindu laws were codified by Manu more than 1000 years before the Christian era, copied by the whole of antiquity, and notably by Rome, which alone has left us a written law—the Code of Justinian; which has been adopted as the basis of all modern legislation.” Many Indologists, including Jacolliot, suspected that many of the Vedic texts and Laws of Manu sent by the Asiatic Society of Calcutta to Europe were not genuine texts at all, mostly due to cunning efforts of Jesuit missionaries to mislead science with a view to throw a cloud of uncertainty on the history of India. (Jacolliot’s Christna et el Christ). The code of Manu commented upon by Brighon does not even form part of the ancient Manu called Vriddha Manava. What has been discovered is only a small part of it. The whole of it nevertheless exist in certain temples of India. Jacolliot proves that the texts sent to Europe disagree entirely with the same texts found in the Pagodas of Southern India. The Age of the Vedas and Manu According to the Hindu tradition we are now Kali Yuga, the last of the four Yugas, of which Satya or Krita Yuga is the first, during which the laws of Manu were established. Sir William Jones accepted the authenticity of the chronology, which, of course, contradicts the chronology of the Jewish scriptures, according to which just about 45000 years have elapsed since the “creation” of the world. The Hindu chronology agrees better with the geological chronology of modern science. Kali Yuga began about 4500 years ago. The contention of some scholars that the laws of Manu do not date farther back than three centuries B.C. is based on evidence of some ancient documents which were abridgment of those laws, compiled and arranged by later Brahmans to serve as an authority for their ambitious projects of creating for themselves a rule of dominion. There are however strongest possible arguments in favour of the great antiquity of the Books of Manu. Some of the arguments Louis Jacolliot brings forward in support of the same are worth considering : Jaccolliot proves that the Code of Justinian was copied from Laws of Manu. Then we have to ascertain the age of the former. According to Varro, Rome was built in 3961 of the Julian period (754 B.C.). The Roman Law, as compiled by the order of Justinian, called Corpus Juris Civilis, was not a code but a digest of the customs of legislation of many centuries. The chief source from which the jus scriptum, or written law, was derived, was jus non scriptum, or the law of custom, which in turn was derivation from still earlier sources. This alone carries it back to more than 1000 years B.C. Manava Dharma Sastra, embodying the Hindu system of cosmogony is recognized to be next to the Vedas in antiquity. Colebrook assigns to the latter 15th century B.C. Therefore, Laws of Manu cannot be assigned an age as recent as third century B.C. While the Vedas are held to be divinely Revealed (Sriti), the Code of Manu is considered to be a collection of oral traditions (Smriti), which are among the oldest and most revered in the land. Brahmans have undeniably remodelled these traditions at some distant period, and made many of the laws as they now exist to answer their ambitious views. Therefore, they must have been made at a time when Suttee (widow mounting the funeral pyre of her dead husband) had not become a social custom, which it had been for nearly 2500 years. There is no sanction in the Vedas for practice of Suttee nor is it sanctioned on the Code of Manu. If Brahmans had been the authors of the Code of Manu in recent times as some scholars believe, they would not have omitted to include the Suttee as a part of the code. This alone is a proof of the great antiquity of the Code of Manu It is on such circumstantial evidence, and by the strength of reason and logic, that it is affirmed that ; ig Egypt furnished Greece with her civilization, and the latter bequeathed hers to Rome, Egypt herself in those remote age when Menes reigned received her laws, social institutions, her arts and sciences, from Pre-Vedic India (Bunsen assigns the reign of Menes to be 3645 B.C.) It is to ancient India is the Initiatrix of the priests—Adepts of all other countries—that we must look for the key to the great mysteries of humanity. By “India” is not meant the present day India but India of archaic period. India of those remote period was known by other names. There was an Upper, Lower and a Western India, the latter included Persia-Iran. What are now known as Thibet, Mangolia and the great Tartary were considered by ancient writers as India. In the next blog legends about the pre-Vedic cradle of Humanity will be discussed.

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Category: Business By Design Live a Great Story: A Brand That’s Also a Way of Life Maybe you see the message on a T-shirt someone is wearing, or on a sticker slapped on a signpost: Live a Great Story. You pause, the urgency of these words sinking into your mind and heart. Do you have a great story to tell? Zach Horvath, one of the creators of the San Diego-based brand Live a Great Story, believes that you do. Live a Great Story isn’t just the name of this brand-new company. It’s the philosophy that Zach and his collaborators follow. And it’s the message that adorns the T-shirts, reminder bracelets and stickers they sell. If you’ve been in San Diego recently, you’ve probably seen the larger stickers the Live a Great Story crew has plastered around town to spread inspiration. Zach and his cohorts have big plans to use Live a Great Story to tell the stories of others. In this conversation (edited a little for length and clarity), he tells us more about how the business began and what’s in the works for the future. Tell us about your background and the background of Live a Great Story. How did you get to where you are today as a creative, and how did Live a Great Story came to be? I went to Europe for seven months and traveled all around. Through that, I just met so many amazing people and heard so many stories from around the world. We realized that everybody is really living their own story. It doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing or what your background is. It’s about each individual person, and we all choose to live our own story. That’s the inspiration for Live a Great Story. It’s about each individual person, and we all choose to live our own story. After I came back from traveling, an idea started forming. A lot of people who are living great stories came together for this project, and we launched in early August. It’s definitely a new company, but it’s growing really quickly with a lot of positive response so far. Starting a product or business is a big decision. What was the process like for you? How did you decide to take the leap to start Live a Great Story? Before Live a Great Story, I had a clothing company; I started quite a few blogs. I’ve run an events company where we brought together artists, music and art. And so Live a Great Story has been pretty much the culmination of everything that I’ve learned and my journey so far. People really like the phrase “Live a Great Story,” and so we wanted to put it on a shirt. We built a screen press by hand, we expose it by hand — the whole process. We still have real jobs and are making real money, but this is a passion that we have as a group. I went to work, came home from work after eight hours and hand-dried shirts until 5 in the morning. “Live a Great Story” is a motto, it’s a theme, but we’re also living it as a company. A big part of it is sharing other people’s stories, but also living our own story and really following our path, what we think and pushing forward and trying to do big things. We just want as many people to see this message as possible, to share people who are living this message and to live a few stories of our own. How do you encourage people to participate? Do you reach out to them personally or do they approach you? Most of our contribution so far and much of our user feedback has been on Instagram. Our biggest way of getting the word out so far has been our street reminders. That’s where most people have found us. So it’s cool that all the growth that we’ve seen, the feedback and the people who have been very supportive have all just seen our street reminders, which are basically big stickers around the city. If you scroll through #LiveAGreatStory on Instagram, you can see so many people have taken pictures and are saying, “Oh, I needed this reminder today. Thank you, random sign!” or “This is what it’s about. This is what we want to do, and I hope I’m doing this.” And so that’s been the coolest part — just seeing hundreds of people sharing these reminders. It’s just that little bit of inspiration or motivation that we want to give to people to just keep doing their story and living it. One thing that really stands out about Live a Great Story is design. Why is design important to you and to the brand/project? When designing the logo, the most important part that came through was just that it needed to be simple. We’re all about simplicity. It’s definitely been a huge part of our success so far, so we wanted it to be a very simple logo that people identified with and that can be shared easily across all sorts of platforms, from stickers around the city to shirts. How do you use your creativity to make a contribution? Our idea behind Live a Great Story is sharing a lot of people’s stories that are doing cool things, so along those lines we’re going back to kind of like the Renaissance era, when people gave back to the people actually contributing to aesthetics. With the Live a Great Story Ambassador Program, we will create a platform where people can submit their stories and what they’re doing with their lives — from athletics to yoga to design to fashion. Once every quarter, our followers can vote on who is living the best story or doing the most good, and a portion of our profits from that quarter will go to those people. This will be our way of saying, “You’re doing something really cool, and we just want to contribute back to the community, so that you’d be able to live an even better story and impact even more people.” A big part of it is sharing other people’s stories, but also living our own story and really following our path, what we think and pushing forward and trying to do big things. What’s the biggest lesson that you’ve learned as an entrepreneur and creative? Is there anything that you would have done differently? There are a couple of big lessons. Making little choices and micro-testing over and over and over again. We all have other full-time jobs or different ways of making our income while we’re building Live a Great Story. I guess it’s the bootstrap idea of pivoting and seeing what works and what doesn’t without spending too much money upfront. We didn’t make 5,000 shirts or spend a lot of money on the website. We can make choices here and there that will slowly improve instead of a massive upfront investment. Seeing how many people and the variety of people that it impacts, from teenagers to middle age to office workers to athletes. We’ve seen everybody share our message, and so it’s cool to see that everybody is living their own story and there are so many stories out there. You can’t judge someone by how they look or what they’re doing from the outside. It’s just up to them to keep that story going, and it’s been really cool to see how many stories are out there and really understand that everybody’s different, special, and unique. Live a Great Story: A Brand That’s Also a Way of Life was last modified: December 14th, 2016 by Kristin Moses

Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture Brown, M. (Ed), Carrabine, E. (Ed) This series aims to publish high quality interdisciplinary scholarship for research into crime, media and culture. As images of crime, harm and punishment proliferate across new and old media there is a growing recognition that criminology needs to rethink its relations with the ascendant power of spectacle. This international book series aims to break down the often rigid and increasingly hardened boundaries of mainstream criminology, media and communication studies, and cultural studies. In a late modern world where reality TV takes viewers into cop cars and carceral spaces, game shows routinely feature shame and suffering, teenagers post ‘happy slapping’ videos on YouTube, both cyber bullying and ‘justice for’ campaigns are mainstays of social media, and insurrectionist groups compile footage of suicide bomb attacks for circulation on the Internet, it is clear that images of crime and control play a powerful role in shaping social practices. It is vital then that we become versed in the diverse ways that crime and punishment are represented in an era of global interconnectedness, not least since the very reach of global media networks is now unparalleled. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture emerges from a call to rethink the manner in which images are reshaping the world and criminology as a project. The mobility, malleability, banality, speed, and scale of images and their distribution demand that we engage both old and new theories and methods and pursue a refinement of concepts and tools, as well as innovative new ones, to tackle questions of crime, harm, culture, and control. Keywords like image, iconography, information flows, the counter-visual, and ‘social’ media, as well as the continuing relevance of the markers, signs, and inscriptions of gender, race, sexuality, and class in cultural contests mark the contours of the crime, media and culture nexus.

This simple cheese, egg and vegetable pie is full of tender zucchini and onions and is a simple main dish, that pairs excellently with a robust red wine. For a complete meal, serve with a piquant and simple arugula salad. RecipeSavants.comThis simple cheese, egg and vegetable pie is full of tender zucchini and onions and is a simple main dish, that pairs excellently with a robust red wine. For a complete meal, serve with a piquant and simple arugula salad. Smart Recipes, European Recipes, Eggs,Dairy Recipes, RecipesEggs,DairyEuropeanCheese & Zucchini PiePT1HServes 8 Ingredients: 1 Prepared Pie Shell3 Medium Zucchinis0.5 Pound Goat Cheese4 Large Eggs0.25 Pound Mozzarella1 Onion2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil0.25 Teaspoon Salt & Freshly Ground Black PepperPreheat the oven to 350 degrees. Add oil to large saute pan, and heat over medium heat. Saute onions and zucchini for 10-15 minutes or until the vegetables soften. Season with salt and pepper. Allow the vegetables to cool completely. Combine the vegetable mixture, with the beaten eggs and cheese mixtures. Pour the mixture into the pastry shell and bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and delicous. Allow the pie to cool for 10-15 minutes before serving. What is your opinion of this recipe? Add Cheese & Zucchini Pie To Your Recipe Box Add to an existing collection Create a new existing collection Add Your Private Notes Update Private Notes How can I make this recipe better? We do are best to ensure that each and every imported and RecipeSavants' recipe is of the best quality. But, sometimes one slips through the cracks and needs a bit more work. Please provide your feed back in the space provided and we will do our level best to make it right!

We would call it Aubergine Pot Stew; in Turkey it is the much more exotic sounding Patliçanli Tençere Kebabi. This is aubergines and lamb, which anyway go together perfectly, plus onions, potatoes and carrots that blend in beautifully. Despite being a rustic dish, the tastes and textures are subtle and just asking for a Mediterranean red wine. I tried two from Languedoc that I was judging as potential house wines, hopefully versatile vin ordinaire. Domaine Laborie Vin de Pays d’Oc, 2009 which the Wine Society describes as “Delicious fruityLanguedoc red made from Carignan, Syrah and Grenache, round to the taste and characterful.” It is 13% alcohol and just £4.95. It was an honestly made wine, but tending to be inoffensive rather than interesting. Carignan is famously short of character and using it as the main grape carries risks. Here the Syrah and Grenache are not in sufficient proportion to add what I find missing. Perfectly decent value therefore, but not one for my stock. Domaine Felines Jourdan, Vin de Pays d’Oc Rouge, 2009, Grenache Syrah, is described as “Simple pleasures from a fruit-driven Southern French blend of Grenache, Syrah and a little Cabernet.” It is 13% alcohol and again only £4.95. Despite the identical price, the blend of largely Grenache and Syrah produced something more like a light Cotes du Rhone, more obviously juicy and fruity than the Laborie. The Cabernet was not obvious, unlike that in the Sabina Tempranillo of a few days ago, though it may well have added a little weight. This is very much to our taste, and better in warm weather than a heavier Rhone blend. A bouncy, good value little wine. To be fair, both wines worked well with the meal; it was personal taste that led us to prefer the second.

Unemployment halved in Sunderland – but concerns remain over pay and job security Sharon Hodgson MP THE levels of long-term unemployment among young people in Sunderland has halved in the last year, new government figures show – but concerns remain about pay levels and job security in the city. The North East as a whole has seen the largest annual employment increase of all UK regions according to the latest figures by the Office of National Statstics (ONS). MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, Bridget Phillipson. Employment in our region has been boosted by 54,000 people getting into work in the last 12 months. The Labour Market statistics show the number of long-term claimants of Job Seekers’ Allowance in Sunderland among 18 to 24-year-olds is down 50 per cent year-on-year, with the number of short-term claimants dropping by 32 per cent. The number of claimants of all age groups saw a decrease of 31 per cent and 26 per cent respectively. North East employer engagement manager for Job Centre Plus, Steve McCall, put the increase down to a number of Sunderland call centres, as well as care homes taking on new staff. “It’s good to see the trend is going the right way,” Mr McCall told the Echo. “The likes of Sunderland have seen especially large increases in employment opportunities in call centres. Barclays, Npower, EE and 2Touch have been all been recruiting. It’s permanent, it’s full time, it’s part-time and short-term contracts. It’s a mix of employment opportunities coming up. Job Centre “It’s perhaps down to getting people to think about where their skills can find them work rather than concentrate on a specific career choice. “It is also important to point out that there isn’t just call centres and careh omes. With the football starting again, along with major events at the Stadium of Light, we run courses in events cover and we also have a major retail employer coming to Sunderland this calendar year, which will be looking to recruit.” Washington and Sunderland West MP Sharon Hodgson said that while the statistics are positive, she still has concerns about the labour market as a whole. “Any increase in employment is always to be welcomed,” Mrs Hodgson said. “The problem is that wages are still falling in real terms and lots of the jobs that are being created are part-time, low-paid and insecure, meaning that there are plenty of people in work who aren’t feeling the benefits of economic recovery. “I also remain concerned about the number of young people out of work for more than a year, which is still three times what it was three years ago in my constituency. “The government needs to adopt Labour’s policy of a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee, which would give those young people a decent paid job, combined with training, to ensure that they get the leg up onto the jobs ladder that they need.” Houghton and Sunderland South MP Bridget Phillipson added: “Today’s fall in overall unemployment is welcome, but unfortunately the North East still has the highest rate in the country. 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The Future Internet Is Not So Free Or Open, In Pew's New Survey What we know as the World Wide Web — the main way by which most of us access the Internet — just turned 25 this year. Its existence has allowed for all kinds of learning and free expression, coding and making, rule-breaking and platform-making. One American researcher even links the Internet to a decline in religious affiliation. An estimated 5 billion of us are expected to have Internet access in the next decade, but what will the Internet look like then? How easily will we be able to get, share and create with it? The Pew Research Center reached out to more than 1,400 tech industry leaders and academics, asking about the basic way the Internet will function come 2025. In the Pew report, the threats they see are geopolitical, economic and socially relevant. A lot of the Internet's "future" is already expressed in the current. A few key themes: 1) Control means less freedom: Actions by nation-states to maintain security and political control will lead to more blocking, filtering, segmentation and balkanization of the Internet. Already, China is known for its "Great Firewall," and social media crackdowns in Turkey and Pakistan lately show a global trend toward regulation of the Internet by certain regimes. And that's without mentioning stepped-up surveillance. "Surveillance ... at the minimum chills communications and at the maximum facilitates industrial espionage[;] it does not have very much to do with security," said Christopher Wilkinson, a retired European Union official and board member for EURid.eu. 2)Trust is evaporating: "The next few years are going to be about control," said danah boyd, noted Internet thinker and a researcher at Microsoft. Survey respondents told Pew that trust in open communications technologies will continue to evaporate in the wake of revelations about government and corporate surveillance. We've reported on the U.S./China "Cool War" that reignited because of Chinese fears of American corporate surveillance; it's just one flashpoint in a larger theme. 3)The lure of money endangers openness: There's a serious worry that commercial pressures will affect everything from Internet architecture to the flow of information and more deeply endanger the open structure of online life. This isn't limited to prioritization for some content over others, which is the debate over net neutrality. Experts also expect that commercial pressures that preserve copyrights and patents mean the free flow of information will suffer. Leah Lievrouw, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has a sense of hopelessness about it: "There are too many institutional players interested in restricting, controlling, and directing 'ordinary' people's ability to make, access, and share knowledge and creative works online — intellectual property rights holders, law enforcement and security agencies, religious and cultural censors, political movements and parties, etc. For a long time I've felt that the utopianism, libertarianism, and sheer technological skill of both professional and amateur programmers and engineers would remain the strongest counterbalance to these restrictive institutional pressures, but I'm increasingly unsure as the technologists themselves and their skills are being increasingly restricted, marginalized, and even criminalized." There is more in the full report, such as the respondents' take on what to do — and what companies will do — to help clear the clutter of content overload. (Hint: Some folks are concerned algorithms and other solutions will overcompensate ...)

The Farmington School District is taking steps to provide students with a new kind of school next year, an effort Superintendent Jay Haugen said is in keeping with the district's emphasis on innovation. Haugen shared the idea for the "choice school"— so called because parents would have to elect for their child to attend — at the Nov. 25 board meeting. The option involves self-directed learning, with students working on interdisciplinary projects and moving at their own pace. Students would use iPads to learn, with teachers acting as guides, Haugen said. The project's timeline is moving fast, because "sometimes you spend way too long up front" researching an idea, losing enthusiasm along the way, Haugen said. "I think what we're sure of is we're going to design it," he said. "We'll make our best run at opening it next year." A committee of 15 to 18 parents, teachers and administrators was recently formed to iron out details of the school's design, with plans to meet five times and present their findings to the board on Jan. 27. The school would probably serve kindergarten through grade 8, with the first students in fourth through sixth grade. The goal is to have 100 students enrolled at the district's Instructional Service Center, where there are empty classrooms. Kids in grades four through six are just beginning to develop strong interests, making it the perfect age to transition to the new school, Haugen said. "But part of the design is, are we even going to call them grades?" he asked. Caleb Drexler Booth, a committee leader and the district's director of teaching and learning, said the committee will use "design thinking" to "flesh out the concept of that idea in a little more detail," he said. In recent years, the district has emphasized using technology and taking risks. Farmington was among the first districts in the metro area to issue all students iPads and was designated an Innovation Zone last spring by the Minnesota Department of Education, along with the Spring Lake Park district. Farmington's strategic plan, approved in fall 2012, calls for the district to embrace new ideas, and Haugen often talks about the importance of letting students explore their passions. "So the focus of this school is to put many of these different elements together at one time, building a new school experience from scratch, essentially," Booth said. Haugen cited the Lakeville district's new Impact Academy and an Edina elementary school as models, but Booth said that the committee will first decide what the Farmington community wants, instead of replicating other schools. At the board meeting, Haugen shared this year's enrollment numbers, which include 265 students from other districts choosing to enroll into Farmington schools. But there are also 1,198 students who live in Farmington who enroll outside the district. Haugen said that getting some of those students, who are mostly elementary age, to come back is an ongoing goal, and offering the new school would be part of that effort. Laura Pierce, the district's director of innovative programming, said she's heard that families are impressed with and excited about the school. Booth said he doesn't anticipate any problems finding enough students. "I think [this school] fits with the general tenor that we're seeing within education, and the need to think and do things differently," Booth said. "We don't know what kind of jobs kids are going to walk into.… But we do know the types of skills and the type of knowledge base that kids need to have, which is very flexible and very adaptable."

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Aesthetic Renaissance Liberty Fabrics 100% cotton Liberty Tana Lawn. Approximately 137cm in width. Godington Park B from Aesthetic Renaissance. Liberty Fabrics presents “Aesthetic Renaissance”, a collection celebrating the story of our founder, Arthur Lasenby Liberty. We embrace his spirit as traveler, tastemaker and English gentleman sharing stories and anecdotes from the archive and the Liberty legend he created. As one of the original merchant adventurers, Arthur introduced exotic textiles and artefacts from around the world and Liberty became central to the development of the aesthetic movement in the late 1800s. The collection is framed by designs drawn from the English countryside that Arthur escaped to when he left the buzz of is London city store. GODINGTON PARK – An ‘Indienne’ style botanical with mixed Persian inspired flowers. Godington Park was originally painted for Liberty in 1908, elements of it were changed and redrawn to give it a more contemporary look.

Big Dance Shorts India Networking Event Big Dance, Channel 4 and the British Council, in partnership with Sampad, are delighted to host this edition of a networking evening in Birmingham to facilitate partnerships for Big Dance Shorts India as part of UK/India 2017, led by the British Council and the Indian High Commission. This exciting and high-profile platform for UK and Indian filmmakers and choreographers is commissioned by Big Dance, Channel 4, the British Council and is supported by People Dancing and the Mayor of London. If you’re thinking of applying, have questions about the programme or are interested in meeting potential partners, join us at MAC. We’ll be screening some previous Big Dance Shorts and hearing from previous applicants and representatives of British Council, Random Acts/Channel 4 and Big Dance. You’ll have time to meet others who are interested in making an application and seeking partners. This event is free to attend, but places are limited and must be booked in advance. For more information on Big Dance Shorts India, including guidance notes and an application form, visit the Big Dance Website.

You've heard plenty about biases: the thinking errors the human brain tends to make. But is there anything we can do to make ourselves *less* biased? In this episode, Massimo and Julia discuss what psychological research has learned about "de-biasing," the challenges involved, and the de-biasing strategies Julia is implementing at her organization, the Center for Applied Rationality. Reader Comments (11) Congratulations on CFAR and what it's already accomplished. I can't help but notice that everyone on the team is a math/statistics/computer science student or academic. The team could benefit from having someone who studies people, as in cognitive science or psychology, and someone with real-world experience outside the ivory tower, as in a physician or an industrial engineer.Also, I hope it won't become a cult like Objectivism and perhaps LessWrong. About songs of every decade, people say that this music is the best, and the rest is crap. Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, The Pixies, Sublime, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Coldplay, etc. One type of obstacle to de-biasing is as Julia said, when someone is unaware of their bias(es). How about someone (such as a politician) who is well aware of his bias, but believes that his bias serves some greater (and/or selfish) purpose? Such a person could easily have what they consider to be a rational basis for adhering to a bias that cannot be supported with reason (I think this would fall into the category of the noble lie). While we don't know and cannot ask him, it may be the case that this is what motivated Stephen Jay Gould to overstate his case in his book The Mismeasure of Man and to object to sociobiology in ways that were partly "the result of an unapologetic commitment that seemed to take priority over the science," as Massimo says in Nonsense on Stilts (U. Chicago Press, 2010, p. 124). In fact, in cases like this, accusations of bias may fly back and forth and both sides may deny that they are biased while privately being fully aware that they are indeed biased. Anyway, another great podcast, thank you to everyone whose time, effort and energy makes these podcasts possible. Best wishes to Julia with the Center for Applied Rationality, and I agree with commenter Max that it would be good to see the team include members who study people and/or who have a lot of "real life" experience outside the ivory tower. Regarding the absence of peer review in some popular science books I have two things to say. First, some popular books do go through the process of anonymous peer review, while other are read by the author's colleagues. True, it's not always the same as a journal article submission, but neither are edited books that include various chapters that were edited by one or two people. Second and more relevant to the post, Massimo claimed that using a popular book as a source is shaky because it's largely based on the author's opinions or anecdotal data and not rigorous science (I am paraphrasing it). While it's true in some cases (Feinman for example), Shermer and Dawkins rely on many peer reviewed research that they summarize and synthesize. It make sense actually to quote one comprehensive source, than many individual sources). I'm curious about the term "applied rationality". From what I gather it's about confronting biases to improve decision-making. But I could and actually do use these rational skills towards totally irrational ends. I'm wondering if, for rationality to be rational, it has to be an end-in-itself, and also if it is imperative that it be contained in some sort of ethical framework, kind of like how Aristotle and Kant and others have seen it. "I would have liked to have heard more from Julia about CFAR and its research activities rather than Massimo's rather uncharitable objections to it (which I suspect even Julia may have been slightly taken aback by, but which she responded to extremely well)." - Diagoras Actually, along the lines of Julia expecting it, I thought I noticed her voice was deeper in this episode than usual, and she seemed to be more defensive in general (it seemed her rate of speech was higher than usual as well). At one point I thought she wasn't breathing. She did well though, as always =] Great episode. This is what I'm going to school for, to join the growing army of "decision scientists," and become a self help expert (a legitimate, non-pseudoscientific one, a.k.a. a psychologist).

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Brooklyn Nine-nine - Season 2 In the begining of the Brooklyn Nine-nine - Season 2, Jake Peralta makes a triumphant return from his undercover assignment with the FBI. Later, the friendship between Jake and Boyle is tested after a lengthy stakeout and Jake faces emotional turmoil after a hard break-up.

Tennis babes Maria and Venus serve up new on-court designs Not only are sports stars Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams big hitters on the tennis court, they're also proving to be well ahead in the fashion stakes too. In New York ahead of next week's US Open, the duo have been previewing the designs they'll be wearing while they battle it out for the top spot in the competition. Defending women's singles champion Maria looked fit for a night on the red carpet as she modelled a custom-made red dress, adorned with 600 Swarovski crystals. The glittering gown is a collaboration between the Russian tennis ace and sportswear label Nike, who have also come up with a black-and-white version for Maria to wear during the tournament. Speaking at the top of the city's Rockefeller centre, the 20-year-old sports star said of her new outfit: "I've worn a red top before but never a full dress. But there's no better place to do it than New York… (with) all this energy here." Meanwhile, six-time Grand Slam winner Venus launched her new sports and casualwear line, Eleven, at the Big Apple's Steve & Barry store. Among the new items the 27-year-old presented was her new tennis shoe - selling at just $14.98 - which she will be sporting on court next week. "These shoes are designed for a win," she said, adding jokingly: "If I don't win at the Open it's not the shoes' fault, it's me."

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The Dock — Coworking Office Space in Raleigh NC Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Fall is in the air, enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this October! A Night of New Beginnings October 4, 2018 // Loading Dock Raleigh Join us at Loading Dock Raleigh for A Night of New Beginnings with our friends Addis Jemari! Come learn how they are fighting to end the orphan crisis in Ethiopia by encouraging, educating and empowering orphaned and vulnerable children and their families - and how YOU can help. Register here! Come Together for the Coast October 7th, 2018 // The Dillon Come together for our coast and help those affected by Hurricane Florence by coming to the table with dinner at The Dillon - Guests will experience signature dishes from the Triangle’s most prominent chefs, accompanied by top shelf spirits, enjoy music from BJ Barham of American Aquarium, and have the opportunity to participate in a live auction – all benefiting Hurricane Florence victims. Buy your tickets here! Mandolin’s Fall Farmer’s Dinner October 7th, 2018 // Mandolin Farm // 13520 Durant Rd. This autumn-themed, family style feast is one that you don’t want to miss. Chef Sean Fowler will take you an a guided tour of the farm, where you can pet our pygmy goats and feed the chickens. Tickets are $150 and include passed hors d'oeuvres, family style meal, wine, and gratuity. Proceeds will go to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC to help provide assistance to those who were affected by Hurricane Florence. Get your tickets here! Free Seminar: How to Get a Small Business Loan October 10th, 2018 // Loading Dock Raleigh Do you think you might need a small business loan? Do you know how much you need? Join us and our friends at Wake Tech Small Business Center in this jam packed session to learn which local lender(s), might be the best fit for you and important things to consider as you plan for your small business funding. Register here! Blocktober Fest - A Benefit for Dynamic Water October 13th, 2018 // 400 W North St. Dynamic Water is a non-profit organization based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, and is dedicated to providing access to clean, safe drinking water to communities in need. Come out and enjoy live music, local beer and local food vendors! Learn more here! We’ve got Good Brews We are proud to announce that we have partnered with BREWPUBLIK to provide our members with the best full-service, in-office beer experience possible. From top-notch local taps to national brands that everyone knows and loves, BREWPUBLIK will keep the beer flowing here at Dock 1053. We love that they care as much about our members as we do. BREWPUBLIK will continuously customize and adjust the variety of beer offered based on member preferences to ensure the most favorable selection is always available. With the introduction of this service, members can discover new tastes and enjoy old favorites from the comfort of their own workspace. Beyond always having high-quality beer on tap in the office, they will also provide expert maintenance and cleaning services for all kegerators, beer lines and other equipment. Throughout the partnership, BREWPUBLIK will also be hosting office happy hours and special events with visits from various local craft breweries in order to provide a social atmosphere, networking opportunities and the chance for members to learn more about craft beer and local breweries. We are pumped for this partnership and firmly believe that BREWPUBLIK is creating something worth celebrating. Find out more about our friends here! Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this September! Reborn Clothing Revolution September 1st, 2018 // Pullen Park // 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM An event for all ages, Reborn Clothing Revolution is a free opportunity for families to bring their old clothing to Pullen Park to be transformed! They will be making several hand-tied t-shirt blankets to be donated to the Women's Center of Wake County, have stations available including natural dyeing and lavender sachets, and be telling you more about their mission and vision. Come out and join Reborn and Compost Now for a day full of fun with the whole family! Headbands of Hope Flywheel Ride for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month September 9th, 2018 // Flywheel // 2pm to 3pm In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, join our friends, Flywheel and Headbands of Hope for an exclusive stadium-style interval based cycling class that's perfect for all levels- plus, this one will be DJ'd by Joe Bunn DJ Company! Get tickets here! Attendees will recieve: An awesome 45-minute Flywheel class taught by the wonderful Brittany GuerinA headband from Headbands of Hope (option to order multiple in your ticket)A mimosa bar after class (because is it really a workout without one?)A headband will be donated to a child with cancer at UNC Children's hospital in your honor Activate Good's 9/11 Service Event All ages are welcome. Participants will join in hands-on, family-friendly service projects, enjoy live music and complimentary refreshments and hear words from local community leaders to wrap up this seventh annual community-wide day of service. There is no cost to attend this event, but guests are asked to bring a non-perishable food item to help 'fill-the-truck' for the Urban Ministries of Wake County food pantry See the full list of needs at https://www.urbanmin.org/event/911-day-service/ Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this August! Downtown Raleigh Food Truck Evening Rodeo Sunday, August 5th // 3pm-9pm This isn’t just a regular food truck rodeo-- it is a food truck rodeo under the stars! With over 50 food trucks from all across North Carolina, picking which food to try will be the hardest decision you’ve ever made. Raleigh Night Market Thursday, August 16th // 6pm-11pm This August will kick off the Raleigh Night Market series- ending in October (every third Thursday). Raleigh’s most innovative artisans will come together with food and drinks to celebrate and sell their goods. The City Market is the perfect place to enjoy time spent with friends or a loved one! Packapalooza Saturday, August 25th // 2pm-10pm // Free Event A Hillsborough Street Staple, beloved by NC State Students and more - Packapalooza is back. This festival has it all- from food, music, dancing, rides, art, and so much more. Meet N.C. State athletes or listen to Parmalee under the stars- whatever it is, there's something for everyone. Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this July! Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this June! Podcast Skills Do you love podcasts? Have you ever thought about starting your own? Our friends SkillPop are here to help! Join local podcast host and marketing strategist, Kristie McCollum, for this interactive workshop as she helps you get your podcast off the ground! You'll learn about recording tools, how to create, edit, and launch your podcast, and they'll even cover growth strategies for your brand, blog, or business. Podcasts We're Listening To Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this May! New Restaurant & Bar If you've sipped a cold beer at Lynnwood Brewing recently, you've probably seen the construction happening at the corner of the Dock 1053's parking lot & East Whitaker Mill Rd. We'd like to be the first to introduce you to Wilson's -- Lynnwood Brewing's new restaurant & bar. We caught up with Ted, the owner of Lynnwood Brewing, to get the deets behind Dock 1053's newest addition. An extension of Lynnwood Brewing, Wilson's is lovingly named after Ted's dog. The menu is still being developed and perfected, but its main focus will be delicious flatbread pizzas and crafted sandwiches, with additional rotating items to keep patrons coming back for more. Wilson's plans on serving several house-made sodas & mixers in their craft cocktails with a preference for local and NC products including Dock 1053 neighbors, Pinetop Distillery. While we all loved the food trucks that frequent Lynnwood Brewing, this will serve as a permanent solution with multiple food & drink options. "Wilson’s was created to fill a void in this growing market and to keep our Taproom customers happy," says Ted. "It allows us to integrate the beer garden and outdoor patio into one cohesive space and keep up with the growing demand for our beers." Wilson's hopes to be open sometime in August, definitely by Labor Day. Stay tuned for more info and updates. Welcome to the neighborhood, Wilson's! Our members Activate Good are partnering with our Neighbors at Lynnwood Brewing Concern to connect individuals across Raleigh, who are looking to Do Others Good. If you're searching for opportunities to get involved and give back to our community, search no more. Head over to Dock 1053 on April 29th and learn about local nonprofits and the incredible opportunities available for individuals to volunteer and donate! “Loading Dock was certainly unique. Being that it’s an old loading dock, it’s a pretty cool space. It’s got that industrial feel. And also, the other things attached to The Loading Dock, whether it’s the brewery, or the furniture and clothing store, the glass studio, and now there’s a cocktail bar and things like that. It’s just a really cool area. There’s a lot of people coming here for different reasons and I definitely want to be a part of that, and around that.” "I love people and other dogs. I love to chase squirrels and cats. I'm faster than a cheetah but slower than most squirrels. I love sunbathing in the backyard. If you rub my belly I will love you for life." Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this April! Each month, we're highlighting our Top 5 favorite events and happenings to explore in Raleigh, NC. Events that cultivate community, innovation and Doing Others Good -- Enjoy all the Oak City has to offer this March! This is not your average bar. In fact, it's not a bar at all. Meet Our Neighbors Cotton Bar! Walk into this welcoming space and you'll never want to leave. That was the goal Reid Fogleman had in mind when he was deciding on a name for his branding and logo business. Cotton Bar strives to connect people and communities through the stories that they infuse into their clothing. Founder and CEO of Reborn Clothing Co. Emily Neville has done more in 20 years, than most people do their whole lives. Neville is a Sophomore at NC State, proving that age is just a number. As a poly-science major with no business background, she has leveraged her leadership and service experience to become a successful entrepreneur. Emily had a great idea, and she did something about it. What could've been another idea eaten by fear and doubt, birthed into a company that is Doing Others Good and transforming the way we think about fashion. Meet one of the best wedding and event planners that the Triangle and entire Southeast has to offer, our friend and member Sally Oakley! Sally Oakley Weddings is going on its eighth year of crafting a couples' perfect day and they're not stopping anytime soon. Sally leads a small, passionate team that strives to provide the best service to their clients. We love that Loading Dock Raleigh gets to be a part the process by providing a space for her brides to come, feel welcome, and get excited about their special day! A little over three years ago a group of friends decided to partner together to give Raleigh its own hand-crafted spirit. From there, Pinetop Distillery was born. Although Pinetop is small scale, they pack a big punch. While continuing to work their day jobs, the team has combined their efforts to create hand-crafted spirits that maintain the integrity of the land, celebrate the ingenuity of local farmers, and provide an authentic taste that is true to North Carolina.

The RM webapp should allow users to authenticate using delegation tokens to maintain parity with RPC. YARN-2241. Minor bug reported by Robert Kanter and fixed by Robert Kanter (resourcemanager)ZKRMStateStore: On startup, show nicer messages if znodes already exist When using the RMZKStateStore, if you restart the RM, you get a bunch of stack traces with messages like {{org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NodeExistsException: KeeperErrorCode = NodeExists for /rmstore}}. This is expected as these nodes already exist from before. We should catch these and print nicer messages. If the default setting DEFAULT_NM_VMEM_CHECK_ENABLED is set to false the test will fail. Make the test pass not rely on the default settings but just let it verify that once the setting is turned on it actually does the memory check. See YARN-2225 which suggests we turn the default off. From https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Yarn-trunk/595/ : {code} testRMWritingMassiveHistory(org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ahs.TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter) Time elapsed: 33.469 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<10000> but was:<7156> at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:743) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:118) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:555) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:542) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ahs.TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.testRMWritingMassiveHistory(TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.java:430) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ahs.TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.testRMWritingMassiveHistory(TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.java:391) {code} YARN-2204. Trivial bug reported by Robert Kanter and fixed by Robert Kanter (resourcemanager)TestAMRestart#testAMRestartWithExistingContainers assumes CapacityScheduler YARN-2201. Major bug reported by Ray Chiang and fixed by Varun Vasudev TestRMWebServicesAppsModification dependent on yarn-default.xml TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.java has some errors that are yarn-default.xml dependent. By changing yarn-default.xml properties, I'm seeing the following errors: 1) Changing yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.class from capacity.CapacityScheduler to fair.FairScheduler gives the error: Running org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification Tests run: 10, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 79.047 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification testSingleAppKillUnauthorized[1](org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification) Time elapsed: 3.22 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<Forbidden> but was:<Accepted> at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:743) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:118) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.testSingleAppKillUnauthorized(TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.java:458) 2) Changing yarn.acl.enable from false to true results in the following errors: Running org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification Tests run: 10, Failures: 4, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 49.044 sec <<< FAILURE! - in org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification testSingleAppKill[0](org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification) Time elapsed: 2.986 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<Accepted> but was:<Unauthorized> at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:743) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:118) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.testSingleAppKill(TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.java:287) testSingleAppKillInvalidState[0](org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification) Time elapsed: 2.258 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<Bad Request> but was:<Unauthorized> at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:743) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:118) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.testSingleAppKillInvalidState(TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.java:369) testSingleAppKillUnauthorized[0](org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification) Time elapsed: 2.263 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<Forbidden> but was:<Unauthorized> at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:743) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:118) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.testSingleAppKillUnauthorized(TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.java:458) testSingleAppKillInvalidId[0](org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification) Time elapsed: 0.214 sec <<< FAILURE! java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<Not Found> but was:<Unauthorized> at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) at org.junit.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:743) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:118) at org.junit.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:144) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.webapp.TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.testSingleAppKillInvalidId(TestRMWebServicesAppsModification.java:482) I'm opening this JIRA as a discussion for the best way to fix this. I've got a few ideas, but I would like to get some feedback about potentially more robust ways to fix this test. YARN-2195. Trivial improvement reported by Wei Yan and fixed by Wei Yan Clean a piece of code in ResourceRequest YARN-2192. Major bug reported by Anubhav Dhoot and fixed by Anubhav Dhoot TestRMHA fails when run with a mix of Schedulers If the test is run with FairSchedulers, some of the tests fail because the metricsssytem objects are shared across tests and not destroyed completely. {code} Error Message Metrics source QueueMetrics,q0=root already exists! Stacktrace org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.MetricsException: Metrics source QueueMetrics,q0=root already exists! at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.DefaultMetricsSystem.newSourceName(DefaultMetricsSystem.java:126) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.DefaultMetricsSystem.sourceName(DefaultMetricsSystem.java:107) at org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsSystemImpl.register(MetricsSystemImpl.java:217) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FSQueueMetrics.forQueue(FSQueueMetrics.java:96) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.reinitialize(FairScheduler.java:1281) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager$RMActiveServices.serviceInit(ResourceManager.java:427) {code} YARN-2191. Major bug reported by Wangda Tan and fixed by Wangda Tan (resourcemanager)Add a test to make sure NM will do application cleanup even if RM restarting happens before application completed YARN-2187. Major bug reported by Robert Kanter and fixed by Robert Kanter (fairscheduler)FairScheduler: Disable max-AM-share check by default Say you have a small cluster with 8gb memory and 5 queues. This means that equal queue can have 8gb / 5 = 1.6gb but an AM requires 2gb to start so no AMs can be started. By default, max-am-share check should be disabled so users don't see a regression. On medium-sized clusters, it still makes sense to set the max-am-share to a value between 0 and 1. YARN-2171. Critical bug reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe (capacityscheduler)AMs block on the CapacityScheduler lock during allocate() When AMs heartbeat into the RM via the allocate() call they are blocking on the CapacityScheduler lock when trying to get the number of nodes in the cluster via getNumClusterNodes. YARN-2167. Major bug reported by Junping Du and fixed by Junping Du (nodemanager)LeveldbIterator should get closed in NMLeveldbStateStoreService#loadLocalizationState() within finally block In NMLeveldbStateStoreService#loadLocalizationState(), we have LeveldbIterator to read NM's localization state but it is not get closed in finally block. We should close this connection to DB as a common practice. YARN-2163. Minor bug reported by Wangda Tan and fixed by Wangda Tan (resourcemanager , webapp)WebUI: Order of AppId in apps table should be consistent with ApplicationId.compareTo(). Currently, AppId is treated as numeric, so the sort result in applications table is sorted by int typed id only (not included cluster timestamp), see attached screenshot. Order of AppId in web page should be consistent with ApplicationId.compareTo(). YARN-2152. Major sub-task reported by Jian He and fixed by Jian He (resourcemanager)Recover missing container information Container information such as container priority and container start time cannot be recovered because NM container today lacks such container information to send across on NM registration when RM recovery happens YARN-2148. Major bug reported by Wangda Tan and fixed by Wangda Tan (client)TestNMClient failed due more exit code values added and passed to AM Currently, TestNMClient will be failed in trunk, see https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-YARN-Build/3959/testReport/junit/org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl/TestNMClient/testNMClient/ {code} java.lang.AssertionError: null at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:86) at org.junit.Assert.assertTrue(Assert.java:41) at org.junit.Assert.assertTrue(Assert.java:52) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl.TestNMClient.testGetContainerStatus(TestNMClient.java:385) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl.TestNMClient.testContainerManagement(TestNMClient.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl.TestNMClient.testNMClient(TestNMClient.java:226) {code} Test cases in TestNMClient uses following code to verify exit code of COMPLETED containers {code} testGetContainerStatus(container, i, ContainerState.COMPLETE, "Container killed by the ApplicationMaster.", Arrays.asList( new Integer[] {137, 143, 0})); {code} But YARN-2091 added logic to make exit code reflecting the actual status, so exit code of the "killed by ApplicationMaster" will be -105, {code} if (container.hasDefaultExitCode()) { container.exitCode = exitEvent.getExitCode(); } {code} We should update test case as well. YARN-2132. Major bug reported by Karthik Kambatla and fixed by Vamsee Yarlagadda (resourcemanager)ZKRMStateStore.ZKAction#runWithRetries doesn't log the exception it encounters If we encounter any ZooKeeper issues, we don't know what is going on unless we exhaust all the retries. It would really help to log the exception sooner, so we know what is going on with the cluster. When I play with scheduler with preemption, I found ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy cannot work. NPE will be raised when RM start {code} 2014-06-05 11:01:33,201 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.yarn.YarnUncaughtExceptionHandler: Thread Thread[SchedulingMonitor (ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy),5,main] threw an Exception. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.resource.Resources.greaterThan(Resources.java:225) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.capacity.ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.computeIdealResourceDistribution(ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.java:302) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.capacity.ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.recursivelyComputeIdealAssignment(ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.java:261) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.capacity.ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.containerBasedPreemptOrKill(ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.java:198) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.capacity.ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.editSchedule(ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy.java:174) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.SchedulingMonitor.invokePolicy(SchedulingMonitor.java:72) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.SchedulingMonitor$PreemptionChecker.run(SchedulingMonitor.java:82) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) {code} This is caused by ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy needs ResourceCalculator from CapacityScheduler. But ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy get initialized before CapacityScheduler initialized. So ResourceCalculator will set to null in ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy. YARN-2122. Major bug reported by Karthik Kambatla and fixed by Robert Kanter (scheduler)In AllocationFileLoaderService, the reloadThread should be created in init() and started in start() AllcoationFileLoaderService has this reloadThread that is currently created and started in start(). Instead, it should be created in init() and started in start(). YARN-2121. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen TimelineAuthenticator#hasDelegationToken may throw NPE YARN-2119. Major bug reported by Anubhav Dhoot and fixed by Anubhav Dhoot DEFAULT_PROXY_ADDRESS should use DEFAULT_PROXY_PORT The fix for [YARN-1590|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1590] introduced an method to get web proxy bind address with the incorrect default port. Because all the users of the method (only 1 user) ignores the port, its not breaking anything yet. Fixing it in case someone else uses this in the future. YARN-2118. Major sub-task reported by Ted Yu and fixed by Ted Yu Type mismatch in contains() check of TimelineWebServices#injectOwnerInfo() YARN-2115. Major sub-task reported by Jian He and fixed by Jian He Replace RegisterNodeManagerRequest#ContainerStatus with a new NMContainerStatus This jira is protocol changes only to replace the ContainerStatus sent across via NM register call with a new NMContainerStatus to include all the necessary information for container recovery. YARN-2112. Major bug reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Hadoop-client is missing jackson libs due to inappropriate configs in pom.xml Now YarnClient is using TimelineClient, which has dependency on jackson libs. However, the current dependency configurations make the hadoop-client artifect miss 2 jackson libs, such that the applications which have hadoop-client dependency will see the following exception {code} java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/jackson/jaxrs/JacksonJaxbJsonProvider at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:637) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl.TimelineClientImpl.<init>(TimelineClientImpl.java:92) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.TimelineClient.createTimelineClient(TimelineClient.java:44) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.impl.YarnClientImpl.serviceInit(YarnClientImpl.java:149) at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.init(AbstractService.java:163) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ResourceMgrDelegate.serviceInit(ResourceMgrDelegate.java:94) at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.init(AbstractService.java:163) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ResourceMgrDelegate.<init>(ResourceMgrDelegate.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YARNRunner.<init>(YARNRunner.java:111) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnClientProtocolProvider.create(YarnClientProtocolProvider.java:34) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Cluster.initialize(Cluster.java:95) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Cluster.<init>(Cluster.java:82) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Cluster.<init>(Cluster.java:75) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$9.run(Job.java:1255) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$9.run(Job.java:1251) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:394) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1614) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.connect(Job.java:1250) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:1279) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.waitForCompletion(Job.java:1303) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.QuasiMonteCarlo.estimatePi(QuasiMonteCarlo.java:306) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.QuasiMonteCarlo.run(QuasiMonteCarlo.java:354) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.QuasiMonteCarlo.main(QuasiMonteCarlo.java:363) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:72) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.run(ProgramDriver.java:145) at org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver.main(ExampleDriver.java:74) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) ... 48 more {code} when using YarnClient to submit an application. YARN-2111. Major bug reported by Sandy Ryza and fixed by Sandy Ryza (scheduler)In FairScheduler.attemptScheduling, we don't count containers as assigned if they have 0 memory but non-zero cores {code} if (Resources.greaterThan(RESOURCE_CALCULATOR, clusterResource, queueMgr.getRootQueue().assignContainer(node), Resources.none())) { {code} As RESOURCE_CALCULATOR is a DefaultResourceCalculator, we won't take cores here into account. YARN-2109. Major bug reported by Anubhav Dhoot and fixed by Karthik Kambatla (scheduler)Fix TestRM to work with both schedulers testNMTokenSentForNormalContainer requires CapacityScheduler and was fixed in [YARN-1846|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1846] to explicitly set it to be CapacityScheduler. But if the default scheduler is set to FairScheduler then the rest of the tests that execute after this will fail with invalid cast exceptions when getting queuemetrics. This is based on test execution order as only the tests that execute after this test will fail. This is because the queuemetrics will be initialized by this test to QueueMetrics and shared by the subsequent tests. We can explicitly clear the metrics at the end of this test to fix this. For example java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.QueueMetrics cannot be cast to org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FSQueueMetrics at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FSQueueMetrics.forQueue(FSQueueMetrics.java:103) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.scheduler.fair.FairScheduler.reinitialize(FairScheduler.java:1275) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager$RMActiveServices.serviceInit(ResourceManager.java:418) at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.init(AbstractService.java:163) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager.createAndInitActiveServices(ResourceManager.java:808) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.ResourceManager.serviceInit(ResourceManager.java:230) at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.init(AbstractService.java:163) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.MockRM.<init>(MockRM.java:90) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.MockRM.<init>(MockRM.java:85) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.MockRM.<init>(MockRM.java:81) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestRM.testNMToken(TestRM.java:232) YARN-2103. Major bug reported by Binglin Chang and fixed by Binglin Chang Inconsistency between viaProto flag and initial value of SerializedExceptionProto.Builder Bug 1: {code} SerializedExceptionProto proto = SerializedExceptionProto .getDefaultInstance(); SerializedExceptionProto.Builder builder = null; boolean viaProto = false; {code} Since viaProto is false, we should initiate build rather than proto Bug 2: the class does not provide hashcode() and equals() like other PBImpl records, this class is used in other records, it may affect other records' behavior. YARN-2096. Major bug reported by Anubhav Dhoot and fixed by Anubhav Dhoot Race in TestRMRestart#testQueueMetricsOnRMRestart org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestRMRestart.testQueueMetricsOnRMRestart fails randomly because of a race condition. The test validates that metrics are incremented, but does not wait for all transitions to finish before checking for the values. It also resets metrics after kicking off recovery of second RM. The metrics that need to be incremented race with this reset causing test to fail randomly. We need to wait for the right transitions. YARN-2091. Major task reported by Bikas Saha and fixed by Tsuyoshi OZAWA Add more values to ContainerExitStatus and pass it from NM to RM and then to app masters Currently, the AM cannot programmatically determine if the task was killed due to using excessive memory. The NM kills it without passing this information in the container status back to the RM. So the AM cannot take any action here. The jira tracks adding this exit status and passing it from the NM to the RM and then the AM. In general, there may be other such actions taken by YARN that are currently opaque to the AM. YARN-2089. Major improvement reported by Anubhav Dhoot and fixed by zhihai xu (scheduler)FairScheduler: QueuePlacementPolicy and QueuePlacementRule are missing audience annotations We should mark QueuePlacementPolicy and QueuePlacementRule with audience annotations @Private @Unstable YARN-2075. Major bug reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Kenji Kikushima TestRMAdminCLI consistently fail on trunk and branch-2 One orthogonal concern with issues like YARN-2055 and YARN-2022 is that AM containers getting preempted shouldn't count towards AM failures and thus shouldn't eventually fail applications. We should explicitly handle AM container preemption/kill as a separate issue and not count it towards the limit on AM failures. YARN-2071. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Enforce more restricted permissions for the directory of Leveldb store We need to enforce more restricted permissions for the directory of Leveldb store, as w did for filesystem generic history store. YARN-2065. Major bug reported by Steve Loughran and fixed by Jian He AM cannot create new containers after restart-NM token from previous attempt used Slider AM Restart failing (SLIDER-34). The AM comes back up, but it cannot create new containers. The Slider minicluster test {{TestKilledAM}} can replicate this reliably -it kills the AM, then kills a container while the AM is down, which triggers a reallocation of a container, leading to this failure. ZKRMStateStore has a few places where it is logging at the INFO level. We should change these to DEBUG or TRACE level messages. YARN-2059. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Extend access control for admin acls YARN-2054. Major bug reported by Karthik Kambatla and fixed by Karthik Kambatla (resourcemanager)Better defaults for YARN ZK configs for retries and retry-inteval when HA is enabled Currenly, we have the following default values: # yarn.resourcemanager.zk-num-retries - 500 # yarn.resourcemanager.zk-retry-interval-ms - 2000 This leads to a cumulate 1000 seconds before the RM gives up trying to connect to the ZK. YARN-2052. Major sub-task reported by Tsuyoshi OZAWA and fixed by Tsuyoshi OZAWA (resourcemanager)ContainerId creation after work preserving restart is broken Container ids are made unique by using the app identifier and appending a monotonically increasing sequence number to it. Since container creation is a high churn activity the RM does not store the sequence number per app. So after restart it does not know what the new sequence number should be for new allocations. YARN-2050. Major bug reported by Ming Ma and fixed by Ming Ma Fix LogCLIHelpers to create the correct FileContext LogCLIHelpers calls FileContext.getFileContext() without any parameters. Thus the FileContext created isn't necessarily the FileContext for remote log. YARN-2049. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Delegation token stuff for the timeline sever YARN-2022. Major sub-task reported by Sunil G and fixed by Sunil G (resourcemanager)Preempting an Application Master container can be kept as least priority when multiple applications are marked for preemption by ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy Cluster Size = 16GB [2NM's] Queue A Capacity = 50% Queue B Capacity = 50% Consider there are 3 applications running in Queue A which has taken the full cluster capacity. J1 = 2GB AM + 1GB * 4 Maps J2 = 2GB AM + 1GB * 4 Maps J3 = 2GB AM + 1GB * 2 Maps Another Job J4 is submitted in Queue B [J4 needs a 2GB AM + 1GB * 2 Maps ]. Currently in this scenario, Jobs J3 will get killed including its AM. It is better if AM can be given least priority among multiple applications. In this same scenario, map tasks from J3 and J2 can be preempted. Later when cluster is free, maps can be allocated to these Jobs. YARN-2017. Major sub-task reported by Jian He and fixed by Jian He (resourcemanager)Merge some of the common lib code in schedulers A bunch of same code is repeated among schedulers, e.g: between FicaSchedulerNode and FSSchedulerNode. It's good to merge and share them in a common base. Currently 'default' rule in queue placement policy,if applied,puts the app in root.default queue. It would be great if we can make 'default' rule optionally point to a different queue as default queue . This default queue can be a leaf queue or it can also be an parent queue if the 'default' rule is nested inside nestedUserQueue rule(YARN-1864). YARN-2011. Trivial test reported by Chen He and fixed by Chen He Fix typo and warning in TestLeafQueue YARN-1987. Major improvement reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe Wrapper for leveldb DBIterator to aid in handling database exceptions Per discussions in YARN-1984 and MAPREDUCE-5652, it would be nice to have a utility wrapper around leveldb's DBIterator to translate the raw RuntimeExceptions it can throw into DBExceptions to make it easier to handle database errors while iterating. YARN-1982. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Rename the daemon name to timelineserver Nowadays, it's confusing that we call the new component timeline server, but we use {code} yarn historyserver yarn-daemon.sh start historyserver {code} to start the daemon. Before the confusion keeps being propagated, we'd better to modify command line asap. YARN-1981. Major bug reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe (resourcemanager)Nodemanager version is not updated when a node reconnects When a nodemanager is quickly restarted and happens to change versions during the restart (e.g.: rolling upgrade scenario) the NM version as reported by the RM is not updated. The current version of ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy should be improved to deal with the following two scenarios: 1) when rebalancing over-capacity allocations, it potentially preempts without considering the maxCapacity constraints of a queue (i.e., preempting possibly more than strictly necessary) 2) a zero capacity queue is preempted even if there is no demand (coherent with old use of zero-capacity to disabled queues) The proposed patch fixes both issues, and introduce few new test cases. YARN-1940. Major bug reported by Kihwal Lee and fixed by Rushabh S Shah deleteAsUser() terminates early without deleting more files on error In container-executor.c, delete_path() returns early when unlink() against a file or a symlink fails. We have seen many cases of the error being ENOENT, which can safely be ignored during delete. This is what we saw recently: An app mistakenly created a large number of files in the local directory and the deletion service failed to delete a significant portion of them due to this bug. Repeatedly hitting this on the same node led to exhaustion of inodes in one of the partitions. Beside ignoring ENOENT, delete_path() can simply skip the failed one and continue in some cases, rather than aborting and leaving files behind. YARN-1938. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Kerberos authentication for the timeline server YARN-1937. Major sub-task reported by Zhijie Shen and fixed by Zhijie Shen Add entity-level access control of the timeline data for owners only YARN-1824 broke compatibility with previous 2.x releases by changes the API's in org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.Apps.{setEnvFromInputString,addToEnvironment} The old api should be added back in. This affects any ApplicationMasters who were using this api. It also breaks previously built MapReduce libraries from working with the new Yarn release as MR uses this api. In fair scheduler computing shares continues till iterations are complete even when we have a perfect match between the resource shares and total resources. This is because the binary search checks only less or greater and not equals. Add an early termination condition when its equal YARN-1913. Major bug reported by bc Wong and fixed by Wei Yan (scheduler)With Fair Scheduler, cluster can logjam when all resources are consumed by AMs It's possible to deadlock a cluster by submitting many applications at once, and have all cluster resources taken up by AMs. One solution is for the scheduler to limit resources taken up by AMs, as a percentage of total cluster resources, via a "maxApplicationMasterShare" config. YARN-1885. Major bug reported by Arpit Gupta and fixed by Wangda Tan RM may not send the app-finished signal after RM restart to some nodes where the application ran before RM restarts During our HA testing we have seen cases where yarn application logs are not available through the cli but i can look at AM logs through the UI. RM was also being restarted in the background as the application was running. YARN-1877. Critical sub-task reported by Karthik Kambatla and fixed by Robert Kanter (resourcemanager)Document yarn.resourcemanager.zk-auth and its scope YARN-1870. Minor improvement reported by Ted Yu and fixed by Fengdong Yu (resourcemanager)FileInputStream is not closed in ProcfsBasedProcessTree#constructProcessSMAPInfo() In Fair Scheduler, we want to be able to create user queues under any parent queue in the hierarchy. For eg. Say user1 submits a job to a parent queue called root.allUserQueues, we want be able to create a new queue called root.allUserQueues.user1 and run user1's job in it.Any further jobs submitted by this user to root.allUserQueues will be run in this newly created root.allUserQueues.user1. This is very similar to the 'user-as-default' feature in Fair Scheduler which creates user queues under root queue. But we want the ability to create user queues under ANY parent queue. Why do we want this ? 1. Preemption : these dynamically created user queues can preempt each other if its fair share is not met. So there is fairness among users. User queues can also preempt other non-user leaf queue as well if below fair share. 2. Allocation to user queues : we want all the user queries(adhoc) to consume only a fraction of resources in the shared cluster. By creating this feature,we could do that by giving a fair share to the parent user queue which is then redistributed to all the dynamically created user queues. YARN-1845. Major improvement reported by Rushabh S Shah and fixed by Rushabh S Shah Elapsed time for failed tasks that never started is wrong The elapsed time for tasks in a failed job that were never started can be way off. It looks like we're marking the start time as the beginning of the epoch (i.e.: start time = -1) but the finish time is when the task was marked as failed when the whole job failed. That causes the calculated elapsed time of the task to be a ridiculous number of hours. Tasks that fail without any attempts shouldn't have start/finish/elapsed times. YARN-1833. Major bug reported by Mit Desai and fixed by Mit Desai TestRMAdminService Fails in trunk and branch-2 : Assert Fails due to different count of UserGroups for currentUser() In the test testRefreshUserToGroupsMappingsWithFileSystemBasedConfigurationProvider, the following assert is not needed. {code} Assert.assertTrue(groupWithInit.size() != groupBefore.size()); {code} As the assert takes the default groups for groupWithInit (which in my case are users, sshusers and wheel), it fails as the size of both groupWithInit and groupBefore are same. I do not think we need to have this assert here. Moreover we are also checking that the groupInit does not have the userGroups that are in the groupBefore so removing the assert may not be harmful. YARN-1670. Critical bug reported by Thomas Graves and fixed by Mit Desai aggregated log writer can write more log data then it says is the log length We have seen exceptions when using 'yarn logs' to read log files. at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:65) at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:441) at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:483) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.logaggregation.AggregatedLogFormat$LogReader.readAContainerLogsForALogType(AggregatedLogFormat.java:518) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.logaggregation.LogDumper.dumpAContainerLogs(LogDumper.java:178) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.logaggregation.LogDumper.run(LogDumper.java:130) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.logaggregation.LogDumper.main(LogDumper.java:246) We traced it down to the reader trying to read the file type of the next file but where it reads is still log data from the previous file. What happened was the Log Length was written as a certain size but the log data was actually longer then that. Inside of the write() routine in LogValue it first writes what the logfile length is, but then when it goes to write the log itself it just goes to the end of the file. There is a race condition here where if someone is still writing to the file when it goes to be aggregated the length written could be to small. We should have the write() routine stop when it writes whatever it said was the length. It would be nice if we could somehow tell the user it might be truncated but I'm not sure of a good way to do this. We also noticed that a bug in readAContainerLogsForALogType where it is using an int for curRead whereas it should be using a long. while (len != -1 && curRead < fileLength) { This isn't actually a problem right now as it looks like the underlying decoder is doing the right thing and the len condition exits. YARN-1561. Minor improvement reported by Junping Du and fixed by Chen He (scheduler)Fix a generic type warning in FairScheduler The Comparator below should be specified with type: private Comparator nodeAvailableResourceComparator = new NodeAvailableResourceComparator(); I've been occasionally coming across instances where Hadoop's Cluster Applications REST API (http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.23.6/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/ResourceManagerRest.html#Cluster_Applications_API) has returned JSON that PHP's json_decode function failed to parse. I've tracked the syntax error down to the presence of the unquoted word NaN appearing as a value in the JSON. For example: "progress":NaN, NaN is not part of the JSON spec, so its presence renders the whole JSON string invalid. Hadoop needs to return something other than NaN in this case -- perhaps an empty string or the quoted string "NaN". Schedulers currently have a reinitialize but no start and stop. Fitting them into the YARN service model would make things more coherent. YARN-1429. Trivial bug reported by Sandy Ryza and fixed by Jarek Jarcec Cecho (client)*nix: Allow a way for users to augment classpath of YARN daemons YARN_CLASSPATH is referenced in the comments in ./hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn and ./hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/bin/yarn.cmd, but doesn't do anything. YARN-1424. Minor improvement reported by Sandy Ryza and fixed by Ray Chiang (resourcemanager)RMAppAttemptImpl should return the DummyApplicationResourceUsageReport for all invalid accesses RMAppImpl has a DUMMY_APPLICATION_RESOURCE_USAGE_REPORT to return when the caller of createAndGetApplicationReport doesn't have access. RMAppAttemptImpl should have something similar for getApplicationResourceUsageReport. It also might make sense to put the dummy report into ApplicationResourceUsageReport and allow both to use it. A test would also be useful to verify that RMAppAttemptImpl#getApplicationResourceUsageReport doesn't return null if the scheduler doesn't have a report to return. YARN-1408. Major sub-task reported by Sunil G and fixed by Sunil G (resourcemanager)Preemption caused Invalid State Event: ACQUIRED at KILLED and caused a task timeout for 30mins Capacity preemption is enabled as follows. * yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.monitor.enable= true , * yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.monitor.policies=org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.monitor.capacity.ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy Queue = a,b Capacity of Queue A = 80% Capacity of Queue B = 20% Step 1: Assign a big jobA on queue a which uses full cluster capacity Step 2: Submitted a jobB to queue b which would use less than 20% of cluster capacity JobA task which uses queue b capcity is been preempted and killed. This caused below problem: 1. New Container has got allocated for jobA in Queue A as per node update from an NM. 2. This container has been preempted immediately as per preemption. Here ACQUIRED at KILLED Invalid State exception came when the next AM heartbeat reached RM. ERROR org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmcontainer.RMContainerImpl: Can't handle this event at current state org.apache.hadoop.yarn.state.InvalidStateTransitonException: Invalid event: ACQUIRED at KILLED This also caused the Task to go for a timeout for 30minutes as this Container was already killed by preemption. attempt_1380289782418_0003_m_000000_0 Timed out after 1800 secs YARN-1368. Major sub-task reported by Bikas Saha and fixed by Jian He Common work to re-populate containers’ state into scheduler YARN-1367 adds support for the NM to tell the RM about all currently running containers upon registration. The RM needs to send this information to the schedulers along with the NODE_ADDED_EVENT so that the schedulers can recover the current allocation state of the cluster. YARN-1366. Major sub-task reported by Bikas Saha and fixed by Rohith (resourcemanager)AM should implement Resync with the ApplicationMasterService instead of shutting down The ApplicationMasterService currently sends a resync response to which the AM responds by shutting down. The AM behavior is expected to change to calling resyncing with the RM. Resync means resetting the allocate RPC sequence number to 0 and the AM should send its entire outstanding request to the RM. Note that if the AM is making its first allocate call to the RM then things should proceed like normal without needing a resync. The RM will return all containers that have completed since the RM last synced with the AM. Some container completions may be reported more than once. YARN-1365. Major sub-task reported by Bikas Saha and fixed by Anubhav Dhoot (resourcemanager)ApplicationMasterService to allow Register of an app that was running before restart For an application that was running before restart, the ApplicationMasterService currently throws an exception when the app tries to make the initial register or final unregister call. These should succeed and the RMApp state machine should transition to completed like normal. Unregistration should succeed for an app that the RM considers complete since the RM may have died after saving completion in the store but before notifying the AM that the AM is free to exit. YARN-1362. Major sub-task reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe (nodemanager)Distinguish between nodemanager shutdown for decommission vs shutdown for restart When a nodemanager shuts down it needs to determine if it is likely to be restarted. If a restart is likely then it needs to preserve container directories, logs, distributed cache entries, etc. If it is being shutdown more permanently (e.g.: like a decommission) then the nodemanager should cleanup directories and logs. YARN-1339. Major sub-task reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe (nodemanager)Recover DeletionService state upon nodemanager restart YARN-1338. Major sub-task reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe (nodemanager)Recover localized resource cache state upon nodemanager restart Today when node manager restarts we clean up all the distributed cache files from disk. This is definitely not ideal from 2 aspects. * For work preserving restart we definitely want them as running containers are using them * For even non work preserving restart this will be useful in the sense that we don't have to download them again if needed by future tasks. YARN-1136. Major bug reported by Karthik Kambatla and fixed by Chen He Replace junit.framework.Assert with org.junit.Assert There are several places where we are using junit.framework.Assert instead of org.junit.Assert. {code}grep -rn "junit.framework.Assert" hadoop-yarn-project/ --include=*.java{code} YARN-738. Major bug reported by Omkar Vinit Joshi and fixed by Ming Ma TestClientRMTokens is failing irregularly while running all yarn tests Running org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestClientRMTokens Tests run: 6, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 16.787 sec <<< FAILURE! testShortCircuitRenewCancel(org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestClientRMTokens) Time elapsed: 186 sec <<< ERROR! java.lang.RuntimeException: getProxy at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestClientRMTokens$YarnBadRPC.getProxy(TestClientRMTokens.java:334) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.security.client.RMDelegationTokenIdentifier$Renewer.getRmClient(RMDelegationTokenIdentifier.java:157) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.security.client.RMDelegationTokenIdentifier$Renewer.renew(RMDelegationTokenIdentifier.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.security.token.Token.renew(Token.java:372) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestClientRMTokens.checkShortCircuitRenewCancel(TestClientRMTokens.java:306) at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.TestClientRMTokens.testShortCircuitRenewCancel(TestClientRMTokens.java:240) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:45) at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15) at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:42) at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20) at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:28) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:263) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:68) at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:47) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:231) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:60) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:229) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:50) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:222) at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:300) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:252) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:141) at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:112) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:115) at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:75) YARN-614. Major improvement reported by Bikas Saha and fixed by Xuan Gong Separate AM failures from hardware failure or YARN error and do not count them to AM retry count Attempts can fail due to a large number of user errors and they should not be retried unnecessarily. The only reason YARN should retry an attempt is when the hardware fails or YARN has an error. NM failing, lost NM and NM disk errors are the hardware errors that come to mind. YARN-596. Major bug reported by Sandy Ryza and fixed by Wei Yan (scheduler)Use scheduling policies throughout the queue hierarchy to decide which containers to preempt In the fair scheduler, containers are chosen for preemption in the following way: All containers for all apps that are in queues that are over their fair share are put in a list. The list is sorted in order of the priority that the container was requested in. This means that an application can shield itself from preemption by requesting it's containers at higher priorities, which doesn't really make sense. Also, an application that is not over its fair share, but that is in a queue that is over it's fair share is just as likely to have containers preempted as an application that is over its fair share. YARN-483. Major improvement reported by Sandy Ryza and fixed by Akira AJISAKA (documentation)Improve documentation on log aggregation in yarn-default.xml The current documentation for log aggregation is {code} <property> <description>Whether to enable log aggregation</description> <name>yarn.log-aggregation-enable</name> <value>false</value> </property> {code} This could be improved to explain what enabling log aggregation does. MAPREDUCE-6002. Major bug reported by Wangda Tan and fixed by Wangda Tan (task)MR task should prevent report error to AM when process is shutting down MAPREDUCE-5896. Major improvement reported by Sandy Ryza and fixed by Sandy Ryza InputSplits should indicate which locations have the block cached in memory MAPREDUCE-5895. Major bug reported by Kousuke Saruta and fixed by Kousuke Saruta (client)FileAlreadyExistsException was thrown : Temporary Index File can not be cleaned up because OutputStream doesn't close properly MAPREDUCE-5888. Major bug reported by Jason Lowe and fixed by Jason Lowe (mr-am)Failed job leaves hung AM after it unregisters Set "dfs.namenode.legacy-oiv-image.dir" to an appropriate directory to make standby name node or secondary name node save its file system state in the old fsimage format during checkpointing. This image can be used for offline analysis using the OfflineImageViewer. Use the "hdfs oiv_legacy" command to process the old fsimage format. HDFS-6289. Critical bug reported by Aaron T. Myers and fixed by Aaron T. Myers (ha)HA failover can fail if there are pending DN messages for DNs which no longer exist HDFS-6273 introduces two new HDFS configuration keys: - dfs.namenode.http-bind-host - dfs.namenode.https-bind-host The most common use case for these keys is to have the NameNode HTTP (or HTTPS) endpoints listen on all interfaces on multi-homed systems by setting the keys to 0.0.0.0 i.e. INADDR_ANY. For the systems background on this usage of INADDR_ANY please refer to ip(7) in the Linux Programmer's Manual (web link: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/ip.7.html). These keys complement the existing NameNode options: - dfs.namenode.rpc-bind-host - dfs.namenode.servicerpc-bind-host HADOOP-10454. Major improvement reported by Kihwal Lee and fixed by Kihwal Lee Provide FileContext version of har file system HADOOP-10451. Trivial improvement reported by Benoy Antony and fixed by Benoy Antony (security)Remove unused field and imports from SaslRpcServer SaslRpcServer.SASL_PROPS is removed. Any use of this variable should be replaced with the following code: SaslPropertiesResolver saslPropsResolver = SaslPropertiesResolver.getInstance(conf); Map<String, String> sasl_props = saslPropsResolver.getDefaultProperties();

Coryoth writes: "From the September Notices of the AMS, The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography (PDF) by Neal Koblitz provides fascinating reading on the tension between pure mathematics and cryptography. While mathematics has always played some role in cryptography, since the 1970s far more sophisticated mathematics has played increasingly large role in cryptography research. The last couple of decades has seen a uneasy relationship develop between advanced mathematics and cryptography. Koblitz discusses this, along with his development of elliptic curve cryptography during that time. He also talks about some of the less welcome side effects, such as pure mathematicians contorting their research proposals to be "applicable" to "hot" fields of cryptography, and the attempt by cryptographers to co-opt the reliability of mathematical proof to give (rather weak, and often false) claims of "provably secure" cryptosystems."

More Topics Weather Forecast Davison commission chairman defends 3-8 percent raises Davison County Commission Chairman David Weitala believes the county panel did the right thing in November by raising the pay of all county employees by 2 percent plus 50 cents an hour. It was the second consecutive year for wage increases of that amount, and the raises came during a year when the wages of state employees were frozen and Social Security recipients received no cost-of-living adjustment. The raises, depending on individual salary levels and bonuses for long-time service, will give county employees pay increases of 3 percent to 7 percent. On Tuesday, the commissioners approved identical raises for the county jailers' union. "Given the way we budgeted, (the raises were) feasible to do this year," Weitala said. "Davison County is fairly liquid. Our growth isn't what it was a few years ago, but we aren't sliding back." Employee salaries, without benefits, cost the county $2,580,288 in 2010. With the 2011 increases included, the bottom line for salaries will be $2,721,763, or $141,475 more than last year. When benefits are included, that number rises to $3,622,954, or nearly 52 percent of the county's roughly $7 million general fund budget. Weitala believes the additional employee compensation is necessary, that the county has good workers, and that it must do what it can to keep them. Commissioners Denny Kiner and Jerry Fischer hold similar views. The other two commissioners, Gerald Weiss and John Claggett, both voted against the increase, stating that it was excessive given the current depressed economy. Claggett's motion to limit the 2 percent raise to 1 percent died for lack of a second. No formal, prepared criteria for justifying the raises were presented or discussed in open session prior to a 3-2 vote in favor of the measure. The same 2 percent plus 50 cents per hour formula that was used for 2010 was inserted into the county's 2011 preliminary budget by Auditor Susan Kiepke, and it was submitted as part of the county's official budget at the end of September. The rationale given at that time was that the commissioners would be able to adjust salaries before the end of the year if they wished to do so. Weitala is making no promises for similar increases in 2012. "I think next year will be a different equation," he said. That equation might include some sort of salary cap, but he declined speculation on how such a cap might work. While Commissioner Denny Kiner voted for the raises, he also recommended a wage study. That may or may not happen, Weitala said. "We'll look into a study after the first of the year," he said, "but cost will determine whether we do it or not." The county last had a salary study in 1993, said Fischer, but institutional memory is thin regarding the details of that report. The study, believes Auditor Susan Kiepke, formed the basis for the county's current salary scale, but she has been unable to locate a full copy of that report. State's Attorney Pat Smith, who regularly negotiates on the county's behalf with the jailers' union, strongly favors a salary study. "It will be important for the county to know where it stands. A lot of things are said about a position being 'underpaid' or 'overpaid,' but a lot of that isn't supported either way by anything. I'd like to have something that we could look at and make that determination -- for union negotiations as well as for the rest of the county." The city of Mitchell has commissioned two wage studies in the past decade. Human Resources Director Teri Bertness said the city authorized its initial salary study in 2000 and a follow-up in 2005. Each cost about $15,000. "We wanted to take a look at our compensation and how it compared, looking at internal equity and external market comparisons," Bertness said. Put another way, the city wanted to determine what it could afford to pay for a specific job, and what other cities were paying for a similar job. The studies gave the city "good objective criteria we use in performance evaluations to justify employee compensation," she said. Weitala said the extra 50 cents per hour beyond the 2 percent was designed to lessen the gap between more highly paid employees and lesser-compensated workers. "We're not saying a worker should be paid as much as a supervisor, but there's a big gap there and we're trying to close it or at least get to the point where there's not such a discrepancy," he said, adding he thinks the two consecutive raises have helped in that regard. Weitala also believes it makes good sense to retain employees. Turnover, he said, costs any business in terms of re-training and lost productivity. "It's our workers who make this county function as well as it does," he said.

THE STORY: Post Race Update: I went out surrounded by 300 amazing Spartans, and met the Beast again... and this year she was ready for us! Spartan Race put together an incredible course that combined the very best (or worst, depending on how you look at it) of Killington mountain and Spartan obstacles. The course was incredibly tough, and my first lap of 13.5 miles took me 10 hours. At that point, Spartan did not allow athletes (or regular plodders) back on the course for lap two -and seeing how dark and rainy it got, I thank thank them. I finished with my Beast medal, I spent time with great friends, met new ones, and even saw my sister cross the finish line at 9:30pm! You also helped me meet the fundraising goal and supported Things Of My Very Own. Your generosity and your messages of support buoyed me at several points in the race. On behalf of TOMVO and myself, THANK YOU! Dear Friends, On September 22nd, I will be running in the first ever Spartan Race Ultra Beast: 26.2+ miles of fun, pain, obstacles and bad-assery in Killington, VT. I am taking this singular challenge to raise awareness and money for an incredible organization run by a friend and fellow Spartan. Things of My Very Own, Inc. (TOMVO) is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation that provides immediate and ongoing services to children that have experienced extensive abuse and/or neglect and those in at-risk situations. I hope you will help me in supporting TOMVO (www.tomvo.org). Every dollar helps… and if you can’t support with money, like their Facebook page (funders love that) and share this with your friends. For more detail, keep reading, you will not regret it. Diego, you are running WHAT? Last year, I completed Spartan Race’s three distances (Sprint, Super and the first Beast). This year, I will join the small group of racers selected to face the Ultra Beast! The first of its kind, the Ultra Beast will be the world's first marathon distance Obstacle Race. The Ultra Beast will be 26+ miles in the mountains of Killington, VT and will include 50+ obstacles scattered throughout the mountain. As if the distance and obstacles were not enough, this race will also be largely unsupported –it counts with only one aid station with water and/or sports drinks at an undisclosed location on the course. This means that I will have to carry my own water and food for the 10-14 hours I will be out there. It will, without a doubt, be one of the hardest courses I have ever done, and I will need your emotional support. But, take as long as it takes, I will finish it! What is TOMVO? Things of My Very Own, Inc.(TOMVO) is a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Corporation based in Glenville, NY. The organization provides impoverished children that are victims of abuse, and/or neglect, and those in at-risk situations with basic necessities to ensure a successful retreat to safety. 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HASA Playlists The History of Celeborn and Galdriel Playlist Navigation Bar Middle row links go to story overviews. Bottom row links go first chapter of a story. At Playlist Start At Playlist Start Oak and Willow: 7. Killing Fish 'Galadriel' Nerwen thought, as she braided up her long hair, twisting a blue ribbon into the plaits. The name had been haunting her. It had followed her to the caves of Narog and whispered in their dry, arched darkness, sometimes in his voice, sometimes in her own, distracting her from Finrod's speculations and the gruff mutterings of the dwarves. For all the help she had been, she might as well have stayed in Menegroth; her mind too full of nuances of meaning to be at all attentive to architecture. She wound the plaits about her head like a coronet, and looked with some curiosity at her own face, reflected in her mirror of polished silver. Maiden crowned with a radiant garland, she thought, and tucked the ends in firmly. Well, it was apt. Even in the candlelight the braids shone deep gold, touched with some memory of the pale glimmer of Telperion. "Hmn!" she said, and undid the elaborate arrangement with swift irritation. Queenly she might look, thus, but she was as yet no queen, and it felt presumptuous to seem so. Why do they never see aught of me but the hair? Feanor too had praised the hue of her long tresses, his eyes following her with something of the strange obsessiveness which he kept for his art. His desire had been to take, to possess, even as he had hoarded the light of the Trees; 'I ask but a strand, you will not miss it.' She had refused; no part of her was a thing to be owned. She did not belong in another's possession. She was herself. But perhaps the most obvious interpretation was not the intended one. It had been a long time, after all, since Feanor had given anything away, even a name. Perhaps she did the prince of Doriath an injustice by the comparison. Maiden crowned with radiance, she tried a variant meaning. If not her hair, what had he meant? The silver of her mirror became liquid as she recalled the fountain playing, and he simultaneously mocking her and praising her 'glorious strength'. Could the galad of which he spoke actually be the fire of her spirit, the flame she tended in her secret heart. Was it possible that this dark elf saw and valued her for what she truly was, within? Or was she reading too much into this, and he meant merely 'Lady of Light', in a bare and literal description of her Calaquendi status? At this last idea, tired of her chasing thoughts, she laughed, smoothed out the braids and stood. Sindarin was so full of exotic aspirates - though it made for a pleasant accent - that he might well have called her 'Galadhriel - tree woman,' and she misheard. Who would have thought that a man whose lámatyávë she had called savage could come up with so intriguing a name? She laid her hand on the handle of the door and paused, seeing her sword. It stood, sheathed and peace-tied, between herself and the outside world. From Alqualondë onwards it had been her constant companion, for there in Olwe's city she had fought against her own kin; fought against theft and murder and madness in defence of her mother's faithful people. Ever since then she had needed it by her side, not knowing who in the Noldor host might wish her ill, might consider her a traitor, might even have just cause for vengeance against her. In defending the innocent she had exiled herself not only from Valinor, but also from her father's folk. The Helcaraxe had paid for much, and many grudges had been smoothed over since, but none knew better than she what pride and resentment simmered beneath, and even in Fingolfin's house she now felt at threat. Not since the sack of the Swan Haven had she been without it. Not until her audience with Elwë, and it had been a great effort to set it aside then. Picking the sword up, she lifted the belt about her waist, and paused again. Here in Doriath she was not among Noldor. It would look foolish, it would look suspicious to be armed within the protection of Melian. Here too, no one had a just complaint against her. She had defended Elwë's kin. She had placed herself on their side, so surely with them she would be safe? Setting down the sword, she turned her back on it. Walking out of her chamber, she closed the door behind her, and it felt as though she left the spilled blood behind with the weapon. Nerwen could be left behind, with the sword, with her guilt, and here in Doriath she could be something new. How had Celeborn known that her fëa cried out to be washed of it's stain, to be made afresh? How had he known - before she did - that she needed a new name? She could be Galadriel, new and clean. No darkness lay on the name of Galadriel; born beside a fountain in Doriath. Smiling, lightened, she seized the arm of a servant who was hurrying past. If a beginning was called for, where better to make it than in her brother's new city? "Do you know where Lord Finrod might be?" "But a little while ago he was in the workshops of the stonemasons." said the lad, his eyes sparkling as she turned her smile on him, "I can show you the way if you will." "I know it," she said to his evident disappointment, "But thank you." There was nothing in the cave of the masons but dust, a scattering of hammers; large bulks of white stone half carved, some smooth as new lain snow, some from which it seemed carved beasts struggled to emerge. A horse stood drinking from a river of sensuous curves, his mane all pointed with moisture, but his back legs little more than scratches disappearing into the marble. Scrolls were rolled and stacked in wooden shelves so heavy with dust they seemed calcified. She took a few down and spread them, weighting them with chisels and set squares; a map of the hot springs with suggested routes for aqueducts. A plan for ventilation shafts to bring fresh air down through the press of earth to all the main rooms. A sketch of decorative detail - lily of the valley, its petals weighted by rain. The art of these elves was different from that of Valinor. Less... fraught with immanence; more frivolous, more fresh. And their architecture spoke of camouflage, of hiding rather than mastery; yielding to the contours of the ground rather than reshaping them to a powerful will. Subtle, she thought, but a little weak to her taste. "I guessed I would find you here." The voice was clear and sweet as new white wine. Turning, Nerwen beheld Luthien poised in the doorway with a spear in her hand. The King's daughter was barefoot, bare armed, in a loose dress of the silver-grey for which the Sindar had been named. Her hair - a long plait that flicked to and fro behind her - was sprinkled with diamonds, but she was otherwise unornamented. Artless and wild as a child of the Avari, she looked to Nerwen, and beautiful as the moon. "Are you looking for your brother?" "I was. I imagined he would be hard at work, planning his new kingdom." Luthien laughed, "Aye, busy as a troop of ants he was, and all alone. Today is a day of rest for the dwarves, and our own masons observe the same feast days out of respect. Yet Finrod would sit and make notes and worry himself over details he could better solve tomorrow when he will have someone to ask. And so Celeborn came upon him, frustrated and crosseyed with poring over faint plans, and took him fishing to clear his head." She picked up a bag that had lain by her feet and slung it across her shoulder. "Then I bethought me that I would join them, and that perhaps you would enjoy the company too." Oddly, the idea delighted Nerwen. When was the last time she had had leisure to do something so simple? These joys she had thought left behind in the peace of Aman, and her life from now on all politics and warfare. "Thank you," she said, "I would like that." The sun was up, but still pale in a sky filmed with mist as Luthien led her through beech woods and thickets of sombre yew. The turf underfoot was speckled with white flowers. As they walked, the sun's beams filtered through the tree-trunks in long slices of lemon yellow light. Finding that she had drawn ahead Nerwen stopped to see Luthien caught, ensnared by the beauty of a spidersweb beaded with mist, all gold and faint blush pink against the deep spiked green of the yew trees in the dawn's radiance. "Sable and argent," said the Princess of the Sindar, "And indigo and grey - these I am accustomed to. But now there are so many fresh hues that I am dazzled wherever I look. Who would have known the trees were so green, and every leaf a different colour?" "If only you could have seen the world in the light of Telperion and Laurelin," Nerwen replied, unsettled. Luthien's wonder at maimed, impure Anar made her feel a little guilty, like a man whose cloak is rigid with jewels walking past the ragged. "Can you imagine sunlight and moonlight mixing, the proportion of each changing through the day, so that every moment and every sight is a dance between gold and silver; equal but different. I used to lie abed and watch the shades slide across the white wall until I felt I was floating on a sea of pearl. I am afraid the Sun does not compare." Luthien tore herself away from the cobweb and began to walk away once more through the long wet grass, her skirts and her bare white feet glimmering "I do not think I would like that," she said, brushing aside a branch of ash, "I would miss the stars. I would miss the darkness itself," her smile was fleeting as a firefly, "Like a velvet cloak, it can be; soft and welcoming. Intimate." Nerwen thought of Ungoliant, the spider-demon, who slew the trees and sucked Aman dry, until all that was left of millennia of brilliance was the gleam at the heart of the Silmarils. After the terror of Ungoliant's shadow, it was hard not to feel that Luthien's enjoyment of the night was an indication of moral frailty. Hard to trust there was not true darkness in the heart of the Dark Elves. "The Night was not created evil," said Luthien quietly, sensing the turn of her thoughts, "So Daeron says, who knows all the lore of the ancient times. Iluvatar Himself chose to create us in the darkness, beneath the stars, and if we love what He gave us, is that not to our credit? We are as we were created to be. So Celeborn says, who thinks more than he talks, and better. And you..." So they had both almost come out and said cruel words. Nerwen felt better for it. She was not permitted all the honesty she would have preferred - having secrets which were not her own pressing on her - but something approaching the truth had almost been said. "We are what?" she asked. "I don't..." Luthien hesitated, "Forgive me. Those who come back from Valinor seem - like my father, like myself - to be a strange hybrid of elf and Maia. It should make me feel greater kinship towards you, but instead I feel you are strange, unstable. Like a maid with one foot on the hythe and one in the boat." "I have little choice but to step in the ship and learn to sail," Nerwen was at first surprised at the Sinda's insight, and then taken aback at her own surprise. Is not Luthien half Maia? Of course she is wise. "I am an elf of Middle Earth too, now," she said, "And the blood of Earwen runs in my veins. I can learn to love the forests with every bit of passion I once reserved for metal and gems." "Thank you." Luthien offered her hand and Nerwen clasped it, "If what I said seems cruel it is only that the Noldor seem to think us all so lowly and worthy of contempt. The Green Folk tell us such tales of the terrible sons of Feanor and their arrogance. Even this fair land fails to delight them, and we wonder why they returned if they are so determined to dislike everything." "And what is your conclusion?" Luthien turned, tugging her to come. The beeches had given way to birch and willow and there was an endless flutter of small leaves, delicate against the sky. Nerwen heard the lilt and lap of a swift but shallow water. A splash, then cursing, and the easy, companionable laughter of men. "There are those who say you were sent by the Valar to our aid," Luthien said, brushing aside the peridot curtain of a willow's hanging hair. "But mother would have received word from the Powers if that was so, and she has not." Coming out from behind the curtain of leaves Nerwen saw a bright broad valley; a slope of poppy-scattered turf descending to a shingle and stone beach. The stream glinted where the sun struck it, but beneath was as brown and clear as fortified wine; all the pebbles richly coloured as agate in its peat stained depths. Finrod stood with Celeborn, knee deep in the water, his undertunic and half the length of his sun-shot hair soaked and dripping like a small rain into the flood. He was hoisting a spear out of the mud of the river bed, shaking his head and laughing. Luthien paused on the bank, looking across at the two neri with a speculative gaze. "But Celeborn says that perhaps the Noldor realized they'd made a mistake in going in the first place. He says that you needed more room to quarrel in than was available in Aman." Luthien's grey gaze wandered back to Nerwen's face - testing for a reaction. A smile lurked about the corners of her perfect mouth, painting her beauty with mischief. Nerwen held back laughter. She had come to Menegroth from Fingolfin's stronghold of Hithlum, where many songs were sung of the coming of the Noldor - how the moriquendi and the rude Sindar were overwhelmed with admiration and awe; how they trembled in their hidden fastnesses at the might and majesty of the people of Finwë. Would that the bards who spread this tale could hear the true thoughts of Elwë's folk, she thought. It would do them good. Nevertheless, she drew down her brows and frowned at the Grey-elf Prince where he stood, slender, silver, poised in the rush of the stream. Finrod had already waved and was wading towards them, but Celeborn had not moved. "Does he indeed,'' she asked with hauteur. He struck with the same unhurried sweep as a heron, and drew the spear up with a brown trout curling about its barbs, only then did he turn and favour Luthien with a complacent grin, and Nerwen with a look of uncertainty. "I'm sure he didn't mean you," Luthien said, amused. "I daresay he would have, had he known me then." she said, watching him - very Teleri he looked, in the water, his movements fluid as the stream, "We did not go from our first meeting on the best of terms." Luthien laughed, "My kinsman has a way with first impressions." Then she handed the spear to Nerwen and went to Finrod's side. "Lord Finrod! You are soaked. Look - over there is a little bay where we might make a fire to dry you out. I have my tinderbox here, would you oblige me by fetching some wood?" She drew him away, leaving Nerwen and Celeborn facing one another in shared, uncomfortable silence. A cloud passed over the sun and its shadow passed fleet across the trees, scudding like a living thing across the river, cold on her shoulders, then passing, leaving the warmth of the sunlight newly welcome. They watched it go together, and though she had many clever things planned to say she found that none of them exactly fit the moment. She had been envisaging a meeting in Menegroth, both of them in their finery, surrounded by courtiers who would admire the wisdom and the art of her reply. Not here, with him barefoot at the stream's edge, dirt on his hands and leaves in his unbound hair; like a child caught at truant from his tutor. At length when she did not speak he sighed, and his dark gaze came to settle on her. "Lady," he said quietly, "Rightly you said to me, when we last met, that my words were presumptuous and unmannerly. I beg you, forget them, and let us begin anew. For if my speech was insulting my intention was not, and I would gladly be counted your friend, if you will have me." Nerwen was taken aback. This was unforseen. She had indeed done him an injustice to compare him with Feanor, who had never in his life apologized for anything. Ridiculous though the comparison was, she was reminded of her father, turning back from rebellion, bearing the ridicule and contempt of his family by admitting that he was wrong. At the time she had thought it cowardly of him. Now she was coming to see it as a strange sort of strength. A flexible, resilient strength, like that of the best steel. Impressed though she was, she felt oddly bereft. Some part of her had been looking forward to the argument - to matching him and forcing him to acknowledge her victory. Now that contest had been set aside; parried by this unexpected move. "Do you then demand back the word you hurled at me with such vigour?" she said, and felt a pang of regret. Galadriel. It was a beautiful name. He laughed. "It was rather launched as an arrow, was it not? But no. It was a gift. Yours to use or discard as pleases you. I have no more part in it." He ducked his head and put down his catch on the grassy bank. Then he looked at her sideways with an expression of faint daring. "Your brother says that in Valinor you use a rod with a hook, and have not spear-fished before, which explains his clumsiness. Do you think you can do better than he?" "Of long experience, I know I can." Nerwen boasted, and her mood soared, leaving her neither determined nor fell, not triumphant, nor grim, but only happy, as she had not felt since unrest came upon her people in Aman. So rare a feeling it was indeed that at first she could not remember its name. Kilting her skirts, she slipped off her shoes and strode into the water. It was clean and cold. The small stones underfoot were rounded, slippery, making each step a matter of care. As she drew near to Celeborn the water deepened and grew dark. Its surface smoothed, but its current strengthened. Sunlight was stained topaz by the time it reached the stream bed, lighting a forest of swaying weed with a storm-like gold. "Hold the spear like this, and raise it thus," said the Sinda, demonstrating. She mirrored him, determined to better all of his expectations. "And then?" "And then we wait." Tiny crayfish scuttled among the stones and weed, their eyes on stalks, their backs painted in intricate designs. Freshwater crabs sidled out of the shade to grasp at empty light. The flood nudged at her knees, deliciously cool, and the scent of mallow and balm lay over the water. Warmth caressed the back of her neck from the last fruit of Laurelin, and the unfamiliar happiness grew until it filled her lungs like a song. "There are no fish," she said. "Because we were moving," Celeborn replied, "Which is why we prepare for the strike now, and then settle into stillness. You are to be - for them - a tree. Rooted, drowsy, drinking and thinking slow thoughts. Then they will come close to you, suspecting no harm." "Is it not cruel, deceiving them thus?" she said, looking at him from the corner of her eye. She could see only his shoulder and hand, a sweep of bright hair and just the edge of a sweet, private smile. "Finrod says you bait your hook with food, and they, receiving your gift, are drawn out to death with steel through their lips. Is that not equally cruel?" "Aiya!" she laughed, "We are monsters, then, both of us." "Still now. See - he comes." This was also a trout, but of every colour - faint rose and citrine stripes glimmered on his sleek sides as he came nosing into the dark water, looking for cover. The fans of his tail worked with lazy grace and his eyes were cold yellow moons. Drifting, a weightless dragon of the deep, he passed under her shade, and for a moment she quailed, thinking of other times her hand had dealt death, pitying him. But if I will not kill, I may not eat, She plunged the spear down with all her strength - it dived like a kingfisher. Impact jolted through her back and the tug and shudder of a life passing broke open memories of the slaughter of Alqualondë. Blood in the water. There was blood in the water. She recoiled, sick, assaulted by the past. "Lady?" Celeborn was beside her. She looked at him and saw the faces of Teleri mariners; surprised by doom - confused, but not yet afraid, because they had not learned to conceive that elf might slay elf. "What is it? What is wrong?" Aman's holiness had been spoiled that day. But Doriath...Doriath retained its innocence. Here, in the power of Melian, the elves were free of fear and guilt, as they had been in Valinor, before her family tainted it. She covered her eyes, and felt the pressure of his fingertips on her wrist - a little, inquiring touch, shy and concerned. They were like children, these dark elves, secure in their safety, untouched by Morgoth. A desire burned in her to keep them so, to protect them. By her ruin she could stand in places they dared not go. She would be their champion. "What can I do?" Shaking her head, she brought herself once more to composure. "Stay, it is nothing. Only I...I do not like to kill." Such a hypocrite I am, she thought, as he took her arm gently, to steady her and help her to the bank, Such a hypocrite. Playlist Navigation Bar Middle row links go to story overviews. Bottom row links go first chapter of a story.

Diane Burgis, candidate for Contra Costa County Supervisor, District III, announced she had received the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters of the East Bay. “Diane Burgis is committed to standing up for a clean environment,” said Beth Gunston, President of the Board of Directors of the League of Conservation Voters of the East Bay. “As executive director of the Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed and a trustee of the East Bay Regional Park District, Diane has been fighting for clean water and open space throughout her personal and professional life.” “I believe it is critical that we protect our natural resources for future generations to enjoy,” said Burgis. “I am pleased that the League of Conservation Voters of the East Bay has recognized my work to protect the Delta and ensure that our environment is healthy and open space is preserved.” The mission of LCVEB is to further environmental and public health protections in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties by electing environmental leaders to local office. Burgis has also earned the endorsement of retiring Supervisor Mary Piepho, former Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, and more than 30 locally elected officials and community leaders. Recently, she was honored by the Contra Costa Women’s Hall of Fame with the Women Improving the Environment Award for her work with the Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed. Campaign finance reports were due on Thursday, April 28 and all six candidates for District 3 County Supervisor submitted their reports required for any candidate who has raised or spent at least $2,000 in their campaign, this year. The reporting period is from January 1 through April 23, 2016. Oakley Councilman Doug Hardcastle leads the pack with the most received at $37,511.16 and spent at $34,642.80. But, $15,500 was from loans he made to his campaign. The total also includes non-monetary contributions of $5,000. He had $2,868.36 cash on hand at the end of the reporting period. Antioch Councilwoman Monica Wilson raised the most in monetary contributions at $25,589.76 with $5,179 of that amount transferred from her 2016 City Council reelection campaign committee. But, she spent $26,046.19 and had $14,587.85 in unpaid bills, with an ending cash balance of $14,249.48. Most of Wilson’s contributions were from, and most of the money was spent outside of the district, with the majority of it spent out of state. UPDATE 05-02-16: Wilson’s finance reports from her 2016 City Council re-election campaign committee have been posted, below. They show $4,700 in itemized contributions of $100 or more, all of it from outside of both the City of Antioch and Supervisor District 3. East Bay Regional Parks District Board Member Diane Burgis is in second place for monetary contributions with $18,857 and Brentwood Councilman Steve Barr is in a close third at $18,685. But Barr is in second for total contributions at $28,335 which include a $5,000 loan from him and his wife, and $4,650 in non-monetary contributions. Two of Burgis’ largest contributions were received from Supervisors Mary Piepho and John Gioia at the maximum of $1,675 each. She has spent the second most at $26,568.86, had $15,271.21 in unpaid bills and an ending cash balance of $7,659.90. Barr spent $26,009, had $18,585 in unpaid bills, but $20,911 in cash on hand. NAACP East County Branch President Odessa Lefrancois raised $11,885, with her largest contribution of $5,000 coming from Public Employees Union Local #1, of which she’s a member. Her campaign spent $9,277.80 and had $2,607.20 cash on hand at the end of the reporting period. Antioch Mayor Wade Harper’s campaign received $8,050, including his largest contribution of $2,000 from Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3. He spent $5,663.54 and had $2,386.46 cash on hand. See the complete financial reports for each of the candidates, with details of who has contributed more than $100 and to whom more than $100 was paid, here: NOTE: The two additional financial reports from Monica Wilson were for her 2016 City Council campaign committee, since she transferred funds from that committee to her Supervisor campaign committee. Publisher’s Note: For full disclosure and as explained in the March issue of the Antioch Herald, I, the writer of this article, am the paid consultant for Doug Hardcastle’s campaign for County Supervisor. Brentwood City Councilman and Supervisorial candidate Steve Barr’s endorsement by the Brentwood Police Officers’ Association is a clear example of what is wrong with California politics and government leadership. A city councilman and/or supervisor is on the management side of the negotiation for pay, benefits, pensions, working rules, etc. with labor groups. Having their endorsement and, in all probability financial support, during the campaign, leads to the distinct possibility of a pay back or reward for that support during contract negotiations. The second problem with this arrangement is that the only people left out of that negotiation are the taxpayers, the people who have to pay for the results of that negotiation. It is especially easy to give pay increases and other benefits when you are negotiating with other people’s money. I support Doug Hardcastle for Supervisor in District 3. Doug and his wife Linda have owned and successfully operated Hardcastle’s RV in the county since 1972. He was on the Ironhouse Sanitary District Board of Directors from 2000 until 2012 and a member of the Oakley City Council since 2012, serving as Mayor, last year. He is Chairman of Transplan (the East County transportation board), Chairman of the State Route 4 Bypass Authority and is Vice Chairman of the Tri Delta Transit Authority. Doug is a successful, independent leader who understands the need for private sector economic development and jobs in East County and has proven his ability to lead in the public sector. But, most of all, he is working for all the people of East County, not just a chosen few. In a bid to buck the conventional wisdom that says millennials don’t vote, the Contra Costa County Young Democrats (CCYD) today launched one of the largest youth voter engagement project of its kind in California. “Many people in politics assume that young people don’t vote,” said Jonathan Bash, President of the Contra Costa County Young Democrats. “That assumption is dead wrong. The truth is that those running most campaigns elect not to reach out to people under the age of forty out of sheer habit. This June, we’re going to change that.” In partnership with the Democratic Party of Contra Costa County and the Contra Costa County Democratic Clubs Council, CCYD will lead the charge to turn out the youth vote in Contra Costa County with a major voter engagement campaign. The campaign is made possible by a $50,000 contribution from NextGen Climate President and Founder Tom Steyer, as part of his ongoing efforts to strengthen grassroots democracy and boost voter turnout in California this election cycle. In the first phase of the project, CCYD will recruit three fellows from Diablo Valley College, Saint Mary’s College of California, and Los Medanos College, establish ten incentive grants for star volunteers, host on-campus events, and coordinate volunteers throughout the county to register voters — and convince voters to become Permanent Absentee Voters (PAV) – at public gatherings like farmers’ markets, concerts and community festivals In the second phase, CCYD will turn out these newly registered voters and reach out to currently registered voters between the ages of 18-39. Each of the voters will receive a number of contacts encouraging them to vote in the June 7, 2016 statewide primary election. Additionally, the three fellows, volunteers, project partners and additional canvassers will execute a Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaign knocking on young voters’ front doors to convince them to vote. In the third phase, CCYD will conduct a precinct-by-precinct analysis of its efforts to identify best practices and adapt them for the November 8, 2016 general election. The Contra Costa Young Democrats (CCYD) is a nonprofit organization chartered to educate young people about the political process and advocate for progressive policies. CCYD engages Contra Costa County’s many communities and empowers young people to take active roles in public life. NextGen Climate Action is a San Francisco-based environmental advocacy organization. Founded by businessperson and philanthropist Tom Steyer in 2013, NextGen acts politically to prevent climate disaster and promote prosperity for all Americans. Working at every level, we are committed to supporting candidates, elected officials, and policymakers across the country that will take bold action on climate change. There’s an old expression about politics that goes like this “All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.” (James Reston). Let me reword it this way – all politics are local and politicians count on the ignorance of voters.” Do your own research and remember that when candidates are endorsed and elected by unions or a particular political party, they are no longer “independent” legislators. Newspaper endorsements can also be biased. Be sure you know the rules. June 7th is a primary race. The top 2 vote getters will move onto the November 8th general election. Speaking of endorsements, let’s look at the candidates for District 3, an open seat due to Mary Piepho‘s decision to retire and District 5, where Federal Glover is again running for re-election. DISTRICT 3 – Includes most of Antioch, all of south side of Highway 4 STEVE BARR – Current Brentwood City Council member (term expires November 2018) Endorsed as best pick for Supervisor by the Contra Costa Times. Here are a few facts you may not know: Barr switched parties from Democrat to Republican in 2015 in time to run for the seat held by Mary Piepho, who is a Republican. He is one of two Brentwood councilmen who replaced non-elected directors on the East Contra Costa Fire District Board. The Board which gave its firefighter a 5% across the board raise, hasn’t solved the lack of fire services in Brentwood, Oakley, Discovery Bay, Bethel Island, Byron and Knightsen. They tried to pass two taxes but failed both times. My biggest beef with him is, although he was opposed to a project labor agreement the City used on its new city hall, he was seated on the council when they unanimously agreed to move forward with creating a project labor agreement to build the Brentwood library. Should we call him a “flip flopper”? DIANE BURGIS: Executive Director of Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed, sits on the Regional Planning Committee for ABAG. Prior to being elected to the EBRPD Board in November 2014, she sat on the Oakley City Council, being elected just two years before in 2012. Burgis also served on the Delta Protection Commission, executive Board for the East Bay League of Cities and Transportation, Communications and Public Works Policy Committee for the League of California Cities representing the Woman’s Caucus. She currently serves as Ward 7 Director of East Bay Regional Park District and has incumbent Mary Piepho’s backing. DOUG HARDCASTLE – Owner of Hardcastle RV Center in Oakley, for more than 40 years. Served as Director on the Ironhouse Sanitary District Board from 2000 to 2012 and President of Board from 2010-2011. Elected to the Oakley City Council in 2012 and just completed a year as Mayor. Endorsed by current Mayor Kevin Romick and Bill Baker, former US Representative for California’s 10th Congressional District. Small business owners are the backbone of the U.S. economy. Hardcastle is especially concerned about economic development, local jobs, public safety, improved roads and transportation and protecting the Delta and open space. WADE HARPER – Flip flopper. In 2008 when getting appointed to the Antioch School Board he committed to running for re-election in 2010, instead he ran for City Council and then for the Mayor’s seat. In an accelerated swearing in ceremony in December 2012, held in order to allow the new mayor and council members to reverse the previously signed contract with APOA, which changed the 3% at 50 pension calculation to a 3% at 55 formula. This was done in order to avoid having to adhere to a new voter approved law which would take effect on January 1, 2012 reducing the pension formula for new police hires from 2% at 50 to 2.7% at age 55 and freezing benefit formulas for lateral hires. After committing to being a full-time Mayor if elected, he got a job teaching for the Antioch school district. In June 2014 he implied commitment to allow a citizens group to move forward on plans for a park and event center on the former lumber yard site, then voted to sell it to a developer. In October 2015 he made a commitment to Senator Steve Glazer to not run for higher office when hired as a field rep. Two months later, he quit the job to run for Supervisor. He is endorsed by The Antioch Education Association, the professional organization and bargaining unit for all the teachers of Antioch Unified School District, Council woman Mary Rocha, and Councilman Tony Tiscareno. ODESSA LEFRANCOIS – Retired Navy veteran, 12th year county health services employee and civil rights activist. Says her priorities are better health care delivery, especially to vets, better regional transportation infrastructure, unfair labor practices and community issues concerning seniors. She is 2nd Vice President of Local Union 1 and President of the NAACP East County Branch. MONICA WILSON – Elected to the Antioch City Council in 2012. Her press release states her successes include helping grow local businesses and making public safety a top priority, securing local measures to hire and support more police officers. Frankly, she’s overstating her qualifications and accomplishments. Residents are now paying for two tax measures and experiencing a continuing understaffed police, code enforcement and animal control department. She has been endorsed by SEIU (Service Employees International Union and the Democrat leadership machine in the county. DISTRICT 5 – Includes most of the portion of Antioch north of Highway 4 ANAMARIE AVILA FARIAS – current Martinez City Councilmember, elected in 2012, and current Board Member for the Juvenile Hall Auxiliary of Contra Costa County. Was a member of the Martinez Planning Commission for 8 years and served on the Parks and Recreation and Marina Commission. Employed for nearly 10 years with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community development and in 2015 was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown Jr. to serve as a Board Director for the California Housing Finance Agency. She is currently a Board Member for the Latino Caucus and has numerous union endorsements. CONRAD DANDRIDGE – Former member of the Pacheco Municipal Advisory Council, This is 2nd time Dandridge, ran for the Board. In 2006 he ran for a District 4 seat in unincorporated Martinez. Sue Bonilla won that race. Dandridge is a program analyst for the Transportation Security Administration in Oakland. Claims to know District 5 well due to having worked s a Census Bureau field operations supervisor all over Contra Costa. Doesn’t believe Glover is an effective advocate for District 5, especially the unincorporated areas. FEDERAL GLOVER – Former Pittsburg City Council Member, Served as Mayor from 1998 to 1999 and has been on the Board of Supervisors since 2000. He’s now running for his fifth term in office (no term limits in local government but there should be). His campaign manager is Mary Jo Rossi, whose name has come up in regard to backroom deals concerning the Navy land plan. Glover is another “flip flopper”. In the past he promised voters he’d “hold the line” on growth. However, campaign finance reports show he received at least $38,000+ from groups often seen to be in opposition to environmental concerns i.e. $$20,000 from Chevron and Tosco, $56,000+ from developers (the largest $15,000 from Homebuilders Assoc, $6,830 from Alves/Paramount, $5,000 from PROPAC and from Seeno $3,175. He’s voted for over 6,700 homes – 1,500 in Alamo Creek, 200 in Discovery Bay, Oakley – sphere of influence addition for homes (2,000 acres) in addition to over 5,000 homes he approved in Pittsburg. He also told residents (Contra Costa Times 1/14/2000 ) “It’s time to stand up and own up to the fact that our ability to bring BART further east is not going to happen.” Voted to give himself a 60% raise in 2006 then another 33% in 2014. But, after county staff and residents gathered enough signatures to force a referendum in 2015, Glover voted to reverse his vote on the 33% raise. Instead, he voted for a 14% pay raise, last year although the county employees only received a 4% raise. He’s endorsed by the Democratic Party of Contra Costa. MIKE MENESINI – Former Martinez Mayor for 18 years and Councilman for eight years. He works in San Francisco as an Assistant District Attorney. Unsuccessfully ran for County Supervisor in 1992, Superior Court judge in 1994 and Contra Costa District Attorney in 2002. Left the city with a $30 million shortfall in pension and retiree health plans and only 64 percent of the funds they should have. Also allowed for pension spiking by the city’s police force and expensive, lifetime retiree health insurance benefits from their first day on the job, for themselves, spouses and children up to age 26. DAN ROMERO – Mayor of Hercules. Joined the Hercules City Council in 2011 following the recall of previous members. Reelected in 2012. Had to deal with the $38 million mess from redevelopment spending by previous councils. Weathered controversy and attacks by fellow council member over who should be Mayor. Supported 2004 Franklin Canyon Measure M, which down zoned the area to one home for every 40 acres. Side note for Antioch residents – Romero voted to hire Steve Duran, as City Manager, who later left to become Antioch’s City Manager. He is a business owner with an insurance agency in Pinole. Antioch Councilmember Monica Wilson, candidate for District 3, Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, announced that she earned the endorsement of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1021. “We support Monica for her strong support for high-quality County services, her commitment to economic development that works for working families, and her proven ability to unite and lead state/regional policy makers in protecting our Delta water from tunnel schemes,” said Dan Jameyson, SEIU 1021 Contra Costa Chapter President. SEIU 1021 represents over 54,000 employees in Northern California in industries ranging from healthcare, non-profits, local governments and schools. “SEIU 1021 is one of the County’s largest unions,” Monica said. “I’m honored by this endorsement because it shows that Contra Costa’s working families are behind my campaign and we have momentum.” Wilson is a Workforce Service Specialist for the Workforce Development Board of Contra Costa County. District 3 includes Oakley, Brentwood, Discovery Bay, Bethel Island, Byron, Knightsen, Blackhawk, Diablo and most of Antioch. The election is June 7th. County Supervisor Federal Glover, of Supervisorial District 5, earned the party’s coveted endorsement with support from 64 percent of elected and appointed Central Committee members. Martinez City Councilmember AnaMarie Avila Farias also demonstrated a significant showing. None of the other four announced candidates earned any support from members of the decision-making body. “County Supervisor Federal Glover has served Contra Costa well for over 15 years, and we’re honored to stand by him once again,” said Party Chair Jeff Koertzen. “Nevertheless, we are gratified that multiple Democrats participated in our party’s endorsement process, demonstrating the strength of our bench.” “Both Council Member Wilson and Board Member Burgis have fought strongly for Democratic values,” said Koertzen. “Monica previously served as Vice-Chair of this party and has spent years fighting successfully for Antioch residents, while Diane has shown to be a time-tested defender of the environment. We encourage District 3 residents to consider them both this June.” The Central Committee will re-evaluate whether to endorse a candidate in District 3 following the June 7, 2016 statewide primary election and may come to an endorsement decision soon after election results are certified. Candidate for County Supervisor in District 3 and Antioch City Council Member Monica Wilson, announced Monday that she has earned the endorsement of California Nurses Association. “Monica Wilson is a champion for Contra Costa nurses and patients.” said Kati Johnson, a Perinatal RN at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center. “The California Nurses Association’s is proud to endorse Ms. Wilson. She is committed to ensuring that our patients receive the care they deserve and that nurses have the support they need to continue serving our community. We unanimously support Monica and we know she is the best candidate to deliver real results.” The California Nurses Association, together with the National Nurses Organizing Committee and the AFL-CIO, has more than 86,000 members in hospitals, clinics and home health agencies throughout the country. As one of the nation’s fastest growing labor and professional organizations, CNA has grown by nearly 400 percent in the past 15 years. “I am grateful to have the support of the California Nurses Association.” said Wilson. “The compassion and work ethic of nurses is what inspires me to fight for what’s best for our community.” District 3 includes Antioch, Oakley, Brentwood, and Discovery Bay. The primary election is June 7, 2016. The deadline for candidates for Contra Costa County Supervisor to file papers to run in the June election was at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 11. However, the deadline was extended to Wednesday, March 16 in the race for District 3 Supervisor because the incumbent, Mary Piepho didn’t file for reelection. All six of the candidates expected to run for her seat filed their papers by the deadline. Andersen Again for Two Terms in District 2 No one filed to run against District 2 Supervisor Candace Andersen so she will get a free pass, this election. Five Candidates in Fifth District by 5 PM, Federal files for Fifth Term, Farias not furious But, some last minute maneuverings at the County Elections Office occurred on Friday, March 11th in the race for District 5 Supervisor, in which incumbent Federal Glover is seeking a fifth term. This time he will have four opponents, but not five, because one potential candidate who attempted to file at the last minute failed to qualify. Glover was the first to file his papers, having done so on March 2nd. Martinez resident Conrad Dandridge, listed on the ballot as a Program Analyst, who began the process before any other candidate for the seat back on January 4th, filed his papers that day. Another candidate, Hercules Mayor Dan Romero had also filed his papers before 4:00 p.m. Then, with less than an hour until the deadline, Martinez Vice Mayor AnaMarie Avila Farias filed her papers to run against Glover. About 10 minutes later, after she walked out of the Elections Office with Vince Wells, President of the county’s Professional Firefighters union Local 1230, former Martinez Mayor Mike Menisini, who had pulled papers on March 1st, walked in with former County Supervisor Tom Powers and political consultant Ray Sloan, and filed to run in the same race. Then another Hercules resident, nursing administrator Deborah Campbell, a Democrat, who had pulled papers that same day, walked into the office with County School Board Trustee Jeff Belle, a member of the County Republican Central Committee. But, after she filed her papers, it was determined that Campbell did not have the required 20 valid signatures of registered voters in the district on her nomination papers, according to Elections Office staff. Since it was after the 5:00 p.m. filing deadline, she did not qualify for the ballot. According to witnesses, Mary Jo Rossi, the consultant for both Glover and Concord Councilman Tim Grayson’s campaign for State Assembly, remained in the County Elections Office until 5:25 p.m. with Deborah Campbell, although the office closed at 5:00 p.m. Both Rossi and Campbell walked out of the building at the same time, the only non-county employees still in the office, that long. According to a witness who chose not to be identified, Farias was “livid and witnessed what appeared to be political games going on” and believes Rossi recruited Menesini and possibly Dandridge, as well, to split the vote in Martinez to hurt Farias and help Glover. When reached for comment, Farias stated “I wasn’t livid. But there is definitely a political machine at work in the county.” Referring to Menesini, she said “I was surprised to see one of my former colleagues who lost for reelection in 2014 running for higher office. “But, I think the more the merrier running for office,” Farias continued. “Because, at the end of the day it’s my constituency and voters who will decide.” “It keeps you true to your elected office and true to who you are,” she added. “I like options. Don’t you?” When reached for comment Rossi denied the accusations about recruiting Menesini. “I have nothing to do with Mike’s candidacy,” she stated. Menesini could not be reached for comment. It was also speculated that Campbell was brought there by Belle to meet Rossi, and was recruited to help split the Hercules vote with Romero, which could also benefit Glover. But, Belle said he didn’t recruit her. “No. I did not,” he said. “I was simply assisting her with paperwork. I tried talking her out of running.” FYI The “right to vote”; which is a major part of our democracy; includes “the right to run for office if qualified”. The shenanigans that have occurred in the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors race, especially for District 5, are appalling. As a veteran and as a member of a family of veterans and U.S. Citizen, I am personally offended by what I witnessed by representatives of people in elected offices regarding this current election cycle. I have a front row seat. More to come! Wells did not respond to a request for details of what he saw that motivated his comments. District 5 stretches from the north side of Antioch, through Pittsburg and Bay Point, along Highway 4, includes Martinez, and stretches all the way to Hercules and the west side of Pinole, in West County. Six Seek Supervisor in District 3 In the District 3 race for Supervisor the following candidates filed in the following order: NAACP East County Branch President Odessa Lefrancois, who began her campaign last November, was the first to file papers on Wednesday, March 9th. Oakley Councilman Doug Hardcastle, who began his campaign last September and was the first to start the process on January 12th, filed his papers on Thursday, March 10th, the same day as Antioch Mayor Wade Harper, who announced his campaign in December, after Piepho announced she would not be running for reelection. Both Antioch Councilwoman Monica Wilson and East Bay Regional Parks District Board Member Diane Burgis, who also entered the race since Piepho’s announcement, filed their papers on Friday, the 10th. But, Burgis said that night, she was one signature short of the 20 required on her nomination papers and would be back this week to complete the process, which she did. Brentwood Councilman Steve Barr, who was the last to jump into the race, filed his papers on Monday, March 14th. No other candidates pulled or filed papers in the race before the Wednesday, March 16th deadline. The district includes most of Antioch, Oakley, Brentwood, Discovery Bay, Bethel Island, Byron and Knightsen in East County, as well as Blackhawk, Diablo and Camino Tassajara in the San Ramon Valley. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes in June, the top two candidates for Supervisor in each district will face off in November. Odessa Lefrancois, a 16-year resident of East Contra Costa County and a 12-year county health services employee, made her candidacy for District 3 Supervisor official by completing her filing on Wednesday afternoon, March 9th, as supporters and volunteers dressed in “Vote for Odessa” shirts looked on at the County Office of Elections and Registration. Informally beginning her campaign last November, by riding in a car with signs announcing her candidacy in Antioch’s Veterans Day Parade, Lefrancois is undeterred to join a race with five other candidates seeking to replace Mary Piepho. “I’ve not only lived in the district for a long time, I’ve also worked (and still do) for the County for over a decade,” she said. “I’ve seen County governance both from the inside and the outside. More importantly, I’ve experienced, firsthand, the effects of Supervisor decisions as a resident as well as an employee. I have something unique that the other candidates don’t have – a dual perspective and experience.” Recent decisions from the Supervisors have led Lefrancois to her run for Supervisor. Filing her papers at the County Elections Office on Wednesday, March 9th, 2016. “For nearly a decade, we have seen the County reduce or completely cut services, close down health care facilities, roll back employee salaries and benefits, and insist residents do more with less,” she said. “Supervisors preached sacrifice.” But one decision in particular concretized Odessa Lefrancois’ determination to run.” “When the Supervisors, minus Candace Andersen, voted to raise their own salaries by an unbelievable 33% while preaching sacrifice to everyone else, I knew this County needed new leadership,” she stated. “That decision was incredibly self serving. Leaders serve the public interest, not their own interest.” On her priorities for the County, she said, “I am neither a career politician nor a political opportunist chasing the next office. I am a mother, a resident, a County health services employee, a retired Navy veteran, and a community volunteer.” As a mother and resident, Lefrancois’ priorities are improved public safety and the preservation of green spaces and wetlands for families to enjoy. As an employee, Lefrancois’ priorities are better regional transportation infrastructure and County leadership that will treat their employees fairly, and to lead by example. As a Navy vet, Lefrancois’ priorities are better health care delivery to all, especially our men and women in uniform who served honorably but now have mental and/or physical health needs to heal. Supporters who joined her at the County Elections Office. According to her bio on the NAACP East County Branch website, two weeks after graduating from Lincoln High School in McClellanville, she joined the United States Navy. During her military career she was trained as a hospital corpsman and a respiratory therapist. Training led to a military career that took her to over thirty-five states in the United States and five foreign countries (Japan, Korea, Philippines, Canada and Mexico). She retired from the military after 21 years of honorable service at the rank of Chief Petty Officer (E7). After retirement, she went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership and Management from Chapman University, in Orange County, California. Community involvement includes but not limited to Health Chair for Antioch Church Family and the current President of the East County National Association for the Advancement of Colored (NAACP) Branch. Lefrancois is a proud mother of two children, Shane (28) and Lorraine (20) and three grandchildren. She enjoys bicycle riding, reading, traveling and most important, living a life of service to others. She is currently employed as a respiratory therapist at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Kaiser, Walnut Creek Medical Center. Lefrancois resides with her husband, Louis in Antioch. The election is June 7th. If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the top two candidates will face off in the General Election in November.

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Listen live India defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets in the rain-curtailed first one-day international in Dhaka on Monday (AEST), powered by confident half-centuries from openers Ajinkya Rahane and Robin Uthappa. The visitors reached the revised target of 150 runs off 26 overs with seven balls to spare after heavy downpours stopped play for more than two hours in the day-night clash at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium.

Pages Friday, November 30, 2012 ladylike I felt very girly wearing this blush, black and white outfit. I don't really own a lot of items in the pink family besides this cardigan, my pink chambray shirt and my LC blazer. Although I would consider myself pretty girly in the sense that I like clothes, painting my nails and not getting dirty, I don't really do pink. I don't have some deep explanation for this. Maybe my parents dressed me in only gender neutral clothing as a child so now I've continued this in adulthood?

Mr. James "Randy" R. Lance, age 41 of Morganton, passed away June 2, 2013 at his home. Randy was born May 9, 1972 in Cleveland, TN to Larry Lance and Ms. Barbara Hughes Lance. A member of the Morganton Baptist Church, he was preceded in death by maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hughes. Randy enjoyed throwing horseshoes, playing his guitar and when he was younger, riding his motorcycle. Mostly, he enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. Funeral services will be held Friday, June 6, 2013 at 2:00 pm at the Henry-Cochran Funeral Home with the Rev. officiating. Music provided by the Bennetts. Interment will follow in the Morganton Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers include Sam Elliot, Charles Fish, Hunter Davenport, Chris Hedden, Kevin Lance, Glen Dilbeck, James Chambers and Gary Ash, Jr. Honorary pallbearers The family will receive friends at the Henry-Cochran Funeral Home of Blue Ridge, Friday, June 6, 2013 from12:00 pm - 2:00 pm. Arrangements entrusted to the Henry-Cochran Funeral Home of Blue Ridge, GA. You may send condolences to the family and sign the guest register at www.cochranfuneralhomes.com. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications. To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry Submitted comments will be subject to moderation before being displayed. Register for Breaking News Alerts Area Information fourup FetchYourNews.com is committed to making information available to everyone with NO restrictions. If you enjoy our site and want to see it grow please consider a donation.

After the Houston Rockets traded for point guard Chris Paul, the already stirring rumors regarding Carmelo Anthony took over the Internet. In an interview with the Undefeated, the new Houston Rocket himself took part. Marc J. Spears , Senior NBA Writer for ESPN’s the Undefeated, published an interview with Chris Paul on Tuesday afternoon regarding his exit from Los Angeles, his NBA home for the last six seasons. In the interview, Spears brought up the latest trade rumors surrounding Anthony, a trade to the Houston Rockets: Spears: What can you say about Melo possibly being a teammate if the New York Knicks trade him to Houston or make him a free agent by buying him out? Paul: Man, sit back and wait. It’s a well known that Paul, James, Wade, and Anthony have all committed to one day playing together for a championship. For Chris and Carmelo however, that dream is closer to reality, and that reality could be next season. The New York Knicks have made public their readiness to part with longtime franchise player Carmelo Anthony. With a no-trade-clause featured in his contract, it’s his decision to make on where he ends up. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPNwas first with reporting Anthony’s willingness to waive his no-trade-clause for the Rockets earlier this month.

Re: Applying a default value to a value type object If you are using SQL Server, then you can set the default value for a column in SQL Server Management Studio. In the Tables folder, right click on a table and choose "Design". Then click the column where you want to create the default value and enter the value in the "Default Value or Binding" cell of the properties sheet for that column. Re: Applying a default value to a value type object There are certainly some things that could be applied in this area, but the fundamental problem is that it is not always clear how a 'default value' on all types of conceptual fact types actually means. When you're talking about a default value in a relation--such as a column in a relational table--then you already have already dealt with the question of existence: the row must exists for the default to be applied. Translating back to the conceptual world, this means that another fact (such as the identifying fact type that populates the primary key) must be true before the default value can be applied. A default value would definitely not apply to a ValueType, but it could apply to a fact type with a value role, meaning a role that is not under a uniqueness constraint. This is reasonably well defined for binary fact types with a value role connected to a value type, but becomes much trickier as soon as you hit a multi-role non-spanning uniqueness constraint. [I'm not proposing a solution here, just trying to introduce some of the potential issues.] The conceptual binary case translates most directly to the relational default value. However, it isn't all theoretical smooth sailing. The first question arises with the mandatory/optional setting on the functional role (the role under the uniqueness). Conceptually, automatically populating the fact type if the functional object exists means that this role is always mandatory. However, I think this would be counterintuitive to most modelers, who would expect default values to apply only to optional fact types. There is a similar issue with the implied mandatory on the non-unique role. For example, if the PersonName value type is used only in the Person has PersonName fact type, then there is an implied mandatory constraint on PersonName that means no PersonName instance exists that is not associated with a Person instance. However, if the default value is '<Unknown>', we have to ask if this is a theoretical violation of the implied mandatory constraint. After all, we now have a PersonName instance that was not asserted. Basically, what you now have is a semi-derived fact type with the derived portion dependent upon the asserted portion. As with other derivations, the choice of storage needs to be made when this is mapped to a relational model. For a binary, the theoretically cleanest way to do this is with two columns, one asserted and the other calculated. The calculation would provide the default value, and the user would read the derived column and write to the asserted column. Unfortunately, this is somewhat impractical from the relational perspective, although it does allow a more flexible model than the 'default value' approach because the default is stored once (in the derivation rule) instead of being injected into each row of the table. The bigger issue with default values comes with the n-ary case. Consider Person(.id) speaks Language(.code) with Proficiency() with a uniqueness on the first two roles and a default value on the Proficiency role. Unlike the binary case, where you clearly apply the default only when the functional role player is populated, the population in this case is actually a cross product of all Person and Language instances that are not formally paired in this fact type. This makes sense for a query or as part of a derivation rule, but is definitely not something you would want to populate. Also note that in this case there is an implied objectification with a co-referenced binarized form behind the scenes (but visible if needed) in NORMA. In the binarized form, the Proficiency role here is mandatory, so is probably not a good default value candidate anyway. Given these theoretical concerns, if we add this, I would suggest the following: Limit it to non-spanning binary cases only. Allow value types or simply-identified entity types only on the value role. Even in these cases I have reservations about the conceptual nature of this feature, but I agree that it can be very useful and that some architects much prefer a default value to a null, so I think we should consider it. At the very least we should allow adding it at the relational column level (where the existence question is not an issue and all identifiers are resolved). Re: Applying a default value to a value type object You made me laugh. I wasn't trying to overdo it, but I think I failed. I think the fundamental issue is that on the conceptual side--which is just a first-order logic representation of the domain--there are only notions of true or false. The default value question issue is a question for the logical schema, not the conceptual model. Conceptually, if A r Value, then a derived fact type would state (logical keywords in bold) A r resolved- Value1 iffthat A r that Value1 or (that A r no Value and Value1=DEFAULT). This basic pattern derivation pattern is also generalizable to n-ary and entity cases, whereas the logical schema notion of default value does not move as well. Applying this pattern to a mandatory fact type is also pointless (the second clause is never executed), so there is more conceptual consistency there as well. Clearly, a smart mapping engine could look for this pattern and choose to implement it using a relational default value. However, we need to be very careful about extending the conceptual model to cater for this notion. I'm interested in hearing what others think about this, but the simple answer (and definitely the current one) is 'No'. Re: Applying a default value to a value type object This is the similar approach to what is done in Visio (Architect) version. The data model diagram that is derived from the ORM model allowed you to set the default value for the column. This didnt affect the ORM model when it was updated. It would be nice to have this feature for smaller database. Having to use another tool and additional steps, increases the complexity and management.

About Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti is best known for his elongated, withered representations of the human form, including his 1960 sculpture Walking Man I, which in 2010 broke the record for a work of art at auction at $104.3 million. After experimenting with Cubism and Surrealism in forms influenced by primitive art, psychoanalytic theory, and toys, Giacometti broke from Surrealism and began his radical revision of the representational tradition in sculpture. Giacometti's severe figures explored the psyche and the charged space occupied by a single person. Linked to Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism, they are seen as metaphors for the postwar experience of doubt and alienation.

Saturday, February 25, 2012 Many Many Thanks  I am happy to be playing along with some of my favorite challenges this week. It has been a long time since I've been able to join the Play Date Cafe challenge, but this week's colors really appealed to me: I used a few different {ippity} flower stamps to create a bouquet. Then I added a fun twist on my neutrals-newspaper! I also used sketch FTL179 from Clean & Simple Stamping. This is a new-to-me challenge blog. No winners, no prizes-just fun sketches to boost your creativity! If you love skertches, please be sure to check it out. :) I absolutely love love love this card--LOVE the newsprint paper for the flower bunch! Those flowers are amazing! BEAUTIFULLY done:) HUGS! THANKS for playing along with us and joining in the fun over at the PDCC:)

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Ok, Premier has Expo Autoplay bundled with it (for free, I'm assuming?). It also has much better Multiplatform support (not sure if we'll use that, but it's on the cards). But there is also a difference in the version of Update Service it has. It comes with Update Service Starter Edition plus Delivery, rather than the basic garden variety Update Service Starter Edition. What is meant by "Delivery"? Thanks David Thornley 05-03-2004, 12:40 PM In the professional edition the Update Service Starter Edition will only have notification. What that means is that when your users click on the update notification you can take them to a web page or something like that. Delivery means that when your users click on the update notification the update will automatically download and install without the need for an intermediate step. In addition, premier edition contains all of the runtime lanuguages. These were formerly known as the East and West language packs. The language packs will not be available as separate products anymore, so users needing to create multi-lingual setups will want to get premier edition. johnludlow 05-03-2004, 01:27 PM Ah, I see. Thanks. I'll be talking to my managers tomorrow so we'll see what happens. ;) MattTweedie 05-10-2004, 01:58 PM Some of the developers here use language packs and some don't. If a project is created (in English only) with the Premier version, can the Professional version open, and edit it? TIA, Matt David Thornley 05-10-2004, 03:17 PM This behavior is unchanged from previous versions of InstallShield. When you open a language enabled project in an IDE that does not support those languages those languages will automatically be disabled. nat2k4us 05-26-2004, 05:03 PM Continuing on the delivary option in premier, Paractically I think this is how it will work. The user is installing the application and during install the update service will check to see if there are updates. If there are updates it would either install directly or show a web page with a link to download and install the upgrade. The point is that this occurs only at the time of installation of the application and for every time the application is run. Because I don't know how InstallShield will be able to tie into the running application. Is this right? David Thornley 05-27-2004, 09:22 AM For the starter edition of Update Serivce that this is handled through an external service called the upgrade manager. Update checks are checked for based on timed intervals and not when you open your application. The full edition of Update Service can integrate with your application as you suggest. nat2k4us 05-27-2004, 09:47 AM So there would always be a (application / process i.e Upgrade manager) running in the background on a system where my application is installed..right? And this process must not be blocked internet access by the user via a firewall. But will a end user trust a updmgr.exe(i.e Upgrade Manager.exe), which he is not able to mentally link up to the application he installed ? Would be nice if the application he installed carries out the upgrade service. andreasS 06-24-2004, 03:14 AM Hello, we are willing to upgrade from Version 5.1 Professional to Installshield X, and I did not complete understand the "Multi-Lingual Support". We need to create german and english setups. Is this impossible with Installshield X PRO, so that we MUST use X Premier? Or can we create 2 projects with X Professional, one for english and one for german? Thank you, Andreas johnludlow 06-24-2004, 03:21 AM No, you should go for Premier, since Pro doesn't support more than one language. Stefan Krueger 06-24-2004, 08:37 AM If you only need English and German then you could use the German edition of InstallShield X Professional which supports 2 languages (German+English) while the English edition of InstallShield X Professional supports only 1 language. This language is selected when you install InstallShield X Professional (English version), so you cannot create one project in German and another in English. If you need more then these two languages you must buy/upgrade to Premier. Note that if you own the International West edition of InstallShield 5 you ay be eligible to buy Premier at a reduced price. You can contact me in private (and in German) if you have questions. JStone 02-22-2005, 07:27 AM Thank you for the information. It really helped me. I was under the impression that the Professional German edition too supports only one language like Professional English edition. JStone Stefan Krueger 02-22-2005, 08:21 AM Note that this is only true for Windows Installations (InstallScript and Windows Installer projects), but not for multi-platform setups (Universal project type). For Universal projects not even the IDE is localized.

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6 lessons learned on my first Time Trial I survived my first hill climb Time Trial this week and I need to tell you all about it. But first, let me apologise. I realise that this little corner of the Internet – are we still capitalising Internet? – tends to morph into a full on cycling blog rather than generalised fitness blog over the summer as I delve deeper into my love affair with the wheels. The love I have for cycling has been rampant since the long, heady days of my childhood, razzing my battered BMX round the pump track and into town, leaving it right to the last minute before my curfew to see how fast I could cycle home. My own mini TT and I didn’t even know it? So as mine and Chris’ bike babies multiply all over the flat and into our tiny garden it’s clear that my love affair is showing no signs of slowing down and therefore I apologise for yet another blog about cycling if you’re not into bikes. The silver lining for you, however, is that the hockey season starts again tonight and autumn and winter is allll about trail running for me so do make sure you stick around for that, won’t you 😉 Becoming a ‘proper’ cyclist This year, after many years of talking about it, looking into it and promptly doing sod all about it, I FINALLY joined a cycling club, with actual human cyclists who go on proper group rides. And lots of different rides there are too – Come And Try It rides for newbies and beginners, Steady Social rides at a steadier pace, pub rides, mtb rides and throughout the summer months, 10 mile and hill TTs, to name a few. On our ‘proper’ club rides I’ve learnt how to ride in a peloton nice and close together, and now fully appreciate the beauty of proper hand signals to signify hazards like pot holes, drains, wandering pedestrians and rogue car doors. I’ve been on group road rides before but tend to bring up the rear (and a very nice rear it is too) so have a bit more space to see. With club rides, you ride so close together at a set pace – usually two abreast for easier overtaking – that you can’t actually see what’s in front of you – apart from your lovely club member’s arse of course. So the dancing hands that sometimes look like bad renditions of the Bee Gee’s Staying Alive are actually all very important. It’s not just the hand signals that I’ve learnt either. I’ve even started to learn the roads further out from my usual routes after going on these rides. That’s right – Tess Agnew, paying attention to where she’s going, instead of bimbling along on the bike gushing about how much she loves cycling. These self-navigation skills will come in very handy for some exciting things happening in the coming months so stay tuned for more on that. And then in addition learning the hand signals, the rules of peloton riding, the different types of rides and knowing whether I’m hard enough to step up to the next pace group, there are the specific learnings from within each ride – hence today’s blog. I’ve never knowingly done a Time Trial before, or known much about it at all, so joining my new found bike buddies in a country road layby to pin a race number to my back and ride up a hill as fast as I could was an exciting (and slightly daunting) prospect. Here’s what I learnt: 6 things I learned on my first Time Trial 1. #JFDI I’ve wanted to do some racing for aaaaages – on the road and mtb – but have been too nervous to do so. How does TT actually work? Would I be fast enough? Have I got the right kit? Will they all be on TT bikes wearing sperm helmets? Do I ride there or drive there to save energy? How do I warm up? Will there be any other women there? And what if I come last? Well, I found out the answers to all of those questions by employing the tried and tested mantra of the badass women’s cycling magazine, Casquette: JFDI (Just fucking do it, for those not in the know). How does TT actually work? Time Trials are organised events – either informal club events with minimal entry fee or open events that require entry two weeks before – taking place throughout the spring and summer. There various distances to race – 10, 25, 50 or 100 miles, or specific hill climb TTs like the one I did on Tuesday. Each rider must register and be given a race number to take part. You start from a held start (a lovely club member will hold your bike for you so you can be clipped in from the off instead of faffing with pedals), and everyone sets off in one-minute intervals according to your number. Ride the hill / distance, as fast as you can sustain without dying, then stop, get your breath back, cheer the others in and make your plan of attack for the next one. Would I be fast enough? I’d be as fast as I could go, which is exactly the same as what everyone else was doing, so yes. Have I got the right kit? I’ve got a bike, helmet, legs and lungs, so yes. Will they all be on TT bikes wearing sperm helmets? A couple, but I’d look stupid in a sperm helmet so it’s OK. Do I ride there or drive there to save energy? Ride there with some of my Brighton Mitre CC chums 🙂 How do I warm up? Ride there and then recce the hill with one of my lovely club members and HSBC Breeze Champion Alison Lewis. (Watch a video of my first Breeze cycle ride with Alison here). Will there be any other women there? There’ll be one less if I don’t go, won’t there. REPRESENT!And what if I come last? Even if you do, you won’t notice as everyone goes in one-minute intervals from each other. You’ll be overtaken, you might overtake, but technically the only one to come in last is the one who starts last – if they can’t catch up with the others! Incidentally, I was second to last, and give zero fucks about this. 2. Pace yourself! You’d be forgiven for thinking a TT is just thrashing yourself as fast as you can ride for a set distance. Strictly speaking, that’s exactly what it is – but it has to be sustainable for the whole way. In running terms, I guess it’s threshold pace, or a little more? Comfortably uncomfortable, as I used to call it. You’re pushing it, your heart rate is up, legs burning and breathing hard, but you can hold onto that pace for the whole duration – without blowing out your arse. I used to mess up my threshold runs when marathon training back in the early days before I learnt how to pace myself, but at least it was only an understanding that me and my legs had to come to. On the bike there’s so much more to think about – which gear do you get into and when? Do you stand up on the inclines, and if you do, how long for? Should you brake for the corners or will you lose momentum? Don’t hit that hole in the road. Watch that gravel. Don’t ride over the poor dead badger, ffs. There were moments in Tuesday’s TT where I think I could’ve gone faster, upped a gear, stood up to push, got on the drops for the downward undulations. But there were also periods where I was blowing out of my arse, unable to get enough air in my lungs, legs burning that little bit too much to hold on or push harder. So lots of work to do on the pacing front, it seems – but a challenge I’m happy to accept! 3. Bring food for afterwards Even though the actual hill we rode was only 2.5miles long, there was a seven mile ride to get there, a full recce ride of the hill and then a seven mile ride home. Why I didn’t bring even a little flapjack, banana or something for after I’ll never know. No one needs to meet hangry Tess, not least Tess herself. I’ve never been very good at fuelling, apart from that 4hr55 run of my life when I surprised myself and got my marathon PB, finishing strong with negative splits. Running a marathon is scary shit, and requires – or forces you into – research and practice. It’s never occurred to me to practice fuelling/refuelling or pacing with cycling as it’s never been about performance for me so this is a whole new (and exciting) territory. With only three weeks to go until my first century ride at VeloSouth this is probably not a good thing to be realising but we’ll see how it goes… 4. Bring something warm to wear afterwards! You’d be surprised just how cold it is cycling at break neck speeds down the hill you’ve just climbed having cooled down at the top. When you’re climbing and descending as part of a ride you don’t notice the change in temperature so much but as we all had a sit down / vom / cheer at the top for everyone to come in (round of applause was the best bit for me), it got pretty cold pretty quickly and I had no arm warmers or layers to add back on before riding home. Rookie error, now that the heatwave has gone and we’re left with ‘normal’ British summer weather – I will be packing a bag to leave in the club van next week! 5. Bring pub money! I realise this is basically turning into a hindsight packing list but this one’s really important guys. The first step to nailing this is actually reading the posts in the club Facebook group properly to know that everyone will go to the pub afterwards. Then you’d have the foresight to bring more money than the £4 entry fee for a post-TT beer! 6. Bring lights! Perhaps even more important than beer money (?) is lights. It makes me sad that at the end of August it’s already that time but our balmy long and light evenings are already turning to chilly dark ones so if you want to stay alive on the roads, make sure you’re seen! This week I joined the millions of cyclists across the country ransacking draws, diving under the bed and checking old bags for the long-forgotten bike lights. Racing home to beat the dark was definitely good fun, but seriously guys – WHERE DID I PUT THEM?! As my annual light witchhunt has been fruitless so far I’ll once again skip merrily down to my local bike shop to restock for the coming months! So there you have it: lessons learned on my first hill climb Time Trial. Now that I’m a fully fledged member of Brighton Mitre CC I want to join more of the road rides and next season also have a go at track racing at nearby Preston Park Velodrome. Cyclocross season is starting imminently too and a few members are already taking part in the first local event this weekend. I might not be ready to have a go this year but it’s definitely something I want to try for 2019. And I’m gonna get on the TT events nice and early in the spring to do some benchmarking and build up my results. Oh, and of course I’ll carry on mountain biking as that’s where my true love for cycling really lies. *Looks at beautiful mountain bike*It’s OK babes, mummy loves you. We’ll be together again this Sunday for another dose of singletrack flow courtesy of Marmalade MTB, don’t worry… If you’re looking for a friendly, inclusive cycling club in Brighton, don’t take as long as I did to join Brighton Mitre CC. Come and Try It rides take place on the first and third Sunday of every month and are open to non-members for two rides. Women get three months free membership and then it’s only £20 a year so come join us! And if you want to read / watch more of my bike-shaped shenanegins step this way. —————————————– Have you ever done a Time Trial? Any tips for my next one gratefully received! A fitness blog from Brighton-based endorphin fiend and This Girl Can Ambassador Tess Agnew. My life started when I gave up smoking and got hooked on fitness for fun and wellbeing. Email me at tessagnew@outlook.com

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Top 5 Memphis places to eat! I think it would be great, if someone of the most active Chowhound's in Memphis, would post their "Top 5 must-visit chow destinations in Memphis" for purposes of educating us newbies. I don't want to start a big discussion of what should qualify to be on everyone's list. If it qualifies for discussion as chow on this board, it qualifies for your list. It is personal to you as far as your own choices. I just want to see a condensed version of some of the most often talked about places on this board. Name for me the 5 places you would take me if you were to show me what you consider to be your very favorite chow places in Memphis. You are my shepherd and I am your grasshopper. Assume I am open to try anything you want to show me. It is your most perfect list of places. Maybe the 5 places you would personally go to if you found out you were leaving Memphis forever. I've been here for over 20 years, since Memphis was a wasteland. Things have improved. I'm going to do two lists. One of the places I go to whenever I can, and one of the best meals I've had here in the year or two. Where I always go when I can: Gus's Chicken - I loved the Mason place but haven't been since the fire. Good food downtown also. Pho Saigon - I go there all the time. I love the eggrolls and the Spicy Hue Style Noodle Soup. Very friendly and huge portions for little money. Automatic Slim's - The go-to place for downtown. I've never had a bad meal there and the service is usually top-notch. Bari - Maybe I go there all the time because it's near where I live. But the food has been very good recently. They're sort of up-tight about odd stuff (like the no butter rule) and the service is iffy, but it's usually a good meal for the money in a great location. Sekisui - No, it's not always great but most of the outposts are consistently good. I've lived in Memphis since sushi was virtually non-existent, and this has filled the void. I go to Midtown most often, but also the original and Pacific Rim. Honorable Mentions: Lobster King - because I think it's the most authentic Chinese in Memphis and usually excellent. Rendevous - not because the food's that good, because it's not, but because it's an institution where you usually will get something at least decent and a fun experience. Perhaps this is more for tourists. Best Meals - Tsunami - My best meals in Memphis have been here. Yes, I've been to Erling Jensen's and the like, but the only dishes I've had in Memphis that have wowed me have been here. Stella - I've had great meals here and always had fun. Maybe Felicia Suzanne's or McEwen's or Grill 83 (or even Circa) can be as good, but this is where I want to go. Beauty Shop - The menu seems always to be in a state of flux, but I always want to go back. I've had some amazing dishes here (duck, guacamole) and always want to return. Folk's Folly - It can be a crapshoot, but when it's on it's totally on. Yes, it's a totally different environment from the others - but if one's stuck having a business dinner it's hard to think of a better place. I've been disappointed there, but also very impressed. And the service never fails. RIP - Cielo - It's where I always wanted to go. I haven't been to the replacement, but I memorable meals there. River Oaks - One of the top two best meals I've had. The chef and staff are super friendly. Their duck stuffed with foie gras is superb. If you get the chance, splurge for the chef's table. It may be cramped, but you'll be happy and stuffed when you leave. Encore - Jose Guiterrez was at Chez Phillippe in the Peabody for years. Encore's got amazing food at equally amazing prices. Get the pissaladiere--never anything left on the plate when it's ordered. Super Sub Shop - Close to the University of Memphis campus near Southern and Highland. It's cash only. For sandwiches, you have the choice of soft or hard bread, but I've never been able to tell the difference. Whatever's in the special sauce is scrumptious. Pho Hoa Binh - It's a family run Vietnamese place. Everything there is delicious and affordable. Interstate BBQ - Everyone has their opinion on BBQ in Memphis, but this one's my favorite. (The BBQ Shop on Madison is a VERY close second.) The ribs and the bbq spaghetti cannot be missed. That is a really tough question. I learn more towards road food, not because Memphis doesn't have some great upscale restaurants, but because it's what Memphis does best. 1. Payne's BBQ--this place is so good that they should serve it at the state mental hospital to show suicidal people that life is really worth living. The pork sandwich, hot with slaw (of course), may be the best thing I've ever put in my mouth. At less than $4, I feel like I've robbed a bank with each bite.2. Gus' Fried Chicken--I grew up eating fried chicken at dinner-on-the-ground in rural Mississippi, and Gus' compares with the best. It's not quite as good as my grandmother's, but almost. It's the best served in a restaurant anywhere. I won't even eat fried chicken anymore unless it's Gus'. I've replaced the sweet tea of my youth with a forty of PBR, making the chicken all the more better. Though, their sweet tea is darn good too in case you have to get back to work.3. Los Tortugas Deli Mexicana--Whenever I travel in California, I'm on a quest to find the perfect fish tacos. I've eaten some good ones in San Diego, but none compare to the redfish tacos at Los Tortugas. They're fresh and perfect in every way. Even better with a fresh-squeezed limeade.4. John Besh's N'awlin's(Horeshoe casino)--The barbeque shrimp here aren't served head-on like they are supposed to be (the chef explained to me that the Yankees up here just won't eat them that way), but they are absolutely amazing. They're even better than where they originated at Pascal Manale's in New Orleans. Ask for extra bread to mop up the sauce. You'll need it.5. Taylor Grocery--No, it's not in Memphis but an hour and half away, but I still have to put it on the list because it is every bit worth the drive. They have hands-down the best catfish, and the atmosphere may be the best in America. The Dickey sauce served with it is just tartar sauce, but is named so because poet/novelist James Dickey, who wrote Deliverance, once lapped up a bowl of it and claimed it was the best soup he'd ever eaten. And have you ever seen a restaurant where people bring bourbon and tailgate as they wait on a table? 2. Central BBQ - though you may get a better sandwich at Interstate or Bar-B-Q Shop (sorry, I don't understand the cult of Payne's) they are the best overall BBQ restaurant in America. The BBQ Chicken can be had wet or dry, and the ribs (dry, of course) are unequaled. 3. Taqueria de la Guadelupana - Anywhere I can get a goat burrito and a Mexican Coke (bottled in Mexico using cane sugar, NOT corn syrup) is great, and they have other great dishes as well. 4. Flying Fish - funky, fresh, and the best place to eat fish in the city. 5. A-Tan - not for Chinese, or for the Japanese Steakhouse, but for the sushi. Yes, rave about Bluefin or Sekisui, but the sushi is BETTER at A-Tan, IMO, and it's better-priced. It's great quality at an outstanding value, with a 5-7 happy hour for sushi each day. I see a pattern developing here. for me ( in no particular order) Erling Jensen, Bari, Gus's,(although the original location in Mason is actually better), Encore, SPR. Also Automatic Slim's, Central BBQ, Pho Saigon, Dish, The arcade(for breakfast), Interstate BBQ, Felicia Suzanne's and the Beauty shop, are all good choices as well

Friday, May 12, 2006 I didnt notice that Official Myanmar Unicode system was fully completed. According to their web, the whole unicode package was completed at April Fool day and has been distributed around the Myanmar with free of charges. I've tested it a few months ago before its finished, honestly it was not concvience for me. So I choose Zawgyi. But now Zawgyi gives troubles when Firefox upgrades their browser from 1.5.0.1 to 1.5.0.3, and we cant write myanmar fonts properly anymore. So I still have to use old broswer for writing this blog. I think it is time to change again. It will be included in coming window OS version and work well with IE. Okie, for a meanwhile, I will be still using old buddy Zawgyi. For more news about that unicode font, read here [My Myanmar] About Me Myanmar Pro-Blogger, freelance Graphic Designer, Photographer, Writer, History & Language Researcher, Social Activist, and Web addict. Doing projects relating with Myanmar Language and trying to build up Resource Center. Beside, the two Projects; National Biographies and Myanmar Wordnet are in progress. Currently volunteering as EC in MCPA and live and run in Yangon, Myanmar.

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Ten weeks after he was briefly hospitalized for anxiety disorder related to a high-blood-pressure diagnosis, veteran reliever Luis Ayala rejoined the Braves on Friday. “Finally I can say I’m healthy,” said Ayala, 38, who was activated from the disabled list and brought from Triple-A Gwinnett after the Braves optioned struggling reliever Cory Gearrin to Gwinnett after Thursday night’s game. The Braves want to trade for at least one veteran reliever before the July 31 trade deadline, and want to see how effective Ayala can be before determining their needs. “I want to get back to the routine, to pitch every day,” Ayala said. “It’s going to take a little time, but I’ll try to do my best. The good thing is, mentally and physically I’m healthy. I got excited today. I got the call last night to go up. I’m happy right now.” Ayala said he was worried when he was hospitalized in Denver after feeling shaky during an April 24 game. The right-hander had been told he had high blood pressure, and was soon diagnosed with anxiety disorder. He said doctors later told him he had a bacterial infection near his stomach, which he said was why he lost eight pounds. “At the beginning they just say anxiety disorder, but they didn’t know yet,” he said. “They found the bacteria. I was so weak. I didn’t feel any energy when I’d wake up. I finally (got healthy) taking the pills and then a good rehab. It took a long time. “Now I come to the field with a lot of energy. Everything is back to normal. I’m so happy, because when I was sick, you’ve got bad things on your mind.” Ayala had a total of 11 rehab appearances at Double-A Mississippi and Gwinnett, after his first rehab stint was halted until he regained strength. In seven appearances with the Braves before his illness, he had a 5.40 ERA and .286 opponents’ average, with seven strikeouts and three walks in 6-2/3 innings.Gearrin got off to a strong start and had a 0.86 ERA and .211 opponents’ average after his first 26 appearances through May 25. But in 11 appearances since then, the rookie had a 9.90 ERA and .366 opponents’ average, allowing 15 hits, 11 runs and 10 walks with eight strikeouts in 10 innings. He gave up multiple runs in four of those games.

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Voters May Be Wising Up A voter’s politics were on display in Waynesburg, Pa.CreditCreditMaranie Staab/Reuters There’s no mystery about the Republican agenda. For at least the past 40 years, the G.O.P.’s central policy goal has been upward redistribution of income: lower taxes for the wealthy, big cuts in programs that help the poor and the middle class. We’ve seen that agenda at work in the policies of every Republican president from Reagan to Trump, every budget proposal from party stars like Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House. This policy agenda is, however, deeply unpopular. Only small minorities of voters favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations; even smaller minorities favor cuts in major social programs. So how does the G.O.P. stay politically competitive? The answer is that the party has mastered the tactics of bait and switch: pretending to stand for one thing, then doing something quite different in office. But if special elections in the Trump era are any indication, voters are wising up. Rick Saccone, the Republican candidate in a deep-red Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by almost 20 points, tried not one, not two, but three different bait-and-switch strategies. And on Tuesday he still seems to have suffered a hair-thin defeat. At first, Republicans tried to sell their candidate by touting the 2017 tax cuts, which they portrayed as a boon to the middle class. This was classic Bush-era strategy: The Trump tax cuts, like the Bush tax cuts, did indeed offer some temporary relief to middle-class families, although they offered far more to the wealthy. What makes this a bait and switch is the hard truth that tax cuts must, eventually, be paid for — in fact, people like Ryan barely waited for the ink on the tax bill to dry before proclaiming that social programs must be cut to reduce the budget deficit the tax cuts will do so much to inflate. And under any plausible allocation of the spending cuts needed to offset lost revenue, the tax cuts will leave most Americans worse off (while, of course, benefiting the top 1 percent). The thing is, voters seem to have realized this. Republican groups pretty much stopped running ads about the tax cuts weeks before the election, apparently concluding that they weren’t gaining much traction. And election night polling suggests that health care — specifically, opposition to G.O.P. efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act — was a key issue in PA-18. If tax cuts won’t sell, how about tariffs? In 2016 Trump portrayed himself as a different kind of Republican, an economic populist who would stand up for the little guy. In practice, he has been utterly orthodox except for one thing, his willingness to break with free trade. And it’s possible that he announced steel tariffs partly in an effort to swing a district in what used to be steel country. Or he may have been trying to steal Stormy Daniels’s thunder. With Trump, you never know. Anyway, it didn’t work, perhaps because many Pennsylvania voters realize that steel country isn’t what it used to be, and the old days aren’t coming back. These days there are about 10 times as many hospital workers as steel workers in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area — and surely at least some voters realize that G.O.P. efforts to slash health care threaten their jobs as well as their coverage. Finally, Republicans pulled out their old standby: trying to distract voters from their economic agenda by appealing to racial, cultural and religious enmity. That’s what Ed Gillespie tried in the Virginia gubernatorial race, and in this latest campaign Saccone proclaimed that Democrats are motivated by “hatred for our country” and “hatred of God.” But it didn’t work either time. Why not? One answer may be that despite the eruptions of racism and anti-Semitism under Trump, America is on the whole a far more tolerant country than it used to be. But there are also Trump-specific issues. It’s hard for Republicans to pose as the party of patriotism while slavishly defending a man who holds office in part thanks to Russian intervention, and seems almost eager to demonstrate that he really is Vladimir Putin’s puppet. And despite receiving overwhelming support from white evangelicals — which tells you something about the state of conservative Christianity — Trump is surely the least godly man ever to occupy the White House. So the upset in Pennsylvania wasn’t just a harbinger of likely Democratic gains to come. It also showed the bankruptcy of all the political strategies Republicans have used to distract voters from an unpopular agenda. Yet I have to admit that while the wising-up of American voters is deeply encouraging, it also makes me nervous. History says that Republicans won’t change course, because they never do. They’ll just look for bigger distractions. And with everyone who showed even an occasional sense of responsibility leaving the Trump administration, you have to wonder what comes next. In particular, regimes in trouble — like, say, the Argentine junta in the 1980s — often try to rally the public with dangerous foreign policy adventurism. Are you sure that Trump won’t go that route? Really sure?

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Collinwood Care Center Inspection Results Collinwood Care Center has been cited for 26 deficiencies in our most recent deficiency data (Tip: Surveys happen throughout the year and you may want to check with the location to see if there is more recent data available). There are 1188 nursing homes in Texas with a total of 41009 deficiencies resulting in an average of 34.52 deficiencies per nursing home. Date of Survey Date of Correction Deficiency 2012-07-11 2012-07-13 Use a registered nurse at least 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. 2012-07-11 2012-08-06 Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Provide a safe, clean, comfortable and home-like environment; and allow residents to use personal belongings to the extent possible. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Develop a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Prepare food that is nutritional, appetizing, tasty, attractive, well-cooked, and at the right temperature. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Provide routine and emergency drugs through a licensed pharmacist and only under the general supervision of a licensed nurse. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Have a detailed, written plan for disasters and emergencies, such as fire, severe weather, and missing residents. 2013-01-31 2013-03-15 Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading. 2015-01-14 2015-01-30 Special areas constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system. 2015-01-14 2015-01-30 Exits that are accessible at all times. 2015-01-14 2015-02-15 A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility. 2015-01-14 2015-01-30 Proper medical gas storage and administration areas. 2015-01-14 2015-01-30 Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment. 2014-01-06 Exits that are accessible at all times. 2014-01-06 Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours. 2014-01-06 Properly working alarms on sprinkler valves. 2013-01-30 2013-03-15 Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. 2013-01-30 2013-03-15 Walls that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour. 2013-01-30 2013-01-30 Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes. 2013-01-30 2013-03-15 Special areas constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system. 2013-01-30 2013-03-15 Exits that are accessible at all times. 2013-01-30 2013-03-15 Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order. 2013-01-30 2013-02-01 Portable fire extinguishers. 2013-01-30 2013-03-15 Heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Jailbreak, Root or Unlock Your Smartphone - FAQ Thanks to We the People, a government website that makes petitioning the White House easy and straightforward, concerned American citizens have gotten responses to everything from gun violence to the feasibility of building a Death Star. One petition in March 2013 implored President Barack Obama to legalize the unlocking of smartphones — a move that would allow consumers to transfer phone service from one wireless provider to another. The citizens got their way, with some caveats. The White House said it will work with the Library of Congress (which, oddly, has responsibility for this matter) to make sure that users, not phone companies, have control over the devices that the customers purchased. In practical terms, does this mean that you'll be able to break free of Apple's carefully curated App Store? Not necessarily. That's "jailbreaking," which is different from unlocking. And then there's "rooting," which applies only to Android phones. If you're confused, you're not alone. This primer provides a breakdown of what you can and can't do with your phone, at least until the White House says otherwise. Why do the White House and the Library of Congress get to decide how consumers use their gadgets in the first place? It's a long story, written almost entirely in legalese. In a nutshell, Congress passed legislation in 1998 called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This law states that tampering with software is a form of copyright infringement, which places implementation of, and exemption from, the DMCA under the purview of the Library of Congress. Jailbreaking, rooting, unlocking or otherwise tampering with a phone's operating system requires a pretty big system overhaul. In effect, users require special permission from the Library of Congress to modify their phones. What is jailbreaking? Jailbreaking is the most narrowly defined procedure of the three, but arguably the most useful — if you have an Apple device, anyway. An iPhone in its natural state can only run the way Apple intended. Consumers must accept Apple's user interface, cannot examine the phone's file system and can only download applications from Apple's official App Store. Apps available for jailbroken phones, on the other hand, include classic video game emulators, software that removes Apple's size limits for 3G/4G downloads, and themes that radically change the form and function of the iPhone's home screen and menus. How do I jailbreak an iPhone? Jailbreaking an iPhone can be a complicated process. Hackers like to stay ahead of the curve, though, and users can now get their hands on free software, such as evasi0n, that automates the procedure. Best of all, the Library of Congress has exempted this process from DMCA prohibitions following the We the People petition. Can you jailbreak an Android phone? There's no need. Android users don't have to jailbreak their phones, because Android devices already allow multiple sources for apps: Google, Amazon, Verizon and user-distributed, just to name a few. If Android users want to download and install untested, potentially dangerous third-party apps, that's their prerogative (and, in some cases, risk). Can you jailbreak other kinds of phones? Users can also jailbreak other devices, such as Windows Phones and BlackBerrys, but the benefits aren't as obvious. The regular app selection on these platforms is anemic compared to those offered by Apple and Android, and the unofficial app selection is even weaker. What is rooting? Some Android users perform a different operation, and "root" their phones. This makes it possible for users to get rid of preinstalled apps, such as Kindle, Blockbuster and Zappos, which wireless companies often stick on new phones. Phone owners can also install the latest versions of the Android OS (without waiting for their carrier to make it available) and even turn their phones into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots without paying an extra fee. Is rooting phones legal? Like jailbreaking iPhones, rooting Android phones is also exempted from the DMCA. However, both jailbreaking and rooting may void a phone's warranty. If you want to "unroot" an Android phone or undo a jailbreak on an iPhone before returning the device, it's only a little more difficult than rooting or jailbreaking the phone in the first place. What is unlocking a phone? Most phones are tethered to a certain provider: Buy a phone through an AT&T contract, and it won't run on T-Mobile. Unlocking phones allows users to make use of any mobile carrier willing to offer service, provided that the wireless technology is compatible. (AT&T and T-Mobile are compatible because they run on the GSM standard; Verizon and Sprint are compatible because they use the CDMA standard. Other carrier combinations are generally not compatible, but there are exceptions.) How can I unlock a phone? You can't, but your carrier can. AT&T, for example, will unlock any phone at the end of a user's contract. "We will unlock your device if that's what you'd like once you've fulfilled the terms of your service agreement," said Mark Siegel, executive director of media relations at AT&T. "If you bring an unlocked device that'll work on our network, we'll provide you a SIM and set up your service." Is it legal to unlock my phone? Unlike jailbreaking and rooting, it's not strictly legal for users to unlock their own phones in the United States. While the Library of Congress ruled that buying and selling older unlocked phones is OK, it is not legal to unlock phones purchased after January 2013. If the president gets his way, however, the Library of Congress may be forced to change its tune. "The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other penalties," wrote R. David Edelman, a White House senior adviser for Internet, innovation and policy, in a reply to the petition. For now, the Library of Congress seems willing to work with the president. In other words, hang on to your preferred phone, but don't unlock it just yet.

Location, Location, Location With Apple Maps, Google Maps, Uber, and a range of location-based apps and wearables, we are getting a real understanding of consumer travel patterns in the physical world. What is the impact of this? What would you do with this information that was never before possible? In digital signage we are seeing a trend towards instrumentation and measurement analysis. It used to measure traffic, linger times, and to calculate ROIs of particular installations or campaigns. Combine this with mobile and location data, and point of sale retail data, and we start to have a complete impact on how signage affects purchase behavior.

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Ecuador Facts for Kids On the north, Ecuador is bordered by Colombia while on the eastern and the southern side it is bounded by Peru. On the western side of Ecuador there is the Pacific Ocean, whereby some of its islands known as the Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean. These islands stretch about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) along the western side of the mainland. Ecuador is one of the two countries located in South America that does not share a border with Brazil. The currencies used in this country are the United States Dollar and the Ecuadorian Centavo Coins. The capital city of Ecuador is known as Quito. The total number of people living in Quito city is estimated to be approximately 2, 671,191 people according to the 2014 census. Quito is elevated about 2,850 meters (9, 350 feet) above the sea level making it the second most elevated city in the world. Officially Quito is known as San Francisco de Quito. The tallest mountain in Ecuador is Mount Chimborazo which has a height of 6,268 meters. The mountain is located on the bulge of the equator making it the point in the world that is nearest to the sun. The summit of the mountain is the farthest place from the core of the earth making Ecuador the closest nation on earth to the space. The longest river in Ecuador is Napo River which covers a total distance of 1,075 kilometers. Other major rivers found in Ecuador are Curaray River (800 km), Pastaza River (710 km), Aguarico River (390 km), Esmeraldas River (320 kilometer) and Guayllabamba (240 km) among others. The total number of people of living in Ecuador is estimated to be approximately 16.39 million as per 2016. The ethnic composition of Ecuador is made of Mestizo which are the majority making up of 72 percent of the total population, followed by Montubio with 7 percent and African Ecuadorian with 7 percent. Also the Native South American comprise 7 percent of the total population. Ecuador is the only country on earth whose name was derived from a geographical feature. Its name is derived from the equator which passes through this country. Formally the country was called Republica Del Ecuador which can be interpreted as The Republic of the Equator. The landscape of Ecuador is of three types, namely the Sierra which is made up of the highlands found in the central region, the tropical forests belonging to the Oriente and the grasslands found in the coastline region. The climatic conditions in the western region of Ecuador are generally warm with an average temperature of about 25 degrees while the shoreline region receives rainfall between the month of January and April. This period is also characterized by hot temperatures. The official language spoken in Ecuador is Spanish. The second widely spoken languages in Ecuador are the Shuar which is spoken by the Quechuan language family and the Kichwa which is spoken by the Jiyoroan language family. Other indigenous languages used in Ecuador are Zaparo, Tetete, Siona, Secova, Embera, Cofan, Cha’palaachi, Awa-Cuaiquer and Achwa-Shiriwa. Among these indigenous languages the Awa-Cuaiquer is the most spoken one. Ecuador is the world leading exporter of bananas. Natural resources found in Ecuador are petroleum, timber and hydropower resources. 91.95 percent of the people who live in Ecuador submit to a certain religion. The Catholics are the majority with 80.44 percent while 11.30 percent are Protestants. About 1.29 percent of the people follow the Jehovah’s Witnesses doctrine while 6.97 percent follow other religions such as Islam and Hinduism among others. 7.94 percent of the people believe do not believe in existence of any deities while 0.11 percent believe the existence of supernatural powers is unknown. Ecuador was colonized by the Spanish people but attained their self-independence on the 10th August of 1809. Today, the president is the head of government in Ecuador. Ecuador has two World Heritage Sites which were created by the UNESCO in 1978. There two are The Galapagos Islands and The City of Quito. Three more sites were added afterwards which are Sangay National Park which was established in 1983, The Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca which was founded in 1999 and the Qhapaq Nan, Andean Road System which was opened in 2014. The total area covered by Ecuador is 283,560 kilometer square whereby the dry land covers a total area of 276,841 kilometer Square. The water bodies in this country occupies a total area of 6,720 kilometers square.

Professor John Brewer, Queen’s University, at the U2 Conference 2018 John Brewer is Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. He was awarded an Honorary DSocSci from Brunel University and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, St. John’s College, Oxford, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, and the Australia National University. He has been President of the British Sociological Association. He is Honorary Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University and is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts. He is the author or co-author of sixteen books and editor or co-editor of a further six.

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Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) Located in the suburbs of Boston, Brandeis is a small (3300 students) research university that offers a unique niche between the small liberal arts college and the larger research university. It is a young institution, founded in 1948 to provide a top-notch universe for minority groups that were suffering from the quota system in place at Ivy League and other universities. A number of prominent Jewish figures were associated with its founding, including Albert Einstein, and Jewish students made up a majority of the students for many years. While that influence is still felt, Brandeis is today a diverse institution that attracts students from around the country and around the world (15% international from 86 countries). What these students usually share is Brandeis' mission of social justice, an idealistic mindset and support for volunteerism. Majors range from traditional liberal arts disciplines to unique programs like investigative journalism (one of only three in the country) and film/television/media analysis. 55% of students study abroad and Brandeis leads the nation in sending students outside of Western Europe. Most students live on campus, including in one of the dorms that is a real-life castle (see pictures). Students don't miss a Greek system, since there are 260 clubs on campus, including skydiving and quidditch, and Boston is only a short commuter train ride away. Waltham itself is a restaurant center of the Boston suburbs. Students considering small-medium sized universities like Vanderbilt or Emory should definitely take a peek at Brandeis. K

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Post navigation Must Read: The Chemical Industry’s Big Fat Liar on Flame Retardants The Chicago Tribune just published a long investigative story on how the chemical industry’s star witness in support of chemical flame retardants has been making up terrible stories about burned babies to support these harmful laws. It’s a great piece of reporting. Here’s an excerpt: “Now this is a tiny little person, no bigger than my Italian greyhound at home,” said Heimbach, gesturing to approximate the baby’s size. “Half of her body was severely burned. She ultimately died after about three weeks of pain and misery in the hospital.” Heimbach’s passionate testimony about the baby’s death made the long-term health concerns about flame retardants voiced by doctors, environmentalists and even firefighters sound abstract and petty. But there was a problem with his testimony: It wasn’t true. Records show there was no dangerous pillow or candle fire. The baby he described didn’t exist. Neither did the 9-week-old patient who Heimbach told California legislators died in a candle fire in 2009. Nor did the 6-week-old patient who he told Alaska lawmakers was fatally burned in her crib in 2010. Heimbach is not just a prominent burn doctor. He is a star witness for the manufacturers of flame retardants.” Today, scientists know that some flame retardants escape from household products and settle in dust. That’s why toddlers, who play on the floor and put things in their mouths, generally have far higher levels of these chemicals in their bodies than their parents. Blood levels of certain widely used flame retardants doubled in adults every two to five years between 1970 and 2004. More recent studies show levels haven’t declined in the U.S. even though some of the chemicals have been pulled from the market. A typical American baby is born with the highest recorded concentrations of flame retardants among infants in the world. The article also confirms that for those of us interested in organic foods, having a sofa free of chemicals should actually be a far bigger concern in terms of chemical exposure: The amount of flame retardants in a typical American home isn’t measured in parts per billion or parts per million. It’s measured in ounces and pounds. A large couch can have up to 2 pounds in its foam cushions. The chemicals also are inside some highchairs, diaper-changing pads and breast-feeding pillows. Recyclers turn chemically treated foam into the padding underneath carpets. “When we’re eating organic, we’re avoiding very small amounts of pesticides,” said Arlene Blum, a California chemist who has fought to limit flame retardants in household products. “Then we sit on our couch that can contain a pound of chemicals that’s from the same family as banned pesticides like DDT.” The article provides detailed proof that the “Fire Safety” group that goes from state to state with its road show in support of flame retardants is also a liar — in sum, nothing but a deceptive front group for the chemical companies.

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Gun-Banner Kim Kardashian Robbed By Armed Men In Gun-Free Paris Reality TV “star” and anti-gun zealot Kim Kardashian was robbed of more than $10 million worth of jewelry by armed robbers Sunday night in the gun-free utopia of Paris, TMZ reports. According to reports, a gang of five armed men disguised themselves as police, threatened the concierge and made him open the door to Kardashian’s room, where they bound her with handcuffs and tape, put her in a bathtub, and made off with her jewelry box and her $4.5 million, 20-carat diamond ring. After the robbery, Kardashian fled Paris in her private jet. If an out-of-touch millionaire elitist like Kim Kardashian isn’t safe from crime, despite being able to afford 24/7 security—even in a place like Paris, whose gun bans she would presumably like to see imposed on all of us—can any of us mere mortals feel safe? Maybe Kardashian should butt out of our lives and worry about her own security. WSJ: Federal Agents Are Scanning License Plates Of Gun Show Attendees On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has been enlisting local California police to scan the license plates of cars at gun shows since 2010. License plate scanning technology can record thousands of plates an hour, and is increasingly used by law enforcement to search for fugitives and missing children. However, John Chigos, CEO of PlateSmart Technologies, called mass scanning of plates at gun shows “an abuse of the technology.” Through a FOIA request, the WSJ obtained ICE emails revealing the request for assistance: “We would like to see if you can support an outbound guns/ammo operation on (redacted) at the Crossroads (Del Mar) Gun Show. We would like to deploy license plate readers.” The Del Mar Gun Show typically draws 6,000 to 9,000 customers. “I think my customers would be resentful of having been the target of that kind of surveillance,” said Del Mar Gun Show CEO Bob Templeton. Amid rising violent crime rates and fears about the outcome of the upcoming elections, gun owners in New York are applying for pistol permits in record numbers. By September of this year, 130 Albany County residents had applied for pistol permits. That’s as many applicants as in all of 2014, and double the number from 2015. “We’re getting rocked with applications,” Sheriff Craig Apple said. While applications have been rising for years in Columbia County, Sheriff David Bartlett reported a 186-percent surge during six months of 2016. From January-June, 515 permits were processed, nearly double the 290 processed in all of 2014. Rensselaer County also had about 300 applications in 2014. But this year, the county is on pace to process over 1,000, prompting Rensselaer County Sheriff Patrick Russo to hire a full-time officer to process permits. Russo said many applicants cite the fear of a Hillary Clinton presidency as their reason for applying: “People are afraid if they don’t get a pistol permit now, they won’t be able to get it later.” Bass Pro/Cabela’s Deal Reached The rumors have been swirling for months, and now the official announcement has been made—Bass Pro Shops will indeed purchase outdoor gear retail competitor Cabela’s. The companies announced on Monday that Bass Pro Shops will acquire Cabela’s for $65.50 per share in cash, representing an aggregate transaction value of approximately $5.5 billion. According to the release announcing the acquisition, Bass Pro Shops, headquartered in Springfield, Mo., will “celebrate and grow” the Cabela's brand. “The essence of both Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s is a deep passion to serve outdoor enthusiasts and support conservation,” the announcement stated. “The combination brings together three of the nation's premier sporting brands: Cabela’s, a leader in hunting; Bass Pro Shops, a leader in fishing; and White River Marine Group, a worldwide leader in boating, which is part of Bass Pro Shops.” Bass Pro Shops has nearly 100 stores and 20,000 employees. Cabela's has about 85 stores and about 19,000 employees. Would-Be Armed Robbers Held At Gunpoint By Good Samaritan A would-be robbery at a Houston area AutoZone was thwarted by an armed good Samaritan. According to Harris County sheriff’s deputies, three male suspects entered the store with guns around 9 p.m. Friday night and demanded cash from the register. A customer, who had a concealed handgun permit, saw the incident unfolding as he drove up to the store and decided to step in and help. The customer pulled out his firearm and ordered all three men to drop their weapons and get on the ground, holding them until deputies arrived on the scene.

Visitors to Prospect Park’s Parade Ground this summer will see colorful murals with meaningful messages on social issues. Last Wednesday, students from eight Brooklyn schools unveiled the artwork on benches near the entrance of the Parade Ground. The “Benchmarks Exhibition” was created by the Center for Educational Innovation (CEI), a Manhattan-based nonprofit whose mission is to guarantee a quality education for every student. Thirty schools from across the five boroughs participated in the program, serving up to 750 public school students. They showcased all 30 bench murals last month at Washington Square Park. Alexandra Leff, CEI’s director of Arts Education, said the Benchmarks program is designed to inspire youth to express themselves on various social issues through art. “We felt that it was really important for young people to join the conversation and to be able to have a voice on these issues that affect them as well,” she said. CEI teaching artists began working with the students in January to explore potential ideas. After students voted on the issue they felt most passionately about, they began researching facts and information about the issue. The teaching artists then collaborated with the students to translate those messages into images and texts for the murals, Leff said. The bench murals are now stationed at a public space in each of the five boroughs until mid-September, when they will be returned back to participating schools. Leff said the program is geared toward students in grades five through nine, which is the age when kids are going through “a point of transition.” “It also connects with social studies curriculum because they’re studying contemporary economic, social and political issues,” she said. The murals at Prospect Park reflect a broad range of issues, from homelessness to bullying and racism. Jada Clover, a sixth-grade student at PS 36 in East New York, said their mural was about homelessness and drug addiction. “It’s a big issue we have in New York and we wanted to bring awareness to it,” she said. Clover said through this project, she learned how to work together with classmates and communicate. She also learned that drugs can “mess up your life.” “I hope one day, someone who’s feeling down can look at our bench and then get happy, and feel like they’re worth it,” she said. Andersen Lin and Brian Cen from PS 771 in Brighton Beach made a “friendship train” mural inspired by the New York City subway system. “It reminds people to be kind and friendly toward one another,” Lin said. Chelsea Chambers, a seventh-grader at Meyer Levin School in East Flatbush, said her school’s mural represented the two sides of homelessness. On one side was a town full of homeless people, who were struggling to get by. The other side was a town without homelessness. Chambers said she learned from the project that “anyone can become homeless at any time.” “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you have, you can become homeless,” she said. “We need to help each other out.”

Together again The Downtown Association and Farmers' Association kiss and make up REUNITED : Venders at SLO farmers’ market are once again represented by their own association The Farmers’ Association and the Downtown Association have decided they are better living together than apart. The reconciliation was formally announced at an early morning Downtown Association meeting on Feb. 9. Both sides pledged to communicate better. Everything seems tidy and back to normal now that the boards of the two organizations spent a weekend hashing out a one-year contract they said will ensure the Thursday night farmers’ market in SLO City will continue as usual. The reconciliation comes after weeks of squabbling between two sides that could not be more different. Well-dressed business owners faced off against farmers, many of whom protested at the city council with dirt under their fingernails from the fields they had worked that day. The public on hand sided overwhelmingly with the farmers. As one city councilman said, “You don’t fool with mom, apple pie, or farmers, obviously.” The break up began Jan.14 when the Downtown Association told farmers it would take over management of the produce section at Thursday night farmers’ market from the Farmers’ Association in two weeks. The truce between townies and farmers came about only after a blitzkrieg of advertisements bombarded local media. The ads inspired a massive crowd to appear at the Feb. 2 City Council meeting, pressuring a usually docile governing body to “suggest” the two factions compromise. Though Mayor Romero said the council held no real sway in the conflict, the public cramming the chamber reminded the council that the city extracted an estimated $216,000 this year from downtown businesses and gave it to the Downtown Association. All of the city council members said they had never received so many e-mails and phone calls on any issue. Immediately after the meeting, a rumor swirled among the audience, city officials, and the city council that Ernie Diladio, a longtime target of the Downtown Association’s ire, had financed the farmers’ expensive and effective ad campaign. A few days after the meeting, the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce sent an e-mail claiming a certain rancher had financed the farmers’ media campaign. Suspicions were raised because the Farmers’ Association used Barnett Cox & Associates to coordinate the ad campaign, the same agency Dalidio used in the past. Dalidio denied he had anything to do with the Farmers’ ads, as did Dave Cox, the chief operating officer of Barnett Cox & Associates. “It’s utter nonsense,” Cox said about the rumors. “Its absurd that anyone would say that.” The same day as the Feb. 2 city council meeting, a federal judge ordered Dalidio to pay the legal expenses of both the Downtown Association and the Responsible County Development, a company that fought against Measure J, the referendum that cleared the way for the development of Dalidio’s property. Dalidio had sued both entities, alleging unlawful opposition to the development of his ranch just outside the city limits under a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute. A federal judge ruled the lawsuit a strategic lawsuit against public participation (called a SLAPP in legal terms) and ruled Dalidio had to pay the Downtown Association $34,687 and $55,883.92 to the Responsible County Development, LLC: $90,570.92 in all. The city gets the Downtown Association’s share: it was still part of the city when the law suit was filed. Both sides trace the conflict back to last summer when the Downtown Association moved farmers from one side of Higuera Street to the other in front of the renovated Wineman Hotel where the city had extended the sidewalk, eliminating five parking spots. The farmers were consequently required to unload their goods on the other side of the street and park their trucks elsewhere. That may seem trivial to non-farmers but unpacking hundreds of pounds of produce and finding a parking place are serious chores. Peter Jankay, administrator of the Farmers’ Association, said the Downtown Association wanted to move the farmers to Morro Street, which he called “an economic dead zone.” Jankay said he had resigned from the Downtown Association Promotions Committee because he had no say in what happened to farmers. He said the committee was a rubber stamp for the decisions of the Downtown Association. “I felt there was no use to me being there,” Jankay explained. The next time anyone outside of the Downtown Association heard about the subject was January 14 when the Downtown Association handed out flyers to farmers at the Thursday night farmers’ market. The Downtown Association was shocked at the public response. Deborah Cash, administrative director of the Downtown Association, said she is glad relations have returned to normal. Cash bore the brunt of backlash from the takeover: Some of the Farmers’ Association supporters had badges with a picture of Cash’s face and the label “Obey”. Cash said she regrets the way everything unfolded and pledged to approach matters differently. She said she believes the market will be better for all of the conflict. “When it comes down to it, we all want to same thing,” Cash reflected. “It just made me realize how important Thursday night farmers’ market is to people; how it makes people happy.” Staff Writer Robert A. McDonald can be contacted at rmcdonald@newtimesslo.com.

The Art Gallery (Bootle): Facing the City The portrait exhibition is a personal response from artists from many cities who record and create in an imaginative way the world and the people around us. Each person is an individual and also quite interesting. In these times of hardship, holding on to our identity has become more important than ever. People deserve respect and to be appreciated for who they are in all walks of life.

Blockchain startup LiquidShare has announced its partnership with ConsenSys’ PegaSys team for its blockchain-based post-trade settlement infrastructure. Founded in 2017, LiquidShare is an independent startup launched by major European Institutions – BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale – with the objective of developing a European post-trading blockchain infrastructure for the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) market. The Paris-based startup has developed an Ethereum-based private and permissioned platform, with the business logic coded in smart contracts to model their cash, security, and delivery versus payment mechanisms. It will allow peer-to-peer to settlement between custodian nodes for listed and non-listed shares, removing friction costs and improving transparency for SMEs. In collaboration with ConsenSys, LiquidShare successfully executed pilots with 15 financial institutions, including BNP Paribas and Société Générale as custodians, at the end of 2018. PegaSys, on the other hand, is developing Pantheon – a Java-based enterprise version of the Ethereum client with greater transaction throughput, privacy, and specialized validation features that go beyond what the Ethereum 1.0 base layer can currently offer. Through the partnership with PegaSys, LiquidShare aims to leverage Pantheon’s advanced enterprise features and enter its production phase by the end of this year. LiquidShare said that all of its services will be fully compatible with Ethereum. “We are building the gold-standard for enterprise blockchain that can support multiple use cases in a private blockchain, and also have the possibility of leveraging the advantages of the public Ethereum blockchain. LiquidShare is one of the most advanced use cases in the financial industry, and we are excited to work with them on bringing production systems to market,” Daniel Heyman, PegaSys Program Director, said.

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Train Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1994. The band currently comprises a core trio of Patrick Monahan (vocals), Jimmy Stafford (guitar, vocals) and Scott Underwood (drums, percussion). Train, with a line-up that included original members Rob Hotchkiss and Charlie Colin, as well as Monahan, Stafford and Underwood, achieved mainstream success with their debut album, Train, which was released in 1998 with the hit "Meet Virginia". Their second album, Drops of Jupiter (2001), brought the band massive popularity. The lead single from the album, "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)", was an international hit and won two Grammy Awards in 2002. The album was certified double platinum in the United States and Canada and remains the band's best-selling album to date. Their third studio album, My Private Nation, released in 2003, continued the band's success, and was certified platinum in the United States with the hit "Calling All Angels". Following the departures of Hotchkiss and Colin, the band released their fourth album, For Me, It's You in 2006, with Johnny Colt on bass and Brandon Bush on keys. Despite a generally positive reception from critics, the album was commercially unsuccessful. Train then went on a three-year hiatus. What people are saying about Train This area is intended for discussion only. If you have a question about your order, or require customer service you can get in touch via our Customer Service Area. Comments enquiring about existing orders, including personal details, or with questions will be deleted.

After its untimely death last year, carbon tax is back in the Rhode Island legislature. On March 7, the Energize RI sent out an email: The Energize RI Act is about to take a big step forward: the hearing in front of the House Environment and Natural Resources Committee is planned for March 10th at the Rise of the House (details below). We need you to support the bill alongside over fifteen expert witnesses who will be demonstrating why carbon pricing is a win-win solution. Read on to learn more about the hearing, or shoot us an email, and we’ll help you draft your own testimony for the bill. The goals of the bill are admirable: (4) Reduce public health, public safety, economic, and natural resource impairment risks associated with climate change; and (5) Meet the state emissions goals for 2035 as set by the “Resilient Rhode Island Act” in 2014. Fortunately, the bill has various provisions that will address the problem that Camus summed up as: “It is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.” To put it differently: we should be taxing the upper income brackets at the 1950s level of more than 90%. The carbon tax collected under the Energize RI Act will be used as follows: 25% will be used for climate resilience, energy efficiency and conservation, and renewable energy programs that benefit low-income residential and small business properties. If you want to maximize the economic benefit of those carbon tax revenues, it is widely known that public spending/investment is a better approach. Multipliers for public investment are much higher than for tax cuts. One may wonder whether, as is the case in Connecticut, installing more natural gas will be counted as part of item #1: “Switching to natural gas couldn’t be easier,” Evensource advises its customers and then refers them to the Green Bank for financing. Would you put something like that past Governor Raimondo’s step-on-the-natural-gas Office of Energy Resources? It’s wonderful to see that we are having this discussion and that our legislators continue to think seriously about how to deal with climate change. I certainly appreciate the efforts of the sponsors of the Energize RI Act, Representatives Regunberg, Handy, Carson, Tobon, and Bennett. Undoubtedly, experts will testify about the success of British Columbia’s carbon neutral tax bill. Before we get too excited about an attempt to duplicate the BC success story in RI, it might help to look at the following graph, which is from a post with the ominous title “British Columbia’s Carbon Tax and ‘Leakage’ Into the U.S.” The chart makes it clear that there was a giant surge in Canadian vehicles crossing from British Columbia into the United States (solid red line) starting shortly after introduction of the BC carbon tax (in mid-2008). If this kind of leakage occurs in British Columbia, what do you expect for a small state like Rhode Island? The only feature of the bill that might avoid this problem is the tax itself: $15 per ton of CO2e. That boils down to ¢13 per gallon of gas. No sane person would believe that such a minimal tax will even remotely phase out fossil fuels. The bill may start a trend that might be followed by neighboring states, which indeed is the only way to avoid the “leakage” problem. But, if setting a trend is the idea, it better be the right trend and this is the major problem with this bill. It contains a tax for methane that escapes unburned even out of state. That the bill recognizes this problem is a majors step forward, but the details matter. Getting so-called fugitive methane completely wrong is precisely why the national Clean Power Plan is a disaster. To tax fugitive methane, the Energize RI Act will rely on numbers provided by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The RI Office of Energy Resources, which will be responsible for the implementation of this part of the Energize RI Act, will rely on bad EIA numbers. Even this February’s EPA publication (see page E13, line 13) still uses outdated numbers for the global warming potential of methane and amortizes its effect over next century. We only have about a decade, if even, to avoid a climate catastrophe. For more about time scales and the fugitive methane problem see Precaution the new aggression. The EPA has a long history of underestimating fugitive methane. The upshot of these errors is that the Energize RI Act might set a trend of under-taxing fugitive methane by roughly a factor ten. Exxon Mobil —#ExxonKnew, our nation’s biggest fracker— undoubtedly loves this trend! None of this should come as a surprise: the head of EPA has been a political appointee since its inception in 1970. The good news is that I’ve been told that, if the Act is passed this year, its sponsors will try to amend it to fix the flaw in the present act. Peter Nightingale is a theoretical physicist and teaches at the University of Rhode Island. He strives to leave behind a more just and peaceful, sustainable post-capitalist world for future generations, and his children and grandchildren in particular. http://www.phys.uri.edu/nigh/ @Peter_Night https://www.facebook.com/nighster

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The study seeks to determine if Crestor can stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes that affect cell growth. The trial will also determine if Crestor can keep new colon tumors from forming after surgery to remove a patient's initial colon cancer. The study, entitled, "P-5: Statin Polyp Prevention Trial in Patients with Resected Colon Cancer," is conducted under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute by a network of cancer research professionals, the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP). It takes place at more than 200 medical centers throughout North America. "Previous epidemiological studies looking back at patient data associated with statin use indicate these drugs lower the risk of colorectal cancer, but the evidence remains controversial," says Bruce Boman, M.D., Ph.D., study protocol chair. "Earlier studies were designed to investigate lipid-lowering or cardiovascular endpoints over the short-term rather than tumor development in the long run." Dr. Boman is director of Cancer Genetics at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center's Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment Program. He is also a scientist at the Center for Translational Cancer Research who investigates how cancer stem cells drive tumor growth. The study aims to recruit 1,740 patients who have recently been diagnosed with early stage colon cancer and who were not already taking statins for high cholesterol. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. Each group will take one pill a day for five years. One group will receive Rosuvastatin, the other a placebo. Investigators also will look at participants with a family history of colorectal cancer and those who take a daily low or high dose of aspirin. Previous studies indicate non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including aspirin, and statin drugs, like Crestor, work together. Further evidence of this relationship could support reducing doses to improve the risk and benefits of these two types of drugs. People recently diagnosed with a Stage I or II colon cancer and interested in the study can call the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center's Research Office at 302-623-4550. A list of other participating sites is at the trial website. Available Topic Expert(s): For information on the listed expert(s), click appropriate link. (Date:12/8/2016)... 2016 Bodycad announced it has been ... accuracy, reproducibility and speed for 3D constructs via ... bone orthopaedic applications. These patents are critical to ... restorations based on each patient,s distinct anatomy. ... harnesses the world,s first suite of orthopaedic CAD/CAM ...

The #1 place to get music lists on the internet. Where most lists go to ten, I'll do them one better and go to eleven. Some of the lists will be a "best of" (the good), some will be a "worst of" (the bad), and some lists will focus on unknown bands and music (the unknown). Pages Saturday, April 05, 2014 The 11 Unknown Tracks By Kurt Cobain Twenty years have passed since the death of Kurt Cobain. That's four times longer than the ever brief career of Nirvana. In that period of time, Kurt Cobain's legend has grown. His antics have been intensified. His creative vision has become iconic. As they say, Immortality is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. In 1991, Nirvana was the right band at the right time. As legendary as Cobain has become in the lore of rock n roll, there remains a strong resistance against him and the quality of his music. He's been called overrated, generic, and untalented. I don't think any other artist out there who is loved and admired by millions is as hated as much as Cobain is. The question I always wonder...is why? It's one thing to not like the music of Nirvana. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Music is a personal journey and everyone's journey takes them somewhere different. What I don't understand is how many people will flat out deny that Nirvana is influential, groundbreaking or an important part of rock history. I think most people's adversity to Cobain is because everything about him was the complete opposite of what a rock star should be. He dressed like he was broke. He sang out of tune. His lyrics were abstract. He championed Boston and Black Flag in the same breath. He did all the wrong things to become a rock star, yet, he became the biggest of his generation. He refused to conform and by being an individual, he rose above the masses. To those who stand in the way individualism, who scream that the path most traveled is the path to success, that conformity is comfort, they will never understand why Cobain belongs next to John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan. But because they don't understand is the reason they will never have the power to decide. Below is a list of some songs you may not know featuring Kurt's presence. But Kurt's influence is heard everywhere. From Green Day and Tori Amos to The White Stripes and Weezer to of all people, Miley Cyrus. Whether we like it or not, Cobain shaped our world and his spirit lives on in all of us.

Soprano Marilyn Taylor, Tenor Glenn Siebert, and members of the UNCSA School of Music faculty will present a concert of Irish-inspired music (and a bit of blarney) arranged by a variety of composers. 7:30 p.m. at Watson Hall $15 adults / $13 students and seniors

South Korea – day five Today I was traveling back from Pohang where I spent the weekend after an busy few days in Daejeon. Daejeon is certainly an impressive place to do science, being home to no fewer than 60 research centres. Unfortunately, in the limited time I had I could only visit a couple, including the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science and the National Fusion Research Institute (NFRI). NFRI is home to the KSTAR tokamak – one of the first superconducting tokamaks in the world. Certainly, fusion is a key research area in South Korea as the country is planning a fusion pilot plant dubbed K-DEMO. Depending on government funding it could be built in the next 30 years. So as the old saying goes, fusion is still 30 years away. Travelling back to Seoul on Sunday morning, the afternoon was taken up with a little sightseeing. Matin and I hit the main tourist spot – Gyeongbokgung, which is Seoul’s grandest Joseon-era palace. And of course no trip to Seoul could be complete without a trip to the home of PSY, the infamous Korean popster, so we headed down to Gangnam in the evening for a bite to eat. It was only when we were heading back to the subway that we came across what can only be described as a local delicacy – Gangnam kebabs. As we had already eaten we can’t report what effect a Gangnam kebab would have. Maybe next time.

No comments: Post a Comment Search This Blog Subscribe To About Me A child of the Sixties, born and reared in the South, I was de-provincialized by college, movements of the day and military conscription. Following military and school my working career spanned four decades in the food business from which I retired in 2002. I knew that in management I was supposed to become Conservative (which meant Republican) but I was not cut from the right fabric and I remained an old-fashioned Liberal. Blogging is my hobby in retirement, providing a scrapbook of interests and a platform for an old man’s pontifications. My first blog, Hootsbuddy's Place, was an eclectic mixture of content which ended in 2009 followed by two group blogs both of which have since become inactive. Facebook and Twitter seem to be replacing blogs. My post-retirement work has been in senior care beginning with five years in an independent retirement community followed by part-time work as a non-medical care-giver.

The Ladykillers This remake of a 1955 British heist film is a delicious farce set on the boundary between old and new Mississippi, with a typical Coen cast of misfits and bungling miscreants—notably, Tom Hanks as the loquacious Professor G. H. Dorr. “In his first truly comedic role in years, Hanks summons up an unforgettable caricature of Southern gentility turned foul…. [the Coens] include wickedly sharp moments” (The Onion). 2004, 35mm, 104 minutes.

When Odelia Grey and her husband, Greg, attend a rugby match to cheer for their quadriplegic friends, the last thing they expect is to witness a murder on the playing court. Complicating matters is their friendship with the prime suspect. It doesn’t help that Odelia’s pompous boss is embroiled in a mystery of his own—one that leaves more than his super-sized ego bruised and battered. Odelia enlists the help of family and friends, and gets some surprising assistance from out of left field. But with a murderer calling the shots, Odelia wonders if she can tackle this dangerous case or if she’s out of her league. I have always been fascinated with the concept of magic. Fairy tales and science fiction have always filled my bookshelves, and I have favored stories that emphasize characters that have ordinary lives, but have extra-ordinary abilities. As a child, I would read and re-read these tales, convinced that there was something more, something hidden... read this article

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Student Council The Andrews Academy Student Council promotes leadership, develops an understanding and appreciation of due process, and enhances life at school by fostering community service, good citizenship, and school spirit. All sixth grade students are encouraged to run for an office for Student Council. A preliminary vote is held in October with 5th and 6th graders. A final election is held in November with students in grades 3-6 voting. Monthly meetings are held with student representatives from grades 3-6 participating the in the meetings. Community service is a big part of Student Council. For many years student council has held a canned food drive in November. Other acts of charity include “Hats for Haiti” and collecting shoes to help with a project for clean water in underdeveloped countries in Africa. Student Council sponsors fun activities for fundraisers and for promoting school spirit. Some of these activities include pajama day, hat day, twin day, wacky day, spirit week, and bake sale. Over the years the money raised by Student Council has benefited the students at Andrews and many groups in the community. Donations over the years include money donated to Backstoppers; the Red Cross for tornado victims; Multiple Sclerosis Society and Friend of Kids’ with Cancer. Student Council activities promote school spirit and teamwork. Students take pride in participating in these activities and helping others.

Liturgical Life Photos from the 2012 Napa Conference The Eucharist is at the Center of the Napa Institute Although the conference consists of speakers sharing the best in Catholic thoughts, the Eucharist is still at the heart of every gathering. Multiple masses are held each day on site at the Meritage, in addition to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

MUSIC REVIEW Zacharias marks the passing of an era In the context of a Los Angeles Philharmonic season loaded with unusual programming, pianist-conductor Christian Zacharias' journey through the Classical era at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday night might have seemed like an intermezzo of the tried and true. But tried and true did not mean business as usual in this case, for there was a nicely conceived story line driving the program. Zacharias started out with one of the nine "Berlin" symphonies of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach -- the E-flat opus numbered Wq. 179, which was new to the Philharmonic. Only 12 minutes long, the piece is interesting primarily because it is one of the earliest symphonies ever written, dating from around the time (c. 1760) that Haydn, the so-called father of the symphony, started writing his first symphonies. It is also a neatly positioned transition piece straddling the Baroque and Classical eras -- staying with the Baroque three-movement fast-slow-fast scheme, getting rid of the counterpoint and paring down the rhetoric to the simplest terms while anticipating some of Haydn's strange, humorous pauses for effect. So there was the beginning of the Classical symphony, and the concert concluded with Haydn's final symphonic statement, the Symphony No. 104 ("London"), which represented the end of that line, almost a farewell signpost for the 18th century. Or at least that's the way Zacharias chose to interpret it, playing up the portentous aspects of the introduction and taking somewhat slower tempos than usual in the first three movements before letting the finale rip, pulling a full, grandiose, rich sound from the reduced cadre of players from the Philharmonic. If Haydn was saying goodbye, Zacharias had Beethoven precede him by barging in proclaiming, "Here I am!" with one of his earliest Major Statements, the Piano Concerto No. 2, written before his designated No. 1 and within a year of Haydn's 104. Yes, another transition piece -- from the Classical to the Romantic. Zacharias led the work from a lidless piano, and his playing was firm in rhythm and cleanly articulated, easily heard through the ensemble even when he was playing softly. His only interpretive quirks came in the Rondo, where the first two passes of the theme found him overwhelming the tune in the right hand with the left-hand countermelody, while the third pass was voiced in an entirely different, almost reticent fashion. All night long, Zacharias drew robust, solid-edged playing from the Philharmonic, a big-orchestra sound from a medium-size group. He did so in unorthodox fashion -- tossing his torso about, bringing arms up from waist level, the beat a sometime thing. It was hard to see how the musicians could follow him. Yet they did -- splendidly.

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