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I know, I know, Final Fantasy XIV should be all rights be dead and buried. The game is an utter and complete failure on so many levels. Yet, Square-Enix is intent to try and make a decent game out of it. Will it succeed? I for one seriously doubt it, but only time will tell.
They are doing one thing right however. By playing towards the nostalgia of its formerly loyal Final Fantasy XI playerbase, they are attempting to entice more and more players to give the game a chance. This video released a few days ago proves that there is still a bit left in that cave to mine. Showing the 5 new "jobs" of White Mage, Black Mage, Monk, Warrior, Dragoon and Paladin in their new "job specific gear" (hell we all know its just Artifact Gear). Take a gander at the coolness that could have been something better if Square-Enix had listened to its players and actually took their time in developing their game instead of pushing it out in a disaster of a state.


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McDonald's was my happy place as a child: I loved it all, from Happy Meals to apple turnovers that scalded the roof of my mouth. When we first moved to Kenton, OH, there was no McDonald's, and I was an Unhappy Meal camper. Instead, there was a Kentucky Fried Chicken, which became my home away from home until finally my prayers were answered.
"Mom! Dad! Let's go to McDonald's!" We got in the car, drove past the farms and corn fields, and wheeled up to the drive-thru. I was tickled pink!
When we pulled up for our food, the worker gave us a roof cone with a number on it (like a dunce cap) and said, "Park it!"
Forty-five minutes later, our sagging fries and cold hamburgers arrived in a grease-stained bag. But did we eat it? Absolutely!
Should we have just gone to the grocery store across the street instead?
"Fast Food Restaurants and Food Stores" (Arch Internal Med/171(13) July 11, 2001) is a compilation of 15 years of data from a study of "Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults."
Researchers wanted to see if the availability of supermarkets and grocery stores would improve diet and increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables. They also checked to see if the proximity of fast food restaurants influenced the frequency of eating out.
The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity includes a goal to increase access to healthy foods in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Though the evidence is sketchy, there is a common-sense belief that fast foods are a fast route to obesity.
So what did the research show regarding 18- to 30-year-olds? Sadly, it showed that easier access to a grocery store really didn't improve the diets of the poor, middle class– or the wealthy. If Americans want to eat potato chips and cupcakes, they're going to (and candy and ice cream and soda etc.)
In fact, higher-income women tend to buy more junk food in bulk— which I know is a fact because at Giant and Kroger and everywhere else, I see my patients pushing carts filled with things that didn't come from the ground or a tree.
"Oh, Hiiiii-ya, Dr. Hong. I really don't eat this stuff; I'm throwing a party! And some wild animals ate up all the fresh fruits and vegetables I had."
Fast-food restaurants were visited more frequently by lower-income men if they were within walking distance. But, still, across the board, people go the distance for disgusting (yummy) unhealthy food. I admit, I drive nine miles to my favorite Five Guys (the only fast-food place I patronize), although I go maybe only once every few months.
I want to be the host of a new reality TV show that pits the neighborhood grocery store against fast-food restaurants. Who would win?
Near my medical office, one grocery store is trying to hold is own against four major fast-food franchise joints. It's a shame, because people can eat a pound of fresh veggies and fruits and not gain one ounce, unlike the inches added from burgers, shakes, and fries.
So perhaps it comes down to educating the public about food choices. I do this as much as I can with my patients, but I think it's going to take much more than that. Rarely do patients want a referral to a dietician (with the exception of diabetics), and I hear too often, "I'm gonna eat what I'm gonna eat. If you were a chocolate Easter doctor, I would eat your ears off right now."
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a respected physician with an interesting website, http://drjohnhong.com/ Email him with your questions.


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October 6, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Liberty University's racquetball team hosted players and teams from Appalachian State, Colorado Tech, Duke, Maryland, N.C. State, North Carolina, and Virginia at its first Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Racquetball Conference Tournament, this past Friday through Sunday at The Sports Racket in Lynchburg.
Flames head coach Danny Rodriguez teamed up with Luther Hardee to win two three-game matches in men's AB doubles. The tandem rallied past Christian Huffman and Ron Forster, 11-15, 15-14, 11-0, before edging assistant coach Shawn Furman and tournament director Phil Wheeler, 15-10, 13-15, 11-10. Furman and Wheeler later defeated Huffman and Forster, 15-9, 15-12.
Liberty's top two men's players, Joel Denney and Ryan Evans, were shut out for the weekend in their singles, doubles, and mixed doubles matches. Denney lost to UVA's Kenneth Lohr, 15-3, 15-1, in his Level 1 Gold Division quarterfinal before being swept by Colorado Tech's Kamyron Meeks in the Red Division finals, 15-6, 15-4. Evans dropped his Level 2 Gold Division quarterfinal match to the Cavaliers' Patrick Litten, 15-5, 15-4, before falling to UNC's Thomas Moore in a three-game Blue Division final, 15-14, 11-15, 11-5.
Denney and Evans also were upended in Level 1 doubles play by UVA's Lohr and Litten, 15-11, 15-5, before taking Meeks and Duke's Tomothy Lerow to three games in a 13-15, 15-7, 11-2 setback and losing to N.C. State's Jordan Matthews and Srinivas Iyengar, 15-0, 15-5.
Abby Lindsey, Liberty's highest-ranked woman's player, rebounded from a 15-5, 15-0 loss to N.C. State's Katherine Leonard to defeat the Wolfpack's Elizabeth Tan, 15-1, 15-3, in the Level 1&2 bracket. She faced two more N.C. State opponents in the next two rounds, losing to Alexa Haggard, 15-9, 15-5, and Kristen Blanton in a three-game tie-breaker, 15-9, 13-15, 11-4.
Lindsey also partnered with Evans at Level 1 mixed doubles, losing a tight match to the Wolfpack pair of Kristen Blanton and Adam Blackwell, 15-11, 15-12.
Liberty's complete match results are available online.
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The group defends itself here:
UCLAProfs.com is not conducting a witch-hunt, engaging in police-state surveillance, or targeting privately-held political beliefs. We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies, and unprofessional classroom behavior, no matter where it falls on the ideological spectrum. As an illustrative example of egregious behavior with which UCLAProfs is concerned, please review the article BAA President Andrew Jones wrote about his experience in a 2002 political science class. Occasional political remarks, jokes, or the like are generally harmless behavior. We are concerned with a class which in full any reasonable observer would agree was taught in an unacceptable or unprofessional manner...Eugene Volokh, also a UCLA professor, also has commentary:
Accusing a professor of unprofessional behavior is in essence an accusation of professional malfeasance. UCLAProfs.com will air such charges only after extended reviews of a professor's record. The taping of lectures leaves no room for a vengeful student to take questionable statements out of context, to (deliberately or inadvertently) misquote a professor, or to otherwise give a false portrait of the class. As such, we find the current hysteria, and the many intemperate accusations that the UCLAProfs.com program is a "blacklist," "ratting out" professors, or other contemptible phenomenon, to be a severe distortion.
I ... think the offering of money to students is a bit unsavory, though I'm not positive how bad it is; much information-gathering, after all, is done by people who get paid, and sometimes get paid in rough correlation to the stuff they unearth...Putting their right to do it to the side, there is something awfully disturbing about displaying a list of names like this. It just looks ugly and intended to intimidate. I don't see why an organization that purports to be concerned about fairness would want to operate in this fashion. It's self-defeating. And their current complaint that people are reacting to them in an "intemperate" way is rather amusing. What did they expect?
Nonetheless, I do think we need to put all this in perspective. My colleagues and I are public servants. We have a certain degree of influence over public affairs, both through our public commentary and through our teaching. Others disagree with us, and think we're doing a public disservice rather than a public service. They're entitled to criticize us, and to monitor our public performance of our duties to see whether that performance is, in their view, lacking. I try to imagine what I would think if someone from the Left set up a site to criticize Prof. Bainbridge, me, and my (rather few) conservative colleagues, and to solicit concrete evidence of our supposed misdeeds; I would like to think that I would recognize that this was their right, both legally and ethically.


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VANCOUVER -- Anti-fracking protesters briefly set up a mock rig at Premier Christy Clark's Mount Pleasant home Sunday morning, saying they wanted to bring the controversial extraction process from the hinterland to her front lawn.
Activists with Rising Tide Vancouver Coast Salish Territories set up the three-metre PVC-pipe structure on the lawn at 10 a.m. and were quickly escorted off 15 minutes later by police. The small group promised more protests across British Columbia as Clark embarks on an East Asian trade mission later this month — part of her government's pursuit of a massive expansion of the province's LNG industry.
"How does she justify going on other people's property and doing the same thing?" said Rising Tide's Teresa Diewert, noting an ongoing protest from members of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation to an LNG pipeline near Kitimat. "If you look at the hydraulic fracturing all over North America it's absolutely destroying the water and B.C. is one of the last places that good water is still available and we feel like we can stop it."
Maryam Adrangi of the Council of Canadians, said there are already more than 23,000 fracking wells operating in northern British Columbia.
Opponents of shale gas extraction say the method of injecting high-pressure water into the ground to shatter rock and release the gas contaminates drinking water and causes other environmental problems, including increased greenhouse gas emissions and earthquakes.
The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission says its rules are designed to ensure water used in the fracking process never comes into contact with the environment, including groundwater aquifers, during storage, fracturing or disposal. Key rules include strict requirements to use metal casing (pipe), and cementing around the casing to make sure fracking fluid is isolated from groundwater reservoirs.
The commission has noted that most fracking takes place kilometres below drinking water aquifers, which are generally 18 to 150 metres below the surface, and there have not been any incidents of aquifer contamination in British Columbia.
"No one should have to face the impacts of fracking, which include having all of their freshwater being used by industry and for corporate profit and then having unidentified, toxic chemicals put back into the water cycle,'' Adrangi said.
Clark was reportedly in her house, but did not talk to the protesters.
The premier meets Tuesday with Alberta Premier Alison Redford to discuss Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.
Last month, Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman spent 12 days in China, South Korea and Malaysia, where he met with eight companies interested in the province's nascent LNG industry. Petronas, Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas company announced last month that it will invest $36 billion in an LNG plant and pipeline proposed for Prince Rupert.
It is estimated that B.C. has 1,400 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — enough to support production and LNG exports for more than 80 years, according to the province. There are at least 10 LNG projects proposed in the province, three of which already have approved export licenses from the National Energy Board.
Clark has said the industry could be worth a total of $1 trillion by 2046, and could create more than 100,000 jobs in the province.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The Center for Safer Wireless is claiming that Pepco's smart meters are emitting wireless radiation far more frequently than the power company admits.
This comes one week after several Pepco customers told WUSA9 that they've been experiencing irregular heartbeats and headaches after a smart meter was installed at their home.
Smart meters communicate with utility companies using wireless technology, which means they emit radio frequency radiation. The debate over the safety of smart meters is similar to the debate over cell phones and cancer in that the research is inconclusive.
However, you can choose how often you use your cell phone. But with smart meters, you don't have a choice. Pepco customers in D.C. are not allowed to opt-out of the smart meter program.
Therefore, the frequency with which those customers are exposed to this radiation is determined by Pepco. Desiree Jaworski, the interim director of the Center for Safer Wireless, believes it's happening far more frequently than the power company claims.The Center for Safer Wireless is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting their belief that smart meters are causing health problems across the United States.
This week, WUSA9 filmed Jaworski as she tested the radiation being emitted from three Pepco customers' smart meters. Pepco says that smart meter communications take place every four to six hours.
But Jaworski says, "What I found at all three locations is that these smart meters are communicating - or emitting radiation - about four to six times a minute if not more."
Jaworski's findings did not sit well with one of the homeowners, Lisa Crecelius.
"It just comes across as very dishonest," said Crecelius.
On Tuesday, WUSA9 informed Pepco Spokesman Marcus Beal of Jaworski's findings.
"I can't account for a test that we are not present at, but we are confident in the specifications of our meters and the safeness of our meters at this point," said Beal.
WUSA9 has asked Pepco for permission to accompany their experts on their own field test.
"We'll look into it," Beal said.
Pepco has already deployed smart meters to 99% of their customers in the District, and 92% of their customers in Maryland.


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"It will be hot in Australia!" warned our friends and neighbours. My husband René, admittedly cold blooded, looked forward to the prospect with glee. I, on the other hand, resigned myself to the idea that being hot was a small price to pay for such an adventure. Little did we know!
Landing in Sydney early on October 17, 2001, an azure sky and shorts-and-sandals temperature greeted us. We quickly changed to summer garb and set out from the hotel for our first walk "Down Under." It was a glorious day.
The next morning, a look out the window showed us passersby buffeted by a strong wind, and a voice on our transistor radio announced, in a wonderful Australian drawl, very un-summery temperatures. So, it was back to long pants and sturdy shoes, but only temporarily, we were sure.
A few days later we headed to Canberra, this time harbouring no illusions. Heeding the weather forecast for frost in Australia's capital, we layered our summer clothes: T-shirt plus shirt plus windbreaker, with plastic poncho in backpack, just in case. We never did see frost, but our sightseeing was done under very cool and often rainy conditions.
Next, south to Melbourne. Heading south in Australia gets you closer to Antarctica, and once, as we waited for a tram, the wind felt like it was coming straight from that ice-bound continent.
The next stage of our vacation was a three-and-one-half day tour of the Great Ocean Road, 1,200 kilometres along the coast between Melbourne and Adelaide. The scenery was magnificent. As for the wind, we consoled ourselves, saying that it was in thanks for the roaring breakers which added such wildness to the spectacle.
During our short stay in Adelaide, we had frequent doses of rain, although the mercury did begin moving northward again. Climbing aboard The Ghan, the famous train that connects Adelaide with Alice Springs, even I hoped that the Red Centre would live up to its reputation so we could finally warm up.
It did! We almost gasped as we stepped off the train into an oven. At our motel room, my first gesture was to press the air conditioner's "on" switch. By the end of our four days in "the Alice," René was turning brown, and I was beginning to acclimatize. It was the intensity of direct sunlight that bothered me. So, as long as there was shade to take refuge in, ... .
In Darwin, there was no refuge. Well, not outside our motel, restaurants, and shopping centres, anyway. We were in Australia's northernmost city at the beginning of the "Wet," after all, and it was like living in a sauna, but with no freezing lake to jump into afterwards. One sunny afternoon the radio announced 36 degrees with humidity at 86 per cent.
Much as we liked the city of Darwin, I could hardly wait to return to drier conditions. We found these during our long bus trip through the Outback to Townsville. On the tropical Queensland coast, though, we were back to the heat and humidity. But, after Darwin, anything seemed less intense.
Our four days in Brisbane were days in Paradise. Except for a morning thundershower, we were treated to the best weather yet: warm and dry. René commented, only half joking, that if he had known about Brisbane before emigrating from France, maybe he would now be calling Australia home.
Returning to Sydney, we discovered that in our five-week absence summer had arrived and with it the sunshine and warmth we had expected to find from the beginning.
On November 28, we were Vancouver-bound. Our luggage was jammed with souvenirs and gifts, and our heads were full of the wonders we had seen.
Hot, Australia? This question will now get the same reply we give our friends in Europe who say, "It's so cold in Canada!" Yes, but not everywhere, and not all the time.
Linda Reverchon is retired and lives with husband René in Abbotsford.


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BOSTON (CBS) – Kevin Garnett had a vintage KG performance Thursday night as the Boston Celtics beat the Atlanta Hawks in Game 6 to advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs.
Garnett did it all. He scored, putting in a game-high 28 points, including a go-ahead bucket with 30 seconds left to give Boston an 80-79 lead. He rebounded, pulling down a game-high 14 boards, including four on the offensive end.
Most importantly, he played defense. It was a defensive effort you would expect from a 25-year-old Garnett. He blocked five shots and had three steals, both game highs. His value to the team was never as glaring as it was during a fourth quarter breather, when the Celtics saw a nine-point lead drop to just one.
Garnett came back in, ready to defend, score, rebound, whatever was needed. The Hawks tied the game, but KG helped lead the way to the 83-80 final, hitting the turnaround jumper to give the C's the lead back for good.
He was a man possessed, and after the victory, let everyone know why.
First up, it was Hawks owner Michael Gearon, who for some reason thought it would be smart to call Garnett "the dirtiest player in the NBA" on Wednesday.
"First off, I want to say thank you to the (Hawks) owner for giving me some extra gas tonight," Garnett started his postgame presser with. "My only advice to him is next time he opens his mouth, actually know what he's talking about — X's and O's versus checkbooks and bottom lines."
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"We're not dirty. We're firm, we play aggressive. But we're not dirty," said Garnett. "You have to understand the word 'dirty' in this game is very defined. Going under guys, trying to hurt guys, ill intent — that's not how we play basketball. We play very, very respectable to the opponent, to the city we're in, the game. We play with a lot of passion and with force. It's the playoffs. I haven't been here trying to hurt anybody and nor has my teammates. I found that comment to be a little rude and out of hand, and I wanted to address it."
"Just because you got a bunch of money doesn't mean you can open your mouth."
Later, Garnett set his sights on the media. Yes, Garnett is getting up there in age. In his 16th year, the 35-year-old has had to revamp his game a bit with father time catching up to him on the floor. He'll admit that himself.
But just don't call him 'old.' Although, whoever has been saying it should keep it going. It adds more fuel to the Garnett fire.
"I don't want to come off kind of wrong, but I really go with my craft and I take it very seriously," said Garnett. "I guess being 35, soon to be 36 — not 37, (19)76 (birth year), look it up — I put a lot of work into my craft. I take it very seriously. I always have, since '95, since I've been able to come into the league and it's almost like you guys are shocked. Like this ain't what I do every day, like this ain't what I was made for. It does come off disrespectful at times. I put a lot of work and time into this, and there are certain levels I expect from myself."
KG Fueled By Being Called 'Old'
"I take this very seriously, so you guys calling me old, that number defies. You have no idea what you are doing when you say those 'old' comments. I appreciate that. I don't read your columns, but it gets back to me."
While those provided some of the fuel for Garnett, there is no certainly no lack of motivation for the 14-time All Star. Especially since he knows the end of his career is in his sights.
"Not knowing if this is my last year to play," he said of what drive him most. "Playing against younger talent, being competitive. I'm a very, very competitive person. I'm playing with great guys — even better, younger guys that are getting better. Great coaching staff and a great organization with good people that's working in it."
"I'm self-motivated, but to come here every day is an easy thing to do," said Garnett. "I look forward to waking up and coming in here."


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text: Former Tour rider and journalist Paul Kimmage has accused McQuaid, pictured above, and Verbruggen of alleged defamation and fraud in protecting Lance Armstrong during the doping years [AFP]An Irish journalist has filed a criminal complaint against International Cycling Union leaders Pat McQuaid and Hein Verbruggen, accusing them of protecting Lance Armstrong while he won seven Tour de France titles. Paul Kimmage, a former Tour rider and vocal anti-doping campaigner, alleges defamation and fraud in the case filed in Switzerland. Kimmage's Swiss lawyer, Cedric Aguet, told The Associated Press on Friday that a 28-page file was submitted to the local prosecutor's office in Vevey, near UCI headquarters. The lawyer said prosecutors could decide "within two weeks'' to open criminal proceedings.'Massive fraud' "We are talking here about a possible massive fraud,'' Aguet said in a telephone interview. "If one or both are considered as responsible for assisting Mr. Lance Armstrong it would be several years in prison. The maximum penalty is five years.'' The UCI recently agreed to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life, following a report from the US Anti-Doping Agency that accused him of leading a massive doping program on his teams. The USADA report included sworn witness testimony that Armstrong said the governing body helped cover up his positive or suspicious doping tests at the 1999 Tour de France and 2001 Tour of Switzerland. McQuaid, the current UCI president, and Verbruggen, his predecessor, deny the allegations. Last week, the UCI ordered an independent commission to examine its conduct in the Armstrong case. The panel's report is due by next June.'Strong suspicions' Kimmage's complaint says there are "strong suspicions'' that the UCI and its leaders, either directly or indirectly, helped Armstrong earn "significant sums of money in and out of competition while he was doped.'' Armstrong faces demands to repay almost $4 million in Tour prize money alone from his 1999-2005 victory run. "All that took place in Switzerland, within the premises of the UCI in Aigle. This is why we consider the criminal authorities in Vevey'' have jurisdiction, Aguet said. Kimmage's complaint was filed six days after McQuaid and Verbruggen suspended their defamation suit against him, stemming from an interview he conducted with Floyd Landis, a former Armstrong teammate and key USADA witness. Landis said UCI leaders acted corruptly and protected star riders from scrutiny. SOURCE: AP Sport Cycling France Switzerland


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Canucks Roberto Luongo, Dan Hamhuis 'proud, excited' to play for Team Canada in Sochi
Vancouver Canucks blueliner Dan Hamhuis (centre) and goalie Roberto Luongo will suit up for Team Canada in Sochi, Russia, next month at the Winter Olympics.
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VANCOUVER — Marty Hamhuis hasn't slept the same since his son, Dan, returned to his home province 3½ years ago to play hockey for the Vancouver Canucks.
"Since he became a Canuck, I have to get out of bed an hour earlier every day just to talk hockey with people," Mr. Hamhuis laughed Tuesday. "Everybody is good about it. They're happy to have northern B.C. represented in the NHL."
Imagine how they feel about having Dan Hamhuis represent Smithers and northern B.C. on Team Canada at the Olympics.
As a regional sales rep for Coca-Cola, Marty Hamhuis knows a lot of people in a lot of small northern towns. Dan joked that between his dad and his sister, Erin, who works in the credit union in Smithers, the Hamhuises pretty much know everybody.
"I've been staying in the house all day because I don't dare go out," Marty said after Dan was chosen to play for Canada in Russia next month. "Judging by the texts I got, a lot of people in Smithers are elated. Out of all the players, Dan might have been one of the easiest guys to sweep under the carpet because he doesn't get the press that a lot of other guys do."
For instance, Hamhuis gets only a sliver of the coverage devoted to Canuck goalie Roberto Luongo, who was named to his third Olympic team. Luongo is never out of the headlines, Hamhuis rarely in them.
The defenceman plays a game as quiet as he is, which is why the 31-year-old has been "under the carpet" for most of his National Hockey League career.
With the Nashville Predators, for whom he spent his first six NHL seasons, Hamhuis was blacked out by the giant shadows of Norris Trophy-calibre defencemates Shea Weber and Ryan Suter.
In Vancouver, where Hamhuis moved in 2010 as a free agent, he has been merely one part of a core group of good defencemen. Even amid the laser-like glare on the Canucks in this city and province, a lot of people probably didn't realize how good he was until No. 1 defenceman Alex Edler was injured five weeks ago and coach John Tortorella soon started playing Hamhuis 28-30 minutes a night.
"My game is not a game that makes a lot of noise with headlines for the media and fans," Hamhuis, 31, said. "But I've always felt that hockey people appreciate the game that I play. My dad has always told me that, too."
Hamhuis speaks softly when he speaks at all and rarely displays emotion. But he came close to crying Tuesday when asked about the support he receives from his community and people in northern B.C.
"When you think of all the people who have helped me along the way, starting with my parents especially," he said, his voice catching. "My mom and dad have been huge supporters of my hockey career growing up. Great motherly support, and fatherly criticisms at the right time, too. So much support.
"I'm certainly proud to be from B.C. and represent our province. There's a lot of great players who have represented Canada in the past from here. It's about the whole country coming together and putting a good show on in Sochi."
Although he has played for Canada at five world championships, Hamhuis thought his best chance to make an Olympic team passed in 2010 when, at age 27, he wasn't selected for the Vancouver Games.
He turned his phone off when he went to bed Monday night, and learned he had made Team Canada from a voicemail left by Ken Holland, one of Canadian manager Steve Yzerman's assistants. That recording, played on speakerphone by Hamhuis for his wife, Sarah, and their three girls, is now precious.
The media scrum Hamhuis faced at Rogers Arena, before Tuesday's Canuck game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, was probably the largest of his career.
"Yeah, this is the part of the excitement of the Olympic announcement I was not looking forward to," he admitted.
Luongo, on the other hand, is accustomed to crowds and questions.
"It's my third time and it's just as special as the first two times," Luongo, 34, told reporters about his Olympic invitation. "It's a different challenge (than winning an Olympics at home) but it's a fun one. Playing in Russia, with the history there, is something I know I'm excited about."
Last spring, Luongo wasn't even the starting goalie on the Canucks. Next month, he may start for Canada in Sochi. His path since 2010 has been tumultuous and rife with drama. But as a player, Luongo is back where he was.
In a reflective moment Saturday – as he was about to return from a groin injury, about to sprain an ankle against the Los Angeles Kings – Luongo said: "All the stuff I've been through, you go through so much you learn to deal with pretty much every situation. I just want to enjoy the game and play hard.
"I want to do it for myself – prove that I'm still a No. 1. That was my main goal. Other than that, I've got a lot of respect for every guy in this (Canuck) locker room. We've been together for many years – those poor guys – so it would not have been fair to them to show up here and have a bad attitude or anything like that. Besides, I'm privileged to be playing in the NHL and you can't take that for granted."
Luongo got another chance to start in Vancouver because Cory Schneider was traded in June to the New Jersey Devils. Hamhuis is getting his Olympic chance because Canada needed a left-shot defenceman who can skate and pass and play intelligently – and because Yzerman doesn't care about headlines.
It took Luongo three months to prove he is still an elite player. It took Hamhuis most of his life.


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Several people have asked me to put my thoughts down on Nokia's new partnership with Microsoft. Twitter just isn't the place for it; several 140-characters-or-less postings were met with responses quite distant from where I was going. I'll try to say something useful and coherent– but keep in mind this will be an opinion piece. Very personal. And lengthy.
To understand my take on things you need to understand where I come from. Six years ago I was perfectly happy without a cell phone. I had no need for one, even despised and sometimes pitied people enslaved to them. And smartphones? I dismissed the idea entirely. What would I do with a "computer in my palm"? How smart could a phone be? Continue reading


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Still have this set of carbs and head for a 20R. Carbs are Dell'orto 40DHLA with a lot of extras, set up for cable pull. The head is ported with stainless oversize valves, bronze guides and performance springs. Nothing has been installed or used since rebuilding. All for $1700. Central CA location, San Luis Obispo area. Prefer pick up. PM with your number or to get mine so I can send pics.
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The First Year Learning Goals are designed to encourage students, faculty, and staff to dynamically claim our own education as we practice ever more effective forms of learning. Emerging from UW Bothell's central values of transformative learning, engaged scholarship, and the fostering of an inclusive culture, the goals are shaped to create the context for understanding the many traditions that converge here at the university, to support the creation of knowledge, and to shape new social practices. In the context of progressively more challenging questions, problems, projects, and standards for performance, we will focus together on exploring these goals, which culminate in the spring Discovery Core in which students create a portfolio, engage in research, and participate in experiential learning.
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FTM2014 - Export BranchSuppose that I ONLY wanted to share the Descendants of John Worthington Jr, and not his ancestors and not the branch down to me. John Jr is Capt John's oldest son, I am descending from the youngest son. For this example, I am only going to share the Descendants of John Jr.
Start with the File Menu, from any workspace, and select Export
That will bring up a screen where we have options. The default is Entire file. We also have options on what to include:
- Privatize living people
- Include private facts
- Include private notes
- Include media files
- Include private media
- Include tasks
- Include only items linked to selected individuals
But, we want Selected Individuals.
We are going to select John, and click on the Descendents button in the center, and that will put 964 of the 8,934 people into this new file. Not listed in the other Branch Export blog post, but that new Branch file had 2,713 people in it.
That will return us to this screen with the selected people on the Left, the information in the right.
Before the OK is selected, there are some OUTPUT FORMAT options to look at, depending on what program, or version of Family Tree Maker, the receiving person is using. For Family Tree Maker version 2006 or Version 16 or earlier, the GEDCOM 5.5 would be selected.
Technical Note here: IF GEDCOM 5.5 is selected and that 'include media files' is selected. the GEDCOM file will NOT include the media files, only LINKS to those media files. The Media Folder would have to be sent to the person receiving the GEDCOM file, so that the receiving program could find the media files, if that program or version can link to Media files.
We are asked to name the file, and Family Tree Maker will add the correct file extension. In this case (FTM2014 and previous) the file will be a BACKUP file. So the receiving person would do a File, Restore within Family Tree Maker.
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When complete, the Export complete window will appear.
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Solving the Santa Claus Problem with Conjunction
The Santa Claus problem is a concurrency problem that, like the Dining Philosophers problem, can be used to demonstrate your particular concurrency framework of choice. December seems like the right time of year to post a CHP solution that I hacked up at the CPA 2008 conference last year. It's short but rather primitive. Here's the statement of the problem, via Simon Peyton Jones (who made an STM solution in a chapter of Beautiful Code):
Santa repeatedly sleeps until wakened by either all of his nine reindeer, back from their holidays, or by a group of three of his ten elves. If awakened by the reindeer, he harnesses each of them to his sleigh, delivers toys with them and finally unharnesses them (allowing them to go off on holiday). If awakened by a group of elves, he shows each of the group into his study, consults with them on toy R&D and finally shows them each out (allowing them to go back to work). Santa should give priority to the reindeer in the case that there is both a group of elves and a group of reindeer waiting.
The particularly tricky aspects of this problem are:
- Santa must make a choice between the reindeer and elves.
- Santa must give priority to the reindeer.
- The elves must come in groups of exactly three, even though there are ten of them.
Choice is easy in CHP, so the first item is not a problem. We saw in the last post how to emulate priority, so we can use that to solve the second point. The third item is difficult. Our barriers require all enrolled participants to synchronise, so we cannot use one barrier for all ten elves. We could introduce some intermediary agents to coordinate the elves, but that is a bit long-winded. Instead we can take a slightly brute-force approach combined with a CHP feature called conjunction.
The principle behind conjunction is straightforward. Usually you offer a choice such as read from channel c or read from channel d: readChannel c <-> readChannel d. This waits for the first of the two events, and executes it (it can never execute both options). A conjunction is when you want to read from channel c and read from channel d: readChannel c <&> readChannel d. Crucially, this will only read from both when both are available. If c is not ready, it will not read from d, and vice versa. It is both or none: an atomic item, if you like. Conjunction also has a list form, every.
One example of where this is useful is the aforementioned Dining Philosophers problem: a philosopher wishing to pick up his forks should execute syncBarrier leftFork <&> syncBarrier rightFork. That way he will either pick up both his forks or neither, thus eliminating the deadlock wherein each philosopher ends up holding one fork.
Conjunction Specifics
It is valid to offer conjunction as part of a choice; for example, (readChannel c <&> readChannel d) <-> readChannel e will wait to read from channels (c AND d) OR e. These choices can be overlapping, e.g. (readChannel c <&> readChannel d) <-> (readChannel d <&>readChannel e) waits for (c AND d) OR (d AND e).
The choices should be in disjunctive normal form (DNF): OR on the outside, AND in the bracket, so c AND (d OR e) is not valid. But AND does distribute over OR here, so this is equivalent to the DNF: (c AND d) or (c AND e). (The operators do not distribute in the opposite direction, so c OR (d AND e) is not equivalent to (c OR d) AND (c OR e), because the latter allows c and e to both happen, whereas the former does not.)
Conjunction and Barriers
Importantly for today's post, there is a correspondence between barriers (N participants, all N must synchronise together) and a conjunction of two-party barriers. Let's imagine for a moment that Santa wanted to meet with all ten of his elves. We could create a single barrier, enroll Santa and the ten elves, and get them all to synchronise on the barrier. The barrier would only complete when all eleven participants synchronised. But alternatively, we could create ten two-party barriers. We would enroll each elf on a different barrier, and enroll Santa on all of them. When they want to meet, the elves would all synchronise on their barrier (meaning their code is unchanged), while Santa would wait for the conjunction of all ten barriers. Each barrier would only complete when all of them complete, because of Santa waiting for the conjunfction of all of them, so we have the same semantics as we had when we had one barrier. These ten barriers would be dynamically fused into one barrier.
The Solution
Santa does not want to wait for all ten elves; he only wants to wait for three. We can implement this with a little brute-force. Labelling the elves A through J, we can make Santa wait for (A AND B AND C) OR (A AND B AND D) OR… (H AND I AND J). That's 120 possibilities. Not scalable, but the problem said ten elves so that's all we have to manage.
Let's finally get to some code. A reindeer waits for a random time, then synchronises on its barrier (i.e. tries to meet with Santa). An elf waits for a random time, then synchronises on its barrier (i.e. tries to meet with Santa). So, perhaps unexpectedly, a reindeer has exactly the same code as an elf. (This is also the case in Peyton Jones' solution). Here it is:
syncDelay :: EnrolledBarrier -> CHP () syncDelay b = forever (randomDelay >> syncBarrier b) where randomDelay = (liftIO $ randomRIO (500000, 1000000)) >>= waitFor reindeer :: EnrolledBarrier -> CHP () reindeer = syncDelay elf :: EnrolledBarrier -> CHP () elf = syncDelay
Our next job is to write the Santa process. Santa will take one barrier for the reindeer, and multiple barriers for the elves (one each). He will loop forever, first polling the reindeer (to give them priority) and otherwise choosing between the reindeer and the elves:
santa :: [EnrolledBarrier] -> EnrolledBarrier -> CHP () santa elfBars reindeerBar = forever (deliverToys </> (skip >> (deliverToys <-> meetThreeElves))) where
Now we need to define the helper processes. Delivering toys is straightforward; we just synchronise with the reindeer. The rest of the code deals with picking all groups of three elves, and making a choice between synchronising with each group:
deliverToys = syncBarrier reindeerBar meetThreeElves = alt [meetGroup g | g <- allGroupsThreeElves] meetGroup bars = every_ [syncBarrier bar | bar <- bars] allGroupsThreeElves = allNFrom 3 elfBars allNFrom n = filter ((== n) . length) . filterM (const [True, False])
The allNFrom is not important here, so I've used a concise (but probably inefficient) definition. Now that we have santa, our elves and our reindeer, all that remains is to put them together. To do this we use two wiring helper functions, enrollAll (that enrolls all of the processes on the given barrier) and enrollOneMany (that enrolls one process on all the barriers, and each of the other processes on one):
main :: IO () main = runCHP_VCRTraceAndPrint $ enrollOneMany (\elfBars -> enrollAll (newBarrierWithLabel "reindeer") (santa elfBars : replicate 9 reindeer) ) [(newBarrierWithLabel ("elf" ++ show n), elf) | n <- [0..9]]
That's it. Part of the reason that this code is quite short is that I've omitted all the print statements detailing what is going on (for example in Peyton Jones' version). These print statements were only there to observe the behaviour of the computation, and we can do that with CHP's built-in traces mechanism, just by using the runCHP_VCRTraceAndPrint function.
View-Centric Reasoning (VCR) traces, developed by Marc L. Smith and subsequently tweaked a little bit by me, display an ordered list of multisets, where each multiset holds independent events (events that did not have a sequential dependency on each other). This style makes it very easy to see from the output that our Santa Claus solution has the right sort of behaviour, viz:
< {elf3, elf4, elf5}, {elf0, elf6, elf7}, {reindeer}, {elf1, elf8, elf9}, {elf2, elf4, elf7}, {elf0, elf1, elf3}, {elf5, elf8, elf9}, {reindeer}, {elf3, elf6, elf7}, {elf0, elf1, elf9}, {elf2, elf4, elf8}, {reindeer}, {elf3, elf5, elf6}, {elf0, elf4, elf9}, {elf1, elf2, elf7}, {elf5, elf6, elf8}, {reindeer}, {elf0, elf1, elf3}, {elf4, elf7, elf9}, {elf2, elf5, elf8}, {elf0, elf1, elf6}, {reindeer}, {elf3, elf7, elf9}, {elf0, elf1, elf4}, {elf2, elf6, elf8}, {elf5, elf7, elf9}, {elf0, elf3, elf4}, {reindeer}, {elf1, elf2, elf6}, {elf5, elf7, elf8}, ...
Concise Solution
For those who like a bit of code golf (finding the shortest version of a program), I came up with this concise version of the whole solution:
import Control.Concurrent.CHP import Control.Concurrent.CHP.Traces import Control.Monad import Control.Monad.Trans import System.Random santa elves reindeer = forever $ syncBarrier reindeer </> (alt $ map (every_ . map syncBarrier) groups) where groups = filter ((== 3) . length) $ filterM (const [True, False]) elves main = runCHP_VCRTraceAndPrint $ enrollOneMany (enrollAll (newBarrierWithLabel "reindeer") . (: replicate 9 syncDelay) . santa) [(newBarrierWithLabel ("elf" ++ show n), syncDelay) | n <- [0..9]] where syncDelay = forever . (randomDelay >>) . syncBarrier randomDelay = (liftIO $ randomRIO (500000, 1000000)) >>= waitFor
Excluding the import statements, that's a solution to the Santa Claus problem in eight lines of Haskell. Rather difficult-to-follow Haskell, but that's usually the result of code golf.
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Several months ago, I was writing a fan-fiction story set in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe and I ended up constructing this sentence:
"...Sonic and his allies and Dr. Robotnik and his allies..."
My intent here is to group Sonic and Sonic's allies together and Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Robotnik's allies together, but doing so with "and"s causes this problem. I fixed it by replacing the second "and" with "versus", thus reading as:
"...Sonic and his allies versus Dr. Robotnik and his allies..."
My question is: is the original construction still valid?
I'm also curious about my usage of "his" to refer to two different males in a row.


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WASHINGTON – Time is quickly running out for getting those Christmas presents to their destinations, and shipping carriers are urging customers to place their last minute orders in this week.
Monday is your safest bet for on-time delivery when it comes to FedEx ground shipping. If you don't mind shelling out extra money for two-day delivery, you have until Dec. 20, UPS says. Even premium overnight or next-day shipping orders should be placed by Saturday, Dec. 22., unless you're using the United States Post Office, which suggests getting in orders by Dec. 21 at the latest.
To prepare for the holiday demand, UPS says it will add more than 400 flights per day this week. The carrier estimates Thursday will be its biggest day of the year, though some estimate Monday is the beginning of the rush:
To make sure you don't ruin someone's holiday by showing up empty handed, check below for a rundown of shipping deadlines:
- FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery: Dec. 17
- FedEx 2 Day: Dec. 20
- FedEx Overnight: Dec. 22
- UPS Ground: Dec. 21
- UPS 2nd Day Air: Dec. 21
- UPS Next Day Air: Dec. 22
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Alumacraft and Evinrude – Full of Features and Big on Value
With boats that range in price from a $700 Jon boat to a fully-loaded $50K deep vee package including boat, motor, and trailer, Alumacraft has high-quality fishing boats to match any style or budget. The brand, which has been in existence for over 70 years, lends its longevity to excellent customer service, building a functional and long-lasting product and the understanding of value to its customers.
Evinrude's story is very similar. The outboard brand is over a hundred years old and lays claim to being the first marine outboard engine. Today, Evinrude E-TEC G2 engines have another distinction, being one of the most advanced marine outboards on the market. The computer controlled, direct injection two-stroke fuel delivery system allows the engine to burn fuel more efficiently. Thanks to this technology, Evinrude E-TEC G2 models deliver up to 30 percent more torque, up to 15 percent better fuel efficiency and up to 75 percent fewer total regulated emissions compared to leading four-stroke outboard engines. Recently, BRP, owner of the Evinrude product line, purchased Alumacraft and formed the BRP Marine Group. Pair these two iconic brands, and you've got a winning combination.
Take for example the Alumacraft Tournament Pro 195. A professional level 19 foot vessel, the T-Pro 195 is designed for serious anglers. It's got an impressive set-up, with plenty of in-floor and rod storage, timed livewells and huge raised platforms. It is perfect for a leisurely day of fishing or even a big competition. The boat is offered inside console, double bubble, and walk-thru windshield models and includes center bow 8-foot rod storage, port side 9-foot rod storage, two tournament-sized livewells with bait bags, a dry storage compartment in the bow and a wide, carpeted gunwale with integrated AlumaTrac mounting system. A very cool storage system, the AlumaTrac consists of a rail that goes around the gunwale and serves as a customizable anchor point for optional rod holders, tackle trays, drink holders and tool pouches. The boat is rated to use engines ranging from 150 to 200hp and can be purchased in packages to include the engine and trailer.
Evinrude publishes performance reports on their website, and the Alumacraft T-Pro 195 was tested with an Evinrude E-TEC G2 200hp. Offering impressive stats, what really stands out is the fuel efficiency of the E-TEC G2s. The fuel-sipping G2 lets you extend your range for more time on the water. Getting more mileage out of your engine also lets you keep a little more money in your wallet at the pump. Add to that no scheduled maintenance for five years and no oil changes ever, the Evinrude engine is one of the most affordable outboards to run.
If you're looking for the one-two punch of a feature-rich, yet affordable fishing set-up, you can't go wrong pairing an Alumacraft with Evinrude. And with the proven longevity of these two product lines, you are guaranteed to get a boat that will outperform the competition for years to come.
Visit Evinrude.com today!
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Justin Smillie was born in Upland, California, but raised in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where he began his career at 17 as part of the team of the Bernards Inn, under Edward Stone. From there, Justin moved to NYC where he spent time at Jean Georges, Mercer Kitchen and Gramercy Tavern, before landing with Jonathan Waxman at Washington Park, and later as the chef of Barbuto.
It was during his six years under the attentive eye of Waxman, that Justin fell in love with bold flavors, rustic technique, open fire, and farm-to-table cooking.
In 2010, chef Daniel Silverman invited him to be part of the opening team of Andre Balaz's New York Standard, where he worked as a sous chef and then as the Executive Chef of Sunset Beach on Shelter Island for two seasons. Fortune found him one afternoon when Justin was introduced to Donna Lennard of Il Buco.
During his time as executive chef of Il Buco Alimentari e Vineria, Justin incorporated the "farmer's market" driven cuisine he loves and earned a three-star review from the New York Times. In October 2014, Justin and Stephen Starr opened Upland, a Cal-Ital Brasserie in Flatiron. The restaurant is named for Justin's hometown and is built around a culinary philosophy that takes heavy cues from the seasons. Justin lives with his wife and two sons in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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- A Brave Journey in Merge Waters: How Paysafe Consolidated Their Atlassian Tools
Radostina Kavrakova, IT Product Support Manager, Paysafe Group plc
George Stoyanov, Senior Software Engineer & Project Leader, Nemetschek Bulgaria
- Be Prepared for Growth - Confluence at Thales
Jean-Christophe Mielnik, Technical Communities Management, Thales
- Building Trust for Adoption at Enterprise Scale
Frederic Ros, Head of Development Efficiency and Lifecycles, Amadeus
Hugo Questroy, Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering, Amadeus
- Enterprise Ready - What's New in Data Center
Keshav Puttaswamy, Head of Product, Server, Atlassian
- Evolving a Worldwide Customer Operations Center Using Atlassian
Norbert Kujbus, IT Applications Manager, CRM, National Instruments
- How Atlassian Manages Risk and Compliance with JIRA Software and Confluence
George Totev, Head of Risk & Compliance, Atlassian
- Scaling Agile with JIRA Software and Portfolio for JIRA
Dennis Struis, Product Owner JIRA, ABN AMRO
Rik de Valk, Product Owner, ABN AMRO
- Scaling IT Operations in a DevOps World
Paul Buffington, Principal Solution Engineer, Atlassian
- Simplicity at Scale - Growing Teams at Atlassian
Mat Lawrence, R&D Program Manager, Atlassian
- The Four Principles of Atlassian Performance Tuning
Dan Hardiker, CTO, Adaptavist
A Brave Journey in Merge Waters: How Paysafe Consolidated Their Atlassian Tools
Radostina Kavrakova
IT Product Support Manager, Paysafe Group plc
George Stoyanov
Senior Software Engineer & Project Leader, Nemetschek Bulgaria
After a large merger in mid-2015, Paysafe, a fintech company providing payment solutions worldwide, had several instances of Atlassian products spread across the globe. With 4 JIRA Software, 3 Confluence, 2 Bitbucket, 2 Bamboo and 2 HipChat server instances, our team made the bold decision to unify them into a single instance for each product. Further complicating the already daunting task were 6 active directories of users, a diverse set of admins, and different levels of organizational maturity across our development, product, and business teams. A year after we set sail, Paysafe now has a single production instance of the majority of these products, with little impact to users, no data loss, and improved performance. In this session, we will outline our journey into the uncharted waters of consolidation focusing on our 4 JIRA instances, as this was the most critical and challenging mission in our quest. Together with our Atlassian Solution Partner, Nemetschek Bulgaria, we will share tips and best practices on limiting downtime, eliminating the risk for loss of vital data, and the unification of user management.
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Be Prepared for Growth - Confluence at Thales
Jean-Christophe Mielnik
Technical Communities Management, Thales
Thales is a global technology leader for the aerospace, transport, defense, and security markets. With 64,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales has a unique capability to design and deploy equipment, systems, and services to meet the most complex security requirements. In the past two years, led by the vision of the engineering department, Confluence has become an official Thales platform aimed at servicing the entire organization. Thales has deployed the associated governance and change management functionality to improve robustness and performance, while preserving flexibility, as they consider moving to a Data Center solution. In this session, Thales will share their experience in moving from top-down to collaborative practices, while leveraging the power of Confluence Server. Thales will also share best practices your organization can use as you scale, including improving integrations to homegrown solutions, governing the platform, and supporting multiple business end users' demands.
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Building Trust for Adoption at Enterprise Scale
Frederic Ros
Head of Development Efficiency and Lifecycles, Amadeus
Hugo Questroy
Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering, Amadeus
Amadeus is the leader in technology solutions for the global travel and tourism industry. The Atlassian suite is integral to fostering collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness among Amadeus' widely distributed teams. As a large company with a significant amount of existing homegrown tooling and processes, it was imperative for Amadeus to be able to integrate Atlassian products with existing tools to ease adoption and maximize overall return. Additionally, as they're mission-critical products to business, scalability, high availability, and resiliency across Atlassian products was imperative to fostering trust across the organization.
In this session, we will share how we built trust for our 14,000+ Amadeus employees in over 20 geographical locations, by improving efficiency, easing integration with existing solutions, and increasing the overall operability and scalability.
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Enterprise Ready - What's New in Data Center
Keshav Puttaswamy
Head of Product, Server, Atlassian
Data Center provides administrators with high availability, performance at scale, deployment flexibility and control when hosting Atlassian applications. Join us to learn about the improvements to Data Center's core technology, latest product updates and direction. Don't miss hearing what our customers have planned and are doing with Data Center!
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Evolving a Worldwide Customer Operations Center Using Atlassian
Norbert Kujbus
IT Applications Manager, CRM, National Instruments
National Instruments, a global leader in test, measurement, and control solutions, has grown its customer operations centers and their use of Atlassian across the world from 100K to 1M+ number of issues per year and from 80 to 500+ agents over the past six years. Atlassian has grown with the growth of their business, now allowing National Instruments to process over 3,000 emails daily using JIRA Service Desk Data Center.
In this session, National Instruments will share the story of its business growth and how Atlassian continues to support it. National Instruments will also share best practices and tips for some of the challenges your organization may face when scaling customer operations, particularly around performance, reporting, governance, and supporting infrastructure.
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How Atlassian Manages Risk and Compliance with JIRA Software and Confluence
George Totev
Head of Risk & Compliance, Atlassian
Traditional Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tools are big, expensive, and challenging to manage and integrate. They typically require an army of people to implement and maintain. At Atlassian, we use the power and flexibility of JIRA Software and Confluence to manage our GRC for a low cost, while seamlessly integrating with our existing processes and teams. Join us if you manage risk and compliance, work in information security, conduct audits, or if you are just tired of chasing audit remediations. We will share best practices that organizations in all industries or geographic locations can leverage to manage their governance, risk & compliance needs.
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Scaling Agile with JIRA Software and Portfolio for JIRA
Dennis Struis
Product Owner JIRA, ABN AMRO
Rik de Valk
Product Owner, ABN AMRO
In 2015, ABN AMRO, one of the largest banks in the Netherlands, rolled out agile across their organization. Within a year and a half, ABN AMRO grew from over 100 to 7000 users, and they are now moving towards using JIRA Software Data Center. This growth greatly increased their system complexity, that included 65 administrators that had created over 65 issue types, 250 statuses, and 400 workflows.
In this session, ABN AMRO will share the process of introducing scaled agile to their organization, which includes identifying the impact on usability, gathering metrics, and improving system performance and maintenance. You can also learn about how Portfolio for JIRA is an integral part of scaling agile across an organization and which best practices you can apply to your own journey.
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Scaling IT Operations in a DevOps World
Paul Buffington
Principal Solution Engineer, Atlassian
Siloed IT and development organizations are becoming a thing of the past. If you are looking for ways to improve IT operations to support your dev teams, this talk is for you. Join Paul Buffington, Principal Solutions Engineer at Atlassian, as he shares ways to improve how IT teams work in a DevOps environment. We'll cover incident response to outages and and how to reduce resolution time. You'll see how a Service Catalog, Runbooks and Post Incident Reviews (PIRs) help unify these teams. ChatOps and automation are also key to success and topics for discussion. Finally we'll look at ways to create fast and continuous feedback.
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Simplicity at Scale - Growing Teams at Atlassian
Mat Lawrence
R&D Program Manager, Atlassian
What if I told you that large teams could still be nimble? It's a common fear that as teams grow they will lose their own speed and efficiency. But at Atlassian, we have developed some specific strategies to support one of the largest and quick-growing departments at Atlassian.
You will hear how we are keeping things simple as we grow by focusing on fostering trust, clarifying ownership, and encouraging effective collaboration. In addition to learning what tactics we use to coordinate cross-product strategy, development, and delivery, you will leave this session with ideas that your organization can use to gain understanding and visibility across your teams as they grow.
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The Four Principles of Atlassian Performance Tuning
Dan Hardiker
CTO, Adaptavist
There are typically four primary variables that influence the performance of an Atlassian application: users, application admins, add-on developers, and system administrators. Each plays a different role and its impact on performance can be profound at scale. Dan Hardiker, Chief Technical Officer at Adaptavist who's advised Fortune 500 companies on their Atlassian implementations, will share best practices and demonstrate how to use the process of "monitor, measure, mitigate" to identify key performance bottlenecks and provide data that your organization can use to optimize performance.
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- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/2 pound whole-wheat pizza dough
- 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
- 1 cup baby spinach, chopped
- 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella
- 1/2 red bell pepper, cored, seeded and diced
- 4 scallions, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons black sesame seeds
- Heat oven to 400°F. Sprinkle duck with five-spice powder, salt and pepper. Heat oil in a medium skillet over high heat. Cook duck until browned, 4 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer skillet to oven; bake duck until outside is cooked but inside is rare, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool 4 to 5 minutes. Thinly slice on the diagonal into 8 pieces, then cut each in half. Set aside. Form dough into 8 even balls, then flatten to form 3-inch disks and place on an ungreased baking sheet. Spread hoisin sauce on crusts with a pastry brush. Top with spinach, cheese, bell pepper and duck. Bake until cheese is melted and bubbly, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove and garnish with scallions and sesame seeds.
Per serving: 139 calories, 4.4 g fat, 1.2 g saturated, 15.4 g carbohydrates, 2.1 g fiber, 8.6 g protein


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What is the Student Membership Challenge?
Proposed by Bill Miller, the Student Membership Challenge is a fund that is represents donations by members who wish to support students as SMPTE members. Bill has generously agreed to match donations up to $5000. As Bill says, "Donate so that you will cost me money!"
Why now?
SMPTE needs to attract students to membership to help us grow – and we need the best and brightest in our industry. One of the best ways to do this is to educate college students in technical fields about our industry through their membership in SMPTE. Even though the $35 annual student dues may seem to be quite modest, for a student on a very limited budget, paying for college, $35 can be significant amount.
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SMPTE has set up a Student Membership Challenge Fund for this purpose. Mr. Miller has committed to personally match dollar-for-dollar all contributions to this fund up to $5,000.
Remember to check if your employer offers matching charitable contributions; please look into this as policies vary from company to company. Mr. Miller will match company contributions as well as individual, so if you have a company match, your every donation would be multiplied fourfold. Please look into this as policies vary by company.
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The Intel® SSD D3-S4510 Series is compatible with existing SATA storage infrastructure and comes in a variety of capacities. Larger capacity drives consume up to 6x lower power1 and have up to 6x lower cooling1 requirements than 2.5-inch HDDs while enabling 3.2x more data to be stored in the same amount of space.2
Grow your business without expanding your server footprint with up to 300x more IOPS/TB3 than HDDs. Also, the "Flex Workload" feature enables a common drive type to support different workloads with power-efficient performance.
High reliability reduces the need for drive replacement that is necessary with HDDs. With a 4.2x lower annualized failure rate (AFR) compared to HDDs, IT departments will spend less time and expense replacing or upgrading storage devices.4
The power and cooling claims are based on measurements versus a market available HDD. Intel® SSD D3-S4510, 960 GB and Seagate Enterprise* Performance 10K HDD 900GB 2.5" SAS 12Gbs Model ST900MM0168. Both testing a workload of 128 KB (131,072 bytes) at a Queue Depth equal to 32 sequential writes using FIO*. The benefit calculated as a function of the workload efficiency ratio by lower power ratio. Source – Intel. Source for average power data for Seagate drive from https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/enterprise-performance-10khddDS1785-8C-1607US-en_US.pdf.
Increase data stored per rack unit up to 3.2x vs. 2.5" HDD; Intel® SSD D3-S4510 at 2.5" 7.68TB (available 2019) vs. Seagate Enterprise* Performance 10K SAS HDD 2.5" 2.4TB. Source: Intel.
The performance per 1TB claim is based on measurements versus a market available HDD. Intel® SSD D3-S4510, 960 GB and Seagate Enterprise* Performance 10K HDD 900GB 2.5" SAS 12Gbs Model ST900MM0168. Both testing a workload of 4 KB (4,096 bytes) at a queue depth equal to 32 random reads using FIO*. Performance advantage is normalized to 1TB of drive capacity. Source – Intel.
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Hitting the 40's, 50's, 60's or older stage of your life doesn't mean you need to hang up your athletic shoes. Denville, Morris County NJ In-home personal trainer Carey Yang explains why you should train smarter not harder.
Yang is the owner and master personal trainer at Beyond Fitness Solutions, LLC -- a leading in-home personal training and weight-loss management company serving and helping clients in Morris County, Sussex County, Passaic County, Essex County and Somerset County areas in New Jersey.
Just because you've hit the 40's, 50's, 60's or older stage of your life, it doesn't mean you automatically need to hang up your athletic drive and take up pool aerobics. Of course, there is nothing wrong with turning to pool aerobics for fitness, but if you've been a competitive athlete, it's only natural to want to keep pushing yourself beyond the basics.
As we age, there is a gradual, and inevitable, decline in physical fitness ability. It doesn't have to be dramatic or sudden, but it will happen. If you can be prepared for it, and adjust both your physical fitness routine and your attitude, you may find that you can still compete at a high level.
If you still strive for peak performance and enjoy pushing yourself, you can still make the most of your workouts. To do so safely and comfortably, take a look at at the following tips.
1. Maintain Your Strength
Building and maintaining muscle strength is the best way to protect your joints from injury. Aging joints are more prone to arthritis and degenerative changes, but strong muscles, tendons and ligaments can take the pressure off the joints. Strong muscles will absorb more shock and are far more resilient to stress. Resistance exercise also helps prevent osteoporosis and bone loss, reduce lower-back pain, improve insulin resistance and glucose metabolism and reduce blood pressure. Building more strength is one of the best ways to lower body fat levels and maintain fitness with age. If you don't like weight training, you can still get full body strength building with yoga, and basic bodyweight routines.
2. Change your exercise routine
Avoid doing the same exercise routine day after day. By varying your exercise, you will help reduce the risk of overuse injuries, tendinitis, and joint pain. You will also reduce the specific muscle fatigue that comes from using the same muscles and movement patterns day after day.
3. Change Your Exercise Intensity
Rather than sticking with the same 30-45 minutes of steady cardiovascular exercise day after day, mix it up with some easy, long, slow exercise sessions, and then some shorter, more intense workouts, and even a few high intensity efforts of 30-60 seconds. The variety will challenge your cardiovascular system in new ways, and help you gain and maintain fitness improvements through the years. But do keep in mind that your hard efforts will most likely not be the same as in the past, and try to avoid competing with the youngsters. It's a set-up for injury.
4. Pay Attention To Your Body
Aging athletes may not like the idea of slowing down and listening to the voice that says not to overdo it, but it's critical that you accept that you can't push yourself to the same extent as the 20-year old you. This is where the power of wisdom should emerge. If your muscles are screaming at you to back off and something feels a bit off, you should listen to your body and back off. Pay attention to that voice of wisdom. It may help you avoid a muscle strain or worse. Many injuries occur when an athlete is fatigued, and this is even more likely with an older athlete.
5. Warm Up Longer and More Fully
Older athletes need to give their bodies a bit of extra time to warm up the muscles, joints and boost the blood flow.
6. Work On Your Balance
Balance and proprioception decrease with age, so spending time working specifically on this aspect of your sport can help you perform better, react more quickly and avoid injuries from missteps and falls. The easiest balance exercise is to stand on one foot. Make it harder by adding a movement, such as a half-squat or leg lift, and make it very challenging by closing your eyes. Do these exercises several times a week to work your nervous system along with your muscular system.
7. Take More Rest Days
Yep, it's true, the older you are, the longer it will take to recover from your workouts. So take a bit more down time for every hard training day you have. It's especially important for any hard strength training workouts, or and hard interval training days. Again, listen to your body and if you need two days off, take it.
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C. Carey Yang, Your Dream Body WorkoutXpert (TM), is a certified personal trainer and fitness boot camp instructor based in Morris County, New Jersey. He provides in-home personal fitness training, backyard boot camp, wellness and lifestyle coaching, and fitness and weight-management seminar. He specializes in helping busy, working professionals who want safe, effective workouts with maximum results in minimum time. Yang is the creator of the 6-Step Dream Body Blueprint (TM) Body Transformation System.
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