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– Below is new video from Xavier Woods' "UpUpDownDown" channel with WWE 205 Live Superstars Tony Nese, Ariya Daivari, Noam Dar and Drew Gulak:
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Concert to be Held at The Madison Theater on December 15th
Nashville, TN (December 4, 2017) – Professional wrestler and singer/songwriter JEFF HARDY will be performing live at the Madison Theater in Covington, KY on December 15. He will be joined by local musicians Heart Means More, Toybox Killer, Sever the Ties,Mister Mason and Motel Faces.
General admission tickets are $13 in advance and $18 at the door. VIP tickets, which include a meet and greet and photo opportunity with Jeff Hardy, early entry, special seating, collector's laminate and a signed show poster, are available for $50. Tickets can be purchased HERE.
After already achieving great success as a professional wrestler, Hardy established his band, Peroxwhy?gen, in 2003 and released two consecutive albums. In 2016, he released his first solo project, a six song EP entitled "Spawn of Me," that was dedicated to his daughters. That same year, he also launched his online web store, which features an art gallery with his original paintings. In 2017, Hardy released his latest album, "Precession of the Equinoxes."
Hardy continues to use his natural adrenaline rush to follow his heart in both his career and personal life. "My family, pro wrestling, motocross, music and painting are a part of my human anatomy. They are just as important as my organs. I need them to live!"
For more information, including upcoming tour dates, visit JeffHardyBrand.com and engage with Jeff Hardy on Instagram and Twitter. You can purchase a copy of Jeff's new record, "Precession of the Equinoxes," HERE!
– Below is backstage video of Sami Zayn ranting while at the WWE live event in Monterrey, Mexico this weekend. Sami says SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon pulled Kevin Owens from the tour because Shane is trying to isolate him. Sami also says he was forced to use a sub-par dressing room because Shane is trying to turn the locker room against him. Sami goes on and tells Shane to bring it as he and Owens are men of integrity, and men of integrity don't break that easy.
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Thinking of buying a home? But, not sure whether it is a worthwhile investment?
Buying a home is a tricky financial decision. And, buying an expensive home (one with a higher value than your current one) can be trickier. It can have a huge impact on your finances. The mortgage, house maintenance cost, and other expenditures have the potential to take a toll on your budget if the decision is not wise. Time and purpose are considered the two most important factors that decide whether or not your decision of buying a home is a good idea.
Usually, whether the prices rise or fall (fall, especially for all the wrong reasons) most financial advisors question home investment. Arguments are based on home expenditures and killing financial freedom.
But, is buying a home a bad investment? What if you seek a home as a long-term investment, prices fail to be affordable for years, or you really need a new home? Let us have a look.
Taking into Account Historical Stats – HDB Housing and Private Properties
Financial history, whether it is the stock or real estate markets, is considered when making investment decisions. Let us take the comparison of a 4-room and 5-room HDB house in 1990 and 2016. Assume that you had the option of buying either a 4-room or a 5-room HDB home back in 1990. The HDB price in 1990 was approximately $60,000 and $75,000 for a 4 and 5 roomer respectively. In 2016, the price rose up to $332,500 and $415,500. Given this scenario, it is obvious that buying a 5 roomer would have proven to be a good choice back then. Even with the recent downfall in prices of real estate, the average prices have considerably risen with an annual growth rate of approx 6.8%. Even if you would have had to take a loan for the property back in 1990, given the lower interest rates then, you would have made a larger profit – summing up as a good investment decision.
Now, you may ask that this was just for HDB housing. What about those who prefer private properties like Condominiums?
Property Market
Although the property market has cooled down in recent years, buying a condominium then or even in the early 2000s would have proved profitable since the prices have recovered to offer you substantial profit. In fact, in 2010, there was no resale charge imposed on Executive Condominiums. This indicates it's a good time to buy resale flats. Even if you had taken a loan, the low interest rates would have worked in your favour. Above all, if one is ready to downsize their home, the property investment could be a great option. Considering the appreciating property market during the time, one can sell their existing property at good rates and earn a large profit as a result of downsizing. Considering these historical statistics, buying a property is not really a bad investment decision.
But, why then do financial advisors question home investments? What about the unpredictable nature of these markets? Isn't taking a loan equal to not entirely owning the property until it is paid-off?
Well, like everything else, home investment also comes with its own pros and cons. The answer to your questions is long term thinking!
Long Term Home Ownership – Good Investment Decision
In this era of instant gratification, everyone thinks of short term returns overlooking the fruits of long-term gains. If a person seeks a home to spend their entire life there, then investing in buying a home definitely wins. How? Let's explore.
Most people argue that a lifetime of renting is a better option than owning a house as it can offer good financial rewards. This can be true in certain cases. When you buy a home, you not only incur the purchase amount but also various other costs. For example, the loan and the interest amount, property taxes, maintenance, etc. This doubles and triples the price you pay for buying a home. When you rent, you definitely save a few lakhs on the entire deal.
But, this concept still has flaws in it. It only takes into consideration the present property price or market scene and excludes the potential of inflation. Considering two additional factors, here's what we get –
- The Future Value of Your Property – Let's say you bought the property and lived in it for almost your entire life. At one point, you decide to move in with your kids. If the property market, including the price of your home, appreciated then you can gain substantial returns. Even if it did not, you may still be able to sell your home at the same price. This definitely beats renting a home for life.
- In the Case of Inflation – It is said that when you buy a home on a long-term, fixed mortgage, you essentially shorten the value of the currency. Considering this, in times of inflation, every year it gets cheaper to live in an owned home. In contradiction to this, living in a rental property, the rents typically increase with inflation. This takes a toll over your price of living. Once again, the buying of a house defeats renting in such a scenario.
In Conclusion
Finally, we can answer the question – is buying a home a bad investment – with a No! While we cannot say that the conventional financial advice of not investing in a property is entirely wrong. It is just a matter of short-term and long-term perspectives and individual situations. Plus, most of the times better to be asset rich, instead of cash rich!
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SACI has developed an Energy Management System which allows to analyze and control the proper use of energy.
This system can be used in buildings, apartments, shopping centers, factories to name a few.
Energy control system consists of the use of energy measuring equipments (M2DL), pulse totalizer (TTI) based on microprocessor and Ethergate Interface RS485/RS232, and control software (TTIgest).
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Full Catalog of WARMACHINE and HORDES Stat Cards Now Online
June 23, 2017
Bellevue, WA — Privateer Press announces the completion of its online stat card database for WARMACHINE and HORDES. All cards for all models that currently exist can now be found and downloaded for free at cards.privateerpress.com. In addition to all cards now available online for free, all rules for WARMACHINE and HORDES can be downloaded for free at privateerpress.com/rules. Printed stat cards are no longer included with models.
Star Cards for future model releases will be added to the database on the day the models are first made available for purchase and will coincide with War Room 2 updates. A Card Version List is available at privateerpress.com/rules, providing players with a reference document of any recent changes or additions to the card database.
"The online card database provides WARMACHINE and HORDES players with a free, easy-to-use resource that ensures the stats and rules for any models they're playing are always current and up to date," said Chief Creative Officer Matt Wilson. "By leveraging the available technology, we have given WARMACHINE and HORDES the comparative agility of online games, allowing us to respond quickly with adjustments to rules or stats in order to maintain a smooth and consistent competitive-play environment while eliminating the need for players to reference the errata documents that plague tabletop gaming."
Players using the card database can search by Faction and can easily filter by model type then select and compile cards into a single PDF for ease of printing and personal use. Card lists can also be sent to friends using a shareable URL provided on the website.
Privateer Press currently offers stat cards through the War Room 2 companion app for players who desire army construction functionality on a mobile device.
For players who prefer physically printed cards, Privateer Press will soon offer a Print-on-Demand option through a third party service.
"We've made all our rules and stat cards available for free because we don't we don't want to just provide the bare essentials for free and then expect our players to buy a bunch of books to actually play the game. Instead, we've worked hard on creating these free digital resources and tools so that every WARMACHINE and HORDES player has immediate and easy access to all the rules they need to play the game without throwing up unnecessary hassle or barriers to hold them back," said Director of Business Development, Will Shick.
Free rules can currently be found at privateerpress.com/rules.
Up-to-date cards can be found at cards.privateerpress.com.
About Privateer Press, Inc.
Privateer Press, Inc., is a privately held producer of entertainment and hobby brands based in the Seattle area. Its products include the award-winning WARMACHINE and HORDES hobby miniatures games, the award-winning Iron Kingdoms property and Iron Kingdoms Full Metal Fantasy Roleplaying Game, the Monsterpocalypse battle miniatures game, the Formula P3 hobby line, No Quarter magazine, and digital fiction through the Skull Island eXpeditions imprint. LEVEL 7 is the property of Matthew D. Wilson, used under license. To learn more about Privateer Press, visit www.privateerpress.com or contact the president, Sherry Yeary, at (425) 643-5900 or email@example.com.
About WARMACHINE and HORDES
WARMACHINE and HORDES are dynamic, 32 mm tabletop miniatures games set in the steam-powered science-fiction/fantasy world of the Iron Kingdoms. WARMACHINE and HORDES use the same rules and can be played independently or against each other, differing in the range of factions available in each game, and the manner in which each side wages war. In WARMACHINE, each player commands an army of detailed miniatures, including a warcaster, an elite soldier-sorcerer who possesses arcane power and the ability to mentally control a force of steam-powered mechanical automatons known as warjacks, and supporting soldiers. In HORDES, players command of a battle mage known as a warlock who can control an army of powerful warbeasts and warriors into combat.
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September 28, 2016 - Breaking News: Patty Mahan Illegally Lobbied City Officials to Build More Billboards in Santa Clara
Report from City Independent Investigator: "I conclude Ms. Mahan engaged in lobbying within the meaning of the Lobbying Ordinance when she met with various City officials on AllVision's (billboard company) behalf, and that she was not exempt from registration as a lobbyist under the attorney exemption."
Patty Mahan Violated Lobbyist Rules But Will She Be Fined?
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Corsica Ferries offer excellent cabins, bars, self-service and a la carte restaurants, children's playrooms, swimming pools, solariums and shops. A wide choice of cabins helps you relax and feel at home whilst on board.
SNCM is a major ferry company operating from Corsica to southern mainland France and provide modern well equipped ferries and excellent levels of service.
Nice port facilities
The comfortable, air-conditioned terminal buildings at Nice Ferry Port offer a wide range of services and facilities, including food and drink services, children's play areas, telephones and TV. The two port terminals are connected by a free shuttle bus service. There are various parking facilities at the port.
Getting to Nice
On the motorway A8 Coming from West: exit N 50 Nice Centre/Airport/Nice Cote D'Azur. Follow the seashore along the Promenade des Anglais direction the Port. Follow Le Quai des Etats-Unis, le Quai Lunel and le Quai de la Douane for arrival at the port.
On the motorway A8 Coming from East: Exit N 55 Est. Follow the signs to the Port. Take La Penetrante du Paillon, continue onto La Route de Turin. Turn left at L'Avenue Denis Seimeria and continue on L'Avanue Gallieni. Turn right at Bd St. Roch and continue on Bd de l'Armee des Alpes. Turn right a La Gare de Riquier. Turn left at Rue Arson and continue at Le Quai des deux Emmanual for arrival at the port.
You can get a bus to Nice from most of the bigger cities in France and most of Europe. The Free shuttle service in Nice Ferry Port allows passengers to go quickly from one side of the port to the other.
About Nice
Nice is the 5th largest city in France and one of the most visited cities after Paris, mainly by English, American, Scandinavian and Italian tourists. Nice boasts stretches of white sandy beaches and is close to the famous town of Cannes.
2000 years ago, inhabitants from Marseille won Nice from Italy and called it Nikaïa after Nike, the Greek Goddess of Victory. Nice has always been a contested territory; for a long period, it was part of Italy and eventually in 1861; it was annexed to the French Empire.
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He's arguably the most controversial US presidential candidate in history, but will Donald Trump really be as outrageous in office as he's suggested?
Throughout his campaign to win the hearts and minds of American citizens, Trump promised a host of outlandish and, in some case, almost impossible things.
This willingness to push the pale and say things that other politicians wouldn't dare has clearly won him some fans as he'll soon become the official leader of the most powerful country in the world.
However, what it's also done is given the world's leading bookmakers a chance to offer some highly lucrative presidential bets.
In years gone by, betting on the US president's potential actions has never been that appealing.
The odd impeachment trial, something to do with water and gates and some extramarital indiscretions have been about as racy as things have got in the White House over the years.
But, with Trump likely to throw more curveballs than a Major League pitcher, the next few years could be an interesting time in the betting world.
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Intel has just announced the successor to their Sandy Bridge architecture. The Intel 4th Gen Core processors with Iris Graphics afford devices a huge leap in graphics processing power when compared to its predecessors. This is of particular importance to Ultrabooks, as Iris Graphics allow unprecedented 3D performance without the need for a discrete graphics card. Iris gives users up to double the 3D performance when compared against today's fastest mobile Intel Graphics solutions. This brings high-level visuals to today's Ultrabooks, Notebooks and Desktop All-in-one PCs.
When compared with the previous, 3rd, generation Core processors, Intel's Iris Graphics gives much improved 3D performance. Iris Users will see a twofold graphics increase over the older Intel HD Graphics for the high-performing U-series Ultrabook Processors. H-series processors will see a similar increase in 3D performance when compared against Intel Iris Pro graphics and High Speed Memory. When compared against desktops running R-series processors, Intel Iris Pro graphics show a 3x performance boost. This allows users, particularly those who own Ultrabooks, to not only use their devices for more intensive video and photo editing, but also gaming on the go, without the need for a huge gaming laptop.
Apart from 3D visuals, Intel Iris graphics also delivers greater photo and video editing performance through features such as Intel Quick Sync Video technology, MJPEG acceleration, 4K UltraHD display resolution, collage mode display, OpenCL, DX11.1, OpenGL4.1 and DX extensions. The 4th Gen Intel Core Processors offer integrated on-package EDRAM memory, the ability to output to three screens, enhanced 4k support and improved MPEG encoding.
Intel Iris and Iris Pro graphics, along with their current Intel HD graphics offerings, give manufacturers a greater number of setups to cater to different markets, and allows users greater choice when it comes to choosing a device catered to their needs. Intel said in a conference call earlier this week that while Intel Iris Graphics isn't really trying to achieve "Perfect" gaming, it is certainly much greater than current offerings, even those that draw more power.
The announcement is great news for gamers on the go, as well as those who seek to have much improved graphics performance without having to worry about the bulk and power draw of a mobile gaming rig. Stay tuned, we've been promised some review units as soon as they are available, and we'll be putting them through their paces.


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How Much is the Cost of Gastric Sleeve Surgery
For many people, the cost of gastric sleeve surgery may greatly determine whether they proceed with the procedure. The cost of gastric sleeve surgery will depend on the location where the surgery will take place. Also, the cost of Gastric Sleeve will depend on whether or not someone has medical insurance and/or if they are having the surgery as a preventative means.
Generally, gastric sleeve surgery isn't covered by an insurance company. However, for morbidly obese patients who are having it as a part of a journey to have gastric bypass, it is usually covered. This is known as a duel procedure and surgeons book surgeries this way to help patients with the cost. Ultimately, an insurance company may permit the surgery if they feel the patient has a greater risk of developing more dangerous and costly conditions as a result of their weight.
When choosing weight loss surgery, the cost is often a major factor in whether the surgery is actually administered. Ultimately, the cost of the surgery itself may vary depending on the location.
Typically, the price of Gastric Sleeve falls in between the cost of Gastric Band and Gastric Bypass. Based on a 2013 surgery by Obesity Coverage, the average cost of surgery has dropped to around $17,000. This number is typically what someone will pay without any insurance coverage. Surprisingly, this number is less than that of what a hospital would actually bill an insurance company.
What does the Price Mean?
Many believe that just because a price is lower that means a surgeon is less skilled. Absolutely not. This price is determined by a hospital or maybe even the surgeon. They may choose lower prices to encourage more patients to endure the surgery and also make it more available to a large range of people from all economic backgrounds.
Is it Covered by Insurance?
Most of the time, Gastric Sleeve is not covered by insurance. For those who are morbidly obese however and are having Gastric Sleeve as a part of a process to have gastric bypass, it most often is covered. Oftentimes, surgeons will book patients for this dual procedure knowing they will lose enough weight with the first procedure and not require the bypass, so that insurance will cover their procedure.
Ultimately, it depends on one's overall health if an insurance company feels that the surgery will benefit you from developing other medical conditions in the future because of your weight.
After Gastric Sleeve Surgery Costs
After surgery, a patient must continuously visit a nutritionist. Follow-up visits their surgeons are typically free. Compared to gastric band or gastric bypass, the amount of follow-up is lower, leading to lower after surgery costs. If any complications occur, typically the treatment will be covered by the hospital if the surgery itself was.
Other Variables of Gastric Sleeve Surgery
When choosing to endure weight loss surgery, you are choosing to change your lifestyle and eating right and getting healthier. Some costs to consider are a gym membership, nutrition supplements (needed after surgery and throughout life), new clothes, cosmetic surgery to remove excess skin and even more money for food.
Always take great consideration into account when determining if gastric sleeve surgery is for you. Ask questions that make your decision easier. Make sure you understand all the underlying financial responsibilities before choosing to go under the knife.
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Remember that just because one surgeon quotes a price lower then another doesn't mean they are not as skilled as the other. The price determined for the gastric sleeve is most often decided by a hospital, which may choose lower prices to encourage more people to have the surgery.
After surgery, there are also some costs related to one's surgery. A patient will need a nutritionist post-op. They will also need regular follow-up visits to their surgeons, which typically are free, but may not be included. Some other costs related to changing one's lifestyle include and are not limited to a gym membership, various nutrition supplements, new clothes and possibly cosmetic surgery.
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Can you believe we're 2 weeks away from DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco (#DOES16)? It came up so fast!
As the founding partner of the conference, we're forging ahead with IT Revolution to bring you the most exciting DevOps event to date. As we all strive together to identify and amplify best practices around DevOps and modern software delivery, it's vital that we gain as many perspectives on the challenges and successes as possible.
For over a decade, Electric Cloud has focused on helping large enterprises – the 'horses' – become better at releasing software. This year at DOES, several of our customers are going to share their unique DevOps transformations stories at the conference. We can't wait to learn from their use cases and experiences scaling DevOps at enterprises from such diverse industries, such as HPE, Quicken Loans, Intel, and more.
Electric Cloud Customers Speaking at DOES16:
Doubling-Down on ChatOps in the Enterprise
Daniel Perez, Build & Deploy Architect, HPE
HPE's Research Development & Engineering team has been on a fast-tracked DevOps journey over the past couple of years. 2 years ago, they started with enabling their entire organization to use ElectricFlow as a highly available and centralized self-service solution for build/test/deployment pipelines.
Then, in 2015, they expanded to comprehensive monitoring, self-healing, and accelerated deployment strategy across all applications to support fully automated deploys and self-healing.
Join us this year as HPE continue on their DevOps journey with their biggest transformation yet: the proliferation of ChatOps within the organization. HPE shares the decisions that lead them to this investment, the key lessons learned, and share their various Hubot integrations and capabilities.
DevOps Champions: Leading the Transformation at Quicken Loans
Tyler Underwood, Sr. Application Engineer, Quicken Loans
A champion in the workforce is a person and/or team that drives positive transformation and understands best-practice principles to implement. DevOps is a journey, and – more than any shiny new technology – at its core, it's all about the people. DevOps requires a cultural/mindset shift: it's a new way of thinking, empowering, and collaborating that requires champions in the organization to drive this transformation. This talk shares Quicken Loans' journey to lead a DevOps transformation in the organizations:
- How do you move from "Heroes" to "Champions" to scale your DevOps adoption in the organization?
- How to use "The Three Ways: The Principle Underpinning DevOps" to accelerate your DevOps rollout?
- Potential challenges encountered along the way. What did we learn?
- What are some tactics for ensuring buy-in and encourage participation both at the executive level and at the team-level?
- How do you work with legacy applications, (and sometimes – "legacy" people) on your road to DevOps?
- Tips for how champions "grease the wheels" for moving DevOps transformations forward.
Intel's "Middle-Out" Journey to DevOps
Manish Aggarwal, Software Tech Lead, Intel
Software quality matters. Thorough testing is a critical step that is often handled manually, introducing risk and delay and unpredictability in the process. Join us to hear how the Intel Avago QA team transformed their processes using DevOps principles to:
- Continuously increase the quality of their testing and release pipeline
- Eliminate manual handoffs and increase code coverage
- Build and test any version of their software on any combination of hardware, on-demand
- Re-use automation to cover more ground – Code Coverage, Memory Leaks, Binary Compatibility
- Detect errors quickly to optimize for quality
"Are we there yet?" Continuous Improvement and Scaling DevOps at Urban Science
Marc Priolo, Software Configuration Manager, Urban Science
Urban Science is a global automotive retail performance expert that serves nearly every automotive OEM in over 70 countries. By leveraging analytics of consumer behavior, their products help automotive dealers sell more vehicles, improve profitability and increase customer loyalty.
2 years ago at DOES14, Marc from Urban Science presented "Vision Versus Execution: Implementing Continuous Delivery". He shared how they achieved a big Continuous Delivery win – increasing software test coverage and delivery velocity and efficiency.
Since then, Urban Science have been busy scaling DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Lean principles across teams and practices throughout the organization. This rollout included both a cultural aspect, as well as an implementation of a centralized, shared, self-service automation solution for our teams – enabling them to "opt-in" to an automated pipeline.
In this talk, Marc presents anecdotes and learnings gathered through their experience over the past two years and discuss the challenges and the value of scaling DevOps across the organization.
The Inside-Out of Creating a DevOps Movement
Eddie Garcia, DevOps Practice Manager, Bluware Inc
Grassroots DevOps Taking Roots: You don't always have the luxury of a top down DevOps initiative, what is a non-conforming DevOps minded individual to do? Become a DevOps guerilla and start a grassroots DevOps movement. The presentation will center around two cases: The Mac Office team at Microsoft, and implementing DevOps at a major oil and gas company. The key to both of these cases is that there was much resistance to change and the change was brought on from the bottom up. What is offered are techniques to use to build consensus and momentum for your very own grassroots DevOps movement.
There's More:
In addition to these great customer talks, Electric Cloud's own DevOps experts will take the stage to share their insights on modern application delivery, new technologies shaping DevOps, as well as tips and tricks for using ElectricFlow for some of the more challenging use cases and huge scale that we've seen with our enterprise customers.
These talks include:
- Microservices and Docker at Scale: the PB&J of Modern Application Delivery
(Anders Wallgren, CTO, Electric Cloud)
- The Future of DevOps in the Enterprise: Trends and Predictions
(Steve Brodie, CEO, Electric Cloud)
- Best Practices for Designing Your Pipelines for Scalability and Resiliency
(Avan Mathur, Product Manger, Electric Cloud)
- CD for DBs: Database Deployment Strategies
(Chris Fulton, Global Technical Account Manager, Electric Cloud)
- Dashboards for DevOps: How to Set Up The Right Reports to Help Teams Monitor the Metrics that Matter
(Brian Price, VP Commercial Services, Stratus Solutions)
- DSL at Scale: Source-Code based orchestration
(Greg Maxey & Laurent Rochette, Solutions Architects, Electric Cloud)
- Practical Tips for Converging ITIL and DevOps with ElectricFlow and ServiceNow
(Chris Fulton, Global Technical Account Manager, Electric Cloud)
- Automate ALL the Things: Taking Advantage of Free Tools to Automate Your End-to-End Release Pipelines
(Avan Mathur, Product Manger, Electric Cloud)
- Advanced Patterns and Use Cases for DevOps at Scale with ElectricFlow – Lightning Talks Round
In this talk, you'll get to meet Electric Cloud's technical field and PM team, in a series of 9 fast-pace lightning talks that cover the nuts and bolts for some advanced use cases supporting enterprise pipelines with ElectricFlow.ElectricFlow is a powerful end-to-end DevOps platform for software delivery, used by large organizations to solve complex problems that span teams, technologies, and global territories. Come learn how some of our more advanced customers are taking advantage of features like Access control, Rollbacks, Pipelines, reusable components, DSL, Agent resource management, and more – to scale up and standardize their processes in order to release faster while ensuring security, compliance and control.
(Also, if you're an Electric Cloud customer attending DOES16, don't forget you can take advantage of ElectricFlow and ElectricAccelerator training during the event!)
We're excited to see ElectricFlow and our customers take center stage at DOES – and we're in EXCELLENT company! Check out all of the other great speakers and conference sessions here.
The event is almost sold out- be sure to get your ticket now!
Electric Cloud Customers speaking at DOES16 are joining us for a special episode of #c9d9
Tune in on November 1 at 10am PT for a special episode of our Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast with the Electric Cloud customers speaking at DOES16.
Join Sam Fell, myself, and speakers from HPE, Quicken Loans, Intel, Urban Science, Bluware and Stratus Solutions, to discuss some of the challenges and patterns for success for adopting and scaling DevOps at large enterprises, and get a taste of what to look forward to at the upcoming show.
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- Changing the Game! - April 18, 2019
- Should you use AI to make decisions about your software team? - February 28, 2019
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The southwesterly monsoon springs back into life bringing torrential downpours Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Days of torrential rain bring widespread disruption to Tamil Nadu state.
At least 55 people have been killed after days of torrential rain in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The relentless rain has caused widespread flooding. Many of those who died were either killed by electrocution or crushed when walls collapsed on them.
The capital of the state, Chennai, is one of the places which has been badly affected.
Over the last seven days, 492 mm of rain has fallen on the city. This is well above the average of 353 mm that is expected in the entire month of November.
The deluge brought the city to a standstill. Many of the roads were impassable and schools were closed on Friday.
Train tracks were submerged in places, bringing trains to a halt, and a number of flights were disrupted. Determined pedestrians had to wade through knee-deep water as they navigated the streets.
Unlike many parts of India, Chennai receives most of its rain in the winter months. The wet weather is brought by the northeast monsoon, with the wettest months being from October to December.
Over the past few weeks, an active area of low pressure has persisted to the east of India. This has threatened to become a tropical cyclone on a number of occasions, but so far has failed to do so.
Although the system has not become a cyclone, it has still intensified the rain over southeastern India and Sri Lanka, bringing prolonged and heavy downpours.
The system is showing no signs of easing over the next few days, so more torrential rain is inevitable.
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"There are many definitions of creativity. Which one is relevant depends on whether you are looking at the process, the outcome, or the goal, and which cultural and philosophic views you are taking. Generally, creativity can be defined as the creation of original ideas, processes, experiences, or objects" (Egbert, 2009).
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Tools for Creativity in Music
Whether composing or improvising, these eight creativity strategies can assist with the creative process:
- Combine
- Rearrange
- Adapt
- Reverse
- Substitute
- Modify
- Magnify
- Minimize
Notation-Based Composition
- Noteflight is a free online music notation. Setting up a Noteflight account is free and easy. Though it does not offer an app option for iOS or Android, the site can be accessed through any browser. The site offers multiple entry methods including simple point and click mouse as well as quick keyboard entry. One of the great features of Noteflight is the ability to share music with others and browse through other users' music. Tutorials are available on the website to explain how to use the program. For an additional fee, Noteflight offers classroom options for setting up class assignments as well as MIDI input.
- Music Notator by Scorio from the App Store or Google Play
- Sibelius and Finale are professional grade music notation software programs.
- Hardware
Loop-Based Composition
- Audiotool is a free online composition program. Users can create drum patterns, basslines, loops, and compositions without any knowledge of music notation.
- Music Studio Lite – This free app for iPad (not available on Android), has a variety of instruments that users can use to create loops and recordings in app.
- Auxy for iPad (not available on Android) was super easy to use and created an amazing sound. Though not as robust with features as Music Studio Lite, the simple interface makes this an ideal app for beginners who want to create their own loops. Recordings can be made and exported.
- Music Studio App
- GrooveMaker lets users create live, loop-based music. It turns the mobile device into a real instrument great for DJing parties. After some practice, users will feel comfortable producing live music, or exporting recorded music.
- GarageBand
- The iReal Pro app
- Top 6 Must-Have Apps for Songwriters from SonicBids Blog
- Thrum With Me: Free Guitar and Songwriting Resources
Creativity Resources
- Creativity Techniques from mycoted.com.
- The MadPad HD app for iOS lets students create music using everyday sights and sounds using .
Egbert, J. (2009). Supporting Learning with Technology: Essentials of Classroom Practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Laakso, B. (2015). Music Tech 101: A Group Study Course in Modern Music Production Using Audio Technology. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred.
Rudolph, T., & Leonard, V. (2014). Musical iPad: Performing Creating, and Learning Music on Your iPad. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard.
VanWeelden, K., & Heath, J. (2013). Low-budget apps for students of all abilities. General Music Today, 27(1), 45-47. Retrieved from http://gmt.sagepub.com/content/27/1/45.short


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While there are lots of liver detox programs around, if you eat from this list of 19 superfoods, your liver will be in a permanent state of cleanse!
As it states in the great website, Healthy Holistic Living:
Don't detox – create a natural detox diet
Thinking is now beginning to turn to the fact that eating a proper well balanced, healthy, nutritious diet is a better alternative to forced, crash detoxing. Let your liver do the job it's designed to do. I.e. filter all the toxins out of your bloodstream. Separate them from the food and drink that you consume through the production of bile and your natural digestive function. A wholly crucial part of any holistic health lifestyle.
Great foods to include in your constant detox diet
Eating the right foods is key. Here is a list of foods you can include in a diet that'll promote a wholly natural. Perpetual cleanse of your liver.
See what you should be eating…


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Hey y'all! Please pardon the iPhone photos — I'm out in California on vacation and wanted to throw up a few photos up on the blog. The weather is amazing and am having a good time in San Francisco where I've visited a few times, and spending some good time in Sonoma wine country with this crazy guy.
I always seem to not leave enough time to check out the great restaurant above, but was able to check it out. The above was a glass of Gruner Veltliner from Austria and it accompanied a pulled duck sandwich ( duck confit, fig & toasted GA peanut relish) & slaw. Tifanie was a great barkeep as well. Tell her I said hi! Highly recommended.
Ferry Building, amazing place with an array of independent shops and food galore — finally made it to the Saturday farmer's market. More to come.
Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Alice Waters' restaurant… high expectations — did it delivery? I'll have more to say…
Although stuffed from a stop at an Indian restaurant before the ride up to Sonoma, I couldn't resist a stop at this west coast favorite.
A small mini-chain (#3!) of coffee shops in Sonoma – Flying Goat Coffee roasts their own beans & serves great coffee with a touch of latte art I've come to love.
People love heading to the northeast in the fall, but I've got to say the autumn colors in Sonoma wine country are absolutely breathtaking. This winery had an incredible view I'm looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with some awesome friends here in the wine country, and look forward to sharing you more photos in the weeks to come. Be safe and have a great holiday!


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A hero police dog took his final walk before being put down last weekend. Louis, a 13-year-old Belgian Malinois, died in the arms of his best friend and handler, Officer Steve Henry.
Louis faithfully served the Northumbria Police for over a decade. Metro reports that, over the course of his police dog career, Louis caught hundreds of burglars and rescued dozens of missing people. In 2007, he even received a national award for rescuing a woman who had tried to take her own life.
The loyal dog retired in 2015 and lived the rest of his days with Steve.
"I got him when he was just eight weeks old and spent more time with him when he was my police dog than I did with my partner," Steve said.
"It is really sad that he isn't with us anymore, but it was his time. He had a great life, and I am glad that he got to have three years of retirement."
Steve took Louis for one last walk before the dog was put down, then held the dog in his arms as he died.


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The Innovation Fund: Who Are We?
We are Brookline High School parents and educators who seek to provide an extraordinary education by instilling a passion for academic exploration and a commitment to innovation.
The Innovation Fund: Innovation in Action
In an era of standardized testing and drilling down, the Fund is dedicated to investing in ideas that support innovation in the classroom by piloting new, exciting, and cutting edge curriculum.
The Innovation Fund: Exciting New Programs
Engineering Innovation and Design integrates the principles of engineering and aesthetics, allowing students to move beyond 2-D drafting into the creation of real (3-D) products.
The Innovation Fund: In the Classroom
The BHS Innovation Fund provides funding for model programs that are designed to improve academic achievement for all students.


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At the beginning of 2015 a new system was created. The Express Entry system was created to be used to process applications for immigration to Canada from South Africa and around the world under four different immigration programs, including the Canadian Experience Class.
In order to qualify to apply under the Canadian Experience Class you need to meet all of the following criteria:
- Have at least 12 months of full-time (or an equal amount in part-time) skilled work experience in Canada in the three years before you apply in an O, A or B level occupation.
- You gained your experience in Canada on a valid Work Permit
- You meet the required language levels needed for your occupational level in each language ability as shown by an approved language test
Many people work part time while they are studying in Canada. The experience gained while on a study permit in Canada will not be counted towards your work experience on an application under the Canadian Experience Class.
Candidates seeking immigration to Canada from South Africa will need to complete their application under the online Express Entry system at which points they will be added to the Express Entry pool along with other applicants who are hoping to immigrate to Canada from South Africa and around the world.
Once you are in the Express Entry pool you will also enter into the Job Bank. Should a Canadian employer be looking for someone with your skill and experience but be unable to find a Canadian to do the job, they are able to search for a foreign candidate via the Job Bank. Once a foreign candidate has been found they will be able to offer them the position only after obtaining a positive Labour Market Impact Assessment. This is issued if the Canadian government agrees there is no Canadian available to do the job.
If you have a job offer and a positive Labour Market Impact Assessment you will have an advantage over others in the pool as this will add 600 points to your score. Once you have been selected from the Express Entry Pool based on your score you will have 60 days in which to complete the full Permanent Residency application forms and submit them along with the required documentation. You will have an outcome on your completed application within six months of your application being submitted.
There is no limit on the number of people who can enter into the pool and there is no deadline for Express Entry applications at this time. If you are not chosen within the first 12 months you will be able to re-enter the pool should you still meet the requirements.
When attempting to fill out any immigration form, having the assistance of a regulated Canadian immigration consultant who has years of knowledge and experience assisting those immigrating to Canada from South Africa is of great assistance. They will help you to get the required paperwork completed quickly and will give you peace of mind knowing that your immigration forms are completed correctly. A regulated Canadian immigration consultant will also be able to advise you on which Canadian immigration program is correct for your. Allow us to help you with your immigration to Canada from South Africa.
Currently the Canadian Government fees for a Canadian Experience Class application are:
- $550 CAD for the main applicant
- $550 CAD for the spouse of the main applicant
- $150 CAD per dependent of the main applicant under 19 years of age


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PacBrands to offload Dunlop Foams, Sleepmaker
Pacific Brands says it has agreed to sell its Dunlop Foams and Sleepmaker businesses to Sleepyhead for gross proceeds of around $55 million.
The deal involves Pacific Brands acquiring Sleepyhead's Australian carpet underlay business (Wonderlay) "for a nominal amount".
Pacific Brands said the divestment was in line with its transformation program announced last year.
Dunlop Foams and Sleepmaker were not part of Pacific Brands' long-term strategic focus and the price and terms agreed are commercially attractive, Pacific Brands said in a statement to the Australian stock exchange.
"The acquisition of Wonderlay will be a good addition to Pacific Brands' leading carpet underlay business, Dunlop Flooring."
The transaction is expected to be completed during the next three months.
The sale of the businesses to Sleepyhead and the acquisition of Wonderlay are subject to approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
The sale of Dunlop Foams and Sleepmaker are expected to result in a reduction in Pacific Brands' sales revenue and EBITA of approximately $160 million and $11 million respectively on a full year basis, Pacific Brands said.
The sale proceeds will exceed net tangible assets, however Pacific Brands will incur a one-off non-cash loss on the sale around $35 million.
All Dunlop Foams and Sleepmaker employees will transfer with the businesses to Sleepyhead, Pacific Brands said in the statement.
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A Limerick man has been jailed for the four and a half years for a "savage" attack on his former partner during which he beat her with a shovel until it broke.
The victim was left with bruises and injuries to her eye, eyelid, cheeks, neck, head, ears, arms and legs. She also had hair torn from her scalp.
The 37-year-old man, who cannot be named because he was acquitted of rape in the same trial, had pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman outside her house but had denied other charges of assault and false imprisonment.
Last month, a jury at the Central Criminal Court found the father-of-four guilty of assaulting the woman outside her home and of dragging her into a waiting car.
He was also convicted of beating her with a shovel until it broke.
The jury returned not guilty verdicts on the charge of keeping her in a house for a week and of raping her several times, including with a bottle.
The jury could not decide on two counts of rape and the man may face a retrial on these allegations.
Ms Justice Margaret Heneghan said it was a "vicious and savage attack" and that the offence of false imprisonment merited a six-year prison sentence.
She reduced this to four and a half years on the basis of mitigating factors including the man's co-operation with gardaí and his admissions to them that he had behaved poorly on the night.
The judge said that the vulnerability of the victim and the effect of the offences on her were aggravating factors.
She also noted there were no expressions of remorse on the man's part.
Detective Garda Keith Harmon told the court that the man dragged the mother of his child into a car when he suspected she was seeing another man.
The man took the woman to another house and continued to assault her during the journey.
On arrival he continued attacking her in the car park.
He punched and kicked her and she was forced to the ground.
He kicked her on the ground and only stopped when she told him she might be pregnant.
Her clothes were ripped off during the assault leaving her in her underwear.
After an interaction with the man he thought she was having an affair with the accused set about attacking the woman with a shovel, hitting her mainly about the thigh and ankles.
The man has 11 previous convictions, mainly for road traffic and public order offences.
Det Gda Harmon told Michael Bowman SC, defending, that these were of a minor nature.
The court heard the victim had problems with addiction to drugs, mainly unprescribed tablets.
In a victim impact report she said her drug abuse had gotten worse since the attack.
She said she was afraid he would come back some day and get her and said her family had been put in fear over the attack.
She said as a result of what happened she couldn't go back to Limerick and now lived outside the county.
Mr Bowman said his client came from a decent family and accepted he had behaved badly on this occasion.
He said the man and the victim had a "deeply dysfunctional relationship" and had one child together.
He said his client had a number of children and had a good record of employment going back to his teenage years.


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Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book,
The Darker Fall, was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books
in 2002. His new book, Want, will be published by Sarabande in early 2008. His poems and essays have appeared
in numerous publications, including New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and
Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also appeared in many anthologies, including The New Young American Poets,
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.
He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University.
He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches both in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and at
Pacific Lutheran University.
Two poems by Rick Barot


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Discussion in 'AK & SKS Discussion' started by Duke, Apr 7, 2007.
Show off your AK's!
How to show off?
Is there a place to post pictures? What is the easiest way to do this?
Some forums often have a gallery in each persons profile.
If you use a site like photobucket or imageshack, you can just put the image links right in your post.
It even gives you the exact code to put it in!
I guess I will get this one started. Nothing special just a WASR10, but everybody likes photo threads.
First you will need to create an account at an image hosting site. Try here http://photobucket.com/ . Once you upload images to your account you just copy the URL link for your image and paste it into a photo caption here.
just a couple
cant forget the Romak
My first AK. I need a new digicam to take pictures of the new ones.
some guns ak before
more guns and ak after
My favorites
In December of 2003, I bought a NIB Romanian SAR-1 for $200. I knew nothing about AKM rifles but had wanted one for awhile and saw the SAR-1 for sale in a mom-and-pop gun store.
The SAR-1 was used by the Romanian military and is the only true military issue of all the AKM rifles imported into this country. All SAR-1s have true AKM receivers with the dimple over the mag well. They were set up from the factory to use standard AK mags. All other AK variants imported into the U.S. are commercial rifles made for the consumer market. On entry into the U.S., Century swapped out the fire control group, the pistol grip, and the gas piston to keep the rifle within the letter of the sporting purpose clause of the 1968 Gun Control Act.
Although this picture is not my original SAR -, mine looked basically the same as the one below.
After keeping the rifle in the original configuration that you see above for about a year, I decided that I wanted to customize my rifle based on some of the other AKM rifles that I had seen and/or read about on various AK sites and many of the members of the sites were kind enough to give me advice on how to proceed. So, I started the modification process and this is what I have ended up with so far:
The folding stock and furniture came from www.dpharms.com, the bayonet came from www.tickbitesupply.com, and see below for info on the Kobra red dot sight.
This picture immediately above shows the bayonet mounted over the slant brake. Because I had to thread the barrel to add the slant brake, it changed the 922r requirements for the rifle and I had to use a U.S. made slant brake in order to remain in compliance. Before installing the slant brake, I also installed a detent pin and spring in order to keep the brake in place.
And if you have not seen how the Kobra red dot sight attaches to the side rail of an AK, here it is:
The Kobra is the Russian military EKP-1S-03M upgrade and operates on two AA batteries. (http://tantal.kalashnikov.guns.ru/collimator.html). The Kobra can be easily mounted and dismounted without disturbing the zero of the sight once it is set.
It addition, the rifle is fully compliant with U.S. parts and thus meets the federally mandated 992r requirements.
The rifle also has modifications that are less noticeable, such as a:
Blackjack notched safety/selector lever, http://www.blackjackbuffers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=202. Because some ranges that I go to require that the bolt of the rifle be locked open during cease fires, I installed the Blackjack notched lever. The locking open is done manually so when the last round from a mag is fired, you still hear the "click." If the bolt has to be locked open, then you can use the lever to do so.
Blackjack recoil buffer, http://www.blackjackbuffers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180
Blackjack shepherd's crook replacement lever, http://www.blackjackbuffers.com/ind...uct_reviews_info&products_id=238&reviews_id=9
FCG from Red Star Arms, http://www.redstararms.com/
A Fuller enhanced rear sight from One Source Tactical http://www.onesourcetactical.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=564
I carry six mags – either 20 or 30 round mags – five in a Chinese military bag from Cheaper Than Dirt. The sixth mag will be in the rifle.
One of my better acquisitions is the Lula Loader. www.maglula.com
If you go to the site, just click on "Lula" in the upper left corner and then scroll down until you see the loader for the AK. If you don't have one, you should.
Your thumbs will thank you!
In MHO, the AKM is the Glock of rifles. It's not pretty but it is rugged, reliable, runs with little or no maintenance, and like the Glock it can be dry-fired 'til your heart's content without damaging the firing pin or any other part of the weapon. The AKM is not as accurate as the AR but for the purpose for which the AK was designed and manufactured, it is an excellent weapon.
If you own an AK or if you are thinking about owning an AK, the "must visit" site on the web is Romanian Kalashnikov Rifles, http://www.gunsnet.net/Linx310/index.shtml.
The magic of the site is in its left column and although the site is primarily for Romanian made AKM rifles, the principles that are discussed will apply to any manufacturer of AKM rifles.
Here are a couple of mine (dglockster, correction to your statement about 1968 GCA. The sporting purpose didn't come around until 1994, the 68 GCA created rules stipulating that every firearm made in the USA or imported into the country, had a serial number. Guns pre 68 were exempt. It also brought about the rules of transfers, ffl's and matters pertaining to interstate dealings.)
See how mine now looks at http://www.gunsnet.net/forums/showthread.php?t=322238
Toxic, what is the bottom right AK variant?
if your serious they are cetme's or a fal
Armi Jager AK 22 (Italian) 3rd from bottom on right,
dooncoon is correct otherwise. Fal and Cetme.
now that's a collection of AK's...VERY IMPRESSIVE
Here's my Zastava Arsenal M70ab2 Yugo AKM Under Folder...with Yugo Bayonet attached...bought @ the Valley Forge PA gun show March of 2007...came with two 30 round magazines, oiler and cleaning kit for around $450...a CIA build using a DCI receiver with 1972 Yugo parts
Also has the grenade launcher gas cut-off...day and flip-up tritium night sights...slant muzzle break...and the handguard is teak
I have about 30 BHO magazines in Yugo camo mag pouches...a grenade launcher spigot...and I am currently scouring PA gun shows in search of a inert grenade.
accurate out to 100 yards with stock extended and iron sights using Wolf Black and Military Classic 122 - 124 grain HP / FMJ ammo
Now shopping around for a M92 Krinkov (picture borrowed from Zastava website) ...and only posted to represent the type...should anyone here not be familiar with the model...end disclaimer
dont have a complete AK yet, just received my rivet squeezer the other day, so hopefully in a month or two I'll have a pic to post.
My Maadi
never had a better shooting or handling AK, no trigger slap out of it what so ever


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Pretoria is going green with the first high volume recycling programme launched this year by GreenWise in association with the Polystyrene Association of SA. GreenWise collects polystyrene from companies where the volumes are sufficient and transport it to their premises in Pretoria North, where the Polystyrene is compressed by the first locally-made Ingot machine.
Ingot machines remove the air from polystyrene, increasing the material's density by 40 times. This vastly improves the transport carbon footprint of polystyrene when it's collected for recycling.
Polystyrene recycling programs have recently been established in Gauteng, Durban and the Western Cape.
Polystyrene is a versatile material found in your home, office, local grocery and favourite restaurant. It comes in many shapes and forms, from foam egg cartons to salad boxes, from coffee cups to CD "jewel boxes," and from produce trays to "peanuts" used in packing and the lightweight foam pieces that cushion new appliances and electronics.
The Polystyrene Association of SA has called for everyone across the country to make sure their polystyrene is recycled. You identify this material by the recycling sign at the bottom, with the number 6. They would like to see as much as possible polystyrene diverted from landfill. You may not have considered the implications of just how much Polystyrene you are dumping. The solution is separation, compaction and recycling! It is up to us consumers to make this happen.
GreenWise are also working together with the local government and industry to identify areas where polystyrene can be dropped off and collected.
They currently collecting polystyrene from the following schools in Pretoria:
- Anton van Wouw Primary School
- Waterkloof Primary School
- Hennopspark Primary School
- Lynnwood Primary School
- St Paulus Primary School
- Pretoria Boy's High School
- Pierneef Primary
- Loreto Convent
Contact GreenWise to join this initiative.
WastePlan collects clean polystyrene from industries in the Pretoria region.
The polystyrene in South Africa is currently being recycled into items like picture frames, cornices and curtain rods.
Ingot machines make this viable
The Polystyrene Association of SA is forming partnerships with recycling companies countrywide. These companies are investing in the Ingot machine manufactured in South Africa, making the recycling of polystyrene a viable and sustainable business opportunity.


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Our world is a potential treasure trove for data scientists and analysts who can comb through massive amounts of data for new insights, research breakthroughs, undetected fraud or other yet-to-be-discovered purposes. But it also presents a problem for traditional relational databases and analytics tools, which were not built to handle the data being created. Another challenge is the mixed sources and formats, which include XML, log files, objects, text, binary and more.
"We have a lot of data in structured databases, traditional relational databases now, but we have data coming in from so many sources that trying to categorize that, classify it and get it entered into a traditional database is beyond the scope of our capabilities," said Jack Collins, director of the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. "Computer technology is growing rapidly, but the number of [full-time equivalent positions] that we have to work with this is not growing. We have to find a different way."
You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without talking about the elephant: Hadoop.
Hadoop is an open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation that's very helpful in storing and managing vast amounts of data cheaply and efficiently.
But what makes it special?
Hadoop is more than just a faster, cheaper database and analytics tool. In some cases, the Hadoop framework lets users query datasets in previously unimaginable ways.
Basically, it's a way of storing enormous data sets across distributed clusters of servers and then running "distributed" analysis applications in each cluster.
Here's how Apache describes it:
The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly available service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.
Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System
But what is BIG DATA?
Big data is a popular term used to describe the exponential growth, availability and use of information, both structured and unstructured. Much has been written on the big data trend and how it can serve as the basis for innovation, differentiation and growth.
In this video, Antony Wildey from Oracle Retail explains what Big Data is, and why effective management of data is vital to retailers in gaining actionable insight into how to improve their business. It includes how Oracle can help businesses to use data from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and use sentiment analysis seamlessly to provide insight on product demand.


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Coat: ASOS
Jeans: Topshop
Boots: Dr. Martens
Scarf: Zara (old: vaguely similar)
A day before our second major bout of snow in the UK, the pale pink raincoat of my dreams arrived at my door. Therefore, so far, I've been using it as more of a snowcoat.
I actually planned this purchase in time for the Winter/Spring transitional rainy period. However, naturally, the weather in England never does what we hope, or even expect, it to do, going, rather, in completely the opposite direction and sending us a blizzard. In fact, it's somehow a combination of a blizzard and a storm - the beast from the east blew over and then Storm Emma realised she could have some serious fun with this country's inability to manage during extreme weather.
Anyway, this gorgeous millennial pink coat is from ASOS - mine is specifically from the Tall section, but I know that it's available in standard, petite and curve sizes, and maybe even in maternity. It's kind of the perfect coat, and it's one I've had my eye on ever since it came onto the site. I'm sure I mentioned it in my most recent 'Currently Coveting' post, and I soon realised it would 100% be filling a gap in my wardrobe and was a necessary purchase.
The coat has a super warm borg lining on both this upper body and hood, ideal for keeping your head warm through these cold winds - especially if, like me, you're really not a hat person. The main thing that appealed to me about this coat is how darn long it is. As a tall girl, it's usually a struggle to find a coat that covers my bum, much less one that's virtually knee-length. Therefore, this one's pretty perfect, and picture perfect too - isn't it just the nicest shade of pink?
Honestly, could not recommend this coat enough. I know it's going to work well for three out of four seasons (and will probably still be useful in the four), and I'm sure I'll have it in my wardrobe forevermore.
Here I've completed the outfit with my staple pair of Dr. Martens, black skinny Topshop jeans and a big check Zara scarf (obviously with an additional three layers underneath that you can't see).
I'm really hoping to start adding more fashion to my content, so I hope this is the kind of thing you'd like to see more of (also, I plan on taking multiple pictures for each outfit post so you can see the clothes a little better; this one only has one because the weather was way too harsh to be standing around posing!)
I hope some of you are enjoying the snow at the moment - I can't say it's my favourite kind of weather unfortunately - and if you're in a warmer climate, appreciate it! What I'd give to see some sun for a change!
Until next time.
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I personally have taken an interest in cooking with fresh ingredients. Being raised in a traditionally British household, my mother was not big on herbs and spices, but her cooking was comfort food to me.
Fast forward a few decades, and I found myself cooking very similar foods and as life got busy with kids and jobs, one pan stir fries and one pot chili's were my "go to dinner". But now that the kids are grown and I have had to make some adjustments in cooking to deal with health issues such as blood pressure and blood sugar, I have taken an interest in different ways to spice up meals without too much salt and add different flavors.
Most of us have those dried herbs and spices in that spice rack or back of cupboard, and I ventured into using them, but my goal is to use fresh. I will admit the flavor is so much better, and thought how cool it would be to simply pick them from plants on my counter.Credit: amazon.com
Amazon Price: $299.95 $139.95 Buy Now
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Indoor Garden Kit with Lights
I like the idea of this one because I live in a northern climate, and if I want to grow herbs all year round, I will need the help of a special light. I like this kit because it comes with everything you need and the light is just the right spectrum for growing your plants.
If like my area the days get a lot shorter come Halloween and onwards, then the addition of a growing light makes all the difference. It imitates the lighting they would get outdoors in the summer and it is automatically regulated. I decided I will always grow some outdoors in summer but in the winter months I will switch to this herb garden kit. I also wanted something that didn't take up too much room on the counter as well. You do need access to an electrical outlet. So for me it will sit on the end of the counter.
Also adding some greenery to the house in the depths of winter is a nice addition. I just have to keep my cat away from them! This is also something else you could try and grow catnip! Herbs smell awesome especially when you pick them, you will be more inspired to spice up an otherwise boring meal. That was my first goal, to add more flavor to my most common meals.Credit: amazon.com
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Complete Herb Garden Kit with Blacboard
If you have an aspiring cook on your list, or someone who simply loves to garden and enjoy the results, you can get a window ledge kit that includes everything, such as the one above. It has blackboards on the side of the planter where you can label them and it comes with seeds and everything you need to know.
This one doesn't have the lighting, but will grow for an extended season on a window sill in the kitchen. This is an awesome gift idea to get anyone interested in using fresh herbs or even drying their own. Herbs don't take up much room and they can be planted close together. You don't have to worry about environmental toxins or sprays, you just water and maintain and pick what you need. You don't need to pick the whole plant.
They do grow fast under the right conditions.Credit: amazon.com
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Printed Garden Sticks
I thought these would make a great addition to a gift package. These sticks are printed on antique printers and just look neat. Perfect for outdoors or your indoor garden.Credit: amazon.com
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Growing Your Own Herbs Book
Investing in a good book is always a good gift to add to the kit. I wanted to change my way of cooking and was totally unsure as to what herbs go with what meats or other ingredients and meals. I needed to know what herbs and spices to mix and when. So being this rusty I thought a book was a good way to learn at my own pace. It can take time to change your ways, but it can be fun.
Once you discover fresh products you will never go back to dried if you don't need to. I also didn't realize that those dried versions do have a shelf life. So, it is really nice to add something you grew yourself in your kitchen to a meal and really add flavor compared to adding some dried herbs from long ago and you are not sure how long they have lived in your cupboard!Credit: amazon.com
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Glass Terrarium
This is another really cute option. If you get sunlight in your home, you can keep your plants out of cold drafts by using this glass terrarium for your herbs. It has ventilation so the heat doesn't build up too much but your plants will bask in summer like conditions.
I am looking forward to using more fresh produce that I have grown myself. Right now I purchase fresh herbs from the grocery store and am beginning to feel more confident in how to use them and for what meals. My family enjoys trying new things. I am not so big on change, but have tasted the different when using fresh compared to dry.
They can also get expensive in the grocery store especially in the winter months, so why not grow your own under the proper lighting?


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There's bad news. In less than seven years from now, the United States would have overtaken Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's largest producer of oil and gas. And, 10 years hence, it could become completely oil independent. The implications for Nigeria are stark: The United States, which currently imports 42 per cent of its total oil needs, 9 per cent of it from Nigeria - which translates to a little less than half of Nigeria's total oil export - would no longer have the need to do so. And if anyone thinks this should not be troubling because we can simply shift our oil supplies to other big consumers like China and Europe, then, that person is mistaken.
The reason why the United States would become oil and gas independent is because they have perfected the technology of hydraulic fracking, which can get oil and gas out of shale rock. The shale rocks have always had lots and lots of trapped oil and gas but getting them out had proved more expensive than simply importing them. But, today, with improved technology, hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling have been combined to extract the trapped oil and gas at a much cheaper rate. And it will get even cheaper in the coming months as efforts are being intensified to make it so.
Unfortunately for oil-producing countries like Nigeria, these shale rocks also litter the landscapes of China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia, etc. The reserve in shale oil in China surpasses that of North America by 50 per cent; in fact, studies have shown that recoverable reserves of shale gas are present in almost all countries of the world. In other words, oil and gas may soon become as common as water.
For a country like Nigeria that depends on oil for 95 per cent of its foreign exchange needs and 65 per cent of its budget, this should be seen as a life and death matter. It should call for a proactive leadership on the part of our government.
Unfortunately, as in every other issue of statecraft, our leaders simply do not give a damn. The technology that would give the US this oil independence status - hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling - will also be available to other large consumers like China, Germany and the United Kingdom.
President Barack Obama, who made oil independence a major plank of his 2008 presidential bid, appears to be succeeding. Between 2008 and 2011, the US crude oil production jumped by 14 per cent; natural gas was up by 10 per cent in the corresponding period. In 2012, the US domestic production went up a further 7 per cent, the largest jump since 1951. During Obama's re-election campaign last year, he informed the American people that he had already cut oil imports by one million barrels daily. This is already showing in our crude oil transactions with them. The United States is the biggest importer of our crude oil and, already, this new trend is showing. American oil imports from Nigeria slumped in 2012 from 810,000 barrels per day to 361,000 barrels per day. But the reality is yet to dawn on our leaders. In 2013, this import will drop by a further 50 per cent and, by 2015, it may be 0 per cent import of Nigeria's oil to the US.
But the good news is that Nigeria's real wealth is in its human capital, huge arable land resources (which can turn Nigeria, as they did Brazil, into an agricultural superpower) and its huge untapped solid mineral reserves, which is found in all states. But converting this potential to real wealth is squarely a function of leadership, the quality of which we do not have at the moment.
Nigeria currently earns about $100 billion annually from oil but this is frittered away by our food import bill of about $20 billion, petroleum products import bill of about $29 billion and several other scandalous imports. This $20 billion annual food import is money that should be going to Nigerian farmers for food production, creating jobs and wealth if we were a more sensible nation. If our farmers got this $20 billion (N3.2 trillion) we send overseas annually to import milk, tomato paste, rice, wheat, salt, sugar, cookies, biscuits, cheese, jam, butter, etc, agriculture would change Nigeria forever.
We can produce all these food items in good quality in Nigeria if we were serious about it as a nation. And if we expended the current $29 billion (N4.6 trillion) we spend annually on importation of petroleum products into Nigeria in constructing several small to medium-size modular refineries, the type that are now commonplace all over the world, Nigeria would, by now, have become a net exporter of petroleum products like every other major oil producer in the world with which we started together. These are not fantasies. They already work in other countries with better leadership than ours.
Every other oil-producing country has envisaged the emerging global energy order and has been frantically diversifying its economy as a result. Brazil, the home of Petrobras, one of the world's largest multinational oil companies, is also a major oil producer. It currently produces about 2.3 million barrels daily but it has diversified aggressively into agriculture. Every year, Brazil earns a cool $300 billion from agriculture. Nigeria, which produces slightly more oil than Brazil daily, now earns about $100 billion from oil annually and virtually nothing from agriculture.
Well, the hard truth is that by 2015 when the United States would have stopped importing oil from Nigeria altogether, 14 other African countries would have joined the ranks of oil producers to complicate the glut. If our leaders do not start giving a damn immediately, many governors may soon not be able to run their government houses. I know this flagrant fact may still not move our leaders to action.
American Drones For Niger, Burkina Faso
There has been an agreement between the governments of Niger Republic and the United States for the Americans to set up a base for drones in their country. Burkina Faso already has a similar agreement with the United States. The drones are expected to keep an eye on, and target, terrorists and Tuareg rebels that now litter countries like Mali, Niger, Chad, Algeria, Libya and of course, Nigeria. The drones may be successful in targeting high-profile terrorists but, as the experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan has shown, drones do not eliminate terrorists altogether.
But there's even a bigger concern and danger. These drones are notoriously imprecise in spite of what the Americans say of them; and if the lessons of drone activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan are a lead, then, the civilian casualties to be expected could make the collateral damage currently being experienced in Borno and Yobe states a child's play.
I hope the leaders of Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Nigeria - where the spying glasses of these drones will be concentrated - have given a thought to this very serious issue.


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Hoodrich Pablo Juan and Danny Wolf proved that they were an effective duo across their underrated project HoodWolf, released in May. The rapper and producer have reunited for new track "We Don't Luv Them," which is one of their most immediately satisfying tracks to date. As usual, Wolf's production is vibrant and cartoonish, giving way to Pablo's triplet rhymes and ad-libs that pop off the beat. The accompanying video is just as glossy as the track, with Pablo dancing and leafing through stacks of cash poolside in some designer threads.
"The money go where I go / Smoking on gelato / Foreign car swerving potholes / Bad bitch she from Chicago /She freaky she gon bust it
She thick as fuck I'm lustin'," he raps in a twisting Southern drawl.
The track is set to be featured on Pablo's upcoming project Designer Drugz 3, which will feature contributions from Chief Keef, Playboi Carti Gucci Mane and Migos. Production will come courtesy of Zytoven, DJ Spinz, Cassius Jay, Nard & B, and Danny Wolf, among others.
Check out the full tracklist below. The project is due out September 20th.
1. "God Damn" (prod. by Zaytoven)
2. "We Don't Luv Em" (prod. by Danny Wolf)
3. "They Can't Stand It" Feat. Chief Keef (prod. by Cassius Jay)
4. "Do What I Wanna Do" Feat. Migos (prod. by DJ Spinz)
5. "Don't Do Dat" (prod. by Nard & B)
6. "Check" Feat. Playboi Carti (prod. by Louis Brodinski)
7. "Chanel Swagg" Feat. Gunna, Duke & Shad Da God (prod. by Cassius Jay)
8. "I Do This" (prod. by Metro Boomin)
9. "Stiff" Feat. Gucci Mane (prod. by Cassius Jay)
10. "B.M.F." Feat. Madeintyo (prod. by Spiffy Global & Nard & B)
11. "I Jus Wanna Kno" Feat. TK Kravitz (prod. by Nard & B)
12. "Get It" (prod. by Nard & B)
13. "Zombamafoo Remix" Feat. Lil Uzi Vert & Lil Yachty (prod. by Danny Wolf)
Quotable Lyrics:
The money go where I go
Smoking on gelato
Foreign car swerving potholes
She freaky she gon bust it


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The woman who teaches actors to fight
When actors need to fight on stage or screen, they have to be taught how to do it realistically and safely.
Alison de Burgh became Britain's first ever female fight director when her acting tutor told her: "You look very feminine but you fight like a man - you should pursue this."
Ten years later, Alison is one of the leading teachers of how to slap, punch and use a weapon in the name of drama.
Video Journalists: John Galliver and Claudia Redmond.
Real Time is a series for the BBC News website in which ordinary people tell their own extraordinary stories.
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March 7, 2019
The benefits of blockchain for the legal sector are numerous: the technology can boost efficiency and productivity, while improving transparency and helping to prevent fraud. Though law firms are especially slow to adapt to change, there is no question that firms should prepare now to harness this technology. Read about blockchain's impending revolution in the legal sector in Jeff Catanzaro's article in the New Law Journal.


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…as determined as I am to do this entire album from song inception to performing every part to mixing and mastering, I'm having 2nd thoughts on the mastering. Because I really don't like what Tom and Kathleen apparently did with Heartattack and Vine and if they can fuck it up, then…yeesh. I realized after I made this video that I had the recordings going through the same channel as my mic, with *DUH* a compressor on it. A really nice compressor, but still a rookie mistake. And I'm going to try mastering my own stuff? Nonetheless, you can still clearly hear the difference in the track I was using as reference for mine and the one I just bought and hate. Maybe I'm just mad because it's different. But tell me you can't hear the harshness of the remaster in comparison. The original sounds more open and airy as well as warmer. These are the hallmarks of mastering, warmth and air.
Dammit. I wasn't crazy about his last two titles for similar production choices.


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My Dog is Training Me
I thought it was about time that I gave you an update on my journey with my little 70-pound dog Tuukka. (If you haven't yet read about my challenges, definitely read my "Why Can't I Train My Dog?" blog first! It will make all of this make more sense!)
As many of you know, Tuukka fell into our laps last October. It was three months after our beloved dog Kelso had passed and six months after our beloved dog Bella had passed. Needless to say, 2014 was a tough year for us and we weren't exactly looking for another dog right away.
But when the universe speaks, we've learned to listen and Tuukka entered our lives like a tornado! Or more accurately, like thunder (Tuukka means thunder in Finnish)!
So, Tuukka comes thundering into our lives, causing chaos, messing up my clean floors, and shedding her white fur all over my red sofa. And we loved her for it but realized that we needed help training her to be part of our family. As you probably already know, this was a tough decision for me because part of me questioned why I wasn't "good enough" to train her myself (after all, I'm an animal communicator – I should be rockin' the training!).
She's now been back from her month long training session for two weeks and it's made a world of difference – but not in the way you might think. Yes, she's walking beautifully on the leash now, yes she's minding calls for her now, and yes she more mellow.
But something else shifted while she was away as well.
And I didn't realize it until the other day when my husband Kevin, my son Cole and I were driving to Cole's hockey game. Kevin suddenly swerved the car to get out of the way of another car that was driving in the middle of two lanes on the highway. When Cole asked what had happened, Kevin grumbled, "People don't know how to drive!" This prompted Cole to say, "Mom does. Mom is a perfectionist in everything."
It wasn't until later that evening that I began thinking about what Cole had said. In many respects, he's right. I like to do things well and right and in the time frame I committed to and this is something that has brought me great success.
But being a perfectionist isn't always a good thing – and it certainly wasn't with Tuukka.
One of the biggest pieces I learned from the trainer at the end of Tuukka training camp was to ease up and let Tuukka have more leeway. For example, on walks – I was frustrated because I wanted her to walk exactly next to me, not a little ahead and not a little behind. I wanted her to walk perfectly!
But when I took into account what the trainer said, and allowed Tuukka a couple more feet of leash, she actually did a great job!
Was it the "perfect" job I had wanted her to do in the past? No. But it was actually much better – because I wasn't tense about her not doing things right and she was enjoying herself having a couple more feel of leeway.
And now, Tuukka and I have reached an awesome balance in our relationship. Is it perfect? Definitely not! I don't expect her to be perfect anymore – and it's so much easier! And it allows me to stop trying to be perfect all the time myself.
I love how, by delving into the balance between an animal and their human, so much can be revealed and understood. I love how, despite how much I know about animals and their connections to humans I am STILL learning!
And I KNOW that you all can keep learning too from the animals in your life!
Stay tuned as well as I'll keep updating you on the Tuukka/Danielle saga as things continue to evolve!
Love & Light,