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Just wondering if anyone has attempted the Star Wars cookies from Williams-Sonoma yet. I have them on my counter, but am putting it off b/c I love the idea of the imprints, but am not sure how they will help me get the cookies decorated once the icing is on. I use glace and it's usually a fairly thick layer that would certainly cover any markings from the presses...thoughts?
check out bakerella! She did them a few weeks ago!
Imprints on cookies rarely help me. I tend to have the image in front of me and free hand it.
I just did mine plain.
Next time I think I will just dye my dough green for Yoda and use a extra dark cocoa for Darth.
My grandsons loved them plain. They didn't care if they were iced!
They still turned out great.
Just googled those cookie cutters. So cool. Am going to get some. Might use them some for the family, but they are really going to be for me.
I used MMF to cover my cookies, cut with the cutters using the imprints, and then royal for the details. They looked so cute! I haven't seen the Bakerella ones yet, I need to hop over there and check those out!
See Bridget's examples at Bake at 350. She did a great job!
I love the ones from Williams Sonoma. I don't use them for cookies though, but for fondant cut-outs on my cakes. See the Star Wars cake in my photos.
here's a link to the ones i did.. the impressions didnt really help at all.. but then again i was probably doing it all wrong... i thought they turned out ok for just looking at the box to do most of the decorating
Thank you, everyone! For some reason I wasn't getting updates on this thread and I have been too busy to stop by, knowing it could never be a "quick" visit to CC!
BTW, What is MMF?
Marshmallow fondant.
I have them and I have made them a few times. They were fun. I didn't use the imprints because I was worried that the glace would go into the lines and cause the glace to look uneven.


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The first meeting of Rebel Óg Central took place on Wednesday night last 8th of February.
All clubs playing in the region for 2018 were in attendance.
The attached excel document is part of the fixture list for the next number of weeks as outlined in the document.
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Japan Invades Switzerland!
EDITOR'S NOTE: I am delighted to welcome as a guest columnist Fred B. Lederman, managing partner & president, Tourbillon Ventures, LLC, a direct marketing consulting and M&A advisory firm.
On Dec. 25, 1969, Japan launched an attack on the 350-year-old Swiss watch industry that would change the complexion of manufacturing and marketing warfare from that point on.
Seiko introduced the 35 SQ Astron—the first commercially available quartz watch to appear on the market. Even though there was a limited production run of some 100 pieces, it had a price tag of 450,000 yen (at the time, about the same price as a Toyota Corolla) and claimed to be accurate to within five seconds per month or one minute per year.
It wasn't a "shot heard 'round the world."
It was more like a muffled snap that reverberated in Tokyo's Ginza district, its decibel level growing as it went through the large shopping and business district of Shinjuku, building to a roar along the streets of Europe's major shopping districts, and, finally, to a deafening blast as it hit America's shores like a vast tsunami that would reach Main Street in every city and town in the country. When its echo came back to Rue du Mont Blanc and Rue Rhone in Geneva's City Center—home to many of the world's luxury watch boutiques—it virtually shook the foundation of the Swiss watch industry to the ground.
Let's take a quick trip back to the Middle Ages when mechanical clocks were being constructed by ironsmiths who fabricated these massive timepieces with driving weights, gears and escapements to be installed in town center buildings to add structure to a community's life. Some of the better known examples of these were built in Exeter and London, England (circa 1285); Beauvais, France (circa 1305); and Milan, Italy (1336).
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This depends on many factors, including the specific condition and it's level of chronicity, general health, age, lifestyle and compliance with advice given by your Osteopath. Most patients feel benefit from the first couple of visits, and further treatments are used to address the underlying causes of the problem, and to reduce the likelihood of recurrence. Treatments will usually be gradually spaced out as a treatment programme progresses, to provide lasting relief.
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February 18, 2010
Of the major sporting consortiums, only the National Hockey League would ever close down at the height of its season even as the stretch-run to its playoffs was beginning. Can you imagine Major League Baseball taking a beach-break for a fortnight in the middle of August, or the NFL closing shop in deference to the holidays? Are you mad, child?
But the NHL is not like your ordinary collection of spoiled and super-entitled people who play games for a living. The promotion of their product, the protection of their market, the sanctity of their schedule, the preserving of their manpower, the compiling of profit, even, have never been real priorities in the good old fashioned and moss-bound NHL.
Soaring song and grand theater, however, are another matter. Invite them to a spectacle that throbs with ritual, ceremony, glorious fanfare, and blinking lights, and hockey people will roll over every time. They come from another age, you see, maybe another planet, and they devoutly believe the play's the thing. The sounding of trumpets rouses their spirits bringing tears to their eyes.
Actually, I find it rather quaint if a bit misguided.
At the Winter Olympics, the international hockey tournament is just another act and hardly the most important one in the scheme of things at Vancouver. Hockey gets equal billing with luge, curling, and cross country, and in the eyes of the all-controlling television network that's really running the show it has nowhere near the stature of the big traditional skiing events, let alone figure skating or even – heaven help us – snowboarding. Don't hold your breath in anticipation of the mighty U.S-Canada hockey showdown because it won't be on NBC's prime-time schedule unless, of course, they meet in the finals of the medal round at around nine o'clock in the morning.
There's nothing wrong with all that. Indeed, it's the way it should be. The kids who do giant slalom or long blade speed-skating get one gig on the Big Stage every four years. They don't deserve to be upstaged by Sidney Crosby and Tim Thomas. Still, for hockey, huge questions persist.
Would the almighty NFL consent to serve as just another sideshow? Would Baseball run the risk of loaning its premier and highest paid talent – the all-stars –- to foreign teams coached and managed by people they hardly know smack in the middle of their season? Would any league allow its best and brightest to risk burn-out by fighting fiercely for flag, crown, and anthems on the eve of their day-job's showcase event, "the playoffs?" Keep in mind that when the NHL resumes operations on March 2, all 30 teams face a much-compressed schedule. With playoff hopes desperately at stake, they'll be playing furiously every other day until mid-April to make up for the lost time. They must. Otherwise they'd be playing until almost July.
A precious few players may get a hoot out of being allowed to compete for the Motherland, but there's little else in it for the NHL other than a little goodwill, and that plus a million bucks or so rents you a back-up goalie nowadays. Moreover, it's not clear many appreciate the NHL's sporting sacrifice.
If the United States Olympic hockey team dominated by NHL personnel were to win the Gold at Vancouver would it mean anywhere near as much to Americans as it did when the gung-ho college kids prevailed at Lake Placid in '80 or Squaw Valley in '60? The 1960 wunderkinds, led by our own Harvard boys, Billy and Bobby Cleary, had a fireman for a goaltender. It was charming. I haven't done a plebiscite on the matter but I'd bet the ranch 80 percent of the responders would say they liked it the way it was.
It is so much more satisfying to have true amateurs win these medals. It was the concept on which the games were long predicated and still should be. The use of multi-millionaire professionals in the hockey tourney makes fair-minded folks squirm although the use of NBA all-stars in the Summer Olympics' basketball competition is much more egregious given that the vast majority and very best of them perform for only one team. Ours!
In theory. the 16-day break can be useful to the Bruins although the six players they're lending to the cause – the Charas, Bergerons, Sturms et al – are naturally those who carry the bulk of their load and are thereby most in need of R & R. Zdeno Chara, the team's workhorse , continues to play with a broken finger. The condition is not likely to improve as he captains his Slovakian brethren against such traditional blood foes as the Russians and the Germans. Little good will come of that for the Bruins. Nor is it likely Thomas, the admirably thoughtful goalie whose game has lately gone astray, will benefit from sitting on the U.S team's bench the next two weeks.
The matter of gravest concern, though, is Bergeron. He has rebounded brilliantly from a near career-ending concussion but concern about over-extending him is reasonable. However, others among their chronically injured who are not going to Vancouver – notably, Marc Savard, Milan Lucic, Mark Stuart, and Andrew Ference – should benefit. With 22 games scheduled over the last 41 days of the regular season, they had better.
The temptation is to say it hardly matters. In the long run, this team is going nowhere and after enduring a winless stretch of 10 straight games, smashing a team record for ineptitude that had proudly been standing three quarters of a century, they were even money to not make the playoffs only a week before the break.
But parity rules in the brave new NHL. There are about six very good teams and six very bad teams and the other 18 are exceedingly mediocre. There are degrees of mediocrity, of course. Last season your Bruins were in the upper range of the parity pack, making them slightly above average whereas this year they're decidedly in the pack's lower range, making them quite borderline.
Still as long as you are snug in the middle of the mob, check to jowl with all the other teams clawing furiously to make the playoffs while not having a ghost of a chance to reach the semi-finals, you remain viable. By winning their last four games before the break, the Bruins climbed five notches, and if Lord Stanley's nice little tourney were to begin tomorrow they would have the honor of being swiftly eliminated by the New Jersey Devils.
Quite simply, it's not a very good team. They got lucky last year when their injury burden was light. Injuries are always a factor but never an excuse. It remains a tough game despite the determined effort in recent years to tame it down. Injuries are inevitable and must be dealt with. The Bruins don't have the depth to do so and haven't for some time. Case closed.
After last season's decent surge, some sophisticated fine-tuning was crucial but the new boy, G.M. Chiarelli, proved unequal to the task. His meager response was to bring aboard a journeyman defenseman, Derek Morris, plus minor spare parts. He would have been better off keeping high character role-players P.J Axelsson and Aaron Ward. Subsequently and inexplicably he saddled himself with Savard for another generation. That will prove to be a big mistake.
In the short term, the Phil Kessel deal with Toronto hurt, with their most pressing need remaining a genuine sniper. But that's all Kessel can do and the second or third pick in the draft – if they get lucky and the Leafs finish that low – should offer more; that is if the general manager has the hockey smarts to make the right choice, which is yet unproven. And somewhere along the line the owner will have to pay the price, which he never has.
This much is for sure: The Olympic break, whatever its charms, will resolve none of these issues. The more things change the more they remain the same. It's an old hockey expression.


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SpyCrush (also known as Spylocked, SpySheriff, SpywareQuake, SpyFalcon and Brave Sentry) is one of the latest spyware infections plaguing users on the Internet.
SpyCrush is a member of the SmitFraud family and is a clone of the SpyLocked infection dressed up with a different name. Depending on your level of skill, it can be difficult to remove SpyCrush from your computer.
This infection will display warnings telling you you are infected with spyware, when in fact you are not. You may see popup baloons that read:
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This is one of the only places where you can find complete removal instructions without the need to purchase software or install some kind of trial removal software to remove SpyCrush.
This tutorial will show you how to remove SpyCrush infection from your system at no cost in four easy steps.
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This is the SpyCrush scanning screen. If you see this on your PC youare infected with SpyCrush. The next three pages of this remove SpyCrush tutorial shows you how to remove the infection without spending money or installing trial software.
In addition to the scanning window, you will also see almost constant popups that appear to be coming from the Windows Security Center, but are actually generated by the SpyCrush spyware infection. These are depicted below.
This is what a typical SpyCrush pop-up alert will look like from your Windows system tray. This alert is not a genuine security alert and is a marker that indicates you are infected with the SpyCrush spyware infection.
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Most of the time it is easy to know when your computer is infected with the SpyCrush spyware infection. You will see a popup each time you boot your computer.
The main purpose of SpyCrush is to trick you into thinking that your computer is massively infected with spyware, and the only solution is to purchase the commercial version of SpyCrush to remove the infection. In reality, SpyCrush is the spyware infection, and the typical AntiSpyware utilities (Adaware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Microsoft AntiSpyware, and Windows Defender) can not remove it because SpyCrush is constantly running – even in Safe Mode.
NOTE: – It is important that you follow the remove SpyCrush tutorial directions on the following pages EXACTLY to ensure a proper removal of the SpyCrush spyware infection. Skipping steps, or performing actions out of sequence will result in an incomplete SpyCrush removal and probable spyware reinfection. Please click here to bookmark this page (Ctrl+D) so you can return here later after you restart your computer. This remove SpyCrush process will require you to restart your PC.
This remove SpyCrush tutorial consists of three additional steps. Please continue through the remaining three steps in the remove SpyCrush process. The entire remove SpyCrush tutorial should take less than five minutes to complete.
Remove SpyCrush Step 1 – With the introductions out of the way, you will now need to download the tool required to remove SpyCrush from your computer. There is one tool that is needed. Use the links below to download each tool and save it to your Windows Desktop. Right click on each link and select "Save As" and save them to your desktop.
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Remove SpyCrush Step 2 – Once you have this tool downloaded, you need to install a secure browser, such as Mozilla Firefox. You were infected with SpyCrush when its creators manipulated your Internet Explorer browser. To successfully remove SpyCrush you must download and install Firefox. After installing Firefox it is critical that you run the Firefox browser at least once. This is important in the remove SpyCrush process! Don't skip this step!
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Remove SpyCrush Step 4 – Once you have disabled System Restore, you will need to prepare the tool you downloaded for use. To do this, first locate the smitrem.exe file on your desktop. Double click on the file and you will see an extraction window similar to the one on the right. Click on Start and the extractor will create a folder on your desktop called smitrem.
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Once your computer is in Safe Mode you can proceed with the tools you prepared for to remove SpyCrush in the previous step. Open your Control Panels and double click on Add/Remove Programs. Once the Add/Remove window is open, locate the SpyCrush entry (they are in alphabetical order) and click uninstall.
Although this removal seems surprisingly simple, appearances can be deceiving. Close the Add/Remove window and close the Control Panels Window.
NOTE: – The SpyCrush program will still be popping up those annoying alerts from your taskbar. This is normal. Continue through the rest of the tutorial to complete the remove SpyCrush process and stop the popups.
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If you find any matches, highlight the task by left clicking on it, and then click on the "End Process" button. End any and all matches you find, because there could be more than one. As you end the processes, be sure to click "Yes" to any warning boxes that pop up. The SpyCrush alerts in the taskbar should now stop popping up.
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First, prepare your search function by left clicking on the Start button and then left clicking on Search. The search window should now open. On the left, click on "All Files and Folders" and then left click on "More Advanced Options." A drop down should now appear. Make certain you have a check mark in the Search System Folders, Seach Hidden Files and Folders, and Search subfolders boxes.
Enter the name of each of the files below into the search box and search your computer for the file. Delete any that are found.
C:\Program Files\SpyCrush 3.1\
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On this Feast of Saint Patrick, the lucky ones are already dead...
After narrowly escaping an ancient burial ground, long forgotten and buried underneath the marshes of Cape Cod, a group of friends emerge from the thick, marshy darkness, tattered and bloody, lucky to be alive. They have already lost two of their friends in the marsh, presumably dead. They stumble upon an empty Cape Cod vacation house alongside the foggy marsh and break in to take shelter. Whatever was in the marsh is still after them and soon after one of them goes for help, the rest of the group learns that the evil in the marsh is not the only thing that wants them dead. Something worse, something more savage, was lying in wait just outside the marsh, in the house. What happens next is unspeakable, horror that cannot be unseen. These unlucky travelers spend their St. Patrick's Day trapped between two evils forcing them to fight, die, or go back the way they came.
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So I have this mid-day dog walking client, and I was just coming back from the park (I drive them to this park nearby that has good trails so we can get a good 1-2 miles in) and at the driveway to the apartment complex, this dude was just romping around and having the time of his life sniffing everything and just being Mr. Stray Puppy on the loose.
I zoom off to my client's apartment, drop off the dogs, and zoom back, and see Mr. Stray a little further down the road, this time just hanging out ON THE ROAD. Thank goodness I keep a stash of leashes in my car, and that a nice guy spotted him too and stopped his car and called him over. Mr. Stray happily and waggily went to him. I asked him if he was his dog, he said no, and I said if he doesn't mind, I'm going to put a leash on him. They're all, yeah, sure, he's all yours.
So yeah. He's still a baby, but a big baby. He happily climbs into my car. I take him to the vet where I used to work to check for a microchip (I knew it was unlikely, but had to check). Nope, he's clean. So now he's boarding there at my expense, and I've got the job of trying to find his owners now. Sigh. I can't afford indefinite boarding, but I also couldn't live with myself the way he was playing in traffic he was going to get hit by a car, guaranteed.
I can't keep him as I already have 2 dogs who are a well-established pack and will not take well to new member. Plus, it's a small house and I don't want another dog. The kicker that KILLS me, is that for years and years I have said that my next dog will be an all-black male German Shepherd. He's so handsome I can't stand it. But he belongs to someone.
Anyway, I'm spamming FB and making flyers and putting ads on Craigslist and the Found Dogs on the Animal Control and Humane Society sites, etc etc.
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For a long time I wanted to share this simple idea. I have to say it is not something I invented - it was probably created long long time ago by some very creative people. I call it hole in the reflector.
Thinking how to simplify best light solution for portraits photography, especially head shots, I came across this simple idea of cutting the rectangle in my big 5 in 1 reflector. There are hundreds of portrait light modifiers, I thought, but surely this is the simplest and the best lighting by far. At first, I was very sceptical about cutting the hole in the £10 reflector but after lots of thinking I went for it and never regretted it, even for one second. Yes, I ended up with the reflector which has a big hole in the middle, but after seeing the final results from our test session, I can highly recommend this way of lighting your subjects.
Look at the images below to compare the results. All the images are raw - no photoshop involved. Let me know if you like it and please share with me your results.
On this occasion, I would like to thank my friend photographer Jo ( from: http://www.joforrestphotographer.com ) and lovely model Harriet.
First image shows Harriet without involving reflector:
Picture below - Harriet with a white side reflector shoot through.
Gold side of the reflector:
And the last one, silver side of the reflector:
As you can see we don't need to buy an expensive lighting modifiers. It is enough to buy just a big 5 in 1 reflector and cut the hole in it. Simple and very effective way of taking great images in no time. Hope you like the idea.
On the last note just wanted to share this extra image from our testing session. Please stay tuned for more ideas which I hope to post soon.
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Tocumwal to host biggest air show in 30 years on Saturday.By Daniel Hughes
The Tocumwal historic aerodome will host its biggest air show in 30 years, full of acrobatic aerial brilliance, history and exhibits on Saturday.
The day will feature World War II fighters and bombers, airforce heritage planes, more than four hours of aerobatic shows from a range of planes, including the 'Avenger', appearing from Paul Bennet Airshows, as well as delicious street food trucks and market stalls.
It will be a day to look to the skies, while the children enjoy the family-friendly `kids zone', including a jumping castle and face painting.
"There will be some cool things to see and do on the day," Murray Border Flying Club member Matthew Loffler said.
"The Avenger is sure to be a crowd pleaser. We're hoping for some fairly large numbers and are expecting a great day."
The gates open at 9 am with a free shuttle bus running throughout the day.
If you are looking to stay grounded, there are a range of ground displays of vintage planes and hot rods to see.
The Murray Border Flying Club and Paul Bennet Airshows will host 55 planes throughout the day.
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MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- "We are very pleased to have Daniel join our team in this new position," said Paul Wilson, President of the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, based in Wadley, Alabama. "His background and heart is a perfect fit for our thriving charity."
"I want 'Servant' to be the term that describes me best," said Craig. "I try to live by the motto 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'" Craig has had years of experience doing just that. He held various senior management positions with different organizations, including American Airlines Travel Center, The Oklahoma City Philharmonic Box Office, and most recently was Procurement Manager of apparel and footwear for Feed The Children, Inc.
"I heard a speaker tell a story recently about a race involving special needs children. The whistle blew and the race began. One of the children fell down halfway through the race. Once the other children saw this, they stopped and went back to help their fellow competitor. They all finished the race hand in hand. The crowd went wild. Everyone was a winner. This is the team spirit I see at Souls4Souls and I am very excited to be a part of it," Craig said.
Soles4Souls was started by long-term footwear executive Wayne Elsey after successful footwear drives for victims of the Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, which netted over 1 million pairs distributed in less than a year. "We are putting together a world class team that clearly has the vision of making a difference in people's lives with the gift of shoes," Elsey said. "Craig is the kind of person who will thrive as our Director of Procurement because he understands our mission and brings a wealth of contacts and experience to our organization."
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Wyoming High School Boys and Girls Soccer Rankings: Apr. 16, 2014
There's a new #1 ranked team in the latest coaches/media rankings, and another team should get the #1 label next week.
The latest 4A boys rankings saw a little bit of a shuffle from last week. Laramie retains the #1 ranking, and Gillette moves back up to #2, after winning on the road vs. now #4 Central last week. Elsewhere, Green River has moved up to #3 and Sheridan takes the last spot at #5. The game of interest is Thursday, when Central travels to Laramie for a 4A East conference game.
No change at all in the latest 3A boys rankings. It's still Jackson at #1, followed by Buffalo, Lander, Powell and Star Valley. SV is scheduled to play at Lander on Saturday.
At about 7pm on Tuesday, 2 things happened. The polls closed, and the final whistle sounded on Laramie's 3-2 win over Cheyenne East. The votes had already been cast by the time word of the final score got out. So, the Lady Thunderbirds are currently the #1 ranked team, with the Lady Plainsmen at #2, but expect that trend to be reversed next week. Undefeated Green River is starting to get some attention, and they have moved up to #3. Sheridan holds at #4, while Central fell to #5, after a bad week last week. Laramie is at Central on Thursday.
The new #1 is in the 3A girls ranks. Lander has climbed over #2 Cody and #3 Worland for the spot, and have it unanimously. The Lady Tigers should get a test on Saturday, when they host #4 Star Valley on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Fillies and Lady Warriors will battle each other in a 3A NW game on Thursday at Worland. Buffalo checks in at #5.


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Jason Phillips is currently a director of Wireless Solutions at Gabe's Construction, with over 18 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, where he successfully started, managed and developed teams in multiple business units across the United States.
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The opening salvo of NFL free agency is always a mess, and with the excess of salary-cap space this year, the numbers will get only more distressing. Just think, quarterback Brock Osweiler's huge contract with Houston will look like a blip on the radar screen two years from now.
But what this should do for the smart NFL teams is create an opportunity like what the Patriots have been pursuing for years. Rather than compete for the absolute top of the NFL free-agent market -- a place that only rarely has star-caliber players -- those teams could try to scour the expired rookie contracts for gems. New England, of course, is even more proactive in this arena, trading for players such as Jabaal Sheard and Kyle Van Noy before their rookie contracts even expired. But with free agency, these risk-averse teams will no longer have to give up draft-pick compensation for reclamation projects.
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Many have made the journey across the United States from coast to coast. Of those, most have not done it peddling a bicycle the entire way.
Leon McCarron, 23, from Northern Ireland started his trip in New York City on May 16. For the past few days, he's made his way across northern Iowa on Highway 9.
McCarron said he been planning this trip for a long time and is making I for three reasons.
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Leon McCarron, originally from Northern Ireland, is peddling across the United States. His Iowa journey consisted mostly of Highway 9.
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"No. 1, I wanted an adventure," he said. "No. 2, I have a camera and I'm making a documentary as I go."
The third reason is to raise money for UNICEF.
McCarron said he came to the United States on a work visa after getting an internship in New York City. He'd been planning this trip for a long time and the timing was good following his internship.
The early part of his trip had its ups and downs.
"I went through the Catskills and that was a rough couple days," he said.
A small-town boy at heart, McCarron hasn't frequented the big cities.
His travel plan includes peddling to Wisconsin where he had some friends and then took a mini-vacation to Chicago by bus.
However, most of the trip avoids the big cities.
He said he's looking forward to Sioux Falls, S.D., which is one of the bigger towns in his upcoming path.
He's been impressed with the reception he's received along his route.
"Most everyone has been very kind," he said. "I've been taken in by people for the night and also out for dinner. Most are very interested in hearing about my trip as well as telling me about the history of the U.S.."
Of Iowa he said it's "beautiful country-a very agricultural area like Northern Ireland."
However, his trip through Emmet County on Highway 9 wasn't the smoothest.
"The side of the road had a lot of potholes, so I kept going to the middle and then pulling off to the side when I heard cars coming behind me," he said.
McCarron keeps in contact with home when he can visit a library and get on the Internet.
While in recent days, he has averaged 80 to 90 miles, his route will take him to Vancouver, Wash., by way of South Dakota, and Yellowstone . He then plans to travel down the Pacific Highway.
You can follow his trip on his website: www.leonmccarron.com.


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1) Opening prayer
Lord our God,
Your Son Jesus Christ
had to undergo the humiliation
of being betrayed and denied
by those He called His friends. But He made His suffering and death
into instruments of love and reconciliation.
Make us with Him, people-for-others,
who accept difficulties, even betrayals
and misunderstanding of our best intentions,
and turn them into sources of life and joy
for those around us.
Keep us faithful to You and to one another
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2) Gospel Reading - John 13:21-33, 36-38
Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, "Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus' side. So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant. He leaned back against Jesus' chest and said to him, "Master, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it." So he dipped the morsel and took it and handed it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot. After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, "What you are going to do, do quickly." Now none of those reclining at table realized why he said this to him. Some thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus had told him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or to give something to the poor. So Judas took the morsel and left at once. And it was night. When he had left, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say it to you." Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later." Peter said to him, "Master, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times."
3) Reflection
• This is the third day of Holy Week. The texts of the Gospel of these days place before us the terrible facts which will lead to the imprisonment and condemnation of Jesus. The texts not only present the decisions of the religious and civil authority against Jesus, but also the betrayal and the negotiations of the disciples which rendered it possible for the authority to arrest Jesus and contributed enormously to the suffering of Jesus.
• John 13:21: The announcement of the betrayal. After having washed the feet of the disciples (Jn 13:2-11) and having spoken about the obligation that we have of washing each other's feet (Jn 13:12-16), Jesus is profoundly touched. And it is no wonder. He was fulfilling that gesture of service and total gift of self, while at His side one of the disciples was planning how to betray Him that same night. Jesus expresses His emotion saying: "In all truth I tell you one of you is going to betray Me!" He does not say: "Judas will betray Me", but "one of you". It is one of His group who will betray Him.
• John 13:22-25: The reaction of the disciples. The disciples are frightened. They did not expect that declaration, that is, that one of them would be the traitor. Peter makes a sign to John to ask Jesus which of the twelve would be the traitor. This is a sign that they did not know one another well, they could not succeed in understanding who could be the traitor. A sign, that is, that the friendship among them had not as yet reached the same transparency that Jesus had with them (cf. Jn 15:15). John reclined near Jesus and asked Him: "Who is it?"
• John 13:26-30: Jesus indicates Judas. Jesus says: "It is the one to whom I give the piece of bread that I dip in the dish." He took a piece of bread, dips it in the cup and hands it over to Judas. This was a common and normal gesture which the participants at a supper used to do among themselves. And Jesus tells Judas: "What you are going to do, do quickly!" Judas had charge of the common fund. He was in charge of buying things and of giving the alms to the poor. This is why no one perceived anything special in the gesture and in the words of Jesus. In this description of the announcement of the betrayal is evoked the Psalm in which the psalmist complains about the friend who betrays Him: "Even My trusted friend on whom I relied, who shared My table takes advantage of Me" (Ps 41:10; cf. Ps 55:13-15). Judas becomes aware that Jesus knew everything (cf. Jn 13:18). But even knowing it, he does not change his mind but keeps the decision to betray Jesus. This is the moment in which the separation between Judas and Jesus takes place. John says at this moment Satan entered him. Judas rises and leaves. He places himself at the side of the enemy (Satan). John comments: ""It was night". It was dark.
• John 13:31-33: The glorification of Jesus begins. It is as if history had waited for this moment of separation between light and darkness. Satan (the enemy) and darkness entered into Judas when he decides to carry out what he was planning. In that moment the light was made in Jesus who declares: "Now the son of man has been glorified, and in Him God has been glorified also. 32 If God has been glorified in Him, God will in turn glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him very soon!" The decisions had already been taken by Jesus (Jn 12:27-28) and now by Judas. The facts follow one another hastily. And, Jesus announces it: "Little children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for Me, and, as I told the Jews, where I am going you cannot come". There is little time left before the Passover.
• John 13:34-35: The new commandment. Today's Gospel omits these two verses on the new commandment of love, and begins to speak about the announcement of the denial of Peter.
• John 13:36-38: Announcement of the denial of Peter. Together with the betrayal of Judas, the Gospel also speaks of the denial of Peter. These are the two facts which contribute the most to Jesus' suffering and pain. Peter says that he is ready to give his life for Jesus. Jesus recalls and reminds him of reality: "You are ready to lay down your life for Me? In all truth I tell you, before the cock crows you will have disowned Me three times". Mark had written: "Before the cock crows twice, you will have disowned Me three times" (Mk 14:30). Everybody knows that the cock crows rapidly. When in the morning the first cock begins to sing, almost at the same time all the cocks crow together. Peter is more rapid in his denial than the cock in crowing.
4) Personal questions
• Do I love so much as to protect someone who betrays me too?
• Satan prowls like a lion looking to devour souls. It happened to Judas. What do I do to prevent Satan from entering me?
5) Concluding Prayer
You are my hope, Lord,
my trust, Yahweh, since boyhood.
On You I have relied since my birth,
since my mother's womb You have been my portion,
the constant theme of my praise. (Ps 71:5-6)


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If you're struggling to keep your "stop smoking" New Year's resolution about now, here's some added incentive – your smile!
Tobacco contains chemicals that are known to be harmful to the body. The first part of the body to absorb cigarette smoke, and the deadly nicotine it contains, is your mouth. Smokers have an increased risk of periodontal (gum) disease, bad breath, higher plaque levels, stained teeth, and slower healing following extractions, gum treatment and oral surgery.
Smoking also dries out oral tissues, which creates an environment for oral bacteria to thrive and reproduce. As oral bacteria multiply, your potential for periodontal (gum) disease increases.
Signs of gum disease include persistent bad breath, tender gums and gums that bleed easily when brushing. As it worsens, pus pockets form at the base of teeth. Teeth loosen as oral bacteria attack the bone and tissues that support tooth roots. Eventually, these teeth will require removal.
Need more reasons to hang in there? Smokers decrease life expectancy by 10–15 years, on average. Smoking (as well as smokeless tobacco) is responsible for nearly 90% of oral cancers (lips, mouth and throat and an estimated 30% of all cancers and related deaths.
Live with a smoker or work beside one? Second-hand smoke contains at least 50 known carcinogens and other harmful chemicals. It is not uncommon for children of smoking parents to wake up with 'smoker's cough.'
Now, imagine you've quit. For those who are age 40 or under, quitting can reduce excess mortality that's attributed to smoking by 90%. Quit before the age of 30 and you'll reduce this by 97%.
Kicking the habit is one resolution that's too important not to keep! Your smile, your overall health, your family and your life depend on it. Get support on kicking the tobacco habit at: http://smokefree.gov/ They even have a stop-smoking app for added support.
More and more adults are choosing Dental Implants to replace missing teeth because of their ability to restore dependable chewing and speaking.
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Dr. Ban Barbat!
Married to Joe for 26 years; two sons, ages 10 and 12
Why did you go into the dental field?
"I worked as a dental assistant after high school and really enjoyed the dental field."
What have been the unique advantages and challenges of being a female dentist?
"As a woman, I feel I bring an instinctive level of compassion into caring for patients along with being a good listener. I also have an eye for the cosmetic aspect of dentistry and a very gentle touch. Like many women in business, it is a challenge to juggle work with being a mom but I wouldn't give up either role for anything."
What has been the best professional advice you ever received?
"One of my instructors in dental school advised me to treat my patients the same way I would want to be treated. He also gave me valuable training on how to give painless injections, which I have used throughout my career with great success."
What do you enjoy most during your day?
"The best part of my day is making a difference in the lives of my patients, whether it is to get them out of pain, boost their confidence with a better smile, or give them proper function with their teeth."
In your off time, what do you enjoy doing?
"I love going to my kids' basketball games as well as our Pistons games, traveling, spending time with family, and shopping."
What are your personal interests other than family?
"That would be cooking, exercise and traveling."
Any hidden talents?
Do you have a favorite quote?
"Actions speak louder than words."
What is the best book you've ever read?
"The Road Less Travelled"
Do you have a favorite movie?
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
'Look Fantastic, Feel Beautiful & Natural'
It was actually Carri Streling's husband who first went to Dr. Ban Barbat. He'd seen an ad and was looking for a new dentist. When Carri decided to become a patient, she was immediately impressed with Dr. Barbat as being "very caring and thorough."
Carri and her family began with cleanings, check ups and regular dental care. However, Carri noticed that her gums were becoming inflamed and bleeding. After Dr. Barbat did an in-depth exam, it was determined that the eight crowns on Carri's front teeth were not all porcelain as she'd been told. They were actually porcelain fused to metal. It was the metal that was causing a reaction to Carri's gums. It was also found that Carri's bridge contained metal as well.
The only solution was to replace her restorations with all-porcelain types. Although Carri had already been through the process of crowns and crown-&-bridge preparations with the former dentist, she noticed that Dr. Barbat was far more detailed in her work. "She's very thorough in everything she does. She even put me through a process to make sure the crowns fit properly," states Carri.
Once the work was completed, Carri was thrilled with the difference it made in her smile's appearance. "They looked fantastic, fit beautifully and looked natural," she shares.
Carri's daughter, Amanda, wasn't happy with the appearance of her smile but had become "anti-dentist," as Carri explains. Once Carri's new smile was complete, Amanda decided to have porcelain veneers placed on her front teeth. As Carri explains, the difference between her before and after treatment is amazing. "Dr. Barbat is an awesome dentist who does phenomenal work!"
"As a dentist, it's very troubling to have to replace expensive dental work. In Carri's situation, we had no option. This is why our goal, always, is to provide each patient with what is ideal in the first place," states Dr. Barbat.
Both Carri and her daughter are very pleased with the health and appearance of their smiles. If you've considered smile enhancements, ask for a complimentary consultation or mention your goals at your next visit.


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Can you feel it? Something is in the air all around Broad Channel these days. You can almost sense a palpable feeling of intense anticipation as the big day nears! All around town you find groups of people gathered on the street and in neighborhood establishments talking among themselves about the approaching event!
No, the big event I am referring to has nothing to do with the upcoming Presidential election. The big event in question here is the fast approaching one week cruise that will carry myself, Grace and my oldest daughter Amy along with 70 other denizens of Broad Channel to the Bahamas and several other ports of call.
On the morning of Sunday, October 30, we will assemble at the Broad Channel VFW for bagels and Bloody Mary's and then board buses which will whisk all of us over to the piers on the west side of Manhattan to board the week's cruise which includes a complete meal and drink package which, at the very least, should ensure a very interesting seven days at sea. Personally, I will be bringing a copy of Mary Dady Clarity's book, Old Salt, a memoir of her husband, Mike Clarity's life growing up in Broad Channel through his years of service with the Navy. Assuming no untoward incidents on board the ship or ashore on foreign soil involving Homeland Security or confiscated passports, we should all safely return via bus to the VFW the following Sunday for a small welcome back soiree and then home for a much needed rest to make sure we are in shape to head on down to P.S. 47 Tuesday to vote in the general election.
The lucky residents of Broad Channel enjoying this cruise are not the only ones out of the country this week as our very own word-meister and editor in chief Kevin Boyle is traveling abroad to Portugal and then on to Ireland. I expressed my concern to Kevin that he might run into a problem with Homeland Security should they examine his passport a little too closely and determine that he obtained it while drinking around the countries of the world at Disney's Epcot. Kevin assured me that his passport is, in fact, valid and that he, "would not be caught dead in Disney." I told Kevin that his reply could lead me to infer that he views Disney with some degree of disdain. For instance, I would never be caught dead attending a midnight showing of "The best of Anthony Weiner's Carlos Danger Twitter Pics"....but that doesn't mean I didn't attend the showing, front row and all! Just wasn't dead or seen attending!
With all the hullabaloo surrounding the pending closure of Playland Motel and our Mayor's intention of turning it into a homeless shelter, what follows was almost inevitable! Several gentlemen were recently talking among themselves while seated at Ruffle Bar enjoying that most sacrosanct of late afternoon events, happy hour, when the phone rang. Lauren, tender of the bar, answered and after listening intently for a few seconds, simply nodded and said, "OK, I will tell him" and hung up. She looked down the bar at the group of men and in a loud voice announced to all at the bar, "Hey [name withheld to protect the (not so?) innocent], that was your wife and she knows you are here. She said if you're not home in 10 minutes she is going to pack all your clothes and send them to Playland cause your butt is gonna be homeless in 11 minutes!" With the opportunity for an Irish Goodbye now completely out of the question, the gentleman in question settled his tab, vacated his stool and was out the door 30 seconds later.
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Super Root guides injury-hit England to emphatic World Cup win over West Indies
- Joe Root scored a commanding century as England thrashed West Indies by eight wickets in Southampton for a third World Cup group-stage win.
Test skipper Joe Root powered England to a crushing World Cup victory over West Indies to soothe the pain of stricken one-day captain Eoin Morgan.
The Yorkshireman took two key middle-order wickets at the Rose Bowl with his teasing off-spin before adding 100 not out with the bat as an emergency opener to set up an eight-wicket win. He becomes the first Englishman to make three World Cup centuries and is the highest run-scorer in this year's tournament to date.
Root was bumped up the order after an injury sustained by Jason Roy, who joined Morgan in being treated while England set about chasing down West Indies' below-par 212 all out, in which Mark Wood and Barbados-born Jofra Archer both took three wickets.
The clear blemishes on England's day were the injuries to Roy, who was forced off in the eighth over of the West Indies innings with a hamstring problem, and Morgan, who was grimacing after his back spasmed in the field.
England have now won their last six World Cup duels with West Indies, whose only triumph came in the most important match these two have contested in the event's history - the 1979 final at Lord's.
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He's doing everything today! #WeAreEngland pic.twitter.com/3doXCA2lOK— Cricket World Cup (@cricketworldcup) June 14, 2019


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March 3, 2014 at 12:08 am EST | by WBadmin
Leto, McConaughey win Oscars for 'Dallas'
With Ellen, a tribute to "Wizard of Oz" and a performance by Bette Midler, it was a pretty gay Oscars.
Most notably on the gay front, Jared Leto (who's straight) won Best Supporting Actor for playing trans in "Dallas Buyers Club" and gave a shout-out to gays in his speech. Matthew McConaughey (also straight) won Best Actor playing an AIDS patient for the same film.
The adult children of Judy Garland — Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft and Joey Luft sat together for a tribute to the 75th anniversary of "Wizard of Oz." Pink sang "Over the Rainbow."
Variety has a complete list of winners here.


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Since the beginning we, la raza odiada
the hated race
have been caught in the middle
just as we are now
between the fall of Tenochtitlan
and the migrant farms that feed a nation
in this modern day version of divide and conquer
what's the fucking difference?
we are all just a bunch of savages
pachucos y wetbacks
soy ilegal
A flame to the codex
our history was/is destroyed by the original conquest
we have been fighting for our identity since Queen Isabella
ordered the rape of the land, the natives and the legacy
as we were oh so graciously pulled from the jungles
into modern day slavery
but you just call it industry
we may not have been brought across the ocean in ships
but we are in bondage just the same
hiding our tongue
afraid to give any clue about our identity
and so we have no identity
soy ilegal
I am neither here nor there
a wanderer without a motherland
the immigrant does not see me as brother
In Mexico I am a pocho
in the USA I am a dirty Mexican
the US Census says I am White
and to the voting population of Aryanzona I am the enemy
my whole life has been shadowed by the original struggle
always asking: who am I?
soy ilegal
I am tired of Mexican being a dirty word
I am tired of being told my history doesn't matter
I am tired of being an invisible pawn in an ancient chess game
you have taken my food
adopted my style
banned my language
and changed my name
the knife cuts deeper and the conquest stretches farther
yet we remain in defiance
this is American History X
and you shall not destroy it
soy ilegal
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This Week in Spring: TDD, FaaS, Reactor, and GDPR
This Week in Spring: TDD, FaaS, Reactor, and GDPR
Another week, another list of links to the goings-on in the world of Spring! Get the latest news and tutorials that touch on TDD, Project Riff, Project Reactor, and GDPR.
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Hi, Spring fans! Whew! What a wild week it's been! I landed in Kiev, Ukraine, last Thursday to present at the epic JEEConf in beautiful Kiev. Then, this weekend it was off to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, North Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking to some of the amazing Pivotal customers (like Liberty). I concluded today here in Belfast and tomorrow it's off to bella Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.
As usual, it's been a crazy awesome week in the Spring community so without further ado let's get to it!
- We now have OIDC Provider Configuration support in Spring Security Master. Awesome!
- Be sure not to miss this webinar on what's new in Spring Cloud Stream, June 7th, from Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky.
- Over on the Pivotal blog, we ask: "Should that be a microservice?" and give six factors to keep in mind when making the call and cut.
- Visualize and Monitor your Pivotal Cloud Foundry Deployments with Weave Cloud for PCF.
- Spring Data JDBC now has support for
@Columnannotations thanks to @kazuki43zoo.
- Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke announced that we're extending Spring Data's JavaSlang integration with support for
Tryas query method return value, and encourages us to give the bits a, well, ...try.
- Spring Data legend Christoph Strobl has just announced Spring Data Lovelace M3, which includes, among other things, revised documentation, annotation based auditing for the JDBC module, synchronous and reactive transaction support in preparation for the MongoDB 4.0 release, reactive map/reduce abstractions for MongoDB, enhancements to the Lucene index support in Spring Data Gemfire and for Apache Geode, reactive pub/sub for Spring Data Redis, Kotlin extensions for Spring Data Cassandra, driver upgrades for Gemfire 9.5, Apache Geode 1.6, Lettuce 5.1 (M1), MongoDB 3.8 (beta2), MongoDB Reactive Streams 1.9 (beta1) and Cassandra 3.5, and so much more!
- Spring Cloud Data Flow lead Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5, which includes UI Improvements,
Spring Boot 2.0, Spring Cloud Stream 2.0, and Spring Cloud Task 2.0 Support, updated application starters, metrics Improvements, nested splits for composed tasks, Kubernetes improvements, and updated File Ingest samples, and so much more!
- Hi, Spring fans! In last week's installments of Spring Tips, I looked at Project Riff and Spring Cloud Function, a one-two punch for serverless function-as-a-service applications. Project Riff is a FaaS platform from Pivotal and Spring Cloud Function makes writing portable, Spring Boot-aware functions for a number of different platforms as easy as possible.
- What happens inside a Spring Data reactive driver, and how is data accessed in a reactive setting? Learn more from Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch's talk "Under the Hood of Reactive Data Access", now on InfoQ.
- RabbitMQ 3.7.5 is out!
- Daniel Mikusa has a nice post walking us through how to install Wordpress on Cloud Foundry. This isn't to do with Spring, per se, but it does demonstrate how to get a fairly complicated application onto the platform.
- The awkwardly named "Devskiller" blog has an awesome post on testing REST and messaging-based microservices with Spring Cloud Contract.
- Microsoft have just unveiled the Application Insights starters for Spring Boot.
- Spring Integration and Spring for Apache Kafka lead Gary Russell offers an official "pro-tip"!
- The 2.0.0.GA release of Spring Boot Admin has just dropped! The new release has a ton of nice features so do check out the release while you can! NB: the support for discovery of other services through the
DiscoveryClient, which hinges on the not-just-yet GA Spring Cloud Finchley release, has been kept out of this release and will release when the final version is available. Anyway, get the bits while they're hot!
- This looks interesting! It's a Spring RESTDocs snippet implementation that produces importable Postman collections.
- InfoQ has Pivotal and Spring legends' Sannidhi Jalukar and Madhura Bhave's talk on doing TDD for a Spring Boot application using Boot annotations and utilities and dealing with DB queries, caching, reactive programming. Awesome talk and well-worth a watch!
- Flowable is an open-source BPMN engine that integrates nicely with Spring Boot. Flowable project engineer Tijs Rademakers just announced that "Flowable 6.3.1 has been released with enhanced historic information and pluggability options for the CMMN Engine, a new app engine to support the life cycle of apps within Flowable, improved Spring Boot 2.0.2 support and more."
- This is an interesting post on using Apache Camel with Spring Cloud Stream
- I really enjoyed this post that begins to look at an application to support forget-me functionality in a Spring Integration-based application, in the context of the new GDPR regulations in the European Union.
- Bogdan D has a nice post on using Toggles, a feature-toggle library, with Spring Boot.
- This looks promising! It seems support for the Micrometer metrics facade has just landed in Project Reactor!
- Spring Boot ninja Stéphane Nicoll reveals an interesting new Actuator feature in Spring Boot 2.1 supporting caches.
- Pretty cool to see Spring Test lead and JUnit lead Sam Brannen's poetry included in Java Architect Mark Reinold's talk on the state of Java in 2018.
- This is a sample Spring Boot application that uses different data sources for reads and writes
- Codecentric's Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot is a really interesting project.
- Okta Developer Advocate Matt Raible just debuted updates to Spring Boot 2.0 for his videos looking at building microservices and securing microservices with Spring.
- "Mr. Devoxx," Stephan Janssen, founder of Devoxx, has a great talk introducing his team's journey to revamp a Devoxx property using Spring Boot and JHipster. Check it out!
- Are you registered for the SpringOne Tour London event? Do not miss this!
- Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert has just announced the latest update of the Spring Tools. Suite 4 public beta (milestone 11) including, among other things, performance and memory improvements, support for Java 10, and that Webflux handler method code lenses now work in Eclipse.
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Collaborative writing as an essential skill in academia is a highly complex process. Combines cognitive and communication requirements. Linear writing is not considered an optimal process.
Described a project which involved a large group of students working together on a jointly authored document with bounded word count and a time constraint. The groups of students were re-formed every 2 weeks. Students were required to formulate their individual understanding and then collaboratively work together to relate their readings to given themes. Changes to the joint document could be seen via a document revision history with version numbers and author id. As tutors, it was difficult to keep track of the various revisions and individual student input, so needed a tool to support this. So, they developed a revision map, topic evolution charts and topic based collaboration networks – all as visualisation tools. Colour coding to give a quick snapshot vie of the work undertaken on a document paragraph by paragraph.
Able to see where most revision ( and least) took place, when work was carried out, whether students worked sequentially or in parallel and how many students worked on each paragraph. Also able to see how topics develop over time and are referenced in later work. Some discussion of the potential discomfort with editing or even deleting text inserted by another student, although it was not clear how this was managed, ie was there a discussion forum or some other way of communicating about text changes?
Interesting to see some simple visualisation tools reflecting back the core activities in a resource heavy piece of collaborative text based work. Collaboration does not in itself = quality of output, although is clearly recognised as a key skill. And one which needs to be developed. Perhaps an allocation of some marks to collaborative input might encourage this?


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During the past 4 days I attended the annual biggest Gartner conference ITxpo.
I haven't been here for a number of years and was really looking forward to it. My program was not aligned to any of the pre-defined streams and had a good selection of mobile, big data, business intelligence, cloud and enterprise architecture with a sprinkle of leadership and management aspects.
Gartner always has multiple sessions in parallel and I find it difficult to choose at times. Nonetheless I was happy with my schedule that looked ram-packed with exciting stuff.
Admittedly the start of the conference was a bit "luke-warm" as the bog keynote setting the scene wasn't schedules before Tuesday. That left the first tracks a bit hanging in the wings. It felt the speakers didn't want to give away the big things but needed them to put their talks into perspective. Which meant the session about GIS (geographical information systems) in itself was great and putting it later into the context of location awareness, mobile, cloud, and special apps gave it a much more important spin.
Day one ended with the Technology Trends of 2013 presented by David Cearly. That was one of the highlights – as expected – of the conference!
Tuesday was marked with the keynote talking about the nexus of forces in much detail that was hinted upon previously. A nice show using "holograms" and story telling were employed to bring the concepts to life. The digital life of a person was the centerpiece. My further agenda had a mixed bag of sessions, mobile security risks didn't quite live up to my expectations while project reporting and dashboards was exceeding those unexpectedly! In the afternoon I had 2 more sessions that sparked my interests widley and made me change my further schedule. I learned that EA (enterprise architecture) is more hype then value and only few people including a small consulting company called Gravity had something to say about it. I got confirmation that information management and BI – at times called big data – are essential for the future success of any business.
On Wednesday I ventured into the session "What Senior Executives really want" and again was pleasantly surprised that I did. Wednesday turned out to be the best day of the conference. The Internet of Everything scenario gave a glimpse what is happening and about to happen in the connected world. It was followed by a neutral and very practical vendor presentation (UXC). I thanked the presenter for that at the end. He was surprised 😉
What followed was the best presentation of the lot, David Aron spoke about 'Masters of Leadership" in general and what he recommended for CIOs and senior ICT managers. I had to change my schedule again for him to listen on Thursday what he had to say about "Hiring clusters" – a maverick research. That man had real passion and let it show.
Mobile innovation in relationship to business value and business risk were other topics I listened to. This is a complex scenario were the forces of control, ownership, freedom, privacy and data security, and rapid change pulling and pushing the boundaries of traditional ICT and business rules. No ready answer is at hand yet.
I finished on Thursday with a view through the looking glass. Tom Austin, who I'd listened to earlier on the information management aspect was exploring what is in store for us up to 2017. More of the same but more sophisticated and integrated could be the simple answer. That is challenged with the rapid change of interconnectedness, readily available information, and some clever minds that put this together in new and unexpected ways.
I left with ideas brimming and how to channel this into a practical approach for coming Monday.
The question – in good Gartner manner – is:
- What do I do on Monday differently?
- What will I change or start in the next 90 days?
- What will I have achieved as a result by the end of next year?


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About four years ago…
As I sat there sipping my coffee, playing on my phone , glancing out the window , the question popped in my head. The same question that has intruded on my life and destroyed any possible sense of calmness or peace throughout my mind and body.
What am I supposed to be doing with my life?
Does everyone get this horrible sensation when your literally trying to find a sense of peace? I don't have a job, I'm a recent grad, and I feel worthless.
Even the day when my mom had some construction guys come over to paint the kitchen and do some flooring. I had come downstairs and made some coffee. As I held my cup and stood in my sweats, I had realized they had already been here an hour (It was 6:30 in the morning). One of them actually called me a sleepy head. And then remarked "enjoy it while it lasts you won't be able to sleep in forever!"
I suddenly felt sad. I hadn't even finished the cup of coffee before I felt utterly depressed, yet again. But why? Why did it not feel okay not to be working only two months after I graduated? Or that I am finding my niche or something that makes me happy. I had gone for journalism, but after college I realized that I wanted to completely abandon the idea of writing or being some type of truth seeker. I had dreams to uncover the truth of wrongdoers and bring about justice. A little dramatic, but this truly was what I wanted to be when I "grew up" I wanted to be someone that could help change the world for the better. But after falling into a deep depression in college, I felt lucky to even want to be alive most days.
I remembered the very day I graduated, I felt very little accomplishment. Like I didn't even deserve to walk up and get my diploma. I just felt empty. A feeling I thought that overtime would get better when I came home to regroup and get some peace but unfortunately things only got worse. I remember that same night, this rush of panic came over me and I began scouring the internet and job finding apps to find a career. I felt like instead of feeling satisfied or at peace, I just felt panic stricken.
Why was it never okay to find a way to be better than okay? To take some time and just think about what will make you happy. For about four years this stress enveloped me and I had bounced around from different jobs, all of which left me even more miserable. I was forgetting to just breathe. I kept seeing people on social media getting jobs and looking happy and strangers had began asking about what I'm going to do now.
Side note, I even had the mailman comment on me just being at my house "Oh? You're still here? I thought you would've moved out by now. It would definitely be a shame going for all that schooling and not being able to find something," Yes…this conversation actually happened. So I'm not kidding when I tell you, that it felt like at every turn, I had someone making me feel like a disappointment. And I remind you, it had basically been weeks since I graduated. I had moved three hours away for college, lost many friends, and fell into a severe depression on my journey to a better future.
All I wanted was to feel like it was okay to have time. Time to find myself again, time to find happiness again, time to become strong again. Unfortunately this time would not come for years. And it was basically because I ended up getting out of the situation and saying no to people that I was able to rediscover myself again. I have just recently developed the mindset that I don't have to be what everyone else wants. I don't have to let every single person make me feel bad. I don't have to let everyone criticize me for something they know nothing about. I know my journey, I know where I've been, I know what I want in my life. All I ever needed was to just stop listening to everyone else's opinions and follow my own path for a change.


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Primetime Ratings: 'Dancing With the Stars' Turns In Lowest-Rated Finale
ABC aired the finale of Dancing With the Stars on
Tuesday for a 2.6 rating with adults 18-49, the lowest-rated finale in the
show's history, according to Nielsen overnight numbers. The two-hour finale was
down 21% from last year's 3.3 rating, but up 44% from last Tuesday.
A special The Bachelor's Funniest Moments drew a 1.2
at 8 p.m. ABC finished the night in second with a 2.1 rating/6 share, but first
in overall viewers with 11.5 million.
NBC won the night with a 2.3/7 in the demo. The Voice
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with last week and up 6% from last year's season-ender. An NBC News special Destruction
in Oklahoma drew a 2.0 at 8 p.m.
Fox was in third as So You Think You Can Dance was
even with last Tuesday's premiere with a 1.9.
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