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This work can be as minor as providing a left hand accelerator pedal for a GI who lost his right leg to a complete set of handicap controls for a person requiring a complete system, from special automated locking and unlocking and door actuation, to wheelchair loading, and special driving controls.
They are loaded with important benefits like safety, convenience and value. But they also deliver something more; the capacity to get you where you want to go, whenever you want to get there. Whether you choose mid-ship or full-dropped floor, raised roof or raised door options, you are assured the best full-size conversion vans on the road today.
Split Platform Lift
The Clearway's fully automatic split platform folds up and out of the way at the push of a button, leaving the doorway clear, while its strong all-steel frame and powerful hydraulic pump allow quick, reliable operation. Handrails on the frame provide increased comfort and security. It features a stable, non-skid platform with automatic inboard and outboard rollstops, a built-in manual backup system, pre-lubricated bearings at all major pivot points for durability, and dual-power cylinders for smooth operation. It also includes Sto-Lok™ technology to ensure a quiet ride. An optional power remote control, internal swing door operator and sliding door operator are available for even greater convenience. The Clearway comes with a five-year limited warranty, including hydraulic components, and a one-year warranty on parts and labor. The Clearway is designed for optimum accessibility and efficient operation.
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The Reliant's trim, compact design allows you to make the most of your interior space, while its strong all-steel frame and powerful hydraulic pump ensure years of dependable use. It also features no-lube bearings at all major pivot points and patented Sto-Lok™ technology that securely locks the platform in the stowed position. This lift is incredibly easy to operate thanks to features such as automatic inboard/outboard rollstops, a non-skid platform, and convenient handrails with a control switch for lowering and raising the lift. The Reliant also includes a built-in manual backup system. It comes with an optional power remote control, internal swing door operator and sliding door operator and is available in a range of dimensions to accommodate scooter lengths of up to 51". The Reliant is covered by a five-year limited warranty. The Reliant combines strength and dependability in a unique, compact design.
Electric Lightweight Personal Lift
The UNI-Lite, which features 1/4"-thin platform and aluminum alloy construction, weighs only 160 lbs., yet it can easily lift as much as 600 lbs. Like all VMI platform lifts, the UNI-Lite combines strength and reliability with features that allow convenience and easy operation. These include an internal swing door operator and sliding door operator, a powered rollstop with mechanical latch, and handrails with control switch. The UNI-Lite also features a built-in manual back-up system and may be equipped with an optional remote control. This affordable lift is easy to maintain and comes with a five-year limited warranty. The UNI-Lite is one of the world's lightest, smoothest and quietest lifts.
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You wanted maximum convenience and simplicity, the Elite G2 was engineered for it: Protecting chairs and scooters from the elements with an interior mounted design. Providing accessibility with a unique drive on / drive off platform. Offering faster loading and downloading with quick cycling efficiency. And furnishing maximum passenger seating with space saving configurations. Want ultimate ease and simplicity? A handy key chain remote delivers it. Prefer an unobstructed line of vision? Our low profile position assures it. For those who want more than pure technology, the G2 also presents the purely aesthetic. A choice of five colors that lets you express your personal sense of style. The Elite G2, the lift built around you. A Variety of Color
Our Premiere Interior Mounted Lift
The Excel is a fully automatic lift designed to provide reliable operation. Featuring a universal design that fits nearly every van and SUV on the market (even the Chrysler minivans), the Excel offers all the conveniences you expect from VMI, including a wireless keychain remote for easy operation. Rear and curbside loading capabilities support your active lifestyle, and a sturdy 350lb. lifting capacity provides worry-free operation. The Excel's stylish looks and superior fit and finish complement your vehicle's interior. The Excel offers a sturdy 350lbs of lifting power with the convenience of remote operation.
Excel 200 A Versitile Curb-Side Loading Lift
The Excel 200 earns its name with a lifting capacity of 200lbs and can accommodate a wide range of scooters and lightweight power chairs. This versatile lifts offers you the benefit of both rear and curbside loading, a feature not available on other lifts in it's class. The dual positioning base makes it possible for installation on either the passenger or the drivers side of your rear cargo area. The Excel 200 lifts your power chair or scooter automatically and has a simple manual in and out rotation into your SUV or minivan. With five adjustments, done by your Authorized VMI Dealer, the Excel 200 fits in most SUV's, minivans, station wagons, and even the PT Cruiser. The Excel 200 has an attractive two tone color to complement your vehicles interior.
Designed To Withstand The Great Outdoors
The Excel Weatherized has been designed with protection from the elements, making it ideal for truck bed installation. It is UV resistant, has been powder coated and includes rugged covers on all electronics and moving components. The entire lift is sealed and shielded, so you never need to be concerned about exposure. Other features include a 350lb. lifting capacity, wireless keychain remote or detachable pendant for convenient, effortless operation and itsversatility by accommodating a wide range of vehicles
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Our removable seats are built on bases with rolling casters, making them easy to remove and lock back into place. They also are installed on footrests, simulating the original floor heigth for maximum comfort.
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Designed with the Tacoma School District, our elementary school program is tailored for third grade students but has been successfully used in second and fourth grade classrooms. The mix-and-match elements make it easy to integrate the curriculum into lessons.
Teacher resource handbook
The in-class activities and worksheets found in the teacher resource handbook can be used individually or along with our third grade reading book, Gateway to the World.
Gateway to the World reading book
Copies of "Gateway of the World: The Story of Pierce County's Port" are available free of charge to Pierce County elementary schools and home school groups. Request copies.
Foss Seaport's Working Waterfront Maritime Museum
Scheduling a visit to Foss Seaport's Working Waterfront Maritime Museum's Discovery Wharf. Children can don hard hats and set to work loading containers onto vessels or rail cars with the custom-built wooden port toys. The museum also offers classroom field trips. For more information, call 253-272-2750.
Mapping ocean currents with rubber ducks
In January 1992, a container vessel traveling from Hong Kong to the Port of Tacoma encountered a large storm. Twelve containers washed overboard into the Pacific Ocean, including one filled with 29,000 rubber ducks, frogs, beavers and turtles.
Caught in ocean currents, the rubber ducks circled the globe and were found on shores around the world. They appeared on the U.S. West Coast 10 months after the storm, in Japan and Hawaii between 1992 and 1995, on the U.S. East Coast between 1995 and 2000, and in the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2007. The rubber ducks' journey inspired Eric Carle's children's book "10 Little Rubber Duckies."
Seattle-based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer uses the rubber ducks and other items lost from container vessels to model ocean currents and help scientists better understand ocean currents and seasonal events. His work could help scientists predict the movement of oil spills and guide cleanup efforts, or guide rescue missions to located missing vessels and people.


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GUELPH—One year after a local teenager was acquitted of criminal wrongdoing over a violent episode after getting high on something other than … …read more
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Coast-to-coast police warnings about pot candy getting ridiculous
Beyond the click-bait timing of the reports, this news raises the question: Were these cannabis candies really shipped illegally 1,500-plus miles to the … …read more
Criminal Case Reopens the Issue of Marijuana's Legal Status
Jacob SullumThis week a federal judge in California held a hearing on marijuana's legal status under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). …read more
The Ultimate Cannabis Buyer's Guide: A Dozen Ways to Spend $500 on Marijuana
NEW YORK (MainStreet) – I spent a recent week touring marijuana dispensaries in Eugene and Springfield, Ore. There are approximately 25 legal … …read more
Marijuana Growing Operation Found in Cambridge During Probation Check
Inside, Bell says officers confiscated more than 25 fully grown plants, along with several bags of processed marijuana and equipment for growing the … …read more
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Continuing to do the Lord's work otherwise known as chronicling the sneaker history of former NBA All-Stars, Mis Zapas' latest e-book breaks down the varied shoe chronology of former Sacramento Kings star Chris Webber.
Similar to Miz Zapas' other e-books, this volume artfully details each and every single shoe Webber wore during his illustrious career. Even the kicks Webber wore in commercials are highlighted in the book.
To pick up a copy of the Chris Webber sneaker history e-book, visit Miz Zapas' site.


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Dehydrated apple slices can be used in various dishes and baked goods. Add to your cereal or enjoy as a snack!
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#2.5 can: 4oz. (113g) 4 servings.
#2.5 case: 24 servings.
#10 can: 20 oz. (567g) 20 servings.
#10 case:120 servings.
Bulk: 15 lbs. (6.80kg) 240 servings.
5 Gallon Super Pail: 6 lbs (2.72kg) 96 servings.
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By Senator Patty Ritchie
It's hard to believe that students are gearing up for the start of another school year full of fun and new challenges.
Just like students who will be studying hard, I'm working hard to ensure our children are getting the quality education they deserve and that parents and taxpayers receive the value they expect.
A big part of working to improve educational opportunities is listening to your opinions and ideas when it comes to our schools.
Recently, nearly 2,100 parents, students and taxpayers weighed in on the state of education in our region through my 2013 School Survey, which covered everything from curriculum to school safety.
Through the survey, most participants, 84 percent, said that our schools are doing a great job educating future leaders, rating our schools as "excellent" or "good."
You can check out the full results on my website, www.ritchie.nysenate.gov
This survey represents my latest effort to support Central and Northern New York schools.
This year, New York State increased its commitment to public education with the largest school aid package in four years.
In addition, the school aid package was weighted to rural and Upstate schools, and provides $25 million more than last year in education aid to districts I represent in Oswego, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties.
While students are doing a lot to prepare for new teachers, classrooms, subjects and friends, it's also important for parents take steps to ensure a smooth beginning to the school year.
Here are some tips to take you and your family smoothly from summertime to school time:
SHOP SMART: Between new clothes and supplies, shopping for back to school necessities can get expensive. Luckily, in New York State, shoppers no longer pay state sales tax on clothing purchases up to $110. This saves the typical family of four nearly $200 per year. Also, when purchasing a backpack for your child, it's important to pick one that's lightweight with padded shoulder straps and a padded back that doesn't strain his or her back.
STAY HEALTHY: When it comes to academic performance, eating healthy is a key factor. Studies have shown that students who eat balanced, nutritious breakfasts and lunches are more alert throughout the school day and earn higher grades than children who have unhealthy diets.
DRIVE SAFE: As the school year begins, it's more important than ever to drive safe and be alert on the roads. Drivers must slow down when they see a school bus with flashing yellow lights, and state law requires drivers to stop when the red lights on a school bus are flashing – even if the bus is in the parking lot of a school. Also, when going in the opposite direction, drivers must stop at least 20 feet from a school bus to allow children to cross the roadway safely.
GET INVOLVED: Typically, students who succeed in the classroom have lots of support at home. It's important to get involved in your child's education by reading to them at home or having them read to you nightly, acknowledging and rewarding them for their accomplishments and getting to know their teachers as well as their schedule and subjects of study.
Back to school time can be one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year. But remember, it can also be one of the most fun.
If you have students who are heading back to the classroom, I wish you the best of luck as you begin a new school year full of learning, excitement and new experiences.


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A swing bed is the best way to chill on a Sunday afternoon. They are easy to make and gorgeous to look at. They are fascinating pieces of furniture and can descend anywhere with a unique aura. There are many inspiring ideas using which you can decorate your place in a beautiful manner.
A swing bed uses chain for support, however, a chain is vulnerable to rusting and pinching. On the other hand, a heavy rope would provide you with flexibility but doesn't last for a long period of time. A swing bed can be made using previously awesome furniture. The elegance can be enhanced using tassel sheets and other fabulous ideas.
Love these swing beds, then choose one
Swing beds must be tied using thick ropes as per the stature of the occupant. A ladder can be used for adding extra strength for ones permanently fixed.
A swing bed can be endorsed in such a way that it doesn't only look beautiful but thoroughly inviting as well. Some if the designs are pretty complex and require step guide. They can be adorned with fluffy mattresses to set up a plush place excellent for relaxing, reading and writing.
Swing beds can be used as porch swings as well. They are not only good for insides but outdoors as well. The amazing setups tug at your heart and embed themselves into your mind. They offer a great place to relax, steam off nervous energy and laze around. It can prove to be the perfect addition to your room decor. A swing bed is fun to have and with the correct ideas, they can turn out to be uniquely created space.


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ETHOZ Group's diverse business arms reflect the numerous ways we help our clients meet their needs. Our integrated structure enables each unit to leverage synergies across the entire Group's competencies. In this way, the diversity of our expertise allows us to bring to our customers the best in many fields.
In keeping to our trademark of client-driven innovation, we continue to pursue new growth opportunities in the region and beyond. Today, our expanding portfolio serves customers in both Singapore, China and Malaysia.
Our Shareholders
Our Singapore conglomerate managing our Auto Leasing and Commercial Vehicle Financing sectors, Limousine Chauffeured Services, as well as Vehicle Workshops that provide Integrated Automotive Solutions to insurance companies and retail consumers.
Specialist in providing affordable rental vehicles specifically for the ride-booking private hire market. ETHOZCab value adds by providing a fuss-free one-stop solution to private hire drivers – from rental to maintenance, repair and even insurance for the convenience of our hirers.
Our Capital arm managing our range of Capital Financing, Equipment Leasing solutions and SME Funding schemes – we are appointed by SPRING Singapore to provide loans to local SMEs and new start-ups.
Our China arm specialising in Equipment Leasing and other Financial Services has extensive business networks across major cities in China including Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Qingdao, Beijing, Shenzhen and Shenyang.
Based in Kuala Lumpur, our Malaysia arm aims to expand the Group's rental and equipment leasing business in Malaysia.


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As the summer ends, Zoey thinks something's fishy—so she's making waves! Includes "Sew Zoey" blog posts and fashion illustrations.In the eighth book of the Sew Zoey series, for Zoey Webber, the end of summer means beach trips, concerts, and lots of time to sew. She's making clothes for her friend Libby's little sister, pillows for her friend Priti's new bedroom, and a surprise for her brother's rock band. It all seems to be going swimmingly, but under the surface, things are getting rough. Libby is frustrated that her little sister won't leave her alone, Priti is struggling with getting a great new bedroom for a not-so-great reason, and Zoey hurts people's feelings when she tries to figure out why her fabric swatches keep disappearing. Then someone unexpected shows up at Zoey's front door…
Chloe Taylor learned to sew when she was a little girl. She loved watching her Grandmother Louise turn a scrap of blue fabric into a simple-but-fabulous dress, nightgown, or even a bathing suit in an instant. It was magical! Now that she's grown up, she still loves fashion: It's like art that you can wear. Chloe has written more than thirty books for children and lives, writes, and window shops in New York City.
Nancy Zhang is an illustrator and an art and fashion lover with a passion for all beautiful things. She has published her work in the art books L'Oiseau Rouge and Street Impressions and in various fashion magazines and on websites. Visit her at Nancy-Zhang.com. She lives in Berlin, Germany.
Browse Related Books
"Most novels about fashion end up being more about little divas than about the clothing; this is an exception. This story celebrates the rewards of personal creativity and risks of self-expression. . . . This book will appeal to a middle-grade crowd that isn't into vampires and dystopias, as well as to those who create art with their hands."
– Kirkus Reviews
"An aspiring fashion designer is the affable heroine of this first book in the Sew Zoey series. . . . In a smoothly written story of overcoming challenges with ingenuity and style, Taylor shows a knack for characterization and dialogue, and her detailed descriptions of Zoey's designs will entice young fashionistas."
– Publishers Weekly
"The characters are enjoyable and well developed, and the plot is humorous and entertaining. The black-and-white drawings that open each chapter add a bit of fashion flair. With a touching ending that will leave readers with a warm, fuzzy feeling, this novel will appeal to young fashionistas."
– School Library Journal
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Armand Morin Show – Episode #4
This week show… Apple VS. Adobe, who's going to be the winner. Find out my choice and why. Discover why the print media is dwindling and what advice I offer to them on how to fix it. Plus, you'll see exactly how you can build a NEW FORM of membership site using a technique I…Read More
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This week on my new Armand Morin Show… NYC, CBS, Fox News and Bomb Scare! Yup it all happened this past week. Listen in to get the juicy details about my week. Plus, I'll also be sharing the "MYSTERY ELEMENT" to making your business succeed. It s technique which many people don't talk about, yet…Read More
Armand Morin Show – Episode #2
Ok, here is the second episode of my new Armand Morin Show. On this show I talk about something which has been on my mind a lot lately and that is Authority. I'm not talking about creating and Authority site or anything. I'm referring to become an Authority in your niche market. Take a listen…Read More
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M's the word for GroupM's digital relaunch
GroupM has relaunched its online search marketing company Outrider as new digital agency M.
The group said M will be "a hub for new and emerging technology"; supporting GroupM companies and work directly with its own clients, providing an offering that includes search, mobile, social, creative production and performance display.
Danny Bass, chief digital officer at GroupM, who is set to take over as trading director from James Parkinson, said: "We've got to make sure there is a big flag at 65 Berry Street that says if you're a local start-up or coming to Australia and you've got a new piece of kit or technology and it's relevant to our agencies, you can have one conversation.
"If you're an Australian business or coming from the US or China or Israel or wherever, we want to make it easier for people to present their opportunity to GroupM. The gateway for that will be M," he added.
M will add new capabilities with a focus on emergent technology and help clients tackle the complexities of digital marketing by merging qualitative, quantitative and competitive data, Bass said.
Gary Nissim, general manager at M, added: "We're building a culture based on inquisitive and opinionated people. Recruiting from an Australian base, M will focus on people with non-traditional media backgrounds. We will be targeting people with statistical and science degrees that have the aptitude and minds for this type of work. With GroupM's patented digital training programmes, we will be turning these statistical minds into digital marketeers which will help both GroupM and the industry build on what is a very small talent pool."
The new digital agency has launched with a strong stable of clients who have been migrated from Outrider, including BigPond, Bankwest, News Limited – Career One, Foxtel, Dyson, ASX, Jetstar, Financial Times and Air Pacific.


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Low Vision Clinic
A low vision optometrist evaluates the patients' current visual abilities and explores vision aids to help maximize current vision.
Your Vision – We Never Take It for Granted
Many of our staff and instructors at the Earle Baum Center have some level of sight loss and are personally acquainted with the challenges associated with vision loss and independent living. In 2010, we took a bold step forward to address challenges faced by the blind. Designed to evaluate and enhance what usable vision the client has left, the low vision clinic has seen over 800 patients since its inception.
Two hours of one-on-one attention with Dr. Janet Caddell, OD or Dr. Chi N Quang, OD, accompanied by the latest refraction equipment on the market, help to bring your unique vision needs and goals into focus.
We look at your own vision history, and that of your family, and discover what challenges and frustrations you encounter every day. Glare evaluations, proper lighting, the latest in high-definition, handheld and desktop magnifiers – nothing is left unexplored. In short, we will endeavor to make available any device that can make a difference in your vision life. The Earle Baum Low Vision Clinic has one simple goal: to help you stay independent and active for as long as possible.
Setting Up a Low Vision Clinic Appointment
Part of your intake visit will include a brief review of the Low Vision Clinic (LVC) and what you can expect. You can set up your LVC appointment during the intake meeting or call the LVC coordinator later to schedule it. You will also need a second, follow-up appointment to learn about the equipment, lighting, and magnification tools recommended for you. Your LVC coordinator will talk you through the steps and schedule your appointments.
If you have not set up an intake appointment or have questions about your Low Vision Clinic appointment call the EBC at (707) 523-3222.
PLEASE NOTE: Kaiser Clients have two options regarding a low vision exam.
1. You may opt for Kaiser's Low Vision 60 exam, and then have your Follow-Up appointment here at the Earle Baum Center. This is a standing arrangement with Kaiser, whereby upon the conclusion of the Low Vision 60 exam, Kaiser refers to EBC for the Follow-Up. Please contact your primary eye care provider at Kaiser for more info.
2. You can forego Kaiser's exam and have both appointments at our Center (2-hour low vision exam, and 1-hour follow-up). In this scenario, we will submit to the clients' primary and supplemental insurance companies per our usual process. Please note, however, that there may be a balance due after reimbursement, in which case an invoice will be sent to the client.
How to prepare for your Low Vision Clinic Appointment
Prior to the appointment
- You will be given a survey to help us prepare for your Low Vision Exam. Please return that survey prior to your LVC appointment. To download the survey, please click the, "Low Vision Survey" button, at the upper left of this page.
- You will also need to have your most current eye examination records from your optometrist or ophthalmologist appointment sent to our LVC coordinator. We can help you attain these records, call for assistance.
The Day of the Appointment
- If you haven't yet sent in your completed low-vision survey, be sure to bring it with you.
- Our LVC doctor will use this information during your low-vision examination. The more information you include regarding your current vision challenges, the better informed the doctor will be when recommending aids and services to help achieve your goals.
- Two sets of ears are better than one. Because of the amount of information being disseminated, we recommend having a family member, caregiver, guardian or friend accompany you to the appointment.
- Please call our low-vision coordinator if you have any questions prior to your Low Vision Clinic appointment.
Dr. Janet Caddell – Low Vision Clinic Doctor
Dr. Caddell graduated from Southern California College of Optometry and had specialized low-vision training at the Center for The Partially Sighted in Santa Monica. She comes to The Earle Baum Center with many years of experience in dealing with low-vision rehabilitation and is recognized in the local medical community for her skill in helping those with low vision needs. Dr. Caddell has run the Low Vision Clinic since its inception in 2010.
Dr. Chi N Quang – Low Vision Clinic Doctor
Dr. Quang is owner of Castro Valley Optometry Group where she provides full-scope optometric eye care, including the treatment of glaucoma. She also provides optometry services at the Palo Alto Veteran's Affairs Medical Center. She holds a B.A. and O.D. from UC Berkeley, with a focus on Low Vision Rehabilitation and Primary Care. She was the recipient of the William Feinbloom Low Vision Award in 2009. Dr. Quang speaks Cantonese, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
Nick O'Riley – Low Vision Coordinator
Nick came to the Center in the spring of 2016. Starting out as a volunteer, he quickly realized that the Center's mission was a great fit for the type of work he was longing to do. In late May, he was brought on as a full-time employee and began helping the staff as they moved forward with a new communications project. In January of 2017, Nick moved over to help coordinate the Low Vision Clinic and has been working with Dr. Caddell since then.


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Apparently, autumn (which it isn't yet, it's still summer, ya animals) is prime TV watching season, but considering that I spend almost my entire life indoors while also going insane if I spend too much time in the house, I watch a lot of TV anyway. Well, a lot of Netflix.
I'm not really one for finding out what new or returning shows are coming in certain seasons partly because I love rewatching old favourites, and also because here in the UK, we don't really do TV "seasons" and there are only a couple of shows I can think of that are aired at specific times of the year. You could also have two "seasons" of one show air in the same year so we just say "series" instead. I don't actually know how TV works.
Anyway, because it's getting colder and I'm even less likely to go outside, I'll probably be watching a lot of TV in the autumn and winter months. Inbetween reading of course. Still have to get that reading in.
Osomatsu-san/Mr. Osomatsu – I've already watched this series twice but that's not going to stop me from binge watching it for a third time. It's that good. When I watched it for the first time I was a little worried that I wouldn't find it funny because of a language/cultural barrier but it turns out that that wasn't the case at all because this show is freaking hilarious. There are some feels that really punch you in the stomach at times, but it is really funny for the most part. And weird. Just please don't pay attention to the incest shippers in the fandom. We don't pay attention to them.
Cowboy Bebop – I only watched this series for the first time at the very end of last year but it is so good that it's been firmly solidified as one of my ultimate favourites (i still haven't wached the movie tho, oops). Once I finally watch the movie this month I will definitely rewatch the series and feel all of the things all over again because this series completely destroys me. And also because I love Spike. I just want to hug him until he falls asleep because he needs it, poor baby. (oh, and we can't be friends if you ship spike and faye. ignore the way she's draped over him in that picture, they have very little chemistry and i refuse to see them together. he's mine.)
Dexter – For some reason once I got to season seven of this show, I just kind of dropped it and resorted to avoiding every single spoiler I could possibly come across. I will return to it, but obviously I'll have to go through the whole series again because there's a lot of things I've forgotten at this point.
Star Trek – Okay, even though I've put the original Star Trek series here, I might just skip it because it hasn't exactly aged particularly well considering that Gene Roddenberry used women as set decorations rather than as actual characters (roddenberry was actually a pretty shitty person). I do have Enterprise on DVD, which I never finished, and all of the series are on Netflix so I have plenty to choose from.
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – Oops, another show that I technically never finished. I absolutely adore this series, but for some reason I just never finished it once I got to season four. Since Sci-Fi Month is happening again this year, I'm definitely going to try to finish it this year!
new-to-me shows
American Horror Story: Cult/Apocalypse – Because UK Netflix is a total butt, AHS Cult still isn't up, even though it's been almost a year since it aired on TV. Plus, I can't find it on any other on-demand services so my only options are to wait until it's up, or illegally stream it, which I won't do because I'm not risking having a computer full of viruses. Also, I'm pretty sure that Apocalypse comes out this year and even though I'm not too keen on the idea of old characters coming back, I'll still be watching it. After Cult, that is.
Samurai Champloo – This anime is from the same creator as Cowboy Bebop, which I've already said is one of my absolute most favourite things ever (even tho i only watched it for the first time last year), so of course I have to watch this one. I actually know very little about samurai and pre-Showa era Japan, but that's okay because this series isn't supposed to be historically accurate. I'm probably going to be starting this very soon, and my expectations are just a little high.
Attack on Titan – Am I late for the hype with this series? Yes. Did that sentence make any sense? Probably not but Grammarly says it's fine. Does it matter that I'm late? Of course not. I'd first heard of AOT back when it first became popular in the West, but because I was a little baby back then I wrote it off because I thought it would be too gory for me. Now, that doesn't seem to be a problem for me, as long as I'm ready for it. And I am so ready for it.
Devilman – I am currently determined to get my hands on a copy of the original Devilman manga for October (i'll be doing spooky month again!) and even though I don't subscribe to the idea of "always read the book/manga/comic first", I'm a little on the fence about whether to read it or watch it first. I've already watched the anime series from the 1970s (which is such a laugh, btw. it's like power rangers but with demons) but that's so different to the manga that of course, I should watch the more faithful OVAs/anime too. I probably will end up watching the adaptations first, though, because I'd have to wait a long time for the whole manga to be rereleased because as of right now, there's only one volume out.
Dragon Ball Super – I have a little crisis when it comes to this series: I grew up watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami (rip toonami uk pls come back and bring steve blum with you) so my personal rule for the franchise as a whole is to always watch it in English. It's been redone by the same cast a million times so it's now one of the best dubs out there. Because of this rule, I refuse to blast through the series on Crunchyroll and I'm waiting for the DVDs to come out. However, I have no idea how many box sets there are going to be because there are 131 episodes and so far I've only seen four sets with the fifth one being released next month, so it's going to be an interrupted binge, unfortunately.


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Losses for all of the Pirates' affiliates on Friday night:
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The R-Phils attacked Curve starter Jared Hughes early, and the Curve bats could not keep up.� Hughes retired the side in order in the 1st inning, but gave up 3 unearned runs on a walk, a single, and two errors in the 2nd inning -- the throwing error was by Hughes.� A walk, a double, and a single added 2 more runs in the 3rd inning.� In the 4th inning, Hughes gave up another 3 runs on two singles, a triple, and a double by former Indy Indian Tagg Bozied.� Hughes was done after those 4 innings, having allowed 8 runs (5 earned) on 7 hits and 2 walks, though he struck out 6 batters.
The Curve hitters were hitless in the first 4 innings.� The only batter to get on base was CF Anthony Norman, who reached in the 3rd on Bozied's fielding error at first.� Two home runs, one by C Kris Watts in the 5th, and one by 2B Chase d'Arnaud in the 6th, got the Indians onto the scoreboard, but they were still trailing 8-2.
Each team scored in the 7th.� Tom Boleska had relieved Hughes to begin the 5th inning, and he retired the first 7 batters he faced in order.� Then in the 7th, he walked Bozied, then gave up a single and a double, allowing Bozied to score.� In the bottom of the frame, 1B Matt Hague led off with a single, then scored on singles by Watts and Norman, to make it 9-3.� The Curve added one more run in the bottom of the 9th, when SS Jordy Mercer, Hague, and RF Miles Durham led off the inning with three consecutive singles to load the bases.� Watts' sacrifice fly plated Mercer, but two ground outs ended the inning without any further scoring.� Bryan Morris pitched two perfect innings to wrap it up for the Curve.
The Curve have won the Eastern League's Western Division title, and will begin the first round of playoffs on Wednesday.� None of the other playoff slots have been settled yet.� The Bowie Baysox and the Harrisburg Senators are tied for second place in the Western Division.� The Trenton Thunder are in first place in the Eastern Division, with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 2.5 games behind, with 3 games left to play.


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Charges finally have been brought against George Zimmerman as I believe (and wrote) they should have been from the outset. The shooting was undisputed, and his claim of self-defense was sufficiently in dispute to warrant further proceedings. Although I have been critical of the police for failing to do so at the time, a further examination of the OK Corral-Stand Your Ground legislation might better help to understand their plight. The statute warns law enforcement officers that they may not arrest a person for using force unless they "determine that there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful." That admonition is followed by a remarkable intimidation provision that if a court finds the defendant immune, "the court shall award reasonable attorney's fees, court costs, compensation for loss of income and all expenses incurred by the defendant in any civil action brought by a plaintiff."
Bear with me on this. What does that provision mean? Following so closely on the heels of the warning to police officers, does it mean that they can be held liable in civil court, if they decide wrong? In other words, could they be held liable in damages if they had a good faith belief that probable cause existed? Or does it mean that if the Trayvon Martin family sued George Zimmerman that they could be liable to HIM, if the court found that Zimmerman had acted lawfully under the statute? Or both? The statute either deprives law enforcement of their traditional immunity if they act in good faith in pursuing charges, or it discourages wrongful death suits in this type of situation in a totally unorthodox fashion -- or both. If nothing else, this statute and others like it need a fresh look.
So putting aside this bizarre statute, what is likely to happen next is a bail hearing and a hearing on a motion to dismiss on the self-defense claim. I expect bail with appropriate surety and conditions will be granted because of Mr. Zimmerman's voluntary surrender and failure to flee since the incident. As to the stand-your-ground defense, I have written previously that Mr. Zimmerman must come forward with evidence to support that claim. That assertion met with a boatload of derisive comments that as a former judge I should know something about the presumption of innocence and the government's burden of proof. When it comes to affirmative defenses, a defendant cannot merely say "I acted in self-defense," "I have an alibi," or "I was insane at the time." Some minimum threshold of evidence must be presented in order to support the defense and require the government to rebut it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Here, the killing by George Zimmerman is conceded and admitted. To assert standard or statutory self-defense, he must offer some evidence beyond the mere assertion. The presumption of innocence and the government's burden to prove guilt and, in effect, rebut the defense beyond a reasonable doubt remains throughout. So how will that be determined here? In essence, the case will come down to a question as to what each "reasonably believed." If the proof should demonstrate that Trayvon was the first to strike Zimmerman, the question will be whether Trayvon reasonably believed that such force was necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself. The fact that he was being followed (or possibly chased) by a strange large man who did not identify himself will certainly be a substantial factor.
The same analysis will be necessary for Zimmerman's state of mind. Assuming that Trayvon was the attacker, did he reasonably believe that shooting Trayvon was necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself? The extent of his actual injuries will be extremely relevant. Of course, he has an advantage here as the sole survivor, and his testimony on the subject must be weighed with that in mind. He has an obvious motive to lie. Of course, if the evidence reveals that Trayvon was not the aggressor and Zimmerman shot him nonetheless, the defense cannot prevail.
What I think poses the most difficult question is if both were in reasonable fear of the other. Suppose Trayvon did attack Zimmerman and was justified in doing so, because he reasonably believed that he was in danger. Then Zimmerman too, reasonably believed that he was in danger and responded by shooting Trayvon. The statute provides that justification "is not available to a person who initially provokes the use of force against himself unless the person has tried to escape or has indicated clearly to the other (in this case Trayvon) that he has no intention to use force. So the question will be whether Zimmerman was the initial aggressor and whether he ceased to be and made his intentions clear to Trayvon. There can be little doubt that Zimmerman set these events in motion, but it is obvious that the roles of aggressor and victim can change as circumstances change. Whether they did or did not here will depend on the facts as they are developed.
Thus, despite what has been reported regarding what led up to the confrontation, disposition will depend upon what actually happened at the moment of the confrontation as reasonably seen through the eyes of the two participants. Lurking in the background is the question of racial bias. It not only goes to the question of whether it should constitute a federal crime, but whether or not Mr. Zimmerman's racial views, if any, caused him to be suspicious, to follow Trayvon and ultimately decide to shoot him. The case is not easy, but it is now going to be tried in the justice system where it belongs -- not in the media.


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Who comes to mind when you imagine a sociopath?
Famous fictional characters like Sherlock, maybe, or Dexter. Alex DeLarge, Patrick Bateman and Dr. Hannibal Lecter have all graced the screen with charm and witty banter in between murderous rampages. Even in reality, the media has made infamous celebrities out of serial killers like Ted Bundy and Charles Manson.
Sociopaths are sensationalized. They are painted as terrifying machines of unfeeling cruelty and murder, killing people left and right while sipping from a glass of Chianti, unable to rest peacefully until they've achieved supervillain status.
What you might not know is that it's likely that you've probably met one of these supposedly murderous maniacs. In fact, you may even be friends with one of them right now. According to Harvard psychologist Dr. Martha Stout, roughly 1 in every 25 Americans is estimated to fit the diagnostic criteria of a sociopath.
Before you start unfriending all your friends on Facebook, let us first consider: what does it really mean to be a sociopath?
While sociopathy itself is not recognized in the American Psychiatric Association's most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, mental health professionals generally agree that most forms of what is commonly called sociopathy is due to antisocial personality disorder.
Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others."[i] While this may sound like simple rudeness, people with antisocial personality disorder go far beyond tailgating or cutting someone in line. Or, rather, a person with this disorder can go far beyond simple rudeness — so long as this behavior will benefit them.
According to Harvard psychologist Dr. Martha Stout, roughly 1 in every 25 Americans is estimated to fit the diagnostic criteria of a sociopath.
To get a better idea of what this lack of empathy entails, consider what criminal psychologist Dr. Robert Hare said of the typical sociopath:
"You're walking down a street and there's an accident. A car has hit a child in the crosswalk. A crowd of people gather round. You walk up, the child's lying on the ground and there's blood running all over the place. You get a little blood on your shoes and you look down and say, "Oh shit." You look over at the child, kind of interested, but you're not repelled or horrified. You're just interested. Then you look at the mother, and you're really fascinated by the mother, who's emoting, crying out, doing all these different things. After a few minutes you turn away and go back to your house. You go into the bathroom and practice mimicking the facial expressions of the mother. That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." [ii]
A sociopath will therefore understand that something is considered sad or tragic, and will acknowledge that there are certain standards that people label "good" and "evil." However, they glean all of this information from the reactions of the people around them — they are simply incapable of experiencing these emotions themselves.
The cause of this lack of empathy has been a matter of dispute and contention for many years. While it is unknown what exactly is happening neurologically, certain studies have shown that there are differences between the brain activities of a sociopath and those of a normal person. Walter Lippert Jr. and R.J. Senter, for example, found very early on that sociopaths had a significantly lower electrodermal response (often used as a measure of emotional or physiological arousal) to a shock threat stress condition compared to non-sociopaths.[iii] Findings such as these have supported the biological explanation — that there is simply something different about the brain of a sociopath.
However, research has found that both child abuse and an exposure to alcoholism in the family increase the likelihood of the occurrence of sociopathy, hinting at the influence of the environment.[iv]
In the face of this typical nature vs. nurture debate, most psychologists say that antisocial personality disorder is caused by a mix of genetic and environmental factors. Ultimately, however, it is a disorder that is still rather difficult to understand for a variety of reasons.
One of these reasons is tied to the lack of success in treating this disorder. Most sociopaths, if they are detected and diagnosed, do not believe that they need to be treated, and therefore do not desire to undergo treatment at all. If diagnosed, the most successful form of treatment is psychotherapy in which the sociopath is offered incentives and instant rewards for abiding by rules and laws. This treatment is often only effective as long as these rewards are consistently offered, and antisocial personality therefore remains one of the most difficult disorders to successfully treat.
Furthermore, detection itself is a large challenge. Because sociopaths are generally logical, detached and uncaring, if they can be shown that abiding by the law will benefit them, they will do so. In fact, some sociopaths live perfectly assimilated within society without ever having any trouble with the law. These "successful" sociopaths are often intelligent and manipulative, hiding their disorder and ruthlessness under a veneer of superficial charm — sometimes resembling the rich Hollywood sociopath so often portrayed in movies and television. Even if these sociopaths do commit crimes, they are much more likely to be white-collar crimes like fraud or embezzlement than violent crimes like murder.
Most people with antisocial personality disorder, however, are actually unable to hold down stable jobs. Because of their irresponsibility and reliance on bullying, coercion and dishonesty, they are usually unable to maintain long-term relationships or occupations. Many of these sociopaths do end up in prison — but like the "successful" sociopaths mentioned above, their crimes tend towards assault or theft rather than mass murders. A sociopath is not automatically an evil genius — sociopaths have been found to score similarly to people without the disorder on certain estimates of intelligence.[v] However, they are logical enough to know not to commit crimes indiscriminately and without a very specific purpose.
In the end, sociopaths do not necessarily warrant the fear and sensationalism that surrounds them. Sociopaths suffer from a disorder; they are technically sick and in need of treatment. The most frightening aspect of the statistic on the prevalence of sociopathy is, therefore, how difficult it really is to detect sociopaths, and how ultimately similar they are to many "normal" human beings — or, in other words, how one sometimes can't tell the difference "between a sociopath and the average stock-trader."[vi]
[i] http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm18#BCFCCBDC
[ii] http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
[iii] http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1966-04391-001
[iv] http://psychcentral.com/lib/what-causes-antisocial-personality-disorder/000652
[v] http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1974-03455-001
[vi] Confessions of a Sociopath, M.E. Thomas.


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How Are Eating Disorders Like Cancer?
What do eating disorders and cancer treatments have in common?
In my experience – a lot.
For 15 years, I worked as a physician at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital treating young people with cancer. Now, in my role at Veritas Collaborative, I provide medical care for children and young adults with eating disorders. And while there are obvious differences in my day to day practice, there are a surprising number of similarities.
Chemotherapy works by destroying all cells that are dividing in the body. Cancer cells divide extremely quickly, so the hope is that chemotherapy will destroy these rapidly dividing cells. However, chemotherapy also prevents all healthy cells in the body from dividing. The cells that turn over the most quickly, like hair cells, nail cells, and infection fighting white blood cells, are typically the most effected. This is why cancer patients often lose their hair and wear masks to lessen the risk of overwhelming infection.
Poor nutrition, not surprisingly, also prevents healthy cells from dividing. So, it makes sense that many of the physical manifestations seen in cancer patients are also seen in eating disorder patients. Many patients have hair loss, weakened hearts, depressed immune systems, and some even have osteoporosis.
In addition to their physical similarities, the psychosocial state of oncology and eating disorder patients are remarkably similar. Healthy teens and young adults have so many conflicting demands in life – exploring romantic relationships, sifting through mixed feelings about emerging independence, and developing college and career plans. Imagine exploring these day to day challenges and battling a chronic illness. I have seen time and time again the importance that community can have in healing. Support from others who, unlike most at home and at school, know "just what I'm going through" can be invaluable.
When I sit back and listen to some of my current patients speak with each other, in therapeutic groups or during mealtimes, many of the conversations are almost exact replications of those I heard amongst my cancer patients:
"No one understands me at home."
"Should I tell my employer about my illness?"
"How will I tell a person I date about my struggles?"
Psychiatric illnesses are no less severe and no less common than non-psychiatric illnesses. In fact, eating disorders are the most lethal of all psychiatric illnesses. They should be taken seriously by families, by friends, by schools, by physicians, and by insurance companies. Early intervention and treatment – before a person becomes sick enough to be hospitalized – is crucial to mitigating its long-term harm.
My transition from oncology to eating disorder care has caused me to recognize this urgency and made me realize we have a long way to go to further public and professional education.
Written by Stuart Kaplan, MD, FAAP
Associate Medical Director – Pediatrics, Veritas Collaborative


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To capture people's attention due to being exceptionally interesting, beautiful, unusual, or novel. The image is of people literally turning to stare at something as it passes by. The deliveryman always turned heads as he walked by the cubicles. The new concept car is really turning heads at the auto show and attracting a lot of press.
turn heads
COMMON If someone or something turns heads, they are so beautiful, unusual, or impressive that people notice them and admire them. At the age of 20, the dark-haired actress was already turning heads in the right places. It's a handsome car that turns heads wherever it goes. Note: Journalists sometimes describe someone or something as head-turning, or refer to them as a head-turner. Gardams' designers have created a range of head-turning evening wear in their latest collection. The car is solid, fun to drive, quick off the blocks and a real head-turner.


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Upon completing the steps of recovery, it's crucial for us to continue to stay the path by working with others while continuing to seek the highest truth of our new true spiritual way.
.. but our problem started here
The Event of Disassociation
How did it happen? When did it happen? That moment when you decided you were not worth it anymore and it was time to leave. Walking away from the divine truth of yourself into the lie. A death, divorce, abuse or a lost romance. Sometimes it happens when we are very young.
Running Away from the Truth of who you really are can only bring you to ruin. Living the lie.
Incomprehensible Demoralization
If you feel hopeless, you seem helpless. Take heart, we are Love, that is why we so feel the shame and guilt of the dark path. Instructions of righteousness are hard wired into us. We have just arrived at the end of self, a blessed place to be sure if we can accept the fact that our way does not work. Millions of us can assure you there is a way that does! Remember nothing, absolutely nothing can fill that God sized hole except God! Surrendering ourselves fully to God can be difficult when so consumed with shame and guilt so where can we get a foothold in the truth of our current situation and begin the journey?
The Fellowship
Our best thinking brought us here until finally the rooms of the broken hearted where two or more gathered together will love you until you can love yourself. Leaving that fellowship of liars and coming into a family of truth, where everyone suffers from the same malady. Here we are focused on recovering our true selves. The Big Book / God for Dummies Real understanding of our dilemma. Beginning to seek you shall in-deed find your way.
Graduation Day
We think not! Lost in the darkness of addiction there is an abrupt ending... jails institutions and death. However, since we have now come to the end of ourselves, seeking the way of divine Love has no end. Know this .. the more we seek, the more we find, and it is always getting better if we are sincere in our quest. We are all seeking an everlasting solution wether we know it or not. It's a process not an event.
University of Salvation
" We didn't know, we didn't know, we didn't know " The revelation of Jesus Christ. All we see in recovery points to mercy love and truth. Acceptance is the answer to all our problems. Acceptance of the Grace and Love of Jesus Christ. The Bigger Book / The Bible / The Word Of God. Don't like religion neither did Jesus Christ. Remember His words... " I came not to condem, but to fulfill " Our eternal permanent solution.
Coming out behind the disguise. Becoming more actual... naturally and then becoming more actual and more actual...we are turning into our true divine selve's. The one God made us to be with a realization of gifts received and our God given ability to make a difference in this world.
Working With Others
Sharing your cross with others will keep you honest. Staying teachable will put the pieces back together.
A Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
The Life God had intended for you all along. The Super Natural One! Finally true freedom of self in God. The true individual that you were always suppose to be. Comfortable in your own skin. Happy, Joyous and Free.


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Agile and Domain Driven Design (Part 4): Microservice Sagas
by simbo1905
The last post discussed breaking up a digital service into bounded contexts that can be enhanced by small autonomous teams. A microservice architecture allows teams to focus on domain driven design by creating aggregate entities that enforce the invariants of a business. The catch to such autonomy is the price of needing to run a distributed system. Technologies such as Kubernetes and a Service Mesh help. Yet there remains an additional complexity that you have to abandon global transactions and the "I" of ACID updates. You also need to use asynchronous messaging and deal with eventual consistency. Why?
The first issue is the laws of probability don't allow you to use synchronous updates across multiple services. If you aim for 99.9% uptime for each service that is 1m 26s down time a day. If a screen needs to make a dozen interservice calls to gather data then the synchronous success rate will be (99.9)^12 which is only 98.8% uptime. That corresponds to 17m 16s downtime a day. Yet that is idealistic maths and you won't achieve that without a lot of hard work. The reality is that if you are under high load and start to have lost requests users are going to hammer the refresh button and you are going to have cascading failures. Your success rate will drop to 0% until the load goes away. The book "The Art Of Scalability" has some real world horror stories of live sites crashing for hours or days under load. You might be lucky such that this happens rarely and over the long period it averages out to high uptime. Defensive coding like load shedding and circuit breakers can help claw you back up to the theoretical limit. Yet every failed synchronous unit of work is lost revenue if the user closes their app due to errors and timeouts.
The get out of jail card is asynchronous messaging between microservice. Your success rate can then be the uptime of a cluster of sharded message brokers. The price you pay is four-fold:
- You will need to do multiple asynchronous reads and writes to action client commands. Debugging a set of asynchronous reads that led to a bad write is hard. You should deploy a distributed tracing solution which needs its own infrastructure.
- You cannot have an atomic global transaction across services. Writes that span services will use a local transaction per service. When the last write fails, you will need to back out each prior write. You will need to write roll-back logic that sends compensation commands to undo partially completed work.
- You cannot have the ACID properties that monoliths achieve when using relational databases. When writes span multiple services any interleaved reads will see "partial work". Partial work may lead to users experiencing transient "anomalies". The best you can achieve is eventual consistency where all the local transactions succeeded or failed. If your UI crashes when it encounters partially completed work you are going to suffer.
- You need to use message broker infrastructure which adds operational complexity.
You need to use defensive coding that gracefully deals with seeing incomplete work. A user who pushes the "buy now" button expects to then see that they have bought the product. If you have the UI query the last of a dozen asynchronous operations needed to action the "buy now" command then under load users wont see their own pending asynchronous writes. You need to be assertive at the UI and confirm to the user that their order has been received on the first synchronous call. You must have robust coordination code so that you can be confident that the happy path will work. The business logic might take several seconds, or even several minutes, to weed out the few bad orders. The relatively few unhappy path orders can be dealt with as asynchronous failure notifications back to the client.
Initially this may not seem so bad. Consider the case of a takeaway food ordering application. This appears to only need to make a single atomic write to the food order service to make revenue. Unfortunately, things are not going to be that simple. In an API and "mobile first" world we need to write security conscious code that revalidates the whole scenario when it gets a command from a client. A monolith can use a single database transaction to read the current active state of many disparate rows spanning many business domains to confirm the validity of a write within the same transaction. To action an order you might beed to validate the order, and the customer, and the state of payment, and the availability of fulfilment, and only then write an update. When you are running microservices each read and write is a separate async call running a separate transaction. Then factor in that you might also need to made an additional write to the a reporting or search service. A criticism of ORM with monoliths is that developers are unaware of all the round trips made to the database in typical business processing leading to poor performance. It is "too easy" to write poorly performing code that functions correctly. When you are reading and writing to many microservices the complexity will be very apparent. It is very hard to write correct code and it is also going to be a lot slower than monolithic code. It will also be a lot harder to debug. With microservices it is too easy to write poorly preforming code that is less reliable than monolithic code that reveals anomalies to users that are very hard to debug.
With all those warnings aside how do we perform validating reads and then one of more writes across multiple microservices as a series of local transactions? Well there is no magic pixie dust you are going to have to either write a lot of code else use a sophisticated framework. With a monolith you can start a single transaction, make all your reads and writes, and either commit or throw an exception to rollback. With a microservices you need to create a saga which tracks the series of asynchronous reads and writes to it's conclusion. More importantly if you need to make multiple writes then you also need to action compensations to reverse out any earlier writes that succeeded when a later write fails. You are likely to experience "dirty reads" of partially completed sagas under load that you don't experience with monolithic database transactions.
The Microservices Patterns book covers two patterns for sagas. The first is called choreography where there is no central coordinator rather you have a series of messages where the outcome will be a satisfactory result. This seems like a recipe for spending many hours digging through the logs and code of many services to try to debug an unsatisfactory outcome. The second pattern is to have some orchestration logic to coordinate the forward motion and the compensations during exceptional processing.
A saga orchestrator is simply a finite state machine that issues and responds to messages. People seem to find the phrase "finite state machine" intimidating. This is a bit odd as most business UIs are finite state machines: they responds to input by showing outputs and guide a user through a journey. A traditional websapp basket check-out is the canonical finite state machine. It responds to http requests by updating its database and showing http responses. The shopping basket logic is a finite state machine running the saga of a check-out. If you give it the right sequence of requests you complete your purchase. A microservice saga is very similar. It issues messages and updates private state based on the responses. It guides the business process to competition or runs compensations to reverse out writes when later errors are encountered. The differences to a basket check-out webapp is that a saga is initiated by a single user request then it runs robotically. It can also be more active by issuing messages in parallel. It can also automatically retry idempotent messages when it times out on replies.
What asynchronous messaging technology should we use? It is fashionable to run Kafka as a distributed log. Indeed keeping a good chunk of events and commands in Kafka that you can reply on the "read side" without having to resend messages is a phenomenal advantage over traditional messaging brokers. Traditional message brokers have the disadvantages of being a bottleneck and of making it hard to replay messages when you have updated one microservice to fix a bug or to add new functionality you want to retroactively apply to historic data.
The patterns book recommends writing to an outbox database table then then transferring from there to a message broker. This can be done using a service internal process that polls the outbox and pushes to the broker. This avoids having to use a global translation to write to both the DB and topic. Instead you have a dedicated mini-saga that is a database write that includes writing an outbox row followed by an idempotent write to the message broker. Alternatively you can avoid pooling the outbox using SQL by lifting the outbox writes from the database commit log. There is one pattern for asynchronous messaging that I have seen used to good effect but that I have not seen written down anywhere. This is to expose the outbox table via an API that lets you page though messages since the last message you last reead. You can then have a brokerless architecture. If you don't mind some additional latency then this has all the advantages of consumers being able to independently replay messages. The reader grabs the next batch of messages and can process them under a single database transaction that also records the new high watermark of read messages. While this can add a small amount of latency it can have good throughout. It is also incredibly easy to code and debug and can be implemented very easily as normal API. It is also perfect for disaster recovery. If you corrupt the database of a backend service and restore from a day old backup it will reread and replay the last days messages automatically to catch up:


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To be honest, the Windows 8 app store appears to be a mash up of Windows Media Player and the Mac App Store. It will include free and paid content from a large number of third party developers. What is unclear at this moment is whether automatic update for all applications, which has been a long standing demand of Windows users and developers, will also be included.
The other point of interest is the name of the app store. In the screenshots leaked by Neowin, the software center is titled as "Windows App Store". If that is indeed that actual name, one can bet that Apple won't be too pleased about it. Apple believes that it owns the trademark for "App Store", and is already suing Amazon.
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Drawing the face can be a daunting prospect for the novice - one small line in the wrong place could ruin the artwork. Fortunately, there are a number of easy solutions to this problem, as demonstrated in the following exercises. Just as you used guidelines, basic shapes and templates to draw the fashion body, so a similar approach can be used when drawing the face.
This chapter will take you progressively though the techniques used to draw the face from the front view, turned perspective and profile.
h. Ears and hairline: Ears - draw the ears from the eye guideline to finish above the mouth guideline. Hairline - on the C/F, approximately a sixth down from the top, draw a curved line towards the ears.
i. Redraw and hairstyle: Overlay with semi transparent paper and retrace the complete face, leaving out the guidelines, but adding the hairstyle and neck. Hairstyles whether long or short, straight or curly are defined by drawing a soft outline shape. Then several tendrils of hair are drawn together to emphasise the style lines.
drawing the face: front view
First, note how the front view of the human face shows all the features symmetrically (Fig. 6.2). Draw the front view of the face following the instructions below and the point-by-point example opposite (Fig 6.3).
a. Head and guidelines: Draw an egg shaped head and the guidelines for the centre front (c/f), eyes and mouth.
b. Eyes: Draw as slender almond shapes over the eye guideline - allow an eye's width between the eyes and half an eye's width at each side of the face.
c. Eyelids: Draw lightly as a curved line above the top of each almond.
d. Eyeball: Draw the two opposite sides of a ball in the almond - drawing a complete ball would make the eyes look like they are staring at you.
e. Eyebrow and eyelashes: Eyebrow - draw a thicker, elongated, curved line above the eyes. Eyelashes - draw the top edge of the almond slightly thicker and extend the line slightly. Rarely will you need to draw individual lashes as this gives too much focus on the eyes.
f. Mouth: Top lip - above the mouth guideline, draw an extended 'M'. Bottom lip - below the guideline, draw a full, curved line. Mouth opening - draw a squashed 'M' on the guideline.
g. Nose: Draw two tiny, understated curved shapes either side of the C/F line above the mouth.
• If you want to draw a perfectly symmetrical face fold the drawing paper down the centre front line, draw one side of the face and trace through for the other.
• Never over work the details of the face as it moves the focal point of the drawing directly to the face instead of the clothing. If you make a mistake and need to erase, do so carefully, otherwise redraw.
Figure 6.2: Front Face
The front view of the model's face displays all the features symmetrically
Figure 6.4: Face Turned
As the model begins to turn her face her features change shape and are no longer symmetrical; notice her jawbone and cheekbone become more prominent
Figure 6.5: Face Turned 3/4 Perspective
As the model turns her face to a 3/4 perspective her features continue to change shape and are no longer symmetrical; her chin is now more prominent
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#FitnessWalkman So they say water-resistant, and they held up in the rain for an hour without… instagram.com/p/Xr5AXgIUYm/
— TJ Anderson (@TJSonOfAnder) April 4, 2013
The Sony Walkman W series is an mp3 player that essentially looks like two blue tooth headsets connected by a cord behind your head. If you've even worn headphone that wrap around the back of your head for biking, running, etc. then imagine that is all you are wearing… I mean, imagine that the headphones don't have a cord, you aren't carrying an mp3 player, or a phone. The headphones ARE the mp3 player ("the files are IN the computer").
If you have read MAKERS by Cory Doctorow (Amazon or Free download from Craphound), then you are familiar with the in-ear mp3 players that he describes in a not too distant future world. The Sony Walkman W series is the closest thing I've seen to these, and to be perfectly honest I am a little surprised that Walkman was the first one to market on these.
That Sony made it happen, I guess isn't that surprising; but the idea, and the ability, have both been available for at least a couple years. It was just a matter of pioneering the development and production. Ok, maybe first to market is an exaggeration, but at their price point ($69) and the production level they are producing it doesn't seem horribly comparable to the other in-ear mp3 players out there.
One feature that I think is smart, both in functionality and target audience, is making them water resistant and the upcoming waterproof model. My wife has the lifeproof case for her iPhone, specifically because she wanted to go swimming with it… She hasn't invested in waterproof headphones yet, but it has saved her at the MGM lazy river in Vegas, and when she listens to audio books while playing Candy Crush in the tub. For people who swim and want to listen to music while they do it, there are a variety of products out there, but it seems like the biggest problem is where to put an mp3 player/phone in a swim suit? Having an all in one unit seems like it would be a necessity for swimmers, but it is also convenient for…. everyone.
The most common feature that I've heard people mention online during the review process is that there are no cords.
This #FitnessWalkman I got from Klout is actually changing how I work out. Not using my phone for music is quite liberating. No cords helps.
— Tym Kaywork (@vttym) April 4, 2013
Whether you are running, biking, swimming, or fighting your way through the cubicle jungle, being cord free is so convenient. It's liberating really. Music is what fuels me through the day whether I'm working, working out, or whatever. When I'm at my desk I have over-ear headphones plugged into my speakers, and even with an extension I have to take my headphones off before reaching for the far drawers (yes I work in an industry that still uses paper documents). When I worked at GE and I spent most of my days back and forth between the lab and meetings, I would run my headphones through my shirt so that when I took them out of my ears they would hang there (rather than constantly wadding them up and shoving them hastily in my pocket). I was never a huge fan of that because I think that headphones hanging out of my collar looked unprofessional (unless I was wearing a lab coat), but there is more to a good mp3 player than just being cord free.
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Uploading is fairly simple, just connect the device and drag-and-drop; or you can install the .exe that is on the headset. The device charges (like most) through the same connection, a common micro usb. I haven't tried it, but you could probably charge it with an android phone charger. A full charge gives you 8 hours of play time. 3 minutes of charging gives you 60 minutes of play-time. If you run for longer than an hour at a time (active wear seems to be their primary target audience) then you will just have to be patient. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if you're willing to spend over an hour putting one foot in front of the other with no particular destination, you'd also be willing to let your headphones charge for another minute or two.
I haven't tested the 3 minute charge claim yet, but I did test the full charge yesterday, and mine clocked out at 9.5 hours of play time. Granted that was the first charge and perhaps I don't listen to my music as loudly as you do. I did use pause a lot, so total time on yesterday was closer to 11-12 hours, but it seems as though if you pause them for more than a few seconds they go into a sleep mode.
The play, pause, volume, skip, shuffle, etc. features are all simple and easy to use. There are six buttons, and an on/off switch. Overall the device is simple, without being so minimalist as to require cheat-code like button combinations.
The sound is surprisingly good (considering the price). The best comparison I personally have are the Heavy Medal ($80) or Titan ($50) by Skull Candy. I've tried several other brands, but can't remember the model names, and I have found that per price point Skull Candy is as good or better than everything else I've tried. This is of course excluding headphones over $100, and only talking about sound quality. So these headphones are as good as the Titans IMO. They don't have the range, but the general quality would be indistinguishable to most people. Considering that the entire Sony headset is only $10 more than the Skull Candy headphone this is pretty impressive. They obviously have to have lower quality sound components in order to come in at the same price. I think that the sound quality for this device largely comes from the lack of cord. Anyone who has used a DJ cord knows that the longer the cord the more the sound degrades. This is usually negligible with short distances, but by connecting the headphones directly to the device they eliminate any loss caused by the headphone jack and the cord. This means that down the road a higher quality speaker could seriously increase the sound quality.
All of the above is my honest opinion and simple facts. I'm not trying to build up the product, because there is nothing in it for me. I got a free headphone/mp3 player that I could afford to purchase (but probably wouldn't have), and I'm grateful to Sony for the opportunity to review them, but my integrity costs more than that. Most of the improvements are technological that could be said of any tech device: smaller, longer batter, more storage, etc. etc. but for the price, I think Sony hit a great balance between cost and function. I didn't find much 'wrong' with them, besides the fact that if you don't know what they are, it kind of looks like I'm wearing two Bluetooth headsets. I don't own a single Bluetooth headset, and depending on your opinion of them, seeing a guy wearing TWO would either make him x2 busier/cooler, or x2 more of a tool. I wasn't the only one to test these (5,000 people claimed the perk), but of all of the tweets I read (most people used the Sony supplied hastag #FitnessWalkman) I only came across one naysayer.
Besides personally finding them uncomfortable, Dr. Poinsett thought they were distracting, and implored us to think of the children. While her point is completely valid; distractedness causes accidents and that teen death isn't a joking matter. I personally don't think that tech kills people, stupidity does. If someone gets into a car wreck because they were texting and driving, the phone didn't cause the accident; It is stupid to text and drive. Whether or not it is stupid to run while you listen to music…. I guess that depends on the person.
To sum up. I love them, I will wear them until they wear out or another gen comes out that is substantially better. At which point I will most likely buy them and dismantle the pair I was given to see if I can somehow "improve" upon them, but as of right now I can't think of any improvements that I could make.
#FitnessWalkman The #maker/#hacker in me wants to tinker but I should probably wait tell gen 2 before… instagram.com/p/XqB7B2oUUC/
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