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How will 2017's gov tech advancements play on this year's changes?
The new year provides an opportunity to look forward and imagine what's possible — and likely — over the next 12 months. The broader gov tech/urban tech industry took some steps forward in 2017, but what can we expect to see in 2018? Here are a few predictions:
Expect 2018 to be the year of acqui-hires in the gov tech market. The are a small number of companies with sizable bankrolls whose primary product offerings are at or near market maturation. There are also a large number of companies that have raised some money, but likely not enough for the capital-intensive gov tech market. Combined, these create a market ripe for small, but strategic acquisitions at discount (below last valuation) prices. My prediction is you will see between five and 10 of these kinds of acquisitions in 2018.
This will be the year that mobile-location data takes center stage in the data-driven-decision-making cycle. To date, companies have tried to take widely available public data (i.e. Census) and add value through fancy visualizations, but to little avail. I've written before that this approach was likely to fail given the lack of spatial and temporal fidelity, and that has largely proven true. Mobile-location data, provided by cellular and app companies, provides a new degree of insight into the movement patterns of a place. This data has been available for a couple of years, but until recently, there were serious and rightful concerns about personal privacy. New methods have emerged to maintain the quality of this data without comprising personal privacy. This data is both differentiated and has high value, I expect to see its use increase substantially in 2018.
"Blockchain for government" will overtake "smart cities" as the primary marketing platform for big tech companies in the space. Much like the "smart cities" marketing movement, don't look too closely behind the curtain, you might be disappointed. The blockchain does have serious potential, particularly in the energy and power sector of government operations, but there is much work to be done. I do expect to see a few startups roll out blockchain-enabled offerings in the space, but by and large, most of the noise will be marketing fluff.
As the concerns about data collection and use have increased over the last year, expect to see more discussion in the space about decentralized identity management. Identity management is the next big platform in tech and all of the work being done around decentralization (related to blockchain) will soon enable user-controlled identity and data management. As the official issuer of identification, government agencies can and should play a large role in this development. It seems unlikely that 2018 will be the year that a solution like this hits the market, but I expect you will start to see more interest and discussion, particularly with state and country governments.
One of the major developments in 2017, was the announcement of several new-age, tech-driven cities. In the U.S., both Alphabet (Sidewalk Labs) and Bill Gates rolled out plans for these kinds of developments. Internationally, this kind of work has been going on for the last couple of years. Expect to see more of these efforts in different shapes and sizes in 2018. It wouldn't be a total shock if Amazon HQ2 took a similar approach in building there new mini-city/campus. I do think this kind of large-scale development work is likely the only way to truly build a smart-city because it provides the opportunity to integrate the parts more effectively than the piecemeal approach many cities are forced to take. No predictions on whether or not these efforts will be successful, but time will tell.
I'm excited to see what 2018 brings, happy New Year!
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RAID is not a replacement for a backup! Here's why.
Like already some UPS are supported on Linkstation Pro with a connection through USB to control the shutdown process, I would like to extend this support to the following UPS equipment:
- Eaton PowerStation (model 600 and 800)
According to Linux documentation on Nut module, it seems compatible with that UPS model. But is more than likely the version in the Buffalo Linkstation is outdated compared to the one available.
So could it be possible to update the modules that refer to the UPS support through USB (probably refering to package nut and nut-usb) ?
It seems that even on the web, some people made it but through direct access to the Firmware, while I would like this is being done within the "official" firmware instead: see http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Install_a_UPS_(nut)

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Reversian Blitz Hells (リバーシア星人ブリッツ・ヘルズ Ribāshia Seijin Burittsu Herusu, 21-23): The eldest brother, the most evil and powerful of the trio with the title "Outer Space Grim Reaper". Cold and ruthless, he even uses/attacks his younger siblings, not caring if they die or not. Deleted by Riding Dekaranger Robo when he attempted to escape in Heavy Industrial Machine God Pounder.
Later on, Pouchien Bolapen copied his D.N.A. and took on his form and piloted a second version of God Pounder.
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During the 21th episode, Blitz had been mistakenly refered as the youngest brother of The Three Hell Siblings according to Vietnamese dub. However, in the next episodes, he was corrected as the eldest of The Three Hell Siblings.
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The letter of the law can only bring condemnation and death. It is designed to create dis-ease for those who are not right with God, the unrighteous. The dis-ease comes from the Holy Spirits conviction of their sin that leads them to know they are not right with God.
"And He, when He comes (HOLY SPIRIT), will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me (UNBELIEVERS CONVICTED OF SIN OF UNBELIEF BY HOLY SPIRIT); and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you (Disciples – Believers) no longer see Me (BELIEVERS CONVICTED OF THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS BY JESUS BLOOD, NOT SIN) ; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. (SATAN)" John 16:8-11 NAS (EMPHASIS MINE)
This dis-ease comes from the condemnation they are under that leads to death.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:18 NAS
The letter of the law cannot minister life, it can only minister condemnation and death by showing a person they are not right with God.
But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. 2 Cor 3:7-9 NAS
This is one of the reasons Christians are not qualified to serve up condemnation and death, the letter of the law. We are only qualified to be ministers of the Spirit of the law which is love (Rom 13:8-10, Gal 5:4) that serves up life.
And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Cor 3:6 NAS
It is the Holy Spirits job to convict the unbeliever of their unrighteousness before God, their sin of unbelief, their need for The Savior. It is our job to constantly offer up life in Christ. If an unbeliever rejects this conviction from the Holy Spirit unto death, they blaspheme the Holy Spirit by calling him a liar. This is the only unforgivable sin. It is the sin of unbelief. The refusal to run to the Savior for safety. This is Satans goal for people. To keep them in unbelief about the truth and simplicity of the gospel.
So why do believers still experience so much dis-ease that leads to disease, when they are not under condemnation according to Jesus? When they are supposed to be walking in Jesus peace that surpasses all understanding and overcomes all things.
They mix the Old Covenant letter of the law that was given by Moses with the New Covenant of grace and truth that came by Jesus. The New Covenant that fully replaced the Old Covenant. These cannot be mixed even a little or we lose the power of the gospel.
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace. Rom 11:6 NAS
"No one puts new wine (NEW COVENANT MESSAGE) into old wineskins (OLD COVENANT MESSAGE); otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins." Mark 2:22 NAS (EMPHASIS MINE)
The New Covenant that Jesus shed his blood to install – Luke 22:20. In other words, no matter what they claim, most believers think they are under grace plus the law. This despite the fact that the Bible is extremely clear that Jesus is the end of the law for all who believe and that we are dead to and freed from the law.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Rom 10:4 NAS
So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification (RIGHTEOUSNESS) of life to all men. Rom 5:18 NAS (EMPHASIS MINE)
realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person (ALL BELIEVERS), but for those (ALL UNBELIEVERS) who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers 1 Tim 1:9 NAS (EMPHASIS MINE)
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. Gal 3:23-25 NAS
When a Christian falsely believes they are under the dominion of the law to even a minute degree, they place themselves in their mind under condemnation because they know they still fall short daily. This false belief creates some level of dis-ease that leads to disease by giving sin (sin the noun – our inherited fallen nature from Adam) dominion in their life.
For sin (NOUN – FALLEN INHERITED SIN NATURE) will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Rom 6:14 ESV (Emphasis mine)
The only thing Sin can do, Sin our inherited fallen nature, is pay the wage of death. Death comes from dis-ease about a person's standing with God that leads to disease.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 6:23 NAS
How do you know if you believe you are still under the law even slightly? If you fear that sin separates you from God and have any inkling of fear of punishment for your sins, you are looking at yourself in relationship to God's law.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. 1 John 4: 15-18 NAS
This is not where your eyes are supposed to be fixed if you want to be transformed more and more into His image. Your eyes are supposed to be fixed on Jesus and His finished work on the cross that made you righteous. He is the author of our faith. He also perfects our faith as we keep our eyes fixed upon Him and His finished work.
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Heb 12: NAS
But we all, with unveiled face (UNVEILED FACE MEANS NO LONGER UNDER THE OLD COVENANT LAW OF MOSES – TURNING TO CHRIST REMOVED THE VEIL), beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. Heb 12:2 NAS (EMPHASIS MINE)
There is absolutely no condemnation for a believer even when they sin because they are no longer under the law, period. The only thing that brings condemnation is the letter of the law under the Old Covenant. The only one who wants you to think you are still under the law and the condemnation it brings is Satan.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:18 ESV
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Rom 8:1 NAS
Believers are under grace where God is not imputing, not counting our sins.
For the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation. Rom 4:15 NAS
sin is not imputed when there is no law. Rom 5:13b NAS
"for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Jer 31:34NAS
"FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE." Heb 8:12 NAS
"AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE." Heb 10:17 NAS
"I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins. Isa 43:25 NAS
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12 NAS
"I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud And your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you." Isa 44:22 NAS
To believe other than these verses clearly state is doubt and unbelief in God's word. Doubt invites fear, worry and condemnation that brings dis-ease and not the peace of God that Jesus died to give you. This is not what your Father wants for you, His child. This is why over and over Jesus tells you not to fear or worry. This is why you have been given Jesus righteous that leads to peace and joy, and no longer need to live in dis-ease with regards to your standing with God. Jesus brought us peace with God. Your heavenly Father is for you and not against you. You are forgiven and under grace where your sins are not counted. Jesus gave you His righteousness, right standing, and peace with God that He describes in this next verse. Your only job is to not let your heart be troubled or afraid and trust Him wholly. If you think you are still under the law at all, your heart will be troubled, dis-ease. Start today to walk in His peace that overcomes all things, even the Old Covenant law of God.
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. John 14:27 NAS
We have permanent peace with God in Christ! There is zero condemnation in Christ for you Christian.
We are careful not to judge people by what they seem to be, though we once judged Christ in this way. Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new. God has done it all! He sent Christ to make peace between himself and us, and he has given us the work of making peace between himself and others.
What we mean is that God was in Christ, offering peace and forgiveness to the people of this world. And he has given us the work of sharing his message about peace. We were sent to speak for Christ, and God is begging you to listen to our message. We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God. Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so Christ could make us acceptable to God. 2 Cor 5:16-21 CEV
More studies that apply:
If You Believe You Have Been Saved
Leave the Burden on God
Jesus Did Not Die to See If We Can Qualify
Letter Kills, Spirit Gives Life,
Satan Will Always Point You Back to the Law
Don't Rearm Your Enemy,
Fallen From Grace,
The Only Place Sin Lies Dead,
Jesus is The End of The Law for Believers
A Christian is Dead to the Law, Freed from the Law and Dead to Sin
Christians Are Released from The Ten Commandments
Christians Are Not Qualified to be Ministers of the Letter of the Law
Christians Are Not Under the Law of Moses, Our Standard is Much Higher,
You Do Not Need the Ten Commandments to Obey God Christian
Christians Not Under the Ceremonial Law or Ten Commandments
10 Commandments Are Not Gods Highest Standard
Keeping the Letter of Gods Law, Cannot Fulfill Gods Law
You Only Have Two Commandments Christian
How to Fulfill the Law of Christ
Dead to Mr. Law, Married to Mr. Grace
Do Not Let the Holiness of God Blind You to the Love of God
Christians are Blessed Because God is Not Imputing our Sins
A Christians Sins are NOT Counted Against Them,
Can a Christian Lose their Salvation by Sinning? NO,
Sins Are NOT Counted Under Grace
God Forgets Our Sins For His Own Sake
What is the One Unforgivable Sin?
Who is Jesus Talking to with Depart from Me I Never Knew You?
Holy Spirit Does Not Convict a Believer of Their Sins
God WILL NOT Erase Your Names from of the Book of Life Christian
I Am Holy, I Am Sanctified, I Am Perfected
I Am a New Creation IN CHRIST
Many more New Covenant Bible Studies HERE. Jesus poured out His blood for the New Covenant of grace and truth, replacing the Old Covenant law of Moses. Believers are exclusively under the New Covenant, the last will and testament of Jesus that began after the cross.
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. Luke 22:20
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When it comes to coffee and tea, the two share few similarities: both may be beverages created from plants and their products, but they taste completely different and are sipped for opposite reasons.
While coffee offers caffeine and a boost of energy to the sleepy, tea is meant to be a warm and relaxing drink, with limited amounts of caffeine in every cup. Even fans of these two drinks tend to choose sides – coffee lovers versus tea drinkers.
Mixing Tea with Coffee? What?
However, although we tend to pit coffee and tea against one another, combing the two can lead to interesting and delicious results. Tea drinkers can come to love coffee, and vice versa; try blending the two together into one drink, and you may discover that you're a coffee and tea person.
If you're interested in trying out the new trend of mixing hot coffee and tea together into one single beverage, consider adding some coffee to your next cup of green tea. According to those who've tried this unique blend, such as Teagora, it can offer the best of both worlds. Also, it's worth pointing out that the flavor and potency will depend on the types and brands you use, both when it comes to the coffee and the green tea brands. Use a coffee and a tea that you enjoy on their own to start with, and eventually you can experiment by choosing options with more complimentary flavor profiles when you really want to get intricate.
Blend Bitter with Bitter for Surprising Results
Mixing tea and coffee together isn't an entirely new phenomenon. In fact, a drink nicknamed the Dirty Chai combines a creamy chai latte with a shot of brisk espresso. Beyond this unusual combination, though, there haven't been many who have experimented with tea and coffee combinations. That's where green tea coffee comes in.
Not everyone is a fan of green tea; in fact, it's only grown in popularity in relatively recent years. Many cite its light bitterness as the reason for their dislike; however, this is one reason why it's an excellent choice to pair with coffee.
While green tea offers a hint of bitterness blended into sweet flavor notes, coffee is quite the bitter beverage. When you combine the two together, you can create an entirely new flavor profile that's the best of both the coffee and tea worlds.
Plus, if your green tea is that bitter, you're probabally steeping it for too long.
Many tea lovers are fans of green tea lattes – a blend of green tea, sugar, and milk frothed to create the bubbly layer resting atop all traditional lattes. Add coffee or espresso, and you have a wonderful combination similar to that of a Dirty Chai.
Instead of sipping on the light, slightly bitter taste of green tea, or the strongly bitter taste of plain black coffee, a green tea coffee beverage provides the smoothness you love and know from a cup of green tea with a hint of caffeinated coffee. It's easy to make your own at home, whether you prefer iced or hot.
Making an at-home green tea coffee blend can bring benefits to your wallet as well.
Choose your favorite green tea powder (ground leaves are best for blending seamlessly into the coffee and milk), your favorite coffee or espresso, milk, and some sugar if you want to increase the sweetness – and all of this together can be more cost effective than ordering a coffee-and-green tea latte at your local coffee haven. Pour over ice, and you can enjoy a chilled version in the hot summer months.
Mix Coffee and Tea Carefully
A green tea latte with coffee isn't your only option when considering adding coffee to your tea. As easy as it is to combine coffee and green tea to your liking (or to your tastebuds' surprise), there is a bit of science to blending a delicate cup of tea with a strong brew of coffee.
As Teagora recommends, it's important to know what qualities – and flavors – you want to shine in your green tea coffee creations. Follow these steps to determine what you want to blend together.
- First, try out a variety of different green tea types and brands to discover what you love. Do you prize the sweet and subtle varieties, or do you prefer a little bite in each sip?
- Next, it's time to taste some coffee. Perform a similar tasting process to determine what type of coffee you want to highlight in your green tea concoction. You want to make sure the coffee won't entirely overpower the tea, and vice versa.
- Blend your two favorite flavor profiles together, along with the milk of your choice. Allow it to cool in your fridge, or heat the liquids together on the stove or in the microwave.
If you want to sip on tea and coffee together, but don't want to mix up or brew your own at home, coffee-and-tea drinks are available in coffee shops and even chain stores. Starbucks makes its very own green tea latte, and you can ask your barista to brew one for you at your favorite independent coffee spot.
Don't forget to ask for a shot of espresso or your favorite roast to be included – otherwise, they might hand you a tea-only latte similar to that of the chai latte.
The Benefits of Green Tea Coffee
In addition to an entirely new and delicious taste, combining green tea and coffee together can give you the energy boost you need to get through an afternoon slump, or to power through your morning routine.
Green tea itself contains some caffeine, and coffee is a caffeinated powerhouse – together, these two offer a great combination of extra energy, one that can be beneficial if you feel yourself slogging through the day.
However, too much caffeine can bring harmful side effects, so it's important to remember that green tea coffee drinks will come with an increase in the milligrams of caffeine.


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A stay in a holiday cottage in Sweden is a lovely experience. Sweden is a large country full of interesting contrasts. Modern motorways lead all the way from the sandy beaches down south, with an almost Mediterranaen atmosphere, to up north with the northern lights, which light up the sky way up north. In between you will find huge deep forests, where humans don't rule, but only are guests. Mountains, rivers and peaceful lakes, where perches and pikes dwell.
All a fantastic experience when you book a holiday cottage in Sweden. A holiday in Sweden promises peace and quiet, strolls across fragrant meadows, fishing, canooing and bathing in the cleanest water. Maybe you should also go on Elk safari with your camera in the wilderness?


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Lubrication Management: The Next 10 Years
Our panel of experts looks at corporate culture, emerging technologies and why time equals money when it comes to machine maintenance. This roundtable discussion is a collection of thoughts from key managers within steel, paper, chemical and services businesses. We asked them to briefly survey the last 10 years and think forward about the changes that may occur in the next 10. Managers in this discussion are close to the trenches, each sharing significant experience promoting change and improvement in their respective endeavors.
Read what they have to say and let it spark change and improvement in your reliability program.A few thought provoking quotes from the article….
"Good is the enemy of great. Thinking we are good means we overlook opportunities to improve things that would make us great." Charlie Fast
"There is nothing more dangerous to equipment reliability than an untrained lubrication technician."
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Maybe you've seen video on the Internet, event
reports here in SERVO,
actually been to an event, or
remember when robot
combat was on TV.
Whatever the source, you've
decided that you want to
build a bot. At this point, you
may be asking yourself a
very important question:
Where do I start?
Finding An Event
One (if not the first) step
you should take is to figure out
where you'll be competing. For
those that have been to an
event, you probably have an
idea where to look. If you've
never been to an event, you
may not even know where to
look. In general, event information is
readily available online through a range
of sources. In the US, the following
URLs are your best bet when looking
for an event:
In the UK, the best source for
upcoming event information is www.
fightingrobots.co.uk. In Australia, the
best source for upcoming event
information is www.robowars.org/
forum. Beyond being a source for
event information, the vast majority of
the robot combat community online
can be found spread between the
Facebook Robotics Community, Delphi
Forums, FightingRobots.co.uk (the
Fighting Robots Association), and
Robowars.org (Robowars Australia).
These groups will be a great resource
both for getting questions answered
and seeing how other people have
answered many of the design
questions you're trying to address.
Once you've found an event you
want to attend, the next step is to
read through the rules of the event.
While many events have the same rules
across all of the weight classes, some
events will have different rules for
influence which class you
decide to start with.
While not necessary, at
this point it would be a
good idea to attempt to
find video from previous
years of the event you're
planning to attend. This will
give you a good idea of the
sort of machines you'll be
fighting, and the unique
quirks of the environment
you'll be fighting in.
At this point, you've
got enough information to
start figuring out what you
want your first bot to be.
The next decision to be made
is whether you want to start
with a kit, design and build it
yourself, modify a kit, or buy a
ready to run bot.
From a learning
standpoint, designing and
building your own machine is likely the
best option. Building your own is also
the most difficult option, especially if
you have limited tool access. If you go
this route, looking through past build
reports in SERVO and online will be a
great means of learning from the
mistakes of others, and possibly
picking up tricks to get better results
out of the tools you have.
I would suggest getting actively
involved in the online communities,
and if one is available, go to a local
robot club meeting and talk with other
builders about what you want to do.
The best thing you can do during this
process is ask questions. Every builder
was new once, and most builders are
happy to offer advice when asked.
The easy option is to buy a robot
Getting Started: Before
You Build Your First Bot
● by Mike Jeffries
robots you
design and
build yourself
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Configuration Tasks for Both Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000
Some configuration steps are standard, such as:
If the cloned disk was created using a third party tool, or if the cloning was done by P2V Assistant, but the source disk was a dynamic disk, some partition drive letters may have changed.
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Review the new virtual machine partition drive letter assignments and restore them to their original values, if needed.
Network Interface Cards
Every NIC on the source computer may be replaced by an AMD PCnet or VMXnet NIC i0n the target computer. When the virtual machine is created the first time, one virtual NIC is configured by default. You can add NICs using the configuration editor. If you have machines that have multiple adapters mapped to different protocols, then you must manually set up the networking on the target machine. Map each AMD PCnet or VMXnet NIC to the same protocol as on the source computer.
Note: If you get a duplicate error when you attempt to assign an IP address to an AMD NIC on a Windows 2000 machine, start the Add/Remove Hardware wizard, select Uninstall a Device, select the Show Hidden Devices check box and remove the old NIC that no longer exists in the virtual machine.
Inside the Windows 2000 or NT virtual machine, each NIC can be configured with the same IP address as the corresponding physical NIC on the source computer. If DHCP is used, the DHCP server may need to be reconfigured to assign specific addresses to the target computer's NICs.
Enable the VMXnet NIC (if applicable) by installing the VMware Tools service in the target computer.
VMware SVGA Graphics Card
The P2V Assistant creates a temporary VMware SVGA graphics card driver during the reconfiguration. Whether you allowed P2V Assistant to install a temporary VMware SVGA driver or not, you need to install the SVGA driver during the installation of VMware Tools.


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Comparison of Tesio and LifeCath Twin Permanent Dialysis Catheters (VyTes)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01022359
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 1, 2009
Last Update Posted : July 30, 2020
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|Condition or disease
|Device: TesioCath Device: LifeCath Twin
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|80 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Tesio and LifeCath Twin Permanent Dialysis Catheters
|Study Start Date :
|October 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2011
Active Comparator: Tesio Catheter
Patients randomised to receive the established catheter type in use at our centre [control]
Device: TesioCath
Insertion of the TesioCath(TM) central venous catheter for haemodialysis vascular access
Other Name: BioFlex TesioCath (TM) - MedComp, Harleysville, PA, USA
Active Comparator: LifeCath
Patients randomised to receive the LifeCath Twin catheter - the catheter type being compared to the standard line in use at our centre (Tesio)
Device: LifeCath Twin
Insertion of the LifeCath Twin central venous catheter for haemodialysis vascular access
Other Name: Vygon LifeCath Twin - Vygon(UK) Ltd, Cirencester, Gloucs, UK
- Achieving a blood flow rate>=450ml/min at first use after insertion [ Time Frame: First haemodialysis session after insertion ]
- Achievement of flow rates>=450ml/min at each dialysis session [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Line retention (either/both lumens) [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Infective episodes (catheter & non-catheter related) [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Catheter dysfunction requiring use of thrombolytic agents [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Complications at catheter insertion [ Time Frame: Day 1 ]
- Recirculation rates [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age >=18 years old
- No history of prior central venous catheter insertion
- Medically fit for procedure (able to lie flat, no haemodynamic instability)
- No active infection (recent positive blood cultures, clinical signs of infection, CRP>100)
- Able to give informed consent
- Expected to survive more than 12 months after catheter insertion
Exclusion Criteria:
- As above
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01022359
|United Kingdom
|Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
|London, United Kingdom, W12 0HS
|Principal Investigator:
|Neill Duncan, MBBS MRCP
|Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
|Study Director:
|Albert Power, MBBChir MRCP
|Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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I came to the teachings of Charlotte Mason after a few years into our homeschooling lifestyle. I had begun with a much more formal, traditional style schooling and was becoming frustrated and discouraged by it. A friend who was just entering the world of homeschooling with her kindergarten aged daughter introduced me to Charlotte Mason. I read all of her original works from Ambleside Online. I also read quite a few books about Charlotte Mason, especially The Charlotte Mason Companion.
One thing I realized again and again as I read the works of Charlotte Mason: her principles of teaching are not just true for the classroom, they are really parenting truths. Charlotte's focus on habits and developing the will of the child are crucial concepts for us as parents. It's kind of ironic because Charlotte was unmarried and had no children; and her methods of education were written for classrooms- albeit special ones- not homeschoolers.
Of course as homeschoolers, we often realize that life really is our classroom. Our learning (hopefully) is more authentic and less forced. So it would make sense that principles that make for good teaching also make for good parenting.
Reading through this book today impressed me once again of the importance of being deliberate with my children. I am thankful that we learned early as parents the importance of shaping the will of our children. We don't always do a good job. In fact I was fairly convicted as I read today. But, when we are consistent in doing those things to shape and strengthen the will of our children, I can see the results.
I highly recommend reading Charlotte Mason- and any other works about her- even if you don't use her methods as a homeschooler.


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Ted's Blog: College Football Trip 2 Utah
On my personal journey this is year to see different college football games and stadiums I went to Salt Lake City. Last Saturday was a big one for the Utah Utes as they were playing the Washington Huskies. Now I had a friend that I flew down with who was a big Huskies fan and the other buddy i met down there is a big Utah fan. We took a early flight to get there and it was cool to see all the Huskies on the plane wearing all their purple on the plane. Once we landed we went straight to the stadium and got to catch the end of College Gameday and see Lee Corso put on the mascot head.
Now as a big college football fan it was awesome to finally see Coach Corso finally put on the mascot head in person. After we watched the end of that we headed over to the tailgate area and tried to find some fun times aka beers and a grill. The power of twitter came through as a guy named Conor had tweeted me saying he and his buddies were hosting a tailgate. I sent him a DM and he let me know where they were, we walked over to the big party lot and saw a giant Washington tailgate with a bunch of purple and had found our tailgate. His boy Andy was dressed up as Sasquatch and invited us in. It was a great time, plenty of cold beers and a shotski with fireball. They also had already cooked breakfast burritos and after that burgers were fired up on the grill. Some people were dressed in Halloween costumes and the tailgate was as the kids say lit AF.
So we head into the game early so we can check out the pregame festivities and see how the Utes run onto the field. I should also mention that is maybe the best weather I have ever seen at a college game, it was low 70's and sunny. The game itself was awesome as well, at first the Huskies got out to quick 14-0 lead and I thought this might be a blowout I wonder if Andy is still out at the tailgate but not so fast my friends. The Utes mounted a great second half and the game was won on a punt return for a touchdown near the end of the game. It was overall a great time and if you like college football I highly recommend checking out a game in Utah. The people were super nice and friendly and the food at Red Iguana was killer.


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Canine Commander Professional Dog Training specializes in dog obedience training, puppy consultation sessions, canine behavior modification & problem solving, and board & train programs for the Long Island, NY area.
We are experienced, credentialed and well reviewed with a large, satisfied client base. Brand new, on-site facilities are specifically designed to meet your canine's needs. Canine Commander takes pride in helping our customers build a solid foundation for obedience and health. The Canine Commander staff always strives to ensure your training is complete and to your satisfaction. We know good training means you and your dog will have many pleasurable years together. Canine Commander promotes enhanced cognition, health and socialization of your dog. We will help you build a happy and healthy relationship between you, and your furry family member.


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Need to earn money from home? No worries. You can earn money in italki by teaching students from home through online mode. If you really love to learn language or love to teach language. But unfortunately, you couldn't become a teacher on italki, then no need to worry. You can also become a teacher in italki and can earn handful of money italki for your work. This idea can be applied to your aged parents also. They may really have experiences about the life they lived and many language issues they have faced. They really can help our students to teach the languages they know.Italki creates a platform for the students and teachers to gather together for communication. How to earn money by Teaching Language on ITalki Money are the things which will be thought next. Let us see the importance of languages, how to become a teacher in italki, and how to register through this article.
Importance of Languages:
Language is the common medium for communication. If you don't know to convey your ideas or thoughts with others, it will be very difficult for you to survive. Each language has its own importance. Suppose you may be grown up and posted in some other places which you they do not know your language. This situation forces you to learn that language. It is good to say that you know more than one language.
What is Italki?
Italki is an online educational website that teaches various languages in and around the world. Italki is a language learning website that connects people of various languages together no matter which nation or which language you are. It was founded in 2007 and its head-quaters is at China. Italki supports languages such as English, Spanish, French and more and more which you cannot imagine. Italki also pays for the teacher on italkir who have registered in the site who teaches any languages. The students can select their online tutor from which they need to get knowledge about particular language. The teacher on italki can select the languages which they can teach. You can earn money by working from home as a tutor in Italki. Italki is the best platform for teaching and learning languages. Italki is the best site that supports earn money in italki from home throughTeaching Language on ITalki Money. It has more than 1,000,000 learners and it contains 1000 teacher on italki and 2000 tutors for each language. Don't you feel Italki as an awesome one? So in this blog we will find out how to earn money online by teaching various languages from home.
Why to choose Italki?
As a teacher on italki or tutor, you will definitely feel proud to teach hundreds and thousands of students by your own. More the hours you spent with your student online, money will be increased in your pocket. You can be a part of Italki for part time.
Italki is a platform which provides you opportunity to be in touch with lots and lots of highly potential students. It is the most popular platform for language learners and language tutors. Here exists an excellent community among the tutors and the students who are ready to help you to improve your language and to get better knowledge about the language at any time.
Flexibility in scheduling your own time for teaching is another attraction. Since millions of teachers and students are part of Italki globally, one or the other will be available every time.
Money can be earned by work from home facility provided by Italki. The teachers will be paid on an hourly basis from the money paid by the students and a 15% commission will be levied from the teachers who are getting paid.
Any Special Skills or Certifications needed?
There are some requirements essential for becoming a teacher on italki or community tutor in Italki. They are as follows:
Professional Teacher: If you want to become a professional teacher in Italki, then you have to be certified as a professional teacher on italki in which you are going to teach or that language should be included as your second language under university. You must be graduate and should have a good teaching skill.
Here the teacher on italki have to provide their scanned documents of your certificates during your profile creation in Italki. Only after uploading of your relevant certificates, you will be able to continue as a professional teacher in Italki. If you have experience in teaching in schools, colleges, or at home gathering students for doing home tuition, it will be a plus point.
There are two awesome benefits for the ones who are eligible for working in Italki as a professional teacher. The first one is, there is no age limit to become a professional teacher on italki. And the second interesting and happiest highlight is that, you can select your own prices as you wish.
Community Tutor: If you do not have any experience in Teaching Language on ITalki as a professional, or not have certificates to show that you are a teacher, then you have a post called community tutor. Community tutor is an informal teacher on italki who have the skill of Teaching Language on ITalki Money to the students and earn money in italki. The highlights are your age should be at least 18 to become a tutor in Italki. Here also you can fix your own prices on an hourly basis.
Note: Always keep in mind that there are laws of supply and laws of demand. While setting your teaching rates, remember the above laws, that, how many students are willing to pay the teacher on italki if they ask for higher teaching rates.
Essential requirements to be a teacher or tutor in Italki
The things needed are:
- A computer, a laptop or a tablet
- A good internet connection
- Skype, Facetime or any other VoIP programs
- Headset
- Webcam
- Bank Account
- Paypal , Alipay or Skrill for withdrawing your earnings.
How to register as a teacher or tutor in Italki:
Step 1: Visit this website: https://www.italki.com/
Step 2: Click on the "Become a teacher on Italki" button on the right hand corner section of the footer. See the image below.
Step 3: Click on the button "Become a teacher on italki" at the top of the site. After free registration, click on the "Start Teaching" button.
Step 4: Once you have gone through registering via Facebook, click on "I'm not looking for a teacher on italki" button.
Step 5: Now click on the "Become a teacher on italki" button and you will directed to a dashboard. Here you will be having 2 choices. Either you can choose "Professional Teacher" or "Community Tutor". Follow Step 5.1 if you are applying for a Professional teacher. Otherwise follow Step 6.
Step 5.1: For the case of "Professional teacher on italki"
You will need to scan and upload the documents required as proof of being a teacher on italki. If you are a professional teacher, you can earn money in italki more than a community tutor, but remember that the documents you uploaded are valid. You can also upload any certificates that you have obtained during your career. If you have little or no teaching experience then you should go for Community Tutor.
Step 6: After selecting and updating the details about what kind of teacher on italki you want, click on the button indicated below to submit your application.
Now you have completed your application and it is up to the Italki team to process on your application form. You will be getting an email notification about the status of your application.
Meanwhile you can also check out 10 Websites where you can Teach English Online and Earn Money for making money by teaching English Language on ITalki .
Tips on how to become a successful tutor in Italki and earn money
- Login to Italki every day and check for notifications.
- Prepare yourself for teaching the lessons.
- Always try to be active in Italki community. Do not lose your humor or any kind of characteristic that can attract more students towards you.
- Take all the critisisms seriously and try to improve on that
- Update your profile regularly.
- Reduce your initial ratings so that new students can attend your classes and thereby you can grasp more students towards you.
- Students are available on Italki at any time. But try to select your scheduling at odd hours. Odd hours is the timing when there is less competition and you can increase your earning potential.
- If you know more languages other than your native language, it would be very helpful for the students to understand your lessons.
If you want you find out other teaching sites where you can work from home and earn money in italki visit this page.


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Even before her 60th birthday, Jenny O'Connor knew this new decade of her life was going to be a defining one.
"I had a strong sense that this birthday was a bigger milestone than any of the others. I had a sense of feeling more certain about myself and who I am and what was important to me now," the New Zealand-based photographer told The Huffington Post.
With society's pressure on women to look a certain way and appear more youthful, many of our bloggers at Huff/Post50 have written about feeling "invisible" after a certain age.
But O'Connor says she herself felt curious as to how others her age were feeling about the sixth decade of life and, thus, "The Visible Project" was born.
O'Connor began photographing women who were 60 in 2012, to allow them to show the camera ― and the world ― who they are and how they will defy "invisibility." With props, costumes and makeup, O'Connor photographed 75 women for the series. The project has mushroomed to include a book, exhibitions and even a live show.
"I hope it challenges some of the stereotypes of women aging that exist," O'Connor said. "I am always delighted when younger women contact me and tell me that the portraits have inspired them and helped lessen their fear of aging."
As for O'Connor, the project left her with an even greater appreciation of older women, like herself.
"There is so much depth in each and every person," she said. "I am constantly in awe of the strength and resilience of the human spirit... Women dig deep ― they love and they nurture. They are amazing."
You can see a selection of the photos below or head over to Visible At 60 to learn more.


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5730 Athlone Street, Vancouver Listing #: R2482883
LOCATION!LOCATION!LOCATION! this fabulous home IS SITUATED AT MOST CONVENIENT AREA IN SOUTH GRANVILLE. EXCEPTIONAL, SPACIOUS DESIGN PROVIDES AN INTIMATE FEELING OF MODERN LIVING STYLE. 5216SF INTERIOR SPACE SIT ON 8700SF LOT. YOU ARE GREETED BY GRAND FOYER W HIGH CEILING. OPEN, LARGE GOURMET KIT W/ HIGH END CABINETRY, APPLIANCES, SPACIOUS FAMR/RM & EATING AREA OVERLOOKING THE PARK LIKE GARDEN. 6 GENEROUS SIZED BEDROOMS, 7 BATHS, HOME THEATRE, WINE CELLAR, RAD FLR HEAT, A/C HRV, SAUNA, STEAM BATH, SEC SYS W/TV SURVEILLANCE, FENCED YARD. ERIC HAMBER SECONDARY, OSLER ELEM ELEMENTARY, YORK CROFTON & ST GEORGES PRIV SCHOOLS. Call us to arrange a private showing.
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After a very foggy summer in SF, it's finally feeling like summer and I also finally got around to trying the signature dessert at the new-ish Greek rotisserie lunch spot Souvla in Hayes Valley. This sweet treat is a winner all the way — from concept down to the Greek coffee shop paper cups they serve it in — velvety, tangy frozen yogurt (Greek yogurt of course) drizzled with a touch of honey syrup and baklava crumbles. So many things to like all in one cup! And yes…. Souvla's rotisserie situation did look pretty amazing so next time you know I'll be checking out the spit-fired meats, veggies and house-made spreads!
Don't you think this would be a fun & easy dessert to re-create at home using store-bought baklava and fro-yo? Not to mention a good excuse to drag out the ice cream maker and experiment with homemade frozen yogurt. Unlike a classic ice cream which requires making a custard (pans, thermometers, multiple steps and a good amount of precision), making frozen yogurt is really as simple as combining 5 parts yogurt with 1 part sugar (the sugar adds sweetness and also keeps the yogurt soft and scoop-able rather than icy), a pinch of salt and add-ins (if you like). Make sure everything is well chilled then dump it all in the ice cream maker and let it churn away. Very doable and an excellent project for kids to try.
Here's a basic frozen yogurt recipe from Serious Eats and a slightly more involved one from America's Test Kitchen (via the Splendid Table podcast).


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Looking to the Next Level
This story appears in the December 2008 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Question: Our business has grown quickly over the past few years, but with the recession hitting our industry, we're having a tough time getting a bank or an investor to give us the working capital we need to get to the next level. Any suggestions?
Answer: Try tapping your suppliers. Apart from you and your partner, nobody has a bigger stake in your business' success than the companies that provide the labor and materials you need to deliver your products and services. If you're thinking of expanding into a new market or geographic territory, your supplier may see an investment in your business as a guarantee of future revenue and market share. On the other hand, if you're unable to pay your supplier for purchases you've already made, he or she might consider an equity stake in your business as an alternative to not getting paid or forcing you into bankruptcy. Either way, having a supplier as an equity partner can give you breathing room by freeing up cash--assuming the equity is swapped against the value of past, present or future orders. "The key [to getting your supplier on board] is to prepare a business plan demonstrating how and why you will succeed and what the payoff for your supplier will likely be," says consultant Joe Fulvio, who specializes in working with startups and emerging markets. "You need to show not only a direct return on investment, but also the value of future business to be gained by making the bet with you."
Be sure you clearly define what the equity given to a supplier gives you in return, Fulvio says. Also, make sure the deal is fair to both sides and spell out the boundaries between the customer-supplier relationship and the investor relationship. But beware: Giving a supplier a stake in your company may create competitive conflicts for both you and your supplier, and the last thing you need is for your supplier to prevent you from achieving your company's long-term goals. Says Fulvio, "Negotiating a noncompete and nondisclosure agreement is essential."Rosalind Resnick is the founder and CEO of Axxess Business Consulting, a New York City consulting firm that advises startups and small businesses, and author of Getting Rich Without Going Broke: How to Use Luck, Logic and Leverage to Build Your Own Successful Business. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com or through her website, abcbizhelp.com.


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By Brian Yaeger
I've never met Tom Griffin before, but I'm at a barbecue with him on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz. Because I don't want his 21-year-old daughter and him to have to sleep on the floor of a former naval prison, I offer them a place to crash. That he's hauling rare bottles from around the country is a bonus.
Better known in the craft beer industry as The Barrel Guy, Griffin lives in Madison, Wis. but spends more than half of the year on the road. When The Bruery near Anaheim, Calif. wants bourbon barrels from Kentucky, or Jolly Pumpkin in Dexter, Mich. is seeking white wine barrels from Napa, or his special client, Goose Island in Chicago—with the largest barrel program of them all—just wants about a thousand of his finest barrels, please, the Barrel Guy takes their requests and hits the road.
What started as a favor—procuring spent spirit barrels from distilleries and delivering them to small-scale brewers to refill with beer for aging and flavoring—has evolved into a non-stop, 50,000-miles-a-year job.
Griffin, 53, was born on Cape Canaveral, Fla. Like most military brats, he was no stranger to up and moving: He found himself in 49 states by the time he was 12. Eventually, his dad settled in with a job at the Environmental Protection Agency, which partially explains why all seven of Griffin's trucks run on biodiesel.
He started out as a homebrewer and, as part of the Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild, Griffin brewed a total of six batches of beer. But he stumbled upon a new passion, and an innovative way to contribute to the brewing community.
In 1999 at a beer festival in Milwaukee, Griffin couldn't pry himself away from the Chicagoland brewery Flossmoor Station's table, where then-brewer Todd Ashman was pouring his whiskey barrel-aged imperial stout. Enchanted by the brew and the barrel-aging concept, Griffin heard the Kentucky Bourbon Trail calling. He regaled more than a dozen Midwestern brewers and insisted that if he delivered the barrels, they should use them to brew. Griffin put the pedal to the metal, and though he arrived in Kentucky empty-handed, he returned with 4,000 pounds of second-hand bourbon barrels, nevermind that his truck's capacity was only 1,500. Between Bardstown, Ky. and Madison, 30 brewers bought barrels.
About one-third of America's 1,500 breweries have barrel-aging programs, or at least tinker with the process. Wood is an exciting and sometimes expensive "ingredient" in brew. Sure, technically barrel-aging is a technique, but equally important, the wood—either new, toasted, charred, and/or soaked with spirits—adds remarkable flavors: oak, vanilla, toffee, even straight-up bourbon.
Brewers aren't the only ones benefiting from the trend: Distillers used to view spent barrels as waste, mulching them as usual or selling them for $25 at best; today they see almost as much return on used barrels as they spend on new ones. While the bulk of barrels are sold and shipped to Scotland, where distillers are permitted to use whiskey barrels repeatedly for Scotch (here, federal law mandates they can only be filled once), on this side of the pond, wood's being snatched up by brewers and distillers alike, and prices are reaching new highs. Gone are the days when you could find a $25 whiskey barrel. Now, of course, the more high-end product a barrel held, the more in-demand the vessel: Scotch distillers have shelled out as much as $2,000 for spent Madera sherry barrels. Griffin's priciest find is empty Pappy Van Winkle barrels, which housed bourbon for 23 years. Though not a huge price by comparison, they command around $125 per barrel.
One of Griffin's best clients is the man who piqued his interest in the first place, Todd Ashman. He's no longer rolling around Jack Daniels barrels at Flossmoor Station; instead, you can find him in the flatlands near Lake Tahoe, brewing up batches at Fifty/Fifty Brewing in Truckee, Calif. There, he uses Evan Williams Single Barrel, 4 Roses, Heaven Hill Rye and brandy barrels for his 2010 Eclipse Stout.
"If you want any aged character from your barrel it's imperative that you get them from Tom," Ashman insists.
Filling Ashman's boots at Flossmoor Station, Matt Van Wyk kept the brewpub's wood program on its feet. He brewed Wooden Hell bourbon-barrel-aged barleywine in January 2009, and it's still one of the holy grails among beer geeks. But in March of that same year, Van Wyk was also westward bound, and he now brews at Oakshire Brewing in Portland, Ore. Of course, he still gets his barrels from Griffin.
With more than 300 clients, Griffin wears the Interstates thin to connect the beermakers with his finds to make magic.
"It's hard not to become friends with him," says Alan Sprints, founder of Oregon's Hair of the Dog Brewing, who procures bourbon barrels exclusively from Griffin for what is one of the most adventurous wood programs in the country. In April 2009, after being invited to a family dinner at Sprints' home, Griffin suffered a heart attack.
"He's burning the candle at both ends and in the middle," says Ashman, who is among the many who believe Griffin's rigorous lifestyle may come at a price.
Nitroglycerin pills in tow, Griffin delivers nearly 10,000 barrels to breweries large and small around the country. He drops off 20 percent of them along the road from Lost Abbey in San Diego County up to Phillips in British Columbia; the Pacific coastline is like a second home.
Because I'm a huge fan of the beers Griffin is partially responsible for and because I live in San Francisco, I invite him to stay with me while his work finds him in the Bay Area. His daughter gets the pullout in the guestroom; Griffin takes the couch. In her two weeks on the road with her father, I'm not sure if she's slept in any homes. To that end, I'm not sure if she's had any home-cooked meals, unless foil-wrapped quesadillas cooked on the engine block of her dad's biodiesel-fueled pick-up count.
Griffin is lousy at bookkeeping. (Alec Mull, the director of operations at Founders Brewing in Grand Rapids, Mich. says, "The only thing we could ask Tom to improve is his scheduling skills and timeliness;" but since Griffin delivers 700 barrels each year for the likes of Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Mull understands scheduling predicaments are bound to happen.) Spreadsheets mean nothing to him. So hiring the youngest of his two daughters as a bookkeeper is a way to give her a summer job while showing her the country and teaching her to play guitar. He's now heard her play "Over the Rainbow" a thousand times. "I'm ready for a new song. But I love hearing her sing it."
The next day, he loses his traveling companion, putting her on a train home because he will be making many stops along the way back. He enjoys the road, even if it means sleeping on grain bags in brewery warehouses on occasion. When he's driving, he says, his body is distracted and his brain can be creative.
"Tom's great for the industry," says Greg Hall, Goose Island's brewmaster. Because of him, gone are the days of making Bourbon County Stout in six relatively young Jim Beam barrels. Goose Island's warehouse will soon reach its capacity with about 1,200 bourbon barrels, including a soon-to-be-released version aged in the pricey 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle barrels. Hall equates Griffin's value to brewers who barrel-age to all brewers who rely on hop brokers.
Griffin doesn't get rich doing it, nor does he think only brewing companies with big budgets should get high-end product. Whether a large brewery orders 100 barrels or a small outfit can use just one, he delivers to both off his horse trailer and each buyer ponies up the same price. It's all for the beer, so barleywines can be baptized by bourbon and stouts can go from ale to art. While the Founders and the Bruerys of the scene are regarded as the da Vincis and Botticellis, Griffin is all too happy being the guy selling them paint brushes. •


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Children in the USA
Every day in America
3 young people under age 25 die from HIV infection.
6 children commit suicide.
13 children are homicide victims.
14 children are killed by firearms.
81 babies die.
280 children are arrested for violent crimes.
443 babies are born to mothers who had late or no prenatal care.
781 babies are born at low birth-weight.
1,403 babies are born to teen mothers.
1,827 babies are born without health insurance.
2,430 babies are born into poverty.
2,756 children drop out of high school every school day.
3,436 babies are born to unmarried mothers.
5,753 children are arrested.
8.470 children are reported abused or negleted.
11.3 million children are without health insurance.
14.5 million children live in poverty.
Where America Stands
Among industrialized countries, the United States ran
1st in gross domestic product
1st in the number of millionaires and billionaires
1st in health technology
1st in military technology
1st in military experts
1st in defense spending
10th in eighth-grade science scores
16th in living standards
17th in rates of low-birth-weight births
18th in the income gap between rich and poor children
18th in infant mortality
21st in eighth-grade math scores
Last in protecting our children against gun violence
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
U.S. children under age 15 are:
12 times more likely to die from gunfire,
16 times more likely to be murdered by a gun,
11 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, and
9 times more likely to die in a firearm accident.
than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined.
Children's Defense Fund 1998 Priorities
Ensuring every -- not every other -- American child a Healthy Start in life. We seek to ensure effective state implementation of the recently enacted $48 billion State children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), to educate families about CHIP and Medicaid, and to enroll all eligible children.
Ensuring every child a Head Start in life by providing parents quality, affordable child care options for all preschool and school-age children, with the assistance of employers, community institutions, and federal, state, and local governments.
Ensuring every child a Fair Start in life by educating the public and policy makers about the unacceptable moral, human, and economic costs of permitting 14.5 million children to grow up poor and by mobilizing the nation to end child poverty as we know it. Jobs with decent wages, community economic development, and a quality education for every child must become overarching national priorities.
Ensuring every child a Safe Start in life by preventing violence against and by children. Every community must be safe from violent adult and youth offenders. But we oppose the growing criminalization of youths, especially minority youths, and the detention of nonviolent youth offenders and children who are truants and runaways in adult jails, a practice forbidden by current law. We support more effective community-based prevention and interventions like after-school and summer programs, mentoring, and parent training.
Ensuring every child a Moral Start in life through creative leadership development and community capacity building to ensure an intergenerational cadre of effective servant-leaders committed to building and sustaining a movement to Leave No Child Behind.
Five Questions All American Citizens Should Ask Ourselves and Our Political Leaders About National Priorities
1. Why is our nation continuing to spend $265 billion a year, $5.1 billion a week, $727 million a day, and $30 million an hour on "National Defense" in a post-Cold War era with no towering external enemies?
Our military budget exceeds the total military expenditures of the 12 next - largest spenders - including Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany, and China - combined. Congress gave the Pentagon $9 billion more than it requested in 1996, while cutting $54 billion from child nutrition programs for poor and legal immigrant children and families. The military plans to purchase three new tactical fighter systems that will cost $355 billion -- systems the US General Accounting Office says we don't need and can't afford -- at a time when millions of struggling parents left behind in the global economy need better-paying jobs and millions of children need health care, quality child care, education and housing.
Every 14 hours we spend more on the military than we do annually on programs to prevent and treat child abuse.
Every 29 hours we spend more on the military than we do annually on summer jobs for unemployed youths.
Every six days we spend more on military than we do annually on the Child Care and Development Block Grant for child care for low-income working parents.
Every 11 days we spend more on the military than we do annually on Title I compensatory education for disadvantaged children.
2. Why, with over 200 million guns in circulation already killing a child every hour and a half, does our country manufacture or import a new gun every eight seconds?
American children under age 15 are 12 times more likely to die from gunfire than children in 25 other industrialized nations combined. Virtually all violent youth crime is gun-driven...Why seek to protect guns rather than protect children from guns.
When the polio virus killed 2,700 children and adults in its peak year - 7 a day - we declared a national emergency. Why don't we declare a national emergency to stop the deadly gun virus that kills almost twice as many children - 5,285 a year, 14 a day - in their homes, neighborhoods, schools, and parks?
3. How much do we truly value children and families when we don't put our money and respect behind our words?
4. Why should every 66 year old in the United States be guaranteed health coverage and not every 6 year old or 16 year old?
5. Why is the United States, save Somalia (which lacks a legally constitued government to act), alone among nations in failing to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
(taken from the State of America's Children Yearbook 1998 (Washington DC: Children's Defense Fund)
Child Murders: Nearly 3/4 of all murders of children in the industrialized world occur in the United States of America.
Death Penalty for (Black) Kids: The United States is the world-leader in sentencing children to death. Since 1990, only Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and the USA are known to have executed persons for crimes they committed as children. Of these, the US has executed more juvenile offenders than any other nation. In the US 75% of all juvenile offenders executed this century were African American. 2/3s of all persons executed this decade for juvenile crimes were African American. There are currently nearly 60 persons on death row in the USA who were sentenced to death as juveniles. The USA remains the only industrialized country with the death penalty.
Militarism in Schools: "Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), a military run training program for high school students, is now found in more than 2,600 US schools. More than 330,000 students are enrolled in JROTC classes nationwide. Most JROTC programs are in big-city schools, in rural areas with below average college attendance rates.
As part of an academic curriculum, Junior ROTC falls short. The program brings retired military personnel into high school classrooms to teach a military curriculum. According to a federal regulation (32 Code of Federal Regulations 542.5:3c), the "educational" goal of the JROTC program is to "create favorable attitudes and impressions toward the Services and toward careers in the Armed Forces."
"The expansion of JROTC in high schools runs counter to the current national trend towards higher academic standards. College admission policies in states requiring a core curriculum for graduation indicate that students are not likely to receive credit for JROTC when they apply for college. JROTC may in fact divert students from taking the courses they need for college admission or skills for a career and a full, satisfying life."
Children Globally
Malnutrition. 'Over 200 million children in developing countries under the age of five are malnourished...Malnutrition contributes to more than half of the nearly 12 million under-five deaths in developing countries each year. Malnourished children often suffer the loss of precious mental capacities. They fall ill more often. If they survive, they may grow up with lasting mental or physical disabilities... It undermines the struggle of the United Nations for peace, equity and justice. It is an egregious violation of child rights that undermines virtually every aspect of UNICEF's work for the survival, protection and full development of the world's children...More attention is lavished on the gyrations of the world stock markets than on malnutrition's vast destructive potential -- or on the equally powerful benefits of sound nutrition.'
Child Labour. 'Intolerable forms of child labour are so grave an abuse of human rights that the world must come to regard them in the way it does slavery -- as something unjustifiable under any circumstances.'
Around 1 billion people -- one out of every six on the planet -- are between 10 and 19 years of age, 85% in developing countries. And they face profound obstacles:
Around the globe, 73 million children age 10 to 14 are working -- not counting the tens of millions, mostly girls, believed to be in domestic service.
In developing countries, 59 percent of girls and 48 percent of boys are not enrolled in secondary school.'
Children in war. 'Recent developments in warfare have significantly heightened the dangers for children. During the last decade, it is estimated...that child victims have included:
2 million killed;
4-5 million disabled;
12 million left homeless;
more than 1 million orphaned or separated from their parents;
some 10 million psychologically traumatized.
The increasing number of child victims is primarily explained by the higher porportion of civilian deaths in recent conflicts. In the wars of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, only about half of the victims were civilians.
In the later decades of this century the proportion of civilian victims has been rising steadily; in World War II it was two thirds, and the end of the 1980's it was almost 90 pecent...'
'When ethnic loyalties prevail, a perilous logic clicks in. The escalation from ethnic superiority to ethnic cleansing to genocide, as we have seen, can become an irreversible process. Killing adults is then not enough; future generations of the enemy -- their children must also be eliminated. As one political commentator expressed it in a 1994 radio broadcast before violence erupted in Rwanda, "To kill the big rats, you have to kill the little rats."...Sexual violence is particularly common in ethnic conflicts.'
'...One of the most deplorable developments in recent years has been the increasing use of young children as soldiers...Recently, in 25 countries, thousands of children under the age of 16 have fought in wars. In 1988 alone, they numbered as many as 200,000.'
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What is the meaning of righteousness? How do we achieve it, and what is it for?
Deut 6:25 'And it is righteousness for us when we guard to do all this command before יהוה our Elohim, as He has commanded us.'
This verse says that the Torah, the commands of Elohim, is to be righteousness for them that keep it. Is this an accurate statement, based on popular christian theology?
There are two kinds of righteousness.
1. The world's righteousness. This is things like, abortion is ok, and so is homosexuality, and living together out of wedlock and one night stands, and drinking, etc, etc. The world says all these things are ok, and acceptable moral behaviour. It is this righteousness, that Isaiah speaks of, when he says "our righteousness is like filthy rags" (Isa 64:6). Our attempts to be righteous in Elohim's eyes, are vein attempts, since our righteousness is corrupt and more importantly, corruptible.
2. Elohim's righteousness. This is what Deut 6:25 refers to. This is Father's standard for righteousness. He requires us to be righteous in His eyes in order to be saved. The Torah, the law of Elohim, determines righteousness. It points out sin, and declares our inability to attain righteousness, according to His standards, by ourselves.
Now tell me, most people keep the 10 commandments, yet that is not very difficult to do. Does this not, by itself, make a statement about which Law Father is speaking of? It cannot be the 10 commandments, as I know a lot of people who live their lives pretty much in line with the 10 commandments, even those who do not declare themselves to be christians.
Obviously, we can never achieve righteousness by ourselves. Our Saviour is the only one who could ever keep the Law (and with Law, I mean Torah, the 613 Laws that Moses wrote down) perfectly. And because of this, we will be righteous in our Elohim's eyes, due to Yeshua's atonement of our sin on the cross.
This fits in perfectly with the popular view in christianity. Most, if not all of Christianity believes that we cannot ever keep the Torah perfectly, and that we are in need of a Saviour. The problem comes in after that. Most of Christianity also believes that the Torah is now done away with (something that was never prophesied to happen, nor can happen, based on any logical thought, or serious scripture study and sound interpretation), and that we are therefore now, no longer under the Torah, and should not even attempt to keep it, lest we "fall from grace", by popular Paul misinterpretation theology.
We are to continue to strive to keep the Torah AFTER we are saved. This is a process called sanctification. It's something that's incredibly simple to explain, yet christian members are often willingly ignorant of this difference between sanctification and justification, foolishly mocking with statements such as "I'm going to hell if I eat Bacon", or "I'm not keeping the feast of tabernacles, and therefore I surely will go to hell". Neither of these are salvational issues and therefore, you will not be going to hell.
Without sanctification (the process of becoming holy to our Elohim, and living a life that looks different from the world, set apart, or standing out – this process is obedience, not only to Torah, but to all commands given by Father YHWH or His Son, or the Spirit of Elohim), there is no proof of your justification (salvation). So, without sanctification (the fruit of your salvation), you are not justified in front of Elohim, because you do not carry the proof to show that you have indeed been justified.
There are very few Torah Observant people, who believes that justification is by keeping the Torah. Although they do exist, these are the people who Paul warns us about, in the book of Galatians and in Acts 15. Most Torah observant believers, believes in justification by grace, through faith. Most Torah observant believers believes that we require a Saviour, just like the christians do.
And this is where the problem comes in. Here is the difference between Christianity and this "new" group of Torah Observant (or rather, pursuant) believers in Messiah.
|Torah Pursuant
|Believes we have to change our lives after salvation
|Believes we have to change our lives after salvation
|Believes changing of life depends on what Father wrote down 3500 years ago, and that this is confirmed and established by Yeshua and the Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit)
|Believes changing of life depends on revelation of the Spirit, even if this sometimes contradict scripture (since the Torah is done away with)
That's the main difference. It's hard to think that such a small difference can create so much strife in a group of people. To be fair though, this difference, though small, has HUGE implications on the faith. Something that many christians have not studied out for themselves.
My dear Christian brother and sister. May I ask that you study for yourselves? I am a great believer in logical thought, and you will find many articles on this site that is showing the logical problems with current thinking in christianity. The scriptures can be completely logical, and make complete sense. I do not profess to know it all, nor do I profess to have it all figured out. I would be very ignorant if I did say these things. However, there is much wrong with christianity currently. The christianity of today looks a LOT different from the christianity of the 60's, 70's or 80's and even the 90's. Start studying, my brother and sister. If this site isn't for you, then find one that teaches sound biblical teachings.
And remember, the truth has no agenda.
Shalom, and may YHWH be with you and reveal to you His secrets in His Word.