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It appears there is some dispute over who this is, as there are two people by the name of Frogger in Liverpool. However for the sake of fact, this article should stay, or some clarification about which Frogger this is should be added.
- Fake articles created in an attempt to discredit the site don't get to stick around.
- To the original author: We did you a courtesy, please extend us the same courtesy. Do not disrupt WikiFur to prove a point. --GreenReaper(talk) 20:38, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


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Abandonados, but not by choice. These four little ones arrived at the Santa Catarina clinic in a costele (coffee bean sack), their littles eyes not even open. The woman who brought them literally dumped them on the floor with a thud heard by everyone in the waiting room. After all the appropriate questions were asked, like "where's the mother?" and "will you take us to her?" it was determined that the woman had no intention of helping the newborns. Before walking out of the clinic she said that as far as she was concerned the puppies could all die. We believe that she probably thought she was doing a good thing by leaving them with us.
Thankfully, the team rallied and a foster home was arranged on the spot. Ayuda volunteer Kenneth and his wife Rosario are trusted puppy tenders and took them home for the first couple of nights. In the meantime, Marilena spoke with a local pharmacist and his wife who agreed to take the "kids" for the extended period of time needed to bottle-feed, vaccinate, etc. and as we search for permanent homes.
Yesterday the puppies received parvo vaccinations and deworming meds. Eyes open and playful, we have a happy family on their way to good health and forever homes!

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Yesterday, during our bootiful floofy snow, I took some photos. I sent a few along to mom & dad out in California and they enjoyed showing them to their friends. Heh. But one of my favorite shots is of the snow collected on some of the neighbor's trees. Plus a shot which makes the snow look like the fake snow you can buy at Christmas time.
Fluffy trees (especially in the back)! Happy little trees! Plenty of Magic White used here! (A joke for you Bob Ross fans.)
See, it was fake snow all along!
Tonight was Parent/Teacher conferences and, as usual, I had no conferences. After getting a lot of paperwork done (mostly professional development committee stuff) I spent much of the night talking with coworkers. One of the secretaries was also nice enough to drive me home since it had begun snowing (again). Who knows, if the wintry mix shows up like they're predicting, we may have another day off tomorrow. Considering they've been wrong so much this season, I'm not betting on it. :-)


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They say they want a resolution
This article is part of our "From the Trenches" collection. It describes some common challenges you may face when scheduling projects. It describes coming up with the best approach when you try to determine how long tasks should be and how many tasks there should be to optimize a project schedule. It discusses how different industries typically require different types of schedules (for example, software development, EPM (engineering, procurement, and construction), and plant shutdown). It also discusses several factors in choosing project resolution (for example, length of project, resources involved, management or division of resources, speed and effort required in collecting data, and data update schedule).
To download the Word version of this article, see They say they want a resolution: white paper (Project Server 2010).
To see more articles, see "From the Trenches" white papers.
They say they want a resolution
With apologies to the Beatles for the title, today's topic is the resolution of your project.
There are lots of materials available on how to make a schedule, but one of the most critical lessons is awfully hard to come by—how many tasks you should have in your project schedule and how long each task should be?
On a regular basis I'm confronted with project schedules that seem impossibly complex or with project managers who seem helpless to pinpoint trouble in their schedule because the schedule is at such a summary level. I've seen a project that was over a hundred years long (yes, really) that was perfectly appropriate in length and in which there were some tasks that were decades long. I've also seen project schedules that lasted only an hour or less that were perfectly appropriate and in which some tasks lasted only a single minute. I've seen projects with only a handful of tasks and others with over 100,000 tasks.
The software we use today can handle thousands of tasks and a wide range of durations.
So, what's the right approach?
How long should tasks be, and how many should we have to optimize our project schedule? I will call this the resolution of the project.
Different strokes for different folks
Because the requirement might be different for different industries, different kinds of projects, and different situations, let's look at how to decide how many tasks to put in your schedule and how long tasks should be.
Different kinds of projects naturally call for different kinds of schedules. Let's think about three different examples:
Software development. Many software projects have common characteristics. While every software project is unique, there is typically a design phase, a programming phase, a quality assurance phase, a document phase, and a deployment phase. Software projects are typically measured in weeks or months, and that lends itself to tasks that are a day to a couple of weeks long. Resource allocation here is often assigned to the individual level.
Those who have embraced the Agile process for developing software look to short "sprints" of one or two weeks and within that sprint put tasks that are of brief duration, but the overall project duration is still measured in weeks. We'll talk more about Agile development a bit later.
EPC - Engineering, Procurement, and Construction. EPC projects are where the Critical Path Scheduling methodology got its start. In this kind of project, something very big is being developed. It could be a large defense project like the Polaris Missile project that gave PERT diagrams their start, or it could be an offshore oil rig, a new ship, or a power plant. In these kinds of projects there is an engineering phase where the finished project is conceived. The Engineering phase typically has some aspect that has never been designed before. The Procurement phase looks at locating, contracting for and managing the delivery of supplies or sub-contracts for elements of the project. In the Construction phase, the final product is constructed and then commissioned for use. We typically think of EPC project schedules in many months or several years with activity durations lasting anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. It's not at all unusual to have 5,000 to 20,000 tasks on such a project. Resource scheduling here is almost always assigned to the skill level rather than the individual, and (just to add to the fun) there may be many sub-projects made into a program or master project for ease of management.
Plant shutdown. When you do a project schedule for a plant shutdown and turnaround for maintenance you are working in one of the most challenging scheduling environments possible. A plant shutdown to do maintenance comes in two flavors: planned and emergency. Let's leave the emergency type aside for a moment; it's a world unto itself. The duration of a planned plant shutdown is heavily dependent on the type of plant. A nuclear power plant unit, for example, might do a "fast" plant shutdown and turnaround in 12 months. An oil refinery might last 4-6 weeks. But the type of plant project schedule that I find most interesting is a manufacturing mill like a steel mill, a paper mill, or something similar. There are thousands or tens of thousands of such plants around the world, and they must undergo regular maintenance every year or so.
The cost of the shutdown for these situations is usually measured in opportunity cost; the cost of the product that will not be produced while the plant is idle and undergoing maintenance. This cost is measured in hours, and the cost can be upwards of $150,000 to $250,000 per hour! So the pressure is on minute-by-minute to get the job done. In this kind of situation, the shutdown typically lasts 5-8 days and the delay of a single day is calculated in the millions. If you are only used to longer, more traditional schedules, you might think that in a few short days, "how many tasks could there typically be?" but it's not at all unusual for such a shutdown to have 2,000 to 4,000 tasks, each lasting from 15 minutes to a couple of hours. Resource assignments here are done by skill but resource leveling is rarely done on personnel. With the cost per hour being so intense, it does not matter if you put more people on the project, just get it done in a hurry. Resource leveling in this situation is often done for highly constrained bottlenecks. For example, "we can only fit two people in the electrical room, so that's got to be managed discretely".
Ok, we now have three kinds of examples, and there are many more, but these three will serve the purposes of the discussion just fine. In type one (Software development), we get tasks that are typically a day or two days to two weeks long. In type two (EPC), we get tasks that are weeks or months long. In type three (Plant shutdown), we get tasks that are measured in units of 6 minutes (1/10th of an hour), 10 minutes, 15 minutes (1/4 of an hour), up to a couple of hours long. It's obvious that in some cases, short tasks make sense and in others long tasks are more appropriate. Following the same logic, sometimes it makes sense to have a huge number of tasks and sometimes it just doesn't.
Factors in choosing your project resolution
With these three distinctions, it's easy to see that the two-month EPC project task would look ridiculous in a six-day shutdown schedule and that a 15-minute task would be out of place in the EPC or Software project. But aside from referring back to this article and saying, "Vandersluis says it's a software project so tasks can only be 1-10 days long," (and please, don't do that) what characteristics of the project tell us what level of resolution to choose? Let's take a look at a few obvious ones:
How long is the project?
Let's start with the most obvious. If your project is expected to be a few days long, such as in our Shutdown example, then having tasks that are several days long makes no sense at all. Starting with a top-down approach is often productive when we think about sub-dividing the scope. Use work-breakdown structure thinking. Start with the major components. Think about having no less than 4 and no more than 20 items.
Is it a rule? No, of course not.
It's common sense. Less than 4 makes you wonder why you divided the work up at all and more than 20 is too hard to hold in one's mind at one time. Personally I go with no more than 8 items per WBS element and that's because of some article I read years ago that suggested that an octagon was the most complex simple shape the mind could immediately recognize.
Think about that for a moment. You can identify a circle, a triangle, a square, a pentagon, a hexagon which has 6 sides, a heptagon which has 7 sides (ok, that one is hard to visualize) and an octagon.
Can you identify a 9-sided shape without counting? I can't. It's called a "nonagon" for you trivia buffs.
So, personally, I strive for the 8-item limit but my rule of thumb is 4-20.
For each element that you looked at, think about how you should divide up the work. Again, think of the 4-20 rule. But knowing when to stop is the secret. Newer project managers will sub-divide and sub-divide and sub-divide until every step down the corridor is a managed task. Some good watershed questions you can ask yourself about the length of a task could be:
What action would I take if this task was late? If the answer is 'nothing' then it's a good indication that the task you're thinking of is too small to be worth managing. If that's the case you are looking in too much detail. Back up a level, take a step back, and see if you are done.
Will collecting the data on the update of this task take longer than the task itself? We do not always think of what kind of effort it will take to manage a scheduled task, but it's worthwhile to think about even if for a moment. If it's going to take more effort to manage the task than it will take to complete, then that is a good indication that the task is being defined at too fine a level of detail.
How long is this task? When we are sub-dividing work, sometimes we lose sight of how minuscule a task becomes. The big phases at the top level were perhaps weeks long, but as we get down a couple of levels of granularity, we can easily fall into the trap of defining a task to be managed that is only a few minutes long. When we get to tiny tasks, we have to ask what the benefit would be of managing them.
Let's apply a reality check to what I've just talked about. In a two-year EPC project, if a one-week task is a day late, it's almost certainly not worth taking action over. In a six-month Software project, a one-week task that is a day late is probably not worth taking action over. In a six-day Shutdown project, a one-week task that is a day late is a massive emergency. In other words, a one-week task in the EPC project may be too fine a level of detail; in the software project, it's probably just about right; and in the Shutdown project, it almost certainly needs to be broken down into more detail.
How many resources are involved?
I know we are just working on the scope, but when we look at what kind of resolution we require, it's worthwhile to think about how many people will be working on a task. In a large EPC project, for example, we may have dozens of workers from one skill involved in a phase of work. But when we end up with many different skills in the same task, managing that task becomes very challenging, if not impossible. So, in that situation, tasks that require many different skills probably have to be divided up.
In a software project, we tend to think of almost every individual as a highly technical resource with unique capabilities. Plus, in software projects it is common to have many tasks that are re-assignable within a department but only one task assigned to one person. So when we have tasks that are allocated to a one-person level of a particular resource group or department (for example interface programming) we are close enough to say that we do not need more detail.
How are resources managed or sub-divided?
How resources are managed is a big determinant in how to sub-divide your tasks. In large EPC projects, for example, projects are often cut up into sub-projects that are parceled out to huge sub-contractors. In this situation we need to do a couple of things:
Define the work in a way that lets a project manager oversee the sub-contractor with confidence that progress being made is a big factor.
Define the tasks in a way that the sub-contractor's project management and engineering staff will understand what they mean with no ambiguity.
Ensure that the level of resolution that you have adopted as your standard is understood and agreed to by the sub-contractor.
When we look at white-collar projects such as software, biological research, or engineering, we are most likely to encounter a Matrix Management structure where project managers own none of the resources and we must work across department managers who allocate those resources across many different projects. In this case, the key questions would be:
How many projects is a resource likely to work on across a single day?
How long does it take an employee to switch from one project to another?
Is the work defined such that both the employees and the resource department managers understand how to allocate the right skill to it?
When we look at a Shutdown or Construction project, we tend to work across crews that are purpose-built. In these situations, a Resource Team Leader might be managing the Electrical Team (even if that team includes carpenters and pipe-fitters), a Plumbing Team, or a Boiler Unit Refurbishing Team. The work has to be organized in such a way that the crew can be kept busy throughout the shift and that they won't arrive on top of another crew already working in something in that area. Given the intense pressure of getting a Shutdown project complete, the work is often organized by work first, scheduled, and then regrouped and sub-divided by a Resource Team Leader so each team leader can walk around with only their tasks in one document and with the entire project in context in another. So tasks have to be defined in a way that is understandable by the employee and by the Resource Team Leader. Tasks here are probably defined down to the hour or with even more granularity to the tenth or quarter of an hour.
How quickly can you gather data and how much effort does that take?
It sounds like a silly question when you're used to seeing your project data all nicely lined up at the end of the week to be reviewed, but when you are trying to determine the level of resolution of your project, this can be a key question. For example, when you are working through numerous sub-contractors, it is likely that you will get some kind of weekly or monthly update. In fact, building the project management update clause into your contract is essential. In this situation you have to integrate the data from these different companies into your own, validate that the progress data makes sense, and then do your own analysis and reporting. In an EPC mode, this is probably a monthly occurrence.
In a shutdown project, you will need to be updating your project every shift, update it quickly, and get the updates to the Resource Team Leaders in the middle of the next shift. In this situation, project personnel swarm all over the plant all during the shift, gathering data in as close to real time as they can and having Resource Team Leaders and Foremen use 'take-down' sheets to 'take-down' the progress of their assignments. In a software or research project, you are probably working on a weekly schedule or something like it with individuals reporting their own progress and going through approvals over a day or two.
This is an important point to consider when you are looking at how many tasks to have in your project, because there is a cost to gathering the data.
So thinking about how quickly you can collect, approve, integrate, analyze, and report the data on a regular cyclical basis is key, as is the consideration of the cost of collecting the data and the return on investment of that data being collected.
How often will we update?
Here are two keys to determine how much data you can collect and include:
Think about how you will collect your data.
Think about how often you can reasonably update your project and provide management with the decision-making tools required to guide the project and the resources in the right direction.
I've seen some project managers insist that they want to move to 'real-time' project management and project collection and while this may be possible in theory, it is terribly difficult to realize in practice.
When we look at project management data we make some assumptions. We assume that:
The data is all there. We do not expect to be looking at some tasks that are updated and other that are not.
The data was all updated at a similar time. We do not expect that half the tasks were updated a few minutes ago but the other half have not been updated for two weeks.
The data has all had some level of approval. We expect the project manager to stand behind the data being presented and that he or she is able to say "This is a fair and accurate representation of the project."
The data belongs together. We do not expect risk to be blurred with costs and with resources unless we have specifically designed our reports and analysis that way.
I often ask executives who are excited about the concept of real-time project management what they will do if we could overcome the points I just raised above. "Are you prepared to take management decisions all throughout the week?" I'll ask. The response should depend on the level of resolution. In a shutdown project the answer had better be 'Yes'. In a software project, the answer is probably 'No, we'll do that weekly'. And in an EPC project the answer would be, 'Monthly'.
At some point the law of diminishing returns kick in to say, "Delivering project reports any quicker will not give us any increase in efficiency."
Reviewing your work
You have now had some food for thought, you have used the Work Breakdown Method to sub-divide your data, and you have watched for some of the warning signs that the data is too finely defined. Now it is time to lean the schedule up against the wall, step back, and look at the project with some perspective. Amazingly, many project managers never do this. They get so caught up in getting the last details defined and are so busy sub-dividing tasks again and again that they push themselves right up to the go-live deadline and never look up to see whether what they have made will be a nightmare to manage.
In some cases, executives are sure from all that MBA training that "more detail is better" and they are pushing for those 5-minute or 15-minute tasks on six-month-long projects.
Changing the project before it starts is always easier than at any time later, so build time into your schedule-building activity to rework the schedule if required.
Is it too much?
Sometimes project managers look at the scope of what they have created and realize that they are at too fine a level of detail. If that is the case, the fix is obvious. It may be a lot of work, but you will thank yourself later to make the schedule simpler by moving up a level.
Sometimes the picture is not so easy. In some cases, it is only once the entire schedule is assembled that the project manager can see how complex it is. Complex projects are, by their very nature, riskier, and risk in today's economy is a key selection factor for projects. Some questions that are worth considering before such a complex project gets underway might be:
Can we do it in pieces? Some risky projects can be broken up into smaller bite-sized portions and as smaller projects, their risk goes down. However, if you are using this strategy, each discrete project should have its own value when it is complete.
Should we rethink the scope? Sometimes the simplest actions are to go back to the designers of the work in the first place, explain the complexity that seems apparent in the schedule, and see whether the work can be restated. This often leads to innovative thinking that would have never had a chance to occur.
Should we do it at all?
Some projects were never meant to be, and the cheapest time to cancel them is the day before they start. If the risk of the project is only now apparent, better to realize it now than later. When you weave the findings of doing your schedule back into the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) process, you might find that the risk of the more complex project has the work score much worse in a return-on-investment scale.
A nimble… no, an Agile project
I promised to say a few things about Agile project management and if you are an Agile fan and you have read this far, I appreciate your patience. Managing software projects through the Agile method is something of a philosophy, but it is a more and more popular philosophy with those who have been burned on massive software development projects that failed.
In an Agile software development world, we try to break our project into bite-sized, one-to-three week "sprints" and the goal for each mini-project is to end up with useable code. In this case we are working within some fairly well-known constraints so that our level of resolution is pretty much picked for us.
We have a one- to three-week window, the resources are available to us, and we are going to assign work to each resource. The number of possible tasks that we can define in that structure is finite and this lends itself to keeping an appropriate level of resolution. Yes, you can get into trouble in Agile by defining tasks that are much too short. "Define Field1: 10 minutes, Define Field2: 10 minutes, Define Field3: 10 minutes" etc. but it's much less common.
Agile was designed for a corporate development environment where we are creating software for in-house use, and its use is often extended to commercial software development. (We use the method here at HMS for our own development of TimeControl.) The Agile method results in a more maneuverable and nimble development department but it is not going to be applicable to every industry or even every software company. If you are doing project management in a software environment then my recommendation is to read up on Agile, learn from it, and then adopt those elements (all, some, or none) that will make you most effective.
Wrapping up
As with most aspects of project management, there's no set answer to questions that at first seem to be so obvious. How many tasks you have in your project and how long each of those tasks should be is something that you need to look for yourself to decide … but decide you must.
Choosing your project level of resolution is a project management responsibility that can be a key success factor in the management of the project schedule.
About the Author
Chris Vandersluis is the president and founder of Montreal, Canada-based HMS Software, a Microsoft Certified Partner. He has an economics degree from McGill University and over 30 years experience in the automation of project control systems. He is a long-standing member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and helped found the Montreal, Toronto, and Quebec chapters of the Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG). Publications for which Chris has written include Fortune, Heavy Construction News, Computing Canada magazine, and PMI's PMNetwork, and he is a regular columnist for Project Times. He teaches Advanced Project Management at McGill University and often speaks at project management association functions across North America and around the world. HMS Software is the publisher of the TimeControl project-oriented timekeeping system and has been a Microsoft Project Solution Partner since 1995.
Chris Vandersluis can be contacted by e-mail at: firstname.lastname@example.com
If you would like to read more EPM-related articles by Chris Vandersluis, see HMS's EPM Guidance site (https://www.epmguidance.com/?page_id=39).


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Emini with Seasonal Indicator Forecasting Santa Claus Rally (daily chart)
Here we go – the Santa Claus Rally is on it's way. It set up perfectly Tuesday into Wednesday and we've had a gangbuster 100 point ride so far. Although the magnitude of the strength has been a little bit of a surprise, the timing was forecast in the last video (3:00 minute mark).
Really only turned my attention to seasonal trades in the last year – and I'm not going to change my day trading technique. But they've all worked out perfectly this year: Tax Time, 4th July, September Effect and Thanksgiving. This article details the 5 seasonal trades I'm following and includes the seasonal indicator code.
Emini Bottoming Sequence (40,500 tick chart)
The bottoming sequence on the Emini was a classic too. The 40,500 tick chart is shown above and here's how the sequence goes:
- Volume momentum slows and reverses after Exhaustion Selling and First Bullish Divergence signals
- Short covering rally with explosive volume but Pros take the opportunity to Short one last time
- Pros cover at Lows in 1,960s and price forms an End of Trend signal, and
- Uptrend leg really gets going when Pros "jump the creek" and bust through cyclical resistance
Personal note
We're on the road again – this time off to Rome for Xmas and currently sitting in Munich airport. Anxious to see what Italian Internet speeds are like – hopefully fast and stable. And I managed to crash my own website in the last few days. If you saw it and thought it looked a mess – it was all my fault and thankfully not a hack.
Good luck with your Emini trading.


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SAN ANTONIO -- Christian Green (Tampa, Fla./Catholic) has been slicing and dicing defenses in the Tampa area for the past three seasons as a devastating dual-threat quarterback. This week at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, the four-star athlete has taken his explosive playmaking ability to receiver.
So far, so good.
With one highlight-reel play during Wednesday's practice, Green showed he could be as big a force at receiver in the future as he's been at quarterback in the past. During a brief intersquad scrimmage, he burst off the line hitting the seam like a jet, geared down to adjust to a late throw that was slightly behind him, made the catch without losing balance, burst quickly upfield, made one vertical cut to split the closing corner and safety and then high-stepped the final 10 yards celebrating the big play.
"Christian is a tremendous athlete. He's the kind of athlete that can come out here and play anywhere," said East wide receivers coach Lee Campbell. "He has a great burst off the line, and he fights for the ball. I like the way he goes after the ball.
"After watching him move, I'm not surprised he transitioned to receiver quickly."
Neither are college coaches. They saw the potential, and it's why Green, ranked 52nd in the ESPNU 150, had more than 30 scholarship offers. A process that began with offers from the top programs in the SEC, ACC and Big Ten has been whittled down to the chosen few.
"My final three schools are Florida, Florida State and Georgia," Green said. "I'm going to Florida next weekend, and I'm going to Florida State on Jan. 29. I went to Georgia in September."
The Gators have as much recruiting momentum as any program in the country, having won battles for receiver Chris Dunkley (Pahokee, Fla./Pahokee) and defensive lineman Dominique Easley (Staten Island, N.Y./Curtis) this past weekend.
"I like the Florida program. I feel like Coach [Urban] Meyer and those guys motivate players to win, and they are going to make you better as a player. That, and they win national championships," he said. "I think that's important to go to a school that is going to win national championships and they have proven they can."
If the Gators are to add Green to their top-ranked class, they will have to upset the favored Seminoles, who have family on their side.
"They [Florida State] have just been a great program. I have always grown up a Florida State fan. A lot of my family went to Florida State," said Green, whose cousin E.G. Green played for the Seminoles. "Looking at it now, they now have stability with Jimbo Fisher, they are getting topflight recruits and I think the future is going to be real bright.
"I've had my in-home [interview] with Coach Fisher a couple of weeks ago. It went real good. I enjoyed it. He's a real good guy. I learned a lot more about him. He talked about playing me at inside and outside receiver. He talked about the transition from quarterback to receiver."
The dark-horse Bulldogs are still in the mix thanks to the trust that Green has in Georgia coach Mark Richt.
"Georgia is always been a program I liked growing up. Coach Richt seems like a real spiritual guy, and that is something I look at," Green said. "I know he's going to take care of his players and push his players to get better."
In the end, Green said he'll know where he belongs.
"Right now, it's just going to be a gut feeling. Where I feel it. I think I'll know it when I feel it," Green said. "All three schools are pretty much the same stuff. It's just where I fit in with the players and at the university."
Gerry Hamilton has covered recruiting in Texas and the Southwest for more than a decade. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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ReShifter is a Kubernetes cluster state management library and tool.
You can use it on the command line for one-off tasks, as a Web app with an UI, or
in a cron job. It uses the etcd API to query and manipulate the state of
Kubernetes-related objects, supporting legacy (
/registry), modern
/kubernetes.io) as well as distro-specific keys such as the ones
used in the enterprise Kubernetes distro OpenShift.
There are many cases where ReShifter can be useful for you, for example:
See the Trello board for the current status of the work and roadmap items. You can also check out the design philosophy and architecture of ReShifter, if you want to learn more about why it works the way it does.
You can use ReShifter from the CLI via the
rcli binaries.
Get binary releases for Linux and macOS via the GitHub release page.
$ rcli -h
A CLI for ReShifter, supports backing up and restoring Kubernetes clusters.
rcli [command]
Available Commands:
backup Creates a backup of a Kubernetes cluster
explore Probes an etcd endpoint
help Help about any command
restore Performs a restore of a Kubernetes cluster
stats Collects stats about Kubernetes-related keys from an etcd endpoint
version Displays the ReShifter version
Here's a simple usage example which assumes that you've got a Kubernetes cluster with an etcd on
http://localhost:4001 running:
# back up Kubernetes cluster to Minio playground:
SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=zuf+tfteSlswRu7BJ86wekitnifILbZam1KYY3TG \
rcli backup create --endpoint http://localhost:4001 \
--remote play.minio.io:9000 \
--bucket mh9-test
# restore cluster from Minio playground, using backup ID 1498815551:
SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=zuf+tfteSlswRu7BJ86wekitnifILbZam1KYY3TG \
rcli restore --endpoint http://localhost:4001 \
--remote play.minio.io:9000 \
--bucket mh9-test \
--backupid 1498815551
OK, now that you know about the basic usage, why not learn more by checking out the CLI walkthrough? You can also have a look at the backup strategies as well as the configuration options for more ways to use the ReShifter CLI most effectively.
If you want to see the app in action, have a look at the app walkthrough.
If you want to use the ReShifter app, that is the Web UI, you need to use the Docker image since it bundles the static assets such as HTML, CSS, and JS and the Go binary. For example, to launch the ReShifter app locally, do:
$ docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 quay.io/mhausenblas/reshifter:0.3.22
If you want to use the ReShifter API, for example as a head-less service, you can simply use the binary, no other dependencies required:
$ curl -s -L https://github.com/mhausenblas/reshifter/releases/download/v0.3.22-alpha/reshifter -o reshifter
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The ReShifter HTTP API is defined in and available via Swagger: swaggerhub.com/apis/mhausenblas/reshifter/1.0.0
To install the ReShifter app on OpenShift, we use a Makefile
that creates a new project called
reshifter, launches the app from the Docker image, and finally exposes the service via a route
so that you can access the app from outside of the cluster. The following requires access to an OpenShift Origin 1.5 (or OpenShift Container Platform 3.5)
cluster and also the oc CLI tool locally installed:
$ make init
$ make build
$ make publish
To install the ReShifter app in a portable way, use
kubectl and the YAML files provided.
The following requires access to a vanilla Kubernetes 1.5 or above cluster and also the
kubectl CLI tool locally installed:
$ kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mhausenblas/reshifter/master/deployments/reshifter-app.yaml
Note: the above YAML file defines both a
Deployment as well as a
Service object for ReShifter.
It does, however, not expose the ReShifter service to the outside world. If you want to access the app from outside the cluster,
you'll have to use Ingress or adapt the YAML file
ReShifter supports different backup strategies.
ReShifter takes throughout the deployments (app, HTTP API, CLI) the following configuration parameters, supplied as environment variables. Currently all of them are optional, but may be required depending on the etcd setup in use or what you want to achieve, for example, backing up to an S3-compatible storage.
|env var
|set for
|S3 access key ID
|when backing up to remote S3-compatible storage
|S3 secret access key
|when backing up to remote S3-compatible storage
|path to etcd client cert file
|when using a secure etcd
|path to etcd client key file
|when using a secure etcd
|path to etcd CA cert file
|when using a secure etcd
|if present, selects backup strategy
|if present, overwrites auto-discovery and forces ReShifter to use the specified etcd API version; allowed values are
v2 or
restore, and
ACCESS_KEY_ID and
SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables are understood as of the AWS guidelines
RS_ETCD_* environment variables are understood as of the etcd2 security flags/etcd3 security flags
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Lou Dobbs covered politics for CNN for years but now Dobbs may be heading to the other end of the political spectrum, as a possible Senate or presidential candidate.
"I am ruling nothing out. ... I have come to no conclusions and no decisions," Dobbs told Reuters about rumors that he may run for the New Jersey Senate or for the White House in 2012 as a third-party candidate. "Do I seek to have some influence on public policy? Absolutely. Do I seek to represent and champion the middle class in this country and those who aspire to it? Absolutely. And I will."
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Dobbs left his longtime post on the cable news network last Wednesday after months of controversy stemming partially from his views on immigration, among other hot-button issues. Dobbs acknowledged his on-air views played a part in his exit.
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Petro-Sea Logistics, a joint venture between Belgian terminal operator Sea-Invest and Ivory Coast-based oil company Petroci, has purchased a GMK5180-1 all terrain crane manufactured by Manitowoc. The crane will be used at the Port of Abidjan on the Ivory Coast, where the company provides logistics and material handling services for major oil companies.
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NLP can be considered as chaos magick
When you look at it from the perspective of chaos magick, anything can be considered as a magickal practice. The law of attraction, or by its popular name the Secret is also a kind of chaos magick in that sense.
If you look at the working mechanisms of sigil magick, you will find many similarities among sigil magick, nlp and the law of attraction. They are there with the intention of manipulating your consciousness because they firmly believe that the reality manifests is only caused by your thoughts, consciously or unconsciously.
Historical, ancient approach to magick says that magick primarily occurs in the body of the magician. This is something to think about.
With the development in contemporary physics, quantum mechanics offers a model of the universe as a hologram. A hologram is something that does not exist in terms of our perception of reality. A hologram is just there for you to feel it with your senses. In the case of this physical universe (in fact it is just supposed to be physical but contemporary physicists do not say so), the reality is something we accept as reality through our five senses.
We say that the universe is out there just because we are able to see stars with our naked eyes, able to do scientific universe about the space and recently able to see a vast distance via the hubble telescope.
That's it, and this is the holographic universe where we sense and think of it as real pretty much like a video game.
Some of you may be familiar with first person shooter games. There is always the possibility of getting shot anytime and you feel the fear. When you get shot you get anxious. Maybe you are even shaking. Now, holographic universe is something like this. When you perceive it with your five senses, it comes so real. In fact, it is very possible that we are just spirits connected to a software like system and perceive things as real.
And in this software like system, nlp and chaos magick are trying to use human thought, subconscious work to alter this reality. The fact is the reality was not there from the beginning. It is always in an altered form. Therefore what you do via magick or nlp is not something new. You put your hands into a work of change and you change something that continually changes. It would continue to change even if you stay away from it. By engaging yourself in this change (river of change let's say) you just put your vote in it and your vote is counted. It looks like that this is the system we are in.
I have not much practice with nlp. I just know it at a level of general culture. I just know what it is and what the mechanism it offers and just that.
Do you have any experience with nlp?
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I'm a NLP master certified by Bandler (didn't became a Trainer until now for not wanting to teach it, but learn how to real use it). I'd really like to ask him about his views on Kaballah, Crowley and magick, including chaos. And maybe I will (or maybe I won't). His right-hand helper taught me in a more personal meeting how to discover your own unconscious symbols and manipulate them for various powerful effects, project them, etc for great effect, among other things. Bandler himself might have told me something about that as well, but I'm not 100% positive he did. I believe it's just a tweaked or advanced technique that chaos magick calls a 'sigil'. It really interests me.
If you have info about sigils (or any powerful white magick), please do send it to me: email@example.com
Much Success and Best of Luck in your Magick Experiences.
- February 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- Mara said...
Late to the post, but agree totally. NLP is a wonderful methodology for modelling systems and deconstructing those models in order to generate new patterns of belief (and behavior). I like to use it in conjunction with Enneagram and Myers-Briggs when it comes to people because I have a tendency to sort by similarity, and use complex equivilency for contexts in order to do it. The less tied you are into content specificity, and the concept of idea permanence, the more flexibility you have, which works for me and I suspect for other people who are chaos magicians.
- December 16, 2015 at 3:50 PM
The reality is something we accept as reality through our five senses.chaos magick
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Post 71 – Comedy icons Lena & Amy fool around with guys & girls … but there are scary Islamic omens for sexy infidels!!
'I'm not fat – just a little tubby,' tattooed Lena tells the boys as she wanders around wearing a g-string and bra. There is some talk of work and places to live followed by eye-catching silences as faces come closer and mouths connect. The sex is frantic as passion surges, but next day the partners move around and chatterbox virgin Shoshanna squeaks ecstatically as she's deflowered.
Lena Dunham is bright and popular and she's moving up rapidly in the comedy world. Recently, in rural France with no internet or TV we watched some episodes of Girls on a computer – interspersed as weeks passed with Mad Men and Peaky Blinders. I couldn't take more than two episodes of Girls at a time, and I kept wondering just who the cafe owner Alex might end up with as he engaged traumatically with Hannah, Marnie and Jessa. Adam, the carpenter/actor kept bundling Lena/Hanna across furniture and onto carpets before rag-dolling her with consummation in bed; but he seemed to have difficulty in speaking + some psychologically challenging problems. While Marnie, a singer in the making, sought meaningful love while coping with disastrous liaisons.
Back in the UK, I discovered Amy Schumer, and I'm still reeling from what I've seen of her 'Talking Dirty' and 'Trainwreck'. UK Sunday Times film critic Camilla Long says she's 'vulgar, dirty, drunk, trashy and frightening,' and goes beyond all known boundaries. At the Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco she's tall and blonde with great legs and a raunchy but knowing smile. In 'Talking Dirty' Amy starts by telling us that she doesn't like guys coming on her face, thighs or stomach. She then moves on to 'ass play' which starts with a finger and is followed with allusions to uncircumcised members with ominously grey 'hoods'.
She tells us of a condom getting stuck in her cervix and there's no question but that she can say the filthiest things in the sweetest manner. We hear of sex being too athletic with her former professional wrestler boy-friend Dolph Ziggler. "The first time I was like, 'oh this is cool. Nobody ever rag-dolled me' … But soon he was spinning me like a Globetrotter."
Many of her fans applaud everything she says and want more – but there are exceptions, like in Lyfyette, Louisiana, where an agitated gunman opened fire during Amy's 'Trainwreck' movie. He killed two women in the cinema audience and wounded nine others.
There has been talk of girls on girls with Lena and Amy – but Amy seems to be more into guys, with nostalgia for an incident where there was just one erect member, but no balls (or grandparents!). I guess it's good to have a couple of sharp, sexually oriented female comedians, but one wonders – just a little – where it's all going.
Perhaps if Allah's Islamists go nuclear over our perceived decadence, we may be comforted in our radiation shelters with re-plays of Lena and Amy indulging our frail but now wilting fantasies. When we hit Muslims with the Crusades almost a thousand years ago, they faltered and collapsed. Now, however, these guys are back with a vengeance. They want to nuke us in the West, but why? Well … it's complicated … but Allah's extremists claim that we've passed beyond redemption with our overly indulgent lifestyles and sexually obscene pleasures … so Lena and Amy – we love you … but maybe you need to pull back – just a little!!
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NerdWallet collected post-graduation statistics from over 100 colleges and universities to analyze what college students do when they graduate. Here is our hall of fame – college superlatives edition.
- Highest rate of full-time employment: UMass Amherst and Notre Dame – 92% and 91% of grads from U Mass Amherst's School of Nursing and University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture, respectively, reported full-time employment at graduation. These two universities were the only ones with employment rates higher than 90%
- Sportiest school: Colorado College – 4% of graduating college seniors who reported working after college chose to pursue sports-related fields. Runners up (no pun-intended): Davidson College (3%) and Brown (3%). Who says liberal arts colleges and Ivy Leagues are weak in sports?
- Most entrepreneurial: USC – A whopping 9% of students who reported working after college were self-employed upon graduation. We already knew that USC sent the most athletes to the Olympics, but now we confirm they are also self-starters.
- Makin' it rain: Wharton – 42% of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School employed grads reported working in investment banking. Goldman Sachs was, after all, the top employer.
- Future PowerPoint masters: MIT – 31% of MIT employed grads reported working in consulting.
- Richest nerds: Vanderbilt – 34% of employed Vanderbilt students reported working in Engineering and IT upon graduation.
- Highest paid grads: Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science – Grads reported an average salary of an astronomical $79,551 in 2009-2011
- Saving the world: American University – Not surprisingly for a school located in Washington D.C., AU dominates the non-profit sector. An average of 33% of their students entering the workforce were headed for a non-profit organization.
- Most wanderlust: University of La Verne – Nearly 30% of the class of 2009 planned to be travelling in the upcoming fall season.
- Get thee to a nunnery: University of St. Thomas – Over 2009, 2010, and 2011, UST averaged 12% of undergraduates entering seminary or going on to studying theology.
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kaidenm-bru2/17/2016 - 06:33 p.m.
The fact the donkey is such a popular attraction is because it's really unusual to see a leaping donkey and a 14 yr old boy putting on an amazing show, with a donkey that can jump 3 to 4 ft in the air , that's impressive I know I would go see that especially in a small village where nothing ever happens and where there's no money you could count me in to see that
william1108-yyca2/17/2016 - 09:04 p.m.
I can't believe that a donkey actually jumped. Most donkeys are just stubborn and don't want to do any thing at all. But this donkey is a risk taker and a smart donkey and he believes that he can do it. So maybe one day I will be able to see an actual donkey and an actual donkey that can jump that high as in the article.
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION: What makes this donkey such a popular attraction?
ANSWER: It is because normally donkeys are stubborn and don't want to do anything. All they do it transportation and stuff like that. But this donkey is the first of its kind to ever jump and also jump very high like a horse. So that is my it makes such a popular attraction.
Eric0221-YYCA2/17/2016 - 09:25 p.m.
The jumping donkey might have been able to be leaping to fame because people had been seeing the talent about the donkey that can be able to jump than other kinds of donkeys in the rural Egypt. The people might have been amazed about the donkey that can be able to things whenever their owner had told them to be doing which people had been amazed by the talent that the donkey have. The farmer might have been able to find out about the donkey's talent because the farmer that seen that the donkey can be able to be jumping from the ground rather than any other donkeys. People might have been able to be finding out about the donkey's talent because people had been finding that the donkey has a behavior of stubborn which it could listen to what the owners says.
Critical Thinking Question: What makes this donkey such a popular attraction?
Answer: The donkey has a behavior of stubborn which would make the donkey itself to be a popular attraction in the rural Egypt.
samanthas-1-ste2/18/2016 - 01:08 p.m.
The donkey is a huge attraction because of its natural ability and odd choice. The donkey species is not known for jumping, but the people seem to love it.
catarinat-pel2/18/2016 - 01:23 p.m.
I think this article was good it talks about how a donkey can jump high because some donkeys cant jump that high.
maleighan-pel2/18/2016 - 01:55 p.m.
because unlike some donkeys this one will conquer any request unlike other donkeys they will just stop.
kaitlinb-pel2/18/2016 - 02:05 p.m.
I like this story because I never that a donkey could ever jump over something like barrier. The thing that makes this donkey such a popular attraction is that the donkey jumped over a barrier. None of the other donkeys can jump except this one. The other donkeys are being stubborn when you try to get them to jump. This donkey is the only one out of all donkeys that jumped.
autianae-ste2/18/2016 - 05:43 p.m.
Donkeys are known to be very stubborn and don't jump. (Sorta sounds like me.) There's always an oddball that stands out and there's nothing wrong with that; in this case, pretty amazing.
katelynh-hol2/18/2016 - 07:54 p.m.
That is one rare donkey
ziont-orv-orv2/19/2016 - 09:24 a.m.
Critacal thinking question:
Becausd he can jump high and most donkeys don't.


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Hakuoki Edo Blossoms Review – Otome to Fall in Love with
Platforms: PS Vita (reviewed), PC
Developer: Idea Factory, Design Factory
Publisher: Idea Factory International
Release: 13th March 2018
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Hakuoki Kyoto Winds was my first Otome if you remember my review of it. The first part of the split-in-two original Hakuoki was a very appealing mix between a massive armada of possible husbands and an interesting plot set in a believable ancient Japan. Luckily, Edo Blossoms expands on the base in a great way, though not without losing some steam on the way.
For those unfamiliar with the predecessor, Hakuoki Edo Blossoms presents the previous events in a neat little summary, so everyone has the chance to catch up. Especially after around one year between the two games, refreshing the memories ocncerning Chizuru and the 12 Shinsengumis and their battles both against enemy forces and mysterious monster samurais is well needed.
Picking up right when the cast arrives in Edo, after escaping from their lost battle in Kyoto, the game centers on even darker themes than before. Having introduced both the dawning end of the Shinsengumi as a historical organization and their fear to transform into bloodthirsty monsters if their corruption as a furie overwhelms them, the lengthy exposition finally pays off in this part.
On the one hand, Hakuoki Edo Blossoms focuses on telling the historic downfall of the Shinsengumi, a group of feared mercenaries fighting for the Shogunate, due to the never-stopping wheel of time. Now forced to feel from their home, doubts, fear and uncertainty are core themes of the story, exploring how a once proud group slowly loses foothold in a world quickly evolving into our modern one, while abandoning all past obstacles. The melancholic atmosphere, interrupted by happy ones far less than previously, now profits way more from Chizuru´s happy attitude, using her as an opposing force, giving her a greater purpose than ever before. She doesn´t just seem like someone in it because it´s an Otome but because it was necessary. It takes the human, believable story to the next level by evolving it into something darker and puts it against the blooming flower love can be in such a world.
On the other hand, a lot of time is spent at thematising the rather new fantasy side, circling around demon-like samurais. While those monsters are certainly not a historical event, the mysterious substance that transforms humans is just the right amount of absurdity to provide the plot with enough unique appeal to stand on its own two feet. Throughout the game, certain bachelors suffer from corruption and it's up to Chizuru to help them by letting them drink her blood. It adds both a new layer of desperation and helplessness o the Shinsengumi, a troop introduced as strong is now relying on a girl to survive. Mixed with the overspending plot about finding Chizuru´s father, used to characterize our main heroine, the plot gains a whole lot of personality by completely freeing itself from the historic shackles in most areas. Given, if you expect a dry but somehow faithful retelling like in Dynasty Warriors, Hakuoki Edo Blossoms won´t deliver but uses it as a jumping pad for a historically inspired tale about struggling humans.
Speaking of which, humans, love and also death are core themes of this Otome, contrary to most others circling solely around finding a cute bachelor. Divided into different routes, one for each man, romancing becomes a rather scripted act, as long as the desired one doesn´t fall victim to his corruption by letting him regularly suck blood, for example, the game will most certainly end with a happy love-life. Instead, most of the 6-10 hours routes focus on telling the plot from different sides, exposing either new secrets about the cast or problems. A Shinsengumi who became a furie in the last game will have different problems, struggles and fears than one who didn´t. At the same time, the previous personalities get permanently evolved through obstacles they have to face. Actually, it´s not even that obvious you´re playing an Otome.
Like Kyoto Winds, Hakuoki Edo Blossoms doesn´t feature any dialogue choices, only giving you the option to decide how to help corrupted Shinsengumi or which slightly different path to take. Yet, since the desired bachelor is selected at the start, many options seen in the previous title are gone and replaced by automatic ones to automatically collect "points" with them.
If successful, the game once again features amazingly well-drawn panoramas with Chizuru and her man, battles or landscapes. Overall, the art, in general, looks great again, featuring rich character and environment design mixed with some great colouring. The artstyle tries to convey a certain historic feeling while delivering one of the best looking visual novels on the Vita.
Hakuoki Edo Blossoms can continue delivering a captivating mix of historic and fantasy events, skillfully mixing them together, in order to create a truly unique but brutally honest story about love in a melancholic world. For someone who hasn´t played many Otomes or just wants to try them, the tale about Chizuru and the Shinsengumi will certainly be just as worthwhile as for longtime fans.
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Parts Of A Business Letter: Discover What Typical Parts Of A Business Letter Are
If you're about to write your first business letter, first you should consult what exactly are the parts of a business letter.
First is the heading, also called letterhead or the return address. When companies are writing they use printed papers with the heading at the top of the sheet. It's used to show the companies identity. It's written on top central part of the letter.
The date is written right afterwards. If the letter doesn't have a heading then the date is what it starts with. Then you write your own address and after that the recipients address. The inside address was designed to be seen through the window of the envelope when the paper is folded in thirds, that's why it is placed on the left margin.
After the addresses is written the greeting. Usually, it's formed of "Dear" and the last name of the recipient. It is strongly recommended to address to the recipient by his name; otherwise, instead of his last name write Sir/Madam or his title in the company. If it's a US style of the letter, the greeting ends with common and if it's a UK style, it ends with comma.
It is at your choice if you want to write the title of the letter afterwards. Its role is to help the receiver deal with the goals of the letter.
As parts of a business letter are the body paragraphs. It's the main part of the letter as it states why you are writing. It would be fine to start it by presenting yourself. Leave a line between each paragraphs so that to make it pleasant to the eye. You should use simple sentences and simple words so that to make yourself clear to the reader. The body paragraphs are formed from the introduction, were is stated the purpose of the letter, the middle-part where are written details and the closing were you write what actions you expect from the recipient to make.
The complimentary close is the proper ending of the body paragraphs. It was stated that if the greeting is "Dear Sir/Madam" the complimentary close should be :"Yours faithfully", and if it started with "Dear" it should end with :"Yours sincerely".
The last part of the letter is your signature and your identification. If the letter does have a heading, the signature is written in the centre; if it doesn't have a letterhead, the sign is on the left side.
In case if somebody else than the writer typed the letter initials should be included. As additional parts of a business letter there is cc – written when copies are sent and Enclosure – written if other materials are included. For additional info consult the following sites:
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Coronet Machinery Corporation--Costs
B-400197.2: Nov 18, 2008
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Coronet Machinery Corporation, of Yonkers, New York, requests that we recommend that the firm be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing a protest challenging the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals No. W15QKN-08-R-1329, issued by the Department of the Army for a quantity of shock attenuating lifting plugs and gaskets to be used on military projectiles. We dismissed the protest as academic on June 23, 2008, before receipt of the agency report, and after the agency advised our Office that it was taking corrective action in the procurement and restoring Coronet's proposal to the competitive range.
We deny the request.
B-400197.2, Coronet Machinery Corporation--Costs, November 18, 2008
Matter of: Coronet Machinery Corporation--Costs
Alani Golanski, Esq., Law Offices of Alani Golanski, for the protester.
Maj. Walter R. Dukes, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency.
Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Ralph O. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
Request for reimbursement of protest costs is denied where record fails to establish that the agency delayed taking corrective action in the face of a clearly meritorious protest.
Coronet Machinery Corporation, of
We deny the request.[1]
Our Office may recommend that a protester be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing a protest where the contracting agency takes action which renders a protest academic prior to our issuing a protest resolving the merits of the protest. Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. sect. 21.8(e); Information Ventures, Inc.--Costs, B-294567.2,
In our view, a basis for the award of costs does not exist in this protest, since the Army initiated corrective action on June 18, 10 days prior to the June 28 report due date which, as mentioned above, is the point at which we will generally determine that an agency has not acted promptly. Since the agency's corrective action has not been shown to have been unduly delayed, and since we do not recommend the award of protest costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act, there is no basis to recommend reimbursement of protest costs.
Accordingly, the request for reimbursement of costs is denied.
Gary L. Kepplinger
General Counsel
[1] Coronet requests reimbursement of its costs pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 5 U.S.C. sect. 504 (1982); however, there is no legal basis that would permit recovery of protest costs under this statute. J.C. Yamas Co., B-211105.2,
sect. 3554(c)(1) (2000), as implemented by our Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R.
sect. 21.8(e) (2008).
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Tetra Tech, Inc.
We deny the protest.
Inalab Consulting, Inc.
We deny the protest.
Quanterion Solutions, Inc.
We deny the protest.
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Silver Investments, Inc.
We dismiss the protest as untimely because it was filed more than 10 days after the protester knew, or should have known, the basis for its protest.
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We dismiss the protest.
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We deny the protest.
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Chronos Solutions, LLC; Inside Realty, LLC; BLB Resources, Inc.
We sustain the protests.
Chronos Solutions, LLC
We deny the protest.
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We sustain the protest.
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Amid reports Prakash Karat terming Modi government as "authoritarian" and not "fascist" as described by some Left leaders, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday that situation in India was not "fascist" of a variety as seen in Germany in 1930s, but claimed it can be so "if allowed to grow".
Yechury, during a talk on "Is the Left in India Dying?", pitched for curbing the situation from becoming "fascist" allegedly under the NDA government "for the sake of India".
Listing a range of issues grappling India, the CPI(M) General Secretary said present situation in the country is such that Left has become "more relevant" and is "crucial" for the country's future.
"The issue (of authoritarian or fascist nature of government) has been settled within party. As far as fascism is concerned, we are clear…what we have today in India is not fascism of a variety which was seen in Germany in 1930s.
"But if the situation is allowed to progress (in India), it can lead up to that. The point is to stop that for the sake of India," he said.
Karat, who is seen within CPI(M) as opposed to idea of having an alliance with Congress as against Yechury who is perceived as open to such understanding, had made the remark in an article in an English daily recently.
Replying to a question on CPI(M)'s alliance with Congress (during West Bengal polls), Yechury said "It is not a question of alliances. What we are saying is there should be unity of forces which on Thursday are ready to preserve the secular, democratic Constitutional values of our country".
He further said that the relevance of Left should not be measured "only by its electoral presence" as he sought to underscore it's role amid challenges faced by the country.
He claimed the country's economy was in bad shape with index of industrial production plunging and agrarian crisis
Yechury noted farmers committed suicides, mainly because they are unable to clear debts at a time "when lakhs of crore rupee loans taken by Indian corporate" is waived off.
He also stated that "relentless" rise in inflation has put "greater" burden on people.
He noted that current unrest in Kashmir as "threat" to country's unity, while expressed concerns over the government "virtually suspending" talks with Pakistan.
The leader also attacked Modi government's foreign policy towards US, contended New Delhi deciding to sign Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement with Washington makes India it's "junior" partner while it will strain ties with neighbour China.
The agreement, therefore, Yechury said, is not in the interest of India.
"To put it in a nutshell, the situation before the country is such that the relevance of the Left is increasing and it will increase further.
"So, it is far from dying. The Left is crucial for the future of India…to make it better," he added.
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SNORING can range from cute to cruelty for both the person snoring and their partner.
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"Sleep apnoea is a real problem. If people snore they can get quite low on oxygen throughout the night, but a lot of people aren't aware of that, they just feel really tired and it can be a risk factor for heart disease and stroke."
He said in the past doctors had tried all kinds of odd treatments to reduce the problem.
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Triangulation happens when you have an issue with someone, but instead of talking directly with that person, you talk about the person and situation with a third person. This behavior undermines group trust and cohesion in two ways:
- You lose the opportunity to improve the relationship. You don't talk about the issue, work through it, and find common understanding. Effective groups build trust and resilience when group members hold difficult conversations effectively with each other. They learn about their differences and create strategies together to behave in ways that feel respectful to each other.
- Gossip and drama stories replace accurate understanding of people's complex motivations and intentions.
When you tell a third person about someone else's bad behavior, you most likely are sharing a story about how you feel wronged and the evilness of the other person. You assume that person intended to hurt you or others. More often than not, when you assume the worst about people's intentions, you are wrong—and you don't even notice it because you don't talk about it with that person.
From the other's perspective, he probably believes he had good intent (we all usually do) or that the circumstances caused him to do something he didn't really want to do (we tend to blame circumstances rather than own our own bad behaviors).
If you don't take the time to talk directly with each other, you lose the opportunity to learn about each other's motivations and to describe the impact the situation had on you. Instead of clarifying what you each value, you generate misunderstanding and mistrust throughout the group. For more insight, read The origins of drama.
A common "end run" that promotes triangulation in the workplace occurs when group members too quickly jump up the chain of command to a lead, supervisor, manager, or HR.
You can end triangulation and rebuild group resilience if the members agree to a common approach when they encounter difficulties with each other. To find out how, read Three steps to end triangulation.


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Gmail gives you the ability to undo just about any action, from the simple like reversing sending an email to your archive folder to bring it back to the inbox, or undoing sending an important email. You can also undo status changes, like labels you have placed on messages or the unread status of a message. Conveniently, most of these are performed the same way, and we will go into detail about the one exception — how to undo sending a message. So without further ado, here's how to undo in Gmail:
- How to Undo Miscellaneous Actions in Gmail
- How to Undo Sending a Message in Gmail
- How to undo in Gmail using keyboard commands
How to Undo Miscellaneous Actions in Gmail
For almost every action you take in Gmail, Google's designers provided an easy way to undo in the form of the amber undo message that appears at the top of the screen when you perform just about any action. This message will pop up after an action and gives you the chance to reverse course.
For example, if you delete a message and wish to bring it back, the message at the top of the screen that will appear as soon as you've deleted will look like this:
Clicking the undo link will take the message out of the trash folder and put it back where it was before, whether that was the inbox or your archive, etc.
This temporary message will go away after a short period of time, or when you move on and perform other actions in Gmail; it will then reappear when you perform another action. It's a simple and convenient way to undo something that you did by mistake.
How to Undo Sending a Message in Gmail
Undo-ing the sending of a message, in other words stopping a message that you sent before it goes out, works a little differently. By default, there is no option in Gmail account with default settings to do this — you need to turn this feature on. In order to do so, go into the Gmail Settings under the gear icon ⚙ to the General Settings page, and enable the Undo Send option. In addition to enabling it, you have the option to select how many seconds the timer will give you before it's no longer possible to undo sending your message.
After enabling, save your setting to confirm them. Now, you will see the same amber-orange alert message every time you send a message, with the option to undo send. At the end of whatever amount of seconds you set, your message will go out and you will not be able to undo sending it anymore, so if you want to undo sending a message in Gmail you need to act quickly. If you are sure you want your message to go out and you feel some anxiety waiting until the undo message disappears, you can refresh your messages in the Inbox, and that will end the undo timer and your message will have been sent.
How to undo in Gmail using keyboard commands
For any action that can be done undone by clicking on the undo link in the amber warning box, you can also undo just by pressing the Z key on the keyboard. The only time this won't work is if your cursor is currently focused on a text area, like the subject line input or body input of the email composition page. In that case a 'z' will appear just as text in the text box. But as long as you aren't in a text box, Google will register it as a shortcut key. Just as with any Microsoft Office software program or most Windows and Macintosh programs in general, you can use standard keyboard commands to perform undo and redo actions. The keyboard commands will work the same way as pressing the button in the quick access toolbar, making it a very quick way to undo text entry for the pasting of an image, for example. Note that certain actions cannot be undone with either method, such as saving a document.
To undo in Gmail,
- Press Z for undo.
For quick reference, here are some other useful shortcut keys that you can use in Gmail.
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Whether you undo using the link in the amber warning box or by pressing the shortcut key, Gmail will pop up a message confirming the action you have reversed.
Important Tips About Undoing Gmail Actions
There are some important exceptions to things that you can undo in Gmail. If you delete a message from your spam folder or your trash, those messages will be gone forever and there is no way to get them back.
If you accidentally moved a message to your spam or trash and you want to put it back in your inbox or archive, you can simply drag the message to the corresponding folder or move it where you desire.
Also note that you only have the option to undo for a certain amount of time — after a little while, the amber warning message will disappear and you won't have the option to undo anymore, even if you stay on the same page.
Finally, when using the shortcut key, note that it will only undo the very last action. so, pressing it multiple times will not undo multiple previous actions like the way undo works in some desktop applications.


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Grizzly Fest 2018 is upon us this weekend, and the all ages, two-day music festival already seems bound for the local history books, destined to be a milestone moment in elevating Fresno's cultural significance and redefining it as a world-class city. It will also be a huge feather in the caps of its organizers and promoters, who just recently won a hard battle to move the festival to its new location, Woodward Park.
For the past week and a half, a crew of volunteers has been setting up the section of Woodward Park that will host the event. It will include two stages, a Grizzly Grove (where yet more acts will be found), a beer garden, an art village, and a food truck court.
By the time headliner Snoop Dogg wraps up the festival Saturday night, 30 acts (including artists well outside of the hip-hop genre) will have preceded him. This remarkable feat of organization can be credited to local hip-hop enthusiasts Aren and Vartan Hekimian and their IAN Group, comprised of a group of their best friends, who shared the dream of bringing a world-class music festival—like the kind they used to have to travel hundreds of miles to experience—right here to Fresno.
Stephen Mayu, Jr. is one of the Hekimian brothers' best friends and a co-conspirator in the IAN Group, which organizes and promotes Grizzly Fest. In a phone interview this week, Stephen gave me some pointers on how best to experience Grizzly Fest. He also shed some light on what it takes to make such a big dream come true in Fresno.
The fantasy that would grow into Grizzly Fest dawned years ago when Aren was managing local hip-hop phenomenon Fashawn, ultimately helping him get signed to Mass Appeal Records, connect with NYC rap artist Nas, and rise to national renown. "During that time there was just a vision of having a festival," Stephen explains, "because we used to go to the Rock the Bells Festival." Rock the Bells was held between 2004 and 2006 in Southern California before it started touring the country, eventually drawing Aren, Stephen, and company to New York City.
In 2013, the first Grizzly Fest happened and, since then, the team at IAN Group has strived to make each year's successive incarnation bigger than and different from those which came before. "People don't like monotony, so you want to change and be more worthwhile, bringing in better artists." Switching to a two-day event was also part of the agenda for 2018.
Why a move to Woodward was necessary
The crew also decided that 2018 would be the year to change the event's setting. For the past few years Chukchansi Park has been the venue for Grizzly Fest, but this year the guys wanted to find the perfect field for a proper music festival. "We drove around town, drove out of town to some places, trying to find places that would be accommodating," Stephen says of the scouting expedition. But ultimately Woodward Park spoke to them.
What makes a field more desirable than a stadium? Aside from the aesthetics of being in a large, open field surrounded by trees, the major factor, as Stephen sees it, is "no seats, man… you're free to roam." In a stadium, the crowd ends up in seats; instead of feeling like part of the action, they're looking down on it. "If you go to a festival, if you're sitting in a seat, that kind of becomes a concert, in essence," Stephen explains. The beauty of a festival is that event goers are occupying the same field as the artists and moving around interacting with everyone, so there's more of a sense of involvement and community, of being in the crowd. With a vendor village, a beer garden, an art display, two stages, and a Grizzly Grove, as well as food trucks galore, there will be plenty to see and lots of reasons to roam.
While Woodward Park was a perfect solution for the organizers, there were still plenty of hurdles to surmount in the planning of this year's Grizzly Fest. Fresno City Council members Garry Bredefeld and Steve Brandau, representing residents of districts within earshot of the park, fought the proposal to move the festival to Woodward Park. Neighbors worried about traffic jams, parking problems, and other potential disturbances. However, the Chamber of Commerce had the organizers' backs, agreeing that Grizzly Fest would be a boon for Fresno's economy.
The boys kept their cool throughout the process, sticking to their guns and avoiding mudslinging. Ultimately the council agreed, approving the move to Woodward. Stephen believes that people who might now be unsure of what to expect from a music festival in Woodward Park will eventually come to an appreciation of what he and his friends are doing. "I just think that any time you do something new, you're gonna face opposition, and you have to educate people [and show them] you can stand by what you say you're gonna do." Stephen believes the festival will draw people into the valley, and that they in turn will "buy into our infrastructure and economy."
"We're just trying to increase people's appetites for something that's new, and in doing that, we're growing," Stephen says, noting that he's got friends and acquaintances coming in from such far-flung locales as Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. "People are coming," he states.
Speaking to the larger significance of the festival experience, Stephen says, "It's community. This is something that Fresno can hang its hat on and say, 'Now we have a festival.'" One that's capable of drawing not only locals but also valley outsiders, and it's good for the economy. "If the Bay Area can do it, if L.A. can do it, if Sacramento can do it, we can do it as well. So that's just what we're doing… we're just trying to continue to put Fresno on the map in a good way. Because a lot of talk of Fresno is like 'there's nothing to do.' Well, here's something that's more than good that you can be a part of."
Grizzly Fest details
What do attendees of Grizzly Fest need to know? "Just come have a good time, first and foremost," Stephen says. "Get there on time. It's gonna be packed." He also recommends: "Drink lots of water, bring a hat, suntan lotion."
There's also an interesting list of what not to bring to the festival, including the obvious (weapons, alcohol) and the maybe not-so-obvious (selfie sticks, strollers, drones). Attendees might want to read this in advance to avoid any hassles with security.
More information, including a full schedule and directions to the festival, is available on the Grizzly Fest website. You can also follow Grizzly Fest on Instagram.
Tickets may still be purchased online or at the Will Call Location, 192 East Via Del Parque #184, in River Park (next to Coney Island Grill).
The full schedule for Grizzly Fest 2018 can be viewed here.
Gates open at 2 p.m. both days. The lineup runs as follows:
Friday, May 18
• Yo Isaac
2:30 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
• Halo
3:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
3:40 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
• DJ Burns
3:50 p.m. (Grizzly Grove)
4:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
4:40 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
• Zee Will
5:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
5:50 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
6:40 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
7:20 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
7:50 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
• Soja
8:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
• Nas
9 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
10:20 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
Saturday, May 19
• Broh T
2:30 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
• Mangchi
3:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
3:40 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
3:50 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
• Hayashi
4:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
4:40 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
5:10 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
• Cults
5:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
5:50 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
• Andi Mac
6:30 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
• Fashawn
6:40 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
7:20 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
7:50 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
8:10 p.m. (Sequoia Stage)
9 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
9:10 p.m. (51FIFTY Grizzly Grove)
10:20 p.m. (Yosemite Stage)
Further reading
Check out the Bee's helpful guide to parking at Grizzly Fest here.
Read more about the organizers' quest to bring this year's Grizzly Fest to Woodward Park here and here.
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