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Weekly Bulletin – May 9 – 13, 2016
Weekly Bulletin
WORD OF THE WEEK: All Teachers please put this word on your blackboard or other prominent place. MOTHER'S DAY: Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Father's Day and Siblings Day.
The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Today St Andrew's Methodist Church now holds the International Mother's Day Shrine. Her campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Ann Jarvis had been a peace activist who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War, and created Mother's Day Work Clubs to address public health issues. Anna Jarvis wanted to honor her mother by continuing the work she started and to set aside a day to honor all mothers, because she believed that they were "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world".
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Jarvis' holiday was adopted by other countries, and it is now celebrated all over the world.
**EMAIL ADDRESS FOR BULLETIN NOTICES: Please email bulletin notices to: email@example.com. The deadline for submitting items for the bulletin is Friday morning by 8:30am. Mrs. Grinnell
SUBSTITUTE SYSTEM: The Substitute System's phone number: 345-0064. The on-line system remains the same. If you have any questions please let me know.
SOCIAL COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTION: Just a reminder–if you haven't already given your social committee contribution, it's not too late. See Bettie Grinnell in the Main Office with your $25–checks or cash welcome! Social Committee
PARKING COURTESY: Please do not block other cars in both the Bay Street and the Polk Street parking lots. If you have to block a car, do it only for a few minutes and leave your Galileo Parking Hanger in plain sight in your car. If you do not have a Galileo Parking Hanger, see Bettie Grinnell in the Main Office. Mrs. Grinnell
ASB STORE: in room 150 is selling the popular Galileo planners. Cost is $1.00
with a current ASB card sticker.
Move-Up & Awards Assembly, Friday, May 13, double period 4
Senior breakfast, Friday, May 20 in cafeteria, 8:00 AM – 10:15 AM.
Graduation Ceremony at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Tuesday, May 24 @ 1:00 PM.
For 9th, 10th, 11th, & 12th:
|5/15/16 @ 7pm-9pm Exploring College Options @ Hyatt Regency SF: This is a free info. session for students & parents on admission and financial aid related info. for Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Penn, and Stanford University. For more info.: www.exploringcollegeoptions.org
La Petite Swim Schools is hiring Swim Teachers to teach children how to swim. The Pay scale is $15-$27 per hour. Must be at leave 16 years old. For more details, please go towww.swimlpb.com or see the posting in the Counseling Center.
Trader Joes' at North Beach is hiring. If you're interested, pick up an application from the College & Career Center.
Kumon in Marina is hiring Grading Assistant. This is a part-time position on Mon. Tues., Thur. and Fri. from 3pm-7pm. Please see detail job description in the Counseling Center.
Cowgirl Creamery is hiring! This is a local company with a fun crew seeking seasonal part-time, evening and weekend help at the SF Ferry Building location. Starting wag is $12.25/hour or DOE. If you're interested, see job description in the Counseling Center.
The Summer Program List is now available. Please either check it out on the wall outside of room 255 or via SchoolLoop with the weekly College & Career Center Announcements. Programs that have a cost may provide financial aid for students in need but you should apply for these programs ASAP.
For 9th & 10th:
Camp Sudo's SF 2016 Summer Code Camp will be at Galileo Academy. This camp will cover basic computer coding, designing, building and managing your own websites & projects. The camp will be from 8am-2pm from 6/8/16-7/13/16. The cost will be $1,000 (including a laptop for you plus all programming material, transportation and snacks); limited need-based scholarship will be available and will cover up to 75% of the tuition cost. You can pick up a copy of the application from your counselor or from the College & Career Center in room 258F. Application deadline is 5/13 to Dr. Reimer's office which is next to the main office.
For 10th & 11th:
5/12/16 @ 11:45am @ RM 104: CCSF Fall Dual Enrollment:Sophomores & Juniors, if you would like to take FREE classes at CCSF next fall, please come learn about the simple & easy process and what classes are offered. Text books are also included. You can earn both college & high school credits. Application deadline is May 20.
For 11th:
For juniors only. Are you interested in going to either University of Puget Sound (PS) for tuition free (which is about $46,000 per year for 4 years) or Boston University (BU) for tuition free (which is about $49,000 per year for 4 years) while getting special advising support and leadership training? PS is known for international business, music, biology, and strong liberal arts. This is a small independent college in Tacoma, Washington. BU is a large private research college in Boston, MA. If you're interested in being nominated for this scholarship, please tell Ms. G by May 12 and give her your current contact information.
For 12th:
5/11/16 @ 2:15pm-3:15pm Final High School Transcript Request Workshop for Seniors @ Room 104: There is a new process for you to request your final high school transcript. The instruction was given to you on FRISCO Day. If you need help making the request, please come to either one of the workshops or check out the instruction via SchoolLoop. This process will only take one minute to complete.
5/12/16 @ 2:15pm @ RM 104: SFSU Resource Connection:For seniors attending San Francisco State University in the fall. Come learn about the resources available to you and sign up early! You can get low cost or free text books, on campus jobs, etc. Please email Ms. S. Chan (email@example.com) or stop by the College & Career Center to let her know that you're attending this event by 5/9/16.
5/17/16 @ 12:20pm-1pm Final High School Transcript Request Workshop for Seniors @ Room 104: There is a new process for you to request your final high school transcript. The instruction was given to you on FRISCO Day. If you need help making the request, please come to either one of the workshops or check out the instruction via SchoolLoop. This process will only take one minute to complete.
2016 Filipino-American HS Graduating Scholars' Award: If you are a Filipino-American seniors and have a weighted GPA of 3.0 or higher, please apply for this scholarship. It's an easy application and the deadline has extended to May 9, 2016. Pick up the application either in the College & Career Center or from the Advisor Hub in room 209.
Chinese American Citizen Alliance Scholarship for $1,000: applicant must be Chinese ancestry, graduate from SFUSD, has a 3.0 minimum GPA, has done community service, and must meet income eligibility. Application deadline is 5/10/2016.
Contact Michael Lau at email@example.com if you need the application.
Robert and Joyce Corrigan SF Promise Endowed Scholarship for $1,000 per year (renewable): applicants must be a SFSUD high school graduate & will attend SFSU, complete FAFSA or Dream Act by March 2nd, with EFC of $5000 or less, and must submit confirmation page of FAFSA or CA Dream ACT. The application deadline is 5/16/2016. www.sfsu.academicworks.com
If you have been awarded a scholarship either from a college or a private organization, please let Michael Lau know. You can either email the information to him at firstname.lastname@example.com or drop it off to him in room 209.
If you need to order an official transcript for college or for scholarship reason, please complete a transcript request form. You can pick up a copy of this form from room 209, the Counseling Center or the College & Career Center. Please allow at least two days for processing.
Please check out the scholarship posting in the Counseling Center or from School Loop as part of the weekly College & Career Center announcements. There are quite a few scholarship opportunities for you already. Don't miss deadlines!
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Explosive quintet IDLES return to Manchester as part of their sold-out unity tour expressing their thirst for community and open dialogues…
As I approached the dark and jaded Gorilla backstage door, I was promptly greeted by an outstretched arm belonging to vocalist Joe Talbot. Perched on a swivel chair, dressed in white roll ups, a white hat and of course sporting a white Idles t-shirt, Joe shot up from his seat to shake my hand. This was followed by a soft northern-Irish "hello" from Mark Bowen, one of the two guitarists in this potent quintet who was contrastingly dressed all in black, embellished with his caricature-like 'tache.
He'd been distracted initially by support band Lice's rambunctious sound check to which Joe shouted at part of his team that it was "doing his fucking head in", followed by his excessive array of crudités neatly placed on the well-light dresser. Talbot, after making himself a cup of steaming hot water, honey and freshly squeezed lemon pounded by a pestle returned to his seat in the centre of the room and drew in closer.
How does it feel to be back in the UK on tour having sold out all 11 dates of your Unity Tour?
Joe: Humbling, this tour was inspired by Cabbage's Brexit tour and reaching out to different communities. Especially those that aren't necessarily on the maps so to speak, excluding Manchester, London and Paris. We're talking places like Blackpool, Plymouth and Bath. Just going back and meeting smaller communities that are working hard for new music so for us it's been stunning and great to meet lots of like-minded people.
Why do you think it is so important to go to these smaller places?
Joe: It's good to remind people that a lot of the times working for the industry in these places is harder. If you're not in London, Manchester, Bristol or Birmingham, not as many bands go there so you've got twice as much work to do to get bands to come there. We want to show that they are appreciated but also to remind us that this is where we've come from. We are trying to build communities of like-minded fans and promoters. No matter where you are, you've got to stick to your guns. I came from Exeter which literally has one venue.
Can you summarise your touring in 2018 in 3 words and what has been your favourite place to play so far?
Joe: Fruitful and exciting
Bowen: Chocolate Milk
That's two!
Bowen: Chocolate milk…hyphenated
Joe: America was our favourite place to play because we didn't expect the reception. It was new, and we always go in with open minds but without any expectations, we were in a very big pond but as a very small fish.
How would you compare the crowds? I tend to be a bit hesitant for how much fans engage with bands, especially after seeing some dead crowds in Coachella.
Joe: Coachella is a fucking cesspit of human bile. It's fucking shit, I've been there and it's terrible. Coachella is for clothes-horses, not human beings. Having said that…I'd like to play it. I feel like the kind of music we do, and the kind of music Shame, Cabbage and Life do brings out the small communities people for the sake of fun and connecting. For that reason, our crowds don't vary.
Your debut album Brutalism is just over a year old now, so taking you back to its release, it received a very positive response. Had you anticipated this kind of reception?
Joe: No. We even struggled to listen to it all the way through, so we weren't expecting anyone else to. But we again, go in open-minded. As soon as you have expectations…
Bowen: You're focusing on the wrong thing
Joe: It's more about the process of what you're doing and what you make that's important to you
Bowen: I feel like we cared too much pre-Brutalism which is why when Brutalism did come out, it sounded so different. We stopped caring about what other people thought and trying to impress the music industry ideal.
Joe: It's a very freeing philosophy to just not be worried about who you are and just be yourself. This is when voices become celebratory.
Bowen: Then the positive praise you get e.g. with Brutalism makes you reset because you start thinking about what people clearly liked. Do we make new music like that again or?
Joe: Yeah so, we scrapped a lot of the second album because we were doing the same thing as we were on MEAT.
Bowen: If you link it to the topic of self-esteem that we were talking about earlier, getting praise is just as bad for your self- esteem as being criticised. We have to kind of ignore it all and just focus on what it is that's important to us. Making something that makes journalists or the wider consensus that the industry has is not something that we focus on.
Joe: If you believe in yourself, you don't change for someone else's praise.
How far do you believe the context of your lifestyles as well as the death of your mother impacted the final product that came to be Brutalism?
Joe: As a band, the boys congregated around me patiently whilst I lost it a bit but my lyrics and my approach to writing changed because of my mum's death. I suddenly found a new confidence in myself as I was no longer worrying about other people but as a band, we were also at a point where we were just fed up with not really connecting with the songs continuously. There were early songs like 26/27 that we were really proud of so we're not ashamed of the first EP or the second. It was more the 300 songs that we wrote in between that were absolute shit and we were constantly battling with ourselves and why we didn't seem to be enjoying the writing process. But we did figure it out.
I am a very hard person to be around and I think I was consistently hard to be around at that point. There was a relief in my mum's death, but also with that came guilt… at the end of the day, the band were all there ready and I just had to catch up.
Due to the brutal honesty that is laced within your lyrics, do you believe this is why you have such a 'cult' fan base? Do you think it's the personal venting of anger and opinion that draws in your listeners?
Joe: Ooh, I hope so because the pounding sounds we write provides the platform for what I then write to be brutally honest and I think people are missing that in popular culture. People are writing about normality and the beauty of mundane life.
Bowen: The most important thing for us as a band is to be a shared community. Out of that, you're going to get people who are more honest with each other.
Joe: One of the biggest gifts we're getting is being vulnerable to people as performers which then invokes other people to then be vulnerable with us. Whether that means they feel shit or feel great, it still creates a dialogue.
Bowen: People sharing their experiences with us is important. If we were sharing what we do but not paying any attention to the response…
Joe:…well that's just wank isn't it. I kind of hope that we're realists or at least fantastical realists. If you look at Leonard Cohen, people want to take you on these journeys that may not even be your world and that's still important but the only way I know how to do it well is the way we do.
How important do you believe using your platform is in educating other people in issues such as politics and mental health?
Joe: For me, it's important to write about what I want to at the given time. I'll always be interested in politics because it's the balancing act of our welfare and our safety. Sometimes it'll be completely allegorical and I'm writing about Mary Berry or my friend, or my father but it'll always be political. Sex, love, buildings, geography- it's all political.
Bowen: People say we are political, but they'll think that's either left or right wing, but we also cover gender and homosexuality. We deal with how people interact with each other on a daily basis and we're still working it all out because we know we're privileged, middle class, white men. We're opening up the conversation, so we can continue to learn about it.
How does your second album, due to be released at the end of this year, compare with Brutalism?
Bowen: Yeah, the second album has been written and finished. I wouldn't say that we've changed our sound because that's not the kind of band we are. We're not progressive in that sense but we have progressed. A lot of the writing process for this album involved less of an attachment to our separate parts because before, for example, I used to think my guitar part would be the most important thing within a song but that's not helpful. I think because we preach a lot about community and the shared experience, with this second album we finally work together. We've given each other more space and allowed others to push parts forward.
What can we expect from your upcoming second album?
Joe: You can expect a more rounded vision because we are less clouded with fury. It is a much more considered and poised violence. We understand we are a collective of individuals.
Bowen: We've had more time and inclination. The ability to focus on it but be more serious about it even though I do think it is less serious than Brutalism.
Joe: I just think we're better. It's a better album all around. It's just great. We are more fluent in our artistic language, so we can celebrate it. But we are definitely more verbose.
Are there any bands/ artists we should be paying attention to?
Joe: Lice, Heavy Lungs are great, Bambara, Numb…
Bowen: Show Me The Body. I think they're one of the best bands that have come out in the past 10 years and it doesn't seem as though people have realised that.
Joe: Spectres.
Bowen: I think LIFE, even though they're popular they're underrated for what they are. Shame get enough credit because they don't need any help.
Joe: Yeah, they're amazing.
Who do you think changed the music industry?
Joe: Mark Zuckerberg, I mean he's put a lot of promoters out of business or at the very least made their jobs a lot easier. He's made our lives a lot easier.
Bowen: But, he's also made the industry a lot worse because now people are looking at algorithmic success rates. Bands can't be as controversial which is in many respects a very fucking awesome thing, because there are still a lot of fucking dickheads in bands.
Joe: Yeah, a lot of horrible pricks still get away with sexist bullshit.
Talbot strutted on stage to the incessant chanting of "We love Joe, we love Joe" as the four walls closed in to form a claustrophobic yet oddly consoling space. The crowd came together as a cohesive unit as IDLES stormed the dripping walls of Gorilla with vigour and remorseless demeanour.
The sheer vehemence that radiated from this commanding quintet was enough to quite literally knock you off your feet as a wall of hungry, unrelenting and riotous fans hurled themselves in the hope of clutching at the body of idolised Joe Talbot.
Has Gorilla ever experienced something so animalistic?

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Accident in your family? You probably have a lot on your plate. Dealing with doctors' visits, bills, lost time on the job, and the pressures of lost income. The first thing on your mind is surviving the next day, not spending the time to select and hire a lawyer. But you need to know that you don't have forever. Florida's statutes of limitations laws prevent you from waiting. If you wait too long and the statute of limitations on your case expires, you lose no matter how right you are. Some statutes of limitations in personal injury and wrongful death cases in Florida are as short as two years.
Of course, the fact is there is an even better reason you should not wait. Every day, indeed every minute, that passes without hiring your own lawyer is a day or minute that evidence is lost. Witnesses memories fade. Physical evidence like skid marks at the scene of an automobile accident or parts of a dangerous product that failed disappear. Witnesses move away. You make choices that can't be changed. Choices that an experienced lawyer might find bad ones for your legal rights. There are real practical reasons why you need an experienced trial lawyer as soon as possible after an accident. Those reasons center around one primary purpose: to protect your rights and your family from the legal ramifications of a serious accident.
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If you were around during the early days of 3D graphics on the PC (about eleven years ago), you may recall that graphics hardware was actually controversial back then. Good software rendering tended to look better—or at least, perform better—than some of the 3D accelerators out there. Of course, 3dfx changed all that, with its Voodoo line of graphics cards. More pertinent is that the Voodoo line was actually an expansion card; you still needed a primary 3D card. It was years before the landscape settled down a bit and today's integrated 2D/3D cards emerged.
Today, we see new types of hardware acceleration emerge. As games become more complex, new problems bubble up to the surface. Take physics, for example. So it is with Ageia's PhysX, a dedicated chip to accelerate physics calculations. Ageia was demonstrating a multiplayer game level that integrated physics into the game play, so you could use physics tricks to manipulate the environment. You'd even get credit for "physics kills" when you used a physics trick to gib an enemy.
However, Ageia is no longer the only game in town. Nvidia announced their support for HavokFX, which uses the Havok physics middleware layer. Certain API calls get translated directly into Shader Model 3 code and executed on the GPU. Although Nvidia was showing the demos, Havok's original announcement noted that any SM3 GPU would work.
Simon Green, an Nvidia engineer, noted that the current HavokFX was targeted at physics effects—that is, allowing a larger number of game objects on the screen, mostly to increase the sense of realism. It's not specifically targeted for accelerating character interaction with the environment. However, some of the demos being shown at the Nvidia booth suggested that character interaction was indeed possible.
Green also suggested that memory and GPU load wouldn't interfere with actual graphics rendering in most cases. He estimated the typical memory footprint for large amounts of physics data in the neighborhood of 4MB to 5MB. Even using just effects physics on the GPU has the potential to speed up graphics rendering, since physics calculations affect rendering anyway. So while the GPU is working harder and some graphics memory might be consumed, less traffic across the bus might be necessary.
It's going to be interesting to see the competition between Ageia's dedicated solution and Havok's GPU. Will gamers really flock to a dedicated, extra cost card solution, even if it promises improved gameplay? Or will highly detailed, pretty eye candy be enough? Continued…
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Basra Provincial Council announced on Tuesday the formation of a group that includes 100 local businesses to invest in Faw Port "to preserve the sovereignty of Iraq".
Council member Walid Qitan said: "The efforts of businessmen in the province resulted in the cooperation of major public companies to invest in Faw Port in order to preserve the sovereignty of Iraq on this strategic link that will connect the Middle East and Europe in the future."
According to AKnews, a public company was established under the name of Basra National Group, which includes 100 businesses and is supported by Basra council to invest in the port with 51 percent of shares. Foreign companies wishing to invest in the port take 49 percent of shares.
Qitan added: "This project is the first of its kind to keep the Iraqi sovereignty and it will be followed in other Iraqi provinces."
Member of the founding committee of the company Ghazi Abbass Assad said: "The company includes businessmen and owners of capital in the province and its priorities will be working on the investment of Faw Port, as well as the implementation of the railway project that connects Basra to Turkey.
"The businessmen seek through this project to make Basra one of the best economic cities in the Middle East."
Assad added that five percent of the company's profits will be used to support the poor and needy in the province.
The Faw project will cost about $6.1 billion (7 trillion IQD) at an estimated capacity of 99m tonnes per year and will be one of the largest ports on the Gulf.
Faw is expected to include two berths for containers at a length of 39,000m and 2,000m. The port will also include a containers yard at a size of one million square meters as well as another multi-purpose yard covering an area of 600,000 square meters.
Iraq announced plans to build Faw in 2005 and the foundation stone was put in place in April 2010. This was a year before Kuwait announced plans to build its Mubarak Port on Bubyan island.
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A Cornish farming family are celebrating this week after being named Producer Retailer of the Year at the 2018 National Pig Awards. Sally Lugg of Primrose Herd was presented with the award by former British tennis number one and TV
Patrons' Lunch For The National Lobster Hatchery's Satellite, Newlyn
Chef Ben Tunnicliffe hosted a Patrons' Lunch at The Tolcarne Inn this week to celebrate a successful first operational year of the National Lobster Hatchery's (NLH) satellite in Newlyn – an outpost of the Padstow-based marine conservation charity. Ben, who
Back For Another Bite: Schooners Reopens For Second Season
Schooners at Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, will reopened for its second season on Wednesday 28th March, promising to add a lively edge to Cornwall's restaurant and bar scene this spring. Three local characters – Adam Vasey, Sam White and Sean
St Ives Chef Celebrates 15 Years At The Helm
Michael Smith, Executive Chef at Porthminster Beach Café, is celebrating the start of his 15th season at the iconic beach-side restaurant overlooking St Ives Bay. Originally from Victoria, Australia, Michael came to Cornwall in search of a great food scene
New HQ For Cornwall-Based Experience Dining Company
Ben and Sam Quinn – the couple behind one of the UK's leading 'experience dining' companies – have opened their new Cornish HQ to the public, giving everyone a chance to sample their much-admired menus and make use of the
Could This Be The Ultimate Cornish Fish Supper?
Two doyens of the Cornish food and drink scene – renowned seafood chef Ben Tunnicliffe and wine expert Jon Keast – will join forces next February to host a special fish supper at Scarlet Wines near St Ives. On Friday
Festive Awards For Cornish Pork
Cornish producer, Primrose Herd, has scooped yet more national awards – this time for its festive range of pork products. Back in October, the National Federation of Meat and Food Traders (NFMFT) asked the country's top butchers and meat producers
'Feast & Flames' At The Leach Pottery
The Leach Pottery will host a unique exhibition opening this November, as the world-famous pottery studio teams up with Scarlet Wines and Secret Orchard Cider for a night of fire-lit art, food and drink. Guests at the evening launch of 'Teachers'
Cornish Hog's Pudding Is Officially Delicious!
Cornish pork producer, Primrose Herd, has been recognised as one of the country's top food producers at a major set of industry awards announced this week. The delicious. magazine Produce Awards are an attempt by one of the UK's best-selling
Cornwall-Based Chef Back On World Stage
Chef Ben Quinn – co-founder of Woodfired Canteen – will be appearing at a major UK food event for the second time in a month, when he takes part in Meatopia at London's Tobacco Dock on Sunday 3rd September. Having


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Breathing for better lung health
(15 April 2007: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- While working to find novel ways to treat the life-threatening disease of cystic fibrosis, researchers at the University of North Carolina have discovered that the rhythmic motion of the lungs during normal breathing is a critical regulator of the clearance of bacteria and other noxious materials. Their research, funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the National Institute of Health, is published in the latest issue of The Journal of Physiology.
Their findings have important implications in the understanding and treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common fatal genetic disease in the United States (30,000 sufferers) and the UK (7,500 sufferers). As a result of CF, the body produces abnormally thick, sticky mucus that clogs the lungs, leading to difficulty in breathing and chronic, life-threatening lung infections.
Dr. Brian Button and colleagues at the University of North Carolina's Cystic Fibrosis Research and Treatment Center found that the rhythmic motion of the lung during normal breathing is important in establishing the rate of mucus clearance and can help the lung in responding to changes in lung environment, such as during a lung infection.
More importantly, in CF, they found that rhythmic motion of the lung can result in re-hydration of the airways and acceleration of mucus clearance, thus promoting lung health in CF patients. The researchers speculate that this may explain the preservation of mucus clearance in young CF patients prior to the onset of chronic infections.
The UNC researchers also suggest that these studies provide an understanding of the mechanism underlying the observed beneficial effects of physical and deep-breathing exercise in CF patients. "We believe that knowledge gained in these studies will be useful in developing novel therapeutic regimes to increase mucus clearance in the lungs of CF patients", said Dr. Button.
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Problems Related to ADHD
ADHD can sometimes lead to anxiety, depression, or learning disabilities. Here's how to handle ADHD-related problems.
ADHD is often present alongside other mental health problems, such as a learning disability or oppositional defiant disorder. When the individual is affected by such disorders, these should be treated in conjunction with ADHD, by a well-qualified mental health professional or team of specifically-trained professionals.
Some of the disorders often linked with ADHD:
Learning Disabilities
About 20 to 30 percent of children with ADHD also have a learning disability (LD). This is a problem that is unexpected given the child's general intelligence In preschool children, this often appears as a difficulty understanding certain sounds or words and/or difficulty in expressing oneself in words. In school age children, reading or spelling disabilities, problems writing, and arithmetic disorders may appear. One specific type of reading disorder, dyslexia, is quite common. Reading disabilities affect up to eight percent of elementary school children.
A child with ADHD may struggle with learning, but he or she can often learn adequately once successfully treated for the ADHD, whereas a learning disability will need specific treatment.
Tourette Syndrome
Occasionally people with ADHD have an inherited neurological disorder called Tourette syndrome. This usually appears in childhood, and is characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. These nervous tics and repetitive mannerisms may include eye blinks, facial twitches, grimacing, clearing the throats frequently, snorting, sniffing, or barking out words. These symptoms can be controlled with medication. Although this syndrome is rare, it is common for people with Tourette syndrome to have ADHD. Both disorders will require treatment that may include medications.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder is defined as an ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior. It affects up to half of all children with ADHD, particularly boys. To meet this diagnosis, the child's defiance must interfere with their ability to function in school, home, or the community and have been happening for at least six months.
These children tend to act in ways that are stubborn and non-compliant, and may lose their temper, arguing with adults and refusing to obey rules. They may deliberately annoy people, blame others for their mistakes, be resentful, spiteful, or even vengeful.
Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder is a more serious pattern of antisocial behavior which may eventually develop in 20 to 40 percent of children with ADHD. It is defined as a pattern of behavior in which the rights of others or the social norms are violated. Symptoms include over-aggressive behavior, bullying, physical aggression, cruel behavior toward people and pets, destruction of property, lying, truancy, vandalism, and stealing.
These children are at a high risk of getting into trouble at school or with the police. They are also at high risk for experimenting with drugs, and later dependence and abuse. They need immediate help, otherwise the conduct disorder may develop into antisocial personality disorder.
Children with ADHD can also struggle with anxiety and/or depression. Treatment for these problems can help the child to handle their ADHD more effectively. This works the other way too — effective treatment of ADHD can reduce the child's anxiety or depression through improved confidence and ability to concentrate.
Because there are some symptoms which can be present both in ADHD and bipolar disorder, it is often difficult to differentiate between the two conditions. For this reason, there are no accurate statistics on how many children with ADHD also have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a condition defined by extreme moods, occurring on a spectrum from debilitating depression to unbridled mania. Between these states, the individual can experience a normal range of moods.
However, bipolar disorder in children often involves a faster cycling of the extreme mood states, even within one hour. Children may also experience the symptoms of mania and depression simultaneously. Experts describe this pattern as a chronic mood dysregulation, including irritability.
The symptoms which can overlap between ADHD and bipolar disorder include high levels of energy and a reduced need for sleep. But elated mood and grandiosity — an inflated sense of superiority — are distinctive signs of bipolar disorder.


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Public Health Preparedness:
Developing and Acquiring Medical Countermeasures Against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Agents
GAO-11-567T: Published: Apr 13, 2011. Publicly Released: Apr 13, 2011.
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The anthrax attacks of 2001 and a radiation leak after the recent natural disaster in Japan highlighted concerns that the United States is vulnerable to threats from chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) agents, which can cause widespread illness and death. Medical countermeasures--such as drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic devices--can prevent or treat the health effects of exposure, but few are currently available for many of these CBRN agents. GAO was asked to testify on the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) CBRN medical countermeasure development and acquisition activities. This statement focuses on (1) how HHS determines needed CBRN medical countermeasures and priorities for development and acquisition and (2) selected challenges to medical countermeasure development and acquisition. This statement of preliminary findings is based on ongoing work. To do this work, GAO examined relevant laws and presidential directives, analyzed federal agency documents and reports from advisory boards and expert groups, and interviewed officials from HHS and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about the processes for developing and acquiring CBRN medical countermeasures and the challenges related to those efforts. GAO shared the information in this statement with HHS. HHS provided technical comments, which GAO incorporated as appropriate.
HHS coordinates and leads federal efforts to determine CBRN medical countermeasure priorities and develop and acquire CBRN medical countermeasures, primarily through an interagency body that includes other federal agencies with related responsibilities, such as DHS and the Department of Defense. HHS's medical countermeasure acquisition strategy is based on a four-step process: (1) identify and assess the threat of CBRN agents, (2) assess medical and public health consequences of attacks with these agents, (3) establish medical countermeasure requirements, and (4) identify and prioritize near-, mid-, and long-term development and acquisition. Through these processes, HHS determines which countermeasures to buy for specific CBRN agents, including the desired characteristics of these countermeasures--such as how many doses a vaccine requires to confer immunity--the needed quantity of certain medical countermeasures, and the acquisition priorities. While a few CBRN countermeasures can be immediately acquired, most have not yet been developed. Therefore, HHS and the interagency body support and oversee several stages of research and development to try to obtain usable countermeasures. These include basic cellular and biological research to understand the effects of these agents on humans; applied research to validate approaches, such as testing the effectiveness of treatment in animals; early development to assess the safety of potential countermeasures; and advanced development, in which the products are more fully evaluated for safety and effectiveness, including their formulation and manufacturing processes. The federal government faces a variety of challenges in developing and acquiring medical countermeasures, such as the high failure rate in research and development and difficulties meeting regulatory requirements. For example, the failure rate for development and licensure of most drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic devices can be more than 80 percent, depending on the stage of scientific research and development. Given this risk, as well as a lack of a commercial market for most medical countermeasures, attracting large, experienced pharmaceutical firms to research and develop them is challenging. Smaller biotechnology companies are more likely to be developing medical countermeasures, but HHS must provide more guidance to these less experienced small companies than might be typical with larger companies. In addition, several challenges exist related to regulatory processes for evaluating promising medical countermeasures. These challenges include (1) proving a countermeasure's effectiveness using animals as proxies for humans, because humans cannot ethically be used in studies involving CBRN agents; (2) determining appropriate doses of countermeasures for children, who may be more vulnerable to exposure to CBRN agents; and (3) evaluating the safety and effectiveness of medical countermeasures for use in a public health emergency if they have not yet been approved or licensed. Finally, HHS faces the logistical challenge of ongoing replenishment of expiring medical countermeasures in the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile, the national repository of medications, medical supplies, and equipment for public health emergencies.
Oct 26, 2020
Anesthesia Services:Differences between Private and Medicare Payments Likely Due to Providers' Strong Negotiating PositionGAO-21-41: Published: Oct 26, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 26, 2020.
Oct 19, 2020
VA Health Care:Better Data Needed to Assess the Health Outcomes of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender VeteransGAO-21-69: Published: Oct 19, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 19, 2020.
Oct 8, 2020
Laboratory Safety:FDA Should Strengthen Efforts to Provide Effective OversightGAO-20-594: Published: Sep 8, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 8, 2020.
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs:Views on Usefulness and Challenges of ProgramsGAO-21-22: Published: Oct 1, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 1, 2020.
Sep 30, 2020
VA Acquisition Management:Actions Needed to Improve Management of Medical-Surgical Prime Vendor Program and Inform Future DecisionsGAO-20-487: Published: Sep 30, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2020.
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VA Vet Centers:Evaluations Needed of Expectations for Counselor Productivity and Centers' StaffingGAO-20-652: Published: Sep 23, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2020.
Sep 21, 2020
COVID-19:Federal Efforts Could Be Strengthened by Timely and Concerted ActionsGAO-20-701: Published: Sep 21, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 21, 2020.
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Defense Health Care:Implementation of Value-Based Initiatives in TRICAREGAO-20-695R: Published: Sep 17, 2020. Publicly Released: Sep 17, 2020.
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It's no secret the holiday season is the busiest time of year for retailers, spurring $692 billion in annual sales, but when you own a small business it can be difficult to compete with big-box stores and major retailers like Target and Walmart – not to mention Amazon. In fact, 75 percent of shoppers plan to allocate at least some of their Christmas spend on Amazon, another 48 percent plan to buy at Target, and 47 percent will buy at Walmart. How can your small business compete with these retail behemoths?
The truth is it's not that difficult for small businesses to steal Christmas sales from big-box stores and Amazon. Consider this: 67 percent of Americans would rather do their holiday shopping at small businesses instead of retail chains.
While some people will undoubtedly make all of their purchases from major retailers, many more would prefer to buy from small businesses like yours – but you need to give them a reason to shop with you. The key is to identify the things you can do better than the big-box stores, then to develop a Christmas marketing strategy that promotes those benefits so you can get your share of the holiday pie.
Here's how you can steal Christmas sales from big-box stores and Amazon.
1. Focus on quality
Product quality is a major motivator, and your small business can promote the idea that your products and services are superior to the cheap products sold at big-box stores. In fact, 60 percent of shoppers say product quality is a factor when deciding where to buy gifts – compared to 56 percent who say low prices are a factor.
2. Sell unique gifts
Work on curating a unique gift selection for customers to browse. While the Walmarts of the world are focused on selling products for the masses, you can instead sell gifts designed to appeal to a well-defined niche. A Groupon survey found that a unique gift selection is a prime motivator for people to buy from small businesses. A good rule of thumb? If you can find it at Walmart, it's not right for your store.
3. Up your customer service game
Customer service and a personalized shopping experience are other major factors that influence small business sales; and as a small business, you're positioned to offer a level of personalization the big-box stores simply can't match.
Your holiday marketing should showcase these benefits to your customers. Tell them how you can offer better customer service and how shopping with you is more personalized; for example, your staff might be trained to help your audience find the perfect gift. You can also offer convenient add-ons such as gift wrapping and holiday cards for a one-stop shopping experience.
4. Sell an experience
Big-box stores are great at selling physical products, but many shoppers prefer to give an experience – something small businesses are uniquely positioned to offer. In fact, a full 27 percent of holiday shoppers would rather gift an experience than a physical product.
Brainstorm ways to offer an experience. For example, a boutique gift store might offer an interior decorating workshop packaged with a gift card that can be used to purchase items after the class. Or, a spa might partner with a restaurant and a movie theater to offer a holiday date night package. Consider how you can bundle your retail products in an experience, and you can sell unique gifts the big-box stores can't match.
5. Hyper-target your marketing
Know your audience, then focus all your marketing efforts on reaching them. You can't compete with the mass marketing of big-box stores, but you can market your Christmas sales to the people they don't understand. Send direct-mail postcards to your house list and those who match their demographics. Print banners to place in prominent areas your audience frequents. Consider printing a holiday gift guide booklet or catalog designed to help your niche audience find the perfect gift.
In short, don't waste your marketing dollars trying to reach everyone; instead, invest your marketing budget in helping your customers personalize their shopping experience. The best part? You can maximize your ROI with discount holiday printing services!


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The hike started as an easy walk in the woods.
We meandered through the forest with the sun filtering in and out of the trees. A creek flowed next to us. We crossed it and got glimpses of the ridge line as we hiked upwards.
Then came the sketchy spot; AKA a combination of snow, rock and ice.
I'd gone with a group of fellow Bear Brookers for an overnight backpacking trip. We had varying levels of backpacking experience between us. Shappy J had backpacked El Camino de Santiago, a trail in Spain that required dedicated time and intense planning. Brie and Stephen had backpacked regularly in Montana while Maddie and I had done so only occasionally in our respective states. We also had two first timers, Kell and Rachel, who wore backpacks fresh from the store and huge smiles on their faces. We were all excited at the chance to get into the mountains.
And then we arrived at the sketchy spot.
Uphill + ice + snow + steep slope= a Karlie that will likely freeze up from nervousness and move very slow.
In situations involving mountain slopes and icy conditions, my logic jumps to the worst case scenario: when I fall (not if), I'll end up getting hurt or toppling down a cliff. Therefore, go slower!
This means I go really slow, and most of the time get really nervous. I'm slowly training myself not to immediately imagine the worst thing every time I go outside of my comfort zone, but…I digress.
We all made it to the shelter, which was a glorious site. The plan was to drop off the equipment and then head to the summit. Originally, I was going to hike with the group, but once I got the shelter I remembered that there would be more ice and snow awaiting me at the summit.
Yes, I do have FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), but this time I didn't want to push my comfort level too much. So I said "No thanks, not this time," and I stayed behind. Any regrets? Maybe. I'm sure the views were beautiful, but I didn't want to risk it for the biscuit, as the saying goes.
So I appreciated the views from the shelter, and the experience of sleeping on a platform looking out at the clouds. Still, in the back of my mind, I knew I had to go back down the mountain the next day. Down wasn't an issue. But back down the ice, snow and rock in the rain?!
Oh hey, every worst possible situation. Breathe, Karlie, breathe.
As it turns out, it wasn't as bad as I'd thought. In fact, it was kind of fun. I took it slow, slid on my butt, and used my hands and feet. I was pleased to find the snow had melted in some of the section.
Could it be that I was enjoying backpacking in the rain? Yes! I was exploring a new place and looking forward to a hot meal. My head was in the clouds.
Then, the not-risked biscuit dropped: all my weight came down on my ankle. A week before our spring hitch (beginning of trail season), I had twisted it.
Not going to lie, it's not ideal. I'm hoping the swelling goes down before next week. However, it could be worse: it's (probably) not a broken leg, it isn't bleeding, I don't have a concussion…death…all these things I learned about in Wilderness First Response.
So…I guess my not-worst-case-scenario training is kind of working.
This post is part of a series focused on Karlie's ten-month conservation posting with Bear Brook State Park through The Student Conservation Association. It lasts from January 2018 and ends October 2018. During that time, she and her co-workers provide education outreach to local Manchester Schools, maintain worker facilities on state park land, and work to maintain trails and local animal habitats.


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When Our Occupations were Playing Outside
I grew up in a suburban pocket of a big inner city – Philadelphia. The area was a working class section, but the residents were upwardly mobile and the neighborhoods and schools were a source of pride.
I know I am not the only one who sees the reminiscing on social media sites such as Facebook that remind us that our youth was a far simpler time.
It's summertime here in Houston. The schools are out, and it reminds me of what summer meant when I was growing up. Most of us who did not go to day camp or sleepaway camp (I finally went in middle school – junior high and loved it) just hung outside no matter what the heat was, day after day. We rode bikes, went to the neighborhood playground (mine was called Tarken) and at least twice a week there was a free city-run pool at another playground called Max Myers, where we would don our swimcaps, and swim all day long until we were absolutely waterlogged. (We could only go on Girl's Day to swim with other girls. I believe boys had M-W-F and we had Tuesday and Thursday, but correct me if I am wrong).
At Tarken, there were very basic and almost primitive sprinklers that we used to run around in since there was no pool. (And in the winter, there was a skating rink there – not free, but we used to go there almost daily to skate.)
It was unstructured play and fun all day every day. If our moms were home, the soaps were on and with one TV per household, there was no choice to sit in front of a TV all day.
So we were outdoors. It was hot, humid, and muggy most days and we never cared a bit. We conjured up things to do. There was a local hill (a luxury in the concrete row-home jungle we lived in) that we brought picnic lunches to as it was the closest thing to a park we had that was walking distance.
The simple equipment at those ancient playgrounds were less safety conscious and probably did not have to meet stringent codes like they do today. Here is a photo of me at the primitive monkey bars, where I would climb straight up them (standing upright) and then perch on top of them. They weren't that entertaining but we found our own entertainment on them.
I even took advantage of the playground while a teen when others might have given up on it. In fact, we had just as much fun there as teens, knowing we were still kids at heart.
The aforementioned Max Myers playground, blocks further away, was a much fancier playground that we utilized from time to time. Aside from the free pools, it had a climbing giraffe, and a special sliding board we called the "Wiggly Waggly Sliding Board." (It didn't have a name marker but no one called it anything else). It was a sliding board that spiraled down in a circular fashion and we loved that metal sliding board that burned us when it was super hot outside.
That's how the summer days went by: entertaining ourselves outdoors all the long summer day with whatever means were available to us. We didn't come back home until dinner hour. We didn't have watches, but kind of knew when to head home. We didn't bring bottled water but used public fountains when we got thirsty. If we were lucky we brought a quarter for the day with us and got a treat of a water ice (Italian ice) and soft pretzel from the trucks parked at the playgrounds, for snacks. The ice cream man was there too.
Since I was also a reading nerd, I joined the library's book club. I was fortunate to grow up with a library right at the beginning of our street – less than a block away – and I was in the cool air conditioning there doing book club at least one of the mornings each week. I read those books every night, never missing an opportunity to read.
It's amazing to me how structured my own childrens' lives were in comparison to my own, and now that they are grown and some of their peers are having babies, it is even more the case.
Yet for us, it was just unstructured play, all day, every day. That's what summer meant. I would love to hear your own reminiscing here in comments below!


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Liferay DXP is the most recent and updated version of Liferay. It comes with many new features that enables it as one of the best platform for Portal Development for both developers and enterprises. It provides enterprises and businesses to develop easy to use interfaces and Digital Experience Platforms for their internal and external stakeholders. Liferay DXP clustering is a major part of that experience and it means, "Connecting two or more nodes together in a way that they behave like a single application is termed as "Clustering".
Clustering is used for parallel processing (scalability), fault tolerance (availability) and load balancing. For high traffic websites, single server gets overloaded and application gets unresponsive, to prevent such kind of failure we need Clustering to be activated in web portals.
A common misconception is that by configuring Liferay, a high-availability and clustered environment is automatically created. But it is not the case, a clustered environment includes load balancers, web server, clustered application servers and databases. Once this complete clustered environment is set up, Liferay can then be installed in this environment.
Clustering is currently only available in Liferay DXP, however Liferay 7 Community Edition roadmap have now included support for new cluster module in the Plan.
Read more: Liferay DXP Vs Adobe Experience Manager.
This article provides instructions with a basic configuration for installing Liferay DXP in a clustered environment.
See the image below to understand a Typical representation of Cluster Architecture;
1. Load Balancer: Distribution of traffic between multiple web server resources to ensure smooth & efficient balancing of load. It can be software e.g. Apache, or hardware (preferred) e.g. F5 Big-IP, Cisco Load Director or Cisco Content Services Switch (CSS) having firewall, reverse proxy, rules, etc. configured and redirecting requests to Web / Application servers based on various algorithm like Round robin, Weighted round robin, least connections, Least response time, further based on application specific data such as HTTP headers, cookies or value of application specific parameter. Load balancers ensure reliability and availability by monitoring the "Health" of applications.
2. Web Server: Processes requests via HTTP, a network protocol used to distribute information on the World Wide Web. To Deliver static content elements like images, rich media, CSS files, etc. Also provides integration modules to single sign-on solutions like CA SiteMinder, Oracle Identity, Ping, etc.
- Considering Apache Web Server as a software Load Balancer in this scenario for distributing incoming traffic, across the application servers in a pool of servers. Intelligent mechanism allows the best performing and most suitable server to be targeted for individual client requests.
- Sticky Session is a method that is used with Load Balancing to achieve server affinity with your portal and database, so that HTTP session doesn't lose valifity across application instances.
- There are 3 algorithms available for use Request Counting, Weighted Traffic Counting and Pending Request Counting. These are controlled via the lbmethod value of the Balancer definition.
- Below Apache Configuration using Mod Proxy module implements a proxy/gateway for Apache, having stickysession enabled, application server nodes BalancerMember, load balancing algorithm by traffic, static file caching, etc.
mod_proxy (httpd) ProxyPass / balancer://wwwcluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID ProxyPassReverse / balancer://wwwcluster/ ProxyTimeout 600 Header add Set-Cookie "ROUTEID=.%{BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE}e; path=/" env=BALANCER_ROUTE_CHANGED BalancerMember http://LIFERAY.APPLICATION.NODE1.IP:8080 route=node1 keepalive=on BalancerMember http://LIFERAY.APPLICATION.NODE2.IP:8080 route=node2 keepalive=on ProxySet lbmethod=bytraffic ProxySet stickysession=ROUTEID
3. Liferay Configurations that needs be considered for setting up Liferay in Clustering
3.1. Database Configuration: All Liferay Application Server nodes must point to the same Liferay database (or database cluster). The connection to the database is simply a JDBC or JNDI connection. Recommended configuration is using JNDI.
portal-ext.properties in liferay_home directory
root.xml in liferay_home/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost directory
* Database is usually configured in Master/Slave configuration for high availability, however it is abstract from Liferay's point of you as we just specify IP:Port of master database. Also using jdbc connection properties database can be configured for reading and writing to 2 different data sources.
Start Liferay Tomcats (Nodes 1 and 2) sequentially. The reason is so that the Quartz Scheduler can elect a master node.
Verification: Log in and Add a portlet (e.g. Hello Velocity) to Node 1 and On Node 2 refresh the page. The addition should show up on Node 2. Repeat steps with the nodes reversed to test the other node.
3.2. File Storage (Data folder): Repository for Document and Media library. Default file store is simple FileSystemStore, there are different store implementations available with Liferay OOB that can be configured e.g. AdvancedFileSystemStore, DBStore, JCRStore also support for 3rd Party Repositories that can be mounted e.g. S3Store, CMISStore.
portal-ext.properties in liferay_home directory
dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.file.system.FileSystemStore ## Recommended property for Production, Shared storage NAS file system (e.g. NFS, SMB, AFS, etc.) SAN file system (e.g. Fiber Channel, iSCSI, etc.) dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.file.system.AdvancedFileSystemStore ## Database storage dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.db.DBStore ## Java Content Repository storage dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.jcr.JCRStore ## Amazon S3 cloud storage dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.s3.S3Store ## 3rd Party CMIS compatile storage dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portal.store.cmis.CMISStore
Configuring Data folder: The store's default root folder/directory path is [Liferay_Home]/data/document_library
Option 1: You can specify a different root directory from within Control Panel Administration -> Configuration -> System Settings -> Search for Advanced File System Store property and edit
Option 2: Create config file with name "com.liferay.portal.store.file.system.configuration.FileSystemStoreConfiguration.cfg" in [Liferay Home]/osgi/configs directory.
Mention your shared/mounted path for NAS/SAN file system in property as below,
Read more: Functional Features of Liferay DXP.
3.3. Clustering Activation on Nodes: Data is generated one time and copied/replicated to other servers in the cluster, saving time and resources. To enable cluster link add following property to all node's
Liferay's algorithm uses a single UDP multicast channel, so that nodes don't have to create a thread for each other node in the cluster. Ehcache ClusterLink plugin required, comes OOB deployed and installed with Liferay DXP, make sure it is started (Telnet to see status of modules by running cmd -> lb | grep "Multiple") on all the clustered Liferay instances.
portal-ext.properties cluster.link.enabled=true cluster.link.autodetect.address=DB.Server.IP:Port ehcache.cluster.link.replication.enabled=true
3.3.1.a Option 1: Distributed Caching (Multicast – Default & Preferred) Allows a Liferay cluster (nodes) to share cache content among multiple cluster nodes via Ehcache. Ehcache can be configured to use an efficient algorithm for replication, called ClusterLink layer for both discovery and transport to manage cluster cache. Liferay's ClusterLink internally uses JGroups for its underlying technology.
By default, two protocols (UDP or TCP) can be used to send/receive messages to/from the network depending on the needs of an environment.
Default (MPING + UDP/IP Multicast): update multicast addresses/ports according to network specifications. This configuration uses MPING for discovery and UDP for transport. In general, if UDP can be used, there is no need to use or configure any other protocol.
portal-ext.properties ## Multicast # Each address and port combination represent a conversation that is made # between different nodes. If they are not unique or correctly set, there # will be a potential of unnecessary network traffic that may cause slower # updates or inaccurate updates. multicast.group.address["cluster-link-control"]=22.214.171.124 multicast.group.port["cluster-link-control"]=23301 multicast.group.address["cluster-link-udp"]=18.104.22.168 multicast.group.port["cluster-link-udp"]=23302 multicast.group.address["cluster-link-mping"]=18.104.22.168 multicast.group.port["cluster-link-mping"]=23303 multicast.group.address["multi-vm"]=188.8.131.52 multicast.group.port["multi-vm"]=23305
3.3.1.b. Option 2: TCP Transports (Unicast): This configuration uses TCP_PING for discovery and TCP for transport. For TCP_PING, you must pre-specify all members of the cluster. This is not an auto-discovery protocol i.e. adding/removing members of cluster not supported.
setenv.sh: Add IP addresses of all the cluster nodes in below properties via JVM parameters in setenv.sh for Linux environments.
-Djgroups.bind_addr= -Djgroups.tcpping.initial_hosts=[port1],[port2]...
tcp.xml: Create TCP discovery configuration files
Extract tcp.xml from $liferay_home/osgi/marketplace/Liferay
Foundation.lpkg/com.liferay.portal.cluster.multiple-[version number].jar and place it in a convenient location.
Since TCP_PING is the default discovery method, the only thing need to be modify is TCP bind_port, if you run several nodes on the same machine.
Sharing a transport between multiple channels, Add singleton_name="liferay_tcp_cluster" into the TCP tag in the tcp.xml
portal-ext.properties: Point Liferay at the configuration files by adding the following properties
cluster.link.channel.properties.control=[CONFIG_FILE_PATH]/tcp.xml cluster.link.channel.properties.transport.0=[CONFIG_FILE_PATH]/tcp.xml
JDBC_PING (jdbc_ping_config.xml),
S3_PING (s3_ping_config.xml Amazon only),
RACKSPACE_PING (Rackspace only)
Infograhic: Core Attributes Of Liferay Digital Experience Platform
3.3.2. Modifying/Tuning Cache Configuration: There are specific files that you would need to deploy/configure in order for your hibernate, multivm, or singlevm caches tuning configurations to be read by the system. In Liferay DXP caches configurations can be tuned via deployable plugins, if you use cluster link replication (the benefit is you don't need to restart the server for the settings to take effect).
Download: Sample configure module to override liferay-multi-vm-clustered.xml
You can find OOB xml file in [Liferay_home]/osgi/marketplace folder, com.liferay.portal.ehcache-[version].jar. Default XML files in the /ehcache folder inside the .jar.
Ehcache has a lot of different modifications that can be done to cache certain objects. Users can tune these settings for their needs. The XML files have configuration settings which can be modified appropriately for your requirements (for example: Number of elements in cache, Expiry time for cache, Whether cache overflows to disk, etc.)
Optionally, below properties in portal-ext.properties can be configured with xml tuned and located at custom folder in Liferay_home directory
ehcache.single.vm.config.location=/custom-ehcache/liferay-single-vm.xml ehcache.multi.vm.config.location=/custom-ehcache/liferay-multi-vm-clustered.xml net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName=/custom-ehcache/hibernate-clustered.xml
3.4. Index Replication: Starting from Liferay DXP the search engine needs to be separated from the main Liferay server for scalability reasons. For it there are two ways to achieve it: Elasticsearch or Solr.
Note: Storing indexes locally is not an option anymore, lucene.replicate.write=true only needed when Lucene (Solr) is being used.
3.4.1. Installing Elasticsearch: Download ES
- Extract the zip file at some location in Elasticsearch Server /opt/elasticsearch-2.4.6/
- Edit /opt/elasticsearch-2.4.6/config/elasticsearch.yml and Set the name of your cluster and Save cluster.name: LiferayElasticsearchCluster
** Tune and Scale ElasticSearch with Production Recommended Configuration, e.g. Change -Xmx, ES_JAVA_OPTS, ES_HEAP_SIZE
- Install required Elasticseach plugins from the bin directory:
plugin install analysis-smartcn
plugin install analysis-kuromoji
- Deploy the elasticsearch-head plugin so you can access your cluster from a browser http://elastic.server.ip:9200/_plugin/head/
- Restart Elasticsearch server wait until it's up and running
3.4.2. Connect Elasticsearch and Liferay: There are two ways to configure Elasticsearch for Liferay cluster from Control Panel and .cfg (advisable) file.
Option 1: Navigate to Control Panel -> System settings -> Foundations -> Search for Elasticsearch and Edit the Properties Set Cluster Name, Change Operation mode to REMOTE, Enter Transport Address, Additional Advanced configuration if any and Save.
Option 2: It is advisable to use the Configuration file for Production, add/copy com.liferay.portal.search.elasticsearch.configuration.ElasticsearchConfiguration.cfg in LIFERAY_HOME/osgi/configs directory.
ElasticsearchConfiguration.cfg Sample Configuration file operationMode=REMOTE clientTransportIgnoreClusterName=false indexNamePrefix=liferay- httpCORSConfigurations= additionalConfigurations= httpCORSAllowOrigin=/https?://localhost(:[0-9]+)?/ networkBindHost= transportTcpPort= bootstrapMlockAll=false networkPublishHost= clientTransportSniff=true additionalIndexConfigurations= retryOnConflict=5 httpCORSEnabled=true clientTransportNodesSamplerInterval=5s additionalTypeMappings= logExceptionsOnly=true httpEnabled=true networkHost= transportAddresses=ip.of.elasticsearch.node:9300 discoveryZenPingUnicastHostsPort=9300-9400 clusterName=LiferayElasticsearchCluster
- Restart Liferay Servers
- Index Replication: Navigate to Control Panel -> Configuration -> Server Administration –> Resources Execute Reindex
- Verification: Test Search by Adding a Basic Web Content and Search for it from both nodes
- Modules/Plugins must be deployed through Hot deploy folders for each node, if you're not using centralized server farms deployment.
- Liferay needs to have the same patches installed across all the nodes to avoid any inconsistencies.
4. Application Server Configuration: Configuring Application Server for Cluster Awareness, in this case Tomcat.
server.xml web.xml: For switching on session replication, add tag in web.xml just after start of tag.
That should be It, Restart the Liferay Tomcat Servers (Nodes 1 and 2) sequentially and Verify Clustering and Session Replication for its working.
Liferay DXP is redefining the customer experience with its many features and plugins. We at KNOWARTH are pioneers in developing custom portals for enterprises and providing Liferay Consulting Services for Liferay Portal Development.
Blog is written by Ankit Pancholi, Principal Liferay Consultant, Anblicks


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In our first update on June 8, 2020, we shared that Alberta Education was considering three possible scenarios for school re-entry in September. Since that time, the Minister of Education has announced they are targeting Scenario 1 – Normal school operations are able to resume, with health measures in place.
The decision to target Scenario 1 was partially based on feedback provided in a province-wide survey conducted in May by the Alberta School Councils' Association (ASCA), on behalf of Alberta Education, with 86% of survey respondents saying they are in favour of a return to school plan for K-12 students in September.In our first update to families, we also included a survey to gather feedback on the three possible scenarios. A total of 1,332 people completed the PWPSD survey.When asked, "If I had a choice, given the current situation, I would choose to:"
As seen in the province-wide ASCA survey feedback, the majority of PWPSD families indicated their preference for a return to full-time schooling in September. For now, our target is Scenario 1, a return to normal school operations with health measures in place. In the event of a regional COVID-19 outbreak during the summer months, Alberta Health and Alberta Education will advise us on the next steps, which could include a move to Scenario 2 where schools are partially reopened, with restrictions; or Scenario 3, a temporary return to home learning until the situation is brought under control. The same may be true if cases rise during the school year.The PWPSD School Re-entry Committee is continuing its planning work during the summer months. We will provide regular updates to families in July and August, and we will share the final decision from Alberta Education, to be announced by August 1st. The virus has created a new normal for us all, and with it has come unique challenges that we have had to face, head on. We commend our students, families and staff for rising to these challenges, and we take comfort in the knowledge that this virus will not last forever. Until then, we must work together to support the necessary changes.The attached four-page document provides answers to questions and concerns submitted via the parent survey. A screening tool that must be used at home for daily self-assessment is included on page 4. Beginning in September, anyone who will access our schools for work or education must self-screen for symptoms each morning before leaving home.Thank you,Peace Wapiti Public School Division


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We all as mothers and mothers to be ought to understand that every woman's dream is to have a baby to call their own regardless of gender. It saddens so much when you realize that you have given birth to a baby with a certain disability that has been caused by a deficiency of prenatal vitamins. However, some of us live in rural areas making it impossible to access the prenatal vitamins 2018 or if they happen to get them then they happen not to be the best prenatal vitamins. Some of us live in urban areas but still cannot afford to buy the best prenatal vitamins 2018 due to the tough economic times.
There are different kinds of prenatal vitamins we will mention some of them under their advantages and disadvantages and later we will now mention the best prenatal vitamins 2018 according to the price, product quality, and customer reviews.
Advantages of prenatal vitamins
If we go into a quick highlight of the advantages of taking prenatal vitamins we'll mention:
- Folic acid supports a healthy child in the future.
- Bones and muscles for both the mother and the baby support by calcium.
- Intake of sufficient iron into a pregnant woman helps to build maternal red blood cells so as to support fetal development.
Effects of prenatal vitamins deficiency
- The lack of vitamin A leads to blindness in children. This is not enough said, in addition to this is that most of the children who are affected are from third world countries. That is sad right?
- The lack of vitamin D which most of us term as sunshine can lead to critically low blood calcium levels in infants and contribute to weak bones
- The decrease of calcium levels in pregnant women might eventually lead to pregnancy-induced hypertension which sadly increases the risk of death of both mothers and infants.
- Lack of folic acid in your body might lead to miscarriages, giving birth to infants who are underweight and neural tube defects
Today we are going to discuss what are the best prenatal vitamins so as to help mothers to be and my fellow mothers to get to know and put into use the best prenatal vitamins 2018.
- Rainbow light prenatal one
.This prenatal supplement contains 40 IU of vitamin D2 to promote healthy teeth and bones, 30 grams of a constipating iron to support the metabolism and production of red blood cells.
It contains 25 million probiotics to enhance digestion without an upset stomach.
It has 150 tablets in the bottle so you are recommended to take one per serving.
- Mega food baby and me prenatal multivitamin
This supplement is made by mega foods which is a larger manufacturer of healthy goods and supplements.This product has nutrients derived from whole foods and it has no unnecessary junk or fillers.It is specifically formulated for pregnancy, free from dairy, free from GMO hence making it a very healthy supplement for a pregnant mother and the unborn child.
3. Garden of life vitamin code prenatal vitamin
This type of supplement sounds great because it is meant for both pregnant and lactating women. I am so excited writing this because I am a mother who is expecting, therefore, we hope you understand. These vitamins contain vitamin D, Vitamin C, niacin, vitamin B6, zinc, copper, and manganese.It contains 23 organic vegetables and fruits, also antioxidants and vitamins.
- DEVA prenatal vitamins one daily
These vitamins contain 90 vitamins and its price on the market is absolutely cheaper as compared to its counterpart.It contains Vitamins A, C, D, 550 mcgs of folic acid, calcium, iron, iodine, and zinc.
They are free from prenatal colors, gluten, and preservatives.
The best part of using this vitamin is that they are best for pregnant women who have an allergy to soy, gelatin, and fish.
The above best prenatal vitamins 2018 as we have written are my chosen among all the others. This is because we have personally used them, therefore, my recommendation to all mothers and mothers to be is so as to help them get the best as we did.
We mentioned the three best prenatal vitamins 2018 so as to enable my fellow women to pick from either. I care about the health of my kids so please also care about the health of yours too. Let us all be proud mothers.


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Marriage and family are central to God's plan, so we believe that it is especially important to understand how we can participate with Him in building strong, healthy families.
With this goal in mind, we want you to know about three resources that we hope will be both encouraging and helpful in practical ways.
- We have once-a-quarter gatherings that we call Legacy.
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- For those who are parents, we address some of parents most frequently asked questions.
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Hello everybody, I`ve just started to participate one important Sustainable Development project in South Africa. I see passionate real doers who have power to make significant changes in the world. I would like to make introduction how I do my project work and so you can learn something useful for yourself.
We all live in complicated world. People who tell you things are easy or offer you to think less typically want you to be deadly dependent from them (or anothers) in making decisions. You could feed them for ages just because they wisely converted all intelligent approachs to own favour. If you are OK with it, let it be.
If you want to be effective and efficient in short and long run, and have own ability to make questions and rule projects, just try to check the method I work and train it.
1st stage of Successful Project
From my first high education, it was Physics, and my first passion which was Math I learned how short descriptions can turn the thinking, decisions making and creation processes.
The first stage of any successful project is to understand what`s we really have, what`s we want, what`s condition could be added, what`s can be changed. If you are trained in mnemonics you can do it in your ming. But, honestly said, it is enough things to remember today. So it is better to write your ideas.
Flat word-by-word writing is not the best tool for it. You could stuck with smallest things, such as the first phrase, and stuck with the style, and other problems. Flat text has many limitations; first of them is it use our brain in not so effective manner. Our brain neuronetwork consists of billions connections between neurons which contains huge amount of information and can make thousands different combinations of it. MindMaps is the simple representative of such neuronetwork so it is very natural to thinking process. I started every project from MindMapping. On the picture above yu can see several real MindMaps I did for several projects. Of course it is the light version, because for my own work I use much more complicated with many branches and interconnections. But a simple MindMap can turn your work much better then pages of text.
So try to make something like MindMap for any simple idea or personal experience you have. No needs for special soft; you can do it by handwriting. Just feel the differencies between your unmapped experience and your ideas represent by MindMap. Using MindMaps you can speak with yourself by natural language.
2nd stage of Successful Project
I bet sometimes you make a really good looking plan and stuck with it`s beauty. Plans could mesmerise us with feeling of nearly ready project. This is one of the obstacles for people who make plans well and become too much accurate with it. Life can bring more differencies, circumstances can be changed, input conditions and probable result too. Another people could be involved. All of it influences your plans.
If we are still at the 1st stage (planing and mapping), just make additional brunches to your MindMap, or do another one, or Mixed maps. This is the easiest changes that`s why all of us desired to know more at the planing stage.
However our life isn`t ideal so changes could come at any stage. That`s why this is the second stage of planing I call "Transition Zone".
Transition zone is the border between your planing (researchs, understanding) and implementation all of it into real life. What can we do with it? Dialogs helps to make transition well, sometimes it is better to complete all dialogs on the planing stage so it is different approachs. Different cases, different actions.
The same is your own mind ability to convert such abstract things as planing and mapping into real deeds. Such border is challenging. Many people stuck with it. Sometimes the MindMap is too much abstract so it seems as a huge gap between it and real life. So we should make some training to teach our mind how to transit the ideas into real life smoothly.
It can be trained in different manner appropriate to individual mind structures. I do it in my private coach practice. Also I make public several methods I use for myself, such as Drawings annamain.org/site/comments/creation_and_thinking_fire_style_water_style/.
Anyway, we train our mind to gum our Ideal Idea with real world conditions and make new product. Sometimes the Transition itself is the product, for example I train people how to make it. You can try to train it by yourself because our mind has such algorithms naturally. Just it needs to develop the feeling of Transition Zone and feel it differently until the process becames smooth and easy.
3d stage of Successful Project
The result of your MindMapping and Transition should be real, skillful and flexible to be implemented in open systems. As we live in complicated world with so much challenges we should be ready to make different approachs to develop our product in different styles.
We are going to live in post-industrial world that`s why ideas has the first position. So it should be creative. As you can see, even serious businesses meet the nesessity to be more creative. CEO of big companies confess creativity as a part of strategic thinking. That`s why creativity should be the part of your future product, or implementation or your ideas. It can be in different forms. This is two ways in modern world: one - to be a narrow specialist and work persistantly in that field, second is to be interdisciplinary.
Having different education, skills and personal abilities (from technical to arts) I am multidimensional interdisciplinary specialist. So I can produce the result in different forms: writing, coaching, project work, arts etc. Actually while I am making a MindMap, my Transition Zone works and make mutli-dimentional result ready to translate into different "languages" (visual, text, actions).
How I love it!
It makes me to feel how Uiverse turns around. That`s why I suggest you to try more then you usually do.
So the Third stage of a project is Creative Implementation in choosen or different forms.
All above fits Adizes Methodology in term "Flexibility under control".
You are free to be creative inside plans to fulfill your project well and keep timing. You are restricted by resourses in natural way so it is normal to think in terms of limitation.
Let`s make some conclusions.
As I like information in different kinds, I did that Infographics to you. It represents how such processes develop. You can see yellow arrows links left and right sides of the picture. It represents the brain, social and informational processes which links two parts of project work continuously. That`s natural for our brain so it is good to have some training, may be self observation to catch how it goes on.
Sometimes people think they don`t do MindMaps and have zero in that field. However our mind is acting that way. If we have no access to own brainwork so have no chance to manage it. It remains us effective in short run, in operetional decisions, but we have to rethink more if situation changes. It costs time and energy, sometimes too much.
Having the whole process in our hands we can act more effective and efficient in short and long run. That`s why small training can help a lot. You can perform it right now, after you`ve finished the post, with fresh feelings. Just try it, just do it!


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The Seattle Seahawks had a top-five defense again last season. They finished third in points allowed with 18.2; they finished eighth in pass defense and seventh in rushing. The problem was in many of the games they held their opponents to under 18 points they would end up not scoring on offense.
Here are a few of the games, which the example will be given. Against the Rams week 2, they held the Rams to 9 points but lost 9-3. Again, in week six held the Cardinals to 6 points and ended up tying 6-6. Week 12 held Tampa to 14 points and only managed five so another loss. You should win those games without any issues. Instead, the Seahawks dropped two out of three and tied one. If they are going to do the same this year, it will be up to the offense to step up and win those games.
They are returning a healthy Earl Thomas, which will make them even better on the defensive side of the ball. Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, and Frank Clark are three of the beasts that make up the front four. The middle of the line will be second-year player Jarran Reed and a rookie who really was a top five talent, Malik McDowell. At the linebacker position, they have the third best player on the roster in Bobby Wagner. He is a sideline-to-sideline machine who can run with the tight ends and hang with the running backs. By far one of the most underrated LBs in the league.
In addition, they are bringing back Sherman and Chancellor to the corners. In addition, they drafted UCF standout Shaquill Griffin who will have a chance to make his mark early on in this awesome Seattle Defense. Newly signed Safety, Bradley McDougald will help Thomas come up and play the run while he will drop to cover the deep balls.
This defense has the chance to be as good as the 2013-2014 defenses and get the Seattle Seahawks back to the Super Bowl. If they do and can get home-field advantage look out for them to be a tough out in the NFL playoffs.
Editor's Note: This article can also be seen in our upcoming NFL Preview Edition.


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Mobile phone consumers have been alerted with updates from the Carphone Warehouse on its help blog section notifying which stores will remain open and closed for the coming week. 19 stores out of 800 closed last Friday due to the wintry chaos, with further stores expected to follow suit until temperatures ease.
The arctic weather has not just affected Carphone Warehouses retail stores. A T-Mobile staff member in the south-west region revealed: All of the stores in the area have been affected and had to close early or open late – Wednesday was the worst day.
Among others, O2 mobile phones stores recorded closures. An O2 spokesman said: As of [8 January] today, we've currently got 95% of stores opening on time. Earlier this week a handful of stores either opened late or closed early.
It is a difficult time not only for the mobile phones industry. The centre for Economic Business and Research said: There will be a short term economic impact from the loss of productivity from those who might otherwise be working who are unable (or unwilling) to get to work, or who get to work and are less effective than they might otherwise be. GDP per working day in the UK is about £5bn, so if 20% of the population has zero productivity for the day, there is a loss of £1bn.
Reports and analysis earlier last week suggested that the mobile phones industry would sell over 500 million handsets in the coming calendar year. An extended winter cold snap could put this figure in jeopardy.
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