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Beautiful selection of top quality white roses that comes in a charcoal grey or powder blue hat box. This is a beautifully luxurious flower arrangement that would make a perfect gift for any loved one.
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News Briefs
Hamburg Guides Campaign
SEBASTOPOL--Former Rep. Dan Hamburg has signed on as the campaign manager for 5th District supervisorial candidate Mike Reilly, at least through the March primary. "Most of my experience has been as a candidate," Hamburg admits, "but I like the view from this perspective." The two Democrats have been friends since the early '80s, when they met working for Dan Hauser's state Assembly race. Reilly is one of seven candidates vying to take the place of retiring Supervisor Ernie Carpenter, who has held the west county seat for the past 16 years. Hamburg served one four-year term on the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors in the early '80s, and represented the North Coast in Congress from 1993 to 1995, when he was unseated by Rep. Frank Riggs, R-Windsor.
Council Ducks Union
SANTA ROSA--Internally divided over the issue, the Santa Rosa City Council as a whole elected not to take a stand on the upcoming ballot measure that would give the city's police and fire department workers binding arbitration in labor disputes. Instead the city will let the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce and the Sonoma County Taxpayers' Association take the lead in opposing Measure A in the March 26 election.
SONOMA--The Living History Center has withdrawn a bid to help organize the Bear Flag Sesquicentennial celebration next summer, after the community committee planning the event deadlocked over the issue of hiring the Marin-based non-profit. LHC opponents feared the loss of local control if an outside organization was brought in, while supporters felt that an experienced management group would produce a bigger, more successful event, drawing up to 30,000 visitors. Plans are still being formulated for the observation of the 150th anniversary of the raising of the Bear Flag over the Sonoma Plaza, to be celebrated June 14 to July 9.
School Site Update
WINDSOR--The Windsor school board will enlist outside assistance to evaluate the noise and safety issues that have been raised around the district's proposed new high school site. An EIR prepared for the district says the site, roughly two miles north of the Santa Rosa airport, is safe, but critics have challenged that conclusion and warned that aircraft noise would be disruptive to classes.
Prostitution Sting
SANTA ROSA--Responding to complaints from local businesses, sheriff's deputies conducted an anti-prostitution sweep on southern Santa Rosa Avenue last week, using a female undercover officer as a decoy and arresting 14 men for solicitation. One woman was also charged with prostitution and indecent exposure. The 14 men ranged in age from 26 to 75, and represented Monte Rio, Sonoma, Cotati, Windsor, Rohnert Park, Petaluma, and Santa Rosa.
Nature Swap Renewed
WASHINGTON, D.C.--A new claim against the corporate owner of the embattled Headwaters Forest has renewed hope that a "debt-for-nature" exchange can be negotiated. The $750 million claim by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision not only is three times as big as earlier assessments made against corporate raider Charles Hurwitz, but also specifically names his Maxxam company, which holds title to the redwoods, as a co-claimant. The claims are based in the 1988 failure of a Texas savings and loan owned by Hurwitz, which cost taxpayers some $1.6 million.
Four Bombs Found
PETALUMA--Police evacuated residents of a rural Petaluma neighborhood Monday night while the bomb squad detonated four homemade explosives found at a residence. Undercover officers served a warrant at the 681 Gossage Lane farmhouse after neighbors complained of hearing a loud explosion there Sunday morning. However, Sonoma County Sheriff's Lt. Mike Brown says the blast hasn't yet been confirmed. During the search, law enforcement officials discovered inside the house and barn two pipe bombs and two shrapnel bombs in glass jars. The explosives were substantial enough to have caused significant damage in a confined area, he adds. Deputies arrested Walter Wayne Pietila, 42, who was booked on charges of felony possession of unlawful weapons. He is being held at Sonoma County Jail without bail.
Unhappy Birthday
BODEGA BAY--A birthday celebration erupted into vandalism at Doran Beach in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, with the celebrants destroying a public bathroom, breaking down and burning a picnic table, and burglarizing a number of cars in the parking lot. Five suspects from Rohnert Park were arrested a short time later in Sebastopol and charged with vandalism and possession of stolen property. Two were adults, aged 18 ad 20, and the other three were juveniles.
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American Music star Keri Hilson's NBA star boyfriend, Serge Ibaka is of Congolese-Spanish descent {click here}. And, we all know that when you date an African man, he has certain expectations of you in the kitchen.
The "Pretty Girl Rock" songstress definitely didn't shy away from those expectations when she 'put her back into it' to make her man some fufu. So, this makes me wonder how far in culinary expertise other women would go for their own man.
Would you go out of your way to learn how to cook your boyfriend's native food? Or, if any of his favourite delicacies are native to Russia or Japan, would you go that extra mile to cook it for him?
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What is The Singer 2932?
The Singer 2932 Sewing Machine, with its convenient and super easy features, is truly a sewer's dream, and is a cinch to use! This mechanical sewing machine makes for a breezy and fun needle working experience with all the great characteristics that are essential in a high quality sewing machine and more. It comes equipped with thirty five stitch patterns!
There is a great variety of your basic, fundamental stitch patterns, as well as an array of beautiful and creative decorative stitch patterns. It also features stretch stitch patterns for your stretch seams and stretch fabrics or decorative embellishments. This machine also includes a button hole pattern that is fully automatic and achieved in just one simple step.
As opposed to the four step manual button hole in some other machines, it really makes for a much easier experience. The machine is effortless to thread with an automatic needle threader, you will never have to manually guide your thread through those tiny holes again. It comes with an extension table that is removed easily and your bobbin can be inserted.
It also comes with automatic tension, which allows you to simply leave your tension control on one setting for almost all your sewing. The auto setting can be used for light, medium, and heavy weight fabric. The removable extension table allows for free arm motion making it easy to sew hard to reach areas. The extension table also acts as a storage area for your machine's accessories. The reverse lever, conveniently placed on the front of the machine, is used to bind the beginning and end of seams.
The pattern selector dial on the side of the machine is used to select different stitch patterns. It rotates through each stitch pattern, which are identified by letters and listed on the front of the machine. The basic and decorative stitch patterns are black in color and the stretch stitch patterns are red in color for easy identification.
The pattern selector dial of your Singer 2932 also has a special button hole stitch option. As you rotate through patterns using the dial, your stitch selection is shown through a small window which is also on the front of the machine. After selecting your stitch pattern, this machine offers the added bonus of being able to choose the width and length of your stitch.
These are adjusted by using the two dials on the top of your machine – one for width and one for length. One of the most special features of the Singer 2932 is the drop feed feature. This aspect is most prominent because it enables free motion sewing, which is vital for quilters.
Here's What It'll Do For You
Now you know everything about the Singer 2932, but you may still be wondering "Why should I choose this product over other sewing machines?". Here are a few good reasons. This machine is perfect for beginners. Why? Because it is one of the simplest to use compared to other sewing machines. Everything about the Singer 2932 is fast and easy, from the built in automatic needle threader to the easy to use dials for stitch pattern adjusting.
It is in the like of the classic mechanical sewing machine your mother used with perfected convenience and many added features that make it more versatile and allows more creativity than the sewing machine at your mom's house. It holds the Singer brand reputation, so you know it is of impeccable superiority and holds the mark of quality.
If you purchase this machine, you will be granted freedom of endless creativity basically at the touch of a button. With this machine you are given the ability to perfect each stitch from the design to the size, so every detail is in YOUR hands. This machine is specially fashioned to allow you to indulge your every creative whim with no hassle and maximum easiness, there really are no limits.
This machine is light weight, just an added plus as it is no sweat to move. It also comes equipped with a limited twenty five year warranty, also an added bonus. It is able to handle any challenge, from light fabrics such as T-shirts or heavy materials such as cloth diapers.
Customers have testified, there is nothing you can't do! And with the most ease, it truly rises above and sets the bar high for other brands. Of course it has all the necessities you would expect from every sewing machine, but it is very much set apart with its special characteristics.
The automatic needle threader – sewing's best time saver – and the drop feed feature, which is a quilter's dream, this machine is absolutely a must have. No hassles and a cinch to use with all the creative abilities you could want to boot.
Here are some key pros of the Singer 2932:
- Zero hassle with simplistic features and easy usage
- Endless creativity with stitch perfecting adjustment dials that make for optimum customization and intricate detail
- Ultimate freedom for the user with the added drop feed feature
- The Singer brand's mark of quality
- Effortless and fun sewing experience
- Ability to perfect each and every detail with ease
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Careers in Electronic Production and Design
Below are some of the many careers an electronic production and design major can pursue.
Visit Berklee's Career Communities site to explore more roles by community, industry, program, or location.
ADR Engineer, ADR Mixer
Automated dialogue replacement (ADR) recordists are recording engineers working in and around the film industry who specialize in re-recording dialogue in a studio setting, as well as recording the voiceover for animated films and television shows, documentaries, and video games.
Assistant Recording Engineer, Second Engineer, Tape Op
The assistant engineer supports the lead recording engineer in all studio-related activities, from answering phones and coiling cables to tweaking outboard gear and prepping rough mixes.
Lead Audio Developer, Lead Sound Designer, Audio Lead
The audio director plans, supervises, and assists in the creation and implementation of all game audio.
Technical Sound Designer, Audio Implementer
An audio programmer is a coder and sound engineer who implements audio assets into a video game engine or similar interactive media project.
Chief Engineer (Higher Level), Assistant B.E. (Lower Level)
Broadcast engineers are responsible for the strength, clarity, and overall quality of sounds and images broadcast on radio and television, and—increasingly—sound and image transmitted via satellite, cable, and the internet.
Film Composer, Film Scorer
Film composers create the musical scores that accompany movies.
Software Engineer, Programmer, Coder
Developers are involved in designing, creating, and/or maintaining music-related technology, such as music software, mobile apps, music streaming services, and websites for artists, labels, blogs, and magazines.
Digital product designers craft the aesthetic style and user experience of software and web products.
Club DJ, Deejay, Producer
DJs are skilled musical manipulators who use great ears, the latest software, and a spot-on feel for musical tastes and trends to build rousing dance sets for live audiences and create altered versions of tracks by other artists.
Using an arsenal of props, foley artists devise and record the everyday sounds heard in films, television shows, and video games—noises like footsteps, a sword being drawn from a sheath, or the swishing of clothing as two people walk past each other.
Music Library Composer, Custom Music Composer, Advertising Music Composer, Production Music Writer, General Business Composer
Writing for a wide variety of clients—including businesses, event production companies, software and hardware developers, nonprofits, films and TV shows, and music libraries—freelance composers create music not for the stage but for use in the world around them.
Instrument Repair Tech, Instrument Restoration Specialist
Instrument repair technicians repair and restore musical instruments that are broken, neglected, or have otherwise fallen into disrepair.
Interactive Media Designer, Mixed-Media Specialist
Interactive media specialists are a new breed of professional, using a mix of content creation, software design, programming, and marketing skills to create engaging apps, websites, and web-based multimedia applications, as well as immersive AR and VR experiences.
Lighting designers devise and often manage the lighting for plays, musicals, operas, concerts, tours, television and movie sets, and art installations, to name just a few.
Electrical Lighting Technician (ELT), Lighting Tech, Electrician, Dimmer Technician
Lighting technicians are members of the lighting crew who set up, rig, program, monitor, repair, and operate lighting equipment to enhance events and performances.
Live Show Designer, Tour Designer
Live experience designers take a holistic approach to creating a live show's visual aesthetic, providing a unifying vision for technical elements including lighting, sets, costumes, props, and projections.
Live Audio Engineer, Front of House (FOH) Engineer, Monitor Mix Engineer
Live sound mix engineers are responsible for controlling the volume, balance, and EQ of a live performance from a mixing console.
Sound Reinforcement Engineer, Concert Audio Tech
Live sound systems engineers are responsible for installing, optimizing, maintaining, and breaking down the sound systems used in live performances.
Mastering engineers use technical expertise and superb ears to make the final adjustments to a piece of recorded music before it's released, heightening its impact and ensuring that it will translate well to the variety of playback systems in use today.
Film Music Editor
Music editors are responsible for editing and syncing the music used in films and television with the action unfolding on screen, along with a number of other important duties.
Music video directors oversee the production of music videos—short films that combine a song with visual imagery—from initial conception to final editing.
Product Director, Product Specialist
Product managers oversee the development of products related to music and sound creation—software, hardware, instruments, services, apps, and more—through their life cycle.
Location Sound Mixer, Location/Production Sound Recordist, Location/Production Sound Engineer
The production sound mixer is the leader of the production sound crew, responsible for recording high-quality audio on set and location for film and television productions.
DJ, Disc Jockey, Radio Host, Radio Announcer
Radio DJs play music, interact with listeners, interview artists, discuss current events, and more on broadcast, satellite, and internet radio stations.
Mixer, Sound Mixer, Soundtrack Mixer
Re-recording mixers are postproduction audio engineers who balance background noise, dialogue, music, and sound effects to create the final audio track for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
Audio Engineer, Studio Engineer
The recording engineer oversees many technical and aesthetic aspects of a recording session and is responsible for the overall sound of all recorded tracks, ensuring that the mixing engineer has good material to work with and that the final product satisfies the artists and producers.
Audio Developer, Audio Designer, Sound Developer, Video Game Audio Engineer, Sound Effect Designer
Sound designers collect, edit, and create sound effects, ambient effects, and even music for video games, applications, or any other form of interactive media.
Theatrical sound designers are responsible for everything an audience hears during a theatrical production, from sound effects to the actors' voices.
Effects Editor, SFX Editor
Sound effects editors are responsible for finding, manufacturing, recording, and editing the sound effects in films and television shows.
Stage managers work primarily on theatrical productions, musical concerts, and dance performances. They provide indispensable practical and organizational support to directors, performers, designers, and technical crew throughout the production and rehearsal process, and supervise onstage and backstage activity during performances to make sure the show goes off without a hitch.
Drawing on a deep knowledge base that spans acoustics, aesthetics, architecture, and the recording process, studio designers design and build recording studios.
Staff Maintenance Engineer, Audio Maintenance Engineer
Whether working steadily while the studio sleeps or making quick repairs in a moment of crisis, studio maintenance engineers keep recording studios' electronics, instruments, and other hardware in good condition.
Studio managers oversee the daily operations at a recording studio. Their duties run the gamut from studio and gear maintenance to business operations and customer relations.
Studio Operator
Studio owners create or purchase a recording studio, hire the core staff, secure initial clients, and oversee the studio's growth.
Sound Editor, Sound Designer
Supervising sound editors are responsible for the finished sound in movies and television shows. The process involves selecting, polishing, and assembling three primary elements—recorded dialogue, sound effects, and music—into a complete, integrated soundtrack.
Sound Designer, Synthesist, Music Programmer, Synthesizer Technician
Synth programmers are expert technical sound designers who are hired by clients including composers, producers, performers, and recording artists to create unique sound effects and modules, repair and maintain older synth models, or play synthesizer on tour or in the studio.
Product Representative
Technology trainers and specialists work with colleagues and clients to help them become proficient using music or sound technology products, and demonstrate the capabilities of these products at industry events.
Video jockeys are curators and creators who specialize in supporting live events and performances with visual media experiences.


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JOHANNESBURG: South Africa opener Dean Elgar believes that his side can reclaim their lost pride if they manage to clinch victory in the fourth and the final Test against England.
Despite losing the four-match Test series, the 28-year-old believes that the importance of the game is still up and, therefore, called on his side conduct themselves well on the field, Sport24 reported.
Elgar insisted that although his side had tried hard to end the series well, he said that things didn't work out in their favour.
Elgar further said that he did not see the fourth match as a dead-rubber, adding that he would try his best to contribute well for his side.
Earlier, South Africa suffered a seven-wicket defeat in the third Test in Johannesburg to give England a series win and thereby losing the number one Test ranking to India.
AB de Villiers-led side, which had earlier suffered a humiliating defeat in the Test series against India, will now play their final match against England at Super Sport Park in Centurion, starting from Friday.


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What you need to know
The first thing you should do when you have a relational "Database", is knowing what you want, meaning, what should be in the "Database" and what do you want to achieve?
As an example, I create a "Database" of inventory in my cabinets. The inventory consists of songs on CD or casette. These are spread across different cabinets. My mother would always say to me "Clean up your cabinets and sort them neatly alongside each other." I would have to redo this often. But, If I was to stack it all in a "Database," I would only need to do it once.
The purpose of my "Database" for me is to find a song in a cabinet and add songs easily. This applies when I search by title, by singer, or by genre.
Define your fields
Once you know what you want, you determine the various fields. Each song has a title, a singer, and a genre, so you need a field with the name "Title," "Singer" and "Genre."
What we need to know
A "Location" field is useful for knowing which cabinet a song can be found in. Also since the song can be on a CD or cassette, so a "Type" field can also be useful. You can even add in the date the song was published and give the song a rating.
The next thing you do is place these fields in different tables.
Note that the "Singer" is associated with the "Album" table and also with the "Song" table. This is because our album can contain several songs with different singers.
Determine your primary keys
Now that we have all the fields that we need in our "Database", write them on a paper. We simplify this by determining what the "Primary keys" and "Relationships" are.
In the "Album" table, we have a "Primary key", each album is indeed unique. So here we add a field with a "Primary key", eg "AlbumID". Because we want to connect this to the "Song" table, we add a related key to this field to this table.
The "Genre" field from the "Genre" table, can be placed in the "Song" table. Each song has a genre. Same goes for the "Type" field from the "Type" table and for the "Location" field from the "Location" table. Each album may have only one type and can only be in one location. So these two fields can be moved to the "Album" table.
In the "Album" table and the "Songs" table, we have the same field, namely "Genre". How do we solve this? Some albums may consist of more than one genre, so this field is variable. However, because a song can have only one lead singer, it is not a variable, so we create a "Lead Singers" table with "SingerID" as the primary key. Then because we need to connect the "Lead Singers" table to the "Song" table, we add this field to the "Songs" table as related key.
What we have now is, the unique field "AlbumID*" that occurs only once in the "Album" table but, several times in the "Songs" table. We also have the unique field " SingerID*" that occurs only once in the "Lead Singers" table but, several times in the " Songs " table. In short, we have two "one-to-many" "Relationships".
Now that our format is correct, we can start creating our "Database". If at a later point, you feel the need to make more changes, it can be done at any time.
Create a new database
Before we make our tables, we must first create a "Database".
Open " Access".
This opens Access in the "Backstage" view where the "New" tab (A) is selected.
Click the "Blank "Database" button (B).
Click the "Browse" button (1) to navigate to a folder on your computer where you want to save the "Database".
Give the file a name (2), and click the "Create" (3) button.
This opens up the "Database" in "Technical Information Display" (1), with a table (2) and a field in this table, namely, the ID-field (3).
In "Access", we have a number of display options to set for the structure of our table. "Datasheet View", is the display option shown above. By clicking on the "View" tab at the top of the "Ribbon", we can navigate between the different display options.
We will add necessary tables and fields in the next lesson.
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|Sighting Report
|Occurred : 8/20/2006 02:00 (Entered as : 08/20/06 2:00)
Reported: 5/29/2008 12:42:31 AM 00:42
Posted: 6/12/2008
Location: Bend, OR
Shape: Oval
Duration:45 min
|I came home from work and a neighbor called me over to view what they had been watching. I said "it's a bright star" My Neighbor said watch for a few seconds and that's when it started moving around the sky in a side/up movement, paused then moved straight down and then strait up. When the craft stopped moving we noticed small bright drops falling from the craft every two seconds if I remember it was about four of them. At this time we woke up two other households. They witnessed the same movement we saw earlier with the up and down side to side. Before the craft vanished it turned a bright orange color and then vanished.
I saw the same thing a few months later in Sunriver Oregon on New Years Eve working the late shift. about five minutes after 12:00am in the NW part of the sky, the same location the first sighting was seen I noticed a star that should not have been where this was. I radio'd other people working "Want to see a UFO"! Most on the evening shift came running out and saw what seemed to be a UFO. A small group of the bar croud whitnessed the same thing. A bright object moving sporadically then dropping small bright lights out every two seconds, turned orange then vanished. This lasted about 10m minutes after we first sighted the craft.
The final UFO sighting was in the summer of '07. I had to respond to an alarm at one of the golf courses at approx. 1:00 AM. I showed up the same time as the local police, we checked over the club house to find a false alarm. As we were wrapping thing up I saw a very fast moving bright light moving from West to East and asked the officers "What do you think that is"? She said a satalite, Jet, and by this time it had moved from the Cascades to Easten Oregon and the final response! "Don't know".
I'd like to know if anyone else has seen these objects during these time frames.
Warmest Regards Central Oregon Sightings


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0.87 Acre Pad Available; 2.10 Acre Pad Available
For sale, ground lease or build-to-suit.
Pad is located on Fry Road north of Walgreens.
- New 592,000 SF Multi-Campus Educational Village just west on FM 529 opened August 2016. Serves 3,000 students. Proposed Junior High School & Elementary School.
- Over 40,000 new construction homes in the immediate area.
- 9,000 acre Bridgelands Master Planned Community with 60,000 residents
- Estimated 40,000 new jobs
- Existing High School and Lower Middle School located immediately north on Fry Rd.
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Earth has been affected with every possible threats. Aliens, zombies and even robots are already here and your job it to get rid of them. Collect the coins to buy car upgrades and the powerful weapons. Hit, shoot, smash and cut anything that stands in your way and show to everyone how good you are on online leader boards.
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SFU Childcare employer refuses to address outstanding issues in bargaining, walks away from table.
Vancouver (11 Dec. 2012) - Strike action will likely be taken at by members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union (BCGEU/NUPGE) employed by the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Childcare after the employer walked away from the bargaining table on December 5.
Despite some bargaining progress with regard to language issues, it became apparent that the employer was unwilling to engage in productive talks focused on monetary and other key issues for SFU childcare workers.
The bargaining committee clearly outlined members' priorities while remaining open and flexible to negotiating specifics. In fact, on the third day of bargaining, members tabled a comprehensive package twice. In addition to the proposals regarding modest wage increases and small benefit improvements, the outstanding issues still include:
- Including Collective Agreement language detailing an employee's right to take Compassionate Care Leave and Family Responsibility Leave. These are unpaid leaves that all employees are entitled to under the Employment Standards Act;
- Discussion and agreement on a process for the scheduling of casual employees to cover absences due to sick leave (currently, the employer expects regular employees who are too sick to work to find their own replacement for their scheduled shift).
The employer's counter-proposal did not address members' priorities, and they walked away from the table.
With the employer unwilling to discuss outstanding issues, members feel there is no choice except to initiate job action.
On November 14, SFU Childcare members voted overwhelmingly – with over 90 per cent support – to give the bargaining committee a strike mandate. The bargaining committee will be meeting over the next few weeks to plan possible job action.
For more information about what happens during job action, members are encouraged to review these Strike 101 resources available online at http://www.bcgeu.ca/Strikes_101.
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one of Canada's largest labour organizations with over 340,000 members. Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to build a stronger Canada by ensuring our common wealth is used for the common good. NUPGE


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Recently, an employment consultant was discussing a new trend in job interviewing. She noted that in this age of cookie-cutter, online resumes and responses, employers are looking for a way to differentiate one capable candidate from another. The answer may be character.
How can character be defined and determined? How can you, as a candidate for a job prepare for this new interview thread? Several questions may provide some guidance:
• Tell me about an autobiography you have read? What made you choose that book? What about the individual intrigued you?
• Who has served as a positive role model for you? Why was this person important in your professional development?
• Give an example of a public figure whose behavior recently disappointed you and why you were disappointed.
• Who most inspires you? What have you learned from this individual?
• In the past year, how have you contributed to your local community (or your school community or your current work community)? Why did you choose this activity?
You already have a whole list of practice questions for possible job interviews. You can easily and quickly formulate answers to the usual ones—for example, what do you like most (or least) about our company or what is your greatest strength or weakness?
Thinking about character questions may require you to think a bit more deeply. Have you ever read (or listened to) an autobiography of someone you admire? Are you inspired by the determination of a certain athlete or business figure? Do you follow national news and stay current with more than trends, sports, and celebrities? Can you find a community cause to which you want to donate some time and effort? (A charity event such as a mini-marathon or bike race counts. Just be sure you actually know something about the charity behind it.)
Every employer is going to expect that you have the basic capability to do the work required by their open position. What may be a deciding factor, however, is what character traits accompany your capabilities.


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WWII Veteran William Colton awarded French Legion of Honor
On July 9th, Consul General of France Vincent Floreani presented the French Legion of honor to WWII Veteran William Colton in Barrington, Illinois.
Mr. William Colton was enlisted in March 1943. Until 1946, he served as Staff-Sergeant then Second Lieutenant with the 398th Engineer General Service Regiment which provided logistical support for the Allied armies. Mr. Colton participated in three major campaigns, Northern France, the Rhineland, and the Ardennes. The men of the 398th were the vanguard of many to follow, including infantry and armored troops. After the Normandy invasion, they followed the front lines constructing or repairing roads, railroad bridges, and other essential infrastructure needed by the advancing armies. Mr. Colton was in command of a platoon consisting of 40 men responsible for the execution of specialized construction for instance demolishing bridges and building timber wharves to speed ship- to-shore operations such as in Cherbourg in August 1944. Mr. Colton also supervised the building of hospitals in France, including their utilities systems.
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Well, no longer. Now you get opinion pieces about all kinds of things in the guise of sports writing, and its typically rather annoying to a conservative. Then there are stupid things that happen, like ESPN's report using a very common sports term "chink in the armor" that got someone fired and apologies flying around.
But sometimes the pieces are meant to be opinion and deal with more political subjects, such as a recent article in Buzzfeed by Nate Jackson, former Denver Bronco, about homosexuality in the NFL. He writes about why there are no openly homosexual players in football, because you just can't have any topic without forcing homosexual advocacy into it these days.
So fine, I don't read that site often and who cares, I can skip over it, except there's this bit in the article, courtesy Maetenloch at Ace of Spades HQ:
A locker room is a very diverse work setting in some ways: ethnicity, socio-economic background, home town, marital status, age, etc. And in others it's very narrow. There are racists, fascists, bigots, losers, Jesus pushers, conspiracy theorists, Republicans, dope smokers, alcoholics, pill poppers, womanizers, hunters, gamblers, grumps and hacks. And they all work together to form a football team. They put aside their personal beliefs about a player and his lifestyle for the good of the football team, which takes precedent. Add gay to that list and I don't think it matters much, as long as it isn't, "Hey you guys! I'm GAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" Although that would make for a great football comedy.Now look at that and consider it a moment. Notice the list of things he puts into this grouping of people in the locker room. They're all negative, all of them, except a couple which stand out as bizarrely out of place. Womanizers, alcoholics, conspiracy theoriests, bigots, fascists, losers, ok... then... hunters? Republicans? Jesus "pushers?" Is Jesus code for some drug I'm unaware of here, someone "pushing" it? He's equating these things as bad because every single other thing on that list is something negative.
So hunting and being a Republican is negative? Apparently it is to Nate Jackson, whose NFL career was not particularly outstanding (2 TDs, 240 yards rushing, 27 receptions in 5 years with the Broncos). Yet look at that more closely, and ponder this: he's writing this article about homosexuals in the NFL and how bad it is that none are openly so because everyone is so juvenile and "homophobic."
And he's lumping homosexuals in that list, too.
So he still considers it negative, even though he's trying really hard to say he doesn't and uses all the right buzz words like "there's an ingrained frat-house, borderline (and sometimes not-so-borderline) homophobic culture that will be difficult to change" and "An openly gay man would create an entirely new dynamic in these conversations — ideally, a less crude one." He's presenting himself as the typical modern "not that there's anything wrong with that!" tolerant multiculturalist, but deep down you can tell he actually does think there's something wrong with it.
And deep down, I bet you do too, no matter how well you cover it with the proper platitudes and PC statements you've been taught to say and pressured by modern culture to publicly claim.
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In Primavera P6, there are 2 popular activity type: Task Dependent and Resource Dependent.
So what is the difference?
By choosing Task Dependent or Resource Dependent, P6 will choose what calendar it will use for the activity:
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[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 42 (Monday, March 4, 2013)] [Notices] [Pages 14094-14095] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2013-04900] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [30Day-13-0850] Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of information collection requests under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call (404) 639-7570 or send an email to email@example.com. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice. 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A rather expensive toy for children but quite amazing. I suppose you are really supposed to make it yourself. Read nothing into me hanging around the department store toy area. I found a Christmas present for Tradie Brother there.
Sometimes the display of artworks within the enclosed cases in Campbell Arcade (Degraves Street Subway) can be quite weird but I really like these.
This was my grandmother's PMWU cook book, that is Presbyterian Women's Missionary Union. It rarely sees the light of day, with Household Management now using his tablet propped up on the bench if a new recipe is made or the details of an old one a little hazy in his memory. We don't have Chow Mein very often, so a reminder was needed and out came the old recipe book. R's Chow Mein tastes exactly the same as my grandmother's and my mother's. It was the most exotic thing Mother ever cooked. Was Chop Suey the same thing?
I can't remember if I have shown you these moon photos before. I think not. I was quite pleased with them.
Can't have Elephant's Child hogging all the pretty sky limelight. This was a nice sunset.
We bought this fruit bowl in Surfers Paradise earlier this year. It is damn heavy and the shop lass wrapped it really well for suitcase travel.
Myer was promoting Nutella, with your own name on the personalised label. R received for Christmas from Little Jo a decent sized jar of jelly beans, also personalised with his name.
We were waiting for a friend at Fed Square and I pondered how these bollards were being scraped. I did not wonder for long. A electric delivery cart came along and it just fitted between them. Then another appeared, it too just clearing the sides. Obviously that was on a good day. It's clear there is a high clearance failure rate.
A new person has moved into the third bedroom of the apartment next door. Our balcony is about one metre away from his window. He has rearranged the room with the bed under the window. I suppose he is an overseas Asian student as they always have been since the last family left. A few days later, he swapped, with his head under the window. Surely this is very bad sheng fui.
This is a closer photo of the Christmas tree surround. I am not really a frilly person but I can see quite some work went into by one of R's sisters.
I am probably among thousands, if not tens of thousands who has pointed their lens skyward to take a photo of the Melbourne Central shot tower and the dome. A shot tower was where molten metal was dropped down its height to make bullets.


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Number of long-term unemployed getting jobs this year now stands at 23,100 – and rising
The Government has achieved its target of getting 20,000 long-term unemployed people into work more than three months earlier than projected, Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar announced today.
"The Government set a target for 20,000 long-term unemployed to take up work this year. I'm delighted to confirm that we have already reached this target. In fact, the number of long-term unemployed moving into work had now reached 23,100 by October," Minister Varadkar said.
"This means we are well on track to achieve my goal to move 100,000 people from welfare to work over the next five years and to bring unemployment down to between 5% and 6%, and long-term unemployment to 2.5% by 2020.
"Growing employment and providing access to the labour market is the single most effective way to tackle poverty and social exclusion. As unemployment is strongly linked to poverty, achieving these targets will impact positively on people's living standards and quality of life."
Government is focused on a package of activation measures for unemployed people, which is being extended to other welfare recipients of working-age. They include:
* More one-on-one engagement with jobseekers through Intreo Centres, JobPath, and local employment services;
* Making work pay, by further increasing the minimum wage, reducing USC, and making sure that more and more people are better off in work than on welfare;
* Engaging with employers to encourage them to offer jobs to people on the live register through subsidies like JobsPlus, and to make the workplace more accommodating to groups such as people with disabilities;
* Reforming welfare-to-work schemes such as CE, Tus, and Gateway. JobBridge has been closed to new applicants and will be replaced by a new scheme which is more focused on providing relevant work experience, largely in the private sector;
* Removing barriers to work such as reducing the cost of childcare, providing greater access to education, and making transport available to people in rural areas who don't have their own cars;
* Supporting and encouraging more people into self-employment, most recently by allowing access to the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance after a shorter period of nine months on long-term benefits;
* Further social insurance reforms to strengthen the contributory principle, so that people who pay into social insurance get something in return. This will build on recently-introduced reforms such as Paternity Benefit.


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Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has developed a world-leading critical care centre, which will be the largest in Europe. The centre is designed to transform the care of seriously ill and injured patients, and to care for patients with some of the most complex conditions. Not only will the new unit benefit patients, it will also create an excellent opportunity for staff in the unit to work with state-of-the-art technology, giving them more capabilities in enhancing patient care. Gemma, a critical care nurse who has been working in her unit since February 2017, describes how working at the trust has already benefitted her career.
I decided to work within intensive care when I was training to become a nurse at Queen's University in Belfast. During my training, I had a placement in a busy critical care unit; for me, at the time, nothing else compared to this experience. I qualified as a registered nurse four years ago and haven't looked back since.
I love making a genuine difference to a person's life, which is especially relevant within critical care. Most of the time, no matter how small the care I give is, it will have an impact on the patient. I regularly meet the families of patients and their loved ones when they visit the hospital, and it's great to see that the care given to the patient is also having an impact on their lives too. I think every nurse needs to have a passion for the profession; otherwise they wouldn't enjoy their job.
Working in a critical care unit means that you regularly experience situations on a daily basis that challenge you. The attacks at London Bridge in June 2017 changed my nursing experience completely — I never thought I would be exposed to a situation like that. That experience made me realise how well my team work together. Whether you are a nurse, a doctor or a health care assistant, everyone pitches in to ensure that we are providing the best care possible, and the night of the London Bridge attacks was no exception. I'm proud to be part of such a dedicated team.
I really enjoy the fact that no two days are ever the same. I'm constantly learning and I'm always challenged and motivated. My team also make my job enjoyable; there are 14 beds in the unit which means that there are approximately 14 nurses on shift at any given time. This means that I'm always working with nurses who have different experiences, allowing me to develop my own skillset, which is another aspect that I love about working in critical care.
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On a May day in 1784, Mozart was passing a Viennese bird shop when he heard a melody he recognised – the allegretto theme of his new piano concerto (number 17 in G major). A starling was singing it, note perfect but for two sharpened Gs. We know this because Mozart immediately jotted down the bird's version. Enchanted, the composer bought the starling, took it home, possibly named it Star and kept it as a pet for three years. So fond was he of the bird that, when Star died, Mozart staged a dignified funeral and wrote an elegy in his memory.
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The face of ancient battle
This entry was posted on October 25, 2017.
I'm sure it was inevitable that sometime we'd address the issue of The Face of Battle. In fact, it might be considered remarkable it took this long. But here it is, the team discusses this hot-button topic. If you'd like to read some more, here are some suggestions.
4 thoughts on "The face of ancient battle"
Thanks for this podcast. Simply attempting it is pretty original and worthwhile. Forgive me if I mention a couple of things:
Starting any historical discussion with barrages of 'we don't know' is hardly likely to draw in the listener. Preparing something concrete and structured to say may be the best way to inform the audience, rather than an informal discussion. In areas where knowledge is often very limited, focus is essential.
Improve your sound quality. There is surely no need for some participants to sound like they are on long wave radio from Australia.
But mainly, thanks again for trying to create a learning space for people like me.↓
Hi Keith,
Thanks - some participants actually are in Australia (and Texas, the UK, and the Netherlands). We record both the live feed as well as our individual audio tracks locally, but sometimes technology just leaves us in the lurch as they say... We'll try to do better next time.
As for the "we don't know", you're right of course, though it has perhaps almost become a running joke. It's not unusual for listeners to ask questions we really can't properly answer. The conversation is more prepared something now than it used to be, but free-flowing and informal it'll always be.↓
Hi Jasper. Just wanted to say a quick thanks for the podcasts, and for being the legend responsible for giving us the best, and most unique history magazines ever. I've seen a couple of people over the years try and claim the podcast would be better if it was more "structured", ie "lets all just sit around and read from a script or something"............People like this blow my mind, with the ammount of lectures, docos, other podcasts ect available online already doing this. The "informal" style of the podcast is what I'd call organic, and not only encourages a higher form of critical thinking and and intellectual stimulation than other forms of analysis and learning.......it's what makes the podcast unique, just like the magazines.
Having said all of that, some of us are wondering(probably a lot of us), are we going to get a AHM podcast at some point ??? I'd happily pay a little every month to see the same classic thing you're doing with AW, if that would help get everyone taking the time out to do it, and I know I cant be the only one I'd think. Maybe unleash Mr. Browers on us if your occupied with AW.
Anyway, cheers for the years of artwork, articles and audio, and don't let a minority of people who cant handle a different form of intellectual stimulation and food for thought with their history influence you, the podcasts are unique in a generic sea of talking heads regurgitating talking points, dogma and more ideology than history half the time.
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2 vegan kielbasa sausages
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1/2 small yellow onion, finely sliced
salt and pepper, to taste
1 dozen homemade potato, onion, and cheeze pierogies
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1/8 cup fresh parsley, chopped
1. Heat grill pan on medium heat. Add the kielbasa and cook for about 10 minutes, turning each side every few minutes.
2. While the kielbasa are cooking, combine 1 tablespoon olive oil with the onion in a medium bowl. Coat onions with the oil, salt, and pepper.
3. When the kielbasa are done, set aside. Add the onions onto the grill pan. Cook until translucent, about 10 minutes. Coat the frozen pierogies in 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt, and pepper.
4. Take the onions off the grill pan and add the pierogies. Cook each side for about 5 minutes or until golden brown. While pierogies are cooking, slice the cooked kielbasa and dice the cooked onions.
5. Combine the mustard, vinegar, remaining olive oil, and parsley in the medium bowl. Add the kielbasa and onions. When the pierogies are done on the grill, toss them into the bowl. Mix well.
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I thought beefs went out with the XFL, but apparently in the rap world, they still linger. Today, two of its biggest stars, Kanye West and 50 Cent, are both releasing albums, much to each other's chagrin. The occasion is being trumped up by the media, tearing our nation at the seams. Will we illegally download these releases or buy them at a store? And use actual money?
I take the stance that the better of the two albums is Kanye's Graduation. He's doing a lot more with his talents and pushing his art further. Sure, he's a whiny bitch most of the time, but it's what he does on the field that counts. He's got Daft Punk samples, and frickin' Chris Martin from Coldplay even tinkles the ivories on a track. There's even a John Mayer-assisted B-side floating around. Meanwhile, 50 offers another tired collection of marble-mouthed FrankenPac posturing on Curtis. This guy stopped being interesting in 2003, when we got over the fact he had been shot 56 times. At least Kanye has a sense of humor about the whole thing, unlike Fiddy, who sincerely believes he's changing the world one gunshot-sampling strip-club anthem at a time.
Eh, I'm downloading Kanye for my special "dance-alone" time, but I'm buying the new Black Lips, a kick-ass garage band from Hotlanta that sounds like riding rails on a Tussin 'n' whiskey bender. Fiddy I'll save for a late-night Limewire binge. – Craig Hlavaty
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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 seconds DR ELLIOT MAIN: Now that we've explored the many quality and safety issues that we have in maternity care, let's bring it all together by addressing how to go about actually improving care. This can be quite challenging as it often involves changing actual condition practices. But we are now supported by a new field of implementation science. We will explore how these principles can be integrated into projects for improving maternity care. Implementation of change is the hardest part of our journey. Even when there are national guidelines, it often takes too long to put them into widespread practice. There is now general recognition that many advances in care are "lost in translation" before actual adoption.
Skip to 0 minutes and 59 seconds The rest of this presentation is about how to shorten this timeline. In this presentation, we take a practical approach addressing the who, what, why, and how as well as additional cross-cutting issues, such as sustainability. For each section, we will provide key references that provide further detail. Worldwide, obstetric haemorrhage remains the number one cause of maternal death, and in high-resource countries it is far and away the leading cause of severe maternal morbidity. And it is common, affecting at least 2% to 5% of women giving birth. We use examples from recent large-scale haemorrhage QI (quality improvement) projects to illustrate our principles. These principles are applicable to both large and small projects or collaboratives, and in both high- and low-resource settings.
Skip to 1 minute and 45 seconds After a needs assessment, one of the first steps is to identify what you actually plan to implement. Resources can be presented in several different ways. Safety bundles are a collection of general steps that we hope to accomplish, essentially a checklist. These are often created by multidisciplinary expert teams, but are designed to be individualised by local facilities to match the resources available. QI toolkits represent a collection of examples, best practices, policies, procedures, protocols, order sets, and other resources that can be used to jump start the implementation process at your hospital. The references shown are from national maternal safety projects in the United States. A driver diagram is a useful way to organise your thoughts before undertaking a QI project.
Skip to 2 minutes and 35 seconds This is an example of a partial driver diagram for obstetric haemorrhage used in the US AIM project. After establishing a SMART goal that gives a definite target and timeline, primary and secondary drivers are laid out. These are linked to detailed action steps to accomplish each of the drivers. There are several different approaches to constructing the driver diagram, but it is a very useful way to outline a project. The resources listed below are great reading. Identifying the team to lead the project is a very important step. Creating improvement involves engaging all disciplines from an early point in planning, and then throughout implementation. Classically, the leadership should include, at a minimum, key personnel from nursing, the medical staff and administration.
Skip to 3 minutes and 27 seconds Depending on the project, others can be added to the team. Improving haemorrhage response is as an example of a project that touches many disciplines and requires a large team. A critical step that many overlook is establishing the rationale for why we should change our unit's protocols, and why our staff should change how they are doing things. Most medical teams are inherently resistant to change unless they are provided a compelling reason to adopt a new approach. Putting the need to change in the context of maternal deaths or severe morbidities is a useful construct.
Skip to 4 minutes and 7 seconds It is also important to address both the macro picture, such as reducing state or national mortality rates, and also to bring the reasons down locally and ideally create a personal picture for the provider. "What's in it for me" is a key concept. The hardest part of implementation is managing the actual process of change. How do we integrate the new recommendations into the usual daily practice of the nurses, midwives, and physicians. And how do we sustain these changes over time? There is great power in groups working together from different institutions and as a collaborative. This allows for sharing of ideas and strategies for overcoming barriers, as well as the peer pressure to keep up with the collaborative work.
Skip to 4 minutes and 56 seconds Data, even very simple metrics, are the lifeblood of quality improvement. Leadership will need to find the right balance of enough data to keep the pressure on for change and to demonstrate progress, but not too burdensome that folks rebel and stop collecting it. Beyond the who, what, why, and how, there are a series of cross-cutting principles that are important in every QI project. Continuous feedback and learning from case reviews is important, but case reviews need to focus on systems improvement rather than assessing the judgement of individual providers. QI is, first and foremost, about improving the system of care, and only secondarily improving individuals. Communications can never be overdone.
Skip to 5 minutes and 46 seconds Frequent communications with all staff about project process, successes, and other facilities and new ideas is key for maintaining enthusiasm and progress. Early engagement of patients and families is also an important ingredient of successful projects. Lastly, the support of partner organisations is incredibly helpful. These can be professional bodies, public health groups, hospital associations, patient advocacy groups, or whoever you might think could be supportive. John Kotter at the Harvard Business school is internationally renowned for his work on identifying the key steps for leading successful change projects. The model has proven effective in many different types of businesses, including medical care. The Implementing Quality Improvement Projects Toolkit mentioned below provides great examples of application of the Kotter model to obstetric haemorrhage.
Skip to 6 minutes and 48 seconds The eight steps neatly capture most of the elements of change management described in this presentation and together with the resources should provide you a good start for the maternity QI projects. My final word of advice is to start with a small project that can teach your team the steps and has a high chance for success. Thank you, and good luck.
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How can we improve quality of care at scale putting evidence into practice?
In this step Dr Elliot Main (CMQCC; Stanford) explores how Implementation Science principles can be integrated into projects to improve maternity care. Timely implementation of change is a key challenge, even where national guidelines exist, and are often "lost in translation". Eight steps for change management and quality improvement are outlined.
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How the Chevy Bolt Breaks New Ground for Electric Cars
The first deliveries of the 2017 Chevy Bolt were in mid-December. Since then, General Motors has sold about 2,000 of its small 238-mile all-electric car. For now, sales are only in California and Oregon—but will roll out nationally over this year. While it's still early for consistent reports from owners about issues such as real-world range, the first drivers (and media outlets that have given the Bolt a spin) are revealing how the affordable long-range EV changes everything about the technology.
In an interview with Motor Trend, GM engineers said that the low end of driving range for the Bolt is about 160 miles on a full charge. That's how many miles you might expect if you put the pedal to the floor and push the Bolt to its 93-mph top speed for an entire trip. Obviously, this is not a real-world scenario—and the outside temperature and the use of auxiliary energy-draining functions (like heat) were not provided—but the 160-mile stat is still impressive.
As a point of comparison, Car and Driver drove the Bolt with the cruise control set to 75 mph and the climate system set to 72 degrees. The magazine's reviewers drove the battery to exhaustion in 190 miles.
The Bolt's low-end range dropping to as low as 160 miles (from the EPA rating of 238 miles) is about twice the range of the first-generation Nissan LEAF when fully charged and driven with caution. The 2017 Bolt and first-gen LEAF carried about the same sticker price, yet the Chevy EV represents a huge leap in range—and therefore practicality for everyday drivers.
Rewind to just a few years ago: Drivers of first-gen models like the LEAF and Mitsubishi i-MiEV, when driving at common highway speeds, saw their range drop to an uncomfortable 60 or so miles. That scared off a lot of potential EV buyers. Sure, the Bolt's official estimated range of 238 miles earned a lot of headlines, but the more useful metric to EV drivers is arguably the low-end number. In other words, the Bolt is an affordable and practical electric car that provides a driving range that mainstream buyers will find acceptable.
The Chevy Bolt's longer range is not only a matter of using a bigger battery. It's also an issue of using that battery to a greater capacity. When the first-generation Volt (with a V) came out, it famously only tapped into about half of its 16-kWh pack. Engineers usually prevent the battery pack from being fully utilized, because deep cycling of a battery will degrade the pack over time. GM engineers told PluginCars.com last year that nearly all of the Bolt's 60-kWh pack is utilized. We've come a long way in a short time.
Perhaps the decision to use more of the battery's capacity is due to the Bolt battery's substantial size. The vast majority of drivers only clock about 40 miles a day. So the Bolt's 238-mile pack will rarely get fully charged, fully discharged and then fully charged again. As a result, why not grant use of nearly all of the 60-kWh pack for those occasions when it's needed?
Another sign of meaningful advances in EV technology is the Bolt's more sophisticated use of energy regeneration. For the first-generation low-range electric cars, product planners were roughly split into two camps: those who wanted EVs to have a "driving feel" exactly like gas cars and others who wanted to take advantage of an electric car's unique qualities. This came down to how aggressively the brakes brought the car to a stop and used the braking energy to charge the battery. EV purists wanted very strong regen and for the car not to automatically creep forward from a standstill.
While the Bolt is not the first EV to allow the driver to select regen settings, it's clear that GM engineers put a lot of thought into how regeneration works. For example, the Bolt comes with a so-called "smart shifter," which automatically puts the car into Park if you happen to exit the car (or unlatch the seat belt) while still in the high-regen no-creep mode. And regardless of whether you're in standard driving mode or a no-creep one-pedal mode, you can increase that amount of brake regeneration on the fly.
Drivers always have the option to slow down the car using the Bolt's "regen on demand" hand-brake feature, positioned on the left side of the steering wheel. The Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive uses paddle shifters to do a similar "regen by hand" trick.
The point here is not to compare the features of specific models to determine if Chevy, Mercedes or Tesla have the best implementation of big-battery technology or EV braking regeneration. The big development is how the entire field of electric cars is offering sophisticated useful features—resulting in long-range electric vehicles at an affordable price. EV leadership changes hands over time, but at this stage, the Chevy Bolt is the best example of how these trends are coming together and add up to a breakthrough in EV technology.
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Azure Functions - Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration with Azure Functions
After playing around a bit with Azure Functions over the last few articles it is now time to do it properly. So far we have logged on to the Azure portal and navigated to the Functions App (https://functions.azure.com). We then selected the Function and edited it live in the online portal.
Nice experience to get started quickly, but if your app consists of multiple functions and if you want to follow best practices and have your code in source control, then we need to approach this product differently.
I've got the Function - now what?
I usually develop my PowerShell code locally on my laptop (one reason why I went back to a Windows laptop actually) and then push the code to a git repository (either Github or Gitlab).
So with our code finalised on my laptop and pushed to git, how do I get it into Azure? Azure Functions, or better, the Web App surrounding the Azure Function can integrate with multiple source code repositories. This can be a VSTS repository, a Github repo or a local Azure git repository.
For this article I am going to demonstrate integration with Github.
Git folder structure
The Function App expects a specific folder structure to identify separate functions.
Every function needs to be in its own subdirectory and needs to consist at least of the two following files.
Azure will create a function for each subdirectory it detects. This is shown in the following two screenshots.
We have not yet spoken about the
function.json file, but, as you can imagine, this is the metadata for each Azure Function. Microsoft has released the following developer reference for the
function.json file: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/functions-reference/
Refer to this link for latest documentation.
In the Azure console you can inspect your files by selecting the Function and then clicking on the
View files link under the code.
Azure will automatically read in the file and create a Function according to the configuration with the correct trigger (if any), input and output parameters and any other configuration available at the time you are reading this.
Github and Azure Functions
Setting everything up with an already existing Github repository is a matter of 1-2 minutes and really not complicated. I here assume that you have already pushed your local code to a Github repository (both private and public are supported).
In the Azure portal, inside of your Function App, select the
Function app settings.
Now select
Configure Continuous Integration and walk through the required settings like selecting the type of source code repository (Github, local git, VSTS, etc), which repository and which branch to deploy from (I deploy from
master branch).
Azure will also ask you to authorise it to access your repository. In most cases it automatically knows how to do this, so this should not be an issue.
Each Function App can only be deployed from one source code repository, obviously.
As soon as the connection is set up Azure will do an initial sync with it and in under a minute you should already see all your functions.
Azure Functions CI logs
Should something be not the way you expected it to be, Azure will provide you with log files of each "CI sync".
Every commit to your repository, or rather to the branch you selected in your deployment, will trigger a new deployment to Azure Functions and will show up in the portal, including the deployment log files, duration of deployment and "reason", which is your commit message.
Should you ever need to revert a
git commit you can even use a
git revert and Azure will happily pick up your change.
I have not yet tested rewriting git history, but I rarely do this anyway (who rewrites history on a public branch???), so not too dramatic.
The whole CI setup is really easy and fricking fast. I love it and have already set it up for all my demo Functions and if you don't already have a CI/CD server in place for web apps then I definitely recommend checking this out. In one of my next articles I will check out the "Performance Test" feature which is currently in public preview and is able to run automated performance tests against your API/Function with every commit. Sounds awesome? I think so too. So this is high on my "to do list".


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