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Journal 2011
Volume 13 Issue 4: December 2011 – Quarterly Edition
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Table of Contents:
Foreword by Robert Baird
Article 1. Megumi Hamada and Chaehee Park – Word-Meaning Inference: A Longitudinal Investigation of Inference Accuracy and Strategy Use
Article 2. Xiaoli Jiang and Gerard Sharpling – The Impact of Assessment Change on Language Learning Strategies: The Views of a Small Group of Chinese Graduate Students Studying in the UK
Article 3. Neil H. Johnson and Jonathan deHaan – Second Language Development through Technology Mediated Strategic Interaction
Article 4. Minh Hue Nguyen – Learner Self-management Procedures Reported by Advanced and Intermediate ESL Students
Article 5. Peter Crosthwaite – The Effect of Collaboration on the Cohesion and Coherence of L2 Narrative Discourse between English NS and Korean L2 English Users
Article 6. Rais Ahmed Attamimi and Hajar Abdul Rahim – Socio-Economic Orientations in Foreign Language Learning Motivation: The Case of Yemen
Article 7. John F. Haggerty – An Analysis of L2 Motivation, Test Validity and Language Proficiency Identity (LPID): A Vygotskian Approach
Article 8. Katerina Petchko – Input Enhancement, Noticing, and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
Article 9. Ya-huei Wang – Shattering the hierarchical education system: The creation of a poststructural feminist English classroom
Article 10. Breda O Hara-Davies – English only? inda kali eh! (not likely!) Changing the paradigm
Article 11. Gurnam Kaur Sidhu, Chan Yuen Fook and Sarjit Kaur Sidhu – Students Reactions to School Based Oral Assessment: Bridging the Gap in Malaysia
Book Reviews
1. Paul Baker, Andrew Hardie, & Tony McEnery. A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics.
2. Ann F.V. Smith and Gregory Strong (eds.) Adult Language Learners.
3. M. A. K. Halliday. Edited by Jonathan J. Webster. Language and Education.
4. William Grabe. Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice (Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series)
Volume 56: November 2011 – Teaching Articles
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1 .Percival Santos – Evidence-Based Teaching: Implications for Task-Based Language Teaching
2. Woo Joo Lee – Views and Experiences of English Language Education for Young Learners in South Korea: Has Korea government achieved its goal in introducing English language to public primary school?
3. Jeremy White. A case study of unique input to produce spoken English output
4. Duncan Wotley. On Perspectives of Linguistic Intuition for Foreign Language Teaching
5. Fahrur Rozi. The Correlation between the Mastery of Sentence Stress, Grammar, and the Oral Presentation of Medical Records in English by Ngudi Waluyo Nursing Academy Students, Ungaran-Central Java, Indonesia
Volume 55: October 2011 – Teaching Articles
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1. Omar M.M.Rodis, Naoyuki Kariya, Michiko Nishimura, Seishi Matsumura and Ryo Tamamura. Needs Analysis: Dental English for Japanese Dental Students.
2. R.Safdarian and A.Afghari. Performance of Iranian EFL Learners on Compliment Response Speech Acts in English .
Volume 13 Issue 3: September 2011 – Quarterly Edition
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Table of Contents:
Foreword by Roger Nunn
Article 1. James Life – Motivation and EFL University Students in North-East Asia
Article 2. Justina Ong – Investigating the Use of Cohesive Devices by Chinese EFL Learners
Article 3. Junko Otoshi and Neil Heffernan – An Analysis of a Hypothesized Model of EFL Students Motivation Based on Self-Determination Theory
Article 4. Pornapit Darasawang – Becoming a Counsellor: Between Belief and Behaviour
Article 5.Yangyu Xiao, Gerard Sharpling and Hongyun Liu –Washback of National Matriculation English Test on Students Learning in the Chinese Secondary School Context
Article 6. Shu-chin Yen – L2 Students Use of Rhetorical Consciousness Raising Instructional Materials in Writing Research Articles
Article 7. Katayoon Afzali, Manoochehr Tavangar, Mohammad Amouzadeh, and Abass Eslami Rasek – The strategic needs of Iranian students in reading literary and non-literary texts: A dialogic approach
Article 8. Anne Ma – Do teachers reap what they sow? A study of young ESL learners perception of what is learned in an English lesson
Article 9. Mousa A. Btoosh & Abeer Taweel – Contrastive Rhetoric: Inflation, Verbal Voices and Polyphonic Visibility in Learners and Native Speakers Academic Writing
Article 10. Alireza Karbalaei & Fatemeh Azimi Amoli – The Effect of Paraphrasing Strategy Training on the ReadingComprehension of College Students at the Undergraduate Level
Article 11. Jianwei Xu – Second Language Learners and Their Self-confidence in Using English: A Social Constructive Perspective
Article 12. Masataka Kasai, Jeong-Ah Lee & Soonhyang Kim – Secondary EFL Students Perceptions of Native and Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers in Japan and Korea
Article 13. Su-Jen Lai & Ming-i Lydia Tseng – Taking an Ecological View to Research Taiwanese EFL Students English Literacy Learning
Book Reviews
1. Jeffrey L. Kallen, & John M. Kirk. ICE-Ireland : A User s Guide.
2. Dogancay-Aktuna, S. & Hardman, J. (Eds.) Global English Teaching and Teacher Education: Praxis and Possibility.
3. John. M. Swales & Christine. B. Feak.Telling a Research Story: Writing a Literature Review.
4. Elizabeth, Hanson-Smith and Sarah, Rilling (Ed.) Learning Languages through Technology.
Volume 54: August 2011 – Teaching Articles
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1. Lin Shen & Jitpanat Suwanthep. E-learning Constructive Role Plays for EFL Learners in China"s Tertiary Education
2. Kiyomi Chujo, Kathryn Oghigian, Masao Utiyama & Chikako Nishigaki. Creating a Corpus-Based Daily Life Vocabulary for TEYL
3. Joshua Cohen. Second-language Literacy Instruction: Five Principles for Effective Fluency Development
4. Bonifacio T. Cunan. Using Transitivity as a Framework in a Stylistic Analysis of Virginia Woolf s Old Mrs.Grey
Volume 53: July 2011 – Teaching Articles
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1. Reima Al Jarf. Teaching Spelling Skills with a Mind-mapping Software
2. Ming Chang. EFL Teachers Attitudes toward Communicative Language Teaching in Taiwanese College
3. Toshinobu Nagamine. Effects of Hyper-Pronunciation Training Method on Japanese University Students Pronunciation
4. Shigera Ozaki. Learning English as an International Lingua Franca in a Semi-English-Speaking Country: The Philippines
5. Yan Wang & Gertrude Tinker Sachs. Comprehensible Input through Extensive Reading: Problems in English Language Teaching in China
6. Sonporn Sirikhan & Kanchana Prapphal. Assessing Pragmatic Ability of Thai Hotel Management and Tourism Students in the Context of Hotel Front Office Department
Volume 13 Issue 2: June 2011 – Quarterly Edition
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Table of Contents:
Foreword by Prof. Roger Nunn.
Article 1. John Adamson, Howard Brown and Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson. Archiving Self-Access: Methodological considerations
Article 2. Deepti Gupta and Getachew Seyoum Woldemariam. The Influence of Motivation and Attitude on Writing Strategy Use of Undergraduate EFL Students: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives
Article 3. Ahmed Mahmoud Aliweh. The Effect of Electronic Portfolios on Promoting Egyptian EFL College Students Writing Competence and Autonomy
Article 4. Wenxia Zhang, Meihua Liu, Shan Zhao and Qiong Xie. English Test-Taking Strategy Use and Students Test Performance
Article 5. Mohamed El-Okda. Developing Pragmatic Competence: Challenges and Solutions
Article 6. Loretta Fung. Discourse Markers in the ESL Classroom:A Survey of Teachers Attitudes
Article 7. Afsaneh Ghanizadeh and Fatemeh Moafian. The Relationship between Iranian EFL Teachers Sense of Self-Efficacy andtheir Pedagogical Success in Language Institutes
Article 8. Hui-Ju Wu. Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Performance in English as a Foreign Language
Article 9. Manfred Wu. Learners Beliefs and the Use of Metacognitive Language-learning Strategies of Chinese-speaking ESL Learners
Article 10. Saad Torki. Teachers Intention vs. Learners Attention: Do Learners Attend to What Teachers Want Them to Attend to in an EFL Vocabulary Class?
Article 11. Yuko Yamashita and David Hirsh. Second Language and Cognition: Conceptual Categorization of Count/Mass Nouns in English with Japanese University Students
Article 12. B.H. Tan. Innovating Writing Centers and Online Writing Labs outside North America
Book Reviews
1. Philip Seargeant. The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language
2. B. Paltridge, L. Harbon, D. Hirsch, H. Shen, M. Stevenson, A. Phakiti, & L. Woodrow. Teaching Academic Writing: An Introduction for Teachers of Second Language Writers
3. Ann Burns and Jill Burton (Eds). Language Teacher Research in Australia and New Zealand
4. Maureen Snow Andrade (Ed). Language Games: Innovative Activities for Teaching English
Volume 52: May 2011 Teaching Articles
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1. Mehrdad Moloudi. Online and Face-to-face Peer Review: Measures of Implementation ESL Writing Classes
2. Mohammad Reza Ghorbani. The Impact of Phonetic Instruction on Iranian Students Listening Ability Enhancement
3. Maurie Liza M. Nivales. Hedging in College Research Papers: Implications for Language Instruction
4. Pamila J Flores. Using Improvisational Exercises for Increasing Speaking and Listening Skills
5. Robert Kirkpatrick. Looking at a Learning Styles Research Paper: A Critical Evaluation
Volume 51: April 2011 – Teaching Articles
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1. Jie Xiaoping. Jie Xiaoping. Understanding Your Students: An Investigation on Topics of Interest to Chinese EFL Graduate Student
2. Furqanul Aziez. Examining the Vocabulary Levels of Indonesia s English National Examination Texts
3. Kuang Yu Cheng. The Impact of EFL Students Vocabulary Breadth of Knowledge on Literal Reading Comprehension
4. Reima Al-Jarf. Creating and Sharing Writing iRubrics
5. Diane Nagatomo. The Impact of Imagination of Students in the Development of the Professional Identity of Four Japanese Teachers of English in Japanese Higher Education
Volume 13 Issue 1: March 2011 – Quarterly Edition
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Table of Contents:
Foreword by Prof. Roger Nunn. PDF
Article 1. Mohammed Zaid – Effectiveness of Organised E-mail Exchanges and Online Reading/Writing on College Students Literacy Development and their Attitudes towards English: A Study from Saudi Arabia
Article 2. Amin Saleh Moheidat and Abdallah Ahmad Baniabdelrahman – The Impact of Omani Twelfth-Grade Students Self-Assessment on their Performance in Reading in English Amin Saleh Moheidat & Abdallah Ahmad Baniabdelrahman
Article 3. Zubeyde Sinem Genc – EFL in Higher Education: Designing a Flexible Content-Based Curriculum at University-Level
Article 4. Adel Abu Radwan – Effects of L2 proficiency and gender on choice of language learning strategies by university students majoring in English
Article 5. Dilek Yavuz Erkan and Ayten iflazoÄŸlu Saban – Writing Performance Relative to Writing Apprehension, Self-Efficacy in Writing, and Attitudes towards Writing: A Correlational Study in Turkish Tertiary-Level EFL
Article 6. Ahmad Sharifi and Jaleh Hassaskhah – The Role of Portfolio Assessment and Reflection on Process Writing
Article 7. Sun Xiao-zhao and Du Juan – Understanding the influence of L1 and lexical aspect in temporal acquisition: Quantitative and qualitative studies.
Article 8. Fatemeh Takallou – The Effect of Metacognitive Strategy Instruction on EFL Learners Reading Comprehension Performance and Metacognitive Awareness
Article 9. Tzung-yu Cheng – The Ability of Taiwanese College Freshmen to Read and Interpret Graphics in English
Article 10. Xiaozhou Zhou and Victoria Murphy – How English L2 Learners in China Perceive and Interpret Novel English Compounds
11. Hideki Sakai – Do Recasts Promote Noticing the Gap in L2 Learning?
Book Reviews
1. Thomas S. C. Farrell and Leketi Makalela (Eds.) Language Teacher Research in Africa
2. A. J. Liddicoat. An Introduction to Conversation Analysis
3. Ken Hyland & Fiona Hyland (Eds.) Feedback in Second Language Writing: Contexts and Issues
4. Charles J. Alderson. Diagnosing Foreign language Proficiency : The Interface Between Learning and Assessment
Volume 50: February 2011 – Teaching Articles
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Peter Crompton. Article Errors in the English Writing of Advanced L1 Arabic Learners: The Role of Transfer
Michael John Alroe. Error Correction of L2 Students Texts Theory, Evidence and Pedagogy
Volume 49: January 2011 – Teaching Articles
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Lin Shen & Jitpanat Suwanthep. E-learning Constructive Role Plays for EFL Learners in China s Tertiary Education
Kiyomi Chujo, Kathryn Oghigian, Masao Utiyama & Chikako Nishigaki. Creating a Corpus-Based Daily Life Vocabulary for TEYL


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Our Mission is to promote a quality of social and ecological environment for property owners, residents and users within the environs by identifying and facilitating the resolution of issues and undertaking initiatives for the common good.
The Minong Flowage located in northwest Wisconsin which flows in the counties of southern Douglas and northern Washburn. The Flowage, approximate 8 miles west of Minong, is a 1,564-acre impoundment of the Totagatic River. The dam, which created the Minong Flowage, was constructed by a Works Progress Administration (WPS) project in 1936-37. Most of its bottom is sand; its maximum and mean depths are 21' and 8'. Although much of the Flowage is deep, open water, some of its shallow bays contain numerous submerged tree stumps and a broad assortment of aquatic vegetation (including invasive species) so caution is advised to all boaters. The fishery consists mainly of walleye, northern pike, largemouth bass, bluegill, black crappie, and yellow perch. The Flowage is also popular for swimming, boating, waterskiing, paddling and snowmobiling and it's also home to loons, eagles, wolves, bears and other wildlife. There are three boat launch areas and a campground.
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My writing career over the past 30 years has mainly been in the children's book field. However, since the mid 1990s, I've moved into the nonfiction field, and after I lost my husband to Alzheimer's disease and discovered that his niece Sue (in her early 50s) had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I decided a book should be written using stories by Sue and her friend PJ (also early onset Alzheimer's) about how they have coped with the disease as well as my experiences as caregiver for my husband, David.
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Obtaining a private security license can open up a new world of job opportunities for you. With a valid security license, you can work in loss prevention, airport security, residential concierge positions, and much more.
Are you considering a career switch? This short guide explores everything you need to know about how to become a licensed security guard in Ontario, Canada.
If you're wondering how to become a licensed security guard in Ontario, it's important to know that there are some initial eligibility requirements you have to meet. These requirements are set by the Ministry of the Solicitor General.
According to the requirements, applicants must:
Completing a security guard basic training program is one of the first steps in obtaining your license. Security guard courses can be taken online or in person, and they may be offered by universities, community colleges, career colleges, and local training providers.
When selecting a provider for basic training, you should make sure their curriculum meets the standards set by the Ministry of the Solicitor General. For example, training programs must be at least 40 hours long, and they must also include certification in emergency first aid/CPR. Your curriculum should also cover the full scope of security guard topics, such as health and safety, report writing, sensitivity training, and more.
If you've been researching how to become a licensed security guard in Ontario, then you probably know that there is a test involved. Completing your basic training will provide you with everything you need to know for the test.
After completing your training, you will be given a certificate and training completion number. Be sure to keep this information handy, because you will need it to register for your test. When you're ready to register, visit www.ontariosecuritytesting.ca. You can also find testing locations at this website.
Here are some basic facts you should know about the Ontario security guard test:
Once you've successfully completed your training and exam, then you can apply for your security guard license. All applications should be submitted through ServiceOntario.
When you apply for a license, you'll need to submit the following:
Applications are typically processed within 30 days. Once your application is approved, you should receive your license card by mail within 8 weeks.
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Call To Order: 7:15 PM
In Attendance: 6
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Cash: $79.60
Total: $6333.91
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Paid members to date: 16 – total membership revenue: $725.00
Chris messaged and said that the indoor flying has been slow but steady.
No new MAAC news to report
The road is very muddy and the parking lot is soupy. The field is almost clear, but has been vandalized by trucks and quads.
Old Business
- The owner of the Bednesti Resort is willing to sanction the beach for the PGAMs. Rick is going to follow up regarding rules, regulations and general information.
- RE/MAX has agreed to supply the large party tents for the fun fly. There may be a nominal setup fee because of the distance to the location, but Rick, Gord and Shaun are willing to chip in to cover the costs.
- PGAM executive roles voted on with the following results:
- President: Rick
- Past Pres: Stan
- Treasurer: Ron
- Secretary: Shaun
- Safety Officer: Chris
New Business
- The vandalism is ramping up and the general consensus is that something needs to be done to protect the field. Kevin has a good idea about trenching all the way around the back and two ends, then fence off the front.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:04 PM


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Stillwater River (Nashua River tributary) facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsStillwater River
The Stillwater flowing through Sterling, Massachusetts
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|Physical characteristics
|Main source
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720 ft (220 m)
|River mouth
|Wachusett Reservoir
384 ft (117 m)
|8.1 miles (13.0 km)
|Basin features
|Basin size
|39.3 sq mi (102 km2)
The Stillwater River is part of the Nashua River watershed. This river is part of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority system that supplies drinking water to the greater Boston area.
The Stillwater River rises in Princeton, Massachusetts, the watershed generally known as the Upper Worcester Plateau, or the Monadnock Upland. This watershed tops at Wachusett Mountain, the highest feature in the area. Water flowing east from this high ground feeds the Nashua River Watershed, and water flowing west feeds the Ware River or the Millers River, both heading to the Connecticut River. The Stillwater flows 8.1 miles (13.0 km) through Princeton and Sterling before joining the Quinapoxet River at the Wachusett Reservoir in West Boylston to form the south branch of the Nashua River.
The Stillwater and Quinapoxet rivers are the two major tributaries to the Wachusett Reservoir, which serves as the primary source of water for 2.5 million consumers in 43 communities of central and eastern Massachusetts. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), operates stream-flow monitoring gages near the mouths of both rivers. This and other continuous monitoring serves to maintain the overall quality of water within the reservoir. The water of these tributaries to the Wachusett Reservoir has been of high quality for decades.
About 47% of the Stillwater sub-basin is permanently protected open space. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority owns much of the land. The Town of Holden owns over 600 acres (2.4 km2) as the Trout Brook Conservation Area, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society owns several hundred acres in the Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary in addition to other properties within this sub-basin.


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Asbury Park fire: No injuries in unoccupied building
ASBURY PARK - Firefighters from around the area rushed to Asbury Avenue to help put out a structure fire early Saturday morning.
Nobody was hurt in the fire, which broke out in a building at 1107 Asbury Ave. around 3 a.m., according to the city fire department.
A caller first reported a fire near the train tracks on Asbury Avenue, which turned out to be "heavy fire conditions on the first and second floors" of the home, according to city Fire Chief Kevin Keddy.
The building "was unoccupied at the time of the fire," Keddy said.
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Firefighters had the fire under control within an hour and completely extinguished by 7 a.m., Keddy said.
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City fire officials are investigating the cause of the fire in coordination with the Monmouth County Fire Marshal, Keddy said.
Besides the city fire department, firefighters from Long Branch, Neptune, Ocean and Wall also responded, some on cover assignments, Keddy said. City police and medics from Neptune also responded.
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Bridlington Lib Dem Councillor Mike Heslop-Mullens is campaigning against rumoured further expansion of caravans on the Flamborough Headland.
Mike says: "The local infrastructure around Flamborough is already at capacity. The roads and drains won't cope with an extra 500 caravans."
He added: "We would also lose acres of heritage coastline and vital green space that gives Flamborough its identity. None of this green space is allocated for development, despite Government Plans to take away the public's right to be consulted. I am opposed to a Caravan city sprawling over this beautiful headland."
If you agree with Mike then sign the petition BELOW against more caravans.
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Defining Belief
March 9th, 2008
(from the Gospel of John)
"And many more believed because of his wordâ€
(John 4:41)
Introduction: We feel for those who do not know how to make a living, but pity those who do not know how to make a life.
I. The criterion of a __________ ____________ with God (1:12; 6:29; 3:16-18; 20:30-31).
II. N.T. belief is stronger than the ________________
III. N. T. belief is ______________ determined (1:1-3,14;12:32; 14:1,11).
IV. The _____________ of John 20:29.
Conclusion: Four major components make Christianity different from all other belief systems: (1) Creation (2) Incarnation (3) Crucifixion, and (4) Resurrection (11:25-26; 3:36). R.S.V.P.
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For the last few days I've been spending time in El Rodadero, Colombia before setting off to Palomino for Hackerbeach. Another participant arrived today, and joined me in relaxing before the primary Hackerbeach work in Palomino. It's peak season here in El Rodadero, which means all the restaurants, the malecón, and the beach are filled to the brim with people, mostly traveling Colombians who come here for what is justifiably one of the most gorgeous beaches in the country.
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Hackerbeach Day 0
It's been hell, doing a 4 flight stint for the better part of a day with no off-plane sleep. I read recently that airplane humidity is typically around 20%, which is drier than the Sahara desert. Lesson learned: always bring and fill your water bottle. When you're dehydrated, the mucus membranes have trouble keeping a layer of mucus, and can let more dangerous external matter through. That results in a sensation, that, when you swallow, can be unpleasant.
But though the trial, I'm finally here on the Caribbean coast to kick off the Nth annual Hackerbeach in beautiful Santa Marta, Colombia.
The weather is a muggy 31C, not a fluffy cloud in the firmament, and high season is in full swing. I'm the first to arrive, and spending the 29th through the new year in the city before settling down in (hopefully) more peaceful Palomino, further east on the coast.
The Centro Historico where I'm staying is rife with touts. Taxi drivers trying to drum up business, pre-packaged adventure outfits promising the very best ziplines, and plenty of folks standing around with convincing smiles holding a restaurant menu.
Vague electronica fills the muggy air with super hip beats. It would be inappropriate to dance, but we do feel a bit more in tune with the forced vibe.
The night continued on. I took my stroll of the malecon and beach, found a handicraft market, and my guilty pleasure: street meats. Sausage fresh off a charcoal grill, covered in just-squeezed lime and roughly chopped chilis on a bed of yuca in a small styrofoam container for $1. There were a few touts there, but nobody bothered me. It must either be the default expression of a determined scowl, or having low value as a single young foreign male walking by.
While waiting for a hyped up blues-and-rock dive bar to open, I took another stroll through the neighborhood. I changed upon a shrill noise from the super(sub?)sonics of some music hurting my ears while walking through an alleyway. Investigating the source yielded a cultural celebration. It was a delightful cultural dance competition. That occupied a very pleasant half hour of my time until the acts petered out.
Onto my quarry! It's a small dive bar in the Centro Historico called Crab's Bar, proudly slinging blues and rock since 1999. The owner is a foreigner and doing an excellent job not paying top 80s rock, which is often the trap of places like this. When I arrive it is empty. I must have come too soon. An hour later and most of the tables are full and the atmosphere of the place is much more convivial. The cocktails are pricey, but all are double-sided, so I give it a pass.
Besides the boilerplate 60s Rock kitsch, the place is run by some excellent bar staff, who are sporting faded tattoos of the place's logo. It's always a good sign when folks are (hopefully not coerced into being) that invested and passionate. As the night progresses I am increasingly comfortable. Eventually I head back to my hostel and try to acclimate to the EST timezone.
That's about it. A simple night as others have yet to arrive. I'll be on my own for a few more nights wandering and enjoying the city.
Bonus: The exchange rate here is 3,000ish Colombian Pesos (COP) per USD, which is hard to keep in my head. Using the ATM does make me a millionaire though.
My Gear Post
Whenever I encounter people as I travel, they are often curious about my luggage. It seems to be invisible. They'll often ask where my bag is, assuming that it must have gotten lost in transit. Their eyes go wide and confusion sets in when I tell them that the bag on my back is the only one.
It is my estimation that at least some people would be curious about what gear I travel with. They ask how I'm able to pack all the necessities into such a small space. There is no great secret to traveling light. All it takes is a little research and compromise in creature comforts. If you have browsed the postings of other nomadic hackers, there might be little to be gleaned from this post. Here's a basic rundown, with almost each article deserving its own article.
It should go without saying that nobody paid for me to write this post, and likewise nobody as sent me any products to test.
In many parts of the world a reliable internet connection is hard to come by. Ethernet is essentially non-existent and WiFi is king. As any digital nomad can testify, this is 'good enough' for doing productive work.
Unfortunately not all WiFi connections work perfectly all the time. They're fraught with unexpected problems including dropping out entirely, abruptly killing connections, and running into connection limits.
Thankfully with a little knowledge it is possible to regain productivity that would otherwise be lost to a flaky internet connection. These techniques are applicable to coffee shops, hotels, and other places with semi-public WiFi.
As many of my friends know, I've been spending the last few weeks in New Zealand. Primarily it's been for a small holiday, but also in preparation inimitable Linux.conf.au 2015 conference. Leading up to that, one of the goals of my visit was to experience the variety of places across both islands.
As would be familiar to anybody who knows me, I'm always interested in new tech, especially when it's running free software and portable enough to be in my every-day carry arsenal.
For the past month or so I've been looking at a few devices as a secondary to my laptop to carry with me. In a few weeks I'll be joining those already there at third installment of Hackerbeach, on the Caribbean island of Dominica.
I wanted an embedded Linux system that could do everything. The scope of this device just kept getting bigger the more I thought about it.
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A week ago I was fortunate enough to attend the latest code sprint of the Mercurial project. This was my second sprint with this project, and took away quite a bit from the meeting. The attendance of the sprint was around 20 people and took the form of a large group, with smaller groups splitting out intermittently to discuss particular topics. I had seen a few of the attendees before at a previous sprint I attended.
Joining me at the sprint were two of my colleagues Gregory Szorc (gps) and Mike Hommey (glandium). They took part in some of the serious discussions about core bugfixes and features that will help Mozilla scale its use of Mercurial. Impressively, glandium had only been working on the project for mere weeks, but was able to make serious contributions to the bundle2 format (an upcoming feature of Mercurial). Specifically, we talked to Mercurial developers about some of the difficulties and bugs we've encountered with Mozilla's "try" repository due to the "tens of thousands of heads" and the events that cause a serving request to spin forever.
By trade I'm a sysadmin/DevOps person, but I also do have a coder hat that I don from time to time. Still though, the sprint was full of serious coders who seemingly worked on Mercurial full-time. There were attendees who had big named employers, some of whom would probably prefer that I didn't reveal their identities here.
Unfortunately due to my lack of familiarity with a lot of the deep-down internals I was unable to contribute to some of the discussions. It was primarily a learning experience for me for both the process which direction-driving decisions are made for the project (mpm's BDFL status) and all of the considerations that go into choosing a particular method to implement an idea.
That's not to say I was entirely useless. My knowledge of systems and package management meant I was able to collaborate with another developer (kiilerix) to improve the Docker package building support, including preliminary work for building (un)official Debian packages for the first time.
I also learned about some infrequently used features or tips about Mercurial. For example, folks who come from a background of using git often complain about Mercurial's lack of interactive rebase functionality. The "histedit" extension provides this feature. Much like many other features of Mercurial, this is technically "in core", but not enabled by default. Adding a line in the "[extensions]" section your "hgrc" file such as "histedit =" enables it. It allows all the expected picking, folding, dropping, editing, or modifying commit messages.
Changeset evolution is another feature that's been coming for a long time. It enables developers to safely modify history and be able to propagate those changes to any down/upstream clones. It's still disabled by default, but is available as an extension. Gregory Szorc, a colleague of mine, has written about it before. If you're curious you can read more about it here.
One of the features I'm most looking forward to is sparse checkouts. Imagine a la Perforce being able to only check out a subtree or subtrees of a repository using '–include subdir1/' and –exclude subdir2/' arguments during cloning/updating. This is what sparse checkouts will allow. Additionally, functionality is being planned to enable saved 'profiles' of subdirs for different uses. For instance, specifying the '–enable-profile mobile' argument will allow a saved list of included and excluded items. This seems like a really powerful way of building lightweight build profiles for each different type of build we do. Unfortunately to be properly implemented it is waiting on some other code to be developed such as sharded manifests.
One last thing I'd like to tell you about is an upcoming free software project for Mercurial hosting named Kallithea. It was borne from the liberated code from the RhodeCode project. It is still in its infancy (version 0.1 as of the writing of this post), but has some attractive features for viewing repositories, such visualizations of changelog graphs, diffs, code reviews, a built-in editor, LDAP support, and even a JSON-RPC API for issue tracker integration.
In all I feel it was a valuable experience for me to attend that benefited both the Mercurial project and myself. I was able to lend some of my knowledge about building packages and familiarity with operations of large-scale hgweb serving, and was able to learn a lot about the internals of Mercurial and understand that even the deep core code of the project isn't very scary.
I'm very thankful for my ability to attend and look forward to attending the next Sprint in the following year.
Concerning Hackers and Beaches
I'm excited to hear that Hackerbeach will be happening again this year. Last year was an amazing and unique experience, and I can't wait to go again. This year the village hosting us will be Lamu, Kenya.
For the uninitiated, Hackerbeach involves a group of hackers (historically 15-20) gathering in a tropical location for a month to hack on various open source projects. It can be thought of as a month-long hackathon or code sprint for nomadic open source developers. All of the code so far has been focused on the open web ecosystem.
Flying in India
Flying in India is a bit different than in other countries I've flown. All processes are more strict than at least southeast Asia, Europe, and the US. Some of the differences include the amount of documentation required.
Hiring an Auto in Bangalore
Over the past week I've spent in Bangalore, I've come to appreciate the humble auto rickshaw, or 'auto' for short. For the uninitiated they are similar to a Tuk Tuk in other countreies. That is to say they are small three-wheeled covered vehicles used to ferry two to three passengers around busy streets and through traffic. This is half due to their diminutive size and the other half due to their driver's propensity for disregarding both traffic laws and courtesy to their fellow road-sharers. Bangalore has the busiest (and narrowest) streets in India, and the auto drivers are notorious for trying to take advantage of unwitting customers.


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🧟♂🤖The Digital Maginot line
One of the most thorough articles about our current world of disinformation campaigns, state employed cyber warriors, amateur guerrillas and sponsored trolls. Renee DiResta argues how media platforms and governments should change their approach in trying to react to this.
The most interesting point that DiResta makes, is that contrary to a normal war where the objective is the physical territory. In the "Warm War" that is currently fought, the territory is the human mind. "Once a combatant wins over a sufficient number of minds, they have the power to influence culture and society, policy and politics. Think about this next time your uncle is sharing some Deep state theories on the family What's App.
In this time of Wikileaks, Brexit, Click farms and viral propaganda being spread with almost no cost, an important article to read!
🌎🌈2019 predictions of Scott Galloway
What I like about Scott Galloway is his holistic view on business. He combines technology trends with product and marketing and a strong insight in financial markets, while most experts view the world from their single perspective. His prediction for the new year always make me think a little harder. The ones that I like the best are:
Strange bedfellows A bevy of consumer and tech firms enter into strategic alliances and partnerships with only one objective: Push back on Amazon.
The rundle The consumer world begins to distill to a small number of mega brands or networks that are recurring revenue bundles ("rundle"). Business has mistaken "choice" as a good thing. Consumers want less choice, but instead confidence in the (fewer) choices presented to them.
Every digital media firm other than Facebook, Google, and Amazon Media Group loses share Lots of great firms (Refinery29, Buzzfeed) begin to show signs of asphyxiation as the oxygen continues to be sucked out of the room.
Read the rest here! https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/no-mercy-no-malice/2019-predictions
💩💰The internet of Shit? Or too early brilliance? An impression of CES
What I love about working in technology, it that no one knows exactly what the future will bring, and what products or business will be successful. I remember myself thinking that camera's on Phones where the most useless thing ever. And walking around with Google Glasses thinking this was going to be the next big thing after mobile.
Check out this twitter thread with fairly far out, companies and ideas from the last CES this January. My personal favorite is the Cyber Fishing, Smart Toilet 2.0 and the Water 2.0. https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1083476320808398849


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ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Dominica is hoping that its decision to join the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday will lead to other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries following suit.
Attorney General Levi Peter, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio, said that the CCJ, which was established by regional governments in 2001 to replace the London-based Privy Council as the Caribbean's final court, will allow for more people to have access to its rulings.
He said the fact that the CCJ would be sitting in different Caribbean countries would result in substantial savings for litigants and others seeking to appear before the Court.
"The Court is an innovative Court, it is open to taking advantage of all the new technologies…for advancing justice in the region and bringing justice as close as possible to members and residents of the region," he said.
Dominica will join Barbados, Belize and Guyana that have signed on to both the Appellate and Original jurisdictions of the CCJ that also functions as an international tribunal interpreting the Revised Treaty of Chagauaramas that governs the 15-member regional integration movement.
Most of the other Caribbean countries are signatories to the Original jurisdiction.
Peter said that the signing ceremony on Friday at the State House will be attended by the CCJ President Sir Dennis Byron and other legal luminaries from here and the region.
"We hope that our move will be as it were, a catalyst for a number of other states in the region to do so, particularly the OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States) but also the wider (region," he said making reference to the attempts by Jamaica to accede to the CCJ.
"It is really something I think we should all embrace and make it work, because like any entity or institution there will be challenges and when they arise require the combined efforts of all to seek to address those," he said adding that "what I think we all want is to have a court that we will all be proud of and from which we could get the justice that we require whenever the need arises".


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British and Canadian soldiers make their way through ruined towns in France.
The footage was all shot by a cameraman named as "Gray". At least some, if not all, his material was captured on 14 June 1944.
British and Canadian soldiers make their way through ruined towns in France.
Unused / unissued material - date and locations unclear or unknown.
Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, June 14-23. Regina Rifles & Queen's Own Rifles.
L/Ss of church steeple crumbling and falling to the ground behind some trees in a countryside setting. Tank moves along country road. British soldier clears rubble from around tank. Soldiers walk along country road. Shots of a ruined church - could be the steeple we saw tumbling to ground. Someone holds a sheet of old postcards of the church; pan across to show remains of church and steeple.
Shots of a town seemingly untouched by the war. Statue of a man holding a wreath to which have been attached flags of Britain (Union Jack), France (tricolour) and American (Stars and Stripes).
L/S of a statue of Christ on the cross, with ruined steps beneath. Canadian (?) soldiers walk past and then sit on the steps. Others sit on the ground near camouflage webbing - seem to be receiving instructions for further fighting.
Soldier looks through hole in ruined building. Another soldier comes out of ruins and hands him a piece of paper. They have a cigarette.
L/Ss as soldiers climb over rubble and ruins in a town.
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The footage was all shot by a cameraman named as "Gray". At least some, if not all, his material was captured on 14 June 1944.
B.Moogk says
All soldiers are Canadian. "Gray" is for Sergeant Alan Grayston of the Canadian Film and Photo Unit. He seems to have lost his slate shortly after D-Day. This reel is a duplicate of the negative made at Merton Park Studios and distributed by the Ministry of Information to newsreel companies.
Mithridates says
Yes all the soldiers should be Canadian. The scenes appear to be from the operating area of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade just after June 6th. I found a still photo of the scenes of the soldiers sitting below the cross labelled as being troops from the Canadian Scottish Regt. The next scene with the sign Ops Rm, is undoubtedly the HQ of the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade because the sitting cross legged figure is Brigadier Harry Foster. The soldiers in the tams would be officers from the Canadian Scottish and rest officers from the other units in the brigade - Royal Winnipeg Riffles and the Queens Own Rifles.
Mithridates says
Also the scene of the cross is located outside of Putot en Bessin. This is a village to the east of Caen next to the railway and the scene of heavy fighting between the Canadians and the 12th SS Div on the 7th and 8th of June.
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In CE4 you could adjust the order of the the way the albums displayed based on the slug name but it appears we have lost that control in backlight as all albums within an album set appear to be order alphabetically based on album name and I see no ability to adjust or change that behavior.
You can set the order preferences for each album set. In Lightroom, edit the album set and in the Base Settings, look for Album Order at the bottom. There is something like eight choices for order preference.
To control the order in a top-level gallery (like your Galleries page) go to Backlight > Publisher > Top-level Galleries and click on the top-level gallery you wish to control.
Click Edit Properties. You'll see setting for Order Albums By
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Ok that works for the album sets but what about the main gallery?
Found it buried in the backlight settings.
I'll catch flack but wish we had documentation
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Found it buried in the backlight settings.
As well as in my reply above
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
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This War of Mine Will Teach History to Polish High School Kids
The Siege of Sarajevo will come to life for students in Poland.
This War of Mine, a game that thrusts players in the role of a Bosnian citizen trying to survive the long and brutal Siege of Sarajevo, is being added to Poland's official school reading list this year.
Poland-based 11 bit Studios celebrated its inclusion earlier today on its Twitter account. The addition has been confirmed by Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, and 11 bit is justifiably proud.
"Games speak a language instinctively understandable [by the young generation]—the language of interaction," tweets 11 bit Studios' CEO, Grzegorz Miechowski. "Games can talk about everything—emotions, truth, the fight between good and evil, humanity, suffering."
"I don't think we've ever encountered a game being officially included in the educational system on a national level as school reading," Miechowski continues. "I'm proud to say 11 bit Studios' work can add to the development of education and culture in our country."
Indeed, video games are often praised for their usefulness in teaching kids about STEM subjects, but schools and government rarely point out how they're also effective at teaching social subjects like history and the arts. Miechowski's acknowledgement is a breakthrough.
This War of Mine is a grim but powerful place to start for history told through video games. You play as a citizen who must try to keep themselves and their family alive through the Siege. Clean water, food, and medicine is scarce, and difficult choices must be made, often on the fly. Scavenging is difficult thanks to snipers and other wandering, besieged citizens who will do whatever it takes to survive.
If you're a high school student in Poland, you should get a copy of This War of Mine for the 2020/2021 school year. If you're anywhere else in the world, you can pick up the game on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and PC.


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#ThatsWhatHeSaid Takes On Street Harassment
There are a lot people out there who seem to think street harassment is a compliment, but in reality, acting as though a woman in public is automatically nothing more than a display to comment upon is offensive and rude. Because a woman out trying to live her life doesn't deserve to be shouted at. And having guys constantly shouting things isn't fun, but rather a constant reminder that as a woman, people don't see you as person, someone with boundaries to be respected.
Plus, most of the comments are just plain gross. And to highlight that fact, Huffington Post Women recently started a hashtag, #ThatsWhatHeSaid, aimed at drawing attention to the unacceptable things men shout at women on the street. Because anyone who thinks street harassment is a compliment has never had anyone shout "Nice tits!" at them while they were just minding their own business.
Huffington Post Women's original piece launching #ThatsWhatHeSaid used images of women holding signs with quotes from their street harassers. They asked women to use the hashtag to tweet pictures of themselves holding similar signs, though most women chose instead to simply tweet the quotes as text. After all, putting your face on the Internet can be a scary experience sometimes, especially while holding an easily photoshopped sign. But the message of the hashtag comes through loud and clear regardless.
Still, some people weren't thrilled with the #ThatsWhatHeSaid hashtag, even apart from the usual trolls. Some felt that the tag was either a rip off of (or just drawing attention away from) #YouOKSis, another street harassment tag that primarily focused on black women, a group much more likely to experience street harassment and to have verbal harassment escalate into assault.
The inspiration behind #YouOKSis, social worker and activist Feminista Jones, told Bustle in an email that she didn't feel #ThatsWhatHeSaid was stealing from #YouOKSis, but that she still found the hashtag somewhat frustrating. Although she says that, "any effort to bring awareness to street harassment is a step in the right direction," problems begin to arise when "the representation of victims lacks diversity not only in race, class, or gender identity but also in experiences."
"Black women have been calling out [street harassment] for decades, yet our faces are all but erased from major campaigns," she says. And it's certainly true that #ThatsWhatHeSaid seems most popular among white women, and some (though not most) tweets do play into racist tropes about black men threatening white women, including the original Huffington Post article, which includes a sign that reads simply "Hey Snowbunny."
Feminista Jones also points out that the #ThatsWhatHeSaid hashtag doesn't really provide a space "to talk about solutions." Which is obviously what we should all be hoping to find. Because clearly this problem needs to start getting better soon.


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These two gave THE most excruciating interview on the E! pre-show, some of which might be because Brad Goreski is not adept at this and thus does not have enough experience milking a stone. But the sisters had weirdly little chemistry together. It was like they'd been CAST as sisters, then instructed to walk around pretending they'd really bonded on set.
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A Greek politician who claimed that Jews "don't pay taxes" has been elected as Defense Minister, Greek media reported Thursday night, amid already-high concerns over rising anti-Semitism in the country that is only expected to worsen following recent elections.
Panos Kammenos of the Syriza party made the comments during an interview with Greek Ant-1 TV, according to New Greek TV, on December 18 - just days after the drive-by shooting at the Israeli Embassy in Athens.
Local Jewish leaders were outraged at the comments.
"It is a disgrace that a leader of a party in Parliament does not know that Greek Jews are equal citizens and subject to the all the rights and obligations of every citizen," the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece stated in response at the time, noting that Jews pay the same taxes as Greek Christians.
It is worth noting that with the collapse of ties between Israel and Turkey, the IDF has increasingly been training with the Greek military, something that is likely to be influenced by Kammenos's placement as defense minister.
Fears of snowballing anti-Semitism have been raised again this week with Syriza's rise to power, even before Kammenos was elected to the post.
"The Jewish community in Greece is concerned about the developments and fears that due to the election results the relations between Israel and Greece are in danger," Rabbi Mordechai Frizis, former chief rabbi of Salonika in Greece, stated to Arutz Shevaon Monday.
Two members of the Syriza party had been aboard the Mavi Marmara flotilla which attempted to break the "siege on Gaza" in 2010, during which activists attacked IDF soldiers with metal bars and knives and forcing them to use lethal force to defend their lives.
Over 5,000 Jews live in Greece, which has experienced a sharp rise in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish sites and landmarks. The Larissa cemetery has been vandalized several times over the past two months, and the Israeli Embassy in Athens was shot at in December.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 69% of Greeks believe in anti-Semitic stereotypes - the highest score outside the Middle East and Africa.


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Bragg officials are saying, for now, the death is not connected to a series of previous baby death cases.
A military spokesperson told ABC11 Eyewitness News an 18-month-old boy was found unresponsive in his bed Sunday night and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Army CID is investigating the death per Army policy. Twelve babies have died on post since 2007.
Earlier this year, CID and Fort Bragg officials said their investigators concluded there was no evidence directly linking ten infant deaths to Fort Brag housing. Three infants died in one house over a 4-year period. Seven other infants died from what the military described as unexplained or undetermined reasons.
Two young children died after that investigation.
An autopsy is being conducted. Fort Bragg officials are not identifying the 18-month-old, saying where he lived on post, or what caused his death.
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- Release Date: 6 Nov, 2019
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I was looking forward to working outside, maybe doing some weeding in both my garden and EJ's garden. When I opened the door to go outside this morning, however, I was very surprised to see that it was raining. It was not a heavy… Continue Reading "The One With the Vision…"
Last night when EJ got home from work, he brought in a box of dishes that he had bought at a thrift shop on his way to work. Wait, before I go further, let me pause to explain our Philosophy of Used Things. I… Continue Reading "A Philosophy of Used Things"
I woke at 8 a.m. and had to immediately begin making challah bread. Challah is a beautifully braided bread used for Shabbat. After preparing the dough, I let it raise for an hour, punch it down and let it raise for another hour, then… Continue Reading "If You Give a Woman a Shovel…"
This week started out really well. On Monday I did a little garden work and washed the windows. Meanwhile EJ had found a wooden shelf for a dollar or two at a garage sale that matched the other shelves we have in the kitchen.… Continue Reading "No Fleas on My Socks"
Once again I took Danny for a morning walk rather than our usual afternoon walk so that we could try to beat the heat. I took along a cup of coffee made with our own coffee machine. It's nice to be able to make… Continue Reading "Outside Work"
We were still without a coffee machine this morning. Or, rather, we were without the pot that broke the other day. Tuesday my husband made coffee by placing a glass measuring cup in the machine and holding open the doohicky that stops the flow… Continue Reading "The Front Porch Garden"
When I began this blog, I was intending to write about my garden, but so far this summer I haven't been out in the garden much! First there was lots of rain, then swarms of mosquitoes, and now we have high heat advisories. It… Continue Reading "Little Things Resolved…"
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We used to have two box fans, but over the winter I accidentally put one of them too close to the woodstove and it melted. We use a fan in the winter to help distribute the heat of the woodstove through the rest of… Continue Reading "Orientation"
Today we did laundry. When we first moved into our house, the washer and dryer were in the unfinished basement. I had to constantly run down to the basement through our unheated very-cold-in-the-winter back porch to do laundry. So when we redid our downstairs… Continue Reading "Laundry Day"
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Yesterday we ate the Ground Beef Wellington I had made the day before. As he ate it, my husband kept saying "Oh, wow, this is good…This is DELICIOUS…Oh, wow." I must say that it was really very good. I will be making it again.… Continue Reading "Plan A, B, C…."
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What is your book's genre or category?
I would say that my book is romance. Rather, it's more of a rock romance because it's centered on the band, Ghosts of Burning Inn, and the main characters, Catherine and Ben.
Can you describe the story in one or two sentences for our readers?
Basically, the first book of this series follows Catherine's start into Ghosts of Burning Inn. We also see the first time she meets Ben and falls for him.
Tell us the story behind Ghosts Of Burning Inn. What influenced you to write it and how long did it take you?
I wanted to write a rock romance for a very long time. I'm a huge fan of rock music so it just seemed right. I also really like to write music and this gave me an opportunity to do something different. I also wanted something that wasn't fantasy, mystery, or paranormal (which is usually what I like).
The story of Ghosts of Burning Inn is a romance story while also following the rise of the band, Ghosts of Burning Inn. Into the Limelight is the first book in the series.
Is there a part of you in any of the characters?
Oh, I would say all the main characters are like me. Catherine is especially like me with her love of music and the tragedy in her life. She's a relatively quiet, intelligent woman who stresses out easily when change happens so fast.
Do your have more books planned?
Yes, the second book will be coming out in Spring 2016! I also started the third book. I imagine this series will be between 4-5 books.
Do you have a favorite book that inspires you?
Not really. I have a lot of books I like reading but I don't think anything in particular influenced my style.
When did you decide to become a writer?
It's something I've been doing for a while now. I started as a child and I've never stopped writing.
How do you find the time to write?
I write when I get free time. I work during the day and evening hours around 8 is when I start writing. I just have to make time if I don't get any. I have to write at least 1000 words or I don't feel right.
How can readers find you online?
Blogs (slightly under construction but you can still follow):
Into the Limelight (Ghosts of Burning Inn Book 1)
(From Chapter 2)
"Sorry I'm late, guys. I had to talk to Chet about something." Ben took his place in front. "I think I might have found a solution to our little issue with getting a record deal."
"You have? Does that mean we're going to be a boy band or something?" Trevor asked.
"Oh no. I'm not changing our music. I was thinking about adding someone to our group," he explained. "We can be a five-member band instead."
"A five-member band?" Leo looked confused. "Do we really need another member? We've been doing fine on our own."
"I know, but I was thinking about other bands out there. These days, you can see that they have at least one woman in their band. I was thinking that maybe we can have one in ours, too. I didn't go in to check her out but she seems perfect. I saw her play last night. She's pretty good," Ben admitted. "I've seen so many musicians lose their cool in the middle of their performance, but she stayed focused all the way through."
"You think she's the one?" Leo asked.
"I don't know what it is about her, guys. She seems perfect to me." The rest of his band looked apprehensive and he knew that they were all having second thoughts. "What? You should have been there with me last night! She was great!"
"I believe you, man. We just don't know if she'd be right for us," Trevor said. "All right, so other bands do have at least one girl in them. If she's willing to play with us, I'm all for her being a part of it. I just need to make sure she's good."
"Why wouldn't she be right for us? I told you she's good. Wouldn't that be enough?"
"Have you heard the music she plays?" Raphael asked. "Don't get me wrong. We trust you. She's probably fantastic at what she does. That's the thing, though: she is good at classical music. Has she ever played anything more current? Does she have any interest in playing in a rock band? You've got to take that into consideration. She might not even fit in."
Ben's mind was still focused on Catherine Chang, so he ended up hearing half of what Raphael said. "What do you mean, she might not fit in?"
"I'm basing this on what you said. She seems to be on the classy side. Look at her and look at us. Do you really think she's going to join a bunch of tattooed, pierced dudes who love sex, alcohol, and rock and roll? Even if she does say yes, she's going to stick out in the group."
"We can make it work, guys! Before you know it, she'd be like one of us!" Ben insisted. "I'll admit I had no idea what to expect when I went to see her. I know I don't really know her, I just know that she's a good musician. My mother just sent me this ticket since she can't go. I thought about selling it, but changed my mind and went at the last minute. I'm kind of glad that I did."
The rest of the band was still unconvinced. Trevor shifted around in his chair and thought about what could make their lead singer do this. Ben was not the kind to jump to conclusions and pick someone at random for their band. "All right, let's say she agrees to join us. Is she willing to put in the hours for the band? Maybe she has her own things to worry about. You can't expect her to drop everything and come to our side. Besides, how are you going to approach her? You can't tell her that the only reason you were at her show was because you had a free ticket."
Ben frowned but he knew Trevor had a point. He could not tell Catherine Chang that he only went to the show because his mother couldn't go. It would show that he didn't have interest in her. "I'll keep that to myself. I mean, it's not that big of a detail that I need to mention. The truth is I went and I enjoyed it. In any case, whether you agree with me or not, I'm still interested in her. I should probably call Chet and see if he can arrange a meeting. As for the hours, I know we'll manage. I doubt she's going to be busy 24/7. I mean, we're not always playing so we can work around her schedule."
Raphael was still doubtful. "You know I love you, man, but I'm not sure about this. If you're only interested in her because she's hot or something…"
"No!" Ben cut him off. "I mean, yes, she is hot. She's beautiful and talented, which are two things I love in women. Her music got me more than her looks did, though. I don't think I've seen anyone play the way she has."
"Can she play rock music?" Leo asked.
"I haven't seen her do that, but I bet she could. Our music isn't that hard. Seriously, I think we should give her a try. Let's see if she can gel with us."
"Gel with us?" Trevor asked. "What the hell does that mean?"
"You know exactly what I'm trying to say! I want to see if she fits in and if she's interested. She could be the one thing that gives us our big break," he said. "You know, they want us to make changes. Catherine being in our band would be a huge change. We have to let her try out. Just stick with me on this one, okay? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work."
The other three finally nodded in agreement.
"All right, dude. You win," Raphael said. "Go and talk to her. See what she says. We're behind you, no matter what happens."
"You guys don't have a choice," Ben smirked.
Deep down, he was looking forward to seeing Catherine in person. He wanted to know everything about her. He wanted her to be a part of the band and give them the boost that they needed. Once she was there, things would turn up for them. They could forget about their hard times and move on. She was going to save them if she joined them.
She needed to save them.
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Still learning, find this interesting. I'm not a programmer, more of a hobbyist.
Appears perhaps to be making use of a dispatch table and late binding, described briefly at http://designpepper.com/blog/drips/using-dispatch-tables-to-avoid-conditionals-in-javascript
Thanks! Just spent much of the night getting PHP to post to the Twitter API by hand coding myself, hopefully this is easier.
Larry, is there a broken link on this page (http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1998951&seqNum=4)? A few lines down, the following is written: NOTE You can download the complete script here. But there's no link. I'd be interested in seeing the script, is it available somewhere?
I have a similar problem not fixed with the above solution. For some reason, Postfix on my Mac (running OSX 10.6.8) is setting the "From" as coming from the Apache User (_www on my machine), despite the PHP headers and despite the -t flag above. My real-world email server then rejects the email because _www is "Not our Customer (in reply to MAIL FROM command)." If I change the Apache user to my user name for my real world email account, everything works fine. I have usually had the Apache User set to my login name on my Mac, but have read this is not a good idea, Apache should be running under its own login, so I switched it back to the defaults. This is esoteric, maybe, but if anyone has advice, it would be appreciated! Meanwhile, I will keep Googling away and reading up, looking for solutions. I suspect the fix is easy, but finding it is not...
Okay. This is probably the most challenging Javascript code I've tried to understand. I think I now understand theoretically what's going on. I'm wondering how one would change the code to make it more explicit what is happening while still keeping the X function syntax the same? Maybe using the call, apply, or bind methods? I'm not a programmer by training, just someone who uses Javascript and finds it interesting. I know some BASIC and some C, so I'm more familiar with the imperative paradigm than OOP. So I'm learning, but this pattern seems to be unusual. I find three things in this example especially interesting: 1) scope 2) use of out as a container like an array using BOTH associatively and numerically indexed elements, and the length of out does not include counting the associative elements 3) use of the closure (simple closures I can follow, but this one not easy to follow, at least for a beginner in closures) - it's hard to find m, for instance, in a defined state Larry, an advanced Javascript book by you would be awesome.
That's awesome, thanks! Give me some time to work through this, there's a lot going on.
Cool, thanks!
All right, after tearing this function apart, reporting variable values at every step to both the console using console.log and also to the page using document.write, I think I understand what's going on, at least a bit more. The for/in loop seems to be creating methods and assigning JUST the function STATEMENT to the new method name, not invoking it; e.g., "out[hide]" = "function (x) {out.map(m, x);return out;}". The only time I can get "m" to return a value is WITHIN the for/in loop, otherwise I get the error "ReferenceError: m is not defined". I don't understand why "m" is not being replaced with the meths[meth] definition, but the linkage to it does appear to stick, I assume through closure? This is tricky. It doesn't help that Firefox's console.log does NOT always show the same info as document.write, so sometimes I get different messages back (document.write provided more info, sometimes console.log just showed "function" - not as useful).
I've read the entire thread many times, and I'm still working on understanding this. Changing the immediately invoked function expression to the wrapper function makes it clearer, but I'm still trying to understand the inner workings of what is going on. My primary difficulty is understanding what is happening with the map method, what exactly is being assigned to what, and when and where the methods are being invoked when the X object is used. I understand the map method's definition, but this is not a simple example of its use. I understand this has something to do with functional programming? It would be more helpful for me if things were made more explicit. I also don't understand how method chaining is being implemented here, although I know you can return "this" in designing functions to enable such a pattern - and indeed, if I change "return out" to "return this" inside the for/in loop, everything still works fine. I'm getting there, but this is very tricky! It's very cool, though - this way lies making one's own framework, yes?
I'm learning from various sources and can usually puzzle out what's going on, but this has me a bit stumped. I came across this code at http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?224180-JQuery-how-does-it-s-insides-work: function X(css){ //dom utility //a couple of node harvesters, using id and tag name... function el(id){ return document.getElementById(id);} function tags(elm){return document.getElementsByTagName(elm);} //collect output: var out=[]; if(css[0]=="#"){//id out.push(el(css.slice(1))); }else{//tags out=out.concat([].slice.call(tags(css))); };//end if id or tagName //define some methods for the utility: var meths={ hide:function(a){a.style.display="none";}, show:function(a){a.style.display="";}, remove:function(a){a.parentNode.removeChild(a);}, color:function(a){a.style.color=this||a.style.color;}, size:function(a){a.style.fontSize=this||a.style.fontSize;} };//end meths //bind the methods to the collection array: for(var meth in meths)(function(n,m){ out[n]=function(x){out.map(m,x); return out;} }(meth, meths[meth]));//next method return out; }//end X dom utility For the life of me, I am having a hard time figuring out how the Javascript is running in the for loop binding the methods to the collection array. I realize this is advanced, but if someone could walk through what is happening, and how the methods are being called with variables correctly linked to their respective methods, it would be appreciated. This is cool, if only I could understand how it is occurring.
Found the answer, I guess, at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153598/unknown-column-in-where-clause
I'm just trying to use an alias in a select query and I'm having a problem. It's not a big deal, but I don't know why I'm getting an error. Can anyone answer this: Why does SELECT title, text, id FROM memos LEFT JOIN memos_associations USING (id) WHERE CONCAT_WS(' ',title,text) REGEXP '[[:<:]]potassium[[:>:]]' = 1 work ok, but SELECT title, text, id, CONCAT_WS(' ',title,text) AS combo FROM memos LEFT JOIN memos_associations USING (id) WHERE combo REGEXP '[[:<:]]potassium[[:>:]]' = 1 not? The latter generates the error, "ERROR 1054 (42S22): Unknown column 'combo' in 'where clause'." Thanks! ...Jason
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JasonC replied to JasonC's topic in Modern Javascript: Develop and DesignI found the problem. I had "submit" as name and id in the HTML for the submit button, somehow that was messing up the Javascript. Changed the id and name to "submitButton" and now the script works like you would think it would. Good grief!
Form Submission With Javascript
JasonC posted a topic in Modern Javascript: Develop and DesignOkay, this is driving me crazy. I have a form that I am trying to submit using Javascript. I get a reference to the form with the DOM, add submit() to it, but I get an error in the Firebug console, "TypeError: document.getElementById("loginForm").submit". Any idea why this won't work? Page 379 gives an example where this should work, but also makes the point that "doing this does not actually trigger a submit event." I can get around the problem by generating a click() action on the submit button, but why doesn't submit() work?


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The Master of Pun: "The Big Bang Theory" has continued success despite less than favorable reviews
It is a sitcom deemed the new "Friends," and it has won numerous critical awards. It is "The Big Bang Theory." Unexpectedly, all of those things describe what appears to be the most hated show on television. This unanimous hate seems to have sprung out of nowhere. While "The Big Bang Theory" aired its first episode in 2007, most of its detractors came forward in the last year. It is time to figure out where it all went wrong.
Things seemed to be going fine for this CBS sitcom about a nerdy group of nerds. I use this redundancy only as a segway to the first haters of "The Big Bang Theory": the self-proclaimed real nerds. The so-called real nerds are the ones who first started publicizing their hatred of the show. These people are the men and women who went to the online forums to campaign to cancel the show.
Now, one could make a comparison here to the way that the boastful, insecure characters on the show act themselves. Except that would mean that "The Big Bang Theory" had the ability to portray real people. If there is one thing that the real nerds got right, it's that "The Big Bang Theory" gets it all wrong. That is not to say that the show's main flaw is misrepresenting nerds, but rather its failure to make characters that could be human, or at least interesting.
Massive criticisms of this kind started appearing around 2013, or the show's sixth season. Now this seems late, but I assume the nerd hate was always there. Why they chose to come forward in force in 2013, I theorize, is because TV had a major shift that year.
In 2013, "Breaking Bad" ended. "Breaking Bad," as in one of the most-watched shows (particularly the finale) of all time and one of the most highly applauded. This show made way for many darker and grimmer shows to spread their wrath. In the same year, "House of Cards," "Orange Is the New Black," "The Americans," "Masters of Sex" and "Orphan Black" aired their pilots. Along with these darker shows came fresher, funnier comedies like "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Kroll Show." While none of these were sitcoms, the atmosphere of television was changing, making "The Big Bang Theory" look worse and worse.
Once these angry trailblazers raised their voices, other people started to take notice. When all these amazing pilots launched, "The Big Bang Theory" was starting its seventh season. Suddenly, everyone had an opinion. That fall and winter season of TV sprung a variety of listicles, which commented on all of the things wrong with the show. Say what you will about listicles being clickbait, but people were so angry that they had to list all of the ways Sheldon's "Bazinga!" had offended them. An unavoidable staple of these lists was "the laugh track."
Public opinion of the show only got worse in 2015, but the show hasn't ended. It has been almost a decade since it first aired, and "The Big Bang Theory" is still around to make some people pissed. But there is something almost ironic, mostly pathetic about all of the rants — they require actually watching the show in the first place, in addition to all of the time and energy it takes to put that negative energy into the world.
I shouldn't have to bring up our nation's political state to prove that "The Big Bang Theory" is not the worst thing out there. But like Donald Trump, simply expressing hatred toward something is not always productive. If "The Big Bang Theory" really offends you so much, make things easier for everyone and change the channel. Or better yet, stop watching TV.


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Bethany police are looking for an 18-year-old man who they say led them on a brief pursuit Friday afternoon before escaping.
Around 2:30 p.m. Friday, police say they tried to make a traffic stop near 23rd and Council Road on a black Ford SUV, but the driver took off.
Police say the 18-year-old driver bailed from his vehicle shortly afterward while the car was still moving in a residential neighborhood, even though there were still two other people inside the vehicle at the time.
The driver took off on foot through a neighborhood, and was reportedly seen by residents hopping fences in the area. The suspect, Carson Welch, was identified by the two other passengers inside the vehicle.
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Finance Apps in Hot Water for Trading Loans for Phones
A central-bank-backed group in charge of monitoring risks in the internet finance industry has called for increased supervision over businesses trying to skirt online lending regulations that cap the cost of borrowing.
Regulators are targeting platforms that have found ways around the annualized cap of 36% for interest rate and fees charged on a loan, which some platforms have been able to ignore by charging membership fees or setting up "leaseback" agreements, according to a document from the Leading Group on Internet Finance Risk.
Regulators went as far as naming specific apps. Lehuizu, for example, offers loans to users by buying their cellphones and leasing them back to the users. Under this kind of arrangement, the platform offers users cash in exchange for a cellphone, which they then have to repay by agreeing to buy back the phone at a set later date, according to the government document. In practice, the platform never actually takes possession of the phone, but the deal allows it to charge appraisal or service fees well above the 36% cap. In some cases, these arrangements have resulted in an annualized cost of borrowing above 1,000%.
Under current rules, leasing agreements are subject to different rules, and unlike loans, they are not subject to the to the 36% cap.
Online data provider Wangdaizhijia counted 49 of these types of leaseback platforms on Android app stores. The number of downloads remain limited, with only seven apps downloaded more than 100,000 times.
The internet finance group also called out fake buying and selling of goods, for example through 51 Flash Buy, as well as charging membership fees to borrow, such as MO9 Credit Wallet.
The group also called into question whether some platforms were purposely making payments overdue. A nonprofit complaint hotline called 21 Jutousu said that between May 1 and 15, it received 21 calls about 13 online loan platforms whose systems failed to recognize when loans were repaid, resulting in customers being charged steep late-payment fees.
Supervising new business formats is an ongoing process, an industry insider told Caixin. There should be coordination between departments to create supervisory mechanisms that are effective over a long period of time.
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This piece originally appeared in Local Edition, our newsletter following the digital transformation of local news. Want to be part of the conversation? You can sign up here.
Earlier this year, before the morning news meeting, Gabriel Escobar scribbled out a list of three words he was banning from those meetings.
They were:
- Weekender
- Sidebar
- Sunday story
"It says a lot about how we think about the news," said Escobar, editor of the Philadelphia Media Network, which includes the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily News and philly.com.
I spent a day in the newsroom two weeks ago. And the morning news meeting I saw didn't include any of those words or many others that come from print.
Instead, they focused on current news, how the audience was responding, what opportunities they'd missed and what they were working on.
It was still a morning news meeting, but it felt dynamic and responsive instead of staid and traditional.
You can't talk about being digital while thinking about something else, Escobar told me later that day.
"It's a small indication that at least part of our collective brain is still too focused on print," he said.
The list wasn't meant to carry a "he-who-shall-not-be-named" draconian weight to it, but instead offer a direct way to point out things that weren't working as they are working to change.
The morning he started listing words in their outdated lexicon, Escobar went around the table and asked people to come up with more. That list is now 14 words long. (You can see some of them in a GIF near the end of the newsletter.)
Tomorrow, you can read more about how Philly is unlearning and changing after years of tumult.
In the meantime, here are a few other things we've nominated for the list of things worth banning:
We have to think differently about our audiences.
– Giving them opportunities to talk with you about what they want to know.
– Thinking about comments in a way that's not just black and white.
– Hanging out with them. No, really.
We have to think differently about how we do our work.
How about:
– Asking someone in the newsroom to help you with something you're not great at. Offer a skills swap, because you certainly have something to teach them, too.
– Experimenting with different tools and platforms in your life outside of work. Getting comfortable with something and understanding the language people in that community use is actually fun. Doing it with kid or dog pics and videos can help take away the "this has to be perfect because it's journalism" feeling.
– Ask the people in your life what they read, where they get it, what makes them click something and what makes them scroll. This doesn't mean you have to dumb your work down. But who cares how smart it is if no one is reading?
We have to think differently about newsroom culture.
– If you could write a list of words that should be banned in your newsroom, what would you include? What would your co-workers include? What would your editors include? Agreeing on a few is a small change that could lead to big changes in how we think.
– "Learning culture" is certainly a buzzword, but they're basically places where people are open, figuring things out and sharing with each other. That sounds kind of nice, right?
– Now let's put it all together. What would happen if we listened to our audiences more, stayed nimble with our approach and actively challenged outdated ways of working?
Thanks for letting me write "unlearning" so much, and thanks to everyone who has taken part in this conversation, either through interviews, comments or just reading.
Originally, I'd planned to move onto another topic, but it feels like we need to spend real time with some of the things that came up around unlearning.
I want to start with culture.
Talking about culture can feel eye-roll worthy, especially when it's all just talk. So instead, I'd like to dig into what forces actually make a culture in a workplace and what forces can change it.
Between now and then, give yourself a moment's respite and read about how local journalists are teaching themselves new skills (and feeling pretty OK, too). National Press Foundation has an all-expenses-paid seminar on public health. And later this month, Poynter has a Webinar on writing sharp headlines for social.
See you next week! And send me your banned words lists! Inches is definitely on mine. Escobar tells me that the latest they've added to PMN's list is "a daily, as in 'I will do a daily on that.'"


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by Prayson Pate, CTO, Edge Cloud, ADVA
I used to ask the question: Why do customers of managed services care about NFV?
My answer was: They don't. But they do care about the benefits of NFV, such as choice, services on demand, and new commercial models such as pay-as-you-go and try-before-you-buy.
But the situation has changed. Now, customers looking at managed services are asking for virtualized solutions. Our sources show that half of end-user tenders for managed services call for universal CPE (uCPE) by name. They want the benefits of a managed service, combined with the benefits of virtualization, without the headaches of doing it themselves.
And, in case you forgot, uCPE is the replacement of a stack of communications devices (e.g., router, firewall, SD-WAN endpoint, etc.) with software applications running on a standard server.
Why are end-users asking for uCPE?End-user reasons for virtualized services and uCPE
Here are some of the top reasons that end users are asking for virtualized solutions delivered using uCPE. These reasons apply whether the end-user is consuming a managed service or they are operating their own overlay network services.
Dynamic services delivered on-demand. This is probably the biggest reason. End-users want to be able to choose and change their services in real-time. They know if a service is delivered using a stack of dedicated appliances, then every service change means changing appliances – at every site. This is no longer acceptable, as it is costly, slow and it does not scale.
Usage-based services. End users can consume cloud resources on a pay-as-you-go basis, with no commitments. They want to be able to consume their managed communications services in the same way.
Try-before-you-buy services. Almost every paid service on the internet has a free trial period. End users expect the same with their communications services. Once a site is served by a uCPE hosting device, any service can be offered on a trial basis. This is great for end-users, but why would the service provider and VNF supplier support this model? Because their incremental cost is zero, and the acceptance rate is high. Try-before-you-buy is a win-win for all parties.
User-managed applications. Enterprises want to take advantage of multi-cloud hosting. That includes on-premises hosting to meet requirements for latency, security and bandwidth. They want those benefits, but without having to manage their own hardware. They see managed edge cloud hosting on uCPE as the answer.
Decouple hardware from software and break vendor lock-in. This one is standard for service providers, but it may surprise you to learn that it affects enterprises also. I recently talked to an enterprise that is operating their own SD-WAN network. Their favorite SD-WAN supplier was acquired by one of the big guys. As a result, their pricing went up, and the availability of the endpoint devices got much worse. To make a change meant ripping and replacing every endpoint. They do not want to be in this situation again. By moving to uCPE, they enable a future change of SD-WAN supplier – without changing the installed hardware.
Self-operated network versus managed servicesBefore we go on, I would like to comment on the eternal debate about whether to run your own network or use managed services. This topic has been well-hashed, but the advent of virtualized services on uCPE changes the equation. It provides more benefits than an appliance-based approach. But it introduces the complexity of a multi-vendor system. The complexity is going to be acceptable for some larger enterprises. But many others will find that a managed and virtualized service gives them all the advantages without the drawbacks (as described here).
Real-world example: before uCPE and with uCPELet's take a look at how the advantages of a virtualized service delivered with uCPE can benefit an end-user. Assume that you are opening a new store or branch office, and you need internet connectivity, VPN, and managed security. Here is a step-by-step comparison of the end-user experience.
I don't know about you, but I like the "with uCPE" model a lot better!