Over the years the adoption of Elasticsearch and its ecosystem of tools positioned them as the leaders in the time series data management and analysis market. With strong search capabilities, great analytical engine, Kibana as the flexible frontend and a number of data shippers enable building of end to end data processing pipeline using components designed to work with each other. Very simple setup and configuration resulted in high adoption rates and the whole stack gaining more and more users.
With Elasticsearch gaining in popularity, several hosted Elasticsearch services emerged on the market. Some of them, like Sematext Cloud, expose a subset of Elasticsearch API in addition to providing enterprise-grade features for users, like security, alerting and anomaly detection, reporting and so on.
With increasing adoption came increasing demands for features. People started asking for out of the box security, user management, fine-grained data access control, alerting. Elasticsearch creators listened and built the most requested features and plugins available as commercial extensions. Because commercial plugins involved expensive licenses, some of the mentioned features were also developed as add-ons by third-party developers. For example, Yelp released and maintains Elastalert, an open-sourced and free alerting system based on Elasticsearch while security-related features can be added to the stack by using Search Guard available in a free and commercial version. You can read more about free alternatives in X-Pack alternatives post.
While various individuals from the community already expressed their views on the move done by Amazon we decided to not do that. We could talk about how that move might affect Elastic, the user community, whether it would be good or bad, etc. Instead, we thought it would be more valuable for Elasticsearch users to know what they could expect from the Open Distro for Elasticsearch and how to work with it. So let's dive in!
Let's see how Open Distribution for Elasticsearch compares with various other Elasticsearch distributions and the features available out of the box. Keep in mind that this post is dedicated to the Open Distro for Elasticsearch and was not written to be a fully featured comparison between products coming from Elastic and distribution released by Amazon. We were interested in what is available as an open source Apache 2.0 licensed distributions and how it compares to the commercial products. There are multiple versions of Elastic Stack available for download from Elastic – starting from the open sourced, Apache 2.0 licensed one, through Basic – one that is free, but covered by Elastic license, ending on paid ones. Please note that some of the features mentioned in the Elastic Stack Features column are available as free extensions in the Elastic Stack Basic – those are marked with *.
As you can see from the above table each version supports the core functionality of Elasticsearch search and analytics engine – indexing data, searching data and finally the analysis of the indexed data using aggregations.
We'll compare several free distributions of Elasticsearch with Elastic Stack Features which contain commercial extensions. There is also a commercial version of Search Guard that we cover in the X-Pack alternatives blog post, so take a look to have a more in-depth comparison.
Encryption – one of the key features when it comes to keeping your data at bay is provided by every distribution apart from the main Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch. Open Disto for Elasticsearch, Search Guard and Elastic Stack Features provide SSL for a node to node encryption, support encryption at REST and have a client to node SSL support. This makes it hard or impossible to intercept communication over the network and that way get a hold of your data. The same is true for authentication – you get out of the box support for it in the mentioned distributions.
When it comes to data access control, granularity down to field level is supported only by Elastic Stack Features and Open Distro for Elasticsearch from Amazon. What's more, the mentioned duo can be integrated with LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos and SAML, thus providing enterprises with highly demanded features, especially for large organizations.
Graph traversal and machine learning based functionalities are at the moment only supported by the Elastic Stack Features meaning that if you require them for your operations and business you need to go for a commercial license with Elastic. The same with Kibana Canvas support, which is not present in Open Distro for Elasticsearch or any other Elasticsearch distribution. Keep in mind that graph support can be added to all the distributions by using third-party plugins as we've mentioned in our X-Pack alternatives blog post.
On the other hand, if you need your SQL based BI tool to be integrated with data in Elasticsearch you can freely use the two most feature-rich distributions of Elasticsearch – the one from Elastic and the one from Amazon.
Real-time performance analysis – this is where things get interesting. You have two options here, or actually even more, but one thing at the time. Elastic Stack Features includes monitoring part, which can be used for real-time performance analysis as well. It is based on the metrics returned by Elasticsearch, so if something is happening with the JVM on which Elasticsearch is running you may not be able to get the metrics. In addition to that, keeping metrics data in the same cluster as your business data is usually not a good idea and you should have two clusters, just in case you need to troubleshoot. The Open Distro comes with the PerfTop tool, which is not bound to the same JVM and is exposed on a separate port allowing you to see real-time performance data. However, keep in mind that you won't be able to see the historic view with Open Distro. Because of that and a number of other reasons, it's a good idea to ship monitoring data out and use tools like Sematext Cloud to monitor Elasticsearch and your other infrastructure. Remember – you can't fix what you can't measure!
The Open Distro for Elasticsearch is available as an RPM or as a Docker container. What's more, because of out of the box security there are some things that are different, but let's keep it simple and discuss one thing at a time.
As in the above case, you may see warnings related to permissions of certificate files. This is OK for development but should be taken care of before running Open Distro for Elasticsearch in the production environment. This is important and you shouldn't forget about that.
The second port – 9600 is a new port when it comes to Elasticsearch. It exposes the metrics API that comes with Amazon distribution and is needed for the PerfTop tool to work. We cover the capabilities of the PerfTop later in this blog post.
Even for local development, we will need to adjust the configuration at a certain point. The good thing is that most of the operations needed by the developers can be done using the well-known Elasticsearch API. Thus, there are no problems with creating templates, adding aliases, creating indices and so on – all Elasticsearch APIs you normally use will work with Open Distro for Elasticsearch as well. The only thing you need to remember is to pass the user and password for each command.
For the purpose of the test we'll omit a certain number of configuration options so that the presented file is smaller but still works.
We start the whole stack by running docker-compose up command in the directory with our newly created docker-compose.yml file. If you don't have docker-compose setup and ready, please refer to https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/ for installation details for your operating system. Also, please in mind that you need at least 4GB of memory to run the above example with docker compose. You will also be required to set the vm.max_map_count to a value higher than the default, e.g. to 262144.
Once everything is started, you can go to localhost:5601 to see your secured Kibana interface. You can log in with admin/admin credentials.
When you install and run the Open Distro for Elasticsearch from Amazon, both the Elasticsearch and provided Kibana you get out of the box alerting functionality. You can configure and run alerts against data that is indexed inside your cluster. There is a set of features available – we are allowed to define monitors based on queries and the charts built out of data, we can configure destinations like Slack channel, Chime, or custom webhook. We get a view of the alerts, we can acknowledge them, look into their details. The nice thing about Alerting functionality is that it doesn't require additional software, cron jobs, etc.. Everything is done internally so we only have to worry about the Open Distro for Elasticsearch being up and running.
As you can see both query based monitor and chart based monitor setup can be performed. This allows both less and more experienced users to create alerts based on data, so for example users that do not know the Elasticsearch API are able to create alerts.
For alerts to work we need to create triggers to which we can assign the earlier defined destinations and finally have full alerting working.
To sum up – very nice functionality allowing us to define a set of alerts to monitor events that are of interest for us, have them in a single place, visualized and accessible for both experienced and novice users. In a larger team, the alerts can be acknowledged so that multiple people are not working on the same issue reported by the alert. On the other hand, we don't have any kind of anomaly detection algorithms that would react automatically to changing environment, but maybe we will see machine learning based alerts with the later versions of the Open Distro for Elasticsearch. Please note that Alerting bundled into Open Distribution for Elasticsearch are not alerts for monitoring Elasticsearch cluster health and performance itself. For that, you will still want to use something like Sematext Alerts or some other alternative.
One of the key pieces of functionality that are delivered with Open Distro for Elasticsearch by Amazon is security. Out of the box, you get secured Elasticsearch and Kibana with authentication and authorization support, encryption and so on. No more unsecured clusters that people can get into only if the Elasticsearch port is exposed to the internet. Of course, we need to set it up and configure it properly, but it is a huge difference between the wide open default in the free Elasticsearch from Elastic and the one published by Amazon in the Open Distro for Elasticsearch.
Let's start by looking at options for data encryption – both encryption of data at rest and encryption of data in transit. We already discussed some of those topics in our Elasticsearch security: Authentication, Encryption, Backup blog post, but this time we will look into what the Open Distro for Elasticsearch provides.
Provide your key and partition and you'll be good to go!
This lets you set SSL certificate and the configuration related to SSL as well as the internal audit logging of Elasticsearch. It also configures the Snapshot/Restore API privileges and the security roles that are enabled by default giving us a full set of options on how we want the nodes and cluster itself to be secured and run.
internal_elasticsearch – stores the data in the same Elasticsearch cluster. While this is simple, you probably don't want to store sensitive audit log data on the same cluster that the audit log is for.
external_elasticsearch – stores the data in an external Elasticsearch cluster, or even a hosted Elasticsearch service.
Of course, everything is configurable and we can exclude categories, disable audit logging for REST API layer, choose for which indices the audit log should be written, which request should be ignored by the audit logging, which users should be ignored by the audit log and we can modify the default daily audit log index rollover policy.
For the audit logs, we don't have a dedicated section in the UI, but we have to remember that we are inside Kibana. We can easily slice and dice the data if it is inside Elasticsearch. So with some one-time effort, we can build dashboards that give us data that we need to look into.
On top of all of that, we are allowed to use single sign-on using SAML. The Open Distro Security plugin implements the web browser SSO profile of the SAML 2.0 protocol. Keep in mind that this is not a general purpose single sign-on functionality. It is specifically designed for use in web browsers. It's main goal is to support logging into Kibana interface.
The first line specifies the authorization type. The next two lines add validation for SAML assertions. The last line is only needed if you want to support logout endpoint.
To learn more about Elasticsearch Authentication and Authorization check out the official Open Distro for Elasticsearch security documentation.
Data access control is the last aspect of Elasticsearch security we'll cover in this post.
Depending on our configuration, especially when not using LDAP or Active Directory, we can configure the list of users and user groups with access to our Elasticsearch environment. We do that by going to the Security tab in Kibana and its Internal User Database. There we can see users and manage them.
By default, there are a few users created automatically for us, but be sure not to leave everything as defaults – you want to configure passwords for example, so that you don't have the false sense of security.
Here we can configure that for the given index a certain query will be used to limit documents that the user with the assigned role is allowed to see. Like in the above example, a user with that role would only see documents matching the warning severity. The crucial thing here is that the query approach to security does not require us to re-index the data. It only requires a proper Elasticsearch DSL based query.
The official documentation includes the full list of defined permissions.
One of the features that business people may like is the out of the box SQL support and JDBC driver. That means that you can integrate your Elasticsearch instance with your favorite Business Intelligence tool and have your data visible in the same way. You should be aware of the limitations – e.g. the ones that we mention in the Joins Support section of this blog post. What's more, there are already plugins for Elasticsearch that enrich it with SQL support – e.g. https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql. We will not be focusing on other plugins though and will instead look at how to run SQL queries against Elasticsearch from the Open Distro.
"query": "SELECT * FROM test LIMIT 1"
The list of supported operations is quite extensive. From SELECT, DELETE through WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, LIMIT and so on. We can add conditions to our queries using, for example, LIKE, AND, COUNT, IN, we can run aggregations like avg, count, max, min, sum or include and exclude fields. Finally, run functions like floor, trim, substring and so on, but keep in mind that they may require fielddata to be turned on to properly work.
The full list of operations that are supported is available in official Elasticsearch SQL docs.
Even though Elasticsearch in the Open Distro from Amazon supports inner joins, left outer joins, and cross join, there are a number of limitations you should be aware of. First of all you can't join data from more than two indices in a single query and you are obliged to use aliases for index names – otherwise, your queries will not work. You can't use GROUP BY or ORDER BY statements for results. LIMIT and OFFSET are also not supported. Finally, within an SQL ON clause only boolean operator AND is supported.
As you may have guessed, SQL support in Open Distro for Elasticsearch means that in addition to being able to run the SQL queries against Elasticsearch we also got the JDBC driver which allows us to use Elasticsearch as a data provider in any tool that uses the JDBC bridge to connect to databases. The JDBC driver can be found on Github (https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/sql-jdbc) with full documentation on how to use it. At the time when this post was published the JDBC driver was not yet available in public Maven/Gradle repositories so the only way to have it working is by cloning the Github repository and building it on your own. Luckily, Amazon promises that they will publish the compiled version of the JAR to the public repositories, hopefully soon.
The performance analysis part of the Open Distro for Elasticsearch comes with a new metrics endpoint and a command line tool. It includes various performance metrics for the cluster, nodes, etc. These metrics are independent of the Java Virtual Machine itself, so unlike the standard Elasticsearch metrics APIs, these metrics should be available even when Elasticsearch struggles to provide a response to the normal management REST API calls.
Keep in mind the PerfTop, at least in the initial release, comes with executables for two operating system families – Linux and MacOS.
This is handy for taking a quick real-time look at Elasticsearch health and metrics at the cluster and node level. For a full monitoring solution with metrics, alerts and logs all together with access to historical data for comparison and fine-grained analysis have a look at Sematext Cloud and its Elasticsearch monitoring integration. You may also be interested in our Performance Monitoring Essentials – Elasticsearch Edition ebook.
In terms of features and cost, Open Distribution for Elasticsearch from Amazon seems like an obvious winner. It's got nearly all enterprise-grade functionality, it's open-sourced under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, companies like Sematext provide consulting and support for it, what else could one desire? Well, adoption. It is too early to tell whether the user and development communities will fully embrace it. It is adoption by these two communities that will determine the faith of Open Distribution for Elasticsearch. Another big question the community has is how much this distro will lag behind the version from Elastic and whether, in fact, Amazon's distro will actually end up being a fork of Elasticsearch or not. On a more technical level, we don't yet know what upgrades will look like, how much effort might be involved in swapping distributions, etc. One thing is certain though – we'll definitely be keeping an eye on Open Distribution for Elasticsearch from Amazon.
Have you managed to install any custom Kibana plugin (from here https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/known-plugins.html) on top of Kiaban OD4ES ?
I actually didn't try installing plugins, but I would suggest going to the Open Distro forums and ask there. The devs should be able to help if there are any issues around that.
Considering we hear news about Elasticsearch deployments leaking sensitive user info all the time I wonder if OD4ES has a better/tighter OOTB security than free Elasticsearch?
Keep in mind that those are paths for Docker, so if you are using RPM it may vary.


Now we all have that one friend who's vegan or just has a New Years resolution to eat healthy and we try our best to accommodate their food choices the best we can when planing for that dinner date or a girls night out, but the only thing on the menu is the Caesar salad. At Smallnhot we posed this very same question to our interns and here's what they came up with. after some long research and some tasting..!The Top 5 Best Vegetarian Restaurants in KL. So that special friend and the gang can have a great night out with great food. Read more to find out.
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A meatless dining concept, is inspired by all fresh and natural products. With a selection of pure organic ingredients, daily fresh produce like tofu, soy beans and bean curs, the menu selection are created free from any use of preservatives, MSG or artificial coloring, so that you can enjoy deliciously healthier choices from tasty exotic dishes and flavors. There are more than 30 varieties of fascinating dishes from a selection of organics produce, freshly made tofu, bean curd rolls, variety of mushrooms, seaweeds, vegetables and beans. You will be enthralled with these vegetarian versions and the capability of its fully vegetarian ingredients used in deriving the best of taste and associations to some familiar and popular dishes.
Simple Life Healthy Vegetarian Restaurants a multi outlet restaurant all over KL its aim to developed healthy recipes by adopting more natural ingredients in the menu; without compromising taste and aesthetic values, it's goal to end the common misconception that healthy foods are bland or raw.
WTF stands for "What Tasty Food" This restaurant has a unique take on Indian cuisine where the focus is on healthy vegetarian food with no MSG and other preservatives. Tucked in a little Conner of Bangsar is a must try for the spice lovers.
Barat along Bangsar's Lorong Kurau is a Mediterranean styled fine dining establishment which is fully vegetarian. Has put the vege lover in KL's fine dining scene. This restaurant with it's chic ambient lighting and fabulous food is a great place to take that some one special for that healthy and refined night out.
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In a rare feat, I was the first one to break the news that SOCOM chose the 300 Norma Mag round for their new Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR). In that article, I mentioned that it was an interested choice and gave some basic comparisons to other cartridges. I've had a few questions about this so I decided to do a better comparison for you!
I've compared the 300 Norma Mag, the 338 Lapua Mag, and the 30 Nosler here for you. For each ballistic table/chart, I used the following atmospheric data: 29.61 in/Hg station pressure, 70 degrees, 35% humidity, 10 mph full-value wind.
This girl is definitely the hot new-girl in town. After all, SOCOM selected the 300 Norma Mag for the Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) program. Everyone seems to be excited about this cartridge and I am seeing it pop up in rifles more and more. However, are people chambering their rifles in 300 Norma Mag because it's the new cool round or is there an actual benefit? In my opinion, it's not worth it.
In un-fancy terms, the 300 Norma Mag is a 338 Lapua sized case necked down to .30 cal. Of course, it's not that simple. But, it's a way to look at it. Same cartridge base and body diameter, smaller bullet.
As I mentioned when I first broke the news, the magic of this cartridge is really seen when the Berger 230gr. Hybrid bullet is used. The 300 Norma will launch the bullet at just over 3,000 fps and get some great down-range results.
For a while now, the 338 Lapua has been the king of long range shooting cartridges – especially in the military/tactical worlds. This is because the round is so efficient and it packs a punch down-range.
So, why did it get passed up in favor of the 300 Norma? The 338 Lapua kicks more than the 300 Norma (heavier bullet) and the narrower 30 cal bullet from the 300 Norma is performing better when launched at high velocities.
The 338 Lapua can launch much heavier bullets so, to try to keep the comparisons as fair as possible, I've include both the data for a 250gr bullet and also a 300gr bullet.
It's no secret that I think that SOCOM should've chosen one of the new Nosler family of cartridges. However, I'll save the argument for another article. For now, I'll just show the results.
For those that don't know, Nosler created a new family of cartridges which all use the same parent case and offered them in 26, 28, 20 and 33 caliber. I think that this was genius and each offering is better in most ways than current similar rounds.
The 338 Lapua with a 300gr bullet is the loser if we're only looking at this one variable. However, this is a graph of some fairly closely matched cartridges – the difference isn't really that much. And, based on just this info, I'm not sure I understand that change to en entirely new cartridge when the 338 Lapua is already the military sniping community standard. For example, note how close the 250gr bullet out of the 338 Lapua (green) is to the 230gr bullet out of the 300 Norma (blue). Also, cough cough, note where the 30 Nosler (orange) is on the chart!
When it comes to wind, the rounds seem to pair off at 2,000 yards. The lighter 338 Lapua and the 30 Nosler meet up with the most wind-drift and the heavier 338 Lapua and the 300 Norma meet up with the least.
It doesn't seem to me that the 300 Norma makes enough of a difference here to warrant the switch.
One cartridge starts way behind the other three (which look tied) but it catches back up. This can be expected with heavier bullets – they take more to get going but they maintain their speed better.
I added a line approximating the speed of sound. Note that the lighter 338 Lapua (green) and the 30 Nosler (orange) both go below the speed of sound by 2,000 yards. You may be wondering why I like the 30 Nosler based on this chart. Let me be clear – I do not think that the 30 Nosler is "better" than the current standard 38 Lapua. My point is that if you are going to make a major change, you might as well go with something that gives you a big benefit.
The beauty of the 30 Nosler is that you don't need an XL action (like you do for BOTH the 338 Lapu and 300 Norma) and instead you a standard 300 Win Mag size receiver! This is a BIG difference to the guy that has to carry and operate the rifle! Easier to run the bolt, smaller rifle, and smaller ammo to carry! Also, you can just swap the barrel and have a 26 Nosler, 28 Nosler, or 33 Nosler! If you also change the magazine, you can shoot a 300 Win Mag too if you like! Same bolt, same receiver = big deal in my book.
This is about what would be expected for bullets all traveling about the same speed – heaviest bullet with the most energy and the lightest with the least. Again, I'm not saying that the 30 Nosler is "better." I'm saying that it keeps up pretty darn well in a much smaller package!
Ryan, wondering why you choose to compare the 215 Berger in the Nosler to the 230 in the Norma.
Simply because I couldn't find any load data for a 230gr in the 30 Nosler. I'd really like to see it work, though!
The 300 Norma uses a standard magnum action.
There is no such thing as a standard magnum action. There is your Short Action, Standard Action (AKA: Long) and Magnum Action. The 300 NM needs a Magnum length action. The 30 Nosler, like my 338-375 Ruger BearCat, utilizes a Standard Action.
Also, all your graphs are showing a 250 gr projo in the 300NM.
Then by the same logic, they should have just stuck with the 300 win mag. I get 2900 fps with 215 Berger and h1000 in 26 inch bartlein seated to AI mag length.
Thanks for this: it makes for interesting reading.
Have you found any 230-grain data for the Nosler, or any 215-grain data for the Norma that would permit a like-for-like comparison?
You really think you know what's best for SOCOM?
No, I don't pretend to. All I'm getting at is that the 30 nosler isn't a big enough leap to change the XM M24. I do like the 300 Norma.
This is a very good article, very informative. I've been thinking of switching my 338 Lapua to a Nosler as well. Thanks for the article!
So close, right across the spetrum. In the hands of a Specialist, any of the four (and my current favourite, the 338NM)I suspect it wouldn't matter. The reports I've heard of the Canadian SF operator who pulled off (with a LOT of help from his No.2 is really stretching the piece of string in long range shooting.
I'd recommend looking at the 300 PRC.
Wow, thanks for that great write up.
Ryan I love you man. Off topic but you say alot of chit you know nothing about. Example last podcast you said you can't kill a deer with a 50 bmg by shooting it in the antler. WRONG Ryan watch Keith Warren kill a deer with a 50 bmg that he completely missed. You also said 6.5 Creedmoor is not a elk round WRONG your using the wrong bullet for the job. For the record the 300 PRC cannot do anything the 300 Win Mag has not been doing.
I appreciate the support… I think? I hope you understand that I often speak in hyperbole. For example, I'd say that you can't kill and animal by shooting them in the hoof. However, there's probably an example of an animal sting because they couldn't walk to water or they got an infection or something. For the 6.5 Creedmoor, you do realize that I killed many animals in Africa (wildebeest, warthog, etc.) with a 6.5 Creedmoor with one shot and I just killed an elk in Wyoming with one too? I clearly know that it works. And now for the 300 PRC, yes it can do something the 300 Win Mag can't – load newer longer high BC bullets and still fit in a standard mag.
Ryan you said emphatically "guys you can't kill a deer with a 50 bmg by shooting it in the antlers" your wrong. You just didn't know that but your ego/pride won't let you admit it. Yes I knew you went to Africa but I was talking about your 6.5 Creedmoor for elk comment. Again your switching and dodging you should run for office. Trying to divert to your Africa hunt. You said 6.5 Creedmoor was not for elk. Your wrong again two strikes. Finally about the 300 prc statement. You do realize that Berger 230 grain bullets can be loaded to magazine length in the 300 Win Mag. and those same bullets will be going over 2900 FPS out of a 300 WM. The G1 bc will be .717. That's plenty enough for ethical hunting. If your talking about PRS nobody in the top ten are running 30cal. The only bullet that beats the Berger 230 is the Hornady 225 eldm with bc of .777 BUT the 225 coming out of a much slower velocity 300 prc will REDUCE THE BC. Like I said the 300 prc IS NOT doing anything the 300 Win Mag has already been doing. I'm done I'm out.
@ HeHe, Ryan did say he shot an elk with a 6.5 Creedmoor in Wyoming.
I reload a lot of cartridges. I am mostly a hunter though I have competed in matches. I for one have had a lot more trouble getting belted cartridges to shoot small groups than non belted ones. (I do neck size the brass though I bump it back a couple of thousandths after a few firings.) Am I alone on this?
apparently I am alone on this. Thanks!


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Designed by a world champ for the next champ, the DIVA is for pilots who want the feel of 3-liner while benefitting from the performance of a 2-liner. This is a very high performance wing and is only for highly skilled competition-level pilots.
With 25 years of competition experience behind him, Bruce understands well the requirements of a good competition wing. The DIVA is the fastest and most advanced paraglider he has ever created. CCC certified, it is constructed from a mix of standard D30 and lightweight 27g Porcher cloths. It benefits from a new minimal-drag line layout, CCB, shark nose, progressive stability and a speed-optimising profile. All that makes the DIVA very competitive yet easy to handle in the air and on the ground, with top safety for its class.
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An aggressive shark nose optimises internal pressure at all speeds.
Over the years we have perfected our system of optimizing the line layout of our wings. We use numerous equations, software, and plain old experience to build our line layout. The result is simple: fewer lines making stronger, faster gliders. The DIVA has an extremely low line consumption at 222 meters on the M size.
The Diva is constructed with a mix of lightweight but robust, proven, materials and only weighs in at 4.9kg(XS).
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Eddie Teo Chan Seng  () is a Singaporean civil servant who has been serving as Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisers since 2019.

Education
A President's Scholar, Teo graduated from the University of Oxford in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).

He subsequently went to complete a Master of Science degree in international relations at the London School of Economics in 1974.

Career
Teo joined the Security and Intelligence Division (SID) in 1970, before becoming Director in 1979, a post he served until 1994. From 1982 to 1986, he held the position of Director of the Internal Security Department concurrently.

He was Permanent Secretary for Defence from 1994 to 2000 and Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office from 1998 to 2005. He was Singapore's High Commissioner to Australia from 2006 to 2008.

He served as Chairman of the Public Service Commission from 2008 to 2018, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Religious Harmony from 2017 to 2019 and Senior Advisor of Temasek International Advisors Pte Ltd from 2019 to 2020.

Teo was appointed as Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisors on 2 January 2019.

Awards
Teo retired in 2005, after 35 years of public service. For his contributions to the Singapore Public Service, Teo was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1983, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1997, the Distinguished Service Order in 2006 and the Order of Nila Utama in 2017.

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Black Alert: Six Nations enters the highest pandemic alert level
Grand Erie School Board appoints new Superintendent
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Former Six Nations educator dies
Elders and health care workers first to receive Covid-19 vaccine
How do we heal trauma suffered by Native communities?
By Gabor Maté It is not enough that the Attawapiskat First Nation has declared a state of emergency over the epidemic of suicides and suicide attempts among its youth. Our entire country should declare a state of emergency about the appalling health status, physical and mental, of First Nations and Inuit communities. Would we not
By Gabor Maté
It is not enough that the Attawapiskat First Nation has declared a state of emergency over the epidemic of suicides and suicide attempts among its youth. Our entire country should declare a state of emergency about the appalling health status, physical and mental, of First Nations and Inuit communities. Would we not have already if, instead of Nunavut or Attawapiskat, it was, say, the teens of Westmount, Forest Hill or Kitsilano who were killing themselves at 10 times the national rate?
I am often asked to visit First Nations communities across Canada to speak about addiction, stress-related illness and child development. The ordinary Canadian citizen simply has no idea, cannot even begin to imagine, what misfortunes, tragedies and other kinds of adversity many native young people experience by the time they reach adolescence – how many deaths of loved ones they witness, what abuse they endure, what despair they feel, what self-loathing plagues them, what barriers to a life of freedom and meaning they face.
At the core of the suicide pandemic is unresolved trauma, passed almost inexorably from one generation to the next, along with social conditions that induce further hopelessness. The source of that multi-generational trauma is this country's colonial past and its residue in the present. The march of the history and progress Canada celebrates, from which we derive much pride and national identity, meant catastrophe for natives: the loss of lands and livelihood and of freedom of movement, the mockery and invalidation of their spiritual ways, the near-extirpation of their culture, the corruption of their intra-familial and intra-communal relationships, and finally, for nearly a hundred years, the state-sanctioned abduction, rape, physical abuse and mental torture of their children.
The questions we must ask ourselves nationally are very simple. How do we as a country move to heal the trauma that drives the misery of many native communities? What can be done to undo the dynamics our past has dictated? Some may balk at such inquiry, fearing the discomfort that comes with guilt. However, this is not a matter of communal guilt, but of communal responsibility. It is not about the past. It is about the present. And it is about all of us: When some among us suffer, ultimately we all do.
To begin, native history must be taught fully and in unsparing detail in our schools. All Canadians should know, for example, that 50 years ago it was not unheard of for a four-year-old girl to have a pin stuck in her tongue for the crime of speaking her mother language and later endure serial rape by teachers, religious mentors. Such were the antecedents of today's drug use and suicidal anguish. The resonant values, brilliant art, stories and wisdom culture of First Nations people should be introduced in Canadian schools. Canadians must be helped to see their First Nations peers in their fullness, which includes their humanity, grandeur, unspeakable suffering and strength.
We must renounce any political, economic or social policy that reinforces the colonial trauma of disempowerment, loss and dispossession. Not another square centimetre of native land must be disturbed, not a blade of grass cut, not one more drop of water diverted, not a millimetre of pipeline laid without First Nations agreement.
Institutions and individuals interacting with native people must become deeply trauma-informed. Judges, teachers, law-enforcement personnel, nurses, doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, public employees, policy-makers all must understand what trauma is, its multiple impacts on human mentality and behavior, and how to address it. Without such information, as I have witnessed repeatedly, the best-meaning people can unwittingly re-traumatize those who can least bear further pain and loss. Practices that devastate families must be stopped, such as the frequent apprehension of children without restorative and compassionate family-building support.
Alternative forms of justice must be developed, aligned with native traditions and in consultation with First Nations. The implicit racism in our law-enforcement institutions must be openly acknowledged and cleansed. Powerfully beneficial traditional healing practices must be researched, taught, encouraged. We need to celebrate the First Nations cultural renaissance, a tribute to human resilience, now taking place.
Economic and social conditions that engender despair must be addressed, with the utmost urgency. If we could spend more than $15-billion on our self-declared mission to help the people of Afghanistan, surely we can find the resources in our rich land to help redeem people whom our history continues to victimize.
Gabor Maté is a retired B.C. physician who specializes in addiction.
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Democrats Respond to Mueller Statement by Calling for Impeachment, but Also Not Impeachment, but Also More Investigations, but Also Oversight, but Also All of the Above
Jack Crosbie
Should Donald Trump be impeached? That's a good question, and one that every Democrat running for president in 2020 and many other party leaders have been asked for months. The answer is yes, but for the Democrats that point of view is far from unanimous.
For a moment, today, following a press conference where Special Counsel Robert Mueller publicly (and verbally) repeated many of the same points he had already outlined in his written report, it looked like the impeachment train was finally going to leave the station.
Here's Cory Booker, formerly of the opinion that starting impeachment proceedings was "premature."
Booker was not alone! Here's Pete Buttigieg, who previously said that Trump "deserves impeachment" but that he would let lawmakers "figure it out." He is now essentially telling Congress in slightly more concrete terms that he would like them to impeach the president.
If only there were strong party leaders who could bring all of these viewpoints together! Alas, we are left with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Pelosi responded to Mueller's conference with a continuation of the same thing she's been saying for months: that Congress would "continue to investigate." And Schumer made impotent promises about "following the facts wherever they lead" (they have led to an explicit case for impeachment).
This ambivalence has rubbed off on some of the more lackluster presidential candidates as well. Here's NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio trying out a new insult and saying nothing else of consequence:
Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, for what it's worth, would like to make it very clear that they supported impeachment before it was cool, and still do:
Bernie Sanders, who previously said that impeachment could be counterproductive, then said it might be time to "begin the process," has yet to firmly come down on one side or the other. Joe Biden, meanwhile, is talking about mud wrestling. Strong points made by all.
Contributing Writer, Splinter


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Reimbursement of Community Funds Used on Separate Property
After Husband's death, Wife sought reimbursement for community funds used to enhance the value of Husband's separate property. The trial court granted reimbursement and gave Wife an equitable lien on the separate property. However, the trial court refused to authorize other assets in Husband's estate to be used to satisfy the reimbursement claim.
The appellate court agreed that Wife was entitled to reimbursement. The court rejected the argument that reimbursement was precluded because Husband's will did not provide for reimbursement. The court explained that Family Code § 3.402 provides for reimbursement and that Wife did not waive her right in a marital agreement. The appellate court also determined that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it determined the difference in value between Husband's separate property with and without the improvements.
The court disagreed with the trial court's holding that other assets of Husband's estate could not be used to satisfy her claim. The court explained that the equitable lien is to secure the reimbursement claim under Family Code § 3.406. Thus, the reimbursement claim is a debt against the estate entitled to be paid using the statutory abatement order provided in Estates Code § 355.109. The court noted that Husband's will neither provided for a different abatement order nor exoneration of debts on gifted property. Thus, Husband's other property given to Wife could be used to satisfy the reimbursement claim.
Moral: The reimbursement claim of a surviving spouse when community property is used to enhance the value of the deceased spouse's separate property may actually end up reducing the amount of property to which the surviving spouse is entitled as a beneficiary under the deceased spouse's will.
Nothing contained in this website should be considered as the rendering of legal advice for specific cases. This website is intended for general informational purposes only.
Copyright © 2022 by Gerry W. Beyer • professorbeyer.com


Split is much more than glorious architectural scenery. Split is also a venue for excellent gourmet and vine experiences, numerous cultural happenings like film and theatre festivals, exhibitions, excellent museums and concerts. A city which offers eclectic modes of entertainment starting with numerous clubs and bars, through street festivals to events such as Ultra Europe Festival visited each year by up to 100 thousand young people from around one hundred countries of the world. Split with its sport results is something only a handful of cities of similar size around the world can boast about as it is the home of a dozen Olympic medal winners as well as other sports medals.
Although high temperatures characterize the summer in Split, sometimes even over 35°C, spreading from June to the end of September, you can find refreshment in the beautiful Adriatic Sea on many of Split's beaches or on the nearby islands. While during the summer nights you can unwind through different events, such as the Days of Diocletian, Split summer festival and many others, where everyone can find something for themselves, and where you will experience a true Mediterranean hustle and bustle.
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Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Russia (with an original invitation letter or tourist voucher), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Turkey, Uruguay, the USA and Venezuela.
Citizens of all remaining countries need to apply for a visa prior to travelling to Croatia. If this applies to you, get in touch with the Croatian embassy or consulate in your home country, or the country of your current residence.
Croatia has been part of the European Union since 2013 but is not part of the Schengen area yet, though it has applied for membership. In the meantime, people holding a valid Schengen visa don't need any additional documents to enter Croatia and stay for up to 90 days. A visa granted by one of the Schengen countries is valid in the whole Schengen area.
There are 26 Schengen member states, including four outside the EU. As of April 2013 they are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.


It's that time of year again where the interior design world goes straight to Pantone to see the colour of the year. A trend that us designers use to inspire and keep your homes on trend and exciting. This year we are looking at Ultra Violet.
Pantone say this colour represents "counterculture flair, a grab for originality, ingenuity and visionary thinking". This colour is creative, daring and enigmatic. A colour that may seem overwhelming can create a bold, modern yet regal look. Pared with jewel colours and lush velvets and silks create a luxurious glamourous look. A colour associated with rebel icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Prince and David Bowie, this colour is both feminine and masculine. But with also a new upcoming royal wedding to inspire us we see a regal sophisticated side to this colour too, lending itself to be surprisingly versatile.
Ultra Violet lends itself to be accompanied with other dark colours and works best as statement pieces of furniture, or a statement wall. Despite its bright colour ultra violet would work well in all kinds of room, from modern minimalism to a cosy traditional cottage.
This colour represents us moving on in the further, and a future full of experimentation and pushing of boundaries; so why not do that in your home too. Here at Louise Jackson Interiors we have put together some images of rooms that have inspired us and put together a collection of fabrics and wallpapers from our showroom to show how to make Ultra Violet a look in your home.
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Brenda Faye Perkins Starr
Brenda Faye Perkins Starr, 69, of 936 Ringgold Depot Rd., Ringgold, VA, died peacefully on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at her home with her family by her side, after a decline in health for the past two years. Mrs. Starr was born in Pittsylvania County, VA, on September 12, 1951, a daughter of the late David Logan Perkins and the late Betty Lee Payne Perkins. She lived all of her life in the Danville area where she worked as a Weaver for Dan River Mills, Inc. She then went on to work as a school bus aide for the Pittsylvania County School System. She loved spending time with her grandchildren, who she adored, and working in her yard planting flowers. She was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith. On May 19, 1986, she married Kenneth Wayne Starr, who survives of the residence. In addition to her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Rhonda Kendrick, of Halifax, VA, Wendy Blake (David), of Louisiana, and Donna Yeatts (John), of Danville, VA; a step-daughter, Lisa Jones (Danny); a step-son, Richard Wilson; nine grandchildren, Dakota Williams, Joshua Williams, Ricky Giles, Brittany Starr, Jonathan Giles, Makayla Blake, Andrew Blake, Justin Yeatts, and Hunter Yeatts; two great grandchildren, Caleb Starr and Winter Giles; and a step-grandson, Damon Jones. Mrs. Starr was predeceased by her parents and grandson Ralph Starr, Jr. A service will be held on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 2:00 PM, from the graveside, in Floral Hills Memory Gardens with the Rev. Dr. Jerry Foley officiating. The family will be receiving friends at the residence. The family would like to extend a special thanks to the staff of Commonwealth Hospice for their excellent care of Mrs. Starr. The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to Ringgold Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 10, Ringgold, VA, 24586. Wrenn-Yeatts North Main Chapel is serving the Starr family.
Brenda Faye Perkins Starr, 69, of 936 Ringgold Depot Rd., Ringgold, VA, died peacefully on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at her home with her family by her side, after a decline in health for the past two years. Mrs. Starr was born in Pittsylvania... View Obituary & Service Information
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Reclaiming Stonewall
Will Herman Cain's Fourth Accuser Wake Voters Up to the Reality of Sexual Harassment?
Even if voters come to believe that the allegations against Cain are true, will they care?
By Emily DouglasTwitter
The sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain have been on a low boil since Politico first reported that at least two women complained to senior staff at the National Restaurant Association that Cain had behaved inappropriately towards them in the workplace. But, with the accusers bound by confidentiality agreements, details were not forthcoming, and pundits and politicians on the right were free to run with "gender harassment denialism," as Dahlia Lithwick put it—dismissing the claims, as they cast sexual harassment as a "mass delusion of hyper-sensitive ladies." If anything, the accusations motivated Cain's supporters—he raised $2 million in the week after the allegations became public—and boosted his poll numbers—Cain is now tied with Romney as the front-runner for the Republican nomination.
Now, a fourth woman put her face, and her name, to the allegations. She's Sharon Bialek, and she sought Cain's professional advice after being let go in 1997 by the educational foundation of the National Restaurant Association. She and Cain had met at an industry conference a year prior; they had gotten along well, and once she was out of a job, Bialek sought to reconnect with Cain in DC for advice on seeking work. She thought they would meet in a bar in the lobby at the Capitol Hilton, but they ended up in a car together, and in the course of their discussion about employment options she might pursue, "He suddenly reached over and he put his hand on my leg, under my skirt and reached for my genitals." He also, she said, "grabbed my head and brought it towards his crotch." (As Jeffrey Toobin and and E.J. Graff quickly observed, this describes sexual assault, and could also be considered sexual harassment.) She told her boyfriend and another friend at the time, but did not press charges or notify the NRA. She didn't make a complaint at the time, she said, because she wasn't working at the National Restaurant Association anymore; she is still not pursuing a legal claim. She's speaking out now to "give a face, and a voice" to the women who can't or don't want to.
After Bialek finished speaking, her lawyer, Gloria Allred, was immediately peppered with questions. Why did Bialek wait so long to come forward? What kind of work does she do? So she's a full-time single mother—is she on public assistance? Allred's responses were media-ready: she did tell two people at the time—both of whom have submitted written statements to that effect, under oath—and she's coming forward now because of the other women's accusations; no, she's not on public assistance. But the rush to find vulnerabilities in Bialek herself—not only her story—typifies the character-based scrutiny that accusers of sexual harassment or assault face. It's a stated reason why one of Cain's other accusers decided not to come forward.
Time will tell how the pontificators who used the previous allegations to deny the very existence of sexual harassment will react to this story and this accuser. Perhaps now that they have a concrete example of what sexual harassment can look like—what can happen to women when they seek professional advice from male mentors—they'll change their tunes. But even if they do, the bigger problem may be that even if voters generally come to believe that the allegations are true, they just won't care. In the same Gallup poll that determined that Cain and Romney are tied for front-runner status, over a third of Republican voters said the charges are "probably or definitely true." An ABC poll found that 55 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents "say they do not regard the allegation of sexual misconduct as a serious matter." In focusing on the consequences for Cain's campaign over the reporting on sexual harassment as an issue, E.J. Graff points out that the news media share the blame for minimizing the reality of workplace harassment. And plenty of pundits have lumped these accusations in the "sex scandals" category, neglecting to recognize the distinction between bad choices that were consensual and bad choices that were abuses of power. It's not only Republicans who misunderstand the severity of sexual harassment, and its relevance to the pursuit of public office.
For her part, Bialek, a registered Republican, seems to want Cain to admit wrongdoing and go on running for president. "Mr. Cain, I implore you, make this right," she said. (Cain gave a keynote at one of the events where Bialek met him and she found him inspirational; afterward, she asked him, "When are you running for president?") I can't imagine Cain fessing up and staying in the race. But I can hope that Bialek, who will be on at least two morning shows tomorrow, will use her platform to educate the American electorate about what sexual harassment really is.
Last thing: after attending last month's Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill at 20 conference, my colleague Frank Reynolds and I were lucky enough to interview a number of presenters, including Kimberlé Crenshaw, Emily May, Ai-jen Poo and others. We created the video below to celebrate Hill's legacy—and it's more relevant than ever.
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Theta's Emerging Technologies Architect Jim Taylor was part of the winning team at the recent Startup Weekend Kapiti. Team Poppins' idea was to connect people who need childcare with childcare providers.
Startup Weekend Kapiti, like other startup weekends around the world, is a fun way for people to learn how to be better entrepreneurs, ideas people, developers, tech leads, hackers, doers and designers. Over the course of the weekend, participants got to develop and validate their ideas, build a working prototype or element of their product, show feasibility and consider their business model, costs and pricing.
Jim worked with business analyst Helen Horrell to develop her startup idea, with help from designer and mentor Ross Allen and coaching from Dan Khan rounding out the team.
The team's idea was based on a more flexible way of delivering an accessing childcare. "People's childcare requirements vary greatly, and at different times people need different things," says Jim.
During the weekend, Team Poppins developed a way for customers to register and rank their childcare needs and wants, and be matched according to their preferences with providers. They also surveyed customers to help validate and refine their idea, and got plenty of pitch practice, as well as helpful feedback and questions from the judges.
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It's been half a year since Joe Rundle took up his new role as CEO of Markets.com. His appointment came at a tumultuous time for the retail industry, with new restrictions on leveraged trading from the European Securities and Markets Authority's announced in March.
Smaller brokers may be shutting up shop or moving offshore as a result of the legislation, but Markets.com is staying put. The broker, a subsidiary of the gambling software provider Playtech, will continue to operate out of its London headquarters.
In the midst of all of this, Finance Magnates managed to catch up with Rundle. In a broad-ranging interview, we discussed what he's been doing so far, how Markets.com is preparing for ESMA's regulation and the firm's plans for the future.
You are now almost six months into your new role. What attracted you to take up the position as CEO of Markets.com and what expectations have been placed on you by the higher-ups?
It's an incredible opportunity to work with some of the best people, and some of the most advanced technology in the industry – Playtech's support gives us an array of tech and tools – and take a truly global brand in a new direction. There are challenges of course, but we've been making huge strides already and starting to feel the benefits. Clients should also see better outcomes and a much better trading experience as we roll out our new platform later this year.
What steps have you taken to ensure you are compliant with ESMA's new regulation and that it won't be too harmful to your business?
We've taken all the steps required by the regulator of course, but we were already well ahead of the curve on several fronts, like offering negative balance protection. So we're well placed, and with a lot of clients coming from outside the EU we are less exposed than some. Of course, it's a challenge but ultimately the ESMA changes are a good thing for the industry, and our goal is always better outcomes for our customers: anything that's good for clients is good for us.
How do you see the retail industry changing as a result of the ESMA regulation?
We envisage some smaller and less reputable players to suffer and ultimately consolidation – which is long overdue – will occur. The industry remains highly fragmented, and if you look at other industries facing tighter regulations, consolidation is usually what follows.
Clients classified as 'professional' are not subject to ESMA's regulations. How much of your client-base trades under this classification and what percentage of your revenue do they provide?
We have a decent number of professional clients, and we saw really good uptake from our push to encourage elective professionals recently, so we expect to have more and more. In addition, our upcoming Markets X platform is ideal for professional traders, although it is not exclusively for them to use.
Can we expect any new products from Markets.com in the near future?
Our Markets X platform is very nearly ready to launch. This will feature lots of extra tools for traders to use, analysis features and much better pricing with lower spreads. We're also really proud of our Markets Knowledge Centre, which will be a one-stop shop for all traders' news, analysis, and education needs. We're already running things like in-platform live sessions with traders and have big plans for some really exciting content, including TV.
Do you have plans to expand into any new jurisdictions? What region looks the most promising or exciting for you?
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Joseph William Caldwell
February 7, 1947 - July 23, 2020
Joseph William Caldwell, 73, passed away peacefully with his loving wife at his side on July 23, 2020. Joseph was born February 7, 1947 in Amarillo, Texas to Alice (Smith) and George Caldwell, Sr, both of whom preceded him in death along with brother, George Caldwell, Jr. Joe enlisted in the United States Navy with honor and distinction and served during the Vietnam War. During active duty, Joe also served as a dental technician until his honorable discharge in 1972 after which he went on to work at United States Postal Service until his retirement in 2001. After retirement, Joe immersed himself in spending time with his hobbies. Woodworking was his favorite and he could create anything. A master craftsman with his hands, Joe was also a very good artist with drawing and painting where some of his designs would go on to be sold professionally. He joined the Forney Art Council where he was a key member in advocating for all artist expressions and helping the community develop an appreciation for local artists. Joe was also a member of the Talty Baptist Church where his easy smile and his friendly personality was always a welcome sight to both members and visitors. A hardworking, loving man, Joe will be missed by everyone that knew him. He is survived by his beloved wife, Carol Caldwell of Garland; daughters: Priscilla Valentine and husband, Galen and Jennifer Caldwell; stepson, Chris Henson and wife, Lydia; stepdaughter, Denna Shives and husband, Jimmey; grandchildren: Chance Caldwell, Dante Herndon, Corey Caldwell, Branndon Norwood, Seth Shives, and Deanna Ross; great granddaughter, Katie Caldwell as well as other extended family and a host of friends. For those who wish, memorials may be made in Joseph's memory to the Talty Baptist Church at 5210 N Farm to Market 148, Crandall, TX 75114.
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book three sample chapter
Chapter 1: The Wind
In the years following the rise of the Great Tyrant and the subsequent demise of the ancient beings known as Tenturo, Bahknar, Chera and Densa, a small group of four individuals created an alliance to fight for the salvation of truth and the pursuit of virtue. The alliance was created to maintain the old ways, with the hope that the Ancients would one day return and vanquish the Tyrant. These deeply spiritual beings, sworn to the Ancients, referred to themselves as the "Wind." This ambiguous name was chosen to maintain anonymity and to protect the alliance from those who would seek to disband them, or far worse, destroy them.
The Wind continued the teachings of the old ways in secret. They were the protectors and the professors of the Ancients' philosophy of peace and harmony among all creatures of the world. They imparted all they knew of the Ancients' history to those who would hear it, doing everything they could to detract from the spreading lies perpetrated by the supporters of the Tyrant. They worked fastidiously to maintain the gifts of elemental control bestowed to humans and teach the possessors how to properly use them. They were pillars in a crumbling land. They were wisdom among the ignorant. They were eyes among the blind.
Ephanlarea had hope in the days of the Wind. Many creatures of the earth spoke with passion and determination of how the Wind blew strong. To speak of the Wind in such a way was to confirm an allegiance to the Ancients, and to exhibit contempt for the Tyrant. It was a risk to speak openly, but many were brave and bold, believing salvation was but a breath away. For a small time it seemed as though virtue would ultimately prevail, but even in the days when the Wind blew its strongest, the Tyrant's poison worked deep in the veins of men.
Over time, supporters of the Wind were routed out of hiding and punished severely. The Tyrant was without mercy and his minions delivered his cruelty with a malicious pleasure. Beheadings, hangings, torture and crucifixions became common public spectacle. It was not long before the alliance of four that called themselves the Wind were cut off from all those who would seek to help them. They were left with no recourse and nowhere to turn; the Tyrant had taken complete control.
It was in the last, desperate hours before the alliance would agree to dissolve and separate, that they prayed to the Skyfather for help. They prayed in the ruins of an old temple, far from the shores of Ephanlarea, in a place that humans had long forgotten. The four individuals unburdened their souls of the atrocities they had seen and of the sufferings they had known. Together, they decried the evil of the Tyrant. They tore at the vines that clutched the temple walls and they pounded the floors with their limbs in frustration. They bellowed until their voices cracked from rage and exhaustion, and until their bodies fell limp upon the altar from hours of petition. They begged, they pleaded and they implored the Skyfather for the earth's salvation.
Then, in the droning hum of the wild night, hours before the golden berth of the waking sun, above the aching, parched and weary bodies of the four sleeping outcasts, the Skyfather appeared. To see him was to dream of him; he was more apparition than body. The Wind awoke to the Skyfather's faint orange glow, amid the darkness and the warm blanket of his low rumbling words.
I have heard your voices, he said as he touched their minds. Now, rise.
The four members of the alliance slowly rose to their feet and focused their dried and itching eyes on the miracle before them. The energy of the Skyfather danced about in the darkness, briefly illuminating shapes and lines of the material world. He waxed and waned like the tides of an ocean. No member of the Wind would keep the same memory of this moment. The vision was as personal as it was communal, and each member of the Wind found their own peace within the Skyfather's presence.
This is your world to mold, the Skyfather said. But I can no longer sit idly by while you face insurmountable odds. I bring to you gifts. Use them well.
The Skyfather presented each member of the Wind with a gift they might use to fight the Great Tyrant. The alliance was instructed to keep their gifts safe, until a time came when the world could unite.
To Strongback, the bear of Gray Mountain, the Skyfather gave the Everflame. It flickered gently as it appeared in front of Strongback. He reached out and touched it cautiously. Its warmth surrounded his paw, but he was unharmed by the flame. It twinkled in the reflection of his deep brown eyes and it filled him with purpose and hope. The bear's heart swelled and his body felt light and freshly alive.
Take the Everflame, Strongback, the Skyfather said. It is but a glimmer of my spirit. Let it light the darkest nights ahead.
To Andor the eagle, companion to Aella, Spirit of the Plains, the Skyfather gave the Eversense. The Skyfather touched the large eagle lightly on his brow and his eyes became bright. Andor bristled his brilliant feathers as if a chill had run his length. His mind became aware of things it never had before and his gaze stretched far beyond its previous horizon.
Take the Eversense, Andor, the Skyfather said. It is but a small fragment of my mind. It will allow you to see beyond the material world, to dangers that lie ahead.
To Ulinawi, the great turtle of the deep, the Skyfather gave the Evermight. Ulinawi felt his blood pulsing through his body. His weariness was gone and he felt a great strength in his muscles as he flexed his legs against the temple floor.
Take the Evermight, Ulinawi, the Skyfather said. It is but an echo of my vast strength. Use it to shield this world from its most malicious foes.
The Skyfather's last gift was given to the only human member of the alliance, a man by the name of Esteban Floyd. To Esteban, the Skyfather gave his most precious gift, the Everlife. Euphoria descended upon Esteban as the apparition of the Skyfather moved through him. He felt like laughing, and tears fell freely from his eyes. Esteban looked down at his hands, and watched his skin as it sparkled ever so slightly before returning to its normal state.
Take the Everlife, Esteban, the Skyfather said. It is but a page in the tome of my history. As long as you are its possessor, you shall live beyond the measure of time.
The four members of the Wind regarded their gifts with more reverence than their own lives. They knelt and thanked the Skyfather from the depths of their souls, unable to believe what had happened to them.
Use these gifts wisely, the Skyfather said. I must leave you now, but know this…
As the light of the Skyfather disappeared from the dingy temple ruin, he left the Wind with a prophecy:
In the world's most desperate hour of need
Earthly elements shall be set free
And evil tyrants should beware
The coming of an unlikely pair.
Behold the golden fires of hope
That curse and grace the lives of man
Yet one cannot in life exist
If two won't find the strength to stand.
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Canadian hospitality and tourism innovators honoured by George Brown College College boosts hands-on learning opportunities for students
Toronto, Ontario (June 8, 2017) –The Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts (CHCA) at George Brown College announced today the launch of Canadian Treasures, an initiative to spotlight the accomplishments of culinary, hospitality and tourism trailblazers across Canada.
As Canadians mark the nation's 150th anniversary, Canadian Treasures will likewise celebrate by honouring distinguished organizations in the areas of food, beverage, hospitality, accommodation and tourism. The initiative highlights the critical role these organizations play as best in class leaders, in showcasing the best qualities of their regions, and in advancing local economic and cultural development.
"Canadian Treasures celebrates those innovators who make a real difference in terms of building great businesses and delivering culinary, hospitality and tourism experiences that help their regions become prime destinations," says Lorraine Trotter, Dean, CHCA, George Brown College. "We hope that by highlighting Canada's culinary, hospitality and tourism gems, we will demonstrate the many great features of this industry to Canadians and to tourists worldwide."
As an ongoing, inclusive and non-competitive program, Canadian Treasures will continue to commend notable hospitality and tourism organizations into 2018 and beyond. Four to six high- performing organizations, such as restaurants, farmers and food providers, accommodation properties, brewers and vineyards, tourist attractions, festivals and vacation spots, will be recognized annually. CHCA will hold a range of celebratory events including tours of the organizations' operations, Chefs' House events, student study tours, food and beverage tastings and culinary workshops.
George Brown is committed to delivering excellence and innovation in helping students prepare for the workplace. An important benefit of Canadian Treasures is the involvement of students in hands-on learning beyond the classroom. As part of the initiative, students will participate in field placements and regional travel, enabling them to discover the industry's top employers and develop job relevant skills to succeed in the future.
2017 Canadian Treasures honourees:
Norman Hardie Winery and Prince Edward County, Ontario
Food Day Canada
Devour! The Food Film Fest and The Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
"We are thrilled to recognize these three outstanding organizations as our inaugural Canadian Treasures," says Trotter. "Each organization exemplifies the richness and diversity of the culinary, hospitality and tourism sector and contributes to the industry in a meaningful way."
Travel and tourism is an important economic driver. The tourism industry is a $90-billion- dollar sector, with approximately 1.6 million Canadian jobs dependent on economic activity generated by travel and tourism.
Travel and tourism is a dynamic, sustainable and vastly diverse industry, comprised of innovative businesses in every region of the country including transportation, accommodations, food and beverage and attractions. It employs over 1.7 million Canadians, with 1 in 11 Canadian jobs directly involved with travelers.
The New York Times, Lonely Planet and Condé Nast all recognized Canada as the top international destination for 2017.
Source: Tourism Industry Association of Canada
About The Centre for Hospitality and Culinary Arts at George Brown College
CHCA provides world-class education to over 3,000 full-time and 8,500 continuing education students every year. Programs are developed in consultation with industry experts and taught by a distinguished group of experienced faculty. Most importantly, CHCA underpins classroom study with experiential learning through study tours, field placements, training at The Chefs' House restaurant, and in state of the art labs. www.georgebrown.ca/hca
For more information, or to schedule interviews, please contact:
Joyann Callender
Media Relations Manager George Brown College 416-415-5000 ext. 3159 jcallender3@georgebrown.ca
Devour! The Food Film Fest
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Adrienne Kakoullis
akakoullis@holmespr.com


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news, local-news, lithgow, navy, patrick owens, notre dame, john dearin
For the next six months you will find defence force doctor Patrick Owens at Lithgow Hospital as he works between the emergency department, general practise and on the wards with Lithgow's Professor John Dearin. Dr Owens is a rural and remote medicine registrar who has been sent to Lithgow to get the skills needed before he heads out to sea later this year. "I'm one of the medical officers that works on ships and looks after the crew when we go out to sea," he said. "The navy wants me to do some emergency time, some inpatient time, they want me to do some time in GP because as you can imagine the needs on a ship are very niche." Dr Owens said that getting as much practice as he could would be most beneficial. READ MORE: Woman loses baby on the way to Orange hospital after alleged assault "You can't refer to anyone [on a ship] and you don't have any tests so you need to be able to look after everything yourself, so the Navy just wanted me to get some practice," he said. Before medicine, Dr Owens studied Science and Immunology as well as Parasitology. "I always wanted to do a bit of everything, try my hand at managing any problem, any time," he said. Having trained previously on the Gold Coast, Dr Owens said Lithgow gave him more of a chance to manage everything himself. "Professor Dearin has been very accommodating in getting me out here and letting me do a bit of everything which is different to big city hospitals," he said. "If big city hospitals have someone with a cardiac problem they have to go to cardiology, but here you can manage it all yourself." Learning that skill will be vital for when Dr Owens takes to the ocean. "It's interesting and it makes the medicine a lot more fun because you don't fall back onto testing or other specialists, you do it all yourself," he said. "It makes your clinical skills a whole lot better because you have to look after it yourself, if you want to find out if someone has appendicitis you can't just take the blood test and see what their white cell count is doing, you have to diagnose it clinically based on what you find on examining them. READ MORE: Does Lithgow need 24/7 air monitoring? Residents say 'Yes' "Then it's got the added excitement of if you do want to get someone off the ship you put them on a helicopter, fly them to the nearest base, it's a bit of fun." Dr Owens said that being a doctor on a Navy ship, you tend to be dealing with quite a healthy population of people. "They are fit, young and predominantly men who have all been screened for any health problems so what you see, tends to be stuff that has made them acutely unwell, and you don't see as much chronic disease," he said. "So it is more broken bones from falling, or cuts, bruises, scratches, that type of thing." One side of medicine that Dr Owens has to train regularly for is mass casualty events. "In the event of bombs going off or the ship getting shot up, which, touch wood, hasn't happened, but you train for it constantly," he said. "It really is a side of medicine you don't get to do elsewhere." Dr Owens could be away on duty for anywhere between three to nine months at a time, for trips to the Middle East. "So a doctor could be gone by himself for six months to look after the crew, which is a huge responsibility," he said. "You have 100 per cent care for however many sailors and officers you have on board for six months and it is daunting but I'm looking forward to doing it." READ MORE: Cullen Bullen community gathers to thank "heroes" from the RFS When Dr Owens time in the Navy comes to an end, he would like to head up North to use his undergraduate degree of immunology and parasitology. "There is still a big problem with infectious diseases in the Indigenous community, and a big problem with infectious diseases up north in Cairns, Darwin, in the Torres Strait and coming down from the PNG, so I would love to get up there and do some properly remote stuff in the islands," he said. "Or somewhere, where there is a long way to a hospital, and you've got people who have interesting infections. "I would love that, but that is down the line once I'm out of the Navy. One day." Subscribing means more than just website access. Read the print paper online, enter giveaways and more for just $2 a week, cheaper than a coffee. What are you waiting for?
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Navy doctor Patrick Owens to get practical experience in Lithgow
Ciara Bastow
MEDICINE: Doctor Patrick Owens is excited to learn from Lithgow's best medical practitioners. Pictures: CIARA BASTOW
For the next six months you will find defence force doctor Patrick Owens at Lithgow Hospital as he works between the emergency department, general practise and on the wards with Lithgow's Professor John Dearin.
Dr Owens is a rural and remote medicine registrar who has been sent to Lithgow to get the skills needed before he heads out to sea later this year.
"I'm one of the medical officers that works on ships and looks after the crew when we go out to sea," he said.
"The navy wants me to do some emergency time, some inpatient time, they want me to do some time in GP because as you can imagine the needs on a ship are very niche."
Dr Owens said that getting as much practice as he could would be most beneficial.
READ MORE: Woman loses baby on the way to Orange hospital after alleged assault
"You can't refer to anyone [on a ship] and you don't have any tests so you need to be able to look after everything yourself, so the Navy just wanted me to get some practice," he said.
Before medicine, Dr Owens studied Science and Immunology as well as Parasitology.
"I always wanted to do a bit of everything, try my hand at managing any problem, any time," he said.
Having trained previously on the Gold Coast, Dr Owens said Lithgow gave him more of a chance to manage everything himself.
"Professor Dearin has been very accommodating in getting me out here and letting me do a bit of everything which is different to big city hospitals," he said.
"If big city hospitals have someone with a cardiac problem they have to go to cardiology, but here you can manage it all yourself."
Learning that skill will be vital for when Dr Owens takes to the ocean.
"It's interesting and it makes the medicine a lot more fun because you don't fall back onto testing or other specialists, you do it all yourself," he said.
"It makes your clinical skills a whole lot better because you have to look after it yourself, if you want to find out if someone has appendicitis you can't just take the blood test and see what their white cell count is doing, you have to diagnose it clinically based on what you find on examining them.
READ MORE: Does Lithgow need 24/7 air monitoring? Residents say 'Yes'
"Then it's got the added excitement of if you do want to get someone off the ship you put them on a helicopter, fly them to the nearest base, it's a bit of fun."
Dr Owens said that being a doctor on a Navy ship, you tend to be dealing with quite a healthy population of people.
"They are fit, young and predominantly men who have all been screened for any health problems so what you see, tends to be stuff that has made them acutely unwell, and you don't see as much chronic disease," he said.
"So it is more broken bones from falling, or cuts, bruises, scratches, that type of thing."
Lithgow's newest students studying with Professor Frost, Dearin and Dr Owens.
One side of medicine that Dr Owens has to train regularly for is mass casualty events.
"In the event of bombs going off or the ship getting shot up, which, touch wood, hasn't happened, but you train for it constantly," he said.
"It really is a side of medicine you don't get to do elsewhere."
Dr Owens could be away on duty for anywhere between three to nine months at a time, for trips to the Middle East.
"So a doctor could be gone by himself for six months to look after the crew, which is a huge responsibility," he said.
"You have 100 per cent care for however many sailors and officers you have on board for six months and it is daunting but I'm looking forward to doing it."
READ MORE: Cullen Bullen community gathers to thank "heroes" from the RFS
When Dr Owens time in the Navy comes to an end, he would like to head up North to use his undergraduate degree of immunology and parasitology.
"There is still a big problem with infectious diseases in the Indigenous community, and a big problem with infectious diseases up north in Cairns, Darwin, in the Torres Strait and coming down from the PNG, so I would love to get up there and do some properly remote stuff in the islands," he said.
"Or somewhere, where there is a long way to a hospital, and you've got people who have interesting infections.
"I would love that, but that is down the line once I'm out of the Navy. One day."
Subscribing means more than just website access. Read the print paper online, enter giveaways and more for just $2 a week, cheaper than a coffee. What are you waiting for?