May Motorcycle Riding in Northwestern Ontario Can Be Tricky!
Apparently the nice weather that we had in April was just a tease. The temperature is now varying between -5C and +10C, and we even had some flurries the other day. That's put a bit of a damper on two-wheel riding around Thunder Bay. That's not to say that there haven't been a few guys out on their bikes in town, but you've really got to watch for icy roads and sandy intersections. Dropping your bike on a dirty corner will put a real damper on your day.
HEY - I Finally Got My New Bike!
I've been waffling for over two years on what new motorcycle I'd like to buy (or could afford to buy - I'm an old retired geezer now you know) so I broke down the other day and bought myself a bicycle. Hey - it still has two wheels.... Just not the kind of horsepower that I'd prefer to have.
But my doctor says it will be good for me. APPARENTLY I need to get more exercise. Watching curling on TV and walking back and forth to the fridge for beer doesn't count.
Since I retired a year and a half ago I've not been as active as when I was working, and I've gained a bit of weight. That isn't a good thing apparently since it has driven up my blood pressure and raised my bad cholesterol levels. For the first time in my life I've actually had to go on medications to help control them... and that's not a good thing. SO, I'm hoping that I can get a bit more active this summer riding around on the bicycle to get a little more exercise. I just hope that I don't get run over by the crazy car and truck drivers around here. There are some real psychos with drivers licenses.
I'm also thinking that maybe we should start another 'Old Geezers Bike Club' for all of us that need to pedal ourselves around to keep fit. I wonder what style of spandex outfits would look good on us? Bright yellows and fluorescent greens???
It was touch and go there for a while, I wasn't sure if I would actually be able to outsmart one of those things. They're wily little creatures that only come out at night.
This particular porcupine had taken up residence under my workshop and was coming out at night and eating the bark off of my red pine trees. I couldn't let that continue because a) he would eventually kill the trees, and b) I like my red pine trees.
So, with a little bit of ingenuity and a live trap I managed to vanquish him and relocate him to a new home far away from mine.
So - who's smarter now Mr. Porcupine??? Eh?
We need to find a case of these mugs for all of our friends!
You can thank our friend Bob Q. for this picture. I'm not sure where he found it but it just about says it all.
Every now and then even I have to go out to the shed to admire the dirty old beater that I ride. Sometimes it's to think about adding some new gizmo or gadget or new part or new lights... it doesn't matter. Or just to admire the marvel of engineering that bikes are and think about maybe actually washing it one day. But you don't want to get carried away with those kinds of thoughts!
I don't know about you, but I've been looking for something like this for years... SW-Motech is building these quality mirror wideners for a wide variety of bikes and I'm hoping that there is a pair that will fit my bike.
As one guy said I like looking at my shoulders in my rear view mirrors just as much as the next person, but wouldn't it be nice to see more of the actual road behind you? These mirror wideners will do just that for you.
With a price range around $80.00 a set they're a little pricy, but they are a quality item, CNC-machined from billet aluminum and black powder-coated. Each kit comes with the two extenders, two hex bolts, two black spacers to raise the extenders and a pair of plastic caps to finish off the hex bolts.
Looking out our back window it's just about -20 C this morning. A couple of days ago it was -30C overnight - we don't need much of that! That's too cold for me.
We don't have much snow yet either as you can see, not like those poor folks down in Buffalo. I've seen a couple of bad snow storms over the years but nothing that would compare with what those people are having to deal with. Snow up to the top of your back door and the threat of having your roof collapse on you would not be much fun.
But according to all of the reports Christmas is on its way! We have almost all of our shopping done finally, just a few odds and ends to still pick up but not much. Now we have to decide on the menu for our Christmas dinner. That's not usually much of a chore as we all know that everything goes well with a big roasted turkey (and that's not me I'm talking about).
I hope your holiday plans all come together for you and that a big turkey is central to your plans as well!
Jethro Tull Concert Was Awesome!
A couple of weeks ago my friend Bruce and I headed down to Minneapolis to the State Theatre to catch this years Jethro Tull concert. And it was amazing - as usual. I think that this was my 6th Tull concert and every one of them has been spectacular.
To keep their concerts fresh Ian Anderson changes up the song list every year. The first set this year was a selection of songs from their brand new album: Homo Erraticus. This is another of Ian Andersons concept albums and it explores the raving and rambling writings of one Ernest "Teddy" Parritt (who was apparently a very strange and disturbed person). But as usual the musical genius that Ian Anderson is managed to create yet another amazing album.
Following the introduction of the new album the band played a selection of the 'Best of Jethro Tull' through their 45 year of performing and record producing and ended the night's performance with thundering renditions of Aqualung and Locomotive Breath. . . . It was AMAZING !!!
The 2014 Coast-to-Coast Motorcycle Cannonball Run Has Been Completed!
The historic Cannonball Endurance Run finished on Sept. 21st in Tacoma, Washington. The 17 day ride across 3,938 miles from Daytona Beach, Florida would be grueling on a modern bike, but this years intrepid bikers were all riding Pre-1937 motorcycles of all makes.
Of the nearly 100 riders that started the race only 32 of them managed to complete every mile of the the journey and 24 of them managed to achieve a perfect score for the race by making every one of the daily checkpoints on time. "It's quite a challenge with all the elements and the weather," said Richard McMaken, one of the event's participants who was riding a 1915 bike. The ride being a "challenge" might be an understatement as riders had to deal with numerous breakdowns which included several blown engines and overnight rebuilds.
Here comes a new wave of distracted drivers!
The new Apple Watch or Smartwatch will be arriving in stores soon and our roads will become a little bit more dangerous - especially for motorcycle riders.
It's still bad enough now with distracted drivers talking on cell phones and texting while driving. You still see them every day that you're out on the road. This new "Smartwatch" promises to make these distracted drivers even more dangerous.
Distracted drivers have become a major safety concern around the world and are responsible for an increasing number of serious crashes and fatalities every year. Laws banning the use of handheld mobile devices have had little effect in reducing the number of distracted drivers.
If new technology is producing all of these devices that are making life more dangerous for everyone that is driving on our roads then new technology should be able to provide us an answer as to how to prevent distracted driving.
Need A Waterproof Travel Bag?
The German company Touratech has been a provider of high-quality, well-tested motorcycle accessories for many years. And this line of updated waterproof motorcycle luggage has been given a thorough test.
Not just "repurposed whitewater rafting gear" these new Adventure Dry Bags are specifically designed to withstand the rigours of hard-core motorcycle riding. They are made of polyurethane with welded seams and horizontal roll closures. The bags open wide and are backed by a stiffener to facilitate easy loading and come with nylon carrying handles. They come in three sizes and four different colors and start at about $150.
If you need to keep your clothes dry while out on the road then these bags will definitely do the trick.
Have you tried this stuff? I added their recommended quantity (it goes by tire size and whether you're running tubes or tubeless) to the tires on my bike this spring and have managed to put on about 2500 km so far to test it out.
So far I like it. It seems to be doing exactly what it's designed to do.
According to the bottle it is formulated for both high-speed (highway) and off-road motorcycles to seal most slow leaks and punctures in the contact patch of your tire, prevent flats, balance tire/wheel assemblies and extend tire life.
Is it going to do all of that? I'm not sure, but my tires seem to be rolling smoother, so I'm guessing that it has helped balance them, and the tire pressure has been stable all summer.
Has anyone else tried this stuff? I'd be interested in hearing what you think about it. I'm also hoping to get a few more miles on the bike to give this balancer/sealant a proper test.
Here is something you don't see every day: One of the roads in Yellowstone Park has been closed due to serious damage caused by extreme heat coming up through the ground.
The road is literally melting due to the heat.
Yellowstone Park has long been known as a hot spot (sorry for the pun) for underground thermal activity and the park is full of geysers such as the famous Old Faithful along with others such as Great Fountain Geyser, White Dome Geyser and Firehole Lake.
This new development has helped spark renewed rumors the the Yellowstone caldera, also known as the Yellowstone volcano or Yellowstone supervolcano, may be getting ready to erupt.
If you're planning a trip to the park you'd better do it soon and get some pictures before the whole place goes up and takes out the states of Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado.
Do you ever have one of those moments of realization when your whole perception of reality is suddenly altered?
How did that happen? I guess that I'd better get used to it as it certainly beats the alternative. Of course those pension checks that keep rolling in every month help take the sting out of growing older!
And, as they say, we may be growing older - but that doesn't mean that we're going to grow up! So, as our good friend Red Green once said - STAY CRAZY !
A Complete Ban On Cell Phone Use By Drivers?!
Wouldn't that be nice! And it may just happen. As the laws stand right now drivers are still allowed to use cell phones if they're operated by a Bluetooth / hands-free device. But that may just change in the future due to the ever-increasing number of accidents involving distracted driving.
The National Road Security Commission in France is proposing a ban on ALL phone use while driving - period! Apparently the politicians there are studying the proposition to see if it could be made into a law.
It could happen. France and many other cash-strapped European countries see drivers and motorcyclists as cash cows and currently take any opportunity that they can to fine them for almost any infraction that they can dream up. So this would be just one more way to gather huge amounts of cash for their coffers.
Could it happen in North America? The answer to that is YES, and for those of us that are dodging distracted drivers on a daily basis I say it can't happen too soon!
Here is a New Nikwax Product for Riders!
Nikwax Visor Proof is a spray-on rain repellant that is supposed to be easy to apply and reportedly improves your vision while riding in wet weather by shedding water off of your visor.
Does it work? I can't say as I haven't tried the product yet. But I've used plenty of other Nikwax waterproofing products over the years on my riding gear and boots and they work great.


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A companion piece (although they are so totally different) to Ethan. His beautiful little sister, Lily.
Her father, my nephew Daniel, sent me this photo with scarf around her head. She looks like a tiny Jewish mother in the photo, not sure I captured that look!


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Financial wellbeing is a major factor in marriages among 'silver splicers', a survey has found. With latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showing an upturn in the number of older women in the UK marrying or remarrying in recent years, research by finance group Investec Wealth & Investment suggests that their reasons may have as much to do with money as love.
IW&I's survey showed that almost half of divorced and widowed women over the age of 55 said that their financial well being has been or would be a factor in their decision to remarry, as opposed to having a common-law relationship. Of these, almost a quarter rated their financial well being as a 'significant' factor and nearly one in 10 - nine percent - named it as the 'primary' factor in deciding to remarry, with this figure rising to 15% among divorced women.
Among the considerations cited behind a decision to remarry was an automatic right to a pension pot if the marriage ends or their partner died (45%), guaranteed inheritance rights if their partner dies without a will (36%) and the potential benefit gained from the doubling of the inheritance tax threshold for married couples (23%).
ONS data released earlier this year revealed that the number of women marrying over the age of 65 increased by 56% between 2009 and 2014. With people living longer, this percentage is predicted to increase further, with second and even third marriages potentially lasting for decades.
But finding your 'happy ever after' later in life can be complicated when it comes to financial planning. IW&I found that 60% of women over 55 did or would take steps to ensure the assets they owned before marriage were kept separate from their new partner, with this figure rising to 73% among divorced women and 66% for the over-65s.
The figures highlight the importance of planning for the future and discussing issues such as finances, life insurance and making a will, particularly in a blended family where there can be very different expectations.


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Pittsburgh's Jewish Pirates
August 22, 2012, 8:00 pm 0 Edit
Hank Greenberg
(Editor's note: This is a revised version of a story that appeared in the Chronicle three years ago. It is reprinted here in advance of Jewish Heritage Night at PNC Park, Tuesday, Aug. 28.)
They didn't wear their religion on their sleeves, but the colors of those sleeves were definitely black and gold — or dirt brown from the occasional dustup on the base paths.
They were the Jews who played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, and as it turns out, there have been Jews playing for this club, off and on, since Chester A. Arthur was president.
That's 130 years for those of you who aren't up on your presidential history.
With help from several sources, the Chronicle has compiled what is perhaps the only Jewish Bucco lineup. We look not only at who they were, but how well they played.
The main source was the recently published book, "The Baseball Talmud," by Howard Megdal. It contains stats and bios from all MOT major leaguers.
Megdal is certain he's compiled a near comprehensive list of Jews in major league baseball.
"The only one I'm missing is a guy [named] Josh Weitzel, who plays for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who came up just after my final deadline, so I'm one short," Megdal told the Chronicle. "There are definitely some who have not been discovered, who will be discovered down the road, but as of this minute that's the only one."
"So much of this is speculation," Megdal added. "You have to hear a name and follow-up."
Some of these Buccos are obscure, having played a season or two before they disappeared from baseball. Others were solid players who retired after respectable playing careers. At least one was a bona fide baseball legend.
So how would this team of mensches fair if time and fate conspired to throw them together as one club? Well, let's put it this way, they probably wouldn't win any pennants; neither would they embarrass themselves — much.
So without further ado here is the lineup for your Pittsburgh Jewish Pirates!
Leading off and catching, Jake Goodman:
First, a confession: Goodman actually played first base. But given the scarcity of MOT Buccos, we have to move him behind the plate. The oldest Pirate on our team, Goodman played for the club before it was even called the Pirates. He joined the team in 1882 when it was still known generically as the Alleghenys and playing in a long-defunct league called the American Association. A wholly unremarkable player, this Lancaster native spent one season with the team during which he batted .317. But don't get too excited, that's based on just 41 at bats. He smacked 13 hits that year, including two doubles and triples apiece, no homers though, and he didn't steal a single base. Still, he's our leadoff hitter.
Batting second and playing right field, Cal Abrams:
A Pirate, for parts of two seasons — 1953 and '54 — Abrams batted .286 and .280 consecutively those years, belting out 258 hits. Over his career, which included stints with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox, "Abie," a 6-feet tall left-handed hitter, batted .269 with 32 homers, 64 doubles and 19 triples — just the number two hitter — we need to move the runner over.
Batting third and playing left field, Sid Gordon:
Now we're getting into the meat of our lineup. In his only full season with the Pirates (he was traded midway through the following year), the 5-foot-10-inch right-handed hitter from Brooklyn batted .306 with 363 at bats; just 12 homers, but he hit 202 round trips in a career that spanned 13 seasons.
Batting fourth and playing first base, Hank Greenberg:
The crowd goes wild! Greenberg, perhaps the best-known Jewish ballplayer in the history of the majors (sorry Sandy Koufax), spent the final season of his Hall of Fame 13-year career with the Pirates. A menacing hunk of a batter, Greenberg stood 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 210 pounds. Though he batted only .249 in 402 bats during his Pirates season, he still managed to belt 25 home runs and rack up 74 RBIs (Forbes Field was very, very good to him). For the record, he finished his career with 331 home runs, but baseball historians love to speculate on what he might have done had World War II and military service not interrupted his playing time. Who knows? Babe Ruth's record of 714 homers might have fallen sooner than it did.
Batting fifth and playing second base, Jake Pitler:
So much for our long ball threat, now back to reality. Pitler, a 5-foot-8-inch, 150-pound right-handed hitter from New York, is the best of what's left. Pitler spent his only two seasons in the majors — 1917-1918 — with the Pirates. During that time he batted .232 with zippo homers and 23 RBIs. And though the Pirates weren't any better in 1917 (they finished 51-103 that year), Pitler had the honor of being the only Jewish Pirate ever to share an infield with the great Honus Wagner. They formed the double play combination in Wagner's final season with the Pirates. Too bad they didn't turn more of them. Despite his uneventful playing career, Pitler went on to become a well-known coach.
Batting sixth and playing center field, Ed Mensor:
We are now officially scraping the bottom of the barrel. Ed Mensor, who checked in at 5 feet 6 inches and weighed 145 pounds, was known as "the midget" to his teammates. In three barely noticeable major league seasons — 1912-1914, all spent with the Pirates — this snip of a Jew from Woodville, Ore., managed a .221 batting average, a single home run and eight RBIs.
Batting seventh and playing shortstop, Dave Roberts:
Oh, I can hear all you Pirates fanatics scrambling for your email right now, "Gotcha! Roberts was a pitcher, not a shortstop." That's right, he was, but alas we're fresh out of position players, and Roberts, a hard throwing 6-foot-2-inch, 197-pound southpaw from Gallipolis, Ohio, is the best hitting hurler we have left. Even though he batted .000 in just five at bats for the Pirates, over his 13-season career, he batted .194 and managed seven homers and 46 RBIs. As a pitcher though, he's much more noteworthy, winning 103 games and losing 125 with a 3.78 earned run average. He'll be the backbone of our starting rotation.
Batting eighth and playing third base, Erskine Mayer:
Yep, another converted pitcher (hey, what can we say, we're out of options). Mayer, a 6-foot-tall, right-handed pitcher from Atlanta, was a .185 hitter, but a respectable pitcher (90 wins, 70 losses in eight major league seasons with an ERA of 2.36).
Batting ninth and pitching:
OK, here's the rest of our rotation:
• Dick Conger, a right-handed hurler who spent the 1941 and '42 seasons with the Pirates. He only appeared in four games total, but he had a 2.16 ERA. Not bad.
• Ross Baumgarten, a 6-foot-1-inch, 180-pound lefty from Highland Park, Ill., spent one of his five seasons with the Pirates during which he appeared in 12 games and went 0-5 with a 6.75 ERA. Enough said.
And in the bullpen:
Our first two names, Harry Shuman (righty) and Roger Samuels (lefty), were flashes in the pan here. Shuman spent the 1942 and '43 seasons here; Samuels, 1989. Neither recorded a save.
Then there's John Grabow. A Lebanese Jew on his mother's side, the 6-foot-2-inch, 185-pound lefty from California, is the most recent Jew to wear a Pirates uniform; he's also the longest tenured Jewish Pirate in the club's history, having spent his six years in black and gold. In that time he appeared in 345 games, going 17-15 with six saves. ERA: 4.19.
The manager:
Who else? Lenny Levy. The Pirates first base coach in 1960, Levy stood in that coaching box in the ninth inning of game seven of the World Series as Bill Mazeroski rounded the diamond with his game-winning homer.
A Pittsburgh native, onetime Pirates batboy, and Taylor Allderdice High School graduate, Pirates manager and Hall of Fame third baseman Pie Traynor signed Levy to a contract in 1936, but he never played above the minor leagues. He did, however, remain in the Pirates organization in some capacity until 1963.
He began his coaching career in 1947. A good judge of player talent, he also worked as a Pirates scout from 1951 to '56, he discovered Dick Groat — who, with Mazeroski, formed that great 1960 double play combination — as well as three-time All Star Frank Thomas.
If anyone can get the most out of this team, he can.
The owner:
Sitting in the owners box behind home plate, a bowler hat perched majestically atop his head, the great Barney Dreyfuss — arguably the best and most colorful owner in major league history. An architect of the World Series, and the man who mediated an ugly bidding war between the National and American Leagues, Dreyfuss' impact on baseball is felt to this day. He's also the man who brought Honus Wagner to the Pirates, literally trading the future Hall of Fame shortstop to himself from his Louisville club.
(Lee Chottiner can be reached at leec@thejewishchronicle.net.)

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ANGOLA (06/07/2018) Trine University tennis teams are helping provide chew toys for Steuben County Sheriff's Department K-9 Abe.
One of the 2-year-old Belgian Malinois-German shepherd mix's favorite rewards is a tennis ball to chew, according to Deputy Alex Harris, Abe's handler. The pair began working as a team at the department on Monday, June 4.
Tennis balls become too worn out for Trine's teams to use after about a month of use, so Erin Kolar, head coach for the university's men's and women's teams, is donating tennis balls for Harris to use as rewards once the team is done with them.
Harris and Abe stopped by campus Thursday, June 7, to receive a bag of balls from Kolar. She previously had donated another bag of balls for Abe.


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But a strong finish not only put the Golden Gophers into the tournament but gave them plenty of momentum, as well -- exactly what they needed to earn their first tournament victory since 2013.
"We were really locked in," Minnesota coach Richard Pitino told CBS after the game. "For 40 minutes, we stuck to the scouting report. We disrupted them, we bothered them. We beat a really good Louisville team."
However, Louisville started to chip away and pulled within nine on a 3-pointer from Perry with 2:44 to play, cutting Minnesota's lead to 76-67. Perry followed that with a drive and running layup to get the Cardinals within seven but Minnesota got late stops and made enough free throws to put the game away.
"Get some rest," Pitino told CBS when asked about what's next for the Gophers. "Murphy's banged up. Just get off our feet. That was a war, that was a long game. And then get excited about whoever we're going to play. This is a really special moment for our team."


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I'm 30 years old and still live with my parents because I chose a useless major.
No, your major is not useless. You just do not know how to sell yourself.
I've seen people working in your chosen area, but it's behind the scenes. I found it interesting to watch on TV what people who specialize in cosmetics do.
I wonder if you are creative enough to work in this industry.
I think what you are most interested in is competitive, and I think you should meet and talk to people who work in the film industry.
Here's a piece of advice: What you tell other people will either sell or not. A demonstration is also something other people want to see.
And that works fine as long as my vector is only incremented by 1 for solvetimes. However, I am interested in a 30-increment and it obviously does not work, because my time vector then exceeds its limits. Is there a way to solve this problem? I read over and tried that to press! Function but without success.
I apologize if my question is not good, but I do not see how I can improve it. The question essentially relates to for loops, where the index is NOT 1 and only increased to an upper bound of 1, but a non-one increment and a start other than 0 or one, if appropriate is.


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Fiverr has now joined the most highly funded companies in the work intermediation platform (WIP) space. The freelance marketplace platform, founded in 2010, announced a $60 million financing round Wednesday led by Square Peg Capital, along with existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel and Qumra Capital. This is the sixth round of financing in five years, bringing the total private equity funding to a stunning sum of $110 million.
The company began as an Israel-based startup, and it now has major offices in the U.S.. It has often been incorrectly regarded as a not-so-serious player in the fast expanding freelance marketplace sector. Certainly this funding round is going to turn some heads and open some eyes to examine what Fiverr has really been about.
We have been in a position to follow Fiverr over the past few years. In this article, we provide a quick summary of the funding event and recent Fiverr developments discussed in the announcement. We will follow up next week with a more in-depth analysis of Fiverr and its perhaps surprising significance for services procurement.
In the press release, Fiverr describes itself as "the world's most transacted marketplace for digital services," saying, "our horizontal marketplace provides nearly any digital service in just one click." Its buyers "can choose from the world's largest catalog of pre-packaged services ranging from graphic design to music/video editing to marketing and copywriting. Fiverr also states that "Fiverr sellers looking to make extra cash have delivered millions of high-quality Gigs from 100+ categories of services, and across 196 countries," the company said. Elsewhere, the company states that it generates close to 1 million digital transactions per month.
The recent announcement focused on the new investment round, and it also brought visibility to the formal launch of what has been an observable, gradually emerging strategy of moving up-market and supporting/encouraging "productized" service offerings/packages.
The press release explains that, for the first time, all freelancers on Fiverr will soon be able to set their own prices rather than be required to start them at $5.
Over the next several weeks, Fiverr also will be introducing "easy-to-understand Gig Packages across several pricing tiers," which will simplify the way freelancers — or Fiverr sellers — price and bundle services, it said in the press release. "The new Gig Packages will also help Fiverr sellers pocket more cash, create greater value for buyers, and make sellers nimble enough to compete for larger projects from SMBs, entrepreneurs and even corporate marketing departments." (Emphasis added.) Fiverr will continue to roll out the bundled Gig Packages and other new value-added services and during 2016.
It's clear from the announcement that Fiverr is now "taking the wraps off" of its longer-range strategy, which — when you step back and look at it — starts to seem very much like a classical Clayton Christensen disruption play: entering at the low end of the market, establishing an innovative model and moving upward.
And in case there is any doubt about a long-term vision and strategy at work over the past years at Fiverr, it's interesting to go back to 2012, when Kaufman told TechCrunch, "Our vision is to turn Fiverr into the eBay for the service economy." Kaufman wasn't pulling any punches back then, and now we can see that investors are not only attracted by the usual elements of a talented team and ability to execute but also by what appears to be clear vision and compelling strategy.
In other words, despite appearances, Fiverr is not a black swan.
Perhaps, surprisingly to some, Fiverr is now coming into focus as a significant, innovative player in the freelancer WIP space. In this context, we will be returning with a research brief providing a more extensive analysis of not only the Fiverr strategy but, perhaps more importantly, how what Fiverr is doing is directly relevant to services procurement.
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Mahesh Babu (born Mahesh Babu Ghattamaneni on 9 August 1975) is an Indian film actor best known for his work in Telugu cinema. Born to actor Krishna in the Ghattamaneni family, Mahesh Babu faced the camera at the age of four as a child artist in 1979's Needa. His first leading role was in the film Rajakumarudu, which was released in August 1999.
After playing the role of a young Kabaddi player in the 2003 blockbuster film Okkadu, Mahesh continued in this vein, gaining mass appeal and appearing in many successful films such as Murari (2001), Athadu (2005), Pokiri (2006), Dookudu (2011), Business Man (2012) and Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013).
Mahesh Babu has worked in nine films as a child artist and in seventeen films as a lead actor till date. He has won seven Andhra Pradesh state Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Awards, three CineMAA Awards and one South Indian International Movie Award. In addition to the films, he also endorses several brands in Andhra Pradesh and South India. He is also the national brand ambassador for Thums Up. He was listed #31 in Forbes India top 100 Celebrities for the year 2012. He was voted as the second most desirable man in the Times Most Desirable Men 2012 online polls conducted by the Indiatimes Group.
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Discover biographical, bibliographical, and critical information about Australian writers, writing, and publishing.
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The Australian Drama Archive is a ground-breaking project, led by AustLit's Director, unearthing and bringing to life plays and archival material by Australian writers who wrote for the stage, radio, and film. Explore original playscripts, fabulous ephemera, and richly researched stories of some of our forgotten and under-recognised writers working before the 1960s.
Actors are the public face of the performing arts, carrying the immediate responsibility for the success of each show. Yet they are sometimes left out of theatre history. This collection of lively biographical essays by Anne Pender explores the lives and careers of some inimitable Australian performers including John Clarke, Julia Blake, Denise Scott, and Tony Sheldon.
Read poignant and empowering stories of growing up in Australia as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
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On the centenary of her death, AustLit republishes a collection of short stories from Sumner Locke, written between the outbreak of war in 1914 and her death in childbirth in 1917. Locke's is a brutal, ironic world of bright-parasoled heroines and wounded heroes moving through a perpetual war.
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BBC 1 AND THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!
I was delighted to be contacted by Firecracker media company who were looking for entrepreneurial ideas for a new BBC 1 daytime show called 'The Customer is Always right.' I was intrigued….it was described as a cross between GoggleBox and Dragon's Den. 'What's not to love'……. I thought!
We had great fun filming both at the house and in a mock design studio, The concept was brilliant: three products were sent to several 'Goggle Box' style households. They work out what the product is, use it and then score it out of 10 for how good it is and if it is value for money.
Thanks to David Attenborough and Blue Planet there has been a massive rise in awareness of how damaging single use plastic bags are to the environment, so, enter the Wrapper, Stage Right.
The RE-WRAP-IT Wrappers are pretty simple – it's a Reusable Sandwich Wrapper. Rather than having single use plastic bags, cling film or tinfoil, for your packed lunch, you would use a Wrapper. It folds round your sandwich, wrap or roll and is sealed with a velcro strip. Ingenious. You give it a wipe down with a cloth to clean the inside, and if the outside gets grubby it can be thrown in the washing machine. The Wrappers are made with the help of the Inmates at Kilmarnock Prison – they learn a skill, gain a qualification and get paid for their work. I get them made in Scotland so a win win situation all round!
My fellow contestants were as diverse as could be. All I needs say is Bugs and Trugs! Watch this space.
'The Customer is Always Right' starts on Easter Monday on BBC 1 and runs for 15 episodes. There is a Tremendous Trophy for the winner of each episode…. sorry, no spoiler alerts for who wins my round so turn on and tune in for episode 9 on Thursday 2nd MAY AT 11am to see IF the customer is always right!
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American glam metal band Warrant released their third studio album Dog Eat Dog in 1992. The album spawned four singles, "Machine Gun", "The Bitter Pill", "The Hole In My Wall" and "Inside Out". The album explored a darker world than their previous material. It was also their last album to feature all five original members, as Joey Allen and Steven Sweet both left the band two years later. Dog Eat Dog was certified Gold by the RIAA and peaked at #25 on the Billboard 200.
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The fighting boils up at the Bushey Farm in Gettysburg, PA 2013.
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Two battles captured inadvertently in this double exposure. Union troops defend "Little Round Top" and fighting in the "Wheat Field" at bottom right, during a reenactment in Gettysburg.
Union troops in camp during a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. 2013.
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Union troops line "Cemetery Ridge" during a reenactment at Gettysburg, PA 2013.
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Q: NETSH produces no output I am trying to use following command.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("netsh -c interface dump > c:\\location1.txt");

But it produces no output.
I know we have to separate command and its arguments i tried but still failed.
I used following way.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("netsh",new String[] "-c", "interface", "dump >", "c:\\location1.txt");

But still produces no output.
If anyone knows how to use all or some of the NETSH commands using runtime then it will be great helpful.

A: You can try using ProcessBuilder
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while(inStreamReader.readLine() != null){
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A: This is netshon Windows ? Try to specifi full path to executable:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:/full/path/netsh.exe",...

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You can bet your bippy she will be relieved, awful woman.
not sure what I think about this - on one hand - she should certainly be remembered especially by her sons but is it necessary to go for something big?
PRINCESS Diana's sons William and Harry and her brother Earl Spencer are to mark the 20th anniversary of her death by supporting a year-long programme of events celebrating her legacy.


The University of Michigan-Flint Golf Club took that saying and stood it on end, putting in a good performance and bringing back memories to last a lifetime.
Participating in the first national championship event in school history, the linksters played admirably under adverse conditions at the Collegiate Golf Alliance National Championship Tournament in Las Vegas November 9.
An overwhelming number of students at the University of Michigan-Flint say they are satisfied with their overall educational experience. A national survey found that 85% of First Year students reported a favorable image of the university and 83% of seniors who responded would choose UM-Flint again if they could start their college career over.
Students in the University of Michigan-Flint nursing program have another opportunity to experience firsthand, health and medical programs in other parts of the world. Nairobi, Kenya is being added to the list of nursing destinations that already includes the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Cambodia. The first student/faculty exchange to St. Mary's Mission Hospital Medical College, School of Nursing in Nairobi is set for February 2009.
The University of Michigan-Flint First Year Experience class takes a bike tour with Professor Steve Landon to some of Flint's most popular cultural attractions including the Farmers' Market, Kearsley Park & Whalely Historic House.
A new UM-Flint logo now marks the intersection of Kearsley and Wallenberg Streets. Two similar logos were placed at the crosswalk from Housing to MSB.
In honor of the recently held Learn & Serve Challenge, Michigan Campus Compact (MCC) has announced that the University of Michigan-Flint is a recipient of one of the new Campus Engagement Fellowship (C.E. Fellows) grant program.
be worth even more. Find out why from Jonathan Schroeder, Chaired Professor of Marketing at the University of Exeter Business School, England. He will be the guest speaker at the University of Michigan-Flint on October 30. Schroeder is a guest of the Student Communications Association and will deliver his presentation at 12:30 p.m. in the Michigan Rooms of University Center. Because of the interest in Schroeder's research, the event is open to the public.


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Live Nation recently asked us to feature Spotify in a campaign we were doing to promote Jay Z's Magna Carter Tour! Built on our Tweematic platform, this Twitter-driven sweepstakes allows fans to share a message and be entered for a chance to win a trip to see Jay Z in concert. Additionally, the application features a Spotify player and call to action, a tour calendar and a shapematic (for more about the growing popularity of our shapematic engine click here). A growing number of labels and venues are asking us to "Spotify" their campaigns because of partnerships or opportunities involving Spotify. If you happen to be in that situation, let us know – we have a whole bunch of even better Spotify ideas!


There are few things you can appreciate better than something you have striven hard at yet failed. For a bit of time I was a minor expert in G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) -- well, really just the curator of a private database.
GPCRs are molecular wonders. The human genome contains around a thousand of so, but a large fraction of these are olfactory receptors -- our detectors of scents. These are organized into at least three major sequence families -- there were always a few more trying to break in, and I've lost track of the current opinion on these unusual families.
GPCRs have two key characteristics. First, they signal by coupling to heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins, or G-proteins. Second, they have seven membrane spanning domains. Indeed, the main reason to claim some new looks-like-nothing-else protein as a GPCR was the prediction of this seven transmembrane, or 7TM, character. That 7TM character also makes them crystallographic sinkholes -- I think it is still true that only one crystal structure has been reported (bovine rhodopsin).
GPCRs have an amazing variety of ligands, ranging from small proteins to peptides to sugars to lipids to nucleotides to what have you. As mentioned above, our sense of smell is largely driven by GPCRs -- the discovery of this large subfamily led to a Nobel prize. All sorts of molecules have smells, suggesting the versatility of these proteins. Some fundamental tastes are also detected by GPCRs. Our very entry into this world is governed by a GPCR (oxytocin receptor). Perhaps the most amazing GPCRs are those that detect light and enable our vision. While a photon isn't truly the ligand for these receptors (a photoisomerization product of a covalently bound small molecule is), it is fun to think of it that way. If someday a physiological role is found for a noble gas, I wouldn't want to bet against a GPCR being the receptor for it.
GPCRs are also key drug targets. Many neurotransmitters are detected by GPCRs, along with many important hormones. Because they are such important drug targets, special care was made by every genomics company in sifting through their data to ensure that no GPCR slipped through unnoticed. Many that were found resembled olfactory receptors and probably are -- though sometimes they are clearly expressed in rather peculiar places outside the nose.
Once found, life is not easy. In order to configure a high-throughput screen for a small molecule (a few GPCRs are antibody targets, namely the chemokine receptors), you really need to know what the input is and which G-protein the output is sent out on. This also doesn't hurt in deducing the physiological role for the GPCR. The G-protein is the easy side. The specificity is mostly in the alpha subunit, which there are around 20 of but which also fall into a few subfamilies. Most GPCRs talk to only one of these subfamilies, and better yet for drug discovery there are mutants which seem to be rather promiscuous. So that's taken care of.
But finding a ligand: good luck! Again, since GPCRs seem to bind anything you can assume a novel one might bind just about anything. Treeing them with their kinfolk can suggest possible ligand classes, as neighborhoods on the tree will often have similar ligands, but that's no help if your novel GPCR doesn't look much like the rest. So every lab would throw a small kitchen sink of candidate ligands at their 'orphan' GPCRs and look for a signal -- and based on our experience & what's in the literature, that wasn't very often. New ligands would appear, often in small cascades -- once a new class of ligand was identified (such as short chain fatty acids), then a slew of papers would follow after a bunch of these had been explored on orphan receptors. But the last time I checked my database of receptors of interest without ligands, the list was still long.
One interesting possibility is that some of these receptors don't have specific ligands, because they may not function on their own Heterodimerization of GPCRs has been reported, and other families of receptors (kinases, nuclear hormone receptors) show how proteins lacking in some key receptor functions can still be very important via heterodimerizing with close relatives.
So it is with a bit of envy I view the recent press release from Compugen, an Israeli company that built an informatics approach to identifying novel transcripts and splice variants. They report finding, and demonstrating the function of, eight novel peptide ligands for GPCRs, some for orphan GPCRs and others as additional ligands for previously characterized ones. These are a challenging problem -- one which I and several more clever people at MLNM beat their head on -- and clearly Compugen has done well. Part of their identification relied on finding characteristic amino acid motifs recognized by the proteases which process these peptides -- many peptide GPCR ligands are clipped from larger precursors. Often, multiple ligands are encoded by the same precursor. Finding novel precursors is not trivial -- not only are they very short open reading frames, and therefore are difficult to distinguish from random open reading frames appearing in DNA, but many are also on fast evolutionary clocks -- which means that finding these peptides by cross-searching the human and mouse (for example) genomes isn't always much help.
So hats off to Compugen. I would be shocked if we are done finding GPCR ligands, but to find eight at once is quite an achievement.
That is surprising and quite a feat. Do you know offhand what percentage of these GPCR's are still orphans?
It looks like there are still about 150 orphan receptors which are not in the olfactor subgroup -- that's a big chunk of orphans.
I specialised in trying to discover novel neuropeptides for 9 years of my career. I possibly finally succeeded recently, but still don't know what receptor it acts on. I am green with envy for Compugen.


Bugs were bad this last weekend, but the burros were worse. I've never seen them swarm, too! The rumored feeding has apparently emboldened them. I always thought it was cool to hear them walk through at night, and occasionally see them during the day, and hear a couple brays at night. But last Thursday night at Palm Springs was out of control. Breeding season, maybe? If there's no more precip, North pass should be almost all dried up. I see some forecasts indicating some storms the last week of March though.
We're planning to visit the springs on the dates above, driving in on Sunday the 2nd and leaving on Wednesday, the 5th.
We'll take the North Pass if the mud is dried up a bit, otherwise coming via the South Pass if North sounds too difficult for our AWD RAV4.
Anyone else planning a trip around that time? Anyone want to caravan in? How are the bugs lately?


The Solana Beach Soccer Club Boys 12U All Stars (SBSC REVOLUTION) became only the second team in the history of the Solana Beach Soccer Club to reach a Tournament Championship when they capped off an incredible Recreational League tournament season becoming Tournament Finalists in the New Year's Kickoff held in Escondido Jan. 4-5.
Revolution went undefeated in their first tournament held Dec. 7-8 in La Jolla but didn't advance to the Championship due to the scoring system used despite not losing. In their next tournament, their first-ever loss came in the semi-finals and their second in the Championship of their most recent outing. The team was coached by Tom Hernandez and made up of 5th and 6th grade student-athletes from Solana Beach.


The Washington State House Education Committee will be taking an executive action on 2/16/2017 regarding "HB 1518 – Improving student achievement by promoting social emotional learning throughout the calendar year".
This bill is the first salvo across the bow on Social Emotion Learning and requires far more time than a few days for legislators to understand what the term means and its ramifications for the future.
This grand experiment of SEL initially targets low income and minority students and the start up costs would include a summer SEL program for 600 students to be located in public school buildings. Public schools in Washington State are severely under funded by the state and yet these legislators want to initiate an expensive and untested program.
If you live in Washington State, please contact your legislators, call them, tweet them, send them this post, whatever it takes to educate our legislators on the big picture.
In part 1 titled What do Betsy DeVos and Seattle Public School's IT Lead John Krull have in common? The endgame of corporate reform in public school education, I described Betsy DeVos' vision, which includes vouchers for students to attend (Christian) religious schools and for every student to use a computer for most, if not all, of their education. This is for public school students and would not apply to private school students who have the advantage of small class sizes, the attention of qualified and certified teachers and a range of subjects to explore.
The idea of computer-centric learning is termed "anytime, anywhere" learning and is seen as an excellent value for online charter schools. No brick and mortar buildings to lease or teaching staff. They actually call this type of school a "value school".
A student can do all their lessons online, be assessed as they work with short quizzes and tests as well as be evaluated in terms of their emotional state.
This leads us to what is referred to as Social, Emotional Learning (SEL).
Along with online learning that was put into place by John Krull, who at the time was the Chief Technology Officer at Oakland Public Schools and is now the Chief Information Officer within Seattle Public Schools, another program was put into place in Oakland public schools with the assistance of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). The idea of Social and Emotional Learning is teaching "mindfulness" which is a difficult state to be in if you're hungry because they is no food at home or you're sick and can't see a doctor but issues of poverty are not part of this equation. This SEL program is sold as being an integral part of the "successful implementation of the Common Core".
The student is evaluated on their emotional state by teachers or other school staff using a rating scale. This is comparable to psychological testing but done by untrained personnel rather than trained psychologists. The evaluation becomes part of a student's record and because it is an educational record rather than a medical record, there is no privacy as provided by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). Whether a child has "anger management problems" or finds it difficult to focus, both of which could be situational, the information is tracked from preschool to the age of 20. The tracking of student information is often referred to as "P20".
CASEL has assisted OSPI with writing a report on SEL and is determining a set of standards for Social Emotional Learning for every grade level.
CASEL was supported by Bill Gates early in organization's development.
To get an idea of how one school district, Cleveland Metro Schools, has school staff evaluate students from preschool to grade 12, you can go here. To view the standards set for the initial eight CASEL states, some of which have withdrawn from the program, see this document provided by CASEL.
All of this skirts the issue not only of costs to school districts but also an educator's capacity to teach and psychologically evaluate students in a classroom. In anticipation of this argument, software has been developed as a complement to the Common Core Standards curriculum that can reportedly track a child's emotions and thoughts.
In February 2013, the US Department of Education's (USDOE) Office of Educational Technology released a draft report titled "Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century," suggesting the potential of physiological readings of a child to measure their responses to stimulus on a computer screen and therefore have the ability to influence their mindset and performance.
It is stated in the introduction the goal is "To design and evaluate learning environments that effectively promote and/or teach grit, tenacity, and perseverance, the field will need valid and reliable measurement instruments that can provide quick and useful feedback.
Bill Gates has donated $1M to SRI "to accelerate acceptance of common evaluation frameworks for digital courseware by providing technical assistance and support to institutions conducting evaluations of high quality next generation digital courseware".
In the report on page 44, the equipment suggested to read a child's response to stimulus on a computer screen includes a Facial Expression Camera, Posture Analysis Seat, a Pressure Mouse and a Wireless Skin Conductance Sensor. Although some of this equipment might not be practical in terms of scale, the goal is to develop software that can read facial expressions and use other forms of biometrics to assess a child's thoughts and emotions.
Educational data mining (EDM) "develops methods and applies techniques from statistics, machine learning, and data mining to analyze data collected during teaching and learning. EDM tests learning theories and informs educational practice" (U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2012, p. 9) Learning analytics "applies techniques from information science, sociology, psychology, statistics, machine learning, and data mining to analyze data collected during education administration and services, teaching, and learning. Learning analytics creates applications that directly influence educational practice" (U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2012, p. 9). Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate aspects of human affect.
Student data collected in online learning systems can be used to develop models about processes associated with grit, which then can be used, for example, to design interventions or adaptations to a learning system to promote desirable behaviors. …The field of affective computing is also emerging … Researchers are exploring how to gather complex affective data and generate meaningful and usable information to feed back to learners, teachers, researchers, and the technology itself. Connections to neuroscience are also beginning to emerge.
On page 42 of the report, it goes on to describe how to evaluate children in preschool using the Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment then goes on to report how to measure a "students' patterns of interactions with digital learning environments. Interaction patterns can demonstrate how tool use in an environment relates to mindsets, learning goals, learning strategies, and help-seeking".
And of course, there is the use of video games to promote "grit, tenacity, and perseverance".
Students in high-poverty areas face particular challenges of stress, limited social support, lack of critical resources, and psychological disempowerment and disenfranchisement. However, regardless of socioeconomic conditions, all students can encounter difficult challenges and setbacks throughout their schooling as they learn conceptually complex material, deal with distractions, persist through academic assignments that are important but not necessarily intrinsically interesting, manage competing demands, and prepare themselves for the complex and rapidly changing 21st-century workplace.
As discussed in the Expanding Evidence report and throughout this report, the advancement of digital learning environments provides new opportunities for mining the data produced when students work in digital learning environments, and the emerging field of affective computing allows for multiple channels of data integrating behavioral performances, selfreport, physiological responses, and eye tracking. Video games also provide an "exhaust Draft 92 stream" of data reflecting all of a student's moves within the game. While there are many promising methods emerging, the field is new and there is still considerable work to be done before these become inexpensive and practical for widespread use.
It's interesting to note that Betsy DeVos, during the nomination process as Secretary of Education, stated her unwillingness to lose her financial stake in a biofeedback company Neurocore.
Next part in the series will be about Social Emotional Learning and the Department of Defense.
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Do parents understand all the data collection and tracking that will be connected to SEL measurements? Are parents OK with this? Did the PTA explain this to parents when the platform was voted on?
WSPTA has a tradition of trying to always be ahead in the corporate reform game starting with merit pay for teachers and charter schools seven years ago.
The PTA leaders get co-opted all too easily without dong any homework on a subject.
Here is a link to all the information on the bill so far http://app.leg.wa.gov/mobile/BillSummary/Details?number=1518&year=2017.


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Q: Grid tie inverter on Generator Set I have a grid tie inverter powered by a 24V battery connected to a circuit that is on a Generator. The grid tie inverter syncs well and outputs 655 – 800W according to the Load. As the load changes the Generator  supply rises or falls accordingly.
There is a 30A charger in the design to top up the battery. The charger can be switched in or out.
An anomaly has me confused as follows:
When the charger is On (and the gauge shows 30A), the Load on the Generator should rise by 700W but does not.
What am I missing please?

A: The power to run your charger is coming from the inverter, not the generator. This is because the inverter produces a voltage a bit higher than the grid voltage (the generator in your case). This is so the inverter can provide power to the grid when the local load is sufficiently low. I can't see a way to force the charger to take its power only from the generator with your setup. My suggestion is: don't connect both the inverter and the charger simultaneously. Connect only the charger when the load is low and the battery needs charging. Connect only the inverter when you need to power a high load.


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China's advanced J-11D heavy fighter jet takes maiden flight
The upgraded D variant of China's J-11 fighter jet, a copy of the Russian Sukhoi Su-27, has made its maiden flight, Chinese media reported. The jet reportedly has new radar and an air refueling system.
The J-11D model, which was tested in the air for the first time on Wednesday, incorporates technologies developed for the J-16 fighter jet.
It is reported to have better active phased array radar, use more composite materials in its wings and tail, and be capable of firing more advanced air-to-air missiles like PL-10 and PL-15.
Photos of the J-11D prototype tested at a Shenyang Aircraft Corporation airfield also showed an in-flight refueling probe installed on the port side similar to the arrangement used on J-15.
China was the first foreign country to buy Russian Su-27s in the early 1990s. Over a decade it purchased a manufacturing license for the jets and managed to copy the design to produce it from domestic parts… see more
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Kellogg-Hubbard Receives $600,000 Lift
The Kellogg-Hubbard Library has cleared its goal of $600,000 needed to replace its 45-year-old elevator and make other improvements. Other projects to be supported by the Give the Library a Lift! Campaign include restoration projects on the building's interior, cleaning and maintenance of the replica Parthenon frieze, energy efficiency upgrades, a new book drop, and landscaping work. More than 200 individual and corporate donors contributed, with significant grants and donations coming from the National Life Foundation, the Vermont Community Development Program (with help from the City of Montpelier), the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, the Vermont Arts Council, Community National Bank, Union Mutual, and the Vermont Mutual Insurance Group.
Memorial Hall in North Calais Wins Revitalization Grant
The North Calais Memorial Hall Association has received a $100,000 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant that will be used to help stabilize the 1885-1886 building on Mirror Lake, closed since 2012 because of structural deterioration. Bruhn, who was executive director of the Preservation Trust of Vermont, died in September at age 72. Donations toward the $683,000 goal may be made online at memorialhallcalais.org or by check to Preservation Trust of Vermont, with "Memorial Hall" noted in the memo line, mailed to NCMHA, P.O. Box 25, East Calais, VT 05650.
Good Samaritan Haven Names New Leader
Rick DeAngelis was appointed executive director of the Good Samaritan Haven, replacing Rob Farrell, who had held the position since May. DeAngelis was chair of the Haven's board and is also a member of Montpelier's Homelessness Task Force. The Haven oversees Central Vermont's only shelter facilities at its Barre location and manages overflow shelters at Hedding United Methodist Church in Barre and Bethany Church in Montpelier. Farrell resigned because of a disagreement with the board over his benefits package, The Times Argus reported.
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Q: Java - Async in Servlet 3.0 vs NIO in Servlet 3.1 Until now, as it applies to serving http requests, I thought the terms - asynchronous and non-blocking i/o meant the same thing. But apparently, they have been implemented separately in servlet 3.0 and 3.1 respectively. I am struggling to understand the difference here...
Can someone shed more light on this topic, please? Specifically, I am looking for an example of how a servlet 3.0 implementation of a server can be async, yet block on a thread? I think may be if I understand this, it may be easier to understand the exact problem that the non-blocking i/o in servlet 3.1 is trying to solve.

A: I will try to summarize what I learned. To understand the problem that Servlet 3.0 and Servlet 3.1 solve, let's look at it this way:
Prior to Servlet 3.0:
The problem with synchronous processing of requests is that it resulted in threads (doing heavy-lifting) running for a long time before the response goes out. If this happens at scale, the servlet container eventually runs out of threads - long running threads lead to thread starvation.
Prior to Servlet 3.0, there were container specific solutions for these long running threads where we can spawn a separate worker thread to do the heavy task and then return the response to client. The servlet thread returns to the servlet pool after starting the worker thread. Tomcat's Comet, WebLogic's FutureResponseServlet and WebSphere's Asynchronous Request Dispatcher are some of the example of implementation of asynchronous processing.
(See link 1 for more info.)
Servlet 3.0 Async:
The actual work could be delegated to a thread pool implementation (independent of the container specific solutions). The Runnable implementation will perform the actual processing and will use the AsyncContext to either dispatch the request to another resource or write the response. We can also add AsyncListener implementation to the AsyncContext object to implement callback methods.
(See link 1 for more info.)
Servlet 3.1 NIO:
As described above, Servlet 3.0 allowed asynchronous request processing but only traditional I/O (as opposed to NIO) was permitted. Why is traditional I/O a problem?
In traditional I/O, there are two scenarios to consider:

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*If the data coming into the server (I/O) is blocking or streamed slower than the server can read, then the server thread that is trying to read this data has to wait for that data.

*On the other hand, if the response data from the server written to ServletOutputStream is slow, the client thread has to wait. In both cases, the server thread doing the traditional I/O (for requests/responses) blocks.

In other words, with Servlet 3.0, only the request processing part became async, but not the I/O for serving the requests and responses. If enough threads block, this results in thread starvation and affects performance.
With Servlet 3.1 NIO, this problem is solved by ReadListener and WriteListener interfaces. These are registered in ServletInputStream and ServletOutputStream. The listeners have callback methods that are invoked when the content is available to be read or can be written without the servlet container blocking on the I/O threads. So these I/O threads are freed up and can now serve other request increasing performance.
(See link 2 for more info.)
Credits

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*link 1: http://www.journaldev.com/2008/async-servlet-feature-of-servlet-3

*link 2: https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/non_blocking_i_o_using


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Topic: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Re: Brussels Airlines in 2018
Let's make the difference between cockpit and cabin crew maybe, because I don't think both of you are talking about the same thing here...
Lufthansa has ordered 55 brand new airplanes for Swiss... And Swiss has had a major long haul expansion first off with the addition of 10 777s with bigger capacity, by adding flights on many routes like Chicago, Miami etc... here in Boston they doubled from 1 to 2 flights a day... thats a huge incr...
Topic: Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 news
Re: Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 news
Used SSJ100s? Already? The type is in commercial use now for 7 years with the first examples far from being up to later standards and often delivered to unstable Russian/Asian carriers that went through rough times over the years (some still existing, others not). So I wouldn't be surprised if ther...
From Jan 16 till Feb 6, SN501, which is supposed to be a daily flight, seems to have been de-programmed every Tuesday, i.e. 4 times, + cancellation on Feb 3. Other cancellations/de-programming: Feb 21, March 2, March 7, March 21, April 1. That makes a total of 10 within 10 weeks (14%!) for a suppos...
This numbers looks bad to me ....And this is the reality. Except the cancellations, the on time performance is not quite worse than e.g. DL on JFK (except ex-BRU which is a little better for DL) and on YYZ it's beter than AC on YUL. Of course this is a simplistic comparison, but that seems to be th...
RoMax, do you know the T&Cs for pilots in Europe? If yes, you do know the ones at EW are borderline insulting don't you? Why do you think EW is struggling to recruit former Air Berlin pilots whilst Ryanair and easyJet are flooded with applications? If you don't know the T&Cs, please don't pretend y...
Pax bound to JFK and YYZ could probably be taken care of by other airlines. No doubt about that, but it's sad to see SN becoming a virtual airline on TAtl routes. Let's not exaggerate either, the OTP is definitely not great and should be improved (nobody is denying that), but it's not like flying S...
I'm not sugercoating it Sean, but calling it 'social dumping at its best' is just crazy. It makes perfect sense for EW to keep their own operations 'clean' by only having short/medium haul operations under their own AOC('s) and rather make use of another fully owned subsidiary of the group which is ...
and (re-)employ people on inferior belgian contracts (in comparison to their old german one). They have German SN contracts and as far as I know nobody was forced to sign them. And inferior? Well yeah, as most of them were previously contracted by an airline paying them too much and being unable to...
I can tell you that AB has lots of crew who are eager to fly and have their mobile phones on, hoping they get a call. A daily inspection and the A340s are ready as well. If they don't fly for SN it's because SN didn't call AB. A yes let's call the crew and Sabena Aerospace (or is it LHT for them?) ...
Thank you for these remarks. I generally appreciate your comments like those of Romax or others. That said, and if I may, "bad luck" is a "typical" answer ( réponse type ) to a customer "lambda". I do not think that a general management can be satisfied in AG to say "Oohh...bad luck" ... there is a...
Why don't they call Air Belgium? Two A340s ready to go with a couple of hours notice. (I know why, but I will be shot down in flames if I write it down) Who says they're ready to go in a couple of hours for SN?! Do you really think SN is cancelling (or delaying by 24h) long haul flights just becaus...
The age of many of those A330's is showing more and more. To some extent it's normal, but it really seems to become more than normal. But it's not like the management doesn't know, in case you missed it 7 much newer, more reliable and more efficient A333's will join the fleet soon and already this s...
Topic: Niki suspends operations, restarts as LaudaMotion, rebranded as Lauda
Re: Niki suspends operations, restarts as LaudaMotion
My guess is that EW will end up taking over all A320 leases and LM will go for B737s. MOL is in charge now. Several of these A320's are actually already in the hands of EW as a result of the AB take-over, but leased to Laudamotion 'on request' of the EU (and now wet-leased back to EW). Niki was usi...
No it's not the SN product and brand, why would it be if it's operated out of Germany (yes even in Germany SN is a very bad known brand). But why is SN so badly known in Germany? Because LH decided to monopolise the routes from BRU to its main bases FRA and MUC. The former SN (Sabena) was flying to...
The homebase is not Brussels. How is it then a "real" SN plane? Since when is that a criteria? Because of the name (well then Air Berlin was very much anti-Air Berlin by having bases throughout Germany, PMI, etc.) or because of sentiment? ... Aircraft are leased by SN (from LHG), on the SN AOC with...
In fact, a week early for BRU, a week late for IAD: USA/Canada moved to summer time on March 11; we'll move on March 25. These are IATA seasons, they are 'by accident' (not really but ok :p ) related to the summer/winter time difference in Europe, but the IATA seasons are used globally for scheduli...
Topic: Brussels Airport (BRU) infrastructure: future
Re: BRU infrastructure: future
Established02 wrote: ↑
The previous drop-off arrangement only lasted for a bit more than a year.
As it was never intended as a 'permanent' solution. Currently they are working on the next version of the 'temporary' solution until the full zone is completely redeveloped over the coming years.
Topic: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Re: Brussels Airlines' fleet renewal
Won't it be used for EW at first? One of the 2 'early arrivals' (don't remember if it's this one or the other) will indeed temporarily go to EW for about 10 months after which it returns to SN. The other one will be used by SN during the summer. Both will operate with a slightly adapted Cathay inte...
Btw, it might be interesting for some to look at the history of Eurowings and Germanwings in Germany (which after all is the home market on which it's all based). Eurowings already exists since the early 1990's as a regional airline operating under the Eurowings name (mainly regional aircraft like ...


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I know that on Christmas morning my kids are going to be smiling and surrounded by streamers of shredded wrapping paper and all their gifts and then we'll spend that whole weekend feasting on our favorite foods and playing all the cool new video games. I'm hoping to make my contribution to other families in at least this small way and to help the good people of Metropolitan Ministries who give back to those in need all year long. Merry Christmas everybody!
Case in point: new mortgages and divorce situations. There have been changes over the years, but it's still important to consider your past when looking ahead to the future.
The Catch-22 of today's real estate market is that the home prices and interest rates are at historic lows; but roughly 33% of Americans don't have the credit history to buy and only half of the country has the FICO power to get the best rates.