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Mars has two small, asteroid-sized moons named Phobos and Deimos. From the point of view of the rover, located near the equator of Mars, these moons occasionally pass in front of, or "transit," the disk of the sun. These transit events are the Martian equivalent of partial solar eclipses on Earth because the outline of the moons does not completely cover the sun (in contrast, Earth's moon does block the entire sun during a total solar eclipse). These eclipses, like those on Earth, occur in predictable "seasons" a few times each Mars year.
As part of a multi-mission campaign, NASA's Curiosity rover is observing these transits, the first of which involved the moon Phobos grazing the sun's disk. The event was observed on Martian day, or sol, 37 (September 13, 2012) using Curiosity's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, equipped with special filters for directly observing the sun. In a series of high-resolution video frames acquired at about three frames per second for about two minutes, the outline of part of Phobos blocked about five percent of the sun.
This animation shows the transit as viewed by the Mastcam 100-millimiter camera (M-100) in nine frames. Another version of the animation is available, consisting of 20 frames taken by the Mastcam 34-millimeter camera (M-34), which has about one-third the resolution of the M-100. In total, 256 frames were taken by the M-100 and 384 frames for the M-34.
The transit was also observed by Curiosity's Rover Environmental Monitoring Stations (REMS) instrument, which saw about a five percent drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation during the event.
Mission scientists use these events to very accurately determine the orbital parameters of the Martian moons. Phobos, for example, orbits very close to Mars and is slowly spiraling in to Mars because of tidal forces. These forces change the orbital position of Phobos over time, and accurate measurements of those changes can provide information about the internal structure of that moon and how it dissipates energy. Deimos orbits much farther away and is slowly spiraling out.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will also attempt to observe a different set of Phobos and Deimos transits, seen from the other side of the planet, in Meridiani Planum.
As part of a multi-mission campaign, NASA's Curiosity rover is observing Martian moon transits, the first of which involved the moon Phobos grazing the sun's disk. The event was observed on Martian day, or sol, 37 (September 13, 2012) using Curiosity's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, equipped with special filters for directly observing the sun. This image layout compares views from the Mastcam 34-millimeter lens (left) and the Mastcam 100-millimeter lens, which is designed to take zoomed-in shots with about three times higher resolution. These images were taken about 18 seconds apart.
This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows a close-up view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together. All three types are observed from orbit with the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. By driving there, Curiosity will be able to explore them.
One of these terrain types is light-toned with well-developed layering, which likely records the deposition of sedimentary materials. There are also black bands that run through the area and might constitute additional layers that alternate with the light-toned layer(s). The black bands are not easily seen from orbit and are on the order of about 3.3-feet (1-meter) thick. Both of these layer types are important science targets.
This mosaic is composed of images taken with the Mastcam 100-millimeter camera.
This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together. All three types are observed from orbit with the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. By driving there, Curiosity will be able to explore them.
One of the three terrain types is light-toned with well-developed layering, which likely records deposits of sedimentary materials. There are also black bands that run through the area and might constitute additional layers that alternate with the light-toned layers. The black bands are not easily seen from orbit and are on the order of about 3.3-feet (1-meter) thick. Both of these layer types are important science targets.
This mosaic is composed of seven images. The Mastcam 34-millimeter camera took a series of four images; embedded within that series is a second set of three images taken with the Mastcam 100-millimeter camera.
The drive by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity during the mission's 43rd Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 19, 2012) ended with this rock about 8 feet (2.5 meters) in front of the rover. The rock is about 10 inches (25 centimeters) tall and 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. The rover team has assessed it as a suitable target for the first use of Curiosity's contact instruments on a rock. The image was taken by the left Navigation camera (Navcam) at the end of the drive.
The rock has been named "Jake Matijevic." This commemorates Jacob Matijevic (1947-2012), who was the surface operations systems chief engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory Project and the project's Curiosity rover. He was also a leading engineer for all of the previous NASA Mars rovers: Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity.
Curiosity's contact instruments are on a turret at the end of the rover's arm. They are the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer for reading a target's elemental composition and the Mars Hand Lens Imager for close-up imaging.
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 43rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Sept. 19, 2012).
The route starts where the rover touched down, a site subsequently named Bradbury Landing. The line extending toward the right (eastward) from Bradbury Landing is the rover's path. Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the distance driven each sol. North is up. The scale bar is 200 meters (656 feet).
By Sol 43, Curiosity had driven at total of about 950 feet (290 meters). The Glenelg area farther east is the mission's first major science destination, selected as likely to offer a good target for Curiosity's first analysis of powder collected by drilling into a rock.
The image used for the map is from an observation of the landing site by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.


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Mobile Platform Wars: What's Next?
Mark Lowenstein, Xconomy.com, The Motley Fool, AOL.com
This has been the month of the handset. First, Google's (NAS: GOOG) acquisition of Motorola Mobility, then HP's effective exit from the handset business, and finally the sad news about Steve Jobs. These recent events kick off what I believe will be an accelerated pace of developments and reshaping of the mobile device/platform ecosystem. Within the next 6-12 months, we will have a much clearer picture of the next-generation strategy and long-term viability of Research In Motion (NAS: RIMM) , Nokia (NYS: NOK) , and Microsoft's (NAS: MSFT) mobile businesses. More broadly, expect additional acquisitions, partnerships, and participation of new players, thus further defining what the mobile platform world will look like, circa 2013-2015.
Let's remind ourselves that there have never been more than two viable advanced phone platforms in the history of this industry. For most of last decade, it was Nokia and Blackberry. Neither Palm nor Microsoft gained meaningful traction (i.e., more than a 10 percent market share). The next phase was marked by the rise of iOS, initially in the consumer market, and more recently, in the enterprise. Android has become the second platform of the moment, for three reasons:
Much skill. Continuous improvement has significantly narrowed the delta with iOS.
Some luck. Verizon needed a counter to the iPhone for three years. Blackberry wasn't up to the task, so VZW helped "make" Android.
Unforced errors. RIM, Nokia, Microsoft, and Palm showed a sloth-like pace of product development compared to Apple (NAS: AAPL) and Google, along with institutional arrogance, and organizational malaise. This provided the opening that Android needed, and then exploited.
The numbers that tell the story most vividly are the past several quarters' installed base vs. new sales. The shift of market and mindshare in the enterprise space is especially startling. CIOs' heads are 60 percent iOS, 25 percent Android, and 15 percent Blackberry, based on my own informal survey. WebOS was never a contender and Windows Phone is the "keep an eye on it" job of a junior member of that CIO's team. Call it handset climate change: we've gone from cold and rainy (Espoo, Waterloo, Chicago, Seattle) to warm and sunny (Cupertino, Mountain View).
So, what now?
The next 12 months will be critical to the future of the handset business. Apple's iOS has a firm hold in the consumer and enterprise space. Google's focus with Android has been on developing product for multiple market segments, as it sees an opportunity to capture smartphone market share on a global basis, particularly from Nokia. Enterprises are starting to take Android seriously, but there's still important work needed to meet key requirements, before enterprise decision-makers start buying Android or approving Android BYOD in large numbers. This leaves an opening for RIM to regain its luster and possibly for Microsoft.
In my view, the next few years of the smartphone/platform game will be decided by the answers to the following four questions.
1. How many OSs can be viably supported?
All the talk about "open" is great, but ultimately there are iOS developers, Android developers, Blackberry developers, Symbian developers, Windows developers, and WebOS developers. At best, a developer "majors" in one OS and "minors" in another. Perhaps they'll be American-style multi-lingual, but they won't be Europe-style multi-lingual.
There are twin forces at work here: pace of product development and relative scarcity of developer talent.
2. Will there be a game-changing product experience?
Take ANY high-end smartphone that has been introduced in the past six months: Android, Windows, Blackberry, WebOS, Symbian. Know what? They're all pretty good. They all do the basics, and them some, pretty well. So why has success been so elusive for those outside the Apple and Google ecosystems?
Apple was initially successful because of its game-changing user interface (though I'd argue they perfected what Palm started with the Treo). More recently, however, I'd argue that Apple's success has been more about its unassailable "ecosystem" -- iTunes, app store, physical store, other Apple devices, marketing heft and prowess.
From Android, we see continuous innovation. Handsets get better and better, and notable improvements occur across categories of functionality, seemingly on a daily basis. There are no cult-like media events or blockbuster announcements. Your maps, voice search, mobile web page display ... they just get steadily better, and you don't have to run out and get a new handset every three months to benefit from these improvements.
Between Apple being in its own league, and the incredible selection of Android devices, consumers feel that they can get the state of the art from those two platforms. Blackberry, Nokia, and Windows phones are all pretty good, but what is the compelling case for a customer to buy one of those devices?
In order for one of the other platforms to remain viable or grow share, there's got to be something game-changing. In Nokia's case, I believe they are working on a very different type of user-interface -- a highly evolved way in which the user interacts with their device. They're not going to win in hardware (Apple), or software (Google), so their best chance is to return to their original UI roots and try to do something different, then leverage their global supply chain and still strong brand.
3. Is there still room in the enterprise?
I believe there's still room to capture share in the enterprise. Even though iOS has huge momentum in the enterprise, the Apple "ecosystem" is still more of a consumer phenomenon. Android is gaining traction too, but important gaps (security) and lack of vertical integration has CIOs hedging their bets. I believe the enterprise piece is an under-recognized reason for Google's Motorola purchase.
In RIM's case, every month that goes by where we don't really know what the next major, QNX-based phase of the Blackberry will look like (not just the device, but the whole ecosystem) causes further erosion of market share and credibility. In my opinion, they have to get on the road in Q4 and visit the CIO of every major North American corporation, and show them something (under NDA) that reinstills confidence. Or it could be game over.
One area where RIM could change the game is defining what mobile messaging is going to look like over the next several years. Competitive mobile email solutions, both consumer and enterprise, exist across all platforms. But RIM has unique assets: Blackberry Enterprise Server installed at hundreds of thousands of companies; its Fort Knox-like Network Operation Center(s); and highly successful Blackberry Messenger service. The rate of growth in traditional forms of messaging (voice mail, email, and SMS) is being both subsidized by and supplanted by the growth of social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and private messaging networks (BBM, the forthcoming iMessage, Jive). This leads to two significant opportunities:
Drive the discussion of the next-generation messaging, leveraging unique assets and putting a great UI wrapper that ties all of these disparate services together, with the right personal/business sandboxing controls.
Re-capture share in the enterprise with private messaging networks (such as what Jive is doing), tied into public business-centric social networking services (such as LinkedIn).
And what about Microsoft? Well, everything about the most recent Windows phone devices has been about the consumer space. I believe it is going to be awfully difficult for them to gain meaningful share. After all, the latest devices are pretty competitive, but have not sold well. Microsoft still has huge share, across so many products, in the enterprise. If they can put some of these pieces together (Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Live!/Cloud) in a unique and differentiated mobile play, there might be an opportunity to finally gain more than a token share of the mobile OS market.
4. Who will lead in the cloud?
So much of the discussion about the "post-PC" world has centered on the tablet, which to this point is 85 percent about the iPad. But what about the smartphone's role in the cloud?
I personally believe that Android market in its current form is a placeholder for Google, and that content and apps will become increasingly Web-based, adjusted for context (device, connectivity, etc.). Example: Amazon's redesign of its website for an improved experience on mobile devices is tilted more toward the browser than the app. At Apple, the initial iteration of iCloud is focused on media, but the longer-term bet is for a post-iTunes framework, across the breadth of content and apps, accessed from multiple devices.
There is a great opportunity for somebody to define what mobile in the cloud is going to look like. Cloud services assume almost constant connectivity. But we all know that assumption breaks down pretty quickly in mobile. Neither wireless networks nor pricing models are architected with a constantly connected, multi-GB/month consumption model in mind.
So what is going to be the interplay between mobile devices, and content/apps/media in the cloud? There's certainly a need to define how content will be accessed when off-line, in a zone of sub-par connectivity, or if you are counting your gigabytes. For the wireless historians among us, RIM designed its successful mobile email service within the constraints of a 2G world.
This is an area where non-traditional players in mobile might play an instrumental role. Think Amazon, HP, Dell, Oracle, IBM, Cisco. This could spell further acquisitions or consolidation in the handset space. Or at the least, some meaningful partnerships.
June 2012 will mark the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the iPhone. The iPhone and its impact have largely driven the discussion during this period. And though I expect Apple to be a hugely important player over the next several years, there is opportunity for others to define what the next-generation device/platform framework might look like.
More from Xconomy.com:
And Then There Were Three: Why Microsoft Is the Vital New Underdog in Mobile Computing
Microsoft, Nokia Announce Alliance on Smartphones
Top Things to Look for in Wireless in 2011
Mark Lowenstein, a leading industry analyst, consultant, and commentator, is Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem. Subscribe to his free Lens on Wireless monthly newsletter at www.m-ecosystem.com, or follow him on Twitter at @marklowenstein.
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How to offend people nowadays?
In high school, a few like-minded friends of mine and I wrote a screenplay for a dark comedy exploring the potential hilarity to be found in "Stockholm Syndrome."
Fiction should challenge you, and if it does its job, you should feel vaguely uncomfortable after reading it. The best and most important aesthetic values are: antiheroism, open-endedness, abstraction, ambiguity, irony, and self-doubt.
So, it's important to surprise people. But how? People aren't shocked by sex anymore. It's sad but true: the evil Tipper Gores of the world are expiring. Heart disease is often the cause, but I don't believe it. I doubt any of them have a heart. A good rule of thumb: those that yell loud enough about their own morality are usually the evilest people of all.
It's still possible to offend, you just have to get clever, that's all.
Here's a shocking and offensive idea for you: certain types of women, in physically and emotionally abusive relationships, either because of lack of courage or an inability to see the situation as it really is, refuse to leave their abusive circumstances, and by sticking around an abusive marriage or relationship, they're partially responsible for the abuse continuing.
The abused person's own attitudes are extremely frustrating, and so self-destructive that it's very, very hard to be sympathetic towards them. In our culture we usually extend great sympathy to victims of abusive relationships, and rightly so. It's not hard to see why the idea would be truly offensive.
Hot on the heels of that other idea, it's also true that a great many sexually abused children, and also raped women, come to sympathize with their rapists and molesters, as well as identify with them. Some of them may even grow to "love" their molesters or rapists. Something like that, presented coldly, unjudgmentally and without a sense of disgust, has great potential to be shocking and disturbing.
Where's that line from?
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec. 2, 2013) - Denison Mines Corp. ("Denison") (TSX:DML)(NYSE MKT:DNN) (Currency: CAD$) announces that, as of 4:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on November 29, 2013, approximately 2,750,531 additional common shares of Rockgate Capital Corp. ("Rockgate") were validly deposited to Denison's offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Rockgate (the "Offer"). Denison has taken up and accepted for payment all of such shares, resulting in it owning approximately 88% of the outstanding shares in aggregate. Denison will issue Denison common shares in exchange for the deposited shares on or before December 4, 2013.
Denison has extended its Offer until 4:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on December 6, 2013, in order to allow Rockgate shareholders an additional opportunity to tender to the Offer. Denison has determined that the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States prevented certain shareholders from depositing their shares in a timely manner. A notice of extension will be mailed to registered Rockgate shareholders shortly. If Denison is successful in acquiring 90% of the Rockgate common shares, it intends to acquire all the remaining shares by way of a compulsory acquisition. If the compulsory acquisition procedure is not available to Denison, it will pursue a subsequent acquisition transaction by way of amalgamation or other corporate reorganization so as to acquire the Rockgate common shares not deposited to the Offer.
Denison's takeover bid remains open for acceptance. Rockgate shareholders requiring assistance in order to accept Denison's offer may contact Denison's Information Agent, Laurel Hill Advisory Group toll free at, 1-877-452-7184 (1-416-304-0211 collect outside North America) or by email at assistance@laurelhill.com.
About Denison's Offer
Full details of Denison's offer are included in the formal offer and takeover bid circular ("Denison's Offer and Circular"), which has been filed with securities regulatory authorities (together with all related documents) and is available under Rockgate's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or on Denison's website at www.denisonmines.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to buy or an invitation to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or invitation to sell, any securities of Denison or Rockgate. Such an offer may only be made pursuant to Denison's Offer and Circular and pursuant to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any other such jurisdiction.
Denison has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Registration Statement on Form F-8 which includes Denison's Offer and Circular. Investors and security holders are urged to read Denison's Offer and Circular regarding the transaction referred to in this document because it contains important information. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of Denison's Offer and Circular and certain other offer documents filed by Denison with the Canadian provincial securities regulators on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and with the SEC at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies of any such documents may be obtained free of charge upon request made to Sheila Colman, the Corporate Secretary of Denison at 595 Bay Street, Suite 402, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5G 2C2.
Depositary and Information Agent
Questions and requests for assistance may be directed to Computershare Investor Services Inc., the Depositary for Denison's offer, or Laurel Hill Advisory Group, the Information Agent for Denison's offer, at the addresses and telephone numbers set out below.
The Depositary:
Computershare Investor Services Inc.
Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-564-6253
Toll-Free Facsimile: 1-888-453-0330
E-mail: corporateactions@computershare.com
The Information Agent:
Laurel Hill Advisory Group
Outside of North America Phone: 1-416-304-0211
Facsimile: 1-416-646-2415
E-mail: assistance@laurelhill.com
Denison is a uranium exploration and development company with interests in exploration and development projects in Canada, Zambia, Namibia, and Mongolia. Including the high grade Phoenix deposits, located on its 60% owned Wheeler project, Denison's exploration project portfolio includes 49 projects and totals approximately 597,000 hectares in the Eastern Athabasca Basin region of Saskatchewan. Denison's interests in Saskatchewan also include a 22.5% ownership interest in the McClean Lake joint venture, which includes several uranium deposits and the McClean Lake uranium mill, one of the world's largest uranium processing facilities, plus a 25.17% interest in the Midwest deposit and a 60% interest in the J-Zone deposit on the Waterbury property. Both the Midwest and J-Zone deposits are located within 20 kilometres of the McClean Lake mill. Internationally, Denison owns 100% of the conventional heap leach Mutanga project in Zambia, an approximate 77% interest in the Dome project in Namibia, and an 85% interest in the in-situ recovery projects held by the Gurvan Saihan joint venture in Mongolia.
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$mainDatacenterSubnet = '10.0.0.0/16'
$drDatacenterSubnet = '172.16.0.0/16'

$mainADDC = 'tcdit-addc-main'
$drADDC = 'tcdit-addc-dr'

$ilbIpMainSubnet = '10.0.1.9'
$ilbIpDrSubnet = '172.16.1.9'

$primaryReplicaName = 'tcdit-sql-main0'
$secondaryReplicaName = 'tcdit-sql-main1'
$drReplicaName = 'tcdit-sql-dr0'

$clusterName = 'sqlhademo'
$fswPath = '\\tcdit-fsw-main\cluster-fsw'
$mainClusterNetName = 'Main datacenter network'
$drClusterNetName = 'DR datacenter network'
$mainClusterIpName = 'Main datacenter cluster IP'
$drClusterIpName = 'DR datacenter cluster IP'

$sqlNodes = @()
$sqlNodes += $primaryReplicaName
$sqlNodes += $secondaryReplicaName
$sqlNodes += $drReplicaName

$sqlAgent = 'SQLSERVERAGENT'
$sqlSrv = 'MSSQLSERVER'
$backupShare = "F:\Backup"
$sqlSvcAcctn = "tcdit17demo\sjSqlAdmin"
$db = 'TCDIT17DEMO'
$ag = 'AlwaysOn-AG'
$agListener = 'aglistener'

Import-Module FailoverClusters
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
pushd
Import-Module sqlPs -DisableNameChecking
popd

if($primaryReplicaName -ne $env:computername) {
    Write-Host "Please execute this script on "$primaryReplica
    Return
}

#==========================================================================
#        Create AD Topology
#==========================================================================

$domainFqdn = (get-addomain).DNSRoot

#Rename default-first-site-name
pushd
cd 'ad:CN=Sites,CN=Configuration*'
ren cn=def* cn=MainDatacenter
popd

#Add subnet to main AD site
$mainADSite = Get-ADReplicationSite
New-ADReplicationSubnet -Name $mainDatacenterSubnet -Site $mainADSite -Server $mainADDC

#Add dr AD site with appropriate subnet
New-ADReplicationSite -Name 'DrDatacenter' -Server $mainADDC
$drADSite = Get-ADReplicationSite -Identity 'DrDatacenter' -Server $mainADDC
New-ADReplicationSubnet -Name $drDatacenterSubnet -Site $drADSite -Server $mainADDC

#Create new site link and remove the default one
New-ADReplicationSiteLink -Name Main2DR -Cost 100 -InterSiteTransportProtocol IP -ReplicationFrequencyInMinutes 15 -SitesIncluded $mainADSite,$drADSite
Get-ADReplicationSiteLink -Identity DEFAULTIPSITELINK | Remove-ADReplicationSiteLink -Confirm:$false

#Move DR ADDC to appropriate site
Move-ADDirectoryServer -Identity $drADDC -Site $drADSite

#Enable intersite Change Notification - Be carefull on production environment!
$siteLink = Get-ADReplicationSiteLink -Identity Main2DR
Get-adobject -Identity $siteLink.DistinguishedName -properties options | set-adobject –replace @{options=$($_.options –bor 1)}

#Reduce DNS -> AD polling interval - Be carefull on production environment!
invoke-command -Computername $mainADDC, $drADDC -scriptBlock{set-DnsServerDsSetting -PollingInterval 30|Restart-Service -Force dns}

#==========================================================================
#        Create multisubnet WSFC
#==========================================================================

#Create multisubnet WSFC
New-Cluster -Name $clusterName -Node $sqlNodes
$cluster = Get-Cluster

$clusterGroup = $cluster | Get-ClusterGroup
$clusterNameRes = $clusterGroup | Get-ClusterResource "Cluster Name"
$clusterNameRes | Stop-ClusterResource | Out-Null

#Rename cluster networks and change IPs to Link Local IP addresses in order to avoid errors due to Azure DHCP, and bring cluster network name online
$clusterNetworks = Get-ClusterNetwork

ForEach($clusterNetwork in $clusterNetworks) {

    if($clusterNetwork.Address.contains($mainDatacenterSubnet.Substring(0,$mainDatacenterSubnet.IndexOf('.')))){
        $clusterNetwork.Name = $mainClusterNetName
    }
    else {
        $clusterNetwork.Name = $drClusterNetName
    }
}

$clusterIpAddrRes = $clusterGroup | Get-ClusterResource | Where-Object { $_.ResourceType.Name -eq "IP Address"}

ForEach($clusterIpAddr in $clusterIpAddrRes) {

    $clusterIpAddr | Stop-ClusterResource | Out-Null

    if(($clusterIpAddr | Get-ClusterParameter -Name 'Network').Value -eq $mainClusterNetName) {
        $clusterIpAddr.Name = $mainClusterIpName
        $IpAddr = '169.254.1.10'
    }
    else {
        $clusterIpAddr.Name = $drClusterIpName
        $IpAddr = '169.254.10.10'
    }

    $clusterIpAddr | Set-ClusterParameter -Multiple @{
        "Address" = "$ipAddr"
        "SubnetMask" = "255.255.0.0"
        "EnableDhcp" = 0
        "OverrideAddressMatch" = 1
    } -ErrorAction Stop
}

Start-ClusterResource $clusterNameRes

#Change cluster quorum configuration to node and file share majority
Set-ClusterQuorum -FileShareWitness $fswPath

#Remove vote from dr node to avoid unwanted failover due to remote site connectivity issues
(Get-ClusterNode -Name $drReplicaName).NodeWeight = 0

#==========================================================================
#        Configure SQL AlwaysOn AG
#==========================================================================

#Enable TCP protocol and HADR feature on all instances
$smo = 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.'
$timeout = New-Object System.TimeSpan -ArgumentList 0, 0, 30
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.ServiceProcess

ForEach ($sqlNode in $sqlNodes) {
    $wmi = new-object ($smo + 'Wmi.ManagedComputer')$sqlNode
    $uri = "ManagedComputer[@Name='" + $sqlNode + "']/ ServerInstance[@Name='MSSQLSERVER']/ServerProtocol[@Name='Tcp']"
    $Tcp = $wmi.GetSmoObject($uri)
    $Tcp.IsEnabled = $true
    $Tcp.Alter()

    Enable-SqlAlwaysOn `
     -Path SQLSERVER:\SQL\$sqlNode\Default `
     -NoServiceRestart

    $sqlSvc = get-service -ComputerName $sqlNode -Name $sqlSrv
    if($sqlSvc.Status -eq "Running") {
        $sqlSvc.Stop()
    }
    $sqlSvc.WaitForStatus("Stopped", $timeout)
    $sqlSvc.Start()
    $sqlSvc.WaitForStatus("Running", $timeout)
}

#Create backup share
New-Item $backupShare -ItemType directory
net share backup=$backupShare "/grant:$sqlSvcAcctn,FULL"
icacls.exe "$backupShare" /grant:r ("$sqlSvcAcctn" + ":(OI)(CI)F")

#Create database on every instance
Invoke-SqlCmd -Query "CREATE database $db"
Backup-SqlDatabase -Database $db -BackupFile "$backupShare\$db.bak" -ServerInstance $primaryReplicaName
Backup-SqlDatabase -Database $db -BackupFile "$backupShare\$db.log" -ServerInstance $primaryReplicaName -BackupAction Log
Restore-SqlDatabase -Database $db -BackupFile "\\$primaryReplicaName\backup\$db.bak" -ServerInstance $secondaryReplicaName -NoRecovery
Restore-SqlDatabase -Database $db -BackupFile "\\$primaryReplicaName\backup\$db.log" -ServerInstance $secondaryReplicaName -RestoreAction Log -NoRecovery
Restore-SqlDatabase -Database $db -BackupFile "\\$primaryReplicaName\backup\$db.bak" -ServerInstance $drReplicaName -NoRecovery
Restore-SqlDatabase -Database $db -BackupFile "\\$primaryReplicaName\backup\$db.log" -ServerInstance $drReplicaName -RestoreAction Log -NoRecovery

#Mirroring endpoint creation
ForEach ($sqlNode in $sqlNodes) {
    $endpoint =
        New-SqlHadrEndpoint SqlHaEndpoint `
        -Port 5022 `
        -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$sqlNode\Default"
    Set-SqlHadrEndpoint `
        -InputObject $endpoint `
        -State "Started"
    Invoke-SqlCmd -Query "CREATE LOGIN [$sqlSvcAcctn] FROM WINDOWS" -ServerInstance $sqlNode
    Invoke-SqlCmd -Query "GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[SqlHaEndpoint] TO [$sqlSvcAcctn]" -ServerInstance $sqlNode
}

#Availability Replicas creation
$primaryReplica =
    New-SqlAvailabilityReplica `
    -Name $primaryReplicaName `
    -EndpointURL "TCP://$primaryReplicaName.$domainFqdn`:5022" `
    -AvailabilityMode "SynchronousCommit" `
    -FailoverMode "Automatic" `
    -Version 11 `
    -AsTemplate
$secondaryReplica =
    New-SqlAvailabilityReplica `
    -Name $secondaryReplicaName `
    -EndpointURL "TCP://$secondaryReplicaName.$domainFqdn`:5022" `
    -AvailabilityMode "SynchronousCommit" `
    -FailoverMode "Automatic" `
    -Version 11 `
    -AsTemplate
$drReplica =
    New-SqlAvailabilityReplica `
    -Name $drReplicaName `
    -EndpointURL "TCP://$drReplicaName.$domainFqdn`:5022" `
    -AvailabilityMode "AsynchronousCommit" `
    -FailoverMode "Manual" `
    -Version 11 `
    -AsTemplate

#AVG Creation
New-SqlAvailabilityGroup `
     -Name $ag `
     -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$primaryReplicaName\Default" `
     -AvailabilityReplica @($primaryReplica,$secondaryReplica,$drReplica) `
     -Database $db
Join-SqlAvailabilityGroup `
    -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$secondaryReplicaName\Default" `
    -Name $ag
Add-SqlAvailabilityDatabase `
    -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$secondaryReplicaName\Default\AvailabilityGroups\$ag" `
    -Database $db
Join-SqlAvailabilityGroup `
    -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$drReplicaName\Default" `
    -Name $ag
Add-SqlAvailabilityDatabase `
    -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$drReplicaName\Default\AvailabilityGroups\$ag" `
    -Database $db

#ReadOnly Replicas and routing list
$primaryReplica = Get-Item "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$primaryReplicaName\Default\availabilityGroups\$ag\availabilityReplicas\$primaryReplicaName"
$secondaryReplica = Get-Item "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$primaryReplicaName\Default\availabilityGroups\$ag\availabilityReplicas\$secondaryReplicaName"
$drReplica = Get-Item "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$primaryReplicaName\Default\availabilityGroups\$ag\availabilityReplicas\$drReplicaName"

Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ConnectionModeInPrimaryRole "AllowAllConnections" -InputObject $primaryReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ConnectionModeInSecondaryRole "AllowReadIntentConnectionsOnly" -InputObject $primaryReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ReadOnlyRoutingConnectionUrl "TCP://$primaryReplicaName.$domainFqdn`:1433" -InputObject $primaryReplica

Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ConnectionModeInPrimaryRole "AllowAllConnections" -InputObject $secondaryReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ConnectionModeInSecondaryRole "AllowReadIntentConnectionsOnly" -InputObject $secondaryReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ReadOnlyRoutingConnectionUrl "TCP://$secondaryReplicaName.$domainFqdn`:1433" -InputObject $secondaryReplica

Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ConnectionModeInPrimaryRole "AllowAllConnections" -InputObject $drReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ConnectionModeInSecondaryRole "AllowReadIntentConnectionsOnly" -InputObject $drReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ReadOnlyRoutingConnectionUrl "TCP://$drReplicaName.$domainFqdn`:1433" -InputObject $drReplica

Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ReadOnlyRoutingList "$secondaryReplicaName","$drReplicaName","$primaryReplicaName" -InputObject $primaryReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ReadOnlyRoutingList "$primaryReplicaName","$drReplicaName","$secondaryReplicaName" -InputObject $secondaryReplica
Set-SqlAvailabilityReplica -ReadOnlyRoutingList "$primaryReplicaName","$secondaryReplicaName","$drReplicaName" -InputObject $drReplica

#==========================================================================
#        Configure SQL AlwaysOn AG Listener
#==========================================================================

#Client Access Point creation
$agClusterGroup = Get-ClusterGroup -Name $ag
#1. Add a network name named as the AG Listener
$cap = Add-ClusterResource -Name $agListener -ResourceType "Network Name" -Group $agClusterGroup
#2. Set paramters
$cap | Set-ClusterParameter -Multiple @{
    "DnsName" = "$agListener"
    "HostRecordTTL" = 30
    "RegisterAllProvidersIP" = 1
} -ErrorAction Stop
#3. Create two IP Addresses, assigning them the Azure ILB ip created on each vnet
$capIpMain = Add-ClusterResource -Name "ILB IP main datacenter" -ResourceType "IP Address" -Group $agClusterGroup
$capIpMain | Set-ClusterParameter -Multiple @{
        "Address" = "$ilbIpMainSubnet"
        "SubnetMask" = "255.255.255.255"
        "Network" = "$mainClusterNetName"
        "EnableDHCP" = 0
        "ProbePort" = "59999"
    } -ErrorAction Stop

$capIpDr = Add-ClusterResource -Name "ILB IP dr datacenter" -ResourceType "IP Address" -Group $agClusterGroup
$capIpDr | Set-ClusterParameter -Multiple @{
        "Address" = "$ilbIpDrSubnet"
        "SubnetMask" = "255.255.255.255"
        "Network" = "$drClusterNetName"
        "EnableDHCP" = 0
        "ProbePort" = "59999"
    } -ErrorAction Stop
#4. Add dependencies on IPs to Network Name
Set-ClusterResourceDependency -InputObject $cap -Dependency "[$capIpMain] or [$capIpDr]"
#5. Add AG resource dependency on CAP network name
$agResource = Get-ClusterResource -Name $ag
$agResource | Stop-ClusterResource
Add-ClusterResourceDependency -InputObject $agResource -Resource $cap
$cap|Start-ClusterResource
$agResource | Start-ClusterResource
#6. Assign port 1433 to SQL AG Listener
Set-SqlAvailabilityGroupListener -path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\$primaryReplicaName\Default\availabilityGroups\$ag\availabilityGroupListeners\$agListener" -Port 1433

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Hormel Foods for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.
Did you know that September is the National Family Meals Month? We aim to have dinner together as a family every night, but with a new schedule full of team practices and meetings and youth groups, sometimes a sit-down dinner is hard to accomplish.
The key for our family has been to find several simple ingredients to make quick family meals. That way, we're still able to find the time to eat together instead of spending all of our time (and by "our time" I really mean my time) in the kitchen preparing for dinner.
Simple meals that can be prepared quickly are the difference between everyone grabbing something at random times during the night and eating alone to having a set time that we all gather together in the kitchen to eat, bond, and chat about our day.
This past week, I found it tough to transition back to our normal (very busy) routine after returning from my trip to Los Angeles. Luckily, I was able to pick up a can of Hormel® Premium Chicken Breast, which is an easy way to add great-tasting, satisfying protein to our meals.
Because everyone in my family loves Caesar salad, I decided to make a dinner version of our favorite salad. All I did was add some Hormel® Premium Chicken Breast and wrap it all up in a wrap/flatbread, stick some tooth picks in it, and slice to eat. We paired the chicken Caesar Salad pinwheels with some other finger foods (which are SO popular with my kids!) like carrots, cucumber, and fresh tomatoes for our garden.
nights that you don't want to heat up the kitchen cooking!
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Each flatbread serves one person a lunch-sized portion, so four servings.
I love Chicken Caesar Salad and these little roll ups look fantastic. I can't wait to try them. Shared and Pinned. Thank you for sharing on Think Tank Thursday.
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What a light and delicious lunch idea (or a great appetizer option)! This sounds so delicious!


Fancy a competition featuring fighter planes, camouflage events, and amphibian attacks? Then Russia's International Army Games is for you.
The military sports event gathers 33 countries invited by organisers Russia. This year NATO member Greece has joined the festivities taking place in no fewer than six countries including Azerbaidjan, Armenia, Iran, Kazakhstan, China and Russia.
According to the competition's rules, the equipment is provided by the host country, for... "fairness".
Russia blew its opponents out of water in this event part of a strategic and diplomatic plan. However, China and Iran reportedly won some of the 28 events in land, in the air and sea.
Another world military sports event exists: the Military World Games which was held in Sweden last June. It's more universal and features much more traditional sports without any use of weapons.


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Ensure manifesto implementation, Chinese envoy tells parties
The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun, on Wednesday advised political parties to work harder to implement their manifestos instead of just saying.
Jianchun spoke at a seminar on the '20th COC National Congress: Outcomes and Importance for Nigeria and Africa' held in Abuja.
Quoting a Chinese philosopher, the envoy noted that Nigeria needed a strong party to lead the country, stressing that "it is not about the planned manifesto but how it can be implemented".
Jianchun added that it is welcome that Nigerian political party leaders and other African leaders observe the Chinese Communist Party congress.
The envoy said: "I think it is a good idea. I really think CPC can do a lot for political parties in Nigeria because I believe that parties are not about power but about people, development and how leaders can achieve good visions for their country.
"I received information that Nigerians and other African countries have suggested to China to invite party leaders not only to watch the congress, but also to participate in the seminars and the five-year congress. China's lessons and experience are very important for Nigerians to learn from."
On his part, a former member of parliament, Senator Shehu Sani, said the campaign and congress should be a platform for the country's leadership process.
Sani therefore emphasized the need for political parties to learn from China.
He also asked the Chinese government to invite political party leaders to their congress to observe the political process.
Sani said: "On the subject of this occasion and from the speech we just received, there are many things that Nigeria can learn from China even though we have fundamental differences in terms of politics.
"The CPC meets every five years to analyze what has been done in the last five years and to anticipate what needs to be done in the next five years.
"But in Nigeria, political parties meet every four years but for elections to ensure that people get into office through primaries and we do not meet to discuss what happened in the last four years and what will happen in the next four years.
"What I like is that, periodically, it is important that whenever the CPC holds such a congress, we should invite the leaders of our political parties as observers to see how a political party should be organized and coordinated. Political parties as a source of platforms for the country's leadership process and They will also learn how they can serve as pilots.'
Speaking at the event, Charles Onunaiju, director of the Center for Chinese Studies, said the campaign should be a platform to identify and respond to challenges.
He emphasized that political campaigning is a serious business that reflects the loyalty of politicians or political parties to the local people.
The director said: "I think the general problem is that the party congress should focus on solving the problems. It shouldn't be a jamboree. The Chinese Party Congress made a road map, it's not that a candidate wants to be one or the other."


Velvety Pear and Carrot Soup Courtesy Of: The Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service 24 1 cup Butter 7 1/2 lbs Carrots, chopped 8 pounds Canned Pear Halves or Slices in juice 2 quarts Chicken broth 2 teaspoons Salt 1 teaspoon Ground pepper 2 cups Sour cream 1 teaspoon Allspice Melt butter in stock pot.
Add carrots, cook over medium heat until carrots are lightly browned.
Add pears, juice and chicken broth, salt and pepper. Cover and cook until carrots are tender. Remove from heat.
Transfer mixture to a food processor: process until smooth.
Serve topped with a dollop of sour cream and a dusting of allspice.
Melt butter in stock pot.


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Brian Jacob's research cited in The Washington Post, "What No Child Left Behind did and didn't do"
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By Miko Peled
GAZA — (Analysis) As the U.S., U.K. and France bomb Syria, claiming to support its people but in reality adding misery to a country that has had more than its fair share of violence, the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is almost completely ignored by the international community. This is because the perpetrator of this seven-decade-long disaster is Apartheid Israel.
For three consecutive weeks, Palestinians have been gathering along the fence that separates the Gaza Strip from the rest of Palestine, as part of the ongoing "Great March of Return" protests. Israeli snipers and soldiers have killed at least 34 and injured at least 1500 Palestinians since March 30, when the wave of protests against Israel's occupation began.
The Great Return March is a courageous declaration by the people of Gaza that they intend to return to their homes and their land. Equally important, they remind a world that has tried to forget them that they are here — and that they demand what is rightfully theirs from a colonial power that is funded and armed by Western democracies hypocritically decrying humanitarianism in countries they seek to overthrow. Though Palestinians do this at a great cost, they will not be intimidated or held back by the racism, the violence and the lies that are perpetrated by Israel and the mainstream media.
While the murder of unarmed protesters by occupying forces is disturbing, recent events in Gaza are just the latest attack against the nearly 2 million Palestinians living in the Strip. The decades-long blockade imposed by Israel has turned Gaza into the world's largest ghetto and open-air prison, creating one of the most dire humanitarian crises in the world.
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The Gaza Strip is a stretch of land that extends along the southern 25 miles of the coast of Palestine, starting in the north, south of Askelan, and ending in the south by the city of Rafah, bordering the Sinai Peninsula. All told, the Gaza Strip encompases about 140 square miles.
To further understand the plight of the Palestinians of Gaza, it's important to recognize the horrific history of its creation by the state of Israel. Although it has no obvious natural boundaries, the Gaza Strip was set aside and designated to imprison refugees who were forced to leave their homes and their land in the southern part of Palestine.
Establishment and history of Gaza
The boundaries of the Gaza Strip were finalized in the Rhodes agreement of 1949, a cease-fire pact between the newly established state of Israel, which had taken over Palestine, and its Arab neighbors. Although the Gaza Strip is part of Palestine according to the agreement, it was decided that it would be administered by Egypt. There is yet to be any research as to why the Egyptians agreed to this arrangement, as they had never sought control over any part of Palestine, and they did not occupy or annex the Gaza Strip.
Between November 1956 and April of 1957 Israel had occupied the Gaza Strip. This was a result of the Sinai Campaign, a war in which Israel, the U.K. and France advanced against Egypt and which ended with Israel occupying the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip for about six months. The whole thing ended rather quickly and the land occupied by Israel, including the Gaza Strip was returned to Egyptian control. In 1967, during the war that Israel initiated in June of that year, the Israeli military decided to take the Gaza Strip again, and Israel has kept it and controlled it since. And yet, even though Israel has occupied and controlled the Gaza Strip since 1967, even though its military enters the area at will and all life there is controlled by the Israeli government, it still claims that the boundary that separates the people of Gaza from the rest of occupied Palestine is an international border. Furthermore Israel claims that any crossing of that border that is not authorized by the State of Israel is considered a violation of Israeli sovereignty.
Displaced refugees in 12 camps in the Gaza area. June 2, 1949. (AP Photo)
The first Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip took place shortly after it was created and handed over to Egypt. These incursions were declared by Israel to be punitive measures designed to end what Israel called "infiltration" by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Attempts by Palestinian refugees to re-enter their lands, and the occasional acts of armed resistance by Fedayeen from Gaza, were exploited by then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and his Army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan as an excuse to initiate attacks against Palestinian refugees and eventually to mount the Sinai Campaign that resulted in the occupation of the Gaza Strip.
It was during the first half of the 1950's that Ariel Sharon, who 50 years later became Israel's prime minister — gained his reputation as a butcher of Palestinians. The so-called commando unit he commanded, Unit 101, was charged with the responsibility to exact severe punishment through violent raids that left civilians dead. According to an article by Palestinian scholar Nur Masalha, thousands of Palestinians were killed between 1949 and 1956, mostly as a result of their attempted "infiltration" back to their own land.
Exodus: The Gaza prison and the Great Return March
The Gaza Strip and the fences and walls that enclose it were created to ensure that the refugees within it cannot leave and will not be able return to their homes and their land. Now, however, with the Great Return March, the people of Gaza declared their intent to march back to their homes and their land. And, perhaps equally important, they remind a world that has tried to forget them that they are here and demand what is rightfully theirs.
It was because of massacres and mass expulsions like the ones that took place in Yafa, Ramle and Lydd, and in towns and villages all over Palestine, that the Zionist forces were able to empty Palestine of so many of its indigenous people. Those who somehow survived what could only be described as ethnic cleansing and genocide were driven to camps within the Gaza Strip and elsewhere, locked up, forgotten by the world, and left to die or to live on United Nations rations.
"They are all paid by Hamas, they are all connected to Hamas," Israel's Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman stated in an interview, referring to the countless thousands of Palestinians participating in the Great Return March. One might think that, if it weren't for Hamas, Palestinians would not know that they are refugees and that their homes are just beyond the walls that imprison them. During the same infamous radio interview, Lieberman also claimed that there are no innocent people in Gaza, which means that he views the over one million children living in the Gaza Strip as guilty of crimes and deserving punishment.
A woman washes clothes as she sits in front of the rubble of her family home, destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khuzaa, southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo)
Even before the minister of defense made this statement, Israel had come up with a public-relations formula that expressed that very same idea and allowed it to justify its regular, methodical killing of Palestinians. This formula is simple, so simple in fact that it is hard to believe it works: the Israeli military drops tons of bombs from the air, tanks and artillery fire mortars into homes, or infantry soldiers shoot civilians, and then the state of Israel claims that the targets were "terrorists."
Even though Palestinians have never had as much as a tank, not to say a war plane or a regular military force, they are blamed for their own deaths at the hands of Israel. Neither Hamas nor any other Palestinian organization has been the problem. Palestinian resistance organizations are the response to the problem. Palestinian resistance organizations were established to resist Israeli occupation, oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing and racist laws, of which Palestinians are victims. Defense Minister Lieberman, relatively a newcomer to the country who still has a heavy Moldovan/Russian accent, tells Palestinians they may not return or even protest.
As Israel celebrates seven decades and prides itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East, the reality in Gaza undercuts that self-image and instead testifies that Israel is a state that is both racist and violent. One claim that Lieberman made in his interview was true: with few exceptions, among Israelis there is wall-to-wall support of the army's actions. One wonders how long it will take before the rest of the world wakes up and takes action to end the racism and violence to which Israelis subjects Palestinians and before the world acts so that the people of Gaza may be free to go home.
Top Photo | Palestinians attend a demonstration near the Gaza Strip border with Israel in eastern Gaza City, Friday, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
Miko Peled is an author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. He is the author of "The General's Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine," and "Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five."
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Housing and Urban Development will begin requiring federal inspectors to check public housing apartments for carbon monoxide detectors — but the agency won't penalize landlords for broken or missing detectors.
The move — part of HUD's effort to improve public housing conditions for millions of low-income families — quickly faced criticism from affordable housing advocates for not doing enough to protect residents from the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The new requirement to check for detectors is the first concrete step that HUD has taken to address carbon monoxide hazards since an NBC News investigation revealed the lack of protections for residents of public housing. At least 13 public housing residents have died from the CO poisoning since 2003, according to NBC News' latest count, including four this year.
Under the new requirements, which take effect April 1, federal inspectors must check for the detectors in any public housing units that contain fuel-fired appliances or have an attached garage, and determine if they are working, according to a HUD notice issued Monday and obtained by NBC News.
The inspectors' findings will be "for data collection purposes only," according to the notice: "The collection of this data does not affect a property's inspection score." All HUD properties are subject to routine mandatory health and safety inspections. Landlords are required to fix life-threatening hazards immediately, and properties with failing inspection scores are subject to enforcement action by HUD.
But there will be no immediate consequence for properties without working carbon monoxide detectors, because the detectors are not required by HUD.
"CO poisoning remains a serious issue in housing across the nation," HUD said in its notice to inspectors, noting that more than 400 people die and 50,000 are sent to the emergency room every year due to carbon monoxide poisoning. "Because CO is undetectable through sight, smell, sound, or touch, a device is required to determine the presence of high and dangerous concentrations of CO gas in a residence."
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Members of Congress recently introduced a bill to require carbon monoxide detectors, which can cost as little as $20, in all public housing. They were heartened by HUD's action this week but said that it did not come close to fixing the deadly threat posed by the gas.
Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, D-Ill., said that HUD's new notice was "encouraging but not nearly enough."
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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who co-sponsored the bill in the Senate, urged lawmakers to take the next step by passing the legislation: "Congress must do more now to protect families living in public housing and assure people that they and their children will be safe."
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3:00 pm - 10:00 pm | 17 October 2020
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The Racial Awareness Festival, in it's fifth year, started because of the ongoing murder of black bodies, mostly black boys and men, in large part by police. The killing continues most recently with the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia by white vigilantes, while Arbery was jogging; Breonna Taylor in her own home by Louisville, Kentucky, police—no words spoken—the police were at the wrong house; George Floyd murdered under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer; and Christian Cooper, smart enough to avoid his plotted murder by police from the call of a lying white woman, followed by current protests and riots at this writing.
Americans continue to debate the shape and extent of racism in society. Yet shootings of unarmed African-Americans, disproportionate incarceration, poverty rates, neglect, and the disproportionate deaths of African Americans during COVID-19, as well as a continuing list of disparities, remind us, that the U.S. and the world must continue to press ahead with addressing issues of racism and white supremacy. Politicians are promoting bigoted ideas and organisations. Many whites have watched crisis after crisis unfold and still proclaim, "I don't see colour."
Because something must be undertaken to raise awareness of the systemic nature of racism and its many effects, we continue this movement to raise awareness and to commit to change. Our long-term goal was to make this annual festival event nationwide. Instead, because of this historical pandemic, we are becoming a virtual event, reaching across our Nation and perhaps globally with activities and plenary sessions designed to share information addressing racial awareness and healing for those who choose to participate.
This Virtual Festival of the Arts, Awareness, Healing, and Justice intends to help people of goodwill reflect on the reality of racism in our society and our world in many forms, through rhythm, blues, keynotes, and practical exposure through experiential workshops, as well as multiracial spaces, opening our awareness of privilege and supremacy, and their systemic effects, hopefully opening us for healing centuries of unresolved trauma.
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This year, we have invited two keynotes from social psychologist and public theologian, Christena Cleveland, and Howard University professor, Gay L. Byron. The event will offer a virtual lunch space with music by Clarence Bluesman Turner, a virtual exhibit hall with book store, and opportunities to engage the speakers as well as introduce yourselves as festival participants.
At the end of this one-day event, we hope churches, communities, and individuals will be more self-reflective regarding the impact of racism on their lives, and we hope they will be inspired to join anti-racism organisations, partner with others across the faith and racial divide, and or continue to engage with other festival participants throughout the year. The festival event will be streamed for a period of time after the live event.
The festival will offer perspectives from the arts, media, and workshop facilitators to help people engage with the reality of racism in a new way. We will offer music, media, Interplay modalities, an engagement group for whites only, and Emotional Emancipation Circles for African Americans. At the end of the day, we will gather again for a second keynote and a closing ritual of lament, confession, conciliation, and healing. All of these methods offer opportunities for people to explore the reality of racism from a new perspective.
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KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz registered a huge 76-68 win over visiting FC Bayern Munich at Fernando Buesa Arena on Friday night. Both teams now hold 11-11 records, seventh best in the EuroLeague, but Baskonia holds the all-important head-to-head tiebreaker after overcoming a 6-point loss to Bayern from Round 4. Baskonia never trailed after halftime, but did not have a double-digit margin until an 8-0 run opened a 72-62 lead with 2 and a half minutes left, and the home team took the tiebreaker with a buzzer-beating put-back by Vincent Poirier right at the end. The big man finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Matt Janning led all Baskonia scorers with 13 points. Derrick Williams led Bayern with 18 points, and Danilo Barthel finished with 11 in the losing effort.
The teams struggled offensively early, managing just 6 points between them in the opening 4 minutes. A corner triple from Johannes Voigtmann got the hosts going, and Janning's step-back triple made it 10-6. A pair of dunks from Poirier, and another one from Darrun Hilliard, had Baskonia up 19-11, but the visitors scored 5 points in the first quarter's final 25 seconds, including a triple from Barthel, and Baskonia held a 19-16 lead after 10 minutes. Bayern caught up in the second quarter, when Williams strung together a corner triple and an alley-oop dunk to tie it at 25-25. The teams kept trading blows, and Bayern took a 33-35 lead, but Hilliard had a three-point play and Voigtmann a buzzer-beating put-back to make it 38-37 at halftime. Back-to-back triples from Janning and Luca Vildoza extended it to 44-37, but Bayern held the hosts without a single point for more than 4 minutes. A fastbreak layup from Nihad Dedovic cut within a point, before a triple from Braydon Hobbs tied it at 46-46. Jalen Jones had a triple and a fastbreak dunk to restore Baskonia's lead, before Shavon Shields scored 6 points, including a layup with time winding down, to make it 59-53 at the end of the third. Marcelinho Huertas opened the fourth quarter with a second-chance three-pointer, and a dunk from Jones opened 64-55. Williams fueled a 0-7 run in less than 2 minutes to get Bayern within a single possession, but in the next 2 minutes Janning and Voigtmann each hit a three-pointer, before Poirier's dunk opened the first double-digit lead of the night, 72-62. Barthel's fastbreak layup gave the visitors hope, cutting within 6 points in the penultimate minute, but the hosts forced a turnover with 35 seconds left, which sealed the victory. There was still a battle to win the tiebreaker, and a put-back from Poirier beat the buzzer to give the hosts a much-wanted 8-point win.
Bayern got within 64-62 with 5:40 to go, but remained scoreless for the next 3 and a half minutes, while Matt Janning and Johannes Vogitamann nailed back-to-back triples, before Darrun Hilliard grabbed an offensive board and fed Vincent Poirier for a dunk that opened a 72-62 lead with just over 2:30 to go.
Baskonia scored buzzer-beating put-backs at the end of each half. Voigtmann fought for one to beat the halftime buzzer and give the hosts a 38-37 lead at the break, and Poirier was in the right place at the very end, just beating the buzzer to give Baskonia an 8-point win.
Baskonia had five scorers in double digits. Jalen Jones netted 12 points in just 15 minutes on the floor, Johannes Voigtmann had 10 points and 9 rebounds, while Shavon Shields also scored 10 in victory.
Matt Janning came into this game 1 point shy of a 1,000-point milestone, and wasted no time reaching it with Baskonia's first basket of the night.
EuroLeague goes on a week-long break, but when teams return to action in two weeks time for Round 23, both Bayern and Baskonia will pay a visit to great Spanish powerhouses. Bayern will travel to face third-place Real Madrid (17-5), while Baskonia will play against fifth-place FC Barcelona Lassa (13-9).
"We are very happy with the victory, and with the point-difference. We believe that might be very important at the end of the season."
"To win here you have to play better offense, for sure. Defensively we made some mistakes, but it was not bad. But we had a problem with organization, and our three-point percentage was the worst this season. Congratulations to Baskonia on the victory. Before this season, our goal was to be competitive, and I think we are much better than that. We have eight games remaining, and I hope we will win some of them."


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