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Ebola PBL
This was the first PBL activity I implemented into my Honors (it would be fine for regular, that's the beauty of PBL) 10th grade Biology class. Since it was my first "problem" for the students, I allowed them the choice of "problem" to address. For the more science minded students, the Cell-Sensor was more attractive. For the less science minded students, they felt more comfortable with the social aspect of the Ebola outbreak and the reintroduction to the community. I should add as a side note that I did spend 3 weeks on the specifics of the Ebola outbreak but I did not dive into the specifics of cells and viral components.
Cell-based Sensor for Detecting Ebola Virus
The U.S. Government has requested preliminary proposals for the design of a device that can detect the Ebola virus. The device should be designed so that it is able to respond to the presence of the Ebola virus as rapidly and with as much sensitivity as is possible and is capable of remaining functional for two weeks or more in the field. The design that best meets these criteria will be fully funded to complete the design of the device.
The large biomedical engineering company that you work for has decided to compete for funding for this project. The company's strategy is to construct a mammalian-cell based device that is capable of detecting the Ebola virus. Your team is responsible for developing the detection assay. Other teams will be responsible for implementing this assay in the field (hint: you will have to have a basic understanding of what Ebola does to the immune system to create your assay).
Your proposal (< 2 pages, excluding figures) must include a description of the following:
(1) the cell type(s) used
(2) the enzyme(s) or proteins to be detected
(3) how the level of enzyme activity will be quantitatively measured
(4) a figure that allows one to correlate the level of enzyme activity to the concentration Ebola virus
The Social Stigma of Surviving Ebola
(background) The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 1000 lives so far. More than 1800 people, mostly in Guinea, are suspected of having caught the illness, which causes horrific suffering, including bursting blood vessels and bleeding from ears and other orifices. There is no vaccine, no treatment and the disease is almost always fatal. But a handful of the infected do survive. Unfortunately for the lucky few, the stink of stigma lingers long after the virus has been purged from their bodies.
"Thanks be to God, I am cured. But now I have a new disease: the stigmatization that I am a victim of," said the Guinean doctor, who spoke to The Associated Press but refused to give his name for fear of further problems the publicity would cause him and his family. "This disease (the stigma) is worse than the fever." Surviving Ebola is a matter of staying alive long enough to have the chance to develop enough antibodies to fight off the virus, said David Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
That's because it's typically the symptoms of Ebola — severe fever, hemorrhaging, dehydration, respiratory problems — that kills a patient.
Even though he has been cleared of Ebola, the doctor says that people avoid him. "Now, everywhere in my neighborhood, all the looks bore into me like I'm the plague," he said. People leave places when he shows up. No one will shake his hand or eat with him. His own brothers are accusing him of putting their family in danger.
Stigma often accompanies the spread of deadly, poorly understood diseases, said Meredith Stakem, a health and nutrition adviser for Catholic Relief Services in West Africa, noting that the terrified reaction to Ebola recalls the early days of the HIV epidemic. The families of those who die from Ebola face similar problems.
Aziz Soumah, who lives in a suburb of the Guinean capital of Conakry, said his family was forced to move after his brother died, apparently from Ebola.
"I went to pray at the mosque. As soon as I entered, all the worshippers left the mosque," recounted Soumah, a 30-year-old engineer. "I was alone. No one around me."
International health organizations are doing extensive community outreach to explain how the disease is transmitted — only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of symptomatic people — and to explain that those cured are no longer contagious.
Your proposal must include a description of the following:
Strategy for reintroduction of the patient to their community – what strategies will you use to return the discharged patient to his community safely and at the same time letting the community know that you believe the patient to be "cured" and safe for reintroduction.
Education and awareness for members of the community about the disease and how it's spread – what strategy will you use to address the misconceptions of the community with regards to Ebola and how it's spread.
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The "Friends of Star Lake, Inc." commemorates Star Lake residents, past and present, by embracing Star Lake's rich history, preserving and restoring historic Star Lake sites, creating Star Lake museums, providing community functions and awarding annual college scholarships to deserving Star Lakers.
In 2005, Will Hintz and Doug & Libby Scott purchased and restored Star Lake's original 90 year old - one room schoolhouse and converted it in to a gallery/gift shop and museum where people could come and view historic pictures of Star Lake. Libby ran the Old Schoolhouse Gallery and Museum and found other like-minded community members who would like to preserve, protect and restore additional Star Lake historic properties.
In the summer of 2010, several community members joined Libby and Will Hintz and created what we now call - the Friends of Star Lake, Inc. The primary purpose of this group is to preserve what is special about Star Lake: to embrace Star Lake's rich history, and to preserve, protect and restore historic Star Lake structures.
This same group, now Board members of Friends of Star Lake, approached the Milwaukee Railroad Historical Association that funded the construction of the "Route of the Hiawatha" sign that stood along Highway K during the Hiawatha era. It was at this point that this group of Star Lake residents decided that they should form a non-profit organization and dedicate it to preserving and protecting Star Lake's rich history.
The Old Milltown Depot now operates as a retail operation during the summer which supports Friends of Star Lake. The replica railroad depot was built and plans are in place to add more to the site in late 2013.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Star Lake is stuck in time.
Star Lake is a quaint community located in the heart of the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest in the upper most part of Wisconsin. The area contains very little private land and thus is protected from encroaching development.
Oddly enough, Star Lake is still much the same today as it was after the Milltown moved out in 1907. The only real differences – the houses and railroad are gone, the trees have grown back and our historic bait shop is closed for business.
We are thrilled to be able to help preserve Star Lake's rich history. The Schoolhouse, Bait Shop and Old Milltown Depot have all been labors of love. And, the more we work on these projects, the more excited we become.
Please let us know if you or your family members are interested in helping us fund the Old Milltown Depot or our college scholarship program. The entire Board is incredibly grateful for the community's support and helping us preserve what is so special about Star Lake.
Copyright 2018 Friends of Star Lake, Inc.


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We saw Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) assemble her heist team in the first trailer for Ocean's 8, and now we're seeing what these women are made of.
Starring Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, and Rihanna, the Gary Ross-directed, all-female continuation of the Ocean's Eleven franchise just dropped a new trailer. In it, we see Debbie break down her ambitious plan — which she contemplated for 5 years, 8 months, and 12 days in prison — and her new associates quickly fall into their places. Their mission: to steal $150 million worth of jewels from actress (and potential accomplice) Daphne Kluger (Hathaway) at the star-studded and highly secure Met Gala.
Although Debbie is the clear mastermind and her best friend Lou (Blanchett) is her right-hand woman, all of the novice criminals pack the enthusiasm and unique expertise necessary to carry out the plan. There's Amita's (Kaling) jewelry design skills and Nine Ball's (Rihanna) unparalleled hacking capabilities — not to mention her mystifying prowess for finding the "on" switch. Plus, the women do it all in haute couture. It is the Met Gala, after all.
Watch the new trailer above. Ocean's 8 hits theaters June 8.


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PTCB Finalizes Acquisition of PTEC
Nation's First and Only Nonprofit Organizations for Pharmacy Technician Credentialing and Educators Unite to Help Pharmacy Ensure Patient Safety and Advance Careers
Washington, D.C. – The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB), the nation's first and only nonprofit organization for pharmacy technician credentialing, has acquired the Pharmacy Technician Educators Council (PTEC). PTEC membership voted to combine resources, expertise, and infrastructure to empower technician educators with enhanced resources and professional development opportunities and strengthen the future of the pharmacy technician workforce.
Technician educators work in a variety of settings. In its 2022 Workforce Survey of nearly 20,000 technicians from around the country, PTCB found that nearly 65 percent of respondents received formal or informal training through their employers (independent and chain community pharmacies, hospital pharmacies, etc.), and almost 29 percent participated in training programs at a secondary institution (high school, community college, private school). As part of the onboarding, PTCB will connect to its vast network of PTCB-Recognized Education/Training Programs (which serve as the prerequisite for its credentials) that include professionals in all of these settings.
"We recognize a kindred spirit in PTEC. As industry leaders in our respective areas who share a mission to ensure the highest professional and patient safety standards, uniting PTCB and PTEC is an investment in the future of the pharmacy technician workforce to better prepare, advocate for, and serve all their members," said PTCB Executive Director and CEO William Schimmel.
As rapid changes in the healthcare system place new demands on pharmacy, technicians constantly require new and enhanced training to keep pace with their expanding role and increased responsibility.
"PTEC advocates for rigorous education and training to prepare pharmacy technicians for success, and this partnership will increase the value of a PTEC membership with the added benefits of PTCB's resources and infrastructure," said Clay Sprouse, MEd., MPS, CPhT, president of PTEC. "I have no doubt that this will re-envision and re-energize PTEC moving forward."
PTCB will provide resources and infrastructure to support PTEC as a membership organization. Together, PTCB and PTEC can assist the pharmacy profession in educating and training pharmacy technicians to adhere to best professional practices and promote the pharmacy technician's profession through professional activities.

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The Strange Case of the Naked Man in "La Redoute" ad image and The Brilliant Case of 3Suisses Facebook counter-campaign.
It's all happening in France. It is all exploding around end of 2011 and beginning of 2012. What a disgraceful way of closing 2011 for French fashion retailer La Redoute and what a hilarious and brilliant counter-campaign from its direct competitor 3Suisses.
An educational and inspiring story about competition and, sad enough, about failure in management, incredible when it comes from structured and organized contexts such as La Redoute, from PPR Group.
Here's the story. Towards the end of 2011, Uk based fashion website and blog Stylist.co.uk, looking at one of the online visuals from La redoute's website, discovers there's a naked man (yes: A NAKED MAN) happily bathing on the background of this Kidswear visual (yes: KIDSWEAR AD VISUAL). Take a look at the image below:
The French fashion retailer quickly apologizes for the photo in which the naked man appears behind a group of children advertising beachwear. La Redoute is forced to try to control crowds of French people and consumers, commenting sarcastically or furiously against the failure on all Social Media, apologizing on Facebook and eliminating the photo.
Obviously in the meantime the image has gone wildly viral on the Internet: montages appeared on the internet showing the naked man in some iconic images, such as the Moon landing.
In one of the spoof images the face of the disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was pasted onto the naked man.
A spokeswoman for La Redoute, quoted by the AFP news agency, said an internal inquiry had been launched to determine how the error had happened.
The error was compounded by the fact that La Redoute provided a magnifying glass so that people could examine the beachwear close-up.
Some tweeters remarked that the "bad buzz" surrounding the photo was actually useful publicity for La Redoute.
Now, the question is: "How can it possibly be that such scandalous photos do get to publication without being stopped in post-production?". This is unacceptable. In my personal experience with dozens of shootings for fashion brands, with photographers of every kind, style, level and background, I have gone through dozens of checks with dozens of key levels of control, for every single image, in order to spot hair on an arm of a model or a wrinkle in a pant which would ruin the aesthetics of the pic and these guys at La Redoute, brand of the celebrated PPR Group, fails so heavily on such a delicate matter?
On the counterside, though, we cannot but admire and applause the quick reaction of La Redoute's main mail-order competitor, 3Suisses, who immediately launched this brilliant Facebook Campaign
Translated from French its claim says: "It is clear that not everybody knows we sell bathing suits".
Bravi 3Suisses!


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Year of the Trail
Celebrate the beginning of 2023 Year of the Trail by hitting the trail! Every State Park is hosting a "First Day Hike" on New Year's Day. Find an organized hike or celebrate on your own by visiting some of the trails listed on NC Triad Outdoors.
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With a climate and topography that encourages year-round cultivation, the NC Triad is filled with parks and public gardens that are always in bloom. Visitors can find trees, vines, shrubs, and flowers that showcase the verdant beauty of the region at any time of year.
Native Nature in the NC Triad
Spread across 17 acres, the Greensboro Arboretum highlights plants that are well-adapted to the climate of the Piedmont. Featuring 14 specialized areas of cultivation, visitors can focus on the butterfly garden, the groundcover collection, the rose garden, the pollinator meadow, and a number of other exhibition areas that cycle into bloom throughout the year. Welcoming native and migrating birds, and flush with the smell of pollinating trees and flowers in the spring and dew-covered dropped leaves in the fall, the arboretum is an exciting place for plant, bird, and people watching in every season.
Public Art in Public Parks & Gardens
Tanglewood Park in Clemmons and Bermuda Run offers many enjoyable diversions, and for a delight for the senses, visit the Tanger Family Bicentennial Garden. Open dawn to dusk, this neatly planned garden combines beautiful bronze and stone statuary with beds that display everything from wildflowers to daylilies. Of special interest is the Fragrance Garden, whose scents of azalea and gardenia will send you into bliss when in bloom. So will the Sensory Garden with textures and smells that are elevated by the wind that whistles through and helps make clear that sound is a primary feature of any satisfying garden space.
The History of NC Triad Horticulture
The indigenous, Black, and Moravian cultures that combined to create what is now known as the NC Triad depended upon the land for their survival. Celebrate this history at the Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, which continues the farming practices of the area's early European settlers. Lots within Old Salem have been marked and dated, and the produce grown on each plot accords with crops that were planted and harvested on the same land more than two centuries ago. Visitors can learn more about the grains, herbs, fruits, and vegetables that sustained these people as they shaped the NC Triad into the region it is today.
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Leib BMW M3 GT 500 is a tuning worth the attention. The performance specialists at Leib Engineering have presented their first project vehicle which is the perfect balance between the fast club sport racing element and the element of the representative "Boulevard-Beau".
In other words the BMW looks stunningly beautiful, because the tuners gave it high-grade finishing through a OEM carbon fiber parts. They in turn contrast the alpine white paintwork. In particular, the carbon flaps are positioned under the front spoiler, the side-view mirror and the tear-off edge are also made of carbon.
Another highlight in this transformed car is the new in-house valve exhaust system which is made of high-grade steel and which covers a 100-cell HJS catalyzer, an X-pipe with middle silencers and an end muffler with vacuum-controlled Pierburg valves. The sound of the system is controlled through the M-key.
To go even further into detials, the performance boost equals circa 27.5 horsepower achieved through the optimization of the engine software in such a way that altogether, a good 470 hp (345 kW) is sent in the direction of the drive train – Suction Tuning par excellence.
The additional power is balanced through the instalation of Brembo GT braking system, whose red six-piston fixed saddles on the front axle hold perforated 380x32-millimeter discs firmly in their grip. The four-piston saddles on perforated 320x28-millimeter brake discs act on the rear.
Moreover, the Leib BMW M3 GT 500 runs on BMW M220 forged alloy wheels of size 8.5x19 and 9.5x19 inches for the front and the rear respectively. They were matched with Michelin Pilot Sport Cup semi-slicks in sizes 235/35R19 and 265/30R19.
On the other hand the ABS software was especially designed for motor sport application with semi-slicks, in such a way that even shorter breaking distance can now be achieved. The dual clutch transmission system oprates with even shorter shifting times after a software update.
What is more, the electronic system of the KW DDC ECU chassis suspension was tuned by Leib Engineering. The result is that now the electronic damper control system of the high-tech coilover suspension can controlled through the original EDC key or M key.
At last, the interior has been also "touched". Throughout the cabin one can see fine alcantara, in fact the BMW Performance seats and the steering wheel were all wrapped with this material.


A cloud and devops enthusiast always looking for people to geek out with. If you are in San Francisco bay area and have an opinion about DevOps market and technologies, give me a shout!
Did you know that in the world of public cloud, Azure (not Google) is (a distant) second, behind AWS? I didn't and was quite surprised when I came across this information and related data.
Since the launch in 2010, Azure has shown >100% growth. It's 2014 revenue exceeded $1 Billion. Also in 2014, Azure grew by 125%. Their annual run rate is close to $2.5 Billion. And while AWS is still struggling to make that IaaS to PaaS transition, Azure has been recognized as a leader in both segments!
Looking at the growth, AWS has 27% of the market share (down from 28% last year), Azure, meanwhile has surged to 10%, up from 6% last year. GCE/GAE is less than 5% and IBM is about 7%.
Finally, Microsoft has put all its cloud eggs in the Azure bucket. They want to be successful and are desperately looking for developers and customers. In other words, anybody writing new apps has a big opportunity with Azure.
Among public cloud players (IaaS and PaaS), Azure could be the cloud of choice for you.
If there were any doubts about DevOps and PaaS being tied to each other, I think the reported growth in the PaaS market should put it to rest.
MarketsandMarkets recently reported that PaaS in 2014 has grown to $1.28 Billion and the expected CAGR is upward of 32 percent.
So the question is what is causing such a huge uptick in PaaS adoption?
The answer is simple – rather than spending all their money on IaaS, a number of enterprise players including banks, telco and even providers of payroll services are recognizing the need for PaaS and experimenting with it.
Don't get me wrong. This doesn't mean the end of Data Center or private cloud. It just means that for a number of new apps, these traditional IT shops need new frameworks and auto-scaling, elastic infrastructure to support the app tiers – something that all major PaaS providers deliver but IaaS does not.
As we move forward and enterprise IT adopts cloud and develops DevOps mindset, we will see more and more teams moving to (private or public) PaaS.
What remains to be seen is if they will pay for the platform (Heroku, EngineYard, etc) or go with opensource versions of Cloud Foundry and OpenShift.
In the last post I talked about a DevOps maturity model – a simplified set of milestones you could strive for to make your organization more efficient and agile.
The question "what will DevOps do for me?" still remains.
For Industry influencers DevOps is the harbinger of the new Industrial Revolution, something that will fundamentally change how we think about IT and various roles within IT.
For practitioners, still struggling to take that first step, the big vision is enticing but it is the smaller, more tactical goal that needs to be accomplished first to showcase the viability of DevOps.
First – automate deployments. An average developer may spend up to 200 hours trying to set up the environment and deploy her application while still developing the code. Most end up writing there own scripts to make the job easier and repeatable. If however, they have a tool, blessed and available from IT, it would help them focus on code rather than how to deploy and test it.
Second – improve communication between your dev and ops teams. While "communication" can mean many things, I specifically mean "handoffs" from dev to ops. Instead of just handing over the code, the dev will now provide instructions, steps, deployment scripts, testing scripts and even known issues and defects to ops. This makes the job of ops much easier. If there's a problem, then instead of just logging a defect, ops will now provide environment definition, data and even the state of environment before and after the defect occurred. This simplifies dev's job of debugging the problem and finding the root cause helping them fix it faster and permanently.
So if you are looking for quick wins – start with deployment automation and look to improve communication, specifically handoffs, between dev and ops teams.
Enterprise IT has come a long way in its understanding of DevOps. From "Can you show us DevOps" to "How do we start our journey to be more DevOps centric organization", the maturity has grown significantly. Let us take a look at the question again – "How do we start our journey…..".
In other words, many IT organizations are now looking for that first step or set of steps that will enable them to realize key benefits of adopting DevOps with measurable return on investment.
My observation has been that Deployment Automation (also called Application Release Automation) is that first step. Most IT organizations find it a small enough step that doesn't require too many approvals, can be localized to one or just a couple of environments (DEV, INT, QA, UAT, etc) and finally provides a quick ROI that can be shown to senior management to move to the next step.
The second step in DevOps Maturity Model is the one that most IT (especially the development) may have already tried – a controlled Continuous Delivery approach toward application release. The code doesn't quite make it to the production environment automatically but could be promoted across lower level environments such as Dev and INT.
The third step is establishing feedback and feedforward loops. Your development and ops may sit thousands of miles away from each other but if there are well established feedback loop, the dev will know the Operational Requirements for a given environment and could include that in their initial designs. Similarly Development itself could provide information, scripts, instructions to deploy and test the code – the feedforward loop. A continuous feedback and feedforward form the crux of the DevOps practice. It is not easy to implement but it does give you huge benefits.
The fourth and the final step would be to establish a truly automated, DevOps centric Release Management practice. Here your deployments across all environments, with the exception of Production and Pre-Production is automated, continuous feedback and feedforward loops between dev and ops exist and everything that a human or a machine does is logged and audit-able.
While the organizations go down this path of developing DevOps centric organization, they continue to invest in infrastructure automation and management. That takes time and is an ongoing project which needs to be tweaked along the way.
That is it. There could be and will be more complex models but DevOps as a philosophy to be adopted doesn't have to be complex. You have to start somewhere and Deployment Automation (also called Application Release Automation) could be that starting point.
What does Release Management Mean To You?
Over last year, I have talked to customers, analysts and industry experts to determine what is the definition of Release Management and how it fits in the world of DevOps. I have noticed that there are two different perspectives on this.
Analysts include everything, from Development and QA to post deployment monitoring (Application Performance Management) to be part of the DevOps problem.
Enterprise IT however, has a different take on it. As of now, IT practitioners in most organizations equate DevOps with Automation – Infrastructure and Application Release automation to be precise.
Based upon the feedback from enterprise IT, I developed an image which shows the relationship between Release Management and other IT disciplines as they understand it.
The idea is that at its very core, the purpose of Release Management is to move software to a target environment – be it in your Datacenter or Cloud.
In doing so, Release interacts with Planning, Development, Testing, Ops/Deployment to collects status and track milestones.
To reiterate, DevOps means different things to different people but from Enterprise IT perspective I have found that most common definition includes deployment automation (App Release Automation) and Infrastructure Automation/Management.
I see that even though Deployment is somebody else's problem, Release Management finds itself in the middle of deployment issues if the "handoff" fails.
What do you think? Does your organization view Release the similar way?
A few days ago I talked about the merits of Platform as a Service (PaaS) to help bridge the Dev and Ops divide. However, PaaS adoption in Enterprise IT remains slow and faces several challenges – some perceived, some real.
Of perceived challenges, the most relevant is the one about security. A banking, insurance or health care IT does not allow hosting (and even developing) of applications in the Public Cloud – which is what the PaaS vendors offer as their primary service.
As a response, a number of these vendors have launched "Private" PaaS – where they offer their technology to enterprises and allow them to host it in their Private Cloud (read – infrastructure within IT's firewall).
However, from those of us who have worked in Enterprise IT or are intimately connected with it, several challenges, including complexity of deployment, support for thousands of existing apps and problem of fragmented technology still remain. Lets take a look at each of these quickly and discuss alternatives or strategies to adopt the right Cloud for IT.
Using PaaS is quite simple but if you take the bits and deploy it on your own, the process becomes quite complex. You still have to download all the components, like a web server, app server, messaging service, database that the PaaS would use and wire it together using the PaaS core that would manage the underlying infrastructure for you. The process could be time consuming and difficult to manage. However, once you have invested time and resources on the initial setup, management is quite easy (unless you find bugs in the PaaS management components).
This is one of the thorniest issue that no PaaS provider is willing to talk about. IT organizations have thousands of applications and over 80% of dev time is spent fixing issues with these apps. Of the remaining 20%, most of the time is spent extending these apps and hardly 2-3% is dedicated to developing brand new apps from the scratch. That basically means that all the effort you'd put into PaaS would benefit only 2-3% of what you do. Is the investment really worth it?
Unless you are writing a web app using Ruby (Rails), Java (Spring, Scala) etc., PaaS is not very useful for you. There's limited support for J2EE and .NET. App servers like Weblogic and Websphere are also not handled gracefully leaving you with a very narrow definition of what exactly is a "Platform".
First alternative is what the PaaS vendors have been talking about. Adopt PaaS as is for the new web apps being built using modern frameworks like Scala and RoR.
If however, you'd still like to consider private PaaS, my suggestion is to wait. PaaS solutions are still maturing and while they do simplify management of app stack, they could be a hassle to deploy and upgrade and may not be worth the effort and cost at this time.
If you'd like to play with PaaS for some new, experimental development, I think there's a better option. Adopt a more flexible IaaS option. AWS by itself has added a number of PaaS like features under its "Elastic Beanstalk" service. With support for Java and .NET apps and auto-scaling features, I don't think it is too much of a stretch to call it a PaaS. The most beautiful part of AWS EB service is it allows you to control how much or how little control you want over the app stack and where you want it to be available.
Mind you, you are still outside of your firewall but looking at the capabilities and simplicity that AWS brings to the table, I find it a much better solution for Enterprise IT.
Recently I came across two very different IT organizations. One, a cloud based software vendor that provides Payroll services to millions around the country and other an Insurance company.
You'd think that when it comes to software development and release the software company would have more agile processes while the tradition financial company would focus more on rigor.
Because they dealt with Payroll and each change could mean a direct financial impact on millions of users, this software company preferred rigor over agility – almost as much as any financial organization would. The Release team recognized that even though the development had gone Agile they (the Release team) was still responsible for .making sure that the code goes through right gates before it is released for end users.
So the obvious question is – Do we have to choose between Agility and Rigor? Can't we have both?
The answer is – You CAN have both. In some cases you even improve one by focusing on other.
Let me take an example of another IT organization, an Insurance company out of UK. With offshore and outsourced dev factories, the Release team was struggling with lost dev time as developers had to wait for days or hours for deployments to go through and testing to complete before they could fix issues and move to the next stage.
By adopting a deployment automation (Application Release Automation) solution, the release team accelerated their cycles several fold freeing up valuable QA resources who were previously engaged in deployment activities. These QA resources could now focus back on testing and bringing rigor to the release cycle – work they were hired to do in the first place.
In short – by accelerating their Release cycles and automating as much as they could, the release team was able to bring more rigor to their processes, eliminate dev downtime and improve overall quality of the release.
Is DevOps making Release Management Obsolete?
There's a remarkable difference between those who work in Bay Area for one of the Cloud, Release or dare I say "DevOps" vendor and those who live elsewhere and are employed by enterprise IT shops at banks, healthcare, telecom companies.
Bay Area DevOps enthusiasts believe that the role of operations within Enterprise IT will be eliminated over next few years. Developers, they argue are writing scripts to deploy their code anyway. They could hand over the scripts to engineers on the ops side who could then deploy the code using these scripts and environment definitions that were delivered to them.
Open source tools from PuppetLabs and OpsCode have made the job of setting up environments quite prescriptive, if not exactly easy.
Deployment could be governed through in-house scripts or one of the ARA (Application Release Automation) tools offered by all major vendors, such as IBM, Serena, CA and a plethora of smaller companies.
Where's the need for Release Management?
Not so fast, the folks on enterprise IT caution. You could turn your environment into code and automate all the deployments but anybody who has worked in a bank understands that when a major release rolls by, hundreds of applications get updated. How does automation govern the process of planning, developing, testing, delivering these thousands of changes? What about Audit and compliance requirements that financial institutions and health care providers must follow?
In short, automation allows you to get your app to the consumer faster but it does very little to protect you from legal complications that arise with each release cycle.
And that, I believe is the role of the Release Management team. They make sure that all engines including development, testing, deployment, environment management are humming in perfect synchronization with each other, avoid and resolve conflicts as they arise, make progress and challenges more visible and govern the process to ensure complete audit and compliance guidelines that their teams are required to follow.
Platform-as-a-Service has many benefits including freeing the developer from having to worry about application architecture (middleware, db) complexities as well as worrying about capacity planning as app usage rises (or falls) over time.
There are other benefits that in a way could solve a few Release Management/DevOps problems.
Application deployment is incredibly easy with PaaS. A single line command in Heroku could push your code to the cloud.
Really. It is that easy!
Building a repeatable deployment script is a child's play!
Since PaaS is a complete stack with add-on services that developers use to write their code, PaaS adoption could help standardize environment across Dev and Ops! Once you have eliminated environment variance and automated deployments, you have created a solid ground to reduce Dev to Ops handoff and accelerated your release lifecycle.
Analysts and some vendor have been proclaiming the death of the IT for at least a couple of years now. Their primary argument resides in the "cloud".
The argument goes like this – With Developers adopting Agile and QA becoming more automated, the only barrier to moving code faster to production is IT (read Ops). As business owners adopt more SaaS applications, Developers adopt PaaS and environments are maintained with IaaS (public or private), you wouldn't need IT all.
Every single IT exec I have met looks at the argument above and shrugs his or her shoulders. While every single Enterprise IT today has a Cloud initiative, it is crystal clear that core, strategic and business driver apps are not going to move to the cloud any time soon.
An Executive Director at one of nation's premier Financial Services group summarized the challenge – "I manage the applications that are used for trading. One wrong move, and the entire business (billions of dollars) could disappear overnight. To suggest that we will hand our applications or infrastructure over to a third party is just not realistic.
I believe everybody who comes from one of such companies could relate to that.
No matter how much automation and cheap and reliable cloud services are developed, IT is very much alive and kicking.
The reports of the death of IT have been greatly exaggerated.


1. Most of the time, you're stressed out. Actually, not being stressed makes you stressed.
2. Basically, you only have one mode for how you do everything: URGENT.
3. Being late for ANYTHING is NOT an option.
4. The speed between your phone buzzing and you responding to a text or email can only be described as superhuman.
5. Until your work, project, or assignment is completed, you will be an utter nervous wreck.
6. When people tell you to "calm down" or "just relax" it drives you INSANE.
7. And when you do try to relax, you can't even do it in a relaxed manner. Work hard, play hard, baby!
8. Weekends aren't for relaxing; they're just an opportunity to get MORE stuff done, like errands.
9. And dating is nearly impossible, because not only are you too focused on school or your career, but NO one can meet your lofty standards.
10. You have to keep your phone screen ORGANIZED and you also cannot stand the red notification bubbles.
11. And this is your nightmare.
12. Waiting in line is actually the most frustrating thing in the world.
13. Actually, just the thought of wasting even a second of time drives you INSANE.
14. Winning isn't everything to you, it's the ONLY thing.
15. Which complicates matters, because for you, everything in life is a COMPETITION.
16. You live and die by your to-do list.
17. Sometimes you will even write it on the back of your hand. What? It's PRACTICAL.
18. Also, of course, your calendar is ALWAYS full.
19. Color-coding? Yeah, that's basically second nature to you.
20. You can't just multitask; you have to MULTImultitask.
21. You ALWAYS have to be in charge of group projects.
22. It drives you INSANE when people are walking too slow in front of you.
23. Actually, you're pretty pissed that no one else can operate at the same pace as you. Ugh, peasants.
24. All-nighters are a way of life for you.
25. You literally don't know how to procrastinate.
26. Also, your body basically runs on caffeine as fuel.
27. You don't bite off more than you can chew. Because you can chew it all.
28. Yeah, being type A can be a bit stressful at times. JK, literally ALL the time.
But it's all worth it, because if life were a game, you would be WINNING it.


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UNN VC, Prof Igwe hails Ugwuanyi on good governance
…Thanks gov on water reticulation at Enugu campus
The new vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Charles Igwe, has lauded Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for the good governance initiatives of his administration in the state, including in the university and its environs.
Prof. Igwe, who is the 15th substantive and first alumnus vice chancellor of UNN, thanked Gov. Ugwuanyi for his intervention in water reticulation on the Enugu campus of the institution, UNEC.
The vice chancellor made the commendations when he led principal officers of the university and some members of the Governing Council, to pay a courtesy call on Gov. Ugwuanyi at the Government House, Enugu.
Prof. Igwe told Gov. Ugwuanyi that he was at the Government House, Enugu, to formally introduce himself to him as "our landlord" and "a super Lion occupying the Lion Building", stressing that "there is no way we can take off without first of all calling on you to give us your blessings".
He used the opportunity to express the profound gratitude of the management and students of the university to the governor for addressing the problem of water scarcity in UNEC.
The new VC appreciated the existing working relationship between the governor and the federal university, saying: "you have always been one of us; you have always shown interest in the events and happenings at the University of Nigeria".
Prof. Igwe, who described Gov. Ugwuanyi as a brother, humble and visionary leader, maintained that the university "will continue to talk about the water reticulation at UNEC".
Responding, Gov. Ugwuanyi who welcomed the vice chancellor and his entourage to the Government House, Enugu, on behalf of the Government and the people of Enugu State congratulated him on his recent appointment to "the revered and highly coveted office".
The governor expressed delight at the numerous accomplishments of the university in the "educational and intellectual advancement of our people" despite many challenges since its establishment 59 years ago.
Gov. Ugwuanyi who opined that tertiary educational institutions hold the key to the nation's economic and technological advancement, added that he was impressed UNN was recently ranked as the number one University in Nigeria and 17th in Africa coupled with its recent feat of producing the nation's first electric car.
He pointed out that the feats bear eloquent testimony to the efforts that are being made to reposition the University for greater accomplishments, stating that "as a government, we have continued to place a very high premium on the improvement of the quality and standard of education in Enugu State".
"One of the focal points of this drive has been the development and implementation of policies designed to revitalize educational institutions at all levels in the state.
"In this regard, we want to assure you of our commitment to strengthening the existing relationship, partnership and cooperation between the state and the University of Nigeria.
"It is certainly in our interest that the institution attains the desired heights in academic and technological excellence that would help stimulate the significant transformation of our society".
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Greek stocks presented a mixed picture on Thursday: The majority headed south but the banks index headed higher, helping the benchmark to end the rather volatile session in positive territory. The main index only held on to a fraction of the gains recorded earlier in the day.
The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index ended at 633.46 points, adding 0.14 percent to Wednesday's 632.56 points. The large-cap FTSE-25 index expanded just 0.04 percent to 1,670.09 points, while the mid-cap index contracted 0.32 percent.
The banks index improved 0.86 percent as Piraeus climbed 3.48 percent and Alpha rose 2.30 percent. National slipped 0.07 percent and Eurobank declined 1.79 percent.
Sarantis gave up 4.66 percent, Hellenic Petroleum dropped 2.70 percent and Mytilineos conceded 2.41 percent, while Motor Oil advanced 4.65 percent and Viohalco earned 1 percent.
In total 40 stocks registered gains, 47 recorded losses and 38 remained unchanged.
Turnover amounted to 36.1 million euros, down from Wednesday's 45.4 million.
In Nicosia the Cyprus Stock Exchange general index shrank 0.94 percent to close at 66.65 percent.


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Opportunities during US offshore wind power development
January 24, 2020 reve
AWEA and the University of Delaware's Special Initiative on Offshore Wind partner to help the public more easily participate in the existing federal feedback process.
As momentum to build large-scale U.S. offshore wind farms continues, a new guide released today will increase public transparency into the federal regulatory process governing offshore wind energy development. The new Offshore Wind Public Participation Guide, produced by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the University of Delaware's Special Initiative on Offshore Wind (SIOW), details the process and opportunities for public stakeholders and interested parties wishing to have their opinion heard.
Offshore wind promises to supply large amounts of clean energy to America's largest cities and coastal regions, while launching tens of thousands of new careers and generating new investments in coastal infrastructure. Even so, all infrastructure development has unintended impacts, and members of other ocean industries and coastal communities have made it clear they want a say in the offshore wind development process. Those opportunities exist, but the process is sometimes opaque.
To that end, AWEA and SIOW partnered to produce the new guide designed to highlight public participation opportunities in the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (housed within the U.S. Department of the Interior) regulatory process that governs leasing of areas on the Outer Continental Shelf for renewable energy development.
"We recognize that offshore wind development has an impact on coastal communities, traditional ocean industries, ocean users, and U.S. national security interests," said Laura Smith Morton, AWEA Senior Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Offshore Wind. "This guide is meant to draw attention to the opportunities for public feedback in BOEM's regulatory process to ensure we realize an American offshore wind industry that works for us all."
"The offshore wind sector has heard the frustration expressed by some ocean users and we understand a new industry raises questions," said Nancy Sopko, Executive Director of SIOW. "We urge any interested parties—fishermen, coastal residents, scientists, the military—to take advantage of the public participation opportunities outlined in this guide. Your feedback and expertise matters, ultimately helping the industry find a balance that enables offshore wind development to co-exist and prosper along with other ocean users."
Interested parties—including members of the general public, industries, all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, and educational institutions—have numerous opportunities for comment throughout the BOEM's regulatory process. There are a number of public comment periods (between 30 and 60 days long) and several public meetings (the exact number varies from case to case) before a single wind turbine can begin construction.
Public participation from other ocean users, including the fishing industry and coastal communities, is essential to help the U.S. fully realize the benefits of offshore wind power. Early feedback helps projects avoid potential conflicts, benefiting wind developers and other ocean users alike. Feedback is valuable at any stage of development, though ideally interested parties should provide input from the very first public comment period following a Call for Information from BOEM regarding potential locations for offshore wind development.
Feedback given to BOEM regarding offshore wind development makes a difference. As a result of public input, the final designation of a Wind Energy Area is generally adjusted from initial proposals to better avoid sensitive areas and potential use conflicts.
The new guide outlines only the public participation opportunities required by law throughout the BOEM regulatory process for offshore wind development, but the public's ability to provide feedback is not limited to this process alone. Interested parties may also provide input through regional fishery management councils, state permitting processes, and state fisheries, habitat, and environmental working groups, among other opportunities.
Leaders representing public groups and industry organizations commented on the Offshore Wind Public Participation Guide:
"RODA understands how difficult it can be for affected parties to maximize their participation in the very complex permitting process for offshore wind projects," said Annie Hawkins, Executive Director of the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance. "We therefore appreciate AWEA and SIOW's work to clarify the federal elements of that process in a format that's easily accessible to the public, and hope this guide is useful to fishermen and anyone interested in having their voice heard."
"The most dynamic plans form through an inclusive and collaborative process, which is why public input is essential not only to permitting but also to our entire operation," said Jessica Dealy, Lead of Atlantic Shores External Affairs. "This guide is an important tool in making sure we are coming together as a community and an industry to get offshore wind right."
"The most important part of developing an offshore wind project is listening to and working with all stakeholders to build clean energy projects that deliver long-term value to coastal communities," said Jenny Briot, Offshore Business Development Director for Avangrid Renewables. "The SIOW and AWEA Offshore Wind Public Participation Guide will be a helpful tool in advancing collaboration among all groups working to transform our energy future."
"Development of the US offshore wind industry can't fully succeed without intensive and sustained collaboration among wind farm developers and the many other commercial, recreational, and non-profit interests that share the ocean," said Bill White, EnBW North America Managing Director. "Created by respected experts at AWEA and the University of Delaware's Special Initiative on Offshore Wind, this new Public Participation Guide is an important new tool for ensuring early and effective engagement by the public and an array of stakeholders as we build this new industry critical to the country's clean energy future."
"Maintaining strong relationships with local communities is important to the development of our innovative offshore wind projects," said John Hartnett, President of Mayflower Wind LLC. "We hope the SIOW-AWEA public participation guide will more easily inform the public on how they can participate in this process. We're encouraged by the prospect of using this guide to broaden our lines of communication with more ocean users."
"Stakeholder engagement is critical to the development of any offshore wind project," said Kris Ohleth, Senior Stakeholder Relations Manager of Ørsted. "The Public Participation Guide as developed by the SIOW and AWEA will be a key tool for working with a variety of stakeholders as it delivers an approachable and concise explanation of the offshore wind development process."
"Vineyard Wind has relied on valuable input from various stakeholders in all of our proposals to provide clean, safe and reliable energy to New England and New York," said Rachel Pachter, Chief Development Officer for Vineyard Wind. "We look forward to using the SIOW and AWEA Offshore Wind Public Participation Guide to continue working alongside fisheries, marine scientists, coastal communities, NGOs, and others to develop a strong and responsible American offshore wind industry."
The offshore wind industry is committed to going above and beyond what is outlined in this guide to provide opportunities for public participation. For example, offshore wind developers have collectively held thousands of voluntary meetings with other ocean users, including fishermen, fishing groups and local communities. The industry continually looks for ways to expand engagement.
Though interest in offshore wind has accelerated in just a few years, BOEM has worked since 2009 to ensure that responsible renewable energy development on the Outer Continental Shelf best serves the American public. As of January 2020, there are 15 active commercial lease areas for offshore wind development in U.S. federal waters, with more in the works.
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Born in Melbourne, John Carmichael studied piano with Raymond Lambert and composition with Dorian Le Gallienne at the University Conservatorium before continuing his piano studies at the Conservatoire National in Paris with Marcel Ciampi. Contact with Arthur Benjamin while he was still in Australia led to a period of study with him in London, studies in composition continued later with Anthony Milner.
John Carmichael was a pioneer in the field of music therapy; he developed music teaching and music appreciation projects at Stoke Mandeville Hospital (where the Paraplegic Olympics was born) and Netherden Mental Hospital in Surrey. Then followed a period as Musical Director of the Spanish dance company Eduardo Y Navarra, with extensive international touring including an Australian visit during which ABC Televsions recorded their dance program Fuego en la Sangre (Fire in the Blood). The contact with flamenco, expressed both in dance and by the flamenco singers and guitarists, led John Carmichael to encapsulate the experience in his Concierto Folklórico, released on ABC Classics with the composer as piano soloist.
In 1980 James Galway premiered John Carmichael's Phoenix – Concerto for Flute & Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House; he gave the American premiere at the Hollywood Bowl a few months later and included the work in his Flute Masterpieces series released by RCA to celebrate Galway's 60th birthday. HisTrumpet Concerto, recently released on CD with John Wallace and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, was originally written for Australian trumpeter Kevin Johnston and also released on ABC Classics, together with his Country Fair for clarinet and orchestra.
Writing for the piano has always stimulated ideas for compositions, including works for four hands, and has led to collaborations with Australian pianists such as Victor Sangiorgio and Antony Gray, who gave the premire of Carmichael's Piano Quartet Sea Changes in London in 2000 with Australian string players Belinda MacFarlane, Morgan Goff and Matthew Lee; the work was later released on the ABC Classics CD Sea Changes.
John Carmichael's work for wind octet On The Green was premiered at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 2007. Celebrating the green spaces of West London where the composer has lived for the least 40 years, it highlights the events whcih take place in these areas open to all to enjoy – open air music, fun fairs, children's games and care-free summer's days.
Concentration on melodic and thematic development within well-wrought musical structures has always been a feature of Carmichael's music, something remarked on by both listeners and reviewers. In 2007 on the release of the ABC Classics CD Solo Flights, a complete recording by Antony Gray of Carmichael's music for solo piano, it was selected as CD of the Week on the ABC network and was reviewed in the Classic FM Magazine in the UK as '77 minutes of enchanting music', while Rob Barnett in Classical Music on the Web, reviewing the CD Sea Changes, remarks that Carmichael is 'completely serious in his pursuit of discovery in melody – blissfully accessible and often sheerly beautiful'.


The goal of this course is to teach basic Creole structure, vocabulary, grammar, literacy and basic conversation skills to students with little or no knowledge of the Creole language. Participants will be expected to learn words from a variety of vocabulary lists. They will learn to read, write, speak, and understand some basic conversational themes. This course is preparatory to more advanced study of the language.
– Introduce students to the Creole language through listening, speaking, reading and writing.
– Focus on grammar elements to expand literacy.
– Provide cultural awareness and appreciation of the Creole language, the Haitian culture and traditions.
– Demonstrate grasp of basic Creole concepts (i.e. phonetics, morphology, structure).
– Pronounce Creole well enough to be understood by a native speaker.
– Engage in simple dialogs with classmates.
– Identify people, classroom objects, days, numbers in Creole.
– Demonstrate a degree of knowledge of the Haitian culture and customs.
1. Materials – Please bring class material, workbook, notebook to every session.
2. Homework – You are encouraged to review other material and we will make an effort to forward appropriate videos or other online material that will help you develop you skills quicker. We will do our best to respond to email inquiries promptly.
3. Study – Since we only meet once/week homework is very important. Any amount of time you can find to engage in the material outside of class will be a great. It is essential for second language learning.
4. Attitude – Remember to have fun!!!


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RINUS VEEKAY NARROWLY MISSES ANOTHER TOP 10 FINISH AT MID-OHIO
Posted by Patrick Stephan on Sunday, September 13th 2020
Last Lap Pass Drops VeeKay to 11th; Conor Daly Runs Steady Race After Tough Qualifying, Finishes 16th
(LEXINGTON, Ohio) September 13, 2020 – Race 2 Notes
Ed Carpenter Racing drivers Rinus VeeKay and Conor Daly finished exactly where they started in today's Race 2 of the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course doubleheader. VeeKay narrowly missed extending his streak of Top 10 finishes when a last-lap pass dropped him to 11th. Daly started and finished today's Honda 200 in the 16th position.
Yesterday's Race 1 of the doubleheader resulted in both VeeKay and Daly's highest road course qualifying efforts of the season. VeeKay started 9th while Daly was up on the outside of the second row in 4th. Daly was running in the Top 10 until the final lap, when his car unexpectedly began to run out of fuel. Daly finished 13th while VeeKay brought home his third consecutive Top 10 with an 8th place.
It was a clean slate for today as Race 2 had it's own qualifying session this morning. Heavy rains moved through the area and the track was still wet when qualifying began. The field was split into two groups and Daly was out first. A red flag flew just moments before he set his first quick lap that had him sitting third. The lap was invalidated and Daly had to start over. He was able to turn two laps at speed, narrowly missing a third lap by mere seconds. Many cars behind him did have time for an additional lap, dropping him down the order to 16th.
Multiple red flags caused delays to VeeKay's group. The course had not remained green long enough for anyone to record a lap time and drivers were left with only three minutes and 36 seconds to set a quick time. VeeKay managed two laps, but the rain tires were so degraded by the second lap, he did not improve his speed. His fast lap would slot him into the 11th position on today's starting grid.
The start of Race 2 was eventful with multiple cars off-course in the first few corners. Daly avoided the melee, but dropped to 19th. Nearly the entire field wound up on the same pit strategy when all but two cars stopped on Lap 15. Daly moved up as the two leaders made their stop, but settled back into his original starting position of 16th. His second pit stop on Lap 46 had him back in 18th, but again he cycled back into 16th. At the end of today's 75-lap race, Daly brought home the No. 20 U.S. Air Force Chevrolet in the same position it started in.
VeeKay too avoided the opening lap mayhem and gained two positions, moving his No. 21 SONAX/Autogeek Chevrolet up to 9th. Pit stops on Laps 15 and 46 had VeeKay firmly in the Top 10. A spin by Scott Dixon placed him on an alternate pit strategy and with tires that were 12 laps fresher than VeeKay's, the championship leader made the pass on the Dutch rookie with only a few corners to go. VeeKay finished 11th, also the position he started today's race.
Next up for the NTT INDYCAR SERIES will be the Harvest Grand Prix, a new event for 2020 utilizing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. It too will be a doubleheader weekend with races taking place on both Friday, October 2 and Saturday, October 3. VeeKay and Daly have already completed one race at the IMS road course this year, which took place on the Fourth of July. Daly advanced to the second round of qualifying in that event and VeeKay earned his best road course finish and first career Top 5.
CONOR DALY, No. 20 U.S. Air Force Chevrolet, Finished 16th: "Today was tough in qualifying. We just didn't get the right lap in at the right time and we just missed having another lap by a couple of seconds. Starting on the back foot, that's hard. We took a gamble with the setup which was actually good for me to try. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time for everything that happened on track, it was a shame. However, there were some positives; yesterday, we qualified 4th which was really good. We are still learning together as a team, hopefully we can put what we learned here towards the Harvest Grand Prix."
RINUS VEEKAY, No. 21 SONAX/Autogeek Chevrolet, Finished 11th: "That was a very tough race! Maybe because of the rainy conditions this morning, the track was different. My car felt nothing like yesterday! I had to dodge some cars at the start and did not really move forward like other guys did. It wasn't the greatest race, but P11 is not terrible! We've got the Indy road course again – and again! I had my best road course finish there so I am ready to go back!"
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Uncharted 4 Development Set Back Eight Months By Amy Hennig's Departure, Says Voice Actor
Nolan North says Last of Us director's opted for a different tone when they took over.
By Tamoor Hussain | @tamoorh on June 29, 2015 at 7:13AM PDT
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End lost eight months of work when series writer Amy Hennig left developer Naughty Dog.
Speaking during a panel held at Metrocon, voice actor Nolan North indicated that the project was reworked when The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann and game director Bruce Straley took over.
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According to North, the development team had "shot eight months of her story and it was all thrown away."
"Amy is still a very dear friend of mine and she's brilliant," North continued. "But the Last of Us guys were the next team there, so they took over and they just wanted their own flavour. They got rid of some of the other people that were involved and just redid their thing."
Discussing the changes, North said Uncharted 4 will "be fun," but added "the tone is going to be slightly different" from Hennig's original vision.
"It has to be, you know," he said. "You can't have a Robert Ludlum novel that's going to be the same as Stephen King. It's just that they're different styles. But it's true to the story."
Elaborating on the direction the project went following Hennig's departure, North said the story is still "going to be along the same lines," but he didn't know anything beyond that.
"I don't how it'll affect the [game] and to be honest, I am just as curious as everyone to see what the final product will look like."
"I do know there's trust with the Naughty Dog designers and programmers. That place is still top notch and from the things I've seen, all the stuff they've done, it's amazing."
Amy Hennig left Naughty Dog in March 2014. Though it was not confirmed, reports indicated she was allegedly "forced out" by Druckmann and Straley.
Hennig is currently co-writing a Star Wars title for EA which will be developed by Dead Space studio Visceral Games. The game will be reminiscent of LucasArts' ill-fated Star Wars: 1313 and the Uncharted series.
Following a delay, PlayStation exec Andrew House confirmed the Uncharted 4: A Thief's End's release date will arrive before April 2016.
According to its director, the PS4 exclusive will close the curtain on the story of Nathan Drake. Read GameSpot's full Uncharted 4 interview with Neil Druckmann for more on the game.


Enc1 ransomware is set to start its activity once the system is rebooted. This is due to the system alterations and files added by the virus right after infiltrating the system. To prevent these changes, scan your computer with a reputable anti-malware.
Enc1 ransomware is a virus that uses similar file marker _enc1 as other threats but different infiltration tactics. This virus is an altered version of previous crypto malware.
Enc1 ransomware — a virus that encrypts files to request a ransom for the alleged data recovery. During the encryption process, cryptovirus changes the original code of such files as photos, videos or audio files. However, documents and even databases can also be encrypted. Then, it adds _enc1 file extension to every encrypted data, for example, xxxx.jpg becomes xxxx.jpg_enc1 and cannot be opened. The file appendix reminds a different cyber threat – MOTD ransomware, but there are not enough similarities to state that Enc1 ransomware is yet another version of another cryptovirus. When the encryption process is done, the victim gets a ransom note in a file called decrypt_<10characters>.txt. The ransom message provides a unique identification key, a contact email alongside the instructions on how to pay. Ransomware-type threats demand payments in chosen cryptocurrency and focus on getting money from the victim.
install additional files or programs.
There are a few changes this Enc1 ransomware can make on the system without your permission, but the most dangerous one is the file-locking. For the encryption this threat employs the AES encryption algorithm that helps to change the original code of a file.
After the Enc1 ransomware encryption files get _enc1 file marker, hence the name of the threat. However, the more significant danger is when the ransom note gets placed on the screen. In the file named with random characters, virus developers ask for a ransom that most likely depends on the number of files that need to be recovered or the time you've waited before contacting criminals.
Ooops. your important files are encrypted.
because after the intervention you can remain without your data forever.
You shouldn't consider paying the ransom for the locked files. Remove Enc1 ransomware and restore files from a backup instead. You can only do so on a malware-free device because ransomware can encrypt your data again if not eliminated correctly.
You should focus on Enc1 ransomware removal and clean the computer further using Reimage or another PC repair tool. This way you can eliminate any virus damage and improve the performance of your machine. We also provide a few additional tips below the article to help with your malware termination.
Enc1 ransomware is a threat developed by cybercriminals and contacting them via the provided email is not recommended.
Malicious programs like ransomware mostly get distributed via email spam because payload droppers can be sent in bulk and this way ransomware is distributed on a handful of machines at the time. In most cases, these emails impersonate well-known companies or services to trick users into downloading the attached document.
Unfortunately, when the file gets installed on the system malicious executable can launch the necessary process and infiltrate the system with various malware. Researchers always advise paying more attention to emails you get so you can avoid these infiltrations. You should delete emails you were not expecting and always scan the file before downloading on the computer.
The vital step of Enc1 ransomware elimination is to double-check before anything else because deleting the main file might not be enough. You should employ professional anti-malware tools, so you can be sure that every related program is eliminated entirely.
Also, you need to remove Enc1 ransomware from the computer entirely before data recovery especially. If you plug in the external device containing your file backups when the device is not clean, you can lose your data permanently. Double-check after the initial virus termination to make sure.
Use Reimage, Malwarebytes MalwarebytesCombo Cleaner or Plumbytes Anti-MalwareMalwarebytes Malwarebytes for the Enc1 ransomware removal or choose other anti-malware programs that are reputable and trustworthy. Make sure to get them from an official website or legitimate provider to avoid additional software bundles.
Log in to your infected account and start the browser. Download Reimage or other legitimate anti-spyware program. Update it before a full system scan and remove malicious files that belong to your ransomware and complete Enc1 removal.
When a new window shows up, click Next and select your restore point that is prior the infiltration of Enc1. After doing that, click Next.
Once you restore your system to a previous date, download and scan your computer with Reimage and make sure that Enc1 removal is performed successfully.
Guide which is presented above is supposed to help you remove Enc1 from your computer. To recover your encrypted files, we recommend using a detailed guide prepared by 2-spyware.com security experts.
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Ottawa Junior Senator forward/center Christopher Piché is looking forward to the second half of the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL) season.
One reason, of course, is the Junior Senators, are the league's defending champions. They are serious title contenders again this winter and Piché, a rookie with the club, wants to experience playoff hockey.
A second reason is that Piché, who is 18 and a native of Ferme-Neuve, Quebec City, is playing his best hockey right now and anxious to make more of a contribution to the team. He missed the first half of the 2018-19 campaign because of mononucleosis, and is just now returning to peak, playing condition. He wants to make up for lost time and show everyone just how good he is which he believes he will now that he has returned to game shape.
Now, Piché, who has played both wing and center for Ottawa, is ready to bring his best every night to the Junior Senators and being more a part of the offense.
"My role is to bring grit, energy and speed," Piché explained.
It's his offense that suffered the most from the months away from playing. Thus far, he has three goals to go with nine assists over 28 matches.
"My offensive production can be better," said Piché, who added he expects it to improve as he becomes more familiar with his teammates and more confident with playing time. Throughout his junior career, he's been averaging more than a point a game.
Like some of his teammates, Piché is juggling his hockey around school. He is attending Carelton University in Ottawa, where he takes classes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Those days are followed in the afternoon by practice, or, a rare night game. He's taken classes in science, physics and law.
As a native of Quebec, hockey has helped him learn English. It started when he left home to play in Halifax, where he had to learn English. There is no such thing as a language barrier in hockey.
And, like many of his teammates, Piché's long-term goal is to play Division I college hockey.
Heading into the final third of the season, the Junior Senators are now playing their best hockey. They have moved up to second place in the Yzerman Division close behind the Hawkesbury Hawks.


The aim of this study was to improve the identification of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) by developing and evaluating in silico tools that predict interactions at the estrogen (E) and androgen (A) receptors, and binding to transthyretin (T). In particular, the study focuses on evaluating the use of the EAT models in combination with a metabolism simulator to study the significance of bioactivation for endocrine disruption. Balanced accuracies of the EAT models ranged from 77-87%, 62-77%, and 65-89% for E-, A-, and T-binding respectively. The developed models were applied on a set of more than 6000 commonly used industrial chemicals of which 9% were predicted E- and/or A-binders and 1% were predicted T-binders. The numbers of E- and T-binders increased 2- and 3-fold, respectively, after metabolic transformation, while the number of A-binders marginally changed. In-depth validation confirmed that several of the predicted bioactivated E- or T-binders demonstrated in vivo estrogenic activity or influenced blood levels of thyroxine in vivo. The metabolite simulator was evaluated using in vivo data from the literature which showed a 50% accuracy for studied chemicals. The study stresses, in summary, the importance of including metabolic activation in prioritization activities of potentially emerging contaminants.


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Tag Archives: Cat People
Putting Out Fire with Gasoline (First Time Around)
In honor of Halloween, today's post concerns one of my favorite horror movies – the RKO production of Cat People from 1942, produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Beginning in the early 1940s, RKO Radio Pictures released a cycle of low-budget but poetic horror movies designed to compete with the wildly successful monster movies that Universal Studios had been churning out for over a decade. Cat People is the first and probably the most famous example of this unique and celebrated breed of horror. Although directed by Jacques Tourneur, a great director in his own right who would go on to make Out of the Past (one of the masterpieces of film noir), Cat People today is more often than not discussed as the work of its producer, Val Lewton, rather than Tourneur. In our auteurist age, where movies are typically thought of as personal expressions of their directors, even by casual movie fans, this makes Lewton something of an anomaly.
When the Ukrainian-born, former MGM writer Lewton was given his own B-horror production unit at RKO early in 1942, he was given three rules to follow: he had to use titles for his films that were supplied by his superiors, he had to work with a meager budget of only $150,000 per picture and he had to bring in each film at a running time of under 75 minutes. Within those parameters, Lewton could do as he pleased and he had a talented group of writers, directors, actors and technicians under his command. He would re-use this team (including writer DeWitt Bodeen, cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca and directors Tourneur, Robert Wise and Mark Robson) over and over through classic chillers like Curse of the Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man and, my personal favorite, The Seventh Victim. If Lewton is today considered the primary "author" of these movies, it's because they have more in common with each other than any of them do with other films made by the same directors that were not produced by Lewton. Also, as Kent Jones points out in his excellent documentary Val Lewton: Man in the Shadows, Lewton was the definitive hands-on producer who practically "pre-directed" his movies on paper before shooting began.
So what are the hallmarks of a Lewton production? First of all, he worked exclusively in the horror genre but he had unique ideas about how horror should be conveyed. The horror in the RKO cycle is almost always supernatural in nature and yet there's also a certain amount of ambiguity surrounding the supernatural elements – Lewton liked to keep these elements off-screen and out of sight. Cat People, for instance, is about a "cursed" young woman who literally turns into a giant cat when driven to extreme emotional states. However, you never see her as the "cat person" because after the transformation has taken place, she is either kept off-screen or hidden in shadows onscreen (as is the case with the film's justifiably famous indoor swimming pool scene). Low-key lighting was very important to Lewton's films because he felt that keeping crucial visual information shrouded in darkness would allow the audience to imagine what was there. Lewton knew that the horror you can imagine is more frightening than anything you can be shown.
Also key to Lewton's universe is having a strong-willed but sympathetic female protagonist. In Cat People it's a young Serbian woman named Irena (played with an appropriate mixture of creepiness, stubbornness and vulnerability by the wonderful French actress Simone Simon), who suffers from the aforementioned ancient curse. Or is it simply a figment of her imagination? After a whirlwind courtship with Oliver (Kent Smith), a successful, blandly handsome engineer, the disturbed young woman gets married but, fearing the transformation that may take place in the heat of passion (paging Dr. Freud!), she refuses to consummate the marriage. As time goes by, Oliver grows impatient with his beautiful but frigid bride and enters into a relationship with Alice (Jane Randolph), an attractive co-worker.
It is within these characters and their interrelationships that the film's modest genius resides. Oliver comes across as a nice guy on the surface but the closer one looks the more he seems uncaring and a little too quick to jump into the arms of the next attractive woman who comes along. The moment in the film when he and Alice give Irena the brush-off in a museum is genuinely heartbreaking. For her part, Irena comes across as both killer and victim; Cat People may be typical of the 1940s in that it "others" female sexuality but the tension between the filmmakers' conflicting desires to make Irena the character of whom we are afraid and with whom we are meant to most closely identify makes the film look unusually complex today. The one time Irena acts on her murderous impulses is when a psychiatrist, Dr. Judd (winningly played with repugnant self-satisfaction by Tom Conway), betrays her trust and makes unwanted sexual advances towards her. In other words, the good doc gets what's coming to him. This strategy of having the viewer identify with "the other" character is unusual even in today's horror movies (see my recent post on Guillermo del Toro) but it is also precisely what makes Cat People a beautiful, poignant and, finally, tragic film; Val Lewton knew how to make us locate the horror within ourselves.
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Fiat not pleased with electric vehicles; will reportedly lose $10,000 on each 500 EV sold
Jonas Dalidd
Apr 4th 2011 at 2:48PM
Chrysler Fiat 500EV – Click above for high-res image gallery
On the sidelines of a general meeting at Fiat S.p.A, Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne, let slip a few details regarding the Fiat 500 EV. Most notably he said each Fiat 500 EV that the company sells will result in a $10,000 loss. In addition, he said the high per-unit losses exist despite a price tag that's 'three times higher' than the gas-powered Fiat 500. Targeted at $15,500 for the ICE version in the United States, the EV is thrust into $45,000 territory before incentives (ouch).
Perhaps this is why Fiat chairman John Elkann doesn't share the media's affinity for all things electric. One would think that getting attention for something you're trying to sell is usually a good thing, but Elkann feels too much media coverage is centered around EVs despite there being "900 million vehicles with internal combustion engine vehicles in the world and less than 100,000 EVs." Fiat won't be adding many EVs to this number. While a $10,000 loss per vehicle is nothing to sneeze at, overall losses will be small since the EV will only be sold in small volume.
With Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn saying that the Leaf may be profitable within three years at a starting price of just $32,780 in the U.S., we have to wonder if the Fiat 500 EV is really going down the right path. Selling less of something because you are losing money on each one doesn't sound like the best business approach. That being said, the 500 EV is really a test bed of technology that should help Fiat gain expertise and hopefully sell future electrics at prices that actually profit. Or maybe Fiat's just doing it wrong.
[Source: Automotive News Europe]


Same price as offer on 100g bars, but 2× as much!
£5 a kilo for branded chocolate. Heat from me (plus I love Galaxy anyway).
My favourite. Thanks for posting.
Will go tomorrow. Thanks for that.
£1.50! I posted the deal.


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Tax sugary drinks by 20%, say doctors
It estimates poor diets are causing around 70,000 premature deaths each year.
In a major report on unhealthy diets, the body called for the extra money raised to be used to subsidise fresh fruit and vegetables.
The Food and Drink Federation said the measure would not change diets.
There has been growing concern about the damaging impact of sugar on health - from the state of people's teeth to type 2 diabetes and obesity.
In its Food for Thought report, the BMA warns that a 330ml can of pop is likely to contain up to nine teaspoons of sugar that are simply "empty calories".
The report said taxing specific food groups - such as the sugar drinks tax introduced in Mexico - were shown to cut consumption.
Doctors said a tax of at least 20% would be needed to deter customers. It would mean a 65p can of fizzy drink would cost at least 78p and a two-litre bottle would shoot up from £1.85 to £2.22.
The report says the extra revenue should be used to make fruit and vegetables cheaper so that we "create an environment where dietary choices default to healthy options".
"Massive problem"
Dr Shree Datta, from the British Medical Association, told the BBC: "I think it is a massive problem illustrated by the fact obesity is creeping up.
"We're looking at 30% of the UK population being obese by the year 2030, a large extent of that is due to the amount of sugar we're actually consuming without realising.
"The biggest problem is a lot of us are unaware of the amount of sugar we are consuming on a day-to-day basis."
The government's main approach to obesity has to been to work with the food industry to get it to voluntarily reduce calorie content.
A spokeswoman said obesity was of "great concern to this government".
She added: "There is no silver bullet but we do want to see industry go further to cut the amount of sugar in food and drinks so that people can make healthier choices."
The BMA's report is timely. Later this week, the UK's official Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition will publish its final advice on the amount of sugar we should be eating.
Its draft report said sugar added to food or naturally present in fruit juice and honey should account for 5% of energy intake.
The current recommended level is 10% and many people fail to meet that.
Ian Wright, director-general of the Food and Drink Federation, said: "We share the BMA's concerns about the health of young people in the UK."
However, it said many foods were already taxed at 20% through VAT such as soft drinks and confectionery.
He added: "Where additional taxes have been introduced they've not proven effective at driving long-term, lasting change to diets.
"In recent years, calories in household foods and drinks have been gradually lowered through recipe reformulations, including sugar reductions, and changes to portion sizes."
By James Gallagher Health editor
BBC News, Monday 13th July


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Opened by founder Dave Thomas in 1969 and named after the founder's daughter, Wendy's opened in Ohio. By 1979, just ten years later, the chain had expanded to over 1500 restaurants. It was also known as the first fast-food establishment to introduce a salad bar.
By the 1990s the restaurant had expanded to over 6,000 locations and had acquired several other eateries.
In 2020, they introduced a breakfast line, hoping to attract morning customers.
Gravy Biscuit
Biscuits and Gravy
There is a lot to be said about biscuits and gravy. Generally, a warm flaky chunk of bread with a delicious sausage (or bacon) gravy drenched over it.
Some places kind of reverse the name - which doesn't really make sense to me. However, looking at Wendy's, it seems pretty obvious why they did this and that is to put the emphasis that you get a biscuit to accompany a rather small portion of gravy.
The gravy itself isn't very flavorful - kind of the cheap tasting, instant stuff you get in the grocery store, with dehydrated slices of sausage which are designed to enhance taste and give it substance.
Unfortunately, the addition failed in this instance.
The biscuits were not light and flaky, but tasty like play dough that had been left out in the sun a little too long. The gravy was sparse and lacked any flavor or bite.
Compared to McDonald's this place would be found in some back alley.
I would advise skipping the gravy biscuit sampling and anything involving their biscuit altogether.
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Carl's Junior
McDonald's460
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