text:
Q: I want to shift the column header down into rows,all the rows gets shifted down by one , what is the precise and short way to do this? I want to shift the column header down into rows so that the column header comes first on row index and all the rows gets shifted down by one , what is the precise and short way to do this?

A: If you are reading a csv to generate your dataframe then just use header=None
pd.read_csv(file_name, header=None)

By default, the first row of your csv is interpreted as the header and used as column names.

A: you should do:
 pd.concat([pd.DataFrame(df.columns, index = df.columns).T, df])

This is in case you have the data inplace,
otherwise you can rectify the problem on reading the data into python by declaring the argument header = None

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Global BC TV Sports Anchor Barry Deley was the Grand Prize winner of this year's British Columbia Children's Hospital Foundation Dream Lottery. After learning of his win on October 31st2011, coincidentally, while live on Global TV, the Deley family faced the choice of 5 different prize packages. Between multiple prize homes, cash prizes of varying amounts, dream vacations and new cars, the Deley family chose the Headwater estate home at Parklane's Bedford Landing community.
Bedford Landing is an award-winning masterplanned community situated in historic Fort Langley; it is close to top schools, outdoor recreation, and a rich array of local amenities in downtown Fort Langley.
"Our entire family is very excited to move into our new dream home. It really is perfect for us, and I think the new kitty will love it too".
The story of Barry's infamous win while live on Global BC TV has gone viral, and he was recently featured as a guest on The Ellen Show.
The Headwater Homes Series are located directly on the waterfront, with views of the Bedford Channel and Brae Island Regional Park. They have been designed for luxurious comfort in everyday family life and have won multiple awards for their intelligent open floorplans and interior design. Click here to view the available floorplans.
The Dream Lottery is one of the BC Children's Hospital Foundation's annual lotteries. All proceeds from ticket sales go towards the BC Children's Hospital Foundation. The foundation's lotteries have raised over $30 million in the past 11 years. For more information on the BC Children's Hospital Foundation Dream Lottery, please visit http://bcchildren.com/.


Clean 4 you provide office cleaning services with a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction. We always ensure that our customers are happy with our cleaning services. Prior to starting a cleaning contract, we will discuss a cleaning schedule with you which clearly defines the frequency and standards for each office area. This specification highlights the areas which are most important to you as a client. Studies show that a clean working environment increases employee productivity and reduces staff absenteeism.
Our office cleaning services are second to none. We take pride in our proven track record for delivering the highest quality office cleaning services, our dedication to improvement and training will ensure these standards are maintained at all times. We try our best to be kind to the environment, so we use products that are environmentally friendly where possible.
Regular contact in person on site, by phone or email.
Call us on�07735 619042�for a free no obligation quotation or Click Here to Get A Quote.


How treasury and finance can find value in their company's exponentially expanding data stores.
"Big data" is a hot topic right now. It's clear that companies and government entities are collecting more and more information every year about both the external environment and their internal operations. This, in turn, is driving increased sophistication of data analytics technologies, which have the potential to turn big data into insights. But it's not necessarily clear how specific corporate functions can utilize big data to improve their value to the organization.
Treasury & Risk sat down with Brian Loughman, Americas leader in the Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services practice at EY, LLP, and Scott Keipper, principal and reporting lead for the Americas Enterprise Intelligence practice at EY, LLP, to explore the opportunities for corporate treasury, finance, and risk management functions to put big data to work.


text:
Kindle CA
iBooks AU
iBooks UK
Submitting to the Boss Audiobook
*Free from Audible
Submitting to the Boss
Naughty After Hour Series Book 2
Copyright 2012 Jasmine Haynes
Romantic Times Red-Hot Read!
A brand new series about sexy hotwives and the men who love them
A woman who still needs to learn her lesson, and a man oh so willing to train her...
Ruby Williams completely underestimated her live-in lover. She thought she had him wrapped around her little finger, and she could do anything she wanted without any consequences. Now she's just another dumped woman bemoaning her fate.
Then her boss, West Coast Manufacturing's CEO Holt Montgomery, calls her into his office and gives her the punishment she so richly deserves.
Holt is determined to show Ruby the error of her ways with his own special brand of dominance and submission. Her sexuality now belongs to him, and he'll give her permission as to when, where, how, and with whom she'll use it. From voyeurism to exhibitionism to more than one man at a time, with a little tying up and a lot of spanking, Ruby discovers she likes following a man's rules. But she still won't let a man have the upper hand.
Can their naughty affair move from just sex with the boss to something more lasting? Or will Ruby learn her lessons a little too late?
Don't miss all the books in the series
Revenge, Book 1, Jessica and Clay
Submitting to the Boss, Book 2, Holt and Ruby
The Boss's Daughter, Book 3, Ward and Cassandra
The Only One for Her, Book 4, Spence and Zoe
Pleasing Mr. Sutton, Book 5, Rance and Monica
Any Way She Wants It, Book 6, David and Tricia
More Than a Night, Book 7, Justine and Lucas
A Very Naughty Christmas, Book 8, David and Tricia
Show Me How to Leave You, Book 9, Neal and Rebecca
Show Me How to Love You, Book 10, Neal and Ella
This excerpt contains explicit sexual content
"Ruby, in my office, now," Holt Montgomery barked over the intercom.
Ruby Williams pressed her lips together, staring at the offending device. It was just before five on Thursday, and Ruby always left at five. But she pushed the Talk button obediently. "Yes, Holt."
She hadn't found a decent apartment and had been living in a hotel for over a week, since the day Clay kicked her out of his house. All the rumors being bandied about last week had been squashed, and the demise of her three-year relationship with the CFO hadn't yet made it to West Coast Manufacturing's gossip mill, but her boss, Holt Montgomery, knew. She couldn't be sure if Clay had told him the specific reasons why, but they'd been friends and coworkers for twenty years, the last ten at West Coast, where Clay was CFO to Holt's CEO. It stood to reason Clay had told Holt. And Holt had been treating her...differently. There was a new hardness in his tone when he spoke to her. Like now. Before, Holt would have asked if she had a minute. It was a subtle difference, true, but there were other signs. He hadn't joked with her. He'd rarely smiled at her. Holt had always been an easy-going boss from the day she'd started as his executive admin a little over four years ago. Now, it seemed that not only had she screwed up her living arrangements, she'd screwed over her job as well.
There was nothing to do but pick up her pad and pencil and go into his office the way he demanded.
Behind his big mahogany desk, surround by report folders and his two computer monitors with which he effectively multitasked, Holt Montgomery looked like a captain at the helm of his battle ship. At fifty-two with a head of thick steel gray hair and the fit, muscular body of a man fifteen years younger, his bearing inspired respect, awe, and even fear.
Ruby had always felt the respect and awe, but today, there was also a smidgen of fear.
"Close the door," he ordered, his voice deep and hard-edged.
Ruby jumped to do his bidding. Her smaller office was an annex to his much larger one. In many respects, she was his guard dog, vetting all his calls and his visitors. She had to admit she liked the power in that, but with the door closed and the scowl on his face, she wasn't feeling particularly powerful.
She'd lost so much more than she could have imagined when Clay kicked her out.
"Sit." Holt pointed at the chair dead center before his desk.
It was one of the conference chairs, and that wasn't its normal place. His office was spacious with a six-man conference table, coffee service trolley, and a sofa grouping by the large window, all this in addition to his massive mahogany desk. He conducted meetings, entertained customers, and signed multimillion dollar deals in this domain.
But that chair was out of place, and Ruby's tension ratcheted higher. Clay was paying for the hotel, but he wouldn't do that forever. She had to find a new place, and she needed a job in order to sign a lease.
Holt wouldn't fire her because of what happened with Clay. Would he?
She sat, wishing she'd worn something more circumspect. But Ruby didn't own anything circumspect. Her skirts were short, and her tops had plunging necklines. Holt had never complained.
He stared at her silently. He didn't even seem to blink, just regarded her with piercing eyes so dark they were almost black. Holt was the only man in the world who made Ruby's palms sweat. Most men she could wrap around her little finger, even Clay—at least until last week. But never Holt. She'd always felt subordinate to Holt, and funnily enough—probably because of her respect for him—it had never been an unpleasant feeling. Until now.
"What can I do for you, Holt?" Her voice seemed to crack and her mouth was dry.
Finally, he spoke. "You've been a very bad girl."
Ruby swallowed; it hurt going down. "You mean about Clay?" She wasn't about to admit to anything until she knew exactly what Clay had told him.
"Yes," he said. "You fucked around behind his back."
Okay, she could explain. She had to explain. "It wasn't behind his back. He knew. In fact—"
Holt held up his hand, and she didn't dare go on. That was another thing about Holt: he was the only man Ruby would shut up for. "Don't prevaricate. I know all about your arrangement with Clay."
Her face flushed. Ruby wasn't the type to get embarrassed, yet there was something about knowing that Clay had told Holt her faults. But she wouldn't cave by asking how much he knew. She waited him out.
It didn't take Holt long to come back at her. "You had sex with a coworker in Clay's office."
All right, yes, she'd done that. She hoped that was the only thing Clay had revealed. "Clay and I have a special relationship where he enjoys my being with other men." She allowed herself a slight smirk. "And he loves to hear all about it."
Holt gave her the silent treatment again. Maybe the smirk was ill-advised. Then Ruby just couldn't shut up despite herself. "That's what he wanted from the beginning. That's always been our relationship. I love sex, and he likes to hear about it. The more the better. It's what gets him off. He..." Her voice died into the echo of her own words. A car drove by on the road visible Holt's window, a big, rumbling diesel engine that set her nerves on edge.
"You didn't mention the little matter of rules," he said. His handsome face was granite hard.
She couldn't believe Clay had told him everything. He couldn't be so vindictive as to want to ruin her job as well. Her only course of action was to tell the truth. "He liked it when I broke certain rules, so I didn't think he'd mind if I broke others."
"But Bradley Palmer?" For the first time, Holt made a face, one of distaste.
She'd been a total idiot. She fully admitted that. "Having sex with him on Clay's desk was a mistake." Bradley was young, twenty-nine. His desire had stroked her ego. Not that she didn't have a healthy ego. At forty, she was hot, and she wasn't ashamed to say that. But every woman sometimes had a little niggling of doubt, and Bradley had caught her at that weak moment. Still, she hadn't thought Clay would get riled up. She'd truly thought he'd get off on it.
"And what about the other places you fucked him, Ruby? Not to mention the rumors."
She felt herself blanch. God. Clay really had told him all. "I didn't start those rumors, and I made sure they were put to an end."
"Damage done, Ruby."
She almost snorted, then thought better of it. "No one ever believed any of that." Because she'd taken things in hand. And really, five days later, it was just a blip on the rumor-mill horizon. They'd weathered the whole debacle.
Holt merely stared. It was completely unnerving. And again, she couldn't shut up. "Why are you doing this? When I moved in with Clay, you told us business was business and personal was personal."
"It is. But you brought it here. And against his wishes."
She pursed her lips and puffed out a breath. If she wanted to keep her job, she was going to have to grovel. She wasn't good at it, but she simply couldn't afford to be fired. Besides, she actually liked working for Holt. He was fair-minded. Usually. "I made a mistake and I'm very sorry. I told Clay it would never happen again, and I'm telling you it won't."
If he was silent again after that, she'd have to scream.
Thank God he wasn't. "There's only one solution," he said softly. Holt could be dangerous when he spoke that softly. She'd heard that deadly tone in meetings. And seen the results.
"What?" she asked, her heart racing.
"You're going to have to be punished." He waited a beat. "Severely."
Then Holt rose, strode to the door. And locked it.
Ruby's pulse began to beat against her eardrums.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http.Controllers;
using System.Web.Http.OData.Routing;
using System.Web.Http.OData.Routing.Conventions;

namespace WebApiOData.V3.Samples;

public class NonBindableActionRoutingConvention : IODataRoutingConvention
{
	private readonly string _controllerName;

	public NonBindableActionRoutingConvention(string controllerName)
	{
		_controllerName = controllerName;
	}

	// Route all non-bindable actions to a single controller.
	public string SelectController(ODataPath odataPath, System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage request)
	{
		if (odataPath.PathTemplate == "~/action")
		{
			return _controllerName;
		}

		return null;
	}

	// Route the action to a method with the same name as the action.
	public string SelectAction(ODataPath odataPath, HttpControllerContext controllerContext, ILookup<string, HttpActionDescriptor> actionMap)
	{
		// OData actions must be invoked with HTTP POST.
		if (controllerContext.Request.Method == HttpMethod.Post)
		{
			if (odataPath.PathTemplate == "~/action")
			{
				var actionSegment = odataPath.Segments.First() as ActionPathSegment;
				var action = actionSegment.Action;

				if (!action.IsBindable && actionMap.Contains(action.Name))
				{
					return action.Name;
				}
			}
		}

		return null;
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: SQL2000 Read Only View I've checked BOL and I don't see what I'm looking for.  I know that Oracle has a "WITH READ ONLY" option when creating a view.  I don't see this option in SQL2000.  Do I need to add an INSTEADOF trigger to accomplish this?  In short, I don't want users of the view to be able to update the data.
Thanks
ST

A: two options, don't give users insert, delete or update permissions to the view
deny update, insert, delete on ViewName to [user name(s) here]

or create a the view on a read only filegroup (this means that nobody can insert or update or delete)

A: Thanks for that.  I knew of those but neither are possible.  I'll create "instead of " triggers which throw errors.
Thanks
ST


text:
Q: De Morgan's saying: "I was x years old in the year x^2" Augustus de Morgan, when asked about his age, remarked:

I was $x$ years old in the year $x^2$.

He died in $1871$. Examining possible squares, we find
$41^2 = 1681$, $42^2 = 1764$, $43^2 = 1849$, $44^2 = 1936$. Clearly, the only one which makes sense in this problem would be $43^2 = 1849$. So de Morgan was $43$ in $1849$. Therefore, he was born in $1806$.
Is there a systematic way to answer such a question without trial and error?

A: The year is $x^2$ and he died in 1871. Assuming he lived less than 100 years:
$1871-100<x^2<1871$
Taking the square root of both sides
$42\le x\le44$ .
Still need trial and error, but there are only 3 candidates.


text:
2 US Teens Jailed in Italy in Policeman's Killing
A woman leaves flowers in front of the Carabinieri station where Mario Cerciello Rega was based, in Rome, Saturday, July 27, 2019.
ROME - Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities carry out a murder investigation in the killing of an Italian police officer.
A detention order issued by prosecutors was shown on Italian state broadcaster RAI, naming the suspects as Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth and Finnegan Lee Elder. The detention order didn't give their ages, but says they were both born in San Francisco in 2000. Police earlier said they were 19.
Prosecutors said in the order that Elder is the main suspect, accusing him of repeatedly stabbing Carabinieri paramilitary policeman Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, who was investigating the theft of a bag after a drug deal gone wrong in Rome. Natale Hjorth is accused of using his bare hands to strike the officer's partner, who wasn't seriously injured in the attack.
Both suspects were also being investigated for attempted extortion. Elder's lawyer, Francesco Codini, said his client exercised his right not to respond to questions during a detention hearing held Saturday in the Rome jail where the two teens are being kept. Natale Hjorth's lawyer wasn't immediately available for comment.
A judge at the detention hearing hasn't ruled if the suspects will be kept in custody beyond an initial three-day period.
An Italian investigator who spoke on condition of anonymity since the probe was ongoing said that the pair had snatched the bag of a drug dealer in Rome after the man apparently gave them "a different substance" instead of cocaine.
The Carabinieri said the Americans demanded a 100-euro ($112) ransom and a gram of cocaine to return the bag. The alleged dealer called police, saying he had arranged a meeting with the thieves to get his bag and cellphone back. Police says there was a scuffle at the rendezvous site and the policeman was stabbed eight times, dying shortly afterward in the hospital.
The Carabinieri said video surveillance cameras and witnesses allowed them to quickly identify the two Americans and find them in a hotel near the scene of the slaying. Police said the two Americans were "ready to leave" Italy when they were found.
In a search of their hotel room, the Carabinieri said they found a long knife, possibly the one used to attack Cerciello Rega. Police said the knife had been hidden behind a panel in the room's ceiling. Police also said they found clothes the two apparently were wearing during the attack.
The Carabinieri statement said the two Americans admitted responsibility after being questioned by prosecutors and faced with "hard evidence."


Companies may encounter financial challenges at some time or another, whether due to external factors such as a change in the economic climate, increasing competition or internal factors like poor cost control mechanisms leading to cash flow problems.
In effect, all of the above are common struggles faced by many companies on a regular basis. However, unless detected early, issues will arise and relationships', (whether external and/or internal) may deteriorate when these are not addressed.
Identification of problems is essential and directors must explore the avenues available before being able to engage in a constructive dialogue both internally and with creditors and suppliers to ensure the survival of the business.
Depending on the individual circumstances, there are a number of options and schemes available to companies which may either permit the recovery of the company or, in the event of the company being insolvent, a solution that will protect assets of individuals and those belonging to the business.
In addition, our insolvency litigation team provides advice in respect of all aspects of insolvency litigation. We regularly advise insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors, individuals and businesses facing financial difficulties and landlords with insolvent tenants.
Statutory demands and applications to set aside statutory demands.
Issuing and defending winding up petitions.
Issuing and responding to injunctions to prevent the presentation or advertisement of winding up petitions.
For a preliminary discussion please contact a member of the insolvency team.


text:
Q: How to properly format body for post request? I'm using a firefox pluing called restclient to simulate a post request.  It doesnt' seem to be picking up any post data, but not sure if I'm formatting it properly.
using header: Content-Type: application/json
and body: {"id":1234}
but not go, it's not picking up the id parameter in my php, is there some special formatting I need to set?

A: okay, got it working, here is what is needed
two content types:
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

and then set your params like so in body:
param1=value1&param2=value2

Thanks for the help everyone.

A: PHP will not parse a JSON body automatically into the $_POST superglobal. That only happens with application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data POST bodies. That said, you can parse the body yourself — you can access the raw POST body via the php://input pseudo-stream.


Occupiers at night can be inspired, activists at all levels can examine what was done in the past with a discussion of the failures, unionists can listen to workers who acted believing they could control the economy without bosses to meet social needs and labour historians will revel in the breadth and depth of analysis.
The global capitalist order is in a chronic period of crisis, but with the dramatic increase in worker's struggles including debates on democratic self-management this book is timely.
At the 2011 Search conference Mondragon cooperatives and workers control beginnings in Venezuela a chapter in this book are again on the agenda. Similar Australian conferences listen to again workers control developments.
In the 1970's as part of a world movement, we debated workers' control actions. We argued about the theory of workers control and this book covers the issues, the criticism of Lenin and when socialism and syndicalism were closer.
We followed as does this book what the left and workers were doing in the hot struggles in Italy, occupations in England, workers self-management in Tito's Yugoslavia, Allende's Chile, and in Brazil and Argentina workers facing redundancies taking over factories takeovers and how they went.
As a young leftist, I argued at the Newcastle workers' control conference with the arrogance of university youth telling delegates that workers control had to go beyond workplaces and industries to the whole of the economy, with a summary of workers control over Marx's surplus value thrown in (I recently found this pamphlet in my dusty back shed.) Australian Left Review featured the workers control debates.
Humphrey McQueen has a most interesting chapter on the BLF's workers control in "We Built this City" (reviewed last Options). I followed Gramsci on Workers' Councils and was taken by the theory and practice. But in Australia Works Councils have not developed.
We criticized Dunstan's worker participation schemes. Under the Accord industrial democracy was on the agenda, largely in HR. I should have known about, but now I do from this book, great workers control struggles in Java, India, British Columbia, Portugal, Algeria and Poland.
The following chapters revive the idea that a new world could be built from the ashes of the old.
Part 1 deals with Workers' Councils: Historical Overview and Theoretical Debate.
by Victor Wallis; "Workers' Councils in Europe: A Century of Experience" by Donny Gluckstein; "The Red Mole: Workers' Councils as a Means of Revolutionary Transformation" by Sheila Cohen; "The Political Form at Last Discovered: Workers' Councils against the Capitalist State" by Alberta by R. Bonnet.
Gabriela Scodeller: "Workers' Councils in Portugal, 1974–1975" by Peters Robinson.
Part VI: Workers' Control, 1990s–2010 "Workers' Control in India's Communist-Ruled State: Labor Struggles and Trade Unions in West Bengal" by Arup Kumar Sen; "Argentinean Worker-Taken Factories: Trajectories of Workers' Control under the Economic Crisis" by Marina Kabat; "Workers' Control under Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution" by Dario Azzellini; "Brazilian Recovered Factories: The Constraints of Workers' Control" by Maurício Sardá by De Faria and Henrique T. Novaes.


text:
Google Launches Tool to Monitor Deforestation in Near-Realtime
Google has partnered with more than 40 other organizations to create a sobering deforestation-monitoring tool. Called Global Forest Watch, the tool enables visitors to witness worldwide deforestation as it happens, in near-realtime.
Via the Global Forest Watch website:
Global Forest Watch (GFW) is a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests. For the first time, Global Forest Watch unites satellite technology, open data, and crowdsourcing to guarantee access to timely and reliable information about forests. GFW is free and follows an open data approach in putting decision-relevant information in the hands of governments, companies, NGOs, and the public.
The tool is very straightforward to use, with pink representing forest loss and blue representing forest gain (a global view illustrates that the former far exceeds the latter):
When statistics like "50 soccer fields' worth of forest are lost every minute" start to feel meaningless, spend a few minutes over at GFW. The impact it has, watching swaths of the planet vanish before your eyes, is enough to give even the most desensitized visitor pause.
[GFW]


Oil Stocks to Have a Great 2017?
Though it will not be straight upward climb for energy companies, 2017 should be a much better year for the energy sector. Even though there may be some short-term challenges as oil prices fluctuate, I still see $60-$70+ oil prices by the end of 2017.
The world appetite for energy continues surging. Analysts project that global energy needs will be 50% higher in 2030 than they are now showing the tremendous growth over the next 10-15 years. The economies of China and India will contribute 45% of that increase. Therefore, some economists and Wall Street analysts have become quite bullish about the long-term outlook for energy investments.
I'm very excited about the energy sector's prospects over the next several months and years. The stock market and energy sector will have its peaks and valleys along the way, but I particularly like the prospects for the energy sector because of the rough year this sector had in 2016. The tough times in 2016 should set up for improvement in 2017 and thus higher stock prices for energy related companies.
Today's investment idea takes a look at a solid energy company worth a closer look.
Profile: Pioneer Natural Resources is an oil and gas exploration and production company with ownership interests in oil and gas properties located in the United States, Argentina, Canada, South Africa and Gabon. The company provides administrative, financial and management support to United States and foreign subsidiaries that explore for, develop and produce oil, natural gas liquid and natural gas reserves.
Pioneer has focusing intently on the development of its liquids-rich acreage. This has allowed it to do what it does best.
Pioneer is a skilled operator with strong margins and returns and is skilled at managing price inflation.
It holds more than a decades experience of low-risk, high-return inventory. This is spread across a handful of leading plays in the United States.
Cash flows from Pioneer's legacy dry gas assets should help it further fund development of its acreage.
Strong Momentum: Stock in top 30% of all stocks.
Current P/E is less than industry average.
Forward P/E at 94.66 is high compared to industry average.
Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) is a solid choice if you are looking to gain energy exposure and want a solid company with great upside potential.


If you are a BMW 325IX car repair technician you will find we have a complete selection of Car Body Parts for your review and purchase.
Many people buy used and replacement BMW 325IX parts at auctions and junk yards and online stores to help them repair their BMW automobile.
Are you concerned about your privacy? You will be secure when you are shopping with our certified BMW 325IX Car Body Parts online. We are strongly committed to protecting your privacy. All you need to do is find the Car Body Parts you are looking for in our BMW 325IX catalog and proceed to the checkout.
When you need Thermostat Housing Gasket, Oil Line, Water Bypass Pipe or Exhaust Manifold, you can rely on us to ship you the Car Body Parts right to your door.
Your BMW 325IX Car Body Parts will be delivered to any US destination including Newportville, Germansville, Hansen Road and others.
A high quality, direct fit OE replacement oxygen sensor; Improves car's engine response and gas mileage; Effectively lowers emissions upon replacing its tired old oxygen sensor; Exceeds OE specifications and test requirements; OE part number 11781716114.


Katie Hart joined Home Leasing in 2014. She serves as Regional Leader for Property Management and oversees nine communities in two states. Her responsibilities include assessing growth opportunities for each community, monitoring compliance with tax credit programs, implementing resident service plans, training and advising community leaders on best practices for day-to-day operations and administering finances for each community.
Katie began her career with Home Leasing as a summer intern on the Property Management team where she performed resident compliance re-certifications. She was hired as a Leasing Consultant at Centerville Court before being promoted to Community Leader at The Gardens at Town Center and The Gardens. As a Community Leader, Katie's responsibilities included tax credit program compliance, leasing, budgeting and tracking costs, collaborating with maintenance to ensure building function and resident satisfaction, and promoting resident engagement.
Katie received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Syracuse University. She is a member of the National Center for Housing Management (NCHM) and the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). She is certified as a Tax Credit and Blended Occupancy Specialist.


Brooklyn?based Classic Touch provides designer serveware of exceptional quality, functionality and design to ensure your special and everyday occasions take on a superior luster and style. Innovative designs are expertly crafted to result in exquisite finishes and highly detailed pieces you'll celebrate as you set the perfect table. The range of products includes candy and condiment dishes, footed bowls, trays, candlesticks, napkin rings, salad bowls and servers, domed cake plates and similar elegant accoutrements designed to make your table glow. The stainless steel serve ware often features hand hammered finishes and embellishments such as diamond?like stones; each piece reflects the artistry of another age and will make a stunning addition to your table. Create an unforgettable dining experience with jeweled napkin cuffs in a goldtone or silvery finish or serve a special dish in a footed bowl from Classic Touch and dine in style.


I remember when the earthquake happened in Haiti. I was devastated for so many reasons. I had friends there. I had visited there numerous times before. Most importantly I had family there. My son, Amos, was still in Haiti when the earthquake ravaged the country.
I remember feeling anxious, worried, exhausted, and mere useless thinking through all the needs that the entire country now had. I also remember weeks later when people were talking about something else, and we were still thinking of our friends there. Those friends are still recovering from that tragedy to this day.
Now Houston and Southeast Texas have been ravaged by Hurricane Harvey and I've had some of the same reactions. Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the needs. A little inadequate for the jobs to help. I have been anxious and worried for friends, and relieved when they post on facebook that they are okay. I have many friends and family living there, and in fact I lived in the Houston area for a decade before as well.
I've also been overjoyed with watching people step up and help. I've seen churches rally their people, I've seen cities welcome displaced families, I've seen companies donate massive amounts of money. I've seen such amazing things that I kept thinking to myself … could I really do anything to make a difference? or … everyone already has a place to give, so I don't need to do anything.
Then I snapped myself out of it and remembered that providing more opportunities for people is a perfectly wonderful idea. To do whatever I can do to help is worth it, and so here we go. I'm gonna list off places that I trust and believe in that you might be able to send donations to and/or volunteer to actually go and help.
1. If you are looking to volunteer in the Houston area, I know that Bayou City Fellowship is creating teams of people that will serve now and in the weeks to come. The clean up and rebuilding process will take weeks, months, and years.
2. The For The City Network has a Disaster Relief Fund that will allocate monies directly to organizations that helping victims of Hurricane Harvey. This is where we are giving money, this is where The Happy Hour is donating money. I trust this organization and they will do good with your money.
3. Next weekend at The Happy Hour LIVE! we're asking guests to bring in donations so that we can build "Welcome to Austin" gift boxes. Many dislocated people will end up in my city because their home as they know it no longer exists and we want to give them a welcome box. Our mayor suggested this donation and I love it!
If you would like to contribute to this, but you will not be joining us at the LIVE event, no worries. Head on over to Amazon and buy some things and have them shipped to us and we'll add it to our boxes!
4. For the entire month of September all purchases (minus books) from my shop + at The Happy Hour LIVE! I will donate 15% of profit to the Disaster Relief Fund.
After the live event is over the shop will include more items, so check back at the end of the month.
There are a few ways that you can be a helper in this disaster. This will be ongoing for years, and so let's help these organizations kick start their work. Ask your kids to donate some of their allowance. As a family sit down at your computer and order needs from Amazon and then have them shipped to us.
Whatever you can do, now is the time to do it. Thanks friends!


Want to create the perfect pricing point for your handmade items? I will break down everything when it comes to pricing your handmade items and a free workbook is included!
No matter how small your creative business, if you place your products in a box, wrapper or container, you must follow label laws. Find out what needs to be included and the penalties for not following.


text:
The Yorkshire coast, fronting the rich waters of the central North Sea and the vast central bank of the Dogger, is many ways unique in the hydrological influences it receives, since it is both at the tail end of currents derived from the Gulf Stream via the North Atlantic Drift while at the same time also receives influence derived from the Channel influx. It thus receives planktonic and other organisms from warmer more exotic waters, together with rare fishes from the open Atlantic, with crops of species records not seen elsewhere because of this phenomenon. At the same time it receives southern species from the southern North Sea and via the Channel. A number of northern animals disappear at their southern most limit along the Yorkshire coast. The waters of the western central North Sea are therefore a most suitable place to try and quantify any effects of environmental change with respect to "global warming" or NAO induced effects. In the event of any creeping environmental changes taking place in British waters, its singular properties make it more likely that effects will be very noticeable here, and it would also therefore be of no surprise if great changes to established historic fisheries were also to take effect. Indeed the fisheries of the Yorkshire coast have altered radically since 1990 alongside noticeable faunistic changes, a few of which have been noticed by fishermen.
The fact that the biology and distribution of this fish have changed so dramatically and spectacularly must have implications in any view of what may or may not be happening to other marine species and community systems and the transport mechanism of larval and 'o' group fishes into and down the North Sea. The captures by surprised Galway fishermen and anglers put the species on the front page of Fishing News (May 28 2001), but that small news item belied the terrific change that had taken place with regard to the ecology of this fish during the previous decade, and which event suggests that the rise or fall in levels of other species may equally have been effected to some degree by this same mechanism.
The close size-composition of the catches, and the progressive increments in size in each succeeding year, demonstrates that the fish currently living in this area principally originated from the massive influx of tiny fish of two or three year-classes in the early 90s. Whatever physical abnormality of their environment caused such a massive displacement of the juveniles of this species, the ensuing conditions also ensured their survival, since this fish has now been resident in a huge and shallow sea area with which, most importantly, it had no previous biological association or success, and virtually no historical record.
It remains to be seen whether the species will retain its hold on these new habitats in the future, and whether it can , in these localities, attain the great age and size of those living deeper down on the continental slope, but the continued presence and ageing of the original insurgents, and the appearance of new generations perhaps originating on their new North Sea spawning grounds, suggests that it will.
Changes in the Status of the Velvet Swimming Crab
A common species occurring just offshore. It has a gelatinous appearance and a loose skin, and has a sucker disc on the belly between the fins, by which means it can fasten itself to the sea bed.
Although known from most areas around the British Isles, the population of this species on the Yorkshire coast could previously have been described as scarce or uncommon; in fact during a particular museum project in 1967 to obtain living specimens, it proved impossible to secure specimens, either from commercial crab-potting boats, most of whose crews had never seen a specimen, or from the shore; similarly, it was at that time also unknown to the local angling fraternity who regularly work the shore for soft-crab bait.
Whether the displacement of species other than the shore crab is occurring, for example on other species of swimming crab which are among the principle prey items of young cod, has not so far been noticed. Given the unprecedented and continuing explosion of this species to the present level, its position vis a vis the important local lobster stocks is of interest since a potential may exist for adverse competition with, or even predation of, lobster juveniles and their recruitment to the fishery. No such conflict has been observed however, and lobster stocks appear to be stronger than they have ever previously been.


I've had a scattering of reports, most of them minor, and some of them recurring on the reverse in the same fashion as they are known for the Washington Presidential Dollars. Thank you,,for signing up! This error occurs when the die turns during striking or when the dies is inserted improperly into the coinage press. Retrieved 2010-12-04. (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/5uiYMWnwj) Archived July 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. ^ "United States Mint Releases William McKinley Presidential $1 Coin Products February 19" (Press release).
In the first step, blanks are fed into a coining machine. Roosevelt4,760,000-------2.88-42014 DFranklin D. Highly reflective and mirror like surfaces on coins may show shadows and reflections which...2007 P John Adams Presidential Coin **FREE SHIPPING $2.19Buy It NowFree ShippingNICE Coin! Click image to enlarge.
Comparison of "matte" edge with normal edge.The regular coin appears at type, and the frosted version at bottom.
would it still be worth money? Lettered Blank Planchet A final new error type began to surface in 2007. Retrieved 2016-01-12. ^ "2016 Richard M. Click image to enlarge.
They are fewer in quantity than George Washington plain-edge dollars, making them rarer, thus more expensive. Anthony dollar Presidential Dollar Coin Program (2007–2016) Concurrent with: Sacagawea dollar (2000–2016) Succeededby TBD v t e United States currency and coinage Topics Federal Reserve System Federal Reserve Note U.S. Mint Press Release. (March 7, 2007) ^ David S Morgan (2007-03-07). ""Godless" Dollar Coins Slip Through Mint". Mint First Spouse Program page Images of the Presidential $1 coins Complete text of the Act at Wikisource Senate Bill 1047 at Thomas.loc.gov.
Some will overlap slightly like a 1955 Dbl Die Cent while others will have total separation between all or most of the characters along the edge. Because of errors on the edges of some John Adams dollar coins, an increased value was created due to rarity. Consumerism Commentary Banking Center Best Online Savings Accounts Best Online Checking Accounts Ally Bank Savings Account American Express Bank Capital One 360 Discover Bank Online Savings Account EverBank Money Market Account Grant37,940,000-------1.99-32011 SUlysses S.
Every one is different! In December 2007, Congress passed H.R. 2764, moving "In God We Trust" to either the obverse or reverse of the coins. This is the same bill that created a program that The John Adams dollar coin value is dependent on whether or not the coin is one of those produced with an error on the edge lettering. not produce any dollar coins.
It's still too early to see how common the doubled lettering Adams dollar will be. Archived October 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. ^ Presidential $1 Error Coins: John Adams. Nixon Gerald R. Medallic alignment occurs then the dies are rotated a full 180 degrees.
If the coin goes through the edge-incusing machine heads-side up and then tails-side up, the two sets of lettering would occur in two directions, or inverted. Please select a newsletter. Hayes37,660,000-------1.99-42011 DRutherford B. In the latest auction to close while writing this post, a certified error coin sold for over $164.
dollar U.S. How much is the worth? Any suggestions on the best way to sell them on eBay? So the John Adams gold dollar coin value is truly dependent on minting errors or a collector's need.
Mint Presidential $1 Coin Act page U.S. The first errors to surface for this issue were doubled edge lettered coins. Being that John Adams was the second president of the United States, John Adams coins with his likeness began to appear very early on and eventually 224,560,000 were produced. Find uncirculated coins minted in 2007 and 2008 that hold added value because they never made it into the nation's money supply.
pp.364–368. UGC Disclosure: These responses are not provided or commissioned by the bank advertiser. Retrieved 1 September 2014. ^ "Harry S. The illustration below shows various types of alignment.
Grant May 19, 2011 37,940,000 38,080,000 76,020,000 1869–1877 19 19th Rutherford B. Obverse and full edge view ofJohn Adams dollar displaying "matte" edge. Ford 40.


Monday night, we moved a whole bunch of stuff around on the NC4x4 server. We have redirected most of the old locations to the new locations, but it is possible that you may have some links that aren't working anymore.
If you see something that isn't working like you think it should, please let us know.
The 12 Days of NC4x4 - Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!
Let the 12 Days of NC4x4 begin! The first winner will be drawn tonight at 9pm. Check back every night between now and Christmas to see if you've won.


Twenty-two people were killed on Friday in the Anglophone (English-speaking) region of Cameroon by army and security forces from the Francophone (French-speaking) government of 85-year-old president Paul Biya, who has been in power for more than 35 years.
PARIS (AFP) – Sitting in rows on a grassy embankment overlooking a Paris square, around 50 asylum-seekers recite the alphabet in French following a young woman pointing to letters on a whiteboard.
President Donald Trump met with the newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, to discuss the shared goal of fighting terrorism.
TEL AVIV – Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren urged Israelis to "think twice" before buying French products in reprisal for Paris' "shameful" decision to label Israeli goods manufactured in West Bank settlements.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority's official TV network has been airing a video several times a day accusing Israel of poisoning former leader Yasser Arafat and further claiming that Israel is targeting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas next.
While in Paris for the Cops21 climate change summit, President Obama took some time off to enjoy a fancy meal at L'Ambroisie with French President Hollande.
Cloaked in secrecy and controversy, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is facing further scrutiny from French Member of European Parliament Jean-Luc Shaffhauser, who claims the deal "is made to diminish the influence of the European Countries". The massive.


Now in 2012 I am obliged to sign up to "gotten." Commissioned by an American publisher to write a book that explores the Italian national character through an account of thirty years' commuting and traveling on the country's rail network, I am looking at an edit that transforms my English prose into American. I had already sorted out the spelling, in fact had written the book with an American spell check, and didn't expect that there would be much else to do. Wrong. Almost at once there was a note saying that throughout the 300 pages my use of "carriage" for a passenger train car must be changed to "coach." Since this is a book about trains and train travel there were ninety-eight such usages. There was also the problem that I had used the word "coach" to refer to a long distance bus. Apparently the twenty-four-hour clock was not acceptable, so the 17:25 Regionale from Milan to Verona had to become the 5:25 PM Regionale. Where I, in a discussion of prices, had written "a further 50 cents" the American edit required "a further 50 euro cents," as if otherwise an American reader might imagine Italians were dealing in nickels and dimes.
Despite my hailing from England—a country that still uses miles—I had expressed distances in meters and kilometers and it seemed odd now to find my Italian characters speaking to each other about yards and miles and, of course, Fahrenheit, which they never would. Or saying AM and PM, rather than using the twenty-four-hour clock as they mostly do, even in ordinary conversation. Slowly, as well as being concerned that some sentences were now feeling clunky and odd, I began to wonder if American readers really needed or demanded this level of protection. Wouldn't they soon figure out, if I said "the temperature was up in the sizzling thirties," that I was talking Celsius? Or at least that in another part of the world people had another system for measuring temperature where thirty was considered warm? Mightn't it be fascinating for them to be reminded that the twenty-four-hour clock, which Americans usually associate with military operations, has long been in standard civilian usage in Europe? Italy introduced it as early as 1893.
Or again, does a "newsagent" really need to become a "news dealer," a "flyover" an "overpass," a "parcel" a "package," or in certain circumstances "between" "among" and "like" "such as"? Does the position of "also" really need to be moved in front of the verb "to be" in sentences like "Trains also were useful during the 1908 earthquake in Catania," when to me it looked much better after it? And does making these relatively small changes really make the text 100 percent American anyway? One thinks of how thoroughly the Harry Potter novels were Americanized for their US editions: would they really have sold fewer copies had the Anglicisms been kept? Wasn't half the charm of the series its rather fey Englishness (occasionally Scottish Englishness)? Would we Americanize the Irish Joyce? Or again, if we want to have language conform to local usage, what about considering chronology as well as geography? Shouldn't we bring Dickens, Austen, Fielding, and Shakespeare up to date? Make it easier? Forget that language is constantly changing and different everywhere?
Turning page after page of the copy editor's notes, I began to make connections between this editing process and many of the things I have written about on this blog. America is very much a net exporter of literature. Its novels are read and translated worldwide, where readers generally accept miles and Fahrenheit, pounds and ounces, AM and PM and indeed have grown accustomed to these old-fashioned, American oddities (when it comes to doing science, of course, Americans use the more practical European systems). In Germany, for example, where around fifty percent of novels are foreign works in translation, Roth's and Franzen's characters are not obliged to discuss distances in kilometers.
Conversely, America imports very little—only three to four percent of novels published in the States are translations—and what it does import it tends to transform as far as possible into its own formulas and notations, in much the same way that Disney has turned every fable and myth worldwide into a version of Mickey Mouse. This situation is a measure of American power, but brings with it the danger of mental closure and inflexibility. Speaking recently at a conference in Milan, the Italian literary agent Marco Vigevani lamented that fewer and fewer American editors are able to read novels in Italian, French, and especially German, and this inevitably has reduced their enthusiasm for publishing foreign literature, since they are obliged to rely on external readers for advice.
Travel books are popular, likewise novels set in distant exotic countries, suggesting an appetite for awareness of other societies and their different lifestyles, but how far can literature really expose us to another world if everything is always returned to the reassuring medium of our own language exactly as we use it, with all our own formulas, dimensions, accents, and habits. More than anything else, what makes a foreign country foreign, and difficult, is its language, and though we can't be expected to learn a new language for every country we want to know about, it seems important to be reminded of the language, reminded that one's own language is not the supreme system for understanding the world, but just one of thousands of possibilities.
But perhaps I exaggerate American inflexibility. On sending in my observations on the proofs, my commissioning editor turns out to be more than ready to negotiate. "Gotten" will have to stay "gotten," but "coach" can return to "carriage," "also" can beetle back to where it was behind the verb "to be," and "jeans" if they can't return to "dungarees" can now become "jumpsuits." Looking at this re-edit one realizes that the notion of Americanizing a text actually opens the way for a copy editor to impose personal preferences, perhaps imagining that something that sounds odd to his ear is un-American rather than simply my way of writing or his way of reading. Does anybody in the end really know with absolute certainty, all the differences between American and English usages? Aren't there a wide range of usages in both these countries? How can I know, when I see a particular edit, if it is an Americanism I have to accept, or a matter of individual taste I can take issue with?
Seeing this second rejection of my version, and since I can't imagine the poor copy editor (who is actually a very fine editor, I think) deliberately making his job longer than it need be, I have to presume that some house style forbids me from opening a paragraph with a number. Why? This whole question may seem a quite different matter from the contrast between Americans Americanizing and Europeans accepting Americanisms, but the truth is that house style is a much more common occurrence in the US and more aggressively enforced, to the point that when one rereads work one has written for The New Yorker it no longer seems like your voice at all. I can think of no similar experience with English or European magazines, as I can remember no experience quite like my tussle over tense changes for the American edition of my book Medici Money. Not that good editing is not precious. One has been saved a thousand stupid mistakes and much ugly phrasing by good editors; it is the desire to fix style in an unchanging standard that is noxious. As if people didn't have different ways of speaking. And a cultural trait like this must mean something, come out of some deep assumption. Is it simply the publisher's anxiety that his readers are weak, ready to put their books down at the slightest obstacle, and hence must be reassured by a homogeneity of usage that more or less makes language invisible? Or could it be that the long American hegemony has bred an assumption that American formulations are inevitably global currency and should be universally imposed?


With Ontario being in the particular climate that it is, the need for experienced and professional plumbers is paramount to making it comfortably through the winter. Plumbing Richmond Hill has over the years proven itself to be one the best in the area. Expert advice, professional service, know-how and experience are all areas of excellence that provide for the ideal in plumbing repairs, maintenance and replacement services. They have the knowledge and experience to deal with the extra wet Ontario conditions, as well as all the necessary tools, equipment and knowledge to best combat and prevent the harsh effects of the icy winter conditions. Here are just some of the plumbing issues that should rather be handled by a professional, and believe me, these guys have what it takes.
Installing or replacing things like toilets, sinks and water heaters are no small task and should definitely be left to the professionals. Trying to take care of these issues on your own could potentially open the door for leaks and unexpected hassles, flooding and appliance's short circuiting then becoming a real possibility. Professionals come prepared and ready with the specific and correct tools to get the job done right, first time. After all, they have done this a thousand times before and know what they are doing.
These are two of the most common elements of any pluming system to give troubles and complications. Low water pressure and no hot water, both of which can be an uphill battle to figure out the source of the problem. Luckily your professionals have the proper equipment to quickly and effectively troubleshoot the problem, as well as make any on the spot repairs that need doing. They can also provide some insight into alternative measures or options to dealing with and fixing the problem. These experts with the right tools, have the necessary know-how to save you thousands of dollars in potential damages.
The harsh winter conditions in Ontario are really going to come into pay when it comes to your home's piping. The radical shifts in temperature and the sub-zero snow and ice conditions really take their toll on your piping, leading to cracks, bursts and pipes that have frozen through. Taking care of these frozen pipes is quite a delicate operation that requires an expert hand. These pipes are extremely vulnerable to cracking and being damaged, further causing damage to your property. In the same vain, burst pipes require specialized tools that are not normally found in a garage toolbox. Using the incorrect tools may end up doing more damage.
Plumbing services in Markham can provide you with all this and much, much more. Their professional and friendly staff will help to point out problems as well as areas that could cause potential damage in the future, for example: tree roots growing near the main sewage line. There are nothing but good things and positive outcomes when you choose Plumbing Richmond Hill to be your professional plumbing partner.


Rejuvenate your mind, body and soul by indulging in the services at our in-house spa. From massage therapy to facials, the Spa at Lake Forest Health & Fitness Center will compliment your fitness training with just the right pampering touch. The Spa is open to both members and non-members! Looking for a gift idea? Purchase a gift card and share the experience with a loved one by giving the gift of relaxation!
A great massage brings numerous physical and emotional benefits—especially if that massage follows a workout. Massage is used for a variety of health-related purposes. It is used not only to relax and renew, but for pain management. Massage has been found to provide effective relief for a variety of conditions. Whether you suffer from arthritis, fibromyalgia, shoulder pain, low back pain, sports injuries, stress or some other form of chronic pain, massage can help.
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment to allow time for check-in, changing and preparing for your service. A robe will be provided for your comfort upon check-in. To schedule your massage appointment, or for more information about our massage services, call 847.535.7060.
Our most popular massage relieves the tension of the muscle soft tissue, soothes sore muscles and leaves you feeling completely relaxed from head to toe.
A moderate pressure massage that allows for deeper pressure and extra attention given to specific troubled areas. Various massage techniques are used to target these troubled areas and restore function to injured muscles, tendons and ligaments.
This massage focuses on the deeper layers of the muscle tissue. It aims to release the muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct deep pressure to break up and eliminate scar tissue, allowing rejuvenation for the entire body.
This gentle massage uses special body cushions intended for expecting women. It assists in relieving muscle pain and stresses related to pregnancy.
A unique approach for reducing body and mind stress, hot stones are used in combination with the therapist's hands to enhance relaxation, while adding warmth to the body. The technique allows all stress to "melt" away.


Ottawa, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - December 7, 2018) - Aura Resources Inc. (TSXV: AUU) ("Aura" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on its recently acquired Gold Chain project located in the San Francisco district, Mohave County, western Arizona. The project is about 7 km northeast of Bullhead City and about 120 km southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada (Figure 1). The acquired property consisted of 86 unpatented claims containing numerous exposures comprised of epithermal-style gold mineralization; these are contained within an area of about 10 km2. Limited mining occurred prior to 1940 and several companies explored the area during the 1980's including: Fisher-Watt, Anaconda, Western States, Ivy Minerals and American Copper and Nickel Corp. The gold-bearing rock is characterized by quartz-calcite veinlets or stockwork in silicified, hematized, chloritized and brecciated Tertiary volcanic/intrusive and Pre-Cambrian granitic rocks. Previous exploration has employed a 'detachment' structural model owing to a close spatial relation between gold mineralization and a fault breccia developed at the Tertiary/Pre-Cambrian contact at one of the historical mines. This structure dips at 25 to 50 degrees to the west (see Figure 1).
A large amount of technical data has been compiled and is currently being evaluated prior to the upcoming field program. These historical data reveal several phases of reverse circulation, air track and minor core drilling which have identified broad zones of low-grade gold mineralization, i.e. 0.5 to 1.6 g/t Au. Exploration drilling has focused on three areas, Roadside mine, Black Dyke and Gold Chain (see figure) which contain extensive exposures of mineralized quartz-calcite stockwork and breccia emerging above a broad pediment of Recent gravels. Analysis of Figure 1 suggests that gold mineralization may be focused at the intersection of a regional detachment-type structure with steeper, northeast-trending normal faults and rhyolite dikes. Similar structural intersections have been documented at the Mesquite Gold Mine located about 243 km to the south. Consequently, 14 additional claims have been located to cover new structural projections bringing the total number of claims comprising the Gold Chain project to 100.
Aura's President & CEO, Robert Johansing, shares his initial thoughts following his property visit and preliminary review of the Gold Chain data, "The geologic work conducted in the 1980s identified features consistent with a 'detachment-type' gold deposit similar to other deposits which were successfully explored in the eastern Basin and Range province during that time. Although the historic model may remain applicable, drill hole data suggests a steeper structural component and possibly representing the upper levels of epithermal veins spatially related to numerous rhyolite dikes and plugs in both the footwall and hanging wall of the detachment structure. I suspect that drilling in the 1990's did not sufficiently consider a steeper mineral conduit and many of the holes were terminated prematurely or entirely missed the gold zone. The existing resource, although not NI 43-101 compliant, may be readily expanded by testing the margins at slightly greater depths and different angles".
Aura's immediate goals for the Gold Chain project include mapping and sampling to commence in early 2019, which will be integrated with the historical drill data. Considering that the last exploration here was in 1990, several tools have evolved to provide higher resolution data on the area's prospectivity, including geophysics, geochemistry, alteration studies and advanced deposit modelling. Aura intends to apply most of these methods. Permitting for drilling will also commence in early 2019, with drilling possibly commencing in the Spring of 2019.


In recent years, society as a whole has realized that we as people need to start recognizing or start to capitalize off our diversity.
Universities around the nation have begun departments focused on diversity and inclusion. Starting Oct. 1, 2016, VSU will have its own Department of Diversity and Inclusion led by interim director, Dr. Gerald Williams.
Dr. Williams was placed as interim director due to his personal passion for the topic of multiculturalism and he has had experience in creating such programs at two other institutions.
"It will be important to build and foster strong partnerships throughout the university community," said Dr. Williams.
He invites all student organizations to engage in the department to build programs for all students. Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Vincent Miller stated the inspiration for this program didn't come from pressure in the world, but rather from how he's seen other campuses have programs when VSU does not.
"It is common with student affairs, but looks different throughout other campuses," Dr. Miller said.
Although VSU has organizations that support minorities of diversity, such as the Department of Social Equity or the Black Student League, Dr. Miller stated he noticed how VSU has no real program for diversity and inclusion for students. He believes the program is needed to represent VSU's own diverse population so it can help students understand what multiculturalism is and help connect all students regardless of differences.
The current plans for the Department of Student Diversity and Inclusion are to look at the already planned events and examine what might be missing from those programs to include more of VSU's population. Dr. Miller also stated he wanted to bring focus to voting and getting to know all the candidates, including the independent candidates.
The department plans to build a relationship with other student organizations this semester so when next semester arrives they can build better events to gain an audience. Dr. Miller said he wanted to emphasize that he did not want the multicultural programs to feel forced upon the students. Most of all, both Dr. Miller and Dr. Williams want to stress that they want VSU to be "together as one campus community." There will be an event coming up in the next few weeks sponsored by the group, with details to come.


text:
English vimeo twitter facebook
Nouvelles Communiqués de presse Conférences Calendrier Réseau de spectacles
Répertoire des conteurs
Liste des enregistrements Panier d'achat (0)
Devenir membre SC-Radio-CC
Storysave
À propos de StorySave Conteurs en vedette Quilt (courtepointe) Droits d'auteur et Crédits
Historique Activités Administration Représentants Récompenses & reconnaissance Formulaires de candidature Fondateurs & partenaires Nous joindre
Faire un don Devenir membre Conférences Nouvelles Ressources
Joan Bodger - Tales of the Winter Hag
Joan Bodger was born in California in 1923. Because her father was an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and her mother came from England and returned there for protracted visits, the family moved around a great deal. It was books, stories and talk that became the constants in Joan's life.Joan attended Pomona College in Claremont, California; she served as a cipher clerk in the army during World War II. In 1948, she took a course on storytelling at Columbia University. Her innate interests validated, she decided that a storyteller was what she really wanted to be.
By that time, she was married. During the years of her marriage, she had two children. Her daughter died from a brain tumour at the age of seven; her husband was diagnosed as schizophrenic. The marriage collapsed. Her son was confirmed as being schizophrenic also. As a teenager, he took to disappearing; he was eventually gone for years.Throughout all of this, Joan maintained her conviction that stories and storytelling were important. She was also active, both politically and socially: participating in protest marches and rallies on social issues; opening a library for neighbourhood children.
In 1963, Joan began telling stories to black children on the streets of Nyack, New York, in preparation for the founding of the first Head Start pre-school program in the United States. In 1965, she was hired to begin a similar program in an orphanage for severely disadvantaged children. Storytelling was crucial to both programs. Joan used revolutionary approaches; the children flourished under her care. In 1968, she was invited to become Director of Children's Services for the State Library of Missouri. She was fired from this job, as "a communist pornographer," for writing a public letter in support of a censored student newspaper on State Library stationery. By then her knowledge of children's literature was extensive and she was hired as an editor by Random House.
Joan re-married and moved to Toronto. At Christmas in 1974, she began telling stories at The Underground Railroad Soul Food Restaurant. She continued telling stories at the Underground Railroad every third Sunday morning of the month for the next nine years. In 1978, Dan Yashinsky came to meet her. He was in the process of becoming a storyteller and of undertaking to make storytelling a vital part of Canadian life. He began a regular weekly storytelling evening at Gaffers Café. Together Dan and Joan planned the first Toronto Festival of Storytelling.
Joan liked to initiate rather than to toil on endlessly, but she cared passionately about storytelling. There are those who remember the urgency with which she insisted that the first storytelling festival focus on telling to adults. And… it was Joan who joined with Lorne Brown in the conception of Appleseed Quarterly, The Canadian Journal Of Storytelling; Joan who designed the pilot project, which became the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program, whereby storytelling might be brought to families at risk. In Toronto, Joan took training as a Gestalt therapist and used storytelling in her therapeutic work. The tragedies of her life were not over. In 1985, her second husband died of cancer. Her son was found but his mental illness, of course, remained with him.
Joan was also a writer. She published books and articles (see Joan's Books In Print link). As time went by, she became more and more concerned with telling the stories of her own life. They began to enter into her storytelling repertoire; they appeared as magazine articles. In 2000, The Crack In The Teacup. The Life Of An Old Woman Steeped In Stories — her autobiography on which she had struggled long and hard — was published (see The Crack In The Teacup link).
Tragedies notwithstanding, Joan lived fiercely; she lived with wit, humour, candour and commitment. She continued to work and tell out of her fundamental concern with the interplay between the old, old stories and ritual, the old, old stories and landscape, the old, old stories and ordinary life. In 1989, she started to lead an annual tour to King Arthur's Britain. This was a tour of exploration and discovery. It was developed so that, through the visiting of ancient sites, others might find that fundamental concern within themselves (see Figures In A Landscape link).
Soon after the book's publication, Joan was diagnosed as having colon cancer. She chose not to have chemotherapy. In November 2001, she appeared at 1001 Friday Nights for the last time. She told Tristan And Iseult, the story that seemed to speak to her most strongly of all the ancient tales. A week later, she left for Tofino – a small town at the far end of Vancouver Island – to die by the sea. She thought perhaps to walk out into it but, in the final event, knew that this was not something that could be done. She died in a hospital. She watched the sea from her window. Always a one to do things in style, as an American by birth, she managed to take her leave on the Fourth of July.
Learn More About Joan Bodger
Lorne Brown Remembers Joan
About the Recordings
From the beginning, we knew that Joan Bodger was a StorySave "must have." She became sick with cancer, however, before any recording could be undertaken. Fortunately, we discovered a taped cassette of a program which she had performed at the National Library of Canada in 1989. The program was entitled Tales of the Winter Hag. StorySave presents a number of stories from that program on the website. The entire program can be heard by purchasing the CD.
To purchase the CD visit SC-CC's online shop.
To buy a digital download of the album on CD Baby, click here.
Story Sources
Figures In A Landscape is part of Joan's performance of Tales Of The Winter Hag recorded live at the National Library of Canada on November 30, 1989 and made available on CD as part of StorySave's work.
Figures In A Landscape is based on research in The Silbury Treasure: The Great Goddess Rediscovered by Michael Dames (1976) and The Avebury Cycle by Michael Dames (1977).
The chapter from Joan's book, The Crack In The Teacup. The Life Of An Old Woman Steeped in Stories (published by McClelland & Stewart, 2000) is copyrighted by Joan Bodger and reprinted with permission.
Thanks is expressed to the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. The Osborne Collection houses Joan's papers as archival material for further research. The photo of Joan on the log was taken by Fiona Christie on December 30, 1998 at Wimble Toot, near Glastonbury, England.
The Crack in the Tea Cup
The Glacier Knocks in the Cupboard
My earliest memory is of a shaft of light filled with shining motes, and the sight and sound of a six–inch silver dollar (fake) rolling on its rim across our nursery floor, and of my older sister holding her hands over her ears. She is screaming a high, piercing scream. Mother has come to the doorway.
The year was 1926. Mother was early–on pregnant with my sister Joyce, her third child. I was not quite three. Anne was two years older than I. Pale and feverish, with deep circles under her eyes, she had been in hospital much of her life. With no benefit from antibiotics, she had undergone three mastoid operations. She often suffered excruciating pains in her head and behind her ears. In all innocence I had rummaged in the toy box, had found the souvenir of San Francisco's United States Mint, and had sent the silver disc on its reverberating course along the path of sunlight. What was music of the spheres for me was agony for Anne.
If I were going to caption the picture I would have a balloon coming out of my mother's mouth: Now look at what you've done! I looked. I saw. I woke from my dream–time. From that moment on I continue to remember. The moment just before is the moment I seek to recapture.
Susan K. Langer, in her book Feeling and Form, discusses that time–space in life when a child is about to cross the threshold into language. Langer contends that a pre–verbal child lives in a world where, for example, the feelings of "heaviness" and "permanence" may be articulated by the presence of the bureau across from his crib. Light coming through a window may speak volumes not only to him but for him.
The sculptures of Claes Oldenburg are, to me, voices from that same anteroom. Oldenburg says that his inspiration for enormous soft typewriters and gargantuan kitchen objects came from a scrapbook given to him by an aunt when he was very young and ill with fever. Immersed in those pages, he took it for granted that an orange could be as big as a house. When I behold his works I feel the tug of intimations.
Maurice Sendak, in his picture book In the Night Kitchen, shows a dream–like urban skyline composed of architectural salt–shakers, egg–beaters, and pop–art packaging, all in the style of the late 1920s, or early 1930s. The back of my neck prickles. The same sensation occurs when I come across a book I knew then. Or, at the flea market, when I happen upon a relic washed up from my personal Lyonesse, a landscape lost forty fathoms deep beneath the waves.
Langer stresses how important it is that the child have the chance to go back and back to explore the same objects in the same environment in order to check out the reality of her personal landscape. Myth emerges from landscape. Parents know, or are soon taught, how important it is to tell the same story in the same way, to look at the same pictures we looked at yesterday, and to provide the same blanket, the same toy. Because of my father's job in the United States Coast Guard, our family moved frequently. When my parents were young we often lived in rented apartments with rented furniture, but wherever we went the books and toys traveled with us. The toy box in which I rummaged was our sacred Ark of the Covenant, carried at the forefront of our tribal procession.
Enregistrement audio
Figures in a Landscape
Sun God Marries the Winter Hag
The Flowernapper
Historique Activités Administration Représentants Reconnaissance Formulaires de candidature Fondateurs Nous joindre
SC-Radio-CC
Avantages des membres Devenir membre ou renouveler Mise à jour du compte
Embaucher un conteur Groupes locaux Librairie en ligne Articles Critiques Liens Vidéos Galerie photos
Nouvelles Communiqués Conférences Calendrier Réseau de spectacles
Liste des enregistrements disponibles Panier d'achat (0)
Suite 173 - 601 Christie St
admin@storytellers-conteurs.ca
© 2015-2019 Conteurs du Canada - Tous droits réservés. |
Conception web : Thrace Graphistes Conseil inc.


Congratulations to The Bent Fork on your long awaited Grand Opening today! Be sure to make your way out to 31 Sixth Avenue in Greenville for a truly unique experience with "a fusion of two palates".
Member Featured in National Magazine!
Our local hardware store, Hurlbert Hardware, has been a source of pride for our small business community for decades and the owner, Jan, has recently been recognized through a very nice article published by The Anvil (a magazine by Bostwick-Braun). We couldn't be more excited for her recognition and thank her for her dedication to great customer service and building a brand that we can trust in our community!
She also has some very nice things to say about her Chamber of Commerce!
"An active member of the Chamber of Commerce in her town of 15,000, Hurlbert says that she had to work hard to get where she is today. 'It takes a long time,' she says. Meeting a variety of people in a networking organization such as the Chamber is 'absolutely vital' to success. 'You have to be on the fringes and work really, really hard.'"
Welcome Eva Wilson & 4 Spaces Remain!
Eva is our first tenant in our second floor office suites. The chamber is looking to rent out the remaining suites. Please contact Ben at the chamber: (724) 588-7150 or bbeck@greenvillechamber-pa.com for more information!
Take a look at the space from the picture below.


text:
/*
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package io.trino.plugin.kafka;

import com.google.inject.Injector;
import com.google.inject.Module;
import io.airlift.bootstrap.Bootstrap;
import io.airlift.json.JsonModule;
import io.trino.plugin.base.TypeDeserializerModule;
import io.trino.spi.NodeManager;
import io.trino.spi.connector.Connector;
import io.trino.spi.connector.ConnectorContext;
import io.trino.spi.connector.ConnectorFactory;
import io.trino.spi.connector.ConnectorHandleResolver;
import io.trino.spi.type.TypeManager;

import java.util.Map;

import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

public class KafkaConnectorFactory
        implements ConnectorFactory
{
    private final Module extension;

    public KafkaConnectorFactory(Module extension)
    {
        this.extension = requireNonNull(extension, "extension is null");
    }

    @Override
    public String getName()
    {
        return "kafka";
    }

    @Override
    public ConnectorHandleResolver getHandleResolver()
    {
        return new KafkaHandleResolver();
    }

    @Override
    public Connector create(String catalogName, Map<String, String> config, ConnectorContext context)
    {
        requireNonNull(catalogName, "catalogName is null");
        requireNonNull(config, "config is null");

        Bootstrap app = new Bootstrap(
                new JsonModule(),
                new TypeDeserializerModule(context.getTypeManager()),
                new KafkaConnectorModule(),
                extension,
                binder -> {
                    binder.bind(ClassLoader.class).toInstance(KafkaConnectorFactory.class.getClassLoader());
                    binder.bind(TypeManager.class).toInstance(context.getTypeManager());
                    binder.bind(NodeManager.class).toInstance(context.getNodeManager());
                });

        Injector injector = app
                .doNotInitializeLogging()
                .setRequiredConfigurationProperties(config)
                .initialize();

        return injector.getInstance(KafkaConnector.class);
    }
}


text:
Q: Template specialization declaration in .cpp and .h files I would like define my template specialization in the .cpp file  and not in .h file. Is there a way I can do this?
I am using the g++ compiler
//main.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "People.cpp"
using  namespace std;

int main() {

  Spunky <int> obj3(1);
  Spunky<char>obj2('y');
  return 0;
}

//People.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include "People.h"

using namespace std;

// TEMPLATE SPECIALISATION
template < class T>

Spunky <T>:: Spunky( T x){
  cout << x << " is not a character ! " << endl;

}

template <>
Spunky:: Spunky<char> ( char x ) {

  cout << x << " is indeed a character"<< endl;
}

//People.h

#ifndef PEOPLE_H
#define PEOPLE_H
using namespace std;

// TEMPLATE SPECIALISATIONS
template < class T>
class Spunky{
 public:
  Spunky ( T x) ;
};

template <>
class Spunky <char> {
 public:
  Spunky (char x);
    //  {  cout<< x << "is indeed a character"<<endl; }

};

#endif

compiler error is:
template argument deduction is only available with -stdC==1z or -std=gnu++1z
How can I go about fixing this?

A: template <>
Spunky:: Spunky<char> ( char x ) {

  cout << x << " is indeed a character"<< endl;
}

Is not the correct syntax for defining the implementation of a member method. Spunky:: Spunky<char> is the syntax for defining a method which itself is templated not a templated class, the correct syntax is Spunky<char>::Spunky.
You also don't specify template <> when defining template member specialisations.
The full definition should therefore be:
inline Spunky<char>::Spunky( char x ) {
  cout << x << " is indeed a character"<< endl;
}

I recommend you don't include .cpp files, if you want to split your template implementation into 2 files then give it a different extension (some use ipp).
The normal rules for header files apply to anything you #include so using namespace std is a really bad idea many recommend not using using namespace std at all.


text:
Notes From My Purple State
by Jesse Nathan on February 27, 2007
"Come to Kansas Where the Waiters Make $2.65 and Everyone Speaks—Thank God!—Nothing But English"
Dorothy and Toto would be ashamed: the Kansas legislature decided to spend the last week making life more painful for the state's most vulnerable citizens. In votes driven by Republican majorities, the Kansas House of Representatives passed a measure approving English as Kansas' "official language" and, two days later, rejected a bill that would have raised the state's atrociously low minimum wage. At $2.65 per hour, Kansas ranks lowest in the nation. Most of the workers making that pitiful sum are in the service and agricultural industries—and many of them are immigrants, making this week's legislative activity a double whammy on their already beleaguered backs. "This is a crime against humanity," Representative Geraldine Flaharty (D-Wichita) told the Journal-World. "Kansans deserve better."
Attempting to make states—or even the whole country—a sea of English-speakers, at least officially, is nothing new. In 1780, John Adams proposed an amendment to the constitution preserving the "purity" of English by making it the new country's official language. That one got denounced as undemocratic and squelched within hours of his proposing it.
Still, English-only pushes have happened so often, and in such predictable waves, that's it's easy to see why and when such zealous attitudes arise: whenever conservatives sweep people into a frenzy about immigration. In the late 19th century, WASPs fearful of Italians, the Irish, Jews, and Asians landing on American soil sought protection in such xenophobic laws.
Again in the 1980s, under the watch of rightwingers in the Reagan administration, laws promoting English as "the" language of the United States inspired politicians from coast-to-coast in racist crusades against foreign tongues.
Which brings us to the present.
With minute-men vigilante squadrons manning our south western borders and U.S. officials in the milky-white (minus a token Condi Rice) Bush administration cracking down even on the border between Canada and the U.S., it's no surprise that English-only campaigns are popping up again. Yes, unfortunately, history repeats itself—even the ignorant chapters.
Enter the Kansas House of Representatives, led by a hodgepodge of GOP xenophobes. On Tuesday, February 20, the House passed HB 2140 by a 118-2 vote—the lone dissenters, in fact, were Republicans—establishing English as the official language of the state of Kansas. According to Democratic leadership, (apparently spineless and weak-kneed) Democratic lawmakers backed the bill in the end because of a last minute amendment that would include $500,000 "to help fund English classes for adult immigrants."
Problem is, on closer inspection, this $500,000 is suggested, not guaranteed. If that money doesn't materialize in next year's budget (and GOPers could easily and discreetly kill that funding), then this law comes as an added burden on immigrants, many of whom don't have the time or resources to invest in language classes.
And even though the legislation leaves localities with the option of printing official documents in other languages, the symbolic—and racist—weight of the measure wasn't lost on the two dissenters. Rep. Thomas Owens, a Republican from Overland Park, told the Lawrence Journal-World that the bill was rooted in anti-immigrant reactions "born out of fear more than anything else."
Representative Dale Swenson, a Republican from Wichita, called the bill "nearly empty"—and correctly pointed out how many other issues, like healthcare and education, were left unaddressed while legislators codified fear in HB 2140. Nonetheless, at the end of the day, one of the bills' leading sponsors, Republican Don Myers, championed the law as "a workforce building bill, an economic development bill."
Hilarious as Myers characterization is in and of itself, consider this: two days later, the GOP leadership committed what is arguably an even greater crime than English-only mandates: it rejected legislation that would raise Kansas' minimum wage from its abysmally low rate of $2.65.
What did you say about the workforce, Mr. Myers?
For the 19,000 Kansans reportedly making this wage—many of them trying desperately to hold down two or three jobs to cover the bills—Representative Benjamin Hodge (R-Overland Park), one of the leading naysayers on raising the minimum wage, offered only that the state ought to steer clear of "European-style socialist bills." "We all know," added GOP Representative Mike Kiegerl (Olathe), "that Marxism is alive and well only in academia."
So while Kiegerl, Hodge and others flail their paranoid political arms, Kansans remains stuck in the Reagan era: the last time the state raised its minimum wage was 1988. That was before the Internet, folks. Before IPods, Blogs, and Bill Clinton. But considering this state still makes unionizing seem like communism, it's not a shocking fact. Meanwhile, twenty-eight states have set their minimum wages higher than the federal standard—and even the feds are considering an increase to $7.25 this year.
When it rains it pours, and unfortunately it poured on poor Kansans this week—particularly those struggling to learn a new language in a new country. Though Kansas sleeps a little better these past few years under the progressive governorship of Kathleen Sebelius, the legislature, it seems, remains clutched in the grips of dodos.


Photographers based in the North West who endeavour to capture your special day as it unfolds. We want to encapsulate your day in photos that are rich in emotion, personality & a sense of uniqueness.
We are dedicated to taking high quality images which capture your memories, as you see it. Our aim is to make you as a couple feel completely at ease, not feeling under pressure to have staged photographs. We love capturing those candid moments that can sometimes be missed but really make the day yours. We want our images to show the emotions and feelings you experience throughout your special day. Working in this way means we are intentionally unobtrusive and as discreet as possible, whilst getting stuck into the fun where we can! This results in images that reflect your unique day, complete with all it's quirks and nuances, giving you high quality memories that you can enjoy, share proudly, and look back on for years and years to come.


Yes, BUSY. The whole weekend was chock full of things I had to do. Most of it was involved in helping a Catholic middle school retreat called ERIS, that a friend of mine started several years ago to raise money for a friend of his for medical expenses. It's kept up every year since, and each year we find a new cause to donate the money to. I won't say too much about it, other than the fact that we did a few skits, and apparently I make a good Satan. I guess throwing a little kung fu into the mix might enhance the evil. Or something like that. But yes, the kids seemed to like the whole retreat (it was for a day), since some of them admitted it was the best day they'd ever had in their LIFE. Which I think means they liked it. But it's all run by young 'uns, college kids, and the occasional old fart like me. But it was fun.
So Sunday was a little bit of relaxing, sleeping to recover from Saturday, mostly. And lion dance practice, which we're starting again, to get ready for the tournament in May. Which, sadly, coincides with TU's graduation. I should talk to Sifu about planning his tournament a little better in the future. I've already been lined up to help with his tournament, though, so I think that's the plan.
Lately it's been mostly kung fu, and I went ahead and got Season 3 of 24. Man, I had forgotten how much I love that show. It's not for everyone, and a lot of people think it's unrealistic, but I happen to think the opposite. I think it's believable, it's just coincidental that a guy has so much bad happen to him in one day. Or, by now, three days. Not all in a row, naturally. Some people do have rather bad luck. But the way the unroll the plot line is exquisite, and it's easy to get sucked in, if you don't resist. Kind of like Naruto... But yes. I like the characters a lot. That, and Elisha Cuthbert is one of the most attractive actresses on the planet. I guess you could say I'm a fan. I do think one reason I like the show so much is because even if you're having a bad day, they're having a worse one, and it makes everything seem so much nicer by the time the credits roll.
And yesterday was the second day of our schedule of pain at kung fu. Sifu's training us rather hard. And by hard, I mean pain raised to the power of insane. So far it's only four people each class, and not always the same four, although Justin and I seem to be regulars. Sadly, I had to miss Saturday, but Sifu wasn't there, so I don't think it was as bad. Because he was definitely there yesterday, and I'm STILL sore from it. I learned a few things. One of these things was that after three hundred crunches in a row, it's not your abs you feel so much. It's your neck. Since it takes a decent amount of time to do three hundred crunches and you're always pulling your head up with each one (not with the hands), it's more exposure to exercise to pull your head forward than you normally ever get. So yeah, there was that, the fifty pushups was kind of a relief from the rest of it. Sifu's bumped our horse stances (before and after all the other stances) to two minutes. The first one is doable. After doing a minute of each other stance, the final horse isn't quite so easy. It's thirteen minutes of continuous stances, and even Sihing admits that's probably the hardest part. I'm still quite sore, which means my muscles are worked, which means they will probably get stronger (and perhaps more developed), which is COOL. I'm thinking I may start feeling sorry for any of the other students who spar with any of us, the ones going through this training. Especially anyone going against Sihing.
As an aside, God of War continues getting better, as it progresses. If you like gaming at ALL and have a PS2, you need to check it out. But it's not for kids. 'Nuff said.
Lately I've realized how much I've missed playing guitar, which has inspired me to play more. I do have a lot of stuff I've recorded, but I'm too shy to post any of it. Nothing with words (yet), but just stuff I start messing with and say, "Hey, not too shabby, maybe this could turn into something." I think perhaps I need to invent a time generator, put that on the top of my list of things to do. Then I'll actually have TIME to do all the things I want to do. You know, rock star, kung fu master, brilliant computer geek, etc. As it is, I have to focus on one thing at a time. Although I've started putting a little bit more time into the brilliant computer geek thing. I'm working on coding up the Karatsuba algorithm to use for my thesis, to try advancing it beyond where it was. It's been almost a year, and I sorta miss it. So back to the drawing board! Err, coding board. Screen. Whatever.
And taxes are due TOMORROW. So if this is news to you, it might be time to file an extension. I've got mine out of the way, which is a pleasant thing to reflect upon. Ahhh... yes. Random link! Okay, here we go. Some things scare people. And for some reason, if it's really scary, it tends to be believed more. Why is that? Here, an example. Do you believe it? Careful with how easily YOU believe things.
P.S.: The weekend was TOO FULL. More pictures this weekend.
The "sounds of hell" were hardly distinguishable from regular radio static. Pfft, as if that's supposed to be scary. They built it up so much and then let us down. And yes, some people will believe anything you tell them.
you forgot 'fabulous person all around'. ;) you're well rounded indeed, that's what i like about you.
oh, and i was dead wrong about the elisha thing. i was thinking about a totally different girl. you're right, she's hot!


Use your favorite languages to build, deploy, and manage cloud software – on any cloud – with one workflow for developers and operators alike.
We have hundreds of microservices on-premises, and we are in the process of migrating them to the cloud. Pulumi is solving the multi-cloud problem exactly the way I was looking for. We want to empower our teams to think and act for themselves and Pulumi helps development teams build cloud infrastructure using a language of their choice and allows infrastructure engineering teams to build scalable reusable modules that can be leveraged by other teams. So far, it's proving to be much easier to develop and I like the ability for different teams to collaborate on infrastructure code. Our team really enjoys working with the Pulumi team and working on the actual Pulumi product.
Use the best of your chosen cloud -- containers, serverless, and managed infrastructure -- while also unleashing one consistent approach to software delivery no matter your cloud provider.
Flexibly solve a wide variety of tasks including scalable websites and APIs, event streaming and processing, all through multi-cloud and multi-language microservices.
Define cloud services and infrastructure in code, then continuously deploy. Correct issues in infrastructure automatically to return to the desired state.
Deploy and orchestrate cloud native container-based apps on Kubernetes, either on-premises or in the cloud. Use real code to define and deploy Kubernetes services.
We're excited to see Pulumi deliver a pure code multi-cloud cloud programming model. Combined with IOpipe, teams can deploy, test, and debug their code faster.
With Pulumi, we have the tools to achieve a unified DevOps model. We retired 25,000 lines of complex config and replaced it with 100s of lines of real code with Pulumi.
Any Code. Any Cloud. Any Team.
Maximize your productivity by defining cloud apps and resources as code in familiar languages.
Deploy cloud apps and infrastructure anywhere. Eliminate cloud specific DSLs to simplify multi cloud management.
Make use of preferred practices to deliver cloud native apps and infrastructure with enterprise-grade workflows.