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Unspoken victims: A national study of male rape incidents and police investigations in South Africa
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Author(s): R. Jina, M. Machisa, G. Labuschagne, L. Vetten, L. Loots, R. Jewkes
Source: South African Medical Journal 2020;110(9):926-931.
Background: The burden of sexual violence has been well described in children of both sexes and in women, but there is minimal literature on adult male rape victims. Studies of adult male rape victims have mainly been conducted among incarcerated males or military personnel, and in high-income countries.
Objectives: To describe the epidemiology, occurrence and reporting of rape cases involving male victims, both child (<18 years old) and adult, in South Africa (SA).
Methods: The study consisted of a nationally representative sample of case dockets maintained by the SA Police Service of rape incidents reported in 2012. A retrospective review of the dockets provided sociodemographic information on the victim and suspect, the circumstances of the rape and the medicolegal services provided to the victim. Data on male victims were analysed using Stata 13 to test for significant differences between child and adult male victims.
Results: The study comprised 209 male victims, including 120 (57.4%) children and 89 (42.6%) adults. The findings showed that there were significant differences in the occurrence and reporting of rape of male victims by age. Adult males experienced more violent rapes, perpetrators were more likely to be armed and often humiliated the victim, and rapes were more likely to occur in institutional settings. Adult males reported incidents of rape earlier and therefore had visible non-genital injuries during the medical examination. In contrast, more child rapes involved known perpetrators, occurred in a home and perpetrators were more likely to act kindly to the victim after the incident. This parallels the patterns in rape circumstances seen in female adult and child victims.
Conclusions: While there is political commitment to understanding sexual violence against women as a societal problem, work on such violence against men lags behind and is little understood. Rape of males needs to be acknowledged, and their vulnerabilities to sexual abuse and rape need to be addressed. Prevention efforts to end violence against women and girls, especially in relation to children, can be used to address violence against men and boys.
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Concert Feature Osheaga Music and Arts Festival 2010
Photograph by Tim Snow
Maybe I'm getting too old for festival concerts. Between slathering myself with SPF60, eating $5 hot dogs, running spastically between stages, cursing the overlapping schedule, being inundated with corporate sponsorship and drinking watery beer, I was caught between disillusionment and laughter toward the predictable pattern of music fests.
The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival is in its fifth year, and has swelled from 25,000 to over 50,000 attendees. Despite my opening tirade, Osheaga has plenty to offer: a grassy hill with convenient stage view, venues of varying size (from cozy small sets to mega concerts), performances for many tastes (from small Quebecois bands to…Snoop Dogg?), the ability to walk freely with your drinks (goodbye, beer tent!) and free underwear to anyone willing to provide American Apparel with their email address.
When surrounded by so much chaos, I seem to morph into a reactionary skeptic. I should subtitle this post "The Festival Concert in which Sabrina Becomes a Huge Indie Music Cynic." So, I apologize ahead of time if any readers take my grumbling opinion personally. But here it is, Osheaga 2010.
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Tags: Arcade Fire, Hannah Georgas, Japandroids, Metric, Owen Pallett, Pavement, Sonic Youth, The National, The Walkmen, We Are Wolves, Weezer
— Sabrina Diemert, August 17, 2010 3 Comments
Feature List Best Canadian Albums of the 2000s, Pt. 1
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As the decade comes to a close and music magazines and blogs publish their "Best Albums of the Decade" lists, we here at Ca Va Cool decided to take a different direction. Sure, we could tell you that Kid A or Is This It is the greatest album of the last ten years, but you've already heard that. Instead, we've decided to make a list of something we hold very close to our hearts, Canadian music. By counting down the 20 best albums of the decade, we hope to pay respect to truly classic albums and shine a light on some underappreciated gems which can be enjoyed no matter where you come from. From regional hits to international sensations, our list showcases the best albums that music scenes all over Canada, from Vancouver to the Maritimes, have released this past decade. Here, in all its glory, is Ca Va Cool's Best Canadian Albums of the 2000s.
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20. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Truthfully Truthfully (MapleMusic, 2003)
When thinking of the greatest Canadian music genres/scenes of this past decade, it's seemingly impossible to forget the influence of East Coast pop music. We begin our list with Nova Scotia's best indie musical export, Joel Plaskett. Carrying the torch from '90s legends Sloan, Joel Plaskett maintained the chugging electric guitar of 70's power pop, incorporating the lyrical romanticism of his father's folk idols, all from his hometown Halifax. On the Emergency's second album, Truthfully Truthfully, Plaskett's showcases the best of his charmingly witty lyrics and hook-ridden guitar work. As lovably awkward as Jonathan Richman, Plaskett nonetheless seemed as comfortable rocking out as Angus Young. Following the release, Joel Plaskett became a household name to Canadian music fans. He has been nominated twice for the Polaris Music Prize for his later work, produced countless albums for young East Coast bands, including the wonderful Little Jabs by Two Hours Traffic, and he still lives in Nova Scotia. — Daniel Hernandez
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Tags: Born Ruffians, Feist, Final Fantasy, Joel Plaskett, Junior Boys, Metric, Miracle Fortress, Tegan and Sara, The Organ, The Unicorns
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Concert Broken Social Scene: Harbourfront Centre
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This concert was not broken. On July 11, 2009, 18 Torontonians got together to do something they'd all done before. Arriving in town from disparate locations, they met at Toronto's Harbourfront and went on to play a concert which will undoubtedly be forever engrained in Toronto music history. One of a kind, symbolic, chaotic, harmonious, an end and a start – and to think, it was all born out of an extended apology.
The day was meant to host an annual festival curated by Arts&Crafts Records on Olympic Island. A few months after announcing the show, to the chagrin of many, the festival was cancelled due to worries of competing with the noisy Molson Indy 500 cars racing on the Gardiner Expressway, across the lake only a few kilometres away. In its place, Captain Kevin Drew announced that his band would play a free show on that same evening at the Harbourfront Centre and hoped, with a cherry on top, that this show "with special guests" would be enough to redeem themselves for not cross-checking their dates with David Miller's calendar first. I was lucky enough to be there, and let me tell you, it was most definitely enough.
From the moment I got there, seeing the multiple cameras rolling, gathering footage for the upcoming concert documentary This Movie Is Broken…I knew that something out of the ordinary was about to happen. For starters, the setting felt more right than any other venue I'd seen them or any derivative of the collective at. Don't get me wrong, I love Olympic Island, but everything about an experience on the islands feels separate and distinct from an experience in Toronto-proper.
Standing at the Toronto shoreline for a free concert in the nano-sized amphitheatre, I looked around and realized that this wasn't the typical audience that I'd seen at past BSS shows. Sure, the tweed jackets, fedoras, ironic t-shirts, plaid shirts and dirty-man beards were all there, but they were all interspersed among a crowd including families, young and old, black and white, yellow and brown, from neon-coloured hipsters to urban b-boys, and more. Did these people even know who Broken Social Scene are? I sent a text to a friend, as I settled into a space I found apt, saying that I was praying to the rain gods to wash the riff-raff spectators away, so that I could get closer to the band that I loved more than they did. But rain clouds refused to appear, and I soon ate my e-words.
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Tags: Broken Social Scene, Feist, Jason Collett, Metric, Stars
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Founded in 2001 at Brown University by David Peck '03 and Justin Slosky '03, Ivy Film Festival has become one of the world's largest film festivals for students, by students. We are dedicated to showcasing student filmmakers from around the world, creating channels for students to learn about the industry's emerging discourses and innovations, and building a network between today's pioneers and the next generation.

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Ivy Film Festival is made up of 95 students from Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and divided into 9 different internal departments.

executive directors

Oakley Friedberg, Solveig Xia

managing directors

Madeline Chin, Sienna Giraldi

outreach

Coordinators: Elizabeth Lippman, Paige Parsons

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Coordinators: Abigal Levy-Westhead, Julia Shack Sackler, Douglas Saper

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Coordinators:Alexia Delhoume

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programming

Coordinators: Cristina Ballarini, Nathaniel Burke, Jake Anderson

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Coordinators: Mackenzie Carlson, Matthew Jackett

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2016

Screenings: Krisha, Remember the Artist

Guests: Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro & Trey Edward Schults

2015

Screenings: The End of the Tour, Trainwreck

Guests: Todd Haynes and Jason Schwartzman

2014

Screenings: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inside Llewyn Davis

Guests: Wes Anderson, Ushio & Noriko Shinohara

2013

Screenings: Searching for Sugar Man, Sons of the Clouds

Guests: Wes Craven, Mira Nair

2012

Screenings: HBO series Girls, The Invisible War

Guests: Lena Dunham, Laura Linney

2011

Screenings: The Social Network, Bobby Fischer Against the World

Guests: Aaron Sorkin, James Franco

2010

Screenings: Waiting for Superman

Guests: Davis Guggenheim and Andrew Renzi

2009

Screenings: (500) Days of Summer

Guests: Jack Nicholson and Robert Evans

2008

People: Martin Scorsese and Michael Costigan

Guests: Lena Dunham, Laura Linney

2007

Screening: Eagle vs. Shark

Guests: Park Chan-wook and Doug Liman

2006

Screening: Brick, Half Nelson

Guests: Michael Showalter and Richard Heller

2005

Screening: Murderball, The Aristocrats

Guests: John Hamburg, Ellen Kuras

2004

Screening: Mean Girls, Supersize Me

Guests: Wes Craven and Adrien Brody

2003

Screening: Roger Dodger

Guests: Tim Robbins and Julia Stiles

2001

Screening: Harvard Man

Guests: Oliver Stone and Henry Bean

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IFF is working to inspire the next generation of filmmakers by bringing IFF's Official Selection to campuses across the country. The 2017 IFF Satellite Festival is partnering with the rest of the Ivy League and other film-minded institutions, creating an intercollegiate network of emerging filmmakers.

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The word "tool" is written in kanji as "to prepare a road". For the Japanese, tools are no mere objects. They have been used for ages and serve to refine sensibilities. The journey of the never-ending "road" is what Japan's tools are for, and why they are made with such time and effort.
Nowhere else in the world has the variety of ceramics, nor the national reach of production areas, that Japan has. Depending on the soil and stone used to make the wares, the glazes, the techniques, and the ways the products are to be used, the resulting forms are ever-changing. Many modern artisans take on new ideas while preserving traditional methods. And the world-renowned beauty of arrangement in Japanese cuisine is only possible after the tableware has been made. Just as a meal is ready to serve once it's placed on the dish, the ceramics themselves are only complete when they are used. This philosophy is reflected in the saying of Karatsu Yaki potters: "We make 80% of the pottery, and the users complete the final 20%." This value that the artisans need others to make their works complete is a unique approach of Japanese artisanship.
Tozan-ori, one of Japan's many colorful forms of textiles, is a technique of dyeing cotton threads and weaving them into thin stripes. During the Edo Period, when Japan's isolation kept out foreign goods and people were ordered to live simply and frugally, this technique became fashionable as it allowed even commoners to be wrapped in a luxurious silk-like feeling. The patterns appear to be universally-recognized stripes, but closer inspection reveals a warmth in texture that's unique to handicrafts. It is also said that the indigo-based dyes were mixed in the mouth and blended using the taste buds! And the technique is kept within families, handed down to just one child. The exquisite sense of colors and techniques are inherited with love and care.
"There's no metal product that cannot be made in Tsubame-Sanjo." This is the message behind the pride that the area's craftspeople take in their matalworking techniques. Tsubame-Sanjo refers to the combined region of Sanjo and Tsubame cities in Niigata. Densely packed with small businesses, in prizes tradition while creating diverse and innovation new products. The foundation for this was laid during the Edo Period, when the region prospered by forging nails that were said to last 1,000 years. As demand for nails decreased, Sanjo perfected its techniques for producing knife blades while Tsubame focused on metalworking. Their combined capabilities gave birth to an unrivaled artisanship. Regional companies now supply over 90% of the Western-style cutlery used in Japan, and their work's stellar internarional reputation led to its use at a Nobel Prize dinner.
An outlook on nature that seeks oneness, a diversity of aesthetic sensibilities, and physical feelings. Reflections from different angles bring the Japanese spirit into perspective.
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A self-healing concrete that mimics the human body's natural ability to repair minor damage is being developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
The material is filled with millions of microcapsules that burst to fill cracks as they occur. With an average size of 0.1 to 0.5mm, the capsules contain 'healing' agents such as minerals, epoxy or bacteria.
Mixed into concrete, the tiny balls rupture when cracks start to form as a result of fatigue, releasing their payload to stabilise the material. In some cases the microcapsules could replace regular aggregate in concrete.
The research is being carried out by the Department of Engineering's Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group as part of the £4.8 million ESPRC-funded project Resilient Materials 4 Life.
Particularly promising is a Dolomite Microfluidics system that binds strongly to the cement matrix, while also having thinner shell walls and higher core retention to improve the self-healing properties.
Self-healing technology has huge implications for the lifespan, maintenance and repair of concrete structures. In experiments with capsules containing sodium silicate it took an average of around four weeks for the healing process to complete. The chemical reacts with the internal face and opening of cracks to close them up.
'Cracks are a preferential path for water and contaminants, so by closing this path you have effectively recovered the transport properties of the material [reduced the permeability of the damaged sample],' says de Souza.
Researchers are also devising ways to quantify the self-healing process and bring the technology to market by scaling it up from the laboratory. Industry partners include major contractor Costain, Cemex UK and Highways England.
A Resilient Materials 4 Life conference will be held at Churchill College, Cambridge in September next year.


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Eric Edwards, who was born Robert Everett in Michigan on November 30, 1945, holds the distinction of being the only adult performer known to have worked in every decade between the 1960s and 1990s. You may also know him as Eric Cowards, Erik Edwards, Rob Emmett, Rob Everett, Rob Evert or Eric Roberts.
After winning a scholarship from ABC TV to attend American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Eric graduated in 1967 and it was legendary actress Helen Hayes who handed him his diploma. Eric signed with the William Morris Agency and got some work in TV commercials for products such as Colgate, Coleco, and Gillette. While he worked in mainstream roles, including summer stock theater, for eight years after graduating, Eric also found his way into XXX work on the side that became his main career. Eric answered an ad in Screw magazine in 1969 that led to work in stag loops. His first scene partner was none other than Linda Lovelace. Unhappily married at the time to a woman named Cathy whom he had met in drama school, Eric actually got his wife to do a few performances with him. They later divorced, after trying swinging in order to save their marriage. Eric eventually racked up at least a thousand appearances, perhaps most famously appearing as Mr. Hardwick in the original Debbie Does Dallas. He had a relationship with DDD costar Arcadia Lake, but it was porn star Renee Summers whom he eventually married in 1986. They had two children in the late '80s but the marriage didn't last. Eric retired from performing for the sake of his two sons, and he has more recently worked as a film editor in the XXX industry.
Eric Edwards is in several industry Halls of Fame, including AVN, XRCO, Hustler, and Legends of Erotica.
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The Noguchi Museum was founded and designed by internationally-renowned American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), for the display of what he considered to be representative examples of his life's work. Opened in 1985, the Museum complex was built around a 1920s industrial building, and features indoor-outdoor galleries and a serene outdoor sculpture garden, with two floors of interior exhibition space. Located in the vibrant neighborhood of Long Island City, Queens, the Museum is itself considered to be one of the artist's greatest achievements. In building a museum, Noguchi was an early pioneer who led the metamorphosis of the Long Island City area into the arts district it is today, home to cultural institutions such as Socrates Sculpture Park, SculptureCenter, MoMA PS1, and Museum of the Moving Image, among others. As a whole, the Museum provides an intimate, reflective space in which to experience Noguchi's sculpture and design, fulfilling a vision that the artist deemed essential to his life's work. Visitors enter the approximately 27,000-square-foot Museum through the open-air sculpture garden. The ground-floor galleries and garden contain a permanent presentation of work curated and installed by the artist, selected from his own collection. Today, the Museum regularly presents temporary exhibitions in dialogue with these permanent installations, offering a rich, contextualized view of Noguchi's work and his enduring influence on contemporary culture. The Museum serves as a hub for Noguchi research and scholarship worldwide. In addition to housing the world's largest collection of the artist's works, his archives, and the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, the Museum organizes a full calendar of exhibitions both on- and off-site. In order to reach the broadest possible public, The Noguchi Museum offers a wide variety of education and public programs for all ages and communities, including hands-on art workshops for families, sign-language interpretation, touch tours for the blind and partially sighted, and arts education initiatives in New York City's public schools. In 2004, the private Isamu Noguchi Foundation and The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, which it operated, were consolidated into a single entity. Chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, The Noguchi Museum is a 501(c)(3) public charity; and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). The Museum Shop makes available much of Noguchi's work in design. It carries the full line of his Akari Light Sculptures, which have been in continuous handmade production in Gifu, Japan since the 1950s; and his furniture designs, including the Isamu Noguchi Table, manufactured by Herman Miller, Inc. The Shop also offers modern and contemporary furniture and design objects, publications and gifts. All proceeds support The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum's operations and programming.


Brazilian racer Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of double Formula 1 world champion Emerson, spoke to GPFans recently about becoming the official test driver for the Haas F1 team, what his responsibilities will include, and what his long-term plans are beyond 2019.
The 22-year-old has recently recovered from breaking both legs during last May's World Endurance Championship event at Spa-Francorchamps and gained open-wheel experience in 2018 driving for Dale Coyne Racing in IndyCar.
Last month, Fittipaldi attended the Formula E rookie test in Marrakesh, where he drove for the Jaguar team, for whom his close friend and compatriot Nelson Piquet Jr also drives. Taking some time out from his schedule, Fittipaldi explained to Rob Watts how the Haas opportunity first came about.
"I was meant to drive [with Haas at the in-season test] in Hungary in July, but because of my accident, I couldn't do that.
I stayed in touch with Gunther [Steiner], with the team, and Gunther actually lives in North Carolina and I was living there as well," Fittipaldi told GPFans.
"Towards the end of the season we stayed in touch, he was checking up on how I was recovering and how I felt when I got back in the car. We went for lunch one day [in October] and then that's when he offered me the role for this season.
"We had [been in contact] since basically the beginning of 2018. Initially, it was my uncle, Max Papis, who introduced me to Gunther in 2016. I was going into 2017 and he said 'go win that [Formula V8 World Series] championship and then we'll talk' so then I won the championship and that's when I started speaking to them again."
Fittipaldi explains that he'll play a crucial role with Haas on race weekends by helping the team to optimise race setup in the simulator, but also expects to get some track time in during the season as well, starting with this month's official pre-season test in Barcelona.
"I'll be the test driver for the team, so basically how it works is F1 teams nowadays have a very limited amount of testing. I think maybe taking a guess here but I'd say like 12 days a year. I'll be testing throughout the year, probably four of the days," said Fittipaldi.
"The main work will also be a lot in the simulator which the teams do a lot, so for example, if there's a race weekend [coming up], on the Wednesday and Thursday I'll be on the sim testing whatever they want to test before the weekend and then I'll be flying out to the race after the work there.
"I think I'll be in the car [in Barcelona testing], the team hasn't confirmed yet, but I'm quite certain I'll be in the car."
With no Brazilian drivers on the 2019 F1 grid, Fittipaldi hopes that there could be an opportunity to make that step up in the coming years, but he adds that he must start by impressing Haas if he is to progress any further.
"Yeah, of course, the goal is to make it to Formula 1 as a driver, the goal isn't just to be a test driver, the goal is to be [on the grid]. But I'm taking it step-by-step, that's why I'm really focused on what I have to do with [Haas] and I want to make sure I do a great job," said Fittipaldi.
"For sure it helps [being Brazilian] to open doors. For Brazilian people, they want another Brazilian driver in Formula 1."
With younger brother Enzo currently part of Ferrari's young driver academy, Fittipaldi acknowledges that an association with an F1 team is important for anyone with aspirations of making it onto F1 the grid, but maintains that it's still as tough as ever for young drivers to take that final step.
"My brother did an amazing job last year, he won the Italian F4 championship, so he's in the Ferrari junior programme and I think, for sure, if you're in one of those programmes it definitely helps. It helps a lot," said Fittipaldi.
"It sort of paves a road for you. If you do well, you start winning F4, F3, F2 and then the programme helps you get into F1, you already kind of have a foot in. So yeah, for sure, those programmes help, but Formula 1 has always been extremely difficult to get into. I mean, that's why it's every driver's goal and dream because [every young driver] wants to race in Formula 1."
After contesting six rounds of the IndyCar championship last season, Fittipaldi explains how difficult it was for him to return to such a high-performance car so soon after his accident at Spa, and says that although he'd like another shot at IndyCar someday, a return this season is unlikely owing to his F1 commitments.
"Coming back from my accident initially was really tough because I came back, my left leg was still quite fractured, so it was only two months after breaking both legs and trying to brake my first race back was really hard. I was in a lot of pain, but then every race that was going by my leg was healing more, getting stronger," said Fittipaldi.
"The thing with IndyCar, I would love to do it full time, [but] it wouldn't be possible with my role with Haas because there's only a certain amount of days I can miss if there are clashes with my calendar.
"Maybe I could do a couple of races or something but that's not something I'm looking into. If I want to do IndyCar I want to do it properly, like a full season, you know? Last year was great with Dale Coyne and I loved working with the team, having Sebastien Bourdais also as a teammate, and we were quick.
"This year my main focus is going to be with Haas and if we do race something it's going to be hard to do [any other championship] full season. We still haven't decided yet but my main [focus] is the Haas role."


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Q: How to use a separate file system for the Docker daemon related files at start up on AWS EC2 I would like to use a separate overlayfs file system volume for the Docker daemon on AWS EC2. I have been able to configure and set this up myself manually by logging in and running the commands. I would now like to create an AWS AMI that does this automatically on start up so I don't have to do this myself each time.
I've tried googling this but I can't seem to find an AMI that does this already. Could anyone offer a suggestion on the best way to go about baking this into my custom AMI?

A: I ended up working out how to do this myself. I'm posting my results in case
this is of any use to anyone else.
Creating an AMI
Assuming a base AMI that already has docker installed and using systemctl to
manage start up services. I ran the following commands to switch from the
docker daemon from using devicemapper to using overlayfs. Furthermore the old
/var/lib/docker/devicemapper directory is removed, and the flag
--graph=/mnt/ specifies that directory /mnt will be used to store all the
docker images, containers, and etc.
sudo service docker stop
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/devicemapper
sudo sed -i -e "/ExecStart/s/$/ --storage-driver=overlay --graph=\/mnt\//" /lib/systemd/system/docker.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Next create the directory where the file system will be mounted. Update
/etc/fstab that it is mounted when the EC2 instance starts.
sudo mkdir -p /mnt
echo '/dev/xvdf       /mnt    ext4    defaults,nofail 0 2' | sudo tee --append /etc/fstab

Create an new amazon AMI with these changes. I used packer for this and
found it quite straightforward.
EBS Snapshot
You'll need an already formatted EBS snaphot to attach to each launched EC2
instance. I did this by creating a EC2 instance with a new EBS volume,
formatting the attached EBS volume. The AWS website has documentation,
for example formatting as Ext4 is:
sudo mkfs -t ext4 device_name

Once you've done this you'll need to turn the EBS volume into an EBS snapshot.
You can do this by going in the AWS, and clicking "EC2" -> "Volumes" (Left
Menu). Then select the volume attached to the EC2 instance and select "Actions"
-> "Create Snapshot". It'll then take a few minutes to create the snapshot.
Launching an instance
Once you've done all of this you should have the following:

*

*An AMI expect a mounted device at /dev/xvdf.

*A Docker daemon configured to save it's graph database to a volume under /mnt.

*An Ex4 formatted EBS snapshot to be used as this volume.

I then used the following BlockDeviceMappings configuration to mount this
snapshot as a volume when launching the instance. Replace the all caps values
with your values. You should use the AMI you created to launch the instance. I
used the DeleteOnTermination : true because I don't care about the docker
related files after I shutdown the instance.
"BlockDeviceMappings": [
  {
    "DeviceName": "/dev/sdf",
    "Ebs": {
      "SnapshotId": "SNAPSHOT_ID",
      "Encrypted": false,
      "DeleteOnTermination": true,
      "VolumeSize": VOL_SIZE
    }
  }
],

Trouble shooting

*

*Make sure to use an base AMI that can use EBS volumes

*Make sure your EBS volume is formatted with as a file system e.g. Ext4

*Check whether /dev/xvdf is the mounted device and adjust accordingly if
not.

*See my packer github repository for the commands I used to build my
AMI.

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Her strong conviction to work towards 'Empowerment of Women' led Sheela Group to adopt Jijabai ITI for Women, Sirifort, Delhi, under the Public-Private-Partnership programme of Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGET), Ministry of Labour, Government of India in the year 2009 (Now Under Ministry of Skill Development), wherein she is the Chairperson of its Institute Management Committee.
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Now that PhanCon 2015 has wrapped up, we invite the attendees to share some of their photos from our visits to Davis Monthan AFB, the 309th AMARG and Pima Air and Space Museum.
The Phinal QF-4 Phantom departs Tyndall Air Force Base on 23 July, 2015. This photo, appropriately taken at sunset, depicts the flagship of the 53rd Weapons Group powering off the runway to join the remaining fleet at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. Photo courtesy of Tyndall Public Affairs.
The following article is courtesy of Public Affairs at Tyndall Air Force Base. Sure looks weird to see a pilotless Phantom taking off.
Read more about After almost 30 years in publication All SmokeTrail HARD COPY Magazines are gone.
What couldn't the Phantom do?
Read more about What couldn't the Phantom do?
Our venerable F-4 Store now has a new location, a new look, and some new products. Come on by and check it out.
The official accident report on the White Sands loss of a QF-4 on February 7th, 2014, has been posted on the Air Force Magazine website at this URL.
This is an extremely interesting read as it gives one insight to how a drone mission is briefed, flown, and conducted.
Our thanks to Coert Van Breda for sending us the link.
A F-4 Phantom II , operated by Iran's Air Force, has crashed in southern Iran, leaving both pilot and copilot dead.
The Hellenic Air Force has confirmed its participation at the Malta International Airshow with an F-4E PI 2000 Phantom II from Andravida Air Force Base in Greece. This will be the second time Greece participates at the air show, having sent another Phantom II in 2005. The air show will take place over the weekend of Sept. 27-28.
SmokeTrails 20-1 has been published. Great color coverage of the phinal days of the F-4F in the German Air Force. Head on over to the F-4 Store to get your PDF copy. Current members have already received access to their free copy.
Kudos to Jack Callaway and the SmokeTrails crew for another outstanding publication.
Around 9 AM an unmanned QF-4 crashed on White Sands National Monument about four to five miles short of Holloman's runway 22. No cause was stated.
68-0599 which left Davis Monthan back in April has finally made its way to Tyndall. It is the last QF-4. Only sixty QF-4s now remain at Holloman and Tyndall. Press release here.


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The appearance of large satellites posted by Coffee Mug @ 7/22/2006 10:00:00 AM
The appearance of large satellites
I'm finally shutting down the old website, but I thought it might be nice to have some of these older posts to link to. Plus I'm moving to NYC and writing up a thing for my actual work, so not as much time for original writing for a month or so. This was my first ever blog post (with slight modification).
The title comes form Herbert Lubs, the first person to describe the chromosomal aberration for which Fragile X syndrome is named. The more extended quote goes "In one-third of the proband's metaphase figures, an unusual secondary constriction was seen at the ends of the long arm of a group C chromosome. This gave the appearance of large satellites, but the chromosome was never seen in association with the acrocentric chromosomes."
Part of the appeal of talking about Fragile X is that it covers so many levels of research. In this post, I'm going to give the basic features, a little history, and a little cytogenetics. I had planned on trying to explain why the Fragile X chromosome looks the way it does anyway, and it's fortuitous that there is an a blip on the chromosome radar coming up right as I prepare to do this. So without further ado, here's the litany of facts that you could've got if you'd only just googled Fragile X Syndrome:
Fragile X syndrome (aka FRAXA) is the leading cause of inherited mental retardation. (The most common cause overall is Down's syndrome.) It causes mental retardation in approximately 1 in 4000 boys and 1 in 7000 girls.
The mental effects include moderate-to-severe mental retardation sometimes associated with autism or hyperactivity.
Sometimes, but not always, males with the syndrome have tall stature, larger ears, a long face, and machroorchidism (large testicles).
The effects in females are often milder. This has to do with the phenomenon of X chromosome inactivation. Since the syndrome appears to result from an inactivated gene much of the function can be take care of by the copy on the other X chromosome if she's lucky enough to have the right one inactivated. Actually there is some evidence out there that there may be some bias towards inactivating the chromosome with the abnormality.
The problem is caused by a trinucleotide repeat expansion. I mentioned before that this has already been covered probably more clearly, but I'm going to go into more detail about that here in a minute. What this means is that somehow the DNA copying mechanism gets stuck on this long chain of CGGs and kind of gets it stuck in its little DNA polymerase head and just keeps repeating itself like you do when you listen to too much of your local top 40 station and keep repeating "Back then ho's didn't want me, now I'm hot ho's all on me," in your head even though you think Mike Jones might be developing a little slowly himself. And you know how he says "I said" before the fourth repetition and then we can finally move on to the much anticipated chorus? The same thing goes for the triplet repeat problem. When you have a long chain of CGGs and it's interrupted by an AGG every once in a while you have less of a chance of getting stuck and causing the disease (by you I mean DNA polymerase.) This will not be my last bad hip-hop analogy.
One last thing for the basics is that the result of all of this is that a gene called FMR1 in humans is silenced so there is no FMRP (Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein). This causes manifold problems at different organizational levels and I'll get into all of that one of these days because learning about that stuff is what got me interested in Fragile X to begin with.
These discoveries have been about 50 or 60 years in the making, and I thought I'd point out the salient bits of the history. I'm getting most of this from the Neri and Opitz commentary cited at the bottom. The first hint came from a 1938 survey of 1280 mentally retarded patients. 55% were male and 45% were female, pointing to a potential role for gender in mental deficits. Further evidence came in 1943 when Martin and Bell reported a pedigree showing mental retardation linked to the X chromosome. Fragile X is also referred to as Martin-Bell syndrome, although there is some confusion as to whether the diseases are one and the same. 20 years later, a Robert Lehrke and a John M. Opitz performed a more systematic study with larger samples all around and once again found an abundance of evidence pointing to an X-linked cause for "25-50% of all retardation." I should point out that there are a number of other X-linked mental retardations resulting from the disruption of various genes, but even considering all of these different causes the number is a bit of an overshoot and has been toned down through the years. A year after Lehrke's thesis came out, Herbert Lubs published his work showing the karyotype for which fragile X is named. It took some time before the cytogenetic test really became popular though because other cytogeneticists found it difficult to replicate his findings. Grant Sutherland, who is still researching the molecular mechanisms of genetic disease down in Australia, is credited with discovering that the fragile sites were much more easily observed in conditions of reduced folate in 1977. This led to a flurry of attempts to use folic acid as a preventative measure during pregnancy, but it doesn't appear to do the trick. The last milestone in this brief history came in 1991 when three independent labs (Oostra-Warren-Nelson; Sutherland; and Mandel groups) reported the final link to a single gene dubbed FMR1 on the X chromosome and indicated the triplet repeat expansion nature of the disease. We may be considered to be either going through or just past another milestone with the emergence of the mGluR theory of fragile X syndrome, but I won't get into all of that now since I want to use it as an excuse to write about the electrophysiological phenomena of long-term potentiation and long-term depression and some of the molecular biology of the synapse.
Since I started off with the appearance of fragile X chromosomes I thought I'd try to explain why they look the way they do. This information was harder to find than I expected. It would appear that people are still working on this problem while I thought it would have been an almost immediate fallout from the discovery of the disease mechanism. Here's what I've got so far. "Microscopy" turned out to be a useful search term. First, there is a bit of an excuse to add a couple more pretty pictures. I found something of a methods paper describing a new way to mount chromosomes for transmission electron microscopy (TEM). These authors don't waste any time theorizing or introducing or giving background information. They want everyone to be aware of this new awesome technique and that's it. So it's kind of hard to understand, but the gist of it is that not only can you see the fragile site on these X chromosomes depicted as a reduction in electron density at the boundary between the main chromosome and the satellite, but you can also see other pockets of reduced electron density throughout the satellite. The picture below shows the tip of a normal chromosome on the left and a fragile one on the right. See how the fragile one is less dense? They can even see this pattern at least one chromosome that doesn't show a fragile sight when they use regular fluorescence light microscopy which may indicate a burgeoning fragile site. My understanding is that low electron density means that there are less proteins there. This is consistent with the story from this other paper.
DNA during metaphase, which is when the pictures of chromosomes that you always see are taken, is coiled up and packed really tightly and part of the way this is achieved is to wrap the DNA strand around proteins complexes called nucleosomes. This is not the only case where DNA is wrapped around nucleosomes. It is pretty much happening all the time and DNA is getting wrapped and unwrapped all the time. Wang et al looked at the effect of having a bunch of CCGs repeated on this process. The way they did this was to mix small pieces of DNA (with or without a CCG repeats near one end) that were ostensibly not attached to any protein at the time with purified histones and let nature run its course. Then they took pictures with an electron microscope and counted places where nucleosomes had hooked up with the DNA. They found that while the distribution was fairly even across the non-CCG repeat DNA, there were hardly any nucleosomes at the location of the CCG repeats. So having a bunch of CCG's in a row makes it hard for nucleosomes to get involved. In fact, in later experiments, they found that nucleosome assembly was 62% less effective when there was a set of 76 repeated CCG's. They suggest that this leaves the DNA vulnerable to a process called methylation, by which one of those C's basically gets an extra carbon molecule sticking off of it that can alter the way the DNA interacts with proteins later on and lead to gene silencing. The consensus is that methylation is probably the mechanism by which the FMR1 gene gets turned off. One thing I'm not clear on is that I had thought that the way that methylation leads to gene silencing was by recruiting an enzyme that helps lead to nucleosome assembly on that particular chunk of DNA. The DNA wrapped around nucleosomes is relatively unavailable for transcription and therefore the gene is switched off. But in this case the methylation is supposed to be in conjunction with a lack of nucleosomes. How does that work?
Here are a couple really good websites from Fragile X research/education/fundraising organizations:
Fragile X Research Foundation, National FragileX Foundation.
Mandel JL, Biancalana V (2004). Fragile X mental retardation syndrome: from pathogenesis to diagnostic issues. Growth Horm IGF Res. 14: S158-S165.
Neri G, Opitz JM (2000). Sixty years of X-linked mental retardation: a historical footnote. Am J Med Genet. 97: 228-233.
Wen GY, Jenkins EC, Goldberg EM, Genovese M, Brown WT, Wisniewski HM (1999). Ultrastructure of the Fragile X chromosome: new observations on the fragile site. Am J Med Genet. 83: 331-333.
Wang YH, Gellibolian R, Shimizu M, Wells RD, Griffith J (1996). Long CCG triplet repeat blocks exclude nucleosomes: a possible mechanism for the nature of fragile sites in chromosomes. J. Mol. Biol. 263: 511-516.
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Business Economy 28 Jul 2018 Punjab National Bank to have claim on Nirav Modi's US assets
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Punjab National Bank to have claim on Nirav Modi's US assets
Published : Jul 28, 2018, 1:36 pm IST
Updated : Jul 28, 2018, 1:36 pm IST
This is the first time that the MCA has intervened in any such foreign case pertaining to an Indian company.
As part of the United States Bankruptcy Court's summon order to diamantaire Nirav Modi and his aides on Friday, the Punjab National Bank (PNB) has been made party to the sale of all of Modi's assets in the US.
Washington: As part of the United States Bankruptcy Court's summon order to diamantaire Nirav Modi and his aides on Friday, the Punjab National Bank (PNB) has been made party to the sale of all of Modi's assets in the US.
The court recognised PNB's claim on the proceeds of any asset sold by US debtors of Modi's entities, with an order including a signed stipulation recognizing PNB's agreement with the Chapter 11 Trustee that proceeds of any asset sales by the US debtors will be subject to PNB's claims of constructive trust regarding Modi.
Apart from Modi, the court also issued summons to Mihir Bhansali, Rakhi Bhansali, Ajay Gandhi and Kunal Patel in connection with the multi-billion PNB scam.
On February 26, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) had filed a petition in the US court against bankruptcy proceedings of Modi and sought to make PNB a party to the sale of any assets of his entities. This is the first time that the MCA has intervened in any such foreign case pertaining to an Indian company.
Speaking to ANI, a PNB official confirmed that this order was a big victory for them. On July 26, a Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai had issued summons against Modi and his uncle Choksi in connection with the PNB fraud case and had asked them to appear before it in September or be declared as Fugitive Economic Offenders.
Also, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), in a charge sheet filed on June 28, the details of which recently surfaced, labelled chairman of Gitanjali Group, Mehul Choksi as the "mastermind" behind the PNB fraud case, calling it a "huge economic scam brewing since 2015."
The PNB had detected the multi-billion scam earlier this year wherein Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi had allegedly cheated the bank to the tune of USD 2 billion, with the purported involvement of a few employees of the bank.
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Football | April 20, 2017
Max Kruse Reloaded: A new start at Werder Bremen
When Max Kruse was penalized for leaving 75,000 euros in the back of a Berlin taxi, it seemed like his career at the top level was coming to an end.
It was the final straw for his former club VfL Wolfsburg, who paid 12 million euros to bring the cultured attacker from VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach.
A year ago, he was ditched from the national team by Joachim Löw in light of the European Championship. His face didn't fit the ultra-disciplined culture around the world champions. Kruse, a keen poker player, had a myriad of accusations thrown at him: unprofessional, too much sex, too much gambling, and his own guilty pleasure, too much Nutella for breakfast.
But Kruse's face does fit at SV Werder Bremen, his childhood club, which reared him through their well-respected academy programme. Kruse's start, however, was tragic – after the club paid six million euros for the striker, he was ruled out for several months with a knee injury. In that time, Kruse has undergone a period of self-analysis.
The striker, still at the ripe age of 29, was brought up 90 minutes north-east of Bremen – closer to Hamburg – but was plucked from a young age into the club's academy. Kruse has spoken publicly about how he sees his previous escapades as history – he wants to talk about the future and has assumed a leadership role at the Weser Stadion.
That stems from Kruse's search for first-team gratification. He didn't break through at Bremen as quickly as he expected; St Pauli was a vibrant learning experience in the second tier; but Freiburg was the environment in which he flourished the most. "He has had a very, very large share of success and development. For this I am still grateful to him today," Kruse said of SC Freiburg coach Christian Streich.
From there, Kruse went to Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he had a generally successful time, and then on to Wolfsburg. The club, backed by Volkswagen, was an awkward juxtaposition for the 14-time German international: the club wanted championships, but lacked the team culture to deliver on a consistent basis.
Kruse drags Bremen up
Kruse has founded a rich, playful streak of form at Bremen under head coach Alexander Nouri. The green-and-whites have rocketed from relegation trouble towards contention to reach European competition next season. "Since Max has been on the pitch, our quality has increased significantly," says Frank Baumann, the club's sporting director.
With three goals and four assists in four games, there can be no doubts about Kruse's importance to Bremen as a team. He is the team's first passing option, switching roles between attack and the middle-third. He connects the game brilliantly, with a secure touch and perceptive combination play.
Blessed with exquisite technique, Kruse has been allowed to make that effectual in Nouri's new-look 3-5-2 formation. On average, the striker takes out six defenders per game, according to 'Packing' data from Impect Media in Germany. The win over Hamburg, his best performance since his return, saw him carry nine defenders out of the match.
Kruse's hunt for external motivation, either in the pursuit of titles or due to a chip on his shoulder, are in the past. Making a success out of his time at Bremen, one of the league's storied clubs, and one which he identifies with, is the aim. Nouri described him as a 'difference maker' in the team, whilst his former academy chief compared his intelligence to Bayern Munich's Thomas Müller.
It remains to be seen whether or not Kruse can fight his way back into Löw's plans. The German coach is generally conservative in his selections, painstakingly planning every minute detail to make sure every cog clicks together. "If Kruse performs like this, Löw's call will come," writes former Bremen captain Frank Baumann.
That's the future – but in the here and now, Kruse and Bremen are targeting Europe. Eighth in the Bundesliga, two points off, nine games unbeaten with five matches left, there's no reason for the northern German club to hold back now.
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Q: why my domain of x-axis not be plotted all? May anyone help me about the plot of graph.
My coding of python given as
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import math
import numpy as np

x=[-0.006,-0.005,-0.004,-0.003,-0.002,-0.001,0,0.001,0.002,0.003,0.004,0.005,0.006]
x = np.array(x)
y = 220*(1 -(0.85*np.exp(-np.pi**2/np.log(2)*(x*0.53e-9/((759.5e-9)**2)**2))))

plt.plot(x,y)
plt.xlabel('optical path difference')
plt.ylabel('coincidence counts in 3 min')
plt.scatter(x,y)
plt.show()

why the graph not start from x=0.006?
Thank you.

A: The problem arises because for negative values of x and takes -inf:
x:
[-0.006 -0.005 -0.004 -0.003 -0.002 -0.001  0.     0.001  0.002  0.003
  0.004  0.005  0.006]

y:
[ -inf  -inf  -inf  -inf  -inf  -inf   33.  220.  220.  220.  220.  220.
  220.]

And these can not be plotted, so matplotlib eliminates them. If we force it to show the side that is -0.006 to 0 we will observe the following (plt.xlim([-0.006, 0.006])):


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Q: LED to switch ON when an analog signal is outside the range of -10V to +10V I would like to make a simple circuit to detect when an analog signal goes either above +10V or below -10V, and switch on a single LED if either of these cases occur. I have available only +12V and -12V power supply rails. The figure below shows what I want to achieve:

So far, I have discovered the so-called windowed comparator, and tried to implement it for the circuit. To do this, I used the LM393 dual comparator chip, powered by +12V and -12V, and then used two pairs of resistors to get the required +10V and -10V references derived from the existing PSU rails. I have also pulled the open-collector output up to the positive rail. So far so good. The schematic so far is shown below:

Now, this circuit does not quite do what I want - namely the voltage V_comp is -12V when I want an LED to be ON, and +12V when I would like it to be OFF, as shown below:

So, my question is: What is a simple way to take this and finish the last part of my goal? Would I need to use some inverter chip now? Or can it be done using some simple logic inversion / level shifting using MOSFETs? Also, if there is a nicer way to do it without the comparators, I would be interested to learn.
Thanks

A: You can simply connect your LED in series with R5. That puts a little over 2 mA through it. If you want more light, reduce the value of R5 — 2200 Ω would give you about 10 mA.

A: The LM393 comparator used is not really designed to drive LEDs. The current limiting circuit causes a voltage drop at the output so you should NOT try to pass any more than the minimum spec of 6mA.
The output current limiting is severe and may result in destruction of the device.

Read Note 7 in the datasheet and understand that at just 20mA the device dissipation could rise to beyond 2W ....clearly far beyond its rating. You can understand the rather primitive current limiting by examining the schematic diagram:

The output transistor is driven by a constant current source, so depending on hfe the device rapidly pulls out of saturation at some given point not related to the supply voltage. While the datasheet specifies the output can be shorted to ground continuously ....you'd expect that for an open collector output!!! What they say about a short to a positive supply is that you MAY DESTROY THE DEVICE. For this configuration with +/-12V supplies YOU CANNOT short the output to either ground or +12V.
So @Dave Tweeds comment about short circuit capability of the device is completely wrong.
In this particular application with +/-12V supplies I would suggest that a short to ground or a short to +12V would instantly destroy the device.
There are several ways you might alter your circuit to provide more LED current in a reliable fashion. Given that you have already chosen to use +/-12V, I'll suggest only modifications to that schema (it would not be my first choice):

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
The LED is driven by a constant current source (Q1, 2N3906), so the output is short circuit to ground friendly. This is important if your LED is panel mounted and you have to run wires to it (You should never run your supply voltages in external wiring without current limits in place). In fact the collector output of Q1 could be shorted to +/-12V or ground without damage to the device.
How does this work?

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*Q1 works as a constant current source limiting the current through the LED.
The advantage to setting the LED current with a constant current source is that you now don't have to consider the LED Vf. You could use any LED.

*R4,5 limit the current sunk by the window comparator to approximately 4mA. My original calculation set the divider current to 10x the base current required, but that was just to be ultra conservative. R4,5 provide a fixed base voltage to Q1 of about 8 V.
You could reduce the current through R4,6 further if you want to. For example you could raise R4 to 2k and R5 to 10k. This would drop the comparator current to about 2 mA which is still enough to define the base voltage for Q1. The base current for Q1 is likely around 400 uA so any resistor selection has to take this into account.
You are of course limited in how high you can set the LED current. You are limited by the power dissipation in Q1. In the circuit shown with just a single LED load (Vf=2.2 V) you may see Q1 dissipating a maximum of about 130 mW. Well within rating, but it will get warm to the touch. With a Vf=3.2 V this power dissipation is about 110 mW. You could easily double the LED current to 40 mA and still be well within the rating of the 2N3906.


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Q: SSIS Excel error column I am importing an excel file and grabbing data from it. In a handful of string columns, some rows have the value of #VALUE!. How would I filter these rows out in SSIS? I have tried checking for NULL values, as well as checking to see if that row's column is equal to #VALUE!
([ALT_TYPENAME] == "#VALUE!")

However, the rows pass right through and are not filtered at all. Is it even possible to filter for these? The columns are imported as DT_STR.

A: You can do this by using a Conditional Split transform in between your Excel source and your destination.
Create an object variable (I name mine Discard) and a Recordset Destination based on that variable. Set your Conditional Split's condition to Column == "#VALUE!" and direct anything that meets that criteria to the Recordset to discard it, while everything else follows the default path to your Destination.
If you need to discard based on multiple columns potentially containing "#VALUE!" just expand the condition to an OR that encompasses all of the columns.

An added benefit of this technique is you can use the Discard Recordset at the end of the job to create a fall out report if you need one.

A: Ok, you need to change the order in your conditional split.   First you are checking if ISNULL == True, then ISNULL == False.
One of those two conditions will always be true, so the row will be sent down that path, and the third condition ( == "#VALUE!") will never be evaluated.
Try evaluating your last condition first.


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Wow! What a trip this was. As usual, the pace was hectic at times but, all in all, the recipes were posted for you all to enjoy. I can't say all went well this time because it didn't: you all know what I mean. But, despite the few bumps in the road I have learnt a few valuable lessons that only comes from experience.
So I thank everyone who have made this journey with me thus far and continue to give me the support. Blogging isn't easy, but the support from my fans; the numerous emails from visitors and the comments that I received spur me on to continue posting "we recipes".
What will 2011 hold for Simply Trini Cooking? No one can tell; not even me. But when that bridge comes we will cross it like all the other years….with hope, enthusiasm, and anticipation…..
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Liberty's Nolan Beagell shot an 81 to take fifth in the tournament. He was the Hurricane's top finisher and also the top Bethlehem-area finisher. Beagell just beat out Becahi's Tristan Buscemi who fired an 82 to take eighth place.
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