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Youth Training and Employment Specialist (YTES)
Lusaka (Zambia)
- Organization: Counterpart International
- Location: Lusaka (Zambia)
- Grade: Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position - Mid/Senior level
Occupational Groups:
- Project and Programme Management
- Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
- Social Affairs
- Education, Learning and Training
- Labour Market Policy
- Youth
- Closing Date: 2016-08-15
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Counterpart International helps people build better lives and more durable futures, community by community. We equip individuals, organizations and communities-our counterparts- to become solution creators in their own families, communities, regions and countries. We work with them in some of the world's most challenging places to tackle social, economic, environmental, health and governance issues that threaten their lives and undermine their futures.
For more information on Counterpart, please visit our website at www.Counterpart.org
Counterpart International is currently seeking a Youth Training and Employment Specialist (YTES) for the anticipated 4-year EMPOWER: Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women in Zambia program under the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The goal of the program is to reduce the prevalence of adolescent girls engaged in child labor in targeted rural areas in Zambia by increasing access to acceptable work, quality training, educational and vocational opportunities. The program will also collaborate with Government and private sector stakeholders to promote acceptable work for target populations and will raise public awareness around the issues of gender inequality and child labor. The YTES will be responsible for developing, managing, and implementing technical, vocational, and entrepreneurial training for adolescent girls engaged in or at-risk of engaging in child labor. The YTES will coordinate with government agencies, employers, and social networks to promote employment opportunities for youth and raise public awareness of child labor and gender equality. This is a full time position based in Lusaka, Zambia with potential regional travel and is contingent on funding. This position will report to the Project Director. Zambian nationals are encouraged to apply to this opportunity.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the development, management, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the vocational and entrepreneurial training interventions.
- Design individualized training plans; conduct skills assessments; develop life skills, technical and entrepreneurial materials/curriculum; manage trainings; conduct M&E on training impacts on skills acquisition and employability.
- Design tools to assess market needs and create market-driven technical or employability programs.
- Coordinate with government agencies, networks of vocational training associations, employers' organizations, and trade unions or comparable entities to implement effective training networks and programs.
- Determine employment market needs through the use of mechanisms that contribute to the creation of market driven technical or employment training programs.
- Collaborate with government agencies and employers to promote employment opportunities for youth.
- Facilitate the formation of peer support and business and social networks in order to raise awareness of child labor and gender equality for youth.
- A university degree in a relevant field
- Minimum of five years of experience in a leadership position responsible for developing, managing, and/or implementing technical, vocational, or entrepreneurial training interventions, preferably for youth.
- Minimum of three years of experience working on the technical aspects of training delivery including individualized training plans, skills assessments, life-skill, technical, and entrepreneurial materials/curriculum development, training management, and training monitoring and information systems.
- Experience in performing training needs assessments, developing corresponding training programs, evaluating training, and evaluating the impact of training on skills acquisition and employability.
- Understanding of exploitive labor issues, including child labor and the special educational and training needs of children and youth removed from exploitive labor conditions.
- Experience working with vulnerable youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Experience working successfully with government agencies, networks of vocational training associations, employers' organizations, and trade unions or comparable entities.
- · Experience developing mechanisms and tools to accurately determine market needs, and utilizing the results to contribute to the creation of market driven technical or employment training programs.
- Experience working successfully with government agencies and employers to promote employers' organizations, trade unions or other civil society organizations on issues related to employment opportunities for at-risk youth.
- Proficiency in English and one or more of Zambia's major languages (Bemba, Kaonde, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga) is required.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills.
- Master's degree in a relevant field.
- Strong knowledge in gender equity and empowerment and positive youth development approaches.
- Experience working on USG projects.
Counterpart International is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of Counterpart International to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
If interested and qualified for this opportunity, please submit a copy of your most up to date resume and three professional references to firstname.lastname@example.com with "YTES" in the subject line. Only finalists will be contacted please no calls or emails.


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Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Let Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur dining options and bars take you to a culinary journey. From local favourites to international delicacies, guests will savour every bite.
- Open daily from:
- Breakfast:
6:30 am to 10:30 am (Monday – Friday)
6:30am – 11:00am (Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays)
- Lunch:
12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
- High tea:
12:30 pm to 4:00 pm (Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays)
- Dinner:
- 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm
- For inquiries call: 03 2688 9611
Warisan Cafe is Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur's Halal-certified restaurant. It features an open kitchen and buffet dining. Highlighting the flavours of the world, the dishes are a wide selection of Malaysia, Japanese, and Italian specialties, as well as other international cuisines.
- Open daily from:
- Snack and Ala Carte
- 9:00 am to 11:45 pm
- Afternoon Tea
- 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- For inquiries call: 03 2688 9613
English Afternoon Tea and Live Music at Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur's Lanai Lounge. With high-ceiling and open-air surroundings, Lanai Lounge presents the perfect venue that is ideal for those catch-up meetings with friends and family over premium coffee and tea, and exquisite English treats.
The Lanai Lounge Promotions
- Open daily from:
- Lunch
- 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm
- Dinner
- 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm
- For inquiries call: 03 2688 9612
Bunga Emas Restaurant is the first fine-dining Malay restaurant in Kuala Lumpur set in a 5-star hotel. This award-winning Malay restaurant features dishes prepared in time-honoured Malay culinary traditions. The chef also prepares reinvented Malay dishes that gives old favourites a contemporary twist.
Bunga Emas Promotions
- Open daily from:
- Lunch
- 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm
- Dinner
- 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm
- For inquiries call: 03 2688 9636
Get a taste of mouth watering, authentic Chinese cuisine in Kuala Lumpur City Centre at the Tai Ping restaurant. Guests will embark on a journey of flavours and tastes with traditionally prepared Chinese delicacies, from the Sweet & Sour Szechuan Soup to the classic Deep-fried Fish with Superior Soy Sauce.
Tai Ping Chinese Cuisine Promotions
- Open daily from:
- Lunch
- 12:00 pm to 2:30 pm
- Dinner
- 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm
- For inquiries call: 03 2688 9614
Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur's premium steakhouse is said to be the best in town offering prime cuts, right off the grill! L'Heritage Steak House serves the finest selection of signature meats and wines from top-tier vineyards. This Wagyu Beef Steak served in our KLCC steakhouse is our specialty. It comes with a richly flavoured sauce, and cooked in perfect medium rare.
To give your dining the perfect steak house touch, pair your meats with classic side dishes such as fries and mashed potatoes.
L'Heritage Steak House Promotions
- Open daily from:
- 5:00 pm – 1:00 am
- For inquiries call: 03 2688 9614
A slice of the Kuala Lumpur's nightlife can be found at the Heritage Club. It is cosy pub restaurant in KLCC where you and your friends can relax and unwind over an extensive selection of cocktails and beers. We also feature live band performances every night for your entertainment.
Heritage Club Promotions
The relaxed ambience of our restaurants is very popular among guests. Have a quick meeting or a much needed unwinding at Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur's dining options and bars.


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So, you want to learn how to start a blog? I'm so excited for you! My goal for this tutorial is to provide you with a step-by-step guide that will get you off on the right foot, no technical experience required.
I wish I had found a simple tutorial when I was getting started because I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.
This post may contain affiliate links. This means that I may receive a small commission if you click on a link and make a purchase. This is at no extra cost to you.
I created my first blog with absolutely no technical expertise in blogging. There were a few tears shed and a tiny bit of hair pulling, but nonetheless, Google became my best friend and I invested hours researching not just how to begin, but how to be successful at it.
Why Start a Blog?
Maybe you're still thinking about whether blogging is for you. There are many reasons why you might consider starting one:
- You can earn an income- Depending on how much time you want to invest in your blog, you can earn a part-time or even a full-time income. Although it takes a ton of perseverance and hard work, the payoff can be life-changing.
- Community- The blogging community is a wonderful support network of people. No matter what your niche is, you can find others with similar interests. I call other bloggers my "virtual friends", but regardless, they are extremely supportive and friendly.
- Low Start-up Costs- There aren't many other professions I can think of that don't cost an arm and a leg to begin. If you want to become a professional blogger, all it will cost you is a $20 bill!
- Confidence Booster- Blogging forces you out of your comfort zone as you send your thoughts out into the world. While you do experience some negativity, people are generally supportive and appreciate your ideas and creativity.
- You Become a Better Writer- If you don't like writing, blogging is not for you. Obviously, like most things, the more you do it, the better you become at it. Many bloggers look back at their beginning posts and cringe. The reason for that is that their skill has improved tremendously since they first began.
- It Teaches you to Celebrate Small Things- Blogging is not for the faint of heart. In fact, most bloggers don't make it. It takes a ton of perseverance and determination to be successful. You quickly learn to celebrate every win, no matter how small. It's the key to keeping your momentum going.
- You'll Live More Intentionally- Writing leads to thinking and thinking leads to reflection. The process changes your perspective.
- It Can Change Your Life- My favorite? Starting a successful, money-making blog can change your life. It can enable you to quit your full-time job and work from the comfort of your home, without a boss breathing down your neck. You set your own deadlines, goals, and determine your own success.
Do any of those reasons sound valuable to you? Do you see all the benefits to starting a blog? Great! Let's dive in!
4 Basic Steps to Starting a Blog
- Decide what you want to blog about
- Come up with a name and purchase your domain
- Choose your platform
- Choose your host and set up WordPress
Step 1: Decide What to Blog About (Your Niche)
This step will be easy if you're already an expert in something or know, without a doubt, what you're passionate about.
If you're not sure, you'll need to spend some time figuring out what you're good at, what others say you're good at, and what you think you could write about forever, without getting tired of it.
If you'd like more direction in choosing your niche, here's some extra support: Choosing Your Niche.
- Make sure it's something you enjoy
- Make sure it's a niche that is broad enough to come up with topics to write about
- Make sure it's a niche that can support a following – Blogging about dog collars may not attract as many readers as dog training or something else broader.
Step 2: Come up With a Name and Purchase Your Domain
Once you've decided on your niche, it's time to purchase your domain. A domain is your website address, for example, letteredroots.com is my domain. Purchasing an address keeps others from claiming it.
Some people prefer to separate their domain from their hosting. We'll talk about hosting in a just a minute. The reason for the separation is not to put all your eggs in one basket. Some think this may create an extra level of protection when it comes to your information. If you prefer to keep it this way, consider purchasing a domain from GoDaddy.com.
The other option is to set up your domain with your hosting.
Step 3: Choose Your Platform
What do I mean by platform? The platform is the system from which you will produce your content. While you may be tempted to use a free service, this will limit what you can do, and in some cases, quite dramatically. With that being said, if you're planning on making your blog a business, it would be wise of you to start out by using a platform that will cost you a small amount of money. My advice? Go with WordPress.org.
Now, some people don't realize that using WordPress may refer to two different sources:
WordPress.com is a hosted site. This means that they host your site for you, but again, this takes some of the control out of your hands and limits your possibilities.
WordPress.org is self-hosted which means you must set it up through a host. We'll talk about what hosting is next.
Again, my advice is to invest in a self-hosted WordPress.com account. You'll thank me later!
Step 4: Choose Your Host and Setup WordPress
Think of a host as your home and WordPress as the furniture and decor you decorate it with. The only two hosts I recommend are Bluehost and SiteGround. This is largely due to their reputation and customer service. I, personally, use SiteGround and absolutely love them. If you'd like to read more about the advantages and disadvantages of using Bluehost and Siteground, read 7 Reasons You Need to Use WordPress.org for Your Website.
After you've compared the two, purchase your hosting plan by visiting one of the two links below. By clicking on these links, I earn a small commission, at no cost to you! Something has to keep this little ol' blog o' mine running 🙂 :
Click here to purchase hosting through Bluehost.
Click here to purchase hosting through SiteGround.
For even more information about hosting, visit this post: Starting a Blog- Host it Before You Post It.
Once you have purchased hosting, they will set up your WordPress account for you! Just start a chat conversation and they'll walk you through the entire process. My personal experience with SiteGround has been AMAZING. Their customer service is absolutely impeccable.
Click here to access Bluehost's chat room.
Click here to access SiteGround's chat room. Once there, just click on the live chat button in the top right-hand corner of the site.
What's Next?
Start writing, blogger! Welcome to the blogosphere! I'm so happy you've decided to step out with courage and begin this journey.
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Watching a live motor sport event is a thrilling experience and one of the best ways for fans to get close to the action, experiencing the sport's sights, sounds and smells first-hand.
Motorsport UK, event organisers and venues strive to keep spectators safe but ultimately all spectators are responsible for their own personal safety.
Here are some tips that spectators should remember at live events:
On rallies in particular, remember:
So, have fun but keep safe!


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A drawing created during the Second World War by American artist Gertrude Reed has been presented to Cranwell Village Church.
The delicate pen and pencil drawing was done during Gertrude's time living in an isolated woodland cottage near the village, while her husband was stationed at nearby RAF Cranwell.
She presented the drawing to churchwarden Marjorie Bangay before Gertrude returned to America.
Marjorie's younger son, John, also an artist, discovered the drawing among his late mother's papers.
"During the war mother used to walk across the fields and have tea with Gertrude and watch her working in her studio," said John. "Sometimes she would take her first son, Gerald (Joe) with her."
John (pictured left with churchwarden Trevor Bush) explained that, following Gerald's recent death and burial in Cranwell churchyard, it seemed a good idea to present the picture to St Andrew's Church, with a dedication to Joe, written on the mount by artist-calligrapher Debbie James.
It commemorates his brother's return to rest near his mother and father in the village where he grew up.
"Wood Cottage has been completely demolished and no trace of it remains, although, as a child, I used to listen to the nightingales singing in the ruins," John explained.
"Even as a ruin it was a magical place," he added.


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The Benefits of Exercise
Rates of depression and anxiety are at their highest recorded levels in countries as diverse as India, China, the U.S., and the UK. Undoubtedly, many aspects of "modern life" — increasing social isolation, poor diets, a focus on money and image — contribute to this state. However, inactivity is another key factor.
Most of us find that a sunny walk or trip to the gym improves our mood in the short term. Exercise is well known to stimulate the body to produce endorphins and enkephalins, the body's natural feel-good hormones which can make problems seem more manageable. The simple act of focusing on exercise can give us a break from current concerns and damaging self-talk. Further, depending on the activity, people may benefit from calming exercises, be energized, and get outside or interact with others, all of which are known to improve mood and general health.
However, the idea that physical exercise might do something really fundamental for mental health is less immediately obvious — especially given the Western distinction between "mind" and "body" that implies mental and physical health can be separated.
Of critical importance for mental health is the hippocampus — an area of the brain involved in memory, emotion regulation, and learning. Studies in other animals show convincingly that exercise leads to the creation of new hippocampal neurons (neurogenesis), with preliminary evidence suggesting this is also true in humans.
What does this all mean? Theories suggest that newborn hippocampal neurons are likely to be particularly important for storing new memories and keeping old and new memories separate and distinct. Thus, neurogenesis allows a healthy level of flexibility in the use of existing memories, and in the flexible processing of new information.
Much mental ill health is characterized by a cognitive inflexibility that keeps us repeating unhelpful behaviors, restricts our ability to process or even acknowledge new information, and reduces our ability to use what we already know to see new solutions or to change. It is therefore plausible that exercise leads to better mental health in general, through its effects on systems that increase the capacity for mental flexibility.
With today's trend for "10 seconds to a new you"-type solutions, this may seem like a lot of exercise, but no worthwhile mental health fix comes for free. Exercise levels below these recommended amounts are still beneficial, and of course the side effects (weight loss, increased energy, better skin, improved physical health, etc.) are pretty palatable.
The brain actually has a neat trick to get us back on track. As outlined by Psychology Today blogger Christopher Bergland, even small improvements in exercise levels or diet create a positive upward spiral that increases the sensitivity of the dopamine receptors that signal reward, so that exercise will eventually become rewarding, even if that seems unimaginable at the outset.


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We want to search news items based on additional custom search criteria in CTC news index page. If news items are profiled for different departments, a user on home page may be able to search news items for a particular department only. The default search works based on start date, end date and input search text (Figure 1)
Figure 1
After the customisation, the search will work based on additional search criteria, for eg, a department category (Figure 2)
Figure 2
2. Work with CTC to bring search functionality on news index page
Create a page (News Index) (Figure 3)
Figure 3
Select "News Details" page template (Figure 4)
Figure 4
After saving the news index page, we get below desired page (Figure 5) which needs to be customised.
Figure 5
Create a child page (News Details) under news index page (Figure 6)
Select "News Details" page template (Figure 7)
Figure 7
3. Adding custom category
Create a Department Category and sub categories (Finance, HR, IT) within CTC Process->Categories->Selection Categories (Figure 8)
Figure 8
You have created below list (Figure 9) of categories
Figure 9
We need to add above created Department Category under one of the sections in news detail page. You can see these options currently (Figure 10)
Figure 10
In CTC Design->News Authoring Template, add an option selection named "Department Category" by clicking "Manage Elements" ( Figure 11 and Figure 12)
Figure 11
Figure 12
Now a new category element (Department Category) in News Authoring Template is added (Figure 13)
Figure 13
In "CTC Design>Components>Field Designs>Nondisplaying Fields - Edit Mode" , bring new element using below tag.
[Plugin:ifNotEmpty key="Department Category" compute="always"]
[EditableElement context="current" type="content" key="Department Category" class="contentEditable field"]
New field "Department Category" is added (Figure 14). This can now be used to profile a news item for particular department.
Figure 14
4. Create a Taxonomy Component
Create a taxonomy component (Figure 15)
Figure 15
Use select tag and option selection selection to bring options on the search form (Figure 16)
Figure 16
5. Render Taxonomy component to bring additional search criteria
In the html component /CTC Design->Components->Component Header->Index Filter Form , use component tag (Figure 17)
Figure 17
For eg:
[Plugin:translate key="Select"]:
[Component name="CTC Demo/MyTaxonomyComponent"]
6. Update indexFilter JSP to accommodate new filter criteria
indexFilter.JSP is located at: /installedApps//CTC.ear/ctc.war/jsp (Figure 18)
Figure 18
Customise this JSP to include new filter criteria.
You can add below code after comment lines
filter declarations
static final String PARAM_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY = "selectedCategory";
static final String SESATTR_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY = "sesattr_selectedCategory";
static final String REQATTR_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY = "reqattr_filter_selectedCategory";
static final String REQATTR_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY_TEXT = "reqattr_selectedCategory_text";
We are dealing with the filter form.
String sesAttrFilterSelectCategory = SESATTR_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY + path;
boolean isFormSubmit = (params.containsKey(PARAM_FILTER_QUERY) || params.containsKey(PARAM_FILTER_STARTDATE) || params.containsKey(PARAM_FILTER_ENDDATE) || params.containsKey(PARAM_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY));
set up defaults - blank filter text, end date today, start date one month prior
String selectCategoryText = "";
check for selected category
if (params.containsKey(PARAM_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY))
selectCategoryText = request.getParameter(PARAM_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY).trim();
If first filter form submit, then redirect to new URL using tags since we don't need to clear any existing render parameters.
Otherwise redirect to new URL using Navigational State SPI to clear existing render parameters.
newParams.put(sesAttrFilterSelectCategory, new String[]{selectCategoryText});
Put filter values into request for query component to pick up, and for displaying current filter values in the filter form
request.setAttribute(REQATTR_FILTER_SELECTCATEGORY, selectCategoryText);
7. Update PZN component to filter search based on category
You can use "Filtered Items by Publish Date" list component to update Personalisation Element (Figure 19)
Figure 19
Create a dynamic property using Manage Properties (Figure 20)
Figure 20
Select the property from request attributes (Figure 21)
Figure 21
You have just added a selection rule (Figure 22 )
Note: You can adjust rules and select conditions ( OR, AND etc) according to your business requirement for the search filter
8. Perform search to validate
Now perform search to validate the customisation ( Figure 23). Below condition should bring all IT news for 1 year period.


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NEW YORK: News Corp shareholders Tuesday approved a plan to split the Rupert Murdoch-led conglomerate into two independent firms, one focusing on entertainment and the other on newspaper operations.
The vote came as no surprise, since Murdoch and his immediate family hold a majority of voting shares in the media-entertainment powerhouse.
"We are pleased that the proposals have been approved by an overwhelming majority of the outstanding shares, and that our shareholders clearly recognize the anticipated benefits of the separation," Murdoch said in a statement.
"We are on track to complete the separation on June 28 and look forward to launching two new industry leaders."
One company will focus on news and publishing, to retain the News Corp name, and another on television and film, to be called 21st Century Fox.
The split spins off the publishing operations, which have been hit by the slump in the newspaper industry, from the more profitable entertainment assets.
The company announced the restructuring last June, a move partly seen as a nod to shareholders angered by the reputational damage and costs inflicted by a phone hacking scandal in Britain, and partly because of troubles within the group's publishing arm.
The new News Corporation will include newspapers in Britain, Australia and the United States, including The Wall Street Journal and The Times of London. It also includes digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education and sports programming and pay-TV distribution in Australia.


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KUALA LUMPUR: Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) has completed the transfer of all underperforming equities, as at Dec 30, 2018, to special-purpose vehicle (SPV), Urusharta Jamaah Sdn Bhd, says group managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Seri Zukri Samat.
He said a press conference would be held next week to announce the latest development.
"There will be press conference next week. As far as TH is concerned, we have already transferred the shares," he told Bernama when asked about the transfer of its underperforming assets to the SPV which is part of the pilgrim fund's turnaround plan.
However, he did not respond to a whatsapp query when asked if the transfer also included its property assets.
Based on observation, at least 49 public-listed companies had informed Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd via a "Notice of Person Ceasing to be a Substantial Shareholder", starting from Dec 28, 2018 up to Jan 9, 2019, following the takeover of shares by Urusharta Jamaah.
During a media briefing held on Dec 11, 2018, Zukri said TH had met the target to complete the entire exercise by end-Dec 2018, aimed at having a clean balance sheet with assets equalling liabilities and enabling the pilgrim fund to pay an annual dividend for the 2018 financial year.
Overall, RM19.9 billion worth of assets have been identified to be transferred to the SPV, of which 80 per cent were in the form of equities with impairments exceeding 20 per cent and the balance, in properties with yields of less than two per cent.
In exchange for the assets, the SPV will issue a RM10 billion seven-year Sukuk and RM9.9 billion in Islamic redeemable convertible preference shares.
TH, he said, wanted to reduce its equities exposure to 20 per cent from 40 per cent, previously.
Among the companies involved in the transfer of shares were UEM Sunrise Bhd, Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Bhd, Alam Maritim Resources Bhd, Mah Sing Group Bhd, FGV Holdings Bhd, Brahim's Holdings Bhd, Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd, Parkson Holdings Bhd, White Horse Bhd, MCT Bhd MMC Corporation Bhd, Suria Capital Holdings Bhd and Malaysia Marine & Heavy Engineering Holdings Bhd.
As of now, TH is still holding substantial shares in key counters such as Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Ranhill Holdings Bhd, Maxis Bhd and BIMB Holdings Bhd.
As previously announced, the transfer of the underperformed assets to the SPV, which is under the purview of the Ministry of Finance, is also to normalise TH's financial recovery.
TH reported liabilities of RM74.4 billion against total assets of RM70.3 billion, resulting in a total deficit of RM4.1 billion, as at Dec 31, 2017.


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Happy 160th Birthday, Gustav Stickley!
By: Vonda K. Givens Executive Director Kristen McCauley, Senior Manager of Education and Interpretation Maeve Forde, Visitor Services Associate March 9 will mark 160 years since Gustav Stickley's birth. To celebrate, it would be easy to write about Gustav Stickley's … Continue reading
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'Tis the Season
Every year, the Stickley family home is adorned for the holidays in period style, c. 1915, with a focus on Gustav Stickley's own principles. Utilizing holiday greens, pinecones, and the home's forest palette, the decorations bring nature indoors and spotlight … Continue reading
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Help Us Meet The Challenge
Together we can make it happen! Thanks to your gifts and the gifts of hundreds of generous supporters like you, we are a third of the way to our $7,500 challenge grant! Your annual fund donations support educational programs, building … Continue reading
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An August visit to Craftsman Farms
"As the automobile turned up the shady road at Craftsman Farms the Traveler was struck again by the charm of the houses – the air of content with which they nestled beneath their own protecting eaves." — The Craftsman, October … Continue reading
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The Collection: Morris Chair, no. 2341
Thanks to the generosity of one Colorado family, the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms has been entrusted with the care of one of their family's seats, an early 1902 Gustav Stickley #2341 reclining chair in nearly perfect original condition. 1911 … Continue reading
The Collection: Hall Settle, c. 1902
Our virtual tour of Gustav Stickley's Log House is back with some notable recent additions to the museum's collection. At the south end of the dining room sits a monumental oak hall settle, c. 1902, with (functional) butterfly … Continue reading
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Now on view!
Now on view in the Log House! Produced by Stickley's Craftsman Workshops and custom made for Craftsman Farms, these two oak saw horses, c. 1910, supported a collapsible table which the family used during social events and other large parties. … Continue reading
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Save the Stone Piers!
In building Craftsman Farms, Gustav Stickley utilized local materials extensively, including the local fieldstone. All gathered from the property, this fieldstone now makes up building foundations, chimneys, and fences, as well as a series of stone piers that lined the … Continue reading
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After the Dance, 1914
This weekend, as many of us will be attending or planning holiday parties, spending time with family and friends, and generally making merry, we'll stop to take a look at the vignette in the Styling an American Family exhibition titled … Continue reading


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How to Make Lemon Vodka
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Infusing vodka with the flavor from lemon peels imparts the flavor of lemon's essential oils into the alcohol without the addition of lemon juice. The recipe below makes a large quantity of lemon vodka, so you may want to purchase smaller individual bottles for the finished product, which will have a light yellow color that looks similar to lemonade.
Servings: 12
- Peels from 15 lemons
- 1 750 ml bottle of vodka
Preparing the Vodka Mixture
The first stage of this process involves putting the ingredients together.
1Sterilize a glass jar by running it through the dishwasher or by filling it with boiling water before you add the vodka and lemon peels.
2Peel the zest from a lemon by inserting the blade of a paring knife between the zest and the pith. Try to remove the yellow peel without removing the bitter white pith beneath the peel.
3Place the peels inside a 1 gallon (3.8 L) airtight glass jar with a lid, such as a pickle jar. Save the peeled lemons for another use.
4Repeat the steps until you have peeled approximately 15 lemons.
5Pour 1 bottle of vodka over the lemon peels and then seal the jar.
6Place the jar in a cool, dry place, such as a closet, and allow the mixture to steep for approximately 2 to 3 weeks.
Storing and Serving the Finished Product
The next stage involves separating the liquid from the peels and finding a place to store your lemon vodka.
1Retrieve your jar of lemon vodka from its storage location and open it.
2Place a clean tea towel, a piece of cheesecloth or a sieve over the opening of the jar.
3Pour the vodka into sterile bottles or jars, allowing the cheesecloth or towel to strain out the lemon zest.
4Discard the lemon peels in your compost pile or garbage can.
5Seal your bottles or jars of lemon vodka and place them in your freezer until you are ready to either serve them or to give them as gifts.
Community Q&A
- For a nice variation, infuse one jar of vodka with lemon peels and one jar with kaffir lime peels. After storing each for 2-3 weeks, combine the two vodkas for a unique flavor.
- Make sure that the jar you use to infuse your vodka is airtight. If your jar is not properly sealed, then the vodka will evaporate while you are storing it.
Things You'll Need
- Paring knife
- 1 gallon (3.8 L) airtight glass jar
- Cheesecloth, clean tea towel or sieve for straining
- Sterile bottles or jars for storage
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Haven't made the jump toVista--or Windows 7--yet? After April 14th, you'll have to wave goodbye to free Windows incident support, design changes, and warranty support for XP Home and Professional and Office 2003. Microsoft is also ending free bug fixes that are not directly related to security issues.
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Third Party Banking Software Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Trends, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast 2017 - 2025
Banking has undergone a paradigm shift over the years on account the gigantic strides made in technology. From credit cards and ATMs to the latest chatbots, they are known to have leaned on technology heavily to improve operations, better serve customers, and thereby increase their profit margins. An emergent trend in that direction is leveraging third party banking software.
A third party banking software helps them to reduce operational costs and hence enhance profits. It also helps them to better understand a customer's changing demands and facilitate flexible operations. Commercial banks go for installation of third party software solutions to connect to a desired interbank network as well as to other modular software. Trading banks and retail banks, for example, use it to streamline their operations.
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From a geographical standpoint, Europe and North America are dominant regions in the global third party banking software market. This is because of the amount of demand they generate and also because of being home to a copious number of important players.
Third party banking software finds a massive scope of use for the automated and manual managing of nearly all bank functions to enhance the throughput and cut down on service time for its customers. The intention of implementing third party banking software solutions is to allow generally the commercial banks to connect to a desired interbank network as well as to other modular software. Based on functions, the global third party banking software market can be segmented into core banking software, business intelligence software solution, multi-channel banking software, and private wealth management software. Third party banking software is commonly used by trading banks and retail banks to streamline their operation.
The global third party banking software market is currently being driven by factors such as the growing demand for standardized activities in the banking sector. There has been a sea of change in banking operations over the recent years and the growing complexity even basic banking activities has necessitated for efficient and competent banking software solutions. Banks today want advanced solutions in software which can help them handle all their financial needs through a highly flexible process. The economic crisis of the past decade has made a lot of large banking firms reevaluate their business and expansion strategies. A lot of them are progressing with the intention of adopting advanced risk management and information management systems, as long as they fall within the limitations set by the concerned national regulatory framework.
However, the global third party banking software market is currently being stifled by the reluctance of several key banks due to the high costs of moving from legacy systems to the new automated systems. The task of upgrading existing systems is also a very crucial activity that involves the creation of complex system networks, therefore requiring a lot of skilled labor which is unfortunately in short supply currently.
Recent trends in the global third party banking software market show an increase in the implementation of online banking and mobile banking by customers. The users are showing a high level of inclination towards accessing their account details and perform financial actions and make transactions by using their smartphones, laptops, tablets and other handheld devices. this presents a vast scope of new opportunities for players in the global third party banking software market, especially in developing economies where the above trends have only just started to pick up pace.
North America and Europe have so far been the leaders of the global third party banking software market in terms of both demand volume and prominence of players. Both regions are expected to witness very high growth rates over the coming years. The growth rate of both regions is owed to a growth in the use of banking software solutions in various business activities as well as the large presence of globally leading financial institutes here. Asia Pacific, on the other hand, with its rapidly growing banking sectors and flourishing economies, is a promising market and is expected to show a substantial growth in this market.
Some of the leading players operating in the global third party banking software market include Sungard Ambit., Sopra Banking Software, Polaris Financial Technology, Path Solutions, Nucleus Software, Misys Plc., Jack Henry & Associates, Infosys Ltd., Fiserv Inc., FIS Group, Diasoft Software Solutions, Datapro Inc., Temenos Group AG., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., SAP AG, and Oracle Corp.
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Bamford joined Leeds over the summer from second-tier rivals Middlesbrough.
He was snapped up from the Riverside club in a £10m deal in July.
Despite not reguarly starting in the club's first six Championship matches this season, Bamford was expected to play his part in Leeds' promotion push under Marcelo Bielsa.
However the Yorkshire giants must now make do without the former Chelsea man.
Bamford has knee ligament damage.
The Leeds striker, 25, sustained posterior cruciate ligament damage during an under-23s' game last Friday.
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AWS IoT 1-Click, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Device Defender, and AWS IoT Analytics allow customers to onboard, manage, protect, and perform analytics on large fleets of IoT devices
Amazon FreeRTOS extends the most popular open source embedded operating system for devices with very low computing power to support simple, secure connectivity to the AWS Cloud
Greengrass ML Inference lets customers run machine learning on AWS Greengrass devices; preview starts today
"The explosive growth in the number and diversity of connected devices has led to equally explosive growth in the number and scale of IoT applications. Today, many of the world's largest IoT implementations run on AWS, and the next phase of IoT is all about scale as we'll see customers exponentially expand their fleet of connected devices," said Dirk Didascalou, VP IoT, AWS. "These new AWS IoT services will allow customers to simply and quickly operationalize, secure, and scale entire fleets of devices, and then act on the large volumes of data they generate with new analytics capabilities specifically designed for IoT. With Amazon FreeRTOS, we're making it easy for customers to bring AWS IoT functionality to countless numbers of small, microcontroller-based devices. And, customers have also told us they want to execute machine learning models on the connected devices themselves, so we're excited to deliver that with AWS Greengrass ML Inference."
AWS IoT 1-Click: the easiest way to get started with AWS IoT (available in preview)
When considering IoT, many customers just want an easy way to get started by enabling devices to perform simple functions. These are functions like single-button devices that call technical support, reorder goods and services, or track asset locations. With AWS IoT 1-Click, enabling a device with an AWS Lambda function is as easy as downloading the mobile app, registering and selecting an AWS IoT 1-Click enabled device, and – with a single click – associating an AWS Lambda function. AWS IoT 1-Click comes with pre-built AWS Lambda code for common actions like sending an SMS or email. Customers can also easily author and upload any other Lambda function.
iRemedy is a healthcare e-commerce marketplace where healthcare
consumers can buy medical supplies, drugs, devices, and technologies.
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New AWS IoT services for managing, securing, and analyzing the data generated by large fleets of devices
At scale, IoT solutions can grow to billions of connected devices. Today, this requires customers to spend time onboarding and organizing devices, and even more time integrating multiple systems to manage tasks like monitoring, security, auditing, and updates. Building solutions for such tasks is time consuming and easy to get wrong, and integrating third party solutions is complex and may introduce hard-to-detect gaps in security and compliance. Once a device fleet is operationalized, analytics is often the next challenge customers face. IoT data isn't the highly structured information that most existing analytics tools are designed to process. Real-world IoT data frequently has significant gaps, corrupted messages, and false readings, resulting in the need for customers to either build custom IoT analytics solutions, or integrate solutions from third parties. AWS IoT Device Management and AWS IoT Device Defender simplify onboarding, managing, and securing fleets of IoT devices, while AWS IoT Analytics makes it easy to run sophisticated analytics on the data generated by devices.
Best known for its GPS technology, Trimble integrates a wide range of
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technologies with application software, wireless communications, and
services to provide complete commercial solutions. "Trimble's commercial
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AWS IoT as a gateway for our next-gen IoT devices," said
iDevices is making IoT accessible to everyone in the smart home industry
with its line of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled products. "The IoT
analytics game is a race from raw data to actionable insights. Everyone
has data, but it's the insights from that data that are of real value to
our customers," said
iRobot is a global consumer robotics company that designs and builds
robots for use inside and outside the home. "At iRobot, we rely on IoT
services because connecting robots to the Internet to help them do more
and better things is key to how we innovate," said
Amazon FreeRTOS lets customers easily and securely connect small, low-power devices to the cloud
Today, countless devices are already capable of connecting to the cloud, and the number continues to grow dramatically. Many of these devices contain enough onboard computing power (CPU) to take advantage of AWS IoT services. However, a large number of other devices—from lightbulbs and conveyer belts to motion detectors—aren't big enough to house a CPU and possess a microcontroller (MCU) instead. The most popular operating system used for these devices is FreeRTOS, an open source operating system for microcontrollers that allows them to perform simple tasks. FreeRTOS wasn't designed specifically for IoT, so it lacks functionality to help devices connect securely to the cloud.
Amazon FreeRTOS extends FreeRTOS with software libraries that make it
easy to securely connect small, low-power devices to AWS cloud services
like AWS IoT Core, or to more powerful edge devices and gateways running
AWS Greengrass (a software module that resides inside devices and gives
customers the same Lambda programming model as exists within the AWS
Cloud). With Amazon FreeRTOS, developers can easily build devices with
common IoT capabilities, including networking, over-the-air software
updates, encryption, and certificate handling. Developers can use the
Amazon FreeRTOS console to configure and download Amazon FreeRTOS, or go
to FreeRTOS.org
or GitHub. Several microcontroller manufacturers and
Arm defines the pervasive computing shaping today's connected world.
Realized in more than 100 billion silicon chips, Arm architecture is the
de-facto standard for embedded applications. "As we've seen the
Arm-based microcontroller ecosystem grow over recent years, FreeRTOS has
played a key role in enabling embedded developers," said
Hive (Centrica Connected Home) is a market leader in connected home
products that helps its customers manage their energy usage in the
New AWS Greengrass feature brings machine learning to the edge (available in preview)
AWS Greengrass ML Inference is a new feature of AWS Greengrass that lets application developers add machine learning to their devices, without requiring special machine learning skills. IoT devices frequently collect and forward large quantities of data, which can be used to automate real-time decision making through machine learning. To do this, customers build, train, and run machine learning on their IoT data in the cloud. However, some applications are highly latency sensitive and require the ability to make decisions without relying on always-on network connectivity. With AWS Greengrass ML Inference, devices can run machine learning models to perform inference locally, get results, and then make smart decisions quickly, even when they're not connected. Using Amazon SageMaker, or any machine learning framework, customers build and train their machine learning models in the cloud and then – with just a few clicks – use the AWS Greengrass console to transfer the models to devices they select.
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Geranylated flavonoids from the roots of campylotropis hirtella and their immunosuppressive activities
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Shou, QY, Fu, RZ, Qing, T, & Shen, ZW 2009, 'Geranylated flavonoids from the roots of campylotropis hirtella and their immunosuppressive activities', Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 15, pp. 6712-6719.
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In an effort to identify new immunosuppressive agents from natural sources, 12 new geranylated flavonoids, 5,7,4′-trihydroxy-3′-[7-hydroxy-3,7- dimethyl-2(E)-octenyl]isoflavone (1), a racemate of 5,7,2′,4′- tetrahydroxy-3′-[7-hydroxy-3,7-dimethyl-2(E)-octenyl]isoflavanone (2), 2″(S)-5,7-dihydroxy[2″-methyl-2″-(4-methyl-3-pentenyl)pyrano] -5″,6″:3′,4′-isoflavone (3), (2″S,3″R, 4″S)-5,7,3″,4″-tetrahydroxy[2″-methyl-2″-(4- methyl-3-pentenyl)pyrano]-5″,6″:3′,4′-isoflavone (4), a racemate of 3′-geranyl5,7,2′,4′-tetrahydroxyisoflavanone (5), a racemate of 3′-geranyl-4′-methoxy-5,7,2′- trihydroxyisoflavanone (6), 3′-geranyl-5,7,4′,5′- tetrahydroxyisoflavone (8), 3′-geranyl-5,7,2′,5′- tetrahydroxyisoflavone (9), 3′-geranyl-4′-methoxy-5,7,2′- trihydroxyisoflavone (10), 2(R),3(R)-3′-geranyl-2,3-trans-5,7,4′- trihydroxyflavonol (12), (2R,3R)-6-methyl-3′-geranyl-2,3-trans-5,7, 4′-trihydroxyflavonol (13), and 5,7-dihydroxy4′-O-geranylisoflavone (14), were isolated from the roots of Campylotropis hirtella (Franch.) Schindl. together with three previously described flavonoids. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic measurements, including two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. The immunosuppressive effects of these compounds were assessed using mitogen-induced splenocyte proliferation, and the cytotoxicity of the compounds was also examined. The IC50 values of the compounds were found to be in the range of 1.49-61.23 μM for T lymphocyte suppression and 1.16-73.07 μM for B lymphocyte suppression. An analysis of their structure-activity relationships revealed that an isoflavonoid carbon skeleton with a C10 substituent at the C3′ position was necessary for the activity. As many of the compounds exhibited good immunosuppressive activities, they may be promising as novel immunosuppressive agents.


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by Brian Kannel
True confession: I'm kind of a sports nerd. I don't follow as much as I used to (four kids and a growing church tend to shift priorities), but I still love to see the various storylines unfold in the world of sports. Among the most fascinating things to watch is the effect of coaching on a team. The coach never walks onto the field of play.
The coach doesn't play defense. The coach doesn't execute the fundamentals within the heat of the game. However, despite that reality, the coach can have a huge affect on the game!
In my experience, the best denominational leadership teams act like good coaches. They encourage, give perspective, challenge at times, but ultimately, they recognize that we as pastors and church leaders are the ones that actually have to play the game. Therefore, they give the freedom necessary to be able to "play" according to the values of the system that we're running—in this case, cell ministry.
However, as the "players," there are some things that we can do to help our leaders have the tools to coach us well. It's vital for them to understand both you and cell ministry as best they can. If they are open, here are a few suggestions as to how to help equip them to lead you more effectively as a cell church:
- Recommend one key book that gives an overview of the values of cell ministry. Remember, they are very busy people, so don't hand them your entire library! Choose one strategic book, ask them if they would be willing to read it over a period of time and then discuss it with you.
- Invite them to attend your Celebration gathering as well as several Cell gatherings, not as a speaker or instructor, but simply as an observer. In our context, we've invited our District Superintendent to come for a week, attend our Celebration and then visit cells throughout the week. I, then, spent time debriefing with him afterward about the experience.
- If there are multiple cell churches within your denomination and geographical region, consider putting together a forum for discussion around a specific cell topic (multiplication, development of leaders, communication of values, etc.) and then invite the cell pastors and leaders to be involved and your denominational leadership to observe.
- Consider having Joel Comiskey present a seminar on cell ministry for interested pastors and leaders within your district or region. In some instances, denominations would be willing to fund this as continuing education for their pastors!
These are just a few ideas—the goal, as you can tell, is helping them to understand as much as possible about us as cell churches. From that perspective, then, they are able to invest in us and our churches strategically. However, we have to remember that we are still the players who are actually on the field, and we must ultimately make the decisions as to whether or not a specific play fits within the system we're running.
Denominational leadership, when given a basic understanding of cell ministry, can be a huge asset to the cell church by giving an outside perspective on what's happening and giving insights that we might otherwise miss. We need to always remember that the primary goal of all ministry is the glory of Jesus and the expansion of His Kingdom—healthy cell ministry is simply a means to that end.
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Now that we are officially into the riding season I thought it would be a good time to do a rider feature. This month, we take a look at Danny Pierson who has not one, but two motos. Clearly serving two different purposes, each of Danny's machines is extremely cool in their own unique way.
Regarding his 2009 Harley Davidson Nightster 1200, Danny had this to say, "My Harley is my #1. I've customized it from the ground up to perfectly fit me. The fit and feel of this bike out on the open road is like no other; loud, aggressive, raw, but humble. Hitting the pavement with her settles the mind from a hard week of work or helps capture and enjoy a great day for a ride. I upgraded the bike with a stage 1 kit, K&N high flow with Vance & Hines straight shots, Nash ape hangers, Progressive suspension and tons of other custom upgrades."
When asked about his 2015 Honda Grom, Danny said, "In contrast to my Harley, my Grom is a jovial little machine. It's quick, nimble, and just great fun to ride… It's fantastic around town and super easy to operate. It has great two-up capability and I usually take it with me (hitch mounted) on vacation/getaways to see the sights. It quickly mounts up on the back of my SUV for easy hauling. I love this thing and want to ride it all the time! It sounds great, has sport bike-like handling, and can fit it my pocket (JK). It has a 125cc engine with a Yoshimura exhaust, K&N drop in, Fender eliminator and cargo rack."
As far as the rider himself goes, Danny is the owner/operator of a classic/traditional barbershop in Wayne, New Jersey (www.waynebarbershopnj.com). His place is a 50+ year old shop specializing in classic barber haircuts and beard trims. If you ride and want to get your hair cut by a fellow rider, I suggest you pay Danny a visit. I plan on doing that exact thing next time I need to clean things up on my noggin. Personally I try to keep my cut high and tight during riding season so my helmet does give me a bad case of "helmethead" whenever I dismount.
Lastly, this busy moto-man is also a passionate musician which is how I originally came to meet him– at one of his gigs. Danny's newest band is called The Full 9 (TheFull9.com) They are a Power-Trio playing covers from the classic era of the 70's & 80's, as well as a lot of 90's rock and alternative, with some of today's hits sprinkled in. If you see his band playing out, stop in and say hey to this talented, multi-faceted rider.


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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Football season is upon us .
Well the college football season in upon us.
Thank you to all those who like my college fan dress design.
Thank you to all those who like my college fan dress design.
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Hello from Spain: I like the photo of the cover of your blog. Beautiful costumes from college. Your girls are very pretty. Your creations always so gorgeous. Great job. I like too red dress. Keep in touchReplyDelete
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beautiful and elegant is your blog,
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Love the outfits! Love the shoes also! Your girls are so pretty!! :) I love the outfit Marie-Grace has on! (I think that's Marie-Grace :)) So Beautiful!ReplyDelete
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Yes this is Marie-Grace wearing red dress and black jacket:)
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Here is a short video of the prototype chassis unit for my Spitfire flight sim kit.
This is the first element to be included on the right hand side of the cockpit.
I am working on two projects at the moment :
a) Development of an add-on to the existing sim kit, essentially the lower instrument panel and a portion of the right hand cockpit wall.
b) Development of a full MkIX Spitfire cockpit section made of wood and aluminium sheet including my controls and instruments as a public attraction for the Musée de l'Air & de l'Espace at Paris Le Bourget airport.


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Stalwarts of Tech – An Interview with Aleksey Shipilёv – Oracle's Java Performance Geek
About this series
This is the next interview in a regular series of interviews with stalwarts of the technology industry. We wanted to highlight many of the unsung heroes of the technology industry, the people and projects that have made huge impacts in our lives as developers and technologists!
Aleksey Shipilёv – Oracle's Java Performance Geek
We're really pleased to have Aleksey Shipilёv from Oracle to continue this series as he has been a major force in bringing solid, scientific rigour to the Java performance space, in particular the Black Box that is the JVM. In particular, Aleksey is behind JMH, JCStress and Java Object Layout (JOL), three popular Java tools which many of us in the performance space use to prove (or disprove!) performance characteristics of low level libraries and their interactions with the JVM. So without further ado, let's find out about Aleksey's contributions, his history with performance tuning, motivations behind his three tools JMH, JCStress and JOL some deep dive details about the JVM!
1. Would you like to introduce yourself Aleksey?
I am the performance guy by trade. Started at Intel working on Apache Harmony performance, then shifted to Sun doing OpenJDK performance and of course transitioned to Oracle during the take over. My primary passion these days is exploring interesting areas and dark corners of Java and the JVM, and leaving the breadcrumb trail of tools after I'm done there. Benchmarking, concurrency, and other hardcore things are my primary focuses these days.
2. So you have been called the Java Benchmarking Expert, what does writing a good benchmark entail?
First, a good benchmark must come with an understanding of its goals.
If you do a benchmark to prove a point in a holy war and/or marketing game, then the best benchmark is the one that gets the data you like! SPEC is arguably successful in rigorous benchmarking by developing through the consensus among fierce competitors. Other benchmarks, short of clear-cut ways to understand the best configuration for all specimens, are very biased by construction, which greatly undermines their usefulness. This is why I am very suspicious about cross-language/cross-implementation benchmarks done by the developers of a particular implementation participating in comparison.
Excellent benchmarks, in my view, are those highlighting something about the Universe in which we are living. The exact numbers don't usually matter there, it is important to see through them and understand why those numbers are arranged in that particular way. We can call it constructing the performance model of a system, and for me it means understanding deeply the processes which cause your system to behave those ways. Benchmarks, in this parlance, are the tools which isolate and quantify the behavior in a particular lab environment.
3. Is it true that most Java developers do not need to performance tune or heavily optimise specific libraries?
Yes. Most of the time developers should really concentrate on writing the good and understandable code, and then focus on performance, if required. I think end-to-end performance tests, while useful to control the high-level behavior of the system, get you too few of actual understanding how things work.
In most of the cases, you do the end-to-end performance testing, you fire up profilers, identify the bottlenecks, fix them, get an instant return on investment. Most of the users are perfectly happy with that cycle, and it helps to bring the good enough performance. This is what Kirk Pepperdine and I were showing at Devoxx 2012.
But when people start to crave for more, they suddenly realize the law of diminishing returns kicks in, and you can only do so much to help the system without getting a clear understanding of it. When you are cornered there, there is no other way from it rather than beginning to study the system from inside out, gaining the insight how to do non-obvious changes which will improve performance.
Right there, you will need something that can do the narrow-scoped experiments to understand how small parts work, how they interact together, what performance effects are caused by libraries, runtime, OS, or the hardware itself. You can, of course, do the same with the end-to-end performance test, but without the magnification of narrow benchmarks you will waste lots of valuable time.
It is the similar situation library and runtime developers are stuck with: without being able to predict how their customers will use their products, they have to understand it deeply for themselves in order to convey best practices, document dangerous areas, nudge the case studies in the right directions, etc. With a big turnaround time to understand the customers' performance issues it is most advisable to avoid them in the first place.
4. Does your library, Java Microbenchmarking Harness (JMH), have many external users?
To my surprise, in addition to many internal Oracle users, there are lots of external users. Most of our early adopters are from OpenJDK community. I frequently Google the usages of JMH APIs in the wild to see how people abuse it (really, it tells where we should do a better job documenting or forbidding things) — and every time that search yields new results.
Another thing that surprises me is how eagerly people catch up with our findings. JMH Samples seem to be a very good reference to send people for gaining a better understanding how benchmarking works. Instead of hand-waving and mile-long hypothetical arguments, we can now direct people to runnable examples to see the effects with their eyes.
It is a bit sad, though, when people believe JMH is more than a tool, and magically solves all the problems. As one of my friends sarcastically said once, This benchmark uses JMH, therefore, it is correct. We try to put that fire out before it spreads, and my worst fear is people blindly believing stuff to work — precisely the attitude you should not have in empirical studies. JMH certainly helps to alleviate the obvious pitfalls to let users allocate their time for understanding the non-obvious ones.
5. Perhaps you would like to explain how the "Java Concurrency Torture Tests" (JCStress) work?
That's actually a funny story. I vividly remember the post on concurrency-interest about a funny volatile bug in C1, which disturbed me greatly.
This unease feeling of oh, this bug is probably (silently) affecting lots of users is very frequent among OpenJDK developers, because the scale and exposure of the project is very large. When you are facing the issue within the basic guarantees of the language, that feeling quadruples.
jcstress was born to tame my personal unease with that bug. We do actually have quite of few targeted concurrency tests, and there are lots of tests for java.util.concurrent.* which implicitly test the concurrency guarantees. Those tests, however, are probabilistic, and so to catch more unlucky outcomes you need to run them fast. This is when my performance brain switched into overdrive and started to think about the test infrastructure which can run concurrency tests fast and reliably.
In hindsight, the approach is obvious and is already used by Peter Sewell et. al while studying hardware memory models in their Litmus tests. You have a shared state, usually encapsulated in some object, and you run the threads doing things over that shared state, sometimes exhibiting races. If each thread is able to record what it saw about the particular state, we can argue about their global behavior. For example, this is a test which tests if volatile increment is atomic (we know it is not):
@JCStressTest @State public class VolatileIncrementAtomicityTest { volatile int x; @Actor public void actor1(IntResult2 r) { r.r1 = ++x; } @Actor public void actor2(IntResult2 r) { r.r2 = ++x; } }
If we run this test with two threads, each executing its own @Actor method on the many instances of @State class, and collect (r1, r2) pairs, then we can argue that observing (r1, r2) = (1, 1) signifies the case when both threads have pre-incremented the same volatile int, and both got the 1, which implies volatile increment is not atomic.
Surprisingly, many tests can be folded in this pattern. We have discovered quite of few nasty bugs in libraries and VM, but after those were fixed, new serious bugs had not shown up yet, even though we put the stick here, there, and everywhere. These days, I use jcstress experience as the horror story for those keeping the updates back: legacy VMs lack important bugfixes, and those bugs are not ephemeral at all.
We now know quite a few people using jcstress to understand JMM and concurrency better, since it helps to easily construct the toy test cases to play with. (e.g. JMM Under the hood)
6. What kind of scenarios can your Java Object Layout (JOL) tool help us understand?
Most of users, I think, use JOL to study the actual field layout in their environments, which helps to answers, say, how many bytes does the instance of this particular class take up in memory. Sure, there is a set of rules which enables you to do the math yourself, e.g. figure out header sizes, estimate field sizes, alignments, hierarchical layouts, etc., but it is simpler to fire up the tool which will introspect it for you.
JOL is funny as well: I hacked it together to see if my @Contended changes really affect VM field layout strategy. Only then we realized it can be used to introspect object and heap layouts rigorously, without relying on what heap dumps are missing out. I think we have collected quite a few of interesting uses in JOL Samples.
My largest use of JOL, barring @Contended, was to research whether redoing the field layout strategy helps real applications.
7. Should Java developers care about how objects are laid out in memory?
Well, no! I really wish the perfect world where we can all just write the code in high-level languages without any remorse about what it takes to support them. Alas, we are not in the perfect world, and in many cases we need to keep in mind what are the costs of those abstractions. When you start to optimize for memory, you have to know what are the actual sizes of the objects you have, how they are located in memory, are there duplicates, etc.
There are also corner cases where field and object layout matters for locality: whether you make predictable walks through the memory, or whether you induce false sharing when accessing the fields, etc. But hopefully these are very specific needs most programmers do not need.
8. Is there anything else you would like to mention? Do you have a blog or twitter account?
Yes, it's @shipilev and http://shipilev.net.
Once more we'd like to thank Aleksey for his detailed and thoughtful answers and encourage all of you to experiment with JMH, JCStress and JOL to increase your understanding of how parts of the JVM really work!
Martijn (CEO) and the jClarity Team!


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In my career serving in the U.S. Army I have found my fellow service members to be very good at implementing proven systems, and that's what you get at Huntington, a proven system. There's also a sort of self-selecting that happens in the military—many military members are called to serve and there's a strong element of providing for your community associated with running a Huntington franchise. I highly recommend Huntington to veterans who want to own their own business.
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As I considered other tutoring companies, I evaluated several competitors and when I did my research on how they operate and the programs involved, I felt like Huntington was the premier service and offered the greatest potential as a business. I eventually met with another Huntington franchisee and that solidified everything I'd been thinking. The owner enjoyed the business and had success for quite some time. That's when I decided it was right for me.
I think the support is great. I know that if I ever have a question I'll be able to get the answer soon. Like the military, Huntington ensures everything we get in our centers works—I don't worry that our innovations are going to have big flaws in them. Everything has been thoroughly tested. For example, I'm very optimistic about our eCenter technology and the time and expense savings my fellow franchisees are achieving, and the potential revenue impact as well.
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In Lieu of the Upcoming Holiday Weekend
I wanted to give thanks to a few loves in my life that I don't usually give thanks to out loud. We go about our daily lives and take for granted that they will always be here, but this is not the truth. The truth is, our furry friends we our lucky enough to have in our lives will not be with us forever and we should all take a minute (or a thousand) to give thanks to our animals this Thanksgiving weekend.
I wanted to post this sweet thing that I have read a few times now, A Pet's Ten Commandments.
1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely to be painful.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.
4. Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainment, but I have only you.
5. Talk to me. Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.
6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.
7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet I choose not to bite you.
8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak.
9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too, will grow old.
10. On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me, please. Never say you can't bear to watch. Don't make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there because I love you so.
(Found on Love is a Four-Legged Word)
Thank you Pandorah, Mikah, and Ju-ni for being my rocks and for meeting me at the door every evening with so much love in your eyes. I will try to follow your commandments to the best of my ability. I love you my fur babies!!


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Turns out that some of the changes in 220.127.116.11 caused exactly what I hoped it wouldn't cause: crashing on systems with Windows 7 and older. This has now been fixed with the help of Jim (maintainer of OBS Studio).
Additionally some crashes have been fixed that were caused by incorrect default parameters which have been changed to the correct value now. Frame Rate & Size should also now be properly applied again.
As always, you can download it here from GitHub.
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This update aims to fix some of the reported issues in addition to making the user interface even simpler to use.
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- Fixed: Compatibility issues with Windows 7 and older.
- Changed: Default value for LTR Frames is now 0 for better compatibility.
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- Changed: Profile Level is now an Expert property to avoid user errors.
- Changed: Min/Max QP is now considered an Advanced property to avoid user errors.


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