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Metro United Way announced Sept. 5 it has approved seed funding for Oldham County's Hope Health Clinic.
The clinic is scheduled to open in September and provide access to quality, affordable health care to the uninsured in Carroll, Henry, Oldham and Trimble counties.
Funding for the amount of $20,000 is being awarded to the Oldham County Ministerial Association, which is the governing body for the Hope Health Clinic.
Rick Davidson, board chair of Hope Health Clinic, said Metro United Way has provided constant encouragement.
"Their support has motivated others to move forward with their support of the clinic. Metro United Way also played a critical role with their financial investment in this project," he said.
When the community care clinic serving Oldham County closed in February 2011, county leaders came together to discuss how to meet the critical medical needs of uninsured persons in the region.
Through this community process, the Oldham County Ministerial Association stepped forward to provide organizational leadership and the community has rallied to design a sustainable model of care.
Marsha Biven, assistant vice president of Baptist Hospital Northeast, said from the beginning of this community's effort to rally support to re-open a clinic for the uninsured, Metro United Way has been an active and encouraging partner.
The funding moves the clinic significantly along with the initial funding needed to open.
The Hope Health Clinic will be available to serve as a healthcare home for the 19,196 uninsured residents of Carroll, Oldham, Henry and Trimble counties. The clinic will provide care for acute and chronic illness, specialty and follow up will provided through a network of participating providers at an affordable rate.
Medical care will be provided through a network of local volunteer doctors and nurse practitioners on an appointment only basis.
The clinic also received a $2,500 donation from La Grange Rotary on Aug. 30.
Hope Health Clinic's mission is a community-wide ministry seeking to provide quality health care in a Christ-honoring environment to those who lack alternative healthcare solutions.
The Hope Health Clinic will be located in the same building as the previous clinic, behind Baptist Hospital Northeast at 1205 Sanibel Way in La Grange.
The office has six exam rooms, a lab, waiting rooms and an office area, and will be equipped with medical supplies from the hospital. The hospital will lease space to the clinic for $1 per year.
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A former international footballer has been sentenced to nine months of home detention for assaulting a referee during an Anzac Day match in Auckland.
Tama Fasavalu, 36, had earlier pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to injure after the attack on Len Gattsche in a game at Massey Park, Mangere in April.
Mr Gattsche gave Fasavalu - a former Samoan international - a second yellow card for heavy tackling during the 79th minute of the match.
A second yellow card automatically becomes a red card, meaning Fasavalu was sent off for the rest of the match.
At Fasavalu's sentencing at Manukau District Court today Judge Sharon McAuslan indicated that two-and-a-half years imprisonment was the starting point for offending similar to Fasavalu's, but given his early guilty plea and "excellent character references,'' he was entitled to a reduction.
But Fasavalu's lawyer Iuni Sapolu said even a sentence of home detention would be detrimental to his family.
Fasavalu lived with his wife and daughters aged two and five and wouldn't be able to support them if he wasn't able to work she said.
Fasavalu had been in fulltime employment for eight years and "in the recessionary environment'' it would be hard for him to find work when his sentence finished, she said.
"He will have to rely on the taxpayer if he is on home detention.''
Judge McAuslan said a home detention sentence was appropriate given the nature of the offending and the victim's suffering.
She described the attack as an example of "unprovoked, gratuitous violence'' that should never have happened.
Fasavalu played three games for Samoa and scored two goals in a World Cup qualifying match in 2004.
He was playing for Manukau City at the time of the alleged offence but has since been suspended indefinitely from the club.
After a hearing, the judicial panel of the Auckland Football Federation imposed an indefinite suspension from all involvement in the game and fined Fasavlu $1000.
The suspension can be lifted only by application to New Zealand Football after a minimum of 12 months.

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The New England Patriots have agreed to a two-year deal with center Dan Koppen, a league source said Friday.
The source said Koppen's contract is worth nearly $6 million.
A nine-year veteran, Koppen has played his entire career with the Patriots, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft.
Koppen has started all but one game in which he has played. He missed most of the 2011 season after suffering a left leg injury in the Patriots' season opener.
Koppen's replacement for that season, Dan Connolly, was recently re-signed by the Patriots.
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NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- Market analysts are saying U.S. corporations will continue to thrive despite federal spending cuts, even as the job market languishes.
The effects of the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that became official March 1 will have "minimal" effect on corporations, Savita Subramanian, the head of U.S. equity and quantitative strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch told The New York Times.
Corporate earnings may go down by 1 percent, Subramanian said, adding, "The market wants more austerity."
Austerity in part means job cuts. The current reduction in spending is expected to erase 700,000 U.S. jobs. In contrast, the Dow Jones industrial average is flirting with an all-time closing high and corporate profits are strong.
"There hasn't been a period in the last 50 years where these trends have been so pronounced," said Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays, referring to the gap between corporate earnings and disposable income.
Since 2008, corporate earnings have risen 20.1 percent at an annual rate while disposable income has gained 1.4 percent annually.
The Times reported Monday corporations that are hiring are doing so overseas.
3M Corp., for example, added 11,438 jobs since 2007, but only 608 of those jobs were in the United States, the Times said.
In recent years, business growth has been concentrated overseas and U.S. firms have learned, as they often do in an economic downturn, they can sustain output with fewer workers. They can also cut their workforce in tough times, which allows them to protect their bottom line, even if it comes at workers' expense.
"Right now, chief executive officers are saying, 'I don't really need to hire because of the productivity gains of the last few years,'" said Robert Moritz, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, a major accounting firm.
"If I don't have the business, at some point you've got to adjust the workforce. You always try to find solutions, but you get to a point where it's inevitable," said Louis Chenevert, CEO of United Technologies Corp., a Dow component.


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The following is a short response paper I wrote last quarter… it's nothing revolutionary, just some food for thought:
"The human landscape can be read as a landscape of exclusion" (Sibley, 1995, p. ix).
Just as lines are drawn on paper to map out the boundaries of physical space (and thus assert what belongs to "us" as opposed to what belongs to "them"), humans practice boundary-making at a much more local level: the body. While this act seems fairly cut-and-dry (I am my body, and anything that is not my body is not-me), the fact that we can never securely close off the boundaries of our bodies leaves us open and thus susceptible to contamination by that which is not-us. This vulnerability renders us incredibly anxious, and we become obsessed with maintaining these bodily boundaries and repulsed by the secretions (bodily or otherwise) that seep through them. Ultimately, this desire to keep oneself free of contagion is about keeping oneself pure, free of disease and death. On a more practical level, the process by which we establish what is us and not-us creates social boundaries between us and other people—in an effort to assert what is ME, I exclude what is Other to me, and this Other (Mead's "generalized other") becomes imbued with feelings of fear and desire, marked as good or bad, and eventually, is stereotyped in various ways so that I may "make the world seem secure and stable" (p. 15).
This process of 'stabilizing' or 'fixing' the identities of others (in an effort to define the self) is not only conducted at the level of the individual, but on a much larger scale, as well. Iris Young writes,
When the dominant group defines some groups as different, as the Other, the members of these groups are imprisoned in their bodies. Dominant discourse defines them in terms of bodily characteristics and constructs those bodies as ugly, dirty, defiled, impure, contaminated or sick (p. 18).
The effect of these categorizations is ultimately to define what is opposite of them: those characteristics that are considered normal (i.e. attractive, clean, pure, healthy, etc.). In other words, it is through the classification of deviance that we construct normality. This is especially salient with the construction of the "diseased other," who, according to Sibley, "has an important role in defining normality and stability" (p. 24).
It is interesting to me how well this narrative maps onto the way current discourses about the "obesity epidemic" frame fatness and fat embodiment. Although fatness has yet to be proven as the cause of any disease, and while it is in fact documented as being protective against some diseases, many in the medical community keep pushing to frame or label "obesity" as a disease itself! From a rational point of view, this line of reasoning is nonsensical. However, if we understand the desire to construct disease as ultimately a desire about defining what is normal, and we view fatness as being "abnormal" or "not-us," we can begin to see why people might want to claim the fat body as a diseased body.
It is also possible that, in our obsession with controlling and maintaining tight boundaries around the body, fatness—with its excess supposedly bursting at the seams—is seen as a threat to the tightly contained body. Fat bodies become "the abject" because they threaten boundaries of "normal" body size, because they threaten to take up space (more than is "normal"), and this space may encroach upon non-fat others (this fear manifests as anger directed towards fat people in close quarters, such as the airplane or bus). While it seems silly to ask, I wonder if there is somewhere (in the unconscious?) a fear that the fat body will "spill out" and "merge" with the non-fat person… or that fatness is somehow "contagious". This seems outrageous, but a July 2007 article ("Study Says Obesity Can Be Contagious") in The New York Times confirms it: many "obesity" researchers, in fact, concern themselves with this very question. Perhaps as a result of this fear of contagion by fat bodies, fat people are often excluded from many spaces (usually through lack of accommodations, but also through overt discrimination against them) and through their lifetime feel exclusion in a variety of situations. While I've focused primarily on fat bodies in my analysis of exclusion and construction of the self, I think Sibley's thoughts on how/why exclusion happens are particularly helpful because they can be applied in a variety of different situations and to a variety of differently oppressed groups.
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The downgrade of the U.K.'s credit rating by at least one of the three major ratings agencies: Moody's, Standard & Poor's or Fitch, looks increasingly likely in the New Year. Before gnashing of teeth and wailing begins, bear in mind that losing the triple-A crown may not be such a big deal after all.
The most important fallout from a downgrade will probably be political. The country's finance minister George Osborne has hung his hat on the U.K. keeping its rating, and the opposition party is unlikely to spare his blushes if the hat stand gets shaky.
The triple-A rating survived economic blows like the 1978-9 "winter of discontent" which swept former U.K. Prime Minister Thatcher to power and Black Wednesday, when the Conservative government had to withdraw the British pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM).
George Osborne has consistently emphasized the importance of stabilising the U.K.'s debt and committing the country to austerity, with the maintenance of the top rating on government debt a key element of this.
There will be plenty of political capital to be made from arguing that the U.K. is worse off now than under the last administration, as parties head in to the second half of the current government's term and the next election emerges into sight.
Yet this may not be valid when the likely effects on a range of U.K. investments are considered. After an initial knee-jerk reaction to the news, most of the key U.K. markets would probably stabilise.
TheFTSE 100 is now so dominated by international companies, or U.K.-based companies which do most of their business abroad, that a downgrade probably wouldn't register much beyond a temporary blip.
The gilt market, too, should remain unperturbed. As HSBC analysts point out, because the U.K. can issue its own currency, it can always create money to finance debt, putting it at "almost zero" risk of a pure default on repaying that debt (although of course, money-printing brings its own problems).
U.K. bonds are more vulnerable to falls following a downgrade if the U.K.'s safe haven status is perceived to be under threat, although a one-notch downgrade, which at the moment appears to be the most likely outcome, is unlikely to send U.K. bonds into the kind of territory seen in many other parts of Europe.
Thepound's valuation could potentially suffer most from a downgrade, but a weakening currency might be no bad thing for U.K. exports.
Ultimately, downgrades have lost much of their power to shock the market, as can be seen by France's downgrade by Moody's last week. They are often both well-flagged and frankly, generally long-overdue, that they don't provoke the kind of negative reaction seen earlier in the credit crisis.
Written by Catherine Boyle, CNBC. Twitter: @cboylecnbc.


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Winter Storm Live: Reaches NYC; Zero Visibility for Some
State College, Pa. — 26 December 2012 — AccuWeather reports the major winter storm that brought record snow to the southern Plains and gave Little Rock its snowiest Christmas in 86 years is spreading from the Ohio Valley to the eastern Great Lakes and Northeast.
The snow, which is being severely whipped around by strong winds across Ohio and Indiana, will accumulate more than a foot across the Northeast's interior, while soaking rain and strong winds slam the Northeast coast with an icy mix in between.
For more details on how the winter storm will impact the Northeast and eastern Great Lakes, please visit this story. The AccuWeather.com Winter Weather Center has the latest snowfall map.
Read below for real-time updates on the winter storm.
3:07 p.m. EST: Heavy snow has dropped visibility down to zero in Bradford, Pa., and Olean, N.Y.
2:44 p.m. EST: Latest snowfall totals: 5.0 inches at Punxsutawney, Pa., 4.0 inches just north of Fort Wayne, Ind., with drifts up to 8 inches.
2:40 p.m. EST: @JasonMeyersWX reports that Fort Wayne, Ind., police are responding to high volumes of crashes due to the weather.
2:21 p.m. EST: Snowflakes are reported at New York City's Central Park.
2:05 p.m. EST: Snow pressed northward to Newark, N.J., and is closing in on New York City. Once snow starts falling in the city, it will continue for a few hours, mixing with sleet before changing to heavy and potentially flooding rain for this evening.
1:55 p.m. EST: The heaviest snow associated with this winter storm is falling from northern Ohio to central Pennsylvania with visibility down to a quarter of a mile or less in many locations.
1:45 p.m. EST: Latest snowfall totals: 9.0 inches at Winslow, Ind., 8.5 inches at New Madrid, Mo., 6.0 inches (mixed with sleet) at Natrona Heights, Pa., and 3.5 inches at Mercer, Pa.
1:26 p.m. EST: Toledo News Now reports that a crash involving a pickup truck and a semi-truck has forced officials to close Interstate 75 northbound at Ottawa River in northwestern Ohio.
1:20 p.m. EST: New snow total: 14.0 inches at Goreville, Ill.
1:07 p.m. EST: Weather-related flight delays in excess of an hour reported at the hubs in Philadelphia, New York City and Newark. Philadelphia continues to see snow pellets. New York City and Newark are currently dry, but that will change as the afternoon progresses.
12:56 p.m. EST: Latest snowfall totals in Maryland: 6.0 inches in Frostburg, 4.0 inches near Hancock and 3.5 inches in Walkersville.
12:40 p.m. EST: Snow pellets have started to fly in Philadelphia. Watch for roads to turn slick during the next few hours before a changeover to heavy rain occurs.
12:39 p.m. EST: AccuWeather.com received a report of thundersnow in Johnstown, Pa.
12:35 p.m. EST: @KimNewmanWTOL twitter report, "Ohio Turnpike officials report that the Turnpike 'is a mess.' Multiple non-injury crashes reported just in the last ten minutes."
12:20 p.m. EST: While snow has changed over to rain in Washington, D.C., the northern extent of the snow is advancing closer to Philadelphia.
12:08 p.m. EST: Latest snowfall totals: 13.0 inches at Mount Carmel, Ill., 7.2 inches at Indianapolis, Ind., and 2.5 inches at Fort Wayne, Ind.
11:46 a.m. EST: New snowfall map issued by AccuWeather.com:
11:44 a.m. EST: The heaviest snow continues to fall from Indiana to central and western Pennsylvania, as well as across western Maryland and the panhandle of West Virginia.
11:22 a.m. EST: Latest snowfall total–14.5 inches at a location four miles south of Marion, Ill.
11:20 a.m. EST: Muncie, Ind., has reported a total of 6 inches of snow and more snow is falling. The snow and wind gusts past 30 mph have dropped visibility to a quarter of a mile.
11:10 a.m. EST: The southwestern-most extent of the winter storm has brought an inch of snow down to Olive Branch, Miss., located in the far northern part of the state, southeast of Memphis.
11:09 a.m. EST: Northeast of Pittsburgh, two inches of snow has been measured in Penn Hills, Pa. A thin glaze of ice is underneath the snow, creating added hazards for those driving or walking.
11:04 a.m. EST: Snow has started in Harrisburg and State College, Pa. Heavy snow is falling in Johnstown, Pa., reducing visibility to a quarter of a mile.
10:57 a.m. EST: An accident on snowy southbound I-65, near the 179 mile marker in Indiana (around Lafayette), has forced officials to close a section of the interstate. A picture of the crash can be seen here.
10:45 a.m. EST: Latest snow totals: 11.5 inches at Bloomington, Ind., and 9.0 inches at Greenwood, Ind.
10:36 a.m. EST: Slick roads being reported around Pittsburgh, Pa. Snow has now dropped visibility to a half of a mile.
10:31 a.m. EST: One-quarter of an inch of freezing rain has glazed Washington, Pa., which is located southwest of Pittsburgh.
10:15 a.m. EST: Highest snow total so far from the storm: 18.3 inches at Albion, Ill.
10:07 a.m. EST: Indianapolis, Ind., has picked up a total of 7.0 inches of snow, making this snowstorm the city's heaviest since late January 2009. Three of those inches fell in only one hour.
10:06 a.m. EST: AccuWeather.com meteorologists just held a special map discussion and remain concerned for slick and slippery roads in Philadelphia, New York City and Boston before a wintry mix changes to rain.
9:40 a.m. EST: Thundersnow being reported near Miamisburg and Dayton, Ohio.
9:13 a.m. EST: Web cameras around Washington, D.C., showing a coating of snow in most areas. Roads are even snow-covered in Arlington, Va.
9:07 a.m. EST: The combination of heavy snow and winds gusting to 39 mph has dropped visibility down to one-eighth of a mile in Indianapolis, Ind.
8:00 a.m. EST: A total of 4 inches of snow has already been reported in Indianapolis, Ind.
7:30 a.m. EST: Heavy snow is falling across parts of Indiana into Ohio. Snow rates of up to 1 inch per hour are occurring in these areas. Snow is tapering off across southern Illinois and has ended in Arkansas where up to a foot has fallen.
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com


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I have a mid-2009 MBP 15", and I recently upgraded to lion.
I also have DisplayLink hardware which worked fine under SnowLeopard.
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Portal is a natural theme for Valentine's Day, as we saw with these cards Valve released in 2011 before Portal 2's arrival. This one is the best of a Valve-themed series done by Tumblr user applenail, which got a lot of attention over the weekend and yesterday.
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How easy it is for a child to project blame onto someone else when the parent knows, maybe has even visually witnessed, the child in the very act of wrongdoing. But, today's column is not addressed to children, whatever age they may be, but to adult "children," no matter what age they may be.
Admitting you are wrong is not anything more than being human. That's all.
One of America's most versatile proteins just got a more appetizing price tag. With prices lower than past summers and juicy new pork cut names appearing in meat cases, now you can swap in your favorite pork chop to make grilling more tasty and economical. Look for new cut names including ribeye and porterhouse pork chops to maximize your dollars spent at the grocery store.
Voting is a privilege, as well as a right. But not every country has the same rights that we do. While they may boast that the percentage of citizens who voted in a recent election was higher than ours, it's possible that those citizens are told who to vote for, while we vote for the candidate we choose. Because this is America, that's why.
Dear Savvy Senior,
My wife is having an increasingly difficult time going up and down the stairs in our house. We are interested in purchasing a stair lift, but aren't sure what to get or where to look. Can you help us?
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Dear Need,
At the end of last week's column, I made the statement, "It is not over until it is over." Don't give up on your marriage until you have exhausted all possible ways to not only salvage it, but improve it. It has happened with many couples I have worked with over the past 40-plus years, and it can happen with your marriage —if you really want that to happen.
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Hosting planned or impromptu gatherings with friends and family can be a daunting task. From choosing a menu to preparing everything in time, planning a soiree can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be. Entertaining is as easy as it is delicious when you choose pork as your party protein.
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Can you offer some tips on protecting seniors from financial scams? My neighbor's elderly mother was recently swindled out of $10,000 and I want to make sure my own mother is protected.
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Financial scams that target the elderly continue to be a big problem in the U.S. In fact, it's estimated that some 5 million Americans over age 60 are scammed out of roughly 3 billion every year. Here are some tips that can help you spot a scam, and what you can do to protect your mom.
What do I have to do to avoid being divorced, since statistics have shown that divorce may be inevitable? Well, first of all, don't believe what statistics are presenting without understanding how they can be manipulated. Several years ago, the media routinely presented that half of all marriages end in divorce, which did not accurately present the facts.
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A heads-up to those that haven't already noticed - we've now got the new Soundcraft Si Expression digital live consoles in stock and available to buy! This new range of mixers is certainly set to prick the interest of many live studio engineer as they provide digital mixing quality that was previously only within the budget of large professional live sound companies.
Soundcraft Si Expression mixers (available in 16, 24 and 32 channel models) make use of the latest DSP technology and building techniques to deliver new and extremely powerful live solutions. Soundcraft consoles are already renowned in the live sound industry, with a reputation for user-friendly design and exceptional sound quality. Luckily for us (and you!), Si Expression mixers are no different.


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Jazz Night with Paul Pieper
Versatile guitarist Paul Pieper brings technical and improvisational prowess to every song he plays. As a jazz musician he's toured the world, performing across upwards of twenty countries from Japan to Turkey and from Iceland to Ecuador. Grounded in the melodic traditions of post-Coltrane jazz and the pioneering influence of John Scofield, Paul's distinctive voice shines through his performances and compositions.
A sought after session player, composer, and arranger in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore area, he has appeared on dozens of CDs while his compositions Something Blue, Spider Monkey, Pensées, Kineticism, and The Red and the Black have been recorded by numerous artists. Paul's solo acoustic record, Stories of Before, beautifully showcases his ability with a unique blend of jazz and pop compositions all filtered through the rich timbre of steel and nylon string guitars, while his "fluidly stinging" solos on D.C. luminary Buck Hill's Relax firmly cement his place in the leading ranks of 21st century jazz guitar.
Paul first caught the attention of the music community in 1995 when he captured second place from over 200 competitors at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition, a global event whose judges included Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, and Pat Martino. A D.C. area native, Paul first picked up the guitar at the age of 13. From the start Paul was a determined student of music. "I didn't just want to play--I wanted to become fully competent on the instrument." When it came to continuing his education, Paul ultimately chose to master his craft through performing rather than school--he was earning a living playing music at the age of 19. "I learned an enormous amount through private studies with D.C. area guitar teacher Mike Bevan--he provided me with a strong foundation--but it was through performing that I really gained the skills I needed to earn a living as a musician. I've been lucky to work with a lot of great musicians who were very open about what they know."
Though he is best known for his work as a jazz musician, Paul seeks to explore all genres of music. "Regardless of style or genre, there are a few things that I really love about music: harmony, a great groove, and improvisation. If one or all of those things are present, then I'm happy."
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Nearly iPhone time0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 8:11 pm
Yep, nearly.. FINALLY.. time to get me an iPhone. July 11th is approaching, I've "registered my interest" with O2, I'm past the end of my Orange contract (happened a couple of months back, just as O2 reduced the 8Gb iPhone price, something didn't smell right then, despite how tempted I was, so I held off.. cheers me), and I'm all set for 3G iPhone goodness (all being well with credit checks and the like!!!).
So, I've started looking in a little more detail at the available apps, after all the iPhone functionality is good, but I want more from it.
iPhone 2.0 can display all manner of Office docs, so that's ok, but you can't create/edit any. now I don't know if I'll actually need to, but I may well consider Google Docs as a possible solution. I don't currently use them, so I'll have to try them out on here first.
The GPS side of things will also be an interesting one. I'm hoping the iPhone will save me having to buy a separate SatNav device (such as a TomTom 520T that I've been considering), I don't think that the standard Google Maps will suffice, so I'll be waiting to see what TomTom's software's like, but I'll certainly give the standard system a go in the mean time on upcoming jobs (with printed directions as well, just in case!!!)
Web Apps
First stop on the App train was the Web Apps page and there's a fair few on there, including Virtual Panda...but I'm steering clear of stuff like that for the time being (no doubt I'll play some sort of game on it at some point), I'm looking at what is actually going to be of use to me, in the same sort of way I'm looking at Facebook apps. So...
Obviously, I use FB a fair bit, so this is a no-brainer, it's also a bit odd to me as to how it classifies as an 'app' rather than just an iPhone optimised page. (to be fair that's pretty much just what the Web Apps are though)
This seems interesting, a simple tape logging app, which could be quite useful, however, having thought about it a little more, possibly TOO simple, what could be great for quickly and easily logging tapes on the fly, could be a complete waste of time as there appears to be no way to export the data. So if I did want to log on loc. perhaps a Google Docs approach would be better, i'll def give it a go though.
I'm not sure if this is THE Twitter client that people are using (there's probably a Jailbreak app out there), but looks ok, the other options are simply going to twitter.com via Safari, or seeing what Twitteriffic on iPhone will be like (I've switched to twhirl on the desktop now though)
It's specific to camera work, not sure if I'd actually use it, but work knowing it's there.
This is pretty awesome, I can definitely see myself (at least one of my friends has already been using it) referring to this reasonably regularly, you can select the camera, bear in mind this is for video cameras, everything from the Canon GL up to the Sony F23.
Similar to the above, but geared more towards stills photography by the looks of it, unfortunately I couldn't get the site up to investigate.
Another reasonably handy app, a little ugly compared to the Digital Heaven widget, and to be fair, I'm probably more likely to use the widget as it'll be on to the edit station, but maybe I'll be in PC world, wondering how big a hard drive I need for location digitising... you never know.
This isn't in the web app list, but they've recently announced the iPhone compatibility and it's an interesting service.
I haven't seen any other "productivity" apps that I think would give me any better functionality than the existing iPhone functions (for what I need), feel free to suggest tho.
Native Apps
So next up, the App Store, this hasn't launched yet, but there's various announcements on line (specifically I've been checking posts on tuaw.com)
Okay okay, I said no stupid apps, but we're talking Lightsaber's here!!
(possibly Tube 2) Uses the Location functions of the iPhone, tells you your nearest Tube station, then you can plan a route to where you want to go. While this does seem ok, quite useful, possibly quicker than consulting my trusty tube map leaflet, for an app that will probably be charged for there does seem to be a lack of functionality/features. Post Code search? Service updates? option of actual tube map rather than overlay?
Nothing else has sprung up yet, ebay app possibly.
Jailbreak Apps
Now I don't intend to jailbreak my phone unless there is a 100% absolute need to, I'm hoping any actual useful apps will find their way to the App Store. Many developers are complaining about not being accepted, ok Apple are limiting the initial numbers, fair enough, the other thing I think is there's a lot of crap apps out there. However...
Yes this would be useful, if you combine it with other apps for using the files that are on your device. Good news is that they're working on an SDK version.
Notes looks a little weak for typing any serious text docs, so we're between Google Docs, but if you're offline or no signal (out in a field or something) A handy text editor would be nice.
An IM client for iPhone, supposed to be pretty good. Would I use it? I don't know, I use AIM, but would I need it on an iPhone?
Yes, play NES ROMs on the iPhone, tempting, very tempting, but very against what I'm trying to do app wise!! And I wouldn't jailbreak my phone for it.
So, I keep looking, no doubt more will come to light once the App Store is up and running and I actually have an iPhone and am using it on a regular basis.
Facebook "application" hell0 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 4:35 pm
Some grabs taken from the Facebook profiles of 3 people.
I mean really???! How many of these even have an actual USE? How many of these actually GET USED??
I've been gradually looking for useful apps to add to my profile, and religiously blocking any attempts to get me to send a hug, bite someone, buy a drink for, etc etc etc. It's like having to deny millions of random bands on MySpace all over again!
So far this..
Is my block of apps on my profile. In order L-R and down...
- Education & Work
- Some basic profile info I include
- My Web Profiles
- A handy little app that allows you to create another 'app block' style panel for links to your other profiles online
- Video
- Because I want to upload videos every now and again
- Notes
- Linked by RSS to this blog, so updates are automatically shown on FB
- Digg.com
- Shows my recently Dugg stories on my profile (although I think this has been superceded by a better one that displays them in my Feed, don't think it's the same thing)
- Pages
- For things I WANT to support or keep tabs on this is it. It's pretty much like embedding MySpace into your profile.
- Photos
- Cos it's the law, and FB's implementation of photos is actually pretty good (could do with bigger albums tho)
- Posted Items
- Actually handy to share general links every now and again (even tho some might be shite)
- Movies
- Because I like movies and this is a good way of sharing thoughts on the ones I watch (in tandem with the blog), and the quizzes are quite fun too.
- Wall
- I'd probably put this as the most useless one of the lot (that I've got), there's better ways to communicate within FB, but at the same time it's used every now and again and I just can't give it up.
Not shown on there is TwitterSync, which (when Twitter sorts itself out), automatically updates my FB status with the most recent post on my Twitter feed. Groups and Events, both standard FB apps and useful in their own right and Revision 3 Player, which I'm gonna remove cos I forgot I had it.
Now after all Facebook is a SOCIAL network, and part of being social is having fun, so I'm not really knocking all the shite apps entirely, if people enjoy the whole Vampires vs Werewolf thing, knock yourselves out! And Scrabulous etc have proved pretty popular.
I just don't understand why some users have SO MANY apps installed, I can't see how they're using them all, they make the profiles load slower and the privacy issues must be all over the place! Also how come there's the demand for what are essentially the SAME BLOODY APP, just with different bells and whistles? Is that what were devolving to?
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3G iPhone2 comments Posted by Matt Grover at 8:09 am
A couple of quick thoughts on the new iPhone...
Still no MMS?!? WTF?!? WAAAA!
Any chance people can STOP going on about MMS?!?
Oh yeah MMS is so great, costs more than a text (over plan), limited file size and formats, I don't think I've ever sent anything useful via MMS, just stupid shit.
Apple won't support MMS because they'll go with email instead, which is better and I can still send stupid shit on it, and at the end of the day, a crapload of people will have iPhones, corporate have BlackBerry, a primarily EMAIL based device and all the other manufacturers will be playing catch-up!
Quit it already!
Any chance people can STOP going on about MMS?!?
Oh yeah MMS is so great, costs more than a text (over plan), limited file size and formats, I don't think I've ever sent anything useful via MMS, just stupid shit.
Apple won't support MMS because they'll go with email instead, which is better and I can still send stupid shit on it, and at the end of the day, a crapload of people will have iPhones, corporate have BlackBerry, a primarily EMAIL based device and all the other manufacturers will be playing catch-up!
Quit it already!
GPS!! Hurrah!!!
Until you're in a no mobile signal area and it can't refresh the Google Maps! :/
Have to wait to see what 3rd party SatNav stuff comes out before that's 100%
Apart from that roll on July 11th cos I'm getting a new iPhone!
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Growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture, my friends and I used to say that we hoped God would delay the rapture until after we had the chance to get married and have sex. We were joking….sort of.
Now that I've lost both my virginity and my belief in the rapture (got married in 2003; read Surprised by Hopein 2008), I haven't spent much time thinking about those angst-filled years. But a recent Christianity Todayarticle entitled "The Case for Early Marriage" piqued my interest, and I thought I'd ask your opinion.
The author of the article, Mark Regnerus, wrote a similar op-ed piece for The Washington Post. In both, Regnerus rightly notes that the average marrying age in America continues to rise, as does the average age for starting a family. In evangelical circles in which abstinence is encouraged, this creates a significant challenge, as our bodies essentially scream to engage in sex, beginning in our teens.
Writes Regnerus, "I am suggesting that when people wait until their mid-to-late 20s to marry, it is unreasonable to expect them to refrain from sex. It's battling our Creator's reproductive designs."
His solution? Young adult should buck the system and get married earlier…despite the fact that that early marriage is the number one predictor of divorce. (Regnerus offers some interesting perspectives on these statistics.)
It's hard for me to form a strong opinion about this issue, as I got married at 22 and am pretty detached from the current conversation regarding singleness and sex. However, I sense that Regnerus hit on some important points that raise questions worth discussing here. Some observations:
- When folks are hitting puberty at ages 12 and 13, but not getting married until ages 27 and 28, it does seem as though we are putting considerable physical strain on singles by asking them to abstain from sex. Our bodies were made to have sex during these years.
- In talking with singles, I'm hearing more of them question the biblical foundation for abstinence. It was a different culture, they reason, one in which men and women got married at much earlier ages and under dramatically different circumstances. Perhaps it is time for religious groups to relax their expectations, they suggest.
- On the other hand, many Christians argue that we live in a gratification-based culture, and that the solution is not to relax standards but to provide a better community for singles within in the church. Just because abstinence is getting harder doesn't mean it can't be done, they say.
- Advocating for early marriage has some appeal, but I can see where it could lead to folks getting married simply for the sake of having sex…which seems like a bad reason to get married.
- On the other hand, expectations regarding marriage have also changed over the last 50 years. In a consumer-driven, pleasure-focused culture where marriages are often abandoned over negligible differences, we perhaps put too much effort into creating so-called "perfect matches" rather than helping couples through the ups and downs of a lifelong commitment.
What do you think? Should Christians advocate "early marriage"? Is it too much to ask young adults to abstain from sex for ten to twelve years after puberty?
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9 Companies Microsoft Devoured or Sued Into Oblivion
This year, Microsoft turned 37. It is, by almost all accounts, what you would call a successful company. Many would deride its accomplishments, though, because of its business practices. It has done everything from outright copying other companies' intellectual property to using its marketplace strength in a way that has drawn antitrust ire from not only other businesses, but governments. It was even hard to consider Microsoft an underdog when it fought the United States and the European Union. That's because when Microsoft can't win, it can afford to throw so much money at the problem that settling out of court still feels like winning.
Having that much money doesn't only help when things go awry in front of a judge or jury in the courtroom, but also when it can buy up companies large and small that are the true movers-and-shakers in the tech world. Arguably, Microsoft is only as innovative as it seems thanks to those purchases.
Since its inception in 1975, Microsoft has bought more than 150 other companies. The most expensive acquisition happened just last year when it bought Skype for $8.5 billion, making it a full division of the company. It almost bought Yahoo in that same time frame. There had once been rumors it might try to buy Facebook or Twitter. (Instead, it bought Yammer.) The list goes on and on.
With so many mergers and lawsuits to consider, it was hard to narrow it down to the nine that matter most. After all, Microsoft didn't do the suing in many cases; more often than not, Microsoft just has to defend itself because everyone else is mad. But if Microsoft holds out long enough and pushes the appeals process, it has a way of winning—assuming it doesn't just buy out the plaintiff.
Which companies have meant the most when it comes to Microsoft lawsuits and buyouts? Which have had a lasting impact, or just been so ridiculous and costly that history should never forget them? Here's our pick for the nine most significant companies Microsoft has eaten or destroyed.
1 Forethought (1987)
2 Apple (1994)
3 Hotmail (1997)
4 WebTV (1997)
5 Bungie (2000)
6 Lindows (2004)
7 MikeRoweSoft.com (2004)
8 aQuantive (2007)
9 Novell (2012)


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A winner was selected from 13 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
A voting logo is required for a new sports website
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You will need to go to this link to fully understand: http://www.sportsminimal.com/viewga…sportsid=2
As you can see in that particular page, there are 4 '[vote]' in each match, that are exactly the place where the voting logo needs to be.
What I'm looking for is a very simple minimalist design of voting logo, that looks clean and fresh. Not just the icon itself, but including the bracket for the numbers. Example digg.com voting logo, it contain two section, 'digg it' as the vote section, and the total diggs number shown as the second section.
I prefer a rectangular bar style logo. The logo will have vote icon on the left, and the total voting numbers on the right, both are close to each other or attached together. I prefer sign and symbol rather than words such as 'vote here' or any other words.
The height of the logo should be around the height of the font of that particular line in that page, as for length, it is up to you as long it fits into that space.
I need 2 version, one when the icon still active, and another when the logo has been disabled.
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BOSTON, Mass.--Krista Ledin (Bridgewater, Mass.) scored twice and UMass Boston dominated Western Connecticut State University from start to finish, as the Beacons earned a 4-0 victory Saturday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center in a Little East Conference Championship Game rematch.
Playing for the time since the Beacons 1-0 victory in last year's LEC Title game, UMass Boston came out aggressive and held a 25-6 shot advantage, earning the Beacons just their third win in 22 tries against the Colonials.
With the victory, UMass Boston moves into a tie for second place in the conference with a 3-1 Little East mark and an 8-4 overall record. The loss drops the Colonials to 9-5 and 3-1 in Little East play.
Saturday's contest also served as the Beacons "Think Pink" Game and Alumni Day. UMass Boston honored the families of five former and current players who have had a family member affected by breast cancer before the game and sold merchandise throughout the contest to raise money to find a cure.
Ledin the way for the Beacons with her league-leading 13th and 14th goals of the year, while Tayla Andrews (Plymouth, Mass.) and Brittany Castillo (Yarmouth, Mass.) each picked up a goal of their own on the afternoon.
Four different Beacons were credited with assists, as Amanda Pugliese (Pembroke, Mass.), Sam Cristoforo (Rockland, Mass.) Kara Peters (Feeding Hills, Mass.) and Hannah Lear (Plymouth, Mass.) were all credited with helpers.
Kristen Spain (Quincy, Mass.) continued to be rock solid in net, as the junior made three stops to earn her fifth shutout of the year.
Freshman Alison Rettenmeir took the loss despite making a career-high 12 saves on 16 shots for the Colonials.
UMass Boston scored their lone marker of the first stanza, when Castillo headed home a Pugliese corner kick at the 28:38 mark. After recording eight assists in her first two seasons, Castillo has had a huge offensive season for the Beacons, recording three goals and three assists, including her first game-winning marker in today's contest.
Ledin doubled the Beacons lead just seconds into the second half, when she took a through ball pass from Cristoforo and slid it by Rettenmeir at 45:31 of the contest.
Five minutes later UMass Boston pushed the lead to 3-0, when Lear fed Ledin on a pass through the midfield and the Beacons junior forward finished past a diving Rettenmeir.
The Beacons recorded their fourth and final tally at 79:53, when Andrews received a pass from Peters and sent a curling ball into the left side of the net for a 4-0 lead.
UMass Boston held a 25-6 shot advantage for the contest and a huge 16-3 edge in shots on goal. The Beacons also mustered eight corner kicks, compared to just three for the Colonials.
UMass Boston will return to action with a rare Monday contest, as the Beacons will travel to Salve Regina University Monday afternoon at 3:30 p.m.


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Brussels, 16 April 2014
Commission welcomes Parliament's adoption of new European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
The European Parliament has today endorsed the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) with an overwhelming majority. With a budget of €6.5 billion for 2014-2020, the fund will finance projects to implement the new reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and provide financial support to fishermen, fish farmers and coastal communities to adapt to the changed rules. The Fund will also finance projects to boost 'blue' growth and jobs under the EU's Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP).
European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, welcomed the adoption: "Our reformed fisheries policy is putting European fisheries on a sustainable footing once and for all. To get there will mean radical changes for our fishermen and the whole sector, which needs our financial support. We will co-fund concrete projects in the Member States to help fishermen and coastal communities develop a sustainable seafood industry - from the net to the plate."
Funding sustainable fishing
With the reform of its Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the EU has acted against overfishing and the practice of throwing unwanted fish back in the sea. The new EMFF will provide investment and funding opportunities for fishermen, fish farmers and coastal communities to contribute to reducing the impact of fisheries on the marine environment and to rebuild fish stocks. Crucially, by financing more selective fishing gear for instance, the fund will also help eliminate wasteful discarding practices – a key aspect of the new policy.
No EU money will be spent on the building of new fishing vessels or other initiatives which would contribute to increasing fishing capacity. The priority is rather to help small-scale fishermen, who will benefit from a higher rate of aid intensity, as well as young fishermen and fishermen's families. The Fund will also help fish-farmers become more competitive by supporting them to reach out to new markets. The EMFF will thus help ensure a stable supply of sustainable seafood products for consumers, boost innovation, help communities to diversify their economies, finance projects that create new jobs, and ultimately improve quality of life along European coasts.
In addition, it will also fund fisheries data collection to allow decisions to be based on robust evidence, and reinforce the fisheries control programmes to ensure that the rules on responsible and sustainable fishing are respected and complied with by all. The fund will also support the regionalised policy-making of the new CFP and allow all stakeholders to fully participate.
Boosting blue growth
For the first time, the fund will also boost the Integrated Maritime Policy by facilitating coordination across borders and across sectors. Funding will focus on those initiatives that benefit various sectors across the board but cannot be accomplished by any single sector-based policy or single Member State such as maritime spatial planning, integrated maritime surveillance and marine knowledge.
Next steps
After today's vote in the European Parliament, the Fund will now go to Fisheries Ministers in the Council for final adoption which will allow the EMFF to come into force in June this year.
The EMFF will co-finance projects alongside national funding streams with each Member State receiving a share of the total budget. Member States will draw up their national operational programmes, specifying how they intend to spend the money allocated and, once approved by the Commission, the national authorities will decide which projects they wish to support.
For further information
The European Maritime and Fisheries Fund: http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/reform/emff/index_en.htm
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- When you're a student, life can be pretty busy. Add a job to that busy schedule and it's hard to imagine there would be time for anything else. However, the Penn State student employees at Starbucks in the HUB-Robeson Center are not letting their many responsibilities get in the way of giving back to the community.
With the support of their manager, Rebecca Brouwer, seniors Stephanie Vellucci and Julie Daniels helped form the student group Starbucks Gives Back, an organization focused on community service. The group, which went through the process to become an official Penn State student organization, is made up of employees as well as some regular customers.
The students decided to focus on causes close to their hearts where they felt they could make a big impact. After starting off with the 2013 Relay for Life, the group is currently focusing their fundraising efforts on Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors (PAWW). They will donate any money raised in the name of veteran and Purple Heart recipient Adam Hartwick.
"I'm a veteran," said Vellucci. "We have also had a couple other veterans who have worked here and students who were involved in Penn State's ROTC. Four or five of us also have parents in the military. I wanted to do something that gave back to the military, reflected good community service and would bring us closer as a group and even help us work better together."
Since this is the first time the group is raising money for PAWW they set their goal at $200 but hope to surpass it.
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Vellucci and Daniels also have a bigger fundraiser in the work involving the support of their Starbucks customers. Leading up to winter break, for $5 customers will be able to "Skip the Line."
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Write to HDFS from Storm on HDInsight
This project demonstrates how to use a Java-based Storm topology to write data to the HDFS-compatible storage used by HDInsight. This is either Azure Storage or Azure Data Lake Store, and can be configured when you create the cluster.
This example uses the HdfsBolt component, which is provided as part of Apache Storm.
NOTE: This will probably only work with HDInsight clusters, as it relies on some core-site entries that tell it how to talk to Azure Data Lake Store, as well as some of the server-side components (hadoop-client, hadoop-hdfs,) having support for communicating with Data Lake Store
Also, this project is based on an HDInsight 3.6 cluster.
How it works
This uses the Storm-HDFS bolt to write data to Azure Storage or Data Lake Store. This is a standard bolt provided as part of Apache Storm. The URL you use for the bolt, as well as the server-side configuration and components, are where the magic happens.
The project uses the Flux framework, so the configuration happens in the
writetohdfs.yaml file. Here are the bits that configure the Storm-HDFS bolt:
- id: "syncPolicy"
className: "org.apache.storm.hdfs.bolt.sync.CountSyncPolicy"
- 1000
- id: "rotationPolicy"
className: "org.apache.storm.hdfs.bolt.rotation.NoRotationPolicy"
- id: "fileNameFormat"
className: "org.apache.storm.hdfs.bolt.format.DefaultFileNameFormat"
- name: "withPath"
args: ["${hdfs.write.dir}"]
- name: "withExtension"
args: [".txt"]
- id: "recordFormat"
className: "org.apache.storm.hdfs.bolt.format.DelimitedRecordFormat"
- name: "withFieldDelimiter"
args: ["|"]
# spout definitions
- id: "tick-spout"
className: "com.microsoft.example.TickSpout"
parallelism: 1
# bolt definitions
- id: "hdfs-bolt"
className: "org.apache.storm.hdfs.bolt.HdfsBolt"
- name: "withConfigKey"
args: ["hdfs.config"]
- name: "withFsUrl"
args: ["${hdfs.url}"]
- name: "withFileNameFormat"
args: [ref: "fileNameFormat"]
- name: "withRecordFormat"
args: [ref: "recordFormat"]
- name: "withRotationPolicy"
args: [ref: "rotationPolicy"]
- name: "withSyncPolicy"
args: [ref: "syncPolicy"]
The rest of the topology is just "emit a value, write it".
You need the following to build this example:
A Storm on HDInsight cluster (version 3.6)
Java JDK 1.8 or highter
Configure the cluster
By default, Storm on HDInsight does not include the components that HdfsBolt uses to communicate with Azure Storage or Data Lake Store in Storm's classpath. Use the following script action to add these to the
extlib directory for Storm on your cluster:
| Script URI | Nodes to apply it to| Parameters |
https://hdiconfigactions.blob.core.windows.net/linuxstormextlibv01/stormextlib.sh | Nimbus, Supervisor | None |
For information on using this script with your cluster, see the Customize HDInsight clusters using script actions document.
Build the sample
Download the example project to your development environment.
From a command prompt, terminal, or shell session, change directories to the root of the downloaded project, and run the following commands to build and package the topology.
mvn compile mvn package
Once the build and packaging completes, there will be a new directory named
target, that contains a file named
StormToHdfs-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. This contains the compiled topology.
Deploy and run the topology
If you created a Linux-based Storm on HDInsight cluster, use the steps below to deploy and run the topology.
Use the following command to copy the topology to the HDInsight cluster. Replace USER with the SSH user name you used when creating the cluster. Replace CLUSTERNAME with the name of the cluster.
scp target\StormToHdfs-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar email@example.com:StormToHdfs-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Once the upload completes, use the following to connect to the HDInsight cluster using SSH. Replace USER with the SSH user name you used when creating the cluster. Replace CLUSTERNAME with the name of the cluster.
ssh firstname.lastname@example.com
When prompted, enter the password used when creating the SSH user for the cluster. If you used a public key instead of a password, you may need to use the
-iparameter to specify the path to the matching private key.
Once connected, create a
dev.propertiesfile and use the following as the contents:
hdfs.write.dir: /stormdata/ hdfs.url: wasb:///
This example assumes that your HDInsight cluster uses an Azure Storage account as the default storage. If your cluster uses Azure Data Lake Store, use
hdfs.url: adl:///instead.
Use the following to start the topology:
storm jar StormToHdfs-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar org.apache.storm.flux.Flux --remote -R /writetohdfs.yaml --filter dev.properties
View output data
To view the data, use the following command:
hdfs dfs -ls /stormdata/
This displays a list of files that were created by the topology.
The following list is an example of the data retuned by the previous commands:
Found 30 items
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-0-1488568403092.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-1-1488568404567.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-10-1488568408678.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-11-1488568411636.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-12-1488568411884.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-13-1488568412603.txt
-rw-r-----+ 1 sshuser sshuser 5120 2017-03-03 19:13 /stormdata/hdfs-bolt-3-14-1488568415055.txt
Next steps
For more information on using this sample, see https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/hdinsight-storm-write-data-lake-store.
Project code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any additional questions or comments.