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At The Justin Landis Group, we believe that everyone deserves a dream home. We've helped over a thousand clients over the years, and each has come to us with a unique dream. We've helped empty nesters looking to downsize and young families looking for more space as they grow. Some people hope for a great yard, while others search for a high rise condo in the heart of the city.
For some of our city's most vulnerable, the dream is a little different. Over 7,000 of our Atlanta neighbors wake up each morning simply hoping to find a safe and secure place to call home. We believe they deserve their dream just as much as anyone else, which is why we are proud to partner with the Atlanta Mission in their fight to end homelessness.
As part of our partnership, we've crafted a bold initiative called 90 in 90. Over the next three months, our team will be working toward a goal of helping 150 families find their dream home while raising $90,000 to help the Atlanta Mission transform the lives of people experiencing homelessness. When we completed this campaign in 2018, we raised $90,000, and the Atlanta Mission was able to use that pledge as a match campaign that brought in an additional $180,000!
In order to reach this year's goal:
· The Justin Landis Group will donate a percentage of each transaction closed between March and May.
· The agents on our team will make donations from their own commission for everything they close over the next three months.
· We've teamed up with a number of vendor partners—lenders, attorneys, home inspectors, and more—who plan to give along with us.
We'll also rely on individual contributions and the support of our friends and family!
Here's how you can help:
· Who do you know who may be moving in the next three months? Every new connection we make helps us toward our goal, so spread the word!
· Donate at the link below!


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The importance of 'duty of care' was a key theme in the sector during 2016.
The year kicked off with the Environmental Services Association (ESA) announcing its 'Right Waste, Right Place' campaign, with additional funding from the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) and the Environment Agency (EA).
It was to be marked by an awareness campaign in March with sector-focused initiatives thereafter.
A topic that flared up regularly during the year was efforts to cut the number of fires at waste sites. A series of tests began in 2015 continued well into the new year, with the intention of informing updated guidance for operators.
At the same time, the EA was consulting on a shake-up of fire safety regulations which would later spark resistance from wood and tyre recyclers.
An EA survey of local authority collections indicated that 65% of councils were using the commingled method. The agency noted this method was subject to assessment under the TEEP procedure, and was concerned that three in 10 had not made their assessments public.
A popular 'sport' in the sector is the efforts of Eunomia's Peter Jones to confront mis-reporting on waste issues in the national press.
Following a successful foray against the Daily Mail in 2014, he complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation about an opinion column he said was "a scattergun attack on all aspects of council waste collection". The paper withdrew or modified parts of the online version.
Two major figures in the sector announced their retirement within days of each other. Colin Church, Defra's resource director, said he would leave in April while Steve Lee said 2016 would be his last year as chief executive of CIWM. In the event, Church replaced Lee in October.
The New Year's Honours list saw a CBE for Renewable Energy Association (REA) chief executive Nina Skorupska, while the association's former director general Philip Wolfe became an MBE. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) chairman David Sigsworth, who retired a month before, got an OBE.
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Notes from Harvard Med School Conference
Most of us spend the vast majority of our lives between our ears, thinking, contemplating the future, ruminating about the past, going over our to-do-lists and "what if's." We postpone our dreams, putting them off, telling ourselves to wait until we have more information, resources and/or time. The truth is the more direction we are given in our lives, the more likely we are to resist. Self-determination is a key part of success and happiness.


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The New York Red Bulls are one of the original charter members of the MLS, beginning play in 1996. The club plays in Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ, where they have called home since the arena was built in 2010. As one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, the New York Red Bulls will look to compete for the MLS Cup in 2018.
Chris Armas is currently the Red Bulls head coach, taking over midseason in July 2018 after former coach Jesse Marsch left as the clubs all-time winningest coach. Forward Bradley Wright-Phillips is one of the top goalscorers in the MLS, providing the Red Bulls with a consistent offensive weapon. Wright-Phillips has spent his entire MLS career with the New York Red Bulls and is a two-time MLS Golden Boot winner. The Red Bulls are also led by defenders Aaron Long and Michael Murillo, both of whom were selected to the 2018 MLS All-Star Game along with Bradley-Wright Phillips. Goalkeeper Luis Robles has done a solid job as the last line of defense for the Red Bulls.
The New York Red Bulls compete in the Hudson River Derby against the newly formed NYCFC, New York City's other MLS team. With two Major League Soccer clubs in the city, the market for soccer in New York keeps on growing.
Watch the New York Red Bulls by treating your guests to a Red Bull Arena luxury suite. All suites include upscale furnishings, HDTVs, and great views of the field. With first class service and VIP treatment, Red Bull Arena suites offer an incredible suite experience.


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Where The Grass Is Greenest
As I sit in this quiet, empty living room, listening to the faint hum of the noisemaker breathing through the baby monitor, I'm overcome with this deep fulfillment but also an unrelenting sadness. Most evenings, the countdown begins an hour before Cyrus' bedtime. It's a whirlwind of food bribing, bare hineys in the tub, reading the same book eight times over, and all the energy of a superhuman, two-year-old boy. By the time his bedroom door slowly squeaks shut and I hit the couch in a fit of exhaustion, the only emotion I'm experiencing is relief.
But tonight, as Cyrus sat in my lap, legs dangling past my knees, reading How Do I Love You, I was reminded of how fast he has grown. It's a cliche every young mom kindly gets pointed out, often in the checkout lane of a local grocery store by a sweet, well-meaning older lady. And we all nod and smile in placid agreement, but our tired eyes tell a different story. Because really, we are in the battlefield--often way too deep in the thick of things to experience thoughts like that. Survival is the name of the game and success is typically measured by making it through the day using as few expletives as possible. (If I can keep it under 3, I consider that day a win.) And it's sad because we don't realize how true those words are until it's already happened. Somewhere amidst the pandemonium of parenthood, among all the sleepless nights and tear stained eyes and skinned up knees, they were growing up, right before our very eyes.
Last month, Cyrus celebrated his 2nd birthday. A lot of people's response to that statement has been, "oh, get ready," or some sort of a disparaging apology because two-year-olds are supposedly the devil's minions. And while I have certainly witnessed first-hand evidence that would lend quite a bit of credence to that theory, it honestly just makes me sad. It makes me sad that comments like that merely serve to incite an attitude of dread. What if, by that assessment, I were to mentally write off these next couple of years as a wash, collecting tantrums and hard days as currency for an inevitably difficult season? What if, in the process, I unwittingly had my eyes shut to the beautiful reality of this tiny human literally flourishing before me.
Because the truth is, there is going to be an ample mixture of both horrific and magical moments. On the one hand, there will be communication breakdowns and potty training and refusing to eat food for the most ludicrous reasons. But on the other hand, Cyrus is entering a season psychologists call "word explosion" where he is literally taking in and regurgitating astounding amounts of information. Having conversations with him is currently one of the greatest joys of my life because I can see the wheels turning in his eyes as he tries so very hard to explain what he just saw with a limited vocabulary. Guys, it's incredible and often pretty hilarious.
Here I am, wishing away critical, beautiful months of life, truly believing that the grass is greener in this "other" proverbial season down the road, and it's just not true.
All this to say, whether you are wading the waters of young parenthood or kids are currently a foreign concept way in your future, please don't write off this season you are in. If I had a dollar for every time I told my husband "I'm just so ready to graduate," well...school would have paid for itself by now. But here I am, wishing away critical, beautiful months of life, truly believing that the grass is greener in this "other" proverbial season down the road, and it's just not true. The grass is greener where you water it. So do whatever you need to do to make sure you are watering that grass right here, right now, in this quiet little moment.


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Travels with John
I am reading straight back through the Gospel of John early in the morning these days. It's my second time this summer. I finished it once and paged right back to the start and savored the opening again: in the beginning was the Word. There are some books of Scripture I want to learn as I would the mind and soul of a beloved friend; with concentrated and affectionate attention.I want their narrative to shape the story of my own days, their words to form my sight of the world. Isaiah is one of those. The Psalms. And definitely John. John's Gospel is a luminous book. The other Gospel writers seem to tell the story more from the outside in, relating the miracles, the teaching, those high and holy days of Jesus' life from the viewpoint of what was seen. John tells it from this inside. He tells what it means. At least that's the sense I get as I read. I feel often that he had an interior room within himself, a place where the Beloved spoke with him. From there he looked out on the spectacle and brilliance of what happened in Jesus' life and perceived, not just the events, but the meaning of each, the great Reality unveiling itself in each action, word, and miracle. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us...
The first time through this book I became aware of a certain theme in John's storytelling; the way that Jesus invaded sacred or traditional spaces and retold their meaning with his words. He walked straight into days and spaces like the temple, the Sabbath, a Samaritan well, and by his words, his narration you could say, cleansed them of the fear and false law that had obscured the living presence of God within them. Take, for instance, the cleansing of the temple, the significance of the statement, "don't make my Father's house a place of business," as if grace could be bought and sold, as if God's favor were an object for which we could barter. Clean out, not just the doves and coins and dirt, but the assumptions that attend their presence, the consumer idea of salvation. In the cleansing of the temple, Jesus was renewing not just the physical spaces, but the ideas of the people who inhabited them.
Because of this realization, on my second read-through of John, I encountered the story of the wedding at Cana in a whole new way. And it rather stole my breath. I had always assumed this first miracle ought to be special in some way. This was the first flung challenge in the darkness, a sword of light unsheathed as Messiah began his unconventional conquest of men's hearts. But the whole thing, if simply read straight through, is somewhat underwhelming. What's more, I've rarely heard this story taught with any sense of excitement. Maybe its simply my own perception, but I feel that we often view this first miracle as a practice run, the flexing of Jesus' miraculous fingers on insignificant wine before the real work of healing began. A divine token to mark the first try.
But early the other morning as I read this story for the second time in a month, read it with a mind not hurried, but willing to savor, I saw anew. I saw, I think, as John meant me to see, the way in which this story is is the prelude to the epic of the gospel, an embodied poem that told the tragedy of the world and hinted at a coming eucatastrophe. There is meaning, I think, in each word and action of this almost peripheral miracle. For it is the story of the very world told within the tale of a rural wedding feast. A feast that Messiah was about to save.
For in the beginning, not just of Jesus' ministry, but in the making of the very world he had come to save, there was a wedding. Body and soul, God and man, a joyous joining that was a feast of existence put on by God himself and called life. Joy was the order of existence. Laughter the beat of heart and gladness the thrum of the very earth. The wedding that was creation was meant to inaugurate a world of love, of harmony, of continuous new creation. But the feast was shattered by sin and the marriage brought to the very brink of collapse. The wine of life ran short, and it was us, God's beloved who spilled it out, wasted his gift so that our own lives ran suddenly short. And the wedding feast of the world brought into being a whole human race of broken hearts.
But God was not a husband to be so easily defeated. No lover He, to be so quickly cast aside. The ages of the earth marched on and it seemed that the feast was ended, the joy forever disrupted, the wine run short. But God never abandoned his Beloved. The feast was delayed, but by his own love it would be renewed, for even as we wept, he was planning the great gift that would save the wedding and cause the wine to freely flow again. The gift was himself, bundled up in flesh and blood, invading the earth so that he could take the hands and hold the heart of his beloved again. And when he came, the event he chose to announce his arrival?
A wedding feast. There was Jesus, the answer to the broken heart of the world. Just one more young man at a rural wedding party, he sat amidst a broken people and knew that he was the answer to every yearning of their hearts. The host and maker of the universe, if they but knew it, was the unassuming guest at a marriage that would become the event to announce the reconciliation of the world. All was set. The story was about to be renewed, the miracle announced.
I love it that Mary set the story in motion. She saw the lack of wine and she knew the shame at stake. But I think her insight carries a larger understanding. Perhaps in Mary's remarkable heart was a sense of the symbolism of that moment. She was the human mother of God, more aware than any other human on earth of what had come, what dwelt so silently among the fallen and was about to be revealed. Perhaps when she confronted her Son with the disaster, she knew she was speaking of a larger lack, speaking to the deepest void in the human heart when she said, "the wine has run short."
Jesus, in a voice I fully believe was playful and grave at once, says, "what is it to me?" A lively challenge. A parry and thrust, a question that could be our devastation if she really had to answer. For in the end, what ought it be to God? God gave humankind the world and we, the Beloved, cast it away. We flung his love back in his face and by our own choice squandered life itself. We are a band of impossible ingrates forever choosing against the one lover in all the world whose great affection gave us our being. What is it to God? Why should he stoop to save us from disaster?
But the mother of God knows, and I can almost see her steady eyes in that face shaped by a lifetime of "pondering these things." This woman who has known the Holy Spirit and borne the baby God into the world knows that this is everything to God. For Jesus stands before her. Messiah came. If this weren't everything to God her Son would never have been born. She smiles and turns.
"Do exactly what he says," she tells the servants. And her words are an affirmation of faith in the action and grace of her God. He has come and he will save. Despite the stupidity of his Beloved, the fallen hearts, the corrupted loves, he has come to renew the feast, to save the marriage. We will be healed if we do what He commands and believe in the love of the great, redeeming Bridegroom.
Jesus, smiling I feel sure, acts. He points to six great vats set aside for... what? Ritual cleansing. Vats set aside to hold the water that has been our attempt to make ourselves enough before God, to keep the wine of mercy from running short. Throughout the long ages of sorrow, we have struggled toward God, reached for the mercy he still offered. Humankind has always attempted to become enough, to keep life and love and joy alive. But the wine always fails. And now, those symbols of man's struggle and man's failure to ever be clean or enough, the perennial symbol of his "fallen shortness" are what Jesus chooses for his first miracle.
"Fill them with water," he commands. Let them brim afresh at his command. "Then," he says, "take a dipper full to the steward and let him taste."
And the water is turned to wine. Because Jesus has come, the struggle is going to end, the thirst will be slaked, the wedding feast of the world will swing back into being and it will be a revelry such as the world has never seen. Because of the coming of Jesus, the wine of life will never run short again. The sign has been accomplished, the first miracle flung, the first note of celebration sounded. Jesus goes quietly back to his seat, meets the beaming glance of his mother, and knows that his doom, and his glory, have at once begun. With his own life he will stay the shame of the world, save his bride and renew the wedding feast.
"You have saved the best for last," sputters the astonished steward, stumbling up to the wedding party, holding out a wine finer than any he has tasted in his life.
And the best One in the world sits quietly amidst his people. Mary grasps the arm of her son, feels the pulse of his warm, sweet, human blood, touches the skin that houses God himself and knows that the wedding of the world has been restored. Perhaps she aches as well, knowing somehow that the wine required for this restoration is the blood of her son. But its giving is the seal of an eternal love, a marriage that never again will be broken. The feast begins anew, never now to end. The final word of the great lover God, the best word, is Jesus. And the wine of life will never run short again.
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June 2-8
Deposit: $100 due by February 24
Total Cost: There will be minimal fundraising for this event. Right now we believe the Golf Scramble Fundraiser will cover all expenses.
Throughout the Spring semester we will have five meetings to prepare us for the work we will be doing. These meetings are seen as a crucial part to the efforts of the mission trip. You will be allowed to miss only one of the required meetings. The meetings dates are: January 13, February 24, March 17, April 6 (Golf Scramble Fundraiser), and May 19.
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The four-star Hotel Riu Tikida Beach is located in Agadir, Morocco's number one beach destination. It is an adult only hotel and offers 251 lovely rooms and suites. It is an ideal spot for a beach holiday and for some golf in the sunshine. It is an all-inclusive hotel located on the shores of a large sandy beach on Morocco's Atlantic Coast.
The hotel has a range of facilities including a hammam, a Thalassotherapy Centre, beauty treatments, as well as a large garden, a freshwater swimming pool and a solarium terrace, as well as other amenities.
It offers the increasingly popular all-Inclusive concept allowing guests to savour a mix of food at the buffet restaurant. There are also theme restaurants, including the Moroccan restaurant "Le Mogador", an ideal place to sample Morocco cuisine combining Berber, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, African and Moorish flavours.
There is a range of leisure activities and sports including tennis, yoga, petanque, darts, table tennis, volleyball, water exercise classes, belly dancing and even Arabic lessons and in the evening you can enjoy the hotel's nightclub. Plus, there are three great golf courses nearby and with over 300 days of sunshine every year, the golf courses in Agadir are justifiably popular.
Map of Hotel Riu Tikida Beach and nearby courses
Golf course Hotel
Ocean Golf Club is located just south of the new Medina near the mouth of the Souss river and offers panoramic views ofView 4.47km / 2.78mi Tamarina Golf
The 18-hole Tamarina Golf Course is a par 72 and ranks amongst one of the most scenic in the region. It is also reveredView 5.66km / 3.52mi Golf du Soleil
The Golf du Soleil is located close to the city of Agadir, in an atmosphere that is relaxed and friendly and surroundedView 6.04km / 3.76mi
The Hotel Atlantic Palace is one of the best five-star hotels in Agadir and offers you a splendid spa and a wide range of leisure and dining activities entirely dedicated to enjoyment and relaxationView 0.23km / 0.14mi Hotel Riu Palace Tikida Agadir
The Hotel Riu Palace Tikida Agadir is the ideal place to take a golf and beach holiday in Morocco. At this all-inclusive hotel located on the beachfront, you can enjoy a wide array of facilities designed to offer you maximum comfort during your stay.All Inclusive View 0.65km / 0.41mi Kenzi Menara Palace
This luxury hotel is situated in a 10-acre park in Marrakech, only a 10-minute drivefrom the Jama el Fna Square. The hotel offers guests free access to the outdoor swimming pool, the fitness centre and 1 free visit per stay to the sauna or hammam.All Inclusive View 202.48km / 125.81mi Hotel Kenzi Farah
Nestling in the lush palm groves in the heart of Marrakech, this lovely four-star hotel offers stylish accommodation in an enviable setting. The hotel is in a trendy, cosmopolitan district of the city with great access to the citys many attractions.View 203.58km / 126.5mi Sofitel Marrakech Lounge & Spa Hotel
The Sofitel Marrakech Lounge & Spa Hotel is located in the upscale Hivernage region of Marrakech, just a stroll from the cities best attractions, shops, museums, restaurants, casinos and the famous Jemaa el Fna square.View 203.88km / 126.68mi Hotel & Ryads Barriere Le Naoura
The Naoura Barriere is a luxury five-star hotel spread over the large, peaceful, garden landscape in the centre of Marrakesh. The hotel is just a short walk from the heart of the medina, the souks, the famous Jemaa El Fna square and the sights, sounds and smells of Marrakechs wonderful city centre.View 204.65km / 127.17mi Hotel Riu Tikida Garden
The Riu Tikida Garden Hotel is located a short distance from the city centre, yet peacefully tucked away amongst the palm trees. This four-star hotel offers all the facilities needed for a pleasant, relaxing stay.View 207.53km / 128.96mi Palmeraie Village
The Palmeraie Village is a self-catering apartment complex on the edge of the Palmeraie Village, a large resort with three hotels, a 27-hole golf course, shops, bars, restaurants and a host of leisure facilitiesView 210.23km / 130.63mi Hotel Riu Tikida Palmeraie
The Hotel Riu Tikida Palmeraie is a beautiful four-star hotel located on the edge of Marrakech. It is an all-inclusive hotel surrounded by palm groves and looks like a traditional desert village spread over extensive gardens.View 210.48km / 130.79mi Palmeraie Palace
The Palmeraie Golf Palace is a luxury, five-star golf hotel set in a peaceful oasis on the edge of the unique city of MarrakechAll Inclusive View 210.87km / 131.03mi Pullman Mazagan Royal Golf & Spa
The hotel looks out to sea from a prime location on El Jadida bay, overlooking the historic cityView 336.56km / 209.13mi Mazagan Beach & Golf Resort
The resort is set in 250 hectares of land next to a long sandy beach and blends into the landscape. This award-winning hotel has 490 rooms and suites that overlook the sea, golf course and swimming pool and is set in the tranquil sand dunes with stunning ocean views.View 340.1km / 211.33mi Elba Palace Golf Hotel
Located alongside the Fuerteventura Golf Club course, the adults only five-star Hotel Elba Palace Golf is the perfect venue for a relaxing golf holidayView 470.8km / 292.54mi


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March 21, 2008
Columbus, Ohio- Florida State senior Lauren Sparg became the first Seminole swimmer to break the 53 second barrier in the 100 fly as she qualified 10th at the 2008 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Columbus, Ohio. Sparg followed her morning performance with an overall finish of 14th at night, swimming a 53.25.
"I think she might be disapponted that she didn't win the consol heat," FSU head coach Neil Harper said. "It's the fastet meet in the world and I'm just excited for her being honorable mention All-American and that she finished her career in her best event in the top 16 at NCAA's."
In the morning swim, Sparg won her heat of the 100 butterfly with in a FSU record breaking time of 52.81. The Durban, South Africa native then waited for three more heats to finish before finding out she had earned a second-swim in the consolation finals.
"Lauren [Sparg] is usually a better swimmer at night," Harper said. "I would expect her to have an even better performance this evening."
Seminole diver Aleia Monden competed in the preliminary round on the three-meter board and finished 32nd. The sophomore finished 32nd on the one-meter as well with 235.70 points. Both Sparg and Monden will be back at in the pool and on the board Saturday with Sparg competing in the 200 fly and Monden on her specialty event the platform.


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Student loans carry a reputation for inevitability surpassed only by death and taxes. With good reason, too. In order to discharge a student loan in bankruptcy—the only way to shake it for good—a borrower in bankruptcy must show that being required to repay the loan would cause them "undue hardship."
Making that showing has proven difficult indeed. In applying the "undue hardship" standard, most courts use the Brunner test, which requires petitioners to prove that they: (i) cannot maintain a minimum standard of living; (ii) won't be able to do so for much of the repayment period; and (iii) made a "good-faith effort" to repay the loans (by, for instance, getting a job and/or minimizing expenses). The standard is so fact-specific that generalizations are difficult, but it's the rare circumstance that meets all three prongs of the test. Anecdotal tales like the one about a woman making $10,000/year who couldn't prove "undue hardship" abound.
But what if borrowers in bankruptcy did not have to prove "undue hardship" in order to get their student loans discharged? Step back and remember: Student loans cannot be discharged (except on showing of an "undue hardship") only because Congress exempted them from the rules that apply to most debts. If a debt does not meet the Bankruptcy Code's requirements for such an exemption, then, it can be discharged without a showing of undue hardship.
That definition leaves some wiggle room, and debtors are starting to exploit it. The Bankruptcy Code defines a non-dischargeable student loan as a "qualified education loan" having certain characteristics. Among other things, the loan must have been incurred solely for "qualified higher education expenses", which means the "cost of attendance" at an "eligible educational institution." Many students take out loans that arguably exceed their cost of attendance. If that is found to be the case, the whole loan would be subject to discharge (given that it was not solely for the cost of attendance). Also, a non-accredited school might not be considered an "eligible educational institution."
These arguments are reportedly enjoying at least some success, but mounting them requires legal fees that most debtors can't afford, and banks may choose to settle cases before any law can develop. If these arguments gain traction, however, they could have severe implications for investors, and raise even more alarms about the imminent bursting of a student loan bubble. At the very least, they would make clear: death and taxes really are the only things we're sure of in life.
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As an intern I'm obviously gaining invaluable experience and learning so much about all aspects of running a production company. That basically goes without saying.
BUT there are some pretty sweet bonuses of the job that some of you may not know about.
First of all, I get some pretty sweet freebies from people we work with. Monica Atwood, of Atwood Ales fam, gifted me a lovely farmhouse saison beer and Scout Urling, owner extraordinaire of Flying Bird Botanicals hooked me up with the most amazing green tea called The Village Green.
Working with Cassidy and Stacy means some pretty fun spontaneous side trips when we're traveling around Whatcom County. This means an antique store detour in Lynden or a Mount Vernon Co-op hot bar lunch. Let me tell you, if you're ever down in the good old MV, please go check out their co-op. Maybe just move in there. The hot bar is delish and the upstairs shop has some wacky cool shit.
And a big thank you to Ben from Film Is Truth!! He hooked it up with a swag bag at the Bellingham Film Annual Showcase.
Oh and who doesn't love having work meetings at happy hour?! C'mon. I get to log intern hours while getting a drink at Kombucha Town or Camber and talking future projects with Stacy and Cassidy and other rad people we are working with. Cheers!


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Weekly Update 5.11.17
Dear Subscriber,
Well, judging by emails from our fabulous subscribers:
A) many of you still own Nvidia shares at 300% gains,
B) many own OLED shares now up over 100% this YEAR and want to know if you should buy more AMD.
The answer is YES...and it has to do with Nvidia (my mea culpa on our "take profits" advice to follow).
AMD selloff & OLED Surpasses our Target:
AMD sold off spectacularly last Tuesday after the company disappointed investors with its gross margin outlook. We have gone all over the numbers and in reality Q1 2017 was a very good quarter for the company. . . so what happened?
#1 Some institutional investors are WAY overreacting to the gross margin guidance. #2 AMD was owned by a LOT of momentum black box hedge funds that his automatic sell buttons at the same time. #3 AMD is now way oversold, making a great time/very timely to start/add to our position (giving the NVDIA blow out sales to our favorite secular growth space cloud based Artificial Intelligence data centers).
Action to Take: IF you have no AMD position, take one under $11 with $18 target. IF you want to leverage your existing position, let's buy the $12 January 2018 Calls <$1.75 with $5 target.
Technically we HAVE a bottom in the stock. The Nvidia news on their continued BIG AI sales ramp means AMD has a big AI ramp in sales too…and they have their new Polaris and Vega chips in the market in second half 2017 that are AI bombs.
Disappointing guidance
AMD expects its second-quarter revenue to grow by just 12% year over year---and I simply do not get or believe the conservatism. The steep decline in the stock price following AMD's earnings report was mostly due to this guidance. Here's what the second quarter will contain:
- A full quarter of Ryzen 7 sales
- Nearly a full quarter of Ryzen 5 sales
- A full quarter of Polaris sales
- Some contribution from Vega
- Some contribution from Naples
Ryzen 5, AMD's mainstream CPUs, launched at the beginning of April. The first Polaris graphics cards didn't become available until late June of last year, deep into the second quarter. Vega, AMD's upcoming high-end GPU, and Naples, AMD's upcoming server CPU, are expected to launch at some point during the second quarter.
In other words, the second quarter of last year contained essentially none of the above. The comparison should be incredibly easy for AMD. Given all of these new products, 12% growth simply isn't enough. To be fair, Vega and Naples may not contribute much revenue in the second quarter, depending on when they launch and how long they take to ramp up. But even so, if AMD is forecasting Polaris and most of the Ryzen desktop lineup can only drive 12% growth, it's no wonder the stock fell off a cliff.
Key Point: NO ONE really knows why they gave such surprising guidance—but the ridiculous strength at Nvidia for Artificial Intelligence in-the-cloud ---186% GROWTH y-o-y reported last night means Google, Baidu, IBM, Tencent joined Amazon and Microsoft in consuming MASS amounts of GPUs as their AI engine.
NVDIA MEA CULPA: I DID believe from all the data we collect that the slowdown in the 60% of Nvidia sales to gaming sets would offset the big growth we looked for in AI…I was DEAD WRONG. I advised to take some of your Nvidia profits around $100…on worries of downturn in the gaming market for GPUs.
Well I was dead wrong: the successful Nintendo roll out with Nvidia GPUs sucked up a lot of gaming GPU demand…and the AI explosion we have forecast for the last two years has hit…BIGLY>
We MISSED adding Nvidia call options I was hoping to put on AFTER a pullback…MY BAD. I know by emails that a lot of you still own Nvidia shares…you just got 17% added to your 250-300%+ gains from our former recommendations.
We are Doing work on new valuation on on Nvdia as it hit my $120 target…but for the time being BUY AMD shares or options and take advantage of this way overcooked pull back.
AMD's array of new products—including its Ryzen desktop processors (launched this quarter), and Naples and Vega server and graphics processors out this quarter— will help shares recover. Wells Fargo's David Wong, who raised his valuation range on the stock to $18 from $11-$13, writes that the company "continues to execute well," and "with sales up 18% year over year in the March quarter and guidance for 12% growth in the June quarter, AMD is continuing to demonstrate a recovery in sales and move towards profitability." Canaccord Genuity's Matthew Ramsay concurs, writing that his "Buy thesis remains very much intact." Successful new product introductions should yield "materially higher gross margins" than today, he asserts.
AMD CEO Lisa Su says that while higher video game console chip sales this quarter pressured margins, investors should expect a year-over-year increase.
Reality: After more than tripling for us is the past year, AMD shares were vulnerable to profit-taking on even a wisp of bad news. However, as higher-margin Ryzen chips and other new products come online this year, a recovery will rock the shares higher.
AMD was heavily owned by algorithmic momentum hedge funds like Renaissance
The company's margin outlook for the current quarter shocked Earnings algo black box momentum investors. Though the company's revenues and earnings were "in-line" with analysts' consensus expectations, investors took issue with the chip company's gross margin guidance, quickly selling their shares into the weakness. I believe there is huge opportunity to be found in AMD's emotionally fueled sell off.
A gross margin of 33 percent is still pretty good, and though it is less than what the chip maker achieved in the last quarter, it is no reason to discount AMD's shares by 25 percent. Like I said, the emotionally fueled sell off is a good opportunity to buy into Advanced Micro Devices as shares are wildly oversold.
Shares of our favorite play on organic light-emitting diode materials maker Universal Display (OLED), a BIG OLED supplier to Samsung Electronics are higher almost 22%, at $115, after the company reported Q1 revenue and profit that blew away consensus estimates, and raised its year outlook, saying it now has "sufficient visibility" to predict higher revenue.
WE WERE not surprised at all.Revenue in the three months ended in March rose to $55.6 million, yielding EPS of 22 cents per share. Analysts had been modeling $33.8 million, and break-even on the profit line.
For 2017, the company raised its revenue outlook to a range of $260 million to $280 million, versus what had been a range of $230 million to $250 million. But remember the REAL growth spurt in OLED comes from Apple 8 and Apple 10 phones which only really start their ramp in late 2017 but really start to roll in 2018. OLED gets a royalty on EVERY OLED screen at both Samsung and Apple.
CEO Sidney Rosenblatt remarked, "It is an exciting time for the OLED industry. We are encouraged by the momentum that we are seeing from our customers as well as from the supply chain that supports the OLED ecosystem. With customers' mounting investments in new manufacturing capacity and the development of an array of new display and lighting products, we expect our growth trajectory to be positive for the foreseeable future.
As we look forward, we believe that the OLED industry is poised to grow faster than earlier expectations this year. We are therefore raising our 2017 revenue guidance range to at least $260 million to $280 million, reflecting year-over-year growth of 30% to 40%."
Ladies and Gents…we are primarily investing in the Super 7 amazing and once a generation convergence of technology spending "Supercycles" 2016-2020:
- Data center based Artificial Intelligence (AI): Nvidia, AMD
- Conversion of billions of digital devices and TVs from LED screens to OLED: OLED AMAT LRCX
- Transformation of NAND memory from 2D to 3D: MU LRCX AMAT
- The Internet of Things (based on new 5G wireless roll-out starting later this year): Impinj (PI)
- Apple 8, 9, 10 Super Cycle: OLED MU Synaptics (SYNA)
- Autonomous Driving Vehicles: MobileEye (being bought by Intel) Autoliv
- ALL of these driving $400 Billion a YEAR in Data Super Center development (aka the Mega Cloud.
We will add new direct plays on 5G Supercycle with Cavium Networks (CAVM), 3D NAND with Axcellis (ACLS) and Apple upgrade with Synaptics (SYNA) and long term call options on Apple shortly. To make REAL money on new positions we need SOME pull back like the AMD pull back…it takes patience but PATIENCE is what has made us up now 25% for the year.
Have a great weekend!
- Tobin
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"The most beautiful is what is still unfinished / a sky filled with stars uncharted by astronomers / a sketch by Leonardo a song broken off from emotion / A pencil a brush suspended in the air"
So Julia Hartwig's "In Praise of the Unfinished" concludes, leaving her readers suspended in their own emotions. And yet this momentary captivity is liberating: while emotionally entangled, we achieve intellectual freedom by virtue of the poems. We continue on in our incomplete lives armed with the completing questions. Even at 85, Hartwig still discovers new mysteries of life to explore.
"Unfinished," an anthology of her selected poems, is the first English publication from Hartwig, a Polish poet best known for her translations of English and French poetry into her native language. Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter, the book is a window into Hartwig's interpretation of the real essence of life. Unconstrained by the expectations of social constructs and unencumbered by the tendency to divide everything into black and white, her poems address universal themes in the context of a specific sentiment, image, or idea. Hartwig uses her poems to expose life in all its strange incongruities, rendering it naked and vulnerable to our judgment.
At first glance, Hartwig's work is unremarkable. The titles of her pieces, which are usually drawn from lines in the poems, are intriguing but hardly riveting. She speaks consistently to those topics poets most often resort to when in need of inspiration: love, life, death, and nature. And the punctuation of her poems, while unorthodox, is hardly innovative. Taken independently, the characteristics that define Hartwig's writing would hardly be considered noteworthy. But it would be an injustice to allow Hartwig to fade into the woodwork as just another "classically beautiful" poet. Within her seemingly standard framework, Hartwig's precise diction and conceptual views of the world shatter the "classically beautiful" mold, leaving behind poems that startle and unnerve even as they evoke gorgeous images.
In "A Mistake," Hartwig draws upon such broad themes as unrequited dreams while describing a painter's exhibit: "Huge canvases, on which ideally clean colors fill spaces precisely measured out with elegant geometry. / But in a corner of the room, the tender, delicate drawing of a leaf sketched with a quick masterly line, like a last fetish with which he didn't know how to part, like the trace of a farewell kiss to nature. / He shouldn't have shown it." Hartwig's use of uninhibited imagery wrought with implicit emotion creates a disquieting sensation. Her poems unnerve because they force us to realize the truths we have been hiding, even from ourselves. Hartwig suggests that, like the poem's painter, men and women attempt to live life constantly behind a screen of pretense. By exposing the painter, she exposes us and forces us to question whether we have remained true to our most deeply held hopes.
Hartwig applies the same critical perspective to the ostensibly mundane. By casting light on the complexities of simple situations, Hartwig compels us to wonder how many times we have performed everyday acts without noticing the underlying implications. In "Philemon and Baucis," a short poem about a woman getting out of bed to get a drink of water, the man beside her wakes because of her shuffling. At first he's irritated, then worried that his wife is no longer with him: "Suddenly his hair stands on end. / Is this shuffling real, or is it only a memory, in the past, in nonexistence?" The poem's Philemon then comes to a realization: "It is real! She really shuffles. So, they are still together. Grateful and reconciled, he falls back into his fragile sleep." Juxtaposing the tenderness of love and the fear of its possible loss, Hartwig grasps the most familiar parts of ordinary life and presents them in an estranged fashion, reintroducing us to its intricacies as if we were once again seeing them for the first time.
Her overarcing statements read as if they weren't meant for an audience, but rather as proverbial, unconditional truths of life that ultimately transcend the subject matter of any piece. But she remains entirely accessible, largely due to the number of rhetorical questions present, which actively involve the reader in her philosophical musings. Paradoxically, by presenting an alienated picture of the familiar, Hartwig intrigues and thus draws us into her most existential ideas. She leaves us with chills, suggesting that what is most truly frightening about life is not its cruelties, loneliness, or even death, but rather that life, in its entirety, could ever be"finished."
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Last week I posted that Google Play Music would be introducing the Family plan for subscribers "soon". Soon appears to be today. In the latest update to the Android phone and tablet apps, you can now sign up for the family subscription. If you are a family with lots of music lovers, this will be a great plan at only $14.99 per month for unlimited streaming and downloading for up to 6 members of your household. Keep in mind that a single subscription is $9.99 per month so basically for $5 you getting 5 additional accounts. Plus, that subscription also gets each member access
to YouTube Red, the ad-free version of that service, which is valued at $9.99 per month. It is a very competitive offering in a landscape full of streaming music services. To sign up your family members, you will need to have their email addresses that are associated with their Google accounts. This is usually their Gmail account but it could be different. You can designate those who have account rights as well as those who are required to get permission for making purchases.
One thing to note, if you are currently trying out Google Play Music via a trial (if you took advantage of it after buying your Chromecast for example) and subscribe to the family plan, your trial plan ends immediately. That may not be that big of a deal for some but keep it in mind. The trial is for individual users only.
Also, if you want to sign up for the Family plan, currently you can only do it from your Android devices. The web-based Play Music site does not allow you to sign up.
The latest version of the app is 6.2.2221U for those keeping score at home and it is out in the Google Play Store now. If you have the app installed on your device(s) then you should see the OTA update for it at any point over the next couple of days. If you haven't downloaded and tried it yet (you can try it free for 30 days) now is a good time to do so and see if it is right for your family.
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Google Play Music Notification Now Supports Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down to Rate Songs
While the Family plans are the big news in this update, there is one other new feature in the update. Now if you have music playing in the background and swipe down to see your notifications, you will notice that the Google Play Music notification now supports a thumbs up and thumbs down for a song. This feature is really handy as you don't necessarily have to unlock your phone to rate a song. Ratings are important if you are streaming music stations as the service will more accurately learn your likes and dislikes of a particular genre.
The rating system also is important for your library that you have uploaded to the service. My rating your songs, the service builds an auto playlist of those songs so you can simply tap on that playlist and play all your favorite songs across your entire library.
Will you be signing your family up with the new plan? Do you think it is a good value? Leave a comment here or on Google+ and let me know what you think.


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Tom qualified at the University College of Osteopathy in London, with a Masters in Osteopathy. In addition to being an Osteopath, he is a soft tissue therapist and dry needling therapist. Tom has extensive experience in soft tissue therapy, working with both amateur and professional sports teams and in private practice.
With a background in the Armed forces and being a keen sportsman actively involved in numerous sports including hockey, rugby, triathlons and crossfit, Tom's experience allows him to relate and understand to the injuries and issues associated with these and other sports.
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Balcony FallsTakeout Project
FORVA board, steercom and friends:
Attached is a very recent letter from DCR that frees Dominion up to work directly with us.
Documents\Balcony_Falls _access-DCR.pdf
This is good news for prospects for working on a better access below Balcony.
It has only taken about 10 years to get this part of the puzzle put in place…
Now on to the next phase…
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Friends of the Rivers of Virginia ((FORVA) has been following the Cushaw Dam Relicensing Project for some time now, although we have been unable to attend any meetings due to the fact that we are all citizen volunteers and therefore must work during those times scheduled for meetings.
FORVA represents dozens of groups of river users in Virginia. Many of them are boater organizations or include boaters in their groups. We have for years heard from many of them about the negative impacts of the Cushaw Dam on boating related use of the river. One of the biggest problems is the lack of an adequate take-out below the whitewater section of the James we call Balcony Falls.
Balcony FallsTakeout Project News
FERC Environmental Assessment (EA):
FERC completed its EA on the Balcony Falls Takeout Project in late August.
FORVA, the FFV and Coastals
filed joint comments on October 11, pointing out major errors
with the EA and criticizing its conclusions on recreation.
DCR also filed comments critical of the recreation section of the EA.
The EA essentially dismissed any need for mitigation regarding recreation whatsoever, denying any relationship between the dam and whitewater boating. Quite bizarre.
Dominion Power:
To its credit, Dominion has said it will disregard FERC EA recommendations on recreation and stand by its commitment to contribute $165,000 to whitewater recreation access. Thank you Jim Thornton and Dominion.
Virginia Agencies:
Meanwhile, DCR met with DRPT (Department of Rail and Public Transportation) in October and has agreed to another meeting with DRPT soon to discuss railroad access. DRPT has also agreed to release a draft of a study done on railroad access and liability issues, but we have no timetable yet. Stay tuned.
CSX, the railroad:
Still stonewalling. Still not communicating. Still don't get it. CSX has indicated it still is not going to cooperate in allowing an at-grade crossing anywhere.
Support Grows:
Our newest letter of support for the project comes from Trout Unlimited – Roanoke Chapter. We now have 42 letters of support from around the area.
Access Location Photos:
We need to shoot photos of the informal access points, like Iron Man, Matts Creek I, Matts Creek II and Snowden. If anyone has a good digital camera and can do this please let me know.
Click on maps to enlarge
How to Help:
Contact Bill Tanger:
Email address: firstname.lastname@example.com: 540-366-2228.
We would like to get Trout Unlimited of Virginia to do a letter of support.
Anyone want to help get that done?
Update: 12-05-2006
Update: 10-27-2006
Update: 4-20-2006
Meeting Notes: 3-28-2006
Balcony FallsTakeout ProjectSupport List
October 18, 2007
Amherst County
Appomattox River Company
Back Country Ski and Sports
Bedford County
Big Island Sportsman's Club
Blue Ridge Outdoors
Blue Ridge River Runners
Campbell County
Coastal Canoeists
Del. Watkins Abbitt
Del. Preston Bryant
Del. Ben Cline
Del. William Fralin
Del. Morgan Griffith
Del. Albert Pollard
Del. Lacey Putney
Del. Jim Shuler
Del. Onzlee Ware
DCR (Dept. of Conservation and Recreation)
DGIF (Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries)
Float Fishermen of Virginia
Franklin County
Friends of the Appomattox River
FORVA (Friends of the Rivers of Virginia)
Glasgow, Town of
Bruce Ingram, Outdoor Writer/Photographer
James River Association
James River Canoe Livery
Lynchburg City
Outdoor Trails Outfitters
Roanoke County
Rockbridge County
Sen. Brandon Bell
Sen. Creigh Deeds
Sen. John Edwards
Sen. Emmett Hanger
Sen. Charles Hawkins
Sen. Steve Newman
Sen. Roscoe Reynolds
Sen. Frank Ruff
Tangent Outfitters
Trout Unlimited – Roanoke Chapter
Total: 42 letters of support


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Join the leaders of the hernia mesh plaintiff bar to learn about the science behind these dangerous devices. The webinar will provide an overview of the products and defendants in litigation, as well as tips for case selection, discovery strategies, and how it may impact your cases and clients, and the current status of MDLs and state actions.
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Adam M. Evans is his firm's lead attorney in the C-Qur hernia mesh litigation and is on the executive committee for the C-Qur MDL in New Hampshire. He is currently traveling through the United States and Canada to consult with surgeons, materials experts, infections disease experts, regulatory experts, and others in relation to hernia mesh. Mr. Evans serves on the Volunteer Attorney Project, a program that provides pro bono legal services to Kansas City's elderly and indigent citizens. He received the Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Dean's Academic Excellence Award, has been listed as a Super Lawyer Rising Star since 2014, and was listed as at "Top 40 under 40" attorney by The National Trial Lawyers. Mr. Evans is a member of the American Association of Justice's (AAJ) Hernia Mesh Litigation Group, Transvaginal Mesh Litigation Group, Public Affairs Committee, and generously donates to AAJ PAC. The Hollis Law Firm is located in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Kathleen A. Farinas
Kathleen A. Farinas is a partner at George & Farinas, LLP, where the focus of her practice is injuries caused by toxic exposures and dangerous medical devices and pharmaceuticals. She has served on counsel in numerous catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical, toxic tort, and asbestos personal injury cases. She has been listed in the National Trial Lawyers Association's "Top 100 Trial Lawyers" every year since 2014 and was Ms. Farinas is a sustaining member of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association and a member of the Indiana Women's Trial Lawyer Caucus. She is co-chair of the American Association of Justice's (AAJ) Hernia Mesh Litigation Group, and a member of AAJ's Product Liability Section, Asbestos Litigation Group, and Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts. Ms. Farinas generously donates to AAJ PAC. George & Farinas, LLP, an AAJ Leaders Forum member, is located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Jonathan D. Orent litigates for people alleging harm by defective medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs, including all aspects of discovery and expert development. He represents women suffering from painful side effects associated with pelvic mesh/sling products in thousands of filed cases against multiple corporations, as well as hernia patients harmed by mesh repairs. Mr. Orent is a member of the American Association for Justice's (AAJ) Litigation Funding Litigation Group and Litigation Group Leaders Council and serves as a co-chair of the Hernia Mesh Litigation Group. Motley Rice, LLC is an AAJ Leaders Forum member and Mr. Orent works out of their Providence, Rhode Island office.
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Monday, 7 January 2013, 8:00PM – 8:30PM
"It's very special to me this place, I think some of the happiest times of my life have been spent in and around this river. So for me, it means more than I can find words for actually, I simply adore it here." Caroline Quentin
Caroline Quentin returns for a second series of Cornwall, spending the summer in Britain's most westerly county to take us further into the heartland of its scenic beauty, meet the people at the heart of its community and to discover yet more of its hidden gems.
Caroline truly immerses herself in Cornish life and during the series she takes to the seas with the crew of the Padstow RNLI, goes lobster fishing with Callum from Fresh From The Sea café, and learns the art of sheep herding with the Williams family.
Caroline revisits one of the places she stopped off at during series one, Simon and Jemma at The Hidden Hut, Portcurnick beach, to help them serve up one of their famous beach feasts and to find out some surprise news.
Also this series, we join Caroline in iconic villages such as Newlyn and Port Isaac where she mines deeper into the area's rich heritage, investigating the legends and landscape of this historic county.
In the first of the 10-part series, Caroline explores her favourite part of Cornwall with her old friend and ferryman Nick Bailey, who takes her on a tour of the Helford River, where travelling by boat is quicker and easier than by car. Nick explains: "I did marry a Cornish girl and I can't ever imagine taking her and the kids, anywhere else than here…even after all these years the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I just love being here, it's my life."
Also this week, it's a busy time at the Cornwall Seal Sanctuary where the team have rescued over 60 grey seals during the season and it's time to release the last of the rescued seal pups back into the wild.
Caroline learns some extreme gardening tips for life in a sub-tropical paradise, and meets dairy farmer and ice-cream maker Toby Roskilly and his family, who are using their 50 years of experience to create a very Cornish new ice-cream flavour. Toby says: "It's more a way of living than a way of working…Quite often I'm waking up at night with an idea, thinking 'cream tea ice-cream!'"


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A groundbreaking ceremony was held this morning to celebrate the beginning of construction for Soboba Aquatics Center at San Jacinto High School.
The community has been in desperate need for a pool since Sallee Park Recreational Pool, the only public pool in San Jacinto, closed in 2014. However, San Jacinto Unified School District (SJUSD) has been advocating for a pool long before the closure of Sallee Park. It's been on the hearts and minds of several board members for nearly 20 years.
Diane Perez, SJUSD Superintendent, stated at the groundbreaking ceremony, "Today is about equity and our kids getting what they deserve. It's not just about a pool. It's about all the places of connection that make kids successful."
With the help of the community, especially the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians Tribal Council, they've finally been able to make a splash. The pool has been named in their honor and to showcase the rich heritage of the community.
Construction begins this month and the pool is scheduled to open in the Fall of 2019.


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Does this mean it's dead?
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(screenshot of the console)
This was after a "restore to factory defaults" from the console of a Netgate C2758. It stops here and never proceeds any farther.
It'll react to plug/unplug events, like for USB or network, but nothing else.
dotdash last edited by
See what's happening on the serial console.
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seems like its having issues mounting the intel SSD drive
jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate last edited by
It's probably waiting for input on the serial console. Nudging it to the video console from the loader prompt can help (set console=vidconsole)
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Yep, that was it. For the benefit of future forum searches: when the boot process appears to hang with "Trying to mount root" as the last printed line, it has probably switched to the serial console, and it either needs to be accessed with a null modem serial cable or by entering "set console="vidconsole" at the loader prompt. It can be made permanent by putting console="vidconsole" in /boot/loader.conf.local.
This machine was not originally set up to boot to serial console, and didn't before - it seems to have happened after I had selected "return to factory defaults".
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Ignore those guys… Its dead. Mail it to me. I'll send address (-:
Also, intel SSDs suck. I'll dispose of that for you...


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I'm in the middle of revising and fine-tuning strategy at work and I'm learning all about strategic communication at school, so I thought this might be an opportune time to talk about the essentials of strategy. Whatever business you are in, I'm sure you agree that things generally go better when you have a plan. Living in the moment is all good and well, but it doesn't really work for an organization as well as a person.
Here are the questions you should be asking yourself from the get-go: Who? What? Why? Where? When? How?
Every good organization strategy starts with two statements: mission and vision. What is your intent and how do you think you can get there? And, why should we care?
I just read an article by Eugen Tarnow (A Recipe for Mission and Vision Statements) that proposes using a "unifying action declaration" for mission statements—a short statement constructed to (1) suggest a competitive action, (2) identify this action only vaguely, and (3) include a social categorization. For instance, "We bring you high-performance banking." This motivates the troops, it differentiates the organization from others, and it leaves enough room for interpretation by all departments and teams. The vision statement can then delve into more detail about how to achieve this mission and why the organization cares about it.
Once you've waded through these two thorny yet genuine pieces of creative writing, you have to address and develop the following:
- Situation analysis (what is the current state of affairs?)
- Objectives (what are your goals for the year, for five years?)
- Audiences (who are you trying to reach?)
- Brand ambassadors (who can help tell your story?)
- Tactics (how can you achieve your goals?)
- Vehicles (what platforms will you use?)
- Evaluation (how will you measure your success and failure?)
It doesn't matter how deep you dive into these sections, because you have to start somewhere and you will never have a "final" document. Your strategy should be a living, working document that gets an update at least once a year. It's hard work, but it can help think through overall operations of the organization. It is imperative that you have buy-in from a high level within all teams for your strategy. This means more work upfront, but it's worth it in the long-term. Don't fly by the seat of your pants if you can help it.


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text: The new computer is up and running--my goodness, everything is so advanced these days. So far, most everything is working on it (although I may replace the keyboard--this one is small, and my wrists go wonky if I'm not careful), with the notable exception of the scanner. Adobe Acrobat doesn't work on it because I bought it for a PC and this is a Mac--hello, that was kind of expensive software, you think for that kind of money that they'd accommodate both platforms--but the new computer can print to PDF all by itself, so it kind of doesn't matter. Alas, the free art software I had on my old computer (and possibly the one before that) is no longer supported--shocking, I know. I'll have to see how the new free art software works.


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The Naked Violin
Tasmin Little, from London, wants to draw more people to the sound of a solo violin. In 2008, a documentary focused on her project, "The Naked Violin" received high acclaim in England and led to workshops and recitals throughout the UK. On her website, www.tasminlittle.net, she offers free downloads of music by J.S.Bach, Paul Patterson and Eugène Ysaÿe. As part of her mission to share the sound of the violin, you are encouraged to download the works for your private use.
From her website: "As a concerto player, Tasmin's performances in the 2008/09 season took her back to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam where she gave the World Premiere of a violin concerto by Robin de Raaff, and she will return in 2010 to the Concertgebouw to premiere a concerto by Willem Jeths. Other performances in 2009 include concerts in Utrecht, Seattle, Katowice, Belfast, Ireland, Spain and a major tour of China, where she will continue her Naked Violin project as well as performing works from her new CD 'Partners in Time' with John Lenehan."
From March 6-14, Tasmin Little is in residency at the Seattle Symphony. Her next performances, as of this writing are at 7:30 p.m. March 12 and 8 p.m and March 14. For ticket information contact the Seattle Symphony at 206-215-4747.
For more information visit these websites:
Seattle Times Article about Tasmin Little; The Seattle Times
And for a fantastic and fun music video of Tasmin Little, which we found on youtube, just click play below.


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Sunday, March 13th, 2pm, we will be gathering for a time of remembrance and celebration of the life of John Vietnam Nguyen.
There will be entertainment, food and drinks. Come celebrate, with his family, John's legacy, the 2nd anniversary of his honorary street naming and the 3rd anniversary of the JVN Mural, and what would have been his 23rd birthday.
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Lycus Sulci
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Lycus Sulci is a very complex region surrounding the northern and western flanks of Olympus Mons. This VIS image shows some of the tectonic ridges found in Lycus Sulci as well as the dark slope streaks that are common in this region.
Orbit Number: 72032 Latitude: 25.8579 Longitude: 222.571 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2018-03-11 07:08
Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in collaboration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.


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Oak Park Brewing Co. closes after cockroaches, mice, weevils found in kitchen
Update: Oak Park Brewing Co. reopened at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday after a follow-up health inspection.
Oak Park Brewing Co. remained closed Monday after a Sacramento County health inspector found cockroaches, weevils and dead rodents on multiple visits to the brewery and kitchen over the weekend.
An inspector found more than 60 dead or alive German cockroaches Friday afternoon, roughly half of which were around the brewing equipment. An undisclosed number of dead Oriental cockroaches — darker, shinier and slightly larger than their German cousins — were also found on glue traps in the kitchen and both front and back brewing areas.
Oak Park Brewing Co. also had more than 100 mouse droppings along the walls of its back brewing area, 20 droppings both atop an open bulk bag of malt and on the bottom shelf of a prep sink, and 10 droppings atop the lid of a bulk container of masa, according to the health inspector's report.
Two dead rodents were found in a glue trap next to a door in the back brewing area. More than 20 weevils were also found inside the masa container.
When the inspector went back Saturday morning, he found 14 live and more than 20 dead cockroaches as well as several rodent droppings by carbon dioxide tanks in a back room. The masa container had been disposed of.
Oak Park Brewing Co. posted to Facebook on Friday that they would close for the night due to unforeseen circumstances, prompting one person to later respond, "Unforeseen? You mean you really didn't see the roaches crawling on your walls?" Co-owner Tom Karvonen did not respond to the Bee's request for comment.
The Bee's Benjy Egel is launching a new effort to cover Sacramento's dining and beer scene. Please send tips and story ideas by email at email@example.com, on Twitter @BenjyEgel or by phone at (916) 321-1052.


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Apps/Packages stuck in "In progress" state when distributing to DPs
For almost a week spent troubleshooting these PIA app and a package that got stuck in "In progress" state trying to deploy to the DPs. Other 1000 apps and packages we have are fine, except for these two. Oh and, Google-fu and/or Tae-BING searches weren't good or helpful enough to fix this issue! J Of course, recreating these would have been the easier way. But why are they in that state and how could we get this fixed? I just want to find a way to reset these objects so I can deploy these to the DPs successfully and know what to do when/if it happens again.
So I looked at all basic app/package properties to see if everything's setup properly; checked the source path, DT settings, distribution settings, content settings, etc. I even tried changing the source path to I know for sure a valid path where CAS can get to. The CAS is able to grab the content from the source location, pack it to PCK, replicate the app/package settings to child primary servers (via DRS), and also able to send to them via sender. But when it gets to the primary servers, despooler was blowing chunkies… It wouldn't process the .sni file properly, even though I see the TRY file that came with it in the despooler. It kept coming up with Error=12! Tried removing the DPs from the app, resetting the pkgstatus/SourceVersion=0, and Status=2, then re-adding the DPs back, no dice. This app just kept falling in Retry state! Ugh!
Despooler.log on the primary servers
Received package CAS008DB version 6. Compressed file - D:\SMSPKG\CAS008DB.PCK.6 as D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\PKGfooh3.TRY
Instruction D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\ds_2ivq1.sni won't be processed till 6/20/2014 1:42:00 PM Central Daylight Time
Instruction D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\ds_ijdl4.sni won't be processed till 6/20/2014 1:13:50 PM Central Daylight Time
Instruction D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\ds_oko21.sni won't be processed till 6/20/2014 1:31:10 PM Central Daylight Time
Instruction D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\ds_vy0p3.sni won't be processed till 6/20/2014 1:36:40 PM Central Daylight Time
Instruction D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\ds_xzqrp.sni won't be processed till 6/20/2014 2:08:40 PM Central Daylight Time
Waiting for ready instruction file....
Old package storedUNC path is .
This package[CAS008DB]'s information hasn't arrived yet for this version [6]. Retry later ...
Created retry instruction for job 00005921
Despooler failed to execute the instruction, error code = 12
So I started digging, and compared a successful APP vs this bad one, and was surprised to found this on CAS's pkgstatus SQL view. The successfully deployed to the DPs app only has one row per Primary, one for the CAS, and its DPs that's deployed to starting with "["Display=\\DP1.jeff.com\"]MSWNET:…". This bad application happens to have extra rows per primary server along with CAS's fqdn in PkgServer column! And if you look closely below, their "Update times" were old with different or old PKID. (Which I assume PKID increments).
Time to try to fix this!
- I made certain all the DPs are removed from this bad application "CAS008DB"
- I then proceeded by deleting these extra rows by executing below on the CAS and on the Primary servers' DB. NOTE: MS doesn't support you modifying the DB, so be careful and make sure you have a valid backup before doing so! J
DELETE FROM pkgstatus
where id = 'CAS008DB' and PkgServer = 'CASSERVER.jeff.com' and sitecode <> 'CAS'
- Then I reset the pkgstatus of this application. Executed this on the CAS only, targeting just one of the primary servers PR41.jeff.com, just to see if we could get past the despooler process successfully so it can get copied to its DPs.
update pkgstatus set Status = 2 where id = 'CAS008DB' and pkgServer = 'PR41.jeff.com'
update pkgstatus set SourceVersion = 0 where id = 'CAS008DB' and pkgServer = 'PR41.jeff.com'
- Then deployed the app to the DPs that are on PR41.jeff.com primary server.
- Voilà! The bad application got processed by the despooler and deployed to the targeted DPs successfully!
Verifying signature for instruction D:\SMS\inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\ds_c50g8.nil of type MICROSOFT|SMS|MINIJOBINSTRUCTION|PACKAGE
Signature checked out OK for instruction coming from site CAS, proceed with the instruction execution.
Executing instruction of type MICROSOFT|SMS|MINIJOBINSTRUCTION|PACKAGE
Package CAS008DB is currently being processed, sleep for 10 seconds
Waiting for the next instruction....
Waiting for ready instruction file....
Old package storedUNC path is .
Use drive D for storing the compressed package.
No branch cache registry entries found.
Uncompressing D:\SMSPKG\CAS008DB.PCK to D:\SMSPKG\CAS008DB.PCK.temp
Content Library: O:\SCCMContentLib
Extracting from D:\SMSPKG\CAS008DB.PCK.temp
Extracting package CAS008DB
Extracting content Content_122fcdf2-f4c6-43d0-a0fe-61caf6f67a23.1
Package CAS008DB (version 0) exists in the distribution source, save the newer version (version 7).
Stored Package CAS008DB. Stored Package Version = 7
STATMSG: ID=4400 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DESPOOLER" SYS=PR41.jeff.com SITE=P41 PID=2924 TID=8196 GMTDATE=Wed Jun 25 21:24:37.393 2014 ISTR0="CAS008DB" ISTR1="\\PR41.jeff.com\D$\SMSPKG\CAS008DB.PCK" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=400 AVAL0="CAS008DB"
Despooler successfully executed one instruction.
How did this happen? I have still no clue at the moment, I'm still digging for the root cause. I can only assume we had a SAN glitch or CM crash at the same time this app was being processed or created. The best part is, now I know why it wouldn't deploy to the DPs, and I know what to look for and what to do when/if this happens again J
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If you are considering getting yourself or your child baptised, we would love to hear from you. Baptisms usually take place at our 10am Hope Together service at HCI St David's, or our 11am service at HCI St Mary Magdalene, so we would really recommend going along to a service and meeting some of our team! Usually a small number of children and/or adults are baptised in the same service.
Before getting baptised, you will need to meet with a member of our clergy for a baptism preparation session, as well as complete an application form.
To find out more about Baptism, please speak to Szabina, or come along to one of our services and speak to a member of the Clergy.
We hold confirmation services approximately once a year. If you would like to be confirmed, please speak to Szabina.


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Pranab Mukherjee winds up Pakistan visit
Says issues between India and Pakistan cannot be resolved overnight.india Updated: Jan 29, 2007 19:06 IST
Winding up a two-day visit to Pakistan with a trip to the ancient city of Taxila, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said commonality of heritage could help the two countries resolve their "present crisis in a spirit of understanding and amity" but ruled out any redrawing of borders.
Mukherjee, who also met a cross-section of political leaders, underlined that the issues between India and Pakistan, including Jammu and Kashmir, cannot be resolved overnight and will have to be addressed in a calibrated manner.
"We share common heritage, we share common culture and this commonality brings us together to resolve the present crisis in the spirit of understanding and amity," Mukherjee told journalists after tracing history by visiting Taxila ruins and museum about 30 kms from Islamabad.
The minister was in Pakistan to invite Pakistan Prime Minister Saukat Aziz for 14th SAARC Summit to be held in April and review composite dialogue with Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri during which the two sides agreed on a number of initiatives to push the bilateral relations forward.
"It reminds that there is continuity from past to present and if we do not forget that continuity, perhaps we may find solutions to present complex problems," said the minister, who was briefed by senior officials of the Pakistan's Archaeology Department about the 6th century site during his over an hour-long round.
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Going to do a two part composite series. This first video is how to do a "locked off tripod shot." What I mean by that is, setting up the camera on a tripod, capture things traveling through the scene then putting them all together in one image. In this image it happens to be a rider on the Monster Energy FMX team doing a backflip between two ramps.
I go through the steps I used to put this image together and show in Photoshop how its done. One of the things I stress in the video, and that I want to stress here, is when you're doing composites take your time and be as precise as possible. The more precise you are the better the composite image will turn out.
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The missing person responds to Pascual's name, is 46 years old and has disappeared from his home in Campos del Rio since last night, is sick and suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia
He moved up to Caravaca and was last seen at 13 o'clock today at Bullas, in the direction of Mula.
Wearing orange short sleeve sports t-shirt, black sports shorts, running shoes and dark cap.
It measures 1.65 meters, is thin, brown skin color and short hair wavy brown.
From the City of Campos del RÚo, we request the maximum dissemination and citizen collaboration to find our missing neighbor.
If you see it, believe you have located it or can provide a reliable clue about your whereabouts, please contact the Civil Guard in Mula immediately by calling the following numbers: 062, 968 66 08 20 or the emergency telephone number 112.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Campos del RÚo