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Here we go again, and again. From time to time, there are religion-news issues that create headlines day after day, for weeks or months at a time. This creates a problem for your GetReligionistas. Do we keep critiquing these stories, banging our heads on our keyboards as we see the same old mistakes and holes in the coverage?
One could argue that it's more important to note problems that keep showing up in the news than it is to note a mistake that happens once or twice. Surely it's significant when lighting keeps striking the same spot time after time?
Thus, here is an update to yesterday's Bobby Ross, Jr., post: "As Supreme Court bites into same-sex wedding cake dispute, how to tell good media coverage from bad." You may have noticed that Bobby's post was built on themes from previous GetReligion commentary about news coverage of various religious-liberty cases (linked to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act).
With the U.S. Supreme Court wading into the Masterpiece Cakeshop wars, I would like to flash back to a parable I wrote two years ago, in an attempt to help journalists think through several key issues linked to these stories. Here we go (again):
... There is a businessman in Indianapolis who runs a catering company. He is an openly gay Episcopalian and, at the heart of his faith (and the faith articulated by his church) is a sincere belief that homosexuality is a gift of God and a natural part of God's good creation. This business owner has long served a wide variety of clients, including a nearby Pentecostal church that is predominantly African-American.
Then, one day, the leaders of this church ask him to cater a major event -- the upcoming regional conference of the Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays. He declines, saying this would violate everything he stands for as a liberal Christian. He notes that they have dozens of other catering options in their city and, while he has willingly served them in the past, it is his sincere belief that it would be wrong to do so in this specific case.
Note, in particular that:
It's clear that the gay Christian businessman is not asking to discriminate against an entire class of Americans. He is asking that his consistently demonstrated religious convictions be honored in this case, one with obvious doctrinal implications.
OK, that's about sexuality. Maybe it would help to think back to an earlier religious-liberty fight.
Did Native Americans seek the right to use peyote (period) or did they seek the right to use peyote in a specific situation, a rite that had existed in the traditions of their faith for centuries?
Journalists, do you see the difference? As we keep stressing here at GetReligion, reporters and editors do not have to AGREE WITH this point of law, but it's crucial to know this distinction exists and that it will be a key part of debates in this new Supreme Court case.
So how does this play out in coverage? Let's look at the top of the current New York Times story. Read carefully:
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal from a Colorado baker with religious objections to same-sex marriage who had lost a discrimination case for refusing to create a cake to celebrate such a union.
The case will be a major test of a clash between laws that ban businesses open to the public from discriminating based on sexual orientation and claims of religious freedom. Around the nation, businesses like bakeries, florists and photography studios have said, so far with little success, that forcing them to serve gay couples violates their constitutional rights.
Read the second paragraph again. Has anyone claimed -- or shown evidence -- that baker Jack Phillips has refused to "serve gay couples" as a class of people, day after day, thus "discriminating based on sexual orientation"? Or has he refused to create a cake for a same-sex wedding rite, a specific act linked to a specific doctrinal issue?
Both sides will be asked to present evidence for these clashing claims.
But think back to the peyote case. Were Native Americans seeking the right to ignore drug laws, in all times and in all cases? Or were they seeking one narrowly defined exemption?
For journalists, this should raise another question: Has any group of religious believers -- at any time or place -- attempted to argue that the established, ancient, doctrines taught by their religious tradition prevent them from doing business with gay people, as a class of customers? Has a court heard such a case? If you look at RFRA history, there is no indication that such an argument would work.
If that is the case, then why is that assumed to be the big issue in summary materials at the top of a New York Times story? Again, has anyone claimed that this baker has refused service to all gays and lesbians?
Now, here is the tension: Later in this same story, the Times team accurately covers the arguments presented by Phillips and his legal team. Read carefully:
David Cortman, one of Mr. Phillips's lawyers, said the case concerned fundamental rights. "Every American should be free to choose which art they will create and which art they won't create without fear of being unjustly punished by the government," he said.
In 2015, a Colorado appeals court ruled against Mr. Phillips. "Masterpiece does not convey a message supporting same-sex marriages merely by abiding by the law and serving its customers equally," the court said.
In a Supreme Court brief, Mr. Phillips's lawyers said "he is happy to create other items for gay and lesbian clients." But his faith requires him, they said, "to use his artistic talents to promote only messages that align with his religious beliefs."
"Thus," the brief said, "he declines lucrative business by not creating goods that contain alcohol or cakes celebrating Halloween and other messages his faith prohibits, such as racism, atheism, and any marriage not between one man and one woman."
Now, that is what is at stake here, according to experts on one side of the debate. The problem is that the Times team has already stated the opposing legal point of view AS FACT in background materials at the top of the story.
One side says this story is about a cake that, in the eyes of the baker, has a specific doctrinal message. The other side says that refusing to bake that specific cake represents discrimination against all customers who are gays and lesbians. Or, again, as the Times team stated as fact:
Around the nation, businesses like bakeries, florists and photography studios have said ... that forcing them to serve gay couples violates their constitutional rights.
If this same couple walks into the Masterpiece Cakeshop and asks to buy boxes of cookies, pastries and generic cakes for a party, or even a wedding reception, would Phillips turn them away because he does not do business with gays and lesbians, as a class?
The baker says he would not do that.
The court will hear, I am sure, past evidence on whether or not he is telling the truth.
This is the issue that we are going to see over and over in mainstream media coverage of this case. Do journalists, in their background summaries of the facts, understand the clashing points of view? Or will journalists assume that one side is right and that Phillips is demanding a doctrinally based right to refuse to do business with gays and lesbians, as a class of people? Is there evidence that he has ever done that?
Please watch the video at the top of this post. How does this Denver TV report define the issue that is at stake? What does it assume as a starting point for these debates?
Now, for the opposing view point, watch this advocacy piece from the Phillips team (cut to the 2 minute mark).
Now, quickly, how did several other major news organizations do with their first reports on this new Supreme Court case? Here is the overture of the short Associated Press story:
DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado clash between gay rights and religion started as an angry Facebook posting about a wedding cake but now has big implications for anti-discrimination laws in 22 states.
Baker Jack Phillips is challenging a Colorado law that says he was wrong to have turned away a same-sex couple who wanted a cake to celebrate their 2012 wedding.
The justices said Monday they will consider Phillips' case, which could affect all states. Twenty-two states include sexual orientation in anti-discrimination laws that bar discrimination in public accommodations.
Question: Would granting Phillips a narrow, RFRA-style exemption on the wedding-cake issue have any impact on laws that bar discrimination against gay people, as a class? Did granting Native Americans the right to use peyote in specific religious ceremonies (which have existed for centuries) undercut the enforcement of existing drug laws?
What about the Washington Post lede?
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider whether a Denver baker acted lawfully in refusing to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple, setting up a major test next term weighing religious freedom against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Lower courts had ruled that Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had violated Colorado's public accommodations law, which prohibits refusing service to customers based on factors such as race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
OK, same issues all over again. What is assumed as the framework for the case?
How about USA Today and, thus, the Gannett newspapers nationwide?
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to reopen the national debate over same-sex marriage.
Whoa. REALLY? Is anyone claiming that? Let's read on:
The court will hear a challenge from a Colorado baker who lost lower court battles over his refusal to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. Like a New Mexico photographer three years ago, the baker cited his religious beliefs.
The case will be scheduled for the 2017 term that begins in October and most likely will be heard later in the fall. The justices -- who upheld same-sex marriage nationwide in a landmark 2015 ruling -- apparently decided that laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation do not mean that merchants' obligations to same-sex couples are baked in the cake.
To be honest, I have no idea what that last sentence means.
Stay tuned. To say the least. If anyone sees examples of mainstream NEWS coverage, as opposed to op-ed page pieces, that accurate present the clash at the heart of this case (as opposed to framing the entire case in the arguments of one side) please let us know.
UPDATE: OK, it's clear the debates are starting.


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1.) My words can hurt or HEAL
- Proverbs 12:18 "Reckless (rash, thoughtless) words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing."
- Job 19:2 "How long will you torment me and crush me (in pieces) with words?"
- Proverbs 18:21 "The tongue has the power of life and death."
- James 1:26 "If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless."
- James 3:1 "Not many of you should presume to be teachers."
- 1 Corinthians 8:1 "We all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know."
- Proverbs 12:23 "The prudent (wise) keep their knowledge to themselves."
- James 3:2 "We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault for what he says, he is a perfect (mature) man, able to keep his whole body in check."
- Proverbs 21:23 "Those who guard their mouths and their tongues keep themselves from calamity (troubles)."
2.) My words can curse or PRAISE
- James 3:9-10 "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing...this should not be."
- Ephesians 4:29 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit (give grace to) those who listen."
- Isaiah 50:4 "The Lord God has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught."
- Hebrews 13:15 "Through Jesus, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise."
3.) My words can be untamed or under God's GUIDANCE
- James 3:8 "No one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil full of deadly poison."
- James 3:3-6 "We put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us...Ships are so large...they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. The tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire."
- Psalm 19:14 "May the words of my mouth and the meditation (inner thoughts) of my heart be acceptable (pleasing) in your sight, O Lord."
- Psalm 39:1 "I will watch my ways and keep my tongue from sin; I will put a muzzle on my mouth."
- Psalm 141:3 "Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of y lips."
Dig Deeper: Read James 3:1-12
(1.) How have words hurt you? Or helped you? When have you regretted your words?
(2.) Why do people curse? How can you practice more praising?
(3.) Explain the pictures that James uses to describe the tongue. How can you experience victory in this area of your life?


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On 3 October 2016 the first cornerstone was laid of the Ayia Napa Marina development. The £190 million mixed-use residential and commercial project will include 190 apartments, housed in two twisting towers, 29 villas, a 600-berth full-service marina and a collection of retail, waterfront dining and lifestyle amenities for its ultra-high-net-worth residents and visitors.
"In 2002 the government of Cyprus called for an international tendering process for all marinas," explains Stavros Caramondanis, CEO of the Caramondanis Group, 20 per cent shareholders in the project, and the Ayai Napa Marina. "In 2012 we signed a concession with the Cypriot government, based on certain cash guarantees, and were given a two-year grace period until 2014 in order to find investors for the project." In 2013 Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian investor, purchased an 80 per cent share in the development.
The concession for the Aya Napa Marina development, granted by the Cypriot government, extends for 50 years upon the completion of the project; final works are due to be concluded in 2021. "We will operate the marina, as well as the commercial and private property, for 50 years. However, the real estate is sold under a lease hold agreement of 125 years using a system that is much the same as the British lease holding system."
Once a client invests in the commercial or private real estate, they will be asked to sign two contracts. The first contract is for 50 years in accordance with the concession and the second is an additional 75-year contract signed with the Cypriot government. Lease holders will also be given the right to first refusal at the end of their 125-year term.
Berths will be rented out on a daily, monthly or yearly rate – rates are yet to be decided – with a 220 slip, four storeys, dry-dock stack facility for smaller vessels and approximately 480 slips for larger vessels. "Our target audience will be in the 30m range with the majority of our berths accommodating vessels in the 26-36m range. We can also accommodate vessels up to 60m, as well as 70m with special notice," continues Caramondanis.
The vast majority of berths will be rented out on the aforementioned basis, however, there will also be 12 permanent berths for those residents using the 12 island villas, as well as six permanent berths for those renting the peninsula homes. Further development will include 5000sqm squared of commercial property, to be offered to a variety of yachting and luxury business; including brokerage, restaurants, night clubs, chandlery services, high end retail, beach clubs, a yacht club and so on.
"We are hoping that owners and captains will choose to winter and holday with us, however, there are some advantages and disadvantages – we have to be realistic," Caramondanis says. "We have good infrastructure, beautiful beaches and great weather and the marina is situated right in its heart. However, the disadvantage is that we aren't too close the Greek islands - so it becomes difficult to island hop."
Caramondanis explains that, ideally, yachts will winter with them because of Ayia Napa's proximity to the Greek and Turkish coastlines. "They can use our marina as their hub," he says. Lebanese and Israeli owners are top of Caramondanis' list, "We are closer to Lebanon and Israel than most, relatively speaking, and we see this as a key market. We are also hoping to market ourselves to the Russian, Chinese and UK markets."
In order to increase the presence of ultra-high-net-worth individuals in Ayia Napa, which already accounts for 60 per cent of Cyprus' tourism revenue, the Cypriot government is lavishing developments such as the Ayia Napa Marina project with a host of fiscal incentives. For example, any individual that buys property in Cyprus before 1 January 2017 is exempt from capital gains tax, which starts at 20 per cent. There is also a low taxation system at 12.5 per cent and, as per the Ayia Napa Marina's concession, there is no VAT payable on property leased, which saves an additional 19 per cent. Cyprus also offers citizenship and residency schemes.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018
Friday, September 14, 2018 at 9:16AM
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The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is fecund. You are viewing 581 cards with a total of 1,237,157 stars, market cap of $6.86T and funding of $20.1B. (changelog)
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- 72: signals sensed from a distant galaxy using AI; 12M: reddit posts per month; 10 trillion: per day Google generated test inputs with 100s of servers for several months using OSS-Fuzz; 200%: growth in Cloud Native technologies used in production; $13 trillion: potential economic impact of AI by 2030; 1.8 trillion: plastic pieces eaten by giant garbage pac-man; 100: min people needed to restart humanity;
- Quotable Quotes:
- Joel Hruska: Farmers in California have lost the fight to be allowed to repair their own tractors and equipment thanks to the capitulation of their own lobbying group. This issue has been gathering steam for the last few years, after aggressive moves by John Deere to lock down the equipment.
- @RachFrieee: 3.6B events processed to date 300k+ users globally 50% of the Fortune 100 use @pagerduty 10,500+ customers of every size 300+ integrations 🔒 Enterprise grade security #PDSummit18 @jenntejada
- @editingemily: "In peacetime, a ticketing system is great... American Eagle loses $200K per minute of downtime. You gonna make a ticket? Burn a cool million?" 😂🤣😂 @jenntejada #PDSummit18
- NSF: When the HL-LHC reaches full capability in 2026, it is expected to produce more than 1 billion particle collisions every second, marking a 10-fold increase that will require a similar 10-fold increase in data processing and storage, including tools to collect, analyze, and record the most relevant events. Uniting multidisciplinary teams of researchers and educators from 17 universities, IRIS-HEP will receive $5 million a year for five years from the NSF with a focus on producing innovative software and training the next generation of users.
- @aallan: "Moore's Law is really dead, but the lesser know Dennard Scaling Law is also dead… we're almost at the end of the line, last year performance only improved 3 percent," says David Patterson. #TheAIConf
- Gary Bronner~ DRAM scaling is starting to run out of steam. The industry continues to scale from the 1x, to the 1y, to the 1z generation, but the benefit from each generation is getting smaller and smaller. Because of that big servers and other memory systems need to have another kind of memory in the hierarchy. The new memory hierarchy is SRAM, DRAM, SCM (storage class memory), SSD, HDD. SCM slots between DRAM and flash in terms of latency, cost, and density. It's a way of adding more memory when DRAM alone can't give you all the performance you want.
- @sethearley: 7 areas of opportunity for #AI in teaching. 1. Feedback & Scoring, 2. College readiness, 3. Empowering students with challenges, 4. Behavior management, 5. Curriculum development, 6. Higher order learning, 7. Professional development. #TheAIConf
- @The_McJones: "How do we work out who wins? Well we don't go to the bar and talk it out, instead we've decided to all spend billions of dollars and let the market figure it out" - David Patterson #theAIConf
- DSHR: As I understand it, Amazon's S3 is redundant across three data centers, whereas Backblaze's B2 is not. Thus, despite both quoting 11 nines of durability against hardware failures, S3 is durable against failures that B2 is not, and is thus better.
- @dr_c0d3: 2000: Write 100s of lines of XML to "declaratively" configure your servlets and EJBs 2018: Write 100s of lines of YAML to "declaratively" configure your microservices At least XML had schemas...
- Programming Rants: This time PHP7 became the best performing programming language implementation, also the least memory consumption (I'm amazed with what they did in version 7).
- @BenedictEvans: With each cycle in tech, companies find ways to build a moat and make a monopoly. Then people look at the moat and think it's invulnerable. They're generally right. IBM still dominates mainframes and Microsoft still dominates PC operating systems and productivity software. But...
- @The_McJones: "So we strapped a bunch of FitBits onto cows" - Peter Norvig #TheAIConf
- @noahsussman: Complex systems are intrinsically hazardous systems. Complex systems are heavily and successfully defended against failure. Catastrophe requires multiple failures – single point failures are not enough. Complex systems contain changing mixtures of failures latent within them. Complex systems run in degraded mode. Catastrophe is always just around the corner. Post-accident attribution accident to a 'root cause' is fundamentally wrong.
- @copyconstruct: Putting the "micro" back in microservice. https://bit.ly/2NZUX0g - argues that process-level isolation is too slow for FaaS - FaaS running on shared processes, isolated primarily with language-based compile-time guarantees and fine-grained preemption have better perf profiles - "defence in depth" using tasks written in Rust (guarantees computations executing within a shared worker don't segfault) and seccomp based whitelisting of syscalls. - use of a "pseudo stack" on top the real stack frame to allow signal handlers to panic
- @aallan: "This is an arm that can see…" says @josephsirosh, "all it takes is cheap components, like a #RaspberryPi, and an #Arduino board. But we all know the secret is ML in the cloud." #TheAIConf
- @mcclure111: C is a cool programming language where if you want to return a string from a function you have to set up an entire physical-universe human social system for adjudicating who is responsible for freeing it "In order to create a C string, you must first create civilization"
- Microsoft: Why didn't VSTS services fail over to another region? We never want to lose any customer data. A key part of our data protection strategy is to store data in two regions using Azure SQL DB Point-in-time Restore (PITR) backups and Azure Geo-redundant Storage (GRS). This enables us to replicate data within the same geography while respecting data sovereignty. Only Azure Storage can decide to fail over GRS storage accounts. If Azure Storage had failed over during this outage and there was data loss, we would still have waited on recovery to avoid data loss.
- Elon Musk: The electric airplane isn't necessary right now. Electric cars are important. Solar energy is important. Stationary storage of energy is important. These things are much more important than creating electric supersonic [airplanes]. It's important that we accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.
- @rakyll: I do. The current state of error handling in Go is a wild experiment. It only encourages to bubble up errors rather than handling them. Error values don't have any diagnostics bits. We have production systems written in this language now.
- Jack Scott: I recently developed a simple app and used WakaTime to measure the time I spent on my coding. Here are the results: React Redux front-end repository — 32 Hours. Express + Mongoose back-end repository — 4 Hours.
- swimorsinka: Hmm, I use Redshift every day and I've also used BigQuery. You can't have a valid benchmark without adding sort keys and dist keys to Redshift. It really isn't meant to work without them. I understand it's more work that way, which is why BigQuery is so nice. But if you're trying to do lots of queries, BigQuery is also more expensive.
- enitihas: We have [migrated back] from Google cloud functions because they are a joke (see cold start graph on OP link). Even during development it was horribly painful to have 10+ second call times on many many requests while testing (and the same in production). Even requests that are only a few minutes or seconds away from each other would cold start randomly.
- Horace Dediu: The important call to make is that Apple is making a bet that sustainability is a growth business. Fundamentally, Apple is betting on having customers not selling them products. The purpose of Apple as a firm is to create and preserve customers and to create and preserve products. This is fundamental and not fully recognized.
- Zuckerberg: One of the important lessons I've learned is that when you build services that connect billions of people across countries and cultures, you're going to see all of the good humanity is capable of, and you're also going to see people try to abuse those services in every way possible.
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes: Codebreaking is about noticing and manipulating patterns. Humans do this without thinking. We're wired to see patterns. Codebreakers train themselves to see more deeply.
- Rabble: Do you see the irony in this? Apple killed Odeo for the iPod, and then Twitter exists and is successful because of the iPhone.
- @garybernhardt: mixins are just weird inheritance and promises are just weird callbacks
- @JoeEmison: This is the benefit of serverless done correctly; you mitigate the risk of access to tech talent by limiting your needs to talent needed for UX.
- @bigmediumjosh: So you know: 50% of mobile data is used to download ads.—@yoavweiss at #smashingconf
- Corey Quinn: Then we do an analysis and we learn that the developer environments are something on the order of three percent of their bill. Production is what has scaled up. That's where the low-hanging fruit is.
- Jakob: Always Measure One Level Deeper [John Ousterhout]– to understand the observed system behavior at one level, you have to measure the level below it. This is the idea expressed in the title of the article, and it is really the most powerful insight in the article. Part of this is to also look at more than simple averages – the data has to be examined and understood. Are there are outliers, scattered values all over the place, or a nice smooth distribution?
- Corey Quinn: Last year when there was a four-hour outage to the standard (US East) region of S3, we saw a lot of knee-jerk reactions where everyone was moving all their things over to multi-region buckets, doing replications, setting up multi-homed things. You're going to double or triple your infrastructure costs by doing that.
- @colmmacc: This is how we build the most critical control planes at AWS. For example if you use Route 53 health checks, or rely on NLB, or NAT GW, the underlying health statuses are *ALWAYS* being pushed around as a bitset. ALWAYS ALWAYS. A few statuses can change (which is normal), and the system reacts, or they can ALL change, and it will react just the same (which is abnormal). We could have lots of targets suddenly disappear .... break ...
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A then-secret document said of Elizebeth, "She and her husband are among the founders of American military cryptanalysis"—cryptanalysis is another word for codebreaking—and a federal prosecutor told the FBI that "Mrs. Friedman and her husband . . . are recognized as the leading authorities in the country." Yet in the canonical books about twentieth-century codebreaking, Elizebeth is treated as the dutiful, slightly colorful wife of a great man, a digression from the main narrative, if not a footnote. Her victories are all but forgotten.
- Karen Piper: By the time my mom arrived on the scene, calculators were already "miniature," but computers were enormous. She was at the forefront of the shift to computers that was a room-sized IBM mainframe set up in the basement. She told stories about "punch cards" and how the IBM had to constantly be fed with them. That was "programming" then. Ironically, as computers became central to the process of building a missile, and then guiding missiles, women became central, too. The men did not know how to use them. My mom once said to me, "I was shocked that these guys did not know how to do basic things like plotting. I had to do everything for them. Except for Mr. Bukowski, of course. He knew it was important to learn." Nevertheless, the men still got the big salaries.
- Norman P. Jouppi: For at least the past decade, computer architecture researchers have been publishing innovations based on simulations using limited benchmarks claiming improvements for general-purpose processors of 10% or less, while we are now reporting gains for a domain-specific architecture deployed in real hardware running genuine production applications of more than a factor of 10. Order-of-magnitude differences between commercial products are rare in computer architecture, which could even lead to the TPU becoming an archetype for future work in the field. We expect that many will build successors that will raise the bar even higher.
- John G. Messerly: They were amused by my optimism, but they didn't really buy it. They were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they're convinced we are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don't believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can't get a seat on the rocket to Mars.
- Morgan Stanley: Today, public clouds account for just 20% of all computing workloads, but that percentage could grow to 48% by the end of 2020, according to Morgan Stanley. In a report published on Tuesday, analyst Katy L. Huberty forecast that global capital expenditure spending among 14 major cloud companies will increase 35% in 2018, up from 16% growth in 2017. Morgan Stanley estimates that Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft alone will account for 73% of that growth in 2018.
- Broad Band: The Mountbatten archive was the perfect test case for a hypertext project: a vast, interrelated collection of documents spanning many different media, subject to as many readings as there could be perspectives on the last century of British history. Wendy put together a team, and by Christmas 1989, they had a running demo for a system called Microcosm. It was a remarkable design: just as the World Wide Web would a few years later, Microcosm demonstrated a new, intuitive way of navigating the massive amounts of multimedia information computer memory made accessible. Using multimedia navigation and intelligent links, it made information dynamic, alive, and adapted to the user. In fact, it wasn't like the Web at all. It was better.
- The Memory Guy: To examine the cost impact of fab size, Scotten Jones, President of IC Knowledge LLC has modeled wafer cost versus fab capacity all the way out to 1,000,000 wafer per month. The chart used for this post's graphic illustrates wafer cost versus fab capacity and includes the percentage increase in cost versus the 1,000,000 wafers per month fab for smaller fabs. Click on the chart if you would like to see a larger version. As can be seen from the figure wafer cost for an 8,000 wafer per month fab is a whopping 50% higher than for 1,000,000 wafers per month fab, 70,000 wafers per month is 5% higher and even at 250,000 wafers per month the wafer cost is 1% higher. Since DRAM is built using many different tools than those used for NAND flash, the optimum number of starts will differ too. For DRAM 60,000 starts proves to be an efficient volume. From the perspective of the chart it's pretty clear why a fab with 100,000 wafer starts might be a good idea – it's going to be significantly more cost-effective than a 60,000-start fab.
- evanjones: As expected for small N, linear search performs slightly better than binary search (29.6 ns compared to 35.7 ns, a 27% improvement). Surprisingly, the std::map implementation is faster than binary search on an array. This suggests to me that I either have a bug in my code, or there is something about my benchmark that causes Clang's optimizer to do something strange. I don't understand how the pointer chasing the happens with a binary tree could possibly be better than a plain binary search over an array. As the data sets get much larger, binary search is better than the map. Possibly this just means that modern CPUs are really good at pointer chasing, if the data is all in the L1 cache.
- Steve Blank: So, what does [The Death of Moore's Law] mean for consumers? First, high performance applications that needed very fast computing locally on your device will continue their move to the cloud (where data centers are measured in football field sizes) further enabled by new 5G networks. Second, while computing devices we buy will not be much faster on today's off-the-shelf software, new features– facial recognition, augmented reality, autonomous navigation, and apps we haven't even thought about –are going to come from new software using new technology like new displays and sensors. The world of computing is moving into new and uncharted territory. For desktop and mobile devices, the need for a "must have" upgrade won't be for speed, but because there's a new capability or app. For chip manufacturers, for the first time in half a century, all rules are off. There will be a new set of winners and losers in this transition. It will be exciting to watch and see what emerges from the fog.
- Paul Ormerod: In 1880, if you wanted to hear a particular singer, you had to go to a live performance. Perhaps a thousand people could enjoy the joint consumption of the product. In 1980, tens of millions could watch on television. Rosen, writing well before the internet, argued that advances in communications technology such as radio and television increased enormously the potential size of markets involving joint consumption. As he put it so succinctly, "the possibility for talented persons to command both very large markets and very large incomes is apparent". For example, the football played in England's Premier League is in general better than that in the Scottish Premiership. But the English league rakes in well over £1bn a year in television rights, and Scotland less than £20m. It is the combination of the joint consumption nature of these services and advances in communications which mean that a relatively small number of sellers can in principle service the entire market. The more talented they are, the fewer still are needed. And that's how they are able to earn so much.
- Zat Rana: One of Shannon's go-to tricks was to restructure and contrast the problem in as many different ways as possible. This could mean exaggerating it, minimizing it, changing the words of how it is stated, reframing the angle from where it is looked at, and inverting it.
- Cory Doctorow: Here's the most utopian thing I believe about technology: the more you learn about how to control the technology in your life, the better it will serve you and the harder it will be for others to turn it against you. The most democratic future is one in which every person has ready access to the training and tools they need to reconfigure all the technology in their lives to suit their needs. Even if you personally never avail yourself of these tools and trainings, you will still benefit from this system, because you will be able to choose among millions of other people who do take the time to gain the expertise necessary to customize your world to suit you.
- voycey: Speed is only one factor of a data warehouse that should be considered, as someone who has moved through 3 of these in the past year we have settled on a mix of Spark, Presto and BigQuery depending on the workload. - Presto is not good at longer queries, if a node dies the query fails and it needs to be restarted. It is however orders of magnitude faster for any of the other solutions when it comes to Geospatial functions, the team behind it are simply wizards. - BigQuery is also super fast and a fantastic tool for adhoc analysis of huge amounts of data, they have just started to implement GIS functionality in this so we are watching it closely. Some of our analyists have been stung on pricing where partitions weren't possible meaning we were charged for scanning 10TB+ of data for a relatively simple query - it has a learning curve for sure! - Redshift was our original data warehouse, it was great for prescribed data in an ETL pipeline, however scaling a cluster takes hours and data skew meant that the entire cluster would fill up during queries if sort keys and distribution keys weren't precisely calibrated - quite difficult when you have changing dimensions of data. - Spark / EMR / Tez has been our standout workhorse for many things now, it is much slower than any of the above but there are many tools that work with Spark and the ecosystem is growing rapidly, we had to perform a cross join of 16B records to 140M ranges and every single one of the above solutions either crapped out on us or became prohibitively expensive to run this at scale and get meaningful output. Spark took longer (1h 25m) but the progress was steady and quantifiable. Presto often died mid query for a number of reasons (including that we wanted to run this on pre-emptible instances on GCP and it doesnt support fault tolerance). File formats are a HUGE differentiator when it comes to these systems as well - we chose ORC as our file format due to the availability of bloom filters and predicate pushdown in Presto, this means we can load a 10TB dataset in a couple of minutes and query the files directly without having to specifically load them into a store. Our preference is ORC > Parquet > AVRO > CSV in order.
- François Chollet with a thoughtful meditation in the form of Notes to myself on software engineering. On the development process: Code isn't just meant to be executed. Code is also a means of communication across a team, a way to describe to others the solution to a problem. On API design: Your API has users, thus it has a user experience. In every decision you make, always keep the user in mind. On Software careers: Productivity boils down to high-velocity decision-making and a bias for action. This requires a) good intuition, which comes from experience, so as to make generally correct decisions given partial information, b) a keen awareness of when to move more carefully and wait for more information, because the cost of an incorrect decision would be greater than cost of the delay. The optimal velocity/quality decision-making tradeoff can vary greatly in different environments.
- Amitabha with Notes from #TheAIConf in San Francisco, CA, Sept 2018: Focus on Hardware: There seemed to be an important focus on HW, a lot of focus on on edge devices to run inference workloads...China is a huge market for AI: Driven by huge mobile consumption (3x), large number of mobile payments (50x), large number of bicycle rides (300x), ubiquity of cameras in traffic intersections and streets, China is the most important market for AI (All numbers are relative to the USA). It is expected that 48% of AI money gies to China, while 36% to USA, and China will be 7 trillion dollar market by 2025...Incumbent companies have huge advantage because of being large data warehouses. Only 7 companies in the world can really afford to do large-scale AI...On the technology point of view, a lot of talks focussed on Reinforcement Learning, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Auto-encoders, Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting, as well as applications of ML/DL in the fields of robotics, self-driving cars, sports (baseball), storage systems, finance (investments and trading), chatbots, space, earth science, to name a few
- Serverless: Cold Start War: Here are some lessons learned from all the experiments above: Be prepared for 1-3 seconds cold starts even for the smallest Functions; Different languages and runtimes have roughly comparable cold start time within the same platform; Minimize the amount of dependencies, only bring what's needed; AWS keeps cold starts below 1 second most of the time, which is pretty amazing; All cloud providers are aware of the problem and are actively optimizing the cold start experience; It's likely that in middle term these optimizations will make cold starts a no-issue for the vast majority of applications
- Nvidia is betting a combination of the cloud and 5G will help it get some of that lucrative subscription gaming revenue. Nvidia promises to shift graphics grunt work to the cloud, for a price. Nvidia VP of sales, Paul Bommarito: "you don't need a big expensive high-end workstation." How? Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service that does most of the graphics grunt work for you and so removes the need for monster processing powers on your machine, and 5G super-fast wireless technology that provides the bandwidth and low latency. AT&T's Fuetsch: E-sports is the future. Dave 126: Small thought: the players need equally low latency to each other. However the spectators could watch a more visually impressive display - realtime ray-traced game footage at the expense of a few more milliseconds. Wild Bill: I'm in the beta for this. I've got to say it works extremely well. I actually play Overwatch on it (a super twitchy fast shooter) and it plays great for me (though I'm not very good at the game, so maybe more hardcore players might notice a difference). This is on a 76mb down / 38mb up connection
- Here are some Highlights from Git 2.19.
- Top earners? In the United States, Germany, India, and the United Kingdom DevOps specialists are the number one highest earning developer. DevOps specialists are earning a median salary close to $100,000 in the United States. Top tech? The specific technologies that developers use also impact salary. This year, the technologies most associated with higher salary include Go, Scala, Redis, and React.
- Ad serving latency decreased drastically: response times dropped from 90ms to under 10ms. GopherCon 2018 - From Prototype to Production: Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go. Odd to create your own ad serving platform these days, but reddit with 330M+ MAU chose to do so. They use: Apache Thrift for all RPCs; RocksDB for data storage; Go as the main backend language. The process goes like: Reddit.com makes a call to a service called ad selector; Enrichment service is responsible for getting more data and information about the request, user, and other information it needs to find and select the most relevant ad; ad selector selects the add; The client sends an event HTTP request to the event tracker service; This event notification also gets shelled out to Kafka and Spark. Go was good: Increased developer velocity; Great performance out of the box; Easy to focus on business logic; Ad serving latency decreased drastically. Lessons: Use a framework/toolkit; Go makes rapid iteration easy and safe; Distributed tracing with Thrift and Go is hard; Use deadlines within and across services; Use load testing and benchmarking.
- The next data explosion ground-zero? In-Chip Monitoring: Understanding dynamic conditions (voltage supply and junction temperature) as well as understanding how the chip has been made (process) has become a critical requirement for advanced node semiconductor design. So, we should not only get used to in-chip monitors and sensors but also understand the problems they solve and what the key attributes are for good in-chip monitors.
- Lots of interesting videos from Nerd Nite SF.
- How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC: Discord Gateway, Discord Guilds and Discord Voice are all horizontally scalable. Discord Gateway and Discord Guilds are running at Google Cloud Platform. We are running more than 850 voice servers in 13 regions (hosted in more than 30 data centers) all over the world. This provisioning includes lots of redundancy to handle data center failures and DDoS attacks. We use a handful of providers and use physical servers in their data centers. We just recently added a South Africa region. Thanks to all our engineering efforts on both the client and server architecture, we are able to serve more than 2.6 million concurrent voice users with egress traffic of more than 220 Gbps (bits-per-second) and 120 Mpps (packets-per-second).
- Farhan Ali Khan has taken on a project, implementing a few famous papers related to distributed systems in Golang. The current article is Chord: Building a DHT (Distributed Hash Table) in Golang. You get an explanation with code examples. Nicely done.
- Go get 'em, videos from GopherCon 2018 are now available. Titles include: Micro optimizing Go Code; gRPC State Machines and Testing; Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns.
- Videos from Serverlessconf San Francisco 2018 are now available. Better Application Architecture with Serverless by Joe Emison who considers code a liability and serverless as a really sharp pair of scissors for cutting away layers of code. Put your core business logic in serverless and use other services to handle undifferentiated functionality; AppSync and GraphQL is a great unifying API for slapping services together.
- Remember those cartoons where Lucy pulls the football away before Charlie brown can kick it? Add the magic of Google Photos to your app. PathTo3Commas: Or raise the API usage costs from under $100 a month on average to over ~$15,000 a month like they just did/are doing with the Google Maps/Places/Geocode API's. Not kidding. They're shutting thousands of websites, businesses down because of this. They gave everyone two months notice to effectively shutting them down.
- The total migration: 10x the number of queries, 1/10th the query runtime. Managing your Amazon Redshift performance: How Plaid uses Periscope Data: This led us to our first critical discovery: 95% of the slow queries came from 5% of the tables...Once we understood the problem, the technical solution was fairly straight-forward: pre-compute the common elements of the queries by creating rollup tables, materialized views, and pre-filtered & pre-segmented tables, and change user queries to run against these derivative tables. We already used Airflow for a good amount of data ETL management, so it was an easy choice to start materializing views and rollups. The associated DAGs are simple to implement; just have Airflow run the SQL query every 15 minutes or so, and then swap out the old table for the new one.
- facebookincubator/LogDevice: a scalable and fault tolerant distributed log system. While a file-system stores and serves data organized as files, a log system stores and delivers data organized as logs. The log can be viewed as a record-oriented, append-only, and trimmable file. How is different than Kafka? sh00es: LogDevice is a lower level building block compared to all of Kafka infrastructure. You could build something like Kafka Streams or KSQL on top of it, but nothing like that currently exists. LogDevice's API is similar to a subset of Kafka's Producer and Consumer APIs. This lack of infrastructure around it is the major drawback.
- yahoo/Oak (article): a concurrent Key-Value Map that may keep all keys and values off-heap. This enables working with bigger heap sizes than JVM's managed heap. OakMap implements an API similar to the industry standard Java8 ConcurrentNavigableMap API. It provides strong (atomic) semantics for read, write, and read-modify-write, as well as (non-atomic) range query (scan) operations, both forward and backward.
- Nozbe/WatermelonDB: a new way of dealing with user data in React Native and React web apps. It's optimized for building complex applications in React / React Native, and the number one goal is real-world performance. In simple words, your app must launch fast. Why not use SQLite directly? radex: SQLite gives you just the "data fetching" part. But if you're building a React/RN app, you probably also want everything to be automatically observable. For example, if you have a todo app, and you mark a task as done, you'd want the task component to re-render, the list to re-render (put the task at the bottom), and update the right counters (the counter of all tasks, and a counter of all tasks in ta project), etc. I hope you're getting the point. Watermelon is an observable abstraction on top of SQLite (or an arbitrary database), so that you can connect data to components and have them update automatically
- sslab-gatech/qsym (article): A Practical Concolic Execution Engine Tailored for Hybrid Fuzzing. "Here's a simplified representation of a bug that QSYM found in ffmpeg. It's nearly impossible for a fuzzer to get past all the constraints (lines 2-9), by QSYM was able to do so by modifying seven bytes of the input. This meant that the AFL fuzzer was able to pass the branch with the new test case and eventually reach the bug."
- cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade: Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
- auchenberg/volkswagen: Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.
- Finding and fixing software bugs automatically with SapFix and Sapienz: SapFix can automatically generate fixes for specific bugs, and then propose them to engineers for approval and deployment to production. SapFix has been used to accelerate the process of shipping robust, stable code updates to millions of devices using the Facebook Android app — the first such use of AI-powered testing and debugging tools in production at this scale. We intend to share SapFix with the engineering community, as it is the next step in the evolution of automating debugging, with the potential to boost the production and stability of new code for a wide range of companies and research organizations.
- An Empirical Study of Experienced Programmers' Acquisition of New Programming Languages: Our results show that users spend 42% of online time viewing example code and that programmers appreciate the Rust Enhanced package's in-line compiler errors, choosing to refresh every 30.6 seconds after first discovering this feature. We did not find any significant correlations between the resources used and the total task time or the learning outcomes. We discuss these results in light of design implications for language developers seeking to create resources to encourage usage and adoption by experienced programmers
- github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/wiki/Performance-of-FASTER-in-C#: ConcurrentDictionary get around 500K ops/sec for this workload. The 10-50X performance boost with FASTER is attributed to the avoidance of fine grained object allocations and the latch-free paged design of the index and record log.
- SlimDB: A Space-Efficient Key-Value Storage Engine For Semi-Sorted Data: SlimDB is a paper worth reading from VLDB 2018. The highlights from the paper are that it shows: How to use less memory for filters and indexes with an LSM; How to reduce the CPU penalty for queries with tiered compaction The benefit of more diversity in LSM tree shapes. Cache amplification has become more important as database:RAM ratios increase. With SSD it is possible to attach many TB of usable data to a server for OLTP. By usable I mean that the SSD has enough IOPs to access the data. But it isn't possible to grow the amount of RAM per server at that rate. Many of the early RocksDB workloads used database:RAM ratios that were about 10:1 and everything but the max level (Lmax) of the LSM tree was in memory. As the ratio grows that won't be possible unless filters and block indexes use less memory. SlimDB does that via three-level block indexes and multi-level cuckoo-filters.
Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition: In a world full of retried messages, idempotence is an essential property for reliable systems. Idempotence is a mathematical term meaning that performing an operation multiple times will have the same effect as performing it exactly one time. The challenges occur when messages are related to each other and may have ordering constraints. How are messages associated? What can go wrong? How can an application developer build a correctly functioning app without losing his or her mojo?


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...about the Bible
We believe the Bible to be the only inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God, written by human authors under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We further believe that all scripture is given by inspiration of God, therefore, both the old and new testaments are relevant and beneficial for Christian living today.
...about God
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons who are co-equals: the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.
...about Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ; in His virgin birth; in His sinless life; in His miracles; in His substitutionary and atoning death through His shed blood; in His bodily resurrection; in His ascension to the right hand of the Father; and in His personal return in power and glory.
...about the Holy Spirit
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by Whose indwelling, the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. We further believe His power and gifts are available to believers today.
...about Salvation
We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential, and that repentance from sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the only way to come into a relationship with God.
...about Eternal Life
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of eternal damnation.
...about Baptism and the Lord's Supper
We believe it is important to uphold the Scriptural practices of the early church. Therefore, we hold to the practice of water baptism by immersion and the regular taking of the Lord's Supper. We do not believe that either of these practices is necessary for salvation, but that they serve as a demonstration of our living faith in Jesus Christ.


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The 40th Annual General Meeting - 16th AprilSubmitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2014-04-16 17:41
IAA Lecture; 2nd April : Dr Steve Myers (CERN) - "The LHC and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson"Submitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2014-04-02 21:57
The IAA is delighted to announce that the lecture on 2nd April will be given by Dr Steve Myers, Director of Accelerators at CERN. Dr Myers is a graduate of QUB where he studied Engineering, and went on to be Head of the section of CERN dealing with all the big particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider. In other words, without him, they wouldn't have discovered the Higgs Boson!
IAA Lecture - Dr Stefano Bagnulo, Armagh Observatory "Remote Sensing by Polarimetry"Submitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2014-03-19 14:31
Dr Stefano Bagnulo is an astronomer working at Armagh Observatory. He and his team are carrying out pioneering work that makes it easier to detect signs of life on other planets by filtering out the overwhelming light form the parent star. In this lecture Dr Bagnulo will explain how it's done and what it means for the future of exoplanet expoloration.
IAA Lecture - 5th March, Dave Grennan- "Making Your Own Telescope"Submitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2014-03-05 14:22
Aurora Borealis 27th February - PicturesSubmitted by iaaadmin on Thu, 2014-02-27 11:18
Sunspot AR1944 caused something of a stir in early January as it unleashed the most promising Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) of the current season toward Earth just in time for our Stargazing Live evening! Sadly, it missed and we didn't get the Northern lights that evening. The sunspot lived on however and reappeared as AR1967 and incredibly returned again as AR1990. Just as it appeared around the limb it let go with an X4.2 flare - huge but not Earth directed, we were only expecting a glancing blow. But the Earth's magnetic field was very favourable, and we got a good display - even the weather was good!
IAA Lecture, 19th February, Dr Ken Smith QUB, - "Sifting the Sky with Pan-STARRS 1; Crunching the Data from the World's Largest Operational Digital Camera"Submitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2014-02-19 12:08
Chelyabinsk Meteorite Day - Ulster MuseumSubmitted by iaaadmin on Sat, 2014-02-15 16:33
To celebrate the first anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteorite fall in Russia, the Ulster Museum are holding a Meteorite Day from 13:00 to 16:30 on Saturday 15th February - details here....
Members of the IAA will on hand to answer any telescope queries and there may be Solar Observing if the sky is clear!


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Move to this 2 storey house and start saving time and money today. Its only a quick 7 minute walk to the C-Train station and conveniently located near the Crowfoot shopping area. With dozens of popular stores within 1 km, you will spend less time driving and more time doing what YOU want to do. This house also has easy access to both Crowchild Trail and Stoney Trail, making commutes a breeze. The house is located on a quiet, family-friendly street with no thru traffic. Enjoy all that Arbour Lake has to offer. There are plenty of walking paths nearby for evening strolls with your pets. Enjoy both winter and summer activities with your access to the lake. The area also has two schools, a YMCA and a public library all within a short distance. This home has been regularly invested in with multiple improvements over the last 8 years.
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Redondo Beach Restaurant Week is Back, Beginning January 12
January 12, 2018 - January 26, 2018
Image via Visit Redondo Beach on Facebook
Redondo Beach Restaurant Week is back! Taking place from January 12 to 26, this edition of Restaurant Week will feature about a dozen eateries from the beach city's growing food scene.
All participating restaurants are offering either specially priced prix-fixe lunches and/or dinners, or other Restaurant Week-only special offers.
Among this year's highlights:
Balleen Kitchen: Prix-fixe menus at lunch and dinner
Sacks at the Beach: Buy one sandwich, get a second one free
A Basq Kitchen: Chef's seasonal special
Polly's on the Pier: $8 Tuna, Patty or Turkey Melt
Bettolino Kitchen: Special prix-fixe lunch & dinner menus
This dining event is a great reason to visit this South Bay beachside enclave noted for its picturesque pier. For all the restaurants and offers, check the link here.
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If you have been living under a rock (or in this case, haven't been on social media at all), the incredible Alexander Wang is partnering up with H&M.
Yes, you did read that correctly.
Now, if the cool-girl tomboy clothes that were seen on the runway during Fashion Week isn't exactly in your budget, you mustn't fret. The collection with the mass retailer is launching November 6th ( 7 months away).
Alexander Wang is truly running this fashion world between his own line and Balenciaga...
Wang for the Win is by all means accurate.


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John's Witness to the First Advent
From the sermon series, "Advent 2018: Four Gospel Witnesses to the First Advent"
Sermon text: John 1:12–13
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
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A former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, weekend, advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct 2015 general elections on the same day.
Mr. Buhari gave the advice in Daura, Katsina State, while answering questions from journalists after he obtained the membership card of the All Progressives Congress.
He said that conducting the elections in one day would help in reducing election malpractice and save cost.
He added that the litigations that trailed the 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections would be avoided if the elections were held on the same day.
"If all the elections are conducted on the same day, there will be less cases of snatching of ballot boxes and use of political thugs to rig elections'', he said.
Mr. Buhari, who urged party members to come out en masse and register with the APC, expressed optimism that the opposition party would win the 2015 general elections in the country.
INEC has fixed presidential and National Assembly elections for February 14, 2015, while governorship and state house of assembly elections occur a fortnight later.


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Shigellosis is a gastrointestinal disease of worldwide public health importance for which there is no licensed vaccine. Our group has developed a serotype-independent vaccine based on two proteins of the Shigella type three secretion system (T3SS). These proteins have important roles in pathogenesis and are conserved among virulent Shigella strains. We generated a fusion protein (DB fusion) that comprises the T3SS tip proteins IpaB and IpaD. This vaccine has been shown to be protective in the mouse pulmonary model. We propose to use the T3SS vaccine as a model to identify the host immune responses that confer protection against Shigella infection. We hypothesize that by through a thorough examination of the immune response after vaccination with the DB Fusion using parenteral and mucosal vaccination routes, two different detergents, and the lethal pulmonary and IP models in Balb/c and knockout mice, we will identify correlates of protection that can be measured in future clinical trials with this vaccine. Toward this end, the Specific Aims of this study are: 1. Determine the protective mechanism of the DB fusion vaccine in a mouse models. We will determine the type of immunity involved in protection by vaccinating animals deficient in different immune responses. B cell and several cytokine deficient animals will be vaccinated with the DB Fusion protein. Afterwards, mice will be challenged IP with S. flexneri. The immune responses identified using these experiments will be further analyzed by making transfer experiments with the appropriate cells or cytokines in order to confirm the protective mechanism;2. Determine the optimal pathway for antigen presentation. We will stimulate dendritic cells with IpaB, IpaD and the combination in the presence of dmLT and measure cytokine release and up-regulation of activation markers. The mechanism of this up-regulation will be further characterized by identifying receptor molecules in dendritic cells responsible for this response;and 3. Optimize the vaccine formulation to identify the importance of detergent in conveying protective immunogenicity. The role of detergent present in the vaccine formulation will be evaluated by analyzing the DB Fusion in presence of two different detergents. In particular we will analyze the aggregation state and general secondary structure stability of the fusion in each detergent. We will also characterize immune cells extracted from mice vaccinated with the DB Fusion with each detergent present to correlate biophysical characteristics with protective efficacy. We have assembled a team of investigators with expertise in immunology and protein biochemistry to explore the mechanism by which this novel vaccine is able to convey protection against shigellosis. In combining an identification of the correlates of protection with the use of biophysical methods for optimizing vaccine formulation, we will establish the basis for evaluating the likely efficacy of this vaccine in protecting humans against shigellosis.
Shigella flexneri is the leading bacterial cause of dysentery in the developing world and a major cause of travelers'diarrhea in the developed world. As a unique approach we have identified two proteins from the Shigella type III secretion system apparatus (T3SA) as being serotype-independent protective antigens against Shigella infections. We hypothesize that by examining of the immune response after vaccination with the DB Fusion using various vaccination routes, different formulations, and two mouse models in wild- type and knockout mice, we will identify correlates of protection that can be measured in future clinical trials with this vaccine.
|Chen, Xiaotong; Choudhari, Shyamal P; Martinez-Becerra, Francisco J et al. (2015) Impact of detergent on biophysical properties and immune response of the IpaDB fusion protein, a candidate subunit vaccine against Shigella species. Infect Immun 83:292-9
|Martinez-Becerra, Francisco J; Scobey, Micah; Harrison, Kelly et al. (2013) Parenteral immunization with IpaB/IpaD protects mice against lethal pulmonary infection by Shigella. Vaccine 31:2667-72


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The self-described white supremacist convicted of killing nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston will call no witnesses during the sentencing phase of his federal trial, in which he faces the death penalty.
Dylan Roof, 22, also confirmed that he intends to represent himself during the stage in which the jury will decide whether to sentence him to capital punishment or life in prison.
"As far as I know, I am not intending to offer any evidence at all or call any witnesses whatsoever," Roof told US Judge Richard Gergel in a Charleston courtroom, The Post and Courier reported.
"I think it's a bad idea," Gergel said about Roof's decision to represent himself, telling him that he has until Tuesday, the first day of the hearings, to change his mind.
Roof, who told Gergel he will make his own opening statement, also said he will not argue that he has mental problems to persuade the jury to spare his life.
The government plans to call more than 30 witnesses, mostly survivors and victims' family members, to testify during the sentencing phase, The Post and Courier reported.
The same jury found Roof guilty on all 33 charges he faced, including hate crimes resulting in death, earlier this month.
He was convicted of carrying out the June 2015 massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after taking part in an evening Bible study class.
During the first phase of his trial, the court saw a video of Roof's confession following his arrest the day after the attack. In it, he justified his actions as a reprisal for crimes he said African-Americans commit against white people.
"Somebody had to do something because black people are killing white people every day," he said calmly and without emotion to the FBI special agent questioning him. "They rape 100 white people a day."
Three members of the Bible study group survived the massacre.
The church, also known as "Mother Emanuel," is one of the oldest black congregations in the American South, with strong links to the fight against slavery and segregation.


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Back by popular demand!!!
Please join us in painting "Home Sweet Home"
You are sure to enjoy this step by step, instructional class that will guide you towards your masterpiece. Instructions and supplies are all included in this class. Paint in a fun, creative atmosphere.
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It's been 29 years since my sweet little gramma S. slipped into heaven.
I was 11.
(I know you are doing math right now. Stop that.)
She had a bee-hive hair-do, painted fingernails, she sold avon, she LOVED Elvis, (had a scarf of his from what I am told) and she wore those turquoise rings on almost every finger.
She lived only 20 minutes or less from us. But as a kid, that drive to her house seemed like it took
Perhaps it was because I just loved loved loved it when I would get to spend the night there. She lived in a 1-bedroom house. With a kitchen and unfinished basement.
Hard for me to fathom (now) how she raised three kids in this house.
But she did.
And I remember a little cubby she had that was sort of a cut out on the way to the basement. She stored shoes there. I would get in there and pull out all of the high heeled shoes I could find and wear them around her house.
Her tiny house didn't seem so tiny 30-35 years ago.
But I would clip-clop around in those shoes around her kitchen while drinking RC Cola and eating Totinos pizzas.
And later I would remember sitting in front of her while she was in her recliner, wheel of fortune was on T.V., and she would make two small braids in the top of my hair and rubber band them together. The rest of my long blond hair hung down past my shoulders. I remember it being so relaxing. And something I would ask for every time I stayed there.
Only gramma could do my hair like that.
I would sleep either on the floor or couch of the living room. If it was summer, a big box fan was set up. And I would lay right in front of it. Something my own mom would never let me do....but gramma did!
We would paint our nails. Gramma kept a finger nail file in the same case that she kept her cigarettes. Why I remember this detail, I don't know.
(Sometimes we would paint my brother's nails because he didn't want to be left out of our fun!)
(Much to my dad's dissappointment!)
In the morning we would eat something like the equivalent of "super sugar crisp" and gramma would make her coffee and share it with us. Of course, ours was basically milk and sugar with a dash of coffee.
Memories are good.
I wish I had pictures of those memories.
I understand that my gramma was one of those strong/stubborn types.
When it came to medical issues, at least.
To the best of my recollection, she either had lung cancer that spread into breast cancer....Or breast cancer that spread to her lungs.
But I do know that she died of cancer.
And I remember her showing me scars from surgeries. While I was wearing some of my favorite shoes of hers. Shoes that she didn't wear....but still kept stored in her closet of shoes.
I saw what it looked like to lose a part of you.
Except when I look back on the experience, I see it as a warning.
From my gramma.
My angel.....
There were no secrets between us when we were together. Not that she just would reveal details to me....but if I asked, she would tell.
So she told me about her breast cancer.
And while I don't know this for sure right now....I am pretty certain she was about the age I am...or not much older than me.
And she told me.
"I know you have questions. I waited too long. this is what it looks like."
and I saw her scar.
In my small little way, I knew it was a significant moment. But in my little kid way, I will still remember how I raided her shoe closet, we drank RC Cola, ate Totinos pizza, watched Wheel of Fortune, she braided my hair, and my mama picked me up after I ate sugar for breakfast and had "coffee."
When Gramma was sick, I vaguely remember my grandpa and his wife inviting us all to their home for Christmas.
As a kid....it was the "bestest."
I knew gramma was not in good health. That was not a secret.
I'm not sure if I remember these details the way they actually happened, but to the best of my recollection, gramma spent the rest of her days in the hospital.
And we weren't allowed to see her.
But I remember talking to her on the phone
like it was just a breath before this....
"Gramma....can I please come see you?"
"Not now. Let's just talk."
And we talked on the phone.
About my Christmas presents, about Wheel of Fortune, about Elvis, about fingernail polish and high-heeled shoes.
A few days later (as best as I can tell), I was watching my new black and white TV in my room after Christmas.
I fell asleep.
And in my dreams, gramma came into my room.
My closed door was opened and she walked in.
"You are a good girl," she said. "Keep being a good girl."
"Gramma is always here for you."
She sat on the edge of my bed and told me she loved me.
"Okay Gramma. I love you too."
And then I woke up.
My gramma passed away in the hospital that day that I had that dream.
I am absolutely sure....from that day till this one....that God allowed her to speak to me in a dream.
And even if I am mistaken....the dream has always been a gift.
Love you gramma
thanks for the shoes
the sugar
the big box fan
the nail polish
the Elvis stories
the braids
and Wheel of Fortune
I believe my mama when she later told me that
You heard music and saw angels.
You had made peace with your God and Savior
And you wanted us to know that you did.
Your story inspires me to live a better story of my own.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Friday, December 27, 2013
Christmas Snapshots from 2013
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Thank you for visiting with me here at Write-On, Mom!
Once again, I'm gonna just let the pictures tell the story.....
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
not sure how this happens
For Christmas, I'd like to stop time.
Or slow it down some.
I sure am loving this chapter.
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Our Merry Christmas Video-Card
Merry Christmas everyone.
I'm so glad you stop by to visit with me here.
Thank you for your support and kind words throughout the year.
Enjoy the video card!
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Today Marks an Anniversary for us....
I know the big picture made small is that lives are touched and saved because of the life and death of my niece.
But that doesn't make me wonder/wish/imagine what her life would be today.
It's a selfish perspective, I know.
But that is just me being human, I guess.
I know the big picture made small is that lives are touched and saved because of the life and death of my niece.
But that doesn't make me wonder/wish/imagine what her life would be today.
It's a selfish perspective, I know.
But that is just me being human, I guess.
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FormRecycler is a Google Forms Add-on that allows you to choose one question (or many) to copy from a Google Form in your Drive to the current Form. Just click on FormRecycler in the Add-on menu and choose the Form you want to copy the questions from in the popup window. You can select as many questions as you want and even choose to 'Select all questions' at the top.
FormRecycler will recycle almost all question types and will be able to recycle the feedback from the original Form as well.
Some great use cases:
- Choose questions from a test bank
- Create a new Form based on a previous one
- Recycle questions into a Locked Google Form (as these are newly created Forms)
- Easily make similar Form for multiple sections of a class
Now you can use the FormRecycler Chrome Extension to insert embedded images from recycled questions!
Recent updates:
May 27: FormRecycler Chrome Extension helps insert embedded images from recycled questions!
May 20: Updated to show embedded image items in the question selection window.
March 31: Updated to include Unlimited Premium plan. Along with this update, there are a ton of features added:
- Ability to recycle General Feedback for Date, Duration, Scale, Time, Short Answer, Paragraph questions
- Recycle Correct & Incorrect Feedback for Dropdown, Checkbox, and Multiple Choice questions
- Select all questions
- Increased speed in recycling
- Fixing bugs from previous versions


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Summary of Obligation:
You may only claim an expense or an allowance, and may only use a public resource, for the dominant purpose of conducting your parliamentary business.
(s26 Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017)
'Parliamentary business' means any of your parliamentary, electorate, party political or official duties as defined in:
(s6 Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017 and determined by the Special Minister of State. (s6 PBR Act))
'Parliamentary business' does not include any activity with the dominant purpose of providing you with a personal benefit, or pursuing your or another person's commercial purposes.
(ss6(2), 26(4) Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017)
'Commercial purpose' means a purpose relating to the derivation of financial gain or reward.
(s5 Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017)
Certain public resources provided to you must not be used for any commercial purpose, such as:
(s33 Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017) (s26(4) Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017; see Electorate Offices)
(s71 Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017; see Satellite Electorate Offices)
- your electorate or office holder office, furniture and equipment and other public resources provided under
- your satellite office - any commercial use may mean the Commonwealth is not liable to reimburse you up to $50,000 for the lease and other costs of that office
Office expenses provided under your office budget, such as printing and communications and office requisites and stationery – must not be used to produce, communicate or distribute any material that includes an advertisement pursuing a commercial purpose of you or another person
(s66(4) Parliamentary Business Resources Regulations 2017; see Office Expenses – Restrictions)
The dominant purpose test would allow an activity to be undertaken or an expense to be incurred by you for more than one purpose, but requires that parliamentary business be the dominant purpose.
You should consider whether:
(Explanatory Memorandum to the PBR Act, paragraph 96)
- you would undertake the activity 'but for' your parliamentary business; that is, even if you were not conducting the parliamentary business. If so, a claim must not be made
- the activity could be perceived to have a personal or commercial benefit to you
- you are prepared to publicly justify your use of public resources as being for the conduct of your parliamentary business
- the activity has a personal or commercial benefit that is so significant that it would not be publicly defensible to incur any expense, regardless of the parliamentary business being undertaken.
- ordering office stationery or equipment specifically for your personal use or the use of an organisation such as your political party, a sports club or community group would not be for the dominant purpose of parliamentary business
- making arrangements for a business to print newsletters, where you have, or a person connected to you has, a financial interest in that business would be considered a commercial purpose
- including information on your webpage to advertise or link to a business or venture from which you or another person could derive a financial gain or reward would be considered a commercial purpose.


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Report: Rescue Assets Key to Pacific Canada Grounding Risk
A new study, commissioned by Clear Seas and produced by Nuka Research and Planning Group, analyzes how ship routing combined with the location and availability of emergency tow vessels or rescue tugs might affect the probability of a disabled vessel drifting aground along the Pacific coast of Canada.
The authors concluded that, when considered in the context of generalized vessel traffic routes for the area, passenger vessels were the most likely to spend time within the area identified as having a 0-50 percent probability of rescue given their tendency to travel close to the coast. By contrast, once at sea, tankers stay the farthest offshore due to the voluntary Tanker Exclusion Zone.
The analysis clearly shows that significant reductions to the risk profile of the study area could be achieved through the acquisition and deployment of rescue assets, says Clear Seas.
In support, the report summarizes the outcomes of a scenario-based vessel drift and response analysis. The parameters that define the different scenarios were developed in consultation with Clear Seas and regional representatives of Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard, Transport Canada and the British Columbia Coast Pilots.
Each of seven scenarios was run through a model to estimate the probability that a rescue tug would arrive in time to assist a disabled vessel. The model incorporates the coastline and historical wind conditions in the area and the time needed for a tug to reach the disabled vessel, which was calculated based on the tug's starting location, mobilization time, travel speed, route and time to establish a tow line. The disabled vessel's drifting time before grounding was calculated based on drift characteristics of particular vessel sizes and types that commonly transit the area, combined with wind conditions drawn from historical wind data.
The study is the first of three to be presented by Clear Seas as elements of the Marine Transportation Corridors project. The combined results of these studies aim to provide an enhanced understanding of some of the risks and potential prevention strategies associated with shipping activity on Canada's Pacific coast. The approach developed for this study can be applied to all of Canada's coastlines, says the organization.


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I'm excited to be a part of We Testify to reduce stigma surrounding abortion and to empower folks I encounter everyday who have had an abortion. Most importantly, I'm excited to be a part of We Testify to shift the conversation on abortion back to someone like me–someone who has had an abortion.
It's important for me to share my abortion story because people need to know about the barriers I faced while trying to access abortion care. I didn't face a lot of the roadblocks many people face when seeking abortion care, but I shouldn't have had to worry about whether I would lose my job for missing work to have a medical procedure. I shouldn't have had to work an extra 70 hours at minimum wage to pay for the health care I needed because the expensive private health insurance plan my family paid for wouldn't cover abortions. In addition to highlighting the barriers I faced, I hope to bring folks with mental illnesses further into the conversation when talking about abortion care. Folks from all identities, regardless of class, gender identity, race, religion, background and ability, should have the same access to the reproductive health and abortion care they need.
Everyone deserves the same level of compassionate care and access to abortion. Abortion care isn't just for the white, able and the wealthy, but attacks on abortion access aim to put the procedure out of reach for everyone else. Everyone who supports abortion, whether they personally have access to abortion or not, should be ready to fight back. Abortion is normal, abortion is health care, and for many, abortion is freedom.


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