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As the spring came to an end, I found myself at a crossroads in my triathlon career. For the past year, despite the world's best training, I have struggled to execute consistent performances in my races. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was letting down my coach and myself, and that it was time to either walk away from the sport or make a change.
For the 18 months, I have had the incredible opportunity to live at home and work with Siri Lindley and her amazing team of athletes. I wouldn't be where I am in my career without Siri. She has been an inspirational mentor and an incredible friend since she gave me my start in the sport in 2006, and she was gracious to take me on after my season-ending crash in 2013. Coming back to train with Siri was incredible. She has an enthusiastic energy and is completely dedicated to getting the best out of all her athletes every day. On the performance side, Siri's record as a coach in the US is unmatched; her athletes dominate on the world stage from ITU Olympic distance to the Ironman world championships. Siri is an amazing leader.. But, I couldn't seem to turn the training into race results. And, while I have no doubt we would figure it out eventually, I also know that my time in the sport is limited. So, after some very deep reflection, I made the incredibly difficult decision to go back to what had proven successful in the past.
Now, I'm here in Switzerland and back under the supervision of Brett Sutton who coached me through the most successful years of my career. Brett, while with a different style than Siri, is equally accomplished having produced countless triathlon world champions over his coaching career. I approached Brett Sutton for the first time at the end of 2010 when I was at another crossroads in the sport and considering retirement. This time, I was at a similar point and knew that if he was willing to take me on his squad that Brett would do his best to help me find the consistent race form that I had under his tutelage in 2011-2013. Brett agreed to help guide me through my final years in the sport. This change will not allow me to live full time at home, but with the support of my husband, who has once again gotten behind me, we'll both give triathlon a few dedicated years before I hang up the tri kit.
This was not an easy decision to be taken lightly. In addition, this change has no guarantees. However, in the words of Arthur Ashe, "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." When faced with an impasse, sometimes the only choice is to change direction, push onwards, and take a risk to find not the right path but your best path forward.
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CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Wis. – A black bear is thanking its lucky stars that a Wisconsin family was in the right place at the right time.
After a day of fishing on Sunday, Tricia Hurt told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that she, her husband and their son were returning to a dock on Marsh-Miller Lake when they spotted something strange in the water.
As the family approached, they realized it was a young bear that was struggling to swim because it had a cheese ball container stuck around its head.
They felt compelled to help free the bear from the tub, worrying that if they didn't, it wouldn't be able to make it back to short safely.
So, Tricia says her son Brady maneuvered their boat while her husband leaned into the water to tug on the container. It took multiple passes, but they eventually managed to free the animal from the plastic. Tricia says the bear then swam back to shore.
The family believes that if they had not helped the bear, it may have not made it to shore, because it was breathing heavily and the container had filled with water.
Tricia documented their rescue efforts on video and posted it online. As of Tuesday morning, her Facebook post has been shared more than 18,000 times.
The family says the bear had actually been spotted several times over the past few days and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources had been looking for it, but without any luck.

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In addition to checking individual websites, you can also use the internet to look for companies that offer kitchen cabinet refacing near you on credible review sites; Home Advisor and Angie's List, for example. These sites compile lists of various types of service providers, including Clifton Heights, NY cabinet refacing installers, and offer ratings that you can use to quickly assess the overall quality and reliability of the companies they highlight.
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What is the Professor Minty font?
Professor Minty is a cartoon-inspired kind of comic font with a lotta bounce and a whole buncha spooky fun.
Both regular and bold are based on Chank's first fonts, Mister Frisky and Uncle Stinky. The Bold version is brand new in 2011, never before available. But here both of those fonts are combined into one extra-savvy font that does all kinds of tricks. It has many extra special OpenType features, like Swash, Contextual Alternates and Small caps and more. There's even a "decaf" feature (Stylistic Set #1) which tones it down a bit if the account people think it is just too exciting. More…
Works good for Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day, oddly enough. Who knew those three holidays had anything in common?
Professor Minty Font families
The Professor Minty includes the following font families:
- Professor Minty
- Professor Minty Bold
Professor Minty Preview
Here is a preview of how Professor Minty will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.


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I have an old computer that can't handle a boot stick install, so i have to create an actual, old fashioned boot CD.
However, the image size for Ubuntu 12.04 is 732MB, which is too large for a CD, which can hold only 700MB.
The maintainers of Ubuntu 12.04 say the image size will never go over 700MB, and indeed, the download size seemed to be 689MB.
Brasero says it won't burn the CD because the file is too big, what's going on?


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policy — Shorewall policy file
This file defines the high-level policy for connections between zones defined in shorewall-zones(5).
The order of entries in this file is important
This file determines what to do with a new connection request if we don't get a match from the /etc/shorewall/rules file . For each source/destination pair, the file is processed in order until a match is found ("all" will match any client or server).
Intra-zone policies are pre-defined
For $FW and for all of the zones defined in /etc/shorewall/zones, the POLICY for connections from the zone to itself is ACCEPT (with no logging or TCP connection rate limiting) but may be overridden by an entry in this file. The overriding entry must be explicit (specifying the zone name in both SOURCE and DEST) or it must use "all+" (Shorewall 4.5.17 or later).
Similarly, if you have IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes in shorewall.conf, then the implicit policy to/from any sub-zone is CONTINUE. These implicit CONTINUE policies may also be overridden by an explicit entry in this file.
The columns in the file are as follows (where the column name is followed by a different name in parentheses, the different name is used in the alternate specification syntax).
- SOURCE - zone|$FW|all|all+
Source zone. Must be the name of a zone defined in shorewall-zones(5), $FW, "all" or "all+".
Support for "all+" was added in Shorewall 4.5.17. "all" does not override the implicit intra-zone ACCEPT policy while "all+" does.
- DEST - zone|$FW|all|all+
Destination zone. Must be the name of a zone defined in shorewall-zones(5), $FW, "all" or "all+". If the DEST is a bport zone, then the SOURCE must be "all", "all+", another bport zone associated with the same bridge, or it must be an ipv4 zone that is associated with only the same bridge.
Support for "all+" was added in Shorewall 4.5.17. "all" does not override the implicit intra-zone ACCEPT policy while "all+" does.
- POLICY - {ACCEPT|DROP|REJECT|CONTINUE|QUEUE|NFQUEUE[(queuenumber1[:
])]|NONE}[:{default-action-or-macro[:level]|None}] Policy if no match from the rules file is found.
If the policy is neither CONTINUE nor NONE then the policy may be followed by ":" and one of the following:
The word "None" or "none". This causes any default action defined in shorewall.conf(5) to be omitted for this policy.
The name of an action. The action will be invoked before the policy is enforced.
Actions can have parameters specified.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.10, the action name can be followed optionally by a colon and a log level. The level will be applied to each rule in the action or body that does not already have a log level.
Possible actions are:
Accept the connection.
Ignore the connection request.
For TCP, send RST. For all other, send an "unreachable" ICMP.
Queue the request for a user-space application such as Snort-inline.
Queue the request for a user-space application using the nfnetlink_queue mechanism. If a
is not given, queue zero (0) is assumed. Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.10, a second queue number (queuenumber2) may be given. This specifies a range of queues to use. Packets are then balanced across the given queues. This is useful for multicore systems: start multiple instances of the userspace program on queues x, x+1, .. x+n and use "x:x+n". Packets belonging to the same connection are put into the same nfqueue.- CONTINUE
Pass the connection request past any other rules that it might also match (where the source or destination zone in those rules is a superset of the SOURCE or DEST in this policy). See shorewall-nesting(5) for additional information.
Assume that there will never be any packets from this SOURCE to this DEST. Shorewall will not create any infrastructure to handle such packets and you may not have any rules with this SOURCE and DEST in the /etc/shorewall/rules file. If such a packet is received, the result is undefined. NONE may not be used if the SOURCE or DEST columns contain the firewall zone ($FW) or "all".
- LOG LEVEL (loglevel) - [log-level|ULOG|NFLOG]
Optional - if supplied, each connection handled under the default POLICY is logged at that level. If not supplied, no log message is generated. See syslog.conf(5) for a description of log levels.
You may also specify ULOG or NFLOG (must be in upper case). This will log to the ULOG or NFLOG target and will send to a separate log through use of ulogd (http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html).
For a description of log levels, see http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html.
If you don't want to log but need to specify the following column, place "-" here.
- BURST:LIMIT (limit) -
] where limit is one of:
[-|[{s|d}:[[ name
]:]]]rate/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst][ name
2]:rate2/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst2]If passed, specifies the maximum TCP connection rate and the size of an acceptable burst. If not specified, TCP connections are not limited. If the
parameter is omitted, a value of 5 is assumed.When
is specified, the rate applies per source IP address or per destination IP address respectively. Thename
may be chosen by the user and specifies a hash table to be used to count matching connections. If not give, the name shorewall is assumed. Where more than one POLICY or rule specifies the same name, the connections counts for the policies are aggregated and the individual rates apply to the aggregated count.Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.5, two
s may be specified, separated by a comma. In this case, the first limit (name1
, burst1) specifies the per-source IP limit and the second limit specifies the per-destination IP limit.Example: client:10/sec:20,:60/sec:100
- CONNLIMIT - limit[:mask]
May be used to limit the number of simultaneous connections from each individual host to
connections. While the limit is only checked on connections to which this policy could apply, the number of current connections is calculated over all current connections from the SOURCE host. By default, the limit is applied to each host individually but can be made to apply to networks of hosts by specifying amask
. Themask
specifies the width of a VLSM mask to be applied to the source address; the number of current connections is then taken over all hosts in the subnetsource-address
All connections from the local network to the internet are allowed
All connections from the internet are ignored but logged at syslog level KERNEL.INFO.
All other connection requests are rejected and logged at level KERNEL.INFO.
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG BURST:LIMIT # LEVEL loc net ACCEPT net all DROP info # # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST # all all REJECT info
See ALSO
shorewall(8), shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5), shorewall-blacklist(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall_interfaces(5), shorewall-ipsets(5), shorewall-maclist(5), shorewall-masq(5), shorewall-nat(5), shorewall-netmap(5), shorewall-params(5), shorewall-policy(5), shorewall-providers(5), shorewall-proxyarp(5), shorewall-rtrules(5), shorewall-routestopped(5), shorewall-rules(5), shorewall.conf(5), shorewall-secmarks(5), shorewall-tcclasses(5), shorewall-tcdevices(5), shorewall-mangle(5), shorewall-tos(5), shorewall-tunnels(5), shorewall-zones(5)


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If you're thinking of ribs for today or tomorrow, I've got you covered with my great rib recipe here. People rave about this recipe and it's so simple and easy. Or if pork is not your thing, how about a Santorini Grilled Chicken recipe that's sure to please everyone as it's stuffed with tomatoes, cheese and onions and oregano. And I've added on for you some salads too – one tomato and two potato. So fire up the grill, whip up the salads and enjoy this lovely long weekend with your family – and don't forget to thank our fallen heroes for their service to our country, as that is what Memorial Day is all about.
Here's a shot of my Dad's cavalry hat from WWII. We proudly display it on the wall as a piece of art. (That pie in the back gives a hint of one of our products coming up in our summer box!)
These recipes are all reprise recipes so I'll just show you the pictures, which all link back to the original post.
We are all out of sorts today. My mother-in-law is passing. She is 96 years old, almost 97, in August. She lived a good long life. I've dealt with a lot of passing of people close to me. My mom passed in 1995, my dad in '98 (of a broken heart from losing my mom. He always thought he would go first.), and then we lost a brother to MS in 2000. All of these were sudden events and a surprise. This, with Steve's mom is maddening. His sister is in Baltimore with her and has called in hospice. We are both on pins and needles.
Today I spent an hour tearing through the house looking for my reading glasses and then I went to wash my hands in the bathroom and looked up in the mirror – there they were on my chest – hanging from my necklace. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come! Once I left my car keys at a greeting card store and then they closed and I couldn't drive home! I was so engrossed in reading funny cards and laughing so hard, I got comfortable, sat on the carpeted floor and left my keys there too. That was a tough one to retrace. Then there was the time I left my keys in the freezer. Don't ask.
Love your family more. Our time here is precious. Cook with abandon and always serve with LOVE!


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Ever found yourself in the situation where you updated a series of plugins with no apparent issue, only to find out a few days later that something went terribly wrong… But what? Which plugins did i upgrade? Until now, you had to rely on your own note taking or memory.
This plugin keeps track of all changes made to your wordpress structure: core, network, plugins and options, for now. Themes will come soon.
Since version 2.0.0, the log can be exported as .csv.
Please rate the plugin if you like it.
Nothing special. Activate the plugin and you're done.
Special thanks to toscho for putting me on the right tracks
Thanks also to:
– This plugin template : http://soderlind.no/archives/2010/03/04/wordpress-plugin-template/
– the jquery plugin: dataTables _ http://datatables.net/
Long live open source, Heil to the helpful souls!
- Extract the zip file
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- Activate the Plugin from Plugins page.
- Go to Settings > WP Changes Tracker to view the log.
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- fixed a typo provoquing a js error.
- remove deprecated javascript.
- remove reference to external datatables.js and instead have it served locally.
- as the log can be huge, added a few ini_set() to increase the chance that downloading the log does not fail 500.
- Added the possibility to download your log file as .csv (experimental)
- Added an option to completely erase the log (You get a warning beforehand).
- Reduced the amount of log items shown by default (see this thread for context.)
- In some cases, the javascript responsible for datatables would fail. Fixed.
- From now on, user will be able to choose if the log should keep a trace of an option 's value before it was changed. If active, the log will be much heavier but will contain all details useful for tracing down a problem. Defaulted to false.
- Fixed a basic implementation of the plugin in Multisites mode. (Only available to network admin for now)
- Started adding a lot Core and Network (multisite) event logging.
- Improved logging info: now showing what value(s) changed using array_diff
- dataTables script finetuning
- Fixed the DataTables option from only working after manual refresh.
Initial release. Tracks plugins and option changes.
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The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains the Solar System. The name describes the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
The term Milky Way is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos, "milky circle").From Earth, the Milky Way appears as a band because its disk-shaped structure is viewed from within. Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610.
Until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky Way contained all the stars in the Universe.Following the 1920 Great Debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, observations by Edwin Hubble showed that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.


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The SDT "Snowed In" Beanie
$24.00 $30.00
For when it's pretty chilly out but you still wanna look cute, go for this pom-pom beanie! Instead of looking like a marshmallow under all those layers, you'll look fashion forward and put together- everyone's gonna compliment you!
**The IRL photo shows a girl wearing a hat that says "Theta" but that's just an example! Yours would say "Sig Delt"
• 100% acrylic
• 12" in length
• Pom-pom on top


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GTT Communications, Inc. (NYSE: GTT), the leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, today announced that it has been named to Deloitte's 2017 Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. GTT was also recognized on the list in 2015.
The recognition reflects GTT's consistent and focused growth strategy providing cloud networking services to multinational clients and extending secure network connectivity to any location in the world and any application in the cloud. GTT completed several strategic acquisitions this year, including Hibernia Networks and Global Capacity. GTT also launched new services, including optical transport, DDoS mitigation and an industry-leading SD-WAN service, leveraging GTT's Tier 1 Internet backbone and extensive and cost-effective range of broadband and internet connectivity options.
"We are proud to be recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing companies in the technology sector," stated GTT president and CEO, Rick Calder. "This award reflects the valued efforts of GTT's talented team, our market leadership and our company commitment to expanding our services and capabilities to deliver on our purpose of connecting people across organizations and around the world."
"The Deloitte 2017 North America Technology Fast 500 winners underscore the impact of technological innovation and world-class customer service in driving growth in a fiercely competitive environment," said Sandra Shirai, vice chairman, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. "These companies are on the cutting edge and are transforming the way we do business. We extend our sincere congratulations to all the winners for achieving remarkable growth while delivering new services and experiences for their customers."
GTT was recently ranked on the Fortune Future 50 list, which focuses on companies that are best positioned for breakout growth. In addition, GTT was recognized as one of the Washington Business Journal's 50 Fastest-Growing Companies and was named Company of the Year at the Leading Lights awards.
About GTT
GTT provides multinationals with a better way to reach the cloud through its suite of cloud networking services, including optical transport, wide area networking, internet, managed services, voice and video services. The company's Tier 1 IP network, ranked in the top five worldwide, connects clients to any location in the world and any application in the cloud. GTT delivers an outstanding client experience by living its core values of simplicity, speed and agility. For more information on how GTT is redefining global communications, please visit www.gtt.net.
GTT Media Inquiries: Randy Slack +1.646.254.6905 [email protected]


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People are rallying around Christine Blasey Ford and have donated more than $100,000 to a GoFundMe campaign aimed at helping her cover the costs of private security after it was reported she had been receiving death threats.
Ford accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of committing sexual and physical assault more than 30 years ago while they were both at a party during their high school years. Since going public with her accusation on Sunday, according to a letter sent Tuesday to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley from her lawyers, Ford has been forced to flee her home, sending her and her family into hiding.
"She has been the target of vicious harassment and even death threats. As a result of these kind of threats, her family was forced to relocate out of their home. Her email has been hacked, and she has been impersonated online," the letter said.
The GoFundMe campaign was started by Georgetown Law Professor Heidi Li Feldman on Tuesday, and according to its online description, is "to do just a bit to make it easier for women in her position to come forward despite great risks."
Feldman told CNN that when she heard the news about the death threats being levied against Ford, it "unfortunately" didn't surprise her, and thought "wouldn't it be great if we could just be her body guards?"
"Then I just thought, wait a minute, we don't have to do that, maybe we can help her pay for professional security," Feldman said Wednesday in a phone interview.
Feldman said that "it was very quickly apparent" that several people shared her sentiment.
Not only would someone in Ford's position need physical protection, Feldman explained, "but that collective action in providing that to her was part of a commitment to a fair political process, with regards to vetting a Supreme Court nominee."
Feldman said she has been in touch with one of Ford's official representatives and is working on the logistics of getting the funds to Ford.
"I think one of the really amazing things about this is that it's very organic," Feldman said.
Feldman's account isn't the only financial support Ford has seen -- another GoFundMe page that says it is sponsored by Ford's neighbors and colleagues has raised close to $30,000 of the $50,000 goal. Additionally, a neighbor of Ford's, Kristen Podulka, has started a #ThankYouCardsForChristine campaign.


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Sometimes the word 'gallery' simply isn't enough. Yes, it's the core of a business dedicated to the best in painting, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. But here the books turn into paintings, the paintings turn into films. Watch our short film to find out a bit more about us and what we do.
L'Enfer 18,
In 1929, he met his Russian muse Gala, who was then married to the poet Paul Eluard, and they began a relationship which would last over fifty years. As Dalì's international fame grew the artist thirstily sought publicity, his surreal work analogous to his outrageous lifestyle. After Gala's death in 1982, Dalì slipped in and out of sanity, living in seclusion, and in 1989 he died in a hospital in Figueres.
Unsigned. Printed on vélin pur chiffon de Rives, from the suite Dante's The Divine Comedy - L'Enfer.
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Canoan™ Scrunch Booty Pocket Cire Legging - Black
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Columbus, Ohio, is open for business on Columbus Day, as the city is not observing the day that honors its controversial namesake. The move will let it do more to observe Veterans Day, the city says.
Ohio's capital city announced the move late last week, issuing a short news release to note that its offices are open on Monday, and that trash collection and parking laws will be handled as usual.
The release concluded, "In honor of those who have served in the military, the City of Columbus will be closed on Veteran's Day on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018."
Columbus had not previously observed Veterans Day as a city holiday, says Robin Davis, the director of media relations for Mayor Andrew Ginther.
"Columbus is home to 110,000 veterans," Davis said in an email to NPR. "We are excited to be able to honor those who have served our country by observing Veterans Day this year."
When asked how the city made the change, and whether it had done so through a process that was open to public debate, Davis said the decision to stay open on Columbus Day "was agreed upon by all of the unions that represent city workers during regular contract negotiations over the last year."
The Ohio city stopped short of the moves made by Phoenix, Denver and others that now observe Indigenous Peoples' Day on the second Monday in October. When Cincinnati followed suit last week, member station WVXU reports, it did so "to celebrate the thriving culture and value that all indigenous people add" to the city, and to recognize "the annexation of indigenous homelands."
The idea of changing the traditional holiday has often sparked intense disagreements. As Julie Carr Smyth of The Associated Press reports, Columbus hopes to make "a savvy move to tie the switch to a politically safe demographic: veterans."
The change provoked strong reactions in Columbus, as seen on local news channel 10TV's Facebook page. A posting about the move drew a range of responses:
"Socialism in action. Our Capital City is even named after Christopher Columbus. How stupid of Mayor Ginther to perpetrate this embarrassment for our City!" — Larry W. Hutcheson
"This is terrific! It's bad enough the city is named after a genocidal racist maniac, but this is a step in the right direction." — Erin Nash
But one of the most-liked comment on the posting came from Jesse Bobo, who wrote, "I cannot understand people being upset over this.... I would much rather see Veterans honored."
Amid the controversy, another person wrote that if the name Columbus is so polarizing, the city shouldn't stop at the holiday: It should change its name altogether.
Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since the 1930s, but as of 2015, less than half of U.S. states had moved to give their employees a paid day off on the day. Several states, including Alaska, Hawaii and Oregon have never recognized it.
Critics of Columbus complain that the holiday mythologizes a man blamed for bringing slavery and death to the "New World." His backers celebrate his place in history, and his Italian heritage. Amid the debate, many also note that on Oct. 12, 1492, the explorer made landfall in the Bahamas, not in what later became the United States.
A search through the social media accounts and web pages of Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and several city council members found no mention of the change on Monday.
The choice to de-emphasize its namesake comes as Columbus prepares to open the new National Veterans Memorial and Museum on Oct. 27, ahead of Veterans Day next month.
Despite the change, the city's youngest residents might not notice. Public schools in Columbus are open on both Columbus Day and Veterans Day, according to the school district's calendar.
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The President of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Founder of Peace and National Unity – Leader of the Nation Emomali Rahmon approved the emblem of the 2018 International Navruz holiday.
The emblem has a round shape; in its center is featured a globe, surrounded by the National Flag and the spring messengers – sumanak (Tajik national spring tasty food), swallows and rainbows with the inscription in Tajik and English "Navruz-2018".
The emblem may be widely used as a symbol of the International 2018 Navruz holiday by ministries and agencies, organizations and institutions, executive bodies of state authority of provinces, cities and districts, and mass media.


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Dear B. Scott,
I'm writing because I don't know how to handle this particular situation. I have a 22 year old son and he has an amazing, beautiful, girlfriend that our entire family loves. She's over for dinner, holidays, family outings…we see her almost as one of our own. She isn't close with her mother, so she and I have gotten close and she's told me on numerous occasions she sees me as a mother figure.
The problem is that I recently found out that my son is or might be cheating on her. There's another young lady that he seems to be spending a LOT time with — I've even overheard him lying to his girlfriend in order to make plans with this other girl. It breaks my heart! I don't know how to go about the situation. I want to speak up, but I don't want to be the bearer of bad news and I don't want to lose my son's trust.
Dear love muffin,
This is quite a switch up from the usual letters I get from mothers regarding their son's girlfriend. It's nice to hear an account of someone actually getting along with their potential daughter-in-law. As a mother, of course you're going to want to look out for your son's best interest. If you feel as though your son is making a mistake by getting himself into a situation with another girl outside of his girlfriend, tell him.
While it isn't your place to alert his girlfriend to what's going on, it is your place to keep your son in check and remind him of what's right and what's wrong. Start the conversation by telling him what you know. This will put you in the position to either give him advice, or to try to dig a bit deeper into the situation and find out exactly what's going on. It could be that he's not ready to make a commitment or he's going through other unresolved issues that he just might not be talking about. After all, at 22, he's barely had enough time to get to know himself and understand what he wants out of life.
If in fact your son is cheating on his girlfriend, you have to make it clear he must tell her because it makes you uncomfortable having to hide the truth as you interact with someone you consider to be like a daughter. Please keep in mind, if your son and his girlfriend break-up, that doesn't necessarily mean you can't remain available as a mother-figure to her. Sometimes, all a parent can do is love their child and be there for them, even if things go wrong.
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I present installment #25 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
- The float floats as it waits….
- The trip tripped down the trail.
- He was squeamish with the squirm.
- At their own sound the rhumba rhumbaed!
- A movement can move a lot of earth.
- The watch watched.
- Float of crocodiles [1]
- Trip of goats
- Squirm of worms
- Rhumba of rattlesnakes
- Movement of moles
- Watch of nightingales
NOTES: [1] Sigh. Crocs are on the endangered list. Over half the world's species of crocodiles will soon go extinct. www.theguardian.com © Jadi Campbell 2017. All photos © Uwe Hartmann. To see more of Uwe's animal photos and pics from our trips go to viewpics.de. Fun animal names from www.writers-free-reference.com, Mother Nature Network and www.reference.com.
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a new world takes time proportional to the logarithm of the number of
objects persistently stored. Even having a huge number of objects
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You may think this is an awfully roundabout way to do something simple. After all, why not do the traditional thing of simply maintaining a snapshot of the current consistent state of the world and actually mutating it? This would require modifying the logging strategy slightly. A special mutation record would have to be written to the log to echo the mutation being performed in memory. If the machine crashes, the log could be read forward to re-do the mutations that were in progress at crash time. Alternatively, it could be read backwards to undo the mutations that ought to be undone if the transaction didn't commit.
The rationale for this roundabout solution is simplicity. It is hard to make transactions work correctly every single time given the fact that a hard failure can occur at any moment at all. Use Google to search for "transaction bug" and take a look at how easy it is to make subtle mistakes. By making it impossible to mutate existing persistent store records and indexes, we guarantee that bugs in the transaction layer simply cannot affect earlier, successful transactions. Cleanup and recovery of the persistent store remain as easy and trivial as before: we simply find the most recent valid commit record. There are no undo or redo logs to process. The transaction algorithm can be proven correct by inspection.
Once we have 'mutation', we'll need to ensure that we can maintain consistency when we use it. We want the persistent store to behave as if the mutations had some serial order to them. We augment each transaction object with some more bookkeeping information. Each transaction must record which objects it dereferences, allocates, and 'mutates' before it commits. We'll also add a transaction manager object which examines transactions before they are committed to determine if a serial ordering can still be computed. If there is a single thread performing transactions, then a serial ordering is virtually guaranteed. But if multiple concurrent threads run transactions in parallel, we have to make sure that each transaction runs in isolation from each other, and that the sets of locations read and written do not intersect with other transactions. If the transaction manager finds a conflict, it aborts one of the transactions.
Again, we note that this implementation can easily handle conflicts because it is very simple. Aborting a transaction is easier than committing it. You simply discard the transaction and you don't write a commit record for it. Allowing transaction to proceed and only checking for conflicts at commit time is an 'optimistic' strategy. In many situations an 'optimistic' concurrency strategy can perform better than a 'pessimistic' one. With a slight change it is easy to go to a 'pessimistic' model. In a pessimistic model, conflicting transactions are detected when a field is mutated. If the mutated field has been read within another transaction, then the other transaction may be working with stale data if it commits before this one. A pessimitic model is slightly simpler to understand because you check the validity of each operation just before performing it. However, an optimistic model performs very well if concurrent changes to the exact same objects do not often occur.
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The MIT Scheme object system, SOS, is derived from many of the ideas in Tiny CLOS. It is missing, however, a fully functional MOP. In addition, method dispatch is done only on the types of arguments. This makes it tricky to do 'EQL specializers'. EQL specializers are necessary to smoothly integrate object instantiation. You can work around this limitation in some ways, but it would be much better if the implementation had this as a built-in feature.


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You understand there is an inherent risk in such movement. There is a risk of damage to the machine itself, and to areas surrounding its installation, including but not limited to flooring, cabinetry and countertops. You acknowledge the technician is not required to move the appliance. In exchange for his willingness to do so, you promise to hold faultless, both the technician and Hi-5 Appliance Repair, from any and every liability associated with any such damage as may occur in connection with this movement.
Waiver of Damages When Working with Water
You understand the machinery that's being worked on is connected with the building's plumbing system, and whenever any machinery is so connected, there is an inherent risk that component failure, imperfect connections and/or other faults could result in unintended leakage and/or flooding within the building, causing significant and sometimes catastrophic damage. Excepting for cases of gross, clearly proven, and explicitly identifiable carelessness by the technician, you promise to hold harmless Hi-5 Appliance Repair, its principals, agents and employees from any and all damages, harms or liability that may result from such an occurrence. By allowing the technician to commence work, you explicitly waive the right to any contrary claim.
Waiver of Damages from Failed Cooling
You understand that, like any machinery, refrigeration equipment consists of a multiplicity of complex components, any of which can fail without warning, and that any effort to service and/or repair the same carries inherent risk. Diagnoses are not always straightforward, and, even when carefully performed, repair and/or service work may involve imperfections that result in failure of the machinery to perform as intended. Such failures may lead to food spoilage, discomfort, inconvenience, and (particularly in commercial contexts) even loss of revenue as associated with canceled or failed events, inability to service customers, etc. You acknowledge that, by undertaking to service and/or repair your equipment, Hi-5 Appliance Repair is not accepting responsibility for any such risks. You agree all such risks are your own (and/or your company's) alone, and you agree to hold harmless and exempt from liability Hi-5 Appliance Repair, it's agents and employees from any and all such harms. By allowing the technician to commence work, you explicitly waive the right to any contrary claim.
Waiver of Damages from Lifting Glass Cook Top
You understand that, in lifting a glass/ceramic cooktop surface to access components below it, there is an inherent risk of breakage. The top is attached with strong adhesive, and it is not always possible to achieve separation without the surface fracturing. While expecting the technician to exercise every due level of care, You nevertheless recognize that the Technician and Hi-5 Appliance Repair explicitly refrain from accepting any responsibility for these risks. You agree all such risks are your own (and/or your company's) alone, and you agree to hold harmless and exempt from liability Hi-5 Appliance Repair, it's agents and employees from any and all such responsibility. By allowing the technician to commence work, you explicitly waive the right to any contrary claim.
Basic Appliance Installation Terms and Conditions
Our standard install charge covers the following:
Removal and/or installation of an appliance, without the need to disturb/remove cabinetry, countertops, flooring or any other fixture. It does not include modification, and repair of a gas, water valves, drains, power receptacles, electrical junction boxes, and dryer vents. It is the responsibility of a customer to ensure systems for a supply of gas and water, electrical, drainage, venting, etc. meet local building codes, and are available to facilitate installation using standard materials associated with the install of that type of appliance.
Hi-5 Appliance Repair does not install, modify or correct problems with services necessary to facilitate installation. These include but are not limited to an electrical supply, water supply, water drainage, gas supply, dryer air vents, ventilation systems to facilitate cooling and/or safe operation of equipment installed.
We assume and accept that an area, systems or services which have been provided to accommodate an appliance installation have been prepared to conform to the needs of the appliance and meet all applicable regulatory requirements and codes. We do not verify correct ventilation, electrical, water supply, water drainage requirements have been met specifically to the appliance installed.
If Hi-5 Appliance Repair is supplying appliance, doorways, hallways, etc. must allow sufficient clearance to move the unit into the install location.
Installation charge quoted does not include the cost of materials such as vent hoses, water lines, gas lines, hoses, fittings, etc.
Where 2 people are required to install an appliance, such as with stacked dryer/washers and wall ovens, this will incur an additional service charge in addition to the charge for a basic install.
If we come to perform an install and find that installation cannot proceed and cannot be corrected while on-site due to any one of the above criteria not being met, our standard service call will be due.
Refusal of Service:
Hi-5 Appliance Repair reserves the right to refuse service to a customer at the service technician's discretion. The customer will be held liable for a service fee.
Service will be refused if:
- a customer cannot accommodate a service technician,
- a customer is being disrespectful or belligerent,
- a service technician feels threatened in any way or form,
- a customer is not properly dressed upon arrival of a service technician.
- a customer has been or is being disruptive,
- a customer harasses the service technician,
- there are health and safety concerns,
- a customer refuses to pay for services
- a customer is intoxicated or under the influence of illegal drugs or illegal drugs are present.


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In 2020, Lauren Brown of Upper Darby, Pa., had a high-risk pregnancy. She was past 35 years old, had high blood pressure, and had a previous blood clot that could have been deadly. Plus, the COVID-19 pandemic was raging.
When it came time to give birth in December of that year, Brown, 40, needed an emergency C-section to deliver her daughter, Bella.
All of these factors contribute to a deadly trend in the U.S. The country has long stood out for itshigh rate of maternal mortality among wealthy countries, an issue that disproportionately affects Black Americans. The coronavirus pandemic only pushed deaths higher.
But Brown, who's Black and a first-time mom, had an experience that points to solutions.
"It was a little scary. But, being that I had the nursing group, I had my whole team at the hospital, I really felt like ... my pregnancy was very smooth," she says.
A longtime program that gets results
Brown and Bella are just one of the 56,000 families served by a national program called Nurse-Family Partnershipeach year.
That model, first studied in a randomized controlled trial more than 40 years ago, pairs low-income, first-time parents with a personal nurse from pregnancy through their child's second birthday.
It has an expansive goal: to help create healthier and more prosperous families. In Brown's Pennsylvania neighborhood, the program is run through a local community foundation called The Foundation for Delaware County. It is one of 774 counties across more than 40 states where the program is run.
Part of that work involves improving pregnancy outcomes for birthing parents and their babies.
Brown worked with nurse Christina Baker before, during and after her pregnancy. They could not meet up in person for more than a year due to the pandemic, but Baker kept tabs on her patient's blood pressure, stress levels and doctor's appointments remotely.
"We would have our calls, I would let her know what happened, and when my next appointment would be," says Brown, who herself went to nursing school after the birth of her daughter.
Research points to early education about pregnancy complications and multidisciplinary care for women with extra risk factors as key interventions to improve maternal health outcomes. The Nurse-Family Partnership model does both with an emphasis on empowering expecting parents to demand better care if they feel health professionals are not taking their concerns seriously.
Brown was comfortable asking questions, but many first-time parents struggle to do that, Baker says.
"One thing that I stress early on [is] that 'you need to advocate for yourself, because this is your baby, this is your pregnancy,'" she says.
This extra attention and advocacy gets results. The Nurse-Family Partnership model lowers the rates of some maternal mortality risk factors such as pregnancy-related high blood pressure, according to studies of the program's outcomes.
"I'm a fan of the Nurse-Family Partnership project because as a scientist, when I look at the data it's extremely compelling," says Joyce Edmonds, a nurse and associate professor at Boston College who's not affiliated with the program.
The causes of mortality are bigger than one program can address
Nurse-Family Partnership works to support a specific group of new parents. But it's not a fix for the larger causes driving maternal mortality in the U.S.
Experts say those go beyond the doctor's office or delivery room.
"Some of the things that I hear about being the most challenging in pregnancy are access to affordable housing and child care and mental health support," says Dr. Rose Molina, an OB-GYN and professor at Harvard Medical School who focuses on inequities in pregnancy outcomes.
A recent review of recent pregnancy-related deathsin the U.S. found that mental health conditions are a leading cause of mortality in the period up to one year after a birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That same review found that 4 out of 5 of all deaths during or after a pregnancy are preventable.
Another gap is access to health care in general. In the U.S., people without health insurance qualify for Medicaid, government-subsidized health coverage, when they become pregnant and up to 60 days after birth. More than two dozen states have joined a Biden administration program to extend that coverage up to one year postpartum. Across the country, Medicaid pays for 42% of all births.
But outside of that time period, thousands lack basic coverage. As of 2019, there were 800,000 women of childbearing age who made too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. That puts them in the "coverage gap."
Expanding Medicaid coverage, and narrowing that gap, helps reduce maternal mortalities, according to a report from Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute.
That's in part because chronic conditions, for example cardiovascular disease, are a leading medical cause of pregnancy-related deaths. These conditions need to be treated well before conception, so that parents are "the healthiest they can be during a pregnancy," Molina says.
Expanding access to Medicaid would also increase the reach of Nurse-Family Partnership programs, according to that organization, because Medicaid dollars can be used to help fund them.
Trusted professionals are key
The cornerstone of the Nurse-Family Partnership model is building a trusting relationship.
Trusted supporters, whether nurses, doulas or midwives, can help lower the rate of birth complications and address the racial differences in birthing care, studies show.
Ja'Mil'Lion DeLorenzo, a 19-year-old mom who goes by Jayy, had reasons to distrust medical professionals in the past. When she was younger, DeLorenzo saw a rotating cast of social workers and therapists when in treatment for depression.
"So now, I have to sit here, tell my whole life story again, get comfortable with them, do stuff with them, and then they leave again," she says of that experience.
But since March, DeLorenzo has been participating in the Nurse-Family Partnership, working with nurse Carole Kriessman. DeLorenzo's son, Haiyden, was born in May.
Kriessman and DeLorenzo share Instagram reels with parenting tips in them, and Kriessman reminds DeLorenzo to take time for herself. DeLorenzo says she likes that Kriessman has stuck around.
During a recent visit, Haiyden is all gummy smiles in his red onesie. Kriessman and DeLorenzo gush about his latest developmental milestone: sitting up all on his own.
"You're so cute sitting up!" Kriessman says as she weighs him.
She'll be around for his next milestone, too.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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- New Mustang GT Performance Pack Level 2 raises Mustang GT's game and bridges the gap between GT Performance Pack and GT350
- Performance Pack Level 2 is accentuated by a lower, more aggressive stance, aerodynamically balanced high-performance front splitter and rear spoiler – all designed to add more downforce to attack curves for an exhilarating feel behind the wheel
- Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, retuned steering and MagneRide® suspension deliver ultra-responsive road-gripping capabilities in new manual transmission-equipped Mustang GT with Performance Pack Level 2
"A passion to create something special is what really drove this project," said Tom Barnes, Mustang vehicle engineering manager. "And that really showed in the off-the-clock way we went about doing our work."
Longtime tire and wheel engineer Chauncy Eggleston led development of unique 19-inch wheels that help provide notable steering and handling response improvements. Mustang veteran Jonathan Gesek, former aerodynamics specialist at NASA and now with Ford's aerodynamics group, spearheaded development of a high-performance front splitter and rear spoiler. And Jamie Cullen, Ford supervisor for vehicle dynamics development, led road test efforts to ensure the car delivers ultra-responsive steering, braking and handling performance.
The result of their covert efforts is available to order now and will reach North American showrooms this spring when pony car enthusiasts can get the new 2018 Ford Mustang GT with Performance Pack Level 2, a collection of drive-enhancing components designed for – and by – people who love the thrill of taking the wheel of a true performance car.
"It will just beg you to go faster," said Cullen. "The car has lightning-quick response and never gives up grip."
Performance Pack Level 2 includes all of the features of Performance Pack Level 1 – unique chassis and antilock brake tuning, unique stability control and electric power-assisted steering, Brembo™ six-piston front brake calipers with larger rotors, a k-brace, larger radiator, silver-painted strut tower brace and a TORSEN® rear differential with 3.73 axle ratio.
It's highlighted by a lower stance, a redesigned front splitter and rear spoiler, and 305/30/R19 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires wrapped around split-fitment aluminum wheels – 19x10.5-inch front and 19x11-inch rear.
The tires, 1.5 inches wider than those found with Performance Pack Level 1, provide a firmer grip, and work with a retuned chassis to put the car more than a half-inch closer to the ground. The package is available exclusively with a manual transmission.
Custom tuned MagneRide® dampers and quicker steering calibration provide better response. Other improvements over Performance Pack Level 1 equipment include a 67 percent stiffer rear stabilizer bar, a 12 percent stiffer front stabilizer bar, 20 percent stiffer front springs and rear springs that are 13 percent stiffer, all of which contribute to a more stable ride around corners with less body roll.
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Critical to the success of the package is improved aerodynamics scores, which the team achieved by adding larger and lower front splitter and redesigned rear spoiler.
Gesek said the after-hours approach team members took to developing the Mustang GT Performance Pack Level 2 was so much fun because they set out to create their dream car.
"Our targets were aggressive," he said, "and we nailed them."
Using the splitter from the famed Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca as a benchmark, Mustang engineers attached the piece to the underside of the front to fan out as much as 3 inches around the corners of the Mustang GT. It creates about 24 pounds of downforce at 80 mph, helping give the car its exceptional grip. To balance the downforce, a subtle, redesigned rear spoiler stretches across the decklid.
To assist in the team's innovative approach to creating the new Performance Pack, parts such as the rear spoiler were rapid-prototyped using a 3D printer. The process enabled faster turnaround times, complementing the trial-and-error nature of the project.
The only visual cues on a car outfitted with the new Performance Pack Level 2 are black detailing on the splitter and spoiler, the tire spat on the back edge of the rear wheel wells and the 10-spoke Dark Tarnish wheels, which are exclusive. Customers who opt for Performance Pack Level 2 have a unique opportunity to select Recaro® seats in either leather or cloth to help stay firmly planted while cornering.