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This is Kevin.
He jumped into my basket tonight when I stopped for a BBQ chicken at SPAR on the way home; probably heard we live out in the bush and hitched a ride to meet some other koalas.
Anyway, Kev here lists his likes as cricket, collecting insects and eating green apples.
A bit strange that this diet has given him a belly full of chocolate, but who am I to question when I know nothing about koala metabolism?
Unfortuantely for Kevin, my likes include eating caramel mudcakes filled with and dipped in chocolate. Especially cakes shaped like native fauna.
Kevin is shamelessy flaunting his choc filled belly, so who am I to resist?
After ripping him apart, I was a bit disappointed to not even find a TRACE of the promised gooey chocolate center.
And the mud cake itself was a bit sickly, with that moist sort of texture that you get from wrapped baked goods likes muffin bars etc.
Not as good as anything you might bake yourself, but fun for my morning teas at work.
Still, the packaging rocks and it was a fun friday night impulse buy. Plus there is something oddly perverse and satisfying about a snack that is shaped like out national animal and named after our Prime Minister...
There are three flavours in the Yummy Tummy Koalas range to try, caramel with chocolate, white chocolate with jam and one that is ALL chocolate, baby.
If you eat a few and get to the bottom, there is a set of stickers to help you decorate Kevin.
Here he is all decked out in his cricket gear.
hehe, awesome :)
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Tommy Lee Quits Social Media
After publicly revealing injuries he says he sustained at the hands of his 21-year-old son, former Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has bid farewell to social media, saying he "Can't read anymore liesss."
As previously reported, Lee posted a picture of himself with a swollen lip to his Instagram feed, telling followers it was the handiwork of his son Brandon. Local police confirmed that they'd been called to Lee's residence, where Brandon had reportedly been living part-time, and Lee was ultimately checked into a nearby hospital. Tabloid network TMZ suggested alcohol had been a factor, quoting sources who said Brandon had been acting in self-defense — something Lee quickly and angrily denied.
Brandon Lee, meanwhile, has corroborated those accounts with his own statement, which calls the incident "a result of my father's alcoholism" and underscores his commitment to getting his dad the help he allegedly needs.
"I've worked tirelessly organizing an intervention and it's incredibly upsetting that it never came to fruition," said Brandon. "I wanted my dad's hopeful sobriety and recovery to be a private family matter but, as a result of his accusations on social media, I feel forced to speak out. I have and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement as needed. I love my father and just want to see him sober, happy and healthy."
That earned a scornful retort from Tommy Lee, who described himself as "happier than I've been in my entire life" and claimed that far from arranging for an intervention, Brandon "barely spoke to me while [he was] here" and was "just coverin [his] ass."
Brandon's mother and Tommy's ex-wife, actress Pamela Anderson, then issued her own statement on the matter, declaring that the elder Lee is "a disaster spinning out of control" who she prays "gets the help he needs."
Clearly, this is a family dispute that's destined to play out in the legal system — and given that Tommy Lee is pressing charges against his son, it looks likely to have its chance sooner than later. But in the meantime, fans may have to turn to the gossip networks for updates: Tommy announced he was walking away from social media shortly after trading barbs with his son.
3/8/18 11:30 AM EST UPDATE: Quitting Ain't Easy...


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran's supreme leader will not meet President Donald Trump unless Washington halts its "economic terrorism" that has hurt ordinary Iranians.
Zarif said the removal of U.S. sanctions — which he described as a form of extortion, arm twisting and intimidation — could also help salvage the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, which the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from last year.
He said Tehran has the right to reduce its compliance under the nuclear pact after the U.S. left, but it can return to full implementation if the U.S. fulfills its commitment and returns to the table.
"We are prepared to leave (the pact) because we have nothing to lose," he told a forum in Kuala Lumpur. But Tehran also believes that the only way to avoid a "nuclear holocaust" is to destroy all nuclear weapons, he said.
"We say that if you (the U.S.) come back to your commitments, you fulfill your commitments and the commitments are to normalize economic relations with Iran, we will revert back to full implementation and that is still on the table," he added.
In recent months, Tehran has announced that it would cross limits imposed by the multinational pact on the size and potency of its nuclear stockpile.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday backed off from possible talks with Trump, just a day after the U.S. president said the two could meet on their nuclear impasse after a surprise intervention by French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit this week.
His U-turn can be seen as a result of pressure from hard-liners in the Iranian establishment who oppose taking a softer tone toward the West. Iran has increased its uranium enrichment activities after the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal.
It has also lost billions of dollars in business deals allowed by the accord as the U.S. re-imposed and escalated sanctions largely blocking Tehran from selling crude abroad, a crucial source of hard currency for the Islamic Republic.
"They are engaged in economic terrorism and the basic principle in a civilized world is that you do not negotiate with terrorists. If they want to negotiate, they have to abandon terrorism," Zarif said, in reference to rollback of sanctions.
"It won't be possible for us to engage with the United States unless they stop imposing war, engaging in economic terrorism against the Iranian people," he told reporters later.
Zarif slammed Washington's push for dominance in the region including through a U.S.-led coalition to patrol the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which much of the world's oil transits. He said Middle Eastern countries can safeguard security without interference from outsiders.
In past weeks, the Persian Gulf region has seen six attacks on oil tankers that the U.S. has blamed on Iran and the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone by Iranian forces. Iran denied it was behind the tanker attacks.
But in July, Iran seized British-flagged tanker the Stena Impero, after the United Kingdom seized an Iranian tanker thought to be carrying fuel to Syria in violation of international sanctions. The Iranian vessel was released earlier this month, but the British vessel is still being held.
Zarif said the British tanker had violated Iran's sea laws and will need to go through the court system. He said Iran will help expedite the legal process.
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Photo: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles as he speaks during a forum titled "Common Security in the Islamic World" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Zarif said Iran's supreme leader will not meet with U.S. President Donald Trump unless Washington halts its "economic terrorism" that has hurt ordinary Iranian civilians. Zarif said the removal of U.S. sanctions could also help salvage the Iranian nuclear deal, which may break apart after the U.S. left last year. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)


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Apple CEO Saved by Cash Plan?
Tim Cook wants investors to "think different" about Apple: less as a hyper-growth startup-like company and more as a mature but robust technology corporation with the world's most lucrative dividend.
If Wall Street follows Apple's famous advertising slogan of old, it may relieve some of the pressure on Apple's chief executive, quiet investors' grumbling about its recent share price slide, and buy the company time to do what it says it does best: come up with and market new products.
On Tuesday, Apple said it would return $100 billion to shareholders by the end of 2015, in part by raising its dividend 15 percent and in part by increasing its share buyback program six-fold to $60 billion.
To some extent, the expanded capital return program helped mask its first quarterly profit decline in a decade, though analysts say the more important issue now is what Apple has in store on the gadget front.
Cook is trying to reset heightened expectations around a company once universally feted for its ability to captivate both consumers and Wall Street. In the years following the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010, the company established a pattern of consistently blowing past even the most bullish Wall Street earnings expectations, much to everyone's delight.
But on Tuesday, Cook made the rare admission to analysts on a conference call that Apple's growth has slowed and margins have decreased.
Apple is a mature company that's now trying to get everyone to see it as one, analysts say.
"They are modulating into a state where the highs are not as high and lows are not so low," Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps said.
Apple shares moved 5 percent higher Tuesday on the back of the capital program, though the gains evaporated later.
Any gains would have come as little consolation to investors who have watched Apple shed more than $280 billion in market value in the last few months as investors adjusted to a new, slower-growth reality.
Roger Kay, president of researcher and consultant Endpoint Technologies Associates said the expanded share repurchase and dividend scheme would keep investors satisfied for a while.
In the longer term, Apple needs another blockbuster gadget to accelerate its momentum -- and win investors back for the longer term. Cook tried on Tuesday to drum up enthusiasm around the product pipeline by teasing that "some really great stuff" -- potentially in new product categories -- was coming in the fall and in 2014.
"They need something that breaks into new verticals, whether it's TV or something that's wearable, that opens up a new revenue stream," Epps said.
That remains among the most pertinent concerns for Apple-watchers. Since Cook took over in 2011 from late co-founder Steve Jobs, some investors have questioned whether Apple can continue to up-end technology markets with new revolutionary products that appeal to consumers in the absence of the tech icon.
Cook has in the past year presided over three straight quarters of missed revenue expectations before the January-to-March period. The key product introduced during his tenure is the smaller iPad mini, a response to tablets such as Amazon.com Inc's Kindle that were making inroads on its home turf.
The public takes as a given that a new iPhone and new iPads will come this year, along with refreshed Mac computers and iPod music players. But the speculation is that Apple is also working on a watch, a television and a radio service, among other products in the pipeline.
Cook would not provide any more details on new products, no surprise given the company's penchant for secrecy.
Some investors remain confident the Apple magic remains.
"The bar has been reset in terms of expectations and guidance. They have done the right thing by issuing debt and doing a large buyback," said Jason Jones, who runs tech hedge fund firm HighStep Capital and confessed to being an Apple bull.
"The company will go through this quiet period for product release and then, starting in the summer and for the remainder of the year, product announcements will pick up and likely the stock will react favorably to that."
While Apple is still growing -- no small achievement for a company with sales well over $100 billion -- its pace of growth has slowed as high-end smartphone adoption approaches saturation and rivals flood the market with cheaper devices, which are popular in high-growth developing countries like China and India.
Cook on Tuesday acknowledged that Samsung, which has smartphones in all price categories, is its top competitor. Apple also said it does sacrifice margin in the short-term, as it did with the iPad mini, if executives believe a product has long-term potential.
"Apple is in the transition phase from growth to a value company," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Asset Management. "Growth companies tend to put every penny back in, but that is not the case with Apple here."


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This spacecraft mission combined a Venus swingby and a Comet Halley flyby. Two identical spacecraft, Vega 1 and Vega 2, were launched December 15 and 21, 1984, respectively. After carrying Venus entry probes to the vicinity of Venus (arrival and deployment of probes were scheduled for June 11-15, 1985), the two spacecraft were retargetted using Venus gravity field assistance to intercept Comet Halley in March 1986. The first spacecraft encountered Comet Halley on March 6, 1986, and the second three days later. The flyby velocity was 77.7 km/s. Although the spacecraft could be targetted with a precision of 100 km, the position of the spacecraft relative to the comet nucleus was estimated to be known only to within a few thousand kilometers. This, together with the problem of dust protection, led to estimated flyby distances of 10,000 km for the first spacecraft and 3000 km for the second.
The spacecraft was three-axis stabilized. Its main features were large solar panels, a high-gain antenna dish, and an automatic pointing platform carrying those experiments that required pointing at the comet nucleus. The automatic platform could rotate through + or -110 deg and + or -40 deg in two perpendicular directions with a pointing accuracy of 5 arc-min and a stability of 1 arc-min/s. It carried the narrow- and the wide-angle camera, the three-channel spectrometer, and the infrared sounder. All other experiments were body-mounted, with the exception of two magnetometer mounted on a 2-m boom and various plasma probes and plasma wave analyzers mounted on a 5-m boom. The total scientific payload weighed 125 kg and had a data rate of 65 kbs in fast telemetry mode for encounter. There was also a slow telemetry mode for the cruise mode. The comet-encounter science data-take was from 2.5 h before until 0.5 h after the closest approach, with several periods of data-take before and after, each lasting about 2 h. Continuous coverage for plasma and dust instruments was provided by an onboard memory (5-megabit tape recorder). The spacecraft was shielded from hypervelocity dust impacts by a shield consisting of a 100-micrometer multilayer sheet 20 to 30 cm from the spacecraft, and a 1-mm Al sheet 5 to 10 cm from the spacecraft. Approximately half of the Vega spacecraft was devoted to the Halley module, and half to the Venus lander package. The total scientific payload weight was 144.3 kg.
The Venus package consisted of a sphere 240 cm in diameter, which separated two days before arrival at Venus and entered the planet's atmosphere on an inclined path, without active maneuvers, as was done on previous Venera missions. The lander probe was identical to those of Venera 9 through 14 and similarly had two objectives, the study of the atmosphere and the study of the superficial crust. In addition to temperature and pressure measuring instruments, the descent probe carried a UV spectrometer for measurement of minor atmospheric constituents, an instrument dedicated to measurement of the concentration of H2O, and other instruments for determination of the chemical composition of the condensed phase: a gas-phase chromatograph; an X-ray spectrometer observing the fluorescence of grains or drops; and a mass spectrograph measuring the chemical composition of the grains or drops. The X-ray spectrometer separated the grains according to their sizes using a laser imaging device, while the mass spectrograph separated them according to their sizes using an aerodynamical inertial separator. After landing, a small surface sample near the probe was to be analyzed by gamma spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence. The UV spectrometer, the mass spectrograph, and the pressure- and temperature-measuring instruments were developed in cooperation between French and Soviet investigators. For more on the descent craft, see:
In addition to the lander probe, a constant-pressure instrumented balloon aerostat was deployed after entry into the atmosphere from the upper heat protection hemisphere. It floated at approximately 50 km altitude in the middle, most active layer of the Venus three-tiered cloud system. Data from the balloon instruments were transmitted directly to Earth for the 47-hr lifetime of the mission. For more on the balloons, see:
Image at top of page shows the Vega model on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Udvar-Hazy Center.
Launch Date: 1984-12-21
Launch Vehicle: Proton
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), U.S.S.R
Mass: 2500 kg
Questions and comments about this spacecraft can be directed to: Dr. David R. Williams
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Vega 2 Descent Craft
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It was 2006, the first Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and I just met Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian. I had followed the company for a while (OK, I admit, had been a fan), met Mike, but this was the first time with Jeffrey, so we took our box lunch to a cozy little place away from the crowd and started to chat. Within minutes a VC Partner joined us, and so the usual "what are you doing" conversation started. Well, it wasn't a conversation: Jeffrey talked, the VC listened. And in 5 minutes he was ready pull out the checkbook (sort of), when Jeffrey dropped the bomb:
We're actually not seeking funding. We're fully funded. By customer revenues.
Seeing the VC's face was priceless. After all, the cliche for startup success was to take funding. Which Atlassian did – 4 years later. But they do nothing by halves. $60 million or nothing! 🙂 But I am running ahead. Back to the early days.
I got to know Atlassian as the Wiki Company – having compared the few early business wikis, I came to the Conclusion that Confluence was the most robust, complete one. I'm probably not the most pleasant reviewer when I don't like what I see – but I could simply not find anything to criticize with Confluence – it became the de facto industry standard for others to follow. That said Atlassian is /was about more then Confluence: their roots are in supporting developers, having started with a powerful bug tracker Jira, and growing to eight (?) products organically and through acquisitions. Not being a techie, I don't even understand most of these products – so the root cause of my infatuation with Atlassian was really their business model.
There is nothing wrong with taking VC Funding, but risking everything to your last penny is what Entrepreneurship was originally all about, so it is simply refreshing to see a company to have made it solely on bootstrapping, beating the odds. Add to it great software that's easy to buy, learn, use, sprinkle it with a good dose of transparency and great service, and you get a startup worth admiring. I've had lots of fun covering their early success and also learned a lot watching them:
- Atlassian taking in the world
- Atlassian Founders Become Australian Entrepreneur of the Year
- Flow vs. Structure: Escaping From the Document & Directory Jungle ( I badly need to revisit this subject)
- Choosing Your Customers: Smart Business or Arrogance?
- Software Startups: How to Sell to Enterprise in a Recession
Oh, and they gave me some of my funnier titles:
- Sell Software – Ship T-Shirts (how come I don't have them?)
- Atlassian Hiring Chief Heineken-taster
- Business Models and Right-brained Geeks
…'cause they like having fun, and I guess it's contageous. But amidst all that fun they can sometimes be dangerous:-)
I tried to help them fill The Dream Job (no, I wanted that job:-)), help with their charitable promotion – hey, even put my http://www.cloudave.com/link/helping-atlassian-stimulus-package-towards-the-finish-line">money where my mouth was. Then I had to write the most difficult post in my life, saying goodbye to Jeffrey, Atlassian President, musician, amazing person and fellow Enterprise Irregular.
And today they taught me another lesson: don't ever sit on a story. It expires. My unwritten story that I've been contemplating for a while was about two bootstrapped startups, both in software, amazingly successful that have sailed into IPO zone almost unnoticed. The second one is Zoho, which I consider to be approaching IPO-readiness, but I seriously doubt they would chose to go that way. But Zoho is our Sponsor, talking too much about them would look like ***ing up, so I'll stop here. The day will come. But today is Atlassian's day.
Why would a company that has profitably grown for 8 years need funding now? They want to grow more agressively, both in terms of geography and product coverage. That means acquisitions. They want to accelerate growth to above $100M revenue, which is what's considered "IPO ready" nowadays.
But what drove me to the conclusion they were on the IPO-track even before the funding was deep in their culture.
Atlassian is always hiring, yet it's difficult to get in. They are picky. It's a "work-hard-play-hard" culture. Employees are well paid and the company spends lavishly on team fun. No wonder their revenue per employee ratio is high. But the team lives in Sydney and San Francisco, where there is an expectation that after a few years in a red-hot startup you get rich… The Founders probably no longer live frugally, but how to share the wealth with all employees without an exit? Funding accelerates the path to exit and my even bring interim liquidity critical to keep the team around. I agree with Ben in that respect.
$60 million is a lot of money, in fact Accel Partners claim it is the largest investment they've ever made in the software business. But there's a whole world of difference in picking it up as a mature, profitable company or a fledgling startup. Some of Atlassian's competitors picked up a third of this amount at early stages and probably had to give up three times as much equity as Atlassian did. Bootstrapping has paid off, after all.
Oh, about that $60M T-shirt – you really have to read it over @ Atlassian. After all, this is a SFW blog:-)
Update: I'm speechless. What's this? Sour grapes?
(Cross-posted @ CloudAve)


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Types, named (was: "Name that type!"), plus two more questions
Here are the answers to the previous quiz.
The first datatype holds any factorial number of values. Here it is again, with one small change and a few de-obfuscations:
> data FacHelp (f :: * -> *) (y :: *) = > Stop y > | More (FacHelp (OneMore f) (f y)) > newtype OneMore (f :: * -> *) (y :: *) = > OneMore (y, f y) > newtype Identity y = Identity y > type Factorial y = FacHelp Identity y
Here's that datatype again, renamed:
> data LongList x = Two x x > | AndAnother x (LongList x) > data Composite x = Composite (LongList (LongList x))Update:
Chung-chieh Shan pointed out to me that I got that datatype wrong. (The other text above is correct, I think.) Anyway, here's his counterexample:
> test :: Composite Char > test = Composite (Two (Two 'a' 'b') > (AndAnother 'c' (Two 'd' 'e')))This is a correct (I think!) implementation of a container that can't be of a prime size:
> data Product f g a = Times (f (g a)) > | LeftIncr (Product (OneMore f) g a) > | RightIncr (Product f (OneMore g) a) > newtype Pair a = Pair (a,a) > type Comp = Product Pair PairEnd update
The third datatype uses the type H
, which encodes containers with a square number of elements. H
is based on the idea that the sequence of partial sums of the sequence of odd natural numbers is the same as the sequence of squares. That is, {0, 1, 1+3, 1+3+5, …} = {02, 12, 22, 32, …}
We can now use Lagrange's four-square theorem to see that question 3(b) is, strangely, a container that can hold any number of elements. An extension of this by Legendre showed [cite] that every number not of the form 4k(8m + 7) is representable by the sum of three squares, and this answers question 3(a).
Here are both parts again, renamed and cleaned up a bit:
> data SqHelp x y = End > | Extra x (SqHelp (y,y,x) y) > type Square a = SqHelp a a > data Legendre x = Legendre (Square x) (Square x) (Square x) > data Lagrange x = Lagrange (Square x) (Legendre x)Here are two more questions:
4. Can we write something analogous to 3(a) in a more direct way?
> data M a b = N b > | O (M (a,b) a) > newtype P a = P (M a a)


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All prayer should be directed to our triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Bible allows for prayer to one or all three, because all three are one. To the Father we pray with the psalmist, "Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray" (Psalm 5:2). To the Lord Jesus, we pray as to the Father because they are equal. Prayer to one member of the Trinity is prayer to all. Stephen, as he was being martyred, prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" (Acts 7:59). We are also to pray in the name of Christ. Paul exhorted the Ephesian believers to always give "thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 5:20). Jesus assured His disciples that whatever they asked in His name—meaning in His will—would be granted (John 15:16; 16:23).
We are told to pray in the Spirit and in His power. The Spirit helps us to pray, even when we do not know how or what to ask for (Romans 8:26; Jude 20). Perhaps the best way to understand the role of the Trinity in prayer is that we pray to the Father, through (or in the name of) the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit. All three are active participants in the believer's prayer.
Equally important is whom we are not to pray to. Some non-Christian religions encourage their adherents to pray to a pantheon of gods, dead relatives, saints, and spirits. Roman Catholics are taught to pray to Mary and various saints. Such prayers are not scriptural and are, in fact, an insult to our heavenly Father. To understand why, we need only look at the nature of prayer. Prayer has several elements, and if we look at just two of them—praise and thanksgiving—we can see that prayer is, at its very core, worship. When we praise God, we are worshiping Him for His attributes and His work in our lives. When we offer prayers of thanksgiving, we are worshiping His goodness, mercy, and loving-kindness to us. Worship gives glory to God, the only One who deserves to be glorified. The problem with praying to anyone other than God is that He will not share His glory. In fact, praying to anyone or anything other than God is idolatry. "I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols" (Isaiah 42:8).
Other elements of prayer such as repentance, confession, and petition are also forms of worship. We repent knowing that God is a forgiving and loving God and He has provided a means of forgiveness in the sacrifice of His Son on the cross. We confess our sins because we know "He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9) and we worship Him for it. We come to Him with our petitions and intercessions because we know He loves us and hears us, and we worship Him for His mercy and kindness in being willing to hear and answer. When we consider all this, it is easy to see that praying to someone other than our triune God is unthinkable because prayer is a form of worship, and worship is reserved for God and God alone. Whom are we to pray to? The answer is God. Praying to God, and God alone, is far more important than to which Person of the Trinity we address our prayers.


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Hello! I hate looking like I'm joining a forum just to spam around my stuff, but! Teague told me to! And I've been a listener for a long time and wanting to join for a while now, so -
Here's a thing I've been working on! First episode of a show I'd love to work on over the next few years. Basically just wanted to be able to work on something that would let me experiment and remember how to hold a camera again.
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"We want to make sure employees can bring their whole self to work".
Andrew Mackenzie, CEO BHP Billiton
At the 2015 Annual General Meeting held in Perth, CEO of BHP Billiton, Andrew Mackenzie said "we want to make sure employees can bring their whole self to work".
That's quite a concept for anyone who though they had a personal life and a work life. We have one life, and here has been a growing awareness that when we allow our strengths to shine through, all areas of our life improve.
There are two parts to this:
Part One: What are you doing to ensure you can take your whole self to work?
Are you in the right organization and the right role for this?
Are you doing what you love to do or do you dread Monday morning?
Have you reset your goals in alignment with where you are now and what your responsibilities are?
Part Two: What are you doing to create an environment for your team and colleagues so they can bring their whole self to work?
If you are responsible for managing a team, have you got any strategic interventions planned that are designed to bring out the best of your team?
Human capital is the biggest asset of many companies (and your mind is your own personal biggest asset!). Let me know if you'd like more information on how you could experience a turning point in your organization.
Why is it important from a personal point of view to bring your "whole self" to everything you do?
When a disaster happens, it makes us question everything. Life is too short to spend time doing stuff that doesn't add value to your life in some way.
When is now a good time to get clear on what you want, and to take the actions to get there?
This week has been very sobering indeed. Don't wait for something external to force you to make changes. Start with being grateful for those you love and for what you have. Look at your "whole self" and appreciate everything it entails.
When you can bring your "whole self" to the table, you give permission for everyone around you to do the same.


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This post was co-authored by Matthew Henderson.
We're happy to announce the latest updates to the .NET Server SDK for Azure Mobile Apps. If you haven't already seen it, we recommend you check out last month's blog post, where we outlined the integrated web and mobile experiences.
This month, we have some new updates in version 0.2.575 of the .NET Server SDK:
- (New!) Support for Azure Table Storage
- (Breaking change) Removed automatic OWIN setup for better integration with ASP.NET
- (Breaking change) Improvements to authentication middleware setup
- (Breaking change) Better defaults for database schema setup
- (Breaking change) Clients no longer need to request system properties, they are sent by default
The easiest way to get started is to install the Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Server.Quickstart NuGet package, which brings in the other dependencies. You can also just pull in specific Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Server.* packages you need.
Azure Storage
You can now use Azure Table Storage as a backing data provider for your TableControllers through the new Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Server.Storage package.
To connect to Storage, add the following to the Initialize() method of your TableController:
DomainManager = new StorageDomainManager(connectionStringName, tableName, Request);
Here, connectionStringName is the app setting key for your Storage connection string, and tableName is the name of the table you want to access. This is often just the name of the controller: controllerContext.ControllerDescriptor.ControllerName.ToLowerInvariant().
The StorageDomainManager works a little differently than the EntityDomainManager, and it implements a different subset of the TableController helper methods. Namely, your TableController "get" methods should look similar to the following:
public Task> GetAllTodoItems(ODataQueryOptions queryOptions) { return QueryAsync(queryOptions); } public Task > GetTodoItem(string id) { return LookupAsync(id); }
The Mobile Apps client SDKs all work with this Table Storage domain manager. However, currently the iOS client does not support offline sync against a table controller using the StorageDomainManager.
OWIN startup
The .NET server SDK has a few uses of OWIN middleware. The Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Quickstart package formerly contained an OWIN startup class which would wire some of the components together for you.
While this was convenient, it was also hard to customize the behavior and it couldn't be easily integrated into existing apps. The Quickstart package no longer contains this startup class. This is a breaking change.
To upgrade from an older version of the Quickstart package, you need to add a new Startup class and move your configuration there:
- In Visual Studio, right click on your project and select Add -> New Item. Select Web -> General -> OWIN Startup class.
- Move the code for MobileAppConfiguration from WebApiConfig.Register() to the Configuration() method of your new startup class. If you are creating a new HttpConfiguration rather than the global one passed in by Global.asax, call app.UseWebApi(config) at the end of the method.
Alternatively, use the server quickstart project from the Azure Portal as starting point for your project.
OWIN middleware
We've improved the authentication experience in this update. All of our auth components are now in their own OWIN middleware! Not only does this give more control to developers, but now the Mobile App authentication components can be integrated with any ASP.NET app type, including SignalR routes.
This is a breaking change: the method MobileAppConfiguration.AddAppServiceAuthentication() has been removed and is no longer necessary.
To use authentication, you only need the following call in your OWIN startup class:
Here, config is either the global HttpConfiguration or whichever one you are using for Web API OWIN self-host. To learn more about authentication setup, see the documentation topic How to: Add authentication to a server project.
Database schema
Previously, the .NET Server SDK used the mobile app name as the default schema name in the Entity Framework setup. We heard from customers that this wasn't a very useful default, since they often wanted to use either dbo or a custom schema name.
Now, the .NET Server SDK Quickstart uses the same default schema name as Entity Framework, dbo. If you want to use a different schema name, specify it in your DbContext.OnModelCreating() implementation:
modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema(schema); // specify the schema string
As part of this change, we have removed the method MobileAppSettingsDictionary.GetSchemaName(), which would use the app setting MS_TableSchema (if present) or MS_MobileServiceName (otherwise).
(Note: The class ServiceSettingsDictionary was renamed to MobileAppSettingsDictionary in the last set of server SDK updates.)
This is a breaking change. If you are using the method GetSchemaName(), make the following changes:
// string schema = MobileAppSettingsDictionary.GetSchemaName(); // method removed // ensure you have an app setting for MS_MobileServiceName string schema = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("MS_MobileServiceName");
Note: The Quickstart project no longer adds a setting for MS_MobileServiceName to your web.config. We recommend you create your own key for a schema name and specify it either in your web.config or in the App Settings blade in the Azure Portal.
System properties
Previously, the system properties of __createdAt, __updatedAt, __version, and __deleted would only be sent to the client if the query __systemProperties=* were sent to the server. In Mobile Services, this behavior was necessary for backward compatibility, but it made it difficult to test and develop client SDKs.
With this new release, the query string __systemProperties is ignored and the service will always return these system properties. When using a $select to retrieve particular columns, simply add system properties to this clause. If there's no $select specified, all properties will be returned, including system properties.
This is a breaking change. The client SDKs will behave the same in the majority of cases, but there are two cases to be aware of:
- On iOS and the JavaScript client, if the online table APIs are used, Update and Delete operations will send the __version field back to the server by default. If you do not want conflict handling support for simultaneous updates (optimistic concurrency), then you should remove this field from your client object before doing the update. The offline sync APIs are not affected.
- On any client, if a query includes both $select and __systemProperties, only the system properties in the $select clause will be returned. The query should be changed to include the desired system properties in the $select clause.
Mobile Apps is still in preview, but we hope you'll try things out! Please let us know what you think in the comments, MSDN forums or @AzureMobile. If you have suggestions for something you'd like to see in the product, let us know on our feedback site.
We'll continue to post any changes to the SDK and will also include them in the .NET server SDK changelog.


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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition which includes difficulties with attention, increased activity, and difficulties with impulsivity. Estimates show that up to 10 percent of school-aged children and about 4 percent of adults have ADHD. It is usually first identified when children are school-aged, although it also can be diagnosed in people of all age groups. In an average classroom of 30 children, research suggests that at least one will have ADHD.
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ADHD: A Guide for Families Many children have restless behaviors that are typical of ADHD. When fidgeting, poor concentration, or impulsiveness begins disrupting performance in school, at home, or in relationships with other children, the cause might be ADHD. To be a good advocate for your child, you need to learn as much as you can about ADHD.
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Treatment for ADHD comes in the form of medication and psychotherapy treatment. Both can be important elements of a comprehensive treatment plan. There are several psychotherapies that are helpful for children with ADHD. We have the most evidence that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and behavioral management techniques can be helpful for children with ADHD.
Learn more about the types of psychotherapy that are available to help children and adolescents with mental illness here.
Parents who have a child or adolescent with ADHD, or any mental health condition, are often left facing difficult decisions regarding medication.
Learn more about how psychiatric medication is used to treat children and adolescents here.
Learn more about the types of psychiatric medication that are available to treat children and adolescents with mental health disorder here.
View up-to-date information about advances in psychopharmacological treatment for mood disorders here.
Vanderbilt Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale
Two rating scales which can be used by clinicians to help identify ADHD and monitor symptoms are the SWAN rating scale and the SNAP-IV rating scale. These scales are completed separately by a parent and a teacher.
The SWAN Rating Scale has 30 items and includes ADHD symptoms and symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder. Download the SWAN Rating Scale.
The SNAP-IV Rating Scale contains 90 items and includes symptoms of ADHD and also ODD and aggression. Download the SNAP-IV Rating Scale.
AHRQ review of ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in Children and Adolescents
The abstract for the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD is an NIMH sponsored research study that examined close to 600 children with ADHD and studied how they responded to different treatments. Click here to find a brief description of results from this study: Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD
Learn more about the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD and results from this large research study.
AACAP's books: Your Child and Your Adolescent offer easy-to-understand and comprehensive information on the emotional development and behavior of children from infancy through the teen years.
A Bird's-Eye View of Life with ADD and ADHD: Advice from Young Survivors Chris A. Zeigler Dendy and Alex Zeigler
ADHD and Me: Forty Years in a Fog Ken Patterson
For more bibliotherapy resources, visit Living with Mental Illness: Books, Stories and Memoirs.
Getting help is the most important thing that parents can do for children and adolescents with a mental health concern. Parents should try to find a mental health professional with advanced training and experience evaluating and treating children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Also, it is important to find a comfortable match between your child, your family, and the mental health professional.
A child and adolescent psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders that affect children and adolescents. Child and adolescent psychiatrists have completed four years of medical school, and at least three years of residency training in medicine, neurology, or general psychiatry with adults, and two years of additional training in psychiatric work with children and adolescents.
Find a child and adolescent psychiatrist in your area.
To learn about accessing child and adolescent psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, please read Where To Find Help For Your Child.
Oftentimes, parents are unsure when to seek a referral to a child and adolescent psychiatrist. For more information on when to seek a referral, please read this article.
Learn more about understanding mental health insurance, please read AACAP's Facts For Families on Mental Health Insurance.
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"Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the company whose train crashed in Lac-Mégantic, has promised not to run oil through the town, but Lac-Mégantic will have no guarantee that pledge will be kept once the railway is sold to another company. MM&A has filed for creditor protection and its assets are expected to be sold before February of next year.
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The CBC adds that the mayor "said residents are concerned about the resumption of trains. 'We've invited people to contact various psycho-social services if they need it,' she said."
As we've written, "the disaster occurred after an unmanned train rolled down a hill and derailed in the town, setting off explosions in its dozens of tanks that were carrying crude oil."
The explosions and fires flattened parts of Lac-Mégantic, as North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann previously reported for All Things Considered. In October, more than three months after the disaster, crews were "still pumping spilled crude oil and chemicals from underneath what used to be a gorgeous lakefront street."
About $116 million has been pledged for rebuilding the business district, but as Brian added "no one's sure what the final price tag will be [and] the province of Quebec and Canada's national government are feuding over how much to spend and who should pay."
Lac-Mégantic is about 150 miles east of Montreal, near the border with Maine.
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Guatemalan immigrant Aura Gaspar totaled up storm-related expenses of about $600 while using a twig-fired grill to stew chicken on her front stoop in Immokalee; she has three school-age children to feed and a 2-week-old baby.
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"We had to prepare the house so it would protect us," said Gaspar, 28.
Beside his ruined Immokalee mobile home, Dimas is trying to get back on his feet, but it's tough.
Dimas earns a meager living cooking hamburgers and chicken in a food truck parked by his home, and some customers already have returned—he said he sold all 40 of the hamburgers that were still safe to cook Tuesday.
Dimas needs to replace the income from his rental trailer, already condemned after being split open by the wind. Dimas had used that money to help feed his two teenagers and pay for the rescue inhalers he needs for his asthma. Losing it will only make it harder for Dimas to do what he says is one of his favorite things—providing free or cut-rate food to those who have even less.
Coping with Irma's aftermath is only making life tougher for people with little who live in places including unincorporated Immokalee, said Dimas.
"A lot of people work. They work hard here. They don't ask for nothing. They just go to work, come home and something like this happens, it's…," Dimas said. "I don't know what to say."
He stopped talking and turned away to keep from crying.
Associated Press writers Terrance Harris in Orlando and Claire Galofaro in Jacksonville contributed to this report.


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Leaving school and getting a job both lead to a drop in the amount of physical activity, while becoming a mother is linked to increased weight gain, conclude two reviews published today and led by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
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- Winpenny, E. et al. Changes in physical activity, diet and body weight across the education and employment transitions of early adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews; 19 Jan 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12962
- Corder, K. et al. Becoming a parent: a systematic review and meta-analysis of changes in BMI, diet and physical activity. Obesity Reviews; 19 Jan 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12959


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Pasta with Butter-Thyme Sauce
- 10 ounces Croxetti or other pasta dry weight
- 8 tablespoons LAND O LAKES® Butter with Olive Oil & Sea Salt*
- 1 heaping tablespoon fresh thyme lightly chopped
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. While waiting for the water to boil is when you can remove the thyme leaves from the stems and lightly chop them. Cook the pasta according to the package instructions. While the pasta is cooking, melt the butter in a small skillet over medium heat. When the butter starts to bubble, add the thyme and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook for 3 minutes and remove from the heat. Be careful not to over-cook or else the thyme will be fried and crispy. You want only to infuse the flavor of thyme in the butter.
Drain cooked pasta and transfer to a large pasta bowl. Pour butter-thyme sauce over pasta and stir to combine. Serve immediately.
Recipe Notes
Options for toppings to this recipe: toasted pinenuts or walnuts, parmesan cheese, fresh cracked pepper, chicken, and/or shrimp. *Unsalted butter can be substituted. Add salt to taste.
Disclosure: The author received a full-value coupon redeemable for LAND O LAKES® Butter with Olive Oil & Sea Salt, for recipe development and review purposes. All opinions are my own.
About LAND O LAKES® Butter with Olive Oil & Sea Salt: Land O'Lakes is expanding its popular line of half-stick butter with the introduction of LAND O LAKES® Butter with Olive Oil & Sea Salt. This new product contains wholesome ingredients: sweet cream, olive oil and sea salt. LAND O LAKES® Butter with Olive Oil & Sea Salt is an easy and convenient way to simply enhance the flavor of your favorite foods. Available in a premeasured half-stick size, this new product can be used for topping and cooking a variety of foods, combining the two ingredients consumers often combine separately when frying or sautéing foods. The delicious taste of butter and olive oil will add delicious flavor to any dish.