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About forks
A fork is a copy of a repository that you manage. Forks let you make changes to a project without affecting the original repository. You can fetch updates from or submit changes to the original repository with pull requests.
Any user or organization on GitHub Enterprise can fork a repository. Forking a repository is similar to copying another repository, with two major differences:
- You can use a pull request to suggest changes from your fork to the original repository, also known as the upstream repository.
- You can bring changes from the upstream repository to your local fork by synchronizing your fork with the upstream repository.
You can fork any public repository to your user account or any organization in which you have repository creation permissions. For more information, see "Permission levels for an organization."
You can fork any private repository you can access to your user account or any organization on GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise in which you have repository creation permissions.
Deleting a fork does not delete the original upstream repository. In fact, you can make any changes you want to your fork--add collaborators, rename files, generate GitHub Pages--with no effect on the original.
In open source projects, forks are often used to iterate on ideas or changes before they are offered back to the upstream repository for everyone to benefit from. When you make changes in your fork and open a pull request that compares your work to the upstream repository, you can give anyone with push access to the upstream repository permission to push changes to your pull request branch. This speeds up collaboration by allowing repository maintainers the ability to make commits or run tests locally to your pull request branch from a fork before merging.
Private forks inherit the permissions structure of the upstream or parent repository. For example, if the upstream repository is private and gives read/write access to a team, then the same team will have read/write access to any forks of the private upstream repository. This helps owners of private repositories maintain control over their code.
If you want to create a new repository from the contents of an existing repository but don't want to merge your changes upstream in the future, you can duplicate the repository . For more information, see "Duplicating a repository".


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Vons president retires
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway on Friday said that the leader of its Vons division will retire after serving in the role for more than 10 years.
Tom Keller will retire from his post as president of Vons, a position he has held since 1999, on Feb. 1. An industry veteran that started his career as a food clerk in Safeway's Phoenix division more than 40 years ago, Keller "leaves an important imprint on the organization as an energetic and innovative leader," Safeway chairman, president and CEO Steve Burd said.
Replacing Keller on an interim basis is Gary Rocheleau, VP retail merchandising execution. As a long-time Vons executive, Rocheleau has held a broad range of positions at Safeway at both the retail and the corporate level.

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A Texas woman who spent about 30 years growing out her fingernails has finally cut them off, and they are heading to a display shelf.
Ayanna Williams has been recognized by Guinness World Records as having the world's longest fingernails on a pair of female hands.
In 2017, when she first broke the record, they measured a combined 19 feet long. Before getting them cut, a final measurement showed Williams' nails were just over 24 feet.
Ayanna Williams first became a record holder in 2017.
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) April 7, 2021
Her nails earned her the record title for longest fingernails on a pair of hands (female), measured at a combined length of 576.41 cm.
It took her two bottles of nail polish and over 20 hours to paint. pic.twitter.com/DKJS0nXc5P
A manicure took three to four bottles of polish over the course of a few days.
"Looking forward to picking up the pace and moving on to the next chapter of her life, Ayanna made the difficult decision to part with her iconic nails," stated a release from Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ripley's Believe It or Not! went with Williams to a dermatology office where she had her nails trimmed. It was her first nail cut since the early 90s.
Williams says she will now keep her nails to about six inches or less.
Ayanna does plan to grow her nails again, although maybe not to the record-breaking level they were before.
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) April 7, 2021
The nails will first be on display at @Ripleys Believe It Or Not! in Orlando, Florida. pic.twitter.com/dvxehl9zMr
The museum chain purchased the record-breaking nails and will have them on display later this month at their Orlando location.


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This week's episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:
stolen intro / WWE Network / history of wrestling / Bruno Sammartino / Lucha Libre / The Golden Girls / Mae Young / women's wrestling / marketing wrestling / CM Punk / meta-reality / Triple H / Daniel Bryan and the Royal Rumble / Indiana Jones and Ghost / Chozen and Archer / The Super Bowl / Prince on "New Girl" / halftime show / just football / the commercials / Ultimates vs, Galactus / rebooting the Fantastic Four, twice / Doctor Doom / Doom 2099 / Kang the Conqueror / villain color and design / She-Hulk / plugs and outro /
Chris Rock on O.J. Simpson (NSFW)
"Murder, Sex" by Chozen (NSFW)
Glenn reviews the start of Cataclysm
February Faves at Biff Bam Pop!
The Dudley Boyz vs Mae Young and other women
Bruno Mars Halftime Show
Jaguar Super Bowl Commercial
Radio Shack Super Bowl Commercial
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In Diablo 2, if you wanted a higher difficulty in single player, you could type /players 8
to make the game scale the difficulty, experience, and drops to what it'd be if there were 8 players in game.
Does Diablo 3 have an equivalent? I was not able to find anything in the D3 FAQ, so I would suspect it does not. Are there any methods for increasing the difficulty/exp/drops other than playing at a higher difficulty level?


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Administrative Note July 6, 2017: development for this project is currently on hold; if you find it useful you may continue to use it and report bugs or suggestions, but fixes / improvements may not be forthcoming.
TLDR: We overhauled the navigation again. To get it you need to opt in via the user preferences page, and we want your general feedback (love it / hate it) after you try it for a few days. We are planning to deploy it before the end of the year, and your feedback is important.
New new nav: back to the drawing board
It has been 6–8 weeks since the last release of new nav, and we have been adding all the features that you have requested based on the previous iteration, plus working on an anonymous mode of the navigation. Initially we simply tried to add stuff, but we realized that adding more features by itself was making the interface too cumbersome. A new approach was needed. Or, as our fearless leader David said: we had reached a local maximum (technically the plural word maxima was used, but we can forgive that).
We went back to the drawing board and between August and early September 2015 we redesigned the navigation based on all the input of the previous months. In September we built a prototype, and tested it internally. Now we have reached what we consider an MVP which you can try out.
This has been released in the alpha channel on Stack Overflow (currently 10,000 users have opted in to this) from today. Once we smooth out the known issues and the bugs you identify we will begin testing on a larger scale, and we will A/B test the solution to see if our users navigate better with it.
Here's how it works.
Basic Navigation
The purpose of basic navigation is to give a simple set of tabs for users that only want to use the mouse. Think of it as a "GUI" version for users. Numbers show that most navigation currently happens on these tabs (this covers 94% of the hits on question lists):
- Home page
- Newest questions
- Questions sorted by vote
- Active questions
Our solution brings these tabs on the homepage, directly linked (no typing necessary). Furthermore we have an explicit call-out to favor bountied questions.
This introduces clicking on tags as a navigation element. Furthermore it directs users to the new tag filter interface which is introduced later.
Inner pages
All inner pages are now shown as "temporary" tabs on the homepage. This is indicated by a "*" prefix on the tab name. For example, clicking on the "windows" tag leads here.
Temporary tabs will go away if the user navigates away from the page. This interface supports all links that are supported by the current navigation, including those not filtered by tag.
The temporary tab is automatically given an appropriate name, similarly to how page titles currently behave. For example, if the "windows" tag is filtering the list, then the tab is called "windows". If, however, there is no tag filtering, but the questions are shown by activity, then the tab is called "active".
In the specific case of clicking on a tag the tag excerpt is shown, which includes new submenu entries.
If a link leads to a page which is the same as a tab which already exists (e.g. active, votes…), then the corresponding tab is selected instead of adding a new tab.
Real time
If any tab is eligible to get real time updates, we will track it, whether it is in the foreground or not. This has the advantage of alerting the users of new questions on multiple tabs, similarly to what currently happens if a user has multiple browser tabs open (titles get the number of new or updated posts).
Advanced Navigation
Advanced navigation covers the new features we are introducing with the new, new nav. Their purpose is to enhance navigation and to increase the likelihood of finding a question to answer.
These include the possibility of saving tabs (a registered user only feature), restoring old navigation tabs and renaming or deleting tabs. Furthermore we are extending real time notifications so it works with multiple in-page tabs.
Saving tabs
Temporary tabs are saved by clicking the "save" button. Thus they become permanent tabs. This function is disabled if the tab is already saved.
Once a tab is saved, it will be saved on the user account (currently this is not fully implemented as tabs are saved in the browser's local storage instead). The tab will always appear to the user.
Permanent tabs can be modified, for example renamed. This will make them appear unsaved: they will have the "*" prefix and the "save" button will be enabled. Navigating away will restore the previous version, saving will make the changes to that tab permanent.
Restoring old nav tabs
It is likely that experienced users will have differing opinions regarding what tabs is useful to have on the home page. This is fine, and we do not want to force them to re-create them manually. To explain this change and to allow the users to restore tabs easily we introduced the "Where are my tabs?" link. Clicking it shows a configuration pop up that allows users to restore the tabs they want to keep or remove the ones they do not like.
This pop up will also be permanently dismissible. The "Show me how it works" link will send the users to a help center page with an explanation similar to this document. For the moment, it will point here.
Adding tabs, Renaming, Deleting or Duplicating Tabs
A new tab is added by clicking on the "+ new tab" button. This creates a new tab with all the questions sorted by creation date. There is a drop down menu next to each tab, excluding home, that allows the user to rename, duplicate or delete a tab.
Clicking on rename, or double clicking a tab, will show the rename interface. The user can rename the tab by typing directly in-line.
Power User Navigation
If simple navigation is our "GUI", power user navigation is our CLI. This includes the features that we are introducing for users that like extreme customization. It consist of features that either support old nav behaviors we are maintaining for backwards compatibility or features which are non-essential but likely to appeal to our hardcore user base: advanced filters, sorts, tab reordering and relatively complex boolean searches.
Advanced filters and sorts
When in a tab different from the "home" tab, users will be able to filter questions based on state (need answer, no answer, has bounty) or time (today, last week, last month). This is done through a drop down conventionally positioned on the left. Furthermore they will be able to change how the questions are sorted via a drop down conventionally positioned on the right.
These drop downs allow users to reach lists that are currently seldom used.
Tab reordering and limiting
A user can move the tabs around by using the drop down and choosing "move left" or "move right" as appropriate. This is valuable if users have many tabs, because we will limit the number of visible tabs to one line. Once that limit is reached the size of the tabs will shrink. This is a bit awkward on purpose: we're assuming most people won't need excessive numbers of tabs.
Boolean searches
Many power users like to use complex searches. As long as they do not use sub expressions (i.e. brackets), we allow them and they are going to be supported in the tag filter.
Known Issues
We have chosen to get your feedback as early as possible. Because of this we are shipping with a few known issues:
- Tabs are saved in the browser, not in the user account
- Tabs flicker on first load
- Deep linking to tabs is currently handled client-side
- Question counts need to display the current tag if one is selected
- Realtime notifications may not work with complex tag queries
We welcome general feedback here, such as feature requests or general impressions, but please use separate questions for bug reports so we can track them in our internal bug tool. Please use the new-nav tag for bug reports, one bug per question.
Next steps
We are going to deliver bug fixes and close the known issues above without further announcements. After that, we are going to A/B test this navigation for a subset of victims users and take it from there.
Once again: if you're not currently in the alpha channel you can join by checking the box under New Navigation in your profile settings.


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Camila Cabello Gushes About Her 'Weird and Silly' Boyfriend Matthew Hussey
Camila Cabello graces the cover of Marie Claire magazine's new Holiday 2018 issue.
In the interview, the 21-year-old singer speaks about beau Matthew Hussey for the first time, the conflicting dichotomy of her personality, her relationship now with former Fifth Harmony bandmates, and more.
Despite Cabello's confidence onstage, she reveals she's always been more of an introvert. "Basically, there's the me that I really am, on the inside, which is the nerdy one—the kind of introverted, shy one—and then there's the sexy, overly confident one, doing great dance moves and being super sassy."
It seems, however, that Hussey is someone the singer can truly be herself with. "He's so similar to me. In person, we're just weird and silly and stupid together. He makes me the happiest I've ever been in my life." While this is the first time Cabello is publicly talking about Hussey andidentifying him as her boyfriend, "we've been together for kind of like a long time now," she admits.
In terms of her relationship with the other ladies from Fifth Harmony, Camila seems confident they're in a better place than when she unexpectedly quit the group in 2016. "I think that we're all good now," she says.
She tells a story of running into Normani at this year's Billboard Awards and how the two seemed genuinely proud and happy for each other's success. "It felt like everything is totally fine." Read the full interview at Marie Claire.


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Note: Sanrio legal counsel has contacted me because they realize that their fans are not bright enough to know what is an official Sanrio product and what is not. They didn't feel that this would be a problem until the fans started contacting them directly, and they soon realized how painful it was to actually have to converse with a fanatic, and not even they had the patience to actually do this. As a result, they sent out a notice to me begging for me to take down my posts about guns that had the evil feline on them just so they didn't have to ever correspond with the fanatics again. When I explained that they brought it on themselves, they pleaded that I spare them the torture that they inflict on me on a daily basis and asked me to post the following, Since I actually have a conscience, here is what they have to say:
Sanrio® has informed us that Sanrio is not involved in the manufacture or sale of Hello Kitty guns or weapons, and does not allow Hello Kitty® to be used to market guns or weapons. The items shown in this post are either digitally fabricated images or were custom-decorated without Sanrio's permission. Sanrio alleges that creating false digitized images of Hello Kitty guns or weapons, or custom-decorating a real gun or weapon with Hello Kitty art, infringes Sanrio's copyrights and trademarks, and may violate criminal laws.
And onto the original post…
I guess if there are Hello Kitty guns and Hello Kitty Armoured Personnel Carriers, it really shouldn't come as a surprise that something which is supposed to exude love and friendship would be found on a AK-47:
Again, my wife is totally anti-Hello Kitty gun — "Hello Kitty brings love, she doesn't kill" — but I think that this is simply showing Hello Kitty's true colors. While she doesn't necessarily destroy civilization with bullets and bombs, she does do it with a overwhelming blanket of cuteness that may be much more psychologically damaging to the world. I personally think it should be the weapon of choice for all Hello Kitty Hunters
And as the sales pitch notes, "A perfect gift for the young lady of the house." What Hello Kitty fanatic wouldn't want one?
The world should note the hand-crocheted shoulder-stock muffler and the anodized titanium plating. Several choices in stock wood are available. With a limited run of only 500, buy now before they're gone! An mere $100 extra includes Glambo's signature wood-burnt into the opposite side of the handguard. A perfect gift for the young lady of the house. A bargain at only $1072.95! 😉
Sent in by Ashley (via Glam Guns) who should shoot every Hello Kitty collection with it that she comes in contact with.


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This is Hideo Baba, producer of the Tales of franchise. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our fans in North America and Europe. It's been an absolute pleasure attending various overseas events and interacting with so many of you. I really feel like we've been able to sustain our franchise for 15 years because of such a loyal fanbase. I cannot thank you enough.
Starting March 26th, we'll be digitally distributing Tales of Graces f on PlayStation Network. I strongly urge anyone unfamiliar to the series to give it a shot. An epic adventure of unimaginable proportions awaits you! We will have two versions of the game available next week; the Standard Edition ($34.99) and Knight Edition ($54.99). The Tales of Graces f: Knight Edition will come bundled with more than 10 DLC items to help new adventurers on their quest including increased stats, health and currency.
In addition, the western release of Tales of Xillia on PS3 is right around the corner — it'll be out this summer!
For the first time in the franchise, you'll be able to select between two main characters and experience the game from two different perspectives. It's up to you whether you want to play as the male or female protagonist.
Tales of Xillia is a culmination of all our development efforts over the years, so I can't wait for our western fans to try it out. We have a lot more events planned until the release of Tales of Xillia, so I strongly urge you to come visit us when you have the chance. I look forward to meeting all of you.
We're planning on making this a Tales of filled year, so we have a lot of surprise announcements lined up — stay tuned! Thank you again to all of our fans who have supported us over the years. We hope for your continued support in 2013.


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Cleveland Area Hospital Selects Cerner for Improved Rural Patient Care
CLEVELAND, Okla., Oct. 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cleveland Area Hospital has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement a new integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle solutions across its critical access hospital through the CernerCommunityWorks℠ deployment model. The hospital will have the health care technology to support doctors, nurses and staff as they improve the quality of and access to patient care in their rural community located outside of Tulsa.
"As a rural hospital, it is important for Cleveland Area Hospital to choose health care technology that maximizes its resources, at a cost it can afford, to provide excellent services to the people that count on them for care," said Mitchell Clark, president, CommunityWorks, Cerner. "Cerner's technology, deployed through CommunityWorks, supports clinicians in finding ways to make the experience better for each person who walks through the hospital doors and creating a healthier community."
Cleveland Area Hospital will move to Cerner Millennium®, a health care IT platform designed to support and engage consumers through their health care journey across venues of care – from the doctor's office to the hospital and clinics. A digital record that brings together each patient's health information from different care venues will benefit doctors and nurses with an up-to-date view of a person's well-being. For staff to have the context of a patient's health history, hospitals need the tools to connect data across their own organizations and with other providers throughout the region. Creating a smooth experience for the individual with informed care decisions by doctors is at the core of this investment.
Cerner revenue cycle solutions help reinforce the hospital's financial operations and connect clinical and financial information for staff to view together in one patient record. Staff will also benefit from solutions and services that help them make the billing process smooth for patients.
"We have selected Cerner because we believe, from an IT and operations standpoint, it will streamline our communication and efficiency between our hospital and our clinics," said Arthur Lock, CIO, Cleveland Area Hospital. "In addition, CernerCommunityWorks will further enhance our patient experience, compliance, charge capture, billing and operational reliability. We are confident that Cerner is the long-term collaborator we need to achieve our vision of becoming a regional health care system."
Cleveland Area Hospital will receive health IT solutions tailored to support the unique needs of community health care organizations through CommunityWorks cloud technology. Community health care organizations, especially critical access hospitals in rural areas, need to be able to provide high-quality services at a manageable cost. Residents will have a hospital supported by technology that helps keep them close to home while receiving the care they need.
CommunityWorks clients will be prominently featured across education sessions at Cerner Health Conference (CHC) 2018. CHC is Cerner's annual conference on the latest innovations in health care and information technology, taking place Oct. 8-11 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Learn more by registering to attend CHC18.
About Cleveland Area Hospital
Cleveland Area Hospital is a 14-bed, nonprofit, critical access hospital. We are the only hospital in Pawnee county and serve a rural population of more than 25,000 residents. Our hospital provides emergency care to rural residents who otherwise may have to travel greater than 40 miles for health care. In addition to emergency services the hospital provides state of the art radiology services, laboratory and inpatient care, as well as outpatient infusion and nurse care services, a fully equipped rehabilitation center and a primary care clinic. Through the dedication and commitment of our employees we are proud to remain one of the few independently owned and operated rural hospitals in Oklahoma. Cleveland Area Hospital was founded on a "ministry of healing" which has remained since we opened our doors in 1963. The vision for Cleveland Area Hospital is to become a regional health care provider, with a reputation for providing exceptional quality care beyond our county lines. Our team members have provided the passion and inspiration for the vision and they carry out the necessary steps to achieve it.
About Cerner
Cerner's health technologies connect people and information systems at more than 27,500 contracted provider facilities worldwide dedicated to creating smarter and better care for individuals and communities. Recognized globally for innovation, Cerner assists clinicians in making care decisions and assists organizations in managing the health of their populations. The company also offers an integrated clinical and financial system to help manage day-to-day revenue functions, as well as a wide range of services to support clinical, financial and operational needs, focused on people. For more information, visit Cerner.com.
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The 2018 Pivot for Dynamic Apps, DevOps: Live Deployment Monitoring Takes Center Stage Away From Container Orchestration
The yin-yang of dynamic apps and DevOps may come into a new balance in 2018. Container orchestration will be less important, while monitoring live deployments will become the crucial focus. This shift comes in large part due to big steps in Amazon Web Services, says Lee Atchison, senior director of strategic architecture at New Relic. IDN explores.
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Tags: app architecture, AWS, cloud, containers, deployment, DevOps, dynamic apps, EKS, Fargate, monitoring, New Relic, orchestration, workloads,
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"Because of EKS, container orchestration doesn't matter anymore. Now you can launch [and manage] containers as easily as you can could virtual servers before."
The yin-yang of dynamic apps and DevOps may come into a new balance in 2018. Container orchestration will be less important, while monitoring live deployments will be more crucial.
This shift is coming thanks largely to technology innovations and decisions at AWS (Amazon Web Services), according to Lee Atchison, senior director of strategic architecture at New Relic. In specific, Atchison predicts in 2018 that:
- Container orchestration will become less important, thanks to increasing automation.
- Just-in-time deployments will become more common. That will make deployment tooling and monitoring more important.
Atchison traces the root of his predictions to 2 AWS announcements from AWS late in 2017.
- AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS).
- AWS Fargate, which brings automation and intelligence to the tasks of managing containers.
In an interview with IDN, and a thought-provoking blog post on 2018 predictions, Atchison put the AWS announcements in this context:
"Because of the advent of EKS, the battle of container orchestration is now over—and Kubernetes won," he said, Further, with AWS Fargate, Amazon basically has said, 'Orchestration doesn't matter anymore,' Atchison added. "The implication here is: Now you can launch containers as easily as you can could [launch] virtual servers before."
A check of the AWS Fargate website underscores what Atkison sees as the profound nature of the technology: It reads in part, AWS Fargate allows users
"to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. [Users] no longer have to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers. This removes the need to choose server types, decide when to scale your clusters, or optimize cluster packing."
Together, EKS and Fargate add up to a new vision – and a rejiggering of priorities for developers and IT working on agile app development and deployment.
"Much like [Amazon] EC2 instances removed the need to worry how server virtualization was implemented and how the underlying raw hardware servers were managed, Fargate will remove the need to worry about how the container infrastructure and container management is implemented," he said.
Atchison further detailed how developers and IT professionals should view the AWS moves.
To me, the bottom line is: Instead of launching a virtual server and figuring out what to do with it, you now just launch a container and let the underlying infrastructure deal with everything else. You're going to get to the point very very quickly where managing [containers] is going to be done the exact same way as managing server [instances] are today.
When you allocate a server instance on. AWS, Azure or anywhere else, you don't care how it's created, you don't care about the underlying hardware (for the most part), you don't care how it set-up, how the networking works, how the virtualization works. For containers, it will be the same, Atchison said, "You're going to say I want 20 instances of this container running, and I want an auto-scale, load balancing and all that good stuff automatically – and you don't care where or how it's run."
This idea of ignoring the orchestration altogether and letting somebody else deal with it is going to be highly attractive. Orchestration will be done, of course, but it is going to be the cloud companies (like AWS, Azure and Google and others) that decide how orchestration is done. So no one [in enterprise IT] will really care about that.
Time to Shift Focus from Orchestration to Monitoring Workloads, Deployments
All this intelligent automation for container orchestration Atchison described about leads to his second – and equally impactful -- prediction: "As [container] orchestration is no longer a debate to be focused on, I think people are going to focus much more on the workload," he told IDN.
Atchison's equation goes like this: Because container orchestration will require less focus, deployment tooling and monitoring will become more important. His blog points out some of the details.
Just-in-time deployments have become standard operating procedure at most leading-edge technology companies; continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are becoming standard in most companies.
The result? Companies are doing more and more deployments. More releases, not fewer releases, is seen as the path to higher reliability, higher availability, and higher scalability for modern applications.
While this increase in deployments is good at managing large scale, healthy, modern applications, it is also clear that making sure deployments work and understanding the impact of a deployment is a critical aspect of seeing an application operational. As such, in 2018 monitoring deployment pipelines, deployment processes, and how deployments impact individual services and applications will be an important focus for most modern technology companies.
To support this conclusion, Atchison pointed to a longer-term historic perspective about the business of building (and deploying) software.
"There's been a major, major shift in the industry in the last several years, from the way that software was has been written for the last 50 years," Atchison told IDN. "It used to be that when you wrote software you assumed the software was going to fail." Perhaps this is a stark assessment, but Atchison asserts "that's precisely why you spent just as much time testing and QAing your software as you spent writing the software in the first place. It was only after you went through a massive test phase would you release software."
That old model is on the way out, Atchison asserted.
"These days, we're shifting to a new model that says, 'Software doesn't fail. Software mostly works,'" he said. This perspective has led to a more pro-active stance favoring faster launches and deployment updates, he added – with an important proviso.
As long as you know you can rapidly change the software when or if it does fail, the thinking has become, 'We can handle a small number of fails,'" he said. Put another way: "Today, the whole idea is the faster you can make a deployment, the less you care about whether there's a bug in that deployment – so long as you have the visibility and the tooling," he said.
As a consequence, pre-deployment testing and QA will get less attention (and resources – money and staff time). The lion's share of attention and investments should shift to deliver faster deployments – coupled with being sure IT has adequate tools and visibility into how whether software is working properly (or not), Atchison added.
"It's becoming more common now to find people who, the day or even hour they write the code, are ready to deploy it to a production system," he told IDN. "They just assume [the software] will work. If it does work, great! But if it doesn't, they have visibility and [management tools] to help them fix it very very quickly."
2018 Levels the 'Playing Field' for Live Monitoring of Workloads, Deployments
So, the question for many large and mid-zed companies looking to build disruptive apps in 2018 will be an engaging one, Atchison posits. "As companies recognize the reality that rapid deployment is better than slower deployments, they will also realize the need for automated deployment mechanisms," he told IDN
In 2018, achieving this will be easier than many may think, he added.
Not many years ago, it was only the largest companies that could perform this level monitoring power – due to available budgets and talent they could build their own monitoring, Atchison pointed out. "But in 2018, you'll be seeing more and more companies have this ability as [monitoring tools] become standardized and productized," he said.
So this year, companies will discover they have got options for the tooling and cloud capabilities to make deployments automated. "Choosing just which options, and how they will monitor their apps, will come to the forefront," he added.
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Meat and meat food products are an important source of the Nation's total supply of food. They are consumed throughout the Nation and the major portion thereof moves in interstate or foreign commerce. It is essential in the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be protected by assuring that meat and meat food products distributed to them are wholesome, not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled, and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated, or misbranded meat or meat food products impair the effective regulation of meat and meat food products in interstate or foreign commerce, are injurious to the public welfare, destroy markets for wholesome, not adulterated, and properly labeled and packaged meat and meat food products, and result in sundry losses to livestock producers and processors of meat and meat food products, as well as injury to consumers. The unwholesome, adulterated, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged articles can be sold at lower prices and compete unfairly with the wholesome, not adulterated, and properly labeled and packaged articles, to the detriment of consumers and the public generally. It is hereby found that all articles and animals which are regulated under this chapter are either in interstate or foreign commerce or substantially affect such commerce, and that regulation by the Secretary and cooperation by the States and other jurisdictions as contemplated by this chapter are appropriate to prevent and eliminate burdens upon such commerce, to effectively regulate such commerce, and to protect the health and welfare of consumers.


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These evening bags are the perfect essential for a black tie affair, or to make an impact statement in sandals and jeans. We've shot them in Natural sunlight to show their subtlety. The bags have magnetic snaps and a chain inside. It's so hard to find the perfect bag to wear to all your formal affairs, unless you have this bag - problem solved for life! It measures 10" x 5.5" x 1" |


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Back in 2002 a website called djhome was created to promote our vacation condo property in Hawaii. We delighted in summarizing information about the island of Kauai for out guests. People regularly compliment us on all our information about Princeville on our nearly advertisement free website. Our reward is a happy vacation condo rental guest. Helping people with their vacations to Kauai worked so well that we added information about Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado and made our condo at Zephyr Mountain Lodge available for rent. However, now that we no longer rent vacation condos, these pages have been removed [technically 410'd]As time went on, we added to djhome. We put descriptions of our businesses up on the website. And we started putting some accounts of exotic travels on web pages and just posted those web pages at djhome. Today, the website is a bit of a potpourri. This causes search engines a bit to indigestion and our ranking is not as good as it might be if we were to play by their rules. Perhaps to our disadvantage we continue to prioritize providing content about Winter Park, Princeville, Cyclopraxis, and other topics above advertising, extraneous links, and search engines.
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In the Power BI Desktop July Update, we have introduced a new Preview connector that allows users to easily bring data from Impala into their Power BI reports.
In order to get access to this connector, users first need to enable this Preview feature. Preview features can be enabled via the Options dialog (File -> Options and Settings -> Options). The option to enable the Impala connector is available under the "Preview Features" tab in this dialog.
After enabling the feature, the Impala connector can be found within the Get Data dialog, under the Database category.
The connector requires users to specify an Impala cluster server to connect to.
Power BI Desktop will then attempt to establish a connection to the Impala cluster and will require users to provide credentials for the first-time connection. Both Anonymous and Username/Password credentials are supported.
Subsequent attempts to connect to the same server will reuse the same credentials, as these are stored per-user per-machine. Users can modify the credentials from the Data Source Settings dialog (under File -> Options and Settings).
Once the connection has been successfully established, users will be presented with the Navigator dialog where they can browse for tables within their Impala database. Users can select one or more tables and decide whether they want to load them straight into the Power BI Desktop local data model, or perform any data preparation and filtering steps prior to loading the data.
Note that the connector currently only supports Import mode, which requires downloading the query output data to the local data model. In future updates, we will enhance the connector with DirectQuery capabilities, as well as with support for refresh scenarios via the Power BI Gateway.
Enabling Power BI connectivity to Impala has been a very frequently requested capability from our customers. We encourage you to give it a try and share with us any feedback or issues that you encounter via the "Send a Frown" feature in Power BI Desktop.
We're looking forward to improving the Impala connector and to enabling connectivity to many other data sources in upcoming releases. If yours isn't supported yet, just let us know.
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86 percent of inside sellers report feeling frustrated with their job. Their conventional CRM systems and traditional tools no longer meet today's digital demands. As a result, sellers are working harder than ever. But at what cost?
This Beagle Research report surveys more than 500 inside sellers about their jobs and the tools they use. The insights reveal where old systems are failing and what businesses can do about it.
While CRM is a necessary aspect of selling, less than half of our panelists (47%) picked CRM as one of their go-to tools.
Inside sellers use an average of eight tools to do their job, and the majority rely on a combination of unintegrated applications and manual tools.
66% of sellers would rather wait in line at the DMV, do jury duty, or get stuck in traffic than update their CRM.
98% of inside sellers wish they had superpowers to do their job that today's intelligent tools could help them achieve.


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Former Sen. Paul Sarbanes, who spent three decades representing Maryland in the Senate, has died in Baltimore at the age of 87.
His son, Rep. John Sarbanes, did not disclose a cause of death in his brief statement announcing the news, noting only that his father "passed away peacefully" on Sunday evening.
The longtime Democratic politician, known as much for his understated demeanor as a late-career push to reform corporate oversight, was mourned widely by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle Monday.
"There was no one sharper, more committed, or with firmer principles," President-elect Joe Biden tweeted, saying that he and Paul Sarbanes had served together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "And he, too, returned to his family nearly every night. They meant the world to him."
Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan, said that he would order the state's flag flown at half-staff for Sarbanes, whom he called a "sincere and passionate advocate for our state and its natural resources."
Senator Paul Sarbanes was a sincere and passionate advocate for our state and its natural resources. Today, we mourn his loss and send our deepest sympathies to his family.
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) December 7, 2020
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There is perhaps no better way to express the length and variety of Sarbanes' tenure in Congress — six years in the House of Representatives and another 30 in the Senate — than to point out the role his legislation played in the major events that nearly bookended it: President Nixon's downfall and Enron's accounting scandal.
As a member of the House in 1974, Sarbanes was enlisted by his fellow Democrats to compose the first of three articles of impeachment against Nixon, which charged the embattled president with obstruction of justice. The Judiciary Committee approved the measure, but Nixon ultimately resigned before the full House held a vote on impeachment.
A different fate awaited the legislation Sarbanes helped compose after Enron's collapse. The energy giant and its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, had misled investors in a massive fraud that ended in Enron's 2001 bankruptcy — then the largest in history — and extensive prison time for Enron's chief executive.
"It was the canary in the mine shaft," Sarbanes told NPR in 2009. "You had a number of major companies engaged in convoluted, often fraudulent, accounting schemes to inflate their earnings, to hide their losses and to drive up their stock prices."
So, under the , Sarbanes and his Republican co-author, Rep. Michael Oxley of Ohio, overhauled federal financial regulations and set up an independent oversight board aimed at combating shady accounting practices. The law signed by President George W. Bush later survived a Supreme Court challenge, albeit with a few changes.
In a statement Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described the 2002 law as "landmark legislation that to this day helps hold bad financial actors accountable for fraud and abuse: a powerful testament to his commitment to working people that leaves an enduring legacy."
The son of Greek immigrants, Sarbanes attended public schools and went on to Princeton University, Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law School.
Sarbanes decided to retire rather than seek a sixth term in the 2006 election. His wife of 48 years, Christine, died in 2009.
John Sarbanes, who now represents the Maryland congressional district that once elected his father, said the family plans to hold a private service "following state, local and public health guidance amid the COVID-19 pandemic."
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University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address - Admiral William H. McRaven
Watch his speech above or directly on YouTube, https://youtu.be/pxBQLFLei70
An inspiring and powerful 20-minute commencement speech by Naval Admiral William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin on May 17, 2014.
Admiral McRaven's commencement speech is perhaps one of the best commencement speeches I have ever heard. It is on point and offers some fantastic life and business lessons.
Below are excerpts from his amazing speech.
10 Life Lessons from Basic SEAL Training
1. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
"If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right."
2. If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
"You can't change the world alone—you will need some help— and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them."
3. If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.
"SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status."
4. If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.
"Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie."
"For failing the uniform inspection, the student [in Basic SEAL training] had to run, fully clothed into the surfzone and then, wet from head to toe, roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand. The effect was known as a 'sugar cookie.' You stayed in that uniform the rest of the day — cold, wet and sandy."
"There were many a student who just couldn't accept the fact that all their effort was in vain. . . Those students didn't understand the purpose of the drill. You were never going to succeed. You were never going to have a perfect uniform."
5. If you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.
"Every day during training you were challenged with multiple physical events — long runs, long swims, obstacle courses, hours of calisthenics — something designed to test your mettle. Every event had standards — times you had to meet. If you failed to meet those standards your name was posted on a list, and at the end of the day those on the list were invited to a 'circus.' A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you to quit."
"Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core."
6. If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.
7. If you want to change the world, don't back down from the sharks.
"There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them."
8. If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.
"At the darkest moment of the mission is the time when you must be calm, composed—when all your tactical skills, your physical power and all your inner strength must be brought to bear."
9. If you want to change the world, start singing when you're up to your neck in mud.
"If I have learned anything in my time traveling the world, it is the power of hope. The power of one person—Washington, Lincoln, King, Mandela and even a young girl from Pakistan, Malala—one person can change the world by giving people hope."
10. If you want to change the world don't ever, ever ring the bell.
"In SEAL training there is a bell. A brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound for all the students to see. All you have to do to quit—is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o'clock. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the freezing cold swims. Ring the bell and you no longer have to do the runs, the obstacle course, the PT—and you no longer have to endure the hardships of training. Just ring the bell. If you want to change the world don't ever, ever ring the bell."
"Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden and never, ever give up — if you do these things, then the next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today."
"It matters not your gender, your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status. Our struggles in this world are similar and the lessons to overcome those struggles and to move forward—changing ourselves and the world around us—will apply equally to all."
"Changing the world can happen anywhere and anyone can do it."
Written By: Steve Nguyen, Ph.D.
Organizational & Leadership Development Leader
University of Texas at Austin - Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World. https://news.utexas.edu/2014/05/16/mcraven-urges-graduates-to-find-courage-to-change-the-world


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How not to encourage girls to study science
What were they thinking? It really beggars belief that a whole host of people in the EU Commission got it so wrong.
Of course, I'm talking about THAT video. If you haven't seen it, check it out below.
As part of an entirely laudable campaign (complete with #sciencegirlthing hashtag)to encourage girls to study science and think about careers in science, the European Commission released a launch video which was so far wide of the mark that they had to confirm that it wasn't some sort of joke. As one spokesperson for the Commission put it on twitter: "(the) Commission doesn't really do irony".
The video seems to have been removed from the campaign's Youtube account but not before some kind soul copied it and reposted the offending clip.
To be fair, I'm sure no harm was meant. The campaign website itself seems fine, but perhaps a little light on detail. The Commission moved to deflect some of the online criticism late on Friday evening by encouraging their Twitter followers to help them build a list of #realwomeninscience.
The swift and overwhelming online reaction seems to have ensured that the video will live long online as an example of how not to promote science (on anything for that matter).
At least they got one bit right. Male scientists are all tall, clean shaven and handsome in their glasses and white coat......ahem.


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Because this present is the gift of never-ending cookies. And it's a gift I'm going to share with all my friends (that's you!) so everyone can enjoy the Best Present Ever too.
I'm talking about The Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook. Yup. A bit fat book of cookie-making awesomeness, written by the geniuses at the Bubba Rose Biscuit Company. I should probably mention that this present requires the use of working thumbs and was technically given to my human, but even she got kinda excited about it. Even though it's a recipe book and we all know how she feels about ovens and recipes and stuff.
Anyway. I was so excited about a life full of cookies from the ODBC that I wrote to the Bubba people and asked them if I could share some of the recipes with you (something about a copyright? Not sure. Google made me do it). The Bubba people were totally nice and said it's ok for me to share (thanks Bubba people!). I even convinced my human that we should test the recipes out before I share them. Y'know, for quality control purposes.
How awesome is that??
Pretty awesome, I think. My human has been totally MIA this week so we haven't tested any of the recipes yet. But I don't want to wait around for her thumbs to get home, so I picked out a recipe from a list of special treats for each month on the calendar. Since December is practically over (and January sounded super yummy), here's a recipe to help you celebrate the new year.
Oh yeah. First, a few things about the ODBC recipes. They are all corn, soy and wheat free (attn: Noodle and other allergics!!). I'm not technically allergic to corn, but it kinda makes me fart, so my human was happy to see the words 'corn free'.
Some of the ingredients they use might sound a little funky (what's an oat flour?) but my human said she's seen all of them in our local grocery store. If your human can't find something, the ODBC says dog biscuits aren't rocket science so it's ok to make substitutions and play around with different ingredients. I say you should add bacon whenever possible, but that's totally up to you and your human.
From Bubba Rose Bakery's Organic Dog Biscuit Cookbook
1 cup oat flour
1 1/4 cup brown rice flour
1/2 cup peanut butter (unsalted)
1 TBS honey
1 egg
2/3 cup water
For the topping:
8 oz. CAROB chips (check label for soy lecithin if allergic to soy!) 8 oz. WHITE chocolate chips (white chocolate is dog safe)
Preheat oven to 350. Combine all dough ingredients together and mic until a dough forms. Roll out on a lightly floured surface to 1/4" thickness. Use a round cookies cutter or the rim of an upside down grass to cut our 2" circles of dough. Reform and reroll the dough to get as many circles from it as possible. Place the circles on an ungreased cookies sheet (they can be rather close together as they don't grow much while cooking).
Bake 20-25 minutes. Transfer and let cook completely on a wire rack.
When the cookies are cooling, prepare the topping. To do so, heat the white chocolate ships over low heat in a double boiler or microwave until melted. Dip half of each cookie into the melted white chocolate and place back on a wire rack to cool. Once all cookies are cooled to the touch, heat the carob chips in a double boiler or in the microwave until melted. Dip the other half of each cookie into the melted carob and place back on a wire rack to cool.
{Note: the San Antonio Pugs' patented drizzle technique would totally work for these cookies. Just put the melted stuff in plastic bags, cut a small hole in the corner of the bag and squeeze}
Store the cookies in a loosely covered container at room temperature or in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
{or immediately eat as many as possible before your human catches you}


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You don't have to be an old timer to have an appreciation for the classics. The Simms Big Sky Shirt - Short Sleeve is a western-styled, modern take on a classic look. New-fangled tech like plush wicking fabric, UPF 50+ sun protection, and a vented mesh-lined back panel ensure that this shirt is ready for the water or for a leisurely trip to the fly shop to chat about who's catching what, where.
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Introduction: What they say
A study from the The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA; The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA shows that "Vitamin B3 modulates mitochondrial vulnerability and prevents glaucoma in aged mice." This research paper was published, in the 9 February 2017 issue of the journal "Science" [One of the best research journals in "General science" with an I.F of 34.661], by Prof. Simon W. M. John and Pete A. Williams and others.
What we say:
On the foundation of this interesting finding, Dr L Boominathan PhD, Director-cum-chief Scientist of GBMD, reports that: Molecular therapy for Glaucoma: Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy tryptamine), a regulator of sleep and wakefulness, increases Nmnat1 expression, increases NAD+ levels, improves neuronal dysfunction, and protects against glaucoma via down regulation of its target gene
From significance of the study to public health relevance:
Given that: (1) Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease; (2) more than 80 million people worldwide are affected by Glaucoma; (2) Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness; (3) Glucosma has no cure; (4) vision lost due to glaucoma is irreversible; (5) the global economic cost spent for Glaucoma treatment is enormous, there is an urgent need to find: (i) a way to induce regeneration of ganglion cells that were lost in Glaucoma; (ii) a cheaper alternative to the existing expensive anti-glaucoma drugs; (iii) a side-effect-free natural product-based drug; and (v) a way to cure, not just treat, Glaucoma permanently.
What is known?
Prof.Simon's research team has recently shown that:(1) glaucoma-prone mice suffer from mitochondrial abnormalities, resulting in neuronal dysfunction; (2) NAD+ levels decrease with age; (3) administration of Niacin/Vitamin-B3 protects against glaucoma; (4) expression of Nmnat1, a key NAD+-producing enzyme, protects against glaucoma, suggesting that increasing the expression of Nmnat1 in glaucoma patients may alleviate glaucoma.
From research findings to Therapeutic opportunity:
Melatonin has been shown to function as a regulator of sleep and wakefulness.
This study suggests, for the first time, that Melatonin, by increasing the expression of its target gene, it may increase the expression of Nmnat1. Thereby, it may: (1) increase NAD+ levels; (2) decrease Intraocular pressure; (3) improve pressure-induced damage; and (4) alleviate glaucoma (Fig.1). Thus, pharmacological formulations encompassing "Melatonin or its analogs, either alone or in combination with other drugs," may be used to treat Glaucoma.
Details of the research findings:
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Citation: Boominathan, L., Molecular therapy for Glaucoma: Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxy tryptamine), a regulator of sleep and wakefulness, increases Nmnat1 expression, increases NAD+ levels, improves neuronal dysfunction, and protects against glaucoma via down regulation of its target gene, 10/March/2018, 6.15 am, Genome-2-Bio-Medicine Discovery center (GBMD), http://genomediscovery.org


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By Amanda Loudin for Life by DailyBurn
It's getting hot out there and for many long-distance runners, that means thinking about proper hydration. For years, most runners have put laser focus into preventing dehydration, fearing its effect on performance and health. And for good reason: Up to 75 percent of Americans may be functioning in a chronic state of dehydration, (drinking less than the recommended 64 ounces per day). Less recognized, however, is that it's not necessarily dehydration that could get you, but rather overhydration, or hyponatremia. While less than 200,000 Americans in the general population are impacted by it at any given time, in an endurance event, it can be one of the top two conditions to present in the medical tents.
In simple terms, hyponatremia is reduced blood sodium concentration. Left unchecked, the condition can lead to vomiting, confusion, seizures and worse. That's where knowing the hydration rules for your body come into play. With a little understanding and practice, you can make sure you stay in the safety zone between too little and too much fluid intake.
Hyponatremia Explained
Pretty much all runners know what dehydration is and work hard to prevent it, yet most don't realize that a little bit of dehydration is actually OK. "Most runners will safely lose two percent to four percent of their weight during a two hour event as water is attached to glycogen, which you burn for fuel," explains Mark Cucuzzella, MD, elite marathoner and director of the Freedom's Run series of races. "Your body is pretty well designed to run an endurance event—you just need to tap into your senses."
It's dismissing that inherent ability to "drink to thirst" that has gotten many runners in trouble in the age of modern racing, Cucuzzella says. He subscribes to the research carried out by Dr. Timothy Noakes, a South African professor of exercise and sports science and author of the book Waterlogged. Both argue that the sports drink industry has done a number on runners' natural thirst gauge, causing them to override the thirst signal and drink too much.
Luckily, race organizations are becoming more aware of conditions like hyponatremia and have medical tents that are set to handle it when presented, says Matthew Sedgley, MD, a sports medicine physician based in Westminster, MD, who has also served as medical director for multiple marathons. "Typically these races have a sports medicine physicians' meeting a few weeks prior to the race and review the latest research," he says. "The organizations annually update topics such as hyperthermia, hypothermia and hyponatremia."
Indeed, the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon series, one of the nation's largest such organizations, has a full paper out on hyponatremia that it shares on its website to educate runners. PZ Pearce, MD, medical director for the series, says that hyponatremia is one of the two main conditions the organization sees in its medical tents, the other being heat stroke. "There are three main factors that contribute to the condition," he says. "Exercise, taking in too much fluid at the aid stations, and the fact that runners sweat salt and lower the sodium content in their blood. It's the perfect storm leading to a slow dilution of sodium levels."
Getting It Right
As a runner, it's important to know the signs of hyponatremia as well as how to prevent it. "Early symptoms include weight gain, puffiness, nausea, headache, and a general feeling of being 'off,'" says Cucuzzella. "More serious symptoms can include vomiting, confusion, irritability and seizures. Keep an eye out for these symptoms even a few hours after the race. If you are not sweating heavily and/or feel you may have gained weight, don't drink large amounts of fluids until you are urinating normally."
When runners arrive at the med tent with symptoms of hyponatremia, the organizers should first test for sodium levels before giving any IV fluids because doing so could cause immediate harm, Cucuzzella says. To ensure athletes remain safe during his marathon, Cucuzzella circulates hydration guidelines the week prior to the event and only places aid stations every three miles on the course.
For runners, all three physicians recommend drinking to thirst only. "There's a misconception that if you are not drinking water but drinking an electrolyte fluid instead that you cannot get hyponatremia, but that isn't true," Sedgley points out.
Hydration How-To
To maintain the optimal hydration balance, the American Road Race Medical Society has adopted guidelines from which runners can develop their own plan. Here are some quick tips to hold your own:
Avoid playing copycat. Each runner has unique hydration needs, so be wary of following other runners' leads just because they appear to know what they're doing. The same goes for generalized "rules" you might hear about frequency and amounts. Learn what your body requires by fine-tuning your hydration plan during your training runs.
Weigh it out. Knowing your sweat rate can be a good indication of how much to drink. To calculate it, weigh yourself without clothes before and after a long training run to gauge how much you typically lose through sweat. While your goal isn't to match your sweat rate in fluid consumption, you should try to get as close to it as is comfortable, and be careful not to exceed it.
Choose wisely. When training or racing for more than two hours, especially if you have high sweat loss, reach for fluids with sodium, such as a sports drink. When training for shorter durations, plain water is adequate.
Do not over drink. "We usually find that athletes who develop [hyponatremia] drink over one cup every 20 minutes," Pearce writes. "If a participant stops at every fluid station and drinks just one cup (eight ounces) sports drink or water, they will be hyponatremic by mile 17." Trust your thirst, and during training runs, use your pre- and post-run weight as your guide. Weight gain is a sure sign you're drinking too much.
Know your colors. Aim for your urine to be a pale yellow hue, rather than dark like apple juice (a sign of dehydration) or clear like water (which might signal overhydration).
Act fast. If you are not feeling well during or after the race and simple changes don't make you better, don't try to tough it out. It's always best to seek medical help right away, so that you don't progress into dangerous territory.
Cucuzzella recommends that you practice your hydration plan well before race day, and learn to trust it. "If something is not going well, figure out why versus simply reacting," he says. "Too often, its this reaction that gets runners in trouble. They start crashing, slowing down and overdrinking. My strategy is simple: Drink when you are thirsty."
- 5 Running Tweaks That Took an Hour Off My Marathon Time
- 8 Awesome Podcasts to Get You Through a Long Run
- A Runner's Guide to Speedwork


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Currently, all components that read from object store assume that all the operations and functionality should be done based on all the available blocks that are present in the certain bucket's root directory.
This is in most cases totally fine, however with time and allowance of storing blocks from multiple Sources
into the same bucket, the number of objects in a bucket can grow drastically.
This means that with time you might want to scale out certain components e.g:
Larger number of objects does not matter much, however compactor has to scale (CPU, network, disk, memory) with number of Sources pushing blocks to the object storage.
Queries against store gateway which are touching large number of blocks (no matter from what Sources) might be expensive, so it can scale with number of blocks.
Similar to promtail this config will follow native Prometheus relabel-config syntax.
Now, thanos only support following relabel actions:
external labels
for all components
for store gateway, see this example
The relabel config defines filtering process done on every synchronization with object storage.
We will allow potentially manipulating with several of inputs:
By default, on empty relabel-config, all external labels are assumed.
Example usages would be:
- action: drop
regex: "A"
- cluster
- action: keep
regex: "A"
- cluster
We can shard by adjusting which labels should be included in the blocks.
For store gateway, we can specify --min-time
and --max-time
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More details can refer to "Time based partitioning" chapter in Store gateway.


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When I try to connect with "DRIVE HQ FILEMANAGER", it always fails to connect
I am definitely connected to the internet
How can I solve this problem?
This is almost always caused by some anti-virus software or network security software that blocked DriveHQ FileManager from connecting to DriveHQ.com website. Please configure your anti-virus software to allow DriveHQ FileManager to connect drivehq.com.
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The PV Market Alliance (PVMA) estimates global photovoltaic (PV) installations at 75 GW in 2016 and possibly a stable market in 2017
After 50 GW of PV installations in 2015, the global PV market reached 75 GW in 2016, a 50% YoY growth, with now a total capacity installed globally crossing the 300 GW mark.
- China, leading the PV market since 2013, installed in 2016 an absolute world record of 34 GW, representing an increase of 126% YoY and 45% of total global deployment. Given China's total installed capacity of 77 GW, PVMA estimates that China will have exceeded the 100 GW mark by the end of 2017, if not even earlier.
- Japan has installed about 8.6 GW of PV in 2016, down 10.8 GW in 2015. 2017 might show a further decrease but the market is expected to reach 7.5 to 8.5 GW, due to current project pipelines.
- The US market experienced major growth with installations possibly reaching 13 GW, however PVMA anticipates significant uncertainties for the coming years.
- Europe installed around 6.5 GW, driven primarily by the UK market, Germany, Turkey and France. A relatively low deployment has pushed Europe's global PV market share to below 10%.
- India experienced significant growth with 5 GW installed in 2016, up from 2 GW in 2015 and is expected to add up to 8 to 9 GW in 2017.
- As anticipated, several emerging markets on all continents started to contribute significantly to the global growth with at least 7 GW installed. Other American and Asian countries contributed significantly while the Middle-East and Africa start to deliver.
- 2017 could become a challenging year with at least 65 GW installed in a pessimistic scenario (a market drop of 13%). Reasonably, a similar level of installations as in 2016 could be reached if established markets maintain a reasonable level of development. A declining or stable market is likely to cause that module prices will continue to remain under pressure with new production capacities coming online, thus increasing further the gap between supply and demand.
These numbers are DC numbers and refer to grid connected PV systems, not installations and not shipments of PV components which can deliver slightly different results.


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The only time that Paul Nesbit has been able to get a break this summer is when he sits down for lunch and locks the front door of his t-shirt store located on Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Business has been so good this year that Nesbit, quite literally, cannot keep up with demand.
Nesbit owns MATE apparel in Provincetown. This picturesque coastal community is home to around 3,000 year-round residents. But during the summer, the population here often swells to about 60,000 people. It's the tourists who flock here from around the world who Nesbit relies on to keep his business going.
"This place lures you in quickly. There's a magic here," he said standing inside his store.
This summer, though, there's been a problem with business. It's been good, too good.
Nesbit is selling so many of his custom printed t-shirts and hats that he cannot keep up with demand. He estimates that he likely has enough inventory to make it to Labor Day and then may have to close for the remainder of the year.
"Supply is just outpacing demand right now. I just don't have enough of what I need. I'm constantly chasing product," the 57-year-old business owner said.
The problems Nesbit is facing are not unique. Retailers nationwide are currently struggling to navigate a broken global supply chain that is still trying to bounce back after COVID-19.
Small businesses owners like Nesbit have spent the last year shifting where they purchase products from. Over the winter, he was constantly on the phone with different suppliers trying to order t-shirts and hats. He even got an extra storage unit to store some of the extra merchandise he was able to secure.
But it likely won't be enough.
"If I can't get mediums, then I can't get mediums. I have to let customers know, and they understand that," he added.
Jon Gold with the National Retail Federation explained that consumers will likely see impacts of a global supply chain shortage at least through the holiday season.
"This really started last year when COVID hit and factories overseas were forced to shut down. Trying to get everything turned back on to meet demand has been a challenge," Gold said.
Across the globe, there's also a shortage of shipping containers and chassis, the equipment used to move shipping containers. There's also a shortage of truck drivers, making it difficult to move what product is out there.
In Nesbit's case, his t-shirt manufacturer switched to making masks for the last 16 months. All of it makes for a difficult landscape for retailers to navigate.
"The supply chain is global in nature, and if you have one thing that knocks it off course, it trickles down and impacts everything else," Gold said.


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Suppose your financial objectives include income and leaving a legacy for your heirs. In that case, it's essential to work with a financial professional familiar with your many options, including older tools.
Grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) gained popularity in 2000 after a favorable ruling by the U.S. Tax Court toward a wealthy family in the retail business. This ruling allowed for zeroed-out GRATs, for which annuity payments return the original assets to the grantor, leaving only the appreciated value for the beneficiaries. You don't need to be a billionaire to take advantage of a GRAT, which has potential for individuals and families of many income levels.
A GRAT is a financial tool used to reduce taxes on large financial gifts to family members. It involves creating an irrevocable trust for a specific period, transferring assets into the trust, and paying an annuity to the grantor each year. When the trust expires and the final annuity payment is made, the beneficiary receives the assets with minimal or no gift taxes. GRATs can be a valuable tool for transferring wealth while managing gift tax liability. They allow the grantor to move asset appreciation to the remaining beneficiaries, reducing the value of the grantor's assets subject to estate tax. A GRAT is established for a specific number of years.
Typically, a grantor sets up zeroed-out GRATs for a specific number of years, for which the present value of the annuity stream equals the total value of the property used to fund the GRAT.1 This means that the remainder interest has a value of 0, making it a zero-value gift for tax purposes. Any assets remaining in the GRAT after the final annuity payment pass to the remainder of the beneficiaries without incurring gift tax.1
When setting up a GRAT, the grantor contributes assets to the trust, but—this is the crucial part—the grantor retains the right to receive the original value of the assets contributed over the term of the trust, along with the rate of return specified by the IRS. When the trust ends, the remaining assets (the appreciation of the original holdings minus the IRS-assumed return rate) go to the beneficiaries.1
There are risks involved with GRATs. If the grantor dies before the trust expires, the assets become part of their taxable estate, and the beneficiary receives nothing. Additionally, if the assets depreciate or the IRS's assumed return rate is low, the GRAT may not provide the intended advantages.
GRATs are most useful for individuals with significant estate tax liability, including those who freeze the value of their estate by transferring the appreciation onto their heirs. For example, if someone expects an asset to grow from $10 million to $12 million over two years, they can transfer the $2 million difference to their heirs without incurring taxes.
GRATs are particularly popular among individuals who own shares in startup companies because the stock price appreciation for IPO shares often exceeds the IRS's assumed rate of return. This allows more money to pass to beneficiaries without affecting the grantor's lifetime exemption from estate and gift taxes.
From an income tax perspective, the grantor is responsible for the GRAT's income tax liability during the GRAT term. During the remainder of the term, tax liability can flow through to the grantor or be paid by the trust, depending on the structure.
In recent years, there have been proposals to limit the benefits of GRATs, so individuals may want to take advantage of this strategy before any potential legislation passes.
The reason the GRAT remains popular is clear: For many, these trusts have created a reliable method for managing taxes and passing wealth on to future generations. Despite being relatively under the radar, it remains effective and prevalent among those seeking to sustain their finances.
1. JournalOfAccountancy.com, September 19, 2023
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I just came across an interesting way to eliminate the impression of a global warming. A trick used to argue that the global warming had stopped, and the simple recipe is as follows:
I've tried to reproduce the plot below (here is the R-script):
At least, many different global analyses were shown – not just the one which indicates weakest trends since year 2000. The data presented in this case included both surface analyses (GISTEMP, NCDC, and HadCRUT3) in addition to satellite products for the lower troposphere (Microwave Sounding Unit – MSU). The MSU data tend to describe more pronounced peaks associated with the El Nino Southern Oscillation.
A comparison between the original version of this plot and my reproduction (based on the same data sources) is presented below (here is a link to a PDF-version). Note, my attempt is very close to the original version, but not identical.
One should note that plotting the same data over the their entire length (e.g. from the starting date of the satellites in 1979) will make global warming trends more visible (see figure below). Hence, the curves must be cropped to give the impression that the global warming has disappeared.
The real trick, however, is to show all the short-term variations. Hourly and daily values would be an over-kill, but showing monthly values works. Climate change involves time scales of many years, and hence if emphasis is given to much shorter time scales, the trends will drown in noisy variations. This can be seen if we show annual mean anomalies (as shown below for exactly the same data), rather than the monthly anomalies (again, done with the same R-script)
A linear trend fit to the annual mean anomalies the last 17 years suggest similar warming rates as reported by Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf. These trends are derived from exactly the same data as those used in the original figure, that was used to argue that the global warming had stopped – by two professors and a statistician, the very same who performed curve-fitting and removed data not fitting their conclusion.
- G. Foster, and S. Rahmstorf, "Global temperature evolution 1979–2010", Environmental Research Letters, vol. 6, pp. 044022, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/044022


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The park home chassis is the most important element of the park home, it is the frame that supports it from the ground below. It is often neglected by most park homeowners as it is often disguised behind UPVC skirting or a brick surround and they are oblivious to its importance and the need for maintenance.
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Costs will vary depending on several factors such as the size of your park home and access to your chassis, the amount of work that needs to be carried out and whether it may require underfloor insulation. Please contact us and we can arrange a full site survey and a free no obligation quote for any works that may need to be carried out.
We would recommend that the sub-floor of a park home should always remain clear as otherwise this could present a fire risk.
We offer a fully comprehensive survey for the underside of your park home in Doddington. We will check the main chassis, siting and supports, base, restraints, floor bearers, the skirting, drip rail and ventilation, plumbing and coach bolt fixings. We then provide a detailed survey report and give advice on any work that may need to be carried out. We can also quote for the work needed to be done.
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