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As our home is coming towards the end of its renovation journey, after 3 long years, I am now able to start planning and decorating new rooms in the house. This has to be my favourite part of a renovation!
So, as our temporary office, which was located in the spare bedroom, has now turned into a nursery; I need to start planning for a space where my MacBook and iMac can call home…
I absolutely love Pinterest and I have to say, I think I may be a tad obsessed with it! Needless to say, I have curated my very own mood board of office inspiration. (I actually have two office pin boards - but who's counting?)
Firstly, I love the idea of have a playful desk area, with memories pinned up onto a garland, in a beautifully retro polaroid style. I also love the idea of the shelves for storage purposes. I will be up-cycling my desk which doesn't have much storage in it so I need to be creative with how I store all of my files and bric-brac. Aldi used to sell some gorgeous stationary ware but I'm sure that I'll find some minimalistic-looking boxes to organise my crap.
While speaking of organisation, I want to invest in some rather ornate accessories to accompany the reams of organised paper and files. I absolutely love the idea of buying items with gold detailing, whilst also maintaining a practical, yet minimalistic look. I need to search far and wide for the letter holder - I love this exact one!
Of course I need a home for my trusty Epson printer and when I came across this picture of a bar cart-come-printing-station I fell in love. It's practical (yes that word is a prominent member of my vocab) and it's also effortlessly cool looking. Who knew a printing station could be so attractive?
Ultimately I want my office to be a space where I feel relaxed and comfortable. I mean, there's nothing worse than feeling uninspired and particularly crampy in a crappy office chair when you're trying to get some serious work done. I already have an office chair from Ikea, however, as with many Ikea products, they quickly break or become faulty and so I want to invest in a better office chair, similar to the style above. I noticed that when I am working I arch my back and so I want to realign my posture in a comfy, yet stylish chair (that can swirl around when I want to have a twirl or two).
There is something serene about having plants in the house, they purify the air around you and also seem to have a calming influence on the atmosphere of a room. Although faux plants are far easier to maintain, there's nothing better than potting real plants and watching them bloom. I love the botanical feel of having succulents and large green plants in a room and so I will be searching far and wide for local businesses that stock said plants. When Ben and I were in Aberystwyth, there was an incredible indoor plant shop called No 21. However, I think it is a touch too far to venture to in order to buy a few plants!


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Mr. Homza's practice principally involves insurance coverage, including First Party coverage issues, insurance fraud, arson, fraudulent claims, and the defense of extra contractual claims. Mr. Homza's practice also includes professional errors & omissions claims, defending insurance agents and brokers. He is also engaged in the defense of commercial motor carriers. He received his law degree in 1979 from Louisiana State University. While in law school, he was selected to participate on the Moot Court Board and in the National Moot Court competition. From 1979 to 1980 he served as a law clerk with the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal and joined the firm in 1980. He was named The Best Lawyers in America® from 2011-2012 for Insurance Law. He is listed by SuperLawyers as having attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in the area of Insurance Coverage. He is currently on the Board of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute and since 2001 has served on the subcommittee on Fire & Casualty Claims. He is a member of the International Association of Arson Investigators, the Property Loss Research Bureau, the Certified Insurance Fraud Examiners, and the Harry V. Booth and Judge Henry A. Politz American Inn of Court. Mr. Homza is also engaged in the practice of mediations and performs mediation services as a member of Perry, Dampf, and Associates, A Professional Mediation and Arbitration Company. Mr. Homza is a member of the Shreveport Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the North Louisiana Federal Bar Association. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, for whom he has been a lecturer on First Party Arson Defense Claims. He is a two time instructor for the Louisiana Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Chapter on investigation of fire & explosions. His practice is primarily concentrated in the trial of complex First Party coverage claims and property losses involving fire science & technology including large property subrogation claims. Mr. Homza also represents several insurance S.I.Us and has tried numerous arson misrepresentation and fraud cases involving the interpretation of policy forms and business interruption coverages, including broker/agent liability cases. Mr. Homza is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
- Insurance Coverage and First Party Coverage Issues
- Defense of Extra Contractual Claims
- First Party Coverage Defense including Arson & Misrepresentation
- Fire Science & Technology Claims including Catastrophic Damage and Subrogation
- Insurance Agent & Broker Liability
- Louisiana, 1979
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana, 1984
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana, 1984
- U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, 1984
- Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Honors: Member, Moot Court Board
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- Louisiana State University
- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Board Member
- Property Loss Research Bureau, Member
- Defense Research Institute, Fire & Casualty Subcommittee, Member
- International Association of Arson Investigators, Member
- Certified Insurance Fraud Examiners, Member
- Harry V. Booth and Judge Henry A. Politz American Inn of Court, Member
- Perry, Dampf, and Associates, A Professional Mediation and Arbitration Company, Member
- National Association of Fire Investigators(NAFI), Member
- Top 10 Mistakes of Fire Investigators, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies newsletter, May, 2006
- Mamco Company Inc. vs. American Employers Insurance Company, 736 F.2d 187 (5th Cir. 1984)
- Valentine vs. Bonneville Ins. Co., 691 So.2d 665, 96-1382 (Louisiana Supreme Court 1997)
- Devin Enterprises Inc. vs. American Central Insurance Company and Mid-South Insurance Agency d/b/a Sulphur Insurance Center, CA No. 99-2114 (14th JDC, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana 2003)
- Bessie Mae Vital vs. Employers Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, Cause No. 98-CV-1558 (USDC, WD La., Lake Charles division 2000)
- Stretch Your Dollar, Inc. vs. Scottsdale Insurance Company, CA No. 99-CV-1411S (USDC, WD La., Shreveport division 1999)
- "Protecting the Claims File", 2007 – Present
- "Common Bad Faith Mistakes", 2005 – Present
- "Insurance Update, Arson & Hot Topics", Louisiana State Bar Association, 1996 – Present
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An attacker punched a man in a Burnley pub, after the victim's son assaulted the defendant's father with a piece of wood, a court heard.
The town's magistrates were told how Daniel Worthington struck as the victim was in the Big Window, with his wife and friends. The victim suffered a cut to his nose.
Worthington, who has a conviction for battery, owned up in interview and said he hit the man because of history between the families.
The 28-year-old defendant, of Palace Street, Burnley, admitted assault by beating, on August 19th. He was fined £107 and must pay £50 compensation, £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.
Mrs Tracy Yates (prosecuting) told the hearing the victim was going back to his table from the toilet when someone came up behind him and started to punch him.
She added: "Once he turned round, he recognised Daniel Worthington and started to swing his arms in self-defence. He was in shock. It was all over in a matter of minutes. He knows the man from a club he used to attend, where his dad was on the committee."
Mr Trevor Grice (defending) said Worthington had made full admissions and expressed genuine remorse.
He said: "The defendant was in the Big Window with his father. Three years ago, his father was assaulted outside a local club, with a piece of wood, by the victim's son. That was the subject of a successful police prosecution. Since that time, there has been a feud between the families."
Mr Grice said regrettably, the defendant went to confront the victim, and swung a single punch.
The solicitor added: "He left and went to another establishment and the victim alerted his son. His son went looking for this defendant, found him and attacked him. The defendant didn't make any complaint to the police.
"He regrets the incident ever occurred and apologises to the victim. There has since been a meeting between the sides, there has been considerable fence mending and hopefully that will be an end to what has been a sad saga."


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1854 Treaty Authority
is an Inter-Tribal natural resource management agency that manages the off-reservation hunting, fishing and gathering rights of the Bois Forte Band and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in the lands ceded under the treaty of 1854...
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Mikwendaagoziwag Ceremonies at Sandy Lake All are welcome to join GLIFWC in commemorating the 1850 Sandy Lake Tragedy on July 31st. It is a time to remember the sacrifices made by many tribal members who arrived at Sandy Lake to receive annuity payments, but found only inadequate and spoiled rations, delayed payments and for many, death. See GLIFWC's Facebook page for maps, directions, and details.
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Do your part in taking care of the resources that take care of us: don't allow aquatic invasive species to hitch a ride on boats and fishing gear while moving from lake to lake. 1854 Invasive Species Techs staff public boat accesses to offer voluntary boat inspections, and if necessary decontamination. Get a free boat wash with our decontamination unit - a high pressure, heated water sprayer.


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The Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS)
Increasing our understanding of the risk factors for cancer and other major diseases.
We are saddened to announce the passing of our colleague, Dr. Margaret Hargreaves, on May 18, 2019. Dr. Hargreaves was Professor of Internal Medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She was Co-Principal Investigator of the Southern Community Cohort Study and a steadfast advocate for eliminating health disparities. Dr. Hargreaves was involved with SCCS research and operations for almost two decades. She was the author of numerous scientific research papers, and had a special interest in the behavioral aspects of disease prevention. She will be missed by all of us at the SCCS.
SCCS Research in the News
7/2019: Health disparity for blacks exists within lung screening guidelines
8/2018: Medically underserved women in the Southeast rarely receive BRCA tests
1/2018: Rising obesity rates in South leading to rapid increase in diabetes
1/2018: Study finds higher death rates in poor neighborhoods
1/2018: Heart failure risk predicted by communities, not wealth
3/2017: Role for mouth microbes in diabetes?
7/2016: NIH launches largest-ever study of breast cancer genetics in black women
3/2016: Cancer prevention and poverty
6/2015: Healthy Diet May Reduce Mortality In Low Income Populations
3/2015: VU study finds peanut consumption is associated with decreased total mortality and mortality from cardiovascular diseases
6/2014: Low selenium and lung cancer
4/2013: Lack of exercise not a factor in health disparities
3/2011: Cancer Center study snuffs out menthol myths
SCCS researchers are committed to exploring the causes of health disparities
- Dr. William Blot, Principal Investigator, SCCS
Since 2005, SCCS researchers have published more than 100 journal articles on risk factors for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases.
The SCCS is conducted by a collaborative team of scientists at Vanderbilt University, Meharry Medical College, and the International Epidemiology Institute.
Are you a participant with a question or address change? Call us at:
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One of my new favorite things to do is going out for breakfast Saturday morning with my husband. When we drop Hank the Tank (our rather large dog) off at daycare we always stop for breakfast. There is no denying that French toast is one of my all-time favorites, and Martin Way Diner has three different types of French toast to choose from. I am in Heaven!
I love the atmosphere, friendly staff, great coffee and oldies playing in the background. This place is no secret to our fellow Olympians and is almost always packed. My favorite French toast they serve is the Martin Way French Toast. I think one of the things that makes this French toast my favorite is that they start with fresh thick sliced French bread. Well enough of my rambling, see it for yourself!
Just looking at it makes me want to go there now! Their perfectly cooked bacon is the best compliment to this sweet main dish! Together they form best combo ever! I highly recommend trying their breakfast, you won't be disappointed. Next on our agenda will be to try their dinner.
Next time you are on Martin Way and see the diner's open sign, stop in!


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One of the best restaurants in Syndey, a pop up night of bush food, Australian cuisine, tasty cocktails and Kombucha. These are some of the pics from the last event taken by Four Minutes to Midnight.Read More
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(25-06-2017, 10:19)Kriyppler Wrote: Cops N Robbers
50/50 split of the teams, higher rp players get to pick higher classed cop cars (if they're on the cop team) and the robbers team brings whatever car they have. Pretty much just the same as the pursuits but players instead of npc cops. I guess whoever lasts the longest or set a point for the robbers to get to in order to escape would be cool, could just use the busted system that the pursuits use. Probably be better to limit the map area that the players can use, and add player markers to prevent hiding and boring gameplay


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5 Top Rated Laminate Flooring Installation Secrets You Can't Afford To Ignore
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The laminate flooring installation industry has seen phenomenal growth, and with good reason. These innovative floor coverings simulate virtually any wood grain, style and texture. The appearance is absolutely authentic. If you can't afford a solid hardwood product, this is an excellent, easy-to-clean alternative. However, for a professional finish you need to keep some laminate flooring installation secrets in mind.
Secret 1 – Transform Yourself Into A Traffic Master
You need to match the quality of the flooring perfectly to the area where you plan to install it. One easy way to do this, is to make a note of the AC-rating. This symbol-and-digit system gives an accurate indication of the suitability of a particular range for use in high or low traffic areas. AC stands for Abrasion Class. In order to display this symbol, a range has to be tested for its ability to withstand a certain amount of use, as well as mishaps such as bumps, scratches, burn marks, or fading due to UV damage. The tests also include aspects such as moisture resistance. A cheap, discount laminate flooring product may not carry this mark and may be a total waste of money.
For residential use, the AC-rating consists of a house symbol, while commercially suited lines display a building. The digit tracks the traffic wearability.
AC1 is an indication that you can do the laminate flooring installation in the bedrooms of your home.
AC2 lines can be installed in living rooms and dining room areas.
AC3 is tough enough for use in heavy traffic residential areas, or light commercial settings.
AC4 ranges can be utilized in offices and boutiques.
AC5 is the toughest, suitable for heavy traffic areas, such as department stores.
Don't assume that the most robust one is the best for your home. The higher the AC-rating, the rougher the texture. If you enjoy barefoot walking, your feet will soon be complaining loudly. You are also likely to find that sock darning suddenly becomes a full-time occupation! A sales person should be able to give you advice, but it is much better if you collect some background information yourself.
Secret 2 – Core Truths Of Flooring
You now know to be on the look-out for plank quality and thickness. Another vital secret to keep in mind, is the density of the floor's core. If you want to know how well your choice of brand will be able to resist moisture, rips and indentations, ask about the core density. On the other hand, the wear layer determines the robustness as far as scratches, stains and scuff marks are concerned. Urethane for example, is great if you want to block stains. A good core density combined with a tough wear layer are a winning pair if you want a floor with a long life.
Secret 3 – When The Chips Are Down
Chipping often becomes a headache during a laminate flooring installation project. You have to use some type of saw in order to get the plank lengths you need. It is vital to find a way to minimize chipping. Use a left-over piece of plank to practice on. Find out what works for you, before you continue with the task. If you have a hand held power saw, turn the plank over and keep the good side down. Try to use a form of builders tape to protect the edge while you work. Chips can be extremely unsightly and you need to eliminate them as far as possible. A circular saw with a carbide-tipped blade and a saber saw for curves are highly effective.
Secret 4 – Go With The Flow
You need to install the planks parallel to the direction of the light flowing from the natural source of light. This is one secret behind an aesthetically pleasing floor. In addition, this simple step will display the joints between the planks in the best light, so to speak.
Before you start, also make sure that the walls are really as straight as you assume they are. You can start your project by following a wall, only to find out that the line isn't at all what you expected. This can quickly result in a costly flooring fiasco. It is sensible to complete three or four rows, and let them settle down for an hour or so. This will give you a solid start. The wall of a long hallway can also be utilized as a guide. Always check that you tackle adjoining rooms in such a fashion that the line can be continued straight and smoothly into the hallway.
Secret 5 – Stick To Your Guns
Many experts in the home improvement field still recommend the use of glue in the grooves of the planks. Manufacturers often claim that this isn't necessary, as the planks fit so tightly together. Your laminate flooring supplier will be able to give you an indication of the approach that ensures the best results with a particular brand. A sealed joint will definitely give better protection against moisture. However, this complicates the procedure and is time-consuming.
In bathrooms and kitchens you don't have much of an option in this regard. There are always spills and messes, no matter how careful you are. Humidity has a tendency to seep into every crevice. It will cause the core to swell, leading to unsightly buckling. By being diligent with glue in the joints and a caulking gun around the perimeter of the room, you will ensure that the good looks of your laminate flooring installation is retained for years. The floor itself is never glued down, except on stairs. Don't be too generous with the glue and wipe any excess away with a damp cloth. Always work in the direction of the joint.
Some research will pay handsome dividends in the long run. If you choose wisely, your laminate flooring installation will provide pleasure and an elegant decor touch for years to come.
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"Take two tablets by mouth twice daily." This printed instruction, common on prescription pill bottles, might seem straightforward. Yet in a study, nearly half of patients misunderstood what it or other common label instructions meant.
Now the non-profit organization that sets quality and safety standards for drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration is aiming to simplify, clarify and standardize the labels that are affixed to those drugs.
The U.S. Pharmacopeia proposal, developed in conjunction with a group of independent experts, was released early this year for public comment. If adopted by state pharmacy boards nationwide, its developers hope it will help remove one of the many barriers that discourage people from taking their prescription drugs.
Medication compliance, or "adherence," as it's called, is a big problem. Despite the fact that 87 percent of people in a recent survey said they thought prescription medicines were important to their health, only about half of those surveyed take their drugs as directed. People skip doses, take the wrong number of pills, and take pills at the wrong time of day, among many other problems. Poor adherence results in up to $290 billionin medical expenses each year, according to NEHI, a health research organization.
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In general, people are more compliant with drugs for acute conditions such as a bladder infection than for chronic problems like diabetes. But both are problematic, and the reasons people offer for not taking their drugs are as varied as the drugs they're not taking. In that patient survey, 59 percent said they stopped taking their medication because they were feeling better and didn't think it was necessary to continue, while 25 percent said they stopped because they weren't feeling any better. Thirty-seven percent were worried about side effects, while 24 percent said their drugs were too expensive.
With such varied reasons for noncompliance, experts agree that solutions must be varied, too. "There is no silver bullet," says Bob Nease, chief scientist at Express Scripts, a large pharmacy benefit manager for employers and insurers.
Simple forgetfulness may be the culprit in many cases of nonadherence, especially when a drug doesn't actually make people feel any different. Drugs to treat high cholesterol or high blood pressure fall into this category. Many researchers and others involved in medication adherence issues are excited about the potential of technology to both educate patients and provide a "tickler" system to remind them to take their drugs.
Researchers at the Center for Connected Health in Boston, for example, found that sending daily text messages to patients with a type of eczema increased drug adherence, as did wireless pill bottle "GlowCaps" that light upand beep when high blood pressure patients miss a dose.
The center, a division of Partners HealthCare, works to identify ways that technology can help change patient behavior and improve health outcomes. With medication adherence, "What we've found is that the power of simple reminders is enormous," says the center's director, Dr. Joseph Kvedar.
Even the unlikeliest people need an assist now and then. Kvedar uses a GlowCap to remind him to take his cholesterol lowering drug every night.
At 9 p.m., the pill cap lights up to remind him it's time to take his pill. If he's not near his pill bottle, a small plug-in unit in his kitchen that looks like a nightlight glows at the same time to remind him. When he takes his dose, the cap relays the information wirelessly to the company network. But if he still hasn't taken his pill after an hour has passed, the cap emits a ring tone. If he fails again to take a dose after another hour, the system calls him on his cell phone to remind him.
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Kvedar says he would have expected his adherence would be 100 percent, but "I've discovered with the GlowCap that I would have forgotten some nights."
There are many lower tech ways to improve adherence, say experts. Communication is key. If doctors and pharmacists make a point of explaining possible side effects and the importance of completing a course of treatment, for example, a patient may be less likely to discontinue taking a drug if he experiences a side effect.
As for costs, reducing or eliminating copaymentsfor drugs increases patients' adherence, says Dr. Niteesh Choudhry, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has conducted research on the subject. Increasingly, companies are picking up the tab for medications to treat their employees' chronic conditions, with the expectation that doing so means they'll save money down the road through lower medical costs.
While no single strategy or technology will get everyone to take their medicine as directed, experts agree that clear instructions on the pill bottle are a basic requirement if that's to happen. Many of the USP recommendations seem commonsensical: place patient information and instructions at the top of the label in bigger type than the doctor or pharmacy name or information on refills and expiration; use everyday words like high blood pressure instead of hypertension; keep auxiliary information, such as warnings, simple and straightforward.
And to avoid confusion over things such as dosages and when to take the medication, the recommendations say, keep those instructions separate and simple, using numbers instead of words when appropriate. With those guidelines in mind, perhaps fewer people would be confused by the instruction that started this column. The new and improved pill bottle would read, "Take 2 tablets by mouth in the morning and 2 tablets by mouth in the evening."
© 2012 This information was reprinted with permission from KHN. Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.


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Put Out The Smoking Ban
We've got a lot of issues in Maryland. Things that need improvement, messes we need to clean up, initiatives we need to launch. Our new General Assembly has convened, ready to tackle the projected budget deficit, health care, education, our tax structure, emissions standards, and transportation, among other things.
And the slot machines will again have more lives than a roomful of cats.
That's a pretty full plate. There's not much room for frills or irrelevant junk. And with Democrats firmly in control in both chambers and a Democrat executive, we'll don't need to worry about our legislature wasting time on the social wedge issues many Republicans are so fond of.
However, the Democrats are not without their indulgences. And there's a proposal on the legislative agenda that seems to be favored by a fair number of Democrats that amounts to pure, mindless frivolity.
I'm talking about the idea of a statewide smoking ban in bars and restaurants. I'm usually on board with most Democrat priorities, but this is just plain silly. It's the nanny state at its worst and most patronizing - the government claiming the right to regulate personal behaviors.
I am not a smoker. I never have been. I made the decision not to smoke based on the overwhelming evidence that smoking is destructive to one's health. And given that smoking is an acquired craving - unlike, say, eating, which is a basic human need - it wasn't too difficult to stay away from tobacco.
But the government didn't coerce me into this decision; it simply provided the information and let me make the choice. That's the way a free society is supposed to work.
I also understand that I don't get to make those decisions for other people. I don't get to tell others what foods to eat. I don't get to tell others who to date or marry. And I don't get to tell others whether or not they should smoke.
I can personally discourage others from getting hooked on nicotine - one of the most insidiously addictive substances there is. But the ultimate decision belongs to the individual, not the government.
There's no reason the same logic shouldn't apply to commercial establishments.
If a restaurant feels that it can generate more income by advertising itself as smoke-free, it will voluntarily ban smoking from its premises. Many restaurants do just that - and earn steady and loyal clienteles for it. But if an eatery wants to bill itself as a smokers' haven, it should have every right to do so. Customers, who don't care for cigarette smoke, don't have to patronize such a restaurant if they don't want to.
The free market isn't infallible, but this is one of those cases in which we're best off just leaving things to market forces. There will be plenty of restaurants and bars around to cater to the needs of every possible customer.
So, what's driving this smoking ban?
Well, I'm sure it's well-intentioned for the most part. Clean, smoke-free air is certainly nice to breathe, and the long-term health of Marylanders is definitely a goal worth pursuing.
But I wonder if some of this is driven by smug self-righteousness. There are elements in every society that have this primal need to feel morally superior to others - and punishing smokers for "unhealthy lifestyle choices" helps fulfill this unseemly urge to lord it over "inferior" people.
This kind of attitude is common among religious fundamentalists, but it's certainly not limited to them. "Well, at least I don't smoke, unlike those people!"
It's certainly a worthwhile goal to reduce the incidence of smoking in our state. But there's a big difference between accomplishing it by education and accomplishing it by government fiat. The latter approach is counterproductive at best. Smokers aren't bad people because they smoke.
There is a place for government regulation of corporate interests in our society. There are definitely some areas where we need more of it - the oil and insurance industries come to mind. But smoking bans do not fall in this category - and indeed, by attempting to regulate something so comparatively trivial, the case for regulation where it is warranted is consequently weakened in the eyes of the public.
Our General Assembly has better things to do. Let's stuff this smoking ban into the ashtray of irrelevance.


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How China could peak CO2 emissions by 2022.
Two Beijing-based government advisory groups - the National Center for Climate Change and International Cooperation and the Energy Research Institute - drew up an "accelerated low carbon scenario" with American consultancy Energy Innovation. It would see coal's share of primary energy use fall to 47% in 2030 (down from 64% in 2015), and non fossil fuel sources rise to 22%.
Based on analysis of some 10,000 policy combinations, the report offers details on how to transform key sectors.
"There have been questions about how these recommendations can translate into specific actions for the next five year plan," Sonia Aggarwal of Energy Innovation told Climate Home by phone from the Chinese capital. "That is very encouraging."
For context, the analysts also sketch out a scenario under which emissions start declining immediately, based on a combination of the strongest policies seen worldwide.
That puts a theoretical upper limit on ambition, explained Aggarwal: "No country in the world has adopted all of those policies at the highest setting."
Carbon pricing is "the single strongest policy available", the report states, although Aggarwal emphasises it is not enough on its own.
Renewable electricity targets and efficiency standards for cars, appliances and buildings are also critical, as is an economic restructuring away from heavy industry into service sectors.
Beijing is preparing to open a nationwide carbon market next year, building on seven regional pilots.
Today, prices range from 10-40RMB a tonne (US$2-6/t). On the fast-track green pathway, researchers see this rising to 252RMB ($38) by 2030.
To make it more effective, policymakers should avoid handing out free pollution permits and apply pricing widely, they recommend.
Source : http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/07/08/how-china-could-peak-co2-emissions-by-2022/


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Sunday Swing
Dance run by Reading Swing Jam
Sunday 19 May 2019 In Past
A relaxed afternoon of swing jazz and dancing!
Dance Styles: Balboa, Charleston, Collegiate Shag, Jazz Steps, Lindy Hop
Price: Free!
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Ticket Options: Free Event
Venue: Oakford Social Club
Address: 53 Blagrave Street Reading Berkshire RG1 1PZ
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Swing dance socials, workshops and classes in Reading, Berkshire.
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How To Eat Healthy and Keep Your Social Life/
Some people's biggest fear about moving over to a healthy lifestyle is that the changes are going to mean an end to their social life! They imagine being stuck at home, nibbling on carrot sticks while all their friends go out and enjoy themselves.
But being fit and healthy doesn't mean you need to sacrifice socializing with friends and loving life — quite the contrary.
With a few small tweaks to you routine, your social circle won't be able to tell the difference — but your body will! For example, I recently went out for dinner with some friends, and feasted on grilled fish and a salad along with a sparkling water with fresh lime. Doesn't sound like deprivation, does it?
Here are my favorite tricks to eating healthy while still staying social.
1. Choose wisely
Choose a meal that has protein, salad or vegetables and either good fats or good carbs. For example, I look for entrées consisting of fish, chicken or lean meat, paired with salad with avocado, veggies or brown/black rice, quinoa, sweet potato or pumpkin.
Often, the entrée itself is healthy, but the sauce or the dressing on top of it is chock full of added sugar or unhealthy fats. A great rule of thumb to avoid that trap is to stick with balsamic vinegar to dress your salad (and make sure the vinegar isn't sweetened). Also ask for no sauce on your meat as these usually include sugar or unhealthy fats.
If a meal comes with bread or white rice I ask the server if I can replace it with extra meat, veggies, salad or avocado. I find substituting carbs with healthy fat is one of the easiest ways to stay on the right track — and most restaurants are happy to accommodate.
2. Don't go in hungry
Ever hear the rule don't go grocery shopping when you're hungry? Well, the same applies to restaurants. If you turn up to dinner absolutely starving then your willpower is going to have a hard time keeping you away from that breadbasket while your healthy entrée takes forever to arrive! If you're hungry, you'll also be prone to order more than you need, like appetizers and dessert. So if dinner is going to be a little later than your normal eating time or it's after a gym session and you know you'll be ravenous, take some time to have a protein shake, a hard-boiled egg or some veggie sticks with hummus beforehand. If you have some food in your stomach, you will have stronger willpower to stick to the healthy food and not overeat.
3. Plan ahead
I like to look up the restaurant I'm going to online and scan the menu ahead of time, and if I can't find them online I take a few minutes to give them a call. It's good to go in with a plan of attack on what you will order and stick to it. If you can't see anything healthy on the menu, don't be afraid to ask for changes to your meal, or ask how they cook the food. Remember, you're paying for it after all and most places are pretty accommodating.
4. Remember your goals
If you are worried that you might waver and fall into temptation, before you head to your destination, try this: sit down and write out your goals, re-read them and then visualize yourself carrying them out. Remind yourself why you are making these healthy changes in your life and keep that set of goals fresh in your mind while you are out. If you can stay conscious about why you are making the choices, then it will be easier to stick to your healthy eating.
4. Rally support from your friends
My friends are super supportive of my healthy lifestyle and don't give me a hard time for my choices. So many people worry about what others will think if they seem "fussy," because they are making changes to the menu and asking questions on how the food is cooked. However, if you are socializing with the right people then you can ask for their support in your health and fitness journey. If your friends know what your goals are, they can help you with every step of the way — and maybe even join you in your healthier choices!
5. Avoid alcohol
It may seem to go hand in hand with socializing, but alcohol doesn't serve any positive purpose in keeping you fit and healthy. Not only are you consuming a lot of extra calories, but alcohol also affects your liver, which is what helps you metabolize fat. If you drink, you are effectively slowing down your metabolism, and that's not counting the reduced inhibitions that might make you eat things you hadn't planned on eating! Not to mention the hangover you will likely feel in the morning that will make you crave greasy food. So, if possible, stay away from it or limit your number of drinks to a minimum. Try ordering a sparkling water with lime instead — you may even find that you don't miss the alcohol when it's gone!
Remember, leading a healthy lifestyle doesn't need to be a complete sacrifice. Life is only to be lived once, so it's important you still go out and enjoy yourself. But sometimes, making healthier choices along the way comes down to a few small changes, instead of giving up all of your favorite things for a life of water and carrot sticks!
What are your biggest hurdles to sticking to a healthy diet without curtailing your social life? I'd love to hear them.


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by Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia
Arguments in favor of the existence of mathematical entities like numbers can be divided into two broad kinds: on the one hand, we have those that start from mathematical practice as a given and postulate the existence of mathematical objects as part of the best explanation for mathematical practice being as its, usually, either because of its success as a scientific enterprise or because of its importance for other successful scientific and technological practices. On the other hand, there are those that, instead, take everyday linguistic practice as starting point and postulate the existence of mathematical objects as part of the best explanation of our usual linguistic practices being as they are. The overall general strategy in both cases is to argue that without numbers, it would be very hard to explain why things that we accept to be true – or at least, to be successful as claims about the world, like simple arithmetical truths like seventeen being prime, complex physical laws like the superposition principle or just everyday assertions like there being twelve judges in the Supreme Court – are actually true. The basic idea is that something cannot be true unless the things it is about actually exist. Thus, if we know what something is true and that it is about some category of things, then we have good reasons to conclude that such things do exist. Bob Halle, for example, has argued:
If entities belonging to a certain ontological category just are what expressions of a certain logical category stand for, then we can argue for the existence of entities of that kind by arguing that there are true statements involving expressions of the relevant kind. If, for example, there are true statements incorporating expressions functioning as singular terms, then there are objects of some corresponding kind. If the singular terms are such that, if they have reference at all, they refer to numbers, there are numbers. (Halle 2010, 406; quoted by Thomasson 2014, 133)
This line of reasoning brings forth the importance of linguistic analysis for the ontological enterprise of determining what sort of things conform our reality and, in particular, whether numbers do indeed exist. If Halle's argument carries any force, the question of whether there are (literally) true sentences where numerals function as singular terms would have enormous ontological importance!


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I'm a photographer based in Los Angeles and I specialize in commercial and lifestyle photography but am open to opportunities I believe will push my creativity. Having similar vibes and vision is crucial to working together. Every shoot is different and we will meet in person prior to shooting day to discuss style and the direction we will take. Each project is approached as a collaborative project and we will work together to create an idea you will cherish for years to come.
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Since this blog began in September 2011 the focus has shifted several times. We started as an urban garden blog and moved into advocating for a healthy locavore lifestyle. Next it was biking, beer and enthusiasm for Atlanta. Since May it's been all about backyard chickens. At this point I think it's in my best interest to ditch all labels and just say: this is my blog and I'll write about whatever I want! So that's my plan for And Topher Too in 2015 - blog about anything/everything without worrying how it fits into the blogosphere.
Highlights from 2014:
Gnome March in the Inman Park Parade
Binge watching 30 Rock and Parks & Rec on Netflix
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using a bumper crop of jalapeños and this recipe, a friend and i cooked up some very tasty jalapeño jelly. we did make one modification, substituting red jalapeños for the bell pepper.
jalapeno jelly
1 1/2 cup chopped jalapeño peppers
5 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar
1 (6 fluid ounce) container liquid pectin
remove stems, seeds and ribs from jalapeños. dice in food processor. combine peppers, sugar and vinegar in large pot and bring to a rolling boil. boil for 3 minutes, watching carefully to avoid boiling over. let cool for 5 minutes. stirring constantly, add pectin and let cool for 2 minutes. stir for 1 minute. pour into 6 sterilized jelly jars. secure lids with rings and allow to cool. jelly will set up over the next 24 hours.
i served this jelly over cream cheese with crackers, a classic munchie treat. i love the combination of spicy and sweet and i think the substitution of more jalapenos for bell peppers gave it just enough heat.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
jalapeno jelly
Posted by heather at Sunday, September 30, 2007
2 comments:
- Mark said...
This looks fantastic, I was just wondering what I was going to do with all of those jalepenos that popped up in the last week.
I'm trying this tonight.
- September 2, 2008 at 8:08 AM
- sdterp said...
I just stumbled onto your account while in search of a picture of jalapenos. That is a mouth watering picture. :) I live in San Diego now (past 14 years) but Columbus is my home town. This recipe looks great.
- August 3, 2009 at 12:18 PM
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The Merge ft. Sara, Peter & Tobias (#116)
Today, in serendipitous timing, we are joined by the art group Sara, Peter & Tobias, who were kind enough to sit down with us for a wide ranging conversation about their first book, Phenomina. And just last week they won the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award for their new project, The Merge. We had a very interesting conversation together not only about their projects, but also about the role of ego in photography, authorship, research, fundraising, and giving up your individuality to strengthen a group. This is a long one, but only because there was so much good stuff in there. Check out their book, Phenomina, we can't recommend it enough, and keep and eye on their new project as it develops.
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Reclaiming My Mondays
The Bachelor Franchise (Bachelor, Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise) has ended for the season and that means two things: 1) Monday night football and 2) My husband has reclaimed the couch and the remote control. Mondays used to be me time- comfy pants, wine, ice cream, and 20+ dramatic future Instagram stars vying for one person's heart. I looked forward to the Bachelor's "journey to find love" while on my own personal journey towards diabetes. If you are like me, and no longer have anything left to look forward to on Mondays, use my Essential Guide to Making Mondays Better, conveniently found in this blog post!
Step 1: Embrace Your Inner Lard-Ass. I'm talking chips and ice cream. Some of my favorite store brands include the Clancy's Wavy Potato Chips. This is the Aldi copycat of Lays. Additionally, make it pint night. If you're trying to be somewhat healthy, score the Sundae Shop version of Halo Top Chocolate ice cream (FYI, steer clear of the Sundae Shop vanilla, its texture is off-putting). If you're really going for it, try the Aldi version of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. A personal favorite is the Make Fudge Not War flavor (88% similar to Chocolate Fudge Brownie). It has loads of brownie chunks. Go ahead and finish the whole pint, you won't.
Step 2: Wine About It. "Why do you care about two teams that are not even from your home city?" "Why are there body-painted, shirtless men in 15 degree weather?" This is whining in the form of questions. But next time you want to put your frustrations towards the television screen, turn it instead towards the bottle. Ultimately, you have turned whining into winning. We suggest the Grande Alberone Zinfandel from Aldi. It has a solid 89 points on its Tasting Score. We're into the fact that it comes from Italy. Let's be honest, we would go on the Bachelor purely for the free travel and booze.
Step 3: Personal Care. Channel your inner Hannibal Lecter and bust out your favorite sheet mask. We are still on a quest to find a good generic, but we are currently loving the ones by Garnier. One generic self-care item we love is Target's up & up Purifying Sea Salt and Pacific Kelp Exfoliating Body Wash. Perfect for a little rub-a-dub-dub in the tub.
Step 4: Netflix and Be Still. While you're lounging in the tub with your sheet mask and body scrub, commandeer the family iPad/ tablet and turn on your favorite guilty pleasure show. Personal Recommendations include: Jane the Virgin, Parks and Rec, and The Real Housewives of Anything.
Step 5: Enjoy. You have taken back Monday.
Hopefully you have found this step-by-step guide informative and easy to follow. Please share with friends who are going through similar struggles and leave a comment below with your go-to sheet mask.
I know many people look forward to Monday night football every year, and I'll allow it… as long as I still get my Tuesday nights with This is Us. The Pearsons are sacred.


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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Counting my blessings
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Nice to meet you on here. I am delighted to read that you guys have your act together...encouraging and inspiring. HUGSReplyDelete
Hi Sandy! Thank you for your comment on my blog. I look forward to hearing more about your experiences of living with a loved one who has type 1 diabetes.ReplyDelete
Wow, you really ARE lucky! I am thinking it would be so much easier if I had a husband who would not blow up in my face at a moment's notice, as I am never prepared when it happens. Thank you for letting us all know that not EVERY diabetic does this. I also know that "all the other stuff" you and your husband need to deal with is not at all easy. Hang in there.ReplyDelete
Thanks Lilly :)ReplyDelete
I am jealous. I have the diabetic husband that is totally cool and calm 98% of the time. The other 2% he is certifiable. He will go off crazy screaming and throwing things. I made the mistake of locking myself in the bathroom during one of the highs and he kicked the door in. With all the crap you have to deal with you really deserve the calm and sane husband!ReplyDelete


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4 things to do this weekend (9/1 – 9/3)
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1.) Catch the American Music Festival at Virginia Beach! This epic event features 26 performing artists, which include the Goo Goo Dolls, Ziggy Marley, the Plain White T's, ZZ Top, the Drifters, Carbon Leaf, and Kendall Street Company. In between concerts, take some time out and enjoy seafood (or a burger, if you're a landlubber) at Waterman's Surfside Grille.
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2.) Enjoy the Apple Gala and Fresh Cider Festival at Great Country Farms in Bluemont, Virginia! Fall is just around the corner…celebrate with apple picking, various mazes, wagon rides, slides, a putt-putt golf course, fresh apple cider, cider donuts, hand-dipped ice cream, and food from the Roosteraunt (BBQ pork sandwiches, flat bread pizzas, kettle corn, and freshly made apple pies). You can also buy jams, jellies, honey, and other homemade goodies.
3.) Don't miss the battle of the food trucks in Fishersville, Virginia! The trucks hail from all over the state of Virginia and feature a variety of cuisine. Competitors include The Black Pearl, Paella Perfecta, 106 Street Food, Hops Kitchen, Holy Smokes BBQ, Matchsticks BBQ, Gloria's, Sourdough Pizza, and more. Don't feel guilty for pigging out; all of the proceeds support the MaDee Project, a nonprofit that supports pediatric cancer patients and their families. There are also plenty of activities to keep the little brothers and sisters happy (think face painting, crafts, pony rides, storytelling, and magic shows), as well as multiple bands playing while you eat (such as the Bell Hornets and the Dany Goodson Band).
If you want to learn more, follow the link: http://vafoodtruckbattle.com/
4.) Looking for the ulitmate picnic spot? Head to the park at Daingerfield Island in Alexandria, Virginia! Appreciate nature's beauty and soak up the last days of summer while you savor your lunch. You'll be able to watch airplanes, sailboats, and windsurfers in the distance or go hiking on nearby trails.
Picnic tip: My go-to picnic meal would be a tasty BLT sandwich made with fresh, juicy tomatoes (bread them, if you like), toasted bread, arugula, peppered bacon, and an herb mayonnaise. The picnic would not be complete without iced tea, watermelon, barbecue potato chips, and a slice of homemade pie. Make sure to keep your ingredients cold with a cooler, and assemble your sandwich when you reach your destination. If you're not a sandwich fan or you want everything prepped and ready before you go, pack a cold cucumber soup or gazpacho instead.
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I love horror anthologies…
I read about 2 a month for the podcast, I also love books edited by Robert M Price. This is a double win for me, this is a collection of some of my favorite mythos authors. Price not only edits the book, provides a wonderful intro, but he also introduces each story, and passes on some knowledge about the Mythos. I also love the illustrated insets for this book(awesome job Tim Kirk).
If you love the Cthulhu Mythos as much as I do, and want to expand your reading base from just HP Lovecraft and other old timers, then I suggest you pick up this book and become acquainted with the newer authors of this myth cycle.


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Assassin Contracts
Assassin Contracts return to the series yet again, this time though, they are on land and sea. All of the main islands in the game have Assassination Contracts aswell as most of the side ones. They reward you with the Pistol Swords for completing them all.
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Exhibition of Secondary School Students' Creative Visual Arts Work (2011/12) is organised by the Arts Education Section of the Curriculum Development Institute of the Education Bureau. It aims to provide an opportunity for students to demonstrate their creativity and artistic ability in visual arts, and promote communication among students, teachers and the public.
On display are about 400 artworks that have been selected from 1,330 entries from 143 secondary schools. The exhibits cover different topics and a wide range of media such as drawing, painting, printmaking, media art, photography, sculpture, ceramics and design. An artist's statement is attached to each exhibit, providing viewers with more information for appreciating and interpreting the artwork.
To encourage more students of various ages to submit their entries, participants were categorised into two age groups in the selection of awards - 12 to 14 years old and 15 years old or above. In each age group, grand prizes and honourable mentions have been selected from four media, which are two-dimensional work, three-dimensional work, Chinese painting and calligraphy, and media art.


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Tim Cook assures investors not to worry about falling stock price
Tim Cook sent out a letter to Jim Cramer today assuring investors not to worry over a plummeting stock price
Tim Cook sent out a letter to Jim Cramer today assuring investors not to worry over a plummeting stock price
Eight years since its debut, Apple's iPhone has changed and conquered the smartphone market. Here are some interesting facts you might not know about the iPhone.
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From Apple and Amazon to Myspace and AOL, here are some of the earliest website designs for some of the tech industry's biggest companies.
From the 19th century's first designs to the Tesla models we haven't even seen yet, here's the evolution of the electric car.
Some of today's biggest tech companies launched with logos that are now unrecognizable.
At an event to launch the Apple Watch, Apple also made several announcements regarding Apple TV, HBO, Macbook, and other products.
Technology breakthroughs that many people don't even know exist.
With the impending release of the Apple Watch, the smartwatch market is set to take off in 2015. Here's how it got to this point.
From Apple to Amazon to Microsoft to Twitter, the names of some of the world's most popular tech companies tend to have interesting and significant backstories.
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MLA International Symposia
The Modern Language Association (MLA) is hosting its first conference to be held outside the United States and Canada. Entitled Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, Transformations, the conference will be held in Düsseldorf from 23 to 25 June 2016 and is the first in a series of MLA-hosted international symposia. Organized in collaboration with the Heinrich Heine University, the symposium will bring together a diverse and distinguished group of scholars to consider Europe's role in a world of ever-shifting migrations, translations, and transformations. The conference will feature roughly sixty panels, keynotes, and roundtables, including discussions with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Aminatta Forna, Eva Hoffmann, and Yoko Tawada. Registration is now open.
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An in-depth look at the PHP JSON Parser, from the perspective of it's author and ongoing developer, Jakub Zelenka.
Symfony London - Microservices talks
Last week, several members of the Maple Syrup team took part in the Symfony London meetup near Bank, which focused on the very hot topic of microservices. Overall, we found it was an educational and thoroughly enjoyable experience. Informative, well-delivered talks as well as collaborative discussions with members of the thriving London tech community are their own reward.
Macbook cannot access certain sites (using eset mac antivirus)
Recently came across some strange behaviour on a couple of OSX macbooks. Both laptops could access some websites but not all and both Safari and Chrome were affected.
After a while of digging around I realised it was sites on port 80 that I had problem with (so SSL sites were not affected). The problem was present regardless of wifi or wired network I was on. The browser would request the page and eventually it would time out and some times the laptop would become unresponsive (especially using chrome which refreshes in the background).
The laptop were new and running ESET mac internet security. Having looked at the ESET logs I realised that the eset proxy process was crashing on requests on port 80 and getting restarted stopping my browser from working until eventually my laptop would become slower and slower or crash. The error logs showed ESET Daemon Child process proxy did not handle signal restarting as per screenshot below.
To make things more frustrating switching off web access protection from Eset antivirus UI didn't fix the problem and to fix it, I had to switch of web access protection
I also had to go to web access protection->setup and select a port not used by the browser (I setup port 79, make sure you select a port not used) as per below screenshot.
I waited a few minutes for the eset proxy processes to die and browsers started working fine and not had any issues with browser or slowness anywhere.
OS@north :: PHP7
OS@north presentation on PHP7
OS@north :: AngularJS rewrite
An interesting presentation on how a 100% AngularJS site was built from ground up to move away from existing codebase.
OS@north :: Monitoring systems with the Elastic Stack
A great presentation on how Elastic Stack can be used to monitor your environment.
OS@north :: Welcome and building distribute team slides
The slides below cover the introduction and building a distributed team presentations from the open source conference.
The first OS@north is over!
I would like to thank everyone that attended. The team of OS@north enjoyed going through the presentations and answering questions from the audience. Some great ideas on how we can develop a strong tech community from the participants and individuals keen to get involved in the effort.
The team is already busy planning our next even which will focus on training. Elastic search, Angular, Docker and Kubernetes will be on the agenda but please get involved and let us know of your thoughts.
Some snaps below of the great team that put a huge effort to stage the event! Well done everyone!
We will be publishing shortly the slides and resources of all presentations.
New Relic Mobile for Quidco Apps
App crashes are a mobile developer's worst nightmare, especially repeated crashes which will drive your users to uninstall your app and run away.
In the web world, norm uptime is 99.9%. For mobile apps, though, it's 99% (i.e a crash rate of less than 1%).
Apart from testing for every possible scenario, which is nigh on impossible, one way to ensure your app's stability and measure critical user flows is to use a cloud-based crash reporting solution, such as Crashlytics (now Fabric), Critterism (now Apteligent), or HockeyApp. At Quidco we opted to use Crashlytics for our iOS version 2.0 app which we released back in 2013, and continued to use it for Android. Crashlytics is a great tool. It's powerful, free and provides a nice looking and comprehensive dashboard for non-technical users. It has helped us track down and solve minor, major and critical issues on both platforms.
However, when it comes to monitoring capabilities, Crashlytics cannot compete with Application Performance Monitoring tools such as New Relic, one of the top of the line APM tools currently available on the market (Appdynamics, Dynatrace). That is why for our most recent apps at Quidco (iTunes, Google Play), we decided to replace Crashlytics with the New Relic Mobile SDK (we already used New Relic at Quidco to monitor our back-end and front-end web apps). In doing so, we got:
- More mobile device details,
- Mobile user interaction traces,
- End-to-end monitoring (Network map, Http Requests, Http Errors, etc.),
- Custom dashboard with almost real-time analytics platform (New Relic Insights),
- Alerts for critical performance issues.
Last but not least, with New Relic Insights and NRQL — an SQL-flavored query language — you can create real-time dashboards to show data about end-user experiences, mobile activity, and server transactions. Insights is an awesome tool and there is good documentation for writing basic queries but you have to dig into the New Relic forum if you need to present more complex data.
You can even link dashboards and create Data apps to explore your business data… but that's for another time!
Softcat supports OS@north
We would like to thank Softcat for supporting our open source conference in Sheffield. Softcat has kindly donated some nice kit which we will be handing out as prizes to some lucky attendees.
See you all next week at OS@north
Resume Library supports OS@north
The good people at Resume Library are supporting our efforts to spread the word about OS@north, helping us build an open source community in the north of England
Here is a few words about Resume Library
Resume Library is one of the fastest growing PHP development projects in the UK. Based in Fleet, Hampshire we are continually recruiting across all grades to help in the development of exciting new products for the global recruitment market. PHP is our primary development language and used alongside modern leading edge technologies such as SOLR, Cassandra, Docker and Redis amongst others. If you are a PHP developer and interested in joining a leading, award-winning organisation to further your skills and experience then we would love to hear from you!
Durban Developer Conference with Dan, Pipes and ZFS
Last night was the Derivco Dev Night in Durban, South Africa, which consisted of 3 presentations on various development or technical topics.
While its always good to drink beer and eat burgers with other like minded developers I must say the highlight of the evening for me was the talk by Daniel De Abreu on the Zettabyte File System.
Daniel is clearly passionate about open source technologies and his passion spills over in the form of the occasional expletive which he tried hard to avoid as he got more carried away with explaining how amazing ZFS is.
His talk briefly touched on some 41 years of development going back to the origins of the Unix/Linux software and the impact of the pipe function pioneered by Douglas Mcllroy at Bell Labs - represented as | in shell commands.
For those Linux nerds who want to know more about the pipe command you can just type
man |
For those Linux newbies, you can learn more about the man function by typing
man man
- Christos I know you tried this :-)
No reference to the Unix and Bell Labs would have been complete without showing a retro video of some of the Bell engineers like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (creator of the C programming language and where would PHP be without C). Engineering fashion has come a long way since then, although it seems the excessive facial hair is a trend thats stands the test of time.
So the obvious question is "How big is a Zettabyte?". With 128-bit addressing ZFS can store up to 275 billion TB per storage pool - called a zpool. The zpool basically takes all available storage drives and makes them available as a single resource. So this is really big but not necessarily revolutionary - and we all know size is not everything.
The real magic that ZFS brings is a whole range of file system optimisations and features, some of which make your life as a developer better. Working in a virtualised development/test environment can be made much simpler with efficient snapshot management. The snapshot provides a read-only, point-in-time copy of the dataset.
ZFS uses copy-on-write technology which means your data never gets overwritten. The new data is written to different data blocks and the pointers to the previous blocks updated. This makes working with snapshots very simple. You can snapshot a dataset which allows you to restore your system to a repeatable pre-test state, without having to create a clone of your entire virtual environment and then restore it to re-run the tests. The copy-on-write technology allows snapshots to be created and restored quickly by preserving the older version of the data on the disk. In addition creating a snapshot does not initially use additional disk space. It is also possible to view a comparison between two snapshots.
Sharing snapshots with other developers is very straight forward using zfs-send and zfs-receive, which can be piped through ssh between virtual environments ( remember McIlroy and |). Daniel talked us through a real world scenario where he sent a a copy of a file system using rsync versus using ZFS snapshots. The results showed a significant performance improvement using the ZFS snapshot. When you have development teams in different offices around the world these optimisations are very useful.
A combination of beers, burgers and ZFS made for a good Dervico Dev Night. Clearly Dan is the Man or in Unix terms
dan | man.
OS@North, Open source conference in Sheffield, England. 20th of April 2016
Our plan for the day...
- 8:30 to 9:15, registration, coffee and breakfast
- 9:15 to 10:00, Building distributed systems with distributed teams. Mav Peri, Group CTO and Sean Harrison, Project Manager
- 10:00 to 10:45, Moving to Kubernetes, our experience so far. Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Application Architecture
- 10:45 to 11:00, coffee break
- 11:00 to 11:45, Our AngularJS rewrite, saying goodbye to tech debt. Brian Gouws, Front End Manager
- 11:45 - 12:30, PHP7 and Laravel, Kimon Moustakis, Senior PHP Developer
- 12:30 - 13:30, Lunch
- 13:30 to 14:15, Building a better search experience with Elastic Search, Matthew Wards, PHP development manager
- 14:15 to 15:00, Service Oriented Architecture with Laravel, Flaviu Grosan, Development Manager
- 15:00 to 15:15, coffee break
- 15:15 to 16:00, Monitoring systems with the elastic stack, Richard Pogson Head of Infrastructure
- 16:00 to 16:45, Discussion: building tech hubs in the North.
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Key Speakers
Sean Harrison, Senior Project Manager at Quidco
Sean is an experienced Agile IT Project Manager with a unique background in service management. Certified in Scrum and ITIL, experienced in delivering global multi-million pound highly technical and business focused projects. Sean has experience in managing large scale Ecommerce, retail and multichannel projects
Flaviu Grosan, Development Team Lead at Quidco
Flaviu is an Open Source artisan, SOA practitioner, IoT enthusiast, Agile evangelist. Flaviu will talk about a standard approach to SOA, components, benefits and about Enterprise Service Bus. He will also cover SOA with micro services, stateless RESTFul APIs and will explain how Quidco does SOA including adoption of an API Gateway (HTTP routing, statistics collection and basic authentication) over an ESB and and testing.
Matthew Wards, Team lead Quidco
Matt has worked in software for 11 years, working mainly with the PHP and Java languages and associated frameworks and technologies, but has been lucky enough to play with a wide variety of other great technologies. Matt is a particular fan developing microservices with SOLID OOP in Symfony or Spring but his silent passion for DevOps has recently lead him to writing ANT and Jenkins plugins and streamlining build/release processes. In 2015, Matt co-authored an open-source plugin for event-driven document/asset indexing in ElasticSearch for the Pimcore CMS framework. Matt will be talking about how Quidco uses ElasticSearch in a microservice architecture, optimisation concerns and the decision to use ES and the technology stack that facilitates logging and monitoring.
Richard Pogson, Head of Infrastructure at Quidco
Richard is a Technical and DevOps Manager. He enjoys, learning constantly and attempting to pass on what sticks. Richard is an advocate for data privacy and design from the ground up.
Kimon Moutsakis, PHP Developer at Quidco
Kimon has been a web developer for the last five years building web applications and web services primarily using PHP and Laravel with MySQL as well as other technologies such as NodeJS, RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS and others.
Brian Gouws, Front End Team Lead at Quidco
Brian is a lover of web development and using JS to solve problems. When faced with the decision on what technology to use when rewriting a website from scratch Brian choses Angular!
Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Application architecture manager
A long time ago he discovered BSD and the internet and things escalated quickly. Since then he helped build and scale systems from private client-server setups on traditional data centres to public facing web scale distributed systems on the cloud.
PHP and angular engineering jobs in Durban, South Africa
We have been busy expanding our engineering team in Durban, South Africa.
If you would like to work with the latest and greatest open source stack (Laravel, Angular, Docker, Elastic Search and others) and are passionate about delivering excellent code and working in a fast paced environment, we would like to hear from you.
We manage the software platforms some of the biggest brands in our industry and our engineering teams are based in London, Sheffield, Berlin and Durban, South Africa.
Get in touch if you want to speak us about the best PHP jobs in Durban, South Africa.
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Android games on your.. PC?
Did you know it's possible to play all your favourite mobile games, on your PC. So long as your favourite mobile is Android. (Let the Apple vs Android fanboy wars commence!)
Joking aside, it's possible to set up a Android emulator on your PC, to play err, mobile games on your PC, because err, you might want to? Joking aside. Paymon has managed to do just that! He spent the better part of a few hours this weekend setting up his PC to emulate Android so he can... wait for it... play Marvel Puzzle Quest on his PC (I know, I know, he has a serious problem) Still it is kind of cool that you can emulate Android on the PC. You can find the guide and everything you need to do so at www.andyroid.net/
Have windows lost the Edge?
Get it? Because Edge is there new browser! And it's market share is low! Get it? No? Ahem, anyway..
Incase you haven't heard. Microsoft Edge is Microsofts flagship new browser. It's only available on Windows 10. According to Stat counter, Microsoft Edge peaked at around 20% market share of windows 10 users, which has since dropped down to around 14% Ouch. I haven't personally gotten round to upgrading to windows 10 yet, so unfortunately I can't give my feedback. But fear not! As we people in tech who have tried it! Here's what they have to say.
Nik Spijkerman - I tried it for about 5 minutes. The internet without plugins like adblocker is not an enjoyable place.
That does sound pretty damning, but it'll be interesting to see if the market share picks up once more and more third party plugins become compatible, or is it a case of too little too soon?
wonder if the lack of 3rd party plugins available, such as the like of an ad-blocker has anything todo with this?
Stat Counter, a site that tracks which browsers people use across the web, shows that Edge peaked at approximately 20% usage among Windows 10 users at the end of July, before dropping down to 14% by the end of August
Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-edge-marketshare-2015-9#ixzz3l47qOT5a
Are you a gamer?
Do you like to waste away your life -Ahem, I mean enjoy spending your time playing video games? (who'd have thought it, gamers in tech! Inconceivable!)
Well, as it would turn out... You're not alone! In fact quite a few people at Quidco are known to partake in the enjoyable task of playing a game or two. Me myself I am a big gamer! My first system was the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or SNES for short. I have fond memories of coming home from school, booting up the SNES, plugging in my controller and loading up Super Mario World 2 with my brother
My love of video games only grew from there. Years later sony released the Playstation entertainment system, this only served to fuel my addictio- err, my passion (yes let's go with that!) for video games even further! I remember such classics as Rayman, Metal gear solid and Final Fantasy VII, Today I mostly play PC video games, I'm currently playing Diablo 3. Nathan plays Heroes of the Storm and Paymon is looking forward to the release of Metal Gear Solid V. Actually on that note, I am too!
What about you? Are you a gamer and if so, what games do you play? Let me know via the comment section down below!
Oh! Also if you want to find play me at some games online, then you can via
- Steam: christos_z
- battle.net: christos#2310
Quidco's journey with mobile.
The journey began in summer of 2011. Quidco was to venture into the world of mobile with our very own mobile app. Huzzah! The plan was simple. To focus on in store offers using location based results to show customers cashback available to them inside selected stores.
We started with offering our customers check-ins, with the premise that we would offer customers a cash incentive to "check in" to a store, no purchase necessary. We's simply use GPS location services to determine the customers location, and if they were inside a store, we'd allow the customer to receive a "check in" amount to their account!
As well as offering in store check ins, we also offered in store vouchers/coupons as per the mobile app.
The mobile app was met with huge success, reaching number 7 in all free apps and number 1 in lifestyle!
However, there was a problem! People inside stores couldn't check in. People could check-in just walking past the store. GPS technology wasn't reliable. And it was hard to prove a user actually spent time in the store. We were overwhelmed by fraud. The app needed to move direction. Fast forward to 2015..
The app now balanced between in-store and online deals. Check-ins have been replaced with Activations.
But we are not done yet! We have many innovative ideas and are continuing to evolve and refine the app. But we need your help! If this is something you want to be apart of please apply!
The Table Tennis Masters
Table tennis. What a a lovely calm relaxing game, two friends gather together, to revel in a few minutes of past time enjoyment, sharing a hearty laugh with each swing of the bat..
This is no time for fun! This is war! This is where we separate THE MEN FROM THE BOYS (or the ladies for the girls!)
Here at Quidco table tennis is no joke! (Unless you're as bad as I am..) In fact it's not uncommon for us to hold table tennis tournaments. Entry is free and you have nothing to lose, except your pride, dignity, self respect, self worth, so on and so forth. So if this is something you think you'd enjoy, why not apply today? Just don't say I didn't warn you...
So you want to be part of the team?
Maple Nerds is hiring! But why should you work for us?
Well for starters we have great benefits! Such as:
- Free eye test
- Cycle to ride
- Season ticket loan
- Childcare voucher scheme
- Company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday per annum
- Table Tennis table (with the occasional table tennis tournament!)


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8 Ways to Travel Pampered
The holidays are fast approaching, and as if dry winter air isn't enough to wreak havoc on your complexion, traveling is notorious for dehydrating skin and hair. Here are our must-have tips to stay Posh pampered at 40,000 feet:
Use a Hair Mask
You're going to be stuck on a flight for a few hours, which is plenty of time to deep condition your hair. Try a mask like One Night Strand™ formulated with moisturizing argan oil; just apply to roots (wet or dry), comb through, and wrap your hair up in a top knot—fancy headscarf optional. Your 'do will look super sleek, and when you get to your hotel you can rinse and blow dry for gorgeously shiny strands.
Layer Your Sodium Hyaluronate
Sodium hyaluronate deeply penetrates skin and draws in 1,000 times its weight in moisture for a dewy look that lasts. This is good news for flyers, as recirculated air is dry-skin enemy #1. For best results, press a serum containing sodium hyaluronate into skin, followed by a sodium hyaluronate face crème—use a little more than you normally would, it will soak in during your in-flight movie. We love Defiant™ Naked Youth Serum and Gimmie a Boost Face Crème; they also contain micronized pearl powder to help deflect light for a luminous glow.
Protect Your Lips
It's way easier to prevent dry lips than to try and nurse them back once they're flakey and chapped. Apply Bring on the Bubbly™ Lip Oil preflight to keep them soft with a blend of 8 nourishing oils flavored with sparkling champagne and ginger, then swipe on a bright Vial™ Lip Shade like Don't Be Cordial or Truth or Dare just before landing; you'll step off the plane looking like a celebrity. (Plus, a red lip makes your teeth look whiter!)
Bring Extra Hand Crème
Flight attendants put up with a lot—crying babies, anxious flyers, grumpy passengers—which means they definitely could use some pampering. Bring your own Big Fat Yummy Hand Crème in your carry-on to keep hands soft, but not greasy, so you can juggle your bag, your boarding pass, and your latte; then bring an extra for your flight attendant. They will thank you (and it might even get you an upgrade or an extra drink!).
Wipe, Spritz, Repeat
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Pack a Bath Bomb
Maybe you're lucky enough to have a great bathtub at your hotel, maybe you're staying at your sister in-laws and her tub is full of kids toys; either way, a bath bomb or two in your suitcase keeps it (and your outfits) smelling amazing, so you can leave your perfume at home. Even if you can't enjoy a soak while traveling, a sulfate-free Fízi bath bomb makes a great gift for your host.
Bring Your Own Sheets
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Stash a Stick
Any Posher knows Skin Sticks are travel essentials. We love lavender Sleepy Sleep™ to calm flying nerves and help reset jet lag, plus it's soothing enough for the whole family. Or try The Healer™ Skin Stick with moisturizing shea butter and an orange and vanilla essential oil blend that doubles as a lip balm.
Wherever you're headed for the holidays, use these tips to make your journey a pampering one!


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Joanne Ings, Commissioner
Joanne Ings is a graduate of UPEI with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Political Science) and a diploma in Public Administration. She has spent most of her working career in the not-for-profit sector as executive director of three different organizations and does contract research, technical writing and training for both private and public sector clients.
Ms. Ings currently serves on the Executive Leadership Team of the Canadian Lung Association and has previously served on the national board of HealthPartners and the Victim Services Advisory Committee of the Department of Justice.
She is a 20 year member of the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty and volunteers with other charitable organizations and national events. Ms. Ings has received the City of Charlottetown Recognition Award, Premier's Crime Prevention Award, and was recognized as a Founder of the University of Prince Edward Island for her volunteer commitment.