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Organization: Management Systems International
Country: Haiti
Closing date: 04 Nov 2016
Database Administrator – Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) – Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Company Profile:
Management Systems International is a Washington, DC based international development firm with a 35-year history of delivering development results across the world. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Iraq. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance and anti-corruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com . MSI has recently become a Tetra Tech Company.
Founded on October 1 st , 1988, the Centre de Formation et d'Encadrement Technique (CFET) is a private Haitian firm specializing in Management and Human Resources Development. CFET's mission is to contribute to improved worker performance and to facilitate access to talented professionals whose skills match the needs and professional ethical codes of clients. CFET, in partnership with Management Systems International (MSI) manages the USAID KONEKTE program in order to provide technical support to the Government of Haiti.
Project Summary:
Launched by USAID in November 2012, KONEKTE (KONesans E Konpetans TEknik) is a program designed to assist the Government of Haiti (GOH) with increasing capacity within Haitian ministries by identifying and placing experienced advisors in key positions. KONEKTE is a partnership between a Haitian firm (Centre de Formation et d'Encadrement Technique (CFET)), USAID, and the GOH, which aims to build local capacity to create a more stable and viable Haiti. KONEKTE's main partner within the GOH is the Office of Management and Human Resources (OMRH). KONEKTE works closely with the OMRH to identify high-level advisors through a transparent and competitive recruitment process that prioritizes the expertise of Haitians and the Haitian Diaspora. Each Advisor is placed in a department to bridge a competence gap. In addition, consistent with the objectives of the USAID Forward initiative, KONEKTE strengthens the OMRH's ability to ensure the sustainability of the program's achievements.
The General Management (GM) of the Ministry of Economy and Finances is responsible for carrying out the project. The GM organized an operational group comprised of 10 ministry agents and concerned several general management teams and agencies associated with the ministry. This operational group or project committee is specifically in charge of defining and implementing the Information Technology Master Plan. The General Director names the Chief of Party to lead the operational group.
The expert will run the mission under the direction of the operational group's Chief of Party and under the General Director's supervision. The Haitian team Assistance à la Maitrise d'Ouvrage (AMOA) supports the work of the operational group. AMOA's mission began on April 1st, 2015 and is ensured by two experts.
Position Summary:
The Office of Management and Human Resources (OMRH) together with the Finance Ministry and with technical support from KONEKTE, a program financed by USAID, is recruiting a Database Administrator to strengthen the IT Unit and transform it into a fully-fledged Information Systems Department.
To Note: With equal competence, preference will be given to Haitian professionals.**
*USAID/Haiti has the right to annul this post at any time.**
Closing Date: October 19, 2016
Location and Duration of Position:
The position will last for 18 months. The Database Administrator will be based at the MEF in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and will be under the General Director's supervision.
After the earthquake eruption on January 12th, 2010, the MEF's IT infrastructure was partially destroyed. Important reconstruction took place and service is now restored and has even surpassed what it was before the quake. The time has now come to advance and progress towards a more integrated and reliable IT system, against the back drop of the public finance reform's strategy and action plan implementation, which the government adopted in May of 2014.
The MEF's IT unit is responsible for the Ministry's IT developments, including infrastructure projects connected to the Ministry's diverse property networks. Within this context, an Information Technology Master Plan was produced, which allowed for IT development planning over a period of 5 years (2014-2019). The implementation of this Information Technology Master Plan must be considered quickly to guarantee the rapid introduction of diverse IT solutions. This must be done while observing the Master Plan's application planning timeline. The Information Technology Master Plan's recommendations include reinforcing the IT unit and transforming it into a genuine Information Systems Department.
The Haitian Civil Service is characterized by a lack of professionalism, due to the absence of public policies, standards, procedures and management tools necessary to organize and develop its structures. Staffing and nominations in particular do not conform to any well-defined framework, which leads to inappropriate conditions in human resource recruitment. Recruitment processes subjected to external pressures contribute to turning public service into a political tool, marked by structural weaknesses, lack of professional motivation and subsequent inefficiency. It is clear that provided services do not meet the population's expectations.
The OMRH was created in 2005 as a response to the need to develop public policies in recruitment streamlining and in strengthening civil service structures. OMRH is in charge of steering this vast institutional reengineering project that offers coaching to ministries and autonomous agencies, permitting them to implement their sector reform plans in human resource management.
Six years later, this action took on full significance after the Haitian government took the initiative to reactivate OMRH, making it fully functional with the necessary resources to fulfill its mission. Among others, this mission is to pilot reform programs in ministries and institutions that are part of the civil service.
This support to the MEF serves to strengthen the IT Unit and transform it into a fully-fledged Information Systems Department through the recruitment of a Database Administrator. This mission is within a limited period of time. At the end of this mission the MEF will designate an administrative personnel member who will be in charge of continuing the mission and overseeing its continuous operation.
One objective will consist of consolidating the department responsible for running the Ministry of Economy and Finance's information systems. Implementing the Information Technology Master Plan and building different MEF entities will generate a great number of important business applications and new IT infrastructure tools. These applications will involve daily database use. The Ministry must guarantee the data's quality and availability in real time through permanent maintenance of these databases.
In particular, these databases consist of Back Office applications on which rest essentially a large part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance's main functions. They regroup the ERP/IFMIS, the GED and other crosscutting applications, including the Information Systems Department, which must ensure optimal running conditions. As a result, a priority of the Database Administrator post is guaranteeing data quality and constant availability.
The Database Administrator, as part of the MEF, is one of the pillars on which the Operations Department rests. As such, the main objectives will be, among others, to:
- Define database standards in accordance with SI responsibilities
- Initiate good practices in development team operations
- Conceive and model databases
- Ensure technical support and assistance to IT specialists and users
- Administer and maintain databases
- Administer data repository
Overall, the Database Administrator conceives, manages and administers database management systems: he or she ensures information coherence, quality, security and permanent accessibility.
This person also carries out technological surveillance in order to anticipate updates and maintain the adequacy of database performance and specificities, while still conforming to the Ministry's SI strategic direction. In order to achieve the defined objectives, the Database Administrator will dedicate him or herself to a set of activities concerning the functions of the job. These functions are the following:
Database Conception and Modeling;
In close collaboration with the SI architect, put in place database standards, recommend good practices in development team operations;
Carry out database implementation choices with respect to specifications and in collaboration with different project actors (project manager, architects, integrators, ERP consultants, IT decision experts);
Define database parameters in an optimal way;
Define database security rules (physical and logical) as well as basic use standards;
Model the base and conceive the tables and keys;
Take into account internal specificities (MEF management or internal entities as requesters) and external ones (any direct or indirect partner interacting with SI or the MEF) in collaboration with the infrastructure architect, particularly concerning base size (capacity planning);
Database and Repository Administration and Maintenance;
Create bases and insert data on physical supports;
Create dimensions for servers;
Guarantee the data's quality and availability through maintaining and improving performance (tuning) and operations (improving automating, optimizing processing and queries, configurations);
Monitor database object access performance statistics, thus working to ensure tuning;
Manage loading increases (monitor volume) in terms of data access;
Administer access authorizations for users as well as data security issues with the supervisor in accordance with the Information Systems Security Policy (PSSI);
Manage version migrations and manage configuration more generally;
Update programs and correct possible bugs (go through patches) and give approval before production launches;
Recommend saving apparatuses (backup) for operations services to carry out in order to ensure data base integrity, especially archives and data purging;
Define quality standards and develop control panels to ensure monitoring;
Ensure supervision tools are monitored and study all incidents that occurred to understand their level of seriousness and origins;
Develop and execute test programs and procedures, during migrations or following an incident;
Ensure backups are done correctly (tests in a back up center) and secure movements on data;
Ensure data recuperation and rehabilitation (disaster recover) following a serious incident.
Technical Support and Assistance to IT Specialists and Users;
Ensure support for developers and operational technicians;
Assist MOA on the technical side in developing tools mastery;
Make technical support available to users at level 2 and define intervention procedures in order to resolve possible problems;
Immediately intervene in case of incident limiting data base performance or information access.
Database Control and Technological Surveillance
Ensure technological surveillance in order to maintain adequate database performance and specificities in accordance with the Ministry's business group needs;
Monitor and control evolutions of existing database versions to improve them;
Test and validate database management systems as part of migrations or technological evolution;
Define usage and operating standards for database management systems;
Ensure document updates on the base structure, and operating and production procedures;
Present new products or new versions to the Operating or Development Managers.
Technical Qualifications and Skills: Masters degree (BAC + 5) in one of the following fields: IT and/or telecoms, IT networks and security systems, engineering (IT, telecom, general); Database Administrator Professional Qualification Certification (CQP) is a plus; good knowledge of global information systems, SI architecture and applications already in use in the Ministry is also a plus.
Work Experience: More than 7 years of professional experience; Database Director; Development and Studies Engineer; Administrator or Network Systems Engineer; Network Administrator.
Specific Experience: Already has 5 years experience as a System or Network Administrator; participated in ERP type software integration.
Personal Skills: In terms of general activities, the Database Administrator must showcase his or her versatility, openness, and responsiveness to IT projects management. Ability to work on a multidisciplinary team and under pressure. Persons chosen for this job must be able to support MEF in ministries, agencies and decentralized services across the country. Honed skills in negotiations and preparing for technical meetings.
IT Skills: Software mastery. Mastery of SQL query language; knowledge of Shell scripts under UNIX, Windows; knowledge of environment (clients, activity sector, sensitive data) and enterprise operations; mastery of security-related risks; certification in Oracle or Microsoft SQL server a plus;
Language Skills: Mastery of technical English indispensable (documentation in English); Excellent knowledge of French (report writing).
Note: This post is reserved for Haitian professionals only. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
T o apply, visit our website: http://www.konekteprogram.org/fr/offres-demploi
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
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In a way mass gaining is a simple process, eat more, exercise more, and gain mass. But there is a right way and a wrong way to go about things, and a lot of people make a lot of mistakes along the way.
Mistakes can lead to injury, too much body fat, and not enough muscle.
Any one of these issues would be a hammer blow to your physique, but many people suffer from all three at the same time.
In this article we are going to identify eight of the most common mass gaining mistakes, and help you to avoid committing them.
Mistake #1. Not resting enough between sets
How long you rest between sets can massively affect your overall results, studies have shown that 3 minutes is the perfect amount of rest time for both strength training and hypertrophy. But most people are still resting for less than a minute between sets!
This is a bad idea. Your muscles won't be able to recover properly from the last set, so any future set will be compromised.
Take your time and recover from the last set before moving on to the next one, remember you're here to build muscle, NOT to lose fat. Save that for the cutting phase.
Mistake #2. Not concentrating on form
If you want to build mass, most people know that you need to lift heavier weights and that you need to overload the muscles. But that does not mean that your form can go out the window.
If you cannot bench press 100kg properly (bar down to your chest and then back up) then lower the weight!
Do it properly at 90kg or 80kg or whatever you can manage, and then work your way up.
Mistake #3. Ignoring free weights
While resistance machines have their place, they will never be better than free weight exercises.
Studies have consistently shown free weight exercises to produce more testosterone and growth hormone, and to stimulate more muscle fibres than machines.
Don't be afraid to add a couple of resistance machine exercises into your program, but concentrate on free weights as much as possible.
Mistake #4. Ignoring compound lifts
Any mass building program needs to have deadlifts, back squats, bench presses, pull ups (if you can do them), dips, barbell shoulder presses, and bent over rows.
Make sure that you aren't ignoring these exercises in favour of easier or more enjoyable exercises – because these are the ones that are going to build the most muscle for you.
Mistake #5. Not being consistent
There is no point starting a mass building program if you are going to give up after four weeks, nor is there any point if halfway through you get worried about gaining fat and decide to switch to a cutting phase.
Plan out your program beforehand, make it between eight and twelve weeks, and follow that program.
Mistake #6. Not eating enough protein
Exercise alone will not build muscle mass, you need to combine it with a high calorie diet. One that contains a lot of protein.
This is because protein is necessary for the repair and re-growth of muscle tissue.
Studies have shown that someone trying to build muscle will require around two times as much protein per day as someone who doesn't do any exercise.
You can drink protein shakes, look for lean meats such as chicken and turkey, search out high protein dairy products (protein yoghurt, protein ice cream), and you can even buy high protein bread, high protein popcorn etc … Experiment with these to find out what you like/ don't like.
Mistake #7. Not eating enough carbohydrates
There is a belief among people that carbs are the devil and should be avoided at all times, this is ridiculous.
Carbohydrates are the bodies preferred source of energy, and are absolutely necessary if you are looking to build muscle mass.
Without carbohydrates it will be very difficult (bordering on impossible) to hit the necessary calories to build muscle tissue and to fuel your workouts.
Mistake #8. Not sleeping enough
When you are attempting to gain muscle mass you will need to be working out at a very high intensity each session.
This means that your body will need a lot of recovery, part of this can come from diet – we've spoken about the importance of adequate protein and carbohydrates in this article. But the majority of your recovery will come from sleep.
Try to hit at least eight hours every night, this will help increase protein synthesis and will also improve focus in the gym the next day.
Your mood will be better, testosterone and growth hormone levels will be higher (which increase protein synthesis), and you will be less likely to become ill.
Final Thoughts
So there you have it, 8 of the most common mistakes that are made by people trying to build mass.
Try to learn from them and use the solutions to create an amazing program that will get you the results you need.
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So, I've just "completed" my first play-through. I haven't actually won-won, but it's just grinding from here if I want to win. It's a good game, but can use a little more polish.
I particularly like the "undo" function.
No DLC, latest version.
Quite a few thoughts, lots of quirks and a few bugs:
* The Automate function has a lot of limitations:
** Doesn't seem to build defences
** [bug] If the planet gets a new improvement slot from research, it won't use it if it has already "completed" everything and is on research say.
** Builds lots of factories on all planets. I guess that's a "balanced" build, but a specialised build makes more sense to me. One factory is sufficient on most planets except the production hotspots.
** Ability to choose the automation profile (research, markets, mining, production), or at least have it intelligently decide on one.
** Doesn't do terraforming
** Doesn't do colonisation
** Doesn't automatically scrap all labs when you've reached the end of the tech tree. Although it does stop all research and change it to trade which is neat.
* Ship Designing is something of a pain:
** [bug] Quantum Reactor stays appearing at end-game when you have BH reactor
** [bug] That "only show latest tech" button should stay on by default rather than reset to off all the time.
** Even with the "show latest tech" button, there seem to be a lot of weapons that are dated remain showing.
** It keeps wanting to build missile builds when I have other techs that don't have missiles limits (munitions).
** There is no "upgrade base components" button, i.e. to upgrade armour from tritanium to duranium. Have to do it manually or select the auto-design which then changes everything.
** What is the point of asteroid station / space station and the defaults like transport etc being on ship design? Upgrading their reactor will only cost more money and nothing else on them needs to change.
* Refitting ships is painful in all ways:
** If you want to do it the non-instant way, it seems you have to manually upgrade each ship via lots of clicks. This is a big chore.
** It's not obvious which ones have been upgraded, at least, not from the space view.
* What are the actual victory conditions? I'm guessing conquest and maybe political are the two I've seen.
* There's no research victory.
* There's the political victory, but I'm at end-game with one other empire and neither of us is voting for the other one. In fact, I don't think I ever saw anyone vote for anyone other than themselves.
Techs / questions:
* What's the "Ansible" tech for? Doesn't seem to do anything other than generic blurb about instantaneous comms.
* The warp distortions question never got answered (DLC?).
Game Performance:
* Turns can take a long time to process - 5-10s late game. (I have 8 cores and 16 threads, it's only using one of them). Medium universe size.
* Interface can get a little laggy (CPU bound again). It's not the frame-rate
Stellaris is a MUCH more complex game but runs much more smoothly.
* I'd love to be able to fast-forward over enemy turns. They're ridiculously slow with large fleets (and yes, I have "fast tactical animations" checked). Missile and fighter launching in particular.
* It's not always intuitive which weapons will fire at any given time.
* Using fighters isn't always intuitive either.
Bug Bug:
* Quite early on I got some sort of red box appear in the game about starvation messages. I saved, quit the application, restarted, but it came back on load. So I just pressed "ignore" and it went away. I didn't pay much attention because I was still new to the game.
* Harpies have a crew of -65536 - integer overflow!
* They're very fixed in their politics. I played one on Easy and another on Normal, and in both cases the first major faction I discovered declared war on me in short order. Even after setting up treaties etc in both cases. It seems that the politics stuff is "these two pre-designed races will always be antagonists and you picked one of them".
* They Never ask for peace, even if they've never attacked you and/or the "war" has been going on for 100+ turns and someone else is annihilating them.
* Some of them simply don't attack you despite declaring war.
General interface things:
* When you click on a system it shows the planets at the bottom, but not their names. This makes it hard to know which planet is which without clicking on them.
* I came across a native race that's "good at mining" in the description - except there is no "mining ability" icon indicator anywhere so I don't know how good and if it's worth transporting them to my mining worlds.
* It would be nice if there were icons over planets on the galaxy screen. Ideally the ability to flag certain planets as being production planets for instance. Or to indicate that terraforming is an option
* I have some planets where I've terraformed to the "best" type, but then I can terraform down to a more "comfortable" type for my own species (who aren't even on the planet!). This confused me for a while because I didn't read it and I did the terraforming back and forth a few times! Because it's there it means I can't simply select the "best" terraforming automatically, I have to read them all.
* It took me quite a while to figure out the move-colonists process.
* I'm still trying to reliably figure out the troop-transport loading/unloading thing and the different between transports and troop transports.
* Maybe it's just me, but if a troopship comes with troops, how come it's much cheaper than the troops it contains?
* It's not clear how I can put troops onto a "military transport" when it doesn't have a transport section.
But again, overall it's a nifty game. Hopefully some of the above can be fixed - it'll make the next playthrough even better.


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Jan 23, 2014
Serena has a sure way to get her boyfriend over. She takes some hot selfshot pictures then sends them to him. He was at the door in matter of seconds! She kept it up by flashing her pussy for him which made him incredible horny.
She didn't get him over for nothing so she approached him and sucked his pecker. It felt so good that he wanted to reward her with some serious pounding. First he nailed her doggystyle before she rode him in the chair. Then he lifted her up on the sink and continued to hammer on that ripe punani.
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This video provides guidance on reducing concerns and risks in making data easily accessible
- [Narrator] It should be clear at this point in this course…that open data is remarkably valuable in communities.…We're also saying that designing and deploying…an open data portal is not that difficult.…With both value and ease to deploy,…it seems that open data is a no-brainer.…This is largely true, but it carries some level of risk.…I'd like to briefly discuss that risk…and also point out some easy steps…that can lower risks for a government agency.…What are the risks of open data?…There are two main categories of risk.…
The first category is taking steps that…create errors such as releasing confidential data.…This category could also include…publishing data that is wrong, or incomplete,…or mislabeled or described incorrectly.…To a large degree, the publishing process…in the prior video describes a mechanism…to lower the likelihood of making mistakes.…The second category relates to risk that…can often occur after data is published.…So this is what we'll discuss now in more detail.…
These risks include accountability…
Dr. Jonathan Reichental introduces real-world use cases for open data, as well as the steps you need to take to develop and operationalize an open data program. He also explains how data scientists use open data to tell stories and drive data visualizations. Along the way, he provides numerous examples of open data in action: improving government, empowering citizens, creating opportunity, and solving public problems.
- Understanding what open data really is
- Current open data efforts around the globe
- Open data in action
- Designing an open data governance process, including policies
- Monetizing open data
- Storytelling with open data
- Selling the value of open data
- Measuring the value of open data


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Just found this link to a page of calculators that may be handy for some.
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dinnerstick wrote:wow that site is recently, and heavily, revamped. it has always been the best choice for multi-step starter calculations but now also has new bells and whistles (and some interesting spelling choices, ie 'suspencion'). i think measuring yeast cell counts is pretty tricky, estimating even trickier, but these sites are very useful to introduce consistency into your brews. if you use the same yeast with the same 'result' from the calculator and always get good results, then it doesn't matter if the calculator is way off!
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The Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary falls on October 7. It is particularly significant to me for three reasons.
1) Our Lady and the Rosary, of course.
2) It is the anniversary of my return to the Roman Catholic Church. This year is my 13th!
3) And now, this very day today, is when my article, A Woman In Support of An All-Male Priesthood (go to the middle of p.32), got published in The Valley Patriot. Providential. :-)
The Valley Patriot is a secular newspaper out of North Andover, MA. Tom Duggan is the President who took a leap of faith with me as a writer and with the content of the article. Thank you Tom.
It is beyond beneficial to pray the Rosary. If you don't know it yet, here is one source of many to get you started.
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I find it very difficult to write a review for a sequel, because I don't like to give anything away for people who still haven't read the previous book in the series. To get around this problem today I have a cunning plan…
I went to look back at my review of Witchstruck, the first in Victoria Lamb's excellent YA Tudor series, and I realised I wrote it before I started this blog. This seemed a bit of a shame as I loved the story, so I've decided to post that review here first. Here it is:
I like stories about witches.
I love stories about the Tudors.
How about a story that combines the two, and including my favourite Tudor of them all, Elizabeth? Well, it's bound to please. Witchstruck is a very enjoyable combination of history and the supernatural. Meg is a witch. Not just a wise woman who knows a bit about herbal remedies, but a witch with proper arcane powers. I liked this about the book, there's no hedging about whether witchcraft is or isn't real, in this story it's real and that's that. Her Aunt Jane, a powerful witch herself, has trained Meg; her mother is dead, but also had witchcraft in her blood. The Princess Elizabeth, in whose household she works, calls Meg's unusual gifts into service. They are lodged at Woodstock, where Elizabeth is imprisoned by Queen Mary under suspicion for treason. Both Elizabeth and Meg put themselves in danger with the rituals they enact to try and divine the future.
Not only must they conceal themselves from the household, paid to spy on their every word and deed, there is also a witch-finder nearby. Marcus Dent has his eye on Meg. Not that he suspects her for a witch, no it's much worse than that. He wants to make her his wife, by force if necessary. He is a repulsive character; if you ever get the chance to read about the real-life witch-finder Matthew Hopkins I urge you to, I think Marcus must be based at least in part on him. Marcus is vicious and ruthless; Meg clearly cannot marry him but refusing him has its own dangers.
Meg's father and brother are also up to their necks in trouble. They are involved in stirring up Protestant rebellion, to replace Mary with Elizabeth upon the throne. Unfortunately, their plotting implicates Meg putting her and the princess in more danger still. So, Meg's caught between a whole heap of intrigues, conspiracies and loyalties. Of course, what she now needs is a gorgeous not-quite-yet priest, Alejandro, to set her heart fluttering. She fears him as he seems to understand her abilities, and witchcraft is just as frowned upon by Catholic priests as self-appointed witch-finders. She is also drawn towards him; attraction sparks between them with an intensity that troubles them both.
This is no cosy tale. Meg's power buzzes and stings, her influence swirls captivatingly around. Her meeting with that old necromancer Dr Dee is fascinating. He sees her potential strength immediately, and I wonder if we'll see more meetings between them in the next book in the series. She will need all her resources to face the dangers ahead, and with her life at stake Meg will discover just how much of her is truly witch. Witchstruck is exciting, nerve-jangling and well worth a read.
I think it is obvious just how much I enjoyed the first book, and I am happy to report that I also loved Witchfall. Anyone who doesn't want to know what happened next, please look away NOW!
Witchfall opens at Hampton Court during the Spring of 1555. Queen Mary is near her time with what ought to be the heir to her throne, and she's keeping Elizabeth and attendants close. Mary's husband Philip of Spain is at court, and unfortunately where he goes his inquisitors go too. It is not an auspicious time to be, or even be suspected to be, a witch.
Meg is not finding it easy to keep a low life profile unfortunately. The Princess Elizabeth is as keen as ever to know her future, and whether it involves a crown upon her head rather than an axe at her neck. The Inquisition is showing an unhealthy amount of interest in the Princess and her staff though, especially as they have Dr Dee locked up for questioning. Elizabeth is terrified that Dee will crack under torture and reveal something of their clandestine meetings so she sends Meg to visit him in secret.
I was hoping for more interaction between Meg and Dee and I certainly got it in this book. Her powers explode in his presence and her abilities are far greater than she ever thought. Meg is more than a witch; she is quite possibly a sorcerer. Obviously this doesn't make her life any easier; on the contrary she is more danger than before. The priests want to torture confessions of witchcraft from her, the Princess wants conjuring tricks, and Dee and his apprentice want to use her abilities too. Alejandro 'just' wants her to say yes to his proposal!
As if Meg isn't already pulled in too many contrary directions and placed in peril on an almost daily basis there is also a sinister rat lurking around. It crosses Meg's mind that Marcus Dent could still make a comeback from wherever she flung him; a suspicion that grows stronger once she finds out more of his past. There's also a malevolent black form roaming the palace – Meg is under more pressure than ever before. She has a horrible time in this book actually, only briefly lightened by Alejandro's touch. And even then, she still suffers from a bucketful of guilt over their relationship. Poor Meg.
Witchfall is very exciting, tense, and full of dark menacing forces. Meg's torments are almost unendurable and she needs all her strength to negotiate the myriad pitfalls in her path. A new character is introduced, the apprentice Richard, who I had my doubts about at times – I mean his intentions and loyalties. Kat Ashley, Elizabeth's beloved companion, makes a fateful appearance at the end of the book too. She is most definitely in my bad books! I can't wait for book three and, I hope, a little happiness for Meg.
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Observed in the evening sky were six (6) red-orange lights spaced about a mile apart from each other over the Murrysville, PA valley area. I live in the Level Green, Penn Twp area. My front porch faces north towards Cheswick, PA. which is across the Allegheny River at 11.40 miles. The lights appeared to come out of the north eastern sky over what would be Plum-Monroeville, PA about 3.54 miles over the tree tops. They flew towards my house and angled to the right over the valley and all disappeared one by one in the same place over the PA Turnpike. They were observed for five (5) minutes. Then another one appeared over the same area but flew perhaps, 2 miles further and disappeared over the Lyons Trail Court area. No sound made.


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This park bordered by Fulton St, Carlton Ave and start of Greene Ave in the Fort Greene swath of Brooklyn, has a rich history, which is detailed on the park's plaque.
But more recently (I believe in 1982) was rebuilt and rededicated in a ceremony that Mayor Koch was supposed to attend (as my cubscout master was told, who then told us cubs) it would have been a big deal seeing hizzoner in the Fort Greene of that time but whatever, he didn't show and the park still opened.
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End of the year is drawing near (nearer that it looks like…) and I am sorting through all my muffin bookmarks saved throughout the year. For today, I selected a ginger and peach recipe from White on Rice Couple (a little bit adapted to suit my pantry…).
Dry ingredients: 100g oat flour (I used rolled oats and a kitchen robot for this one…), 100g plain flour, 60g whole wheat flour, 55g sugar, 45g brown sugar, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 Tbsp ground ginger.
Wet ingredients: 85g melted butter, 180ml milk, 120g sour cream, 1 egg.
Caramelized peach: one large peach, cut in slices, caramelized over low heat (in a sauce pan), using 20g butter + 1 Tbsp honey, 2 tsp ground ginger.
Fold in the wet ingredients into the dry ones. Spoon the batter into the pre-greased muffin cups and decorate with a slice or two of the caramelized peach. Bake over medium heat for 15 mins, until the skewer comes out clean.
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Turn your email conversations into a real-time chat
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Pete CashmoreHunter@petecashmore · Founder, Mashable
Really cool way to set up an instant group chat. I like the separate pane for links so everyone can see what's being discussed.
Ryan HooverPro@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Chat.cc is rough around the edges but the concept is interesting and if @ivanNYC can make the email --> real-time chat transition seamless (for both regular users and those unfamiliar with the product), I think there's something here. Ivan - so many startups have tried to improve email (just search for "email" on Product Hunt and you'll see dozens of relatively new products). Why enter this graveyard? :)
@rrhoover - too often we go at problems trying to find a perfect solution which tend to come with overhead. We focussed on something with no barrier to entry. It works for everyone that has an email address (so everyone) on any device. It doesn't aim to revolutionize behavior just to make a common tool better. You are totally right though, lots have tried and failed. We took this on as an experiment in product market fit. 6 weeks to launch to see if it flies.
Hi PH, chat.cc is a little experiment we made with @mxmcd to make email work better and harder without adding overhead, downloads, etc.
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I like the idea behind this, would be interesting to see where this goes
Thanks @acondurache. @rrhoover is pushing for a chrome extension which is definitely top of the list. Besides rounding out the rough edges, we are also working on custom tools like a scheduling tool so you can pick a date with people you are chatting with, a little poll tool, etc.
Jon Lax@jlax · Product Design Director Facebook
I really like the no friction approach to this app. This is something that a lot of apps could learn from. I am trying to figure out how it fits into my life wiht my plethora of messaging and chat applications. Between Gchat, Slack, Messenger, snapchat, Gmail's pseudo handling of email as chat plus others, finding the right moment to use chat.cc is the big challenge for this product. @ivannyc where do you see this fitting into this world?
@jlax the hypothesis behind chat.cc is that some users will never be able to commit to a new platform and will remain email-centric. This might be because they don't want to commit to a new workflow (or pay for a new platform) or because the people they interact with won't. Considering those users, we built a product that had to works for them: no barrier to entry, works with everyone, on every device.


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De Krook is nestling in the urban fabric of Ghent city
It's becoming ever more clear these past few months how De Krook will fit in the urban fabric of Ghent (Belgium). Construction is at full force. As in a few weeks, the first books will be moved. At the end of 2016, the new city library will open its doors. VK Architects & Engineers designed the M&E Engineering, façade engineering and the sustainable concept.
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Work is visibly making progress. The strips decorating the facades give a clear impression of the finalised building, a design of Coussée & Goris and RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes. Also emerging, are the interventions that will integrate the building in its urban context. The new Miriam Makebasquare in front of the main entrance is being finalised. The foot and cycling bridge spanning the Muinkschelde river to the Kuiperskaai has been there for a while now. The public space around the building, as well as the quays, promise a new place to linger in the university town.
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Especially on the inside, there's a bustling scene. All technical installations are being completed, after a design by VK Architects & Engineers. In September 2015, the contractors started on the top floor. De Krook will be a sustainable project thanks to a thoroughly integrated approach. Below the building, a energy storage field has been dug out, a total of 26 probes each 150 metres long. A reversible heat pump provides heating and passive cooling. A balanced ventilation installation system D with heat wheel recuperates 70% of the produced heat. These interventions reduce the CO2 emissions by 38%. De Krook will also be connected to the city network.
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The awards ceremony takes place in October and recognises the most successful firms and individuals drawn from the entire industry across the UK.
The judging panel includes 14 industry experts, including Insolvency Practitioners, Lawyers, Bankers and Industry Regulators and involves looking at firms performance in a number of areas including overall contribution to business rescue, internal management, staff training and development and customer service.
Carl Faulds, Managing Director of Portland Business Recovery said:
"We do not typically seek external accolades, preferring to quietly get on with doing what we do well, but it is nice to be recognised by our industry as one of, if not the best, medium sized Business Recovery firms in the country. Our key strength is helping people deal with financial problems and relieving the stress, so that they can focus on what they do best. We treat every person we deal with as an individual and give them the full attention they need to deal with their problems as constructively as possible."


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On Oct. 12 the moon hits its last quarter and the new moon is on Oct. 19, so this is the perfect time for sky viewing. We just need the clouds and wind to give us a break. If you've looked at the sky on a clear night, you may have noticed some flashing stars low on the horizon.
There are three big bright stars that do it this time of year. Arcturus appears low in the WNW at night fall. The arc of the handle of the Big Dipper always points down to it. Arcturus is a large orange star in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman.
Capella in Auriga the Charioteer appears low in the NE mid evening. Our brightest star Sirius in Canis Major currently appears low in the south before dawn. All three of these stars appear to be flashing colors of the rainbow for the same reason.
Because these big bright stars are so low in the sky this time of year, we're viewing them through a greater thickness of our atmosphere than when they're higher in the sky. The atmosphere refracts or splits their light, causing them to flash the colors of the rainbow. All stars low in the sky flash light, but only the brightest ones are noticeable.
Early morning viewing can also provide you with the Zodiacal Light. This will occur in the east 80-120 minutes before sunrise which should be around 7:15 a.m. So, 5:30 to 5:45 a.m. should be a good time to try to find it. To see it, you need to look for a tall but dim pyramid of light leaning slightly to the right with Venus at its base.
This is also known as the False Dawn and sometimes looks like the light from a distant town just over the horizon. When you see it, you're looking edgewise into our solar system. It's actually the Sun reflecting off dust particles that move in the same plane as the planets orbiting the Sun. I have never been able to see this one, but I have seen the evening one many times.
Venus and Mars are visible in the morning sky before dawn. By the time you read this, Mars will be above Venus. They're both currently quite small and pale. You can't miss bright Venus, but Mars may still require binoculars to find it. On Oct. 17 the thin crescent moon will be between them.
If you're up before sunrise, you should look in the SW to see the constellation Orion, and the Pleiades star cluster to its right. Night viewing will give you the Milky Way which should be very bright this time of year. Saturn is highly visible just above Scorpius to the right of the Milky Way.
Uranis reaches its peak visibility on Oct. 19 when it's directly opposite the Sun. It'll be visible all night in the east along the ecliptic where the Sun travels. It's in the constellation Picses, a deep V, near the bottom of the V. First try to find it with binoculars, and then look at it without them. Once you find it, you should be able to see it with unaided vision. So let's hope for some clear skies to enjoy the treasures we have available.


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It really *is* a joke …
It really *is* a joke …
Oh. my.word. Redi is my new hero, she completely kicks ass and leaves the the guy without a leg to stand on!
OMG what a wanker!!! The man is totally clueless!!! Didn't he prepare for the interview? Sleeping around is sleeping around?!?!?!!!
I love this woman. She's awesome.
Seriously? This guy is THICK as bricks. Well, at least now I know what "sleeping around" is … It's … uh … ah … sleeping around … M*O*R*O*N
Fantastic job Redi, you are not scared to insist on an appropriate answer and not just a "because I say so" comment from an idiot!! We need more radio jocks like this who can point out what the future "political" stars are made of…
heyyyyyyyy… you've been so quiet. I hope you're well.
You're always in my thoughts *hugs*
But, he is right……. Sleeping around is, sleeping around.. There is no other explanation for it. Haibo!


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whoosh / Home
About Whoosh
Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites. Every part of how Whoosh works can be extended or replaced to meet your needs exactly.
Some of Whoosh's features include:
- Pythonic API.
- Pure-Python. No compilation or binary packages needed, no mysterious crashes.
- Fielded indexing and search.
- Fast indexing and retrieval -- faster than any other pure-Python search solution I know of. See Benchmarks.
- Pluggable scoring algorithm (including BM25F), text analysis, storage, posting format, etc.
- Powerful query language.
- Production-quality pure Python spell-checker (as far as I know, the only one).
Whoosh might be useful in the following circumstances:
- Anywhere a pure-Python solution is desirable to avoid having to build/compile native libraries (or force users to build/compile them).
- As a research platform (at least for programmers that find Python easier to read and work with than Java ;)
- When an easy-to-use Pythonic interface is more important to you than raw speed.
- If your application can make good use of one deeply integrated search/lookup solution you can rely on just being there rather than having two different search solutions (a simple/slow/homegrown one integrated, an indexed/fast/external binary dependency one as an option).
Whoosh was created and is maintained by Matt Chaput. It was originally created for use in the online help system of Side Effects Software's 3D animation software Houdini. Side Effects Software Inc. graciously agreed to open-source the code.
Learning more
- Read the online documentation.
- Join the Whoosh mailing list.
- Whoosh topics on StackOverflow
- Join the
##whooshIRC channel on chat.freenode.net (this is no official support channel). You can use the web chat interface. "Ask/tell AND WAIT" is the motto there.
- Look at Whoosh's Openhub page.
- Read about Use Cases - usages, users, testimonials, etc.
Starting from version 1.8, the software is licensed under the terms of the simplified ("two-clause") BSD License. See LICENSE.txt for details.
Previously, the software was licensed under the terms of the Apache License version 2.
Installing Whoosh
Whoosh is compatible with Python 2.5 and higher. As of Whoosh 2.0 it is compatible with Python 3. If you find a problem with the Python 3 compatibility, please file a bug.
If you have ``setuptools`` or ``pip`` installed, you can use ``easy_install`` or ``pip`` to download and install Whoosh automatically:
$ easy_install Whoosh
$ pip install Whoosh
Getting the source
Download source releases from PyPI at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Whoosh/
You can check out the latest version of the source code using Mercurial:
hg clone http://bitbucket.org/mchaput/whoosh
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Making sure that your roof does not leak is an important part of keeping your home in good condition. A single leak can lead to more water damage than a mere drip on the floor; for one, it can rot the wood that supports your roof and encourage the growth of mold. This is just one reason why a good roof needs to be maintained from top to bottom.
The recent storms that have plagued the California area, including Palo Alto, have proven that many roofs will need a good once over and at least some minor repairs to avoid any future problems. The importance of knowing what Palo Alto roofing requires to in order to withstand extreme weather is emphasized by a recent article in Realty Biz News.
California, unlike many parts of the country, does not suffer from snowstorms that often hit other states. However, it does suffer from very wet winter weather, as evidenced by the recent storms that led to flooding.


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DAPHNE, Ala. — For the tenth consecutive year, the United States Sports Academy recently hosted leading students from Thailand on a sports study tour of the United States to enrich their knowledge of sport.
The Academy invited the students from the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) International Certification Program to participate in the 2016 SAT Sport Study Tour from 1-14 August 2016. The program provided the 18 delegates with an up-close and in-depth look at American sports programs and facilities.
During the SAT students' cross-country tour, they traveled to Los Angeles, Calif., where they visited the University of California Los Angeles campus, Dodgers Stadium, Staples Center and Stubhub Center. It was then on to Colorado, where they visited the National Strength and Conditioning Association Training Center, Mile High Stadium, and the United States Olympic Committee Training Center. They then traveled to Orlando, Fla., for an Orlando City Soccer Club Major League Soccer game, as well as a visit to Disney World venues and the ESPN Wide World of Sports. They then traveled to Bradenton, Fla., where they visited IMG Academy.
As part of the study tour, the group visited the Academy campus in Daphne, Ala., where they attended workshops and made presentations about their observations related to the tour. On Friday, 12 August 2016, they were honored with certificates in a graduation ceremony, followed by a reception with the Academy faculty and staff.
The Academy has a long-standing relationship with the SAT, sending instructors for more than a decade to Thailand to teach its International Certification in Sports Management (ICSM) and International Certification in Sports Coaching (ICSC) programs. The SAT is Thailand's primary sports organization and plays a vital role in developing sport.
Both certification programs prepare participants for leadership roles in sport. The ICSC program includes a wide range of coaching and related administrative skills, while the ICSM program includes management topics such as sports event planning, facilities, and marketing and public relations.
Under the program, approximately 50 students annually are drawn from the SAT and its affiliated sport organizations around the country to attend the certification courses. Following the conclusion of the classroom portion of the program, the SAT annually selects the best students from each program for a special study tour of sport in America. A delegation of students and administrators from the SAT tour various sports organizations and venues for two weeks from coast to coast in the United States.
The Academy's successful relationship with the Southeast Asian nation dates back to the mid-1980s. During a visit to Bangkok in May 2015, Dr. T.J. Rosandich, then Academy vice president and chief operating officer and current president, renewed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the SAT to continue the ICSC/ICSM project for another five-year term through 2020. Prior to the new agreement, the program had been held successfully since 2003.
"The United States Sports Academy and the Sports Authority of Thailand have had a long relationship with the ICSC/ICSM project and we are pleased that the brightest and best students in these programs are chosen to participate in the sport study tour hosted by the Academy," Rosandich said.
"We express a heartfelt thanks to the United States Sports Academy for offering this opportunity to our students," said Jinda Dechpimor, SAT head of delegation and director of human development. "The sports study tour is helpful to our students who are studying sports coaching and sports management."
The United States Sports Academy is an independent, non-profit, accredited, special mission Sports University created to serve the nation and world with programs in instruction, research, and service. The role of the Academy is to prepare men and women for careers in the profession of sports. For more information about the Academy, call (251) 626-3303 or visit www.ussa.edu.


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|Turk, James
|Carroll, Jeffery - Jeff Carroll
|Laughlin, Harold
|Thomas, Tom
|Sturek, Michael
|Bowles, Douglas
|Casati, Jennifer
Submitted to: Journal of Applied Physiology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/6/2003
Publication Date: 5/16/2003
Citation: TURK, J.R., CARROLL, J.A., LAUGHLIN, H.M., THOMAS, T.R., STUREK, M., BOWLES, D.K., CASATI, J. C-REACTIVE PROTEIN CORRELATES WITH MACROPHAGE ACCUMULATION IN CORONARY ARTERIES IN PIGS FED A HIGH FAT AND CHOLESTEROL DIET. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY. 2003. V. 95. P. 1301-1304.
Interpretive Summary: A study was conducted utilizing the pig model to test the hypothesis that serum C-reactive protein (CRP) correlates with the accumulation of certain immune cells in coronary artery disease. Pigs were fed a normal chow (N) or a high fat-high cholesterol (HF) diet to induce hypercholesterolemia. The data revealed that there was a high, positive correlation between serum CRP and cholesterol, and the accumulation of immune cells in the coronary arteries of pigs with diet-induced hypercholesterolemia. Imaging results revealed that CRP was co-localized with other inflammatory markers in the cells of coronary arteries from hypercholesterolemic pigs. These results support a role for CRP in the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease. Thus, we conclude that our results are consistent with the proposal that CRP correlates with the accumulation of immune cells during the development of coronary artery disease and that elevated serum CRP may be a risk factor for coronary artery disease. The results of this study will be of particular interest to nutritional scientists investigating the effects of a high fat diet on the development of coronary artery disease. Additionally, scientists working in the area of stress physiology and immunology will be interested in the correlations between CRP and the development of coronary artery disease.
Technical Abstract: A growing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that C-reactive protein (CRP) is a marker of coronary artery disease. In the current study, 16 adult male Yucatan pigs were fed a normal chow (N) or a high fat-high cholesterol (HF) diet. Blood was collected for analyses of CRP and lipids. At week 20, the pigs were euthanized and the right coronary arteries were harvested and fixed in neutral buffered formalin. Paraffin-embedded sections of right coronary arteries were stained immunohistochemically for CRP, scavenger receptor A, and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1. All cholesterol fractions were elevated in the HF vs. N groups (P<0.05). There was little or no positive staining for CRP, scavenger receptor A, or monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in the right coronary arteries of N pigs, but extensive staining was observed in lipid-laden macrophage foam cells in the HF pigs. Double staining revealed co-localization of CRP with scavenger receptor A and CRP with monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 in foam cells. Serum CRP correlated directly with plasma total cholesterol (R=0.727, P=0.041) and accumulation of scavenger receptor A-positive macrophages (R=0.938, P<0.001) in the right coronary arteries of HF pigs. These data demonstrate that serum CRP correlates with macrophage accumulation and coronary artery disease in pigs fed a HF diet.