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This is the 8IGHT-T Nitro 1/8 scale 4WD truggy that's RTR. If you are serious about becoming a competitive nitro truggy racer, this is the place to start. The Losi® 8IGHT-T Nitro Truggy RTR comes completely assembled and equipped with the brute power of a Dynamite® .28 nitro engine and the precise response that only a Spektrum™ DSMR® radio system can provide. You also get the benefit of a pre-set suspension that shares the same geometry team drivers use on their 8IGHT-T truggies. As your skills progress and you gain more racing experience, you can gradually upgrade the vehicle's performance with many of the 8IGHT-T option parts currently available.
- 20–30% Nitromethane fuel
- Nitromethane-Approved Dispenser
- NiMH Charger
- Glow Igniter
Heavy-Duty Steering and Gen III Radio Tray
The vehicle comes equipped with a Spektrum™ ultra-torque metal-gear steering servo that maintains superb holding power and precise control on the roughest tracks. A Gen III radio tray prolongs steering and throttle servo life with features like ball-bearing linkages and more accurate linkage alignment. It resists wear and tear from chassis flex, too.
Brute Power
A powerful Dynamite .28 nitro engine gives you all the grunt you need to be a front runner, right out of the box. It is equipped with a convenient pull-start so you don't have to buy a starter box to get racing right away.
Metal-Gear Drivetrain and Sealed Differentials
A metal-gear transmission and sealed differentials give the truggy all the durability it needs for long mains and rough conditions.
Center and Rear Dogbones
These eliminate the friction of a CV coupler and improve bump handling in the rear of the car.
Pre-Set Suspension Geometry
The suspension geometry is pre-set from the factory to match that used by professional team drivers so you can hit the track with confidence. And because it uses fixed-length turnbuckles and steering arms, you know it will remain consistent race to race.
- Your fast track to nitro truggy racing
- 4mm T-6 aluminum chassis plate
- Spektrum™ ultra-torque waterproof metal-gear steering servo
- Gen III radio tray for longer servo life
- Dynamite® .28 nitro engine with pull start
- Metal-gear transmission and sealed differentials
- Pre-set suspension geometry
- Center and rear dogbones
- 15mm adjustable oil-filled shocks
- Spektrum™ waterproof metal-gear servo
- Includes Spektrum DX2E DSMR® transmitter
- Includes Dynamite 1600mAh 6V NiMH receiver pack
Type: Nitro Truggy
Scale: 1/8
Length: 18.75 in (476mm)
Width: 16.38 in (416.1mm)
Height: 7.30 in (185.5mm)
Wheelbase: 14.93-15.09 in (379-383mm)
Chassis: 4mm Plate, Aluminum
Suspension: 4-wheel Independent
Drivetrain: 4WD
Tire Type: Losi XTT
Motor or Engine: Dynamite .28 Nitro Engine
Radio: DX2E
Servos: Included
Batteries: Dynamite NiMH Battery 6V 1600mAh Reciever Pack 3+2 Hump
Gear Pitch: 1.0Mod
Kit/RTR: RTR
Shock Type: 15mm bore, Composite
Body: Painted/Screened
Ball Bearings: Full Precision Ball Bearings
Fuel Tank Capacity: 150cc
Experience Level: Beginner
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The good news is summer is just around the corner. The bad news is summer is just around the corner.
With those steamy months of high humidity fast approaching, it's time to switch up your haircare. Heat, chlorine, saltwater, UV rays and heat styling are as likely to cause structure damage, split ends and dryness as the effects of winter.
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Prepare your hair for the onslaught of overexposure to UV rays with the help of shine-enhancing products. Bonus points if you use them before you head out into the sunshine. My recommendations are hydrating or silkening shampoos and conditioners, leave-in conditioners and a light leave-in elixir for added shine.
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Got three minutes to spare? That's all you need to treat your hair and make a huge difference. Apply a nourishing mask for more hydrated, stronger hair, restored color and a hydrated scalp. That's a pretty big payoff for such a small effort. For the best results, treat yourself to this once a week and make it a regular beauty ritual.
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In the latter months of 2011, Paul Davis proposed to the RBST that the Isle of Man would make an ideal sanctuary to house examples of the very rarest breeds of British farm animals. This measure would serve as a protection against their extinction in the event of a calamitous outbreak of disease on the mainland.
Ruth Dalton (Northern Field Officer) and Richard Broad (Southern Field Officer) embraced the project with infectious enthusiasm and made several visits to the Island to put the plan into motion. There are four key initiatives that our team planned to initiate:
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Evidence of the success of all four of these initiatives will be found on the pages of this website.
The Isle of Man Post Office has shown their support by issuing a series of Rare Breeds postage stamps in 2014, featuring endangered animals, including several actually living on the Island.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post7941189474561594645..comments2023-10-01T03:59:32.299-04:00Comments on Itching for Books: Spotlight & Guest Post: The Hitman's Mistake by Sally BrandleShane @ItchingforBookshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-56654748716073710862018-07-10T12:19:52.963-04:002018-07-10T12:19:52.963-04:00Holy hay bales. Somehow my post didn't load. E...Holy hay bales. Somehow my post didn't load. Each book features one equine. Virtue and Vengeance, the next in the series, introduces Whinny, a mini-horse. sallycrafthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-32298423460296604412018-07-05T12:17:50.266-04:002018-07-05T12:17:50.266-04:00Holy hay bales. Nope. The mini is in my next book,...Holy hay bales. Nope. The mini is in my next book, Virtue and Vengeance, due out this fall. Corrin, the heroine, is deathly afraid of horses. The other equines each appear separately in a later books. I have friends who rescued a zebra, a trophy hunting horror I hope to expose. Big Red, in The Hitman's Mistake, was the first mule I got to know. Subsequently I've been around a sweet boy, Chex, at our barn. Sorry I missed the comments until now. I must need to update my Google account...sallycrafthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-48780925307164375012018-07-02T13:17:19.464-04:002018-07-02T13:17:19.464-04:00I'm curious about that too lol it sounds like ...I'm curious about that too lol it sounds like an entertaining read.Shane @ItchingforBookshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-51660623241832274.post-47428440956791316952018-06-29T03:25:25.968-04:002018-06-29T03:25:25.968-04:00Big Red sounds like a beautiful horse! Ummm... is...Big Red sounds like a beautiful horse!
Ummm... is that a Quarter Horse, a zebra, a retired police horse, and a pony... all in one book? Interesting!

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From #MALcasestudies series author Lori Emerson: This week's post features Matthew Kirschenbaum, a scholar whose work in digital forensics and media archaeology as well as his role in running the collection of vintage computers at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has long been a model for my own work. Kirschenbaum's post below on George R.R. Martin and WordStar not only echoes perhaps even more pointedly my assertions in previous posts about how narratives of technological progress are largely works of fiction; but it is also a powerful testament to how the media archaeology approach is relevant far beyond the confines of academia and media studies.
This is the fourth post in the #MALcasestudies weekly blog series. Catch previous posts #1, #2, and #3.
|WordStar runs on a Kaypro 4 at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
Author George R. R. Martin uses WordStar to write his Game of Thrones novels.
University of Maryland
Following fast upon a week of digital archaeology extravaganzas that included the Atari E.T. dig in New Mexico, the recovery of Andy Warhol's computer art from his early Amiga floppies, and even NASA's restoration of high-resolution lunar imagery consigned to backup tapes since 1966, came the news: George R. R. Martin writes the Game of Thrones novels on a DOS-based machine disconnected from the Internet and lovingly maintained solely to run . . . WordStar. In conversation with Conan O'Brien, Martin dubbed this his "secret weapon" and suggested the lack of distraction (and isolation from the threat of computer viruses, which he apparently regards as more rapacious than any dragon's fire) accounts for his long-running productivity.
And thus, as they say, "It is known." But the truth is this was no particular revelation, as Martin's devotion to WordStar had been documented elsewhere before. In fact it still enjoys something of a cult following among science fiction and fantasy authors, including also the Hugo- and Nebula-winning Robert J. Sawyer. The brainchild of programmer Rob Barnaby and MicroPro's Seymour Rubinstein, for the first half of the 1980s WordStar dominated the home computer market before losing out to WordPerfect, itself to be eclipsed by Microsoft Word. Originally a CP/M application that was later ported to DOS, WordStar was the software of choice for owners of the early "luggables" like the Kaypro computer and the Osborne 1. Writers who cut their teeth on it include names as diverse as Michael Chabon, Ralph Ellison, William F. Buckley, and Anne Rice (who also equipped her vampire Lestat with the software when it came time for him to write his own eldritch memoirs).
But the viral media reaction to Martin's remarks was fascinating as a moment of media archaeology writ large. Many commenters immediately if indulgently branded him a "Luddite" (itself a term whose meaning we have abused, as Steven E. Jones has shown), while others opined it was no wonder it was taking him so long to finish the whole Song of Fire and Ice saga (or less charitably, no wonder that it all seemed so interminable). But WordStar is no toy or half-baked bit of code: on the contrary, it was a triumph of both software engineering and what we would nowadays call user-centered design. With features ranging from automatic word-wrap and full margin justification to mail merge and context-sensitive help, it was justifiably advertised as early as 1978 as a What You See Is What You Get word processor, a marketing claim that would be echoed by Microsoft when Word was launched in 1983. WordStar's real virtues, though, are not captured by its feature list alone. As Ralph Ellison scholar Adam Bradley observes in his work on Ellison's use of the program, "WordStar's interface is modelled on the longhand method of composition rather than on the typewriter." Bradley points to a detailed exposition from the aforementioned Sawyer, but the upshot is that users need never lift hands from keyboard to navigate their document, thus permitting a freedom and facility of movement that is an order of magnitude more efficient than the pointing and clicking and scrolling and dragging we associate with running a mouse around a GUI. (You may counter that Word and other applications allow for keyboard commands too, but the difference remains that WordStar was designed from the ground up with this model of interaction in mind—the power user like Martin who has internalized the keyboard commands to the point that navigating and editing the document was as seamless and second nature as picking up a pen to mark any part of the page.)
|The Osborne 1, which lives at the University of Colorado at Boulder's
Media Archaeology Lab, also runs WordStar.
Technological time is a curious thing: after all, WordStar runs no less efficiently and behaves no differently in 2014 than it did in 1983, yet we have been conditioned to assume that the intervening years must somehow entail a corresponding dilution of performance and experience. Jonathan Sterne documents this phenomenon when he notes the radically compressed chronology of a "new" computer's transition to the purgatory of the merely "useful" thence to the threshold of obsolescence, beyond which it is a candidate for replacement. Computers, he argues, are thus "new" media only with respect to themselves: the next generation of must-have hardware upgrades and feature bloat is what preserves the aura of novelty the industry demands for its self-perpetuation. You're running WordStar in 2014? You must be a Luddite, or at the very least a curmudgeonly author of high fantasy whose success allows you to indulge your eccentricities! Such is the extent to which what Lori Emerson deftly terms reading writing interfaces have been commodified, and that very commodification assimilated as normative—a trajectory her book documents in the most compelling terms.
So to run WordStar in 2014 you'd have to be a Luddite or an eccentric . . . or else just a visitor to the Internet Archive. Using an emulator known as JSMESS, the Historical Software Collection there allows any user to run WordStar in their browser. You can create your own file (with old-school 8 x 3 naming convention of course) and type and edit to your heart's content (but not as of now save your work). While the emulation is a remarkable resource, particularly for the ease with which it is accessed through basic browser technology, it perhaps doesn't fully capture the experience of a Michael Chabon or an Anne Rice (or Lestat) running the software on one of the systems for which it was originally designed. This, though, is the wonder of places like Emerson's Media Archaeology Lab or our own vintage computer collections at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Both venues maintain working Osbornes and Kaypros (among many other systems) capable of summoning back the intangibles of those early interactions: the grinding of the drive and the swapping of the disks, the monochrome letters emblazoned on an inconceivably small screen, even the tactile resistances of the keyboards—all of these constituting the raw materiality of computation, rendering these putatively vanished technologies once again "radically present" in the words of Wolfgang Ernst. Or as one of Emerson's students writes, "As a user of Microsoft Word in 2014, when using WordStar, I was astounded by the constant presence of the program, which never reaches the degree of seamlessness to which I am accustomed. I was constantly aware of the black space and the various shades of green that constituted my digital writing."
Writers' responses to writing technologies have always been equal parts intimate and uncompromising, and word processing is no different in this regard. Media archaeology in particular teaches us that the profound sense of disconnect or dissonance articulated by the student above is no more or less normative than WordStar's continuing appeal is to George R. R. Martin. Both WordStar and Microsoft Word are material technologies against which we manufacture an ongoing array of haptic, affective, and cognitive engagements. My own work on my book Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing (manuscript to be delivered to my publisher later this year) reconstructs and recovers the histories of such engagements with respect to a number of authors and their computers—in the context of which, George R. R. Martin's now widely known affinity for WordStar is merely one good story among many.
More posts in the #MALcasestudies series:
Case Study 1: Introducing the Media Archaeology Lab.
Case Study 2: The Altair 8800b from 1976.
Case Study 3: The Vectrex gaming console from 1982.


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The Internet, its relative anonymity, and apparent promise of impunity, is always a breeding ground for more-aggressive-than-normal behavior, and the #AskELJames session on Twitter was no exception to the rule. She may have landed herself a movie deal, but despite the relative commercial success of the 50 Shades of Grey franchise, E.L. James learned the hard way on Twitter that critics are often louder (and more conspicuous) than fans.
In what may have been the worst PR mistake of 2015, E.L. James decided to participate in a Twitter question-and-answer session, which ended in tweets filled with more shade than James' entire trilogy. With many accusations regarding her oft-perceived glorification of abusive relationships and misrepresentation of BDSM culture, the gloves came flying off on Twitter in a setup that was 50 shades of yikes.
The books, if you haven't had a chance to indulge, are Twilight fan fiction gone sexually astray (even more so than they are already by merit of being, well, Twilight fan fiction). The relationship between protagonists Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey is, at best, kinky, and at worst, abusive (much like Bella and Edward of Twilight). Participants in the Twitter barrage were quick to point out this uncomfortable truth, not sparing anyone's feelings when it came to asking questions like the following:
Do you ever feel guilty that you made so much money from romanticizing sexual abuse and selling it as "erotica romance"? #AskELJames
— Melanin Monroe (@Jherane_) June 29, 2015
#AskELJames Is it only ok for Christian to stalk, coerce, threaten & manipulate Ana because he's hot, or is it also ok because he's rich?
— 50 Shades is abuse (@50shadesabuse) June 29, 2015
Did you see the abusive relationship of Bella and Edward and think "hmm needs more abuse" #AskELJames
— R_chelCh_rlt_nD_iley (@RachelCDailey) June 29, 2015
Other questions zoned in on tweeters' poor opinions of James' writing abilities, which have, truth be told, come up numerous times, particularly when it comes to the lack of variation in the writing of love scenes.
#AskELJames after the success of "Grey," have you considered re-telling the story from the perspective of someone who can write
— Andrew Vestal (@avestal) June 29, 2015
Then, of course, there was the running commentary on just how awful the tweets were (at James' expense, of course), with tweeters expressing facetious concern about the state of James' feelings following what could only be dubbed a Twitter evisceration.
#AskELJames Are you going to take a cold bath later to recover from being so thoroughly burned on Twitter today?
— Vanessa C. (@nessaskybooks) June 29, 2015
#AskELJames Do all these negative tweets sent to you seem abusive to you? I think it's romantic enough to be turned into a novel!
— Stephan Krosecz (@Krosecz) June 29, 2015
Ultimately, one tweet summed it up best:
Whoever planned out the #AskELJames tag has obviously never, ever met Twitter.
— Summer Heacock (@Fizzygrrl) June 29, 2015
Cease and desist, Twitter and E.L. James.


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In today's expanding workplace, concern for employee well-being should be a company priority. For most, employee satisfaction keeps employees productive and keeps them sticking around. Companies with low employee satisfaction flirt with high employee turnover. Training new employees equals more time and money spent and can negatively affect your bottom line.
One key to improving office morale – and office safety – is often overlooked. It all lies in what sort of lighting your staff sits under!
In an early study, the main goals of lighting in an office setting were determined to "create an appropriate and safe work area, provide for aesthetic and glare-free, pleasant vision, and save energy." All well and good but, there are still many offices that use traditional lighting solutions such as florescent lighting, in order to save a buck. What these companies don't know is, by opting for the cheaper lighting fixtures, not only are their employees suffering, but so are their profits.
Another study established that lighting was found to have a direct correlation with ease of reading, reduction of errors, lower eyestrain, faster productivity, and many other positive results.
The sad truth is that when companies use florescent lighting (and other less efficient lighting options), the main goals of lighting an office aren't being met. Morale, safety, and productivity can plummet. Thankfully, a lighting solution exists that can combat the effects of poor lighting: LED.
You might think that LED lighting is just a new technology that provides utility and cost savings. Well, it is. But… with LED lighting you can also easily increase the employee morale in your workplace. And, with the increase in employee productivity, an upgrade to LED lighting will practically pay for itself. The results of a study solely focused on LED lighting versus florescent lighting found that when employees were introduced to LED lighting after being subjected to other forms of lighting, there was a significant improvement in overall performance.
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To further prove how powerful the benefits of LED lighting are for your workplace, a study done to find whether the investment into LED lighting was worth the cost not only confirmed the positive effects of LED, but were able to produce "triple bottom line" savings once all of their LED systems were in place.
If your office has old, outdated lighting, then it seems your choice is clear. Not only does LED provide a positive impact on the morale, productivity, and safety of your employees, it also saves you a ton when it comes to your bottom line. With LED lighting, you will invest in a bright future for your company.
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|1. RpepXML - R pepXML is an R interface to the pepXML standard for MSMS data identification. It allows pepXML files to be imported into R and for easy manipulation and filtering.
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|2. AcceptABEL - A package for controlling false-positives rate (FPR) in GWAS studies. The control is achieved via assessing marker-specific genomic inflation factor.
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|3. WMCapacity - The WMCapacity project implements hierarchical Bayesian models of working memory capacity, including Cowan's (2001) and Pashler's (1988) multinomial tree models. An SPSS-like GUI is provided for model building and MCMC setup.
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|4. Multiple comparison test visualization - The aim of this R package is to visualize results from the multiple (i.e. pairwise) comparison tests. The groups being compared are visualized as nodes of a Hasse diagram. It enables very clear and vivid depiction of large set of groups being compared.
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Guest Essayist: Daniel A. Cotter
The 1932 Presidential election took place during the height of the Great Depression. While a number of candidates ran on third party tickets, the main fight for the White House featured the incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and none of the other candidates garnered more than 2% of the popular vote. Hoover had won the presidential election in 1928 on a pro-business platform promising continued prosperity. Nine months into Hoover's term, on October 24, 1929, the stock market crashed, beginning the period that would become known as the Great Depression. The challenges created by the downward economic spiral consumed Hoover's term and were a main focus of the 1932 presidential election.


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This post has been republished via RSS; it originally appeared at: DataCAT articles.First published on MSDN on Oct 20, 2016
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One of the most exciting features in SQL Server 2016 is R Services (in-database) . This feature has been getting a lot of interest and attention, as we described in a past blog post . If you are curious to know more, the Related Viewing section at the end of this post links to some useful videos.
When deploying SQL Server R Services, it is important to note that the setup components for SQL Server do not include the Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server components. Those 'R Components' (as we will refer to them later in this post) are provided as separate downloadable components. SQL Server will automatically download these when executed on computer which is connected to the Internet. But in cases where setup is done on a computer without Internet access (quite typical of many SQL Server deployments) we need to handle things differently. There is a documented process for doing this. But even with the documentation, we still had some customers with questions on the process.
Inspired by those customer engagements, this blog post walks through the process of setting up SQL Server R Services in environments without Internet access. We walk through a number of scenarios, right from the very basic scenario to the more complex ones involving unattended and 'smart setup' .
Scenario 1: Interactive setup of SQL Server 2016 RTM
Let's begin with the easiest 'offline setup' scenario for SQL Server R Services. In this scenario, setup is launched by double-clicking setup.exe from the SQL Server 2016 installation media. After accepting the license agreement, selecting the edition etc. you are prompted for the features to install. We will select just the SQL engine and R Services (in-database) for simplicity:
Figure 1: SQL Server setup feature selection screen
At a later stage, you are prompted to accept the licensing terms for installing R Open:
Figure 2: Consent to install R Open
After accepting the license agreement for R components, if the computer were able to access the Internet, it would automatically download the requisite R components and proceed. But given that we are in an 'offline' scenario, setup needs additional information to proceed. This is apparent when you look at the list of steps on the left of the wizard, a new step 'Offline installation of Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server' has appeared:
Figure 3: After consenting to install R Open
This new screen (figure 5 below) is where you are prompted to direct setup to the requisite copies of the R components. In one-off scenarios, you can look at the links on the screen, and download those files on a computer which has Internet access; then move the 2 files back to the computer where SQL setup is running (this is the computer which does not have Internet access). But to be proactive you can download these CAB files ahead of time based on the Installing R Components without Internet Access page. That webpage (figure 4) lists the URLs to the CAB files containing the correct version of the R components for each version of SQL Server 2016:
Figure 4: Documentation page listing the URLs to obtain the R components for different SQL versions
Once you have downloaded and moved those 2 CAB files to the 'offline' computer, you need to specify the location of that folder on the screen below:
Figure 5: Screen shown only for Offline Installation of R Open
On the next screen, the correct folder (C:\RComponentsOffline\RTM) has been selected:
Figure 6: After selecting the path to the CAB files for the R components
Note: If the path does not contain the correct files, the 'Next' button on the above dialog is disabled.
That's it! Once the installation succeeds, validate the installation as per the steps in this article . For example, we use the simple R script below to check that the installation functions correctly.
exec sp_execute_external_script @language =N'R',
@input_data_1 =N'select 1 as hello'
with result sets (([hello] int not null));
Scenario 2: Interactive patching with SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Update
[Update 28 Nov 2016: We are aware of an issue with this scenario when Replication has been installed as one of the sub-features within the Database Engine component. When the instance being patched has Replication installed, you will not see the screen for selecting the path to the folder containing the CAB files. In that case, it is necessary to launch the cumulative update or Service Pack 1 setup as given below (the example below shows the sample syntax for CU1):
C:\InstallMedia\CU1\SQLServer2016-KB3164674-x64.exe /Action=Patch /IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS /MRCACHEDIRECTORY=<path to CU1 CAB files>]
Now that you have a RTM instance installed above, let's patch it with Cumulative Update 1. CU1 also has a different version of the R components, so the process described above (downloading the correct CAB files and moving them to the 'offline' computer) is still applicable. Let's see how this goes – first, let's launch CU1 setup as below:
Figure 7: Features being patched by the SQL Server Cumulative Update
CU1 setup recognizes that we are 'offline' and will prompt us to provide the location of the correct version of the CAB files. We do that in the screen below:
Figure 8: Specifying the folder location for the R components
That's it! We will then have CU1 run to completion.
Scenario 3: Interactive, 'slip-streamed' setup of SQL Server 2016 RTM
' Smart setup ' in SQL Server has been around since SQL 2012, and even prior to that we had the ability to 'slip-stream' a hotfix / Cumulative Update / Service Pack into SQL Server.
In SQL Server 2016, to invoke smart setup on a computer without Internet access, you start SETUP.EXE from the command line and use the /UPDATESOURCE switch to specify the location of an 'offline' / local copy of SQL Server updates (Cumulative Update and / or Service Pack). The advantage of 'smart setup' is that SQL Server is patched right at the time of setup. This way, you avoid a separate restart / reboot to install CU1 / CU2 later on. Also importantly, setup executes with an updated (CU1 / CU2 in this case) version. That helps to proactively fix any issues that the setup engine itself may have (such as this issue .)
So in our case, let's say we have downloaded a copy of the CU2 installer (SQLServer2016-KB3182270-x64.exe) to C:\InstallMedia\CU2 on our 'offline' computer. Then to invoke an 'offline smart setup' (with interactive setup screens) you start setup from an administrator command prompt:
C:\InstallMedia\RTM\SETUP.EXE /ACTION="Install" /UPDATESOURCE=C:\InstallMedia\CU2
When setup launches, you will notice that it has recognized the CU2 installer as shown in the screenshot below:
Figure 9: 'Smart setup' in action
Clicking through the wizard, note that this time we provide the path to the R Components from CU2:
Figure 10: Specifying the location of the CU2 version of the R Components
The rest of the steps are just as per any other normal installation. At this stage, you will get an instance of SQL Server which is already at CU2 patch level!
Scenario 4: Unattended setup of SQL Server 2016 RTM
The above 3 scenarios were installations done interactively – they had a GUI popping up and prompting for input, and finally displaying progress graphically. While that works great for a doing a few installations of SQL Server, when you have to deploy SQL Server on hundreds of instances, or if you need to provision SQL Server automatically, we need to use unattended setup for SQL Server.
Unattended setup is well-known and well understood. But when deploying SQL Server R Services you do need to handle the R component dependencies which we described previously. To do this, we have two command line switches:
- IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS – this switch is the equivalent of pressing the 'Accept' button in the GUI when prompted to accept the R Open licensing terms. Note that this is in addition to the IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS required for any unattended SQL Server setup.
- MRCACHEDIRECTORY – this switch is critical, because it is the way we tell setup to look for the R components in a specific folder.
Putting together these switches with a sample command line shown below, we will install a named instance of SQL Server (called SQL_RTM) with just the 2 features (SQL Database Engine and R Services in-database) selected. The command line below also relies on defaults for service accounts etc. So it does need customization, but if you are reading this, you probably know how to add more parameters! If you are not sure, the unattended setup help page will be a great starting point on what other parameters you can customize the setup with. OK, let's see the command line now:
C:\InstallMedia\RTM\SETUP.EXE /ACTION="Install" /IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS="True" /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS="True" /MRCACHEDIRECTORY="C:\RComponentsOffline\RTM" /FEATURES=SQLENGINE,ADVANCEDANALYTICS /INSTANCENAME="SQL_RTM" /INSTANCEID="SQL_RTM" /SQLSVCINSTANTFILEINIT="True" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="Somedomain\someuser" /SQLTEMPDBFILESIZE="8" /SQLTEMPDBFILEGROWTH="500" /SQLTEMPDBLOGFILESIZE="500" /q
That's it! The above command line setup will install without any human intervention, and will correctly provision the required R components as well.
Scenario 5: Unattended patching of SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Update
To add on to the previous scenario, let's imagine that you wanted to automate the rollout of CU1 to their (existing) SQL instance which already has R Services installed. Again, they want to do this completely unattended. So you can write a script which does the following:
- Firstly, it will extract a copy of CU1 to a folder on the 'offline' computer as shown below. The /X: switch is a standard parameter for any servicing update packages (Cumulative Updates, Service Packs) for SQL Server:
SQLServer2016-KB3164674-x64.exe /X:C:\InstallMedia\CU1\Extracted
- Secondly, the script will copy the CAB files for the R Components (previously downloaded from the Internet) to a folder on the 'offline' computer. In our case, this location is C:\RComponentsOffline\CU1.
- Finally, the script that you have created would proceed to run the extracted copy of CU1 setup, additionally passing in the 2 additional R component related switches described previously (IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS and MRCACHEDIRECTORY):
C:\InstallMedia\CU1\Extracted\SETUP.EXE /MRCACHEDIRECTORY=C:\RComponentsOffline\CU1 /ACTION=Patch /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms /IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS="True" /INSTANCEID=SQL_RTM /q
When the above script completes, SQL Server would have been patched to CU1 and our R Services installation would have also been updated correctly!
Scenario 6: Unattended, 'slip-streamed' setup of SQL Server 2016 RTM
This 'mother of all scenarios' is common in large enterprises where there is a high degree of automation and equal emphasis on patching out-of-box. In such cases, administrators do not want to deploy an RTM installation as-is if there is already a patch available. Basically, this is Scenario 3, but done in an unattended way!
As in scenario 5, imagine that you wrote a script to do the following on the 'offline' computer:
- Copy the RTM bits to a folder called C:\InstallMedia\RTM
- Extract CU2 bits to the 'offline' computer to a folder called C:\InstallMedia\CU2
- Copy the CU2 version of the R components to a folder called C:\RComponentsOffline\CU2
Then the script would have a command line such as the below. The below command installs a named instance of SQL Server 2016 called 'SQL_CU2'. By now, you would easily recognize the critical switches IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS and MRCACHEDIRECTORY:
SETUP.EXE /ACTION="Install" /IACCEPTROPENLICENSETERMS="True" /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS="True" /UPDATESOURCE="C:\InstallMedia\CU2" /MRCACHEDIRECTORY="C:\RComponentsOffline\CU2" /FEATURES=SQLENGINE,ADVANCEDANALYTICS /INSTANCENAME="SQL_CU2" /INSTANCEID="SQL_CU2" /SQLSVCINSTANTFILEINIT="True" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="Somedomain\someuser" /SQLTEMPDBFILESIZE="8" /SQLTEMPDBFILEGROWTH="500" /SQLTEMPDBLOGFILESIZE="500" /Q
This 'offline, unattended smart setup' results in a clean deployment of a CU2 version of SQL Server 2016, with R Services in working order!
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If you are reading this post, you will most likely also run into another common issue – how do you obtain and install additional R packages (those which are not included in the standard Microsoft R distribution) on that 'offline' computer? There is again a well documented way to do this. Start with the official documentation here and then a related blog post here .
We think SQL Server R Services is the best thing since sliced bread J But seriously, a feature with such compelling value is really exciting. We want to ensure that there are no obstacles in your evaluation and adoption of this feature. Hopefully this blog post will complement the official documentation to make things much easier for you. If you still have questions, comments on this topic, do not hesitate to let us know!
Related Viewing
- There are 2 videos from the 'Data Driven' series which are a must-watch. Here's the first one and here's the second .
- Bob Ward has a great talk about SQL Server R Services. View the recording here .
- Bill Jacobs and Sumit Kumar talked about SQL Server R Services at the recent Ignite conference. View the video here .
- Our customer – PROS, was an early adopter of SQL Server 2016 R Services and they share their experiences here .
- For a broader overview of Microsoft's various offerings in the 'Intelligence' space, view Rafal Lukawiecki's presentation at Ignite 2016.
We trust you found this blog post interesting. Please leave your feedback and questions in the comments section below. Till next time, ciao!


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The Last Voyageur
Sunday, Feb 29, 7 PM
St. John's Church
on Main Street, La Pointe, WI
Save the Date and then come on down! Thanks to a generous grant from the La Pointe Center and Wisconsin Arts Board, we are holding a STAGED READING of an original island music melodrama THE LAST VOYAGEUR! Written by Philip Valle, the same author of ONE BAD APPLE, this is the hilarious story of Aphrodite and Apollo coming down to a tiny island in Lake Superior in winter, complete with greek gods, birds, scientists and realtors, a eunuch named Reggie, lots of crazy hijinx, originals songs by Barbara With and of course, the last voyageur! Show at 7 PM with a cast a tens! Be there or be square! Dessert and coffee afterward


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Links from the AL East, on a night that the Rays are taking on the Orioles and rooting hard for the Blue Jays to defeat the Red Sox. The latest links from their division…
- The Blue Jays and Orioles aren't in the pennant race, but there's lots of intrigue in Toronto and Baltimore as the season winds down, Tyler Kepner of the New York Times writes.
- Within the piece (which is well worth your time) Kepner notes that the Blue Jays plan to offer arbitration to Kelly Johnson after the season and hears that Jeremy Guthrie would like to pitch 1,000 more Major League innings.
- Johnson, who has a .210/.290/.408 line in 555 plate appearances with the D'Backs and Blue Jays, projects as a Type A free agent in the American League, according to our latest rankings. I won't be surprised if he accepts arbitration, but there are no guarantees for the Blue Jays since this year's class of free agent second basemen isn't strong.
- Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox will play out the 2011 season and will likely undergo offseason surgery for a hernia, as Alex Speier writes at WEEI.com.


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Located in the Northeast part of Singapore nearby the Kranji Reservoir, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is preserved as a wetland site and consequently designated as a nature park. Originally 87 hectares when it opened in December 1993 and now extended to 130 hectares, the Park received international status as a site for migratory birds in 2002.
Funding sources and management structure
The costs of construction and operation of the Reserve is mainly supported by the Singapore Government. In 1997, Sungei Buloh Education Fund was set up to support outreach programmes at the Reserve and SG120,000 was donated by HSBC Care as a start-up fund. The Reserve is managed by the National Parks Board (NParks), a statutory board in the Ministry of National Development.
Managing sustainability
NParks is part of the government, so the decision making process is centralized. Sungei Buloh Master Plan was launched in 2008 to develop the existing Kranji Nature Trail into Sugei Buloh Wetland Park.
Benefits to the community
The Reserve offers research opportunities in ornithology and mangrove wetland wildlife, providing primary data and a study site for gathering first-hand researches on natural sciences. For others, the Reserve provides a form of recreation for people to appreciate nature and wildlife.


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Industry Spotlight: Catching Up With M:M Music's Meg MacDonald
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Every month we will introduce one of our valued clients, partners or industry friends. Be on a lookout for a lot of cool music industry insiders!
Taking its name from owner Meg MacDonald's initials, M:M Music embodies the staying power and reach of the industry's most successful independent promoters. With a particular foothold in AAA, MacDonald's team has enjoyed recognition time and again as "Independent Promotion Company of the Year" at Triple A's annual summit in Boulder, with votes coming in from programmers and label reps. M:M's team of music fans and promoters includes herself, Rene Magallon and Crystal Ann Lea focusing on the Triple A Commercial, Non-Commercial and Americana formats with Ben Lippman handling College. Prior to establishing M:M Music, Meg cut her teeth and climbed the ladder in publicity at the Welk Music Group, home to Vanguard before being promoted to handle Vanguard's radio promotion duties. Since 2007, M:M has specialized in radio promotion, working closely with record labels and radio stations to garner airplay for singles, help with promotional marketing, and booking station shows. We caught up with animal lover and football fan Ms. Meg recently, and asked the burning questions.
iPhone or Droid?
What's a Droid? I'm barely on the iPhone and I went kicking and screaming into that. Given my druthers I'd still have my flip phone. I'm a girl with a Smith-Corona typewriter on display in my office and two operational rotary phones in my house.
What shows are your appointment TV watching?
The favorites we try to catch are Blacklist, Newsroom, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, John Oliver Last Week Tonight, Mom, and Mike & Molly. During Football season we're catching whatever Patriots games we can. Everything else is a kind of watch-it-if-we-happen-to-catch-it mentality. Netflix has been the coolest invention since the remote control.
What do you see as the biggest positives and negatives facing the music industry, post- internet?
Positive: the ease of access to discovering new music and being able to listen to past favorites. The biggest negative is the infuriating perception that because it is now so easy to access, music should also be free. The recent shake up with Taylor Swift pulling her songs from Spotify at least started to make public the shamefully inadequate earnings of writers and artists from entities like them. When you can hear/stream a song over 5000 times and the writer of it literally makes less than a dollar, there's something wrong there.
What's your favorite part of the gig?
Two things leap to mind. The first is working with some of the best humans that I know. Rene, Crystal Ann, Ben and Vania are dedicated and passionate – we all feel lucky being able to work together. Secondly, I really love it when we're able to come through for labels and stations. It's important to me that they want to work with us and always see the value of having us on their respective teams. So many label reps and radio programmers are also friends, but I never forget this is a business and everyone has to answer to someone. We know they have choices so we never take for granted those who fly M:M Airlines.
Favorite "pinch me, I'm dreaming" fan girl music industry memory?
I have a lot of those. To narrow it to just one is hard so I'll narrow it to three and hopefully they fit. If not, then I'll replace all of them with the time I got to hang out with J.C. from N'Sync!
1). Starting M:M Music, building an office and putting together what I think is the best promotion team ever.
2). Bonnie Raitt publicly thanking me and also my staff from the stage at the Boulder Convention when she was the Keynote Q&A speaker a couple of years ago.
3). I was in Ireland and Art Garfunkel was touring with Maia Sharp (who it really pays to be married to) in support of their collaborative album on Blue Note entitled "Everything Waits to Be Noticed." Mid-way through the show, Art dedicated "Cecelia" to me. He knew it was my favorite and I'd told him all about my Gran, Cecelia. I was holding up my flip phone at the time so my mom heard it. She still tells that story at her Bridge Club.
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Rewards such as "likes" and "shares" fuel expressions of moral outrage on social media because they reward people who post such messages, a new study suggests.
"Social media's incentives are changing the tone of our political conversations online," said first author William Brady, a postdoctoral researcher in psychology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. "This is the first evidence that some people learn to express more outrage over time because they are rewarded by the basic design of social media."
While moral outrage can encourage social cooperation and prompt social change, it also can lead to harassment of minority groups, the spread of disinformation and political polarization, the researchers noted.
They also pointed out that while social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter claim they just offer a neutral platform for discussions that would otherwise occur elsewhere, they're widely accused of stoking outrage.
But there's been no hard evidence of that, so the Yale team decided to investigate.
Researchers created machine learning software capable of tracking moral outrage in 12.7 million tweets from 7,331 Twitter users.
The results show that rewards on social media platforms actually do affect how people post. Users who received more "likes" and "retweets" when they expressed outrage in a tweet were more likely to express outrage in future posts, according to findings published Aug. 13 in the journal Science Advances.
Researchers also found that members of politically extreme networks expressed more outrage than those in politically moderate networks, but members of politically moderate networks were more influenced by social rewards.
"This suggests a mechanism for how moderate groups can become politically radicalized over time -- the rewards of social media create positive feedback loops that exacerbate outrage," said study co-leader Molly Crockett, an associate professor of psychology at Yale.
The findings have implications for leaders who use the platforms and policy makers weighing whether to regulate them.
"Amplification of moral outrage is a clear consequence of social media's business model, which optimizes for user engagement," Crockett said in a university news release. "Given that moral outrage plays a crucial role in social and political change, we should be aware that tech companies, through the design of their platforms, have the ability to influence the success or failure of collective movements."
More information
Learn more about social media use and mental health at McLean Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
SOURCE: Yale University, news release, Aug. 13, 2021


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When it comes to picking out an increasingly important service, managed Cloud back-up is one that resellers look for and expect, according to Cloud back-up and Cloud storage management vendor, CloudBerry Lab.
In a March 2015 survey of 434 US-based IT resellers and MSPs, the company found that these resellers and MSPs can't compete in the IT market without advanced Cloud back-up solutions.
It showed that 51 per cent of respondents said they could not compete, or that it would be very difficult for them to compete, without Cloud back-up solutions in their portfolios. Only 29 per cent indicated Cloud back-up accounted for a very small or insignificant percentage of revenues.
In addition, 79 per cent of respondents stated they expect the demand for managed Cloud back-up services to increase during the next 12 months.
CloudBerry Lab chief technology officer, Alexey Serkov, said the demand for Cloud back-up is escalating, and there are more options out there than ever before.
"When we were planning to conduct a reseller survey, we thought it would be interesting to know what, exactly, resellers look for and what they expect when it comes to an increasingly important service – managed Cloud back-up," Serkov said.
"Clearly, resellers understand the distinction between full-featured, managed Cloud back-up solutions and solutions that do not offer much beyond the basic ability to store data in the Cloud.
"Many SMBs may not fully understand the major differences between the two, but resellers and MSPs serving them know exactly what's required, and they demand backup solutions combining the best features, performance and flexibility while allowing them to grow their market share," he said.
Other key findings include:
- Reliability was the most important factor when asked what resellers require from back-up solutions. Price was the following factor.
- Resellers and MSPs are more concerned with reliability of service, security and ease of file restore instead of price when selecting a Cloud for their customers' data.
- The number of resellers who use managed Cloud back-up to sell higher margin services outnumbered those who sell cloud backup as a one-off service by a three-to-one margin.
"These findings demonstrate that resellers look beyond price and focus on some very specific requirements when it comes to selecting Cloud back-up solutions for their customers. This becomes even more interesting considering the current climate of falling prices for Cloud storage," Serkov added.


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Efforts Underway to Develop Ringspot-Resistant Papaya Hybrid
***Updated 9:43 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11, with the grant amount.***
While the debate rages on about the pros and cons of genetically modified crops, a Hawai`i research facility is working on developing a ringspot virus-resistant papaya – the "old-fashioned" way.
The Oahu-based Hawaii Agriculture Research Center has received a federal grant to assist in cross-breeding a hybrid that would be resistant to the disease that ravaged the Big Island papaya industry in the 1990s.
Center Executive Director Stephanie Whalen said the effort involves what she describes as a distant cousin of the papaya that is native to South America.
The plant, Vasconcellea pubescens, is also known as the mountain papaya. HARC is working with an Australian researcher using a variety of the fruit that has shown resistance to the virus.
"We're trying to move that resistance to papaya," Whalen said.
But the fruit of V. pubescens is a far cry from Carica papaya, the species that papaya lovers love. While it looks similar to a Hawaiian papaya and can be eaten raw, it is usually cooked as a vegetable.
In fact, V. pubescens is so genetically diverse from C. papaya that when the two are crossed the result tends to be sterile.
One method researchers are trying is to cross V. pubescens with Vasconcellea parviflora, another distant cousin of the papaya. The latter is susceptible to the ringspot virus but the mix is capable of making fertile seeds.
Researchers hope to find an offspring of that match that is fertile yet carries the virus-resistance gene. If that happens, then they will cross that with non-genetically-modified Hawaii papayas. If those produce offspring they will be repeatedly "backcrossed" with non-GMO Hawaii papayas, all the while testing the plants for resistance to the disease.
The trick is retaining the virus-resistance while achieving a fruit with the quality that is acceptable to consumers, Whalen said.
She said even if there is success, it can take decades to achieve.
Another research project in the Philippines, which has also been hard-hit by the ringspot virus, is reporting some success crossing papaya with another Vasconcellea species – after 50 years of trying.
"Traditional breeding takes a long time," Whalen said, "and it's not always successful."
Whalen cited previous efforts by the HARC when it was known as the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association.
She said the organization's research on sugar cane varieties at times involved the planting of two million cane seedlings a year. Out of those sometimes only one or two had the qualities desired.
Also, despite the recent funding from the US Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants, money for this research is hard to come by.
Whalen said the current grant is $20,000 a year for two years — nominal for this type of research.
"That doesn't pay for one full-time technician, let alone the professional who is directing the work," she said.
"If people are adamant about non-GMO papayas, this is the project to send money to," she said.
Her organization can be contacted at http://www.harc-hspa.com/, and funds can be used solely for this research if the donor so desires.
HARC also received funding from the latest grants to help develop blue and purple pest-tolerant anthuriums, and also to refine methods of propagating cacao.
Other recipients of the Hawai`i grants totaling $347,000 include the University of Hawaii to work on methods to fertilize pineapples to optimize shipping, the Hawaii Homegrown Food Network for a public education campaign to increase consumption of breadfruit, and the Kohala Center to improve Hawai`i tea production.
The Hawai`i funding was part of $52 million in USDA grants issued this year to support America's specialty crop producers.


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Easy Slow Cooker Butter Chicken is a simplified version of the classic curry dish. Succulent chicken pieces are combined with herbs, spices, natural yoghurt, coconut milk and butter, then slow cooked until tender. Serve with rice, noodles or vegetables of your choice, this no-fuss recipe is great for weeknights or as an alternative to expensive takeaway orders - Try it today :)
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|Brown onion
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|Garam masala
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|Chilli powder
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|4 Clove (20 gm) , mince
|Unflavored yogurt
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|Coconut milk
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|Tomato paste
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With the release of ownCloud X (10.0.x) we have published official Dockerfiles that are maintained by ownCloud developers. We have also added it as one of the recommended ways to install ownCloud into the documentation. You are more than welcome to try this out and give us your feedback and suggestions.
When we started to chat with customers about this, the immediate feedback was that Docker, and the container world in general, is a great tool for testing and development. They would also very much like to appreciate this world for production environments. Here are a couple of things they have asked us for and which are now available:
Dockerfiles for ownCloud Enterprise
We have put examples of recommendations for MariaDB and Redis, two essential dependencies of any ownCloud install above several users, into our recommended Docker compose files for you! Of course, you are welcome to use your own or provide feedback for MySQL, PostgreSQL or even Oracle!
Our team is using Docker for our own production systems, as well as for demo systems and customers' initial setups. We are also using it inside our ownCloud Appliance based on Univention.
What is Next?
Tools like Terraform allow us to do mass deployments of many, if not unlimited, ownCloud instances on public and private cloud services, which expose proper APIs. Today some manual interception and special scripts are still required, but those tools are very promising and will lead to automated environments including automated ownCloud upgrades for hundreds, if not thousands, of instances at the same time.
All of the above covers single instances of ownCloud. This means one ownCloud application server is connected to one kind of primary storage (typically file system, NFS or S3), one single instance database and one single instance redis (for file locking) – this is suitable for at least up to 500 users. Depending on the actual usage patterns of your users you can also run thousands, however, not tens of thousands of users like our typical large customers do.
While the above is ready for production and is ready for your feedback, comments, testing, and contributions, our next adventure is to investigate infrastructure as code for clustered and highly-available ownCloud database and storage environments combined with the proper monitoring for a highly automated environment. We are looking at DevOps tools like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm combined with Terraform, Azure Stack, OpenShift, Open Stack, etc. to fulfill this need and to provide a fully automated ownCloud "factory" for really large deployments.
Discuss with me and the team about the existing and future DevOps tooling for a smooth ownCloud experience!


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By Deanna Felton on December 5, 2018
As we wrap up 2018 and look towards a new year, we would be remiss to not plug hard for adding the Qualtrax User Conference to your 2019 agenda. Attending this event is a "must"! If you are searching for a way to share the value with your supervisor, we have prepared a justification letter for this exact purpose–go ahead and use it!
Since the magnitude of this effort requires the full-court-press from Team Qualtrax we wanted them to weigh in to share insight and favorite aspects.
The value the User Conference provides our team and product is clear. We also firmly believe in the value it provides our customers–as increased customer proficiency is the overarching goal of the event. Carey Sisson, our Project Manager, said, "The Qualtrax User Conference is the perfect opportunity for Qualtrax customers to learn about the power and versatility of Qualtrax. With the advanced, intermediate and basic training tracks every user, from a newly hired Quality Manager to a skilled System Administrator, is able to advance their Qualtrax knowledge."
Our team is intentional about crafting tracks and training sessions that will serve our customers well. We ensure they are presented with real life scenarios, encompassing a wide variety of industries, to showcase how to best utilize Qualtrax to meet business and compliance needs. This downloadable Conference Prospectus gives details about the tracks and includes quotes from past attendees.
Not only does the User Conference facilitate increased proficiency of users, we also use the conference as an opportunity to get direct and detailed feedback from customers about how to advance our product forward. Will said:
"Getting their feedback on the product in person is rewarding for multiple reasons. It gives us a better idea of their excitement level of new features, but also visual and verbal cues on how they feel about pieces of the product they might be struggling with. We can't get that kind of feedback via email only, and receiving it in person goes a long way toward making Qualtrax even better for them."
We love the feedback our customers provide! We also love the time we get to spend with them.
"Qualtrax User Conference is a great time for customers and the Qualtrax team to put faces to the names of the folks we chat with everyday," shared Bill Montgomery, our Customer Support Manager. He continued, "We're able to build relationships and get to know each other." Our System Administrator, Will Reinhardt shares these same sentiments, "I love the User Conference! It's my favorite way to make stronger connections with our customers who we don't always get to interact with face to face." For him, it also transcends beyond the relational value into future product improvements.
Why the Qualtrax User Conference? After reading all this we think the real question is why NOT!? We are pairing education and training with a whole lot of fun! This year's event is Super Hero themed and we will soon be releasing our headliner speakers– it is going to be out of this world.
Our early bird rates offer cost savings — register by the end of 2018 to enjoy this reduced cost and an exclusive User Conference themed T-shirt free!
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Brenton, Kelly Lynn (1999) Report of a counselling internship at Eugene Vaters Academy and Junior High, St. John's, Newfoundland, including a research project: implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of a peer helping training program at the Junior High. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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This report describes an 11-week internship at Eugene Vaters Academy and Junior High located in St. John's. During the internship, I engaged in many professional activities which enabled me to enhance and build on my skills as a counsellor. These activities included: individual counselling, group counselling, participating in case conferences, completing a variety of comprehensive assessments, participating in two inservices, administering developmental classroom guidance programs in personal safety and conflict resolution, and participating in school transition team meetings. -- I also had an opportunity to implement and deliver a Peer Helping Training Program at Eugene Vaters Junior High and to conduct research on the effectiveness of this training. In particular, the research was conducted to determine whether the training was effective in increasing the basic counselling skills of the participants. -- The results of this research study show that all participants demonstrated post-training gains in listening ability, empathic responding, empathic listening, and paraphrasing.
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NEAR THE TRAIL'S END (1931, Tiffany) Bob Steele, Marion Shockey, Hooper Atchley. A nice print of a somewhat obscure Steele vehicle. A pretty young lady finds her life in danger when she witnesses a couple of cold-blooded slayings. Bob comes to her aid and tries to help her identify the killers. A good early B western. From a nice 16mm print.
BIG CALIBRE (1934, Supreme) Bob Steele, Peggy Campbell, Perry Murdock. A mad chemist kills Bob's dad with poison gas and steals the family fortune. Bob searches for the killer, prospecting on the side. He finds him in a small town, wearing a sinister disguise and in cahoots with a gangster. The chase between horse and auto is terrific. A top western with a dash of horror. 16mm.
THE RED ROPE (1937) Bob Steele, Lois January, Forrest Taylor, Charlie King. Bob is a cowboy with a mysterious past. A desperado known as Rattler Hayne is after him and tries to disrupt his wedding service. In a wedding gift they find three bullets and a red rope--a sign that Bob is marked for death. 16mm.
NORTHWEST TRAIL (1945, Screen Guild) Bob Steele, Joan Woodbury, John Litel, Ray Hatton. Bob's a Mountie trying to solve a ruthless murder in this color western adventure. One early scene has Bob trying to fix Woodbury's car while she does her best to infuriate him. Bob puts her in her place. One of Bob's last starring roles. From a sharp 16mm cinecolor print.