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【山东省德州市 2012 届高三第一次模拟考试】 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡 上将该项涂黑。 A My husband,Michael,a manager of an ordinary company,came home from work one day saying,"It's not looking good." At midnight,I woke up seeing him sitting in a chair,his hand on his forehead.I was worried.I had to cheer him up and help ourselves financially. As an advisor for top companies and a teacher in creative thinking at the college of New Jewsey for years.I thought of a good plan.What if we undertake an adventure while making money from it? As a family,we'd always talked about traveling more, but we'd been tied to routines.Now I saw no point in sitting around worrying when we could see the country.We'd take our three young kids,teach them on the road. It was the perfect time before they reached high school.We'd rent out our house. Michael disagreed at first but realized that with his cell phone,and computer, he could work anywhere. We listed our house for rent and created a brand strategy,logo,and website for us-familyofftrack.com-and persuade five companies to support us.Their ads on our site would help pay travel costs,and we'd promote their brands on our trip in exchange for their support. With everything done,we took off on April 3.All spring and summer,we visited national landmarks and treasured lands. By August when we returned home,Michael's company continued to slide and now may have to close down.But we've made the travel a permanent part of our lives. What's more,with a Chicago-based production company I've developed the Family Off Track brand by creating videos,educational programs and exhibits.And Michael has new ideas for management businesses.It's great to see the spark in hi s eyes again. Now I feel it even more.Together we taught our kids a lesson:Nobody ever made
history by living 100 percent by the book in times of recession(不景气). 56.Michael was in low spirits because A.he couldn't sleep well for many days B.he lost his interest in his business C.his manager was about to fire him D.his company was in financial trouble 57.It can be inferred from the second paragraph that . .
A.chances could come when a family was in financial trouble B.it is impossible for poor people to spare their time for traveling C.the author's plan would benefit the family in several aspects D.their children's education would have to be stopped temporarily 58.How did they cover the cost of travelling? A.By selling products for Michael's company. B.By providing advertisement service. C.By teaching children on the way. D.By establishing a shopping website. 59.The family benefited a lot from the creative travel except A.the total recovery of the father's company B.their experiences of visiting beautiful places C.opening a new window to their life D.developing their the Family off Track brand 60.The family's story is a good example to prove that A.A good fame is better than a good face B.Every man is the architect of his own fortune C.An ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom D.A good book is the best of friends,the same today and forever B Dyslexia is a problem that restricts the ability to recognize words and connect sounds with letters when people read.People with this learning disorder may also have problems when they write . Dyslexia is not related to eyesight or
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intelligence.The problem involves areas of the brain that process language.Brain scientists are studying whether they can predict which young children may struggle with reading to provide them early help.John Gabrieli at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is leading the study of five-year-olds in about twenty schools in the Boston area. They studied in the schools with kindergartens.And for all the children joining in the study,they give them a brief set of paper-and-pencil tests to look at which children appear to be at some risk for struggling to read.So far,fifty of them have been examined in a scanner,a special machine,to show brain activity.Written tests are not always able to identify dyslexia or other problems,while brain scans may offer a more scientific way to identify problems.And with reading problems, early identification is important. When it comes to helping children overcome reading difficulties,the younger the child, the more effective they are. Reading problems are not usually identified until a child is in the third or fourth grade.The later children are recognized as poor readers,the less treatment can help.And,as Professor Gabrieli points out,poor reading can make education a struggle.Reading is everything.Even math and science have textbooks. While the children are given tasks related to reading,the brain scans measure the extent to which certain parts of the brain become active while the children do the work.The scientists say they are pleased with early results from the study.but have a long way to go. 61.The most obvious symptom with a Dyslexia sufferer is A.having a bad memory C.having poor eyesight B.losing the ability D.showing low IQ . .
62.The purpose of the study led by John Gabrieli is A.to provide early help to the children with Dyslexia B.to apply their scanning machine to medical field C.to test children's ability to read and write D.to find out how brain processes language 63.The function of the scanner is to
A.provide the children with necessary pictures B.check the result of the paper and pencil tests C.find an effective way to improve one's reading D.identify how the brain works while reading 64.What factor is most important in helping children with dyslexia according to the passage? A.Medicine B.Diet C.Timing D.Scanner
65.What's the main idea of the passage? A.More facts have been found about reading. B.Everyone has to face the problem of dyslexia. C.The scans can show how a person's brain works. D.Treatment of dyslexia is more effective if examined early. C A study published in today's edition of the Science finds that, overall, species are moving to higher latitudes(纬度)at l0.5 miles per decade.The rate is two or three times faster than when it was last measured,in 2003. "The climate is shifting everything toward the north and higher
altitudes,"says Chris Thomas,the author on the paper and a professor at the University of York in the United Kingdom.Animals,plants and insects closer to the equator ''are starting to find it too hot and are retreating upwards." The study was an analysis covering 764 species moving north or south depending on which hemisphere(半球)they were in. Although each species moved at different rates and some even moved towards the equator,overall the strong trend was toward the poles. For the most part,it's not that animals are walking,hopping or winging their way north,Thomas says.Rather,individuals at a species' southernmost range are breeding( 繁 殖 )less successfully while individuals in that same species' northernmost range are breeding more successfully.The result is that the entire species moves up. "There is practically no basis to doubt the fact that species are shifting as
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a function of rapidly changing climate,"says Jeremy Kerr.a professor of biology at the University of Ottawa in Canada, who did not participate in the study.One species Kerr studies is the bog copper, a beautiful little butterfly that appears to practically be on an expressway to the North Pole.It has moved more than 90 miles north in the past decade. For farmers,what crops they grow and livestock they keep is also beginning to shift, says Philip Thornton,an agricultural economist in Nairobi,Kenya.In Africa,small farms are changing the kinds of animals they keep.In Northern Kenya, there is a move in some places away from the traditional cattle to camels,which are more drought resistant;the price of adult camels there is increasing quite rapidly.
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69.In the last paragraph,farmers prefer camels A.because of changes in temperature B.as a result of animals moving northwards C.with the purpose of earning more money D.due to the changes in crop growing 70.We can infer from the passage that .
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visit."my student began."I just wanted to see if you still lived here.I'll only stay a minute." My response was immediate."No,you won't,"I said."Just come in,sit, have coffee, and we'll talk.'' I had nothing in the kitchen but we ordered pizza.And we had a lovely time.I have tried to keep the drop-in tradition alive though it takes some effort. 71 . The author thought his friend's invitation---"You'11 have to drop in sometime"---as . B.an excuse of leaving D.an expression of surprise .
A.a nice way of refusal C.a kind of politeness
72.The underlined phrase "pop in" in the second paragraph means A.make many friends C.have a good time B.make a special date D.pay a sudden visit
73.The woman from the neighborhood used to visit the author's home to A.seek comfort from my parents C.1isten to my parents' story B.meet new friends D.taste nice dishes .
74.From the third paragraph of the passage,we can infer that A.the author misses the lost good days B.unexpected visitors are still welcome now C.modern people prefer outdoor activities D.there are more jobs for the housewives now 75.The author writes the passage intending to A.encourage people to be drop-in visitors B.explain how to deal with unexpected visitors C.share his feelings about the drop-in tradition D.show the importance of making friends 【答案】 .
【山东省东营市 2012 届高三第一次模拟考试】 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑。 A Lill was a young French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community. At the age of l6, her father thought that she had enough schooling and forced her to drop out of school to contribute to the family income. In l922, with limited education and skills, the future didn't look bright for Lill. Her father demanded that Lill find a job as soon as possible, but she didn't have the confidence to ask for a job. One day, Lill gathered her courage and knocked on her very first door. She was met by Margaret Costello, the office manager. In her broken English, Lill told her she was interested in the secretarial position. Margaret decided to give her a chance. Margaret sat her down at a typewriter and said, "Lill, let's see how good you really are."She directed Lill to type a single letter, and then left. Lill looked at the clock and saw that it was ll:40 a.m. Everyone would be leaving for lunch at noon. She thought she should at least attempt the letter. On her first try, she got through one line but made four mistakes. She pulled the paper out and threw it away. The clock now read ll:45. "At noon," she said to herself,"I'll move out with the crowd, and they will never see me again." On her second attempt, things didn't get any better. Again the started over and finally completed the letter, full of mistakes, though. She looked at the clock: ll:55 —five minutes to freedom. Just then, Margaret walked in. She came directly over to Lill, and put one hand on the desk and the other on the girl's shoulder. She read the letter and paused. Then she said,"Lill, you're doing good work!" Lill was surprised. She looked at the letter, then up at Margaret. With those simple words of encouragement, her desire to escape disappeared and her confidence began to grow. She thought, "Well, if she thinks it's good, then it must be good. I think I'll stay!"
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Lill did stay at Carhartt Overall Company?for 5l years, through two world wars and ll presidents—all because someone had the insight to give a shy and uncertain young girl the gift of self-confidence when she knocked on the door. 56. Why did Lill leave school at an early age? A. To learn English well. C. To get self-confidence. 57. When Lill applied for the job, she A. could speak good English C. knew Margaret very well B. To earn money for her family. D. To become a typist. . B. didn't know much about typing D. never wrote any letter
58. How many attempts did Lill make to type the letter? A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
59. Who does the underlined word "someone" in the last paragraph refer to? A. Lill's father. B. Lill herself C. A president. D. Margaret.
60. What can we learn from Lill's story? A. Encouragement makes a difference. C. Virtue leads to success. 【答案】 56—60 BBCDA 【山东省东营市 2012 届高三第一次模拟考试】 B In the past year, the number of parenting contracts--statements signed by parents agreeing to bring their child to school--has gone up by 4l% to 6,86l. The number of court-issued punishment notices went up by l2% to 7,793 last year. The Department for Children, Schools and Families said that part of the rise was due to a ban on parents taking their child out of school during term time to go on holiday. The Labour government has a target to cut truancy(逃学) by a third, but the current rate of unauthorised absence in England is a third higher than in 200l. The government has introduced tough new permission to force parents to deal with their child's truancy. Parents can be fined, asked to sign contracts, or ordered
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B. Honesty is the best policy. D. Time waits for no man.
to make their child go to school. Finally they can be sent to prison. The first parent to be put in prison was Patricia Amos, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, in 2006. Separate figures from the Ministry of Justice today show that 133 parents were put in prison between 2004 and 20ll for failing to prevent their child's truancy. Children's minister Delyth Morgan said:"It's important that we back schools and local authorities in using these powers to deal with problem pupils and bad behaviour. They rightly make parents take responsibility for their children. These latest figures show that schools and local authorities continue to make good use of these measures." David Laws, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman, said:"While parents need to take responsibility for their children's behaviour and have the duty to ensure they attend school, truancy rates across the country remain sky high. What is needed is a more effective local approach involving parents, schools and the police. Extra money to cut class sizes and provide more one-to-one support will enable teachers to work with individual children and make sure that they are occupied in the classroom." 6l. Parenting contracts are signed to .
A. remind parents to help their child with his homework B. make parents accompany their child to school C. keep children safe on the way to school D. ensure children attend school 62. The worst punishment parents can be faced with is A. to be fined C. to sign a contract .
B. to be put into prison D. to lose parenting right .
63. The underlined word "back" in Paragraph 4 probably means A. adjust B. limit C. oppose . D. support
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A. the government's approach has had little effect on children's truancy B. the government should take tougher measures against parents
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C. the number of parents sent to prison has reduced D. schools and local authorities misuse the measures 65. In David Laws' opinion, .
A. only schools are responsible for children's behaviour B. schools have got less support from the government C. parents, schools and the police are to blame for children's truancy C. more effective measures should be taken to prevent children's truancy 【答案】 61—65 DBDAD


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A number of student organisations and alliances demand fresh polls
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A number of student organisations and alliances that contested the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election are demonstrating on the campus demanding fresh polls, Agencies report.
The first Ducsu election in 28 years was marred by allegations of irregularities.
Supporters of Bangladesh Chhatra League candidate Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon have rejected results of the vice-president post where he was defeated by quota reform movement leader Nurul Haq Nur.
Shovon's followers have been demonstrating in front of the vice-chancellor's residence since Tuesday morning.
BCL leader Noyon Hawlader, a supporter of Shovon, claimed Nur is a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir and alleged that there had been irregularities in the polls.
"We want re-election," he told the UNB.
All panels, except the BCL, announced polls boycott alleging irregularities on Monday. But it is unclear whether Nur will take over as VP of the DU student body.
Classes remained suspended at DU on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, activists of BNP student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal are demonstrating in front of the Aparajeyo Bangla demanding reelection, while the leftist panel is protesting in TSC area.
The BCL panel won all the seats except that of the VP and social services.
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It is good to see a competitive product and fully flat bed offered by Delta on this leg, unlike some airlines which still angled bed for a journey this long.
The food presentation is actually nice and the meals look like they were decent size.
Although I have to say that salad presentation was just okay, its just lettuce sliced in half and sprinkled with cheese.
But I find with most airlines, their salad presentations are also very ordinary because I suppose most passengers ignore the salad.
But the spicy prawns looked nice, hopefully it wasnt dry or hard like rubber.
And the entree with the mash, the brocollini looked crunchy.
The savory dish for breakfast looked like a good choice! chicken and cashew is always a safe but tasty bet, hopefully it tasted nice.
well to me anyway, i find this whole idea of what constitute a meal fit for breakfast or lunch or dinner is silly, for me they are all food.
Were the seats comfortable for sleeping? I found Cathay Pacific's version of this seat to be the most comfortable, felt like a bed. the cushion firmness were just right.
Anyway enjoy the Asiana flight, I am not a big fan of their fleet. they need to upgrade and catch up with the rest of the world.
Greetings Airtraceladdict and thanks for reading and commenting.
Were the seats comfortable for sleeping?
- Perhaps a little on the firm side. A pad to place on the seat would be a nice addition to the bedding. Some passengers will put an extra duvet down but I find that to be too warm most of the time.
...what was the service or crew like?
The service was attentive with frequest top ups of drinks and dishes cleared promptly. Between services they pass through the cabin frequently with trays of water at which time you may request anything additional. There is a snack station setup int he galley with fruit, candy, and savory snacks. Instant noodle soup is also presented.
...enjoy the Asiana flight, I am not a big fan of their fleet. they need to upgrade and catch up with the rest of the world.
- I concur with your assessment. Their soft product is outstanding but the angle flat seats on the A330 that they fly to SEA part of the year are not competitive.
Thanks for sharing this very nice report with us. As you mentioned Delta delivers a warm service and I always find their catering to my taste. Nothing too fancy but always fresh and tasty.
I also like the forward cabin of the A330 and find t very comfortable with enough privacy.
Looking forward to further reports !
Greetings Skyteamchc and thank you for dropping by and leaving a note. Happy travels!
Greetings BombieFlyer and thank you for reading and commenting. Sorry about your shower experience a the SEA Skyclub, hot water is a basic necessity they should be able to provide consistently! You are correct about the sink, it is absent from the shower room, which is unfortunate. Happy travels!
Thank you for this flight report. I like your writing style, concise yet entertaining.
I had the chance to try the very same Delta Skylounge at Seattle-Tacoma after my flight from PVG. I find this lounge to be okay, it meets the job. Nothing too fancy but not too spartan as well. I also had the opportunity to try the shower room. The shower room is very big, spacious, and very clean. However, it is quite dark, hot water didn't really work (i was there in February), and the water pressure was rather weak. And the lounge attendant will specifically ask you what kind of amenities that you need and will only give what you said you needed. If I remember correctly, there was no sink inside the shower room so if you want to brush your teeth, you have to go out to the main toilet area.
It seems that Delta was being at its best during your flight :) again, not too fancy but not shabby as well. I think I prefer this style over blink-blink wannabe ala ME3. Great food + good IFE + great seat = great flight ^__^
Anyway, I look forward for your next installment flying with OZ!
Thanks for another good report. DL is way ahead of the other US legacies in terms of consistency of International J product. On DL, no matter what aircraft you get (except 757) you know you're getting full-flat full-aisle-access. The catering is also very good for a U.S. carrier. As a former DL flyer now flying AA, DL does better than AA on Long-haul J catering, but less well on Domestic F. Thanks for sharing!
Nice...the A321T, that should be a good experience. Haven't had the chance to fly the A321T yet. Hope you enjoy!
The A321T is indeed a great configuration. I had a great Flight Attendant who took very good care of the 8 of us in F. Well done AA.
Hello KevinDC and thank you for reading and commenting. I haven't experienced a US Domestic International J service in 15 years so I don't have a point of reference but trip reports seem to support your thesis. I have my first trip in AA F this Sunday from JFK - LAX so I'll get to see how they do it on your side!
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hatched out the Andalusian roo mated w/RIR hen?
hatched out the Andalusian roo mated w/BLRW?
a buncha mutts I suppose. I dont think anyone can accurately predict what you'll get when you are crossing breeds like that. You'll just have to hatch them out and see I bet.
Quote:The RIR will produce black chicks or blue chicks. When the birds get older the males will leak non-black or non-blue in the pyle zone ( hackles, back, saddles) the females will be black or blue and some may leak non-black.
The same will be true for the wyandotte.
The andalusian usually carries a gene called extnded black which is dominant over the wheaten allele (RIR) or the brown allele (BLRW). The andalusian also carries genes that extend or intensify black. An example of a gene that extends black is melanotic.


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Like many people, I "discovered" New Zealand writer Janet Frame's works through the Jane Campion film, An Angel at My Table. I felt like I'd stumbled on a soul sister. Janet Frame's life and works are an amazing discovery of a writer finding herself despite grinding poverty, personal setbacks and more.
Frame's autobiography pictured above includes her three autobiographical works: To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table, and The Envoy from Mirror City. I almost stopped reading the book at the end of To the Is-Land because it was so painful. Frame is the second child in a family of five, four girls and one boy. She writes of her earliest memories living in New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s, during the Great Depression when despite her hard-working parents, the family never seemed to be warm, never seemed to have enough clothes, shoes or food. Her parents drowned half their pets (that was the part I couldn't read past at first); if I read one more sentence about sacks of kittens being drowned or her beloved pet dog drowned because the health inspector said they couldn't keep another dog, I was going to chuck the whole book. I'm glad I didn't. I did have to put it aside, my animal rescuer's heart breaking at the thought of drowning dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. I know it was a different time, place and mindset, but still…
But that's not the story here. The story is mesmerizing. Janet Frame has a writer's memory for details, describing in almost poetic free-verse the countryside, the people, the family and the trials and tribulations of her young life.
The real story doesn't begin until Frame enters high school. Her eldest sister, Myrtle, dies in a bizarre swimming accident at the public pool; almost 10 years to the date later, her sister Isobel also drowns while on holiday with her mother. The two losses, combined with her brother Bruddie (George) epilepsy, create horrible stress within her family. Her parents never have enough money. Her mother's religious faith sustains her, but her father is a bully, sharp and mean. Janet is so painfully shy she can barely talk to strangers. She pretends to be someone she is not throughout her life until just before her college graduation. Then, faced with the prospect of a life planned for her instead of the life she longs to live, she tries to kill herself by taking a bottle of aspirin. She survives the suicide attempt but almost dies in the insane asylum called Sea Cliff she is sent to, where she is completely misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic.
Here lies the heart of her tale, but she claims she's told it enough in her fiction, and barely mentions her seven years of incarceration in one of the toughest mental hospitals in New Zealand. She is given shock treatments, treated like an imbecile, all because she is shy! She doesn't get any kind of treatment whosoever, and on one among the medical professionals in New Zealand ever questions the diagnosis of schizophrenia. It's not until almost a decade later while living in London that she commits herself voluntarily to a mental hospital in England for final evaluation, and finds out she never had schizophrenia…and all her current problems are due to being incarcerated in an institution!
Janet's life unfolds as one long string of struggles – to find work she can do despite her painful shyness, to find enough money to survive while she writes. She writes and publishes poetry, short stories and novels. Her poetry I found especially beautiful and compelling. I plan to buy more books by Frame this summer as I loved her use of metaphor, her craftsmanship with language. Her autobiography shows that same beautiful, flowing prose, although sometimes it is difficult to understand if she is using metaphor or trying to convey something else.
Frame eventually wins a grant, escapes a near lobotomy, and flees to England and Spain in search of adventure. She has a fling with a man in Ibizza, gets pregnant, miscarries, and receives a marriage proposal from another gentleman, an Italian living in Spain. She loses her nerve to turn him down and returns to England, where her publisher urges her to take a fancy apartment and pen a bestseller. Once again she finds herself losing her identity as she bows to the wishes of everyone else around her, the good girl acquiescing to the grown ups. Readers will begin to see the theme and variation of her life as she tells her story – she is forever listening to others, subsuming her identity to the whims of "adults" around her, only to struggle to reclaim her sense of self.
Finally, Frame does find that sense of self with the help of an honest psychiatrist in London who seems to be a genuine, caring individual. She returns to New Zealand upon the death of her father, asserts her new found status as 'sane,' and fights against the constant portrayal of herself in the New Zealand press as a madwoman. She even changes her last name to assert her own sense of self.
Finally, at the end of the book, we sense peace. Frame has claimed her own name, a name she chose for herself. She purchases a small cottage. She stays single. She writes what she wants to write, lives simply, and finally makes enough money to survive. I wanted to applaud on the last page.
Janet Frame was truly a powerful writer. Her autobiography won't be for everyone, and there are some graphic scenes in it – the first time she has sex, for example, and the aforementioned issues with her pets. If you're squeamish, you can skip these parts or just accept them as the colorful parts of an amazing woman.
Highly recommended. I purchased my copy from Amazon.


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— Paul Dummett (@PaulDummett) November 9, 2017
As expected, Newcastle fans were quick to comment on the player's tweet.
Keep up the hard work Paul. All the best with the recovery…
— Total:NUFC (@Total_NUFC) November 9, 2017
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rantsauce263467dA new word for system admin? By the way, it's 'site reliability engineer' now.
Hakash89967dShort version and what most people believe: Automating infrastructure and deployment through scripts, code, hooks and pipelines. Monitoring load and automating scaling up and down based on that is one example.
Long version and "origin": making devs and sysops work together on common goals in the same teams to mutually exchange knowledge, pain points and getting an understanding of what it's like on the other side of the proverbial fence. Working together makes you see the other person as a person, not just a random anonymous speedbump in a beurocratic system.
Ps! Not stupid at all. Its vague and changing...
Sumafu115667dThe same team is developing an app and running it in the cloud
Glorified sysadmin basically
mpie40367dA person who press a button and gets all the credits
@mpie Or no button at all and everything goes on auto :D
Sumafu115667dThe easiest explanation: "dev"ops" means "developer" and "operator" (in the same team/person)
@Sumafu no. Devops is *not* a developer.
Devops is a mindset striving to optimize, automate, script, pipeline everything to make as little room for human error as possible and make things as robust as possible.
The only thing devops is developing are scripts, automation rules, etc. Devops is *not* about developing the main product. It's about a blazing fast, reliable and robust deployment/delivery pipeline. It covers everything in between a git repo and a live customer-facing prod
it is not a sysadmin role. But a sysadmin is desired to develop a devops mindset. It's not a qa role. But qa is desired to develop a devops mindset. And so on and so forth.
@netikras of it's a mindset it cannot be a valid position
@irene you are 100% correct. It cannot. Yet some people catch the buzzword and use it however they want.
I'm surprised I hven't heard of a role 'agile engineer' yet :)
SukMikeHok1127767d@irene did u mean glory hole
@netikras so, by those definitions devops is a sysadmin-integrator which should automate all the things and make himself obsolete? 🤔
@SukMikeHok no
@irene you're still assuming devops is a job title, aren't you? :)
either way - yes and no. Automate whatever can be safely automated -- yes [not "all the things"]. Make himself obsolete - not by a hair of my chinny chin chin. Not all yhe thongs can or should be automated; whatever is automated -- needs maintenance and constant improvements, further development; new things to come could need automation, etc, etc. There's no way a person like that will become obsolete :)
@netikras no, I mean what the job ads would assume
thatDude33567dYou are in luck! I actually asked this in our scrum master training. DevOps is a developer, but not really like developer, but more like operator. Operator doesn't really operate anything and actually operator is not a developer but more like culture. So we are developers and then there are operators and we are the operators and we are the culture. Or value. Or like community of aggregated busines vision streams.
So in short: it's bullshit.
As someone who is striving to be a devops engineer, I think my two cents are valid here. I wholeheartedly agree that devops is a mindset; one that should be adopted by most people in the code development business. But devops is also a valid position.
I'm starting to sense that 'sysadmin' is being used to generalize anyone who's working on servers. Compared to a developer. You have frontend, backend, web, mobile, game developers and so on. And it's the same thing in the 'sysadmin' space.
So while sysadmin is a term that covers everyone who works with servers, it's the same as using the term developer. There are many things to be done, being under those blanket terms.
Sorry. I'm just so tired of people invalidating devops as a position. You try setting up a workflow with docker, kubernetes, ansible, Jenkins and puppet, and tell me that that is not an entire position, in and of itself.
@KasperNS why hiding continuous integration behind obscure devops term?
@irene because it can be so much more than that. I'd like to make it clear, that I know devops is being used as a buzzword by many people right now, where they shouldn't. I'm just saying that the 'devops is not a job. Period.' saying, is just plain wrong. There are nuances to it, as there is to everything
@KasperNS that "job" has no concrete definition
@irene yeah. That's not really an argument against what my point
@KasperNS it is. Job position without a definition is not a job position at all, it's just a word.
@irene well that is a matter of different opinions then.
@KasperNS it's a matter of definition.
@irene let's agree to disagree. And before you hit with some variation of 'it's a fact', in my opinion, it doesn't need a definition.
@KasperNS a word that does not define anything is just a meaningless set of sounds.
@irene okay. Fine.. Here's my (albeit vague) definition of music: when different instruments are used, to create a coherent piece of work.
Would you argue against that definition?
We have a devops department.
Mindset, position... Meh, that's semantics.
They are devs in the sense that they program... But only tooling. They mostly use Golang, Python, Bash and NodeJS in our case.
The point is, an application dev can only learn so much.
We have PHP/VueJs, Rust and Swift/Kotlin devs.
If a PHP developer is stuck because he has to research how Docker works, he's wasting time. If a Kotlin dev is building a component which needs data from an internal API and schedule a job in a Redis queue, he shouldn't have to figure out for long how to talk to those resources.
They ask devops to set up staging environments, and provide them with the right API keys. Devops figures out when new databases are needed, and why there is a mysterious spike in traffic at 3:03am every day. They buy domain names, and configure AWS.
Devops are the infrastructure guardians and the tollbooth operators; they're planning new roads, they schedule migrations at the right times, and most importantly they take all the blame when things go wrong 😂
rutee071062367d@netikras Lol. Automated thongs. I love it.
monkeyboy81767dIt's an extremely sophisticated method of separating C level managers from their budgets.
Kimmax1267966d@mpie sure, but where does that button come from? Spawned from the void?
DevOps is neither a simple job, or a specific thing to do. It's a process. DevOps is finding bottlenecks and things that need optimization in your processes, automating and streamlining them as far as it provides benefits. DevOps is building reliable, documented and, most importantly, reproducible processes.
Said processes could be anything from setting up general infrastructure, eg bootstraping network hardware, provisioning VMs, or your general CI/CD pipeline that automatically builds packages and publishes them to your repository.
DevOps is more a way to do things, like an ideology you might say. There's no generally defined point where you become a 'DevOps Engineer', it's more like a description of a vague idea on how to do things. When someone is looking for a person who does 'devops' it's more like asking for a set of abilities, maybe a scripting language or two, maybe experience with a config deployment tool? Maybe he would like someone who knows how to automate things.
DevOps is a huge topic, you could compare it to naming the world's time periods. The world went from the industrial revolution to postmodernity (I skipped a few in-between), IT went from the manual period to the automation period, or DevOps 🤷🏻♂
All the things you mention are also true for backend or DBA.
When sysadmins went from shoving ram in racks and managing linux users, to logging in on AWS and monitoring kubernetes clusters, the jobtitle changed.
Yeah, it's a bit of a hyped term, and there is not much clarity about what it entails *exactly*, but that same ambiguity exists for boundaries between front-end & design, between backend & DBA, between tester & QA.
When your company has 3 devs, they must be pretty much fullstack devs. Even if one writes Angular, and the other two create a Java/Spring backend.
If you have 30 or 300 devs, it's smarter to let your devs concentrate on what they are really good at. It's good to have peripheral vision, but distractions make you inefficient.
I know how Docker and Kubernetes works, I know how to write VueJS components, but I almost exclusively focus on the edge between Backend code and DBA.
In the same way, Devops CAN truly be a separate profession as well.
Oh btw this is neat infographic:
Kimmax1267966d@bittersweet yeah, as I said, it is what you need it to be
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Letters to the Editor – week 38
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Searching for veteran's photograph
I have been looking for many years without success to find a photograph of my father as a young man.
I think with all the publicity surrounding centenary of the end of the Great War this may just be my last opportunity to succeed in that endeavour.
My father was born in Oban in 1882. He was a member of the Oban TA Mountain Battery prior to enlisting in the regular army in 1906. On enlistment he joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
From his army records he served firstly in India (1906), returning directly from there to Belgium/France (1914) and then Italy (1917). During the course of that service he was awarded two Military Medals, firstly, at The Battle of Messines. A Bar to that followed in Italy during the Battle on the River Piave. The award of both medals was mentioned in the Oban Times. They were also in the London Gazette,September 28, 1917, and March 29, 1919.
Some years ago a very kind lady, Faith Orr of the Oban Times assisted me in researching the archives and was able to tell me that in 1919 The Oban Council presented gold watches to all Oban men who had received gallantry awards during the war. Faith found some articles on the event and my father was listed as having been there and I do recall seeing the watch.
Mr John MacPherson, during one of my visits to the Oban War and Peace Museum, was able to show me one of the presented watches which is on display at the museum, I believe donated by a recipient or his family.
I am hoping the presentation in 1919 was photographed either by someone officially recording the event or by someone whose family member was being honoured that day and that some families may still have a copy of the picture.
It is a bit of a long shot but I hope this appeal via The Oban Times may just turn one up or indeed a relative that I don't know about.
At the end of the war my father, being part of the regular army, transferred to "K" Battery Royal Horse Artillery, serving in India.
Alex McColl,
Pendeen, Upper Castle Road, St Mawes, Cornwall, TR2 5BY.
Congratulatons on ferry summit
I write to congratulate Alison MacCorquodale on her effectiveness as prospective Labour candidate in the Western Isles. She appears to have achieved more in the space of days than many of us have managed in years.
On September 5, Ms MacCorquodale drew attention to the latest CalMac crisis and called for "an islands summit on ferry services to which the MSP and MP should be invited with 'empty chairs' if required".
On September 6 at Holyrood, Alasdair Allan MSP asked the Paul Wheelhouse, the minister for energy, connectivity and the islands, if he would "commit to visiting my constituency to meet me and other stakeholders at a summit to discuss that important issue?" i.e. ferry capacity.
Until then, Mr Allan's most notable contribution to the ferry debate had been to call for a tax on campervans to deter them from coming to the Western Isles at all, so this really was dramatic progress.
On September 9, Mr Allan issued a press release stating that Mr Wheelhouse has "agreed to visit the Western Isles" to discuss "the shortage of ferry space" with himself and "other stakeholders".
I think we need early clarification of who will be involved in these discussions and what opportunity there will be for the people and businesses most affected by the ferry shambles to be heard? Let's not lose sight of the promised "summit".
In the meantime, thanks are due to Ms MacCorquodale for her effective intervention. Who knows, we might even hear from the MP once he can spare time between crowdfunding for Alex Salmond and broadcasting for Russia TV!
Angus McCormack, 25 North Street, Sandwick, Isle of Lewis
Thank you to unknown rescuer
Wednesday August 29 was a fine day and I went for a walk up the old Coffin Road from the end of Loch Feochan towards Scammadale.
The track is now very overgrown and almost totally obscured with chest-high bracken. It was very hard work.
By the time I returned to my car in the layby at the end of Loch Feochan, I was exhausted and tripped (or maybe fainted), falling and cracking my head. I remember a lady who was there coming to my rescue and somehow she got me to Oban hospital – but I blacked out and don't remember this bit until I came to in A&E.
The lady disappeared before I could thank her. Judging by the blood on my clothes, I must have made a mess of her car.
It is heartening to know that such Good Samaritans still exist, and if the lady reads this – I'm most grateful to her.
I'd also like to record my appreciation of the hospital staff for their very professional, efficient and friendly care. It's a great resource we have here.
By the way, I don't recommend going near that Feochan-Scammadale track until the bracken has died down.
Sandy Johnstone, The Glebe, Kilmelford.
Concerns are growing over Islay infrastructure
On my latest visit to Burnside I heard numerous concerns raised about our Islay's infrastructure and its ability to cope with our tremendous growth in industrial output.
This is a concern I share and both Argyll and Bute Council and the Scottish Government must do more as leaving much-needed road maintenance on the back-burner will only lead to an even greater cost when the work is finally done.
At the recent Tarbert Community Council meeting, and while speaking to directly to local business owners, I was given an update on Scottish Water's plans for addressing long-standing sewage and drainage issues in the area as well as the disruption to business that will be caused.
Back on Islay after receiving numerous complaints about the condition of the Charlotte Street bus shelter in Port Ellen, I raised the matter with our roads department which plans to replace said bus shelter once it has consulted the local community about the best possible location, whether that be the current location or another.
The continuing dilapidation of the Laphroaig stretch of road has resulted in myself receiving one justifiable complaint after complaint after another. Many of my constituents are asking when this road will be properly repaired. As ever, I will keep pressing for proper long term repair work to be done.
Councillor Alastair Redman,
Parking fine means we will avoid Oban in future
Visiting Oban on August 16 with a large shopping list, we began in Argos then went to Pets at Home followed by Homebase. We then drove to Tesco car park and walked to Aldi and afterwards to Tesco for our weekly shopping.
Having finished, we drove out of the car park having stayed for just under three hours – well within the four hours allowed at most Euro car parks in Glasgow.
So I am sure you can imagine my surprise some days later to receive a parking fine from Euro car parks for £100, or £60 if paid immediately.
I endeavour at all times to support our local retail shops. However, following this hard-learned lesson, I intend to shop in Glasgow where there are more realistic timings for parking.
I am surprised that the retailers at Oban Retail Park are content with how little time shoppers are able to park. This will only be exacerbated with the arrival of M&S.
Tom Adam,


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HUGO RUSBRIDGE Khandallah Four-lane road required John Harding (March 1) wants Transmission Gully built, but (bizarrely) as a meandering two- lane route like that over the Rimutakas. The present two-lane route north of Wellington is inadequate, particularly in Plimmerton with the T2 lanes, and north of the Otaihanga turnoff, where a median wire fence is to be installed to separate north and south-bound traffic traffic. It should be built as a four-lane route, with separation of north and south-bound traffic. On the driver test lotto'' (March 1), what were the pass rates for the Kilbirnie and Porirua testing centres? And I sympathise with Ms Arrell, who was rejected after arriving six minutes late; the tester was happy to take the money and sit on his butt for an hour, though the test would have been finished before the next candidate was due. JOHN WILSON Johnsonville Editor's note: the pass rate for Kilbirnie was 72 per cent and for Porirua 76 per cent. Transmission rethink needed John Harding rightly questions the traffic growth projections that justify a four-laned motorway through Transmission Gully. It is certain that Treasury will critically examine such forecasts when reporting on the allocation of government funds. Delays to the suggested start date are inevitable. That two lanes through the gully would cost say, half that of four lanes, may be optimistic. That two lanes added to the coast road from Pukerua Bay to McKays Crossing -- about one- third of the length of the gully route -- would cost less than a quarter of the gully work, is very likely. This would be a safer road, economically justifiable and easily funded. The regional council appointed a committee to show that a resource consent could not be obtained for widening the coastal route. Such a view is not being independently tested. Instead road users are being milked to support a wide range of non- roading interests. Gully sponsors have ensured that road users will continue to be disadvantaged into the foreseeable future. Regrettably there is no will to turn back. MIKE WILLIAMS Tawa Sirens vital I agree that there are different warning requirements for localised and long-distance seismic events. The localised seismic event will always be its own best warning of a possible tsunami. Unfortunately, these events still need sirens and warning equipment because, as we discovered in Christchurch, people will need to be freed and rescued and people need to know if a wave is coming. Many other New Zealand cities have grasped this. For long-distance events, six hours or longer away, the Wellington Emergency Management Office (WEMO) model will probably work. Queries over driver testing We seem to have struck a chord with our story last week about driver licence testing. Reader feedback has focused on several issues but a strong concern is consistency. Statistics revealed that Wel- lington's overall pass rate for those sitting their class 1 or 6 type licences (car and motor- cycle) was 75 per cent. Although it can be argued both ways as to whether this is agoodthingorabadthing--do we not allow enough good drivers on the road or too many bad ones? -- a key question is why is there such a discrepancy between testing stations and officers. Lower Hutt topped the region with a 79 per cent pass rate, Porirua followed at 76, Kilbirnie at 72 and Mt Victoria was last at 71 per cent. It would be good if all instructors tested drivers in the same manner. If that happened, pass rates should be more or less the same. Instead, it seems you are unlucky if you have to sit your test within Wellington city. Another consistency problem --ifyoucancallitthat--isthe attitudes of testers. Some respondents to our story said their instructor was friendly, chatty and that they felt comfortable. But with others it was a very different story. One letter writer told us the instructor did not look at him, shake his hand or even properly introduce himself. He was then ordered to read the form, then yelled at for reading the bottom half of the page. The hopeful driver was failed for a broken tail-light, which was working again five minutes later. However, the instructor at that point refused to let him sit the test. The driver's female com- panion then had the instructor yell in her face after being asked about his poor overall manner''. It is astounding that anyone feels such behaviour is accept- able, let alone a person working in a customer service role. Being failed for a broken tail- light was something that came up a few times as people related their horror stories. Of course cars on the road should be up to a certain con- dition. But are testers being too officious in not allowing some cars to be used for driving tests? Some of our readers com- plained, too, about not being allowed to sit tests because their licences were cracked. There are some obvious driv- ing infractions that should result in a failed test, such as overtaking on a blind corner, failing to stop at a Stop sign, running a red light and speed- ing. However, one reader said he essentially failed because he stopped to let children, who were standing in the median strip, cross the road. As he rightly pointed out, they have the capacity to run out at any time. Surely slowing down to make sure they were safe was more advisable than potentially hitting them. He was failed for his caution. It does give rise to an interes- ting thought: when did the driv- ing testers last have to sit these tests themselves? Would they all pass with ease, or might they find the testing a little less than friendly? There have been some recent major changes to the driver tests. Hopefully they will help reduce our crash statistics. 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Longtime professional wrestler Kurt Angle tweeted out that he would be making a huge announcement today involving Bellator 145.
Huge announcement coming today for #Bellator145 Stay tuned! It's damn true!!!!
— Kurt Angle (@RealKurtAngle) October 28, 2015
Angle's big announcement is that he will be appearing at the Bellator 145 Fan Festival on November 5th.
Angle, who is 46-years of age, has a legit wrestling background as he won an Olympic gold medal back in 1996 and won the medal with a broken neck. Angle stands 6'0ft and weighs 240.
The former WWE star is currently an active member of the TNA Wrestling roster.
Bellator 145 takes place on November 6th event at Scottrade Center in St. Louis. The event is headlined by a featherweight title fight between Patricio Freire and Daniel Straus while Will Brooks and Marcin Held battle it out for the lightweight title in the co-main event.
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MAIN CARD (Spike, 9 p.m. ET)
Champ Patricio Freire vs. Daniel Straus – for featherweight title
Champ Will Brooks vs. Marcin Held – for lightweight title
Justin Lawrence vs. Emmanuel Sanchez
Michael Chandler vs. David Rickels
Bobby Lashley vs. James Thompson
PRELIMINARY CARD (Online, 7 p.m. ET)
Alex Huddleston vs. Augusto Sakai
Adam Cella vs. Cheljean Erwin-Davis
Garrett Gross vs. Luke Nelson
Steven Mann vs. Hugh Pulley
Vince Eazelle vs. Chris Heatherly
Kevin Engel vs. Kyle Kurtz
Clay Mitchell vs. Kain Royer
Jordan Dowdy vs. Adam Meredith
Scott Ettling vs. Garrett Mueller
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Back to 2016 Annual Meeting Program
Introduction: Tendon transfers (TT) are a common procedure utilized for brachial plexus birth palsy (BPBP) patients to improve shoulder function, specifically abduction and external rotation. The traditional use of two tendons in C5-7 patients may result in loss of midline function. Therefore, we assessed the outcomes of transferring a single tendon (1TT) versus the traditional method (2TT) for patients with C5-7 injuries.
Materials & Methods: A retrospective review of all BPBP patients that underwent tendon transfers over a 4 year period was performed at 2 institutions. All patients who had tendon transfer surgery and were C5-7 injuries were included. Outcomes were assessed utilizing the Modified Mallet (MM) scores and shoulder abduction range of motion.
Results: A retrospective review over a 4 year period identified 22 C5-7 patients, including 11 patients in both the 1TT and 2TT groups. The average age at surgery was 3.6 (1-5.4) years in the 1TT and 4.1(2.1-12.7) years in the 2TT group.
Pre-operative total MM score for the 1TT group was 14.6 and 15.1 for the 2TT group. The average MM internal rotation score was 3.55 for the 1TT group and 3.82 for 2TT group pre-operatively (p=0.19) and 2.73 and 2.64, respectively, post-operatively (p = 0.27).
When comparing pre and post-operative MM categories, there were significant improvements in both the 1TT and 2TT groups for global abduction (p<.05 and p<.01) and external rotation (p<0.00001 for both). MM hand to neck was significantly improved in the 2TT group (p<.05) but not in the 1TT group (p=.053). Internal rotation significantly decreased in both groups (p<0.001).
Final follow-up MM scores were 17.1 and 16.9 for the 1TT and 2TT groups, respectively (p=0.83). Both were significantly increased from the pre-operative MM values (P<0.01).
Conclusions: 1TT and 2TT procedures result in substantial gains in upper extremity functions for patients as measured by the MM score, specifically within the global abduction and external rotation subcategories, however a significant loss occurs in internal rotation for both groups. 1TT and 2TT procedures have similar outcomes however hand to neck was significantly improved only in the 2TT group and therefore one should balance the risks of multiple tendon transfers versus functional benefits.


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It won't be long before Harley-Davidson's much-anticipated electric motorcycle reaches the customer. The American cruiser icon has begun accepting bookings for the LiveWire. In the United States, the motorcycle is priced at close to US$ 30,000 (Rs 21 lakh approx) and is expected to be available from August 2019.
Harley-Davidson's decision to electrify its upcoming line-up came as a shock to ardent fans and most of us who considered the marque synonymous with chrome, V-twins, and big, burly motorcycles. That being said, the LiveWire looks promising on paper and has retained the visual appeal of Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
To begin with, the LiveWire is one of the fastest production models from the brand yet. It dismisses 0-100 km/h just over three seconds while promising a range of 177 km per charge. No clutch or gears to fuss about on this H-D: you just twist the throttle and zoom away. Fully-adjustable Showa units take care of the suspension department and the LiveWire rides on Michelin Scorcher Sport tyres. The famous V-twin rumble has been replaced with a rather enticing whine (as observed in the product video). The instrument console is a 4.3-inch, full-colour LCD touchscreen. Further down the road, customization options will also be available.
H-D have provided two options to charge the battery. One allows you to charge the motorcycle from a normal household power socket and the other permits Fast Charge which replenishes the battery up to 80 per cent within 40 minutes. Of course, they have also developed an app that allows the user to monitor various vital aspects of the motorcycle.
H-D are also looking at venturing into the electric scooter and bicycle space. We can't wait to experience the new-generation Harleys when the reach our shores. Meanwhile, read about our first experience astride Project LiveWire.
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11th March 2019 – 15th March 2019 all-day
Year 3 will be holding a bake sale during playtime from Monday 11th March to Friday 15th March.
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