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HARRISON, NJ (Jan. 7, 2013) – The New York Red Bulls announced today have signed midfielder Lloyd Sam to a new contract.
"Lloyd showed our team and fans at the end of last season that he has the potential to be a very good player for us," said Red Bulls Sporting Director Andy Roxburgh. "We are happy to sign Lloyd, who is recovering well from his knee injury he sustained last year. He will be fit for preseason."
A native of Leeds, England, Sam, 28, joined the Red Bulls on Aug. 16, 2012 after most recently featuring for Notts County. Sam featured in five games, starting in two, and recorded one assist last year before suffering a season-ending PCL injury on Oct. 20.
Sam joined Notts County on loan from Leeds United in March 2012 and scored five goals in 10 appearances. From the 2010-11 season until his loan to Notts County, Sam played in 35 matches for Leeds, scoring twice.
Sam started his professional career with English side Charlton Athletic, then of the Premier League, in 2003 at the age of 18. He went on loan to Leyton Orient. Sam had two additional loan spells while with Charlton, spending time in 2006 with Sheffield Wednesday and in 2007 with Southend United. Sam became a fixture in Charlton's starting lineup beginning with the 2007-08 season in the Championship and continued there until his final season with the club in 2009-10. Overall, Sam made 119 appearances for Charlton, scoring six times.
Red Bulls Sign Midfielder Lloyd Sam to New Contract
HARRISON, NJ (Jan. 7, 2013) – The New York Red Bulls announced today have signed midfielder Lloyd Sam to a new contract.


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On the Costa Brava you will have a relaxing holiday as there's fun for everyone. You'll have a great time with no worries as the beaches have calm waters where children can play safely. Besides, there are also play areas with specialist monitors, babysitting services in different languages, children's buffets, etc.
The beach in Blanes is just one of the beaches offering all these facilities. There are also two water parks nearby, one of them with a dolphinarium, so you're guaranteed to have a great time.
The L'Estartit area is also highly recommended because numerous fun activities are organised, such as water games, workshops, outdoor sports… all with specialist monitors. And while the children are entertained, you can soak up the sun or pay a visit to the Beach Library and read by the sea. Other towns where you can find many activities for all the family are Lloret de Mar, Calonge-San Antoni, Roses, Castell-Platja d'Aro and Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

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Android Studio sets up new projects to deploy to the Android Emulator or a connected device with just a few clicks. Once your app is installed, Instant Run allows you to push code changes without building a new APK.
To build and run your app, select Run > Run in the menu bar (or click Run in the toolbar). If it's the first time running the app, Android Studio asks you to select a deployment target as shown in figure 1. Select a device to install and run your app.
Figure 1. The Select Deployment Target dialog shows available devices
If the dialog says, "No USB devices or running emulators detected," then you need to set up and connect your device or launch an emulator by clicking a device listed under Available Virtual Devices. If there are no virtual devices listed, click Create New Virtual Device and follow the Virtual Device Configuration wizard (see Create and Manage Virtual Devices).
To display the Select Deployment Target dialog, either deselect Use same device for future launches or stop the app with Run > Stop app or Stop , and then start it again.
Note: You can also deploy your app in debug mode by clicking Debug . Running your app in debug mode allows you to set breakpoints in your code, examine variables and evaluate expressions at run time, and run debugging tools. To learn more, see Debug Your App.
Change the run/debug configuration
When you run your app for the first time, Android Studio uses a default run configuration. The run configuration specifies whether to deploy your app from an APK or an Android App Bundle, the module to run, package to deploy, activity to start, target device, emulator settings, logcat options, and more.
The default run/debug configuration builds an APK, launches the default project activity, and uses the Select Deployment Target dialog for target device selection. If the default settings don't suit your project or module, you can customize the run/debug configuration, or even create a new one, at the project, default, and module levels. To edit a run/debug configuration, select Run > Edit Configurations. For more information, see Create and Edit Run/Debug Configurations.
Change the build variant
By default, Android Studio builds the debug version of your app, which is intended only for use during development, when you click Run.
To change the build variant Android Studio uses, select Build > Select Build Variant in the menu bar (or click Build Variants in the tool windows bar), and then select a build variant from the drop-down menu. By default, new projects are set up with two build variants: a debug and release variant. You need to build the release variant to prepare your app for public release.
To build other variations of your app, each with different features or device requirements, you can define additional build variants.
Build your project
The Run button builds and deploys your app to a device. However, to build your app to share or upload to Google Play, you'll need to use one of the options in the Build menu to compile parts or all of your project. Before you select any of the build options listed in table 1, make sure you first select the build variant you want to use.
|Menu Item
|Make Module
|Compiles all source files in the selected module that have been modified since the last build, and all modules the selected module depends on recursively. The compilation includes dependent source files and any associated build tasks. You can select the module to build by selecting either the module name or one of its files in the Project window. This command does not generate an APK.
|Make Project
|Makes all modules.
|Clean Project
|Deletes all intermediate/cached build files.
|Rebuild Project
|Runs Clean Project for the selected build variant and produces an APK.
|Build Bundle(s) / APK(s) > Build APK(s)
Builds an APK of all modules in the current project for their selected variant. When the build completes, a confirmation notification appears, providing a link to the APK file and a link to analyze it in the APK Analyzer.
If the build variant you've selected is a debug build type, then the APK is signed with a debug key and it's ready to install. If you've selected a release variant, then, by default, the APK is unsigned and you must manually sign the APK. Alternatively, you can select Build > Generate Signed Bundle / APK from the menu bar.
Android Studio saves the APKs you build in
|Build Bundle(s) / APK(s) > Build Bundle(s)
Builds an Android App Bundle of all modules in the current project for their selected variant. When the build completes, a confirmation notification appears, providing a link to the app bundle and a link to analyze it in the APK Analyzer.
If the build variant you've selected is a debug build type, then the app
bundle is signed with a debug key, and you can
Android Studio saves the APKs you build in
|Brings up a dialog with a wizard to set up a new signing configuration, and build either a signed app bundle or APK. You need to sign your app with a release key before you can upload it to the Play Console. For more information about app signing, see Sign your app.
Note: The Run button builds an APK with
which means the APK can only be installed via
adb (which Android Studio uses). If you want
a debuggable APK that people can install without adb, select your debug variant and click
Build Bundle(s) / APK(s) > Build APK(s).
For details about the tasks that Gradle executes for each command, open the Build window as described in the next section. For more information about Gradle and the build process, see Configure Your Build.
Monitor the build process
You can view details about the build process by clicking View > Tool Windows > Build (or by clicking Build in the tool window bar). The window displays the tasks that Gradle executes in order to build your app, as shown in figure 2.
- Build tab: Displays the tasks Gradle executes as a tree, where each node represents either a build phase or a group of task dependencies. If you receive build-time or compile-time errors, inspect the tree and select an element to read the error output, as shown in figure 3 below.
- Sync tab: Displays tasks that Gradle executes to sync with your project files. Similar to the Build tab, if you encounter a sync error, select elements in the tree to find more information about the error.
- Restart: Performs the same action as selecting Build > Make Project by generating intermediate build files for all modules in your project.
- Toggle view: Toggles between displaying task execution as a graphical tree and displaying more detailed text output from Gradle—this is the same output you see in the Gradle Console window on Android Studio 3.0 and earlier.
If your build variants use product flavors, Gradle also invokes tasks to build those product flavors. To view the list of all available build tasks, click View > Tool Windows > Gradle (or click Gradle in the tool window bar).
If an error occurs during the build process, Gradle may recommend some command-line
options to help you resolve the issue, such as
--stacktrace or
--debug. To use command-line options with your build process:
- Open the Settings or Preferences
- On Windows or Linux, select File > Settings from the menu bar.
- On Mac OSX, select Android Studio > Preferences from the menu bar.
- Navigate to Build, Execution, Deployment > Compiler.
- In the text field next to Command-line Options, enter your command-line options.
- Click OK to save and exit.
Gradle applies these command-line options the next time you try building your app.
About Instant Run
In Android Studio 2.3 and higher, Instant Run significantly reduces the time it takes to update your APK with code and resource changes. After deploying your app to a target device running Android 5.0 (API level 21) or higher, you can click Apply Changes to push certain code and resource changes to your running app without building a new APK—and, in some cases, without even restarting the current activity. The Run and Debug buttons are always available to you when you want to push your changes and force an app restart. However, you may find that using the Apply Changes button provides a faster workflow for most incremental changes to your app.
Tip: You can also press Control + F10 (or Control + Command + R on Mac) to apply changes with Instant Run.
The Apply Changes action is available only when you meet the following conditions:
- Build an APK of your app using a debug build variant. Instant Run is not yet supported when deploying from an app bundle.
- Use Android plugin for Gradle version 2.3.0 or higher.
- Set
minSdkVersionto 15 or higher in your app's module-level
- Deploy your app to a target device running Android 5.0 (API level 21) and higher.
For more information about enabling Instant Run, go to the section about configuring your project.
Instant Run pushes your changes by performing a hot swap, warm swap, or cold swap—the type of swap it performs depends on the type of change you made. When you click Apply Changes after making a code or resource change to your running app, Instant Run automatically determines the best way to push your change to the target device, as described in the following table.
Clicking Run (or Debug ) forces a cold swap and an app restart. If you make a change to the app manifest or a resource referenced by the manifest, Android Studio always pushes your changes with a full APK reinstall.
|Code Change
|Apply Changes Behavior
Performs a hot swap: This is the fastest type of swap and makes changes visible much more quickly. Your application keeps running and a stub method with the new implementation is used the next time the method is called.
Hot swaps do not re-initialize objects in your running app. Before you see certain updates, you may need to either restart the current activity, by selecting Run > Restart Activity, or restart your app, by clicking Run (or Debug ). By default, Android Studio automatically restarts the current activity after performing a hot swap. If you do not want this behavior, you can disable automatic activity restarts.
|Performs a warm swap: This swap is still very fast, but Instant Run must restart the current activity when it pushes the changed resources to your app. Your app keeps running, but a small flicker may appear on the screen as the activity restarts—this is normal.
Structural code changes, such as:
Performs a cold swap: This swap is a bit slower because, although a new APK is not required, Instant Run must restart the whole app when it pushes structural code changes.
When making changes to the app's manifest or resources referenced by the manifest, clicking Apply Changes redeploys a full build of your app with those changes. This is because certain information about the app, such as its name, app icon resources, and intent filters, are determined from the manifest when the APK is installed on the device.
If your build process automatically updates any part of the app
manifest, such as automatically iterating
When updating an Android system UI element, such as a widget or notification, you need to click Run (or Debug ).
Note: If you need to restart your app after a crash, do not launch it from your target device. Restarting your app from your target device does not apply any of your code changes since the last cold swap or incremental build. To launch your app with all your recent changes, click Run (or Debug ) from Android Studio.
Disable automatic activity restart
When performing a hot swap, your app keeps running but Android Studio automatically restarts the current activity. To disable this default setting:
- Open the Settings or Preferences
- On Windows or Linux, select File > Settings from the menu bar.
- On Mac OSX, select Android Studio > Preferences from the menu bar.
- Navigate to Build, Execution, Deployment > Instant Run.
- Uncheck the box next to Restart activity on code changes.
If automatic activity restart is disabled, you can manually restart the current activity from the menu bar by selecting Run > Restart Activity.
Configure your project for Instant Run
Android Studio enables Instant Run by default for projects built using Android plugin for Gradle 2.3.0 and higher.
To update an existing project with the latest version of the plugin:
- Open the Settings or Preferences dialog.
Navigate to Build, Execution, Deployment > Instant Run and click Update Project, as shown in figure 4.
If the option to update the project does not appear, it's already up-to-date with the latest Android plugin for Gradle. But make sure the box next to Enable Instant Run is checked.
To start using Instant Run, you also need to change the build variant to a debug version of your app and deploy it to a target device running Android 5.0 (API level 21) or higher. To learn about more techniques that speed up your build, read Optimize Your Build Speed
Exclude your project from Windows Defender
On Windows systems, Windows Defender may cause slowdowns while using Instant Run. If you are using Windows Defender, you should exclude your Android Studio project folder from Windows Defender malware scans.
Improve build times when using Crashlytics
If your version of the Fabric Gradle plugin is lower than 1.21.6, Crashlytics may cause slower build times. To improve build performance while developing your app, you can either update the plugin to the latest version or disable Crashlytics for your debug build variant.
Limitations of Instant Run
Instant Run is designed to speed up the build and deploy process in most situations. However, there are some aspects to using Instant Run that might affect its behavior and compatibility with your app. If you experience any other issues while using Instant Run, please enable extra logging and report a bug.
Deploying to multiple devices
Instant Run uses different techniques to perform hot, warm, and cold swaps that are specific to the API level of the target device. For this reason, while deploying an app to multiple devices at once, Android Studio temporarily turns off Instant Run.
Multidexing your app
minSdkVersion is set to 21 or higher, Instant Run
automatically configures your app for multidex. Because Instant Run only
works with the debug version of your app, you may need to configure your app for
multidex when deploying your release build variant.
Running instrumented tests and performance profilers
Instrumented tests load both the debug APK and a test APK into the same process on a test device, allowing control methods to override the normal lifecycle of the app and perform tests. While running or debugging instrumented tests, Android Studio does not inject the additional methods required for Instant Run and turns the feature off.
While profiling an app, you should disable Instant Run. There is a small performance impact when using Instant Run and a slightly larger impact when overriding methods with a hot swap. This performance impact could interfere with information provided by performance profiling tools. Additionally, the stub methods generated with each hot swap can complicate stack traces.
Using third-party plugins
Android Studio temporarily disables the Java Code Coverage Library (JaCoCo) and ProGuard while using Instant Run. Because Instant Run only works with debug builds, this does not affect your release build.
Certain third-party plugins that perform bytecode enhancement may cause issues with how Instant Run instruments your app. If you experience these issues, but want to continue using Instant Run, you should disable those plugins for your debug build variant. You can also help improve compatibility with third-party plugins by filing a bug.
Pushing changes to multi-process apps
Instant Run only instruments your app's main process in order to perform hot swaps and warm swaps. When pushing code changes to other app processes, such as changes to a method implementation or an existing resource, Instant Run performs a cold swap.
Launching your app in a work profile
If you run your app with Instant Run and open your app using a work profile (or other secondary profile), your app will crash because the instrumented DEX files used by Instant Run are accessible only from the primary profile's user space.
If you want to continue using Instant Run, just avoid opening your app with
the work profile and be sure your run
configuration does not use the
--user user_id flag.
If you need to use your app with the work profile, we recommend you create a
new run configuration that
includes the
--user user_id flag, specifying the work
profile user ID. You can find the user ID by executing
adb shell pm list
users from command line. When you use the
--user flag,
Android Studio disables Instant Run for only that deployment; Instant Run will
work again when you switch to a configuration without the
--user flag.
Disable Instant Run
To disable Instant Run:
- Open the Settings or Preferences dialog.
- Navigate to Build, Execution, Deployment > Instant Run.
- Uncheck the box next to Enable Instant Run.


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DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines and US Airways will merge and create the world's biggest airline. The boards of both companies approved the deal late Wednesday, according to four people close to the situation.
The carrier will keep the American Airlines name but will be run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker. American's CEO, Tom Horton, will serve as chairman of the new company until mid-2014, these people said. They requested anonymity because the merger negotiations were private.
The merger caps a turbulent period of bankruptcies and consolidation that will leave the U.S. airline industry dominated by four big carriers — American, United, Delta and Southwest. Together they would control almost three-quarters of U.S. airline traffic.
The deal has been in the works since August, when creditors forced American to consider a merger rather than remain independent. American has been restructuring under bankruptcy protection since late 2011. AMR creditors and possibly its shareholders will own 72 percent of the stock, and US Airways Group Inc. shareholders will get the rest, three of the people said.
A formal announcement is expected Thursday morning.
If the deal is approved by American's bankruptcy judge and antitrust regulators, the new American will have more than 900 planes, 3,200 daily flights and about 95,000 employees, not counting regional affiliates. It will be slightly bigger than United Airlines by passenger traffic.
Travelers on American and US Airways won't notice immediate changes. It likely will be months before the frequent-flier programs are merged, and possibly years before the two airlines are fully combined.
When that happens, American's presence will grow in key East Coast markets including New York's LaGuardia Airport and Washington's Reagan National Airport. The merger will add US Airways hubs in Charlotte, Philadelphia and Phoenix to American's in Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Miami, New York and Los Angeles.
US Airways would boost American's service to Europe and the Latin America-Caribbean market but wouldn't fix American's weakness on routes to Asia.
Just five years ago, American was the world's biggest airline. It boasted a history reaching back 80 years to the beginning of air travel. It had popularized the frequent-flier program and developed the modern system of pricing airline tickets to match demand.
But years of heavy losses drove American and parent AMR Corp. into bankruptcy protection in late 2011. The company blamed bloated labor costs; its unions accused executives of mismanagement.
The merger is a stunning achievement for Parker and his management team at US Airways, based in Tempe, Ariz. Just a few years ago, they were running a mid-sized carrier called America West Airlines when they bought the old US Airways out of bankruptcy.
Parker's airline is only half the size of American and is less familiar around the world, but he prevailed by driving a wedge between American's management and its union workers and by convincing American's creditors that a merger made business sense.
Despite its smaller size, US Airways has prospered in the last several years, earning a record profit of $637 million last year.
"They've done an absolutely terrific job with what they have," said Bill Swelbar, an airline-industry researcher at MIT and board member of Hawaiian Airlines' parent company.
Parker began pursuing a merger almost as soon as AMR filed its Chapter 11 petition. He found willing partners in American's three labor unions, who have long fought with management at their own company over pay, work rules and executive bonuses. American suffered strikes by pilots and flight attendants in the 1990s. Bad feelings hardened in the early 2000s, when union workers took pay cuts to keep the company out of bankruptcy while AMR gave bonuses to management employees when the stock price rose.
AMR's Horton professed no interest in thinking about a merger until his company was out of bankruptcy court, but his creditors pressured him to reconsider. AMR lost more than $12 billion between 2001 and 2010. It has lost another $2.8 billion since it filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011 — a period in which US Airways earned about $650 million. Some analysts and creditors called for new management at AMR.
Bob Herbst, a financial analyst who studies airlines, said AMR has failed to adapt to changes in the industry since consolidation began in the middle of the last decade. He said AMR was fixated on gaining market share rather than on profitability.
American ranked 14th out of 15 airlines in government rankings for on-time performance in 2012 (US Airways was fifth). Only United had a higher rate of complaints (but US Airways was barely better than American).
"They are continually at the bottom in on-time and customer service, and they're losing more money than anyone else," Herbst said. "American's management is leaving because that's what needs to happen."
AMR, however, has made measurable progress under Horton, who became CEO the day before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The company earned operating profits in the second and third quarters of 2012, and its revenue for every seat flown one mile — an arcane-sounding statistic but one that is closely watched in the airline business — rose faster than at its rivals for much of the year. With leverage from bankruptcy laws, AMR won new union contracts with lower costs.
"I'm a big fan of Tom's; he's done a great job," said Mike Derchin, an analyst with CRT Capital Group. "He restructured the balance sheet, made the company more efficient and got a pilots' contract. He positioned the company for the future."
That performance may also have gotten a better deal for Horton's creditors. US Airways' initial proposal called for AMR creditors to get only 49 percent of the stock in the combined company, according to people familiar with the talks. Instead, they'll get 72 percent, although they might have to share some of that with shareholders, said the people familiar with the deal.
In recent weeks, AMR won bankruptcy court approval to buy hundreds of new planes from Boeing and Airbus, an important step to reduce fuel costs and offer a more comfortable experience for passengers. American even unveiled a new logo and paint job for its planes, although the reviews were mixed.
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Resurrecting MPI and Java
Back in the '90s, there was a huge bubble of activity about Java in academic circles. It was the new language that was going to take over the world. An immense amount of research was produced mapping classic computer science issues into Java.
Among the projects produced were several that tried to bring MPI to Java. That is, they added a set of Java bindings over existing C-based MPI implementations. However, many in the HPC crowd eschewed Java for compute- or communication-heavy applications because of performance overheads inherent to the Java language and runtime implementations.
Hence, the Java+MPI=HPC efforts didn't get too much traction.
But even though the computer science Java bubble eventually ended, Java has become quite an important language in the enterprise. Java run-time environments, compilers, and programming models have steadily improved over the years. Java is now commonly used for many different types of compute-heavy enterprise applications.
Hadoop, for example, is a Java-based environment used for big data crunching. Not only is the Hadoop run-time itself written in Java, but client applications that implement the "reduce" part of the "map/reduce" model are also usually written in Java.
It is the Hadoop community who has presented the idea of re-introducing Java for MPI. Their idea is that the "reduce" applications are getting larger and more computationally expensive. Hence, they want to parallelize their computations by spreading across multiple processor cores.
With parallelization, they want to have efficient inter-process communication (IPC) between cores. MPI is a well-established IPC API, so why re-invent the wheel? Just add some reasonable Java MPI bindings to an underlying C MPI implementation (or even a Java class library with some nice Java-ish abstractions).
We have a side project going on in Open MPI to do just that. We revived one of the old MPI Java bindings projects, brushed off the dust, spruced it up a bit, and have integrated it as a set of bindings on top of the Open MPI core.
There's still some issues to work out, such as some language-specific peculiarities in Java, how to integrate with MPI's static computation model at run-time, etc. But this might be an interesting start.
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Thank You Jeff for an amazing post. I am working as a Java developer and I have seen in past 5 years from Java 1.4 to Java 1.7, Java technology came a long way. Thank you for introducing hadoop here, I have heard about it but never get a chance to look into it.


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You are about to watch someone try to make a phone call with a fruit.
If this is something that might disturb you, please look away now.
However, if you're fond of fruit, art, fruit-art, ninjas, mountain rams, Scandinavia, or Samsung, please click away at the ad I've embedded and bathe in the art within.
This, you see, is a new ad for the Samsung Galaxy S4. (Thank you, Android Authority, for making my day more complete than I ever could have imagined.)
It reveals that it is hard to take an apple and type on its skin. At least, if you're hoping to call Aunt Felinda.
Even putting it to your ear and hoping that you will hear more than the echoes from the mountains doesn't seem to help.
It is then that my nonexistent Icelandic sees what seems to be the word "pig" in a caption. I assume that the suggestion is that Apple phones are stinky, smelly, and worthy only of slaughter.
However, taking the phrase to Google Translate, I receive: "Get per phone that understands pig."
I fear this might not be entirely accurate either. I cannot believe this man is trying to contact farm animals. But here's news of a man who is pleading guilty to having sex with a horse. For the second time. So who knows?
Perhaps the "p" is really a "b" and it's something to do with bigness. Indeed, I changed both the apparent "p" letters to "b" and Google Translate gives me: "Should get a phone that understands big."
That must be quite close, because Samsung's phones are larger, aren't they? Indeed, the next caption means: "Galaxy S4 understands Icelandic."
In any case, the clear implication is that iPhones don't work in the Icelandic mountains, while the Samsung Galaxy S4 turns you into a ninja.
You might think I've never done art criticism before, and you'd be right. But this opus clearly says that when you're up in the Icelandic mountains and want to express happiness, you dance with ninja-ish beings.
You might also think that my fleeting suggestion of animal attraction was gratuitous. But then this ad displays a scene of our Galaxy-toting hero performing what can only be a mating dance in the direction of some kind of mountain ram (some think it's a goat).
I therefore leave you now to freely interpret what you have just seen. For I feel sure that you have never seen anything like this before.


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Sunday, 3 March 2019
Peregrines again
Posted by Mike Attwood at 00:31
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From that distance, the shots come out very well indeed. Hope they give you many hours in the next few months.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Marc, Its great to have something like peregrines to fall back on when the goings not so good.Delete
Fantastic shots Mike.. Well done. CongratsReplyDeleteReplies
Thankyou Ana, The camera is two years old but the lens is over 20 years, so I think I have got my monies worth out of it. Take care, Mike.Delete
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As you probably all know now (previous post) I had a wonderful swap with Agi from Scrapowe-Lowe! I showed you the beautiful blanket I have received and now it's turn for notebooks I have sent to Agi! :)
I made her two notebooks but of course I forgot to make some photos of the second one!! The one below is made of a tourquoise corduroy with a Volkswagen T1.
The Volkswagen T1 is machine embroidered. It was quite difficult and it didn't really come out as I imagined... but Agi says she likes it so I'm super happy;p
It has 400 pages size A6 with rough edges and it's closed with a white elastic band :)
I missed making notebooks with rough edges!! ;d I love how they look!
The other notebook is smaller; it has 200 pages A6 and the cover is made from thick canvas. It looks like one of the 'notebook' journals I made earlier.
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It's fun enough to walk down the street, but you know what's probably more fun? Walking down the street in a huge animatronic T-Rex costume, as demonstrated in this video from Roman Atwood.
Aw, look at the doggies run.
This looks to be the same costume we caught at New York Comic-Con, made by KHA Entertainment. Fun for cons, and for real life!
How's everyone out there doing? Having a good week? Anyone pick up Far Cry 3 today? Don't you think this game would be awesome if it had some dinosaurs, Jurassic Park-style?
Feel free to discuss that stuff or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. See ya tomorrow.
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Dr. Maxwell came to The University of Texas as Director of the Institute for Geophysics on January 1, 1982. After graduate work at Scripps, Dr. Maxwell spent ten years (1955-1965) with the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C., where he held the positions of Head Oceanographer and Head of the Geophysics Branch. Subsequently, he joined the staff of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as Senior Scientist and Associate Director. During the next seventeen years, he progressed through the positions of Associate Director, Director of Research, and Provost. January 1, 1982, Dr. Maxwell came to The University of Texas at Austin as the first director of the newly formed Institute for Geophysics and served until he retired in 1994. His efforts have developed the Institute into one of the leading geology and geophysical research institutions in the world.
Art's early scientific work with Dr. Roger Revelle and Sir Edward Bullard produced pioneering results in ocean geothermal measurements. He was co-chief scientist on Leg 3 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project using the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger. That voyage produced some of the strongest evidence available at that time to support the now widely accepted hypothesis of sea floor spreading and plate tectonics. Dr. Maxwell has been active in the development of scientific ocean drilling through participation in Project Mohole, the Deep Sea Drilling Project, the Ocean Margin Drilling Program, and the Ocean Drilling Program. Similarly, he advocated and pressed for early support of submersible research using both Trieste and Alvin. Among his numerous publications, he edited Volume IV, parts 1, 2, and 3 of The Sea.
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Dr. Maxwell's numerous awards include the Navy's Meritorious Civilian Service and Superior Civilian Service Awards. He also received the Distinguished Civilian Service Award from the Secretary of the Navy for his work in locating the sunken submarine Thresher. He was elected as President of both the American Geophysical Union and the Marine Technology Society. In addition, he received the New Mexico University's Distinguished Alumni Award and the Outstanding Centennial Alumnus Award.
Art Maxwell's retirement represents the passage of an era of true deep sea explorers whose love of the sea took them into oceanography. The group of which he was a leader totally changed the way we look at the world. Art Maxwell occupied key positions at critical times during the "institutionalization" of oceanography in the United States. He has had many great achievements in his distinguished career. His contributions to setting the national agenda while at SIO, ONR, WHOI, NAS/OSB, AMSOC and UTIG are numerous. He set the style of civility and intellectual partnership between grantor and grantee, bureaucrat and scientist, professor and student, researcher and technician and extended these relationships to the international community. His staff, friends and colleagues remember him most for his patience, thoughtfulness, concern and professionalism that have greatly encouraged many, both as scientists and as individuals.
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This is quoted from TSN's article about Komisarek:Island Nucklehead wrote:vs. Komisarek at $4.5? With a NMC? At least we can move/dump Ballard wherever we want. We take on Komi and we're stuck with him. Saving 900K dumping him in the minors isn't even an option. ADDING salary to our bottom pairing with a guy that will probably be bought out this summer? No thank you.Jovocop wrote:
$4.2m for a depth that might never play another game is too much. As bad as Komisarek is, at the very least, he should be an upgrade over Alberts. Also, he is a RH defenseman that this team sorely needs. As long as Alberts is not on ice every game from now til the trading deadline, I would not mind taking Komisarek for Ballard now.
I'd rather dump Ballard for a draft pick than take on a worse contract that still might not play...
I am not so sure about what it means by "modified". Anyhow, Komisarek could not crack the Leaves' top-six might not mean that he would not crack the Canucks' top-six. He does fill a need for the Canucks, a RH defenseman. Also, he could be the crease clearing defenseman that the Canucks need. I don't see much difference in terms of caps. It is slightly higher this year but it is also one year shorter than Ballard's contract. At the end of the day, it is not a good asset management to have a $4.2m defenseman sitting while playing two fringe defensemen instead. Ballard's trade value is not going to increase while sitting in the press box. The sooner the problem is addressed, the better it is for everyone.The 31-year-old, who has no points in four games for Toronto this season, has a modified no-trade clause. He is in the fourth season of a five-year, $22.5 million contract, with an annual cap hit of $4.5 million.


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It was like summer here yesterday for Christmas Day Don, but that weather system moved through & today feels more like what it should have been like yesterday - blustery and COLD! Happy New Year!!Delete
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What causes people to withdraw from participation in life? A carefree child grows reserved and wary as a teenager. A successful career woman who leaves one personal relationship after the other suffers from lack of self-esteem. A retired man looks back at his life with regret over the choices he made.
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This procedure outlines the general steps to use to initialize a replicated suffix from an LDIF file.
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Online initialization of a replicated suffix by using DSCC is an easy way to initialize or reinitialize a consumer. However, if you are initializing a large number of entries, this process can be time consuming. In this case, you might find offline consumer initialization with the command line more efficient.
Ensure that you have set up replication agreements.
You must do this before you initialize replicas.
Export the original copy of the suffix data from a master replicated suffix to an LDIF file.
See To Export a Replicated Suffix to LDIF.
In a multimaster replication environment, you can use the LDIF file exported from the original master to initialize both the other masters and any consumers. In a cascading replication environment, you can use the same file to initialize both the hub replicas and their consumers.
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To initialize a replica online from an LDIF file, use the dsconf import command.
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Using dsconf import is slower than using dsadm import, but you do not need to stop your server while performing the import operation.
For more detailed information about initializing suffixes, and for examples, see Initializing a Suffix. For detailed command usage, see dsadm(1M) and dsconf(1M).
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$ dsconf show-repl-agmt-status -h host -p port suffix-DN destination-host:destination-port
You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Export the replicated suffix contents in an LDIF file by using one of the following commands:
For an offline export, type:
$ dsadm export instance-path suffix-DN LDIF_file
For an online export, type:
$ dsconf export -h host -p port suffix-DN LDIF_file
The following example will export the entire dc=example,dc=com replicated suffix and replication information to the file example_replica_export.ldif:
$ dsconf export -h host2 -p 1389 dc=example,dc=com \ /local/dsInst/ldif/example_export_replica.ldif
For more information, see Backing Up to LDIF and the dsadm(1M) and dsconf(1M) man pages.
Initializing a replica with fractional replication configured is transparent when using DSCC. Only the selected attributes will be sent to the consumer during the initialization.
If you have configured fractional replication, you should filter out any unused attributes before copying the exported LDIF file to the consumer servers. Directory Server provides the fildif tool for this purpose. This tool filters the given LDIF file to keep only the attributes that are allowed by the attribute set defined in your replication agreement.
This tool reads the server's configuration to determine the attribute set definition. To read the configuration file, the fildif tool must be run as root or as the user who owns the process and the files (specified by the nsslapd-localuser attribute). For example, the following command filters the file exported from the dc=example,dc=com suffix in the previous example:
$ fildif -i /local/ds1/ldif/example_master.ldif \ -o /local/ds1/ldif/filtered.ldif -b "cn=host2.example.com:1389, \ cn=replica,cn=\\"dc=example,dc=com\\",cn=mapping tree,cn=config" -p /local/ds1
For the location of the fildif command, see Command Locations.
The -i and -o options are the input and output files, respectively. The -b option is the DN of the replication agreement where fractional replication is defined. You can find this DN by using this command:
$ ldapsearch -h host -p port -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - \ -b "cn=config" "(&(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement)\ (nsDS5ReplicaPort=replica-port) (nsDS5ReplicaHost=replica-host))" dn
For example:
$ ldapsearch -h host2 -p 1389 -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - \ -b "cn=config" "(&(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement) \ (nsDS5ReplicaPort=2090)(nsDS5ReplicaHost=host2))" dn Enter bind password: version: 1 dn: cn=host2:1389,cn=replica,cn=dc\=example\,dc\=com,cn=mapping tree,cn=config
For the full command-line syntax for the fildif tool, see the fildif(1) man page.
You can then use the filtered.ldif file produced by fildif to initialize the consumer in this replication agreement. Transfer the file to the consumer server and import it as described in Importing Data From an LDIF File.


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Make sure to CC one add of each type and an additional Mender on this fight. Tank the boss and the active adds away from the CC targets, and focus the Mender down while cleaving the other mobs. Dispel Quickening to lessen tank damage, and interrupt the Mender's heal. Do not use stuns or other CCs/incapacitates, as this will cause the adds CCed with the spears to break out. Be vocal about breaking raid members out of Amber Traps, since the same person can only break one every 120 seconds. Every Man For Himself and Bestial Wrath can be used to self-break the Amber Traps.
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At the March 11th Community Board 5 meeting, Smith, of the Queens office of the Department of City Planning (DCP), said the updated plans were altered after further dialogue between the DCP and CB5, and an environmental review.
"We made some small changes based on an Environmental Assessment Study," Smith said. "We feel very confident about it."
The plan calls for the rezoning of roughly 300 blocks in parts of Middle Village, Glendale, and Maspeth, and is so large DCP has divided the proposed affected area into four parts. The city plans to downzone the neighborhoods to preserve their existing community character and protect them from future out-of-context development.
Until 2006, existing zoning laws in west-central Queens hadn't been changed since 1961. Since then, DCP has passed three rezones there. If passed by the City Council, this latest one would be the fourth in as many years.
The city is planning to rezone large swaths of blocks currently zoned R3-2, R4, R4B, R5 (which allow for larger residential buildings) and M1-1 and M1-4 (which allow for industrial uses) with R3A, R 4-1, R4A and the like that would limit building height and density.
The city also plans to cut back commercial overlay zones slightly to reduce the intrusion of commercial establishments on residential blocks.
In Maspeth, the proposed area to be rezoned is bounded by 59th Street, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the Queens-Midtown Expressway, and Admiral Avenue.
The Middle Village section would be bounded by the Queens-Midtown Expressway, Woodhaven Boulevard, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 80th Street, Juniper Boulevard, and Lutheran Avenue.
Glendale would be rezoned in two portions. The first, encompassing eastern Glendale, would cover the area bounded by Woodhaven Boulevard, 76th and 77th avenues, 80th and 88th streets, and Cooper Avenue.
The proposed rezone in western Glendale would be bounded by the Long Island Railroad, 70th Avenue, 69th Place, Myrtle Avenue, 73rd Street, and Mt. Carmel Cemetery.
"What we tried to do is put in-context zoning that really matches the neighborhoods in their built character," Smith said. He said DCP could complete the process by next month. "We're looking to certify at the end of April."