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Shark Week, along with Mythbusters and that joke about how Bear Grylls drinks his own piss, has become one of the most important cultural touchstones for the Discovery Channel. Naturally, Discovery's most prominent web property is joining in on the fun. Multi-channel network Revision3 will serve as an online hub for Shark Week.
For the 25th anniversary of the yearly selachian celebration, Revision3 will set up two landing pages–one on the main site and one on TestTube–from which users can explore Shark Week content. Revision3 will showcase 40 shark-themed series from 20 channels across the Discovery Digital Network. In addition, it will launch The Discovery Sharks, a channel that continues the network's trend of repurposing archival Discovery footage by setting 25 years of shark footage to soothing music.
Shark Week begins on Sunday, August 4th, but Revision3 has already given viewers a taste of its programming in a funny trailer starring Anthony Carboni as a particularly vengeful shark.
I know everyone on the Internet loves Shark Week, so you have no excuse not to check out Revision3 once the underwater adventure begins. In the meantime, you'll have to count down the days.

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Dayna Devon from Extra is wearing the dress I bought and then returned last month on the show today.
Here's Dayna...
Yes, I ended up not wearing and returning the dress, but it was still cute.
PS: Sorry for the grainy/blurry photos. I took both with my computer.
PPS: Yes, that's my new TV! It's a 32" Sony Bravia and I like it very much.
PPPS: Sitting next to the TV is a cute little ceramic canister-thingy that says "dolls" on it. (As in Valley of the Dolls, i.e., pills.) I got it at the Jonathan Adler store in SoHo. He makes a whole series of them... Quaaludes, downers, uppers, Prozac, and dolls.
Aren't they cute? You can put candy in them or whatever. (Mine is currently empty, but sometimes I fill it with covered espresso beans.)


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This guide provides currents ways for iPhone unlockers, or if you wish to unlock your iPhone for use on another network, to unlock the iPhone on any iOS version. If you know about iPhone unlocking, you know that the most used method of unlocking the iPhone is by jailbreaking the iPhone first, and then installing Ultrasnow. But for Ultrasnow we have to wait a lot, and there hasn't been no unlock with UltraSnow since iOS 4.0.2, and there is not and probably won't be any unlock for iOS 4.1+. This leave us with these only choices to unlock our iPhone.
Here are the method and how they work to unlock any iPhone models and any iOS versions.
Okay, the first and best method to unlock your iPhone is through factory unlock services. There are several websites that are legitamely offering IMEI unlocking service, but there are a lot promising unlock and are just scams. This method of unlocking works by entering your iPhone IEMEI and sending it to Apple so Apple put it as an unlocked iPhone in their database. Your iphone will become as a factory unlock iPhone and you will never have problems, won't need jailbreak and nothing to use it on another carrier, permanent unlocked. The most legit web site offering this services is Negri Electronic. CutYourSim is offering iPhone remote unlocking as well.
The second method is using Gevey SIM. The way this method works is by calling emergency and hanging out very fast. This works on all iOS version as well and no Jailbreaking is required Even though this a a cheaper way, I would recommend the IMEI unlocking.


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Published: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 528
For the last thirty years, Angela Gillespie's annual Christmas letter has been full of her family's triumphs. But this year Angela surprises everyone, including herself – she tells the truth. Angela's husband is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Her grown-up daughters are more out of control than ever. And her youngest child spends all of his time talking to an imaginary friend. With fantasy thoughts of a life before marriage and motherhood becoming more than just an innocent daydream, Angela's real life is slowly slipping out of focus. But, as the repercussions of her ruthlessly honest letter begin to pile up, a shocking event takes Angela from her family, and she realises she should have been more careful of what she wished for…
Thank you to Penguin for kindly sending me a review copy.
Angela Gillespie is a mother and a wife. She uprooted her life in London for her husband in Australia. Her annual Christmas letter to family, friends and neighbours is how the narrative begins which I thought was a brilliant and clever idea. I enjoyed how Angela described her three daughters, son and her husband in turn – carefully explaining who was in which city and her opinion on their current lives.
The plot immediately felt very homely and comforting. But Angela, now fifty-five, doesn't want comfort, she wants adventure. Even within the opening chapter, Angela's voice was strong and the descriptions were so beautiful and vivid. I wanted to learn more of how Angela and her husband met as Monica touched on it briefly and it gave Angela a wonderful glow.
I enjoyed the change in viewpoint and soon enough, the entire family was involved in the plot. Monica's writing was so inviting and her love for the Gillespie family shone through. I felt as if I had known the family for years and I was revisiting old family friends.
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Merry Christmas!
ACK...so that's what snow looks like LOL Looks cold. Happy shoveling :)
You'd better be happy about this snow. It inspires cookie baking! Finished frosting one kind today and baked a second kind. Tomorrow will be the gingerbread and then the package goes in the mail Monday to sunny HI!
This is the way I like my snow -- in someone else's neighborhood!
On the other hand, I went to a Christmas concert this morning. I was barefooted and wearing shorts and a t-shirt. That's just too warm to generate much in the way of Christmas spirit in me.
Beautiful. Snow makes me happy. I got my first yesterday afternoon. It's melted already though.
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This is a technical guide to architecting the availability and scalability of IBM MQ servers and client applications in a containerized cloud environment. There is a particular focus on running containers in Kubernetes, and its many commercial offerings, including IBM Cloud Private and the IBM Cloud Container Service. IBM MQ has been supported in Docker containers for several years, but the powerful new features offered by cloud platforms like Kubernetes, bring about new ways of approaching solution architecture.
Important: Running IBM MQ in containers is a rapidly evolving subject. This information is correct as of June 2018.
Types of availability
It is important to separately consider "message" and "service" availability. With IBM MQ on distributed platforms, a message is stored on exactly one queue manager, so if that queue manager becomes unavailable, you temporarily lose access to the messages it holds. To achieve high "message" availability, you need to be able to recover a queue manager as quickly as possible. You can achieve "service" availability by having multiple instances of queues for client applications to use, for example, by using multiple MQ cluster queues with the same name on different queue managers. Therefore, horizontal scaling is useful to improve scalability and service availability.
MQ availability technologies
There are three main ways to make MQ highly available in cloud environments:
- Multi-instance queue manager, which is an active-standby pair, using a shared, networked filesystem.
- Replicated data queue manager, which replicates data under control of MQ
- Single resilient queue manager, which offers a simple approach for HA in the cloud, using networked storage.
Multi-instance queue managers
Multi-instance queue managers are the "traditional" way of thinking about high availability with MQ, and involves an "active" and a "standby" system. A multi-instance system consists of two servers where a queue manager could run, and a single shared filesystem. The queue manager's data is held on the shared filesystem. The queue manager is only active on one server at a time, with the other server waiting in a standby mode. This system has a few key disadvantages:
- It's sensitive to specific filesystems, because of its reliance on file locking to manage take-over by the standby.
- It requires additional resources and MQ license costs for the standby
- There are two components to manage
Edit (2018/06/05): Despite the disadvantages, multi-instance queue managers are still a viable choice in containers.
Replicated data queue managers
A replicated data queue manager system consists of three servers where a queue manager could run, and an MQ-managed block storage device which is synchronously replicated to each server. The queue manager is only active on one server at a time, with the other two servers waiting in a standby mode, while receiving replicated data.
It is possible to use this system with containers, but it is generally not recommended, due to the use of Linux kernel modules. In most cases, users running containers will not have sufficient access to the host server to manage kernel modules.
Single resilient queue manager
There are new ways of thinking about high availability (HA) in cloud environments. A "single resilient queue manager", is where you have a single instance of a queue manager, and the cloud environment monitors it and replaces the VM or container as necessary. A queue manager can be thought of in two parts: the data stored on disk; and the running processes which allow access to the data. Any queue manager can be moved to a different virtual machine, or run in a different container, as long as it keeps the same data, and the same network address. Most cloud environments provide the ability to keep IP addresses (for example, Kubernetes Services), and also offer highly available network-attached storage.
As with multi-instance queue managers, this system relies heavily on the availability of the storage system. MQ can't be more available than the storage it is using. If you want to tolerate an outage of an entire availability zone, you need to use cloud storage which replicates to another zone. For example, Amazon's EFS replicates data in this way.
The recovery times for a "single resilient queue manager" can be similar to using a multi-instance queue manager. The "standby" process for a multi-instance queue manager is already running, but it's not a full queue manager. The time taken to fully start the standby is similar to regular queue manager startup. The main difference with the "single resilient queue manager" system, is that the cloud provider potentially has to download the image to run the queue manager on a new worker node (this could be a virtual machine or container host). This download time is typically short for a small container image, but larger in the case of a VM image. The download time can be improved by pre-pulling images, as described in the following section.
Note that it is important to have a highly available cloud environment. For example, in Kubernetes, the master components such as the scheduler need to be highly available, as they are responsible for re-instating a failed queue manager.
Edit (2018/06/05): In Kubernetes, a failing pod failure will typically be recovered quickly, but the failure of an entire node is handled differently. If the Kubernetes master loses contact with a worker node, it waits for its pod-eviction-timeout (set to five minutes by default) before evicting all the pods running on that node. This is intended to prevent mass pod evictions in the case of a network problem, but can cause a slower recovery in the case of a real node failure.
Edit (2018/09/27): This shows that container environments are still evolving with their HA capabilities, especially when it comes to stateful workloads such as messaging. So it may be preferable to overlay traditional HA capabilities such as multi-instance queue managers if you have doubts over your container environment's capabilities. This is an area we are continuing to investigate.
Improving message availability
You can improve message availability by reducing the recovery time as much as possible. For example:
- Frequent health checks — If you can detect a failure quickly, you can take action more quickly. Balance this with performance concerns, because health checks use resources.
- Pre-pulling images – when using the "single resilient queue manager" pattern, part of the recovery time in a cloud environment is the time taken to download the software image to the host server. In container terms this is often a "docker pull". You can remove this delay by making sure the image is already available on an eligible hosts. Pre-pulling images is not a first-class feature in Kubernetes, but it can be accomplished. One way to pre-pull images, is as follows. Run a Daemon Set using your MQ image, on every worker node which is eligble for MQ deployment, but override the "entrypoint" of the container so that it doesn't run a queue manager. This will cause Kubernetes to pull the MQ image to each node. By running in a Daemon Set, Kubernetes will restart the container immediately if it fails. If you also set the image pull policy to "Always", then Kubernetes will pull the image again every time it needs to run the container. If you make the container entrypoint (say) sleep for thirty minutes, then the MQ image will be pulled down again (if necessary) every thirty minutes.
- Quiesce messaging load before a planned outage – in the case of a planned outage, you can redirect traffic away in advance, to reduce the number of messages which will be held on a particular queue manager. For example, you can do this by suspending the queue manager from an MQ cluster, or by lowering the priority of the channels or queues in the cluster. This has two benefits: Messages held on queues during an outage cannot be processed during that time, so it's better to have them processed through alternative queue mangers; The time taken to restart a queue manager can be affected when many messages are stored or being processed by a queue manager, so storing fewer messages allows a quicker recovery.
- Redirect existing messages before a planned outage – in the case of a planned outage, you could attempt to drain a queue manager which has already been quiesced. One way of doing this, with MQ clusters, is to use the "amqsclm" sample to re-send all messages back into the cluster. This will re-distribute the messages to other queue managers.
The normal techniques for scaling MQ are not changed when you move to the cloud, but you do get more options. Standard, well proven techniques, such as using MQ clusters to workload balance messages across multiple queue managers, continue to work as normal. Running in containers also makes it easier to "vertically" scale, by changing the resources used by a container, and potentially re-scheduling to another worker node if necessary. However, you may be interested in using your cloud platform to "horizontally" scale MQ, by using multiple MQ servers with similar or identical configuration. This has potential benefits both to scalability, and for availability (as a so-called "active-active" availability solution). Horizontal scaling is often used in cloud environments, particularly for stateless workloads, but requires careful architecture when applied to stateful workloads. This is particularly true when you're sending high value messages using MQ.
Dynamic versus static scaling
It is easier to deploy a horizontally scaled set of MQ servers, which is fixed in sized, than to dynamically change the number of MQ servers. Scaling IBM MQ up by adding more queue managers is fairly straightforward, by using either an IBM MQ cluster of queue managers, or a load-balanced set of identical queue managers, depending on what messaging patterns you use. Scaling down is more complex because you almost always want to remove a queue manager in a controlled manner to be sure no messages remain on the queue manager at the time it is deleted.
Scaling down in many cloud environments is especially difficult, because you need to distinguish between a server which is shutting down but will be restarted elsewhere, and a server which is shutting down because it is being deleted. This isn't a problem with stateless workloads, but is usually a problem with stateful workloads like MQ.
In addition, you need to consider how use of dynamic scaling can affect MQ clusters. If you delete a queue manager that is a member of an MQ cluster without first performing the recommended steps to remove that queue manager, information about that queue manager will be held by the MQ cluster for up to 90 days, but shouldn't have any adverse effects. However, the same is not true for MQ objects such as cluster queues, which can cause problems if they are not removed carefully. For example, messages may stay on cluster transmission queues waiting for deleted queue managers to return
In summary, it is not recommended to reduce the size of the "set" after initial deployment, which will cause the deletion of queue managers, and can result in loss of messages. In Kubernetes terms, this means that you should not change the number of replicas in a Stateful Set after initial deployment. If you want to change the number of replicas, you must have a proven process in place to ensure that new replicas are correctly integrated into your solution.
Message ordering
If you use horizontal scaling, messages can be processed concurrently, which means messages might be received out of sequence. IBM MQ provides features to allow groups of messages to be handled in small ordered batches, when being sent between queue managers. You can also choose to manage this yourself in your application.
Client versus server bindings
IBM MQ client applications should generally be scaled separately from IBM MQ servers, which means running them in separate virtual machines or containers. Having single-purpose containers is also considered a best practice, and brings the maximum benefits of containerization, including dependency isolation, resource isolation, security isolation, and ease of access to logs. For MQ, this means that cloud topologies typically use IBM MQ client connections to communicate between applications and queue managers.
There are some cases where server bindings may be required, though, for example applications that are using a queue manager as the transaction coordinator, of global (XA) transactions are required to connect using server bindings. In addition, there are a number of cases where server bindings may be desirable, for improved performance, or simply because applications have been developed in that way.
There are several IBM-provided solutions which require server bindings, either for the reasons given above or due to a need for access to locally held MQ information:
- IBM Integration Bus uses server bindings to provide global transaction support on distributed platforms, as well as for certain nodes.
- IBM Application Performance Monitoring agent for MQ uses server bindings
- IBM MQ web server uses server bindings to connect to the queue manager to administer.
You can use any of these technologies from within the same container. If you want to use them from a separate container (for example, for increased isolation, or easier error log management), then there are some technical restrictions:
- A shared IPC namespace (shared memory), because in server bindings mode, MQ clients connect to the server using shared memory.
- A shared process (PID) namespace, because in server bindings mode, the MQ server monitors the process ID (pid) of the client, to determine whether it is still running.
Docker supports using a shared IPC and PID namespace from Docker V1.12 (July 2016) onwards. However, Kubernetes only introduced an alpha-quality feature to use a shared PID namespace, from Kubernetes V1.10 (March 2018).
Load balancing
In order to horizontally scale, you need more than one queue manager which is able to offer the same messaging service (such as a queue). Once you have this, you need a way to assign clients to each queue manager in a balanced way. The simplest load balancing is connection load balancing, where a server (queue manager) is chosen at connection time. MQ also provides more sophisticated load balancing, on a per-message basis, through the use of MQ clusters.
Discovering and connecting to a queue manager
How do MQ clients locate a queue manager to use? There are three main approaches for an initial connection:
- Manual/fixed – Clients can be configured at deployment time to use a specific queue manager for the lifetime of that deployment. For example, this might be done by having a queue manager and client application in the same Kubernetes Pod. It could also be as simple as supplying an environment variable, Kubernetes ConfigMap, or via VCAP_SERVICES in CloudFoundry.
- Client Channel Definition Table (CCDT) – Clients can be configured to retrieve queue manager information using an MQ CCDT. CCDTs offer a rich set of connection information, including channel identifiers, TLS cipher specs, maximum message size, and more. The CCDT needs to be updated whenever new queue managers are created, or old ones deleted. The CCDT can be provided as a file (for example, using a Kubernetes ConfigMap), or accessible on the network via HTTP or FTP (for example, located using a Kubernetes Service). Note that if you use a "queue manager group" feature of CCDTs, and your client application connects using a "*" in the queue manager identifier, this is similar to using an L4 load balancer, except it avoids the problems with JMS.
- L4 load balancer – Clients can be configured to use a network load balancer, which selects the destination for TCP/IP connections. This is often known as an "OSI layer 4" or "L4" load balancer, and is commonly offered in cloud environments. For example, a typical Kubernetes Service will spray TCP/IP connections to one or more servers, in round-robin order. OSI layer 7 load balancing is discussed later, as it doesn't apply to the initial connection.
There are a number of restrictions you face when using an L4 load balancer (or a CCDT with a "*" in the queue manage identifier), which need to be carefully considered before you use this approach:
- Manual/fixed use of multiple channels – In most cloud environments, addressing information for services consists of simply a TCP/IP address and port. MQ provides additional flexibility: behind a single TCP/IP address and port, you have one or more channel definitions. This is typically used to configure security settings for certain connections, such as TLS ciphers and certificates. The CCDT mechanism allows you to define channel information as part of the connection information, but if you use an L4 load balancer, you need to specify channels in a manual/fixed way (for example, with an environment variable at deployment time). This is fine if you have a small number of different channel configurations to deal with, but becomes cumbersome if you configure lots of different channels.
- Avoid JMS APIs when using a L4 load balancer – MQ's Java Messaging Service (JMS) implementation uses multiple TCP/IP connections, which could be incorrectly distributed across different queue managers. Using a CCDT resolves this problem.
- Restricted use of request/response pattern – A common messaging pattern is where a client sends a message and waits for a response before continuing. This creates state in the application, and can result in messages which don't get consumed if/when the client fails and gets restarted (which can be common in cloud environments). If you want to use request/response messaging, then you should either persist any information required to process a response (for example, in a database), or place all information needed to process the response in the message itself.
- Avoid server affinity – See the next section
Server affinity
You have an architecture with "server affinity" if you have any situation where if a client were disconnected for some reason, that it would need to reconnect to the same queue manager. Some MQ features which can create server affinity include:
- Global (XA) transactions
- Durable subscriptions
- Specifying a queue manager name (!) in the client
See Chapter 7 of the IBM MQ as a Service Redpaper for more details.
If you use features which require server affinity, and you want to use an L4 load balancer or a CCDT with a "*", then the client is responsible for persisting the information it needs to reconnect to the correct queue manager. For example, the client might query the queue manager name, and write it to a database or key-value store.
Heterogeneous or homogeneous sets of queue managers
Many cloud environments make it easy to "horizontally scale" multiple replicas of a container or VM. This gives you a "homogeneous set" of queue managers, with an identical configuration. This typically makes it easy for the cloud to provide L4 load balancing, and also allows for cloud-managed rolling upgrades of your queue managers. For example, Kubernetes offers a Kubernetes Stateful Set, and will manage upgrading each replica (queue manager) in turn.
MQ clustering — L7 load balancing
MQ clusters offer more sophisticated load balancing, by choosing a cluster queue when it is opened, on a per-message basis, or when creating a message group. This can happen within a single TCP/IP connection. This load balancing is part of the MQ clustering feature, and requires the queue managers to be interconnected. It is often used in conjunction with one or more "gateway" queue managers, which act as a front-end for routing messages to back-end queue managers.
This load balancing is based on many things, but is primarily based on a set of weightings and priorities, and whether queue managers are known to be available or not.
The following is a summary of the recommended practices and guidance for using MQ in containers in production:
- Availability – use the "single resilient queue manager" system to achieve high availability. This is where the cloud environment will replace a failed instance with a new one, instead of having a "warm" standby queue manager already running. This requires network-attached storage as is typical in most container systems. Zone/region availability is largely dictated by the replication available for your chosen underlying storage system. Where even greater availability of the messaging service is required, introduce multiple "single resilient queue managers" to provide a continuously available messaging solution.
- Scalability
- For applications where you don't know (or can't control) precisely which features are used, you should scale using a heterogeneous set of queue managers using a CCDT and/or an MQ cluster, instead of using cloud-controlled scaling. In Kubernetes, this means you should use a Stateful Set with exactly one replica, and deploy multiple sets. Each Stateful Set will provide a highly available queue manager, and the MQ cluster will allow the scaling.
- For other applications, you may be able to use cloud-provided scaling, but you must avoid some MQ features. Use a fixed-size homogeneous set of queue managers (for example, using a Kubernetes Stateful Set), and don't reduce the size of the set after you deploy. You can use either an L4 load balancer (for example, a Kubernetes Service), or a CCDT (which is required for applications using JMS).
You can successfully deviate from this guidance with the correct level of architectural consideration, as discussed in this blog entry.


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Circular Quay is the crown jewel of Sydney. Sitting smack in the middle of the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and the city centre the inlet is the hub of all things Sydney. It's very easy just to sit and waste away the hours watching people from every nation on earth pass by. Ferries come and go and street performers entertain the crowds. But there are definitely some special things to do in Circular Quay Sydney. Here is our list of the best.
Snap a pic from the train station
As far as train stations go the Circular Quay train station is spectacular. Well I oversell it a little, the train station is average but the view is spectacular. As soon as you step off the train you'll be greeted with a panoramic view of Circular Quay, framed perfectly by the station roof.
Have a drink at the Opera Bar
The Opera Bar, sandwiched between the Opera House and the harbour side is hands down one of the best views of any bar in the world. Sit down and watch the world go by over looking the entire city, Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
Although overpriced (you're paying for the view) stopping by for one or two drinks is a must do while in Sydney.
Oysters and Coffee
When I first arrived in Sydney all bright eyed and bushy tailed one of the first cafes I stopped by was the Oyster Bar in Circular Quay. Just a stones throw from the Opera House this place is the perfect harbour side cafe for seafood and coffee.
Watch the ferries come and go while you dine on world class food. Australia is famous for its oysters so why not try them when you're in town? If you want to venture further afield and try some of the best international cuisine in Sydney check out a Sydney foodies tour.
Take in some local art
There are a lot of art museums and exhibition houses in and around the Rocks area, next to Circular Quay. If you have the time to explore and take in some culture the area is perfect for it.
Only got a short time on your long list of things to do? Check out the Museum of Contemporary Art. It's the massive white building next to the cruise ship international terminal. Their cafe alone should be on the list of the best things to do in Circular Quay Sydney. Just check out the view.
And of course, the Opera House
I wouldn't be a list of things to do in Circular Quay Sydney without the Opera House. It just wouldn't. But I will make a quick recommendation on how to enjoy the Opera House.
Most people that visit Sydney take the obligatory selfie in front of this architectural icon. And for good reason, it's one of the most recognisable landmarks in the world. Take a stroll around and soak in the view.
My recommendation (and it will sound ridiculous) is to actually go and see an opera. I say this is ridiculous because very few people that visit the Opera House actually see an opera. I get it, it's not your thing, it's not many peoples thing. But it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to see a world class performance.
As a stubborn male I would have much rather attended a hip hop or rock concert until the first opera I saw, now I'm a regular. So I say if you've got a short time in Sydney and it's a once in a lifetime trip don't miss out.
Want to see Sydney's best night spots?
Check out our list of the 4 best night spots in Sydney.


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Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship
The Birth, Growth and Demise of Entrepreneurial Firms
Frédéric Delmar and Karl Wennberg
Chapter 4: Firm Exit
Frédéric Delmar and Karl Wennberg
INTRODUCTION Firm exit is a vital but often under-examined part of the entrepreneurial process. Many ongoing firms are not necessarily successful in terms of operating at a profit (van Witteloostuijn, 1998), and the exit of firms may provide room for new entrants to potentially put resources to more efficient usage (Pe'er & Vertinsky, 2008). As we could see in our analysis of firm births in Chapter 3, several demand side forces clearly affected the birth of firms. It is possible that such forces also shape the path by which these firms evolve by influencing both if and how they eventually exit. This chapter serves to integrate how these differences in firms' initial conditions affect their subsequent evolution as more mature firms, drawing upon research on firm exit in entrepreneurship, industrial organization economics, and organizational ecology. Our goal is to integrate the findings from other chapters in our analysis of firm exits. Firm exit and its role for economies, regions, and individuals have been touched upon by various theoretical literatures such as industrial organization economics, strategic management, organization ecology, and entrepreneurship. By and large, these literatures have focused on distinct aspects of exit. Economics oriented research has highlighted the roles of the economic cycle and the industry's specific characteristics, such as knowledge spillovers or the innovation rate, for the exit of new firms (e.g., Audretsch, 1995). Organization and management research has focused on how a broader set of economic and social factors shape the exit of new firms. For example, a large...
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Let's write a "Hello, World!" program to learn how to compile and run a Scala code in the console prompt.
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Canute, Energy, and Natural Laws
Politics has been unusually intense this week, and many new themes of varying worth have echoed around the public square. One meme that surfaced held that belief in creation invalidates one for higher office. The argument runs that if a candidate is unable to understand natural law and science, as evidenced by creationism, then they are unfit to govern in the modern world. This week, numerous politicians showed ignorance of other natural laws and natural systems, ones whose effects are more immediate. I am more concerned with the immediate harm caused by those who ignore natural laws, as they did this week, that have been confirmed by repeated experiment.
The laws I am speaking of are those of supply and demand, and that price should reflect scarcity and value, rather than cost. Those who ignore this iron law can always make things worse.
King Canute was surrounded by a flattering court who magnified his power and magnificence in their speech, claiming that he could control the forces of nature. When some claimed in their over-the-top praise that he could control the tides, Canute decided to teach them a lesson. Canute had his throne carried to the beach at low tide, had a proclamation read requiring the tide to stay out, and held court surrounded by the flatterers. Predictably, all were soon flooded; one can only hope that some of the advisors were swept away. I hope Canute received better advice thereafter.
This week, government actions that created wide-spread shortages and economic dislocation in the Carolinas.
Local gas markets were stirred up with the prospect that hurricane disruption of gas production would soon cause shortages. Panic buying created runs on gas stations as drivers topped off their tanks before the weekend. Many convenience store owners increased their prices, a healthy response that reduces demand and encourages drivers to allocate gas use only to high value activities during a time of scarcity.
The governors of each of the Carolinas (and perhaps elsewhere) invoked emergency powers to prosecute those who raise prices. The predictable effect was that stations began running out of gas. The economic dislocation spread, as local service companies, unable to fuel their trucks at any price, began holding off all customers until next week. Tradesman were effectively laid off for the day. The underemployed now have full tanks that they do not need, and the regularly employed stayed home. The governors Easley and Sanford demonstrated that both parties can make bad situations worse through ignorance of natural laws.
Somehow energy befuddles public agencies, public discourse, and, obviously, governors. Energy companies, for the most part live in a bizarre world wherein prices are determined by approved costs rather than by value delivered. Decisions, on technology, and on resource allocation are made by fiat.
As I drive by stations with no gas, I know that neither the hurricane, not the station owner, nor the distributor is to blame. I blame Easley, and the latest of the many uneconomic decisions he has sold to the state of NC. I wonder when the pundits who are so forceful in arguing about evolutionary biology will consider whether own economic innumeracy poses a greater risk.
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Plans lodged for £400m redevelopment project in Belfast
London-based developer submits plans for 11-acre Royal Exchange site
An aerial image of the Belfast city centre site on which the planned regeneration project will take place, if it gets the go ahead.
An artist's impression of the Victoria Square regeneration initiative in Belfast, which is near the proposed North East Quarter.
A London-based property company, which bought an 11-acre site in Belfast from vulture fund Cerberus last year, has submitted plans for a £400 million (€450 million) regeneration project in the heart of the city.
Castlebrooke Investments bought what previously had been known as the Royal Exchange site in Belfast for an undisclosed sum last March. Cerberus had acquired the site in 2015 when it paid £205 million to acquire an extensive Ulster Bank loan book in the North. The gross assets bought by Cerberus were estimated to be worth £1.4 billion.
Castlebrooke Investments now wants to develop a new "North East Quarter" in Belfast on the site it bought from Cerberus, which it says would be a 1.4 million square feet retail-led, mixed-use urban regeneration scheme close to the Cathedral Quarter, Castle Court and Victoria Square in the city.
The company has submitted a planning application to Belfast City Council for the regeneration project, which it says will be the "largest ever single redevelopment project" in the city's history.
According to the privately owned group, it has to date spent £40 million in "acquiring the site, all planning work to date and the initiation of construction".
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The former Royal Exchange site has been the subject of various unsuccessful proposed projects for more than 17 years. A previous owner had secured planning permission for a proposed £360 million (€404 million) mixed-use retail and development scheme which had promised to create 3,000 jobs.
Castlebrooke Investments said it believes that up to 6,000 permanent jobs could be potentially created by its new proposal, which includes plans for office, retail, hotel and leisure developments.
It is also predicting that about 900 temporary construction jobs could be created during the development stage of its project.
The London company has pledged that listed and other key local buildings in the area would be preserved and brought back into use under its plans. It has also outlined proposals to create more public and community arts space.
A spokesperson from Castlebrooke said: "The development is the cornerstone of a vibrant new vision for Belfast and it will go a long way to helping the city achieve the targets set out in the council's ambitious Belfast Agenda.
"Now that the new application is submitted, we intend to give the scheme a new name and initiate an international marketing programme putting Belfast on the list for a large range of new occupiers who are not currently present in the city."


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recoil...WOW, that hurt. Because of the narrow frame and plastic frame, I guess. Not as bad as the P-64, or the Ruger LC9s, thank goodness but it does cut down on range time.
I did try a rubber sleeve on the grip, too.
Anyone else have the same issue with the G43?
BTW, the P938 with rubber grips was a joy to shoot.
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I find the G43, the shield and the the 365 to all be similar-is.
I agree that the 938 is slightly softer shooting, but I didn't find it to be all that much softer.
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I'm confused...wait, maybe I'm not.
I tried to REALLY like the 43, I like how it feels in my hand, like how it carries (carried it daily for 10-11 months) have REALLY tried to like it.
But every time I go to the range with one (I've owned a few) I would shoot 50 rounds and hate the gun. I can shoot it good, I just don't enjoy shooting it.
I'm back to my 19 for EDC and I picked up a used Gen 3 26 that had a custom grip reduction and stippling job that fit my hand perfectly. No more 43 (at least for now... )
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice.
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I have to say this, the G43, and it's single stack subcompact peers, aren't range toys. They fit a full power duty cartridge into a minimal size package. This is a combination that is never going to be soft shooting. If you can tolerate shooting it to the point that you can get enough rounds down range to maintain proficiency, I'd call it good, and shoot other, bigger, 9mm guns for fun.
If you can carry a bigger gun, by all means do. But if you can't, deal with the recoil and carry the G43.
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I have a LC9 which has a pretty stout recoil and rented a G43 at the range, and shot them side by side as they are virtually identical in size.
I found the Glock had a harsher recoil even than the LC9 which I found a bit surprising and while I did well with the LC9, I shot like shit with the G43.
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I only shot my G43 a few times after shooting the G43 and my G26 the same day I prefer my G26 over it by a good amount.
....Shredding lead both barrels
I've got about 1.5k rounds through my 43 and it is something with hot loads. With 115 grain I think it is mild, but put some +p stuff in it and hold on. Great gun though and very accurate. I've upgraded the trigger connector and had it stippled.
The G43 hurts to shoot?
It's 9X19, for crying out loud. Not exactly a hand cannon.
The G26 is a mild shooting ankle size pistol with its wide backstrap; the G43 only slightly less mild. It's a bit lighter, a bit thinner, but about the same.
If the G43 seems rough to shoot, then shoot it more. It won't seem that way for long.
The G43 wasn't mine and it's owner also complained about sharp recoil. Don't know what ammo he used but I have no plans to buy one.
Yes the G26 is mild and so is the G36 I have.
To bad no one makes a rubber grip for the Polish P-64. Now that little 9X18 Makarov puppy is really snappy. Ouch.
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Never shot a G43 but own a PPS and have shot Shields and don't find either of those to be anything but fairly pleasant. Now a .40 shield has some pop to it but not the 9mm
Can the G43 be THAT different?
"Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man."
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I don't find the recoil all that bad on my 43, but regardless I'm not in love with the gun. I don't know why I don't like it as much as I thought I would. I love my Glocks, but carry my 42 about 99% to the 43 at maybe 1% of the time.
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Don't own a Glock (they've never made a weapon I particularly desired). Do own a 9mm Shield and P365 (Oct. mfgd.). I've shot both (back to back) with 124 gr. Gold Dot +P's.
The Shield was not unpleasant to shoot. I found the P365 was NOT a lot of "fun" to fire with the Gold Dots! Both shot equally comfortably with std. velocity 115 gr. thru 147 grain cartridges.
I have the Mag Guts +2 rd. extender on the Shield's 7-rd. mag. Giving 9+1 capacity to the S&W. Yes, the 10-rd. Sig "pinky" mag P365 is marginally smaller.
I believe the Sig is slightly better made and has better "standard features" (night sights, opt. 12rd. mag.) than the Shield.
However, if you consider today's "street pricing-- the P365 is not currently a 67% better handgun.
Sorry about the thread drift.
"I have resolved to fight as long as Marse Robert has a corporal's guard, or until he says give up. He is the man I shall follow or die in the attempt."
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Have you tried the Federal HST low recoil (micro)150gr.HP? Pretty soft shooting.
I've run a 12 rd. magazine of the lo-recoil Federal 150 gr. micro thru the P365. It is comfortable to shoot and is (most likely) what I'll carry in the pistol.
Unfortunately, the Federal 150 grain costs me about $1.25/rd. (have to order it). Guess I'll try to work up an 800 fps practice load using 147 gr. Montana Gold's. I have about 2K of the MG.
My P365 has run anything I've put in it flawlessly (only 150 rds.) so for.
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We all have different needs and abilities. I personally have several health issues that affect my ability to shoot, including some damage to my right hand and arthritis. I typically carry a G42 in a belly band, in addition to a compact 9mm like a compact cz 75. In a pinch, it's just the 42. On a really bad day, it's a S&W EZ. It's all about needs and what you CAN do sometimes, not preference. Once upon a time I shot a 629 snub. No more.
I felt the recoil on my Glock 43 was much more manageable and comfortable than my P365 and P938.
I ran a TT plus 1 on my Glock 43 and still had to drop a pinky under the base plate. I could easily do 200 plus in a range session or class and be fine. Not so much with my P365. Ammo was a mix of standard pressure 147 grain HST and 124 grain Vcrown
My local Academy has the Sig 124 grain V-Crown for around 12 bucks a box of 20. Since 124 grain standard pressure HST is difficult to find at the moment, I went with it. I honestly feel it has less felt recoil. Could be me though, but through the P365, it was pleasant to shoot after 100 rounds.
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I don't own a 43 or 365. The Shield (9) is very pleasant to shoot and I easily shoot 200 rounds at a time through it. No more harsh than my G19, just feels better in my hand.
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I shot a co-workers Glock 43 the other day - I think I prefer the Shield to it.
It's accurate, and is a good carry size pistol, but I agree the recoil impulse was noticeably sharper, IMO, that the Shield.
(Think .40S&W in a Gen3 Glock sharp.)
It wasn't uncomfortable, per se, but it did seem to require more user input than my Shield or XDs for follow-up shots, etc.
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I get so wrapped up in my work with runners & triathletes who wish to improve their mechanics that I sometimes forget that the reason why most of us run is simply as an escape to a more child-like time. I watch my son run & it's always with simple & sheer joy! When racing it is important to always keep this in mind. The voluntary nature of what we do allows us to tap into areas of motivation that are different than toughness, or competitiveness, or even a winning mindset, but rather a peaceful, balanced, rhythmic process, fueled by amazement & gratitude. So in the spirit of this I refer you to a laugh out loud YouTube clip of Friends so that whether you are a serious runner or just a happy-to-be-out-there runner, you can tap into power & motivation that is available from the not so usual sources of plain joy & fun. Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_0Ta_DIWuU&feature=related
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Hello Friends!
Today is world card making day! How are you celebrating? I actually have a few blogs to post today for cards I've been working on throughout the week.
Did you hear what's going on over at Paper Issues?! In celebration of WCMD, they are throwin' out some love to one random person who posts any card on their Facebook Page! Hop on over to the Paper Issues Facebook Page for all the details. As if that weren't awesome enough, Kristy over at
Some Odd Girl is going to reward some random Paper Issues participant with digis! You'd better start getting crafty! You don't want to miss this!
Let's get down to my creation. I had two to choose from, and I tossed a coin and landed on Pirate Kaylee:
I love Pirate Kaylee. The card base is Papertrey Ink. The diamond layer is Recollections and the map is Simple Stories (I added the "x marks the spot). I found that ah-mazing key printed burlap at JoAnn's. I love it. I bought a whole yard of it. Not sure how I'll ever use it all, but I'll find a way!
I colored Ms. Kaylee using Copics. I'll do my best to remember which ones I used =o )
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This keyhole is Tim Holtz. I was so glad to finally have a good reason to use it!
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A Highly Divergent Actin Gene in the Nuclear Genome of the Cryptophyte Alga Pyrellolllollns helogolandica
Stibitz, Thomas
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The cryptophytes are a monophyletic group of unicellular algae with plastids bound by four membranes. One characteristic that all cryptophytes share is a structure between the second and third membranes called a nucleomorph. Believed to be the vestigial nucleus of an algal endosymbiont, the nucleomorph holds many clues to the process of secondary endosymbiosis. In this paper we examine two actin genes from a cryptophyte alga, Pyrenomonas helgolandica. While one actin is typical for the cryptophytes, the other is highly divergent and believed to have originated in the nucleomorph. We have completed the sequencing of these two genes and examined the differences between the two. By exploring the fate of a gene with origins in the nucleomorph, we hope to better understand secondary endosymbiosis, plastid evolution, and gene transfer. In addition to these issues, we also provide evidence for previously undescribed introns in the 5' end of the divergent actin.


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We began our Friday club tonight with a very lively time of singing. It was great to see some children we have not had with us for a while. We looked at the story of Joseph by watching a short DVD clip. We encouraged the children to think about how Joseph must have felt when he was in prison. We related this to the fact that even when things seem to go wrong it is always safe to trust Jesus. We then went on to our stations: football, basketball, parachute games and loom bands.
In our high school meeting we began the session with a game of rounders which was great fun. We then had our meeting part with a short time of singing before a very good testimony from Melissa. Tiffies then spoke around the theme of being in the right place at the right time using the story of the man Jesus healed after he had been unable to walk for 38 years. We had around 12 young people with us.


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Penta Technologies provides software and services that improve efficiency and overall effectiveness for commercial and industrial construction and field service companies. For over 35 years, Penta Technologies has specialized in serving its partner companies. Solutions hosted both in the cloud or on-premise include Project Management; Service Management, Mobile Apps, Inspections, Payroll & Workforce Management, multi-company, multi-currency Financials; Purchasing & Inventory; and Fixed Asset & Equipment Management. Through proven business processes, leading-edge technology, and a focus on long-term partnerships, Penta Technologies has solidified their position as an industry leader. For more information, visit www.penta.com.
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English: Calling
Japanese: コーリング
Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 7
Status: Finished
Published: Jan 24, 2009
Genres: Yaoi
Authors: Ootsuki, Miu (Story & Art)
Serialization: Comic Magazine LYNX
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What is it?
Bitcoin is a new currency that was produced in2009 by an unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Deals are made without anymiddle guys— significance, no banks! There are no deal fees and no have to provide your genuine name. More merchants are starting to accept them: You can buy web hosting services, pizza and even manicures.
Is it really Anonymous for Chino residents?
Though each bitcoin transaction is taped in a public log, names of purchasers and sellers are neverrevealed— just their wallet IDs. While that keeps bitcoin users' deals personal, it also lets them purchase or offer anything without quickly tracing it back to them. That's why it has actually ended up being the currency of option for people online purchasingdrugs or other illegal activities.
Compared to Brexit, Bitexit appears a breeze. On August 1st, without much agonizing or awkward settlements, a group of Bitcoin activists and entrepreneurs managed to develop a secondversion of the crypto-currency. It immediately got a following: as The Financial expert went to press, a unit of "Bitcoin Cash" had a price of $460 and tokens worth $7.6 bn remained in flow (although that is still much smaller than Bitcoin classic, which stood at about $2,700 and nearly $45bn).
This "fork", as such occasions are called, came earlier thanexpected. However it is how experts had expected a two-year-old conflict over the future of Bitcoin to end. At the heart of this "civil war" was the question of ways to increase the capacity of the system, which can handle just as much as 7 transactions per second. The brand-new variation has the ability to process more than 50 per second, however otherwise works much like the original one. [google-map location="Chino CA"]
Will Bitcoin Money be more than simply another "altcoin", as the many existing clones of the crypto-currency are called? It is backed by Chinese"miners", firms that offer the computing power to verify payments and mint brand-new digital coins. Theyhave been dissatisfied with how the original system has been handled by its developers— and made some further technical tweaks to guarantee that the new Bitcoin makes it through. The fans of the two variations will now contest which can declare to be the " genuine"Bitcoin
All time High Rates in Chino California
The rate of bitcoin has actually smashed through $5,000 to an all-time high.
The cryptocurrency increased by more than 8% to $5,243 having actually begun the year at $966. Bitcoin has soared by more than 750% in the past year and deserves four times as much as an ounce of gold.
However the rate has actually been volatile. The digital currency plunged listed below $3,000 in mid-September after the Chinese authorities revealed a crackdown.Beijing purchased cryptocurrency exchanges to stop trading and obstruct new registrations, due to fears that increasing varieties of consumers pilinginto the bitcoin market could prompt broaderfinancial problems.
The primary trader at for Chino California, said:"The returns are really impressive, specifically giventhe current restriction on bitcoin trading in China, wheredemand had actually previously accounted for a minimum of 10% of all international volumes."
The Russian president called this week forregulation of cryptocurrencies, stating their usage "bears serious risks" such as money laundering, tax evasion and financing for terrorism. But he likewise alerted againstimposing " a lot of barriers," which appears to have actually offered bitcoin a increase.
Regardless of cautions over a bubble, bitcoinis getting in acceptance. Last month, a London residential or commercial property designer, The Collective, stated it would permit its occupants to pay their deposits in bitcoin and accept lease payments in the cryptocurrency by the end of the year.
History of Bitcoin
A guy named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listservdescribing his style for a brand-new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list's veterans had actually become aware of him, and exactly what little info could be obtained was murky and contradictory. In an online profile, he said he lived inJapan. His email address was from a totally freeGerman service. Google look for his name showed upno appropriate information; it wasclearly a pseudonym. But while Nakamoto himself mayhave been a puzzle, his development crackeda problem that had actually stymiedcryptographers for decades. The concept of digital money— practical and untraceable, liberated from the oversight of governments and banks— hadbeen a hot topic considering that the birth of the Internet. Cypherpunks, the 1990s movement of libertarian cryptographers, devoted themselves to theproject. Yet every effort to produce virtual cash had foundered, especially in Chino CA. Ecash, an confidential systemlaunched in the early 1990s by cryptographer David Chaum, stopped working in part because itdepended on the existing infrastructures of federal government and credit card companies. Other proposals followed— bit gold, RPOW, b-money—but none got off the ground.


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DoBeDo Contributor Clare Shilland published a book, 'Love from Alice'.
Love From Alice is a photostory about Alice Charity Goddard, shot over 5 days on the island of Östra Lagnö, in the Stockholm archipelago. It is the second collaboration in the 'Love from' series of publications by Clare Shilland, Beth Fenton & Wood McGrath. The series uses locations and concepts sourced from found or received postcards.
Book available at B Store. 24 pages, Singer sewn, postcard tipped on to multiple colour covers.


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Happy New Year!
The start of a new year fills us with nostalgia and wonder at all that our scholars, awardees and grantees have achieved. It also bring with it a sense of anticipation of what's to come. 2016 has been a whirlwind and we expect no less from 2017.
This year we look forward to welcoming new scholars, awardees and grantees. Applications for scholarships open on January 15th, be sure to log onto our website at www.inlaksfoundation.org for more information.
On February 8th we will be welcoming our Fine Art Awardees for 2017 at G5A. With Anupam Sah as this year's keynote speaker it promises to be an interesting evening.
Sohil Bhatia will be beginning his month long residency at Heritage Hotel in Goa on January 15th. More about him and his practice will follow soon!
Our resident at the Attakalari Center for Movement, Meghna Bhardwaj will be performing as a part of FACETS 2017 in February. If you're in Bangalore do try and catch her performance.
Looking at the accomplishments of the year gone by Anagha Bhat, Indian Music Awardee 2015, had many successful concerts this year.
Priyesh Trivedi, Gasworks Resident 2016 spent his time in London exploring the cultural and anthropological story of Acid House (a sub genre of House music). Learn more about his time in London in an interview with the British Council. (Link below)
Thavudoz Shashi recently completed his residency with Darling Foundry. Here are some images of him working in -18ºC in Shcefferville, Canada.
We're already off to such a great start. We can't wait to see what more is in store for us as the year unfolds. Do stay tuned for more updates!


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Technology and Information Systems
The Department of Technology and Information Systems is responsible for planning, organizing, implementing, and monitoring computerized processing systems to improve the management reporting and instructional operations of the district. The department is also responsible for providing service and support to schools and offices in the use of technology to enhance student performance and provide quality support services.
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By Bud Cordova
KAFB Nucleus
The Air Force Research Laboratory Scholars Program summer interns held a poster session for their research in various areas such as 3-D printing and plasma created by lasers on July 27.
"The poster session highlights their accomplishments and research throughout the summer," said Eunsook Hwang, who is in charge of technology engagement for the AFRL Space Vehicles and Directed Energy directorates.
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So this happened, though with a little Brylcreem I could be an extra on Mad Men.
There's a hair salon I go to maybe once a month. It's one of the few hair salons in Dong-gu that I know is a hair salon; most of the others in this area have a seedy vibe to them (and there's a reason for that). I speak Korean well enough to have a chitchat with the hairdresser and tell her how to cut my hair. She does a pretty good job, too. After the washing, she usually asks if I'd like her to style my hair. I nearly always say yes because there is usually some new style she will try out on me.
This time I was a little worried because it looked like she was going to give me a poof (the hairstyle college cheerleaders prefer)
Of course, she always says I'm very handsome. Bear in mind, the older ladies tend to say this to almost anyone. It's fairly common for my female friends to say to each other "와! 예쁘다" (Wow, so pretty!) when they meet.


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System Security Testing
We provide system security testing for our customers to make sure that their systems are not prone to any vulnerable malware. Our prime objective for having security testing is to ensure that our customer's system is not prone to any potential vulnerabilities.
Security testing is done to check that there is no information leakage by encrypting the application or using wide range of software, hardware and firewall etc.
Our tech experts try to cover all the 6 factors that are needed to be covered while performing system security testing i.e. confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, authorization and non-repudiation.
We also check for all applications used by our client to ensure that they are getting complete access whether it be on PC or laptop, tablet or MacBook.
For big as well as small businesses, we provide systematic evaluation of company's information security. This is done to measure authenticity of company's information against hackers.


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We recently designed this postcard for the Portsmouth Arts Guild in Portsmouth, RI. Promotional materials for multiple artists with no particular aesthetic connection can be tricky; trying to combine images from the various artists can lead to visual chaos. We've…
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Another day without internet/
Today, it's that I didn't get any blogging done at the times when I was near internet connected computers this morning and early afternoon. It's not summer anymore, and I have a lot more to do every day than I had before. (If it seems bad now that I only get to posting after sundown sometimes now, it should seem even worse that I did the same thing before.) It's a different experience to have my connectivity diminished when I'm doing stuff, rather than just spending a day away from the web. There's not much 'less' or 'more' of anything, it's just different.
I'm in a movie now, so the rest of blogging tonight will come later. I have no idea what I am going to write after, having no internet to scour for ideas.


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When we took another look
Simplify! Simplify! Simplify! Even when you think there is absolutely nothing left to let go of, a new perspective brings options.
Regrouping after the failed Kickstarter, we found ourselves in deep and meaningful conversations with other small business owners and a few of our investors. Laying everything on the table and looking back at obstacles, something very clear came to light.
Scale back. More.
The very expensive electrical issue that is keeping us from opening has forced us to make the decision to cut out the wholesale baking portion of our business plan. For now.
As we stand, we are able to open with breakfast and lunch options as planned and dinners through the weekend. The price of opening has dropped to under to $10,000. That finishes the hood vent, pays the Board of Health's final walk through, one small refrigerator, product, tables, chairs and packaging.
We have options. A few of those currently in the works.
We are moving along, and feeling a little lighter. With this reduced amount to get open, we are optimistic for the new year!


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NOTE: The API Git repository got scrambled and I had to start over. The link above is correct.
Well, I have decided that passing the response object through multiple call backs is going to be a little crazy. I had to add two return methods just for the getUserCount and processUser SQL Server calls/endpoints. They are both fairly simple and the code that resulted (in hind sight) is convoluted. It will turn into a spaghetti mess with more calls.
So, in reading multiple articles and talking with some of my fellow engineers, I have discovered the preferred method in JavaScript is something called a Promise. A promise (as I understand it), is a way to chain multiple asynchronous methods together so that once the call back comes back, it will resolve and you can do something with the result.
You can still do this on your own or by passing a response (or other object I supposed) into the asynchronous method where it can be used once the method resolves. The thing about promises is that the code is a lot cleaner. Promises are also (or so I hear) what is behind the await/async functionality coming in the next major version of Javascript. Their use (I believe) is very similar to the await/async functionality used in .NET.
I found an excellent tutorial on the 'basics' of promises (see reference #1). Following this, I recreated its author's code and was able to get a very small chain of calls in a simple API method. Very nice!
I then started walking down the path of adopting my existing code using the Tedious library, but I had some issues on the .on() event handlers. Every time I would reference the response object, it would be undefined. I suspect that these .on() event handlers need to be promises themselves. But in reading further, I discovered that someone had already made a Promise friendly version of the Tedious library (see reference #2). Following the instructions, I was very easily and quickly able to modify my TGIMBA Node JS API to use it.
Next post will be (ideally) with all of the other SQL methods implemented.
Stay tuned!
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6SH72uAn3Q
2) https://github.com/chilltemp/tedious-promises


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Happy Thoughts Font
Happy Thoughts Font
A Hand-Printed Typeface with Extras
Spreading a little font-based happiness from my corner of the world to yours. :)
This cheerful, hand-drawn typeface can be nostalgic (think junior high love notes) as well as reflective (I'm looking at you, journals). Use it to interject some cheer and realism into everything from logos and branding to surface and book design, and social media posts. Looks great as body copy too!
Happy Thoughts Regular with standard ligatures and a handful of stylistic alternates
Numbers, symbols, and punctuation
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OTF, TTF & Web fonts (install OTF for full feature access)
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Drivers and passengers in California who are in car accidents often get whiplash from the impact. The consequences from whiplash can vary from mild muscle irritation to major nerve damage. Being aware of the symptoms and treatment strategies is important to decrease the chances of long-term effects.
Marijuana and driving
Now that marijuana use is legal in California, law enforcement is struggling with ways to prove that marijuana is involved in cases of driving under the influence. The lack of appropriate road-side tests and the fact that evidence of marijuana sticks around for weeks are just some of the issues.
Did you wake up in unexpected pain after a car accident?
Car accidents are never something you expect to happen on any given day, and in the confusion of the moment (or relief that no one seems hurt), many people drive away thinking that they got very lucky by not suffering an injury. In this case, a person who just experienced a car accident may choose to go on with one's day without making time to seek out quality health care.
Steps to take in a hit and run accident
People in California who are involved in, or witness, a hit and run accident should know the steps to take to make sure damage and injuries are kept to a minimum. A hit and run often involves an unattended parked vehicle, but in more serious cases it involves either a moving vehicle, bicyclist or pedestrian.
Making mass transit safer
High numbers of California residents and visitors take some type of mass transit on a weekly, and often daily, basis. Convenience and concern for the environment have increased the role of mass transit in many communities throughout the state. Public transportation consists of buses, subways, commuter and light rail, ferries, trolleys and streetcars. In order to enhance safety, these systems must constantly be maintained and monitored to prevent catastrophes from occurring.
Post-concussion syndrome is complex and life-altering
You knew it would take time to recover from your concussion, but you didn't realize how serious the symptoms would be. Known as post-concussion disorder, the disorder is one with various symptoms that last for weeks to months after an injury that results in a concussion.
Texting while driving in California
The state of California has put in place a variety of driving laws to cut down on the number of accidents and fatalities on the road. According to the Federal Communications Commission, distracted drivers were responsible for just over 390,000 injuries and almost 3,500 deaths in 2015 in the United States. Because of this, California has made texting illegal for drivers of all ages, which is in addition to the law prohibiting talking while holding the phone.


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Rediscover a new kind of lethal weapon in Luc Besson's 1991 classic La Femme Nikita in the next instalment of In The House at Event Cinemas George St, September 8th.
Before it spawned a cornucopia of television series knock-offs, the stylized French crime thriller set a new standard for the girl-with-a-gun movie trope. Tickets are already selling quickly and you can buy them here, or you can win tickets! We've got a double pass to give away.
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