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30. October 2015 | Servers maintenance
Please note that all Aqua Republica versions will be unavailable until 1500 CET due to server maintenance.
Please note that all Aqua Republica versions will be unavailable until 1500 CET due to server maintenance.
In conjunction with IFAT India, the first Indian University Challenge on IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) and Aqua Republica was successfully conducted on 15th Oct 2015 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.
Here are some photos of the challenge. Watch this space for more challenges coming up with IFAT!
DHI and UNEP-DHI Partnership is collaborating with McGill University, and many other partners in this new exciting research project!
The long-term goal of this partnership is to study the impact of advanced ICT on social learning and stakeholder collaborations for sustainable water governance in Canada and elsewhere. The specific aim of this proposed research project is to study the role and value of serious games to enhance social learning and collaboration processes for sustainable water governance. Serious games are games designed to enhance deep learning about real-world challenges. Research on serious games for any purpose in any field of application is multi-disciplinary by nature.
The following research questions will be studied:
We are just getting started but you can read more about the project at www.gamingthewatersystem.org!
Do you want to help educate the youth in sustainable water and environment management and be part of a global network of innovative water educators?
Since 2013, over 4000 children between the ages of 14-17 in more than 10 countries have joined in the UNEP-DHI Eco Challenge and competed by playing the Aqua Republica game. Apart from having fun, the experience has helped them to learn about sustainable water and environmental management. As we continue to grow the initiative, we are looking for country partners for next year's UNEP-DHI Eco Challenge scheduled to run between January 2016 and April 2016.
What does it mean to become a country partner? By becoming a partner, you commit to:
• Organising and running a fun and innovative competition for high school children for your country
• Inviting schools and students to participate in the competition in your country
• Establishing local partnerships to help support and promote the competition
What you will receive as a partner in terms of support are:
• Access to the competition registration page
• Aqua Republica game for use during the competition in English
• Web-based training on how to use the game in classrooms in English
• A competition kit consisting of guidelines, letter templates and certificate templates
• Technical support during the competition
UNEP-DHI is not in a position to pay for country partners' time or competition prizes. However country partners can identify and accept support from other sources upon agreement with UNEP-DHI.
Submit your interest to join this partnership by filling out the registration form available here before 31st October 2015.
Over the last weekend, we have conducted a couple students and teachers workshop in Nairobi with Shree Cutchi Leva Petal School and Sunshine Secondary School which are organised by WaterCap, a network of Cap-Net UNDP. We had a very good time sharing the concept of Aqua Republica and demonstrating how serious games can help promote more interactive learning. More activities are planned in Nairobi in the near future so stay tuned!


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Last year's Floating Leaves Tea Silver Needle didn't catch my attention, however with just seeing the leaves of 2017's batch got me excited. I was visiting Floating Leaves Tea and the owner, Shiuwen, showed me the bulk bag of the new 2017 Spring Silver Needle. The fuzz that was flying around was crazy. You probably need to wear a dust mask if you are going to deal with this Silver Needle for an extended amount of time. I had a sample in store, but forgot to buy some. On my next visit I bought an ounce to play with.
Dry Leaf and Steeping Method
SO MUCH FUZZ! Scooping out tea makes fur flying like any furry friend in shedding season. The smell is very strongly like an alfalfa hay field that was just cut. I felt my sinuses instinctively recoil as that smell usually equals allergies, but I had no physical reaction.
The fuzz is seriously scary, it looks like white tarantula legs. No I will not google to compare spider fur to tea.
If you are not familiar with my white tea reviews, I steep white tea pretty aggressively. I used 1 gram to 18ml of vessel size. I used 200F/93c water temperature, with no rinse.
Tasting of Floating Leaves Tea's 2017 Spring Silver Needle White Tea
Silver Needle steeps up a tinted cream, yet crystal clear. Pouring hot water gives off strong smells of floral and crisp grass. The hot leaf smells like hot weeds in 95F/35c+ weather.
First and Second Infusion: Floating Leaves Tea's Silver Needle is sweet, gentle and soft tea to start. The flavor is syrupy sweet, leading to a fresh vegetal taste. The vegetal reminds me of those aloe chunk drinks, which have a mix of light sweetness, grass, and mystery watery fruit.
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Infusion: Silver Needle is flavor packed, without any dry or bitterness. The flavor is opening up to a creamy aloe, with a slight lychee sweetness. Some sips taste slightly medicinal, but overall incredibly fresh. The flavor gets strong at end of sip and lasts for a few minutes in the mouth. The body picked up here being melted buttery licky, with a mouth watery feeling left in the mouth.
What I found interesting here is usually I can taste a stale linen quality in white teas, but this tea is so fresh that it is too new for linen notes.
Sixth and Seventh Infusion: The final infusions' flavor slipped fast. The vegetal flavor has gotten cooked, tasting like steamed but still sweet and crisp, asparagus. There is a bit of dryness, but nothing harsh.
Floating Leaves Tea's 2017 Spring Silver Needle is epic. This tea is excellent quality for Silver Needle white teas as it is truely fresh, crisp, and sweet in flavor. Fresh Silver Needle is packed with flavor too, this isn't your boring, flavorless white tea. Don't let this one fly under the radar with your next order. If you love fresh white teas, you need to check out Floating Leaves Tea's new Silver Needle. The 2017 Spring Silver Needle is also priced well at $9.50 an ounce, which is pretty awesome considering the quality.

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For partners that provide implementation or managed services around Oracle Cloud Applications
Support / Customers
Please be aware of the below if you encounter OTBI reporting issues in retriever person information such as Requester or Preparer.
Problem Statement:
Unable to fetch any data through Requisition Preparer column in OTBI analysis using Requisition Real Time.
Bug Details:
This was one among more bugs that were logged against OTBI for the issue:
The customer in this case did not want the following additional workarounds:
A. The workaround of creating a role base on inheriting the seeded Human Resource Analyst job role, and select View All People for Person security is not acceptable in this use case.
B. Also, using Procurement Manager role is not desired to be given to some users.
Workaround suggested:
1. Create a copy from Purchase Analysis Abstract Role. -> "Purchase Analysis Abstract Role Custom" or other preferred name.
2. Go to edit the custom role in security console.
3. Go to the 3rd step (Data Security Policies).
4. Find the policy name "Grant on Public Person" and Privilege = "Report Public Person".
5. From the drop down list choose Edit Data Security Policy
6. Change the Data Set = All Values
7. Then submit.
8. Grant role to user and then execute 'Retrieve Latest LDAP Changes'.
9. Verify if person information is now accessible for this user.
Note that in this case, it will not allow user to access other SAs. Only the SA purchase analysis can access.
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Also, the PR Approval date and PR Revision details are not included in OTBI data model.
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Edgar Otieno Kenya Millionaire insurance Salesman
Edgar Otieno always wanted to have money. Lots of money. Despite having been born to a rural family of modest means, he knew it was a long shot.
But it was not until he landed in Nairobi in the mid 1990s from his village in Siaya County that he realised just how steep the slope of life is and the effort it would require to scale it.
It took the young Otieno nearly five years knocking on the doors of employers before he found a footing in what he describes as the most unlikely place – the insurance industry.
Armed with strong belief in his ability to apply the skills and energy he had acquired from his parents and school, Mr Otieno has in less than five years scaled the career ladder to stand above Kenya's most celebrated salesmen.
Earning an average monthly salary of Sh2.6 million, Mr Otieno is today arguably among the best paid workers in Kenya yet he is nowhere near what many would regard as the peak of a career in the corporate world.
Having begun his sales career in 2006, Mr Otieno ranks among Kenya's truly self-made millionaires who are out to re-engineer the stubborn belief that working in public service is a way to riches.
Mr Otieno, who works as an independent insurance agent, has become the industry's poster child.
Insurance industry insiders describe Mr Otieno's as an extraordinary performance that has surprised his peers and seniors in equal measure.
Last year, barely four years into the job, Mr Otieno walked away with the runners-up trophy for the Salesperson of the Year Award at the annual Association of Kenya Insurers' (AKI) having clocked Sh25 million in annual premium sales, just Sh2 million behind the winner's Sh27 million.
Mr Otieno says his intention is to top the league this year with a record-breaking performance. While industry records show that at no time has a single salesman generated Sh40 million in Annual Premium Income (API) – the insurance industry sales benchmark, Mr Otieno calmly reveals that he touched the Sh41 million mark by the end of July and is aiming to close the year at between Sh60 and 70 million.
"He is peerless as far as salesmanship is concerned," says his manager, Mr Peter Muchiri.
When the Business Daily visited Mr Otieno at his Hurlingham office for an interview, he was in the middle of a presentation. It costs Sh2,500 to sit in a session.
Mr Otieno eats life with a big spoon. His business is housed in an imposing stand-alone office block with an equally arresting interior design and befitting furniture.
The salesman carries an intimidating aura with a look so intense, but all that disappears once he begins to speak.
Mr Otieno is a master orator who gives the mind little space to wander. It takes only a few minutes to realise that the power of the spoken word is what makes him tick for potential clients.
Mr Otieno's sales career started in the agriculture sector in 1997. Having hunted for a job for nearly four years without success, he invested the little money he had in buying farm inputs from factories in Nairobi's Industrial Area and vending door to door in Central province.
"It was such a successful venture that within a short time I was moving larger volumes than established resellers," he says.
Mr Otieno confesses that this instant success later turned out to be his main undoing. "I had no systems, no control and my staff – I had built quite a large sales team by then - were selling and not remitting the money."
Within a short time, Mr Otieno found himself in the radar screen of more than a dozen lawyers who were chasing him over a Sh6.5 million debt he owed his suppliers – a sizeable amount at the time. He had to find money fast.
Pressure from suppliers is what pushed Mr Otieno into looking for a job that could earn him enough income to clear his debts.
"My wife came home one evening in 2006 and told me of a product an insurance agent had proposed to her," he says. "I liked the product and went to Pan Africa Insurance offices the next day to learn more about it – then I offered to sell it."
Pius Kitela, who headed the Pan Africa Thika agency, saw talent in the man and recruited him on the spot. The rest, as they say, is history.
In the past three years, Mr Otieno has been among Kenya's top three insurance sales agents; winning all-expenses paid for trips to Australia, USA and Dubai.
Mr Otieno insists the surest formula to success in sales is going beyond the call of duty to listen, understand and help clients find solutions to their problems.
Counting discipline, love for what you do and competing within your strengths as the pillars of success in life, Mr Otieno says that one only succeeds with a well-prepared, documented and executed roadmap. "Without one, you are lost," he says.
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Over the last four weeks I have focused on why collaboration is important in the workplace, why collaboration is hard, why collaboration doesn't always work, why collaboration is better than competition, and now I am tying things together with how collaboration can help grow your business.
April 23rd, 2018
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The system monitors the response and status of tasks, calendar items and incidents. Team members have accountability to the system which provides solid performance management capacity.
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Now every article is the start of a discussion. If you're a member of the Standing Committee on Women and the Law, you can comment on any of the articles that appear below.
In This Issue…
- Chair's Column
A message from Chair Annemarie Kill.
- Remembering the past, working on our future—ISBA Women and the Law Committee Chairs
A list of those who have served as Chair of this Committee.
- 2007-2009 Task Force on Diversity
The efforts are continuing to ensure that the ISBA is as welcoming an environment as possible to all Illinois attorneys. We invite you to learn more about diversity initiatives within the ISBA by visiting our new diversity Web site at <http://www.isba.org/diversity>.
- The DOs and DON'Ts on how to treat your law clerk
The author has created a short, practical list of the DOs and DON'Ts on how a law clerk should be treated.
- Win with civility
In 2005, the Illinois Supreme Court established the Illinois Commission on Professionalism, making Illinois one of only 14 states that have a formal body working to promote professionalism and civility.
- Getting off the teeter-totter—Work/life balance, another perspective
In June the author attended the 17th Annual Conference of the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers, held in Chicago.
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Once you try brown butter rice krispie treats, you will never want them any other way! The nutty browned butter gives these nostalgic bars an incredible depth of flavor. Definitely not the rice krispie treat of your childhood, but the kids will still love them!
Rice Krispie treats are the ultimate nostalgia treat for me. Believe it or not, my daughter has never tried them before now. I am actually one of those my-daughter-cannot-even-be-in-the-same-room-as-junk-food-and-she-must-eat-healthy-ALL-THE-TIME-while-I-munch-on-these-Doritos-in-the-closet kind of mom. Sad, I know. These brown butter Rice Krispie treats are not your ordinary Rice Krispie treats, but they don't have any funky flavor combinations either. The brown butter gives these treats a nice nutty flavor, while still retaining the treat's classic deliciousness.
These brown butter rice krispie treats are super marshmallow-y. And chewy. Is that how you would describe it? It's chewy in a good way, not in a hurt-your-jaw kind of way. And super melt-in-your-mouth. Just thinking about these treats is making me crave more. These babies were gone within hours of taking these photos. I used a vanilla bean paste in my treats and they just take the flavor to the next level. I highly recommend trying it.
Enough talking. Let's stop with the over-hyphenating everything and get to the good stuff!
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If you want more rice krispie treats, try my peanut butter and jelly rice krispie treats!
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Once you try brown butter rice krispie treats, you will never want them any other way! The nutty browned butter gives these nostalgic bars an incredible depth of flavor. Definitely not the rice krispie treat of your childhood, but the kids will still love them!
- 1/2 cup (115 g) unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (I recommend vanilla bean paste)
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 bags (10 oz) mini marshmallows
- 8 cups (200 g) rice krispies
- Line an 8x8 baking pan with parchment paper. You can use a larger pan if you prefer smaller treats.
- Heat the butter over medium heat until it starts to brown and give a light nutty scent. Remove from heat immediately to prevent the butter from burning.
- Add the vanilla and salt to the butter and mix.
- Add the marshmallows and mix until they melt. The heat of the pot and the butter should be enough to melt the marshmallows. If not, put the pot back on the burner and put the heat on low until the marshmallows melt.
- Add the Rice Krispies one cup at a time and mix thoroughly.
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A discussion with David N. Blank-Edelman and Matt Klein
Matt Klein is a software engineer at Lyft and the creator of Envoy, He's a big fan of service mesh architectures as a way of improving the reliability and observability of environments, especially those that are microservices-based (Envoy is at the heart of a number of service mesh projects like Istio). Though it is always a pleasure to have a deep dive technical discussion on service meshes with Matt, I've also found his observations on SRE culture to be a good starting point for conversations about the field. That's the direction we took for this discussion.
David: Let's do a level set. How do you define SRE?
Matt: I think a lot of people have different definitions about what SRE is. The way that I think about SRE is that it's really a software engineering and a thought discipline that is focused on system and product reliability, and not necessarily building features for a specific product. So obviously it's pretty nuanced. But I think at the end of the day, that's the only way to really cleanly break it down. Traditional software engineers are focused on building particular product features, typically driven by product managers and business requirements. And SREs or production engineers, or reliability engineers, or however you want to call them, I think their focus is not necessarily on building features, it's on making sure that those features have a baseline level of reliability for the customers who end up using those features.
David: Do you feel that the culture for SREs is the same as the culture for feature producing software engineers?
Matt: So I guess it depends. This topic is obviously fairly complicated. We can talk about the culture of a product engineer, or the culture of a reliability engineer. But I find it more useful to think about culture in the sense of "what is a reliability culture?" I think that spans product engineers, and it spans reliability engineers.
David: Okay, so that's a great distinction. So what does a culture of reliability entail?
Matt: I think that is actually what is most interesting about this discussion. Because if you look at the differences in terms of how companies have thought about this problem—dealt with this problem of building features and having those features actually end up being reliable, there isn't one answer. The industry has actually been all over the place.
We have gone from having the very traditional siloed roles of software engineers, test engineers, systems engineers, release engineers. And then we've gone full stop the other way, where we have this theoretical concept of DevOps. DevOps means different things to different people, but at least at a high level, the idea of DevOps is a much more agile development process—the idea that we're doing infrastructure through code, the idea that everyone can do their own operations.
And then we have somewhere in the middle of this a reliability engineering discipline where we try to enable product engineers to have operational excellence. Provide them the tooling and the culture. So I think it's important to separate culture from discipline.
At a super high level, reliability culture is honestly, just respecting the user. It's respecting production. And I actually think it's that simple.
David: when you say "respecting the user" or "respecting production" what do you mean?
Matt: We can have a much more nuanced conversation about it, but there's a way to think about software development or product development where we're going to add features X, Y, or Z. We don't do that in complete isolation without thinking about how our actions actually go through and affect the user. If we have a bug, what impact does that have on the user? If we for example deploy our new feature at a peak time, and we break the website, is that the most user respecting way that we could have done that? If we don't use feature flags, so that we can incrementally test things, is that respecting the user? Are we doing development in a way where we reduce the chance of impacting the user experience as much as possible?
SRE culture is balancing velocity. Balancing feature development with risk assessment. And it's always a balance of how do we have as much feature velocity as possible, while having as little risk as possible. And that's why this is such an interesting topic. Because there's no one answer—there's no one way of actually solving this problem.
David: And respecting production?
Respecting users is a superset of respecting production—if production goes down the user doesn't have anything to use. I think they're kind of synonyms, just in the sense that I think implicitly by respecting production, we are respecting the user who uses production.
David: If I were to walk into an environment and I was trying to determine whether that environment had the sort of reliability culture that you were speaking of, what would be some of the indications of that?
Matt: Right, that's where we can pop down a level. I think as an industry, we have evolved towards a set of best practices that allow us to have high velocity, while maintaining respect for the user or respecting production. We have a good understanding of things like using feature flags and doing incremental rollouts, how to do canarying, SLAs/SLOs, actually alarming on issues, dashboards that are not only infrastructure metrics but also business metrics to understand the impact to the user, a strong culture of automated testing, how we do config management, can we rollback, code reviews… And I can go on, and on, and on. There's a set of industry best practices. And these are DevOps best practices also.
But the idea here is that the more of these best practices that an organization uses, the more likely it is that they can maintain high velocity, but still respect production, respect the user, and hopefully have as few issues as possible.
David: Are there best practices that are human based—related to how we treat the humans and what the humans do that you think are important as part of a culture of reliability?
Matt: Yeah. And so that's where I actually think this conversation gets pretty interesting. Because as an industry, I think that is the area that we have the least agreement on.
I think most people, if you sit them down, and ask them about best practices, would broadly agree. Like I would be amazed if anyone disagrees at this point that you should have a canary process, you should probably do feature flagging, continuous integration, etc. There's some basic table stakes most people agree with.
Where I think it gets a lot more interesting, and there's a lot less agreement, is on things like "are all developers on call? Or, are only a subset of people on call? Who is responsible for documentation? And who's offered to keeping that documentation up to date? Who is responsible for new hire education, continuing education, teaching engineers how to understand the concepts of canary and feature flagging?"
Because we don't teach this in college, right? You can't assume that people just come in and know these things. We have to actually teach them. So there is a strong component of education, of documentation, of mentorship. And I think as an industry, there is the least amount of agreement on how we go about doing that.
As an industry we haven't decided on the right people layout. By people layout I mean, "do we have all engineers being on call, doing deploys and those types of things?" Or do we have a set of SREs who tend to do those things? Or do we have a completely siloed software engineering team versus a systems engineering team? Very siloed roles in terms of who touches production, who has gates on how we monitor things, how we deploy, when we deploy. There's a range all the way from the silo to true "DevOps" with an everyone is on call culture, where everyone deploys, everyone manages their own runbooks, everyone manages their own systems.
I've been thinking about this area, this human stuff, a lot recently and wrote this blog post called, The Human Scalability of "DevOps". I think that this is the area where as an industry, we have to do the most evolution. I've become increasingly convinced that agile DevOps development practices for all engineers are an absolute no brainer. We should do CI, we should allow everyone to deploy. These are very basic things. But at the same time, I feel that as an industry, we don't invest in the human side of things.
David: Can you give an example?
Matt: I think increasingly we have human scalability issues where we're not respecting the fact that people don't know how to necessarily use modern infrastructure, or don't know off the top of their head all of these site reliability best practices. You can go and read about them in the Google Site Reliability book, or the new book that's coming out. But these things are just not obvious to people. And as an industry, I don't think we educate folks enough, and do enough continuous education and support them. And I don't think we do enough mentorship. There's really good agreement on the things that people need to do, but there's not good agreement on how we educate people, and how we help them actually do those things.
I think there are two main problems: first, as an industry, we have an over-inflated view of how easy cloud native infrastructure is actually to use. We like to claim that we can go and use all this modern technology, infrastructure as code, etc. and the days of yore in which you needed a old style system admin, that just doesn't apply anymore.
We are very far ahead of where we were 10 years ago. But I think it is a gross exaggeration to say that it's easy. If you look at the current state of the world, including Envoy, Kubernetes, all of the tooling that we've built—it's still really hard to use. So trying to expect people that don't have the domain experience either in core infrastructure or in reliability engineering, to come in and just know how to do networking, or know how to do provisioning, or know how to do containers…to me, it's a little nutty. So that's number one.
I think the other side of things is that we are engineers, and engineers like to build things. And a lot of engineers don't necessarily value softer but important things. The two things that I'm thinking of are continuing education and documentation.
The dream of the cloud native experience is that it's self-service…we're expecting everyone to come in and through APIs and code, and through documentation, build amazing applications. I think we're getting there, but at a lot of companies, particularly larger ones that have infrastructures that have scaled beyond what some of the current cloud abstractions can give people (Lyft is one of those companies) there are engineers that like to build stuff and solve problems. We don't like to write documentation. We don't like to build new hire or continuing education classes. And I think we grossly under invest in those two things.
David: Do you feel that the industry has come to consensus on how to handle the situations where things break, where the reliability is compromised?
Matt: There's no consensus on how organizations do postmortems. Not only postmortems, but how people treat follow up actions. Like do companies actually fix their follow-up actions? How do we prevent the same incident from happening again? Or even during an incident, how do we communicate? Is there an incident leader? Do we get on a call? Do we use Slack? There isn't consensus, there isn't common tooling that people use around this. There's a common theme here. We're running before we're actually crawling.
You can look at older organizations like Amazon or Google where they have a strong set of procedure that are borne out of, not only years of experience, but also because they started when the industry was in a very different place. They're going to have an incident management team that knows how to deal with an incident and run the incident, and open a call bridge, and do all of those things. How do do follow-up, etc. Whereas in newer companies typically there isn't an incident leader role—it can be chaos when an incident happens. Or there's no incident command center, there's no central monitoring command center.
These are just areas where we as an industry want to do things with as few specialized people as possible, because rightly so, we want people to write business logic, that's how we make money. But, we see this theme, again, and again, and again, where the automated tooling that we assume will save us—it's not quite there yet.
And there's still a lot of these human issues. We don't have consensus on "what are the right roles that we have to hire for? How do those roles actually interoperate with other folks at the company? What roles are required? Do you need an incident command center? Do you need a monitoring command center?" Most modern newer companies would say no. But then you wind up with issues during incident handling, so it's complicated.
David: Do you think we're going to get there? Do you think that the industry will coalesce?
Matt: I do think we will get there. I think it's going to be longer than a lot of people would like. If you look at the way that most of the cloud native infrastructure is heading, look out 5, 10, 15 years, I can totally buy that people are mostly going to be writing their applications as functions. You know, they're using lambdas and serverless, and all that stuff. At a visionary level, that sounds great. People write application logic snippets, you can talk to a database that you don't really need to know how it works, and you can make network calls to functions, and it just works.
Unfortunately, we can barely run our container-based infrastructures today, let alone serverless, which I would argue is an order of magnitude more complicated in terms of the concerns around auto scaling and dynamic infrastructure, and networking, and observability. We're just not there yet.
So, if I look out 10 years, I do think that eventually we will be using a lot more pre-canned solutions, where a lot of things will be a lot more automatic in terms of write some code snippets, have them run. The operational concerns around deploying, and all of those things, they're just going to work. That doesn't mean though, that 10, or 15, or 20 years from now, when people are writing their applications with amazing functional substrates, it doesn't mean that there doesn't have to be a reliability culture. Because you can write a functional snippet that breaks all of production.
I do believe that over time, cloud native infrastructure will become easier to use. A lot of the stuff that we struggle with today in terms of how people do data storage, and how people do multi-region, and how they do routing, and all of these things that are a mess today—I think a lot of them are going to become just built in to cloud platforms. But there's still all the human concerns around thing like "okay, just because the cloud platform supports this amazing canary system, do people use it?" You can't force people to do things. You can't force people to use feature flags. You can't force people to think about how to test their software.
So I don't think we're ever going to reach a point in which we get rid of this reliability engineering role. I think there always is going to have to be this duality of roles, where we have people that are thinking about product, we have people that are thinking about reliability. It may be that in the future, what took 200 people on an infrastructure team takes four, but it doesn't mean that we don't still have to be thinking about these basic human things.


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I'm so glad that I had a finishing day. Since I moved in this house and have had all the room in the world. I have started project upon project upon project. I used to be the type of person to make sure I finished a project before starting another.
I finally hemmed my nieces little dress:
I've had this idea for a head band on my mind for almost a year and the pattern drafted and sitting there for almost that long:
I finally hemmed my husbands slacks:
I finished the bags that were started as a service project almost two months ago:
You can get directions on how to make this simple tote here.
I made my husband an apron before the actual holiday (that was a partial I still need to finalize the pattern to post for sale on Etsy):
And I finished and listed another knit bag on etsy:
So today was a day of Done, Done, Done and Done. Feels so good! I needed one of these days.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Finishing Day
2 comments:
- christine buhagiar said...
Hi Sonia!
(it's Christine from Ravelry)- I just wanted to say I am having SO much fun with your blog! So many neat things to look at and read, then I'll trek over to your etsy shop too!!
Thanks for the links on the corset top and prom dress, they are very helpful!
- June 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- ModistaModesta said...
Thank you Christine. Feel free to call or email if you ever have questions.
- June 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM
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Like most people, when I first started practicing centering prayer, a form of Christian meditation, I struggled with "thoughts." Centering prayer involves letting go of thought and allowing the mind grow quiet for a set period of time, let's say 20 minutes. But we can't really stop thinking – it's what makes us human. So in centering prayer we focus on a word or our breath and let the thoughts come and go. When we catch ourselves getting distracted by a thought, we gently return our focus to our word or breath.
Which all sounds well and good. In theory. In practice – and least in mine – it often sounds like this. Inhale … exhale … inhale … exhale … inhale … ex – man I am hungry. And I didn't pack any lunch. Have to go out. Did I bring any cash? Ugh. I hate putting every little thing on my card. I'll have to run to a cash machine fir—crap! I did it again! Crapcrapcrap. Inhale … damn, and I was doing so good, too … exhale … I don't even know why I bother … inhale … I should have just gone to lunch early … exhale … If I'd gone to lunch early I could have taken a walk around that park by the river. That would be just as restful as — crap! I'm doing it again!


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What does IOTA do?
IOTA operates as a scalable platform for micro-transactions and serves as a settlement layer for the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things, or IoT for short, is an exciting new concept that describes the way physical objects can be categorized, identified, and even monetized in a digital way.
By utilizing an entirely unique consensus mechanism called Tangle, IOTA offers its users transactions without any fees. This makes IOTA especially attractive for companies that need to carry out large numbers of transactions.
What is IOTA used for?
IOTA will be used for machine to machine micropayments to support the Internet of Things. To make the cryptocurrency suitable and affordable for the machine-to-machine transactions of the future, quadrillions of IOTA were issued.
With the Internet of Things, IOTA can be used for many purposes simply and automatically. For example, if a toll booth and a car both have Internet of Things sensors enabled, a driver can pay their toll without even stopping as the toll booth sensor charges IOTA from the driver's car sensor.
Traders are currently buying and selling mIOTA, which are equal to one million IOTA. In addition to machine-to-machine transactions, IOTA tokens are also used between individuals to transfer value.
How can IOTA value appreciate?
By working to support the IoT (Internet of Things), IOTA could earn an important spot in the future of technology. Especially since IOTA is targeting major companies to become its partners (like Microsoft, Samsung, and Volkswagen), the project may have an extremely bright future.
Ultimately, the developers behind IOTA believe it can foster an entire economy for the Internet of Things. If successful, IOTA will certainly appreciate.
What is the difference between IOTA and its competitors?
IOTA uses a unique Directed Acylcic Graph (DAG) mechanism called Tangle that is thought to be quantum-proof, meaning that while other cryptocurrencies have significant reason to worry about hacking attacks from the quantum computers of the future, IOTA may be safe.
Another cryptocurrency that uses the same consensus mechanism (DAG) as IOTA is NANO . The difference is that NANO made changes to the algorithm that allows users to add blocks to their account change that do not affect the rest of the network.


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"Warm Water" is the debut single from LA-based singer Banks. This one caught our eye after seeing that she had teamed up with UK producer Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Check out the video above or check out Pepsi Pulse's write up on the track.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs are also joining Crosstown Rebels' Get Lost series with Get Lost IV out July 8th on !K7 records. The double disc compilation will future rarities and cutting edge house and techno tracks all curated by T.E.E.D. aka Orlando Higginbottom.
Plugging away since 1999, The National finally hit mainstream success with the release of their 2010 album High Violet. Of course, this entailed their first world tour, but in the new documentary Mistaken For Strangers, it's only the backdrop for the relationship between lead singer Matt Berninger and his younger brother Tom, who had no idea that these short videos he was shooting would turn into a public document of their troubled, if still loving brotherhood.
We talk with Israeli rockers Vaadat Charigim about some of their favorite records.
We talk with Yvonne Ambree and Jesse Barnes of Take Berlin about some of the records which influenced the recording of their debut EP, Lionize.
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Anna Paquin Interviewed by the Telegraph UK
October 6, 2009 by Janie Logan
Her Academy Award; her dogs; her wedding–these are just a few of the things Anna Paquin discussed in a thoughtful, revealing interview with the Telegraph UK.
Anna grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, with an older brother and sister. It was with her sister, Katya, that she went to Jane Campion's open audition for The Piano. At age 11, she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Holly Hunter's daughter, Flora.
"Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old."
Since then, her film career has been planned very carefully. Her parents would allow her to make one movie per year, which they picked based on artistic merit. When she turned 16, she moved to Los Angeles because she was working there so much already. That might seem young to become immersed in the film industry, but Anna seems like she has always been mature for her age, calling herself "the most serious 15-year old ever." The downside, however, was the loneliness, as working so much cut her off from friends back home. Acting was clearly something she had a talent for and wanted to continue doing, but it caused her to miss out on the fun and relationships of adolescent life.
Her career has been balanced with blockbusters like the X-Men trilogy, and critically acclaimed movies like 25th Hour and The Squid and the Whale. She's done theatre, having lived in New York for several years, and even attended Columbia University for a short time.
After being cast as Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood, she moved out to Venice Beach, CA. For the British audience that will now have the opportunity to watch the show on Channel 4, Anna acknowledges that it's "a really full-on sexy show" with lots of kinky sex, with humans and with vampires (and many more combinations, too!). Beyond all the fantasy stuff, Anna sees True Blood as being fundamentally about relationships.
"Sookie likes Bill because he's the first person she hasn't been able to listen in on the thoughts of, so it's quiet. You can read into that on deeper levels about intimacy and relationships and finding that person you can be yourself with. They're both outsiders. So when this potentially scary creature walks into her path all she's thinking it, 'I want to go talk to him. I want to see what he's like!' It is kind of disturbing, but so is putting yourself out there as far as relationships or friendships go. It is scary and sometimes your are taking a risk. If you aren't prepared to do that, you're going to have very safe options in your life, but they won't be the most exciting ones."
It would appear there is some parallelism to her personal life. Even though her work load is still intense, often with 18-hour days, the difference is that life now includes Stephen Moyer, her fiance and costar. Of working with him, Anna simply grins, "I love it."
So what's Stephen like?
"Obviously he's a complete monster. That's an odd question. He's lovely. He's very funny. I'm definitely not on any level attracted to people who don't have a good sense of humor. That's how you get through the ups and the downs."
The chemistry between them happened immediately.
"The dynamic between Bill and Sookie being what it is, the fascination and attraction made it kind of hard to pinpoint where it ceased to be fiction, because that's how we've always been around each other. But there was no massive revelation moment of, 'Wow, I fancy you.' "
The big adjustment has been how overwhelming the gossip media has attached itself to their relationship. The morning after Anna and Stephen's engagement was announced, the paparazzi swarmed on her and her dogs, Splash and Banjo.
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(Pauk Taw, 15 January 2014): Once again the fire has broken out at a refugee camp in Pauktaw township of Arakan State on the wee hour of Thursday damaging nearly 40 makeshift houses, said a police officer after visiting the location.
"The fire was originated from the barrack of one Haniba (house no 87) at Sin Datmaw Muslim refugee camp at around 1 am. It gutted at least 39 buildings," said the police officer on duty.
The damaged buildings include 34 barracks, consisting of 8 rooms each with six kitchen rooms and also two school buildings. The buildings were constructed by the Burmese authority for the Muslim inmates, informed an eyewitness in the camp.
Earlier the fire broke out at another refugee camp at Nget Chaung in the same locality. The last incident of fire on December 12 burned down 34 makeshift buildings.
According to the village sources, two Arakanese State ministers and officials from Army and State police have already arrived in Sin Datmaw Muslim refugee camp for prompt inspection.
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My Year in Reading: Cassie-la's November 2018 Wrap Up
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab (★★★★★)
I was not emotionally prepared for the conclusion of the Shades of Magic series, which features the darkest and most high-stakes story yet. In true book hangover fashion, my heart still aches over this beautifully written and perfectly plotted final book. Picking up where the cliffhanger in A Gathering of Shadows left off, A Conjuring of Light does not let down in the world- and character-building department. Read: you will not be disappointed. This book deserves all the stars, and has me even more stoked for the comic book spin-off series The Steel Prince.
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas (★★★★☆½)
I was very cautious (and also super annoyed) going into Tower of Dawn, because honestly, who wants an entire Chaol book? Thankfully, I was proven completely wrong … but only after I powered through the slow opening. After those first 200-ish pages, it was full stream ahead for the remainder of the novel, with the penultimate book in the Throne of Glass series even — dare I say it? — redeeming Chaol. The story's success is due in large part to healer Yrene, who makes her triumphant return to the series, as well as some pretty shocking reveals that set the stage for the series conclusion (review below).
The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee (★★★★☆)
Monty, Percy, Felicity and their pirate friends return in this cute, fluffy follow up to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. Set before the events in The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Lee's short story length tale follows Monty and Percy as they settle into their new relationship. There's only one problem: despite Monty's reputation as a rake, he and Percy have yet to be intimate with one another. With that knowledge weighing heavily on him, Monty turns to Felicity for help. What could go right?
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The Towering Sky by Katherine MgGee (★★★☆☆½)
The final (and weakest) novel in The Thousandth Floor trilogy isn't nearly as exciting or as high stakes as the first two books, and it definitely doesn't feature as much fun, futuristic technology. From an unnecessarily long plot, to a very predictable conclusion, this is one trilogy that should have been a duology … or maybe even a standalone. Despite my numerous complaints, this is not a terrible read, but I wanted so much more than unnecessary will-they-won't-they romantic drama.
Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (★★★★☆)
Obsidio, the conclusion to The Illuminae Files, brings all your favorite characters — and let's face it, some not so great new ones — together at last. While there are no horror elements like in the first two books, the plot more than makes up for it with some amazing AIDAN moments, the inclusion of comic book elements and illustrations, and a glorious and super experimental final battle. It's certainly not the best book in the series, but it definitely goes out with a bang.
To Make Monsters Out of Girls by Amanda Lovelace (★★★★☆½)
This collection of previously released Wattpad poetry has been re-edited to form a brand-new Amanda Lovelace duology titled Things That H(a)unt. While not as empowering as the rest of Lovelace's collections, this one is still super raw and emotional, and features amazing opening and closing poems (the strongest of the bunch). Bonus: it's her prettiest collection, and has beautiful illustrations throughout.
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A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (★★★★☆½)
Everyone's favorite smutty couple is back in this lengthy novella that bridges the gap between ACOWAR and the next — as of yet untitled — book in the ACOTAR series. While it was great to hang out with all my friends again, I think Maas spent too much time setting tiny things into motion for her next trilogy (wasn't there enough of that in ACOWAR?) when all I wanted was 200 pages of Feysand fan fiction.
Dividing Eden by Joelle Charbonneau (★★★☆☆½)
I had high hopes for Dividing Eden, a young adult novel whose premise promised to focus on an epic, backstabbing rivalry between two royal twins fighting over one throne. Unfortunately, the rivalry was far from believable thanks to a main character who suddenly becomes a murderous monster after one five-minute conversation at a party. It's not really character development if it develops from nowhere.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (★★★★☆½)
Michelle McNamara is the queen of compulsively readable true crime. Sadly, she suddenly passed away before she could finish the first (of what should have been many) nonfiction books, leaving the novel to be finished by her two researchers. Despite this setback, I'll Be Gone in the Dark still feels like a mostly complete look at the rapist and serial-killer McNamara dubbed the Golden State Killer. And a unique glimpse at the true crime author who was obsessed with discovering his identity.


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Line Cook/Prep Cook - Grandstand (26762) at GLOBAL TEXAS CONCESSIONS LLC
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Accurately and efficiently cook meats, fish, vegetables, soups and other hot food products. Prepares and portions food products prior to co...
Properly prepares a variety of meats, seafood, poultry, vegetables and other food items for cooking in broilers, ovens, grills, fryers and a variety of other kitchen equipment.
Knows and consistently complies with established portion sizes, cooking methods, quality standards, kitchen rules, and company policies and procedures.
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Irish filmmaker Jon Hozier-Byrne has signed to Russell Curran's roster of directors.
Actor-turned-director Sebastien Guy has joined The Visionaries for UK representation.
The eclectic roster of highly talented directors at My Accomplice has been further bolstered by the arrival of Dorothy Allen-Pickard and Rohan Blair-Mangat.
Finland's Misko Iho is pleased to join his compatriot Pete Riski at Rattling Stick.
Matt and Mark Hoffman (aka the Hoffman Bros) say they have entered a "true partnership" after joining Snapper Films for UK representation.
The duo - known for both their comedy work and plentiful sports commercials - were keen not to become lost in a large, impersonal roster. The solution, as it turns out, was Snapper Films.
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It took time to reach this stage, however - especially as new production houses kept "popping up like hair bands" around them.
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Sea kayaking on the Saguenay River is a breathtaking experience, especially with an experienced guide who can take you on a tour of the river's well-kept secrets! Call us at 1-866-697-0222 FREE for more information on rates and packages.
To be there and to see the pier and the international cruise ships in La Baie des Ha! Ha! What a nice area we have!
Enjoy fishing on Rivière-à-Mars in the summertime and in the Saguenay river, just in front of the auberge where we catch seatrouts!
Book a tour of the Saguenay fjord with Croisières du Fjord or a tour with Fjord et Monde to have a look at the fjord from the top of the mountains and from the water. Whether you choose to board a big or a small cruise ship, it will definitely be worth it! Call us at 1-866-697-0222 FREE for more information on rates and destinations.
Air Show
Almost each year, in Bagotville, this is a must-see event! In 2015, it has been a big show. In 2016, there will be no show because the 2017 will be a very special one. To celebrate the 75 years of the base. Remember : 24th and 25th of June 2017 !
Multiples shows during the summer
The Famous One : La Fabuleuse Histoire d'un Royaume - The Fabulous Story of the Kingdom , presented for the 29th year in 2016. From July 8th to August 20, each week from Wednesday to Saturday except for the first and last weeks with show on Friday and Saturday only.
The Festival international des arts de la marionnette – puppetry art festival will be presented from July 25th to 30th 2017.
Discovery Tour and cruise
Discover the Fjord
Departing from La Baie, a fantastic combination of a guided tour in a luxurious minibus followed by a cruise aboard a Croisières du Fjord cruise ship, which brings you back to La Baie, with a guide. You will see things you cannot by yourselves! And learn a lot with the guides!
Wildlife Observation
Okwari – in La Baie, the bear-watching activity open to the public; RSVP before 2 p.m.
Whale-watching Cruise
We cannot be silent about the whale-watching, even if it is at a 2 hours ride from the auberge! In fact, we are in the middle area between Tadoussac (to Les Escoumins) for the whale watching and Saint-Félicien (around Lac Saint-Jean) for the Zoo. We can recommand the best enterprise for the tour you prefer! We know them!


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Your "Adjustable" Golf Game…
Make Informed Choices!!
Visiting the Lynx Golf booth at the 2019 PGA Equipment Show was one of the best show choices I made this year. I learned about their very interesting new driver design – the Lynx Prowler VT. They call their new technology "Switch Face." Their driver has only one head option, and has a front face plate that screws on. Using different face plates, golfers will be able to be custom fit with this driver for lofts that vary from 8 to 12 degrees, and face angles that vary from 2 degrees closed to square to 1 degree open. The expectation is that the Lynx Prowler VT will be available sometime in May of this year.
I hope that this design is successful! Partly because it is interesting. MOSTLY though – because with this driver design, you will able to sit the driver on the ground at address and the face will show at the actual loft and face angle you were fit for.
The majority of OEM driver designs now available to golfers have "adjustable" hosels. This adjustability allows golfers to set the driver loft at different values – IF you hover the driver face in a square-to-target playing position. So the value of using face angle at address as a fitting parameter – with a specific driver loft – is lost.
I personally want my driver to sit on the ground at address at my fitted loft and face angle. And my Wishon 919 THI driver (my favorite driver head fitting option) does this – 11.5 degree loft and 0.5 degree closed face angle at address.
So the point? Well, you may in fact like the loft adjustability options available in OEM drivers – and if so great. But if you do NOT prefer to hover your driver head at address to get it to play at a specific loft, or if you need a closed or open face at address with a specific loft to play your best – there are custom driver head options available to you. In the end as in all things golf – You Get To Choose!!
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Murfreesboro Strike & Spare
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Open at 9am Mon-Sat 12p on Sun.
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24 lanes upstairs and 12 downstairs. Very nice atmosphere and specials everyday Sunday-Thursday.
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I am the General Manager of Murfreesboro Strike & Spare. I have been back as GM since July of 2009. I truly understand some of all of your complaints and I promise we are working very hard to improve are Center from front to back and top to bottom. If none of you who are anti Strike & Spare ever want to give us another chance I truly understand, but I promise we will not stop until we get our Center back to the way it should be. Thank you, Phillip Weatherford
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This center use to be a great place to Bowl and has some good memories from years ago but as for now the last few times ive been in there its been terrible i spent more time complaining at the counter about how everything was messing up on the lanes than i did Bowling and on top of that my ball and my girlfriends ball was damaged and i like to have never got them to repair the balls and whats worse is we bought them from there and they acted as though it wasnt a big deal when we ask them to repair the balls from what their machines had done to the balls so now i dont dare set foot back in there cause this place sucks other than it does have alot of lanes but whats the good in having alot of lanes if you have to spend more time at the counter complaining than you do having fun bowling,but thank God we now have a new Bowling center and its called Lanes Trains and Automobiles and i went there lastnight and had the best time Bowling that i have had in years and it was because they not only have good food and arcade games but they know how to take care of their customers when theirs a problem and they keep their place clean and plus you dont have to spend time at the counter complaining because they will get right on fixing any problems that you might have,so for anyone that loves bowling and having fun then you dont need to go to Murfreesboro Strike and Spare, and just incase if anyones wondering that might read this i am not associated with the new bowling lanes here in Murfreesboro that i mentioned earlier at all other than im just a satisfied customer that really enjoyed the fun that i had lastnight in Lanes Trains and Automobiles Bowling Center. Also i would like to mention that even though we do have the new center it would be nice to keep the old one providing the people over it would update the things that need to be updated and plus fix the machines so that your ball will return to you like it should and not have damage on it cause Murfreesboro is big enough to have two Bowling lanes but regardless of who owns them they need to keep them up so that people like myself that really enjoys bowling can come and have good family fun and not spend your time complaining at the counter to people who dont give a crap about fixing anything thats giving you problems,so i hope that this will be read and taken suriously cause all i want to do is have fun bowling just like anyone else out there.
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There has been two different managers since 2006 and it has gone down hill since then. The manager back then kept that place clean. I think everyone will be happy to know there is a new center coming to town so this place will be closing very soon!!!
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I just moved to Murfeesboro from out of state and was looking for a center since my whole family are bowlers. I have been to this center only twice and WILL NOT return unless it is absolutely necessary. I will drive the 15 or so miles to Smyrna before stepping foot in this center again. I have worked in both corperate centers and privately owned centers and if I treated patrons the way I was treated, I would have been fired. It is run down and nasty dirty. And on both occasions I was completely ignored by staff except when I walked in and paid for my games. NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
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murfreesboro lanes s*ck compared to smyrna and they have that stupid bar in the middle of the lane it gets annoying. i dont care how nice the people are the place s*cks and needs some renovations
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Obviously, those who would have anything negative to say haven't visited since the new management took over. They have done a wonderful job of making every customer feel important. They have great prices and a wonderful atmosphere.
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Has gone down the tubes. Used to be nice. I don't even enjoy bowling there anymore.
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Ortel offices in Berhampur re-opened following High Court order
MUMBAI: The Berhampur offices of multi system operator (MSO) Ortel Communications has been re-opened following the Orissa High Court order to re-open the offices.
The two offices of Ortel in Berhampur were sealed by the administration for alleged violation of fire safety norms and trade licence.
"The Orissa High Court order on Thursday issued a direction to open the office. Based on that order and a letter issued by Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) we reopened the offices," said Ortel Communications Legal Advisor Rajendra Kumar Das.
The Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) commissioner and the sub-collector of the district had sealed the two offices of Ortel over non-renewal of municipal corporation's trade license, non-payment of electricity bill and violation of fire safety norms.
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Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, and the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The Comstock Review. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac and Best of the Net 2008 and 2009. His most recent book of poems is Dear Truth (2009, Main Street Rag). Visit him here.
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Biomedical engineering at Texas A&M University has been a degree-granting program since 1972 and has been ABET-accredited since 1977. The department's graduate program is ranked 19th among public institutions by U.S. News & World Report (Best Grad Schools, Engineering 2018).
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Graduate - 129
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