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Picking up where I left off last time, here's the rest of the cast of characters for our example.
"Skeletal Chief"
Goal: To slaughter humans, convert them to skeletal subjects, and seize power in the area.
Motivation: Hatred of the living, love of life, desire for power, mindless supernatural drive for evil and power.
Setting Connection/Formative Context:
Necrothis is a skeletal warrior who commands an army of skeletons from a withered underworld where most life has been crushed. While relatively insignificant in his own world, he pursues an opportunity for power when Yixixzizrick summons him and his followers after Yixixzizrick extorts and murders a necromancer using drugs, poison, and his own, natural ability to turn invisible. Unbenknownst to Necrothis, Yixixzizrick doesn't expect the invasion of these "Necrites" to succeed—instead, he plans to use their pestilence to persuade Cashton to go seek more unholy power and enter into a contract with the imp.
Yet another enemy to face, Necrothis will appear to be the villain to the players, which will give them something to defeat and get satisfaction from early one. We also see Yixixzizrick's plan coming together, which is interesting since Imps are really weak monsters, making this an unusual main villain and story. Further, the layers of indirection enable plot twists and turns, and surprises. We've actually got a lot of story together now.
Leonarraza Teshk
Goal: To complete her brother's work and defeat the Lillithians. Also to guide the players.
Motivation: Wants to avenge the death of her family, and believes in destiny—the aura of Leonizar on the players makes her believe they have been chosen, and that if her brother saved them, she wishes to honor his effort.
Setting Connection/Formative Context:
Leonarraza Teshk is the diligent sister of Leonizar. While things never came as easily to her as they did to her brother, she worshipped her older brother and loved him endlessly, and so she worked extremely hard to emulate him. She was actually able to figure out the spell to create a gate between dimensions before Leonizar created it, based on her diligent study. Leonizar actually got the idea for the spell based on her vague recounting that she might've figured out a way to combine conjuration and travel. Leonizar thought she was dead, but she actually escaped the destruction of her homeworld the same way he did. When the Lillithian's invaded, she anticipated her family might be separated, and cast a permanent aura spell on them so she could find them later. When she meets the players, she notices traces of the mark she placed on her brother, and so believes the players to be chosen by destiny. She thus decides to guide them any way possible.
Now we have a tie-in for the players, who can function in multiple roles to help the story along. First, she can provide guidance and healing to the players. Second, she can drive the story forward and lead to future adventures if the players eventually fight the Lillithians and the adventures lead to other adventures. Finally, she exists as a way for the players to get home, which would be one way to end the story if it doesn't continue.
Jerry Escher
"Actor/Artist Extraordinaire"
Goal: To be the ultimate performer and start up a grand theater that people come from entire other nations to see.
Motivation: Love of his craft, penchant for flamboyance and showmanship, and desire to bring joy to people.
Setting Connection/Formative Context:
Jerry Escher grew up in the slums, taking care of his sick father. His elaborate performances as a street performer brought in money to take care of his dad as well as smiles and joy to all those around him. He loves performing, especially drama, and a generous aristocrat saw the boy's talent and allowed him access to his library of great literature of the best playwrights. When Jerry's dad eventually passed away, the aristocrat adopted the boy. Though Jerry was exposed to the finer things in life, and was now fairly well to do, he always remembered where he grew up and sought to bring joy to the impoverished, remembering that it gave them the strength to carry on with their lives and try their hardest. Every so often, he disappears without warning—partly because of his love for theatrics, and partly so he can go give secret performances to entertain the impoverished in the slums.
This may seem random after the rest of the characters, but that's sort of the point. Jerry provides some comic relief to an otherwise serious and fairly dark cast of characters. More than that, however, he also serves to give the players an opportunity to roleplay in different ways, and it gives the world a sense of completeness to have people acting for unrelated goals. Many players love this sort of character, and helping him achieve his dream can be fun and give them a sense of immersion. But finally, a character like this can serve the story in the most unexpected ways—it can be one of the most engrossing experiences when an irrelevant character comes through or becomes relevant in some way.
Alright, that was a long step, but it's definitely the most important. Next time, we'll talk about building encounters.
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Ever wonder what some classic album covers would look like if Harry Potter characters were on them? Me neither, but seeing them gave me a good laugh.
(And if your response is "What's an album cover?" then, yes, I am much older than you.)
Here is my favorite – Snape as Elvis:
Queen's Queen II (now we know where the high-pitched voice on Bohemian Rhapsody came from. It was Dobby.)
David Bowie's Aladdin Sane
Michael Jackson's Bad
U2's The Joshua Tree (I love how it was changed to The Whomping Willow.)
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
U2's War
Ramones' Ramones
The Rolling Stones' Some Girls


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The Manitoba NDP lost their chance to add another MLA in a Tuesday byelection, along with a riding they had held since 1999.
Blandine Tona, an activist and educator, lost her byelection bid to become St. Boniface's next MLA, coming in second place behind Manitoba Liberal leader Dougald Lamont.
The NDP had hoped to show it was gaining momentum with Manitoba voters through a win.
"Tonight, we didn't get what we wanted … But I am telling you one thing, I am ready for the next one," said Tona.
NDP leader Wab Kinew said his party shouldn't panic that it failed to claim the seat, which former NDP premier Greg Selinger had held since 1999.
"There were three parties running against the Conservatives and they blew the Conservatives out of the water," said Kinew. "Last time, the Conservatives came in a strong second in this riding, this time they were (last) on the board. I think this is a clear repudiation against Pallister's closures of emergency rooms and cuts to health-care and education."
Kinew said he suspects the lure of voting for a party leader swayed many voters to cast Liberal ballots in the race.
"It's tough to run against a leader," said Kinew.
The NDP leader said he doesn't see the loss as an indication that his party isn't gaining ground with voters, after its fall from majority government to opposition status in the last general election.
"Nobody thought that rebuilding the NDP after 2016 was going to be an overnight task," he said.
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Daniela Ushizima
Daniela Ushizima is a Staff Scientist at LBNL and a Data Scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) at UC Berkeley. She leads the Image Processing/Machine Vision team for the Center of Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at LBNL.
Ushizima is the recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career award (2016-2020). Her research aims to aggregate value to scientific images obtained at DOE facilities by exploring advances in computer vision and machine learning to accelerate science discovery in materials sciences. As part of scientific teams, she has tackled images across domains (ImageXD), experiments, algorithms and learning. As an example, she has been developing pyCBIR, a image recommendation software that drives search, matches and sorting using scientific images across science domains.
Recently, she was nominated by peers to the LBNL Director's Award (2017), and LBNL Women@Lab (2018) for her work on data science and machine learning, as well as activities on scientific diplomacy with the U.S. Dept. of State TechWomen and other educational efforts, such as Software Carpentry and Black Girls Code. Through the cooperation with UC Berkeley, she has designed algorithms with medical doctors and pathologists improve medical imaging understanding; such work led to her nomination to Science without Borders Special Researcher by CNPq/Brazil for her R&D accomplishments in biomedical image analysis. [More Research Projects]
Selected publications:
MacNeil, Ushizima, Panerai, Mansour, Barnard, Parkinson, "Interactive Volumetric Segmentation for Textile Microtomography Data using Wavelets and Non-local means", Journal of Statistical Analysis and Mining, Sep 2019.
Araújo, Silva, Resende, Ushizima, Medeiros, Carneiro, Bianchi, "Deep Learning for Cell Image Segmentation and Ranking", Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Mar 2019.
Ke, Brewster, Yu, Yang, Ushizima, Sauter, "A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Screening Tool for X-ray Serial Crystallography", Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 2018.
Pandolfi, Allan, Arenholz, Barroso-Luque, Campbell, Caswell, Blair, Carlo, Fackler, Fournier, Freychet, Fukuto, Gursoy, Jiang, Krishnan, Kumar, Kline, Li, Liman, Marchesini, Mehta, N'Diaye, Parkinson, Parks, Pellouchoud, Perciano, Ren, Sahoo, Strzalka, Sunday, Tassone, Ushizima, Venkatakrishnan, Yager, Zwart, Sethian, Hexemer, "Xi-cam: A versatile interface for data visualization and analysis", Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 2018.
Araujo, Silva, Ushizima, Parkinson, Hexemer, Carneiro, Medeiros, "Reverse Image Search for Scientific Data within and beyond the Visible Spectrum", Expert Systems and Applications 2018.
Williams, Ushizima, Zhu, Anders, Milliron, Helms, "Nearest-Neighbour Nanocrystal Bonding Dictates Framework Stability or Collapse in Colloidal Nanocrystal Frameworks", Chemical Communications, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017.[PDF]
Alegro, Theofilas, Nguy, Castruita, Seeley, Ushizima, Grinberg, Automating Cell Detection and Classification in Human Brain Fluorescent Microscopy Images Using Dictionary Learning and Sparse Coding, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2017.
Ushizima, H. A. Bale, W. Bethel, P. Ercius, B. Helms, H. Krishnam, L. Grinberg, M. Haranczyk, M. A. A. Macdowell, K. Odziomek, D. Y. Parkinson, T. Perciano, R. Ritchie, and C. Yang. IDEAL: Images across Domains, Experiments, Algorithms and Learning, Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials, 2016. JOM, 68(11), 2963-2972. doi:10.1007/s11837-016-2098-4 - Report Number: LBNL-1006616
Odziomek, Ushizima, Oberbek, Kurzydlowski, Puzyn, "Scanning electron microscopy image representativeness: morphological data on nanoparticles", Journal of Microscopy, 2016.
Santos, Bianchi, Ushizima, Pavinatto, Bianchi, "Ammonia gas sensor based on the frequency-dependent impedance characteristics of ultrathin polyaniline films", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2016.[PDF]
Lu, Carneiro, Bradley, Ushizima, Nosrati, Bianchi, Carneiro, Hamarneh, "Evaluation of Three Algorithms for the Segmentation of Overlapping Cervical Cells", IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 99, pp. 2168-2194, 2016.[PDF]
Ushizima, Bianchi, Carneiro. Segmentation of subcellular compartments combining superpixel representation with voronoi diagrams. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) - AWARDED 1st place in Code Competition, April 2014.[NEWS]
Paula Jr., I.C., Medeiros, F.N.S, Bezerra, F.N. and Ushizima, D.M., "Multiscale Corner Detection in Planar Shape", Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, July 2012.[pdf]
Ushizima, D.M., Morozov, D, Weber, G.H., Bianchi, A.G.C. and Bethel E.W., "Augmented topological descriptors of pore network", in: IEEE Trans. Comp Graph. and Vis. USA. 2012.[pdf]
E.A. Carvalho, D.M. Ushizima, F.N.S. Medeiros, C.I.O. Martins, R.C.P. Marques, I.N.S. Oliveira, "SAR imagery segmentation by statistical region growing and hierarchical merging", Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 1365-1378, Sept 2010.
Ushizima, D.M., Geddes, C.G.R., Cormier-Michel, E., Bethel, E.W., Jacobsen,J., Prabhat, Ruebel, O., Weber, O., Hamann, B., Haggen, H., "Automated Detection and Analysis of Particle Beams in Laser-plasma Accelerator Simulations", Machine Learning, In-Tech, 367-389, 2010.[pdf]
Leite, G.C., Ushizima, D.M., Medeiros, F.N.S., de Lima, G.G., "Wavelet Analysis for Wind Fields Estimation", Sensors, MDPI Press, ISSN 1424-8220, 10(6):5994-6016, 2010.[pdf]
Marques R C P, Medeiros F N S, Ushizima D M (2009), Target dectection on SAR images using level set methods, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C (39):2:214-222. [pdf]
O. Rubel, C.G.R. Geddes, E. Cormier-Michel, K. Wu, Prabhat, G.H. Weber, D.M. Ushizima, P. Messmer, H. Hagen, B. Hamann, and E.W. Bethel, "Automatic Beam Path Analysis of laser Wakefield Particle Acceleration Data", IOP Computational Science & Discovery, 2 015005 (38pp), Nov, 2009, LBNL-2734E.
Ushizima Sabino D M, Costa LF, Calado RT, Zago MA (2004), A texture approach to leukocyte recognition, Real-Time Imaging 10(4):205-216.
Ushizima Sabino D M, Costa LF, Zago MA (2003), Automatic leukemia diagnostic, Acta Microscopica (12)1:1-6.
Others publications:
Ushizima, "Scientific Image Analysis with Convolutional Neural Networks, CoDA 2018, Santa Fe, NM, Mar 2018.
MacNeil, Ushizima, Banard, Panerai, Parkinson, "Statistical Graphical Models and Deep Learning applied to Textile Composite Specimens", CoDA 2018, Santa Fe, NM, Mar 2018.
Alegro, Chen, Castruita, Satrawada, Heinsen, Ushizima, Tsun, Grinberg, "Deep learning for billion-pixel digital pathology analysis: application in mapping Tau protein in the human brain", Deep Learning in Biomedicine. UCSF, San Francisco CA, 2018.
Araujo, Silva, Ushizima, Medeiros, "Searchable datasets in Python: images across domains, experiments, algorithms and learning", PyData San Francisco 2016.PDF
Ushizima, Terciano, H. Krishnan, B. Loring, H. Bale, D. Parkinson, and J. Sethian. Structure recognition from high resolution images of ceramic composites. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, October 2014.
Ushizima, D.M., Bianchi, A.G.C., Krishnam, H., "Challenges and New Developments in Imaging with Large Data Sets", Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM2013), Montreal, Aug 2013.
C. G. R. Geddes, E Cormier-Michel, E. H. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, J.-L. Vay, W. P. Leemans, D. L.. Bruhwiler, J. R. Cary, B. Cowan, M. Durant, P. Hamill, P. Messmer, P. Mullowney, C. Nieter, K. Paul, S. Shasharina, S. Veitzer, G. Weber, O. Rubel, D. Ushizima, Prabhat, E. W.Bethel, K. Wu. "Large Fields for Smaller Facility Sources." SciDAC Review, Number 13, Summer 2009. LBNL-2299E
Ushizima, D.M., Bianchi, A.G.C., deBianchi, C. and Bethel E.W., "Material science image analysis using quant-CT in ImageJ", in: ImageJ User and Developer Conference 2012, Oct, Luxembourg, LX.
Ushizima, D.M., Ajo-Franklin, J., Macdowell, A., Morozov, D., Nico, P., Parkinson, Bethel E.W, Sethian J.A., "Statistical segmentation and porosity quantification of 3D x-ray microtomography", in SPIE Optics and Photonics: XXXIV Applications of Digital Image Processing, Vol.8135-1, pp.1-14, Aug 2011, San Diego, CA, USA.
Ushizima, D.M., Weber, G.H., Ajo-Franklin, J., Kim, Y., Macdowell, A., Morozov, D., Nico, P., Parkinson, D., Trebotich, D., Wan, J., and Bethel E.W., "Analysis and visualization for multiscale control of geologic CO2", in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Proceedings of SciDAC 2011, July 2011, Denver, CO, USA.
O.Rubel, S.Ahearn, E.W.Bethel, M.D.Biggin, H.Childs, E.Cormier-Michel, A.DePace, M. Eisen, C.Fowlkes, C.G.R. Geddes, H.Hagen, B.Hamann, M.Huang, S.V.E.Keranen, D.W.Knowles, C.L.Luengo Hendriks, J.Malik, J.Meredith, P.Messmer, Prabhat, D.Ushizima, G.H.Weber and K.Wu, "Coupling visualization and data analysis for knowledge discovery from multi-dimensional scientific data", ICCS'2010, Procedia Computer Science Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2010, Pages 1751-1758. [pdf]
Ushizima D M, Rubel O, Prabhat, Weber G, Bethel E W, Aragon C, Geddes C, Cormier-Michel E, Hamann B, Messmer P, Hagen H. "Automated Analysis for Detecting Beams in Laser Wakefield Simulations". 2008 Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Proceedings of IEEE ICMLA'08, 2008. LBNL-960E
Ushizima D M, Calado R T, Rizzatti E G (2006), Leukocyte detection using nucleus contour propagation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4091: 389-396.
Ushizima D M, Lorena A C, Carvalho A C P L F (2005), Support vector machines applied to white blood cell recognition, V International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, pp. 379-384.
*Ushizima-Sabino D M, Costa L da F, Rizzatti E G, Zago M A, (2004), Toward leukocyte recognition using morphometry, texture and color, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano To Macro (ISBI'04), Washington D.C., USA (awarded).
Ushizima-Sabino, D M., Costa, L.F., Calado, R.T., Zago, M.A. (2002), Chromatin texture characterization using multiscale fractal dimension, IEEE Proc. of 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, (2)1: 529-533.
Dani @ Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications - CAMERA
Dani @ Berkeley Institute of Data Sciences (BIDS) - University of California, Berkeley


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Segment recently posted about their infrastructure redevelopment, and since weve come to similar conclusions, I thought it would be interesting to share what weve been building at Barricade.
Joe Beda has done a great job of documenting an anatomy of a modern production stack, and while we were working on this prior to his post, you might consider this a field report of what its like to actually build and run one of these systems.
A thought I always have when I read posts like this is, "I wonder how big their team is? Can I reproduce something similar?" At Barricade, there are two of us working full time on infrastructure development, with a further eight developers, designers and data scientists working on other parts of the stack, and another three people in various locations who need access to dashboards or other non-critical path services. That might help frame things.
Figuring out where services are, and communicating that, is a problem being tackled by service discovery tools like etcd, consul and others. This has proven useful for machines coordinating with other machines, but past a handful of services, the complexity of actually pointing humans to those resources becomes apparent. We don't want to be telling people to visit random IP X.X.X.X on port YYYY, and have them update every time a service restarts.
DNS routing and addressing is still, it seems, a manual process in many environments, and exposing operational idiosyncrasies to customers (whether internal or external) is not good enough.
We manage our DNS records in Route 53 with Terraform, linked explicitly to a separate (non-ELB) routing layer, with health checks to handle router outages or topological changes. At the moment there's still a separate, manual DNS component, but it's being refactored out.
Related to, but distinct from addressing, is routing. With lots of services and containers popping in and out of existence, connecting services could really use a transport agnostic broker that is capable of reconnections, pooling, health checking, and SSL termination. This actually sounds like sort of a tall order until you remember that HAProxy exists.
Often, people are reaching for ELB here, but since routing logic is so tightly coupled to applications, I think it's better to keep it as part of the core stack.
It's also a good bit of forward planning if you intend to have multi-provider availability at some point in the future, or be able to reproduce a microcosm of your stack locally.
Note: taking ownership of routing may also mean taking ownership of SSL termination (unless youre leaning on something like Cloudflare). Running an SSL server requires staying abreast of best practices in the area. This is not difficult, but it is an ongoing effort and needs to be taken into consideration. In a stack like this, there are a lot of places we could put health checks – Route 53, HAProxy, Consul, even Zookeeper client libraries perform their own health checking.
Defining the boundaries for these and keeping a clean separation of responsibility keeps logs and services from being overloaded with health check spam, as well as avoiding weird race conditions when health checks disagree.
Addressing checks Routing, Routing checks Services. The Routing layer is the safest and most flexible point in the stack to make an informed decision about whether a service is healthy. Consul can then simply be used for hosts and services explicitly joining and parting.
We handed it all off to Datadog. We dont need the hassle, and they are very good at it. I tried several products in this category when we started out earlier this year, and Datadog won hands down for scope (system level statistics, Cloudwatch integration, process monitoring) as well as being super ops friendly, having Slack integration, and an excellent web interface.
Their agent event runs a statsd compatible interface (for which there are plenty of client libraries) meaning application statistics can also be pushed here, enriching alerting and monitoring even further.
I thought logging was a sewn up market, but everything I looked at was too expensive or too operationally cumbersome, with assumptions about IP addresses and hosts remaining static or slow moving.
Our logs are for production debugging and postmortem analysis, a tertiary service that needs to be low maintenance and sporadically high performance, with a good interface. Datadog have raised the bar in what I expect from software like this.
Eventually we decided to use rsyslog to ship to in-stack Elasticsearch services, interfaced via Kibana, and rotated out regularly to S3. Less than ideal, but its ok for now.
I cant be the only one who thinks this area is lacking its Stripe equivalent.
Configuration management is lagging in the wake of containerization. Most current configuration solutions expect to be full stack, controlling everything from provisioning to deployment, and are often too heavy for the evolving use case.
In truth, configuration management is losing, has perhaps already lost, its central role in the infrastructure pipeline.
I've never found a configuration management solution I liked, but Ansible is the one I least dislike for this purpose. I disagree with Ansible's philosophy on things like testing (I think the idea that command exit codes are enough for testing is somewhat naive), but it's a convenient abstraction on top of shell, with a pluggable orchestration layer that doesn't get in the way. We have a small Python shim which translates Terraform tfstate data into an Ansible dynamic inventory.
The term "orchestration" seems to be used by projects like Kubernetes as shorthand for scheduling, but it's not a usage I agree with. To me, an orchestration system should control the entire provisioning process, turning a plan defined in code into a production system.
As a result I (perhaps unhelpfully) don't believe anyone has built an orchestration system, and it's more likely to come from the direction of something like Deis or even Terraform. Our own is cobbled together between Ansible, Terraform, and Mesos.
I think separating out schedulers from orchestration is useful, and helps articulate what's happening a little better. The likes of Mesos, Fleet and Kubernetes, to varying degrees, supply an abstraction over heterogenous server resources (different instance types, for example) to give a consistent API for compute, memory and disk to applications, and ensure that those resources are distributed amongst client services.
We run a mixed environment: leaning on wrapper frameworks developed by Mesosphere for some services, and using containers where it makes sense; usually our own code. Frameworks enable more complex service patterns, where there may be leader/follower relationships, or having the ability to dynamically spin up workers across multiple hosts can be useful (Storm, Jenkins, etc).
Unlike the folks at Segment, I'm not confident that Route 53 is enough for service discovery. On the surface, DNS seems like an intuitive answer, but it leaves a lot to be desired due to varying levels of cache aggression in consuming applications.
It also means building another service to handle node participation, something I think Consul handles quite well. Additionally, consul-template and confd allow for speedy, event driven configuration changes, which I think ends up having much broader compatibility than DNS level service coordination.
Many of the services we use rely on Zookeeper for coordination. Between Zookeeper, Consul, and Mesos masters, we have the makings of a "coordination layer" that sits at the core of any stack. Redundancy in all of these services is useful, and scale slowly on more or less the same increments (3 and 5 node quorums are common).
As convenient as it is, one thing I cannot abide is going into the AWS interface and picking AMIs, booting up instances, customizing values, etc. It leaves no record of intent, and makes reproduction and auditing difficult.
We do our instance and network level provisioning with Terraform, which has been a very useful tool, but restrictive in some ways. It's awkward to use with teams (Atlas is the proposed solution to this), and we've tended to use it to statically allocate resources, rather than have a more dynamic, elastic architecture. The latter is not a fault with Terraform, but I would prefer a tool that encouraged elasticity.
I think there's room for a new piece here, though I'm not quite sure what it is. I like the idea of a service, with an API and a good permissions system, that can handle requests from Slack or a resource scheduler.
We want resource pooling for optimal utilization of compute, but resource isolation for security and to avoid stampeding herd effects.
Effectively, we want resources shared when things are going well, and isolated when things are going bad.
These goals would seem somewhat in conflict, and they are, but its possible to group and separate systems so each can be optimized for one or the other.
Instances provision slowly, have fewer problems with "noisy neighbors" than containers, and in AWS, at least, can avail of network level security (security groups).
Containers usually provision significantly faster, however we need to be more careful about how services are co-located, and as of today, they can only make use of process level security.
In Linux security terms it's probably useful to think of containers as being isolated by AppArmor or SELinux configurations, whereas instances can be isolated on network boundaries.
Given this, it makes sense to use instances when optimizing for resource isolation, and containers when optimizing for resource pooling.
Barricade is an operations productfor security, so naturally I want to take a pragmatic approach to security, and find a good balance of risk against cost and operational complexity.
An unintentional side effect of containerization is the potential re-emergence of a single security boundary – you're either inside the firewall and trusted, or outside and untrusted.
This leads to services with low security requirements or larger attack surfaces potentially being run alongside those with sensitive data, or which would otherwise have smaller attack surfaces.
It's a tricky one to resolve, because it usually means defining boundaries behind which to segment services. These service boundaries are often better known as APIs. APIs are usually unstable in nascent companies and products, and adding them can slow down development if introduced too early.
It also means duplicating the coordination layer, and the consequential orchestration complexities. As a result, I find it useful to define infrastructural boundaries based on data sensitivity. This tends to split into larger, slower changing chunks than application logic, and can help highlight areas where there should be more controlled access.
Services operating on customer data go behind one network boundary, those interacting with the public go behind another, some services (such as SSH or dashboards) are exposed only inside a VPN, some only within their cluster, host, etc.
As a side note, I would recommend creating a VPN as early as possible. In the brave new world of devops, a VPN is part of your infrastructure, and not something left to your (often non-existent) I.T. department. Despite the upfront cost in figuring it all out, it's a lot more convenient (and secure) than whitelisting IP addresses or relying on an office network being secure. It will also stand to you when you have remote employees, or need to work remotely.
Still the elephant in the room, how to deploy and manage stateful services is often conspicuously missing from many treatises on containerized infrastructure. If you look beneath the surface you tend to find a completely orthogonally managed data layer, sometimes manually provisioned.
Data services are highly coupled to their applications, and it's safe to assume that the loss of one means the loss of the all services built atop and around it. It makes sense therefore to shard as early as possible, and logically isolate those shards (application aware sharding), to avoid at least total unavailability.
S3 is looking more and more like the place where data needs to end up, with a global namespace, limitless capacity, and an impressive uptime record. Of course, adapting to S3's particular performance and consistency characteristics may not be reasonable for many workloads, but for data mining it certainly seems much more attractive for smaller teams than building out a HDFS cluster. In a recent blog post about HDFS from Twitters engineering team, its very apparent that creating a global namespace was one of the largest challenges.
There's a lot more work going on recently, certainly in the Mesos community (thanks to EMC), about improving how persistent storage is handled. We're exploring options at the moment, and so far have been biting the bullet and just having "data nodes" to which stateful services are allocated. Not ideal, and I'm looking forward to see how we can build on top of the work being done at EMC.
We try to have most services bundled as containers, since it pushes software dependency definitions closer to the code that uses them. Additionally, the easiest path to configure software becomes environment variables, which is fine in some circumstances, and a bit of a chore in others (say, where part of your config is a map structure).
It feels like a move in the right direction, but it can mean quite an overhaul to your deploy pipeline, hardcoding values in a repo youd prefer to be configurable, or the introduction of some gnarly wrapper scripts.
We use Ansible for deploys, mostly as a holdover from pre-container deployments, where most of the deployment logic (such as ensuring at least x services remained healthy) was located.
This could quite easily live, as mentioned earlier under Provisioning, in a small service with a HTTP API and permissions system, accessible via Slack, etc. Will be investigated.
Testing all this is hard. I don't have any good answers past what Segment are doing with the dev/staging/prod split. It's the best of a bad situation. Initially, I thought containers would make local development easier, but that has proven not to be the case so far.
It seems reasonably easy to use containers for either local dev or production, but doing both involves a bunch of duplicated effort. Maybe a cross-platform language for defining network topologies / service relationships would help. Libnetwork might spearhead some work in that direction.
Chef was doing the most useful work around integration testing the last time I checked, with tools like ServerSpec and Test Kitchen. The world is moving on from config management centric provisioning, however, and ruby development environments are a pain to inflict on your infrastructure engineers.
I speculated in March that Terraform might become the basis for a testing framework, but we have yet to realize that goal.
Some things I havent touched on – like choice of host operating system or container engine – are because the options are probably more dependent on the development team than objective characteristics.
I chose Ubuntu, for example, because Ive been building production Debian and Ubuntu based infrastructures since 2009 (FreeBSD before that). I picked Docker for the container engine because, for practicalitys sake, I dont see a good reason to pick anything else.
I also find it a good idea not to innovate in too many directions at once. Having a solid baseline to work from means you can move faster in the direction you do.
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In the woman's case, the drugs prescribed had significant black box warnings that indicated the possibility of a deadly rash. In many cases, physicians are not as familiar with the potential interactions as patients might expect. Pharmacies, meanwhile, often defer to the supposed expertise and discretion of a physician. Further, a busy pharmacist might not pay close attention to such warnings because of the amount of activity and the pace of the work environment. Even as reactions take place, some drug-related health issues can be difficult to pinpoint unless a healthcare worker is familiar with the specific symptoms.
In the case of the Florida woman, the interaction issue was missed at several stages. An earlier diagnosis of the problem could have prevented long-term damage that left her legally blind. As her legal case has progressed, however, the pharmacist has noted that he would approve the same drug pairing again in the future.
Doctor errors can range from a missed diagnosis to the prescription of dangerous drug combinations. While some errors create little disruption and discomfort in the lives of patients, other errors can have a long-term impact. A patient might be proactive in questioning a physician about the treatment prescribed, the potential problems and the expected results. In many cases, a patient's quality of life might not be negatively impacted. However, medical malpractice litigation could be warranted in cases involving serious adverse reactions.


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A group of researchers conducted an experiment to determine which vaccine is more effective for preventing getting the flu. They tested two different types of vaccines: a shot and a nasal spray. To test the effectiveness, 1000 participants were randomly selected with 500 people getting the shot and 500 the nasal spray. Of the 500 people were treated with the shot, 80 developed the flu and 420 did not. Of the people who were treated with the nasal spray, 120 people developed the flu and 380 did not. The level of significance was set at .05. The proportion of people who were treated with the shot who developed the flu = .16, and the proportion of the people who were treated with the nasal spray was .24. The calculated p value = .0008.
For this essay, describe the statistical approaches (e.g., identify the hypotheses and research methods) used in this excerpt from a research study. Interpret the statistical results and examine the limitations of the statistical methods.
Essay 2
A researcher has investigated the relationship between IQ and grade point average (GPA) and found the correlation to be .75.
For this essay, critique the results and interpretation of a correlational study.
• Evaluate the correlational result and identify the strength of the correlation.
• Examine the assumptions and limitations of the possible connection between the researcher's chosen variables.
• Identify and describe other statistical tests that could be used to study this relationship.
Essay 3
A researcher has recorded the reaction times of 20 individuals on a memory assessment. The following table indicates the individual times:
2.2 4.7 7.3 4.1
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organize data into meaningful sets, calculate basic descriptive statistics, interpret the results, and evaluate the effects of outliers and changes in the variables. You may use Excel, one of the many free online descriptive statistics calculators, or calculate the values by hand and/or with a calculator.
Next, separate the data into two groups of 10; one group will be the lower reaction times, and the second group will be the higher reaction times. Then, address the following points in your essay response:
• Calculate the sum, mean, mode, median, standard deviation, range, skew, and kurtosis for each group.
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Gmail Overhaul for your Personal Accounts
Two years in the making – Google has unveiled a new look for Gmail, closely resembling Microsoft Outlook. The new interface is focused on quick productivity actions, including features such as "suggested replies" and "nudges" to respond to forgotten emails. This is another indication that Google is building AI into its products. In addition, they have improved offline functionality – users will be able to search, write, respond, delete or archive up to 90 days of messages whilst offline. However, one of the most interesting advances that many users will welcome – is the ability to erase an email from both the sender and receiver's email accounts after a set period of time. While the new features are intended to boost team productivity, it is currently only available to personal Gmail users.
Why not start using now?
When logged into your personal Gmail account,
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"Girl Crazy" was written during the Depression, partly in an attempt to lighten the spirits of its audiences. Although the plot is frothy, the musical score is exquisite and features such enduring and beloved standards as "Embraceable You" and "I've Got Rhythm."
Généralités: Histoire, thèmes et particularités
According to his father, Danny Churchill Jr. too focused on girls and parties. Thus, Danny's father ships him off to a mostly male town in Arizona with the goal of getting Danny's attention focused on more serious matters. However, soon after arriving, Danny falls in love with the local postmistress, Molly Gray. He wins Molly's affections – but can he beat off a New York rival?Synopsis complet
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Ce musical servira d'inspiration pour "Crazy for You", spectacle comprenant les plus grandes chansons des frères Gershwin et qui sera créé avec grand succès à Broadway en 1992.
Historique du musical
Génèse du musical
The musical opened at the Alvin Theatre on October 14, 1930 and closed on June 6, 1931 after 272 performances. It was directed by Alexander Leftwich, with choreography by George Hale and sets by Donald Oenslager. This musical made a star of Ginger Rogers, who, with Allen Kearns, sang "Could You Use Me?" and "Embraceable You" and, with Willie Howard, "But Not for Me". Ethel Merman, in her Broadway debut sang "I Got Rhythm", "Sam and Delilah", and "Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!" and "became an overnight sensation...that launched her fifty year career." Also of note is the opening night pit orchestra, which was composed of many well-known jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey.
"The score was one of the Gershwins' best" according to theatre writer Ken Bloom.
In 1992 it was produced with a new title as the stage musical Crazy for You. The show was heavily revised, with a completely new plot, and songs from other Gershwin shows added.
"Musicals Tonight!", New York City, presented a staged concert in September 2001.
An abridged version of Girl Crazy was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC October 2–5, 2008 as part of their Broadway: Three Generations production. Max von Essen played Danny, Jenn Colella played Molly, and Randy Graff played Kate, directed by Lonny Price.
The New York City Center Encores! staged concert was held in November 2009. Directed by Jerry Zaks, it starred Ana Gasteyer, Marc Kudisch, Becki Newton, and Wayne Knight.
Liste des chansons
Acte I
Bidin' My Time
The Lonesome Cowboy
Could You Use Me
Bronco Busters
Barbary Coast
Embraceable You
Goldfarb, That's I'm!
Embraceable You (Reprise)
Sam and Delilah
I Got Rhythm
Acte II
Land of the Gay Caballero
But Not For Me
Treat Me Rough
Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!
(When It's) Cactus Time in Arizona
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Aucun dossier informatif complémentaire concernant Girl Crazy.
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Film adaptations: The 1932 RKO Radio Pictures production was very unlike the stage play except for its score. The film was tailored for the comic talents of Wheeler & Woolsey, a then-popular comedy team. In 1943, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a lavish version starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. In 1965, MGM once again made the musical into a film, for Connie Francis. Unlike the previous two versions, the title was changed to When the Boys Meet the Girls. It co-starred Herman's Hermits, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Louis Armstrong, and Liberace. A number of Gershwin songs were retained, including "Embraceable You", "Bidin' My Time", "But Not for Me", "Treat Me Rough", and "I Got Rhythm".
Two roles (June and Chesty) were eliminated during rehearsals. They were to have performed the song "Are You Dancing?".
The song "Embraceable You" needed to be restaged and Fred Astaire was brought in to do so. It was the first time that he and Ginger Rogers met.
Versions du musical
Versions majeures de Girl Crazy
Version 1
Molly Gray ... Ginger Rogers
Kate Fothergill ... Ethel Merman
Slick Fothergill ... William Kent
Gieber Goldfarb ... Willie Howard
Tess Parker ... Olive Brady
Lank Sanders ... John Daley
Patsy West ... Peggy O'Connor
Eagle Rock ... Chief Rivers
Sam Mason ... Donald Foster
Flora James ... Eunice Healy
Lariat Joe ... Starr Jones
Jake Howell ... Lew Parker
Pete ... Clyde Veaux
Hotel Proprietor ... Jack Classon
The Foursome ... Ray Johnson, Carlton Macy, Del Porter, Marshall SmithEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 2
Molly Gray ... Ginger Rogers
Kate Fothergill ... Ethel Merman
Slick Fothergill ... William Kent
Gieber Goldfarb ... Willie Howard
Tess Parker ... Olive Brady
Lank Sanders ... John Daley
Patsy West ... Peggy O'Connor
Eagle Rock ... Chief Rivers
Sam Mason ... Donald Foster
Flora James ... Eunice Healy
Lariat Joe ... Starr Jones
Jake Howell ... Lew Parker
Pete ... Clyde Veaux
Hotel Proprietor ... Jack Classon
The Foursome ... Ray Johnson, Carlton Macy, Del Porter, Marshall SmithEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 3
Slick Foster ... Robert Woolsey
Patsy ... Dorothy Lee
Danny Churchill ... Eddie Quillan
Tessie Deegan ... Mitzi Green
George Mason ... Brooks Benedict
Kate Foster ... Kitty Kelly
Molly Gray ... Arline Judge
Lank Sanders ... Stanley Fields
Mary ... Lita Chevret
Pete ... Chris-Pin Martin
Bartender ... Monte Collins
San Luz Bartender ... Al Cooke
Cowboy Giving Directions ... Dick Curtis
Eagle Rock ... High Eagle
Waiter ... Jerry Mandy
Motorcycle Cop ... Nat Pendleton
San Luz Señorita ... Esther García, Rochelle Hudson, Josefina Ramos
Custerville Cowboy ... Ethan Laidlaw, Jim Mason, Artie Ortego, Frank Ellis, Bob ReevesEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 4
Version 5
Version 6
Version 7
Kate Fothergill ... Randy Graff
Slick Fothergill ... Brooks Ashmanskas
Gieber Goldfarb ... Ned Eisenberg
Molly Gray ... Jenn Colella
Host ... Shirley JonesEn savoir plus sur cette version
Version 8
Mais aussi, quelques versions régionales ou mineures, ... de Girl Crazy
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Vidéos on-line
Pas encore de video disponible pour ce spectacle
Principaux CD du musical
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When sitting down to discuss what it is we wanted to establish as a consumer reference group, we knew what we didn't want. We didn't want to end up sitting around a table month in month out, with the same eight opinions just to say "we've consulted". We wanted to have feisty disagreements and not always walk away having a neat solution. We wondered whether it was possible to have a meaningful and deliberate conversation with people who use our services and their families. This is a conversation about how we're trying to build that and translate those conversations into action.
This presentation is the story of a collaboration between the PHN and a local peer-operated service to engage in meaningful, deliberative and ongoing conversations with people who use services in our region. It is a case study of an innovative model of engagement and the values that drive it.
Townsville Hospital and Health Service
Health staff often believe they communicate in a manner that patients and families can understand.
It can therefore be challenging to engage them in concepts around health literacy and to understand the full gravity of ensuring we create tools and speak in a manner that supports true patient and family understanding and knowledge about health.
Information forms the basis of any partnership between a patient, their family and the healthcare team.
The Patient Information and Health Literacy Meeting Group decided to make a video to highlight true understanding and opinion of patients and families in relation to health language and information. We set up a video camera in the hallway of our main hospital and asked people walking past if they would be prepared to help us make a video for staff learning. We then gave them pieces of card with commonly used health words and asked them to describe in their own words what they thought the word meant.
The results were interesting and at times very surprising. We also asked them to tell us about what it is like talking to health staff and some of the things they thought we needed to know. This video has been shown in a range of contexts, from health service orientation, Health Literacy Week events and other staff training events. Feedback from staff has indicated it opened their eyes and made them consider the assumptions they make about patient and family understanding.
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This presentation is focussed on personal commitment and action towards changing culture through consumer collaboration and involvement in design, delivery and evaluation of the Domestic and Family Violence recommendations of the Not Now, Not Ever Report- Putting an End to Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland.
The sharing of consumer stories during training delivery was pertinent and beneficial providing an opportunity in which to cut through the academic process to the raw human emotion that lay behind the Domestic and Family Violence. By providing the point of view of a victim/survivor it in turn creates an opportunity to encourage and remind clinicians to think beyond the physical manifestations of the abuse to how the person maybe feeling psychologically. During the delivery of the Domestic and Family Violence Train the Trainer in MNHHS district, Natasha was invited to co-facilitate at all 4 sites by sharing her lived experience with participants.
The evaluation of these sites and anecdotal feedback suggests that face-to-face sharing of a victim/survivor experience had a profound impact on the way in which the training materials were absorbed by clinicians and how they would be delivered to front line staff. In addition, participating staff reported reflection on how the service could tweak current procedures when utilising screening tools or during a victim/survivors presentation at the service.
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My enthusiasm for researching my family history ebbed away this summer. Close DNA Matches not replying to my messages. People breaking promises by not sending me a copy of some old family photos. And ancestry brick walls not ready to fall down. My genealogy batteries ran out of the juice of curiosity. Interest Recharged Over…Continue Reading "Recharged By The Past & Present"
Unknown Faces From The PastCategories Old Family Photos
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 is the second iteration of Windows Server 2012.
Some of the new features in Windows Server 2012 R2 include hybrid cloud support, enhancements to storage and virtual machine (VM) portability. According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2012 R2 provides the following enhancements:
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Molly Weingart
"Recovery is big and complicated. I am always moving onto the next step, but it's a nonlinear process. It is like creating a dance piece or any other type of artistic work, requiring frequent revisioning and practice." -Molly Weingart
Molly Weingart, received a call in late March of 2017 with the news that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was only 32. However, Molly was not entirely surprised- she always had a sinking feeling and fear that she would one day receive the same fate of her mother.
At the time of her diagnosis, Molly was preparing to enter a doctoral program in Physical Therapy at Arcadia, she was deep into her prerequisite studies, including Neuroscience and Physics, among many others. As she was learning the intricate details of the human body, she never thought she could turn into her own test patient. Molly was diagnosed with not just one form of cancer, but multiple. She received a diagnosis of Stage 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma with an additional representation of DCIS within the breast tissue. 5 days after her final Physics exam, Molly would remove her breast on the infected side and preventatively remove her healthy breast for a double mastectomy.
Due to this devastating turn of events, she made the tough decision to defer her doctorate program, that was due to start in September, until she recovered from her double mastectomy, had a chance to harvest her eggs, and finished her chemotherapy and eventually her reconstructive surgery.
Molly knew that while cancer came with many different decisions, she grappled the most with not only the loss of her breasts, but the loss of her nipples. She considered all the options, from rebuilding the nipples in the reconstruction process, but also the thought of getting 3D nipple tattoos. None of these options felt right, or consistent with her perspective on the illness. So she took an alternative route, instead of trying to recreate what was once there, but is no longer, she wanted to transform her scars into something beautiful and new. A year after reconstruction was complete, she flew from Philadelphia to Chicago in order to meet David Allen, a tattoo artist that has been covering mastectomy scars in beautiful floral designs. David and Molly collaborated on imagery resulting in a beautiful asymmetrical design of peonies. She finally had the opportunity to recalime her body and feel like someone she recognized again.
Molly has found her recovery to come in distinct phases over the last few years, from facing chemo brain which limited her ability to learn facts, to learning to love her new body. It has all been complicated. She feels like she is always working on the next step of the process- although it may not always feel like a straight path forward.
Molly has learned that as she integrates and processes each experience, the next goal may change, and that's OK. A serious, but amateur dancer, Molly continues to learn the role of patience in rebuilding one's physical strength after illness. This experience has influenced her career path; she thought she'd want to work with aspiring professional athletes, but now feels more open to alternative patients, including those facing other health conditions like pelvic floor challenges and aging adults. But in addition, she understands the importance of living, like travel, being outdoors, and of course dancing like nobody's watching!
During treatment, Molly didn't come out about her cancer diagnosis on social media. She decided to keep things private for as long as she could. She shared only with her family and closest of friends, in an effort to stay private during this incredibly stressful time. But those that knew, were incredibly supportive and were there no matter what the need was. As an only child, Molly has always been close to her parents, and during her illness they were there unconditionally for her with both practical information and emotional support. Due to a diagnosis at such a young age, many of her friends had no experience of what it meant to support someone with cancer. However, her friends quickly learned and educated themselves about the clumsy, painful and confusing aspects of the illness from side effects of medications and how she would feel from day to day. They always showed up for her in ways full of empathy and love. From these people, Molly learned the true meaning of support and of community.
Part of the recovery process for Molly is learning how to be more open and vulnerable when sharing her story. Her story is no longer just about what SHE went through, but how she can take her experience and share with others. Breast cancer is very alienating and isolating, and she hopes that sharing through her personal experience, other patients can find the same kind of supportive community she was so lucky to have, and that is where Living Beyond Breast Cancer comes in.
Molly met Dana Donofree, a board member of LBBC and the owner of AnaOno, who introduced the services and community as well as CEO, Jean Sachs. Meeting these two women, one diagnosed at a young age, and one that specializes in how to support people like herself, Molly paved a new stride in her path and began enjoying the events and community offerings of the organization, like Reach & Raise and the Butterfly Ball. Molly and Dana formed a team together at the 2018 Reach & Raise, LBBC's annual yoga-based fundraiser. This event was a pivotal moment for Molly. Before putting herself out there to make her yoga team, she relied on her own personal support network, and so this was the first time she felt like she was really part of a larger community of people who have experienced breast cancer. Molly really appreciates that at LBBC programs and events, she feels like she is part of a community of people who have all been diagnosed with the same disease but who have all been affected differently and have had different experiences from which they and others can learn and feel less alone.


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Yes. Eligible family members may audit courses in addition to using transferred staff fee privileges during a term. Only one person in a family, including the staff member, may audit or use staff fee privileges during a term or semester. Because universities track workload for audited courses, family members must provide a completed Staff Fee Privileges Approval form to the employee's campus Human Resources office in order to audit. Space availability and the instructor's approval are required just as they are for staff members.


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Plants are undoubtedly an asset in the home decoration. The greenery around your balcony helps uplift the mood and also helps spread greenery! According to experts, people who don't have house plants are missing on a healthy and natural way to good life. Besides making the house look colourful and inviting, house plants have health benefits too. They boost your immunity; improve your sleep quality, fighting allergies to name a few. Read on to know more…
Reduce carbon dioxide: As we all know that plants inhale carbon dioxide from the air and exhale oxygen so indoor plants help to increase the amount of oxygen in the house. They cleanse the air by absorbing harmful chemicals and toxins.
Beat stress: Many offices prefer to put plants in the premises not just to enhance the interiors but also because of the health benefits. Green colour is known to have a de-stressing effect on the mind. It uplifts the mood and creativity. It also helps prevent health problems like cold, fatigue, blood pressure and headache. Some say that plants placed in hospitals help in quick recovery and healing of the patients.
Controls sound: Plants absorb and reflect sound which helps to reduce background noise levels inside buildings. So if you live next to a busy street place few small plants inside your house to absorb noise.
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A Note From Molly Adams
Per ounce, vanilla's one of the most expensive spices out there—second only to saffron, in fact—yet its floral, delicate flavour is rarely given an opportunity to shine. We toss a teaspoon in here and there to elevate our cookies or pancakes, but with the exception of vanilla ice cream, it's not often the star of the show. Here, however, you'll find some vanilla-centric recipes that run the gamut from sweet to savoury and back again, and showcase what a versatile ingredient it can be!
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Sep 11, 2018
Behind the Microphone with Dan DeCrescenzo
By Lori Draz and Dan DeCrescenzo
Welcome to Teen Scene. Each month our young authors write, in their own voice, stories that will educate and inform fellow students and parents. If you are a teen who would like to write your story, contact the Journal. We'll help you polish it up, so don't worry, let's just get to sharing.
This month's author is Dan DeCrescenzo, a 16-year-old junior at Middletown High School South. Not everyone fits into a neat package. Many people are gifted with unique skills that can drive them to the top of their ranks, but finding those opportunities is not always easy. Sometimes you have to carve out your own place in the world. This month's author not only found his voice, he is using his voice to create his own future. Here is Dan's story:
I am a firm believer that everyone is exceptionally gifted at something; finding out what you're gifted at is, admittedly, the difficult part. Maybe, in the worst of scenarios, you may not have the opportunity to even attempt something that, unbeknownst to you, is your true aptitude.
That was almost me.
When I didn't make my middle school basketball team in seventh grade, I chose to be the manager. The coach soon randomly asked me to give a speech about the team at our school's pep rally, kick starting my announcing career.
That summer, I was also asked to announce baseball games for my brother's travel team, slowly learning the art of broadcasting. In eighth grade, I gave another speech during my student council campaign, started delivering morning announcements, and announced the school's championship volleyball game. I continued to announce for my brother, who won his league championship in a game that provided me with great exposure.
Within time, my local Little League invited me to announce games being held during the All-Star season following a solid end to my run with my brother's team. It turned out to be quite an adventure; it culminated in me announcing the 2016 NJ State Little League Softball Championship. My reputation as an enthusiastic and fluid announcer began to grow.
Announcing followed me to Middletown High School South. By sophomore year, I was doing pregame and play-by-play for varsity football, basketball, and baseball. I also have routinely introduced the marching band, cheerleaders, and dance team. In addition, I won a contest to broadcast my sports opinions on an Instagram page called All Sports News.
At the end of sophomore year, South hosted the NJ Girls Lacrosse Semifinals and I was bestowed the honor to announce those games and the All-Star game the next day. I was thanked by the state athletic association with an official NJSIAA shirt to wear when announcing.
My upcoming junior year of announcing, starting with football season, will hopefully bring more success. It is a privilege to be the guy everyone requests to announce their games, and I couldn't be more thankful for every opportunity.
As the so-called "Voice of South," I've had many great and humbling moments: I met reporters from Shore Sports Network and Jersey Sports Zone; I called several North vs. South rivalry games; I announced the departing seniors at the Middletown Thanksgiving Football Classic; and was given an announcing varsity letter by my basketball coach.
One moment, though, stands above the rest: One of our basketball players was set to score his 1,000th point in the next game, but I was home sick. To see his disappointment when he heard I would be unable to announce his achievement was agonizing. Determined not to miss it, I went to the game and pushed through it and tentatively called the first half, announcing his accomplishment in the process. To know that my voice was so meaningful to him was truly heartwarming.
I acknowledge my story contains many lucky breaks, but the lessons I learned ring true for anyone. When searching for your niche, if it does not come quickly, it is important to not focus so much on what you can do. It's really about imagining what you could do, examining your entire character. What makes you excited? What are you not afraid of?
For me, announcing was an unforeseen opportunity; now it is something I'd like to pursue as a career. Never get discouraged – and believe in yourself. You might find your talent when you least expect it.
Another lesson I have learned is that people want you to succeed. For me, the support of so many different people opened doors for me to pursue my talent in its infancy. I could have never accomplished anything without my parents, school administrators, and coaches supporting me at every turn.
The same guidance and assistance can easily translate into whatever you are looking for or pursuing. You may not believe it, but so many people around you want to elevate you. They believe in you no matter what, and you need to believe in them. Success is not a lonely act.
Finally, embrace having a unique talent. Your talent may not be so clear for others to relate to, as mine certainly wasn't when I first started announcing. Nevertheless, if you can do something at a high level, no matter what that is, that commands respect. The real key is that you always strive for excellence and be confident in what you do. It's that simple.
The time will come when you finally realize your innate talent. It may be tomorrow, it may be next year, but when it occurs, it will be very fulfilling. The only thing that I hope for more than a career in announcing is that everyone reading this can find their own calling. It's always been inside of you; you just have to set it free.


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Are you a University of Cambridge student who is nationally ranked or who represents their country on the international stage in your chosen sport?
If yes, you could be eligible for the University of Cambridge Athlete Performance Programme (UCAPP). This initiative has been established thanks to the generosity and support of alumnus Mark Hanson (Girton 1985) who was a Modern Pentathlete while at Cambridge. We don't believe that you should have to compromise your academic or sporting ambitions if you attend The University Cambridge and the support you receive from UCAPP in all of the areas below should help you to maximise your potential during your time with us.
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A University of Cambridge full-time/part-time undergraduate/postgraduate student
Nationally ranked or regularly represent your country on the international stage.
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Able to demonstrate a commitment to striving for personal excellence which needs to be defined in this application.
Willingness to engage with all the professional services provided by the scheme.
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New York Times bestselling author Shannon Stacey celebrates the season in this brand-new holiday novella
After a messy breakup, Leigh Holloway is ready to start her life over. Until her parents put the family home on the market and call her back for one final, memory-making Christmas. The last thing she wants to do is deprive her mom of the perfect holiday, so she'll lie her way through the visit and worry about her future in the New Year. Too bad the only bar in town is owned by a guy she seriously wronged in high school. A
Leigh's best friend broke Croy Dawson's heart, and Croy knows it was Leigh's fault. They've never liked each other, but Croy isn't cruel: he'd never turn away a pretty woman in need of some family-Christmas fortification. He doesn't expect her to drink just enough candy-cane martinis to tell him her secrets—and he definitely doesn't expect to get caught up in her holiday madness.
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A Very Queer Gentleman
Lytton Strachey, Vol. 1, The Unknown Years 1880-1910, Vol. 2, The Years of Achievement, 1910-1932
Lytton Strachey is a deceptive figure. Portraits and photographs depict him as a withdrawn, pallid creature, hiding behind a beard and peering out at an alien world, etiolated, passive, blank. The reality was different. He possessed a will of iron, a character so strong and so entirely self-confident of his capacity to sit in judgment upon society that he was able to impose his vision of what the world was like upon a generation younger than his with hardly a gesture toward the prejudices and received views of his times. He might have been describing himself when he wrote of Florence Nightingale that her parents had hatched not a swan but an eagle.
Only in childhood was he dutiful and submissive. He never felt the need to revolt against his family because they were cultivated and intelligent. His father, a retired general who had seen service in India, was also an explorer, scientist, and Fellow of the Royal Society; his mother, though like most girls of her class a bit erratic in her learning, was a passionate admirer of French culture. Their enormous family of thirteen children lived in a vast and hideous house in unfashionable Bayswater. But the claustrophobic atmosphere of this house—its lack of rooms and waste of space, a symbol of his own perennial ill-health and withered hopes—made Lytton realize that this style of life would not do. His attempts to fit in, first at one boarding school of suffocating religiosity to which his agnostic parents sent him, and next at another of swingeing philistinism, seem also to have convinced him that it was the world about him that should adapt and not he to the world. Then came the revelation. After a brief spell studying literature under Walter Raleigh at Liverpool, he went up to Cambridge and there found not only the circle of friends who were to become the nucleus of the Bloomsbury group, but also the young philosopher G. E. Moore.
The story of how Moore liberated them all has often been told. What Moore actually said is hardly ever correctly analyzed by biographers, and Strachey's biographer is no exception. This does not matter much: it is more to the point what his followers then made of it. Even here there is no precise agreement, and Leonard Woolf has corrected Keynes's account of the message that Moore conveyed. It was both a method and a message. The method consisted in expressing incredulity—you raised your eyebrows—that an opponent could make a statement when it must be clear to all that his statement was meaningless and hence benighted. The message was one of intense purity and unworldliness. The summum bonum was the cultivation of good states of mind and these were most likely to be achieved in communion with friends and the contemplation of beauty. Moore's message was taken by his disciples as a gospel of friendship. But…
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