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Recently I was struggling with some life disappointment or another: I can't remember if it was a nasty cold or stress related indigestion or something else entirely. Whatever the case, I decided to draw on some advice I had heard from a medical pro and do some nice things for myself. Self-care, she had said, is something that people often neglect, to the detriment of their mental, and ultimately physical, health. The logic being that in life, as in the kitchen, you can't pour from an empty cup.
I dedicated an entire Sunday to the mission, and challenged myself to do only things that I could accomplish in my home and without spending any money.
I started my day with a wholesome and delicious green smoothie spiked with seamoss gel. Armed with that nutritional boost, I was inspired to do something else nice for my body – a quick living room workout. Even though deep down I knew I'd feel better when I got through, I had a bit of a case of the "don't wannas," which I squashed by putting on a funny audiobook while I did my circuit of pushups, lunges, dips and crunches.
Once my healthy moves were done, it was time for a fun reward, which for me was a home pedicure. I don't do these all the time but when I do, I take them very seriously. That means a soak, scraping the calluses and some serious moisturizing all have to happen before the nail polish even comes out. I think the years I spent on my feet working in a restaurant make it feel like a fun ritual rather than just a lot of work.
That home-spa experience reminded me that my younger (and far cooler) sister-in-law had raved about an exfoliating face mask you can make by combining charcoal powder and white glue. I felt a little silly mixing it together and trying to put it on may face without making a sticky, charcoaly mess, but it was so much fun to peel off after it dried that I'd totally do it again.
After my feet and face were looking and feeling fresh, it was time for a few episodes of a favorite old TV show and a nap. I think under different circumstances, I might have kicked myself for not trying to get ahead on work or household chores for the coming week, but when I woke up the next day, I really felt refreshed! Consider me a self-care believer.
This column was in the Limin Times a little earlier this year.


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Imaging and Data Visualisation
So the end of Imaging and Data Visualisation is here. This module was both hard and enjoyable. The amount of skills I have learned from the module was fantastic. The lectures on Maya and it's workings were very beneficial for the tasks that lay ahead in the module. The first half of the Imaging and Data was the Floating City project. This was the first project that required and outcome created in Maya. At the start my Maya skills weren't up to scratch, but attending the classes on a Friday helped me develop my skills and therefore increase the quality of work I was making. Floating city taught me how group work takes a major role within Maya. Being able to pass about models and scenes helped me get into the group project's again. Floating City was an enjoyable project for me as I got to research things that I was interested in and then bring these ideas to the rest of the team. Modelling the city itself was a real learning curve within itself. In terms of the teamwork again showed me what would be the set up for New Narratives. Floating City was the favourite project out of the module.
Then on to the second project of Imaging and Data. The Head Model, this task was more difficult that I expected, although I had built my skills up I still had a lot to learn for the head model. The key thing that I would take from this task was that managing your time is key, although that lesson was learned last semester it became even more apparent with Maya involved. The Friday classes during the head model from weeks 6-12 were again very helpful. Alec is an awesome tutor and will always try and help in anyway way he can. This then made it easier to ask for help and advice. If I had off planned my time better I would of liked to go into more detail on Typology to make the model better. Although difficult, valuable skills and lessons were taken from the project.
Looking back to the start of the year I have made so much improvements on my 3d skills, to my own surprise I do like Maya now. Over the summer I plan to do my own projects to keep me on track for second year. All in all Imaging and Data was useful module to have taken, I felt this was a big part in my development.


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Following the tragic death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray after being arrested by police and the consequent riots in Baltimore, Hip Hops most influential figures and entertainers take to social media to sound off, sharing thoughts, encouraging words/prayers and more. Check out the full list.
Whether imploring people to keep the peace or cheering on the activism, through these sentiments, we here at HHMW want it to be known that rioting is not revolutionary, it is reactionary!
Freddie Gibbs
Baltimore I respect it, 100%. Just do it peacefully, we don't need an excuse for them to kill another one of us. #FreddyGray
— Freddie Gibbs (@FreddieGibbs) April 27, 2015
Baltimore doing what they suppose 2 be doing
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i've been so hung up on the knitting lately, i've not touched the guitar in over 10 days. it's been since i was in france 7 years ago that i went that long without playing the guitar.
but at the same time, i don't want to play the guitar because i'm going through my periodic frustration about songwriting. i would LOVE to be a professional musician but i just write stupid music. and i don't want to have other people solely write music for me. (in the vein of britney etc.) and while i really do like doing covers of pre-established music* i know that i can't pay rent on that.
in good news, i usually move when i get frustrated, and i'm not moving anytime soon. is that growth?
grump grump grump
*a lot of people aren't fans of doing covers because someone else already did them, i think that the beauty of the cover is that everyone brings something different to music, to painting, to sculpture and will have their own interpretations of it. it will be significant for its own reasons. there is no "right" interpretation. there's the interpretation that the artist had behind it, but it will always mean something different to someone else.
i've been so hung up on the knitting lately, i've not touched the guitar in over 10 days. it's been since i was in france 7 years ago that i went that long without playing the guitar.
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- Thomas Monday, June 27, 2005 5:06:00 am
I haven't picked up a guitar in 32 years. I keep meaning to get back to it.
- particleman Monday, June 27, 2005 8:42:00 pm
hf, pick it up. don't start down the path of thomas over here (sorry, thomas). everybody writes stupid music. you have to wade through the stupid to get to the good. i bet even the Lennons and the McCartneys and the other geniuses (genii?) we love have written stupid songs, as perfect as they seem to us.
- heatherfeather Monday, June 27, 2005 9:10:00 pm
ah, pman, while good intentioned, what i didn't mentioned was that i was the most disciplined songwriter in the world. i sat down for at least 30 minutes every day for 3 and a half years writing lyrics, and another 30 working on music.
the music, the melody was fine - lovely even! it's the lyrics that blow.
and the lyrics are what are important to me...
however, i'm not in such a piteous state as i was on saturday. so i'm working on covering a new song tonight between knitting rows. :)


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We love getting pup-dates! Bronco is one of Hershey's puppies who is doing so good in his new home! "Little" Bronco not only has a new dog sibling, but also a cat who he is insistent on becoming friends with.
"Just wanted to send you some pics of not so little Bronco. At 16 weeks he's tipping the scales at 30lbs!! As you can see by the pics attached, we are working toward a peaceful coexistence in the house.
Bronco and Filbert have become pretty good buddies and Filbert definitely keeps him in line. We're still working on the whole pee pee outside stuff but he's slowly making progress.
Beland is still not a fan but Bronco is very persistent 🙂 !
This little guy definitely has a personality and would run the house if we let him. Training has been our goal and he's an awesome sitter (for a treat of course), he's started to hang out at the back door when he has to pee, he sleeps in his crate all night long, any and everything is his toy and he's sighs like a grown man which always makes us laugh. He's found his voice and has employed the use of the high pitched puppy bark which everyone is a fan of…NOT!"


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A few weeks ago, something happened that made me feel fantastic and glamorous and liked and important.
Through the course of the day, I felt many emotions, as one would. I was excited, then slightly skeptical, then intrigued, then really freaking excited again.
I'm talking, of course, about the first time in my life I was contacted by a company and asked to review one of their products.
(You thought I was going to say the whole getting married thing, didn't you? I mean…I sure did and it sure was fantastic – but more on that later.)
I mean, whaaaaat? Meeeeee? Riiiiiiight?
I got the email right after we returned from our splendiferous honeymoon (what a great wedding present, amiright?) and proceeded to spend a good ten minutes of Googling to make sure I wasn't being spammed into sending some Nigerian prince my life savings. Turns out I wasn't being spammed, the contact at the company isn't a Nigerian prince (that I know of), and I just happen to be lucky enough to get a product (for free!) that I get to review (for free!) that I then get to keep (for free!) that I'll be telling you all about here shortly.
So stay tuned, ladies & gents, for what will soon be my Very. First. Official. Review.
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SoftICE member Robin T. Bye will today present recent research on intelligent computer-automated product design. The talk is called A software framework for intelligent computer-automated product design and is a based on a recent paper that will be presented at the 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2016) in Regensburg, Germany, in June. The paper has been co-authored with SoftICE members Ottar L. Osen, Birger Skogeng Pedersen, Ibrahim A. Hameed, and Hans Georg Schaathun.
The seminar is open for all and will take place in room Åse at 13.00 today 29 April 2016, NTNU in Ålesund main building.
This work is part of the research project Artificial Intelligence for Crane Design (Kunstig intelligens for krandesign (KIK)) funded by RFF/Research Council of Norway.
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Hello. Ben Bennetts. Pleased to meet you.
Who, me? Well. Let's see. Father of daughters (the last census showed four); local government officer by day; live in Hackney.
I've worked in a good many areas of local government – education, transport, environment, planning, and for most of the last ten years social care – and though I'm not a professional in any of these fields, I retain an interest in all of them. My role has usually been about managing and implementing change.
I set up a company in 2005 providing mapping and environmental data to farmers and parish councils. (Long story; click LaMIS on my tag cloud to see more.) That kept me busy until 2007 when I returned to local government.
I'm an inveterate reader and occasional poet, fascinated with words. I was closely involved in a project called The Power of Language, which I've now taken over and am hosting on this site; and am also a Fellow of the RSA, with particular interest in their work on arts, creativity, information management and intellectual property.
Posts are likely to reflect some, all or none of the above. I will post about more or less anything that interests me. Matthew Taylor asked me recently at an RSA event what the point of The Power of Language was; my reply (eventually): "A place to voice ideas that I think matter". The same is true of this blog.
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Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician living in Toronto, was working in his office in June 2003, waiting for some files to download onto his computer, when he discovered a couple of old lottery tickets buried under some paper on his desk. The tickets were cheap scratchers—a gag gift from his squash partner—and Srivastava found himself wondering if any of them were winners. He fished a coin out of a drawer and began scratching off the latex coating. "The first was a loser, and I felt pretty smug," Srivastava says. "I thought, 'This is exactly why I never play these dumb games.'"
The second ticket was a tic-tac-toe game. Its design was straightforward: On the right were eight tic-tac-toe boards, dense with different numbers. On the left was a box headlined "Your Numbers," covered with a scratchable latex coating. The goal was to scrape off the latex and compare the numbers under it to the digits on the boards. If three of "Your Numbers" appeared on a board in a straight line, you'd won. Srivastava matched up each of his numbers with the digits on the boards, and much to his surprise, the ticket had a tic-tac-toe. Srivastava had won $3. "This is the smallest amount you can win, but I can't tell you how excited it made me," he says. "I felt like the king of the world."
Delighted, he decided to take a lunchtime walk to the gas station to cash in his ticket. "On my way, I start looking at the tic-tac-toe game, and I begin to wonder how they make these things," Srivastava says. "The tickets are clearly mass-produced, which means there must be some computer program that lays down the numbers. Of course, it would be really nice if the computer could just spit out random digits. But that's not possible, since the lottery corporation needs to control the number of winning tickets. The game can't be truly random. Instead, it has to generate the illusion of randomness while actually being carefully determined."
Srivastava speaks quietly, with a slight stammer. He has a neatly trimmed beard and a messy office. When he talks about a subject he's interested in—and he's interested in many things, from military encryption to freshwater fossils—his words start to run into each other.
As a trained statistician with degrees from MIT and Stanford University, Srivastava was intrigued by the technical problem posed by the lottery ticket. In fact, it reminded him a lot of his day job, which involves consulting for mining and oil companies. A typical assignment for Srivastava goes like this: A mining company has multiple samples from a potential gold mine. Each sample gives a different estimate of the amount of mineral underground. "My job is to make sense of those results," he says. "The numbers might seem random, as if the gold has just been scattered, but they're actually not random at all. There are fundamental geologic forces that created those numbers. If I know the forces, I can decipher the samples. I can figure out how much gold is underground."
Srivastava realized that the same logic could be applied to the lottery. The apparent randomness of the scratch ticket was just a facade, a mathematical lie. And this meant that the lottery system might actually be solvable, just like those mining samples. "At the time, I had no intention of cracking the tickets," he says. He was just curious about the algorithm that produced the numbers. Walking back from the gas station with the chips and coffee he'd bought with his winnings, he turned the problem over in his mind. By the time he reached the office, he was confident that he knew how the software might work, how it could precisely control the number of winners while still appearing random. "It wasn't that hard," Srivastava says. "I do the same kind of math all day long."
That afternoon, he went back to work. The thrill of winning had worn off; he forgot about his lunchtime adventure. But then, as he walked by the gas station later that evening, something strange happened. "I swear I'm not the kind of guy who hears voices," Srivastava says. "But that night, as I passed the station, I heard a little voice coming from the back of my head. I'll never forget what it said: 'If you do it that way, if you use that algorithm, there will be a flaw. The game will be flawed. You will be able to crack the ticket. You will be able to plunder the lottery.'"
The North American lottery system is a $70 billion-a-year business, an industry bigger than movie tickets, music, and porn combined. These tickets have a grand history: Lotteries were used to fund the American colonies and helped bankroll the young nation. In the 18th and 19th centuries, lotteries funded the expansion of Harvard and Yale and allowed the construction of railroads across the continent. Since 1964, when New Hampshire introduced the first modern state lottery, governments have come to rely on gaming revenue. (Forty-three states and every Canadian province currently run lotteries.) In some states, the lottery accounts for more than 5 percent of education funding.
While approximately half of Americans buy at least one lottery ticket at some point, the vast majority of tickets are purchased by about 20 percent of the population. These high-frequency players tend to be poor and uneducated, which is why critics refer to lotteries as a regressive tax. (In a 2006 survey, 30 percent of people without a high school degree said that playing the lottery was a wealth-building strategy.) On average, households that make less than $12,400 a year spend 5 percent of their income on lotteries—a source of hope for just a few bucks a throw.
Read full article at http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/


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IndoChino: Order Custom Made Men's Suits Online
IndoChino is a site where you can order custom made men's suits and get them shipped to your place within 2 weeks of order, no matter where you are in the world. The site offers different kinds of designer suits that are hand made in their China offices and then shipped worldwide. You can also find shirts, coats, blazers and more in men's clothing here. Order suits by occasion like weddings and nights out. The prices starts at $201 and goes upwards according to the type of order.
When you order for the first time, you need to go through a detailed body measurement process which ensures that you get a perfect fit. It gives a lot of customization options and will also pay for alteration if required. The order, once placed, arrives at your door via FedEx with no extra shipping charges. There's also a stylebook on the site for your reference.
- Order custom made suits and other men's clothing online.
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I've had a bit of a rubbish couple of weeks as I wrote about earlier this week and I think there is a tendency to get a bit bogged down with the not so great things that are happening and fail to notice all of the lovely moments that litter my life.
So when I saw Katy and Sian's Happy Days linky, it was the perfect opportunity to focus on the positive, and despite some worrying times, there has been lots to be grateful for too:
- Lottie's face when I put her in her new jumperoo – she is absolutely delighted with this lovely gift from my friend and has spend a good few happy hours in there this week bouncing and grinning.
- Ben the horse has not been looking too healthy recently. He has lost a fair bit of weight (as old horses tend to in the winter) and has been a little lacklustre, so I've started him on some new feed and Equivite supplement and he has really put some weight on this week and is looking much more glossy and cheerful, and even dragged me in from the field for dinner last night – a sure sign he is feeling better.
- Mum had an appointment with a Parkinson's advisor who has helped to allay her fears a little and put her in touch with a specialist nurse who should be able to help with her medication. She seems much happier, which is a huge relief.
- The sun has been shining. I love winter sunshine, and Lottie and I have been wrapping up and going out for some lovely walks around our village.
- I have lost 4lbs. The overindulgence of Christmas/New Year/Mr M's holiday has stopped and I'm back on track to get rid of the mummy tummy.
- Our lovely neighbour came over yesterday with some clothes and books for Lottie – I'm staggered by how kind people are sometimes – we barely know the lady as we've only lived here five months, but she thought of us when her daughter was clearing out her children's rooms.
- We have nearly finished giving our kitchen a facelift and I absolutely love it.
- Lottie turned five months old today. We have managed to keep her happy and healthy for a full five months!!
All in all, that's not a bad week for someone who thought they'd had a bit of a rubbish one is it? What has made you happy this week?


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A Danish woman and her son who mailed codeine tablets to the United States and Canada have been charged with drug trafficking.
THE Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday sentenced a Danish woman and her son to 15 years in prison and ordered each to pay 30 million riels (US$7,500) for illegal drug smuggling.
Johanne Vinther Axelsen, 55, was present when the sentence was read, but her son Niels Eikeland, 26, has been absent since the first hearing on January 8.
Outside the courtroom, Axelsen told the Post "it is an unfair trial, as I didn't commit the crime". She added: "I have decided not to pay even one dollar to the corrupt court."
Axelsen was arrested in April last year for attempting to post more than 30,000 codeine pills and pain-killers to the US and Canada.
"I am not a drug smuggler, just a medicine seller," she said.
Prison over bribe
Axelsen is currently being held at the Prey Sar prison, where she says the conditions are inhumane.
"The room I share with 42 women is very narrow and [has] only one toilet, and the prison officials ask for the prisoners to pay 1,500 riel or they will not be allowed to go outside," she said.
"A private Cambodian lawyer [said] if you pay $20,000, you will get released, but I refuse to pay any money to the corrupt court officials, who will use the money to buy a luxury house and car," she added.
Axelsen said her lawyer was seeking intervention from the King or the United Nations, and that her son paid police $7,500 and was released, but she was unsure of his location.
Tom Barthel Hansen, head of the Representative Office of Denmark in Cambodia, told the Post Thursday: "We are trying to find the possibilities to appeal the case. We expected a much smaller sentence based on a talk with her lawyer, so we were surprised to hear the 15-year sentence."


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Church Food Clipart
Good food and good conversation is a great way for your congregation to become closer and stronger. Using the images found in the FaithClipart.com church food clipart category, you can easily and beautifully announce food-related events to those in your church. From meet n' eat word art for general get togethers to coffee cups and percolators for administrative or leadership council meetings, you can find a way to say it's coming up in your next church newsletter or mailing. Line art ice cream cones may be used to illustrate ice cream socials or special after-service treats for children. Pies and pie slices will help to announce bake sales, while stacks of clipart pancakes will help to spread the word about pancake breakfasts. Around Thanksgiving, look to beautiful watercolor-style squash and pumpkins to add a special seasonal touch to your Sunday worship program!
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Tom Bellsky will become assistant professor at University of Maine
This fall I am thrilled to begin a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Maine. For the past three years I have been an MCRN Ed Lorenz postdoc at Arizona State University working with Eric Kostelich and Alex Mahalov.
I am grateful for the opportunities that have accompanied this position, where I have participated in many fantastic conferences and organized various workshops, minisymposia, and data assimilation focus group meetings. By being associated with our fabulous group of MCRN researchers, I have had innumerable opportunities for learning concepts and motivating new ideas. It has been especially a pleasure developing friendships and building collaborations with fellow MCRNers.
In regards to research, at ASU we have examined how observational locations within an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) scheme affect errors in state and parameter estimation. Under an MCRN minigrant with fellow postdocs Jesse Berwald and Lewis Mitchell, I studied the effect of spatial localization within an EnKF scheme when estimating a model parameter that varies in time and space. I also have an ongoing project with SAVI partners Arjen Doelman and Eric Siero from the University of Leiden, where we are examining the stability of solutions within a region of parameter space for a reaction-diffusion model of semi-arid deserts.
As I ascend a level in the world of academics, I look forward to continuing MCRN collaborations and to creating a strong involvement in MCRN at UMaine. In particular, the Climate Change Institute (climatechange.umaine.edu) at UMaine will offer many future connections. The last three years at ASU have been great. Nevertheless, I expect to embrace all aspects of becoming a New Englander, except with regards to the Patriots and Red Sox.
Congratulations, Tom!


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May 2009
Big Sisters of Rhode Island
The wide span of audience for Big Sisters of Rhode Island website required a design that would be playful and warm, to attract ages between 10 to 18 (little sisters), yet clear and professional enough to inform ages between 21 to 60 (big sisters and parents of little sisters). It was a very fun project where I got to play a lot with CSS and imagery.
Project Info
- My role was to design the website UI and code the HTML and CSS. I also used the Spry Framework.
- Created while working at Communication Arts Group.


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Pinnacle Studio for Windows 7 + Promo Code
$139 off when downloading Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Bundle for Windows 7
Using Pinnacle Studio on Windows 7 is a nice experience. While using Pinnacle Studio with Vista, users often found that the processes of Pinnacle Studio were slow or clunky, but it appears that was more a problem of Windows Vista thank Pinnacle Studio.
With Windows 7, Pinnacle Studio seems to work smoothly, run quickly, and create excellent output videos in an easy way, as it always has.
In order to use Pinnacle Studio with your Windows 7 machine, here's what you should have as a minimum (if you don't know what any of this is, but you want to get a computer that will work well with Pinnacle Studio, you can print this list or email it to a geeky friend who can help you):
- Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
- Intel Core2 Duo 2.4 GHz required for AVCHD
- Intel Core2 Quad 2.66 GHz or Intel Core i7 required for AVCHD 1920
- 1 GB system memory, (but they require that you have 2 GB if you want to do anything with AVCHD
- A graphics card that is compatible with directX and has 64 MB on board (though you'll do better with 128 MB or higher. If you want to do HD video or AVCHD, you'll want 256 or better)
- A sound card that is compatible with DirectX 9 or newer
- 3.2 GB of disk space (Remember when 3.2 GB seemed like a lot of space? Now it's required disk space by just one program, and you can't even buy a 20 GB hard drive because it's too small.)
- A DVD-ROM drive so that you can install Pinnacle Studio from the CD
- A USB 2.0 port is also ideal
Optional things you can put on your machine to make the performance of Pinnacle Studio inside of Windows 7 even better include: a CD burner so that you can make Video CDs (or Super Video CDs, which are also known as S-VCDs), a DVD burner if you want to create DVDs or AVCHD* discs, and a great sound card with the ability to output surround sound.
So what can you do with Pinnacle Studio on your Windows 7 machine?
You have lots of options, but they include the ability to
- Import videos and photos from lots of different media and in lots of different formats.
- Add all kinds of "fun" ness to your video including adding animations and sounds
- You can turn your original video into a stop-motion video, which creates really fun resulting videos
- Automatically fix shaky camera syndrome
- Use preset templates which let you save LOTS of time in creating your videos
- Lots lots more.
We're enjoying our trial of Pinnacle Studio on our Windows 7 box and think that you will too.
If you would like to download Pinnacle Studio for Windows 7 (and save $139 when you purchase the Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Bundle) check out the link below.
Pinnacle Studio for Windows 7 + Promo Code
$139 off when downloading Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Bundle for Windows 7


text: Changing my publisher is very exciting, but a lot of hard work is involved. At the moment, I am updating my website, slowly but surely, and working on the final revision of Tuesday's Child, a follow on Regency novel from Sunday's Child and Monday's Child. Also it's the time of year when my organic garden in which I grow my own tempts me to go outdoors.


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Li Jie, who describes himself as chief executive of the Lunar Embassy to China, is selling his "World Cup air" for 50 yuan ($6.25) a bag.Ah the Chinese. They are ever so entrepreneurial.
"The air was packed at the World Cup venues while the workers were cutting the grass before matches," Li told the Beijing Daily Messenger. "You can still smell the grass."
Li suggests soccer enthusiasts who are not able to make the trip to Germany hang the green plastic bag around their necks and breathe in the air while watching World Cup matches on television.
"Whichever stadium you like, I can give you its air," he added.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Anyone wants to buy World Cup air?
The Chinese dude who once tried to sell land on the moon is back again with his new venture. This time, he is selling World Cup air. From Reuters:
Posted by I.Z. Reloaded at 9:44 PM
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that guy is an asshole!
- 30.6.06
I think I will sell him my fart.
- 30.6.06
Looks like he isn't the only one selling air.
- 30.6.06
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Dur-A-Flex Announces New Contractor Partner in Nigeria
Dur-A-Flex, Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial, industrial and institutional seamless flooring, today announced its newest partner, Tapeema Nigeria Limited of Aduwawa Benin City, Nigeria. Tapeema is the exclusive distributor and contractor for the supply and installation of Dur-A-Flex's systems in Nigeria and Western Africa.
The news comes on the heels of Korean and Vietnamese partnerships that were recently announced by Dur-A-Flex. The partnerships reflect Dur-A-Flex's expanding global presence and the increasing accessibility of its high quality and innovative product line by foreign markets.
"We are very happy to enter into this partnership with Tapeema Nigeria Limited," says Peter V. Ferris, President and Chief Operating Officer at Dur-A-Flex. "Together, we will share our superior product line with yet another part of the world, increasing our reach to the West African market," he concludes.
Dur-A-Flex has a strong international presence, having partnered with companies in six continents, and continues expanding by targeting partners that complement its own strengths and working closely with them to ensure a wide range of flooring systems are available to meet their customers' unique needs.
Tapeema Nigeria Limited is a construction company located strategically in Aduwawa Benin City providing the best in building construction, flooring, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, mechanical, panel partitioning, piping, welding/ fabrication, estate construction and management and interior wall framing.
Tapeema will offer all of Dur-A-Flex's flooring systems including urethane, epoxy, methyl methacrylate and colored aggregates to a variety of industries. ReFLEXions, the newest in Dur-A-Flex's lineup of decorative flooring systems and Poly-Crete® Color-Fast topcoat, part of the cementitious urethane flooring systems, top the list of products continuing their debut within the West African market. To learn more, please visit www.tapeemanigeria.com
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Recently, Song Joong Ki has become a topic of discussion within online communities for the extreme fervor he has been greeted with by foreign reporters.
On April 22, wearing a sophisticated red suit, Song Joong Ki attended the launch of the Dior Homme Winter 2016/2017 collection in Hong Kong. As soon as he enters, the actor is swarmed by reporters who thrust microphones in his face. The reporters' desperation and passionate effort to get close for an interview is evident in the photos taken.
The image of Song Joong Ki's small face buried within the sea of microphones is a striking reflection of the current "Song Joong Ki mania" which is gripping Asia following his lead role in KBS's "Descendants of the Sun." Netizens expressed their concern for the star with comments such as, "The reporters are really overcrowding him. Song Joong Ki looks tired."
After visiting fans in Bangkok, Thailand on May 7, Song Joong Ki will be heading to Beijing for his first fan meeting in China the following week.
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ABC's GOP presidential debate on Saturday overflowed with liberal questions. Of the 48 queries by George Stephanopoulos, Diane Sawyer and others, 20 came from the left, three were from the right and 25 were neutral or horse race questions. A whopping 25 percent (12 questions) revolved around contraception-related subjects or gay rights.
Although birth control isn't exactly a pressing 2012 issue (especially in a tough economy), George Stephanopoulos wasted seven questions on contraception. The former Democratic operative began by noting Rick Santorum's belief that there is no constitutional "right to privacy." He added, "And following from that, he believes that states have the right to ban contraception." The co-moderator repeated, "Governor Romney, do you believe that states have the right to ban contraception?
Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann sparred on the issue of abortion in Thursday night's Republican debate with Bachmann making an accusation that Gingrich did not fully support pro-life efforts in Congress.
"All right. Congresswoman Bachmann, you say that Speaker Gingrich has a, quote, "inconsistent record on life" and you singled out comments he made recently that life begins with the implantation of a fertilized egg, not at conception. What is your concern?" a Fox News panelist asked her.
Bachmann responded, "Well, my concern is the fact that the Republican Party can't get the issue of life wrong. This is a basic part of our party. Just last night we gathered in Des Moines to talk about this issue, because it's that crucial to our party. And one of the concerns that I had is that when Speaker Gingrich was Speaker of the House he had an opportunity to de-fund Planned Parenthood. And he chose not to take it.
Donald Trump's stature within Republican ranks appears to be waning, after most of the party's presidential hopefuls have shot down the billionaire developer's invitation to take part in a "debate" moderated by "The Donald."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, became the latest to announce they will take a pass on the Dec. 27 Newsmax-sponsored debate, following in the footsteps of Texas Rep. Ron Paul, of Texas, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, meanwhile, have said they plan to attend the event.
The announcements from the Perry and Bachmann camps coincide with a Rasmussen Reports poll released this week that found voters aren't overly enthralled with the idea of having Mr.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich threw down the gauntlet to conservative Republicans at Tuesday night's presidential debate, challenging his rivals to upend his argument against mass deportations of illegal immigrants while also taking a huge risk with the law-and-order GOP base.
The Republican presidential hopeful, who has sprung to the top of the polling charts in the past two weeks, warned against a policy that proposes deporting illegals who have been in the country for 25 years.
NEW YORK – Texas Gov. Rick Perry, after offering up late-night fodder with his forgetful moment at this week's Republican presidential debate, opted to get in on the joke with an appearance on David Letterman's show Thursday night.
Capping a day of interviews in which he tried to laugh off the embarrassing moment, Perry gave the TV audience his own list of "Top 10 Rick Perry Excuses" for being unable to remember which three federal agencies he would eliminate.
In a separate interview on Fox News Thursday night, Perry explained that the campaign decided to have a "little bit of fun with it." His campaign website invited people to comment on which agency they'd like to forget -- Perry said the site got over 2,000 hits Thursday.
On Letterman, Perry chalked his brain freeze up to everything from Mitt Romney's good looks to a deficiency of energy drinks...
ROCHESTER, Mich. – If it's too big to fail, it's too big, several Republican presidential candidates said Wednesday, arguing in the latest 2012 debate that housing and tax reforms, as well as an end to government bailouts, are critical to stopping the U.S. economy's slide into mediocrity.
In what was largely a friendly debate -- with most of the candidates' ire directed toward the current administration rather than each other -- the most unforgettable moment of the night came when Texas Gov. Rick Perry stumbled in a moment of forgetfulness. Perry's brain freeze came when he couldn't remember the three agencies that he would pledge to get rid of as president.
"Sorry. Oops," he said, after recalling only the departments of Commerce and Education. He later said he also wanted to abolish the Energy Department.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pressed his attack Friday on conservative concerns over presidential rival Rick Perry's support of favorable tuition rates for some children of illegal immigrants, hitting the three-term Texas governor's claim that critics of the law are simply heartless.
"I think if you are opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart," the former Massachusetts told a gathering here for a Conservative Political Action Conference. "It means that you have a heart and a brain."
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A moderator asked Texas Gov. Rick Perry to explain how he would change Social Security -- and whether the plan could work if it was run by 50 states instead of the federal government. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has claimed that's what Perry wants to do.
Perry snapped back at Romney: "Now, it's not the first time that Mitt has been wrong on some issues."
Romney insisted again that Perry, in his book, "Fed Up!", says Social Security is unconstitutional and should be returned to the states. "So you better find that Rick Perry and get him to stop saying that," Romney said.
Perry had criticism of Romney's book, "No Apology," ready.
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Following the second Republican presidential debate in which pro-life Texas Gov. Rick Perry appeared, he has seen his lead against pro-abortion President Barack Obama evaporate while rival Mitt Romney now runs ahead of the president.
"Before he entered his first debate as a presidential candidate, Texas Governor Rick Perry was the Republican frontrunner and held a modest lead in a hypothetical matchup against President Obama. Perry was the target for all the other candidates in the two most recent GOP debates, however, and he now trails the president by single digits," says pollster Scott Rasmussen about his new national poll.
The Rasmussen national telephone survey of likely voters shows Obama picking up 46% of the vote, while Perry earns support from 39%. Fifteen percent (15%) are either undecided or prefer another candidate.
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Bounty on Broad Farm-To-Table Restaurant Is Now Open
Bounty is the latest addition to the Broad Avenue Arts District, a casual fine dining restaurant with a focus on fresh, farm-to-table dishes for dinner and Sunday brunch. I went with a friend on opening day and the experience was so positive I decided to go ahead and write about it.
Bounty is at the corner of Broad and Merton in the Broad Avenue Arts District, in the restored Hanover Building (which used to be a pharmacy back in the day).
Downstairs, you can sit at tables or at a small counter right next to the kitchen. Upstairs, you can choose from the bar or tables. There's also a small private room. The atmosphere has that refurbished-but-still-authentic feel, complete with exposed bricks and lots of wood. It feels like a place you'd go on a nice date.
Bounty's chef, Jackson Kramer, has put together a menu with three sections: vegetables, fish, and meats. My friend and I planned to share everything, so we ordered the forest mushroom salad and the pommes frites aka french fries (both $9) to start.
I'm not a mushroom person, but my friend gave full approval of the salad. I'm a fan of Bounty's fries, and an even bigger fan of the way that the goat cheese turned into a soft gooey cheese blanket for the fries. There should be more goat cheese fry blankets in the world.
Next we chose the stuffed mountain trout ($22) and the beef bavette ($17). I had no idea what a bavette was, but the menu said "blue cheese butter" so we were pretty much going to order it no matter what.
The bavette refers the cut of meat, similar to the flank steak, and this particular bavette had spent some time in a marinade straight from heaven. It won't be like a velvety tender filet mignon, but this one (we ordered it cooked medium) had a rich, satisfying flavor, and I'll order it again. If you're a meat lover, you should order this dish.
The beef bavette. The picture doesn't do it justice.
The stuffed trout, too, was tasty. It was perfectly cooked, and the stuffing and carrots gave the whole dish a slighty sweet flavor. The carrots were dark in color, which made me wonder if there is such a thing as heirloom carrots. I'd recommend it, but curiosity will probably push me to order the salmon or seared tuna next time.
Despite being totally stuffed, we ordered dessert. We had the tapioca-pineapple pudding and the banana bread with ice cream because life is too short to share one dessert.
Maybe I'm weird, but the idea of banana bread as dessert is just…wrong. Banana bread is for breakfast. But we ordered it anyways and it was delicious, almost decadent, and perfectly dessert enough especially with the ice cream and cherry garnish. I really can't decide which was better, that or the tapioca, though, because the latter was sweet and creamy and just an all around nice thing to eat.
The craziest thing about Bounty, and especially that banana bread, is something I'm purposefully sticking here at the bottom of this post: everything is totally gluten-free. Even though I had heard for months that this was the case, I kind of forgot about that while eating. I just didn't miss the gluten, and with the exception of that fabulous banana bread, there wasn't a coconut-flour-rice-dust brick-textured bun substitute in sight. The only gluten they'll have in the place is in the beer.
I need to point out, too, that we had a ton of questions for our server, and he didn't miss a beat. He hit that perfect note of being full of information without seeming to be a know-it-all. While this can't be an every week place for most people (due to price), service like that makes it really worth while on occasion. Maybe that guy is just a prodigy, but if the servers are that well-trained and experienced on the first day, that bodes well for Bounty.
Bounty is open for dinner on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays from 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Bounty serves a brunch menu from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays.
As of October 14, 2014 they serve beer, but are BYOB (no corkage fee) for other alcohol until they get their liquor license. As for the market/butcher shop part of Bounty, that is still several months away.
The downstairs is ADA accessible, everything in the restaurant is gluten free (except for the beer they serve) and there are plenty of options for vegetarians. Bounty's Facebook page invites folks to wear jeans and bring the kids, though I'd check the menu to be sure there's something for your little one before you go. Important: Bounty is credit card only.
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They don't accept cash!? I'm sorry, how do you not accept cash?
Karen, I'm not sure. You'll need to reach out to Bounty. They seem to be pretty active on their Facebook page.
Holly – The links to your pictures are broken. Can't see 'em…
Deby, Thanks for your comment; we are working on it.
Not often do you see a restaurant have great food and service starting at the very beginning. That's a good sign!
Went to Bounty during their "soft opening". Very good meal and service. There were no hitches, rare for a new restaurant. Four of us enjoyed several dishes and the wines we brought. Agree with you on the forest mushroom salad (would like more mushrooms). Babette is flap meat from the bottom sirloin portion of the beef animal. Very beefy flavor. They do a very good job with this underutilized cut. Looking forward to next meal there.
Karen – The no cash thing (also Wiseacre) is becoming more and more popular. It Keeps employees honest and its less likely for the place or patrons to get held up if there is no cash on the premises.
I wish entire districts (like Overton Square) would adopt this model
I'm fine with the lack of cash, but the lack of gluten bothers me…
Erik, It may not be for everyone, especially if gluten-containing foods are an important part of dining for you! But I'm being honest when I say that I didn't even notice or think about that when I was eating there. It was a great meal, not remotely "health food" or any of the other misconceptions about gluten-free food.
We went tonight with some friends. It is possibly the best new place in Memphis. Everything we had was delicious. The farm to table concept is great but the quality in their food is outstanding. Not to mention that everything is gluten free. It is our new favorite place in midtown.
I went for the soft opening as well and every aspect of our experience was outstanding – from the food to the ambience and service! I have been dreaming about the fried oysters and will be going back this week for more!!
Well, at first I was upset that someone had beat me to the draw by 3 weeks on the Gluten Free Idea….but then I saw the SMALL Plates and the prices and recognize we are not in anyway competitors. Our Magnolia (GlutenFreeByhalia on Facebook) Restaurant in downtown Byhalia offers FULL lunch and dinners Tuesday thru Saturday and lunch on Sunday with a dedicated gluten free kitchen. and you can get a meal for under $10 counting your drink. we open Saturday November 1st
We have a family member who goes into anaphylactic shock if he has any gluten, so we are thrilled that this reataurant has opened. We look forward to feeling safe while eating beyond our own kitchen.


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Ana Ivanovic is currently training in Mallorca and her boyfriend Fernando Verdasco is apparently also there. The hottest tennis couple was spotted at the Palma Racket in Mallorca and here are plenty of photos.
Ana looks blissful. Don't you agree?
The women's tennis star recently bought a house in Mallorca and we supposed she was not going to enjoy the luxury of the villa by herself. And when she said: "I am now training hard on the court too. I have a hitting partner here with me," we immediately thought Fernando was somewhere around. And our feeling was right!
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It's like a drive-through for retail stores.
At least that's the vision of Jaron Waldman and Denis Laprise, the co-founders of Curbside. "We both dreamt of being able to find and buy the products we needed from local stores from smartphones and having them available instantly for local pickup without finding items on shelves or waiting in checkout lines," Waldman, who is also Curbside's CEO, told Opportunity Lives.
Curbside could be the future of shopping. The company works with local retailers to set up a tent outside the storefront. After placing an order at the retailer from the Curbside mobile app, a customer needs only to stop by the Curbside tent on the same day. A Curbside employee will place the items right in the car, and the customer can go on their way in just a few seconds. (There is a demo available in a promotional video.)
The best part? There's no markup for customers. Curbside generates revenue by charging retailers a customer acquisition fee. The idea is that offering the Curbside same-day pickup option will help retailers outcompete their rivals.
Consumers benefit by paying the same price for something they would pay in the store – but without the hassle of looking for parking, walking through the aisles, or waiting in a checkout line. Credit cards are charged automatically by the app, and an order is typically ready for pickup in 30 minutes to an hour!
Though Curbside is currently only offered in the San Francisco area (primarily with a test of Target stores), the company could expand soon depending on how popular it becomes. "We've seen strong interest from a number of national and local retailers – we anticipate many retailers will be interested in working with Curbside as we continue to grow and expand," said Waldman.
One of the challenges for Curbside is working with the inventory systems of the retailers to ensure accurate items are listed on the app. That's where the co-founders' technology experience comes in handy. "Being able to keep tabs on what's available inside the store at major retailers like Target is a big challenge, as was finding a way to ensure we give retailers a reliable heads up that a customer is on approach without draining the customer's battery," said Waldman. The company is handling hundreds of orders daily and seeing good signs as far as customer retention.
But another challenge will be competing with the retailers themselves. Several grocery stores are testing their own versions of curbside pickup (though not necessarily with a mobile app and sometimes with a pickup fee).
Curbside is clearly changing the way we think about shopping, and it will be exciting to watch what comes next.
Waldman's advice to other entrepreneurs is to be selective about who you choose to work with at the beginning of your business – investors, customers, partners, and employees. "These early decisions will have a huge impact on the direction of your business," he said.


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Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 | 10 a.m.
When it comes to Valentine's Day, there are a few dividing camps many of us fall into.
The purists—who go above and beyond to fill every available space with flowers, chocolate and heart-shaped doilies. The critics—who roll their eyes and scoff at any mainstream display of affection marketed to feed the Hallmark machine. And the hopefuls—who fall somewhere between the other two.
Alas, as with all matters of the heart, Valentine's Day can be fraught.
Regardless of your outlook come February 14, there's no other day of the year shamelessly dedicated to ooey-gooey expressions of love, and that alone is worth celebrating. Take the opportunity to lean into the Valentine's Day classics and spoil your loved one senseless.
The perfect dinner date
Go out for a luxurious prix fixe meal at your significant other's favorite restaurant or stay in for a candlelit dinner at home? This choice can be tough and will probably depend on your budget and schedule (don't forget: Valentine's Day falls on a Wednesday this year).
If you've yet to secure a reservation, consider splitting the difference and hire a personal chef for the evening. It's decadent and unexpected, and it offers the best of both worlds: quality cuisine within the comfort of your own home. It also allows you to work with the chef to fine-tune the menu and ensure all your preferred dishes are accounted for.
For a traditional option, a French tasting menu complete with foie gras, coq au vin, crème brûlée and plenty of red wine is always a win. Or go rogue and put together a mismatch of everything you and your partner like. Buffalo wings and pad thai, followed by a big banana split? Find a chef who can make it happen and enjoy!
After all, this dinner should be about you and the person you love.
The staycation of all staycations
As Las Vegans, we're fortunate to live in a city with some of the most extravagant and opulent resorts in the world. However, many of us don't take advantage of this as often as we could. Enter the couple's staycation.
Book a night at your favorite hotel, and leave the kids, pets and computer screens behind. Getting out of your normal environment for the evening can help couples recharge and reconnect—paving the way for a truly exceptional Valentine's Day.
Order room service, put out the do-not-disturb sign and bask in uninterrupted private time with the object of your affection.
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Pro tip: Keep an eye out for all-inclusive Valentine's packages and promotions. There are many discounted date-activities and giveaways that may allow you to live it up with your lover.
A couple's massage
If you or your partner find yourselves stressing about the perfect Valentine's Day plans, schedule a relaxing couple's massage and leave your tensions at the spa. It's good for the mind, body and soul, and the opportunity to unwind with your partner can do wonders for your date night afterward.
Imbibe with the good stuff
Valentine's Day is a great excuse to indulge in the finest wines and spirits.
Champagne is a lavish and celebratory option, so dig up that special bottle stashed away or stop at an upscale wine store. There's nothing quite like a glass of bubbly to set the romantic vibe. There also are tons of great Champagne cocktail recipes you can use to dress up a budget-friendly bottle—extra points for including edible rose petals.
If Champagne isn't up your alley, pamper your partner with a flight of top-shelf liquors. Once you find a favorite, buy a bottle to take home and save it for your next romantic occasion.
Don't forget...
Gifts, chocolate and a bouquet of red roses are all synonymous with Valentine's Day festivities. Cheesy, sure, but that's part of the fun. Grab pink cardstock, craft the perfect love note and keep the chocolate-dipped strawberries on standby.


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On the tenth of Christmas, God's true Love gave to me…
…the excitement of discovery.
John sees Jesus of Nazareth coming toward him and names him immediately: "Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" He goes on to describe who Jesus is, how this newcomer's way of baptizing (with the Holy Spirit and with fire) will be different than John's method by water, and how he, John, ranks far below Jesus. John would not have known Jesus, except that when he saw the heavens open, the Spirit identified Jesus to John, who testifies that he is the Son of God, the Chosen One. And now, here he is – here he comes!
"Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" Or, if you prefer: "LOOK! Here comes the Messiah! The one we've all been waiting for!" (Note: there are no exclamation marks in the Greek New Testament.) In the fourth gospel, John (not the same one as the gospel is named for) is less "the Baptizer" than he is "the Testifier". His testimonies will lead others to Jesus. And I like to think that John, and these others, were as excited to see and begin to know Jesus as I imagine them to be from the punctuation in my modern NRSV. And I trust we are, too – because there's always more to know.


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Dr. Do Nam Thang is Deputy Director General of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. He is also Operational Focal Point of Global Environment Facility (GEF) Vietnam. He is in charge of ASEAN and multilateral cooperation, including those in climate change and environmentally sustainable cities. He has led national research projects, including Assessing environmental co-benefits of climate change mitigation policy, Reviewing economic instruments in Law on Environmental Protection for its revision, Eco-health approach application in Vietnam, Environmental market-based instruments in environmental management, Air pollution damage valuation, and National park valuation.
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In this article I'm going to show you how to setup continuous delivery environment for building Docker images of our Java applications on the local machine. Our environment will consists of Gitlab (optional, otherwise you can use hosted GitHub), Jenkins master, Jenkins JNLP slave with Docker, and private Docker registry. All those tools will be run locally using their Docker images. Thanks to that you will be able to easily test it on your laptop, and then configure the same environment on production deployed on multiple servers or VMs. Let's take a look on the architecture of the proposed solution.
1. Running Jenkins Master
We use the latest Jenkins LTS image. Jenkins Web Dashboard is exposed on port 38080. Slave agents may connect master on default 50000 JNLP (Java Web Start) port.
$ docker run -d --name jenkins -p 38080:8080 -p 50000:50000 jenkins/jenkins:lts
After starting, you have to execute command
docker logs jenkins in order to obtain an initial admin password. Find the following fragment in the logs, copy your generated password and paste in Jenkins start page available at http://192.168.99.100:38080.
We have to install some Jenkins plugins to be able to checkout project from Git repository, build application from source code using Maven, and finally build and push Docker image to a private registry. Here's a list of required plugins:
- Git Plugin – this plugin allows to use Git as a build SCM
- Maven Integration Plugin – this plugin provides advanced integration for Maven 2/3
- Pipeline Plugin – this is a suite of plugins that allows you to create continuous delivery pipelines as a code, and run them in Jenkins
- Docker Pipeline Plugin – this plugin allows you to build and use Docker containers from pipelines
2. Building Jenkins Slave
Pipelines are usually run on different machine than machine with master node. Moreover, we need to have Docker engine installed on that slave machine to be able to build Docker images. Although, there are some ready Docker images with Docker-in-Docker and Jenkins client agent, I have never find the image with JDK, Maven, Git and Docker installed. This is most commonly used tools when building images for your microservices, so it is definitely worth to have such an image with Jenkins image prepared.
Here's the Dockerfile with Jenkins Docker-in-Docker slave with Git, Maven and OpenJDK installed. I used Docker-in-Docker as a base image (1). We can override some properties when running our container. You will probably have to override default Jenkins master address (2) and slave secret key (3). The rest of parameters is optional, but you can even decide to use external Docker daemon by overriding
DOCKER_HOST environment variable. We also download and install Maven (4) and create user with special sudo rights for running Docker (5). Finally we run
entrypoint.sh script, which starts Docker daemon and Jenkins agent (6).
FROM docker:18-dind # (1) MAINTAINER Piotr Minkowski ENV JENKINS_MASTER http://localhost:8080 # (2) ENV JENKINS_SLAVE_NAME dind-node ENV JENKINS_SLAVE_SECRET "" # (3) ENV JENKINS_HOME /home/jenkins ENV JENKINS_REMOTING_VERSION 3.17 ENV DOCKER_HOST tcp://0.0.0.0:2375 RUN apk --update add curl tar git bash openjdk8 sudo ARG MAVEN_VERSION=3.5.2 # (4) ARG USER_HOME_DIR="/root" ARG SHA=707b1f6e390a65bde4af4cdaf2a24d45fc19a6ded00fff02e91626e3e42ceaff ARG BASE_URL=https://apache.osuosl.org/maven/maven-3/${MAVEN_VERSION}/binaries RUN mkdir -p /usr/share/maven /usr/share/maven/ref \ && curl -fsSL -o /tmp/apache-maven.tar.gz ${BASE_URL}/apache-maven-${MAVEN_VERSION}-bin.tar.gz \ && echo "${SHA} /tmp/apache-maven.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - \ && tar -xzf /tmp/apache-maven.tar.gz -C /usr/share/maven --strip-components=1 \ && rm -f /tmp/apache-maven.tar.gz \ && ln -s /usr/share/maven/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn ENV MAVEN_HOME /usr/share/maven ENV MAVEN_CONFIG "$USER_HOME_DIR/.m2" # (5) RUN adduser -D -h $JENKINS_HOME -s /bin/sh jenkins jenkins && chmod a+rwx $JENKINS_HOME RUN echo "jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/dockerd" > /etc/sudoers.d/00jenkins && chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/00jenkins RUN echo "jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/docker" > /etc/sudoers.d/01jenkins && chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/01jenkins RUN curl --create-dirs -sSLo /usr/share/jenkins/slave.jar http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/org/jenkins-ci/main/remoting/$JENKINS_REMOTING_VERSION/remoting-$JENKINS_REMOTING_VERSION.jar && chmod 755 /usr/share/jenkins && chmod 644 /usr/share/jenkins/slave.jar COPY entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/entrypoint VOLUME $JENKINS_HOME WORKDIR $JENKINS_HOME USER jenkins ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/entrypoint"] # (6)
Here's the script
#!/bin/sh set -e echo "starting dockerd..." sudo dockerd --host=unix:///var/run/docker.sock --host=$DOCKER_HOST --storage-driver=vfs & echo "starting jnlp slave..." exec java -jar /usr/share/jenkins/slave.jar \ -jnlpUrl $JENKINS_URL/computer/$JENKINS_SLAVE_NAME/slave-agent.jnlp \ -secret $JENKINS_SLAVE_SECRET
The source code with image definition is available on GitHub. You can clone the repository https://github.com/piomin/jenkins-slave-dind-jnlp.git, build image and then start container using the following commands.
$ docker build -t piomin/jenkins-slave-dind-jnlp . $ docker run --privileged -d --name slave -e JENKINS_SLAVE_SECRET=5664fe146104b89a1d2c78920fd9c5eebac3bd7344432e0668e366e2d3432d3e -e JENKINS_SLAVE_NAME=dind-node-1 -e JENKINS_URL=http://192.168.99.100:38080 piomin/jenkins-slave-dind-jnlp
Building it is just an optional step, because image is already available on my Docker Hub account.
3. Enabling Docker-in-Docker Slave
To add new slave node you need to navigate to section Manage Jenkins -> Manage Nodes -> New Node. Then define permanent node with name parameter filled. The most suitable name is default name declared inside Docker image definition – dind-node. You also have to set remote root directory, which should be equal to path defined inside container for
JENKINS_HOME environment variable. In my case it is
/home/jenkins. The slave node should be launched via Java Web Start (JNLP).
New node is visible on the list of nodes as disabled. You should click in order to obtain its secret key.
Finally, you may run your slave container using the following command containing secret copied from node's panel in Jenkins Web Dashboard.
$ docker run --privileged -d --name slave -e JENKINS_SLAVE_SECRET=fd14247b44bb9e03e11b7541e34a177bdcfd7b10783fa451d2169c90eb46693d -e JENKINS_URL=http://192.168.99.100:38080 piomin/jenkins-slave-dind-jnlp
If everything went according to plan you should see enabled node
dind-node in the node's list.
4. Setting up Docker Private Registry
After deploying Jenkins master and slave, there is the last required element in architecture that has to be launched – private Docker registry. Because we will access it remotely (from Docker-in-Docker container) we have to configure secure TLS/SSL connection. To achieve it we should first generate TLS certificate and key. We can use openssl tool for it. We begin from generating a private key.
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out registry.key 1024
Then, we should generate a certificate request file (CSR) by executing the following command.
$ openssl req -new -key registry.key -out registry.csr
Finally, we can generate a self-signed SSL certificate that is valid for 1 year using openssl command as shown below.
$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in registry.csr -signkey registry.key -out registry.crt
Don't forget to remove passphrase from your private key.
$ openssl rsa -in registry.key -out registry-nopass.key -passin pass:123456
You should copy generated
.key and
.crt files to your docker machine. After that you may run Docker registry using the following command.
docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --restart=always --name registry -v /home/docker:/certs -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_CERTIFICATE=/certs/registry.crt -e REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_KEY=/certs/registry-nopass.key registry:2
If a registry has been successfully started you should able to access it over HTTPS by calling address https://192.168.99.100:5000/v2/_catalog from your web browser.
5. Creating application Dockerfile
The sample applications source code is available on GitHub in repository sample-spring-microservices-new (https://github.com/piomin/sample-spring-microservices-new.git). There are some modules with microservices. Each of them has Dockerfile created in the root directory. Here's typical Dockerfile for our microservice built on top of Spring Boot.
FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine ENV APP_FILE employee-service-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar ENV APP_HOME /app EXPOSE 8090 COPY target/$APP_FILE $APP_HOME/ WORKDIR $VERTICLE_HOME ENTRYPOINT ["sh", "-c"] CMD ["exec java -jar $APP_FILE"]
6. Building pipeline through Jenkinsfile
This step is the most important phase of our exercise. We will prepare pipeline definition, which combines together all the currently discussed tools and solutions. This pipeline definition is a part of every sample application source code. The change in Jenkinsfile is treated the same as a change in the source code responsible for implementing business logic.
Every pipeline is divided into stages. Every stage defines a subset of tasks performed through the entire pipeline. We can select the node, which is responsible for executing pipeline's steps or leave it empty to allow random selection of the node. Because we have already prepared dedicated node with Docker, we force pipeline to being built by that node. In the first stage called Checkout we pull the source code from Git repository (1). Then we build an application binary using Maven command (2). Once the fat JAR file has been prepared we may proceed to building application's Docker image (3). We use methods provided by Docker Pipeline Plugin. Finally, we push the Docker image with fat JAR file to secure private Docker registry (4). Such an image may be accessed by any machine that has Docker installed and has access to our Docker registry. Here's the full code of Jenkinsfile prepared for module
node('dind-node') { stage('Checkout') { # (1) git url: 'https://github.com/piomin/sample-spring-microservices-new.git', credentialsId: 'piomin-github', branch: 'master' } stage('Build') { # (2) dir('config-service') { sh 'mvn clean install' def pom = readMavenPom file:'pom.xml' print pom.version env.version = pom.version currentBuild.description = "Release: ${env.version}" } } stage('Image') { dir ('config-service') { docker.withRegistry('https://192.168.99.100:5000') { def app = docker.build "piomin/config-service:${env.version}" # (3) app.push() # (4) } } } }
7. Creating Pipeline in Jenkins Web Dashboard
After preparing application's source code, Dockerfile and Jenkinsfile the only thing left is to create pipeline using Jenkins UI. We need to select New Item -> Pipeline and type the name of our first Jenkins pipeline. Then go to Configure panel and select Pipeline script from SCM in Pipeline section. Inside the following form we should fill an address of Git repository, user credentials and a location of Jenkinsfile.
8. Configure GitLab WebHook (Optionally)
If you run GitLab locally using its Docker image you will be able to configure webhook, which triggers run of your pipeline after pushing changes to Git repository. To run GitLab using Docker execute the following command.
$ docker run -d --name gitlab -p 10443:443 -p 10080:80 -p 10022:22 gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
Before configuring webhook in GitLab Dashboard we need to enable this feature for Jenkins pipeline. To achieve it we should first install GitLab Plugin.
Then, you should come back to the pipeline's configuration panel and enable GitLab build trigger. After that, webhook will be available for our sample pipeline called config-service-pipeline under URL http://192.168.99.100:38080/project/config-service-pipeline as shown in the following picture.
Before proceeding to configuration of webhook in GitLab Dashboard you should retrieve your Jenkins user API token. To achieve it go to profile panel, select Configure and click button Show API Token.
To add a new WebHook for your Git repository, you need to go to the section Settings -> Integrations and then fill the URL field with webhook address copied from Jenkins pipeline. Then paste Jenkins user API token into field Secret Token. Leave the Push events checkbox selected.
9. Running pipeline
Now, we may finally run our pipeline. If you use GitLab Docker container as Git repository platform you just have to push changes in the source code. Otherwise you have to manually start build of pipeline. The first build will take a few minutes, because Maven has to download dependencies required for building an application. If everything will end with success you should see the following result on your pipeline dashboard.
You can check out the list of images stored in your private Docker registry by calling the following HTTP API endpoint in your web browser: https://192.168.99.100:5000/v2/_catalog.


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Chicken-Potpie Pasta
|Cook time
|30 minutes
|Meal type
|Main Dish
|Child Friendly, Freezable
|Martha Stewart
- salt and pepper
- 3/4lb penne or other short tubular pasta
- 1/3lb green beans, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 Small yellow onion (minced)
- 1 stalk celery (thinly sliced)
- 2 carrots (diced medium)
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups cooked chicken (diced)
|Step 1
|In large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta 3 minutes less than package instructions. Add green beans and cook 3 minutes, then drain.
|Step 2
|Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, melt butter over medium-high. Add onion, celery, and carrots and cook until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. Add flour and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Gradually add broth, stirring constantly, then bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in chicken and season with salt and pepper.
|Step 3
|Stir pasta into chicken mixture.


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The effect of birth date on gestation length in Holstein cows and heifers
This article is on an interesting subject which is worthy of investigation. In herd health management, knowing when to expect a calving is very important. So far, the influence of the month of calving on gestation length was studied only in hot summer months and colder fall months. It was found that cows that calved in August had a shorter gestation than cows that calved in October. It was suggested that a shorter gestation in cattle that calved in summer may be associated with hot ambient temperatures. In other words, it was hypothesized that a hot ambient temperature may accelerate the onset of parturition. However, a more detailed time analysis in the present study showed that cows and heifers have a shorter gestation not only in the case of calving during hot summer months but also during the cooler spring months in the temperate zone. Therefore, some other explanation is needed. The length of the period in which calved cows and heifers had a shorter gestation was almost the same as in which conceived cows and heifers had a shorter gestation approximately 9 months earlier. This similarity indicates that a shorter gestation in dairy cows and heifers that calved from spring to summer may be associated with the conception date.
In the present study, cows and heifers that conceived in the first half of the year tended to have a longer gestation than those that conceived in other months of the year. Photoperiod is the most common environmental factor that affects long-term physiological processes, particularly reproduction. Although cattle are not strictly seasonal breeders such as sheep and horses, there is some support for the suggestion that decreasing photoperiod in the fall may influence gestation length. The effect of photoperiod is mediated by the nocturnal secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland in such a way that melatonin concentrations are high at night and low during the day in cattle. Studies in mice, sheep and cattle have shown that melatonin supports the development of the conceptus. Melatonin receptors have been identified in bovine embryos and the beneficial effects of melatonin on bovine conceptus development are mediated by the melatonin receptor 1. However, decreasing photoperiod in the fall may affect gestation length not only through the direct effect of melatonin on conceptus development, but also through its potential role in the regulation of progesterone production by ovaries. Moreover, it was found that melatonin stimulates progesterone production by bovine granulosa cells in vitro, at concentrations similar to those present during the endogenous nocturnal rise. Furthermore, it was observed that plasma progesterone concentrations in Holstein cows increase and reach higher luteal values in August and November (decreasing daylight) than in April and June (increasing daylight). Several studies showed that elevated concentrations of circulating progesterone shortly after conception are associated with increased conceptus growth in dairy and beef cattle. Moreover, the effect of progesterone on blastocyst development was blocked by administration of RU486, a progesterone receptor antagonist.
In many wild species of bovidae in their natural habitat, the peak of the calving season is in the spring and summer when the climate and food supplies are favorable for the survival and growth of offspring. In the course of domestication, cattle have been selected to be able to conceive and calve during the whole year. Thus, in modern dairy cattle, calving also occurs in the season that was not so suitable for offspring survival in their wild ancestors. Our results showed that the time period with a shorter gestation in calved cows and heifers corresponds to the calving season in wild species of bovidae. Conversely, the time period with a longer gestation in calved cows and heifers corresponds with the season that was not so hospitable for offspring survival of their wild ancestors. A possible explanation might be that a longer gestation in cows and heifers calved in the winter is a tendency to restore the calving season of cows and heifers to that which is favorable for survival of their offspring.
In conclusion, Holstein cows and heifers calved in the spring and summer had a shorter gestation than those calved in other months of the year. The length of the period in which they had a shorter gestation was nearly the same as in which conceived cows and heifers had a shorter gestation approximately 9 months earlier. Thus, gestation length in calved cows and heifers may be affected by the conception date. Moreover, the period in which conceived cows and heifers had a shorter gestation coincided with the decreasing daylight whereas the period in which they had a longer gestation corresponded with the increasing daylight. This indicates that gestation length in Holstein cattle may be affected by daylight changes during the year in the temperate zone. Further research will be necessary to fully understand environmental effects on gestation length in dairy cattle.
Tomasek R., Rezac P., Havlicek Z.
Mendel University, Czech Republic
Environmental and animal factors associated with gestation length in Holstein cows and heifers in two herds in the Czech Republic.
Tomasek R, Rezac P, Havlicek Z
Theriogenology. 2017 Jan 1
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As their first exhibition in the new year, Galerie Mathgoth will be presenting a group exhibition titled The Grape Format where 19 artists will be exploring the art of paper. The title of the show takes us back a few centuries into the French history. In France in the Middle Ages, all papers of certified origin had a watermark. The each format of the paper had their own symbol: a bell, a crown, the great eagle or Jesus. The 50 x 56 cm format was marked by a bunch of grapes. There were also several kinds of grape formats such as the half-grape or a double-grape. It corresponded to the format of a 15P frame. For this exhibition, each artist was invited to create a work on paper sized 50 x 56 cm. The show will feature works by Hera, Mademoiselle Maurice, Addison Karl, AkaCorleone, Akut, Alëxone Dizac, Anthony Lister, Aurel Rubbish, C215, Case Maclaim, Jean Faucheur, Fintan Magee, Herakut, Jef Aérosol, SHOK-1, Stew, Twoone, Yash, and Gérard Zlotykamien.
While Mademoiselle Maurice is best known for her colorful origami reminiscent of nature and man's connection with it, Addison Karl combines art and existing environment to create symmetry, harmony, balance and bring a colorless wall to life. While AkaCorleonei blends colors, typography, characters and forms to achieve eye-catching compositions imbued with originality and humor, Alëxone Dizac combines paint drips, ghost tags, flames, one-line geometrical patterns, funny punchlines and surrealistic bestiary. Hailing from Australia, Anthony Lister has gained critical acclaim for his outstanding pop-surrealist graffiti, paintings, and installations that embody a fusion of highbrow and lowbrow culture. On the other hand, Aurel Rubbish, a pioneer of paper cuts in France, creates beautiful, finely chiseled compositions, adorned with floral elements, evoking numerous influences of historical decorative movements. While C215 is one of the most famous stencil artists in the world, Case Maclaim is known for his incredibly life-like graffiti based on the representation of body shapes and photo-realistic portraits adorning buildings all across Europe.
While Jean Faucheur cuts out, weaves, and rearranges his images to create unique pieces of art, Fintan Magee often uses personal experiences in order to describe global world issues in his socially and environmentally engaged works. Herakut is an artistic duo consisted of Hera and Akut, and they will be participating in the exhibition both as a duo and as individual artists. One of the most famous artists in the contemporary world, Jef Aérosol is a master of stencil art that adorns buildings all around the world. While SHOK-1 spraypaints unique X-ray art on walls around the world in order to diagnose life in the 21st century, STeW is best known for his Japan-inspired artworks. Twoone is best known for his portrayals of animal-headed and human-bodied creatures, while Yash has developed a unique style characterized by light, color, and emotion, as well as a love for shapes and simplicity. Lastly, Gérard Zlotykamien is one of the initiators of Urban Art in France after being introduced to the spray technique by Yves Klein.
Being passionate collectors of Urban Art for over twenty years, Mathilde and Gautier Jourdain have founded Galerie Mathgoth in Paris in 2010. With an impressive selection of international artists, they create exceptional events in an urban and atypical setting. The exhibition The Grape Format will be on view at the gallery from January 20th until February 11th, 2017. The opening reception will be organized on January 20th at 6pm.
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