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|National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report
|Occurred : 11/3/2000 22:35 (Entered as : 11/03/00 22:35)
Reported: 11/4/2000 07:24
Posted: 12/2/2000
Location: Fortuna, CA
Shape: Oval
Duration: 30 minutes
|Bright orange oval object, located over Hwy. 101, Fortuna, California
Object located over Hwy. 101 near Main Street Exit, northbound traffic lanes. Object was oval in shape, bright orange with no other lights noted, no sound or noise heard. Object was stationary in the sky, estimated altitude 750 ft. Observed object for approximately 30 minutes, then I had to leave the area (was on my way to work in Eureka) This object has been seen before--first sighting January 17th, 1998, and has been observed by myself on 2 other occasions, with the last sighting February, 2000. On this occasion, the object was not seen to emit "sparkly" objects from the bottom of the 'craft'; however, this phenomena has been observed on 2 other occasions.
((NUFORC Note: Because of recent UFO reports from California, we requested additional information. Our request, and the subsequent response, are below:
Dear ((name deleted)),
Thank you very much for the report! I am interested to know who the other witnesses were. Would they like to submit reports, as well? Did they leave the scene at the same time you did?
Thank you very much for sharing the information with our Center!
Peter Davenport
Peter B. Davenport, Director
National UFO Reporting Center
PO Box 45623
University Station
Seattle, WA 98145
Hotline: 206-722-3000 (From 8AM to Midnight Pacific preferred)
I don't know who the other witnesses were. Traffic was light and some of the other cars were slowing to look...2 vehicles stopped. One was in the southbound lane, and
one was just behind me. This was a man and a woman (I
think), he asked me "What the hell is it?" Good
question. As I stated, I have seen this object before,
it appears to be the same thing each time with no color
variation except when it drops the sparkly-looking stuff
from the bottom. I can supply the names of witnesses to
the Jan, 17th 1998 (first) sighting which occured at
02:30; this sighting was the most dramatic and clear of
them all so far. Something weird is going on up here...
please: any ideas of what??????


text: In the Miso Soup By Ryu Murakami; translated by Ralph McCarthy KODANSHA; 180 Pages; $22.95 Ryu Murakami is the bad boy of Japanese letters. This may sound like a facetious honorific if your only impressions of Japan revolve around that insular nation's much-publicized economic efficiency, group cohesion and deference to authority. But there is a strange, specifically sexual dark side to Japanese culture, and in a career spanning several decades, Murakami has made this darkness his subject in a succession of graphically violent books and movies. (He bears no familial or stylistic relation to Haruki Murakami.) Consider the oddity of Japanese sexual culture. There is a bustling and quite open trade in used underwear worn by schoolgirls. Japanese animation studios turn out blockbusters featuring "tentacle rape" (it's just what you'd think it is), a subgenre that perhaps ought not to be as comfortably established as it is. There is also a recent and widespread practice called "compensated dating," a euphemism for high school and even junior high school girls trading sex for expensive gifts from adult businessmen. On the second page of his latest novel, "In the Miso Soup," Kenji, the 20- year-old narrator, who makes his living guiding tourists around the Tokyo Shinjuku red-light district, reads a news account of the dismembered corpse of one such schoolgirl found in a trash bin. On the same page he meets an overweight, unattractive American tourist named Frank who hires him for the next three nights. Frank disturbs Kenji from their first meeting. His skin "looked almost artificial, as if he'd been horribly burned and the doctors had resurfaced his face with this fairly realistic man-made material." He purports to be in Tokyo on business, importing Toyota radiators from Southeast Asia, but this is suspect. His suit is cheap, his hotel is tacky, and as the story continues, many more of the stories he tells about himself fail to hold together. Indeed, it is only minutes after meeting Frank that Kenji is struck by the fretful intuition that Frank may be the murderer of that ill-fated schoolgirl. The atmosphere of creepy tension and suppressed violence builds through a series of dismal vignettes that capture the compulsive and joyless character of the sex trade. "Most of the guys I know who've done the job a long time are sort of worn thin -- not physically run down, but like something's eroded away inside," he notes of the touts that urge men into the sex clubs. Frank, it turns out, is almost inhumanly strong and can hypnotize people. This helps when he finally decides to unleash all that coiled rage by murdering five people and sexually violating one of them. Here is how Frank puts it to Kenji, whom he has decided to spare: "You don't know how good it feels to have sex with a woman who's dying, or who's just died. It's the ultimate experience, Kenji! The brain's dead so they can't resist, but the p -- 's still alive." This would be an absorbing enough bit of page-turning horror-porn (and the book is indeed tightly plotted and elegantly written, full of interesting observations of Japanese society) in the post-Tarantino mold for those with an appetite for that kind of thing, if Murakami left it at this. But Murakami is not satisfied to be a purveyor of sleazy sensationalism and insists on posing as the writer of "relevance" that some of his admirers have made him out to be. And so, Kenji plunges into a lengthy rumination in the murder's aftermath, recycling inversions of bourgeois morality that might have been audacious when articulated by the likes of Celine or Genet half a century ago. To wit: Consumerism and materialism have reduced us all to soulless shells of human beings. Kenji has this to say of Frank's victims: "I'd begun to wonder if they weren't all filled with sawdust and scraps of vinyl, like stuffed animals, rather than flesh and blood." This comes uncomfortably close to suggesting that they deserved death for being annoying. Partially for this reason, and partially because it would mean a hassle by the police (Kenji's job is, after all, quasi-legal), the narrator decides against reporting Frank to the police. He listens with growing sympathy to Frank's reminiscences of his descent into madness, guides Frank to hear the chiming of the New Year's bells (which are supposed to release you from all your "bad instincts") and lets him disappear into the crowd. The suspicion that prostitutes are wiser and more truthful than the rest of us, that the lone sociopath is a hero of resistance and that the "sane" society is the true madhouse has a natural constituency among disaffected youth. They are also, by now, the tiresome cliches of "edgy" cinema. They may have something to them, but Murakami's cheaply aestheticized recapitulation of them fails to convince. When Frank hands Kenji a parting gift of a feather taken from a swan he murdered as a boy, one chortles bleakly and comes away feeling that the book's attempt to make a big statement is ultimately as nihilistic and empty as the world it decries.

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See every business relationship from both sides
(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you'll be a mile away and you'll have their shoes" - Jack Handey
I've always loved that quote from Saturday Night Live's fictional author of "Deep Thoughts" -- it's equal parts hilarious, and (unfortunately) all too true when it comes to many business and personal interactions
When we have the protective bubble of technology and geography, the power of rank, the fallback defense of "company policy," and other barriers to quality relationships, it's too easy to lose sensitivity and abuse those relationships.
A few months ago I wrote about empathy as the single most important guiding word in customer service. But the importance and value of empathy extends way beyond our daily dealings with customer service. Empathy -- the ability to walk that mile in another's shoes -- can and should guide us in virtually all of our dealings with people:
When someone is trying to sell you something, remember that you (or your business) are trying to sell things too.
Obviously that's not to say you should entertain every unsolicited, inappropriate cold call, unwelcome front-door solicitation or e-mail blast that comes your way. It simply means that if someone is respectfully and professionally approaching you with a legitimate, appropriately-targeted sales pitch or offer, treat him with the same respect and courtesy you'd appreciate from your own properly-targeted prospects. We are all in business to make sales, and you can say no without wasting time or being rude.
When you're dealing with your customers, remember that every day you are someone's customer too.
This requires virtually no explanation; anything that would annoy, offend or alienate you as a customer is certain to do the same to the people who pay for your goods or services. This simple, reversed-role sensitivity is at the very core of outstanding service.
When working with your suppliers, remember that you are probably supplying something too.
This most often applies when the time comes to pay your bills. Many companies often have no compunction to stretch payments, while dogging their own customers for prompt remittance. Obviously many consider this to be "cash flow 101": Get paid as quickly as possible, pay as slowly as possible. Some businesses have no choice at times -- if the money's not there, it's not there. As someone who's started and run small businesses, I get the challenges, believe me. But an upstanding, empathetic company remembers that the other businesses it works with have the same challenges, and handles the A/P vs. A/R challenge in the most forthright manner possible.
If you need extra time to pay, at least try to ask for it, don't just take liberties and ignore the calls. If you need to get paid faster, offer early payment discounts if you can. Or simply put in your terms (and enforce consistently) that you can't sell to customers who regularly pay late. It's a hard stance, to be sure, but it is more upfont and professional than chasing people for money while dodging those chasing you.
In your interactions with employees, never forget that you were, or are, someone's employee too.
We've all seen, heard of, or had "bosses" who treat their people in a way that they themselves would never tolerate. Employees are at least as important as customers (I happen to be of the school of thought that they are more important, because without them you can't make your customers happy); the enlightened employer treats them that way.
When people make mistakes, remember that you've screwed up too.
'Nuff said.
At the end of the day, if you can't "relate" -- and more importantly, act accordingly -- you can't possibly maximize the quality of your business relationships. This is simple, golden-rule stuff, but like so many business basics, they are lessons easily forgotten. Maybe keep a shoe on your desk... or at least a mirror.
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Mortality and loss-to-follow-up during the pre-treatment period in an antiretroviral therapy programme under normal health service conditions in Uganda.
Amuron, Barbara
Namara, Geoffrey
Birungi, Josephine
Nabiryo, Christine
Levin, Jonathan
Grosskurth, Heiner
Coutinho, Alex
Jaffar, Shabbar
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Background: In many HIV programmes in Africa, patients are assessed clinically and prepared for antiretroviral treatment over a period of 4–12 weeks. Mortality rates following initiation of ART are very high largely because patients present late with advanced disease. The rates of mortality and retention during the pre-treatment period are not well understood. We conducted an observational study to determine these rates. Methods: HIV-infected subjects presenting at The AIDS Support Clinic in Jinja, SE Uganda, were assessed for antiretroviral therapy (ART). Eligible subjects were given information and counselling in 3 visits done over 4–6 weeks in preparation for treatment. Those who did not complete screening were followed-up at home. Survival analysis was done using poisson regression. Results: 4321 HIV-infected subjects were screened of whom 2483 were eligible for ART on clinical or immunological grounds. Of these, 637 (26%) did not complete screening and did not start ART. Male sex and low CD4 count were associated independently with not completing screening. At follow-up at a median 351 days, 181 (28%) had died, 189 (30%) reported that they were on ART with a different provider, 158 (25%) were alive but said they were not on ART and 109 (17%) were lost to follow-up. Death rates (95% CI) per 100 person-years were 34 (22, 55) (n.18) within one month and 37 (29, 48) (n.33) within 3 months. 70/158 (44%) subjects seen at follow-up said they had not started ART because they could not afford transport. Conclusion: About a quarter of subjects eligible for ART did not complete screening and pretreatment mortality was very high even though patients in this setting were well informed. For many families, the high cost of transport is a major barrier preventing access to ART.
Use this URI to cite this item:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/261
- UCU School of Medicine [158]


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HONOLULU – Aug. 18, 2006 - Hawaiian Airlines and Harmony Airways today jointly announced the launch of a code share agreement and interline electronic ticketing for their mutual customers, enhancing customer service and easing flight connections between Canada and Hawaii.
The new code share agreement is especially beneficial for Harmony's Canadian customers flying to Hawaii, offering the convenience of making seamless interisland flight connections on Hawaiian to Oahu, Maui, Kauai and Hawaii's Big Island.
Hawaii residents traveling to Canada, especially those living on the Neighbor Islands, can enjoy the same service benefits by booking their tickets through Harmony.
Code sharing allows Harmony to effectively expand its route system to Hawaii and sell seats aboard Hawaiian by attaching its two-letter booking code to Hawaiian's flights listed in worldwide computer reservations systems.
The introduction of interline electronic ticketing allows customers to purchase a single e-ticket, check in once at their originating airport, receive boarding passes for connecting flights, and pick up their luggage at the final destination
Interline e-tickets are now being issued by Harmony and Hawaiian through their respective reservation centers, at airport and ticket offices, and at travel agencies.
Hawaiian has now secured interline e-ticketing agreements for flights involving service to Hawaii with 13 domestic and international carriers, including American, United, Northwest, Alaska, America West, Delta, Continental, ATA, British Airways and Japan Airlines.
This newest agreement with Harmony brings Hawaiian closer to its goal of paperless ticketing, with Hawaiian now issuing e-tickets to more than 95 percent of its total customers.
About Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian was the nation's number one carrier for on-time service, fewest flight cancellations and best baggage service reliability in 2005, according to reports by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer travel surveys conducted by Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Zagat all rank Hawaiian as the top domestic airline serving Hawaii.
Now in its 77th year of continuous service in Hawaii, Hawaiian is the state's biggest and longest-serving airline, and the second largest provider of passenger air service between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland. Hawaiian offers nonstop service to Hawaii from more U.S. gateway cities than any other airline (nine), as well as service to Australia, American Samoa and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides approximately 100 daily jet flights among the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (AMEX and PCX: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com.
About Harmony Airways
Harmony Airways is an industry leader in full-service, competitive air travel, offering full meal service, complimentary wine and comfortable legroom in every seat. Harmony's fleet of four 171-seat Boeing 757 aircraft includes harmonyone business class, featuring fine west coast inspired dining, wines, personal on-demand entertainment and luxurious wide leather seats.
Harmony Airways recently launched non-stop service to New York and San Francisco. Harmony also flies year-round, non-stop service to Hawaii from Vancouver and Calgary. Service from Harmony's Vancouver home includes Calgary, Toronto and Las Vegas. Seasonal service includes non-stop flights to Hawaii from Kelowna, Edmonton and Victoria; and Vancouver to Palm Springs. Hotels, car rentals, package vacations and more are offered through Harmony Vacations.


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Iran FM: Zionists Behind U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Koran
Manouchehr Mottaki also blames former U.S. President George Bush for inciting Islamophobia following Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Tehran on Thursday said that Israel was behind the plan by a United States pastor to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the official news agency IRNA reported.
- Report: Ahmadinejad to Visit Lebanon's Border With Israel
- Obama: Koran Burning Could Spark Suicide Bombings
"The software for this plan was made by the Zionists following their defeats against Muslims and the Islamic world," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with foreign diplomats in Tehran.
Terry Jones, who leads an evangelical congregation of just 50 people at the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, declared this coming Saturday "International Burn a Koran Day."
Mottaki also blamed former U.S. President George W. Bush, saying Bush's religious rhetoric after the September 11 attacks led to Islamophobia in the U.S.
"The current U.S. administration should fulfill its duties in guaranteeing the basic rights of American Muslims for avoiding the spread of such inappropriate and devilish moves," Mottaki said.
Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, one of the senior clergy figures in Iran, on Wednesday harshly condemned the Koran-burning plan and called on the U.S. administration to arrest Terry Jones.
He further warned that if such a "gruesome and inhuman act" took place, Muslims would hold the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama responsible.
The ayatollah further said that desecrating the Koran would not only insult Muslims worldwide, but also the followers of Jesus Christ, his mother Mary and the prophet Moses.


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DII workshop – Brussels, November 12
The next DII (Document Interoperability Initiative) workshop will take place in Brussels on November 12. As always, the goal of the DII workshops is to share information with the developer community and solicit feedback on how we can work together to improve interoperability.
Much has changed since the last DII workshop in Brussels, when we discussed Office's future plans for ODF support and the pending rollout of the implementer notes, as well as the need for a validator and document test library to improve ISO/IEC 29500 interoperability. Now there are two versions of Office that offer built-in ODF support (Office 2007 SP2 and the Office 2010 Technical Preview), implementer notes have been published for ODF, ECMA-376, and ISO/IEC 29500, and validator and test-library projects are underway.
This workshop will include presentations on a variety of document interoperability topics. I'll blog the details of the agenda after it's finalized, but I wanted to let everyone know the date so those who are interested can make plans to attend. In the meantime, here are a few of the presentations that are already being planned:
- I'll be covering the Office 2010 extensions (as was covered by the Office program managers in last month's DII workshop in Redmond). I will also present the latest news on how we're working to improve ODF interoperability between Office and other popular applications, and talk about our plans for the future.
- Alex Brown will be covering present and future plans for the Office-o-tron validator project.
- Klaus-Peter Eckert of Fraunhofer FOKUS will present the latest status of the document test library project and other work Fraunhofer is doing to improve interoperability.
Like all DII workshops, this event is open to anyone and everyone, and there is no cost to attend. If you're interested in attending, let us know by sending an email to email@example.com, and we'll follow up with information about the venue, agenda, and other details.
On a more personal note, I know that many people in the document formats community (myself included) are photo geeks, and cameras may have outnumbered laptops at some of the standards meetings and interop events I've attended. I've been to Brussels twice before, but never had time to snap more than a few photos on the way between meetings, like the snapshots below. This time, however, I'll be in Brussels a day early and am planning to get out and take a bunch of pictures on the Armistice Day holiday, November 11. So if you're coming to the workshop and would like to go on a photo outing the day before, let me know. The more the merrier.
See you in Brussels!


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LENGTH: 132 cm (52")
WEIGHT: 4.8 kg (10.5 lbs.)
SCALE LENGTH: 106 cm (41.73")
STRINGS: NS/D´Addario Flatwound, E-A-D-G
CONSTRUCTION: Solid rock maple neck and body, flame maple face
FINISH: Traditional amber stain with clear semi-gloss polymer coating.
FINGERBOARD: Hand graduated, symmetric relief, cascading dot pattern for position reference; 43.1mm (1.7") wide at nut; 89.0mm (3.5") max. width.
BRIDGE: Black phenolic; radius 7.9cm (3.1") string spacing 81mm (3.19").
NUT: Macassar Ebony; radius 7.9cm (3.1"); string spacing 30mm (1.19").
BRIDGE PICKUP: The PolarTM directional piezo pick-up system responds selectively to either vertical vibration (for the sustained plucked sound, like an electric bass guitar), or lateral vibration (for dynamic bowing, and a percussive plucked sound).
ELECTRONICS: 18 volt active circuit by EMG, USA. Mono output.
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TRUSS ROD: Double rod design. Accessible at nut.
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STRINGS: Compatible with most standard upright bass strings. NS/D'Addario stainless steel flatwound strings standard, NSFW610.
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- Works great with DOW Blueboard, Pinkboard, and white beaded EPS foam
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Create Versatile Microservices in Golang — Part 8 (Kubernetes and Container Engine)
Today we'll learn about using Container Engine and Kubernetes to deploy containers to the container engine cluster we built with Terraform.
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In the previous post, we looked at creating a container engine cluster with Terraform. In this post, we'll look at deploying containers into our cluster using Container Engine and Kubernetes.
Firstly, what is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source, container management framework. It is platform agnostic, meaning you can run this on your local machine, on AWS, on Google Cloud, or anywhere else. It gives you control over groups of containers and their network rules, using declerative configuration.
You simply write yaml/json files which describe which containers should be running, and where. You define your networking rules, such as any port forwarding. It also handles service discovery for you.
Kubernetes is one of the most important additions to the cloud scene and is quickly becoming the defacto choice for cloud container management. So this is a good one to understand.
So let's get started!
First, ensure you have the kubectl CLI installed locally:
$ gcloud components install kubectl
Now let's ensure you're connected to your cluster and correctly authenticated. First, we'll log in and ensure we're authenticated. Second, we'll set the project settings to ensure we're using the correct project ID and availability zone.
$ echo "This command will open a web browser, and will ask you to login
$ gcloud auth application-default login
$ gcloud config set project shippy-freight
$ gcloud config set compute/zone eu-west2-a
$ echo "Now generate a security token and access to your KB cluster"
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials shippy-freight-cluster
In the above commands, you may need to replace the compute/zone with whichever region you've chosen, your project id and cluster names may also differ to mine.
Here's an outline...
$ echo "This command will open a web browser, and will ask you to login
$ gcloud auth application-default login
$ gcloud config set project <project-id>
$ gcloud config set compute/zone <availability-zone>
$ echo "Now generate a security token and access to your KB cluster"
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster-name>
Your project ID can be found by clicking here...
Now look for your project ID...
Your clusters region/zone and cluster name can be found by clicking the 'Compute Engine' in the left side menu, then click "VM Instances." You'll see your Kubernetes VM, click into that for more details, and you should be able to find every piece of information regarding your cluster here.
So now, if you run...
$ kubectl get pods
You should see...
No resources found.. That's fine, we haven't deployed anything yet. So let's start thinking about what it is we actually need to deploy. We need a MongoDB instance. Typically, you'd deploy a MongoDB instance, or database instance along with every service, for complete separation. But for this example, we're going to cheat and just stick with one centralized instance. This is a single point of failure, however, so in a real-world scenario, you might want to consider splitting out your database instances more in line with your services. However, our way is also okay.
Then we need to deploy our services, vessel-service, user-service, consignment-service, and email-service. Okay, that's easy enough!
Let's start with our MongoDB instance. As this doesn't belong to a single service, and this is part of the platform as a whole, we'll keep these deployments in our shippy-infrastructure repo (which I've omitted from GitHub as it contains too much sensitive data), but I'll give you my full deployment files.
First, we need a config to create an ssd, for long-term storage. This is so that when our containers restart, they don't lose all of their data.
// shippy-infrastructure/deployments/mongodb-ssd.yml
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
name: fast
provisioner: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
type: pd-ssd
Now our deployment file (we'll go into these in a little more detail throughout the post)...
// shippy-infrastructure/deployments/mongodb-deployment.yml
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: StatefulSet
name: mongo
serviceName: "mongo"
replicas: 3
app: mongo
app: mongo
role: mongo
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
- name: mongo
image: mongo
- mongod
- "--replSet"
- rs0
- "--smallfiles"
- "--noprealloc"
- "--bind_ip"
- "0.0.0.0"
- containerPort: 27017
- name: mongo-persistent-storage
mountPath: /data/db
- name: mongo-sidecar
image: cvallance/mongo-k8s-sidecar
- name: MONGO_SIDECAR_POD_LABELS
value: "role=mongo,environment=test"
- metadata:
name: mongo-persistent-storage
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: "fast"
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
storage: 10Gi
And a service file...
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
name: mongo
name: mongo
- port: 27017
targetPort: 27017
clusterIP: None
role: mongo
A lot of that, at this point, might be meaningless to you. So let's try and clear some of the key concepts up in Kubernetes.
Read the docs here. Nodes are your VMs or physical servers, your containers are clustered across your nodes, and services are used to expose access between the groups of containers running on each node/pod.
Read the docs here. Pods are groups of related containers. For instance, a pod could contain your auth-service container, your user database container, your login signup user interface etc. These containers are all clearly related. Pods allow you to group them together so that they always have access to one another, are running in the same immediate network space, and allow you to scale them as a group. This is really cool! Pods are a very misunderstood feature in Kubernetes.
Read the docs here. Deployments are state controllers, a deployment is a description of what the final outcome should be, and what it should be kept at. A deployment is an instruction to Kubernetes, saying, for example, I would like three of these containers, running on these ports, with these environment variables. Kubernetes will ensure that that state is maintained. If one of the containers crashes and goes down to two containers, it will bring up another to meet the demand for three containers.
Read the docs here. A stateful set is very similar to a deployment, except it will retain, using some kind of storage, some state regarding the containers. This is ideal for sharded datstores for example.
Under the hood, MongoDB writes data to a binary datastore format, most databases do something of this nature. In creating a database instance within something disposable, such as a Docker container. Your data will be lost if the container restarts. Traditionally you would use volumes to mount the data/files on container start.
You can do this with deployments in Kubernetes, but StatefulSets has some additional automation around this with regards to clustering nodes, so it's a more natural fit for our MongoDB containers.
Read the docs here. A service is a grouping of network rules, such as port forwarding and DNS rules; which connects your pods together at a network level, and controls who can talk to who, or what can be accessed from the outside world.
There are two main types of service that you'll likely come across, a load balancer and a node port.
A load balancer is a round-robin load balancer, which creates an IP address to proxy against your selected node. You would use this to expose a service out to the public.
A node port exposes pods to the top-level network space, so that they can be accessed by other services, internally to other pods/instances. These are useful for exposing nodes out to other pods. This is the one you'd use to allow services to communicate with one another. This is your service discovery in essence. Or at least a part of it.
This has been a very whistle-stop tour of Kubernetes, there's a lot more to it, keep digging and reading. It's worth noting also that if you're a Docker user on your local computer, if you're using edge version of Docker for Mac/Windows, for example, you can spin up a Kubernetes cluster locally on your machine. This is really useful for testing.
So we've created three files, one for storage, one for our stateful set, and one for our service. The outcome of this will be a replicated set of MongoDB containers, with stateful storage and a service exposing the datastore across our other pods. Let's go ahead and create these, be sure to do this in the correct order, as some depend on each other.
echo "shippy-infrastructure"
$ kubectl create -f ./deployments/mongodb-ssd.yml
$ kubectl create -f ./deployments/mongodb-deployment.yml
$ kubectl create -f ./deployments/mongodb-service.yml
Give these a few moments, but you can check the status of your MongoDB containers, by running:
$ kubectl get pods
You might notice one of your pods is "pending." If you run
$ kubectl describe node you might see an error regarding insufficient CPU. Unfortunately, some of the cluster management and Kubernetes tooling can be quite CPU intensive on its own. So one node might not be enough for that as well as a clustered mongo instance.
So we're going to turn auto-scaling on for our cluster, which defaults to one pool. In order to do this, head over to your Google Cloud Console, select Kubernetes engine, edit your instance, turn on auto-scaling and set the min to one and the max to two, and hit save.
After a few minutes, your nodes will scale to two and you'll see "ContainerCreating" when you run
$ kubectl get pods until all of your containers are running as expected.
Now that we have our database cluster and an auto-scaling Kubernetes engine, let's start deploying some services!
Vessel Service
The vessel service is very lightweight, it doesn't do too much, or depend on anything else, so that seems like a good place to start.
First of all, we need to make a few small code changes to our vessel-service code.
// shippy-vessel-service/main.go
import (
k8s "github.com/micro/kubernetes/go/micro"
func main() {
// Replace existing service var with...
srv := k8s.NewService(
All we've done here is replace the existing
micro.NewService() with this new library we imported,
k8s.NewService(). So what's this new library?
Micro on Kubernetes
One of the things I love about micro is that it was built with a great understanding of the cloud and has adapted along the way to new technologies. Micro has really taken Kubernetes seriously, and so, have created a Kubernetes library for micro.
Under the hood, all this library really is, is micro, configured with a sensible set of defaults for Kubernetes, and a service selector which integrates directly on-top of Kubernetes services. Which means it offloads service discovery entirely to Kubernetes. It also the default to use gRPC as the default transport. Of course, you can override these behaviors using environment variables and plugins, too.
I can also say that there's some really exciting work in this space coming up from Micro, that I'm super excited about. Make sure you get involved on the Slack channel!
Now, let's create a deployment file for our service, we'll go into a little more detail this time about what each section does.
// shippy-vessel-service/deployments/deployment.yml
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
name: vessel
replicas: 1
app: vessel
app: vessel
- name: vessel-service
image: eu.gcr.io/<project-name>/vessel-service:latest
imagePullPolicy: Always
command: [
- name: DB_HOST
value: "mongo:27017"
- name: UPDATED_AT
value: "Mon 19 Mar 2018 12:05:58 GMT"
- containerPort: 8080
name: vessel-port
There's a lot going on here, but I'll try and break some of it down a little more. First, you'll see
kind: Deployment, there are many different "things" in Kubernetes, of which can almost be viewed as "cloud primitives." In programming languages, you have strings, integers, structs, methods, etc. These are primatives. Well, Kubernetes views the cloud in the same way. So view these as your primatives. In this case, a deployment, which is a form of controller primitive. Controllers ensure that your desired state is maintained correctly. A deployment is a form of stateless controller, they are ephemeral, things aren't lost of disrupted as they restart, or exit. Stateful sets are like deployments, except they maintain some static data and state as explained earlier. But our services shouldn't contain any state, microservices should be stateless. Thus, we're using a deployment here.
Next you have a spec block, this starts with some metadata about the deployment, its name, how many of these pods (replicas), should it maintain (if one of these die, assuming you're using more than one, it's the controllers job to check the desired number of pods are running, and starts another to maintain the desired state if not). Selectors and templates expose some metadata about this pod, which allow it to be found and connected to by services.
Then you have another spec block (this is kinda confusing, but hey!). This time for our individual containers, or volumes, shared metadata etc. In this service, we're just spinning up a single container. The containers field is an array, this is because we can start several containers as part of a pod. The point is to group related containers.
The container metadata here is pretty self-explanatory, we're starting a Docker container, from an image, we're setting some environment variables, passing in some commands at runtime, and exposing a port (which our service will look for).
You'll notice I passed in a new command:
--selector=static, this tells the Kubernetes micro set-up to use Kubernetes for its service discovery and load-balancing. This is really cool because now your micro code is interacting directly with Kubernete's powerful DNS, networking, load-balancing, and service discovery.
You can omit this option and continue to use micro as previous. But we might as well get the benefits of Kubernetes here.
You'll also notice we're pulling our Docker image from a private repository. When you use Google's container tools, you get a private container registry, which you can use by building your Docker image, and pushing it, like so...
$ docker build -t eu.gcr.io/<your-project-name>/vessel-service:latest .
$ gcloud docker -- push eu.gcr.io/<your-project-name>/vessel-service:latest
Now for our service...
// shippy-vessel-service/deployments/service.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
name: vessel
app: vessel
- port: 8080
protocol: TCP
app: vessel
Here, as mentioned above we have a
kind, which in this case is a service primitive (a group of network level DNS and firewall rules essentially). Then we give the service a name and a label. The spec allows us to define a port for the service, and you can also define a
targetPort here to look for a specific container. But we're doing this automatically thanks to the Kubernetes/micro implementation. Then finally, the selector, this is very important, this must match the name of the pod you want it to target; otherwise, the service won't be able to find anything to proxy, and it won't work.
Now, let's deploy these changes to our cluster.
$ kubectl create -f ./deployments/deployment.yml
$ kubectl create -f ./deployments/service.yml
Give it a few seconds, then run...
$ kubectl get pods
$ kubectl get services
And you should be able to see your new pod and your new service. Ensure these are running as expected.
If you do see an error, you can run
$ kubectl proxy, then open
http://localhost:8001/ui in your browser, to see the Kubernetes ui, this will give you the ability to explore, in-depth, the state of your containers etc.
One thing worth mentioning here is that deployments are atomistic and immutable, meaning they have to be changed in some way to be updated. They are turned into a unique hash, and if that hash isn't changed, then the deployment won't be updated.
If you run
$ kubectl replace -f ./deployments/deployment.yml, nothing will happen. This is because Kubernetes has detected that nothing's changed.
There are many ways of getting around this, but it's worth noting that for the most part, it will be your container that will have changed, so instead of using the label
latest, you should give each container a unique label, such as a build number, for example:
vessel-service:<build-no>. This will be picked up as a change and the deployment will be replaced.
But in this tutorial, we're going to do something a little naughty, but be wary that this is lazy, and not particularly best practice. I've created a new file
deployments/deployment.tmpl, which will act as the base deployment template. Then I've set an environment variable called
UPDATED_AT, with a value of
{{ UPDATED_AT }}. I've updated the Makefile to open this template file, sed the current date/time over the value of that environment variable, and output it to a final deployment.yml file. This is a bit of a hack, but it will do for now. I've seen various ways of doing this, do whatever you feel is appropriate for you.
// shippy-vessel-service/Makefile
sed "s/{{ UPDATED_AT }}/$(shell date)/g" ./deployments/deployment.tmpl > ./deployments/deployment.yml
kubectl replace -f ./deployments/deployment.yml
So there we have it, that's one service deployed and running as expected!
I'm now going to do the same for our other services. I'll update the repo's for each of those for brevity, please take a look here...
Postgres deployment for our user service...
apiVersion: apps/v1beta2
kind: StatefulSet
name: postgres
serviceName: postgres
app: postgres
replicas: 3
app: postgres
role: postgres
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
- name: postgres
image: postgres
- name: postgres
containerPort: 5432
- name: postgres-persistent-storage
mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
- metadata:
name: postgres-persistent-storage
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: "fast"
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
storage: 10Gi
Postgres service...
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
name: postgres
app: postgres
- name: postgres
port: 5432
targetPort: 5432
clusterIP: None
role: postgres
Postgres storage...
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
name: fast
provisioner: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
type: pd-ssd
Deploying Micro
// shippy-infrastructure/deployments/micro-deployment.yml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
name: micro
replicas: 3
app: micro
app: micro
- name: micro
image: microhq/micro:kubernetes
- "api"
- "--handler=rpc"
- "--namespace=shippy"
- name: MICRO_API_ADDRESS
value: ":80"
- containerPort: 80
name: port
And now a service...
// shippy-infrastructure/deployments/micro-service.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
name: micro
type: LoadBalancer
- name: api-http
port: 80
targetPort: "port"
protocol: TCP
app: micro
In our service here, we're using a
LoadBalancer type, which exposes an external load balancer with an IP address out to the public. If you run
$ kubectl get services, after a minute or two (you'll see "pending" for a while), you'll get an IP address. This is public, and you can assign to a domain name, etc.
Once all that's deployed, make a service call to micro:
$ curl localhost/rpc -XPOST -d '{
"request": {
"name": "test",
"capacity": 200,
"max_weight": 100000,
"available": true
"method": "VesselService.Create",
"service": "vessel"
}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
You should see a response, with "created: true." Pretty neat! That's your gRPC services, being proxied and converted to a web-friendly format, using a sharded, MongoDB instance. Not a huge amount of effort!
Deploying the UI
That's our services deployed and happy — let's deploy our user interface.
// shippy-ui/deployments/deployment.yml
apiVersion: apps/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
name: ui
replicas: 1
app: ui
app: ui
- name: ui-service
image: ewanvalentine/ui:latest
imagePullPolicy: Always
- name: UPDATED_AT
value: "Tue 20 Mar 2018 08:26:39 GMT"
- containerPort: 80
name: ui
Now our service...
// shippy-ui/deployments/service.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
name: ui
app: ui
type: LoadBalancer
- port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 'ui'
app: ui
You'll notice this service is a load balancer on port 80, that's because this is a public user interface, this is how our users interact with our services. Fairly self-explanatory!
Wrapping Up
So there we have it, we've successfully ported and deployed our entire stack to the cloud using Docker containers and Kubernetes to manage our containers. Hopefully, you can see the value in this and didn't find it too overwhelming.
Next in the series, we'll look at hooking all of this up into a CI process in order to manage our deployments.
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…of Christmas, that is!
Does this post look extra-bright? Shiny? Crisp? Well, it does from this side of the blog. Why, you ask? Because I got a LAPTOP for Christmas!! (Showing once again that my hubby spoils me completely rotten.) Now if I can only get used to this touchpad 'mouse'. Gracious, it's odd. But I am having so much fun writing from various places in the house, and imagining how awesome it will be to be able to write on trips!
So when does your trash man come? Always, the week after Christmas I can't wait for the trash man to come and carry away the traces of our spoiled-ness. It really is embarrassing how much trash we generate over Christmas. Even considering the size of our family, it seems extreme. At the moment, all 4 of our trash cans our full. There are 3 Hefty bags of trash in the garage, and 4 big boxes crammed full in our front entry way inside the house. Thankfully trash day is tomorrow, and I can once again say goodbye to that huge pile of trash that always makes me think we really ought to be more moderate in our gift-giving.
We did our celebration a bit different than usual this year. I blogged before that usually we do our private family celebration Christmas Eve morning. This year we had church then, though. So we did stockings Christmas Eve morning. I'm afraid the 4 year old won't believe in Santa much longer. When she spotted the candy canes in the stockings supposedly from Santa, the 4 year old said, "But I know the candy canes are from you, Mommy, because that's the same kind you bought, and you left the box right there on the table."
Silly mommy.
After stockings we went to church, then had a buffet style lunch. After lunch the kids handed out all the presents they had bought for each other and for us, which turned out to be a nice way to highlight those gifts.
In the evening on Christmas Eve, we always head over to my mom's house. I am the oldest of 8, and with all the cousins and various inlaws this year there were 41 people at mom's. We always do clam chowder in bread bowls, along with fruit trays and veggie trays.
After dinner, we gather in the living room. The gifts are piled waist high around the tree, and folding chairs tightly pack every bit of wall space where there aren't couches. The ring of chairs overflows into the dining room and the den on either side of the living room. We always begin the gift-giving by reading from Luke 2.
Usually my brother Pete does the reading, in honor of my dad, who died in 1988. (However this year Pete was at the hospital with his wife who just delivered their second child, a baby boy, on Christmas Eve afternoon! We all agreed that they gave the best gift to the grandparents this year!) So this year, my youngest brother Jonathan did the reading.
After that, we always sing some Christmas carols, selected by the littlest children: traditionally lovely songs such as Away in A manger, Joy to the World, and Silent night are requested. This year my two youngest made me giggle (and blush) by requesting Jingle Bells and the ABC song.
Then, gifts. We always draw names, which is fun. And then Mom and my step-dad always end up with a huge heap of individual gifts from various ones of us, and they always buy each of us something. It is a precious time. I'll blog over on my Ethiopia blog later today about the our charitable gift dilemma, and how it all went…
After the big shindig at mom's we went home and set out cookies for Santa, and scurried off to bed to recharge for yet more partying on Christmas morning.
To be continued…


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This week was our first meeting for the new year of MOPS International. If you are wondering what this is, keep on reading.
MOPS or Mothers of Preschoolers is a group of moms who gather, who may worship, brought together for one single purpose, support. I want to say that I started back in 2013, possibly 2014. At that time my friend Angelica was already a part of the group and she had invited me. I was so excited to finally meet a group of moms I could share stories with and make friends!!
MOPS International may be near you!! Follow the link to find your group! MOPS has been so wonderful over the years. We craft, we share stories, play games and we eat food. There are morning and evening groups, on different days so that you have an opportunity to attend. This year's group is smaller with only four tables, a much more intimate setting. What really happened was that so many moms signed up this year that they split the group in THREE!
MOMS NEXT is the group that I am in currently because my kids are in grade school. Your table could include a table leader and a mentor mom. Our Mentor Moms are older women who may have older adult children, those moms we seek advice from because they may have much more experience in raising children. You can become a table leader or a mentor mom if you would like. One day I do hope to become a table leader.
Every other week I am eager to attend the group because we get to discuss why being a mom is so important, but we also discuss how we are much more than just moms. This year's theme is so exciting because it is all about having fun, because we deserve it. As busy moms we get so caught up in the day to day life, whether you are grocery shopping for your family, dropping your kids off at school or planning the next meal. WE DESERVE FUN. So start thinking about the hobbies you want to do or the next place you want to travel to in this world.
I think God was speaking to me when I attended this past Wednesday's meeting. I had a discussion with my husband on how I need to stop being so serious and that I needed to break up my schedule to start enjoying my days. Some days feel like all I do are chores. I WANT TO EXPLORE. I WANT TO GET BACK INTO MY HOBBIES!! I AM GOING TO START LIVING MY LIFE TO THE FULL! <—that is this year's theme.
So if you are wondering where your MOPS moms meet up, just click on the link provided in this post and start searching!
We at Bethany Baptist Church are still looking for moms to join in, so if you are local to Puyallup, Washington, let me know!! This group is NON-DENOMINATIONAL, any mama is welcome to attend!
Did I mention there is free childcare?? 😉


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'The Avengers' Thor And Captain America Fighting Aliens Clip
I don't know if you've heard or not, but there's a little film coming out on May 4th that brings together some of the biggest heroes known to mankind in one movie. This comic book company that Disney put together with that guy who wrote 'Toy Story'. It must be a big deal or something because there's news about it everywhere!
Obviously, I'm talking about Marvel's 'The Avengers'. And yes, Joss Whedon really did write the first 'Toy Story'. IMDB it if you don't believe me. Anyway, I've got some of the more interesting bits of Avengers news for you that have come out over the past few days.
Firstly, I have a clip for you courtesy of Digital Spy. Here we see Captain America and Thor battling side by side against Loki's alien army. It's worth sharing to show off, not only because of the bromanship (that's bros + showmanship) in battle, but also because you get a glimpse of Loki's army. By now, I'm sure we all know that they're not the Krees or the Skrulls, so the jury is still out on what they actually are, and some people want to see more of them before sitting down in the theater to watch the movie. Check out the clip below.
'The Avengers' Thor and Captain America Battling Aliens Clip:
In case you could not get a good enough look at the aliens in the clip, here are a couple movie stills to feast your eyes on:
Whedon recently confirmed at a press conference which alien race in the Marvel universe they come from and had this to say:
"The alien race are the Chitauri — or a version of them — because they are not one of the key races and they don't have a storied history. That wasn't the point. I know this debate will go on long after I'm dead. I would say it was the Kree-Skrull race."
'The Avengers' Cut Scenes News
Next up is a report about what ended up on the cutting room floor. If you're like me, you've seen 'Captain America: The First Avenger'. If you didn't, then it's unlikely that you'd click on this article anyway, but just in case *SPOILER ALERT*. Regardless, everyone was heartbroken at the end when Cap had to skip out on his date with the lovely Peggy Carter, played by Hayley Atwell, because he sacrifices himself to save the world.
However, Joss Whedon was fully prepared to set into motion a "better late than never" scenario. In an interview with the New York Times (via /Film), Whedon planned on including a scene where Steve and Peggy meet up in the present day. It's understandable that this scene got cut because there's already a whole lot going on in 'The Avengers', and we wouldn't want to tarnish it by jamming all these additional scenes into it. On the bright side, if Peggy Carter is still alive in 2012, maybe we'll see her in 'Captain America 2'. We can only hope.
Here's the quote from Joss Whedon on the scene that ended up on the cutting room floor:
"One of the best scenes that I wrote was the beautiful and poignant scene between Steve and Peggy [Carter] that takes place in the present. And I was the one who was like, Guys, we need to lose this. It was killing the rhythm of the thing. And we did have a lot of Cap, because he really was the 'in' for me. I really do feel a sense of loss about what's happening in our culture, loss of the idea of community, loss of health care and welfare and all sorts of things. I was spending a lot of time having him say it, and then I cut that."
'The Avengers' Post Production Scene Being Filmed
And now we have the best for last. The world premiere for 'The Avengers' was on Wednesday. Maybe some of you watched the live stream of the red carpet. On Thursday, the cast participated in a press conference and many sites are reporting that Robert Downey Jr. had this to say at the end: "We are shooting one more scene. Tonight. Not kidding." After that, the moderator said no more questions and the cast and crew left. What?! Not possible… Is it?
At the second press conference, Collider is reporting that director Joss Whedon denied that those claims were true. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, who was notably irritated when RDJ made those comments, told /Film, "Do you always trust everything Robert Downey Jr. tells you?" Well, he didn't deny it.
However, Mark Ruffalo spoke to The Playlist and confirmed the extra scene. Ruffalo said:
"We're shooting a scene tonight. I'm not sure exactly where it's gonna go. All I know is that someone came in with the costume and said, 'Here's some wardrobe. We don't know where you're going to be or what you're doing.' " When asked if it will be in 'The Avengers' when it hits theaters Ruffalo added, "Yeah. So I'm like, 'All right, when are we doing that?' Today after we're done."
Yes, I know that Ruffalo and RDJ could just be playing around with fanboys and bloggers like me, but, BUT let's look at the facts. Marvel famously left Samuel L. Jackson's surprise appearance at the end of 'Iron Man' out of the press screenings. Joss Whedon shot the sequence at the end of 'Thor' months after the production had wrapped. Reports are saying that there is a post-credits scene in the movie already that teases another Avengers movie, but could this new scene tease another Marvel movie? Based on who made/confirmed the comments, could the new scene be teasing 'Iron Man 3', which is the next Marvel movie to come out after 'The Avengers'? Maybe it's teasing something with The Hulk/Bruce Banner, like that TV show that's in development at ABC or Ruffalo's own Hulk movie. The possibilities are endless! We can speculate till the cows come home, but we won't get a real answer until May 4th.
That's a whole lot of good stuff, isn't it? Let me know what you think about it all in the comments below.


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FOREST HILLS—The local Angell Animal Medical Center is warning pet owners about escalators after a dog lost two toes in a moving-stairs mishap at the Forest Hills T Station.
A dog named Mace, owned by a Dorchester woman, ran up an escalator at the T station two weeks ago. At the top of the escalator, the dog's foot became trapped in the gap between the stairs and the floor.
The dog was taken to Angell at 350 S. Huntington Ave. and treated for left rear foot injuries so severe that doctors had to remove two of his toes.
Pets do not understand that they must lift their feet at the end of an escalator to avoid being dragged into the machinery. Angell treats an average of two to three escalator injuries to animal every year, according to a press release. Pets should be kept away from escalators or carried while on them.
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Today we went to Buckingham Palace. It was big. Very big. Stunningly so. That's really about it, though. I saw some famous Rembrandt (leave it to me not to know). I'm really annoyed that you're not allowed to take pictures inside any of these places. There was this really hot chick working at the palace that I wanted to take a picture of and… Oh. Just kidding. -)
After the palace we went and saw the changing of the guard. It was kind of cool because they marched around a bunch and played marching band music (which included the theme from Star Wars), but it was mostly just a lot of standing around in the sun and listening to the bobbies yell at stupid people. Actually, that was a lot more entertaining than the actual changing of the guard. The bobby standing near us was absolutely hilarious. He kept being "politely rude" to people that were giving him a hard time. He had a great sense of humor and managed to entertain the crowd (well, us anyway). This one woman wouldn't move and claimed she was looking for her lost daughter and he told her that he'd heard better stories than that and to keep moving. Another woman told him she had to go inside the palace because the queen was expecting her. He checked the flagpole on the roof (a special flag is flying if the queen is home) and pointed out to the woman that, not only was the queen not expecting her, but she wasn't even there.
After that we went to Royal Mews. Ashley appreciated this a lot more than I did because it had all to do with horses. Some woman there (a tourist, not an employee) referred to the withers as the horse's "hump." I wanted to correct her, but she didn't look like the type to care.
After lunch we went to some horse guard thing, which was actually really funny because there was a piece of what appeared to be toilet paper stuck to the bottom of the main guard's boot as he was marching around. I laughed hard at that one.
We went to Westminster Abbey, which was really cool, and saw Big Ben. Given the name, I rather expected Big Ben to be, well, big. But it was really quite small. And if you're ever taking pictures of Big Ben, you'll find out, just as I did, that there is no good angle to take the picture from. At least, not without taking the photo into Photoshop later.
Something I meant to mention yesterday that I forgot to, is that there is a sincere lack of available garbage cans around. Sometimes you can find one, but usually it's impossible. While at a train station just outside of London, I asked a guy working there where I could find a garbage can in which to put my rubbish. He told me that, for security reasons, they couldn't have them and to just place my rubbish on the ground somewhere. Maybe it's because I never consider it, but it was almost impossible for me to put my garbage down and walk away from it. I felt guilty, even though the guy working there told me it was okay, I still felt like I was littering.
Speaking of littering, as we were walking to the tube station this morning, we saw a pretty big pile of hypodermic needles on the sidewalk. Most of them appeared to be unopened. There was also a spoon. So I took a picture.0 People like this. Be the first!


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Watch This: A Mirrored Time Lapse of the Japanese Transit System
Shot on Tokyo's fully-automated Yurikamome transit system, this mirrored and flipped video creates a surreal and bizarre version of the city.
We've seen plenty of time lapses of late, as well as plenty of hyperlapses (which are time lapses with the camera moving). But we haven't seen many people really experimenting with the format as a whole, pushing it into more interesting directions — which is what makes this wonderfully surreal Japanese video so fun.
Shot on the Yurikamome, an automated transit system on Tokyo's waterfront, the video was then flipped and mirrored various ways in Adobe Premiere. The footage was shot and edited by "darwinfish105", who recorded the hyperlapse using a Panasonic GH3, with an Olympus 9-18mm at f/5.6. According to his description, it was made by shooting one second exposures, with an ND400 filter during the day, and at ISO400 at night.
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Protect sheep against ovine progressive pneumonia by developing prevention plan
Sheep producers should develop a plan to keep ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP) out of their flock, North Dakota State University Extension Service sheep specialist Reid Redden says.
OPP is a slowly progressive viral disease of adult sheep. Often, the first sign is a general loss of body condition referred to as "thin ewe syndrome," according to Neil Dyer, director of the NDSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Another common sign of OPP is a sheep increasing its effort to breathe while at rest.
OPP infection also can cause "hard bag," an enlarged, firm udder with reduced or no milk flow.
Once infected, animals remain infected for life, although many never will show clinical signs of the disease. Flocks infected with OPP can have lowered production efficiency because of early culling, decreased milk production and lower weaning weights, Redden says.
Researchers at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Neb., recently discovered a genetic marker to identify animals that are less susceptible to OPP. This new genetic test, TMEM154, determines the risk level for infection with OPP.
Sheep that have two copies of the desirable gene (haplotype 1) are three to five times less likely to contract the disease than sheep with one or two copies of haplotypes 2 or 3 during their lifetime, Dyer says.
Although previous research indicated that most disease transmission occurs from ewe to lamb, the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center researchers reported that only 10 to 30 percent of lambs born to infected ewes contracted the disease from their mothers. Most sheep were infected from their flock mates during subsequent lambing seasons. The researchers say this means that the transmission of this disease within a flock will vary depending on how sheep are managed during the winter and/or lambing season.
To further investigate the disease, researchers at NDSU collected blood samples from 735 sheep that represented 12 flocks and eight breeds in North Dakota. The researchers determined that 66 percent of flocks had infected animals. The
overall infection rate of the sheep tested was 28 percent.
"We demonstrated that OPP is a prevalent disease in North Dakota," Redden says. "However, the infection rate varies considerably from flock to flock. The overall infection rate in flocks that we tested was similar to that estimated for the U.S. sheep industry. Although the genetic test (TMEM154) does not guarantee that sheep will be resistant to OPP, it does appear to provide some protection from infection."
As a result of that research, Redden and Dyer suggest that an OPP prevention plan include testing to identify the infection rate, sourcing genetically tested replacements and/or testing replacement ewe lambs for serotype or haplotype.
"Work with your local veterinarian, or Extension agent or state specialist to develop a plan that works best for your farm," Redden advises.
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Reinhart Brothers Could Be a WHL Story Of The Year
by Lisa Brown on 10/05/11 at 04:00 AM ET
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The WHL has been the starting point for many NHL careers; it's a dream held by most players in the league. For the three Reinhart brothers, Max, Griffin and Sam that dream is a little closer to home than for others. The Reinhart brothers are sons of Paul Reinhart, former Calgary Flame and this year all three brothers are playing in the WHL.
Max and Sam currently play for the Kootenay Ice and the middle brother Griffin plays for the Edmonton Oil Kings. Max was drafted in the second round of the 2010 NHL entry draft by the Calgary Flames and is currently considered one of the team's top prospects, Griffin is projected to be a top draft pick in this year's selections, and Sam will have to wait his turn.
Max has recently returned to the Kootenay Ice from the Flames' training camp with goals of improving his strength.
Max Reinhart
Although the two are brothers, Max isn't sure how to describe Sam's style of play. "I haven't played with him too much. I think he's obviously right now needing stength, he's not as big yet and can't be as physical. I think he's a very similar player and thinks a lot of the same things that I do." Sam only played 11 games with the Ice last season, but Max looks forward to playing a full season together this year.
Max will have plenty of opportunities to grow his relationship with his brother this season and believes that the two of them on the same team will help Sam. "I think it helps for sure, a little bit of familiarity. You don't feel alone, we live together too. He's got someone to talk to all of the time. Our parents will be up and down probably a little bit more just because there are two of us here."
For his brother Giffin, Max doesn't feel that he will be able to offer the same support, especially when it comes to Griffin's draft selection. "I wasn't going to get the same media attention that he is. So I'm not sure what to tell him when he's rated in the top 10-15 picks, that was never me but if he wants advice I guess I could give him some."
The three brothers currently don't have any friendly competitions going, but "it might have to start soon."
Sam Reinhart has only just begun his WHL career, but is already being touted as a top prospect for the 2014 NHL entry draft. At this point, it's not something that Sam focuses on although he knows that his draft year will be much different from others.
At 15, Sam is definitely young enough to expect to grow taller. "I feel like I'm not done yet, I've got some ways to go." And do you think that you could be taller than Griffin? "I'd like to think that."
Sam Reinhart, often seen in front of the net
Sam had a variety of new experiences last season, and had some takeaways from his teams' Memorial Cup run; "Just seeing how all of the older guys handle that. I know that in a few years I'll be leading this team here trying to lead them back to there and just seeing how all of the older guys handled it will give me good experience for my turn. "
While playing for the Ice, Sam is also completing his high school diploma and finding a balance. "We've got a lot of time on the road to catch up on stuff. So, there's no reason for anyone to be behind."
When I asked if he had a favourite subject, Sam was quick to reply "Not really no. Probably social if I had to say one. " And the reason for that response, "It's the easiest one out of my three."
As the younger brother, Sam is used to sibling rivalry but now Griffin may feel like the odd man out, especially since Griffin is the only defenceman while the other two play centre and on the same team. "I'm not sure I'll have to ask him about that one. There's obviously a lot of talk about that right now." Although I expect a very political response, this will be one of my first questions for Griffin.
On goals for this year, Sam intends to "Just do everything I can to help the team win this year. Obviously I have some time in the league for sure here so, just night in and night out help my team win and do everything I can."
In terms of how Sam sees himself as a player "I'm in the right place at the right time I think that if my game is on that night, the puck seems to be finding me and I have a lot of time with the puck. I can also grind the puck a little which will help create and my line-mates are great at finding space, opening up so that I can find them a little easier."
Sam is already off to a great start with the Ice, so his game has been on more often than not. In five games the young centreman has three goals and an assist and is of course looking for more.
It's a long season, and too soon to tell which Reinhart brother will put up the most points but it will be fun watching the competition.
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Following Aaron Swartz's suicide, MIT network attacked three times
In the weeks following Internet activist Aaron Swartz's suicide, the MIT campus network has been hacked several times, according to a statement on the MIT news office website.
The statement said that starting Jan. 13, two days after Swartz's death, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's online network "has experienced a series of outages that have temporarily affected a number of web services." The other attacks against the network took place on Jan. 18 and Jan. 28.
MIT's Information Services and Technology (IS&T) department has taken several steps to stop these attacks, such as installing filters, the statement said.
"We understand that it can be unsettling to have a number of outages and service interruptions in a short period of time," Christine C. Fitzgerald, manager of communications for IS&T, said in the statement. "The corrective and preventive measures that IS&T has put in place as a result of these outages have mitigated the risk of similar attacks or threats to the MIT network."
In July 2011, Swartz was charged in US District Court in Boston for hacking into the JSTOR archive system on MIT's network in 2010. He allegedly downloaded more than 4 million articles, some of which were behind a paywall.
The 26-year-old hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment on Jan. 11, according to the New York Medical Examiner's Office and a statement from his family and partner.
The hacker collective Anonymous claimed responsibility for that first hack, in which several subdomains of the university's website had been turned into memorial pages for Swartz.
In a cached version of the hacked page, Anonymous wrote that "the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for – freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it."
At the bottom of the page, Anonymous apologized to MIT for hacking into their website, and says they do not blame MIT for Swartz's death.
"We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened," they wrote. "But call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have — that we all have — to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud, and honour the ideals and dedication that burnt so brightly within him by embodying them in thought and word and action."
The MIT statement said the outage lasted for three hours before IS&T added filters to block the attack.
Five days later, the MIT e-mail service was attacked. The hack lasted from four to six hours, before IS&T staff were able to stop the attack.
Those who visited the university's web domain between 11:58 a.m. and 1:05 p.m. saw a page which said, "R.I.P. Aaron Swartz, Hacked by grand wizard of Lulzsec, Sabu."
Then on Jan. 28, MIT e-mails were delayed or lost, and the MIT website and other online services were inaccessible from off campus. The attack was on the MIT domain name, "mit.edu".
"IS&T is working to identify and address other vulnerabilities that present a risk to the campus network and key services — although the nature of these complex systems makes it difficult to eliminate risk completely," Fitzgerald said in the statement. "Community members should be assured that particular attention is being paid to minimizing risks and outages in the future."
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The University of Maine at Presque Isle is pleased to announce the next speaker in its 2014-2015 Distinguished Lecturer Series—Tim Brookes, the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project and award-winning author of 14 books. Brookes, who will speak on Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m., in the Auditorium at Wieden Hall, will discuss how he has incorporated his artistic skills as a writer, painter, and wood carver into "saving" alphabets on the verge of extinction by carving them into wood. Some of Brookes' Endangered Alphabets artwork, which has been displayed across the country and around the world, will be on display during his talk. This talk is free and the public is invited to be a part of this special evening.
Born in England, Brookes received his education at Oxford and now lives in Burlington, Vermont. He is the award-winning author of 14 books includingEndangered Alphabets, and a 20-year commentator for National Public Radio. Brookes is also a humorist, a professional guitarist, and a soccer coach. He draws on this remarkable breadth of reference to be what several college faculty and administrators have described as "the most interesting speaker we have ever hosted."
There are fewer than 100 alphabets in the world, and more than a third of them are on the verge of extinction. When these alphabets die, an entire culture loses its ability to read its own history, literature, folklore, and medicine. In an attempt to save these alphabets, Brookes created the Endangered Alphabet Project. Carved into exotic woods, his project raises a countless number of questions about language, progress, globalization, and the importance of indigenous cultures.
Brookes has visited libraries, galleries, and campuses all over Europe and the United States showing and discussing the Alphabet carvings and running as many as five talks and workshops in a day. Faculty members from Yale University invited Brookes to use his Alphabets in a course on the history of writing entitled, "From Pictograph to Pixl." Several schools, including Western Wyoming College, have asked Brookes to visit creative writing classes and talk about the Alphabets project and how it has led him to explore new and creative forms of non-fiction writing. Brookes will deliver two workshops to UMPI students during his visit.
Brookes has received praise for his work and his lectures. Will Shortz, crossword editor for the New York Times, said, "Tim Brookes is a personable, engaging, fascinating speaker. He wowed the crowd at the 2012 Wonderful World of Words."
The University's Distinguished Lecture Series was established in 1999. Each year, the UDLS Committee sponsors four to six speakers who come from Maine and beyond, representing a range of disciplines and viewpoints. While the emphasis tends to be on featuring visiting academics, it is not exclusively so. The speakers typically spend two days at the University meeting with classes and presenting a community lecture.
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|It's not so easy, sadly.
Follow this link to see nearly 30 more items.If you're a Christian in the US, these are a bunch of unearned benefits you get that members of other faiths (or non-religious people) do not.
It's not about shame. It's about understanding:
1. You can expect to have time off work to celebrate religious holidays.
2. Music and television programs pertaining to your religion's holidays are readily accessible. ...
9. If you are being tried in court, you can assume that the jury of "your peers" will share your faith and not hold that against you in weighing decisions.
10. When swearing an oath, you will place your hand on a religious scripture pertaining to your faith. ...
20. Your faith can be an aspect of your identity without being a defining aspect (e.g., people won't think of you as their "Christian" friend)
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22. Fundraising to support congregations of your faith will not be investigated as potentially threatening or terrorist behavior.
23. Construction of spaces of worship will not likely be halted due to your faith.
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Not so. One of the more painful aspects of being a Christian is listening to others, some even friends, spewing complete nonsense about the implications of that faith. Some of this is harmless ignorance; too much is simply garbage. If more people had any more grounded idea what that first century Jewish religious insurgent was up to, we would need fewer lists like this.14. It is easy for you to find your faith accurately depicted in television, movies, books, and other media.


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During 2015 my collection of Ed Tech Books expanded. There are so many good reads out there by colleagues in the education field. I can't help but share a few of my favorites to "Ring Out the Old Year!" It will certainly be tough to top this list in 2016!!! However I can't wait to see what awesomeness these educators share in the New Year!
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ya'll, today marks the two week countdown to the day i walk down the aisle and marry the man of my dreams. sure, i have a bunch of hilarious iphone photos this week of headless children and some that we are affectionately calling captain rash. what fun is that though? wouldn't you rather see some snippits of wedding going ons and try and guess what it will all be like? ok, you talked me into it:
this next week i am going to try and finish up some posts on our summer fun from things we did a month ago. fail. then starting next week will be my BIG wedding week giveaway extravaganza composed of some of my awesome handmade wedding vendors like the papermama, krust, jess at irocksowhat, pretty little life, and other amazing etsy shops that i have stumbled across in my search to throw my dream wedding on a budget!
then, saturday the 27th we say our i dos and get hitched! so while hi, baby is on it's stay-cation honeymoon i promise not to disappoint, some of my favorite blogland ladies + some new gals i can't wait to hear from will be stopping by to talk marriage and life! can you even wait? i am so excited!
linking up with amy from a good life.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
two weeks, and some iphone photos.
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yay! this makes me happy!
- September 24, 2012 at 6:54 PM
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