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SEO. What is it and how can it aid your website look, feel and also place better than the competitors?
Well, for beginners, search engines love Search Engine Optimization creating as well as if you do not have it, after that you remain in big trouble. It stands for search engine optimization and also it helps your website rank well with online search engine which in turn gets your website seen by people that do on-line searches daily. And also actually, who does not do online searches? It's substantial as well as if you want online website traffic you need SEO to benefit you.
Keyword are something that you need your writing to include as these link back to the website and are ideal at obtaining your page saw. Keyword must be as practical to your visitors as their initial search is. For instance, if your website is about canines a major key phrase would certainly be canine but likewise points associated with pet dogs, so points like bark, tail, canine, etc would certainly have to be made use of. First you don't wish to confuse your reader, and also 2nd you desire those words that may be utilized in a search to lead the individual back to you.
To frustrate a search engine with your content is a kiss of death for a website. Websites that contain keyword stuffing, those who's web pages are doing not have in info or those hard to navigate can be deemed undependable and will certainly rate low, if at all.
Yet exactly what of position? That cares?
Well, if it's your website as well as you get no web traffic you will certainly care. Visualize you are looking for something and the first 2 or three websites were an outright mess. You didn't obtain the response you were looking for as well as you're a lot more baffled compared to ever before. With Search Engine Optimization this never happens due to the fact that the pages are rated as though the one with the most key phrases matching your search pop up initially. Unless you are really, truly, truly seeking something to do, no one will certainly most likely to page 2 or beyond on a search. This is since we have actually concerned discover that the very best web pages are the ones that present first. If the first one doesn't function, it's a certainty the 2nd one will. Everyone mores than happy with their information and also the website obtains its website traffic. Maintaining it genuine, maintaining it trustworthy and obtaining Search Engine Optimization to help you are all indications your site is entering the ideal direction.
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"My main focus is the human figure. I'm devoted to creating sculpture that is spontaneous and contemporary in its sensibility, yet reflects a love for the past, in particular classical Greek art and the great masters of sculpture throughout history. Clay and bronze are how I interpret human form, which allow me to speak visually."
Anthony Antonios was born in New York City and attended the High School of Art and Design. He studied at Pratt Institute, the City College of New York, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design. His teachers included Robert Beverly Hale and Evangelos Frudakis. Today his work ranges from three-dimensional to relief sculpture to figurative drawings.
Mr. Antonios recently completed a commission for Fordham Prep on the campus of Fordham University in the Bronx—two 3-feet-wide by 7-feet-high reliefs cast in bronze. He has done many commissions, including for the Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health at Spartanburg Regional Hospital in Spartanburg, SC, Brookgreen Gardens on Pawleys Island, SC, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, the Merchant Marine Captains' Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the Shrine at Tiepoli in Gravenhurst, Canada. He has exhibited at the Behnke Doherty Gallery, Pinacoteca Gallery, Morrison Gallery, Salander-O'Reilly, Grand Central Galleries, Five Points Gallery, Brookgreen Gardens, and the Fleischer Museum, among others. His work is in many private collections. He has won many awards and is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society.
He has also taught at the National Academy School of Fine Arts, Lyme Academy, University of Hartford and through his many workshops.


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European finance ministers aim to stitch together Greece's next aid payment this week as a sputtering euro-area economy and a spat with the International Monetary Fund cloud efforts to resolve the debt crisis.
The finance chiefs are due to meet in Brussels tomorrow for the second time in a week after they agreed seven days ago to keep Greece's bailout aid flowing. In addition to a disagreement between the European Union and IMF over softening Greece's debt target, the ministers will attempt to re-engineer the current bailout without asking taxpayers to put up more money.
The talks are "likely to be tense as all players set out their positions," Thomas Costerg, an economist at Standard Chartered in London, said in an e-mail. "Greece's debt can is likely to be kicked further down the road, but we could see some constructive statements."
The meeting of the ministers from the 17-member euro area underscores continuing skirmishes among EU officials confronting rising unemployment and a slowing economy as they struggle with the three-year-old debt crisis. The finance chiefs' talks will precede a Nov. 22-23 EU summit to resolve the bloc's budget, a project threatened by a dispute with the U.K.
With tens of thousands of Europeans staging protests last week against austerity measures and unemployment, shifting dynamics in other European countries could foreshadow renewed conflict — an early election in Italy, a regional vote in Spain and an approaching bailout package for Cyprus.
Spanish bonds fell last week, pushing 10-year yields to the highest level in six weeks, as a report showed the euro-area's economy was pushed into recession in the third quarter. The euro has fallen 1.7 percent this month against the U.S. dollar, slipping 0.3 percent to $1.2743 on Nov. 16.
IMF Director Christine Lagarde took issue with European governments' decision to push back Greece's debt-reduction target by two years to 2022 against the fund's recommendations, raising questions over whether the IMF would keep financing Greece.
Lagarde, who cut short a visit to Southeast Asia to return to Europe, signaled a potential clash in an interview in Manila on Nov. 17 by saying she'll defend the IMF's credibility.
Lagarde said that she was approaching the talks feeling "patient and resilient." Even so, "we never leave the table," she said when asked about dropping support.
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Defense wireless policy due ? again
Top officials say the DOD wireless report should make debut soon. Really.
The Defense Department's long-awaited wireless policy will be released in a matter of weeks. Again.
DOD has been waiting for well over a year for a new wireless policy to reflect the rapid advances in wireless technology. According to some top IT officials, the report, which was due this time last year, should make its grand debut soon.
"The wireless policy should be out shortly," said Priscilla Guthrie, deputy DOD chief information officer, speaking at the TeleStrategies Federal Networks 2004 conference. "The good news is we believe the policy is much more useful than the draft that was released last year. The bad news is that the policy has spent more than six months in the coordination cycle."
A departmentwide policy must often run through a gamut of offices before it receives final approval, including each of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Secretary, and, in the case of the wireless policy, the Defense CIO's office, as well.
"In this case, the policy is going to come out better and more thought out than the initial position," Guthrie said. "We had to go back through the coordination cycle, but it's almost out."
Dawn Meyerriecks, the chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency, speaking at the same conference a year ago, said she fully expected the wireless policy to be out late in the winter or early in spring of 2003.
"Last year [at the TeleStrategies conference,] I said the wireless policy would be out in a couple of weeks," she said. "Here we are a year later, and it's still going to come out in a couple of weeks."
DOD officials got serious about developing a wireless policy in late 2002 when it hired Ronald Jost to head up the wireless policy initiative. Jost, a wireless veteran who had worked in the industry for nearly four decades before landing at the Pentagon, said when he was hired he immediately realized the enormity of the task ahead.
"We are facing a number of challenges: We have to do more architecture on the wireless side of the [Global Information Grid]; we have to transform communications; and from a policy side, we have to start to generate a policy for [wireless standard] 802.11 and other appliances," Jost said in an interview last July.
DOD officials issued a policy in October 2002 calling for development of a wireless network infrastructure across the Pentagon while prohibiting wireless access to classified systems. It required that wireless devices used within the Pentagon incorporate technology, including authentication and encryption, for securing such communications.
Since then, drafts of various policies affecting wireless technology have circulated through the halls of the Pentagon, but the overreaching policy that will have the most impact has yet to make its debut.
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False. False. A million times false.
I used to believe this. That whole philosophy that you'd never work a day in your life if you loved what you do.
It's not true.
I love what I do.
I haven't always loved what I did. I can admit that here, now....two and a half years later. In fact, there was a point where I was just making it to Friday. "Just one more day...you can make it just one more day."
Teaching is, by far, the hardest profession there is. Bottom line.
And when people say it's also the most rewarding, well that's not always true.
Are there rewards in teaching? Absolutely. But is it always rewarding. No....it's just not. Most days it really just...sucks.
Part of that is our own fault. My ability to completely overlook the 19 students who are following directions and showing growth, and instead focus on the one student who won't listen to a single thing I said, yea that's my fault. That's my character flaw. But that's what teachers do. We lose sleep over the one student who still can't read on grade level instead of celebrating the other students who can. I like to believe that's what makes us good teachers. It also makes us crazy, admittedly.
But I'm thankful for my job.
I'm thankful that I not only can provide income for my family (though it be a very small income) I'm thankful that I get to spend the year with some of the most amazing kids I've ever known.
Do they drive me crazy 95% of the time? Yes, in fact they do. But do I love them as if they were my own? Yes, in fact I do.
My kids often ask me if I have babies. Especially after they find out about Mr. Dunn. And my answer always puts the most puzzled, yet cutest expression on their face. I tell them, "No, I don't have kids at home because I have 20 kids at school." And it's true. I love these kids.
And the fact that I get to spend 180 days teaching them and growing with them is not ever lost on me. It constantly blows my mind that I've been entrusted with these kids and their well being. And I'm constantly thankful to have that opportunity.
I like to think that I teach them lots and lots throughout the year. I mean, hello, that's my job. But I often wonder if they realize how much they really teach me. The impact they have on me and my life...I'm thankful for that.


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Sprint HTC Hero : Cant Send SMS At All But Can Receive - Built In App Get Error - Cause Code 97Oct 30, 2009
Just got my Hero last night from Best buy with that nice little coupon! Great device so far, except that I cant send SMS at all. I can receive them though. I tried sending with the built in app, as well as HandCent.
When sending with the built in app, I get this error:
Cause Code 97
Error Code 2
I have tried updating firmware, PRI and PRL. Also rebooted the phone. Nothing makes it work. Anyone have ideas what I can do to make this work?


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The German transport service has taught Mercedes-Benz to review up to 7,74,000 autos crosswise over Europe after tests found that they contain unapproved programming, or an alleged 'thrashing gadget', that could be utilized to control diesel fumes emanations.
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In an official proclamation, the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) said it had requested Mercedes to instantly review chosen Vito, C-class and GLC models in Germany. "The government will order 2,38,000 Daimler vehicles to be immediately recalled Germany-wide because of unauthorised defeat devices," the KBA said. Daimler is the parent organization of Mercedes.
The models said to be influenced are the 1.6-liter Vito 111 CDI and the 2.0-liter C 220d and GLC 220d. The KBA has not demonstrated the age of the autos included, in spite of the fact that authorities propose they incorporate most recent age models with Euro IV outflows accreditation.
The news of the review comes after the German transport serve, Andreas Scheuer, met with Mercedes executive Dieter Zetsche in Berlin to talk about what has been depicted as "abnormalities in free test after effects of different Mercedes-Benz models highlighting the German carmaker's turbocharged four-chamber diesel motor".
Among the highlights brought into question by the KBA is the product used to direct the measure of AdBlue arrangement infused into the SCR channel on the models.
Following the talk, Scheuer said Daimler had promised to evacuate the presume programming and co-work with experts.
As indicated by our sister production Autocar UK, the product is modified to bring down the measure of AdBlue being infused after an endorsed time. This brings down the proficiency of the SCR channel and prompts substantially higher nitrogen oxide outflows in certifiable driving conditions than those asserted by Mercedes under test conditions.
A report in German daily paper Bild am Sonntag recommends the German Transport Ministry has distinguished up to five unlawful AdBlue or potentially SCR turn off capacities in different Mercedes-Benz diesel models.
Tolerating the review, Zetsche said Mercedes-Benz had built up a specialized arrangement that would empower it to refresh the product – a move he proposes would see the organization keep away from conceivable fines by the European Union. Be that as it may, in a different articulation, Daimler said the inquiry over the lawfulness of the product still should have been cleared up.
EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bienkowska tweeted her proposal that all EU part states take after Germany's case of calling a review: "We need mandatory recalls in all 28 EU Member States. Other countries should follow quickly." She likewise encouraged a stage up in the advance of EVs.
As of late, Mercedes has shielded its diesel motor programming, saying it complies with the law endorsed by the EU. In specific circumstances, carmakers are allowed to turn off the SCR channel in diesel motors in light of a legitimate concern for motor life span.
At this stage, it isn't known what number of autos are influenced by the review in the UK. Be that as it may, given the fame of models, for example, the C 220d and GLC 220d, the number is believed to be noteworthy.


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An interview with Claire Powell: Amelia's Colourful Colouring Companion featured artist.
Meet the multi talented graphic designer, illustrator and award winning animator Claire Powell.
Written by Amelia Gregory
Artist Claire Powell describes how coming late to illustration has been no bad thing, why dance inspired her colouring book artwork, how to make an award winning animation in your spare time and the joy of fart machines. Love meeting my featured colouring book artists!
Your artwork is about the freedom of dance, can you tell us more about it?
Well I knew almost immediately I wanted to feature a variety of characters in my artwork and I chose dance because I felt I could create a feeling of happiness and movement which would be fun to colour. I wanted to capture the feeling of being lost in the moment, which is how I feel when I'm illustrating and that's how people feel when they dance to good music... or colour in! Each character is dancing in their unique way, lost in the music. The composition intentionally starts small and grows across the page – a crescendo of movement. Hopefully this piece makes people smile, maybe they'll have a favourite character, or identify with a dance move - one… read more


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Brand manager: Beer business offers unmatched perks
Question: Explain what you do.
Answer: I work closely with several beer suppliers to develop and implement strategies necessary to grow brand equity and brand strength.
It is my job to streamline our planning processes and strategies in a manner that can be executed by our sales team. I assist with product supply to ensure proper amounts of inventory and maintain quality of the products.
I track the execution of our programming so we can measure the effectiveness of our marketing decisions. In addition, I assist with the category management and will even assist with delivery and sales execution.
Q: How did you get into the business?
A: I started as a bartender in college. After I graduated, my family and I opened a liquor store where I was the owner/manager. I enjoyed the beer side of the business and was able to join High Country Beverage as an on-premise sales rep.
Q: What are the biggest challenges you or your industry face?
A: I am responsible for our Loveland location and our Western Slope locations. With several suppliers, communication has been a big challenge this year. I have had to learn new ways of communicating in addition to email and phone calls to keep everyone involved in achieving our tasks and goals.
Q: What advice do you have for someone else thinking about a career in your field?
A: Our field has a lot of fun people to work with. You will work hard and not always normal hours, but at the end of the day you get to have a cold beer to celebrate a job well-done. Most people can't say they can do that.
Q: What did you want to be when you grew up?
A: I always enjoyed sports growing up, so a professional football player would have been awesome.
Q: What kept you from pursuing that vision?
A: Unfortunately, I don't have the talent to make that dream come true.
Q: Where do you see yourself careerwise in 10 years?
A: I enjoy working in the beer industry and would like to continue on the distributor side. It would be a great opportunity to manage or own my own distributor.
Q: Outside of work, what's your favorite thing to do and your favorite place to do it?
A: I enjoy the outdoors. Living in Colorado, there is great skiing, camping, hunting and other activities to do on the weekends.
Q: What role does volunteering/giving back play in your work or personal life?
A: Volunteering your time is a great opportunity to bring people together for the common good. Besides the several donation events I work through HCB, my wife is also involved with several events in the community. Her events usually require extra help, so I get to volunteer with her, as well.
Q: Where is your favorite spot in Fort Collins and why?
A: Old Town in the summer is always great. Being able to sit and enjoy a beer on a patio is always relaxing.
Q: If you could interview one person in the world who would that be and why?
A: Both of my grandpas. One died before I was born, and the other passed when I was young. I would love to hear stories firsthand from each of them.
Chris Reynolds
• Age: 37
• Occupation: Brand manager, High Country Beverage
• Education: Bachelor's degree, Colorado State University
• Family: Wife, Rochelle; son, Colton
• Contact information: (970) 622-8444


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There's a secret to having a sustainable and beautiful garden. It's called nectar. Learn what nectar is, why it's so important in nature, and why birds love it so much.
What Is Nectar?
(noun) Nectar is a sweet, nutritious, energy-rich liquid produced by some flowers to attract pollinators such as insects, bats, and birds. Different flowers produce slightly different types of nectar, but each one offers nutrition to the wildlife that drinks it, in exchange for pollinating the flowers so the plants can reproduce.
(rhymes with vector, specter, and collector)
About Nectar
The production of nectar is one way some flowering plants attract pollinators. As the visitors drink the nectar, they rub against the pollen-producing anther of the flower and then transfer pollen to other flowers as they feed in different areas. This allows the plant to reproduce, and the nectar is the pollinators' motivation for visiting multiple flowers and spreading the pollen around for more genetic variation among plants.
The quantity and composition of nectar vary for each flower species but generally contains mostly water and sugar with trace amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, salts, and amino acids. The sugar content ranges from 3-80 percent depending on the type of flower and the soil quality. Flowers will regenerate their nectar over time, though the time for regeneration also varies from a few minutes to several hours. Temperature, soil moisture, and plant age can affect how quickly nectar is replenished and how much is produced at once.
The shape, color, and size of flowers have evolved to indicate to birds and other wildlife that nectar is available. Long, tubular flowers, for example, are ideal for hummingbirds that hover while feeding, while flatter flowers with broadheads are preferred by butterflies that perch as they sip nectar.
Birds That Drink Nectar
Many different birds sip nectar, either as a major part of their diet or a supplemental treat when it is easily available. Birds known to drink nectar to varying degrees include:
- Bananaquits
- Chickadees
- Finches
- Flowerpeckers
- Hummingbirds
- Honeyeaters
- Lorikeets
- Orioles
- Sunbirds
- Verdins
- Warblers
- White-eyes
- Woodpeckers
Birds may access nectar in several ways. Birds with longer, thinner bills, such as hummingbirds, bananaquits, and sunbirds, insert their bills into the flower so they can lick at the nectar directly. Birds with sharp bills, such as warblers, flowerpeckers, and verdins, pierce the bottom of the flower in order to release the stored nectar so it can be drunk easily. Birds with sturdier bills, such as finches, nibble at the flower, crushing the bloom and releasing the nectar that way.
No bird has a diet exclusively of nectar. If a bird did nothing but drink nectar, they would suffer from nutritional deficiencies from a lack of protein, amino acids, and essential minerals. Many nectar-drinking birds get those other critical parts of their diet from eating insects, including spiders and caterpillars. Birds with a more widely varied diet have no trouble meeting their nutritional needs, even if they do sip from flowers occasionally.
Nectar-eating birds are called nectivorous if nectar does make up a large proportion of the majority of their diet, such as with hummingbirds.
In addition to birds, many other types of wildlife enjoy the nectar. Bears, butterflies, bats, squirrels, raccoons, insects, hummingbird moths, lizards, and other wildlife may drink nectar depending on how it is available and what other food sources are nearby.
Artificial Nectar
Artificial nectar can be purchased in powder, concentrate, and ready-to-drink forms. A simple homemade nectar recipe of four parts water to one part sugar can be easily mixed to supplement flowers or fill nectar feeders. This recipe contains a sugar concentration of 20-25 percent, which most closely mimics the sugar concentration in natural nectar that birds prefer. If birders do opt for commercially produced nectar products, it is highly recommended that they avoid offering any nectar varieties that include extra dyes, flavoring, or preservatives, any of which could prove dangerous to birds. Extensive studies have not yet conclusively proven the problems or benefits of such additives, but conscientious birders will not take the risk of endangering birds with excess ingredients that are easily avoided by making homemade nectar.
Planting nectar-bearing flowers and flowering vines is another great way to attract birds with a natural, renewable food source. Bee balms, salvias, zinnias, columbines, coneflowers, butterfly bushes, larkspurs, and petunias are all nectar-rich flowers that will produce ongoing nectar for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife throughout the growing season.


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Show: Interactive Wrestling Radio
Guest: Christopher Daniels
Date: December 7, 2018
Host: James Walsh
Will this be Christopher Daniels' Final Battle in Ring of Honor? Former ROH Champion and proud member of SoCal Uncensored (SCU), Christopher Daniels joined the Wrestling Epicenter for the first time in 15 years to discuss his upcoming match against the "Villain" Marty Scurll at ROH Final Battle. If Daniels wins, he earns the ROH World Title opportunity and leverage to extend his run in the company further after the mandate put forth by ROH COO Joe Koff earlier this year. If Daniels should not win, well, let's just say his chances of staying with ROH shrink exponentially. In other words, Final Battle on Dec. 14 (available on PPV, Fide TV, and ROH's website) could well be Daniels' final battle within the promotion!
•On his career being on the line at ROH Final Battle: "I've never really had these kind of stakes in Ring of Honor before. The situation, right now, is Joe Koff said earlier in the year that he wasn't going to renew my contract. I've been trying to find reasons for him to change his mind and he hasn't yet. Now, we've come to a point where Marty (Scurll) has decided to put his number 1 contendership, or his number 1 contender match that he won at Survival of the Fittest. So, if I win this match, I'll have a defacto extension until I wrestle for the world title. The situation now is, it is win or go home for me. That is a pretty big hurdle. And, of course, Marty Scurll is one of the top wrestlers in the world. It is a big challenge. I'm really looking forward to it. I think I have Marty's number. No matter what happens, I'm going to do what I do best which is wrestle and we'll see how it goes."
•On how he and Marty Scurll match up: "It is funny, I feel like I have the experience advantage on just about everybody in Ring of Honor. That has always been something I can fall back on – To use the power and my mind to win the day for me. Marty is a peculiar cat. He's got his upbringing in British wrestling. It is something that I'm not 100% familiar with. I've scouted him, obviously. I've seen him wrestle. The stuff in his usual game, I've got a pretty good handle on. But, there are things that he's done coming up in that UK scene that could throw me off my game. It is a good match. For the first time ever!"
•On ROH signing Pierre Carl Ouelett: "I think it is great that PCO has reinvigorated himself and reinvented his career. I don't know what he was doing the years prior to bursting on the independent scene and making a splash like he did. It is a great acquisition for ROH to have. I think the eyes of the wrestling world were sort of on PCO. For him to come to Ring of Honor now is a statement that Ring of Honor is trying to get ahold of the best talent in the world to raise the game in Ring of Honor overall."
•On if he's happy he doesn't have to take part in Ladder War which hospitalized him last time: "Not really, man. If I could be in there with them, I would. I feel I have experience in Ladder Wars that would be helpful. But, I was really glad that Frankie (Kazarian) and Scoripio Sky had the chance to win the tag team titles. They're not fooling around, man. They wanted everyone to know that they're not ducking anyone. To call out the Briscoes and Bucks. It is a tall order. But, I think it is going to be a good night for SCU all over."
•On his memories of the 15th Anniversary show and winning the ROH World Title: "It was one of the greatest nights of my life, honesty. Everything went according to the way we thought it would. It was a sweet moment for me to finally become World Champion. I think it was only made sweeter by all the failed attempts that I had made prior. For me to win it, finally, at the 15th Anniversary, it just made for a perfect story. Literally one of the best nights of my life."
•On his perception of ROH's incredible growth: "I think it is a testament to all the hard work from all the talent and the guys behind the scenes. Ring of Honor has always strived to be the best alternative to the mainstream of professional wrestling and to focus on the in-ring action and bring the best wrestling to the United States. That includes having the partnership with New Japan and having the New Japan guys as part of our group. I look forward to the same thing happening into 2019. Just big steps forward. They're acquiring new talent day by day. I feel the future is bright for Ring of Honor and the fans are not going to be disappointed with the Ring of Honor of 2019."
•On possibly performing on ROH's sold out MSG Show G1 Supercard of Honor: "That would be a big deal, man! Obviously, Madison Square Garden is one of the most famous arenas in the world. Again, it is a testament to the hard work and the growth of Ring of Honor that Madison Square Garden was not just a possibility but now a reality. It is going to happen."
•On of the Elite/Bullet Club leaving Ring of Honor would have an impact on the company: "I think immediately it would have an effect, but honestly I think that is just how professional wrestling goes. If the Elite feel that Ring of Honor isn't the place for them anymore, then there will be spots that become open that will be filled by other wrestlers tapping in to their potential. That is just how it is. People leave professional wrestling companies and other wrestlers fill those spots and find success. Ring of Honor has had wrestlers leave in the past and has survived and thrived. So, I don't see anything different happening if the Elite decide to leave."
•On his All In match with Stephen Amell: "He was willing to do anything and he's a natural athlete. I knew that people's expectations for the match were going to be blown away. I think people were expecting a certain style of match and we went out and delivered above and beyond that."
•On the Jericho Cruise and ROH working with other wrestling promotions: "As long as they decide that it is best for the product and both companies can thrive and excel under those agreements, it is great for the wrestling fans. There are matches out there that haven't been seen yet. If the companies can find a way to reach an agreement, it benefits everybody! When you talk about the talk of the wrestling world being at All In or being on the Jericho Cruise, it is because they were not seeing things that is available everyday. That is the beauty of professional wrestling. We're all out there trying to get eyes on the product. If that is what it takes to get that and the companies can agree to do it, then I feel we should do it. It is for the betterment of wrestling overall and for the betterment of all of us who are working so hard to get our names out there."
•On what the future for Christopher Daniels is if he should lose at Final Battle: "I don't even know. I am going into Final Battle with the belief that I'm going to have my hand raised. If that doesn't happen, I'll have to consider that on Saturday morning."
NOW CHECK OUT THIS REPORT: ROH HITS & MISSES 12/2: King vs. Daniels, Castle, Cobb vs. Woods, Page vs. Façade, Lethal, Cody, Daniels and Scurll, SCU vs. Guerrero Maya Jr. & Stuka Jr.


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Ung Svensk Form 2020
@ IKEA Museum
Young Swedish Form 2020
@ IKEA Museum
29 April – 4 June 2020
Curiosity, humour and intelligent questions carry the development of design forward. The young designers in this year's edition of Young Swedish Design open a creative window onto the future.
Welcome to Young Swedish Design 2020, a co-production between Svensk Form (the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design) and ArkDes, with support from IKEA, IKEA Museum and City of Malmö. Young Swedish Design is a distinction presented, this year, to 25 young designers – and you can see more of their entries here!
This spring, we would have been showing the Young Swedish Design 2020 exhibition to visitors here at IKEA Museum in Älmhult. However, since you can't visit us, we're providing a digital display of this year's 25 winning entries. The exhibition demonstrates a desire to experiment, creativity, innovation and future thinking – something we can all be inspired by.
Anna Sandberg Falk, Curator, IKEA Museum
Visit the exhibition online:
Julia Olanders, Betweenness. Judges' comments: Objects that challenge truths about beautiful and ugly, prototype and product, traditional and innovative. Betweenness is neither or both, primeval forms that can be interpreted as our age's version of the marble statues of antiquity – made to crumble away within a few months.


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Lance Armstrong leaves a legacy of mistrust in his wake
Last updated on .From the section Cycling
Reaction to the latest instalment in the Lance Armstrong "narrative" - a "mythic, perfect story" that has finally been exposed as a very real and sordid lie - has filled the airwaves, emptied forests and kept the fairies that make the internet work busy over the last 48 hours.
One of the people "run over" by Armstrong during his "arrogant jerk" years, which by his own admission appear to account for his entire adult life, recently told me it has "become easy" to pile into the fallen hero now his legal weaponry has been so emphatically spiked by the truth.
The point Betsy Andreu was making was 'where was I when it wasn't so easy, when the great man wasn't on the ropes, with his guard down and legs wobbling?'
Fair comment was all I could counter with, before trying to mitigate my failings by pointing out how hard it was to crack the "one big lie" (told many, many times) without the coercive powers of those who Armstrong described as men "with a badge and a gun".
As it happened, that is not how the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) compiled its 1,000-page bunker-buster of a case against him. The 11 former team-mates who testified against Armstrong and his five co-conspirators did so under oath, and in a less comfortable confessional than Austin's Four Seasons Hotel, but they were not forced to do so.
There were, however, a few brave souls who did take on Armstrong's army even before open season was declared with the publication of Usada's evidence last October. It has been good to see so many decent people vindicated.
But now that it is all out there - well, the bits that matter to the American mainstream audience that Armstrong must win back if he is to have any chance of avoiding an eternal place in every "biggest cheats/frauds/liars" compilation - what is Lance's legacy for cycling, the sport he dominated, enriched and transcended?
Tragedy is a vastly overused word in sports reporting, so I will tread carefully and say the inheritance that the former seven-time Tour de France champion has left his sport is pretty meagre.
An indication of this came in a powerful piece of radio on Friday night. Jeremy Whittle, a cycling journalist who wrote about his own journey to Lance enlightenment in the excellent "Bad Blood", was asked if he trusted today's generation of riders. The answer was as bleak as it was damning.
"I'll never trust anybody again. And I'm talking about people I would happily share a bottle of wine with over the course of an interview," he said.
"I have trusted people in the past and repeatedly that trust has been betrayed. So I will go to the next Tour de France not trusting anybody.
"That is the best position to adopt if you want to be really clear and pragmatic about where this sport is at. They will have to earn my trust because of all the damage that has been done."
It is a sentiment I have heard recently from several others - journalists such as Paul Kimmage and David Walsh, the anti-doping expert Dr Michael Ashenden, and former riders Christophe Bassons and Jorg Jaksche, all men who were ahead of the game in regards to the tawdry Texan.
Given their experiences in dealing with Armstrong, and the corrupt culture that enabled him to thrive, it is hardly surprising they feel this way. It will take more than slower speeds up mountains and Sir Bradley Wiggins losing his temper to convince them it is safe to believe again.
Yet amid the wreckage of the first international superstar cyclist's career there is genuine hope for the future.
After hearing Armstrong tell Oprah Winfrey that he thought it was impossible to win the Tour without doping I phoned David Millar, who was caught with cycling's drug du jour EPO in 2004 but has since become one of his sport's most credible advocates for change, to ask if this was true.
"Yes, it is fair for him to say that," he admitted.
"In 1997, I remember asking Tony Rominger (a leading rider at the time) if you could win clean and he said 'yes, but not a grand tour (the Giro, Tour or Vuelta)'.
"That was how it was when Lance came onto the scene. The sport was in a horrible state, it had got out of control.
"But what we've done now - in the last four or five years - is a total shift. We're a new sport, we're very healthy and I'm proud of where we are now.
"That guys like Bradley Wiggins can win the Tour as an unequivocally clean athlete is evidence of that.
"I've got a young son and a few years ago the last thing I would have wanted for him was to become a professional cyclist. Now I'd have no problem with that. We're a different sport."
I, for one, want to believe this, and by and large I do. But then nobody has lied to my face. At least not as far as I know.
This issue of how different cycling has become was addressed by Armstrong early in his interview with Winfrey.
In a section that could have been scripted by the sport's beleaguered governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI), he said the development of rigorous new testing procedures after his first retirement in 2005 made it too risky for him to continue cheating when he returned to professional cycling in 2009.
Do we believe him about being clean in his comeback? Hmmm. Close inspection of 38 of his blood samples from that period by the Australian Institute of Sport suggested there was a one in a million chance of them being kosher. He has always maintained he was special, though.
But we can have more faith in the biological passports. No anti-doping system will ever be unbeatable - there will always be a minority in every group willing to explore new methods of cheating - but it is clearly better than the tests Armstrong and co so easily evaded.
What would be really useful, however, is some input from Armstrong on making the tests even more robust. Who better than the one who so nearly got away with it to point out the weaknesses in the system, and name the bad apples who helped him exploit those weaknesses?
Information like this would help him with his bid to lift "the death sentence" he was given in October.
But if Armstrong is to qualify for the kind of reduced sentence that his accusers got, he must actually help the authorities with their inquiries. This is a basic tenet of western justice, and it is a quid pro quo he flatly refused when it was offered to him.
He gets this now, of course, as he made clear to Winfrey in part two of their some-holds-barred, tell-bits interview. But then, in the very next breath, he admitted this is not "going to happen and I've got to live with that".
Yes, Lance, you will have to live with your lifetime ban from sport unless you drop the careful legal strategies, show real remorse and tell the anti-doping authorities something they do not already know.
Until that occurs Armstrong will remain banned, cycling will be none the wiser as to how these scandals keep happening, and Millar, Wiggins and a growing percentage (I hope) of the peloton will have to continue to perform under a cloud of suspicion that is not of their making.


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June's WSOF card is official for its swap of states and venues.
WSOF 10 was scheduled to take place June 21 at the Event Center at San Jose State University in California. Instead, the card will take place on the same date at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
MMAjunkie first reported the news in April, and WSOF officials recently made the switch official.
"Every time we hold an event, we always work hard to put on the most exciting fights possible," WSOF President Ray Sefo stated. "World Series of Fighting 10 will be no exception and will deliver one exciting fight after another at The Joint in The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which is such a fantastic venue we decided to return on June 21."
WSOF already has two title fights booked for the show and is promising a third will be added to the slate. The main card will air on NBC Sports Network at 9 p.m. ET following online prelims.
WSOF 10 features a pair of title fights at the top of the bill. Headlining the card is a featherweight title fight between reigning champion Georgi Karakhanyan (23-3-1) and Rick Glenn (14-2). Additionally, David Branch (13-3) and Jesse Taylor (27-9) fight for the inaugural WSOF middleweight belt.
Along with the middleweight division, WSOF does not yet have champions in the heavyweight or light heavyweight weight classes. Women's strawweight champion Jessica Aguilar won her title in January. Bantamweight champ Marlon Moraes won his belt in March.
Lightweight titleholder Justin Gaethje is expected to headline WSOF 11 against Nick Newell. And Rousimar Palhares was expected to meet Jon Fitch to defend his welterweight title at WSOF 11, but recently pulled out of that fight.
Tickets for the event go on sale this Saturday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT local time in Las Vegas) at AXS.com.
So far, three of the promotion's nine numbered events have taken place in its home base of Las Vegas.
The latest WSOF 10 card includes:
- Champ Georgi Karakhanyan vs. Rick Glenn – for featherweight title
- David Branch vs. Jesse Taylor – for inaugural middleweight title
For the latest on WSOF 10, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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A USA limited theatrical release for the award winning documentary kicks off this week, starting this Friday, November 13, 2015 at Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles, and on November 20 at Cinema Village in NYC. Others cities will follow, so stay tuned for announcements.
Imagine if Lil' Wayne ran for president of the United States. Such was the mission of Haitian star turned candidate Michel Martelly. "Sweet Micky for President" manages to successfully portray the raunchy pop star's tumultuous campaign as he attempts to go from the bad boy of Haitian music to Head of State.With a few quick strokes, the film lays out Haiti's history from the first Black independent nation through its succession of coups d'etat, tonton makouts and Tit Anyen and near constant political instability ending with the devastating earthquake of 2010, one of the worst natural disasters known to mankind. Images of Haitians haggardly running through the streets of Port-au-Prince frame Haiti as a nation in shambles.
With this apocalyptic backdrop, enters Michel Martelly AKA Sweet Micky, who at the suggestion of Pras Michel (formerly of the Fugees) decides to run for president. There is no plan, no roadmap, no campaign manager, just two guys who think this is a brilliant idea. Only one thing is made clear at the outset, Martelly loves his country and he has been a fierce critic of Haitian presidents throughout his career as a musician.
"Sweet Micky for President" then artfully takes us through a roller coaster ride, navigating the ups and downs of a chaotic campaign. To say Martelly was unprepared is an understatement. He and his camp were clueless and you get the feeling that they never expected the campaign to pick up steam. So when it does, panic ensues.
"Sweet Micky for President" is an underdog story. It's like the little league team composed of misfits, destined to lose. At times euphoric, the film makes you want to root for Martelly. He must overcome a parade of political players, including the return of popular former president Aristide. Other notable candidates include Wyclef Jean with seemingly unlimited resources and clout; Mirlande Manigat with her 30+ years of political experience and Jude Celestin who was sitting president Preval's son-in-law. At one point Martelly appears devastatingly unprepared as he explains that his background as a band leader qualifies him to lead Haiti. You'd almost feel sorry for him if the stakes weren't so high.
The film tellingly reveals the reality of America's influence on Haitian politics. One particularly revealing scene shows what can only be called a summit in the U.S. between Pras, Martelly, Wyclef and Sean Penn, where Penn says to Wyclef: "well, you had your ideas [about the elections] and we had ours." In the next shot, Pras narrates that Hillary Clinton flew to Haiti to tell the sitting president how this is supposed to go down. Then miraculously, the second round of the elections includes Martelly, who had been previously excluded in the first round results.
One minor distraction was the various talking heads that put in their two cents. Some were necessary, others were superfluous and simply took away from the story. Also, if you're looking for a balanced view of the Haitian elections, this isn't it. The story is told through Pras and Martelly's POV. In fact, Pras narrates the story himself. Finally, there are some "facts" that are inaccurate. For instance, Pras suggesting that Wyclef introduced Range Rovers to Haiti or that no one knew Martelly spoke French before the elections. Those are minor and don't take away from a truly engaging documentary, regardless of where you fall on the Haitian political spectrum.


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Arranged for interchangeable woodwind ensemble by David Marlatt
Includes score and parts
Duration: 2:20
Part 1. flute (or oboe or clarinet)
Part 2. flute (or oboe or clarinet)
Part 3. clarinet (or alto sax or F horn)
Part 4. clarinet (or alto sax or tenor sax)
Part 5. bass clarinet (or bassoon or baritone sax)
Pat-a-Pan is a very rustic Christmas piece that is set in a round beginning with the highest voice and pyramiding down. The percussive "drone" parts add a distinct color to this piece and this sort of writing works well with various combinations of woodwind instruments. Ensemble parts can be played as follows: part 1-flute,oboe,clarinet; part 2-flute,oboe,clarinet; part 3-clarinet,altosax,F horn; part 4-clarinet,alto sax,tenor sax; part 5-bass clarinet,bassoon,baritone sax.


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Our Precious Baby Has Arrived!
Many of you know, I was pregnant with my first baby. Well, I am excited to announce that our baby boy has arrived! If you have been following my social media and blog, it may have seemed that I went on radio silence for the last few weeks. In fact, I have and it was for good reason. Our baby boy arrived 4 weeks early! He completely caught me off guard and unprepared. As a result, my work and social media has taken the back burner as I have been getting adjusted to my new lifestyle. I am madly in love with my baby boy and cannot imagine my world without him, but oh my, did life change sooner than anticipated. The whole idea of having a week off before he came to meal prep and get ready for his arrival didn't happen. Obviously, God had other plans for our son's arrival and I trust that He knows best.
So over the next few weeks, I am going to ask for your continued patience as I get back into the swing of posting blogs and recipes. For being am organized person, having a baby continues to help me grow with flexibility which I love and need.
Here are a few photos of our new family member.
He is sporting his very own Ironman onesie in the photo with me!


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Let's Do It AI Project
How we've harnessed artificial intelligence to spot trash
Trash is everywhere. Left uncollected, it often ends up harming the environment. To clean it up efficiently, we need to focus on the places that are most affected. But how do we know where in the world that is?
By combining artificial intelligence with tens of thousands of publicly available photos, we can help solve this problem. We, Let's Do It Foundation and SIFR in partnership with Microsoft, have developed an AI algorithm for detecting trash in geolocated images. Today, our algorithm is surveying images all over the world, locating trash on a global scale so that our network of cleanup teams can target the worst locations. We are thankful for mentorship from Walter Yu at CalTrans, who inspired its development and for support from Microsoft.
This is the story of how we achieved it.
What's trash, anyway?
Trash is a rather complicated object to detect. Imagine a restaurant table with cans of soda on it, people having fun, eating and drinking. In that context, cans are not trash. BUT, when those cans are on the street, they can most likely be considered trash.
This is the main challenge with any image-based trash detection algorithm. Not everything that LOOKS like trash IS trash. Trash is a word people use of an object that lacks purpose, and the purpose of an object is often not obvious in the images we use for teaching an algorithm to spot trash.
The plan
The machine learning project was divided into 5 steps :
- Collecting images – Luckily for us, this part was mostly done by the Let's Do It World foundation and UC Riverside, who are experts at identifying and cleaning up trash. We had thousands of images collected through the World Cleanup App and scraped from Google Street View to use for our model.
- Selecting images – We strategically chose most of the images that went into the model. We started with a sample of images, trained the model, and analyzed the results. Based on the results, we determined what images we had to add to the next iteration of training.
- Object detection – This step was very time consuming because it required a lot of manual work: marking all the trash in each of our selected images. We got help from the lovely volunteers from LDIW Foundation and UC Riverside, and all together manually annotated over 1000 images for the model to learn what trash is.
- Training the machine learning model – This was done multiple times, each time adapting the parameters of the Mask R-CNN model to improve the results and adding new images to the training dataset.
- Result validation, Testing the training – After each training cycle, the best model was chosen and tested by having it predict trash on test images. These images were not in the training dataset and were used to assess the accuracy of the model.
How did it go? Read on to find out.
Finding the right tool
We started off testing the idea of trash detection with the YOLO (You Only Look Once) object detection system in the beginning of March 2019. We selected the initial weights available (tiny yolo) and trained the model to detect only one class: trash. This was done on about 40 images selected from the web.
The results were promising, but clearly not enough:
For greater precision, we decided to use Mask R-CNN Python implementation (more info on Mask R-CNN: introductory paper, GitHub) to get the benefit of both object detection and segmentation (a good explanation of both). But this required even more manual annotation of the images: since Mask R-CNN uses polygons as its input, this time just dragging a box around trash was not enough. With the help of LDIW volunteers, we started annotating images with the VGG Image Annotator tool.
Selecting what images to annotate and add was done rather methodically. Since annotating takes a lot of time, we started strategically choosing images that would benefit our goal the most.
The initial requirements of AI tool to help to detect trash were quite straight forward:
- Detect piles of garbage
- Do not detect humans
As a side note, we continued training the heads of coco weights, because earlier layers detect low level features (edges and corners), and later layers detect higher level features (car, person, cat) and in our case – trash.
During the initial testing, it was decided that the model will be trained to detect piles of garbage, rather than single elements of trash on the ground. Our reasoning was that bigger piles are less likely to move (so they may be cleaned up by Let's Do It World teams), and that trash piles should carry enough characteristics compared to the background to be easily detectable.
Learning what trash is
Unfortunately, in the beginning, our model did not really seem to get the idea of trash. With every new test image, we found new objects that needed to be added to the training dataset to stop the model detecting non-trash objects as trash.
As you can see, the model's understanding of what trash is was limited to "Mixture of randomly placed colors with no structure on a somewhat solid background". This means that almost anything too colorful or weird shaped was trash to the model, even if in real life, it was not trash.
Mask R-CNN can teach its models 2 classes: "Trash" and "Background". For us, this meant that everything we didn't label, the model learned to recognize as background. We started adding images that included "humans and trash", as well as "trash and cars", "trash and animals", "trash and streets" and so on, and the model gradually became better.
During our development the model output developed from this:
… to this:
… to finally this:
And from this:
… to this:
… to finally this:
Taking it to the streets
At this point we had not yet incorporated the images from Google Street View. Our model was built from a collection of roughly 700 images, of which around 100 were selected from web searches and about 600 taken by volunteers at the Let's Do It World events.
We trained the model with 115 epochs and 10 steps in each, with the learning rate being 0,001. The parameters we set were quite similar to the Balloon example demonstrated on https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN.
After some rounds of train-validate-repeat, we started testing the model on Google Street View images. We quickly discovered that these images were very different from the ones we had trained the model on. The quality of the images was slightly poorer and there were many image defects due to the fact that they were made on a moving car.
There were also some objects that the model had not learned in the previous training: the model did not understand light flares, road surface markings, roadside posts, or the Google Street View car's camera shadow.
Camera shadows are not trash:
Neither are light flares:
Road surface markings are also not trash:
After seeing the mistakes, we added some Google Street View images to the training dataset. We had nearly 50 000 images to choose from, and from these, we made a selection of images that the model had labelled incorrectly. Finally, we had 1300 images in the training dataset. We trained 200 epochs, with 17 steps in each with a learning rate 0,001.
The results are now starting to look quite promising. To finish up the story about where we are now, here are number of positive examples:
Next steps
- Looking for funding and partners with whom to verify our AI solution for the entire world;
- Assure public access to the source code;
- Make 1 billion people aware of the trash problem.
During the process of developing this model, the team has looked through thousands of images that are just full of piles of trash: in the natural environment, on the street, in the sea, in countries around the world. We were able to detect the exact location of mismanaged waste.
Here are the examples of locations from USA
and ThailandWe have a big mess to clean up. And we hope that our model can help make the process of cleaning the world easier and faster and help to keep the planet clean.
The Team
|Kristiina Kerge
Tech Innovation Lead
Let's Do It Foundation
[email protected]
|Win Cowger
Graduate Student, Environmental Sciences
University of California, Riverside
|Kris Haamer
Programming the web and creating experiences across media
|Kristin Ehala
Data Scientist
| Kaarel Kivistik
AI architect
|Taavi Tammiste
AI and ML Expert
|Merili Vares Executive Director Let's Do It Foundation
For more information please contact with Kristiina Kerge from Let's Do It Foundation [email protected]


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This documentation has not been updated for Release 4.0.0 yet. Please see the one host (all-in-one) Manual Installation Instructions.
Intended as guidance for production environments with different hosts for most tasks, these instructions provide a recipe for building only the Web piece of an Avalon system from scratch on CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recipes for the other components for Avalon may be found here. Fedora (standalone), MySQL (standalone), Solr (standalone), Red5 (standalone), and Matterhorn (standalone).
Instructions for building every component on one host (all-in-on) please see here: Manual Installation Instructions.
Ready the Installation Environment
Install EPEL
rpm -ivh http://linux.mirrors.es.net/fedora-epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
This package has libyaml-devel which is required by ruby and not provided by Redhat.
Make sure a valid hostname is resolvable
The default hostname is "avalon.dev", so name the machine this and enter it into /etc/hosts
# hostname avalon.dev # cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 avalon.dev
Configure iptables
The Avalon Media System requires several ports to be open to client browsers.
Here are the port settings that will need to be configured:
|HTTP (Avalon)
The preferred method is to create a shell script that will do the work for you. Here is an example script that you should look through and customize as needed: avalon-iptables-config.sh
If you're connected over ssh, it might kick you off.
Save your script to /etc/sysconfig/avalon-iptables-config.sh, make it executable and run it.
chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/avalon-iptables-config.sh /etc/sysconfig/avalon-iptables-config.sh
If you run into connection issues you can disable the iptables, by running "service iptables stop". This will completely drop your firewall. When finished troubleshooting run "service iptables start".
Disable SELinux
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce vim /etc/selinux/config #change the value of `SELINUX` from `enforcing` to `permissive`
Add the NUL repository
Create the NUL repository config file:
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/nul-public.repo
Append the following code:
[nul_public] name=NUL Library Public RHEL repository baseurl=http://yumrepo-public.library.northwestern.edu/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-nul cost=150
Install and place the NUL GPG key in the proper location:
curl http://yumrepo-public.library.northwestern.edu/RPM-GPG-KEY-nul -o /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-nul
Install development libraries and packages for building Ruby
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install readline-devel zlib-devel libyaml-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
Install and start the httpd service.
yum install httpd service httpd start
Add avalon user and create avalon directory.
useradd avalon mkdir /var/www/avalon chown -R avalon:avalon /var/www/avalon
Apache Passenger and Ruby
Change current user to avalon then install RVM and ruby 2.1.5.
su - avalon curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=2.1.5
Source the RVM shell (as avalon user)
source /home/avalon/.rvm/scripts/rvm
Install Passenger via Gem (as avalon user)
gem install passenger
Check to make sure passenger installed in the expected location (as avalon user)
$ passenger-config --root /home/avalon/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/gems/passenger-4.0.56
Install Passenger apache module requirements (as root)
su - root yum install curl-devel httpd httpd-devel apr-devel apr-util-devel
Build passenger for your version of Apache and Ruby (as avalon user)
su - avalon passenger-install-apache2-module #copy the suggested Apache configuration file settings for later
Create an apache configuration file (as root)
su - root vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf
Example contents of /etc/httpd/conf.d/passenger.conf:
LoadModule passenger_module /home/avalon/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/gems/passenger-4.0.56/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so <IfModule passenger_module> PassengerRoot /home/avalon/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/gems/passenger-4.0.56 PassengerDefaultRuby /home/avalon/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.1.5/ruby PassengerMaxPoolSize 30 PassengerPoolIdleTime 300 PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp 0 PassengerMinInstances 3 PassengerSpawnMethod smart-lv2 </IfModule>
Apache security configuration
wget https://raw.github.com/avalonmediasystem/config-files/master/sbin/avalon_auth -O /usr/local/sbin/avalon_auth chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/avalon_auth wget https://raw.github.com/avalonmediasystem/config-files/master/apache/10-mod_rewrite.conf -P /etc/httpd/conf.d/
Create a virtual host for avalon in /etc/httpd/conf.d/avalon.conf
wget https://raw.github.com/avalonmediasystem/config-files/master/apache/20-avalon.conf -P /etc/httpd/conf.d/ vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/20-avalon.conf
Add this line to 20-avalon under the VirtualHost tag:
RailsEnv development
Restart apache. With apache running, check passenger-status
/etc/init.d/httpd restart su - avalon which passenger-status #> ~/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin/passenger-status
Grab Avalon code from github
cd ~ git clone git://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon.git cd avalon git checkout master #make sure you are in the master branch (should be by default) mv public/* /var/www/avalon/public/ mv * /var/www/avalon/
Configure Avalon
Create /var/www/avalon/config/setup_load_paths.rb and add:
if ENV['MY_RUBY_HOME'] && ENV['MY_RUBY_HOME'].include?('rvm') begin gems_path = ENV['MY_RUBY_HOME'].split(/@/)[0].sub(/rubies/,'gems') ENV['GEM_PATH'] = "#{gems_path}:#{gems_path}@global" require 'rvm' RVM.use_from_path! File.dirname(File.dirname(__FILE__)) rescue LoadError raise "RVM gem is currently unavailable." end end # If you're not using Bundler at all, remove lines bellow ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] = File.expand_path('../Gemfile', File.dirname(__FILE__)) require 'bundler/setup'
cd /var/www/avalon/config cp authentication.yml.example authentication.yml
Configure database settings
vim database.yml
Replace database.yml with the correct values for your development environment
development: adapter: mysql2 host: localhost database: rails username: rails password: rails pool: 5 timeout: 5000
Install the mysql2 adapter
su - root yum install mysql-devel su - avalon gem install activerecord-mysql2-adapter gem install mysql2 su - root vim /var/www/avalon/Gemfile
Add this line to the Gemfile
gem 'mysql2', '~>0.3.11'
If you are using mysql instead of sqllite (as is done throughout this document), then comment out the following lines in the Gemfile
# gem 'activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter' # gem 'jdbc-sqlite3' # gem 'sqlite3'
Run the bundle install
Install additional dependencies
yum install rubygem-json cmake
Run bundler
su - avalon cd /var/www/avalon gem update debugger-ruby_core_source bundle install
Finish configuring Avalon
Edit /var/www/avalon/config/solr.yml
development: url: http://localhost:8983/solr/
Edit /var/www/avalon/config/fedora.yml
development: user: fedoraAdmin password: fedoraPassword url: http://127.0.0.1:8983/fedora
Create /var/www/avalon/config/matterhorn.yml
development: url: http://matterhorn_system_account:CHANGE_ME@localhost:8080/
Create /var/www/avalon/config/avalon.yml and base it off of /var/www/avalon/config/avalon.yml.example. Consult the documentation to customize this file for your installation.
development: dropbox: path: '/var/avalon/dropbox/' upload_uri: 'sftp://localhost/var/avalon/dropbox' username: 'test' password: 'test' notification_email_address: ''
Create the database using rake
su - avalon cd /var/www/avalon rake db:create
If you get an error message saying that you can't connect to the database, take a look at this post and follow some of the troubleshooting steps.
Run the database migrations
rake db:migrate
Set rails environment to development, if it has not defaulted to this. On the first line of /var/www/avalon/config/environment.rb make sure it says 'development'
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'development'
Visit your new Avalon site!
You should be able to visit the webpage with just the hostname (ie http://localhost)
Click on "Sign in" in the upper right corner of the website main page. Set up a default identity with the following properties.
firstname.lastname@example.com password/password
This is a known identity with administrative privileges.
Start delayed_job
As avalon run
cd /var/www/avalon/ bundle exec rake delayed_job:start
Delayed Job handles background jobs. DelayedJob logs to log/delayed_job.log in the avalon directory.
Using the System
You can find specific information about using the system in the Collection Manager's Guide. Upload items individually or via batch. Sample content is available for your convenience.
Known Issues - a list of bugs, workarounds, and cautions.
Restarting the Server
Before you restart your Avalon server, you'll want to make sure all of the services necessary to run Avalon will start automatically after the restart. Run these commands once and you should be set:
chkconfig --level 345 sshd on chkconfig --level 345 httpd on


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The Biltwell 500 wasn't for everyone. Leading up to the event, many people showed concern for the bad rep Baja banditos have given the peninsula. Those who saw through the media hype enjoyed the ride of their life. Riders from as far away as Canada, Utah, Colorado, Jersey and Texas made the trip, and there were even a couple guys from Southern California. Riding your two-wheeled freedom machine to somewhere fun is really what it's all about, and these guys proved it.
A microscopic subculture of young, hard-riding rebels is starting to grow within today's broader chopper scene, and nothing lights its fire like an invitation to Mexico. The Biltwell 500 was just such an event, and for the 35 or so hardy souls who attended this four-day fiesta, Baja did not disappoint. On paper the route seemed short and sweet: cross the US/Mexican border in San Diego and head south 156 miles on Baja Highway 1. At a dirt road south of San Telmo, take a hard right and dodge knee-deep potholes and low-flying Dodge Neons until you hit Cuatro Casas Surf Hostel on the Pacific Ocean. Mexican miles are tougher on men and machines than any 150-mile American stretch you can imagine, and that's what makes riding Baja so unique.The Mexican highway south and north of Ensenada is glorious, with lots of curves and elevation gains, sparse traffic and mostly well-maintained tarmac. The dirt road to Cuatro Casas, on the other hand, took its toll during the adventure. With the smallest gas tank in the crew getting about 40 miles per fill-up, stops were plentiful, but no one seemed to mind, and there was no reason to hurry anyway. Several chase trucks followed with the bare essentials: gas, food, beer, surfboards, fireworks, dirt bikes and girls. On the way down only minor mechanical problems popped up, and none were dealbreakers. After roughly nine hours in the saddle, the 500 crew rolled into Cuatro Casas at 5 p.m. A friendly gringo named Richard runs the semi-famous skate and surf camp, and he greeted the gang with clean beds and hot fish tacos. Those who chose to rough it pitched their tents on the cliff overlooking the surf break 100 feet below.
For the next two days everyone on the Biltwell 500 did his own thing. Some rode dirt bikes or surfed, while others used the down time to fix bikes, skate the bowl or put in time with import chicks Haley and Audrey. On day two our friend Tim crashed his Sporty into a ditch and a rescue team had to get him out. Tim was fine, but his bike needed some work to get back on the road. The award for toughest innocent bystander definitely goes to Juno's lady Suzy, who survived a wild ride on Juno's passenger seat and the explosive attack of an errant bottle rocket. Either adventure could have killed her, but Suzy stepped out of both predicaments alive and smiling. On the third and final night of their stay, Biltwell 500 runners were treated to a boat burning. Several liquored-up cats made Molotov cocktails to get the party started, but none of their gas-filled beer bottles shattered on impact. Richard stepped in with some gas and a match, and the 30-foot-long cabin cruiser burned to a smoldering pile of ash in a matter of hours. At the height of the fire some equally hot girl-on-girl catfight action broke out between Audrey and Chris Huber's ladyfriend Colleen. When the dust settled, both girls left with busted lips and a fistful of the other chick's hair. Wild stuff. To commemorate the good times, Rouser Rob pulled out his tattoo kit and XS Eric drew blood on a couple comrades. Chris Huber was so stoked he gave himself a "500" tattoo. That's commitment.
As far as the kind of iron that tackled Baja, at least 20 Sportsters made the ride, flanked by a half dozen tough-as-nails XS650's, a couple Hinckley Triumphs, two FXRs, a Dyna and one BMW dual-sport 650. The oldest and arguably coolest bike on the trip was AZ Nick's rigid pan, which was hard to start but ran great the whole way without a hiccup. One thing every bike had in common was crusty durability. The dirt roads exposed some weak spots on a couple bikes, but only one machine went home on a trailer, and that was due to a flat. If you want to test your fab and prep skills, 25 miles of Baja's backroads will probably do it.
You can see more pics in this thread in the Events Forum.
Photos by Bill Bryant, Harold McGruther, Matt Frick, Cindy DuLong and Haley Murray.
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Good morning, World 🙂
You know what's a great productivity booster for writing? I'll give you a hint — and no, it's not crack cocaine, making a deal with the devil, or hiring a ghost writer.
It's using the dictation feature on Google doc.
You see, when you have a document open in Google doc (on your phone), there's a little microphone in the corner of the keyboard. Click that shit, and start talking. Google will transcribe your voice right into the document! You can even say words like "Comma," or "period" and it will type them into the text for you.
This discovery rocks. I outlined two chapters this morning by pacing back and forth in my room, talking to myself. Business as usual, I assure you. But this time, I had a decently sized word count to show for it. I'm officially all about dictation for my notes.
This shit is going to revolutionize my process.
Anyway, what are you up to?
I still have to make some phone calls and do some adulting, but after that I'm free as a bird to work on what I please.
Interesting idea of freedom, that.
Talk to you later. Do something that lifts your spirit today.
xoxo Liv


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PANAMA CITY — In the wee hours Thursday, eight women deliberating in the civil lawsuit against Joe Francis delivered a belated birthday present to the "Girls Gone Wild" creator when they declined to award any damages to any of the four women suing him. The verdict, which came about 1:30 a.m. — 14 hours after the jury began to deliberate — brought to a close the nearly two-week trial in which Francis represented himself until Judge Richard Smoak found him in contempt and fined him $2,500 after he asked one of the plaintiffs if she was a prostitute.
Reached later Thursday, Francis was exuberant.
"I'm feeling fantastic," Francis said. "I'm just happy it's over. This thing has dragged on long enough."
Francis was very aggressive in his cross-examination of the plaintiffs, two of whom left the witness stand in tears, despite Smoak's warning that jurors would think of him as "a reckless fool if you don't treat her with kid gloves."
"Let me make the mistake, your honor," Francis replied. "It's my mistake to make."
Francis said Thursday his treatment of the plaintiffs worked in his favor because it showed they were not victims.
"I think it helped. I think the judge was wrong," he said. "I shook them like a tree until all the fruit fell out, and I shook them violently."
The women, who were permitted to proceed anonymously, were under 18 years old when they were filmed flashing their breasts to "Girls Gone Wild" cameramen on Spring Break in Panama City Beach. They were seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the emotional injuries they said they'd suffered.
The jury found the evidence supported the statement that Francis' behavior was "beyond all possible bounds of decency and is regarded as shocking, atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community," but not with intent to cause emotional distress to the plaintiffs.
The jury's decision stunned Rachel Seaton-Virga and Gerard Virga, who took up Francis' defense halfway through the trial without access to all the plaintiffs' evidence. Gerard Virga compared the victory to hitting a pinch-hit, walk-off home run.
Ross McCloy, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, referred questions to lead attorney Larry Selander, who was traveling to Chicago and could not be reached for comment Thursday. During her closing arguments, Seaton-Virga told the jury an old saw: "When you have facts, you argue the facts; when you have the law, you argue the law, and when you have neither, you pound your fist." She told jurors the plaintiffs were pounding their fists.
"I think they followed the law. I think they got in there and they struggled, but they followed the law," Rachel Seaton-Virga said of the jury. "I was very surprised because it's not often that you find a jury that actually follows the law."
Francis thanked his lawyers and the jurors. He was critical of the plaintiffs and their lawyers, the local justice system and Judge Smoak.
"I wouldn't say I got a fair trial, but you know what, I got a fair result," Francis said. "I went up against the same judge who put me in jail … and I still had the (courage) to stand up there and fight for what was right." Francis spent nearly a year in jail when Smoak found him in contempt in 2007. He said he is exploring his legal options and may file suit against the plaintiffs and their attorneys. While the jury may have wanted to punish Francis for his business practices, there were some problems with the plaintiffs' case, Gerard Virga said.
"I just don't think the jurors could wrap their minds around the notion that she was coerced into taking a ride in his Ferrari and taking her back to his home," Gerard Virga said Thursday.
The plaintiffs' attorneys put on expert witnesses who testified the women didn't mention their experiences with "Girls Gone Wild" during sessions with therapists in the years after they were filmed because they were "psychologically captured" by Francis.
"You can bring Ph.Ds. and experts in to extrapolate these opinions, but common sense tells you when you don't talk about it for years, when you had opportunities, and it only comes up when you talk to the plaintiffs' experts, it just doesn't support the causal connection" between Francis and the plaintiffs' problems, Gerard Virga said.


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Turkey soup is a great way to make the most of your leftover turkey carcass, getting the most of all those little bits and pieces that might otherwise get thrown in the bin. Adding a few extra bits to the rich stick makes for a warming creamed turkey soup that's delicious on a cold evening during the festive period.
After all the cooking on Christmas day this soup is so simple to make and it makes a perfect light lunch or dinner on Boxing Day. Serve it up with crusty bread (with plenty of butter!) and a scattering of fresh parsley for a delicious and filling evening meal. Love cooking for the festive season? We've got loads more scrumptious Christmas recipes to try right here!
Looking for another recipe to use up your leftover turkey? Why not have a go at our delicious and simple turkey curry recipe!
- Turkey carcass
- 300ml (½ pint) left-over gravy
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh mixed herbs
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 250g (8oz) mushrooms, sliced
- 300ml (½ pint) milk
- Put the turkey carcass, with any remaining turkey meat on it, into a large pan. Add the gravy, onion and herbs and pour in 1 litre (1¾ pints) water. Season well.
- Put the lid on the pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 30 mins. Lift out the turkey carcass, pulling off any turkey meat left on there, if you like.
- Add the mushrooms and simmer for 15 mins. Use a stick blender to half-blend the soup in the pan, or blend about half the soup in a food processor and then pour it back into the pan. Stir in the milk and warm through to serve. Add slivers of cooked turkey, if you like.
Top Tip for making Turkey soup
If you have made stock from the giblets, add this to the pan for a full-flavoured soup instead of water. Also, any leftover vegetables, such as carrots, can be added.


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It does not have to be expensive to go green, nor does it have to be time consuming. Simply making a few changes to your home can cut electricity costs, and offer numerous benefits to the environment. Learn how to harness green energy to help the environment and yourself by reading this article.
Reduce your energy consumption by unplugging anything that is not in use, especially battery chargers. Your charger still uses energy while it's plugged in, even if it isn't charging anything.
When you can, wash your clothes using cold water. Almost 90% of the power you use to do laundry is simply used to heat the water. If you are using good quality washing detergent, cold water is effective. Additionally, always wash with a full load of laundry, as this helps to lower the amount of energy you use.
If you heat your home with fuel oil, inquire about switching over to biodiesel. Many systems can use biodiesels without any modification. Biodiesel can assist you in cutting your environmental impact when it is cold, because it burns more efficiently and cleaner than petroleum.
One great way of conserving energy is to ensure the dishwasher is only turned on when full. Never run it with just a few dishes inside. You'll be surprised at how many dishes a dishwasher can load. When loading the dishwasher, align the dishes in a way that allows you to fit the maximum number of items inside.
Solar hot water heaters are an excellent way to have lower costs on your hot water energy use. Look into hot water systems that run by solar power. It is possible to chose between direct and indirect circulation systems. The best option for you is the indirect one if you might have frozen pipes.
If you are considering the installation of home solar energy, make sure you are aware of how much energy you will receive during the winter months. This prevents unpleasant surprises in the winter, and it saves money during the summer. If you're using a type of net usage plan, you'll receive money back during the summer from your utility company for energy you're generating!
The batteries should be located near the solar energy cells when the system is being set up. This prevents power from getting lost in the cables. Additionally, it avoids problems with shading and capacity reduction.
Replace a water heater that is tank-style, with a model that is green and has no tank. Although they still use gas or electricity, they only heat on demand rather than maintaining an entire tank of hot water at all times. Tankless water heaters are available to purchase in many different sizes; you can heat water for your whole house, or just a single faucet.
Although not all people consider global warming as a threat, everyone can benefit from the use of green energy in their home. With just a few minor alterations to your daily routine, you can realize significant savings on your energy bill.


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The Ford Thunderbird has gone through many iterations during its design and market focus. The original two-seater '55-'57 cars were very much personal-luxury GTs, and the second and third generations were more family-car oriented, flashy yet able to carry four people.
While I am recently converted fan of the first-generation T'birds, I have never been fond of the so-called square birds or the bullet birds that came after. Strangely, the Thunderbirds that I like the best are the Jet Age-inspired fifth generation Thunderbirds that came after.
What's to like about the red-headed stepchild of the T'bird line? Well, I love the Bunkie Knudsen styling mixed with the Lincoln options and build quality present in these cars. They are great Mad Men-era cars that exemplify everything going on in design at the time. To me, the front-end resembles the F-100 Super Sabre fighter jet.
The Pick of the Day is a 1967 Ford Thunderbird coupe offered by a dealer in Lakeland, Florida, that has just 20,000 miles on its odometer.
This posting in ClassicCars.com could be a template for how to create a great listing for selling a car. The ad includes a total or 91 pictures that detail every part of the car from top to bottom, and loads of pertinent information.
According to the seller, this Thunderbird is believed to have spent its life in West Virginia, where it was always garaged and pampered. The dealer purchased the car and brought it to Florida for a refresh, the listing says.
The car received a dual-stage repaint in the correct Light Green Metallic. The interior looks beautiful in the photos, in original condition with factory gold bucket seats and console, the seller says, with all-original door panels, dash, carpet and headliner
The factory air conditioning works as it should and blows cold, the seller adds. The car also has its factory wheel covers, which look to be in great condition, and newer whitewall tires.
The car's sheet metal is laser straight, according to the listing, and the chrome and soft trim are in good condition, although the stainless trim has some dings. The car retains its 390 cid V8 engine with 4-barrel carburetor, power steering and brakes, power windows and original AM/FM stereo and speakers.
These Thunderbirds are usable, powerful, comfortable and inexpensive to maintain. They embody 1960s space-age design better than any car I can think of, and they have been a bargain for way too long. The collector car market has been embracing usable cars, the ones that you can drive whenever you like, and a T'bird from this era can accomplish lots of driving with ease.
Fifth-generation Thunderbirds are difficult to find in such fine condition. The asking price of $18,500 seems like a good value for a mid-century time machine, ready for you and your special someone to dress up in '60s style and head out to dinner at the club.
To view this listing on ClassicCars.com, see Pick of the Day


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Transvault Cloud Platform Set to Revolutionise Microsoft Office 365 Migration, Adoption and Productivity
Newly available SaaS suite helps enterprises take full advantage of their investment in cloud and hybrid solutions
<Microsoft Ignite, Orlando, Nov 4> Transvault, leaders in migration and productivity solutions, today announced full availability of the Transvault Cloud Platform, a SaaS-delivered suite of modules that caters to enterprises' needs for migrating data, driving new user adoption and making them productive in their cloud or hybrid working environment.
The problem of realizing promised return on investment in cloud infrastructure isn't isolated to simply getting users migrated to new systems; solving it needs to also encompass empowering new ways of working. This is a serious challenge to encourage entire workforces to work smarter, rather than harder, spurred on by better access to information, tools and ways to collaborate more effectively. Users have more devices, work in a wider range of locations and as part of ever-changing configurations of teams. Reaching and navigating this new landscape effectively requires an array of solutions.Darwin Lee, Transvault's Chief Technology Officer, commented, "We're really excited about everything our new Cloud Platform has to offer partners and customers. Our solutions have been used in thousands of migration projects already and we can now bring even greater levels of sophistication to that process, along with further value-add offerings that focus on adoption and productivity in the modern, digital workplace. We will continue to invest in developing useful integrations and features to support the enterprise in getting the most from their investments in cloud solutions for their users."
Transvault Cloud Platform can support migration of multiple different workloads, encompassing user mailboxes, archives and files. Controlled by automated workflow steps presented on a tailorable visual canvas, administrators can also introduce adoption plans into the mix, provided by Transvault's integration with the Nulia Works Platform for digital enablement in Office 365.
From then on, Transvault Cloud Platform's Reporting, Auditing and Monitoring modules provide detailed information on a wide array of topics concerning the overall Office 365 tenant and any associated on-premises infrastructure when running in a hybrid setup. The Reporting module contains hundreds of pre-configured reports to assist IT teams, where finding all this information natively in Office 365 would be time consuming and difficult to assemble. The Auditing module features elegant, customisable timelines of audit data from the tenant, ideal for corporate governance purposes and ease of eDiscovery. Finally, the Monitoring module provides at-a-glance, unified information about your Cloud services and On-Premises servers, giving unparalleled insight into your hybrid environment. The Monitoring module uses Machine Learning to establish patterns of behaviour and notify of any issues.
Elements of the overall Transvault Cloud Platform have already been used by Transvault partners in customer projects but now more come together to provide a range of complementary solutions that partners and enterprises alike can employ to deliver success with Office 365.
Transvault are exhibiting this week at Microsoft Ignite in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, at booth #1521 in the Partner Solution Zone. Demos of the Transvault Cloud Platform will be available as well as other information on all its modules and an Office 365 success game.
Transvault Media Contact:
Liam Neate – email@example.com