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*Please post* Please post**Please post* Please post* CALL FOR REGISTRATION _____________________________________________________________________ ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop 11 July, 1997 Madrid, Spain OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS _____________________________________________________________________ This workshop has a dual focus. It promotes work which addresses the practical requirements of operational and robust anaphora resolution components. It also seeks to investigate the role of, and interactions among, the various factors in anaphora resolution: in particular those that scale well, or that translate easily to knowledge-poor environments. PROGRAMME ========== The reviewing process, given the many workshop submissions, was highly competitive (each paper was evaluated by 3 referees) and the following 14 papers were selected: Regular papers: Renata Vieira, Simone Teufel, Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh) - Bridging References in Definite Description Resolution Tatsunori Mori, Mamoru Masuo, Hiroshi Nakagawa (Yokohama National University)- Constraints and defaults of zero pronouns in Japanese instruction manuals Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Factors in anaphora resolution: they are not the only things that matter. A case study based on two different approaches Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Kanagawa) - Automatic extraction of rules for anaphora resolution of Japanese zero pronouns from aligned sentence pairs Roland Stuckard (Frankfurt) - Resolving anaphoric references on deficient syntactic descriptions Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania) - High precision coreference with limited knowledge and linguistic resources Megumi Kameyama (SRI, Menlo Park) - Recognising referential links: an information extraction perspective Marco da Rocha (University of Sussex) - Supporting anaphor resolution in dialogues with a corpus-based probabilistic model Sabine Bergler (Concordia University) - Towards reliable partial anaphora resolution Tony McEnery, Izumi Tanaka, Simon Botley (Lancaster University) - Corpus annotation and reference resolution Kevin Humphreys, Robert Gaizauskas, Saliha Azzam (University of Sheffield) - Even coreference for information extraction Position papers Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - How far are we from (semi-)automatic annotation of anaphoric links in corpora? Kaja Borthen, Thorstein Fretheim, Jeanette Gundel (Norwegian University of Science and Technology/University of Minnesota) What brings a higher-order entity into focus of attention? The distribution of sentential 'it'. Andrei Popescu, Isabelle Robba (LIMSI, Orsay) - Cooperation between pronoun and reference resolution for unrestricted texts In addition, the workshop programme will feature an invited talk. REGISTRATION ============= The registration fee for the workshop is 60 US dollars and includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch and refreshments. Participants can pre-register (please use the registration form below) or register on site. Given the limit on the number of workshop participants, pre-registration is recommended. (Pre-registration will proceed on a first-come, first-served basis). Please note that according to the ACL rules, workshop participants must register for the main conference as well. Please send a hard copy of your registration form (with an enclosed cheque if you pay by cheque; do not forget to sign if you choose to pay by credit card) to ACL phone +1-908-873-3898 Priscilla Rasmussen fax +1-908-873-0014 P.O. Box 6090 email@example.com Somerset, NJ 08875, USA and an Email a copy of it to firstname.lastname@example.com REGISTRATION FORM ACL'97 / EACL'97 Workshop 11 July, 1997 Madrid, Spain OPERATIONAL FACTORS IN PRACTICAL, ROBUST ANAPHORA RESOLUTION FOR UNRESTRICTED TEXTS Name: Address: Affiliation: (for badge) Telephone, Fax: Email address: Registration Fee 60 (sixty) US dollars Method of payment: [ ] Visa or MasterCard: Number: Expiry date (month, year) Name as it appears on card: I wish to pay the sum of 60 US dollars. 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What's the Problem with Stress?
|Chiropractic Care Helps Us to Manage Stress
Your chiropractor uses various techniques and methods to restore proper spinal alignment. The direct result is improved functioning of your nerve system, which directly improves the functioning of all your other body systems.
One of the structural problems addressed by chiropractic care is a "facilitated segment." This is a section of your spinal cord that is being bombarded by too many nerve signals. These nerve signals arrive at the wrong times and in too great a quantity. Physical pain and other diseases and disorders can develop as a result of a facilitated segment.
Stress makes facilitated segments (and their effects) worse. By aligning your spine, your chiropractor is helping to reduce and resolve these irritated segments of your spinal cord. As a result, the stresses in your life have less physiological impact. You become better able to interact with people and situations, and become better able to manage stress.
We live in stressful times. The economy is tough, global conflicts rage, severe weather events are affecting people in every corner of the globe, and our numerous technological devices don't seem to be making things any easier. Of course, this is nothing new. Every generation thinks theirs is the best of times and the worst of times. But the result is that people everywhere have high levels of stress.
Sometimes stress is a good thing. Mechanical stress, such as exercise, causes your muscles and bones to become stronger and your nerve system to become smarter. Taking on a new assignment at work or taking a challenging class in school may be stressful, but the effort involved in achieving a successful result will cause you to grow and develop in ways that you might not have imagined. After all, the great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
But chronic, ongoing physical and mental stress, the kind that affects us every day, is not good for us. Chronic stress causes real psychological and physical problems. People undergoing chronic stress may develop anxiety, which if not managed effectively may lead to depression. Chronic stress may lead to a variety of disorders and diseases, including arthritis, inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's disease, gastrointestinal problems such as peptic ulcer, diabetes,1 high blood pressure,2 and even heart attacks and stroke.3 As we are all subject to numerous stresses every day, both personal and work-related, it's very important for us to develop strategies that will be successful in helping us manage ongoing stresses.


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YUMMY: Third-quarter profit at Yum Brands Inc. rose 23 percent, thanks to rebounding profit growth in China and strong demand in the U.S. at its Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC chains.
CHINESE FOOD: Third-quarter operating profit rose 22 percent in China. Yum expects to open at least 750 new restaurants in China this year, up from its prior forecast of 700 new stores.
HOMESTYLE: Yum posted 13 percent higher operating profit in the U.S. Taco Bell led the way with a 7 percent increase in sales at restaurants open at least a year.


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Chicken Saagwala (Chicken Cooked in Spinach):
3 lb chicken pieces skinned
5 cloves garlic, minced
2 large onions, minced
2 large tomatoes, crushed
1 inch piece ginger, minced
4 Tablespoons milk
4 bunches spinach, washed & chopped
2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
2 big cardamom pods
2 cloves
7 Tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon salt
Fry the chicken lightly in 4 Tablespoons of oil for 3 to 4 minutes until lightly browned and set aside.
Put the spinach in a deep pan, add 1/4 cup water. Bring to boil and remove from heat. When cool, grind in blender and set aside.
Heat the remaining oil and add ginger, garlic and onions until lightly brown. Add tomatoes, salt, cayenne, coriander powder, turmeric, cloves and cardamom. Sprinkle with one Tablespoon water. Cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Add chicken and milk. Simmer until the chicken is tender. Add spinach and garam masala. Cook until spinach starts sticking to pan. Remove from heat. Add butter and cover until ready to serve.


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19. 8. 2018
Team Info for SBWCH 2018 published
The Team Info section now includes the Official Team Info document with all information relevant for the event - including event schedule, opening hours of individual offices, course maps, etc..
The document is available for download in PDF format.
18. 10. 2016
Changes in the Nové Město BMW IBU Biathlon World Cup programme
The International Biathlon Union and the European Broadcasting Union followed the demands of TV companies and decided to change the programme of the World Cup 2016/2017 Round 3 scheduled to Nové Město na Moravě, which has now grown one day longer.
18. 2. 2016
Tickets to Nové Město Biathlon World Cup fast disappearing
Nové Město na Moravě started the ticket sales to the 3rd Round of the BMW IBU Biathlon World Cup to be held from 16. - 18. December 2016. After 3 days of sales the tickets are fast disappearing and it looks likely that all stadium tickets are going to be sold out by the end of the week.
27. 12. 2015
IBU Cup No. 4 in Nové Město Confirmed
The weather of the recent days has been more reminiscent of the onset of spring, yet the up-to-date weather prognosis, which announces significantly colder weather for the coming days, yesterday we could make the decision to organize the IBU Cup in Nové Město on 9. - 10. January.
29. 11. 2015
Nové Město is the 7th stop of XC Skiing World Cup 2015/16
The new season of the Cross-country skiing World Cup started on November 27 with Sprint events in the Finnish resort of Ruka. The 7th stop of the series will take place on January 23 and 24 in Nové Město na Moravě with races in Free technique. Men will compete over 15 km and women over 10 km - interval start on Saturday. Sunday will be dedicated to Relay events. The good news for all spectators is that the organizers decided not to charge any admission fee into Vysočina Arena on both competition days!
25. 5. 2015
Sunday's triumph of Jaroslav Kulhavý in the Vysočina Aréna witnessed by 14,300 spectators
"We could hardly ask for a better invitation to the next year's world championships," Petr Vaněk, the secretary general of the race, said after the last fan of mountainbiking had left the stadium. Spectators were what the organizers were thrilled about: 14,300 of them came to Vysočina Aréna to support riders.


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Do you remember as kid it was super cool to cross the swimming pool underwater holding your breath? Guess what, it still is! And it's called freediving.
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Suzanne is living her dream in a nomad lifestyle. She promotes meaningful projects aiming to awake awareness and... propose solutions for the increasing dangers our oceans and their communities are facing due to irresponsible/uncontrolled human action.With outstanding determination and strength, she lives and acts very consistently according to her values grounded in environmental protection, sustainability-oriented solutions and network creation between likeminded people working in similar fields of action.In my opinion, sailing adventures organized by Captain Suzanne are: 1. A reward for the senses by discovering incredibly beautiful places and breathtaking sceneries. 2. An unbeatable way to get introduced into the nice world of sailing, 3. An open window to learn watching our world and the people from another more conscious perspective. I see her as an inspirational person who, with her example, inspire others with ideas and proposals to define or redefine life projects and use inner energy for more noble purposes.Please gather support in every possible way at your hand for Suzanne. Our oceans need strong committed people like her to advocate for our natural resources and leave them intact for the generations to come.read more
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This is a long post. So read at your at own risk. :-P
First off let me state that I have not been diagnosed yet, I do have an appointment with a Psychiatrist to get an evaluation done on April 18 after being referred by my physician. This was originally supposed to be a quick introduction but once I started typing it just flowed out. This is the first time Ive ever put all of this down, in fact its the first time Ive ever laid it all out at once. Even now dont know why I did, other than that it feels like the right thing to do.
Here's my story:
Elementary school was great, I really excelled. I learned to read before Kindergarten and by the time I was in fourth grade I was reading books like 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L'Engle. California Achievement Tests always put me in the top 5% of the national percentile. Report cards were straight 'Outstanding' (didn't use letter grades in our elementary school). Most of my time outside of school and during the Summer was spent running around outside (riding bikes, playing in the creek, running around the mountains, you know, small town stuff). The only real notes on my report cards were that I was 'Overly Talkative' and had a tendency to daydream, I think maybe one teacher called me 'Disruptive'. Always had lots of friends and the teachers all seemed to like me (even the one who called me disruptive). The only bad memory from that time is my father who was always verbally abusive to my mom and myself (my little brother was spared until I moved out), this continued my whole life, I honestly can only think of only a couple occasions in my life when I ever received praise from the man.
Jump to 5th grade, my Elementary school only went to 4th, we had to go to another for 5th and then on to Middle School for 6th through 8th. Grades started to drop and I was placed in the lower Math class. My CATs were still placing me in the top 5-10% of the national percentile. I had a hard time feeling like I fit in, I got along good with pretty much everyone in my class but just never felt like I belonged to any one group. All through Middle School my grades steadily worsened, waking up in the middle of the night remembering some bit of homework that had been assigned weeks ago and was due the next day, became a normal occurrence. In 8th grade I was sponsored by John Hopkins University to take the SATs, based on my score on the OTIS-SAT (no idea what that one stands for) which scored my IQ at 125 (all these scores I have pulled from my old transcripts after deciding to seriously look into what might be wrong with me and why I cant seem to get it or hold it together). My combined score on that SAT was 740 (old scoring method), enough to qualify me for a NCAA athletic scholarship. I started shoplifting somewhere in the 7th or 8th grade because I loved the rush after trying it the first time on a dare. Between 8th and 9th grades I had my first sexual encounter.
High School was a steady degradation of grades (ultimately I had to go to Summer school to get my diploma). Even more than before I felt out of step from everyone around me. In 9th grade I was arrested once for Disorderly Conduct (for corning cars, those of you in the country know what that is) and once for Retail Theft (Shoplifting). I have never done either again, instead I went on to worse things. Sometime in my 11th grade year I started smoking weed and progressed on to other hallucinogenics. Coke was never my thing because it was too boring it really didnt do anything for me, and being around those who were coked up always annoyed me (not to mention the fact that I could never afford it because I was always between jobs).
I went out with and slept several girls throughout High School. Between 11th and 12th I met my first love and things during the Summer were great. Typical bad boy/good girl attraction. At the beginning of my senior year she broke up with me and strung me along for the next year. I wont go into details, but things got intense at the end with her faking a pregnancy and then attempting suicide when I had finally had enough and walked. She was my first love and the last one I ever let the walls down for until very recently. Most of that year I kept swinging from depression when she would decide that she didnt want to be with me to elation on those rare occasions when she did. Very rarely did I hit a happy medium.
I was in 12th grade and I just didnt give a damn, I had found a group that I felt comfortable with because we were all misfits and flawed and they were all part of the Alternative program at the next school district, so they only had school for half days. But I still felt out of step. Dont get me wrong, I still got along with most kids at school but rarely hung out with any one group and most of my social circle was in the next town. Somewhere in that timeframe my friends and I started robbing houses in the area, there was no rhyme or reason to it for me, it was all about the thrill, not money. Whenever I needed money I would pick up a job for a month and quit when I had enough to get me through the next few months or do odd jobs for my relatives that owned their own businesses. As I mentioned earlier I ended up having to go to Summer school to get my diploma. As in Middle School every 9 weeks I would promise myself that I would apply myself and 2 weeks into it I would be back to my usual daydreaming and forgetfulness. There were moments of brilliance but in general I was a very poor performer with my grades in the C-D-F range with the occasional A or B. My SATs were over 1000, I once researched and wrote a 15 page paper on atrocities of the Vietnam War in a single night that received a 97% (spelling mistakes), of course this was all the night before it was due after having it assigned months before. By and large high school is not a good memory for me.
I kept the party going until the end of the Summer after I graduated. I got a bit worried what I was doing with my life when most of the people I knew left for college. So I enlisted in the Army, but 2 weeks before I was to leave for boot the police showed up at my parents house. I was arrested for B&E, Theft, and Receiving Stolen Property for a job we had pulled. One of the guys had gotten pinched for another job and was rolling over on everyone. Through divine intervention and the fact that the owner of the house had neglected to include the 3 garbage bags of homegrown weed we had liberated from his house in the police report, I managed to get a slap on the wrist: ARD (if you are from PA, more than likely you know someone who has been on this, it is usually reserved for first-time offenders in relatively minor charges i.e. DUI), fines, restitution, 2 years of probation, and a psych eval. Obviously, the Army didnt really want anything to do with me after that.
Now most people would have seen the light at that point, but not me. I cant really explain it, I guess I was so used to feeling out of step with things that I never really thought that anything would ever happen to me even when it did it was gone from my mind in the matter of days. I did stop B&E, of course, Ive always been a quick to mend my after I was caught. The party continued on. A couple months later I found myself at my first Dead Show. It was love at first sight. All the sights and smells, everything was so new and different. So for that whole East Coast tour my best friend and I would hit shows and bring sheets back with us to fund the next trip. The tour ended right about the same time my interest in the shows ended. Again, throughout this whole time I would see girls for a short while or just hook up with them and never look back. The end of that Summer I was 19 and I met a girl who finally gave me some stability. The party slowed down some, but it still kept going.
My parents said they would pay if I wanted to try the local Junior College that Fall. Somehow I was conditionally accepted into a 2 year non-degree program geared for those who were looking to transfer to another school. Once again I started out all gung-ho but by the end of that first month I had stopped going classes altogether and just hung out at a couple friends apartment smoking and dosing. Meanwhile I kept on seeing this girl who was way too good for the way I treated her. Not that I ever abused her (or any girl for that matter), it was more apathy, neglect, and cheating on my part than anything. But she stuck by me, always trying to get me to change my ways.
This went on for months, I never knew where I would end up spending the night, I still lived at my parents, but it was weeks in between visits there. I had already flunked out of school but didnt say anything to my parents about it. Then one night several of us left a party to go to this one dealer friend of mines supplier. After we left the supplier's I got pulled over. The whole time they had me pulled over they were searching with their flashlights for what they knew was in car (by this time I was on their watch list). I was still on ARD which meant that if I was arrested for anything that the original charges would be revisited along with whatever new charges were brought. I was ordered out of the car, I got out of the drivers side and everyone else got out the passenger side ready to scatter if it looked like I was going to go down. This was the same week as my 20th birthday. That was when it finally hit me, that if I continued the way I was going I would be in prison within the year - alone.
That week I went to the local Navy recruiter to see what they could do for me. First thing I had to do was to get myself off probation and ARD. That only took about a month as I had all of my fines and restitution paid. Within 2 months I was on a plane to Great Lakes, IL for Boot Camp. I had found my calling. I was good at it, not spectacular, never the Sailor of the Quarter/Year, but the one my superiors went to when they wanted something done fast even if it meant bending a few rules. For some reason my superiors always liked me and would cover for my occasional breaking of the rules. Just as I would start to slip on my job because of boredom it would be time to change (usually around every 6 months, the Navy has broad job categories and wants sailors to be well-rounded in their chosen field). Just as a place would start to grow boring it would be time to move or I would get a deployment; Sicily for 3 years with a deployment to Bahrain; Southern Spain for 3 years with a deployment to Bosnia. Then finally to Arizona for my last 3 (I was in an Aviation field).
Now about my relationships during that time: Remember the girl who stuck by me? Well, I just stopped calling and writing to her a couple months after getting to Italy and didnt talk to her again until I was on leave 4 years later. I stayed true to form and messed around with a few girls, never settling. That first Summer I met a girl who was so different that I couldnt help myself. I met her at a nearby vacation hotspot. Her and some friends were on vacation from studying in Spain at the University of Madrid they were all South American. At the end of their vacation time both my roommate and I had hooked up with two of them and offered to let them stay with us until their studies resumed in the Fall.
That Summer was incredible, spent swimming in the Med, going to the local hangouts for young people, a hot little girlfriend, it all seemed like something out of a postcard or movie. My girlfriend left at the end of Summer and my roomates stayed. About two weeks after she left she called and said that she was not going to resume her studies and was taking a last 2 week vacation to Palma before going back to South America. I joined her and ended up asking if she wanted to come live with me. She agreed. Things were ok this time around, not the same as the initial passion but comfortable and stable. The following February I was notified that I was getting deployed to Bahrain for 3 months to relieve my former roommate (him and his girlfriend had gotten their own place a few months prior). We made plans for her to go home and then I would meet her there after the deployment was over to meet her family and then come here to the U.S. so she could meet my family. When I told my mom about the plans she suggested that maybe we could get married while home (we had talked about marriage and the possibility of it sometime the next year). I told her of this and she actually cried - she was so happy. So we went with that plan. However, the whole time I was in Bahrain I was messed around with Gulf Air Stewardesses, and Philipina expatriots. We got married roughly 1 year after we met. The first 2 years were a series of fights and make-ups (issues were further exacerbated by the fact that I was the only married guy in my group of friends). To me marriage just didnt seem like a permanent thing, like all my relationships. I kept my walls up.
When we finally transferred to Spain about 6 months before our 2 year anniversary, I vowed to make it work. I buried myself in my work and took a class. The damage had already been done and by the time her mom died a month shy of our 2 yr. we were talking divorce. She went home with divorce being planned as next step. After a month she decided she wanted to try to make it work and came back. Unfortunately my heart just wasnt in it and we had a huge blow out within 2 weeks and she disappeared from my life for a year.
That year I was 24-25 and single in Spain. I went nuts, almost every excess you can think of - from alcohol to sex to some light usage of drugs. And through it all I always managed to perform well within the structure the military gave me. Throughout this time I hooked up with and saw a lot of girls, at one point in intimate relationships with three at one time. That December while home on leave I was notified that I would need to come back early for a deployment to Bosnia for the newly formed IFOR. During that deployment I took time to see where I was headed.
So when I returned to Spain, I again dedicated myself to getting it together. I changed my circle of friends to a more stable one (they liked to have fun, but not to the excesses that my old one did and were more career-minded) and buckled down at work. A few months after getting back my wife showed back up (I had, through mutual friends, gotten the no-fault divorce papers to her and signed but never mailed them). She was a mess and hooked on coke. I asked her if she wanted to give it another try, and she did. I was back with her but it was never the same, my walls were solidly up and I think in the beginning it was more about helping her than anything else. Eventually it just became a matter on convenience and stability for both of us. The remaining years in Spain were uneventful.
We then transferred to Yuma, Arizona and she was finally able to get a job (she had a green card, in Spain and Italy third nationals werent permitted employment). We kind of just muddled through. I enrolled in full-time school at night, and she threw herself into her work, pulling as much overtime as she could get. By the end of the first year there I had made up my mind to leave the service at the end of my contract. My grandparents had had some medicals problems and I really wanted to come home. I was finally getting tired of the constantly changing locations and friends. A year before my separation from the military we enrolled my wife in a flight attendant school and got her hired on with a local commuter line that based in the Northeast. So for the most part, my last year in Arizona I was pretty much by myself but kept busy with school and motorcycles when not working.
I can honestly say the years in Arizona (as much as I hated the desert, and wasnt really happy with my marriage) were the most normal ones Ive ever had. My wife and I would fight occasionally (she never let go of past transgressions). I actually excelled in college there, finally graduating with distinction (G.P.A. 3.93, all As and one C) with my A.A.S. in Computer Information Systems. It wasnt easy, where possible I would complete all of the assignments for a class in the first few weeks. In those classes where I couldnt do that I still found myself waiting until the last minute, often ripping it off the printer as I was heading to the class. I never really had to study, I can usually repeat facts and stuff I read back verbatim. Its always been the other things (the important ones) that seem to evaporate in my head until too its too late.
After I was discharged I got a good job as an IT contractor at a local manufacturing plant (actually the largest private employer in the county) at home. My wife was based out of upstate NY, so with her flight benefits she would fly down when she was off or I would fly to wherever she was on mine. At least in the beginning.
Nine months later 9-11 hit, the stocks of the place I worked plummeted and our contract was due in November (I had come in on it a few months after it had started). The company decided that we were an unnecessary expense and did not renew. By this point my wife and I would see each other once, maybe twice a month. She had had a huge fight with my dad and refused to come down anymore. She was also hugely jealous of the fact my friends and family got to spend time with me even when she couldnt (this was a recurring problem throughout our marriage, I guess I should have mentioned that earlier).
I was unemployed without receiving unemployment benefits (technically we were self-employed), trying to make ends meet by bartending under the table 6 nights a week at a friends restaurant and joining the Army National Guard, while I would sporadically look for a job. And even though I was in bad financial straights (by this point my wife and I were maintaining separate finances), I settled into the routine of it all. That April my wife gave me a final ultimatum, move to upstate NY and sever ties with my friends and family or divorce. I chose the latter.
We officially separated in August, the divorce was filed for in NY and granted six months later. I reverted to party boy again, going out every night, dating and hooking up here and there. As one female friend (platonic) recently said, while I am good at staying single, I dont stay alone for long. The bartender lifestyle didnt help things Im sure. I finally got hired on at the local University (Ill just say WE ARE ) in November 02. It seemed that I was finally getting my act together. Then in January 03 my Infantry Battalion got called up to take over the mission in Kosovo. We shipped out on my birthday. I wont go into details of the deployment other than to say that Guard officers should not command anything larger than a company when activated. Again I found myself looking at what my life had become.
Through that year a girl (woman) that I would occasionally hook up with kept in touch and was always there when I needed someone to talk to. One year later (March 04) we were deactivated and I vowed to give this girl a chance, I felt I owed her that much. But after being back after only 2 weeks I knew that I would never feel anything for her. Then this new girl at work started to quickly win me over. I found myself connecting with her in a way I never connected with anyone else. We flirted around for a couple months, neither of us making the first move for fear that we were misinterpreting the others moves. Finally she made a move, she suggested that I go out with her and some of her friends to see a band that played 80s cover tunes. That night it finally happened. We quickly grew close, closer than either of us had ever been to anyone else. My walls finally came down. I am not going to lay her life bare here, but just say that she has known far more responsibility, burden, and loss than most her age.
I helped her through the final days of her divorce with her abusive, mostly verbally and psychologically to both her and her son (his by adoption), ex (he holds a Psych degree and I suspect is bi-polar, his behavior exactly mirrors that of someone I know who has been diagnosed as such). I ended up connecting with her kids and truly love them as my own. We let them determine how quickly the relationship progressed. Her son is ADHD (she suspects that she is too) and that is the first time I have ever really come in contact with it that I know of (perhaps besides myself). As I learned more about it (through the Internet and by reading Driven to Distraction) I started looking at my own life and started seeing similarities. Ill admit that I always thought ADHD was a joke, not a real thing. That it was product of our dual income society. Kids whose parents planted them in front of a TV and didnt encourage them to burn off excess energy because they were tired from work. Some of my friends started to jokingly call me an ADD freak after the ads about Adult ADD started showing up on TV. I even started using it as an excuse for my peculiarities. But there it was right in front of me and I couldnt deny that it was real.
Last Fall I decided to get myself in to be checked out, but characteristically I never made the phone call, I just kept putting it off. I kind of settled into the chaos of my girlfriends life, dealing with her ex, the mornings before the boys meds kicked in and the evenings after they wore off, the daughter who idolizes her dad because he never yells at her and buys her everything she wants. Somewhere in there I started slipping into my normal mode, where I just shell up, and she started to do the same. Sadly, my girlfriend ended things. She needs time to come to terms with everything she has been through, and to adjust to all the changes in her life. In her words to first get control of her life again without the added burden of a relationship. At first the sense of loss was almost overwhelming, I love this woman and her children with every fiber of my being. But I have to box that up for now and maybe forever, time will tell.
We went through some tough trials together in a very short amount of time and came through all of them closer and stronger than before. Nothing really went wrong, she just became overwhelmed with everything that had happened and was going on and felt completely out of control. The stress began to wear on our relationship. My only regret is that right now I cant be the friend she needs. In a few weeks I can, but not now. I want nothing more than for her to finally find that inner peace she is looking for.
In the weeks since the split we have openly talked about what bothered the other, but were too scared of sabotaging what we had, to bring up. Her complaints were that I wouldnt think of the small things that needed done at the house. That it seemed like I lacked initiative, that I would only do something once she said it. Her biggest complaint though, is how it sometimes seemed like I wasnt there and wouldnt answer her, making her feel like she wasnt important to me. But the thing is, that she and her children were (are still) the most important thing Ive ever had in my life. It finally cut me that there I might have a real problem, that I might not have to just accept it as the way I am.
In the past month I have since busied myself getting ready to start back to school to finish my Baccalaureate. Something I laid the groundwork for when I first got back from Kosovo but just never got around to filling out the forms (with a $1000/semester state veterans grant, $36,000 in GI Bill money, and a 75% tuition discount, Ill be making a profit by going back to school). Ive been putting in bids on other positions around campus. Ive been learning some new technologies for a side project at work. But I think the most important thing Ive done since the breakup is make that appointment with my doctor for that physical, blood work, and referral. Right now I know Im in driven mode, but I know it wont last.
The appointment went well, my doctor was initially suspicious (it was the first time I had been to him) that maybe I was a victim of an advertising campaign. I was the third person in since March 1st who had come to get themselves tested. So I opened up to him about everything. Something I have never done to a stranger, and only to a very few people that I know. About how Ill charge into a new project and end up postponing it repeatedly if I ever even finish it, because I just lose the desire to work on it or Ill run into a wall and just dont want to tackle it. About how thoughts are always bouncing around in my head with no discernible order. About how often if Im doing something and someone speaks to me, Ill form the response in my head but it never makes it to my mouth before Im off to the next thought. About how I can remember tidbits and trivial things but the important things always slip my mind. About how I always have to be moving, even if it is just wiggling my toes. About how I am fully functional (comparatively to others) with 5-6 hours of sleep a night. About how little patience I have for standing in lines, Ive been late on payments because I didnt want to wait at the bank for the 3 people in front of me (Online banking has been a godsend), theres things I could be doing dammit! About how my finances are always a mess and how Ill go on spending binges (Luckily I am looking at two government pensions when I do reach retirement). About how much I love to drive, how when Im behind the wheel or on my bike whizzing down the road (I lost my license when I was 19 for too many speeding tickets, but that didnt stop me, and I think Im getting up there again, I try to rely on my cruise control as much as possible anymore) I can think clearly, it still feels a mile a minute but it feels more orderly. About how often I get up to go do something and forget what it was by the time I get there. How I lose the point of what I trying to say because I fly off on so many tangents (actually, he saw that in the course of the conversation). There are other things that I cant remember right now. And finally how frustrated I am with never seeming to be able to get it together and feel a part of whats going on around me, how I always seem to screw up the good things in my life.
Well, thats my life in a nutshell (a rather large one), I just turned 34 and hopefully this is the start of a new way of living but Im going to need help regardless of what they finally find.
Wish me luck. :-)
Happy Birthday, and welcome to the ADD Forums! Fascinating introduction!!! Thanks for sharing
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Hey Guy,
Welcome to the forums. You're not too far away from me. I live about 2 hours NE of you. Great intro - you're a good writer.
I'm 29 and was just rx'ed a little over a year ago. I found out about ADD in somewhat the same way you did. I started dating am ADD guy and some time later was deemed ADD myself by a local psych. here in town. We've both been on meds for some time and are both doing well.
He is the first long-term boyfriend I've ever had and this is probably the most "functional' relationship I've ever been in. I think it's because we are both ADD. We've always had this mutual understanding and connection. So, I wish you luck in your relationship with your ADD woman.
Someone once told me that ADDers have a tendancy to gravitate towards other ADDers, even if they don't know they have ADD. I look back on my life so far and see a definite pattern of the types of people I've hung out with. Your high school experience sounds very similar to mine. I wasn't a total reject nerd, but I never had many close friends. One or two and we're not in touch anymore.
Anyway, welcome and I hope this forum helps you as much as it's help me over this past year. There are many intelligent, good hearted people here and they are always ready to offer their best advice and personal experiences.
Welcome to the ADD Forums!
Please do not think me cold, for I do want loving arms to hold, but I am so sick of being used and abused...If I die alone tomorrow I die unbruised.
Welcome to the forums.
A child's mind is like a shallow brook which ripples and dances merrily over the stony course of its education and reflects here a flower, there a bush, yonder fleecy cloud... -Helen Keller
Welcome Guy! Fascinating life story, and well written. I didnt get bored once.
I look forward to future posts.
And thanks for serving.
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.
Wow, quite the life I should say.
Welcome and I look forward to reading more about it in future posts.
ADD is a gift, not a disorder!
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
I love my dust it shows I had something better to do!
If your important people will wait for u!
Hello and welcome to the forum
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world -- Unknown
The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day -- O. A. Battista
Thanks for the warm welcome. Honestly I didn't know what kind of response I'd get with that intro. But it felt really good getting it all out at once. It also helped me look at my life as a whole, which I've never really done. I'm going to have a ton of questions, so hopefully I don't get too annoying.
Re: Guy - State College, PA
Wow...wow...wow!! What an amazing story! You probably think this is crazy, but I truly believe God has an amazing plan for your life. This is just all part of the process. I'm a mom with boys who are still young. One wants to pursue a military career and the other has ADHD. You really encouraged me tonight. Thanks!! Truly, you have encouraged me. Will keep you in my prayers as this is a lot for you to carry. Let it go buddy! Let it go! When life gives you bags of crap, just dump them. Time to fill your bags with the good stuff in life, like your education. Take it a step at at time, you're going to do great!
Re: Guy - State College, PA
Wow, It's been a long time since I've been on here.
I guess a 5 year update is in order. I tried several meds for my ADD and all of them left me an emotional wreck at the end of the day. I probably could have just kept letting them play around with the dosage until we found a nice balance, but hey I'm ADD and too impatient.
Since that time I educated myself and actively try to stay aware of when a behavior might need to be thought through. I ahave also more willingly accepted that it is a part of what makes me - me, so I actively seek out positive things that will feed that part of my brain.
The girl that I was on again/off again with back then and I split ways permanently about 4 years ago and I am happily involved with someone else.
I changed jobs at the University a little over 4 years ago and couldn't be happier, and they are happy with me (they doubled my salary my first year in a half there) - my outside the box thinking is a huge asset, and they've even gone as far to say that they worry they aren't able to keep challenging me in my reviews.
I took a break from my schoolwork for about three years while I settled into the job, there was also a girl I saw for about two years in there who was working on her Ph.D. in Engineering - which wasn't conductive to me going to school also. If you've ever known a Ph.D. student you know what I mean. I started back up part time last fall and will be finished next fall.
Anyways, back to studying, saw the notification that someone had responded to this long dead thread and thought I should pop my head in.
Happy holidays!
Re: Guy - State College, PA
I'm not religious although I guess you could say spiritual - I believe in embracing the positives in life and shedding the negative. I can't say I believe in 'a plan' - but I do believe anyone can do almost anything if they work hard enough for it. It just took a while for me to learn patience.
I can honestly say that I am happier in my life than quite a few people I know who took a more traditional route and didn't have any adventure along the way. Looking back I wouldn't change a thing, even the bad - it made me who I am today.
Re: Guy - State College, PA
Welcome (back) Guy!
Re: Guy - State College, PA
Does you're employer know you are A.D.D? I'm wondering if I should tell mine. I'm worried they might fire me for "making excuses for mistakes".
Go Penn State!
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it's the tail end of june
cold and rainy, full of gloom
please tell me mr. gore
when your global warming
will kick in.
i guess you made some bucks
off the big scare
but your logic still sucks
try to stick with what you
know best...
conning the public, selling yourself
and as a public servant
failing the test.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
global whining
Posted by Fireman John at 11:15 AM 2 comments
Monday, June 22, 2009
monday quotes
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
- Reni Daumal
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
- Jimmy Dean
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
- Jack Dempsey
We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
- Max Depree
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
- Charles Dickens
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
- John Diefenbaker
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
- Wayne Dyer
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
- George Eliot
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Old Eskimo saying
Posted by Fireman John at 9:15 AM 2 comments
Sunday, June 21, 2009
father's day
it's going to be an interesting
father's day.
my son is bringing my dad to
the house today. the 3 of us have
not been together since a wedding
many years ago.
deb's girls will also come by to wish
me a happy father's day as they
have done for years; the daughters
that have become part of my life.
just another reminder to me that
first and foremost i am a father,
a son, and a partner.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
enjoy yourself
what's the point of all this time
and effort, if you aren't having fun?
we've already seen and heard the
doom & gloom of addiction; there
comes a time to experience the joy
and freedom of clean living.
the concept of sober fun was foreign
to me at first.
how can i possibly have a good time
at parties, sporting events, or after
work, without drinking?
it certainly didn't happen overnight.
it's taken some time to be comfortable
around friends without a buzz.
now i enjoy the company of a mix
of sober and social drinkers.
there is a place for sober events,
especially early on, but most of
the world is not in recovery.
i can now really feel relaxed
interacting with folks who can
drink safely, yet respect my
decision to abstain.
Posted by Fireman John at 9:24 AM 3 comments
Monday, June 15, 2009
monday quotes
Vision enables you to glimpse into the future, to sense its hope and power, because you yourself are the means for that future's creation.
- Sara Paddison
If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future, look into your present action.
- Padmisambha
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
- Satchel Paige
If I have inside of me the stuff to make cocoons, maybe the stuff of butterflies is there, too.
- Trina Paulus
Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
- M. Scott Peck
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
- Pericles
You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
- Michael D. Perry
Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.
- Peace Pilgrim
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- John Enoch Powell
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
- Lauren Bacall
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you - if you don't repeat it.
- Pearl Bailey
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Friday, June 12, 2009
friday questions
do you have any summer vacation plans?
how do you handle stressful situations?
do family or friends ever ask if you're
cured yet?
ever find that you can handle serious
issues better now, yet still sweat the
small stuff?
if you have children, do you discuss
the subject of addiction with them?
who inspires you today?
why is it easier to stay sober, than
to get sober?
what is your favorite time of day?
Posted by Fireman John at 7:25 AM 2 comments
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
alcoholism predictors
personality traits;
insecurity, desire for instant gratification
and self-indulgence.
the jury is still out on this one.
experts can't confirm the precise way
alcoholism can be passed on.
various races process alcohol differently.
women lack a stomach enzyme that
processes alcohol, making them more
easily intoxicated.
mental health;
many substance abusers suffer from
depression and anxiety.
peer pressure, chaotic homes, traumatic
events and ethnic background.
euphoric recall;
a biggie for me; having so many enjoyable
experiences for many years, it is easy
to dismiss the eventual hell and misery
it eventually became.
for many of us the bottom line became;
what used to turn us on-
turned on us.
Posted by Fireman John at 8:47 AM 4 comments
Monday, June 8, 2009
monday quotes
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb
We can only teach that which we are.
- Jean Jaurès
Truth is the safest lie.
- Jewish Proverb
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
- Lynn Johnston
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
- Ken Keyes Jr.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
- Edward Koch
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
- Jack Kornfield
If there is no wind, row.
Latin proverb
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
- Lawrence LeShan
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
- Oscar Levant
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
- A. NielsenI
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
- Henri Nouwen
The bigger you make your God, the smaller you make your problems.
- Joel Osteen
You're never really alone if you have yourself and your spirituality.
- Susan Ott-Lin
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Friday, June 5, 2009
friday questions
how long before you began a 4th step?
do you believe sobriety really changes
have you learned the practice of
do you prefer the company of folks in
recovery, or a mix of sober and social
how long, if at all, did it take to
experience a spiritual awakening?
do you agree or disagree that there
comes a "got it" stage in recovery?
is there anything you miss about
your drinking days?
why do think long term recovery
is so elusive for many?
is happiness a result of sobriety,
or a choice?
Posted by Fireman John at 8:33 AM 2 comments
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
"caption this" wednesday
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
billions spent
from About.com/alcoholism;
These figures were revealed in a 287-page report from the The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
quotes for monday
We must be grateful for our mistakes, without them we wouldn't know any better.
- Ayash Sabbagh
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
- John Charles Salak
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
- Carl Sandburg
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
- David J. Schwartz
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- General Schwarzkopf
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
- Peter Sellers
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
- Maurice Setter
Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
- John B. Sheerin
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
- Sicilian Proverb
I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
- Beverly Sills
Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
- Judith Stearn
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"What is an example of an application you build with the Android APIs that you couldn't build with browser Ajax?"This is a deceptively simple question. There are easy answers to it, but it turns out that those lack a certain... je ne sais quoi. The easy answers just aren't satisfying, and I eventually realized that there's a deeper question that people are really asking, when they ask about Android "vs." some other platform, like J2ME or the iPhone or Symbian.
So I spent some time thinking about it. One problem is that there's a lot of grey area here. Many applications could be done using either technique, or on several of the other platforms out there, and still be great user experiences. In other words, it's not really about features, and it's not really about capabilities. It's not about having GPS where someone else doesn't, since the other guy will add it in his next release along with a feature you don't have.
I needed a deeper, better answer. I eventually realized that what developers are really getting at when they ask questions like this is:
"What is the difference is between all these damned platforms, and why I should care?"
Every developer has a different career, skill background, and set of interests. Everyone also tries to understand new things by applying knowledge they already have. So, developers who understand J2ME ask about Android vs. J2ME; developers who understand Macs or iPhone come from that direction; and so on. But they're really asking the same thing: how should I be thinking about Android?
Let's take the iPhone, for instance. With the iPhone Apple has a very solid, very successful platform -- no doubt about it. However, much has been made about the restrictions on applications, such as no background processing, no interpreted language runtimes, and so on. Opinions vary as to whether this is good, bad, user-friendly, developer-unfriendly, or what.
But that kind of scrutiny is like looking through a microscope: you can't see the big picture. What Apple has with the iPhone really just boils down (in concept, not in the details) to a gadgets platform, like OpenSocial, iGoogle, or Facebook.
Apple owns their platform and sees themselves as responsible for the user experience, period. They restrict what applications can do and what they can access accordingly, so as to maintain the quality of that user experience according to their standards. They acknowledge the benefit that third-party developers can bring and will let you build apps to plug in to their user experience, but make no mistake: this is a private party at Apple's house. They can be as picky as they want about who they let in, and they can ask you to leave at any time. But once you get in, as long as you behave yourself Apple wants you to have a good time.
Now, this isn't criticism, just an observation. As Google, Facebook, and the various sites that have deployed OpenSocial demonstrate, this is a perfectly legitimate platform model. Like those other services, Apple is providing the platform and a very clear, specific execution environment. Developers are expected to plug into that cleanly and respect the borders that Apple has laid out.
The benefit to developers is that they get to ride the coattails of iPhone's success. But the potential downsides are that you just can't break out of that sandbox. For instance, consider Facebook. Facebook has a really nice iPhone application, and I've even heard it said that it could "almost" physically replace the iPhone Contact book.
Well, why doesn't it? The answer is that Apple doesn't want it to, because that Contacts user experience is a key part of their platform. It would be like Facebook itself letting a third-party developer build an app to totally reskin the site and insert its own branding -- it's just not going to happen.
However, that kind of thing is exactly what Android aims to enable. If an end user buys a phone that comes with the standard Google look-&-feel and application suite on it, we see no reason why that user shouldn't be able to choose to replace it with Facebook. Android is intentionally designed to let third parties such as Facebook build an application that replaces the Contacts book, Home screen, and Dialer, or nearly anything else. It will quite literally be possible to completely reskin an Android device into a Facebook phone. (What would that be -- an fPhone?)
You might even say that Android and iPhone are sort of inverses of each other. iPhone is a Gadgets-style platform where the user experience is largely fixed and an execution context is carved out for each third-party application. Android provides a framework for managing the execution contexts of third-party applications, which are permitted (and expected) to augment the user experience in innovative ways.
Neither approach is inherently "better", and when it comes down to the daily business of writing code and building UIs, the experience probably isn't that different. But in terms of the big picture, that is the satisfying meaty answer that I've been looking for.
At least, for "Android vs. iPhone." There are quite a few other platforms out there, though, and each one has a slightly different answer. (Perhaps the subjects of future posts...) But now that I have the right angle to view this question from, it makes it a lot easier to talk about. At least with geeks -- I don't know that my family appreciated it that much last week, when I was home on vacation.
So it goes. ;)


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When running on Google Compute Engine, we recommend using the GCE backend which, instead of using encapsulation, manipulates IP routes to achieve maximum performance. Because of this, a separate flannel interface is not created.
From the Developers Console, we start by creating a new network.
Configure the network name and address range. Then add firewall rules to allow etcd traffic (tcp/2379), SSH, and ICMP.
That's it for the network configuration.
Now it's time to create an instance.
Let's call it
Under the "Management, disk, networking, access & security options" make the following changes:
With the permissions set, we can launch the instance!
The only remaining steps now are to start etcd, publish the network configuration and lastly, run the flannel daemon.
SSH into
demo-instance-1 and execute the following steps:
$ etcd --advertise-client-urls http://$INTERNAL_IP:2379 --listen-client-urls http://0.0.0.0:2379
$ etcdctl set /coreos.com/network/config '{"Network":"10.40.0.0/16", "Backend": {"Type": "gce"}}'
$ sudo ./flanneld --etcd-endpoints=http://127.0.0.1:2379
Now make a clone of
demo-instance-1 and SSH into it to run the these steps:
--etcd-endpoints flag set to the internal IP of the instance running etcd
Check that the subnet lease acquired by each of the hosts has been added!
It's important to note that GCE currently limits the number of routes per project to 100. If you require more routes, request a quota increase or simply switch to the VXLAN backend.


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Don't Talk to Strangers—Unless You Plan to Share Your Mac-and-Cheese
New Ventures Promote Communal Rides, Dinners; Trading Dresses and Leftovers
The hottest technology trend is apps that let anyone share anything, which is why Grace Lichaa recently found a group of strangers eating her home-cooked macaroni.
About a dozen people she met through the Internet arrived, mostly on time, at her Washington, D.C., house in November for three flavors of macaroni and cheese: garlic-crusted, goat cheese tomato, and curried. Ms. Lichaa, 32 years old, advertised seats for the "mac attack" on a site called EatFeastly.com for $19.80 each.
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Column: Our kids aren't treated equally at school
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The document and the event were separated by 100 years, but each spoke with equal clarity and urgency to the principles of liberty, equality and opportunity to which we aspire as a nation. There is perhaps no more important institution in keeping us on this path than the public education system. Yet, stark differences in the quality of education available to students of different races persist and demean us all.
The extent to which African Americans are forced out of the classroom through expulsion or suspension is one of the most vivid manifestations of these divides. The Department of Education's most recent data sample shows that African-American students are three and a half times as likely to be suspended or expelled as their white peers (pdf). And although they are only 18 percent of the student sample, African Americans are 39 percent of the students expelled from school, with nearly half of those suspended multiple times.
Many schools inappropriately utilize police or security to discipline students, rather than depending on educators to do so. This practice leads to absurd results, such as when school police in Texas issued a $364 citation to a 14-year-old student with Asperger's syndrome for cursing in the classroom. Shockingly, a 6-year-old student was handcuffed and taken to a police station after she had a temper tantrum in her Milledgeville, Ga., school.
Tantrums are an uncomfortable but foreseeable part of early education; handcuffing a 6-year-old, however, reflects more on the state of mind of the adults in charge and indeed the state of our discipline practices in schools than it does on the unruly child. Sadly, race also plays a prominent role in unwarranted police contacts with students -- 42 percent of students referred to law enforcement and 35 percent of students arrested in school are African American (pdf).
Alarmingly, race has been demonstrated to be a predictive factor in determining who gets disciplined, for what conduct and how severely. The most comprehensive study conducted to date (pdf), which analyzed data from every seventh-grade student in Texas public schools for three years, isolated race from 83 different variables and found that African-American students were more likely to be disciplined at school than "otherwise identical white and Hispanic students."
Multiple studies have found that African-American students are typically punished for "subjective" offenses, such as disrespect, while white students are disciplined for "objective" offenses, like alcohol possession. And African-American students are punished more harshly than other students, even when committing the same offense. We cannot continue to tolerate these results.
The justification frequently offered for the high rates of suspension and expulsion of students and misuse of security and police is school safety, but these practices do not make our schools safer. The American Psychological Association has found that "zero tolerance" (pdf) and other harsh disciplinary approaches do not improve school safety.
Worse yet, excessive and inappropriate reliance on school-based law enforcement officers can actually promote disorder and distrust in schools. And when students are removed from the learning environment through suspension or expulsion, they are more likely to be held back a grade, become involved with the criminal justice system or drop out of school. Those who are arrested are twice as likely to drop out. Clearly, nobody benefits from this approach.
* Parents, students and advocates in Denver worked with Denver Public Schools to revise the district's discipline code to focus on the principles of Restorative Justice Practices, which provide structured opportunities for students and staff to identify and understand the root cause of behavioral missteps, and in doing so, develop better relationships between students and teachers. Following these changes and implementation of the new code in 2008, the expulsion rate was halved (pdf), and suspensions are down by a third.
* In response to a sharp increase in misdemeanor referrals from schools, a juvenile court judge in Clayton County, Ga., worked with the schools, the police, mental health providers and families to tackle the problem. They created a "school offense protocol" that helped distinguish between safety matters and discipline matters and routed those involved to the appropriate supports and interventions. This new approach led to a nearly 70 percent drop in court referrals (pdf) and a 20 percent increase in graduation rates.
* When two schools merged to form Alton Middle School, one of the largest schools in Illinois, there was a dramatic spike in the number of disciplinary incidents. In response, the school's leadership implemented Positive Behavior Supports, a framework that helps schools improve relationships between students and staff and deepen bonds between schools and the communities that surround them, along with training designed to prepare educators to identify and respond to racial bias and inequity. As a result, the school's suspension rate was reduced by 25 percent, and the largest drop occurred among African-American students.
The new session of Congress offers an opportunity to address our national overreliance on exclusionary discipline. Last month, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) convened the first-ever Congressional hearing on this subject called "Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline." Among the witnesses were Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Danny Davis (D-Ill.), who have both introduced legislation designed to collect better, more comprehensive data on discipline practices while also providing additional resources to schools with high or racially disparate rates of discipline.
Through legislation that focuses on these issues exclusively, or a more comprehensive measure such as the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Congress can take powerful, deliberate steps to address this harmful trend. Just as data on students' academic performance is used to identify areas in need of remediation, school-level data regarding exclusionary discipline should be used to identify ways in which schools need to improve school climate and eliminate overreliance on suspensions and expulsions.
We have the potential to make meaningful, positive changes to our dysfunctional, unfair school-discipline system. One hundred and fifty years after emancipation and 50 years after Dr. King summoned us to narrow the gap between our promises and reality, can we finally break the destructive pattern of policy choices that condemns children to a life on the margins of society? For the sake of our children and our country's future, the answer must be yes.
Sherrilyn A. Ifill is president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.


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Either the ministers of those professing Christian churches are ignorant of the Scriptures and history (that only sanction the seventh day Sabbath) or they're just plain dishonest with themselves and their poor flock (that have been robbed of the plain truth).
There's no excuse for Sunday! Jesus, his disciples - the apostles - and the entire early Church of God composed of converted Jews, Israelites and Gentiles kept the seventh day Sabbath! The original faith once delivered to Jerusalem (that included the observance of the seventh day Sabbath) became corrupted by Gentilizers, Romanizers, false converts who misled folks to keep Sunday, cleverly keeping both the Sabbath and Sunday at first until they gained enough power and influence to oppose the biblical Sabbath for their traditional Sunday.
Question your minister if he's a Sunday keeper and ask your friends why folks are keeping Sunday - the first day of the week - when the Sabbath is the seventh day. Most have never thought about it, sheeple to the slaughter, but now God is bringing it to the attention of many and expects us to repent of keeping Sunday and start keeping the Sabbath that is holy to Him.
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." - Exodus 20:8
"There remains therefore a rest [keeping of the Sabbath] for the people of God." - Hebrews 4:10
"Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent." - Acts 17:30
Which day is the Christian Sabbath?
Roman Catholic and Protestant Confessions about Sunday
The vast majority of Christian churches today teach the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, as a time for rest and worship. Yet it is generally known and freely admitted that the early Christians observed the seventh day as the Sabbath. How did this change come about?
Remember the Sabbath
Did you ever stop to think why Christians keep Sunday? Did they get it from the Bible? Is there a clear-cut command that says, "Thou shalt keep Sunday?" Why did Jesus worship on Saturday? Was it only because He was a good Jew? Or does it go beyond that?


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Value Line
Think of vending machines these days, and sodas and snacks immediately come to mind. In the 1880s, this technology dispensed just postcards and gum, but has evolved greatly since its modest roots. Modern automated vending devices can now offer a wide range of products that would have seemed unfathomable to its original creators. Within this great story of human ingenuity and technological evolution, lies a clear trend of increasing corporate interest, of which investors will most certainly want to take note.
Automated retail technology has come a long way since the world's very first self-service vending operation. In the first century C.E., Greek inventor, Heron Alexandrinus, developed the precursor technology to facilitate the sale of holy water. This device prevented people from dispensing more holy water than they actually paid for. Fast forward two millennia, and this core retail function has remained pretty much the same.
That said, modern vending machines benefit from added features like refrigeration and climate control, which has enabled the vending of drinks, and processed foods. Some particularly enterprising farmers have even tried to sell eggs and milk directly to consumers. These days, it is not uncommon to see offerings of ice cream, microwavable meals, and even hot sandwiches.
Corporations in the food and beverage industry, like Coca-Cola (KO – Free Coca-Cola Stock Report), PepsiCo(PEP), and Hershey (HSY) have capitalized on the pervasive "on-the-run" mentality governing the typical modern lifestyle. In almost any lobby or public space, one expects to find vending machines humming away. The ubiquity of these dispensers, however, also means that additional growth in this particular segment will remain relatively limited for developed markets. Having said that, automated-retail sales do contribute significantly to corporate top lines within the food and beverage industry.
With rising labor costs across the globe, corporations from other sectors have taken notice of this alternative way of doing business. Indeed, many already have started to delve into automated retail, with hopes of realizing cost advantages and a potential top-line boost.
Electronics giant, Best Buy (BBY), added its name to the fray in 2008 with a pilot program that vended consumer electronics products at eight airports. Named Best Buy Express, the business has since then expanded to well over 200 locations, and can also now be found in hotels, casinos, malls, and colleges. With limited experience in dealing with automated retail, Best Buy partnered up with Zoom Systems, a company that specializes in operating similar self-service retail shops for other well-known brands like: Apple (AAPL), Macy's (M), Proactiv Solution, Procter & Gamble (PG – Free P&G Stock Report), Max Wellness, and Straight Talk (AMX).
These symbiotic relationships show how established corporations see automated retail as a new frontier where they can eke out additional profits. In the majority of these cases, however, vending revenues comprise only a minuscule portion of overall revenues. Some companies, nonetheless, see vending operations as a major pillar of their long-term strategic goals.
One notable example of this is construction supply manufacturer, Fastenal (FAST). In the 1960s, Bob Kierlin founded the company with the vision of selling construction products through vending machines. Unfortunately, the technology of the time was not up to the task, and he had to settle instead for traditional stores manned by salespeople. In 2008, Fastenal finally realized this dream, by providing its industry-leading SmartStore vending program at a price point that made it profitable even with its lower-volume and smaller customer base.
As an early adopter of the technology, Fastenal has already begun to see some encouraging returns from this burgeoning business. Vending solutions currently account for over 27% of overall sales, and all indicators point towards more advances to come. Even as its traditional brick and mortar business continues to weaken, automated vending has continued to fuel the company's continued growth.
In addition to providing customers with the convenience of on-site product offerings, Fastenal's vending solutions offer an unprecedented level of accountability, as the system allows customers to track purchases and monitor actual usage levels much more closely. This minimization of waste and unnecessary purchases results in substantial cost savings for customers, albeit at the expense of somewhat decreased sales for Fastenal.
Despite this drawback, companies within the construction materials business have high hopes for this technology, because it allows them to attain a bigger share of their customer's overall spending. Indeed, Fastenal's competitors like W.W. Grainger, Inc. (GWW) and MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc (MSM), and Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) have followed suit with their own vending solutions. By monitoring purchasing patterns and stock levels, these companies can increase operating efficiencies while providing expanded product selections that are customized to the anticipated needs of their customers.
As vending technology continues to improve, this business model should pick up steam over the long term. Some of the stranger offerings like lobster, fresh meat, and plants may take a while, if ever, to catch on, but investors would be wise to keep an eye out for the next big thing. Redbox, a subsidiary of Coinstar (CSTR), redefined the traditional DVD rental business with the application of automated vending technology to DVDs. As we discussed earlier, an equally important market shift is likely occurring in the construction materials sector. Equipped with machine vision capabilities and interactive touch screen interfaces, these next-generation vending solutions can provide an unprecedented level of customer interaction. With companies thinking up creative new ways to utilize these highly customized vending technologies, savvy investors will certainly want to consider riding any new waves of growth that come along.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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THE HAGUE - Dutch ace Robin Van Persie is counting on the World Cup to act as a cure for a 'complicated' season at Manchester United.
"For the first time in my professional career I finished a season without qualifying for a European competition," the 30-year-old striker told AFP.
In his first season at United under Alex Ferguson, Van Persie scored 26 league goals as the team secured the English Premier League title.
However, the second season was a disaster as Britain's wealthiest club slumped to their lowest finish since 1990 and new manager David Moyes lasted only 10 months.
"It was a complicated season. Nothing worked for us," Van Persie bemoaned. The striker had regular injuries which culminated in a sprained knee in March that ruled him out for six weeks.
"I was never worried that I could miss the World Cup, but it is true that this injury came at really the worst time," he told Dutch media last week.
Brazil may be the last chance for Van Persie, who made his name at Feyenoord and became an icon at Arsenal before his £24 million (S$50.1 million) move to Manchester in 2012, to claim a title on the international stage.
His reputation is already secure in England, where he is the 10th highest scorer in Premier League history with 134 goals.
As one of the most feared strikers in the world - he was the top scorer of any European nation in World Cup qualifying with 11 goals - he has become the centre-piece of the Dutch team.
Last year he was made team captain, as Louis van Gaal, the Dutch coach who has just been named as the new Manchester manager, made a u-turn in his attitude to the striker.
At the start of qualifying, van Gaal had named Klaas-Jan Huntelaar as the spearhead of his strike force.
Bouncing back
The Dutch reached the final of the 2010 World Cup, but van Persie and his team-mates had a disappointing 2012 European Championship in Ukraine, where the Netherlands crashed out in the group stage.
Van Persie bounced back, though, as Van Gaal readily admitted.
"He has such talent that I cannot get by without him," the coach said after van Persie scored three goals against Hungary in October 2013 to become the Netherlands' all-time leading scorer.
He has 42 goals from 83 international matches, but while he has regularly shone in friendlies and qualifying for the big tournaments he has yet to really make his mark on a World Cup or European Championship finals.
He scored just once, against Cameroon, during the group stage at the 2010 World Cup, and also notched a solitary goal at Euro 2012. He has never scored in the knockout stage of a major tournament.
"I hope that the World Cup will help me to get rid of this label," he told Dutch media.
Van Persie says he has become less selfish as his responsibilities have grown within the team.
He scored a spectacular goal to give the Netherlands a 1-1 draw against Ecuador in a warm-up match last Saturday, controlling the ball on his chest before firing in on the volley.
However, Van Persie preferred to give credit to his young team-mate Jordy Clasie for the pass that gave him the chance.
His rise in the team has been at the expense of Wesley Sneijder, who lost the captain's armband and who has regularly been a rival within the Dutch squad.
And, according to British media, Van Gaal is set to increase his reliance on Van Persie by making him Manchester United's captain next season in place of Wayne Rooney.


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Recently separated nation vocalist Blake Shelton has taken care of to lose greater than 30 excess weights. He is certainly prepared to be a bachelor once again. Keep in mind the chubby vocalist that we liked seeing on the renowned show The Voice? He is a lot more fit and slimmer than just ever. Blake joked lately that being separated was one of the most reputable diets he had actually ever attempted. After getting separated, he convinced himself to transform his outlook on life. Anyone will be surprised by his before as well as after pictures look.
The renowned nation vocalist handled to alter his diet substantially in order to achieve his weight reduction target. Without more ado, allow's dive into the details. After discussing with his train, we realized that Blake hacked his metabolic rate in order to accelerate his fat burning progress. In just 8 weeks, he lost greater than 30 pounds while obtaining 7 pounds of area. I know, you are surprised too. Take a more detailed take a look at the foods that he removed completely from his diet regimen.
Fried Foods.
We all know that eating deep-fried foods is a recipe for catastrophe. Although Blake likes fried hen as well as pickles he knew that in order to attain his goal he had to remove them.
Peanut Butter.
Everybody enjoys peanut butter. The most significant issue of peanut butter usage is that it has 200 calories each 2 tablespoons. When you add this food to your daily eating regimen, you will absolutely begin obtaining some weight. Blake enjoyed eating peanut butter but was forced by his trainer to suffice totally from his diet.
Refined Carbohydrates.
Bad carbs like grain, chips, cookies, biscuits and also bread increase your degrees of blood sugar level while causing your body to stock fat. With the help of his trainer, Blake managed to minimize his polished carbs consumption.
A well-structured diet regimen not only gets rid of particular foods yet also adds crucial active ingredients that enhance your fat burning efforts. Allow's figure out what ingredients Blake added to his diet plan.
Entire eggs.
Among the most reliable weight loss management ways is to kick-start your muscle building hormones, like testosterone. As quickly as you increase the levels of testosterone in your body, you end up being much more invigorated as well as you shed even more weight. Blake consumed 3 eggs during breakfast and also before going to bed.
Icy Yoghurt.
No, we didn't lose our mind. Consuming sugar after resistance training transfers the amino acids right into your cells, which start the synthesis of protein. This treatment is called the first stage of muscular tissue growth.When your body carries some extra weight of muscle mass, you will burn more calories as your do your daily activities and also activities.
Last but not least, when seeing brand-new shots of Blake, you will certainly notice that he additionally looks means more muscle and also lean. Don't obtain me wrong, a proper diet could make a massive distinction in how your body looks, yet nothing beats a correct workout routine. Blake adhered to a 4 day a week program that was particularly designed for burning fat and also structure muscles. He performed this custom-made program for 8 straight weeks in order to attain these remarkable results. Since you understand just what this popular nation singer did to transform his figure, it's time to give it a try.


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BRUSSELS – European Union lawmakers have voted in favour of starting talks on a wide-ranging free trade agreement with the United States.
A parliamentary committee on Thursday voted 23-5 to endorse the negotiation mandate for the European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-country bloc.
Lawmakers also voted an amendment calling for the exclusion of cultural services. The vote is non-binding at this stage but any agreement ultimately needs Parliament's approval.
Experts say a deal can foster growth and jobs by lowering tariffs and removing other trade barriers for most industries. Together the EU and the U.S. account for almost half the world economy.
The negotiations are expected to be arduous, not least because of disagreements over agriculture.
EU officials hope to reach a deal before the end of next year.


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Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) can be a difficult disease to treat. Unfortunately, lasting remissions aren't common. You should discuss survival information with your doctor.
The reported median survival of people diagnosed with CMML is from 12 to 24 months after the start of treatment. Keep in mind that outcome data can show how other people with CMML responded to treatment but can't predict how any one person will respond. Also, statistics may underestimate survival to a small degree since they may not reflect the most recent advances in treatment.
Many factors influence patient survival. Factors that may indicate a less favorable outcome include:
- Severe anemia
- A high percentage of blast cells in the blood
- A high number of white cells called leukocytes in the blood and in the bone marrow
- A high level of the protein lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the blood
- A high absolute lymphocyte count.
The disease progresses to acute myeloid leukemia in about 20 percent of CMML patients.