![]() The dossier contains confirmation of information that we either knew or most certainly should have been willing to assume. We can also agree that most certainly has chemical and biological weapons and is working towards a nuclear capability. Those politically opposed to military action against Iraq generally agreed that the dossier was unremarkable, with Menzies Campbell observing in the House of Commons that: On publication, serious press comment was generally critical of the dossier for tameness and for the seeming lack of any genuinely new evidence. Most of the evidence was uncredited, ostensibly to protect sources. The much-anticipated document was based on reports made by the Joint Intelligence Committee, part of the British Intelligence 'machinery'. Without exception, all of the allegations included within the September Dossier have been since proven to be false, as shown by the Iraq Survey Group. The dossier even alleged that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons programme. It contained a number of allegations according to which Iraq also possessed WMD, including chemical weapons and biological weapons. The paper was part of an ongoing investigation by the government into weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, which ultimately led to the invasion of Iraq six months later. Parliament was recalled on the same day to discuss the contents of the document. Their enterprise software and SaaS solutions deliver digital innovation to the emerging circular economy around the world.įor more information, please visit: View source version on businesswire.Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, also known as the September Dossier, was a document published by the British government on 24 September 2002. AMCS helps over 3,000 customers in 22 countries to reduce their operating costs, increase asset utilization, optimize margins, and improve customer service. AMCS is a global leader of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource industries and offers optimization solutions to the broader transport & logistics market. Dossier is in good hands.”ĪMCS is headquartered in Castletroy, Co Limerick, Ireland with offices in North America, Europe and Australia employing over 700 people across 11 countries. Dossier’s reputation for excellence in fleet maintenance management has been earned through lots of hard work and dedication going back to our beginnings in 1979 – I fully expect that to continue under Jimmy’s leadership. Personally, I’m honored to have had the opportunity to lead our wonderful team to this point. Jack Boetefuer, CEO and owner of Dossier Systems commented on the deal: “I’m excited for Dossier to become part of AMCS and believe our customers and staff can look forward to a bright future. ![]() We look forward to welcoming new team members and integrating our combined teams under AMCS while continuing to innovate and grow in response to global demand.” So customers can benefit from a unique set of integrated capabilities. We will be bringing the solution to the AMCS Platform where we envision integrations with our current solutions including ERP, smart dispatch, mobile workforce, vehicle technology and route optimization. This acquisition will enable us to deliver and support Dossier’s unique SaaS solution for fleet maintenance on a global scale. Jimmy Martin, CEO and co-founder of the AMCS Group, said, “We are very excited to expand our business with the acquisition of Dossier Systems, a brand that has earned a national reputation in North America as one of the most trusted names in the industry for fleet management maintenance management software. Over 750 new customers will be added to the existing AMCS customer base. Please try again Article contentįollowing the acquisition, the Dossier Systems’ team of almost 50 professionals, including their seasoned management team, will join AMCS. The next issue of Financial Post Top Stories will soon be in your inbox. ![]() If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.
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We dropped bags at the truck, walked across the expanse of concrete at the Bridgetown dock in the sun after a visit to the Mount Gay Rum Factory, gave our names at the bottom, and up the small gangway we went. The check-in process (at 4 pm) was painless, as everything is done online nowadays. In fact, the day we boarded the ship my boyfriend and I did a couple of turns to the music! The excitement of finally meeting the Royal Clipper with a glass of rum punch in my hand after more than a year of planning was beyond! Oh, do leave your high-heels at home as they can damage the teak decking. The public area where we gathered all day is called Tropical Bar, an beautiful open air space that has a nice size dance floor if you were so inclined. We were entertained primarily by a young couple, Joanna and Jerry, who sang beautifully (and especially talented hip-hop dancers in the talent contest!). Guests were all ages, although our particular cruise tended to attract a mature crowd. ![]() At dinner, men are asked to wear long pants and no flip flops, and they ask you not wear your bathing suit only on the inside corridors, but otherwise we were comfy all week in T-shirts and shorts. The day to day life is easy, and the dress code very relaxed. ’92 brought the sister ship Star Clipper, and in 2000, the five-masted Royal Clipper, holding up to 247 passengers, was born.īut you can read all about the stats yourselves…I want to share more of the emotions of boarding and sailing for a week with a diverse staff and visiting intimate and unique ports of call. Mikael Krafft became enthralled with these ships as a young lad, and his vision of creating passenger versions became a reality in 1991 with the Star Flyer (150 guests), launched in 1991 in Belgium. The last voyages with cargo on the square riggers of old ending in the 1940s. This is a lovely vessel, crafted in the image of the clipper ships of the early 1900s. I hope this review will help you in deciding if this kind of cruise experience is for you, or if you might be better suited for the big ship experience. I am a frequent cruiser, having boarded and fallen in love with no less than 30 ships now. It didn’t hurt that we left just before a massive snow event in Cincinnati, the home town of most. ![]() My group of 19 were not seasoned sailors, for the most part, but each and every one of us enjoyed the week in the Grenadine Islands immensely. I heard many of the sailing enthusiasts on board remark how pleased they were that, despite her size, she truly rocked like a sailing vessel should. Romantic? To be sure! Exciting? The dramatic unfurling was done on my cruise for the first time at night in Bridgetown, Barbados to beautiful music and it took my breath away! And if you sailors are wondering if she feels like a sailboat…the answer is yes. Star Clippers largest vessel, the Royal Clipper, has 42 sails and in the Caribbean she rarely has to use her engines. ![]() Some people have congenital anomalies that may require surgical treatment.įor example, some people have a wall - called a vaginal septum - either across or down the vagina.
![]() With this new insight, they changed their roadmap and are now working on updates that will make it easier for their users to set-up ad hoc meetings. They were surprised to see that a sizeable portion of users were having impromptu meetings rather than scheduled ones. So they investigated the data in Amplitude Funnels, Cohort, and Microscope to identify new opportunities. With this impactful change, 8×8 realized the value of investing in their extension experience. The result: a 2x lift in D7 retention across all users. 8×8’s solution was twofold, including improving the discoverability of its Chrome extensions and sharing campaigns to ensure users were aware of the functionality. These extensions allow 8×8’s products to be accessed directly in users’ browsers. It’s discovery? Very few users had downloaded 8×8’s Chrome extensions. For example, when 8×8 noticed that its growth rate was flat using Amplitude Trendline function, it looked to understand why with Amplitude’s Conversion Drivers. This has led to some important breakthroughs. “We want to understand when do we make a step in the right direction, where do users stumble, when do they leave, do we need to stop supporting certain users because we can’t sustain them.”Īmplitude has also allowed the company to track the right kind of growth, as opposed to the difference between MAU/DAU, which is what 8×8’s marketing attribution platform provided. Just as important, it helps the company “better solve users problems,” Emil said. And it meant that engineers could get back the work of addressing more pressing issues, including rolling out a series of improvements targeting packet loss, a key metric for retention.Ĩ×8 began using Amplitude after becoming dissatisfied with its marketing attribution software, which Emil described as “crude.” Amplitude offered a window into user behavior, which in turn allowed the company to make better product decisions. To its relief, it discovered that its hypothesis was wrong. For instance, concerned that its TURN servers and video bridges were being used simultaneously in certain sessions-an inefficient use of bandwidth-the group used Amplitude’s Frequency and Cohort analyses to investigate server usage. It’s great!”Īmplitude has also helped Emil’s team rethink its engineering priorities. “Just knowing that gives you so much piece of mind. “All of a sudden, when we need information, it’s there and waiting for us in Amplitude,” Emil said. The difference means the company doesn’t have to worry about crashing servers and service interruptions, which is especially critical now that so many, including thousands of teachers and students, are relying on Jitsi to stay in touch. Using Amplitude, it takes about 30 seconds. Without Amplitude, Emil said, Jitsi could track that information down, but it would mean spending as many as eight days digging through server logs. Larger calls mean deploying more Jitsi Videobridge.” As Emil explained: “more one-on-one calls mean deploying more TURN servers. On an even more granular level, Jitsi uses Amplitude’s precision tracking, enriched data, and Sessions chart to measure session duration and size, information it could not capture otherwise, allowing the company to scale its product effectively. ![]() In addition, Amplitude’s Segmentation chart reveals important KPIs, such as the number of meetings per user, which helps Jitsi know when to scale its systems up or down, metrics the company cannot reliably surface through its APM platform. Emil noted that Jitsi’s engineering team is relying on Amplitude’s enriched user data to determine where to locate its data centers, a decision-making process where Jitsi’s SaaS monitoring platforms would have come up short. ![]() I can stay busy all day and not accomplish anything of value. ![]() I've learned that busy doesn’t mean productive and it certainly doesn’t mean you are living a full life, just a life full of stuff and things going on. I’m here to tell you, I’m tired of it, not just metaphorically, I’m physically freakin' tired, life can be exhausting but only if we let it be. We try and one up our friends about who has the most going on. We strut around wearing our busyness as a badge of honor. What I'm saying is, that we shouldn't live a life were we have to fake positive, we should live a life were that's the real answer. Now I'm not saying we should ever be negative, I've always been taught you say positive things even when you are sucking on those lemons life just handed you. We say things like “We’re super busy but #BLESSED” or “We’re awesome, things are great, I mean you who needs to eat and sleep regularly?” Or we flat out lie and say “Awesome, couldn’t be better.” I'm guilty of always saying "Living the dream", even when it's a nightmare. When people ask the rhetorical “How are you doing?” I find we often respond with mantras that we use to try and convince ourselves that running ragged is not only normal but a good thing. We hurriedly shuffle around from work, to practices, to board meetings, dance and piano everyday in a dizzying dash. Now when Facebook goes down for a few hours, we lose our minds. Remember what it was like when you didn't have a cell phone? I'm what I'l call an elder millennial, I remember those days. Some of these technologies, instead of allowing us freedom, have truly tied us down. The very things that should allow us more freedom seem only to bind us down farther, (thanks to whoever thought putting work email on your phone was a great idea, I blame someone at blackberry). Yet it seems that with all this knowledge and technology we still seldom have the answers, we're overwhelmed, and at times beaten down. I can literally google almost anything and find answers. Since the dawn of the internet (big thank you to Al Gore) we have more information available to us than probably all of human history that has come before us combined. ![]() We live in a world that is more connected that ever before. This is the introduction to a series I'm going to call Faith, Family, and Finances. I think that it’s time to share some of it with others. It has to become part of our daily life, our routine, for it to work. The last few years I’ve really started to develop my thoughts on it much deeper than just as a simple saying. I can't honestly say that I've always done it right, there have been time I'm forgotten about all three for a bit and focused on other things and made a mess of it all. As we’ve grown businesses and our family I’ve found that it always rings true, but saying that is easy, it's the doing it that's hard. We always felt if you put things in that order, then everything else will fall into place. It was always a way for us to acknowledge our priorities and their order in our lives. Kaitlin and I somewhere along the way picked up saying the phrase, G.F.W, which stood for God, family, and work. The idea for the series has been on my mind and heart for a few years now. So that’s what this is primarily about, you'll hear about a whole bunch of mistakes I've made and what I learned from them. I strive to always be better than I was, to learn from my many mistakes. ![]() The one thing I am good at, is persistence, I don't give up and learn something every time I fail. I’m not always the best, I’m stubborn and bullheaded, I like a glass of whiskey a little too much, I swear more than I should and talk too loud. To be honest I fail and fail often, at times much more spectacularly than most. I’m just a follower of Jesus, husband, father, and an entrepreneur who struggles like everyone else to make sense of this daily grind that we call life. If you know me I don’t want you to think I’m one of those people who write about something and pretend to be perfect. I'm going to start this blog post off with the disclaimer that I am in no way an expert in any of what I’m going to write about in this blog series. You can also give a comment as an argument, to be saved as the message on the commit representing the stash (e.g., git stash save "bugfix in progress"). This is useful to save compilation artifacts such as object files, normally ignored and untracked but that would be costly to recreate. Save untracked files (normally only tracked files are saved). This works the same way as the patch mode of git add.ĭo not revert changes already applied to the index. Interactively select hunks to save, rather than the complete diff between HEAD and the working tree. On the other hand, after you switch branches, you may want to remove all object files to ensure a correct new build, as the dependencies in a complex project as expressed by tools like make or ant may not handle such wholesale rearranging of files correctly. For example, often ignored files include compiled objects that are expensive to rebuild, so you donât want to remove them while cleaning up other untracked cruft that has accumulated in your working tree. ![]() There is no single git clean command that is most common, really it depends on what youâre trying to do. Skip the normal âignoreâ rules (but still obey rules given with -e). Directories that are in turn other Git repositories will not be removed unless you add -f -f (two âforceâ flags). Remove untracked directories as well as files. Report only errors, not the files removed.Īdd pattern to the âignoreâ rules in effect. Show what would be done, but remove no files. ![]() git clean will make no changes without this flag, unless you set clean.requireForce to false. It then prompts you to use the options - to continue after resolving the conflicts, skip the current commit, or abort the whole cherry pick, similar to git rebase. Take the commit list from standard input.Īs with other commands that apply patches, git cherry-pick can fail if a patch does not apply cleanly, and it uses the merge machinery in that case, recording conflicts in the index and working files in the usual way. You can use this to take the commitâs changes as a starting point for further work, or to squash the effect of several cherry picked commits into a single one. This is required to cherry pick merge commits at all, since otherwise it is not clear what set of changes should be replicated.Īpply the patch to the working tree and index, but do not commit. Only use this if that commit is publicly available if youâre cherry picking from a private branch, then this information is not useful to others.įor merge commits, compute the changeset for the new commit relative to the n th parent of the original. ![]() Some options:Įdit the commit message before committing.Īppend to the commit message a line indicating the original commit. The argument to git cherry-pick is a set of commits to apply, using the syntax described in Chapter 8. If there is an upstream feature you need that the distribution does not provide (and they use Git), you canât just merge it in, as your repository is not a clone of theirsâbut you may be able to apply the relevant commits individually by cherry-picking. Or, suppose you have your own repository for holding local changes made to your Unix distributionâs derivative of some open source project, such as Apache or OpenLDAP as modified and repackaged by Red Hat or Debian. ![]() For example, you might discover that a bug fix applied to a certain version actually needs to be applied to an earlier one as well, and merging in that direction is not desirable. Any arrangement of branches and merge discipline favors a certain flow of changes, and sometimes you need to buck that flow. As a very general rule, itâs best to avoid this in favor of factoring your work so that a commit appears in one place and is incorporated in multiple branches via merging instead, but that isnât always possible or practical. Git cherry-pick allows you to apply the changeset of a given commit as a new commit on the current branch, preserving the original author information and commit message. ![]() Over the phone, he asks Darry and the gang to help him hide. ![]() He was wielding a gun that wasn't loaded. The only thing that Dally loved was Johnny. Shortly after, Johnny dies because of his severe injuries and burns, immediately after telling Ponyboy to "stay gold".ĭally, overcome with grief, runs out and robs a grocery store. There they tell Johnny they won the fight. Understanding the 'situation,' the police officer escorts them to the hospital. Dally makes a quick lie, saying that Ponyboy fell off his motorcycle. On their way there, they are pulled over by a cop for speeding. After the Greasers heroically win, he tells Ponyboy that they should get to the hospital to visit the severely injured Johnny. Dally then joins the Greasers at the rumble. He later convinces the nurse (with the aid of Two-Bit's switchblade) to let him leave. Dally was maddened that he had to miss the rumble (fight against the Socs) and tells them to "do it for Johnny." Afterwards, Ponyboy and Two-Bit visit Dally in the hospital because Dally had received a few minor burns due to the church fire. We then later find out he did that because he was on fire. Ponyboy and Johnny help save the kids, and Dally later helps them however, he hits Ponyboy hard enough to make him fall. When they return to the church, they find it on fire with seven trapped kids inside. The church was almost inhospitable however, it was far away which helps them from being caught by the police, and it also had water for them to drink.ĭally went to the church a few days later and gave Ponyboy a note from Sodapop and treats Ponyboy and Johnny to sundaes from Dairy Queen, as the two were basically starving. He gives the boys a gun and some cash and tells them to hop on a train to Windrixville and hide inside an old abandoned church. He then later appears after Johnny killed Bob he was at a party in Buck's house in the bedroom trying to get some sleep. Cherry promptly throws a Coke at him and he leaves. In the second chapter after they go to the movie's, he attempts to flirt with Cherry. For example, he told Johnny "Now that I'm out (of prison), I'm gonna make it my business to get the guy who did that to your face".ĭally is a tough, friendly and loyal guy who hangs out with Johnny and Ponyboy. He says to Johnny at one point "My old man doesn't give a hang if I'm in jail dead in a car wreck or drunk in the gutter," He is mean to many people such as Cherry, but it is shown he cares for his gang and treats them like family. Dallas was also treated poorly by his father which contributed to his toughness. He spent three years on the wild side of New York and was arrested at the young age of ten. He also wears a necklace that he had reclaimed from his girlfriend after she cheated on him while he was in jail.ĭallas was hardened from a tough upbringing. After that, he instead wears a dark blue jean jacket. He wears dark blue jeans, and, in the first few minutes of the movie he is featured in, a dark brown leather bomber jacket and a black shirt he gives the jacket to Ponyboy when he comes to Dallas for help after Johnny kills Bob. ![]() He had a height of 6'2", and had blazing blue eyes which Ponyboy describes as "cold with all the hatred in the world." However, in the movie, Dally has brown hair and eyes. Dally didn't like haircuts nor hair oil, so his almost white-blonde hair (likely Platinum-Blonde) fell over his forehead in wisps. In the book, Dallas Winston is said to have an elfish face with high cheekbones, a pointed chin, small, sharp animal teeth, and ears like a lynx. ![]() If you’re a business owner, you will naturally want to cut costs, and having to replace old carpet can be a big one. Apart from the obvious, keeping your office carpet clean is important firstly because it extend the lift of the carpet. Cleanse your CarpetĬarpet! It’s something that becomes victim to a myriad of dirty shoes multiple times a day, so its inevitable that this surface can always stay clean. ![]() Therefore, when it comes to cleaning your bin, it’s important to get the help of a professional cleaner as unapproved cleaning methods that result in polluted waters can incur penalties from the council. Under certain rules and regulations, businesses are responsible for keeping their bins clean and odourless. This is especially important if you are a business owner because when it reaches a certain point, a dirty bin can become an OH&S issue. Perhaps the most important clean of all, and the most neglected, is cleaning the office wheelie bins. Every few months, get a professional office cleaner to come in and give your fridge a thorough clean, both inside and in the area behind where the fridge sits. In addition, remind employees to clean up any spilt foods in the fridge with warm, soapy water to keep the shelves clean. To maintain a clean fridge in between professional cleans, it is important to make sure the office fridge is cleaned out weekly to avoid foods being left for too long. As you can imagine, a dirty fridge will breed germs that can further cause diseases like food poisoning. Naturally, the office fridge can be the number one place where bacteria lives with so many different people keeping different foods in there, often for much longer past their use by date. How can you fix it? Replacing or cleaning your filter system each month will make sure it runs smoothly and efficiently. In an office, this means more people taking sick days, leading to decreased productivity. This means that anyone suffering from allergies will notice a flare up in their system from breathing this in. ![]() In addition, a dirty air con filter is dangerous for people with allergies as everything that is stuck in the filter, such as dust and dirt, will get distributed around your office. A clogged aircon filter will reduce the airflow to your filter and make your air conditioning unit work much harder than it needs to, resulting in an increased electricity bill. Often neglected, keeping your air conditioner clean is highly important, especially in an office where often, aircon is running all day, every day. Therefore, as cleaning professionals, we have put together an office spring cleaning checklist to help get you started. A clean office will increase productivity, reduce the spread of bacteria and will create a positive work environment for your employees.Īt Orbit Cleaning Australia, we specialise in office cleaning and can help you keep your workplace clean every season. Yes, it may seem like a pain to conquer, but office spring cleaning is highly important not only for simply keeping your workplace looking nice and tidy, but also for several important reasons. When September rolls around after hibernating in winter, its time to start thinking about office spring cleaning. ![]() ![]() Understanding intuitively that their infamy was tied to record sales, they posed for pictures holding guns and refused to state clearly whether they were gang members, drug dealers or just kids looking to make a quick buck. Meanwhile, in interviews, the group members were cagey. ![]() Playing upon stereotypes dating back to blackface minstrelsy, they tapped into a centuries-old American appetite for racialized entertainment. Over Dr Dre’s booming beats and sampled sounds of automatic gunfire, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Eazy-E rapped about their sexual prowess and penchant for violence. Taking a life or two, that’s what the hell I do / You don’t like how I’m living? Well, fuck you! Under the guidance of Eazy-E, NWA commodified a more sinister version of the Los Angeles story, crafting a new brand of hardcore rap that moved from third-person descriptions of street life to first-person portrayals of the gangstas themselves.Ĭompare earlier recordings like Eazy-E’s Boyz-n-the-Hood – which describes the arrest, trial and failed escape of a fictional drug dealer named Kilo-G – to NWA’s Gangsta Gangsta, in which Ice Cube actually assumes the role of an unrepentant criminal, proclaiming: Selling the hoodįor decades, real estate boosters have packaged the Southern California good life, using images of sunshine and palm trees to entice millions of Americans to relocate to the West Coast. The genius of the group’s approach – masterminded by member Eric “Eazy-E” Wright – was the way it manufactured a narrative of Compton as a rough, unpredictable place, while placing it at the center of NWA’s identity. And in a deeper sense, NWA’s brand of rap music was always a cinematic blend of reality and fiction: a blaxploitation film with beats. ![]() The option H tells grep to print the file name when it finds the text (something it doesn’t normally do if it searches a single file).In a Windows PowerShell the alternative for grep is the Select-String command. The findstr command is a Windows grep equivalent in a Windows command-line prompt (CMD). The escaped semicolon “\ ” tells -exec where the command ends. The grep command in Linux is widely used for parsing files and searching for useful data in the outputs of different commands. name "*.js" -exec grep -iH foo have been replaced with the name. txt) Using grepl() for filtering Find functions with argument names. Solution: let “find” call “grep”, as follows.įind. grep, grepl, regexpr, gregexpr and regexec search for matches to argument. How to use GREP to find errors in log files More GREP command examples. Problems: With many files, the command can become too long and grow beyond the maximum allowed number of characters.įurthermore, the above doesn’t work well with directories whose names have spaces in them. The grep command, which means global regular expression print, remains amongst. ![]() The option i ensure that the search is case-insensitive. Go through a list of files, search for the text “foo”:.Grep’s core is simply the ability to search plain text for a RegEx pattern. This venerable tool has been around for decades and is crucial to any administrator’s toolbelt. Insert that list after “foo”: backquotes. 50,000 - 100,000 Get Started Today One of the first Linux commands that many system administrators learn is grep.Assemble a list of all JavaScript files in the current directory:.This works well to replace grep for simple search operations at the command line. The simplest is findstr, which is a native windows executable. The easiest way to do this is to execute the command 01:13 Using findstr to grep Search In PowerShell There are a couple different search utilities in PowerShell, each with their own strengths. This post shows you how to use “find” and “grep” to search for a text string in all files that are directly or indirectly contained in a given directory.Įxample: Find all JavaScript files in the current directory and search for the word “foo”. |