Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here V1 Staff | October 30 a celebration of the written word for area youth was held at the Grand Theatre in Eau Claire on Sunday as part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival Eighteen young authors had their original works selected to be published in the Chippewa Valley Book Festival’s booklet They were also invited to read their winning entries an assistant professor of English at UW-Eau Claire The showcase committee was pleased to note that seven local elementary and middle schools were represented by the authors: Putnam Heights Elementary The Young Writers Showcase is a part of the Chippewa Valley Book Festival The Chippewa Valley Theatre Guild provided the use of their facility and Royal Credit Union and Dan Realty Group offered financial support The Chippewa Valley Book Festival partners with the Pablo Center at the Confluence, and the UW-Eau Claire Foundation to provide literary programming for all Chippewa Valley residents. 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Holm comes from a ministry at Bethlehem in Twig After attending seminary at Luther College in St he also served at churches throughout Minnesota sprinkled with humor and a few tears," the release added All are welcome to attend Sunday morning worship at 10 a.m in Laporte and greet Pastor Holm as the new minister Receive emails when new obituariesare published to our website When you experience the loss of a loved one you can trust us to guide you through the arrangements necessary to create a meaningful ceremony that celebrates the unique life being honored Our staff is committed to providing your family with the highest quality care and service in your time of need and we take pride in our responsibility to lighten your burden as you take the first steps toward healing Cease Family Funeral Home | (218) 694-6600407 Getchell Avenue NE Cease Family Funeral Home | (218) 751-97002807 Irvine Avenue NW Cease Family Funeral Home | (218) 835-330081 Main Street South Cease Family Funeral Home | (218) 652-3105105 Main Street Cease Family Funeral Home | (218) 732-7264710 West 1st Street © Cease Family Funeral HomeFuneral Home Website Design By Frazer Consultants & TA Your browser may not work with certain site. 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Visitation will be 2 hours prior to the service at the church Interment will be in the Malvik Lutheran Cemetery 1930 to Prospere and Ednah (Lusk) Clairmont in Cohasset His childhood was in Cohasset and Fisher Branch Manitoba until the family moved to Guthrie in the late 30’s He attended school in Guthrie thru the 8th grade He then started learning the mechanic trade working with Ed Gishard until he was drafted into the Army in 1948 he worked for his grandfather driving truck until he was called back to active duty and served in Korea 1951 He spoke little of his war experiences with his family It wasn’t until a few years ago his family learned the circumstances of how he earned two bronze stars When his son Bill was in the National Gard the commanding officer approached Bill and asked why didn’t he attend West Point because as a son of a Congressional Medal Award recipient Bill would have been automatically accepted into West Point he replied he did not want his children to go through the hell he did We do know he had to put it in writing for the Army that he declined to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery When in Korea he unofficially adopted a young Korean boy providing food and clothes He had his family back home send clothing overseas for the boy Terry wanted to bring the child back to The United States upon his discharge but the Army refused to allow that to happen Terry always wondered what happened to the boy mentioning him once again just a few weeks ago He returned to working as a mechanic in the Bemidji area They lived in Cass Lake area where their daughter Jeanie was born then in 1953 moved to Kelliher where he worked as a bus driver and mechanic for the school He was a member of both the Legion and VFW and was past commander of the Legion in Kelliher In the late 50’s the Army came calling wanting him to go to Quantico He reluctantly declined He then worked for the highway department for a year before buying a gas station and bulk agency in Northome In 1977 he sold his business and moved back to Guthrie where he opened a repair shop and raised beef cattle He was active in the Guthrie area with Farmers club he then sold the farm in 2013 moved in with his daughter Joan brothers Tom and Ramon and his sister and her husband Joyce and Bill Moree and Lillia He is survived by his sisters-in-law and brother-in-law Emily and Bill Schueller and many nieces and nephews      www.OlsonSchwartzFuneralHome.com might permaculture play in designing nature’s futures I believe that permaculture plays a critical role in designing nature’s futures As mentioned in the film we watched in class permaculture is defined by not looking at our footprint as a negative consequence we should focus on making a positive impact on planet Earth What I found surprising about permaculture is that it is not an elusive goal This was illustrated on several occasions in the movie including the playground garden in New York and the abandoned gas station turned into a rain garden These examples made me curious if permaculture gardens could emerge in tough climates such as Norway This is indeed the case in Malvik, a small municipality located by Trondheim, Norway. Here, Stephen Barstow is managing a garden that can withstand minimal sunlight and temperatures of -23 degrees Celsius in the winter Barstow believes his garden has a significant upside and the garden enjoys sunlight almost 24 hours a day during the summer Barstow has successfully grown over 2000 different edibles (Mollestad Link: https://bentehaarstad.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/stephen_barstow_hage-20cw.jpg Barstow’s garden and the cases shown in the movie exemplify how permaculture is not only achieved at seemingly impossible locations but provides numerous benefits to both us and nature I believe that permaculture is a core idea in designing nature’s future and we should change our mindset to healing the planet instead of sustaining it Maybe we should even replace the name environmental sustainability with environmental healing “Green Winter at 63 Degrees North (Norway)” and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is the 800-mile long backbone of the state’s energy infrastructure It’s built to transport up to 2 million barrels of oil per day but these days it carries only about a quarter of that Download Audio Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is exploring new ways to keep the system up and running The 36-year-old Trans-Alaska Pipeline marches south from the North Slope across squishy tundra mighty rivers and high mountain passes on its way to Prince William Sound The system that monitors that pipeline is a bit less romantic “Well here’s a station control panel,” Mike Malvik a senior processing engineering adviser for Alyeska Pipeline Services Company said “All these are now are a bunch of Ethernet cables for communications between the various programmable logic controllers.” He takes me on a tour of the backrooms of the pipeline’s Operations Control Center in Anchorage “Upon pipeline start up there was a computerized control system but it was a lot more primitive in that it used mechanical relay switches and vacuum tubes,” Malvik said pipeline controllers sit in a quiet room filled with massive monitors The screens show schematics that look sort of like 1980s video games Symbols indicate which valves are open and the direction the oil is headed “Follow the blue line and the oil’s going to tank five today,” Malvik said They respond to alarms and communicate with workers in the field It’s extremely mellow during a normal day as the controllers try to keep the oil flowing at a steady state But Malvik explains that maintaining the steady state is harder when less oil is flowing through the system With only about 550,000 barrels entering the pipeline per day “And if you get to the freeze point then you can start making ice in the pipeline collecting in low parts of the pipe and then you have a cleaning pig pick up that ice and bring it into a pump station and plug that pump station up,” he said A cleaning pig looks like an 8-foot long shish kebab of mushrooms and quarters It scrapes the inside of the pipeline and pushes wax and ice out of the system they only work if the oil moving fast enough to push them along Less oil makes leaks harder to detect as well “We haven’t firmly landed on that number because we’re still studying it,” Malvik said Part of the study includes a new pipeline model decked out with all of the same types of monitors and equipment as the real pipeline It’s being built at the University of Tulsa “What we’ve designed the test loop at Tulsa to do is simulate as closely as we can if I was a drop of oil going from pump one to Valdez what terrain types would I see,” Malvik said Starting this month they’ll run oil from the North Slope through the model Oil pumped from the ground naturally contains water If you let it sit in large tanks for a few hours Less water in the oil could solve problems like ice build up and pipe corrosion Lois Epstein is a petroleum engineer with the Wilderness Society and vice president of the Pipeline Safety Trust She says studying the technical problem is the best solution to the low flow issue the things they’re looking at right now seem to make a lot of sense,” Epstein said which operates the pipeline on behalf of it’s owners has motivation to find a way to keep TAPS running for decades to come “The major operators on the North Slope don’t want to leave the crude in the ground They’ve set up the pipeline infrastructure they’re going to make sure that TAPS is viable over the long run,” Epstein said she would rather the companies make use of the infrastructure and oil fields that are already there instead of developing new ones in places like ANWR they are dealing with the low flow problem by adding extra heat to the oil They have restarted some pump stations where they cycle the oil through multiple times The friction heats up the oil before heading back down the line Another possible solution is storing oil in tanks at Pump Station One and only running the pipeline part time But Malvik says starting it and stopping it in the winter has problems of it’s own And we we’re working on them very thoroughly because we can’t afford to get them wrong He’s hoping the answers from Tulsa will help the pipeline run efficiently – and safely – far into the future Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker "The songs on 'Vestli' are all more or less about a feeling that there is no way to go Spielbergs have unveiled details of their second album and have shared two new songs – check them out below The follow-up to 2020’s ‘This Is Not The End’ is called ‘Vestli’ and will arrive on August 19 via their new label The band have given fans a taster of what to expect via new singles ‘When They Come For Me’ and ‘Get Lost’ Both tracks will feature on the record along with their last single ‘Brother Of Mine’ Commenting on new single ‘When They Come For Me’ singer and guitarist Mads Baklien said: “Sometimes I feel like I am right on the verge of going crazy It’s like I don’t recognise myself in what I say and do everything will come crashing down.” he continued: “The songs on ‘Vestli’ are all more or less about a feeling that there is no way to go Maybe you don’t like who you are or who you have become “You are dealing with a lot of pressure and noise in your everyday life and all you want to do sometimes is just to leave everything behind and find a quiet place somewhere to start a new life the entire world seems like an out-of-control aeroplane with a bunch of fucking nuts behind the wheel You carry the place you grew up inside you your whole life Vestli is the name of the suburban borough in the north-eastern part of Oslo where both Stian and I grew up You can leave Vestli but Vestli never leaves you.” Reviewing their debut album, NME said: “Well A last chance may have just created your new favourite band and at the very least the most promising debut of the year so far.” The world’s defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking what’s new and what’s next since 1952 DevOps.com Blogs Doin' DevOps The DevOps-Price of Segregation of Duties By: on May 27, 2015 3 Comments Segregation of duties will change because it must change It has a tremendous impact on our motivation It influences many parts of an organization Most organizations have started with DevOps Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment and it is only natural to think about segregation of duties at one point and how we deal with it today it costs us a fortune that we’re not willing to pay in the near future We watch everything our children do so we don’t miss anything One of the greatest moments in life is when they take their first steps on their own It’s our job and our responsibility to protect them and to help them to become great adults As a developer we feel pretty much the same about our applications When we release a first version of an application into production we feel pride and happiness exactly like a parent with its child It’s our job and our responsibility to keep that application up and running and also to maintain it and to ensure that our application delivers value at all time That number is made up but probably not far from truth In many large organizations it’s impossible to be 100% responsible and to take full ownership of our own applications even if we are supposed to and really want to IT Security makes sure that no single person can do everything from development to production alone Segregation of duties increases protection from fraud and errors and is a key concept of internal controls But it can also do a lot of harm in the organization Segregation of duties can rob people’s motivation and it can make us frustrated and sometimes angry Are you familiar with the Pareto Principle It says that 20% of the employees do 80% of the work and that the remaining 80% of the employees do only 20% of the work Imagine you’re one of the 20% that gets work really done Imagine you’re getting things out and delivering value to the customers the business and the IT because you’re being trusted and given responsibility I’ve been part of Task Forces solving production problems many times In one of those Task Forces we were 12 persons from different departments like development A hotfix was ready right after and change management approved releasing it into production immediately The time between when the hotfix was ready and when we actually released it into production were long lasting 2 hours and 5 minutes We hadn’t have the right resource from the Operations team 125 minutes were spent finding the right person from Operations with access rights to the production systems and teaching that person how to do the deployment The deployment is a Jenkins job that takes 3 minutes 125 minutes x 12 persons = 25 hours that we wasted because we separated the duties very strictly Not all resources can be available at all time and I don’t believe it ever will be possible I want developers that have the knowledge about their applications to become even smarter and take the responsibility to run their application in all environments Time to market could be reduced by many times If we want the developer teams to take 100% responsibility over their own work we must put the responsibility exactly there and show them trust Developers want to care but they simply can’t Ron Westrum’s work on safety culture shows that no process or control can compensate for an environment in which people do not care about customers and organizational outcomes the solution can be to create a culture in which developers take responsibility for the consequences of their actions and there actually is a simple prescription to enable this Employees are a company’s most valuable assets and should be trusted to do their jobs High-trust organizational culture should be favored and not the contradictory command and control culture Recently I had a chat with one of the people working in IT Security “Compliance and stability is the key to get customer’s trust” is his mantra “Legal compliance demands will always be implemented with as little interference to daily operations as possible and access control is an easy and very efficient way to enforce segregation of duties When enforcing segregation of duties through access control mechanisms it’s important to follow guidelines for what roles to allow what type of access in order to – not only be compliant – but to protect systems and data and maintain operational stability Imagine our systems would live in a locked box and really everything would be automated Everything just works and we wouldn’t need discussions about IT Security There might be a way – the DevOps way The drive towards being agile versus implementing stronger access controls DevOps versus Segregation of Duties – do we have two conflicting initiatives It depends on the organization and how far it has come automating deliveries and how changes are released into production Imagine you commit an emergency hotfix into the common source repository 10 minutes after a very serious bug was reported by customer service And imagine depending on how fast this hotfix must get out you can adjust the speed your change will get out 5 minutes later your hotfix is release ready IT Business opens the organization’s Production Release Dashboard where it can find your change And all they have to do from now on is to push a big green button on the screen 2 minutes later final tests will decide whether your emergency hotfix stays in production or the automated roll back routine will be initiated in many larger organizations this picture is still far from reality I was once part of a 12 people Task Force where we had an emergency hotfix ready to be released after 10 minutes after the route cause was found And neither did we have an automated roll back routine in case of failure What we had was a Jenkins job that nobody knew where that particular job was Our people from IT Operations maintain hundreds of Jenkins jobs and the only person who was available at that time and who had access to the Jenkins Dashboard in production didn’t know where that job was Time went by and after more than to hours we got the hotfix out to our customers who were complaining about bad customer service It took over 120 minutes for 12 people to make an important change It took 24 man hours to start a Jenkins job I see DevOps as a way to loosen up segregation of duties but to keep IT Security and to make organizations stronger and as powerful as they never have been before. Simplicity is the final key to real power. More on http://DevOps.Town /Sven Malvik – DevOps Consultant April 16, 2025 | April 10, 2025 | March 7, 2025 | February 25, 2025 | February 19, 2025 | © 2025 ·Techstrong Group, Inc.All rights reserved She is a rising Norwegian actress and model She got the attention of the media after she starred in the Netflix series Ragnarok as Gry PAY ATTENTION: Click “See First” under the “Following” tab to see Legit.ng News on your Facebook News Feed! The actress poses for a solo picture. Photo: @PinterestSource: TwitterEmma Bones developed an interest in acting at a tender age and took part in plays when she was in high school. She even studied a course in acting to hone her skills in readiness for her career. The actress has recorded significant success in the few movies and TV shows she has appeared in. Read also PAY ATTENTION: Join Legit.ng Telegram channel! 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