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Red Sludge From Brazilian Dam Collapse Reaches the Atlantic (21 photos)

Earlier this month, on November 5, two dams retaining tons of iron-mining waste near the Brazilian town of Bento Rodrigues burst, releasing a massive flood of thick, red toxic mud that flattened buildings and trees, smothered the small town, and left at least six dead. The wave of toxic sludge—tested and found to contain high levels of mercury and arsenic, according to a BBC report—then moved downstream, into the Rio Doce (Doce River), and spent two weeks making its way several hundred miles downstream, finally reaching the Atlantic Ocean. According to Reuters: “Scientists say the sediment, which may contain chemicals used by the mine to reduce iron ore impurities, could alter the course of streams as they harden, reduce oxygen levels in the water and diminish the fertility of riverbanks and farmland where floodwater passed.”



An aerial view of the Rio Doce (Doce River), which was flooded with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst, at an area where the river joins the sea on the coast of Espirito Santo in Regencia Village, Brazil, on November 23, 2015.
(Ricardo Moraes / Reuters)


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Red Sludge From Brazilian Dam Collapse Reaches the Atlantic (21 photos)

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Google’s Got a Fantastic New Star Wars Easter Egg 

Google's Got a Fantastic New Star Wars Easter Egg 

Hey, did you hear there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out? In case you’re unclear on the details, Google’s new Search Easter Egg will help remind you.

If you search for ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far far away’, Google will display the up-to-date, clickable search results in opening crawl style. And yes, there is music.

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Google’s Got a Fantastic New Star Wars Easter Egg 

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Learn How to Lead Different Types of Individuals With the “DiSC” System 

A strong leader knows that different team members often require different communication tactics, and the “DiSC” behavior assessment system might help you speak everyone’s language and get through to them.

The DiSC behavior assessment is based on the theories of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and it centers on four major behavioral traits that everyone has on some level in the workplace: dominance, influence, compliance, and steadiness. The graphic below from Eastern Nazarene College’s business management masters program explains how to determine what behavioral traits your team members have, how they prefer to work and communicate, and most importantly, how to provide feedback to each type of person. For example, if you’re dealing with someone that has a lot of dominance (they’re competitive, decisive, and independent), direct compliments are a great way to praise them and criticism needs to be very specific. Check it out below to learn more.

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Using DiSC Assessments to Become a Better Leader | Eastern Nazarene College

Learn How to Lead Different Types of Individuals With the "DiSC" System 


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Google Lets You Re-Skin Its Apps Using Light or Dark Side Star Wars Themes

Google Lets You Re-Skin Its Apps Using Light or Dark Side Star Wars Themes

To celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Google has put together a set of skins for its apps which let you demonstrate your allegiance to either the light or dark side.

The tweaks to Google apps include new Gmail backgrounds, a YouTube progress that looks like a light saver, a Maps positions marker that resembles a TIE fighter or X-Wing, and a bunch more subtle tweaks in Chrome, Translate, Chromecast and the like. We prefer the dark side, though we’re not sure what it says about us.

Guaranteed fun, for at least a few minutes. In fact, it’s kind of reminiscent of the custom options you used to get on Windows, where your swapped alert sounds for train whistles and that kind of thing.

Anyway, you can go choose your side now.

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Upgrading to MySQL 5.7 Using the MySQL Repos for Linux

MySQL Server 5.7 was released around a month ago, and download numbers show huge interest in upgrading from older MySQL releases. As with any product that is frequently used as core infrastructure in complex systems with numerous interdependencies, major version upgrades of MySQL should be approached with some care. In this post, I will cover […]
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Create Hidden Administrative Accounts in OS X from the Terminal

Create Hidden Administrative Accounts in OS X from the Terminal

If you share a computer, you might not want everyone who uses your computer to see your username in the login window or fast user switch menu. To hide your name, MacIssues points out you’ll just need a little bit of Terminal skills.

The idea here is to hide you administrative user account so nobody even knows it’s there to be messed with. Provided you’re on OS X Yosemite or higher, you can hide your username pretty easily. Just run this command, substituting your username in for USERNAME:

sudo dscl . create /Users/USERNAME IsHidden 1

This will hide the administrative account from the login window, Users & Groups preferences, and the user switching menu, though you’ll still be able to manually login. It’s not super necessary for most of us, but if you have a lot of different users on a shared computer, it’s a nice way to make it a little tougher for people to tinker with your settings.

How to create hidden administrative accounts in OS X | MacIssues


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Create Hidden Administrative Accounts in OS X from the Terminal