Survey software has been around for some time, and Web-based surveys are beginning to become integral to online activity. You see them in all kinds of contexts from frivolous "Poll of The Day" questions to customer feedback forms on many retail Web sites. You may have even participated in a survey or two, but have you thought about how you could be using them to make your work life easier or more productive? You may think that opinion based research isn't something useful to you, or is something you need so infrequently that it's not worth spending time on, but think again. Surveys are now so easy to produce, deliver and evaluate that you'll find many possible uses for them in your business once you become familiar with your options.
As a librarian, my internal customers or users are lawyers, legal assistants, administrators, secretaries and other non-legal staff as well as interning law students. I work with them mainly in delivering answers to their business research questions, and in teaching them how to efficiently use the firm's information resources. I also work in tandem with librarians outside my firm in an effort to encourage resource sharing and to improve our ability as a community to teach research skills. General user surveys give the library staff feedback on what our customers find useful, and what they don't, telling us where we could use improvement. While surveys can generate feedback and opinion, they can also give you concrete data about your customers. Surveys let me learn not only what my trainees think of how I teach, but also help me determine what our employees are learning from my classes and what they are not. By sending surveys to our incoming fall and summer associates, I can gauge the skill level of each individual or the groups as a whole, and that helps me tailor the training we offer to the skills they need. Don't forget, too, that a survey is simply a series of questions and answers, a give and take can be designed to give as much information as it elicits. During library week, we use a fun interactive quiz whose questions and answers highlight library services and staff expertise.
While those are all library-based applications for surveys, their usefulness carries over to the broader range of law-related business or academic activities. Think for a moment about the work you could save if you could focus on the issues your customers — either internal or external — really care about, if you could capture their perceptions of what works and what doesn't about your business processes, if you better understood what skills new employees possess and which they'll need to be taught, what exiting employees think of your business individually or as a group. Surveys are useful to marketing, to human resources, to information systems, to accounting and for direct feedback between a firm and its clients. I work in the firm environment, so the options above share that focus, but the possible uses in academia are probably even broader, and courts and agencies would find many uses for survey information as well.
Until a few years ago, all my survey activities were paper-based. Each project required significant forethought and planning because the surveys were expensive to reproduce and distribute, and because it was impractical to make changes to the printed product, so we had to have them absolutely right the first time. Colorful, eye-catching graphics were pretty much out of the question for our budget, and response rates were low. What responses we did get had to be hand tabulated, an extremely time consuming process.
Then, as our firm began to develop its intranet, I worked with our information systems department (IS) to create some library-related internal surveys for our employees. This was a huge improvement for several reasons. First, it was much easier to distribute the surveys. We had only to e-mail our survey targets with a notification that the survey was available, then point them to an interactive document or Internet page, or simply include a poll or short survey within our e-mails to bring them to their question and answer sessions. Second, each of these document formats allowed for the use of colorful graphics, and our response rates improved. Also, these surveys were easy to adapt from one project to another. Once we created a question format, it was a fairly simple matter to reorganize our content or adjust it according to the group being surveyed.
However, there were still some drawbacks to this system. For one thing, the surveys took time for our IS people to develop because we didn't really have any software specifically made for survey creation. Survey software options range widely by price and feature. Though there were some free Web-based survey products on the market, they were definitely a case of "you get what you pay for", and their really capable competitors came with huge price tags and generally required that complex software be housed on our system, something the IS folks weren't entirely pleased about. For the few surveys we did, there didn't seem to be much out there worth the price. Also, there was a little lag involved because we had to go through another department. If information systems was dealing with a network crisis or working on a billable project, the library job obviously had to come second. Usually, that wasn't a big problem because we planned things out well in advance, but it meant that we couldn't produce surveys very quickly. Another drawback was that we still had to hand tabulate our results, an issue even more challenging than before because we were getting better response rates.
Then, about a year ago, I started to see mentions of a site called Zoomerang in some articles and on sites around the Internet that were doing polls and surveys. Zoomerang is an entirely Web-based product for survey creation. It allows users to create their surveys on site, send invitations to participate in the survey from Zoomerang (there are other delivery options available, but more on that later), and point to a page on its site where the survey is housed. About that same time, the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC) wanted to touch base with its membership and find out how it could better serve us. So I, along with other area law librarians, received an invitation to participate in a Zoomerang survey. Our membership isn't gigantic, but it is large enough to make a paper survey an expensive and daunting task. Zoomerang, according to the LLSDC Webmaster, handled the job with relative ease. The key elements behind the association's choice of Zoomerang to deliver its survey: it's inexpensive, easy to use, and most important, tracks the results of your surveys for you.
I was impressed as a participant and could easily see its usefulness for external surveys, to determine, for example, the skill levels of our incoming fall associates. We already had our IS folks working on an exit survey for our summers, and while that could be delivered via our intranet, the falls were still outside the firm. Firewall policies and marketing strictures being what they are, it seemed impractical to house a library survey on our firm's main Web site, and Zoomerang turned out to be just the ticket. As time passed, it also became obvious that our library needed better, faster creation options for less formal internal surveys like class evaluations, but the number we'd need to do made it impractical that we use our intranet and go through the IS department. Again, Zoomerang is great for the job because it's easily to quickly turn around new surveys on each topic we teach, or even class by class. Feedback is immediate, and we don't have to tabulate the results ourselves, or go through any other departments.
Zoomerang has two levels of membership: a free basic membership, and a paid one called a zPro membership. For information comparing the two, Zoomerang offers a nice chart, but I've detailed the limits and advantages of each membership type below and set out the pros and cons as I see them. The main differences between the two are that the free basic membership is intended for smaller surveys, both in length and number of respondents, and of course the price. A zPro membership currently costs $599/year, a pretty stiff increase from previous years rates and from the introductory offers available when the site first became available. For most of the surveys we do as a department, the basic membership is all we need, but there are exceptions. The zPro membership is meant for larger survey projects and allows for long-term storage of your results. Depending on the number of surveys you send and the amount of work the service may save you, that may actually be a relatively reasonable amount considering the features it offers. Other survey software packages you load and/or maintain in-house offer very similar features and can cost much more – some are in the $10,000 range.
I think it's easier to understand the differences between the two membership levels when you see how they compare over the process of the survey. Essentially, each survey has three creative elements: production, delivery and evaluation of results, and a management aspect.
In the initial part of the process you have to come up with the questions for your survey and choose you format.
With a free membership, you can create an unlimited number of surveys modeled on over 100 existing templates available at Zoomerang, or from a survey you've already created there. Zoomerang offers a broad variety of templates covering everything from class evaluations to customer feedback, and new templates are added each month. The templates will fill most needs for simple surveys, and modifying individual questions to suit your projects is very easy. The templates can also be edited to add extra questions (up to a maximum of 20 with the basic membership), or delete questions if there are too many for your project. I found it helpful to work with the templates, at least at first, because it let me become familiar with the question formats. If you are totally new to creating surveys, they also serve as nice models for the kinds of questions you might want to ask in various situations, help you decide how to order your questions and more.
The zPro membership allows a little more flexibility in that you can create your survey from scratch, saving the step of modifying a template (especially handy if you have a survey from a different source that you simply want to transfer to Zoomerang), and you can include up to 30 questions. It also gives you more opportunities for branding your survey, with your logo for example, which at this stage means allowing you to add an image to the title area of the survey itself.
Zoomerang also offers about 10 design themes. My favorite is Cartographic Grey, the default. It seems easy to read, and it's one of a very few that have any complex graphical elements. Most of the themes are simply color based, or if they have integrated graphics, are too topical (scientific instruments as an example) for my purposes, though I could definitely see them being handy in other contexts like schools or medical practices.
Headings are used to define sections of the survey or for introductory or closing text. As far as I can tell, they do not count toward your question total.
Multiple choice questions come in three formats. If you only want the respondents to pick one answer from a list of possible options, they can either click on their choice in a bulleted list or from a drop down menu. The drop down menu makes the survey look a little shorter, a nice option when you have loads of questions for your respondents to answer. The last multiple-choice format allows the respondent to click on one or more options, again from a bulleted list. This set of bullets looks different from the single bullet option, so you (and the user) can tell the question type is different.
Zoomerang offers two types of rating scales. There is a one-answer format where you ask the respondents to rate their response to a single question along a range that runs horizontally, and there is a matrix format where respondents rate a range of items in a vertical list where each item in the list has its own horizontal rating range. This last is the only format at Zoomerang that I'm not entirely happy with. Compared to a simple radial choice with the range of options arrayed across the top, this is very crowded because the range choices are repeated across the page for every single line item. It would look less busy, and still be easy to use I think, if the rating range appeared only at the top, with simple bullets next to each line item.
There are three formats for open ended questions, those for which the respondent doesn't pick from a choice but fills in a blank. Those options are a single line for short answers, a long comment box, and one or more short lines with prompts to remind the respondent about the information needed like "E-Mail Address:" ________________ and "Telephone Number" _____________.
The rest of the question formats are more strictly designed for specific, commonly needed answers. They are the "Yes or No", "Name and Address," and "Date and Time" formats.
There are several options for notifying potential survey recipients, and here there are not really any differences between the zPro and basic memberships. Three options are discussed on the Zoomerang site. First, you can use an e-mail invitation you write at Zoomerang and send it to a list of recipients you build. Second, you can write your invitation and have it sent to an e-mail list provided by Zoomerang. This wasn't useful for my department, but would be handy for marketing or if you needed a random survey response. In either case, when a survey is launched, recipients will see a plain text format e-mail with a message you create inviting them to participate in the survey, followed by a disclaimer from Zoomerang.
The third Zoomerang option is to link to the survey from your own site using the Zoomerang address. What they don't emphasize here is that you could also send an e-mail from your own system and point recipients to that URL. Depending on your recipients and your mail program, that may let you customize your invitation with HTML formatting, an opportunity for branding that isn't available at Zoomerang even with the zPro option. Unfortunately, they can't predict what kinds of e-mail your recipients will be able to handle and some e-mail systems still don't cope well with anything beyond plain text. In the case of the LLSDC survey, users were notified from a group e-mail list and directed to the LLSDC site where there was a link to the Zoomerang survey. For in-class evaluations, I don't send any notification. Instead, I just direct the class to the appropriate Web address and have them fill in the form before they leave.
It may be to your advantage not to use the e-mail launch feature at Zoomerang for another reason. I noticed that for my surveys there was always some delay before e-mails sent from Zoomerang were received. I tested the delivery time by sending a short survey to some of my colleagues who not only have office e-mail accounts, but who also have Web-based personal accounts. In most cases, the delivery times were about the same — around an hour after I launched my survey. That's not horrible, but it's something to be aware of. Also, in order to use the e-mail feature at Zoomerang to send the survey invitations to specific individuals, you need to have their e-mail addresses in the Zoomerang system. It's not difficult to add them and it's very easy to assign addresses to particular groups, but if they are already part of your own e-mail contacts, you may want to consider whether it's really useful to enter them again. It's a convenience for people who don't have an internal contact list or who are contacting individuals outside those lists, but in some instances it doesn't make sense.
Results are kept on the Zoomerang site and are compiled in real time as respondents submit their answers. This is a great feature, and is available to both basic and zPro members. However, I think this is where having the paid membership can really be worthwhile.
First, under the free basic membership, results of your surveys are only kept for 10 days from each survey's launch. For anyone who is surveying a target group over time, it's essential to have your results for longer than 10 days. Also, Zoomerang will only report on 50 responses to any given survey at the basic membership level. While my group doesn't often need to survey more than 50 people, and even more rarely gets more than 50 responses back, this is another important limit to be aware of. One could work around it by surveying smaller sub-groups of target participants (just our tax attorneys instead of all attorneys), but it may mean more work than is worthwhile.
Another important limitation is that you get slightly more flexible analysis with the paid membership. Take the tax attorney example above, for instance. With a zPro membership, I could survey all the attorneys in my office, include a question pertaining to their practice areas, and use a special cross-tabulation feature to cross-reference answers to the practice area question with any one other response. The paid membership also allows you to receive your results via e-mail in spreadsheet format, which would allow you to produce charts and graphs using your survey data. We have not used this feature yet, but over time it could make comparisons of one survey group to another much easier, and it would be invaluable if the aim of your surveys were to compile statistics to use in any sort of presentation.
Last, the paid membership allows you to share your results with others. Basic membership means results are always private and disclosed only to you. With zPro, you have that option or you can restrict view of the results to one or more other individuals, post the overall or individual results publicly or notify participants that results are available by e-mail. You've probably seen simple polls where you could see the results so far, like "Which do you prefer: A) customer service phone trees OR B) speaking to a customer service person immediately. Current Results: A) 15%, B) 85%. That's just one possible option, but participants are often interested in how their responses compare to others'. A nice additional feature is the option to password shared results for added security.
Survey management gives you access to some of the independent elements on the "My Surveys" page, but also allows some additional options. First, you can preview your survey. This basically lets you take the survey yourself without having your answers count in the results. Personally, after having worked on any project for a while, I'm no longer the best person to proofread it. I prefer to draft my survey as it will go out but start the title with the word "TEST," and then launch it to several co-workers for their evaluation and comment. Their eyes usually catch mistakes I've missed, and because it's very easy to base a new survey on one you've already created (either when you add a new survey or in survey management), it takes only a very short time to revamp it for its real audience.
You can also use the management options to edit the survey at any point before it is launched, and to create or modify an optional Web greeting page if you want people to see any introductory text before they actually get to the survey. Management is also the place to go to choose which delivery or deployment option (discussed above) suits you best. You can launch a survey here as well, or delete old surveys you no longer need.
One option in management only available to zPro users is ability to add an image and Web link to a thank you page that users see after they have completed a survey. This allows you to brand the page with your logo and send users from Zoomerang back to your own Web site or to another site related to your survey topic.
The Zoomerang site is very user friendly, and it does give you some extra benefits aside from its actual functions. As I mentioned above, the templates are a great education on survey writing in themselves, but the site also offers some tips at the survey creation point. They also show you the latest ideas for surveys and the most commonly used surveys to help you get a better idea of the options available. Overall, their help is good and their descriptions are informative and useful. On the down side, I sometimes found the site a little difficult to navigate. Parts of it, especially the survey text itself, are easy to get to and modify, but I occasionally had trouble getting back to some of the peripheral elements. Also, while the branding options help reduce confusion when you send a survey participant to Zoomerang, a site outside your own, there is still no question that it isn't your site because the Zoomerang brand is always there as well. I didn't find that to be a huge problem, but can imagine that for some people that would make or break their decision to use the service.
I didn't find any other survey software packages that were this sophisticated and still entirely Web-based. Frankly, that seems so unlikely that I'm sure I must have missed them, so if you know of any, I'd love to hear about it. Some that were not so sophisticated were Votations and Create A Poll. I've even used evite for some informal personal polls, but in most instances these services can't touch Zoomerang for professional look and feel. I did find a few services that were partly Web-based, and though I wasn't much impressed with their Web sites, they may suit as alternative. Survey-Web, for instance, allows you to use Survey Tools for Windows over the Web or asks that you download a free survey creation package, but they do host your survey online. They offer much more sophisticated survey analysis, but according to the press release on their site, "Prices start as low as $149 for a 100 respondent survey hosted for three months." The press release was dated January of 2000, though, so whether or not that's still accurate is open to question. As I said, the Web sites of some of these services left something to be desired. Another alternative was Survey Said Survey Software. They offer survey software that lets you host surveys on your own site and which lets you do a bit more with your data and for much larger survey groups (up to 1 billion respondents at the highest price point), but their pricing starts at $695 for one concurrent administrator and goes up to $995 for three.
For my money, and my firm's, Zoomerang offers a nice balance of features that suit most needs. The free features can't be beat for flexibility and ease of use by anything else I've seen where there' s no charge. At the higher price point, Zoomerang is not for everyone. However, while branding isn't very important for most of my surveys, the storage issue is, and we may choose paid membership. Also, considering that without survey software it took our IS Web expert a couple of days of work, on and off, to adapt a twenty question paper survey for our intranet and that it took me two hours to do the same on Zoomerang, for us the time saved will be worthwhile. Our survey needs are not so complex that we would really use the full analysis features of one of the more expensive software packages, and I love that the entire system is Web-based so we'll never need to update or accommodate software in house.
In short, try Zoomerang; I think you'll like it. If you do, I'd be curious, as always, to hear your comments.


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The 1578  took place following the sudden death of Uesugi Kenshin. Kenshin had requested that the inheritance be split between his nephew, Uesugi Kagekatsu, and his adopted son Uesugi Kagetora. This conflict happened because of neither heirs being born with the Uesugi name. Kagekatsu was the biological son of Nagao Masakage and Kagetora was biological son of Hojo Ujiyasu.

Before the situation could escalate into an armed conflict, Takeda Katsuyori acted as the mediator between those two. Therefore, eventually the Uesugi was divided for a military conflict. The Takeda supported Kagekatsu and the Hojo supported Kagetora.

Thus, on March 17, 1578, Uesugi Kagekatsu led a force from his castle at Kasugayama to besiege Otate castle . Kagetora tried to return to Odawara but committed seppuku in Samegao Castle, and Kagekatsu claimed the full inheritance.

Uesugi retainers who supported Kagekatsu

 Honjo Shigenaga
 Naoe Kanetsugu
 Jojo Masashige
 Saito Tomonobu
 Yasuda Akimoto
 Yoshie Munenobu
 Ogita Nagashige

 Irobe Nagazane
 Shibata Naganori
 Shibata Shigeie
 Suibara Chikanori
 Takenomata Yoshitsuna

Uesugi retainers who supported Kagetora

 Uesugi Norimasa
 Aya Gozen
 Uesugi Kagenobu
 Saiponji Kagenaga
 Saiponji Sadanaga
 Kanamari Chikatsuna
 Kawada Nagachika
 Kaji Hidetsuna
 Momoi Yoshitaka
 Kitajō Takahiro
 Kitajō Hirotaka
 Ayukawa Morinaga

See also

 Aya-Gozen
Naoe Kanetsugu

References

Otate 1578
Otate 1578
1578 in Japan
Conflicts in 1578

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Q: $(selector, element) Native JS alternative Hi I'm trying to remove all jQuery from my platform one line at a time.
But I'm having some trouble finding a replacement for this
$('[data-attribute="value"]', GenericHTMLElement);

I was hoping it would be something simple like

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '

';
var b = div.childNodes;

var a = b.querySelector('[data-attribute="value"]');

But that's not working either. Does have any suggestions for me?

A: As commented,

childNodes will give you a list of elements. This list will not have querySelector. If you loop over nodes, you should be able to get it though. But, my suggestion is just do div.querySelector(...)

To be specific, it will be of type NodeList. This is a collection of nodes. So you cannot run querySelector on it. You can either loop over all nodes and do querySelector on them or just so this operation on parent div.

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '
Dummy Text
';
var b = div.childNodes;

console.log('Type of childNodes is: ', Object.prototype.toString.call(b))

// getting element using loop over childNodes
for(var i = 0; i<b.length; i++) {
  var el = b[i].querySelector('[data-attribute="value"]');
  el && console.log(el.textContent)
}

// getting element using parent elenent.
var el1 = div.querySelector('[data-attribute="value"]');
console.log(el1.textContent)

A: First you need to understand what the first code does. It searches for given selector, limiting it to HTMLElementObject scope. Understanding that we can try to do something similar.
From MSDN example, he is using body element:
var el = document.body.querySelector("style[type='text/css'], style:not([type])");

They have this example with data-attributes, take a look please.

A: The reason your attempt isn't working is that you're trying to call querySelector on a NodeList, which doesn't have a querySelector method.
If you try it on a single element, it works fine:

function mySelect(selector, el) {
    return el.querySelector(selector);
}

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '

';
var b = div.childNodes[0];

console.log(mySelect('[data-attribute="value"]', b));

But this makes it so that mySelect(selector, el) is nothing more than an alias for el.querySelector(selector).
Presumably, you'd want to be able to evaluate a selector on multiple elements at once, and return multiple results, like jQuery does. In that case, you can do so by making some adjustments:

function flatMap(values, f) {
    return Array.prototype.concat.apply([], values.map(f));
}

function mySelect(selector, els) {
    return flatMap(els.length ? Array.from(els) : [els], function (el) {
        return Array.from(el.querySelectorAll(selector));
    });
}

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '
span 1

span 2
';

console.log(mySelect('[data-attribute="value"]', div.childNodes));

console.log(mySelect('[data-attribute="value"]', div.childNodes[0]));

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Published on June 10th 2009.
A REPORTED VENDETTA against two local businessmen has resulted in a Merseyside pub being torched. The Cabbage Inn, on Fleetwoods Lane, Netherton, was firebombed at around 3.15am. The owners were woken by their dog barking. Police have confirmed the arson was the latest in a long line of attacks against entrepreneurs Terry Riley and John Ball.
MERSEYSIDE FILM-MAKER, Graham Hughes, has been freed after being jailed in the Cape Verde Islands, on suspicion of entering the country illegally. Hughes, 30, was arrested after arriving aboard a boat from Senegal as part of a challenge for a WaterAid charity. A judge has now dismissed the case against him.
A DECISION is set to be made over whether Wirral Council should be allowed to close 11 public libraries. The closures are said to be part of a review of leisure facilities but have been met by protests from the public and local MPs. A hearing at the Floral Pavilion will decide if the council has a duty to retain the libraries.


A merchandise trade deficit of more than 180 billion USD.
An increasing gap between exports and imports year on year, with imports showing highly inelastic behavior.
A decreasing global demand for our exports, with no signs of turnaround anytime soon.
The real/perceived policy paralysis and lack of confidence in the markets.
The threat of loss in employment if growth (including trade) suffers.
The exchange rate that is deteriorating, which on surface, seems to be helping exporters, but makes the imports costlier putting further pressure on Current Account Deficit, which is already hovering towards 5% of GDP.
Incentive schemes that somehow seem to fail to make the exports grow faster than imports.
The services exports that are doing reasonably well as of now but are difficult to predict in future.
The challenge of expanding export market to new destinations and diversification of export products basket.
Generation of more employment through exports and earning more forex.
So those are some of the points that might be on the minds of people making the policy. There is no simple answer that can balance and meet all expectations. The export promotion bodies would have made their pitch in the last couple of months, the industrial bodies would have tried turning the right levers in the administration and the administration itself would have tried to strike a balance between the budget outlay and the balancing of all interested parties.
So, yours truly waits, to see what comes out. Given the situation, a regular approach of 1% incentive here and 2% there, would not work. A creative approach is required that can bring on a paradigm shift about how we think about foreign trade policy. I shall write my review once the policy is out. To be on record, all views expressed are strictly personal.


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Q: unable to get cell after uicollectioniew reload I have creating a excel view using collection view. Earlier I was facing an issue while scrolling the collection view listed at :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27036224/scrolling-disturbs-layout-of-collectionview
I fixed that issue with the after seeing Shivam's reply in:
Collection View,with custom layouts, cells misbehave on scrolling
-(UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    NSString *cellID = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%d", @"cCell",indexPath.row];
    [myCollectionView registerClass: [CustomCell class] forCellWithReuseIdentifier:cellID];
    CustomCell *cell = [self.collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:cellID forIndexPath:indexPath];

    [self configureCell:cell forIndexPath:indexPath];

    return cell;
}
-(void)configureCell:(CustomCell*)cell forIndexPath:(NSIndexPath*)indexPath{
// configuration code
}

I don't know whether it is correct or not, but's its working.But now I am stuck in another problem related to reload of collection view.
Problem:::  I have textfield in the cells for which I have implemented textFieldDidEndEditing delegate. I have also provided Next Button which provides proxy navigation to all cells in collection view as desired by me. In the clicked method of next button, I am saving the currentIndexpath, reloading the collection view,  getting the next cell using saved index path, getting the textfield  and making it as first responder. But next textfield never becomes first responder. I debugged the issue and find that after reload I am not able to retrieve the cell. If I remove the reload line then everything works fine.
NSIndexPath *reqIndexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForItem:colId inSection:currentSection];
CustomCell *cell = (CustomCell*)[self.collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:reqIndexPath];

A: I get this resolved by :
   [self.collectionView reloadData];
   [self.collectionView layoutIfNeeded];

Thanks to Lukewar reply in
Reloading a UICollectionView using reloadData method returns immediately before reloading data


First summer solstice full moon in N. Hemisphere since 1967, aka the Summer of Love! Gather for celebration at 7pm Bring a dish to share. $20 donation suggested.
Come and join us for an evening that is sure to be something very special! 7 PM Please bring a food offering to share with everyone.


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Q: jquery Datatables descending sort not working with "order" option I am trying to order my jQuery datatable (below), but can't get the first column to sort in descending order. I have tried "order": [[0, 'desc']], but it doesn't work. The JS fiddle is here.

          Submission Date</
          Start Date
          End Date</

A: According to your JSFiddle you want to sort the first column where you're outputting a date using the d M Y format so a date (UK 01/01/2017) will be represented as 01 Jan 2016? That's not a format that DataTables understands so you'll need to add a sorting method like this:
jQuery.extend(jQuery.fn.dataTableExt.oSort, {
  "dateNonStandard-asc": function (a, b) {
    var x = parseInt(moment(a, "DD MMM YYYY").format("X"), 10);
    var y = parseInt(moment(b, "DD MMM YYYY").format("X"), 10);
    return (x == y) ? 0 : (x < y) ? 1 : -1;
  },
  "dateNonStandard-desc": function (a, b) {
    var x = parseInt(moment(a, "DD MMM YYYY").format("X"), 10)
    var y = parseInt(moment(b, "DD MMM YYYY").format("X"), 10);
    return (x == y) ? 0 : (x < y) ? -1 : 1;
  }
});

This is a working example and I hope it helps.


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Bonfire release video for "Locomotive Breath" from upcoming new album 'Byte The Bullet'
Posted on February 4, 2017 by Olivier in Uncategorized // 0 Comments
German veteran hard rockers Bonfire have released a video for their new single "Locomotive Breath" from their upcoming new studio album Byte The Bullet, which will be released on March 24, 2017.
The group's Biography on its Facebook page states (with slight edits):
"In the last 30 years, Bonfire have always managed to reinvent themselves while remaining faithful to their original style.
In the summer of 2016, Alexx Stahl has taken the place as the new vocalist at the German rock legend. Proving himself as an exceptional singer and a excellent entertainer with more than 30 live shows. As a result, the decision was not difficult to integrate Alexx into the band as the permanent vocalist and to start the next studio album.
During the ongoing Anniversary-European Tour, which led the band through Scandinavia and Benelux, Bonfire composed and recorded the new album "Byte The Bullet". The first time ever recording an album in their Hometown of Ingolstadt at Flatliners Studios.
With a new writing team of Ronnie Parkes (bass), Frank Pané (lead guitar), and Hans Ziller forming for the first time on this album. History was made.
Thus, "Byte The Bullet" (released on March 24th, 2017) is 12 brand new songs with a slightly heavier edge, as it was not known in Bonfire's soundscape. Let´s say it like that: "The metal is back!" Of course, the typical guitar-driven Bonfire sound is unmistakably preserved as well as big memorable choruses.
If that was not enough, Bonfire has managed to find a railway company as a partner, who painting one of their locomotives in the Bonfire style and logo.
Inspired, Bonfire matched the song "Locomotive Breath" for the first single and video,
Bonfire will of course present all of their hits, out of the more than 30-years career, and also a few brand new songs on their Byte The Bullet tour in 2017.
See you on the road!!!"
Track List for Byte The Bullet:
01. Power Train
02. Stand Up 4 Rock
03. Praying 4 A Miracle
04. Some Kinda Evil
05. Lonely Nights
06. Byte The Bullet
07. Locomotive Breath
08. Reach For The Sky
09. Sweet Surrender
10. Friedensreich
11. InstruMetal
12. Too Far From Heaven
13. Without You
14. Sweet Obsession
Bonfire's "Locomotive Breath" video:
BONFIRE-Locomotive Breath (Official Music Video)
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tom Mueller@ Flatliners Studio.Visit our shop:https://bonfire-shop.ecwid.com
Bonfire: Byte The Bullet on Amazon

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Each antique Tiffany balustrade is of rectangular form in four sections, cast with a grapevine frieze. It is an unusual example of the interior bronze work from a Tiffany Studios commission. It was perhaps part of a room divider screen.
Stamped: Tiffany Studios New York, (1) 148-22, (1) 110-66.
Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metal Ware, p. 458.
Width 56.75 Height 24.5 in.


faculty member for Ballet Hispanico and Lincoln Center Middle School Summer Audition Boot Camp Dance Director. Dye has presented workshops for the NYCDOE Region 8 and conferences including NDEO, SDHS, NDA and CORD and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Teacher Advisory Council.Throughout her successful career of over fifty years, Patricia has taught master classes and workshops, choreographed and appeared in videos, industrial shows, Broadway shows, television commercials and movies throughout the USA and Europe, including four professional dance Companies: Forces of Nature, Ballet Schulz Beckman, Eugene James Dance Company and Passing Ancestral Knowledge Along Theater Dance Company.
For seven years, Dye was the Artistic Director of the Restoration Dance Theater at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. She has served as assistant and Dance Captain for Dr.Chuck Davis since 1988. In 1993 she became Founder and Artistic Director of Passing Ancestral Knowledge Along Theater Dance Company (PAKA'). Dye is also a member of the Council of Elders for African Cultural Heritage featured in DanceAfrica at BAM. She has received several awards, including the UFT Mini-Grants and Capezio Ballet Makers Grant 2006-2014, the Phyllis Hyman Phat Friend Award 2008, recipient of the Long Island University Future of Men Leadership Award 2010 and the first awardee of the Diana Domoracki-Kisto Award, in 2013, from the New York State Dance Educators Association (NYSDE) for Pre-K-12 Dance Educators.
Dye is a mentor teacher for NYU and Hunter College Dance Educators. She has been an influential member of the New York City Department of Dance Education Assessment Team, Dance Blue Print Facilitator member DELTA 2005-2018, and the Region 8 Facilitator / New York City Department Dance Exit Examination Team / Arts Achieve Dance Adjudicator/ New York City Middle School Summer Dance Audition Boot Camp Instructor / TE Arts Dance Facilitator/New York City Mentor /Brooklyn Arts Monday Facilitator / United Federation of Teachers Dance Educators Executive Committee member/NYCDOE Arts Curriculum Mapping Writer Dance Team/ Brooklyn Arts Festival Committee member, conducts dance education workshops for DEL with Anne Biddle, Jody Arnold at the 92nd Street Y and was a featured Master Dance Educator in the NYS Emmy nominated documentary PS Dance!.
Dye earned her B.F.A at Adelphi University and her M.A. in Dance Education from NYU.
Catherine Gallant, performer, choreographer and educator, is a full-time NYCDOE dance educator at PS 89 in Manhattan where she has explored dance with students in Pre-K through fifth grade since 1998. She and her students were featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, PS DANCE! Catherine served on the writing committee for the NYC Blueprint for the Arts in DANCE and collaborated on the Diverse Learners Supplement to the Blueprint. She is on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) and has traveled in the US and abroad as a DEL Ambassador. Ms. Gallant is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University. As a choreographer, she has been creating new works for Catherine Gallant/DANCE since 1999. Ms. Gallant's work has been performed in train stations, cafes, sandy beaches, rose bushes, church balconies, city streets, cemeteries and soccer fields. Ms. Gallant performed Overlove/Underpass at Anita's Way in Times Square (Chashama 2012) and created An Absurd Vice for the pedestrian block of E. 91st Street (LMCC 2008). In 2019 she will present a new work at Inwood Hill Park in NYC sponsored by the Partnership for Parks. Catherine Gallant/DANCE has presented works indoors at 92Y Harkness Dance Center, City Center Studios, Westbeth and most recently at Danspace Project/St. Marks Church. Dance video projects include Isadora Takes the Trainshot in the NYC subway, and Angels Walking in the Light by Nadia Lesy at Green-Wood Cemetery. Catherine is also the director and co-founder (with Patricia Adams in 1989) of Dances by Isadora which performs, teaches and collaborates with Duncan dancers throughout the world. She was introduced to Duncan when she saw Annabelle Gamson perform on public television in the late 1970's. She began her study of the technique of Isadora Duncan with Julia Levien, (a student of Anna and Irma Duncan) in 1982. She is currently on the Duncan Archive Committee and is a contributor to the website, Isadora Duncan Archive. Dances by Isadora and Catherine Gallant/DANCE seek to bring dance to new audiences through direct interaction with the public in unexpected places supporting an expectation that dance can happen anywhere and is meant for everyone.
Michael Anthony Kerr founded DanceKerr & Dancers (a sponsored artist with Performance Zone Inc. dba The Field) in 2015. Mr. Kerr is pursuing doctoral studies(Arnhold Fellow Recipient) in the Ed.D Dance Education Program at Columbia University, Teachers College. He holds permanent NYS K-12 Teacher Certification in Dance and has been employed with the NYCDOE since 1996. Mr. Kerr was awarded the Diana Domoracki-Kisto Dance Educator Award by the New York State Dance Education Association at the 2015 NDEO Conference. Throughout his dance teaching career in the private and public sector, Mr. Kerr has performed for a variety of choreographers and dance companies in the United States and Europe including Maher Benham's Coyote Dancers, Deborah Damast, Gemini Dance Theater, Floorplay Contemporary Dance Theater, Amy Kail, Dance Consort: Mezzacappa-Gabrian and Deanna Losi while teaching dance throughout the Tuscany region of Italy for several years. Since 2000, Mr. Kerr has developed a middle school dance program at New Voices School of Academic & Creative Arts (MS 443), one of five NYC public school dance programs featured in the NY Emmy nominated documentary PS DANCE. His work as a dance teacher has been featured on News 12 Brooklyn, in NY Teacher-UFT newspaper, in Dance Teacher Magazine (June 2017) and most recently in Don Rauf's book Exploring Theater: Choreography and Dance in Theater. During his tenure at MS 443, Mr. Kerr has served as Chair of UFT/NYC Dance Educators, as a cooperating teacher for Columbia University Teachers College and New York University, on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory, the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts and Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. He has conducted workshops, served as a panel speaker, teaching artist, curriculum writer, guest lecturer and on the teaching faculty for such venues as DEL, NDEO, Dance Teacher Magazine's Annual NYC Teacher Conference, American Dance Guild, NYU, CW Post LIU, The Dalton School, Nimbus Dance Works, NJAHPERD, Accademia Dance Center in Siena, Italy, Young Dancers In Repertory and Dance On Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Mr. Kerr's dance company DanceKerr & Dancers and renowned dance artist/educator Deborah Damast will be presenting original works on a shared program in June 2019 in New York City.


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Q: How do I call the base class constructor? Lately, I have done much programming in Java. There, you call the class you inherited from with super(). (You all probably know that.)
Now I have a class in C++, which has a default constructor which takes some arguments. Example:
class BaseClass {
public:
    BaseClass(char *name); ....

If I inherit the class, it gives me the warning that there is no appropriate default constructor available. So, is there something like super() in C++, or do I have to define a function where I initialize all variables?

A: Regarding the alternative to super; you'd in most cases use use the base class either in the initialization list of the derived class, or using the Base::someData syntax when you are doing work elsewhere and the derived class redefines data members.
struct Base
{
    Base(char* name) { }
    virtual ~Base();
    int d;
};

struct Derived : Base
{
    Derived() : Base("someString") { }
    int d;
    void foo() { d = Base::d; }
};

A: In the header file define a base class:
class BaseClass {
public:
    BaseClass(params);
};

Then define a derived class as inheriting the BaseClass:
class DerivedClass : public BaseClass {
public:
    DerivedClass(params);
};

In the source file define the BaseClass constructor:
BaseClass::BaseClass(params)
{
     //Perform BaseClass initialization
}

By default the derived constructor only calls the default base constructor with no parameters; so in this example, the base class constructor is NOT called automatically when the derived constructor is called, but it can be achieved simply by adding the base class constructor syntax after a colon (:). Define a derived constructor that automatically calls its base constructor:
DerivedClass::DerivedClass(params) : BaseClass(params)
{
     //This occurs AFTER BaseClass(params) is called first and can
     //perform additional initialization for the derived class
}

The BaseClass constructor is called BEFORE the DerivedClass constructor, and the same/different parameters params may be forwarded to the base class if desired. This can be nested for deeper derived classes. The derived constructor must call EXACTLY ONE base constructor. The destructors are AUTOMATICALLY called in the REVERSE order that the constructors were called.
EDIT: There is an exception to this rule if you are inheriting from any virtual classes, typically to achieve multiple inheritance or diamond inheritance. Then you MUST explicitly call the base constructors of all virtual base classes and pass the parameters explicitly, otherwise it will only call their default constructors without any parameters. See: virtual inheritance - skipping constructors

A: Use the name of the base class in an initializer-list. The initializer-list appears after the constructor signature before the method body and can be used to initialize base classes and members.
class Base
{
public:
  Base(char* name)
  {
     // ...
  }
};

class Derived : Base
{
public:
  Derived()
    : Base("hello")
  {
      // ...
  }
};

Or, a pattern used by some people is to define 'super' or 'base' yourself. Perhaps some of the people who favour this technique are Java developers who are moving to C++.
class Derived : Base
{
public:
  typedef Base super;
  Derived()
    : super("hello")
  {
      // ...
  }
};

A: You have to use initiailzers:
class DerivedClass : public BaseClass
{
public:
  DerivedClass()
    : BaseClass(<insert arguments here>)
  {
  }
};

This is also how you construct members of your class that don't have constructors (or that you want to initialize). Any members not mentioned will be default initialized. For example:
class DerivedClass : public BaseClass
{
public:
  DerivedClass()
    : BaseClass(<insert arguments here>)
    , nc(<insert arguments here>)
    //di will be default initialized.
  {
  }

private:
  NeedsConstructor nc;
  CanBeDefaultInit di;
};

The order the members are specified in is irrelevant (though the constructors must come first), but the order that they will be constructed in is in declaration order. So nc will always be constructed before di.

A: There is no super() in C++. You have to call the Base Constructor explicitly by name.

A: You do this in the initializer-list of the constructor of the subclass.
class Foo : public BaseClass {
public:
    Foo() : BaseClass("asdf") {}
};

Base-class constructors that take arguments have to be called there before any members are initialized.


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Сялу́ () — район городского подчинения городского округа Хуанши провинции Хубэй (КНР).

История
Исторически эти места входили в состав уезда Дае (大冶县). В 1950 году из уезда Дае был выделен город Хуанши (黄石市), напрямую подчинённый властям провинции Хубэй, а в этих местах был образован его Пригородный район (郊区). В 1979 году Пригородный район был переименован в район Сялу.

Административное деление
Район делится на 19 микрорайонов, напрямую подчинённых районным властям, 1 уличный комитет, 1 административный комитет (管委会) и 1 туристический район (风景区服务处).

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Paul Wilkinson, manager
Our manager and our longest serving employee. Paul has been with CHAC since we opened in 1991.
NICK PIŠKA,
I'm a lecturer in law at the University of Kent with an interest in property and social justice, which led to an interest in contributing to the work of CHAC in Canterbury and the surrounding area. I joined CHAC as a trustee in 2015 and appointed chair of the Management Committee in November that year.
helen bowerbank
, vice-chair
A social housing professional for over 25 years with experience of housing associations and local authorities. Originally from Durham, now lives in Whitstable with her partner and 3 dogs.
Viv Gambling, Company Secretary
Vivien is a solicitor at Kent Law Clinic at the University of Kent, undertaking casework and also teaching law students. Vivien has a particular interest in housing law including homelessness law, and has campaigned for changes in the areas of housing law, legal aid and access to justice.
JON king, treasurer
I currently work as a Business and Facilities Manager at UKC. A large part of my role is managing finances; various large budgets and associated financial processes. I am almost a chartered accountant, with a couple of exams remaining. I agreed to take on the role of CHAC Treasurer in late 2017 to broaden my experiences of the charity sector and to also give something back to the local community. Outside of work I am a family man and an avid Liverpool fan.
Peter Ash, trustee
I joined CHAC as a trustee in May 2018 with a focus on fundraising activities and I'm looking forward to helping CHAC as it's a very worthwhile cause. I spent over 28 years working in various roles and locations in the Energy Sector and hopefully I can apply my skills & experience to my CHAC trustee role.
nick jackson, trustee
Nick Jackson has been a CHAC trustee for many years and used to chair the Management Committee. Before retiring, he taught at the University of Kent and became involved with CHAC through teaching land law and housing to a number of ex-members of staff.
Tessa o'sullivan, trustee
I have worked in the homelessness and social housing sector for over 20 years and have been a Trustee of CHAC since October 2017. I became a Trustee through my desire to support CHAC which I believe to be an invaluable service to people in housing need and at risk of homelessness. I previously worked there for 10 years so know first-hand how much the service is needed; unfortunately the current housing crisis means that need is increasing.
Sarah Slowe, Trustee
Sarah joined as a trustee in March 2019. Sarah is the Head of the Office for Scholarly Communication at University of Kent. She has a background in research support including grant applications and is hoping these skills will useful as a CHAC trustee. A lover of challenges, that may be linked to fundraising activities, Sarah is chief coffee drinker and likes to talk (a lot).
marta Taranda, trustee
As a student at the University of Kent I joined a student society, Canterbury Homeless Outreach, which assisted homeless people and supported local charities. One of the organisations supported by CHO was CHAC. I initially joined CHAC as a representative of CHO, but after leaving CHO became a trustee. I feel proud to belong to an organisation which strives to ensure that people have somewhere to live.


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Thomas W. Baumgarte (* 1966) ist ein deutscher Physiker.

Baumgarte ist Professor für Physik am Bowdoin College und außerordentlicher Professor für Physik an der University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Diplom (1993) und Promotion (1995) erfolgten an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Bevor er sich der Fakultät von Bowdoin anschloss, arbeitete er als Post-Doktorand in der Cornell University und der University of Illinois. Er ist Autor von über 65 Fachartikeln über Relativität im Allgemeinen und Relativität in der Astrophysik (z. B. zu Schwarzen Löchern, Neutronensternen und Gravitationskollaps). Außerdem veröffentlichte er zusammen mit Co-Autor Stuart L. Shapiro im Jahr 2010 das Buch "Numerical relativity - solving Einstein's equations on the computer". 2012 erhielt er einen Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis.

Weblinks

 Baumgarte auf der Homepage des Bowdoin Colleges

Einzelnachweise

Physiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Bowdoin College)
Hochschullehrer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Deutscher
Geboren 1966
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Nice hotel but noise level was through the roof.
The hotel is in an excellent location, room was clean and staff was nice and as helpful as they could be, however if you want to actually get some sleep, try a different place. I was on the 2nd floor near the stairwell and elevator and you could hear everything all hours of the day and night.. people checkin in, talking in the stairwell, dragging luggages past your room, babies crying in the stairwell at 1:30am... I didn't get any sleep the entire trip as the noise level was high and the walls of the room were paper thin. Not to mention that when you leave your room, the door slams loudly behind you. Not an ideal situation when you are traveling for work, in a different time zone and heavily sleep deprived. I asked the front desk if they had a different room and the only thing available was one room over from me which didn't make much of a difference. Not sure if this was just a busy week for the hotel but I would not choose to stay here again. If you do choose to stay here I would suggest requesting a room on the highest level and away from the elevators and stairwells.
Pro's: Preston from the front desk was super helpful and friendly. The housekeeping staff was very friendly. The location is incredible. The beach view room was awesome. Great bed (blankets, pillows, sheets, mattress). Con's: The young lady who processed my checkout on 30 March 2019 was unconcerned with customer service. After spending the last day of my trip searching for my lost cell phone, I checked out late (realizing that I would have to pay a half-day rate). I missed the half-day rate cut-off time by 10 minutes, but this young lady (who did not provide her name) had apparently never had a bad day or needed empathy. She insisted on charging me for another full day and even became argumentative at one point, scolding me for not contacting the hotel. She was unable to muster up any empathy when I reminded her that I'd lost my phone. Finally, it's a really loud property. The doors slam, walls and windows are thin, parking lot is loud, and housekeeping makes a lot of noise doing their duties.
We were fairly disgusted to discover a towel hanging on the doorknob of the bedroom door, obviously from a previous guest. Heat/AC unit and its remote did not work properly. We advised front desk several times and were promised a maintenance person who never came. Have stayed here a couple times before the remodel, and, sadly, things seem to have gone downhill. In addition to the issues above, was very disappointed to find out there are no more living areas for the one bedroom suites. MUCH preferred the previous setup of separate bedroom and living area. If second bed is needed, a sofa bed should be in the room, NOT another bed.


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Spiritual effects of 'mushies' linger
Wednesday, 2 July 2008 Maggie Fox
A year after receiving a controlled dose of psilocybin, more than half of the participants said the experience increased their sense of well-being (Source: iStockphoto)
Brain drug abuse on the radar, Science Online, 22 May 2008
Magic mushrooms hit the God spot
Could marijuana help us see the light?
The effects of psilocybin from so-called magic mushrooms last for more than a year, and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, according to US researchers.
The findings, which appear in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, follow on from a previous study, which examined the immediate effects of administering psilocybin.
In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers, "Under very defined conditions, with careful preparation".
About a third of the volunteers experienced fear and anxiety after taking the psilocybin, but most later reported having a "mystical" or "spiritual" experience.
A year later, more than half of the participants still said the experience increased their sense of well-being or life satisfaction, the researchers write.
"This is a truly remarkable finding," Griffiths says. "Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory."
The findings may offer a way to help treat extremely anxious and depressed patients, or people with addictions, says Griffiths, whose work was funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse.
"This gives credence to the claims that the mystical-type experiences some people have during hallucinogen sessions may help patients suffering from cancer-related anxiety or depression and may serve as a potential treatment for drug dependence," Griffiths said.
Strong effects
While psilocybin is widely outlawed, some countries overlook its use by indigenous people in religious ceremonies.
Strict supervision of its use is the key, the researchers note, warning that it should not be given to people at risk for psychosis or certain other serious mental disorders.
While some of the participants reported strong fear or anxiety for a portion of their day-long psilocybin sessions, Griffiths says it didn't last.
"None reported any lingering harmful effects, and we didn't observe any clinical evidence of harm," he says.
Of the volunteers who took the one-day test of psilocybin, 22 of the 36 had a "complete" mystical experience, based on a detailed questionnaire.
Griffiths said 21 continued to rate highly on this standardised scale 14 months later.
"Even at the 14-month follow-up, 58% of the volunteers rated the experience on the psilocybin session as among the five most personally meaningful experiences of their lives and 67% rated it among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives," the researchers say.
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iPod docks come in all shapes and sizes, most arriving around the £100-150 mark, offering a range of features the most useful of which is the ability to get the tunes off your iPod or iPhone and into your room. Many suffer from the same problem too - sound quality. There are a few exceptions, of course, the B&W Zeppelin being one of them, attacking the "premium" iPod dock with the design and audio quality to justify its price.
The Philips Fidelio DS9000 comes in making big claims. It claims to be an audiophile iPod dock. The audiophile community might argue this point, making noises about separate component systems, reference grade headphone amplifiers and so on. But what Philips has created, like the Zeppelin, is a device that is as pleasing to your eye as it is to your ear.
As such we'll forgive the fact that it has no additional features to speak of. We'd normally ask where the radio is, or where the network music player is, but if you are spending a penny under £400 on an iPod dock, combining features in this way is perhaps an unnecessary measure. You are investing in an audio device that is an exorbitant luxury and having lived with one for a couple of weeks, we can forgive the fact that it isn't a jack of all trades.
Philips tells us that the DS9000 is created using a veneer lamination process, so the cabinet is constructed from layered wood and bent into the beautiful curved design. The choice of materials is designed to reduce unwanted vibrations and it's refreshing to find the thing isn't just a hunk of plastic like so many are. Also addressing vibrations is a large rubber foot, so it sits securely on whatever surface you place it on.
The front of the DS9000 is mesh, with a central tube plated in chrome, which spills out the back to encase the twin bass ports. The Fidelio S9000 looks good from all angles, it's almost a shame that you have to connect it to the power on the back, where you'll also find a 3.5mm aux in for your non-Apple devices.
Adding a teaspoon of cool to the die-for looks is a proximity sensor, so as your hand approaches the dock the central volume control bar illuminates. It's a nice touch, but highlights the fact that volume controls are all you get. That doesn't really matter however, because if you are at the dock, you can use the regular controls on your docked device.
The dock connector on the DS9000 has a degree of movement to cater for different models, cases and so on, with a discrete rubber backstop to stop it resting on the front mesh. Docking can take a bit of a wiggle to get it to line up, but once in place, your iPhone is neatly sitting front and centre.
Controls then fall to the included remote control. This is larger than your average iPod dock model, but doesn't quite reflect the quality of the rest of the system. A single piece chromed back would have really reflected the classy design of the speaker unit. However, the controls work well enough in navigating your device and getting to all your music.
Connect your iPod or iPhone and you'll be prompted that there is a compatible application. You don't need this, but download the Philips application and you'll get access to some of the Fidelio's settings: adjusting the sound setting presets, toggling the dynamic bass. You also get a clock display if you want one, with alarms.
There is a catch however. If you choose to use Philips' app when playing your tunes, the remote doesn't give you full menu access any more, so you'll find yourself stuck and unable to navigate all your music. With this in mind, we found ourselves choosing not to use their app.
The remote can also be a little slow to get through large collections of music as scrolling seemed to be a little too slow for our liking.
So what of that audiophile tag? Well the Philips Fidelio DS9000 certainly delivers when it comes to sound quality. With the dynamic bass engaged, it accurately delivers bass, giving real punch to music. Of course, you might want to turn this off if classical is on the agenda.
That rich warm bass provides a fantastic backdrop to your music, which is delivered with clarity and detail, the S9000 picking out those small details that lesser systems obscure: that lingering bass note or that background percussion that adds a little sparkle to your track.
The DS9000 features two 1-inch tweeters and two 4-inch inverted dome woofers, delivering 2x 50W RMS. Of course this isn't a small dock, coming in at 562 x 214 x 216mm. If you are thinking of a dock like the DS9000, you need space: this isn't one to add to a cluttered bedroom.
When the Philips Fidelio DS9000 was announced we were excited by the proposal and having lived with it, that excitement is justified. The S9000 delivers both in the looks and sound department and justifies the high price: this is iPod docking par excellence.
If your music collection resides on your iPod and you want excellent room-filling delivery of that music, then the Philips Fidelio DS9000 is a great choice for those who have a little spare cash.
Whether true audiophiles will be happy is another question.


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Our next meeting is at 7:30pm on 14 March, 2019 at Mount Duneed Hall, 40 Mount Duneed Road, Mount Duneed.
In 1902 the sailing vessel, Inverlochy, was headed for Port Phillip Bay when it struck a reef near Anglesea. Susan Clarke will tell the story of the rescue from and the salvage of the wreck.
This event, which is included in the 2018 Geelong Seniors Festival events, is funded by the City of Greater Geelong.
Mick Robinson was the speaker at our meeting on 1 June, 2017. He has an extensive knowledge of Geelong history. We had a great night with lots of laughs. An excellent speaker.
Cheryl Baulch, who constructed the website "Together They Served", will be the speaker at our next meeting on 6 April, 2017. She will give an overview of Mount Duneed men who served in WW1 followed by the journey of five who enlisted about the same time and embarked on the same ship.
Her website is a well-researched collection of the men who served in World War 1 who had some connection with Surf Coast townships and districts; men who were born in the area, went to school, lived, worked or spent their holidays in Surf Coast. Many are included in the honour rolls of various organisations and halls, but many have been overlooked.


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Let His Names be magnified in all poor folks' devotion!
With the burden on our backs, the weather in our faces.
Such as finding food to fill daily-emptied dishes.
Unto which the Spirit clings as her last salvation.
Powers, Glories, Toils, and Gifts.
Lest one gale should start them all – one collision stave us.
Builds the bulkhead 'twixt Despair and the Edge of Nothing.
Till our children ground their ark where the proper shore is.
Services, Patiences, Faiths, Hopes, and Loves.
Sees the ancient fanes restored – the timeless rites o'ertake us!
Shall not lay on us the yoke of too long Fear and Wonder!


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Beethoven Festival - Destiny
Sat 17 Aug 2019, 7:30pm
Where: Auckland Town Hall - Great Hall, 303 Queen St, CBD, Auckland
NZSO
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Edo de Waart - Conductor
Beethoven - Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor
The Beethoven Festival continues as the NZSO Music Director, Edo de Waart conducts two of Beethoven's middle symphonies. The Fifth is one of the most popular and performed symphonies in the entire classical music repertoire. The Fourth is far less known, but a delightful work.
Beethoven began composing his Fourth Symphony after he had started work on his Fifth. Though less known that the symphonies before and after it, the Fourth is charming and cheerful. Romantic composer Robert Schumann called it "a slender Grecian maiden between two Nordic giants."
Beethoven wrote his famous Fifth Symphony between 1804 and 1808. The four-note opening motif is known worldwide, often appearing in popular culture – from disco versions and rock and roll covers to film and television scores.
It is commonly thought that this motif is said to be fate knocking on the door, although there is little evidence that this was what Beethoven had intended. Author and music critic E.T.A. Hoffman, a contemporary of Beethoven's, wrote that the Fifth Symphony "sets in motion the machinery of awe, of fear, of terror, of pain, and awakens that infinite yearning which is the essence of romanticism".
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Longmont Wastewater Treatment Plant (CO)
Founded in 1870, Longmont, Colorado, located within Boulder County, is a city of 22 square miles. Longmont sits at an elevation of 4,979 feet above sea level. It is located 37 miles north of Denver, 16 miles east of Boulder, and 30 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park. Longmont was spending about $600,000 per year to haul away liquid and thickened biosolids. The plant's 40-year-old belt filter press could only handle 35 percent of the liquid biosolids generated. They needed a system that had the capacity to handle 100% of their biosolids. However, the new system had to be constructed without impeding the flow of tanker trucks used in the removal of liquid biosolids.
The existing facility, constructed in 1956, also had structures that had reached the end of their useful life and could not treat ammonia to a level that would meet the new discharge permit requirements issued in 2012. Aeration tanks and clarifiers needed to be replaced while the plant remained in operation.
Having completed other successful projects in the past using fixed-price design-build, the City opted to use a hybrid of the progressive design-build delivery method for this project. The Carollo Design-Build Group, a general partnership between Carollo Engineers, Inc. and PCL Construction, Inc. was selected through a two-stage procurement.
In 2013, Longmont voters allowed the City to issue $32 million in bonds to upgrade their wastewater treatment plant. Shortly after the project began, the City elected to make changes to their original approach to project implementation. The flexibility of progressive design-build delivery allowed the team to incorporate these changes seamlessly. The Carollo Design-Build Group designed, permitted, and constructed a centrifuge process that has the capacity to treat 100 percent of the biosolids generated by the facility. This included the centrifuge, a truck loading bay, truck scale, and liquid return. The Carollo Design-Build Group also designed and constructed replacement aeration basins and clarifiers sized to provide the required treatment. Construction was completed in a phased approach to ensure that the plant continued to meet effluent requirements throughout construction.
Working closely with the plant operations staff, the Carollo Design-Build Group engineered and constructed a solution that allowed the replacement of existing aeration and clarifiers with minimal disruption to the operation of the facility. It was vital that the plant continued to meet its permit requirements throughout the construction phase. The new aeration and clarifier tanks allow the City to reduce ammonia concentrations to a level that meets its discharge permit requirements for discharge to the St. Vrain River. Now, instead of spending $600,000 per year to haul away liquid biosolids, the City now anticipates only spending $325,000 to haul away drier biosolids.
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501 East First Ave, Longmont, CO 80501
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