So here's a question for everyone. Just because I'm currently the only full-time employee at Extreme Inbound, that doesn't mean I can't throw us an awesome company retreat, right? Company culture starts at the top. At the very beginning. And I want to build something special over here. I want to build a business that not only helps amazing companies better connect with their prospects and customers and grow their businesses, but also one that affects me personally, the people I hire and the vendors I use to service my clients. So this year I started a company tradition. Any Extreme Inbound employee will participate in an annual extreme company retreat. We'll use this retreat to bond, to brainstorm, to discuss and to live extraordinary and adventurous lives. To me, that's what the Extreme Inbound culture is all about.
Does your company have an annual retreat?


This week we sat down with Steve Ewoldt of Blackspot Games to discuss his Kickstarter 4 the Birds! You may remember Steve from his appearance on Session 130 or, more likely, on CaH's Tabletop Deathmatch. Back then his bird shoving game was called What the Flock! It still has all the same humor and all the same surprising amount of strategy that it did before. But now it's polished and ready for prime time!
As always, we also cover the latest in tabletop news and hot Kickstarters. And coming up next week is our big 150th session! What should we do to celebrate?? Let us know in the comments here, or tweet us @goinglast!


Mr Bashir is the subject of two international arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which accuses him of organising war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region between 2003 and 2008, allegations he denies.
The Sudanese military's refusal to extradite Mr Bashir may be based on self-interest – some of the people still in power might be implicated in the crimes attributed to him, including attempts to destroy two ethnic groups loyal to rebels.
But the military did acknowledge a future civilian government might deal with the matter differently.
Backdoor discussions will be taking place with various international stakeholders to obtain support – and the extradition of this court's most high-profile fugitive could be a powerful negotiation card.
The African Union could be a key player here. It has consistently sought to undermine the ICC's legitimacy.


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I didn't know a heart could die before it stopped beating. I didn't know a life could cease before it stopped breathing. I didn't know how devastation could wend a living soul I didn't know how death could make one lose all self control. I didn't know the pain of loss was so intense and sharp. I didn't know the depth of void death leaves within the heart. I didn't know how often tears would redden hurting eyes. I didn't know how hard it was to say one's last good-bye's. I didn't know that pain would come and go as it well pleased....
On Empathy
The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20th century, equivalent to the German Einfьhlung and modelled on "sympathy." The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing. With other works of art, a spectator may, by a kind of introjection, feel himself involved in what he observes or contemplates....
Grief Support: The Don'ts
1) Don't try to make the grieving person feel better. YOU CANNOT. For many grievers it only serves to make them feel guilty or worse. Grievers MUST experience the pain of grief for healing to ultimately occur. 2) Don't tell the griever to give it time. Time has stopped for the griever. Life proceeds in slow motion. Life is too surreal to be identified with time. 5) Don't be frightened by tears? the griever's or your own. Tears are apertures of release and help the griever express their sorrow in healthy ways with your presence as a cushion of warmth and empathy....
However, during that same era, no person of breeding or gentility would ever openly mention sex! Even any reference to gender was carefully couched in delicate terminology. Arms and legs were referred to as "limbs" and they were covered almost completely. Any form of touching or even intimacy of language was carefully proscribed by the customs of the time. Sex was a taboo subject, and it was largely considered to be dirty, shameful, disgusting, and for most women, barely tolerable! How different it is now--over one hundred years later!...
Suicide - An Eternal Pain
Suicide is the one form of death that has quite a stigma attached to it. It brings with it a feeling of shame and betrayal. It is not the same as saying to someone "My father died in a car crash" nor is it the same as saying someone died from a heart attack. Having to explain that someone took their own life can be quite a difficult thing to do as we have no explanation as to why this dreadful occurance took place. Suicide amongst young men is currently growing quite significantly around the world and I hope that by reading my poem people can see the effects that suicide has on those that are left behind....
Am I a Mother - Tips for Handling Mother's Day After Miscarriage
Are you spending this Mother's Day wondering if you are, in fact, a mother? 900,000-1 million women in the U. S. alone face this question every year after suffering pregnancy loss. "For women who experience a miscarriage during their first pregnancy, the question of motherhood is an even greater one," says Lisa Church of HopeXchange, a company dedicated to the support of women and their families facing pregnancy loss. Mother's Day is the most difficult holiday a woman must face after pregnancy loss....
When my phone rang the other day, it was a call from one of the "walking wounded," not unlike many that I have received during the years I have been interacting with the bereaved. I have often spoken with people who are feeling much like this caller was. The gentleman's adult son had died in an accident, and when I innocently asked how old his son was, he bristled and told me the question offended him. He said it didn't matter how old the person was who died; the question created barriers and suggested different degrees of grieving....
Grief & Loss - Healing Your Broken Heart
Tenderizing
Recently, the magazine I own and edit got a hate letter that was so full of venom and hostility, it gave me shivers. The ultra-religious lady who wrote it is young and passionate about her beliefs. She was quite critical of those who express their grief pain, because she doesn't believe pain is necessary in grief. She evidently thinks that if we would just trust God, we would not be suffering. She is not bereaved, and it would appear that life has not yet delivered to her the kind of agony that so many of us have experienced....
What this Rabbi Learned from Not being Re-hired
It's a familiar story, and I have been through it before, and so have you. In January the Synagogue Personnel Committee told me that they were recommending that the synagogue not renew my contract. I had been here six years, and now they said it was time to go. I could have contested their decision by going public to the entire congregation, but I decided that if my leadership didn't want me anymore to be their Rabbi, that I was leaving. And then came the grief... So, I had lost something, a piece of myself, my dignity, my honor, my feeling of job satisfaction....

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This is a Submersible Side Marker light in Amber for use on Boat Trailers. You can really use this Side Marker light on any trailer where the mounting single stud style works. The Submersible qualities of this light make it ideal for Boat Trailers in saltwater or freshwater. This is a single stud mount side marker light that grounds to the trailer frame through the bolt. Typically you would be through bolting this light to you trailers frame or Fender bracket, which would require access to both sides of the mounting surface. This Submersible Side marker light has a single wire operation, to be used for your clearance light operation. Measuring roughing 2 inches wide with a Stainless Steel Base and Polycarbonate Len and housing, and protruding about a 1 inch, its profile makes it very easy to mount on nearly any surface. This makes installing it on Fender steps very simply, as well as along the trailer frame. This is an incandescent light from Optronics, one of the top Brands of Trailer Lights, so its quality is top notch and is guaranteed to last. This Submersible Side Marker Light produces 12.8VDC with .2A.


Available in boxes of 10, the Partagas Serie C No.3 is presented in the new Partagas packaging (first seen on the Partagas Serie E No.2). The aromas are typically Partagas, with bold and powerful notes of wood, earth and leather. As with all Partagas Edicion Limitada cigars, the Serie C will without a doubt be very popular so expect the limited production to go very quickly.
Presented in a special protected varnished box of 10 units, the Romeo de Luxe Edición Limitada 2013 (52 ring gauge x 162 mm length) is the third and last limited edition released by Habanos this year. Romeo's balanced and aromatic blend is beautifully conveyed in this heavy ring gauge Habano which provides a unique experience due its special vitola "Capuleto".
This new size will be delighting the senses of the true Habanos lovers in a delicate combination of passion and excellence. Available in labelled boxes of 10 cigars.
Bolivar welcomes the "Duke" vitola de galera to its exciting portfolio! Launched by Pacific Cigar in Hong Kong it is now starting to be available on the market. This new Limited Edition 2018 is highly demanded by Habanos enthusiasts worldwide so supply will cetainly not meet demand! With a ring gauge of 54 and a length of 140 mm, the Soberano is a real full bodied Bolivar which definitely doesn't come short of its expectations!!! These splendid oily maduros boast terrific aromas at cold, and upon lighting, they immediately reveal the true 'rich & earthy' flavours from Bolivar.
Habanos have released this fabulous cigar as part of the 2010 Edicion Limitada series. The character and intense flavour of this Series D Especial Edición Limitada is an excellent sample of the full flavour of the so much appreciated Series D of Partagás.
The 2nd and last Edicion Limitada for 2015 has just landed in the CigarOne humidor. The Ramon Allones Club Allones (47 ring gauge x 134 mm length) is presented in a semi-boite nature including 10 marvellously constructed Gran Coronas with a maduro / oscuro wrapper. The 'Club Allones' is the 2nd Limitada ever rolled for Ramon Allones since the 'Allones Extra' back in 2011.
Available in boxes of 25, the H.Upmann Robustos is the first of the Habanos Edicion Limitada's for 2012. This cigar first appeared in the Habanos Travel Retail humidor back in 2008. Back by popular demand in Edicion Limitada format, this Robusto is already showing enormous character in flavour and balance. Great potential for aging, this Cuban cigar is waiting for you now.
Once again, this brand has managed to release yet another star bound Limited Edition. As with all of Hoyo's Limitadas, we imagine these will soon become the favorite acquisitions of aficionados worldwide. True to the Hoyo style, the Regalo starts off very soft and slowly builds in flavor and character while maintaining an elegant complexity that leaves one in a trance like state of admiration and awe.


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Q: Doesn't the position of unit circle affect the answer in this question? This is a KVPY-SA 2017 Question:

Section 5 - PartB-Mathematics
61)Let S be the circle in $xy$-plane which touches the x-axis at point A, the y-axis at point B and the unit circle $x^2 + y^2 = 1$ at point C externally. If O denotes the origin, then the angle OCA equals
A) $5π/8$
B) $π/2$
C) $3π/4$
D) $3π/5$

So, I'm preparing for KVPY this year and that's how I came upon this question. There's nothing wrong with the question. According to Wikipedia, It's normally placed in the origin. So I placed it and got the answer as $5π/8$. When I checked the KVPY answer key, I found my answer's right.
On googling the question (to see whether my procedure was right,)  I found a lot of solutions to this question like this one by toppr. Here's the accompanying figure:

(Please note that the axes in their image are interchanged.)
I know there are a lot of ways to find the answer but it's not the method in which they found the answer that makes me mad. In their solution, they didn't even keep the unit circle on the origin and yet they found the answer!!!!
So doesn't the position of the unit circle affect the answer.
Can anyone please explain the logic behind this?
Please forgive me if this is a dumb question. I can't just get the idea.

A: The figure given in the toppr answer is wrong.
As a consequence, that answer also gives the wrong value of the radius of the circle.
But you don't actually need to know the radius of the circle.
All you really need to know is that the centers of both circles are on
the line $y = x$ and therefore so is the point of tangency of the circles, $C.$
So with the incorrect small circle removed from the figure from toppr, and with the $x$ and $y$ axes in the conventional orientation
($x$ axis horizontal), we have the following.
Note that the point of tangency $C$ is exactly where the toppr figure said it would be; they just used an incorrect circle to get the correct tangency point.
Using the correct circle would tell us that the distance $OC$ is $1,$
but since that information is not used in answering the question,
I have omitted the unit circle from the figure.

Now observe that $\triangle APC$ is isosceles. You know the angle at the apex $P$, so you can work out the two base angles (which must be equal).
And now that you know $\angle APC$ and $\angle CAP$
you can add them to get the exterior angle $\angle OCA$,
or you can subtract $\angle ACP$ from $\pi$ as the toppr answer does;
either way gets the correct answer.

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Glamour Is Theft: A User's Guide to General Idea
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 8 color / 71 bw. | 5/31/2013 | In stock
Published by Art Gallery of York University.
Text by Philip Monk.
From its origins in the mail art movement through to its "destruction" of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. Glamour Is Theft examines this "pageantry of camp parody" through the logic of its mythic system. The book reconstructs this system from statements that were dispersed and disguised within General Idea's work and writing as a whole, including the publication FILE Magazine. In General Idea's system, there is one concept: Glamour; one operation: reversibility; one technique: cut-up; one strategy: theft; one tactic: camouflage. Following the collective's strategies, the book in turn mimics the language of structuralist and semiological publications of the 1970s while also considering the influences of Roland Barthes, William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Marshall McLuhan on General Idea's work.
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Because of ideology and economic philosophy, the current Republican Party leadership will not lead on reinvestment in neighborhood public schools. For the Democratic Party, it is time for leaders to choose a side.
More American workers - 533,000 - were involved in strikes or work stoppages last year than at any point since 1986, according to Labor Department data released Friday. The driving force behind this remarkable development: educators who are finally fed up with years of cutbacks and government indifference to public education. The two largest labor actions of 2018 were statewide teacher strikes in Arizona (involving 81,000 teachers and staff) and Oklahoma. "Statewide major work stoppages in educational services also occurred in West Virginia, Kentucky, Colorado, and North Carolina," the Labor Department noted.
The Los Angeles teachers succeeded in winning a new contract that, in addition to a 6 percent pay increase, brings reductions in class size; more nurses, counselors and librarians; and less standardized testing. The contract also includes a mayoral and district endorsement of a state school funding measure called Schools and Communities First; a district call for a moratorium on charters; a reduction of searches that criminalize students; and an immigrant defense fund.
The Los Angeles teachers strike, the first in 30 years, was one of the most stirring events I've witnessed in my long experience with public education. I grew up attending public schools in suburban Washington in the 1970s and 1980s, then joined Teach for America in its first year, 1990, and moved to Los Angeles. I taught for 22 years in South Los Angeles and helped start an organization with parents and students called Coalition for Educational Justice. In 2014, I was elected president of United Teachers Los Angeles, or UTLA.
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California is the fifth-largest economy in the world, yet in measures of states' per-pupil spending, Education Week ranked California 46th in the nation for 2017, and the California Budget and Policy Center pegged it at 41st in 2015-2016. California also permits the unregulated growth of privately run charter schools, undermining neighborhood public schools.
The following searchable database allows you to see what the average teacher salary and average years of teaching experience is in Pennsylvania's public schools.
The over 98 percent participation in the strike by Los Angeles teachers, and strong support from parents, reinforced three basic premises: People will fight for reinvestment in public neighborhood schools and against privatization. Unions and parents will work together for the benefit of students. And strikes work.
Another teacher strike may come soon in Oakland, California, and mass teacher protests are planned in the state capitals of Maryland and Texas. These labor actions are essentially demands for reinvestment after decades of deliberate underfunding of public schools.
In the 1990s and 2000s, pushed by conservative think tanks and the corporatization of the Democratic Party, a bipartisan consensus seemed to emerge in Congress and many statehouses. The emphasis regarding public neighborhood schools shifted from providing adequate funding to de facto privatization through vouchers and the charter industry. Federal efforts stalled in fully funding Title I (a 1965 provision directing federal help for schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from low-income families) and the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Many states also cut education spending. Privately run schools with less accountability would now receive public money, further draining public schools of already scarce resources.
Because of ideology and economic philosophy, the current Republican Party leadership will not lead on reinvestment in neighborhood public schools. For the Democratic Party, it is time for leaders to choose a side. Several potential Democratic presidential candidates expressed support for the Los Angeles teachers strike, but few offered ways to adequately fund public schools. The preliminary budget of California's new governor, Gavin Newsom, D, increased spending for K-12 and community college by $2.8 billion, for a total of $80.7 billion, but that is not enough after years of austerity in a state with more than 6 million public-school students.
Parents and students supported the teachers in the Los Angeles strike because they wanted to win on matters such as class size. But they also supported the strike because it articulated some basic truths: Students aren't getting what they need. In the richest country in the world, the issue is not a lack of money but a lack of political will. If neither political party is capable of leading on reinvestment, teachers and parents and students will continue taking to the streets to defend the essential civic institution of public education.


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Q: Executing OPENQUERY Syntax with DbContext.Database.SqlQuery in Entity Framework 6.0 We are planning to upgrade from EF4.2 to 6 and are experiencing issues with functionality that worked in 4.2.
SELECT emp_no_alpha as EmployeeNumber, code_user_1 as Code1, emp_name as EmployeeName FROM OPENQUERY(EMS02, 'select emp_no_alpha, code_user_1, emp_name from dce_mms where emp_no_alpha =''   100393'' ')

We use the above statement in combination with dbContext.Database.SqlQuery($sql-stmt) to retrieve entities.  This works fine against this model in 4.2:
public abstract class Model_XX_EMS_DCEMMS
    {
        //LEN=9, RIGHT PAD
        [Column("EMP_NO_ALPHA", Order = 0), Key(), DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.None)]
        public string EmployeeNumber { get; set; }

        //LEN=5, RIGHT PAD
        [Column("CODE_USER_1")]
        public string Code1 { get; set; }

        [Column("EMP_NAME")]
        public string EmployeeName { get; set; }
    }

However in 6.0, SQL profiler attempts to actually create a Model_XX_EMS_DCEMMS table within the default catalog and never executes the select statement, therefore returning null.
This is what happens in 6.0:
SELECT Count(*)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES AS t
WHERE t.TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
    AND (t.TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + t.TABLE_NAME IN ('dbo.Model_XX_EMS_DCEMMS')
        OR t.TABLE_NAME = 'EdmMetadata')
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Model_XX_EMS_DCEMMS] (
    [EMP_NO_ALPHA] [nvarchar](128) NOT NULL,
    [CODE_USER_1] [nvarchar](max),
    [EMP_NAME] [nvarchar](max),
    [Discriminator] [nvarchar](128) NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT [PK_dbo.Model_XX_EMS_DCEMMS] PRIMARY KEY ([EMP_NO_ALPHA])
)

Is there a new DbContext configuration or some attributes that I'm missing?

A: Entity Framework is creating a table with a discriminator column to support Table Per Hierarchy  inheritance
But with OPENQUERY you don't want that table. To stop EF creating a table like that for the abstract class you will need Table Per Type or Table Per Concrete Type
I don't know much anything about OPENQUERY. Could you create a View that EF could use to support the abstract class in TPT? Then add table attributes to the tables that inherit this class.
As for why it worked before, this quote from the TPC page makes me think things changed in EF or you lost some manual XML rewrites.

Entity Data Model Designer in VS2010 doesn't support TPC (even though the EF runtime does). That basically means if you are following EF's Database-First or Model-First approaches then configuring TPC requires manually writing XML in the EDMX file which is not considered to be a fun practice. Well, no more.


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It isn't that management is "bad" while leadership is "good." The two involve different skill sets, and both are essential for success. Generally speaking, however, leadership transcends management, meaning that a manager with real leadership skills is generally an effective manager, but a leader with management skills may or may not be a good leader. Management is a matter of controlling people or processes to accomplish a goal, whereas leadership is about influencing, motivating, and enabling people in such a way that organizational success is greater. A great leader knows how to look inward, doesn't assume he or she has all the answers, and is willing to work shoulder-to-shoulder with others to achieve important goals.
Both power and influence can change behavior, and get results, but power is coercive, while influence is not. Both have their place where they are legitimately needed, and there's no clear line of demarcation between the two. Sometimes power works where influence does not, and vice versa, but both need each other. Influence and inspiration separate the leaders from the managers. Power remains with the person wielding it, and may be exercised against the will of others. When power isn't legitimate, it can bring resentment and even counter actions. Influence, on the other hand, is relational. Since influence is voluntarily accepted, it is inherently legitimate and not autocratic. Therefore, those who are operating under influence accept compliance even though they may have alternatives, while those operating under power accept compliance because they have no choice. Additionally, power is finite, regardless of effectiveness, while influence is fluid, interpersonal, and indefinite.
Management involves the ability to execute a vision in a systematic way. If you're ever in a medical emergency, you want to be helped by a manager, someone who will give specific directions: "You, dial 911. You, can I borrow your jacket? He may be going into shock. I need you to pull the car off the road." Consensus doesn't really have a place in some situations, and in these situations, a skilled manager is exactly who you need.
When it comes to organizational excellence, however, leadership is how you rally your team around a common vision. People don't have to be made to follow true leaders, and true leaders are willing to take calculated risks and take responsibility when they make mistakes. Sometimes, particularly with startups and small businesses, leaders must use management skills, but determining which processes need management and assigning a competent manager to take care of those processes is generally better.
In some situations, outstanding management is more necessary than leadership.
The best leaders possess some management skills that can be put into practice when necessary. By the same token, excellent managers should possess some leadership skills to make management more effective. The end results of outstanding leadership include good team morale, high-quality work, and ultimately higher revenues. The end results of outstanding management include higher efficiency, excellent coordination of processes and again, higher revenues.
Managers can develop leadership skills by making the effort to demonstrate their values in day-to-day work, asking people for feedback, and making it clear that they believe in the competence of team members. Leaders who need to improve their management skills have several options, perhaps the best being the assistance of a leadership coach. Coaching is about identifying and developing specific skills, and many management skills can be successfully developed using this paradigm.
There's a certain aspect of yin and yang to leadership and management, and organizations benefit when both are strong and competent. The yin-yang relationship can be imagined as the sun moving across the sky, playing over a mountain and a valley. What was obscured eventually becomes revealed, and what was revealed becomes hidden in shadow. But while both leadership and management are necessary, they shouldn't be completely separate and discrete entities. The best leaders have management skills they can employ when the situation calls for it, while the best managers also have leadership skills.


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'Getting the flu service right will make us ready for a role in Covid vaccinations'
By Carolyn Scott
Mimi Lau, chief operating officer, Mr Pickford's Pharmacy Group, Leicester, speaks to Carolyn Scott about running a flu vaccination service.
Service type: Flu.
Name of pharmacy: Mr Pickford's Pharmacy Group, Leicester.
Name of pharmacist: Mimi Lau.
Why did you start offering the service?
We've been running the flu service for four years, and across six sites we did 2,500 flu vaccinations last year, which was pretty good going. But I thought we could do a lot more this time, and so we went for a much higher quantity – we ordered 11,500 flu vaccines. Admittedly, this was in anticipation of some acquisitions that didn't happen due to Covid, but I don't think we will have any trouble using these.
Interest in flu vaccines has been increasing year on year, and is really high this year. There's only going to be more awareness in flu in my view. Getting the service right also makes us ready for a role in other vaccination services, including Covid vaccination when the time comes.
We've had to rethink a bit about how to deliver the service because of Covid: to make sure that customers feel safe. We are lucky in that our consultation rooms are fairly big, and we've only had two pharmacies where we've had to use some of the retail space to extend the consultation room. There were extra costs for 2020 of course: putting up screens, wipeable chairs for customers, clearer signage, giving our staff the whole PPE – masks, visors, aprons, gloves – and the cleaning equipment to wipe down between patients. We've done a lot of marketing as well: flyers that we put in prescription bags; posters in store and information on the website. I would say all of this was an extra £500 per site. We've also invested in an online booking tool, which we didn't have last year. Each pharmacy has a flu champion in the team.
Because of Covid, most pharmacists only needed refresher training, which they did online. I only sent two pharmacists to face to face training – all socially distanced – one was a locum and the other a new pharmacist. The pharmacy team, particularly the flu champion, did some online training to give a reminder of what is flu, the symptoms, how vaccines work and how do you deliver the service. The only cost there was the face to face training.
This year, we wanted to minimise the time that the patient was in the pharmacy, and our new online booking system was built by our IT person. Patients are directed there to see what appointments are available, and to prepopulate all the information about themselves when they book. Then before they come in, they do the pre-Covid questionnaire. We wanted to make sure all the information and advice was there, and that it was a slick operation.
We make available 50 bookings in an hour, and the flu champions help keep the flow of patients. We wanted block bookings, with all the paperwork done in advance, so the pharmacist is vaccinating continuously rather than stopping and starting. This minimises the contact time.
Patients come in with masks or we supply them with a mask if they forget, and we give them a little bottle of hand sanitiser to use and keep. Afterwards, we ask them to sit on a chair at the other end of the pharmacy for a few minutes to make sure they are alright before they leave.
We've been prioritising NHS patients, with some appointments for private patients. Our marketing encouraged our NHS patients to get booked in early. For example, pregnant women, one of the at-risk groups, are hard to reach, so we've included that messaging in our marketing.
Absolutely. Our staff are checking whether the patient need any medicines to manage the after-effects of the flu jab, do they need to stock up on winter medicines and vitamins etc. Also, whether they need any more face masks and hand sanitisers – as we have these in stock too. It's a soft sell on the basis of making sure that the patient has everything they need to keep them safe and well.
In the first three weeks of the service we have already given around 3,000 vaccines, and with a net promoter score of 90. Some teams were nervous about the new measures to begin, but once they got going, they were fine. We took the steps we needed to ensure the confidence of our staff and the confidence of our patients. We send patients a short questionnaire to ask them about their experience and did they feel safe. We've always offered our staff a free flu jab, and we've had more uptake from them as well this year.
How often each month do you carry out the service?
We are aiming to be finished by mid-December, with the bulk in October and November, and perhaps a few stragglers in January and February. If we can say at the end of the season that we've vaccinated nearly 12,000 people, that will be amazing.
We charge £12 for a private flu jab.
Roughly, how much a month do you make from offering the service?
If you are smart enough, you can make the flu service work commercially. You make a margin on your vaccines if you order early enough, and it's about delegating as much as possible to the team.
One of the learnings from last year was that we should order our flu vaccines earlier. We went directly to two manufacturers – Seqirus and Mylan – and secured our flu order for 2020 in November 2019. That allowed them to give us delivery dates in September; from 18 September, and I had a good discount by pre-ordering. While it's hard to predict what you are going to do next year, I'd say do secure your vaccines early: pre-plan, pre-order, go directly to the manufacturer, and try to arrange early delivery. Have an ambitious goal in terms of what uplift in vaccinations you want to deliver, increasing every year.
I would assume that most pharmacies are offering the flu service. It's growing the role of pharmacists, patients want the access that pharmacy offers, and we know that GPs and nurses are under pressure and we can help with that. There's also a big public health remit here, and it's great that we're being more recognised for our role in public health. In fact, it would be quite shameful for the profession if pharmacies weren't making the most of the opportunity. Pharmacies can do it – it's just about thinking differently and being organised well in advance and engaging the whole pharmacy team.
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'The Mandalorian' Wins Five Emmy Awards
The main Emmy Awards don't take place until September 20, but even before the big event, The Mandalorian is already a multiple Emmy winner. The show picked up five awards from the Creative Arts Emmys, which are announced before the main show, for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Production Design, and Best Cinematography. The five awards were the most for any show so far.
Those awards echo many of the same prizes the original Star Wars won at the Oscars back in 1977; the film won Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, and of course Best Music for John Williams, along with a special award for sound effects. (It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.) At the Primetime Emmys, The Mandalorian is also nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. Other big winners so far include Watchmen and RuPaul's Drag Race, which have each won four 2020 Emmys.
The Mandalorian episodes that were singled out by the Emmys were "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian," "Chapter 2: The Child," ad "Chapter 7: The Reckoning." (Don't ask us why.) The 2020 Emmy Awards air on ABC on September 20, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who will have the challenge of doing a lavish awards show remotely from, like, his home office or something. The Mandalorian Season 2 premieres on Disney+ on October 30. Here are some of our recent videos about the series:
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A third post in a single day?!?
Well, Hurricane Sandy has put my cable on the fritz, imperiling my ability to watch the Celtics and the Heat play the NBA season opener tonight, so I might as well add a third post.
More to the point, I thought I'd let everyone know that I have been partially co-opted by The Man, and am now one of five bloggers on the Society for Military History's Official Blog. You can find us under the unimaginative name of SMH Blog; it's also linked in the Blogroll on the right. I think I'll refer to it as SMHBLOG since the military loves acronyms. My first post there just went up. I'm joined by Brian Sandberg (of Historical Perspectives fame) and several other modern military bloggers, including one of the original military history bloggers, Mark Grimsley (Blog Them out of the Stone Age). They're already talking about Clausewitz in Nigeria (kinda like "Shakespeare in the Bush" I guess, or Lawrence of Arabia) and Trenchard-as-policeman, so I better get over there and make sure they don't get too comfortable in their modernity. It's so passé.
We're planning on posting ten posts per month with a regular rotation – we'll discuss all sorts of topics "that showcase or comment upon academic military history." Since I'll continue to maintain this blog in its current format, here's how I conceive of the division of labor between the two:
"Skulking will continue delving into the minutiae of early modern warfare, while my contributions here [i.e. on SMHBLOG] will tend more towards the contextual: discussing broader debates in early modern military historiography and their relevance to military history more generally, hinting at early modern precedents to modern military phenomena, distinguishing early modern practices and mentalities from more recent ones, and generally pestering military historians to remember that war existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz, and that it needs to be understood on its own terms." [Note to WordPress: can you please not suggest "early modern presidents" when I spell-check "early modern precedents"? Our students have enough spelling issues as it is.]
For SMHBLOG I'll probably tone down the charming combination of smarm, sarcasm and stridency that I'm sure you've all come to love on Skulking. Need to be a bit more academic there for respectability's sake. Gotta represent.
So feel free to add SMHBLOG to your RSS feed. Until I get tired of doing it, I'll mention here when I post there, or when there are any interesting discussions going on there, from an early modern perspective of course. My next post there is scheduled for 9 November, and will summarize how I see the field of EMEMH organized. I think somebody asked that question once in a comment – when does EMEMH start and end? You'll just have to wait till the 9th to find out what I think.
Risorgi-what-o?
New publication:
Storrs, Christopher. "The Spanish Risorgimento in the Western Mediterranean and Italy 1707–1748." European History Quarterly 42, no. 4 (2012): 555-577.
The reign of Philip V of Spain (1700–46) remains one of the most neglected in the history of that country, and in terms of its significance for the rest of Europe. Philip is widely regarded, on the one hand, as little more than the instrument of his wives – above all, Isabel Farnese – and, on the other hand, as a major innovator in Spain. This article seeks to show that Philip's revanchist aspirations in Italy – and in Africa – after the losses incurred during the War of the Spanish Succession, and which ensured that Spain represented the single greatest threat to peace in Europe between the end of that conflict and the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession, were not simply imposed by his spouse. It also suggests that Philip's ambitions were backward looking, and that in seeking to reconstitute his Habsburg inheritance, Philip drew on traditional institutions, practices and values at least as much as he innovated.
It seems almost single-handedly, Storrs is trying to keep interest in the 17C-18C Mediterranean alive.
The Great Storm of 1703, 2012 edition
Having survived Hurricane Sandy with nothing more damaging than an overnight power outage, I'm reminded of yet another superstorm, the Great Storm of 1703, during the War of the Spanish Succession. Considered the most severe storm in southern British history, it spared no one – even Queen Anne was forced to flee its wrath in a cellar at St. James. (What would've happened to the war effort had Anne been killed then? Would the succession have passed to George as smoothly during the war?)
The Great Storm wreaked havoc at sea as well as on land. The Royal Navy's main battle fleets had little to fear from the combined might of the Franco-Spanish navy: there were no major naval battles during the war as the French generally refused to fight a major engagement after the tactical stalemate (yet strategic loss) at the 1704 battle of Malaga, which saw fifty ships engage on each side. The lack of major combat on the open seas doesn't, however, mean the Royal Navy didn't suffer several significant reversals. In addition to the constant harassment of French privateers against English merchant shipping and occasionally their escorts, the Royal Navy suffered thousands of dead in each of two natural disasters – the 1703 Great Storm and the 1707 foundering of Admiral Cloudesley Shovell's fleet on the Scilly Islands in 1707. Oh, yeah, let's not forget Walker's disaster off of Quebec in 1711, drowning close to a thousand more men. Yep, the Royal Navy at its finest. But fortunately for Britain and the Allies, the Indian silver fleet kept coming in, and the French privateers were deflected onto Dutch and neutral shipping as British naval efforts refocused attention on trade protection:
Royal Navy taskings during Spanish Succession, based off Hattendorf, England in the WSS. Notes: graph not to scale across rows (only within each cell); %sol = % ships of the line.
So I thought I'd look back at English contemporaries' immediate reaction to their own Great Storm – truth be told, I like their label better than "Sandy", but I've never known a Sandy either.
The Daily Courant, England's one and only daily at the time, reported a few ships in distress in its issue of November 27, but the first reports of the major disaster unfolding only appeared in newspapers on the 29th. Reports from Yarmouth on the 27th reported a "most dreadful storm last Night, no body knows what Ships are missing…. The Reserve to our great Surprise sunk down this Morning, and all her Men are lost. I cannot as yet give further particulars." Another report from the same day notes that some houses and chimneys were blown down, and a pacquet-boat had been sunk. A correspondent from "Deale" noted that "we have had so violent a Storm at South West that the like has not been known in these parts in the Memory of Man," blowing violently from 11 PM till 9 AM. It then listed 70 merchantmen missing and five men-of-war. A London account the next day (still in the 11/29 issue) noted that the "Storm of Wind" had reached London "before 2 a clock and lasted till after 6. It did so much Damage in and about this city, that we cannot undertake to give a full Account of it." The stories were repeated in successive accounts: names of ships run aground, smaller vessels sent out to rescue their crews where possible, the flotsam of smashed pinks and lighters congregating in the eddies, chimneys and walls blown down, with some unfortunates, including "Lady Penepole Nicholas at Horsley in Sussex," crushed underneath. (I hope her name really was Penepole and not Penelope – I'd hate for news of my death to speak of Jamal Oswald).
The English Post of 29 November similarly reported of the "blowing in a multitude of Chimnys, Houses, and tops of Houses, whereby many People were kill'd in their beds, and several Wounded: It would be almost endless to enumerate the mischief occasioned thereby in and about this City, as the blowing down of Trees at St. James's Park, the Inns of Court, Moor-Fields, and divers other Places, abundance being torn up by the Roots, and others of a great bigness broken off in the middle…" Spires and weathercocks blown off the steeples, barges in the Thames staved to pieces, "And no doubt the damage done in the Country was very great, of which we may expect to hear dismal Accounts every day." Some people were reported to have died of fright in their beds "without having any Wounds or other visible Causes of their Death," while others managed to escape collapsing buildings just in the nick of time.
But faith springs eternal – "Yet it pleased God, that some Persons were almost miraculously Preserved, particularly two young Men at a Drugsters, near Cheapside, the Chamber in which they lay being broke down by the fall of a Stack of Chimnys from an House adjoining, which, with its weight, instantly broke through 2 Floors more, and carried them down in their Bed asleep to the Shop, and they were taken out from under the Rubble without any considerable harm." That was awfully nice of God; I wonder what Penepole did to piss Him off? I guess everything happens for a reason…
An early assessment of the damage to the fleet was listed in the 3 December English Post:
Early naval damage report from the Great Storm of 1703
Despite all this damage to ship and shelter, England managed to recover – they kept calm and carried on. Already by early December orders were "issued out for finishing the Men of War on the Stocks, with all possible Expedition. And that several more will be built." Within a few years England had replaced and exceeded its ship total, allowing it to counteract French privateering and set sail for much greater efforts later in the century.
As for the Great Storm of 2012, the most notable naval loss reported thus far is a replica of the HMS Bounty used in numerous movies. The more things change…
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Note-Taking Under Siege!
After a brief diversion to real EMEMH, we now return to my regaling you with stories of my Indiana Jones-esque adventures with notes and quotes. But it gets even more exciting, if you can bear to stand it. For there were actually *two* tiers to my dissertation note-taking. First there were the notes on secondary sources and from primary sources, as described in the previous post. Another type of note was more specific to my research subject. As it became more clear that I was going to focus on the details of siegecraft for my dissertation, I realized that I needed a more systematic system for the sieges in particular, especially when I discovered the various errors in prior datasets. The result, after too much thought, was a template that allowed me to keep track of oodles of details, by source:
Siege form, circa 1997
I have possibly a hundred or so of these, usually several for each siege. This was an improvement in that there was some standardization: the template provided numerous (too many, as it turns out) prompts to look for certain pieces of info in each source. Plus, even though there is a ton of info, spatially it's always found at the same location on the page: the timetable is always center right, etc.
But of course there are multiple problems that I didn't consider early on. Comparing across sources (i.e. across multiple sheets of paper) was still a pain, and unfortunately I didn't always record the exact page number for each factoid (didn't have room in fact). The second fault was irreversible, at least without going back to the original source, or, as I did on occasion, fudge by citing the footnote as Millner, p. 224ff. The first shortcoming, however, could be rectified: I added more paperwork! Created yet another form in which I could summarize the various sources source siege forms. It looked like this:
Siege summary form, circa 1997
But that turned out to be less than ideal, since I needed to do calculations on the dates, averages for the sizes and casualties, and so on. So I quickly abandoned this summary siege form (which also served the purpose of showing me how many sources I had on each siege) and fearlessly struck out into the digital realm once again. All the siege length data was entered into a complicated Excel workbook, with different tabs for different authors, links across worksheets, graphs, etc. A right mess in fact, although at least it had the ability to calculate and compare sources:
Siege data Excel sheet, circa 1998ish
Much more useful, once I realized that I needed to fix the years since my date calculations were often a day off (something about the 1900 vs. 1904 system I think, plus leap years, plus it originally confusing my month-day for 2002 instead of 1702).
But I couldn't be fully happy with Excel, just as I couldn't stick with Word for my text notes. I had already gotten the hang of Access, so this part didn't take nearly as much time. One form looked like this:
As it turned out, I didn't actually use this part of the database that much, though I still use the various EventIDs all the time in my keywording. But, I consoled myself, if I end up not getting a teaching job, maybe I could be a database administrator? Fortunately that hypothetical wasn't tested. What might have been I suppose…
For those who have been waiting with eager anticipation, it's officially here – or at least I just got my copies. Karwansaray Press' lavish, densely-illustrated edited collection on John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. You've probably heard of the guy, and now you get to hear a lot more about him, but in a European context. Get 'em while they're hot.
Website here.
Marlborough: Soldier and Diplomat
I haven't had a chance to read through it yet, but I can personally vouch for at least two of the chapters. And did I mention the lavish full-color illustrations – 400 pages, 140 color photographs, most full-page?
Britain in Europe during the Age of Marlborough (Dr. David Onnekink, The Netherlands)
Courtier, Army Officer, Politician and Diplomat. A Biographical sketch of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough (Prof. John B. Hattendorf, The United States)
John Churchill, Professional Soldiering, and the British Army, c1660-c1760 (Dr. Alan J. Guy, The United Kingdom)
Marlborough and Siege Warfare (Prof. Jamel Ostwald, The United States)
'By thes difficultys you may see the great disadvantage a confederat army has'. Marlborough, the Allies, and the Campaigns in the Low Countries, 1702-1706 (Prof. John Stapleton, The United States)
Marlborough and Anthonie Heinsius. Friends, Colleagues, or just working together for the Common Cause? (Dr. Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr, The Netherlands)
Marlborough as an Enemy (Dr. Clément Oury, France)
'The only thing that could save the Empire'. Marlborough, the States General, and the Imperial States: Diplomacy and Military Strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Northern War, 1700-1711 (Prof. Bernhard R. Kroener, Germany)
Friendship and Realpolitik. Marlborough and the Habsburg Monarchy (Dr. Michael Hochedlinger, Austria)
The Anglo-Dutch Navies in Marlborough's Wars (Prof. Jaap R. Bruijn, The Netherlands)
A European general in the English press. The print image of Marlborough in the Stuart realms (Prof. Tony Claydon, The United Kingdom)
'The British Caesar'. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and the visual arts (Dr. Richard Johns, The United Kingdom)
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An Exciting Note-taking Adventure, Bibliography style
Surprise! Bonus coverage.
I didn't even talk about the bibliographic database I created in my previous post, to replicate the main features of EndNote. So I'll keep it simple and just include a couple of screenshots for those curious:
First, the summary view where I can quickly perform searches. I click on the little arrow button on the left to go to a specific record. (You can ignore the fact that I titled it "Secondary Sources" even though it includes primary sources as well – a more accurate description would be published sources.)
Bibliography database – Summary view
Next, a screenshot of a single record in the bib database. All sorts of possibilities here, with keywords galore. Would you expect any less?
Bibliographic database – Individual record view
An Exciting Note-Taking Adventure!
Redundant I realize – how could note-taking not be exciting?
Thus we embark on yet another adventure in the wild-and-woolly underside of historical research. This time we're hunting in holes and corners for that wily beast, the Note! So pay attention, take good notes, and maybe you'll learn something along the way.
As I've discovered recently, any note-taking system worth its salt needs to fulfill several functions: store information, summarize information, search information, sort information, and site information (just checking to see if you were paying attention). And, since even Ancient Greek philosophers complained about having too much to read, we humans have felt the need to condense that overflowing basket of information down into a more digestible volume – i.e. to take notes. No surprise, then, that a whole variety of systems have been developed over the millennia to meet this need; Ann Blair's Too Much To Know is a recent fascinating account of the history of note-taking up through the early modern period. A solution popular with 17C academics, and a supplement for the older commonplace book, was to take notes on little slips of paper – a small piece of paper was just large enough to record one piece of information on it, and it could easily be stored (on hooks, in drawers…) and quickly shuffled into a new order, even sorted several ways (first by a keyword, then by date…). Wikipedia credits our favorite Swedish botanist Linnaeus with the invention of the modern variation of these slips of paper, the notecard. By 1900 if not before, scholars everywhere were reading about the utility of notecards, particularly when you add keywords to the margins for even faster sorting. Turn-of-the-century contemporaries were also seeing one useful implementation of them in library card catalogs. So popular was this notecard idea that a few companies even introduced technical advances, befitting a mechanical age, such as an ingenious 1896 edge-notched version of a notecard that allowed one to quickly separate the cards with topic X from all the rest. The cards had prepunched holes along their edges, each hole representing a particular category. You (or cheap labor you hire) notched out those holes for the categories relevant to each card. Then, with a long needle you skewer through the hole of the topic you want to select. Since the cards you are looking for don't have the 'top' of the hole for that category, they fall to the table while the rest dangle from the needle:
An improved 1961 version of the edge notched note card system.
This post has an interesting discussion of edge-notched notecard technology.
In short, the practice of notecards, and before that the idea of using little strips of paper organized on hooks and in little drawers, has been around for centuries.
Yet I don't recall ever being taught anything about notecards when I was a kid. Admittedly, my earliest note-taking memories aren't that memorable – probably because I didn't take good notes. My recollections only date back to high school debate, when we had to carry around a briefcase full of notecards during our debate tournaments. Onto the front of the each 3″x5″ notecard we pasted a cut-out quote from a photocopied book, or else handwritten notes. I don't even recall what we included beyond those quotes: I don't remember including any summaries, but I'm sure we had to write a keyword or two somewhere on the margins. I do remember that those who had their act together would develop sheets of prepared arguments that they could just read off of, instead of rifling around in a notecard file for just the right card (time limits being a key part of a debate round). To be a master debater required a long notecard file; I can remember the deflated feeling seeing your opponent wheel into the debate arena with a handcart stacked with several boxes full of notecards. But I have no recollection of any broader or theoretical discussion of the notecard method, or of applying it to any other endeavor. The only other memory of notes in high school was when my mother, a nursing faculty and the proud recipient of EndNote (the year was 1988), asked me to teach her the software so she could keep a bibliography. Since I had no idea of the point of a bibliography at that stage, I wasn't much help. Come to think of it, high school wasn't much help at all when it came to note-taking.
Thus the utility of the notecard system managed to pass me by, if I had actually been taught it at all. I abandoned debate in college, and instead muddled my way through school without any particular note-taking system worthy of the name. I don't recall much about my study process, other than the fact that I copied big chunks of several books on the library photocopies so I could have my own copy. Not much to learn there either.
Grad school – there you need to take good notes! But there too, nobody that I was around, including the profs, talked much about their note-taking system, just that you were supposed to have one that "worked for you." Some friends used notecards, others used other systems. You could (and I did) take notes in the margins of books, but such annotations are stuck within the covers, not doing much good. With notecards still on the periphery of my consciousness, I did what many of my current students do as a default: read through Source A from the beginning, taking notes on paper as you go. In other words:
Grad School notes, circa 1994ish


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1. We used to save Top Value Stamps or S&H Green Stamps (and lots of others) stick them in a book, and "redeem" them for a bathroom scale, an iron, or a toaster.
2. Perhaps we go to a pawn shop and give them money to redeem a guitar or a laptop that they accepted as collateral against a loan they gave us.
3. Historically, some people redeemed slaves (bought their freedom).
4. In the time "under the law" there were rules about redeeming the land (both after 7 years and especially in the year of Jubilee).
5. The law of the kinsman redeemer was all about God's desire for redemption.
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Q: How to darken/tint background when user clicks UITextView and keyboard appears? Currently, I am able to make my keyboard appear/hide when I click inside/outside my UITextView. I'd like to make this nicer by tinting the background darker when keyboard appears, and then have the background return to normal when keyboard goes away.
I was told this behavior might be called "Focus" or "Modal Shadow Overlay" but have been unable to find a tutorial or images that match my goal. Here is a screenshot that shows exactly what I want to accomplish: when writing a caption for a new Instagram post, the background tints darker.

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*How do I implement this behavior in Swift?

*What's this behavior called in iOS programming?

Thank you. [:

A: First of all to answer your two questions :

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*There are many ways to implement the overlay.

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*You can add a UIView as a subview, giving it constraints as vertical spacing from textView and aligning the bottom of the self.view and change its alpha when keyboard is presented/dismissed.

*You can add a MaskView to self.view of a viewcontroller. The problem would be that when a mask is applied it turns all the other area black(Of course you can change color) and only the part that you set in the mask frame will be the color(black with 0.5 alpha) that you suggested.

*You can call it adding an overlay(there isn't something else other than adding a mask from Apple's documentation that I've come across)
Now coming to the approach I've been using for a long time.
I add a UIView called overlay variable to my ViewController, Currently setting its frame to CGRect.zero
var overlay: UIView = UIView(frame: CGRect.zero)

After that, I add the Notification Observers for keyboardWillShow and keyboardWillHide in viewDidLoad.
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(ViewController.keyboardWillShow(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)
    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(ViewController.keyboardWillHide(notification:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)
}

And add the corresponding selectors to handle the Notifications
@objc func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification)
@objc func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification)

In keyboardWillShow, I get the keyboard frame to get the keyboard height
After that, I calculate the height of the overlay by getting the height of the screen and subtracting the navigation bar height, height of the textView and any margin added to the top of textView
Then I initialize my overlay variable by giving it the Y Position of from just below the textView. Initially, I set it's color to be UIColor.clear Add it as a subView to self.view and then changing it's color to black with 0.5 alpha with a 0.5 duration animation.
@objc func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {

    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {

        let overlayHeight = UIScreen.main.bounds.height - heightOfNavigationBar - keyboardSize.height - textView.frame.size.height - topConstraintofTextView(if any)

        let overlayFrame = CGRect(x: 0, y: textView.frame.size.height + textView.frame.origin.y, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, height: overlayHeight)

        self.overlay = UIView(frame: overlayFrame)
        self.overlay.backgroundColor = .clear
        self.view.addSubview(overlay)
        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {
            self.overlay.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0.5)
        })

    }

}

After that, In keyboardWillHide, I change the alpha of overlay to be 0 with a little animation and as soon as it ends I remove the Overlay from superView.
@objc func keyboardWillHide(notification: NSNotification) {

        UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, animations: {
            self.overlay.backgroundColor = UIColor.black.withAlphaComponent(0)
        }, completion: { (completed) in
            self.overlay.removeFromSuperview()
        })
        self.overlay.removeFromSuperview()
}

And I do self.view.endEditing(true) in touchesBegan of viewController to dismiss the keyboard but that's upto you how you want to dismiss it.
Here's how it looks

Hope it helps!


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Watch All Hail The Yeti play through Before The Flames on guitar, bass and drums
By Michael Astley-Brown 2016-04-28T15:14:00.118Z
Southern metallers get down to some serious riffing
Now, we've seen our fair share of playthroughs on MusicRadar, but rarely do we see the same song played individually by three instruments - but that's only what US southern metallers All Hail The Yeti have gone and done for new single Before The Flames, performing the track on guitar, bass and drums.
Taken from new album Screams From A Black Wilderness, which sees its physical release on 13 May in the UK (although it's available now digitally), Before The Flames is a marathon riff workout for guitarist Alan Stokes, bassist Nick Diltz and drummer Ryan 'Junior' Kittlitz.
As well as burning their way through the track, the band also discuss the gear and recording process behind the new album in the videos.
If you fancy a look at the full Before The Flames video, you can watch below. Intriguingly, it acts as a prequel to the song After The Great Fire, from the band's self-titled debut. Confused? Dive in, and all will make sense.
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10 years. This week my oldest boy, Will, turns 10. He's almost as big as his mother, uses deodorant, and can beat me at video games. Every parent alive has said this, but I can hardly believe how much he has changed in so short a time. I've also been noticing more and more that when I look at him, I catch glimpses of myself at his age. That's kind of scary and exciting at the same time.
His tenth birthday has struck me as a pretty big event because it means that I've been at this "dad thing" now for an entire decade. Ten years is a fairly long time, right? I hopefully have learned a few things along the way. I have yet to earn any "Dad of the Year" awards, but I haven't completely ruined anyone's life either (despite what some in the family have claimed). I'm certainly no expert on parenting. Most of the time we are just doing our best and praying that it's enough. I think though that I can say a few things that I are fairly true when it comes to being a dad. So to celebrate Will's 10 birthday and a decade of fatherhood, I though I would put down a list of 10 things I've learned about being a dad.
I know most guys work long, hard hours to put food on the table and clothes in the closet. We don't always get told "thanks" for the hours we put in. Sometimes coming home to the chaos of five kids at night gives me second thoughts about heading back to the quiet, more orderly world of my office. I've seen a lot of guys justify putting in long hours because they say they need to provide for their families. I suspect that more often than not they are avoiding coming home either because they are overwhelmed or I adequately prepared to deal with their kids one on one. One thing I'm fairly certain of is that given a choice between nicer "things" and more time with their dad, kids would hands down choose to be with their dad.
2. Watching you child sleep is one of the best experiences in life.
I don't know what it is, but from the first day they come home from the hospital, until the day they leave, there is something so amazing about seeing your child curled up in bed with out a worry or care. Every night before I go to bed, I stop in to look in at them snuggled up cozy in their beds, (or lots of the time mine). It's the last thing I see each day and I love it.
3. My kids are worth far more than any thing I own.
I need to remind myself of this often. I sometimes think that children and "nice" things are mutually exclusive. If I get something nice, it usually doesn't take long for one of my kids to break it in if not just break it out right. When I think about it though, there has never been any possession I've ever had that didn't soon lose my interest or get shoved in the back of a closet. That will never be the case with my children. I can't imagine life without a single one of them.
4. Children need parents more than friends.
It's very tempting to want to be your son or daughter's friend. We want them to like us and make us feel accepted. It's not always so fun to be in the role of the authoritarian or disciplinarian. I've seen too many parents that have stopped parenting and instead have tried to befriend their kids. It never works out well. Kids need concrete rules and limits. They need boundaries that are well defined and enforced. Sure, we as moms and dads can be too strict, but I think most of the problems we have as parents stem from trying too hard to be a buddy to our children. There is plenty of time for that when they are adults.
5. Every child is unique.
I have 5 kids. Every one of them is different. We have to treat every one of them differently. We as parents have to adapt out parenting to the individual child. There is no simple 10 step process to follow. To be effective parents, we have to know our children. That means we have to spend time with them, as individuals. We need to learn what make them tick, what motivates them, and what inspires them. I recommend taking time out with each child alone once in a while. It's hard to do that at times and we don't always do as good a job at it as we should, but each person in our family needs to feel important for who they are. I don't want any of them to get lost in the craziness of a large family.
6. Family time is critical.
While focusing on the individual is important, it is also important to spend time together as a family. Our family is where we learn how to interact with others. I've noticed as the kids get older, they resist doing things as a family. The things we do together draw us closer though. Whether its, going to church, or (ugh) going shopping for school clothes, the time we spend together is important. My mother would never serve dinner until all 12 of us were sitting down together. I think that that alone is why my siblings and I have remained close into adulthood. It's why family gatherings are still important to us. Your family is the one place where you should always feel welcome. These are the people who care about you more than anyone else in the world. We should treat family time as sacred.
7. Soft words are more effective than screaming.
With seven people in a house, the noise can get overwhelming. Sometimes a raised voice might be necessary to get everyone's attention. (My mom's method was the 2 finger whistle, which she had down to a science.) Most of the time though I find myself yelling at the kids, I'm just adding to the noise. It's easy to let my temper flare and escalate a minor issue into a major battle. I've got a long way to go in this area, but I'm occasionally able to get myself under control and get the person I need to have a discussion with alone and in a few minutes get the situation under control. I think the tag team parenting approach works well in these situations. Sometimes I am just not able to calm down enough to talk rationally. Karlye can step in for me and deal with the situation, because she is not nearly as emotional about it. I do the same for her. One thing that amazes me is how we can threaten, scream and yell at our 4 year old daughter to get in bed and all it does is work her up into a tantrum. If I take the time to go talk with her and rub her back, she's usually sound asleep in 3 minutes. Let me just say (because I know my wife will read this and she knows what I'm really like), I've got a lot of improvement to make in this area.
8. It's good to play with your kids.
I walk in the door at night and I am immediately ambushed. I have little people climbing on me wanting to wrestle with me, wanting me to chase them down and tickle them. My daughter likes to give me kisses ans I am expected to say, "Ooo gross!" Which for some reason makes her giggle and earns me 10 mire kisses. My older boys are getting less into the wrestling and more into video games. Caleb currently asks me every day to go fishing with him in Lord of the Rings Online. We catch virtual fish and see who can get the best trophies to mount on the walls of our virtual houses. Will wants me to see his latest creation in Minecraft. The point is that they need me to play with them and I need to stop being an adult for a while and step into their world. I'll freely admit, it's not all that hard for me, because I never really grew up.
9. Children need their concerns to be taken seriously.
There are a lot of concerns that my kids have. Someone is not being nice, something is not fair, or something important happened to them at school. It is easy to nod and say "Really?" but not really care. I need to learn to be a better listener. Their concerns are important to them, and they need to be important to me. If they don't learn to trust me with their confidence about the small things, then how can I expect them to come to me when the issues are very serious 10 years from now. I want my kids and my wife to know that I care about each and every thing that is going on in their life. It takes effort on my part, because after spending all day listening to people's problems, I tend to shut down when I walk in the door. What I have to remember is that the people that matter most are the ones waiting for me at home.
10. What they see me do, they will do.
I have been stunned to see how much my kids copy me. I've had my kids say use common expressions Karlye and I use around the house. My kindergartener was sharing his/my political views at school. Will, whether knowingly or not tries to copy everything I do, and then looks to me to see if I've noticed how much like me he is. That is scary to me, because I know that they also are learning all of my negative characteristics along with anything positive they might pick up. When I treat Karlye disrespectfully, they see it and imitate it. When I lose my temper, they learn that that is appropriate. none of us are perfect and none of us had perfect parents. We all have to sort through the things out parents taught us figure out what to take with us into life. I want my children to learn my good qualities, but not my bad. I think that means I need to be intentional about what I do and say. When I blow it big time, like I generally seem to do, I have to swallow my pride and tell my kids, "Hey, I messed up. I was wrong. It's not okay to act like that. It's not okay to treat someone like that. It's not okay to say those things." I want my kids to learn that we all make mistakes, the imprtant thing is to admit it when you do and then correct it.
On #2, watching them sleep when they were little was almost amazing as watching them being born. I was utterly amazed at how God can form such a little human being.
On #4, I can't help but think the lack of parents is the root of most of our societal dysfunctions.
#5 is vital to being able to lead your children. God only makes originals, never duplicates. Study your child and learn what makes him tick. When it was time to discipline my oldest, it took a strong will and a strong hand. When it was time to discipline my middle son, it had to be done with gentle words and a soft hand. By the way, I make no claims of success!
#6 and #7 are absolutely true.
#10 is one that is often missed. It IS important to apologize to your kids. They are smarter than we give them credit for. Explaining to them clearly that you were wrong bears great fruit IMHO.
Early in my ministry, I often heard complaints from young adults about overbearing parents. I think there are people who carry bitterness or lack self-esteem because they had an over-bearing parent who was never wrong.
Great stuff Bill! Keep it coming!
Edit - on #2 I meant to write "the lack of parents being parents"


As recently as 20 years ago, some doctors wouldn't permit a mother to see her stillborn baby for fear that it would make her go crazy. Many people (particularly the older generation, I've found) still don't understand all the 'fuss' when a baby is lost before it even lived outside the womb.
But I do. I've been thinking a lot about Freddie's due date recently. It's sort of looming up ahead, like some sort of strange creature in the mist; I know it's there, and I can see the square with the date in it on the calendar, but it seems sort of… shrouded. I feel that we ought to do something, but I don't know what. What's the normal thing to do on the day that your baby should have been born? Last time I tried to let it slide past and I ended up sobbing in the bath for a long time, trying to explain to Sam that I'd been so sure that I would be pregnant again by then, that it might have helped me cope if I had been. But I wasn't, and I don't know if it would have helped much anyway – new pregnancies don't replace lost ones, they just give you something to hope for.
I've thought about going to Freddie's grave, which I think that we will do. I'm worried that the earth won't have settled yet though (there were graves that had been there months which still had a mound of dirt on top, all red and gritty and trickling grimy rivers in the rain down onto the grass below), and that it might be more upsetting. Then I think, 'how ridiculous – how can a mound of dirt make visiting the grave of your dead baby boy more upsetting?' I have some seeds and bulbs to plant which I'll do if the ground has sunk down.
Then I think about what we could do for the rest of the day – what do you eat on the day that your baby should be born? Where do you go? What is the best activity? To do something 'normal', like shopping or going to the gym, seems impertinent. But what would make us feel any better? I wonder about going out for a meal – celebrate the day – but where is the right place to eat? What if it's terrible food, or bad service? If we get a takeaway I know we're safe, if we stick with the one we normally use, but then that seems sort of… lazy, as if I can't be bothered making the effort for my baby boy. But could I bear to cook? Even the thought of chopping vegetables or preparing meat on that day, makes me feel uneasy, as if it's the wrong thing to do, as if I'll suddenly realise it's the wrong thing to do just as I'm about to quarter a chicken and I'll end up smashing it to bits or throwing it to the dog.
I bought some jewellery made with Freddie's birthstone (Carnelian for July), which is really beautiful. I also already bought some jewellery in Norfolk, just after I'd come out of hospital, so I'm looking forward to wearing it and appreciating its special meaning. But it doesn't seem quite enough.
I thought about getting tattoos done together, but Sam has already got the names, dates weights and a short piece of writing dedicated to each baby. I wanted to have Freddie's foot tattooed on my own, to suggest that he will always walk with me, but the guy said that he'd have to make it lots bigger, and I want it actual size.
I thought about going somewhere special for the day. But I can't think of anywhere that seems 'special' enough.
I feel like I need to put a 'programme' together so that I don't end up just sitting about crying and feeling ineffectual and miserable. At least I'll feel as if we've honoured Freddie if we make the effort to do something, even if I do end up crying all day.
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