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Inside Player: Behind a Unique Effort to Transform a Big Urban School District
February 07, 2018 / Caitlin Reilly
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When it comes to improving K-12 education, it can seem like battle lines are invariably drawn with charter schools on one side and traditional public schools on the other. But a Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools is pioneering a third way—with the help of some deep-pocketed donors.
Founded in 2007, the partnership manages 18 of the lowest-performing grade schools, middle schools and high schools in the Los Angeles School District (LAUSD). The schools are overseen by the nonprofit, but are still part of LAUSD. The rules and standards that apply to other district schools, including union contracts, apply to the partnership schools. Initiatives funded with private money focus mainly on professional development for teachers and principals, and community engagement.
This effort is worth spotlighting at a moment when quite a few funders—including major new players like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—are looking to move past an era of fiercely polarized debates on K-12 education, as we often report. Also, with the vast majority of U.S. students still attending traditional district schools, the partnership offers a strong example of how donors (including some that normally favor charters) can band together to improve these schools in a large urban center.
The partnership started with a $50 million pledge from Melanie and Richard Lundquist, who made their money in real estate development. Melanie Lundquist is a product of L.A. public schools. Four generations of her family attended public schools in the district, but that isn't why she invested, she said.
"I would've done it any place in the United States where people were willing to do it, but I was elated that it was LAUSD, not because I'm a product of LAUSD, but because it is the second-largest district in the U.S.," Lundquist said.
The Lundquists recently announced another $35 million in support of the nonprofit. The nonprofit has raised an additional $45 million over the last decade from other donors.
The list of donors includes the Annenberg Foundation, the Ballmer Group, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, Biller Family Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the California Endowment, the California Community Foundation, the Joseph Drown Foundation, the W. M. Keck Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, United Way, the Walton Family Foundation, the Wasserman Foundation and Wells Fargo. Ambassador Frank Baxter, Cyrus Hadidi and former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan also support the partnership.
Some of the partnership's backers, like the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, have given to both charter and traditional public schools in the past, but others have been stalwart supporters of the charter movement. The Walton Family Foundation is usually a big donor to charter schools, as is the Broad Foundation, which carries out the giving of Eli and Edythe Broad.
The L.A.-based philanthropist Eli Broad has backed charter schools for the last decade through philanthropy and political donations. His work has helped make L.A. a center of the charter movement. The city has more children in charter schools than any other in the country and the Broad Foundation is behind a plan to dramatically increase that number in coming years.
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Broad was a supporter of LAUSD in the 1990s, but turned to charter schools when he felt nothing changed. Donor fatigue in the district from Broad and philanthropists like him was one thing that pushed Melanie Lundquist toward an effort like the partnership. The model allowed for nonprofit oversight and management of donor funds.
"Public school education has really gotten a very bad name, so nobody wants to put the money into the school districts directly. They don't have the structure like we do in the partnership to really drill down into the problems," Lundquist said.
In this sense, the partnership plays a role similar to education innovation funds in cities like New York and Washington, D.C., where funds provide the accountability that reassures donors. Jeanie Lee, the president and executive director of the D.C. Public Education Fund, is an admirer of the partnership's model and its work. But unlike education funds elsewhere, the partnership actually runs schools.
Reaching All the Students
Although the partnership appeals to some donors who usually favor charter schools, for Lundquist it was crucial that the partnership operated within the school district. For starters, being a part of LAUSD meant that the partnership could tap into district resources and infrastructure, like transportation, meals, testing and data collection. That meant that private funds raised by the partnership could go to new programs, instead of day-to-day administration.
A bigger reason for Lundquist though was scale. Charter schools serve a little over 15 percent of L.A. students. It was important that the partnership's solutions would scale to include most students in LAUSD and beyond, not just those who enter a charter network via lottery, Lundquist said. We've heard a similar point from other funders—charters can be great, but if you want to reach all the students, you need a different approach.
For scalable results, the partnership had to operate within the LAUSD system. Charter schools operating outside of the school district system face different challenges than in-district schools. If partnership strategies and successes were to be replicated district-wide, they would have to be developed in an environment that operated under the same rules and constraints as the rest of the district, Lundquist reasoned.
"At our founding, we didn't just want to transform schools, we wanted to take its learning into the broader district. Our mission is to transform schools and revolutionize school systems," said Shauwea Hamilton, the partnership's chief external relations officer. "Our thought was that we can only revolutionize the system if we accept the limitations of the system and prove that transformation can happen within."
The strategies the partnership settled on revolve around three primary areas—strong leadership, strong teachers and strong communities. Principals get one day of professional development a month. They are also paid to work year-round. Teachers receive training and professional development. Successful teachers make extra money to work as coaches to other teachers in their schools.
To foster community engagement, the partnership started a program called Parent College, which brings parents together on weekends to discuss things like expectations, how to read a report card, and how to advocate for their children. The program has been replicated at other schools in the district and the state, Hamilton said.
The model has had some success. According to a Public Impact report released by the partnership, 95 percent of partnership schools have improved in English language arts relative to other schools in the state. Almost 90 percent have improved their statewide percentile rank in math. The average high school graduation rate at partnership schools exceeds 80 percent, which is higher than the district in some places.
The partnership has also produced some striking turnaround stories. Math, Science, Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High School and Mendez High School both improved more than 60 percentiles in math since joining the partnership. Roosevelt is in the top 20 percent of schools in the state for math.
Outcomes like Roosevelt's have not proved universal for partnership schools, though. Five partnership schools were among the 20 lowest-performing LAUSD schools in 2016, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Critics point to such stats to argue that the process has been too slow for partnership schools. Lundquist and her colleagues are aware of the criticism, but argue that the work will take time. "We spent 50 years breaking the system," Lundquist said. "I didn't want anyone expecting us to get it fixed in three or five."
"These are the highest-needs schools, and in many cases, the historically lowest-performing schools, so our absolute performance still remains low, but in order for that to rise, we need to have exceedingly high growth rates, and that's the direction that we're headed in. The 10-year study bears out that we're growing at that rate needed to rise to be on par with other schools in the district and in the state."
Staying the Course
Lundquist is committed to supporting that slow, steady growth. She and her husband recently announced another $35 million in support of the project and committed to another 10 years. Lundquist says this was always an effort she intended stick with for the long haul.
"I think that a lot of philanthropy is not staying the course. It's, 'Well, we'll fund this for two or three years,' and then they move on to something they think, 'Well, maybe there's a better solution out there,' and then they start over," Lundqusit said.
"Slow and steady is what makes the difference. I think this is one way in which the way we practice philanthropy is very unique. We are staying the course," she said. "That's why we committed to another 10 years. I always knew it would take at least 20."
As for the future, Lundquist is very conscious of LAUSD's place as the second-largest public school district in the country. "If you can do it in the second-largest school district in the United States, then you can do it any place," she said.
As far as the model spreading, the D.C. Ed Fund's work may start to resemble the partnership's approach more closely, Lee said. As part of the fund's Ensuring Excellent Schools initiative, money will go toward developing new school models that will still be DCPS schools managed by the district.
The partnership has built a model that charter and public school funders seem to agree on. It provides the accountability skittish funders feel the district lacks. It keeps resources in district schools, allaying fears about equity for anti-charter donors. If it catches on, it could mean collaboration from funders that typically oppose each other. When that collaboration happens, everyone wins.
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'Sisters for Sale'
by Ben Randall | Aug 13, 2014
It can be difficult, at times, not to lose faith in humanity.
Late last year, an Australian friend came to join Marinho and I in our search. He was looking forward to being a part of The Human, Earth Project, he said, because he'd lost his faith in humanity, and hoped to find it again.
Although I didn't tell him at the time, I'd been feeling the same way when I first conceived the Project, and still feel that way at times.
Here in India, over the past six weeks, I've seen human beings behave in terribly cruel and predatory ways towards one other. Their motivations are always the same: sex and money.
Is human trafficking merely a symptom of human nature?
Are the sale and purchase of human beings for profit and pleasure merely extreme manifestations of a much deeper social disease?
What, after all, is civilisation?
There are many standards by which civilisation might be measured, many figures that might be collected, tallied and compared. I have my own definition and, as far as I'm concerned, it's the only one that matters:
A civilised society is one in which the strong support the weak, rather than preying upon them.
Are we truly civilised?
From the largest of our financial, political, religious and corporate institutions down to our most intimate personal relationships, it seems that we as a global community still have a long road ahead of us.
My unexpected sojourn here in India has not been wasted. I've begun post-production on our feature-length anti-trafficking documentary, Sisters For Sale, and have a surprise for you all coming very soon.
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The Neuro is a leading partner in The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP), a new data sharing partnership that will facilitate collaboration and access to scientific data across the Canadian neuroscience community and beyond. CONP was established thanks to a $10 million grant from Brain Canada.
The new academia/industry partnership of The Neuro and Thermo Fisher Scientific will work to accelerate the understanding of neurological disease by focusing on proteins that are associated with devastating brain diseases including Parkinson's and ALS.


The RYA's National Sailing Coach David Ritchie was joined by top Olympic coach Rob Andrews and America's Cup commentator Richard Simmonds to launch Better Sailing at the Sailboat & Windsurf Show, held at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 1 March 2003. Exciting footage from the new video was shown on the big screens, interspersed with interviews with Rob and David.
Better Sailing is the second in the series of innovative new training videos from the RYA that reflect the changing face of sailing in the UK. Following hot on the heels of the first video Start Sailing, Better Sailing focuses on more advanced sailing techniques. Covering spinnakers, racing and performance sailing, Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson MBE and Rob Andrews help a couple take their sailing skills up a level.
Both videos complement existing RYA publications, Start Sailing – Beginners Handbook (G3) and Dinghy Sailing – Advanced Handbook (G12) and will enable those interested in learning how to sail to combine the formats that suit them best.


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canapés can turn any occasion into a seriously sophisticated affair. When food goes mini, it can afford to be all the more indulgent with over-the-top ingredients and rich food pairings, ready to make your mouths water.
Whether you're preparing your guests for what's to come or just keeping them sweet with some light bites at your drinks evening, a selection of finger foods is never a bad choice. Savoury canape recipes can take a meat-feast form – where it's important to know that most foods suit a parma ham encasing – or a veggie choice, to make greens and healthy options look way more indulgent than their normal form would allow.
But, when it comes to sweet snacks, these delicious canapé ideas will be the cherry on the cake of your evening's entertainment, having your guests licking their fingers with delight.


JAKARTA (Reuters) - As Indonesia's currency trades at its weakest levels since the 1998 Asian financial crisis, a local restaurant chain is offering free meals to clients who can prove they have exchanged holdings of U.S. dollars for the ailing rupiah.
While easy to brush off as a marketing gimmick, the restaurant's online campaign "#bantaidolar", or "butcher the dollar", shows how alarm over the plight of the rupiah is becoming more mainstream in Southeast's biggest economy.The rupiah, the second-worst performer among emerging Asian currencies behind India's rupee, has shed 9 percent so far this year amid an emerging market sell-off triggered by rising U.S. interest rates and economic crises in Argentina and Turkey."We want to raise the spirit of love in the nation and that is by loving the rupiah," said Agung Prasetyo Utomo, founder of fried chicken chain Ayam Geprek Juara, which so far says it has given out 83 free meals for customers who had sold their dollars, describing them as "rupiah warriors".
In Indonesia there is a particular sensitivity over sharp falls in the rupiah. The currency's slump in the 1998 financial crisis triggered rampant inflation, food shortages and riots in Jakarta that led to the fall of strongman ruler Suharto.
Indonesia's economy is in far better shape than in 1998 - the fall in the rupiah has been gradual, foreign debt levels are low and the banking industry has strong capital. And policymakers have been praised by analysts for responding to global pressures by hiking interest rate faster then any other central bank in Asia and taking steps to cut rising imports.
Nonetheless, they have only been able to slow the rupiah's depreciation, and even with benign inflation right now - at 3.2 percent in August - prices of imported goods and those made using imported raw materials face upward pressure.
Prices of food containing imported dairy, beef and wheat are expected to be among the first to rise, according to research firm Nielsen Indonesia. Analysts have also said chicken prices could be affected through the increase cost for imported corn.
Rising prices, particularly of basic food, would bring the rupiah's woes home to ordinary Indonesians and be a blow to the government of President Joko Widodo, who is seeking a second term next year. The opposition has already launched social media campaigns attacking the government's economic management.
In July, President Widodo pleaded with exporters to convert their dollar earnings and his ministers have repeatedly met with businesses to make the same appeal.
While not all have listened, Ade Sudrajat, chairman of the association of textile firms, said this week his members had sold their dollars in the market for an amount equivalent to the six-month cost of wages and electricity.
Most economists still see inflation staying within Bank Indonesia's 2.5-4.5 percent target range for this year and next, especially with Widodo capping fuel and power tariffs until 2019 in a populist pre-election move.
Still, in the Thamrin City shopping mall in Jakarta a shop assistant at a kiosk selling fragrance, soaps and beauty products said customers were already reacting to rising prices of some imported products.
"Our earnings are clearly impacted," said Nur Komariah, 37, noting that she sells fewer bottles of a Gucci perfume whose price has risen from 3,000,000 rupiah ($201.55) to 3,200,000 rupiah.
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has raised import taxes on more 1,000 mostly consumer goods, ranging from golf clubs to electronics and swimwear, trying to push consumers to switch to locally made products.
If importers pass the tax cost on to customers, this could push up prices, although Indrawati predicted the inflationary impact of her measure would be minimal.
The government has also sought to widen the use of biodiesel to cut the country's oil import bill.
At the top end of society, the government's measures are also being felt after taxes were increased on many luxury goods.
For the niche business of selling supercars, higher interest rates, a weak rupiah and tax increases were making for a perfect storm, said Irmawan Poedjoadi, chief executive of McLaren Jakarta.
Poedjoadi said the government had targeted his type of business when the rupiah fell, even though supercar sales in Indonesia had been declining in recent years and now amounted to only about 200 vehicles a year.
He said two-thirds of the price a customer pays for a supercar was already tax, and he feared wealthy Indonesians would simply decide to buy and keep cars overseas.
"We only sell a small number, but we have employees and business chains, vendors to pay," he said.


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The Undercover Soundtrack – Sanjida O'Connell
'Blues took me to the swamps of the deep south, and the heart-rending misery Emily encounters'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to tap into a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. This week's post is by Sanjida O'Connell @sanjidaoconnell
Soundtrack by: Jace Everett, Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss, Moby
In my fourth novel, Sugar Island, Emily Harris is a glamorous young English actress who arrives in America in 1859, determined to make enough money to save her father's theatre company. But while she's there, her father dies, leaving her alone and, in her vulnerable state, a charming Southern gentleman, Charles Earl Brook, sweeps her off her feet and into matrimony. It's during their honeymoon that she discovers his terrible secret: he owns a plantation in Savannah, Georgia, run by seven hundred slaves.
Darkness, danger and charm
Like many writers, I rarely listen to music whilst I work but I found that soul-haunting and edgy blues tracks, such as Down to the River to Pray by Alison Krauss and Natural Blues by Moby, helped me write about this naïve British woman who suddenly finds herself into the lush swamps of the Deep South, and of the heart-rending misery that she encounters. I played Jace Everett's Bad Things endlessly. It has the darkness and the dangerous charm that is at the core of Charles's appeal to Emily, as well as an evocation of the south's decadent glamour.
Emily glimpses St Simons Island, where her husband's plantation is, for the first time:
'…the marsh appeared to close in, the reeds brushing past the edge of the boat. The overriding smells were rotting fresh seawater, seaweed, fish on the edge of decomposition. To her right lay an island of dense deep green tangled jungle; the dark grey sky pressed in on them. She'd spent the whole journey trying to dissect her emotions and now she realized that at the heart of all her arguments was one very simple thing: she felt as if she were slowly being pushed into a trap.'
This is when Emily encounters slaves for the first time. A group of them row her, her husband and her husband's brother, Emmanuel, to the plantation. As they do so, they sing:
'Mother, master gone to sell we tomorrow?
Yes, yes, yes,
Oh, watch and pray.
Gone to sell we in Georgia?
Emmanuel uses the song as a way of telling Emily about their slaves, which he does with relish.
'That's why they are so pleased that you are about to have a child,' said Emmanuel quietly, leaning towards her, 'It means our family – your child – will continue to own them in the future and their families won't be split up by being sold at auction.'
'Mother don't grieve after me,
No, no, no,
Slave songs
I found this slave song on www.negrospirituals.com and then altered the words slightly to keep them in the dialect I used for the St Simons slaves. Originally, I was so taken with some of these lyrics, their poignancy and their way of expressing the emotions of the slaves in a way they could not, I used them frequently. My editor at John Murray quite rightly said that less is more.
Emily does her best to help the slaves, from pleading with Charles to make their lives less miserable, to cutting down a young girl who's been strung up by her thumbs and whipped, to teaching one slave to read, which at the time was illegal. Ultimately, Charles will no longer sanction her actions and makes her choose between her freedom and her daughter.
The only other slave song now remaining is right at the end of the novel but it might give away too much of the plot to quote that one.
Once I've finished writing for the day, I tend to go for a run and listen to some completely head-banging, heart-pulsing music to blast me out of the Deep South, Emily's horrific quandary and the chilling plight to the slaves – songs such as I Fought the Law by The Clash, Mr Brightside by The Killers, All My Life by the Foo Fighters and Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day.
Dr Sanjida O'Connell is a writer based in Bristol in the UK. She's had four works of non-fiction and four novels published: Theory of Mind, Angel Bird (by Black Swan), The Naked Name of Love and Sugar Island (John Murray). She is on Twitter as @sanjidaoconnell
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Book for January 17, 2020
Strategies of Passion: Love and Marriage in
Strategies of Passion: Love and Marriage in Old Norse Society – Bjørn Bandlien
Brepols Publishers | 2005 | PDF
This book is concerned with the social and gendered meanings of love in medieval Norway and Iceland. In the Viking Age, to love would most often imply a submissive social position, while being loved by a woman could elevate a man above the status of her family. Women were supposed to love upwards in the social hierarchy, but could also use their desire to negotiate the social position of men. A close reading of the skaldic poetry shows the dilemma men faced when longing for women's love and approval. These ideas of love relations shaped Norse interpretations of courtly love and marriage formation by consent in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. However, new ideas of sexuality, gender and aristocratic culture changed several aspects of love and marital affection in the later Middle Ages. Men became the loving subject, but in a way that did not challenge the social order. For women, ideal love was attached to humility and submission to parents and husband. But even though the new ideology of love and marriage to some extent neutralized the tensions between consent and parental control, the sources show that both men and women could use the new conceptions of love to serve their own marital and social strategies.
Strategies of Passion. Love and Marriage in Old Norse Society - Bjørn Bandlien.pdf
Dan Brown — The Lost Symbol
James Patterson – Filthy Rich
Cecelia Ahern — The Marble Collector
Victor Lodato – Edgar and Lucy
Democracy: A Life – Paul Cartledge Oxford
Makers of Modern Asia – Ramachandra Guha
1) Iran in World History – Richard
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to
Book for today - 2019


TheDevilsTrifecta: Clooney, Gosling, Efron, Stone, Barrymore, Aniston-er walking.
Clooney, Gosling, Efron, Stone, Barrymore, Aniston-er walking.
So many dang couples out there walking, in no particular order..
Zac Efron... does not matter with whom blue eyes walks, uproar. I saw this and was charmed, what can I say. Breaking news: "Zac walking in a store"
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield. Breaking news: "Emma and Andrew walking"
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux: Breaking news: "Jen and Justin walking"
Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes: Breaking news: "Ryan and Eva walking"
Drew Barrymore and Will Kopleman: Breaking News: "Drew and Will walking"
and of course George Clooney and Stacey Keibler: Breaking news: "George and Stacey also walking!"
Why this is news that people actually walk has always amused me.
I was thinking that there ought to be a book called everyone walks. Like everyone, well..if you have kids you know.
This has been a public service announcement. If you don't like it you can take a hike or better, go for a run.


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Q: Is it acceptable to have unhandled exceptions in ASP.NET web applications? I'm working with a third party vendor at the moment who has supplied an ASP.Net web application. The web app generates around 200 unhandled exceptions per day, which end up as emails in my in-box. Upon investigation it turns out that most of these errors are triggered by the GoogleBot web crawler indexing the site and triggering access to another third party web service, which is rate-limiting the requests. When a request limit is exceeded, the third party web service refuses the request, this results in an unhandled exception in the web server and an HTTP/500 status code. The exception looks like this:

Exception: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown., Stack Trace:    at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
   at ASP.views_products_detail_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
   at System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage.RenderView(ViewContext viewContext)
   at System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
   at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.c__DisplayClass11.b__e()
   at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation)
   at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionResult actionResult)
   at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeAction(ControllerContext controllerContext, String actionName)

The web app developer seems unwilling to handle these errors for reasons I don't really understand. Their approach is to throttle the GoogleBot until the errors stop happening (Google indexes quite aggressivley, generating around 5,000 hits per day). While I accept that throttling the GoogleBot would work, it seems like a cop-out to me. I've always considered unhandled exceptions to be bugs. Shouldn't the web app handle these errors? It is ever acceptable to allow an HTTP/500 to happen? What do the web developers out there think?

A: There's really several questions here: should the web site display exceptions (No), should the web site display something more friendly to users (Yes), should the web site return a 500 error to Googlebot when it can't proceed (Probably), should you ask Googlebot to slow down (Yes), should you deliver 500 exception emails a day with no throttling or summarization (Probably not).
More detail:-
Using google.com/webmasters you can request that Google indexes your site less aggressively.
You should never show an Exception to users, you should always catch it and display a friendly error page BUT you need to be careful to preserve the HTTP code when you display that page (e.g. 404 or 500) since if you return a page with code = 200 then that error page will find its way into search engine indexes.
Any error handler should rate limit how often it sends email messages when errors occur.
A well written error handler should also allow the suppression of errors you know will happen - e.g. certain search engines insist on requesting pages that do not exist.
If Google can get you into a rate limit situation then high traffic from users may be able to do the same so overall it sounds like you need some kind of caching solution here too.

A: No, it's not acceptable.  The web app should, at the very least, catch exceptions in global.asax.cs and do something reasonable with them.

A: The web developer is unwilling to handle the exception in a web service?
That's rather frightening, as there are many, many reasons why a web service might cause an exception. Instead of asking to fix the GoogleBot issue, try asking the developer to allow the application to degrade gracefully if the web service is unavailable.

A: IMO this is actually rather acceptable. The problem is you have reached your service saturation point as it stands. There are 2 ways to handle this: either spend the money and time required to increase the saturation point and be allocated more service or spend the time and money to make yourself not be dependent on said service.
Edit: There is a 3rd option which would be to follow foot steps of the NY Times treating Google as a thief of your services and just ban them. Of course this is really just like putting your head in the sand but it's an option.

A: The web app is handling the errors by e-mailing you.
What I am wondering is, what if a real human site visitor experience this error, how would you want it handled? I imagine you would want to get e-mailed if a real human visitor experienced this error. Maybe some of these errors are from real human visitors because Google used up their quota?
It seems you need a more graceful way overall of making sure the site scales without the third-party service. It's not clear to me which vendor (the ASP.NET developer or the third party service) should work on it but that's more of a project management issue.

A: A situation outside the control of the vendor has occurred. The vendor has logged the error and sent a notification to you. The vendor cannot control the limiting on the web service or the number of visitors to your site. You are in control of both.
Unless the specification stated that the emails should be throttled in some way the vendors position is sound. You want work done you pay for it.
So you have three choices

*

*Throttle google in some way;

*Extend your web service allowance; or

*Pay for the website to be altered.

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Embraer Executive Jets announced today that it signed a firm order with Colorful Yunnan General Aviation Co., Ltd., for two Phenom 300 light business jets. Both aircraft are scheduled to be delivered by the end of this year.
Tang Xuefan, Chairman of Colorful Yunnan General Aviation and President of Yunnan Airport Group, said purchasing two Phenom 300s is the beginning of a win-win journey for both sides. "These Phenom 300s will be used in general aviation areas such as medical rescue, disaster-relief work and so on. They will also play a vital role in customized tourism and high-end leisure and business travel. I believe Embraer's Phenom 300 will lead the way for Yunnan's general aviation industry by filling the market void with various aviation services. And with the help of the Phenom 300, we would gradually expand our services in Yunnan and offer an effective supplement to Yunnan's current aviation network."
Recognized as one of the most desirable light jets by fractional programs, charter services, corporate flight departments and owner-pilots, the Phenom 300 is in operation in 30 countries. To date, the fleet has accumulated over 300,000 flight hours.
"It's a great honor for us to sign this deal with Colorful Yunnan Group, a company committed to improving the connectivity of Yunnan province and China's Southwestern region," said Marco Túlio Pellegrini, President & CEO, Embraer Executive Jets. "The Phenom 300 is one of our bestsellers and it has remained the most-delivered executive jet model in the world for three consecutive years. The reliability, efficiency and cutting-edge technology of the Phenom 300 will help Colorful Yunnan build a strong fleet, as well as bring good travel experiences for future passengers."
Guan Dongyuan, Senior Vice President of Embraer and President of Embraer China, said: "Signing this order with Colorful Yunnan is a big milestone for us. For years, Embraer has been striving to offer its best-in-class products and services to Chinese customers, and today's sales agreement is just the start of another long-term relationship. The Phenom 300 is a model with excellent adaptability to high-altitude airports and shorter runways, which are quite prevalent in Yunnan. I hope these two Phenom 300s can help Colorful Yunnan to explore more routes, improve the connectivity of this region and eventually build Yunnan into an important hub along the new Silk Road."
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      SUBROUTINE rem_save ( psf_name, s )

C
C     Saves the current remove runtime common blocks as a remove.
C
C     Given:
C         The name of the physical sample file - must be closed.
              character*(*)       psf_name

C     Returned:
C         Status variable - must be zero on entry - otherwise error
              integer             s
C
C-
C     ****************************************************************
C
C     Function declarations
C
      include '/mrao/include/iolib_functions.inc'
C
C     ****************************************************************
C
C     Global includes -
C         ( i.e. Global constant, variable and common declarations )
C
      include '/mrao/include/iolib_errors.inc'
      include '/mrao/post/include/remove_common.inc'
      include '/mrao/post/include/src_pack.inc'

C     ****************************************************************
C
C     Local variables
C         Dummy variable
              integer             i
C         Logical unit number
              integer             lun
C         Logical sample file number
              integer             lsf_num
C         Number of buffers and number of visibilities in the lsf
              integer             num_buff, num_vis
C         First and last sample in the logical sample file.
              integer             first_samp, last_samp
C         Maximum amplitude in the remove file
C             real                max_rem_amp
C         Remove file name
              character*64        rem_file_name

C     ****************************************************************
C
C     Subroutine initialisation
C
C     Check for non zero entry status
      if ( s .ne. 0 ) return

C     enquire what remove file name should be
C         suppress no such file

c     call chr_chucas( psf_name )
      call open_sf( lun, psf_name, 'READ', 0, s )
      call enq_namfil( lun, 'REM', rem_file_name, s )
      if ( s.eq.NO_FILE ) s = 0
      call close_sf( lun ,s )

C     see if there would be a name clash
C         a possibility if a remove file is being used as the sample fie
      if ( psf_name .eq. rem_file_name ) then
        call io_wrout('Sample file name cannot be the Remove file name')
        return
      endif
c     if ( psf_name(1:5) .ne. '(SAMP' ) then
c       call io_wrout( 'Sample file must be in a (samp-:) directory.' )
c       return
      if ( rem_lsf .eq. 1 ) then
        call io_wrout( 'Remove logical sample file must be saved.' )
        call lsf_open( psf_name, rem_lsf, 'READ', lsf_num, s )
        call lsf_save( lsf_num, rem_lsf, s )
        call lsf_close( lsf_num, 0 )
        if ( s.ne.0 ) goto 9999
      end if

C     ****************************************************************
C
C         Main Code
C         ---------
C
      if ( rem_number .ne. 0 ) then
          if ( io_yesno( 'Create a new remove ?', 'Yes', s ) ) then
              rem_number = 0
          end if
          if ( s .ne. 0 ) goto 9999
          rem_key = 0
      end if

      if ( rem_number .eq. 0 ) then
          call lsf_open( psf_name, rem_lsf, 'READ', lsf_num, s )
          call lsf_enq_numbuff( lsf_num, num_buff, s )
          call lsf_enq_samples( lsf_num, 1, first_samp, last_samp, s )
          call lsf_enq_samples( lsf_num, num_buff, i, last_samp, s )
          call lsf_close( lsf_num, s )
C         Open the physical sample file and create the source.
          call open_sf( lun, psf_name, 'READ', 0, s )
          call open_source( lun, 1, 0, s )
          call enq_numvis( lun, num_vis, s )
          call create_source( lun, 'REM',
     *                        first_samp, last_samp,
     *                        num_buff, num_vis,
     *                        rem_number, s                      )
C         Ascertain the remove file name.  already done
C          call enq_namfil( lun, 'REM', rem_file_name, s )
          call close_sf( lun, s )
C      else
C         Ascertain the remove file name               already done
C          call open_sf( lun, psf_name, 'READ', 0, s )
C          call enq_namfil( lun, 'REM', rem_file_name, s )
C          call close_sf( lun, s )
      end if

      call open_sf( lun, rem_file_name, 'WRITE', 0, s )
C     old code to set scaling of remove file (NR funny removes)
C      if (rem_type .eq. 1) then
C          max_rem_amp = 100
C      else if (rem_type .eq. 2 ) then
C          max_rem_amp = rem_src_flux
C      end if

C      if (rem_type.eq.1 .or. rem_type .eq. 2) then
C         Amplitude is scaled to unity so reset amplitude factor.
C          call enq_src_pack( lun, rem_number, src_pack, s )
C          src_amp_factor = 32767.0/max_rem_amp
C          call set_src_pack( lun, rem_number, src_pack, s )
C      end if

C     New version to scale to user supplied max. amp
      if (rem_type .eq. 2 .and. rem_src_type.eq.2 ) then
          call enq_src_pack( lun, rem_number, src_pack, s )
          src_amp_factor = 32767.0/(rem_model_max*rem_src_flux(1))
          call set_src_pack( lun, rem_number, src_pack, s )
      end if

      call set_src_def( lun, rem_number, remove_record, s )
      call close_sf( lun, s )
      if ( s .ne. 0 ) goto 9999

      return

C     ****************************************************************
C
C         Error Handling
C         --------------
C
 9999 continue
          if ( s .ne. USR_BREAK ) then
              call rem_wrerr( s, 'in subroutine REM_SAVE' )
          end if
          return
      end

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Among other effects, this combining activity protects pancreatic islets against damage by cytokines and prevents myocardial and pulmonary perfusion injuries.Plant Leaves: Expanded structures, usually green, of vascular plants, characteristically consisting of a bladelike expansion attached to a stem, and functioning as the principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration. (American Heritage Dictionary, 2d ed)Quercus: A plant genus of the family FAGACEAE that is a source of TANNINS. Do not confuse with Holly (ILEX).Nitrogen: An element with the atomic symbol N, atomic number 7, and atomic weight [14.00643; 14.00728]. Nitrogen exists as a diatomic gas and makes up about 78% of the earth's atmosphere by volume. It is a constituent of proteins and nucleic acids and found in all living cells.Photosynthesis: The synthesis by organisms of organic chemical compounds, especially carbohydrates, from carbon dioxide using energy obtained from light rather than from the oxidation of chemical compounds. Photosynthesis comprises two separate processes: the light reactions and the dark reactions. In higher plants; GREEN ALGAE; and CYANOBACTERIA; NADPH and ATP formed by the light reactions drive the dark reactions which result in the fixation of carbon dioxide. (from Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2001)Chlorophyll: Porphyrin derivatives containing magnesium that act to convert light energy in photosynthetic organisms.Remote Sensing Technology: Observation and acquisition of physical data from a distance by viewing and making measurements from a distance or receiving transmitted data from observations made at distant location.Color: The visually perceived property of objects created by absorption or reflection of specific wavelengths of light.Cell Cycle: The complex series of phenomena, occurring between the end of one CELL DIVISION and the end of the next, by which cellular material is duplicated and then divided between two daughter cells. The cell cycle includes INTERPHASE, which includes G0 PHASE; G1 PHASE; S PHASE; and G2 PHASE, and CELL DIVISION PHASE.Hydroxyurea: An antineoplastic agent that inhibits DNA synthesis through the inhibition of ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase.Flow Cytometry: Technique using an instrument system for making, processing, and displaying one or more measurements on individual cells obtained from a cell suspension. Cells are usually stained with one or more fluorescent dyes specific to cell components of interest, e.g., DNA, and fluorescence of each cell is measured as it rapidly transverses the excitation beam (laser or mercury arc lamp). Fluorescence provides a quantitative measure of various biochemical and biophysical properties of the cell, as well as a basis for cell sorting. Other measurable optical parameters include light absorption and light scattering, the latter being applicable to the measurement of cell size, shape, density, granularity, and stain uptake.Estrus Synchronization: Occurrence or induction of ESTRUS in all of the females in a group at the same time, applies only to non-primate mammals with ESTROUS CYCLE.Buffers: A chemical system that functions to control the levels of specific ions in solution. When the level of hydrogen ion in solution is controlled the system is called a pH buffer.Saxifragaceae: The saxifrage plant family of the order ROSALES, subclass Rosidae, class Magnoliopsida. The leaves are alternate and sometimes deeply lobed or form rosettes. The flowers have both male and female parts and 4 or 5 sepals and petals; they are usually in branched clusters. The fruit is a capsule with many seeds.Metals, Heavy: Metals with high specific gravity, typically larger than 5. They have complex spectra, form colored salts and double salts, have a low electrode potential, are mainly amphoteric, yield weak bases and weak acids, and are oxidizing or reducing agents (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)Reference Standards: A basis of value established for the measure of quantity, weight, extent or quality, e.g. weight standards, standard solutions, methods, techniques, and procedures used in diagnosis and therapy.Agriculture: The science, art or practice of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.Soil Pollutants: Substances which pollute the soil. Use for soil pollutants in general or for which there is no specific heading.Cadmium: An element with atomic symbol Cd, atomic number 48, and atomic weight 114. It is a metal and ingestion will lead to CADMIUM POISONING.Urtica dioica: A plant species of the genus Urtica, family URTICACEAE. Roots have been used to treat PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA. 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Modern retailing and omnichannel challenge
By Retail Technology | Thursday August 14 2014
Retailers must fight harder than ever for competitive advantage and customer loyalty. This requires a fundamental strategic shift in thinking supported by strong technology enablement reports Alison Ebbage
Talking to retailers like John Lewis and Argos, this special report focuses on what it takes to operate multiple retail sales channels seamlessly in an omnichannel world
Omnichannel retailing brings about numerous IT and software challenges. Channel neutrality at the front end needs support from the underlying infrastructure to make sure the customer is visible throughout the sales process. At the back end, systems need to ensure product is where it is supposed to be, at the right time and right price.
Canny retailers know this; Andy Street, John Lewis managing director, was quoted in the Financial Times as saying that investments are all now behind the scenes and that IT is what it is all about.
Another UK High Street retailer, Argos, is in the early stages of a five year £300-million transformation plan to reinvent the business as a 'digital retail leader'. Much of the infrastructure behind the plans is heavily reliant on IT and an ambitious systems agenda to connect the customer's shopping experience across channels together, according to Mike Sackman, IT director at Argos.
Integrating business operations
Indeed connection and visibility is king. Many retailers are now turning to a single integrated platform that can connect to all facets of the business to allow for functional precision as well as front end and supply chain visibility.
Julian Burnett, head of IT architecture at John Lewis, commented: "With huge developments in the internet and the emergence of mobile technology, we need to offer a wide range of services that are not only user-friendly, but also flexible. Customers have come to expect this – they want to be able to shop not only instore but online, on their mobiles and tablet devices. They also want our services to be consistent, convenient and flexible."
By way of example, for the five weeks to 28 December 2013, online sales for John Lewis were 22.6% up on last year, with johnlewis.com accounting for 31.8% of the total John Lewis business during this period. 'Click & collect' orders were also 61.8% up on last year.
At Argos meanwhile, sales originating online have increased significantly over the past few years, now accounting for 46% of total sales. Mobile sales for the traditionally catalogue and store-based retailer now represent some 20% of total sales.
But that does not mean however that the days of the store are numbered – in fact the store is an integral part of one of the most popular emergent shopping services spanning multiple sales channels: click & collect.
Sackman commented on the advantages for Argos: "Check and reserve, which allows customers to check stock availability online and reserve for immediate collection at their local store, now accounts for 35% of total sales, up from 32% the year before. And despite the growth in digital sales, 90% of all transactions still currently touch a store and having a physical presence through traditional channels – our stores – is key to our strategy."
Changing customer interactions
As well as the actual point of sale (PoS), interactions with customers have changed. It is now normal for a customer to interact with a retailer through multiple channels in the course of one purchase cycle, which complicates issues further.
Pepjin Richter, director of enterprise resource planning (ERP) product marketing at Microsoft, said: "The IT systems of most retailers are quite fragmented and they have tended to custom build their own systems over the whole vertical; from the supply chain right up to the front end. This is then crossed with the various channels and the end result is something that is very hard to read. This is only made harder when customers can cross channels within a single order cycle. Visibility is challenging."
Product visibility is also important. Sackman added: "What's become very clear to us is the need for channels to be underpinned by a single platform, which offers one central understanding of our stock position and availability, and can be presented to the customer irrespective of the channel they use."
Integrating both operational systems and data then becomes a key requirement of omnichannel retailing, so that both customers and products can both be identified and seen no matter where they are within the retailer's systems.
In practice this means bringing data out of silos and sitting it on a single platform where it can be seen by all – from the front end right through to the back office. It can then be taken and used appropriately by the various operational components of the retailer. But the important thing is that everyone is seeing the same thing and has one single version of the truth.
Promoting cross-channel brand loyalty
Having an integrated and transparent system also means that the customer experience can be enhanced and enriched – not merely supported. For example, customers tend to go into the store much later in the sales process than ever before – if a sales rep can see a copy of what they have been looking at online, what preferences they have, what is on their wishlist, and then tailor service provision using so much more detail. It is not only a counter strategy to pureplay online stores, but it also helps to promote brand loyalty across channels though better customer service.
Burnett commented: "Coupling new technology, which is also evolving, with insight into the ways in which our customers choose to shop, we can better identify what customers want, when they want it and where they want it. Providing our partners with this insight helps strengthen the relationships they build with our customers and better serve their personal needs."
Enhancing the customer experience was one of the main reasons for US-based Ashley Furniture to upgrade its systems to a single scalable platform, due to go live in 2015. The single platform aims to shorten the sales process and facilitate an omnichannel experience. Jeff Paynter, vice president of omnichannel retail systems for Ashley Furniture, commented: "We can create a shopping cart in one channel and then migrate it to whatever channel the customer happens to be using at that moment."
Future plans are to create a mobile app, which will draw on the customer's account information and create wishlists to direct customers to specific items within the retail stores, or use proximity awareness to push out coupons for nearby items.
Getting IT integration right also applies as much to the back end as it does to the front: inventory, supply chain management, marketing, getting the right product to the right place at the right time. Without all of these components working to support the omnichannel experience, it all falls down.
Sophisticated inventory management
Sarah Taylor, Oracle Retail senior industry director, said: "Investing in planning applications and inventory management is essential. For example although click & collect is great for the customer, it requires sophisticated inventory management."
Sackman cited the same capabilities at Argos: "We are able to see exactly what stock is where at any one point in time. We also have a view of the stock position further up the supply chain, as we can see what's on order with suppliers and potentially make product available to customers before it arrives in our distribution centres. Having such a complete view, which goes beyond the Argos systems and leverages our trust in suppliers, means we have true stock visibility and can use this for the customer's benefit."
Amouage, a luxury fragrance house, is another example of a successful transformation to a single platform. The company was using multiple IT systems that could not easily extract data such as inventory and financial consolidation figures from its retail outlets.
"If I had to generate a report it was done manually which was very time consuming," said Sethu Gopalakrishna Pillai, Amouage IT manager. "We also had challenges in developing appropriate sales strategies because we could not capture customer data in our legacy system."
Indeed, marketing is another area to benefit from greater IT integration. Better and informed decision making as regards pricing, campaigns and customer segments can be made if the retailer can see what the customer does instore, online or in other channels and when.
Again this comes back to holding data centrally so that there is a single version of operational data for use by all business functions. Integration can also enable better product hierarchies, which makes life easier at both front and back end.
Sackman continued: "Better organisation of product at a central point holds many advantages, such as the ability to expand our ranges and introduce new ones more quickly, dynamically trade business online and change pricing and not be tied to six-monthly catalogue cycles.
"For the customer, better organisation means they can search or browse our ranges based on hierarchies or categories and events they understand. For example, back to school or birthdays. For a business that was traditionally catalogue-led, digital channels offer much greater flexibility in organising products."
Moving with the times
But with such demands on any single platform, is outsourcing the solution? Certainly managing systems so inherently complex and in a constant state of evolution is not traditionally a core activity for most retailers. In addition, the consequences of system failure or data inaccuracies could be serious.
Amouage is one company to have taken the decision to outsource. And John Lewis is one of the few UK high profile retailers to have gone public in this particular conundrum. It grew its IT capability with an in-house bespoke system before realising that some outsourcing was the best option for the company. But for others, retaining control is key – although outsourcing is an option it is far from the only solution.
What is clear though is that without increasingly interconnected systems and the visibility and flexibility that it brings, operating in an omnichannel retail world is testing even the biggest retailers.
Sackman concluded: "We need to grasp this challenge and become as digitally connected as our customers to give them a consistent experience through their journey, from product research to purchase, delivery and beyond. IT also plays a very important role as the interface across the different business departments – marketing, trading, digital, stores – to match future ambitions with our practical capabilities," he said.
CASE STUDY — PIZZA HUT
Pizza Hut is working with marketing and technology consultancy Amaze to refine its offering by connecting its customer relationship management (CRM) strategy with its digital marketing execution.
After a private equity group acquired the 330-strong franchise restaurant chain of Pizza Hut UK in 2012, the business embarked on a major programme of modernisation across all of its customer-facing channels, including its menu, restaurants and digital channels. Victoria Simpson-Clarke, head of marketing for digital and CRM at Pizza Hut UK, told Retail Technology that the company undertook the project in order to "put the customer at the heart of everything".
Simpson-Clarke said the website development was intended to not only provide standard features, such as ordering information and a restaurant locator, but to also offer new ways to engage with the brand. "We work with lots of licensed products, so wanted to highlight these in places like a kid's area," she said. "We also wanted to facilitate a two-way conversation with customers through social networking interaction and local deals and menu offers. So it had to be intuitive, based on the locality of anyone visiting the site."
Amaze handled the technical aspects of the brief. The subsequent website redesign refreshed its look and feel to reflect a local presence that was also in line with its global brand.
The legacy Pizza Hut brochureware site was replaced with Microsoft .NET-based EPiServer web content management systems that offer more sophisticated data mining capabilities and enable the new website to integrate with existing CRM functionality for more personalised customer engagement.
Integrated messaging communications
"Customers are encouraged to sign up to loyalty schemes and email offers," continued Simpson-Clarke. "But we wanted to tie CRM more closely to the site. It is important to know where site visits is coming from, in terms of affiliates, devices etc., and about a guest's preferences, like if they have children for instance. "This also allows us to push out our messaging in an integrated way, where people don't want mass marketing communications."
The integration work has also benefitted customers visiting the company's restaurants, as a link into its electronic point-of-sale (EPoS) systems enables it to use the website to recommend nearby sites based on capacity according to real- time sales figures. "There's nothing more frustrating than a queue at the door," she added. "The benefits are there for the business by maximising capacity, but also for the customer in maximising service levels."
Going live with a newly integrated digital presence last summer, the company saw a 75% increase in pages seen per visit and 49% via mobile, as well as a 25% increase in visit duration and 17% on mobile. Bounce rates dropped by 48% overall and 38% on mobile, while online restaurant bookings grew by 32%.
CASE STUDY — EAST
Fashion retailer East is overhauling its supply chain systems as part of a strategic move to support an omnichannel business strategy.
With over over 100 stores and concessions, plus an international e-commerce presence, the company already operates successfully across multiple channels.
Alison Lippiatt, East trading director, told Retail Technology the overhaul was prompted by the impending end of its current supply chain system contract.
"The legacy system has been used successfully for some time," she said. "But the end of contract encouraged us to look at a review rather than renewal. "The company has significant growth plans, where we were already collecting customer transaction data for example, but we weren't using the legacy system to full capacity."
Lippiatt also said that the supply chain overhaul would provide a catalyst for change in embracing an omnichannel approach.
"We talk about having 'one view' of the customer, so we get a transactional view no matter where the transaction was conducted," she explained. "We also want to make sure the customer also has one, consistent view of East and that their experience is always a positive one. A really powerful part of that is having one view of stock."
Satisfying different functional needs
The retailer chose to implement the Merret integrated retail merchandising and warehousing supply chain system from Retail Assist. Lippiatt said the system was able to satisfy a number of different functional needs, across its web, store and distribution channels.
"In the warehouse, we no longer need to have split stock locations," she said. The merchandising team was also given an integrated view into product information, while the cloud-based nature of the Merret system, hosted through its infrastructure partner Blue Chip, means the IT team were freed up to focus on adding strategic value.
At the same time, a networking partnership with specialist supplier Vodat is enabling new connectivity and disaster recovery (DR) assurance across the business, offering new levels of monitoring capabilities and resilience. The new system has also enabled the roll out Triquestra UK's Infinity electronic point-of-sale (EPoS) system, which will develop East's ability
to collect customer transactional data and further develop its click & collect functionality through its integration with Merret.
"We already offered click & collect and our customers could order directly from the website in the store via a separate terminal," added Lippiatt. "Now we'll be able to do these transactions on the till. And the supply chain system looks for the best place to source that stock."
With the deployment due to go live this summer, Merret will enable East to provide a consistent consumer experience its across multiple channels regardless of geographical location due to its central stock pool, making it easier for East customers to shop anytime and anywhere. "These changes are allowing us to fully embrace omnichannel retailing," Lippiatt concluded.
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Published by Anthony McNamee on 31st March 2016.
London buses wouldn't have a look in. Back in 1985 an under-14 team that featured a young Terry McGivern and Shane Mullen lifted the Down Féile Peil na nÓg title, then went on to All-Ireland success.
It took 30 years for the Down trophy to return to Fr Lynch Park, and on Monday past, on a sunny day at St Colman's College, Ballyholland only went a did a two-in-a-row.
By all accounts (though if truth be told, my sources that evening were all a little hazy), our young Harps were simply outstanding on the day, and left a trail of destruction behind them en route to a winning final against Kilcoo.
Congratulations to the lads, and to their management team of Mickey, Cathal, Anthony and Paul.
Next stop is the All-Ireland finals in West Kerry, on the weekend of 25 June, when Paddy Savage has been appointed be the official tour guide for the great Ballyholland migration.


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Kim Kardashian West is stepping up to aid the fight against the coronavirus. Through her Skims shapewear label, the reality star and entrepreneur announced a $1 million donation to families affected by COVID-19. The donation is particularly aimed at supporting mothers and children.
The commitment comes after Kardashian West said last week that she'd give 20% of proceeds from the restock of the Skims "Cotton" collection to the COVID-19 Emergency Response Program of the nonprofit Baby2Baby.
Today, Skims is having its largest restock to date featuring its full line of Solutionwear, aimed at selling enough of the wares in order to support Kardashian West's newest $1 million commitment. To put in context, when Skims launched with this product, it sold out within 24 hours and garnered a waitlist of more than one million people, according to the company.
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"To support mothers and children in need during this time, Skims is committed to donating $1M to families affected by COVID-19," Kardashian West said in a statement. "We're restocking the collection we first launched with, and in doing so, are able to help bring relief to those affected by this pandemic. I am so grateful to all of you who have supported Skims since we first started six months ago. It's been a dream of mine for so long, and has only been possible because of your love for what we do. Our six-month anniversary has fallen in the middle of a global crisis so more than ever, it's our responsibility to give back and do what we can to help others."
Solutionwear Restock — Coming on March 30 at 9AM PST / 12PM EST. To support mothers and children in need during this time, @SKIMS is committed to donating $1M to families.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Electronics rule our world, but electrons rule our electronics.
A research team at The Ohio State University has discovered a way to simplify how electronic devices use those electrons—using a material that can serve dual roles in electronics, where historically multiple materials have been necessary.
The team published its findings today (March 18, 2019) in the journal Nature Materials.
"Now, we have this new family of layered crystals where the carriers behave like electrons when traveling within each layer, and holes when traveling through the layers. … You can imagine there might be some unique electronic devices you could create," said Joshua Goldberger, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Ohio State.
The researchers named this dual-ability phenomenon "goniopolarity." They believe the material functions this way because of its unique electronic structure, and say it is probable that other layered materials could exhibit this property.
The researchers made the discovery almost by accident. A graduate student researcher in Heremans' lab, Bin He, was measuring the properties of the crystal when he noticed that the material behaved sometimes like an electron-holder and sometimes like a hole-holder—something that, at that point, science thought was impossible. He thought perhaps he had made an error, ran the experiment again and again, and got the same result.
"It was this thing that he paid attention and he didn't assume anything," Heremans said.
Bin He has since accepted a postdoctorate position at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany.
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
Written by: Laura Arenschield, The Ohio State University. This article also appeared on Phys.Org.


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Obernai (Municipality, Bas-Rhin, France)
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Municipal flag of Obernai, two versions - Images by Pascal Vagnat, 28 February 2010
Presentation of Obernai
Municipal flag of Obernai
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The municipality of Obernai (11,009 inhabitants in 2006; 2,578 ha) is located 25 km south-west of Strasbourg.
Obernai was mentioned for the first time in 778 as the Merovingian villa (estate) of Ehenheim. The place was subsequently (1242) renamed Oberehenheim for distinction from Niederehenheim. These Upper- and Lower-Ehenheim were later latinized, as Obernai and Niedernai, respectively.
Once owned by the Dukes of Alsace and the monasteries of Hohenbourg (today, Mont-Saint-Odile) and Niedermunster, Obernai was granted a chart in 1240 by the Hohenstaufen emperors; the town was allowed to build fortifications (completed in 1298, with 30 towers and eight gates), to have its own administration and to manage markets and fairs.
In 1354, Obernai, together with the nine other Imperial towns of Alsace (Colmar, Haguenau, Kaysersberg, Mulhouse, Munster, Rosheim, Sélestat, Turckheim and Wissembourg) formed the Décapole (from Greek, deca, "ten", and polis, "town"); among the goals of the Décapole were to limit the power of the Imperial Provosts and of the local nobles. The 16th century was the Gilded Age of Obernai; several Renaissance buildings were erected in the town, for instance the Town Hall (1523 / 1610), the belfry (Kapellturm, the Chapel's Tower, originally part of a chapel dedicate to the Blessed Virgin, demolished in 1873) and the Six-Buckets Well (1579).
Looted during the Thirty Years' War, Obernai, together with the Décapole towns, was incorporated to France, together with the Décapole towns, in 1679.
Obernai is the alleged birth town of St. Odile (c. 660-720), the patron saint of Alsace. The legend of the saint is related in an anonymous text written in the 10th century. Born blind from Duke of Alsace Etichon (aka Adalric), Odile was expelled by her father and grew up in the monastery of Balme (today Baume-les-Dames, near Besançon). Healed by St. Erhard, Odile was brought back to Alsace by her brother Hugh. Etichon killed Hugh but subsequently reprented of his faults. He offerred the castle of Hohenburg to Odile, who set up there the monastery of Mont-Saint-Odile, today the holy mountain of Alsace.
The Kronenbourg brewery, founded in Strasbourg in 1664 by Jérôme Hatt and subsequently renamed for the borough of Cronenbourg, set up its main factory in Obernai some 30 years ago. Every year, the factory brews 6 million hectoliters of beer, that is 2/3 of the total production of the company.
The Agricultural College of Obernai has a 19-ha plot dedicated to the cultivation of hop, a crop that has nearly disappeared from France.
Source: Municipal website
The flag of Obernai, as communicated in May 2002 by the municipal administration, is vertically divided red-black with a yellow double-headed eagle placed in the middle of the flag.
A vertical flag of the same design was seen in October 2006 hoisted on the town hall.
The flag is a banner of the municipal arms, Parti de gueules et de sable à une aigle d'or brochant sur le tout ("Per pale gules and sable overall an eagle displayed or").
According to GASO, the ancient arms of Obernai are "Or an eagle sable", as shown on the Décapole stained glass window, kept in the Colmar Museum. In the 15th century, Obernai adopted the red and black colours; the golden eagle was added to the coat of arms in the 16th century.
Brian Timms adds that the modern coat of arms of Obernai is shown on the Armorial Général.
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By Rikard Larma | Monday, 13 June 2016 07:42 AM
The world was rocked Sunday by a tragic massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where 50 people were killed in what's now considered the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and what some are calling the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.
Omar Mateen, the gunman who authorities say had pledged allegiance to ISIS, was killed in a shootout with SWAT team members.
Here are 12 images of the world in mourning:
A pride flag stands a half mast during a memorial service in San Diego, California on June 12, 2016, for the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting. (Sandy Huffakera/AFP/Getty Images)
A rainbow flag flies at half mast on the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington on June 12, 2016, in honor of the victims of the nightclub shooting in Orlando. (Omar Torres/AFP/Getty Images)
A bunch of roses is held by a man in front of the US Embassy in Berlin on June 13, 2016, as people pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando killing. (John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images)
Mourners hold an LED sign reading "Dallas To Orlando" as they march during a vigil in Dallas, Texas, on June 12, 2016, for victims of the attack at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. (Laura Buckman/AFP/Getty Images)
Ryan Gibson, left, embraces Tabor Winstead during a vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting on Sunday, June 12, 2016 at the Legends Club on Hargett Street in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)
Donors line up outside OneBlood Blood Donation Center in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, June 12, 2016. The center was flooded with donors after a mass shooting early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando. (Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
FBI agents investigate near the damaged rear wall of the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed at least 50 people on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
A rainbow flag is held up during a vigil after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in front of the White House in Washington, June 12, 2016. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
A woman cries and holds flowers in front of a makeshift memorial to remember the victims of a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, in New York, Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Flowers left outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in memory of those killed in the night club shooting in Orlando. (Evgenya Novozhenina/Sputnik via AP)
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A mourner holds up an American flag and a candle during a vigil for a fatal shooting at an Orlando nightclub, Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A boat that capsized near Pier 45 in San Francisco, dumping 30 people into the bay, was uprighted on Thursday morning, as divers helped grab the yacht and bring it to the surface. (Published Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016)
A boat that capsized near Pier 45 in San Francisco, dumping 30 people into the bay, was uprighted on Thursday morning, as divers helped grab the yacht and bring it to the surface.
The 34-foot Silverton cabin cruiser named The Khalessi capsized on Saturday, and experts told NBC Bay Area it appeared as though there were simply too many people on board.
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I am looking for Pennie's caramel recipe if anyone could help me out there I would be grateful. I searched the board, but I'm apparently inept.
Oops, I didn't mean to post this in travel.....more coffee.
Melt butter in a heavy 6-quart pan. Add brown sugar and salt. Stir in corn syrup, mixing well. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly. Cook over a medium heat until it reaches the firm ball stage (245 degrees). Remove from heat, stir in vanilla. Pour into a well buttered 11" x 18" jellyroll pan. Cool, cut, and wrap in wax paper squares.
CHECK YOUR THERMOMETER before you start to make the caramels, by placing it in boiling water for a few minutes. It should register at 212 degrees, if it doesn't then add or subtract accordingly.
Further to the thermometer check - allow 1 degree F for every 500 feet above sea level. I'm at 2,000 feet so water boils at 209. I don't know anything about caramel making so I don't know how critical temperature is. Amy and others can provide more practical experience.
Those sound lovely. I we are still three or four months away from the one week in "winter" it will be cold and dry enough here to do candy making, but I am filing this away. I love caramel.
in it is a link to the wrappers I got from amazon last year, MUCH better than the foil ones at Michaels and way cheaper.
I just made caramels for Halloween tomorrow, and I ordered the wrappers you posted, Jean. Lots of cutting and wrapping tomorrow!
Let me know what you think of the wrappers. I'll never go back to the foil squares. I meant to make caramel for Halloween but it didn't happen. I'm going to try and do them for the hockey teams on the weekend.
I ran out of wrappers the other night when cutting my first batch of the season, and when I went to order them again on amazon the price had gone from $18 to $27, which was annoying. Plus free shipping is now $35, so I searched again and found what I think are the same ones at Lynn's (which I think is a site Frank posted here) and ordered 2 packs of 1000 wrappers at $17 each. Even with paying for priority shipping I think I'm ahead of the game. Wish I had just ordered them months ago. The foil wrappers are $5 for 50 here with no coupon at Michaels, so for sure this price is better than buying the foil ones and I love the look of the caramels in the twisted clear wrappers.
These are what I ordered, will report back.
Okay, so these wrappers are excellent, seems to be the same as what I ordered from Amazon. So totally worth it and the people I dealt with by phone and email were all great. I found the same at a wholesalers website for $8 for 1000 but they had a $50 minimum order...and I did not need that many wrappers!
I just made a batch thinking it would cool during the day and kept wondering why it looked so grainy....turns out I forgot to add the brown sugar. I now have a tray of fairly disgusting tasting soft caramel. Can this be saved?


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Lady Gaga will debut her new video for "Yoü and I" this week.
On Thursday night (August 18) the international pop will chat with Sway for the television special "MTV First: Lady Gaga" and premiere her fourth single from her sophomore album Born This Way. Gaga is also set to make another big announcement that evening.
The "Yoü and I" video premieres at 7:49 p.m. ET on MTV and Logo and will also screen on mtvU, MTV Hits and Tr3s at 8 p.m. on that night.
"The relation of the video to my real life, as well as to my dream of the future, is really what makes it so special," Gaga said about her upcoming video on a Taiwanese talk show last month. "Part of what Born This Way is all about is choosing to live halfway between reality and fantasy at all times, and how anyone can do that. So this video really, really challenges that idea and also celebrates it. And it's very exciting."
Images of Gaga dressed as her male alter ego Jo Calderone and bits about another alter ego, a mermaid named Yuyi have also surfaced.
Written by Hillary Crosley