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Intermediate's guide to skiing in Val d'Isère
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In one of the world's best ski resorts, intermediates are never going to be short of skiing — and while Val d'Isere enjoys a reputation as a playground for those who like steep and deep skiing, there's plenty more on offer.
Plenty to do
Intermediates love mileage — getting out, exploring a ski area and trying new runs and new challenges. With 300km of exciting pistes spread at altitudes of between 1550m and 3456m, with two glaciers, the Espace Killy is the perfect ski area for adventurous intermediates. Because of the climate, altitude and orientation of the slopes, snow is almost guaranteed over Val d'Isère's long season that lasts from November to May — and the abundant natural snowfall is backed up by 900 snow cannons from Europe's biggest snow factory covering 40 per cent of the ski area.
Year on year, Val d'Isère continues to plough investment into its lift system — something that makes the biggest difference if you're looking to eat up the miles. Queuing in lift lines doesn't make for value-for-money and luckily with fast lifts and an extensive area, queues in Val — except for peak times — are really few and far between.
Blue piste skiers
Intermediates fall into two categories — those who enjoy blue piste cruising, scenic coffee spots and setting up an itinerary for each day, and the others who want to tackle reds, push themselves over and over and take lessons to improve technique.
Chris Gill, author of new guidebook Where to Ski in France explains that "true blue skiers" need look nowhere else. "There are no blue runs down to Val itself and no, the reds are not easy, but the piste map also shows a great deal of blue (and green) skiing at altitude. Happily, this is all easy skiing; it doesn't much matter where you head — we haven't detected any nasty surprises anywhere on these higher slopes."
Stronger intermediates
The descents into the valley, explains Chris, offer rich rewards for the competent skier looking for a challenge. "Ski them early in the day as far as possible, when they are less crowded and less mogulled than later on," he advises. "Even Santons and Piste M from Solaise can be very enjoyable in the right conditions."
Val d'Isere stalwart and ski journalist Peter Hardy echoes Chris's warning about the home runs — but he says intermediates won't want to ski anywhere else.
"To get the most out of Val d'Isère itself, you really need to be comfortable skiing steepish runs and hungry for the chance to get off-piste too — and strong intermediate will love the challenge that each day brings."
But, warns Peter: "Val's interpretation of colour grading here is different to elsewhere: for green read blue, for blue read red, for red read black, for black…read a whole hatch of butterflies in your stomach."
Itinerary for an intermediate ski day in Val d'Isère
Ken Smith, from Progression Ski and Snowboard School has a favourite day out in the resort for skiing with intermediates, one that offers a variety of slopes and conditions and that — best of all — are almost always nice and quiet.
"We start on the Solaise sector with a warm up run on the green Madeleine," says Ken. "Follow that by heading up the Glacier chair and skiing all the way down the Glacier and Plan Milet run. Keep heading down to the valley bottom on the banked Piste L run before heading up the Laisinant chairlift which takes you into the Fornet sector. From there head up the Pyramides chairlift and then ski down the Petit Bois which is a lovely but challenging blue."
Here, Ken suggests stopping for a coffee in Le Signal, which has both self-service and gourmet restaurants, and is considered by many as one of the best on the mountain.
"After a brief stop we then head up the bubble car toward the glacier. Ski down to the Cascade chairlift and ski the blue Pissaillas and/or the red Moraine run. If you have time head to the very top via the Montet T bar. The extra few hundred metres doesnt give you much more in the way of skiing but offers fantastic views from the top.
"Head back to the Solaise sector via the Cema chairlift and then the Leissieres chairlift. This chair is known as the 'Up and Over' locally as it takes you to the top of the ridge [not one for those scared of heights!], dividing the two ski areas, and down the other side. There are great views as you come over the top of the ridge and down into the Solaise sector.
"Once you touch down head down to the Datcha chairlift and take that up towards the Madelaine. Cut across the Madelaine and ski down the challenging, long and rolling red run called the Arcelle. You come to a lonely chairlift at the bottom of the valley called the Manchet Express so head up to the top and then down the Madelaine (which you skied first thing)."
Finally, says Ken: "Go up the Pim Pam magic carpet then head straight ahead at the top. Head down the steep Plan and Piste M runs back into Val d'Isère. This itinerary can be skied in a morning if you keep moving along but can also be spread out over a full day with a few extra runs here and there."


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Moody Blues at Overdue 2018 Rock Hall Induction
Inductees Justin Hayward (L) and John Lodge of The Moody Blues perform at the 33rd Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Public Auditorium on April 14, 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Kevin Kane/Getty Images for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; used with permission)
2017 marked the 50th anniversary of the Moody Blues' masterpiece, Days of Future Passed, and the progressive rock band toured a gorgeous production with full orchestra. When December came, so did the news that the group, decades after being eligible, had finally been selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On April 14, 2018, at Cleveland's Public Hall for the Class of 2018 ceremony, band drummer Graeme Edge acknowledged the "sour grapes" he had felt over the group's longtime snub. But "when it actually became something for all of us to appreciate, I did realize it means the world to me."
Ann Wilson was the choice to provide the band's induction speech. "The Moody Blues took me from childhood to adulthood as a disciple," she said. "The very few boys who took me out on dates in those days were instantaneously upstaged if 'Nights in White Satin'… came on the car radio.
"When we tripped, we took the Moody Blues along."
Following Wilson's induction speech, Edge joked: "I'm not gonna make a long speech. I'm 77 years old. I haven't got time. I want to thank Justin [Hayward] and John [Lodge] for putting up with me for 50 years. I want to thank me for putting up with Justin and John for 50 years," as the audience howled with laughter.
"It was so long that we were eligible and didn't make it," Edge continued, "that I got a real sour grapes feeling about it. And when it actually became something for all of us to appreciate, I did realize it means the world to me."
Then it was John Lodge's turn. "In 1967, Graeme Edge, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas, Justin Hayward, myself, along with our producer, Tony Clarke, went into the Decca recording studio in London, England, and seven days later, we came out with an album that changed our lives forever, Days of Future Passed. I'd like to thank American radio for supporting us for five decades. Their belief in us has just been tremendous."
Related: Our Album Rewind of the band's masterpiece
Watch the band's acceptance speeches
Following the speeches, the group performed four songs, beginning appropriately with "I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)." It was followed by "Your Wildest Dreams" and "Ride My See Saw."
Watch "Ride My See Saw"
They finished with a flourish, with a rousing performance of "Nights in White Satin."
When asked at a press conference about their fans' support, Justin Hayward said: "It's validated the music that they love. They've given us a wonderful 50 years and mean everything to us. They've been so loyal to us over the years. Now we see very young people loving this music as well. We're here because of them."
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#1 Da Mick 16 April, 2018, 07:43
Not sure why Mike Ponder, who's songs and sounds were so crucial to the Moody Blues sound was left standing at the podium, and why he couldn't have been included in the performance. It actually looked like he was moving up to speak at the podium after John Lodge finished, and Lodge body-blocked him and said something to him, as he then backed off, and Justin Hayward went to speak, and that was it. Then, he wasn't included in the performancrs. They couldn't do one of his songs? What's up with that? Though i love them, I was very disappointed in the Moodies, in this moment that we've waited so long for.
Jonie 28 March, 2019, 23:01
I was so disappointed in the Music Hall of Fame the whole group of the Moodys Blues should have all done interviews as well the audience All of the fans wanted to hear from him as well Danny Lane they all should have been the stage too.
#2 MoodyFan1967 15 March, 2019, 01:54
The Moody Blues were the last band inducted after a long night. They were also the oldest and were tired by the time they were brought up. Mike Pinder, not having been in the band since the mid 1970s, didn't want to upstage the guys who were still active members and he felt they had already said what needed saying so he chose not to speak to shorten the time. It was all good, no feelings were hurt & nobody was snubbed.
#3 Cisley 15 March, 2019, 12:01
Shame on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for waiting eons to induct one of the most original, unique bands ever from the 1960's. I have been a fan since "Go Now" was released in the U.S. and saw them for the first time in 1969 and glad I did. They were fantastic.
If the knuckleheads that "run" the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had had the sense to induct them when they were younger, and just as deserving, their voices would have been stronger and Ray Thomas would have been alive to add his gorgeous voice to the mix. As it is, a long overdue accolade for one of the best and most unique bands to ever grace a stage.
Thank you Moody Blues for all the memories and years of music.
Moodytwos 15 March, 2019, 20:44
I couldn't agree or add anymore than what you stated! I'm so blessed I have included The Moody Blues in my life!

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Scott holds a B.S. with High Honors from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.


My wife and I are heading to Hilton Head in late July as a birthday trip for me. I am looking for recommendations for must play courses as we have never been there before. I will of course plan to play Harbor Town, but what other courses do you guys recommend? Preferably ones that would be welcoming to a beginning golfer (my wife).
I go every year and here are my favorites - HH National, Golden Bear at Indigo Run, Heron's Pt. and Atlantic Dunes. If you want just ok conditions and moderately priced try Eagles Point and Crescent Point. Have fun!!!
They are all great, you won't be disappointed in whichever you pick. If you have't before, take a side trip over to Savannah. 45 minute drive is well worth it. Eat at Lady and Son's (Paula Dean's), walk the river front, or if after dark, take the walking ghost tour.
My wife and I both enjoyed Old South across the bridge in Bluffton. Some water in play and a few quirky holes but nice views and not many on-course homes/condos. Dolphin Head was also nice but not as memorable.
Oh and Stephen, super casual seafood place (foam plates and plastic forks) called The Sea Shack is really good! Also casual but not fast food like, is Hudson's just as you get on the Island. The best blackened scallops i have ever had. Both are a bit hard to find but if you like seafood, worth hunting down. Enjoy the trip.
Of course, Harbor Town, but I will second the mention of Old South in Bluffton. Fun course, and much more affordable!
Stephen, I would be curious to know which courses you played on your trip to Hilton Head(if your have already gone on your trip) and your thoughts. I went for the first time last October and played Harbour Town, Oyster Reef and Hampton Hall. It was a great trip and just wondering what you thought?
All responses are right on target! Partial to Sea Pines courses myself, buy can't go wrong with any of them on the island. Like magic when you go over the bridge. Worst part is going home.
I go to HHI every year but never play HH national, I'll have to check that out!
I lived on HHI for nearly ten years--and owned a home there for about 15 years. All of the golf recommendations are spot-on. I'd throw in that other than HT, the most nationally recognized courses are all behind gates (Colleton, Long Cove, Belfair, Moss Creek, Berkeley Hall). My three favorites are Secession, Chechessee Creek, and Long Cove.
For a real treat--play May River in Palmetto Bluff. The public courses are all usually in great shape---from Palmetto Hall to HH National.
For a burger---try Harold's Diner.
Do you think these HH courses will be cart path only this weekend?
If you're going to be at Sea Pines and play Harbour Town you really should also try the Dye (Heron Point) and Love III (Atlantic Dunes) courses that are in Sea Pines plantation as well. HTGL is epic and historic and a great one to cross off the golf bucket list, but I actually loved the Dye course and would certainly play that one again!!


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Arrive in style with a Zambezi Water Taxi ride to your hotel
Go on the Guided Walking Tours of the spectacular Victoria Falls
Take to the skies on the legendary 'Flight of Angels'
Ride the wild, white waters of the mighty Zambezi River
Get aboard an open-game vehicle to see what you can see in the stunning National Parks
Hold your breath, and then Jump! – off the historic Victoria Falls Bridge
Experience unique close encounters with Africa's animals
Day Trip to the sensational Chobe National Park
Makuni Cultural Village Tour
Cruise the Zambezi River at Sunset aboard the Lady Livingstone
Enjoy a Dinner Journey through the National Park on a lovingly-restored steam train
Guests staying at the Royal Livingstone Hotel on the Zambian side of the Falls will arrive at Livingstone Airport and be transferred to the banks of the mighty Zambezi River where they catch a gracious Zambezi Water Taxi right to their hotel! There's no better introduction to this amazing Africa river and its wildlife.
Victoria Falls Hotel, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Royal Livingstone Hotel, Livingstone, Zambia
Victoria Falls Safari Club
The Elephant Camp
Royal Chundu
The Stanley and Livingstone at Victoria Falls
Ilala Lodge Hotel
Toka Leya Camp
Sanctuary Sussi & Chuma
Islands of Siankaba
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Zambezi Sun Hotel, Livingstone, Zambia
Tongabezi Lodge, Livingstone, Zambia
Built in 1904, in the gracious Edwardian style of the colonial era, this 5-star luxury hotel, which offers every modern convenience, is set in lush sub-tropical gardens within the Victoria Falls National Park. The Falls is less than a 10 minute walk away along the hotel's private pathway, and is both audible and visible from the landmark hotel itself. Stanley's Terrace, a famous rendezvous for Africa's adventurers, offers clear views of the Victoria Falls Bridge, part of Cecil John Rhode's ambitious plan to build a railway line from Cape to Cairo. Fondly known as the "Grand Old Lady of the Falls', the Victoria Falls Hotel is one of Africa's most celebrated and nostalgic hotels.
We offer a carefully prepared portfolio of wonderful gifting ideas that include many high quality items that are created by local enterprise development projects. By selecting pillow, prize and function gifts that make a difference, every incentive group that comes to Victoria Falls can easily contribute to the improvement of disadvantaged people's lives.
A Wonder of the Natural World – Victoria Falls, also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (the smoke that thunders), is located on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe. While it is not the highest or the widest, it holds the claim to being the largest waterfall in the world. This is due to the immense sheet of water that falls over a mile-wide basalt edge and drops one hundred metres into a sheer chasm. During the rainy season, it is estimated that the waters of the Zambezi pour over the Falls at a rate of 3000 tonnes per second. Seeing this breath-taking UNESCO World Heritage Site is an experience that will never be forgotten.
The Smoke that Thunders – The local people have various names for the Victoria Falls, such as the best-known Mosi-oa-Tunya, all of which mean 'the smokes that thunders'. This describes the spectacular spray that rises out of the depths of First Gorge like a white inverted rain-cloud and shoots up into the sky above, inspiring rainbows. It is typical for the spray to rise over 400 metres and be visible from up to 50 kilometres away; but it can reach twice as high during the rainy season from February to May. A stunning sighting for many travellers is the moonbow that shines at night in the spray during full moon.
History – Archaeological findings suggest that over millennia the spectacular Falls have been part of the landscape for stone age people, Khoisan hunter-gatherers and various tribes of Bantu origin, including the Batswana and Makololo who call it Mosi-ao-Tunya. It is thought that in the 19th Century, the Falls were also known to Voortrekker hunters and Arab traders. However; in September 1855, the Scottish missionary and explorer, Dr David Livingstone set off with local guides, and standing on what is known today as Livingstone Island, laid eyes on this natural wonder. Of this experience, he wrote: "No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight." He named the Falls after his Queen, and in so doing, sparked a sequence of events that drew global attention and admiration to this wonder of Africa, and the world.
A Place of Two Towns – The Victoria Falls is easily accessible from two towns each with their own airport, Livingstone in Zambia and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The Victoria Falls Bridge, which spans Second Gorge, links these two tourist centres and travellers can make day trips from each side, obtaining visas at the border posts. Each country offers stunning views of the Falls from their different vantage points, as well as many other wildlife, sporting and adventure activities.
Getting there – Both Victoria Falls Airport in Zimbabwe and Livingstone Airport in Zambia receive regular daily flights from Johannesburg, South Africa. There are also direct flights to both airports available from Cape Town and the Kruger Mpumalanga Airport. Victoria Falls is just over an hour by road from the northern Botswana border, close to the Chobe National Park.
National Parks – Both Zambia and Zimbabwe offer rewarding safari experiences in the Victoria Falls area. In Zambia, the 66 square kilometre Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park protects wildlife along the northern Zambezi shore. In Zimbabwe, the small Victoria Falls National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site protecting the Falls and the incredible rainforest that is sustained by the spray. The adjacent Zambezi National Park protects 40 kilometres of the southern side of the river, and links the game to other national parks, such as Hwange in the south.
Game-viewing –The Zambezi River above the Falls supports large populations of Crocodiles and Hippo, and abundant birdlife. Sightings of Elephant, Buffalo, Giraffe, Zebra, various antelope, Warthog, Chacma Baboon and Vervet Monkey are common. Lion and leopard are resident in the national parks but are typically harder to see. Klipspringers and Clawless Otters can be sighted in the gorges; which are also the breeding home of the rare Taita Falcon, the Peregrine Falcon, Black Eagle and Augur Buzzard. The wonderful animal and birdlife can be enjoyed on game drives, river cruises and on foot.
Adventure Activities – Victoria Falls has become world-renowned for its wide range of adrenalin-charged and exciting activities that are available from both the Zambian and Zimbabwean tourist centres. Professional operators, adhering to world-class standards, offer bungee-jumping from the Victoria Falls Bridge, white-water rafting in the gorges, kayaking, horse-riding, elephant-back safaris and walks with lions, scenic small plane, micro-light and helicopter flights, mountain and quad biking.
Colonial Splendour – The towns of Livingstone in Zambia and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe came to being during the era of British colonial rule. With a mandate from the British Empire, Cecil John Rhodes's British South Africa Company facilitated the building of the railway line, the Victoria Falls Bridge and the splendid Victoria Falls Hotel. Today, much of the colonial architecture, the pioneering spirit and manner of understated grandeur have been retained, evoking the graciousness of a bygone era.
Experience Victoria Falls
The spectacular Victoria Falls is the largest sheet of falling water in the world, one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For the incentive traveler it is a dream destination evoking wonder at the forces of nature, reminiscences of the adventurous and gracious colonial era, and awe at Africa's stunning wildlife along the banks of the mighty Zambezi River.
As it forms part of the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls can be visited from both countries, each providing a unique viewpoint, and offering best quality safari-style accommodation, dining and activities that will ensure an African adventure your guests will never forget. Victoria Falls and its surrounds have been remarkably preserved as National Parks, and boast an abundance of African wilderness and wildlife. The stunning topography of the area also makes a wide range of expertly-managed adrenalin adventures and 'once-in-a-lifetime' experiences possible.
An incentive programme that includes Victoria Falls combines brilliantly with:


This post is the second in the series of our Part M: Volume 2 building regulations blogs and covers general lift requirements with Part M in greater detail.
Like technology elsewhere, lifts and lift standards have developed over the years and new safety features have become the norm. In recognition of the fact that lift upgrades are required for improved safety, BS EN 81-80:2003 gives an audit framework for lift modernisation.
If you either own or are thinking of installing a lift then there is a whole host of lift standards, regulations, codes of practice and guidance to advise on best practice. Knowing where to start and which regulations are relevant can be confusing, so we have listed some of the main ones.
Machinery Directive or Lift Directive?
When moving people or goods, your lift will fall into either the Machinery Directive, or the Lift Directive. Whilst all are "lifts" in the general term the Directives do help to identify the key differences and ultimately identify the standards they will then fall under.
The Building Regulations, Approved Document M (Part M) and Part B gives direction on lifts in all types of buildings, stating that reasonable provision must be made for people to gain access to and use the building's facilities. Whilst Part B gives guidance on fire-rating lifts or the area surrounding them as well as further detail on firefighting and evacuation passenger lifts. We've given a helpful outline to the building regulations guidance surrounding lifts below.
The Equality Act imposes a requirement to make reasonable adjustments to a public building, Within this blog post, we will explain what the Equality Act is, what it means for building owners and how lifts can play a part.
BREEAM or 'Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method' is the best way to ensure sustainable value and efficiency in your projects. Stannah passenger lifts, escalators and moving walkways can generate BREEAM credits which can help the building achieve the best rating possible.


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Early Successes and Benefits of TFABB's Model-School Program
From the perspective of the Teachers and Principals:
TFABB demonstrations have been so helpful in the classroom setting with children present (vs. in a summer workshop when children are not present).
The school library has become a great resource.
Children more interested in reading.
Writing has really improved.
Teachers find it helpful that TFABB suggests concrete skills for them to work on in between training visits.
Teachers feel more confident in their skills (for example: reading aloud to children)
"With Kim's (the visiting trainer's) and Kevina's (the PCV's) help, I can see myself putting the "readers' workshop" model into practice. Now I'm teaching the children 'what good readers and writers do.'"
"Even if I get transferred, I will share my new skills with a new set of teachers!"
From the perspective of the Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs):
PCVs said they had good success with performing diagnostic reading tests (and showing teachers how to do so). The PCVs then formed small reading groups for below-grade-level readers (and also showed the teachers how and why to do so).
The two PCVs think the leveled-reading book sets provided by TFABB were instrumental in their success with catching children up to grade level.
Upon arrival, the PCVs noted that children did not have time to practice reading and creative writing on a daily basis. Now teachers are making time for children to practice reading and writing on a daily basis. In Silver Creek, the children in the equivalency of K-3 were never practicing writing. Now all children in the school at all levels have a writer's notebook for daily practice. (The writer's notebook is a key part of the TFABB language arts training curriculum.)
Upon arrival, the PCVs noted that the teachers were not reading aloud to their students everyday. Reading aloud to children every day (or several times a day!) is also a central concept of the TFABB training curriculum, as hearing oral reading allows children to gain English fluency and to see the habits of a good reader. By the end of the year, all of the teachers had worked a "read aloud" into their daily schedules.
In Silver Creek, the PCV and preschool teacher held a parent outreach activity for parents of pre-school age children.
From the perspective of the TFABB U.S. Team (visiting trainers and coordinators):
In the past, our visiting trainers usually went to Belize in the summer, for the August workshops. The training trips to our new model schools marked the first time in several years that our trainers could visit a school for several days during the school year. The trainers were so pleased to see several of the TFABB approaches in use and also obtained a greater sense of where to go next in terms of training at each school.
The immediate impact of a full-time model-school program is more measurable than TFABB's other activities, such as summer workshops. When daily support is given in a small school, the outcomes in that school can be directly tied to TFABB's efforts. The data we are collecting annually in each school includes: diagnostic reading test results; national test scores; and tri-annual classroom observation checklists. The marked increase in both schools in children reading at grade level is amazing news!
One of our biggest goals in moving from a summer workshop model to a year-round support model was to show Belizean teachers how to get small reading groups going. The teachers were having a hard time conceptualizing and practicing this in a week-long summer workshop without children in the room. With less than one year of year-round support from the PCVs, teachers in the first two focus schools have come to appreciate the value of small reading groups in addressing children at various reading levels. This is crucial in these small, rural schools where teachers may have two or three grade levels in one classroom.
TFABB is thrilled that village and PTA leaders in the three villages agreed to provide the labor to build bookshelves for all of the classrooms and libraries. Some of the principals said the village leaders would not agree to do so; they said this volunteer spirit had left the village. But the village leaders did not hesitate for moment before they agreed to build the shelves.
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Greatest Hits (Queen), dat in Nederland onder de titel "Grootste Hits" werd uitgebracht

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The people adhering to different faiths live in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Due to religious extremism and problems in fulfilling religious obligations, people from minority religious communities are forced to migrate to other areas. What are the problems of these minority communities? Pakistan Saga correspondent Abdullah Malik narrates in this video report.


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As a quality medical billing business, GoTelecare is unique in itself in the competitive landscape. If you are looking to make your presence felt in the healthcare scenario, it is extremely important for you to find a possible healthcare franchise that will help you in delivering stand out solutions keeping a close track of the industry.
Over the years, the delivery model in healthcare has completely transformed and is looking more interactive with best in class telehealth innovations all across the country. In fact, it is true that your next healthcare franchise has to deliver solutions in telemedicine that meets the test of time. GoTelecare stands apart with its state of the art solutions in medical billing/ telemedicine and is currently working with leading healthcare providers/ payers in the country.
You next-gen healthcare franchise also should be building up a strong team with dedicated account management plan and a steady road on how you can eliminate proven challenges in the everyday life of a healthcare provider.
A quality medical billing business entity will be providing a definitive support plan and also add value with their dedicated assistance in account management that will improve your visibility as a consistent channel partner that is looking to improve the credentials of the company in the marketplace. It will be an appropriate effort to do a quick SWAT analysis on how the company will be able to add value to your potential efforts in better client acquisition.
GoTelecare has worked with both provider and payer side of the healthcare business. We offer a complete plan of action with pre-sales, marketing and lead generation without any charges. Also, we offer a comprehensive training that will help you understand our functional best practices, how we extend our unique 2 in 1 business proposition across the market.


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Carrie Underwood Wears Nearly 10 Different Outfits When She Hosts the CMA Awards
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A lot of things have changed in the past 10 years, but the co-hosts of the CMA Awards haven't: Carrie Underwood and Braid Paisley first took the reins in 2008 and return for the 10th straight time when the program airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Over the years, Underwood has sported a wide variety of looks, both on the red carpet and onstage. In addition to co-hosting, the singer has performed numerous times, both to promote her music and to pay homage to country stars of years past — and she's been known to change outfits multiple times, wearing as many as 10 during some broadcasts.
In her first year as co-host, Underwood proved herself a red carpet risk-taker, posing in a chartreuse gown with a plunging neckline. Throughout that night, the singer donned numerous outfits, including an electric-blue floor-length gown and a red rose-covered minidress with strappy black sandals.
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Q: How to display a picture using data from ViewData.Model [as opposed taking data from a remote location using, for instance, Url.Action] I'm doing kind of wizard application that captures information on Contacts. So, before saving to DB, all data collected during the process are kept in memory as model's properties (using serialization/deserialization). Data collected includes the uploaded picture of the contact. The last page is called "preview" where I display all the information entered during the process before saving them to the DB. On that preview page, I'd like also to display the photo of the contact on left and his information on the right.
It is easier to display picture using the following statements

<img src = "<% = Url.Action("Action", "Controller", "routevalue")%>"/>

How about if the data is not located in remote locations like in the above samples, but rather in the ViewData.Model?
By the way, my model, ContactData, has 2 properties ImageData and ImageMimeType holding data for the picture. How do I use them?
Thanks for helping

A: Usually, you'd store it in a session variable, and when the request for the image comes around you'll feed it whatever is in the session. There are a couple of things that need to work in order for this to function, but usually it does.
There is one more option, if the image is small, you can inline it directly into your document using a data uri, like so:

(example is stolen from wikipedia, paste uri into your location bar, and it'll show you an image of a red dot). You'll need to base64 encode the binary data (or url-encode, but base64 is usually preferable for binary data).

A: Roe,
It took me 2 days and many frustrations just to realize what you meant by storing data in the session state variable. Anyway, below is the solution for anyone to take advantage of.
I, first, put data needed to display in the session state variables
public ActionResult PreviewPage()
{
  Session["ImageData"] = contactData.ImageData;
  Session["ImageMimeType"] = contactData.ImageMimeType;
  return View(contactData);
}

I also created a action method to send data to view. This is where all the magics are done. This action picks up data contained in the Session variables
public FileContentResult GetImage()
{
  return File((byte[]Session["ImageData"], (string)Session["ImageMimeType"]);
}

Finally, this how I view accesses to that data without having to fetch needed from a database.
<img src = "<% = Url.Action("GetImage", "Contact")%>" />

It was important that I be able to understand how this works because I'll be doing more of Wizards-like applications in the future.
Thanks very much for helping.

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Tag Archives: decline and fall
The She that Was a He and How He Got Lost to Time
March 1, 2016 By The Central Standard Times in Culture Tags: ", " "Brideshead Revisited, decline and fall, Evelyn Waugh, female authors, literacy, Super Tuesday, Time Magazine, well-read	1 Comment
As we await today's Super Tuesday presidential nomination race results with a grim sense of foreboding, we'll take a moment to grimly chuckle about Time Magazine's recent revelation that Evelyn Waugh is one of the most-read female authors in America's colleges today.
If you're not familiar with Waugh's work, you really should be. Waugh is arguably the English language's greatest fiction writer of the past century, the author of such masterpieces as "Brideshead Revisited," "Scoop," "The Loved One," "Vile Bodies," "Black Mischief," "Decline and Fall," that terrific "Sword of Honour" trilogy, and other worthy fare, all works that have a special relevance for these grim times. Waugh's is a certainly a name that the supposedly hip-and-well-read folks at such a once-august magazine as Time should know, and they should also know that, in addition to being unfashionably dead and white, Waugh was also very much male.
It's a common mistake, and even such a supposedly important journalist as Matt Yglesias "tweeted" his confession that he had also assumed Waugh was a woman, "Evelyn" being a name he associates with women, and we recall asking the clerk at a local locally-owned bookstore that prides itself on a well-read staff about a Waugh title and hearing him cheerfully admit that he'd never heard of her, and we suppose he got a lot of "Boy Named Sue" style kidding about it while growing up. He was married to a woman named Evelyn, and although his name was pronounced Ee-vellin and hers was the more common feminine form, their friends liked to distinguish them as He-evyln and She-vylyn, so some confusion is understandable. Still, we note that in a more literate age not so long ago the staff at such a highfalutin rag as Time would have been embarrassed not to know who Evelyn Waugh was, because their middle-brow readers sure did, and that in that not so long ago age the world was bit more civilized.
If the youthful staffers that Time can still afford to employ were to dip into some Waugh, despite deadness and whiteness and maleness, they'd find themselves brilliantly satirized by "Scoop," that smart set they hope to mingle with had already been ridiculed by "Vile Bodies," that their hollow understanding of war and peace has been shamed by the "Sword of Honor" books, and that the age they live in was witheringly described decades ago in "Decline and Fall." If their middle-brow readers were more familiar with Waugh they might have been better prepared to avert the glum outcomes of today's Super Tuesday voting.
Perhaps the glummest part of our slightly amusing story is that Waugh came in number 97 on that list of most-read female authors. It's not that we're altogether sexist, but as much as we love some good old Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark, who remind us very much of Waugh, and Dorothy Parker, who was a more American sort of dame, and Zora Neal Thurston, who is dead but black and female, and although we can think of others and freely acknowledge there are a lot more than we have had the opportunity to read, we seriously doubt that there have ever been a full 96 women of any color or original genitalia who deserve to be more widely read than Waugh. Literary quality takes a back seat to identity politics among the Democratic party's mart set these days, though, and we don't expect that either former First Lady and Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or the self-described socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie sanders with the intellectual hairdo and academic elbow patches pay much heed to Waugh's warnings against modernity.
Nor are we particularly elitist in our literary tastes, and we'll also go on about our enthusiasm for Jim Thompson, the alcoholic white trash Okie whose delirium tremens dime novels expressed our cultural failings with a self-loathing religiosity that is much needed these days, and we're suckers for Dan Jenkins' sports novels and certain Stephen King works and corny old O. Henry short stories and the occasional cloak-and-dagger tales that our Pop so loved, but we do think the Republicans could stand some more reading of those dignified dead white males who suddenly seem out fashion even in the Grand Old Party. As the party enters the modern reality show stage of its long history, forged in the Civil War, it would do well to recall an exchange between two characters in "Scott-King's Modern Europe." A stuffy old headmaster declares that "Parents are not interested in producing the 'complete man' anymore. They want to qualify their boys for jobs in the public world. You can hardly blame them, can you?" The protagonist responds that "I can and do. I think it would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world."
Barbarians at the Gate, Then and Now
September 10, 2015 By The Central Standard Times in Politics Tags: American Spectator, City Journal, decline and fall, europe, fall of Rome, Germany, Holocaust, Illegal immigration, refugees	1 Comment
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire happened a long time ago, but it still seems to show up in the news often. What with the obvious decline and seemingly imminent fall of America and the rest of western civilization so far underway, the analogies are too hard to resist.
Everyone has his favorite theory about the causes of Rome's demise, of course, with each person's preference always neatly coinciding with his views on the current scene. The modern-day isolationists blame imperial overreach for that long ago decline and fall, while those who favor a more robust foreign policy point to the lack of attention paid to seemingly unimportant outposts in the empire. The cultural conservatives like to cite the legendary moral decadence of those final days, and the more liberal sorts have a notion that it was because of income inequality or some chemical in the pots they were cooking with that only went undetected due to the lack of a fully-funded Roman Consumer Protection Agency. A very smart fellow over at the American Spectator has written a most intriguing article about Europe's recent immigration crisis, with obvious implications for our own problems with the matter, and he also posits an analogy to the fall of Rome.
His interpretation of classical history and its lessons for today is more persuasive than most, largely because he cites Edward Gibbons' "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," the little-read but widely accepted as authoritative book on the subject. The passages he quotes, describing the mass migration of Goths into the Roman Empire at the end of the 4th Century, also have an eerily familiar ring.
"The Barbarians still wore an angry and hostile aspect; but the experience of past times might encourage the hope that they would acquire the habits of industry and obedience; that their manners would be polished by time, education, and the influence of Christianity; and their posterity would insensibly blend with the great body of the Roman people," Gibbons wrote. He added that, "Notwithstanding these specious arguments, and these sanguine expectations, it was apparent to every discerning eye, that the Goths would long remain the enemies, and might soon become the conquerors of the Roman Empire. Their rude and insolent behavior expressed their contempt of the citizens and the provincials, whom they insulted with impunity."
The European press has been reluctant to admit it, preferring to focus on the heartbreaking photos of dead Syrian children washing ashore on the beaches of a Europe that is somehow responsible for the mess that Middle Easterners have made of the Middle East, and of course the same old specious arguments and sanguine expectations about industry and obedience and good manners, but the current wave of refugees closely resemble those conquering Goths. The more democratic "social media" on the continent have been providing videotape of the refugees who are swamping the continent as they attack police, scornfully toss away the food and water that are generously provided them, and make demands for immediate transit to the jurisdictions with the most lavishly funded welfare states, and they also note how an inordinate number of these refugees from the Syrian conflict seem to be young and male and able-bodied and and unmarried and not from Syria, and how their rude and insolent behavior expresses their contempt of the citizens and provincials of modern day Europe.
Any American with a discerning eye has by now noticed such rudeness and insolence and contempt of the citizenry among a troublesome portion of this country's gate-crashers, and especially among such advocacy groups as La Raza, with its nakedly racialist and suddenly plausible ambition for a reconquista of the southwest quadrant of this formerly anglophone country, but here, as in modern Europe and ancient Rome, the prevailing impulse is for specious arguments and sanguine expectations. Even such an able historian as Gibbons probably overlooked the economic arguments that were made in ancient Rome, about Goths doing the work that Romans wouldn't do and all that, and there's reason to believe that Germany's plummeting fertility rates are driving Germany's suddenly welcoming attitude toward hundreds of thousands of non-German-speaking and illiterate-in-their-own-language refugees from lands where the most stern sort of Islam is practiced, but now as in retrospect such specious arguments and sanguine expectations cannot explain the current madness.
We've always been inclined toward the theories about Rome falling due to a lack of attention paid to the far-away and politically troublesome chores of a Pax Romana and gradually slide into moral degeneracy, which fits neatly with our views on foreign policy and to a lesser extent our views on the social issues, and of course we understand that the latter is largely responsible for the former, but at the present moment we're liking this idea about a lack of border enforcement being the cause of it all. Allowing the allegorical Barbarians into the gate, and then providing them with subsidies and various legal protections, proved a bad strategy back in the day and seems to prove just as futile this time around.
This time around the specious arguments and sanguine expectations are offered in all sincerity, and we suspect that even such a discerning eye as Edward Gibbons' would concede that the ancient Romans had similarly good intentions, but they are no more convincing. Rarely do we disagree with anything that in appears in City Journal, the publication of the oh-so-intellectual yet right-wing Manhattan Institute, but we were even unswayed by a very well-written argument that at least the most authentic of these "refugees" deserve the compassion of America and the rest of western civilization. The author's argument not only earns respect by its appeal to the values of western civilization, but also from the fact that his father once feed the horrors of the holocaust in Nazi Germany and survived only by joining a beleaguered French Resistance in the snowy Pyrenees after being turned away by the western democracies, and we do not take it lightly. Still, we reject his argument that his father was no different from the men who so openly express contempt for the nations they hope to inhabit and live of its productivity, and we'd think it a most tragic result of history if Europe were atone for the Holocaust by ceding the continent to people who proudly pine to finish the job.
Here and in Europe, though, the next few epochs of history could go in any direction. Throughout what used to be called "western civilization" there are rules of etiquette that insist on the specious arguments and sanguine expectations about industry and obedience and all the rest of it, but the social media and Donald Trump and all those nativist parties popping up in European countries suggests that will meet some resistance.


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Q: SwiftUI - Animate View expansion (show / hide) I have a View that contains a HStack and a DatePicker. When you tap on the HStack, the DatePicker is shown / hidden. I want to animate this action like the animation of Starts and Ends row in iOS Calendar's New Event View.
struct TimePicker: View {
    @Binding var startTime: Date

    @State private var isDatePickerVisible: Bool = false

    var body: some View {
        VStack(alignment: .center) {
            HStack {
                ListItemView(icon: "start-time",
                             leadingText: "Start Time",
                             trailingText: startTime.stringTime())
            }
            .onTapGesture {
                withAnimation {
                    self.isDatePickerVisible.toggle()
                }
            }

            Group {
                if isDatePickerVisible {
                    DatePicker("", selection: $startTime, displayedComponents: [.hourAndMinute])
                        .datePickerStyle(WheelDatePickerStyle())
                }
            }
            .background(Color.red)

            .modifier(AnimatingCellHeight(height: isDatePickerVisible ? 300 : 0))
        }
    }
}

I have used the following code for animation. It almost works. The only problem is that HStack jumps. And I can not fix it.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60873883/8292178
struct AnimatingCellHeight: AnimatableModifier {
    var height: CGFloat = 0

    var animatableData: CGFloat {
        get { height }
        set { height = newValue }
    }

    func body(content: Content) -> some View {
        content.frame(height: height)
    }
}

How to fix this issue? How to animate visibility of the DatePicker?

A: It's simple, you don't need extra ViewModifier
    struct TimePicker: View {
        @Binding var startTime: Date
        @State private var isDatePickerVisible: Bool = false

        var body: some View {
            VStack(alignment: .center) {
                HStack {
                    ListItemView(icon: "start-time"
                         , leadingText: "Start Time"
                         , trailingText: startTime.stringTime())
                }.onTapGesture {
                    isDatePickerVisible.toggle()
                }

                if isDatePickerVisible {
                    DatePicker(""
                         , selection: $model.startTime
                         , displayedComponents: [.hourAndMinute]
                    ).datePickerStyle(WheelDatePickerStyle())
                }
            }.animation(.spring())
        }
    }


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An Apple for the Creature is an anthology containing 13 school related stories that would probably make great holiday reading around Halloween. As with most anthologies I found the quality of the stories was a bit hit and miss, there were several I enjoyed but I doubt I'll read the book again. In fact, I think the only story I would go out of my way to re-read is Magic Tests by Ilona Andrews which is the story I bought the anthology for in the first place. I'll talk more about that one in a minute but I just want to mention a couple of the other stories first.
Sympathy for the Bones by Marjorie M. Liu was a creepy tale about a girl who has been raised by a witch and is learning to curse people using voodoo, I enjoyed the story and if I hadn't already been a fan of the author it would have definitely made me check out some of her other books. The other story I really enjoyed was Golden Delicious by Faith Hunter. I've had the Jane Yellowrock series on my wish list for a while now and after reading that story I'll be bumping it up the list. I liked the humour of the story and I'm very interested to find out more about the world the author has created. I'm hoping that Rick and the characters who make up his detective team are major players in the series because I really liked them. Some of the other stories were OK reads but none of them particularly stand out enough for me to rave about them.
I already mentioned that I only really wanted to read this for the Ilona Andrews story Magic Tests and I have to say that was the best part of the book. It was worth buying just for this story alone and I'll definitely pick it up again when I do my next Kate Daniels re-read. I've always quite liked Julie's character, she can be a little annoying at times but I think she is a fairly typical teenager in that regard, and it was nice to see a story from her point of view. Although this story isn't essential reading as part of the series because it doesn't really effect the ongoing story arc it was nice to get to know Julie a bit better and I'd actually like to see more from her POV in the future. We've all seen how much Julie hates the boarding school that Kate sent her to and now she's home and living in the Keep she seems to think she can get away without going to school at all. Kate has other plans for her though and she has a very clever way of getting Julie to go along with them. We are introduced to some great new characters but the one I was most excited about seeing again was Yu Fong (you may remember him from Dali's short story Magic Dreams). I was already hoping he'd end up being a major character in the series and now I'm thinking he's more likely to re-appear thanks to his friendship with Julie. I loved getting to see Julie grow up a bit and actually work out a way to use her ability to help someone else and I'd definitely like to see her get her own book or spin off series in the future.
I'd say if you're a huge fan of the Kate Daniels series like I am then it's worth buying the anthology just for Magic Tests but otherwise you might want to consider borrowing it from the library and saving yourself the money.


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The QBE share price goes down as they expect profits in 2014
QBE Insurance Group Ltd. is currently the largest insurer in Australia, unfortunately announced that it would record a loss this year after dropping by more than one-fifth of its shares value. The losses of the company are due to its problematic business in the U.S., as well as to higher provisions and writedowns. Some of the insurers problems also arose from the fact that during the last 12 years the company expanded greatly, because it has acquired more than 40 units.
The acquisitions happened under the management of Frank, OHalloran, who is the former Chief Executive of QBE. The new chief executive of the company – John Neal, who took over the position last year, explained that QBE would take a goodwill impairment charge estimated to 600 million U.S. Dollars and a writedown of 300 million U.S. Dollars in order to solve some of its major difficulties by restructuring its specialist property unit in the U.S.
Most analysts expect the company to report a full year loss estimated to 250 million dollars. At first, they have been expecting a 1.1-billion-dollar net profit for 2013, especially considering the fact that QBE reporter a full year net profit equal to 761 million dollars in 2012.
On this occasion, the Chief Executive of the company Mr. Neal explained: "We are emphatically dealing with the North American issues that have been tertimental to confidence and underwriting performance. As painful as these decisions are, we are confident that out business in North America will trade profitably in 2014." John Neal also told companys investors that it had taken him longer than he would have hoped to start dealing with the difficulties of QBE in North America. He also said he hoped that the company would manage to put the problems behind its back.
This gives the managers of the company some grounds to believe that 2014 would be more successful for QBEs business in the U.S. They even hope the profits from the companys agriculture business based in the U.S. would be higher than the ones previously expected thanks to the so-called crop prices collapse, and especially to the corn price collapse.
Time will tell if the problems of QBE are really behind its back. According to Bloomberg, the current share price of QBE Insurance Group Ltd. Is 22.33% down, and its one-year return rate is 16.59% up.
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import time
from urllib.parse import parse_qs
from saml2 import BINDING_HTTP_REDIRECT
from saml2.client import Saml2Client
from saml2.server import Server
from saml2.saml import AUTHN_PASSWORD

__author__ = 'rolandh'

IDENTITY = {"eduPersonAffiliation": ["staff", "member"],
            "surName": ["Jeter"], "givenName": ["Derek"],
            "mail": ["foo@gmail.com"],
            "title": ["shortstop"]}

sp = Saml2Client(config_file="servera_conf")
idp = Server(config_file="idp_all_conf")

dest = sp._sso_location(entityid="urn:mace:example.com:saml:roland:idp",
                        binding=BINDING_HTTP_REDIRECT)

authn_request = sp.create_authn_request(destination=dest)
htargs = sp.apply_binding(BINDING_HTTP_REDIRECT, "%s" % authn_request, dest,
                          "abcd")

_dict = parse_qs(htargs["headers"][0][1].split('?')[1])

def main():
    for i in range(1000):
        req = idp.parse_authn_request(_dict["SAMLRequest"][0],
                                      BINDING_HTTP_REDIRECT)

        _sp_entity_id = req.message.issuer.text
        authn_context = (AUTHN_PASSWORD, "http://www.example.com/login")

        name_id = idp.ident.persistent_nameid("id12", _sp_entity_id)

        binding, destination = idp.pick_binding("assertion_consumer_service",
                                                entity_id=_sp_entity_id)

        _ = idp.create_authn_response(IDENTITY, "id12", destination,
                                      _sp_entity_id, name_id=name_id,
                                      authn=authn_context)

#import cProfile
#cProfile.run('main()')

start = time.time()
main()
print((time.time() - start))


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Department Updates – May 2016
On-Campus Stadium Update:
Premium seating sales are going extremely well since we began taking commitments last fall. So far, 14 private suites, 134 Indoor Club seats, 176 loge box seats, and 622 Outdoor Club seats have been sold.
More than 75 percent of all premium seating inventory has been sold!
Stadium Brick Campaign Updates:
Through February, 1,952 bricks have been sold as part of the brick campaign for the new, on-campus stadium.
1,515 households have purchased a brick. Of these households, 959 (63.3 percent) are first-time donors to CSU athletics, and 496 (32.7 percent) are first-time donors to Colorado State University.
Michael Smith, chairman and chief executive of Freeport LNG, made a $5 million gift to the College of Business; the largest gift ever to the college!
On April 21, the College of Business received more than $8,000 in gifts on the Love Your State Day of Giving.
The Institute for Entrepreneurship and CSU Ventures hosted the third annual Collegiate Challenge. Featuring the Innovation Symposium, entrepreneurship speakers, and networking events, more than $30,000 of total prize money was awarded to students for their innovative work and presentations. Fourteen different universities were represented by Pitch Competition applicants.
Biology Building Update
On Friday, May 6, the Board of Governors joined faculty, students, staff, and contractors to celebrate the placing of the final beam in the new Biology Building. The beam, which was signed by those in attendance, will be visible at the top of the eastern stairwell in the finished building.
The 151,560-square-foot building is on schedule to open, along with the Chemistry Research Building, in Fall 2017 and is tracking as an LEED Gold building.
College of Natural Sciences Learning Community
Students at the CNS Learning Community at Laurel Village have launched an active and popular astronomy club, which organizes great public star- (and planet-) gazing parties. An event May 9 viewed the transit of Mercury and celebrated the retirement – and 50 years of CSU teaching – of physics Professor Roger Culver (with cookies and liquid nitrogen ice cream, of course). Read more here.
Little Shop of Physics Milestone
This spring, the Little Shop of Physics outreach program, run through the College of Natural Sciences, celebrated its 25th year and 500,000 students reached!
Chemistry Researcher to Give President's Community Lecture
Department of Chemistry Associate Professor Amy Prieto, who is studying new techniques to develop better batteries, will give the President's Community Lecture at 6:30 p.m. May 24 in the Lory Student Center Ballroom.
University Advancement Development
Congratulations, Gift Planning team! Four planned gifts totaling $2,075,000 have been submitted for booking so far this month.
As of May 12, we have 119 registered attendees for the Frontier Legacy Society Luncheon!
The Donor Relations and Stewardship Innovations Team had its final regular group meeting on Friday, May 13. This team represented a variety of areas in UA and was charged to create best practices for donor relations practices and processes. Led by Katie Brayden, the team discussed several topics throughout the past several months that relate to helping us become more efficient to both our donors and internal constituents. As we dive into all of the insightful recommendations from the committee, stay tuned for updates/communications from the DRS team! Thank you!
The regional development team is thrilled to announce the hiring of Nicolle Tryon as the new donor relations coordinator. Nicolle joins us after having spent the last 4-1/2 years as office manager at the United Way of Larimer County, where she honed her exceptional customer service skills, her organizational effectiveness skills, and her ability to multitask. Nicolle brings with her 10-plus years of managing office operations in both the business and nonprofit sectors and promises to be an excellent addition to the regional development team. Please join us in welcoming Nicolle Tryon on her first day, June 1!
As momentum builds within the colleges to develop more programming at the CSU Todos Santos Center, Dean Beth Walker from the College of Business and Dean Jan Nerger from the College of Natural Sciences will be visiting Todos Santos the week of May 31, along with various faculty. While there, they will experience an existing CSU marine biology field excursion and will meet with various local community stakeholders to envision new community programming for residents.


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Empowering Learners: A wonderful message of thanks.
A wonderful message of thanks.
Hearing from Africa is always a treat. E-mail messages usually arrive in the middle of the night . . . which makes catching up on e-news over your morning coffee a transformative experience. Trust us, a message from Africa can charge up your whole day!
So it was last October 2011, when I opened up my morning mail and found a greeting from Mr. Shikongo, principal, and Mrs. Chizengeya, the computer science teacher, both at Oshigambo Lutheran High School. They had very kindly sent a letter to our contact, Pastor Philippus Henok at the ELCIN, and asked him to pass on their message. It was an amazing letter of thanks for the computers we had sent. They told of previous computers they had which were no longer usable, and that the constant demand from the students on the remaining working computers was a growing concern. Apparently the timing of our donated computers was perfect! Our contribution eased the school's finances, and very happy students were now getting first-hand access and experience.
We were also very pleased to read that in January 2011, at the start of the new school year, they had just launched courses in computer studies for the 11th and 12th grade learners. Who knew that our computers would arrive just when they were so needed! Such messages . . . they make you smile. They can make you cry. Most of all they remind us that this is all so very worth it.


It's good to start your week out on a positive note so you can go into each day thinking positive things! That's why we have our Gratitudy Fresh & Fruity segment. We want to know what you're grateful for, big or small. What do you appreciate because there is no thing too small if it has a positive impact on your life.
With Jenn going through an incredibly hard time in finding out that her daughter, Reese, has cancer, we decided to extend Gratitudy Fresh & Fruity to keep hearing positive stories. We heard great stories of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and how they've helped so many children, which is such an encouragement for Reese.


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Taking a Leap Forward with Multimodal AI
AI has often taken inspiration from human learning to take big leaps forward. One such important stride is multimodal AI, where the AI agent processes video, images, audio, language, etc. and jointly learns how to do a task....
Supervised Learning for Food Recognition
There are apps that allow users to track their diet and uncover nutritional information. Most of these apps involve typing every food you eat, which can be very tedious. LiveSmart have built a model where users upload photos of their meal and the algorithm can identify the food....
Why Are We Content With Making Videos Unwatchable?
Here is a scenario: you register for a webinar but cannot attend it. You get a recording of that webinar and it languishes in your inbox because you just can't seem to find...
Manish Gupta
The Visual Search Revolution
If you've ever gone through the frustration of trying different ways to describe an item through text-based search and still couldn't find what you were looking for, then visual search might...
Facebook, Amazon, DeepMind & More - what did you miss at the DL summit?
Coffee: check. Pastry: check. Experts from globally leading AI and Deep Learning projects: check.Yesterday morning we kicked off the Deep Learning Summit and AI Assistant Summit with Fabrizio Silvestri from Facebook and...
Artificial humans - how far can machines go?
With virtual assistants and robots becoming more intelligent every day, it's easy to forget what sets us apart. Emotions, reason, our ability to make mistakes, love and care.Whilst robots can display...
Why is real world object recognition so challenging?
As humans, we are able to understand and perceive the real world instinctively with our senses. When we think about the future of AI, we expect it to be able to recognise objects...
Creating High-capacity Ride-Sharing With Autonomous Transportation
Image source: UberRide-sharing services are transforming urban mobility by providing timely and convenient transportation to anybody, anywhere, and anytime. Thanks to the global popularity of apps like Lyft and Uber, there are now...
Deep Learning Glossary: Part 2
Artificial intelligence is changing our world, and deep learning is a crucial part in attaining this. Deep learning is considered a branch of Machine Learning, with the aim of moving machine learning closer...
Fashion DNA: Structural Feature Mapping in the World of Retail
Image source: Zalando ResearchWhen applying artificial intelligence to the world of fashion, in which the clothing and other articles involved have many varying individual properties, a meaningful structure must be defined.It seems...
Leonie Philipp
Visual Localization & Mapping for Autonomous Driving
Image source: V-Charge Project by ETH Zurich Autonomous Systems LabThe battle against climate change needs new mobility concepts, and advancing autonomous electric vehicles could be key in the global mission to reduce CO2...
Top 5 Key Areas: Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising
Recent advances in deep learning have enabled research and industry to master many challenges in computer vision and natural language processing that were out of reach until just a few years ago. Yet...
Creating the Open-Source Autonomous Vehicle
As the race to create the first fully autonomous, road-safe vehicle continues, numerous road-blocks and challenges are pushing companies to find new innovative solutions.Successful development of autonomous vehicles requires a wide variety...
Internet of Things Day 2017 Special Offer!
For this year's IoT Day on 9 April, we have a special offer for Internet of Things and Machine Learning enthusiasts in our community. Use the discount code IOTDAY to save 20% on...
Léonie Philipp
New Approaches to Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
The cost of large scale data collection and annotation often makes the application of machine learning algorithms to new tasks or datasets prohibitively expensive. One approach circumventing this cost is training models on...
Interpretability: the Next Deep Learning Challenge
Deep learning researchers are increasingly focusing on a big problem in the field: interpretability.While supervised neural nets trained on huge datasets can achieve impressive performances in tasks such as computer vision and...
Deep Learning for AI: Takeaways from Yoshua Bengio
At the Deep Learning Summit, Boston 2016, Yoshua Bengio  took us through the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - how it started with supervised learning, its progression to Machine Learning with speech recognition...
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Learning to Rank with Deep Visual Semantic Features
Search is an important problem for modern e-commerce platforms such as Etsy. As a result, the task of ranking search results automatically is a multi-billion dollar machine learning problem. At the Machine Intelligence...
Neural Attention: Machine Learning Meets Neuroscience
Neural attention has been applied successfully to a variety of different applications including natural language processing, vision, and memory. An attractive aspect of these neural models is their ability to extract relevant features...
Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Honglak Lee
Honglak Lee is Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2010, advised by Prof. Andrew...
Predicting Future Human Behavior With Deep Learning
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Visual Question Answering Problems: Reasoning With Deep Learning
Ilija Ilievski is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore, studying interdisciplinary research in the intersection of vision and language. He believes question answering over multimodal data is the next frontier...
Exploring AI & Machine Intelligence With Google, Facebook, MIT & More
Following the success of the inaugural RE•WORK Machine Intelligence Summit in Berlin, the summit is now coming to New York!On 2-3 November, over 200 attendees will come together in New York...
Video Interview With Deep Learning Expert Yoshua Bengio
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Robots Need "Common Sense" A.I. to Work in Our Uncertain World
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TDOT will begin an 8-week repair to Signal Mountain Boulevard on July 26.
Tennessee Department of Transportation contract crews will begin work later this week to stabilize a section of U.S. 127 (Signal Mountain Boulevard) in Hamilton County near log mile 15.97 (approximately .3 miles below Shoal Creek Road). Beginning on Thursday, July 26, crews from GeoStabilization International LLC will start work to make permanent repairs to an area of the roadway that has shown signs of instability. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the repairs are expected to take approximately eight weeks to complete. During the repairs, the road will be reduced to one lane and traffic will be controlled with a temporary signal.
TDOT regional maintenance crews regularly monitor U.S. 127 on Signal Mountain, and if they find an area of concern, they contact TDOT's geotechnical engineers to come in and assess it for possible repairs. During a recent routine inspection by TDOT maintenance personnel, they found signs that the location near log mile 15.97 might require more in-depth repairs than those done under regular maintenance. Geotechnical engineers assessed the site and came up with a repair plan, which is what will be implemented with these repairs. The work will be done using crews from GSI under a statewide on-call maintenance contract for soil nailing and slope stabilization.
During the work, loose material will be removed from the area and the slope will be stabilized using soil nailing. Soil nailing is an on-site soil reinforcement technique where soil nails are placed into the natural ground at relatively close spacing to increase the strength of the soil mass. As the bars are being drilled, grout is inserted into the hole to ensure that the soil nail stays put. A steel reinforced concrete wall will be constructed that encompasses the soil nails to form a retaining structure along with means to drain water from the slope behind the wall. The upper portion of the retaining structure will be backfilled with new material and the roadway will be rebuilt.
Message boards will be placed at each end of the work zone notifying the public of the one-lane condition. Those who regularly travel on U.S. 127 should anticipate the extra time that it will take to get through the work zone.
From your desktop or mobile device, get the latest construction activity and live streaming SmartWay traffic cameras at www.TNSmartWay.com/Traffic. Travelers can also dial 511 from any land-line or cellular phone for travel information, or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TN511 for statewide travel or Chattanooga area alerts @Chattanooga511.


This is especially useful for views you would like to include in nodes using the Viewfield or Insert View module, where you would like editors to be able to add views with the number of items they want without having access to the view structure.
Over the past few versions of Drupal, there have been quite a few attempts to create a good way of creating page summaries/teasers/excerpts/extracts that you can use on the front page to encourage people to read the article.
The version that comes out of the box with Drupal 7 works quite nicely if no text editors are added, but our editors have found it rather confusing when used in combination with an editor like CKEditor. When a summary is included and selected, 2 text editors suddenly pop up on the page!
So we have been looking for ways to make the experience a little easier for people.
1) A 'post excerpt' field, which is good for 1-line summaries to be used in sidebar blocks and so forth. We will call this the short summary.
2) A 'break' button which you can press to separate the first couple of paragraphs from the rest (we will call this the long summary). This is good for a main blog page, to let people read the first couple of paragraphs, and then press 'read more' to read the rest.
We will try to emulate that here.
So these are steps you can take without having to resort to code. They'll take you 90% of the way there.
Go to Structure » Content types and click the 'Manage fields' link for the content type. Edit the Body field and uncheck "Summary input".
Go to Configuration » Content authoring » CKEditor. In the 'Editor Appearance' section, enable the 'Drupal Break' plugin, and add the button (a red dashed line) to the sidebar. This will enable 'long summaries' to be created.
You can make this field 'plain text' input and limit it to 2 or 3 rows. You can then use this field in shorter Views listings to be placed in sidebars or on the front page.
The last 2 values of the text_summary function are the filter format ID (which should probably be the same as the ID of the body itself. ) and the trim length, which won't matter in our case as text_summary first looks for the <!–break–> before doing any trims. With this addition, we can then use the long summary in our views, as the Body field in 'Summary or trimmed' mode.
* @file Plugin for inserting Drupal teaser and page breaks.
// Add the styles that renders our fake objects.
// Register the toolbar buttons.
// for an image with class "cke_drupal_break" (the fake element).
// to make sure cursor is not trapped.
// This function effectively inserts the comment into the editor.
// Create the fake element that will be inserted into the document.
// We need to do range manipulation for that.
// Get a DOM range from the current selection.
// Split the current block.
// Insert the fake element into the document.
// are replaced by fake elements.
We have made quite a few sites in Drupal 7, the largest being http://www.srichinmoycentre.org. Drupal has evolved into a really powerful framework that can enable you to bring together all kinds of data in a variety of imaginative ways. However, you also need to know quite a bit about caching to get the site to load at speeds that people expect nowadays.
There are many different caching mechanisms that one can use with Drupal – this post aims to make clear how they can all fit together.
Page caching for anonymous users: This basically means that the entire page HTML is stored in the cache_page table in the database, and rendering the page requires just one trip rather than the multifarious queries normally required to build a page.
Block caching: If you enable this, then blocks will be cached for both anonymous and authenticated users. (Note that if you are not logged in and visit a page that has been cached for anonymous users, then the block content in that page will be cached no matter what – see this post). If you have a module that calls the hook_node_grants hook, then this is disabled to prevent people possibly seeing links in cached blocks to pages they shouldnt be seeing. However, this seems to be overriden by using the Drupal 7 block_cache_alter module (need to test this further). Note that block caches are flushed every time content is created or updated on the site – you can cache per page, role or user but there doesn't seem to be much finesse in terms of minimum lifetimes etc.
Caching customised content – It is very easy to cache customised content using the cache_get and cache_set functions (for a very good guide, see here). You can set minimum cached lifetimes. As with views, we are still evaluating if it is a good idea to enable block caching for customised blocks whose content has already been cached in this manner.
Block cache alter – Right now, we are using it to cache the content of custom blocks. It seems to work straight out of the box in D7, even though we have modules with node access restrictions enabled (namely Domain Access). Right now we are mainly using it with user-created custom blocks (ie those using the block module).
Boost – This module creates static HTML pages and serves them instead of making Drupal/PHP/MySQL do the work. As of writing, the D7 version is workable and we are using it on several production sites. It seems to use some of Drupal's native settings, so we're still trying to see whats what there. It's not yet as full featured as Drupal 6. I think the delay is bacause there is a push to try and integrate the settings into some kind of centralised caching API (see the pluggable caching section below) We have had issues with it on a few occasions, for example caching white screens (see this issue) In one instance on another site, I had to disable it because the cache wasnt being flushed effectively on node update. However, both those occasions we were using different hosting set ups to normal.
Drupal 7 has a pluggable caching backend. Basically what this means is that you can specify in your settings.php that instead of using Drupal's database cache_* tables, the cache will instead be handled by another module. You can even configure different caching mechanisms to replace different cache tables.
Memcache/APC – Object based caching, which is faster then Database caching by many multiples. You can configure different modules to handle different caches – for example one recommended variant is to use APC to handle caches which do not change often like 'cache' and 'cache_bootstrap', Memcache to handle caches which can get large or change often like 'cache_field' and 'cache_menu' and leave Drupal's database to handle 'cache_filter'. These do require Mamcached/APC and their associated PHP PECL libraries to be installed on the server, but if you are on a managed VPS, your hosting people might do it for you.
Authcache – In its default state, this module will cache pages in the Drupal cache_page table for authenticated users just as the native caching does for anonymous users. However, this means pages will be served the same way for each role no matter what. Authcache offers a little bit of latitude to customise the user experience eg a special page variable to print the current user name. Right now we aren't using it, as the D7 version hasnt yet developed a similar variable to print tabs.
You can use this module in combination with other cache backends eg memcache to speed up caching for authenticated users.