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Agroforestry - CATS Banks Project (ICRAF) 2010
Duration: 2010-2013 Budget: 319.709,77 euro Through this agroforestry project the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) will develop a sustainable, cost-efficient way to contribute to greater food security and poverty reduction for millions of farming families in Sub-Saharan Africa. Duration and budget In 2010, a grant of 319,709.77 euros was allocated to the project "Community Agroforestry Tree Seeds Banks (CATS Banks): Building Agroforestry Scaling up Platform for Diversifying Livelihoods Opportunity in Malawi and Mozambique".
https://www.fdfa.be/en/agroforestry-cats-banks-project-icraf-2010
Capacity building of the National Health Institute
Duration: 2012-2014 Budget: 689.755 Through this aid, the Government of Flanders wants to take the development of health care further on the basis of evidence-based medicine (EBM).
https://www.fdfa.be/en/capacity-building-of-the-national-health-institute
Climate change management (UNDP)
beneficiary: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Duration: 2013 Budget: 1.250.000 euro 98% of the victims of climatic disasters live in the developing countries. These countries depend on agriculture and natural resources for their income, which makes them extremely vulnerable in the face of climate change. Poor countries are also less adaptable to this new reality. The Government of Flanders invests 1.25 million euros in climate change management in Malawi. The objective is to allow developing countries to make a fast start on implementing adaptation and mitigation activities.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/climate-change-management-undp
Development of an international network around agroforestry in southern Africa (ICRAF)
Duration: 2013-2014 Budget: 1.500.000 The consequences of climate change have a great impact on agricultural techniques in southern Africa. Belgium committed to contributing to Fast Start Financing for climate actions between 2010 and 2012. The different federated states make contributions to this as well. In the past, Flanders supported a trial project (CATSBanks) which integrated forestry as an agricultural practice. The findings of this project were rated positively.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/development-of-an-international-network-around-agroforestry-in-southern-africa-icraf
FAO project 'strengthening integrated adaptation planning and implementation in small-scale farming systems in Southern Africa'
Duration: 4 years Budget: 3.500.000 The Government of Flanders focuses on structural measures and works closely with the United Nations Organization for Agriculture and Food (FAO). From 2016 till 2019, FAO will assist Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia to increase the climate resilience and food security of local farmers. Lessons learned from this program will be brought to the FAO global level.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/fao-project-strengthening-integrated-adaptation-planning-and-implementation-in-small-scale-farming
Financial contributions to the African Climate Change Fund
Duration: 2017-2018 Budget: 2.000.000 euro According to a study by Climate Policy Initiative in 2013-2014, only 3% of the global climate financing goes to Sub-Sahara Africa. This contrasts with the fact that Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the lowest contribution to climate change and at the same time has the highest vulnerability to climate change impact. It is known that these countries find it more difficult to raise climate finance.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/financial-contributions-to-the-african-climate-change-fund
Grant 'South-Africa-Flanders Climate Change Adaptation Research and Training Partnership', 2019
Project: South-Africa - Flanders Climate Change Adaptation Research and Training partnership: building the adaptation knowledge and capacity base Beneficiary: African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) Amount: 2 198 505 euro Duration: 2020 Strengthening the capacity of South African society in the field of climate adaptation by training young people, especially from disadvantaged groups, at university level. The project provides 19 research grants for Masters students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-south-africa-flanders-climate-change-adaptation-research-and-training-partnership-2019
Grant for Adelphi Research gGmbH (SEED ) for stimulating the transition towards an inclusive green economy in Southern Africa through eco-inclusive business development, 2017
Beneficiary: SEED, hosted by Adelphi Research gGmbH Amount: 1.170.000 euro Period: 2017 – 2019 Adelphi has been appointed as a SEED Hosting Partner in 2013. SEED is a public benefit organisation that contributes to Cape Town's resilience through awakening the potential of our unemployed township youth; connecting them to their strengths, the positive resilience action they can take in their lives and also to green jobs. With this project, SEED focuses on various components to enable the breakthrough of eco-inclusive companies. This initiative builds upon an earlier project of SEED, also s
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Grant for strengthening the private sector's commitment to the protection of natural World Heritage, 2020
Project: Building climate adaptation capacities at natural World Heritage sites - especially in Africa - with a focus on communication, training and fundraising. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: USD 99,951 Duration: 2020 - 2022 Studies show that more than half of all natural World Heritage sites are threatened by large-scale industrial projects, with adverse effects on the ecosystem.
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Grant for the awareness campaign of the vaginal ring for HIV prevention in Mozambique
Beneficiary: International Partnership for Microbicides Budget: 400.000 euro International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is an international NGO that works for safe and effective HIV prevention. IPM focuses on the development of new medical instruments and making them available at an affordable price in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Grant for the Climate Adaptation Network in South Africa 2014
Project: Strengthening knowledge sharing partnerships for effective adaptation to climatic variability and change in South Africa Partner: Environmental Monitoring Group Budget: €420.000 Duration: 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2017 Around the world we are faced with climate change effects, like temperature increases and climate-related disasters like flooding and draught.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-for-the-climate-adaptation-network-in-south-africa-2014
Grant for the monitoring of parliamentary committees on labour, agriculture and food security in South Africa, 2012
Project: Monitoring of parliamentary committees Partner: Parliamentary Monitoring Group Duration: 8.11.2012 – 7.11.2017 Budget: 200.000 euro With the support of the Parliamentary Monitoring Group, Flanders wants to help monitor the government policy on employment and agriculture and promote the participation of civil society around these themes in the relevant government policies. In this way attention is devoted to good governance in South Africa and the accountability towards citizens is increased. The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa consists of 52 parliamentary committees.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-for-the-monitoring-of-parliamentary-committees-on-labour-agriculture-and-food-security-in
Grant for UNESCO Klimate program for natural world heritage, 2020
Project: Building climate adaptation capacities at natural World Heritage sites - especially in Africa - with a focus on communication, training and fundraising. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: USD 404,000 Duration: 2020 - 2022 This project supports the start-up of Unesco's climate programme for natural World Heritage, which is led by the Flemish Fanny Douvere. The ultimate goal of this project is to strengthen the resilience of natural World Heritage sites in developing countries - and in Africa in particular - by building capacities for climate adaptation and developing a sustainable financing
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-for-unesco-klimate-program-for-natural-world-heritage-2020
Grant for watermanagement project Cape town, South Africa, 2019
Project: "Economics and Governance of Water Security in Africa" - recommendations for water management in Cape Town Beneficiary: OECD Amount: € 80.000 Duration: 2019 The project is part of the OECD program "Governance and economics of water security in Africa". A policy dialogue with stakeholders from public, private and non-profit sectors in Cape Town is be started . This policy dialogue, supervised by OECD and the framework outlined in "Principles on Water Governance ", should lead to recommendations to make water management more future-proof.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-for-watermanagement-project-cape-town-south-africa-2019
Grant to International Red Cross Flanders for reducing the impact of climate change in Southern Africa through Disaster Risk Reduction, 2018
Beneficiary: Red Cross-Flanders Amount: 2.500.000 euro Period: 2018 - 2020 Mozambique and Malawi are one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to extreme droughts, flooding and storms,... Climate change has a strong impact on the quality of peoples' lives and the socio-economic conditions of the population are under pressure. International Red Cross-Flanders will focus on strengthening local Red Cross and Red Crescent sections in Malawi and Mozambique. Red Cross wil cooperate directly with local institutions.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-to-international-red-cross-flanders-for-reducing-the-impact-of-climate-change-in-southern
Grant to South African 'Departement Environmental Affairs' (DEA) for the project 'DEA Adaptive Capacity Facility'
Project: 'DEA Adaptive Capacity Facility' Beneficiary: Departement Environmental Affairs (DEA) Budget: 3.999.942 euro Duration: 2018-2023 The project is coordinated by the South African 'Departement Environmental Affairs' (DEA). The department is responsible for the national response to climate change and the transition to green economy. The project focuses on strengthening the capacity for implementing climate adaptation, developing partnerships, setting up pilot projects and gathering and sharing knowledge.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-to-south-african-%E2%80%98departement-environmental-affairs%E2%80%99-dea-for-the-project-dea-adaptive-capacity
Grant to the African Climate Change Fund 2017
Project: Grant to the African Climate Change Fund Beneficiary: African climate Change fund period: 2017-2018 Amount: 2.000.000 euro According a study by Climate Policy Initiative in 2013-2014, only 3% of global climate funding went to Sub Saharan Africa. This contrasts with the finding that Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the lowest contribution to climate change, but with the highest vulnerability to climate change impacts. It is known that these countries find it more difficult to raise climate finance.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-to-the-african-climate-change-fund-2017
Grant to the Royal Danish Embassy in Maputo for developing and improving nutritional status in Mozambique
Duration: 2014-2015 Budget: 1.000.000€ Chronic malnutrition is still a major concern in Mozambique. It affects 40% of the children aged under 5.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-to-the-royal-danish-embassy-in-maputo-for-developing-and-improving-nutritional-status-in
grant to the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) for developing a dynamic monitoring system for land and soil erosion
Duration: 2017-2018 Budget: 500.000 euro Flanders supports ICRAF to inform policymakers and farmers in Malawi about the health of the soil. To protect farmers against climate change, it is important that their activities (fertilization, applying agroforestry, choice of crops, ...) align as closely as possible to the local soil health, which modifies increasingly due to climate change. ICRAF is developing, in collaboration with the Malawi government, an online searchable map that documents the characteristics of the upper soil layer (50 cm) in Malawi.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-to-the-world-agroforestry-centre-icraf-for-developing-a-dynamic-monitoring-system-for-land-and
Grant to the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) for the Agroforestry Food Security Programme Phase II - Extended
Duration: 2016-2018 Budget: 1.000.000 The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is a research centre with headquarters in Kenya. ICRAF promotes the worldwide application and dissemination of forestry in sustainable agricultural practices in view of better food production among smallholder farmers. Since 2009 Flanders has supported ICRAF's Agroforestry Food Security Programme in Malawi which aims to sustainably increase the maize yield for farmers in the focus districts Mzimba and Kasungo through the application of agroforestry technologies.
https://www.fdfa.be/en/grant-to-the-world-agroforestry-centre-icraf-for-the-agroforestry-food-security-programme-phase-ii


Heyhey, long time no see!
It has probably been a year, maybe a year and a half, since last time participated in this game jam. Lets see if I'm still able to do this!!
I used to work with my own inhouse engine written in Java. But this time, for the first time, I'm switching it up to Unity. I have only used it for a week or two so we'll see how that plays out hehe.
I am starting to get somewhere with this thing. Not exactly sure where I am heading with this. We'll see.
The bats are flying around like cray cray tho.
The unfortunate happened to me. About 20 hours in, I started to notice that something struck a heavy load in my game and made the frame rate drop ridiculously. Poking about in my code I found out that this flaw is somewhere in the rendering of my "engine". I figured that I accidentally caused this when I tried to… urk, upgrade it. Beats me. "Don't fix what isn't broken." fits so very well in this situation.
Half of the time has already passed, I am nowhere close to even have a solid idea for my game, I cannot even spawn 10 simple particles without causing the framerate to drop to 20 and I have already spent about 4 hours trying to find the bugger in the code. So for the first time since LD23, I am backing out.
I wish the best of luck to the rest of you!
Soon, it is time again, time for another weekend filled with lack of sleep, lots of pop, one or two beers and a wall of code that doesn't make any sense at all. Sadly, it might be the last time for me to do this in a long while because reasons.
The tools I will be using is the same as during my previous Ludum Dare entries.
Todo list. Goddess in heaven, a Todo list is so good! During my previous LD entries I only used a huge scribble file with heavenly many random notes. It was a mess. Most features and functions in my games were mostly impulsively added. But last time I had a Todo list and it saved me many hours. I used two categories in it: CORE and FEATURES. The CORE list was stuff I absolutely needed for the game to even work and FEATURES was things that I should have, things that would make the game but can be left out.
Like every other Ludum Dare event I have participated in, I am going to stream as much as possible on this livestream page.
Anywho. See you guys at the start line in two weeks!
I hoped to be able to rate a hundred games this time. Unfortunately, I have fallen into a horrible sickness since a week back and I do not start to feel any better, nor do I think I will in the next couple of days.
So in the meanwhile, here are my favourite games (in no particular order) from LD26, out of the 65 I have rated.
I will hopefully recover in time and rate the hell out of the remaining 2282 games.
Once again, I finished my entry in time. For the fourth time to be precise.
As usual, I kept the graphical appearance to a basic level. Only this time I was encouraged to do so *sqeee*. The thing about basic graphics is that I can put more time in the game rather than making it look good.
My finished entry is Trapped In Minimalism.
Click the image to get to the game.
* The most important thing that went well is that I managed to finish the game.
* As opposite to the other times I participated in Ludum Dare, I had a scribble file to write down all ideas and plans I had to sum up how I wanted the game to be.
* To add to the previous point; TODO list vs optional TODO list. Knowing what is highly needed in the game and what would just be a secondary feature. With these two lists I could easily finish the core of the game without having unnecessary code in my way.
* Knowing when something headed the wrong way. I quickly noticed, halfway through the first day, that my sprites did not look anything like I wanted them to. Because of the early notice I managed to redo most sprites without feeling stressed out for the deadline.
* Oversleeping. During the other LDs I have participated in I did not sleep a lot, maybe 4-5 hours á night. The outcome was always feeling really bad the next couple of days, not to mention catching a lack-of-sleep-cold. Because of me oversleeping both days this time, I managed to keep my hours of sleep, have a clear mind and feeling relatively good afterwards.
* Some things on the list changed throughout the event. I did end up with some working but horrible looking code in the end.
* Do NOT do something if you do not think you can do it easily. I got stuck with two things during the event because I was experimenting. Mainly, I tried to add a type of projectile, Missile, which would home against targets. I struggled a lot with the code for the homing effect and wasted time on something that was not even added.
* Something something, I know this point is important but I have unfortunately forgot it.
When I hit 100 games rated I'll post a top-5 or top-10 list.
I'm in, for the fourth time!
It is time again! Yet another Ludum Dare to participate in, this time for the fourth time! WOOHOO!
I am all hyped, as usual. Tis just past Monday afternoon right now and am just about to start the warmup mini projects. Meaning; This will be a full week filled with nothing but coding.
Well then, see y'all at the start line!
Oh right! Almost forgot. Like the other times I have been in Ludum Dare, I am going to livestream as much of it as possible. My Livestream channel can be fround [here].
Huzza and everything! It has been a tough journey, lots of sleep missed out, sitting still for almost two days, killed myself twice, but I made it. My entry can be downloaded from this link. I… Don't know what to.. I'm sleepy..
The level has once again been redone and is now in it's final form (hopefully). The main objective in the game is fully finished and so are the good and bad endings. Further more, I have retouched the nightmares.
Compared with the nightmares seen in this screenshot.
The black clouds of stars being nightmares.
Everything turned out fine last night. I got all the mechanics for the game done and all the graphics more or less finished. I can now safely spend my last 14 hours on the level, sounds and testing.
We'll see how them hours will turn out. I do feel kinda crap after my lack of sleep and food. Note to self: Eat more!
Things have gone pretty smooth the last couple of hours. Though, I seem to have been getting stuck in my bad habit: Trying to do fine touches already instead of actually working on the game play. Well, I still got more than half of the time left. I should not worry (yet). Here is another screenshot. This time of the only kind of enemy ingame, the Light Fairies. Since they are currently in an environment they are used to (the land of nightmares) they are just blindly idling around.
Oh, that's right. I changed the resolution for the game. Instead of 400x300px at x2 scale it is now 256×224 at x3 scale. Less pixels to draw, screen feels more populated and yet not too cramped.
I feel that it is safe for a short break and some noms. Obligatory food n' stuff photo!
The idea for the game is to collect nightmares to unleash them upon our world. The weird clouds you see are the nightmares. I still haven't thought of the challenging part yet. Hopefully I'll have the idea soon enough.
Very well. I have had my first night of sleep after 3 hours of work. What did that result in? I just enough got my basic engine working which is nothing but handling the frame rate and drawing pixels. What else? Hmm… I overslept. I missed out 2 hours. And one last thing: I still have no idea what to do!
I must finish nonetheless! Think brain, THINK!
Very well! I shall join this Ludum Dare event, FOR THE THIRD TIME!
Even though it is more than a week left until it starts I can already feel the hype build up! ALL THE HYPE! After looking through the themes in the Slaughter poll, I really hope for either the Dream theme or the Tower theme. I already have some vague ideas for what to do in those themes. Better to have a tiny idea prepared than nothing at all.As for language and tools. I'm not fully decided yet on all things. I am 99,9999~% sure that I will create a pixel art game, but I do feel tempted to try to make hand drawn graphics for the game. The thing that stops me is the lack of experience with hand drawn animations and the fact that we only have 48 hours.
Livestream, friends, chat, TONS of soda and loads of music.
On top of everything, I have added GUI's, menues and various flashy icons to alert the player for various stuff. The evolition has not been added yet, but I promise it will be added soon, pretty soon.
Woke up, felt great and continued working. On just two hours I've got the bullets working, a properly scrolling background, a zombie (just a immobile dummy for now) and particles. Gotta love 'em particles!
20 queries executed in 0.103 seconds.


Like many, I've felt the pressuring need to conform and do things like everyone else does; but the older I get, the more I learn to let it go and live my life the way I wish to live it.
Nurture that kindling of fire at the heart of yourself; allow it to come ablaze with life.
The journey of life, it will not always be easy — still, walk with me, regardless.


Wagner, Die Walküre (Der Ring des Nibelungen, First Evening). Bayreuther Festspiele, 7/28/15. Conducted by Kirill Petrenko, production directed by Frank Castorf with sets by Aleksander Denic, costumes by Adriana Braga Peretzki, lights by Rainer Casper, video by Andreas Deinert and Jens Crull, cast includes Johan Botha (Siegmund), Anja Kampe (Sieglinde), Catherine Foster (Brünnnhilde), Kwangchul Youn (Hunding), Claudia Mahnke (Fricka).
If you missed it, start with my post on Das Rheingold here.
Kirill Petrenko's conducting remains the cycle's most reliable asset. Assertive but not showy, exciting but not rushed, he led a suspenseful first act followed by a more pensive second and third. The brass were somewhat more present this evening, and the Ride of the Valkyries never gave into effect-centered kitsch. And he knows how to end an act. The Bayreuth audience deserves some credit for this, because they never, ever start clapping until the orchestra has finished (even giving a nice few breaths of silence when appropriate). But Petrenko gives us something worth hearing. The orchestra is doing outstanding work here.
Aleksander Denic's set is once again amazing in its rich detail, as is its construction by the Bayreuth crew. (Unfortunately it is poorly shown in these press photos.) This time it's a barn (Act 1) which turns into an oil derrick (Acts 2 and 3). Its coup de théâtre comes near the end when a giant arm slides out on a track as Wotan puts Brünnhilde asleep and a pump starts going up and down. Yet it is less functional than the Rheingold set, and people walk around it more than they walk on or through it. We still have live, close-up video, particularly in the second and third acts, but it is used much more sparingly than in Rheingold, where it was nearly constant.
There are some gruesome bits. Hunding's hunt netted him a human head (as Hunding, Attila Jun sounded fine but wasn't, otherwise, very imposing) and why is there a man (our friend the gas station attendant from Rheingold–this is the production's dramaturg, Patric Seibert) in the turkey coop? Along with real turkeys? But for the most part the Personenregie of this installment is non-existent. Siegmund and Sieglinde and their story don't fit into this world, and while this could be productive the actual result is that the singers are more or less left to fend for themselves on a big, unrelated set. The result is not terribly interesting. Anja Kampe is a terrific Sieglinde and one of the best actresses in this Fach, but here she wasn't given very much to do and theatrically speaking the results paled in comparison to her Munich Sieglinde. Her Siegmund was Johan Botha, whose acting was, as usual, poor and nearly immobile. This time, however, I don't think he was himself entirely to blame.
The Wälsungs nonetheless kept their end of the opera going, because both Kampe and Botha are both great singers and with Petrenko's help their story was the propulsive narrative it usually is. Kampe always struggles with her high notes but her struggle has its own kind of pathos–you just know she's giving it everything she's got, even if someone else's Herzliches Wunder might sound a little more free. In contrast, Botha can blast it all out beautifully without looking like he's trying, including some super Wälse Wälses, and he seemed to be doing at least a little bit of thinking about the words this time. But given no broader interpretation–or subversion–by the production, the results are bland. When you're depending on the remarkably inert Johan Botha enlivening your theatrical experience on his own initiative, you are bound to be disappointed. Some people may like this act, because its recourse to old-fashioned opera offers some of the theater of sympathy otherwise absent from the production. But I think it's a case of the production failing to live up to its own terms. I don't think Castorf meant to offer a mediocre standard-issue Walküre which happens to be on an elaborate set.
Adolf Hitler went in hot pursuit of Baku's oil fields.
The staging stays static in the subsequent acts. Brünnhilde first wears a suit with her hair in a ponytail, making her a strange double for Ortrud in the Neuenfels Lohengrin, also onstage here this week. Wotan sometimes has a big Marx beard, and sometimes he doesn't. I again found Wolfgang Koch completely acceptable but not terribly exciting. He can pace himself through the whole opera, which is no mean feat, and he obviously is paying attention to the words. He can project a bitter world-weariness appropriate to this installment, but his Wotan never really took off. He just doesn't seem to be a good fit for Castorf's sleazy oil baron (think Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood) idea.
But the production doesn't seem to have a vision for Brünnhilde at all. Castorf has, I am forced to admit, serious woman problems. (I gave him the benefit of the doubt for as long as I possibly could.) I'm going to talk about this in detail in my Siegfried post, but for now let's say that Brünnhilde doesn't act like his apparent type and he doesn't seem to know what to do with her here. She helps her father with the work, filling bottles with something significant, and is dressed for business. But she doesn't obviously belong in this world–and that's no fault of singer Catherine Foster, whose performance was mostly quite impressive. She's got a bronze, mighty voice which is stable and accurate (except some slightly sharp hojotohos). She's particularly good with declamatory singing, where her precise attack serves her well.
The Valkyries are a group of weirdly formal, almost evening-dressed women, not given a real showcase of a staging. The singing wasn't quite there–I can't single out anyone because I don't know the score well enough to tell you which valkyrie sings which hojotoho, but some of the voices were a lot bigger than others, though they stayed together perfectly well. Fricka, also (again well-sung by dark-voiced Claudia Mahnke, who uses the friendly acoustic to be subtle), appeared in disconcertingly formal and detached guise, here with an elaborate headdress and robe which read as exotic East, nega in Russian. It was some of the only local color that would suggest that this is Azerbaijan and not Texas (except when Hunding pulls out what I think was a highly anachronistic copy of Pravda?).
Wotan has all the oil, but other than that, who knows? Like in Rheingold, Castorf rarely abandons the big plot points. The Schwert is still a Schwert. (Non-initiates: that's a sword. That's THE sword.) To my surprise, there was actual fire at the end, though not exactly around Brünnhilde. This is still not a production which makes each element of the plot correspond with some relevant, setting-appropriate analogue. It's only as good as its atmosphere. And in this respect I found Die Walküre, compared to Rheingold, lacking–particularly because it is the installment which offers us many of the strongest dramatic threads of the whole cycle, ones which are ripe for Regieification. I still enjoyed the Todesverkündigung–my favorite scene in all of Wagner–and the fire music. But their lack of staging and lack of integration is frustrating. I guess leaving the Gesamtkunstwerk behind is a hard thing to do.
Siegfried, as I will write about soon, took another turn.
OT, but who is your favorite conductor of the ring? I'm actually not too taken with Petrenko myself, finding him in line with Negano and Rattle in that I think it's a bit bloodless and fleet for the more dramatic moments.
Petrenko is definitely living in the same Wagnerian neighborhood as Fabio Luisi and Nagano, though I like him more. I don't know who my favorite is. For current conductors I might have to say Thielemann.
I just miss a certain density that seems to be missing these days. Thielemann definitely has it and after Barenboim he's one of my favorite Wagner conductors.
I'm glad Kampe did well, I was recently won over by a surprisingly excellent Isolde recording (check it out).


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Redefining the possibilities of modern music, Russ Liquid fuses the raw vitality of classic funk and the inventive sound design of electronic production, bringing a much-needed injection of melody and emotion to the thriving dance floor community.
A kinetic energy infuses Russ' music, giving way to a mixture of funk/jazz/electro, evoking a kaleidoscope of textures, senses, and moods, and is an improv-driven musicality at the heart. Classically trained on the piano, trumpet, saxophone and flute, Russ Liquid spent his early 20's touring the Caribbean and South America as part of a jazz quintet, playing resorts, cruise ships and dance clubs. Once the young composer was introduced to electronic music, his course in life was forever altered, and he soon discovered a new home in the international electronic music community.
Hand-crafting sexy sounds by blending elements of many genres together, Russ Liquid applies the colorful tones of instrumental music to the realm of the beats with dance floor-rocking results. This talented producer has found an entirely new palette to "paint" with, and now he seeks to bridge the gap between classical and modern music with new electronic technology and sonic possibilities.
Russ Liquid is continually putting out new music and has quite a few releases up his sleeve, and creates a joyful sense of synergy in his high-powered live shows, with recent appearances including Shambhala Music Festival, Lightning in a Bottle, Summer Camp, and Sonic Bloom, among others. No matter the setting, a clear multidimensionality can always be heard in his projects. "I want to make people feel good but also give them something to reflect with," says Scott. "It's not about just making party music or music that's more introspective—it's for the full gamut of human expression, and I want it to be just as dynamic as life itself."
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O.W. Gray
Philadelphia / 1876
Hand Colored
Interesting early map of Colorado, colored by counties.
Shows towns, rivers, lakes, roads, mountains, and other details.
In Southwestern Colorado, there is still no evidence of the coming mining boom which would be centered in areas such as Silverton, Ouray and Durango. Predates a number of Southeastern Counties, including Montrose, Ouray, Dolores and San Juan Counties.
Includes a large area of Lake County labeled as Ute Indian Reservation.
O.W. Gray Biography
O. W. Gray was a publishing firm based in Philadelphia. Later, they published as O. W. Gray & Son. They published atlases in the late nineteenth century. Gray's National Atlas was one of the most successful commercial ventures of the 1870s and one of the last to employ hand coloring on maps.
Antique Maps / United States / Southwest / Colorado
Antique Maps / United States / Rocky Mountains / Colorado
Rand, McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shipper's Guide of Colorado (Pocket Map)
Highly detailed separately issued pocket map of Colorado, showing counties, townships, towns, railroads (numbered), railway stations, rivers, lakes, etc.
City of Denver, Colorado.
Antique map of Denver, first published in 1901 by S.W. Baxter, and then republished by C.N. Hoover, again in Denver, in 1905.
Map of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, Showing also The Eastern Portion of Idaho (first appearance of Idaho)
Excellent early map of the region, including an early appearance of Idaho Territory, one of the earliest appearances of this Territory (formed March 1863), on a printed map.
Decorative pictorial map of Snowmass Village, Colorado, drawn by artist James Giattino.
Scenic Map of the Pike's Peak Region
Original vintage tourist map of the Pike's Peak and Colorado Springs regions in central Colorado. The map shows, in great detail, the roads from the town of Colorado Springs to Pike's Peak, with a Toll Road and Cog Railway that go to the top of the peak.
Nell's New Topographical & Township Map of the State of Colorado Compiled from U.S. Government Surveys & other authentic Sources . . .


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import {expect} from 'chai';
import { ISecurityContext, IUser } from 'js-restful';
import { ISecurityContextFactory } from './descriptions';
import * as express from 'express';

export function checkHttpStatus(err, res, done){
    if (err) return done(err);
    expect(res.status).to.equal(200);
}

export function checkDefaultsJson(err, res, done){
    checkHttpStatus(err, res, done);
    expect(res.header).to.contain({'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'});
}

export function checkDefaultsText(err, res, done){
    checkHttpStatus(err, res, done);
    expect(res.header).to.contain({'content-type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8'});
}

export class Context implements ISecurityContext {
    user:IUser;
    isUserInRole(roleName:string):boolean{
        return roleName === 'user';
    }
}

export class Factory implements ISecurityContextFactory {

    createSecurityContext(req:express.Request):ISecurityContext{
        return new Context();
    }
}

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Small bite sized chunks of education. Short courses are an excellent way to develop and enhance your own or your employees' knowledge and skills, and to support career and professional development. UCLan offers an exciting range of such courses, these short courses and continuing professional development (CPD) courses are available across a range of specialist areas. Some courses are accredited – i.e. they allow you to work towards a University qualification; others are standalone programmes focused on specific learning outcomes or development of a skillset. Whatever your needs, take a look at what is on offer at UCLan. If you are an employer and can't find a course to suit your business needs, we are also able to create bespoke courses or programmes for organisations. See our business section to find out more.


COINAGE INC. is a start up SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT company estd. in 2012 headquartered in the Pune, India. We offer solutions, either by adding value to customers existing methodologies or by developing innovative solutions to suit specific needs. We believe that creating the software is not geeky coding, " IT'S AN ART... "
We provides web hosting, domain names; website design and email address services. Our eminent and quality web hosting service makes us the best place to host your small business website; personal web site to large portals and 24/7 live shopping carts.
Our team extends feature-rich mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone for information on the go. We develop apps for business, games, location tracking, social media and various other requirements.
Our managed software development, independent software testing and professional services span commercial software products, cloud, mobile and web development.
We have specialization in both static and dynamic web development. We work with our clients to plan, design, and make their products, to reach new heights online.


A youth hostel manager is an individual who manages the daily upkeep of the hostel and maintain the discipline and decorum of the hostel. The youth hostel manager also needs to make sure that the efficiency and costs control are maintained. The CV of a youth hostel manager should mention his work experience in a hostel.
Residential address: 2356 Rachel Weisz Street, New York, New Jersey 5234.
To perform my duties to the best of my ability and give my hundred percent dedication.
To work in the one of the best youth hostel as the hostel manager.
Worked as hostel manager in the student's hostel of Breach Candy University from September 2008 to December 2010.
Preparing the budget for daily expenses.
Making sure that the costs don't exceed the budget.
Ensuring that the hostel rules and regulations are followed.
Keeping a check that the hygiene condition of the hostel is maintained.
Ensuring that the students don't break the rules and regulation of the hostel.
Issuing a permission letter, if a guest is visiting a student.
Making sure that the hostel gates are locked every night.
Diploma in hospitality management from Institute of Management studies.


Last week, the media focused on the appalling indiscretions of New York Congressman Anthony Weiner. The story is nothing short of tabloid gold, a government official breaking the public's trust, deceiving Americans while engaging in conduct unbecoming of a Member of Congress. Congressman Weiner's actions have sparked a flood of media coverage and public outrage, but while attention has been on tweets and photographs, there's a far greater scandal brewing within the United States.
Much like "Weinergate," this other scandal involves lost trust, broken promises, and moral misconduct. However, what makes this situation even more damaging is that it directly impacts every American, (especially future generations) and puts our nation's security at risk. So what offence could possibly be on par with Watergate and make Chicago politics seem squeaky clean in comparison? It's our country's national debt, our government's addiction to spending, and the failure of public officials to address the problem.
Political scandals normally involve some type of morally appalling behavior. One of the most disgusting behaviors I've seen during this "Spend-Gate" scandal is the dishonesty and political posturing during a time when we should be coming together as a nation to solve this problem.
The scare tactics that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has used about the debt fall into this category.
Instead of focusing on what might happen if the US chose not to raise our nation's debt ceiling, Geithner should talk about what will happen if we don't act quickly to control government spending.
More than 40 cents of every dollar the federal government spends this year will be borrowed. Currently entitlement spending alone combined with the interest on our debt is enough to put America in the red. In just 9 years Medicare is set to go bankrupt. In 50 years, it will take 100% of US tax revenue just keep up with our interest payments on the debt.
The problem is real, and it's really big. If we leave government spending unchecked, our debt will exceed our nation's GDP within the next two to five years, slowing economic growth and increasing unemployment.
A few months ago House Republicans submitted a credible, realistic proposal that would have dramatically cut spending while rescuing Medicare for seniors.
The Republican Budget Committee plan balanced the budget in about a decade, and paid down the national debt completely by the middle of the century.
In contrast, President Obama's budget proposal left our level of spending practically unchanged, and was recently rejected by the Senate 0-97.
Instead of offering realistic solutions to cut spending, the President has shown that he would rather distort conservative proposals to scare seniors. That's not leadership Mr. President, that's just flat wrong.
During a meeting at the White House a few weeks ago, the President told members of Congress that our country doesn't have a spending problem but rather a revenue problem.
With all due respect to the President, we didn't get in $14 trillion dollars in debt because we tax too little; we're in debt because we spend too much.
Raising taxes on job creators won't create jobs and failing to address our debt situation risks putting our country in a permanent recession. Only by forcing our government to live within its means like American families do every day will we be able to put "Spend-Gate" to rest.
The situation we find ourselves in reminds me of the analogy of the frog and the pot. Had our debt problem appeared out of nowhere, perhaps like a frog being dropped into boiling water, we would have reacted quickly and made changes to protect us from financial disaster. However, this debt "scandal" has been decades in the making, with Democrats and Republicans sharing the blame for our nation's spending addiction. The danger of our debt hasn't appeared suddenly, but it has been growing slowly and increases with the passing of every day.
Let me be clear, I believe we can rescue this nation. I believe America's best days are ahead of us. But as Ronald Reagan once said, "we must act now in order preserve tomorrow." No more budget tricks. No more accounting gimmicks. No more empty promises. We must act swiftly and thoroughly to solve our nation's debt crisis once and for all or we risk leaving a nation for our children and grandchildren that looks radically different from the country we love today.


You have found Troop 743. We are located in Hubert, North Carolina.
Our chartered organization is the Queens Creek United Methodist Church.
Our Troop meets on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 until about 8:00.
We are a small troop and are currently looking to expand. We now have 17 scouts and we would like to increase the size of our troop to at least 30.
Come one, come all, and bring a friend!!
This Page was started 4-28-2010, It is always under construction!!


Family Law is a broad area of law which includes not only divorce, child custody, and support issues, but also adoption, adult guardianship, and co-decision making. Please note that this article is intended to provide general information about the area of Family Law. You should always discuss your particular situation with a lawyer experienced in the area of Family Law.
There are also several facets to this field of law because there is both Provincial and Federal Legislation that applies depending on your circumstances. It is not within the scope of this brief article to cover all of the different aspects of family law which could possibly be applicable to every situation.
Please contact one of our lawyers for a confidential consultation about your situation.
If you are facing a breakdown of your relationship, we can help. Our goal is to help you to understand what your choices are and also what your obligations may be to your partner and to your children. Our purpose is to educate and guide you through a stressful time, so that you can make informed decisions about your own future.
Note that "custody" is different than "residence". Parents can have joint custody of the children even if the children live with one parent all or most of the time. "Custody" is about a parent having the right to be involved in making decisions about health care, education, religion, etc. for the children.
custodians of the child with equal rights, powers and duties.
In very general terms, this means that both parents have the right and obligation to support and care for their children, and they also have the right to have access to and be involved in the children's lives. More than that, this is also about a CHILD'S RIGHT to be supported by both parents and to have the right to develop a relationship with both parents. One parent cannot unilaterally take that right away from the children.
This RIGHT of the children is not easily dismissed by the court. Also, because the children do not have the ability to retain their own lawyer to protect their rights, the court is mandated to protect the rights of the children, by always taking into to consideration "the best interests of the children".
Both parents are obligated to support the children. You can look up your monthly child support payments, which are based on your income, here - (Federal Child Support Guidelines online lookup). There are very few circumstances that allow you to deviate from the guideline amount of child support. For example, if you have children from more than one relationship, if you have exceptionally high living expenses due to circumstances beyond your control (such as a medical condition), etc. MAY be grounds to justify paying less than the guideline amount of child support. This is not automatic and must be approved by the court.
Where the children are primarily resident with one parent, unless otherwise ordered by the court, the children have the right of access to the other parent, and the other parent has the right to have access with (or spend time with) the children. Generally, this is based on a determination of what is in the best interests of the children, as well as schedules of the parents and children, etc.
For more information, please contact us for a confidential consultation about Custody, Support and Access rights.
When a couple separates, they have to determine how to divide the property that has been accumulated during the relationship or marriage. If they are unable to agree, they must ask the court to decide how to divide the property. Division of property is generally quite straight forward. Arguments and legal costs go up dramatically when the parties are unable to come to a reasonable solution for the fair division of their property.
There are a few exemptions that are available for certain types of property that was owned by each party at the beginning of the relationship, and there are a number of traps. If you can come to an agreement with your partner for a reasonable division of property, you will be much farther ahead than going to court to dispute the ownership of property.
Contact us for a confidential consultation on the division of property.
Please note that we cannot answer specific questions over the phone unless you are already our client. We are required by our professional obligations to establish that you are who you say you are, and to ensure that we don't have a conflict of interest, in the event that your partner is already represented by our firm in regard to this or another matter. This protects your privacy and your right to independent legal advice. When you come to our office, you will need to provide us with two pieces of id, and to fill out a client information form. Most consultations about family law will require between 30 to 60 minutes to cover most of the issues you will be facing and to answer your questions. This gives you the opportunity to decide if you wish to work with us on a longer term basis.
If your safety or the safety of your children is in danger, call 911. In you are in an abusive relationship, you need to seek professional help with counseling as well as a lawyer. Abusive relationships cannot be treated like typical divorce situations as you may have difficulty making reasonable choices because of psychological abuse. Contact an abuse hot line in your area. Check inside the front cover of your local phone book, which may have resources for abused spouses.
In many cases, an abusive relationship is not salvageable and the only answer is divorce.
DISCLAIMER: Prairie Law Group makes no representation about the following resources whatsoever. These links take you away from the Prairie Law Group website, and are NOT provided by Prairie Law Group. Some sites may take you to resources in different jurisdictions which may be inapplicable in Saskatchewan. Readers should make their own assessment about the usefulness of this information and consult with a lawyer before taking any actions based on the information learned on the internet.


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Meghan Markle Won't Meet The Trumps on Their U.K. Trip: Here's What She's Said About the President in the Past
By Janice Williams On 5/28/19 at 11:55 AM EDT
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visits New Zealand House to sign a book of condolence on behalf of The Royal Family following the recent terror attack which saw at least 50 people killed at a Mosque in Christchurch on March 19, 2019, in London, England. Markle will miss President Donald Trump's visit to the U.K. in June. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images
The royal family will enjoy the company of President Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, during the first family's visit to the U.K. in June. Queen Elizabeth will host the Trumps during celebrations honoring the 75th anniversary of D-Day June 3 through June 5. But one high-profile member of the Royal Family won't take part in the visit: Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex.
Unlike Donald Trump's 2018 visit to the U.K., during which he solely met with the queen, several members of the royal family will play host including Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Andrew, CNBC reported. All four of Donald Trump's adult children—Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump—are expected to travel to the U.K. with the president, although they will not attend all of the scheduled events.
Prince William and Kate Middleton Duchess of Cambridge, are not scheduled to appear at any of the events during the Trumps' visit. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, also have a clear schedule during Trump's state visit, however, Metro reported Harry is slated to attend a private luncheon hosted by his father Charles during the first day of events. American-born Markle is currently on maternity leave following the birth of her first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
The Los Angeles native was openly critical of the president before her 2018 marriage to Harry. Back when Trump was on the campaign trail, Markle, who previously advocated for women's rights in the U.S., ridiculed the real estate mogul on an episode of The Night Show with Larry Wilmore in May 2016, calling him "misogynistic" and "divisive." "
We film Suits in Toronto and I might just stay in Canada," she elaborated. "I mean come on, if that's the reality we are talking about, come on, that is a game changer in terms of how we move in the world here."
She continued: "Yes, of course, Trump is divisive. Think about just female voters alone. I think it was in 2012 the Republican Party lost the female vote by 12 points. That's a huge number and with as misogynistic as Trump is and so vocal about it, that's a huge chunk of it."
Markle noted she wasn't just supporting Trump's campaign rival Hillary Clinton because she was a woman, but because she didn't want to see Trump's vision of the world become a reality. "You're not just voting for a woman if it's Hillary because she's a woman, but certainly because Trump has made it easy to see that you don't really want that kind of world that he's painting," she said.
Meghan Markle More Influential Than Ever, Has Powerful Sway Over Harry
When Will Prince William and Kate Middleton Meet Nephew Archie?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Gave Son One of the Most Popular Baby Names


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Q: Grub rescue error: no such partition I dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.13. they worked just fine until I got an update on Ubuntu, it needed me to close all processes. I decided to use the kill all -u command, which just ruined my Ubuntu side, due to errors (I have learned my lesson). Since I had windows 10, I decided to delete the Ubuntu side using disk manager, which comes by default. After my double stupid moves, to sum it up, I turned the computer off, and when I turn it on, this comes up:
error: no such partition
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>

A: *

*If your PC is UEFI and both systems have been installed in such mode you can still boot Windows by changing the default boot at UEFI settings.

*Otherwise you need to boot from Windows recovery media and follow instruction to repair the Windows bootloader.
There's no other way in case #2 because files required for boot resided on the partition you just deleted. One more lesson learned, I suppose.

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We are honoured to realize our international collective art event in the well known Millenium art Gallery in central London.
An impressing space with plenty of daylight and outdoor terrace will host this unique event. With important art galleries around and at walking distance from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Leighton House Museum, Design museum and others.... Well communicated and at short distance from Mayfair, Piccadilly and other icons of the artworld.
It will be obvious for many people that art and awareness are connected and that art often makes people more aware. Not only about their own perception but as well about values that are present in all persons but that we do not experience in every day life.


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Brig. Gen. Richard Sele, 108th Training Command (IET) deputy commanding general, gives his grandaughter a kiss while presenting a bouquet of yellow roses to his daughter for her contributions, and patience, to the Army as a family member. Sele was promoted to the rank of Brig. Gen. during a ceremony hosted by Maj. Gen. Daniel Ammerman, United States Army Civil Affairs and Pychological Operations Command commanding general, at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, N.C., Oct. 25, 2015. Sele, a longtime civil affairs Soldier, takes over for Brig. Gen. A. Ray Royalty as the deputy commanding general of the 108th, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brian Hamilton)
Tags: Promotion, Charlotte, 108th Training Command (IET), Sele, Ammerman, fayetteville, Fort Bragg , General , MUSEUM, North Carolina, USACAPOC, airborne
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Q: How does snapshotting interfere with parent/child relationships? Summary

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*Add a childVC to a parentVC

*Snapshot childVC.view

*It bugs.

Why?
Situation
I've just encountered a strange behavior and I would like to know if it is normal or if it is a bug.
I have a view controller childVC which is a child of parentVC. When creating the parent/child relationship, my code is
    [parentVC addChildViewController:childVC] ;
    [parentVC.view addSubview:childVC.view] ;
    [childVC didMoveToParentViewController: parentVC] ;

Few lines further, I want to create a snapshot of childVC.view. My code is
UIView * view = childVC.view ;

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(view.contentSize, NO, 0);
{
    [...]

    [view drawViewHierarchyInRect:view.bounds
               afterScreenUpdates:YES];

    image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    [...]
}
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

Bug
Then I have the error:

* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency', reason: 'child view
  controller: should have parent
  view controller:(null) but actual parent is:'
  * First throw call stack: (     0   CoreFoundation                      0x0260b466 __exceptionPreprocess + 182  1   libobjc.A.dylib
  0x02290a97 objc_exception_throw + 44  2   CoreFoundation
  0x0260b38d +[NSException raise:format:] + 141     3   UIKit
  0x01136710 -[UIView(Hierarchy)
  _associatedViewControllerForwardsAppearanceCallbacks:performHierarchyCheck:isRoot:]
  + 352     4   UIKit                               0x01136b13 -[UIView(Hierarchy) _willMoveToWindow:withAncestorView:] + 285   5   UIKit                               0x0114330a -[UIView(Internal)
  _addSubview:positioned:relativeTo:] + 511     6   UIKit                               0x01136252 -[UIView(Hierarchy) addSubview:] + 56    7   UIKit
  0x0114ab0e +[_UIReplicantView _pendingSnapshotOfTarget:snapshotBlock:]
  + 584     8   UIKit                               0x011312fe -[UIView drawViewHierarchyInRect:afterScreenUpdates:] + 287

Question
Why is it so? Can I solve this issue?
More details
Actually, childVC.view is a UIScrollView and the code for snapshotting is
UIScrollView * scrollView = (UIScrollView *)childVC.view;

UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(scrollView.contentSize, NO, 0);
{
    CGPoint savedContentOffset = scrollView.contentOffset;
    CGRect savedFrame = scrollView.frame;

    scrollView.contentOffset = CGPointZero;
    scrollView.frame = CGRectMake(0,
                            0,
                            scrollView.contentSize.width,
                            scrollView.contentSize.height);

    [scrollView drawViewHierarchyInRect:scrollView.bounds
               afterScreenUpdates:YES];

    image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    scrollView.contentOffset = savedContentOffset;
    scrollView.frame = savedFrame;
}
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

Maybe that makes a big difference.

A: I ran into this same issue today, when implementing a custom transition using UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning. The problem was that when I tried to snapshot the child view controller, its parent was not part of a view hierarchy yet.
The solution is to make sure that the parent's view has been added to a view hierarchy before you try to snapshot the child. In my case, I just needed to add the "to" view controller to the transitionContext.containerView first.
From your code snippet, I can't tell when you are trying to take the snapshot. But if it is before viewDidAppear(), it probably won't work.

A: I encountered this crash when using view.snapshotView(afterScreenUpdates: true) to capture child view controller's view before removing it from parent.
For me, passing false to afterScreenUpdates solved the issue.

A: Maybe your parent view controller is getting deallocated and hence the (null) in the exception message?


Existing in the same continuity as their silly and comical yet still active show, the Teen Titans find out that all the other DC superheroes seem to have films produced, so they seek out the perfect director for their debut on the big screen, but their old enemy Slade has other ideas in mind for them.
The film will feature the voices of Scott Menville, Greg Cipes, Khary Payton, Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Will Arnett, Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Halsey and Lil Yachty. It is slated for a theatrical release on July 27, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures.


PESB advances innovation to policy through grants and pilots, work groups, and legislative initiatives. PESB policies demonstrate commitment to diversifying the educator workforce, developing culturally responsive educators, and ensuring equity and access to educator preparation.
Grant programs and pilots are aimed at supporting the innovative efforts of districts and educational institutions in their work to support Washington State's children in public education. The Professional Educator Standards Board is always striving to promote unique strategies statewide that address the teacher shortage and promote diversity in the education profession.
PESB facilitates work groups by gathering stakeholders from across the field together to discuss the most pressing issues in the sphere of educator preparation, retention, and diversity. Final outcomes of the work groups include developing policy recommendations, reports, as well as suggestions for program redesigns.
This page contains more in-depth information on each of these three initiatives.
Cultural competency standards are woven throughout preparation program design and educator licensure requirements to build a workforce that is responsive to the needs of our state's students.
The innovation archive contains links to materials from past work groups and programs that have since concluded.


The starting point of any bedroom is a good bed. Not only do you need something that lets you enjoy your peaceful slumber in warmth and comfort, but since the bed acts as the focal point of the room, you need something that looks really good too. Unfortunately, big, beautiful beds can get very expensive, so if you can find the time to put your hands to work, then you can build your very own gorgeous customized bed for a fraction of the price.
I really love the look of this bed frame because it seems very solid and sturdy. That headboard and the integrated light system is what really impresses me the most, though! And can you believe, the entire project only cost about $300 to make?
This platform bed uses such a clever design that it truly looks as if the bed is hovering like some sort of alien space craft. Very futuristic! The indented platform isn't visible when looking at it from a regular standing up position, and the lights underneath really just add to the drama.
When it comes to sleeping, the luxury of a king sized bed is an absolute dream (even if you like to think of yourself as more queen-like). Here are some great plans and instructions to build your own big and comfy bed; I just love the white finish!
This lovely, bold and chunky platform bed was built from scratch at a cost of only $55. Impressive! With free printable plans and some helpful photos to guide you through your build, a good night's rest isn't too far off.
Sometimes I really marvel at the creativity of some people. I've never even thought of building floating nightstands on to a bed frame like this, but now that I've seen it, I can't picture my life without it! If you're keen on recreating this modern structure then all you'll need is about $400 for all the materials. Not bad!
This bed frame is nice, but I have to say that the headboard is the real showstopper for me. The reclaimed wood just looks so full of character! Thankfully, the process is quite a simple one; making something that's sturdy and gorgeous isn't actually that tough.
This may look like a regular bed frame, but there are some little touches that really stand out; the bottom plank that connects the two front legs, for example, gives it an elegant touch of modernism. They've also included a purchase list for different sized beds so that you can customize with ease.
To me, upholstered beds have always oozed luxury and great comfort, and unfortunately, their price tags reflect that! Here's a great tutorial that shows you how to make a queen sized upholstered bed for yourself without blowing all your savings.
This bed is big, boastful, in-your-face, and it's absolutely gorgeous! It looks like something that belongs in a farm house or beach house with that rustic wood. You could, however, stain it a much darker color if you want more of a modern twist.
Reclaimed pallets serve as fantastic sources of material for a number of inventive projects, and a bed frame certainly is not exempt from this list. The pallet bed frame is really easy to make, too, so it's perfect for novice carpenters.
Who would have thought that pipes and pipe fittings could be put together in such a way to create this stunning bed frame? I am head over heels in love with this modern industrial look – it's just so different! If you get your pipes cut ahead of time then you won't even need a full day to assemble it.
I'm a sucker for platform beds because I really like that solid, robust look and feel, like you know that there's just no chance of it ever breaking underneath you. Make sure to read through the comments for some more helpful tips on this build.
Ok, so this is going to sound strange, but trust that it's pure genius. Someone came up with the brilliant idea to use doorless cabinets as the basis for a bed frame. This means that not only do you have minimum building work, but you now also have extra storage hidden away under there.
Here's another clever little hack that uses shelving units to create a raised platform bed. With all that ample storage space, it's the perfect solution to a slightly smaller kid's room that needs to maximize on floor space.
This crafty project transforms a regular box spring bed into a reupholstered, upcycled platform bed. If you already have a bed to start with, then you won't have to splurge too much on getting it to look as gorgeous and inviting as this one does.
I love furniture that isn't just functional and comfortable, but that make a real statement in the room, and that's exactly how I feel about this bed. Honestly, those fantastic front legs are what instantly attracted me to this design.
If you can avoid spending $1,600 and only have to dish out $270 on materials, then spending a weekend on your own build should be a no-brainer. Plus, you get the satisfaction of knowing that you did this all with your own two hands – the sleep will be so much sweeter.
Storage seems to be an issue with me since I'm quite a hoarder, so I'm always looking for helpful storage ideas to keep my clutter organized. This platform bed is the answer to all my problems since it has six large pull-out drawers that I can pack full of shoes and everything else that takes up space.
It's rustic beds like these that make me want to cuddle up and sleep like a baby forever. Getting out of bed in the mornings would be even more of a struggle if I had to find it in me to roll out of something so beautiful!
Here's another clever platform bed that integrates a good amount of storage space. The sheer size of this bed is just magnificent, and the fact that it can easily wheel around is just so cute. If you're the type who loves to change their room around a lot, then those wheels will come in handy!
If you want to be considered as the best parent ever, then this boat bed may just help you reach that status. This is, hands down, the coolest DIY bed I've come across, and I'm sure any child would agree. And what makes it even more exciting? Secret compartments!
wow that was beautiful ideas tanx so much i will start to diy my kids n my bed. pls can u tell me wht kind of tools can i use?
OK 1st u wan get sum wood. But get som dat is good, don get old bustd skids.
Gots 2 use a measurin tape 2. Pappy alwsys sayd measure couple time and cutit one time. U can cut em up wit any saw, heck i use a chainsaw. And thn u wan a good drill 2 screw em 2gether wit.
What language is this, Dude?
Soun lik cajin to me myself, I tell it to you for sure.
your bed designs are great!!! I founds a couple different ones that I just might make. Thank you !!
So… you need to look around your house.
No-one here knows what is in there except you.
that boat bed looks frightening. I guess I'm just not into kids living on the edge.
Not to sound like a whinger, but it would be worth noting for any person reading the comments before reading this article that you WOULD need access to some fairly serious home tools in order to build most of these. I dont have a jig, router, bandsaw, or anything like that (nor the space or funds to install the aforementioned).
Aso please check your article links, there seem to be some of these that are out of date now.
I do a lot of DIY furniture and other projects without any of the above.
My main tools are a drill/driver set, a circular saw, TWO work surfaces/workbench/old dinged up tables the same height – one by the wall and one I can move, and a few clamps.
don't worry about how someone talks or spells I dig the short cuts I got the idea!!!!


The City of Cape Town's Library and Information Services Department will once again offer various activities at selected libraries during December and January, as part of its annual Holiday Programme.
Activities include puppet shows, arts and craft activities, story-telling, DVD screenings, competitions, puzzles, games and face painting, amongst others.
"The Holiday Programme will be presented at various libraries across Cape Town and parents will be able to participate in activities at some of the libraries as well. I encourage parents to contact their local library to see what programmes are being run in their area during the school holidays' and to encourage their children to take part," said the City's Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services, Councillor Brett Herron.
Athlone, Bridgetown, Crossroads, Durbanville, Edgemead, Eersterivier, Elsies River, Hangberg, Hout Bay, Kensington, Kloof Street, Kommetjie, Langa, Lansdowne, Manenberg, Melton Rose, Milnerton, Observatory, Ocean View, PD Paulse(Kuils River), Philippi East, Pinelands, Ravensmead, Retreat, Rondebosch, Scottsdene, Sea Point, Southfield, Strandfontein, Table View, Wesfleur and Woodstock.
Libraries can be contacted directly for more details about their programmes.
P.H.fat, a local Hout Bay band, played last night at The Assembly, with hip-hop legends Public Enemy. This is a clip of an interview done with NARCH from the band a year back.
Hout Bay going downhill fast!
Hout Bay is not only known for its gangsters, rioters and poachers or for its surfers, landlord mafia, and teenage hoodlums but also for its downhill skaters. Checkout this clip out of a crew of guys getting down with a rather "emo" soundtrack.
Buskers on the quayside at Hout Bay playing for tourists going to Seal Island by boat.


Our department is new and our mandate includes writing policy and procedures, putting on trainings and overseeing anything related to our department's function in the organization. When I started, my director explained to me that some of the implementation activities will have to be shared with another group and they were still trying to figure out how that will all work. He wanted me to be flexible, doing some of the required writing assignments with two other members of my team (T. and a male colleague, N.) as well as my other responsibilities in figuring out the implementation piece.
This arrangement brought about some confusion since there was no defined responsibility for each person on the team. Also, when working on the same document, we needed to figure out how and when each person is able to contribute material into it. Eventually, we did. N. and I did most of the writing and it seemed like when T. would go into the document, she would make mostly stylistic and grammatical corrections and would tell us to change or fix them. Or she would change one or two words. That was fine but irritating. She would also take credit for work she didn't write.
A month into it, my director hadn't still defined what our roles would be going forward, so in a meeting he said since there was a lot of writing to be done, T. should be the functional reporter for the group as it concerns the policies and procedures aspects. What that exactly means is unclear.
Soon after, I met with my manager after my first month to catch-up on my integration into the team. He expressed gratitude for my contributions thus far and expressed his excitement for my future with the team. We also discussed the team dynamics and he wanted to know if things were going alright. I told him that our roles weren't quite defined and I wanted to be careful to not overstep my duties and to be able to recognize when someone else was doing the same. He clarified that the arrangement with T. being the functional reporter only relates to her coordinating some of the team's efforts on projects we work on as a group. He stated that I'll have my separate projects which will be my responsibility and also team projects which I will do with the team.
I've had some personal projects already which I've worked on with my director and/or my manager separately. I've created the requirements and process for implementing and tracking gaps on the new global sanctions compliance policy we just completed. After my manager and I were comfortable with the implementation process, I shared it with the rest of the team (T. and the other team member) in a meeting. I told them the process and how we envision rolling it out globally and the challenges we anticipate etc.
I said I'll create some templates to support the process and will have all these documents uploaded into a SharePoint site accessible to my team once they were completed. They were happy with the progress. About 2 hours later, T. sent me an email saying: "Please create two folders in SharePoint and upload the respective documents." I was surprised at her "instruction" as I had offered that in the meeting. I said sure, I was planning on doing that.
I created the folders that day but didn't upload any documents as I still needed to figure out how many other folders I need for this process as several components of this effort require separate documentation. Please keep in mind that before the meeting, I had sent them both a copy of the document in case they wanted copies for whatever reason.
The following day, she emailed me around noon that she had checked and "it doesn't appear you have uploaded the documents as I requested. Please do so." I was a bit taken aback given that it was my project, I had given each a copy, I had suggested I would create and upload them, I had created the folders and I had said I was going to upload them.
Even though she tried to create a need for the document, none existed. Additionally, all members of the team had copies and when I said I would create a folder and upload them, there was not a time requirement because of the nature of this specific document. I think she copied my manager to create a need and to portray me as uncooperative to the "team's process". I never responded to her email and my manager did not respond on it either.
The following morning, I was done with the document and uploaded it. Then I was given a project to create a process for gathering certain information that is relevant for assessing the risk related to unusual product/service offerings by my organization. I worked directly with my director and manager and drafted an analysis for them. This set the stage for a uniform process which I created that we can use going forward for all these type of assessments. My director and manager were pleased, I shared the success of the first case with the team in an email detailing the vision for this process and how we plan on gathering this information and formalizing it across the organization.
A few days later (last Wednesday to be precise) we received a second request for the product assessment, my director forwarded the emails to me early that morning to start the process and coordinate with the necessary stakeholders to complete the assessment within the deadline they requested. Later that afternoon, T. asked me if I had gotten those emails and if I had spoken to the director on next steps.
I told her of course I had gotten the emails and I'm already working on the next steps with the director. She stated that she would like to be copied on emails on this case and all other cases going forward since at some point she would be brought into it. I didn't understand what she meant by "brought into it" nor did I know why she wanted to be copied on them. I figured I will copy the rest of the team once it's complete for their awareness like it was done in the prior case.
I have had several communications with my director and manager and the other stakeholders requiring the assessment. I did not copy her in any of the emails and neither did my director or manager. In one email, my director copied her and more people and she responded to me copying my manager and director, saying for me to ensure she was copied on all emails regarding this case and others for her awareness. Still my manager and director didn't copy her and neither did I.
I was setting up a meeting with another team to discuss an assessment request and emailed my director for his approval. He approved the findings and gave me the go ahead to set up the meeting and to copy the rest of the team for their awareness. I copied her and the other colleague as optional attendees.
She then got up quickly and requested to speak to me quickly in a conference room. I followed. Getting in there I sat down, while she stood. She started by saying it seems we have a problem, I don't respond to her emails, I don't do what she asks me to, like copying her, and she doesn't need to have to explain herself to me more than once and there's something in organizations called lines of reporting.
She proceeded to say no that's not what she understands; that she was told I would report to her. I told her that's not what was explained to me. She then asked, "What's your title and what's mine?" I said it is irrelevant, the fact that she's a VP and I'm an AVP doesn't mean I have to report to her. VPs and AVPs as well as associates only determine a pay grade; we can all be in the same team with reporting only to the manager.
She got upset saying she didn't need to argue with me and we'll need to set a meeting with the director and manager to settle this and she didn't like my tone. Please note, I had no tone, I even smiled in some instances and she was standing while I sat and it appeared like I was being scolded. She was condescending and rude and probably did not expect me to respond to her. The other colleague in the team has also worked here for about 11 months and says he almost was looking for a new job because of her demeanor towards him earlier this summer until I joined the team.
For example: In a meeting a few weeks ago, she asked why some feedback from stakeholders hadn't been incorporated into a document my colleague, "N" and I had been working on. She continued to say "if we're all going to be here" then we need to be doing these things. This statement struck me as a threat to my job and also was insinuating that my professional output is so lacking that it poses a threat to my job. This comment was troubling to my colleague N. as well, who states he has had to deal with off-handed comments and other similar things from her and gets anxiety as a result. I never responded to that comment or mentioned it to my manager as I wanted to wait to see how the dynamics continue to develop.
I anticipate her going to privately meet with the director and manager before I hear about any meeting. I would like to prepare myself and my position from a professional point. It creates a hostile environment with her attempts to boss me around and her perceived power over me. I love what I do and will like to continue uninterrupted by her tactics. How should I handle the impending meeting and her demeanor going forward?
Hello and thank you for sharing your concerns with us. I have edited your question considerably because I wanted to eliminate references to the nature of your business and to anything that might identify you specifically.
Your situation points out one of the biggest problems with Functional Teams that are separate from the Administrative or Operational departments in which each team member works–especially when there are differences in titles and seniority within the team. You and the Vice President we are referring to as T., have both been treated unfairly by your Director (and whoever T. reports to, if not to your Director) when it comes to clarity about your roles. I can see your viewpoint and I can see hers—and you both would have benefited by asking for clarification every time you had a question—which seems to have happened several times.
Given T's background (which I didn't include in your edited question) I can see that she might think a higher title implies authority and responsibility over others. If she genuinely thinks she has organizational authority over you, she probably feels you, a two month employee, are being insubordinate and uncooperative to someone with a higher title and more seniority (although not much more!). What you see as overbearing she may see as a reasonable reaction to push-back on your part.
Another thing to consider is that you don't know what she has privately been told by the Director about her role or about his concerns about the team, or what her experiences were before you started to work there. Since you have been there such a short time, maybe she knows better about what style and level of accuracy the Director expects. She may also feel—as I would—that her title implies she will be held more responsible than you, if material goes out with errors or stylistic problems. It would seem to others that she is pulling rank but she may see it as assuming responsibility appropriately.
On the other hand, it sounds as though your resentment has been expressed by digging in your heels and refusing to comply with her directions/requests/demands (according to how those are seen by the two of you.) With only two months in your job, that is risky, even with someone you think is not your boss.
Whether or not T. makes a complaint now, this lack of agreement about lines of reporting and responsibility will only get worse with time. Ask your Director if T. has set a meeting and if she has not, ask for one yourself.
I know you would word it differently than that, but whatever you say, ask directly if you want a clear answer—and don't leave the room until you are clear about it. Then, if you are told you do not report to T., ask the Director to please let T. know that, so the conflict about it doesn't continue. If you are told you do report to T. on some things, ask what things she has authority over you about and what things she does not.
After that you can clarify about specific issues, especially whether or not T. must be copied on emails about the process you view as your personal project.
If, instead of a private conversation, you have a meeting with your Director and T., be courteous and reasonable (as I'm assuming you would be anyway), and put the focus on clearing up the problem rather than complaining about T.'s actions. If she finds out she was wrong, she will feel foolish enough. If you find out you were, you will at least have sounded professional. If you both find out there was some error in thinking by both of you, having a problem-solving approach rather than a complaining approach, will allow you to keep working together in the future.
Your Director probably wishes this conflict wasn't happening and may dread having a meeting about it. He may realize he has created some of the problem himself, because of his lack of clarity. Or, he may be frustrated that the team isn't running smoothly and may be irritated with both you and T. for not talking to him sooner. It sounds as though your work outside of the team is going very well, so your Director may only consider this to be a minor issue that can be cleared up with some conversation. You won't know any of that until you talk to him directly or meet with him and T. in a problem-solving session.
Keep your focus on what you said in your letter to us….you love your work and want to do well. If you talk to T. about this again, express your desire to do good work and say that your only goal is to clear up conflict and make it possible for both you and her to move forward with the organization. Use the same tone with N. if you two talk about it. Be the one who puts professionalism above pettiness.
I think you are justified in feeling frustrated and you are correct to want to get clarification once and for all about your reporting line. While you're doing that, show your value to the organization by communicating about the conflict in a way that shows a desire to resolve it for the good of both of you and for the team and the department as well. Ask yourself how you want to be seen when this is done, then aim toward that goal.
Best wishes as you work through this situation. If you have the time and wish to do so, let us know what happens. We have confidence that you will be considered a model for how to deal with organizational challenges!
FOLLOW UP BY DR. GORDEN: I promised to follow up my associate workplace doctor, Tina Lewis Rowe's advice, once you had time to absorb it. I concur with her analysis regarding your part in conflict with your VP and her strong encouragement to seek clarification of her and your roles and job definitions. I assume you have had time to act in light of it and doing that by now is leading to some improvement in your working relationships. In short, Ms. Rowe stressed that you meet with your Director to get clarification of roles, yours and hers, and that you should focus on doing your job well. Doing that should mean not re-playing what has happened, like a scratchy broken record, allowing it to interfere with your job. Adjusting to new task and to one's coworkers is part of becoming comfortable and effective in a new job.
She got upset saying she didn't need to argue with me and we'll need to set a meeting with the director and manager to settle this and she didn't like my tone.
In a meeting a few weeks ago, she asked why some feedback from stakeholders hadn't been incorporated into a document my colleague, "N" and I had been working on. She continued to say "if we're all going to be here" then we need to be doing these things.
This statement struck me as a threat to my job and also was insinuating that my professional output is so lacking that it poses a threat to my job.
So what might you learn? You have learned the significance of moving to a different place from where an upset peaked. To do that wisely made it more private and important. Also you learned your VP expressed her displeasure while standing whereas you were seated. That posed her talking down to you and you in a subordinate posture. You sensed that was not being treated as equals. If you had suggested that she be seated, she might not complied, but if she had, it could have leveled that immediate conflict and helped her be less adamant in trying to resolve a relationship that she felt was insubordination.
Stored in your toolbox you now have a vivid instance of how posture was not subtly implored and intuitively perceived. And, if in the future you should you want to tell a subordinate he/she should be subordinate, you know from experience standing above and talking down displays that authority. However you also know, it conveys how display rank rankles its effect, and in the future were you to be the superior and should you rather want to create respect rather than distaste for authority, it would be wise to suggest a seated position for you both of sitting at an angle to each other and not directly across from one another as antagonists.
Your extended description was embedded with other instance about authority to add to your toolbox of working relationships. You wrote she stated that she doesn't "need to have to explain herself to me more than once and there's something in organizations called lines of reporting." Not only did she make clear you failed to understand the definition of roles, but she implied that you were now in an organization where lines of authority were strong and that the power distance between those above and below were large, even in a VP and AVP level.
So how might this conflict as to job description and reporting authority be confronted professionally? Ideally, you and the VP would negotiate your roles without asking your manager to do so. But, you say you expect her to meet with your manager to state her displeasure with you and to get his approve that you should report to her. This might be what has happened and you will have to work within your manager and director's guidelines.
Whether she succeeds in that or not, it would be good for you to work think through it what are the more effective sequences and processes. To do that it could be helpful to prepare a table/charting job definitions as you understand them. On the vertical axis list the tasks/projects. On the horizontal axis list the names of each member of your team and of your manager. In each cell you can designate who is responsible for researching, writing and/or editing. Also you can specify a sequence of who is responsible for consulting, deciding what is approved and signing off for tasks done before a report is forwarded. By the time you receive this Follow Up, you should be able to create such a table and in so doing to realize what you are clear and not yet clear about. In developing a chart of who's responsible for what, it's wise not to be overly rigid about each job and tittle. Who does what evolves, and it is smarter to do more than is expected that to be legalistic as you well know.
For major projects, prepare a time line charting who does what by specific dates and sequences on a path critical to accomplishing a goal. That is based on what is known as Programmed Evaluation Review Technique (PERT). Such charts are posted and modified in light of progress.
Simultaneously, it would be wise if your team would meet after roles and job descriptions have been spelled out to formulate guidelines for how best to communicate. In plain language, a team collaboratively creates its own Do and Don't Rules of Communication. Since you are a relatively new hire, you probably are not the one who should champion this. But after a time, you may think it's a tool that you might propose in quiet conversation with your manager or to your team when something is needed to improve how your team communicates. Some communication rules are just good manners and common sense, but the process for a group of developing them together sets up what is desired and expected. From time to time, then reviewing them helps make them habitual.
Talk about how we talk is not a waste of time.
Making and following an agenda enables most concerns to be addressed.
Process and procedures enable efficient talk. This entails turn taking, alert listening, paraphrasing, internal summarizing, and willingness to seek consensus.
There's rarely too much please and thank you.
Get clear about who should do what.
Don't gossip about coworkers or managers.
Don't scan the Internet for non-work related matters while at work.
Don't put photos or personal messages on social media.
Don't discuss work situations or proprietary information on email or social media.
Think before emailing and make it brief.
Misunderstanding is the rule and not the exception; therefore, speak clearly and be willing to ask for clarification before judging.
Seek solutions rather than blame.
Speak first with rather than about coworkers.
Use more than one channel—written plus oral.
Don't take credit that belongs to others. In your situation, signing off on who has done the research, writing, and editing might prevent conflict.
Saving face of others is the way to save your own.
The signature sentence with which I conclude my answers to all questions to Ask the Workplace Doctors sums up a team mindfulness: Working together with hands, head, and heart takes and makes big WEGOS. Teamwork demands a we're in this together attitude and a collaborative process. Please reflect on these suggestions and feel free to modify, adapt and/or adopt them in light of your own thoughts. I predict that if you learn from this situation that prompted your question, you will be an increasingly valued employee now and later a valued resource to others as the years go by. Be patient and after a while feel free to tell us what you do and how it works for you.
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I used to buy the little tiny wet pack cans of mushrooms for short term storage - my family likes them mixed with pasta or rice, or served alongside beef dishes.
Those little cans can be expensive and the freeze-dried mushrooms are really a better deal. They rehydrate nicely and are perfect for the aforementioned dishes, and would also do well tossed on top of a pizza.
I used to buy the little tiny wet pack cans of mushrooms for short term storage - my family likes them mixed with pasta or rice, or served alongside beef dishes. Those little cans can be expensive... Show More. and the freeze-dried mushrooms are really a better deal. They rehydrate nicely and are perfect for the aforementioned dishes, and would also do well tossed on top of a pizza.


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Q: Translate matrix to center and fit a rectangle I use SkiaSharp to draw some SKRect on a SKCanvas. I'm trying to implement a "scale to fit and center" functionality for the drawing area. I used the following code to calculate the bounding box for all the SKRects.
private SKRect GetBoundingBox()
{
    int xMin = AllRectangles.Min(s => (int)s.Left);
    int yMin = AllRectangles.Min(s => (int)s.Top);
    int xMax = AllRectangles.Max(s => (int)s.Right);
    int yMax = AllRectangles.Max(s => (int)s.Bottom);
    SKRect result = new SKRect(xMin, yMin, xMax, yMax);
    return result;
}

Now I want to translate the SKMatrix used during PaintSurface to center the bounding box (with all the items in it) and scale the bounding box to fit the SKCanvasView. I have a GIF which shows the Navigator View in Photoshop, doing what I'm trying to build.

A: I finally found the solution to my problem, and I wanted to share my code in order help others that might struggle with a similar issue.
The following method caluclates the scale for the matrix in order to fit the viewport. Both, the scale factor and a translation of the viewport rectangle are applied to the matrix. After this operations a redraw of the canvas is needed.
public void CenterAndFitRectangle(SKRect viewport)
{
    var viewPortRectangle = _currentMatrix.MapRect(viewport);
    var scale = Math.Min(CanvasView.Bounds.Width / viewPortRectangle.Width, CanvasView.Bounds.Height / viewPortRectangle.Height);
    _currentMatrix.ScaleX = scale;
    _currentMatrix.ScaleY = scale;
    _currentMatrix.TransX = -viewPortRectangle.Left * scale;
    _currentMatrix.TransY = -viewPortRectangle.Top * scale;
}