I'll be speaking on Continuous Integration at the Software Association of Oregon's Developer SIG meeting in September. We'll look at how to implement CI across different parts of your organization, using techniques and tools for both .NET and Java.
Looks like I'll be speaking on Continuous Integration in theory and practice at next month's meeting of the Software Process Improvement Network. Details are here. If you are interested in CI, come on down.
I'll be speaking at next month's InnoTech Oregon conference, at the convention center April 16th and 17th. The session is entitled "The Code is the Easy Part". I'll be speaking on practical steps you can take to improve your software project, specifically around making it easier and more effective for developers to work together as a team. Specific topics include starting a Continuous Integration process, effective use of source control, and using tests as a means of expressing developer intent.
It looks like there's a little something for everyone at the conference, including some stuff on development practices and "agile" methodologies. Should be fun.
Once again I'll be teaching at the Oregon Institue of Technology this coming Spring term. This time around the topic is building an application using C# in Visual Studio 2008. We'll be covering an entire application lifecycle, including design, coding, test, build and deploy. We'll go into detail about effective use of source control, how to set up a Continuous Integration process, how to write good unit tests, etc. Along the way we'll be covering some of the new .NET 3.5 features like LINQ and all that entails.
Spread the word, and come on down if you are interested.
The official course title is .NET Tools with C# (CST407) and it will be Wednesday nights at the Hillsboro campus.
The project I'm working on right now uses SourceGear Vault for SCC, and I must admit, I'm not digging it. It's like using a slightly more performant version of VSS. Except that you can set it in "CVS mode" which means it doesn't do exclusive locks. It seems very difficult to deal with adding new files (if you aren't integrating with VS.NET, which we aren't) and updates seem unreasonably slow, although that may just be me. It is a pretty big project. Doing a "Show history" on the whole tree takes over a minute to return any results at all. It does do change sets, at least, so that's a big plus over VSS.
In short, I can see tha market here (for people that are comfortable with VSS, but don't want Access databases for their backend) but I'd rather be using Subversion. I guess I'm just spoiled.
I finally got around to building some docs for our latest project, and decided to go with Sandcastle rather than NDoc for the time being. I got the March CTP of Sandcastle and started trying to figure out how to get it working with our build.
While the resulting CHM file came out looking really nice, I'd have to say that Sandcastle is WAY not ready for prime time. There is little to no documentation, so figuring out how to customize things is largely an exercise for the user. I was willing to exercise, but many aren't. The build itself is very complicated, with 10-12 separate steps required to produce the CHM file, and lots of rough edges, like the fact that the MRefBuilder tool won't look for dependencies in the GAC, so I had to copy a bunch of core BCL assemblies out of the GAC and into my build directory to get the docs to build. Lame.
As it stands now, Sandcastle is useful only to serious build weenies, since it's too cumbersome for the average developer to deal with. This is too bad, since it's being touted (at least in some circles) as the "right" solution for building docs going forward. It smacks of something that the VS 2005 team built to create there docs, then decided to make public. It's not quite there yet.
These are my opinions based on experience and preference, YMMV. Much of this is common sense, some of it is arbitrary, but it's all stuff that I think is true.
As much as possible, all of our code should be developed according to the TDD methodology. If we stick with it, we will always have confidence in the current build (i.e. that it really works).
We want our build to produce something that looks as much as possible like a production deployment. To that end, our build deploys a real live system and runs "integration" tests against it.
Unit tests have no dependencies, or only depend on other assemblies owned by us, which can be mocked. This means our unit tests should run on anyone's box without having to set up things like SQL, ADAM, etc.
Integration tests depend on code not owned by us, like SQL, ADAM, IIS, etc.
This includes Win/WebForms, MMC snapins, etc.
Namespace != assembly name. Roll up many namespaces into one physical assembly if they all must be deployed together.
Windows authentication should be used to talk to SQL, ADAM, the file system, etc.
Exceptions aren't just for "exceptional" conditions. If they were really exceptional, we wouldn't be able to plan for them.
e.g. if the config subsystem can't find the XML file it's looking for, it should throw ConfigurationInitializationException, not FileNotFoundException, because the caller doesn't care about the implementation. If you swap out XML files for the database, the caller won't have to start catching DatabaseConnectionException instead of FileNotFoundException because of the wrapper.
One of the things the has irked my about using SVN with VisualStudio.NET is trying to set up a new project. You've got some new thing that you just cooked up, and now you need to get it into Subversion so it doesn't get lost. Unfortunatley that means you have to "import" it into SVN, being careful not to include any of the unversionable VS.NET junk files, then check it out again, probably some place else, since Tortoise doesn't seem to dig checking out over the existing location. Big pain.
Along comes Ankh to the rescue. I've been using it off and on for a while (version .6 built from the source) but now I'm hooked. It adds the traditional "Add to source control" menu item in VS.NET, and it totally did the right thing. Imported, checked out to the same location (in place) and skipped all the junk files. Worked like a charm. I'm definitely a believer now.
So at TechEd, Scott captured Jeff and I talking in the friendliest of fashions about the relative merits of Team System (which Jeff evangelizes) and the "OSS solution" which I helped craft at Corillian involving Subversion, CruiseControl.NET, NUnit, NAnt, et. al.
Since then, I did a bit for PADNUG about the wonders of source control, and it caused me to refine my positions a bit.
I think that in buying a system like Team System / TFS (or Rational's suite, etc.) you are really paying for not just process, but process that can be enforced. We have developed a number or processes around our "OSS" solution, including integrating Subversion with Rational ClearQuest so that we can relate change sets in SVN with issues tracked in ClearQuest, and a similar integration with our Scrum project management tool, VersionOne. However, those are policies which are based upon convention, and which we thus can't enforce. For example, by convention, we create task branches in SVN named for ClearQuest issues (e.g. cq110011 for a task branch to resolve ClearQuest issue #110011), and we use a similar convention to identify backlog items or tasks in VersionOne. The rub is that the system depends upon developers doing the right thing. And sometimes they don't.
With an integrated product suite like TFS, you not only get processes, but you get the means to enforce them. In a previous job, we used ClearQuest and ClearCase together, and no developer could check in a change set without documenting it in ClearQuest. Period. It was not left up to the developer to do the right thing, because the tools made sure that they did. Annoying? Sure. Effective? Absolutely. Everyone resented the processes until the first time we really needed the information about a change set, which we already had waiting for us in ClearQuest.
Is that level of integration necessary? We've decided (at least for now) that it's not, and that we are willing to rely on devs doing the right thing. You may decide that you do want that level of assurance that your corporate development processes are being followed. All it takes is money.
What that means (to me at least) is that the big win in choosing an integrated tool is the integration part. Is the source control tool that comes with TFS a good one? I haven't used it personally, but I'm sure that it is. Is it worth the price if all you're looking for is a source control system? Not in my opinion. You can get equally capable SCC packages for far less (out of pocket) cost. It's worth spending the money if you are going to take advantage of the integration across the suite, since it allows you to not only set, but enforce policy.
I'm sure that if you choose to purchase just the SCC part of TFS, or just Rational's ClearQuest, you'll end up with a great source control tool. But you could get an equally great source control tool for a lot less money if that's the only part you are interested in.
The other thing to keep in mind is that the integrated suites tend to come with some administration burden. Again, I can't speak from experience about TFS, but in my prior experience with Rational, it took a full-time adminstrator to keep the tools running properly and to make sure they were configured correctly. When the company faced some layoffs and we lost our Rational administrator, we switched overnight to using CVS instead, because we couldn't afford to eat the overhead of maintaning the ClearQuest/ClearCase tools, and none of us had been through the training in any case. I've heard reports that TFS is much easier to administer, but make sure you plan for the fact that it's still non-zero.
So, in summary, if you already have a process that works for you, you probably don't need to invest is a big integrated tools suite. If you don't have a process in place (or at least enough process in place) or you find that you are having a hard time getting developers to comply, then it may well be worth the money and the administrative overhead.
Next Wednesday evening, I'll be talking about the wonders of source code control at this month's PADNUG meeting. If you're currently using SCC, you might get some tips for making better use of it. If you aren't, you'll find out why you should be, even if you work alone. I'll be focusing on the role of SCC in agile development and continuous integration. I'll also talk about some of the many version control systems available, and which one(s) may be right for your environment (as well as which ones you really shouln't be using: you know who you are…).
Several times recently I've been bitten by "code-freeze". Granted, I've been bitten because I wasn't tracking the "freeze" closely enough, my bad. But there are alternatives to this (in my mind) counter productive process. Developers need to be free to check in changes. They fix bugs, or add new features, and need to get those things checked in. Their dev machine could collapse catastrophically, they could forget to check them in, or the fixes could become irrelevant if they wait too long. Plus, the farther you get away from the point where you made the changes, the more likely you are to get merge conflicts. If the "freeze" lasts too long, multiple people may make changes to the same files, so that when the freeze is lifted, merge conflicts ensue, and that's not fun for anyone. Not good for continuous integration. Code freezes pretty much take the continuous right out of it.
What I have done (quite successfully) in the past is to use labels to "freeze" the tree rather than actually preventing people from making check-ins. It runs something like this… Every developer is responsible for checking in changes, and for deciding when those changes are stable. It's a common mistake to assume that the tip or HEAD of your source tree must always be pristine. That keeps people from checking things in when they should. So, decide on a label (like "BUILDABLE") that represents that stable state. That way developers can continue to check in changes, even potentially destabilizing ones, on the tip without causing havoc. When the developer decides that his/her changes are stable, he or she can move the label out to encompass those changes.
How does this work with continuous integration? Your build server always builds from the label you've chosen to represent stability. Not from the tip. That way you should always get the latest stable build, even if that doesn't represent the latest changes. When it's done successfully building, the build server should label whatever it just built with something like "BUILT" and the time/date (in another label). Remember, each revision can have as many labels as you need, so extras don't hurt.
Another big benefit of this process is that if someone is just joining the team, or needs to build the software for the first time, they can pull from the BUILT label, and be assured that they are getting the most recent version that is known to be build-able.
The end result is that you have two labels that move, leapfrogging each other as new things get marked as stable and then built, and some that don't move indicating what was successfully built for each date/time/version. That's good information to have. It's also good for developers to be able to freely check in changes without having to worry about "freezes" or breaking the build.
Give it a shot. It's work up front, and requires a little training and discipline, but you'll be glad you made the effort.
We've recently switched to the latest version of CruiseControl.NET (0.7) and my favorite new feature is the ability of ccnet to deal with CVS directly. Previously we had to include code in our NAnt build file to do a CVS update at the beginning of the build, then do the CVS tag (so we can tag all the files with the build version) at the end of the build if it was successful.
It only supports one format for the labels, which it to allow you to specify a prefix, like "1.0." and it will increment a number and append it, so you get "ver-1.0.1", "ver-1.0.2", etc. That number resets to 1 every time you restart the ccnet executable. Hmmm. What we wanted was to use our previous scheme, which involved the version number we use for our .NET executables (e.g. 1.0.222.3333). We used the version task from NAntContrib to create that version number on the formula (x.y.monthday.secondssincemidnight).
Our continuous integration efforts came crashing down around our ears yesterday. Our build started failing on Wednesday evening, after someone checked in a ton of changes all at once (not very continuous, I know). That turned into a snowball of issues that took Scott and I all day yesterday to unravel. Even after we'd fixed all the consequences of such large code changes (that was done maybe by noon) things continued not to work. To make matters more dicey, at some point during the day our CVS server went TU, and had to be rebooted. Builds continued to fail, mostly with weird timeout problems. We were also seeing lots of locks being held open which was slowing down the build, contributing to the timeouts, etc.
We ended up building manually just to get a build out, which was suboptimal but necessary.
Thankfully, Scott was able to track down the problem last night. Turns out that when the CVS box went down, our build server was in the middle of a CVS "tag" operation, a.k.a. labeling. That left a bunch of crud on the CVS box that meant that subsequent tagging operations failed miserably, thus causing the timeouts, etc. A few well placed file deletions on the CVS server cleaned things up, and we're (relatively) back to normal now.
While I think that continuous integration is a fabulous idea, it's times like these that bring home just how many things have to go right at the same time for it to work. What a tangled web we weave.
If you have any interest in builds or code maintenance (like I do) check out vil. It's a code metrics tool that works directly on .NET assemblies. The interesting thing (IMHO) about that approach is that when it gives metrics for lines of code, complexity, etc. that's all with regard to IL, and not the C# or VB.NET or whatever that you wrote in the first place.
That makes sense when you consider all the stuff that get's compiled out, although particularly with things like lines of code it may be misleading. Particularly in C#, where keywords can expand out to quite a bit of code. Most of the other metrics still make sense with regard to IL, and of course even lines of code is useful when used for comparison rather than absolutist purposes.


Based on the Royal Veterinary College's (RVC) Hawkshead Estate in Hertfordshire, Boltons Park Farm has been an essential part of the RVC's activities for over 45 years.
We have 100 Holstein Friesian cows milking at the farm and a further 70 heifers which will join the herd as milking cows after their first calf at around two years old. For most of the year the herd grazes outside during the day and comes inside at night.
Our 500 sheep are of mixed breeds and mostly graze all year in the fields adjacent to the Potters Bar golf club.
Our Norfolk Bronze and Black turkey flock are reared in environmentally enhanced conditions – the breed is ideal as it suits our rearing system well, is slow growing and produces a beautiful product.
The farm is the RVC's farm animal practical teaching facility. We host a wide range of student practical tasks and demonstrations. Our animals are very used to being handled and take it all in their stride! Last year students and visitors spent over 16,000 hours at Boltons Park. Year on year this figure increases.


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Le château de Grignon est un château situé à Grignon (Côte-d'Or) en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Localisation
Le château est situé au centre du village sur le sommet rocheux d'une butte, entouré d'un bourg castral enveloppant son flanc oriental.

Historique
En l'an 1000 Aimon Pilo, de la famille comtale d'Auxois, est tué au château de Grignon. En 1210, Hervé, comte de Nevers, l'échange au duc Eudes III de Bourgogne. En 1303, Robert II le laisse à Odet, son second fils. En 1379, il revient à Guillaume de la Trimouille, chambellan du duc. Cession confirmée à Louis de la Trémouille en 1382. En 1424, Jeanne de la Trémoïlle, dame de Grignon, épouse Jean de Chalon. En 1503 le "chastel de Grignon comprend donjon, basse-cour, verger et fossés". En août 1589, le sieur de Tavannes y tient garnison pour protéger Saumur de celle de Montbard. En 1623, la baronnie consiste en un château-fort avec basse-cour, pont-levis et pont-dormant, corps de logis avec deux pavillons et deux tours. En 1701, il est nécessaire d'en réparer les murs de clôture en plusieurs endroits. L'ensemble sera en partie démantelé. En ruine au  le château a été partiellement rebâti au début du .

Architecture
Le château occupe une vaste enceinte accessible à l'est par une rampe d'accès parallèle à la muraille. L'ouvrage d'entrée qui n'a subi que peu de modifications s'appuie à droite sur le rocher et à gauche sur un massif polygonal. La porte est constituée d'un porche en arc brisé dont le pont-levis a été détruit à la Révolution. Cette porte est précédée à droite de trois maisons-tours jointives à deux étages. La tour centrale est desservie à l'ouest par une tourelle d'escalier hors-œuvre, rehaussée au  pour permettre des observations sismographiques. Au début du , les propriétaires construisent un corps de logis néogothique à un étage avec des matériaux de récupération. L'ensemble de l'enceinte est entouré d'un fossé d'une vingtaine de mètres de large.

Les façades et les toitures de la porte d'entrée avec le poste de garde et de la tour de défense située à l'angle nord-est, la façade Est entre la porte d'entrée et la tour sont inscrites par arrêté du 16 août 1976.

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Liste des châteaux de la Côte-d'Or
 Liste des monuments historiques de la Côte-d'Or
 Château d'Orain sur la même commune

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Grignon
Monument historique dans la Côte-d'Or
Monument historique inscrit en 1976

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Just when I thought it was safe to avoid trying yet another task management application, I got an email from Jake Olefsky, founder of Tooledo. After some virtual arm-twisting, Jake convinced me to try it out and gave me a premium trial account so I could report back on my experience. Keep reading until the end for a special discount code from Jake.
After messing around with Tooledo for a bit, I can say it's an impressive—and very affordable—system. Having admittedly been a Basecamp fan boy and lately gravitating to Asana, I am finding Toodledo to be one of the most robust and extensible platforms I've used. It's packed with options yet fairly intuitive. It seems like an ideal GTD system for someone who likes a lot of control over tweaking their preferences.
The best features include a raft of options for tracking the priority of events. These include tracking tasks by start date, due date, time, length or status—all of which are optional. You can also set up and assign tasks to a folder, context or goal.
When you complete a task that contributes to one of your goals, Toodledo will keep track of it. You will be able to see the number of tasks you have completed for each goal, as well as visual representation of the goal's chain. The chain gets longer for each consecutive day that you do a task that contributes to the goal. If you make progress on a goal each day, you will have a long chain. If you miss a day, that chain will get broken. This is a good way to motivate yourself to work on your goals.
Contexts are another standout feature in Toodledo. These help you organize tasks by where you are and what you are doing. You can set up locations like Home, Office, etc., and Toodledo will literally find them using Google Maps. A Context filter for tasks will hide tasks that do not match your current location, so you can quickly see only those tasks that are important at the moment. Some commonly used contexts include: work, home, car, gym, etc.
Outlines is their newest feature. As the name implies, it is a place to organize projects, take notes and store other hierarchical information. It helps that you can easily duplicate or download outlines as plain text files.
A smart list that automatically figures out what's important to you right now.
If you have limited time to work on something, this will analyze the details of your tasks to determine the best use of your time. Very smart.
Subtasks are a convenient way to organize projects and tasks that have multiple steps. These are designed to help keep your to-do list less cluttered.
You can share a to-do list privately with other people. The other member must also have a subscription if you want them to be able to edit your list, otherwise it will be shared in read-only mode.
They have apps for iOS, Android and Blackberry, along with integrations for about 50 other third-party apps.
Cost: Free and paid versions. Normal pricing for premium subscriptions is $14.95 or $29.95/year—but you can get a 10% discount off a pro account by using the promo code brandon.


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The old maxims were gradually replaced, and new leaders appointed through the democracy of retweets. No books were burned, although a few were traded in on Amazon. Our industry has undergone a genteel revolution. But listen closely and you may notice a more aggressive tone. The designers led us astray! The web has become bloated, and it's only pure luck that mobile arrived to save us, deus ex machina, from our past excesses.I prefer to recognise complexity than assume incompetence. No designer wants to add unnecessary elements, or another column of pageview-sucking linkbait. These designers knew what's good for users and the web. However, design is more complex than the slogans suggest.Real design is political. It's making the case for fluidity when the client isn't confident enough to yield control of pixels. It's persuasion, reciprocity, and benign skullduggery. It's a constant negotiation between what the consultant sees as harmful, but the client sees as essential.If the planets are aligned, it might just produce something the community deems worthy. But far more often, good design produces a modest improvement, a compromise, or a disaster narrowly averted.So let me speak on behalf of the designers who are accused of causing this apparent mess:We know.We're trying.But it's not that easy.


Trained in and studied Ballroom, Swing, and Latin dance with Walt Medicis Dance Associates. Taught for Walt Medicis for 5 years Ballroom, Latin and Swing, as well as, specialty classes specifically geared toward weddings.
Studied, danced, performed, and taught for and is a member of Syracuse Swing Dance Society.
Taught Ballroom, Swing, and Latin dance for Bruce Heffron's Ballroom Dancing productions and events and have performed at several of his events.
Taken instruction from nationally known dance teachers such as Diane Nardone, Mario Robau, Jr., Peter Billet, Fodie Baker, Sam and Denise Miller, and others in addition to attending numerous dance workshops at major northeastern dance events.
For over 10 years has studied Ballroom, Latin, and Swing dances with Terry Perrone of Terry Perrone Dance Studio. Geno has also completed numerous performances with and through Terry Perrone.
For the past 6 years has been teaching a weekly group dance class and continues to prepare couples for the first dance of their wedding and beyond.
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Dreams are made real only when someone attempts to follow them persistently. This explains the relationship between the digital painting "Success" by Urban Art Gallery, the essay "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dream" by Studs Terkel and the short story "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life" by Grace Paley. Success is depicted as a function of persistence as there are struggles along the way. The success of a person only depends on whether they can push the stone to the top of the cliff or they will give up along the way. When a man persists, he succeeds and generates praise from the people. The mixture of color and illumination in the painting also shows success aspects and the challenges that people face up the ladder of success.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's dream to become the best-built man in the world is the start of his own success. Success starts by envisioning it and believing that one can make it even through the hardships. Arnold says that he thought he was daydreaming to think he would be Mr. Universe but hard work took him straight to his dreams (Terkel 1). At the beginning of every struggle, you have to choose what you want and decide to follow it. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about a choice to start working on his dream. He knew it would not be easy. He notes that it took five years of trying hard to achieve his dream. However, giving up was not a choice for him as he knew that this would block his dream from coming true. In order to succeed, one must try continuously even when faced with obstacles that threaten his or her dream.
Arnold Schwarzenegger says that continuous hunger for success is the only way a person can keep scaling new heights of success. He never got comfortable at achieving any milestone that he set. Once he achieves a milestone, his immediate action is to set a new milestone and work to achieve a new level of success (Terkel 3). It is his philosophy to continually follow success and try to get rich. Similarly, the digital painting "Success" by Urban Art Gallery also resemble the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The painting shows the path to success through pictorial presentation.
Using art to tell stories is not easy, as one should bring out the story in his picture clearly in a way that blocks any misinterpretation from the target audience. In the painting, the man is trying to push the stone up the cliff. The artist shows that the decision and energy to start determines the level of success that a person makes despite the hardness of the task. However, obstacles try to hinder success and one ponders giving up as shown in the drawing. Midway through the task, the man seems tired and stops pushing the stone (UrbanArtGalleries). This may show two opposing ideas, all which are necessary for success. First, rest enables one to reflect on what he has done and gather more strength to push his dream. It is easy to interpret that the man is resting in order to gather more energy to push the stone to the top. The task of pushing the stone to the tops I a tough one with many obstacles, which implies that one needs to have enough energy to undertake the task. Resting and reflection is important in pushing the man to success.
However, one can also interpret this as the temptation to give up during ones journey to success. The man looks tired of pushing the stone and turns away from his target, which is the top of the cliff. The art shows that one should keep the target in mind even when it looks tough to achieve and persist in order to achieve it. The man looks outdone by the challenges along the way of pushing the stone to the top. In order to succeed, one must persist and find new ways of handling the challenges that come his way. The man then continues pushing the stone until he gets it on top of the cliff where he is seen celebrating his success. The artist shows here that success is sweet but the journey to success is bitter. One must endure the bitter journey to taste the sweet ending. However, if one has no choice, he or she may not taste the sweetness of success like Vicente in the short story "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life" by Grace Paley.
Vicente wanted to be a doctor because of his passion about medicine. He did all he could to ensure that he prepared adequately to become a doctor. He studied every organ in the human body, its function, behavior, and problems that could face it. He understood all this. However, when he told his teachers that he wanted to become a doctor, they refused and told him that he could be a good engineer because he understood mathematics very well (Paley 1). The schoolteachers allude that his performances did not show he could make a good doctor. This shows that in the struggle for success, people will try to define their perceived version of what you should be. In the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he came second in his bid to become Mr. Universe. However, he had a choice and did not give up despite the opinion of people on his undertaking. However, Vicente is in a different situation. Unlike Schwarzenegger, Vicente did not have a choice. He had to follow the recommendations of the school, as he believed that they understood his ability.
Vicente later says that the situation became even complicated when he learnt that he would join the army. Vicente never thought that this would come up. To make matters worse, he becomes a cook and has to prepare food for mane people. This ends his dream to become a doctor completely. However, it serves as a lesson in the journey to success. One must persist on their dreams. Many forces and alternatives try to end people's dreams. When one knows what they want, like Schwarzenegger, it is not easy to push them off their dreams.
In conclusion, success is a journey of choices where one must know what he or she wants and chooses to work hard and achieve it. However, persistence also helps like the case of Arnold Schwarzenegger who came second twice in his journey to becoming Mr. Universe. However, he attained his success through his persistence and eventually became Mr. Universe after five years. However, one must push on like the man in the drawing despite the rough and challenging journey.
UrbanArtGalleries. Urban Art Galleries. 2014. Web. 11 Dec. 2014.
Paley, Grace. "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life". Journal of Literature, 2004.


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Image caption Douglas Hern is among those whose claims were rejected.
The Court of Appeal's decision to deny ex-servicemen compensation for the injuries they say they suffered during Cold War nuclear tests more than 50 years ago, is a setback for the thousands who were watching the test cases anxiously.
More than 1,000 ex-servicemen say their lives were destroyed after the UK carried out a series of nuclear weapons tests in mainland Australia, the Montebello islands off the west Australian coast and on Christmas Island, in the Pacific, between 1952 and 1958.
The six nuclear tests were carried out against a backdrop of decolonisation and the growing threat of the , with the UK desperate to establish and show herself as a nuclear power.
Veterans who served in the Army, Royal Navy and Air Force - as well as personnel from New Zealand and Fiji - were all exposed to radiation.
Last year Dougie Hern, from Spalding, Lincs, told the BBC that he was just a 21-year-old naval cook when he was caught up in an explosion.
"We saw a bright, brilliant light," he recalled.
"It was as if someone had switched a firebar on in your head. It grew brighter and you could see the bones in your hands, like pink X-rays, in front of your closed eyes."
He said after the mushroom cloud had exploded, those on the islands were told to dust themselves down and return to work.
But Mr Hern, now 73, believes radiation exposure on that day and four others is the cause of his diabetes, the spurs growing on his sternum and the death of his 13-year-old daughter from cancer.
He was among those at the London court on Monday whose cases were rejected.
The veterans have been battling for recompense and a recognition of their claim that their poor health was caused by radiation exposure.
Other chronic health problems reported by the veterans include cancers, skin defects and fertility problems.
But the MoD has always denied their claims of negligence.
The Court of Appeal, which on Monday said it had seen no evidence to show the tests were the only causes of the men's illnesses, referred to previous cases.
Lady Justice Smith told the court that in 1985 war veteran Melvyn Pearce won a significant victory in the House of Lords when it was established the MoD could not rely on Crown immunity to stop it from being sued.
But he was forced to abandon his claim as his advisers realised they could not prove radiation exposure was the root cause of his cancer - this, she said, was a warning that causation was a difficult and important issue to address.
In 1998, research from Durham University suggested that one in three servicemen died from bone cancers or leukaemia linked to the atomic and hydrogen bomb tests.
It was widely reported that Sue Rabbit-Roff, a researcher at Durham University, had contacted 2,500 veterans in Britain and New Zealand and established that twice as many of them were suffering from multiple myeloma, a radiogenic cancer, than had been admitted by successive British governments.
Veterans bringing their case in the UK were also buoyed by the way similar cases have been dealt with elsewhere.
The US has awarded compensation under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to veterans, including at least one Briton, involved in nuclear testing in the 1960s.
Roy Prescott, of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, was given £40,000 in 2006.
Last month, the US government gave Pat Spackman $75,000 (£47,000) compensation after her husband, former RAF navigator Derek, died from throat cancer.
He was stationed in Darwin in 1954 and was sent on missions to test radioactivity following US nuclear tests around the Marshall Islands.
The MoD had refused to give Mrs Spackman a war widow's pension.
In France last year, the government agreed to compensate those who contracted illnesses attributed to the country's nuclear tests in the Sahara and French Polynesia between 1960 and 1996.
But British veterans Ken McGinley from Renfrewshire and Edward Egan from Glasgow were twice defeated when they applied to the European Court of Human Rights to find out if the government of the day had violated their human rights.
However, in June last year, the High Court gave the current group of veterans the right to sue the Ministry of Defence.
In his judgement, Mr Justice Foskett said all the veterans were "entitled to a day in court".
He did acknowledge, though, that many of those who could have provided witness statements for the MoD about the planning and execution of the tests had either died or were untraceable.
This time the appeal judges said the nine test cases were launched outside the legal time limit and so stopped them from proceeding.
But the latest judgement is far from the end of the matter.
The Court of Appeal judges have agreed that the case of one veteran - the late Bert Sinfield - could proceed to trial, while the the others are expected to try to take their case to the Supreme Court.


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'El Chapo' trial reveals drug lord's love life, business dealings
By Brendan Pierson, Daina Beth Solomon
(Reuters) - A U.S. jury found Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman guilty of running a criminal enterprise on Tuesday, after an 11-week trial in New York that put the infamous gangster's personal life and business dealings on public display.
Guzman was convicted on all 10 criminal charges he was tried for. U.S. prosecutors said he had amassed a $14 billion fortune through bribery, murder and drug smuggling.
A number of Guzman's former associates took the stand to bolster the prosecution's case, including one who said she was his lover and another whose brother was among his top allies, as well as law enforcement officers.
Defense lawyers said the 61-year-old Guzman, whose nickname means "Shorty," was set up as a scapegoat.
The following are some of the most colorful tales the jury heard:
HIS OWN WORDS
LOVERS AND BUSINESS
HIGH LEVELS OF CORRUPTION
SAFE HOUSES AND ESCAPES
Reporting by Brendan Pierson in New York; Additional reporting and writing by Daina Beth Solomon in Mexico City; Editing by Tom Brown, Dan Grebler and Grant McCool

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Q: NodeJS - Send converted file to client side to download GOAL: Allow the user to download a PDF
Background: The below code generates a car.pdf file and stores it into the main project's directory when localhost:3000/ is loaded. This is great because I want to find a Car by id in the database, generate a handlebars template, pass the data from Car into it, and generate a PDF from the compiled HTML
Issue: Instead of saving the PDF to the main project's directory, I want it to download to the user's computer.
How can I do this?
Here is my code. I am using the NPM package: html-pdf
helpers/export-helper.js
const fs             = require('fs');
const pdf            = require('html-pdf');
const Handlebars     = require('handlebars');

const { Car } = require('./../models/car');

var writePDF = (res) => {

  Car.findById({_id: '58857e256b639400110897af'})
    .then((car) => {
      var source = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/templates/car.handlebars', 'utf8');
      var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
      var file = template(car);
      pdf.create(file, { format: 'Letter' })
        .toFile('./car.pdf', (err, res) => {
          if (err) return console.log(err);
          console.log(res); // { filename: '/app/businesscard.pdf' }
        });
    })
    .catch((errors) => {
      console.log(errors);
    });
};

module.exports = { writePDF };

routes/home.js
const express  = require('express');
const router   = express.Router();
const { writePDF } = require('./../helpers/export-helpers');

router.get('/', (req, res) => {
  writePDF();
});

module.exports = router;

A: You should use res.download for this. Like so
router.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.download('car.pdf');
});

https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#res.download

A: You have to pipe the created pdf with response to client side.

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Q: I can't see custom logs events in DebugView Firebase Analytics ios swift I'm using Xcode 12.5.1, swift 5, firebase 8.8.0
I can see the screen_view logs, user_engagement in the debugView in real time but I can't see custom logs events.
I don't know if I sent them correctly, can somebody help me find out please ?
I did put the GoogleService-info file with the right bundleID
I put the FirebaseApp.configure() in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
I did activate the -FIRAnalyticsDebugEnabled in scheme
Here is the function that I used
func logCustomEvent(name: String, category: String, action: String, label: String) {
    Analytics.logEvent(name, parameters: ["eventCategory": category, "eventAction": action, "eventLabel": label])
}

Analytics.logEvent("event_log_test", parameters: ["params": "value_test"])

Thanks for your help
GoogleService-info

A: I resolved my problem, because i used Firebase in Pod in others frameworks that i use in my project.
So i had duplicate class firebase.
In my console log i saw :
class 'className' is implemented in both Pod

For fix it, now i just use Firebase Pod in my main project, and now i can see log event custom


Discussion in 'Forum Related Discussions' started by whitedragon551, Oct 7, 2008.
Any idea on the best way to get a topic stickied or who to contact to ask if you can get one? Or is there a place for tutorials? If not there should be.
I just created a tutorial for optimizing your operating system and am wondering if I could get one on it or have you guys post your thoughts on what I should add.
Mods are listed at the botton of each forum page. You'll need to PM one.
We're not actually real big on making too many stickies because they can clog up the top of forum sections. There are a lot of threads that easily could be stickies here. So, a while back we changed over to a "recommended threads" sticky for most of the general forum sections. Threads of merit can be added to one of those.
Regarding your thread noted above, it does look interesting, however, you have to understand that opinions will vary as to whether that is the right way to optimize Windows. For example, some people disagree with BlackViper's approach for disabling supposedly unneeded services. Something unneeded by one person may well be needed by another. I've seen people do the classic disabling, along with many of those "security hacks" tweaks/adjustments (like the cleaners, decrapifiers and similar products do), only to later install something that won't work because it needed something that was disabled or hacked out.
Anyway, the best way to proceed for now is to let people comment on your thread, get more opinions and options, and see how it develops.
I still dont understand how people can not like Blackviper. It does offer different levels and it explains them.


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Patriots Offseason Outlook: Trey Flowers' Future Among Several Questions For D-Line
by Zack Cox on Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:00AM
Before the NFL Scouting Combine kicks off later this month, marking the unofficial start of the NFL offseason, we're taking a position-by-position look at the New England Patriots' roster. We'll examine which players stood out in 2018, which ones have some work to do this offseason and which ones could be leaving town.
Next up: the defensive line.
DE Deatrich Wise
DE Adrian Clayborn
DE Derek Rivers
DE Keionta Davis
DT Lawrence Guy
DT Adam Butler
DE Ufomba Kamalu
DE Trent Harris
DT Frank Herron
DT David Parry
IMPENDING FREE AGENTS
DE Trey Flowers
DE John Simon
DT Malcom Brown
DT Danny Shelton
STANDOUT PERFORMER
If All-Pro cornerback Stephon Gilmore wasn't the MVP of the Patriots' defense, it was Flowers, who led the team in sacks, quarterback hits and tackles for loss for the third consecutive season. One of the NFL's most well-rounded edge defenders, Flowers is equally effective as a pass rusher and run defender and can line up practically anywhere along the defensive line.
How important was Flowers to the Patriots' success? Two of their worst defensive performances of the season (Week 2 at Jacksonville and Week 3 at Detroit) came while he was sidelined with a concussion.
Guy, Butler and Simon also impressed this season in their respective roles
Shelton and Clayborn were two of the Patriots' higher-profile offseason additions, and both were benched for multiple games late in the season. Finding reliable edge rushers behind Flowers again was an issue for New England, as Wise failed to take a significant step forward in his second season and Rivers and Davis both sat out the majority of the year as healthy scratches.
Clayborn had his moments, but New England's most effective pass rushers outside of Flowers were linebackers Kyle Van Noy and Dont'a Hightower.
Neither Shelton nor Brown impressed after the Patriots declined to pick up their fifth-year contract options before the season, though both wound up playing very well in Super Bowl LIII.
TOP OFFSEASON STORYLINES
1. Will Flowers be back? Given the Patriots' struggles to find consistent pass rushers in recent years, retaining their 25-year-old star should be their No. 1 priority this offseason. Flowers will be one of the top edge defenders available in free agency, so he's surely in line for a massive pay raise as he hits the open market for the first time.
There's one factor working in New England's favor, however: Though his talents are highly regarded in NFL circles, Flowers never has posted gaudy sack numbers — he was tied for 34th in the league this season with a career-high 7 1/2 takedowns — which might make the new contract he eventually signs a tad more affordable.
On the surface, Flowers seems more likely to re-sign than the Patriots' other marquee free agent, left tackle Trent Brown, who appears poised to cash in elsewhere after a very strong first season in New England.
2. Will Clayborn be cut? The Patriots can save nearly $4 million in salary cap space by parting ways with the 30-year-old, who was a healthy scratch for the final two games of the regular season.
3. What will the interior D-line look like? Guy will be back after earning the 10th-highest Pro Football Focus grade among interior defenders this season, and Butler showed noticeable improvement as a pass-rushing specialist. Brown and Shelton both are set to hit free agency, however, and it would not be surprising to see the Patriots move on from the two 2015 first-round picks.
This could be a position the Patriots address in this year's draft. If they opt to go D-tackle at No. 32 (as they did with Brown four years ago), one potential target to keep in mind is Clemson's Christian Wilkins, a Springfield, Mass., native who wrapped up his college career with a dominant performance against Alabama in the national title game.
Patriots offseason preview: Quarterbacks | Running backs | Tight ends | Wide receivers | Offensive line | Linebackers (Feb. 19) | Cornerbacks (Feb. 20) | Safeties (Feb. 21) | Specialists (Feb. 22)
Thumbnail photo via Winslow Townson/USA TODAY Sports Images


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    class Meta:
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Lord Reginald is a chimp, and one of Sandy's bosses. He was tortured in an invention SpongeBob and Patrick designed to help Sandy. He, Professor Percy and Dr. Marmalade own Sandy's Treedome. Lord Reginald's only appearance was in the episode: Chimps Ahoy. He is voiced by Rik Mayall.
He can be very strict and is a very serious chimp. He is the first one to be in the Back-Scratching, Nose-Picking, Hair-Combing, Ukulele-Tuner 9000. The machine felt good at first and then it got out of control. However, it seemed to give him some delicious pudding which made him happy.
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Q: Batch script to duplicate a file multiple times using filenames from a list I'm Using a batchscript to duplicate a couple of PDFs and output them with different filenames each.
So far, What I have done is
SET Template=C:\Temp\template.pdf
copy /y %Template% .\%Class%\Apples_fruits.pdf
copy /y %Template% .\%Class%\Oranges_fruits.pdf
copy /y %Template% .\%Class%\Grapes_fruits.pdf
copy /y %Template% .\%Class%\Bananas_fruits.pdf
copy /y %Template% .\%Class%\Strawberry_fruits.pdf

I want to do this without having to type the copy /y line each time. I'd like to have a list of 'fruits' in a .txt or .xlsx file and have batch use the items in the list as filenames.
For example:
Apples_fruits.pdf
Oranges_fruits.pdf
Grapes_fruits.pdf
Bananas_fruits.pdf
Strawberry_fruits.pdf

A: Windows 10 64-bit.
The batch file and fruit.txt have to be in the same directory.
SET Template=%temp%\template.pdf
SET Class=Class
IF /i not exist %Class% md %Class%
FOR /f "delims=" %%g in ('type fruit.txt') do COPY /y %Template% .\%Class%\%%g_fruits.pdf

fruit.txt:
Apples
Oranges
Grapes
Bananas
Strawberry


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If you could live in the country you love the most, work on a flexible schedule, and make a living talking about the place you adore, would that be appealing? As today's guest post author Madeline Jhawar of Italy Beyond the Obvious tells us, if that sounds good to you then you might consider a future as a travel consultant.
Over the past four years working as an Italy trip planner, I've created hundreds of travel days for clients, with a 90% "delighted" client track record. I also get pretty regular requests from people asking about becoming a travel consultant, because they want to do it, too.
My advice? Go for it! It's a lot of fun, there is plenty of work for everyone, and it's the most flexible job ever: it doesn't matter what time zone you're in, just that you are available to your clients; and once you get rolling, you can accept as many or as few clients as you want. I always ramp up to accommodate spring and autumn trips, and I've taken months off at a time: last year we took our kids to India for the month of November; the year before that, we sold a house and moved 3,000 miles, my full-time project for about 8 weeks.
Can I make a living?
I am happy to share what has worked for me.
Can I make a living as a travel consultant?
You can make a living, if you approach this as a business and not as a hobby.
I have a business background and worked in corporate operations for almost a decade before starting Italy Beyond the Obvious (my travel consulting business), but I'd been planning trips to Italy for family and friends for years for free – and the hobby-to-business mental transition was challenging. People knew me as the go-to person they could ask for free Italy information, since I'd been enthusiastically giving it out for years, and I had to start explaining that I was now charging for time and expertise in this area. These days, if anyone asks my advice about Italy that would take me time to research and reply, my standard response is that I would love to help and then I ask whether I should put together a proposal for consulting services.
Think about who, specifically, your customers are, and how you are going to find them. You need to start thinking about this right away, and keep it at the front of your mind while you're thinking about your products and your pricing. Are your clients going to be budget travelers? Honeymooners? High-end luxury travelers? Gay 40-60-something couples? Brainstorm points that describe your clients and another page with ideas on how to reach them. This is not an if-you-build-it-they-will-come type of job.
Figure out how long it takes you to create your product. You need to include all time spent here, starting with the amount of time it takes to answer a potential client's first email all the way through creating their final invoice. You'll likely end up with an average time rather than an absolute time it takes you to create your product, and that's fine.
Decide how you are going to make money, AKA your business model. You could charge your clients very little or nothing, and make money from commissions you earn from booking hotels and tours (if that's your product). You could book everything for your clients (with or without commissions) and send them one final invoice that includes everything on the trip, which you mark up 15%. You could charge for your time per-hour, as a consultant. You could charge for your product, which you might create once and sell once, or you might create once and sell many times. There are travel consultants who earn money each of these ways. I chose to charge by product (my coaching service and itineraries), for several reasons: I didn't want to keep track of my hours and I didn't want to work from commissions – I want to tell my clients I'm recommending the best solution for them, not the best solution based only upon my portfolio of commission-earning options.
Decide what to charge. Here you need to do the math. You could, of course, start with a market analysis, look at what the competition is charging, and spend a lot of time deciding what the "right" price is. I didn't do very much of that, but I asked myself one question: how much do I need to charge in order for this to be worth my time?
So, if you figure out how much you can charge and how many customers you can handle, you can figure out how much you'll earn. Now subtract expenses. Can you make a living? If not, maybe you need to think about a different business model, or figure out a way to work more efficiently so you can create more products in the time you have.
If you've read this far, you may have noticed something: just because you're working to create other people's trips, you're not necessarily traveling – or at least the bulk of your time is spent serving the client and creating your product, as opposed to spending money at hot new restaurants or hotels or scouting out new locations. People often have an "a-ha" moment at this point, because they've assumed that being a travel consultant means they will get to travel frequently to their destination of choice.
This doesn't mean you don't get to travel, it just means you need to maximize time spent serving the client and minimize expenses. If you already live in the place you'll be consulting about, or will be moving there, that's even better. Maybe just going about your daily life will be enough for you to give great advice to your clients. Either way, you need to either know your destination(s) very well before you start.
How can I be successful as a travel consultant?
Understand your clients' interests. Being a travel consultant is not about sharing only your favorite places or hidden gems with every single client, though many will appreciate that. It's about listening to what the client wants, not about what you think they should want. You may love opera and have a client going to the best spot in the country for opera at the best time of year for opera – but they don't like opera. Let it go. And remember that your clients are going to be foreigners while on vacation, so put yourself in their shoes. When I go to Italian restaurants in Italy, I am not treated like a tourist because I speak Italian. However, I will only recommend restaurants where my clients – people who don't speak Italian – will be treated well. If you listen to what your clients really want, you'll give good advice. And if you give good advice, the word will spread and you'll get more clients.
Establish work processes and tools to help you work efficiently. You need to be able to create your product again and again, with a high quality. You'll need tools to keep track of each project, so you don't forget details, and you'll need to be able to trace the process back that one time you dropped the ball. Maybe you'll subscribe to an online project planning tool; maybe you'll use an Excel spreadsheet; or maybe a pencil and paper and checklist will do. Whatever it is, you need to rely on your processes because it will soon become impossible to keep all the details in your head. In addition, identify skills you have or ways you'll work that will make you work efficiently. (For example, I do 90% of my research and planning in Italian, which gives me access to lots of information that English-only speakers don't have.) Think about what tools you'll use to keep current, since you won't be able to visit every hotel, restaurant, or location you're recommending to your clients every year. Maybe you'll rely on bloggers' reports, your Twitter feed, or glossy travel magazines; maybe you'll have people on the ground; maybe you'll cross-check online review sites in four languages; or maybe you'll limit your recommendations only to places you can physically visit frequently.
Set your clients' expectations. As a tour guide, I was physically accompanying my clients, in control over what happened when, and there to problem-solve if necessary. As a travel consultant, I give my travelers advice and then I let them go, so it's really important to set expectations – in a diplomatic way – to prepare them for things that could go wrong. For example, I brief my clients about Italian transportation strikes; I tell them that if they don't have good maps, they will get lost (which is sometimes fun and sometimes not); I tell them not to expect to be able to eat between about 2:30 and 7:30 pm; and if they are renting a car, we have a long conversation about driving in Italy. I've found that setting expectations is crucial to how clients perceive their trip – and how they perceive the competence of the person who planned it.
I've found clients very open, in general, to the idea of a travel consultant – many work as consultants in other industries so the concept resonates with them. If what I've described resonates with you and you decide to take the next step, please send me a note and keep me posted!
About the Author: Madeline Jhawar is the founder and owner of Italy Beyond the Obvious. She regularly shares great Italy tips on Facebook and heads over to Twitter every now and again, too.
hi Nick, great to hear you enjoyed the article! Seems like you are in an ideal position to start as a travel consultant for Czech or Malawi or both – you've got the experience, the network, and certainly the customer service based on your glowing reviews. Why not start putting together specifics about what types of customer you might target, and what your product is going to be? Start playing with the various options, see what you think would work best, and do some math to figure out what you would earn with different products. People often need a sort of creative 'incubation' period to digest all of these before they dive in. There's a lot to think about but keep me posted!
Hi Madeline – This is an inspiring post and I have to say, it's got me wondering if this is the direction I should be heading in myself. Many thanks for your advice.
hi Julie – great to hear! Keep me posted….
hi Diane – great job planning a 15 day trip and I'm happy to hear the information on my site was useful! If you love doing it that's a great start – as you know, it's time consuming and the details are VERY important. Not everyone wants to focus on that level of detail 🙂 I would hesitate to recommend doing this as a living after one trip unless you are very clear with clients about what you are offering and what you are not. By that I mean: on your trip you learned about trains, but what if you get a client who wants to rent a car? You went with friends but what if you get a family with kids or what if someone with a very different budget wants to hire you. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't do it, but I would make sure you offer something you know you can do well. So maybe you take the trip you did and offer to book that specific trip (or pieces of it) for people, that way you're offering what you know very well. Especially for Italy, a lot can go wrong as you know 🙂 so even the exact same itinerary, done at another time (even shifted one day or done in a different season) will be very different. Something to think about and I hope that helps!
Love seeing another travel business that follows the consultant model rather than the traditional travel agent model! I've been planning trips to the Pacific Northwest on a fee basis since 1991, so well before consultant fees were at all common in the travel business. I came from a law background so I was used to charging for my time, so that model made sense to me. I know of a number of us who work this way and am glad to learn about you.
Sheri I'm glad to hear about you too! I've worked with travel agencies who are trying to transition — though they always want to keep the commissions as well 🙂 — so I wonder whether this model will become more prevalent in the future.
You are truly an inspirations to those of us who are interested in travel consultancy. I am currently planning a luxury golf vacation business and I'm looking for practical advice on getting up and going. I've put great thought into who my target market will be, and how I might reach them, but I'm still trying to figure out how much to charge for my consultation/advice/planning. I do not have any interest in booking flights, etc. so I would rather focus on the detailed aspects of the trip plan. Any suggestions you can lend would be fantastic. Thanks Madeline!
this is a very useful article, I've been lucky (well, thanks google for that) to find it as I'm in the process of defining the last details of my tailored travel planning services. The "define your product" made me re-think a large chunk of it! Thanks a lot!
you are very welcome Chrissy! Best of luck!
A very inspiring story, I must say! Travelling and prep for the itinerary has always been my favorite hobby. The idea of making money out of it always crossed my mind but didn't think it would work quite well for the very reason of hobby-to-business mental transition, especially when your friends and people in your network know that you are just a call away! But your article makes me think again and I think am gonna give it a shot anyways. Thanks for the article!
Hi, this article is great! Thank you.
I have been traveling for about 8 years pretty consistently, and do all the planning (or sometimes not :)) myself. I have been giving advice to friends for years and when I do travel with friends or family it seems I am always finding all the deals and the hidden gems. Lately, I have been feeling the need to settle and find a career that will still allow me to be flexible and travel a bit. A friend suggested that I become a travel consultant, start small with friends and family and work up to a business. I love the idea and am wondering how realistic it is for me with my education and background. I would love to talk with you through email if possible and hear your advice.
Thanks again for this information and I hope to connect soon.
Thanks for this great insight into travel consulting. I just launched my new site to do the same and found this article very informative and inspiring.
This is an excellent example of superior writing. I found this highly interesting, with excellent usage of better words and some fantastic points.
I live in India and work as a Systems Engg. in a renowned IT firm.
I want to plan tours for travellers in India.Pls help to persue it.
This is has really inspired me. I would like to set up my own business creating tailored holidays. I just don't know where to start any advance would be useful.


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Netflix's Witcher soundtrack will go on sale this week
By Cian Maher
last updated 4 June 2020
Toss a coin to your witcher
The Witcher OST will be available for purchase later this week (Image credit: Netflix)
Following the success of Netflix's The Witcher, the series' official 55-track OST will be available for purchase later this week.
Currently listed on Amazon (opens in new tab), the album is priced at £7.49/$9.99 and features tracks from the entire first season of The Witcher. Fans will be pleased to know that Toss A Coin To Your Witcher is the second song on the album—and the only one currently available for purchase as a single. It's individually priced at $1.29, likely to appease any aspiring coin-tossers ahead of the record's full release.
The album, simply called "The Witcher (Music from the Netflix Original Series)," was arranged for the series by Swiss-Italian composer Giona Ostinelli and Russian-born American producer Sonya Belousova.
According to the Amazon listing, it is set to launch on Friday, January 24, 2020 and will be published by Milan Records. It includes over three hours of original songs from the series' inaugural season and you can place your pre-order here (opens in new tab) now.
This comes alongside the news that The Witcher could be Netflix's biggest series ever, with its Q4 2019 earnings report stating:
"Through its first four weeks of release, 76 million member households chose to watch this action-packed fantasy, starring Henry Cavill. As a testament to how our hit content can penetrate the global zeitgeist and influence popular culture, the show's launch drove up sales of The Witcher books and games around the world, and spawned a viral musical hit."
This report is backed up by the fact a whopping 500,000 copies of Sapkowksi's Witcher books being printed in the US alone since Netflix's show aired in late December.
At present, it is estimated that The Witcher season 2 should launch some time in 2021.
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* Best Pat Dye commercial ever???
If someone bought this casket because they got cancer and thought they were going to die, then beat cancer (or something along this line) and turned it into a grill to celebrate life etc. then I'm ok with it. Otherwise I find it rather morbid.
Under any circumstances this is creepy. Maybe they own a funeral home or something? Does he have a bbq apron that reads "I'd rather be cremating"?
Reminds me of the float that got banned from the 1989 Beat bama parade right before the parade started (I don't remember which fraternity built it)… featured a see-through coffin with a Bryant-on-a-spit inside, spinning around and around and around.
I love my AU family but I agree with Tigertracker.
Is that a RED cooler under that thing?!?
You know? Those ribs tasted a little different.
These are actually somewhat common. I've seen a few here in texas.
Having said that, I wouldn't want it.


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Q: Visualize data from a mySQL db and display it on an html? So I'm sure this has come up more than once, but I really don't know where to start.
I'm putting together a simple MySQL database consisting of 4 fields (Date, Checking Account Balance, Savings Account Balance, and Credit Card Balance).
I would then like to visualize this database on an HTML page, via PHP.  This will include displaying the records as lists and visualizing some sort of line graph representing my data.  I will also include inputs that will allow me to add to the database from the HTML
Question: I've looked at a few methods, but none of them seem intuitive and some of them involve pasting a png of a graph in the HTML (YUCK!).  I would like to make it so the user only has to interact with the HTML page.  What is the most straight forward approach at doing this?  Is it writing a JavaScript/JQuery, or something I have yet to look into? Also, I don't think this will raise any security concerns since the database servers will be handled locally, if this isn't the case, please say so.
Info:

OS: OSX 10.8
  mySQL/PHP servers: MAMPP

Need more?... Let me know.

A: For graphs, I would use Google Charts (https://developers.google.com/chart/).
To grab the data, you would use PHP to pull the data from the data base using the mysql/mysqli/pdo functions. (http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php)


Mike Barber was one of the most sought after high school athletes in the country when he graduated from White Oak High School in White Oak, Texas. Mike was an All-State quarterback and linebacker for the White Oak Roughnecks in 1971. Mike was selected to the Prep All-American team at linebacker and played in the Texas High School Coaches Association All-Star in 1972. Mike also led White Oak to a state title in track, winning the 120-yard high hurdles and the 440-yard relay. In March 2000, Mike was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame, as a member of the Millennium Team, representing the 1970's. He went on to play college football at Louisiana Tech in 1972, but did not stay at the quarterback position for long. Because of his 4.4 sec speed in the 40-yard dash he was switched to receiver, then moved to the tight-end position the following season. Mike was selected First Team All American both his Junior and Senior year at Louisiana Tech.
In 1976 Mike was Bum Phillips' first pick in the draft of the Houston Oilers. During his 10-year NFL career Mike was a starter each year for the Houston Oilers as well as the Los Angeles Rams. He still holds a few records for both teams as a receiver at the tight-end position. In his 10 years in the NFL, Mike became the prototype NFL Tight End. He had the size, hands and speed to make him one of the league's best.
What makes Mike special today is not just what he did as a ball player, but what he does with his time now. Upon his retirement from the NFL in 1986, he responded to God's call into full-time prison ministry. Since January 1986 Mike and family have lived inside the prisons across the USA, conducting outreaches called "Weekends of Excitement". Mike considers the Mike Barber Ministries the greatest team he has ever played for with the greatest teammates called volunteers who minister cell to cell.
Travis Moffitt graduated from Christ For The Nations Institute in 1994. He married Gina Doughty in 1994. Gina graduated from CFNI in 1993. He spent 17 years in the business world while working bi-vocationally in ministry.
Travis and Gina moved to Tampa, Florida in 1999 where they began attending MorningStar Church. In 2004 they made their first trip to Honduras with MorningStar Church. Together they have led over 30 trips to Honduras and other nations as well as ministered in numerous prisons in Texas, Florida and other countries.
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As the leaders of Bethel Church, Pastor Steve & Sharon Holder are a dynamic couple of faith who sincerely love the people of their community and globe. Lead Pastor Steve Holder is known for his bold preaching, his passion for the community, and his love for people. Able to connect with people of all ages and all walks of life, Pastor Steve genuinely cares for each person who walks through the doors of Bethel Church. His fatherly love is evident in his desire to develop young leaders, serve the community, and nurture a family and church of passionate worshippers.
Music that flows from the heart - Dan Utz started Clearwater as a Christian country band in 1995 having been part of another prison ministry since 1981. The band toured USA and Canada for over 4 years before several members retired from the band. Dan continues to provide music for Christian venues, however his music passion is sharing the platform with other other musicians, young and old, in prisons and correctional facilities. Clearwater Ministires is a non-profit organization.
Kevin is a native of Indiana and attended grade school through college in Indianapolis.
Before moving to Florida in August of 2005, he worked in city government for 25 years in the positions of Assistant Director/Youth Program Counselor for the Summer Youth Work Program, District Superintendent for DPW/DOT, Affirmative Action Manager, Special Projects Manager and Contract Manager. He served as the Executive Director of Mentoring With A Mission, Inc. for high-risk youth, is an ordained minister and has served as a Youth Pastor, Pastor of Worship and Associate Pastor.
Since August of 2005, Kevin has served as the Youth Ministry Coordinator for Kairos Prison Ministry known as Kairos Torch. He authored the mentor's handbooks and training materials used for mentoring incarcerated youth in Kairos, and lead the effort to establish Kairos Torch as an evidence based-behavior modification model.
Javier is a social entrepreneur and compassionate pragmatist who co-founded Connect Global alongside his wife, Danielle Mendoza, and Travis and Gina Moffitt.
Javier has spent the last decade creating & implementing sustainable solutions to solvable problems around the globe. This focus within the not for profit sector has fueled his creativity and motivation to help bring similar organizations and like-minded ministries to life through web, graphic, and social media design as the founding owner of Dallas Media Company.
His eye for detail and keen skill for strategy is what makes his work stand out.


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God will make your soul white as snow, no matter what you have done.
Isaiah tells us, "Though your sins be like scarlet they may become white as snow." If there is some awful thing that you once did, and if that thing comes back to haunt you, don't despair. There is no limit to God's mercy. He is ready with forgiveness that will leave your soul white as snow, gleaming like the full moon we are treated to this week.
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is Lord alone."
If today you do not hear his voice, what then?
We must make the final leap of Faith.


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Martinique has dense forest, which consists of various species such as locust, rosewood, mahogany, and bamboo. Rainfall is common in the forest at the northern part. The southern part is mostly inhabited by logwood, copaiba balsam, cacti and acacia.
The native fauna in Martinique includes fer-de-lance snakes and anolis lizards. The snake population was attempted to control by the people by introducing Herpestes auropunctatus or mongooses in 1800s.
Can you guess the total GDP of Martinique? It has 5.496 billion Euros in 2003. It has the per capita GDP of 14,283 Euros in 2000.
Almost 82.2 percent of GDP is from the service. Agriculture represents 3.5 percent of GDP. The 8.6 percent is from the industry.
The main goods exported by Martinique include petroleum products, beverages and fruit. The worth reached 26 million Euros in 2002.
The goods imported by Martinique included medicine, furniture, vehicles, and raw petroleum. It cost 486 million Euros.
In the past, agriculture was the primary source of economy in Martinique. Over the years, the production of sugar was reduced. The production of rum is more important in the sugarcane industry.
Banana is one of the major exported goods from Martinique. Most banana production was exported for France.
The primary source of foreign exchange is mainly from tourism. It occupied 7 percent of the total employment in the country. It became a home for 500,000 tourists in 2000.
The tourist-related service accounts for 16 percent of the total businesses. Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport is the only airport for those who want to reach the island.
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Seriously, though: a major building block of promoting your business on social media is the PERSONAL Reality Show.
This Reality Show Method is something that major celebrities and renowned bloggers/vloggers use to stay in touch with their audience and establish that priceless human connection we all want.
Just take a good look at big names like The Rock, Miley Cyrus, Gary Vaynerchuk and many others who expertly use this tactic. We almost feel like we know them, at least a little bit, even though they are complete strangers.
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Promoting yourself on social media properly also explicitly shows your clients that you know how social media works!
There's no intricate science to this because it's all about being authentic. That being said, there are two points to pay attention to: platform appropriateness and your own comfort level.
On business-oriented platforms (i.e. LinkedIn) focus on promoting your business. Post about your activities, such as updates on upcoming webinars you're creating or events you're speaking at.
On the more personal accounts (i.e. Facebook, Snapchat), keep it fun and relatable: your pets, kids, recreation, and don't be shy to pepper in some business stuff, too.
Here is where the comfort level bit is very important: figure out where your privacy line is. Everybody has a different limit as to what kind of personal information they are willing to share. Find your boundary and stick to it.
As a practical example, you can do a "selfie story", where — just like it sounds — you take a selfie, and tell a story about what you're doing.
Take a picture of yourself at a networking event and shout out who you're with and why you're there.
Take a picture of something cool that you do on an evening or on the weekend and say a few words about it.
Add some flavor with emotive stories! Instead of just describing things, throw in some positive adjectives and descriptions of how awesome an experience is.
Now, every good story has to have its ups and downs. Don't just post exclusively positive stuff, but don't whine about your trials and tribulations constantly either.
Stay within the bounds of what is comfortable for you to share and keep it generally positive. Happy endings are good!
Pro Tip: for maximum effectiveness, use the harder stories (conflict, sadness, strife, challenges, etc.) in order to create additional value for your audience, beyond the emotional involvement. Share the valuable lessons that you learn from these experiences, which your readers/viewers can apply to their own life and their career. If this lesson directly relates to your area of expertise: even better!
Remember: Facebook users engage the most with faces, food, and animals, so don't be afraid to exploit your furry friends or your charming smile.
Taking pictures of your food is touted as an annoying social media cliche, but the bottom line is: it works!
Make sure you're posting a minimum of one time per week.
This schedule shouldn't be a ton of extra work for you, it is about documenting the activities and thoughts you have throughout your everyday life. Use a combination of photo, text, and video posts to create your "show".
There are some other tips out there, but keep in mind that this is easy-peasy. Coincidentally, because of my Reality Show I actually ended up going out more often and doing more cool stuff, just because I knew that I had to keep the action up!
Important! You're not just promoting your business on social media! You are representing yourself, so be authentic!
By using social media in this way, you can catalyze authentic connections with future clients and collaborators.
The people on social media that you don't know well are where opportunity resides. Leverage this fringe network with the Reality Show Method.
Everybody has different experiences when it comes to promoting your business on social media. I'd love to hear any suggestions, tips, or stories that you may have!