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Lingers, seemingly forever, to oak and Pot Still spices and then, the final bow from barley - where it all began.


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Friday Fundings: Squarespace, Yotpo, and SecurityScorecard
By SoFi | Mar 19, 2021 | Uncategorized | Comments Off on Friday Fundings: Squarespace, Yotpo, and SecurityScorecard
Squarespace Hits $10 Billion Valuation
Website building service Squarespace is now valued at $10 billion after a recent $300 million funding round. Participating investors included Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Squarespace has seen surging demand for its services as businesses have shifted their operations online during the pandemic. Since its founding in 2003, it has expanded beyond simple website templates to offer ecommerce support and other features for its clients.
This funding was announced less than two months after Squarespace confidentially filed to go public through either a direct listing or an IPO. The company is expected to make its public debut sometime this year.
Yotpo Raises Fresh Funds for Ecommerce Marketing
Ecommerce marketing company Yotpo has raised $230 million in a Series F round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Tiger Global. Yotpo is now valued at $1.4 billion.
Yotpo gives brands a one-stop-shop for all their ecommerce marketing needs. It serves small clients as well as large brands like Patagonia and Steve Madden (SHOO). As ecommerce has boomed, so has demand for Yotpo's services. Revenue from its SMS marketing product climbed by 170% last year, and revenue from its loyalty and referrals program nearly doubled during the same time frame.
SecurityScorecard Raises $180 Million in Series E Round
SecurityScorecard has raised $180 million in a Series E round with participation from new investors including Silver Lake Waterman and T. Rowe Price, and existing investors including Evolution Equity Partners and Accomplice. This could be the company's last fundraising round before it goes public, though it has not shared specific information about its plans to make a public debut.
SecurityScorecard helps companies evaluate the security risks of their vendors. It gives vendors a security letter grade based on a variety of factors. So far, SecurityScorecard has rated over 2 million companies around the world.
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For the past several years, the SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) Research team has been conducting research on the topic of continuous performance management.
A key finding from this research is that shifting to a more continuous method of performance management is as much about changing people's mindsets as it is changing actual processes. The reason many performance management transformations fail is because managers and employees are unable to abandon their old habits and adopt new patterns of behavior.
Fortunately, research has identified several strategies companies can leverage to help managers and employees abandon old, ineffective habits and adopt new, more impactful ones. Four of these strategies were nicely summarized in a study that explored the process of habit formation in new gym members. The same strategies that work for improving exercise routines can be applied to creating healthy coaching habits.
Participants who exercised in a consistent manner, such as at the same time every day, were more likely to form a habit of exercising compared to participants who did not follow a set pattern or schedule.
This finding speaks to the value of scheduling regular coaching and feedback sessions with employees. Having these meetings may feel awkward at first, but the more consistently they occur the less uncomfortable and more natural they will become. It may be useful to provide managers and employees with suggested guidelines around how often they should be engaging in coaching conversations. It is also important to remember that newly adopted behaviors will not become ingrained overnight. Human resources leaders should encourage and monitor the regular occurrence of coaching conversations over time, even after the initial excitement of shifting to more continuous performance management has faded.
Note the emphasis on perception. If people think something is easy to do, they are more likely to do it. The key is making sure people do not view it as something that is inherently hard to do. Talking with employees about their performance and development may not seem like a major challenge, but many managers may view it as "yet another thing I have to keep track of and cram into my schedule." Fortunately, technology can help managers remember to have coaching conversations by providing email notifications and other system reminders. Technology can also help managers keep track of employees' progress on activities and achievements as well as document relevant questions and previous discussion topics. By reducing some of the administrative burden associated with continuous performance management, managers may feel less overwhelmed by the prospect of holding regular coaching conversations with employees.
It is not surprising that it is easier to build habits around things we feel comfortable doing. One of the challenges associated with continuous performance management is that many managers do not have knowledge or confidence in their coaching skills. Managers may feel intimidated by the prospect of engaging in coaching conversations or interpret providing employees with feedback as being more difficult or complicated than it needs to be. This is why it is so critical to train managers on what effective coaching behaviors look like and how to provide effective feedback to employees. The more information managers have about the right and wrong ways to engage in ongoing coaching conversations, the more comfortable they will be to carry them out. Ensure managers understand the sorts of topics and questions coaching conversations should focus on and how these conversations differ from the other conversations they may already be having with employees, such as check-ins or development-planning conversations. Provide managers with simple best practices or feedback 'dos and don'ts' so that they feel comfortable and confident when entering into a coaching conversation with employees.
Participants who perceived exercising to be associated with rewards—both internal and external—were more likely to maintain an exercise habit than participants who did not associate exercising with reward.
We often heard from customers that the motivation to engage in coaching conversations seemed to plateau over time. Managers showed excitement early on but tended to revert to their old habits. One of the best ways to motivate employees to change their behaviors is to ensure they see a connection between these behaviors and their personal career goals. This is why it is important for companies to tie continuous performance management activities with other organizational talent management decisions, for example, tracking and rewarding managers based on their commitment to actively coaching and developing employees.
We often compare implementing continuous performance management to changing one's health habits. It is one thing to recognize that a healthy diet and exercise are important or to buy vegetables and join a gym – it is another to live a healthy lifestyle over time. The same can be said for continuous performance management. Having the right knowledge, training, and tools is important, but these things only add value if managers and employees change their old habits and adopt new patterns of behavior. These four tips can serve as a starting point to help companies break the chain of habit and enable effective coaching behaviors in their organization.
To learn more, check out Transforming Performance Management: 15 lessons from 10 years of customer engagements, or listen to this podcast to dig into the details about why employees want performance management to work and what organizations and leaders can do to make it better.
Lauren Bidwell, Ph.D. works in Human Capital Management Research at SAP SuccessFactors.
This article originally appeared on Chief Learning Officer.
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I had the privilege of photographing Audrey & Heath's wedding earlier this year in Hernando, MS. So when they asked me to take pictures of them for their first Christmas as a married couple, I was ecstatic! I get so attached to my bride and grooms while working with them in the months leading up to their big day, so after each wedding I get super sad that it's all over.
I loved getting to catch up with these two and hear about how married life is treating them.
But more so than hearing it from them, I could see it all over their faces. Their smiles and expressions said it all. These two just radiate happiness and joy when they interact and are around each other, and thats one thing that makes photographing them so enjoyable. They just look truly happy.
So great to see you guys! Here's to a lifetime of handholding and many, many Christmas' to come!


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FILE – Al Schmidt, former city commissioner of Philadelphia, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.…
FILE – Al Schmidt, former city commissioner of Philadelphia, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, on June 13, 2022. Schmidt, a former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats whipped up by Donald Trump for defending the city's 2020 vote-counting against the former president's election lies, will be nominated for the top election administration post in Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's administration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Incoming Pa. governor taps GOP ex-official for election post
by: MARC LEVY, Associated Press
Posted: Jan 5, 2023 / 06:33 AM MST
Updated: Jan 5, 2023 / 02:35 PM MST
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats for defending the city's 2020 vote-counting against former President Donald Trump's lies will be nominated for the top election administration post in Pennsylvania by the incoming Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro.
Al Schmidt's coming nomination to be secretary of state, announced Thursday by Shapiro, sets him up to oversee what is expected to be a hard-fought 2024 election in the critical presidential battleground. Schmidt is Shapiro's first Cabinet selection to be revealed ahead of his Jan. 17 inauguration.
Protecting elections and voting rights was central to Shapiro's campaign, as he emphasized his intention to nominate a "pro-Democracy" secretary of state and his role, as attorney general, in fighting efforts in court by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"Al Schmidt has a proven track record of defending our democracy, protecting voting rights and standing up to extremism — even in the face of grave threats," Shapiro said in a statement.
Schmidt, 51, is a Republican, fitting in with Shapiro's theme of fashioning a bipartisan administration in politically divided Pennsylvania.
Schmidt is president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, a good-government group in Philadelphia. Before he joined the group a year ago, Schmidt spent a decade as a Republican elected to the three-member board that oversees elections in Philadelphia and has worked for the city and state GOP.
On Friday, the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Schmidt will be among 12 people to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Joe Biden in a ceremony at the White House. This is the first time Biden has given the medal, the nation's second-highest civilian award.
"During the 2020 election, he kept the vote tally going in the face of pressure and efforts to overturn the election," the White House said.
Holding the post of secretary of state is subject to confirmation in the Republican-controlled Senate.
The $165,000-salary job involves overseeing how the state's 67 counties run their elections, giving them guidance and assistance on how to manage it — a task that has grown in complexity with the advent of the state's no-excuse mail-in voting law and conspiracy theorists inspired by Trump's lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The department also administers a long list of professional licensing commissions that report to the department.
In 2020, Schmidt became the face of Philadelphia's protracted vote count when Trump and his campaign repeatedly claimed that "bad things happen in Philadelphia" and spread lies to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the election in the heavily Democratic city.
With help from Philadelphia, Trump lost Pennsylvania to Biden.
Few, if any, Republicans came to Schmidt's defense during a time when he has said he received Trump-inspired death threats against him and his family that he has called "domestic terrorism." Rather, the state Republican Party and most state GOP lawmakers sought to stop Pennsylvania's electoral votes from being awarded to Biden.
No lawsuit, prosecutor or election worker has produced evidence of widespread fraud in Philadelphia's 2020 election.
In the wake of the election, Schmidt testified in front of a U.S. Senate committee and the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He has since become a prominent critic of what he has called the "vicious cycle" of conspiracy theorists and politicians who spread lies about elections.
The falsehoods prompted deceived constituents to demand that politicians do something — usually resulting in a push to restrict voting rights and violent threats to election workers, Schmidt has said.
Schmidt said in an interview that he has several aims for improving elections in Pennsylvania.
One revolves around "bigger, broader things," like making it as easy as possible for people to register and vote, and ensuring that those votes are counted — a nod to technicalities that have resulted in thousands of mail-in ballots from legal, eligible voters getting thrown out.
"I think that's sort of a North Star in a lot of this and guides you when determining how to improve the electoral process for voters," Schmidt said.
More specifically, he said the law must be changed to allow counties to process mail-in ballots before an election day to produce results sooner and avoid a protracted post-election vote count that was exploited in 2020 by Trump and allies to spread misinformation about fraud.
Pennsylvania is one of very few states that provide so little time to process such ballots — but Republican lawmakers have refused to allow it without concessions from Democrats on things like a stricter voter identification law.
It puts Pennsylvania at a "unique disadvantage" when other states produce mail-in ballot results on election night, Schmidt said.
Associated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report. Follow Marc Levy on Twitter: http://twitter.com/timelywriter


The WWK Arena in Augsburg has finally gotten a new and impressive façade more than eight years after it officially opened.
For this plan, Zumtobel developed "light tubes", a unique luminaire that it deployed to provide an architectural highlight to the unusual façade structure. Architects Bernhard & Kögl in Augsburg created the design for the new Augsburg Stadium which opened in 2009. However, it wasn't until the exterior façade got LED lighting from Zumtobel that the architect's vision for the stadium brought to reality.
The new, modern and climate-neutral stadium serves as the home for FC Augsburg and is also utilized as a venue for and women's national football (soccer) team matches. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, the WWK Insurance Group began serving as the primary sponsor of FC Augsburg and has since lent its name to the 30,600 seat "WWK Arena". WWK decided to finance the previously uncompleted façade.
The aluminum structure envelopes the stadium. The enormous LED fluorescent tubes interlace into the aluminum tube construction in an irregular, Mikado stick-like configuration (like the game Pick-Up-Sticks as it was called in the U.S.). Zumtobel embraced the idea and vision of the architects of using the oversized tube lights throughout the project.
In the design competition for the new stadium, the original plan for the façade was a Profilit glass shell in the club colors green, red and white. Afterward, architects Titus Bernhard and Peter Kögl presented a more desirable façade design with round aluminum spans and LED tubes. However, the façade was not commissioned at the time.
It was only when FC Augburg's new 10-year sponsor WWK, FC Augsburg's came on board since the 2015/16 season that the architectural façade of the stadium could be finished. In September 2017 the project was completed.
received the contract to adapt their façade design with round aluminum spans and LED tubes. The project team "Atelier of Light", which deploys architectural projects with custom solutions at Zumtobel, had already been in direct contact with Titus Bernhard through previous joint plans. Thus, in close cooperation with the architects, Zumtobel developed the entire design concept for the light façade based on LED technology.
Prior to implementation, the "Atelier of Light" team put the façade lighting concept in a three-dimensional stadium model using Zumtobel's own "HILITE" tool. Then, the team presented the lighting concept to the clients and architects at Terminal V in Lauterach using a virtual reality application.
"It was only because of the expertise of the 'Atelier of Light' in various areas of special construction, lighting design and visualisation, combined with a unique network of competent, external specialists and partners that we were able to implement the development and production of this unique and impressive lighting solution in line with the architect's vision," said Oliver Mosselman, Project Manager in the Complex Project Management Team of the Atelier of Light at Zumtobel.
The complex façade structure features a combination of aluminum and fluorescent tubes, which are interwoven with each other. The tubes create a depth depending on the distance between them, where they seem more or less dense at places. The design was not just positioning regular LED tubes in a pattern.
Zumtobel had to custom create enormous tube lights measuring 8 meters in length and 20 cm in diameter, about 10-times the size of conventional LED tubes. The designers wanted these special light tubes to have the same dimensions as the aluminum tubes that are part of the façade construction. The giant tubes are equipped with IP67 RGB LED continuous rows. With the dynamically controllable RGB lighting, the facade could be illuminated in all possible color variations and combinations.
Mounting the enormous and heavy light tubes on the façade was especially difficult because the tubes had to be integrated into the façade as a structural load-bearing element. Therefore, building authorities had to approve the use of the tubes as a load-bearing element.
Contrast 2LED L RGB spotlights from Zumtobel Group brand, Thorn, enhance the lighting concept. These 36 powerful LED spotlights mounted on existing light poles around the stadium support the light tubes in illuminating the stadium façade and serve as basic lighting for the façade structure.
Like the giant tubes, the spotlights span the entire RGB color spectrum, meaning that they not only reinforce the adjusted color scenes but they also enhance the highlighting of the façade structure and further emphasize the three-dimensional nature of the entire construction.
The mast lights and light tubes are controlled through the use of a DMX server from livebau Solutions GmbH. Each tube and each spotlight are individually controllable, and the color and intensity of the individual luminaires can be adjusted.
"Upon the final completion of the new açade, the WWK Arena gains a huge upgrade and yet another architectural highlight. The WWK Arena in Augsburg is designed as a FIFA stadium for international (country) matches and is one of the few stadiums in Germany that attracts attention with its impressive façade and creates a special atmosphere for fans," concluded Jürgen Schrameier, chairman of the board of WWK.


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Selenium Kotlin has built-in functionality to take screenshots across the page and it's quite easy to use as well.
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The TakesScreenshot interface has a method named getScreenshotAs( ) which can capture a screenshot and store it in any location specified by us. With this, we can take a screenshot of pages across various browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera etc using their respective web-drivers.
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«Star Trek: Armada» — космическая стратегия в реальном времени от Activision и Mad Doc Software, основанная на вселенной «Звёздного пути».

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Действие игры разворачивается вскоре после окончания войны Объединённой Федерации Планет с Доминионом (конец сериала «Глубокий космос 9»), начиная с кампании Федерации. Во время первого задания, игрок управляет силами Звёздного флота, а также капитана Жан-Люка Пикара на борту «Энтерпрайза-E», восстанавливая сектор космоса пострадавший во время войны. Внезапно, из будущего прибывает временной корабль Федерации, преследуемый двумя сферами боргов. После спасения корабля от нападения, с Пикаром связывается Таддеус Демминг, капитан новоявленного корабля «Премонишн» ( — предвидение). Он предупреждает Пикара о грядущем вторжении боргов, желающих ассимилировать Землю. Пикар связывается с Командованием флота для принятия решения. Точка зрения игрока затем смещается на посла Ворфа на борту «Авенджера» ( — мститель), защищая планету ба'ку от вторжения сон'а (см. «Звёздный путь: Восстание»). Затем, Ворфу необходимо путешествовать через туманность, в которой он сталкивается со старым врагом, Торалом. Он узнаёт что Торал намеревается стать канцлером Клингонской империи. Тем временем, «Энтерпрайз» прибывает в сектор космоса только что переживший нападение боргов. Пикару необходимо спасти повреждённые корабли, в то же время отражая волны боргов на ассимилированных кораблях Федерации.

В то же время, борги также нападают и на Клингонскую империю. Торал, воспользовавшись моментом, пытается убить канцлера Мартока. Начинается гражданская война в Империи. Победив Торала в роли Мартока, игрок узнаёт что Торалу помогали ромуланцы.

Одновременно, ромуланцы обнаруживают сверхмощную омега-частицу в космосе. Её нашли ференги и готовятся продать её кардассианцам. Но Тал Шиар (ромуланская спецслужба) посылает адмирала Селу силой отобрать частицу. К сожалению, борги тоже знают о существовании частицы и желают заполучить её любой ценой. Чудом избегая боргов, Села доставляет частицу на защищённую ромуланскую базу.

Борги ассимилируют доминионскую фабрику по клонированию для воссоздания Локутуса, бывшего титула Пикара когда он был одним из боргов. С помощью знаний и опыта Локутуса, боргам удаётся отобрать омега-частицу у ромуланцев. Отослав частицу в Дельта квадрант и набрав огромное количество ресурсов, Локутус решает напасть на Землю. Несмотря на все усилия Звёздного флота и новейшие технологии из будущего, борги ассимилируют Землю и уничтожают «Авенджер» и «Премонишн». Лишь «Энтерпрайзу» удаётся бежать, воспользовавшись временным порталом «Премонишна».

Вернувшись ненадолго в прошлое, экипажу «Энтерпрайза» удаётся, с помощью посла Спока, создать военный союз между ромуланцами, клингонами и Федерацией. Вместе, им удаётся спасти Землю от вторжения боргов и последовать за отступающим врагом в самое сердце владений боргов. Все три фракции понимают что единственный способ по-настоящему остановить боргов — уничтожить омега-частицу. Ради этого, совместная армада нападает на главную базу боргов в Альфа квадранте и захватывают их трансварповые врата. Ворф затем ведёт небольшую группу кораблей для обеспечения безопасного пути в Дельта квадрант через врата. Несмотря на огромное количество кубов и кораблей поддержки, союзу рас Альфа квадранта удаётся пробиться через оборону боргов и уничтожить омега-частицу. Её взрыв уничтожает огромный регион космоса, и корабли трёх фракций едва успевают бежать посредством врат прежде чем взрывная волна их уничтожит. Но бой не окончен…

Понимая что битва проиграна, Локутус совершает прыжок обратно во времени в сфере боргов в надежде убить Пикара вскоре после серии «Встреча в "Далёкой точке"». Но попытка Локутуса предотвращается экипажем «Премонишна», на который не подействовали изменения во времени вызванные уничтожением «Энтерпрайза-D». Прыгнув следом за сферой, «Премонишн» уничтожает её перед нанесением рокового удара и возвращается в своё время. Пикар рад уничтожению угрозе Федерации и новому союзу.

Обзор
В игре четыре расы: ромуланцы, клингоны, Федерация и борги. У каждой стороны есть звёздная база, станция переработки дитилития, две верфи, стандантная туррель, продвинутая туррель, две исследовательские лаборатории и сверхоружие. Сверхоружие Федерации — временное стазисное поле, замораживающее все вражеские корабли в зоне действия. Сверхоружие клингонов — шоковая волна, запускаемая взрывом корабля-смертника. Эта волна не только уничтожает большинство кораблей, но и блокирует двигатели, пресекая попытки бежать. Сверхоружие ромуланцев — Разлом Феникса, по действию похож на шоковую волну клингонов, но действует по кругу и не блокирует двигатели. Сверхоружие боргов — трансварповые врата, создающие временную червоточину в любую известную часть боевой арены.

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The adverse effect of dementia is not evident in the text of the blog or letter to the editor, and a news report of the weekend preceding her suicide on Monday, 18 August described her lively engagement in a literary argument about a Shakespearean play. Her plan to make her death a contribution to the campaign to legalize assisted suicide is being realized through family members and mainstream Canadian media. This kind of development also contributes to pressures on health care workers who do not wish to participate in or facilitate such procedures.


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Bryant Men's Basketball Game Against Stony Brook Canceled Wednesday
Nick Coit,
Bryant University Press Release
SMITHFIELD, R.I. — The Bryant University men's basketball team's scheduled season opener against Stony Brook on Wednesday has been canceled.
The decision stems from a positive COVID test among an unaffiliated Tier I individual who had possible contact with the Stony Brook team. Out of an abundance of caution, both teams mutually agreed to cancel the game.
Tier 1 individuals, which include game participants, staff and officials, undergo testing three times a week.
Bryant will now open its season at Syracuse on Friday, November 27 at 3:00 p.m. The game will air on the ACC Network.
Wednesday's women's basketball season opener is still on as scheduled. The Bulldogs tipoff the season against Massachusetts at 3:30 p.m. in the Chace Athletic Center.
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It's been a long time since I posted about this property. I periodically get an inquiry, so I decided to do an update. The property is located at the Montclair Community Library , in Dumfries, VA. Feel free to contact the library at 703-792-8740 for details.
There's a lot of history associated with this property and you can check out my previous posts here. Also, Prince William County Site on Historic Preservation where the Barnes House is discussed.
Now, to the news on this property. The library will be giving free tours of the property on 9 Feb 2019! I went by the property this week and took a few picks to share to hopefully get you excited about joining me on the tour. I assume these are pics of the original property and the original family that owned the property before the Barnes.
So I hope to see you on 9 Feb 2019 at the Montclair Community Library for the tour that starts at 11:00 am. Other tour times are 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm on 9 Feb 2019.
I wonder if they'll have local celebrities & politicians, besides you! At the opening didn't they have Mrs. Virginia? Suggest you let our church leaders know, too.
Good points! Thanks for the comments!


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We are situated in a small club house in the grounds of The Forest School, Comptons Lane, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 5NW.
By car: If you are driving along Comptons Lane from St Leonards Road, take the second entrance in the school that leads to the Business Enterprise Centre. There is a buzzer on an access pad by the gates. As you go through the gates you will see a white building on your left, This is the Youth Wing, to the left of this building is a driveway which provides access to the Phoenix Stroke Club, you can park to the right of the Youth Wing and then proceed to the entrance of the club by going down the left hand side of the Youth Wing, go through the doors marked Phoenix Stroke Club and turn immediately left up a ramp into the club where you will find the office to the right hand side of the building.
The club is situated in Forest Community School's grounds. Please note that during term time it is not possible to access the club building at the following times:


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Review: Hollow City, by Kai Wai Cheah
Hollow City (Song of Karma, book 1), by Kai Wai Cheah is the latest in Silver Empire's superhero universe line. While it's been discussed in terms of this version of the Punisher....
This may end up as a Punisher origin story, but our hero is way, WAY too sane to be Frank Castle. The vibe as you read the novel is more Michael Connelly doing a noir superhero novel, with gun porn that outdoes Larry Correia. (No, I'm not exaggerating, and you did not misread that. Gun porn that would make Larry Correia blush).
Six kills in six years.
Super powered cop Adam Song has dedicated his life to the law. In the military and the police force, Adam ruthlessly protects the innocent.
But this time he's killed the wrong bad guy. Now the local drug lord's son is dead, and the boss is out for Adam's blood. Even his secret identity won't keep him safe. The police department hangs him out to dry, his years of exemplary service forgotten. Adam must take justice into his own hands to keep his family safe.
Because Adam is a Song. And Songs take care of their own. No matter the cost.
When does justice become murder? And just how far will he go to protect his clan?
Dragon and Hugo Award nominated author Kai Wai Cheah steps onto the superhero scene with his debut Heroes Unleashed novel. His characteristic fast-paced action and attention to detail brings Adam Song and the Chinatown of Hollow City vividly to life.
What makes a straight-laced hero cop go rogue? Buy the book or read it in Kindle Unlimited today to find out!
Imagine if Baen did a superhero novel and it was one part Connelly, one part Correia. You've got smart police tactics by a superpowered former soldier as part of a SWAT team, but you also have the problems of the politics of "Primes" (they're not supeheroes or mutants, they're Primes). It becomes an interesting mix of politics, powers and police. When I reference Michael Connelly, most people should think of his hero, Harry Bosch (yes, now an Amazon Prime show). And the police department in Halo City is very much like the corrupt, politics-ridden (but I repeat myself) legal system of Bosch's LA. It helps with the noir feel of the novel, as it constantly refers to Halo City as the Hollow City, dark, soulless and corrupt....
You know, Chicago.
(Okay, if you're looking for a direct parallel, it's probably if San Francisco were run by Chicago politicians, down to the demographics, and "Grand Park" instead of SF's Grant Park.)
Once again, as with the first book in the series, (Morgon Newquist's "Heroes United") it's a superhero world that feels very real. Screwups are not tolerated, leaving a realistic feel to the narration -- such as referring to an egomaniac "hero" who was going to livestream an arrest... so the criminal set a trap and put three rounds in the sucker's face. Stupidity is its own death penalty. The politics are realistic enough to make me want to strangle the politicians -- even down to having a Black Lives Matter group that's against Primes. And I love the line "Politics is never personal until it happens to you," I may need to steal it.
And the tactics are solid. The guns are detailed and make sense given the use of force required. The fact that Adam has three guns, as well as a taser, is one of the better carry policies I've seen of a hero in a novel for some time.
The world building is solid. The tactics are great. The character is also well developed. Publicly, Adam Song seems to have the powers of Marvel's Bullseye -- he always hits what he aims for, with preternatural reaction time. That's what everyone else thinks, too. But it goes beyond that, and he has a very simple, straightforward approach to handling everything -- it's handled by the book. I love the byplay between what the public thinks he can do, what he says he can do, and what he actually can do. It's the usually conflict of the civilian mindset versus the mindset of people who actually get shot at with some regularity. I had to look up his Amazon bio to make certain that Kai Wai Cheah hadn't served in law enforcement or the military.
And then there's our hero's family... I await someone to bitch about Kai Wai Cheah using "Asian stereotypes" as he writes his novel in his native Singapore. Heh.
There are a bunch of cute bits as well. They're not SWAT teams, but STAR teams (Resident Evil, anyone?). The investigator is Herbert Franks (cute Cheah. Very cute). Cheah also has bullet storm haiku... no, I'm NOT kidding.
Short version: If Harry Bosch were an Asian superhero, and Michael Connelly had a sense of humor, this is the book you'd end up with -- a Superhero Baen novel. If you enjoy anything put out by Baen, or Harry Bosch, or Astro City, or Jon Bernthal's portrayal of the Punisher in Daredevil, you're probably going to enjoy this one.
My only problem? There is a bit of a cliffhanger. But then again, it did say book 1. For some reason, it does NOT piss me off anywhere near as much as others have.
I wholeheartedly recommend this one. 5/5. I'm seriously considering this for a Dragon Award if I knew where I'd put it.
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Strong freshman community goal of TT changes
New student orientation for fall 2011 will operate a little differently than it has in years past.
Rather than having four members on the Orientation Council, more widely known as the OC, this year's team is comprised of 10 student leaders.
Within that team are two student directors, Jenny Hamrick and James Greer, along with eight assistant directors. These members take the place of the section leaders, previously the liaisons for the Towering Traditions leaders and the Orientation Council.
Hamrick said the new setup allows TT leaders direct and stronger communication with the Orientation Council.
"Leadership responsibilities seem to be more manageable with 10 members as well," she said.
"I can't imagine how four people got done what we have to do," said Kevin Deschler, one of the assistant directors for the 2011-2012 Orientation Council. "There are more Orientation Counselors to handle the responsibilities, and because there are more of us, we anticipate it will create more of a support system now for the TT leaders."
Though everyone essentially has the same roles, the 2011 student directors do more of the "grunt work" than the other OC members. They do a lot of internal planning and spend more time in the office making parent phone calls, sending out emails, doing paperwork, coordinating and planning meetings for the OC and reserving meeting rooms.
"We try to make everything equal, work-wise. It's just that the responsibilities look a little different," Hamrick said.
Each member of the OC is also assigned to a committee such as the selection committee for TT leaders or the advertising committee. By splitting the work into committees, this allows the group as a whole to develop expertise in a specialized area as well a to lighten each individual load.
Among other changes taking place within the new orientation leadership system, the concept of TT partners may be evolving as well.
Formerly, two TT leaders led a group of approximately 20 students, but this year, one TT leader will serve a smaller group of 10 students.
In response to this news, Hamrick addressed the purpose in taking away partners.
"Sometimes in a bigger group, it is really easy for one or two people to go under the radar. We feel this system will help avoid that," Hamrick said.
A big part of the decision came from Ben Lion, the director of New Student and Parent Programs. Hamrick and Deschler both agree Lion has a big heart for the program and wants smaller TT groups to allow for better community.
"[Ben's] heart really goes out to the students who fall through the cracks and don't get plugged in immediately," Deschler said. "It's a lot easier to get lost in a group of 20 than a group of 10."
Deschler noted that Lion started working at Belmont in May 2010. "This was really the first time he had the opportunity to implement new ideas into the existing system." Deschler.
As for TT leaders having partners, both Hamrick and Deschler said that's really still up in the air.
"Each TT leader could still have a partner or at least someone they can go to when they need help or need someone to talk to," Hamrick said. "It could even look like one TT group going to another group and doing events together. Nothing is really finalized yet."
Both Hamrick and Deschler expressed the positive results they anticipate with the new setup, as well as the challenges they expect to face.
"We're looking to maintain the same kind of community and support for the leaders, but we hope to see a more intimate community within the freshman groups," Deschler said.
The OC will also require TT groups to meet once a month in order to create more of a community within their groups. Though in the past, leaders have been encouraged to host reunions, the orientation leaders feel making this mandatory is a necessary step to secure intentional community.
Remaining positive despite his hesitations, Deschler said, "It will definitely be a learning experience. The TT groups are really what worry me most, but I don't view that as a negative. I think it's still within our power to make it a positive."
Hamrick anticipates the new system will equip the new OC to reach new heights and goals. "It will give us a greater grasp by which to reach the community and help others achieve a more intentional Belmont community".
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St. Patricks day clover banner with VINYL!
Then moved the big clover off and cut.
Slowly peel up the carrier sheet –if any piece tries to come up with it then lay it back down and iron it again!
Then I made some binding for the edges! Just cut strips and iron and sew around.
I ran to Joanns to grab more dark green ric rac to finish off the egges…and found apple green. so a crafters got to do what a crafters got to do!!!
and hot glued some to the dowel!
cute door decoration! prefect for St. Patrick's day!
check out my junque bows for more green goodness!


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Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) is a pedagogical technique involving the scientific investigation of the spelling of words. SWI considers morphology, etymology, relatives, and phonology. The guiding principles of SWI are (1) "the primary function of English spelling is to represent meaning" and (2) "conventions by which English spelling represents meaning are so well-ordered and reliable that spelling can be investigated and understood through scientific inquiry."

Four questions
SWI uses four questions to investigate the spelling of a word:
 What is the meaning of a word?
 What are the morphemes of the word?
 What are morphological and etymological relatives of the word?
 What are the letters doing in the word (spelling phonemes, functioning as markers, zeroed)?

The questions must be investigated in order starting with the meaning.

Word sums
A word sum shows how a word is built. A word sum is a "necessary tool to allow falsification of hypotheses of orthographic morphological structure."

The following are examples of word sums:
 de + sign -> design
 de + sign + ate + ed-> designated
 sign + al -> signal
 sign + ate + ure -> signature
 re + sign + ate + ion -> resignation

Word Matrices

A word matrix is a visualization of the morphology of related words.

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Etymology
Spelling
Orthography
Writing
Linguistic morphology
Learning
Learning to read
Early childhood education


This past weekend was the big kickoff of bike park season with the opening of the Whistler Bike Park! Those of us at Kona USA and our Canadian offices are fortunate enough to live within just a short drive of the park, so it was a no-brainer for the dedicated downhillers to make their way through the throngs of traffic and people to sample a bit of some of the best trails on earth. However this year, the crowds and traffic were absent. Whistler's new policy is to run the chairs until 8pm every single day. This helped keep the crowds at a manageable pace since people were able to space out their riding.
I arrived at 2pm on Friday and was still able to easily crack off double-digit laps on my favorite trails: Joyride, Schleyer, Clown Shoes, Detroit Rock City, and Lower Whistler Downhill (I have a thing for rock slabs.) The dirt throughout the weekend ran the gauntlet of conditions: dusty and dry on Friday, a river after the monsoon of Saturday, and perfectly tacky hero megarad (insert buzzword) dirt on Sunday.
If there's one thing I took away from the weekend it's that downhill is not dead! Dual crown forks were everywhere and Operators were happily flying over the A Line Tombstone jump and ripping around freshly sculpted Canadian Open berms. The park has undergone a few changes from last season including a revamped Longhorn trail, which is chock full of super flowy berms. More changes can be expected, including an additional jump line sure to get the Dirt Merchant/A Line crowd hyped up.
Did you make it to the park this weekend?


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Machesney Park is a small city in Winnebago County in the State of Illinois. It is part of the Rockford metropolitan area. While the city itself is home to 23,180 people, the encompassing area has a populace of 286,509. Those who are over the age of 55 comprise 25% of the total population.
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Posts Tagged 'Take This To Heart Records'
KALI MASI – " Freer "
Tags: Chicago, Kali Masi, laughs, Sam Porter, Take This To Heart Records
Kali Masi is an American punk rock band from the Chicago. They've been heavily touring and self-promoting for the last 6 years; steadily evolving the heavy, emotive, and urgent sound found on their 2017 LP 'Wind Instrument' and the much anticipated 2021 follow-up Kali Masi is gearing up to release their new album, [laughs], on March 26th via Take This to Heart Records, and based on what we've heard so far, it's gonna be a good one. "Freer" is the most recently single to be released from the album, and it starts slow before the climax hits and the rest of the band come in full force — not unlike a classic Taking Back Sunday song. "Freer" is a reflection on young suburban friendship, soured beneath the heat lamp of a city's setting sun. "So much of the album is carved out by the pursuit of inner-freedom, inner-peace, how to escape, and what it is we're escaping from," guitarist/vocalist Sam Porter explains. "'Freer' is about holding ourselves accountable for our own states, regardless of how damaged, tired, or free we are."'
Kali Masi – "Freer" (Official Music Video) From their upcoming LP "[laughs]" Out March 26th via Take This To Heart Records / Homebound (EU)
PONY – " T.V Baby "
Tags: Lucas Horne, Matty Morand, Pony, Sam Bielanski, Take This To Heart Records, Toronto, TV Baby
Toronto power pop band Pony have announced their debut LP "TV Baby", out on April 9th via Take This To Heart Records. The news arrives alongside their new single "Couch," which follows their previous track "WebMD." "Couch" has a gloriously nostalgic pop/rock feel that would be right at home in the trailer of a teen movie circa the Clueless era. The video takes us back even further with an intro straight out of an '80s low-budget religious broadcast, which eventually goes awry and features a guest appearance from the Zodiac Killer.
TV Baby, the debut LP from Toronto power-pop act Pony, feels like it's programmed from a different era. Driven by vocalist/guitarist Sam Bielanski's sharp vocal tones and flashy, driving rhythm, the band combines cheeky 1980s style with 1990s self-reliance and modern production sheen for an experience caught between worlds. It's hooky and vibrant, but don't mistake exuberance for extroversion. TV Baby is an album dedicated to the indoor cats, the introverts, and those who value their independence above anything else.
Bielanski, along with close friends Matty Morand (Pretty Matty) and Lucas Horne, have taken a piecemeal approach to worldbuilding here. They'll take you to the band computer, where Sam's frantically typing symptoms into a search bar into "WebMD," where body horror meets sugar-rushed guitars. Next comes a thorny survey of the "Furniture," fuzzy and scuff-marked, before letting you crash on the "Couch," a pop-punk ode to discovering new parts of yourself while the world rolls past. When others are present in this internal monologue, like those hurt and driven to "Cry," they're greeted with the same maximalist pop-rock. In Pony's gig economy, riffs beat out the rear-view mirror. Saddle up alongside them and your joyride is guaranteed.
Watch the video for "Couch" and preorder the album PONY – "Couch" (Official Music Video) From their upcoming album "TV Baby" Out April 9th via Take This To Heart Records
SNARLS – " Burst "
Tags: Burst, Chlo White, columbus, Max Martinez, Mick Martinez, Ohio, Riley Hall, Snarls, Take This To Heart Records
Columbus-based alternative rock band snarls presents its effervescent debut album, "Burst", as a long-form video featuring visual storytelling from its members. May I Burst? invites you into the emotional rollercoaster that is...Burst. Snarls is what the Vivian Girls would be if they swapped their uber-cool Brooklyn insouciance for wide-eyed Midwestern verve. Snarls share their predecessors penchant for propulsive, kiss-off tempos, but infuse those licks with a wholesome earnestness. The Columbus, Ohio quartet's songs hit hard, but there is a no-frills, steadfast nature to each track, with frontwoman Chlo White snapping out pieces of wounded prose. In an interview with Stereogum, White attributed the band's name to the visceral reaction of a loyal dog — as in "don't fuck with my friends or I'll snarl at you." Each song on the album contains that ethos. Snarls will proudly tell you how they feel.
Snarls spent 2019 quietly blooming. Two songs landed this Columbus, four-piece on Bloggers Top 100 Songs and Best New Bands honour rolls. With that running start in mind, 2020 is when they'll surely blossom into a band to watch. Debut LP Burst finds the next charming coming-of-age story in shimmering character drama (2019 standout "Walk in the Woods"), woozy indie-pop ("Hair"), and blue-eyed existentialism ("Concrete"). Snarls' song writing is as unfiltered and spectral as growing into one's own should be, but it promises just as an enchanting listen for those outside looking in. It's no wonder MTV tried to brand Snarls' enchanting indie rock as promising "the best of emo and shoegaze" or that the band themselves sees themselves as the fore bearers of "glitter emo alt rock." Snarls is fresh, frenzied, and worth fawning over.
Snarls is Chlo White (vocals, guitar), Riley Hall (bass, vocals), Mick Martinez (guitar), and Max Martinez (drums). The four met through childhood friendships and school, and in December 2017 formed the group. After releasing a self-titled EP in June 2018, snarls spent the next two years playing crowded basements and bars, as well as touring the Midwest and eastern United States. In March of 2020, the band partnered with Take This To Heart Records to release Burst, a collection of coming-of-age stories wrapped in shimmering guitars and whimsical harmonies.
"Burst" is out now on CD/Digital via Take This To Heart Records
Released March 6th, 2020
Posted: April 9, 2020 in Classic Albums, MUSIC
Snarls spent 2019 quietly blooming. Two songs landed this Columbus, OH four-piece on Stereogum's Top 100 Songs and Best New Bands to watch this year. With that running start in mind, 2020 is when they'll surely blossom into a band to watch. Debut LP "Burst" finds the next charming coming-of-age story in shimmering character drama (2019 standout "Walk in the Woods"), woozy indie-pop ("Hair"), and blue-eyed existentialism ("Concrete"). Snarls' songwriting is as unfiltered and spectral as growing into one's own should be, but it promises just as an enchanting listen for those outside looking in. It's no wonder MTV tried to brand Snarls' enchanting indie rock as promising "the best of emo and shoegaze" or that the band themselves sees themselves as the fore bearers of "glitter emo alt rock." Snarls is fresh, frenzied, and worth fawning over. You'll just have to find out on your own.
This is knock-out indie-pop that looks forward by all the while looking back to the past by taking a more than a passing interest in late 80s and early 90s indie… guitar riffs a go-go, fuzzy bass, a dash of shoegazy soundscapes and a hint of psychedelia all wrap around self-deprecating lyrics and gorgeous vocals… this is one killer of an album which makes you want to trawl the band's back-catalogue… seriously, what's not to like here?"
Snarls is Chlo White (Vocals, Guitar), Riley Hall (Bass, Vocals), Mick Martinez (Guitar), and Max Martinez (Drums).
All songs written and performed by Snarls. "Burst" is out now on CD/Digital via Take This To Heart Records.
SNARLS – " What's It Take "
Tags: Burst, Chloe White, columbus, Max Martinez, Mick Martinez, Ohio, Riley Hall, Snarls, Take This To Heart Records
Columbus, Ohio, four-piece Snarls have shared a new track, "What's It Take," from their forthcoming debut album Burst, due out on March 6th via Take This to Heart Records. "What's It Take" is the kind of lustrous, yearning indie anthem that could only come from a group of bright young minds. Lyrically, it's an emotional hurricane with Chloe White's forlorn lyrics exploding into their guitar shimmers.
The song melds widescreen dream-pop with sputtering background guitars as White's rich vocals hover in heartbreakingly beautiful fashion.
Chlo White – Vocals, Guitar
Riley Hall – Bass, Vocals
Mick Martinez – Guitar
Max Martinez – Drums
Snarls – "What's It Take?" From their upcoming album "Burst" Out March 6th via Take This To Heart Records
MANDANCING – " Not My Thoughts "
Posted: July 22, 2018 in Classic Albums, MUSIC
Tags: Hands On 3, ManDancing, New Jersey, Stephen G Kelly, Take This To Heart Records, United States
Given the winter the East Coast has just survived, it's appropriate to emerge from the bleakness with a record that eases out of its own icy shell. ManDancing's "Everyone Else" emerged in winter 2016, prior to political shifts at home and abroad, but carries no less weight than it did when quietly released online. In fact, this record from five New Jersey residents seems more potent than ever with its 2018 reissue. It's at once intimate and ferocious, a windswept combination of hushed pronouncements and gasped confessions.
On their upcoming EP Hands On 3, ManDancing's emotional compass magnetizes to vocalist and rhythm guitarist Stephen G Kelly, whose voice wavers between confidence and catharsis. The spectral nature of his delivery is a genre in itself. It waxes elegiac on the alt-country sway as percussion spikes and splinters behind it, before breaking free into a desperate wail. It's this upward curve that carries the arrangements forward, a force that could explode any moment into something unpredictable, warped, yet altogether fitting of such visceral songwriting.
Above all, ManDancing promises a narrative that finds its characters trying to define their own independence. Is it more isolating than liberating? Amidst the haze of young adulthood, the beer cans, and the skipped house shows, ManDancing navigates what it's like to feel positively undone and unlimited at the same time. It's hard and it's an impossible thing, but it's always part of growing older.
Hands On 3 is out July 13th via Take This To Heart Records.
HODERA – " First Things First "
Posted: December 16, 2017 in Classic Albums, MUSIC
Tags: First Things First, Hodera, Matthew Smith, New Jersey, Take This To Heart Records
Effortlessly mixing vibrant indie-rock with the story telling of Americana, Hodera is prepared to be a band that never leaves listeners heads. Spearheaded by Matthew Smith, Hodera has persisted in forming a unique sound amidst the vast depths of successful New Jersey acts. The group's first release, 2014's Reset To Default, was only a glimpse at the songwriting talent possessed by Smith. With 2015's United By Birdcalls the name Hodera name was put on the map, touring extensively both in the United States and the United Kingdom. From landing showcases at SXSW and set times at The Fest, the honest nature of the songs found the band at the top of Spotify Viral Charts. Hodera have now released "First Things First" via Take This To Heart Records .
First Things First is an explorative album, diving into difficult subjects such as depression, suicide, loss and love. Hodera have weaved a web of progress through their constant work ethic, bettering their songwriting and pushing the boundaries of their delicate dynamics. First Things First is candid with its emotions, unraveling a soundscape that provides listeners with an album full of memory and warmth.
"I like to keep the storyline in each song raw, so it's not just a general pop song, or anyone else's memory. It's my story that I'm telling and letting people connect with," Smith comments about First Things First. Being transparent is more than an act for Hodera, it's embedded into the very soul of the music, and that's what makes their music feel personal.
Through First Things First's dynamic ten tracks, we are brought on a journey with Hodera, as Matthew poetically narrates each story. We join them in the confusion and frustration of growing up and trying to find where we belong; the grief of losing friends, family and potential loves; the dark corners depression can lead to, and the measures someone will go to just for a glimpse at happiness' light again. Ultimately though, it leads us to the realization that no one is alone in the human experience and we can all strive to get better. So, first things first, go give this album a listen.
First Things First is out now
The lyricism is beautifully sad and makes me feel like I have fallen for the same drifting souls that inspired the tracks. I want to be one of those souls.


Yesterday evening the Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) convened a meeting, open to its entire membership. The purpose was for the Chamber's council to hear from members about how their businesses had been affected by Cyclone Pam and what business owners felt was required, whether from government or donor partners, in order for them to rebuild.
Some of the issues that were discussed will be mentioned in future items that I am working on with Matthew Dornan of the Development Policy Centre.
Here, I want to put forward that an event like Cyclone Pam serves to highlight issues that were pre-existing before March 13th and possibly create opportunities for new ways forward, not only in the immediate response period but further into the future.
State-business relationships (SBR) are not well-established in Vanuatu, as is the case elsewhere in the Pacific island region. In terms of state building, the relationships between government and the business community do not necessarily receive a lot of attention but they are a crucial part of building and maintaining a state that is transparent, responsive and able to maximise opportunities to deliver services and promote development of the whole population.
Rather than examine the reasons for why this relationship is under-developed, I will focus on why it is important that it be enhanced and developed further and how the impact of Cyclone Pam creates opportunities for 'building back better' in this regard as in others.
Why are SBR important? Members of the business community are often affected directly by changes in government policy and their employees may also be affected indirectly. This means that the business community is an important constituency for government to proactively engage with when contemplating introducing new initiatives or modifying existing ones.
In countries with limited resources, private sector operators may be well placed to assist government with service delivery activities whether by way of co-financing or providing in-kind contributions such as logistical support. A bedrock of strong SBR provides the basis for these types of partnerships to evolve and flourish.
The private sector in Vanuatu is growing with more and more ni-Vanuatu people entering into businesses in many sectors. They have clear objectives that they want to achieve and strong opinions about what they think government can and should do to support them in achieving their goals. Mechanisms and processes that help to develop and strengthen SBR allow for private sector interests to be aggregated and formulated in ways that are of benefit to policy makers. They also provide opportunities for government to keep this key constituency informed about what is or is not happening and allow for expectation management on both sides.
We have already seen, and it was reported at last night's meeting, that members of the private sector have joined with government agencies to work firstly within the humanitarian response phase and, more recently, to support the conduct of the Post Disaster Needs Assessment [pdf]. This joint activity should contribute to improving understanding on both sides and removing mistrust that may exist and lead to relationships that are more collaborative in nature for the future.
Vanuatu is a small country with limited resources and there are opportunities for policy makers in government to access expertise from within the business community to support their work. There are many retired public servants who are now working in the private sector who are well placed to assist with the development of policy in key areas such as fisheries, agriculture, infrastructure and more. The private sector is home to people who have expertise and experience in many areas often bringing with them examples of initiatives and projects that have been used in other countries. This is knowledge and expertise that government should be able to harness to inform policy development and implementation.
There are a number of aspects to how to support the development of better SBR in Vanuatu. The VCCI is a key component in this and has been working to establish more and better relationships with government, including by participating in the consultations on a National Sustainable Development Plan during 2014. But there is more to be done, especially in extending the reach of the organisation beyond Port Vila and Luganville and ensuring that the Chamber's agenda is not (or is not perceived to be) dominated by the interests of one particular sector or individual business entity/owner. The VCCI requires extra resources in order to deliver on its mandate and play its part in promoting pro-development SBR in the future.
Both government and business need to be able to engage in a 'safe but challenging' space where differences of approach are acknowledged and accommodated within a wider purpose of working together to recover and rebuild. Policy makers need to be able to reassure business owners that commercially sensitive information will remain confidential. They can invite the Chamber and/or individual members of the private sector to contribute to the policy-making process in ways that are respectful and mindful of the constraints that business owners operate under when extending those invitations. The business community (via the Chamber and other peak organisations) needs to frame its approaches to policy makers in ways that promote dialogue and mutual endeavour. They need to be cognisant of the constraints under which policy makers operate and seek ways to inform government about what they can offer as well as what they want.
On both sides there are opportunities to grow pro-development relationships that are based on mutual respect and conducted assertively.


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We enjoyed the Fitzpatrick immensely! It was in Dalkey, which is a village outside Dublin. There was a park for the kids to play on nearby and the trails there took you to awesome views of the area and beyond, it was truly amazing. It was a short walk to the village where there were restaurants and small groceries. You could venture through town to the sea and it was breathtaking. The hotel staff were friendly and helpful, with tips on where to go in Dalkey and beyond! The rooms were very nice and the beds were extremely comfortable! My kids loved the turndown service! There was an indoor pool but we only used it once since there were so many things to do nearby, it was a quick train ride into Dublin. I would definitely stay here again! How often do you get to sleep in a castle?!
The whole ambiance of the hotel combined with the friendliness of the staff and of course the location makes this a special place for any visitors.


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#BlogBlitz : Degrees of Darkness by @TonyJForder published by@BloodhoundBook
September 21, 2017 September 27, 2017 yvonnembee
I would like to say a huge thank you to Sarah Hardy and Bloodhound Books for this opportunity to take part in the blog blitz for this amazing book. "Degrees of Darkness" by Tony J Forder.
Pre-teen girls are being abducted from their homes and their families murdered. When Frank Rogers, once a DI with the Met and now running his own debt collection agency, is told that his own daughter is missing, his son murdered, he naturally wants to become involved with the case.
Soon Frank's face is all over the news. In an unexpected turn of events, the killer contacts the police and says he is willing to talk, but only to Frank.
When the body of the first abducted girl is discovered, Frank realises it is a race against time to save his daughter.
In order to solve the case, Frank must work out how the killer is picking his victims.
But how do you catch a murderer who is hiding in plain sight? And can Frank solve the mystery, when he has so much to lose?
I was hooked on this book pretty quickly, literally a few pages and there I was, Hooked! It was as I read about a killer being in the house of the victim. What unfolds after that is a brutal psychological game of cat and mouse between an ex-cop and the killer.
Frank is the ex-cop and it is his own daughter that is the latest missing victim, his son is one of the murdered victims, along Frank's ex-wife. This killer is very clever at leaving no evidence for the police to go on, due to this he is able to taunt Frank and the police, feeding titbits of information on his own terms. The media have taken up the story and this just adds to fuel the game the killer plays.
This book is simply brilliant from start to finish. I loved everything about it, from the memorable, unique and identifiable characters to the wonderfully deep, twisted and well thought-out plot. The characters I could almost imagine off the pages, some I loathed some I really liked. The pacing fits this story perfectly, keeping the pressure on the reader to read and not pause, at times the pace slows at the more descriptive sections, it was almost as if these were breathing stops and I was given a chance to arrange my thoughts.
Yes this is a psychological thriller and it fits perfectly into this genre. The plot is very well laid out and leads you through the story to a satisfactory ending. There was no point in the story that I had any idea of identities until the author allowed me to know, there were a couple of red herrings, that made my heart sink when I came across them, I was so glad I was wrong. Also added into this murder and abduction story, is the story of the killer and his history, experiences, ideologies and outlook on life, it gives the reader a glimpse into a the mind of the killer.
I would highly recommend this book to readers who like their psychological thrillers to be dark and sinister, with layers of plots. If this is you …..Get this book, you will not be disappointed.
My thoughts here are my own and are unbiased.
On 1st February 2017, Tony signed to Bloodhound Books, who published his edgy crime thriller Bad to the Bone in spring. It is the first in a series.
Later this year, Tony's second novel for Bloodhound Books, Degrees of Darkness, featuring ex-detective Frank Rogers, will be published.
Tony has been writing stories since childhood, but it was only when he won a short story competition judged by an editor from Pan Books, that he realised he might actually be half decent at this writing business.
The story, Gino's Bar and Grille, went on to be published in Dark Voices 2, part of the celebrated Pan Book of Horror series. Three further short story sales followed: Book End, published in Dark Voices 4, Character Role, in FEAR magazine, and finally A Grim Story, which featured in A Rattler's Tale.
During a book singing for Dark Voices 2, Tony was seated next to author Brian Lumley. At one point, Tony revealed to Brian that he felt out of place alongside all the proper writers. Brian then told Tony something he has never forgotten: "The moment you sat down and pulled a story out of your imagination and put it to paper, you became a proper writer."
Subsequently, Tony began to focus on novel writing. He admits that his initial attempts were exploratory and somewhat derivative, although there was some interest from an agent – who oddly enough turned out to be Brian Lumley's wife, Dorothy.
Tony wrote Degrees of Darkness, which he was happy with. He wasn't so happy with a follow-up, so that never saw the light of day.
As a part-time writer with a full-time job, plus some ill-health, life got in the way and, although Tony continued writing, it took a back seat to making a living.
This year, however, Tony has been inspired by new ideas, and has been working hard on two new books, both of which should be completed in 2017.
Author Links: Facebook | Twitter |
Many thanks for reading my post.
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The basic job description of a dental nurse can fall under the compass of facilitation. They are meant to be assisting their dental surgeon with allotted surgeries; from the maintenance of dental equipment to the undertaking of dental procedures in surgery, and to simultaneously ensuring their patients ease under all circumstances. Most nurses usually initiate their career without an associate dental nursing college degree; hence they kick-start their career as trainee dental nurses with a dental nurse salary per annum, which is more or less insufficient but certain to elevate in the long run.
You cannot afford a single blunder with a patient's denture, especially a patient who invests all his trust and confidence in your professional capabilities. For a job that requires the best of you with regard to organizational and affability skills, you deserve a pay worth the value of your efforts. With experience and a prominent role to play, comes great responsibility too. Upon establishing familiarity with the drill, you could also undertake responsibilities of taking impressions, x-rays, and of preparing teeth models while applying fluoride glaze in order to avoid tooth decay.
However, it is important to consider that the dental nurse salary in the UK varies in accordance with the employment level too. The positions for dental nurse jobs and their pay scales have been defined by NHS, UK. The National Health Service (NHS) is a publicly sponsored local healthcare system for England, United Kingdom. It is recognized as the leading single-payer healthcare organization within our globe. The Department of Health of the NHS system releases the General Dental Services Statement of Financial Entitlements which declares the defined employee allowances.
As freshly qualified entrants of the dental nurse career in NHS, you are allowed to undergo a year's training. Subsequently, you are deemed fit for the post of a 'Trainee Dental Nurse' which allows you to take home an average annual salary of £17,000 to £28,500 (source). If you continue working as a trainee dental nurse, then your salary may range around the same pay scale. However, if you successfully surpass your learning abilities and enter into dental core training, then your career scope and pay scale may prominently magnify. With exhausting working hours of around 37- 40 per week that may entail unpredictable rotational shifts; dental core trainees deserve their equitable allowances in addition to their basic salary range above. For working night shifts, they are usually compensated with upto 37% augmentation in their basic dental nurse salary, whereas for working weekends or on-call duties, they usually get their predetermined allowances.
Salaried dentists working under the NHS authority mainly practice with community dental services which secures them a basic salary that ranges between £38,861 and £83,118. Subsequently, dental specialties' consultants hired by NHS have ensured a basic salary between £76,761 and £103,490 per year, which may fluctuate depending on the years of training, experience, qualifications and practice professionalism. Nursing has never been an easy-going career; and being a dental nurse is indeed a blend of compromise, risk, and professionalism at its best.
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We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate both our similarities and differences. We see ourselves as part of a human family, full of beautiful diversity. Arbinger acknowledges the many injustices that happen around the world stemming from a long history of racism, oppression, and discrimination. We recognize that these injustices continue to happen. We are unequivocally opposed to such injustices and to all forms of dehumanization and discrimination.
We recognize that we must always seek to improve ourselves, finding new ways to actively work against injustice, inequality, and insensitivity. As an organization, we continue to look for ways to adjust our efforts in this regard and measure our impact. This is not a project to be completed or a race with a finish line. Rather, it is the work to establish a culture of listening and learning from a place of genuine respect and curiosity.
Part of our curiosity includes engaging in open conversation. Speaking up about where we might be falling short as an organization is not simply protected from retribution, it is encouraged from all areas and all roles.
We have committed to seeking out diverse voices to inform our thinking and review our efforts and, to that end, have established Arbinger's Advisory Board. This board is comprised of individuals from around the world who bring unique knowledge, experience, and skills. Our culture, product, and policies will continue to be enriched by their contributions. We are actively seeking to uncover our blind spots and will urgently work to address them. Additionally, as part of our efforts to have a more diverse work force, we are moving beyond traditional recruiting efforts which have historically proven to underrepresent women and minority applicants.
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Q: C# Sockets Programming Hey, I'm having nightmares with C# asynchronous socket programming. Can you point me to a guide or tutorial or a book which explains in depth asynchronous programming. If possibly contains how to use the state parameter in Begin Send/Receive functions to handle multiple clients.

A: Server can be organized by such scenario: separeted thread listening port for client connections.

 /// Async server
 public class AsyncServer
 {
     /// Server socket
     private Socket _serverSocket;

     /// Element for sync wait
     private static ManualResetEvent _connectionMutex =
              new ManualResetEvent(false);

     /// Client handler
     private ClientManager _clientManager;

     public AsyncServer(string ipAddrees, int port)
     {
         try
         {
             this._serverSocket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork,
                 SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);

             this._serverSocket.Bind(
               new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse(ipAddrees), port));

         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
             throw new Exception("Server Init Error.", ex);
         }
     }

     private BackgroundWorker _listenThread = new BackgroundWorker();

     public void Start()
     {
         this._clientManager = new ClientManager(this._clientConnections);

         this._listenThread.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
         this._listenThread.WorkerSupportsCancellation = true;
         this._listenThread.DoWork +=
              new DoWorkEventHandler(ListenThread_DoWork);

         this._listenThread.RunWorkerAsync(this._serverSocket);
     }

     /// Thread for listening port
     private void ListenThread_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
     {
         Socket serverSocket = (Socket)e.Argument;

         serverSocket.Listen(100);

         while (true)
         {
             // reset mutex
             _connectionMutex.Reset();

             serverSocket.BeginAccept(
             new AsyncCallback(this.AcceptCallback), this._serverSocket);

             // waiting for the next connection
             _connectionMutex.WaitOne();
         }
     }

     /// List of client connections
     private List _clientConnections = new List();

     public int ConnectionsCount
     {
         get { return this._clientConnections.Count; }
     }

     /// Callback method for handling connections
     private void AcceptCallback(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
     {
         _connectionMutex.Set();

         Socket serverSocket = (Socket)asyncResult.AsyncState;
         Socket clientSocket = (Socket)serverSocket.EndAccept(asyncResult);
         this._clientConnections.Add(clientSocket);

         this._clientManager.HandleClient(clientSocket);
     }

 }

Method AcceptCallback(IAsyncResult asyncResult) handle all new client connections and transfer to ClientManager, which create for each client separate thread.

   public class ClientManager
   {

       private List _clientProcessors = new List();

       private List _connections;

       public ClientManager(List connections)
       {
           this._connections = connections;
       }

       /// Handling of client connection
       public void HandleClient(Socket clientSocket)
       {
           BackgroundWorker clientProcessor = new BackgroundWorker();
           clientProcessor.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(ClientProcessing);

           this._clientProcessors.Add(clientProcessor);

           List args = new List();
           //
           // args.Add(...);

           clientProcessor.RunWorkerAsync(args);
       }

       private void ClientProcessing(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
       {
           // reading args
           List args = (List)e.Argument;

           ProtocolSerializer serializer = new ProtocolSerializer();

           try
           {
               while (socket.Connected)
               {
                   // ...

               }
           }
           catch (SocketException)
           {
              // ...
           }
           catch (Exception)
           {
              // ...
           }
       }
   }

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2007 Great Music Round-up
Recording Date: December 27, 2007
It is the 2007 great music round-up! Viktor counts down his top 5 records of 2007. We will be featuring music by Radiohead, Spoon, Of Montreal and Iron & Wine! We also discuss The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Panda Bear, The Shins, Gogol Bordello, Okkervil River, Josh Ritter, Elliott Smith and more! We want to give special thanks to Sub Pop, Merge, TBD and Polyvinyl Records for allowing us to play their music on Tank Riot. Warner Brothers deserves a raspberry for ignoring new media ...
Modest Mouse "We were dead before the ship even sunk"
Panda Bear "Person Pitch"
Elloitt Smith "New Moon"
Okkervil River "The Stage Names"
The Shins "Wincing the Night Away"
Josh Ritter "The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter"
Gogol Bordello "Super Taranta"
Sleeping in the Avairy "oh, this old thing"
Midwest beat "Self titled"
Viktor's Top 5!
Radiohead "In Rainbows" (self-released), 7th CD
Featured track: "JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE"
Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" 6th album (Merge)
Featured track: "THE UNDERDOG"
Iron & Wine "The Shepherd's Dog" 3rd album (Sub Pop)
Featured track: "INNOCENT BONES" and "BOY WITH A COIN"
Of Montreal "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?" 8th album (Polyvinyl)
Featured track: "HEIMSDALSGATE LIKE A PROMETHEAN CURSE"
White Stripes "Icky Thump" 6th album Warner Bros
No featured track....


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Undertitel: Murder in Regency Brighton
Allison & Busby
Serie: Tam Eildor Mystery
The Stuart Sapphire
It is August 1811. George, Prince of Wales has his own reasons for welcoming time-traveller Tam Eildor to the Royal Pavilion. His latest mistress, Sarah, Marchioness of Creeve, has been murdered in his bed, strangled with her own string of pearls. Newly created Prince Regent, George realises that a sordid royal scandal must be avoided at all costs, so he enlists the services of Tam Eildor. In his assumed role of a Scottish lawyer, sole survivor of a shipwreck off the Brighton coast, Tam must find the killer and thief who has also made off with the historic Stuart Sapphire. Tam's disposal of the body of the murdered Marchioness is interrupted by an attempt on his life in a prearranged carriage accident. But coping with a double investigation is the least of his worries: fifteen-year-old Princess Charlotte has taken a fancy to their Scottish visitor and isn't afraid to let her feelings show. Amidst a cast of royally quirky and entertaining characters and as always in constant danger, Tam needs to solve the mystery and return to his own century, outwitting the sinister forces which seem determined for him not to survive this particular time-quest.
Av författare:Alanna Knight
Av förlag: Allison & Busby
I samma serie: Tam Eildor Mystery


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Q: Comparing items in one list with corresponding items in a second list I've been asked in work to put together a quick way to validate a list of data in Excel, but it's a bit too complicated to do via nested IFs so I'm trying to do it via a macro.
Bit of a background about the data:
We run courses, and for each course there is a corresponding add-on they have to take as well. People have to chose 2 courses, and so that means 2 corresponding add-ons.
In each row in Excel, the 2 courses are in columns F and G, and the corresponding add-ons are in columns H and I.
The slight problem is that the data in columns H and I isn't necessarily in the 'correct' order - the add-on for the course in column F might be in column I on one row, and in column H in another (and the same the the add-on for column G)
There is a table in a second sheet which lists which add-ons are correct for which courses (column A has the courses and column B has the matching add-on).
What's the best/easiest way to highlight which rows are correct and which ones are not?
I can upload a small anonymised sample of the file to Dropbox if needed, but a quick layout of the data is as below:
| 1st Course Choice | 2nd Course Choice | 1st Add-on | 2nd Add-on | Result
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|     Subject 1     |     Subject 2     |  Add-on 1  |  Add-on 2  | Correct
|     Subject 2     |     Subject 1     |  Add-on 1  |  Add-on 2  | Correct
|     Subject 3     |     Subject 9     |  Add-on 9  |  Add-on 3  | Correct
|     Subject 5     |     Subject 4     |  Add-on 1  |  Add-on 2  | Error
|     Subject 8     |     Subject 2     |  Add-on 7  |  Add-on 8  | Error

A: The formula required is not at all off-putting if a cross-reference table of Courses and Add-ons is supplied.

The standard formula in E2 is,

=IF(AND(OR(C2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA())), D2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA()))), OR(C2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA())), D2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA())))), "Correct", "Error")

Fill down as necessary. The use of IFERROR (available since Excel 2007) makes doubling up functions like VLOOKUP a breeze. You can simply pass control over to a second version of the function if the first fails. Granted these still have to be doubled up to account for all possibilities, but there shouldn't be a large calculation load.
Do you need an extra condition to ensure that column C is not a duplicate of column D?
EDIT: Add check for duplicates
Checking for duplicates in both A:B and C:D shouldn't be an issue at all as they can be added into the existing AND function.. Here is a modification for both A:B and C:D.

=IF(AND(A2<>B2, C2<>D2, OR(C2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA())), D2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(A2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA()))), OR(C2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA())), D2=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2, $G$2:$H$10, 2, FALSE), NA())))), "Correct", "Error")