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Lessen the burdens and the economy will grow
Maltese economy is not growing and the reasons are not so difficult to decipher.
Government economic policy over the last 10 years has much to blame for the mess
we are in today. If we do not take serious action as from this year we are going
to face an even graver situation in the next few years.
The GRTU will
shortly publish an analysis of the government's mismanagement of national
finances based on a study made by the economist, Prof. Joseph Falzon, of the
Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Malta.
Falzon studies the recent history of the government's financial balance and the
government's total debt on the background of the government's expenditure and
total revenue and works on trend projections up to the year 2012. From this
analysis a conclusion can be made as to what needs to be done to save ourselves
from the dangers that lie ahead of us if we fail to act seriously now.
In a
nutshell the situation is this. We are today faced with a national debt of Lm1.2
billion (one thousand two hundred million). If no serious action is taken as
from this year to correct the trend that has been with us since 1990, the
national debt will, by the year 2012, reach a staggering Lm2.5 billion. In
relative terms this means that our total gross domestic product will not be
enough to cover our national debt. In 1990 the national debt was Lm204 million.
In 2000 it reached Lm925 million. In 2003 it shot up to Lm1,218 million. In 1992
government expenditure was 44.3 per cent.
An extremely worrying factor is
that the annual percentage change in the national debt has since 1990
outstripped the annual percentage increase in GDP.
The cause of the
problem is the government's persistent budget deficit. Since 1982 Malta has
suffered continuous and increasing deficits in public finance. As a ratio to GDP
the government's budget deficit shows one consistent rise from 12.29 per cent in
1986 to the all time high ratio of government debt to GDP of 71.13 per cent in
If no serious action is taken and the trend continues, by 2012 the
national debt will be 101 per cent of GDP. It is on this backdrop that the Malta
Council for Economic and Social Development has been meeting regularly over this
long hot summer in one big combined effort by the social partners and the
government to reach agreement on a social pact that will bind us all, workers'
trade unions, employers and enterprise organisations and civil society, to steer
the country away from this debacle.
Unfortunately, left on its own, the
government has over the last 10 years striven to continue with the trend of
increasing public expenditure by Lm50 million a year and forcing everyone to pay
up more in taxes so that it can cope with its unleashed public spending spree.
The government every year says that it is working hard to rein in the public
deficit. But we all know that it has failed. And it will continue to fail unless
the government changes tack. The government blames all of us for its failure.
The public is not paying enough taxes they tell us. They know, however, that the
government's perennial public deficit is not primarily the result of its failure
to squeeze enough taxes from business and private taxpayers. Its gravest error
is its inefficiency to control and cut public expenditure.
Public expenditure
has increased progressively from the 32 per cent ratio to GDP 40 years ago, to
the 50 per cent that it is today. The last decade has shown a total government
expenditure trend of around 48 per cent of GDP while the trend of total revenue
is forecast to be only 41.5 per cent of GDP.
The government is faced with
a problem: How to equate its public spending trend to its public revenue trend.
The government could either push up revenue by creating new layers of taxation
or reduce expenditure to the level of its known achievable revenue. The
government has effectively opted to raise the level of public revenue to the
level of public expenditure. The total result of this fallacious policy is the
unacceptable slow growth that the Maltese economy has been forced to follow as a
result. The government blames it on all the world and on all of us. The truth,
however, is that little Malta is sustaining a public sector that is too big for
all of us to carry and we cannot carry the increasing burden and at the same
time run faster.
The crux of the problem is that GDP must grow at a
higher annual growth rate than it has been doing over the last years. Given a
regular sustained growth of GDP the government will be able to improve its money
intake without an increase in the general level of taxation. But it must control
public expenditure.
The government cannot continue with the spending trend of
Lm50 million increases per year. Fortunately, the government has now committed
itself to Brussels, according to its Convergence Plan, to increase public
expenditure over the next three years by only Lm30 million a year.
effectively means that the government will continue to meet the natural increase
in expenditure due to incremental wage increases as per agreements and letters
of appointment already committed and will face the natural increase in
expenditure on all other commitments, but will not enter into new commitments.
This may not be enough given the resistance of the economy to start pushing
ahead in the sectors that really matter. Unless the economy starts growing at a
greater and faster rate there is no way the government can manage to receive
more and the more it spends the more resistant to growth the economy
becomes.
If the government succeeds in freezing additional commitments of
expenditure and hold only to existing commitments, unless new ones are as a
result of cutbacks elsewhere, it will move in the right direction. This on its
own will not give Malta the respite it needs to save our country from a grave
situation of a national debt that equals total GDP by 2012.
ourselves from this economic disaster the government must strive now to obtain a
greater growth of GDP. Prof. Falzon estimates that an increase of 16 per cent of
GDP is needed to achieve a balance between what the government can effectively
get as revenue from the economy and what the government can afford to spend
without deflating the economy out of its needed growth strategy. This could
happen if GDP could grow at four per cent per year in nominal terms over the
next four years. The growing economy will cause public revenue to equate to
The good news is that a serious and effective social
pact can lead to an achievement of this target without many sacrifices. It is
achievable and with serious planning it can happen. It will not, however, happen
if the government does not venture into serious changes in its approach to
taxation. Malta cannot continue to castigate the people it needs to push
national productivity up, register a marked increase in investment and bring
back the enthusiasm of entrepreneurs.
Malta's fiscal structure is too
much of a punishment on producers. The fiscal structure must be reformed. The
government must stop castigating the middle class. It is this class that is
capable of working harder, saving more, investing more, and striving hardest to
push the economy forward.
The last 10 years have been one continuous ride
by the government on the back of the middle class. They are the people who pay
the taxes, whether they are direct taxation on incomes or indirect on spending.
The current government strategy is to push the 43 per cent of GDP that it is now
receiving in revenue to 50 per cent so that it can meet its commitments on the
current level of expenditure.
If this is the strategy that the government
will follow after the next budget it will be a disaster on all levels, economic,
social and political. Taxation as a ratio of GDP must go down. It will happen if
the government agrees on a freeze of public expenditure. If the current
expenditure trend continues the GDP will not grow. The resources that matter
must be made available to those who can make the economy grow. Money is made to
work best by those who earn it and not by the government that spends
The GDP needs to grow in the sectors that really matter: Exports and
tourism. What is happening now is that the GDP is effectively growing only as a
result of increased government taxation which bolsters the government
contribution to GDP and by other internal transfer payments that bolster the
contribution to GDP, of such sectors as banking, insurance, estate development
and local trading.
This is not good enough. The government must now
embark on an enterprise-driven policy. Its commitment to the MCESD must be one
of a cutback in public expenditure and a freeze on additional expenditure and a
reduction of the general level of taxation.
The economy must grow by 16
per cent in a short span of years. If it will not do so the future is bleak. But
we are still in time to correct course. A four per cent growth in GDP over the
next four years is achievable. As the social partners work harder to conclude
the social pact this target may be
achieved.

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WisGOP: Holiday season brings Democrat-fueled supply chain struggles
[Madison, WI] – After Joe Biden's supply chain crisis made this Thanksgiving a "Thanksgiving of alternatives" for many, Wisconsinites are continuing to grapple with the impact of Joe Biden's failed policies that have prompted a crippled supply chain and historic inflation.
Under Democrats, the American supply chain is under attack on all fronts — from vaccine mandates that are disrupting the transportation system to productivity-crushing workforce shortages. This holiday season, Wisconsinites are reminded of Democrats' failed leadership as they confront rising prices at the pump, empty shelves at small businesses, and declining real wages — yet Democrats continue to push wasteful spending that will only exacerbate our country's financial woes.
Read what Wisconsin business owners are saying on the devastating impact of Joe Biden's supply chain crisis:
Country Today: Agribusiness braces for shopping rush amid supply chain crisis
"We're really struggling. It's a nightmare and I don't see it getting better any faster. I actually see it getting worse," said Cindy Brown, president of Chippewa Valley Bean near Menomonie, one of the largest bean exporters in the world.
"Customers are waiting, but we can't get the product to them. It's everything, but, you know, you just do what you have to do to try and get the product in."NBC 26: Supply chain challenges: Northeast Wisconsin warehouses backed up
"The second part is finding the drivers to deliver that product or deliver it out and also the workers to supply and support the operations at the warehouses. We can go buy a building but finding the workers and drivers to operate it is probably one of the biggest challenges anyone is having right now," Tielens said.
The Director of Driver Relations at WELS says the shortage of truck drivers has caused the ripple effect too.
"Although while you may be seeing a ship in a harbor somewhere. That comes full circle. And as a transportation and warehousing provider. There's product that has to be moved, it has to be stored by us in warehousing. Everything that moves in this country is moved in a truck in some sort of fashion," said Todd Svetlovics.
Cap Times: How will supply chain issues affect holiday shopping in Madison?
From the back room of Arcadia Books in Spring Green, manager Nancy Baenen has a front row seat to what Vox has called "the great book shortage of 2021." Last year's wood shortages made paper hard to come by. Ink is in short supply too. Printing presses were overwhelmed years before the pandemic, and now they're struggling to find workers.
Even the little café inside the bookstore can't get the concentrate for its chai lattes because the manufacturer can't get plastic bottles. "It's just kind of wacky, all this stuff that we didn't know we were so reliant upon," Baenen said.
Appleton Post-Crescent: Looking for deer hunting ammo? Here's how Wisconsin shops and hunters are handling the shortages
Hunters who haven't found ammo for this year's gun deer season might need to get creative or pay inflated prices online.
"I'd say the key phrase for people right now is desperation," said Justin Gaiche, owner of Chase Outdoors in Rothschild. "There are a lot of people who are having to make decisions on whether they're going to use a different gun, or borrow from family, or go out there with four shells instead of 20."
Gun store workers and hunters said it has been the most difficult year to find ammo in more than a decade.
Spectrum 1: Wisconsin wineries work through supply chain sour grapes
"At some point through the last year to year-and-half we have run into an issue on every level," said Bilwin, who is general manager of von Stiehl Winery in Algoma. "It's either adhesives for labels or labelers not being able to get paper stock, which has delayed some of the labels. Bottles sitting in the LA harbor that just aren't getting unloaded so they get to us maybe a month, two months or six months later than when we need it."
Along with delays on some hard goods, like bottles, the winery is also facing higher costs and exponential increases in shipping for the west coast grapes it uses in conjunction with Wisconsin varieties.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Local shops ready for Small Business Saturday, say their shelves are stocked
This is not the year to wait until the last minute to find that perfect toy for holiday gifting. Retailers are navigating a holiday shopping season that's expected to be busier than years past and complicated by shipping and global supply chain delays.
In previous years, Poulson didn't start ordering for the holidays until June. Because he had heard about shipping delays and supply chain challenges, Poulson placed his first orders for the 2021 holiday season in January to keep his 2,400-square-foot store stocked.


See how UPS helped a promising high-tech company grow savings and horizons.
Charles Knapp, founder and today CEO of Vivo Technology, turned a 2003 high school assignment into a basement start-up. The 17-year-old lined up suppliers and started selling products online.
Vivo soon grew into its own building. To handle burgeoning orders, Knapp hired employees from his hometown and built a warehouse which soon expanded three times.
Nearly 10 years after start-up, Vivo again confronted a happy challenge–it was outgrowing its space and outstripping the capabilities of its IT systems. Global orders flowed in, and Vivo employees scrambled to move thousands of packages a week.
Knapp looked for help. He found UPS.
Knapp grabbed a competitive advantage, too.
"Our products are not always the cheapest," he said, "but our customers buy from us because the packaging quality, speed, and reliability of our deliveries are better.
Vivo briefly used a shipping company with a lower price, but as UPS discussed a relationship, Knapp listened.
The UPS team advised Knapp in two key areas: operational efficiency and long-term partnership.
UPS first examined Vivo's systems and processes.
An obvious fix? Integrating WorldShip® software into IT systems. This allowed Vivo to use barcodes on shipments, replacing handwritten (and human error-prone) paperwork.
in the central United States, Vivo can quickly ship to customers on both coasts.) UPS looked at available shipping lanes and engineered customized improvements in transit times that reduced costs 3 percent.
Also, UPS introduced UPS SurePost® as a shipping option. Vivo could economize by sending lightweight packages via a combination of UPS shipping and U.S. Postal Service delivery.
Next, UPS and Knapp assessed Vivo's freight import system.
"UPS ended up saving us 5 percent or more on our ocean freight," Knapp said.
Additionally, Knapp took advantage of Flex® Global View, tracking technology for ocean freight shipments. Vivo gained real-time updates to every item on order, 24/7. Knapp also requested UPS insurance on all shipments, land or sea or air; a bundled domestic and international policy saved time and money.
"We valued the improved ability to see where our shipments stood at any given time and to predict when they would arrive," Knapp said.
New efficiencies freed up money for longer-range thinking, so Knapp asked UPS to review the Vivo warehouse.
After a week of onsite study, a veteran UPS warehouse engineer presented a 14-page report on space optimization—a blueprint for cost savings (and future expansion).
The bottom line for Vivo turned out to be much more than just the bottom line. Vivo really valued the UPS partnership and the focus on efficiencies.
Vivo Technology felt it could somehow be more efficient. The company wanted better speeds and fewer shipping errors in the delivery of laptop parts and accessories to both big-box and mom-and-pop customers. Vivo looked for a logistics partner that could introduce new efficiencies and, at the same time, help position the energetic Midwestern company for long-term growth.
UPS identified a laptop-full of new efficiencies for Vivo with substantial cost savings. UPS then went beyond the day-to-day improvements into a warehouse optimization study; the resulting blueprint offered Vivo the potential to multiply savings from streamlined systems and processes for years to come.
WorldShip enabled barcoded labels, reducing label errors to virtually zero.
Improved times-in-transit for key lanes saves 3 percent on transportation costs.
Flex Global View saved 5 percent on freight imports, also improved tracking efficiency and enabled just-in-time staffing.
UPS insurance bundled policies for domestic and international shipments, reducing coverage costs an estimated 10 percent.
Warehouse optimization provides potential to double or triple efficiency savings.


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Can Islamic Dream Interpretation Principles Help You Understand Dreams?
January 6, 2020 June 1, 2021 James CobbDream Interpretation
In Islamic dream interpretation, the importance of "true" dreams was first promulgated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the prophet and founder of the faith. Muhammad believed dreams were important. This was because after he was gone further prophecy would only be revealed in dreams.
The process and tradition of Islamic dream interpretation were later refined by Ibn Sirin, an 8th-century mystic who wrote Dreams and Interpretations. He classified dreams into one of three different types.
The first is a reflection of the thoughts and experiences one has during wakefulness.
The second type are dreams are suggested or inspired by Satan to frighten the dreamer.
The third are "glad tidings from Allah." These are referred to as "true dreams."
Allah is the name for God among Muslims and Arab Christians.
What are true dreams?
True dreams are the dreams of the highest caliber. They have spiritual significance. They're inspirational. They can help one who has fallen away in the practice of their faith. They can even foretell the future, Ibn Sirin wrote.
Faithful Muslims are more likely to experience this highest form of dream. Rather than just blindly consult a tome, one should take into account the dreamers' circumstances such as age, occupation, religion, and condition, Muhammad said.
Muhammad also noted certain types of people were more likely to experience untrue dreams such as those who drank alcohol, those who ate depressing foods like lentils and children.
Islamic dream interpretation focuses on true dreams. Good and true dreams are a blessing, Ibn Sirin wrote.
To be blessed with them, you need to make sure your life is lived in conformity with the laws of Allah. You should remove hatred, enmity, malice, greed, and lust and learn how to forgive. A believer must fill his or her heart with love for all of those whom Allah loves and must be charitable.
Other suggestions include to eat less, sleep less, and talk less.
You should dislike noise and long for solitude.
Acquire the consciousness of living continuously in the presence of Allah.
Take a short nap in the afternoon.
Have an evening meal either before or after the maghrib prayer at sunset.
Go to bed early after the Isha prayer.
Recite surah al-Falaq (from the Qur'an: Chapter 113) and surah al-Naas (Qur'an: Chapter 114) before sleeping. These prayers help one seek protection from evil.
Perform wudu, a purification ritual. This involves washing hands, mouth, nostrils, arms, head, and feet with water. This ritual is to strengthen your soul to bring you closer to Allah.
Finally, sleep on your right side and ask Allah to give you a true dream.
If one you have a dream you don't like, you should get up and offer a prayer.
According to the tradition of Islamic dream interpretation, if you have not been following the precepts of being a faithful Muslim, you may not be having a true dream. Sometimes, however, Allah sends you a true dream to encourage you to live your life following His laws. If you have a question about the spiritual significance, it's recommended that you to seek out a hafiz or imam who is in touch with this aspect of the faith. A hafiz or imam is a teacher of Islam.
That seems pretty accurate. If you're not a Muslim, your dream isn't going to necessarily fit within that type of framework.
The thought that dreams can be divinely inspired is not completely foreign to western thought, it's just more common to regard dreams on a scientific basis in the west.
For further reading and information…
Islamic Dream Interpretation App
Anthropologist on the culture of Islamic dream interpretation
Differences in mindset between western and Islamic dream interpretation
My Islamic Dream Search Engine
How to use a prayer candle
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Serving the Needy with Respect and Dignity
The Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore began their ministry in 1891. They fed the hungry and cared for orphans. Recognizing the dignity of each human being and serving all people with respect were cornerstones of their ministry.
By the mid-1960s, the Franciscan's building at 2212 Maryland Avenue was nearly empty, and the Provincial wanted to put the building to better use. Sister Irene Marshiano was assigned to survey the community and determine what they needed. MUND (Model Urban Neighborhood Development) identified emergency food and clothing services as the most pressing needs.
With a single gift of Pioneer Natural Gas Company stock (donated by Helene and Robert Rea of Philadelphia) and space provided by the Franciscans, the Franciscan Center opened on September 10, 1968. Sister Irene was the first director. Of the early days, she recalled, "There were just two of us [Sisters], plus Third Order members and lay volunteers. The first month, we served 30 people."
As time passed, the needs of our clients increased. In 1980, the Center acquired the adjoining row house. With the opening of a dining room, hot meals could be provided instead of sandwiches. The second floors were used for the new Emergency Assistance Program and AIDS Outreach program. A pantry program was also developed to provide clients with groceries to take home.
By the early 1990s, the two row houses were inadequate and in need of extensive repairs. With the closing of the St. Francis School at 2226 Maryland Avenue, the Sisters offered the vacant school to the Center. In 1993, the Center moved from its humble origins to a modern, state-of-the-art building.
We now offer a continuum of care that includes food, clothing, emergency health services, counseling and technology training to help clients become as self-sufficient as possible.
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More than 300,000 Meals Served
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4,190 men, women and children provided with clothing
95 Men Outfitted in Professional Clothing
209 Families Received Utility Assistance
179 Evictions Prevented
609 Birth Certificates Obtained
598 MVA Identification Cards Secured
185 people received medical prescriptions
4,606 Visits to the Technical Resource Center
993 Transportation tokens distributed
561 Counseling sessions
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My app works fine with the ARCamera and a Unity UI that orientates correctly in all orientations. However if I backgraound the app and then return to it the Unity UI correctly orientates to the phone but the camera is flipped upside down?
I had imported the AR/VR package into a project that already had the basic AR package already imported.
further invesitgation and it looks like it might be IOS9 related as the exact same app runs perfect on iPad4 iOS8.4 but on iPhone 6 Plus iOS9 when resuming the app from background the camera is always upside down!


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The deadline for Applications for Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scholar Development, Election Study Center, NCCU has been postponed to March 31, 2018
A. Purpose of Award
To encourage junior scholars to conduct research in electoral politics and its related fields (e.g., electoral system, electoral behavior, political psychology, political communication, public opinion, survey theories and practice, big data analysis, and research methods).
B. Qualification:
The first author of the paper must fulfill the following requirements to ensure his/her qualification for the award:
1. ROC citizen or permanent resident.
2. A doctoral students in any university or college (domestic or overseas) recognized by Taiwan's Ministry of Education. OR One who has obtained a doctoral degree from any university or college (domestic or overseas) recognized by Taiwan's Ministry of Education within the past 3 years (after January 1, 2015) and is currently NOT holding any full-time academic position (e.g., assistant professorship or equivalence) in any institution except post-doctoral fellowship.
C. Description of Award
1. A paper must be written in English language, more than 6,000 words and has not published in any format. Please use the format of Journal of Electoral Studies for citations (please refer to the attachment).
2. We will award up to 3 recipients. Each recipient of the "Outstanding paper award for young scholar development" will receive 6,000 NTD as well as a certificate of the award (in both Chinese and English version of certificate of awards).
3. The awarded paper will be submitted to Journal of Electoral Studies directly for a regular peer-review process for publication. It is important to note that the paper cannot be withdrawn from any phase of the review process until a final decision on publication is made.
D. How to Apply
1. Please email the application form and the research paper to "esc@nccu.edu.tw" before March 31, 2018. The email title will be "Application form for Outstanding paper award for young scholar development_Name".
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We launched our shiny new website this month. Twas a crisp January afternoon, in the still-weird-to-type-and-what-happened-to-flying-cars-anyway year of 2020. Cue fanfare.
This isn't our first rodeo, of course. At Articulate Marketing, we offer bespoke coded and illustrated Hubspot websites to our clients. Still, it was obvious that our own site just wasn't doing the job of advertising how good we really are at making them. So, we put together a plan.
Here's what we did to launch our new website.
1. Immediately go off the rails
Kidding. Mostly.
We knew we wanted to evolve the style of illustrations, make sure the copy was consistent throughout, and nail the overall feel of the site. It had to appeal to both our customers and to ourselves. And… we quickly figured out we needed to take a step back. It became clear we had to revisit our branding documents to bring our branding in line with our website vision.
1.1. Update the branding strategy
By updating our branding, we finished the project that we started a few months ago by changing our logo. More on that journey here. Now, we had an up-to-the-minute idea of what we wanted to say, how we wanted to say it and what our audience cared about.
For more information about tone of voice, messaging, personas and all that goes into developing branding for B2B tech, have a look at our branding and design services.
2. Establish core themes
The new website had to meet some stylistic 'themes' in order to convey the right kind of messages to the world.
There's nothing worse than a cluttered site where you can't find anything you need, so we wanted our site to feel open and spacious, like a breath of fresh air. That thinking resulted in white backgrounds, a minimalist vibe and an emphasis on easy navigation. If a marketing site isn't optimised for lead conversion, then really, what kind of marketers are we?
In framework format, that made the site look a little like you shouldn't enter unless you take your shoes off. To balance this out, and to breathe our personality into the site, our designers iterated on our current colour palette and illustration design. Yes, of course we wanted the site to be a bit quirky. But we also wanted to tell a story.
A story about making cool things:
A story about empowering one another to do our best work:
A story about taking risks:
A story about working from data, learning and iterating:
And a story about using processes and technology to achieve results and growth for ourselves and our B2B clients:
Oh and some stuff about space, time travel and cats…
3. Build a robot
By now, you may have noticed the robot. He's a happy mechanical friend who loves tech, and is ready and willing to help his human masters co-workers. In his circuits runs the electric power of marketing magic, and he is always on hand to experiment, explore and make terrible cups of tea. Don't let robots make tea.
Meet Artie. He's going to be a star one day.
Now, not every new website has to have a robot mascot, but we had an Artie-shaped hole in our hearts, ok? He went through many different designs. We admit, probably too many. Hundreds. Our Specialist Graphic Designer, Tea, might have been building a robot army. All we know is we won't be inviting her wrath anytime soon.
4. Create a modular website
This is a service that you won't see every day, and we really mean that. Our design team, The Pixels, are always innovating. Our Specialist Developer, Kyle, has made website-building look easy with custom, modular Hubspot websites. That means the average Joe at Articulate (hey) can easily make a new page for our site by snapping together modules made specifically for us. Talk about intuitive. For our clients this means two things:
We operate by getting a launchpad site out, quickly, then using growth-driven design sprints and real user data to update and iterate. Our clients can get a new site coded within a matter of weeks, and data-driven improvements from there.
Once our clients have a new site, they can make layout changes and additions like events pages down the line as they need, without having to code anything.
5. Add the copy
We had great copy on our site. As copywriters, you'd hope so! But it wasn't laid out in an interesting way, or was too long in places, or was inconsistent. Almost everyone in the company had a hand in writing some of our web copy over the years.
So, we deployed a small task force of writers to tackle the issue. Several painstaking drafts later, we finally had it all. Copy, coding, design. Just one last thing was left. The launch!
How to launch a new website
We'll go into more detail on this subject in a later blog, but launching a new website is a delicate process.
You must make sure page URLs are redirected properly, and that any split or conflated pages aren't broken in the process. You don't want to break the internal link building strategy, or to prevent pages from ranking on search engines because you forgot a meta-description containing the relevant keyword. One tiny mistake could throttle vital traffic coming to your site. Once we launched, we spent hours tracking and testing to make sure everything worked smoothly.
So, what's next? We have a lot more in the works. If you're a business owner looking to update your website, watch this space and follow us on social media for more useful information, the results of our experiments and key learnings throughout this process.
'Til then, it's goodbye from us, and it's goodbye from him:
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GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015
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1 GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 on Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:41 am
GAME DAY #8 ("Thank God baseball is finally over!" edition): Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24 2015
Well, now that MLB and its minions in black have dispatched the Blue Jays we can finally go back to jeering all the teams in blue from Toronto. By the way, speaking of teams in blue from Toronto, the Leafs will be playing the white hot Canadiens tonight. The Habs are 2 wins short of matching the NHL record of 10-0 to start the season so I am conflicted -- who do I cheer for?
No matter, the suddeny-injury-riddled Senators have their work cut out for them as they face the suddenly-cold Arizona team. After going 3-0 to start the season the Desert Dogs have managed a single point in their last 4 games -- a shootout loss to the Devils. Meanwhile, the Sens have yet to win at home, after blowing a 4-2 lead in the last 6 minutes and then losing in the eventual shootout (after three OT games the Sens have yet to avoid the shootout; they have also yet to avoid an OT penalty kill).
On the injury front, Marc Methot has missed 2 games with flu-cussion (started out as a flu, then somehow morphed into a concussion). Mark (with a 'k') Borowiecki has been filling in a EK's regular shift partner -- not an ideal situation by any stretch (quick poll: would you rather Phillips?) Joining Methot in the dark room is Clarke MacArthur, who has missed the last three games and will likely miss quite a few more; the last two concussions have come on fairly mild hits so I fear it's going to be a long time before we wee him in the lineup. Lastly, last season's goal scoring leader, Mike Hoffman went down with a lower-body-injury early in the third period of the Devils game and is out day-to-day. McCormick has been recalled from Bingo -- looks like Max will play on the fourth line -- we'll see who moves up and where at the morning skate.
As always, GO SENSE GO!!!!!
2 Re: GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 on Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:52 am
Sens Keys to Victory:
Stay out of the box:
The Sens are 2nd in the league inPIMs/game (behind LA) and actually lead in minors. Only the Blue Jackets have given up more PP goals against, and they have played one more game than the Sens. The Sens lead the league with 2:52 OT PK time (3 OT minors; nobody else has more than 1).
Get out ahead and don't coast:
The Coyotes are in the middle of a 5-game road trip. Get on them early, and don't slow down. Remember the days when blowing a 2-goal lead in the third was unheard-of? Not in the New NHL. Not without four top-four D-men.
By the way, didn't realize that Hoffman is, yet again, leading the team in goals. He has 4+4=8, same stats as Turris (Stone and Karlsson also have 8 points). Hoffman also leads the team in +/- at +5 (one ahead of Turris).
I have two words: CHA-CHING!
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5 Re: GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 on Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:00 am
Vermette is questionable for tonight. So is Hoffman, but given that McCormick has been recalled I'm thinking he misses a game. Too bad, the Sens scored 12 goals in two games against Smith last season. Oh, well, maybe we can get Bobby going.
If you are coming to the game and you are not west of the Rochester exit, plan on coming earlier as the 417 is being re-routed through Catherine street. 417 is a 4-lane highway, 100 km/h speed limit, while Catherine street is one-lane and has a Grehound bus stop/depo -- you can do the math.
And going back home will be worse.
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You don't have to go down Catherine street at all. So many other options such as carling and baseline.
Game day skate is under way. Hoffman not on the ice.
10 Re: GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 on Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:14 am
Ev wrote: You don't have to go down Catherine street at all. So many other options such as carling and baseline.
How do you get to Carling, though.
Baseline is not really an option if you're coming from Orleans, is it?
Lazar skating on the top line:
Lazar-Turris-Stone; Michalek-Zibanejad-Ryan; Prince-Pageau-Chiasson and McCormick-Smith-Neil.
Looks like Methot will play (Wideman will sit). Too bad, Wideman was looking really comfortable out there.
tim1_2
I think you've pretty much got it covered with your 11 posts, Walter.
14 Re: GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 on Sat Oct 24, 2015 12:13 pm
tim1_2 wrote: I think you've pretty much got it covered with your 11 posts, Walter.
Shut up and watch my post count go up.
15 Re: GAME DAY #8: Coyotes @ Sens - 7:00pm ET - Saturday Oct. 24, 2015 on Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:37 pm
i'm not a big fan of Lazar on the first line idea. i'd much rather see pumpel or prince in those position.
i guess they wanted to reward a guy like McCormick and by the same token have a guy up that they can easily send down. just brining up pumpel for one game would of been meh.
im excited to see Mc play though.
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New 911 commission holds first meetings
By: Kylie Khan
Senator Cheryl Kagan was elected chair
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Cities and counties across the United States are moving to a new 911 system to keep up with changes in technology.
In Maryland, Thursday marked the first meeting of the newly formed 911 commission. The commission's goal is to help roll out the Next Generation 911 system which will allow residents to send texts, videos, and photos to operators. Frederick County is the only county in the state that has implemented texting 911. Montgomery County is in the initial stages of putting NextGen in place.
"Maryland is way out of step with other area states and look at and figure out how to raise the money so that we can make sure to save lives," said State Senator Cheryl Kagan, (D) Montgomery County.
The commission is tasked with having a report ready by December.
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State Song May Soon Be Demoted to Historical Status
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"Maryland, My Maryland," the Civil War battle hymn that refers to "Northern scum" soon may no longer be the state song.
But rather than replace "the embarrassing, outdated and racist song," as Senator Cheryl Kagan (D-17) called it, the State Senate opted last week to demote the song to historical status.
"It will be designated as historical. We are putting it aside," said Kagan, who stressed that her preference for the new designation is "historical, not historic. 'Historical' means that's what we used to believe."
The lyrics, which are from a poem written in the early days of the Civil War by James Ryder Randall, "are offensive and outdated," she said, explaining why she has been trying to repeal and replace the song since 2016.
Before the song is officially downgraded, the House of Delegates must agree. An official vote in the House has not yet been scheduled.
The House held a hearing before its Health and Government Operations Committee March 28 but no action was taken.
However, Del. Shane Pendergrass, (D) of Howard County, who chairs that committee, said, "These bills tend to go nowhere as long as I'm chair. I won't call that a promise, but I would call that fairly good" information.
Maryland legislators have tried unsuccessfully since 1974 to change the state song, and Kagan had hoped this time the legislature would either pick a different song or hold a contest for a new state song.
The Senate passed SB790, with 30 Democrats voting in favor and 13 Republicans voting against.
Republican Senator J. B. Jennings, of District 7, thought that political correctness was going too far. On the Senate floor, he asked, "Where does it end? We did it with statues and now it's the state song," he said, pointing to the recent push to remove Civil War statues that glorify those who ruled during slavery.
Removing dated statues or a song may be merely symbolic Kagan said, but, she asked, "What's wrong with symbolism?"
Maryland removed a statue of U.S. Supreme Court Roger B. Taney, who wrote the infamous holding in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that African-Americans could not be citizens of the United States – Kagan called that move symbolic and the right thing to do.
When asked if she would continue to work for a new state song, Kagan said no, calling this the "time to move forward."
"I realize there are more important things to work on, like education, transportation, healthcare and safety," she said. "The state song shouldn't take up a lot of our time."
Kagan testified before the House committee, noting, "The tune is a German drinking song. It's 'O Tannenbaum.' It's a Christmas song."
She told committee members that changing the designation of the song "is an imperfect way of addressing an imperfect situation."
Rev. Kobi Little, political action chair for the Maryland State Conference of the NAACP, also testified against continuing "Maryland, My Maryland" as the state song. The lyrics celebrate the Confederacy and gun violence, he said.
Three men then testified in favor of keeping the state song.
"Once it's gone, it's forgotten," said Jay Barringer of the Maryland Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
"What's next, perhaps the state flag?" he asked.
While the possibly-designated historic song will always contain the verse, "Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland! Thy beaming sword shall never rust," Kagan looks at last week's Senate vote optimistically, if the measure is passed by the House committee and then the full House of Delegates.
"At least it's not our state song anymore."


Mention "cold calling" or "telemarketing" to B2B marketers, and you can all but watch them cringe. And yet, for most B2Bs it's an absolutely critical element of the sales cycle; if your company isn't doing it, chances are good that you're literally leaving money on the table …or, more accurately, sending it over to your competitors.
I'll probably never get past this guy's Admin, anyway.
I'll just get voicemail and never get a return call.
I really don't think this person is interested in our widget.
She'll never buy from us, after I interrupt her from doing the annual plan (or whatever).
Xonsider it a process, not an event: your goal is simply to begin creating an ongoing relationship, not to close a sale today.
Subject to a small issue of timing, if this prospect has genuine business pain in an area for which you have a solution, then gaining relevant information from you is very much part of her job …and she's very much aware of that.
Make every call count. Even if you can't reach the target individual, don't just go away; try being helpful to the Admin, verifying your CRM database record, or identifying an alternate decision-maker. And always seek opt-in to your email newsletter, if this target hasn't yet signed up.
Lose the script. They're very apparent (and off-putting) to the prospect, and leave insufficient room for real conversation. Try a simple, branch-structured outline.
Respect the Admin. Anyone who has your target contact's ear as much as this person does is very clearly the 2nd-most critical relationship you need to build.
Be prepared. The worst thing you can do is call someone you know nothing about. You should know as much as possible about this person, his job, and the company …and of course seek to add to that knowledge during the call.
Always follow up – with precision and relevancy to the prospect's needs, and in the manner (s)he requested (email, snail-mail, phone).
Lead with their pain, not your solution. If you can't gain your prospect's agreement that they indeed suffer from the business problem that your widget was designed to solve, guess what: both parties will be wasting their time by continuing the dialogue. Determining that early on is not failure at all; in fact, it frees up more time for you to find and work on real prospects. This should also help you lose that fear of picking up the phone: it's a numbers game, and there are probably more non-prospects than prospects on your list …so "rejection" isn't really that, it's simply discovering a non-match.
Respect your target's time priorities. You can generally tell when your prospect is actually in a meeting or embroiled in developing the annual plan; and if so, you won't be remembered favorably by charging ahead anyway and blurting out what you had planned to say. Instead, try simply stating the reason for your call (not selling your widget, remember? …alleviating her pain) and seek another time when she can allocate 5-10 minutes for you without disrupting her other work.
Smile! It should go without saying, except that too many marketers forget to do it …and the person you're calling can very easily hear it in your voice.
Try this approach to tele-prospecting, and see if it doesn't start to feel much less cringe-worthy. You might even become an advocate of making it the indispensable arrow in your marketing quiver that it really needs to be.


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Q: Is there an in-canon explanation for how "manual" hyperspace exits are possible?
"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"

Something I've never really understood is how Han can seemingly manually pull out of hyperspace at exactly the right instant. You see him moving the controls back to pull out of hyperspeed.
In The Force Awakens:

 Han pulls out of hyperspace seemingly manually at the exact moment to get within a planetary shield, without crashing into the planet. This is an incredibly small margin of error.

Is there even an in-canon explanation for how this is possible?
Hyperspeed in Star Wars is fast and it seems, even for someone such as Han Solo, it'd be impossible to successfully time the exit correctly. I understand that it looks cooler to see Han move a control to exit (than just a computer controlled exit) but it really seems implausible.

A: He... erm ... pre-programmed it.

As the wide-eyed Finn scrambled for a seat and harness and found
himself wishing for a number of very large, soft pads, Chewbacca
groaned his readiness. Han studied the readouts before him. The
Wookiee raised a hand over his own console. "And…" Han followed the
declining fractions intently. "Now!"
Human and Wookiee hands flew over the main console, supplementing as
best they could the approach and landing information they had
preprogrammed into the Falcon's instrumentation. Not unexpectedly,
more than one last-second override was required in order to make the
ship do something that was against its nature and perform maneuvers
for which it had never been designed.
SW: The Force Awakens - Official Novelisation

Most of his work at the console seems to be aimed at stopping the ship from aborting the approach rather than actually timing the landing.

A: I am not aware of any canon source explaining the manual exit from hyperspace, but I have an answer:
Manual hyperspace exits at a precise moment aren't as difficult as it looks. The movie never showed that Han didn't do pre-jump calculation. Han just needed to manually override during last seconds.
The manual exit should be computer-aided. Starships use famous Fly by Wire technology of 60s. When Han Solo pulled the controls, it wasn't like he pulled a lever which was connected to engine with gears, ropes and pulleys. The pulling of control signalled the computer to start the procedure of exiting hyperspace. So, it shouldn't be thought that Han Solo pulled the control just after the Falcon passed the shield.
As for how Han Solo was able to pull the trigger precisely during the last seconds (even with computer aid, the margin of error is high), the answer is gut feeling. Here, experience matters and this is what movie tried to show. What's special about Han Solo? He has got lots of experience with reckless things.

A: There hasn't been any explanation in Legends or canon why manual start/stop controls for hyperspace travel exists. However, a few possible reasons for why Han used manual mode in the Millenium Falcon can be inferred through analysis.

*

*I trust my fate only to my own hands and to luck: That's a very smuggler-like mentality. Don't be fooled - Han was never confident in can survive - that's why he never elaborated to Leia why crazy he is up to now. He only proceeded with this almost-definitely-suicidal approach because he can't think of any other way to bypass Starkiller Base's shield alive and undetected.

*The galaxy isn't at the pinnacle of technology yet: The hyperdrive is only 4 millenia old. Ever faster hyperdrives are being developed all the time, and interdiction technology is still in its infancy. What's to say automatic controls are still in development or expensive like all new inventions?

*Han Solo is an expert pilot who prefers everything manual and customised: This seems most likely to me. Think of it like a F1 driver where the vehicle is stripped down to the barest essentials for speed and the driver is responsible for handling much more controls of the vehicle that aren't automated. The same can be said of the Falcon - he stripped away parts for speed and for smuggling cargo space, and he probably prefer to have the controls being manual in the first place. Don't forget, he is the fastest pilot on record for the Kessel Run, a hyperspace route that involves a lot of jumps and very fine-tuned navigation. Don't underestimate Han. It IS possible he is really able to manually do what he did.

Most importantly, HAN IS NOT HUMAN. He is a different species which we, the viewers, call humans out of convenience to our popular culture. In-universe, he isn't one of us. I have personally seen a toddler win tower defence games on smartphones these days - What makes you think space-faring species can't evolve to adapt to the demands of hyperspace-dependent civilisation?

A: Yes, the Solo family is also strong with the force, they just didn't ever produce a Jedi.
It explains why Han Solo is constantly able to get out of sticky situations.

A: Han Solo is an extremely good pilot.
If you have ever drive a manual gear car, you "know" that is impossible to change gears without pressing the clutch, isn't it?  Well, in fact it is possible to do it, if you are a really good pilot. You only have to guess the right speed in which the gears are sincronized and boom, you have a clutchless change that seem like magic to the ones who only drive automatic.
Space is not as full of stars and supernovas as somebody could think. A good pilot know that and he can pull the trick of his hat with a lot of wishful thinking, a little lack of moral and no fear of death, which are known qualities of Han Solo. The fact that he can do it is not a validation of his ability, but just a confirmation of his good luck... so far.

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Q: Change the way the locale is displayed in url with Symfony3 Symfony3 displays by default local in url in that way : website.com/en_GB/ (or "en_gb").
How to change that to display it in that way: website.com/en-gb/ ?
With the below controller and calling to website.com/en-GB/ returns the homepage in French (default language is French). Calling to website.com/en_GB/ returns the page in English.
en_GB : english of UK
Controller:
/**
 * @Route("/{_locale}/", name="homepageLocale")
 * @Template("AppBundle:Default:homepage/homepage.html.twig")
 */
 public function homepageLocaleAction(Request $request) {
    return [];
 }

It's seems that the code decoding the locale is that one:
   Symfony\Component\Intl\Locale.php

   public static function getFallback($locale)
    {
        if (false === $pos = strrpos($locale, '_')) {
            if (self::$defaultFallback === $locale) {
                return 'root';
            }

            // Don't return default fallback for "root", "meta" or others
            // Normal locales have two or three letters
            if (strlen($locale) < 4) {
                return self::$defaultFallback;
            }

            return;
        }

        return substr($locale, 0, $pos);
    }

A: To achieve that you might need decorate "completely" the HttpKernel LocaleListener to something like this:
// AppBundle\EventListener\LocaleListener

private function setLocale(Request $request)
{
    if ($locale = $request->attributes->get('_locale')) {
        if (false !== strpos($locale, '-')) {
            // translate en-gb to en_GB
            $localeParts = explode('-', $locale);
            $locale = $localeParts[0].'_'.strtoupper($localeParts[1]);
        }

        $request->setLocale($locale);
    }
}

private function setRouterContext(Request $request)
{
    if (null !== $this->router) {
        $locale = $request->getLocale();

        // translate en_GB to en-gb
        $locale = strtolower(strtr($locale, '_', '-'));

        $this->router->getContext()->setParameter('_locale', $locale);
    }
}

Note: These two methods are private, it's why we need copy+paste the complete code of the original listener to change its behavior.
More about "How to Decorate Services" here, or creates you own compiler pass to exchange the service class of the locale_listener definition.


KVMR 89.5 FM representatives recently joined about 30 other community radio stations at the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) Regional Summit in Santa Rosa, where disaster and fire coverage was, naturally, a major topic. But NFCB's Chief Executive Officer, Sally Kane, closed the conference with a poignant, evocative, inspiring speech on the value of storytelling, particularly in radio. Here's a look inside the mind of one of community radio's leading national proponents.
SANTA ROSA--So many times when we get together we talk about collecting and sharing the stories of our communities. Stories have so much power and radio is arguably the best medium out there for telling a story… just look at how podcasting has jumped off the shoulders of a long tradition of radio storytelling for an example of how enduring a good story is. The tone of voice, the inflection, the pregnant pause, the random chuckle escaping.
In my last couple of years at the helm of KVNF Community radio in Paonia, Colorado, I invited a group of high school art students to cover an entire wall of our new building with a mural. As a guiding concept I told them that radio was a keeper of the stories. I told them that the radio signal emanating out over our rural area was much like the smoke of a campfire where people have gathered and shared their stories since time immemorial. They took that notion, ran with it, and created a fabulous mural with a campfire at the center and radio waves like ripples in a pond moving over a background populated with people making music from all over the world. It was a sight to behold.
Yes, I come from the mountains of Colorado. My Mom is an artist. My Dad is a federal judge. In 1963 when my Mom was 7 months pregnant with me, my Dad was at the March on Washington to hear Martin Luther King tell the world that he had a dream. My parents believed that creative expression and the vision of a just society were worth a lifetime of devotion. They believed that dignity is alive when creative expression and justice are respected. I grew up watching them create, participate, and serve others with those beliefs firmly in hand. To this day, I watch them again and again, speak their truth and try to make something of it.
Though radically different in their stories and the paths their lives took, their desire to try to make a world they could be proud of never left them, or their children.
They gave me a sense of being part of something larger than myself. That sort of belonging led me to find strong purpose. That sense of purpose has helped me create meaning in times of chaos, comfort in times of despair, and delight in many achievements along the way.
Performance art is the medium that showed me the road that I could travel and radio became my loyal companion. Radio gave me a means to illustrate those central values of creative expression and the pursuit of justice through the power of story. Like so many of you in this room, making radio, keeping the signal flowing, rustling up the resources to sustain it, has given me access to a deep well whose sweet water is called….. meaning.
And look at where we find ourselves now – the first amendment under fire, discord rampant, and every awful 'ism" wreaking havoc all around us. But worse than trading insults and stereotypes or putting someone else down so you can feel bigger, is treating another as if they are invisible; too different to understand, too small in numbers to count, too undereducated or underfinanced to matter. Creative expression is challenged and justice is under siege.
That's where we come in. At our best we are alchemists with the fruits of creative expression. We amplify the voices of those who are not heard, or are mis-represented. We help shape new narratives and shed light on the things that connect us. We help illuminate the reductionist and deadly strategy of divide and conquer where we find it so that it doesn't strangle our communities.
Our first amendment was, among other things, an open acknowledgement of the human hunger for freedom of expression and justice. A free press cannot exist without a commitment to justice and community media has to strive to reflect that in every level of our organizations and our work because our mission and our values inextricably tie us to it.
President Obama quoted Dr. King (and supposedly Dr. King was quoting someone else) that "the arc of history bends toward justice". In later interviews he went on to say that it doesn't do that on its own – we have to reach up, grab hold, and bend it together. Words and stories matter and they are our currency in community media. We have to claim that continually if we are serious about serving the public interest at a local level and earning trust.
Tell the stories. Play the music. Convene the conversations.
Claim this radio art that we belong to. I have traveled all over the country visiting stations and I see how you all show up for each other and for your communities.
Renew the purpose of this work…. a world we can be proud of, where creative expression has room to blossom and where justice reveals itself in dignified glory.
Community media's best days lie ahead. Remember the words of one of Public Media's great mystics, Mr. Rogers, "Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else". Begin again…every day.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for the important work that you do.