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Q: website not appearing in a webview I am trying to open this website in my webview, but its coming out to be empty, following is my code,
 view = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.webView);
    view.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    view.setWebViewClient(new MyBrowser());
    view.loadUrl("https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Mumbra,+Thane,+Maharashtra/Mazgaon,+Mumbai,+Maharashtra/@19.0890476,72.804611,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x3be7bf117349510b:0xc8148b8a43075d71!2m2!1d73.0228173!2d19.1736147!1m5!1m1!1s0x3be7ce5ab292b941:0x19ab115c5e7876ac!2m2!1d72.8436024!2d18.9718388!3e3?hl=en"); //try js  alert
    view.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient()); // adding js alert support

what am i doing wrong here ?
Thank you for your suggestions.
full code
MainActivity
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
private WebView view; //membuat variabel view agar bisa akses method onKeyDown

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    view = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.webView);// adding js alert support
        WebSettings settings = view.getSettings();
        settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        settings.setAllowContentAccess(true);
        settings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);
        view.setWebViewClient(new MyBrowser());
        view.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
        view.loadUrl("https://moovit.com/?from=Mumbra&to=Dadar&fll=19.218316_73.087245&tll=18.976622_72.832794&metroId=3732&lang=en");
}

private class MyBrowser extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
    }
}

public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    //ketika disentuh tombol back
    if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) && view.canGoBack()) {
        view.goBack(); //method goback() dieksekusi untuk kembali pada halaman sebelumnya
        return true;
    }
    // Jika tidak ada history (Halaman yang sebelumnya dibuka)
    // maka akan keluar dari activity
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

}

layout
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" tools:context=".MainActivity">

<WebView
    android:id="@+id/webView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />

Following is the manifest file in which i have give the permission to internet and i have also added hardware accelerated proprerty and set its value as true
Manifest
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:hardwareAccelerated="true">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

A: So, you need change height and width of webview and it worked


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Understood. However I would like to note that treaties are void after the nation, or in this case nations, ceases to exist. So when Blimptaria fell it was Orkania territory, until Orkania fell, then it was neutral territory. Orkania no longer exists.
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Sober for October or Time for a Change?
Let me start by saying that I don't abstain from alcohol and I'm not a heavy drinker. I'm British and so alcohol has always been a part of life. Like many women my age, I drank too much in my teens, drank like a fish in university (for my first degree – not when studying nutritional therapy!) and spent many weekends in my twenties drinking to excess. Weekend drinking, which is such a part of our culture, lessened as my social habits changed. As I trained more, I went out less, but always "let my hair down" when I did go out, and yes – I often drank to excess. Fast forward some years, and those occasions are even less (and even harder to recover from). I know I can fall into bad drinking habits, just as we can fall into bad eating habits sometimes. I still enjoy my wine, and don't want to take it out of my life completely, but I've had to be honest and reassess how alcohol fits in with my lifestyle and what I want to achieve. As I've had to readjust my habits it's made me think more and more about how we view and (ab)use alcohol.
In the UK government guidelines recently changed to a limit of 14 units per week (before 2016 this limit was 21 units per week for men); but what do 14 units actually look like?
That's 6 glasses (approx. one and a half bottles of wine); or 6 pints of beer or 5 pints of cider.
If you drink wine or spirits, then that's easy to measure when you're out (175ml glasses and 25ml measures are standard) but pouring at home makes things a little trickier. Wine glasses seem to have got bigger and bigger, and who actually measures what they pour?
Guidelines also recommend that we space out alcohol consumption during the week and not binge drink. For some, binge drinking brings to mind images of Booze Britain young men and women fighting or passed out on the street, but the amount of alcohol that constitutes a binge may be a lot less than you think. Whilst there isn't a technical definition of how many units constitutes binge drinking, the ONS puts it as over 8 units in a single session for men, or over 6 units for women. For women that's just 3 glasses of wine or 2/3 bottle.
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For many women drinking wine has become increasingly habitual on most nights of the week. Despite increased concern over the links between regular alcohol and breast cancer, many of us take a casual, almost jokey attitude towards heavy drinking. You only have to take a brief look in a card shop to see the number of alcohol-based funny cards geared towards women.
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Something Smells Rotten About the Latest Snafu at the Ronkonkoma Hub
Rich Murdocco
Long Islanders may have to wait just a little longer if they were expecting transformative growth at the Ronkonkoma Hub.
The reason for the delay? Sewering—and the disingenuous attempts of regional planning being undertaken by Suffolk County.
The Ronkonkoma Hub, the darling project for many-a-smart growth advocates, may be one of the few projects on Long Island worth the praise it has received. It offers the opportunity for true intermodal access spanning the automobile, bus, train and airplane. Unlike other ambitious projects its size, this $538 million Hub has faced minimal NIMBY outcry from the surrounding area. While residents' concerns about density still haunt the project, overall public support for the Hub has been snowballing from both civic leaders and municipalities since it was first pitched a few years ago.
In 2012, East Setauket-based Tritec development became the master developer for 50 or so acres around the ever-bustling Ronkonkoma train station. One of the region's busiest commuter transit hubs, the site has long been viewed as an economic engine to power Suffolk County. Only recently has any real progress on this goal been seen. In 2014, the Brookhaven Town Planning Board adopted what's called a form-based code to set an orderly template of growth. Last year the town board gave the green light to the first phase of development at the Hub, with 489 residential units slated for 10 acres. Progress, yes, but the approval came with the condition that the project would have a viable sewer connection.
Last October, a supposed regional planning alliance was formed between Brookhaven and Islip, the two towns where the Hub is located. At first glance, one would assume this partnership would have helped the project further along, but this hasn't been the case.
Once again, the issue of sewers and the treatment of wastewater, which has plagued many Long Island projects, reared its ugly head.
The Town of Brookhaven had authored and adopted an Environmental Impact Statement that included a proposal for a $25 million sewer plant for the Hub project. Suffolk County accepted the concept, and the legislature approved the funding to make it a reality.
Since then, the county has apparently shifted its position. Now it claims it wants to build a seven-mile pipeline from the Ronkonkoma Hub site through the Village of Islandia (whose residents reportedly weren't exactly pleased with the idea) to the Bergin Point Sewage Treatment Plant in West Babylon. From there, wastewater would be released three miles into the Atlantic Ocean via an aging outfall pipe. The county claims that its solution would save Suffolk's already beleaguered taxpayers $2 to $3 million while shaving precious time off the ever-expanding construction timeline, now slated to take another decade.
Both Islip and Brookhaven were initially onboard, but state Sen. Tom Croci (R-Islip), a former Islip Town supervisor, proposed another pipeline path. His new route would essentially double the opportunity for growth within the township by offering more sewer infrastructure, but it would also more than double the cost from $24 million to $55 million.
"This alternate route would be much more expensive," admitted Islip Town Councilwoman Trish Bergin-Weichbrodt, a Republican, at the March 2015 press conference held at Islip Town Hall to promote the new trajectory, "but the benefit would certainly be worth the buck."
In Croci's proposal, the extended sewer line would meander south through Oakdale and Sayville before hooking up with a connection to Bergin Point. While the idea sounds nice, no public officials involved with proposing the longer route provided details regarding how this expanded pipeline would be funded.
What is most vexing is why at this stage of the game is the answer to the wastewater issue not already understood, agreed upon and moving forward?
The county's sewer solution seems to accommodate Tritec's needs and little else. Not only does its proposed pipeline shortsightedly bypass MacArthur Airport, it skips any additional opportunities for regional growth beyond the Ronkonkoma Hub. Sen. Croci's route extension addresses these issues, but doubles the price point far beyond the original proposal as well as the county's cheaper route.
From the regional perspective, Suffolk County, Islip and Brookhaven should decide together which of these three options is the most beneficial: a completely new wastewater treatment plant constructed at the Hub site to discharge clean water back into the aquifer, which might also spur growth at nearby MacArthur Airport and its surrounding industrial areas; a quick-fix pipeline proposed by Suffolk County that bypasses the airport; or Sen. Croci's extended pipeline that snakes through various South Shore communities but comes with a hefty price tag and no promise of who foots the bill?
To further complicate matters, these pipeline proposals raise concern over the environmental impacts they would have, along with questions regarding the county's intentions.
What's the point of creating new sewer infrastructure if we're just going to move effluent from point A to point B? How will an ocean outfall pipe, which would prevent treated wastewater being absorbed back into the groundwater, affect nearby Lake Ronkonkoma? Further, can the area's aging infrastructure accommodate the Hub's needs, as well as the other completed and proposed sewer expansions in both Wyandanch and West Babylon? The treatment capacity at the Bergin Point sewer plant is being expanded to allow for additional growth, but will that be enough when all these projects pending approval are finally built?
The solution shouldn't be left to political preference, but grounded in environmental data. So far, it seems that the county is more interested in finding a sewer option that would speed up development instead of balancing the need for economic growth and the protection of our natural resources.
The conflicting approaches to sewering at the Hub highlights the Island's collective inability to think and act regionally while adding to the perception—warranted or not—that local governments too often seek only to accommodate the builders at the public's expense.
It's right to consider the Ronkonkoma Hub a transformative project because it has the potential to make a lasting difference not only on the Towns of Islip and Brookhaven, but on Long Island as a whole. It's one of the best locations around for transit-oriented development because 42 percent of the LIRR's total ridership uses the main line there. Why not harness its economic potential? But these squabbles about the sewering issue derails progress.
If the Suffolk's intent was to speed up Tritec's construction timeline, it failed.
If the administration truly wanted to engage in regional planning, they would have brought all the stakeholders to the table—the Towns, the Village of Islandia, local residents, Tritec and wastewater engineers—and worked on a realistic solution when the latest iteration of the project was first seriously considered in 2009. Instead, they took a relatively simply issue with a simple solution and complicated it tenfold. On the surface, they look like they were only trying to save money, but in practice it seems like they were working diligently to aid the developer, who in the end now has to sit tight and hold off construction until the dust settles.
Up to this point, the public hearings have been completed, deadlines have been met, and building plans have been reviewed by the Town of Brookhaven. The Town was reportedly ready to issue permits for the first phase of the project to begin once the sewering question, one of 22 other conditions outlined by the Town's planning board as necessary for approval, was adequately addressed.
Now, while the 21 other planning board conditions are moving along, the sewer question still remains unanswered and the project's formal groundbreaking postponed.
Regardless of whether or not the developer or the county caused the delay, the Ronkonkoma Hub project is now stopped dead in its tracks. Let's hope a solution is coming soon to get everything moving again.
Rich Murdocco writes about Long Island's land use and real estate development issues. He received his Master's in Public Policy at Stony Brook University, where he studied regional planning under Dr. Lee Koppelman, Long Island's veteran master planner. Murdocco is a regular contributor to the Long Island Press. More of his views can be found on www.TheFoggiestIdea.org or follow him on Twitter @TheFoggiestIdea.
(Photo rendering: Tritec development)
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Sign Language Watch
Sign Languages in Europe
Select LanguageEnglishAlbanianBasqueBulgarianCatalanCroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHungarianIcelandicIrishItalianLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMalteseNorwegianPolishPortugueseRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSpanishSwedishTurkishUkrainianWelsh
National Sign Languages
Suomalainen viittomakieli, SVK
Finlandssvenskt Teckenspråk, SRVK, Suomenruotsalainen Viittomakieli
In English: Finnish Sign Language, FinSL, Finland Swedish Sign Language, FinSSL
Language Status:
SVK: 5 (Developing). Recognized language (2011, No. 61, Institute for sign language status)
SRVK: 8a (Moribund)
Legal Recognition
EUD website
"On 12 March 2015, the Finnish Parliament have voted the "Sign Language Act". Even though Finnish Sign Language did take its first step by having their Sign Language recognised in their constitution back in 1995. (..) This new Act also intends to increase authorities' awareness of signers as a linguistic and cultural group. The Act further re-establishes signers' right (enshrined in special legislation) to receive teaching in their own language and in sign language as a subject, and their right to use sign language or interpretation and translation arranged by an authority. The Act does not create any new rights, but rather aims to promote the linguistic rights signers already have, in practice, and clarifies their status as a language and cultural group."
Finnish Sign Language was recognised in the constitution in August 1995.
"Section 17 - Right to one's language and culture [...] The rights of persons using sign language and of persons in need of interpretation or translation aid owing to disability shall be guaranteed by an Act."
"Sign Language Legislation in the European Union", Wheatley, M., A. Pabsch., Edition II. Brussels, EUD, 2012:
"Finland is a country with two national languages: Finnish and Swedish. Along with Sámi and Romani, sign language is recognised as a language in the constitution in 1995 (Suomen perustuslaki). It was the first European country to mention sign language in its constitution (Section 3 par 17): 'The rights of persons using sign language and of persons in need of interpretation or translation aid owing to disability shall be guaranteed by an Act.'
The constitution (or most other acts) does not specifically mention Finnish Sign Language or Finland-Swedish Sign Language. It also requirs other acts to follow to ensure the rights of sign langauge users. Finland does not have a separate sign language act at the moment but a number of other acts that mention sign language.
Sign language is for example mentioned in the Language Act (Kielilaki 423/2003).Chapter 8 requires the government to provide a report to monitor and promote linguistic rights.This report should include sign language."
"Sign language is also metnioned in the Decree of the Ministry of Education on Vocational Basic Examination, which explains the requirements and context for the examination to become a sign language instructor.""
"The status of sign languages in Europe", Nina Timmermans, ISBN 92-871-5720-0 © Council of Europe, April 2005
"The Finnish Sign Language is the mother tongue of about 5,000 deaf people. In addition to this, about 10,000 hearing people use it as their second mother tongue, second language or foreign language. The Research Centre on National Languages has studied Finnish Sign Language since 1984.
The Act on The Research Centre on National Languages (591/1996) states that the research centre has to take care of Finnish Sign Language research and maintenance. The Finnish Sign Language Board on language was established in 1997. It is submitted to the Research Centre on National Languages and the work conducted has a basis in the Decree on The Research Centre on National Languages (758/1996).
The Sign Language of the Finland-Swedish deaf can be considered a separate language from the main variant of the
Finnish Sign Language. The Finland-Swedish Sign Language is the mother tongue of about 200 deaf people. Deaf Finns using Finland-Swedish Sign Language form a small minority that is in danger of extinction. The school for deaf Finns using Swedish Sign Language was closed down in 1993. Most deaf children, young people and adults of working age who use the Finland-Swedish Sign Language have emigrated to Sweden.
Finland is one of the first countries in the world to have adopted sign language in its constitution (1995). The Constitution Act of Finland (731/1999) was renewed in 1999 and contains the general anti-discrimination clause in section 6. The anti-discrimination clause rules that without acceptable grounds, no one shall be placed in a different position because of, e.g., language and disability. According to the fundamental statement, the anti-discrimination clause covers both direct and indirect discrimination. Besides this, according to section 17, the rights of those who use sign language and of those who require interpretation or translation services because of disability shall be guaranteed by the Act of Parliament.
Training of professionals
A training programme for class teachers of Finnish Sign Language users started in the autumn of 1998, and 10 students began their studies. In autumn 2001 another group commenced studies. University level studies in sign language are popular subjects both at Turku and Jyväskylä Universities.
In autumn 1998 a study programme regarding sign languages was started at the University of Jyväskylä.
Sign Language Instructor
The basic diploma in Finnish Sign language instruction started in autumn 2001. The professional title is "Sign Language Instructor" and it consists of 120 credit weeks. It is a completely new profession in Finland.
Sign Language Teaching
The Finnish Association of the Deaf, obtained financing from the Finnish Slot Machine Association for the HELY Project aimed at relatives of and people working with the deaf. This project runs from 2001-2006. The project studies how languages in general are taught and what methods can be applied to teaching sign languages to hearing people.
A teaching unit is being created, based on the level of skills, the examination system is being renewed and new teaching material is being produced.
The National Board of Education ratified the bases for a new curriculum that was implemented at pre-school level for a pilot project from 2000-2001. Account was taken of sign language users as an individual group. The Finnish Association of the Deaf participated in the preparatory process, and they were also asked to make a statement regarding the educational curriculum."
Number of Deaf Sign Language Users
FinSL: 5,000
FinSSL: 300 (EUD website, December 2016)
National Sign Language (Research) Centres
The Finnish Association of the Deaf
the Netherlands (Holland)
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Elon Musk: reputation analysis
by Anna Bredava on January 28, 2021
The XX century had Henry Ford as the model of a modern businessman, we have Elon Musk. Indeed, the CEO of Tesla managed to create a brand around his name. He represents the modern billionaire: made his fortune on the Internet, interested in technologies, and has a very distinctive online presence. No wonder he is often compared to another genius billionaire and inventor of the current cultural zeitgeist — Iron Man.
Waiting for the day when @elonmusk will announce at a press conference that he's iron man or something!
— Niloy Ghosh (@ImNiloyGhosh) January 20, 2021
In case you don't know who he is, here are some facts about our protagonist:
Elon Musk is a billionaire and a business magnate.
He founded and later sold Zip2, a web software company, which brought him enough money to found another IT company and launch PayPal, the famous online payment system.
At the beginning of 2000s, he changed his direction in business from software to technology and founded SpaceX, a space technology company as the name tells, and joined an emerging company called Tesla, an electric car manufacturer.
Overall, he is the founder of 9 different companies.
His interests as a businessman lie in transportation, space travel, green technologies, and AI.
That's the short introduction. But it's unlikely that you know all that about Mr. Musk. The thing is, when we think about public figures, be it musicians, politicians, or entrepreneurs, we are more likely to think about their image than list all their financial accomplishments in chronological order.
Moreover, Elon Musk's image might be as influential as his business decisions. After all, the stock market keeps a close eye on his tweets.
Elon Musk is perhaps the best illustration of why your online reputation is important. His actions on social media and his image directly affect the success of his companies on the market as evidenced by this headline from CNBC.
And remarkably, this is not the only time Elon Musk's social media posts or online appearances influenced the stock market: him smoking weed on Joe Rogan's podcast plummeted Tesla's shares once again, and his short tweet about Etsy bumped their shares by 10%.
I kinda love Etsy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 26, 2021
Seeing how powerful Elon Musk's online reputation is, I was curious to analyze it. Of course, we at Awario love to run analysis — after all, Awario is a social media analytics tool. You can use this blog post as a kind of blueprint for your own reputation analysis (or your CEO's and other public figures' in your company).
Perhaps you manage social media profiles for a small brand or a medium-sized company and don't think there's a person who represents your company. However, there are always employees who stand out on social media and talk about their work a lot. It might be the founder of your company who discusses their business journey online or your PR manager. Besides, the workflow I discuss in this blog post works for brands as well, not only for public figures. In any case, even if you're not managing social media strategy for a multi-dollar brand, online reputation management is important.
Before we take a look at the social listening data and see Elon Musk's actual online reputation, let's figure out what his strategy is. How does he try to portray himself on social media? What is his desired public image?
How Elon Musk builds his image: geeky billionaire and eccentric tech genius
It's a commonly known fact that Elon Musk's tweets go through an approvement process. Tesla's stockholders proposed this after some controversies that affected the company. It's unclear if all the tweets by Elon need approval from the team or just those related to Tesla, but we know that he manages his account himself otherwise. There is no social media manager spelling out the next tweet for him.
At the same time, Twitter is his main platform for communication with the public: he doesn't use Facebook and spoke about disliking Instagram. This makes Twitter the main channel through which he shapes his public image.
If we were to break down Elon Musk's image he's trying to create, these would be the staples:
Lover of technology
This quality is expressed both through his business decisions and social media. He talks a lot about modern technology, space travel, and AI. As well as retweeting SpaceX and Tesla, he discusses potential technology that could be used in the future and the impact of such technology on our lives.
Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology
Scrolling through his Twitter account you get an impression that Elon Musk is a very opinionated man. A lot of these opinions are quite controversial. But Elon doesn't tweet just for the sake of being controversial — he has a strong view of the world and he gladly shares it with his followers. He regularly tweets about social issues and gets involved in the discussion of news.
This image comes as no surprise considering that many companies he founded are aiming to change the world in a meaningful way. He presents himself as a man with a vision for a better future and the means to implement it.
Smart businessmen
You may be surprised to see this quality — after all, wasn't it Elon Musk whose tweets caused Tesla's shares to go down? However, Elon actually presents himself as a canny businessman with a thorough understanding of the market. He often gives his assessment of stock market trends and tweets about cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2020
Geek and meme lord
However, being a smart businessman with a vision is not what brought him 43,3 million Twitter followers. It's the memes.
Elon Musk perhaps is one of very few (if not the only) billionaires who is fully versed in the Internet culture. He tweets as many memes as Tesla updates and often mentions staples of geek culture such as Monty Python and Fallout. He jumps on the latest social media trends and oftentimes tweets puns and jokes.
pic.twitter.com/Vn0Rv0yQ5q
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 15, 2020
Remember, that each time you post on social media, you contribute to your public image. This is relevant both for brands and people. A useful exercise is to try to describe your brand or a public figure as someone you know: what characteristics would you name? Do they coincide with the desired public image? And do your social media posts correlate with this image?
Another lesson from Elon Musk is his willingness to embrace the Internet culture. Do you know any other entrepreneur with 40 million Twitter followers? The Internet loves people who love them back and speak their language. Do not be afraid to use memes and Internet culture in your social media strategy — this increases your chances to go viral and attracts more attention from social media users.
Now that we've run through Elon Musk's own profiles let's see if his desired image correlates with the existing one. Let's use Awario to examine his online reputation.
Elon Musk reputation: social listening analysis
The volume of online conversations
In one week, Elon Musk was mentioned almost 180 thousand times reaching 15.3 billion online impressions.
Most of these mentions came from Twitter, which is not surprising considering how active he is on the platform. However, news, blogs, and websites also had a sizeable chunk of mentions to offer. This is due to the fact that Tesla's CEO is often mentioned in the news: wherever somebody talks about his many companies or his marriage to a famous musician called Grimes and eccentric decision to name their child X Æ A-Xii.
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When you are analyzing the online reputation of your brand or client, the most important metric you have is sentiment analysis. If we look at the sentiment wheel of Elon Musk, we can see that the Internet likes him. Most mentions of him are neutral, but positive sentiment noticeably prevails over negative.
On the sentiment graph, you can see a spike in positive mentions on January 20. Awario Insights allows us to find out what caused this spike by simply clicking on it.
Just like this, we discovered that this sudden spike in mentions was caused by his tweet (what a surprise) where he prompted people to use Signal messenger. This tweet generated a lot of buzz, both positive and negative, but all in all, there were more people agreeing with Elon.
Use Signal
It is amazing to see how a two-word tweet can generate so many mentions. This shows that you never 100% know what post of yours might go viral. Awario can help track your social media impact and show what resonates with people and triggers them to share their opinions and support.
What topics generate conversations
Thanks to sentiment analysis, we already know one topic that was mentioned quite a lot in conversations about Elon Musk — Signal. What are some others?
Let's look at Awario's Topic cloud. Tesla is often mentioned alongside Elon Musk, which is only logical since he is the CEO of the company. It also shows how closely the two are tied in people's minds: the CEO directly represents the company.
A fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos is also brought up quite often. If we go through the mentions, we find out that the reason these two a grouped together is that they both made more money in the past 10 months during the pandemic. This was highlighted by the USA senator Bernie Sanders in a tweet that attracted a lot of attention.
Wealth increase in past 10 months:
⬆�$173 billion: Elon Musk
⬆�$77 billion: Jeff Bezos
⬆�$60 billion: Walton family
⬆�$43 billion: Bill Gates
⬆�$39 billion: Mark Zuckerberg
12-year increase in U.S. minimum wage: $0
We must tax the rich & raise the minimum wage to at least $15.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 19, 2021
Another prominent topic is COVID-19 — and once again, this buzz was caused by his own tweet. This week and old tweet back from March 2020 has resurfaced where Elon Musk claimed that the pandemic would be gone by April. Of course, a lot of people pointed out how wrong he was. COVID-19 remains one of the main news events so it's not surprising that even older tweets about it are still relevant. After all, the pandemic is still very much relevant.
In addition to that, you can see on the Topic cloud that such words as technology, SpaceX, carbon, Starlink, and other Musk's ventures and projects get mentioned quite a lot.
Overall, Elon Musk's desired public image correlates with his existing one. He is generally liked by people and is mentioned a lot in conversations related to technology, current news, and business.
At the same time, there are cases when his hasty tweets cause some backlash from the public just like with predictions about COVID that didn't happen. Perhaps, since then he learned to be more careful with his tweets.
If you want to run your own reputation analysis, I suggest following the same workflow: estimating the volume of conversation, taking a look at the sentiment analysis and spikes in positive and negative mentions, and finally looking at the most prominent topics to understand associations with your client. And stay away from making predictions about the pandemic — leave it to the experts.
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Moran Company Seeks Executive Director for Missouri Housing Authority
April 10, 2019 – The Moran Company, an executive recruitment firm based in Leawood, KS, has been enlisted to find the next executive director for Lee's Summit Housing Authority in Missouri. Recruiter Bruce Scott is leading the assignment for the search firm.
The housing authority wants an executive director to lead all aspects of the organization, including administration of current programs, development of new housing options and financial management, said the Moran Co.
The executive director of Lee's Summit Housing Authority is charged with leading a growth-oriented organization in a rapidly growing suburban community, said the search firm. As the chief executive officer and the face of the organization the individual is expected to lead the organization in producing more housing in Lee's Summit in keeping with the mission to: "advocate for affordable housing and respond to unmet housing needs through new construction, restoration of existing assets, and the pursuit of new development opportunities and partnerships."
Principal responsibilities of the role include management of all housing authority activities as outlined by the board of commissioners, state and federal legislations, statutes and the regulations of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), said the Moran Co. The executive director is also charged with leading the housing authority in the initiation, planning and implementation of new affordable housing solutions and other mission-based objectives of the strategic plan. The individual will also make recommendations to the board of commissioners of long-range plans which will assist in maintaining an effective and growing organization.
The executive director will serve as chief administrator of the Lee's Summit Housing Authority with responsibility for planning, administering, directing, supervising and coordinating all phases of the authority's daily operations. These include accounting, tenancy, public and social relations, maintenance and modernization. The individual will also direct the development and administration of all budgets, establish and enforce procedures to ensure adequate fiscal controls, efficient and economical operation in compliance with all applicable regulations, among other duties.
Ideal Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience and success with private-public partnerships and financing to create new housing in a suburban community similar to Lee's Summit, said the search firm. He or she should also have had previous success in establishing relationships with individuals and organizations of influence, including elected officials, civic leaders, private developers and partnering agencies. Also necessary is the ability to communicate the organization's strategic future to stakeholders to work toward the expansion of affordable housing in Lee's Summit.
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Candidates should have at least five years of responsible administrative experience, preferably in affordable housing, local government or related fields. Knowledge of and the ability to provide leadership and direction to staff in business practices, general ledger accounting, budget preparation and fiscal reporting, property management and personnel administration is also required.
Preferred qualifications for the role include a bachelor's degree in public administration, business administration or related fields. Prospects should also have a public housing manager certificate from a HUD approved organization (or acquire certification within the first year of employment.)
Established in 1967 and governed by a five-member board of commissioners, Lee's Summit Housing Authority has 116 public housing units, a 649 base-line housing choice voucher (Section 8) program and an administrative budget of $924,000.
Non-Profit Recruiters
The Moran Co. specializes in searches for non-profit leadership, including executive directors, fundraising/development directors, hospital foundation directors and other senior executives. Some of the Moran Co.'s current searches include: executive director for the ACLU of Kansas, chief philanthropy officer for the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and executive director for House of Hope Kansas City.
Mr. Scott has 33 years' experience as a non-profit executive director. He was founder of a local trade association, served as board member and president of the state rehabilitation association and is connected nationally through United Cerebral Palsy.
He has served as president of the board of Non-Profit Connect in Kansas City, one of many boards on which he has participated. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in social work from the University of Missouri, Columbia, before launching his 35-year career in service to people with developmental disabilities.
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Open the Employee accrual #3 document and then, on the More menu, click Clear posting.
This cancels the document posting.
Repost Employee accrual #1 and Employee accrual #2 documents.
The Accruals calculation register should look as follows (fig. 18.15, 18.16, and 18.17).
You can see that salary has been accrued to all employees (the Result field) for the entire month in compliance with the source data (the Source data field). The employees Johnson and Walkman were accrued a bonus of 10% of their accrued salary.
Post Employee accrual #3, and then post Employee accrual #1 and Employee accrual #2.
At this point the Recalculation report should be empty.
The register state should change as follows (fig. 18.18, 18.19, and 18.20).
As a result of Johnson's absence, his salary amount is reduced, and his bonus is reduced accordingly.


Licensed home health aides provide hands-on personal care, but not medical care.
In 2012, some 58,500 paid, regulated long-term care companies served about 8 million people in the U.S., some 4.7 million of whom received that care in their home. And more often than not, experts say those receiving that care – be it one, two or all of the basic activities of daily living – didn't know the first thing about hiring a home health care provider.
So what do you need to know should you ever need the services of a home health care provider?
First, knowing whether you need home health care is a good start. Licensed home health aides provide hands-on personal care, but not medical care, in the home – activities such as bathing and dressing. If all you need is help with cooking and running errands, you might be better off hiring homemaker services, also referred to as personal care assistants or companions.
If you do need a home health care provider, consider this hurdle. Thousands upon thousands of firms provide licensed services, not to mention many firms providing unlicensed services. There are at least 12,206 home health agencies in the U.S., about 76.1% of these agencies were Medicare- and Medicaid-certified, 22.5% were Medicare-certified only, and 1.4% were Medicaid-certified only, according to the National Center for Health Statistics' report, Long-Term Care Services in the United States: 2013 Overview.
When searching for in-home care for yourself or an aging family member, Linda Fodrini-Johnson, the founder and executive director of Eldercare Services, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based home care company, recommends applying this screen: Look for a licensed care agency that has at least five years' experience and meets all the state's licensing laws.And, she says, "Be sure they have a clear agreement for services to sign before starting services."
When vetting an agency, also ask about the training that staffers receive, Fodrini-Johnson says. "Ask if the agency provides training and if you have a family member with dementia – are the care providers trained on how to work with someone with memory and behavioral issues?"
Several resources to use when searching for a home health care provider include Medicare and Home Health Care, a pdf published by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, and the consumer resource section of National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers' website (www.caremanager.org).
Medicare, assuming you're a beneficiary, will pay for you to get certain health care services in your home if you meet certain eligibility criteria and if the services are considered reasonable and necessary for the treatment of your illness or injury. But Medicare won't pay for personal care given by home health aides such as bathing, dressing and using the bathroom when this is the only care you need.
Given that, you'll likely have to use cash flow, or assets, or both to pay for home health care. And that can get to be expensive. "Extensive home care services are very costly and can easily exceed the cost of care in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities" says Dr. Katy Votava, the president of GOODCARE.com, a Rochester, N.Y.-based consulting firm that specializes in the economics of health care.
For instance, you'll pay on average $19 an hour, or $44,479 per year, for licensed home health aide services, according to the Genworth 2013 Cost of Care Survey. But hourly rates do vary from state to state, and even in-state. Consider: In Florida, home health services range anywhere from $12 to $28 per hour, but in California, the range is from $16 to $30, according to Genworth's survey.
Note carefully: You'll likely pay less per hour if you hire from an agency that doesn't pay all the taxes and insurances for its home health aides. But if you go that route, know this: "You have liabilities," Fodrini-Johnson says. "Your employee is actually a 1099 employee so you should provide some type of 'Worker's Compensation' insurance through your homeowners' insurance policy, for which you would incur a small additional charge."
If, by the way, you have and plan to use your long-term care insurance policy to cover home health care costs, Fodrini-Johnson recommends that you ask whether they have standards for the agencies they will reimburse you for. "Some have terms that say "home health;" others are much less rigid," she says.
Even with adequate funds, Votava says home care takes time and effort to organize and manage the services. "Make sure you have someone who is willing and able to coordinate care on your behalf," she said.
If you don't have someone willing to coordinate care, and even if you do, Fodrini-Johnson says it's best to hire an agency with professional staff managing the in-home care workers, be they nurses, social workers and/or family therapists. "So, ask about the background of the owners and who is supervising the care providers," she says.
Establishing a backup plan for your home care services is another essential task for those hiring home health aides. Votava said one question to answer is this: If the home care worker is unavailable at the last minute, how will the person needing care get by?
Robert Powell is editor of Retirement Weekly. Email him at rpowell@allthingsretirement.com.


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Fan-Metal to PlasticAnna Stubna2021-10-12T14:07:38-04:00
Fortune 500, tier 1 aerospace manufacturer
This customer needed to reduce the cost, lead time and the supply risks associated with the production of a part that involved extensive outsourcing. The product, which had a costly and complex workflow that required the outsourcing of multiple processes, was a fan for an aerospace application.
The customer-directed workflow for this fan included seven cross-country trips to five different vendors — including Allegheny Performance Plastics, who touched the fan three times. Allegheny Performance Plastics suggested and conducted value stream mapping on the entire part family, leading to the outsourced production of the metal insert and a balancing operation being moved to Allegheny Performance Plastics.
With the in-sourcing of CNC machining of the inserts and balancing, five of the steps are now performed by Allegheny Performance Plastics — the other in-house processes included injection molding, analysis and testing and inspection. The only remaining outsourced steps are plating the metal insert and burst testing — both of which were moved to suppliers nearby to Allegheny Performance Plastics Pittsburgh location.
Allegheny Performance Plastics also developed a new analytic technique to validate the manufacturing lot — instead of interrupting production to await destructive test results, which further streamlined the production process.
With no design change, Allegheny Performance Plastics was able to eliminate about 45 days of lead time (40% reduction), deliver $20,000 of annual savings and significantly reduce supply chain risk.


How to: Getting more apps to your N900 – Adding application catalogues to app manager.
As a N900 user, you might be aware that although Ovi isn't yet officially ready for the N900, you can still get buckets of apps via the app manager.
Enter in details as shown in screenshots below.
You'll get access to a bunch more apps than what's available by standard ( – I think I must have tried out at least 20 in an hour), and I think this catalogue gets updated more frequently.


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Top Para archery storylines heading to Tokyo 2020
Suresh Selvathamby. Photo World Archery
A total of 140 archers will target nine titles at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Before they draw their bows, here are five storylines to know heading into the Games:
1) Will there be a back-to-back Paralympic champion?
None of the Rio 2016 Paralympic individual champions won gold at the 2019 World Championships. Those stars from four years ago, most who went on to capture the 2017 World Championship golds such as Iran's Zahra Nemati, China's Zhou Jiamin and Great Britain's Jessica Stretton, were absent from podium at the 2019 edition 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Instead, new names emerged.
Malaysia's Suresh Selvathamby (men's recurve open), Singapore's Nur Syahidah Alim (women's compound open), Turkey's Bahattin Hekimoglu (men's W1) and Russia's Elena Krutova (women's W1) all became first-time world champions in 's-Hertogenbosch.
The USA's Ben Thompson (men's compound open) won his second world title last year but is missing the biggest prize in the sport.
Whether it is a development in talents or change in classification, the 2016 Paralympic champions will shoot with a chip on their shoulders.
2) Chunyan's consistency while Nemati seeks redemption
Last year saw new Para archers on the rise, but one has been the most consistent.
China's Wu Chunyan has repeatedly stayed with the competition. She failed to make up for her Paralympic silver medal in the women's recurve open at her home 2017 Worlds, where she succumbed to bronze. But 2019 was redemption. She reclaimed the gold medal she had once owned in 2015. Perhaps the strongest indicator that Chunyan was still in winning form was when she shocked the all-popular Nemati for gold at the Indonesia 2018 Para Asian Games.
Nemati stole headlines by becoming the first Iranian to win gold at an Olympic or Paralympic Games at London 2012, and retained that title in Rio, where she made more headlines by competing in the Olympics. But lately she has not been living up to expectations. In 's-Hertogenbosch, the Iranian was knocked out by Poland's Milena Olszewska in the semi-finals and missed out on the podium. She still could prove many wrong in Tokyo.
3) Compound competitiveness
The USA has three slots available in the men's compound open, and it is likely Thompson (2019 world champion), Andre Shelby (Rio 2016 Paralympic champion) and Matt Stutzman (2019 Worlds bronze medallist, London 2012 silver medallist) could land those spots. If that is the case, it is also a possibility the three could shoot off for the podium in Tokyo.
But there are many more threats. Italy's Paralympic runner-up Alberto Simonelli had an incredible 2019 season in which he shot a world record (707 out of 720 points for the 72-arrow 50m) last April. It eclipsed his own record of 706 points since late 2015.
4) Singapore's shining star
Alim made a name for herself when she became Singapore's first world champion archer after she won the women's compound open last June. Alim shot against young British archer Stretton, who recently moved over from the W1 division after winning the 2016 Paralympic Games and was victorious in a thrilling shoot-off. Alim competed in Rio but did not medal. However, her latest achievement could give her the confidence needed to add a Paralympic gold to her resume.
Nur Syahidah Alim is part of a wave of new Para archers taking over the scene
ⒸWorld Archery
5) Fresh blood vs old blood in Tokyo
Malaysia's Selvathamby is another standout of the up-and-coming generation. He made an outstanding Worlds debut last year. He entered the Championships ranked 35, but that did not matter as the 26-year-old beat the experienced Eric Bennett of the USA in the men's recurve open. The latter was hoping to regain his title from 2015 but it was not meant to be.
Tags: IPC para archery paralympics Tokyo 2020
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Q: Spring boot mongo template remove with limit query I am trying to delete a limited set of mongo documents from a collection which have id less than 10 but want to remove them in sets of 3, so tried using limit, but it still deletes all the documents and ignores limit.
Query query = new Query();
query.addCriteria(Criteria.where("_id").lt(id)).limit(3);
mongoTemplate.remove(query,TestCollection.class);

When I perform mongoTemplate.find(query,TestCollection.class); limit works fine and returns 3 element at a time but in remove it doesn't works.
Is there any other way to delete in single query only.

A: To achieve this do it in two passes

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*Find 3 ids to delete as you are doing currently

*do a collection.remove with Criteria.where("_id").in[id1,id2,id3]
I would also add a sort criteria before doing a limit. Otherwise the results of deletion might be dependent on the index used

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Home > Fly Fishing > Fly Fishing for Bass - Awesome Bass Fishing Tips
Fly Fishing for Bass - Awesome Bass Fishing Tips
2. The Places and the Times
2.1. Season
2.2. Coloured Water
2.3. Fish Close-in
2.4. Light Levels
3. Equipment and Flies
3.1. Rods and Reels
3.2. Lines and Leaders
3.3. Flies and Techniques to Fish
3.4. Accessories
The more traditional rod and line methods can be difficult enough to capture bass from the shore, so why bother making it more difficult by attempting to catch them on the fly rod?
The belief that bass can be caught on flies from the UK shoreline is increasingly influenced at home by TV, DVD, internet and print media. It appears that there is some shift in angling activity towards saltwater fly fishing and consequential development of specialist guiding services. For a very long time, of course, it has been understood that bass make good targets for fly fishing.
Also now, some of these myths are implicitly enforced by media articles explicitly referring to fly fishing for bass. The most popular are the catching of smaller fish (usually by advocating fishing in calmer estuarine style locations where population structure may be dominated by aggregations of smaller fish) and that bass are only worth pursuing with the fly under particular conditions, such as when attacking bait fish can be seen.
Over the next few pages, I hope that I can convey useful information that will dispel some of these myths and allow the reader to gain a basic understanding of the requirements for starting bass fly fishing or to strengthen the understanding of those who have already begun but want to gain more knowledge about flying fishing bass.
The Places and the Times
As in all types of angling the most important aspect to the sport is to locate the fish or at least locations that bass are likely to visit. In this way, lure or bait fishing is no different from fly fishing. You can fly surfing, rough terrain, deep gullies, deep inshore drop-offs, sand bars, rips or virtually all areas where bass can feed while wading or fishing from the shore. The position of fish is a matter in its own right and deserves its own separate article and will not be discussed in depth here, but I would like to lay emphasis on a few issues regarding to places and times:
I have a self-imposed bass fly fishing window for my home waters of North Wales that begins in May and finishes in October. In the main, the best average return for effort applied is given by July August and September, but subject to one's personal willingness to spend increased effort for potentially reduced returns, fish can be caught regularly in May, June and most definitely in the months of October.
This does not mean that, outside of these months in North Wales, you can not catch bass on the fly fishing. The more south you hunt in the UK, the longer the successful opportunity window you get for bass fly fishing, so that the south coast can provide practical opportunities for all but the first few months of the year.
Coloured Water
The more coloured the water, the less productive I think fly fishing is for bass, and in reduced visibility conditions I would switch position instead of wasting effort. Wind, heavy rain run-off, wave activity, water depth, tidal flow, and form of sea bed substrate can all affect water clarity at certain times of the year, as can heavy algal blooms. If shallow areas retain cloudy water, then during high wind cycles, search for deeper water with a clear rock substratum or shorelines within the lee. Then try more brightly coloured flies or black flies to enhance visual location if any colour is present but not enough to change location and try fishing them slightly slower than for clean water.
Fish Close-in
It seems to make sense from the first point of view to suggest that the more water you can cover with your bait or lure, the more chance you have of succeeding. You then come to the conclusion that the more water you can cover that includes bass, the more success you can have, if you analyse this more profoundly. Everybody is aware of the fact that you are mainly limited to fishing within 30 metres of your rod top with fly fishing and maybe 10 or 20 metres if conditions are poor, you use very big flies or your casting capacity has not been completely established yet.
Then, the aim of bass fly fishing is to find shorelines that are likely to hold bass within your casting reach. Fortunately, one of the most convenient aspects of bass behaviour is that some have a pre-disposition to follow the shoreline as they travel and to be attracted to the 'structure' of the shore that can be reached with or without the assistance of wading, but most often between high and low water levels within the littoral zone of the shore. The structure offers bass food environments and/or areas where bass can ambush bass. Structure can take several forms in an environment of lesser characteristics, from boulders to sand bars and troughs to rock gullies or patches of rough terrain. These areas include a 'difference' in simplified terms against a more even context and new entrants to the sport will not go far wrong by first searching for these features as places to start fishing within their casting range.
Alternatively, when going between different feeding sites, one might search out 'pinch points' on the shoreline where bass can be concentrated on. Such 'pinch points' are created by rocky points and gullies between bays or sand bars. The fly fisher would fish for a selected duration of tidal range at these locations and try to tempt passing bass that were supposed to travel around or through the target area.
Light Levels
In shallow water places, especially where there is no ability for bass to flee into nearby deep water, bright, overhead sunlight will prevent bass from venturing into too shallow water, say less than 1 m deep. Bass are more secure in going into very shallow areas on overcast days or when the sun is lower on the horizon. It can actually travel very close to shore during darkness or before the sun rises over the horizon bass, regardless of the depth of the water as long as they can drive themselves through it. This makes fly fishing during these low light levels extremely productive and most productive during the dark, Although few anglers wish to venture out on the rough ground suitable for bass at night or have actually established the faith that in the dark they can catch bass on the fly. I thoroughly understand the aesthetic enjoyment of seeing the fly line unfold, of seeing the bass strike the fly, and of landing the silver bar in the sunshine, made even more enjoyable by the relation you have with the water anytime you are wading. More and bigger fish Would, however, be closer at night and open to the fly fisherman.
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Equipment and Flies
The first is from sea anglers who may want to pursue fly fishing along with their lure fishing, and the second is from the freshwater game fishing industry when salmon or trout anglers are trying to extend their horizons. There are two key routes to take up saltwater fly fishing for bass in the UK and USA. It is relatively easy for those with current freshwater fly tackle to at least sample the joys of saltwater fly fishing by using the more durable parts of their freshwater tackle at the end of each saltwater session with proper rinsing. If they want to focus effort on saltwater fish, however, then they may be better served by obtaining tackles specifically made for the rigours of the saltwater environment and built to be able to cast big, voluminous and often heavy flies into strong winds.
Depending on their budget and personal preferences for features and results, anglers transitioning to saltwater fly fishing for the first time have a multitude of saltwater tackle choices available to them. Since tackle choice is such a personal thing that I do not endorse individual products here, I have set out the basic criteria that I think are relevant for the tackle to be used:
For me, the most important feature of a saltwater fly rod is its ability to throw bulky flies into a powerful wind for use in UK bass flying fisheries. This requirement seems superfluous when conditions are calm and you are trying to present small sand eel fly patterns, Wind will, however, increase very rapidly and a shoal of mackerel or other large bait fish can emerge to take advantage of the situation requiring adequate tackle and large fly patterns. This requirement for me is fulfilled by fast taper, tip action rods. The majority of conditions will be covered by An 8wt, However, if conditions are projected to be very calm, I also fish a 7wt and a 9wt if conditions are extremely rough or I fish deeper water with hard, quick sinking lines and where greater Pollock can also appear.
Particularly in calmer conditions and if not using very large fly patterns on fast taper saltwater lines, robust reservoir trout rods can be successfully used for bass. The initial requirement to buy a particular saltwater rod would be avoided by the use of such a rod before the angler had determined whether saltwater fishing was to be taken more seriously. Here, a word of warning is required about the extreme degree of tackle exposure to physical harm caused by clambering over weedy, slippery rocks, down tiny cliffs, through gullies, etc., and the corrosive nature of salt. After saltwater use, always rinse rods off and ensure salt is not caked in reel seat crevices. When cleaning guides and reel seats, a soft toothbrush is particularly good. When you take up saltwater fly fishing in earnest, prepare to break a rod or two.
Generally, bass are tough fighters and although they often give good account of themselves, they are unlikely to run long distances in fly reel backup. Even, because at close quarters the fly angler tends to hook them, backup is rarely seen. As a result, the highly refined versions do not need to be more appropriate for hot saltwater organisms that can easily run into large quantities of funding. However, the need for reels to be resistant to saltwater corrosion and to be based on rocks is more significant.
Broad arbour reels make life much simpler and can be beneficial when used to capture other running saltwater fish, such as mullets. 100m of backing (saltwater proof) is more than enough to deal with even big bass, but make sure you regularly strip the line from the reel and clean line and reel using a soft toothbrush to clean the ports under a running tap of warm water.
Rod and Reel Choice:
Although freshwater lines could be used for occasional saltwater sessions, the small, fast tapered heads that allow larger flies to be fired into strong winds are typically missing. I wouldn't be sure of the durability of these lines either, especially if they were used for surfing. In order to fish, the UK saltwater angler wants coldwater lines. In our seas, warm water, tropical lines go rigid as a board and are comparatively useless. The vast majority of my bass fishing is carried out in water where the water depth is less than 3 m, which can be fished with floating lines. There is little impact on the delicacy of the presentation, especially in windy conditions or when surfing. Good saltwater lines are accessible via the internet and do not cost much, and I tend to buy these lines after a season of heavy abuse and then discard them.
Leaders are one place where I can indulge in a commodity of high quality. For floating lines, 7.5ft or 9ft Knotless Tapered Fluorocarbon leaders are used. I pick 16lb tippet leaders to which I attach about 2 feet of 16lb fluorocarbon tippet, through a loop to loop link. As flies are replaced, the tippet progressively decreases in length and then a new tippet section can be inserted. Difficult, fluorocarbon leaders usually last a season during which time I would have re-tied the terminal loop knot a few times to maintain a stable link with the tippet.
Finally, at which stage I save these highly tapered bits for use on fast sinking tracks, the leader becomes shorter. I didn't find bass to be a shy leader at all and the fluorocarbon is used to help sink a fly through surface layers more for its resilience and nature than for its 'invisible' qualities. When wind speeds are a specific issue and you literally need to get a fly out into the water in the teeth of a gale, the shorter (7.5ft), more tapered leaders are used.
I now suggest only one approach after trying several ways to build line and leader systems. I tie a wide backing loop (using a Bimini twist) and use 2 or 3 nail knots that are lightly coated with UV curing glue to connect a strong braided loop to the reel end of the fly line. The backup is then linked to the fly line by loop. If fish run into the backing carrying the connection via rod guides, this device allows lines to be altered easily and forms a smooth connection. At the leading end of the fly line, this step is repeated, again using a heavy braided loop so that the leader can be connected to the loop link through the loop. As previously mentioned, with the non-slip mono loop knot on leader and tippet, the tippet is attached via loop to loop connection and finally the fly is connected to the tippet, again using a non-slip mono loop knot. This is a very straightforward set-up, has high strength value and has served me well with very strong fish even in tropical conditions.
Lines and Leaders Choice:
Flies and Techniques to Fish
Saltwater anglers have more fly patterns available than can possibly be used in many fishing seasons, and although playing with these can be great fun, there is a more critical factor than pattern alone. This factor is how fishing for the pattern is achieved. I primarily use 2 fly patterns, These are sand eel and 'bait fish' patterns that are related to the different ways in which they can be fished in weighted, un-weighted and floating types. In general, most flies are tied on hooks of size 1, 1/0 or 2/0 and the size of the fly is matched to the weight of the rods used and the conditions in which the flies are fished. Weighted flies that fish in the style of 'bend back' (hook pointing upwards) are commonly used when using floating lines, especially in areas with large 'snags' and/or current, with the extra weight allowing the fly to fish at depth as it swings in the flow rather than just below the surface.
Additionally, a sink and draw motion that proves highly desirable to bass can be imparted if fished on a floating line in water from 1m to 4m in depth. By using acceptable line / sink tip combinations in areas of mild or moderate flow, un-weighted flies can be made to 'flutter' at a constant depth and location, just as bait fish can be seen to stay in the current.
At the tip of rocky points or off sand bars where current flow is concentrated and bait fish gather, this technique is particularly helpful.
Using highly buoyant flies on fast sinking lines and short leaders (1.5m) both on sandy, fast sloping beaches and deeper water (>7m) locations usually off steeply sloping rocky shores is a technique we have found to be especially effective. To get the flies down, which are then fished slowly back with the fly floating just above the bottom, very quick sinking lines are needed. In surf-type conditions of lateral water flow, this is also a successful technique where the quick sinking line provides a mechanism to get the fly down without getting swept up and tossed around in the wave action. In these circumstances, takeovers are especially wild, quickly taking up any slack line or bow that may grow with this form of fishing.
It should go without saying that during the day, the fly angler should always wear polarised sun glasses or safety glasses at night, but this is particularly important for saltwater fly fishing where flies can be large and heavy and unpredictable in wind direction and gusts. I also notice that wearing a hat gives some protection from a weighted fly's clout.
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11 films on miscellaneous subjects about Milton Keynes.
Opening of The Hub by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Jubilee party held in Vicarage Street, Woburn Sands in June 2002.
"The Home Front" - Wartime Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands 1939-1945.
The construction of Broughton 'D'; CBX3 and the Hub and the opening day of the Jury's Inn Hotel.
Anglers on the Grand Union Canal, Milton Keynes.
Item: Opening of The Hub by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Item: Jubilee party held in Vicarage Street, Woburn Sands in June 2002.
Item: "The Home Front" - Wartime Aspley Guise & Woburn Sands 1939-1945.
Item: The construction of Broughton 'D'; CBX3 and the Hub and the opening day of the Jury's Inn Hotel.
Item: Anglers on the Grand Union Canal, Milton Keynes.


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The Government in Action – July 5th
Lower North Island benefits in latest round of PGF funding
Provincial Growth Fund investments were announced for Kapiti, Wairarapa, and Manawatu this week. Kapiti announcements included $2.5 million for Otaki's Omeo Technology, allowing them to upscale their state-of-art wheelchair production, and $635,000 for Waiorua Lodge to scope the improvement of tourism infrastructure on Māori-owned land at Kāpiti Island.
In the Wairarapa, the PGF is investing $948,000 in getting rangatahi work-ready through the He Poutama Rangatahi (HPR) initiative. Local training provider Youth, Education, Training and Employment, will use the funding to target 110 at-risk rangatahi aged 16-24 and build their skills and confidence for the workforce. The Nga Pumanawa Tupuna programme will help to upskill local rangatahi to help meet the demand for workers in industries like farming, construction and hospitality.
And in Manawatu, the PGF is contributing $100,000 to investigate the feasibility of a tourist trail between Woodville and Ashhurst. The Manawatu Gorge-Te Apiti region, hard hit by the closure of the gorge road two years ago due to slips, is now aiming to become a tourist destination.
A further $100,000 will go to the Central Economic Development Agency (CEDA) to evaluate a range of new tourism experiences in the region.
Great progress on forestry initiatives
The partnership between the One Billion Trees Programme and Project Crimson's Trees That Count has resulted in almost double the number of native trees planted by the Trust in the past year.
The Government committed $6.6 million to support Trees That Count – which provides a link between those donating trees and those planting trees.
Over the last year, Trees That Count has supported 122,000 native trees to be planted, up from 64,000. Regional staff have also been recruited across the country to better support landowners and share the benefits of planting native trees on their properties.
"This partnership project was one of the first through the One Billion Trees Programme and has played a crucial role in mobilising Kiwis to get out there and planting native trees to mitigate climate change, improve the environment and increase biodiversity," said Forestry Minister Shane Jones.
This week also saw the graduation of the first forestry trainees under the One Billion Trees programme.
Northland's Ngāti Hine Forestry Trust last year received $1.89 million to run a Mānuka training programme as part of a wider joint venture entered into with the Crown.
Eighteen new graduates have picked up forestry jobs, with another two students taking up further forestry training. Twenty trainees are enrolled for next year, building on the programme's success.
"Training programmes like this one are consistent with the Government's goal of developing a sustainable, domestic forestry workforce," Mr Jones said.
Newest police graduates head to the regions
The regions will be home to 78 new Police constables following this week's graduation of a new recruit wing from the Royal New Zealand Police College.
The latest graduation means 1446 new frontline officers have been deployed since the Coalition Government took office. A further 240 are currently training in other recruit wings in Wellington and Auckland.
The extra resources help Police expand their work with the most vulnerable in New Zealand communities, in line with the coalition government's wellbeing focus.
The latest group of new constables will help tackle organised crime, gangs, and drugs - all Government priorities, said Police Minister Stuart Nash.
"Police are working tirelessly to keep our communities safe."
Government to build new facilities for 100,000 students
The Government has committed to a long-term National Education Growth Plan (NEGP) to meet demand for around 100,000 extra student places for children entering schools over the next 10 years.
The initial funding of $1.2 billion over four years announced in the Wellbeing Budget 2019 is the largest-ever outlay on school property. Friday's announcements for Auckland and Tai Tokerau, which include a new primary school and 200 new classrooms, represents about $200 million of the funding.
"The $1.2 billion in guaranteed funding for new classrooms gives certainty to schools, parents, and the construction sector," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
"This Government inherited a decade of neglect which has seen funding for building classrooms falling behind the growth in students. Our plan both catches up and brings the building of new classrooms in line with future roll growth."
Further announcements about plans for regions with the highest student roll growth will be made in the coming weeks.
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The Táin
20-25 July 2014 @ The Milk Market
About The Táin
Tickets / Venue
Bad Taste Cru
Bad Taste Cru (BTC) is a professional bboy (breakdance) cru originally from Omagh, Co Tyrone, now based in the UK. BTC is a multifaceted dance company that not only battles at international competition level, but also produces theatre pieces combining bboying with physical theatre and contact work. With many accolades under their belt, including UK Champions, Battle of the Year UK Champs and numerous other titles, BTC have earned respect in the worldwide bboy scene and the dance theatre world. Their work has taken them around the globe to perform in the US, Brazil and Europe, as well as national tours of the UK. Over the years BTC have worked closely with large cultural organisations such as the BBC, Arts Council England, Dance City, Sage Gateshead, Customs House, as well as with a number of commercial clients.
Paul 'P' Martin is originally from Omagh, Co Tyrone and is the founder member of Bad Taste Cru. Now based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, he has been bboying for 14 years and, with his crew, has a number of titles and accolades under his belt, including UK Bboy Champs 2006, BOTY UK 2008, Bboy Unit 2008, Regional Conflict North 2009, Evolution UK 2010 and Tear it Up Champions 2012.
P continues to battle and perform with Bad Taste Cru and has toured the world doing hip hop theatre performances in the US, Brazil, France, Portugal and Ireland, in addition to UK tours of Bad Taste Cru's distinctive style of bboy theatre.
Passionate about developing the hip hop community and scene, P is part of the Just Jam Intl team, an internationally respected bboy event, held annually in Newcastle. P is also a keen graffiti artist, vintage toy collector, cat lover and has an interest in all things weird and wonderful.
Barry 'Bazzy B' Burke
A native of Mayo, Barry Burke aka Bazzy B has been dancing since 2001 and has been performing and teaching since 2003. He arrived in Limerick in 1998 and completed a BA in Fine Art and has since made Limerick his home. Barry has represented Limerick regionally, nationally and internationally in dance competitions and, along with other hip hop enthusiasts, established Limerockers Cru in 2010. He is also one of the founding members and driving forces behind the "Make a Move" festival, which is a youth focus celebration of hip hop urban culture. He has been very active in promoting positive social change through dance and is leading the Limerick Hip Hop Intervention Project which aims to reduce the segregation of young people from marginalised areas in Limerick, as well as those with disabilities in their communities, by providing hip hop dance classes that both groups of children can enjoy together.
Conor 'Doke' O'Kane
Conor O'Kane
Conor O'Kane, aka B-boy Doke, is a dancer, choreographer, artist and a proud member of Bad Taste Cru (BTC) which he co-founded with Paul Martin in 1997-98. Coming from Omagh, County Tyrone, Conor and BTC were inspired and guided by Irish breaking legends the Belfast City Breakers and learned the real values of hip hop such as respect, peace, love, unity and having fun, values which they live by and pass on to others through their involvement in the UK and Irish breaking/hip hop scene.
Conor moved to Newcastle, England, to pursue his dream of becoming a professional dancer and has travelled throughout the UK, Europe and beyond, teaching, performing, competing and learning about hip hop culture. He is the creator of Just Jam International, one of the top bboy events in the UK, a teacher and mentor to Battalionz, an emerging UK breaking crew, and is inspired by those he works with as a choreographer.
"Hip hop changed my life. It gave me sight. It gave me hearing. It gave me movement. It heightened all my senses. It gave me a voice. It gave me life skills, skills to be passed on and shared with others". Peace and Love.


Statistics published by the NSPCC state that domestic violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime in the UK. New government proposals have been outlined that will make it harder for women to claim legal aid to help fight their cases. But there are many organisations in the UK that victims of domestic violence can contact when trying to seeking help.
The statistics on domestic violence in the UK make for shocking and surprising reading. Home Office data shows that more than one in four women has been the victim of domestic abuse since the age of 16. In the year 2009 to 2010 one million women were victims of domestic abuse. Domestic violence towards men is also common with around 40% of abuse victims being male. In the year 2009 to 2010 there were 600,000 male victims of domestic abuse. Male domestic abuse victims are less likely to report incidents to the police and there have been complaints that this issue is not taken seriously by the authorities.
Aside from the emotional, psychological and physical aspect of domestic violence to the victims there is a financial price paid for this crime by the UK taxpayer. Domestic violence accounts for around £3.1 billion per year in services such as the criminal system, social services, medical and housing. In England and Wales the loss to the economy comes in at around £2.7 billion per year. The pain and suffering of the victims is not included in the costs of the services but accounts for at least £17 billion annually. The total cost to the UK, the victims of domestic violence and employers totals out at an annual £23 billion.
The government has outlined new proposals that will leave a huge amount of women at risk. Under the new proposals, victims of domestic abuse, the highest proportion of whom are women, will only be able to claim legal aid under certain circumstances. The government wants to withhold legal aid unless it can be proven that there is a high risk of violence. This means that the perpetrators of domestic abuse should already have a conviction against them or have been referred for a risk assessment. Around 50% of domestic violence victims will no longer qualify for legal aid under the terms of the government proposals.
Domestic violence is a crime and should be reported to the police. Anyone who is a victim of assault, harassment, sexual abuse or threats can contact the police at any time of the day or night. The first priority of the police should be the safety of men, women and children, and their role is to investigate the incident that has been reported. The police can arrest, charge or caution the perpetrator and if charged, the perpetrator can be held for 24 hours. Many victims are unwilling to call the police but this can act as a deterrent against the violence reoccurring.
It is a well used saying but it is true that if you are a victim of domestic abuse, you are not alone. This is a crime that occurs many times every day across the UK. Help organisations deal with thousands of domestic abuse cases every week. Complete confidentiality is guaranteed to the victim and most are completely free to use.