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Nothing to lose, everything to gain: how i went from gang member to multimillionaire entrepreneur
Blair, Ryan.
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2011. Portfolio/Penguin, xi, 222 p. ; 24 cm. English
2011. Hoopla Unabridged. Tantor Audio, 1 online resource (1 audio file (420 min.)) : digital. English
Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset. Blair's middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a bad neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive. Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor's help, Blair turned himself into a wildly successful businessman. He started his first company, 24/7 Tech, at the age of twenty-one, and since then has created and sold several companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. Now Blair teaches listeners how to start and grow their own profitable businesses by following his often contrarian philosophies. For instance: --In juvenile detention, if you let someone take your milk the first day, he'll take it every day. The same is true in business. --When you're dealing with an investor's money, you have to act as if God Himself wrote you the check. --Most business plans aren't worth the paper they're written on. --Efforts don't pay the rent. Have no sympathy for employees who talk about how hard they're trying. --Entrepreneurship is great because you can set your own hours--any seventeen hours of the day, seven days a week. But if you're doing what you love, it doesn't drain you as much as the nine-to-five death cycle. This is an inspirational guide for people who are willing to put in the hard work, time, and dedication needed to see their vision through to the end. Blair shares lessons from his mentors and advice from his own life-changing experiences and provides a road map for entrepreneurial success.
Nothing to lose mindset
Philosophies from the jail cell to the boardroom
Honor your deals
Smarten up
First things first : watch your wallet
What's driving you?
Define your assets : what is your influence worth?
Risk and sacrifice
Million dollar mistakes
I hate business plans
Pros and cons of a home-based business
Venture capitalists : swimming with the sharks
Growing, hiring, and firing
The connect four technique
Cashing out
Lawyer up.
Heller, Johnny. Narrator
Yaeger, Don.
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Ryan Blair knows about building a business from the ground up. Like many entrepreneurs he had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset.Blair's middle-class childhood came to an abrupt end when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a bad neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive.Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor's help, Blair turned himself into a wildly successful businessman. He started his first company, 24/7 Tech, at the age of twenty-one, and since then has created and sold several companies for hundreds of millions of dollars.Now Blair teaches listeners how to start and grow their own profitable businesses by following his often contrarian philosophies. For instance:-In juvenile detention, if you let someone take your milk the first day, he'll take it every day. The same is true in business.-When you're dealing with an investor's money, you have to act as if God Himself wrote you the check.-Most business plans aren't worth the paper they're written on.-Efforts don't pay the rent. Have no sympathy for employees who talk about how hard they're trying.-Entrepreneurship is great because you can set your own hours-any seventeen hours of the day, seven days a week. But if you're doing what you love, it doesn't drain you as much as the nine-to-five death cycle.This is an inspirational guide for people who are willing to put in the hard work, time, and dedication needed to see their vision through to the end. Blair shares lessons from his mentors and advice from his own life-changing experiences and provides a road map for entrepreneurial success.
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NEW YORK, NY – June 13, 2017 – SheKnows Media, a leading women's media company reaching 60 million unique visitors per month (comScore) and more than 300 million social media fans, today announced its #WinningWomen panel and upcoming content series. The panel will be moderated by Donna Orender, a former All America and Professional basketball player prior to becoming a senior executive for the PGA Tour and then WNBA President. The most recent additions to the Winning: Passion and Perseverance keynote on June 24th at #BlogHer17 in Orlando is volleyball legend and Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Reece and gymnast and Olympic Gold medalist Laurie Hernandez.
The all-star panel, which also includes Dani Rylan, Founder and Commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League and Jessi Miley-Dyer, World Surf League Women's Commissioner, will focus on the important role female athletes play as an inspiration to women and girls, and how playing sports can influence self-esteem and future success. It will also explore how these women athletes use their considerable social media reach and influence for good.
Orender will kick off the panel with an opening Spotlight Talk on the inner athlete in us all.
In addition to the #Winning, Reece will participate in another soon-to-be-announced #BlogHer17 keynote titled, "Advice to My Younger Self." Taking place on June 24th, this keynote will give tweens who are part of Hatch, SheKnows Media's digital literacy and citizenship program, an opportunity to ask a panel of women who are dominating in their fields – whether sports or professional modeling – their most pressing questions about surviving puberty, middle school, college and beyond. More to come about this exciting addition to the conference.
"I'm excited to participate in #BlogHer17 to discuss ways we can take proactive roles in creating the environment we want, whether it's in the work space, navigating body image or simply learning from one another about how to live our best lives," Reece said.
#BlogHer17 is a premier conference for women content creators that attracts more than 2,000 women bloggers, vloggers, writers, social media influencers, entrepreneurs, industry luminaries, brand executives and thought leaders each year. To register for or learn more about #BlogHer17, click here. More information about SheKnows Media can be found at www.sheknowsmedia.com.
SheKnows Media is a top women's lifestyle digital media company that averages more than 70 million unique visitors per month (comScore) and reaches 318 million social media fans and followers. The company operates a family of leading media properties that include SheKnows.com, BlogHer.com, STYLECASTER.com and HelloFlo.com. SheKnows Media also organizes the conference #BlogHer17, the largest annual celebration of women online content creators, social media influencers and brand executives, taking place in Orlando, June 22-24, 2017. With a mission of women inspiring women, SheKnows Media is revolutionizing the publishing industry by forging a new kind of model that seamlessly integrates users, editors and content creators onto a single platform designed to empower all women to discover, share and create. Whether it's parenting or pop culture, fashion or food, DIY or décor, our award-winning editorial team, Experts, bloggers and social media influencers produce authentic and on-trend content every day. We dig deep to learn what makes our audience tick, revealing unexpected insights on women and digital media. Our robust, end-to-end suite of premium branded content and influencer marketing solutions generate nearly 1 billion ad impressions per month (sources: DFP), allowing brands to distribute authentic content and integrated advertising at scale.


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Boris Karloff ... the name alone is enough to send chills up the spine. As the Monster in 1931's Frankenstein and its first two sequels, the softly spoken English actor brought Mary Shelley's literary creation to the screen in unforgettable fashion, but this was just the first of many unforgettable horror performances.
Classic Monsters presents Boris Karloff: The English Gentleman of Horror. This unique 84-page biographical tribute book travels through the stage and screen career of one of cinema's most beloved horror stars, from his early work in low-budget thrillers to the high-profile performances in movies like The Mummy (1932) and The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) which made his name a byword for all things macabre.
This mag-book is a full-colour celebration of Karloff's career, lavishly illustrated with stills, publicity shots, and posters. It's the perfect way to immerse yourself in the life and legacy of an actor whose enormous body of work makes him a cornerstone of the horror genre and an inspiration to movie fans across the world.
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Massachusetts Legislature Issues Net Neutrality Report, Recommends Legislation
By Julie Cox, Maxwell J. Fathy
On March 23, 2018, the Special Senate Committee on Net Neutrality and Consumer Protection (the Committee) released a report recommending legislation aimed at ensuring net neutrality in Massachusetts. The report and legislation are being presented in response to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) December 2017 order reversing rules instituted during the Obama Administration deeming internet service a public utility and requiring internet providers to treat traffic equally.
Since being established on January 18, 2018, the Committee held a public hearing, reviewed federal and state statutes and regulations, studied FCC orders, and met with relevant state agencies, consumer advocacy groups, and industry stakeholders. Senator Cynthia Creem has served as the Committee's chair, Senator Bruce Tarr has served as Vice Chair, and Senators Mike Barrett, Jamie Eldridge, Eric Lesser, Barbara L'Italien, and Patrick O'Connor have been members.
The Committee opined that the FCC's repeal of net neutrality protections would "[open] the door to network management practices that could harm consumer choice, technological innovation and the free flow of information on the internet." The Committee concluded that state action is necessary to protect net neutrality and ensure that internet service providers (ISPs) cannot misuse consumer data.
The report proposes legislation (S.2376, the text of which is contained in the report) banning ISPs from engaging in the practices of blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization in the provision of internet service. ISPs are prohibited from collecting, using, or sharing a consumer's personal data without their consent except under certain limited conditions. Consumers are authorized to request that ISPs provide them with a list of any of their data that has been collected by the ISP.
ISPs are required to disclose to the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable (the Department) when they are having a dispute about interconnection that results in the degradation of service to customers. ISPs are also required to make the same disclosures to the Department that they already make to the FCC.
The Department is directed to develop standards for what it means to be a "net neutral" ISP and determine whether each ISP complies with the criteria set forth. The Department is required to develop regulations to rank ISPs on the quality of their net neutrality practices and score each ISP against its criteria. ISPs in compliance with the Department's standards will be authorized to display a "Massachusetts Net Neutrality Seal" on marketing materials. The Department is also given authority to make an assessment against ISPs in order to cover the costs associated with its new responsibilities.
The report notes that any state action on net neutrality will likely face legal challenges on the grounds of preemption and the Commerce Clause. It adds that a state net neutrality law could withstand such a challenge, however, and says that the uncertainty of the federal legal landscape should not prevent states from acting.
ISP representatives expressed their opposition to the legislation at a hearing before the Committee on March 28. They said that the industry does not currently and does not intend to engage in practices, such as blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization, that the bill aims to prevent. A representative of one industry group, the New England Cable & Telecommunications Association, testified that "this proposal will harm investment [and] Massachusetts' world-class tech economy because it proposes a heavy-handed regulatory overreach for a problem that frankly doesn't exist." Industry representatives also argued against state-by-state regulations, which they claimed would be unworkable while speaking in favor of a federal law enshrining net neutrality and privacy protections.
The measures included in the Senate's bill would take effect on January 1, 2019, if the legislation is passed by the legislature and signed by Governor Baker. Several other net neutrality bills are currently pending in the legislature, including ones sponsored by Senator L'Italien (S.2336) and Representatives Andy Vargas (H.4151) and Dave Rogers (H.4222). The Joint Committee on Telecommunication, Utilities, and Energy held a hearing on these bills on April 3.
ML Strategies will continue to monitor and report on issues relevant to the telecommunications industry periodically throughout the session.
Stephen J. Silveira
Julie Cox
Maxwell Fathy

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Today we are going to share best framework to make easy web development and web design. Framework: – this is a software designed to support the development of a Websites, Web applications and Web services. Every framework perform different kind of works like : some provides library for database access, provides session management and some often helps to promote code reuse.
Web development can be little tough if there had been no frameworks to make our life easier. Any Web Framework is a boon to a web developer as it provides so many options, flexibility and its a big time saver.
Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications. Yii enables maximum reusability in Web programming and can significantly accelerate the development process. The name Yii (pronounced as Yee or [ji:]) stands for easy, efficient and extensible.
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks.
PHPDevShell would typically be used to develop general web based applications. It is not a CMS (Content Management System) or an MVC Framework nor does it pretend to be one of those solutions. PHPDevShell is essentially a ready made GUI application where you can immediately start with the development work that matters most, your application. For security and usability it already provides you with user registration and management, role management, group management, access rights security, system settings, templates, control panels, cronjob management, menu management, plugin management etc.
Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern. Based on good practices, it allows you to: Write views using Ajax easily, Control requests and responses through a controller, Manage internationalized applications, Communicate models and the database using simple conventions.
Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise. Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries.
PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. I love its component-based structure. It let you separate the html view apart from the server process. Very well supported and alive.
It predates the recent proliferation of PHP frameworks, based on solid MVC principles, including separation of display, logic, and data layers. It's designed to be efficient, modular, and extensible, striking a balance between lightweight and fully-featured.
php.MVC implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, and encourages application design based on the Model 2 paradigm. This design model allows the Web page or other contents (View) to be mostly separated from the internal application code (Controller/Model), making it easier for designers and programmers to focus on their respective areas of expertise. The framework provides a single entry point Controller. The Controller is responsible for allocating HTTP requests to the appropriate Action handler (Model) based on configuration mappings.
The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. Qcodo enables some the most highly trafficked websites and data intensive applications for companies like Lockheed Martin and Hewlett-Packard, large organizations like Stanford School of Medicine, Academy of Country Music and NASA, and startups like Chess.com and Uloop.
It is a based around the Model-View-Controller pattern and is modeled after Ruby on Rails. Like any framework, it's certainly not appropriate for every application. The framework provides a comprehensive test suite to get you on the right track setting up tests.
The evoCore framework distinguishes itself by the fact it doesn't require PHP 5 to work! As of early 2010, evoCore will still work perfectly under PHP 4 in order to guarantee your applications can be hosted on virtually any web hosting provider, including low cost cheap web hosting plans.
PHOCOA's primary intent is to make web application development in PHP easier, faster, and higher-quality. The framework handles most of the "dirty work" of web application development by providing infrastructure for all of the common tasks. Most of your time writing PHOCOA apps will be spent designing your GUI and writing application-specific logic rather than dealing with form data, database calls, etc.
PHP 5 framework for web application development. It is fully name-spaced and uses enterprise application design patterns, with built-in support for localization and configuration at all levels. The code base itself is easy to comprehend, adheres to well-documented naming conventions, and exhibits strong conceptual integrity.
BlueShoes is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP. BlueShoes offers excellent support for the popular MySQL database as well as support for Oracle and MSSQL.
52framework contains all the header, nav, section, article, footer tags which are the basic html5 tags, with full documentation and growing community this frameworks looks promising. Features like rounded corners, text-shadow, box-shadow, html5 markup, grid system, css reset are just a small list, this framework is worth a look if you want to dive in HTML5 and CSS3.
Elements is a down to earth CSS framework. It was built to help designers write CSS faster and more efficient. Elements goes beyond being just a framework, it's its own project workflow. It has everything you need to complete your project, which makes you and your clients happy.
YAML is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts. The structure is extremely versatile in its programming and absolutely accessible for end users. Focussed on web standards and accessibility, Slim framework core with numerous extensions, Robust, flexible layout concept, Design patterns for typography, forms, mircoformats, rtl support ect and Complete multilingual documentation.
YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns. The 4kb file provides over 1000 page layout combinations. Other features include: Supports fluid-width (100%) layouts as well as preset fixed-width layouts at 750px, 950px, and 974px, and the ability to easily customize to any number, Supports easy customization of the width for fixed-width layouts, Flexible in response to user initiated font-size adjustments, Template columns are source-order independent, so you can put your most important content first in the markup layer for improved accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), Self-clearing footer. No matter which column is longer, the footer stays at the bottom, Layouts less than 100% are automatically centered.
This Framework provides the bare essentials to begin any project. It will be lite and strive not to suggest un-semantic naming conventions. You're the designer and your craft is important.
Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects. Tripoli completly resets all default browser standards and rebuilds them quietly with modern web development in mind. Tripoli is not a CSS framework. It doesn't tell you how to code your web site. Instead, it forms a solid HTML rendering engine and a base for creating dynamic layouts without interfering with typographic measurements.
960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
Based on the popular 960 Grid System, Typogridphy allows you to create grid layouts which are versatile and great looking. Typogridphy is made of fully validate, semantic and strict xHTML, and validate CSS.
SenCSs isn't a framework like other CSS frameworks. It doesn't include a layout system littered with silly classes and pre-set grids, so what does SenCSs do for you? SenCSs does everything else: baseline, fonts, paddings, margins, tables, lists, headers, blockquotes, forms and more.
Emastic is a CSS Framework, it's continuing mission: to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new web spaces, to boldly go where no CSS Framework has gone before. Few Features : Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb), Personalized width of the page in (em,px,%), Use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid, Elastic Layout with "em"s, Baseline Grid Typography etc.
Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites. Malo derives from it's bigger brother Emastic CSS Framework. Some Features : Ultra small (compressed is 0,25 kb or 8 lines of CSS! ), Personalized width of the page in (%, px, em), Super flexible and Easy to use.
CSS Framework integrating various CSS construction techniques like floats, absolute positioning, complete freedom of your default width, extra usability with em based grid system plus possibility of fluid columns and extra % based grid system and many more features.
CSS grid (loosely based on Nathan Smith's 960 Grid System). Its mission is to be lightweight. And, as I'll show in part 2, it can be used to streamline page templates for content management. All this in just one measly kilobyte (actually, 662 bytes, but who's counting).
The Logic CSS framework is a collection of CSS files and a toolset designed to cut development times for web-standards compliant web layouts and templates. Main features: Common cross-browser rendering behavior approach (not a reset), Beautiful font stacks, Typography with text resizing capabilities and vertical baseline/rhythm, Three totally flexible layout grid templates, customizable with the toolset, Elastic layout using EMs, Liquid layout with percentages, Fixed layout using pixel dimensions.
Dojo saves you time, delivers powerful performance, and scales with your development process. It's the toolkit experienced developers turn to for building great web experiences. Dojo's powerful, lightweight core makes common tasks quicker and easier. Animate elements, manipulate the DOM, and query with easy CSS syntax, all without sacrificing performance.
Archetype provides a wide range of possibility and options, but the framework uses a convention over configuration system : use the convention, it's so easy to use! Want more? Go to the configuration.
SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins. It has more in common with Cocoa or .NET than jQuery or MooTools. Because of that, SproutCore will change the way you think about building web apps.
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a java web application framework established the standard for development of server-side user interfaces for Java EE application. The JSF APIs are designed to leverage tools that would make we application development increasingly easier. It uses a component based approach. JSF uses JavaServer Pages JSP as its display technology, but it can also support other technologies such as XUL and Facelets . The UI is saved on clients request for new page and restored when the response is returned.
Spring Framework addresses the enterprise concern of taking the classes, objects, and services that are to compose an application, by providing a formalized means of composing these various disparate components into a fully working application ready for use. The Spring Framework takes best practices that have been proven over the years in numerous applications and formalized as design patterns, and actually codifies these patterns as first class objects that you as an architect and developer can take away and integrate into your own application(s). This is a Very Good Thing Indeed as attested to by the numerous organizations and institutions that have used the Spring Framework to engineer robust, maintainable applications.
Apache Wicket is a lightweight component based web application framework for the Java programming language. Wicket is patterned after stateful GUI frameworks. It features trees of components that use listener delegates to react to HTTP requests against links and forms. With XHTML for templates it separate presentation and business logic and allows templates to be edited with conventional WYSIWYG design tools. Within the framework each component is backed by its own model that represents the state of the components. Wicket might be the best framework for making use of your developers resources.
Stripes is a presentation framework for building web applications using the latest Java technologies. The main driver behind Stripes is that web application development in Java is just too much work! It seems like every existing framework requires gobs of configuration.
Apache Tapestry is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. Tapestry complements and builds upon the standard Java Servlet API, and so it works in any servlet container or application server.
This is a full-stack web application framework with tools and APIs to implement most common web features. Each of its toolkits is usable by itself and together they offer powerful integrated features that boost your productivity. RIFE ensures that every declaration and definition is handled in one place in the code. This simplifies the developer's task by reducing code replication, enforcing consistency, and easing maintenance.
This is a productive way for creating AJAX Enterprise Applications with Java. Indeed, it's faster developing with OpenXava than with Ruby On Rails, Spring MVC, or any other MVC framework. This is because in OpenXava you only have to write the Model. The Controllers are reused, and the View are generated automatically.
Web2py Enterprise Web Framework Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications. Written and programmable in Python.
AppEngine Framework – easy for use Python web framework. Designed for use on Google App Engine servers. Project features : flexible administration interface for web site, Maximum use already exists good components, simple project structure with plugged applications (like Django), easy configuration and urls map joined in one yaml file, used Django templates (included in Google Ap Engine by default), include useful and flexible reusable applications.
Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It's also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows extensive re-use and flexibility — but only if you need it. Out of the box, Pylons aims to make web development fast, flexible and easy.
TurboGears is a Python web application framework consisting of several WSGI components such as Pylons, SQLAlchemy, Genshi and Repoze. TurboGears is designed around the model-view-controller architecture, much like Struts or Ruby on Rails, designed to make rapid web application development in Python easier and more maintainable.
Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community… Rails has become a standard to which even well-established tools are comparing themselves to.
Webby is a fantastic little website management system. It would be called a content management system if it were a bigger kid. But, it's just a runt with a special knack for transforming text. And that's really all it does – manages the legwork of turning text into something else, an ASCII Alchemist if you will.
Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra Microframework. Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating simple web applications in Ruby. Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great!
This is an open source web application framework written in Perl, that closely follows the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, and supports a number of experimental web patterns. It is written using Moose, a modern object system for Perl. It's heavily inspired by such frameworks as Ruby on Rails, Maypole, and Spring.


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The Annual NVT/BAG Hollywood South Awards - 2017
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Gretna Cultural Center for The Arts
740 4th St, Gretna, LA 70053
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The NOLA Voice Talent Foundation is excited and delighted to collaborate with The Gretna Cultural Center for the Arts in this FIFTH year of our annual NVT/BAG Hollywood South Awards Gala, in conjunction with the Background Actors Guild.
Rehabbed from the former Gretna Post Office at the intersection of Huey P. Long Avenue and 4th Street, the center incorporates a full theater/showroom in place of the mail sorting hall and has retained the magnificent period lobby.
The building is now preserved as an historic landmark, purchased by The City of Gretna with financial assistance provided by Jefferson Parish.
Exterior restoration was completed in 2008 and all interior renovations need to convert the building into a cultural center for the arts were finished in 2016, with the center enjoying its opening night in September of that year.
Remarked Stephen James, Founder and Executive Director of The NOLA Voice Talent Foundation: "The City of Gretna, located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, has become a burgeoning center for arts and cultural activities over recent years. It is fitting that this year's FIFTH annual NVT/BAG Hollywood South Awards Gala should be held at this beautiful and prestigious venue - a real jewel in the crown of greater New Orleans."
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Samsung currently has the best display technology on the market - Super AMOLED. It's better than any LCD display and it's better than regular AMOLED displays. They produce only 3 million smartphone displays per month right now, and that also includes their AMOLED and LCD displays that they are manufacturing for other companies.
Samsung is going to ramp up production by an order of magnitude next year, from 3 million to 30 million smartphone displays per month. They've also said before that next year they will start manufacturing their next generation of Super AMOLED displays, so we should be expecting a lot more Super AMOLED phones from Samsung and perhaps from competitors as well, if they decide to let them license the old technology.
Even though there will be a competiting Super LCD technology coming from Sony this year, Samsung also has prepared a Super TFT technology. I believe Samsung will continue to remain the smartphone display technology leader, as well as the leader in mobile graphics with their upcoming Orion chip. Both of these will make Samsung at least one of the top 2 best Android phone manufacturers.


Join Jenny and Rebecca at Blue Cow Yoga for our one day summer retreat – a day of yoga treats and healthy eats.
A Whole day of yoga with a focus on eating for optimum health to set us up for the summer months so we feel lighter and more energised.
As we prepare for another seasonal shift, it's time once again to tune into what our bodies need and how best to adapt – both in our yoga practice and in what we eat. The day will start at 10.30am with a dynamic yoga class, exploring a deep and more grounding practice to help restore energy and help build more discipline in our practice. This will be followed by a delicious breakfast and food workshop, focused around the same theme of restoring energy through food, as well as looking at the principles behind a summer cleanse.
In the afternoon we'll be back on the mat for a yummy yin session to relax, allowing the body to soften and mind relax, with a focus on the organs linked to the spring and summer elements.
And finally, the day will be rounded off with a delicious feast to share.
A friendly and fun environment with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discuss. The day will leave you feeling invigorated and relaxed, with lots of inspiring tips and even recipes to take home!
Cost: £85 for the whole day including yoga, cooking workshops and healthy, organic vegetarian food.
Booking is essential. Please book here to pay a deposit of £25 to secure your place and pay the rest on the day.
Rebecca is a holistic chef and health coach, whose interest lies in understanding the relationship between food and health. Based in London, she works with groups and individuals helping them to build their cookery skills and improve their health through the use of natural wholefoods. Rebecca also specialises in retreat cooking, where her strong commitment to the practice of yoga enhances her ability to create balanced and nourishing food. Through her work, she draws on her knowledge of different approaches to healing and cooking, including her background in physiology and nutrition and more recent studies in macrobiotics and oriental medicine to help empower people to live healthier and happier lives.


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Использую APP_DEBUG = false  ошибка показывает информацию в частности

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Безопасно ли такое поведение в laravel,  ведь ошибка показывает скрытую информацию о сайте /home/u421655888/domains/changed.ru/resources/views/product-view.blade.php ?
Могут ли злоумышленники использовать эту информацию ?
Должен ли я использовать try catch во всех опасных местах (по соображению безопасности) ?

A: Если с контроллером и маршрутом все норм, то скорее всего, исходя из описания проблемы, закешированы настройки.
Сбросить кеш настроек можно командой php artisan cache:clear

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The "Never Again Campaign's" new 30-second ad supporting the Second Amendment was produced by Star Parker's organization, CURE — Center for Urban Renewal and Education.
So far as I can tell, there's been no criticism from the left — yet. However, when the National Rifle Association hired African-American gun rights activist and YouTube personality Colion Noir to join its team, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY was unimpressed.
"I think it's an insult to the American people's intelligence," Rangel said on MSNBC, according to Mediaite.
Parker's ad is both powerful and controversial — because it's also painfully true.


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Q: AccessViolationException on GL.CreateShader with OpenTK I'm having some trouble getting shaders integrated into my program. Up until this point I have been using the default pipeline but it is no longer able to accomplish all that I want to do. I have gotten some code together that I believe should work.
Code To Create and Compile Shaders:
    public int CompileShaders()
    {

        int vertexShader = GL.CreateShader(ShaderType.VertexShader);
        string shader = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"Shaders\\test.vert");
        GL.ShaderSource(vertexShader, shader);
        GL.CompileShader(vertexShader);

        int fragmentShader = GL.CreateShader(ShaderType.FragmentShader);
        shader = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"Shaders\\test.frag");
        GL.ShaderSource(fragmentShader, shader);
        GL.CompileShader(fragmentShader);

        int shaderProgram = GL.CreateProgram();
        GL.AttachShader(shaderProgram, vertexShader);
        GL.AttachShader(shaderProgram, fragmentShader);
        GL.LinkProgram(shaderProgram);

        GL.DetachShader(shaderProgram, vertexShader);
        GL.DetachShader(shaderProgram, fragmentShader);
        GL.DeleteShader(vertexShader);
        GL.DeleteShader(fragmentShader);

        _shaderProgram = shaderProgram;
        return shaderProgram;
    }

When this code is hit, the first call to GL.CreateShader throws an AccessViolationException. The confusing bit is most of the other articles on this issue deal with a OpenGL context that has not been initialized. However, the GLContext for my program is initialized and used (as in I have already drawn to it and have it on screen) long before this code is run. I also tested running this code in the GLControl Load event handler, where it runs fine.
To go into a bit of detail on the structure of the code, there exsists a GLScene that contains GLLayers. The layers then contain geometry in the form of GLEntities, that can be one of numerous types, GLMesh for example. The code to compile the shaders and maintain a reference to the shader program is part of GLEntity. The GLEntity class and all classes that inherit from it have draw functions that will utilize the shader via the GL.UseProgram command. So the order of events in the program is as follows. The program opens and initializes internal variables as well as the OpenGL context with a viewport. The user then opens a file, at which point geometry is generated and added to the layers in GLScene. After the completion of the geometry generation, the shaders are supposed to compile.
Do any of you have an idea as to what could be causing the issue?
Thank you for your help.
Edit: Added Initialization code for GLContext
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    public void GLControl_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
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        _mainVM.LoadSettings();
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A: Thank you to everyone who gave advice on this issue. After a nights sleep I found the solution to the problem. I was running the code on a separate thread from the main rendering thread. That obviously would not work with the nature of OpenGL.


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As part of our Holiday Party we will wrap up with a "Yankee Swap" gift exchange. Please bring a wrapped, yarnie type gift worth around $20 (we're happy to help you pick something out, if you're not sure what to bring).
We will also have a One Day Flash Sale with 5% to 50% off selected yarns, kits, magazines & accessories. Think of it as a Yarn Shop Scavenger Hunt! Discounts abound in all departments, and online too, so our out-of-town folks should get their Web browsers ready to refresh!
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Die Torvaine Chain (oder Torvean Chain), eine massive piktische Silberkette, wurde 1808 oder 1809 südwestlich von Inverness in Schottland beim Ausheben des kaledonischen Kanals auf einem Kieskamm entdeckt.

Die etwa 46 cm lange und 2,9 kg schwere Kette wurde an der Seite eines großen, flachen Steinhaufens etwa 0,6 m unter der Oberfläche gefunden. Sie bestand aus 16 Paaren von ineinandergreifenden runden Gliedern mit einem etwas größeren Glied, das die Enden abschloss. Ein halbkreisförmiger Klemmenring zerbrach während der Bergung in zwei Teile. Einer der Endringe und die Teile des Klemmrings sind verloren gegangen. Gleichzeitig wurden möglicherweise auch eine silberne Kugel und weitere Relikte gefunden.

Es ist die schwerste piktische Silberkette Schottlands. Trotz des Gewichts ist ihr Innendurchmesser klein und es wird angenommen, dass sie entweder für einen Jugendlichen oder eine Frau bestimmt war und aus dem 4. bis 6. Jahrhundert stammt. Obwohl den Pikten zugeschrieben, wurden nur drei der zehn gefundenen schweren Silberketten im piktischen Königreich gefunden. Bei Whitecleugh (Whitecleuch Chain) und Parkhill ist ein verschlussartiger Endring verziert mit Symbolen erhalten, die denen auf piktischen Steinen ähneln und durch rote Emaille hervorgehoben sind.

Die Kette wurde 1837 dem Antiquarian Museum in Edinburgh übergeben.

Literatur
 A. J. H. Edwards: A massive double-linked silver chain, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Bd. 73, 1938–9. S. 326–7
 Susan Youngs (Hrsg.): The Work of Angels. Masterpieces of Celtic metalwork, 6th–9th centuries AD. London: British Museums Publications Ltd, 1989, S. 28.

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Archäologischer Fund (Schottland)
Inverness
Pikten
Silberschmiedearbeit
National Museum of Scotland
Archäologischer Fund in Europa

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Peter Jacobsen qualified for the PGA Tour in his first attempt, finishing in 19th place at the 1976 qualifying tournament. He made steady progress during his first few seasons on the tour, before capturing his first title in 1980 at the Buick-Goodwrench Open. He won twice on the tour in 1984 and broke into the top-10 on the money list for the first time. Two more wins in 1995 catapulted him to a career best 7th place on the end of season money list. As a result of his performance during those two seasons, he was selected to play in two Ryder Cups, in 1985 and 1995. Jacobsen has won seven tournaments on the PGA Tour, the last coming at the 2003 Greater Hartford Open at the age of 49, making him one of the oldest players ever to win on the PGA Tour. Peter Jacobsen has hand autographed this Top Flite Golf Ball. Mounted Memories Hologram and Certificate of Authenticity.


First of all, bravo (congratulations),this is a great initiative.
Myself have tried to make this port on Yocto, I encountered a number of problems related to the graphics.
I'm not a graphics expert, but I saw that the latest version of MESA  supported  the GPU VC4 from Broadcom and I tried to integrate this version! I still had some bugs to fix, but due to time and professional  constraints I have put that on hold.
What have you changed in the BSP of the RapsberryPi2? Because I did not manage to enter the fork directly from Samsung servers!


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Teaching the Tradition: Catholic Themes in Academic Disciplines
John J. Piderit and Melanie M. Morey (eds)
Religion, Religion and Society
The essential activity of Catholic colleges and universities at the undergraduate level is teaching material that is enlightened, contrasted, or highlighted by Catholic perspectives. Until about ... More
The essential activity of Catholic colleges and universities at the undergraduate level is teaching material that is enlightened, contrasted, or highlighted by Catholic perspectives. Until about forty years ago this task was carried out predominantly by priests, sisters, and brothers. Bound to the Catholic Church in a special way, these people are no longer represented in significant numbers at Catholic institutions of higher education, and laypeople are now responsible for teaching in the Catholic tradition. The challenge is that priests, nuns, and brothers received extensive training in how the Catholic faith is related to the specific academic discipline they taught. Laypeople need "Catholic resources" if, following in the footsteps of the sisters, brothers, and priests, they wish to share the Catholic intellectual tradition with their students. At a Catholic institution a layperson in a particular academic discipline is expected to address religious themes that amplify or nuance the normal material presented in the secular discipline. Theology and philosophy are central to Catholic institutions of higher education. But laypeople who are inclined to include religious themes in their usual undergraduate classes play a vital role in strengthening the Catholic mission, identity, and character of a Catholic institution. This book provides resources for faculty members at Catholic institutions who want to incorporate Christian religious themes in the academic disciplines in which they are specialists.Less
Teaching the Tradition : Catholic Themes in Academic Disciplines
The essential activity of Catholic colleges and universities at the undergraduate level is teaching material that is enlightened, contrasted, or highlighted by Catholic perspectives. Until about forty years ago this task was carried out predominantly by priests, sisters, and brothers. Bound to the Catholic Church in a special way, these people are no longer represented in significant numbers at Catholic institutions of higher education, and laypeople are now responsible for teaching in the Catholic tradition. The challenge is that priests, nuns, and brothers received extensive training in how the Catholic faith is related to the specific academic discipline they taught. Laypeople need "Catholic resources" if, following in the footsteps of the sisters, brothers, and priests, they wish to share the Catholic intellectual tradition with their students. At a Catholic institution a layperson in a particular academic discipline is expected to address religious themes that amplify or nuance the normal material presented in the secular discipline. Theology and philosophy are central to Catholic institutions of higher education. But laypeople who are inclined to include religious themes in their usual undergraduate classes play a vital role in strengthening the Catholic mission, identity, and character of a Catholic institution. This book provides resources for faculty members at Catholic institutions who want to incorporate Christian religious themes in the academic disciplines in which they are specialists.
Keywords: Catholic, higher education, religious, undergraduate, academic disciplines, theology, philosophy, Catholic intellectual tradition
The Catholic Studies Reader
James T. Fisher and Margaret M. McGuinness (eds)
This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central ... More
This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central to the practice and theory of Catholic Studies —Sources and Contexts, Traditions and Methods, Pedagogy and Practice, Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies, and The Catholic Imagination—the editors provide readers with the opportunity to understand the great diversity within this area of study. Readers will find essays on the Catholic intellectual tradition and Catholic social teaching, as well as reflections on the arts and literature.Less
This is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated themes central to the practice and theory of Catholic Studies —Sources and Contexts, Traditions and Methods, Pedagogy and Practice, Ethnicity, Race, and Catholic Studies, and The Catholic Imagination—the editors provide readers with the opportunity to understand the great diversity within this area of study. Readers will find essays on the Catholic intellectual tradition and Catholic social teaching, as well as reflections on the arts and literature.
Keywords: Catholic Studies, Catholic imagination, Catholic intellectual tradition, Catholic social teaching, pedagogy, traditions, ethnicity, race
Threnody or Spoliation?: Responding to the Place of the Catholic Intellectual in the Pagan University
Paul J. Griffiths
in In the Lógos of Love: Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life
Catholic "threnodists" lament the state of the contemporary pagan (i.e., nonaffiliated with Christian or Jewish tradition) university; "spoliasts" look for and find the goods evident there, eager to ... More
Catholic "threnodists" lament the state of the contemporary pagan (i.e., nonaffiliated with Christian or Jewish tradition) university; "spoliasts" look for and find the goods evident there, eager to discover resources that permit the Church to arrive at a fuller understanding of revelation. Pagan universities can inculcate intellectual virtues and certain moral habits, but they cannot offer students or represent to faculty any shared unitary idea of what intellectual work is or what it is for, because there is no agreement on such an idea. Catholic intellectual tradition can give an account of intellectual life and of how its various specialties relate one to another. Practitioners of Catholic intellectual tradition within the pagan university should celebrate and expropriate—spoliate—the genuine goods that are there.Less
Threnody or Spoliation? : Responding to the Place of the Catholic Intellectual in the Pagan University
Catholic "threnodists" lament the state of the contemporary pagan (i.e., nonaffiliated with Christian or Jewish tradition) university; "spoliasts" look for and find the goods evident there, eager to discover resources that permit the Church to arrive at a fuller understanding of revelation. Pagan universities can inculcate intellectual virtues and certain moral habits, but they cannot offer students or represent to faculty any shared unitary idea of what intellectual work is or what it is for, because there is no agreement on such an idea. Catholic intellectual tradition can give an account of intellectual life and of how its various specialties relate one to another. Practitioners of Catholic intellectual tradition within the pagan university should celebrate and expropriate—spoliate—the genuine goods that are there.
Keywords: Catholic intellectual tradition, Catholic studies, Catholic university, intellectual virtues, pagan university, spoliasts, threnodists


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Jews often observe that "our" New Year comes in the fall, not on Jan. 1. But Jan. 1, 2020, became a very special day of Jewish celebration — not of the Earth's annual trip around the sun, but of something that goes to the core of Jewish culture and identity. At MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, some 100,000 Jews gathered to celebrate the completion of the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying a page of Talmud a day, with many more watching simulcasts of the proceedings and otherwise engaged in their own celebrations here and around the world.
For centuries, Talmud study was the glue that held widely dispersed Jewish communities together, as they explored the intricacies of Jewish law and scholarship through careful review of the intricate and sometimes obscure texts and teachings of those who perfected the study of oral Jewish law. In 1923, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, a Polish Chasidic rabbi, began a program with the goal of having Jews around the world studying the same page of Talmud each day — daf yomi, or daily page. The celebration this week of the completion of the study of the six "orders" of the Talmud, or Siyum HaShas, is the 13th cycle since Shapiro's time.
The growth of this program and its focus on uniting Jews through daily study — at every conceivable level and involvement — is noteworthy. And the statistics are impressive: The mounting number of active participants — more than doubling in size with each cycle — is a Jewish success story. Agudath Israel of America, a haredi Orthodox organization, has taken this on as one of its premier projects, and has helped move the daf yomi effort and the daily study of Talmud by tens of thousands of Jews into the mainstream.
Talmud study is traditionally done by two study partners. While this chavruta approach continues, class study has also spread, with multiple daf yomi classes taught daily in many cities and offered through online podcasts. Social media, with its ability to reach almost everyone almost everywhere, and the readily accessible translations of the Talmud text that is available to all, are unifying tools that Shapiro could never have imagined.
Another welcome advancement is the growing number of women who have taken up serious and consistent Talmud study, something that was discouraged throughout most of Jewish history. A global Siyum HaShas for Women, organized by Hadran, is expected to draw more than 3,000 women to Jerusalem's Binyanei Ha'Uma on Jan. 5.
Recently, at a Jewish communal event, we heard someone say she almost felt like asking "Why be Jewish?" after hearing so much bad news about the spread of anti-Semitism. Jewish study provides an answer. And the Siyum HaShas celebration of the completion of the seven-and-a-half-year Talmud cycle offers another. We applaud that impressive achievement and the success and satisfaction such an accomplishment brings.
A new cycle begins this week. It's never too late to join.
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Looking Closer: Munas Dabbur
Posted on May 3, 2016 . Posted in Transfers
Munas Dabbur you may say in a very confused manner? Yes, We've never heard of him before either.
Today The Sentinel have reported that we have been linked with the current Grasshopper no. 9 so we thought we would dig a little deeper and take a closer look at the apparent Stoke target.
Born in Nazareth, Israel in 1992 he started his youth career with his boyhood side Macabi Nazareth spending 7 years there from the age of 11-18 before moving to Macabi Tel Aviv where he spent a year on a youth contract. However, Dabbur was to move back to Nazareth to start his professional career. He spent a year back in his hometown but could only muster up 5 appearance in which he failed to score in any of them.
You may think after such an uneventful introduction to professional football he would fade in to obscurity and never be mentioned again. Quite the opposite. Macabi Tel Aviv had obviously seen enough talent in him from his yearlong youth contract to offer him a 3 year deal. His first season in Tel Aviv was a revelation, Dabbur made 26 appearances in which he managed to score on 8 occasions. The following season(2012/13)) the young Israeli made another 26 appearances as he netted 10 times, subsequently Tel Aviv went on to win there first league title in 10 years. Not a bad return from a man who at this point was only 20 years old.
Fast forward 6 months and Dabbur was starting to catch the eye. Grasshopper from Switzerland knocked on the door with an offer of 425,000 euro. The young mans debut was eventful to say the least, despite starting on the bench for the Swiss outfit, he made it on to the pitch for the second half where he made a huge impact scoring twice and registering an assist. In his first season he managed a total of 9 goals and 5 assists which is a healthy return on the money that was paid for him. His second season was no different, he scored 18 goals in league and cup competitions and provided 8 assists to benefit the team.
Strongly linked with a move Palermo in the summer of 2015 to replace Paulo Dybala who has since gone onto be the driving force in front of Paul Pogba at Juventus. He was offered a new improved contract which he signed with no hesitation and boy did he warrant the new contract. In his opening 8 games in the 2015/2016 season he scored 6 and assisted 8 times.
The stats certainly show this young Israeli as a composed finisher and that he has a great eye when it comes to opening the opposition's backline up.
Summary: Depending on the figure of the transfer, he would certainly be someone I would look at. Yes, he has been a great talisman in Switzerland but could he bring that form over to England? We'll just have to wait and see.
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Waltham Forest has high levels of identification of SEND at both school SEN support and Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) levels in all schools compared to neighbouring boroughs. According to recent analyses this appears to be roughly in line with what would be expected given the borough's average deprivation levels.
All schools in the borough help pupils with SEND achieve good outcomes, generally above national and regional averages. The special schools within the borough boundary are high quality with good and outstanding Ofsted judgements, providing effective local provision for those with the most complex SEND.
The borough has low levels of permanent exclusions, but above average fixed term exclusions and rates of school absenteeism.


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Category Archives: Hang Gliding
Kitty Hawk Kites is home to the largest hang gliding school on the planet. Expert, certified instruction is offered at Jockey's Ridge State Park in Nags Head, North Carolina and high-flying altitude flights are offered at the Currituck County Airport. There is nothing like it.
Hangin' With Kitty Hawk Kites
We are a company fully behind our motto of "teaching the World to fly". It's our passion. This means that nothing can feel as gratifying as seeing the faces of those who we have shared this passion with. Flying is an experience, an emotion, and often times a smile. Every time someone flies with us it's an adventure, here are their stories! Be sure to check in for weekly updates on who flew with us this week and some more interesting personal stories from them.
"We had such an amazing time hang gliding with Kitty Hawk Kites. It was a present for our daughter's 10th birthday. Camden had such a blast that my 5 year old can't wait to try it and now wants us to take her hang gliding for her birthday next year. Kitty Hawk Kites has quickly become our new birthday tradition! The instructors were awesome and amazing. Thanks again!"
~ Shannon Hoover, Virginia Beach, VA
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"The Noyes family definitely brought their competitive juices with them from Virginia Beach to Jockey's Ridge State Park as their enjoyed their beginner dune hang gliding lessons. "Hang gliding with Kitty Hawk Kites at Jockey's Ridge is such a freeing experience and we highly recommend it! Our kids got an extra kick out of it since we had a little distance competition. Even though my husband was a natural, my youngest left all of us in the dust."
~ Suzy Noyes, Virginia Beach, VA
Teresa Greene has watched people hang glide off of Grandfather Mountain. She has wanted to fly with us for over 30 years. To celebrate Valentine's Day on the OBX this year, that dream became reality.
"It was the best part of my vacation!"
The Fletchers
We were please and privileged to have 67-year old Jerry Fletcher from Henderson, NC take a beginner dune hang gliding lesson with us during his OBX family beach gathering! While Jerry flew, his wife, Brenda, and three relatives (Raleigh Askew, Madelaine Parker, and Herbert Kenney) watched in awe. What we learned about Mr. Kenney (Brenda's father) left us in awe! A veteran of three wars, he fought in the South Pacific in WWII where he was shot in the shoulder as he stormed a beach, earning a Purple Heart for his service. He then went on to serve the United States in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Wow … what an honor to meet such a hero! You never know who you'll cross paths with at the Kitty Hawk Kites Flight School at Jockey's Ridge State Park.
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North Carolina's Outer Banks: A Destination Any Time of Year
Thank you for the recent feature, Sara Kendall, of the Epicurean! "Spanning over 200 miles in a string of narrow barrier islands, the Outer Banks is an ocean haven anytime of the year. The locals refer to them as OBX, and millions of people make these islands their vacation destination. Looking to book a winter retreat or plan next summer's getaway? The Outer Banks is a fabulous choice no matter the time of year you decide to venture to the ocean breezes." http://www.epicureancharlotte.com/travel/
This Article from the Charlotte Epicurean on just a few of the reasons why the OBX is so special hit the nail on the head! We have so much to do here and a ton of great dining options! What are you going to choose to do today?
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KHK Celebrates Amazing Women in Aviation
Behind every good man, there's a great woman… so who's behind every great woman? Women's History Month (March), International Women's Day (March 8), and Women of Aviation Worldwide Week (March 7-13) has had us thinking about some pretty impressive ladies. Aviation history is full of women breaking social norms, setting records, and pioneering new ways.
We've managed to narrow down our 5 favorite aviatrix to share them with you here…
Amelia Earhart: Most famous for being the first female (and second person male or female) to fly nonstop solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart was also the first female to fly nonstop solo across the US, and the first pilot ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the US. Her last mission was to be the first woman to fly around the world. With only a few thousand miles left, Amelia vanished into a stormy night.
Jacqueline Cochran: Record holder for many altitude, speed, and distance challenges of her time, Jacqueline Cochran, was the first female pilot to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, the first woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic, and the first pilot ever to fly above 20,000 ft without an oxygen mask. Recruiter and instructor for female combat pilots in WWII, Jacqueline was also the first aviatrix to run a Marilyn Monroe endorsed cosmetics company.
Patty Wagstaff: As one of the best airshow pilots in the world, Patty Wagstaff has claimed gold, silver, and bronze medals in numerous Olympic level international Aerobatic Competitions. She is the first woman ever to become the US National Aerobatic Champion, and one of few to win such a title three times in a row. Patty is the recipient of numerous awards including the "First Lady of Aerobatics" Betty Skelton Award, "Sword of Excellence" Award, and "Bill Barber Award for Showmanship". Patty has also been inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and was most recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Air Force Association.
Kari Castle: A three-time Hang Gliding World Champion, Hang Gliding and Paragliding National Champion, and multi world record holder in Women's Hang Gliding, Kari is the first woman to qualify for the US National Hang Gliding Team. Kari still competes in Hang Gliding competition and leads clinics across the US including the 2014 Hang Gliding Spectacular here on the OBX.
Jenny Hawk: The Outer Banks' very own fearless female flyer, Jenny Hawk takes to the sky with her company, OBX Airplane, pulling banners, giving air tours, and teaching countless aspiring pilots, including Kitty Hawk Kites founder, John Harris, how to fly. Jenny has overcome tremendous adversities, but she continues to do the thing she loves and continues to inspire new pilots as they begin their aviation career.
These five woman are just a few of many, many impressive aviatrix… Who is your favorite female aviator? Share with us below!
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Anniversary of Wright Brothers Dec. 17 Flight
The scene from the replica of the Wright Brothers 1902 Glider when in flight.
When Orville Wright took his place at the controls of the aircraft he and his brother, Wilbur, had built on a cold, windy December day, he was confident that flight was possible. Launching into a 20-25 mph wind, the Wright Flyer lifted into the air and in 12 seconds the history of the world changed.
Later in the day, Wilbur demonstrated that the flight was not fluke, flying the aircraft 852' in 59 seconds.
December 17, 1903 is one of the most important days in modern history, and at the Wright Brothers Memorial in Kill Devil Hills the achievement is celebrated annually.
This year the ceremony begins at 9:00 a.m. with local groups and high schools participating—the First Flight High School Advanced Chorus will perform the National Anthem (they are very good) and a Kitty Hawk Boy Scout Troop will lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
The highlight of the ceremony always occurs at 10:35 a.m. with a military flyover, the exact time of Orville's first flight.
The original Wright Flyer is in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and an exact replica is housed in the rotunda of the Wright Brothers Monument. No one is taking them out for a flight, but for the adventurous who may wish to experience flight the way the Wright brothers did, Kitty Hawk Kites has one of the few replicas of their 1902 glider that was so important in learning how to fly.
It does take a stiffer breeze to fly it than our hang gliders (15-25mph), but for anyone looking for a truly unique flight experience, this is as different as it gets. Safe, the aircraft is tethered, flying this living piece of history is an event that will create a lifelong memory.
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Hang Gliding Lesson 39 Years in the Making
Since our hang gliding school was founded way back in 1974, we've been handing out wind checks (our form of a rain check) to participants who are unable to complete their dune hang gliding lesson for one reason or another.
Our wind checks are typically redeemed within the following days after they're issued, or at most within the next year or so as many people who vacation on North Carolina's Outer Banks return year-after-year.
Rarely do we see a wind check show up at our hang gliding school at Jockey's Ridge State Park that's more than five years old. However, there are some exceptions.
Midway through this August, we had two women show up at our hang gliding school with tattered wind checks in hand. We were amazed to find out that one of the wind checks was from 1976, and the other was from 1979!
The two graciously donated their brochure, wind check, and student handbook, items they carefully held onto for nearly 40 years, with hopes of one day making it back to Nags Head to hang glide. The wind check from 1979 was particularly interesting, as Kitty Hawk Kites' president and founder John Harris had signed it when it was initially issued.
We're unsure of what caused each of them to initially receive their vouchers, however we were trilled to finally be able to get them out on the sand dunes and in the air.
No matter how long you hold onto your voucher for one of our activities, it will always retain it's value in terms of the activity, regardless of the price difference between a hang gliding lesson booked in 1976 and one booked today in 2015.
Update: We learned that the wind check from 1976 was issued to Edie H. when the wind completely died off during the middle of her hang gliding lesson. Laine D. kindly shared the collection of photos below that were taken during the partial lesson in 1976 with us on Facebook… Enjoy!
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Anyone passing Haus am Milsertor in the small Tyrolean town of Hall will notice the bespoke folding sliding shutters straight away. When open, the translucent white panels extend outwards like flags; closed, they cover the full-length glass of the building's facade like a second skin, creating pleasantly soft light in the offices within.
The folding sliding shutters envelop the corners of the building which is home to the Private Banking division of Raiffeisen Regionalbank Hall in Tyrol. The elements cover all three floors on one side of the building, as well as two floors on the entrance side. Stripe-like horizontal concrete bars break up the delicate structure, creating a symmetric appearance. "We chose this simple basic shape for Haus am Milsertor, optically highlighting the central areas and softening the corners," says planner Walter Niedrist from the architect firm ao-architekten ZT-GmbH in Innsbruck.
The architect's grand idea was put into practice by Colt International GmbH, a company which has already implemented numerous sun protection projects worldwide. They convinced the planners to use PLEXIGLAS® rather than sheet metal or fabric for the sliding folding shutters. According to Colt, the brand acrylic glass' combination of outstanding material properties and comparably low weight made it the ideal choice. The elements need to withstand any weather conditions and extreme fluctuations in temperature, for example, while still maintaining their attractive appearance. Unlike fabric constructions, PLEXIGLAS® also possesses the required static qualities and remains very slim even as a large panel. In this case, the 60 x 60 centimeter sections are just 6 millimeters thick.
...while when open, they extend outwards like a line of flags and provide an almost unobstructed view from inside the building.
Light-colored, horizontal concrete bars that extend the entire height of the building are a particular highlight in the central section. They form a cohesive unit with the open, transparent zones at the corners of the building.
A unique system was developed specifically for the installation of the PLEXIGLAS® folding sliding shutters. Struts are installed at the end of the shutters. When the shutters open and close, one strut remains rigid while the other moves. They are controlled by a motor.
When closed, the folding sliding shutters provide protection against the sun and ensure pleasantly soft light enters the building. When they are open, the shutters have a subtle look and ensure an almost unimpeded view to outside.
The PLEXIGLAS® Satinice WH10 DC used also ensures significant, pleasant light diffusion, while the material's innate UV protection guards against the harmful effects of the sun. As a result, the folding sliding shutters significantly reduce the heat load caused by solar radiation, while their translucence provides pleasant lighting conditions inside the building. Depending on the light conditions, the shutters can be folded in such a way that they appear almost invisible from inside, allowing even more light into the building. In addition, the matte surface of PLEXIGLAS® Satinice prevents any glare around the building, as the folding sliding shutters do not reflect the sun's rays significantly when closed.
The biggest challenge facing the specialists from Colt was how to attach the folding sliding shutters to the building. When closed, the entire construction was to enclose the existing building envelope as a secondary facade, like a second skin. To achieve this, Colt went as far as developing a special drive system. It was vital to prevent any water from penetrating the mechanism, despite the high levels of rain and snow in the Hall region.
Each folding sliding shutter is constructed from two out of a total of 1,504 integrated PLEXIGLAS® panels, connected together with specially-produced hinges. Producing the folding sliding shutters took around eight weeks. The result is 18 facade areas, each of which can be adjusted individually, either via the central control or manually. As a result of the compartmentalized facade structure, the dimensions of the building and the number of floors are not immediately obvious. The folding sliding shutters not only function as a translucent sun protection, but also as the building's second skin.
More than two billion more people are forecast to be alive in 2050 than now, so extraordinary concepts for producing food are urgently needed. With PLEXIGLAS®, greenhouses can even be built in Antarctica.
The Olympic Stadium in Munich was built for the Summer Olympics 1972; today it is one of the city's landmarks. The tent roof made of PLEXIGLAS® is the most extraordinary part of the stadium which even covers parts of the surrounding Olympic Park.


Android is packed with features that are overlooked and under-appreciated. Here are five awesome ones you've probably never even heard of.
If you've been using Android for more than a few generations, it can be easy to forget just how far we've come. Google has added a ton of useful features to Android, and some of the best don't get as much attention as they deserve. But we can fix that. Here are the five most underappreciated features hiding in the latest versions of Android.
Notification overload is common when you have a bunch of noisy apps installed. But you don't have to shut off all your notifications or uninstall any apps just to reduce the clamour. Android supports notification channels, allowing you to cut down on the noise while still getting the information you care about.
All apps targeting Android Oreo or later have notification channels, which are accessible by going to Settings > Notifications, then clicking on an app name, and then clicking Notifications. Once here, you can uncheck any of the sub-categories to block specific types of notifications unique to the app. You can also tap on the name of the channel to change its priority and behavior. For example, you can prevent pop-over alerts but still have a notification appear in the shade.
The introduction of Doze Mode in Android 6.0 changed everything. Finally, you could leave a phone sitting for a few hours and not have to worry about some background app frying your battery. However, sometimes you want trusted apps to have full background access—for example, Google Photos so it can upload your images faster. Luckily, you have access to the Doze Mode settings.
The menu is a bit buried in newer version of the OS. As of Pie, it's in Settings > Apps & notifications > Advanced > Special app access > Battery optimization. Simply find the app you want to exempt and tap to switch from "Optimize" to "Don't optimize." As long as the app is a good piece of code, it shouldn't wreck your battery. Just don't exempt too many apps from Doze.
So you picked a neat ringtone, great. That doesn't mean you want it going off in the middle of the night or during a meeting. Enter Android's Do Not Disturb feature, which includes scheduling settings.
Go to Settings > Sound > Do Not Disturb. Under "Turns on automatically," you can choose when Do Not Disturb activates and shuts off by creating a new "Time" rule. This is part of the system-level Android settings, so it will even sync across devices when you set up a new phone.
Google added App Shortcuts (initially called Launcher Shortcuts) to Android back in Android 7.1, but it's easy to forget they're lurking behind your icons. A long-press can provide quick access to specific parts of the app, saving you time. However, you can do more than tap on those shortcuts. You can also add them to your home screen.
To save one of the app shortcuts from an icon, simply long-press on the icon to open the shortcut lits. Then, long-press and drag on the shortcut you want to use. Drop it on your home screen, and the shortcut will be available just like a regular app icon. One tap and it opens the predetermined part of the parent app. For example, you can create a Message shortcut for the person you text the most, a shortcut to compose a new email in Gmail, and a shortcut to set a new alarm in Clock.
Android's share menu—that interface where you can pick from a list of apps to share web pages, photos, and other types of content—has some problems, but it's vastly more usable now that you can pin apps you use frequently. The share menu can be quite sluggish, after all. So setting the most important sharing icons at the top could save you from opening the full share panel.
To pin an item in the share list, you'll have to find it one last time. Then, long-press and select "Pin." That sticks the item at the top of the share menu permanently. This is quite useful if you want to pin, say, Messages at the top of your sharing interface.


E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. (DuPont) did not engage in the unlawful monopolization or attempted monopolization of the U.S. para-aramid market with its "Kevlar" fiber through long-term, exclusive supply agreements, as a foreign rival—Kolon Industries, Inc.—alleged, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, has ruled. A district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of DuPont (2012-1 Trade Cases ¶77,857) was affirmed (Kolon Industries, Inc. v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., April 3, 2014, Diaz, A.).
Kolon's antitrust claims were raised in DuPont's action against it for the theft and misappropriation of its Kevlar trade secrets. The antitrust and trade secrets claims were severed. For purposes of the antitrust case, Kolon alleged that DuPont had illegally monopolized and attempted to monopolize the U.S. para-aramid market through its supply agreements with high-volume para-aramid customers.
DuPont in 1965 invented para-aramid fiber, which is a strong, complex synthetic fiber used in body armor, tires, fiber optic cables, and a variety of other industrial products. Teijin Aramid (formerly a division of the Dutch company Akzo N.V.) introduced its competing "Twaronname" fiber to the U.S. market in 1987 and has since chipped away at DuPont's share of that market. Dupont and Teijin together account for 99% of U.S. sales in the market. Kolon of South Korea entered the U.S. para-aramid market in 2005 with its "Heracron" fiber.
According to Kolon, in response to its entry, DuPont undertook a strategy of executing multi-year supply agreements with high-volume customers in "key commercially sustainable entry segments … that Kolon sought to enter." These agreements required customers to purchase most or all of their para-aramid requirements from DuPont.
DuPont contended that myriad self-inflicted failures—not DuPont's supply agreements—frustrated Kolon's U.S. market penetration. In addition, DuPont defended its supply agreements as a competitive response to Teijin's use of such practices, and as driven by consumer demands.
Summary judgment on the monopoly claim was appropriate because DuPont neither possessed monopoly power during the relevant period between 2006 and 2009 nor engaged in willful maintenance of such power, the appellate court concluded.
Market Power. DuPont's market share of less than 60% "falls significantly short of where we have previously drawn the line for monopoly power," the appellate court explained. Moreover, while DuPont had strength in the market, based on high barriers to entry, its ability to price discriminate, and its high profit margins, a showing of DuPont's "market power" was not sufficient to prove "monopoly power." DuPont also lacked durable market power in view of its decades-long loss in significant market share to Teijin.
Willful Maintenance. Even if Kolon had presented a triable issue on the monopoly power element, the alleged anticompetitive conduct—DuPont's customer suppy agreements—did not violate the willful maintenance prong of the Sherman Act, Section 2 monopolization inquiry, the court also ruled. Kolon failed to show what "proportionate volume of commerce" in the entire relevant market was foreclosed by DuPont's supply agreements. While foreclosure of a few important customers could substantially foreclose access to a market, DuPont's 21 supply agreements (out of approximately 1,000 potential commercial U.S. para-aramid customers) would not have substantially foreclosed the entire relevant market by blocking Kolon from crossing a "critical bridge" to "high volume" customers, in the court's view.
Discovery. The appellate court did not disturb the district court's discovery rulings. The denial of Kolon's request for DuPont's transaction-level data regarding customers, geographic location, dates, products, amounts, price, cost, margins, and profits was sufficiently justified because production would have been unduly burdensome. Also rejected was Kolon's challenge to the district court's grant of a protective order barring a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) deposition of DuPont on its strategic use of supply agreements. Reasonable advance notice of the deposition was not provided, according to the district court.
Recusal. The appellate court refused to reverse the summary judgment order on the ground that the district court judge was required to recuse himself due to a potential conflict. The district court denied Kolon's motion for recusal as untimely because Kolon had delayed in filing its recusal motion for almost a year after it learned of the alleged conflict. The majority agreed and rejected Kolon's argument on appeal that there was no timely-filing requirement for such a motion.
A dissenting opinion, written by Judge Dennis W. Shedd, would have vacated summary judgment and remanded for new proceedings before a different district judge. The dissenter "disagree[d] with the majority's unwarranted imposition of a timeliness requirement that shifts the burden of bringing forward recusal grounds … from the judge to the litigants" and disagreed that Kolon acted in an untimely manner. Further, recusal was mandatory in the antitrust case, in the dissenter's view.
Trade Secrets. In a separate unpublished opinion, the appellate court overturned a jury verdict in the related trade secrets case brought by DuPont because the trial court excluded relevant evidence material to Kolon's defense. In that matter, after a seven-week trial, the jury returned a verdict finding that Kolon willfully and maliciously misappropriated 149 DuPont trade secrets and awarded DuPont $919.9 million in damages.
The appellate court rejected Kolon's contention that it should be awarded judgment as a matter of law. However, it instructed that all further proceedings on remand should be conducted before a different district judge.
These are cases No. 12-1587 and No. 12-1260.
Attorneys: Stephen Blake Kinnaird (Paul Hastings LLP) for Kolon Industries, Inc. Kent A. Gardiner (Crowell & Moring, LLP) for E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. Paul D. Clement (Bancroft, PLLC) for Kolon Industries, Inc. Adam Howard Charnes (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP) for E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Companies: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.; Kolon Industries, Inc.