Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.
For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.
Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.
For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.
In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.
For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.
For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.
O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.
I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.
And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.
All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.
See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.
See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.


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By Entertainer 8. November 2019
It's that time of year where multiplexes across the nation prepare to serve up Christmas fare as sugary as a cup of eggnog. The love-to-hate-it schmaltz and syrupiness of it all can be pleasant for sure, if the output is something wittier and more starry-eyed than "Last Christmas," a seasonal rom-com with little romance and even fewer laughs to spare. A shame, as its blindingly trimmed package is shiny enough—directed by the comedy genius Paul Feig ("Bridesmaids"), co-scripted by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings, starring Emilia Clarke of "Game of Thrones" and Henry Golding, who left his mark on "Crazy Rich Asians" as a timeless leading man. Plus, there is the wall-to-wall George Michael soundtrack, including "This Is How (We Want You to Get High)," a handsome, never-before-released song from the late artist, serving as the pretty bow on top. And yet, what's inside this gift box feels curiously joyless for what looks to be a foolproof recipe on paper—"Last Christmas" only succeeds in reminding you pre-Thanksgiving that soon it will be holiday shopping time, rejoice!
But if you're the type who loves to visit year-around Christmas stores in July—like the overstuffed one the frantic Londoner Kate (Clarke, generically endearing) works at—then you might find some magic in "Last Christmas," however stale. Just don't expect the card-carrying George Michael fan Kate to be the spreader of holiday cheer here. Clad in an elf costume and matching pointy slippers she might be, but the former chorus girl with dreams of a stage career is more a mess-maker than an organized helper of Santa. And by Santa, I mean a character with a self-chosen name played by Michelle Yeoh (creating what wonder she can with her cringe-worthy part), who owns the shop "Yuletide Wonderful" on a busy, twinkling square of London and expects great things from Kate with a tough, maternal sort of affection. Meanwhile Kate—donned in a leopard coat when she's not selling peculiar trinkets—keeps running late for work, making bad decision after bad decision, couch-surfing (London circa 2017 doesn't appear to be a reasonable city on an elf's salary) and braving her familial problems. Not to mention a mysterious heart defect she struggles with—we learn in bits and pieces that she had recently been taken ill with certain complications and can't afford to lead an irresponsible lifestyle.
Her family, immigrants from former Yugoslavia, certainly thinks so. There is her over-concerned, guilt-tripping mom Petra (Thompson, bit of an offensive caricature of an émigré) who intensely dotes on her two daughters—the other one being the dependable and disciplined Marta (Lydia Leonard), who hides from her parents that she is a lesbian in a stable relationship. There is also their hardworking father Ivan (Boris Isaković), who's made a good home for his family in London. Still, something seems to be missing from Kate's life in the waning days of 2017, despite being surrounded by supportive figures she doesn't quite deserve the sympathy of. Then comes along the mysterious Tom (Golding, making good use of his effortless charms), appearing from out of nowhere, bringing Kate's guard down slowly and igniting both a sense of kindness and self-worth in her; so much that with Tom's influence, Kate starts volunteering at a homeless shelter on a frequent basis.
Rest assured, there will be a "Love Actually"-esque performance to cap off the romp and a twisty pay-off (albeit, a frustrating one) to conclude its "Just Like Heaven" vibe that manages to romanticize sparkly streets of London more than the couple that strolls through them. While "Last Christmas" does a decent job of cozily resolving Kate's family issues and through Gary Freeman's production design, transforming London into a jolly old holiday greeting card, it forgets to build chemistry between its seeming lovebirds, who live inside the lyrics of the eponymous Wham! tune more than they realize. It doesn't help that neither Yeoh nor Thompson play a character that remotely resembles real people in a film that only brushes over the anxieties of immigrants in the still-early days of Brexit. There will be fans of this intensely rich Christmas pudding—always a better idea in theory than practice—but you might find you've had more than enough after only a couple of bites.
Original: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/last-christmas-movie-review-2019
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Mark "Marky J" Jansen passed away peacefully surrounded by his children and family on Sept. 5, 2018. He leaves behind his children and grandchildren, whom he loved unconditionally, his brothers, sisters and mother. There will be a Memorial Celebration of Life event at the Bristol Polish American Club on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, between the hours of 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Family and friends are encouraged to join and celebrate Mark's life. The address for the Bristol Polish American Club is 541 N. Main St., Bristol.
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There is no purer, more natural source of protein than wild seafood. Lean but dense with nutrients at the same time, seafood is a perfect protein for athletes.
Achieving peak form is a goal for all of us, whether we're pro, amateur, or not even practicing athletes. And seafood should be part of all of our diets. Our wild Alaska Gold Seafood is particularly good for athletes.
Here's another huge secret: Cooking our seafood, for example our wild salmon portions, is easier than cooking other kinds of proteins. At home, we use sea salt and olive oil, serve with greens, or a pasta with pesto sauce. It's a meal made in less than 15 minutes. Here are some tips for cooking salmon.
In addition, our Easy Salmon, packed in one-pound bags, is so versatile for making a diverse array of recipes, perfectly packaged for a family of four or a hungry couple. It's possible to affordably incorporate wild salmon into your meal plan. Here are a couple of customer recipes: an Easy Salmon red curry with coconut cauliflower rice or this Easy Salmon, potato and leek hash with egg recipe.
Joe Friel and Loren Cordain's The Paleo Diet for Athletes notes that we should eat animals of the highest quality at virtually every meal. When it's wild and as real as possible, not fed at a grain stall in a feedlot, it's best. And wild seafood has an optimal fat, protein, and nutrient profile.
Wild seafood from colder waters, like those of Alaska, have very high concentrations of Omega-3 fatty acids. We know Omega-3 fatty acids are good for the heart–they're associated with a significant reduction in coronary artery diseases. In addition, Omega-3s from marine sources (i.e., wild seafood) are more easily absorbed and digestible than other sources.
Wild seafood has the ideal ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids. Most nutritionists agree that people should target a 2:1 ratio of Omega-6s to Omega-3s. But, for most Americans, that ratio is closer to 10:1. (Non-grass fed) red and/or processed meats, junk foods, and certain oils are too high in Omega-6 and cause the imbalance. Fish, particularly fatty fish from cold waters, like salmon and sablefish, are by far the richest source of Omega-3s. In contrast, Omega-6s are associated with inflammation, which can counteract exercise's positive effects on insulin sensitivity and metabolic benefits, negatively impacting muscle soreness, tissue repair, and other aspects of recovery. Omega-3s improve joint health by easing joint stiffness and combating chemicals that destroy cartilage. Indeed, according to the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, consuming Omega-3s can be effective in relieving muscle soreness induced by exercise.
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[ARCHIVED] South Lake Tahoe Voters approve Measure S
South Lake Tahoe, CA- The South Lake Tahoe voters have approved Measure S, a 1-cent sales tax that will provide a source of locally controlled funds for the City. As of November 6th, ballot release, the Measure was ahead 60.17% to 34.46%, with 8,766 ballots cast in the City, according to the El Dorado County Registrar's website.
"We are thrilled at the high level of local voter participation in this election, which has already exceeded participation in the 2016 and 2018 general election contests," said City Manager Joe Irvin. "It is clear that voters have approved Measure S and we want to thank everyone who participated in the election this year."
Measure S was placed on the ballot by the South Lake Tahoe City Council for voter consideration after a year of engagement with and input from the community.
The funding Measure S will provide can be used to help maintain and improve basic city services the community identified as important including fire, wildfire, and public health emergency preparedness, road safety, preventing Lake pollution, removing snow, and the programs that help maintain our local small businesses through the pandemic.
"South Lake Tahoe voters were presented with a choice: to enact a source of locally controlled funds to address local needs or face even more cuts to vital services to address our recent coronavirus-related budget shortfall, said Irvin. "They have chosen to ensure South Lake Tahoe neighborhoods and public areas are clean, safe and protected from wildfire, that our roads are maintained, and our local residents protected, keeping our community a desirable place to live, do business, and raise a family."
For additional information on Measure S, visit www.cityofslt.us. For information on current vote totals and election outcomes, visit www.edcgov.us.


Space Refugee is a multi-media installation based on Muhammed Ahmed Faris, the first Syrian cosmonaut to travel to the Mir space station in 1987. The project follows Faris' journey from popular hero, to supporter of the opposition movement against Assad, to his current life as a refugee in Turkey. Presented in the manner of an old fashioned space museum, this installation combines faux commemorative artefacts and a virtual reality work designed by the artist with elements from the British Interplanetary Society's own collection.
At the core of the installation is a video in which Faris relates the difficulties of the journey out of Syria, then speaks with fellow refugees about the possibility of returning to their homeland. If that proves impossible, he says, "I hope we can rebuild cities for them in space, where there is freedom and dignity and where there is no tyranny, no injustice." The video goes on to include interviews with NASA scientists, air and space law specialists, and architects discussing the plausibility of a refugee colony in space.
Halil Altındere (b. 1971, Turkey) has a wide-ranging practice that includes video, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, curating and publishing. He often employs an ironic approach to challenge political, cultural and social systems. In his early works he reversed conceptions of nation-state and authority in Turkey by utilising everyday objects such as identity cards, banknotes, and stamps. His current practice focuses on issues of subcultures, migration, identity, gender and marginalisation.
A project supported by SAHA – Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey.
Further thanks to Sharjah Art Foundation, HTC Vive and MSI for their support.
The British Interplanetary Society is the oldest space advocacy organisation in the world. Founded in 1933 by a group of space flight enthusiasts who dreamed of using rocket propulsion to explore outer space, today the BIS is devoted to promoting and disseminating new space flight and astronautics information through meetings, symposia, publications and exhibitions. Please note: this venue has limited capacity; entry will be on a first come, first served basis.


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RESOLUTION OF COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
of January 28, 2009 No. 114
About some questions of state registration of subjects of managing
(as amended of the Resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of 12.10.2012 No. 926)
According to Item 22 of the Regulations on state registration of subjects of the managing approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of January 16, 2009 No. 1 "About state registration and liquidation (the activities termination) of subjects of managing" the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus DECIDES:
1. Approve the enclosed forms:
1.1. certificates on state registration of the legal entity;
1.2. certificates on state registration of the individual entrepreneur.
2. Determine that the certificate on state registration of the legal entity and the certificate on state registration of the individual entrepreneur (further - certificates) are signed by the authorized employee of registering body, are certified by impress of a seal for assurance of the certificates and other documents issued to the subject of managing by results of state registration and are forms of documents with certain degree of protection.
3. Issue of certificates in the form approved by this resolution is performed after expenditure of forms of the certificates made before adoption of this resolution.
4. To the Ministry of Finance, regional executive committees and the Minsk Gorispolkom annually when forming the republican budget for the next financial year to provide allocation to registering bodies of money on production of forms of certificates.
5. Declare invalid the resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of April 16, 1999 No. 550 "About some questions of state registration and liquidation (activities termination) of subjects of managing" (The national register of legal acts of the Republic of Belarus, 1999, No. 35, 5/689).
6. This resolution becomes effective since February 1, 2009.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus S. Sidorsky
Approved by the Resolution of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of January 28, 2009 No. 114
Certificate on state registration of the legal entity
(наименование регистрирующего органа)
_____________________ в Единый государственный регистр юридических лиц
(число, месяц, год)
и индивидуальных  предпринимателей  внесена  запись  о государственной
регистрации __________________________________________________________
(полное наименование юридического лица)
(сокращенное наименование юридического лица)
с регистрационным номером ___________________________.
__________________________ __________________________ ________________
(должность уполномоченного (подпись уполномоченного       (фамилия,
сотрудника регистрирующего сотрудника регистрирующего     инициалы)
органа)                     органа)
Certificate on state registration of the individual entrepreneur
___________________ в Единый государственный регистр юридических лиц и
индивидуальных предпринимателей   внесена   запись  о  государственной
_____________________________________________________________________,
(фамилия, имя, отчество)
проживающего по адресу ______________________________________________,
(данные документа, удостоверяющего личность)
в качестве  индивидуального  предпринимателя с регистрационным номером
_____________________.
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(место для фотографии)
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Date published: October 17 2018
Fernando Alonso believes the "whole world" is not impressed with today's Formula 1 and wants a return to different fuel loads, tyre wars and better racing.
The double World Champion will bid farewell to Formula 1 at the end of this season, although his 2019 plans have yet to be revealed.
With two World titles, 32 race wins and 97 podiums to his name, Alonso is one of the more successful drivers to have raced in the sport.
He, however, is over it.
The Spaniard believes Formula 1 has lost its way over the past decade as the absence of a tyre war and refuelling as well as the introduction of turbocharged V6 engines have ruined the sport.
"You need to make the sport interesting again," said Alonso.
"I posted a video of 2005 and I received 3000 comments of 'this is the Formula 1 I fell in love with and not the thing you have now', so it's not me being critical of this Formula 1, it's the whole world.
"One of the top six cars can start last in every race and will finish in the top six and lap the seventh with whatever guy you put in those cars.
"We miss the noise of the V10, the V8, we miss the creativity on the strategy, the different fuel loads, the tyre competition, so you go into Sunday with some unpredictable feeling of what is going to happen."
The McLaren driver is, however, determined to enjoy his final four grands prix in Formula 1.
"Every race now, from the moment I decided to stop, is just a celebration," said Alonso.
"I can't wait to go to Austin now and see the place again, drive around in the cars.
"Maybe we're not the fastest when you see the times at the end of the session, but every lap feels fantastic.
"It's not that I don't love F1 anymore, I still love these cars, but if I stop now it's because I'm 37 years old and achieved all my dreams in F1."
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Chinese subsidiary of the Indian owned brand Jaguar Land Rover will recall 337 units because of substandard fixings in their steering boxes and brakes. As said by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine on their official website, Jaguar Land Rover will call 190 units of 2012 Evoque and Freelander which were made on 11th June 2012. The website stated the reason that the substandard fittings in the calipers of the rear tyres may led to the failure of brakes and sudden deflation of tyres.
They further said that they will also call 147 2012 Evoque and 2013 Evoque which were made between 18th September – 20th October 2012. This lot may have some problems in their steering boxes which contain 'security risks'.
Tata is very much concentrated on the Chinese market because it is one of the fastest growing markets in the world. Chinese demands JLR's luxury SUVs and sleek sedans in huge numbers. Tata also want to beat the 'slow' growth of developed markets with the emerging one.


Salsa Cycles celebrates the culture of the gravel cycling movement. Through grassroots and DIY efforts, the calendar of high-quality gravel races continues to grow, and so too does the number of B-Road fanatics that travel, support, ride and race together throughout the year. This season, at five events across the country, we'll be giving racers a chance to relax – if just for a minute – to immortalize a moment of their day and their participation in a fantastic event.
One luxurious lounge. One photographer. Five different gravel family rooms. Dirt, sweat, and tears from thousands of riders across the land. Photographic portraits to capture it all.
Then, I was invited and encouraged to try to collect a Chaise patch at all five, and an epic whirlwind season of gravel resulted. I'm pleased that I was able to meet the goal of completing each event, but am more thankful for all the other things those gravel rides brought me.
Looking back at the countless images and revisiting words shared between me and my fellow riders prepping for each event, it's so strange how this season was like a high school relationship in so many ways—at times hot and heavy, and other times cold and stormy, often passionate, and always emotional. I have to thank Crystal and Bobby Wintle for the Land Run 100 Field Notes book we received in our schwag bag this year, which I carried with me on every ride and in which I captured some of the stream of consciousness in real time.
Just visit chasethechaise.com if you want to get an essence of these feelings from each distinctive ride, what the weather was like each day; how my gear, setup, even bike changed from ride to ride; my general demeanor when I made it to the Chaise. See the Coast To Coast and Dirty Kanza photos, in particular, get progressively darker as you scroll through them.
"If you make it to the Chaise, you can make it to the finish." Famous last words at each of the Chase the Chaise rider meetings, courtesy of Salsa's marketing content manager and chief storyteller, Mike Riemer. Except at this last event, the one in Idaho, the one that somehow seemed like I didn't need to train as much for (stupidly), the Chaise surprised us all.
I racked up 760 miles of "think" and "me" time this season, and that's just during the events. I've often spoken about how cathartic gravel riding is, how you truly find yourself in all parts of "God's country," even if you're not the least bit spiritual. How if you take the time to look around, you'll be awed by the massive gift Mother Nature gives. How you go to your deepest lows and your highest highs all in the matter of hours.
In this light, of course, the course that's resonating in my brain is that of JayP's Gravel Pursuit in Idaho.
This epitomizes my experience on gravel in 2018. Generally, I choose to ride, not race, these endurance events—the goal is always to finish. This is how I'd describe my season; not trying to prove anything to anyone but myself, to reach that luxurious couch each time—but most importantly to finish.
Perhaps the most appropriate word for my take on Jay's philosophy of this style of riding is 'Chase'.
So I'll go ahead and challenge you all as you're planning your 2019 race calendars: Consider a Chase event. Perhaps, consider all six in 2019. Because whatever you choose to pursue, it's nice to have the memories—the words, the images, the feels—that go along with it.
Running and mountain biking with her dogs in the great outdoors—rain or shine, winter or summer—are two of the things you'll find me doing when I'm not gathering inspiration from my daughters, Ella, Cora and Lili. I have a recent fascination with wellness topics that include circuit training, TRX, HIIT and any other fitness acronym of the day—a simmering-beneath-the-surface competitive edge means I'm willing to try any form of exercise once. Helping my husband Scott's wedding and lifestyle photography biz offers a bit of creative balance to my everyday routine.


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Fantasies of the Future
In an attempt to understand our work, digital designers may look towards architects for inspiration. But as much as we can learn from their success, we should also draw lessons from their failures, too.
This presentation was delivered at Patterns Day. You can watch the video on Vimeo or listen to the audio on Huffduffer.
Imagine you were designing a city.
How might you layout its roads and major features?
Would these make a shape?
What shape?
Perhaps that of a bird?
A city with such a layout exists. It is called Brasília, and it is the capital of Brazil. You might have thought Brazil's capital was Rio de Janeiro, and indeed it was until 1960. A coastal city, Rio was seen as vulnerable to attack, and the country's republican constitution – dating back to 1891 – stated that the capital should be moved to a more central location.
It wasn't until Juscelino Kubitschek became President in 1956 however, that its construction would finally be ordered. His election campaign promised "fifty years of prosperity in five", and building a new capital was a key pledge.
While the constitution originally mandated moving the capital for defensive reasons, such a move made little sense in the 1950s.
Moving the city was more of a political gesture, a sign that the country was ready to move on from its colonial past. A modern new capital would launch Brazil onto the world stage as an optimistic and forward-looking power.
Kubitschek invited the architect Oscar Niemeyer to design the new capital's civic buildings, such as the Presidential Palace, National Congress and Supreme Court.
Niemeyer's friend, Lúcio Costa, won the contest to arrange its urban plan, and is the one responsible for the bird like layout.
Beyond acting as a symbol for a braver, more optimistic age, they believed Brasília could also transform Brazil's heavily stratified society into a more egalitarian one. In their model utopia, they envisaged governors and ambassadors living next to janitors and labourers, with everyone using the same entrances and sharing the same spaces.
Niemeyer and Costa had worked together on a number of projects already, and both admired the thinking of their contemporary, Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect and pioneer of modern urbanism.
Le Corbusier believed good architecture produced good societies, and advocated ideas like organising cities around rigid zones within which different activities would take place, and lifting residential areas of the ground, to let cars and other services run underneath.
With Brazil's vast and unpopulated interior as their canvas, Costa and Niemeyer set to work, and used some of these ideas as the basis for their new city.
From Brazil's barren central plateau, a new city emerged.
And wow, what a city!
With Costa's logical plan and Niemeyer's distinctive buildings, Brasília is now considered a definitive example of 20th century modernist urban planning, and the city received UNESCO World Heritage status in 1987.
Yet as much as it is admired as a work of art, it fails as a place to live.
For example, Costa's fixed layout limited the amount of residential space available. As people moved to the city in search for work, its population grew rapidly, and very soon, Brazil's deep class structures, subtly racial in origin, reasserted themselves.
Workers who had helped build the city were banished to distant satellite towns, segregated from the middle-classes, and spending their meagre salaries on long commutes into and out of the city.
My brother lives in Brazil, and I asked him what the general feeling is towards Brasília. He told me that most consider it a city built for the rich by the rich. Quite different from the egalitarian aspirations of it's two architects.
In 1980, the art critic Robert Hughes said…
Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future. This is what you get when perfectly decent, intelligent and talented men start thinking in terms of space, rather than place, and about single rather than multiple meanings. It's what you get when you design for political aspirations and not real human needs. You get miles of jerry-built platonic nowhere infested with Volkswagens. This, one may fervently hope, is the last experiment of its kind. The utopian buck, stops here.
There's a lot to unpack in Hughes critique. But when I hear it, I wonder if similar criticisms could be levelled at our own work.
We've certainly adopted the modernist aesthetic, with the trend away from the decorative and experimental, towards the minimalistic and apparently materially truthful.
But have we also adopted the same detached optimism that failed the citizens of Brasília?
In 2011, Marc Andreessen penned an essay for the Wall Street Journal, in which he suggested every company needed to become a software company for it to remain relevant.
As the cost of hardware decreases, and processors become ever more powerful, services that have traditionally been delivered by other means are now being run by software and provided online.
We're in the midst of an economical and technological shift in which technology companies – fuelled by network effects and limitless venture capital – are taking over large parts of our economy.
Given this emphasis on technology, Silicon Valley has become an outsized influence. And so has its culture, one that stands at the altar of computation, where the only law that matters is that of Moore, and everything can be reduced to a series of ones and zeros.
Given the abundance of technology, the distinguishing factor has become design. No longer considered simply an act of applying a veneer towards the end of a product's development, design is now seen as integral part.
Those working in the industry are told their work can make an impact on millions, if not billions of people's lives. People often cite this as a reason for choosing to work at companies like Facebook and Google.
This is an idea I find deeply distressing, although I appear to be in the minority that think so.
Designers now have a seat at the table. That some of the biggest players in the valley remain led by domineering CEOs with engineering backgrounds, I wonder if designers have as much influence as they like to think.
There is no better example of this than the Yahoo logo. It's former CEO, Marissa Mayer, famously talked about how she and a small team of in-house designers came up with it in an afternoon – and you can tell! I wonder if they tested 41 shades of purple, too?
Needing to qualify subjective decisions is not a new problem designers have had to face, and many have made post-rationalisation an art form in and of itself.
That not a day passes in which a new logo isn't justified in terms of how it fits within a grid, is indicative of a trend in which design needs to be seen as somehow mathematically pure.
And yet design can be an incredibly intuitive act. It involves making decisions that seemingly go against logic, but make sense when you consider how the humans perceive things.
Take this simple example of a play icon. The triangle looks off-centre, but if we inspect its position, we can see that it's actually centred. A designer, exercising her own judgement, will move it slightly to the right, to make the composition feel balanced.
You might be thinking, surely we can use AI and machine learning etc. to solve such decisions now? So here, a computer could understand where the mass of the triangle sits within the circle, and adjust its placement accordingly.
Now, it's certainly true that many decisions may not be as subjective as designers like to think. But would it not be a damning indictment of our species if we were to surrender individualism and creativity to algorithms and machines?
Another example of how software engineering practice has led the way is around workflow.
The Agile Manifesto is a product of software delivery, and its a process in which designers are often asked to slot into.
Designers (like my former colleague Jon Aizlewood) will talk about the difficulty of making decisions, or being able to look holistically at problems, when such a process demands small pieces of separated work.
Now, let's not get into arguments about agile! But again, it's indicative of a trend. Ideas around minimal viability and company principles such as "move fast and break things", or "always be hustling" typically prioritise speed of delivery, the side-effects often being at the expense of quality, or taking the time to consider the consequences of releasing a particular feature.
Then there is this compulsive deference to data.
There is a spectrum between having data inform design rather than dictate it – yet the trend is towards collecting more data, not less.
Yet, having more data may actually limit the options available. It can lead us towards making incremental changes, and optimising within local maximums, rather than seeking out entirely new approaches.
Let's also not forget, that when designing at the scale of populations, its easy to make generalisations. When users are reduced merely to data-points, real-life situations are seen as edge cases.
You may argue this is a simplistic outlook, and you'd be right! Nothing is black and white but shades of grey. But that's kind of my point.
Clearly, the pendulum is swinging from a spec-driven waterfall process in which developers are asked to chop up pristine Photoshop comps thrown over a wall by interaction-illiterate designers, towards a more collaborative, systematic and rationalised approach. And that's great, it really is!
My fear is this pendulum may start to swing too far in the opposite direction, if it hasn't already.
The shadow Silicon Valley casts over those building digital products is long and unavoidable. It's become the invisible hand that shapes our tools and defines the boundaries within which we practice. It forces us to concern ourselves with the road ahead when sometimes, we need to pull over, and take a long hard look at where we're headed.
In an attempt to understand our work, digital designers will often look towards architectural practice for inspiration.
Those familiar with the history of responsive design will know that Ethan arrived at that name after looking at responsive architecture, which seeks to design buildings that react according to their environment and adapt to the needs of those inhabiting them.
Indeed, much of the thinking around design systems and software architecture can trace it's history back to the writing of the architect Christopher Alexander, who coined the term pattern in relation to a broader language for design thinking.
As much as we can learn from where architecture has been successful, lessons can be drawn from its many failures, also.
Let's consider the parts versus the whole.
I had the good fortune of visiting Brasília in 2011. While I was there, I observed a number repeating architectural motifs used by Niemeyer that lend the city it's unique identity…
Wing-like supports that suspend buildings in air
Reflection in water
Slopping (and often dramatic) entrances
And Niemeyer's signature bold use of curves, often used in contrast with elongated straight lines
As a city designed to invoke a modern, forward looking Brazil, these motifs helped give this new capital it's very distinctive, identifiable and cohesive presence.
While Niemeyer's buildings are beautiful objects, they tend to suffer from an emphasis on form over function.
For example, this building, the National Congress, has a huge ramp at the front. It looks like the entrance, but in fact it's purely decorative; a point reinforced by a barrier that sits half way up it to prevent you climbing up onto the roof, which is occupied by armed guards!
Costa's layout also suffers similarly.
Along the main axis, there are these large lawns. While I'm sure these satisfied an objective of providing open space for people to relax in, their simplistic placement neglected the fact that to reach them, you need to cross six lanes of traffic.
Built around the car, distances between different buildings are great, and everything feels disconnected. Things make sense in isolation, but they don't quite work when put together.
Which brings us to the patterns we use.
Brad Frost's Atomic Design is a popular model for thinking about the construction of UI. To his credit, he takes into account templates and pages – the end product which an organisation is ultimately looking to have delivered.
And yet the focus always seems to be drawn to the smaller parts rather than the whole. I've heard more discussion about whether something is an atom, molecule or organism, than that regarding templates or pages. While the metaphor helps at one level, if hinders understanding at another.
And so to our favourite analogy, Lego.
While it works as a useful means of communicating the idea of a modularised, extensible, controlled system, two important aspects are often missed:
There is an enormous variety of different brick shapes, many of which are quite bespoke.
The reason this variety can exist, is due to the predictability of the underlying system of tubes and studs which allow different shaped bricks to connect. One of the first bricks produced in 1958 will connect with one produced today.
What are the underlying methods that enable a predictable means of connection in our work? Is it perhaps story, which we heard about earlier today, or something more tangible?
If I'm honest, I think the discussion around design systems is starting to suffer a little from a lack of clarity. Terms like style guide, component library and design language are used interchangeably, when more formal definitions are possible. Yes, naming things is hard, but maintaining the same name for things appears to be harder still!
This confusion also affected our understanding of patterns and components – there's a difference!
A pattern is a generalised set of abstract principles and guidance, required to solve a particular problem. More documentation than code, they are the why.
A component is a specific instance of a user interface, implemented in code and user-facing. They are the what.
Most of the pattern libraries that are shared are in fact component libraries. Domain-specific entities, they are possibly less useful outside the organisations that built them than pattern libraries, which can help others solve problems that are conceptually similar.
I wonder if this confusion has bled into our tools?
Whenever I look to create and document a design system, I end up using tools like Fractal, Fabricator or Pattern Lab. Designed primarily around a single entity, the component, their ergonomics sub-consciously encourage a modularised approach, and a strict focus on code. That's to be expected of course, but it's worth remembering.
I know Vitally Friedman has talked about presenting design systems with an interface that begins by showing template examples from which you can zoom down to the individual components. There's some milage in that idea, I think.
As the line between component libraries and much broader systems for design continues to blur, we need to ensure our tools are up to the job. Do we adapt component-based tools to take into account for wider concerns, or look to new tools?
I'm reminded of talks Jeremy has given in the past where he mentioned how, that the way Photoshop would ask you for image dimensions before starting work on a new document, framed our early approach to web design.
We need to be careful we don't make similar mistakes when building tools to construct design systems; small choices may have larger impacts than we might imagine.
Consistency has come up a few times today, but what do we mean when we say this?
While people with minimalist sensibilities like myself can enjoy the design of Brasilia from a distance, for residents, it's seen as a somewhat sterile and inhumane place to live. Many tend to leave the city at weekend for the more vibrant and lively cities of Rio and Sao Paulo.
Modernist approaches espouse rationalism and formality, yet humans tend to be attracted to things that are slightly off-balance, not symmetrical.
Is the desire to achieve rigid conformity ill-placed?
Design systems are advocated in part because they encourage consistency, both in terms of code and visual appearance.
If everyone is looking to the same sources of inspiration, relying on the same frameworks, is it any wonder we're at the point where websites are becoming sterile imitations of each other?
Are we starting to confuse consistency with coherence – with conformance even?
Chris Pearce wrote about systematic ways of approaching vertical space between components. It's a really great article, and it's quite detailed, outlining three different approaches to managing space in a componentised system. All have there have their drawbacks, and all introduce a degree of complexity.
But as I read this, I couldn't help thinking this might be an example of taking things too far. Is complexity the price we need to pay to achieve consistency?
What struck me about the particular example Chris cited however – this profile block – was that such complexity can be avoided if the right questions are asked.
There is often a dance between developer and designer, in which the developer is eager to replicate the work of the designer, taking their work as gospel.
If emphasis is placed on simply replicating how something looks, then the opportunity to understand any of the reasoning behind it is lost. Yet if questioning is less focused on what something looks like, but why, the designer may provide a reasoning, and that can be built into the system.
I think this is the most fruitful type designer/developer collaboration; questioning each others assumptions and decisions, both sharing responsibility for the final result.
Consistency helps interfaces be predictable and understandable. Yet much of this can come from design fundamentals – colour, hierarchy, layout – and other aspects, like well written copy.
I've lost track of the number of times in user testing, where I've presented a series of screens for which I'm painfully aware numerous visual discrepancies exist, and yet users have paid no attention, so focused are they on the task in hand.
Returning to the example of Lego, the consistency lies in the stubs and tubes, as well as a limited palette of brick colours, and a set of standardised measurements which all bricks must adhere to. Beyond that, anything goes.
Finally, I want to talk about when systems fail us.
With local authorities facing housing shortages after the Second World War, many of Le Corbusier's ideas caught the imagination of town planners. They looked to high-density building types, be they tower blocks, or streets in the sky; sprawling estates in which homes could be accessed via raised decks.
The motivation behind these building projects was well intentioned; modern buildings would be a drastic improvement over the squalid slums they replaced.
The need to be build these new estates quickly, efficiently and cheaply, saw engineers look to modular building systems. One such technique, the Large Panel System, involved casting large concrete prefabricated sections and bolting them together on site.
This was construction method used at Ronan Point.
On 16 May 1968, an entire corner of this building collapsed in on itself, after a resident lit a match to light her stove for a cup of tea. This sparked a gas explosion that blew out the load-bearing walls which supported the four flats above. As these collapsed, so did the floors below, leaving 4 people dead and 17 injured.
The Ronan Point disaster has echoes of the more recent tragedy at Grenfell Tower. Both events were the result of a failure within the design of a particular component, or series of components, be that weak joints between prefabricated panels, or the combustibility of the materials used in cladding.
To understand why those components were chosen in the first place, you need to understand the culture in which those decisions were made. If a culture priorities speed, cost and appearance, over quality, value and suitability, then we need to be mindful of the middle-to-long term effects these decisions may have.
While the components and systems we build may not lead to physical harm, we know all too well that digital products are capable of causing mental harm and distress.
Thanks to projects like Dark Patterns, which document how interfaces deliberately trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do, we have a pretty good idea what user-hostile design looks like.
Newer initiatives are raising awareness of the dangers of building products that constantly require our attention. Time Well Spent asks designers to think about how we might rethink our products and the ways we measure success, to empower users rather than continually exploit them.
There is an assumption that by breaking systems down in to smaller pieces, we can make them more maintainable, robust and fault tolerant. I'm not sure that's entirely true.
Just ask anyone that had the left-pad module as an npm dependancy in their project recently.
At CSS Day a few weeks ago, Stephan Hay talked about how CSS can be used for evil. In his presentation, he noted that when systems become more complex, the number of possible weaknesses increase, yet become less apparent.
The more I work with design systems – and listen to others talk about them – the more I realise design, certainly in a visual sense, is a relatively minor concern. More often, the system is the primary aspect. This introduces questions about process and organisation, about interactions between individuals and teams, about accountability and best practices.
Design systems are an attempt to add a layer of logic and reasoning over a series decisions made by complex, irrational, emotional human beings. As such, they are subject to individual perspectives, biases, and aspirations.
How does the culture in which they are made effect the resulting design?
How do you advocate for user agency in a culture that permits manipulating peoples emotions without their consent?
How do you approach the design of a search result component within organisation that has a habit of abusing its near-monopoly position to distort markets in its favour?
How do you craft tone-of-voice guidelines, in an company that also produces guidance on how to refer to employees such that their rights can be undermined?
Ethan Marcotte:
Every decision I make is shaped by my biases; every decision I make is capable of harm. It's so, so easy to forget this: to focus on the layout challenge in front of me, to fulfil the client's latest request, or to meet a business goal. When I do these things, I occasionally forget to ask who'll be impacted by my work.
Style guides mandate the right way to use a logo for example, and give strict guidance about sizing and presentation.
Components can be designed in such a way that only certain variations are possible.
What if design systems, beyond aesthetic and code concerns, also took it upon themselves to provide guidance about how to craft interfaces that treat users with respect? What if they even made it harder to create such interfaces?
I'll leave you with this final question: who does your design system serve?
Is it ultimately an inward looking tool created in service of organisational interests? Where focus is drawn down to the parts at the expense of the whole? Is it just the latest shinny thing to play around with to distract from bigger, uglier problems?
Or does your design system encourage you to look outwards. A tool concerned not only with aesthetics, but ethics; the invisible yet inevitable choices we make everyday that effect the lives of those occupying the spaces we create?
The buck, stops here.


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Perigonia ilus est une espèce d'insectes lépidoptères (papillons) appartenant à la famille des Sphingidae, à la sous-famille des Macroglossinae et au genre Perigonia.

Description
 L'imago
L'envergure varie de 54 à 58 mm. L'espèce est semblable à Perigonia lusca lusca, mais peut être distingué par la zone jaune du bord anal de la face ventrale de l'aile postérieure.

 La chenille
Elles sont vertes avec une corne de queue jaune et une bande bleu foncé dans le dos.

Biologie
 Il y a plusieurs générations par an, les adultes volent toute l'année.
 Les chenilles se nourrissent sur Calycophyllum candidissimum, Guettarda macrosperma, et sur Ilex paraguariensis.

Répartition et habitat
 Répartition
  L'espèce est connue en Honduras, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombie, Venezuela, Équateur, Pérou, Bolivie, Argentine, Paraguay, Brésil et Uruguay.

Systématique
 L'espèce Perigonia ilus a été décrite par l'entomologiste français Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval en 1870
 Les localités type sont le Honduras et le Mexique.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Lépidoptère (nom scientifique)
Sphingidae

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Q: The sum of power-law-distributed random variables. Let $X_i$ is power-law-distributed random variable $f(x)=C_0x^{-k}$ where  $1<k_i\le3$. What is the exponent $k$ of the variable
$$
X=\sum_{i=1}^N X_i \  ?
$$
My doubt come from the fact that $X$ as a sum of i.i.d has to tend to a $\alpha$-stable distribution.
The generic exponent $\alpha$ of a generic $\alpha$-stable distribution can lay only in the range $(0,2]$, that imply $1<k\le 3$. But if we try to use the rule of Fourier transform for the sum of i.i.d. random variables (namely the convolution is the product of the Fourier transforms) as power law we can get an arbitrary big exponent $k$ (isn't it?). So at some point my reasoning is wrong. I guess that the mistake is in the convolution of the power law distributions.

A: Assume for simplicity that $\bar c_i/x^{k_i-1}\leqslant\mathrm P(X_i\geqslant x)\leqslant c_i/x^{k_i-1}$ when $x\to\infty$ and that each random variable $X_i$ is almost surely nonnegative. Then, for every $1\leqslant j\leqslant N$,
$$
[X_j\geqslant x]\subseteq[X\geqslant x]\subseteq\bigcup_{i=1}^N[X_i\geqslant x/N].
$$
This implies that
$$
\max\limits_{i=1}^N\mathrm P(X_i\geqslant x)\leqslant\mathrm P(X\geqslant x)\leqslant\sum_{i=1}^N\mathrm P(X_i\geqslant x/N),
$$
hence $X$ has exponent $k=\min\limits_{i=1}^Nk_i$ in the sense that, when $x\to+\infty$,
$$
\bar C_N/x^{k-1}\leqslant\mathrm P(X\geqslant x)\leqslant C_N/x^{k-1}.
$$
The result you mention about $\alpha$-stable distribution concerns the regime where $N\to\infty$ and one rescales $X$, hence the constants $C_N$ and $\bar C_N$ come into play and modify the exponent $k$.

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Waterloo Road role for Angus Deayton
December 12, 2012 Broadcasting, Soapworld ATV Today
TV presenter and actor Angus Deayton has been given a role in the next series of school drama Waterloo Road the BBC have revealed.
Deayton is best known for his 12-year role as quiz master on satirical series Have I Got News For You, which he was 'sacked' from ten years ago after revelations about his private life.
Previous acting roles included a long running part in BBC One sitcom One Foot In The Grave where he played the neighbour to Richard Wilson's miserable Victor Meldrew. Other comedy parts include playing a newsreader and presenter on BBC Two's spoof of Sky Television in KYTV, a regular performer and presenter on telethon Comic Relief and more recently in dark comedy Nighty Night.
Deayton is to play teacher George Windsor who the beeb say has been described as 'some one who works to live, is sanguine, sardonic and deeply selfish'.
Waterloo Road is currently recording for its eight series, the second to be produced by the BBC in Scotland after the show relocated from the North West earlier this year.
Angus will be seen for the first time in episode 27 of series eight.
Waterloo Road returns to BBC One next year.
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KYTV
One Foot In The Grave
Whedon reacts to Dollhouse Hiatus
BBC Press Release on new legal drama
Elimination twist for Dancing with the Stars
Roxanne Pallett joins Waterloo Road
Lost In Austen for the Big Screen
Sky Atlantic's Broadwalk Empire return date released


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Palantir Protests: I.C.E's presence in Palo Alto
Michaela Seah
Although it is not unusual to see a crowd of people in downtown Palo Alto on a Friday, on Aug. 30, it was clear that the crowd did not come for a cup of coffee.
Chants like "Palantir, you can't hide! We charge you with genocide!" roared through the crowd as the protesters marched. With people blasting out notes on their trumpets and banging out rhythms on drums, the noise was reminiscent of a parade.
But instead of a cheering audience, pedestrians worriedly eyed the buckets of red paint carried by the protesters. Rather than floats, police cars tailed the procession and two large moving trucks were stationed right in front of where the protest centered, making sure no one walking on the street could see the protest. This was the third week of protests against software company Palantir's contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more widely known as ICE.
Palantir is a Palo Alto based software company that over the past years has become a go-to provider for multiple government agencies. In addition to ICE, Palantir also works with the Department of Defence and the United States Intelligence Community.
According to a report by Latinx political grassroots organization Mijente, Palantir has a total of $1.4 billion in government contracts. Palantir's most recently renewed contract, which would ensure the continuation of its partnership with ICE for another three years, is worth $49 million.
Reports of children being separated from their families and being locked in cages at ICE detention centers have caused a lot of tension. Activist groups nationwide are on the streets and at detention centers themselves protesting ICE. One such organization, the Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps, is the main organizer for the weekly protests at Palantir. The CCCC's membership consists of multiple different left-leaning groups, all coming together to fight for one common cause: the immediate and complete end of the migrant detention centers. The CCCC believes that Palantir plays a key role in the arrest of undocumented immigrants.
Photo by Anya Lassila
"Palantir is creating software and technologies that ICE is actively using to track and detain migrants," Dayton Andrews, CCCC and Revolutionary United Front activist said. "We feel that it's a very important avenue to expose the relationship between the federal government and large tech companies."
Under the contract, Palantir would continue to provide ICE with data software which is used to find the workplaces, phone numbers, immigration history and even family members of undocumented immigrants, according to the Mijente report. This information is then used to plan raids where ICE officials arrest multiple illegal immigrants, sometimes hundreds at a time.
"We started out with a seven to eight week campaign protesting for them to not renew their contract with ICE. … [Palantir's] mass doxxing of migrants makes it easier for ICE to terrorize and deport migrants. … We stand against it. We are disgusted with their actions." Michelle Schudel, member of the CCCC and the Party for Socialism and Liberation said. "We demand that Palantir does not renew their second ICE contract this November and that their CEOs will be taken off the board."
To achieve this goal, the CCCC hopes to catch Palantir's attention through picketing.
"Our strength and ability can go on the offensive, against these institutions, against these companies, against these policies. It can only be strengthened by mobilizing more and more people."
-Dayton Andrews CCCC Activist
"A lot of stuff we do with Palantir is, we believe there's a basis to mobilizing enough people so that we can ultimately begin systematically disrupting the work that they do," Andrews said. "Our strength and ability can go on the offensive, against these institutions, against these companies, against these policies. It can only be strengthened by mobilizing more and more people."
Despite public outcry, Palantir refuses to budge. Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, even defended the company's actions this September in a guest column he wrote for the Washington Post. "What is worrisome is that some Silicon Valley companies are taking the power to decide these issues away from elected officials and judges and giving it to themselves — a deeply unrepresentative group of executives living in an elite bubble in a corner of the country. … I don't believe I should have that authority," Kard said.
The CCCC continues to rally in front of the Palo Alto headquarters every Friday in hopes of creating change. However, the protest against Palantir is not just limited to the streets. Around 200 Palantir workers themselves confronted Karp in August in a signed letter about the issue, according to the Washington Post. Also, students from universities such as Stanford and MIT have pledged to not work for Palantir unless they cut off their relationship with ICE, as reported by Business Insider.
Despite this resistance from Palantir employees, Andrews says it is not enough to consider their efforts successful. "Our successful campaign would be a way to get thousands of organizers and activists in just this area alone, when there are millions and millions of people nationally who can and should be working in solidarity with migrants in this country."
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IBM announces IBM Think 2018.
We'll be at booth #711. To find out more info or to set up a time to meet with us while we're there, contact us!
This marks the first of a new type of conference that combines a number of their former conferences including Amplify, Partner World, Connect, Edge, and InterConnect. The show promises to engage attendees to inspire, educate and innovate.
Connect with experts to learn about AI, Cloud, data, security and systems and discover what's possible.
Our team will be on hand to answer all of your questions or concerns about the newly released IBM WebSphere Commerce V9 feature functions and migration paths.
More info including booth number coming soon!


The designer: New York-based Taylor, who specializes in personality-rich prints, is known for doing a great floral dress.   This season it's about: Inspired by Holland's tulip festival, a new focus on color spotlights brushstroke stripes and eyelet on free flowing silhouettes that include handkerchief and asymmetric hemlines. The season's hero dress? We love the ankle-grazing red and white floral.


A few months ago, a new Neptunia game called Hyperdimension Action Neptunia U was announced in Dengeki Playstation Magazine in Japan. The details given at that time were that it was an action spin-off of the original series and we could expect it in Japan on the 28th of August 2014 for PS Vita.
The video below is from the Youtube of the game's developers Compile Heart. According to the videos title, it is the Opening Video for the game. The video showcases the characters and gives a small taste of what we can expect from the game.


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Prairie People: New hires and promotions for the week ending March 25, 2022
Individuals profiled this week include those from Apex Engineering Group, Essentia Health, Houston Engineering, Marine Innovations, and Noridian Healthcare Solutions.
By Prairie Business
As they become available, Prairie Business highlights the region's new hires, promotions, and employee achievements. This week's spotlight includes the following:
Apex Engineering Group hires graduate water engineer
DICKINSON, N.D. • Tanner Sanders recently joined Apex Engineering Group as a graduate engineer in Dickinson.
Tanner Sanders
Image: Courtesy of Apex Engineering Group
Sanders graduated from UND with a bachelor's in geological engineering. He has prior engineering consulting and construction material testing experience with Braun Intertec.
At Apex, Sanders works with the design and construction of water and municipal projects in western North Dakota.
Essentia Health-Fargo welcomes neurology specialist
FARGO, N.D. • Essentia Health-Fargo welcomes Tiffany Eslinger, an advanced practice registered nurse and certified nurse practitioner specializing in neurology.
Tiffany Eslinger
Image: Courtesy of Essentia Health
Eslinger said Essentia was the first place she worked out of nursing school and it has been home ever since. She received her education from Graceland University in Independence, Missouri.
She said she welcomes the opportunity to get to know and develop a connection with her patients, take on any challenge, and to be alongside them every step of the way.
Houston Engineering hires administrative assistant for its Minot office
MINOT, N.D. • Tessa Grabow recently joined Houston Engineering Inc.'s Minot team as an administrative assistant.
Tessa Grabow
Image: Courtesy of Houston Engineering
Grabow will be the friendly face greeting clients, leading the daily operation of administrative duties, coordinating social events for the Minot team, and assisting technical staff with preparing reports and other client deliverables locally and cross-office, as needed.
A native of Minot, Grabow earned a general education degree from Minot State University. She previously worked as an administrative assistant for the forestry department at the Minot Park District, which has helped her hone her skills to support smooth day-to-day operations.
Marine Innovations founder awarded Wisconsin elevator contractor license
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Mike Botzet
Image: Courtesy of Marine Innovations
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Starting in 1990, Botzet operated Marine Innovations as a part-time, seasonal business. It became his full-time career in 1997, and Marine Innovations has grown to serve clients with 15 dealer and direct sales across the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean and a total sales of more than 1,000 units.
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Smitha Ballyamanda
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Katie Shequen
Shequen will lead all clinical services management and staff. Her role supports the expansion of clinical services to the government and private enterprise and ensures the division is offering the best possible service, while meeting contract expectations and remaining in budget.
Shequen joined Noridian in 2010 as a clinical reviewer in the DME Jurisdiction D contract. Since then, she has held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility thanks to her leadership, planning and relationship building. She will execute her position from her home near Waubun, Minnesota, where she lives with her family.
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Q: PHP OOP + MVC some explanation needed I'm a rookie with MVC and OOP and I'm trying to learn it with tutorials and by trying some stuff out myself. I've got this code:
Model.class.php:
class Model {
    public $string;

    // Add a value to the instance variable $string when object of this class is instantiated
    public function __construct(){
        $this->string = "MVC + PHP = Awesome!";
    }
}

Controller.class.php:
class Controller {
    private $model;

    // For now, the Controller doesn't do anything, because no controlling features have been implemented yet
    public function __construct($model) {
        $this->model = $model;
    }
}

My View.class.php:
class View {
    private $model;
    private $controller;
    private $account;

    public function __construct($controller,$model) {
        $this->controller = $controller;
        $this->model = $model;
        $this->account = $account;
    }

    // Return the value of the $string variable
    public function output(){
        return $this->model->string;
    }
}

This is my index.php where a simple string is echoed, as a result of the code above:
$model = new Model();
$controller = new Controller($model);
$view = new View($controller, $model);
$account = new Account();

// Execute the output() function from the View class to output the text
echo $view->output();

I've created the account class myself and it should output 'Yoo' instead of 'PHP + MVC = Awesome!' which looks like this:
class Account extends Model {
    // Add a value to the instance variable $string when object of this class is instantiated
    public function __construct(){
        $this->string = "Yoo";
    }
}

When I do return $this->model->string; it correctly outputs PHP + MVC = Awesome!. But when I do return $this->account->string, it outputs nothing. No errors or anything. Why isn't this working?

A: This answer is just a basic example of MVC

How a complex MVC framework functions
In very big lines
In fact your index file should only run an Application class or something that will route the request to the good controller and method. But, well, if you want to take a start, you don't need to make something very complex.

Your error
(In my opinion)
Here your main error is thinking that it's your index file that call model, then pass it to controller which you will pass to view. In MVC the controller should be able to do all of this himself, once called.

How it works
Still in big lines
Index file instantiate a controller, then call a method of this controller. The controller call the model, that gather data and send it back to controller, which will send this data to the good view (still called by controller), then the view will display the result.

Example
index.php
<?php
// i have only one controller, with only one action, so i call it.
// i havnt autoloader so i do all requires here

require_once 'MyController.php';
require_once 'MyModel.php';
require_once 'MyView.php';

$Controller = new MyController();
$Controller->exampleAction();

MyController.php
<?php
class MyController
{
    public function exampleAction()
    {
        $model = new MyModel();
        $view = new MyView();
        $view->send($model->data());
    }
}

MyModel.php
<?php
class MyModel
{
    public function data()
    {
        return 'Some data from the model';
    }
}

MyView.php
<?php
class MyView
{
    public function send($data)
    {
        echo $data;
    }
}

Go further
By the way, the controller can have a dedicated model, then you can load it in his constructor
MyController.php
<?php
class MyController
{
    protected $Model;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->Model = new MyModel();
    }
    public function exampleAction()
    {
        $view = new MyView();
        $view->send($this->Model->data());
    }
}

And same for view.

Hope this answer helped you to understand how MVC works ^^


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Red Bank Vice Mayor Terry Pope dies at 65
June 25th, 2019 by Emily Crisman	in Breaking News
Red Bank Vice Mayor Terry Pope / Photo from the city of Red Bank website
Red Bank Vice Mayor Terry Pope / Photo...
Photo by Contributed Photo /Times Free Press.
The Red Bank community is mourning after the sudden death of Vice Mayor Terry Pope, who suffered a massive heart attack Saturday, June 22, at his home.
He was 65.
"None of us were prepared for this," said former Red Bank Mayor John Roberts. "Terry was a great man, a great friend, great for the community and a great neighbor."
A member of the city commission since November 2014, Pope was named vice mayor at the start of his second term last November. He previously served on the Red Bank Planning Commission for two years, and as president of the Red Bank community pool advisory board for many years.
Pope was a professional trumpet player who played lead trumpet for Chattanooga's Monday Night Jazz Band for many years as well as for the MidSouth Symphonic Band.
He was involved with many local band programs, serving as band director at North Sand Mountain and Marion County high schools, interim band director at Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe High School, assistant director and trumpet instructor for the Georgia All Star Band, and jazz band director at Chattanooga State.
The former manager and sales representative for Giant Steps Music Inc. was operating his own instrument rental business, Great Southern Instrument Rental and Sales, at the time of his death.
"He was the best lead trumpet player in the Chattanooga area," said Jim Souders, Pope's former band director at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School. "He was highly respected and highly thought of."
Roberts and current Mayor Eddie Pierce both remembered Pope's strong work ethic and contributions to the Red Bank community.
"He had a quite a bit going on," said Pierce, adding that Pope was very active in Red Bank's summer swim program and was working with his church, Red Bank United Methodist, to start a food pantry in Red Bank.
"If you knew Terry Pope, he was always working and making sure things got done," said Roberts. "It's hard to replace Terry Pope."
Contact Emily Crisman at ecrisman@timesfreepress.com.