This paper described how a web-based learning environment called Theme-based Inquiry Network Studio (abbreviated as TINS) together with the school administrators' shared leadership initiated and promoted the rigorous teacher professional development in a rural elementary school in eastern part of Taiwan. As a result, all teachers in the case school were capable of integrating TINS in teaching and enhanced their students' e-learning regularly. The teachers in the case school continued their professional development in the e-teacher competition held by the local county in 2008 and won the first, third and fourth prizes out of 40 teams.
Huang, Y.F., Lin, M.J. & Lin, C.D. (2010). The rigorous teacher professional development initiated and promoted by applying TINS and shared leadership in a rural elementary school in Taiwan. In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2010--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2980-2987). San Diego, CA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 23, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/33822/.
Bradford, D.L., & Cohen, A.R. (1998). Power up: Transforming organization through shared leadership. New York: John Wiley& Amp; Sons.
Clift, R.R.T., & Veal, M.L. (1995). Collaborative leadership and shared decision making: teachers, principals, and university professors, New York: Teachers College.
Frost, D., & Durrant, J. (2003). Teacher leadership: Rationale, strategy and impact School Leadership& Management, 23(2), 173-186.


I agree with the aunt. Stay far far away from the palace. Even if you fell in love with a prince, more so if it's the crown prince, and you have the chance to marry him, save yourself, it's better to be heartbroken than to endure a lifetime of misery, that's if you'll even live that long. If you're not favored by the emperor, you'll be trampled upon by the other concubines, and when you're favored, you'll become the target of heinous schemes. When you have a child or children, they to will not live in peace. It's such a horrible place to live in.
I don't like the dad. He was happy that his daughter has "finally" grew some bones and turned smart. His excuse for neglecting her all this time is she need to learn to get up by herself, but the thing is his real daughter died, it's someone else's soul is in there right now. Even if he wanted his daughter to learn, it's not an excuse to let her experienced the abuse till she died. The only reason he can smile now is because he didn't know his real daughter is dead already. It pissed me off. If he didn't care for his concubines, why there's a daughter from her? He cares for lust only? Such an irresponsible father. I wish he knew that her daughter is gone. Pity the daughter's soul.
Gaby ^^: i agree so much with youuuu!!
Liu Li la concerned about her niece. She does know perfectly how the palace is full of snakes and she wants to protect her niece from it.
AsukaHana122: @Maddery That's so true 😂 But it's the empress who has the last word. Remember when the aunt wanted to punish the stupid 3 rd Prince for hurting our girl, she couldn't go far. The empress stopped her directly🙄. I don't think she will give up easly on our FL. Our FL is also so dense when she is dense with Lord Rong 😭😭😭 If only she could see him as an ally or more (fiance 😎) for her revenge 😒. I think they will end together but it would take some time.
Maddery: That won't happened since her aunt already said that she doesn't want her to enter the harem like her. Our ML is lord Rong and not the 3rd prince after all. But the jerk 3rd prince can end up with that half-sister for all I care; they are suited for each other anyway.
with everything the third Prince is getting in trouble with he wouldn't have any power over anything. So it wouldn't matter is she married him actually it might actually demote her and her mother even more. So go ahead marry the guy your evil ways are prefect for each other and noone will still not care about you.
A few court ladies had more interesting lives because they had talents and pursuits like writing, scholarship, painting, botany, composing, etc. Many of these women in this story, however, have the classic kind of lifestyle for people in their position: maintain their beauty, scheme, plot, gossip and try to please the ruler.
The original Lui Li was not only weak, I'm guessing she was also a dumbo since she never realized that there are actually people supporting her... but transmigrated her is right, in ancient China, the men are not expected to get involve in women's cat fight, while women back then are supposed to be really scheming and evil.
👏👏👏👏 bow!!! I really feel bad for the little boy, but he is way to disrespectful. He's a bratty young master... Am I the only one who is enjoying the idea that people are calling her "crazy"??? I'd rather people call her crazy and be scared of her than call her lame and coward. Her craziness adds interest to the story.
Autgor it's about time you introduce some ROMANCE. Tell you the truth the comic has become boring.. NO OFFENSE but it's been 50+ chapters and there is no Romance between the MC's.. We want romanceeeee, enough with this mellow drama..
Rose 🌹 Empress: @Ethereal_Iris Oooo i see btw thankx for the info..
my soul went to outerspace!
Am I the only one who think she is abusing people with her power/status? it's understandable for her to be much strict than the previous body owner did for revenge but I think it's too much that she takes death lightly.
LethalBabe: Bruh🤦🏽♀ complain if the female leader is too weak and complain if the female leader is too strong, like just read and don't say anything, you don't like how the plot is going just stop reading it, I bet none of the readers would be capable of drawing and doing all these things the writers do, there might be a few that can but just stop the complain and enjoy it.
Just because you crawled out from under a rock, you spineless invertebrate, do you really think no further than picking up the biggest rock your clammy hands can hold with intent to bash the girl who bested you? Each panel saw your IQ dropping sharply with you making no effort to arrest its descent. Pitiful.
lemurloki: Feel free to use it on any such guys who slither across your path.


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E-Mails Were Released Of ASU Hoops Coach Bob Hurley Accusing ASU's AD Not Caring That A Booster Reportedly Sexually Harassed Hurley's Wife
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[Yahoo] - In an email sent from Arizona State basketball coach Bobby Hurley to ASU athletic director Ray Anderson in December, Hurley alleges that Anderson minimized the harassment allegations that three wives of ASU staff members brought forth against a prominent booster.
The other potential lawsuit tied to the allegations against Wear comes from former ASU assistant athletic director David Cohen. He filed a notice of claim for $1.5 million that says he was fired in retaliation for insisting Anderson and ASU officials investigate the claims against Wear. Arizona State admitted in a statement in February that the allegations "could have been resolved in a quicker timeframe."
Hurley goes on to accuse Anderson of coming up with a numeric scale in which he judged the harassment claims by the three women, one of whom is Hurley's wife, Leslie. Hurley asks Anderson how he'd feel if his wife and daughter were in a similar situation. "Maybe in your words, the sexual assault committed by (redacted) was a 2 or a 3, but if this had happened to Buffie or Kimmy, would it still be a level 2 or 3?" Hurley wrote in the email. He added: "You have chosen to create your own numeric scale on what sexual assault mean(s) which is disturbing."
Well holy shit this is some serious allegations and accusations from Bobby Hurley. It's worth noting that his wife is one of the three women accusing Bart Wear of sexual harassment. This back and forth has been going on for some time too. There was a story back in December about a booster sexually harassing women associated with Arizona State, one of which again being Bobby Hurley's wife. But this? There was no idea about how the e-mails were exchanged or anything like that.
Arizona State has to fire Ray Anderson though. Look at that e-mail. How in 2020 can you respond like that? Going directly to lawyers, saying you're only going to talk about the men's basketball program. You simply can't respond that way no matter what you know/or don't know. It's baffling that someone this high up in college athletics can be that dumb when it comes to a response.
To completely speculate about Hurley's job here though, it makes me wonder how quick he tries to move on from ASU or if ASU tries to move on from him after this coming year. ASU has a pretty loaded roster, the best roster he's had, highlighted by five-star Joshua Christopher. But let's say Anderson doesn't get fired. There's no way him and Hurley can keep working together. If I'm Hurley, I want to fucking punch him in the face for that response when it comes to a man who allegedly sexually harassed my wife.
Either way, just a horrible situation going on out at Arizona State. I'll be curious to see where they go from here in what's really now turned into Anderson vs Hurley in a way too.
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The future of work from CES: The headquarters at home
WFH 'until June 2021,' says Apple CEO Tim Cook
How IT must adapt to the emerging hybrid workplace
Windows Into The Future
By Rob Enderle, Contributor, Computerworld |
CES to showcase how to get the most from WFH
This year's Consumer Electronics Show will offer content focused on the new work-from-home normal, what works and where we're going.
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The 2021 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which runs Jan. 11-14, will be interesting this year both as a showcase for how large-scale tech conferences are done and for the content focused on the new work-from-home normal. Some of the sessions next week could be useful for those either building products for this pandemic present or working to complete their shift to to it.
Here are a few of the sessions that I'm looking to attend.
The future of work in 2021: Work transformed
This session is likely to showcase what's already changed and is working and what lessons have been learned. It should highlight the gaps in current offerings to help companies plan for an extended WFH world. This approach is particularly timely as companies come to believe that remote work is less transitory and more permanent.
The intersection of HR and tech
The companies I work with who've been doing the best during COVID-19 outbreak are rethinking HR and see it as less about compliance and more of what it once was — an employee advocate and engagement service. Problems are surrounding work/life balance, depression, concerns about advancement and job security, and managers who just weren't trained or ready for managing between homes. This session will feature Jacki Black of the Consumer Technology Association and Marc Goldberg from the Society for Human Resource Management.
The rapidly changing cyberterrain of an interconnected world
Security has become a massive problem, with hostile and even friendly states developing and deploying malware and focused attacks on newly vulnerable executives and employees working from home. This session has Hank Thomas from Strategic Ventures and Steve Grobman from McAfee. Granted, you may not sleep more soundly after this session, but you'll know more about what is keeping you awake.
From school to work
I'm interested to see if anyone shows up, given David Alexander and Catherine Cross are presenting it out of the Department of Homeland Security. But the topic is important because it will address how communities can better mitigate risks associated with natural and human disasters like the pandemic. At the very least, it should provide insight into how the US government is thinking about the related problems.
The classroom of the future
The speakers for this session are Betsy Corcoran from Edsurge, Dan Avida Engageli, and Sharon Chdradath Singh of the Minerva Project; they will focus on what has been working in education. The focus should apply to traditional schools and company-driven courses designed to expand or improve employees' skills. We are clearly in a period of rapid change, and every company will need to retrain and update employees with new or improved skills. Learning the working best practices could help those looking to transition their company to a remote future.
The next big thing: home as the new HQ
Jennifer Kent, from Parks Associates joins my old friend Brian Cooley from CNET and Paul Lee from Deloitte LLP for this session, which focuses on homes becoming the center of work. I still think we are on the path to building Arcologies and wonder whether these folks will agree. They'll talk about the technologies that can enhance working experiences for those who have shifted from offices to homes. Homes have become where we work, learn, shop, are entertained, and even go to the gym.
The future reimagined
Led by Danial Roth from LinkedIn, Michael Miebach from Mastercard, and Julie Sweet from Accenture, this session will look ahead 10 years and talk about the advances that will solve our most difficult global challenges. (I'm looking forward to this session because it gives me hope we'll still be around in 10 years.)
As we move into 2021 and realize that we'll be working from home for some time, CES couldn't be more timely. CES is the first show of the year that will talk about what we've learned and what's coming to address this new normal. While there are some things CES could do to use the technology it showcases to make the show better, I'm looking forward to it.
I'll report back next week and share what I've learned. Until then, stay safe and well.
Rob Enderle is president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm. With over 25 years' experience emerging technologies he has provided regional and global companies with guidance.


Most of us are familiar with the concept – damned if we do, damned if we don't. Often we find ourselves in situations where there is no easy way out. Rarely however does it relate to our immediate family and the ripple effect that will be caused no matter what decision we make.
In a work setting we are often we are put in a position where there is no easy choice. Yet making that tough decision is relatively easy as we are not emotionally attached to the outcome. It will be a matter of weighing up the pro's and the con's and then looking at what will give us the best return for our dollar, for our time, what will cause least disruption and what will ultimately be best for our business/work. The decision process is the same in a personal setting yet the decision is so much harder.
Why is it that when we are asked to make a decision in our personal life which we have no problem doing on a day to day basis for our work we can't? Why do we all of a sudden freeze and then start to question our ability to make the decision and if the decision we make is the right one?
The answer is simple isn't it?
Isn't the fact that we love, we care and we are responsible for our decisions in our personal life mean that our ability to think rationally, logically and devoid of emotion will impact our ability.
The fact of the matter is that in a business/work setting our choices may not be easy (but for the most part we have the ability to undo them or change direction in a moments notice). On a personal level, once we have made a decision and verbalised it it is hard to go back. Not only this but the consequences that the decision can have is long lasting. Almost like throwing a stone into a lake, the ripple it causes will depend on the size of the stone – asking for a separation may be like throwing a boulder into a lake for some of you or a small pebble for others.
The ripple will be different for us all.
It is because we understand this that our ability to make these decisions can be hard. It doesn't mean you are becoming weak. It doesn't mean you are losing your confidence. It means that you are emotionally intelligent, aware not only of yourself and the role you play but that of others as well. This is not something to be embarrassed about. It is something to acknowledge and know that when you do find the strength to make a decision – whatever it may be – that you have done so considering all of your options and being open to the consequences that you will face.
To support you each step of the way through your separation, divorce and beyond.


NOTE: This is a lightly edited version of a handout prepared by Elm music teacher and band director Mr. Kyle Rhoades. The original version can be found here on Mr. Rhoades' Elm Middle School Band website.
Practicing a musical instrument is the most important thing students can do to improve as players. Parents who encourage organized, regular practice sessions support this improvement exponentially. The more you, as parents, understand about quality practice, the better you can support your child.
Provided they do it regularly (daily, if possible), most students can benefit nicely from about 15 minutes of well-organized practice for every two years of experience. It's the quality — not the quantity — of the practice sessions that matters most.
Consistency is key. It's better to play for 15 minutes every day than it is to practice an hour on one day and skip the rest of the week.
Practicing doesn't have to occur in long sessions. In fact, many professional players break their practice time down into half-hour or one-hour sessions.
When players are tired, having trouble concentrating, or are fatigued, they should stop. It's no longer worth it. They should come back in an hour or two when they're not tired anymore.
If their attention is wandering while practicing, they should take a short break. Students will achieve more of their desired results if they take necessary breaks than if they try to push through.
Additional tips for parents who want their children to get the most out of practice sessions can be found below.
Routine is valuable for young people. They should do things in the same order every time they practice. They should strive to practice at the same time, in the same place and for the same length of time on a regular basis.
This comes from students taking the time to look through their music and deciding that they will learn a specific section of a piece during one practice session. If they already know their piece, they can choose to improve one aspect of the music— articulation, accents, dynamics, etc. Goals help them to focus on the end result and give them something to aim for.
For some people this means a quiet room with absolutely no distractions, for others it's the garage, and for others it's the bathroom! There is no "perfect" setting in which to practice. Students should practice wherever they focus best. The more you can do to help your family organize an environment that is beneficial for practice (a well-lit space where your child can keep a music stand, music and instrument), the easier it will be for them to stay disciplined about it.
Scales are of vital importance, but many students find them boring and pointless. Please encourage your children to begin their practice sessions with them. They are the building blocks of good technique on every instrument — finger patterns that occur over and over again in all forms of music.
Once students really know their scales, playing other music gets easier. They should treat scales (and arpeggios) just like pieces: Don't just play them a couple of times, but break them down and work on the difficult bits over and over before putting them back together again.
Play warm-ups first, then scales and then etudes. Then get out the band music they need to work on, focusing on the section(s) they want to fix.
Encourage your child to break their music into small sections of specific groups of measures and practice those "chunks." Only very rarely should they play any piece all the way through. Instead, they should pick a short section and really work it out slowly and methodically. Remember, playing a piece all the way through and then putting the instrument away is not practice.
Too many people think that speed is the key, that practicing at a fast tempo will help them move faster and become a better musician. This is not true. Practicing slowly and accurately is much, much better than fast practice. If they play accurately at a slow tempo, speed can be added gradually and naturally. If they practice too quickly, they will trip up over the same things over and over again.
Make sure you let your children know that if they notice they are making mistakes, STOP and isolate the problem section. Have them play any problem sections extremely slowly until they are played correctly.
If rhythm is a problem, use a metronome. Tell them to put their instrument down and clap and count the rhythm. Then play the rhythm on their instrument with air and fingers only (no tone). Then, put it all together again, still slowly.
Don't allow them to practice mistakes — this is useless! Anything they do wrong more than once is a mistake, and they should stop and correct it immediately.
A metronome is a device that keeps a steady beat and can be set to specific speeds. It helps musicians maintain an even and accurate tempo while playing. It will force the student to play slowly or play quickly, but exactly in time. Tuners are electronic devices that check to see if the specific pitches on an instrument are correct and "in tune" — in other words, at the correct frequency.
Most wind instruments are actually made with a few notes out of tune, as a compromise so that the majority of the other notes are closer in tune. All students need to work on their individual intonation, because the better their individual intonation, the better the ensemble's intonation.
Whatever students play repeatedly, they will master. If there are consistent mistakes during practice, they will happen again during the performance! Slow it down, work it out and be successful!
Students who practice in a vacuum receive neither positive nor negative feedback. Ask your children to play for you — tell them what you liked, and what you think they can improve. Tell them what you learned from listening to them and watching them, even if you don't know much about music.
Some parents go so far as to ask their child to teach them how to play the instrument. There is no better check for knowledge than by having to pass that knowledge on to someone else. Most importantly, music is a performing art. Give your child the chance to perform for you regularly. It's a great bonding experience for both of you!


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Q: Return function as a field on django model I have a model which have a function to calculate the difference between two fields
Example:
Class MyModel(models.Model):
    fieldA = models.FloatField()
    fieldB = models.FloatField()

    def delta(self):
        return self.fieldA - self.fieldB

Id like to use this model in a GenericView. I can use the function delta as an extraContext but also id like to include the sum of all Delta results in the template, in this case I have to make an aggregate but again since delta is not a DB Field nor a Model Field I cant use it in an aggregate function.
How can accomplish this?

A: Did you try that?
Class MyModel(models.Model):
    fieldA = models.FloatField()
    fieldB = models.FloatField()

def __delta(self):
    return self.fieldA - self.fieldB

delta = property(__delta)

A: One way to do this is to create a Manager and defines a function with the raw SQL query. Create the model object attaching the new calculated field referencing to the model class with self.model
Class MyModel(models.Model):
    fieldA = models.FloatField()
    fieldB = models.FloatField()
    objects = MyModelManager() #Binds the manager to the model

Class MyModelManager(models.Manager):
    def ReturnDelta(self):
        from django.db import connection
        cursor = connection.cursor()
        cursor.execute = """SELECT fieldA, fieldB, fieldA-fieldB as delta
                            from MyModel_table"""
        result_list = []

        for row in cursor.fetchall():
            p = self.model(fieldA=row[0], fieldB[1]) #access the model associated w/ the manager
            p.delta = row[2] #adds the new field to the queryset
            result_list.append(p)
        return result_list

Almost a copy-paste from Django Documentation
Then we can use the manager function in the extra-context dictionary of the generic view. and do algebraic operations without hitting the database unnecessarily.
A better solution is create your own QuerySet class with a custom Manager. This allows to chain filters and return any computed value as a QuerySet attribute. Is taken almost directly from this snippet
class CustomManager(models.Manager):
    '''
       An general purpose manager which allows to filter a queryset
       and chain filters
       "Constructor": CustomManager(CustomQuerySetClass)
    '''

    def __init__(self, qs_class=models.query.QuerySet):
        super(CustomManager,self).__init__()
        self.queryset_class = qs_class

    def get_query_set(self):
        return self.queryset_class(self.model)

    def __getattr__(self, attr, *args):
        try:
            return getattr(self.__class__, attr, *args)
        except AttributeError:
            return getattr(self.get_query_set(), attr, *args)

class MyModelQuerySet(models.query.QuerySet):
    '''
       A very specific queryset designed to return a computed value (this
       time a sum of all rows values)
    '''
    def filter(self, *args, **kwargs):
        qs = super(MyModelQuerySet, self).filter(*args,**kwargs)
        sum=0
        for row in qs:
            sum += row.delta    #use a callback to prevent from caching
        setattr(qs, 'sum',sum)
        return qs

class MyModel(models.Model):
    objects = CustomManager()    #Binds the manager to the model
    fieldA = models.FloatField()
    fieldB = models.FloatField()
    def delta(self):
        return self.fieldA - self.fieldB

A: Class MyModel(models.Model):
    fieldA = models.FloatField()
    fieldB = models.FloatField()

    @property
    def delta(self):
        return self.fieldA - self.fieldB

Now, you can use delta as a attribute in admin panel or your DRF serializer or ...

A: For what you want just add a new method to the model and do the aggregation on the DB then just calculate the difference between the two sums. Like this:
class MyModel(models.Model):
    fielda = ...
    fieldb = ...
    def delta(self):
        return self.fielda-fieldb
    def aggregate_delta(self):
        return MyModel.objects.aggregate(Sum('fielda')) - MyModel.objects.aggregate(Sum('fieldb'))

A: How could this work? Aggregation is done in the database, but your calculation is obviously in Python.
You'll have to do the sum in Python as well:
aggregated_delta = sum([m.delta() for m in MyModel.objects.all()])

A: Ok, first your code should have the selfs, since you want to calculate the delta of each line.
def delta(self):
    return self.fieldA - self.fieldB

Regarding your question, it is not possible to aggregate from a django function. There are three ways of achieving what you want:

*

*Do the aggregation in Python. Downside: downloads all the data from the database.

*Bypass the Django ORM, and do the SQL query manually (this turns your code database-specific).

*Create another field in the database for the delta and update it on save (or with a trigger, if you want to be database-specific).

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package memory

import (
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)

type InMemoryRepository struct {
	m    sync.RWMutex
	data map[string][]byte
}

func NewInMemoryRepository() *InMemoryRepository {
	return &InMemoryRepository{
		data: make(map[string][]byte),
	}
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	if !ok {
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	return nil
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	i.m.Lock()
	defer i.m.Unlock()

	delete(i.data, prefix+key)
	return nil
}

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	i.m.RLock()
	defer i.m.RUnlock()

	allKeys := make([][]byte, len(i.data))

	for key := range i.data {
		if strings.Contains(key, prefix) {
			allKeys = append(allKeys, i.data[key])
		}
	}

	return allKeys, nil
}

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New York, N.Y., September 2022 – Lee M. Cohen, CPA, managing partner, and founder at LMC CPAs was recognized by Crain's New York Business as a Notable Leader in Accounting & Consulting in September, 2022.
Crain's Notable Series honors exceptional business professionals across multiple industries. Lee was selected amongst 64 distinguished New York professionals in accounting & consulting for his ability to master the business challenges facing clients and become their trusted advisor.
Cohen continues to lead the firm during a period of unprecedented growth and has introduced new practice areas to the firm, including its outsourced finance division, a mortgage consulting business and a division that bridges the gap between sponsors and investors.
In addition to his busy professional life, Cohen also contributes his talents and time to community and philanthropic activities. Cohen was this year's recipient of the Arthur J. Dixon Public Service Award from the New York State Society of CPA's. LMC CPAs is also proud to be named one of Crain's New York Business 100 Best Places to Work in NYC for 2022. Crain's New York Business designs this program annually in collaboration with the Best Companies Group, to award the 100 top places of employment in New York City.
Building a strong team culture and healthy work/life balance for its employees has always been important to the firm. The firm has recently implemented many innovative benefits, rewards and team appreciation events and is excited to have been recognized with this prestigious award.


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First steps to success guided by new partnership
23 Mar First steps to success guided by new partnership
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Leading lights of tech business start-ups gave a master class to ambitious students from integrated colleges in Northern Ireland when the IEF Carson Awards Programme teamed up with Ormeau Baths Belfast and Young Enterprise NI (YENI) in a unique partnership. The event was designed to enhance learning by taking the lesson out of the classroom. Around 60 pupils from Blackwater, Priory and Strangford Integrated Colleges gathered to benefit from the expertise of some of the brightest stars in the digital technology sector.
The day was planned to trigger learning by taking the lesson out of the classroom.
The master-class developed following conversations between two of Northern Ireland's leading entrepreneurs – Mark Dowds and Tony Carson. Mark Dowds is one of the co-founders of the Ormeau Baths and also Trov Inc, one of the world's fastest growing insurance technology companies. Tony, who is a founding member of the Baths, is an investor who also established the IEF Carson Awards Programme with his late father, comedian Frank Carson.
The day began with a talk by Peter Edgar of Ignite, which brings together inventors and investors to kick-start businesses.
The students from Priory, Blackwater and Strangford Integrated Colleges then enthusiastically undertook a creative challenge, devised by YENI, and worked in teams with the support of volunteers from a number of the companies based at Ormeau Baths.
Tony Carson said that he was glad to be supporting the masterclass:
"Having established and helped develop the Carson Awards scheme it's great to see this initiative inject creativity into business – and inject a bit of business sense into creative types! The creative industries sector is definitely a growth area and if we want to see Northern Ireland continue to punch above its weight in this regard it's vital to nurture young talent and encourage the aspirations of today's school students. I'm delighted to support this initiative and look forward to seeing these young people become part of Northern Ireland's success story."
Commenting from Ormeau Baths, Mark Dowds said:
"We exist to find and develop entrepreneurs who can shape the knowledge economy in NI. By partnering with Carson Awards and YENI we are excited to shape a programme tailored to those who don't take the normal path or career. We are looking for the young people who seem distracted or stare out the window on an average day. Some of the brightest are more interested in business than books. We would like to help them."
Paul Caskey of the IEF added
"Integrated education is pioneering and forward looking and it's great for us to work with these businesses to help demonstrate the transforming power of technology and the world of possibilities which awaits these students. We are very grateful to Mark and Tony, all the team at Ormeau Baths and Young Enterprise for organising the event and to Barclays Eagle Labs for providing refreshments for everyone who worked so hard today."
As the day drew to a close, David Irvine from Blackwater IC in Downpatrick commented:
"I've learnt so much and had fun at the same time; it was great to team up with new people and make new friends. It was very challenging to tackle some of the tasks but also very inspiring and we had plenty of encouragement from the experts. I intend to be an actor and a day like today helps develop those important skills for whatever the future holds. There should be more of these events so that more young people can benefit."
Young Enterprise identifies the ability to work with anyone from any background as a key skill in business, so students at an integrated school are in a great position to further develop their entrepreneurial skills.


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Spanning four centuries, The Long Gaze Back features 22 new stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. Taken together, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing, unnerving, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. These stories run the gamut from heartbreaking to humorous, but each leaves a lasting impression. They chart the passions, obligations, trials and tribulations of a variety of vividly drawn characters with unflinching honesty and relentless compassion. These are stories to savour.
Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager living a neglected life on the margins of society. On a bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, their paths collide during a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, this is a story of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives.
Things can't get any worse. Legends are running riot. Half hunters are out of control. Darkmouth has been taken away from Finn and Emmie, and Finn's dad, Hugo - proud Legend Hunter - is washing dogs for a living. But something even more terrifying lurks beneath the surface: an ancient horror threatening both our world and the Infested Side. So scratch that. Things can get worse. Much worse. More than ever, Darkmouth is going to need a hero.... Sadly, all it's got is Finn.
Some see Britain as an ally; others look to Germany for a hopeful future while some wish to remain as neutral as possible. In this atmosphere of edgy uncertainty, a young lieutenant, Paul Duggan, is drafted into the army's intelligence division, G2, and put on the German desk.
Paul delves into the double-dealing worlds of spies and politics, where ruthlessness, deviousness and occasional violence prevail, before confronting a surprising secret that challenges everything he has grown up believing.


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Mac Games > Hidden Object Games > Paradise Retreat
Explore paradise retreat! Complete a variety of puzzles while visiting lovely beaches, waterside bars and yachts. Be on the lookout – there's something hidden in each location! Find a path through the beach to explore new locations. Solve jigsaw puzzles, unblock wooden tiles in an amazing match 2 game and complete fun collections. There's also a mystery to solve if you can find the right combinations of used objects. This paradise is full of surprises!
Find and complete amazing collections
Solve incredible puzzles
Find refreshing collections of fruit
Beautiful graphics and fun atmosphere
Repeat your favorite levels and mini games
OS: 10.14/10.13/10.12/10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8
CPU: 2.0 GHz (INTEL ONLY)
RAM: 2048 MB
Browser: Safari 4.0 or later
Paradise Retreat is rated 3.2 out of 5 by 14.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ilkie from Great game What you see is what you get here. A relaxing hidden object game. I like this game, basic seek and find with the usual puzzles. When you get tired of adventure games, walking backwards and forwards over several levels, check this game out. Worth a game code.
Rated 5 out of 5 by raydog from This is a terrific game! I have the other version of this game and love that one too. I am 66 years old and I appreciate the bright screens of the designer. Some of the other hidden object games are too dark for me to see and I just keep using the hint. I love the side games - reminds me of the Big City Adventure games that I could also see. I love the jigsaw puzzles going to the new site. I also love the little creatures that move around - especially the little dog. What is not to love?
Rated 5 out of 5 by Redau from Puzzled, can't fathom why Puzzled, can't fathom why the bad ratings? I in last few days finished Christmas Wonderland #5 and when reading those reviews the comments were the opposite, too noisy, too much clutter and so on. Now they have a game that's the opposite and still we are not happy? - Go figure! *BTW* These game types are not old fashioned, I know of a few places that do these for our Tablets/phones etc and thank goodness they do as some of us do not have time to sit around we only have timed-breaks or by days end so tired that all we really want is something simple to wind down with. This game is bright, very clear, does NOT hurt the eyes at all and I would know as playing this on my powerful graphic/office/gaming lap-top. Very relaxing music that at times hardly hear it. No idea why so irritated by the butterflies as that's a good ploy, they actually stop you from yawning, they distract your eye/brain movement and sharpen up your focus again, yes very clever that! And some of those HIDDEN OBJECTS are really, really, really hard to find. Well just used my free game credit and in closing try it out for yourself you may like it then again you may not.
Rated 5 out of 5 by shr1021 from Love these games! I love the way these games are just hidden objects and let you skip the mini games right away. Just the way I like it. Thank you!
Rated 4 out of 5 by colorsplash from A challenge This is a good hidden object game. Playing it timed and with a 3 star minimum (self imposed) is a challenge. Objects are well hidden. Puzzles are fairly simple. Great game for those who love a straight no frills hidden object game.
Rated 4 out of 5 by renatetoo from Give it a chance I liked this game. Yes, the graphics are simplistic, but that is a style. It's actually a refreshing change from the standard looks.This is a hidden object game, interspersed with simple puzzles. No story. No need for a story. I like that the mini games are easy and don't take too much time away from the reason I got the game in the first place -- HIDDEN OBJECTS. Speaking of which, isn't that what you wanted in this game? Yes, many of the objects are difficult to find. Duh! They're hidden! What would be the point if they were all easy to spot? The zoom feature is great. I am impressed with how many things are 'hidden' in every scene: it's almost like the scene is made up of objects. I also like that the same-named objects are the same in other scenes -- it gives me something to focus on. As far as the difference in size, that too is a style. I like it. When everything is 'life-size', it's much easier to find things (therefore not really 'hidden'). For example, a keyboard would be on a desk instead of as the facade of a building. In this game, it might be large on a building one time, and tiny in a picture frame the next. This is a style and type of hidden object game. Just try it. You may like it.
Rated 4 out of 5 by arnold1049 from NO FRILLS HOG This is a great game for people who like HOS after HOS with no adventures and other distractions in between. It is hard to find games like this that are really a Hidden Object game as opposed to those games with the same designation where you have to play for an hour or more before finally coming to a HOS. You can play games like that for hours, even finish the game, and only run into a few HOS. I'll take games like Paradise Retreat over those kinds of games every day of the week. In addition to being a game for hardcore HOG lovers, this game has other good things going for it. The graphics are crisp and bright and the objects are well hidden. I usually always play the untimed mode but after seeing that I was unable to get any of the extra trophies and only earning one star out of 3 for each scene, I tried to timed mode and found that I could easily finish the HOS and minigames well within the time limit. I finished the demo and this game is a definite buy for me and there's a big sale going on today, lucky me. Always try before you buy, of course, but this is a good, solid HOG.
Rated 3 out of 5 by dgeehring from More potential than was realized This could have been a much better game with a few small changes. It had a bit of variety which was nice but all the puzzles and even the HOG parts were pretty simple. That's nice if you just want something easy to unwind but a bit more challenge would have suited me. I don't like that there were no explanations of any kind. You got 1, 2, 3 stars but you didn't know what you had to do to earn them, and then at the end of the game they were meaningless anyway. You got points and trophies but again, at the end of the game, you didn't know what the trophies represented or how the points stacked up. Maybe this was pumped out just a little too quickly? It had 66 rounds and when you got to the last one there was nothing further by way of reward, explanation, etc. Having said all that I would recommend this game for those who just want an easy way to pass some downtime.
Rated 2 out of 5 by pennmom36 from GOOD NEWS! IF YOU LIKED THE PUZZLES IN THEIR OTHER "SUMMER" HO GAME YOU GET TO PLAY THE EXACT SAME GAMES! Completed Demo This is by the same developer who created the summer adventure series, and I'm sure you'll get a case of deja vu because the puzzles and mini-games in this game are the same puzzles and mini-games offered in their other HO series, they are even in the exact order! As for the Hidden Object Scenes, I find it incredible that graphics can be so basic and the objects to find so large, yet so difficult to find in scenes void of color??? My curiosity got the best of me so I clicked on the CREDITS tab to see who developed these HO games. Within that tab, it had a website for the 3D Models used and the name of the music tracks and its origins. When I looked up these websites, I was blown away, they are generic software tools to help you create HO games, and...it's completely FREE to use! Yes, I'm ROFL, but at the same time, I'm also totally impressed by this guy who somehow managed to get several HO games listed on some of the largest distribution sites across the globe, all while using free software! The Hidden Object Scenes can be played in a Timed or Relaxed Mode, and you can earn up to 3 Stars, according to the amount of time it takes, but it doesn't seem to penalize you for misclicks or using the Hint feature. This is an old-fashioned Hidden Object game requiring you to find Word Text Listed items and each scene has a Zoom Zone that contains the final 2 objects ( the area has glint sparkles when the cursor hovers over the zoom zone) The items to find are very repetitive because you have to search for the same items scene after scene and those items are not proportionately sized either. A tie may be a normal-sized tie sitting next to garlic the size of a basketball. The objects can be very difficult to spot because everything has the same color scheme with very little detail, therefore nothing "jumps out at you". You can improve your star rating by replaying the scenes, but the objects to find are different each time you play. After each Hidden Object Scene, there is a simplistic mini-game available, such as a 24 piece Jigsaw Puzzle with no rotating feature, a game variation of Pipes where you click to rotate square tiles to connect a path of pipes or road sections, a Match 2 game where you click on 2 or more groups of identical objects, a word search variation with fruit images instead of actual words. You can earn up to 3 stars on the mini-games as well although I'm not sure if they are based upon the time it takes to complete the game. The games are very easy to solve so earning all 3 stars is doable.
Rated 2 out of 5 by Legoc1 from Bored within the first 5 minutes I thought this game would be more like Cruise Director or Park Ranger but sadly it's not. It is SO rudimentary. I got bored within the first 5 minutes of the trial and deleted it. The music is not fitting to the game and is annoying so I turned that off right away too. Big miss on this one Game Fish!
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Watering a new lawn is very different from watering grass in an established lawn. Many lawns are lost at the initial watering stage. Whether you have planted seed or laid sod, lawn irrigation must be done properly for best results.
When watering a new lawn, the best way of keeping the seed moist is by lightly sprinkling the seeded area of the lawn at least two to three times a day. Care must be taken to ensure the soil doesn't dry out. The seeds could perish if they are allowed to dry once the germination process has begun.
Irrigate the soil daily, at least twice a day, but possibly more. Try not to let the soil completely dry out. If your seed is planted in bare soil, do not soak or flood your lawn. When watering a new lawn, use just enough water to keep the soil moist at seed depth. Standing water or prolonged heavy rain could ruin some of the seed or possibly wash the seed away.
Once the seed has sprouted continue watering lightly, but allow the soil to dry slightly before watering again. At the seedling stage, it is even more critical not to repeatedly saturate the soil. Persistently wet soil can lead to serious root diseases, such as Pythium Blight, that can kill the roots. Very humid weather often has greater disease problems than dry weather.
When the grass is a couple inches tall cut back on water to once every two to three days, depending on the temperature. Tiny seedlings can still suffer if the temperature spikes and the soil dries out. Soil dries faster in hot, arid environments than humid environments.
Once the grass reaches the cutting height for your particular grass type begin watering deeply, but less often, so the soil is wet to a depth of four inches. After watering, don't water again until the grass begins to show signs of stress. This trains the roots to grow deeper into the soil to reach available water and nutrients.
The wonderful thing about sod is that it can provide you with an instant lawn. The rules for watering a new lawn are basically the same for seed and sod, with just a little variation. When sod is harvested, the roots are cut making it extremely important to lay it as soon as possible. The faster you get water on the sod, the better.
Water the sod frequently, so it will not dry out. Remember, freshly cut sod has no roots. Therefore, sod will have to be irrigated as often as necessary until the roots grow in and the sod attached firmly to the ground.
Important Hint: Grasses are "monocots", meaning they emerge from the soil as a single blade. This single blade develops into a larger plant, but it will take time. Don't expect to have a thick lawn in a few weeks. It takes at least one full year and often two years to get thick, healthy turf when starting with seed on bare soil.
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International Custody Battle Continues for Maryland Man Who Says He Just Wants His Children Back
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. – An international custody battle spanning the past seven years may soon reach a conclusion.
The Maryland father involved says both countries involved have not done their part to bring his two children back to their rightful home.
The father says his children were taken out of the country illegally by their mother, and it's now being called an international abduction. The father and his attorney say they only want the justice deserved.
"Daddy loves you so very much, Gabriel and Anastasia. I think and pray about you each and every day. There's not a second or breath that goes by that you're not in my heart," says Stanley Hunkovic.
Gabriel and Anastasia Hunkovic were just toddlers when their father says they were secretly flown from Maryland, taken from Stanley Hunkovic's home in Baltimore County to Trinidad and Tobago with their mother, Leah Raymond-Hunkovic in 2010.
"I pray for her, you know. I pray for her that she would wake up and realize this is not right for our kids," he says.
Gabriel is now 8-years-old, and Anastasia, 7-years-old.
"He never gave up. He won't ever stop fighting for those children," says Hunkovic's friend, Bridget Poole.
Hunkovic was awarded sole, primary custody over Gabriel and Anastasia, and his ex-wife Leah Raymond Hunkovic ordered to bring the children home to Maryland because the Federal Department of Justice requested her extradition from Trinidad and Tobago after she was charged with two counts of federal child abduction.
"All I wish right now is no harm to her but to do the right thing for our kids," Hunkovic explains.
"Well, in this case, there is no question that this woman has committed a crime. Trinidad is to act promptly to apprehend Ms. Hunkovic and to bring her before the court," says Joel Zuckerman, Hunkovic's attorney.
Zuckerman says there's a greater issue at hand, and it concerns the lack of responsiveness by the United States and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Free Crochet Patterns for Baby Items for New Year 2019 - Crochet Blog!
There is no better project than baby sweaters and more clothes. They are adorable before even caring for the baby, and then the little baby makes your job even cuter. Although they look like intricate crochet projects that will delight any parent, baby crochet sweaters are pretty easy to build. These are also very special articles for children's aid projects!
Here are fifteen models of free crochet baby jumpers to try. You'll see baby crocheted cardigan styles as well as covered classic sweaters. You'll find warm winter baby sweaters as well as lighter weights for layering. Here you will find crochet sweaters for boys and girls. You can even find the pattern that you mark and use again and again.
One of the most beautiful things about crochet baby sweaters is that they can be made with all kinds of shapes. In this case, Cozy's Corner used a hexagon as a base for its crochet sweater. Glamorous! This crochet pattern was made about a decade ago and is still elegant.
Cats Rockin Hook designed this crochet pattern for butterflies. If you look good, you can see them moving in the body of baby powder. This free crochet sweater pattern features matching patterns for a hat and ankle boots. Do all of this together to create a very special gift for a baby in your life.
Beauty And Cute How to Crochet a Baby Hat! New Season 2019 Images!


ABS-CBN senior correspondent Ces Oreña Drilon, her cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion, and their guide, Prof. Octavio Dinampo were released by their abductors in Sulu province Tuesday night.
With a report by Noel Alamar via DZMM, the turn over was done around 11 pm last night in Barangay Kagay, Talipao.
They were held for nine days by an armed group believed to be Abu Sayyaf bandits in the hinterlands of Sulu island.
"Nandoon po sila sa sa bahay ni [Indanan] Mayor [Alvarez] Isnaji," Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Avelino Razon Jr. said in an interview over DZMM.
"Sila ay dadalhin dito sa Zamboanga [City] kung saan po ay mag-uundergo sila ng medical check up at pagkatapos po niyan ay isang debriefing para malaman po natin sa kanila directly kung anong nangyari," he added.
There were reports that the armed group kept the captives in the bandits' lairs in Maimbung and Indanan towns.
The kidnappers initially released ABS-CBN assistant cameraman Angelo Valderama on June 12. He was released by to Jun Isnaji, son of Mayor Isnaji.
Mayor Isnaji, a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader whom the kidnappers agreed to be an emissary, said the kidnappers contacted him through their mobile phones. The negotiating team was led by Sulu Governor Sakur Tan and Vice-Governor Hadja Nur Ana Sahidullah.
When asked if they are going to pursue the kidnap group, Razon said they will have to get more information from the former captives to get a better idea on the identities of the suspects.
"Atin pong titignan po matapos nating madebrief sina Ces Drilon, Jimmy Encarnacion at Prof. Dimampo para lalong pagtibayin ang ebidensya na hawak sa grupong ito," he said.
He added that the PNP will maintain it heightened alert on the area until such time the alert is no longer needed.


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EU Copyright Directive - please join the fight
Copyright is a good thing. It incentivizes creators, it lets capital fund creativity, and it is rooted in human morality of "fairness" about usage of original work.
But copyright terms have been extended multiple times in the past century. This runs counter to the technological revolution we have been witnessing. It has become much cheaper to create and so the "fixed cost of creation" argument for copyright is less valid that it used to be. It has become much cheaper to distribute work (zero marginal cost of replication/distribution). Thus limiting access to copyrighted work is a significant drain on public welfare. If anything, we should be limiting copyright.
Contrary to this, the European Union is moving a new Copyright Directive through its legislative process at the moment. The most problematic piece of it is Article 13. You can read it here and Ars Technica has a good run-down on the various issues.
The key problem is that it shifts liability for the protection of copyright onto "sharing platforms." This does away with the "hosting" defence that is at the core of the growth of all online services, whether it is individual web hosts or the monolithic sharing platforms like YouTube or Facebook. In my view, there is no question that this is a mandate for upload filters.
While there is an exception for startups (less than five million monthly users or less than three years old or less than ten million in revenue), Albert Wenger of USV rightly asks "why would you start anything new if after 3 years or after reaching 5 million monthly uniques you were subject to this ridiculousness?"
The European Union works hard to support the startup ecosystem, not least through the fantastic support as a Limited Partner via the European Investment Fund. Legislative intiatives such as this make it much harder for Europe to stay a fount of innovative companies and compete with other geographies for the best online talent. If anything, we should make up for our relative weakness versus the US and China and create better legislation for intellectual property.
I strongly enourage you to make up your own mind. And once you have, to sign the petition on Change.org and put in a phone call to your Member of European Parliament.
We previously won on net neutrality. Let's do the same on copyright.
Big rounds, big risks: some thoughts on the changing market environment for early-stage venture investors
There has been an enormous influx of later-stage capital in our market in recent years. Our meta-thesis says why: every industry is now a tech industry, every value chain is being reinvented from the perspective of the end user, software is eating the world.
In a world of zero interest rates and massive quantitative easing, tech has been the equity story of the last ten years. And so it's no wonder that capital has poured into our market "from the top."
For founders and early-stage tech investors around the world, this has been a boon. More competition around later-stage deals, higher prices, and ever larger investment sums.
But as the pressure has mounted on later-stage firms to deploy capital, at the margins this is leading to some worrying behavior: investment decisions from the hip, low to no diligence, an extreme willingness to pay up that introduces significant asymmetric risk for founders, earlier investors, and companies as a whole.
Venture fund performance is driven by a fund's top outcomes. This pareto distribution, or power law, means that from the portfolio perspective an individual investment is "just an option", a "shot on goal." This is an awful way of thinking about VC investing, so bear with me. It's true from a portfolio perspective (it doesn't mean it should be true from an operational perspective).
You build a portfolio of options and through gradual de-risking of the individual portfolio company, you identify the ones that are performing well. And then you allocate the rest of your fund's capital to those companies that look like they will be the biggest outcomes. We do this through a well-defined capital allocation model that gets updated at each quarterly portfolio review.
A part of de-risking individual portfolio companies is whether they manage to raise an externally-led round, what the quality of that investor is, what valuation is put on the company. It's the moment of truth when the founders and you stop "drinking your own kool-aid" and get feedback not just from customers, but from the capital market.
But with the changes in later-stage investor behavior, raising follow-on rounds nowawadays feels less like de-risking and more like "kicking the can down the road." The new investor coming in has a risk-adjusted rate of return calculation that's much more similar to the earlier investor. And so a high valuation and a good sum of money may well be a false positive.
This is worrying not just from a perspective of founders who must meet some extreme growth targets. E.g. the Wired story on Revolut seems to me to ignore the incredible pressure that their founder must feel, having raised $300 million plus for a relatively early-stage business.
It's also worrying for earlier-stage investors who are sitting on a large amount of paper returns. This isn't quite RIP Good Times 3.0, but I have started to think about what that will look like. I think we'll be in for a significant number of restructurings that will involve non-traditional venture investors that may not exhibit best behavior.
In the meantime, the best you can do is to focus on actual company building: execution quality, team quality, and making sure you're not fundraising at next year's valuation today. Think about what risk an outsized post-money means for you, your team, and your early supporters. By all means, negotiate the best deal that you can. But then take money from the people who are actually aligned with you and your goals.
Products of belonging
At Heartcore we understand consumer brands and products as systems of meaning.
Our framework for assessing consumer-facing products looks at both functional and emotional characteristics: what does it do for me and how does it make me feel? We call the first differentiation; the second, aspiration.
Over the last 50 years the Western world has started to question traditional identity-conferring institutions en masse - nation, family, religion, employers. Each is in a crisis in its own unhappy way.
The outcome of the rise of individualism has been the atomization of groups of belonging. A mere thirty years ago, we listened to rock'n roll, or maybe "metal." Today, we are into post-hardcore, indietronica and chillwave. We are making ever finer distinctions in gender and sexual orientation, race and origin, and belief systems. The personalization of society is at least in part the result of the internet, and its possibility to identify and connect with ever more specific sub-groups. Thus: Rule 34.
The majority of consumer products have historically been meant to make us feel special (successful, trendy, happy, smart). From an evolutionary psychology perspective, they promise to increase sexual attractiveness by signalling status, fertility, or conscientiousness. But as part of our relentless quest to question and examine everything, an increasingly sizeable segment of consumer is skeptical: of the claims of big companies, the system of "fashion", conspicuous consumption, the sexualization of marketing, and so forth.
Enter the "mass-market products of belonging."
Increasingly brands are becoming communities. Unlike the fake luxury fashion products, where carrying the same Hermes handbag or wearing the same Valentino dress may be acknowledged in embarassed silence, the mass aspirational community-oriented brands encourage recognition. Away, Allbirds, Glossier are not brands founded on separation but on community identity, much more like mini-Harley Davidson's.
I believe that because of the loss of traditional identity-conferring institutions, this trend has a long, long way to go. We all want to belong. We want to feel safe in our choices in a world that is made up of nothing but choice. My gut says there will be multiple, very large consumer-oriented companies built that will put communities of belonging at their center.
These companies may look more like religions than many people will be comfortable with (remember Apple in its heyday?). But then I maintain that a new religion is probably the single greatest market opportunity in the Western world today.
P.S. Inspired by a brief chat with the co-founder of LOT.
Civilization: a personal view (1969)
If you know me personally, you know I get slightly obsessive over things. Part of it is just a natural curiosity, though it may sometimes border on the compulsive hoarding of knowledge and different points of view. I've gotten better over time, but I'm not over it.
A few days ago I got into the very old BBC 2 documentary "Civilisation: a personal view" hosted by Kenneth Clark and first aired in 1969.
If you can deal with the rather heavy QE accent - at times indiscernible from a melodious series of modulated yawns - it's well worth the viewing. Parts of it have aged rather well, though the fervently anti-imperialist crowd might disagree. I'm not saying it isn't biased or that history and the study thereof haven't progressed, but that surely there are nuggets that like its subjects have stood the test of time.
Here's the link to the first of 13 episodes:
I do like to think of our role as venture investors as the capital that greases the wheels of civilizational progress. And having a longer-term view on where we have come from can help inform where we may be headed, and perhaps where we should be headed.
That, and it's just great fun as old documentaries go.
Heartcore's Low Resolution Investment Thesis
We have a number of high resolution investment theses in different verticals like direct-to-consumer, food, mobility, travel, finance, and healthcare.
But I thought for those of you who don't follow Heartcore Capital on Medium, it would be worthwhile reiterating our high-level (= low resolution) investment thesis for consumer technology. So here it goes (I wrote this together with Yacine Ghalim earlier this year):
Over the last 30 years, computing, software, and in particular the internet have radically changed the way we live, work, and play. Billions of us carry a computer in our pocket. The majority of humanity is always on, always connected.
Who would have thought back in 1988, that there would one day be a website on which you could buy (almost) everything? That there would be an app on your phone with which you could message all your friends? And another that would let you see and chat with your family, instantly? And still others that would reliably get you a ride, a meal, a movie, or a date?
Who would have thought that we'd have easy and inexpensive access to the most powerful computing infrastructure ever built? And that it would be totally up to us what we ran on it. That all you'd need to get started building these massive, world-changing consumer-facing services was the incredibly powerful, personal computer right in front of you, loaded with free software and limitless possibility?
This is the eternal promise of technology and, perhaps more so, of the internet: to change the equation of markets forever by putting power into the hands of the end-user, the consumers and developers of our joint human future. This is what's behind the tremendous success of consumer-facing technology companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Uber and many others: they give us "superpowers" — the ability to do things that mere decades ago looked like they were beyond "natural" human capacity.
And we've only just begun. Every time that technology finds a new way to help people better achieve their aims and fulfill their desires, there is an opportunity to build a category-defining consumer brand. One that lets you leverage technology to become more of who you really are.
We believe that human desires are universal, stable, and relatively predictable. While the tools of technology change constantly, people stay mostly the same. Functionally we want to do what we have always been doing, but better, cheaper, faster. Emotionally, we all want to belong, to be safe, free, and ideally a bit special. Humans are also all hard-wired to improve themselves and the world around them. And occasionally we just need a break and escape from the mundane. At Heartcore we have laid our thinking out further in this internal framework. Each time we consider an investment, we carefully examine how the products and services offered answer these key human motivations and whether the company has the potential to become a category-defining brand.
So where do we go from here? We know that despite a majority of people being online, most of their money isn't. In Europe, e-commerce only accounts for 9% of retail sales and less than 5% of total consumer spending. Retail is one of the categories that most easily yielded to the "end user revolution" of the internet. But major consumer spending categories such as housing, healthcare, education, or food have barely been scratched yet. In more mature categories like travel, finance, or entertainment, we are also seeing different kinds of online businesses being built — more vertically integrated, tackling harder problems, building bigger moats.
Every time a new technology matures it finds applications in various consumer markets. And thus we are actively looking for online businesses using new technological building blocks such as machine learning, cryptocurrencies, virtual and augmented reality, voice computing, brain-computer interfaces, or quantum computing that can be leveraged into building the consumer-oriented companies which will shape our joint future.
It's a future that — as our name suggests — we care about deeply. In the West, we are seeing an accelerating loss of meaning and erosion of trust in traditional institutions such as government, religion, or even the family. We believe that brands that can capture and perhaps restore our common belief in ourselves and our human journey are poised to be significantly positive contributors to this future. Those winning a share of hearts will become core meaning providers in our lives. Organizations around which people build their identities, through which they express their belief, and perhaps grow closer to one another.
In a short 20 years, computing, software, and the internet have changed pretty much everything. We believe that the next two decades will accelerate and deepen the changes to the ways in which we live, work, and play. Many new iconic consumer brands will be built in the process. These are the companies that we are looking for. And we're incredibly excited to spend the next 20 years looking for them.
You can follow Heartcore Capital on Twitter, Medium, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Why is Heartcore consumer-only?
We launched Heartcore Capital yesterday and positioned it as "Europe's consumer-only VC." I wanted to take you through some of our thinking that led to this fairly unique positioning.
Let start with: we've actually had good B2B returns in the past. Neo4J, the graph database, is a great company and recently raised an $80 million growth round from Morgan Stanley and OnePeak. We've sold businesses like IPtronics, Trunk Archive, Game Analytics, and CloudMade, and took Asetek public on the Oslo stock exchange. Prezi, while it started as a consumer productivity company, is now firmly a SaaS player.
To some extent, the need to focus is a result of more capital flowing into the industry. The VC market has tripled in the last decade in Europe. We were seeing more and more deals and the good investments were becoming more competitive. There's a limit to how many companies you can look at with a small team, especially if most of your partners have a "full load" of board seats.
Both in terms of preserving our sanity, but also from a perspective of meeting and then converting the best founders, we knew we needed to specialize. We also felt like a broad positioning was preventing us from developing "deep" investment theses which are a prerequisite of investing from a place of conviction.
At the same time, we were starting to see a lot of "deep tech" investments. A kick-ass team from ETH and KIT, doing some super interesting robotic sensors for manufacturing in several specific verticals was my "moment of truth." I knew I would need three months of diligence to really figure out whether the company was as interesting as it seemed, and in the end it would be a judgement call that I still wasn't really qualified to make. Would I really be the best partner to these folks?
The network effects of specialization extend to your ability to source, select, and convert the best founders and companies. But they also extend to the value-add you can provide afterwards. A focused network of founders, operators, and other experts in consumer internet, from ecommerce to consumer productivity software, is much easier to build and maintain than one that tries to encompass "the entire tech stack." Over time I've become much more interested in depth than breadth.
Consumer came naturally for our whole team, because it was where we had been gravitating anyway. With exits like Boozt, which returned more than our first fund, with some of our most recent top investments like GetYourGuide, Natural Cycles, or Seriously (the makers of Best Fiends) it was clear that we were better at B2C (or B2B2C) than B2B.
It didn't hurt that consumer tech has historically yielded larger outcomes. If you think of European venture-backed outcomes, they are exceptional companies like Spotify, Skype, Minecraft, Farfetch. Sure, there's an Adyen or an iZettle as well, but it had been a long time since Business Objects and SAP. In the Pareto distribution ("power law") world of venture capital, investing from a portfolio point of view isn't about minimizing risk or playing it "safe." It's about maximizing your potential outcomes.
What we love about consumer as well is that there are essentially two buckets of consumer investing: the adoption of new technology by consumers (think Google, Facebook, etc.), which have so far contributed the bulk of venture returns, and which we still believe can yield great investments. In terms of timing, there is a bit of a lull in this market as folks wait for consumer adoption of things like voice computing, AR/VR, decentralized web. And hence the time to invest is now.
But there is a second bucket, which is companies applying existing technologies to old industries and very stable consumer preferences. Many of these currently look like they can build category-defining trusted brands that will likely be very large companies and given network effects may hold that position for a long time.
And finally, going consumer-only is a contrarian take, which is also something we liked. Much of our market has been talking about enterprise, SME, SaaS, deep tech. In contrast in the US, Forerunner and Maveron have built consumer-only firms that have been very successful.
So we're joining a small stable of funds here in Europe: so far we know of Felix, JamJar, and Eutopia that have a primarily consumer focus. We'd love to connect with other folks who share our thinking.
You can follow Heartcore on Twitter, Medium, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Introducing Heartcore Capital
For 12 years now, we have operated as Sunstone Technology Ventures under the joint brand Sunstone Capital with our friends from Sunstone Life Science Ventures.
Over the last decade, we have poured our heart and soul into helping founders build European technology businesses from the ground up. We've gone from seed to NASDAQ IPO (Boozt), from small Hungarian software team to Silicon Valley-based SaaS leader (Prezi), from Series A to fastest-growing travel marketplace in Europe (GetYourGuide). And we've had our share of f̶a̶i̶l̶u̶r̶e̶s̶ opportunities to grow.
Since launch in 2007, we've raised four funds totalling €350 million in assets under management. And we've helped create over €3.8 billion in enterprise value for our founders, co-shareholders, and limited partners.
Over the last decade, the European tech industry has come of age, and so have we at Sunstone Technology Ventures. It became time for us to sharpen our positioning, narrow our focus, and be clear about what we stand for.
And so, after operating for 12 years as Sunstone Technology Ventures, today we are becoming Heartcore Capital.
Heartcore is a "consumer-only" venture capital firm. We invest 100% in B2C, though that includes marketplaces with a consumer angle as well as consumer productivity software (e.g. Dropbox, but not Salesforce). We've posted our short-form investment thesis on Medium, so you can read it there.
On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur; l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We're also doubling our partnership in size, from three to six. Previously, Jimmy Fussing and Christian Jepsen were in Copenhagen, and I was in Berlin.
Levin Bunz joined us in January in Berlin from GFC, Rocket's $1 billion investment arm. I've been working with Levin on Memorado/HeyJobs for the last few years and I'm so thrilled to see him on a daily basis now.
Yacine Ghalim, whom we hired from Goldman Sachs in 2013 as an associate, has been promoted from principal to Partner (go, Yacine!). He heads our new Paris office, where we also added Yohan Pereira as an analyst. Yohan joins us from First Minute in London.
We're also delighted to welcome Signe Marie Sveinbjoernsson as our new Partner & Chief Operating Officer. Signe will head operations from our Copenhagen HQ and be in charge of everything from transaction execution to compliance. She's a former M&A Lawyer and ran operations for Total, the oil company, in Kenya (so cool).
I'm going to write a lot more about Heartcore over the next few days. For now I feel the happy exhaustion of the new parent... welcome, Heartcore!
Heartcore is on Twitter, Medium, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Follow your heart :)
2019: tough times for Europe?
2019 is starting to look like it might be the perfect storm for Europe.
The ECB has pulled back on and will completely cease its massive asset purchase scheme in early 2019. Markets expect Draghi to raise rates in the last months of his term. We're at -0.40%, so not a lot of wiggle room in any case.
Brexit is looming. We'll know more after December 11, but whatever happens it'll be a massive disruption. Except for an about-turn to continued membership, all alternatives look fairly poor. Including the prospect of a "democratic socialist" government under Corbyn.
Italy's debt crisis is accelerating. The country is probably already in recession and banks and companies are having trouble refinancing themselves.
German lenders (and tax payers) will be left holding the bag. Deutsche Bank, which never recovered from 2008, is looking particularly vulnerable. A money-laundering raid of its HQ this month didn't help.
Populist discontent is growing. It has spilled onto French streets and is changing politics in multiple other countries. Expect more unrest. This is a key theme in European politics, pitting elites against the middle classes. Dissatisfaction stemming from inequality of economic opportunity, but with a particular focus on failed immigration policies and multiculturalism, will be a defining factor of European politics for the next decade.
The electoral win of AKK as the conservative party's chairman to replace Merkel communicates clearly: the elites don't get it (yet). Germany's politics will fragment further - expect Greens and AfD to become the largest parties, leading to a similar polarization as in the US.
The schism between Western and Eastern Europe is widening. The EU is one to two more Brexit type events from total stasis, if not (informal) dissolution. And it doesn't look like Merkel/Macron will be able to heal that divide. There needs to be a policy alternative to "ever closer union" and centralization.
Trump has declared a temporary truce with China (markets have caught on that it really may be temporary). But he's not a politician who operates without an enemy. 2019 is looking like it will be tough for him domestically. Look for the rhetoric to switch to Europe - Germany's car industry leadership has already bent the knee. But I expect him to push on further on trade and NATO and dial up the rhetoric.
And then there's the wildcard of Russia. Ukraine is volatile to the point where both parties may find it beneficial to escalate the conflict.
None of this matters for startups per se. Europe's travails will be a rounding error in the narrative of successful founders. But economic volatility spooks capital and the contagion is psychological above all. Europe may well be the crucible for global recession in 2019.
It's not quite RIP Good Times 2.0.
But raise your next round while you can and bunker down to keep building the future.
Spotify Top Songs 2018
It's amazing how much music reveals about you. I've known this at least since my first angel investment, Last.fm
I wish Spotify made it easier to see other people's top lists.
Here's mine. The one thing it clearly shows is that I'm getting older...
There's an assumption of security in technology that has never been true.
More and more of how we live, work, and play is intermediated by online services. Every time you get in your car. Every time you buy a coffee. Every time you pick up your phone. Book a flight. Wire some money. Watch a movie.
From unauthorized access to social engineering, the core fabric of online services is not secure. And that won't change for the foreseeable future. If anything, breaches will be bigger, more impactful, more costly.
The fact that one of the largest hotel chains in the world didn't find out that its guest database was leaking passport and credit card numbers is mind-boggling in its implications.
And so I want to encourage you to take one annoying but necessary step to protect yourself: use a password manager.
Most people use a primary password, or some tiered level of "more secure" passwords that are nevertheless the same between services.
You only need one breach for it to become a real problem.
I personally use 1Password, but I've heard good things about LastPass and maybe Dashlane.
Do it today.


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let's talk about how we're gonna interpret the coefficients of our fitted line.
And let's start by talking about W-hat 0, our estimated intercept.
So, that's this point right here, this green star, and what does that represent?
Well, it's the predicted value of a house with 0 square feet.
because we have that Y-hat is = W-hat 0 when X=0.
house value is exactly equal to W-hat 0.
But I'll say that in general, this is not normally that meaningful.
having the output have some meaningful value.
we had that our intercept was -44,850.
the buyer money, to take that land off your hands.
it's not a perfect model of what's going on.
in the context of what we've included in our model.
Okay, we'll talk more about that in the next module.
But, I also want to talk about W-hat 1 which is our estimated slope.
And that tends to have a bit more meaning associated with it.
what's our predicted change in the value of the house.
the value of a house with 1001 square feet.
with just 1000 square feet.
estimating a house with 1,001 square feet, how would I estimate that?
+ W-hat 1 * 1,001 square feet.
W-hat 0 + W-hat 1 * 1,000 square feet.
And these W-hat 0's are gonna cancel.
And the difference between these numbers is just 1.
So, this will just be W-hat 1.
Okay, so that's how we're going to interpret W-hat 1.
depends both on the units of our input, and on the units of our output.
are dollars per square feet.
then this coefficient would no longer be appropriate for that.
So, let's make this a little bit more explicit.
I'm gonna put these in, so our intercept has units just dollars.
So, let me be clear what I'm actually highlighting here.
The intercept has units dollars, and the slope has units dollars per square feet.
if I actually put in these units, I see that everything works out.
then I'm multiplying by square feet.
this is just gonna be dollars, so the end result is something in terms of dollars.
and I end up with something that's in square feet.
likewise what if the price was measured in Chinese Yuan instead of in US Dollars.
it only has meaning in terms of the units that I use for my input and output.


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Q: Not Cycling Through in jQuery Okay, I just cannot figure this one out.  After looking and re-looking at my code for what is probably hours now, I am still not any closer to finding out this strange behavior.
It has to do with the fading of the background and that it is leaving off about 12 of the images that are listed in the array.
The images that are being left off are: bg6, bg36, bg13, bg8, bg14, bg15, bg24, bg29, bg27, bg9, bg19, bg3
Main Code Part 1:
insertLayer();

var bg1 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_1.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg2 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_2.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg3 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_3.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg4 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_4.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg5 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_5.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg6 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_6.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg7 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_7.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg8 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_8.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg9 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_9.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg10 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_10.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg11 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_11.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg12 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_12.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg13 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_13.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg14 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_14.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg15 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_15.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg16 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_16.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg17 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_17.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg18 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_18.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg19 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_19.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg20 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_20.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg21 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_21.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg22 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_22.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg23 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_23.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg24 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_24.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg25 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_25.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg26 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_26.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg27 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_27.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg28 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_28.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg29 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_29.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg30 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_30.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg31 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_31.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg32 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_32.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg33 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_33.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg34 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_34.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg35 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_35.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg36 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_36.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg37 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_37.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg38 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_38.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg39 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_39.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

var bg40 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_40.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";
var bg41 = "#000 url('./images/background/image_41.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center";

 var images = [bg30, bg34, bg6, bg7, bg10, bg36, bg33, bg26, bg14, bg5, bg40, bg13, bg16, bg23, bg8, bg18, bg32, bg14, bg31, bg15, bg24, bg20, bg22, bg29, bg37, bg41, bg27, bg25, bg12, bg9, bg4, bg21, bg19, bg1, bg28, bg3, bg2, bg39, bg38];

var current = 0;

for (var a = 0; a < 39; a++)
{
 $('#fade1').fadeOut(16000, function()
 {
  $('#fade1').css("background", images[current]);
  current++;
 });

 if (current > 38)
 {
  current = 0;
 }

 $('#fade1').fadeIn(16000, function()
 {
  $('#background').css("background", images[current]);
  current++;
 });

 if (current > 38)
 {
  current = 0;
 }

 $('#fade1').fadeOut(16000, function()
 {
  $('#fade1').css("background", images[current]);
  current++;
 });

 if (current > 38)
 {
  current = 0;
 }
}

Main Code Part 2:
var backgroundFader = function(element, bgClasses, nextChange)

{
 this.cssProps = {'position' : 'relative', 'z-index' : 100};
 this.bgs   = ['bg1', 'bg2', 'bg3', 'bg4', 'bg5', 'bg6', 'bg7', 'bg8', 'bg9', 'bg10', 'bg11', 'bg12', 'bg13', 'bg14', 'bg15', 'bg16', 'bg17', 'bg18', 'bg19', 'bg20', 'bg21', 'bg22', 'bg23', 'bg24', 'bg25', 'bg26', 'bg27', 'bg28', 'bg29', 'bg30', 'bg31', 'bg32', 'bg33', 'bg34', 'bg35', 'bg36', 'bg37', 'bg38', 'bg39', 'bg40', 'bg41'];

 this.element  = element || ".bg_fader";
};

function insertLayer(element)
{
 var cssProps = {'position' : 'relative', 'z-index' : 100};
 var bgs   = ['bg1', 'bg2', 'bg3', 'bg4', 'bg5', 'bg6', 'bg7', 'bg8', 'bg9', 'bg10', 'bg11', 'bg12', 'bg13', 'bg14', 'bg15', 'bg16', 'bg17', 'bg18', 'bg19', 'bg20', 'bg21', 'bg22', 'bg23', 'bg24', 'bg25', 'bg26', 'bg27', 'bg28', 'bg29', 'bg30', 'bg31', 'bg32', 'bg33', 'bg34', 'bg35', 'bg36', 'bg37', 'bg38', 'bg39', 'bg40', 'bg41'];

 var element  = element || ".bg_fader";

 var layerel = element.substr(1) + "-layer";
 if(jQuery("#"+layerel).length == 0)
 {
  jQuery("

")
  .insertAfter(element)
  .nextAll().appendTo("#"+layerel)
  .parent().css(cssProps);
 }
}

Thanks for any help!

A: First of all, you can rewrite that code to be about 7 times smaller. use loops and stuff.
On to your problem:
I suspect it has something to do with you having an infinite loop, that, sets of a bunch of timers that fade some stuff. because you are constantly looping and creating more and more timers, you will have unpredictable results, such as some images not being used.
I suspect that you dont understand how fadeOut and fadeIn works. Those calls queue up animations, they do not block execution! So in effect you are queuing up a ton of stuff all the time, all the time.
Also, you should look into using firebug to debug

A: You might want to look into a jQuery plugin to get this effect; there are plenty of "slideshow"-style plugins out there.  See Cycle, for example.

A: Gonna have to side with mkoryak on this. Code is way over-complicating the issue.
This is how I would do it (this, of course, is totally untested):
var fade_time = 1000;
var wait_time = 15000;
var curr = 0;
var last = 41;
var bg = $("#background");

function do_fade() {
    curr++;
    if (curr > last) {
        curr = 1;
    }
    bg.fadeOut( fade_time, function() {
        // switch your image here. something like this
        bg.css('background-image','./images/background/image_' + curr + '.jpg');
        bg.fadeIn( fade_time );
    }
}

id = setInterval( do_fade, wait_time );

Hopefully this works for you.

A: Just thought I'd mention this snippet. Should work the same on background images as it does on regular images. If you have a lot of images I wouldn't preload all of them on page load thought, instead use some queue system.


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