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Ambient Media (bzw. Ambient Marketing oder Ambient Advertising) ist ein Begriff aus dem Marketing und bezeichnet Werbemittel, die als Außenwerbung im direkten Lebensumfeld ihrer Zielgruppe eingesetzt werden.

Ursprung
Der Begriff Ambient Media lässt sich auf die Agentur Concord in Großbritannien zurückführen. Er wurde von der Agentur im Jahre 1995 kreiert, um einen stark wachsenden Marktsektor zu definieren, der sich nicht in die klassischen Formen der Außenwerbung einordnen ließ. Am Anfang der historischen Entwicklung stand zunächst die Suche nach ungewöhnlichen Events als Quelle kostenloser Berichterstattung.

Definition

Hutter/Hoffmann (2011) definieren Ambient-Marketing als "Platzierung von Werbung an Orten, wo nicht damit zu rechnen ist, unter Einbeziehung der Umgebung in die Werbemaßnahme."

Die am häufigsten verwendete Definition stammt von der w&p Marketing GmbH aus dem Jahre 1999 und lautet:

Ambient Media sind Medienformate, die im Out-of-Home-Bereich der Zielgruppe planbar konsumiert werden.

Diese Definition enthält drei zentrale Begriffe:

 Ambient Der Begriff "Ambiente" bezeichnet hier die spezifischen Lebensbereiche, in denen die Zielgruppe lebt bzw. die Atmosphäre, die diese Bereiche umgibt. Nachdem die Zielgruppe zunehmend schwerer über die Standardkanäle Print, TV, Radio und Plakat zu erreichen war, findet Ambient Media den Weg in ihren direkten Lebensraum. Das umfasst die U-Bahn genauso wie den Supermarkt, die Kneipe oder die Reinigung.

 Out-of-Home Mit der Zuordnung zum Out-of-Home-Bereich grenzt sich Ambient Media von Kommunikationsformen wie Telefonverkauf, Haustürgeschäften und New Media ab. Das Vordringen in die Intimsphäre der Zielgruppe entwickelt andere Formen als die Platzierung nahezu klassischer Medien im öffentlichen Raum (Kneipe, U-Bahn, Taxiwerbung etc.). Zunehmend populär werden Werbemittel, die "von außen" in die Privathaushalte gelangen. Dabei findet der erste Kontakt zwischen Medium und Zielgruppe Out-of-Home statt, die eigentliche Wirkung tritt aber zu Hause ein. Ein Beispiel hierfür sind die in Textilreinigungen eingesetzten Kleiderbügel, welche auf unterschiedlichste Art mit Werbung und Warenproben ausgestattet werden können, oder Werbung auf Pizzakartons.

 Planbar Ansätze zur Bewertung und Planbarkeit müssen bei Ambient Media anders aussehen als im klassischen Bereich. Kategorien wie der Tausend-Kontakt-Preis (TKP) sind auf Massenmedien zugeschnitten und für diese Medien nicht anwendbar. Eine wichtige Kenngröße stellt die Homogenität der Zielgruppe dar, also der deutlich reduzierte Streuverlust gegenüber anderen Medien. Grundsätzlich ist auch Ambient Media planbar und wiederholbar, wodurch es sich vom Sensation Marketing abgrenzt.

Praxis
Beispiele für Ambient-Media-Formate sind Gratispostkarten, die in der Gastronomie ausgelegt werden, Werbung auf Pizzakartons, Zapfpistolen an Tankstellen, Toilettenplakate, die in den Sanitärräumen von Kneipen und Diskotheken ausgehängt werden, oder Plakate, die z. B. in Schulen oder Universitäten installiert sind. Neuere Formen sind z. B. Werbetische in der Gastronomie (Mediatable), Großbildschirme in U-Bahnen (Infoscreens) oder auch in Universitäten (UniScreens); Werbepostkarten, die selektiert an parkenden Autos distribuiert werden, Collegeblöcke oder mobile Außenwerbeträger (Mobil Sky Board). Gerade auch z. B. Spind- oder Duschplakate in Fitness-Studios werden immer stärker in die Mediaplanung mit einbezogen, da man diese Zielgruppe sehr viel stärker eingrenzen kann.

Eine Sonderform sind digitale Out-of-Home (DOOH) Formate. Durch Video- und Bewegbild erhalten sie besonders viel Aufmerksamkeit. Das sogenannte Contextual Advertisement gibt dem digitalen Medium durch die Identifikation von physischen Räumen einen Kontext.

Ein häufig eingesetztes Stilmittel ist der Gigantismus (und auch der Minimalismus), bei dem außergewöhnlich große (oder sehr kleine) Elemente den Passanten überraschen sollen.

Wichtiges Kriterium für Ambient Media sind also nicht spezifische Formate, sondern vielmehr die Positionierung des Werbemediums an den für die Zielgruppe geeigneten Orten. Der Tausend-Kontakt-Preis (TKP) liegt bei Ambient Media Formaten häufig über dem von klassischen Werbemitteln, andererseits liegen die Streuverluste deutlich unter den Vergleichswerten der klassischen Werbekampagnen. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt auf der Qualität, nicht auf der Quantität der Kontakte.

Die Werbeform unterliegt zumeist den rechtlichen Bestimmungen der jeweiligen Bundesländer. Grundsätzlich ist es jedem Unternehmer gestattet, seine Produkte zu bewerben. Allerdings schränkt in der Regel das Bau- und Wegerecht die Kreativität ein. Anlagen der Außenwerbung sind "alle ortsfesten Einrichtungen, die der Ankündigung oder Anpreisung oder als Hinweis auf Gewerbe oder Beruf dienen und vom öffentlichen Verkehrsraum aus sichtbar sind. Hierzu zählen insbesondere Bilder, Beschriftungen, Bemalungen, Lichtwerbungen, Schaukästen sowie für Zettel- und Bogenanschläge oder Lichtwerbung bestimmte Säulen, Tafeln und Flächen". Eine Genehmigung für die Anbringung oder das Aufstellen erhält man von der zuständigen Bauaufsicht.

Fachverband Ambient Media
Der Fachverband Ambient Media e.V. (FAM), gegründet 2001, ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein mit derzeit 36 Mitgliedern und Hauptsitz in Köln.

Das Ziel des Fachverbandes ist es, Ambient Media als innovatives, wettbewerbsfähiges und intermedial vergleichbares Basismedium zu positionieren. Dazu gehört vor allem die Stärkung der Marktposition von Ambient Media im intermedialen Wettbewerb, u. a. durch wissenschaftliche Markt- und Meinungsforschung auf dem Gebiet des Werbewesens sowie die Durchführung von eigenen und zur Unterstützung von anderen geeigneten PR- und Marketingaktionen.

Der Fachverband Ambient Media hat 2003 erstmals sein neu geschaffenes Qualitätssiegel vergeben. Mit dem Siegel wird verbrieft, dass das FAM-Mitglied seine Aufträge ordnungsgemäß abwickelt. Zu den geprüften Leistungsdaten gehören beispielsweise Auflagenzahlen, Standortlisten, Distributionsnachweise und Remissionsberichte. Begutachtet werden die Ambient-Medien einmal jährlich nach den jeweils relevanten Kriterien.

Literatur
 Carola Theresa Westermeier: Ambient Media: Eine detaillierte Betrachtung, Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller, ISBN 978-3639042764
 Katrin Hoffmann: Ambient Media: Systematisierung, Planbarkeit und Bewertung, Diplomica Verlag, ISBN 978-3836651103
 Kolja Wehleit: Leitfaden Ambient Media, Businessvillage Verlag, ISBN 978-3-934-42424-1
 Esch, Franz-Rudolf; Krieger, Kai Harald; Strödter, Kristina: Durchbrechen des Gewohnten durch Below-the-Line-Kommunikation, in: Bruhn, M.; Esch, F.-R.; Langner, T. (Hg.) (2009): Handbuch Kommunikation: Grundlagen, innovative Ansätze, praktische Umsetzungen, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, S. 85–106.
 Christian Wollscheid: Guerilla-Marketing – Grundlagen, Instrumente und Beispiele, GRIN Verlag, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-66095-7.
 Hutter, Katharina; Hoffmann, Stefan: Guerilla-Marketing – eine nüchterne Betrachtung einer vieldiskutierten Werbeform. In: der markt – International Journal of Marketing, 2011, 50. Jg., Nr. 2, S. 121–135.

Weblinks
 Fachverband Ambient Media e.V. Schnittstelle zwischen Ambient Media Anbietern und Spezialmittlern bzw. Mediaagenturen
 Verband Ambient Media und Promotion Österreich

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Außenwerbung
Marketing
Werbemittel

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Deer hunting businesses, Conservation Department do battle in Missouri Supreme Court
January 16, 2018 By Jason Taylor
The Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City is considering whether the state Conservation Department can impose regulations on deer hunting and breeding businesses.
white tailed deer
The decision ultimately issued by the high bench could have a major bearing on the private land hunting of highly coveted big antlered deer, for which some customers pay $40,000 to pursue.
The Department of Conservation, through the Conservation Commission, conducts tests for a deadly ailment known as chronic wasting disease (CWD).
The illness effects white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family, such as elk. It kills all deer it infects and has no vaccination, treatment or cure.
The Conservation Commission first detected chronic wasting disease at a private hunting preserve in 2010. The state agency says the numbers have progressively grown over the years with 57 cases confirmed in 2017, mostly near captive facilities that breed or contain deer for hunting.
Several of those facilities brought a lawsuit against the Conservation Department after the agency announced new regulations in 2014. They contend that chronic wasting disease has never been detected at their operations.
The plaintiffs, including two operators of private deer hunting preserves and a breeder, also note they're already regulated by the Department of Agriculture.
According to documents filed by the plaintiff's attorneys for the Supreme Court, the Missouri Agriculture Department rules require any captive deer or elk brought into the state to have an entry permit.
The animals must also undergo a veterinary inspection, be individually identified by an ear tag that conforms to Federal Regulations, and have documentation regarding illnesses, including chronic wasting disease.
The Department of Conservation has projected that its chronic wasting disease-management expenditures for fiscal year 2017 will reach $1.7 million.
Its regulations would prohibit breeders from importing certain deer from out of state, as well as bar hunting preserves from importing any deer or elk from outside Missouri.
In addition, regulations called for industry businesses to upgrade the fencing around their property and increased documenting and testing requirements for the animals. The Conservation Commission also changed its authorization to include the phrase "wildlife raised or held in captivity".
The plaintiffs claim that their stocks are not "game or wildlife resources of the state", and that the regulations interfere with their fundamental right to engage in farming and ranching practices.
Representing the Conservation Department before the Supreme Court, Attorney William Ray Price took issue with the plaintiff's characterization of their businesses.
"They're holding out these animals for live hunts," Price. "You don't hold out traditional, domestic farm animals – cattle, pigs, sheep – for $40,000 hunts."
Among other things, the plaintiff's claim the regulations would be excessively burdensome.
One of the business owners, Don Hill of Oak Creek Whitetail Ranch near east-central Missouri's Bland, claims a ban on importation of white tail deer from out of state would drive him out of business.
In their court documents, the plaintiff's attorneys note that almost all of the roughly 100 dear Hill imports a year die during hunting season on his hunting preserve.
They wrote that if he's unable to import the dear as usual, he won't have sufficient cash flow to repay and maintain his business, and will likely go bankrupt.
Among the other arguments the plaintiffs make is that the Conservation Commission doesn't have authority to regulate the privately-owned deer on their captive property.
In the court documents, their attorneys note the animals are born and bred on private property, remain on private property throughout their lives, and are bought, sold and auctioned by the plaintiff's businesses on private property.
Arguing for the plaintiffs before the high court, attorney Jean Paul Bradshaw said the Conservation Commission was overreaching when it issued its regulations.
"We don't give the Conservation Commission the power to do whatever they want to do with private resources," said Bradshaw. "And I would suggest that up until this case, that has always been the way they really approached things."
Representing the Conservation Department before the Supreme Court, Attorney Price said the deer are state resources, whether they're publicly or privately owned.
"When we use the term 'resources of the state', that's a common term referring to anything within the state," Price said. "It didn't say owned by the state, titled in the state. It said resources of the state."
A circuit court in mid-Missouri's Gasconade County sided with six plaintiffs in 2016, saying that the agency lacked the authority to enforce its requirements on the businesses.
When the Department of Conservation filed with the state Court of Appeals, that bench transferred the case to the Supreme Court because of the general interest and importance of the questions involved.
While doing so, the appeals court stated that it would've found that captive deer would be 'game resources of the state,' and as such, subject to regulation by the (Conservation) Commission". The Supreme Court is expected to issue its decision in the case in several weeks.
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The Failoni Chamber Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera was founded in 1989 by young soloists of the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra. Their name reflects their admiration of this great Italian conductor, Sergio Failoni.
Béla Nagy has been the concertmaster from the beginning. He was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2006. In its concerts and recordings the orchestra has worked together with famous singers and conductors, including Plácido Domingo, José Cura, Andrea Bocelli, Julia Hamari, Katia Ricciarelli, Edita Grube, Roberto Servile, Kurt Rydl, Ramon Vargas, Yuri Simonov, Rico Saccani, Will Humburg, Michael Halász, János Ács, Hanspeter Gmür, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Thanassis Polykandriotis and Ennio Morricone.
The orchestra has a close working relationship with Naxos and has produced more than 20 recordings, of which two received the CD of the Year Award in BBC Music Magazine.


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Abstract: We study the problem of counting the total number of affine solutions of a system of n binomials in n variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. We show that we may decide in polynomial time if that number is finite. We give a combinatorial formula for computing the total number of affine solutions (with or without multiplicity) from which we deduce that this counting problem is #P-complete. We discuss special cases in which this formula may be computed in polynomial time; in particular, this is true for generic exponent vectors.


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Nel suo palmarès vanta una medaglia d'oro agli europei di  e una di bronzo agli europei juniores di Riga 1999.

Biografia
Conquista la sua prima medaglia agli europei juniores di Riga 1999, terminando terzo nei 200 metri piani dietro a Jurij Borzakovskij e Nick Andrews.

Dopo aver saltato l'intera stagione 2005 a causa di un grave infortunio, ritorna in gran spolvero ai campionati olandesi 2006 vincendo il suo primo titolo nazionale in sei anni.

Nel mese di agosto vola in Svezia per partecipare agli europei di , dove fa sua la medaglia d'oro nei 200 metri con un tempo di 1'46"56, poco davanti al lussemburghese David Fiegen (1'46"59) e al britannico Sam Ellis (1'46"64).

Progressione

Palmarès

Altre competizioni internazionali
2006
  in Coppa del mondo ( Atene), 800 m piani - 1'45"13
  alla World Athletics Final ( Stoccarda), 800 m piani - 1'47"10

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	private $cache_duration = 43200;
	private $date_format = '';
	private $time_format = '';
	private $timezone = '';
	private $display_opts = array();
	private $multi_day = false;
	private $feed_start = 0;
	private $feed_end = 2145916800;
	private $use_builder = true;
	private $builder = '';
	private $events = array();
	private $error = false;

	function init() {
		require_once 'gce-event.php';

		//Break the feed URL up into its parts (scheme, host, path, query)
		$url_parts = parse_url( $this->feed_url );

		$scheme_and_host = $url_parts['scheme'] . '://' . $url_parts['host'];

		//Remove the exisitng projection from the path, and replace it with '/full-noattendees'
		$path = substr( $url_parts['path'], 0, strrpos( $url_parts['path'], '/' ) ) . '/full-noattendees';

		//Add the default parameters to the querystring (retrieving JSON, not XML)
		$query = '?alt=json&singleevents=true&sortorder=ascending&orderby=starttime';

		$gmt_offset = get_option( 'gmt_offset' ) * 3600;

		//Append the feed specific parameters to the querystring
		$query .= '&start-min=' . date( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:s', $this->feed_start - $gmt_offset );
		$query .= '&start-max=' . date( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:s', $this->feed_end - $gmt_offset );
		$query .= '&max-results=' . $this->max_events;

		if ( ! empty( $this->timezone ) )
			$query .= '&ctz=' . $this->timezone;

		//If enabled, use experimental 'fields' parameter of Google Data API, so that only necessary data is retrieved. This *significantly* reduces amount of data to retrieve and process
		$general_options = get_option( GCE_GENERAL_OPTIONS_NAME );
		if ( $general_options['fields'] )
			$query .= '&fields=entry(title,link[@rel="alternate"],content,gd:where,gd:when,gCal:uid)';

		//Put the URL back together
		$url = $scheme_and_host . $path . $query;

		//Attempt to retrieve the cached feed data
		$this->events = get_transient( 'gce_feed_' . $this->feed_id );

		//If the cached feed data isn't valid any more (has expired), or the URL has changed (settings have changed), then the feed data needs to be retrieved and decoded again
		if ( false === $this->events || get_transient( 'gce_feed_' . $this->feed_id . '_url' ) != $url ) {
			$this->events = array();

			//Retrieve the feed data
			$raw_data = wp_remote_get( $url, array(
				'sslverify' => false, //sslverify is set to false to ensure https URLs work reliably. Data source is Google's servers, so is trustworthy
				'timeout'   => 10     //Increase timeout from the default 5 seconds to ensure even large feeds are retrieved successfully
			) );

			//If $raw_data is a WP_Error, something went wrong
			if ( ! is_wp_error( $raw_data ) ) {
				//If response code isn't 200, something went wrong
				if ( 200 == $raw_data['response']['code'] ) {
					//Attempt to convert the returned JSON into an array
					$raw_data = json_decode( $raw_data['body'], true );

					//If decoding was successful
					if ( ! empty( $raw_data ) ) {
						//If there are some entries (events) to process
						if ( isset( $raw_data['feed']['entry'] ) ) {
							//Loop through each event, extracting the relevant information
							foreach ( $raw_data['feed']['entry'] as $event ) {
								$id          = esc_html( substr( $event['gCal$uid']['value'], 0, strpos( $event['gCal$uid']['value'], '@' ) ) );
								$title       = esc_html( $event['title']['$t'] );
								$description = esc_html( $event['content']['$t'] );
								$link        = esc_url( $event['link'][0]['href'] );
								$location    = esc_html( $event['gd$where'][0]['valueString'] );
								$start_time  = $this->iso_to_ts( $event['gd$when'][0]['startTime'] );
								$end_time    = $this->iso_to_ts( $event['gd$when'][0]['endTime'] );

								//Create a GCE_Event using the above data. Add it to the array of events
								$this->events[] = new GCE_Event( $id, $title, $description, $location, $start_time, $end_time, $link );
							}
						}

						//Cache the feed data
						set_transient( 'gce_feed_' . $this->feed_id, $this->events, $this->cache_duration );
						set_transient( 'gce_feed_' . $this->feed_id . '_url', $url, $this->cache_duration );
					} else {
						//json_decode failed
						$this->error = __( 'Some data was retrieved, but could not be parsed successfully. Please ensure your feed URL is correct.', GCE_TEXT_DOMAIN );
					}
				} else {
					//The response code wasn't 200, so generate a helpful(ish) error message depending on error code
					switch ( $raw_data['response']['code'] ) {
						case 404:
							$this->error = __( 'The feed could not be found (404). Please ensure your feed URL is correct.', GCE_TEXT_DOMAIN );
							break;
						case 403:
							$this->error = __( 'Access to this feed was denied (403). Please ensure you have public sharing enabled for your calendar.', GCE_TEXT_DOMAIN );
							break;
						default:
							$this->error = sprintf( __( 'The feed data could not be retrieved. Error code: %s. Please ensure your feed URL is correct.', GCE_TEXT_DOMAIN ), $raw_data['response']['code'] );
					}
				}
			}else{
				//Generate an error message from the returned WP_Error
				$this->error = $raw_data->get_error_message() . ' Please ensure your feed URL is correct.';
			}
		}

		//Makes sure each event knows it came from this feed
		foreach ( $this->events as $event ) {
			$event->set_feed( $this );
		}
	}

	//Convert an ISO date/time to a UNIX timestamp
	function iso_to_ts( $iso ) {
		sscanf( $iso, "%u-%u-%uT%u:%u:%uZ", $year, $month, $day, $hour, $minute, $second );
		return mktime( $hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year );
	}

	//Return error message, or false if no error occurred
	function error() {
		return $this->error;
	}

	//Setters

	function set_feed_id( $v ) {
		$this->feed_id = $v;
	}

	function set_feed_title( $v ) {
		$this->feed_title = $v;
	}

	function set_feed_url( $v ) {
		$this->feed_url = $v;
	}

	function set_max_events( $v ) {
		$this->max_events = $v;
	}

	function set_cache_duration( $v ) {
		$this->cache_duration = $v;
	}

	function set_date_format( $v ) {
		$this->date_format = $v;
	}

	function set_time_format( $v ) {
		$this->time_format = $v;
	}

	function set_timezone( $v ) {
		$this->timezone = $v;
	}

	function set_display_options( $v ) {
		$this->display_opts = $v;
	}

	function set_multi_day( $v ) {
		$this->multi_day = $v;
	}

	function set_feed_start( $v ) {
		$this->feed_start = $v;
	}

	function set_feed_end( $v ) {
		$this->feed_end = $v;
	}

	function set_use_builder( $v ) {
		$this->use_builder = $v;
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	function set_builder( $v ) {
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	function get_feed_url() {
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		return $this->multi_day;
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Australian university union elections point to seething discontent
By Mike Head
Results of recent National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) elections indicate deepening hostility among Australia university workers toward the sellouts being imposed by the trade union, on top of its decades of presiding over deteriorating conditions.
The elections took place amid an escalating assault on university staff and students, with class sizes soaring, permanent full-time jobs being eliminated, student fees and loan repayments rising, and courses and research being subordinated to the requirements of the corporate ruling class.
The Liberal-National government is stripping billions of dollars from the public universities, compounding the impact of the $3 billion slashed by the previous Greens-backed Labor government. The NTEU, absolutely opposed to any unified struggle against this offensive, is instead frantically pushing through regressive enterprise agreements (EAs) with individual universities to assist each one to impose these cuts, at the expense of staff and students alike.
Already, according to the latest Education Department statistics, 46 percent of the academic workforce is in insecure forms of employment. This casualisation has been assisted by the NTEU's introduction of a new "Scholarly Teaching Fellow" classification in 2013. As of February 2018, almost 700 such teaching-intensive positions had been created, further undermining the research role of academics.
In a bid to head off the rising disaffection, and divert it back into the hands of the NTEU, pseudo-left candidates claimed they could "democratise" and "renew" the union. None of them opposed the pro-management record or perspective of the union, however.
More than a third—37 percent—of NTEU members who voted in last month's national leadership ballot supported such a candidate, University of Technology Sydney NTEU branch president Vince Caughley. Standing for the post of assistant national secretary, he advocated "grassroots leadership renewal" to "make union strength a priority."
Caughley and his supporters did not contest the union presidency or national secretaryship, signalling their desire to join, not challenge, the NTEU leadership. In fact, they stressed their agreement with the NTEU's active promotion of the union movement's phony "change the rules" campaign, which advocates the return of yet another pro-business Labor government.
At the University of Sydney, a branch committee election saw pseudo-left supporters, who initially opposed last year's blatant NTEU enterprise agreement betrayal at the university, obtain five of the 12 contested positions.
The "USyd Union Action" ticket criticised the NTEU for settling last year's EA negotiations "before our core demands on job security, wages, and protecting the teaching-research nexus had been won." Nonetheless, Union Action vowed to work within the EA and did not stand against long-term branch president Kurt Iveson, who vehemently defended the EA as "the leading agreement in the higher education sector in Australia."
In a sign of a wider disaffection, branch committee posts remain vacant at numbers of the country's 39 public universities, as do three of the 11 seats on the union's national indigenous policy committee.
The union leadership has so far failed to provide members with a full report on the national election, despite outgoing president Jeannie Rea promising on August 31 to do so "as soon as it is finalised." It remains unclear how many members actually voted.
Without releasing any figures, Rea told the Australian on August 29 that West Australian NTEU state secretary Gabe Gooding won the ballot for national assistant secretary with 63 percent of the vote.
Gooding is part of a new leadership team of president Alison Barnes and national secretary Matthew McGowan, who were elected unopposed with the backing of their outgoing predecessors, Rea and Grahame McCulloch.
McCulloch, who has run the NTEU or its predecessor union for 35 years, and Rea, president for eight years, are getting out after politically and industrially straitjacketing university workers for years through "enterprise bargaining," and falsely promoting Labor and the Greens as defenders of public education.
Over four decades, the union has facilitated the transformation of the universities from institutions of higher learning and critical research, with full-time tenured academics. They are now corporatised entities, serving the needs of big business and the expanding military-intelligence apparatus, and predominantly staffed by severely exploited teachers and administrative staff on casual or short-term contracts. They depend on exorbitant fees charged to international students, generating $31 billion in annual income for Australian capitalism.
The Barnes-McGowan-Gooding leadership represents a further pro-corporate shift. Barnes is spearheading an "interest-based bargaining" (IBB) program, based on the supposed common interests of employers and workers. In reality, IBB makes plain the mutual interest of the union bureaucrats and the managements in suppressing the opposition of workers to the destruction of jobs and basic conditions.
At Sydney's Macquarie University, where Barnes has been NTEU branch president, she and other union officials are trying to push through an EA that will allow the university to coerce up to a quarter of the academics to allocate 70 percent or more of their workload to teaching—junking the traditional 40 percent allocation for research, writing and publication. The proposed EA also imposes a real wage cut.
Barnes and the NTEU are suppressing all information about vital opposing resolutions passed at a membership meeting on June 19. Moved by Socialist Equality Party supporters, the motions called for a unified national struggle by university workers to overturn all the budget cuts and for vastly increased education funding, at all levels, to guarantee the basic social right to free, first-class education for all students.
These resolutions, passed in the presence of Barnes, advanced a socialist perspective completely opposed to the pro-capitalist one of the NTEU. Her response, and that of the union leadership as a whole, has been to refuse to circulate the resolutions to Macquarie staff or their colleagues elsewhere.
This underscores the anti-democratic character of the union, which flows necessarily from its collaboration with managements. It specialises in striking backroom deals, calling off industrial action for which members have voted, and then presenting its EAs as fait accomplis.
Gooding also personifies the NTEU's trajectory. She was elevated by the outgoing leadership after her role in last year's dispute at Perth's Murdoch University. She was instrumental in pushing through an EA that gave the management virtually everything, including a real wage cut, it had sought when it originally moved to terminate its previous agreement with the NTEU.
In the face of the bitterness and disgust produced by the NTEU's betrayals, pseudo-left organisations are seeking to peddle illusions that the union can be transformed in order to defend members' interests. One of the USyd Union Action candidates, Alma Torlakovic, a supporter of the pseudo-left Socialist Alternative, declared in her election statement that "as an active socialist," one of her "life goals" was "rebuilding unionism."
Exactly the opposite is required in order to reverse the assault on university workers and students. Trade unions always were based on the perspective of seeking better terms and conditions for wage labour, not the overthrow of capitalism to establish socialism. In the past they could extract concessions from employers, but today they enforce the reversal of all the hard-won gains of the working class.
To fight for their basic rights, university employees need to decisively break from the NTEU, and begin to form workplace rank-and-file committees that are completely independent from the union, and from Labor and the Greens.
Such committees would turn out to workers everywhere for a struggle against the corporate offensive and the drive toward authoritarianism and war. This requires a socialist perspective, aimed at totally reorganising society in the interests of the vast majority, not the profits of the wealthy few. All those who want to take forward this fight should contact the Committee For Public Education (CFPE), established by the Socialist Equality Party.
Australian unions impose sweeping job and pay cuts via "interest-based bargaining"
[24 April 2018]
In Defence of Public Education in Australia and New Zealand
Teachers condemn union's sell-out agreement in New South Wales
Widespread opposition among South Australian teachers to union-government sell-out agreement
Australian Labor and Liberal ministers agree on further regressive education measures
Meeting of Australian teachers passes resolutions in defence of Julian Assange
Australia: Bullied teachers reveal union complicity in victimisations—Part 2


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Drake Relays: Waukee, Southeast Polk take home high school team titles
Dargan Southard
A mix of drizzling rain and unfavorable temperatures cast an ominous cloud over the final day of the Drake Relays. But that didn't stop Waukee and Southeast Polk from bringing home some hardware.
The Waukee boys and Southeast Polk girls captured the high school team titles, clinching them with quality showings in the 4x400 to end the meet.
Waukee won with 32 points. The Warriors knocked off West Des Moines Valley (22 points) and Western Dubuque (14 points). Southeast Polk won with 24 points, finishing eight ahead of second-place Davenport Assumption.
Waukee didn't officially have the title wrapped up until it won the 4x400 on the legs of Sam Yeaway, Kahlil Hicks-Jumper, Zachary Eaton and Aaron Smith. That group smoked the entire field, winning by nearly two seconds.
"I think I can speak for everyone that we feel great," Smith said. "Coming out here after a couple days of not finishing it off, some races not getting the flag, it feels good to finally get it."
Waukee had hoped for more relay white flags, but it had to settle for the one among the team title events. The Warriors racked up eight points in the 4x800 and distance medley relay, as well as six points in the 4x100.
"That's what we all have each other for," Yeaway said. "We pick each other up. Say I'm down, I know one of my best friends is going to pick me up."
On the girls' side, Davenport Assumption pulled even with Southeast Polk midway through Saturday, after the quartet of Amaya Jackson, Natalie Moore, Lea Nelson and Carly King finished third in the 4x100.
But the Rams had the final say.
Linn-Mar took home the 4x400 title, but Southeast Polk finished second to secure the team championship. Tarryn Hill, Gretta Hartz, Magda McGowan and Natalie Clement went runner-up in 4:01.35.
Southeast Polk also accumulated six points in the 800 sprint medley relay and won the 4x800.
In-state sweep
It was an in-state sweep for the Hy-Vee Cup — the team award given to the school that racks up the most points in five relays (4x800, distance medley relay, sprint medley relay, 4x100 and 4x400).
Iowa State grabbed the men's Hy-Vee Cup with 29 points, toppling Iowa (23 points) and Illinois (19 points), among others. The Cyclones bring the cup back to Ames after it spent the previous two Drake Relays in Hawkeye possession.
On the women's side, Iowa took the Hy-Vee Cup with 26 points. The Hawkeyes beat out Illinois (20 points), Oklahoma State (20 points) and Purdue (19 points), among others.
Both races were undecided until late Saturday afternoon, when the 4x400 finished off the Hy-Vee Cup events.
Iowa State just needed to finish better than sixth. The quartet of Charlie Johnson, Ben Kelly, Mason Weh and Eric Fogltanz finished fifth. Iowa, meanwhile, wrapped up its title as Jenny Kimbro, Aly Weum, Tria Simmons ands Payton Wensel finished second in the 4x400.
The Iowa women took control earlier in the weekend, racking up a title and 10 points in the sprint medley relay. The Hawkeyes also finished second in the 4x800.
The Iowa State men produced points in four of five events. The Cyclones won the distance medley relay and the 4x800, also adding five points in the sprint medley relay.
Dargan Southard covers Iowa and UNI athletics, recruiting and preps for the Des Moines Register, HawkCentral.com and the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Email him at msouthard@gannett.com or follow him on Twitter at @Dargan_Southard.
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Hard worker wins public service award
Howard Frank Pocono Record Writer
The Borough of Mount Pocono awarded John Scalamandre the second annual Mayor Daniel McDavitt Service Award for extraordinary community service in 2014.
Mount Pocono Mayor Fred Courtright said he decided to resurrect the old citizen's award that used to be given out in the borough to recognize those who performed exceptional service.
Throughout the year, Courtright solicited the names of citizens performing public service without reward.
"His best quality is his hard work," Courtright said, "especially when some people refuse or give up on something because something seems so difficult."
Scalamandre's work included serving as a member of the Borough Council, Planning Commission, Zoning Hearing Board and the Open Space Committee, a multi-municipality group. He still serves on the recreation board and is vice president and a trustee with the Pocono Mountain Public Library in Coolbaugh.
"I didn't take the position to be something but to do something," Scalamandre said.
His colleges spoke with admiration.
"He's the kindest guy in the world," Borough Council member William Jabara said. "He has a long list of accomplishments."
Humility must be one of them.
Courtright said, "When I called John about the award, he was much more interested in talking about getting bus shelters in the stops in the borough. That was just so typical. He is so service focused."
Why does he do it?
"Our solicitor asked that question one time at a long session we were having," Scalamandre, 83, said. "It's been in the back of my mind ever since. It's the challenge."
Scalamandre is a retired police officer and 20-year member of the New York Police Department. He initiated the 1013 Club, a group of retired law enforcement officers here in the Poconos.
"We try to be there when we're needed. We had the most successful and safest harvest festival in the 16 or 17 years we've been doing it, and the reason is we had the retired members of the NYPD directing traffic."
Courtright explained Scalamandre's determination.
"He doesn't shy away from the hard work that people might shy away from, like park and recreation, sanitation or open space. He's a hard worker who loves weeding in the details and flushing out plans."
Scalamandre said there's a need for more people to get involved.
"There are committees that are always looking for people to serve. The more people you have, I think, the more opportunities you have to get the word out. It shares the burden, and you have more people expressing their views and better serve the public."


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Paul Di Filippo reviews Christopher Fowler
October 19, 2014 May 11, 2018 admin 2 Comments Paul Di Filippo
Given humanity's long reliance on some kind of artificial structure to shelter us from the elements and predators and enemies, it is not surprising that houses and other buildings figure greatly in our legends, myths, dreams and fictions. Home is where the heart is, after all, as the cliché faithfully reports. The great site TV Tropes has an entire page of entries on various sorts of constructions that have been employed in storytelling as plot devices, motifs, macguffins or symbols. (I particularly like their nomenclature for the familiar Mordoresque spire: "Evil Tower of Ominousness.") Constructing a tale around a haunted house or other spooky structure is almost a default mode for fantastika.
In his new book, Nyctophobia, Christopher Fowler has managed to come up with some very neat twists and frissons on this archetypical theme. The novel provides lots of quiet discomfort without gratuitous splatter or nastiness, and that's rare in today's marketplace. I might also mention at this juncture that Fowler has done two previous books recently in the horror vein for Solaris, an excellent publisher whose titles fly too much under the radar, I think. Those earlier titles are Hell Train and Plastic, and I intend to look them up, now that I've enjoyed Nyctophobia.
One might expect a novel concerned with "fear of darkness" to take place in some twilit, northern, Germanic clime, a place where daylight hours are short and fleeting. But right away we sense Fowler's inclination to mess with our expectations in his choice of settings: sunny Spain. (Graham Joyce did something similar with his House of Lost Dreams, which took place in sun-drenched Greece.) We encounter our narrator/heroine Callie as she is house-hunting in that Mediterranean nation, having relocated there after her recent marriage to Mateo, a native. A real estate agent brings Callie to abandoned Hyperion House, she falls in love with the place, and the deal is sealed.
With that setup quickly out of the way, Fowler begins a dual-track campaign. First, he is going to give us Callie's backstory (rather tragic) and a portrait of her unexpectedly happy marriage to dream guy Mateo (she even quickly and easily becomes a companion and guardian to Bobbie, Mateo's charming nine-year-old daughter). Rendering these personalities and their relationships into something visceral and solid is ultimately necessary to explain the weirdness to come. But unlike many horror tales, no bottled-up marital psycho-sexual angst propels the plot. Instead, the triggers will prove to be a queer mix of solipsism, many-worlds theory, doppelgangers, ghosts, and Aleister-Crowley-style occultism. It's a potent blend, the exact lineaments of which you will not guess.
Second, Fowler is going to make the curious history and architecture of Hyperion House tangible and fraught with arcane melodrama. Soon the place will be as real to the reader as their own home. We learn—gradually, in bits and pieces, as Callie does her clever and meticulous research—that Hyperion House was the sole accomplishment of an eccentric architect, originally meant as a celestial observatory (it seems at first, though the truth proves stranger). And the structure's blind and sequestered rear half, almost butted up against a cliff face, gives it a chthonic aspect that counterbalances its outward focus on the heavens. Half perpetually sunny, half perpetually dark, the house, belonging to a single family for a century, is an objective correlative to many uncanny desires and events. For Callie, it soon begins to mirror both her worst fears and her highest hopes.
Fowler builds up the two intertwined and codependent halves of his story—house's purpose and the lives of its inhabitants—in beautifully balanced counterpoise. There are also many moments of calm and peace (the portrait of the nearby Spanish town and its citizens is of engaging and whimsical travel memoir quality) to contrast with the equal number of grotesque incidents, such as when a man appears to be stung to death by hornets, or when Callie finally meets the dwellers in the dark—described by Fowler with precise gory gusto.
In the end, two traits distinguish this book from lesser, more traditional works of horror. First is a quasi-science fictional ambiance. Callie acts as a scientist seeking to unravel a riddle which, albeit not "natural," is still of nature. The house is not an organic thing, but a machine designed to produce certain effects. Callie becomes almost like an astronaut exploring a Big Dumb Object. Second is Callie's attitude toward the specters. Yes, she's frightened. But above that emotion is a sense of pity, a desire to help. In working towards the liberation of Hyperion House's ghostly tenants, she is also engaged on her own inner voyage of discovery, confrontation and healing.
Fowler delivers a useful message couched in thriller guise: only by empathizing with demons can we conquer them and relieve both them and ourselves of our uncertainty and pain. The opposite of nyctophobia is photophilia: the love of light.
Nyctophobia
(Solaris 978-1781082119, $9.99, 320pp, mass market paperback) October 7, 2014
Paul Di Filippo has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and has published almost that number of books. He lives in Providence, RI, with his mate of an even greater number of years, Deborah Newton.
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2 thoughts on "Paul Di Filippo reviews Christopher Fowler"
Dàibhidh Ualraig Càidh
Really loved HELL TRAIN. And you're right about Solaris. They're publishing some really great books, several notches above Angry Robot and other like competitors.
Hi Paul –
In early drafts the house was more machine-like, and I wondered if anyone would pick up on this element. I tried to restore the motivations which are all too often missing in this kind of tale. You've understood exactly what I wanted to do, and I'm thrilled by your review.


Our towns and cities are shaped by government policy and land-use planning. However, planning policy tends to ignore the fact that women and men use public space very differently and have different concerns about how it meets their needs. Looking at gender issues in planning is central to success in economic regeneration and social inclusion. This paper looks at the barriers facing local authorities, examines planning levels, and recommends changes, giving examples of good practice. For more detailed guidance, we recommend the Gender and Spatial Planning: RTPI good practice note 7 (RTPI, 2007), also available on this website.
gender-equal03.pdf Graduate School of Architecture.
at: www.eoc.org.uk/Default.aspx?page+17686 London Borough of Islington, Why is planning a gender issue?
planning levels, and recommend changes, giving examples of good practice.
www.wds.org.uk Magazine, No.70/71, University of Toronto.
References Planning Institute, and accompanying Report on Gendered patterns A virtuous circle?
for escorting children to school.
Urban Planning and Architecture at the of the ReGender project which trains regeneration to the use of a car during the daytime.
access to the labour market.
streets at night, and made women returning ways of involving women in decision-making, This would also contribute undertaking part-time work locally.
levels of concern Communities and Local Government, 200612).
1. City-wide planning is the most important attention to station toilet provision, > Revisions to national planning guidance, requirement in the new planning system.
guidance at national level should be cascaded a fixed agenda to comment on.
linking gender into other high-level and direction of of the different needs of women and men.
Leicester has established a model authority level.
are assessed for each policy area in the Unitary not available at transport termini and in city feedback and public participation exercises. transportation policy.
Strategies and Local Development Frameworks.
location of childcare provision in relation to toilets, refuse disposal, and street management. into planning.


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I have been thinking more about Herbert Shepard's "Rules for Change Agents", specifically his last rule of thumb, Rule VIII, "Capture the moment." Shepard suggested that we can handle a situation at work or in life more effectively if we allow ourselves to be more engaged, to approach from different perspectives. He called this the "multiple potential of the moment." For example, apply not only your intellect to a situation but also your heart. He wrote, "One needs to have as many frameworks for seeing and strategies for acting available as possible." I recently viewed the 1939 John Ford classic film Stagecoach. Will the Ringo Kid (John Wayne) go to prison or to his ranch in Mexico? The resolution captures the moment. I do agree with Shepard. We can be too linear in our thinking sometimes.
However -- in discussing "Capture the moment" with my students, I put another spin on it. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to offer my spin as a new Rule IX, "Celebrate the moment." In the course of our days, our weeks, there may be small victories, small moments that we should savor -- but we don't. They barely register. We move on to the next task, the next meeting, the next project. Savor that "nice work", "great job". Allow yourself to enjoy the contribution you made to the success of the team, of another person. My guess is that most of us frequently have moments somewhere in our day, that if we let them, would bring a smile to our face.
And sometimes leaders fail to celebrate the successes of their units. I had a student who led an organization that had a very successful year. After we discussed celebrating the moment, he realized that he had not done so with his company, that he barely acknowledged the great year before focusing on the next. The next Monday when he went to work, he corrected that situation. They celebrated the moment.
Celebrate the moments, large and small, that unfold to you.
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So often, I fail to apply this same concept at work. I feel so rushed to complete the next project, that I do not pay attention to what great work has already been done. My best bosses where those who thanked me for what I had done - even if it were a small project. Those gestures made me feel appreciated.


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Twin River reports increase in revenues overall, but challenges in R.I.
By Katherine GreggProvidence Journal
Nov 15, 2019 at 12:36 PM Nov 15, 2019 at 1:26 PM
PROVIDENCE — The revenue free-fall at Twin River Casino in Lincoln this past summer has "bottomed out,″ company executives told investors during an earnings call Thursday in which they also outlined some of their strategies for recapturing customers wooed away by the "aggressive" — but in their view, "unsustainable" — giveaways by Wynn Resorts' new Encore Boston Harbor casino.
That was the bottom line that top executives at Twin River Worldwide holdings delivered to investors. The company, which owns and manages two Rhode Island casinos for the state Lottery, including one in Tiverton, has emerged as the primary opponent of extending rival IGT's Lottery contract for another 20 years, without competitive bidding.
While fighting the contract war, Twin River has also been fighting the competition from across the border.
"We believe the decline in revenues hit bottom in August, and since Labor Day, we've seen ... some recovery,″ Twin River's president and CEO George Papanier told the investors.
"As part of our competitive response, we are actively launching several new initiatives with an emphasis on regaining table-game market share,″ he said, providing these examples: the introduction in late summer of Macau-style Baccarat, the imminent introduction Pai Gow tiles "as well as the [new] free-bet incentives on table games.
"In addition we continue to launch new marketing programs aimed at drawing back customers [drawn away] by some trial play at the new competition."
Asked later to elaborate, Twin River spokeswoman Patti Doyle said: "Macau style Baccarat is very popular with the Asian gaming community. Many of those customers in MA gravitated to Encore upon opening so offering that game would be an example of helping to bring back that customer base."
Overall, the executives speaking for the owners' group led by Standard General said Twin River had a good third quarter, with a 17% year-over-year increase in overall revenue, despite the "significant" effects of heavy competition in the New England market on the older of Twin River's two casinos in Rhode Island: the Twin River Casino Hotel in Lincoln.
In advance of an earnings call with investors, Twin River reported that its overall revenue increased to $129.3 million in the third quarter of 2019, from $110.5 million a year earlier, principally due to effects of the acquisition of Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Delaware, which has "exceed(ed) expectations." The company also owns the Tiverton Casino Hotel near the Fall River border, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Arapahoe Park racetrack in Aurora, Colorado.
"While we experienced the anticipated short-term impacts of new competition at our Twin River Casino Hotel in the quarter, we continued to reap the benefits of our disciplined [mergers and acquisitions] strategy, with Dover Downs and Tiverton both performing extremely well this quarter. Our overall plan is on track and the long-term value proposition we have laid out for our investors remains intact,″ Papanier said.
As evident from recent state revenue forecasts, the drop-off in gambling activity at the Lincoln casino was steep.
Looking at the upside, Papanier said the Lincoln casino revenues in September and October were not down as much as they were over the summer, which he described as an encouraging "trend."
The numbers: "For September, revenue at Lincoln was down 17% year over year, compared to ... 22% and 24% in July and August respectively ... Table games continue to see more of an impact with volumes down 30% in September compared to the same period in 2018. But we saw a moderation compared to the 34% and 38% decreases we experiences in July and August,″ Papanier said.
"We view the September trend as positive and expect to see an accelerated recovery as we head toward year end,″ he said.
"New competition in the New England market, and the associated increases in marketing and promotional activity, significantly impacted revenue in the third quarter at Twin River Casino Hotel [in Lincoln]."
Despite an increase in total revenue, River Worldwide Holdings' net second-quarter profit (after expenses) fell by $9.4 million, or 57.3%, from the same period a year ago, to $7 million.


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title: Design Time
page_title: Design Time - WinForms ButtonTextBox Control
description: Learn what are the design time options offered by the WinForms ButtonTextBox.
slug: winforms/editors/buttontextbox/design-time
tags: design,time
published: True
position: 2
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# Design Time

To start using **RadButtonTextBox** just drag it from the toolbox and drop it onto the form.

## Smart Tag

Select **RadButtonTextBox** and click the small arrow on the top right position in order to open the __Smart Tag__. The __Smart Tag__ for **RadButtonTextBox** lets you quickly access common tasks involved with building **RadButtonTextBox** elements and customizing appearance through themes.

>caption Figure 1: Smart Tag

![editors-buttontextbox-design-time 001](images/editors-buttontextbox-design-time001.png)

* __New Theme Manager__: adds a new __RadThemeManager__ component to the form.

* __Edit UI Elements__: allows setting properties at multiple levels of the class hierarchy.

    >caption Figure 2: Element hierarchy editor

    ![editors-buttontextbox-design-time 002](images/editors-buttontextbox-design-time002.png)

* __Theme Name__: select a theme name from the drop down list of themes available for that control. Selecting a theme allows you to change all aspects of the control's visual style at one time.

* **Buttons Left**/**Buttons Right**: allows populating the **RadButtonTextBox** at design time. Additional information can be found in the [Populating with Data >> Design Time]({%slug winforms/editors/buttontextbox/populating-with-data/design-time%}) help article.

* __Learning Center:__ Navigate to the Telerik help, code library projects or support forum.
* __Search:__ Search the Telerik site for a given string.

# See Also

* [Element Hierarchy Editor]({%slug winforms/tools/element-hierarchy-editor%})
* [Using default themes]({%slug winforms/themes/using-default-themes%})


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Q: Can one class generate a signal and handled by another class? I have a buffer in class 'bufferClass' that will generate a signal to tell 'fileClass' that buffer is full and now write data to file? And when 'fileClass' is done writing to file, it will generate a signal to tell 'guiClass' that data can be read from file.
Is this possible? I have been reading http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Signal-Handling.html but not too sure how to generate such a signal? I don't need the exact code, just an idea.
Much appreciated.
i am using mac os X, x-code.

A: I would use threading.
By having your main class 'fileClass' spin off a thread called 'bufferclass'. When buffer class exits succesfully you will know that your buffer is full.
Intermediate thread url below
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node29.html

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Channel the Mediterranean, with the flavours and textures of this macadamia dukka.
Pre-heat oven to 180C. Lay macadamias on a lined baking sheet and roast until golden, about 10 minutes, then set aside to cool. Heat a frying pan then gently toast sesame seeds until golden. Transfer to a bowl and set aside to cool. Put coriander and cumin in frying pan and cook, stirring, until fragrant, then add to sesame seeds. When macadamias are cool, crush into fine pieces with a mortar and pestle. Add sesame seeds, coriander, cumin, black pepper, sea salt and chilli and continue crushing until you have the desired consistency. Take care not to over-work the blend or it will turn into a paste.
Divide between sterilised jars, it will last for up to a week.
In a medium-sized bowl, thoroughly combine yoghurt, mint and lemon juice. Set aside. Pour dukkah on to a large plate, reserving 2 tbsp. Holding onto tails, draw each prawn through the egg and then dukkah. Add oil to a large saucepan over high heat, ensure it is hot before you start shallow frying prawns in batches of 10. Gently turn prawns once after 20 seconds and finish cooking on the other side, which should take less than 15 seconds. Remove from pan and set on a paper towel to drain excess oil. Place on a serving platter, sprinkle with reserved dukkah and serve with yoghurt and lemon wedges.


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