Kentico releases a new major version of their flagship product - Kentico EMS - each calendar year. December 2017 saw the release of #KenticoStallion, or more formally, Kentico 11.
Read my last few annual upgrade posts on Kentico 8, Kentico 9, and Kentico 10, and while you're at it, check out a bit of a deeper dive into how upgrades work!
Each year I tend to blog about the latest version, and encourage the community at large to get on board ASAP (as I usually have - upgrading literally on day one of release... but I'm a total fanboy).
The majority of Kentico customers pay an annual fee to stay up to date with support and for access to hotfixes and version upgrades (termed "maintenance"). Some stay up to date and take advantage of this, yet others fall behind and find that upgrading through multiple versions at once becomes a bit difficult.
Upgrading regularly not only makes each individual upgrade much easier (and therefore cheaper), but the benefits of staying up to date result in better efficiency, lower risk, and happier marketing and IT staff, allowing you to maximise the return on your original investment in the platform.
Kentico release a new major version (e.g. 9, 10, 11) once per year, and a hotfix (e.g. 10.0.46) once per week. In some versions they have released minor versions (e.g. 8.1 and 8.2) but generally they stick to this annual version release, plus regular hotfixes.
A sensible and common strategy is to factor a major version upgrade into your plan once per year. Risk-averse customers (the majority!) like to wait for a couple of hotfixes to be released before taking the plunge, but this only translates to a delay of a couple of weeks. With versions being released toward the end of the calendar year, it makes sense to schedule in your major upgrade for the beginning of the following year.
Think of your annual upgrade as a regular service of your car. Yes, it carries a cost, but it brings it back up to as-new condition, and is significantly less than purchasing a new car. And in this case you might just get a new engine (or more likely some sweet automated driving/marketing features) thrown in for free!
Hotfixes are not strictly required, and in fact Kentico's official line is to only apply them if you are experiencing a major bug. So they don't need to be factored into your plan - you can leave it to your digital agency or solution partner to let you know if/when a hotfix is recommended or required. Their application is much simpler (aka. cheaper) than a fully-fledged upgrade.
Performance improvements - for example, I have previously recommended (scroll to about half way, just underneath the Dr Evil maniacal laughter GIF) moving from K9 to K10 purely on the back of their EMS performance gains.
UI tuning and tweaking - the simple addition of Staging Task Groups in K9 changed the way some of our customers' editors work (and us too).
Reducing code debt/smell - underlying code/API changes are guaranteed to not break (only be marked as "deprecated") during a single version upgrade. This means developers have a whole year to update and clean up their code.
Developer efficiency/velocity - by keeping up to date with the latest improvements to the codebase from the vendor, developers can be more efficient in writing their code, and therefore spend less time on bug fixes, updates, enhancements and CI.
Staff effectiveness and perception - no one likes working with old software. It is likely to slow people down and ingrain negativity towards your digital asset. We've heard people inexplicably trash-talking Kentico, only to find out that they're still stuck on K5.5.
Risk management - from a pure business risk management perspective, it should be the norm to ensure your business critical software is kept up to date and supported by your vendors. You should regularly upgrade your CMS just like any other piece of critical software in your business.
What's licensing maintenance? It's pretty important to understand, but I'll leave that to Kentico to explain.
Are you up to date with your Kentico licensing maintenance?
Do you have a developer, or an agency full of people, who know your site inside out, and even have a development environment sitting there on their machines?
You might even have a regular retainer with an agency, with a few hours left to throw at it.
We regularly get asked what's involved in an upgrade, and how/why can the cost vary so much. For more info on how big/long an upgrade/piece of string is read this (particularly the "anatomy of an upgrade" part).
But times have changed. Kentico has gotten better at their upgrades, and developers/agencies have more experience in applying them. Recently, K8 was significant (featuring a complete UI overhaul), and K9 was a big deal for complex sites with a lot of customisation (R.I.P. database views).
But K10's upgrade process was much nicer, and I'm happy to report that K11's is very nice! Of course I've already upgraded our own site, and I'm happy to report it only took a day or two end to end, with no major issues.
So by now hopefully you're completely convinced that you need to upgrade to the latest version right now, and I've intentionally focused more on staying up to date in general, rather than this particular version being excellent.
Plan your upgrades on a regular cycle, just like you would plan your car servicing, or upkeep/maintenance of any other significant asset. Yes, it carries a cost, but it comes with a multitude of benefits, reduces risk and cost in the long-term, and it's a whole lot cheaper than buying a new car every couple of years.
If you're already with us, we can easily give you an estimate for upgrading your site to Kentico 11, free of charge. Just drop us a line.
If you're not lucky enough to be with us, then we can still have a look for you! We've done literally hundreds of upgrades, and we'd be happy to add yours to the list.


Ronald "Robie" G. Robison, 61, of Hagerstown, died Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003, in Hagerstown.
Born June 4, 1942, in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late Edward Boyd and Grace Lorraine Kiehl Robison. He was the husband of 43 years to Jacqueline Y. Chaumette Robison of Hagerstown.
Robie retired from the United States Army in 1981 from the military police. During his service, he fought in the Vietnam War and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with three Bronze Service Stars, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, the Meritorious United Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and the Good Conduct Medal Clasp (5th Award).
Robie was a past police officer for the Hagerstown City Police Department. He was a past member of Dixon-Troxell VFW Post 211 in Funkstown, Md., and AMVETS Post 10 in Hagerstown.
In addition to his wife, Rob is survived by three sons, James M. Robison of Gettysburg, Pa., Edward B. Robison of Hagerstown, and Eric J. Robison of Falling Waters, W.Va.; two daughters, Corinne S. Finn and Marie Anne Y. Hower, both of Reading, Pa.; one sister, Constance Sprecher of Hanover, Pa.; and 10 grandchildren.
The funeral service will be private and at the convenience of the family. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery with military honors.
There will be no public viewing. Friends may pay last respects from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2003 at the Gerald N. Minnich Funeral Home, 305 N. Potomac St., Hagerstown.
The family suggests memorial contributions may be made to the Always and Forever Memorial and Honor Program/American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 2680, North Canton, OH 44720.
The arrangements have been entrusted to the Gerald N. Minnich Funeral Home, 305 N. Potomac St., Hagerstown.
McCONNELLSBURG, Pa. - Helen R. Everts Wink, 67, of 25 Cloverleaf Court, died Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003, at York (Pa.) Hospital.
Born June 9, 1936, in Needmore, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Robert W. and Ruth A. Barthalow Everts.
She worked at the Stanley Co. as a seamstress, retiring after 26 years of service.
She attended Calvary Independent Baptist Church in McConnellsburg.
She is survived by her husband, Donald L. Wink; one daughter, Audrey J. Duncan of Hanover, Pa.; one son, Milton E. Wink of McConnellsburg; six sisters, Alice Truax of Warfordsburg, Pa., Mary Hurst of Sebring, Fla., Bessis Wills of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., Betty Bishop of Buck Valley, Pa., Daisy Wertz of Needmore, and Tammy Kyne of Martinsburg, W.Va.; three brothers, Jake Everts of McConnellsburg, Edward B. Everts of Dott, Pa., and Denton Everts of Fort Loudon, Pa.; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by an infant brother and one grandchild.
Services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Calvary Independent Baptist Church. Pastor David Carroll will officiate. Burial will be in Tonoloway Baptist Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home, which will be open after 2 p.m., and one hour prior to the services at the church on Wednesday.
Arrangements are by Kelso-Cornelius Funeral Home Inc., McConnellsburg.
WINCHESTER, Va. - Dolsie M. Fost, 90, of Roosevelt Boulevard, died Friday, Oct. 10, 2003, at a local nursing home.
Born Jan. 2, 1913, in Fulton County, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Mary Elizabeth Barkman and Albert Bowman.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lewis H. Fost. They were married Sept. 10, 1932.
She retired from Glaize Packinghouse in 1973.
She was a member of Carpers Valley United Methodist Church.
She is survived by two sons, Richard L. Fost and James L. Fost, both of Winchester; one sister, Beatrice Norris of Little Orleans, Md.; one brother, David Bowman of Baltimore; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home, Winchester. The Rev. David Burrough will officiate. Burial will be in Shenandoah Memorial Park.
QUINCY, Pa. - Virginia A. Dailey Pryor, 83, a resident of Quincy United Methodist Home, and formerly of 14550 Pennersville Road in Cascade, died Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003, at the home.
Born April 20, 1920, in Jefferson County, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late James A. and Lillie O. Wilt Dailey. She lived her early life in Charles Town, W.Va.
She was a 1941 graduate of Charles Town High School and later graduated from Hagers-town Business College.
She was employed by Claire Frock Sewing Factory in Thurmont, Md.
She was a member of St. Stephen's United Church of Christ in Highfield, Md., where she was a member of the Women's Guild and the Consistory where she served as treasurer, elder and deacon.


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Muchu Chhish and the Prominence Debate
Angela Benavides
8000ers Karakorum 07/07/2021
Batura Muztag massif. Photo: Muchu Chhish Czech expedition's FB
A Czech team attempting unclimbed Muchu Chhish has drawn attention toward the obscure peak, located in remote Batura Muztag.
As we noted previously, Muchu Chhish's altitude ranks it as the highest unclimbed peak in Pakistan and the second in the world after Bhutan's Gangkhar Puensum, which is banned for climbing because of religious reasons.
However, as mountaineering and polar historian Damien Gildea told ExplorersWeb, if we consider Muchu Chhish in terms of prominence, it can barely be called a mountain. Muchu Chhish has just 263m of prominence.
"It's really just a sub-peak of the Batura chain," Gildea says. "Gangkhar Puensum, on the other hand, is a real mountain, with 2,995m of prominence."
Muchu Chhish's location on the Batura Muztag ridge.
What is prominence?
Prominence measures "how high a mountain rises above its immediate surroundings," as Dave Philips writes in Out There Colorado. It is the drop from a summit to the lowest point between it and the next mountain, which is known as the key saddle.
The concept of prominence became noteworthy when climbers started going up mountains for sport and, especially, collecting mountains. Prominence is crucial to these lists, from the 14,000'ers (in feet) in the United States to the European Alps' 4,000'ers to the Himalayan 8,000'ers. It helps differentiate the main summit from a subsidiary peak or a secondary summit.
It also helps assess chain-climbing several peaks in a certain amount of time.
What is not clear is the exact prominence needed to be a mountain. The UIAA requires a 30m drop, plus some mountaineering and morphological characteristics, to include a mountain in the Alps as an autonomous 4,000m peak. Peakbagger.com's list of U.S. 14,000'ers shows 300 feet of clear prominence.
Prominence vs dominance
In the Andes, 6,000m peaks are classified according to a slightly different concept: dominance. This consists of the percentage between the prominence and the total height of the mountain. It must be over 7% for the main peak, between 2.10% and 6.99% for a subsidiary peak, and between 0.7% and 2.99% for a secondary summit, according to Estilo Alpino.
Aconcagua, Argentina ranks second after Everest in terms of prominence. Photo: Miviaje.com
Prominence and dominance are remarkable in American mountains. After Everest, Aconcagua is the second most prominent peak in the world (at 6,960m of prominence), followed by Denali (6,144m).
Eberhard Jurgalski of 8,000ers.com has a comprehensive article on dominance. In the case of Muchu Chhish, by the way, its dominance is only 3.5%.
Prominence provides new challenges for peak baggers. They can now focus on the peaks that are the most prominent rather than the highest peaks in an area. For those looking for ideas, Aaron Maizlish's Peak List is an ambitious project trying to list all the mountains in the world with over 1,500m of prominence.
While the debate around altitude vs prominence is open, it shows the limits — but also the possibilities — of peaks that are actually points on a massif. The challenges on Muchu Chhish begin, for example, on the sharp rib between Camp 2 and Camp 3, and on the long ridge well before the summit. Likewise, it opens the options for potential traverses of some or all of the Batura massif.
The Czech team's BC at the foot of Marble peak.
Meanwhile, near Muchu Chhish
As for the Czech team, the three climbers and their local Base Camp staff are currently acclimatizing on Sang-E-Marmar (Marble Peak). The team established Base Camp at 4,200m and has now set up Camp 2 at 5,400m.
"We hope to reach 6,000m today to boost our red blood cells," they said. They didn't say whether they planned to reach the summit of Marble Peak. "It started snowing a lot so the weather forecast [was wrong]," the climbers noted.
Wherever they reach, their plan is to move Base Camp to Muchu Chhish around July 11.
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WARRINGTON-based United Utilities, owner of North West Water, was not everyone's cup of tea 12 months ago.
It had shocked the City with a proposed massive, deeply-discounted and two-stage £1bn rights issue at 330p to help repair its balance sheet and finance its heavy capital investment programme.
Critics accused it of raising cash to fund dividend payouts, not water projects. The shares are still an acquired taste.
Down from 561p in May, they rallied 6p to 513p yesterday on hopes that water industry regulator Ofwat will be lenient tomorrow when it reveals exactly how much water bills should rise over the next five years.
Ofwat has signalled that water charges must rise, not least to finance pension costs and because of adverse changes in utilities' tax regimes.
7.8% increase to help fund a £3.8m infrastructure investment programme.
Broker Merrill Lynch expects an industry average increase of no more than 4% over the five years to 2010 and says that as with all regulatory reviews there are likely to be surprises, and not all of these will be positive ones.
Merrills prefers Severn Trent (9p dearer at 798p) to UU but both Footsie constituents are rated neutral. Its sole buy recommendation in the sector is AWG (6p better at 614p) because it still trades at a substantial discount to the sector.
Northumbrian Water, 4 1/2p up at 136 3/4p, remains a sell because its capital structure issues will not get resolved until some time in 2005. Buyers have this week been tipping their toes into United Utilities following reports that Guy Hands' private equity group Terra Firma is favourite to land its renewables business for £80m.
Terrorism fears and Opec's warning that it couldn't immediately raise output lifted the price of Brent crude for September delivery above $44 a barrel for the first time ever.
Major oil stocks helped the Footsie stay in the black. It closed 14 points up at the day's best of 4429.7. Shell closed 10 1/4p dearer at 409p, BG Group 7 1/2p to 350p and BP 8 3/4p to 521p. Wall Street lost 46 points in the early stages. With still no sign of former BBC boss Greg Dyke - the City's number one choice - ousting Charles Allen as group chief executive, ITV cheapened 1 3/4p more to a low of 103p. Closing turnover swelled to 46m as continuing uncertainty about strategy at the merged Granada/Carlton group prompted persistent heavy selling. Investors also ran for the exit ahead of today's full-year results from BSkyB, 2p easier at 602p.
A disappointing performer so far this year on concerns over subscriber growth, Lorna Tilbian at Numis retains her buy recommendation and 816p price target. But she would like to see a strategic update from James Murdoch, who has now been chief executive for almost a year.
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Race Hatred Legislation
Irene Moss.
Irene Moss, First race Discrimination Commissioner, talks about free speech and to balance it against the right of minority groups etc.
Interview for Making Multicultural Australia, 1996.
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IRENE MOSS
First Race Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Chair, National Inquiry into Racist Violence
I do believe personally that there should be the ability to debate legitimately issues that need to be debated. And I think that free speech is a very important principle. But you've got to balance that against the right of minority groups to be protected from racial harassment, racial vilification, and possibly, that leading to racist violence. So when you balance those two very important principles, I think that the compassionate, humane society will always come out in support of racial vilification legislation.
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When we conducted the National Inquiry into Racist Violence - and we are talking about 5 - 7 years ago, when I first worked as the Race Discrimination Commissioner - people were actually saying, "we think that racist harassment and racist violence is on the rise". And it was very interesting at that time, because that... was just after the Blainey debate... and with a continuing immigration policy which was allowing more visibly different Australians to come to Australia, and refugees. We had an increasingly Asian immigration intake. It was a time just after the Gulf War. It was a time when a lot of Indigenous Australians were saying they were having a lot of problems with the police and with generally established institutional structures. People were saying that things were not as right as they should be.
I'm not saying that they are at the moment - there is still a long way to go. We needed to come to grips with what was happening. We wanted to draw a map of what was the picture of racist violence in Australia. We wanted to take stock. That is why we conducted that major inquiry.
We found that the most harassed group, on the basis of race in Australia, was the Indigenous population. And we found that racism was still endemic with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We found that there were pockets of racism, particularly with people who were visibly different, so that they experienced greater harassment in their daily lives than other groups.
One of the major recommendations of that Report was racial vilification legislation. And that issue has been well and truly put on the agenda.
The thing is, it was important that that was raised - the importance of having legislation there. It was important to have Australians generally better understand what racism was, to confront it and to find out how we are, as a nation, on these issues.
I think that the reason why it has taken this long, is that the freedom of speech issue has always been a key worry with many groups. Many of those groups are quite legitimate in their fight against racism, like the Council of Civil Liberties, some of whom actually expressed concern that having legislation like this was the thin end of the wedge on freedom of expression and free speech. Some civil liberties groups were not concerned about it and were quite happy to come out in support. But I think that was the key concern, and of course, when you come to discussing free speech issues, the media lobby is very, very strong, and you will find that most media groups were against having that sort of legislation. But I don't think one needs to really fear it. The thing is, from looking at the various drafts of racial vilification legislation, there is a great concern about maintaining legitimate free speech.
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Chennai Super Kings will be keen to continue their perfect start to IPL when they take on Mumbai Indians tomorrow. The showdown will take place at Wankhede Stadium, the home of Mumbai Indians. The home team will look to register a win and kick-start their campaign. Mumbai Indians have lost 2 of their 3 matches and it has been a poor start for one of the big names in the tournament.
The two most successful teams in the history of Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings are set to battle it out. Both the teams have 3 league titles each to their names, however, both have started IPL 2019 in contrasting fashions. Where CSK haven't put a foot wrong, MI have not been able to assert themselves so far.
Mumbai Indians have only managed one win and that too came against a crestfallen RCB. They would need to get back on track swiftly if they are to mount challenge for the title this season. Rohit Sharma, the captain, will only be too aware of the situation and he needs to lead by example.
M.S. Dhoni, on the other hand, has once again showcased his leadership qualities by leading his team to 3 consecutive wins. The former Indian captain was brilliant with the bat in the last match as he played a big part in CSK's win against Rajasthan Royals.
Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Yuvraj Singh, Kieron Pollard,Ben Cutting, Pankaj Jaiswal, Ishan Kishan, Siddhesh Lad, Evin Lewis, Mayank Markande, Lasith Malinga, Rahul Chahar, Mitchell McClenaghan, Alzarri Joseph, Jason Behrendorff, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Salam, Anmolpreet Singh, Barinder Sran, Aditya Tare, Suryakumar Yadav, Jayant Yadav, Quinton de Kock.
M.S. Dhoni (c & wk), Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Murali Vijay, Kedar Jadhav, Karn Sharma, Imran Tahir, Sam Billings, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Shorey, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Rituraj Gaikwad, Dwayne Bravo, Harbhajan Singh, Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Sharma, K.M. Asif, Deepak Chahar, N. Jagadeesan, Scott Kuggeleign.
Dhoni is central to everything he does – from batting to leading his team.
Raina is already the most successful batsman in IPL history and you can not count him off.
Bravo can come in handy with the bat as well as the bowl.
Note: This MI vs CSK Dream11 Prediction is based on news sourced from various sources. We suggest you pick your playing 11 from the squad listed above basis MI vs CSK team news. Kindly revisit before the deadline to get the final update of the MI vs CSK Dream11 Prediction. Also, hit the bell icon on the bottom right side of your screen to get all the latest Dream11 Prediction updates.


In press (DOI:10.1016/j.molstruc.2012.05.016) in the Journal Of Molecular Structure (Volume 1023, 12 September 2012, Pages 212-215) in the special issue: MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS AND STRUCTURES: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT — A collection of papers dedicated to Professor Jaan Laane on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
This paper on the "actual" geometry of -annulene is part of several larger stories addressing a larger polyene (or larger-polyene) issue. First among these is the meaning of experimental results obtained by various spectroscopic methods (in this case, using previous X-ray, Raman (with the C2 (blue) and D6h (red) simulated spectra shown in the image above), IR, and NMR data that produce different results within the limitations of the methods to study the single molecule). Second is the quality of the theoretical method for reproducing certain types of spectroscopic data. In the case of the [N]-annulene series, the ever-present B3LYP density functional is found to produce the time-average geometry of -annulene found in X-ray data, but another density functional (in this case, KMLYP), finds that bond-alternate minima exist. Third is the importance of the zero-point level in the treatment of systems for which bond-alternate geometries exist with transition-state barriers calculated to be below the zero-point level in the classical approximation of nuclear positions (the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation).
NOTE 2: Optimization and Frequency calculations must be performed as TWO SEPARATE CALCULATIONS. The iop-called density functional does not carry itself over between opt + freq (or other properties) in the same input file. If you opt + freq in the same input file, you will Opt with KMLYP but freq with BLYP. This will be obvious by the number of imaginary modes.
Abstract. -annulene has been of great interest from the structural point of view of its bond alternation. High-level calculations based on structures selected for agreement with NMR spectra lead to a bond-alternate C2 form over a non-alternating planar D6h structure deduced from diffraction, infrared (IR) and electronic spectral studies. Here it is shown that computed Raman spectra for the D6h and C2 forms are expected to be very different. However, two equivalent non-D6h bond-alternate minima of D3h or C2 geometries are separated by only a small barrier along a motion that involves CC stretching and compression. It is shown here that the zero-point level is above the barrier for this species. In light of that fact, the NMR calculations are reconsidered with inclusion of zero-point level averaging.


Having received wide acclaim at the Royal Geographical Society in London, the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition comes to Grizedale Forest in the heart of Cumbria's Lake District.
The annual competition has become an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography and video, honouring amateurs and professionals of all ages.
The exhibition features over 100 astonishing images by international photographers who narrate a poignant story about the fragility of our planet, the pressures on land and resources and the people who are pushed ever closer to the margins by the persistent drive of globalization. Compiled from the very best of 3000+ entries, the exhibition aims to enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change and social inequality.
Italian photographer Michele Palazzi was awarded the Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2013 for his image entitled 'Gone with the Dust #02' . Palazzi, who is from Rome, was awarded £5,000 by CIWEM's President, Paul Hillman, at a private awards ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society on 9 April 2013. His striking and emotive prize-winning image shows a young boy and his sister during a sand storm in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
The Young Environmental Photographer of the Year (under 18) Award of £1,000, was awarded to Eleanor Bennett who has two works selected for exhibition, 'Travelling Through' and 'Car Damage'. Bennett who is 17 years old is from Stockport, Greater Manchester.
This year saw a major new partnership with Atkins, one of the world's leading engineering and design consultancies who are supporting the competition and exhibition.
Forestry Commission England, Arts Development Assistant, Antony Mottershead says, 'We are very excited to be hosting such a prestigious exhibition at Grizedale Forest and make these thought provoking photographs visible to an entirely new audience. The photographs bring the 'edges' into startlingly clear view but also celebrate the character and resilience of extraordinary people and places around the world'.
This powerful and thought provoking exhibition of outstanding environmental, social photographs by international photographers and filmmakers will be on display at Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre, Forestry Commission England, in Cumbria from 25 May – 1 September 2013.
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And the UK is treating loneliness as a major public health issue in that country. Is social media part of the problem or part of the solution?
Also , Facebook and Twitter have been making headlines for how they've been used to manipulate Americans on a variety of issues. Has news of automated bots spreading 'fake news' impacted the way you use social media?
Facebook is doing some soul-searching.
In a new commentary, the social media giant acknowledges the possibility that social media can have negative ramifications for democracy. This comes after repeated criticism that it didn't do enough to prevent the spread of fake news that had the potential to impact the 2016 U.S. presidential election.


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Gone in 60 Seconds
A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.
Watched on 22nd January 2006
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
American Pie Presents Band Camp
Matt Stifler wants to be just like his big bro, making porn movies and having a good time in college. After sabotaging the school band, he gets sent to band camp where he really doesn't like it at first but then learns how to deal with the bandeez.
Watched on 21st January 2006
Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room.
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization.
A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvested being", and is being kept along with others in a utopian facility.
Natives of a small isolated town, defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.


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Ædes Hartwellianæ: Or, Notices of the Manor and Mansion of Hartwell
De William Henry Smyth
casting. In this is a shallow circular groove four inches and a half wide by three-quarters of an inch deep, and of the curvature due to a radius of four inches, in which three iron balls of six inches and a quarter diameter are placed, for the dome to run upon. The dome, in form, is almost a hemisphere, and is constructed of fir-wood in several thicknesses—each piece about six inches deep by eight inches and a half in width-the inner diameter of the dome being fifteen feet four inches. To the underside of the aforesaid curb is secured a ring of cast iron with a circular channel, being the counter-part of that just mentioned. From the upper side of this curb spring sixteen curved rafters of cast iron, the section of which is that of a T, and the upper ends of these meet against a cast-iron ring of about three feet diameter : fifteen other intermediate rafters of similar section, but shorter, abut at their upper ends against crosspieces connecting the fifteen main rafters, the sixteenth being left out to form a clear opening for view. The rafters are filled in between with two inches and a half battens, jointed straight, rabbeted in their length, and the ends meeting at the back of the rafters, where they are firmly screwed upon the back ribs of the same. The inside of each piece of wood being flat, the whole interior is, of course, polygonal; but the outside is adzed off to the proper curve, which is covered with thin copper sheathing. The opening for observation is continued to the upper ring, and is equal to one-sixteenth of the circumference: the shutter moves on a pin at the apex of the dome as a centre, and it is carried at the bottom by rollers on a bar fixed to the wood curb ; there is also a toothed rack and pinion with a handle inside the dome, to give it motion. The shutter itself is in one piece of hammered copper, less than one-eighth of an inch thick, and it has a ridge on each edge to stiffen it, and act as a defence against rain driving in.
I have been the more particular in describing this, not only on account of the great comfort I have experienced under it, but also because the Hartwell Dome may very fairly be termed the first development of that latent talent for observatory engineering in Mr. May, which has since been so unequivocally manifested in various undertakings for the Astronomer Royal, Mr. Barclay, himself, and others. When I planned my own revolving-roof at Bedford, economy led me to construct it of a straight-lined conic shape, instead of fashioning the ribs to a semi-circular bearing, as then generally obtained. But in this for Hartwell, where it was more imperatively necessary to consult appearances than with me, it was determined in conclave that it should be truly hemispherical, should move upon three balls, and should open by a single copper-shutter from the zenith to the wall-plate. And the present efficient and durable structure was the successful consequence, in which the roomy space, the strength, and the revolutionary principles are all equally admirable.
This is proved by the fact that, though the dome has been completed about fifteen years, it has never required repair or alteration, nor has the wet penetrated anywhere. None of the swags between the points of support formed by the three balls, which a weaker construction would have had to endure, have been known: and, from the firmness and accuracy of the wallplate, these balls were found so little accelerated or retarded respectively that the roof was only lifted, for the first time since it was placed, on the morning of the 21st of September, 1850, there even then requiring but little adjustment. The mode of raising the roof a few tenths of an inch, just enough to release the balls whenever it is required to restore them to an equi-distant position from each other, is by a simple yet efficient contrivance of Mr. May's. It is by means of two stout little iron windlasses, unattached, and only used when necessary: they each consist of a pair of arched plates resembling the head of a large hammer, with a stout screw having a moveable capstan-head turned by a lever, thus affording great power of lifting in a compact form.
But while the tower was in full advance an unexpected interruption occurred, which temporarily gave the fine equatorial room to the five-foot achromatic telescope and its tripod stand. This was owing to Mr. Dollond's announcing that, on rigidly testing the large object-glass, he would not recommend it, as quite worthy of so expensive a mounting as had been proposed ; and on our going to his house, the painful fact was proved. Still, though it did not attain the acme of excellence, it was so far good as to warrant
a proper apparatus ; I therefore proposed a new and less responsible mode of calling it into action, which was about being adopted, when another circumstance changed its destiny. About the middle of the year 1836, I began to perceive that the object for which I had erected an observatory at Bedford had advanced to within a limited time of its proper accomplishment; and Dr. Lee, who had frequently made use of my great telescope, and was well acquainted with its high qualities, became a candidate for its possession when the materials for my intended astronomical work should be completed. This arrangement was the sooner made, because a future continuance of its use in prosecution of certain sidereal inquiries was most kindly and considerately conceded to me. When therefore my round of observations was complete, and affairs called me into Glamorganshire, my telescope was promoted from its humble location at Bedford to the splendid tower of Hartwell. fine instrument has been duly described, both in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society and in my Cycle of Celestial Objects; but the manner of my becoming possessed of the object-glass is best told in the words of Sir James South, who, in a letter to me from Camden Hill, of the 5th of October 1829, says
This very
"I have brought with me from the continent a piece of Aint-ylass, upwards of twelve inches diameter, which I am going to have made into an object-glass. I recollect having promised you the refusal of my six-inch one, in case I resolved to part with it; such is now my intention. If therefore you are desirous of having it, pray let me know, as till I hear from you I shall not say anything about it to any one else. I do not mean to part with it for less than 2201. You will also remember that it has no stand, its clear aperture is 5.9 inches, its tube is of brass unpolished, it has a finder of large dimensions, is provided with illuminator and light-regulating apparatus, and has no eye-pieces. I believe it to be Tulley's chef-d'oeuvre; of this however it becomes me to speak with caution, as the instrument is new. Admiral Rossel desires his regards to you and Mrs. Smyth, as does also Baron Zach."
A good six-inch object-glass was in 1829 almost unique; and as I had had an opportunity of testing the performance of the one in question at Mr. Tulley's, at Islington, I esteemed myself fortunate in securing the prize. The mounting and equipment were instantly proceeded with ; and, though science and practice have successfully laboured to improve equatorial movements since that time, I have every reason to be still satisfied with its simplicity, stability, and general performance. The principle is that of Mr. Jonathan Sisson's equatorial-sector, as described by Dr. Vince; in which an artificial polar-axis is placed parallel to that of the earth, with the hour-circle adjusted perpendicular to it, and a true collimation ensured. By thus obtaining a revolving axis in the same direction with the terrestrial one, the attached telescope readily follows any celestial body in its arc of revolution, without the trouble of repeated adjustments for the continual alterations of elevation, which attends all altitude and azimuth methods of mounting. *
Mr. Bishop's large telescope in Regent's Park, and Lord Wrottesley's in Staffordshire, are not only mounted on the same model, but are actually furnished with hour and declination circles cast from the moulds which were cut for me; and they differ so little in other dimensions that the three may almost be termed counterparts of each other, in a conventional point of view. As there is nothing like figures for nailing an assertion, the several sizes may be here shewn :
Now the first of these instruments, in the hands of such adepts as Dawes and Hind, has fully proved the excellence and facility of its working, in measuring many of the closest double-stars in the heavens, in picking up new
* In usual parlance, this species of instrument has Sisson's name attached to it, because Dr. Maskelyne considered the one made for him by that workman, to be an improvement upon that made by Henry Hindley at York, in 1741. But a polar-axis, though without the appendage of graduated circles, was used by Christopher Scheiner so far back as the year 1620.


The Ministry of Health in Oman has said the said Seasonal Flu is a severe respiratory infection caused by the flu virus, which is spreading around the world. The flu season varies from country to country and season to season in the same country.
The ministry said in a statement that being a semi-tropical country, the emergence of seasonal influenza viruses continue throughout the year in the Sultanate, but the activity of these viruses begins in early September and can continue until mid-May and maximum twice a year. The statement said that in 2017 Oman recorded (952) cases until October 10, while 1,492 cases were reported in 2016, following which nine people lost lives. in 2015, 25 deaths were recorded due to Seasonal Flu.
Eight deaths have been recorded in 2017, all of which are linked to influenza. Most of these cases were in the high risk groups. Despite the high number of cases, they are still within the normal range compared to previous years.
A person with flu usually has some or all of the following symptoms two days after he or she has been infected – fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose or blockage, body and muscle aches, headaches, tiredness, vomiting and diarrhea, especially among children. The condition of the patient may deteriorate, mainly among the most vulnerable groups, which may lead to death.
Flu infections are spread through coughing or sneezing, the ministry said.
The ministry said that the treatment of influenza requires drinking large amounts of water and rest along with antiviral drugs that can reduce the serious complications and deaths, especially for the most vulnerable groups. To avoid the disease, preventive measures should be taken to cover mouth and nose when coughing and hand washing regularly. It is also recommended that vaccine be taken by the most vulnerable groups – health care workers, pregnant women , the elderly, and patients with chronic conditions (such as HIV / HIV / AIDS and those taking immunosuppressive drugs) and pilgrims.


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14 Tips On Writing The Short-Short Story
The short-short story has been likened by some as being closer to writing a poem than a story. And that makes sense-every word has to be packed with power; every line has to move the story along.
The Writing For Success short story competition requires you to write a very short story-the word limit is just 900 words. Here are some tips to help you make every word count.
The opening paragraph is the most important one in a short story. Use it to hook your readers and draw them into the ongoing drama of your story.
In the opening lines, you have to do the following:
Introduce the main character
Reveal the main character's mood, approximate age, his/her goal or problem
Show that something interesting is about to happen
Begin with a character and let this person take you where they want to go-then when the story is written, edit, shape and tighten your prose.
Decide whose story this is. Choose one viewpoint and stick to it.
Don't force your characters to speak words that sound out of character or engage in actions that don't suit their personality.
Avoid detailed descriptions of setting - give the reader a quick 'snapshot'. A few powerful words or phrases can do a lot of work.
Use the same approach to describe the character's appearance. Choose words that trigger the reader's imagination and let him/her fill in the gaps - e.g. "She had a loose-limbed, healthy outdoor look about her".
Try to avoid plots that hinge on a coincidence or a misunderstanding that could be cleared up if the characters would just talk to each other. (You have to be a very good writer to pull this off so the reader is satisfied.)
Very short stories are a bit like jokes: they build up to a twist or a punchline. The difficult part is playing fair with the reader in having all the clues there, without making the outcome too obvious.
Show that your character has grown or changed in some way-she has a new understanding of people or of herself; she has learned a lesson; she has changed her attitude. NOTE: If your character 'comes to realise' something important, make sure she comes to this realization through a strong piece of action or a powerful lesson-not through a weak, "Oh, my goodness, I never thought of it that way before - silly me!"
Appeal to your reader's emotions. We all identify with loss, sorrow, disappointment, frustration - make sure that emotions are powerful elements in your story.
Make every word of dialogue count - avoid aimless 'how are you today?' type exchanges; let actions take the place of words on occasions. And remember there's no need to TELL as well as SHOW - for example, if you write "Marcia was really angry at his words. Her face grew scarlet with rage as she yelled, "I can't believe you said that! Get out of here!' then you've wasted ten words. You could simply have said: Marcia's face grew scarlet with rage. "I can't believe you said that! Get out of here!"
When it's time to edit, remember that every word has to move the story forward. Yes, I know I've already said that - but it's worth saying a hundred times, because one of the hardest things a writer can do is cut words. You have to be tough. Cut out whatever is unnecessary; poorly expressed; overly detailed. In a very short story, it's more likely to be what you've cut out that sells your work than what you've left in.
STUDY YOUR MARKET. This seems painfully obvious, but so many writers just can't be bothered. It makes sense to study your target market. There are a number of magazines that publish the short-short story of around 900 words - read as many as you can!(C) Copyright Marg McAlister
Marg McAlister has published magazine articles, short stories, books for children, ezines, promotional material, sales letters and web content. She has written 5 distance education courses on writing, and her online help for writers is popular all over the world. Sign up for her regular writers' tipsheet at http://www.writing4success.com/
Dont Forget That Manual!
No user manual? Surely you jest!It may seem comical, but it's a surprisingly common situation. I've encountered many companies that don't provide any user manuals with their products.
Writing Tips for your Journey
Tips for your writing journeySo, you'd like to be a writer? Congrats! Writing not only is a great way to express yourself, but can provide an income. Keep in mind not all writers make a fortune, some still cant quit their day job.
Hunting for Markets Over the Holidays
Chances are, you'll be busy over the next several weeks. Between preparing for, celebrating, and unwinding from the holidays it may be difficult to maintain your regular writing routine.
To Tell If You Are A Literary Snob
"I don't know if I should put 'writer' on my business card," I murmured."Then don't," my wife said in her infinite wisdom.
How to Create Stories that Sizzle
How to Start Your Story with a BangThe purpose of creating a story is to create a world that will draw the reader away from their own. In order to do this one must create suspense, drama and mystery.
That Cute Lil Ol Apostrophe
Have you ever had a student write to tell you they've achieved Grade A's at exams? I have, and one of them was a grade A in English!The apostrophe seems to be the most misunderstood punctuation mark in the English language, and yet its use is really very simple.There's really only one rule: an apostrophe is used to replace one or more missing letters.
Taming The Book Proposal
Taming the Book Proposal: The BasicsOh, that most maddening of documents! For so many of us eager to move forward with our nonfiction projects, it looms large like a guard at the queen's castle, blocking the path to publication. Its perfection eludes us yet it stands there teasing, "Complete me, or your manuscript will never see the light of day, mwahahahaha!"In truth, that's a lie.
9 More Writing Tips for Successful Email Marketing
A few months ago, I wrote a guide entitled: 101 Writing Tips for Successful Email Marketing. In fact, many COPY TIPS subscribers have a copy.
Writing Technique: The Restaurant Syndrome
Picture this scene.Your hero is sitting in a bar.
Create A Dream Diary
How many times have you forced yourself to sit in front of a computer and waited for inspiration to strike?Most of us at some point, whether just starting out or even an experienced published writer, have suffered from the proverbial writers block or have struggled to kick-start their creativity.Sometimes ideas just flow and writing our article or story is easy.
Does Your Theme Contain Character, Conflict, Resolution?
Creative Writing Tips -For a theme to work and the story, which will revolve around the theme, it has to contain three things?CharacterConflictResolutionWhat's the reason for this?If your theme doesn't contain these three essential elements, then you won't be writing a proper short story. It might turn out to be an essay instead.
Tips On Writing A Killer Sales Letter
Writing a sales letter doesn't have to be that difficult all you need is the right writing style and some tips to knock out a killer sales letterBenefits The first thing you need to do is focus on the benefits the reader will find useful. Tell the reader what's in it for him.
How Can You Find Freelance Work As A Writer?
For those looking at the jobs listings for writers, they may find themselves feeling left out. There are simply not enough employment options available.
From Book Notes to Book Reports
Writing papers and book reports has long been the bane of high school and college students' existence. It seems that no matter how hard you work to stay caught up, there is always a paper due tomorrow.
Writing Business Letters That Get The Job Done
Despite the widespread use of e-mail in commerce today,traditional business letters are still the main way that the majority of businesses officially communicatewith their customers and other businesses.This is especially true when businesses want to formalizean agreement or an understanding.
Dont Get Burned: Evaluating Script Writing Contests
Hundreds of writing contests tempt screenwriters with the lure of prize money, instant film industry contacts and personal feedback from film professionals. But contests can be costly, screenwriters should choose intelligently.
Multiplying Sales As A Writer
Often, time is an enemy of writers. Sales seem slow andchecks too small.
10 Tips To Help You Pack More Power Into Your Business Writing
1. Before you write anything down define not what you want to say, but what your message must achieve.
Knock-Out Writers Block: Listening To Your Inner Voice
When I was young, I used to talk to myself. Long, drawn out, one-sided conversations.
Six Tips for Submitting Fiction - if you want it to get published
You can learn a lot about what it takes to place a story in an ezine by starting up one of your own.Last month I started work on a new ezine for writers, which I intended to use to publish high-quality, contemporary fiction, from writers all over the world.
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Scrap the lunatic line - here's another of those visions
Posted by Richard Trillo at Thursday, May 29, 2008 0 comments
Now this is exciting, if it ever happens: Mombasa to Kampala in ten hours. It's part of Kenya Railways Vision 2050 (funny how the target year keeps receding). Wider track and bigger trains would be more likely to be useful in the 22nd century, never mind the 21st - and an average speed of 110kph (68mph) isn't exactly high-speed.
But it's the right idea, isn't it? Get people moving, working, trading, with low-carbon emissions, and bring tourists through one of the world's most fabled landscapes in comfort, maybe calling at a new Maneater's Hotel in Tsavo. I hope I'm still around to see it.
But first Kenya, Uganda and South Africa have to sort out this mess.
Labels: Nairobi, vision+2030
Restaurant prices in Kenya
Kenya is experiencing the same price rises in fuel and commodities that are hitting all the world's poorest economies hardest – Restaurant prices in Kenya are notably higher than in the current edition of the guide. Still good value – tourists won't find them unaffordable – but more than ever out of reach of 95% of Kenyans.
Photo: "Carnivore", Langata, Nairobi
Labels: economy, inflation, Nairobi, restaurants
Slum TV in Mathare, Nairobi
Interesting recent audio report from the BBC World Service about a new TV station in Nairobi's Mathare slum: SlumTV
Labels: Nairobi, peace, violence
Roots of the Rift Valley violence - Kalenjin and Kikuyu
Land and water rights in the Rift Valley lie at the heart of the post-election violence. But there's something deeper and less material going on as well, according to this detailed and thoroughly researched article by Horace Njuguna Gisemba. It implies that something in the "soul" (?) of some young Kalenjin men has made them bloodthirsty attackers of non-Kalenjin, and particularly of Kikuyu. Certainly, the Kalenjin were brutally treated by the British a century ago. Punitive expeditions massacred about 1000 Kalenjin warriors at the end of the nineteenth century, and the account by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen (who murdered the Nandi leader during a meeting) makes chilling reading (Kenya Diary). But Gisemba implies there was organization behind the anti-Kikuyu violence and says we'll have to wait for the findings of the proposed Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. That could take years: I'd like to hear from an alternative viewpoint.
Barack Obama slurred by link with Odinga slurred by link with Obama
It's dig-the-dirt time again in American politics and Barack Obama, part Luo like Raila Odinga (but not Odinga's cousin in the American sense of the term "cousin") is accused of very close ties with the ODM leader (they're part of some "socialist/Sharia law" conspiracy). Who in turn is accused of accepting an unfeasibly large donation from the Democratic contender. It's all some sort of desperate Republican smear.
And it seems to have backfired quite spectacularly on the Republicans with the disclosure that one of Republican nominee John McCain's senior advisors, Charles Black, was a lobbyist for the Daniel arap Moi government in the late 1980s and early 90s when the former Kenyan dictator was in power.
To draw the conspiracies out to their illogical conclusion, it's important to recall that Moi's greatest support came from the same powerbase in the Rift Valley and Western Kenya as Raila Odinga's.
Sustainable Mara
Posted by Richard Trillo at Friday, May 23, 2008 1 comments
It's all happening. . .
An excellent initiative in the Maasai Mara:
"The Mara Conservancy, a not-for-profit conservation management company based in the Masai Mara, has launched a new Responsible Wildlife Tourism Award, aimed at encouraging tourism best-practice in Kenya. Sponsored by international wildlife charity and long-time friend of Kenya, the Born Free Foundation, the award is aimed at protecting Kenya's wildlife from the potential negative impacts of increasing visitor numbers in the region. . ."
Read the full story here, at TravelMole.com.
The award is being judged by Cheryl Mvula, who featured in the Observer recently, in a piece about the Maasai benefitting properly from tourism.
Photo: Mara Wildebeest © Irv Weissbart
Labels: Maasai Mara, Masai, Sustainability
Return of tourism also benefits agricultural exporters
It's not just the tourist industry that will benefit from the return of charter flights. Lake Victoria's Luo fishing communities depend partly on tourist charter flights for their livelihood. Local food exporters have been hit very hard by the cancellation of the tourist flights in whose holds they normally ship fruit, vegetables and fish to Europe.
Mike Wooldridge on the future for Kenya
Mike Wooldridge's thoughtful, if disturbing two-part series for Radio 4
is being repeated on the BBC World Service. Or is it the other way round?
Anyway. Listen out for the crystal tones of Nairobi Kiss FM's Caroline Mutogo - breath of fresh air: "Every cabinet minister's on a million shillings. . .[but] I am optimistic, not about the politicians, but the Kenyans. . .What's slowly becoming clear to us as a people [is] don't ever put all your eggs in one basket and let that basket be Mister Member of Parliament. Ever."
Virgin kicks off the return to Kenya
Good to see Virgin Atlantic airlines helping to revive the Kenya tourist industry with a big UK press and underground poster campaign featuring the wildebeest migration. Richard Branson was in the Maasai Mara at Sekenani village near Sarova Mara camp at the weekend, where Virgin made a £60,000 donation to Sekenani village school.
Meanwhile, Gordon Brown has apparently invited Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga to talks in London. Is that good? Let's hope they meet David Miliband.
"Behind the Smile: the Tsunami of Tourism"
Posted by Richard Trillo at Monday, May 19, 2008 0 comments
Tourism Concern's brilliant photo essay, "Behind the Smile: the Tsunami of Tourism", is back on the Tourism Concern site once again, having been inaccessible for some time. The photos by John Wright, part of an exhibition originally shown at London's Oxo Gallery in early 2006 (which also included photos by Jenny Matthews from tsunami-affected areas of Thailand), are a stark indictment of the rotten end of Kenya's tourist industry: untenably low wages, callous disregard for human dignity and scant concern for maintaining a sustainable hospitality culture. John Wright's explanation of the "quote cards" held by the subject of each photo is eloquent. Kenya desperately needs its tourists back – tourists who are happy to tip, leave the hotel, bargain for souvenirs, jump on local excursions as well as pre-booked safaris, and generally get stuck into the country. People returning from visits say the parks are incredible with so few visitors, and the welcome as warm as you could imagine.
National Museum reopens in Nairobi
Nairobi's national museum, the city's most important tourist attraction, and a good museum in its own right, has recently re-opened after more than two years' closure for refurbishment. Thanks to Mark Fairweather for the news - the National Museums of Kenya site is still saying it's going to reopen at the end of 2007. . .
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package com.moosemorals.stockfighter;

import com.moosemorals.stockfighter.types.Quote;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import javax.json.Json;
import javax.json.stream.JsonParser;
import javax.websocket.ClientEndpoint;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Connect to the Quotes Websocket and parse incoming messages.
 *
 * @author Osric Wilkinson <osric@fluffypeople.com>
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@ClientEndpoint
public class QuoteTicker extends AbstractTicker {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(QuoteTicker.class);
    private final Set<Listener> listeners;

    public QuoteTicker(String api_key, URI endpoint) {
        super(api_key, endpoint);
        listeners = new HashSet<>();
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    public void addListener(Listener l) {
        synchronized (listeners) {
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    public void removeListener(Listener l) {
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    private void notifyListeners(Quote message) {
        synchronized (listeners) {
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    @Override
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                                    log.warn("Quote, but not an object: {}", message);
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                                log.debug("Ignoring unexpected content from quote: {}", message);
                        }
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        }
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    }

    public interface Listener {

        void onQuote(Quote q);
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CLUTCH Cancels New York City Show After Singer NEIL FALLON Mysteriously Passes Out
Maryland rockers CLUTCH have been forced to cancel tonight's (Saturday, October 27) concert at the Irving Plaza in New York City after singer Neil Fallon mysteriously passed out while out for a walk in Secaucus, New Jersey. Fallon explained the decision to scrap the show in a series of tweets. He wrote: "Regarding tonight's cancellation at Irving Plaza. It's me. Again. In the early afternoon I went for a stroll. I became light headed and dizzy. Next thing I knew I was coming to on my back in a puddle of water with 2 Secaucus policemen and paramedics staring down at me. "I took a header on the sidewalk. Was taken to the ER. Thankfully, both the EKG and CAT scan came back normal. I was diagnosed with something called 'Near-Syncope,' which, as far as I can tell, is the medical term for 'We have no idea why you passed out, but ya did.' "Apologies to all the folks who made plans to come to the show but the doc says no. Believe me, no one is more pissed about this than I. We'll be on tour for quite some time in 2019 and we'll certainly try to get an Irving Plaza date in there. "One last note, the EMT, Paul, is a huge CLUTCH fan. It was good to meet you, Paul. You're on the guest list for life. Thank you." CLUTCH's latest album, "Book Of Bad Decisions", was released in September. The record sold 26,000 copies in America during its first week of availability, giving the group their third consecutive Top 20 album on the Billboard 200. CLUTCH's fall 2018 "Book Of Bad Decisions Tour" with support from SEVENDUST and TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN is scheduled to wrap up tomorrow (Sunday, October 28) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Regarding tonight's cancellation at Irving Plaza. It's me. Again. In the early afternoon I went for a stroll. I became light headed and dizzy. Next thing I knew I was coming to on my back in a puddle of water with 2 Secaucus policemen and paramedics staring down at me.
— Neil Fallon (@npfallon) October 27, 2018
I took a header on the sidewalk. Was taken to the ER. Thankfully, both the EKG and CAT scan came back normal. I was diagnosed with something called "Near-Syncope," which, as far as I can tell, is the medical term for "We have no idea why you passed out, but ya did."
Apologies to all the folks who made plans to come to the show but the doc says no. Believe me, no one is more pissed about this than I. We'll be on tour for quite some time in 2019 and we'll certainly try to get an Irving Plaza date in there.
One last note, the EMT, Paul, is a huge Clutch fan. It was good to meet you, Paul. You're on the guest list for life. Thank you.
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, Exactly one week ago we had our appointment for detailed diagnostics - fantastic !!! Everything alright with our little one and he looks really cute !!! Have div. Pictures of head, foot, hands and face (3D) printed and received as a CD. Otherwise, I have a really great pregnancy without major discomfort and with full pampering from my sweetheart.
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I am now in the 21st ssw, I have 22.03. Appointment and no complaints so far.We do not know yet what it's going to be, it's always hiding, but surely they can see the next Thursday at the organ ultrasound. And, have you diligently butterflies in your stomach?
reply - 4: I am now in the 22nd ssw and have on 23.03. meeting. For about 9 weeks we know that we get a girl and for a week we have the one hundred percent certainty that it is true. I have some problems with nausea and heartburn, but I think that will happen again.
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Then you have a day after me appointment. I'm fine, no complaints, only here after what I do in the household logs my back. Otherwise, I am fine and have had virtually no problems so far. Can I ask you how much you've gained so far? Can your Partener already feel the movements of the little ones?
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Q: Missing object when using @SerializedName with Retrofit call I'm developing an Android app which connects to a Springboot server.
The app (using okhttp3 and retrofit) calls the server which returns an array list in an object (Photo Response) below.
The list is populating but the object MediaContentGroup does not populate in any photo object even though the fields of id and title do.
I've debugged through my server to ensure that I am using the correct object names when using @SerializedName.
I'm pretty new to Android development and using springboot, so if anyone could help me to understand why the MediaContentGroup object is always null, I would really appreciate it.
Is there any possible way I've set it to only accept Strings??
Thanks
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    public final static int HD_720_WIDTH = 1280;
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    public String getId() {
        return id;
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Admittedly, I'm looking out from inside an oasis. The youth I work with are outliers championing environmental and social sustainability to their peers and the community.
Their biggest limitation, contrary to popular perception, is not apathy. Rather, it's a model of education in Canada and the United States that doesn't empower them to take action; it's an institutional structure that offers little guidance on how to carry a sustainability mindset into a future career. What skills are needed? What post-graduate programs are available? What kind of jobs can be pursued that allow an individual to make a positive change in the world?
The impetus is there. Young people are connecting in great numbers at events like EDC's Beyond Green Youth Summit, organizing at pivotal Keystone XL and divestment rallies across the U.S., and courageously leading grassroots movements such as Canada's Idle No More.
Still, despite this increasing engagement, sustainability is barely addressed in the formal curriculum outside of a few modules in a biology or geography course.
Jayden Rae is a high school student and founder of the Whitby Environmental Youth Alliance in Ontario. She has grown frustrated with schools' inability to educate for sustainability.
Her recommendations on how it could be improved are noteworthy.
The non-profit organization Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) seeks to accomplish exactly this, working with students, educators and administrators to create a model of education that uses experiential learning across subjects.
In the U.S., the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, is leading the way on embedding sustainability into the classroom within the K-12 range through active consulting, complementary resources and a national food reform program in schools. Its guiding principles reflect a need for what it refers to as a "systems perspective" in the classroom. To deal with what it calls a "host of pressing and often escalating issues" the center stresses that students need to understand "the patterns of relationship that connect them." Until schools deal seriously with sustainability in such a way, they are relying on students to make the necessary connections.
Of course this is not unique to high schools. As students enter the post-secondary system it's also common to encounter a lack of dialogue or research across academic borders.
Blair Feltmate, associate professor at the University of Waterloo's School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) and chair of Climate Change Adaptation Project Canada, echoes Kielbowski when he tells me an interdisciplinary approach is our best hope at adapting to climate change.
Unfortunately, he says, that kind of skill set is "virtually non-existent" in corporations and most research.
Tyler Hunt, project coordinator at the University of Toronto St. George campus sustainability office, tells me that in addition to an interdisciplinary effort by the institution, many collaborations and initiatives are happening at the student level.
He is eager to illustrate the student-driven initiatives on campus, and I completely identify. When looking for hope in this space, I've also seen it most prominently in the hearts and minds of groups he is describing. But Hunt's final metaphor has me thinking, because it may be more apt than he intended. Icebergs melt. They calve off from receding ice-sheets and take shape as dynamic marvels. While they impress and inspire onlookers, they are heading into waters they can't possibly endure alone.
What we need, it strikes me, is an amassing of glaciers – an accumulation of energies that if supported by a solid base will eventually reshape the lay of the land.
If our schools could commit to dealing with sustainability as an interdisciplinary and deeply embedded subject right from the start, it might just provide that platform youth need to carve out a new course.


Brochure Selector is a software programme for the iPad, the objective of which is to allow users to view, select and send documents by e-mail.
Pharmaceutical companies nowadays distribute numerous documents to healthcare professionals. However, due to printing costs and limited space at pharmaceutical company exhibition stands, it is difficult to offer all available materials during a medical sales visit or at medical conferences.
Doctors often request scientific articles or product literature during a medical sales visit and representatives do not always have the requested material available.
At international conferences, on the other hand, there is the added difficulty of offering material to doctors attending the conference which complies with the legislation in force in the doctor's country of residence and is in their own language.
The Brochure Selector application was created to provide a solution to all of these problems.
Before attending the conference, the pharmaceutical company must send ec-europe all document files to be included in the application. All PDFs the pharmaceutical company wishes to distribute are incorporated and classified according to the filter required by the pharmaceutical company (language, doctor's country of residence, medical speciality, pharmaceutical product, etc.).
For instance, if a user wishes to select documents by country, once at the conference, the application will allow a representative or doctor to select the country of origin and view all documents to which they have access.
Once the available documents have been accessed, all pages of the file can easily be reviewed and zoomed in to in order to view their details.
Users can then select the documents that interest them the most by marking them within the application.
Once the selection is complete, the user must enter the name and e-mail address of the person to receive the documents and press the send button. This allows each doctor to select the information they wish to receive at the pharmaceutical company's exhibition stand, and the pharmaceutical company to provide each doctor with specific documents according to their country or speciality.
The application allows healthcare professionals to accept certain legal conditions required in order to comply with corporate policies.
This same application can be adapted to be used by the sales force so that they always have the documents available that they wish to distribute to doctors.
Thanks to Brochure Selector, sales representatives can offer doctors a greater variety of scientific documents and literature on the substances they promote without having to carry the material in their briefcase or cluttering up the doctor's surgery with printed products.
The application is updated every time the pharmaceutical company publishes more recent versions of existing documents and eliminates some while incorporating new ones.
As well as implementing and updating the content provided by the pharmaceutical company, the application can be customised with the logos and colours of the pharmaceutical company.
ec-europe and its distributors provide iPads featuring the installed application within the scope of its service for medical conferences and offers technical support for the installation on sales force tablets.
In addition to offering Brochure Selector as a platform for incorporating PDFs, ec-europe is able to provide content and illustrations created on the basis of a brief from the pharmaceutical company if the latter wishes to use this application in order to provide materials for doctor-patient communication.
DESCRIPTION: This App Brochure selector was sold to be used in the ESPID (European Society For Paediatric Infectious Diseases) Congress that took place in UK.
The app included a selection of leaflets from GSK about different infectious diseases that are very common in children, such as Rubella, Mumps, AOM, Varicella, etc. Doctors attending the congress had the opportunity to choose and send by email those leaflets available to their country.


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Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes
Tragedies and Legacies from the Inland Seas
Anna Lardinois
Submerged stories from the inland seas
The newest addition to Globe Pequot's Shipwrecks series covers the sensational wrecks and maritime disasters from each of the five Great Lakes. It is estimated that over 30,000 sailors have lost their lives in Great Lakes wrecks. For many, these icy, inland seas have become their final resting place, but their last moments live on as a part of maritime history.
The tales, all true and well-documented, feature some of the most notable tragedies on each of the lakes. Included in many of these tales are legends of ghost ship sighting, ghostly shipwreck victims still struggling to get to shore, and other chilling lore. Sailors are a superstitious group, and the stories are sprinkled with omens and maritime protocols that guide decisions made on the water.
Pages: 224 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-4930-5855-6 • Paperback • July 2021 • $19.95 • (£14.99)
978-1-4930-5856-3 • eBook • July 2021 • $19.00 • (£14.99)
Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), History / Maritime History & Piracy
Anna Lardinois, a maritime disaster enthusiast, owns Gothic Milwaukee, Brew City's most popular haunted, historical walking tour company. The creator of Walking Milwaukee and the 11th Pfister Narrator, Lardinois loves to celebrate the best Milwaukee has to offer. The author's previous titles include Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends and Storied and Scandalous Wisconsin.
Highly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Great Lakes History and American Nautical History collections and supplemental curriculum studies reading lists.
— Midwest Book Review


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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Illumina and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association will partner in order to develop a better understanding of the state of precision medicine in the US.
The companies said they plan to write a report on the utilization of precision medicine by early 2019 that details the availability and clinical understanding of DNA sequencing technologies, genetic testing, and precision medicine. In addition, the companies also plan to provide educational programs to healthcare providers in areas that they identify as currently having limited access.


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Cryptominers seeking unused mill space in Quebec
MONTREAL – Reuters reports that at least two Canadian pulp and paper companies are reviewing offers by cryptocurrency miners who want to lease excess mill space in Quebec. Electricity prices in Quebec are among the lowest in North America. Resolute Forest Products and Fortress Global Enterprises said they have received interest
Leadership transition at Resolute; Garneau retires
MONTREAL – Resolute Forest Products has appointed Yves Laflamme as the company's new president and chief executive officer, succeeding Richard Garneau. Garneau announced his retirement on Feb. 1. Laflamme has held progressively senior positions within Resolute, frequently on the wood products side of the business. "The Resolute Board of Directors enthusiastically supports Yves Laflamme's selection,
Book about N.S. pulp mill raises ire
Controversy once again dogs the Northern Pulp mill in New Glasgow, N.S., after a signing event for a book about the history of the mill was cancelled. The Coles bookstore in New Glasgow informed author Joan Baxter that her book signing for The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest
Irving planning legal challenge to water pollution rules
Facing 15 counts of dumping a harmful substance into the St. John River, Irving Pulp and Paper is planning a legal challenge to Canada's environmental regulations for pulp and paper mills, CBC News reports. The company is charged under the Fisheries Act regarding effluent from its mill at Reversing Falls. According
Domtar workers approve new collective agreement
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – Members of Unifor Local 10-B voted 80 per cent in favour of a new four-year contract that helps secure the future of Domtar's Kamloops pulp mill with significant investments over the next two years. "Our new collective agreement is good for workers and good for the community,"