text:
Boorman, Stanley 1939–
(Stanley Harold Boorman)
Born August 28, 1939, in Croydon, Surrey, England; married Veronica Griffiths (marriage ended); married Ann Cuzzi (a pianist), July 24, 1983; children: Peter. Education: King's College, London, B.Mus. and A.K.C., both 1967, M.Mus., 1968, Ph.D., 1976.
Home—Carmel, NY. Office—Department of Music, New York University, 24 Waverly Pl., Ste. 268, New York, NY 10003. E-mail—[email protected]
Musicologist, composer, writer, editor, and educator. Music teacher in Essex, England, 1962-64; professor of musicianship at Guildhall School of Music, 1967-69; University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, musicologist and assistant lecturer to lecturer in music, 1969-72; Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, fellow of Sidney Sussex College, began as assistant lecturer, became lecturer, 1973-77; University of Wisconsin—Madison, associate professor of music, 1978-79; New York University, New York, NY, associate professor to professor of music, 1979—, director of Center for Early Music, 1984—. Military service: British Army, 1960-62.
Royal College of Music (associate), Society for Textual Scholarship (board of directors, 1995-97, 2006), Royal Musical Association, Bibliographical Society, American Musicological Society (member of council, 1988-90), Society for Textual Studies (board of directors, 1995).
Villa i Tatti fellowship (Florence, Italy), 1983-84; National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1987, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, 2002-03.
(Editor) Studies in the Performance of Late Medieval Music, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1984.
(Editor, with Ellen S. Beebe, and author of introduction) Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A, Broude Trust (New York, NY), 2001.
Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance of Music in the 16th Century, Ashgate (Burlington, VT), 2005.
Ottaviano Petrucci: Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2006.
Contributor to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Contributor to musicology journals. Member of editorial board of New Grove Dictionary of Music, 1974-76.
Stanley Boorman is a musicologist whose research interests include early music and its performance, avant-garde music, and musical notation. He is also a composer and writer who has contributed to numerous professional journals and authored or edited several books. In his 2005 book, Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance of Music in the 16th Century, the author presents a series of essays dating from 1977 to 1995 focusing on how various components of printing, publishing, and performance affect modern views of sixteenth-century music. The eleven essays stem from journal articles or conference presentations and are academic in that they focus on such aspects of sixteenth-century music as compositional practice and notation, as well as the music's history and its performance.
The essays in Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance of Music in the 16th Century are divided into three sections as indicated in the title. The essays on printing look at printing-house procedures indicated by various aspects of the printed material, such as analyses of changes in paper and staff patterns. His essays on publishing examine aspects of sixteenth-century music publishing such as the targeting of a specialized market, conflicting attributions, and anonymous publications. Boorman's look at performance examines manuscripts as they reveal compositional style and performance practice with essays such as "Two Aspects of Performance Practice in the Sistine Chapel of the Early Sixteenth Century." Boorman also includes indexes of editions and manuscripts that he has cited in the essays. "This collection of essays … demonstrates the astounding variety and the remarkable depth of Stanley Boorman's research," wrote Richard J. Agee in Notes. Agee went on: "The reader of this collection will be deeply rewarded for taking the care to read each of these essays and observe a keen intellect at work."
Boorman's next book, Ottaviano Petrucci: Catalogue Raisonné, presents a detailed bibliographical study of sixteenth-century Italian printer Ottaviano Petrucci's surviving books. Petrucci is credited with printing the first book of sheet music from movable type. Among his publications are works by some of the Renaissance era's most notable composers, including Antoine Brumel. In addition to the bibliographical study, the author examines Petrucci's printing techniques, analyzes the printed music, and explores possible sources for the musical repertoire published. Boorman also discusses the musical taste represented by the printed music.
Noting that "by any objective standard this book ranks as a magnificent achievement," Richard J. Agee in Renaissance Quarterly stated: "Boorman weaves together bibliographical, archival-notarial evidence, and political and epidemiological events that affected Petrucci's career from his initial presence in Venice … through the approval of his privilege by the Venetian Signoria for an undisclosed printing invention in 1498." Commenting on the author's cataloguing of Petrucci's books, Journal of the American Musicological Society contributor David Fallows noted: "Boorman describes every known copy in magnificent detail. He identifies and classifies every watermark. Every handwritten correction is reported and categorized. Every traceable provenance is explored. Each description ends with a commentary, sometimes running to two full pages of closely packed analysis. Anybody who ever thought that an early music print is just a repository for music will come away from these commentaries with a new view of that world."
Journal of the American Musicological Society, summer, 2007, David Fallows, review of Ottaviano Petrucci: Catalogue Raisonné, p. 415.
Notes, March, 2007, Richard J. Agee, review of Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance of Music in the 16th Century, p. 593.
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, June, 2006, D.W. Krummel, review of Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance of Music in the 16th Century, p. 297; June, 2007, Paul F. Ghel, review of Ottaviano Petrucci, p. 227.
Reference & Research Book News, February, 2006, review of Studies in the Printing, Publishing, and Performance of Music in the 16th Century.
Renaissance Quarterly, winter, 2006, Richard J. Agee, review of Ottaviano Petrucci.
New York University,http://www.nyu.edu/ (January 22, 2008), faculty profile of author.
Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series
"Boorman, Stanley 1939– ." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. . Encyclopedia.com. 12 Jan. 2021 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
"Boorman, Stanley 1939– ." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. . Encyclopedia.com. (January 12, 2021). https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/boorman-stanley-1939
"Boorman, Stanley 1939– ." Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. . Retrieved January 12, 2021 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/boorman-stanley-1939
Sheet Music , Background Sheet music is a magic carpet. It is a printed page that, like a book, tells an original story created by the talent, imagination, trainin… Musicology , Musicology is the scholarly study of music, where music can be considered either as a fixed object of investigation or as a process whose participant… Absolute Music , "Absolute music" is an idea that took root in the writings of early German Romantics such as Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773–1798), Ludwig Tieck (… William Schuman , Schuman, William Composer, educator, administrator William Schuman had an ordinary childhood in New York City, with little to suggest that he would b… Steve Reich , Reich, Steve Composer Like Philip Glass, John Adams, and Terry Riley, Steve Reich belongs to a group of composers known as "minimalists," who write m… Mus , Mus. Abbreviation for 'Music', as in B.Mus. (Bachelor of Music), D.Mus. (Doctor of Music), etc.
Burrows, Donald (James) 1945-
Perone, James E. 1958-
Taruskin, Richard 1945–
Musgrave, Michael 1942-
Schwartz, Elliott S. 1936–
SCHNEIDER, Wayne (Joseph) 1950-
Wilson, Christopher R. 1952–
Boorman, John
boorish
Booren, Jo van den
Boorem, Mika 1987–
Boorda, Jeremy Michael ("Mike")
Boorapolchai, Yaowapa (1984–)
Boopiidae
Boonen, Jacques
Boone, Richard
Boone, Pat (Charles Eugene)
Boone, Pat (1934—)
Boone, Mark, Jr. 1955- (Mark Boone)
Boone, Louis E(ugene) 1941-2005
Boone, Debby (1956–)
Boone, Debby
Boone, Daniel R.
Boone, Charles
boondoggle
boonchi
Boon, Marcus 1963-
Boon, Debbie
Boomtowns
Boorstein, Sylvia
Boorstin, Daniel J(oseph)
Boorstin, Daniel J(oseph) 1914-2004
Boorstin, Daniel J.
Boorstin, Jon 1946-
Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd
Boosey & Hawkes
Boostrom, Robert E(dward)
Boot and Shoe Manufacturing
Boot Camps and Shock Incarceration
Boot Hill Bandits
boot sector virus
Boot, John C. G.
Boot, Max 1968-
boot-lace fungus
bootblack
bootboy
Booth Creek Ski Holdings, Inc.
Booth v. Maryland 1987
Booth v. Maryland 482 U.S. 496 (1987)
Booth's rising


Jack "Legchopper" Mendez has been the scourge of Varmint Woods for quite some time now, and this atrox has made life hard on people passing through there time and time again. And now, it's even worse - someone decided to make clones out of him!
This is a quest clearly targeted to the higher levels - not only because it's hard to do, but also, the rewards given out all have level-requirements. Level 130 to be more precise. It's hard for a number of reasons really, and we'll explain how to do the quest and hopefully cut the camping time down to a minimum.
This is Jack. Jack doesn't like people very much. This is how he looks prior to trying to lop off your legs with that axe of his, because believe us - he will try very hard to do just that. To tell you the complete truth - this isn't Jack at all - it's one of his clones.
God only knows what went wrong in whatever ungodly experiment somewhere, but now there's not only one overpowered brutish atrox killing-machine out there but a whole armada. Tremble, humans, tremble.
Anyway - this is the target of all the different quests - to kill one of the clones, and get the profession specific loot off of him. It's harder than it sounds, and can involve hours of painstaking camping and killing without any luck.
Is it worth it? Well, read on and find out.
First lets take a look at how you start off with this quest. That alone can be a bit of a ride, since you will need to find a specific NPC depending on your profession to give the quest to you. Not only that, but in many cases you will have to pry the information out of them with a hammer. If you lose the thread in a conversation with them, you will most likely have to start all over again, which can get frustrating after a while, but you'll get there. Like we said, depending on the profession you are, a different NPC will give you the mission to go kill Jack, and bring back something to them. These are the different characters you will need to approach to get the corresponding quests as well as the item you will be requested to quest for. We decided not to post the entire conversations of all the NPCs simply because it would make the guide explode and become too huge. However - if you do want spoilers of the quests, we highly recommend that you look in the profession-boards over at the Official Anarchy Online site.
Bring back a Glowing Amygdala Nucleus from a repeatedly cloned individual.
Of course - it's perfectly plausible to get the required item first, before getting the missions - in fact, we would recommend this, since you won't have too much pressure on you as you would have, if you already had the mission icon in your mission window. Nonetheless, we set out to do our mission from the ground up this time.
All the missions require you to kill one of the Jack "Legchopper" Clones that are spread throughout Varmint Woods. Now comes the task of finding these clones. There are six spawn-points for Jack. Arriving at these spawnpoints, you might encounter Jack "Legchopper" clones, if you are lucky. If not - you will probably meet a lot of these uglies - they're called Lifeswappers, Bodyswappers, or Soulswappers.
Every spawn will have five positions to fill - the aptly-named Swappers are infact placeholders for Jack himself, so if you meet Jack at one of the spawns, you will notice that there are only four swappers present.
Swappers are aggro, and fairly high - nevertheless they aren't too hard to kill, if you are high enough - this is even possible without a team, if you really know how to pull, or if you are a pet-class. However - should Jack spawn, you will be in trouble, mark our words. For every kill you get there is a 5-10% chance that a clone of Jack will appear instead of one of his placeholders.
One good tactic if each of your team-members can solo the swappers, is to send out scouting patrols to the different coordinates to kill all the swappers and wait for the spawn - the swappers (and possibly Jack) will spawn after about 20 minutes. You will have to keep doing this until Jack spawns, then call the team over and deal with him. Just don't let him deal with you instead - Jack is very hostile and will aggro pretty much everything but the local plantlife on sight and if you suddenly find yourself alone facing him, it might be a good time to leg it, unless you aren't allergic to dying. Pets work really well against him - the trick is to keep aggro on the same person at all times, since good ol' Jack hits for a substantial amount of damage. Getting the odd hit on you for nearly 1000 damage isn't all that fun when you are a nanomage for instance and Twicer had the misfortune of inspecting Jack's axe a bit too close a couple of times.
of cuts along the helve.
As you might have noticed, some of the quest-items are used for multiple professions - like the Amygdala being for both the NT as well as the MP quest, so make sure you're not a team of fixers or adventurers heading out there cheering, because five of you might come back empty-handed unless you really go in for it and start an all-time-high camping streak. We recommend a steady supply of coffee, if this is what you've set your heart on.
All of the rings will add 14 to a specific ability, such as sense, agility, stamina and so on, as well as some other minor buffs to other stats. The best rings will give the wearer 112 more HP or Nano, and that's about it.
As for the various rewards from the missions, it's not one of the best rewards there is, especially when it comes to the time it takes doing the quest - indeed it can take days of playing, even weeks if you are unlucky, especially if you take into account the amount of killings without actually getting the loot you want.


Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Maria Cecília Siqueira, of GEP.
Risk management has been discussed exhaustedly in every business forum in the last couple years. Yet in day-to-day operations, it may still be linked to its origins as a paper process restrained to the legal and compliance departments. Per EY studies, 82% of institutional investors would pay a premium price for effective risk management. Nevertheless, it would be safe to say that today risk management faces the "risk of apathy" with business managers.
Restricted to financial and legal aspects, risk management analysis neglects supply chain factors beyond a superficial supplier financial health assessment and fails to recognize the network complexity in which their own businesses lean on. According to the Supply Chain Resilience report (2016), 66% of managers do not have adequate visibility of their supply chain, yet 70% of them faced disruptions in that past year 41% of them occurring in Tier 1 suppliers, and 34% of them experiencing incidents with cumulative losses of at least $1 million, resulting in reduced profit margins, decreased revenue, brand and reputation damage, delayed deliveries and, ultimately, customer losses.
So, what are the gaps you can avoid and instead take a practical approach to secure a place in the category manager's priority list?
Historically, risk management had a reporting profile, concentrated in value protection rather than expanding business performance and value creation. As Edward J. Buthusiem, from the Berkeley Research Group, correctly puts it, "It cannot be a process run by the lawyers for the lawyers." To leverage its informative profile to become a practical corporate enhancement, business owners must be involved in the risk management process. While legal and compliance interpret the legislation, business owners must identify the operational ways to work with it.
In 93% of the companies studied in the University of Tennessee's Managing Risk in the Global Supply Chain report, there were risk-dedicated professionals within their companies, but supply chain risk was not included in their processes. Additionally, in contrast with legal and fiscal inquiries, 100% of the companies did not use any outside expertise when evaluating supply chain exposure. In this scenario, any risk program would be consolidated with the companies' isolated perspective of what could go wrong.
Today, however, there is no such thing as an "isolated company." Supplier intelligence, insurance companies and logistics providers can bring game-changing inputs to the table, granting a coherent and realistic supply chain network interpretation. They then have an effective basis to identify and develop a risk management plan.
To accurately rank identified risks, it is essential to consider broader aspects, such as a company's vulnerability, risk magnitude, the likelihood of occurrence and presumption of early awareness. Despite that, many companies fail to visualize metrics beyond the standard supplier financial health stigma. Even when considering the vendor level, financial health is only one aspect of the system; elements such as logistics, politics and geography are important pieces of the puzzle that should not be neglected.
Risk has dynamic and complex global consequences, particularly in the last few years. Although strengthening supplier controls and SLAs is typically a manager's go-to strategy, unplanned IT and telecommunications failure is the top cause of supply chain disruption, representing 60% of incidents per the Supply Chain Resilience Report 2016 for the fifth year running. In the report, currency exchange rate volatility has jumped from the 20th to the 7th position, and acts of terrorism appeared in the rankings for the first time.
Superficial approaches to risks do not serve companies' needs and in our current reality, echoing issues for business continuity and an overall ineffective performance that compromises managers' commitment to risk management programs.
Commitment to a long-term program must come with a clear and relevant goal. No manager will engage efforts, resources and valuable time just to complete a check-box program. Once risks are prioritized, you must develop an action plan directly related to each risk, ranked on the probability and the consequence level that an incident might cause. There are a range of different strategic approaches, such as assuming the risk, controlling it, avoiding it or even transferring the risk to another level of the supply chain. This approach must detach itself from exclusively audit and compliance to be part of finance and operational accountability. Defining who implements this risk mitigation and remediation program from a bottom-up perspective empowers those who have operational-level ownership to guarantee its applicability, as reinforced by Buthusiem.
At this point, mitigation and monitoring are ongoing and risk management programs often struggle with lack of visibility. It may be difficult to assure commitment to a program that would be noticed if it fails. Even then, over 65% of incidents that occur are not reported on a corporate level but rather silenced between restricted departments, 70% do not have a formal documented business contingency plan in case of an incident, and 40% of managers do not analyze the real source of disruption. Unfortunately, as George Santayana brilliantly stated, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Risk mitigation should consider cost opportunities and value creation to enhance business performance.
As an example, IBM is a global benchmark when it comes to bringing risk management to the next level. Due to its supply chain complexity and long supplier lines, there was no tool available in the market that could bring the precision needed by the business. So, the company developed its own Total Risk Analysis (TRA) tool and patented it. The tool analyzes qualities of country-product-components in more than 50 countries and gives managers the ability to react instantly if any piece is unstable or in crisis through text messages. This tool was crucial during Japan's tsunami and during the bombings in India, giving the business owners immediate communication time to react and trigger contingency plans. IBM could remediate any possible impacts in less than one hour after the disasters occurred.
Common and costly, supply chain disruptions can come in unforeseen shapes and forms, but establishing a mature risk management program and avoiding stereotypical approaches can assure business continuity in a crisis. At some point, every business will face risks while working toward its goals. However, once managers can develop their programs with a focus on performance enhancement rather than a paper process system, risk management can become a decisive tool to empower competitive advantage.
Article is really very informative.All of them have business related risk,complaince problems which can be solved using outsourcing.
The supply chain consists of everybody involved in getting your product in the hands of a customer.Procurement is the process of getting the goods and/or services your company needs to fulfill its business model.
Excellent article. Risk within functional areas such as procurement / supply chain are hidden vulnerabilities that managers continually ignore. Interesting too that supply chain is so dependent on IT and communications failure. Anything we can do to raise the profile of such weaknesses in business is most welcome.


text:
Reviews of Zwart Goud's latest stock by our editorial.
Das Ding - Nerds/Intermission + Interview
Following the release of his second album on Minimal Wave, Danny Bosten presents 7 inches of downtempo modular madness on his own label Tear Apart Tapes. Dating back to the early 80s, Danny's musical journey started from a bedroom studio consisting of borrowed synths where he formed Das Ding. Shortly after he started a cassette label electro outfit, Tear Apart Tapes, releasing music to sell and trade. Originally from the south of the Netherlands, Danny moved to Amsterdam where he was involved with pirate radio shows while working on obscure industrial musical projects and pursuing a career as a graphic designer. Although Danny enlightened us, he never stopped making music. It wasn't until Minimal Wave partly re-issued H.S.T.A, an album released in 1985, had his burning passion to make music become more than just a hobby once again.
In what's been called "More or less an homage to (very) early Kraftwerk" the EP is available to buy on 7", a format not so commonly associated with Tear Apart Tapes. As always, the record is accompanied by graphic work done by the man himself in what seems to be in honour of the machines. Take a minute to watch the music video accompanied with the A side as it provides an insight into the creative work Danny does outside of music.
The A-side 'Nerds' is a therapeutically repetitive, club-ready, sinister new wave journey. In its five extraordinarily minimal minutes, the track features solid but basic drums with all the punch loaded into a dominating gated snare. Its exceptionally cemented bass line carries an industrially raw sound that takes us from start to finish, accompanied at times by subtle subterranean notes which add to the lower end. Its floating synth lines and gritty guitar riff fit nicely around the centrepiece taking the track to different heights throughout, creating a feeling of being lost in time and space.
The flip side is a total contrast to the A, carrying a sort of dawning of the day feel: chirping birds with a dream-like refreshing essence. The cut starts off with a singular bass note falling into rhythm which holds the body of the track throughout. A heavily modulated square wave runs up and down its scale giving the track depth while holding the low-end together alongside the bass. Again, the track features a huge gated snare that together with the rest of the drums brings a consistency much like, and linking nicely back into, the A side; simply does it. The comments regarding the homage to very early Kraftwerk are definitely more apparent on the B-side, which are displayed in a spectacular fashion.
Photo Credit - Gabriel Gauffre
Alongside people like Flemming Dallum and Greg Wilson you are another
artist whose work in the 80's is being relived and opening the door to
possible new musical adventures. After nearly 20 years how are you
enjoying it and did you ever think you could be in this position?
I like it, of course, it's great. It's like, lots of people have this
nagging sensation that they should 'do something', or, you know, 'make
something', then someone comes along and says 'hey, you already did
that!'' So it feels good and certainly boosts your self-confidence. For
that I can thank Veronica Vasicka and Frans de Waard.
Minimal Wave reaching out and reissuing part of H.S.T.A. alongside some
unreleased tracks played a vital part in this. Up until then what was
your involvement with music, did you still get behind the knobs much?
I never stopped making music, played in bands, did pirate radio, made
soundscapes etc, etc.
Aside from the minimal wave releases you have also reincarnated Tear
Apart Tapes, what can we come to expect from the label in the future?
I will alternate my own tracks (on 7-inch only) with work by others.
Next up we'll do a re-issue of Les Yeux Interdits' 'Prison', which was
on a Minimal Wave 7-inch but has long since sold out.
Although you now call Rotterdam home you had previously lived here in
Amsterdam working on pirate radio shows. How was your time spent in
Amsterdam, what memories can you share and what were your reasons for
leaving?
Yeah that was nice. I was sideways involved with the squatter scene, witnessed some riots, went to art school, made some good friends, was part of an artist collective called 'STORT' which did some outrageous shows. I wrote the speeches. I got a job and it moved to Rotterdam eventually, so... Now it's cancelled due to the budget cuts in cultural funding and I'm unemployed again. Never thought that 80ies-revival would be so literal!
In the last 20 years the industry has changed in many ways, the digital
era being the most significant. Although some might say things are
starting to even out slightly I'm sure you can see a massive difference.
Do you feel a need to change your approach or will you continue to let
things unfold in an organic manner?
It's good to be part of a network, whichever form it takes. I'm lucky
to have fallen in with a good crowd here in Rotterdam. Besides that,
Bandcamp is nice, Soundcloud is OK, but artists being ripped-off is a
phenomenon that will never go away I think.
That being said, how is your studio looking now compared to the early
days? Have there been many additions over the past three decades?
Things have come and gone. I like the cheaper Roland stuff, 606 and 202
and 101, those will always stay. Besides that I build a lot of modular
stuff that is slowly taking over my studio. So it's a lot bigger and
more organised than in the old days.
And finally, please leave us with a track that still to this day inspires
you to make music?
New Order's 'Ecstasy'
Das Ding – Nerd/Intermission [Tear Apart Tapes]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Donate to our Winter Appeal
£25 to provide monthly support
£60 to give an entire Orphanage food supplies for a month.
£100 to provide Medical Support to an orphaned child and widow.
£25 £60 £150
£25 can provide an orphan child with a hat, gloves, scarf, coat and blanket.
£60 can provide winter clothing and feed a family of five for a whole month.
£150 can provide heating at an orphanage for a whole month.
Can provide an orphanage with reading books.
Imagine feeling cold and not being able to find shelter from the chilly winds, or have the resources available to get a comfortable blanket or coat to wrap yourself in. That is the reality faced by many of the orphaned children we support through our winter blanket and clothing appeal. When winter is on its way, those living in poverty don't get to excitedly anticipate fireplaces and hot chocolate, all they want is a simple place to find comfort and warmth when the temperatures begin to drop.
Delivering Warmth to Save Lives
At Orphans in Need, we work tirelessly on the ground to deliver much-needed winter warmth kits. Each kit gives a child a warm blanket, coat, hat, scarf and gloves of their own to protect them from temperatures that fall as low as -6°C and, with every passing winter, the temperature changes become more extreme and cause more risk to vulnerable lives.
Every year, as the temperature falls, the mortality level rises and the only way we can change this is if we help the neediest of civilians, the orphan children and widows who have nowhere else to turn. Every winter warmth kit your donations provide is a gift of love from you that can bring warmth and save their lives.
Give Today and Protect the Future of Children in Need
We provide several options for giving to make it easier for our donors. A one-off donation of £25 provides a winter warmth kit to an orphan in need, the £60 tier will provide support to a family of five for an entire month, including winter clothing and food and £150 ensures we can provide a month's worth of heating to an orphanage. You can also choose to give these amounts regularly each month and allow us to plan future support for orphans and widows across the world.
Last year, on top of the winter warmth kits, we were able to build homes for widows to give them better shelter from the icy winds. This year with your support we hope to do much more and reach more families in need with aid from our winter appeal.
Vulnerable lives are at risk, and this year, your help is needed more than ever.
DONATE WINTER WARMTH KIT
The Effect of COVID on Impoverished Communities
The 2019/2020 pandemic will influence a greater struggle to survive winter this year for the millions of people living in poverty and the millions more that have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Every day, more people in developing and developed countries fall below the poverty line and need to rely on support systems, charities and the generosity of others to survive. We endeavour to support as many families as we can, reaching more people living in poor conditions and suffering in poverty to provide warmth kits to protect them from the cold before the winter arrives.
Social programmes, although stretched thin, are fortunate enough to exist in developed countries such as the UK. Sadly, in developing countries, there is no such support and the pandemic has had a horrendous impact on already struggling areas that are affected by poverty, illness and conflict. These countries rely on the trade of internally produced goods and as these supply chains have been disrupted, hundreds of thousands of workers are losing their already meagre income making it much harder to support their families.
Furthermore, people and families that have been forced from their homes and now reside in extremely densely populated refugee camps where sickness such as COVID can rapidly spread due to close-quarter living and lack of access to hygiene facilities. Winter for these refugees will be a terrifying time, cold, isolated and without the support they deserve.
Life is already difficult for these communities, but with the threat of the virus looming, this year could see thousands of people lose their lives – including the young and old. With your help, we aim to bring hope and support to those in need this winter by providing warm clothing, medical care and nourishing food packages.
We have a dedicated Coronavirus appeal helping to stop the spread of the virus by providing food packs to families in need and all-important COVID-19 hygiene kits.
Surviving Another Winter in Kashmir
The situation in Kashmir continues to remain bleak as the enforced curfews and disrupted communications are yet to come to an end. Food stocks are dropping rapidly with very little resource able to get through to replenish food stores. It has been more than a year (August '19) since the Indian government stepped in and split the region into two union territories and although violence has not escalated, many assurances of stability and development have not been delivered.
Winters in Kashmir are harsh, seeing temperatures drop to -10°C in recent years and suffering intense snow and icy winds. This combined with the restricted 2G internet services will make it much harder for families to receive medical attention or seek assistance when travelling in harsh winter weather. Sadly many communities are also facing severe mental health problems as a result of the lockdown and the COVID pandemic, which led to many individuals in complete isolation with no way to communicate with loved ones.
Kashmir remains in a volatile state and many families face additional stress this winter simply trying to survive, relying on the generosity of overseas charities and programmes that deliver food, clothing and medical supplies.
With your help so far, we have distributed over 6000 food parcels to the poor and the needy in Kashmir. With the restrictions still in place, orphans, widows, and struggling families are lacking the basic food and fuel supplies that could help them survive this winter and beyond, with no anticipated end date to their suffering in sight.
Please donate to those suffering in Kashmir and help us provide the support that will save lives. Click here to give to our Kashmir Emergency Appeal.
0.10 A winter so bitterly cold, it pieces to their bones. They need our help to survive.
0.41 With freezing temperatures lasting for weeks, their small hands and feet go numb. They need some protection.
0.54 Join us and help us deliver thousands of winter blankets this year. Each blanket comes with a hat, scarf, gloves, a coat and a food parcel. To help keep orphans and widows warm, and alive.
1.43 Help them this winter, call 0207 100 8866 or visit orphansinneed.org to donate


Semi-annual restaurant inspections from Nov. 5 to 8.
Food-contact surfaces are not cleaned between different raw animal foods, between raw to ready-to-eat foods, or as frequently as necessary, specifically: Slicer is soiled on the back blade area. Point deduction: 5.
Refrigerated, ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food has not been consumed within the required time period or is not properly date-marked, specifically: Pork chops inside the walk-in cooler are date labeled Oct. 23. Point deduction: 5.
Food-contact surfaces are not clean, specifically: Drippy grease buildup on fume hood above the grill. Buildup on yellow probe thermometer. Food buildup at the base of the kitchen refrigerator. Point deduction: 3.
(REPEAT) A manual warewashing sink is not provided, does not have three compartments or is not large enough to immerse the largest utensil or piece of equipment, specifically: No commercial dishwasher or three-compartment sink. Point deduction: 6.
Raw or ready-to-eat food is not properly protected from cross contamination, specifically: Raw ground pork over cooked bacon in refrigerator. Point deduction: 5.
Semi-annual restaurant inspections from Oct. 30 to Nov. 6.
(REPEAT) Potentially hazardous food is not maintained at proper hot or cold holding temperatures, specifically: Bar cooler is at 60F. Point deduction: 10.
March 12, 2019, 5:39 p.m.
March 5, 2019, 2 p.m.
Feb. 22, 2019, 5:36 p.m.
Feb. 20, 2019, 7 p.m.


text:
Q: How can I change the index order of an array? I have a button that has a function called clickNext(). Whenever that button is clicked, it increments the index position (scope.selected) on an array called 'arr1'.
<button type="button" class="right-btn col-xs-6" role="menuitem" ng-click="clickNext()">Next</button>

.
function clickNext()
        {
            scope.selected = (scope.selected + 1) % length;
        }

arr1 = [
        {apple: 1 , tango},
        {banana: 3, kappa},
        {orange:5, alpha},
        {apple: 8 , beta},
        {grape: 10 , sigma}
        ]

Problem
I have an identical array to arr1 called 'arr2'. What I'm trying to do is have the clickNext() increment to the next index position based on the arr2 array instead of the arr1 array.
Right now, the clickNext function still increments in the order of the arr1 array. For example, if I were to click the button, it would start on orange:5 then move to apple 8, etc.
arr2 = [
        {orange:5, alpha},
        {apple: 8 , beta},
        {banana: 3, kappa},
        {grape: 10 , sigma},
        {apple: 1 , tango}
        ]

What I have tried
    My though process to accomplish this is to use the findIndex() function and match the arr2 item to the arr1 item. That doesn't work, but maybe I'm structuring it wrong?
  clickNext(){
   var oldIndex = filteredToXs(scope.selected);
   scope.selected = oldIndex + 1;}

function filteredToXs( filteredIndex ) {
  var firstArr = scope.arr1[ filteredIndex ];
  var xsIndex = scope.arr2.findIndex( function(item) {
  return item.trackingNumber === firstArr.trackingNumber;
 } );
if( xsIndex >= 0 ) return xsIndex;
if( xsIndex === -1 ) return 0;  // Default value
 }

A: I hope I understood your question correctly. Please read my comments in the code sections as well.
I had to modify your source so I was able to create a fiddle for you.
HTML: I changed the click event and removed a css class that's not available
<button type="button" role="menuitem" onclick="clickNext();">Next</button>

Sampe Arrays:
They were containing invalid objects: I changed alpha, beta, tango, .. to a property. You can also define them as values.. this shouldn't matter:
var arr1 = [
    { apple: 1, tango: '' },
    { banana: 3, kappa: '' },
    { orange: 5, alpha: '' },
    { apple: 8, beta: '' },
    { grape: 10, sigma: '' }];

var arr2 = [
    { orange: 5, alpha: '' },
    { apple: 8, beta: '' },
    { banana: 3, kappa: '' },
    { grape: 10, sigma: '' },
    { apple: 1, tango: '' }];

Code:
var idx = 0;    //save current index of array 2

function clickNext() {
    idx++;

    //I'm comparing the array objects using a string compare- this only works because you said 'I have an identical array'
    //this may cause issues if you're objects are cross-referenced
    var find = function(array, obj) {   //lookup value from arr2 in arr1
        for (var i=0, l=array.length;i<l;i++)
            if (JSON.stringify(array[i]) == JSON.stringify(obj))    //adjust this line to your needs
                return array[i];
    }
    var result = find(arr1, arr2[idx])
    if (!result)
        throw new Error('not found- your arrays are not identical or you run out of index');
    console.log(result);
}

fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/k50y8pp5/

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


This is a placeholder page for Bob Hepler, which means this person is not currently on this site. We do suggest using the tools below to find Bob Hepler.
You are visiting the placeholder page for Bob Hepler. This page is here because someone used our placeholder utility to look for Bob Hepler. We created this page automatically in hopes Bob Hepler would find it. If you are not Bob Hepler, but are an alumni of North Clarion High School, register on this site for free now.


November 2012 I visited Bangladesh to picture people before, druing and after theier eye surgery.
All the operations and surveys were organized and paid by Orbis, an international NGO focused on sight saving.
The journey was organized by their german partner organisation iwishusun. This fashion label donates 50 Dollars with every down jacket they sell.
50 Dollar is the amount which is needful for an eye operation inm Bangladesh.
39 million people on this planet are blind.
80% of these cases are preventable.


If it is a full-sized programmable keyboard you seek, the Ducky One is worth a look. However be prepared to read the manual thoroughly.
I have always thought mechanical keyboards to be an unnecessary extra in a gamer's arsenal. I considered mice to be of more importance as accurate tracking can mean the difference between hitting or missing the mark. After joining Pokde.net, I was a proud defender of my opinion. However the team at Pokde.net convinced me to get one. Determined to see what is so special about mechanical keyboards, I got a secondhand CM Storm Quickfire TK. The rest, as they say, is history. Today, I have a Ducky One mechanical keyboard here with me. Let's not waste time and go through this keyboard.
As you can see the packaging of the Ducky One is rather basic, with just the right amount of info like the switches used, LED color and frame color.
The Ducky One features a translucent green case, a refreshing change from all the black mechanical keyboards in the market. The frame sports the thinnest bezels Ducky has ever made. Aside from the striking green color, the Ducky One is pretty simple looking.
The keys are still black, with a matte finishing that doesn't look set to get any fingerprints soon. The translucent print of the legends are quite hard to see without the backlight on, but that happens with most, if not all, backlit keyboards.
It's really about damn time keyboards embraced the newer standard. It essentially makes the cable user replaceable as microUSB cables are a lot easier to find than the miniUSB ones. Users can now pick whatever microUSB cable they want to use with their Ducky One, even the iCable i10 Power Series cables if they so wish.
The cable here doesn't come with any sleeving either, just like on the Ducky Secret mouse. Gold plating is featured on both ends.
Setting up the Ducky One involves plugging in the microUSB connector to the keyboard and plugging in the USB into a USB port on your computer. There are nice inset channels for you to tuck the cord into but because the cable is unbraided and the channels are a little tight, after squeezing the cables into the channels you will notice that the cord bears permanent scuff marks on its surface. The cable also bends at a rather acute angle, leaving me worried about its durability. It didn't fail during my testing though so it should be fine.
There are no drivers to install with the Ducky One, but it does come with a load of built-in features that require some careful reading of the user manual to understand. Everything is done on the keyboard itself, from macro programming to custom lighting options. Ducky offers a lot of features with their keyboard but I believe it is about time they invest in making a proper GUI to manage all their peripherals' settings.
The keyboard are held in place by thick rubber feet, so it will not slide around your table no matter how hard you type. I used the highest level of tilt because I like it that way. There are three levels of tilt for you to choose from.
The intermediate feet are less sturdy and pushing the keyboard forward will cause it to collapse.
The media keys on the Ducky One are limited to the volume control buttons above the numpad. There is also dedicated key to access the Calculator. I am not sure whether this was a community-sourced idea or Ducky engineers use the calculator that much to justify putting a dedicated shortcut there. You can also set your preferred repeat delay and repeat rate. I did mess with that feature but found it rather unnecessary. Setting macros are unbelievably difficult. Ducky really should hire a team of software engineers to make a proper GUI to handle all these features. On the upside, you can almost reprogram every key's function.
The DIP switches on the One's underside allows you to make the Fn key double as a Menu key, as well as disable some of the modifier keys. The 4th DIP switch is to switch between NKRO and 6KRO, an important feature as certain OSes do not support NKRO functionality.
Alright, its time to talk about the LED backlighting. The backlighting here is pure white, with 7 levels of brightness and 6 modes of backlighting, including completely off. I really like the Reactive Mode but wished it stayed lit a tad longer for me to actually bask in the glow of my furious typing. You can even customize TWO custom backlighting profiles which can be turned on together, making for almost limitless combinations. One thing I really like about the backlighting is that Ducky aligned the numbers and symbols above the LED so every legend is backlit nicely.
The keys feel great with the sandblasted finishing. The keycaps are ABS double shot, meaning that the legends will never ever fade. Real Cherry MX Brown switches are used here, so no worries about quality. Gaming or typing on this keyboard is flawless. Thanks to the NKRO function you do not need to worry about ghosting no matter how many keys you press at once. Bottoming out the keys is satisfying both in terms of audible and tactile feedback, typical of mechanical keyboards with a steel backplate.
The Ducky One's RRP is RM449, not a small sum any way you look at it. It does offer a huge number of features but they are hidden by key combinations and the DIP switch under the keyboard. If the keyboard came with a proper intuitive GUI I would love it to bits. If you want to make use of the macro/reprogram function and don't mind the learning curve when setting it up, do get this keyboard as right now it is currently on sale for RM399, while stocks last. I will only give it our Silver Award because of the steep learning curve when setting up the macro features.
We express our thanks to Ducky Keyboard Malaysia for lending us the Ducky One review sample.
I've been trying to figure out how to disable/lock the Left-Windows key. Finally found out that the changing the DIP switches doesn't disable the left-windows key. Or I'm not doing the correct combo of DIP switch. Do you know whether the left-windows key can be disabled at all? I tend to hit that key while I'm in the middle of playing my games and it really is bothersome.
Hi, yes we do find the DIP switches rather confusing too. You can turn the left Windows key into a Fn key by switching on DIP 1 and 3. The left Win key will act as the Fn key and the usual Fn key will be the Menu key.


text:
Pop Culture Passionistas
This Week's Most Inspirational Pop Culture Moments
Photo by Douglas Gorenstein/NBC
Some music stars are "Standing in the Storm" for their charities, a country singer opens her heart and dress rehearsal for people in need and a "Back to the Future" franchise star turns to friends for help. Here are this week's most inspirational pop culture moments.
Celebrity Apprentice Stars Sing for Their Causes
Anyone who's been watching this season of The Celebrity Apprentice knows that the inspirational moments are coming amidst a steady stream of yelling and posturing. But in the middle of the swirling disharmony, three unlikely musicians have joined forces to benefit their favorite charities.
Three members of original Team Backbone, have made the final four and collaborated on the tune. The artists are combining their sensibilities from their individual disciplines. Meat Loaf is bringing the Rock, John Rich will provide the Country and Lil' John will throw in a little Hip Hop. Their former teammate and pop star Mark McGrath, who was eliminated after task six, added his talents to the mix as well.
"Standing in the Storm" is a fitting title for a song born out of TV's most tumultuous reality show. It sounds like a little something for everyone, and that's good news for a few fortunate organizations. Proceeds from the song will go to the charities that each was representing on "The Celebrity Apprentice."
Rich has been playing for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Lil' John has worked on behalf of The United Methodist Children's Home of the North GeorgiaConference. And Meat Loaf has emotionally displayed his commitment to ThePainted Turtle camp. McGrath did Celebrity Apprentice to raise funds for Savethe Music Foundation.
Prior to the finale the three superstars have already raised a combined total of almost $1 million for their charities. Check out The Celebrity Apprentice on Sunday night to see who makes the final two and takes home the title and download "Standing in the Storm" from iTunes.
To read the rest of this week's inspirational pop culture moments, visit beliefnet.com.
Posted by Pop Culture Passionistas at 1:02 PM
Labels: Charity, Inspirational, Pop Culture, Reality TV, TV
We're huge pop culture fans. In fact, you could say it's our passion. Our whole family's creative. Guess it's a dominant gene. Growing up, we developed a love of TV, movies, music, and food as well as a fascination with celebrity. When we're not absorbing the entertainment world, we're writing and producing videos about pop culture people, places, and things. This blog is where all our passions collide. Enjoy! Amy & Nancy Harrington NOTE: In order to avoid sibling rivalry issues, and keep people guessing, the Pop Culture Passionistas always speak in the royal we.
Archives August 2015 (16) July 2015 (1) June 2015 (1) May 2015 (1) March 2015 (1) February 2015 (1) November 2014 (1) October 2014 (4) September 2014 (3) August 2014 (2) July 2014 (9) June 2014 (1) May 2014 (1) April 2014 (4) March 2014 (3) February 2014 (6) January 2014 (6) November 2013 (2) October 2013 (3) September 2013 (6) August 2013 (6) June 2013 (9) May 2013 (22) April 2013 (19) March 2013 (20) February 2013 (23) January 2013 (31) December 2012 (19) November 2012 (24) October 2012 (29) September 2012 (22) August 2012 (31) July 2012 (27) June 2012 (32) May 2012 (30) April 2012 (30) March 2012 (33) February 2012 (25) January 2012 (26) December 2011 (16) November 2011 (23) October 2011 (27) September 2011 (30) August 2011 (27) July 2011 (39) June 2011 (39) May 2011 (44) April 2011 (38) March 2011 (55) February 2011 (44) January 2011 (47) December 2010 (51) November 2010 (48) October 2010 (56) September 2010 (69) August 2010 (62) July 2010 (55) June 2010 (58) May 2010 (51) April 2010 (59) March 2010 (62) February 2010 (35) January 2010 (28) December 2009 (24) November 2009 (31) October 2009 (23) September 2009 (7) August 2009 (1) July 2009 (1) June 2009 (3) May 2009 (3) April 2009 (3) March 2009 (2) February 2009 (2) January 2009 (4) December 2008 (1) November 2008 (1) October 2008 (1) September 2008 (1) August 2008 (7) July 2008 (3) June 2008 (4) May 2008 (2)
TV (1128)
Reality TV (412)
Red Carpet Interviews (60)
Then and Now (21)
Award Shows (16)


text:
Q: Javascript event fired on long press/tap on tablets I am developing a website using RWD principles and it is supposed to self adjust and work in both desktop and in tablets, and eventually in Mobiles as well.
I know in Android development we can catch a long tap event and do some actions.
But my question is that, is it possible to do it in HTML/HTML5 and Javascript?
Basically looking for a predefined event which gets fired on long press on html elements.
I have gone through This and understood all the alternatives suggested. Looking if anything new has been introduced in HTML5.

A: Might check out pointer.js from Mozilla.  Apparently somewhat standardizes the touch/ mouse events into a single event type.  Probably better than using timeouts, I'd imagine.


On 21 June 2014 the Van Nelle factory was officially declared a World Heritage Site, bringing the number in the Netherlands to 10.
In 2013 the Monuments and Historic Buildings Inspectorates performed 5,860 inspections on listed historic buildings. Most were in the 'residential' category (2,326). In this category, the structure of 97.9% of the buildings was in reasonable or good condition, and the standard of maintenance was reasonable or good in 86.3% of cases.
A trend has been established for the scores of listed buildings inspected on more than one occasion. In 47.2% of buildings inspected on multiple occasions the standard of maintenance remained the same, in 31.1% it improved and in 21.7% it deteriorated. The standard of maintenance of 'road and water infrastructure' and 'defence works' deteriorated slightly in relative terms.
A trend has been identified for historic buildings that have been inspected three times or more. In 70.3% of buildings inspected on multiple occasions the condition of the structure has remained the same, in 21.2% it has improved and in 8.6% it has deteriorated. The structure of 'road and water infrastructure' and 'defence works' deteriorated less than in the other categories.
In 2017 there were 4,225 archaeological investigations registered in the Netherlands, a slight increase since 2016 (4,015). The number of registrations of archaeological research carried out in the Netherlands since 1908 amounts to 64,304 in total.
The overview of archaeological research by contractor makes it clear that their number was limited until the introduction of the Monuments and Historic Buildings Act 1988. From that point on, there was a clear change, with commercial agencies accounting for a growing proportion of archaeological research.
The category 'history' (407) accounted for the largest proportion of the total number of museums in The Netherlands at the end of 2017 (688). The smallest group is 'ethnology' (18 museums).
At the end of 2016 the museum population of the Netherlands consisted of 688 museums, 468 of which are registeredby the Museumvereniging, 202 are not (yet) registered.
At the end of 2018 there were 61,908 listed buildings in the Netherlands. Since 2007 the focus has been on the post-war reconstruction period.


text:
Q: Event listener in javascript How to create a function that accepts the parameter as a function?
I have this function and I want to call it with parameter of a function also:
function ShowDialog(OnSubmit)
{
    var _result = OnSubmit();

    alert(_result);
}

This is what I want to call:
ShowDialog(
              {
                  OnSubmit: function () {
                      return "Hello World";
                  }
              }
          );

this will alert "Hello World in browser"

A: Call:
ShowDialog(function(){
   return "Hello World";
});

Then your function can remain as:
function ShowDialog(OnSubmit)
{
    var _result = OnSubmit();

    alert(_result);
}

A: Try this instead:
function ShowDialog(param)
{
    var _result = param.OnSubmit();
    alert(_result);
}

ShowDialog({
    OnSubmit: function () {
         return "Hello World";
    }
});

A: JavaScript has first-class functions, so you can just pass the function reference directly, you do not need an object:
function showDialog(callback) {
    var result = callback();
    alert(result);
}

function bye() { return "bye!" };

showDialog(function() { return "Hello!" });
showDialog(bye);

var greetings = { ciao: function() { return "Ciao!" } };

showDialog(greetings.ciao);

Of course you can also pass the full object, in that case you need to modify the function as follow:
function showDialog(options) {
    var result = options.onSubmit();
    alert(result);
}

And then:
showDialog({
    onSubmit: function() { return "Hello!" }
});

showDialog({
    onSubmit: bye
});

You could also implement a function that accepts both object and callback:
function showDialog(options) {
    var result = typeof options === 'function' ? options() : options.onSubmit();
    alert(result);
}

showDialog({
    onSubmit: bye
});

showDialog(bye);

Hope it helps.


text:
Accredo Packaging, Inc. > Press > EPA Honors 24 Organizations for Green Power Leadership
EPA Honors 24 Organizations for Green Power Leadership
EPA Press Release
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented its 13th annual Green Power Leadership Awards to 21 Green Power Partners and three suppliers for their achievements in advancing the nation's renewable electricity market. Close to one-third of America's carbon pollution – a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change – comes from power plants. By using green power, communities, businesses and organizations can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, support America's growing renewable energy industry, improve public health, and help transition the United States to cleaner energy sources.
"Our 2013 Green Power Leadership Award winners are driving new renewable energy generation and providing clear examples of organizations thriving on innovation and sustainability," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "These winners are moving us closer to the vision President Obama outlined in his Climate Action Plan—cutting harmful pollution and promoting American leadership in renewable energy."
EPA defines green power as electricity that is generated from renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas and low-impact hydroelectric sources and produces no fossil fuel-based carbon pollution. The winning organizations are recognized for dramatically increasing their green power purchases, installing large-scale solar panel arrays, and leading innovative renewable energy procurement efforts, among other actions.
The 2013 Green Power Leadership Award winners are listed below in the following categories:
Sustained Excellence in Green Power: Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, Calif.); Kohl's Department Stores (Menomonee Falls, Wis.); Staples (Framingham, Mass.)
Green Power Partners of the Year: Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.); Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.); Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Wash.); The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
Green Power Communities of the Year: Cincinnati, Ohio; Mercer Island, Wash.
Green Power Purchasing: Accredo Packaging, Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas); Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas); Pearson (Upper Saddle River, N.J.); Powdr (Park City, Utah), The North Face (Alameda, Calif.); U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.); UW Credit Union (Madison, Wis.); Western Pennsylvania Energy Consortium (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
On-site Generation: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.); County of Santa Clara, Calif.; Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.); Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations, LLC (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Green Power Suppliers of the Year: 3Degrees (San Francisco, Calif.); Dominion Virginia Power (Richmond, Va.); Sterling Planet (Atlanta, Ga.)
The 21 award-winning partners were chosen for their exemplary use of green power from more than 1,500 partner organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state and federal governments, and colleges and universities. Utilities, renewable energy project developers, and other green power suppliers were eligible to apply for the Supplier of the Year Award, which recognizes leadership in voluntary renewable energy offerings.
EPA also announced the winners of the third annual Green Power Community Challenge, a national competition between communities to use renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the collective participation of local governments, businesses, and residents. Out of 48 competing communities, Washington, D.C., won the challenge for a third year in a row for using the most green power annually with more than one billion kilowatt-hours (kWh). Oak Park, Ill., also won the challenge for a second consecutive year for achieving the highest green power percentage of total electricity use at 92 percent.
EPA, through the Green Power Partnership, works with partner organizations to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Nearly two-thirds of partners use 100 percent green power. All together, the partners are voluntarily using more than 28 billion kWh of green power annually, equivalent to avoiding carbon pollution created by the electricity use of more than three million average American homes each year.
More on the Green Power Leadership Awards
More on the Green Power Community Challenge
More on the Green Power Partnership
EPA headquarters press release.
Share on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on Google+
Award Green Power Purchaser


Threading is a hair removal method. Thread is doubled over and twisted between the fingers, it is then rolled over an area and removes the hair from the root.
Many clients love this service as they feel they get a more defined brow shape, and this service is very quick. Client will return every 3-4 weeks to get this service done.
Day 1 - 9.30am to 4.00pm.
After completing day 1 you will be required to complete 4 case studies to gain technique and experience in threading. You will be required to email before & after pictures of your case studies, we will then assess these. Upon successful completion of all case studies you will be issued your certificate.


I recently worked on a discovery project looking into the needs of international users on GOV.UK. We knew from analytics that GOV.UK receives around 9 million visits a year from outside the UK. We wanted to understand the needs of our international users, so that we could better meet them. Rob's blog post talks more about why we kicked off this project.
Part of the project involved identifying and defining the sort of content international users might be interested in. Lucy's blog post looks at this process.
What I want to tell you about is how we conducted user research to better understand our international users, and what we found.
With only a six-week period for our discovery we created a research plan to help us work quickly.
We needed to start by defining what we meant by 'international' users. We felt the simplest way we could group people was by their nationality and where they lived.
This gave us these four groups.
The four user groups for international content on GOV.UK.
We found we had a lot of existing research on group 1, British people living in the UK.
We found that there was very little existing research on group 2, British citizens outside the UK, so we would need to do new research.
When looking at group 3, non-British people living in the UK, we had a question of whether or not their needs were the same as people in group 1. We struggled to find an answer from existing research, so we realised we needed to talk to them too.
We learnt that the most common reason group 4, non-British people living outside the UK, would use GOV.UK is to apply for a visa to come to the UK. As there was a separate stream of work with GDS and UK Visas and Immigration looking at these users we felt it wasn't a priority, especially with our short time scales.
Therefore our research focused on groups 2 and 3: British citizens living outside the UK and non-British citizens living in the UK.
For this strand of research, we worked with a recruitment panel to find British citizens living outside the UK. The panel was a list of people in the UK, so we asked them to refer us to friends and colleagues living abroad.
Our interviews were conducted over the phone and we had problems distinct to this type of research. Other than the usual time delays and connectivity issues we weren't able to observe any behaviour and context of use.
We could easily find and observe this audience so we were able to do 6 face-to-face interviews. We split these between EU and non-EU nationals to see if there are any differences in attitude between the two.
We had seen existing research looking at how this audience used GOV.UK, but very little about why. So this is what we focused on.
To find this out we didn't specify any pages or services in advance for the research, as we wanted to know what this user group was using GOV.UK for. Our participants volunteered things they had done on the site and showed us what the experience was like.
Interviewing in this way meant we got to find out what the motivation to use GOV.UK was for this user group. We then compared this with our knowledge of British nationals using GOV.UK to see if there were any differences.
We found that ultimately the motivations and experiences were the same for everything, other than visas and immigration.
On GOV.UK we ask every 50th visitor if they would like to complete a survey to provide feedback on their experience of the site. Our plan was to use this survey and tailor the questions specifically to our project. That way we could validate the findings we made during our discovery.
Using the responses we were able to show the scale of the user groups we defined and also their perceived satisfaction with the content they viewed.
Having this larger-scale data from the survey and qualitative findings from the interview meant we finished our discovery confident with the findings we'd made.
At the end we identified key areas of GOV.UK that need improvement for international audiences. The roadmap for this year is taking shape, with multiple opportunities to improve the way we meet the needs of international users.
Most importantly we found that in order to be better at international research we need to improve our knowledge of conducting research globally. The phone interviews gave us insights but we couldn't build an understanding of user behaviours using GOV.UK and services.
The cross-government user research community are running a meetup early this year to discuss how we can better support each other to develop these skills. This will be an exciting chance for government to get better at researching internationally.


Washington Highlands Neighborhood Library, 115 Atlantic Street, SW. New replacement building. Revised concept.
John Marshall Park, Fourth Street corridor between Pennsylvania Avenue and C Street, NW. New landscape design. Revised concept.
Federal Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery / State and Local Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery.Two medals. Designs for obverse, reverse, neck ribbon, and service ribbon. Final.
2011 Presidential One Dollar Coin Program New obverse designs for the fifth set of four coins: Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, and James Garfield. Final.
St. Elizabeths Hospital, West Campus, 2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE. New headquarters building for the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard. Final.
Federal Office Building #8 (formerly Food and Drug Administration), 2nd and C Streets, SW. Plaza and streetscape design for building modernization and renovation project. Revised concept.
William McChesney Martin, Jr. Building, 2000 C Street, NW. Additions and alterations for visitor screening and conference center. Revised concept.
Woodrow Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake Street, NW. Building renovation and additions. (Previous: CFA 21/MAR/02-13). Concept.


ExportWorldwide finds you new markets and new customers from across the world.
ExportWorldwide is a lead and sales generation platform that can promote your products and services to prospects across the world in 20 languages that account for 84% of world trade.
ExportWorldwide enables you to upload your products in English and utilising a range of multilingual tools and web marketing techniques to successfully promote your products and services in 20 languages to 84% of the world trade. You can upload your products and services or we can do everything for you, talk to us and see how straight forward generating export sales leads can be!
Sales- Enjoy revenue growth from new export markets.
Strategy- A structured, low-risk entry into export sales.
Support- From an export award-winning UK team with tried and tested methods!
Remember, if you have a competitive product in your home market, then it will also be competitive across other markets. Let Export Worldwide find your new markets and new customers.


Russian society has been very slow to pick up on the signs of crisis approaching the country. Russians' perceived wellbeing decoupled from their economic expectations about two years ago, after the annexation of Crimea in March 2014. A newly found great-power euphoria and the perception that crises go away quickly helped people to dismiss the possibility that the country is sliding into a protracted recession.
Now the realization is sinking in that Russia is in it for the long haul. The society's response is to hunker down, rather than to assign blame to the Kremlin. This is predictable. But the longer the crisis lasts, the less predictable its social and political effects will be.
By the end of 2016 the Russian population will have experienced more than two years of continuous income decrease, a major reversal of fortune for a country that went through almost a decade and a half of consumption growth.
Real wages, real pensions and, as a result, incomes in general, were growing for a very long time. Real income growth averaged 8 percent a year, increasing by 112 percent between 2000 and November 2014. This had a huge social impact: it created an entirely new standard of living in Russia's cities and brightened the way people felt about their prospects.
That growth is gone. Russian officials project that the economy will contract 1 percent to 1.5 percent this year, after having shrunk 3.7 percent in 2015. Household income is also in steep decline. In February, ordinary Russians' incomes went down for the 16th month in a row, according to official statistics. This will continue all year, which means that by the end of 2016 the Russian population will have experienced more than two years of continuous income decrease, a major reversal of fortune for a country that went through almost a decade and a half of consumption growth.
Poverty is creeping back into Russia. The share of those considered officially poor, but for a short blip in 2008, was declining steadily throughout the above-mentioned period. This has now been reversed. In 2015, more than 3 million Russians slid into official poverty. Almost 20 million people, or 13.4 percent of the Russian population, are now living below the poverty line.
The three previous economic downturns that are on everyone's minds were short-lived. Currency devaluation (in 1998), generous state bailouts (in 2008), and commodity prices rebound (in 2012) allowed the economy to bounce back quickly. None of these fixes are available now except, of course, for one possibility (but not certainty): a sudden resumption in the growth of oil prices, to save the day.
The Crimea euphoria is starting to dissipate and the gap between perception and reality is beginning to close, albeit in a peculiar way. People are lowering their expectations, rather than trying to overcome hurdles.
The way the Russian society is choosing to respond to this downturn is likely to make things worse because every second ruble spent in the Russian economy is a household ruble. "People have started to save and this is yet another challenge to the prospects of growth. Consumption has ceased to be a driver of growth," Ovcharova says.
Consumer confidence is falling while political confidence stays relatively high. Russia is sobering up to the economic reality, but not to the political one.
Consumer confidence is falling while political confidence stays relatively high. Russia is sobering up to the economic reality, but not to the political one. This means that the majority of the Russian population does not connect the state of the country's economy to the Kremlin's political decisions. This disconnect is not happening all by itself: the Kremlin has been working hard on preventing people from seeing politics as a solution. All attempts to engage in independent political action are presented domestically as foreign-sponsored subversive activity. An unintended consequence of this strategy is that people learn to feel helpless in the face of the worsening economic situation.
Economic conditions are seen in Russia much like weather conditions. As an old song goes, "The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing, but I can weather the storm." From the incumbent's standpoint, this may sound like a good solution. But it is only good for a while. It means that people will get back into politics only when the situation reaches a boiling point, and hasty action taken out of extreme necessity, never produces healthy political change.


NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) called on NY State Senator Brian Kavanagh to cancel a tribute to terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour, which is planned as part of the Hester Street Benefit tomorrow, June 13.
"It's shocking that Progressive Liberals are willing to give Linda Sarsour a pass on her vile rhetoric, her support of terrorists, and her connection to America's leading racist Louis Farrakhan," said Hikind. "What kind of message are Democrats giving when they turn a blind eye to these facts? Honoring someone as divisive and despicable as Linda Sarsour is the very opposite of what New York City—and all of the United States—stand for."
Hikind asked New Yorkers to contact Senator Kavanaugh's office at 212-298-5565 to lodge their protest.


text:
Home Legal and Visas Airport terminal ready for quick makeover
Legal and Visas
Airport terminal ready for quick makeover
The Airports of Thailand (AoT) management have submitted a three billion baht renovation plan for the currently derelict Terminal 2 in Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport.
The plan was submitted to the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), the government planning agency, in July and if approved the work could be underway and completed by May 2014. At least, that is the aim of Don Muang's general manager Chaturongkapon Sodmanee.
The general manager has been quoted as saying AoT is committed to undertaking the work in a very timely manner. The fast tracking is needed because there is a realization that Terminal 1 is rapidly heading towards its capacity of 18 million travellers per annum. It is expected that Don Muang will reach 16 million this year, so it is imperative the presently derelict Terminal 2 be brought into the equation once again.
The terminal had originally been slated for renovation in November next year, but future projections regarding passenger numbers both within Thailand and from international arrivals has led to a rapid rethinking of that timeframe.
Khun Chaturongpakon admits his plans are ambitious, but the plans for the facelift are already well advanced and if the entire proposal is given the green light then Terminal 2 will be well and truly brought into a state of complete modernity.
Given the importance the central government has placed on improving infrastructure throughout the country, and especially aviation, the improvements to Terminal 2 would mean that Don Muang would be capable of handling a massive 30 million passengers a year. This would greatly relieve the current pressures on Suvarnabhumi Airport, which is currently running well past capacity.
Terminal 2 was constructed more than 20 years ago but has been effectively dormant since the 2006 opening of Suvarnabhumi Airport.
AoT wants to circumvent the usual bureaucratic quagmire of casting about to award contracts, and instead hopes to organize a special procurement procedure which would see suppliers and contractors arranged quickly so the work can be completed within the ambitious timeframe announced by the general manager.
According to the plans submitted to the NESDB, the new-look Terminal 2 will have 80 check-in counters (down from the current 92) but will retain its present six check-in islands.
The centerpiece of the new check-in hall will be a life-size replica of a vintage aircraft, designed to reflect the long history of Don Muang airport.
The renovated Terminal 2 would be used exclusively for domestic passenger arrivals and departures. It is expected that once Terminal 2 has been fully renovated, then Terminal 1 would be next in line to receive an equally ambitious makeover.
Previous articleBranding Bangkok for 37 Years
Next articleBMW expands model range in introducing BMW X3 xDrive20i and BMW 116i M Sport
90 Day Reporting Options in Thailand
90 Day Reports During the Pandemic


text:
Q: Best Practices: Ensuring Backward compatibility with Push Notifications When sending push notifications to our iOS or Android App we're currently sending localization identifiers within the notification's payload.
This results in bad user experience for users with older version of that app because they are presented a notification with the localization identifiers (which are not present in the older version of the app).
What are the Best Practices to deal with or prevent this situation?

A: Some thoughts:
Let you backend not only keep track of push token, but also app version. Your backend can then select the type of push notification per app installation.
You could keep track of the localization identifier of each app installation. Then you can send an already localized push notification.


text:
Sven (auch unter Queens Plaza Park bekannt) ist ein Wolkenkratzer im Stadtbezirk Queens in New York City. Sven ist das erste Wohngebäude in Queens, das in der Nachhaltigkeit das höchste zu vergebende Level, die LEEDv4 Platin-Zertifizierung, erreicht hat.

Beschreibung
Der Wolkenkratzer Sven befindet sich im Zentrum des Stadtteils Long Island City unweit der Queensboro Bridge und des Bahngeländes "Sunnyside Yard". In unmittelbarer Nähe liegt die U-Bahn-Station Queens Plaza der New York City Subway, wo die Linien ,  und  verkehren.

Der Wohnturm wurde von Handel Architects entworfen und erreicht mit insgesamt 71 Stockwerken eine Gesamthöhe von 230,1 Metern (755 Fuß). Damit ist es nach dem Skyline Tower das zweithöchste Gebäude in Queens. Das Bauwerk hat eine geschwungene konkave Fassade mit knapp 10.000 m² elektrochromer Verglasung (Elektrochromie). Solarsensoren regeln automatisch die Glastönung und somit Wärmegewinnung und Kühlung des Wohnturms. Bei der Größe des Wolkenkratzers bildet es eine Premiere in New York. Die Inneneinrichtungen gestaltete das Architekturbüro Selldorf Architects. Der Wolkenkratzer besitzt 958 meist luxuriöse Wohneinheiten, Fitnesscenter, Außenpool und weitere Freizeiteinrichtungen.

Sven ist Teil eines Komplexes, der im Jahr 2001 nach einer Umwidmung des Queens Plaza neu geplant wurde. Zum Komplex gehören neben Sven der seit 2015 denkmalgeschützte und restaurierte The Queens Clock Tower, der auch als Chase Manhattan Bank Building bezeichnet wird, Hotels und der Park "Dutch Kills Green". Der Clock Tower wurde 1927 erbaut und war mit seinen 14 Stockwerken bis 1990 das höchste Gebäude in Queens. Es beherbergte einst eine Filiale der Chase Manhattan Bank und wird heute für Einzelhandel genutzt. Die konkave Fassade von Sven umschließt symbolisch das historische Gebäude und sie bilden dabei eine Einheit. Der Park "Dutch Kills Green" bildet den südlichen Abschluss des Komplexes.

Zunächst unter der Bezeichnung "Queens Plaza Park" war Sven anfangs als Hotel und dann als 280 m hoher Wohnturm geplant, bevor 2016 die endgültigen Pläne erstellt wurden. Die 2018 begonnenen Bauarbeiten waren Ende 2021 abgeschlossen und der Bauträger Durst Organization begann gleichzeitig mit der Vermietung der Wohnungen. Der Wohnturm Sven wurde dann im Jahr 2022 offiziell eröffnet.

Siehe auch
 Liste der höchsten Gebäude in New York

Weblinks

 Svenlic.com Offizielle Website.
 Handel Architects Sven, mit Bildern.
 skyscrapercenter.com Sven.

Einzelnachweise

Hochhaus in New York City
Bauwerk der Postmoderne in New York City
Hochhaus in Nordamerika
Bauwerk in Queens

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Popularity of Digital Publishing Increases Piracy…Damn!
Filed under: David Carnoy,digital book sales,digital downloads,digital files,Digital publishing,digital publishing growth,digital readers,digital rights,Digital Rights Management (DRM),e-book piracy,e-books,e-books trends,e-Readers,eBook authors' royalties,eReaders,iPad,John R. Austin,Kindle,piracy — gator1965 @ 4:44 pm
Damn is right. Is there no damn, damn, damn justice in this world?
As Ms. Digital becomes the homecoming queen of publishing, pirates are swarming for dates!
While researching this topic I learned a few new terms and concepts (I must admit I'm a few notches below a newbie techie…not to mention my brain damage).
For instance::
A Torrent (or Bit Torrent) is a file distribution system used for transferring files (one or many) across a network of people. As you do…http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BitTorrent.html
Seeder. A seeder is a peer that has an entire copy of the torrent and offers it for upload. The more seeders there are, the better the chances of getting a higher download speed. If the seeder seeds the whole copy of the download, they should get faster downloads.
Leech. A leech is a term with two meanings. Usually it is used to refer a peer who has a negative effect on the swarm by having a very poor share ratio (downloading much more than they upload). Most leeches are users on asymmetric internet connections and do not leave their BitTorrent client open to seed the file after their download has completed. However, some leeches intentionally avoid uploading by using modified clients or excessively limiting their upload speed. The often used second meaning of leech is synonymous with downloader (see above): used simply to describe a peer or any client that does not have 100% of the data. This alternative meaning was mainly introduced by most BitTorrent tracker sites.
A Torrent file of 2500 e-books is about 3.4 GB and can be downloaded in pretty much of a zip.
A single DVD movie and PC games are larger than the 2500 book file, usually b/t 4 to 7.5 GB's.
So, at this time, it's pretty damn easy (and fast) to steal others' intellectual property!
You must read this revealing article by David Carnoy of CNET.com :
Kindle E-book Piracy Accelerates
Several months ago I set up a Google alert for my book, "Knife Music," to keep abreast of anything anybody was saying–good or bad–about the thing. Over the months I've received news of the occasional blog post and tweets, but more recently I popped open an alert to learn that my book was being pirated–both as a separate file and part of two larger Torrents called 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks (iPod, iPad, Nook, Sony Reader) and 2,500 Retail Quality Ebooks for Kindle (MOBI).
I had the strange reaction of being both dismayed and weirdly honored that someone had selected my book to strip free of its copy-protection (DRM) and include as part of a collection of "quality" e-books, many of which were from very good authors.
OK, so the use of the term "quality" was a reference to the formatting of the e-books and not the quality of the actual work, but for a moment I wasn't too bothered. After all, if someone downloads 2500 books, what are the odds he or she is going to even bother looking at yours? I was probably only losing a few bucks, especially considering my e-book is currently priced at $3.99, which only leaves me with about 50 cents a book after the publisher, e-book seller, and agent, take their cuts. (John's Note: I thought many e-retailers (like iPad) let the publishers keep 70% of sale!) Even if I missed out on selling 200 e-books, that's a mere $100. No big deal, right?
Well, obviously, for big authors, this whole pirating thing presents a bigger problem–and a bigger loss. But that isn't what dismayed me so much (sorry, but when you're a little guy, you don't care so much about how much the big guys are losing). Rather, what's shocking, and what the publishers should be most concerned about, is the fact that a library of 2,500 books can be downloaded in a matter of hours. E-books are small files and 2,500 of them can be packed into a single download (Torrent) that's only about 3.4GB. If you set the average price per book at a measly $2, the worth of said download would be $5,000. Bring it up to $4 a book and you're at $10,000. (In fact, publishers charges much more for some of these books).
By comparison, a single DVD movie is usually larger than that, as well as many retail PC games, which tend to run in the 4GB to 7.5GB range. A "major" PSP title is about 1GB, sometimes a bit larger (yes, the PSP has been severely impacted by piracy).
I probably don't need to point this out but I will. I have about 600 books in my paper book collection, which took me years to gather and prune during various moves. Digitally, that same collection could be downloaded in around 30 minutes and stored on a cheap 1GB thumb drive, which could then be copied in a matter of seconds and passed on to someone else.
A lot of people think moving away from paper is a good thing. Maybe it is. But what should also be alarming to publishers is that the number of people pirating books is growing along with the number of titles that are available for download. As I've written in the past, the rise of the iPad has spurred some of the pirating, but now the huge success of the Kindle is also leading to increased pirating. Yes some companies, such as Attributor, have done some studies about the issue, and seen increases. But for my evidence one only need glance at Pirate Bay and see what people are downloading and how many of them are doing it.
"Shaken" Conventional Publishing Economics
Filed under: AmazonEncore,eBook authors' royalties,eBook contracts,eBooks,J. A. Konrath,Shaken — gator1965 @ 4:46 pm
This post will give us a peek inside the eBook publishing numbers and authors' royalties!
J. A. Konrath, author of the popular Jack (Jacqueline) Daniels female cop series, has just contracted with AmazonEncore, the publishing imprint of Amazon, to publish his latest entry Shaken in a Kindle edition for $2.99 and a paperback edition for $14.95.
Mind you, this all happened AFTER major New York publishing houses turned Shaken down! Does this show you just how much these traditional publishers DON"T know?
Mike Shatzkin, CEO of The IdeaLogical Publishing Consultant Company and author of The Shatzkin Files Blog, had the most incisive report on this happening:
Author J. A. Konrath, who has been self-publishing on Kindle and reporting about it for quite some time, just contracted to have the latest in his series of novels featuring female cop Jack Daniels published by the new Amazon Encore imprint. Encore was originally announced as Amazon's way to pick up and feature already self-published books. They apparently bent the guidelines a bit to include Konrath's yet-unpublished book, Shaken. Amazon will publish the Kindle edition at $2.99 in October and release a paperback at $14.95 next February.
Although Konrath is a media- and tech-savvy author who has published with major New York houses (the Jack Daniels series was previously published by Hyperion), he is not a regular NY Times Bestseller brand. Not only is he not a multi-million dollar advance recipient, he makes it clear that the novel he just signed with Encore was rejected by the New York publishing houses. So Amazon had a low bar to jump to secure him for its Encore line.
Nonetheless, this is a significant jolt to conventional publishing economics. Sales of Konrath's $2.99 ebook will deliver him about $2.10 a copy (Konrath says $2.04; not sure where the other six cents is going…), as much or more as he would make on a $14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $9.99 ebook distributed under "Agency" terms and current major publisher royalty conventions. And, however one feels about the degree to which pricing is a barrier to ebook sales, one must assume that the $2.99 price will result in a lot more ebook sales than a $9.99 price would. Many times the sales!
Read more at http://www.idealog.com/blog


text:
layout: post
title: "Javascript variable declarations"
modified:
categories: blog
excerpt:
tags: []
image:
  feature:
date: 2018-01-23T01:01:00-00:00
modified: 2018-01-23T01:00:01-00:00
---

# What I learned from ES6 so far...

### Scopes

Finally I relaunched my blog. After Years (really) of neglecting my old blog, posting something now and then I relaunched it with [Jekyll](jekyll).

I tried joomla and wordpress before, but it never felt quite comfortable to write and manage blogs.

Then I got to know [Jekyll](jekyll). I really appreciate the lack of server side components and the absence of a database.

Let's hope I can get more blog articles done with [Jekyll](jekyll). But for now I am really excited to have such a simple plattform.

Check out the [Jekyll docs][jekyll] for more info on how to get the most out of Jekyll. File all bugs/feature requests at [Jekyll's GitHub repo][jekyll-gh].

### Arrow Functions

### other syntactic sugar

Here are some links to bootstrap some simple javascript projects using babel.

[jekyll-gh]: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
[jekyll]:    http://jekyllrb.com

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Seo naidheachd a fhuair mi air a' phost-d.
'S e làrach-lìn a th' anns an Transifex a bheir goireasan taic do dh'eadar-theangaichean 's an luchd-prògramachaidh ach an cuir iad cànan eile air bathar-bog. Rinn iad cunntas-bheachd air an luchd-cleachdaidh aca san t-Sultain air dè na dùbhlanan a tha romhpa gus an obair aca a choileanadh.
Transifex is a website that supplies tools to translators and programmers to tr*nsl*t* their software. They did a survey on their users in September about the challenges that they face to accomplish their work.
In September, we conducted the first annual Localization Benchmark Survey among Transifex users. What we found is not only interesting, it's downright inspiring. Take a look at what other Transifex users think about localization - the challenges, benefits and plans for investment in the future. Download your free report of the survey findings that includes charts, graphs and what we believe to be the biggest opportunities for Transifex customers.
51% of respondents report improved customer experience as a result of providing some level of localized content.
55% of respondents identified tr*nsl*t**n quality and 47% cited tr*nsl*t**n consistency as the major challenges of localization efforts.
Web apps, documentation and mobile apps are the most important content to localize.
Investment in localization is expected to increase in the next 12-months.
The average number of languages supported will roughly double over the next 12 months - growing from less than 5 to approximately 10 languages.
'S urrainn dhuibh PDF le aithisg shlàn a' chunntais-bheachd a luchdadh a-nuas.
You can download a PDF with the full report.


Homemade guacamole is one of the easiest recipes you will ever attempt. No fancy equipment needed aside from your own muscles, you can quickly whip this recipe together before any gathering.
The added flavor both oils bring to the guacamole is also a plus. Lime essential oil brings an added zest and balances out the rich creaminess of the avocado, while Cilantro oil adds an herbal flavor to the perfect combination of avocado, tomato, and onion.
Chop cilantro, onion, and tomato. Set aside.
Halve the avocados and remove the pit. Scoop out the flesh and smash avocados in a medium bowl.
Add cilantro, onion, and tomato into smashed avocado mixture.
Add Cilantro and Lime essential oil, lime juice, and salt.
Mix all ingredients and enjoy with tortilla chips of your choosing.