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Joseph Hirsch, who worked for the city for 25 years, contends the city did not follow procedures that are legally required when firing a public employee.
By Megan GrayStaff Writer
The former parks and recreation director of Saco has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city.
Joseph Hirsch worked for the city for 25 years, including 13 as the department head. His complaint, filed Tuesday in York County Superior Court, says the city abruptly forced him to retire in October 2017 without giving him any notice or opportunity to defend himself as required by law.
He also says he was accused of violating the city's computer policy, but that allegation was false – and that a misdemeanor charge of criminal invasion of privacy was later dismissed.
"It shouldn't go down like that," Hirsch, 66, said in an interview Tuesday. "It shouldn't happen like that. A person should actually be allowed to present their whole side of the story."
Charges dismissed for former Saco rec employees
City Administrator Bryan Kaenrath did not respond to a voicemail or an email to his executive assistant Tuesday.
Attorneys Shelby Leighton and David Webbert, who are representing Hirsch, said the city did not follow procedures that are legally required when firing a public employee, such as holding a hearing to present evidence of any wrongdoing.
"The Constitution guarantees to public employees like Joe the basic rights to due process, just cause and not having their reputations unfairly smeared," Webbert said.
The complaint says the dispute dates back to early 2017, when another department employee told Hirsch that he had discovered that a seasonal worker had misused a city iPad to send and receive personal messages. At the time, the complaint says, policy prohibited employees from using city devices for personal reasons, and authorized individuals could monitor those devices. The employee who spoke to Hirsch was looking over the iPad after the seasonal worker turned it in and saw the personal messages, including negative comments about the department. He showed the screen to Hirsch, who assumed the seasonal employee's immediate supervisor would handle the policy violation.
Months later, in September, the complaint says, the seasonal worker complained about an invasion of privacy because Hirsch and the other department employee had seen his texts. The following month then-city administrator Kevin Sutherland told Hirsch that he needed to retire or he would be fired. Hirsch said he was stunned.
The Saco Police Department also investigated the complaint and charged Hirsch and the other employee with criminal invasion of privacy, which is a Class D crime. Hirsch agreed to pay a $500 fine and complete 40 hours of community service, and the charge was dismissed. The complaint says he agreed to that resolution because of "mounting legal costs and the unexpected loss of his income because of the termination." The York County District Attorney's Office did not respond to an email about that case Tuesday.
Hirsch, who lives in Lyman, said he was not able to get a job in his field after the city publicized his termination and the criminal charge against him. He now works at a local school cafeteria and at Lowe's. He said he misses his coworkers and the program participants he used to see on the job, and he feels a lack of closure because his long career ended so suddenly.
The lawsuit asks the court to order the city to reinstate Hirsch to his position and award him back pay and other financial compensation. It also asks the city to provide training to city employees on due process and other laws that govern the removal of municipal employees.
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While it can be chalked up to technical difficulties, it's a perfect metaphor for how many difficulties we will all face in the upcoming four years.
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On Thursday, the festivities of the inaugural concert began with DJ Ravidrums, Sam Moore and a bunch of other people we have never heard of, but apparently do exist.
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In this article I outline my thoughts on the design challenges and opportunities associated with WECs known as 'Oscillating Wave Surge Converters'. As discussed previously, this term is used to describe seabed-mounted pitching flaps.
In a seabed-mounted pitching device, only pitch makes a contribution to power capture. However, excitation will be experienced in all modes of motion. These forces/moments need to be resisted by the seabed attachment, which has an associated cost. Hence one design challenge is to maximise pitch moments (combined excitation and radiation forces) while minimising the forces and moments (excitation only) on the remaining 5 DoFs.
Geometry: a large flat flap facing the incoming waves attracts large moments in pitch, but small forces in heave and sway.
Geometry: there remains the problem that geometry which attracts large pitch moments also attracts large surge forces.
Shallow water waves: in shallow water, the motion profile is altered in preference of horizontal water particle motions. The heave forces, compared to pitch/surge moments/forces, are smaller than in deeper water.
Wave directionality: in shallow water, refraction causes waves to change course; they veer in the direction of the beach. Weathervaning of sea-bed reacting devices is not practical. However, in shallow water, the device does not need to align with the waves, as the waves align with the device. Being aligned to the principle wave direction ensures high pitch moments while limiting excitation in sway, roll and yaw.
Short-crested waves: Refraction concentrates waves in the direction of the beach (less directional spreading). For a 1 DoF concept, it is an advantage to concentrate wave power in the direction best exploited by this DoF, and to minimise the wave power coming from directions that excite non-power capturing modes (sway, roll and yaw).
Note that the term 'excitation' is usually used in the context of a system that has been designed to have a response as a result. Pitching flaps are not designed to respond in modes other than pitch. Nevertheless, the term 'excitation' will be used here to acknowledge that forces and moments will be experienced in modes other than pitch, and will experience (preferably) minute motions as a result.
Another design challenge is ensuring that waves radiated in pitch have the amplitude, phase and direction required to destructively interfere with the incoming wave passing the device.
The geometry of the flap determines its wave-making ability. Design parameters such as water depth and frontal width determine the amplitude and width of radiated wave per degree of pitch.
A small flap will not radiate a big wave. This is because the wave-making ability is small, and the amount of motion that would be required for a large wave is not physically possible. Motion is restricted by the presence of end-stops. Furthermore, this concept has inherent load-shedding, because the wave-making ability decreases as the end-stops are approached (less frontal area is exposed to the direction of wave travel).
Another consideration is water depth. If the height of the flap is small, the options are to install it in shallow water, where there are more breaking waves (extreme loads), or fully submerged in deep water, so that much of the wave travels over it. Both these options have drawbacks in terms of loads being too high or too low for cost effective power capture.
During operation, some degree of control can be exerted over the amplitude of pitch motion, and hence amplitude of radiated wave, by the choice of damping coefficient.
The phase of a single body oscillator (with respect to the phase of the exciting wave) is largely determined by the geometry, which fixes the natural period. Generally, a large body is required to attain a natural period that is close to the wave period.
With a single body oscillator, changing the natural period during operation involves changing the mass or the spring by a significant amount. In a large device, neither can be done quickly, but there are options for changing the response over the course of an hour. The mass can be changed by adjusting the ballast. The spring could be adjusted during operation by use of adjustable mechanical springs such as air springs, or by physically adjusting the geometry in a way that buoyancy restoration is altered.
The direction of radiated waves is usually not given as much emphasis as the amplitude and phase. In earlier posts I've argued the case for direction.
For a shallow-water pitching flap, nominally parallel to the wave front, some of the incident wave may be diffracted by the presence of the flap and travel away from the beach, and some of the incident wave may be transmitted and travel towards the beach.
For a small device, there will be little diffraction. This suggests it would be beneficial to radiate waves principally towards the beach. This could be achieved by an asymmetrical geometry, such as an Edinburgh duck with the pointy 'beak' facing the beach, and the rounded 'back' facing the oncoming waves.
For a large device with a long frontal width, most of the waves incident on the flap will be diffracted away from the beach. This suggests it would be beneficial to radiate principally away from the beach. This could be achieved by an asymmetrical geometry, such as an Edinburgh duck with the pointy 'beak' facing the oncoming waves, and the rounded 'back' facing the beach.
For a medium-sized device, or an array of large devices, there are both waves transmitted towards the beach and reflected away from the beach to be captured. A pitching flap radiates waves in both directions. The ability of this pair of radiated waves to capture the corresponding pair of transmitted/reflected waves depends on the phase difference between the transmitted and reflected waves. I would be very grateful to hear from anyone who could give me more information about this.
It is clear that the choice of water-depth, flap height, flap width, and flap symmetry about the pitch axis are important parameters in the (mythical) cost of energy (CoE) function. Were such a function available without the hindsight of operational experience, there exists a likelihood that the parameters required to minimise it would not be those suggested by 'common sense'.
Unfortunately, in the absence of hindsight, all I can offer is my 'common sense'. While the views expressed above are based on some basic physics, they are are basically hunches, and will remain so until appraised with a little academic rigour. I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who is researching this area.
Ally, I don't think you are far off in your "common sense" thinking. But you have missed a couple of the more important aspects of OWSC selection, design and siting.
For proprietary reasons there are limits on how forthcoming I can be here, but there are fundamental reasons why OWSCs are destined to become the dominant WEC for most situations.
Wave power tends to diminish over distance and even more so due to friction and breaking waves caused by shoaling water. However, in most conditions the energy flux per meter of depth is vastly increased as waves approach the beach. Equally important is fact that in shallow water it becomes practical to intercept most of the energy flux as compared to WEC technologies positioned at the surface in deep water. These two facts combine to allow OWSCs to attain exceptionally high wave-energy conversion efficiencies compared to other WEC types.
You are right that the particle paths associated with waves in shallow water become elongated in the surge direction. They are ellipses at the surface and collapse to pure horizontal reciprocal motion at the seabed. The geometry and constrained motion of a hinged flap is nicely poised to exploit these kinetics.
I sense you over estimate the importance of resonance in these highly damped devices. I also think the availability of rotary motion at the flap hinge needs to be recognized as a feature that allows attractive PTO options that are missing in other designs.
Why do you see cost of energy being mythical?
Hi Cliff – thanks for sharing your thoughts – it's always good to hear from someone who has first-hand experience of specific technologies.
Good point about damping of translations vs rotations. I had wondered whether this was another advantage of pitch over surge for OSWCs? I'd felt that perhaps sliders (allowing surge) would be larger and less robust than joints (allowing pitch), but I couldn't put my finger on the engineering specifics – was this your line of thought?
My reason for referring to CoE as mythical is that, like capacity factor, it can only be known with any certainty in retrospect. Yet CoE estimations for wave power are usually not presented in a way that makes this uncertainty apparent. I caught myself doing exactly this in the first draft, so added 'mythical' as a note-to-self.
You are correct about my overemphasis of resonance – I have over-simplified the matter by focussing on the idea of 'natural period'. I used this term to refer to one period at which all system mass and spring (including added mass, slow tuning, and reactive PTO terms) cancel. I'm not sure the terms 'natural period' or 'resonance' are even strictly correct in the context of control parameters which tune dynamic response. Perhaps something like 'induced natural period' would be better?
My meaning would have been clearer if I'd said that the requirement for achieving the correct phase of radiated wave at a given frequency was cancellation of all system mass and spring at that frequency. The phase is independent of system damping. In general, larger structures are closer to this requirement at frequencies of interest: as their natural periods are higher, less mucking about is required to achieve a favourable 'induced natural period'.
The question of course is whether the correct phase is a worthy goal. While correct phase will ensure maximum power capture for a given amplitude of motion (and wave radiated), it is but one factor that determines the potential for a competitive CoE. This is one example of how the 'true' CoE function could overturn 'common sense': we might find there are some design issues that dominate CoE. Solutions to such issues could result in the lowest CoE, despite not optimising power to weight ratio, or achieving 'good' performance in terms of radiating waves of favourable amplitude, phase or direction.
Yes, one can agonize themselves silly over the virtue of translation vs. rotation. Not that it matters, but at some depths and at some wave lengths, the exponential decay of the horizontal particle displacements match nicely the motions of a bottom hinged paddle.
Unless we chose to actively intervene in an OWSC's flap motions, the amplitude and phase of the response are purely dependent on PTO damping levels. It is not difficult to understand that excessive damping resulting in zero rotation will yield zero power. Similarly, zero PTO damping and unfettered flap motion will also yield zero power. Hopefully obvious is the fact that somewhere between those extremes lies an optimum.
I'm still not buying your "mythical." These phenomena and OWSC performance in general are as predictable as any hydrodynamic process and once tested in the ocean they can be quantified accurately. I'd agree that costs of manufacture and installation are difficult to nail down at these early stages, but these sorts of projections must be made if there is any hope of financing further development.
The good match between the horizontal displacements of a pitching flap and water particles in deep water waves suggest this would be an efficient wave maker. In shallow water however, the particle motions might be better matched by a surging plate (or better still by a pitching/surging plate). As far as I'm aware, all shallow water OWSCs use pitch rather than surge. I was wondering whether engineering advantages of pivots over sliders were a consideration?
The phase of the response can be controlled using non-linear damping (such as latching). I had linear theory in mind when I said that the phase depends on reactive terms (mass and spring) rather than damping.
Ok, I see you'll need some convincing about the uncertain nature of CoE! Several seriously smart people have put together cost of energy models for wave power arrays. If they'd converged on similar CoE functions, one would expect some consensus about favourable design features. Yet the only consensus appears to be within polarized camps. Pelamis and Carbon Trust insist on deep water sites. Anyone with a shallow-water concept would beg to differ, as I'm sure you will confirm! Similar polarisations exist for whether high average power sites hold the most economical potential, and what the optimal unit size for an individual device should be. Not only is the CoE function a hot topic of debate, many of its inputs are uncertain (such as discount rate, social/environmental value) or are only known retrospectively (installation costs, maintenance costs, plant availability, component degradation, resource variability, future value of renewable generation, and plant lifetime).


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A Chinese startup that's taking a dorm-like approach to urban housing just raised $500 million as its valuation jumped over $2 billion. Danke Apartment, whose name means "eggshell" in Chinese, closed the Series C round led by returning investor Tiger Global Management and newcomer Ant Financial, Alibaba's e-payment and financial affiliate controlled by Jack Ma. Four years ago, Beijing-based Danke set out with a mission to provide more affordable housing for young Chinese working in large urban centers. It applies the coworking concept to housing by renting apartments that come renovated and fully furnished, a model not unlike that of WeWork's WeLive. The idea is by slicing up a flat designed for a family of three to four — the more common type of urban housing in China — into smaller units, young professionals can afford to live in nicer neighborhoods as Danke takes care of hassles like housekeeping and maintenance. To date, the startup has set foot in ten major Chinese cities. With the new funds, Danke plans to upgrade its data processing system that deals with rental transactions. Housing prices are set by AI-driven algorithms that take into account market forces such as locations rather than rely on the hunches of a real estate agent. The more data it gleans, the smarter the system becomes. That layout is the engine of the startup, which believes an internet platform play is a win-win for both homeowners and tenants because it provides greater transparency and efficiency while allowing the company to scale faster. "We are focused on business intelligence from day one," Danke's angel investor and chairman Derek Shen told TechCrunch in an interview. Shen was the former president of LinkedIn China and was instrumental in helping the professional networking site enter the country. "By doing so we are eliminating the need to set up offline retail outlets and are able to speed up the decision-making process. What landlords normally care is who will be the first to rent out their property. The model is also copiable because it requires less manpower." "We've proven that the rental housing business can be decentralized and done online," added Shen. Photo: Danke Apartment via Weibo Danke doesn't just want to digitize the market it's after. Half of the company's core members have hailed from Nuomi, the local services startup that Shen founded and was sold to Baidu for $3.2 billion back in 2015. Having worked for a business of which mission was to let users explore and hire offline services from their connected devices, these executives developed a propensity to digitize all business aspects including Danke's day-to-day operations, a scheme that will also take up some of the new funds. This will allow Danke to "boost operational efficiency and cut costs" as it "actively works with the government to stabilize rental prices in the housing market," the company says. The rest of the proceeds will go towards improving the quality of Danke's apartment amenities and tenant experiences, a segment that Shen believes will […]


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Rough Trade's Best Albums of the Year: Big Thief, Cigarettes After Sex, The National and Parquet Courts
If you ask us "how's the NYC scene doing these days?" we'll respond with a mixed feelings kind of answer. But even though the local scene is undoubtedly going through some rough times (mostly caused by the excessive cost of the city and the extreme gentrification of Williamsburg), it has still managed to express some very fine music in 2017. Or at least that's what Rough Trade believes, since they just released a list of the Best 20 Records of 2017 that features four albums released by NYC based artists:
- Big Thief's Capacity (on the cover of our Winter 2016 issue of The Deli) placed in 4th position.
- Cigarettes After Sex's self titled debut LP placed in 6th position.
- The National's Sleep Well Beast placed in 14th position
- Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts' Milano placed in 16th position.
Four out of twenty, that's A LOT, congrats NYC scene!
Here's a YouTube playlist of these artists' most popular songs from their 2017 releases.
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Big Thief unveils new video + announce new LP & tour
Big Thief dropped a stunning debut full length last year (it earned them the cover of The Deli's winter issue), and since the date of its release they toured like there was no tomorrow. So we are not really sure how they managed to find the time to write a new record AND shoot a video (for single 'Mythological Beauty,' streaming below), but the simple fact that they were able to pull this off means the band is in a state of grace, as far as inspiration is concerned. The sophomore record, entitled "Capacity " will be released in June on Saddle Creek, and this is what singer and guitarist Adrienne Lineker has to say about it:
"There is a darker darkness and a lighter light on this album. The songs search for a deeper level of self-acceptance, to embrace the world within and without. I think Masterpiece began that process, as a first reaction from inside the pain, and Capacity continues that examination with a wider perspective."
Big Thief in 2017 won't lose the habit of touring (more info here, followed by EU dates!) , New Yorkers should mark their calendars for Fri. June 9 @ Rough Trade.
Published: April 05, 2017 |
Big Thief meet The Deli at sold out Bowery show on 01.07!
This Saturday January 9th 2017, Big Thief and issue 49 of The Deli (which features them on the cover) will meet in occasion of the band's first headlining performance at the Bowery Ballroom - the show is sold out!
Check out the band's latest video for single "Human."
Published: January 04, 2017 |
Playlist! The Best NYC Records by Emerging NYC Artists in 2016
'Tis the season of the 'Best ofs' and this year we've got a pretty sweet one for you, directly from out 49th print issue of The Deli NYC - yes, in case you weren't aware of it, we exist in the tangible world too!
If you didn't stumble upon a copy of our magazine (we put it in all the alternatively musical places we know in lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, LI and NJ) check out the full article digitally here. And DO NOT DARE to miss the playlist of said article, streaming below, because it's not available in print!
P.S. The tracks are organized in order of Soundcloud popularity.
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Sam Evian
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Best known for their Grammy winning hit "Man of Constant Sorrow" from the George Clooney film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Soggy Bottom Boys will headline the 5th Annual Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival this week.
The 4-day event is happening this Wednesday through Saturday, September 21-24, at Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo.
Tickets are $35 per day or $140 for all four days, available for advance purchase online here.
The Soggy Bottom Boys will make their first ever Outer Banks concert appearance on the final night of the Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016.


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Oil and Natural Gas in India
India has momentous amounts of oil and natural gas.
India has a very large proportion of tertiary rocks and alluvial deposits particularly in the extra-peninsular India. These sedimentary rocks, which were once under the shallow seas, hold the possibility of harbouring oil and gas deposits. Such potential oil bearing area in India is estimated to be over a million square kilometres, a third of the total area. It covers the Northern Plains in the Ganga-Brahmaputra Valley, the coastal strips together with their offshore continental shelf, the plains of Gujarat, the Thar Desert and the area around Andaman and Nicober Islands.
Till Independence Assam was the only state where mineral oil was drilled and refined in the refinery at Digboi. Although small in size this is the only oilfield in the world that has lasted for 100 years continuously. After Independence Gujarat Plains and the Cambay off-shore area showed evidence of hydro-carbon deposits.But the major reserves were unexpectedly found off the Mumbai coast, 115 km from the shore. So far this has been the richest oilfield of India. This oilfield is known as "Bombay High". Sagar Samrat, bought from Japan, was the first mobile offshore drilling platform. The deposits of oil were located deep under the seabed. The depth of the seawater was high enough to call for high technology. But India took up the challenge and developed the oilfield in almost a record time. Now India manufactures oil drills and mobile platforms for drilling in deep coastal waters. The latest oil deposit discoveries have also come from offshore areas off the deltaic coasts of Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri and Mahanadi. New reserves have been located in Assam.
The gas reserves are generally found in association with oilfields. As such gas reserves are found in almost in all the offshore oilfields of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. But exclusive natural gas reserves have been located in Tripura, Rajasthan.
Oil Refineries in India
There are in all 14 refineries functioning in India. Their locations are based on three different considerations. Half of them are shore based as they can be easily fed by imported crude oil. Two of them are in Trombay (Mumbai), and one each at Mangalore, Kochi, Chennai, Visakhapatnam and Haldia near Calcutta. There are four inland refineries close to the oilfields. There are three plants in Assam-Digboi Guwahati and Bongaigaon. The fourth plant is in Gujarat at Koyali, which is fed by inland oilfields. The remaining three plants are near the market. They are located at Barauni in Bihar, Mathura in U.P. and Panipat in Haryana. Their total the capacity is 61 million tonnes. It is expected that in three to four years time, the capacity will increase to the 112 million tonnes. It may ensure self-sufficiency in meeting our growing needs.
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Surrey wins big in new Trudeau platform
Surrey: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau released their plan for a re-elected Liberal government.
On gun control, the federal government is implementing a ban on assault weapons and gives power to the City of Surrey to ban handguns. In addition, we are investing an additional $250 million to help municipalities meet the needs of communities at risk to fight gang-related violence.
The City of Surrey will receive more stable and predictable infrastructure funding to help our municipal leaders plan for a growing community. A re-elected Liberal government will transfer up to $3 billion more year in public transportation dollars to Canadian municipalities.
Trudeau also announced that a re-elected liberal government would increase the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive to include homes valued at $800,000.
Other notable platform promises that would positively affect Surrey includes,
Save $1,000 a year on a family's cell phone plans when we lower bills by 25%;
Save nearly $600 a year when we lower taxes for everyone but the already wealthy;
See their aging parents' Old Age Security go up by at least $729 when they turn 75;
Increasing Canada Student Grants for post-secondary students, up to $1,200/year;
Retrofit homes to get an interest-free loan of up to $40,000;
Eliminating the Canadian citizenship fee for permanent residents;
Save $800 a year when we lower fees for before and after school child care;
Get up to $1,000 more to help raising a child with a boosted Canada Child Benefit.
Mr. Sarai commented, "The Liberal platform will continue to move Surrey forward in public safety, transportation, and affordable housing. It touches on many of our asks and puts families, youth, and hardworking Canadians first.
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Community Food Lab partnered with Intelligent Futures, a Calgary-based firm of planners, designers, and urbanists to develop an Urban Agriculture Strategy for Strathcona County, Alberta, a mixed urban and rural community just outside of Edmonton. As part of an agricultural master plan developed by the County, urban agriculture was recognized as a critical first step towards greater participation, awareness, and capacity on agricultural issues for residents throughout the County, not only in rural districts. The County already had a general sense of key next steps, but needed assistance developing a detailed plan that negotiated a number of controversial local issues around small livestock, chickens, and beekeeping.
In response, the directions of this Strategy emerged from an intensive community engagement process that allowed the community to be reflected in the plan, and also to raise agricultural awareness through the planning process itself. Through thoughtful dialogue and engagement the controversial topics were resolved with approvals from community members as well as elected officials and County staff. The resulting Strategy outlines Strathcona County's vision for urban agriculture, sets goals to manifest this vision, and defines strategy areas with roadmaps of actions to achieve these goals.
Community Food Lab co-led the Strategy development and action planning, contributed to community engagement efforts, and acted as the urban agriculture and food system specialist throughout the project.
Read the Strathcona County Urban Agriculture Strategy in its entirety here. The Urban Agriculture Strategy is the first of six strategies to be developed as a part the implementation of Strathcona County's long-term Agriculture Master Plan, adopted in June 2015.


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Бончо Боцев Василев е български военен, капитан, и революционер, войвода на Вътрешната македонска революционна организация.

Биография
Бончо Василев е роден Етрополе през 1872 година. Чичо му Лука Боцов е участник в чета и неколкократно ранен, а другият му чичо Михаил загива като четник в Руско-турскатата война (1877 – 1878).

През 1892 година завършва Школата за запасни подофицери и постъпва на служба в Българската армия и служи в Седемнадесети пехотен доростолски полк, в който става член е на Тайните македоно-одрински подофицерски братства на Върховния комитет. Стига до чин фелдфебел.

През 1904 година след Илинденско-Преображенското въстание Бончо Василев е изпратен от Задграничното представителство на ВМОРО за войвода на чета, която действа в Преспанско и Охридско. В края на годината се завръща в България и подготвя нова чета за Костурския район, в който са се активизирали гръцките чети. Четата на Бончо Василев в състав от 15 души, предимно от Костурско, влиза в Македония през Кюстендилския пункт на 11 април 1905 година и се отправя за Костурския район. В началото на декември Бончо Василев е ранен и се завръща в България на 21 декември 1905 година.

Отново постъпва на военна служба и завършва Школата за запасни офицери, след което е произведен в офицерски чин. Участва във войните за национално обединение 1912 – 1913 и 1915 – 1918 г. и стига до чин капитан.

След 1919 година се оттегля от армията и се установява да живее в Берковица, където умира на 4 февруари 1937 година.

Военни звания
 Запасни подпоручик (1892)
 Подпоручик (20 април 1905)
 Поручик (28 юли 1913)
 Капитан (25 юни 1920)

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Родени през 1872 година
Български капитани
Български революционери
Борци срещу гръцката въоръжена пропаганда в Македония
Борци срещу сръбската въоръжена пропаганда в Македония
Български военни дейци от Балканските войни
Български военни дейци от Първата световна война
Дейци на ВМОРО
Дейци на ВМОК
Родени в Етрополе
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Williams F1 – one of the most iconic racing teams ever to compete in motor racing's top-flight series. Formed in 1977 by Frank Williams and Patrick Head, it is one of only three teams in Formula One to have won 100 races. It has also taken nine constructor's titles between 1980 and 1997 and seven drivers' championships.
The 'Walk of Champions' leading to the Williams museum. Pic: Williams F1
When it comes to association with motorsport's great names, Williams is racing aristocracy in a way that can only be matched by Ferrari, Benetton/Renault or McLaren. Drivers associated with the team include Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Keke Rosberg, Alan Jones, Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, David Coulthard and Jacques Villeneuve. Top designer Adrian Newey also helped steer the team to many of its victories.
While its three sparring partners are all either manufacturer-backed or manufacturer-run, Williams has continued as the only serious player to remain independently-owned. Many racing fans see it as the ultimate privateer team. This has caused it problems in the current financial climate, especially since it parted company with its engine supplier BMW in 2006.
Patrick Head (with holes in shoes) and Frank Williams
But Williams is more than anything an expression of the sheer force of personality of its 67-year-old founder, Sir Frank Williams, and the determination with which he pushes it forward towards its single goal of going racing, in the face of whatever obstacles life and business throw at him. The Grove factory is, more than anything, a testament to "Frank" as he seems to be universally known among the workforce, who has a flat on the premises and who is 'at the office' seven days a week.
We were invited to visit Williams HQ in Grove, Oxfordshire as part of a tour for bloggers and web journalists organised by the team's sponsor Philips in order to promote a competition it was running. The tour and subsequent visit to the team's private museum gave us a fantastic insight into its thinking, the way it runs and its overarching desire simply to go racing. We hope that the material below helps share this insight.
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Williams F1: Where racing is oxygen
The in-depth story of our trip, courtesy of Williams F1 sponsor Philips, to join other bloggers and web journalists for a tour of the team's factory in Grove, Oxfordshire. The aim was to brief us on a competition to allow an ordinary fan to drive an F1 car but, while there, we also toured parts of the factory, interviewed technical director Sam Michael and visited the team museum. All in all we were there for half a day – here is what it's like to be behind the scenes at an F1 factory.
Win a chance to drive a Williams F1 car – for real
If you've watched F1 drivers on the telly and thought "I could do that", here's your chance to prove it in a competition that could put you behind the wheel of a Formula One car for five laps.
Inside Williams F1: photo gallery
This week saw the Williams F1 team open up its Grove, Oxfordshire, HQ to a party of bloggers and web journalists to publicise a competition it is running with its sponsors Philips. The result? An intriguing glimpse inside its Grove headquarters and F1 museum. Share it here.
Technical director Sam Michael
More than a dozen F1 fans, 15 minutes for questions – what did Sam Michael face? And what secrets did he impart as to the best way to impress him behind the wheel of a F1 car? (Hint: it's not doing donuts or trying to lay down record lap times.) Listen to the full interview here (17 mins 17secs). Transcript to follow.
Simulation engineer Jeff Calam
You might argue that Jeff has one of the best jobs at Williams F1 – running the simulator that allows drivers to try out any circuit, master the complexities of the steering wheel and be evaluated by the team. But it's a lot more than just a giant computer game. The first sound clip is recorded in the simulator itself where Jeff gives a detailed description of what a driver can do from the steering wheel and cockpit. The second is a sit-down Q&A. Listen here (4 mins 34 secs) and here (8 mins 11 secs). Transcript to follow.
Pattern shop technician Brian Campbell
Brian explains the complexities of seat fitting – combining driver measurements and the two-dimensional seat design into a three-dimensional item ready to go in the racecar. He uses one of Nico Rosberg's seats to demonstrate the issues involved. A fascinating glimpse into the nuts and bolts of race engineering. Listen here (8 mins 55 secs) Transcript to follow.


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PART FOUR: TREATY MEDALS
June 16, 2020 In History By Allen Sutherland
RED SUN RISING When Canada commissioned the Montréal silversmith, Robert Hendry, they wish to depict a scene of equal stature of a Queen's Councillors taking the Indian by the hand saying through treaties we are brothers. A stylized Indian encampment at sunset representing "As long as the shine shines and the grass grows." As Treaties with
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When Canada commissioned the Montréal silversmith, Robert Hendry, they wish to depict a scene of equal stature of a Queen's Councillors taking the Indian by the hand saying through treaties we are brothers. A stylized Indian encampment at sunset representing "As long as the shine shines and the grass grows." As Treaties with Europeans are described this way since the time of Rotinonshón:ni (Five Nations) – Dutch Two Row Wampum Treaty, 1613 what is now upstate New York.
"You say that you are our Father and I am your son. We say, we will not be like Father and Son, but like Brothers. This wampum belt confirms our words. These two rows will symbolize two paths or two vessels, traveling down the same river together. One, a birch bark canoe, will be for the onkwehón:we, their laws, their customs and their ways. The other, a ship, will be for the white people and their laws, their customs and their ways. We shall each travel the river together, side by side, but in our boat. Neither of us will make compulsory laws or interfere in the internal affairs of the other. Neither of us will try to steer the other's vessel."
"As long as the Sun shines upon this Earth, that is how long OUR Agreement will stand; Second, as long as the Water still flows; and Third, as long as the Grass Grows Green at a certain time of the year. Now we have Symbolized this Agreement and it shall be binding forever as long as Mother Earth is still in motion." Rotinonshón:ni-Dutch Two Row Wampum Treaty, 1613
The Treaty of Niagara 1764 (The British/Western Great Lakes Confederacy Covenant Chain Wampum Belt). Great Council at Niagara in 1764 between the British Crown and at least twenty-four First Nations from across the Great Lakes region. After a month of negotiations — including the exchange of eighty-four wampum belts — the Treaty of Niagara was forged, extending the Silver Covenant Chain of Friendship into the heart of the continent and establishing a familial relationship between King George III and his descendants and First Nations peoples across the land. The purpose of the making of the Chain, as of any pact or Treaty between Nations, is to create the strength and protection that flow from unity in a common purpose.
At the heart of the Treaty of Niagara (as with most Treaties) is a relationship with the sovereign grounded in ties of kinship (not to make Indians subjects of the Crown). The dynamic created when the Crown and First Nations peoples became family entrenches the need for trust, honest communication, and honour. If familial love is woven into a Treaty relationship it allows for disagreement without disrespect.
"We shall regard you therefore as a brother; and you may sleep in tranquilly, without fear of the Chipeways. As token of our friendship we present you with this pipe, to smoke."
– The Ojibway Chief Minavavana, from west of Manitoulin at Michilimackinac, allied with Pontiac, in an address to the British 1764
TREATY MEDALS (1 – 11)
1701 – The Great Peace of Montreal was a Peace Treaty representative from more than 20 Anishinaabe Nations assembled in Montreal for peace negotiations sponsored by the French Governor Louis-Hector de Callière, governor of New France. The Anishinaabe 3 Fires Confederacy & Iroquois Confederacy promised to "Bury the hachet" and live in peace after 100 years of conflict. The Great Circle of Peace was made on August 4, 1701, by Callière and 1200 representatives of 40 First Nations, that they enter into a peace treaty, to remain neutral in any future conflict between the English and French.
Again, "Bury the Hatchet" This phrase "to make peace" was used in 1759 by the Shawnee orator Missiweakiwa when it became obvious that the French war effort during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) was collapsing. The Shawnees had sided with the French against the English, but now the Shawnee would "bury the bloody hatchet" with the English.
In the Treaty Medals the hatchet that is seen represents a different meaning. In the original treaty agreements, the sharing of land was agreed to be to the 'depth of a plow.' No more that.
When Canada commissioned the Treaty Medals they wish to depict a scene of a stylized Indian encampment at sunset. The message was that this is the sun in setting on the Indians and it is now the sunrise of the White men. What I know today that the secular rising and falling of the sun is for everyone and that the Red Sun Rising is our time now.
Miigwech!
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Year of Treaty 1 & 2: Saturday July 29, 1871
Year of Treaty 1 & 2: Friday July 28, 1871
UNFINISHED TREATY BUSINESS – TREATY HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED AND NO COMPENSATION TODATE – PART 4
UNFINISHED TREATY BUSINESS – "Cede, Release and Surrender: Let's Face It – It Didn't Happen Here" – PART 3
Unfinished Treaty Business – The Crown apologized for the "great frauds and abuses" – Part 2
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Kylian Mbappe Didn't Give a Warm Welcome to Lionel Messi's Return to PSG🤗, Here's the Reason!
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Kylian Mbappe will not welcome Lionel Messi back to PSG. What is the reason why the French national team player doesn't want to greet his club friend?
After leading Argentina to win the 2022 World Cup, Lionel Messi returned to playing for his old club, PSG. The only player in the team who is not enthusiastic about welcoming Messi's return is Kylian Mbappe.
In the world of football, one of the most discussed topics is Messi and Mbappe's relationship with each other. Argentina won the 2022 World Cup by beating France in the final match. Mbappe, striker for the French national team, became the star of the show after scoring three goals. But they were unable to lift the trophy after another Argentine team won on penalties.
Many believe that Messi will harm Mbappe's career after the 2022 World Cup final. This accusation is reinforced by the fact that Mbappe did not express joy at Messi's return to the team.
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As can be seen from PSG's upload which took place on Wednesday (4/1/2023), PSG team members enthusiastically welcomed Lionel Messi's arrival. They all came together to form the Guard of Honor. While Messi made it through the middle, he got an honorary gold plaque.
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"I want to say a big thank you to my team-mates. As well as everyone at the club for the warm welcome they gave me. We're back and hope to continue fulfilling our goals this season with PSG."
Kylian Mbappe's face does not appear in any of the many photos or videos uploaded by PSG. In fact, Mbappe is an important player for PSG and Lionel Messi senior at the club. It has come to our attention that Mbappe is currently living in the United States.
Mbappe was in Times Square in New York City, according to his latest post, and it was seven hours before Messi arrived in Paris. It is also believed that Mbappe recently watched a basketball game. More specifically, the match featuring the Brooklyn Nets against the San Antonio Spurs. As long as Mbappe is at a basketball match, he is not alone because Achraf Hakimi accompanies him.
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In the striking fantasy short THE WATER PHOENIX, a mermaid fights for her freedom after being betrayed by the one she loves.
Written, directed by, and starring Bola Ogun, the short follows a captured mermaid named Anya, who is on public display in an aquarium.
It soon is revealed the marine biologist (Joseph Dixon) who found her is reneging on his promise to set her free.
With the aquarium's owner planning to transfer her to Japan, Anya takes matters into her own hands to gain her freedom and return to the sea.
Ogun's aquatic fantasy is a remarkable short film for many reasons, but chief among them is it centers a Black woman as an iconic mythical creature.
Frankly, it is still annoying that well into the 21st century, nuanced onscreen representations of Black people in fantasy remain ridiculously inadequate - when present at all.
Fortunately, independent fantasy projects like the web series AVANT-GUARDIANS and THE WATER PHOENIX are helping to expand these representations by telling compelling narratives centering Black women.
Due to Ogun's clever writing, the short is also a keen metaphor for how women become trapped in controlling relationships, as well as the triumph experienced when they take their power back.
Technically, THE WATER PHOENIX also boasts dazzling underwater cinematography and visual effects.
Finally, the short heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in filmmaking.
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On a gorgeous sunny day testing her model airplane designs, a young girl encounters a miniature boy whose strange ship has fallen from the sky.
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A Very Big Thank you to the town of Ambler, the racers, the Spectators, our sponsors, and our volunteers! It was a Great Day of Racing with wonderful weather!
Men's Pro 1/2/3 - Stephen Hall of PA Lightning Cycling strikes again to make it a three-peat!
Enjoy some videos of the Men's Pro 1/2/3 Race!
Special thanks to Keswick Cycle for not only being a great team sponsor, but also for providing excellent mechanical and neutral race support.
Thank you to the Lucky Well, another team sponsor, which always graciously feeds the hungry spectators, racers and volunteers!


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Where kids will grow strong
Vanessa Moos, director of charitable giving at Children's Village, addresses the crowd at Wednesday's groundbreaking of The Sensory Garden.
BILL BULEY/Press
Some of those who attended Wednesday's groundbreaking of The Sensory Garden at Children's Village gather near the site plans created by Architects West.
by BILL BULEY
Staff Writer | May 6, 2021 1:08 AM
COEUR d'ALENE — Monday was a tough one for Vanessa Moos at Children's Village — before she went outside with the "littles."
Then, it became an unforgettable one.
They walked in the field where a "Sensory Garden" is planned. It had been explained to these 6 and 7-year-olds this would be a special place where they ride a bike, play in sand, swing, crawl into tunnels or climb a tower.
Almost like an enchanted forest.
The children were overflowing with joy and excitement.
"They all ran to me saying, 'Thank you so much for doing this,'" said Moos, director of charitable giving at Children's Village in Coeur d'Alene. "It made me cry."
She looked at the crowd of about 50 gathered at the future Sensory Garden for a groundbreaking ceremony on a sunny and warm Wednesday.
"I'm so grateful to all of you for trying to help these kids," she said.
Behind the efforts of The Coeur d'Alene Regional Chamber's Leadership Classes of 2020 and 2021, the project aims to help children who have been abused, neglected, or are in severe family crisis and temporarily live at Children's Village.
The Sensory Garden will have a winding bike path and nine sensory stops for the kids. One offers earth tunnels for exploring. The next, a lookout tower to climb higher. Then a lumber yard. There are stops for playing in sand, water, swinging and a "Gathering Playhouse."
It will be a peaceful place of calm and assurance.
"There's a lot of different tools that we can help these kids with, and that's what this is," Moos said.
The hope is to install the permanent bike path and have some of the stops completed in The Sensory Garden by August.
It's about more than just children playing.
"In treating trauma, the sensory approach promotes self-regulation and teaches children positive ways to deal with stress, anxiety, and mental health symptoms," said a flyer.
Derrell Hartwick, Coeur d'Alene Regional Chamber president and CEO, said they wanted to do the project last year, but couldn't due to the coronavirus. So both classes combined their talents and spirit to take it on this year.
They organized, planned and fanned out to compile resources, line up sponsors and rally donors of labor, material, and money.
Ryan Johnson, leadership class president, thanked all those involved for "driving me to be better and your willingness to kick in some money to make this happen."
It was a great effort that made Hartwick proud. Already, asphalt, lights, lumber and more have been contributed.
"I think it's just a great showing of what our future leaders can do," he said. "That's exactly what this class is about — people who are going to be investing in our community and leading our community."
Moos said the sensory integration is important for children of trauma who may not have had loving parents like many of those at the groundbreaking on Wednesday.
"Things we take for granted," she said.
Children's Village therapists work with the kids through sensory integration, Moos said.
"This path is going to be crucial for them," she said.
Rebekah Johnson, director of community relationships for Mountain West Bank, said they were glad to be part of it.
"It is amazing to see the impact that our community partners have had here today," she said.
"If you look around today, see how many businesses are standing here, there are so many people. I tell everybody in our community, from our kids to our elders, collaborations are where it's at."
Bridget Sundahl with CDA Paving and Concrete Specialities said helping create The Sensory Garden was a project they wanted to do.
"It's something for us to latch on to and be proud of, and for everyone to be proud of," she said.
Sundahl added that it was a great opportunity "to support and protect the vulnerable."
"This is a project of such magnitude, it creates a lot of pride," she said.
Johnson said each themed pod will cost several thousand dollars.
"With the people who are building them, it's up to their imagination," she said.
Another $25,000 to $50,000 would help complete The Sensory Garden.
Keith Dixon, principle with Architects West, led a site tour where trees, stumps, flowers and shrubs remain in a grassy field.
He called it a "native North Idaho landscape.
"One of the things we're trying to do is maintain what we've got here and have minimal impact," he said.
It will be a sensory zone for the kids, Dixon said, but also, a "natural zone, where it's not contrived. It is what it is."


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The Case of the Missing Buffalo Soldier Volume 62 Number 2, March/April 2009
by Samir S. Patel
A grave robbery leads federal authorities to one of the Southwest's most prolific looters
New Mexico's Fort Craig was a key prize in the westernmost campaign of the Civil War, and hundreds died in the Battle of Valverde, fought near Black Mesa. (Samir S. Patel)
The problems began, as they often do, with a couple of beers.
In the early 1970s, a group of metal detectorists were camping in the ruins of Fort Craig, 35 miles south of Socorro, New Mexico. The fort played a role in the western-most campaign of the Civil War and housed regiments of Buffalo Soldiers, the army's first black regulars. It was the collectors' favorite haunt--they had been there every weekend for seven years, legally, because the fort was then on private land and they slipped the ranch foreman an occasional bottle of whiskey.
They sat around a fire with beers and peanuts. "There's something about Fort Craig, especially at night," says Lew Batsell, the last surviving member of that group, now a rugged old hand with a white ponytail. "After two or three beers, you listen real close and you can hear a bugle blow."
While the army supposedly emptied the cemetery after the fort was decommissioned, it was later discovered- first by looters, then by archaeologists- that many, including the Buffalo Soldier pictured here, had been forgotten. (Courtesy New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator)
Batsell remembers being the first to raise an idea that crossed the line from legal to illegal. He mentioned the fort's cemetery, a couple hundred yards away, on the edge of an arroyo leading down to the Rio Grande. The army removed the bodies in the 1880s; Batsell figured buttons or coins might have been left behind in the coffins. But unlike the fort, it was on federal land, making it a crime to collect there.
"Oh, Batsell, you're dreaming," someone said. "Well," he recalls, "two or three beers later, this becomes a real possibility. The loot was increasing by the drink."
The next morning another member of the group, Dee Brecheisen, a Vietnam veteran, TWA pilot, and lieutenant colonel in the New Mexico Air National Guard, drove a metal rod into the ground near the cemetery's edge. "Rodding" is a technique well known to hunters of Native American grave goods--if the rod breaks through to a cavity, grab the shovels. A thorough researcher, Brecheisen, whose handle in Vietnam was "Gravedigger," had to know digging there was illegal. If so, he didn't care.
"Bam, right off the bat he hits one," says Batsell. "Sure enough, we get down to a pine box right outta Tombstone." A pass with a metal detector turned up seven coins. So they kept going, weekend after weekend, coffin after coffin, amassing small prizes until a day Batsell will never forget, when he pried open the lid of a coffin that wasn't like the others. It was occupied. "I come out of that hole like I was shot with a gun," he says. "It scared the shit out of me." What he saw was a complete set of remains, still in uniform, with clumps of dark, curly hair. A Buffalo Soldier.
Puzzled--the cemetery should have been empty--they reburied the body. But those remains, and others, wouldn't stay in the ground. Nearly 30 years later, they would spark a criminal investigation, lead federal agents and archaeologists into the secretive world of collectors, and help identify one of the Southwest's most destructive looters.
Samir S. Patel is a senior editor at ARCHAEOLOGY.
archive.archaeology.org/0903/abstracts/buffalo_soldier.html


Today I celebrate my 13th year at Cisco. In my religion 13 years is a milestone that leads to a Bat Mitzvah, reflection, and celebration. While I am clearly not an active religious participant (to the dismay of many family members), I do love a chance to reflect and celebrate.
How to market products and solutions. How to market to specific audiences. And most importantly, how to market myself. As a naturally shy person and somewhat of an introvert, the last one took quite a bit of getting out of my own way to accomplish.
Harmony is possible but I have to work really, really hard to maintain it. It's kind of like walking the balance beam when you are completely uncoordinated. There are a lot of bruises to recover from with potential for long-term emotional scars.
I've accomplished a lot in 13 years. Despite a few career lulls, I am exactly where I imagined myself in 2013 (not that I had a long term plan or anything).
Apparently I have some guiding principles I feel strongly about. They are: be present, be authentic, be candid, be a deliberate creator, have positive expectation. I'm still working on the "be present" part.
My passion is to help people discover their own passion and connect to work that is fulfilling and meaningful. I can do this every day in my current job. Score!
Give people a chance even when they don't have every skill needed to do a job. That's how I am celebrating 13 years – because Phylis hired me despite my total lack of experience. Thanks, Phyl for taking a chance on me – and happy anniversary to you, too!
How to effectively say no.
Working at home is pretty sweet.
I've learned a lot, and have a lot more to learn.
The appropriate thing to say when someone gets Bat Mitvahed at age 13 is mazel tov. Even better if you'll share a virtual glass of wine or champagne with me.


Venue: University of Essex, Colchester campus, PC Lab Room O, PC suite TC2.16.
Price: £100 for academics (including students), £150 for non-academics and £70 for half day training.
Download the booking form (pdf) or book online.
This one day training course seeks to improve the programming skills of academics and non-academics. Focusing on four key areas, attendees will gain a rounded knowledge of using Python and Java. Both of the subjects covered will include practical sessions and computer workshops. Upon completion you will have gained knowledge and experience that are immediately actionable.
This course is aimed at both academics and non-academics that have knowledge of programming but no experience in Java or Python is necessary.
This one day training course seeks to improve the data skills of researchers and non-academics who want to gain an understanding of Java and Python. Focusing on four key areas, the subjects will both give a rounded knowledge of using these languages in data programming.
An overview of the Python Programming language.
The basic structure of the language.
Data types within the language.
A workshop going through a number of exercises.
45-60 minute lecture style session, followed by 1 hour practical lab session enabling you to play around with the software/ tools and techniques, ending with a 15-30 minute discussion to help you think about applying it to your own work.
Use Java to build large-scale, cross-platform stable programs.
Understand and write Python across a number of software packages.


"Maintaining Your Awareness" is the single most important strategy you must pursue.
If you don't know what is changing in the marketplace; your success is vulnerable.
how they spend their time etc.
These categories, devised by Everett M. Rogers in his work on the "Diffusion of Innovations", are often presented in a bell curve illustration with the majority of people falling into the middle two categories – the early and late majority.
In terms of marketing, particularly if you are introducing a new product, you want to tap into the innovators and early adaptors – people who embrace new products and create "buzz". These people are "idea pollinators"; who naturally spread the word from one place to another.
Before devising your marketing strategy and target market, however, you have to find out what people want.


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Zane Huett (ur. 9 maja 1997 w Riverside) – amerykański aktor dziecięcy.

Filmografia
 2009 Dear Lemon Lima jako Hercules Howard
 2004 – 2008 Gotowe na wszystko jako Parker Scavo
 2004 Miterius Skin jako syn Jacksona
 2003 P.O.V.: The Camera's Eve jako Zane

Nagrody
 2006 Nagroda Młodych Artystów w kategorii najlepszy aktor drugoplanowy w serialu lub filmie telewizyjnym (w Gotowych na wszystko)

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańscy aktorzy dziecięcy
Urodzeni w 1997
Ludzie urodzeni w Riverside (Kalifornia)


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Names with stories: The story behind Flipdish.com
"There's only one Flipdish.com and we would not have been happy using something else."
Founded in 2015, Flipdish enables restaurants to directly accept online orders and manage their online presence and food ordering services. Conor McCarthy, CEO of Flipdish, answered all our questions about the origin of the brand name, why he decided to upgrade his domain name from GetFlipdish.com to the exact brand match Flipdish.com, and why having a strong online presence is a crucial component of their marketing strategy.
Conor, let's go back in 2015. What was the original source of inspiration for you to start Flipdish?
Flipdish started off as something quite different to what it is today. Back in late 2014 I was frustrated with the user experience when ordering a takeaway online. In 2007 I was considering building an online food ordering system for a project in college but once I saw that these systems already existed, I decided not to. But 7 years later it seemed that the experience of ordering food online had not improved at all. There were billion-dollar food portals and they had the most terrible mobile ordering experience. They did terrible things like require you to enter your full credit card number for every single order, or make you enter an email address and remember password and also enter your mobile phone number. They asked for your date of birth and made you type in your address. None of this was necessary. Imagine eating in a restaurant and the waiter asked your email address and date of birth before taking your order.
So, I set out to design an app that Iwould like to use. It would not make you enter an email address or a password, it would remember your card details, it would use geo-location to work out your address and wouldn't ask for any unnecessary information.
After nearly a year of thinking, design, mockups and development, we had created an app that was vastly easier to use than anything that existed. People who had never used the app before could register and place an order in under 20 seconds, compared with 2+ minutes with other apps.
We were very excited and started talking to tens of restaurants in the area and tried to sign them up to our new app, our new food-portal. But conversation after conversation we given the same feedback, and it required us to go back to the drawing board. We were educated to the terrible relationship that the takeaways had with the food-portals/aggregators. They told us that they felt like they'd been missold by the food portals; that they'd been promised that the portals would bring them new customers when in reality the food portals were doing everything that they could to siphon away the restaurants' customers and to funnel them through their own platform. They would create mini-websites so that people googling their takeaway would land there instead of on their own website, and then push them to order via their portal. And they'd also buy AdWords, bidding on the restaurant's name as keywords. They would do this for both their mini-site and separately for their main portal page, meaning that the first 3 or 4 results on Google would be bringing people to the portal and not direct to the customer's website.
They would not share the customer contact information with the restaurant so that they could not market to them and try to keep them loyal to their store. On top of this, we were told that the portals had increased their rates every year for the last 4 years and that it was becoming extremely difficult to stay in business. They felt that they were working for the portals and no longer had the profitable businesses that they used to.
The restaurants that we spoke to all told us that they wanted their own mobile apps and website which would allow their customers to easily place orders, where the restaurant could have their own loyalty campaigns and where they could send push notifications and create their own vouchers.
So, after hearing this we changed tact completely and dedicated the company to building products that would help these restaurants stay in business. We realised that these small and medium sized restaurants would never be able to build the technology required to compete with the mega chains or the portals themselves, so we would build it for them and make it affordable.
What was the process of picking a brand name like? What made you choose Flipdish?
It came to me in a dream.... just kidding. It was rather less dramatic than that. We (James and I) basically wrote down a two list of words, all somewhat food related, and then tried to match up the words on the left list with words on the right list. If we came up with anything that wasn't utterly awful, we'd search to see how available it was on social media and it the major domains were available for it.
Did you start off with the Flipdish.com or it was an upgrade from your previous domain name?
As I mentioned, we were initially planning a portal and we thought it would be based in Ireland only, and perhaps in the UK. While Flipdish.com was taken, both Flipdish.ie and Flipdish.co.uk were available. We ran with these for a while but as soon as we started thinking internationally, we had a problem. We toyed with Flipdish.co as a domain and then decided to go with www.GetFlipdish.com. And we really didn't like it. Over the course of a year James tracked down the owners of Flipdish.com, who turned out to be some mega-corp that wasn't using it for anything. They liked making money and we had no option but to pay them if we wanted it, so we forked over some cash and they sent us the domain auth code.
I definitely think it was worth the price we paid for it. There's only one Flipdish.com and we would not have been happy using something else.
What was the feedback from team members, business partners and clients like, once you upgraded from Flipdish.ie to the Flipdish.com domain name?
I don't recall getting any direct feedback from anyone. We were pretty small at the time and didn't make a big fuss about it. For us it was one, albeit significant, checkbox improvement to our online presence.
How your exact brand match domain name has contributed to building trust and credibility in your niche?
It's really not something I can quantify. I don't think not having the domain would have slowed us down too much, but it's certainly not something we want to A/B test!
What problems does your platform solve and how is your brand communicating that?
Over the last 10 years there has been a massive consumer shift from ordering offline to online. Instead of phoning a restaurant to place orders consumers want to order online, either via an app or website. There has been a secondary change recently where on-demand ordering has become much more popular. People are much more likely to order their dinner to be delivered to them today than 5 years ago. Despite this consumer desire, takeaways don't have access to the technology to enable this. The build and maintenance (especially the maintenance) cost of an online ordering platform is huge and not something that any but the largest food companies could or should do themselves. Creating an online ordering platform is not a one-time project. Technology changes continuously; new iPhones and Android phones and OS updates come out all the time, and more often than not software needs to be updated to take advantage of this (or even to work at all on the latest devices). All of these updates and continued support come out of the box with Flipdish. Restaurants who use Flipdish can focus on their business and not worry about if their online ordering platform is working perfectly or up to date. They can leave that to us and know that when updates are required that we will take care of them.
We want to help these smaller businesses compete and win online and this goes further than giving them access to technology. We also have a large success team that are on hand to assist our customers succeed. As we only make money when our customers receive orders, we are all highly motivated to help our customers with their online presence.
What's your take on the evolution of food delivery business and where it will take us next?
We are going to continue to see the cost of delivery decrease. As the cost of delivery trends towards zero we will see an increase in the amount of deliveries. People will start to order more smaller value items (maybe just an ice-cream, instead of a full meal) on-demand. In the grocery space, people will order the ingredients for their evening meal on the trip home instead of ordering a full weekly shop all at one time. As it becomes easier to order whatever you want on-demand, people's storage space in kitchens, and their kitchens as a whole, will get smaller. The 'cloud' will be the place people store their food and when they need it, they will tap their phone and it will arrive at their doorstep.
What kind of tips can you give other startups and founders considering acquiring an exact brand match domain name?
The best thing to do it to find a domain that isn't registered. And to do this you'll need to hold off choosing a business name until you've secured your domain. There are lots of 'domain finders' out there which will let you enter words and will locate unregistered domains with that word in it. But if it proves too difficult to find an unregistered domain that you aren't happy with then don't be afraid to reach out to whoever owns the domain. From our experience you should do this directly. We tried a couple of companies who said they'd locate the owners of Flipdish.com, including GoDaddy.com, but they were a complete waste of time and money and we were able to locate the owners ourselves. And if all else fails, just go with an imperfect domain like get____.com or ____.co or ____.io. If you make it then you'll have a bit more money to offer to buy the domain you want.
Also, as soon as you've found your name, don't forget to register every social media account for that name. Don't do this manually but use an online tool to register these en masse. I don't remember which tool we used so I won't recommend any specific one, but a quick search will show up a few.
What's next for Flipdish, where do you see your brand in 5 years from now?
We want to continue to make world class technology available to the smaller businesses in the hospitality space. As technology is continuing to become more and more important to running a restaurant or takeaway only those with access to technology will survive, and if the technology isn't made available to smaller businesses at an affordable price then the megacorps will have an unbeatable advantage. I would hate to see a world where there are no family run takeaways, where chefs no longer make food for the love of it and instead where a small number of global corporates run the entire industry. I don't want to live in a world where analysts algorithms decide what foods are going to sell best, where this is fed down to white coated food scientists who work out how to create it by the tonne and factory workers in grey-walled mega-kitchens churn out food for the masses. And I want there to be a real person and meaning behind the brands of food we buy and not for there to be a thousand micro-target brands created by a single company, each designed to make the individual that they are targeting to buy.
Flipdish will continue to create technology to let the smallest of food businesses have technology that is better than their oversized competition. Today that comprises of highly-optimized websites, online ordering and mobile apps, easy ways to set up paid ads online and kiosks for in-store ordering. Tomorrow it may include different ordering channels such as voice ordering, chat-bot based ordering and a host of other tools to help takeaways run more efficiently. Whatever we do, it will be done to help our clients stay in business for the long run and thrive online.
See more about Flipdish.


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Texas Tribune: A shrinking number of rural Texas hospitals still deliver babies.
Across Texas, rural hospitals are facing a difficult decision: Whether to continue delivering babies as the number of births falls and the cost of providing the service rises.
BY MARISSA EVANS JAN. 17, 2018
Letha Stokes has a "very, very heavy heart" since Medical Arts Hospital ended its labor and delivery services on Dec. 6.
The hospital CEO said it took three years of studying, penny pinching and what-ifs before she and the hospital board of directors decided the Lamesa-based facility in northwest Texas should not deliver babies anymore.
Until recently, Medical Arts Hospital delivered an average of 100 babies per year, the majority of them covered by Medicaid, the joint state-federal health care insurer for the very poor. But the hospital also lost an estimated $500,000 a year due to the program's low reimbursement rates. That wasn't sustainable.
Stokes said ending deliveries means Medical Arts' patients will have to drive 40 to 60 extra miles to hospitals in places like Seminole, Snyder or Lubbock.
"This was a very difficult decision," Stokes said. "… There is a risk either way, if you deliver babies or if you don't deliver babies."
Medical Arts Hospital isn't alone. Yoakum Community Hospital in Yoakum also plans to end deliveries soon — meaning just 69 of Texas' 163 rural hospitals will still deliver babies. That's according to the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, an advocacy group for rural hospitals.
Texas' rural hospitals have struggled just to stay open; federal Medicaid reimbursements don't fully cover the costs of services they provide, and fewer doctors and specialists have opted to practice in small towns. Since 2013, 14 rural hospitals across Texas have closed; just three were replaced with freestanding emergency rooms or urgent-care centers.
Meanwhile, the low number of births in rural areas has made it difficult for hospitals to justify the costs of staff and equipment.
Don McBeath, director of government relations for the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, said as more rural hospitals stop delivering babies, more pregnant women may need to drive long distances to get prenatal care and give birth.
"They may be in an ambulance or the back of a pickup truck" if a rural hospital is not available nearby, McBeath said. "I do think that this decline in the number of rural hospitals providing [obstetric] services is probably going to increase prenatal and postnatal mortality."
McBeath said rural hospitals have reduced obstetric services because of uncertainty over two major funding streams they've come to rely upon: the federal Disproportionate Share Hospital fund and Texas' Medicaid 1115 waiver.
Read the full article online here.
Tags: From the News, Homepage, Hospitals, NICU, Perinatal


The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) has compiled a brief guide on land rights in Sri Lanka which is aimed at creating awareness among the public on the legal status regarding land ownership and control and remedies available. CPA produced a similar guide in 2011 addressing land issues in the North and East of Sri Lanka in the immediate post war context. The present guide addresses….


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