When you identify high potential in your employees – and implement a robust process to review and manage that talent – you develop your future leaders.
Identifying those with high potential requires to you to pinpoint, highlight and flag those capable of progression. But how can you spot those with potential?
Before being able to spot potential in individuals, you need to understand what the indicators for success in your particular organisation are. What are the behavioural precursors of superior performance in more complex or more senior roles?
Often these indicators can be identified by carrying out biographical career interviews with current high performers and looking back at what set them apart at an early stage in their career.
Are there common predictors of high potential future success?
Some organisations are clear on what potential looks like for them. Others are not. In our experience there are some common HiPo – or high potential – indicators.
Resilience – being able to recover quickly from setbacks, coping with high pressure and demands, finding ways around obstacles; perseverance in the face of adversity.
Strategic thinking – longer-term thinking, looking outside the organisation for opportunities, seeing patterns, trends, themes and relationships, being able to manage ambiguity and deal with increasingly complex issues, problems, timescales and information, systems thinking, seeing things from an organisational perspective.
Flexibility – being able to adapt communication, influencing, leadership and interpersonal style to suit the demands of the situation and the other people involved, managing change, shifting one's approach in response to new priorities.
Emotional intelligence – being able to accurately recognise and manage one's own emotional states, recognising and understanding emotional responses in others, using this understanding to increase interpersonal effectiveness.
Drive and motivation – being a 'self-starter', actively seeking out opportunities to learn and stretch oneself, showing a drive to make a difference, actively managing and planning a career, setting stretching personal goals.
The next challenge. How do you assess these?
Once you know what you're looking for, then you have to assess for it - and find ways to detect it.
Fortunately, psychology and technology offer us more robust and reliable ways to assess potential. Assessment centres and psychometric tests can be used but more easily deployed is a 360 degree feedback tool.
360 degree feedback is the opportunity to understand an individual's current competency level. Some 360 degree feedback software helps you to look beyond today's competencies.
We have developed the functionality within our award-winning Talent 360 tool to 'flag' those statements or indicators within a 360 questionnaire which are the high potential markers. It helps in the review of all the feedback to see how people have been assessed by their colleagues, managers, direct reports and so on.
Of course, these 'markers' are not shown when the individual completes the questionnaire, but when the report is generated, a composite high potential (HiPo) score is given as a visual summary on a separate page.
One of the most critical uses of your information about those with high potential will be in your succession planning. 360 degree feedback has an important role to play here too.
The benefits of identifying those with the potential to be a future leader extend beyond future-proofing your organisation.
You will be creating an environment for strong engagement, career conversations and regular performance check-ins. In organisations where potential is identified early on, and a succession plan is in place, people are more engaged, they develop their own career plan and understand the next step to take.
Talent Management software to help spot high potential and identify the leaders of the future.
Talent 360 has a unique feature which helps you develop your own high potential indicator – invaluable for spotting future leaders.
Talent Successor provides the ability for you to build and monitor talent pools for critical roles.
Talent Performance offers an easy to use and quick to access online system for all employees to track their own performance objectives and their progress against these. It gives them a 'wall' on which people can post feedback giving instant feedback on how they are doing.
Talent Navigator helps employees to plan and map their career through your organisation: when they see their future path mapped out and decide to stay, you can better plan for talent succession.
We're with you every step of the way as you do this; we know the importance of getting it right when you introduce new software and processes.
When you are ready to talk through how we might support you to help identify your talent with high potential, let's arrange some time.
It you want to take a look at how a cloud-based 360 degree feedback system can help you identify those with high potential or capable of being your future leaders, get it touch.


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City Hall to Serve as Canvas for Unique Art Installation
Interactive Visual Design Kicks Off National Art Exhibition Red Bull Art of Can
Dilworth Park and the west façade of Philadelphia's City Hall will serve as a setting and canvas for a unique visual art installation beginning on Thursday, October 1.
The piece is part of the 2015 Red Bull Art of Can exhibition, which will showcase artwork submitted by designers, animators, sculptors and artists of all disciplines as part of a nationwide creative competition to create pieces inspired by the Red Bull can.
On opening night, the west façade of City Hall will be the focus of a fully interactive light projection display that will highlight the historic architecture and enable the public to control directly what is projected onto City Hall building and 'remix' the content to create unique audio-visual compositions.
"The Center City District is delighted to welcome the Red Bull Art of Can exhibit to Dilworth Park, where the creative work of artists from across the country will be on display for eight days," said Paul R. Levy, President and CEO of the Center City District.
The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will transform Dilworth Park into an outdoor interactive, digital and physical art gallery until Thursday, October 8. It will feature the works of the 30 competition finalists who were selected by a panel of judges from the art community, with winners announced on opening night. The art showcased will be in varied media including sculptures, paintings, animations, stop-motion video clips and interactive installations.
This will be the only Red Bull Art of Can event to take place globally in 2015, and the City of Philadelphia was specifically chosen because of its creative culture and famed public art.
Award-winning Philadelphia visual art studio Klip Collective is creating the projection mapping installation, the design of which celebrates the building's architecture.
"We're especially pleased that Red Bull has also commissioned Klip Collective of Philadelphia to animate and illuminate the west façade of City Hall, updating with digital technology the lighting of this National Historic Landmark that CCD first did in 2005," added Levy.
In addition to the main awards presented as part of the event, attendees will be able to vote for their favorite piece in the People's Choice Award, by using the hashtag of the specific piece during exhibit week.
Red Bull Art of Can 2015 runs Thursday, October 1, to Thursday, October 8, at Dilworth Park in Center City Philadelphia. Opening weekend events will take place on October 2 and 3 from 7 to 10 p.m. and are free to attend.
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Keen-eyed Linux and Valve uses have noticed what could seemingly be a big reveal and shake-up to games' compatibility with the Linux platform. If you're a die-hard Linux fan, or even if you're just a curious dabbler in that operating system, you know that there aren't many concerted efforts of bringing game experiences to that operating system. A good port requires many more hours than game developers are willing to put into it - let alone compiling a native implementation of their game for that OS.
However, Valve, being the most important digital games distributor through their Steam platform, know there's an untapped source of income in that part of the market. And if developers won't do it themselves, then Valve seem to be willing to take the matter into their own hands. This speculation arises from Steam's GUI files, which when looked at with SteamDB's Steam Tracker, include a hidden section with unused text related to an (as of yet) unannounced Steam Play system, which "(...) will automatically install compatibility tools that allow you to play games from your library that were built for other operating systems."
If this is true, and if it works properly, then it's big!
This would have me ditching Windows and dual boot for good, and I'm sure many others would too.
And they lumped their Steam Machine in there as well.
I definitely wanted to jump to Linux due to not wanting to buy a Windows license, but some games I loved to play didn't work on Linux, let alone MMOs.
Modern times are good, indeed. Times have changed.
So no full single player games that can be played offline away from Steam or Valve!
It's possible now thanks to Vulkan and vulkan stuff such as DXVK and RADV.
Probably just installs wine and maybe DXVK. I.E. Witcher 3 runs great on wine+dxvk and older dx9 games usually runs well on wined3d(Not even mention OGL games). Even that would be good, now I have to start windows version of steam when playing games through wine. If this makes windows games starting from native steam linux version, that would make things little easier.
Isn't that world pretty fractious?
This will require a lot of work on thier part. Would be cool, but I'll not get excited.
Linux was not made for gaming, so all this is complete waste of time.
You're talking as if Windows was made for gaming.
Gaming doesn't need an operating system, it needs an API and drivers that make it work.
They have the budget! which the whole Linux dev didn't have because it's mostly time contribution.
If they release that, I would be as happy as if they release HL3.
You can play in offline mode, but I see your point. Tho if they release it, I hope they license it open source.
all this is complete waste of time.
I remember back then when the ps3 was the cheapest blu-ray reader on the market and yet, people still bought dedicated blu-ray reader because the ps3 was labeled as a gaming console.
You act as if fragmentation and lack of monetary investment doesn't hobble Linux completely in many key areas.
Valve have three things that Linux development can never guarantee: Time, money, and qualified talent.
Put the three together and large, ambitious projects can be undertaken that FOSS would struggle to get started on.
They've got the money to drive it. Whether or not they'll spend some of that money and see it through is another matter.
Valve cannot make Linux gaming take off. They won't.
I still have hopes. If they can create a tool to make gaming on linux viable and easy, it might be just enough to boost linux popularity, just like when Windows 10 and their uap got released and valve released their OS because everyone was pissed at M$ policies.
It's slow, very slow, but I'm pretty sure one day Linux might become, not mainstream, but at least a platform of choice for gaming.
I imagine the PS5 being on a custom Linux, that would be awesome. The ports would be easy.
Hopefully (for us) they'll prove you wrong sooner or later. Just don't hold your breathe. As usual wait and see !
I wouldnt of done this. if it had Blu-ray functionality, then thats what i would of used. Less clutter and saves money.
Cool. you wanna buy me one?
Let's hope they have vulcan in their mind alongside some programs in linux that will allow us to play newer games with performance similar to windows. That would make ms sad and us happy.


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Spartak Ngjela supports December 18: I will tell you why Berisha does not go to the Assembly convened by Basha
Lawyer Spartak Ngjela stated that the legitimate Assembly of the Democratic Party is the one decided by the leader of the Democrats, Lulzim Basha.
Ngjela says the only proof that 4,200 delegates support the December 11th National Assembly meeting would be the identification of signatures. According to him, the forms exist, but who can prove that the signatures are not forged.
The lawyer emphasizes that the fact that Berisha does not go to the Assembly on December 18 means that he does not have those signatures.
Ngjela: To show us how the companies will be identified. This is proof. The firms are identified, it has convened the Assembly, goes there, gets the majority and the game is over. The fact that he says that he has the majority and does not go to an Assembly convened by the President means that he does not have them.
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With our upcoming reservation day on Sunday March 18th, I figured it would be useful for you folks if I shared some handy tips about booking reservations with us at Normandy Farms. As of 9 AM on 3/18, guests will be able to book reservations via phone, email, online or in person for our 2019 camping season.
If you are utilizing our call lines to book reservations that day or joining us in person, we suggest you be prepared with your dates handy in front of you starting with the most important to you, or dates that might be the busiest. For instance, if Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, or perhaps your birthday or anniversary are dates that you are most excited for, we suggest we book those first as holiday dates do book up quickly! Our team of Guest Service Representatives are trained for that day to request your busiest time frames to ensure we can book your reservations as quickly and efficiently as possible!
For those of you that have not tried out our online system before, I suggest logging in prior to the date of reservation day to familiarize yourself with it. Our online system is LIVE, meaning it shows all of the same campsites that our Guest Service Reps can see when assisting you on the phone or in person. Your log in name would be the email associated with your reservations. If you need any assistance with navigating the online system, or if you need your password to be reset, please contact us prior to reservation day for assistance.
Summer Reservations- As most of you who have camped with us before know, the majority of our campsites in our Peak Season (end of June- August) are booked on a weekly basis from either Friday- Friday, Saturday- Saturday or Sunday to Sunday. Listed below are the campsites that follow each of our weekly guidelines. Any campsites that are not listed do not have to follow a weekly guideline or may be apart of our seasonal program.
Group Reservations- This is an extremely useful feature of our reservation program, especially for the type of campground we are, a family/friend oriented one! A favorite aspect of the campground of mine is the large groups of friends and family that join us season after season. Normandy Farms began as a family tradition and we enjoy seeing that continue through our guests. We know that booking sites close together for groups/families is ideal. As a guest you are able to create a group reservation either by phone or via email with us and set aside campsites that can later be booked by guests in your party. For example, Mrs. Smith can book a group reservation for Memorial Day Weekend for 4 campsites for her group of 4 families. All members of Mrs. Smith group would have 1 week from the day the reservation was made to call in and place their name and needed deposit on the campsites. Can it get easier than that?!
Credit Card Authorized Guests- If you have signed up to be apart of our Credit Card Authorized program, you are able to book campsites for other guests on reservation day. Please keep in mind, that your credit card/name can only hold that campsite for up to 1 week after the reservation is made. After 1 week the reservation will need to be changed into someone else's name and have the required deposit put down, otherwise it will be cancelled. When booking reservations for yourself, you are not required to put down a deposit to hold the reservation. You will also receive 10%off each of your reservations!
Our Reception Center team works diligently to ensure we have a successful reservation day while providing the best guest service we can. We appreciate each one of you who takes the times to join us plan out your camping schedule for 2019, it feels like a world away! Please feel free to contact our office with any questions regrading reservation day Monday- Friday 10 AM-5PM, we would be happy to assist you.
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Q: Optimize looping through large datatable I'm loping datatable with 100 to 10000 rows, comparing each row to each other through doyble loop.
for (int i = 0; i < DT1.Rows.Count; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < DT1.Rows.Count; j++)
    {
        //some code to compare data
    }
}

For 100-200 rows it's done in few minutes, which is OK, but comparing few thousands rows to few thousands, takes hours and isn't finished.
What can I do to speed it up? Best I thought up is to use lists of objects, instead of datatables.
Any other sugestions?
Can thread be used to do this?
Thanks.

A: I recently came across a similar scenario that I had to work through. Though in my case, I was comparing a pair of excel files. For my trial run, after getting it working, I had 530 rows on one side and 459000 on the other inside nested loop. This is roughly 234 million iterations. My program was able to work through it in roughly 30 seconds. I used a foreach in this scenario:
foreach (DataRow r1 in DT1.Rows) //Loop the First Source data
{
    foreach (DataRow r2 in DT2.Rows) //Loop the Second Source data
    {
         //Comparison code here...
    }
}

Edit: In your loop, as a point of reference, you are causing 3 variables to be tracked at each iteration of the loops, first and second are your counters. The third is the major performance hit, DT1.Rows.Count. By using the Direct row count as a part of the loops, it must be re-evaluated at each iteration. This adds unneeded time to the program. If you absolutely require that there be the counters, then assign the Row count out first:
int DT1Count = DT1.Rows.Count;
for (int i = 0; i < DT1Count; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < DT1Count; j++)
    {
        //some code to compare data
    }
}

This way, the row count is static and shall remove the extra processing needed to evaluate the row count at each iteration.

A: Although you can certainly optimize your search by using hash tables, the best optimization is to let the database engine to the search for you. RDBMS engines are optimized for this kind of task - no client-side optimization should be able to beat it. Your biggest disadvantage is having to pull the data from the database into your program. This is very slow. The database engine has all the data right there - this is a huge advantage.
For example, if you are looking for rows representing users with identical first and last name, a simple query with a self-join will get you results in seconds, not minutes, because the data never leaves the engine.
select u1.userId, u2.userId
from User u1
join User u2 on u1.FirstName=u2.FirstName and u1.LastName=u2.LastName

Assuming that FirstName and LastName columns are indexed, this query will find you duplicates very quickly.

A: If the results are sorted in some sort of order you can put the results into an array and loop through using a Binary Search

A: The biggest optimization to be made here is the following:
Currently, you are comparing each value twice. For example, in the first iteration of the loop, you are comparing the first row with itself, because both loops start at index 0.
The simplest fix to this would be to change the inner loop to this:
for (int j = i + 1; j < DT1.Rows.Count; j++)

This will dramatically reduce the number of comparisons. Your algorithm currently needs n^2 comparisons. The proposed fix reduces this number to less than the half. With the fix you only need (n^2 - n) / 2 comparisons.

A:     for (int i = 0; i < DT1.Rows.Count; i++)
    {
      for (int j = i+1; j < DT1.Rows.Count; j++) //<-- starts from next row
      {
        //some code to compare data
      }
    }

A: you could also count on .NET internals to do better job than manual looping using:
DataTable.Select(filterExpression, sortExpression)

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Death of Young Hawaiian Monk Seal RL44/Nanea
Young female monk seal, known as Nanea, was found dead on the North Shore of O'ahu.
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We are saddened to report that recently-weaned female Hawaiian monk seal pup RL44, also known as "Nanea," was discovered dead on the North Shore of Oʻahu on the morning of September 24, 2019. The circumstances surrounding her death indicate that she did not die of natural causes. The case has been referred to NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement for investigation. Anyone with useful information should call (800) 853-1964.
RL44 was born at Paradise Cove, a popular recreational beach, on July 19, 2019. Hawaiʻi Marine Animal Response (HMAR) and NOAA Fisheries monitored her during her 6-week nursing period (a normal time frame for nursing monk seal pups). After she weaned, we decided to relocate her to a remote location on the North Shore. Our primary concern was that RL44 have the opportunity to interact with other monk seals, and not people, during an important time in her behavioral development. On the North Shore, she could grow up in the company of several other young, wild monk seals, with less likelihood of human disturbance and, more importantly, not becoming fixated on people.
Management decisions like translocating a seal are carefully weighed in a series of in-depth risk assessments. All decisions are ultimately made with seal and human safety as the primary concern. To reduce the threat of Nanea interacting with discarded fishing gear in her new location, the Hawaiʻi State Division of Aquatic Resources performed a sweep prior to translocation and removed line, nets, hooks, and other debris from the area.
On the day of her translocation everything went smoothly. NOAA staff members evaluated her status at the time of the translocation and had no concerns about her behavior or physical health. In the 4 weeks following translocation, HMAR volunteers closely monitored RL44 and it appeared the goal to get her close to other seals was incredibly successful. She was seen frequently socializing and playing with other seals in the area. Her smooth transition to her new home following the translocation and our hopes for her future were shattered by this tragic loss.
Auntie Nettie Tiffany, the kahu (keeper or custodian) of Lanikūhonua, adjacent to Nanea's birth site, said that Nanea
"... brought exactly what she seemed: peace for our water and our reefs for a period of time, so [they] had time to heal. Nanea brought peace to Milo Beach; that's why I named her that."
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"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004) is a film about a 1939 that never was. I loved it but others say it was terrible. At IMDb.com it gets a rating of 6.4 – good enough to watch if it comes on television, but not something you would want to pay to see.
It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Angelina Jolie. It even brings Laurence Olivier back from the dead thanks to computers magic.
Jude Law called the film "'The African Queen' meets Buck Rogers."
Paltrow, a newspaper reporter for the Chronicle, finds out that top scientists are disappearing. She and Jude Law go across the world to find out what is going on. They are brought face to face with the evil Dr Totenkopf (played by the dead Olivier). Angelina Jolie does her bit as commander of a British flying fort.
On paper it seems like a wonderful film – it has good actors and used what was then state of the art film-making. But it did not do well. At the box office it made back only half of what it cost to make.
It was one of the first films to use a digital back lot: creating the backgrounds by computer – the buildings, aircraft, attacking robots, all of it. The actors acted on an empty blue set, the computers filled in the rest later. It has become common now, but back then it was ground-breaking.
It starts out in New York in a 1939 that never was. One where ray guns, King Kong and Shangri-La are real, where Hitler and the Second World War never happened but instead New York is attacked by giant robots; where the design principles of Norman Bel Geddes and Hugh Feriss become the reigning fashion.
A past that never was but is painstakingly created for two hours.
For example, the RP or British English of Jolie's character is no longer heard these days but it was common among the rich of Britain the 1940s. The way people act is how they did back then – at least according to the films of the period, like "The Thin Man" (1934).
But then again everyone calls Nanjing "Nanjing" and not "Nanking", as it was known in the English-speaking world in those days.
It was the first film of Kerry Conran and so far his last. He spent four years on his Macintosh computer creating a six minute short for it. It was incredible and persuaded some of the top people of Hollywood to make it into a full two-hour film.
Conran copied many of the elements of the old 20-minute serials that ran in the 1930s and 1940s. But he forgot to copy one thing: the length. What works in 20 minutes does not necessarily work when stretched to two hours.
Most reviewers liked it and it even won some awards. Cinema-goers did not agree: Paramount, which put out the film, lost a fortune on it – even though Conran cut costs by using computers to make it.
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Angela and I paid a whirlwind visit to the British Virgin Island of Virgin Gorda to see new properties for our portfolio and meet owners and management, as well as meet with new service providers for Concierge and Guest Services. From downtown St. Thomas, we boarded the Native Son Ferry for Road Town, Tortola, where we transferred to Speedy's ongoing to Spanish Town on Virgin Gorda. Our guests who fly in to the St. Thomas (Cyril E. King) Airport, take a similar trip, and we always advise them to come in as early as possible, so that if there are any delays they have time to take another ferry. Since the U.S. Customs Office closes at 5pm, the last ferry out is around 4:30 or so.
On arrival, our friends at L&S Jeep Rentals were right there with a smile and a spiffy 4WD vehicle. And off we went, trailing Bernadette, the villa manager for beachfront villa Sol y Sombra, where we would be staying for the next couple of days. Soon, the wicked scent of BBQ tantalized us, and we noted a restaurant called Island Pot on the way... making a mental note, we drove on. As we arrived at the villa, we were captivated by the fragrance of a meal being prepared for us by Chef Chet. We quickly settled in, showered and m ade our way to the outdoor dining area, which had already been set for us, and enjoyed an appetizer of bruschetta topped with a velvety mixture of tomatoes and herbs and a mellow pumpkin soup. This was followed by tender, pan-seared snapper filets atop a bed of whipped island sweet potato with a vegetable melange. For dessert, we were treated to a warm pumpkin cake with dark chocolate drizzle topped with a very creamy vanilla ice cream. From start to finish, we happily chatted while the chef and his assistant May took excellent care of us.
Sol y Sombra, ever elegant, was in high form and ready for the new season. We noticed that the laundry room in the Main Villa is now available to guests, with a small washer and dryer there. Three private bedrooms overlook the tranquil infinity pool, while the Tennis Suite presides over a fully-quipped court. Just beyond the pool and a small gathering of Virgin Gorda's famous boulders, is the powdery, white sand Little Trunk Bay Beach. The villa's tennis court was later witness to a vibrant match, which was bravely played and sadly lost (we won't name names here). A variety of joyous blossoms painted the property with fuschia, violet, red and blue, and hummingbirds were intrepid in their pursuit of nectar. The effortless ease with which the villa staff went about their day belies the daily necessities to maintain such beauty; we remain impressed and truly grateful to represent this villa.
The next day, we were on our way to see three new properties for potential inclusion in our portfolio and meet their owners and managers. One of the properties overlooks the Pond Bay, another is in Nail Bay and the third is located very close to the area of Sol y Sombra. We will be sure to update our e-news list members when those come online, and things look very good indeed! During our travels, we marveled at the beautiful ocean vistas, brilliant florals, and a variety of greens in the trees and grasses, from kelly to forest. While out, we paid visits to both Buck's Marketplace and Rosy's markets, both to pick up a few things for ourselves, and to check the offerings. Many familiar American brands are on the shelves, as well as British products like McVities Ginger Nuts and Jacob's Cream Crackers. Rosy's also has a House and Home right next door.
Keeping an eye on time, since we had a dinner with Bernadette planned, we again drove past the now renowned Island Pot (to us, at least... everyone we'd encountered sang its high praises!) and determined that we would first dine at the Mine Shaft, then abscond to the roadside eatery later to pick up some goodness to partake in the next day. As the sun set, we happily availed ourselves of Sol y Sombra's pool, alternately swimming and floating, relishing the warmth of the Caribbean sun and making light conversation.
Well, the Mine Shaft Cafe was rocking with jolly spirits and great food - the staff delivered cheerful service, and we ate well, even to the ice cream parfait dessert, which two of us decided to eat while telling everyone else "hands off!", it was that good. The restaurant's exterior area has been expanded, so now more people can dine al fresco, and it was a perfect night - with singing crickets, cool breezes, and streams of conversation and laughter to and fro. Following dinner, we dashed off to Island Pot, picking up our BBQ to take back to the villa for the next day. A midnight snack not out of the question, we tucked in for a quick taste and were enchanted by the one-of-a-kind sauce, which featured delightful citrus undertone. We put away the rest, and the next day, we lazed over a sumptuous brunch featuring the BBQ, fruits, yogurt, and local buns.
Soon, it was time to depart, and we bid a wistful farewell to stately Sol y Sombra, our Caribbean Queen at the water's edge.


Development processes start with requirements and wind up in code; in between there isn't much of a consensus about what happens.
Misunderstandings start as soon as requirements capture, when requirements are to be qualified as functional or not. While most will agree that functional requirements must be set off from user experience, opinions depart about the extend of the experience to be considered: the whole operational process or the parts supported by system functionalities. With the former understanding it is assumed that the divide between software and hardware is not yet settled, with the latter requirements take system boundaries for granted.
Naturally, the same debate reappears with non functional requirements, often understood as a default category, a catch-all for remnants of what cannot be directly perceived as system functionality. But even when non functional requirements explicitly target quality of service and implementation constraints, these criteria are not always easy to apply, and that's the crux of the matter: how to set apart functional requirements if and where the software/hardware divide is not fully settled. Could that pitfall be managed if requirements were first set at enterprise level and mapped to architectural capabilities ?
Domain (aka business) requirements deal with business contents independently of supporting systems. They can be translated into Computation Independent Models (CIMs).
Functional requirements describe how systems are expected to support business processes independently of implementation technologies. They can be translated into Platform Independent Models (PIMs).
Technical requirements describe how functionalities should be implemented: testability, traceability, maintainability, portability, etc. They can be translated into Platform Specific Models (PSMs).
Quality of Service requirements deal with operational constraints on functionalities: reliability, usability, efficiency, etc.
Depending on domain and/or users, authorization and confidentiality requirements (Quality of Service) may require different hardware/software solutions (system boundaries and functionalities).
Depending on regulatory environments, security requirements (Quality of Service) may require different encryption solutions (system implementation) between domains (system functionalities).
Performance requirements (Quality of Service) may depend on design (system implementation) of specific business operations and data flows (e.g high-frequency trading).
Focusing on system functionalities (e.g with use cases) means that system boundaries are already identified and that the business logic will be defined along with users' interfaces (b>c>a).
Starting with business requirements puts business domains and logic on the driving seat, making room for variations in system functionalities and boundaries (a>b>c).
Operational requirements (physical environments, events, and processes execution) put the emphasis on a mix of business processes and quality of service, thus making software functionalities a dependent variable (a>c>b).
Requirements may be governed by business logic (a), system functionalities (b), or operational needs (c).
That's especially meaningful for business logic and quality of services which, depending on requirements taxonomy, could be lumped respectively with enterprise and technical architectures. On a broader perspective, this divide can also be seen as the fault line between business value and system costs.
A feasibility assessment is based on the implicit assumption of slack architecture capabilities. But since capabilities are set with regard to several dimensions, architectures boundaries cannot be taken for granted and decisions may even entail some arbitrage between business requirements and engineering constraints.
Taking from Zachman's framework, generic architectures capabilities can be set with regard to roles (who), activities (how), locations (where), control (when), and contents (what), and declined along layers for business and organization, systems functionalities, and platforms.
To begin with, the feasibility of business and operational objectives (the "Why" of the Zachman framework) can be assessed as the outer range and mapped to architecture capabilities.
Use cases are meant to describe the part played by supporting supporting systems independently of the platforms implementation. As such they can be used to factor out shared business objects, processes and logic supposed to be already supported by the functional architecture.
The feasibility of business requirements could then be assessed with regard to the consolidation and/or extension of existing functionalities.
The aim of functional architecture is to provide services (authentication, authorization, persistency, etc.) and access to shared resources. From the application perspective, those functionalities are meant to be "stable" i.e, relative to applications' life-cycle, supporting services seem to be everlasting whatever the changes that may occur to technical architectures behind.
Solutions based on enterprise service bus (ESB) consolidate systems functionalities as they are.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems provide integrated solutions supporting customization.
Rules engines factor out the management and execution of business rules.
Whatever the solution, organizing requirements around business logic will have direct consequences on both functional and technical architecture.
Mapping requirements to Functional (left) and technical (right) capabilities.
Rules whose execution requires authority (human agents) will require dedicated user interfaces with specific authentication capabilities (a,c).
Rules whose execution is bound to time will call for specific interfaces and communication architecture (b,c).
Rules whose execution is triggered by actual changes (as opposed to changes in symbolic representations) or affecting them will call for specific interfaces (c).
Rules with cross domains footprint will call for logical synchronization mechanisms (d).
Rules whose execution is triggered by change (push), as opposed to those triggered by need (pull), will call for specific synchronization mechanisms and communication architecture (b,d,e).
Clearly, those requirements cannot be neatly arranged along the functional and non functional distinction as many of them may fall on different sides of the divide and their implementation will have to balance functionalities against quality of service.
Contrary to business and functional requirement, quality of service is supposed to be defined independently of specific business operations; but contrary to technical requirements, quality of service is supposed to directly affect user experience as expressed by use cases or user stories. That separation of concerns may be practical for data intensive workflow or transactional applications, but it may turn to be highly hypothetical when functionalities (e.g fast trading or target acquisition) are specifically bound to operational requirements like real-time constraints or availability.
In that case the quality of service cannot be defined and managed uniformly across applications, and architects and engineers may be faced with tough trade-offs between common interests and architectures on one hand, specific needs and configurations on the other hand.
Yet, the corresponding decisions can be helped if quality of service requirements targeting specific functionalities can be mapped to architecture capabilities.
Business is conducted in both actual and symbolic worlds, and the aim of supporting applications is to bridge the gap between actual objects and processes on one hand, their system surrogates on the other hand. Yet, at inception the footprint of software functionalities may not be fully defined which means that some kind of no man's land may remain between functional and non functional requirements.
Assuredly, some requirements can be firmly allocated: requirements grounded in organization should always govern functional architecture, and technical requirements should always govern components design. But the eventual assignment of requirements regarding business logic or quality of service may be suspended to governance or architectural options.
Hence, besides the typical scenario (b>c>a) that takes system boundaries for granted and start with functional requirements, two more specific ones should be considered respectively when business logic is to be dealt with on its own (a>b>c), and when operational concerns must receive preeminence (a>c>b).
Assuming that the objective of technical requirements is to set constraints on the implementation of system functionalities, they can be directly mapped to architecture capabilities.
Totally agree withy Doug's comment and there has been instances where this is overlooked..
In large organizations if solutions are developed without looking at the "whole operational process" you can end up with a number of insolated systems that don't integrate easily in the future. Knowing how the current project fits into the larger picture needs to be a key component of the project.
My understanding is that contrary to "some", "most" doesn't have to be necessarily associated with specific sources, but it seems to reflect opinions expressed in different group discussions.
The same reasoning goes for "opinions depart", by which I just want to say that there are differences, whatever they may be.
Would you have some sources you could use to support this statement? Who is "most", and whose "opinions depart"?
IMHO, you start to consider system functionality in any way, you are no longer dealing with requirements, so I agree with "the whole operational process" opinion.
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Welcome to this week's issue of The Latinx Collective, where we bring you the contributions and achievements of Latinx people, straight to your inbox. I appreciate you checking in here every week.
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THIS WEEK'S FIVE:
#1: Remezcla: 9 Panamanian artists you need to know ahead of Panama's Independence Day
NYC's DJ Bembona (of Puerto Rican-Panamanian descent) is on a mission to reclaim Panama's disregarded contributions to the music game and uplift current talent in the country. She grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn (my neighborhood!) and while she was well-versed on the salsa orchestras and reggaetoneros of Puerto Rico, she wasn't familiar with artists coming out of Panama (the oft-forgotten originators of reggae en español - or plena). To celebrate Panama's Independence Day (Nov 16th), Bembona shares 9 rising Panamanian rappers and singers who are standing out in dancehall, reggaeton, Latin trap, hip-hop and more. (More info on Bembona here by the way)
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#2: ESPN: How Boston Red Sox manager (and Boricua) Alex Cora built a championship culture in Boston
This is a special profile on beloved Red Sox manager Alex Cora, one of the rare pro team managers who has figured out how to treat his players like humans instead of commodities and still win championships. No matter what team you root for (personally, I don't care about sports at all lol) everyone seems to think highly of him. The first Puerto Rican manager to win the World Series, Cora faced the pressure that came with a 108-win season yet carried himself with uncommon ease. He's also been a relentless advocate for Puerto Rico, and a critic of the current White House administration, in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The ONLY demand he included in his contract negotiations was this: that the Red Sox charter a plane of relief supplies to his hometown of Caguas, PR. He conducted each World Series news conference – cognizant of the cameras – wearing a different T-shirt that carried the same message: The Red Sox were representing both Boston and Puerto Rico.
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#3: Colorlines: Netflix now streaming John Leguizamo's 'Latin History for Morons'
The Tony Award-winning performer's latest one-man show goes beyond (whitewashed) history book lessons on Indigenous civilizations and colonialism to illuminate the overlooked history of Latinx people. If you missed it on Broadway like I did, as of this week Netflix is streaming it! The official site is here and you can stream it here (it's a 1.5 hr show). Check it out and share your thoughts with us!
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#4: Spotify honored the legacies of legendary artists on Día de Muertos
Día de Muertos was celebrated last week from Oct 31-Nov 2nd. If you feel like you want to learn more, I've got 2 cool initiatives to share: Three Arizona State University grads built DayOfTheDead.Holiday to dispel all the myths about the holiday and explain the meaning behind it. Read this Bustle article to learn more, AND Spotify did an amazing campaign to honor some of Mexican music's most-beloved deceased icons and their lasting impact. You can check out this special playlist featuring songs from contemporary and legendary Mexican and Mexican-American greats, as well as covers done by 3 current artists. They also honored the life of Jenni Rivera and her musical legacy at LA's 19th annual Día de los Muertos festival. (Thanks to my friends at Latin @ Spotify for the submission!)
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#5: VIDEO: The girl who makes robot arms (3 min video in Spanish w/English captions)
Click play above for the BBC's short video story on Daniela Sáez, an electronic engineering student from Chile. At 12, she became interested in robotics and enrolled in a self-taught robotics workshop. Since then, she's made a robot suit made up of sensors that allows blind people to perceive color and shape, and is currently looking for funding for a robotic arm prototype she's building for amputees. She says building robots is "literally her dream." (Thanks to subscriber Stuart Rowe for the submission!)
SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
Making sure you saw our directory of creatives & small business owners!
This week I'm going to put a spotlight on the dozens of small businesses and creators that have been curated in our new directory: Help a Latina Secure the Bag. In case you missed it: last week we had a special issue for Latina Equal Pay Day which included a new directory of Latina or femme-owned small businesses that you can support ASAP if you want to put your money behind Latina-owned businesses. Consider checking out the list when shopping this holiday season, or generally making decisions about where your money goes throughout the year.
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Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here today. A special thank you to New America for hosting this event and for bringing us all together on what continues to be, and probably will for the foreseeable future continue to be an incredibly important topic. As Ross said, my name is Amie Stepanovich. I am US policy manager at Access Now.
Access Now is a global civil society organization that fights to extend and defend the rights of users at risk around the world. Along with my colleagues in six different offices and several satellite presences, we respond to threats as they emerge. This means that a lot of times we meet with high‐level company executives or government officials to talk about how laws and policies influence the end user. And then we also work directly with the end user through a twenty‐four hour a day seven days a week digital security helpline that allows journalists or activists to contact a technology specialist and talk about the risks that they are facing. And whether or not it's through the top‐down or through the bottom‐up, one of the issues we continue to grapple with is the ability to use and develop encryption.
Important for Access Now is that encryption also protects human rights. In a 2015 report by David Kaye, who's the UN Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression, he specifically tied encryption to the ability of users to freely exercise their freedom of expression and their privacy rights.
Users around the world use encryption in order to communicate, to organize, and to live their lives away from government persecution or unauthorized bad actors. For example, LGBT individuals in the Middle East/North Africa region, the MINA region, use encryption in order to communicate with people in order to explore their identities in order to be free of government persecution.
By contrast, there's a specific example of an activist in Mexico who ran a Twitter account that criticized the drug cartels. And when the drug cartels were able to get a hold of her cell phone, they were able to tie her specifically to that Twitter account, and she actually was horribly murdered because of her connection, because of information they were able to get off of her cell phone. Encryption, and particularly robust end‐to‐end encryption by default, provides these users with the best line of defense against really bad things happening.
So, what's the problem? Governments want access to content. And depending on what government you're talking about, that could be bulk access, that could be targeted access, it could be accessed with a lot of protections for human rights, or access with no protections and no notice for human rights whatsoever. But really, across the board, the one thing you can rely on is that governments are going to want access. And some of the most secure services out there are designed in a way to prevent that access.
Mandates increase the cost of doing business. They increase the system complexity, which is the enemy of security. They force a u‐turn from best practices to make the Internet more secure. And they attract bad actors, according to a report last year by some of the most noted cryptographers of our time. These are the mandates that governments are turning to in order to maintain access in the face of encryption. And the mandates are popping up everywhere. So, for the rest my time in going to talk a little bit about a survey that we've done and we continue to do about where these mandates are popping up and what they look like. Because they take all different forms.
Many of you are going to be very familiar with the debate that's happening in the United States. In fact, there's a panel later talking about Apple vs. FBI, because the new front on the crypto debate in the US is really a set of courts in New York in California where we're fighting over All Writs Act. In fact, I think it's been estimated to me by several independent people that there were more amicus briefs filed in the Apple case in San Bernardino in the Central District of California than any other magistrate courtroom ever. There are so many people weighing in on this issue and there so many interests at stake that everybody is really getting involved.
But the US isn't actually—oddly enough—the place where the most‐heated discussions are happening. I believe that actual honor goes to the United Kingdom, which is debating the Investigatory Powers Act. Amongst many provisions in that bill, which seeks to update and to compress and expand all the surveillance authorities for the UK, it contains a provision that would allow the Secretary of State for the UK to require companies to build in certain mechanisms to allow continued government access to information. That provision went from the draft proposal into the proposal that was introduced into Parliament, despite broad opposition from civil society, from companies, and indications from several Parliamentary committees that reviewed the legislation that an exception needed to be made for end‐to‐end encryption. No such exception ended up in the final product. And because that bill will have extraterritorial effect, it won't only affect companies in the UK, it's going to affect everybody all over the world.
Another approach we're seeing, Rwanda requires that providers maintain the ability to decrypt information upon request. China also passed a law in December that requires essentially the same thing, that providers maintain the ability to decrypt information. And the upper limit, the upper fine, in China for a serious violation of that requirement? There is no upper limit. Companies can be fined as much as the Chinese government would like for using strong end‐to‐end encryption. Columbia, since the 1990s actually, has outright banned the use of encryption by users. It's tenable how that is being enforced. The funny thing is, is there's a separate law that requires in Colombia that encryption be made available to government and intelligence officials, whilst everyday users are banned from using it.
Just last year, Kazakhstan started requiring that users install what they're calling "national security certificates" on their end devices, reportedly to allow the government to work its way around the encryption. This is the actual basic backdoor piece. They're requiring that to be installed on end users' computer. The New York Times tried to look into this, and when they quizzed a national telecom in Kazakhstan, they pulled the notice down, so we actually don't know where that policy is. Russia also can require providers to insert backdoors onto their end devices.
And then we saw just this last month, probably the most troubling approach to this was in Brazil, where they arrested a Vice President of Facebook for not providing WhatsApp messages to the Brazilian government. Messages that were reportedly end‐to‐end encrypted and couldn't be provided because Facebook didn't have access to those messages. France is also considering the same approach.
The reason that we say this is so dangerous is because you're not going to find the possibility for jail time in any company's benefits package. This is not a way to attract top talent, is to put your executives at risk for being put into prison because you're using encryption, which actually disincentivizes the use of encryption.
And then there are the policies that don't make sense at all. In India they actually pulled a draft encryption policy the same day last year as they published it. The policy allowed the use of encryption, talked about how good encryption was, and then required that the plaintext version of any encrypted text be stored right alongside the encrypted text. [audience laughter] That's exactly the reaction you should have to that, so they pulled that down.
We're trying to work globally to respond to this. We launched securetheinternet.org with organizations from forty different companies signing onto it, experts, companies all over the world trying to provide a global response to this global problem. Because we're scared that with too many mandates, the entire bottom might fall out of the system we've created, and all the benefits of encryption are going to be for naught. Thank you.


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Alle 28 Tage ist ein Dokumentarfilm von Ina Borrmann aus dem Jahr 2015. Der Film behandelt das Thema Kinderwunschbehandlung und Künstliche Befruchtung.

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Journalistin Ina Borrmann dokumentiert in dem Film ihre eigene Kinderwunschbehandlung. Der Film beginnt mit einem kurzen Abriss ihres bisherigen Lebens. Mittlerweile Ende 30 entwickelt sich mit ihrem neuen Partner ein vorher nicht gekannter Kinderwunsch. Als erste Versuche auf natürlichem Weg nicht zum Erfolg führen, wendet sich das Paar an Prof. Dr. Heribert Kentenich, der insgesamt drei In-vitro-Fertilisationen (IVF) an dem Paar vornimmt. Trotz guter Ausgangswerte nisten sich die befruchteten Eizellen nicht ein. Das Paar und insbesondere Ina leidet unter den missglückten Versuchen. Anschließend kommt es bei einem gemeinsamen Urlaub zu einer Spontanbefruchtung, die jedoch in einer Fehlgeburt endet.

In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sich Ina an ihre jüngere Schwester, die in eine (in Deutschland illegale) Eizellspende einwilligt. Der Eingriff soll bei Dr. Peter Platteau in den Niederlanden vorgenommen werden. Doch bei ihrer Schwester sind die Werte zu schlecht, so dass keine Eizellen gewonnen werden können.

Am Ende gibt das Paar auf und versucht, sich mit einem Leben ohne Kinder zu arrangieren.

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Ina Borrmann dokumentierte mit diesem Film ihre eigene Kinderwunschbehandlung, von den Arztterminen über Gespräche mit ihrem Partner und ihrer Familie. Dabei versucht sie einen schonungslosen Blick zu erzeugen.

Die Uraufführung fand am 15. Mai 2015 auf dem DOK.fest München statt. Der Film wurde am 26. Februar 2016 auf DVD veröffentlicht.

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Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, Disco Dodgeball, & Cloud Games 0
We're exploring a bold new world in this week's Nintendo Switch podcast, with KC's review of Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles. We both get down and boogie with Disco Dodgeball, and JV chops to it with Timberman Vs. and Don't Die Mr. Robot!
We also open up the thought bubble, asking the community what they think of the recent experiments with cloud-based gaming, with games like Resident Evil 7 planned to stream on Nintendo Switch in the future.
0:27 – Intro
6:46 – Disco Dodgeball Review
19:13 - Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles Review
35:47 – Don't Die Mr. Robot DX Review
41:38 - Timberman Vs. Review
48:35 – News/New Releases
1:12:32 - Community Pulse / System Switch
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The Festival season is kicking off tomorrow with Meadowlands and we have to say it is perfect timing. Its a funfair for people who don't want to age: like Peter Pan, they want to have an adventure in their very own Neverland.
So the pilgrimage starts again and we're ready to lose ourselves in the middle of nowhere; got all the equipment: tents, sleeping bags, rain boots, waterproof jackets and friends. We're ready to go!
Here 6 of the best music and arts festival that the south of England can offer to you.
They bring you a festival full of love and surprises. A festival that stretches waaaaay beyond music, where weirdness and wonder mix with the comfort of hot showers and a British pub (yes, they have their own pub). With sounds, theatre, art displays, hot tubs and creative workshops they promise to bring you the most amazing show and value for your festival pound.
Line-up: Fink, Jessie Ware, Ghostpoet, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Norman Jay, The Do, Jono McCleery.
Dromos Festival will be popping up again across West Sussex in July 2012! With an eclectic mix of theatre, dance, music, street performance and workshops there will be something for the whole family to enjoy! Join them at Church Farm, Coombes on Sunday July 15th and Horsham Park on Saturday 21st July between 12-5pm.
Art & Expression Theme 2012: 'STANDING ON CEREMONY'. This year, as The Garden celebrates her 10th Birthday, they explore those ceremonies, rituals, initiations, anniversaries and carnivals that bind them together, that emphasises matter over mind, that emphasises their true gifts as humans: social existence. The Secret Garden Party, along with all modern hedonistic gatherings, has direct links to this awakening and release of the human spirit. So get your thinking caps on. Dream your own anniversaries, your own ceremonies, your own initiations.
Some believe that the year 2012 marks the dawn of a new era of human civilisation. Others are convinced that it signifies the end of the earth at the hand of some inconceivable catastrophe. While some still have confidence that life as we know it will continue to thrive and blossom in all its glory. The residents of Boomtown however are beginning to doubt the latter. Boomtown itself is thriving as never before, with its residents swelling in such numbers that they threaten to burst through the seams of township. At the present rate city status will most likely be attained before 2012 is out – that is if we survive the year at all… and recent goings-on's in and around Boomtown have thrown this matter into question.
The festival season had now arrived to the end. It's the time for autumn to blow away the summer and there's no better place to celebrate the Autumn Equinox than the New Moon in a beautiful field in the wield beside the Sussex Downs. It's a celebration of life described through the medium of arts, brought to you by an enthralling program of local, national and international musiscians, theatrical performance, circus, cabaret, film and much more.
This year's Playgroup Festival is scheduled to take place from 21-23 September and promises to create a parallel society that exists far outside the reach of daily life in Brighton. In particular, the festival will actually take place in rural grasslands near Tunbridge Wells in Kent and will incorporate every type of art including theatre, music, cinema, workshops, installation art, cabaret, and plenty of chances for interaction. We will keep you posted with the line-up changes.


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Top 5 cool mobile games like Minecraft for IOS
Posted	on	 November 14, 2020 by	sd6bvrr6editor
Minecraft is the best-selling cross-platform title in the history of the gaming industry.
Minecraft is a really good pixel graphics game. The game is an open environment allowing players to discover and harvest raw materials, create houses, and live in the game world. Minecraft allows players to build and change a gameplay mechanic according to their preference.
Back in 2011, Minecraft was publicly published as a video game. Due to the positive response of the players, the game has been migrated to other platforms such as Xbox, PlayStation, Android, iOS, etc. So if you're looking for games like Minecraft to play on your Apple iPhone, you've come to the right spot, here are five iOS-like Minecraft titles for you.
Block Craft 3D – Building Games
Like Minecraft, this game is also an open universe with block characters. You can create a village from scratch. The game has won the hearts of smartphone gamers with its accessibility and addictiveness. This game has been ranked 4.7 stars in the Apple App Store!
You can build and join the battle, as you want, in this game! Besides reminding you of Minecraft a few times, this game also features consistent controls and simple gameplay, making it popular with smartphone gamers.
There are more than 300 monsters to kill and 20 smallest biomes and biomes to discover
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The animations in Minecraft are very similar to this 2D side sandbox scrolling game. This title is all about adventure and survival, and is built in a way that fits very well on touch screens. You can opt to play offline in single player mode or online with your friends.
This game lets you feel the joy of an open farm. With more than 50 hours of gaming, smartphone gamers enjoy their authentic village life image. The idea that you can turn a muddy field into a lovely farm with so many choices to configure a farmer and your house would make you reminiscent of Minecraft.
Block Fortress
Block Fortress will remind you of Minecraft, and it also allows you the ability to create fortresses to defend against your enemies. So this title is testing your skills as a builder and a warrior. There's also a multiplayer mode in this game, complete with seven different types of terrain that you can overcome.
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I have a BA Hons degree in Illustration and Graphic Design studying at Camberwell College of Arts in London and Bristol School of Art and Design. A chance meeting with the established Equestrian Sculptor, Annette Yarrow convinced me to change direction and move into sculpture. I worked for Creations, Country Artists and Border Fine Arts creating commercial sculptures in resin before moving into casting in bronze, using various foundries.
I am an Enlightened Equitation (Heather Moffett)Level 3 Teacher and I am an EE saddle fitter.
I work with Academic Art of Riding by Bent Branderup concepts now, regularly working with Ylvie Fros, and also with Katrin Wallberg, Kathryn Branderup and Christofer Dahlgren, but I have also trained with Marijke de Jong and over the course of 5 years I attended 15 of her clinics with one, or sometimes two of my horses taking full riding places at her clinics.
I also have trained with Allen Pogue, the trick trainer in Texas, Shawna Karrasch and Ben Hart to learn Positive Reinforcement for horses and I use this both ridden and from the ground to assist with training.
All interactions with your horses are training.
I cannot remember a time when I did not love horses and want to ride. I rode as a child and as a teenager I bought a difficult horse from the meat man, who I named Harry. Harry taught me a lot. And I helped Harry become a better horse.
I competed in unaffiliated dressage for the next few years with a powerful TB x mare called Gem. I bought her as a 5 year old and in the photo below, she was 25 years old. She lived to be 30 and was ridden and sound right until the end of her life.
I loved Gem and I think she loved me too. We shared 25 years together and she never liked to allow other people to ride her. She trusted me completely I think.
Gem was fiercely spirited, intelligent, loyal, athletic, and very powerful. But most of all she was kind.
I currently train horses at my home yard for myself and my students.
My beautiful PRE mare Uralita bred by Yeguada Aimaran. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Uralita was unhandleable as she was terrified of all humans when I first met her.
My childrens ex super pony, Sunny Boy, who has now turned pro at classical dressage.
Flying Fox and I working on trot QI with softness and lightness.
Felix, my PRE long reining.
Uralita is learning how to come into and out of collection. Teaching collection to a PRE is like teaching a fish to swim, but to be beneficial to the horse, it has to be done calmly and softly – and it must be possible to ask for less collection when desired.


In October, we put out a call for new Stumptown Syndicate board members and were impressed by the caliber of applicants. Thank you to everyone who responded!
We're now thrilled to welcome two additions to the board: Sara Jensen and Gaba Rodriguez Beron.
Sara Jensen is a newly minted developer and Epicodus alumni who's currently participating in the Fall/Winter Hack Oregon program as a Design Lead on the Portland Homelessness Team. Through February 2017, she will have interned with Premise Data. Previously, Sara worked in Quality Assurance and Tech Support for Idealist.org. She enjoys Android development, planning and retrospecting for social good.
Gabriela Rodriguez Beron grew up in Uruguay before moving to the US and has been a software engineer for almost 20 years. Gaba founded DATA, an open data non-profit in South America, and currently works with the Coral Project, building tools and guides to improve community spaces around journalism online. She also contributes to Systerserver and facilitates the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain. Gaba is a feminist, activist, and mom to two kids.
Thursday Bram, Elea Chang, Ed Groth, and Briar Rose Schreiber will continue serving the remaining two years of their term, while Syndicate co-founder Reid Beels embarked on another three-year term. Elea has been elected as this year's President.
Meanwhile, Christie Koehler completed her last three-year term and is stepping back for a much-deserved break. Besides co-founding Stumptown Syndicate in 2010, Christie also served as President, Treasurer, OSB chair, and countless other positions over the years. We are hugely grateful for all her incredible work and say with giant emphasis: thank you.


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Testify and get a 'bullet in the head', Kinahan cartel warns trial witnesses
Murder victim David Byrne at a boxing event in Nov 2015
Ken Foy
Potential witnesses in an upcoming trial involving a junior associate of the Kinahan cartel have been warned that they will "get a bullet in the head" if they testify against the young criminal.
Gardai are aware of the "constant threats" which have been issued in a number of south inner city pubs over the past number of weeks.
Gardai from Kevin Street and Kilmainham Garda Stations are investigating the sinister death threats but so far no-one has made an official statement against the Kinahan-linked gangsters who have stepped up their campaign of terror.
The south inner city is their stronghold and many of the outfit's senior members are from the area. The young male, who is facing trial for a serious offence, is not suspected of issuing the threats and he is the subject of careful garda monitoring and strict bail conditions.
"This is a very serious and sinister situation, but thankfully the criminals involved in this behaviour do not know the identity of who has given statements to gardai," a senior source told the Herald.
"Of course when this matter comes before the courts, there will be even more tension when these people testify in a public forum. The level of intimidation surrounding this case has been quite frankly staggering," the source added.
The last major incident involving Kinahan gang members in the south inner city as part of their bitter feud with the Hutch gang is their suspected involvement in the murder of drug dealer David 'Daithi' Douglas on Friday evening. Tensions in the area remain high with regular armed garda checkpoints over the weekend.
The murder of Douglas is not connected to the pub threats or the offence with which the young Kinahan cartel member is charged.
"Even before Friday's murder, things were festering away all the time. These individuals are always plotting against each other but the garda presence had put them off for a few weeks. A lot of these fellas were keeping their heads down, but now gardai are investigating yet another broad daylight murder in the city," the source explained.
Armed gardai continue to monitor the feud which has now claimed eight victims after Friday's shocking gun murder.
It is understood that one of the major flashpoints is the Crumlin area of the capital, where it is feared that criminals aligned to the Hutch faction will carry out an attack on criminal Liam Byrne and his associates.
Liam (35) is the older brother of David Byrne (33) who was gunned down at the Regency Hotel after gunmen dressed in fake garda uniforms stormed the Dublin premises on February 5.
Gardai believe "it is only a matter of time" before the north inner city mob who are feuding with the cartel strike back after seven of the eight murders were carried out by their bitter rivals - six this year alone.
"The obvious concern is that they could go for a spectacular attack again like what happened at the Regency Hotel," a source said last night.
"There has always been the fear of a pub bomb attack in a south inner city pub as well."
Meanwhile it also emerged that a Monaghan man who is a close associate of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch was released without charge last week after his arrest on Monday over the Regency Hotel attack.
It is understood he was questioned about providing back-up for the assassination team.