They're 29 or under. They work in meetings, conventions, and business events. And they're proven leaders. Presenting the winners of PCMA's first-ever 20 in Their Twenties program.
Why wait? If you want to honor and encourage some of the best and brightest leaders in the industry today, and give their colleagues and peers something to aspire to tomorrow, why wait to recognize them when they're at the top of the heap?
Supported by the PCMA Education Foundation, the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Austin Convention Center, 20 in Their Twenties invited young meeting professionals to submit an application — including a video — showing how they demonstrated their leadership in at least three of these areas: creative thinking and problem solving, challenging the status quo, leading a team or project to achieve a common goal, elevating an industry network into business relationships, serving as an effective communicator, serving as a positive role model for PCMA's Code of Ethics, and demonstrating leadership in organizations (inside or outside the industry). Applicants were judged by a diverse task force of PCMA members. Winner benefits included registration, airfare, and hotel for PCMA Convening Leaders 2014; free PCMA membership for 2014 and discounted membership until age 30; and mentoring opportunities with PCMA's and the PCMA Education Foundation's volunteer leaders.
Read what this year's honorees have to say about their accomplishments and ambitions, and you'll feel pretty good about the industry's forward motion.
The opportunity to represent my country around the world and share with people our meetings industry professionalism, the kindness of our people, the unique value of our traditions, our art, our flavors, and the full range of colors and contrasts that Mexico represents. The purpose of my job is to contribute to each family that depends on this industry and consequently acquire a better quality of life.
In addition, my job and our industry have allowed me to network with people from other cultures; through this I have reconfirmed the wonderful experiences our world offers.
Finally, I am thankful to have the opportunity to contribute and inspire my industry and society through the development of inclusive projects. I strongly believe that our meetings industry should aim to protect the natural and cultural capital of the world, and contribute to improve our community's quality of life, subsequently benefiting the destination where events are hosted.
I have had several "best days." However, the latest wonderful experience I have had was my recent participation during the bidding process for the 67th International Astro nautical Congress. For this event, it was necessary to make a monumental strategic plan, from creating a strategic promotion plan, training speakers, develop a bidding book, and lobbying with government authorities and members of the International Astro nautical Federation, to encouraging a whole delegation to become proud ambassadors of Mexico, Latin America, and a whole industry. I had the opportunity to share the value that my country has to offer in front of an audience that included prime ministers, innovation and technology secretaries, scientists, and academics from over 62 countries. This experience encompassed soul, heart, strong teamwork, decisive character, great leadership, and inspiration from each team member.
In the medium term, I want to be part of the Mexico Tourism Board team. In the long term, I want to represent my country as the secretary of tourism for Mexico, and eventually retire as a college teacher and support or establish a nonprofit association dedicated to advocating education, so I can share with future generations the experience that life has given me. Through my passion and commitment to the MICE segment, I hope to inspire them to give the best of themselves and to continue to strengthen our industry by promoting projects with values like social responsibility, sustain ability, and serving as a vanguard.
As an event planner, I appreciate the variety of work I am doing. Every spring when our first events of the season kick off, I cannot wait to leave my desk and get out there and meet all the people I only knew from phone calls or emails so far.
One of my most memorable experiences was at one of our largest events this year, when I happened to be at the main entrance the minute we opened, and hundreds of people carrying an incredible energy with them streamed past me into our event site.
Our company is mainly active in the north of Germany; however, our bosses are looking into acquiring another company, which would benefit us greatly, and I would have the opportunity to enter the project teams of events with a much larger scale. PCMA has inspired me as a student and helped open the vast world of event planning for me. The expansion of our company will get me a little closer to one day play in the same league as the international heavyweights of the industry.
It is different every day. I'm facing different challenges, meeting different people, and learning different things every day. It is also really satisfying to be able to assist visitors/guests to have a great experience while they visit Vancouver or attend the event I organized.
I see myself still in the process of building my career, so it's a bit hard to find a "best day." I enjoy every day in the industry, but like Rick Antonson, our CEO from Tourism Vancouver, always says: "The best is yet to come." I do, however, have a proud moment so far, which was in 2012, when I received the Rising Star Award from MPI's British Columbia Chapter, nominated by industry peers.
I would love to know more about different sides of the CVB operation. I believe tourism business can create a big impact for a city, culturally and economically. On the other side, my short-term career interest is in Meeting Architecture. Knowing how to create/design a meeting/event that is meaningful rather than to just "arrange" it is the area I'm working on now.
I love that every day is different and that I am continuously learning. All of my co-workers, especially my boss, encourage me to think outside of the box and challenge me to take my creativity to a higher level.
The best day that I have had in the meetings industry so far has to be June 29, 2013, the last day of the annual lia sophia Conference. I had been in my current position for just over a month, and for that past month I had been applying everything I had learned in school, feverishly, to the fast-approaching conference. After many long days and nights at the conference site, being there that last day and seeing the tasks that I was a part of come to fruition completely reaffirmed my decision to go into the meetings industry. I look forward to having many more great days in the meetings and events industry.
Right now, I'm not sure where my career will take me, but my dream is to someday be the director of meetings and events for a corporate company.
I'm a people person; my job affords me opportunities that make me feel like I'm in my element. I love networking, building relationships, and meeting new people.
I also feel strongly that tourism and meetings are individually rewarding industries; combining them makes for a career that I'm excited to be a part of.
I was accepted into the ICCA Forum for Young Professionals in Barcelona in 2012. The excitement and pride I felt to arrive and represent Ottawa was something I had never quite experienced before. I was thrilled to meet the other 19 people in the class, from around the world. I considered myself extremely fortunate that I was given the opportunity to learn from them, along with the amazing mentors on site. I was honored to be there, and rejuvenated about our industry. I had never been so focused to take something all in and make the most of a professional experience. I can honestly say that I have never learned so much; the three days of sessions were extremely beneficial to me, both professionally and personally. I came home with fresh/new ideas, and ready to take on more. This experience made me more certain that I wanted to continue evolving my career in the meetings industry.
I have the drive to keep moving up the ladder within my organization, and will strive to lead my department one day. Perhaps even lead our destination marketing organization down the road. A more immediate goal for me is to move into a sales-manager position, as right now my duties are focused mostly on convention services. I have been exposed to, and have gained, experience on the sales side, and it's an area I am currently being mentored to move into. My ultimate goal is to be viewed as an influential leader in tourism and in the meetings industry. I believe that working for a destination marketing organization gives me the best of both these industries that I am passionate about.
I love how every day is different, and that I get to work with fabulous people. My imagination and creativity are always being called upon, and there is great support from the company to drive ahead with our sustainability and environmental programs.
That's a hard one! I don't think I can narrow it down to just one, but I love it when programs such as our Recycling Ambassadors (when teenagers volunteer to educate and guide attendees as to how to recycle properly during a show) are positively received by our guests and clients.
I would like to work with building operators and architects to develop entirely sustainable and net-positive venues — hotels and convention centers that not only run efficiently, but actually improve the surrounding environment and are healthy work spaces for all those that pass through their doors.
What I like most about my job is that no two days are the same. I have the opportunity to work on such a wide variety of meetings and events, and I'm constantly challenged to be more strategic and improve upon the work that I do.
The final day of any big event that I am responsible for brings such an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment and success as well as pride in the incredible team I work with.
I would like my career to continue to stretch my abilities, broaden my skill set, and provide continued leadership roles. I'm excited to see what opportunities for progression are ahead.
Selling Indianapolis is a dream come true, because this is my hometown and I love everything it's become over the last 20-plus years.
Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis, when we hosted Super Bowl XLVI. The entire country was focused on Indy, and we hosted the most successful Super Bowl the NFL has ever experienced.
How about the future owner of the Indianapolis Colts! I'd settle for an executive position here at Visit Indy, too.
I love the fact that by being involved in meeting design, I help clients solve business problems, rather than just planning the logistics of a meeting (which is also a very challenging task, but very different). By helping them increase the value of their meetings and measuring it, I feel like I really contribute to their business and the industry in general.
It's probably the day I made my debut as keynote speaker. I thought it was going to be the worst day of my life — my first time on stage, facing 150 meeting professionals and university staff at a Spanish business school, giving a 45-minute presentation on ROI for meetings and events. Nearly all were older and more experienced than me; why should they even listen? I must have practiced the entire presentation more than 30 times; for the last couple of weeks I delivered it on Skype to my mother every day. When I walked on stage, my heart was pumping like mad, until I noticed they were all looking at me, paying attention, like I was the big expert! After less than a minute, I felt really calm, like the audience gave me an injection of a tranquilizer, and I just enjoyed it. I really knew my stuff, just did what I had done so many times already, and it really worked!
I have found my passion in meeting design, creating meeting value by applying a whole range of social sciences, from psychology and social neurology to the theater, education, and communication. Combining all this with the ROI Methodology, setting proper meeting objectives and measuring the results, I feel I have an emerging insight into the creation of really powerful and valuable meetings. I am still just a novice; I want to learn from the experts and apply in practice as a meeting designer. I want to share with others as I learn, teaching at universities, which I really enjoy, and to write and publish what I learn on my journey.
What I like most about my job and working in the meetings industry is that I get to learn a little bit about many different things. Each meeting has so many different parts and pieces that I am constantly learning. For example, one day I had to teach myself some HTML code to fix the conference website, and the next day I learned about the hundreds of different postage options and regulations for nonprofit mailings. With meeting requirements and trends constantly changing, I will always be learning something new!
I think the best day I have had in the meetings industry so far was the first day I arrived at my most recent large conference. After working for months and months, it was so rewarding to see everything start to come together. I also got to meet face-to-face some of the members I had been emailing with for almost a year and see their excitement for spending a few days focusing on a subject they are so passionate for. I look forward to many more "best days" in my career.
My ultimate career goal is to be a thought leader in my organization and the industry as a whole. I want to be the one creating the trends and initiatives, with an eye on the future. I can do this as a leader in my organization, such as strategic planner of meetings, as well as in the meetings community by being an elected chapter president or PCMA chairwoman. I have come a long way in just three years — in my job (meetings assistant to conference manager) and industry organizations (committee volunteer to committee chair). The possibilities seem endless!
I love how fast-paced and dynamic my job is every day. I'm a part of over 200 events on an annual basis, so I see just about every type of event you can imagine. With such vast differences between this many shows, my job is never repetitive. It keeps me refreshed and engaged — I love it. It's also great to meet and work with so many different individuals in our industry on a daily basis.
I've been fortunate to be a part of some of the most influential events in our industry. It's hard for me to pick an exact day, but I've had a lot. My best days are when I can go home with a sense of accomplishment, an empty inbox, and satisfied exhibitors, attendees, clients, and employees.
No matter where my career ends up, I hope I'm on the forefront of integrating new technologies into the events industry. I'm passionate about learning new web technologies and services to leverage them in my daily operations. I think we're only in the infancy stages of integrating these services into the events industry, so I hope I'm a part of fostering and maturing these technologies.
The part I love most about my job is seeing my clients' expectations exceeded. There is no other feeling that makes the work worth it.
So far, my best project was working on a fundraiser for The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund. It's an incredible philanthropy organization that creates jobs and employment opportunities for people facing great barriers to work. It was powerful to see the impact this event and the organization had. The event was held in a gorgeous, historic San Francisco theater venue, The Warfield, so designing a 300-person, formal, seated dinner was also an exciting challenge.
I would like to work on interesting, innovative events that impact lives through disruptive information and learning, on a global scale.
I really love the holistic nature of meetings and events — receiving a brief, designing a unique and exciting proposal, working with the client and other suppliers on the process, and being part of the execution as a host, emcee, or facilitator. Having an idea and witnessing it come to life is one of the most exciting and empowering feelings in any industry.
Hard to go past our event with Sir Richard Branson and 1,500 Virgin Australia [VA] employees. We helped them surprise Richard by writing and performing a completely original song about how much they love VA. He ended up crowdsurfing, and personally gave me a big kiss on stage for my efforts!
I just want to keep meeting extraordinary people, learning from the best, and experiencing all this industry has to offer. I already get to travel a lot (including PCMA Convening Leaders in Boston this month, all the way from Sydney!), but hopefully I will be able to work overseas at some stage as well.
It would be nice to be remembered as someone who gave back to the industry and to people less fortunate, too. Plus a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar, and a Grammy (just joking…. or am I?).
I am very fortunate that I have the opportunity to work for a hotel that fosters professional growth, education, and finds value in organizations like PCMA. Hotel Nikko San Francisco has definitely made all aspects of my job enjoyable. However, if I had to narrow it down, it would be networking and learning. I love making new connections and building professional relationships with others through conventions or trade shows. I also love learning something new every day. Whether it is understanding a new contract clause or learning about a new industry trend, I know that my mind is constantly stimulated.
About a year ago, after two months of intense negotiations, I received an email with a signed contract attached. That day definitely sticks out in my mind. The booking was my largest in revenue at the time, and certainly assisted in a successful month for our sales team. The accomplishment from my first big win and the satisfaction of knowing that my hard work had paid off will reign in my mind forever.
About ayear ago at a Q&A with my general manager, Anna Marie Presutti, I asked, "What advice would you give a young professional on how to become successful in their career?" She replied, "You can't look too far ahead. You need to focus on being the master of your current job before you think about the next step." I find her advice extremely relevant and tremendously wise. I have taken her words to heart and implemented its suggestion. While it is still important to have a clear idea of an ultimate goal, her advice speaks to the importance of being responsible and accountable along the way. By adhering to this mantra, I am confident that success will follow me. With that being said — for my career goal, the sky is the limit. I want to continue learning and advancing. I have a long road ahead of me, and am excited for every good or bad experience that will shape my career and my personality.
The part of my job that I like the most is the ability to interact with so many different people throughout the planning and implementing of the meetings that I work on. Between members, volunteers, hoteliers, vendors, and colleagues, I have the opportunity to interface with so many people that I do not think that I would have the opportunity to otherwise.
The best day that I have had in the meetings industry so far was the last day of my most recent meeting that I worked on, the 2013 Annual Meeting for the American Neurological Association in October. We began working with this association after a management changeover only in July, and had a large amount of work to do in order to catch the association up with where they needed to be 3.5 months prior to their Annual Meeting. There were a lot of challenges, I was training a brand-new-to-associations meeting coordinator, and was working with a very high-profile keynote speaker, former President Clinton, for the very first time. The last day of the meeting, after President Clinton completed his keynote, I was able to let out a huge sigh of relief that the meeting somehow managed to come together beautifully and that we were done. I received a great amount of very encouraging feedback, which made the very hectic 3.5 months that the team had leading up to the meeting worthwhile.
My ultimate career goal within the meetings industry would be to become a director of a very large, standalone-association meetings department, overseeing a full staff of meeting planners and coordinators. I would not want this to be a medical or nursing association, as I would want a change of pace from the types of meetings that I have already done and would want to experience new challenges and different components to a large annual meeting.
As a planner at an association management company, I get to work with lots of clients, planning lots of different types of meetings. While this often means that no two days in a row are the same, there is a common thread — the constant build toward the next event. Regardless of the client, the place, or how big the event, the best part is seeing all the pieces come together. Before you know it, though, it's over and on to the next. I consistently try to focus on enjoying the event as it unfolds, however many twists and turns may unravel. After all, this is why we put in all the work!
One of my best days was day one of a big meeting early in 2013.I had been wanting to do a mobile meeting app with a client for some time, but the right opportunity had not arisen. Finally, circumstances aligned and it was feasible. I pushed hard to get the app approved, and the client even agreed to go 100-percent paperless. Needless to say, I was nervous, especially since we combined surveys and CE collection in the app. When attendees were arriving at the registration desk with the app already downloaded, I knew it was a win. We ended up with an over 75-percent download rate, which is huge for first-time adoption.
My dreams are constantly evolving, but I am most recently inspired by my hometown of Indianapolis. I would love to be involved in an event as impactful as Super Bowl XLVI has been for the city. The ability to have an immediate effect on event participants while also leaving a lasting mark on a host city is not only a true achievement, but would also be extremely meaningful on a personal level.
Member and attendee interaction is my favorite part of my job. I enjoy bringing happiness and satisfaction to the meetings that I manage.
The best day that I've had in the meetings industry thus far was receiving the call that I was accepted into the inaugural class of PCMA's 20 in Their Twenties program. It's amazing to be recognized within the meetings industry, and I am elated for the opportunities this will provide.
I would ultimately like to become the founder and CEO of an organization that focuses on mentoring and developing young professionals, tailored to the training and development of inner-city, urban youth who have less of an opportunity to access the meetings industry.
Event technology is so flexible — you can use it to create any type of brand experience or environment. My favorite part of my job is speaking at conferences about event technology and getting people to think strategically about using technology to create experiences that achieve their objectives. It's awesome to see the light bulb go on when people start to think differently about their technology systems and then realize that they can use it as a blank canvas for any type of digital content. And even more so, they start to think about how to use it to encourage attendee behaviors like engagement and interaction.
I'm a technology marketer, so I'm passionate about tech and its application for improving experiences. Wherever my career takes me, it will have something to do with leveraging technology. I have a personal goal of holding a leadership role by the time I'm 30, because I enjoy driving progress, solving problems, and motivating people.
I thrive on using technology to defy the limitations of what can be done and increasing expectations relative to the value it brings to the bottom line.
I have a passion for technology, and I see myself in the midst of this world of rapid creation at a leadership level. I enjoy motivating people to create amazing products, experiences, and events. I want to have a career that reflects that energy.
I love many parts about my job — from working with volunteers to the nitty-gritty details of a contract. I'm not sure that I could be happier in another position. One part of my job that is unique requires me to learn and integrate myself into a different culture, Deaf culture. All of my meetings take place in American Sign Language (ASL), so the problem-solving aspect to my position is abundant with sight lines and communication access. Solving these types of problems to ensure that everyone has equal access truly makes my position worthwhile and keeps me going at the end of a long day on site.
A single day?! Any day that has a positive, measurable outcome is a good day in my book. However, the best day I've had in the meetings industry was certainly Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. This was the last day of our 50th-anniversary conference in Indianapolis. I joined the organization five months prior to the meeting, and had to very quickly pull together all the different parts to put together a positive conference experience that was memorable to celebrate our organization's 50th anniversary. With an abundance of help from my fellow staff members, many volunteers, and all of our suppliers, the conference was a success. Anyone who has planned a conference or been involved i with the process of taking on an anniversary conference knows the amount of stress that is purely historic in nature. Knowing that your work will be etched in the memories of your attendees forever, that is pressure to succeed if I have ever seen it. After the dust settled and survey results were tallied, we were met with ovations of joy and gratitude. Finally, I stopped holding my breath — five months later.
I thoroughly enjoy working in the association world. In my past life having been a sales manager, I do appreciate that aspect of our industry as well. At the end of the day, I believe that planning meetings in an advocacy setting fits my personality and the inner urge to advocate for others. Related to this includes my want to educate the meetings industry on accessibility for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. How can we look around us and learn from the trials of other groups to enhance the overall product we are providing? This is a fascinating question that I think we all can benefit from asking ourselves, and in the future I see myself helping organizations answer this question to improve their meetings as well.
I like being involved in such an evolving and competitive industry where there is so much opportunity to develop new client solutions, provide industry input, and grow clients' organizations. I am consistently provided with the opportunity to grow as an individual, as an organization, and as an industry.
Attending my first meetings convention in 2010, where I made a large base of my connections, began to understand what the industry is all about, how global the industry actually is, and how many people work together and assist others to make a meeting come to fruition.
I would like to make sure that I am continuously involved in the evolution of the industry within North America. I am lucky to be with an international organization that is continuously growing and able to bring new ideas, processes, and procedures to North America; I hope to continue being part of these implementations to continue enhancing an already-strong meeting and convention industry within North America.


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> Israelis Living in Fear as Rockets Rain Down
Israelis Living in Fear as Rockets Rain Down
Frustration, boredom, and fear: a glimpse into the lives of Israelis living within the range of Hamas's rocket fire.
Tova Dvorin
י' בתמוז תשע"ד 16:23 08.07.14
Gaza Region Rocket Fire Op. Protective Edge
Israelis find shelter from the rockets in a s Reuters
As the IDF mobilizes for a possible ground offensive, Israelis living within the line of Hamas rocket fire wait in fear and frustration, having been forces to stay within a 15-second distance of their nearest bomb shelter as rocket after rocket falls on their homes from Gaza.
"I'll be awake at 2:30 am, unable to sleep from anxiety that I may not be able to get to our 'safe room' if a rocket falls," one Ashkelon resident, who wished to remain anonymous, told Channel 2.
Parents, in particular, are concerned over the rocket fire. More than just fearing for their lives and their children's safety, they have also been left without the possibility of working, as transport is dangerous and preschools and summer camps have been shuttered.
"I couldn't go to work today, but my daughter's safety is more important," Ortal, a resident of Moshav Beit Ezra between Ashdod and Ashkelon, stated Tuesday.
"There is nothing we can do. This is part of living in the south," she added, sadly. "I hope this time we can finish off Hamas and move on with our lives in peace."
Anxiety over the security situation is palpable throughout Israel, even outside of the 40 kilometer "danger zone" from Gaza. Residents within the firing zone find that fear follows them throughout their day - even when they have left their communities to find refuge deeper into the Israeli heartland.
The Eshkol and Sha'ar HaNegev Regional councils brought hundreds of children and teenagers, as well as adult support staff, to the Kibbutz Shefayim water park on Monday, to give young families a mental and emotional break from the rocket fire.
However, participants noted to Walla! News that the expedition, while welcome, did not bring them calm.
"We do not really know how to calm the children down," Oshrit Masala, 22, of Kibbutz Nir near Gaza, told the daily. "The kids are anxious all the time. Slamming a door startles them."
Residents of the Israeli community of Nitzan, near Ashdod, take cover in a concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter Reuters
"We've had to stay within 15 seconds of a secure area and they grow frustrated and bored; they can't play outside, they can't run around," she added. "Even we are stressed - it's impossible to function normally, for a while we just started counting the rockets we heard outside."
Masala described life on the kibbutz over the past week, after a collective bar mitzvah ceremony was punctured by rounds of rocket fire and "Code Red" alarms that sent the entire community dashing into shelters.
"The children just kept crying," she said. "It was impossible to explain to them why their bar mitzvah was being bombed."
"Although they are acclimating somewhat, I don't think it will get better - ever," she added.
The children agreed.
"We hear a lot of 'booms.' It's really scary," said Shamir, 11, from Moshav Ehud near the Gaza border. He insisted that he would never leave, however. "Apart from the bombings, I love being there."
"Why do they only put the Iron Dome near Ashdod and Be'er Sheva?" he wondered. "It's not right that they don't protect us, we are the closest to Gaza and we're terrified of the sirens."

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Smiles in Boxes
Winona County, MN - Trempealeau County, WI
Piotr Konopacki
Piotr Konopacki (1827 Gdansk - 1880 Sharon)
Szarlota Weronika Toczek (1839 ? - 1906 Sharon)
The Konopacki family is regularly counted among Portage County, Wisconsin's earliest Kashubian settlers. In her 1996 article "The Kaszuby Region," Adeline Sopa tosses out the tempting hint that "Peter Kronopeski was identified as also coming in 1859, or the next year, from Winona, Minnesota;" she also mentions that "a Peter Konopecky filed an intent in Winona County, MN, on March 4, 1859." She also mentions that Stanislaw (1788-ca. 1880) and Malgorzata nee Piechowska (1795-1880) Konopacki sailed from Hamburg on June 15, 1859 for Quebec aboard the "Amelia." My interest was piqued. Kashubian extended families generally settled down in Portage County or in Winona, not both, with the Milanowski (and possibly Libera) families being rare exceptions.
It looks like there is another rare exception. The precise date on which Walerya Barbara nee Konopacka Molski (1859/1860-1946) was born to Piotr and Szarlota is open to question, as is the precise date of her birth. But the evidence points strongly to 1859 and Winona, Minnesota. James Keck has preserved her obituary from the Stevens Point newspaper, which gives her birthdate as November 1, 1860 in Winona, Minnesota. On the other hand, the 1860 US Census, enumerated on July 24, 1860, places the Peter Konopasky family, including two-year old Walleria, in the Portage County township of Sharon. I think it far more likely that Walerya was born on November 1, but not in 1860. The census sometimes misleads, but it doesn't lie. Somewhere along the line, as sometimes happens, Walerya got a year younger. On subsequent censuses, Waleria (also listed as Valerie and as Laura) is listed as being born in Minnesota. At worst, this is just a very likely guess. But now I want to know why Piotr and Szarlota tried their luck in Winona first, and only then rejoined their extended family in Sharon.
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Q: How to parse a Time received from Server and set to our Local time in Android I am using Volley to get the data from Api.I am receiving Time and date in this format 2018-04-04T08:41:21.265185Z.I want to set time as Local time in RecyclerView in this format 8:41 PM.
This is code for converting the Time
 SimpleDateFormat dateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault());
                            dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
                            try {
                                Date date=dateFormat.parse(bookingTime);
                                TimeZone zone=TimeZone.getDefault();
                                dateFormat.setTimeZone(zone);
                                finalTime=dateFormat.format(date);
                            } catch (ParseException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }

This is code for setting the converted time to ReyclerView
JsonArrayRequest request = new JsonArrayRequest(Request.Method.GET, url, null, new Response.Listener<JSONArray>() {
                @Override
                public void onResponse(JSONArray response) {
                    try {

                        for (int i = 0; i < response.length(); i++) {
                            JSONObject object = response.getJSONObject(i);
                            final CurrentEntry entry = new CurrentEntry();
                            String id = object.getString("myid");
                            String Time=object.getString("time");
                            SimpleDateFormat dateFormat=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault());
                            dateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());
                            try {
                                Date date=dateFormat.parse(Time);
                                TimeZone zone=TimeZone.getDefault();
                                dateFormat.setTimeZone(zone);
                                finalTime=dateFormat.format(date);
                            } catch (ParseException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }
                            JsonObjectRequest foodie_request = new JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.GET, myurl, null, new Response.Listener<JSONObject>() {
                                @Override
                                public void onResponse(JSONObject response) {
                                    try {
                                        String fname = response.getString("fname");
                                        String lname = response.getString("lname");
                                        entry.setName(first_name + "\t" + last_name);
                                       // progressDialog.dismiss();
                                        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                                    } catch (JSONException e) {
                                        e.printStackTrace();
                                    }

                                }
                            }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {

                                }
                            })
                            };
                            AppController.getInstance().addToRequestQueue(foodie_request, foodie_data_req);
                            String no = object.getString("no");
                            String ptime = object.getString("pt");
                            entry.setP(people);
                            entry.setT(finalTime);
                            current.add(entry);

                                adapter = new CurrentStatusAdapter(current, getActivity().getApplicationContext());
                                recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
                        }

How to convert and set this time ?

A: I think your dateTime 2018-04-04T08:41:21.265185Z is missing TIMEZONE Z
Format - yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
Output - 2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700
OR
Sample -
try {
    DateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ");
    Date d = f.parse("2018-04-04T08:41:21.265185");
    DateFormat date = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
    DateFormat time = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
    System.out.println("Date: " + date.format(d));
    System.out.println("Time: " + time.format(d));
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Ref - See Examples SimpleDateFormat in this link

A: java.time
    DateTimeFormatter timeFormatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("h:mm a", Locale.ENGLISH);
    String bookingTimeString = "2018-04-04T08:41:21.265185Z";
    Instant bookingTime = Instant.parse(bookingTimeString);
    String finalTime = bookingTime.atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault()).format(timeFormatter);
    System.out.println(finalTime);

On my computer in Europe/Copenhagen time zone this printed:

10:41 AM

So the time has been converted to my local time as you requested.
I am using java.time, the modern Java date and time API. Even on Android and even though java.time is only built-in on new Android devices consider throwing away the long outmoded and notoriously troublesome SimpleDateFormat and friends. The modern API is so much nicer to work with and works nicely on older devices too, see below for details.
The Instant class from java.time parses the string you receive without any explicit formatter. This is because the string is in ISO 8601 format, the standard format the the modern classes parse as their default. Given the number of questions on Stack Overflow concerning trouble with date-time format pattern strings this seems a rather great advantage.
Question: Can I use java.time on Android?
Yes, java.time works nicely on older and newer Android devices. It just requires at least Java 6.

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*In Java 8 and later and on new Android devices the modern API comes built-in.

*In Java 6 and 7 get the ThreeTen Backport, the backport of the new classes (ThreeTen for JSR 310; see the links at the bottom).

*On (older) Android use the Android edition of ThreeTen Backport. It's called ThreeTenABP. And make sure you import the date and time classes from org.threeten.bp with subpackages.

Links

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*Oracle tutorial: Date Time explaining how to use java.time.

*Java Specification Request (JSR) 310, where java.time was first described.

*ThreeTen Backport project, the backport of java.timeto Java 6 and 7 (ThreeTen for JSR-310).

*ThreeTenABP, Android edition of ThreeTen Backport

*Question: How to use ThreeTenABP in Android Project, with a very thorough explanation.

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Z helps astronomers interpret Chandra satellite data
BY NEAL SINGER
Earth-bound 'star' impersonates black holes, neutron stars
In an inconspicious, flat-roofed building in Sandia's Area 4, a machine that creates temperatures rivaling those of the sun is helping physicists examine up-close what happens to iron in the grip of black holes and neutron stars. Experiments on Sandia's Z machine — the most powerful X-ray generator on Earth — usually focus on the defense of the United States and harnessing nuclear fusion for electrical power.
THE BLACK HOLES AMONG US — In front of a containment can at the center of Sandia's Z machine, a small window-like frame holds a shining foil containing a layer of mixed iron and sodium fluoride only 500 angstroms thick, sandwiched between two micron-thick plastic substrates. Just after Z reaches peak power, the iron inside the foils reaches conditions normally found only in the immediate vicinity of neutron stars and black holes, where streams of infalling matter are vaporized by X-rays driven by the immense gravitational power of these compact objects. At Z, a spectrometer measures the absorption of Z's X-rays by the face-on iron foil, and the emission of X-rays from the edge-on foil. Sodium fluoride provides a temperature correlation. The hard data will be used by astronomers trying to understand how extreme conditions affect iron — a complex element widespread in the universe — in images returned by Chandra and two other soon-to-be-orbited billion-dollar X-ray telescopes.
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But data from recent tests undertaken there by researchers from Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories should help astronomers trying to interpret images from the billion-dollar Chandra X-ray observatory now orbiting Earth. (Also benefiting will be two billion-dollar X-ray orbiting observatories expected to be sent aloft from Europe and Japan in the next year.)
The results will further understanding of black holes, neutron stars, and the evolution and eventual expiration of the universe, predicts Livermore physicist Mark Foord, one of the leaders of the joint Sandia-Livermore project. The methods developed in the work also can be used in weapons physics, says Sandia project collaborator and physicist Jim Bailey (1677).
Iron is of interest to astronomers because it is among the most complicated of elements widespread in the universe, and therefore among the hardest to understand. Several explanations are possible for the effects it creates in images taken by the recently launched Chandra orbiting telescope.
Being able to 'cook along'
The problem for astronomers, who now hold bleacher seats to watch titanic energies transform elements on a scale never before seen, is somewhat similar to that faced by apprentice cooks in empty kitchens who watch master chefs cook on TV: Without being able to cook along, many fine points of the observed process can only be guessed at.
Creating a neutron star or black hole on Earth for scientists to understand distant reactions is something of a problem, since there would be no more Earth. But because "neutron stars and black holes emanate X-rays similar in effect to those emanated by Z, we realized we have a chance to test astrophysical theoretical models that have never been tested experimentally," says Mark.
Says Jim, "We're looking with spectroscopic eyes at the atomic physics of ionized iron so that these can be compared with theoretical calculations. Astrophysicists will have to consider what implications our figures have for their models."
"We have a collaboration with four or five groups around the world whose main job is to analyze data from Chandra using their own codes," says Mark. "They have made some predictions that we're going to compare to our data." If necessary, the codes will be modified. The results will be compared with astrophysical calculations embedded in computer codes of how neutron stars affect the widespread element.
Interpreting data from the stars
The experiments proceed by placing square centimeters of iron, a few hundred angstroms thick, close to the Z pinch at the heart of Z. (A Z pinch achieves its output by generating a powerful magnetic field that collides ions at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light.)
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From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E. Nesbit
The Classics of Gothic Horror Series
Edited by S. T. Joshi
Cover by Aeron Alfrey
This volume contains the weird tales of the British writer E. Nesbit (1858–1924), who wrote two early collections of horror stories, Grim Tales (1893) and Fear (1910), while gaining celebrity with an array of books for children. But the weird attracted her throughout her career, and she devoted herself to such themes as the haunted house, the ghost, psychological terror, and even some ventures into proto-science fiction, in such celebrated stories as "Man-Size in Marble" and "The Five Senses." Her weird work, long out of print, is now available again in this meticulously edited volume.
Editor's Note: The stories in this book have largely been taken from the collection Fear (1910); "The Mass for the Dead" is taken from Grim Tales (1893), while "The Pavilion" is taken from To the Adventurous (1923), as reflecting the author's late revisions to the tale. The uncollected stories are taken from their magazine appearances as specified in the bibliography. There have been several other collections of Nesbit's weird tales—E. Nesbit's Tales of Terror, edited by Hugh Lamb (Methuen, 1983), subsequently revised as In the Dark: Tales of Terror (Equation, 1988) and In the Dark (Ash-Tree Press, 2000)—and they include stories not included here; but in our judgment these tales are not genuinely weird.
Introduction, by S. T. Joshi
John Charrington's Wedding
The Ebony Frame
The Mass for the Dead
From the Dead
Uncle Abraham's Romance
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
Man-Size in Marble
Hurst of Hurstcote
The Power of Darkness
The Three Drugs
The New Samson
The Violet Car
Appendix: From My School-Days
Part IV: In the Dark
Part V. The Mummies at Bordeaux
The Classics of Gothic Horror series seeks to reprint novels and stories from the leading writers of weird fiction over the past two centuries or more. Ever since the Gothic novels of the late 18th century, supernatural horror has been a slender but provocative contribution to Western literature. Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, the Victorian ghost story writers, the "titans" of the early twentieth century (Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft), the Weird Tales writers, and many others contributed to the development and enrichment of weird fiction as a literary genre, and their work deserves to be enshrined in comprehensive, textually accurate editions. S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction, has done exactly that in establishing this series. Using scholarly resources honed over decades of wide-ranging research, he has assembled volumes featuring not only the complete weird writings of the authors in question, but exhaustive bio-critical introductions and bibliographical data.
Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos by Bobby Derie
H. P. Lovecraft: Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja
Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others


Flourish now supports a full complement of ALTER TABLE statements that will run on MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server. You can now write a single SQL migration script and run it on any supported database. fDatabase::translatedQuery() and fDatabase::translatedExecute() will utilize the new fSQLSchemaTranslation class when CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE and COMMENT ON COLUMN statements are run.
Rather than trying to abstract the SQL language into PHP method calls, Ive always opted with Flourish to translate SQL to the various dialects supported by the database in question. The goal here isnt to provide an abstraction layer, but a translation layer. If you look at the guts of fSQLSchemaTranslation youll see there is quite a bit of pattern matching, SQL statement manipulation and schema catalog lookups.
If you use PostgreSQL or Oracle you are probably used to fairly robust support for SQL DDL statements. Unfortunately some of the other supported systems are a bit more painful to use. For MySQL, foreign key constraints must be dropped before any operations can be performed on the column or table they are associated with, and then once the operation is complete they must be re-created. SQL Server requires similar requirements for dropping and re-creating constraints, but even goes to the extreme of requiring it for default value constraints. SQLite barely supports any ALTER TABLE statements in version 3 and nothing is supported in version 2. DB2 requires some management of constraints, but also that you explicitly reorganize the table index after specific statements.
What it comes down to is that to support more than a single database system, you end up having to handle all of these edge cases for each database system. This significantly slows down the development process and can be a downright frustrating experience. Flourish is here to help with that.
Here is a basic example of how you can create a database table that work on six different database systems. If you really want to dive right into the supported syntax, please check out the FlourishSql page.
As I mentioned above, all of this functionality Ill be explaining works through fDatabase. You dont actually need to worry about the fSQLSchemaTranslation class at all. The class is separate from fSQLTranslation due to its sheer size, over five thousand lines of code. Simply pass a FlourishSql statement to fDatabase::translatedQuery() or fDatabase::translatedExecute() and you are in business.
Some of the nicest features of the translation layer in Flourish is that it handles even the gnarly edge cases like auto-incrementing integer primary keys. If youve ever worked with more than one database system Im sure you are aware that they all have completely different syntax for this. PostgreSQL uses the SERIAL data type that implicitly creates a sequence. MySQL has a special keyword AUTO_INCREMENT. SQL Server uses an IDENTITY properly on the column. Oracle is possibly the most painful, requiring an explicit sequence to be created and then a trigger created to select values from the sequence and insert them into new records.
In addition to creating consistent syntax across all of the supported database systems, Flourish provides simple shorthand syntax for dealing with constraints. For many database systems it is necessary to use system-generated constraint names when dropping constraints, and for some it is necessary to create explicit constraint names upon creation.
You can visit the FlourishSql page for a complete list of all of the supported syntax.
This sort of functionality wouldnt really be possible without extensive testing. The addition of fSQLSchemaTranslation was joined by over 1500 new tests (when run on a server with all database extensions). Between the 12 different machines and configurations Flourish is tested on, the grand total number of tests run on each commit increased by well over 10,000 tests.
That said, the SQLite support is probably the least robust. While Ive fairly extensively tested that SQLite tables created from FlourishSql statements can be altered, I would imagine there are some statements that may not work properly on all databases. Luckily SQLite supports DDL statements within transactions, meaning that your database will remain in a good state even if something fails. If you do experience any issues with SQLite, please open a ticket with your CREATE TABLE statement and the ALTER TABLE statement you executed, and Ill fix fSQLSchemaTranslation to handle it.
One of the other things I set as a requirement for implementing ALTER TABLE support was to make individual statements atomic in nature. While it is certainly possible that a SQL statement may fail, baring extenuating circumstances with MySQL or DB2 such as a hard drive being full, Flourish can ensure your database will either remain in its original state, or be properly altered.
To make sure that operations are performed completely, or not at all, there are around 40 tests run per database system to test the atomic failure of ALTER TABLE statements. So like I said before, under normal operating conditions, Flourish will keep your database in a good state.
As I mentioned, there are some edge cases with MySQL and DB2. Unfortunately MySQL does not support DDL statements within transactions, and additionally, it requires removing foreign key constraints for many operations. fDatabase and fSQLSchemaTranslation are written in such a way that rollback statements are created in case a statement fails. These rollback statements undo any partially complete changes. It is theoretically possible that a situation arises where MySQL will not permit the rollback statements to run if a serious error occurs.
In a similar vein, DB2 support transactions for DDL statements, but requires table reorganization to occur after certain statements. This reorganization implicitly commits any open transaction. The failure edge case for DB2 would be if the primary statement succeeds and the reorganization succeeds, but remaining statements that re-create constraints fail.
While this new functionality has undergone quite a bit of testing on my end, Im sure there are some edge-case bugs. It will certainly become more robust over time as people like you take the time to open tickets and report bugs.


The important concepts here are equity and choice in how people age across the life course, recognizing the universality of the aging experience. It captures the concepts of aging–in-place, equal access to integrated community-based services to address health disparities in care and the necessity of affordable housing. All of these factors are essential for individuals to maximize their potential in old age and enjoy optimal aging.
This is a critical issue, and one that social work should seek to addrress given our profession's focus on the person-in-environment and vulnerable populations. The concept of aging in place (the idea that remaining in familiar social and physicial environments enhances quality of life as we age) has received a great deal of attention from a variety of disciplines and professions. There has been less attention to the idea of being 'stuck in place' in housing and neighborhoods that are not optimal. For example, neighborhoods with limited access to food, little social capital, high rates of crime, few transportation options, and deteriorating housing. Social work should be at the forefront of conducting research and designing interventions to not only improve community social and physical infrastructure to support elder health and well-being, but also to allow those with limited resources to exercise choice in how and where they age. It should also be noted that this research has implications across the life course, as many of the features of an "aging-friendly" community can benefit other members of the community.


Jennifer the veganista teaching us quick simple tips to becoming vegan. We also chatted with Jason and Megan from ASU School of Sustainability and they informed us of great things happening in Tempe, fun events for April Earth Month. Learn more on our website. Musical styling of Shawn Johnson.


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Q: Do the car body types matter in Rocket League? Is there any technical difference between the different car body types in Rocket League? Based on my experimentation, there does not seem to be a difference but I could not confirm it.

A: According to the developer, the cars have slightly different hitboxes. Other than that, they have identical stats.
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*What Is The Best Car In Rocket League?

*Rocket League guide to car differences: Hitbox Comparison

A: Hit box can change slightly. Other than that, there is no difference whatsoever.
I'll find an official source if I can, but that's what I've noticed from personal experimentation/gameplay.
Actually, I found a ton of sources (although mostly are unofficial) by simply Googling "rocket league hitboxes". Might be worth a look-through although they just confirm what I say above.
In case you were curious about toppers: they are aesthetic only, performance isn't affected.


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    // Register the server for plain text documents
    documentSelector: ['typescript', 'plaintext', 'ts', 'javascript', 'js'],
    synchronize: {
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Is this covered in the installation manual? (That's not a rhetorical question. I don't know. I've never needed to know, and not gone looking...) If it's not in the manual then it's a documentation bug, not a user error.


Picked this Cyclelite up a Iittle while back, curios to know if anyone has seen one before?
Splitdorff I have had a couple over the years- very cool! does the bulb rotate when you turn it?
It looks to be beautifully made.
I have owned two of these.