I have never been as aware of the moon cycles as I am in Salem, where I live blocks from the shore. On low tide days, the full moon pushes out the waters to reveal what lies below the surface. Paths otherwise invisible materialize. One day after exploring the rocky shore of a nearby park, the high water swallowed our return path. My husband and I had to climb onto an abutting lawn where we found the lawn's owner out on her porch. She graciously allowed us, accidental trespassers, to find the public path via her yard.
For a few days each month we can follow the water's edge uninterrupted. On these days I feel like I'm joining the perennial, ancient dialogue between water and moon, which conspires to connect what was previously disconnected. Humans tend to live in linear time and draw property lines in the sand, but the cycles of nature provide a new lens through which to see.
The Salem shore is not pristine. A large storm drain bisects the view ahead. Barnacles cling to its underbelly and marine snails find shelter in the crevices of concrete masonry units. The so-called natural and the man-made are fused. When the water is low, I can see every object rather than just the pieces poking out of a higher tide. Previously disconnected elements are fused together. These unexpected relationships look as messy as life. And so I prefer this landscape to unspoiled nature, just like I prefer not always being able to walk along the shore.
Claudia Paraschiv is an architect exploring dialogues between people and places on Massachusetts' North Shore.


Players stand in a circle with the leader in the center.
The leader points to a player and calls out a figure. That player, plus the two players on either side of him or her, rushes to make the shape of that figure before the leader counts three.
For example, if the leader calls "Elephant one-two-three," the player pointed to makes a long trunk with one arm, while the people on either side each form an ear in a "C" shape.
If any of the three people fail to get into position by the time the leader counts to three, that player sits down until another player misses then they can rejoin the game.
Teach a few basic positions/shapes such as Elephant, Toaster and Palm tree so players understand the concept.
Besides shapes, the center player can also point to a player and call "Donkey one‐two‐three", then the player says 'Hee-Haw'. If the leader calls 'Donut' that simply means to freeze in place making an O shape with their mouth.
Once the basic game is understood by all players announce you will be adding shapes/poses the players will create. Have the players create a three person shape to represent the vocabulary word.
Once students create the three person image, be sure to carefully reflect on each image.
Play the game adding in the new poses/shapes by having each group teach the pose/shape for their vocabulary word to the entire group.


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Hotel Schaepkens van St. Fijt is een van de oudste en grootste hotels in Valkenburg aan de Geul in de Nederlandse provincie Limburg. Het hotel ligt langs de Nieuweweg naar het centrum van Valkenburg, op loopafstand van het trein- en busstation van Valkenburg.

Historie
Hotel Schaepkens van St. Fijt is door Familie Schaepkens van St Fijt geopend op 1 maart 1885. Het gebouw bestond in de jaren 1880 deels uit steen en uit hout. Het dak was grotendeels voorzien van dakpannen maar de "Schaepskooi" had een rieten dak. Deze luxe bar was eerst een schaapstal en kreeg daarom de naam "Schaepskooi". Het hotel ligt langs de Nieuweweg die destijds een harde zandweg was met aan beide kanten grote eiken. Het hotel was alleen toegankelijk via een lange oprijlaan tussen deze grote bomen. Rondom het hotel lag een grote tuin met voldoende zitgelegenheid die ook binnenshuis te vinden was. Er werden vanuit het hotel ook reizen georganiseerd richting de Ardennen en de Eiffel met onder meer een eigen touringcar. Deze was zwart van kleur en had de naam van het hotel in witte letters erop vermeld.

Overname
Op 6 maart 1923 werd het hotel overgenomen door de familie Stevens en onderging het hotel meerdere veranderingen.  Vanaf 1955 ontwikkelde het hotel zich verder en organiseerde het jarenlang ieder jaar de horeca-beurs van het zuiden.  In 1972 is het hotel overgenomen door de familie Jaspers.

De brand
Rond de middag van 14 april 1977 ging op het Berkelplein en over het centrum de sirene. Voor de eerste brandweerauto die uitrukte was de melding niet duidelijk: er zou namelijk ergens op de Nieuweweg een schaapskooi in brand staan. Dit bleek het café/bar gedeelte te zijn van het oude hotel Schaepkens van St. Fijt. Een paar meter achter de Schaepskooi was een van de medewerkers bezig met het verbranden van oud papier en de vlammen werden een paar meter te hoog. Door een vleugje wind vatte het rieten dak al snel vlam. Bij aankomst van de eerste brandweerwagen was het al duidelijk dat dit een grote brand was. De gehele stal grenzend aan het hotelgedeelte stond al in brand. Alle materieel van de brandweer in Valkenburg werd ingezet, maar dat bleek al snel niet voldoende en daarom werden extra korpsen opgeroepen. De korpsen van Heerlen en Maastricht kwamen met 2 wagens en autoladders ter plaatse, maar helaas stond te weinig bluswater ter beschikking. De naastgelegen percelen konden gered worden, maar het complex ging geheel in vlammen op. De familie Jaspers schakelde zo snel mogelijk een architect in en er ontstonden plannen voor de heropbouw van Hotel Schaepkens van St. Fijt. In hoog tempo werden de plannen verwezenlijkt.

Heropening
Op 27 april 1978 werd het nieuwe hotel Schaepkens van St. Fijt heropend. Het hotel had bij de heropbouw een nieuwe  warmwatervoorziening door middel van zonnecollectoren laten installeren en was hiermee uniek in Nederland.

Externe links
 Officiële website
 Geschiedenis van het hotel

Hotel in Valkenburg aan de Geul

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The Caribbean Diaspora for Science, Technology and Innovation UK's (CADSTI-UK) hosted its inaugural fundraising luncheon at 3pm on Sunday 5th July 2015 at the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum (97 Cromwell Road, London, SW7 4DN) famed for its Caribbean buffet.
In attendance was the President, Barbadian, Professor Cardinal Warde, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The event provided attendees with an opportunity to network and to learn more about the work of CADSTI-UK and the Caribbean Science Foundation whilst enjoying great Caribbean food, drink and music by artistes such as Carrol Mapp, Sophia Mackay,Santiago, Jonathan Chase, and Ava Golding.
Guests had the chance to take home several great prizes during an auction and raffle in the afternoon. All proceeds from the event went towards sending a UK student to the Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering (SPISE) as well as supporting the STEM Coaching Club (see ) which assists young UK Caribbean people in studying STEM subjects at the GCSE level.


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The Florida Atlantic Owls are the college baseball team of Florida Atlantic University which plays its home games at FAU Baseball Stadium. The Owls' head coach is John McCormack.

Fielding its first team in 1981, the Florida Atlantic University baseball team has experienced frequent success, shared respect from other baseball teams nationwide and the building of a power in NCAA baseball.

As of the 2017 season, the Owls have had 19 consecutive winning seasons.  Additionally, the Owls have had only four losing seasons in 41 years of competition.

Overview and history
Florida Atlantic University's baseball program began in 1981 and has seen success, growth and change in its 41 seasons of competition.  Among the changes, the most noticeable to fans would be the change of the team name in 2005.  University President Frank T. Brogan led the charge for the university to create a unified, single mark for FAU's athletic programs.  The student-body decided "Owls" should be the athletic logo and in 2005, the baseball team lost its previous identity of "Blue Wave."  Over the 30 years of competition, FAU baseball has jumped from the NAIA, to NCAA Division II, to NCAA Division I competition, and has reached success on all levels.

Steve Traylor era: The beginning
Under its first coach and first year of competition, FAU won its inaugural game, 12–8, against St. Thomas University on February 23, 1981.  Steve Traylor coached FAU from 1981–1987 and oversaw the building of a program from scratch.  After only three years of existence, FAU jumped from the NAIA level to the NCAA Division II level.  If there was any doubts about this young program belonging on that level, its very first season would prove any doubters wrong.  The Blue Wave opened the 1984 season with a win against in-state super-power University of Florida Gators, 5–4.  FAU continued to win its first five games of the season, including another major upset, this time on the road at another in-state super-power, defeating University of Miami Hurricanes, 11–10.  The Blue Wave finished the 1984 season with a record of 40–15, ranked 8th in the nation in the final NCAA Division II poll.

Kevin Cooney era: Division I and national success
During the offseason between 1987 and 1988, Steve Traylor left Florida Atlantic to become the head coach at Duke University.  FAU hired Kevin Cooney, head coach of Montclair State University in New Jersey.  Since the hiring, FAU has won 61% of their games and transformed itself from a local power in South Florida to a national baseball program on the Division I level.  Coach Cooney arrived at FAU in 1988 and began his 20th season as head coach of the Owls on opening night of the 2007 season.  Given the success and unprecedented heights that Cooney has taken FAU baseball, "Florida Atlantic" and "Kevin Cooney" have become synonymous with one another.  Entering the 2007 season, Cooney has won 680 games (at FAU) and 820 (all-time, between FAU and Montclair State University, his alma mater and where he coached from 1984–1987).

In his 19+ seasons in Boca Raton, Cooney has established a powerhouse program at a university that continues to grow.  Cooney has led the charge for FAU baseball to enjoy such successes as, 67 athletes turning professional (with 4 reaching the majors).  For these accolades and so much more, Cooney was inducted into the Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

On March 15, 2006, against Columbia University, Cooney reached a personal milestone, coaching a team to his 800th career victory.

On Thursday, April 24, 2008, Cooney announced that the 2008 season would be his last season as head coach of the Owls.  Subsequently, on May 24, exactly a month after this announcement, Cooney coached his last game as FAU head coach when the Owls lost to Western Kentucky in the play-in championship game of the Sun Belt Conference Championship Tournament.

All-time consecutive wins record
During the improbable 1999 season, when FAU finished with a school-best record of 54–9, Cooney led his team to an NCAA all-time record for consecutive wins.  Starting February 19, in a 7–4 win over Bethune-Cookman College, the Blue Wave continued on to 34 consecutive wins.  The streak lasted all the way to April 17, when Jacksonville University topped FAU, 2–1.  The streak ended two days short of lasting two complete calendar months.

March to 800
Cooney's milestone wins:
1st: March 14, 1984 (Montclair State 5, Southern Illinois 0)
100th: May 6, 1986 (Montclair State 9, Glassboro State 1)
200th: April 28, 1989 (FAU 3, UCF 2)
300th: March 15, 1993 (FAU 4, Rowan 3)
400th: March 18, 1996 (FAU 6, Northeastern 2)
500th: March 13, 1999 (FAU 8, Troy 2)
600th: March 31, 2001 (FAU 4, Stanford 3)
700th: May 9, 2003 (FAU 12, Georgia Southern 2)
800th: March 15, 2006 (FAU 8, Columbia 7)

John McCormack era: Sooner than five years
On July 1, 2008, Florida Atlantic named 18-year Assistant Coach, John McCormack, as Cooney's successor.  McCormack served as Cooney's top assistant, associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the 18 seasons before being elevated as head coach.  With the foundation laid by Cooney, McCormack leads the Owls under intense pressure and high expectations. In 2019, John McCormack was inducted into the FAU Athletics Hall of Fame.

Individual records and honors

No-hitters
Tom Clark, 1982
Jim Hanrahan, 1984
Luis Merino, 1985
Jim Drancsak, 1986
John Sammon, 1994
Mickey Storey, 2006

FAU Baseball Hall of Fame
In 2006, Florida Atlantic University inducted the first class to its new FAU Baseball Hall of Fame.

All-Americans
17 players from FAU baseball have won recognition as "All-American": Keith Foley (1983), Mike Ryan (1984), Scott Hay (1986), Jack Penrod (1988), Todd Moser (1999), Dan Jackson (1999), Dickie Hart (1999), Randy Beam (2003), Jeff Fiorentino (2004), Mickey Storey (2005), Robbie Widlansky (2007), Mike McKenna (2008), Andy Mee (2010), Hugh Adams (2013), Brendon Sanger (2015), Rickey Santiago (2015), C.J. Chatham (2016).

Freshmen All-Americans
8 players from FAU baseball have won recognition as "Freshmen All-American": Kevin Connacher (1994), Rusty Brown (2001), Chris Pillsbury (2001), Jeff Fiorentino (2002), Derek Hutton (2002), Tim Mascia (2003), Mickey Storey (2005), Stephen Kerr (2014).

2005 Mickey Storey
In 2005, as a freshman pitcher for FAU, Mickey Storey was named Collegiate Baseball's National Freshman Pitcher of the Year.  Storey's stat line for his freshman season was one of the best posted by a pitcher in the nation.

Storey's 1.70 ERA is a school-record for a single-season, and ranked fifth in the nation for the 2005 season among pitchers on the Division I level.  His performance during the 2005 season awarded him an invitation to try out for the USA Baseball National Team.

Storey also took home numerous other awards that season, including All-American honors, Freshman All-American honors, All-Conference honors, and All-Conference Freshman honors.

2007 Robbie Widlansky
In 2007 Robbie Widlansky won the Sun Belt Conference batting title his senior season (.430 average; breaking the school's season record), and Sun Belt Player of the Year, NCAA All-American honors, and First-Team All-Conference honors.

Head coaches

Year by year records

Postseason records
Florida Atlantic is 22-25 all-time in NCAA Division I postseason history (22–23 all-time in NCAA Regionals and 0–2 in NCAA Super Regionals).

Professional Owls

Owls in the majors
Florida Atlantic Owls to reach Major League Baseball:
Tim Harikkala, pitcher (1995–2005)
Carmen Cali, pitcher (2005–2008)
Jeff Fiorentino, outfielder (2005–2008)
Tommy Murphy, outfielder (2006–2007)
Mike Crotta, pitcher (2011)
Jeff Beliveau, pitcher currently a free agent (2012–present)
Mickey Storey, pitcher (2012–2013)
R.J. Alvarez, pitcher currently a free agent (2014–present)
Ryan Garton, pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays (2016–2021)
Austin Gomber, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (2018, 2020-present)

See also
List of NCAA Division I baseball programs

Notes and references

External links

1981 establishments in Florida
Baseball teams established in 1981


Character, location, and lifestyle are all covered at this special property. 248 William Street has a sweeping view of the Mississippi River at the foot of the property. One of Carleton Place's early settlers chose this special location for a home in the late 1800s. The Victorian red brick home was likely built around 1900. Much of the character and attention to detail original to the house has been preserved. As an added bonus, the current owners have made the effort and taken great care to modernize the interior without losing the charm and attention to detail. The kitchen and bathrooms have been renovated with ample custom details. The kitchen is big enough for the whole family to gather. The two tier island has seating for four, note the custom details throughout this cheerful room. A back addition overlooks the river and is currently used as a family room. With a separate entrance to outside, this room can easily be converted for a home based business or riverside dining room. The laundry room and basement access are off this room. The formal living room also has views of the river and features much of the original trim and wonderfully high ceiling. The front room has served as both dining room and library with a window seat. A two piece powder room completes the main level.
The elegant stairs have been restored and improved. The top railing has been converted to a custom panel with cabinet doors on the hall side. Three lovely bedrooms all feature heritage charm. The master bedroom is complete with a closet area, chandelier, wardrobes included. The main bathroom has been recently renovated.
Outside features a deck and then terraces down to the river. The shoreline has been left natural to attract wildlife but a canoe or kayak is easily launched here. A short walk takes you to the big box stores in one direction and the restaurants and shops of Bridge Street in the other direction. A park is located just down the street and there are several schools a short distance away. It is only twenty minutes commute to Kanata. This is your home and resort all wrapped into one!


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Q: GestureDetector is not conforming to CustomPaint child properly I have a situation where I am using a CustomPaint to draw some interactable elements in Flutter Web.  The CustomPaint works just fine, but the GestureDetector does not adhere to the shifted left position of the CustomPaint.  The first screenshot is the raw paint, as the user would see it.  The CustomPaint repeats in 4 sets of 5 (Set 1, 0px left position, then increases by 20 each set, producing the gaps between sets).  However, this results in the second screenshot, where the final render has almost no interactable area where it would be expected, due to a cumulative 80 pixel shift left since the GestureDetector is not wrapping the CustomPaint at the rendered coordinates.  See the pictures below for a visual of the issue:
Image 1: Raw Render (No GestureDetector highlighting)

Image 2: Render with BoxDecoration overlay active showing GestureDetector interactable area

This is my first serious project in Flutter, so I'm a bit flummoxed here.  I know it's down to either a misunderstanding of a component or context, that or it's a matter of me doing this in a way that won't work, but as far as I can tell looking at the Flutter docs it should work (I've read up on Containers, GestureDetector, and CustomPaint for this issue), and it's clearly not.  I've tried various ways of nesting these widgets, and through that coupled with some box decoration rendering to check overlays, that's how I've narrowed this down to a matter of the GestureDetector not rendering with respect to the offset past that first set of 5 renders.  The relevant code block is below (it's the return function for the widgets Build method)  If there is any other code that could help with narrowing down a solution here, please let me know:
return Consumer<DashboardModel>(
      builder: (context,model,child) => GestureDetector(
            onTap: ()=>handleTap(),
            child: CustomPaint(
                size: Size(widget.paneWidth, widget.paneHeight),
                painter: WindowPainter(context, widget.posLeft, widget.posTop, widget.paneWidth, widget.paneHeight,customPaint),
                child: Container(
                  decoration: BoxDecoration(
                    color: Colors.amber,
                    border: Border.all(
                      color: Colors.red,
                      width: 8,
                    ),
                  ),
                  height: widget.paneHeight,
                  width: widget.paneWidth,
                )
            )
        ),
      );

Some questions I've looked at to see if they fit the description or could solve the issue include:

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*Flutter GestureDetector with CustomPaint not working (Hyper generic, and doesn't seem to be the issue I'm having looking at his code.  I can click perfectly fine within the bounds of the GestureDetector, it's just not adjusting for the positional offset)

*flutter CustomPaint and GestureDetector resize both to Image Size (ClipRect won't work here since it's not clipping I'm having an issue with, the GestureDetector is sizing right, just not positioning right)

*child customPaint can't click (This doesn't even have any real substance to it, so it was pretty much useless in this case. I can click perfectly fine, just not where I need to towards the right side of the render sets due to the positional offsetting)

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Fehrtown, Pennsylvania
How did Fehrtown, Pennsylvania get it's name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Fehrtown, Pennsylvania, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
A bygone settlement in southeastern Nockamixon Township on the road from Revere to Upper Black Eddy near St. Joseph's Church, Marienstein. It is named for the family of Fehr who had lived there, but has now become as extinct in that locality as the village itself. Few, if any, of the older inhabitants of the township remember the village. The name Marienstein was given to the district by the late Rev. Henry Stommel when St. Joseph's Church was established in 1873 as a mission of St. John's Church, Haycock.


JDR Metal Art creates customized driveway gates for horse lovers all across America.
Whether you're a "horseless" horse lover or you are with a large professional horse facility specializing in a specific breed or discipline…we have or will create the perfect horse themed entry gate for you.
Shown below are pictures of different horse themed silhouette gates we have custom designed and built for past gate clients who were equine enthusiasts.
Undoubtedly one of our most popular designs; we designed and plasma cut these Florida driveway entry gates to fit a 14′ opening. They are handcrafted with a rugged 2x2x1/8″ steel tubing frame and sheet metal silhouettes. Here they are shown after plasma cutting and polishing but before they were powder coated. Two sets of these were shipped out to the Diamond B Stables in Lake Worth, Florida.
8′ tall and 20′ wide plasma cut gate with horse design theme. The design is cut from 3/16″ steel sheet. 6×6 steel posts. Black powder coat finish.
Here is a dual swing gate we designed and fabricated for a California driveway entrance. Each panel is 7′ wide and 6′ tall. The gate design features three horses in a pasture. There is also a German Shepherd in the gate silhouette. Gates were painted black with acrylic urethane paint.
Steel dual swing gates with a ranch design and 6×6 square tubing posts. Gate brackets for Apollo gate openers were prewelded to the gates and posts for easy customer DIY installation.
This is a dual swing aluminum gate featuring equine design with copper powder coated finishshipped to customer in Los Angeles, California. It's a custom plasma cut design from 3/16″ thick aluminum sheet,welded into sharp corner square tubing with 3/16″ wall thickness. Installed by Perimeter Security in 2017.
These dual swing steel entry gates feature a mountain theme and custom lettering for Colorado customers. Two grazing Quarter horses. The gate opener brackets were welded in place to the back side of each gate and posts for easy customer DIY installation.
The plasma cut horse theme includes fence panel silhouettes and engraving.
These Lexington, Kentucky driveway gates feature decorative race horses and an oversize horse shoe split in the metal. The gate pickets are 3/4″ square tubing. The gate frame itself was powder coated with a protective zinc primer and then black powder coat. The decorative elements were powder coated with a chrome top coat and clear coat.
12′ single swing steel gate hung from brick columns near Louisville, Kentucky. The artistic metal horse and dog silhouettes in this gate are plasma cut from 1/8″ steel built into a heavy duty 2″ square tubing frame.
One of our popular choices. This particular one is a 14′ dual swing that was shipped to customer in South Carolina in 2017.
This decorative driveway gate is a 16′ residential single swing gate featuring metal art horse silhouettes welded to each side of the tree. It was custom designed and built in Ohio by JDR Metal Art and delivered to of our friends' beautiful new Missouri residence.
Here below is a picture of the same gate once it was hung from a steel post. The post was located behind large brick columns and supports the entire gate. The gate weighs about 400 lbs.
These Oklahoma City driveway gates and overhead sign were custom made for a residence near Oklahoma City. The rusty gate design was custom made to order. With a total of 8 animals, it's a busy scene. It features three paint horses and five dogs.
We plasma cut two of these 16′ single swing gates for our client; one went up at each entrance to the property. They are finished with a "rustic chic" muriatic acid wash that gives them an aged look overnight.
Custom dual swing horse/tree design for entry to southern California property. Design is 8′ tall in the center.
Here is an ornamental gated entrance project we delivered to a Sarasota, Florida residence. Four horses stand at a 3 board fence.
The horse silhouettes were cut from extra heavy duty 3/16 aluminum sheet. The gate frame is square tubing with 3/16″ thick walls. The top is arched and 6'4″ tall in the center.
Plasma cut aluminum gates better withstand the moisture-laden environment of central Florida than does steel. Aluminum is the same strength as steel but only about half the weight. Makes it easier on the openers.
Each gate panel was finished with two coats of "super durable" 60% gloss black powder coat.
Gates were delivered by JDR Metal Art and installed by a local gate opener company.
Design created to match mosiac in client's home.
The driveway gates look great..they were installed in Bradenton Area by Johnson Gate Openers. Photo by same.
Here is a custom designed dual swing with a miniature donkey, Fresian and Gypsy Vanner horsesstanding at a metal art fence. We really love how this gate turned out. The gates are 16′ wide overall. They were delivered from our shop in Columbus, Ohio to a home in North Carolina. They were mounted to stone columns by the client.
We can combine any and all breeds you may have into one overall gate design.
This was a fun project for the owners of a VRBO ranch in the Nashville, Tennessee area. We replaced two old entry gate panels with two new gate panels, installed the old openers to the new gates and also provided two side panels and an overhead sign which were installed by the owner.
This single swing farm gate was close to 14′ wide. It's 6′ tall in the center and arches down to 4'6″ on each end. The design is cut from super heavy duty 3/16″ A36 steel plate which makes the gate very strong. The frame is 2×2 tubing that has 3/16″ wall thickness . The design features a mare with her foal. There is also a saddle sitting on the fence. Customer installed Liftmaster LA500 gate opener.
We are quite familiar with many of the breeds of horses out there and have done many gate projects with horse designs including Quarter Horses (Reining, English & Western Pleasure, Cutting & Trail Horses, Etc.), Arabians, Standards and Thoroughbreds, Missouri Foxtrotters, Gypsy Vanners, Percherons, Tennessee Walkers, Paint Horses and others. No matter the breed or design you have in mind, JDR Metal Art is ready to help you get your gate project going ASAP!
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We work with horse folks from all over the country to help them create the perfect gates for their farm, ranch or equine facility.
Our horse gate designs are perfect for all horse lovers because we customize them to represent any breed or discipline. We work with hunter jumper facilities, dressage farms, reining horse facilities, pleasure horse farms, cutting horse ranches, show grounds and fairgrounds, veterinarian facilities, boarding stables, and anywhere else horse lovers are to be found.
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Our talented driveway gate designers are ready to create the perfect horse scene gate for your property. We pride ourselves on fast turnaround time and are committed to providing some of the most beautiful gates available. We work hard to give you a design that you will love to show off to all your neighbors!
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Q: Should developers be responsible for tests other than unit tests, if so which ones are the most common? I am currently working on a rather large project, and I have used JUnit and EasyMock to fairly extensively unit test functionality. I am now interested in what other types of testing I should worry about. As a developer is it my responsibility to worry about things like functional, or regression testing? Is there a good way to integrate these in a useable way in tools such as Maven/Ant/Gradle?  Are these better suited for a Tester or BA? Are there other useful types of testing that I am missing?

A: It is your responsibility to strive to deliver defect-free code. You should write, help write, or ensure tests get written or performed in order to give you confidence in the code you are delivering.
Note: I'm not saying you are required to deliver defect-free code. Rather, you should attempt to write the best code you can for the requirements you were given. Part of being able to do that means the code should be tested.
Whether that means you are personally responsible for functional and regression tests is mostly a function of how your company is organized. All of the highest skilled programmers I know don't ask themselves "is it my responsibility to write tests of type X?". Instead, they ask themselves "what must I do to make sure my code is properly tested?". The answer might be to write unit tests, or to add tests to the regression, or it might mean to talk to a QA professional and help them understand what tests need to be written. In all cases, however, it means that they care enough about the code they are writing to make sure it is properly tested.
Bottom line: you should be responsible for delivering high quality code. If that means you need to write some functional or regression tests, do it.

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Are there other useful types of testing that I am missing?

There is acceptance testing for which I'd recommend BDD-style frameworks which use Gherkin language: JBehave (Java), Cucumber (Ruby), Behat (PHP), etc. This type of testing has some advantages over unit tests:

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*Tests are easily readable by non-developers, so you can show them to customers

*Tests clearly describe business processes without going into implementation details (I don't mean implementation is not important - it sure is - but it's better when you separate business requirements from the code itself)

*Tests do things which users will do using your application

*They are easier to write (IMHO, may depend on the language and framework): no mocking, less technical details

A: Functional test can be automated just like unit tests, and are very useful for testing how the different components of your project work together, and how well your system reflects the business rules.
Also, this automated test, serves as regression and acceptance test suite for any major (or minor) changes you have to do to the software (bug fix, refactor, business change, new functionality, etc). This gives the developers a lot more confidence to do so.
There are several frameworks for this kind of testing, we are using fitnesse with very good results. Has a very good library for testing web pages (we use it for testing our web app and our web services) and it integrates very well with Maven and Jenkins.
We also used to do "cross functional testing", between developers, but this kind of testing is not "repeatable", so its usefulness is limited...

A: As a developer I consider myself to be responsible for unit testing all my code and guarantee to the best of my possibilities that it has no defect. That's why we have so much tools at our disposal such as mocking. The goal of creating mocking objects in your tests is exactly to try and isolate your code from the "outside" world and guarantee that it's working fine and if there's anything failing, "it's not your fault".
That being said, despite the fact that it's not your fault and that your code is working as it should, that doesn't mean you can't help in the rest of the tests. I believe it's also your responsibility to help and integrate your work on the work made by others. IT Development teams should work every time as a well oiled machine, working together with other departments (like QA) as a bigger team to provide reliable software.
But that's the work of a team, not only yours.

A: Obviously integration tests; they are more important and more difficult to write than unit tests. It's like building a house; with unit testing you only assure the fact that the bricks are solid and resist the pressure, temperature, humidity and other conditions. But you have no clue how the house looks and behaves with the bricks put together.
The problem with large projects, especially Java ones residing in a container is that integration testing is difficult. So to facilitate system integration tests in large projects, a testing framework is needed, made specially for the project, which is the developer's job to code it. Recently great improvements have been made in this area and platforms like Arquillian greatly simplify the writing of a testing framework (or even substitutes it).

A: This might help you:

Q1 are written by the developers.
Q2 are automated by the developers and written in collaboration with the business and/or testers.

A: In the real world you are only as responsible as your team / boss holds you accountable to be. If you are paid or indentured to toil endlessly to find every nook and cranny edge case and jump to the whim of your boss's (or worse marketing's) interpretation of business logic bugs, then by all means, you are responsible for all.
So in other words, do what is required by the scope given to you. Its a nice extra to throw in some common sense or see others use the product you are building to get a sense of use cases and possible issues to fix but bring this up to your team or boss prior to "fixing". This includes the tools of your choosing. All your efforts should be something everyone is on board with.
If your question is of useful bug tracking, I like bugzilla, google docs, zendesk or basecamp in terms of communication systems.

A: I don't think this has already been covered - sorry if I missed it.
One issue is the efficient use of a developers time.
Developers often lack the skills to be good at certain types of testing. Partly, this is just natural. It's the same reason why authors have editors. It's very difficult to see the deficiencies in something if you're too close to it. But it's also about different skill-sets and different specialties.
That being the case, a developer spending time testing is poor in cost:benefit terms. That developer would be more productive doing other things, and a specialist tester would be more productive doing the testing.
Of course that's making various assumptions that aren't necessarily valid. In a small company, for example, it may not make sense to employ people who specialise in testing. Though it may make more sense to employ extra support staff and have them do some testing, or at least to get people testing code that they didn't write themselves.

A: I believe it is our (a developer also) responsibility to encompass all possible test scenarios before it is released for QA. The purpose of QA is to validate the software. Plus, hammering your own code for errors will always make you look good come QA time.

A: Who better than a developer to know what test cases are the most relevant.
The developer should be responsible for doing all the  unit testing, where possible the developer should help to write and execute the testing scripts. Since this seldom possible in large projects time should be given for the developer to review all test cases. In addition the developer should have knowledge and use the wide variety of automated test tools available.
In my development career I find that projects end up with better outcomes were there is a tight integration between the development teams and the test teams.
at least one member from each team should sit in on the others planning and implementation meetings also.


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STEPHEN WONG CHUN HEI, The Islands of Kites, 2016, oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm. Courtesy Gallery Exit, Hong Kong.
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The landscapes captured in paint by Stephen Wong Chun Hei, who is an avid hiker and nature-lover, not only depict the idyllic beauty of the natural world, but augment it through the painter's imagination. "Daydream Travelogues," the artist's first solo exhibition at Gallery Exit in Hong Kong, comprises petite oil-on-canvas paintings, which are all 30-by-40 centimeters in dimension. Wong, who graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008 with a degree in Fine Arts, is a native of the city and is known for creating strangely familiar landscapes that embody the uncanny. Wong's fascination with the differences between actual, physical landscapes and painted, fictitious views have led to the amalgamation of realistic and imaginary natural sceneries in his works. Through impeccable depictions of foreground and vast skies, each of his paintings easily draws and guides the viewer's gaze through the entire image. All the paintings depict landscapes at a distanced vantage point, with a slightly distorted, fish-eye-lens-like view.
The exhibition is held in an industrial building with cold gray floors and sterile white walls, the starkness of which is in great juxtaposition with Wong's detailed and brightly-colored canvases. In The Island of Kites (2016), a little warf and light tower jut out from the lower edge of the island, connecting the water to the lusciously vegetative land. The trees on the isle open up to a sky full of colorful kites in shades of orange, blue, yellow, red and green, creating a loose, dome-like shape above the land. Though kites denote a festive atmosphere, the absence of people to fly the kites adds a layer of ambiguity: is the island uninhabited? Wispy, animated clouds float across the sky and a faint outline of a ship appears in the background. The silhouettes of other islands lie in the distance, all underneath a canopy of more kites.
STEPHEN WONG CHUN HEI, Detour, 2016, oil on canvas, 30 × 40 cm. Courtesy Gallery Exit, Hong Kong.
The image of the island continues in Detour (2016). This time, however, the island is in the form of a large, cement barrier that sits in the center of a roundabout. The structure, marred with stains of water from drainage pipes, provides a base for rocks, flora and a miniature forest to grow on its top surface. Orange trees reach up to the sky, which is dotted with puffy, cotton-like clouds. The choice to paint the trees the same bright orange as the rails that border the roundabout hint at the artificiality of this landscape. Wong's layered painting technique creates depth and contrast by partially overlapping the trees with hills in the background. Additionally, applying complementary colors, seen in both The Island of Kites and Detour, makes for a visually seductive composition.
Inspired by video-game landscapes, Wong's paintings give off an animated aesthetic. This can clearly be seen in A Bigger and A Smaller Landscape (2016), which showcases a path skimming around a mountain's edge on one side, while dropping off into the ocean on the other, and leading through a tunnel with a perspective similar to those that are seen in go-kart-racing video games. Within Wong's fantasy world, the relation between humans and the external environment is blurred. Because a video game is passive in nature, and the person who plays it is bound by the rules of the game, providing the player with an illusion of freedom enables Wong to investigate the idea of fictional landscapes and how it affects our lives in today's digital age.
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The New New Vansterdam
By Patrick Wagner
Husband-and-wife team bring modern conventions to one of Washington's first cannabis retail stores
What's old is new again as New Vansterdam, one of Washington's first adult-use cannabis stores to be licensed, has completed a massive remodel, effectively modernizing the store's shopping experience while also quadrupling its selection of products and more than tripling its retail floorspace.
Owners Rachel and James Bean reestablished the business to be what James calls "a grocery store for cannabis," with more than 3,500 different products clearly separated into departments.
"I think Vancouver is the most competitive market in Washington so we had to offer something additional that customers couldn't get at other stores," James says. "We wanted to offer the best selection, where other stores didn't have the space to carry it."
The remodel took the old New Vansterdam's dead space and made room for more than 3,500 products and a 3,300-square-foot sales floor.
Opening New Doors
The renovation took New Vansterdam from roughly 1,000 square feet of retail space to 3,300. The expanded floorplan includes new fixtures and vaulted ceilings, and the extra vertical space provided room to install 15 new 60-inch TVs to display electronic menus.
Commissioned artwork divides the store into individual departments, which was a focus for the Beans. In addition to flower, pre-rolls and edibles, New Vansterdam features new sections such as CBMD, the store's CBD department with more than 500 CBD SKUs, and The Gas Station, which houses all the oils and concentrates and a gargantuan selection of glass and accessories. Social media-worthy touches such as the vintage gas pump and neon "I got baked in Vancouver" sign help bring each department's theme to life.
"The idea is to transform people," James says. "They walk in and it's an experience. They are excited to be in the store. They take pictures, put them on Facebook and tell their friends where they went."
"I think one of the best compliments that I hear from our customers is that it feels homey, that it feels warm," Rachel adds. "It's not this sterile, feed-you-your-weed-out-of-a-window-and-off-you-go store."
On top of expanding New Vansterdam's selection of cannabis products, the Beans also revamped the shop's glass and accessories department.
"We quadrupled that as well," Rachel says. "We double as a head shop and a cannabis store."
The Old New Vansterdam
A photo of the original New Vansterdam's interior, circa 2017.
In the early stages of recreational marijuana sales in Washington, New Vansterdam, which opened for business in July 2014, was regularly one of the top 10 stores in revenue.
As local competition increased and neighboring Oregon legalized adult-use cannabis, the fervor quelled, and New Vansterdam, while still successful, shifted from being an attraction to simply another pot store.
That is, until James and Rachel became majority shareholders in the company.
Although nearby competitors include Main Street Marijuana, Washington's long-time leader in monthly sales, and the roughly 200 cannabis retailers just across the river in Portland, Oregon, James says the company has been steadily growing its customer base at a rate of 10% each month since the husband-and-wife team took over the business in March 2018.
"Just walking into it, I could see the potential, but I knew it was going to take a lot of work to get it done," he says.
The store has a prime location along one of the city's major roads, but structurally, the building had a few issues. The problem wasn't that the location was a check cashing business until the original owners of New Vansterdam adapted it for cannabis sales; it was that it looked like a check cashing facility that had been adapted for cannabis sales.
The original layout for New Vansterdam would have been perfect for a dispensary during Washington's medical cannabis era. It was secure. It had an ample space for a waiting room, and it was compartmentalized enough to accommodate for patient consultation rooms away from the main sales floor.
"It was kind of this weird serpentine floorplan," Rachel says.
In its original iteration, the store featured a 90-foot wall as an art gallery, which endeared the company to local artists, but also left 90 feet of potential selling space that didn't earn any money.
In short, New Vansterdam needed a makeover.
"After we bought it, we just went in and started knocking out walls," Rachel says.
"We took a chainsaw to it," James adds.
For New Vansterdam to remain open throughout the one-year remodel, owners James and Rachel Bean worked late nights during the store's off hours.
Overnight Remodel
Customers, whether they're shopping for cannabis or another other product, never enjoy hearing a chainsaw fire up while they are shopping, so James and Rachel decided to remodel the building at night. With James' background in retail consulting and buying, remodeling and selling homes, the couple decided to handle the remodel themselves.
For roughly a year, as the last customers of the day would leave the store at 11 p.m., James and Rachel would be walking in with construction equipment. James says they would work "as long as we could," each night until the business reopened at 8 a.m. the following day.
"We had to find a way to still make it a pleasant experience, to keep the staff happy, the budtenders happy and to keep it safe during an open environment," James says.
In short bursts, the couple would demolish a small section of the store's interior. They knocked down a large section of the second floor to make room for the vaulted ceilings and kept a small remaining portion of the second floor for inventory, accounting and staff. Although the store quadrupled its selection of products, Rachel and James decided early on to only buy smaller amounts of inventory, freeing up a lot of space and allowing them to control for buying trends and avoid costly buying mistakes.
The early hours of each morning were spent segregating the construction from the active retail floor and cleaning until the store was presentable. During business hours, translucent plastic would make temporary walls of the retail floor, inching in different directions throughout the course of the remodel.
"It's like working on an engine while it's still running," James says.
The remodel is still a work in progress with ongoing smaller alterations to décor and the occasional new fixture. But the Beans say the new design will be carried into future New Vansterdam locations.
Altogether, Rachel estimates the store was closed for only about one day.
"It's been a really positive thing, not only for our staff but for our customers too," Rachel says.
Piece by piece, Rachel and James transformed New Vansterdam into one of the state's biggest cannabis retail stores with a competitive product selection and a design to carry the brand into the next decade. The countless nights the couple spent tearing down and rebuilding New Vansterdam was all worth it after seeing the increase in traffic and hearing praise from regular and returning customers.
"People were like, 'oh my gosh,'" Rachel says. "They can't believe it is the same store."
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Big Data is believed to be here to stay. The hype we see about it is not temporary. The fundamental technological change it applies to the universal business landscape is creating a root-level revolution just as what computers did when they first arrived to our offices. With abundance of easily available and cheap information or data to support critical decision-making, Big Data is now playing a core part of the daily operations of the corporate, including the world's most renowned brands such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon etc. Even smaller companies are now realizing the importance of Big Data for business.
Usage of available performance data to make business decisions is not a new concept, but has been there in practice for decades, though it had different forms. The major difference now that it has become more technology-intensive is that one can gather much more in-depth information about each and every element that is relevant to decision-making. Thanks to technology, the cost of data collection, storage, and processing is becoming cheaper day by day.
Demographics of customers such as location, age, gender etc.
Real-time inventory details through RFID (radio frequency identification) chips and other recognition methods.
Customer reviews of products and services or social media post and sharing of info.
Adding up multitude of data from all available resources, the size of the data-set to be recorded grows quickly in every second as more relevant features are gathered repeatedly over time.
Descriptive analytics is the method of using the available data to describe what is going on. The major objective of descriptive analytical methods is to interpret and present the information in easily understandable form. For example, Google Trends is a descriptive analytical tool, which can present to us particular term's popularity on the basis of geographical region and time.
Predictive analytics is the method of utilizing past data to predict/forecast the future trends. This is largely used in all types of industries and every aspects of a business.
Prescriptive analytics is a far advanced approach, which uses the past data and puts it into a decision making process to get actionable insights and recommendations.
Descriptive and predictive analytics methods require a human expert as an analytics manager who can assess and interpret the results, whereas prescriptive analytics will automate the decision-making process too.
As we have seen, traditional business analytics used data more descriptively. If you own a bakeshop, you always took the stocking decisions from the wholesale provider well in advance. For this, you would have been using historical sales data to observe the trends as 'higher sales during year end' to make a time-series forecast of future product demands.
Now, with the future prescriptive analytics approach, you can even perform an analytics on the available dataset to compute the order quantity of a particular product, which may optimize estimated revenue for a particular time period. It is not just limited to product-centric businesses, but a myriad of industries such as Information Technology, logistics, mechanical engineering, mining also make use of prescriptive analytics nowadays.
Adding to it, in the new age of Big Data analytics, your scope of data collection is not limited to just historical sales and demographic data, but you can also access data from various other avenues to supplement to the demand. With Big Data tools, the future is not uncertain, and becomes as simple as predicting the future of an apple falling off the tree. By recording a few key elements such as the velocity of the fall, weight of the object, and the current location, predicting the precise location of the falling apple two seconds later is very much possible. This is made easy by keeping the system simple.
While doing the volume task of comprehensive analytics, traditional analytics tools may fail due to the enormous size of data sets with the need for larger memory and slower computational speed. If the worse case, it is also possible that artificial relationships between the unknown features can be interpreted, and the prediction about future can be an overconfident one (also known as over-fitting).
Healthcare practices use electronic medical records (EHR) to identify patients with higher revisit risks.
Retail businesses like Walmart do targeted marketing by processing historical purchase data.
Agencies like Internal Revenue Service (IRS) use predictive algorithms in order to even out the fraud.
Various such predictive algorithms are coming out, and they are generically referred to as machine learning. These algorithms analyze the relationship between past, present, and future in light of the data metrics.
Descriptive and predictive analytics have been effectively deployed by making use of huge datasets to get optimum results. But prescriptive analytics, despite the help of technology tools like Big Data, is still at an early phase of development, and is mostly confined to the field of academic research.
With so many advantages being packed with it, how can you implement Big Data into your daily business operations? To implement it, the primary need is to do an assessment of your current analytical capabilities. If you only have very limited data collection and analytic tools, no need to worry as it is the situation with many of the organizations. You can still make use of small data analytics to generate a great value.
Shifting from small data to Big Data analytics or to advanced prescriptive analytics is much thicker to get through. This process requires highly skilled data scientists. A McKinsey report estimates that there will be shortage of about 180000 experts with a deeper analytical experience by year 2018, and about 1.5 million data-literate executives and managers in the United States. The technology giants as well as large investment banks will be intensively head hunting for skilled professionals, and very soon data scientist will be the most sought after job of the century.
To describe it in short, the more big data you get hold of, the more you can learn in depth about your business process in hand. Altogether, when it comes to business analytics, it is focused keenly on one core metric such as 'finances'. You can also find this point in majority of the online debt reviews as to how failure of proper business intelligence led to poor business performance, huge debts, and even bankruptcy.
Website analytics lets you see how your content is working among the users or how it is not working for the benefit of your business. There are several variables in this analysis such as your conversion rates, bounce rates, traffic, leads, and sales etc.
Operations analytics is another important matrix, which is a key indicator of the business performance as a whole. There can be various parameters involved in it such as time to the first response, amount of tasks done, error rates, volume of customer complaints etc.
The primary difference of Big Data from business analytics is that it involves machine processing more than the involvement of a human being. There are hundreds of cheap analytics tools and software packages available to users. Some are DataWrangler, Google Refine, Google Fusion Tables, Tableau Public, OpenHeatMap etc.
The primary principle when it comes to Big Data and data analysis is that the more you come in tune with your data in hand, the better insight you can get about your business problems, and find solutions for instant fix. Implementation of Big Data and devising a business analytics strategy are important business decisions to make, which should be always backed up with intensive research to identify data flows and follow data gathering and processing practices dedicatedly. If done relevantly, your data itself can work to your best benefits over a long run.
Author Bio: Barrack Diego is a data analytic specialist who is also working as a Big Data implementation consultant for many major corporate. Alongside, he is a financial expert too, providing services to a leading debt consolidation company while writing articles on many blogs and websites.


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"All the little things that you do every day may not mean much at the time, but over time they will add up and help you to become the leader that you want to be."
How I began my career:
My desire to help people and to protect the environment led me to pursue an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and a graduate degree in environmental engineering. My studies taught me how to make better and more efficient chemistries and to reduce and treat pollution. When I entered the work force in the late 1980s, I was excited to see that US-based multinationals were formalizing "first generation" Corporate Standards and Audit programs designed to keep workers safe and to protect the environment.
Since many of the engineering controls and treatment systems were expensive and challenging to operate and maintain, I started to think about greener chemistry alternatives for use in R&D. I am very proud of the work I have done over the years to influence large corporations to become healthier, safer and more sustainable. My interest in pollution prevention and greener chemistries ultimately led me to a product stewardship role at Teva.
Best professional advice:
My current manager helped me realize that a strong team could progress further than any of us could individually. He encouraged me to focus my energy on enabling others. I took the advice to heart and made deliberate steps to slow down and put more time into training my team to work independently.
Most rewarding experience at Teva:
We have experienced a lot of change and uncertainty at Teva, and in my business unit, which has made it very challenging to stay focused. Through constant open communication and collaboration, I worked hard to keep the team motivated and I am really proud to see them stay positive and sharply focused on driving our goals forward. It is in tough times when leaders rise and thrive, and I have witnessed some of my direct reports transform into exceptional leaders.
Biggest influence on my career:
A Scholar for Diversity Studies at Rutgers University impacted my career in the most positive and meaningful way. A thoughtful and intellectual person, he always made time to mentor and coach me and I was inspired by his compassionate and inclusive leadership.
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I took a very challenging job in the non-profit sector at a large scientific society in Washington D.C to pursue an aspirational goal which I was very passionate about: promoting and advancing use of green chemistry. My work fed my passion to serve others, but took me away from my family on a regular basis, which challenged my husband to manage the kids and household on his own during weekdays.
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Budget Friendly Birthday Party Ideas For Last Minute Planning!
Sometimes life gets busy and birthday party planning sneaks up on you leaving you not a lot of time to plan or book your favorite ideas. But keep your chin up, there are still plenty of ways to have a ton of fun even if it's a last minute ordeal. We've seen it all at Ontario Bakery and we want to share our top 5 tips with you today!
First of all, cut your guest list down to the people that mean the most to you. Not everyone has to be invited and that's ok. Less is sometimes more and even more fun because you get quality over quantity. One idea is to have your child invite one friend for however many years old they're turning. Or have them pick one to three of their closest play pals.
Next, keep it simple and either make your own cake or order one from us at Ontario Bakery. We love to help and keep the process simple and affordable. Going to a family owned business for these things always trumps a grocery store chain where you're more likely to not get what you were hoping for. Who has time for that?
Have your party at the park. Parks come complete with their own trash containers and entertainment features. If it's last minute, you may not be able to rent out a section, but you can always bring your own table and find a nice place in the shade.
On that note, make it a potluck or bbq. This way, each family can cater to their own picky eaters and food sensitivities and you won't have to over buy for wasted food.
Skip the party favors and focus on the party fun. Have relay races and water games that invite kids to participate rather than simply go home with trinkets that will likely just get tossed.
Have your child prepare ahead of time by getting creative and making a party banner at home. They'll love the creative freedom and being able to display it on their special day!
Party planning doesn't have to be the big ordeal it's made to be and in fact, it's far more fun when it's simple. Enjoy these tips and let us at Ontario Bakery know which ones you used to celebrate your special day!


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Charity Digital - helping charities do more with digital.
Charity Digital (registered as Charity Digital Trust – charity number 1133179) was established in 2001 to help other charities accelerate their missions using digital technology. Before its rebrand in July 2019, the organisation was called Tech Trust.
We partner with leading technology providers to deliver the UK's only software donation platform, Charity Digital Exchange. Our services improve digital awareness and access, connect charities to the digital expertise and talent they need, and raise the bar for digital skills and understanding for non-profit organisations of all kinds
To date, we've helped over 400,000 charity professionals learn about digital transformation through our media platform Charity Digital News, and a enabled a further 36,000 charities save almost £250 million on technology investments. Since 2002, our payment processing and fundraising services have provided income of over £300M for our charity customers, and an average of six million emails per month are sent through our bespoke charity email service.
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4G Launch Update
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Largely thanks to your input and help, we're on the home straight and are nearly ready to start exploring the world of 4G with you; we are currently on track to launch in early April. Before going any further, let's start with a big thank-you to everyone who gave feedback on the 4G landing page and the 4,600 of you who responded to the 4G survey.
We're excited, but we also know that launching 4G is only the start –the market and our offer will continue to evolve and we want to ensure you are shaping that journey every step of the way. In addition, we expect that the number of you with a 4G device will continue to grow from the relatively low levels we're at today, to around a quarter of all members by the end of the year.
With this in mind, our aims for the upcoming 4G launch are simple:
Maintain our value on 3G goodybags, which will continue to be the preferred option for the majority of members who are either not 4G ready or who told us in the 4G member survey that they prioritise a high data allowance over speed of connection.
Deliver a great value 4G offering at the price points which are important for our members – these were identified as £10-£15 in the 4G member survey.
Continue to improve during a 4G trial period by putting strong feedback processes in place with members to ensure that giffgaff are evolving in the right way as the 4G market grows.
For those of you who are not quite ready to make the switch to 4G, you will be pleased to know that the 3G goodybags will remain entirely unaffected by this change. Instead, three new 4G goodybags will be launched at £10, £12 and £15.
We feel that the £10 goodybag offers new members the best value at this price on the 4G market without going into longer term contracts and we will also introduce options at £12 and £15 for members who might want more data and minutes respectively. We've also done something special for existing members.
The first few months after launch feel like a unique opportunity to work with you to make sure that 4G on giffgaff evolves in the right way as the 4G market continues to grow. In addition, we know from 4G market research and the 4G member survey that many members are also keen to learn more about how 4G could benefit them.
For these reasons, we are launching a member only trial of 4G, which is open to anyone who joins giffgaff up to and including the day that we launch 4G. You will need a 4G ready device and a 4G SIM card to take part and you have from now until 2 months after the 4G launch to get signed up. If you want to change your 3G SIM to a 4G SIM, then find out how to do a SIM swap.
We want to make the trial as inclusive as possible, so for anyone who signs up, you'll be able to purchase 1GB, 500 minutes and unlimited texts on 4G for only £10 per month, which matches our 3G offer. Once you've signed up, you'll have access to this goodybag until 31st October 2014. Keep your eyes peeled for an email within the next couple of days and a newsfeed on Mygiffgaff inviting you to take part.
Of course, the real benefit comes from working together to improve 4G on giffgaff, so we will be asking trialists to complete a series of online surveys so that your opinions are heard and acted upon. Findings will be published and any resulting changes will also be shared. Of course, we will always do what we can to incorporate changes, but please bear in mind that there may be some suggestions which we simply cannot deliver – we will be as transparent as possible if this happens.
We really hope that as many of you as possible will sign up to our trial, but there are other ways to get your voice heard as well. Timo has kicked off a new goodybag review process which takes place every other month, so we will also be responding to your suggestions there and as always, we'd love for the 4G conversation to continue on our community page.
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Please leave all your comments and feedback in the official discussion/feedback thread on our Contribute board, right here:
http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Contribute/4G-Launch-Official-feedback-thread/td-p/12127982
As per Mark's post above, we will be contacting everyone directly through e-mail and/or newsfeed about signing up for 4G, so keep your eyes peeled for that.


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MILWAUKEE- Rep. Evan Goyke (D-Milwaukee) was honored recently by Progressive Community Health Centers in Milwaukee with the 2016 Community Health Center Friend Award in recognition of his work in the legislature to benefit Wisconsin Health Centers. The award is presented every two years at the end of the legislative session in recognition of efforts to improve access to primary medical, dental and behavioral health care in Wisconsin.
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She has written extensively on the social impact of technology, with her most recent book being Transcendent Parenting – Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Jun 9, 2016 9:30:00 AM
Effective Facebook Advertising Tips
Although you can find a fully-integrated advertising system on most of the social-networking platforms available today, Facebook is still a heavy favorite among the business world when it comes to reaching out to a wide, and engaged audience. Facebook advertising not only provides access to a very broad range of individuals, but it also reigns supreme in regards to insights, features, and crucial data.
Unfortunately, just because Facebook can be a great advertising platform doesn't mean that it's used effectively by all brands. A lot of companies end up wasting their advertising budget and throwing necessary resources down the drain because they don't understand how to use the techniques available to their advantage, or haven't got a strategy in place. Fortunately, all it takes to achieve success is a deeper knowledge of how Facebook advertising works, and an insight into what some of the best practices may be.
4 Benefits of Facebook Advertising
One of the many reasons why businesses have begun to use Facebook as a method of promoting their brand, is the fact that it has so many useful advertising features. Facebook advertisements give businesses a fantastic opportunity to develop and deliver customizable and budget-friendly promotional campaigns targeted specifically for a certain demographic.
Although it may not be as popular as Google AdWords right now, the truth is that Facebook advertising offers a number of unique features that can be incredibly useful for marketing purposes, and the development of brand awareness. After all, Facebook is by far one of the most popular websites on the internet, with an average monthly income of around 1.39 billion active users. Failing to reach out to such a wide audience could be a huge mistake for your business.
The following discusses some of the biggest benefits of Facebook advertising - and why you should get started today.
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4 Ways To Bring Facebook Advertising Into Your Media Buying Strategy
If you're part of a team that's responsible for promoting an online store, or you deal personally with a company's media buying strategy, then you'll know how difficult it can be to establish success online. Whatever you use as a marketing channel, it's never completely enough, as you always need to keep finding highly relevant sources of traffic, more conversions to meet with sales tactics, and new ways to increase repeated sales from previous customers.
Fortunately, adding Facebook advertising into your media buying strategy could be the solution that you've been searching for. Featuring over 1.39 billion active users every month, and the highest number of ecommerce orders generated through social media, advertising on Facebook offers a brand new range of opportunities when it comes to reaching out to a highly intimate and engaged audience.
Dec 17, 2015 8:30:00 AM
10 Significant Advertising Topics of 2015
Over the course of 2015, a number of important trends have emerged in the world of online advertising and digital development. From understanding ad viewability, banner fatigue, and dynamic ads, to making use of new concepts like mobile advertising, video, and social media, every brand is constantly on the search for new ways of making their particular product or service more appealing to the masses.
In the world of marketing, online advertising is always going to be an essential way to improve your brand presence, get your voice heard, and enhance conversions, but in order to stay ahead of competitors, it's crucial that you know the latest tactics and trends in place. For instance, do you know how to utilize retargeting and behavioral targeting as a way of reaching out to your audience on a more personal level? Do you understand the risks that you face with advertising online, and how to fight back against threats like click fraud?
As we approach the New Year, now is the perfect time to cover some of the most significant advertising elements that continue to be in play, so that you can start your upcoming campaign with support from the latest, and most relevant information.
Dec 8, 2015 9:00:00 AM
5 Steps to Improve Your Facebook Advertising Campaign
No matter how you feel about the prospect of using social media advertising in your current campaign, it's impossible to ignore the fact that Facebook advertising can be an effective way of delivering more actionable traffic towards your website, through the use of specifically targeted media. On average, Facebook has a significantly larger amount of data contained about each of the people who use it than sources such as AdWords or Twitter. Alongside knowing where your target market lives, Facebook also knows how old they are, who their friends are, and what they're interested in.
If you're already using a Facebook Promotional Campaign as part of your advertising strategy, and you're not getting the results that you've been hoping for, then there are some methods you could use to boost your campaign and hopefully re-direct your efforts towards the right results. Here are five steps to improving your Facebook Advertising Campaign.
Aug 20, 2015 8:30:00 AM
5 Myths About Facebook Advertising
Today, there are 1.49 billion active users on Facebook. With so many people around the world using this form of social media to connect with friends, discover new things, and expand their online reach - it's no surprise that businesses want to make the most out of a possible new resource. Facebook advertising provides companies with an effective way of reaching out to target audiences - but just like anything else online today, the concept comes with a number of worrisome myths.
How much do you really know about Facebook advertising? Here, we'll discuss 5 of the most common prevailing myths about this type of online advertising.
Jul 1, 2015 9:22:00 AM
What Is The Top Online Advertising Trend In 2015?
Quite simply, it's mobile advertising. The mobile advertising industry is growing far quicker than its desktop counterpart. It grew by 34% as opposed to 11%. Yet for many businesses, mobile advertising enjoys less advertising spend.
The fact is, consumers are looking at content on mobile devices all the time and most advertising platforms know that their users are much more likely to watch a video these days. And because video ads are often more powerful than static ads, there's a lot of potential profit out there for you.
Recent research shows that 55% of mobile data traffic now stems from video, aided by the likes of Facebook and Snapchat. For instance, Facebook alone enjoys an average of 4 billion daily video views – a staggering amount. And of those 4 billion views, 75% of them are seen on a mobile device. Mobile app Snapchat boasts of 2 billion video views every day. And this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.
Are You Seeing Less Of Your Facebook Ads On News Feeds?
Back in November last year, Facebook made some important changes to their platform; changes that affect lots of businesses. However, many companies aren't even aware of anything different.
Due to feedback from hundreds of thousands of people, Facebook have decided to alter what appears in a news feed. Research suggested that users wanted a reduction in the number of promotional posts showing up in their feeds.
What's interesting is that promotional posts are usually driven from pages that users have actually been to. But the fact is, people may head to a page to read or watch something specific, but that can be a very isolated experience. It's a bit like the fuss made over recommendation engines for the likes of Netflix and Lovefilm. Just because you've watched Sleepless in Seattle, it doesn't mean you want to watch a romcom every night of the week. Essentially, we're just talking about platforms delivering a more natural service.
5 Things You Must Know About Facebook Advertising
Why is Facebook Advertising so great? Well, mainly because most people have a Facebook account. Facebook still has the greatest number of members out of all the social media platforms and, crucially, the highest proportion of active users.
But there's more to it than that. Depending on which privacy settings have been set, advertisers can access a gold mine of information about you: everything from where you live to your favorite sports team. Now, we all know that a bespoke approach makes for the best advertising strategy, so armed with these details, you can segment your target audience like you wouldn't believe.
Facebook (via their ever-improving technology) continually strives to serve up relevant content. That in turn increases the chances of advertisers displaying an ad to an engaged user. But what else should be across? Here are 5 things we think are vitally important before embarking on any Facebook Advertising campaign.
An introduction To Facebook Products Ads
Social networking giant Facebook is hoping to attract more digital advertisers with its latest ad unit, 'Product Ads,' that's been designed to help retailers target their ads more effectively to its estimated 1.39 billion monthly users. 'Product Ads' will allow users to upload their entire catalog of products onto the site and target different users with specific products. The products will be selected based on the user's profile, interests and browsing behavior.
The move reflects Facebook's desire to prove that its estimated 1.39 billion members are good for more than just "likes", as it enters intothe lucrative product-listing ad market, currently dominated by Google Shopping Ads.
So, what is Facebook proposing with Product Ads and how does it work?