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Aviation Apps
With the iPad so ideally suited to aviation, we examine today's top apps
By Marc C. Lee Updated February 6, 2016 Save Article
It's hard to believe that the iPad was introduced just in 2010. With an estimated 60 million iPads sold since Apple introduced it two years ago, no other device in history has influenced our world the way this clean little tablet computer has. And it has changed aviation in ways that surpass even the introduction of GPS to cockpits in the mid-1990s. In a recent announcement, United Airlines said they would begin rolling out iPads to all their pilots, realizing not only the advantages of broadband communication and some amazing aviation apps, but also saving money on fuel by not carrying reams of paper charts, approach plates and other paperwork. In aviation, the iPad is here to stay. The iPad has evolved quickly, and so have the apps that run on it. The apps that were hot in aviation yesterday may not be the best anymore. With such a fast- morphing computing landscape, we at Plane & Pilot wanted to examine 15 apps that all pilots should consider. Some are old friends that have been updated with new capabilities, and some are new to the iPad world.
AeroWeather
www.aeroweather.ch
Yes, it's true that many aviation apps for the iPad have some kind of built-in weather information. The reason AeroWeather makes it to our list is because it has the clearest and most intuitive display format of all the dedicated weather apps. One glance allows you to look at weather from multiple stations at once. And the decoded TAFs are simply beautiful to look at. So many apps have great functionality but poor graphical presentation. With AeroWeather, much time was spent making the graphical interface just right, and it works flawlessly. Though the "Lite" version is free, the AeroWeather Pro ($3.99, one-time) adds webcam displays from nearby airports, NOTAMs, user-added comments for each station, email and print capability, Twitter and Facebook sharing, and an automatic "Nearby" feature that always shows weather in your area.
ASA FAR/AIM
www.asa2fly.com
Neither sexy nor flashy, ASA's FAR/AIM app for the iPad is the best $9.99 pilots will ever spend. How many times have you been sitting somewhere and had a question about an FAA reg or something to do with airspace or pilot communication? Instead of scouring through eight pages of useless Google hits, pilots can turn directly to the official source right from their iPad. The app includes searchable indexes to Titles 14 and 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 and 49 CFR), and the Airman's Information Manual (AIM). As of February of this year, the app also contains the Pilot/Controller Glossary. Free updates are included; $9.99.
Control Vision Anywhere Map
www.anywheremap.com
Anywhere Map has been turning heads with their portable navigators for several years now, and I've been awaiting their entry into the iPad market. I'm happy to report the app ($79.99/year) has kept the features that made their portable GPS units so successful. Leading the charge is Control Vision's patented "Cones of Safety" that show which airports are within glide range based on the glide ratio of your aircraft. The app's "Personal Digital Copilot" keeps track of ground obstacles, warning when they pose a threat. It issues reminders for fuel-tank changes, time to descend and other routine tasks. What sets this app apart is its clean look and ease of use—especially its touch screen. Also, they don't charge for georeferenced charts.
Enflight
www.enflight.com
While some of the bigger iPad app makers are offering increasingly complex apps that do everything, some developers like Enflight are concentrating on focused features. Their product ($149.99/year) is designed for flight planning without distracting bells and whistles. The result is a clean and elegant app for the iPad. What's different about Enflight is its depiction of your planned route. It uses "TAF Spirals" to visually show what the weather is forecast to do along your route. Using different colors, the "spiral" changes with the TAF forecast time. Pilots can intuitively see how the weather will change. Also unique, the colors are based on your personal minimums, which you set up in the app. With Enflight you can get a complete weather briefing, and one of the app's strengths is its high-resolution winds-aloft modeling and RAIM analysis. You can then download your flight plan to your handheld GPS device.
FltPlan
www.fltplan.com
FltPlan for iPad makes it onto our list because it's the best free aviation app out there that has this many features. Still one of aviation's best kept secrets, this free app continues to improve with an even better user interface, faster performance and more features—like the ability to draw on charts and plates. It's a full-featured flight-planning tool that allows pilots to input VFR or IFR routes, displaying all the information needed to manage the flight. FltPlan includes complete weather briefings with radar, flight tracking, approach plates, high and low jet charts and sectional chart downloads, digital A/FD manager and nav logs. The app works in conjunction with the FltPlan.com website, though no internet connection is needed to use the app. The website allows pilots to easily transfer flight-plan routes, NavLogs and Weather briefing to or from the iPad for offline viewing. With the iPad's GPS, pilots can watch their aircraft's progress overlaid on different charts.
Flight Guide iEFB
www.flightguide.com
Airguide Publications has been publishing their Flight Guide for over 50 years, and it has become a staple in general aviation. With the launch of version 4.2 of their Flight Guide iEFB app for iPad (Pro-Plus subscription is $19.99/month, yearly discounts available), a slew of new features is introduced. Flight Guide now includes data on nearly 5,000 airports, compared to the 3,000 most providers have, and they're georeferenced. Version 4.2 adds NEXRAD overlay on planning charts and wireless integration with Garmin's new Guardian panel-mount GPS. Features include Civil Air Patrol gridded charts, Class B, C and D airspace graphics, and "panel" versions of
charts—including legends, VFR corridors, etc. iEFB is based on a rich airport database depicting non-standard patterns, overrun lengths, runway lights and much more. Real-time traffic alerts are available with the Zaon PCAS XRX receiver and a wireless GPS unit like Flight Guide's own FLY-Wi.
www.foreflight.com
ForeFlight ($79.99/year for Basic; $149.99 for Pro) keeps getting better with the announcement of two major new features. The first is rich support for external documents. It allows pilots to integrate a reference library of everything from checklists to complete A/FD documents into ForeFlight, with an easy way to store, find and manage those documents. The enhancement includes a document viewer that allows quick switching between Document view and other ForeFlight functions without changing apps, and an easy way to import any kind of document. ForeFlight's second enhancement was the talk of Sun 'n Fun. "Stratus" is a collaborative effort between ForeFlight, Sporty's Pilot Shop and avionics software developer Appareo Systems. Stratus is a portable receiver that wirelessly streams NEXRAD radar, text weather, TFRs and GPS position to ForeFlight on your iPad without a monthly subscription. Pilots place the postcard-sized receiver on their glare shield, connect to their iPad via WiFi (it supports connection to multiple iPads) and they have a load of weather information directly in ForeFlight without any wires.
Garmin Pilot
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Garmin has entirely rethought their popular Pilot MyCast iPad application, complete with a new name and a lot more utility. Though it will still feel familiar to MyCast users, Garmin's new "Pilot" app ($99.99/year for base app) has powerful new features, including preflight planning with fuel pricing, eye-catching layouts that better match Garmin's other systems, a touch-screen menu based on its higher-end navigators and better screen flow. In the air, the unit will display comprehensive weather information from U.S. and Canada, including NEXRAD radar, METARs, TAFs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, PIREPs, visible and infrared clouds, NOTAMs, winds aloft, TFRs and lightning data by wirelessly connecting to XM WX Satellite Weather through the Baron Mobile Link paired with a satellite weather receiver (not included). Pilot lets users input their flight plan then view it on the moving map. Pilots can overlay weather and text-based "weather widgets" that show more data, and can pinch-to-zoom or pan across the entire route with NAV-TRACK. Pilots can also navigate with Garmin's patented Panel Page, a GPS-derived, graphical HSI directional display. The app interfaces with DTC DUAT and CSC DUATS so pilots can do block-to-block planning and filing. Garmin's Pilot is available in the iTunes app store with a free 30-day trial and works on iOS and Android-based devices.
Jeppesen Mobile TC
www.jeppesen.com/jeppesen-mobile-tc
Jeppesen has a long history in aviation and continues that with iPad innovation to match their professional image. Jeppesen recently announced that they had completed rapid-decompression testing on the third-generation iPad as part of a program to persuade the FAA to certify the iPad as an approved EFB for use in professional cockpits. The FAA cited Jeppesen's newest Mobile TC (terminal charts) iPad app as a model for seeking certification, and allows the operator to use the iPad with the Mobile TC App as the sole reference for electronic charts, even during taxi, takeoff and landing. Jeppesen's Mobile TC chart viewer displays approach plate charts, terminal procedures, airway manual and airport diagrams, with more information coming on future releases. Jeppesen also announced enhancements to its Mobile Flite Deck app for the iPad (app is free; chart subscription varies by region). The app features new route-planning features including waypoint "rubber banding," and lock-screen capability to prevent data loss from accidental screen touches. Improved app symbols and faster performance were also announced.
King Schools
www.kingschools.com
When it comes to world-renowned ground-school courses, John and Martha King are recognized for quality and results. We're pleased to see that King Schools is making their excellent courses available for the iPad. Users can purchase any online King course, then download an app called iSwifter from the iTunes store and view any King course (the download is required because King courses use Flash for animation, which isn't supported by native iOS on the iPad). Now, King Schools is offering iPad-ready courses directly from iTunes without requiring any additional download. Plus, they're being offered for only $29.99, even for the excellent "Pilot Communications" course.
Logbook Pro
www.nc-software.com
Maybe like me you have an iPad, but your main computing platform is Windows. While LogTen Pro runs on Apple devices, Logbook Pro works with the iPad and Windows PCs and laptops. Also, this iPad app (it also supports Android and other mobile devices) is free. The PC software has a one-time cost of $69.95 (no subscription). Another thing unique to Logbook Pro is its use of "the cloud" for syncing data from one device across others, and for backing up your data. This option eliminates having to sync-up your devices using a wireless network and uploading data. When you make an entry, it updates to the cloud, allowing multiple devices to sync at any time. It also backs up your logbook data to the cloud, allowing access from anywhere, even after a device crash or theft. Logbook Pro is also infinitely customizable, tracks certificates, ratings, medicals and BFRs, and can import airline schedules. You can share flights in Twitter and Facebook, and it's even Windows 7 compatible.
LogTen Pro
www.coradine.com/logten-pro
While many applications are useful and full of features, some also are fun to use; and LogTen Pro ($99.99) is one of them. Easily one of the electronic logbook's strongest features is its extreme reporting capability. With more than 80 built-in reports, I spent hours slicing and dicing my flight time into countless groups and sub-categories. Plus, the canned stuff is beautiful to look at, with graphs for duty limits so professional flight crews can see and examine past, present and future schedules for excessive hours. The many features and displays can be customized to any level, and the software gets to know the fields you use, hiding what you don't need. It makes LogTen easy to use and very useful. The app's newest feature is its digital signature box. This allows instructors to sign their students' logbook entries with their finger directly on the iPhone or iPad. LogTen Pro syncs to Macs, iPhones or iPads wirelessly, so pilots can keep track of their time on almost any device.
Sporty's "Learn To Fly"
www.sportys.com/PilotShop/product/17137
Sometimes an app comes around that's so useful you wonder why you didn't think of it first. Leave it to Sporty's to do that again with their Learn To Fly for the iPad ($249.99). The app includes everything from Sporty's famous Learn To Fly DVD and online courses, and leverages the iPad's gorgeous screen and portability to give student pilots real flexibility in learning. The app will run on your iPad and iPhone, and features 3D diagrams and award-winning video. In total, the app includes everything you need to become a private, sport or recreational pilot. Sporty's is so sure the course works that they'll refund your money in full if you don't pass all three tests after using the app.
Stenbock & Everson iChart
www.flightprep.com
A dedicated app for one task is sometimes better than an app that does many things. Such is the case with iChart from FlightPrep ($99.99/year chart subscription). Version 2.2 for the iPad is now available and has some great new features. iChart now includes GPS moving map on plates, charts and diagrams, along with seamless VFR and IFR charts for the lower 48 states and Alaska. It has easy to use "Favorites," "Nearest," and "Recent" functions, airport information, and a complete set of SIDs, STARs and Approach Procedures (IAPs).
WingX Pro7
www.hiltonsoftware.com
Along with ForeFlight and Garmin's Pilot, Hilton Software's WingX Pro7 ($99.95/year; Synthetic Vision is additional $99.95; georeferenced charts add $79.99/year) is part of aviation's holy iPad triumvirate. An app that seemingly does everything in the cockpit well, it deserves its place on any "best of" list for aviaion apps. Until a recent announcement from ForeFlight, WingX Pro7 was the only app that displayed free ADS-B weather (including NEXRAD) when paired with an external ADS-B receiver unit. WingX Pro7 also can connect wirelessly to the ZAON PCAS portable XRX traffic system to provide real-time display of traffic on its moving map. One feature that clearly differentiates WingX Pro7 is its Synthetic Vision. A five-ounce add-on unit called an AHRS-G mini (made by Levil Technology) adds pitch and bank info so the synthetic vision becomes a big attitude indicator. The resulting display is clear and crisp, and can be a lifesaver and a backup to good flight planning. The $750 AHRS mini connects to the iPad wirelessly. Of course, WingX Pro7 also includes goodies like VFR sectional and IFR charts, georeferenced approach charts, TFRs, fuel prices, dual moving maps and everything else a pilot could ever need.
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Memorial service held for fallen officer
An officer monitors the line to get into the lobby of James A. Rhodes arena.
By Grant Morgan, Writer
A viewing for Justin Winebrenner, 7-year City of Akron Police Department veteran and The University of Akron alumni, was held on Friday, Nov. 21, in UA's James A. Rhodes arena.
More than a week has passed since Akron resident Kenan Ivery allegedly shot Winebrenner while he was off-duty.
The shooting occurred around 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 16 at Papa Don's Pub, not far from UA main campus. Ivery came to the tavern and was asked to leave before coming back 15 minutes later with a gun. According to the Beacon Journal, it was not clear whether Ivery planned on shooting anyone.
Upon his return, Winebrenner and a few others interrupted Ivery at the door. Five people, including Winebrenner, were shot. He died 30 minutes later at Summa's Akron City Hospital.
Ivery was arrested in a field near the pub soon after the shooting. He plead not guilty and a court hearing has been set for Wednesday, Dec. 3.
Grave and solemn faces filled the lobby of Rhodes arena. Family, friends and fellow police officers attended, including those from other departments such as Copley, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Beach City and more.
City of Akron Police Chief, James Nice, had nothing but reverence for Winebrenner. He is remembered as sacrificing his life to save others, an act of supreme devotion which reflects his entire character.
"He was just the perfect cop—tough guy, strong guy, but gentle with people and victims…a gentle giant," said Chief Nice.
Winebrenner's funeral service was also held in the Rhodes arena on Saturday, Nov. 22. His casket was then escorted through the streets of downtown Akron by police officers, pausing at the police station along the way.
Police Chief Nice has plans for Akron in consequence of this tragedy.
"[Winebrenner's] father and I are using this as a springboard to try to advance firearm legislation. We want to make the streets safer for everyone," Nice said.

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Q: Use java lambda expressions I'm beginning with Java 8 and I was wondering if I can convert a loop with a try-catch clause, into a lambda function?
Below is the method code I would like to convert into:
for (File f: files) {
    JSONOject obj;
    try (FileWriter fw= new FileWriter("path.csv")) {
        obj= (JSONObject) parser.parse(new FileWriter(f));
        readOBJ(valueType,results,obj);
        results.put(day, new JobClass(day,work, time,description));
        Date d= results.keySet();
        Calendar c= Calendar.getinstance();
        c.setTime(d);
        Map<Date, JobClass> daysList= new HashMap<>();
        j.insertDaysList(results,c,fw,daysList);
        results.putAll(daysList);
        j.resSort(results,resDayList);
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        e.printStacktrace();
       }
}
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A: Assuming it's the files iteration you want to convert to a Stream, that can easily be done.  At the moment, your loop contents don't even throw uncaught exceptions, so there's no difficulty here (though I would suggest refactoring it into its own method first).

A: As lambda expressions in Java are just a means to conveniently provide implementations of single-abstract-method (SAM) interfaces as anonymous objects and the standard Stream interface offers the forEach() method for internal iteration, you can encapsulate pretty much everything you want to within your expression.
forEach(Consumer<? super T> action) expects you to provide it with an object of the Consumer interface, which need only have one method implementation consuming an object of any kind and returning no value.
So you simply put the code within your loop into the expression (or, as already proposed, transfer it into it's own method first) and you're done. The only thing you'll need to think about is how to treat your return statement, as it's not possible to return values from within the forEach() method (due to it being a so called "terminal" method of return type void). But you'll be able to pass your list into the lambda expression, modify your values in any way you see fit and keep working with it after the lambda is done, without any problem.
The try-catch-block does not affect the lambda expression itself. After all, the following two segments of code are equivalent:
List<String> someList = Arrays.asList("example", "of", "lambda", "code");

// lambda style
someList.stream().forEach( item -> {
  try {
    System.out.println(item.toString());
  } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
});

// anonymous object style
someList.stream().forEach(new Consumer<String>() {

  @Override
  public void accept(String s) {
    try {
      System.out.println(item.toString());
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

});

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Tucker Carlson warns: MS-13 gang 'a far greater threat to your life than ISIS'
Apr 15, 2017 Carlson, isis, MS-13 gang
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson made the argument Thursday night that the MS-13 criminal gang that has wreaked havoc on inner cities across the country poses "a far greater threat" to Americans than the Islamic State terrorist group.
Speaking on his eponymous TV news program, Mr. Carlson said the ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks in Orlando, San Bernardino and Chattanooga led to the deaths of 68 people, but that is "nothing compared" to the murders carried out by MS-13 members.
"That organization, a mostly immigrant street gang, is a far greater threat to your life than ISIS is. It's the numbers," he said in a clip posted by Breitbart.
Mr. Carlson mentioned several MS-13-related murders in New York that have popped up in the news recently, including the slaying of four young men this week in Central Islip and last month's double murder of two teenage girls in Brentwood. MS-13 is also suspected in the murders of three teenage boys whose skeletal remains were found last month in Brentwood. MS-13 gang
"But killing is not the end of the problem with MS-13. Its members have been caught running child prostitution rings, they've been contacted by Mexican drug cartels and paid to run torture operations, and of course, they engage in the usual extortion, drug trafficking and human smuggling," Mr. Carlson said.
"But unlike ISIS, MS-13 makes it hard to live in certain neighborhoods here in this country," he continued. "Also unlike ISIS, there are a lot of them. ISIS may have significant passive support in the U.S., and a lot of us suspect it does, but [the number of] true active ISIS members [is] pretty small, maybe a few hundred at most. MS-13, by contrast, has at least 6,000 members according to the government in this country. And they're supported by more than 30,000 abroad. Yes, abroad, because MS-13 is fundamentally a foreign threat."
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Though the Eighties hair band musical Rock of Ages has a very recognizable cast (Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta Jones, Paul Giamatti, Malin Ackerman, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin) the images we've seen show those people as unrecognizable, or at least well outside their normal image zone. There's that crazy Baldwin pic and now this image of Tom Cruise as rock star Stacee Jaxx. Check out the full, shirtless image from the Adam Shankman film after the jump.
The photo comes from TomCruise.com (via Movieline). Click on the image for a high res version.
Cruise's character, Stacee Jaxx, is a famous rock star who becomes involved with a fresh-off-the-bus girl (played by Julianne Hough) who gets chewed up and spit out by the '80s Los Angeles rock scene. With his shirt off, those tattoos, pants and jewelry, Cruise certainly looks the part.
Rock of Ages is set for release June 1, 2012.


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Chris Preddle has retired to a windy shoulder of the Pennines in West Yorkshire. Born in London in 1943, he was educated in South Africa and at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, where he was taught by Peter Levi. He read Medieval and Modern Greek at the University of Oxford. He worked in public libraries in London, Elgin and Kendal, and as a librarian for two child care charities, Barnardo's and Action for Children. He compiled a revised edition of the leading library classification of social welfare, the Bliss Bibliographic Classification (Class Q). In 2012 Chris was shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, and came second in the Stokestown and the Yorkshire poetry competitions. His poems have appeared in Irish Pages, Smartish Pace, and New Walk. His first collection was Bonobos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Biscuit Publishing, 2001). He is presently working on English versions of all Sappho's poems and fragments. Chris and his wife Jacqui have four grownup children between them and two grandchildren.
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Thomas Pinelli is director of product management for AmkaiCharts. He will be serving as a panelist for a session on " Trends in ASC Technology" at the 3rd Annual New York Metro ASC Symposium, scheduled for September 14.
Q: What do you see as some of the key trends in ASC technology?
Thomas Pinelli: Patient engagement is big right now. Whenever we provide demonstrations to ASCs, they talk about a desire to more effectively connect with patients and obtain history information at the patient's convenience, whether through the use of patient portals or mobile devices.
There is also a growing interest in using technology to provide patient teaching, such as electronically sending patients pre- and post-surgery instructions to supplement the printouts they are sending home with patients.
Physician recruitment and retention remains an important issue, and ASCs are leveraging technology to improve physician engagement and satisfaction. Technology that enables physicians to review and sign orders and review patient history from a mobile device or their homes through a secure connection help make the physicians' lives easier and increases their satisfaction with the ASC. But it's more than just giving physicians the technology — physicians need to want to use software versus having to use it.
Q: What's "next" in ASC technology?
TP: While EHR adoption is still low in the ASC market, those ASCs with EHRs now desire a communication platform that supports improved patient and physician engagement.
ASCs also want a solid quality improvement (QI) reporting module. The government is requiring more QI data, and ASCs are looking for solutions to more effectively gather, analyze, and report QI information. This will not only help them meet requirements and identify areas for improvement, but reduce man hours as well.
There is also a great deal of discussion about analytics and their current and future role in ASCs. ASC not only want to use analytics to drive financial performance, but also to improve patient care in areas such as normothermia and antibiotic timing, which ASCs have tracked for several years.
Q: Why do you think it is important for ASC leaders to stay atop trends in technology?
TP: If I was a manager of an ASC, I would want to find ways to work smarter, not harder. Technology has the potential to accomplish this goal. Leaders should be asking themselves — and their technology partners — how they can leverage technology to help with daily responsibilities.
For ASCs that are slow adopters of technology, they likely have employees who spend hours performing tasks like collating data, manually reporting QI, receiving histories and physicals and scanning them into a document system, and making sure chart packs are ready for the next day. These tasks are all necessary for an ASC to function, and the hours spent on them add up over time. ASC managers should know how to use technology to remove as much of the manual labor that still exists in their facilities.
That will be one of the focuses of my session at the New York Metro ASC event. These types of sessions, and ASC meetings in general, are not only informative but provide an opportunity for administrators and other ASC leaders tasked with running the business to learn ways to streamline operations, save money, and ultimately make their jobs easier.
Q: As a product manager, what do you strive to do to make sure AmkaiCharts evolves with the industry and evolving needs of your clients?
TP: I always keep an eye on industry developments. I'm looking at patient safety trends and regulatory mandates, analyzing what's coming down the pike from CMS, recommendations and guidelines from organizations like AORN and APIC, and standards changes from the accreditation organizations.
However, and more importantly, I engage with our clients on a regular basis to find out their pain points and likes. Client engagement is critical to be a successful product manager. If you're consistently going to your clients and learning about their needs, what keeps them up at night, and how you can leverage your technology to help them, then your solution is going to meet their needs long term.
When we're working on product design, the most important thing is to let the market dictate the design. We engage our users and have development partnerships with our ASCs. Whenever we have an idea, we speak with our clients to learn if what we are considering will help. It is only after those conversations that we will move ahead with developing a new feature.
If you're going to design systems for ASCs, you have to give ASCs a seat at the table for the design process.
To arrange a meeting with Tom at the 3rd Annual New York Metro ASC Symposium, email thomas.pinelli@amkai.com.


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<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\User;
use App\Link;
use App\Invited;
use Mail;
use Auth;
use Storage;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;

class EmailController extends Controller
{
    /**
    * verify the registered user's email, to give access to the user account
    * @param String $email
    * @param String $code
    */
    public function verifyRegistrationEmail($email, $code) {
        $user = User::where('email', $email)->first();
        if(count($user) > 0 && $user->confirmed == 0){
            $user->update(['confirmation_code' => $code, 'confirmed' => 1]);

            //insert email the first link/contact of the user
            $link = new Link();
            $link->user_id = $user->id;
            $link->link = $user->email;
            $link->caption = "email";
            $link->save();

            //create rating instance
            $rating = new Rating();
            $rating->user_id = $user->id;
            $rating->save();

            // create a directory for holding content for each user upon verification
            Storage::disk('public')->makeDirectory($user->id."-".$user->name);

            return redirect('/login')->with('success', 'Your email has been verified. You can now login');
        }

        $message = "This email has already been verified.
Please return back";
        return view('bounce', ['message' => $message]);
    }

    /**
    * resend the verification email to the newly registered user
    * @param String $email
    * @param String $name
    */
    public function resendVerificationEmail($email, $name){
      // resend verification email
      $confirmation_code = str_random(30);

      @Mail::send('auth.emails.verify', ['confirmation_code' => $confirmation_code, 'email' => $email], function($message) use ($name, $email) {
          $message->from('frukerickjeff@gmail.com', 'iPub');
          $message->to($email, $name)
                  ->subject('iPub. Verify your email address');
      });
      return redirect('/login')->with(['info' => 'Please verify your email. Click the link in the email sent to you', 'email' => $email, 'name' => $name]);
    }

    /**
     * an authenticated user can invite someone through email to follow his pubs on iPub
     * @param Request $request
     */
    public function invite(Request $request){
        $email = $request->email;
        $send = null;

        if(Auth::user()->profile_picture) {
            $imagePath = "/".Auth::user()->id."-".Auth::user()->name."/".Auth::user()->profile_picture;

            $send = @Mail::send('emails.invite', ['email' => $email, 'profilePicture' => Storage::disk('public')->get($imagePath)], function($message) use ($email){
                $message->from('frukerickjeff@gmail.com', 'iPub');
                $message->to($email)
                        ->subject('iPub. Invitation to Rate');
            });
        } else {
            $imagePath = "/"."anonymous.jpg";

            $send = @Mail::send('emails.invite', ['email' => $email, 'profilePicture' => Storage::disk('anonymous')->get($imagePath)], function($message) use ($email){
                $message->from('frukerickjeff@gmail.com', 'iPub');
                $message->to($email)
                        ->subject('iPub. Invitation to Rate');
            });
        }

        if($send){
            $alreadyInvited = Invited::where('user_id', Auth::user()->id)
                              ->where('email', $email)
                              ->first();

            if(!$alreadyInvited) {
                Invited::create(['user_id' => Auth::user()->id, 'email' => $email, 'accepted' => 0]);
            }

            return redirect('/account')->with('success', 'Your invitation has been successfully sent to '.$email);
        } else {
            return redirect('/account')->with('failure', 'Sending your invitation to'.$email." failed");
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Avoiding the Next Arctic Oil Disaster /
Avoiding the Next Arctic Oil Disaster
Fran Hunt
Twenty-three years ago, the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef and spilled over 11 million gallons of oil into the pristine waters and rich fishing grounds of Alaska's Prince William Sound. Contaminating 1,500 miles of Alaskan shoreline, it was the largest oil spill ever in U.S. waters until the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Valdez accident killed thousands of birds, sea otters, whales, and seals. Many more were later harmed by the leftover oil, which lowered reproductive rates, stunted growth, and contaminated the food chain. The economies of the fishing villages impacted by the spill have yet to fully recover. To this day, if you dig in one of the beaches of Prince William Sound, you can still find oil.
We can't afford to forget this tragic environmental disaster. Right now, oil companies are feeding fears of rising gas prices to boost their bottom line and support new efforts to drill in some of our most fragile habitats — including the Arctic's Chukchi and Beaufort seas, known as the Polar Bear Seas.
Exxon's Valdez disaster illustrated not only the risks of offshore drilling, but also the difficulty of cleaning up a spill in Arctic conditions. After weeks of effort and several failed attempts, Exxon only managed to clean up a small amount of the oil.
Two decades and many "advances in technology" later, BP was only able to clean up about 3 percent of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon debacle. Similarly, sub-zero temperatures, shifting ice floes, and storms with hurricane-force winds ensure that a spill in the Arctic today remains impossible to handle. Yet Shell is pushing forward with plans to drill in the Arctic waters as soon as this summer.
The Exxon and BP disasters had ruinous and enduring impacts, even though the industry had assured us that such incidents could be prevented. This should give pause to the Obama administration, which recently approved an oil-spill response plan for Shell's proposal to drill in the Arctic's Chukchi Sea. That approval puts Shell one step closer to drilling in the pristine Arctic waters of the Polar Bear Seas.
The nearest Coast Guard station to the area Shell wants to drill in is more than 1,000 miles away. There are also huge knowledge gaps in scientific understanding about life in the Arctic waters and the potential impacts of drilling. The Chukchi is the Arctic's westernmost sea. It supports approximately one-tenth of the world's remaining polar bear population and is an important migration route for endangered bowhead and beluga whales.
The Arctic is home to more than just rich scenery and stunning wildlife. For the indigenous Inupiat people, the region sustains a way of life. They rely on subsistence hunting on land and sea for caribou, moose, whales, walrus, seals, and ducks, as well as salmon and berries, for their food. Their traditional whaling practice dates back thousands of years and forms the center of their diet and culture.
Big Oil's dismal record for cleaning up after catastrophic spills belies its continued promises to take safety precautions. It continues to rely on unproven technology to reduce harm to irreplaceable the scenery and wildlife of the Polar Bear Seas.
We shouldn't entrust the future of one of our last great wild places, and the communities that rely on it for subsistence, to Big Oil. President Barack Obama should permanently protect the wonders of the Polar Bear Seas, instead of opening them to drilling that will only deepen our addiction to oil.


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We may think of the horizon as something mundane – Horizon is the name of a hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada, east of Assinoboia on Highway 13 – or glorious and firmamental, per Neil Armstrong, who said, of viewing the 'brilliant surface' of the world's edge from such great heights, 'I recommend it.' The place where sky meets land or water is a useful touchstone for escaping modernity's hall of mirrors, claustrophobic with #selfies and petty grievances enlarged beyond all proportion. In other words, thinking about horizons restores to us the dignity of distance, a bit of breathing room, and a damn fine view at the end of the day. Consider the humble dung beetle: Scientists only lately noticed that this insect family roll their little spheres in alignment with the glow of the Milky Way – a reference line as immense as can be imagined but so rarely noticed by modern humans. Even with the horizon we do register, writes the Chinese-American photographer Sze Tsung Leong, the range of the known can drift. 'The distances separating near from far, familiar from foreign, inside from outside, iconic from quotidian, extraordinary from mundane, picturesque from unsettling, are never constant.' How like an artist to 'complicate' such a seemingly straightforward thing, but it's indeed the tug of the new, the unforeseen and the unforeseeable, that quickens the pulse. The world is so very big, the future so elastic, and in the right frame of mind we can absorb these uncertainties with equanimity, curiosity, and hope.
On the trail of a 'barnstorming' African-American aviatrix.
Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license, was born into poverty in Texas, in 1892: a decade before the advent of human flight and less than thirty years since the end of American slavery. After training in France she returned home to the triumphant welcome of the black press, and the cold indifference of most others. A second European stint polished her stunt work, and allowed her to excel in the dangerous mélange of human and aerial acrobatics known as 'barnstorming', which had become an American craze. As did many contemporaries, 'Queen Bess' inevitably suffered a serious crash; but she continued to fly, thrilling crowds and inspiring a generation of airmen (and a few airwomen). However, a later accident proved fatal: a mechanic's wrench jammed her plane's gearbox and Coleman was thrown free in an earthward plummet. Looking for a clear, unhindered view of the landscape in advance of the next day's show, she had removed her seatbelt.
A pioneering electronic composer tempts a worthy interpreter away from Chopin.
A classically trained pianist born in South Korea, SooJin Anjou graduated from New York's Juilliard School in 2002, studied further in Budapest and Berlin, and displays the same joyful, fleet-fingered ease with Mozart and Chopin as she does with new works by contemporary composers Valentin Silvestrov and David Del Tredici. Recently she participated in a 'multi-sensory' culinary concert with the chef Joseph Rupp and debuted a recording of the complete piano works of Morton Subotnick. Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon, made with a Buchla modular synthesizer, was released in 1967 and included in the National Recording Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress in 2010. The album established him as a pioneer of electronic music, and he has found a worthy interpreter in Anjou.
The photography of Sze Tsung Leong is flat, but not shallow.
Sze Tsung Leong has cast himself far and wide to take pictures of horizon lines across the globe, foregrounding what is usually far in the background. In the straightforwardly titled series 'Horizons', which he began in 2001, the lines fall at exactly the same level in print after print. Placed side by side, the landscapes become jarringly contiguous, and one imagines a distant figure stepping straight out of the Seine into Venice. A lunar spit of land and water in Cuidrach, on the Isle of Skye, sits adjacent to a ribbon of river in Skeitharársandur, Iceland. Leong likes to shoot at shadowless noon or when the sky is overcast, and he is intrepid – to find the right angle on Cairo he once climbed to the top of the city's most venerable garbage heap.
A collection of winsome maps to chart the soul and counter vector-based perfection.
Our private compasses might seem identical, deposited by the long arm of Google right into our pockets. However, Katharine Harmon's collection of eccentric cartography, You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, reminds us that we can only ever guess which way is up. In one map inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Joyce Kozloff mixes media and forms to channel aspects of Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, while William Wegman's Vacationland layers vintage postcards into a fond map of sight-seeing spots. Fonder still: Two pastel-hued hearts, modelled after Victorian lithographs. The male heart features a 'Land of Living It Up' and a 'Memory of Mother Moat', the woman's a 'Monument of Hero Worship' in 'Love of Love Land'. Seeing romantic tropes where we expect ventricles renders the stereotypes rather more tongue-in-cheek. Neither fixed nor disinterested, the maps in You Are Here shape-shift, drift, and accumulate baggage depending on the perspective of their makers.
From the streets of Taipei to the ghostly voyeurism of a dream, video art for self-hypnotism.
In Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming's video Disappearing Landscape, a triptych of tracking shots presents a roving panorama that glides forward and backward through an upscale urban apartment before dissolving to a decaying approximation of that dwelling, then to the under-canopy of a tropical rainforest, then to a car chase through the boulevards of Taipei. The cameras then drift back through the now-familiar apartment to find an elderly man apparently practising Qi-Gong – or perhaps waltzing with a ghost? This work is an unlikely companion to Chiho Aoshima's hallucinatory animated video City Glow (2005), or a Tarkovsky composition freed from the weight of poetic intentions. Goang-Ming contrives to be a little cheeky even as he stirs and stills the imagination, dealing in tricky perceptual themes such as incremental change over time and the thousand unnatural shocks of our engagement with technology. He is a master of repetition with arresting differences.
Javier Marías tells The Paris Review of his work, his influences, and his page-a-day method.
When the Spanish writer Javier Marías was a boy, his mother lulled him to sleep by reading the Iliad. No surprise, then, that Homer is among those whose style he mimicked in his second novel, Voyage Along the Horizon (Travesía del horizonte). Published in 1973 when Marías was a precocious twenty-three, it involves an un-named narrator telling the layered tale of an unpublished novel about an expedition to Antarctica by a group of scientists, artists and writers intent on creative collaboration (the novel's dead author among them); the setting's elemental vastness is frequently obscured by more pressing concerns, such as kidnappings, murder, and duelling. Thirty-three years after its release, Marías asserted to The Paris Review that this early work was still in print because it was 'not autobiographical', 'not pretentious', not trying to do 'something unheard of or new', and because it was 'readable and fun'. Writers among us, please really do take note.
A stunning, chilly paradise in the Canadian Arctic.
A blank horizon is perhaps the most abstract visual entity we can encounter in nature, the more so because we tend to trust the misleading, perfectly level line of draughtsmen and artists. But find a place with enough empty space and you'll see the curvature. Then find a few points of reference and you'll get your bearings. In Sirmilik National Park, navigable horizons are both stark and richly differentiated: icebergs, mountains, glaciers, valleys, and red-rock hoodoo spires perched along the Arctic Cordillera, the fractured mountain ranges between Ellesmere Island and the Labrador Sea. The brief window for visiting falls between March and May, when fjords are still frozen and passable, and the sun, according to Inuit legend, is no longer weighed down beyond the edge of the land by the ice and lethargy of winter. For your personal Inuktitut phrasebook, two likely necessities are iqaluk (the toothsome Arctic char) and qiuliqtunga ('I am cold').
Basim Magdy probes the spaces between us, and within ourselves.
In 2016, Jeu de Paume's Satellite programme included the exhibition 'Our Ocean, Your Horizon' at CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. One of the works featured in this quartet of sound and video projects can still be seen until 29 January: Egyptian artist Basim Magdy's No Shooting Stars. Many of its video landscapes could almost be from Sirmilik, offering a similar reverie of solitude. Such resounding, open distances seem a natural progression for Magdy, who has often dealt with the gulfs between people, even those who might at first appear to be in each other's intimate foreground. In this context, his work seems to accord with Sze Tsung Leong's assertion that 'To drift towards the horizon implies approaching the outside, the unseen, the unknown, the foreign.' No matter the light years between stars, assemble enough of them and you have a galaxy; for humans this is a poignant metaphor, and for dung beetles it's an excellent compass.
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Fantôme's brewer, Dany Prignon, is a lively character who breaks all the rules when it comes to brewing with special ingredients. (How many other brewers have made a mushroom beer?) In fact, not all of his experiments are a success, but every beer is at least interesting and recall the early days of Belgian brewing.
Fantôme – a golden ale, 8% alcohol by volume, with a wonderfully musty and characterful aroma. "Absolutely gorgeous, complex summer refresher with enough interest to drink all year-round." (The Beers of Wallonia). Both authors give this beer a perfect 10. There are many drinkers out there who believe this is the "Nectar of the Gods." Certainly no other brewer makes beer like this, in Belgium or anywhere. How many beers of 8% plus offer such fresh fruitiness? A solid Belgian saison beer at its base, with an unusual overlay of fruitiness.
Fantôme de Noël – A very dark and entirely unique holiday seasonal beer, at a whopping 10% alcohol by volume. Reportedly spiced with honey, caramel, coriander, black pepper, and other secret ingredients. "[Another 10.] Beautifully warming with an amazing, almost overwhelming, depth of character" (The Beers of Wallonia). Lots of deep-roasted chocolate malt, but still fairly dry and spicy, with a hint of wild yeast sourness at the core.
Fantôme Seasonal Beers – The mysterious Fantôme brewer is always at work cooking up another unique beer, often using secret herbs, spices, and fruits to evoke the current season. The recipes are never the same from year to year. The Spring beers have been dark and very full-bodied, roasty and bittersweet. Summer has brought brisk, authoritative copper ales with refreshing hints of citric tartness. Fall beers have always been especially impressive, usually surprisingly lighter in body than the earlier seasonal beers, but strong in flavor with a tantalizing note of orange peel and perfect hop bite. The Winter beers are dark ruby red confections, with strong, malty flavors and are relatively straight-forward, without any notable trace of the phantom's usual trickery.
Fruity, complex saison beer from the Ardennes forest from a tiny farmhouse brewery very hard to find even in Belgium. 8% alc. by volume, with a wonderfully musty and characterful aroma.


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import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AuthHttpService } from '../auth-http/auth-http.service';
import { environment } from '../../environments/environment';
import * as io from 'socket.io-client';

import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';

import 'rxjs/add/operator/toPromise';

@Injectable()
export class DroneDataService {

  private baseUrl: string;
  private drones: any;
  private droneObserver: any;

  feed: any;

  constructor(private http: AuthHttpService) {
    this.baseUrl = environment.nodeApiURL;
    this.drones = [];
  }

  public createDrone(name: string, description: string, flying_time: string, location: any): Promise<any> {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/create`,
    { 'location' : location, 'name' : name, 'description': description, 'flying_time': flying_time})
        .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
        .toPromise();
  }

  public removeDrone(droneId: string, droneStatus: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/remove/${droneId}`, { 'status' : droneStatus })
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public getDroneFeed(): Observable<any> {
    const feedObservable = new Observable((observer) => {
        const token = localStorage.getItem('token').slice(4);
        this.feed = io(environment.feedURL, { 'query' : `token=${token}`});
        this.droneObserver = observer;

        this.feed.on('SOCK_FEED_UPDATE', (data) => {
          // console.log(data);
          this.drones = data;
          observer.next(this.drones);
        });

        return () => {
          this.feed.disconnect();
        };
    });

    return feedObservable;
  }

  public updateDroneWaypoints(droneId: string, waypoints: [any]) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/update/waypoints/${droneId}`, { 'waypoints': waypoints})
        .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
        .toPromise();
  }

  public takeOffDrone(droneId: string, waypoints: [any]) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/takeoff/${droneId}`, {'waypoints': waypoints})
           .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
           .toPromise();
  }

  public landDrone(droneId: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/land/${droneId}`, {})
              .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
              .toPromise();
  }

  public resumeFlight(droneId: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/resume/${droneId}`, {})
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public createGroup(name: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/groups/create`, { 'name' : name })
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public getGroups() {
    return this.http.get(`${this.baseUrl}/groups`)
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public addToGroup(groupId: string, drones: [string]) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/groups/${groupId}/add`, { 'drones' : drones })
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public removeFromGroup(groupId: string, droneId: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/groups/${groupId}/remove/${droneId}`, {})
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public removeGroup(groupId: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/groups/remove/${groupId}`, {})
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }

  public updateName(droneId: string, newName: string) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.baseUrl}/update/${droneId}`, { 'name' : newName })
               .pipe(map((res) => res.json()))
               .toPromise();
  }
}


Throughout history much has been written about life metaphorically in terms of colour and cloth, for instance: "the colour of life", "the intimate web of life", "the bond which binds all together". Our life is our own canvas, our own story metaphorically and physically, and I believe the canvas is our own unique weave. The stitches, textures and colours we introduce, represent the patterns we decide to weave. The structures formed, are all about us. When I meet a client and their story begins to unfold during counselling, I am given an overview of their journey. Each story/journey is so different, and when I treat them I find that I am able, through the energy connection, to help them resolve other pieces of their story from times long past.
We not only see colour, we: sense it, breath it, eat it, bath in it, feel it (blind people feel the vibrations of colour), live in it and wear it. We also draw on the energies contained within the colour of the cloth and cosmetic worn.
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Titanic Remembered
The Mayo News Weekly newspaper from County Mayo, West of Ireland
An Cailín Rua
County View
Hook in the west
Seán Rice
Football Podcast
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Calum Best visits Moy Davitts football team
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Calum Best was in Foxford last week for RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoir series
Ciara Galvin
IT was a rainy Monday evening and the sat nav was searching the dark Mayo skies for Foxford co-ordinates. Who would have thought the N5 was so confusing?
So what brings a young reporter to this part of the world anyway? A fresh loaf of O'Hara's finest? A G&T in Cruiser's perhaps? Some fly-fishing to pass a few hours?
Well, no actually. It was a chance to watch the Moy Davitts senior football team in training that persuaded this writer to cross the Moy.
That, and the opportunity to meet their new Celebrity Bainisteoir, the international playboy, Calum Best, who will be looking after the Moy Davitts lads for the new RTÉ television series which airs in September.
Negotiating the narrow road to the club's pitch, we get a sense that the locals are out to impress the new arrival (that's Calum, not this Mayo News reporter) and show their support. Red and white flags hang overhead and on arrival at 'Sraith Garbh' there's even talk of tea being made.
This well-appointed and neat and tidy ground will become a home away from home for the son of former Manchester United star, the late George Best, in the months ahead.
He may be best-known for his work as a model and reality TV star, but last Monday evening the 31 years-old pin-up was just one of the lads. One of the Moy Davitts lads.
Over the next ninety minutes there was no shortage of material to keep everybody entertained, on and off the field. "Dig in guys" said Calum at one stage. "Well, whatever ye do, don't dig up the pitch" chirped a club official.
"There's not too many men here," said another observer as he surveyed the noticeable and varied female contingent lining the outside of the pitch, armed with phones and cameras.
Meanwhile, the Celebrity Bainisteoir was keen to get stuck in. He informed the lads that they'd start with "a few laps" but one player playfully protested, "Ah no, I'm one of the older ones".
It was apparent from the get-go that this particular bronzed American meant business.
Later, when the session had ended, yours truly caught up with a breathless Calum Best as he strode off the pitch.
He looked every inch the manager, carrying a bag of bibs and cones with a whistle draped around his neck.
Introductions were brief, and a shaking of hands (a broken right hand from a cage-fighting accident meant he had to use his left) was followed by a cheeky wink (from him, of course) to break the ice.
He then assured us that he would be back for a chat after "speaking to the lads".
Being the consummate professional, Best stood for photos and signed autographs after ensuring he had taken down all the Moy Davitts' players details for future contact.
"I'm loving it, couldn't have got a better team," he told The Mayo News. "They are disciplined and I feel like we have already gelled together. The team are patient with me. I am nervous about it but I am getting good support from the community here."
The hard-working entrepreneur and aspiring businessman also spoke about his hectic schedule and jet-setting lifestyle, that includes acting classes four times a week, running his own furniture business, overseeing his underwear range, and keeping tabs on his three fragrances which are currently on the market.
All this, plus a range of other business ventures.
So, is that a no to a few pints in Cruiser's then?
"I've got to do it and if I could I would," smiled Best. "We have two more months of this and after it's all over I plan on going out with the lads."
EARLIER, those same lads from Bohola, Straide and Foxford had been put through their paces efficiently, zig-zagging around the field and carrying out various drills that had been devised by the rookie trainer.
Gary Dunleavy, the Chairman of Moy Davitts GAA club (aka 'the fixer' who kindly chaperoned The Mayo News at the training session) admitted that the new arrival had been doing his homework in preparation for the role.
"He's been doing his research and has gone to some of the Fulham Irish club training sessions in London, and he's spent some time with people in the club here too," explained Gary.
"A few lads have came back playing because of the whole thing which is great. And it's funny to see 50 and 60 people watching training. A few months back we'd be lucky if the lads themselves showed up," he smiled.
Speaking of showing up, Calum Best's mentor, the former Dublin footballer, Ciarán Whelan, surprised one and all with his impromptu attendance at the training session.
According to Moy Davitts captain, Seán Kelly, (a former Mayo minor and U-21 according to the lads in the Sports Department!), the arrival of Whelan 'stepped it up'.
"It's great to have Ciarán helping Calum out, he's been there and done it." said Seán.
He also told us that, earlier in the day, the Celebrity Bainisteoir and the TV crew had visited Kelly while he was coaching at a local GAA Cúl Camp near the town.
"We're delighted that Calum was chosen to take us on and, while we don't know what to expect from him, the biggest thing is that he's interested."
"Sport is in my life, it's in my blood," said Best himself. "I play soccer three times a week, but the problem is I don't know this game so well."
Because Moy Davitts have progressed to the quarter-finals of the Mayo Intermediate Championship, the senior players will be immersed in training two to three times a week, as well as their reality TV adventure.
"We've never seen crowds like this at training before," said Seán Kelly. "It's good for the community and we want people to continue to support us in the club games too."
Meanwhile, back on the pitch, Best's inexperience only became apparent when it came to a training game as the lothario searched the sideline for assistance to referee the match.
"Please somebody ref, I need help," he pleaded. "I don't even know the rules," he laughed but, having failed to recruit any volunteers, he took the reins himself.
No doubt Best will be up to speed with all the rules and regulations before Moy Davitts' opening game of the competition against Paddy Doherty's Clontarf side, Scoil Uí Chonaill, on August 19.
In a strange coincidence, both Calum and the 2011 Celebrity Big Brother winner, Paddy, have broken hands at the moment as a result of two very different activities.
Best said he's picked up his injury from cage fighting while Paddy suffered his break through much more ordinary circumstances — he fell off a horse.
Before we took our leave of Foxford, there was time for one quick question for the man of the moment.
Now that he's taken charge of Moy Davitts, does he think they can go and win the RTE series?
"Hell yeah, I wanna win this," he declared. "If we work hard and step it up we can do it."
On that note, I think Mr Best and Moy Davitts might just have gained an extra fan.
Now if only she can find her way home.
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Mary Ann Tobin is a former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, serving from 1976 to 1984.  She served as Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts from 1984 to 1988.  She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Early life and education
Mary Ann Tobin was born to Joseph Dalton Tobin Sr. and Mary Hulett (Broadbent) Tobin.  She had one brother, Joseph Dalton "Joe" Tobin, Jr., who was a regional businessman.

She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.  While at UK, she was named the first Ms. Keeneland in 1963.  She was also a member of Chi Omega sorority and Beta Alpha Psi honor society.

Political career

Kentucky House of Representatives
In 1975 Tobin was elected to be a member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives from the 18th District which comprised Breckinridge and Meade counties.  She served in the House from 1976 to 1984.  In her first race she defeated two other Democrats in the primaries (Lynn Thompson and Wade Glasscock) before she defeated Republican Henry Gibson in the general election (4,287 to 2,915 votes).  In 1977, she defeated Keenan O'Connell in the primary election and faced no organized candidate in the general election.  In 1979 she ran unopposed in both the primary and general elections.  In 1981 she defeated F. Wayne Moore in the primaries but again faced no opposition in the general election.  While in the House she served as Chair of the Capital Construction Oversight Committee as well as worked to update the state's judicial system, automobile title laws, and driver's license plan.

Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts
In 1983 she decided to campaign to be the Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts.  In the Democratic Party primary she beat out Jerry Lundergan, Ed W. Hancock, Tom Ray, Logan Turner, and Doris Faye with 143.836 votes.  Lundergan was the second place finisher with 77,419 votes.

In the general election she defeated Republican Ronald B. Halleck with 503,954 votes to Halleck's 280,331 votes.  She served in the position from 1984 until 1988.

As Auditor, she started a hotline to report fraud and established the Economy and Efficiency Audit Division as a way to try to stop waste in government.

Kentucky Senate campaign
She sat out of politics for several years but in 1992 she decided to run for the District 5 seat in the Kentucky State Senate.  She won the Democratic primary election which had seven candidates.  She lost the general election to Republican Virgil Moore by 2,590 votes.

2020 U.S. Senate campaign

Tobin filed paperwork to run in the Democratic primary in Kentucky's 2020 election for the U.S. Senate. Currently in the race, Tobin placed fourth behind Amy McGrath, Charles Booker, and Mike Broihier.

Business dealings
After leaving politics she focused on her family's, and personal, businesses.  She is the current co-owner of Broadbent Wildlife Sanctuary in Meade County.  She is a part owner of First State Bank located in Irvington, a co-owner of Brandenburg Telephone company, and owns a 3,300 acre farm.

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