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Community Links (Northern) Ltd is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales, no. 1657652. Charity Commission Registered No. 514779.
The organisation is overseen by a Board of Trustees.
Our parent organisation is Inspire North which has it's own Board of Trustees – information coming soon.
Fawzia Mir
Development Officer Fawzia has worked and volunteered in the third sector for over 30 years. She is currently Centre Coordinator at a Leeds-based community centre.
How or why did you end up being a Trustee at Community Links?
I was invited to join the Management Commitee following a recommendation from Donna Gooby who I had worked with previously.
What is the best thing about Community Links?
The way they always have the interest of the service user at the heart of everything they do.
Tell us a little about your career…
I have worked in a wide variety of roles in the voluntary & community sector, as well as undertaking volunteering and governance roles for over 30 years. I have been actively involved in community empowerment and racial justice work throughout this time. I was a founder member and Chair of Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange and WomenZone Community Centre, Bradford.
In addition to my current role as Centre Coordinator of a local Community Centre, I am also a freelance trainer & consultant.
One of my first jobs was as a Social Welfare Officer for Leeds City Council's Dept of Social Services, based at St. James's Hospital. I have also worked as the CEO of an employment law advice service, and have been a Non-Executive Director of the WY ambulance service. In addition to volunteering on CL's board I am also a volunteer befriender to a 96 year old who lives within my neighbourhood .
What are your particular areas of interest/specialisms?
I am particularly interested in community empowerment issues to create a more equal society where people's differences are respected and valued. My specialisms include empowering disengaged and disempowered individuals to articulate their needs and become engaged in issues that matter to them and impact on them. I also have a strong track record in fundraising.
What inspires/motivates you?
I am motivated to speak out against injustice and the need to play my small part in creating a fair and just world.
Tell us a little known fact about yourself
I climbed Penn y Ghent. I am a professional henna hand-painting artist. I also love Segway riding!
Anne Worrall-Davies
Anne has a vast amount of operational and strategic experience from within the NHS at local, regional and national level and now works in various advisory roles in the Health and Social Care sector.
I was looking for an opportunity to use my clinical experience across a wider operational and strategic footprint. I had worked with the Community Links aspire service clinically, and been impressed by the person-centred, recovery-oriented model of work. So when I saw the trustee role advertised, I jumped at the chance to join Community Links!
I have always been impressed by the enthusiasm of Community Links staff to deliver a person-centred service, and by how much everyone who works for the organization enjoys their work.
Tell us a little about your career...
I worked for 30 years in NHS mental health services, at local, regional and national level. I now hold a portfolio of varied and rewarding roles across the north of England including Clinical Lead for the West Yorkshire CAMHS New Care Model, Non-Executive Director with Future Directions CIC, Clinical Advisor to the Children & Young People's Mental Health Improvement Team of the Yorkshire & Humber Clinical Network, Specialist Advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and a Clinical Expert for Care and Treatment Reviews.
Ensuring that service users and carers' voices are heard, and their views and ideas incorporated into service from the planning stage and beyond. Working with teams to achieve regulatory standards. Young people's mental health. Working to abolish inequalities of access and treatment in mental health services.
As mum to a son with autism and a learning disability, I have experience of some fantastic services. But I know first-hand that when prejudices, bureaucracy and professional preciousness come first, instead of a person-centred approach, quality goes out of the window!
Lots of people know I love Italy and some know I have studied Italian at evening class. Most people don't know how I came to start learning a new language. I had postnatal depression after my second son was born, and my health visitor suggested that I found myself some 'me-time' - an early example of "social prescribing". I'd always wanted to learn Italian, so I "cashed in my social prescription" at Leeds City College.... and 17 years later... I'm not fluent but I can joke in Italian and swear at drivers on the Italian motorways!
Jacqueline Hallam
One of the newest additions to our Board, Jacqueline has spent many years in HR retail in several different countries. As well as being involved with Community Links, she also has other voluntary roles and is a Chartered Member of CIPD.
I have been a school governor/chair of governors for many years and wanted to contribute in another sector. I have recently decided to work part time and this has released more time for me to make the commitment being a trustee would require. I have a particular interest in health & wellbeing and Community Links was a good fit for this.
The organisation's commitment to place their clients' needs at the heart of everything they do.
I worked for 36 years in a variety of HR generalist and specialist roles for Marks & Spencer plc across the UK as well as in Dublin and Warsaw. Following a short career break I decided to return to the world of work and am currently a HR Business Partner for the Co-op.
I would say I am a highly skilled business leader used to working in fast paced, customer focussed environments. I am a strong decision maker, while being pragmatic and adaptable. I am particularly experienced in leading successful transformational change. I am a Chartered Member of CIPD and have a particular interest in workplace mediation and NLP. I am also a trustee for University of Derby Students Union.
I need to able to in a position where I can operate with honesty and integrity which are my core values. I have high personal standards and value this in others expecting 100% commitment. I need to feel I am making a difference and adding value, I want to be able to "give back" as not everyone is as fortunate to have the same experiences & opportunities. I want to support those that need it most and don't always feel they are being heard.
I am not a thrill seeker in the slightest but I do like to ride a jet ski and drive a power boat.
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"It was going to be cool."
Adds David Wali, Gardner's executive vice president: "How many times do you get to build the tallest building in the state? If you claim to build community, then sometimes you just do things to make the place better."
"Building community" is Gardner's slogan.
Clay Carley, a longtime Downtown Boise developer who owns much of the property near the corner of 6th and Main streets, says he looks at Downtown as a whole when he considers new projects. That helps him assess their potential profitability over the long run, instead of trying to make money right away.
"By adding to the neighborhood, I'm adding to the value of my other properties," Carley says. "So my perception of return on investment is probably different than an outside developer coming in, buying a single parcel that's his only project in Boise, and his only measure is that project. For me, the measure is my neighborhood. Every time I improve my neighborhood, I get a long-term value that's hard to calculate and quantify."
Making money matters, of course.Never let pride be the reason you take on a project, Treasure Valley developers say.
"Everything's got to work on the financial side or nothing works," says Jared Smith, a Boise native who plans to build a 10-story, 180-room hotel where Dunkley Music now stands on the southeast corner of Capitol Boulevard and Broad Street in Downtown Boise.
For Smith, the hotel project is a happy combination of homecoming and opportunity. He has worked on hotel projects much of his career, and he always wanted to do one in Boise. With Boise hotels' room occupancy and nightly rental rates soaring in recent years, Smith jumped at his chance.
Local Construct:
Urban homebuilders
The methods developers rely on when they do new projects varies as much as their favorite product types.
The Los Angeles-based developer Local Construct teamed with Carley to turn Downtown Boise's historic Owyhee Hotel into office space and apartments and plans to build a seven-story, 160-apartment building in Boise's Central Addition neighborhood on the west side of 5th Street between Myrtle and Broad streets.
The company starts every project with a simple question: "Why are we in the markets we're in?" co-founder Mike Brown says.
Brown says he and partner Casey Lynch found mostly positive signs in Boise's traditional market fundamentals. Those include job growth, housing growth, population growth and average median income. .
"People are moving here. People love living here," he says. "Every single person you talk to, for the most part, in Boise is basically a proselytizer for Boise. They're just very happy to live here. As a developer, that's a no-brainer. If you've got a place where that's going on, that's a market we'd like to be in."
LocalConstruct also examines less traditional criteria, such as Internet access, walkability scores, long-term water supply and how progressive the local governments are when it comes to planning, building and issuing permits for new projects. Downtown gets high scores, Brown says.
LocalConstruct is a numbers- and process-oriented firm. Before it moves forward, the company develops detailed pro formas – spreadsheets that calculate and compare every cost and expected return. The developers know how much land is likely to cost and how much they will spend on contractors, lawyers, accountants, local-impact fees, permit fees and recording fees. Brown says LocalConstruct calculates expenses as small as the expected cost of a telephone line in the manager's office of a new building and of planting flowers in spring.
He memorizes statistics like the local market's vacancy and lease rates. But as much as he finds comfort in the process, Brown acknowledges his way isn't the only way.
"I know people who invest totally with their own money who essentially shoot from the hip," he says. "I mean, they've been doing it long enough that they're pretty accurate shooting from the hip. They don't have a 10-page Excel model. And a lot of those guys are very successful."
Ron Van Auker: Industrialist
Ron Van Auker doesn't exactly shoot from the hip, but he's a lot less process-oriented than Brown.
"Generally, when we get short on space, we build more spec buildings," Van Auker says.
The co-owner of Meridian's Van Auker Cos. builds industrial space for manufacturers. His business owns, manages and leases more than 2 million square feet of office and industrial buildings in the Valley, including the Emerald Tech Center in Boise. It also owns ready-to-develop land in Meridian and Nampa.
Van Auker says he pays attention to broad indicators, such as average rental and vacancy rates for industrial space, though he doesn't put too much stock in them.
"The problem that most real estate people, particularly the real estate firms themselves, have is that they lump everything together," he says. "One of the distinctions people really should make when they come up with vacancy rates is, it's no different than office buildings. You have class C, class A and class B. Well, there's no reason that industrial space shouldn't be rated the same."
Clay Carley: Old Town
Carley's roots run deep in Downtown Boise. Downtown has the Carley family and forebears to thank for much of the way it looks today.
Before Carley got into development, his mother, Joan Carley, was buying some of Boise's oldest buildings and promoting preservation of the city's historic treasures.
Carley's great-great-grandfather was C.W. Moore, one of Boise's most prominent early residents. Moore established the First National Bank of Idaho in 1867. He donated the quarter-acre on the northeast corner of 5th and Grove streets to the city just before he died in 1916. It is now a small city park that bears his name.
On the data-instinct spectrum, Carley falls somewhere in the middle. He has his process, but he has so much local experience that sizing up possibilities has become second nature to him.
"You do a pro forma, you look at the returns, you evaluate the risk, and you say, 'This return, given the risk, is worth it.' And then, as a developer, you decide, 'I'm ready to go,'" he says. "And then you have to go get financing. And that can change everything. Because the bank's assessment of all of those issues is different than yours."
Carley is making plans to build a five-story apartment complex with 84 units on the southwest corner of Fifth and Idaho streets Downtown, replacing Gibson Funeral Home.
He says he wants a long-term investment, not a quick buck.
"Many projects in Downtown Boise and across the country get developed and for two, three, four, sometimes five years, may not make money," he says. "But 20 years later, when looking back, it looks brilliant, and they're extremely successful and making big money."
David Hale:
Downtown homes
David Hale specializes in urban development that mixes commercial and residential uses, especially infill housing such as the Hyde Park Rowhouses on 13th Street and a group of live-work homes on the southwest corner of Iowa Street and Longmont Avenue near Broadway. Before the Great Recession, he redeveloped a six-block area on Grove Street in Downtown's west side and named it the Linen District.
Now he plans a 15-townhome project near the Linen District on a vacant lot on the south side of Idaho Street between 15th and 16th streets.
In the beginning, his approach is similar to LocalConstruct's. "I think every developer starts with some vision as to how they could best utilize a property, whether it's vacant land or an existing structure," Hale says. "And then, that vision and that product type — or, the project — has to make sense from an economic formula standpoint."
Hale, who moved here from Portland 18 years ago, likes urban settings, but instead of analyzing whether a market will support his product type – as Local Construct does – he adapts his projects to the market. The Idaho Street townhome project illustrates this nuance.
When he announced the townhomes, Hale said the units "will be priced under any of the Downtown competition on a price-per-square-foot basis."
He made a point of including garages in his plans for the townhomes. "We live in a very active city where outdoor recreation is a pastime of many," Hale says. "It appears everyone owns bikes, skis and recreational equipment, whether motorized or not. Offering a garage not only provides for safe and secure off-street parking, but also meets the storage needs of future buyers' toys ... I wish I had completed product available today."
Gardner Co:
Today's alphas
In the past five years, no developer has changed the face of Boise more than Gardner, founded in Salt Lake City by Kem Gardner.
Eighth & Main marked Gardner's first big move in Idaho. When that was done, the company moved quickly to a project that is, in some ways, more ambitious: City Center Plaza, a mixed-use development in the northeast quadrant of the Grove Plaza that will include office space, restaurants, an underground public transportation hub and an expansion of Boise Centre, the convention venue in the southwest quadrant of the Grove.
Gardner is also preparing a third project: a hotel-anchored mixed-use development on five undeveloped acres between 11th, 13th, Front and Myrtle streets.
Like LocalConstruct, Gardner worships in the temple of process, details and data. The whole point, says Tommy Ahlquist, the chief operating officer, is to narrow the margins of variability — in other words, reduce the unknowns as much as possible.
"Absorption is the big unknown. And that's where people get burned," Ahlquist says. "Well, you can get burned a few ways. If your costs get out of whack, if you're over budget, if you get into something and it costs you a lot more, that can really foul your pro forma."
Predictability is one reason Gardner likes to work with Engineered Structures Inc., the commercial construction company that built Eighth & Main.
"If you can take a big chunk of risk down, and you've got a partner that you know that they're going to come in on time, on budget, that eliminates a huge amount of risk for you," Ahlquist says. "You're not going to get into any legal issues with them. They always deliver."
The numbers: Cool vs. highly profitable
Another way developers differ is the way they calculate success financially.
Most of them have numbers in mind, but the formulas behind those number vary. For example, Brown and Casey watch the capitalization rate on LocalConstruct's projects. The "cap rate" is the ratio of a project's income from rent minus operating expenses to its total cost.
Brown says LocalConstruct likes to keep the rate at 6 percent or higher for Boise projects.
Gardner calculates return in a similar way, but Wali and Ahlquist look for a rate of 8 to 12 percent.
"And 5 if it's just such a cool project," Wali says.
But Ahlquist says Gardner won't compromise its numbers on a residential project.
Gardner is also wary of projects that offer unrealistically high returns. High returns usually signal high risk.
"If someone's willing to pay you a rent that allows you to have a return that's too high, then the reason they're doing it is because no one else will do something for them," Ahlquist says.
Carley thinks about his investments from a different angle. Instead of focusing on year-to-year revenue, he considers how long it takes for a new project to go "cash-positive," to bring in more money than it costs to maintain. Carley says he wants his projects to be cash-positive within two years of completing them.
"It takes a lot of tenants and a lot of months before you are paying your debt and getting a return on your investment from that income," he says.
Hale, whose urban residential projects are the same kind Carley plans to do, says he wants them to produce a return right away. He looks for 8 to 15 percent.
Smith, the hotelier, and Van Auker say they have target ranges for return on investment, but they decline to disclose them.
The future: Constraints of competition
Across the board, Treasure Valley developers are busier and more aggressive these days than they have been for almost a decade.
Van Auker says he is looking at building 75,000 square feet of prime industrial space for specific customer. He thinks he will build another 75,000 square feet of spec space in the same development.
A hot market brings complications, and some are reminders of why the economy got into trouble last time.
"It's crazy out there again. You've seen what's happening. It just gets nutty," Ahlquist says. "You've got subs in an already shallow market just saying, 'Hey, it's heyday now. I'm going to make my money.' And tripling, quadrupling their prices ... And you can't blame them. They're in demand. They're just a market-driven community, too."
Ahlquist says Gardner "will probably slow a little bit" after several years of ideal circumstances: low construction costs, plentiful labor and subcontractors, and low interest rates.
Developers aren't just competing for subcontractors. They're competing against each other.
Smith's plans for a Downtown hotel were the first publicly announced. Since then, Gardner has announced its own plans for a major one. And Eugene, Ore.-based Obie Cos. announced plans to build a hotel just south of where Smith wants to put his.
Smith worries the other hotels will drive down demand for his rooms. But he is not backing off his own plans.
A similar competition could be lurking in the multifamily residential sector, which is considered part of the commercial real estate industry. Brown says he is wary of a sudden burst of supply on the local market that would reduce demand for LocalConstruct's projects, even though the housing he offers tenants — high-end apartments within a short walk of the urban core — is fairly rare in Boise.
"When rents rise and fall in a market, you may be protected to a certain extent by being the newest or otherwise somehow the best — the best-located within the market, or having the nicest product," Brown says. "But if the market is going down, you're going down with it."
On the other hand, demand seems to be strong enough, at least in the multifamily sector, to absorb a glut of apartment projects either under construction or in the planning phases across the valley.
More than three years ago, Brown and Lynch bought the empty, 1.8-acre block between 15th, 16th, Idaho and Bannock streets. They do not have plans for developing it yet, but they're willing to keep paying taxes without getting a return for now. They believe Downtown development will push westward enough to put their property into the Downtown-walkability zone they crave.
"Now it's just starting to reach the realm of possibility that perhaps someone would consider walking from there all the way down to 10th Street, where you start encountering restaurants," Brown says.
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It's a great feeling to help a person in need. Charity donors are often told that even a small donation goes a long way, and that's undoubtedly true. Many small contributions can amount to a massive collective effort to benefit a cause. However, it's even better when you're capable of making a big difference in society, which is something many brands have begun striving towards.
I was fortunate to work with the folks at Newman's Own early in my career. The late actor Paul Newman famously stated: "What could be better than to hold your hand out to people who are less fortunate than you are?" Today, Newman's Own still holds that statement in high regard — and the company acts on it as well. Newman's Own is a food brand founded by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner in 1982. It all started with a simple salad dressing that they prepared themselves and gave it away to friends. With time, the newly founded company began producing other food items, such as pasta sauces, popcorn, salsa, juices, frozen pizza and plenty more.
They give 100% of their after-tax product sales profits to Newman's Own Foundation, which donates it to nonprofits worldwide. Since 1982, the company has given away over $500 million to charity, still following the vision of its philanthropist founder.
Another big player amongst the philanthropist food brands, KIND is a snack-food company that takes an actionable approach to improve the world. Every month, the KIND Foundation provides a $10,000 grant to humanitarian, socially impactful charities and organizations. Founded in 2004, its mission is to do the kind thing by driving change in society to create more empathetic and kinder communities.
Over the years, they've maintained many different programs all with the same goal of promoting kindness: KIND People, KIND Causes, KIND Schools Challenge and others. They awarded over $1 million through their KIND People program to deserving individuals who have shown their humanitarian side in a big way, and over $450,000 through their KIND Causes program that went to funding ideas that can change society in a good way.
LARABAR makes non-GMO nutrition bars with minimally processed ingredients, and they take this sustainable approach in everything they do. Their commitment to using Fair Trade ingredients and partnering with different organizations that all help make a difference in the community shows a real dedication to being an environmentally aware, sustainable company.
Even though they recently terminated their partnership with TerraCycle, they still work with Feeding America and Denver Urban Gardens to help those in need have access to real food and seeds they might need to grow their sustainable gardens. Their focus is on empowering the individuals to raise awareness of the issue of hunger in America, and giving back to the community is part of their mission.
This nut butter company has made it their mission to give back to the community and pay it forward to organizations and companies who helped it reach the success it now enjoys. Justin Gold, the founder of Justin's, is a co-creator of the Whole Planet's Microloan-a-Month program. It focuses on entrepreneurs in developing countries and provides them the microloans they need to start and maintain their business.
Justin's is a food brand that's committed to making an impact, whether that's by supporting environment-focused initiatives, nurturing their company sustainability or educating individuals that can drive change.
The founders of The Soulfull Project started their hot cereal breakfast brand with the idea to give back, after having witnessed the problems caused by poverty and hunger on their trip to Texas. Unlike many other food brands, they focus on donating a physical product rather than money. They believe that food shelters should have quality food available, and it's their mission to make it happen with their giving model.
For every purchased cup of their hot cereal, The Soulfull Project donates one cup to food shelters in Philadelphia and Camden. They make this possible by spending the funds that would usually go into a marketing budget on the donation aspect of their brand. Of course, that means they mostly rely on word of mouth marketing rather than traditional marketing avenues, but the consumers recognize their philanthropist mission and respond to it positively.
Trader Joe's is another food brand on a mission to fight hunger with food instead of donations, and they've been at it for decades. Their initiative also combats the problem of food waste, which is a massive issue as up to one-third of all the food produced in the world goes to waste before it can be consumed.
Trader Joe's company takes their not-for-sale food that's still safe to eat and donates it to food shelters and pantries. In 2017 alone, they gave over $340 million worth of food products to various organizations that provide food to those in need. Their food donation program has grown into an impressive operation over the years, with donation coordinators in charge of the process in every store. Employees share the responsibility for safely storing the food donations until it's time to get them to the local food banks and shelters.
As more and more companies are moving towards maintaining a sustainable, environmentally beneficial and socially responsible business model, it's likely that we'll see more positive change in our community. It ultimately benefits all, which is why it's so encouraging to see food brands giving back in big ways and making sure that the issues affecting the industry are addressed and taken care of.
By fighting hunger and food waste and supporting the brands who are on the frontline of this fight, we're all doing something good for our world. If you wish to make your food business better for the community, stay on the lookout for more fresh industry insights that can help show the way.


On his return to the Nuffield Group, one of Gerald Palmer's first tasks was to design two saloons for the Wolseley range, these being the 4/44 and the 6/90.
These models were to use standard components from the newly formed BMC company parts bins. The Wolseley 4/44 was designed in 1952 for the 1953 model year. It shared its body shell and many of its components with the MG Magnette ZA. To distinguish between these two models, cosmetic changes were made to the interior and exterior of each model, and as a consequence interior panels and exterior trim are seldom interchangeable.
The 4/44 used a single carburettor version of the Morris XPAG engine found in earlier MG sports cars. The engine, now with the designation XPAW, was always earmarked for replacement, as development of the new 1500cc B-Series engine was well underway when the 4/44 was launched. However, the 1250cc, 46bhp XPAW engine was deemed adequate for this medium sized up-market car and left the more sporting pretensions to the soon to follow MG Magnette ZA. The inclusion of leather seats and walnut veneer dash within the Wolseley reinforced its up-market placement.
The 4/44 incorporated a column change, 4 speed gearbox. Rack and pinion steering ensured a light and nimble feel at the wheel, while independent front suspension, live axle on semi-elliptical springs and drum brakes all round were also part of the specification. With a top speed of a hair over 70mph reflecting these non-motorway times. Some 29,845 of this model were built, until its replacement in 1956 by the Wolseley 15/50.
The earliest 4/44 models featured only a parcel shelf on either side of the dashboard, rather than the enclosed gloveboxes found on most 4/44 and 15/50. Semaphores were still standard equipment, with indicators only incorporated via the brake-lights for the LHD export market.
Within the engine bay of the 4/44 the large oil bath type air filter can be easily seen.


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The maximum aged for the Skilled Intdependent Subclass 189 Visa will be reduced from 49 to 44. This will not affect the Skilled Nominated Subclass 190 Visa, the Skilled Regional Provisional Subclass 489 visa or the new NZ Citizen stream of Subclass 189.
Fortunately, only 1% of applicants are in the age range between 44-49.
Skilled occupations may be reviewed. Because there are a number of occupations listed on the MLTSSL and not the STSOL, it is expected for the Occupations list to be revised on the 1st July 2017.
State migration plans will reopen. Most states will restart their state migration plans from July. Applicants should make sure to be ready to lodge for state nomination as soon as they repoen to prevent disappointment as many occupations will fill very quickly.
Occupational Ceilings to be released. Occupational Ceilings give a maximum number of EOI invitations that can be issued to Skilled Independent Subclass 189 and Skilled Regional Provisional (Family Sponsored) Subclass 489 applicants. If occupational ceilings stay the same or are reduced, it means that it will become more competitive.
As it may be more competitive and difficult for the Skilled Independent Program, this will make other options such as state nominated or employer sponsored visas more important.
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PCN member in Bangladesh, The Bengal Electric Ltd have recently been awarded the contract for the entire mechanical erection of the Bibiyana 400mw Combined Cycle Power Plant.
Under the construction department of the company, the scope of work will include the entire store management of the project involving receiving project cargo & materials, unloading, loading, shifting of materials and the management of 40,000cbm of cargo. As well as this, they will perform all heavy lift operations including a Mitsubishi gas turbine generator at 400tns, a turbine at 350tns, a steam turbine at 295tns and HRSG modules ranging from 84 - 220tns plus the transportation of 30m long modules to the erection site by hydraulic modular trailers.
Bengal Deputy Managing Director, Mr. Mottakin Salam signed the contract with L&T India (Larsen & Toubro), a leading EPC giant around the globe. Mottakin comments; "This kind of project in Bangladesh would have previously been handled by foreign contractors so we are proud that Bengal won the contract for the entire construction". The project will span 15 months and Bengal will deploy around 400 workers including heavy lift teams, engineers, supervisors, rigging teams, safety teams, welders, fitters, NDT teams, steam blowing groups and trailer teams."
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"All your work has made a real difference," Linda, my staffer, told Mrs. Gifford. She and her husband traveled to Madison to personally deliver letters to every Senator.
Twenty-eight minutes before the vote on a bill that would make significant changes in high capacity well rules, the Senate Agriculture, Small Business and Tourism committee clerk came to my office and said that bill was removed from the list to be voted out of committee.
As he left our office, he passed Barbara Gifford and her husband Jim who came to ask me to vote against the bill. For the moment, it looked like the Giffords were successful.
Senate Bill 239 is one of three bills that would alter the way Wisconsin grants permits to drill a high capacity well – a well that pumps 70 or more gallons per minute of groundwater. The bill prevents the DNR from reviewing existing high-cap well permits making them approved forever.
Mrs. Gifford lives in a part of the state where high capacity well operations have shrunk lakes, dried up springs, slowed flowing rivers and reduced drinking water supplies.
Some lawmakers did the hard work of balancing policy between the use of water for industry and agriculture and water supplies for drinking and recreation. Senators Cowles (R-Green Bay) and Miller (D-Monona) each wrote thoughtful bills to make real strides in solving the problem.
But SB 239, which is being rushed through the Legislature, simply gave everything to industry with little thought to the future – or the Wisconsin Constitution.
Even with little notice about the committee vote, Mrs. Gifford and her friends slowed the bill by their public advocacy.
Speed and secrecy dominate Wisconsin's Capitol these days. The practice to vote bills out of committee the same day of its public hearing has regrettably become routine.
Public input from folks like the Giffords is vital in a democracy. Public input answers the question, "What will this bill do?" Lawmakers often learn a bill will do things the author never intended.
One bill with unintended consequences is Senate Bill 747, which changes the practice of massage therapy, authored by Senator Harsdorf (R-River Falls) and Representative Tittl (R-Manitowoc).
The bill appeared on the official Senate Agriculture, Small Business and Tourism committee calendar just one day before the public hearing. The public hearing and the vote out of committee happened the next day and left dozens of unanswered questions.
The bill would make it a crime – with possible 90 days jail time – for anyone who practiced massage therapy or "bodywork" without a license.
I had only a short time to talk with massage therapists about the bill. After I explained what the bill did, both women I called said "WHAT? Put massage therapists in jail? That makes no sense." Indeed.
Senate Bill 747 would add a number of activities to the practice of massage therapy. Using elastic supportive tape, kneading soft tissue, stretching, even giving advice for self – would require a license. If you did these things without a license, you might go to jail. No one knew how much this would cost.
"The bill should not be here, before us now because we don't know the cost," reminded Senator Erpenbach.
Senator Taylor pleaded with the committee chair to postpone the vote. "We may be able to come up with a solution but we can't do this with a quick hearing and exec in one day." Like many Senators, she had two hearings scheduled at the same time and a host of other issues demanding attention.
The bill passed on a party line vote.
Speed and secrecy almost always leads to poor legislation. Public hearings exist to gather the public's ideas, expertise and values. The result of sharing information between lawmakers and the public is better decisions for everyone.


Flow Art Space in St Paul announces a call for the juried group exhibition Celebrate, Contemplate which is scheduled from November 30 – December 17, 2016.
The holidays conjure differing reactions. For some, it's a time for gathering and celebrating with friends or family. Others find it a challenging time and prefer quiet contemplation or even hibernation. Share your take on the season.
2D and 3D art in all mediums will be considered.
Deadline to apply is Tuesday, September 27 at midnight.
2D artwork should not be larger than 55" H or 45" W. If your work is larger, it must fold or be easy to handle.
3D artwork must not exceed 45" in any direction.
Pieces that require complex installation may require the artist to be present to install November 22.
There is a fee of $40 to upload 4 images of your work for consideration plus a brief description about your work and yourself. Actual work uploaded must be available for exhibition, not a representative work. Once paid, submission fees are non-refundable whether or not work is selected for exhibition. Submitting images indicates artist agrees with the terms set forth here.
Read more and apply at www.flowartspace.com under the Submit Work Section.


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Appearance before the Senate Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs
Source http://www.ombudsman-veterans.gc.ca/eng/media/speeches/post/8

Good Morning, Mr. Chair and Committee Members.

Thank you for the opportunity to be here today to address this most important review of the New Veterans Charter.

May I first introduce to you members of my team:

Mr Gary Walbourne, Executive Director of Operations and Deputy Ombudsman, and Colonel (retired) Denys Guérin, our lead on the New Veterans Charter Review.

As I mentioned in my address the House Committee last week, I would again like to thank the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of Veterans Affairs, for having agreed to my recommendation for a comprehensive review of the New Veterans Charter, with special focus placed on the most seriously disabled, support for families and the delivery of programs by Veterans Affairs Canada.

In one week much has happened that shows the necessity of completing this comprehensive review and implementing meaningful solutions as quickly as possible.

The men and women who serve in the Canadian Armed Forces willingly accept the risks to their health and life that are inherent to military service. If they are injured or become ill and can no longer serve in uniform, the Government of Canada has a recognized obligation to help them rebuild their lives and restore, to the greatest extent possible, their health, financial independence, and quality of personal and family life.

What Canadian Armed Forces members and Veterans struggle with is why when they are giving their all, the Government's obligation falls short of meeting their needs. Recent events have tragically shown that for some the uncertainty of their futures was such that they perceived there was no hope.

We need to ensure that each member of the Canadian Armed Forces is fully aware that no matter what type of injury or illness they sustain in service of Canada, they will be financially secure throughout the remainder of their lives.

We also need to strengthen the transition process so that we create more opportunities and better opportunities through world class vocational training and partnerships with industry.

This will create hope and focus Canadian Armed Forces members and Veterans on their future, rather than clinging to the past.

Finally, we need to fortify families so they are better informed and compensated for the critical behind the scenes support they provide to our men and women in uniform. Not only is this essential to the individual, it is also a matter of national security as it affects the success of Canada to recruit and retain members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

This obligation, on the part of the Government of Canada to its Veterans, is stated clearly in the preamble to such legislation as the Pension Act, the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act, and the War Veterans Allowance Act. Each states that the acts shall be liberally construed and interpreted so that the recognized obligation to those who have served their country so well and to their dependants may be fulfilled. I fully support the recent calls from Veterans' advocates and organizations to include this recognized obligation in the New Veterans Charter, as in past Veterans' legislation.

Since April of this year, I have published a series of reviews and reports to serve as a common factual reference to guide discussion, but more importantly, to channel action on specific New Veterans Charter program areas that need improvement. I have put forward evidence-based facts, analysis and recommendations on how to address shortcomings in the three program areas that are of most concern to Veterans.

These are:

First, financial instability and decreased standard of living;

Second, a vocational rehabilitation program that is overly rigid in its focus on existing education, skills and experience, which constrains education upgrade and employment options; and

Third, difficult family environment situations due to insufficient family support.

My office has analyzed the more than 200 recommendations for improvements to the New Veterans Charter proposed by various expert advisory, House of Commons and Senate committees since 2006, including many of the 160 recommendations mentioned by Minister Fantino. We also held exhaustive stakeholder consultations.

Many recommendations that deal with the three key transition areas – financial support, vocational rehabilitation and family support – have not been implemented and are continuing to affect Veterans and their families, as can be seen with the spate of lawsuits against the government and the growing unrest in the Veterans community.

Mr Chair, I respectfully submit that most of the analysis and review of New Veterans Charter deficiencies has been done. The path to improving the New Veterans Charter is clear. However, impeding that path is a worrisome trend. If we focus on issues on the periphery rather than on more critical core issues, we will only treat the symptoms and not address the root causes, which have far more significance in the day-to-day lives of our Veterans.

My report on improving the New Veterans Charter, and the actuarial analysis that supports it, can serve as a baseline for how this living charter is reviewed by the Committee. The report's analysis of benefits and programs pinpoint exactly where the current suite of New Veterans Charter benefits are failing some Veterans today, and will continue to fail more tomorrow unless changes are made quickly.

Let me be blunt. All of us know where the gaps are in the programs. We don't need to study this to death. If we focus on fixing the fundamental gaps in the New Veterans Charter, many of the other complaints will disappear as we will have dealt with the root cause and not with the symptoms.

If we only fixed the following five items, think how different our conversation would be in a year from now:

First, the insufficiency of the economic financial support provided after the age of 65 to totally and permanently incapacitated Veterans;

Second, the drop in income for Veterans who are transitioning from a military to a civilian career because the Earnings Loss Benefit only pays 75 percent of pre-release salary;

Third, access to the Permanent Impairment Allowance and the Permanent Impairment Allowance Supplement continues to be a problem for many severely impaired Veterans;

Fourth, the unfair practice of providing a reduced Earnings Loss Benefit to part-time reservists who suffer an injury or illness related to service;

And the fifth financial shortcoming is the non-economic benefit designed to compensate for pain and suffering – the disability award. This benefit is supposed to have kept pace with civilian court awards for pain and suffering, but it has not.

Too often the debate that swirls around Veterans' issues centres on the question: "Am I better off under the Pension Act or under the New Veterans Charter?"

The reality is that we have two very different benefit schemes operating in parallel.

My view is that we need to accept the fact that Veterans are supported under two different benefit schemes and that we are not going to rewrite the past.

Mr Chair, I believe that we must focus on addressing the challenges faced by Veterans and their families today and tomorrow.

So much of the rhetoric is on what has been done. Let's focus on what needs to be done.

If we do not deal with these challenges now, we will have to deal with the human cost later. And if we study history, we know that more improvements will be required in the future because as the nature of conflict changes, so too do the needs of men and women in uniform.

This is why I am recommending that a regular two-year review of the New Veterans Charter be enshrined in the legislation so that it continues to adapt to the evolving needs of serving men and women, Veterans and their families and that it continues also to live up to the Government's affirmation that it is a living charter.

Let me remind you as I reminded the House committee last week. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. When Canada entered that war, it was not well prepared to deal with the thousands of returning casualties and with the ensuing demobilization.

Today, Canada is much better prepared to care for and support its ill and injured Veterans and their families.

However, as recent events have shown, better is not synonymous with sufficient and there is still work to do to ensure that this generation and future generations of Veterans receive the care and support they need.

The year that we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, and the year that we end operations in Afghanistan, should also be heralded as the year that we fix the problems with Veterans benefits and built a solid foundation of care and support for years to come. We need to visibly show our commitment to our men and women in uniform now so that they can have hope for a better future.

Mr. Chair and Committee Members, we built on the past to get to the present. Let us now build on the present to get to the future. All the tools are in place to do it now without undue delay. Our Veterans and their families deserve no less.

Thank you.

Source http://www.ombudsman-veterans.gc.ca/eng/media/speeches/post/8
Good Morning, Mr. Chair and Committee Members.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here today to address this most important review of the New Veterans Charter.
May I first introduce to you members of my team:
Mr Gary Walbourne, Executive Director of Operations and Deputy Ombudsman, and Colonel (retired) Denys Guérin, our lead on the New Veterans Charter Review.
As I mentioned in my address the House Committee last week, I would again like to thank the Honourable Julian Fantino, Minister of Veterans Affairs, for having agreed to my recommendation for a comprehensive review of the New Veterans Charter, with special focus placed on the most seriously disabled, support for families and the delivery of programs by Veterans Affairs Canada.
In one week much has happened that shows the necessity of completing this comprehensive review and implementing meaningful solutions as quickly as possible.
The men and women who serve in the Canadian Armed Forces willingly accept the risks to their health and life that are inherent to military service. If they are injured or become ill and can no longer serve in uniform, the Government of Canada has a recognized obligation to help them rebuild their lives and restore, to the greatest extent possible, their health, financial independence, and quality of personal and family life.
What Canadian Armed Forces members and Veterans struggle with is why when they are giving their all, the Government's obligation falls short of meeting their needs. Recent events have tragically shown that for some the uncertainty of their futures was such that they perceived there was no hope.
We need to ensure that each member of the Canadian Armed Forces is fully aware that no matter what type of injury or illness they sustain in service of Canada, they will be financially secure throughout the remainder of their lives.
We also need to strengthen the transition process so that we create more opportunities and better opportunities through world class vocational training and partnerships with industry.
This will create hope and focus Canadian Armed Forces members and Veterans on their future, rather than clinging to the past.
Finally, we need to fortify families so they are better informed and compensated for the critical behind the scenes support they provide to our men and women in uniform. Not only is this essential to the individual, it is also a matter of national security as it affects the success of Canada to recruit and retain members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
This obligation, on the part of the Government of Canada to its Veterans, is stated clearly in the preamble to such legislation as the Pension Act, the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act, and the War Veterans Allowance Act. Each states that the acts shall be liberally construed and interpreted so that the recognized obligation to those who have served their country so well and to their dependants may be fulfilled. I fully support the recent calls from Veterans' advocates and organizations to include this recognized obligation in the New Veterans Charter, as in past Veterans' legislation.
Since April of this year, I have published a series of reviews and reports to serve as a common factual reference to guide discussion, but more importantly, to channel action on specific New Veterans Charter program areas that need improvement. I have put forward evidence-based facts, analysis and recommendations on how to address shortcomings in the three program areas that are of most concern to Veterans.
First, financial instability and decreased standard of living;
Second, a vocational rehabilitation program that is overly rigid in its focus on existing education, skills and experience, which constrains education upgrade and employment options; and
Third, difficult family environment situations due to insufficient family support.
My office has analyzed the more than 200 recommendations for improvements to the New Veterans Charter proposed by various expert advisory, House of Commons and Senate committees since 2006, including many of the 160 recommendations mentioned by Minister Fantino. We also held exhaustive stakeholder consultations.
Many recommendations that deal with the three key transition areas – financial support, vocational rehabilitation and family support – have not been implemented and are continuing to affect Veterans and their families, as can be seen with the spate of lawsuits against the government and the growing unrest in the Veterans community.
Mr Chair, I respectfully submit that most of the analysis and review of New Veterans Charter deficiencies has been done. The path to improving the New Veterans Charter is clear. However, impeding that path is a worrisome trend. If we focus on issues on the periphery rather than on more critical core issues, we will only treat the symptoms and not address the root causes, which have far more significance in the day-to-day lives of our Veterans.
My report on improving the New Veterans Charter, and the actuarial analysis that supports it, can serve as a baseline for how this living charter is reviewed by the Committee. The report's analysis of benefits and programs pinpoint exactly where the current suite of New Veterans Charter benefits are failing some Veterans today, and will continue to fail more tomorrow unless changes are made quickly.
Let me be blunt. All of us know where the gaps are in the programs. We don't need to study this to death. If we focus on fixing the fundamental gaps in the New Veterans Charter, many of the other complaints will disappear as we will have dealt with the root cause and not with the symptoms.
If we only fixed the following five items, think how different our conversation would be in a year from now:
First, the insufficiency of the economic financial support provided after the age of 65 to totally and permanently incapacitated Veterans;
Second, the drop in income for Veterans who are transitioning from a military to a civilian career because the Earnings Loss Benefit only pays 75 percent of pre-release salary;
Third, access to the Permanent Impairment Allowance and the Permanent Impairment Allowance Supplement continues to be a problem for many severely impaired Veterans;
Fourth, the unfair practice of providing a reduced Earnings Loss Benefit to part-time reservists who suffer an injury or illness related to service;
And the fifth financial shortcoming is the non-economic benefit designed to compensate for pain and suffering – the disability award. This benefit is supposed to have kept pace with civilian court awards for pain and suffering, but it has not.
Too often the debate that swirls around Veterans' issues centres on the question: "Am I better off under the Pension Act or under the New Veterans Charter?"
The reality is that we have two very different benefit schemes operating in parallel.
My view is that we need to accept the fact that Veterans are supported under two different benefit schemes and that we are not going to rewrite the past.
Mr Chair, I believe that we must focus on addressing the challenges faced by Veterans and their families today and tomorrow.
So much of the rhetoric is on what has been done. Let's focus on what needs to be done.
If we do not deal with these challenges now, we will have to deal with the human cost later. And if we study history, we know that more improvements will be required in the future because as the nature of conflict changes, so too do the needs of men and women in uniform.
This is why I am recommending that a regular two-year review of the New Veterans Charter be enshrined in the legislation so that it continues to adapt to the evolving needs of serving men and women, Veterans and their families and that it continues also to live up to the Government's affirmation that it is a living charter.
Let me remind you as I reminded the House committee last week. Next year is the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. When Canada entered that war, it was not well prepared to deal with the thousands of returning casualties and with the ensuing demobilization.
Today, Canada is much better prepared to care for and support its ill and injured Veterans and their families.
However, as recent events have shown, better is not synonymous with sufficient and there is still work to do to ensure that this generation and future generations of Veterans receive the care and support they need.
The year that we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, and the year that we end operations in Afghanistan, should also be heralded as the year that we fix the problems with Veterans benefits and built a solid foundation of care and support for years to come. We need to visibly show our commitment to our men and women in uniform now so that they can have hope for a better future.
Mr. Chair and Committee Members, we built on the past to get to the present. Let us now build on the present to get to the future. All the tools are in place to do it now without undue delay. Our Veterans and their families deserve no less.
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I'm speaking at 3 different offline events on opposite ends of the US & doing 2 online LIVE training sessions all in the next 2 weeks. I know… I'm nuts! The good part is that I'm hooking you up to attend these live events with me.
I'll be Speaking LIVE on Sunday. You can get a "virtual" ticket to watch from home during the entire event & even get the recordings too!
Also this weekend Friday 2/18-2/20: JValert LIVE!
I would love to meet you live and in person at any of these events.
I look forward to seeing you at at least one of them… even if it's virtually!
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Critics have been clamoring over Boyhood ever since it debuted at Sundance a couple month's ago. But the real story with Richard Linklater's (Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, and half a dozen other contemporary classics) newest film is the way he made it. He cast one 6 year old boy and filmed scenes with him over the next 12 years. The result is an extraordinary vision of a child growing up before your eyes.
It reminds me of Michael Apted's Up series, in which an original documentary about a bunch of 7 year olds in the 60's has been revisited with a new documentary every 7 years with the same subjects as they age. The most recent film was 56 Up (2012). The difference with Linklater's approach is that his patience and determination is channeled into a work of fiction rather than a documentary.


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Q: Maps v2 android I have made a simple google map in android but the problem is that on running i m only gettin zoom buttons and map is not loading.I have generated api key 3 time.
here is manifest file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.amal.googlemap"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="15"
        android:targetSdkVersion="17" />
    <uses-feature
        android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
        android:required="true"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/>

     <!-- The following two permissions are required for location -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.amal.googlemap.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <meta-data
              android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
              android:value="AIzaSyCh4vRdbH__Dgg7n-3t8TTkhsUVC8CtNKM"/>
        <meta-data
              android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
              android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />
    </application>
</manifest>

here is xml file
`
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:id="@+id/map"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="match_parent"
          android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"/>`

here is class file
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    GoogleMap map;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        map = ((MapFragment) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();
        map.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_SATELLITE);

        LatLng latLng = new LatLng(13.05241, 80.25082);
        map.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(latLng).title("Raj Amal"));
    }}

Plz if anyone can help

A: Update
First of all check that you have googleplayservice library added in your project, Then
Use FragmentActivity. Activity is not from v4 nor from v7 support libraries. This should work:
 public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity {
GoogleMap googleMap;

in onCreate
 int status = GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable(getBaseContext());

        if(status!=ConnectionResult.SUCCESS){

            int requestCode = 10;
            Dialog dialog = GooglePlayServicesUtil.getErrorDialog(status, this, requestCode);
            dialog.show();

        }else {

            SupportMapFragment fm = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map);

            googleMap = fm.getMap();
}

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Q: wkhtmltopdf seems to need Phonon needs QCoreApplication::applicationName; why? I am using wkhtmltoimage and everything was going well until I ask it to do a screenshot of twitter and I got this weird error:
Loading page (1/2)
WARNING: Phonon needs QCoreApplication::applicationName to be set to export audio output names through the DBUS interface
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Rendering (2/2)
Done

Here is the command I used:
xvfb-run wkhtmltoimage --format png --quality 100 http://twitter.com/jnbdz twitter2.png

I am using Ubuntu 11, Apache2/PHP5 and Qt4.
I am not getting this error when I am trying to get a screenshot of Google or other websites.
When it works, I only get this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20599297/twitter3.png
Any ideas what could be causing this error?
UPDATE
I am getting a different error when trying to do a screenshot of yahoo.com:
xvfb-run wkhtmltoimage --format png --quality 100 http://yahoo.com/ yahoo1.png

Loading page (1/2)
Error: Failed loading page http://yahoo.com/ (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with --load-error-handling ignore)
Error: Failed loading page http://yahoo.com/ (sometimes it will work just to ignore this error with --load-error-handling ignore)

A: Ok, so, in order:
1/ wkhtmltoimage uses Webkit, which may be loading Phonon for a number of reasons. In order to render multimedia Web contents, for instance. It's not very important, though.
2/ Some audio-related Phonon features require an application name to be set. You probably don't need those features to render the Web page, so don't worry about that warning.
3/ Phonon attempts then fails to connect to the Jack audio server, presumably as it scans for available audio output systems. You don't need audio anyway, so you can ignore those errors too.
4/ As far as I know, Twitter makes heavy use of JavaScript for its rendering. I don't know that wkhtmltoimage ships with a JavaScript interpreter. Rendering issues are thus almost guaranteed.
You must understand that the method used in wkhtmltoimage is somewhat primitive and not very robust. It will fail in a number of cases, first and foremost when dealing with dynamic content.
You may have better luck with the mobile version at http://mobile.twitter.com/, though.
As to the Yahoo errors, they appear to be connection errors that have nothing to do with any of the above.


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Live album teaser track
Hi all, It's been a little bit too long since we last wrote here... but don't worry, it's for good reasons, we've been busy completing post-production and mastering of the new 'live' album. If you'd like to pre-order a copy, then go to the home-page and you'll find the 'pre-order now' button. We'll be sending out physical copies on 11th May. To whet your appetite here are two, quite different, taster tracks: We'll Find A Way and Your Sun Shines Rain There are twelve tracks on the album, and, in the same way as the studio albums, we have horns on four tracks. The material is a selection of songs from each of the three studio albums... and it is interesting to hear the quite dramatically different interpretations and nuances of the live performance! That's it for now folks. Enjoy the tracks, and don't forget to come and say hi on a gig. Rob and Zoe xx P.S. Album launch is on 5th June at the Regent Centre Theaatre in Christchurch, Dorset, it's a beautiful 400 seater theatre and an wary 'get to' from most places around the south, and the plan is to include the brilliant horn section of Ian Ellis and Andy Urquhart.


As any New Yorker knows, you can't go more than 5 blocks in Manhattan without running into a Duane Reade. While national drugstore chains have swept across the country, Duane Reade has remained distinctly New York – even while falling under their new parent, Walgreens. I find myself in Duane Reade at least once a week – there's always something to pick up on my way home, and with Chase ATMs in all of them it's made going to the bank pretty unnecessary too. Recently they renovated a bunch of Duane Reades and even built a new super fancy one right near me on the Upper West Side – with a beer bar and everything!
So, I knew it would be a cinch to write a sponsored post for Duane Reade and check out their holiday offerings as well as their new eco-friendly line of household goods – Ology. I am always looking for eco-friendly cleaning and paper goods options, partly because my daughter has crazy sensitive skin, and also because we go through a LOT of paper towels and tissues, and if I can make that impact smaller – on the earth and my wallet – I want to. Once I saw the offerings in their Happy and Healthy circular I was super intrigued.
I also took my girls along since Duane Reade is an easy after school snack destination, with a huge selection of healthier snack options priced very well. After perusing the danish/donut/muffin/not gonna happen display, they chose cinnamon yogurt covered pretzels from the delish line. I love these packaged snacks of nuts and other food because they're portion controlled, inexpensive and easy to tote in my bag. Great for travel too.
I knew that there was going to be some fabulous Taylor Swift merchandise at Duane Reade – and had told my girls that everything they saw was "wish list" material. They already checked off a T-shirt and album.
One of the ways in which Duane Reade truly is an NYC store is the fact that they have Hanukkah items. I know that sounds strange, but you'd be surprised how many big chain stores completely ignore Jewish holidays, even when they open in NYC. BIG MISTAKE. Duane Reade had a really nice selection of Hanukkah cards and decorations. Plus, some beautiful cards from Papyrus – the high-end card company.
All in all, this was a very successful shopping trip to Duane Reade – they even have a wall of gift cards, which really is my go to gift when push comes to shove. It's great to have a full selection in one place.
Check out Duane Reade on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and follow the #DRHappyandHealthy hashtag for lots of great posts and pics.
And you can see all of my pics on my Google Plus album too!
NextBig City Moms Biggest Baby Shower – EVER!


Post is usually used when we want to submit some parameter to the server.
The paramaters unlike rest are not put in the link itself but are sent in 'Body'.
In Nav , We can post using either Codeunit 1297 Http Web Request Mgt. or using System.HttpClient Control add-in among other methods.
First create a new codeunit in your range.
You will need to define these variables.
The output from api is stored in tempblob which can then be read in a text string.
Refer to https://ctrlshiftf4.com/2017/05/17/consume-openweather-rest-api-in-dynamics-nav/ as i have explained how to parse data from Rest Api there in detail.
Very Nice 🙂 I have a problem.
I get around 80K chars in return from the web service POST (which is by design).
It is returning af Base64 text which results in a .pdf.
What will I have to do in order to store or temporarily store this text so i can convert it else where?
Can I alter the ApiResult := tempBlob.ReadAsText or what to do?
You can try to store it in a bigtext. And then use the dotnet library to convert base64 to PDF.
Other thing you can try simply return the PDF in the api. Nav will recieve it in the blob and you can export it to the location you want.
I have done this with Images. Might also work for PDF.
GET is not used, at i need to POST to get the 8000 char text.
I can change to Bigtext if i can put body into variables instead og text constant.
How would i go that? ultimatly i need to that this, so i can bind the json i POST to the fields in the sales order fields.
The posted codes does look gr8 thou.
If you are talking about the response then you already get it in BLOB so you are fine using READASTEXT.
If you are talking about the body that you will be posting to the api and want to post more than just text, You can.
In the HttpWebRequest codeunit there are other AddBody functions where you can even post a BLOB to the api.
Let me try to explain. I think maybe i don't understand the code.
This gives me an answer with a 8000 lenght text.
Where does the code fail? I know it's because it's to big, and BIGTEXT would fix this.
But what do i change to make sure that i'm able to get the response into a BIGTEXT object or storage instead of text (which is to small to handle 8k)?
Well okay.. I've changes nothing and now it goes through.
I do get an error on the Newtonesoft.json.dll.
And I've tried both a .Net 4.5 and 4.0 version.
It says: Could Not Load an instance of the following .NET Framework object: Newtonesoft.jon.dll version 10.0.0.0… and so on.
A DotNet variable has not been instantiated. Attempting to call Tostring in CodeUnit (mycodeunitname): InitializeHttpPost.
I'm assuming that it's the MESSAGE(JObject.GetValue('job').ToString).
I've change 'job' to 'pdf' since that the json property name i want the value of.
I'm sry for the frequest questions and i thank you for your time.
Can you mail me the txt file of your code (find it in my Contact me page).
Could not load type Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.Jobject.'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed'.
Solved. I was able to download the Newtonsoft.Json dll and include it in the program data dll.
Nav 2017 already has the .dll included in the program files location. But downloading ensures you have the latest version.
These are very excellent articles and it helps alot, but I am stuck at a point where I am trying to call a URL which uses SSO(single sign on) and there it asks for credentials, even though I have supplied the correct credentials to the HttpWebRequest.Credential property still getting issue of 401 un authorized error.
Can you please help in my case.
I have a problem running CU 1297 on NAS server. My integration works perfectly fine on the client version (no errors, no dialog windows, nothing), but whenever I run it on NAS it complains about client callbacks for all dotnet variables CU 1297 is using. All of them are already set up not to run on client (as suggested in some forums) but that is not solving the problem. Is it possible to run CU1297 on NAS as all, and if not, is there any alternative to it which would work on NAS?


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