In our last article, we talked about the advantages of taking a company's Big Data deployment that might have started as an internal proof-of-concept or lab project and "productionising" it in the Cloud. And make no mistake, there are significant advantages to doing so, namely flexibility, extensibility, and risk-transition. We didn't even mention the opportunity to shift costs from CAPEX to OPEX, which companies finding themselves in cash-strapped situations will often find preferable.
All that aside, we are not saying that there are no advantages to taking the home-brewed Big Data solution and productionising it in the company's own data centre. The thoughtful BI architect planning a Big Data effort needs to understand these advantages, and evaluate them before making an effective decision about the deployment mode for their solution.
Despite the fact that many companies have shuttered their traditional data centres and moved their IT infrastructure and service-delivery architectures into contracted providers, other companies still have data centres on their campuses. These represent (in many cases) tens of millions of dollars of infrastructure investment; strategic assets that still have the ongoing capacity to deliver value.
For some, there are legacy hardware components such as mainframes and tape libraries that cannot simply be turned off, forklifted, and switched back on at a vendor's location. These companies have no choice but to keep their data centre running. In cases such as these, putting a Big Data deployment in a company's own data centre creates an opportunity to avoid significant hosting and data-transmission costs.
With a Big Data deployment entirely in-house, a company maintains a more significant degree of physical control over their data, often to the extent that raw data never even leaves the premises of the company that generated it. This can be important for some companies, whose cultural risk-aversion is high, or for whom the data stream includes highly sensitive or legally-regulated data that must be safeguarded. In such cases, it's often more straightforward to provide a platform in which the company can control all the variables.
Finally, in-house execution strategies can provide a company with an opportunity to exercise end-to-end ownership of the solution, from data capture to analytics delivery. This can also include a variety of ancillary benefits, such as proximity of data-stream-generating systems, a greater degree of freedom and customisation as to how the deployment is conducted, and security against "vendor lock-in" concerns: the ugly risk associated with changing implementation partners in the future and the sometimes-intractable situations that can occur when vendors being migrated away from are no longer incentivised to cooperate.
While many BI architects are tending to lean increasingly toward Cloud solutions (and I mostly agree with them, at least generally), it's worth thoughtfully considering both strategies in the context of your own company's particular culture, infrastructure, and technology road-map, to make sure you'll be designing a deployment plan that ends up suiting your organisation's needs through the lifespan of the solution.


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Hey, how's your Tuesday going so far? I have a presentation to give at a conference in a week and a half and I've been stressing about it so much. That also means I'm not sure how much I'll be able to blog next week. Eek!
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The after-tax cost of debt is the interest paid on the debt minus the income tax savings as the result of deducting the interest expense on the company's income tax return.
If the corporation has a loan of $100,000 with an annual interest rate of 10%, the interest paid to the lender will be $10,000 per year. This interest expense will reduce the corporation's taxable income by $10,000 thereby saving the corporation $3,000 in income taxes (30% tax rate on $10,000 reduction in taxable income).
The after-tax cost of the debt is computed as follows: $10,000 paid to the lender minus $3,000 of income tax savings equals a net cost of $7,000 per year on the $100,000 loan. This means the after-tax cost is 7% ($7,000 divided by $100,000) per year.
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Home » Fashion » Mum who had 10 kids in 10 years spends £975 a month on food, homeschools them all & only has ONE child-free date a year
Mum who had 10 kids in 10 years spends £975 a month on food, homeschools them all & only has ONE child-free date a year
A MUM who had 10 kids in 10 years has revealed she spends £975-a-month on the food shop and only has one child-free date every year.
Courtney Rogers, 36, was a virgin bride when she married pastor husband Chris, 32, in October 2008 – and has not been more than nine months without being pregnant since.
The couple, who have six boys and four girls aged between nine months and 10 years, also home-school their brood and ferry them around the neighbourhood where they live on a 12 acre plot in Santa Fe county, New Mexico, USA, in a 15 seater van.
Their monthly food bills are $1,200 (£975) and in January they were forced to cut out all meals and days out, as they were costing them well over $1,000 (£812) a month.
The kids wear hand-me-down clothes and shoes, with stay-at-home mum Courtney hitting the sales to save money.
But they still go on holiday every year, camping near their family in Georgia, 1,500 miles away, with the trip costing $1,000 (£812) on travel and expenses.
Courtney and Chris also never buy Christmas presents for each other, so they can afford to spend $100 each – £812 total – on their brood.
"We want to have more if we can," said Courtney. "We want to have 12 children, a family of 14 even.
"My husband is the eldest of 10, so before we got married, he joked about having as many as his mum had.
"The kids want us to be like the film Cheaper by the Dozen, where the parents compromise their careers to raise 12 children.
"Having several kids in diapers at once and having lots of strollers – this is normal life to us."
The morning is the most hectic part of the day – there is always so much going on, with kids running everywhere
Parents across Britain have been tearing their hair out since schools shut due to coronavirus, but Courtney and Chris, who were both homeschooled, insist teaching their kids isn't a chore.
The parents also run a farm of their 12-acres of lands, with two bottle-fed lambs, as well as dogs and chickens.
"I love having them with me all the time and seeing them learn and knowing what they are learning," said Courtney, who also teaches local kids at church Sunday school.
"I can adapt the lessons to each child and I don't have to make them sit for hours all day. I love how it's flexible and the kids can run around outside or feed the lambs between lessons.
"I'm more like a tutor. I'll set the children work to do and they will come up to me and ask me questions about it.
"I've often got a baby in my arms, or I'm changing a nappy and I'll have four kids queuing up to ask me a maths question."
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Mum to Clint, 10, Clay, eight, Cade, seven, Callie, six, Cash, five, twins Colt and Case, four, Calena, two, Caydue, 21 months and Coralee, 10 months, Courtney has had seven vaginal births, two C-sections (one of which was to twins) and also sadly had two miscarriages.
She and Chris met through mutual friends at church camp in Georgia in 2007, then spent a year living 300 miles apart – her in North Carolina and him in Georgia.
They got married in October 2008 and Courtney, the eldest of six kids, discovered she was pregnant two months later.
"Sadly, I had a miscarriage," she said. "When I got that positive result, it was a dream come true, but then we lost it in the December."
Just five months later, she fell pregnant again, with their firstborn Clint. Several babies later, they moved from Georgia to New Mexico.
Courtney, who has never suffered with morning sickness, said: "I love being pregnant. I love growing another person inside me, thinking about what they will be like and picking out names."
Courtney doesn't like using birth control but swears it isn't for religious reasons and says her massive family is a personal choice.
"Some people think it's for religious reasons, but it's not," she said.
"I am the only mum at our church who has lots of kids. I think the most anyone else has is four.
"I have never been comfortable going on birth control, as I don't like the idea of taking a pill."
Courtney and Chris' life in numbers
£975 – their monthly food shop
15 – the number of seats in their van
12 – the number of acres on their New Mexico farm
21 – the number of clothes washes Courtney does every week
£812 – the amount it costs them to go on a camping holiday each year
Courtney and Chris normally wake at 7.30am, seeing to baby Coralee and making a breakfast of cereal and fruit for the other kids, who wake at 8am.
"The morning is the most hectic part of the day – there is always so much going on, with kids running everywhere," Courtney said.
The older children, who each have chores to make sure the day runs smoothly, help clear up after breakfast and Courtney starts her day of classes – giving the kids a break after a few hours to help bottle feed the lambs.
"On a good day, I will also get three washing machine loads of clothes etc done," she said.
"Then everybody helps out with lunch – it will be something like sandwiches or leftovers – and I'll put the little ones down for their afternoon nap, while the other kids watch a movie or get their chores done."
I had my first baby when I was 25. I didn't think they would all come so fast, but I wouldn't change it
Chris is usually home for dinner, which could be lamb fajitas or pizza, but sometimes works late, doing odd jobs like landscaping, construction or helping with renovations, to bring in extra cash – while they also plan to rent out a new property on their land.
The couple, who seldom argue, even try and do their bit for the environment by using cloth nappies and wipes during the day and bamboo nappies at night, which can be composted.
Meanwhile, despite the World Health Organization recommending a gap of 18 to 24 months between pregnancies, Courtney – who was advised by doctors after her caesareans to try and leave a longer time if she wants to have vaginal births – sees no reason to stop having children any time soon.
"I've been told there is a higher risk of haemorrhaging if you have lots of babies, but that's never been something which has worried or affected me, because I give birth in hospitals so they are prepared," she said.
"I had my first baby when I was 25. I didn't think they would all come so fast, but I wouldn't change it."
Not all Courtney's pregnancies and births have been without incident.
Baby number three, Cade, came so quickly that Courtney gave birth to him on the driveway outside their house.
I have been criticised for having them so close together, but I take good care of myself and my babies
"That's our exciting birth story," she said. "I began to get contractions on his due date.
"After the in-laws picked up the oldest two boys, we headed to the hospital to be checked and monitored.
"I was already 3cm dilated, but after a while on the monitor, my contractions basically stopped and the nurse got instructions to send me home.
"We arrived home around 2am, exhausted, and went straight to bed. A few hours later, I woke up with a horrible pain.
"I called the hospital again and was told to come in, so made my way outside, but when I got to the car, I couldn't go any further. It was time to push."
Paramedics arrived just in time to deliver Cade on the driveway.
"From the time I woke up, to the delivery was only 15 to 20 minutes," said Courtney, who has given birth to most of her babies alone.
"For most of my births, Chris has dropped me off at hospital, then had to go home to look after the other kids."
Baby number four, Callie, was a caesarean delivery, due to complications caused by placenta previa – when the placenta partially or totally covers the mother's cervix.
This meant Courtney started bleeding at just over 33 weeks, prompting the emergency caesarean.
She then had a second caesarean with the twins.
And she had a second miscarriage at 11 weeks when she fell pregnant after having Colt and Case, who were born six weeks early in September 2015, weighing just 4lbs 6oz and 3lbs 8oz, respectively.
"When the twins were five months old, I fell pregnant again," she said.
"But I had a miscarriage at 11 weeks, which was hard, because it was further along than my first miscarriage."
At one point, bringing up seven children under the age of six, even Courtney admits it was "challenging."
"I could not go anywhere on my own and it stopped me from doing anything alone," she said. "It's easier now they are all older."
Still, Courtney is quick to shoot down in flames anyone who criticises her and Chris for having such a massive family.
She said: "I have been criticised for having them so close together, but I take good care of myself and my babies.
"The people who ask how I can give all my kids enough attention are usually those who send their kids off to school.
"I do not understand their logic when I am around my kids 24 hours a day."
10 kids in 10 years
March 13, 2010 – Clint was born weighing 8lbs 14oz
July 26, 2011 – Clay was born weighing 7lbs 13oz
September 16, 2012 – Cade was born weighing 6lbs 9oz
July 25, 2013 – Callie was born weighing 4lbs 8oz
October 24, 2014 – Cash was born weighing 7lbs 6oz
September 12, 2015 – Colt was born weighing 4 lbs 6 oz
September 12, 2015 – Case was born weighing 3lbs 8oz
May 9, 2017 – Calena was born weighing 6 lbs 6oz
June 10, 2018 – Caydie was born weighing 7lbs 9oz
June 6, 2019 – Coralee was born weighing 8lbs 9oz
Courtney and Chris always make sure that none of their children miss out – particularly at Christmas.
She said: "We start celebrating right at the beginning of November, with music and decorations.
"We get them all new pyjamas, an outfit for Christmas Day and we get each of them three or four presents, plus stocking fillers.
"We ask them what they want and we can usually get everything they ask for.
"I do not regret having so many children – the more the merrier as far as I'm concerned.
"Chris and I love being parents and, as a family, we have a great time together."
You can follow Courtney on Instagram @littlehouseinthehighdesert.
Meanwhile, Sue Radford previously revealed she and her family get death stares on the street as they exercise during lockdown.
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Patrick Lee Dimon, 73, of Rustic, Colorado, died Sunday, Jan. 8 at his home overlooking the mountains. He was born Sept. 26, 1938, to Lee and Harriette (Falls) Dimon in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Patrick graduated from Bemidji State Teacher's College where he met and later married Abi Noid (Bauer) June 23, 1962. They were married for 23 years.
Patrick made a difference in many students' lives teaching elementary school in Wayzata, Minnesota; and in the Poudre Canyon, Red Feather Lakes, and Fort Collins, Colorado. All of his students mattered to him. He enjoyed good books and made it a point to read to his class every afternoon. He never forgot a joke — his joy came from making friends and making people laugh.
Patrick loved telling a story, collecting antiques, writing poems, giving gifts and creating hilarious Christmas pageants. After retiring from teaching, Patrick took pride in working for Canyon Utilities.
He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer, and son-in-law, Justin Rogers of Livermore, Colorado, and his grandson, Kyle Lindahl of Chino Valley, Arizona; his three brothers, Richard Dimon of Lead Hill, Arkansas; Gerald Dimon of Lincoln, Nebraska; James Dimon of Axtell, Nebraska; and his sister, Deborah Dimon of Greeley, Colorado, and their families as well as "Oly and Sven" of Northern Minnesota.


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Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, headed by Dr MS Gill, has officially released the details of the money sanctioned by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to train coaches, athletes both in India as well as abroad and giving exposure to the athletes in various international events in order to prepare them for 19th Commonwealth Games that was held in New Delhi from October 3-14.
This money is in addition to the Rs 642 crore to conduct the games and another Rs 400 crore sanctioned by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on direction from PMO four days before the start of the games to take care of contigency expenditure incurred by the organizing committee.
According to sources within the Indian Olympic Association India lost more then Rs1600 crore.
Government sanctioned Rs. 678 crores, over a period of two-and-a-half years for training, foreign exposure, sports and medical equipment, upgradation of training centres, as against around Rs. 40 crores per year earlier.
"Over 1140 players of 18 sports disciplines were trained by 170 Indian coaches and 30 Foreign Coaches. Rs. 450/550 per day, per athlete, diet and food supplements provided, doubling past provisions," says the note issued by the sports ministry.
The entire expenditure, including air travel for all the sportspersons (including domestic travels in India) for coaching camps/competitions from the funds provided by the government including the money spent on 780 support personnel, i.e. sports analysts, doctors, physiologists, psychologists, physiotherapists, masseurs exclusively attached with each team," a source in the sports ministry told rediff.com.
The sportspersons had in all 755 days of training in last two-and-a-half years. This included 530 days of intensive training in India and 225 days of training and competition abroad.
"3760 players (repeat visits included) were sent abroad for competition and training. Rs. 95 crores was provided for participation of athletes, in competitions and trainings abroad. For training and competitions abroad (repeat visits included) expenditure incurred Rs. 20 crores for 596 shooters, Rs. 6.7 crores 411 badminton players, Rs. 5.9 crore for 365 wrestlers, Rs. 5.3 crore for 325 table tennis players, Rs 3.9 crore for 278 athletes, Rs. 2.9 crore for 154 squash players, Rs. 2.9 crore for 233 tennis players, Rs. 2.8 crores for 187 archers, Rs. 1.5 crores for 116 boxers, Rs. 1.3 crore for 74 swimmers and other sports disciplines," the note said.
In addition to this Rs. 2.7 crores provided to provide amunition to the shooters, and 4 elite shooters provided about Rs. 2 crore each for training abroad. Ten training centres for Commonwealth Teams upgraded to International standards. Reward money to medal winners doubled.
Sources in the Organizing Committee said major part of the money released for foreign trips of the key officials involved in the Commonwealth Games who kept on hopping from one country to another in the name of studying the venues and security etc.
A Group of Ministers (GoM), headed by Jaipal Reddy, will look into this aspect while examining details of money being siphoned off by the vested interests.


The Rotary Club of Milton will host a meal packing event that provides meals to children in developing countries. By targeting hunger - specifically by partnering with school feeding programs - we can help combat the world's most challenging issues: disease, poverty, education, gender inequality, child labor and economic decline.
This will be our 5th meal packing event!


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Q: Does quota count on using outhClient Does the quota count if a client ID is using instead of browser key?
Will each user will have different quota limit?
Is there any alteratives for getting free youtube search and list videos with javascript?

A: Quotas are either user based or project based in most of the Google APIs.  However this is not exactly the same with the YouTube API.  The YouTube API is quota cost based.  That means that depending upon which method you are calling the quota can be different.  The quota is set against your project not just the client.  So if you have a project with six client ids and you have applications using all six client ids they are sharing the quota for the project.
The YouTube Data API (v3) - Quota Calculator is useful for estimating your quota usage.

This tool lets you estimate the quota cost for an API query. All API requests, including invalid requests, incur a quota cost of at least one point.
To use the tool, select the appropriate resource, method, and part parameter values for your request, and the approximate quota cost will display in the table. Please remember that quota costs can change without warning, and the values shown here may not be exact.

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There are 11 posts tagged prog (this is page 1 of 2).
Interview with the legend that is Derek Smalls (Spinal Tap).
Prog's Keith Emerson tribute appears this month. It's a great cover but hopefully there won't be another like this very soon.
A nice bit of news to start the New Year. Pre-orders are now being taken for Big Big Train's Blu Ray documentary about how they prepared for their return to live performance. It contains a mix of studio "live" performances and four songs from the momentous London shows back in August.
Pre-orders can be made here.
I took part in the Pledge campaign to help get this thing produced. I've had my name in the booklets of a few CDs now but seeing my name scrolling past over the end credits of a concert DVD induces a different feeling altogether. It's very strange.
It's the time of the year again when we get to pick from a limited pool of artists/events in the Prog Magazine Awards. There are a few strange additions to the nominees which smack of commercial pressure more than a genuine reason for them being there. It's all good publicity for the magazine and the music though so I'm taking part again and here are my votes for this year.
Anthem – Wassail by Big Big Train. Once again the Big Big Train song is the only one that could be called an "anthem" in my opinion.
Live Event – The Enid Present the Bridge. No contest really.
Album Of The Year – Hand Cannot Erase by Steven Wilson. Best of the nominees by far. Could change in the real end of year poll though.
Band/Artist Of The Year – Steven Wilson is the only nominee I could vote for here rather predictably. I've never heard of one of the bands nominated.
This excellent Canterbury style prog-jazz album was brought to my attention by a Facebook friend. It's "name your price" download but I think it's worth at least a dollar per song of anyone's money.
If you love National Health/Hatfield And The North etc this will band will be up your street.


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Local venture uplifts Nauaspoort, Groot Aub communities
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A local business entity, Crewfield Investments has pledged to establish community gardening projects and a medical centre which will uplift the Nauaspoort and Groot Aub communities.
Crewfield Investments Chief Operating Officer, Honest Madzivadondo speaking after meeting Windhoek Rural Constituency Councillor Penina Inga-Iita on Wednesday to discuss the two projects, said him and his partners plan to construct a health centre in Groot Aub area as well as encourage food production in Nauaspoort through gardening projects.
"It is so painful to observe that millions of dollars are being spent on food imports in the process thus tempering with employment creation. On that same note, Namibia's sole dependence on imported food from South Africa (mainly) and other countries is at the edge of creating a social dysfunction," he said, adding the gardening projects will provide sustainable food production for the community.
According to Madzivadondo, empirical evidence supports that the growth of the agricultural sector might have a significant role to play in the economy.
"This may be in the form of providing food, employment, income, foreign exchange, and creating demand for capital investments. Agriculture also supports other sectors such as transport, manufacturing, plastic packaging," he noted.
Madzivadondo said that his team is glad that the councilor welcomed their proposal for the establishment of a private medical centre in Groot Aub to cater for the community.
"The settlement only has one clinic to care for the whole population and some residents have to travel to Windhoek of Rehoboth to seek treatment. It is against this background that we decided to open up an alternative health centre for the community that will operate 24hrs," he said.
Councillor Inga-Iita welcomed the proposals, saying that instead of a feeding programme, the gardening project will create independence for the residents while also providing them with horticulture skills and employment.
"Ideally, a feeding project would've been welcomed but it is not sustainable and will likely create a culture of dependency in our residents. The gardening project is a well enough investment that will feed and employ the residents of our town Nauaspoort," she said.
Meanwhile, during the visit to the Groot Aub Constituency Office on Wednesday, Crewfield Investments donated three boxes of ethanol-based sanitizer and 150 surgical masks which will be divided among the school, police station and council office to help combat COVID-19.
The visit also entailed a visit to the erven where the proposed health centre will be situated and the team also visited the gardening pilot phase underway.
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Q: How to catch an exception which UnhandledException unable to catch it We have a desktop application and are using a third party that wrote by C++. We are using the library's methods in our whole application.
We have handled AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException and Application.ThreadException events for catching the unhandled exceptions, and we are expecting to catch all the exceptions in the UnhandledException event.
Now the problem is when some methods in the library throw an exception, UnhandledException and ThreadException events can not catch the exception, and the entire application crashes.
Why don't we use "try/catch"?
Because there are a lot of classes that use the library, and we are looking for a general solution to the problem.
Question:
Why can we not catch the exception in UnhandledException event which raises from the method uses the library's methods?
Request:
Is there any way to catch the exceptions on a general scale?
Thank you so much for your attention and participation.


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Q: Application stuck while presenting new VC in swift I'm trying to present a new VC, but when I hit the code application get stuck and I can't do anything. It's quite a weird issue, how can I get out of it? My code for presenting new VC is this,
let vc : PropertyDetailController! =
        UIStoryboard.viewController(identifier: "PropertyDetailController", storyBoard: "Explore") as? PropertyDetailController

    vc.propertyDetailData = property
    vc.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
    vc.modalTransitionStyle = .crossDissolve
    vc.modalPresentationStyle = .fullScreen
    self.navigationController?.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

This is what it shows in console,
Make a symbolic breakpoint at UIViewAlertForUnsatisfiableConstraints to catch this in the debugger.
The methods in the UIConstraintBasedLayoutDebugging category on UIView listed in <UIKitCore/UIView.h> may also be helpful.

It isn't present new VC. This is how it my apps stuck please check gif link,
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A: As I can see in your code you are moving to the new storyboard so it's necessary to move it on through the UINavigationController
Blow one is the sample code that might help you
let storyBoard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "YOUR_STORYBOARD", bundle: nil)
let aVC: YOUR_VC = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "YOUR_VC_ID") as! YOUR_VC
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: aVC)
self.present(navigationController, animated: true, completion: nil)

A: First make sure current view controller embedded with Navigation Controller.
Now use below code to fix this issue.
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Explore", bundle: nil)

        guard let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "PropertyDetailController") as? PropertyDetailController else {return}
        vc.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
        vc.modalTransitionStyle = .crossDissolve
        vc.modalPresentationStyle = .fullScreen
        self.navigationController?.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

A: if you want to present a view controller, try
self.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
if you want to push a view controller, try
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)

A: Try moving the push code to main thread,
DispatchQueue.main.async {[weak self] in
    self?.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
}

Either present or push, all the UI handling must be done on the main thread.
Edit:
If you want to present vc, use
DispatchQueue.main.async {[weak self] in
    self?.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
}


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Cultural Extravaganza returns to celebrate our vibrant Singapore Chinese culture!
Cultural Extravaganza returns to celebrate our vibrant Singapore Chinese culture! - Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre
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Singapore, 6 May 2019 – Enjoy a musical performance that boldly fuses Peranakan influences with traditional Nanyin, listen to multi-lingual retellings of lesser-known Singapore legends and myths, learn more about our daily cup of coffee, experience heart-stopping street circus acts and more! Come and witness our Chinese culture come alive at the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre's signature programme, Cultural Extravaganza 2019. Returning for its 3rd edition from 24 May to 15 June, the Festival will feature an immersive and entertaining line-up of programmes for people from all walks of life, inviting all to rediscover cultural influences intertwined in our everyday life.
Mr Low Sze Wee, CEO of the Cultural Centre, said, "Culture is all around us. Through Cultural Extravaganza 2019, we hope to cast a spotlight on the many ways in which our evolving local Chinese culture has influenced our social practices, language, music and other art forms. We are delighted to partner many local talents to present our culture in enjoyable ways through a diverse line-up of programmes. We hope that the Festival will kickstart everyone's journey in discovering more about our distinctive culture, and inspire them to appreciate the strong connections that bind us."
Local Partners Present A Feast for Your Senses
Participants can look forward to three weeks of programmes specially presented by local arts groups in fresh and innovative ways. It will be a treat for your senses from visually spectacular performances with heart-stopping action to insightful exhibitions about our way of life, soothing tunes that provide a respite from our hectic daily lives, gastronomical delights to delight our taste-buds and not forgetting plenty of hands-on opportunities at our workshops and fairs.
Cultural Extravaganza 2019 will kick off with a cross-cultural musical performance Memoirs of Nanyang by Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award's first recipient Siong Leng Musical Association. The musical tells a cross-generational tale of an immigrant in Nanyang who grapples with his constant longing for home. This performance will highlight the Association's bold fusion of traditional Nanyin music with more contemporary Malay and pop tunes for the first time.
The Festival will also see the return of a hallmark of Singapore's early entertainment scene – circus acts and street wayang. Singapore's very own community circus Bornfire will be presenting Circus by the People (不马虎,不儿戏) – a visual spectacle of juggling acts, diabolo spinning, and aerial performances; while GroundZ-0 Street Theatre will redefine storytelling and uncover the lesser known legends and myths of Singapore with an interactive retro game show ISland TaleS – A Multi-lingual Street Wayang (岛屿传奇).
Culture in our everyday lives
Many may not be aware of the impact of Singapore Chinese culture on the way we live, work, study and play! Be ready for an exciting and enriching experience at Cultural Extravaganza 2019. Visitors can find out more about our culture through comics at the Creative Market, and craft products by local independent brands while shopping at the Sing Life Collective Market. Planning a wedding or reminiscing the day you walked down the aisle? Join us for a special exhibition which traces how Chinese wedding traditions of the different dialect groups have evolved over the years and reflect about how different it is then and now.
Visitors can also learn more about our culture through a series of hands-on workshops. A topic very close to everyone's heart – our local breakfast, will be brought to the forefront at Nanyang Coffee Exhibition and Workshop. Participants will learn how Singapore's quintessential cup of kopi, kaya toast, and traditional teh came to be through a series of interactive experiences by Kossip (口加口非). Other workshop programmes will allow you to hone your imagination with a Peranakan beading and tile colouring workshop; get crafty by creating miniature clay art pieces of local biscuits; and even try your hand at being a percussion artist with Drum Feng.
Visitors will be immersed in an auditory feast of original compositions across musical genres – from popular tunes performed by the Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra at Reverberance of Youth II and youth ensemble Reverberance at Evolution of Chinese Wind Percussion; swing tunes at Jazz It Up!; to Chinese chorale music curated by Singapore Chinese Cultural Contribution Award 2018 recipient Mr Lee Yuk Chuan for Our Home. Peranakan Sayang also promises a good laugh with their new song parody "Come and Play Mahjong", at Peranakan Sayang in Concert.
The Festival's much-anticipated finale, crowd favourite Sing.Lang Concert will also make a grand return this year, with local headliners such as Kit Chan, A-do, Nathan Hartono and Gentle Bones. Featuring stalwarts of our local music scene, to next generation singers, who are all making waves in international music markets, concert-goers can jive to a night of great tunes! Distinguished music producer for many of Asia's top stars Ruth Ling will return to helm the concert as the executive producer and creative director, while accomplished homegrown music maestro Jimmy Ye will once again take up the mantle of co-creative director.
Through a selection of programmes that cuts across genres and themes, there is something for everyone at Cultural Extravaganza 2019 to enjoy and uncover the cultural influences in our daily lives. The Festival will be held across various locations within the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (1 Straits Boulevard, Singapore 018906). Registration for selected programmes and performances starts 6 May 2019, kindly visit https://www.singaporeccc.org.sg/series/ce2019 for more details.
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Q: Xcode 4, How to make other buttons fall off the screen after one is pushed. As an example, I have 5 IBActions declared. When I push one, I want the other 4 to fall down off the screen. Any idea how to do this? Would I define a translation for each other IBAction??

A: A UIButton is a UIView. You can animate movement of a UIView; that movement can be to a position offscreen. (See the section under "animation" in the UIView class reference: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/uiview_class/uiview/uiview.html) You might then want to remove the now-invisible buttons from their superview (in which case you'd need to retain them somehow or they might cease to exist), but you don't have to.
You will need a way to refer to the UIButtons. You can use IBOutlets for this, or you can "tag" the buttons in Interface Builder and use -[UIView viewWithTag:] to find the buttons you want to animate.
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Record Number of Smolts Transported in Norway
12 August 2009, at 1:00am
NORWAY - A fishing company has just completed the transfer of the largest quantity of living salmon between two northern zone countries.
The operation was carried out by Samherji's fish farming subsidiary Islandsbleikja when a ship docked at Kirkenes in northern Norway with 600,000 living salmon smolts worth around £650,000 .
Smolt' is connected solely with salmonid types of fish, and describes the stage when the young freshwater fish is first able to survive in saltwater
They came from two Icelandic fish farms.The smolts were about one year old and their average weight was 100g. The operation started in Thorlakshofn where a truck brought them to the harbour where they were floated onboard the ship Romaster from Norway.
According to Samherji, which has interests in Scotland and England, the ship sailed to Grindavik where more smolts were pumped through a pipe all the way out to the ship, about 400 meters offshore. This part of the transfer took about 24 hours. The Romaster is the largest vessel of its kind (specially equipped to carry live fish) and this operation is the largest ever executed both in regard to distance and quantity.
Jon Kjartan Jonsson, Manager of Islandsbleikja said: "I cannot deny this was a stressful week, the risk was substantial and very important that everything would add up. Transporting live smolts is a very delicate operation and nothing must go wrong, especially with this large quantity and long distance."
They will be bred for another year before ending on European dinner plates.
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When you apply Snapchat geofilters creatively, these can help you engage your community, increase brand awareness, and reach new audiences. All of this results in increased profitability. In this article, we will list some unique ways to increase profitability through the use of Snapchat geofilters for business.
Geofilters make it easier for a business to engage its audience and promote their product or brand. These are a few ways you can use Snapchat geofilters to increase profitability for your business.
You can announce new product launches and showcase them through using a Snapchat geofilter. So when you are trying to capture the attention of your target audience for new products, go for a Snapchat geofilter.
You can create a Snapchat geofilter so that your employees can use them. They can use the geofilter and share with their communities. Your employees can also share the goings-on and the details of the events taking place at the office. Sharing your company's events and other details like this will encourage other people to want to join your office.
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Bush presidential photographer Draper shares insight in Lubbock
By Jayme LozanoA-J Media
The doors to the Oval Office were opened for Lubbockites this week as President George W. Bush's Chief Photographer Eric Draper showed exclusive photos and shared his stories at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center at Texas Tech.
Draper was Bush's photographer for the entire time he was president and saw Bush in every role imaginable - as Commander-in-Chief, a father, a husband and even a dog owner. Draper shared stories from his unique experience at the event, hosted Monday by the West Texas Photographers, to give them the full picture.
"Having the opportunity to give a complete view of my eight years in the White House is a unique opportunity," said Draper. "The whole process was fascinating. Traveling around the country during campaigns, I traveled to 70 countries with President Bush, it was an incredible experience to witness that and it makes me humble because this country is truly great."
Draper was also with President Bush during the most critical time in his presidency - when the Sept. 11 attacks occurred. Bush found out about the attacks while visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, and Draper learned about it as Bush did.
"We knew about the first plane, which we all thought was an accident," Draper recalled. "Unfortunately, we learned about the second plane and knew that America was under attack. It was a nightmare that day in terms of how bad it got with the Pentagon getting hit and Flight 93 still airborne, it was all happening at the same time."
While he wants to offer a complete view of Bush's presidency, Draper doesn't want to share his stories to change people's opinions of the former president.
"I hope people can understand my point-of-view as an eyewitness and literally having a front-row seat to history," said Draper. "Hopefully they can understand and have a little more depth of what actually happened by someone who was there the entire time. I'm not looking to change anyone's mind politically; I was there for history."
Eventually, Draper was named Special Assistant to the President before their time at the White House was finished. The full story is one Draper always intended to tell and has through his book, "Front Row Seat," that has 150 of Draper's photos from his time with Bush.
"I wanted to finish the story of being with the president for the first time he walked through the Oval Office doors to being there eight years later walking out the same door, I wanted to be there for the whole story," said Draper.
Draper's book "Front Row Seat" is available on Amazon and his website, www.ericdraperphotography.com.


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The Isle of Man, by Charlotte Robson & Ashleigh Howe.
On Wednesday we both got the train to Heysham and boarded the ferry to Douglas, there was a Great Rail Journeys group on the ferry so we spoke to the TM, Yvonne Cox, who was very helpful and knew lots about the Isle of Man. On arrival in Douglas we were met by representatives from IOM Transport, given welcome packs and transferred to our hotel. We were staying at the Ascot and checked into our huge rooms, a superior room at the back of the hotel and a sea view room at the front. In the evening we ate a lovely meal at the Ascot and went into Douglas to explore what the Isle of Man has to offer.
Today we got up and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast at the Ascot, where there was a wide selection of all you would expect for breakfast, with a special toaster area for gluten free guests.
We then met the Isle of Man Transport representatives and enjoyed running commentary from a lovely blue badge guide called Jane We set off on a day of exploring, we crossed the fairy bridge on the way and had to say good morning to the fairies before visiting Rushen Abbey, a Cistercian monastery that turned into a nightclub before being bought by the Manx National Heritage in the early 2000s.
We then went to Castletown, the ancient capital of the Isle of Man and a lovely little town to explore. We visited the Old House of Keys and Castle Rushen, one of the best preserved Medieval castles in Europe! Then we went on to the Cregneash Folk Museum, the first of its kind in the world, and saw the resident Manx cat, Bonnie.
Then it was time for lunch so we made our way to the Sound Cafe, which looks over the Calf of Man, a lovely little island from which we saw a lot of seals. The view from the Sound Cafe is breath-taking. After refuelling we began the scenic drive back to Douglas - learning along the way that the island doesn't have foxes or squirrels, but they do have wild wallabies!?!? Blind wallabies too, as they escaped from the zoo and bred. Another interesting fact is that the island has no national speed limit, and of course you cannot drive around the Isle of Man without seeing evidence of the TT races.
Our evening was very enjoyably spent aboard the Pie and Mash Dining steam train, travelling from Douglas to Port Erin whilst we had our main course, indulging with a pudding on the return journey. This was a great experience with six choices of pies, three choices for desert and very efficient service. We had half an hour of free time in Port Erin so we had a quick look in the Isle of Man Railway Museum, went to the port and had a quick drink in the local pub.
We woke up to a damp and rainy day in Douglas, but that wasn't going to stop another day packed with excursions!
After saying a warm goodbye to Sandy at the Ascot hotel, we made our way to the promenade to be picked up and transferred to bungalow station where we were catching the electric tram to Snaefell summit. Located in the north of the island, Snaefell is the Island's only mountain. Standing at 2036 feet above sea level, you are able to see England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the top on a clear day... unfortunately for us... the weather was very foggy.
The tram was made in the 1890s and the interior still boasts traditional with wooden features. Once comfy in our seats we started our ascent which took approximately 10 minutes. A pre-recorded commentary played to tell passengers what they were able to view; the reservoir, the air fields, Castletown, the TT race track, again... due to the weather conditions we couldn't see past the tracks, after admiring a misty haze we went into the coffee shop to warm up.
Next we took the tram to Ramsey via Laxey. (We just managed to see Laxey wheel at a distance from the tram) the journey took about 25 minutes to get to Laxey from Snaefell summit and then a further 40 minutes from Laxey to Ramsey. Once off the tram we transferred to Milntown, which is a stately home set in over fifteen acres of beautiful gardens in the North of the island. This is one of the Island's most historic houses and we toured the gardens with umbrellas at the ready! As well as the gardens they had a collection of classic cars and motorbikes. We also had a quick guided tour of the house and we were advised of some ghostly going ons, with it being Friday 13th we decided to get out of there as quickly as possible!
After lunch at Milntown, we visited the Grove museum as well as the House of Mannanan museum. Then it was onward to the horse and tram stables in Douglas. The stables are still housed in the original Victorian structure, tucked away on the promenade, complete with smithy, feedstock rolling machinery, hay loft and cobbled wash yard. Guided tours of the stables are available on selected dates throughout the season or visitors can explore the stables independently for free. Meet and feed the Shire and Clydesdale horses and learn about their lives, our personal favourite was a horse called Steve - the largest horse at 19 hands. There is also a small exhibition room and gift shop within the stables.
We said farewell to Steve and continued to the Manx Museum for a guided tour to learn more about the history of the Isle of Man before transferring back to the ferry port following our whistle-stop experience on the Isle of Man.


Lately I have been thinking about how there is so much more to food than physical nourishment. Cooking and eating is a feast for all the senses, and feeds the mind as well as the body.
Take our sense of smell; why are scents so emotional? The scent of fresh-ground coffee makes me happy for some reason even though I don't drink a lot of it, and when I smell fried bacon I am instantly transported to the lazy Sunday summer mornings of my childhood by the seaside, when my grandmother fried eggs and bacon for us for breakfast.
Or take our sense of touch, which grounds us in the present moment. It is surely impossible to remain unhappy when pounding a bread dough into submission, and who has not enjoyed the sensual pleasure of a soft-skinned peach?
And as photographers, we know all about translating these intangible enjoyments into the realm of the visual.
A simple orange on a green plate makes for a perfect antidote to the grey weather (Oslo is approaching a record number of overcast days in January and February this year). The orange juice went into this cake, together with other interesting ingredients like honey, vanilla tea and walnuts. Yum!
Such enticing images. They certainly are a feast for all the senses, and an encouragement to make this evening's meal.
That cake looks so good and now you've got my belly grumbling.
Thanks for featuring my rhubarb & coconut flapjack image Jenny. Orange, vanilla tea, honey & walnuts sounds a delicious combination for a cake!
Love this Jenny! And I agree, cooking IS a feast for all senses!
I just discovered this while eating dinner! 🙂 Thanks for featuring an image from my collaboration with my friend Debbie!
Talk about perfect timing 🙂 And it was my pleasure featuring your image!
I need to bake now….inspiring post, Jenny! Thank you for that and for including my Sunday morning table.


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Discussion in 'The 2019 Lone Star Round Up' started by wrenchspinner, Mar 12, 2018.
No top, no wipers, no problem.
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You can stay pretty dry if you go fast enough!!
Here's a few pictures I took at day one of the Lonestar Roundup.
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Saturday turned out to be a real challenge with the weather. The temperature just barely above 40F most of the day and the north wind and drizzle mist made for a chilly day walking outside. My wife and I got to the Roundup early and had our '34 parked in lot "A" by 9:15am. I unloaded our chairs and canopy thinking we would use them later when it warmed up. Then I retreated to the car to warm up and drink some coffee.
I left a couple of times to try to take pictures and stretch my legs (not a lot of room in a 5w coupe) but it was so damn cold my eyes kept watering and it was hard to keep warm. So I would circle back to the car to warm up. My wife made the best of it and we ended up having our lunch picnic inside the car.
So compared to yesterday I shot a pitiful few pictures today. I tacked them on to the end of the same album I linked to in yesterdays post (see quote). just skip to the last page or so of the album if you don't want to see all of yesterdays shots again.
By 2pm my wife and I decided to call it a day and we reloaded everything back into the car and headed out for home. Maybe we will cruise Congress Avenue tonight.
Texas Weather is a B-----! Almost 90 yesterday. Hate to admit I wimped out.
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My photos from Friday and Saturday are here. I think there are just shy of 200.
Left the truck outside of the gate Friday since we didn't plan on staying long. Froze our asses off Saturday, and in the middle of all that, forgot to take a selfie with my wife in front of the neon sign, and forgot to take any pictures of my own truck at the show. Fail.
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Great time at the LSR!
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The Roundup was incredible this year, and I have to congratulate the builders out there... Despite the weather, I think the quality of cars this year was the best I've seen. Some truly nice rides. Everywhere I turned with my frozen wind-burned brain, I saw something awe-inspiring. Good job everyone... And thanks for sharing them with us all.
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Thanks all for the great coverage.
If someone would kindly let me know if the link works I'd appreciate it. Had a blast today, looking forward to the rest of the weekend.
Thanks Man, nice pic of my Wifeys Merc.
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Thanks! If she'd like a copy of the file let me know, I'll forward it along without the water mark.
I built the blue model a with the deuce bumpers for my 78 year old boss he was very happy to see pictures of it here thanks it made his day and mine !!
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LOOKS LIKE A GOOD!!!!!! TIME I WISH I WAS THERE> MAYBE NEXT YEAR.
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Social Media Weekly Update – August 11, 2017
Grow your social media following with suggestions from this week's Social Media Weekly Update!
8 Ways to Optimize Your Facebook Page by Ann Smarty: "Back in March 2017, Facebook reported 1.94 billion monthly active users (1.28 billion daily active users). Obviously, it's the marketing channel no business can ignore. Yet, too many small businesses do not understand how to utilize the platform properly: In May 2017, a study of over 4,700 US small businesses found that only 24 percent were seeing positive ROI on Facebook."
18 Instagram Stats Every Marketer Should Know for 2017 from Sprout Social: "Instagram is indubitably a top superpower amongst rival social networks LinkedIn, Twitter and even IG's own parent company, Facebook. As of April 2017, Instagram currently has over 700 million monthly active users. To put this into perspective, that's over double the monthly active users of Twitter and three times as much for monthly active users on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger."
5 Exciting Social Media and Marketing Trends to Know in 2017 from Buffer: "What if you could predict the future and gain access to the latest social media and marketing trends that will eventually make a huge difference in your business? And what if you could take that knowledge and prioritize the channels and networks of tomorrow, today? You're in luck! The social media and marketing trends that once seemed like science fiction are quickly becoming a reality for marketers everywhere. Now, it's just a matter of identifying which channels and trends to embrace in your overall marketing strategy that will have the greatest impact."
Innovative Ways to Create Content That Gets Shared via Peg Fitzpatrick: "Your most important online asset is your content.1 It attracts clients to you and encourages prospects to take action. However, creating compelling content that engages your audience and inspires them to share that content with their community can feel elusive."
How to Grow Your Facebook Following: A 6-Step Plan from Social Media Examiner: "Looking for new ways to grow your Facebook audience? Have you considered targeting prospects by interests that are related to your product? In this article, you'll discover how to grow a specialized audience on Facebook in six steps."
Frances Caballo is a social media strategist and manager and the author of six books on social media. Click here to schedule an appointment with her.Interested in marketing a book you wrote? Visit Frances at SocialMediaJustforWriters.com.


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Ok , well it was a trying weekend for quite a few personal and professional reasons. First up .. Rula Bula an Irish pub, it was next to the theater that would be showing our movie for the afternoon. Place, like Tempe was dead at 1330 on the kind of day St Patrick would be outside shouting about reptiles. The ones smarter than him that had left that godforsaken isle by never going there:) Anyway they did have cider but not on draught and certainly you could taste the storage mechanism.. boo. Their fish and chips though are pretty damn good, reasonably priced but the rest of the fare is the usual let's attach cute names to food and find a tenuous link back to the old country ( their's not mine). No black pudding on a menu.. sorry you're not Irish anything at that stage.
Movie was part dva of a Russian trilogy called Daywatch which takes the perennial G vs E ( I miss that show) storyline but set in contemporary Russian ( mainly Moscow) which is a nice change. I should talk more about it later since there's a nice cross between the Matrix, LOTR with much that's missing from the US variants which have G and have E and apart from those turned or twisted, you know excused from responsibility, you pretty much stay in the camp you came in with.
Prior to this we'd been to Helmet Harbor to peruse safety gear for the bike, wallet got into quite a collision here. I left with nothing other than proof that at least two helmets fit me, both not available in white ergo no sale made. I don't mind buying locally to keep people going but I'm not going to drive 20 miles to not find it and then order it to go back.The alternative is getting it $20 cheaper with no tax online + $6 saved on gas mmm no brainer.


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The Black Forest Cuckoo Clock
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Yesterday, the publisher for the Tippecanoe Gazette, Dale Grimm notified the public that the 12/5/2018 edition of the paper would be their last. Employees were informed of this on Monday, just two days prior to the public announcement.
As some of you, but not most of you know, it was TippNews Daily that was created in 2007 as a direct result of the announcement of the last publish date for the Independent Voice. At that time, there were several serious economic development changes happening in town, a political race, an accident with injuries and the death of a beloved resident that left residents totally uninformed, and in the dark as there was no "local news source" to cover these happenings.
I think we've all gotten accustomed to the Dayton media outlets ignoring the happenings in our hamlet. Unless it's a BIG STORY with drugs, violence or intrigue, it won't be considered newsworthy.
So, in 2007 I made the strategic decision to support the community's thirst for local news with a digital news outlet. Primarily, because it's something that I know, and printing and layout are things I have no business knowing about. So, off to the citizen journalism road we went. I collected up a series of amazing writers (many of them published authors and acclaimed photographers now…) and got to the work of the people, for the people.
Then in 2008/2009 if memory serves, Mike Jackson and Tara Dixon Engel got together to publish a "real paper" again. The idea was to service the needs of the public that still cherished the physical news being delivered to their doorstep, getting ink all over their fingers and clothes, and then had an item of utility that could be tossed into the bottom of the bird-cage when completely read.
Mike and Tara really did step up the news game in Tipp, so much so that I decided to "kindly step aside" and not sell ads on TippNews Daily anymore. It was my small tip of the hat to the weekly challenges and tribulations that occur in the newspaper and news industry.
Consider waking up in the morning where your business is to be super inquisitive (nosey), deliver perfect grammar/spelling at all times, exhibit skills in graphic design, layout and photography, the "patience of Job" when it comes to working with squirrely printers that are willing to provide short-run news-printing, deal with the costs of ink, paper and postage going up and up, as well as the lack of consideration from both those wanting you to publish "their news" as well as from those that choose to read the news you put effort into writing and publishing.
News publishers regularly are chastised by the public for not getting it right (aka, writing the news as they see it), not delivering it right, or over-covering/ under-covering the news. In 11 years of publishing, I can only recall 2-3 times when someone thanked me for publishing an article about something.
That brings me back to Dale Grimm. This is a guy I've seen hauling papers in and out of buildings in the pouring rain, snow and sleet. Walking the paper-routes like he was 14 again because his teenage delivery boy/girl was sick or out of town for a week. And then the level of hustle this guy had with the newspaper. I can't tell you how many occasions I'd be out at an event and this guy was pressing copies of the paper into people's hands or trying to sell ads in an age when newspapers are all but a forgotten media type.
Currently (and even going back 15 years or more) there is no money in printing news. Businesses are barely able to break even in this endeavor. Cost cutting in an age of digital news means papers can only afford to print articles written not by journalists, but rather by barely literate folks that are totally OK with getting paid $10 bucks an article. I had to laugh when Tipp's former AD told me that I "made a mint" on publishing sports scores and that I needed to pay him to get those scores in TippNews Daily. At the time, I think I had $40/mos in revenue for our fledgling online news site so I had to take a hard pass on his "offer".
Today, I'd like to tip my hat to guys like Dale Grimm, Mike Jackson, Tara Dixon Engel, Carla Ungrecht, Matt Black, John Kessler and Matt Bayman who all traversed the uneven and thankless roads of publishing print news for Tipp Citians.
One thing that TippNews Daily CAN'T do is be the "publisher of record" of all City notices. This is something has yet to be dealt with by the ORC, where only "paper" publications "count" when it comes to providing "due notice" of things. Eventually that will change, but for now, the City of Tipp City is going to have to start paying a mint to publish their "due notice" using other, vastly more expensive ways.
This is officially the 11,657th article published since 2007 by unpaid, citizen journalists. Articles that meet our publishing criteria are received and published at no cost and are added to articles published across the rest of our syndicated network of news sites. My marketing company will continue to bear the expenses involved in hosting and keeping Tipp City news online and available 24x7x365.
Sort of like "old-timey" news, our online site has categories like "Local News" and "National News" and if what you send us is your opinion rather than facts, it goes into the "Opinion" category. Pretty simple.
It's a sad day to lose the Tippecanoe Gazette, for sure. But… I honestly would never wish that work (or that meager paycheck) on my worst enemy. Thank you, Dale, for your love and support of our community. Please enjoy this blessed holiday without a crazy deadline or delivery.