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Dalai Lama finds happiness in Blair Castle shortbread
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The Dalai Lama was so impressed by the home-made shortbread he tasted on a visit to Blair Castle that he asked if he could take some away with him.
The Tibetan spiritual leader arrived at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, Perthshire, on Saturday morning with an entourage of around 25 people as part of a visit to Scotland.
After being shown arround the ground floor of the castle and the magnificent ballroom, the Dalai Lama and his party were offered coffee, tea and the Highlander Shortbread – the shortbread is made to a unique recipe for the Atholl Highlanders, the only private army in Europe.
Leigh Creighton, general manager for Blair Castle's caterers, Sodexo Prestige in Scotland, said: "I was asked to welcome the Dalai Lama and offered him something to eat and drink. I offered him some of our shortbread, but he only wanted half a piece.
"He loved the shortbread so much that he asked if he could take some away with him, so we were delighted to prepare a little doggy bag for him. It was really fabulous to get the chance to meet such an important world figure as the Dalai Lama, and the fact that he loved our very own special recipe shortbread was just wonderful."
Sarah Troughton, head trustee of Atholl Estates, led the Dalai Lama through the castle, passing the weaponry and stags' heads lining the walls.
"I think the visit went very well. He is such a charming man, I think he would make sure it would go well," she said. "He was very interested in the history of the Atholl Highlanders and how they paraded. We showed him the ballroom and he was interested in everything there, particularly the portraits of various Dukes in Highland dress. That sparked quite an interest. He is very interested clearly in the natural world. He was asking about the birds that were here and he was fascinated by all the wild flowers he had seen. He was particularly interested in the rhododendrons which he said were rather small compared to the ones in his part of the world, which I dare say is true."
The Dalai Lama was then given a guided door of Blair's historic 18th century gardens, which feature a walled garden, wooded grove, red deer park, ruined kirk and gothic folly before moving on to Inverness for the next stage of his two day visit to the Scottish Highlands.


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Elitch Gardens in Denver sold to local…
Elitch Gardens in Denver sold to local investment team led by Kroenke
Amusement park goers ride the Blazin' Buckaroo at Elitch Gardens Theme and Water Park in Denver, May 3, 2013.
By Jason Blevins | jblevins@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 5, 2015 at 9:26 am | UPDATED: April 24, 2016 at 6:52 am
Elitch Gardens has returned to local ownership as an investment team led by a Denver real estate firm and backed by Stan Kroenke announced they were purchasing the 125-year-old theme and water park.
Denver's Revesco Properties has partnered with Kroenke Sports Entertainment, which owns the Pepsi Center, the Paramount Theatre, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, the Colorado Avalanche, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Mammoth, and Colorado Rapids, and Second City Real Estate in the undisclosed deal.
The new ownership group will keep 21-year-old Premier Parks as the operator with a new management contract that will not change the park's current management or staff.
Premier Parks, which operates 12 theme and water parks across the country and once owned Elitch Gardens, took over operation of Elitch Gardens in 2013 and grew park attendance 28 percent last year.
Despite the presence of two residential and commercial investors, the partnership has no plans for developing the park. There is no empty land in the deal; it's all park. And there have been no talks about redevelopment, Revesco CEO Rhys Duggan said.
"We love the park. It's a great business that just happens to be located on an important piece of land for the city," said Duggan, who owns the Shoppes at Castle Rock and LoHi's Old Major restaurant building. "There is no redevelopment plan. It's a great opportunity to buy an operating business. We will look at it over time, as we do with all of our assets. But right now, it's business as usual for the park."
Premiere Parks CEO Kieran Burke bought Elitch Gardens in 1996 from the Gurtler family who had moved the park downtown from its longtime home in Denver's West Highland neighborhood.
Burke completed the Gurtler's plan by adding a water park and roller coasters in late 1996. Two years later Burke's company acquired Six Flags, making it the largest regional theme park chain the world and the second largest amusement park operator in the U.S., behind Disney.
He helped rebrand Elitches as Six Flags Elitch Gardens before Premiere Parks left Elitch Gardens in 2005. Premier Parks returned as the park manager for owner CNL Lifestyles Properties in 2013.
"This is kind of a fun back-to-the-future for us," Burke said. "When we first got involved there was not much down there. So to come back two years ago … and to see what has happened in downtown Denver is so impressive. I think the potential for the park remains quite significant."
Revesco drove the deal, bringing in Kroenke and Second City, which owns the Cherry Creek Corporate Center, as it worked on the deal for the last year.
"KSE is just a logical partner," Duggan said. "It just made sense."
CNL Lifestyle Properties, a 12-year-old non-traded Florida-based real estate investment trust with about $2.3 billion in assets, is the seller.
CNL Lifestyle owns 67 ski areas, marinas, senior housing complexes and attractions. It ranks as the nation's largest ski resort owner with 17 mountain properties, including Copper Mountain village and Crested Butte Mountain Resort, which the trust leases to Crested Butte's Mueller family.
In early 2014, CNL Lifestyle sold 48 golf properties for $320 million, the first large transaction in a long-planned liquidation strategy the trust announced when it turned 10 in 2013.
Last month CNL Lifestyle sold 37 of its 38 senior housing properties for $762.6 million. Most of the trust's properties are listed for sale, including its eight Eastern and nine Western ski areas. Last month the trust told investors it had agree to sell three attractions and an unnamed mountain property and had entered a contract to sell all its 17 marinas.
The trust reported $373.3 million in revenues in 2014, up from $362.5 in 2013. After expenses the trust reported an operating loss of $10.4 million in 2014, compared to $26 million in 2013.
"CNL Lifestyle Properties is evaluating strategic options for its entire portfolio as it seeks to maximize the return to its shareholders," reads a statement released by CNL Lifestyle on Friday. "The sale of Elitch Gardens as a standalone property was a unique opportunity driven by the interest of investors in the Denver market."
Burke has a dual perspective as a former owner and now manager of the park. He said he was unable to mine the "true opportunity" of Elitch Gardens in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The new ownership team, which invested $2.5 million in the new six-story Slidezilla waterslide that opens later this month, will tap Elitch's potential in Denver, he said.
"I think that's the most exciting thing from my perspective. I really do think this local partnership, which brings together such a concentration for Denver-focused business, it just makes a huge difference. By definition there is a commitment level to Denver as a city that's just different here — no disrespect to CNL at all — but we have a 125 year business now in local hands and that's a really good thing. I think having local hands around the asset is probably the biggest advantage."
Jason Blevins: 303-954-1374, jblevins@denverpost.com or twitter.com/jasonblevins
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Jason Blevins covers tourism, mountain business, skiing and outdoor adventure sports for both the business and sports sections at The Denver Post, which he joined in 1997. He skis, pedals, paddles and occasionally boogies in the hills and is just as inspired by the lively entrepreneurial spirit that permeates Colorado's high country communities as he is by the views.
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The College of Sciences and Arts is very pleased to announce the appointment of Linda Ott as associate dean for special initiatives, focusing on diversity in computing. Ott's appointment signals a renewed effort to increase the diversity of students in computing and information. The under-representation of women and ethnic minorities has been little affected by significant national efforts to introduce changes—indeed, there has been some backsliding on earlier gains.
National attention for the difficulties came from recent attention to the poor record of largest firms in Silicon Valley in recruiting and retaining women in these firms. Michigan Tech, like many universities, has worked steadily to increase the number of women enrolled in computer science, software engineering and computer engineering, but the five-year average enrollment of women stands at only 7.5 percent of the total student population in computer-related degree programs. Morevoer the situation has changed only a little since 2009. Clearly, progress is elusive.
Ott's appointment will bring much more energy to efforts to recruit a more diverse population of students into computing fields. Bruce Seely, dean of the college, notes how the appointment builds off Ott's long-standing commitment to addressing the lack of diversity in the field. Over the past two years, Linda led the effort to bring Michigan Tech into the Pacesetters progam of the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT). And for a much longer time she has engaged in activities with the Summer Youth Program and other outreach efforts at the state-level to raise the awareness of female students concerning the opportunity in computing. Seely noted that "Linda is perfectly positioned to explore and help implement ways to bring more students from diverse backgrounds to campus. This is her true passion." She will continue these programmatic efforts and outreach initiatives while also studying the lower retention and persistence rates for all students—not just women—pursuing Tech degrees in computer science, computer engineering, network and systems administration and software engineering. In addition, she will compare and benchmark Tech's efforts against other schools and national patterns, understand the retention of students in computing-related fields and seek external funding to support programs to address these issues.
Because many groups on campus are working on these questions, Ott will collaborate with different groups on campus, including academic departments, schools and colleges, admissions, development, alumni relations, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and WISE.
By allowing her to devote all of her time and effort to these tasks, Seely added, he hopes Michigan Tech can make real progress on diversity. "I am thrilled Linda is going to devote her time and energy to these important and challenging problems."
She will begin her efforts Monday, March 16.
From Tech Today, by College of Sciences and Arts.
Tech appoints Ott as Associate Dean for Special Initiatives
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The fortnightly paper was criticised by a cross-party scrutiny panel in December, with all three rejecting a £1.3m contract to print and distribute the publication.
Council officers and the council leadership insist they need a regular publication that is delivered to every home in the borough, but the three councillors – two Labour and one Tory – all said they did not regularly receive the paper, with one, Woolwich Common councillor Ivis Williams, insisting she had never had a copy.
Leader Danny Thorpe ignored the scrutiny panel decision and went ahead with it anyway, off the back of a report from council officers claiming the paper was delivered to the councillors' homes.
Hartley submitted a motion to the meeting calling for that decision on Greenwich Info to be paused – although Thorpe had at the same time made that decision anyway. Labour mayor Christine May placed Hartley's motion at the end of the three-and-a-half hour meeting, after a motion on obesity.
In Greenwich, mayors chair full council meetings. They are effectively chosen by the Labour group, with the position usually given to a long-serving Labour councillor. A mayor earns an extra £9,849 on top of the usual £10,200 councillors' allowance.
With ten minutes to go before the end of the meeting, and with no sign of the Info motion being debated, May asked councillors to vote on whether to extend the meeting by half an hour. It was voted down by Labour councillors – including May – sparking a row between councillors, with the mayor briefly losing control of the meeting. (watch here) Councillors had voted to extend a meeting last October to debate a motion backing a fresh referendum on leaving the EU.
After returning to the obesity motion for a short contribution from Thorpe's sometime leadership rival Averil Lekau – who promised "I'll show a little bit more compassion" – Hartley's colleague Spencer Drury invoked a standing order to put that issue to a vote, a move which seemed to catch May unawares until Labour chief whip Angela Cornforth then stepped in to agree. Instead of reading out the motion, May said "la la la" (watch here) and was unclear who had voted for and against.
Than even as she managed to finally bring the discussion onto the Greenwich Info motion, with five minutes to go, May even ended up shouting and banging her gavel at one of her own Labour councillors, when Greenwich West representative Mehboob Khan – looking baffled by what had just happened – raised a point of order to ask what exactly had been agreed.
Hartley said the council's case had "crumbled" and the paper was "an outdated form of communication".
"The overwhelming feedback we hear from residents, if they even receive it, is that it goes straight in the bin," he continued.
"That's if they actually get it through their letterboxes, and it appears many residents don't receive it. That includes the three members of the overview and scrutiny call-in sub-committee who, to my surprise, and to their great credit, referred this decision back to the decision-maker… together with a request for alternatives to be considered.
Hartley accused Thorpe of "doing everything in how power to avoid having this debate – including the filibuster we've gone through tonight", complaining that as a "new leader" he was "clinging onto" the publication.
Thorpe responded with a series of personal attacks on Hartley: "As a new leader I think I've done more in a few months than you've accomplished in a few years. And rather than sitting here lecturing us about all of this, stop hiding from the school cuts and get down to Charlton Manor [where Hartley had a social media row with its head last year] and see them for yourself.
"And equally, in relation to filibusters, he's taken himself to the grand levels of American politics where he's never going to reach. As regards overwhelming feedback from residents, the overwhelming feedback from residents in May was that they much preferred our ideas to your ideas, which is why they overwhelmingly returned us to this chamber.
May then joined Labour councillors to vote down Hartley's motion. "Thank you anyway, it's been an interesting evening," she said, winding the meeting up.


The Board of Management of a recognised school has the authority to suspend a student. Where this authority is delegated to the Principal, the delegation should be done formally and in writing.
The authority delegated to the Principal in respect of suspension should state any limits on that authority, and specify how the Principal is accountable to the Board of Management for his or her use of that authority. The delegation of authority should reflect the provisions of the TUSLA Developing a Code of Behaviour: Guidelines for Schools, any relevant legal requirements and Articles of Management, where appropriate.
Where the purpose of a proposed suspension is clearly identified, and that purpose cannot be achieved in any other way, suspension can have value.
Suspensions can provide a respite for staff and the student; give the student time to reflect on the link between their action and its consequences and give staff time to plan ways of helping the student to change unacceptable behaviour.
What factors may have triggered incidents of serious misbehaviour (e.g. bullying, cultural or family factors)?
Has any other agency been asked for assistance (e.g. Child Guidance Clinic, Child and Adolescent services)?
• impress on a student and their parents the seriousness of the behaviour.
In exceptional circumstances, the Principal may consider an immediate suspension to be necessary where the continued presence of the student in the school at the time would represent a serious threat to the safety of students or staff of the school, or any other person. Fair procedures must still be applied.
The sanction should be a proportionate response to the behaviour. For example, it would rarely be appropriate for a first offence, unless there is a threat to the good order of the conduct of the examination.
This sanction should be treated like any other suspension, and the principles and fair procedures governing suspensions should be applied.
The DES Best Practice Guidelines concerning Certificate Examinations offer guidance to schools.
A Board of Management may decide, as part of the school's policy on sanctions, and following the consultation process with the Principal, parents, teachers and students, that particular named behaviours incur suspension as a sanction. However, a general decision to impose suspension for named behaviours does not remove the duty to follow due process and fair procedures in each case.
However, any behaviour that is persistently disruptive to learning or potentially dangerous can be a serious matter. Behaviour must be examined in context to understand both the behaviour itself and the response or sanction that is most appropriate.
Exclusion of a student for part of the school day, as a sanction, or asking parents to keep a child from school, as a sanction, is a suspension. Any exclusion imposed by the school is a suspension, and should follow the Guidelines relating to suspension.
Students should not be suspended for an indefinite period. Any such suspension would be regarded as a de-facto expulsion and would be treated as such under section 29 of the Education Act 1998.
• give parents and student an opportunity to respond.
Let the student and their parents know about the complaint, how it will be investigated, and that it could result in suspension.
Parents may be informed by phone or in writing, depending on the seriousness of the matter. Informing parents in writing has the benefit of ensuring that there is a formal and permanent record of having let parents know. It also ensures that parents are clear about what their son or daughter is alleged to have done. It serves the important function of underlining to parents the seriousness with which the school views the alleged misbehaviour.
Parents and student should be given an opportunity to respond before a decision is made and before any sanction is imposed.
A meeting with the student and their parents provides an opportunity for them to give their side of the story and to ask questions about the evidence of serious misbehaviour, especially where there is a dispute about the facts. It may also be an opportunity for parents to make their case for lessening the sanction, and for the school to explore with parents how best to address the student's behaviour. If a student and their parents fail to attend a meeting, the Principal should write advising of the gravity of the matter, the importance of attending a re-scheduled meeting and, failing that, the duty of the school authorities to make a decision to respond to the negative behaviour. The school should record the invitations made to parents and their response.
Where an immediate suspension is considered by the Principal to be warranted for reasons of the safety of the student, other students, staff or others, a preliminary investigation should be conducted to establish the case for the imposition of the suspension. The formal investigation should immediately follow the imposition of the suspension. All of the conditions for suspension apply to immediate suspension. No suspension, including an immediate suspension, should be open-ended.
In the case of an immediate suspension, parents must be notified, and arrangements made with them for the student to be collected. The school must have regard to its duty of care for the student. In no circumstances should a student be sent home from school without first notifying parents.
A student should not be suspended for more than three days, except in exceptional circumstances where the Principal considers that a period of suspension longer than three days is needed in order to achieve a particular objective. Each Board of Management should provide guidance to the Principal concerning the kinds of circumstances under which suspensions of longer than three days might be approved.
If a suspension longer than three days is being proposed by the Principal, the matter should be referred to the Board of Management for consideration and approval, giving the circumstances and the expected outcomes.
However, a Board of Management may wish to authorise the Principal, with the approval of the Chairperson of the Board, to impose a suspension of up to five days in circumstances where a meeting of the Board cannot be convened in a timely fashion, subject to the guidance concerning such suspensions.
The Board of Management should normally place a ceiling of ten days on any one period of suspension imposed by it.
The Board should formally review any proposal to suspend a student, where the suspension would bring the number of days for which the student has been suspended in the current school year to twenty days or more. Any such suspension is subject to appeal under section 29 of the Education Act 1998.
These provisions enable school authorities to give the student a reasonable time to reflect on their behaviour while avoiding undue loss of teaching time and loss of contact with the positive influences of school. They recognise the serious nature of the sanction of suspension and ensure that this seriousness is reflected in school procedures. The provisions mean that the Board of Management takes ultimate responsibility for sanctions of significant length, especially where such suspensions might reach twenty days in one school year and therefore might lead to an appeal.
The Board of Management should offer an opportunity to appeal a Principal's decision to suspend a student. In the case of decisions to suspend made by the Board of Management, an appeals process may be provided by the Patron.
At the time when parents are being formally notified of such a suspension, they and the student should be told about their right to appeal to the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Science under section 29 of the Education Act 1998, and should be given information about how to appeal.
The letter should be clear and easy to understand. Particular care should be taken in communicating with parents who may have reading difficulties, or whose first language is not the language of the school.
Where a decision to suspend has been made, it can maximise the impact and value of suspension if the Principal or another staff member delegated by the Principal meets with the parents to emphasise their responsibility in helping the student to behave well when the student returns to school and to offer help and guidance in this.
Where parents do not agree to meet with the Principal, written notification will serve as notice to impose a suspension.
A suspension may be removed if the Board of Management decides to remove the suspension for any reason or if the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Science directs that it be removed following an appeal under section 29 of the Education Act 1998.
A period of suspension will end on the date given in the letter of notification to the parents about the suspension.
The school should have a plan to help the student to take responsibility for catching up on work missed. This plan will help to avoid the possibility that suspension starts or amplifies a cycle of academic failure. Successful re-integration goes beyond academic work. A suspended student may feel angry or resentful about their suspension, and these feelings can trigger problems with reintegration which, in turn, may lead to further problem behaviour. Where possible, the school should arrange for a member of staff to provide support to the student during the re-integration process.
When any sanction, including suspension, is completed, a student should be given the opportunity and support for a fresh start. Although a record is kept of the behaviour and any sanction imposed, once the sanction has been completed the school should expect the same behaviour of this student as of all other students.
• the duration of the suspension and any conditions attached to the suspension.
The Principal is required to report suspensions in accordance with the TUSLA reporting guidelines (Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, section 21(4)(a)).
The Board of Management should review the use of suspension in the school at regular intervals to ensure that its use is consistent with school policies, that patterns of use are examined to identify factors that may be influencing behaviour in the school and to ensure that use of suspension is appropriate and effective.


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Q: Forced cancellation of async wrapped sync task I have code which calls an external lib synchronous operation, which can take a very long time to finish. I can't rewrite this lib, and there is not a method to stop the operation. Is there any solution to stop this task after some timeout?
I have tried this code, but it does not work not as I expected. It awaits until the calculation is not completed.
How can I solve this task?
 private static async Task<ResultData> GetResultAsync(string fileName)
    {
        var timeoutSource = new CancellationTokenSource(new TimeSpan(0, 5, 0));
        try
        {
            return await Task.Run(() =>
            {
                var result = ExternLib.Calculate(fileName);
                if (result == null)
                {
                    throw new CalculationException(fileName);
                }
                return result;
            },
                timeoutSource.Token
            ).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }
        catch (AggregateException e)
        {
            SomeCode(e);
        }
        catch (OperationCanceledException e)
        {
            SomeCode2(e);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            SomeCode3(e);
        }
        return await Task.FromResult<ResultData>(null).ConfigureAwait(false);
    }

A: Create two tasks, one which does the work, and one which acts as a timer:
var workTask = Task.Run(() => // etc );
var timerTask = Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10));

The wait for either task to complete:
var completedTask = Task.WaitAny(new[] { workTask, timerTask });

Then, if completedTask is the timer task, your timeout has expired, and you can take appropriate action: whether or not you can stop the long running task depends on how it's structured, but you do know you can stop waiting for it.

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    export interface DataSource extends Model, IDataSource {}
    export interface IDataSource extends IModel {
        column_names?: Array<string>;
        selected?: Selected;
        callback?: Callback | ((source: this) => void);
    }

    type Data = Map<ArrayLike<any>>;

    export var ColumnDataSource: { new(attributes?: IColumnDataSource, options?: ModelOpts): ColumnDataSource };
    export interface ColumnDataSource extends DataSource, IColumnDataSource {
        stream(new_data: Data, rollover: number): void;
    }
    export interface IColumnDataSource extends IDataSource {
        data?: Data;
    }

    export interface RemoteSource extends DataSource, IRemoteSource {}
    export interface IRemoteSource extends IDataSource {
        data_url?: string;
        polling_interval?: Int;
    }

    export var AjaxDataSource: { new(attributes?: IAjaxDataSource, options?: ModelOpts): AjaxDataSource };
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    export interface IAjaxDataSource extends IRemoteSource {
        method?: HTTPMethod;
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It is more interesting to attach photo to text message on iPhone to chat with others. The photo may reflect your status recently or a scenery image that you would like to share with others. Although this trick is popular nowadays, someone still does not know how to use this feature. Besides, when people can not attach photo to message, they have no idea on how to get rid of this issue. This guidance will show you how to attach photo to message on iPhone and how to fix the issue when you fail to attach images in text message.
Part 2: How to Fix "Can't Attach Photo to iPhone Message"
Imagine you have just traveled back from a famous place or it is a merry that you desire to share with others, you can attach photo to text message to tell them your current situations or mood. As for how to attach photo to text message, there are two methods you can make use of.
You can use your camera to take a photo while you are sending to others and even edit the image to the effects you prefer. The steps shown below tell you how to make it in detail.
1. Run your Message app on home screen on iPhone, and then create a new conversation with someone you would like to send a message.
2. Click on the camera icon and then take a picture. Thus, you can click on "Effects", "Edit", or "Markup" to personalize the photo according to your demands.
3. After that, you can click on the button with an upward arrow or hit "Done" button to add a personal text message before you send your picture.
If you desire to share your images that have been taken before to others, you can refer to the following steps to attach them to the message.
2. Click on the photo icon like a flower and then choose a picture or click on "All Photos" to select an image from your Photos application. After that, you can edit the image or make use of "Markup" before you send it.
3. Finally, you can click on the button with an upward arrow to send the message with an attached photo.
If you do not know these two methods to attach photo to text message before, you can now have a try on your iPhone.
If you have failed to attach photo to message on iPhone, you can attempt the following tips to fix this issue.
Since messages are sent to others via the connection to the internet over your iPhone, you can test the connection to the internet to confirm the normal connection.
If your iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi network and you can't attach photo to message, you can go to "Settings> Wi-Fi" to turn off the Wi-Fi network connection. Thus, your iPhone will be connected to the cellular data network, and you should see LTE, 4G, or 3G showing in the upper left-hand corner of the window. You can now try to use the cellular data network to attach photo to message once again.
If your iPhone is not connected to Wi-Fi and you can't attach photo to text message, you need to make sure your iPhone's cellular data feature is turned on. Go to "Settings> Cellular" and then to check out if the switch next to "Cellular Data" is enabled. Thus, you can try to attach photo to message again.
You can also try to update iOS system to fix the issue that you can not attach photo to message. Go to "Settings> General" on your iPhone to check the new version of iOS system and following the screen instructions to make it.
You can also change the Message app to attach photo to the text message, such as Skype, Facebook, Whatsapp and etc.
After you tried the above tips to fix the issue, you can send messages with attached photos to others at ease.
After you have known how to attach photo to message on iPhone, you can continue to learn how to avoid the loss of them by backing up the messages and photos attachments with reliable software. In this part, I would like to recommend you use Leawo iTransfer and iTunes to make it.
Leawo iTransfer can fix the transfer issues of 12 kinds files among computers, iTunes and iOS devices, which is known as one excellent file manager. Its transfer speed is high and its results are accurate. Now I will show you how to backup message and photo attachment with this great tool.
On your computer, you need to run the software and then connect iPhone with PC with proper USB cable.
Navigate to "iPhone icon > LIBRARY > Photos" or "iPhone icon > LIBRARY > SMS" to check the photo attachments or messages on your iPhone in the right part of the window. Afterwards, you can select the photo attachments or messages that you want to backup to computer from iPhone and then click on the transfer button at the bottom right of the screen. Click on "Save to Folder" and then hit the "Change" button to set a folder to save the exported files on computer. Finally, you can click on "Transfer Now" to begin to backup iPhone photo attachments and messages to computer from iPhone device. This process will only take you several seconds.
iTunes is also helpful when it comes to backing up files from iPhone. The steps shown below will direct you to use it to back up message and photo attachment smoothly.
1. Run the latest version of iTunes on computer and then insert iPhone into PC with a USB cord.
2. On your iTunes interface, you need to click on "Preferences > Devices" and choose the option of "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically" to check.
3. Click on the iPhone icon and then navigate to "Settings> Summary" tab. In the right part of the iTunes screen, you will see the area of "Backups". Here you need to tap on "This computer" and then hit "Backup Now" to backup all iPhone files, which surely includes your iPhone messages and photo attachments.
As you can see, the backup results of iTransfer are more accurate than iTunes, which allows you to choose the specific files that you desire to backup.
It is common for us to delete files on iPhone by mistake. If you have carelessly deleted some meaningful or precious messages and photo attachments on iPhone, you still have the chance to get them back with the help of Leawo iOS Data Recovery . The following steps will show you how to apply this powerful program to make it.
Plug iPhone into computer and then run Leawo iOS Data Recovery on computer. This software will recognize your iPhone and then you need to click on "Recover from iOS Device".
Click on the button of "Start" to initiate the process to scan your iPhone with this software.
When the scanning process comes to an end, you need to check the options of "Photos Stream" and "Messages". In the right part of the window, select the messages and photo attachments you desire to recover. Finally, you can click on the "Recover" button in the interface.
In the next panel, you need to click on "Open" button to choose a proper directory on computer to save the recovered files. After that, hit the "Go" button to invoke the recovering procedure. After a while, the deleted iPhone messages and photo attachments will be saved on your computer local folder.
This software is quite efficient in recovering files. If you desire to transfer the recovered messages and photo attachments to your iPhone, you can still make use of Leawo iTransfer to get this task done.


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Celebrate Women on March 8th – International Women's Day
March 07, 2013 | By Dina Buck
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March 8th is International Women's Day. It's a day worth celebrating because it represents the long road women have traveled, and one we all must continue to travel, if gender equality is a realization we, as global citizens, truly wish to achieve.
A Long History of Inequality for Women
It's also an important day to acknowledge because, at this very moment, women experience true equality in zero countries (that's right...zero), at the same time that they contribute enormously to society in ways that are too frequently unrecognized, under-recognized, and undervalued.
Globally, in virtually every society, to greater and lesser degrees, women are denied the same regard, rights, and benefits men receive.
At the same time, however, it's undeniable that, on the whole, women have made enormous gains in moving closer to equality. But let's not rest on our laurels. As a collective, there are still many miles to walk.
Below is a selection of facts and statistics representing the current collective status of women.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Where Women Stand Today
Approximately 50% the world's population is female, yet women make up 70% of the world's poor.
Around 80% of the world's estimated 15 million refugees are women and children (2011 statistic).
Of 41 countries surveyed in 2010 by the World Values Survey Association, in 17 of them, a quarter or more of those surveyed thought it was justifiable for a man to beat his wife.
In every region of the world, there are laws that discriminate against women in relation to property, the family, employment, and citizenship.
The global gender wage gap averages 16%, with more educated women frequently experiencing a larger wage gap than average when compared to men with similar education levels (now that's irony for you).
In 1975, six percent more males than females had attained a bachelor's degree, while in 2010, 8% more females than males had attained a bachelor's degree.
Women represent 51% of the nations PhDs, 51% of business school applicants, 67% of college graduates, and more than 70% of 2012 Valedictorians.
And this UN Women's 2011-2012 Progress of the World's Women report states that:
186 UN Member states have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
125 countries have outlawed domestic violence.
115 guarantee women equal property rights.
And yet, this same report observes that, "...although equality between women and men is guaranteed in the constitutions of 139 countries and territories, inadequate laws and loopholes in legislative frameworks, poor enforcement and vast implementation gaps make these guarantees hollow promises, having little impact on the day-to-day lives of women."
Which leads us to...
The ugly:
This recent NPR story featured the increase of sexual assault and rape of women who participate in the uprising in Egypt. Adding insult to injury, a radical Salafi sheikh stated on an Arabic television channel that reaches millions of people that, "these women who get raped are goons, devils with no shame, and no men to hold them back from shameless acts." Several Islamist legislators in the upper house of Egypt's parliament have concurred that if women don't want to get raped, they shouldn't go to protests.
Annually, thousands of women are killed or harmed in honor killings or honor-related crimes that are the result of "family collaboration." Some of these killings occur because a woman is raped, and then blamed for bringing shame to her family.
The World Health Organization estimates 140 million girls and women worldwide live with the consequences of female genital mutilation.
Women around the world are victims of acid attacks. Among other things, they have been attacked over dowries, for not wearing proper attire, or for daring to exercise independence.
Female infanticide is practiced in both developed and developing countries. In China and India, especially, the practice is alive and well.
Celebrating International Women's Day:
On March 8th, join others all around the globe in celebrating women for who they are, what they've achieved, and to acknowledge the progress that still needs to be made in treating women as equal members of society.
In several countries, International Women's Day is an official holiday. But even if you live in a country that doesn't officially recognized this day, you can take a moment, or an hour, an afternoon, or the whole day, to celebrate the women in your life. (Women, this means celebrating each other and yourselves, so go do something to celebrate yourself!)
And remember that, ultimately, gender equality is not just for women. It benefits everyone. When men and women can truly stand side by side as equals, we all gain.
Learn more about International Women's Day 2013.
Check out the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women website. The agency was just created in 2010!
Read more on why gender equality is important on the United Nations Population Fund's website.
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Ordergroove is a commerce technology platform that enables brands and omnichannel retailers to achieve what we call Relationship Commerce. Ordergrooves unique combination of powerful technology and proprietary data and analytics, is helping some of the largest brands in the world transform their retail experiences across channels.
Were looking for a Front End Technical Lead to join the team! In this role, you will be responsible for the front end ecosystem powering Ordergroove...
Senior Back End Engineer
Senior Software Engineer (Backend Node.js)
HqO delivers the leading Tenant Experience (TeX) platform for commercial real estate, the single largest asset class on the planet, to maximize value for both tenants and property managers. Our award-winning app elevates the tenant experience by seamlessly integrating with the technologies that commercial properties use to provide a wonderful end-to-end tenant experience. We empower property managers with data and analytics to gain insight into what tenants value and how they interact with the physical workplace. Property managers are...
Looking for the next step in your career? How does this sound: a high-impact role at a fast-growing startup in a brand new, rapidly emerging tech category disrupting the largest asset class in the world? We dont always use buzzwords, but in this case, they apply.
Real estate touches where every person lives, works and plays but until recently, tech was largely untouched in this industry. Now, real estate is becoming a user experience business, and companies building property technology (also known as proptech) are seeing massive opportunities to enhance the physical world.
iOS Mobile Engineer
Rocket Insights (part of Dept) is growing fast and we're looking for folks that want to work with peers and clients that enjoy building great products together. Our philosophy is to hire smart, client facing engineers that can both understand our clients business goals and write elegant code.
Rocket Insights is a small but growing, tight-knit group of experienced engineers and designers that love building products with like-minded folks. We are all on the same team working together toward the same...
Rocket Insights (part of Dept) is growing fast and we're looking for folks that want to work with peers and clients that enjoy and build great products together. Our philosophy is to hire smart, client facing engineers that can both understand our clients business goals and write elegant code.
Rocket Insights is a small but growing, tight-knit group of experienced engineers and designers that love building products with like-minded folks. Some of the things that we believe in:
Great UI/UX...
Android Engineer- Portland, ME
Android Engineers (All levels)
ERT is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop software. The ideal candidate is a full stack JavScript developer with experience with an Agular/Node.js stack on AWS. In this role you will provide appropriate documentation in accordance with ERT System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. In this role you will also provide mentoring to other Software Engineers
Design, implement, and unit test software applications as defined in the marketing requirement and...
Associate Software Engineer
We are looking for an Engineer to join our Clinicals team within our Core Services Engineering organization. But enough about us; let's talk about you.
You are a developer with experience building full stack web applications. You are an excellent communicator that is capable of quickly picking up the complicated healthcare space.
As an engineer on the athenaClinicals Product team, you may have the opportunity to work on a broad range of product components and workflows used by doctors and clinicians, such as; order management, prescriptions, lab/imaging...
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering team within our Infrastructure as a Service division. IaaS ensures the continuous availability of the technologies and systems that are the foundation of athenahealth's services. We are directly responsible for thousands of servers, petabytes of storage, and handling thousands of web requests per second, all while sustaining growth at a meteoric rate. We enable an operating system for the medical office that removes administrative complexity, leaving doctors free to practice medicine. But enough about us...
Infrastructure Manager
The Infrastructure and DevOps group (IDO) is responsible for innovation in infrastructure and automation for ZoomInfo Engineering. Our size, culture, and the support we receive from every area the company allow us unusual latitude and agility. Were using that to build world-class, multi-provider cloud infrastructures, based on the best technologies available, almost completely...
Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
EverQuote is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Data Engineering organization. As a senior member of the data engineering team, you will play a critical role in ensuring that data within EverQuote is robustly available and actionable throughout the company. You will do this by helping build the next generation of tools and services that support front-to-back data pipelines. This role is for someone who enjoys working on complex systems, working with a diverse set of business and engineering stakeholders, and is ready to help drive the technical vision of where...
Sr. Data Engineer
The Team: Cutting edge intelligent systems. Big data at massive scale. World class ad tech to drive phenomenal growth in a multi-billion dollar business. Real-time tracking and personalization to engage millions of shoppers daily: Ad Tech & Customer Intelligence Engineering @ Wayfair.
Meet the two halves of an all star engineering team...
Ad Tech: Responsible for the development of all Wayfair proprietary Ad Tech, continuously delivering solutions which...
Senior React Native Engineer
AGERO + SWOOP
This role can be based in Medford, MA or San Francisco, CA.
Agero & Swoop provides simplicity and peace of mind in the chaotic world of roadside assistance. Agero & Swoop combined provide roadside protection for 100M+ Americans and performs 12M+ roadside services annually. As a connected vehicle service, we are in deep discussions with leading car manufacturers about their connected and...
Senior Configuration Engineer
The Legal Technology team is looking to add Senior Configuration Engineer to their HO Legal...
Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Advance your Information Technology (IT) career at Liberty Mutual Insurance- A Fortune 100 Company.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer (full stack) to build our direct-to-consumer innovation platform. Our group strives to build engaging digital services and capabilities. You will be a leader on a team of amazing engineers who are bringing new digital experiences to our U.S. users, by engineering and implementing new product features. In this role, you'll also collaborate closely with...
We are seeking an experienced...
Tapia Conference - 2020 TechStart Full-Time Program
TechStart Entry Level Program 2020 (Boston, Seattle, Seacoast, NH and Indianapolis)
We are Liberty Mutual, and were on a mission to change the way people experience insurance in the digital age. We may be a Fortune 100 company, yet our tech and digital teams are innovating with the mindset and vision of nimble startups. In fact, our new hires typically learn 10 new technologies within their first year at Liberty Mutual.
Tapia Conference - 2020 TechStart Internship Program
TechStart Internship Program 2020 (Boston, Seattle, Seacoast, NH and Indianapolis)
We are Liberty Mutual, and were on a mission to change the way people experience insurance in the digital age. We may be a Fortune 100 company, yet our tech and digital teams are innovating with the mindset and vision of nimble startups.
Full Stack Software Engineer
We are looking for a Software Engineer (full stack) to build our direct-to-consumer innovation platform. Our group strives to build engaging digital services and capabilities. You will team up with amazing engineers who are bringing new digital experiences to our U.S. users, by engineering and implementing new product features. In this role, you'll also collaborate closely with other Agile teams based...
Principal Software Engineer iOS
Lose It! for iOS has been a staple of the App Store Health & Fitness category since 2009. Our product-first strategy has resulted in over 1 million monthly active iOS users that we're able to help live healthier lives. It is important to us that we continue to improve our product portfolio, working with Apple to develop a new Challenges app and often adopting the very latest platform...
Software Engineer- Ad Serving
The Ads Serving team builds the most critical systems and infrastructure in our whole business that's directly responsible for our multi-billion dollar revenue stream. More can be found here: https://blog.twitter.com/2016/resilient-ad-serving-at-twitter-scale
Context, responsibilities, and challenges:
Twitter is synonymous with staggering scale. Hundreds of millions of users use our...
Senior Software Engineer iOS
Software Engineer iOS
Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering (Revenue)
Twitter's revenue organization operates services at massive scale. We are looking for engineers who want to build beautiful, simple tools and services to help their colleagues safely release code into production. We serve a diverse and growing set of customers who rely on you and your team to reliably and quickly develop features. You will be responsible for helping colleagues to run the largest production services at Twitter and support almost $3 billion in yearly advertising revenue.
Front End Engineer - Media Client Infrastructure
Media Client Infrastructure is a team of mobile, web, and video engineers that owns the client-side technology infrastructure that powers Twitter's media experiences. We're a small, engineering-driven team that values autonomy and flexibility, and are always looking for ways to improve how we work. Video is a very important part of Twitter's business, so we value rigor and correctness over speed, and carefully measure the impact of any significant change we make. Our core product is the Twitter Video Player...
Software Engineer, Mobile (Hiring Events)
As part of Twitter's Mobile team you'll be responsible for bringing some of our core products to Android and iOS (home timeline / trends / search / tweet anatomy / detail pages) along with mobile revenue products that are directly responsible for our multi-billion dollar revenue stream. You'll build compelling new experiences in feature areas such as Search, Moments, DMs, and more. You will use your in-depth knowledge of all things iOS or Android to craft new Twitter features that are uniquely Twitter.
Why it matters: ...
Principal Software Engineer Android
Lose It! for Android has been a staple of the Google Play Health & Fitness category for years. Our product-first strategy has resulted in over 100k daily active Android users that we're able to help live healthier lives. It's important to us that we continue to improve our app, staying at the forefront of Android, and often adopting the very latest platform capabilities.
As an Android software engineer at Lose It!, you'll help design and build new features, products, and capabilities for our...
Senior / Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Database Infrastructure (Druid)
Site Reliability Engineering at Twitter is responsible for the performance, reliability, and scalability of Twitter services in production. We build software to automate, optimize, manage, and maintain those services; driving down technical debt, operational cost, and toil every step of the way. We are the last line of defense for the Twitter platform, the chosen few tasked with keeping the tweets flowing.
As Site Reliability Engineers in a team supporting Druid as a service in Twitter, our...
Research Engineer, Computer Vision
Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions company, is defining the future of the security industry through innovative end-to-end-solutions. We're changing the landscape of the surveillance industry through advanced award-winning AI based surveillance systems. Artificial Intelligence is transforming the world and our team is advancing the field as it applies to the surveillance industry. We are proud to be industry leaders in video analytics with products like Appearance Search and Unusual Motion Detection along with our recently launched Avigilon Blue cloud service platform. You will have the...
Android Engineer - Media Client Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer Android
Research Engineer, Machine Learning
Director, Software Engineering - Machine Learning
Machine learning is extensively used across Twitter to build user experiences ranging from onboarding users to serving their timeline to everything in between. Cortex is the central ML org at Twitter which is focused on advancing ML inside & outside Twitter. In the Signals group in Cortex our goal is to build a deep understanding of Twitter's massive data and extract rich modeling signals to enable high speed and high quality of product development.
Twitter has a rich variety of data sources including text, media, graph etc...
Senior Engineer-Compute-Control Plane
We want people who are passionate about creating products that you and your peers would love....
Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - ML Platform Tools - Cortex
Cortex empowers internal teams to efficiently leverage ML by providing a platform and by unifying, educating, and advancing the state of the art in ML technologies within Twitter. We win when our customers win by helping our users stay informed, share and discuss what matters; by serving the public conversation. We're building an AI-first company and every major initiative is increasingly dependent on the successful application of machine learning. Cortex is at the nexus of this evolution.
Our...
Senior Solutions Architect
Software Engineer - Machine Learning Platform - Cortex
Cortex empowers internal teams to efficiently leverage ML by providing a platform and by unifying, educating, and advancing the state of the art in ML technologies within Twitter.
We win when our customers win by helping our users stay informed, share and discuss what matters; by serving the public conversation. We're building an AI-first company and every major initiative is increasingly dependent on the successful application of machine...
Senior Solutions Engineer
Senior Software Engineer - Creator Tools
Senior Front End Engineer - UX & Styling Tools
Unqork is a next-generation enterprise application platform that brings all of the tools required to build complex applications onto a single intuitive no-code platform. Some of the most innovative Fortune 100 companies are using Unqork to dramatically accelerate time to market, improve customer experiences, and reduce legacy maintenance costs. In April 2019, Unqork announced it had secured $22 million in a Series A investment round led by Goldman Sachs. To learn more, please visit: https://www.unqork.com.
Senior Front End Engineer - Components
Senior Backend Engineer - Core Platform
Lead Engineer - Creator Experience
Director, Solutions
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Management Services
Twitter's real-time ecosystem operates at massive scale. We are looking for engineers who can harness this data through simple tools and services. We serve a diverse and growing set of customers who rely on you and your team to help them be more efficient and effective in their jobs. You will be responsible for designing and building systems providing the visibility and automation required to manage Twitter's global network infrastructure, which deliver billions of tweets and support 300M+ users.
Chewy is seeking a highly motivated, goal-oriented, and analytical, Senior Data Scientist, Fraud to join our exciting and fast paced company in Boston, MA. Our team is growing and if you are equally passionate about data analysis, e-commerce, and career growth, an opportunity at Chewy may be a great match! You will be focused on solving business problems by developing and implementing best-in-class fraud prevention and detection models. In this role, you will be the analytical expert for identifying and retooling suitable machine...
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Periscope
We are a small team that architects, deploys, and manages the AWS infrastructure for Twitter's live media streaming services. Because of the startup origins of Periscope and Twitter's live streaming stack, our team has a broader set of responsibilities than a typical big company infra team. We get the ownership and outsize impact you would expect at a startup but with the stability and career opportunities of a successful, larger company.
Infra Automation
Software Engineer II (Front-End)
Teikametrics is a leading maker of software for online, third-party sellers. We provide broad-ranging tools for sellers that cover supply logistics, inventory management, marketing, advertising, sales, and competitive intelligence. The company is profitable, with significant monthly-recurring-revenues and has recently raised a Series A investment to fuel growth. Teikametrics is on target for over 100% revenue growth in the next year.
Online, third-party sellers account for over half of Amazon's sales volume and 80% of Amazon's catalogue. The market for...
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Teamwork, not just tech work. We are tech futurists and business...


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The Menzingers' Acoustic 'From Exile' Highlights the Grown-Up Nuance of Their Pop-Punk Anthems
By Sofie Mikhaylova
It would be hard to convince a former emo kid that the Menzingers aren't one of the best bands currently out there. All of the band's past records recall grown-up emo sounds, allowing the listener to leave the angsty days of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy behind and transition into something a little more mature. Sure, the themes and topics stay the same (hometowns, New Jersey, Portland, exes, current crushes), but the language evolves.
The Menzingers are a band that has grown with their audience. From Exile is an acoustic version of their 2019 release Hello Exile, offering a more tender look at the songs fans have grown to love — a chilled out, calmed take on pop-punk, slowing down and settling into autumn weather. Ballad "Anna" is mournful for a love lost, and opening tune "America (You're Freaking Me Out)" is a powerful starter song, discussing George Floyd, police brutality, living inequalities and drastic differences in common existence. It's a strong message, and even more powerful without dramatic production; slowed-down and sparse, the message shines through even more.
One of two pre-released singles from the record, "High School Friend," is deep and personal. It seems to say: we've outgrown each other, we've moved on from here, but the place has stayed the same. A bit of a country-esque ballad-y homage to hometowns (in this case, Wayne County), they channel a highly relatable feeling when they talk about returning to their roots.
Though in essence a re-release, From Exile feels very new. Each acoustic rendition of an old song brings a new spin, a new way to absorb the messages and the secret story found within the lyrics. From Exile ends with "Farewell Youth" — a reminder that, just like the band, we've all grown up. It's fun to dive down and reminisce about nights spent suckling Jameson under bridges or on the playground, but we can't be kids forever; this helps us accept it. (Epitaph)
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The Modern Kitchen: Two Perspectives. The evolution of the kitchen as we know it is the focus of "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen," an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that examines its subject against a broad cultural background and contains everything from movie stills to works of art. Pete Wells, the New York Times dining editor, and Roberta Smith, one of its art critics, discuss some of the exhibition's finer points following Ms. Smith's review of the show. Here are excerpts of their conversation.


Have you ever rushed into your English class late ?
What did you say to the teacher ?
If you said, "I'm sorry to be late " or "I'm sorry for being late ", that's not quite right ………. Sorry !
I hope that's clear. Good luck with your lessons and I hope you're not late for class ……. but if you are, now you know what to say !