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Q: Unable to create app, invalid filetype in Phonegap I am learning Phonegap for the first time. This is a simple app. This will just show "hello world". But whenever I am trying to build it is showing me unable to create app, invalid filetype.
My html code id given below -
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone-no">
        <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height, target-densitydpi=device-dpi">
        <title>Our Application</title>

Hello World

Here is my config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <widget xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
        xmlns:gap = "http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0"
        id        = "com.example.pgbuild"
        versionCode="10"
        version   = "1.0.0">

    <name>Test</name>

    <description>
        Show Hello World
    </description>

    <author href="http://phonegap.com/blog/" email="ryan@adobe.com">
        Eddard Start
    </author>

    <preference name="phonegap-version" value="2.2.0" />
    <preference name="webviewbounce" value="false" />

    <icon src="img/icon.png" />
    <gap:splash src="img/splash.png" />
</widget>

I am following up and running with Phonegap by Lynda. I have included the img folder which contains all the icons. I have also included the cordova.ios.js file. I haven't renamed it because the person in the tutorial also didn't rename it.

A: Shot in the dark here, but are the files actually saved as .PNG instead of .png?
In a native XCode environment you can get the simulator to run extensions of the wrong case, but it will fail on the device unless the extensions are exact case, just a minor difference in how the device OS scours the bundle vs. the simulator OS

A: One more shot in the dark:
You have this:

when I think you want cordova.js with an "r"

If it is as simple as a typo like that, welcome to the club. Sometimes it just takes a while to track down that completely insignificant, and yet crippling bug.


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Return of the Grail Bearer 2: Over (And Over) The Waterfall
[See Return of the Grail Bearer 1, in which Sir Percival embarks on a quest down the River of Story.]
Percival twisted back to ask the author where they were — conversation was difficult in a tandem kayak. She was squinting up at the constellations with such concentration, he did not interrupt her.
"Perfect," she said at last. She leaned to one side so he wouldn't have to twist so far around to see her. The boat drifted silently on a current powerful and slow. "We're exactly where I hoped we'd turn up."
"So, which otherworld is this?" He sniffed the air. "It doesn't smell floral like Faerie. It's definitely not Heaven. The sun never sets in your Summerlands, so it's got to be something else."
"Reports on the Summerlands vary, but you're right, this is somewhere else. We're on the Anduin, the Mississippi of Middle Earth. And see that bright star on the eastern horizon?"
"How do you know which way is east?"
"I've known the map to this place since I was eleven. So, the brightest one in the sky? That's Earendil, the most beloved star. You can bottle that light, and it's proof against pretty much any kind of badness. It's a light that never goes out, even in the darkest places. Most to the point, for a Fisher King fighting cancer, it makes unwholesome things wither and back the hell off. Fill the Grail with it, and we're good to go."
"Language," said the Knight of Purity.
"What makes it better than the Grail's usual contents? The Grail is full. The Grail is always full."
The author looked abashed. "It didn't work last time. That's nobody's fault, but we have to be in a different story now. New quest, new plot, new medicine."
Percival rested his paddle across the prow and reached a hand around to her. She took it. "I'm sorry about last time," he said. "You know, I did go back in there and help with some victories. They were good quests."
He took the Grail from its wrappings and tipped it to collect the light of Earendil as the first hint of morning turned the horizon from a mystery to a line of definite form. The clear water within the cup shone pure and blinding-bright.
"Oh," murmured the author. "It's as if he wrote it just for us."
They drifted silent in their thanks a while. The morning birds took up their song as the sky warmed and the dimmer stars faded. Under the jingling calls of the forest insects, Percival thought he heard a low rumble.
"Look up," said the author.
He turned from her to see ahead of him two kingly statues, massive, looming over the river. He could just make out the shapes of their hands stretched toward him, palms forward, as if to halt him.
She dipped her paddle and caught the current to turn them to the western shore. "This is where we get out and portage."
That felt wrong. "I thought we were on the River of Story, not in the Forest of Story."
"See those guys?" she said. "They took a century to build, a terribly expensive public works project in a nation not known for its developed economy. Why bother making them? Not for vanity or gratitude, but for the most practical reason: so that nobody would ever approach the biggest waterfall in the world without warning. So that we would never have to turn to each other in gaping surprise and ask, 'Is that a…waterfall?' We're going to thank the nice kings, and get out, and walk. I think if we carry the boat vaguely northwest, I can get us from here to the Forest Primeval, the Whispering Pines and the Hemlocks."
"No," said Percival. "That's not what we do."
"Have I mentioned that I'm afraid of heights?"
"We have to go over. It's a requirement of the genre."
"The average American has three phobias, and this is the only one I have left. Did I not try hard enough to desensitize…" Her paddlestrokes went from slow steering to rapid digs against the current. The boat's bottom grated against sand. She nearly tipped it getting out, and stood panting up to her knees in cold water.
"You're panicking, milady."
"I am not…" she dug her heels into the riverbottom and pulled the boat's empty stern onto the wet sand, "going over…" she pulled again, "that waterfall. This is not an idiot plot. We know the falls are there, we see them, we hear them, and we've received a warning carved in stone a hundred feet high. The genre conventions of epic fantasy do not require us to throw our lives away for spectacle's sake. And besides, this isn't even a proper epic fantasy. If any story should count as slipstream…" Percival didn't follow half of what she said about defining slipstream as a subgenre. She was talking way too fast.
He considered her, her eyes terror-widened as she gazed into the dark place where the river seemed simply to stop. A great pinnacle of rock split the width of the waterfall — it seemed set there just to give them something ruthless to collide with. The pre-dawn light showed beyond that a landscape whose features were tiny with distance. That must be some drop.
All patience, he said, "It's not epic fantasy that requires it. We're in a spell-story-prayer. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You want a magick that gets your friend from the Bad World where his illness is unstoppable to the Good World where he has a chance to fight it. So, are we in that Good World or not?"
"El Mundo Bueno," the author said.
"You can call it that. I've been translated into Spanish."
She clambered back in, rocking the boat again. Percival held one end of his paddle against the riverbottom to steady them, as he'd seen the author do for him. Her pantlegs were soaked from standing in the shallows, and slapped against the kayak's plastic hull as she settled into position. "Okay, we have to be moving faster than the water to have any control over where we go. That means we paddle like hell straight at the drop-off. As if we thought we could fly. I'm just going to decide to believe we can fly. Does that work for you?"
"I've seen stranger things," Percival agreed.
He set them as fast a cadence as he thought she had any hope of keeping. The sound of her paddle behind him told him he could set it even faster. The rumble became a roar became a vibration in all his bones that went beyond mere sound. The forest to either side of the water blurred into streaks of green — there was enough light now to see green by, and somehow that made their madness seem auspicious.
The great pinnacle of rock rushed toward them. The author's paddlestrokes dug harder against that side, and they curved wide of it without losing speed. It seemed impossible now to lose speed. All the speed in the universe gathered to hurl them across the sky.
Clouds drifted below the little blue boat. Not just the mist from the falls, but actual little clouds, one of which appeared from this distance to be raining. The ground came at them in a long diagonal approach. If they went on in this trajectory, they'd get soaked in a cloud or two and then hit a stand of enormous yellow-leaved trees on that hilltop over there.
The author's voice shouted over the air rushing past his ears: "El Mundo Bueno, El Mundo Bueno, El Mundo Fucking Bueno!"
The cloud looked solid, even from close up, but when the boat fell into it, the thing offered no resistance at all. Just cold, just wet. Percival couldn't see as far as the tips of his own paddles.
When they came down into the clear again, they were in a different sky, over a different river. It flowed broad and mighty toward a great horseshoe falls just ahead. Percival couldn't see how far down it would be to impact, but wherever the water met the bottom, it kicked up a great roiling cloud of mist that rose a cathedral's height above the highlands. Two crowds of people stood gathered, one on each riverbank, cheering for a man who stood bobbing in a barrel, just closing the lid in on himself.
Percival coveted his neighbor's barrel. Here came the river. Any moment now.
"Bueno!" bellowed the author. "I said Bueno!"
The kayak's bottom slapped the surface just before the plummet, and bounced like a skipping stone.
They soon resumed their shallow downward diagonal, this time through the drenching mist. The mist went on and on, until Percival was certain he was no longer anywhere near that horseshoe falls. Whatever had happened to the man in the barrel? Percival had so long to consider the question, he began to wonder whether the blue kayak might just fall forever through gray.
But at last the mist thickened into a puffy white cloud, one that looked quite solid from below when the two travelers dropped out of it.
An ocean poured over the edge of a flat earth. A few rocky islands clung to the rim, and here there were dragons. Great sea-serpenty creatures with webs between their long claws clung to warm stone, basking in the light of a sun they gazed down upon.
One of the beasts looked up and caught sight of the kayak and its passengers as they angled toward the end of the world. The dragon tilted its head to the side slightly and creased its spiky eyebrows in what looked like perplexity.
"Hey, translated-boy!" the author shouted over the wind. "What's Spanish for flat?!"
"Piso!"
"El Mundo Bueno!" she screamed with all her might. "No El Mundo Piso! Bueno! Bueno!"
The boat's trajectory took them close enough to the curious dragon for Percival to meet its opalescent gaze evenly. He hoped to come back someday and make its acquaintance. He'd never held with the knightly business of dragonslaying.
Once more, the kayak's hull smacked the surface and bounced.
The author shouted, "Oh, no! Not again!" and laughed until she squeaked.
Percival didn't know what was so funny, but he couldn't stop laughing, either.
He didn't even see the next waterfall coming until the boat landed a few lengths upstream from it, and this time they did not bounce. The kayak rocked frantically side to side, and Percival tried to figure out just how the author was shifting her weight against the rocking to steady them.
Ahead roared a long run of rapids, surrounded by jungle.
Beside the little kayak loomed the prow of a much larger boat, muddied and soot-streaked. Perhaps it had once been painted white. Black letters proclaimed it the African Queen. The African Queen was adrift, and looked likely to hit the rapids sideways. Percival could hear two voices arguing above him — a crisp-voiced woman, a gruff, coarse man.
"What have we gotten ourselves into now?" asked the knight.
"A towering achievement of 1950s cinema," said the author as she squinted down at the rocks and took a few strokes to steer. "Paddle fast. They're about to fix their engine. We need to go faster than the water, and sooner than they do, or we're flotsam."
Fortunately, Percival had the strength of ten men because his heart was pure. The author's fictitious whitewater skills were in excellent form. The little boat zigzagged its way around outcroppings, bumping and scraping its plastic hull over submerged algae-smoothed stones.
"Is it supposed to do that?" Percival shouted back over his shoulder.
"Exactly that!" the author replied. "Big drop coming soon!"
"I don't see it."
"Trust me. I've seen it before."
They whipped around a standing wave higher than Percival's head, catching a thread of green water speeding through the white. "Pull, pull, pull!" shouted the author. "Need speed!"
He caught sight of the waterfall. Had it been the day's first, he'd have been daunted. Now it just looked cute. Certainly nothing like the end of the world.
"Pull!"
He pulled.
And one last time, they sailed through the air. Percival leaned back hard, and only then realized he'd been doing so instinctively on every jump they'd done. Some part of him was following the author, who led from behind. She leaned back hard, too, muttering bueno again and again, until the kayak hit the water hard in a stern-first landing with its prow angled up. An eddy carried them to a calm spot where jungle vines draped. Like my willows, he thought
"Perfect," said the author. "If I could do that in real life…actually, I'd still live pretty much as I do. Anyhow, perfect. Well done."
A mechanical roar blasted as loud as the river's. The African Queen lumbered over the waterfall and chugged on its way downstream.
It took Percival a moment to realize that something was blinking at him from across the eddy. Its gaze put him in mind of the serpents at the edge of the Flat Earth, but it entirely lacked that opalescent curiosity.
"Milady," he said, "should we be concerned about the little dragons?"
"The what?!"
He pointed with the tip of his paddle at the eyes, which saw themselves noticed and dove.
"Downstream," she said, her voice tight. "Crocodiles aren't the end of the world, but they're worth avoiding."
Downstream they sped, so intent on outpacing the crocodiles that they didn't notice the changes in the forest until it was, unquestionably, forest and not jungle. Only when the air turned cold were they sure they'd paddled into another story entirely.
"Is that a snowflake?" the author asked.
"I don't think…oh, wait. Yes. There's another one."
The cold turned bitter. Their clothes were wet. The author had dry things for them in a properly sealed drybag, but they'd need a fire. And food. For drinking water they had the Grail, which was always full, and seemed to have held the light of Earendil just fine. The companions passed the cup back and forth while they considered what to do. A Grailful of starlight made a fine restorative, but they concluded they should make camp somewhere and shore their strength up by mundane means, too. The snow on the trees and riverbanks got thicker with every mile. The prospect of trying to burn wet wood on snow had more appeal than the prospect of, say, another waterfall, but not by much.
Then they spotted the first great chunk of ice. And another. And around the next bend, the river nearly clotted with them.
Night was falling.
Wait. What was that? Around another bend, or maybe the one after.
"Smoke," Percival said, to try the word on.
"Looks like," the author agreed.
The kayak clunked against the ice, and both the muscle and the steerswoman spent almost as much of their paddling effort nudging the chunks away from the boat as they did on forward progress.
They didn't notice just when the sound of other paddles shoving away other ice chunks could be heard over their own. In the softening light of winter evening, they didn't see the canoes overtake them until the Revolutionary scouts were upon them, asking friend or foe?
"General Washington's camp?" the author replied. "Have we made it to the Delaware? What day is it?"
"Christmas night, missus," said a buckskin-clad scout. "We've got nothing to offer you for food, I'm sorry to say. We've got fire, though. Might be you'll spend the rest of the war as prisoners, but we won't leave you to freeze out here."
So the bright blue plastic kayak took its place alongside a profusion of mismatched small boats and several sturdy-looking ones with high sides and shallow drafts. The knight and his author took their place, too, passing the Grail around with their keepers as they huddled by a fire on the eve of a victory that history called miracle.

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Yup, had quite the lengthy break.
hey dude, I noticed you had dramas with hybrids and sand cannons. Did you find a fix or a work around for it? thanks.
ty, u should be ethical with ur moneys btw.
hm.. i might look into it.


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I think I'm getting tired from all this work. Last week my back gave a twinge and it just did the same when I went out to removed some brackets from the Mazda engine bay. Monday I made a mistake when removing a roll pin from the gearbox and yesterday I lengthened the bracket which holds the steering column in place then when I got under the car found a piece of it had fallen on the floor without me realising so now it may need shortening. Gah! I also spent some time removing the pedals from the Mazda, removing the bracket which holds the clutch switch and welded it to the Herald clutch pedal. Then when walking to the shed to get paint for it remembered I had a spare Herald brake pedal which I'd planned to use the night before… I wonder if all the booze has anything to do with this, seeing as it's the first morning I've not had a hangover in almost a week. Oops!
Other jobs done yesterday: Gearbox mounted. The Mazda throttle pedal was lashed up. It's not a great run but it'll do to get the car rolling. The intake manifold bracket was tested for fit, and works. The alternator was put on. Some of the intake pipework was fitted to test for radiator placement. I won't be able to use the Mazda one so spent some time on eBay looking at radiators and might buy a Hyundai Accent one. An original Mini Cooper one would work but probably be too small and I don't want to play around with header tanks otherwise I'd try an MGB jobbie. Propshaft spacer is still being made, but it's more of an adaptor than a spacer! And I'm currently waiting for fuel hose clips, a sheet of clear plastic and a roll of charcoal coloured vinyl. Today the airflow meter will be fitted and I may make a start on the dashboard or fitting the MX5 seats. I've also got to get a new UJ for the propshaft which seems hard to get hold of! I've got the number for the local proshaft people but it's always engaged.
Oh, and I pulled the Acclaim exhaust off. Hardly had to touch it really. I'll be repairing it once I make the Herald exhaust as I've got three meters of 2″ pipe sitting up the top of the garden but don't want to wast it before I start bending. Until then it's being driven around rather noisily.
Small progress right now. I had a bit of a session Friday night and woke up on Saturday around 8am far drunker than when I went to bed. Still, had to get the hacksaw out and tweak the gearbox to allow it to fit into the chassis. Engine mounts were played with (and possibly fitted, or that could have been Sunday, dunno…) and then it was time for more beer. Sunday the gearbox remote was shortened (then I went off for a BBQ and wine) and yesterday thrown in the car. Today the propshaft will be worked on and after that the exhaust can be played with and then it'll be the bulkhead and fuel pump! Bit worried about the propshaft now as others (at least Seth) have been able to use spacers to fill the gap between the Triumph diff and Mazda propshaft. As I'm far closer the spacer required may be too small to be practical or it may even need shortening! We'll see. I found out why the Acclaim has been getting louder as well. Oh, and the dash plans have been finalised.
So yesterday felt like a wasted day. It was spent playing with the fuel pump which was found to be leaking etc. To be honest, I can't really remember what progress was made other than painting badges and making brackets! Today was a little different. Before my dentist appointment at noon I had the car jacked down, the gearbox out and the engine removed and taken up the top of the garden – I can confirm they're heavy (125kg according to the CT thread)!
On my return it was time to have a go at getting the Mazda engine it, which wouldn't fit. Out it came, brake lines removed and a chunk of bulkhead carefully measured and cut out. Back in and, woohoo! It all fits nicely, the pulley has been reduced as well by the way. Only thing to do now is sort out the mountings and it's in. I'm going to reuse the original ones. They mount into a metal cup, I'm going to turn this back on itself, cut it to 55 degrees and then weld it to the chassis. Doing it this was should also allow the the alternator to stay where it is. I'm going to cut away the (now pointless) casting on the gearbox where the power plant frame attached to it and this will allow me to lower it to a sensible and usable height.
I do have an issue though, the exhaust. It's going to be a pig as it sits at completely the wrong angle so will require some thinking. Any advice welcome! Tomorrow will hopefully be spent trimming the wiring loom then Saturday I'll get welding.


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Canerector Marks 75 Years – Its Origins and Founding Principles
Canerector Marks 75 Years – Its Origins and Founding PrinciplesTina Taus2022-03-10T17:44:34+00:00
Cecil and Stanley Hawkins circa the 1980s.
Canerector is proud to be celebrating 75 years of operation. Since its creation in 1947, the company has undergone an incredible transformation from a small field team to a multi-company family business. Its success is closely related to the three successive owners of the same family who were willing and able to transfer leadership from one generation to the next. One period was particularly formative: the transition of leadership from Stanley Hawkins to his son Cecil in the early 1980s. It was during this time period that Canerector developed the principles it still follows today.
Beginnings: The Rise of Canadian Erectors
At its beginnings, Canerector, then known as Canadian Erectors, was a small boiler repair and maintenance firm based in Montreal, Quebec with three founding partners: Army Armstrong, Rosaire Vaillancourt, and Stan Hawkins. After many years of hard work, Canadian Erectors emerged from the 1960s as a well-established company focused on field-erected storage tanks while also fabricating pressure vessels and other platework. In the early 1970s, commodity prices soared, and the company's customers were desperate to increase their capacity. As a result, steel plate, Canadian Erectors' main raw material, became very scarce. The strong demand combined with the steel shortages helped the company generate significant profits in 1974 and 1975.
Unfortunately, the economy and demand contracted soon after, while the political environment in Quebec worried Montreal business owners. Stanley Hawkins' two partners in Canadian Erectors became restive. They told Stan they wanted to sell their shares. As the CEO of the business, Stan was facing a difficult situation and the key to solve this problem came from an unexpected source.
At the time, Stan's son Cecil was attending law school. He worked at Canadian Erectors during the summer of 1978. In his spare time he reviewed the financial statements of the company. Having a flair for finance, Cecil could recognize a good deal when it presented itself. Making a life-changing decision, he approached his father with the idea of combining their efforts to buy out the two partners who wished to sell. On August 10, 1978, Canadian Erectors became a family business with father and son as owners.
As a young man with an unusual background for the industry, Cecil brought a new perspective to the business. Early on, Cecil showed interest in learning more about similar companies within the same market and considered something Stan would have never thought of—the acquisition of similar companies. A Montreal pipe spooling business, Alloytec Mechanical, first drew Cecil's attention. After convincing Stan, Canadian Erectors completed its first acquisition in 1979.
Combo Tank facility in the 1980s.
This acquisition was successful, and the family company considered acquiring a second firm: Combo Tank, a small field-erected tank company servicing the Ontario market. Cecil realized acquiring this business would expand Canadian Erectors to Ontario and the rest of Canada. At the time, the family company only did business in Quebec and New Brunswick. Cecil was young and inexperienced, and his older colleagues at the company felt buying the small, unprofitable Combo Tank would be a mistake. However, to Cecil it seemed a match made in heaven as both businesses would benefit from the acquisition—Canadian Erectors finding an opening for other markets and Combo Tank gaining much needed engineering, financial, and administrative help. Cecil moved forward with the acquisition and fortunately it worked out well. The next year, most of Canadian Erectors' profits came from contracts sold by Combo Tank.
This success was very encouraging, and Cecil devoted himself to the company. He focused on gaining as much insight and knowledge as possible. When identifying gaps and challenges to overcome, Cecil would analyze the situation to find a solution. Although Cecil's approach to business differed from his, Stan saw great potential in both his son and the newcomers within the management team. Confident in their capabilities, Stan made the decision to step down as CEO in 1982, leaving his son at the head of the company. At the time, Stan was 60 years old and Cecil was only 26.
Becoming Canerector: Growing Through a Recession
Now well established in Eastern Canada, the company looked toward the West. To enter the market in Alberta, the company would need to supply and erect very large tanks—something Canadian Erectors was not equipped to do. Two companies in Canada had this capability—Toronto Iron Works (TIW) and Horton Steel (which was owned by a large American public company). Looking to replicate the success of his Combo Tank acquisition, Cecil investigated buying TIW to further expand Canadian Erectors.
A view from inside TIW's shop.
During this time, in the early 1980s, a recession was hitting hard and big firms, including TIW's parent company, were in severe financial difficulty. TIW's bankers needed a buyer and were more than willing to negotiate with Cecil. After many discussions with the parties involved, Canadian Erectors finally acquired three divisions – TIW, CE Macpherson, and CK Steel, now TIW Western – which were worth many times the value of Canadian Erectors.
In the middle of a disastrous recession, this acquisition was a huge risk. TIW was unprofitable, and Canadian Erectors had to take on a large debt while it had none previously. TIW needed restructuring, which led to many distressing decisions such as downsizing its main plant, letting go of employees, and closing Canadian Erectors' original Montreal plant. Cecil became TIW's president in order to tackle these challenges firsthand. He worked feverishly to reduce TIW's ongoing losses, and it took a few years for TIW to emerge from the crisis. This experience taught many important lessons to Cecil about the industry, operations, overall management, but also about himself. Fortunately, Canadian Erectors' bankers realized Cecil was navigating a very challenging market and supported him.
Toronto Iron Works (TIW) facilities before its acquisition by Canadian Erectors.
In the mid-1980s, the multifaceted aspect of Canadian Erectors—a company with separate operations in different locations—brought up the necessity of a change regarding the corporate structure. While he was focusing as TIW's president, Cecil did not have much time to get involved in the other operations within Canadian Erectors. The other businesses of Canadian Erectors managed to make modest profits during this time and Cecil realized that capable leaders made micromanagement by him unnecessary. He became an advocate for "light touch" corporate oversight of Canerector's companies, taking a decentralized approach to operating the businesses.
As well, in the beginning of his career at the family company, Cecil was able to learn so much from different experienced and knowledgeable leaders within the management team. Opportunities to meet and discuss allow leaders to learn from one another, support one another, and discover business opportunities with sister companies. To create such networking opportunities, Cecil and his wife Susan started to organize annual meetings with the Canadian Erectors' leaders, which included a social aspect with spouses being invited. Together, and supporting one another, the businesses were stronger and more successful, proving the family company's unconventional corporate culture was effective.
Looking to the Future: Strong Principles and Long-Term Focus
Canerector head office today. Image courtesy of Global Architect.
Through the following years, Canerector was quite profitable. Cecil continued to target and acquire businesses to build the company. The 1980s were not a triumphant period, as it was a tough decade with many challenges. However, it was a formative period that shaped Canerector into the company it is now. The family business went from one plant operating in Montreal to a national multidivisional business.
Through the growing pains that were TIW's acquisition and restructuring, the company had to shut down the plant in Montreal. As Canerector lost its original plant, it also lost its innocence. Important lessons were learned during this difficult time – lessons and fundamental principles still guiding its management team today: an aversion to debt, a long-term approach, an ownership model promoting flexibility and reinvestment, owning your facilities, and the importance of keeping plant and equipment up to date.
When a single owner with a long-term approach manages a company, it remains connected to its history, noticing the cycles and developing the ability to anticipate upcoming challenges. When challenges arise, the company is more prepared, solid, knowledgeable, and ready. This is the great advantage of family businesses – Canerector's history is still present as the former presidents Stan and Cecil Hawkins left their marks on the company, an accumulation of acquired knowledge through lessons learned when facing hardships. Looking back at all its challenges and successes during these 75 years, Canerector's current team is confidently moving forward, armed with this rich history and experience.
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Commonwealth v. Peters
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Angela Peters was charged with a DUI first offense. At her arraignment, defense counsel requested a pretrial conference and requested the presence of the officer who had arrested Peters. The Commonweath objected to producing the arresting officer. The district court ruled in favor of Peters. The circuit court then granted the Commonwealth's request for a writ of prohibition. The court of appeals overturned the writ, determining there was no substantial evidence to support the circuit court's finding that the Commonwealth would suffer irreparable harm under the district court order. The Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals' reversal of the writ of prohibition granted by the circuit court and reinstated the circuit court's writ, holding that because the district court's order compelled the Commonwealth to present the witness at a pretrial conference so the witness could be interviewed, the order exceeded what Ky. R. Crim. P. 7.24 and Ky. R. Crim. P. 8.03 allowed, and the issuance of the writ by the circuit court was proper.
RENDERED: SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 TO BE PUBLISHED $ularrtut (Court of elfirttfurkg 0 2010-SC-000074-DG COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY APPELLANT ON REVIEW FROM COURT OF APPEALS CASE NO. 2008-CA-001857-MR SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT NO. 08-CI-00518 V. APPELLEE ANGELA PETERS OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE SCHRODER REVERSING This is an appeal from an opinion of the Court of Appeals reversing a circuit court's writ of prohibition of a district court order requiring the Commonwealth to produce the complaining witness (the arresting police officer), at a pretrial conference for an interview. We opine that the issuance of the writ was proper. In February 2008, Angela Peters was charged with driving under the influence (DUI) first offense. At her arraignment, defense counsel requested a pretrial conference and requested the presence of the officer who had arrested Peters. The Commonwealth objected to producing the arresting officer. On July 15, 2008, the district court entered an order couching the issue as, "whether or not the Commonwealth is required to produce witnesses .. . prior to trial to allow opposing counsel to interview them." The district court ruled in favor of Peters, reasoning that the court had discretion under RCr 7.24 and RCr 8.03 to enter such orders "that would expedite cases and aid in the disposition of cases." The court further stated: The production of the prosecuting witness, i.e. the officer, prior to trial has proven to be the most effective method in the 53 rd Judicial District used to expedite cases and aid in the disposition of cases. Additionally, pretrial conferences in Shelby County are currently held informally, off the record, without the presence of the judge. However, if necessary, pretrial conferences can be held formally, on the record, in the presence of the judge. The Commonwealth then requested a writ of prohibition from the Shelby Circuit Court, which was granted. The circuit court found the district court order was entered erroneously because there was no basis in the criminal or civil rules for such an order. As to the writ standard, the circuit court found that the Commonwealth's prosecution would suffer irreparable harm under the district court order. The Court of Appeals overturned the writ, determining there was no substantial evidence to support the circuit court's finding that the Commonwealth would suffer irreparable harm. The court also adjudged that the district court acted within its discretion under RCr 7.24(5) in entering the order. This writ case is now before us on discretionary review. Relief by way of a writ of prohibition is an "extraordinary remedy and we have always been cautious and conservative both in entertaining petitions for and in granting such relief." Grange Mut. Ins. Co. v. Trude, 151 S.W.3d 803, 2 808 (Ky. 2004) (quoting Bender v. Eaton, 343 S.W.2d 799, 800 (Ky. 1961)). Writ cases are divided into two classes, which are distinguished by "whether the inferior court allegedly is (1) acting without jurisdiction (which includes `beyond its jurisdiction'), or (2) acting erroneously within its jurisdiction." Id. (internal quotation marks in original). When, as here, the petitioner alleges that the trial court is acting erroneously, though within its jurisdiction, a writ will only be granted when two threshold requirements are satisfied: there exists no adequate remedy by appeal or otherwise; and the petitioner will suffer great and irreparable harm. Hoskins v. Maricle, 150 S.W.3d 1, 18 (Ky. 2004). Under a narrow exception to the harm requirement, the "certain special cases" exception, the writ can be granted "in the absence of a showing of specific great and irreparable injury . . . provided a substantial miscarriage of justice will result if the lower court is proceeding erroneously, and correction of the error is necessary and appropriate in the interest of orderly judicial administration." Bender, 343 S.W.2d at 801 (emphasis in original). Whether to grant or deny a writ of prohibition is within the sound discretion of the court with which the petition is filed. Haight v. Williamson, 833 S.W.2d 821, 823 (Ky. 1992). Thus, this decision is ultimately reviewed by an appellate court for abuse of discretion. However, if the basis for the grant or denial involves a question of law, the appellate court reviews this conclusion de novo. Rehm v. Clayton, 132 S.W.3d 864, 866 (Ky. 2004). If the court with which the petition is filed bases its ruling on a factual determination, this finding of fact is reviewed for clear error. 3 Grange, 151 S.W.3d at 810. Turning to the case at hand, the Commonwealth argues that great and irreparable harm will result from the district court order requiring it to produce the complaining witness and that there is no adequate remedy by appeal. "No adequate remedy by appeal' means that any injury to Appellants 'could not thereafter be rectified in subsequent proceedings in the case."' Indep. Order of Foresters v. Chauvin, 175 S.W.3d 610, 614-15 (Ky. 2005) (quoting Bender, 343 S.W.2d at 802). In cases where the writ action concerns a trial court's discovery orders, this Court has drawn a distinction between orders limiting or prohibiting discovery and those allowing discovery. "[T]here will rarely be an adequate remedy on appeal if the alleged error is an order that allows discovery." Grange, 151 S.W.3d at 810. This is so because "[o]nce the information is furnished it cannot be recalled." Bender, 343 S.W.2d at 802. Because the district court order in the present case is akin to a discovery order in that it requires the witness to be present for an interview at the pretrial conference, we agree there is no adequate remedy by appeal if the court is indeed acting erroneously. We likewise agree with the Commonwealth's assertion that this case falls into the "special cases" subcategory of writ because, if the claim of error is true, correction of the error would be necessary in the interest of the orderly administration of justice. See 3M Co. v. Engle, 328 S.W.3d 184, 188 n.12 (Ky. 2010) (citing St. Luke Hosp., Inc. v. Kopowski, 160 S.W.3d 771, 774-75 (Ky. 2005)) (noting that petitioner's claim of error will be accepted as true in this stage of the analysis, even though the reviewing court may ultimately 4 determine that the trial court did not act erroneously). The Commonwealth maintains that the district court's order would violate the witness's right to refuse to answer questions by the defense or the prosecution before trial, see . United States v. Medina, 992 F.2d 573, 579 (6th Cir. 1993), overruling on other grounds recognized by United States v. Jackson-Randolph, 282 F.3d 369 (6th Cir. 2002), which we shall discuss further below, and would allow for the potential impeachment of witnesses with unsworn statements procured at informal pretrial conferences. Additionally, both parties concede that the practice of producing the prosecuting witness at informal pretrial conferences is common in many counties in Kentucky. Thus, the issue in the present case has far-reaching implications regarding pretrial procedure in the Commonwealth. We next proceed to the question of whether the district court acted erroneously in entering its order. Discovery orders adverse to the Commonwealth are subject to abuse of discretion review. Lowe v. Commonwealth, 712 S.W.2d 944, 946 (Ky. 1986). The Commonwealth maintains that there is no authority under the criminal rules for the district court to order the production of the complaining witness at the pretrial conference. This argument calls for a review of the various rules pertaining to criminal pretrial procedure. RCr 8.03 provides: At any time after the filing of the indictment or information the court on motion of any party or on its own motion may order counsel for all parties to appear before it for one or more conferences to consider such matters as will promote a fair and expeditious trial. At the conclusion of a conference the court shall prepare and file an order noting the matters agreed upon. This rule shall not be invoked in the case of a defendant who is not represented by counsel. RCr 7.24 provides for the disclosure/discovery of incriminating statements made by the defendant to any witness, written or recorded statements or confessions made by the defendant, the results of physical or mental examinations or scientific tests in the case, documents and tangible objects material to the case in the custody of the Commonwealth, and a written summary of expert testimony to be used at trial. 1 Under RCr 7.24(6), "On a sufficient showing the court may at any time order that the discovery or inspection be denied, restricted or deferred, or make such other order as is appropriate." This Court recently held that: Our case law strongly supports the trial court's discretion in interpreting the meaning of RCr 7.24, as well as in making rulings outside the strict confines of the criminal rule in order to enforce the "spirit" it is intended to advance. Broad discretion in discovery matters has long been afforded trial courts in both civil and criminal cases. Commonwealth v. Nichols, 280 S.W.3d 39, 42-43 (Ky. 2009) (footnote and citations omitted). Our Court specifically noted that the "language [in RCr 7.24(6)] . . . carries a strong inference that the trial court retains broad discretion outside the dictates of the rule." Id. at 43 n. 1. 1 The provision for discovery of the written summary of expert testimony in RCr 7.24(1)(c) was added in the amendments to the Rules of Criminal Procedure in 2010, effective January 1, 2011. 6 RCr 7.10 through RCr 7.20 allow for the taking and use of depositions in criminal cases [i]f it appears that a prospective witness may be unable to attend or is or may be prevented from attending a trial or hearing or is or may become a nonresident of the Commonwealth, [and] that the witness's testimony is material and that it is necessary to take the witness's deposition in order to prevent a failure of justice . . . . RCr 7.10(1). RCr 7.10(2) also calls for the taking of a deposition if the witness has been committed as an indispensable witness under RCr 7.06 (i.e., the witness is indispensable and there are reasonable grounds to believe that it will be impracticable to secure attendance by subpoena), and the witness fails to give bail for his or her appearance. RCr 7.02(1) provides for subpoenas requiring the witness "to whom it is directed to attend and give testimony at the time and place specified therein." RCr 7.02(5) allows for subpoenas "requiring the attendance of a witness at a hearing or trial . . . ." Relying on the federal courts' construction of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 17(a), this Court held in Hillard v. Commonwealth that "subpoenas can be used to require a witness's attendance only at formal judicial proceedings and that `[t]he government may not use trial subpoenas to compel prospective trial witnesses to attend pretrial interviews with government attorneys."' 158 S.W.3d 758, 764-65 (Ky. 2005) (quoting United States v. LaFuente, 991 F.2d 1406, 1411 (8th Cir. 1993)). Regarding access to witnesses prior to trial, this Court stated in Radford v. Lovelace, "It is important for us to remember that 'both sides have the right to interview witnesses before trial."' 212 S.W.3d 72, 82 (Ky. 2006), overruled on other grounds by Cardine v. Commonwealth, 283 S.W.3d 641 (Ky. 2009) (quoting United States v. Black, 767 F.2d 1334, 1337 (9th Cir. 1985)). "Witnesses to a crime are not the property of the prosecution or the defense and both sides have an equal right and should have an equal opportunity to interview them." United States v. Long, 449 F.2d 288, 295 (8th Cir. 1971) (citing Callahan v. United States, 371 F.2d 658, 660 (9th Cir. 1967) and Gregory v. United States, 369 F.2d 185, 188 (D.C. Cir. 1966)). As the United States Supreme Court recognized in United States v. Ash, the interviewing of witnesses before trial is a procedure that predates the Sixth Amendment. In England in the 16th and 17th centuries counsel regularly interviewed witnesses before trial. 9 W. Holdsworth, History of English Law 226-228 (1926). The traditional counterbalance in the American adversary system for these interviews arises from the equal ability of defense counsel to seek and interview witnesses himself. 413 U.S. 300, 318 (1973). And "the prosecution may not interfere with the free choice of a witness to speak with the defense . . . ." United States v. Pinto, 755 F.2d 150, 152 (10th Cir. 1985). In Gregory, the court ruled that the defendant was denied a fair trial where the prosecution told witnesses not to talk to anyone unless the prosecutor was present. 369 F.2d at 189; see Radford, 212 S.W.3d at 82. Clearly, the prosecution cannot tell a witness not to talk to the defense, and if it does, it may be grounds for dismissal of the charges or reversal of the conviction. See United States v. White, 454 F.2d 435, 438-39 (7th Cir. 1971). The right to equal opportunity to interview witnesses is tempered by the fact that "a witness also has the right to refuse to be interviewed by either the defense or the prosecution." Radford, 212 S.W.3d at 82 (citing Black, 767 F.2d at 1337; United States v. Rich, 580 F.2d 929 (9th Cir. 1978); State v. Singleton, 853 S.W.2d 490, 492 (Tenn. 1993); Dover v. State, 296 S.E.2d 710, 712-13 (Ga. 1982); Hill v. State, 366 So. 2d 296, 312 (Ala. Crim. App. 1978); and Commonwealth v. Balliro, 209 N.E.2d 308 (Mass. 1965)). See also United States v. Scott, 518 F.2d 261, 268 (6th Cir. 1975) (recognizing that any witness has the right to refuse to be interviewed if he so desires and is not under or subject to legal process). That being said, the district court's order in this case compelled the Commonwealth to present the witness at a pretrial conference for the witness to be interviewed. The order clearly compels attendance for discovery. Therefore, the order exceeds what RCr 7.24 and RCr 8.03 allow, and the issuance of the writ by the circuit court was proper. While the above mentioned criminal rules do not provide for the attendance of the complaining witness at a pretrial conference for discovery purposes, the rules likewise do not prohibit the court from so ordering the witness's attendance so long as the witness is not subpoenaed to compel his testimony at the pretrial conference. There are reasons that it is advantageous to both sides to produce the prosecuting witness at a pretrial conference, besides the discovery potential. One major motivation would be the opportunity for settlement of the case through the plea bargaining process. Judges need to be able to encourage plea agreements to expedite cases for 9 docket control. Indeed, the purpose of RCr 8.03 is to "promote a fair and expeditious trial." And the fact is that many prosecutors will not agree to a plea deal unless the agreement has the blessing or approval of the prosecuting witness (here the arresting officer). Thus, the presence of the complaining witness may be necessary to facilitate this process. As stated by the court in Kennedy v. Commonwealth, "It is not the function of this court upon review to second-guess the wisdom of permitting the plea bargaining process. It exists as a matter of judicial practice in order to expedite the disposition of heavy criminal dockets." 962 S.W.2d 880, 882 (Ky. App. 1997). In the present case, the arresting officer could not be subpoenaed to attend the pretrial conference to be interviewed. However, given the wide discretion trial courts need regarding pretrial proceedings, we opine that the trial court has within its discretionary powers the authority to order the Commonwealth to produce the prosecuting witness (the arresting officer) at a pretrial conference, as long as the purpose is not to compel the witness to be interviewed. Accordingly, we reverse the Court of Appeals' reversal of the writ of prohibition granted by the circuit court in this case, and reinstate the circuit court's writ. All sitting. All concur. 10 COUNSEL FOR APPELLANT: Jack Conway Attorney General Courtney J. Hightower Assistant Attorney General Office of Attorney General Criminal Appellate Division 1024 Capital Center Drive Frankfort, KY 40601-8204 COUNSEL FOR APPELLEE: Alan Quincy Zaring 10 S. Main Street P.O. 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Q: Is Dropping Interaction Terms Reasonable if You Just want Partial Regression Weights Without interaction terms in a model, coefficients of lower order terms represents partial regression weights (i.e. how much influence does one parameter have assuming all other parameters are held constant). With interaction terms in a model, these same coefficients now represents conditional regression weights (i.e. how much influence does one parameter have when all other parameters are zero) and interaction terms* represent how much does one parameter's influence change when the value of another parameter changes. (Citation)
This means that by including interaction terms you lose the partial regression weights. Is there ever a situation where I can justify not including interaction terms by saying 'I wanted to know how much influence a parameter had when all other parameters where held constant, so I had to exclude the interaction terms'?
*This is the interpretation for second degree interaction terms, but my question does not change if you include higher degree interaction terms.
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Lets say you have enough data to make a linear model where the parameters are a bunch of characteristics of female wolves and the response is fitness. Three of these parameters are how dark the wolves' coat is (C), the weight above the average (W), and the age of the wolves (A). You have three wolves available to you; a male and 2 females. The females are the same age, but one has a darker coat and the other is larger. If presented with both females, which will the male prefer?
If you do not include interaction terms, this is a simple question to answer. A is constant, so if C has a larger coefficient than W than the darker wolf should be selected, and if the coefficient of W is larger than the reverse should happen. In other words, if the benefit gained by a dark coat is greater than the benefit gained by having a larger mother, than the male should pick the darker wolf, and the reverse should happen if the benefits are reversed.
If you include interaction terms, I do not see how you can answer the question. The coefficients of C and W only mean something if all other parameters are 0, which they are not in this case. The interaction term CxW tells you how the influence of C changes if W changes or vice versa, but that is irrelevant to the question you are asking.

A: You have given proper justification in your question. If you want to know the effect of one with the rest held constant, use a main effects model.
The principle of marginality states that main effects do not exist in the presence of an interaction, so beware that this is only valid if there is indeed only a negligible interaction effect.
Note that the estimate is then the effect of one explanatory variable with the rest fixed at $x_j = 0$. If you want to know the effect of one variable averaged over the other variables, you can use estimated marginal means. See for example the emmeans package.

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Q: Popup window is not dismissed after clicking outside it I am using the following code to create popup window below toolbar:
private void initializePopUpWindow() {
    //inflate the popupwindow_attachment.xml
    LinearLayout viewGroup = (LinearLayout) SingleChatActivity.this.findViewById(R.id.popup_element);
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) SingleChatActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.popupwindow_attachment, viewGroup);
    popupWindow = new PopupWindow(layout, WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, true);

    //Displaying the popup at a specific location
    //popupWindow.showAtLocation(layout, Gravity.TOP, 0, 150);
    popupWindow.showAsDropDown(toolbar,0,0);

    //Close the popup when touch outside
    popupWindow.setOutsideTouchable(true);
    popupWindow.setFocusable(true);
}

I have successfully added a popup window below toolbar ,but it is not removed when i am clicking outside it .No functionality is working .Please help me to fix the issue .
Edited Working Code :
I was doing some foolish mistakes.I fixed it now.
1. onCreate() method
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_single_chat);

    //Toolbar
    toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbarSingleChat);
    toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.back); // Setting Navigation Icon in the Toolbar
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

    LinearLayout viewGroup = (LinearLayout) SingleChatActivity.this.findViewById(R.id.popup_element);
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) SingleChatActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View layout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.popupwindow_attachment, viewGroup);
    popupWindow = new PopupWindow(layout, WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

    //Close the popup when touch outside
    popupWindow.setOutsideTouchable(true);
    popupWindow.setFocusable(true);
    popupWindow.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));
}

2. onoptionsItemSelected()
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.action_viewContacts:
            return true;
        case R.id.action_media:
            return true;
        case R.id.action_search:
            return true;
        case R.id.action_block:
            return true;
        case R.id.action_email_chat:
            return true;
        case R.id.action_clear_chat:
            return true;
        case R.id.action_attach:
            initializePopUpWindow();
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

3. initializePopUpWindow() method:
private void initializePopUpWindow() {
    popupWindow.showAsDropDown(toolbar, 0, 0);
}

Here i have initialized the popupWindow in onCraeteMethod() of the activity.Also the code that handles the closing of popup window is added in onCreate() method.I have called the code that is creating the popupwindow in onOptionsItemSelected() method.Now its working for me.Thanks for the help .

A: Please try to set setBackgroundDrawable on PopupWindow that should close the window if you touch outside of it.
Use the following code. Add following line into your code.
popUp.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(ContextCompat.getColor(mContext,android.R.color.transparent)));

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A: Please try to set setBackgroundDrawable on PopupWindow that should close the window if you touch outside of it.
popupWindow.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));
popupWindow.setTouchInterceptor(new OnTouchListener() { // or whatever you want
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        if(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_OUTSIDE) { // here I want to close the popupWindow when clicking outside it but at all this is just an example of how it works and you can implement the onTouch() or the onKey() you want
            popupWindow.dismiss();
            return true;
        }

        return false;
   }
});

A: Add these two lines. It will do your work.
myPopupWindow.setBackgroundDrawable(new BitmapDrawable());
myPopupWindow.setOutsideTouchable(true);

A: The method setOutsideTouchable doesn't make your popup dismiss on touch outside.  It merely allows the popup to receive touch events that happen outside it. I think you have will to register a touch listener with setTouchInterceptor which will then call dismiss() on the window.


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Learn How 6 Professionals Turned Their Careers around with Online Healthcare Degrees
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What do a mortgage broker, operations consultant, two registered nurses, a cancer survivor, and a travelling military wife have in common? Each of them was able to fulfill their careers aspirations in healthcare with a degree they earned online.
With the industry expanding, jobs in healthcare may be just right for those who have a strong sense to serve people and help abate suffering. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.4 million new jobs are likely to be added to the healthcare industry between 2016 and 2026.
If you are interested in a career in healthcare, you'd be happy to know that people enter this career from all walks of life, in all stages of life, and for all kinds of different reasons. These 6 people share their journey in their own words. Read what they were able to accomplish!
Ever thought life was going nowhere?
Meet Amy Young. Amy traveled the world for over two decades with her husband and their three children. "As a military family we relocated every two or three years, and my attempt at getting a degree was getting nowhere. Just as soon as I enrolled in college, it was time to move again, and the next college would not accept the credits, so I always ended up with many 'floating' credits."
Ever since she was young she had an interest in healthcare which led her to enroll in an online associate degree program in health services administration. An online degree program allowed her to juggle work and study. She says, "I was able to work and take college classes at the same time, and at my convenience. I could be drinking coffee, eating, watching TV or listening to music at any time of day or night while 'attending' class online. Many times I was online working on a paper in my pajamas at 2:00 AM!"
Did it pay off? Amy Young certainly thinks so, "I obtained the knowledge necessary to open a nonprofit organization that helps low income and uninsured women receive free mammograms. I was also able to move into administrative positions and receive promotions or a higher pay rate than my coworkers."
Words of wisdom: "Online degree programs are a wonderful way to obtain your degree if you are focused, committed and organized. If you have a tendency to procrastinate and need a little push to meet your deadlines, you may want to consider taking most of your classes on campus, and maybe one class online to 'test the waters' and yourself. If you need to work or need more flexibility with your time schedule, taking an online class is the best way to go. This is especially true for young stay-at-home moms."
When life gives you lemons, what do you do?
Meet Jeff Solheim, a lymphatic cancer survivor who started his career in nursing and eventually became the founder and director of the nonprofit, Project Helping Hands, an organization that sends medical teams to developing countries. He started doing speaking engagements including motivational speaking and commencement speeches but felt the lack of a degree. He explains, "I started feeling like a bit of a hypocrite, I felt if I was going to continue to speak, I would need to practice what I preach.
He knew if he went back to school it would have to be a program that gave him the flexibility he needed, "My life was very full at the time. I was speaking professionally and running three companies, so I knew taking time to go back to school was going to be a challenge I would have to figure out how to balance."
His online master's degree in nursing gave him the credentials he needed. He says, "Although I had already established my career without my master's degree, having my master's has increased my confidence so I can better practice what I preach. When I submit my credentials for a textbook, I know that I have the proper credentials for what I'm doing."
Words of wisdom: He has a few words of caution for individuals thinking of online degrees, "It takes self-discipline to be successful when deadlines are not necessarily as fixed as in traditional education. My advice is to make sure you have the self-discipline to stay on track."
More than two decades and still in the same job?
Meet Joseph Julian, a registered nurse for more than 20 years and a hospital supervisor for three years when he enrolled in an online nursing degree program. The school, whose program generally takes four years of full-time study to complete, accepted 30 credits of previous coursework allowing him to earn his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (BSN) in three-and-a-half years of part-time study, "We had a new chief nursing officer/ V.P. of nursing who desired her leadership staff be a minimum of bachelor's degree-certified. This is also a requirement of those hospitals seeking to apply for 'magnet' status."
Despite working 12.5-hour shifts, Joseph Julian managed to get a majority of his schoolwork in while his children were at school and his wife working so they still managed some family time. "The course load was very reasonable and my advisor was great in helping me choose classes. The work was challenging but rewarding; the knowledge I gained from each class was applicable to my job and even my personal life. It also surprised me how well thought-out the program was in terms of the curriculum, course delivery and ways to pursue your clinical experiences."
Words of wisdom: "I feel associate-level nursing programs are basic preparation for the NCLEX-RN exams and a basic working knowledge, but a bachelor's degree is necessary in today's healthcare world. This degree is a stepping stone for advance practice practitioners such as nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists or clinical nurse specialists. Take it from someone who has been a nurse for 25 years now: you can never regret getting it. A BSN can only help your career."
Three years, two degrees, one class at a time
Meet Linda Rich, an operations consultant at a physical therapy rehabilitation management company. Linda travels five days a week and helps hospitals and other facilities manage their rehab programs. In three years, she earned both a bachelor's degree in healthcare management and a master's degree in human resources. She explains why she chose the degrees she did, "I looked at the healthcare industry -- there are a lot of MBAs and people managing the business. But in my opinion, human resources are what drive our business. I felt like there were already a lot of people tending to the business, so I decided to focus on how to improve human resources."
She explains how she managed to fit two degrees in such a short span of time while still working, "I started my bachelor's degree program but life just kept getting in the way. I was never able to finish it, though I only had one course left to complete. Because so much time had lapsed, I had to retake some courses. I took one class at a time, most of the time. There were two or three times that I took two classes at once, but it was a little more than I could handle. One class really worked for me and kept me going."
Words of wisdom: "You need to first determine your needs. What kind of time off do you have? How is this going to fit into your schedule? Choose the program that fits you. They're not all the same. Some require you to be in front of a webcam at a certain time to be part of a true classroom setting. That doesn't give you much flexibility. Choose the program that gives you the advantage to tend to your needs and be able to better your career at the same time."
Time for a second career?
Meet V.J. Sleight who had been working as a mortgage broker for over 20 years. The profession allowed her the time and freedom to pursue her passion of helping others quit smoking. But she says, "There were several times where my lack of a formal education had limited my opportunities." Sleight lost out on job opportunities because she didn't have a degree even though she had the experience and knowledge about cessation. On one occasion she says, "I was hired to give a talk to doctors and at the last minute had to find another speaker to share the platform because I didn't have a degree. So I didn't want the lack of a formal education to be a hindrance."
Sleight decided to go back to school beginning with just one class to earn her online master's degree inhealthcare. "When I started, I knew that eventually I wanted to write books and deliver talks to both smokers and healthcare professionals about cessation."
"For me there was no typical day, which is why online was perfect for me. I am very disciplined, so I would read/research/write whenever I had free time. Sometimes that was in the middle of the night -- having online library access was great."
How did earning this online degree help Sleight? "Probably the biggest benefit is the confidence my degree gives me. My educational credentials are no longer questioned, and the degree rounded out my knowledge about cessation."
Words of wisdom: "Know your endgame. If you don't know how you can use your degree, having an online degree might not help you. Find an accredited school, and be honest: If you can't work independently or you need someone looking over your shoulder, online education is not for you."
Nursing, or business? Or both?
Meet Alicia Sable-Hunt, a registered nurse who dreamed of creating a delicious nutrition bar that met the specific dietary needs of cancer patients. She had only one problem: her bachelor's degree in nursing hadn't included any business classes. She decided to earn an MBA in marketing online before entering the business world. Today, she's the president and founder of Sable's Foods and Edwards-Hunt Group, a medical consulting group. "My inner drive to learn and experience combined with an entrepreneurial spirit drove me to continue my education."
How was her experience? "To sum it up: exhilarating, exhausting, lonely, and the best and worst time of my life. The time and commitment required to do both at the same time was exhausting and lonely. I spent 18-20 hours per day, in an office (Edwards-Hunt Group) or kitchen (Sable's Foods), building my businesses. There was no time for a vacation or holiday, very little time for friends and family, all of which leads to a very lonely existence. But the end result is two businesses that I am proud of. The sacrifice was worth it."
Words of wisdom: "It is critically important to perform a realistic self-assessment. An individual needs to know what motivates them in a scholastic environment (e.g. do they need the structure of attending a moderator-led class in a physical location three times per week), how they absorb information (e.g. visual vs. reading vs. lecture) and their commitment level (e.g. include the time and cost of commuting to a class into the decision)."
Methodologies and Sources
Healthcare Occupations, Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2019, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm
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Sometimes, hands just have to dance.
Nico Baixas, a performer in Cirque du Soleil's KURIOS-Cabinet of Curiosities, took his flexible, expressive fingers to Herbert Marcus Elementary School on Thursday in front of deaf and hearing-impaired students. His show was not only entertaining, but his moves showed another way of how hands can be used to communicate beyond sign language.
The contrast also works to describe the difference between the small, tabletop performance at Marcus to the stage-filling KURIOS show, which runs through Sunday, March 26, at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie.
After performing a couple of hand-dancing routines set to music, Baixas showed students a series of finger-bending poses they can do on their own.


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Newcastle United Vs Aston Villa Match Preview
August 31st, 2012 | 135 Comments |
Villa sign a younger replacement for Shay Given?
Date: Sunday 2nd September,2012.
Referee: Lee Probert.
UK TV: None.
Sunday brings Premier League football back to St James' Park as Aston Villa provide the opponents for a 4pm kick-off. There will be no UK TV broadcast of the fixture so it will be time to scour the internet for links if you're not attending the match.
Newcastle will look to bounce back from last weeks defeat at Chelsea. While Villa have lost both their Premier League fixtures to date, a 0-1 loss to West Ham, and a 3-1 defeat to Everton last week at Villa Park. Historically Villa have struggled at St James Park, with only one win in the last twelve years. So the omens do look good if you believe records mean something.
Newcastle United Vs Aston Villa History
The way in which the Villans goaded the Magpies back in 2009 when Newcastle were relegated still strikes a nerve with many Toon followers. On Newcastle's return to the Premier League in 2010 / 2011, Villa provided our first opponents at home, so a chance for some kind of retribution presented itself. Joey Barton, a Kevin Nolan double and an Andy Carroll hat trick helped to inflict a 6-0 mauling for the Magpies. Last season, Papiss Cissé introduced himself in style, controlling Jonas' left wing cross and lashing a volley past ex-Magpie Shay Given to secure a 2-1 victory. The last time we lost to Villa at St James' Park was during the 2004 / 2005 season, where we witnessed Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer fall out very publically and get themselves sent off for fighting after Bowyer felt that Dyer was refusing to pass the ball to him in the game. (more…)
Chelsea Vs Newcastle United Match Preview
♫ "Blue is the callah, football is the game!" ♫
Venue: Stamford Bridge, London.
Date: Saturday 25th August, 2012.
Referee: Phil Dowd.
UK TV: ESPN / HD.
Roberto Di Matteo's Chelsea await the Magpies this Saturday, as Newcastle United return to Premier League action in the capital for another live ESPN scheduled encounter.
Alan Pardew will look to build on last weeks 2-1 home victory versus Tottenham Hotspur at a ground in which we are now undefeated for four games. This stretches back to the 2008 / 2009 season where we left with a point after a 0-0 draw.
You can't help but reminisce about last seasons fixture, where a certain Papiss Cissé opened the scoring with a sublime flick and volley in the first half to put United 1-0 up. Unfortunately for that particular strike, it was completely overshadowed by what he managed to do late into injury time, when he smashed a right-foot volley at an insane angle past Petr Cech, securing Newcastle the three points in a 2-0 victory. If you haven't witnessed that goal, then I seriously suggest you scroll straight to the bottom of this page right now and watch it before reading any further. (more…)
Newcastle United Vs Tottenham Hotspur Match Preview
August 17th, 2012 | 65 Comments |
Fighting cocks? Or headless chickens?
Date: Saturday, October 18th, 2012.
Referee: Martin Atkinson.
TV: ESPN / HD.
After the euphoria of a 5th placed finish, a disappointing yet much improved England showing in the Euro's, and an Olympics that actually was really rather good, the Premier League and Newcastle United are finally back for another season.
Pre-season has been pretty unspectacular, but slightly more steady than last years showing. There wasn't any crowd trouble to kick things off, or a José Enrique and Joey Barton 'Twitter' blast at the club's hierarchy. On the actual footballing side, a massacre of Hartlepool United (5-1) was Newcastle's best result and performance. This was sadly followed by our worst though, a 4-1 reverse at Cardiff City.
Four new arrivals in the shape of Romain Amalfitano, Gael Bigirimana, Curtis Good and as of yesterday, Vurnon Anita, have been introduced into a squad that will be competing in four competitions this coming season. We have had to say our farewells too, most notably to Danny Guthrie and Leon Best. Peter Lovenkrands has also gone, a player who was very well liked and will always be remembered with fondness from most including myself. Sadly we lost Alan Smith too…
But I digress, on to Saturday and our opponents… (more…)
Newcastle United 2011 / 2012 Season Review – Part One
May 18th, 2012 | 9 Comments |
"Make mine a treble!" - Ba gets his revenge on the Potters who shunned him.
NUFC Season Review – Part Two.
The end of the season is finally upon us. A season in which defied all expectations. A season where even the most optimistic of Toon fans would have struggled to predict what would be.
Newcastle United gate-crashed the top six, and also knocked on the door of the Premier League's top four. As it turned out at 5pm on Sunday the 13th of May 2012, Newcastle United were confirmed as finishing in 5th place, above Chelsea, above Liverpool, and above the majority of peoples expectations.
The Europa League awaits the Magpies next season, a new chapter or perhaps a new beginning is on the horizon. But before we look forward into what might be, I'm now going to relive the season that was. Cast my mind back and tell the tale of Newcastle United's 2011 / 2012 season. I hope you are all sitting comfortably… (more…)


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The United States' Ryan Crouser competes in the men's shot put during the Prefontaine Classic track and field meet on Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Eugene, Ore.
Thompson-Herah edges Richardson in the Prefontaine 100
By Anne M. PetersonThe Associated Press
Sat., May 28, 2022timer4 min. read
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica held off American Sha'Carri Richardson in the 100 meters at a rainy Prefontaine Classic on Saturday.
Thompson-Herah won in the 100 and 200 and the 400 relay at the Tokyo Olympics. She defended her Pre title in 10.79 seconds, in front of Richardson in 10.92.
"I came out here with the mindset of a champion and I delivered," Thompson-Herah said, revealing that she's been battling a shoulder injury this season.
Richardson became a sensation when she won at the U.S. Olympic trials last year but was denied a spot on the team for Tokyo because she tested positive for marijuana. She returned at the Pre last year and finished last in the 100.
Richardson wore bright pink that was adorned with gold charms. She did not speak to reporters after the race, her first sub-11 second mark since last year's trials.
Runners at Hayward Field, which will host the world championships in July, were greeted with passing rain showers, temperatures in the upper-50s and breezy conditions.
American Michael Norman won the 400 a meet-record 43.60. He won at the trials last year and finished fifth in the event at the Olympics, but now has his sights set on the worlds.
"I think it's everyone's dream to win at home, this being the first world championships in Oregon, of course it's going to be a memorable memory for any U.S. athlete," Norman said.
Trayvon Bromell raised his arms in victory before crossing the finish line of the men's 100 in 9.93 seconds. He crossed the line ahead of Fred Kerley and defending world champion Christian Coleman. Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs withdrew from the Pre earlier this week.
"For me it was personal, not against anybody in the race, but mostly for myself to show people like `Man, I'm here to compete just like everybody else.' I don't train to lose," said Bromell, who won the 100 at the trials last year but failed to reach the final in Tokyo. "So when people complain and things like `Is he going to show up in a big race?' This year I'm worried only about myself. I don't care what the naysayers say."
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the 200 in 22.41.
"I'm feeling good," she said. "A win is always good. In terms of execution, I'm not sure I executed they way I wanted."
In the Bowerman Mile, the Pre's signature event, Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen won 3:49.76. Last year the Olympic gold medalist in the 1,500 ran the Bowerman mile in 3:47.24, the fastest time on American soil.
In the Pre's other events, Samuel Tanner won the 1,500 in 3:34.37, and Brazilian Alison Dos Santos, the bronze medalist in Tokyo, won the men's 400 hurdles in 47.23, the leading time in the world this season.
Ethiopia's Berihu Aregawi built a big lead in the 5,000 and cruised to victory in a meet record 12:50.05, breaking Mo Farah's record by 16 seconds. Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Oregon native Ryan Crouse r won the shot put with a mark of 75-6 1/4.
England's Keely Hodgkinson won the 800 in 1:57.72 and Kenya's Faith Kipyegon beat her own meet record in the 1,500 in 3:52.59. Fellow Kenyan Norah Jeruto won the steeplechase in 8:57.97.
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford was the lone Canadian on the podium after winning bronze in the women's 1,500 metres. DeBues-Stafford posted a time of 3:58.62 and Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay finished in second at 3:54.21.
Canadian Mohammed Ahmed ran a solid first race of his Diamond League season to finish fourth in the men's 5, 000 metres. He clocked a time of 13:07.85, just fifty-five hundredths of a second behind bronze medallist Selemon Barega of Ethiopia.
In the men's one mile event, Canadians Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and William Paulson finished eighth (3:52.42) and ninth (3:53.82), respectively. The day concluded with the men's 100 metres sprint. Andre De Grasse finished ninth after posting 10.21 seconds.
The Prefontaine Classic, named after the late Steve Prefontaine, is the third and only U.S. stop on the Diamond League. Hayward Field, on the University of Oregon campus, also will host the U.S. championships in late June before the world championships in July.
Meanwhile, Simon Ehammer soared a superb 8.45 metres in the long jump and leads the decathlon by just two points from Olympic champion Damian Warner of London, Ont., in Götzis on Saturday.
On a thrilling first day at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in Austria, Switzerland's world indoor heptathlon silver medallist Ehammer improved his own world decathlon long jump best by 15cm, achieving a mark that tops this season's world list for the individual event.
Canada's Warner, meanwhile, was just two hundredths outside his world decathlon best with 10.14 in the 100m, and after the first five events Ehammer has 4,636 points to Warner's 4,634. Grenada's Commonwealth champion Lindon Victor sits in third with 4,379.


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APS Survivor Ahmad Nawaz Receives Prestigious Diana Award
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APS survivor Ahmad Nawaz who survived the 2014 terror attack on his school in Peshawar has become the first Pakistani to receive the prestigious Princess Diana Award for his humanitarian efforts in London.
In 2014, he managed to escape the terror attack on his school by pretending to be dead but witnessed his teacher being set on fire.
The Diana Award was founded as a legacy to Diana, Princess of Wales and her belief that young people have the power to change the world. Since 1999, the reputable award has recognised over 45,000 ordinary youngsters who have made an extraordinary differences to their communities.
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