Rugby league's Southampton moment was just after the 2017 Rugby League World Cup, when the international game had a clear direction, serious momentum and a mandate from the fans. They wanted more games, especially from teams like Tonga, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
The 'iceberg moment' happened in trying to actually act upon this mandate. Those at the Rugby League International Federation soon realised it was easier doing calculus in the dark with no pen than trying to schedule meaningful international fixtures and appease all interested parties.
The truth is some sections of the game, particularly the media, are none too keen on the international game. They like the game where it's at, big enough to have millions of people interested in it but small enough for them to still have influence over, to flex some muscle and shake things up when necessary.
If the game gets too big and breaks out of its bubble, that influence may be compromised. Others just don't think it's very good; Aussies, Brits, and Kiwis drawing on tenuous family links to pad out a few extra games a year and get embarrassed by the other codes.
But a large number of fans love the international game and, even though it is still merely a blip on the global sports landscape, the international game is growing at a rapid rate – only just behind the growth seen in the women's game.
Finally, after a sputtering start, post-World Cup, the game could possibly have clear air, and the most important ingredient for the game to flourish, certainty. For too long the main issue the international game has faced is uncertainty around fixtures.
Last year, even after booking my flight to Denver for the game between England and New Zealand, I was uncertain whether the game was going ahead. Two weeks out, not even the English magazine I was covering the match for could shed light on this situation.
Of course, the fixture failed and is confined to the scrap heap of rugby league history.
The point here is that it is impossible to build fan interest and procure sponsors when no one is ever certain if fixtures are going ahead.
That's why I am so cautious when I dare proclaim, at no louder than a whisper, that this year could possibly be different.
At the time of writing, the RLIF along with the NRL have locked in a raft of quality international fixtures beginning with Tonga versus New Zealand on June 22 in Auckland during the international break.
At the end of the season, the Kangaroos will play the Kiwis along with the Jillaroos and Kiwi Ferns in a double-header in Wollongong on October 25.
Add that to a historic Great British Lions tour with fixtures against Tonga, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea during October and November and an epic international triple-header at Eden Park with Australia playing Tonga, Fiji playing Samoa along with the Kiwis playing the Lions. All matches outside the Great British Lions tour will be part of the Oceania Cup.
There isn't enough room to list all of the amazing fixtures but the schedule is available here.
Perhaps the most exciting part is that it has a blueprint for the future with the Shield winners being promoted to Group A next year, as the Kangaroos will be on a tour of Europe.
For the first time in a long time, international rugby league has some linear certainty that fans and sponsors can rally around.
Although, in reality, the international game still has a lot of issues.
If fixtures like Wales versus Serbia or USA versus Cook Islands (just two of the many crucial fixtures to be played this year) don't have a raft of NRL players in them they are virtually invisible.
The northern hemisphere isn't experiencing the same growth that we enjoy here in the south. England's closest rivals France are eons behind after generations of metaphorical beatings by rugby union dating back to World War II, while the good news stories of Serbia and Canada are more based around grassroots and professional club successes.
The fact that Australia isn't playing the Lions is a modern day tragedy which points to the factionalism and politics holding this game back (although, hopefully, a Kangaroo tour slated in for next year will be a great lead up to the next World Cup).
That World Cup is where all roads should lead to. The 2021 edition in England is set to be the biggest ever, with more teams from around the world and more games including the men's, women's and wheelchair rugby league competitions.
It is flush with funding from the Northern Powerhouse budget and already has venues set at some world famous venues in the games historical heartland. If you can get to the north of England for 2021 this will be a very special event.
Amongst all this excitement and anticipation there still will be heavy criticism; this is rugby league after all.
Countries will feel overlooked, journalists will question whether it's wise to go head to head with the all-powerful World Rugby (as the June 22 fixture is on the same day as the Super Rugby grand final and the November 2 triple-header pits itself against the rugby union World Cup final) and a raft of other issues will be raised like players ancestry and whether a triple-header is too safe a bet.
But if the game can fill stadiums and make money it should hopefully avoid all icebergs and create history, as it charges towards 2021.
Most importantly, on that journey, we have more quality international rugby league ahead of us than ever before, and that can only be a great thing.


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Q: How should i add data to a database in an application that implements Forms Security? I am a bit newbie in ASP.NET and i don't really understand where should save some of the data that is related to my users.
Ill explain myself:
I use ASP 2.0 and i created a simple app that has registration and login mechanism. That data is stored in a DataBase that ASP automatically prepared for me (ASPNETDB.MDF)
I see the following user related data in that database:

These are my doubts:

*

*Can i add there another 3 columns for other data related to the user?

*Should i create a new table within this database and link it to aspnet_Users with a FK?

*Should i create a new database different than this one(This is just for security and similar stuff)?

*If 3 is yes, how will i know witch row of data is related to witch user in the ASPNET.DB?

I am very confused, could someone tell me where should i store my other data related to user(age, city,bloodtype...)

A: You will have to create a seperate table if you want it to be easy. A lot of the user loading and saving is done through provider classes and you will probably tie yourself in knotts trying to customise all that.
If you are starting out, it's going to be better to create a seperate user table for extended detail on the user that you can access and edit at will.

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The entire disclosure for the fair value of financial instruments (as defined), including financial assets and financial liabilities (collectively, as defined), and the measurements of those instruments as well as disclosures related to the fair value of non-financial assets and liabilities. Such disclosures about the financial instruments, assets, and liabilities would include: (1) the fair value of the required items together with their carrying amounts (as appropriate); (2) for items for which it is not practicable to estimate fair value, disclosure would include: (a) information pertinent to estimating fair value (including, carrying amount, effective interest rate, and maturity, and (b) the reasons why it is not practicable to estimate fair value; (3) significant concentrations of credit risk including: (a) information about the activity, region, or economic characteristics identifying a concentration, (b) the maximum amount of loss the entity is exposed to based on the gross fair value of the related item, (c) policy for requiring collateral or other security and information as to accessing such collateral or security, and (d) the nature and brief description of such collateral or security; (4) quantitative information about market risks and how such risks are managed; (5) for items measured on both a recurring and nonrecurring basis information regarding the inputs used to develop the fair value measurement; and (6) for items presented in the financial statement for which fair value measurement is elected: (a) information necessary to understand the reasons for the election, (b) discussion of the effect of fair value changes on earnings, (c) a description of [similar groups] items for which the election is made and the relation thereof to the balance sheet, the aggregate carrying value of items included in the balance sheet that are not eligible for the election; (7) all other required (as defined) and desired information.


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A virtual rate plan depends on other rate plan and all its figures are derived by rules, can be percentual or a fix amount. For example, a -20% plan from the standard WuBook Parity rate. On these rate plans you do not need to manage all figures manually as it is the system that calculates them automatically. These plans are very useful to manage rates automatically on both external portals and booking engine too. A virtual rate plan depends on other rate plan and all its figures are derived by rules, can be percentual or a fix amount. For example, a -20% plan from the standard WuBook Parity rate. On these rate plans you do not need to manage all figures manually as it is the system that calculates them automatically. These plans are very useful to manage rates automatically on both external portals and booking engine too.


The year 2013 is about to end, but we've come so near to Instagram that our memories will live forever. We've captured all those precious, never-again moments on Instagram, from selfies to breakfasts, lunch, and dinner, to landscapes, festivals, and more. Some people are so attached to this photo sharing app that they can't spend a day without sharing anything on their Instagram account.
Well, who doesn't like to receive some 'likes' on Instagram, and some praise in the comments section? So if you're a Instagram user who has captured your life using this service, then you can get your "2013 Best Instagram Moments" video using Statigram. This sounds exciting, right? Let's delve deeper and find out how it works.
Statigram is a service that connects with Instagram and then gathers all statistics from your account. Statigram calls these statistics snapshots, but once you connect your Instagram account to Statigram, it will take some time to calculate your stats. Once the snapshot is ready, you'll be notified by email. What's new is that it now offers an automatically generated video that shows off your best Instagram photos from 2013, as the year is about to end.
Head over to Statigram and sign-in using your Instagram credentials. You'll get a dialog box asking you to authorize Statigram. Click on the green "Authorize" button.
Next, in the "stats must be calculated based on" option, select your timezone, and also enter your email address where information will be sent to.
That's all you need to do. Your video will be processed and will be sent to you within 12 hours due to the high number of requests they're receiving.
You'll get the video in the email in .MP4 format. You can now save it anywhere you wish, be it your desktop, smartphone or tablet.
For those who're interested in learning how this service picks the best photos, it works by taking into consideration the number of likes the photo has received. Only those photos that have received more likes are included in the video.
So if you've ever wanted a video with your best Instagram photos included in it, here's your chance.


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Q: Is it possible to use angularfire2 with Angular 6? I'm trying to add firebase support to my Angular 6 app but when adding angularfire2
npm install angularfire2 firebase

I get a lot of warning saying I must use Angular 5. For example
npm WARN angularfire2@5.0.0-rc.6.0 requires a peer of @angular/core@^5.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

Is it possible to use angularfire2 with Angular 6 today?
I get this error when compiling:
ERROR in node_modules/angularfire2/angularfire2.d.ts(3,10): error TS2305: Module '"/home/rrr/Projects/ng6test/node_modules/rxjs/Subscription"' has no exported member 'Subscription'.
node_modules/angularfire2/firebase.app.module.d.ts(10,22): error TS2720: Class 'FirebaseApp' incorrectly implements class 'FirebaseApp'. Did you mean to extend 'FirebaseApp' and inherit its members as a subclass?
  Property 'automaticDataCollectionEnabled' is missing in type 'FirebaseApp'.
node_modules/rxjs/Subscription.d.ts(1,15): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'rxjs-compat/Subscription'.

I tried to install rxjs-compat but after that I get another warning
ERROR in node_modules/angularfire2/firebase.app.module.d.ts(10,22): error TS2720: Class 'FirebaseApp' incorrectly implements class 'FirebaseApp'. Did you mean to extend 'FirebaseApp' and inherit its members as a subclass?
  Property 'automaticDataCollectionEnabled' is missing in type 'FirebaseApp'.

A: I have tried and I cannot make Angular 6 work with any version of AngularFire2 (latest version: 5.0.0-rc.7.2-next). I guess we need to wait for next major version of AngularFire2.
Update:
A temporary solution is to install rxjs-compat.
npm install --save rxjs-compat

A: try:
npm install firebase angularfire2@next --save

Fixed in pre-released version:
angularfire2@next

A: package.json
"dependencies":
{
"@angular/animations": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/cdk": "^6.1.0",
"@angular/common": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/compiler": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/core": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/forms": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/http": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/material": "^6.1.0",
"@angular/platform-browser": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^6.0.3",
"@angular/router": "^6.0.3",
"@firebase/app": "^0.3.3",
"angularfire2": "^5.0.0-rc.10",
"core-js": "^2.5.6",
"firebase": "^5.0.3",
"hammerjs": "^2.0.8",
"rxjs": "^6.2.0",
"rxjs-compat": "^6.2.0",
"zone.js": "^0.8.26"
}

app.module.ts
import { AngularFireModule } from 'angularfire2';
import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from 'angularfire2/database';
import { AngularFireAuthModule } from 'angularfire2/auth';
import { environment } from '../environments/environment';

@ngModule
@NgModule({
    declarations: [
        AppComponent
    ],
    imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        BrowserAnimationsModule,
        routing,
        FormsModule,
        HttpClientModule,
        AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
        AngularFireDatabaseModule,
        AngularFireAuthModule

    ]
})

environment
firebase: {
    apiKey: "apikey",
    authDomain: "authDomain",
    databaseURL: "https://projectId.firebaseio.com",
    projectId: "projectId",
    storageBucket: "projectId.appspot.com",
    messagingSenderId: "messagingSenderId"
  }


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'Million Student March' Wants Free College Education and Debt Forgiveness
TOPICS:'Million Student March'Education and Debt ForgivenessWants Free College
More than 100 college campuses are hosting student marches and rallies today to fight for the right to a free college education, the forgiveness of student debt, and a higher minimum wage for all campus workers.
The campaign, which organizers are calling the Million Student March, was expected to draw a crowd of upwards of 1,000 at its largest rally at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where unions were set to bolster the ranks of student and faculty members. Organizers said that 110 to 120 other campuses were also hosting gatherings, including citywide events in Boston and New York.
Today's debt and tuition rallies come on the heels of a string of protests in recent weeks. A movement at the University of Missouri forced the resignation of the school's president, and the national campaign Fight for $15 held large rallies across the country on Tuesday, many of which were led or bolstered by student activists.
Keely Mullen, a senior at Northeastern University in Boston who plans to become a teacher, said she helped organize today's demonstration because she fears that she will never be able to pay back her $150,000 in student loan debt. She thinks that if students ban together, they can change the staggering costs of college education for everyone.
Related: A Roundtable with President Barack Obama: The Cost of Education
Mullen was part of a group of campus organizers who last year fought for higher pay for staff members on Northeastern's campus. They were further encouraged by comments Bernie Sanders made over the summer about the power of organizing to bring about change.
"He said if a million students march on Washington for free college, that's the only way we're going to win. That's a really inspiring thing to hear," she said. "We live in an age where people think we can vote social change into office, and Bernie Sanders, who's running for office, is saying, 'No, that's not how it happens. It happens when people take to the streets.' "
She and a small network of student activists created a Facebook page over the summer called Million Student March and began organizing with campus leaders around the country. Before long, they were flooded with requests to participate. They now have 200 campus organizers, and the overarching organizing committee includes representatives from the United States Student Association, the Student Labor Action Project, College Students for Bernie, and other groups.
Mullen hopes that today's march will lead to the creation of "independent student unions" on campuses around the country that can work separately as well as together to demand changes on their campuses.
Photo by Brandon Yadegari
Kyle Butts, a 19-year-old second-year student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, said he expected more than 1,000 people at his noontime rally on campus, including staff, faculty, students, administrators, and representatives of unions. He had been working with some 40 organizers on campus and across the UC system to plan the day of action.
"In the most basic sense, high public education should be a right for all students," he said.
Butts praised the Million Student March for trying to tie the Fight for $15 together with the campaign over student debt and expensive tuition.
"I love that it unifies students and workers behind one cause," he said. "Workers supported students and vice versa."
Originally from Connecticut, Butts arrived at the university with a slew of Advanced Placement credits in math and has been able to meet his degree requirements ahead of schedule. He'll be wrapping up at the end of the academic year, saving himself some $60,000 in tuition that he would have had to pay had he taken the traditional four-year path to a degree. Butts said that if cost weren't a concern, he would have switched his major from math to global studies and spent the extra two years learning more, but he didn't want to take on any extra debt if he didn't have to.
"We certainly support increased public funding for higher education," said a University of California spokesperson when asked about the protest at the campus in Santa Barbara, who also noted that the university has not increased tuition since 2011 and has no plans to do so until 2017.
Both Mullen and Butts said that political candidates have taken note of the growing demand for changes to higher education.
"People who make decisions in this country aren't going to be able to ignore it," Mullins said. "We've already seen the success of an approach like that this time around. Hillary Clinton is the most right-leaning Democrat running, and yet because of pressure from below for her to have a fair education platform, she's been forced to shift a little to the left."
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This high neck, sleeveless dress features a self-tie to cinch the waist and an elegant midi length. Wear with trainers by day and slingbacks by night.
This dress was absolutely perfect. Unfortunately had to purchase for a funeral but it looked lovely. I had to buy the longer length (I'm 5'4) which sat around mid calf, but with a pair of heels it looked very elegant. Love love love!
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It has its pros and cons.
Pro- you can connect yourself to literally everyone across the globe.
Con- Your child has pretty much the same access.
Yes, the Internet is both good and bad. Especially with easy access to services like Spectrum Internet, almost everyone has an online presence. And where the adults have to deal with threats like hacking, the youngsters are pretty indifferent about it. But the parents of these young ones have a lot to worry about. Because they have to make sure that their child is not watching content he shouldn't. It is for this reason that many service providers have added the parental control option. This feature applies to both the cable and Internet services. While there is a lot that the parents have to worry about, here are a couple of tips for parents to protect their children from inappropriate stuff.
First things first. If you want to keep an eye on your child. Or want to ensure that you know what they are up to, educate yourself. You will have to put in an effort to learn the basics of the technology that your child uses on daily basis. And you cannot afford to just let this slip away. Because technology is an integral part of every kid's life these days. And adults' life too. But often the adults ignore some aspects of it. Which is wrong. And it is not at all difficult to grasp the fundamentals of the tech world. This is a digital world. And you as parents need to up your game and keep yourselves updated with all the latest happenings in the digital world.
Well, there's nothing wrong with your kid having accounts on social media websites. Or connecting to his peers via tech apps. But you as parents need to guide them. And the guidance will only come when you are your kid's best friend. You children should feel comfortable sharing things with you. Whether it be them joining a dating app or playing online games. They should feel comfortable enough to come to you and talk about it. In fact, every now and then surf the Internet with them. Stay involved (not in an annoying way, of course). But yeah you get the point right?
Talking of you keeping up with the digital world also means that you know precisely what every app is for. Several apps are marked as educational. But they are anything but educational. They spoil your kids. In such instances, you can take help from online organizations like Common Sense Media. This online platform includes reviews about the apps and games. It basically acts like a parental guide for parents.
Education is not only for you. Your child needs to be informed about what is safe for him and what not. Therefore, have a dialogue with them occasionally. And educate them about the importance of staying away from online predators. They are kids and they often take online security for granted. According to them, nothing can ever go wrong with them. But it is that particular thought that you need to shun. You need to tell them of all the ways people try to fool you through online platforms. And how dangerous a situation can get. Share with them instances when people have got themselves into trouble because of sharing inappropriate pictures. Or posting too much about themselves on social media. Once your child gets comfortable with you, he will not take such steps where he might get into trouble.
Not all toys serve the purpose they are designed for. And this holds truer I today's era than any other age. Because many toys these days have options to connect them to Wi-Fi. Worse, they have built-in cameras or microphones. This is where the trouble starts. Hackers can access your location if you connect the device to Wi-Fi. Or your camera or microphone can easily be accessed as well. So, a hacker can listen to whatever you say. And if this does not scare you, God knows what will. Hence, research about a toy that your child bought. It can save you from a lot of troubles. Because apparently, they are just toys. And nothing can be wrong with them. But the destruction they might be capable of causing is beyond your imagination.
Anyhow, the point is not to scare you. But to make you cautious. A piece of good news for you is that many companies offer protection against malware and viruses if you opt for their Internet services. For me subscribing to Spectrum double play has served the purpose. You can ask your service provider or check its website to see if they protect you against predators as well or not.


Using the updated double-secret reverse reveal draft pick method and my left over Christmas card envelopes, the draft order for the 2013 season of the 3FL has been chosen. Three-quarters of the teams in the league were present during the selection process.
Possible rule changes are being taken into consideration and will be put to a vote during training camp. We will tentatively hold the live online draft at 9:00pm on Thursday, August 29, 2013.


Polystyrene, which is most often seen in the form of disposable food containers, insulating materials and packing materials, is a petroleum-based plastic, of which 98% is air, so most of the polystyrene products seem very bulky, which can well explain that the polystyrene foam is good shockproof material.
Nowadays, polystyrene has won its popularity as we can see Polystyrene products in our daily life everywhere for the feature of lightweight, impact resistant, heat and noise insulation. However, polystyrene is non-degradable and can only stay in landfill forever if people do not take actions to recycle it.
According to the scientists, those foam waste can stay on the landfill up to 200 to 400 years without manual processing, and some even 500 years. People may feel inconceivable or even ignore that such disposable plate or cup they use for one or five minutes could even cause a permanent pollution. Hence, it can not be denied that recycling by foam densifier is not only crucial but also inevitable.
Considering that polystyrene waste will cause great pollution to the environment if not be recycled, thus polystyrene densifier for recycling is clearly a much better solution. Not only can it improve the utilization of the material, but also reduce the destruction of the environment.
A green-based solution is to apply a polystyrene densifier. Such a densifier can be supplied by GREENMAX, one of the most professional machines to recycle waste foams. The densifier is a machine that can smash the bulky polystyrene into pieces and then melt the pieces into small volume ingots at a ratio of 90:1. It means that the densified ingots can be 90 times smaller than the loose polystyrene.
As professional polystyrene densifier equipment manufacturer, GREENMAX still have a more challenging and longer way to go and believe that it will not let you down.


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package com.jt.selenium;

/**
 * This class provides wrappers to the basic selenium class. It should not contain any project specific functionality. This class should be
 * extended further to incorporate custom methods.
 *
 * @author Dave Hampton 10/01/2009
 */

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import org.testng.Assert;

import com.jt.selenium.configuration.SeleniumConfiguration;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTCSS;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTCore;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTEvent;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTImage;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTInput;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTLocalStorage;
import com.jt.selenium.elements.JTTinyMce;
import com.jt.selenium.utils.LogExecTime;

@Component
public class SeleniumJT
{

	/**
	 * This will save your screen shots to a location specified by the property 'screenshot.loc'
	 *
	 * @param fileName Should be a gif. If '.gif' is not added to the filename it will be changed.
	 *
	 * @throws IOException
	 */
	public void screenShot(String fileName) throws IOException {
		jtCore.screenShot(fileName);
	}

	public void verifyLocalStorageValue(String key, String value) {
		localStorage.verifyLocalStorageValue(key, value);
	}

	public void closeAlert() {
		jtCore.closeAlert();
	}

	public Properties testData;

	@Autowired
	private JTCore jtCore;

	@Autowired
	private JTCSS jtCSS;

	@Autowired
	private JTEvent jtEvent;

	@Autowired
	private JTImage jtImage;

	@Autowired
	private JTInput jtInput;

	@Autowired
	private JTTinyMce jtTinyMce;

	@Autowired
	private JTLocalStorage localStorage;

	@LogExecTime
	public WebElement getElementByTagName(String locator) {
		return jtCore.getElementByTagName(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForValueInElement(String locator, String text) {
		jtCore.waitForValueInElement(locator, text);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public WebElement getElement(String locator) {
		return jtCore.getElement(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForAlert() {
		jtCore.waitForAlert();
	}

	public void setTestData(Properties testData) {
		this.testData = testData;
	}

	public void setWebDriver(WebDriver driver) {
		jtCore.getJtContainer().setDriver(driver);
	}

	public void removeItemFromLocalStorage(String item) {
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	public boolean isItemPresentInLocalStorage(String item) {
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		return localStorage.getItemFromLocalStorage(key);
	}

	public String getKeyFromLocalStorage(int key) {
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	public Long getLocalStorageLength() {
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	public void setItemInLocalStorage(String item, String value) {
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	public void clearLocalStorage() {
		localStorage.clearLocalStorage();
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	public WebDriver getWebDriver() {
		return jtCore.getJtContainer().getWebDriver();
	}

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		return jtCore.executeJavaScript(script);
	}

	public void runJavaScript(String script) {
		jtCore.executeJavaScript(script);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void windowFocus() {
		jtCore.windowFocus();
	}

	public void stop() {
		jtCore.getJtContainer().stop();
	}

	public SeleniumConfiguration getConfiguration()
	{
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	public void setConfiguration(SeleniumConfiguration configuration)
	{
		jtCore.getJtContainer().setConfiguration(configuration);
	}

	/**
	 * Verify that the src of the image [identified by it's id] is correct
	 *
	 * @param locator
	 * @param src
	 */
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	{
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifySelectedLabel(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtInput.verifySelectedLabel(locator, value);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifySelectedLabelContains(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtInput.verifySelectedLabelContains(locator, value);
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	/**
	 * Make sure site is up and not being updated
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	public void checkServiceAvailability()
	{
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyCssClass(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtCSS.verifyCssClass(locator, value);
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	/**
	 * Make sure no JavaScript error occurred. There is a special JavaScript function added to the code that outputs a div with the id js_error if an error has
	 * happened.
	 *
	 *

	 *
	 *

	 *
	 **/
	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyNoJavaScriptErrorOnPage()
	{
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	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void debugPause(int seconds, String message)
	{
		jtCore.debugPause(seconds, message);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void validatePage(String identifier)
	{
		jtCore.validatePage(identifier);
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	@LogExecTime
	public boolean isElementPresent(String locator)
	{
		return jtCore.isElementPresent(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementPresent(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementPresent(locator);
	}

	/**
	 * Looks for a substring within the element
	 *
	 * @param locator
	 * @param value
	 */
	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementContains(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementContains(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementNotContains(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementNotContains(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyChecked(String locator)
	{
		jtInput.verifyChecked(locator);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyNotChecked(String locator)
	{
		jtInput.verifyNotChecked(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public String getHtmlSource()
	{
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	}

	/**
	 * Verifies the value of text within the given element.
	 *
	 * @param locator
	 *            the element.
	 * @param value
	 */
	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementText(String locator, String value)
	{
		verifyElementText(locator, value, "The values don't match");
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	/**
	 * Allow custom message to verifyElementText
	 */
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	public void verifyElementText(String locator, String value, String message)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementText(locator, value, message);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementTextNotEqualTo(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementTextNotEqualTo(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void open(String url) throws IOException
	{
		jtCore.open(url);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void blur(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.blur(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyOccurrencesInElement(String locator, String regex, int occurs)
	{
		jtCore.verifyOccurrencesInElement(locator, regex, occurs);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public int getOccurrences(String regex)
	{
		return jtCore.getOccurrences(regex);
	}

	/**
	 * Custom method for typing text into a tinyMce which is formed of an embedded iframe html page which we need to target and type into. After we have typed
	 * our value we then need to exit the selected iFrame and return to the main page.
	 *
	 * @param locator
	 * @param value
	 */
	@LogExecTime
	public void typeTinyMceEditor(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtTinyMce.typeTinyMceEditor(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyInputValueTinyMce(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtTinyMce.verifyInputValueTinyMce(locator, value);
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	/**
	 *
	 * @param targetFrame
	 */
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	public void selectFrame(String targetFrame)
	{
		jtCore.selectFrame(targetFrame);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForTitle(String title) {
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	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForTitleToContain(String text) {
		jtCore.waitForTitleToContain(text);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForElementText(String locator, String text) {
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	/**
	 * To be used in conjunction with selectFrame() to return to the parent frame.
	 */
	public void returnToFrameParent()
	{
		jtCore.returnToFrameParent();
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	/**
	 * After clicking something that invokes an Ajax event we need to wait for some value to return before we can continue.
	 *
	 * @param text
	 *            The text to wait for
	 */
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	public void waitForText(String text)
	{
		jtCore.waitForText(text);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void click(String locator)
	{
		jtEvent.click(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void clickNoValidation(String locator)
	{
		jtEvent.clickNoValidation(locator);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void click(String locator, int pause)
	{
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	@LogExecTime
	public void check(String locator)
	{
		jtInput.check(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void uncheck(String locator)
	{
		jtInput.uncheck(locator);
	}

	/**
	 * Selenium's attachFile does not work - so I've written my own
	 */
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	public void attachFile(String locator, String fileUrl)
	{
		jtInput.attachFile(locator, fileUrl);
	}

	public void copy(File src, File dst) throws IOException
	{
		jtCore.copy(src, dst);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyInputValue(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtInput.verifyInputValue(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyInputValue(String locator, String value, String msg)
	{
		jtInput.verifyInputValue(locator, value, msg);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyAlert(String regex)
	{
		jtCore.verifyAlert(regex);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void pause(int millisecs)
	{
		jtCore.pause(millisecs);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void select(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtInput.select(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void selectAndWait(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtInput.selectAndWait(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public String getInputValue(String locator)
	{
		return jtInput.getInputValue(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void type(String locator, String value)
	{
		jtInput.type(locator, value);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyTitle(String title)
	{
		jtCore.verifyTitle(title);
	}

	/**
	 * If element is not on the screen then selenium will try 20 times, twice a second for 10 seconds before finally declaring a failure
	 *
	 * @param locator
	 */
	@LogExecTime
	public void clickAndWait(String locator)
	{
		jtEvent.clickAndWait(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void clickAndWaitForAjax(String locator) throws InterruptedException
	{
		throw new IllegalStateException("Not yet implemented");
		//jtEvent.clickAndWaitForAjax(locator);
	}

	/**
	 * This text should appear on the screen.
	 *
	 * If text is not on the screen then selenium will try 20 times, twice a second for 10 seconds before finally declaring a failure
	 *
	 * @param text
	 */
	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyTextPresent(String text)
	{
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	}

	/**
	 * This text should appear on the screen
	 *
	 * @param text
	 */
	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyTextPresent(String text, String msg)
	{
		jtCore.verifyTextPresent(text, msg);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyTextNotPresent(String text)
	{
		verifyTextNotPresent(text, String.format("Text \"%s\" is NOT expected but is present", text), false);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyTextNotPresentInstantFail(String text)
	{
		verifyTextNotPresent(text, String.format("Text \"%s\" is NOT expected but is present", text), true);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyTextNotPresent(String text, String message, boolean instantFail)
	{
		jtCore.verifyTextNotPresent(text, message, instantFail);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyAttribute(String locator, String attribute, String value) {
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	{
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	{
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	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementNotPresent(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementNotPresent(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementVisible(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementVisible(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void verifyElementNotVisible(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.verifyElementNotVisible(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void closeBrowser()
	{
		jtEvent.closeBrowser();
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void restartBrowser()
	{
		jtEvent.restartBrowser();
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForElementPresentAndVisible(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.waitForElementPresentAndVisible(locator);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForElementVisible(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.waitForElementVisible(locator);
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	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForElementNotVisible(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.waitForElementNotVisible(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForElementPresent(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.waitForElementPresent(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void waitForElementNotPresent(String locator)
	{
		jtCore.waitForElementNotPresent(locator);
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public void focus(String locator)
	{
		jtEvent.focus(locator);
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	@LogExecTime
	public boolean isVisible(String locator)
	{
		return jtCore.isVisible(locator);
	}

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	{
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	}

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	{
		return jtCore.runningInPhantom();
	}

	@LogExecTime
	public boolean runningInChrome()
	{
		return jtCore.runningInChrome();
	}

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	{
		return jtCore.runningInFirefox();
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	{
		return jtCore.runningInSafari();
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	@LogExecTime
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	{
		return jtCore.runningInFirefox();
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	@LogExecTime
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	{
		jtCore.fireEvent(locator, eventName);
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//	{
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		jtInput.typeHidden(locator, value);
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Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang
Leading Experts on Global Trends and Strategy
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Dr. Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang are world-revered experts on global trends and business strategy, and co-authors of the new book The Silk Road Rediscovered: How Indian and Chinese Companies Are Becoming Globally Stronger by Winning in Each Other's Markets. A roadmap for understanding the business challenges and opportunities in China, Dr. Gupta and Wang's new book breaks down how businesses should view and respond to shifting power centers and foreign policy strategies, as well as how organizations can prime themselves for global expansion and benefit from emerging markets. In speeches, they share key lessons learned throughout their research and offer case studies for how pioneering corporations in Asia have built partnerships to help them succeed in the new global economy. Their book is the first to ever analyze the growing corporate linkages between India and China and clearly illustrate why, by 2025, their relationship will be one of the ten most important bilateral ties worldwide.
Haiyan Wang is managing partner of the China India Institute, a Washington D.C.-based research consultancy with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She has also been an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. Haiyan has been listed by Thinkers 50 in "On the Guru Radar" and short listed for the "2011 Global Village Award." She has also been included in the list of "New Guru" by The Economic Times.
Dr. Anil Gupta is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and globalisation. He is currently the Professor of Strategy and Organization as well as Research Director at the Center for International Business Education & Research at The University of Maryland. He also serves as chief advisor to The China India Institute, a Washington D.C.-based research and consulting organization. Dr. Gupta outlines how companies can leverage the market and the resource opportunities presented by the China and India phenomenon to achieve global dominance within their particular industries. He also talks about the key questions that business leaders must address in order to develop winning strategies to go global and to transform global presence into global advantage. He offers conceptual frameworks that business leaders can use to answer these questions.
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CityRacks Design Competition Winner Announced
By Glen Taylor - November 17, 2008
Copenhagen designers Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve have won New York's CityRacks Design Competition with their floating circle design. Almost 5,000 cast metal 'Hoop' racks are planned to be installed throughout the city over the next 3 years.
Results First Place: Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) Second Place: Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs Third Place: Ignacio Ciocchini
View finalist's entries
Glen Taylor
Coffee black, whiskey neat, and chocolate dark!
Wish they had picked a local firm as the winner. Jeff Miller's would have been fine. Thanks City Racks for the nod to an already established awesome city in the world of ID. Of course congrats to the winners but this one does nothing for the NY design industry, a talented and diverse group. What's next Spanish built bus stations . . . oh wait . . . never mind
Call me a realist, but I doubt it's going to look like the rendering or the photo of their installation above in the final implementation. The problem with the design of the last upside down U shaped racks was that the bolts could be pried off the concrete. They'd have to come up with a more secure way to fasten them down and that teeny point of contact they have looks flimsy.
See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/voodoohoodoo/535416970/
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I had a brief email exchange with Ian when the finalists were first announced and he mentioned his disappointment with installation of their prototype at Astor Place, it's intended to be mounted so that the circle looks like it's floating on the ground. According to the New York Times, Seth Solomonow, a spokesman for the Transportation Department had this to say about the planned installation.
"The final securing mechanism hasn't been decided, but we are evaluating the sturdiest and most cost-effective method. One option is to bolt it and add a protective flange at the base. The other is to fasten it to the ground using subsurface mounting components."
link: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/hoop-wins-bike-rack-design-contest
Does anyone agree it's going to be hard to find a solution that will survive on the streets while preserving the desired 'floating' aesthetic?
the renderings look pure and nice. but, the photo has that strange protrusion base thing. what happened there? hmmm....
Trevor Wills
While I love the simplicity of the design, I wonder if this is the most secure design? It seems like such a small area is in contact with the ground, and unlike the others which are bolted, it must be inset in the sidewalk somehow correct? I just feel like I could round house kick that thing and break it off. haha.
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Christopher Clark And William Wright
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This complaint was posted on NAS on 6th Jan, 2021 and is a permanent record located here: https://www.nameandshame.com/christopher-clark-and-william-wright-5YCWH/scammer-brotherinlaw-run-insider-trading-ring-id5ydqb .
Scammer & Brother-In-Law Run Insider Trading Ring
Christopher Clark and William Wright has been seized/arrested by the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC). Shocking right?
Full Report On Christopher Clark and William Wright
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the former Corporate Controller of CEB Inc. and his brother-in-law with insider trading in advance of a public announcement about CEB's acquisition for $2.6 billion. The alleged insider trading scheme generated profits of $296,000.
According to the SEC's complaint, William D. Wright learned non-public information about the acquisition of CEB while serving as a senior accounting officer of the company. In the months leading up to the merger announcement, the complaint alleges, Wright repeatedly tipped his brother-in-law, Christopher J. Clark, about the impending acquisition. The complaint alleges that based on the information tipped by Wright, Clark purchased highly speculative, out-of-the-money call options and directed his son to purchase the same options in the son's account. As the date of the announcement approached, Clark allegedly took aggressive steps to fund purchases of additional out-of-the-money CEB options, including liquidating his wife's IRA, nearly maxing out a line of credit and taking out a loan on his car. The options Clark allegedly purchased were so speculative that Clark - alone or with his son - were the only people to buy those options on all but one of the days they traded. As alleged, Clark and his son made profits of more than $243,000 and $53,000, respectively.
The SEC's complaint charges Wright and Clark with violating Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and seeks permanent injunctions, civil penalties, and as to Wright, a bar from serving as an officer or director of a public company.
Conclusion: Christopher Clark and William Wright Is A Fraud
The report on SEC clearly suggests that Christopher Clark and William Wright never had any intentions to do honest business or provide helpful services. Main intention behind all their actions was to take advantage of the honesty & gullibility of people and scam them. It would be an understatement to call this a mere fraud, this one is a scandal.
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Can I just start off by saying that Jennifer Ann is an extraordinarily talented writer that has full captivated my heart, first with Fighting for Phoebe, and now with Fighting for Alexa, the second book in the Fallen Heroes standalone series!
This story was both similar and yet completely different from Fighting for Phoebe, the first book in this amazing standalone series. The storyline of this book instantly captured my attention and held on until the end. This book took me less than a day to read and once I started, I couldn't stop until I finished! Once again I made the mistake of starting a story late at night, but I can't say that I regret the lack of sleep I endured the next day when I tried to stay focused in class and at work.
Readers are first introduced to Alexa as an 11 year old and you can instantly feel the fear radiating from her frightful words on the page. When we meet her as an adult, she has blossomed into one strong woman, a woman she never expected to become. Instantly I formed a deep connection with Alexa and commanded her for her extraordinary fight in life. Over the years she has fought tooth and nail to get where she is today and no one will ever take her strength away again. She was truly one of the most inspirational characters I have read in a long time and I couldn't help but love her strength! If you like Alexa, then there is no way you couldn't fall for her heading man Michael, a man trapped behind bars for a crime he didn't commit. Their chemistry is undeniable and will make you believe that two lost souls can come together and form a connection that neither one of the ever anticipated.
I absolutely fell in love with yet another amazing story from Jennifer Ann. Since this is a standalone series, you do not need to read Fighting for Phoebe in order to read Fighting for Alexa because they deal with two completely different storylines and two completely different couples. However, I strongly recommend checking them out because they are both romantic suspense stories that will leave you craving for more. I can't wait to see what the author comes up with next! Oh please let it be another Fallen Heroes story! PLEASE!


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The Paris Effect: Book to movie
The Paris Effect:
In case you missed the announcement by Velvet Morning Press, The Paris Effect was optioned for Film & TV!
Discover all about this great book and its author featured here on France Book Tours.
AND the good news is that we have a few spots still open for the tour on the latest book by K.S.R. Burns!
Come this way before it's too late to: Paris Ever After
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Categories: expat, Family life, French literature news, Paris, Travel, Women's fiction Tags: K.S.R.Burns, movie, Paris, Velvet Morning Press
Velvet Morning Press
Some time ago, France Book Tours presented
So today I have the pleasure to present to you the fruit of the cooperation of these two wonderful authors, Vicki Lesage and Adria J. Cimino:
Good news for authors:
if you get your book published with Velvet Morning Press and you sign up for an Eiffel Package, you will get the Book of the Month feature for free! Right now, that's a $15 value.
So for you to know more about Velvet Morning Press, here is an interview of Adria J. Cimino and Vicki Lesage, co-founders of Velvet Morning Press LLC:
1. What makes Velvet Morning Press (VMP) different from traditional publishing houses and different from vanity presses?
A.C.: We are completely different from vanity presses.
We don't assist authors in self-publishing, are very selective about the manuscripts we accept and don't charge fees.
So we sound pretty much like a traditional publishing house, right? Almost. The big difference between VMP and larger publishing houses is that we keep our costs low so that we can afford the "risk" of investing in new authors. And our turnaround time is much quicker than larger publishing houses.
From the time we have the final manuscript in our hands, we need just a few months to bring it to publication.
2. By new authors, do you mean authors who need help rewriting their manuscript or need a lot of editing?
A.C.: No, we are looking for writers who have spent the necessary time (that depends on each individual) developing their craft. We are looking for polished work that has been edited many times by the author, or his or her writing teachers or editors. We, of course, will do light editing, but we are not interested in rewriting a manuscript. Our real role is to discover authors who have worked hard on their writing and are "ready." And we aren't publishing first-time authors exclusively. If you have a good story, we want to hear it!
3. Is the Velvet Morning Press author someone who, if your company wasn't around, would self-publish?
A.C.: Perhaps, but not necessarily. I think the writer who really wants to self-publish because he or she wants to earn the maximum percentage of royalties will go that route, and that is fine. I think that our authors, for the most part, will be those who are seeking to be traditionally published, yet are discouraged by the high rejection rate at larger publishing houses, the long turnaround time and some of the exclusivity clauses in most publishing contracts.
4. Both of you live in Paris. Does that influence what types of books you accept? For instance, do you prefer novels with some link to France?
V.L.: We met because we're both Americans living in Paris and love books about France,
but we are not specifically looking for work with that connection.
We are mainly interested in contemporary fiction, chick lit, YA, and romance works,
and primarily focused for American audiences.
5. Vicki, you're the author of "Confessions of a Paris Party Girl" and "Confessions of a Paris Potty Trainer," and Adria, you're the author of "Paris, Rue des Martyrs." All three books are set in Paris and both of you have toured with FBT. At Velvet Morning Press, what is next on your agenda?
V.L.: Velvet Morning Press is releasing a Paris-themed anthology in early 2015, and Adria and I are both contributors. Adria is also releasing a new novel, "Close to Destiny," in early 2015, and it has no connection to Paris. I have a few more memoirs lined up, which will naturally tie in to the Paris theme, but I'm also planning to write fiction that has nothing to do with Paris. Neither of us wants to get locked into the Paris theme, but it seems to keep finding us!
6. What are your future goals—as publishers and as writers?
V.L.: As the publishing landscape keeps changing, we look forward to helping authors make it big in this increasingly competitive market. As a smaller pub house, we are nimble and can adapt quickly to changes in the industry. We are web-savvy and aren't afraid to take risks—both on new authors and new marketing ideas!
Adria's Bio:
Adria J. Cimino is the author of novels "Paris, Rue des Martyrs," and "Close to Destiny" (set for release in January), and is co-founder of indie publishing house Velvet Morning Press (http://www.velvetmorningpress.com). Prior to jumping into the publishing world full time, she spent more than a decade as a journalist at news organizations including The AP and Bloomberg News. In addition to writing fiction and discovering new authors, Adria writes about her real-life adventures in her blog "Adria in Paris." (http://adriainparis.blogspot.com/)
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Vicki's Bio:
Amazon best-selling author Vicki Lesage penned two books, "Confessions of a Paris Party Girl" and "Confessions of a Paris Potty Trainer," in between diaper changes and wine refills. She co-founded Velvet Morning Press as a way to help new authors get to market. She and Adria strive to make Velvet Morning Press be everything they wish they had when they first launched their writing careers. In the tiny amount of spare time she has, Vicki blogs about life, love and sarcasm in Paris at http://www.vickilesage.com/
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Training local Karen and Burman women as skilled birth attendants in refugee settings resulted in no adverse perinatal outcomes and many positive outcomes such as a drop in stillbirths and infant deaths and more babies being born in clinics rather than at home, says a new study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
11 October 2016, Mae Sot (Thailand) – Training local Karen and Burman women as skilled birth attendants in refugee settings resulted in no adverse perinatal outcomes and many positive outcomes such as a drop in stillbirths and infant deaths and more babies being born in clinics rather than at home, says a new study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.
Developed on the Thai-Myanmar border, the training programme may be a model that could be used in poor, remote or conflict-affected communities around the world, experts say.
"This is a prime example of helping to reduce perinatal mortality and maintain low rates of maternal mortality in childbirth in a very disadvantaged population. This model could be translated to other low-resource, low-income settings," said Stephen Kennedy, Professor of Reproductive Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.
The study examined more than 15,000 births from 2008-2015, after the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) had begun giving accelerated skilled birth attendant training to provide safe maternity care when faced with a shortage of qualified midwives in its clinics on the Thai-Myanmar border.
The training to migrant and refugee Karen and Burman women living in north-western Thailand near the Myanmar border resulted in no adverse perinatal outcomes and many positive outcomes such as a reduction in stillbirths and neonatal deaths, a 25% increase in clinic births, a 16.4% drop in the use of episotomies and 99% use of a partogram (a composite record of key maternal and fetal data) during labour.
In South-East Asia fewer than half of women giving birth have access to a skilled birth attendant, according to UN figures. Most maternal deaths and disability are preventable if the woman has access to care from a skilled birth attendant.
Faced with a predicted shortage of skilled birth attendants at Maela, the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, in 2008 the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) invited a registered midwife to develop a six-month, locally adapted skilled birth attendants curriculum using core guidelines from the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FIGO) and the WHO.
"There is a shortage of qualified midwives worldwide and midwives and skilled birth attendants can play a central role in reducing maternal and new-born mortality and morbidity, particularly in neglected populations and resource-limited settings," said Ms Adrienne White, the study's author.
"In refugee settings, areas of conflict or where national systems have collapsed, evidence-based skilled birth attendant training adapted to local conditions should be accelerated to provide immediate care to vulnerable populations and ensure the continuation of practices that foster normal labour and birth," said Ms. White.
A unit of the Bangkok-based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), SMRU is based in the refugee camps and migrant communities along the Thai-Myanmar border. The five SMRU clinics have provided free, basic humanitarian care to refugees since 1986 and in migrant communities since 1998.
"Pregnant women and new-borns are very vulnerable so a safe level of basic and emergency obstetric and new-born care is imperative," said Oxford Prof Rose McGready, Deputy Director of SMRU. "Many countries are struggling to provide safe birth care. To bridge this gap we must trust and develop local people's skills. This study should help international authorities and NGOs, and national health programmes in resource-limited settings consider their recommendations and training for birthing services."
Led by researchers at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Thailand, and the Midwifery Research and Education Unit, Hannover Medical School, Germany, among others, the study was funded by the Wellcome Trust (UK), StichtingMalariadokters (The Netherlands) and the Australian Volunteers for International Development (AVID).
The Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), www.tropmedres.ac, is a research collaboration between Mahidol University in Thailand and Oxford University and the Wellcome Trust in the UK. A unit of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) is based in Mae Sot, Thailand, and works in the refugee camps and migrant communities along the Thai-Myanmar border.
White AL, Min TH, Gross MM, Kajeechiwa L, Thwin MM, Hanboonkunupakarn B, Than HH, Zin TW, Rijken MJ, Hoogenboom G, McGready R, Accelerated Training of Skilled Birth Attendants in a Marginalized Population on the Thai-Myanmar Border: A Multiple Methods Program Evaluation, PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164363.
Are we getting tafenoquine dosing right?
Researchers analysing clinical trial data for the new antimalarial drug tafenoquine find that higher doses are needed to cure reliably vivax malaria infection.
Meta-analysis informed the updated WHO guidelines for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the first trimester of pregnancy
A new WWARN meta-analysis, commissioned by the World Health Organization and which informed a change to its treatment guidelines, has been published in The Lancet. The study provides compelling evidence that artemether-lumefantrine should now replace quinine as the treatment of choice in the first trimester.
SMRU and BHF inaugurate new Admin Building
Today saw the long-awaited grand opening of the new Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) / Borderland Health Foundation (BHF) Admin Building in Mae Ramat, Thailand, near the Thai-Myanmar border. And, boy was it worth the wait! Years in the planning, the very impressive new Admin Building looked absolutely stunning, the siting and architecture being universally admired by the many guests.
Study shows clear link between antibiotic treatment and acquisition of AMR bacteria in children
A study of the genetic diversity of Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacterium responsible for hundreds of thousands of infant deaths each year, found that deep sequencing whole pneumococcal populations gave unsurpassed sensitivity for detecting multiple colonisations and was twice as effective at detecting invasive virulent strains of the bacteria as current best methods, say researchers in a study published in Nature Microbiology.
INTERBIO-21st study findings could help predict infants at risk of obesity
Fetal abdomen growth and the mother's blood fat metabolites very early in pregnancy influence a child's weight, body fat, vision and neurodevelopment at 2 years of age
Field evaluation of EasyScan GO: a digital malaria microscopy device
Microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood films is key to quantifying and detecting malaria parasites but there can be difficulties in ensuring both a high-quality manual reading and inter-reader reliability. The EasyScan GO was developed as a potential solution to this, a microscopy device using machine-learning-based image analysis for automated parasite detection and quantification.


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and other movie professionals, also called the "celluloid ceiling": In 2012, only one in six of the directors, writers, and producers behind the 100 most commercially successful movies in the United States was a woman.
Writing in National Review in 2017, film critic Kyle Smith suggested that the reason for the Bechdel test results was that "Hollywood movies are about people on the extremes of society — cops, criminals, superheroes — [which] tend to be men", and that such films were more often created by men because "women's movie ideas", mostly about relationships according to Smith, "aren't commercial enough for Hollywood studios".
According to Andi Zeisler, this criticism indicates the problem that the test's utility "has been elevated way beyond the original intention.
Where Bechdel and Wallace expressed it as simply a way to point out the rote, unthinkingly normative plotlines of mainstream film, these days passing it has somehow become synonymous with 'being feminist'.
The "Sphinx test" by the Sphinx theater company of London asks about the interaction of women with other characters, as well as how prominently women characters feature in the action, how proactive rather than reactive they are, and whether they are portrayed stereotypically.
It was conceived to "encourage theatremakers to think about how to write more and better roles for women", in reaction to research indicating that only 37% of theater roles were written for women as of 2014.
In a strip titled "The Rule", two women, who resemble the future characters Mo and Ginger, According to Neda Ulaby, the test resonates because "it articulates something often missing in popular culture: not the number of women we see on screen, but the depth of their stories, and the range of their concerns." Dean Spade and Craig Willse described the test as a "commentary on how media representations enforce harmful gender norms" by depicting women's relationships to men more than any other relationships, and women's lives as important only insofar as they relate to men.Alessandra Maldonado and Liz Bourke wrote that Smith was wrong to contend that female authors do not write books that generate "big movie ideas", citing J. Rowling, Margaret Atwood and Nnedi Okorafor among others as counter-examples.The Bechdel test only indicates whether women are present in a work of fiction to a certain degree.A work may pass the test and still contain sexist content, and a work with prominent female characters may fail the test.A work may fail the test for reasons unrelated to gender bias, such as because its setting works against the inclusion of women (e.g., Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, set in a medieval monastery).
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Schmidt believes that exciting developments are currently happening with Ethereum which could revolutionise business and society as a whole.
It seems that the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin shares a similar sentiment As we reported earlier in the week, Buterin has denied the rumour that he was stepping back from Ethereums development, saying that he is aiming at encouraging the work of other developers in the open-source developer community. Back in 2014, Schmidt said that he was an avid supporter of Bitcoin. He praised what was then an obscure cryptocurrency as being unique as an advancement in technology with huge potential.
As reported by CCN, when Schimdt was first introduced to Bitcoin it was thanks to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange as Schmidt was urged to embrace Bitcoin because one day it's going to make him a lot of money. What are your thoughts? Let us know what you think down below in the comments!


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There may have only been a handful of Epic Mickey games, but Disney seemingly had high hopes for the series. It recently emerged that Disney shelved an additional entry to the series starring Donald Duck, but it seems other games were also in development. While only concept art has surfaced, an Epic Mickey racing game was in the works. Named Epic Disney Racers, the game would have included many Disney favourites as characters. Concept art reveals that Mickey, Oswald the Rabbit, Cruella De Vil and Scrooge McDuck were all planned to be playable.
While Disney wouldn't have been the first company to try their hand at a Mario Kart style racer, Epic Disney Racing certainly looks intriguing. However, with the Epic Mickey series gone, it seems unlikely this game will ever get a release.
"There may have only been two Epic Mickey games", actually, there were three. Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion for the 3DS.
well I wouldn't have bought it if it played like the cart minigame in Power Of Two.
compared to the first one. its also sad that they already set things up for epic mickey 3 to then cancel the serries.
It is a shame Epic Mickey 2 was so bad compared to the original. But with Epic Mickey dead, maybe Oswald will finally appear in other Disney related stuff. I'd love to see him appear in Kingdom Hearts some day.
what would be wrong with adding Donald Duck to a mickey mouse game?
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If it was anything like Mickey's Speedway USA on the N64 (yeah, I played it- was a big Disney/Donald Duck buff as a kid), it could have at least been decent.
Since they were planning other Disney characters like Cruella, I think it would have been nice to see some underrepresented movies get some love, like Milo/Kida from Atlantis or Jim Hawkings/John Silver from Treasure Planet being racers.


It's been said many times that the war is a self-sustaining industry that requires a constant threat overseas to keep the machine thriving at home. Looking at the millions if not billions of dollars spent on securing "national special security events" against its own citizens, it's clear that protesters have become the threat that has allowed, in part, the warfare state to flourish on American soil.
Sound dramatic? One need only to look at the lockdown of our cities during these "events" — whether it be the NATO Summit in Chicago today, or preparations to militarize the cities of Tampa and Charlotte for the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer — to see that the constitutionally protected, American tradition of protest has become a reason for law enforcement to spend their quickly evaporating budgets each year on new toys and overtime — including the latest in surveillance, crowd control gear and communications equipment, not to mention the helicopters overhead and armed vehicles on the ground.
, all in the order of counterterrorism and national security.
No one would dispute that the gathering of representatives from 50 member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), including 28 members of the military alliance in Afghanistan, warrants extra security. Indeed, we live in a world today where gunmen walk right up to U.S. members of Congress and shoot them in the head, or pack cars full of explosives on the city street. But it becomes increasingly clear, after 10 years of conventions and "special events" with little or no incident, that the specter of terrorism is being used to generate intimidating and repressive conditions, particularly against peaceful protesters, and proliferating an industry that thrives on domestic conflict and chaos.
According to this report, funding for the U.S. homeland security and homeland defense sector (including federal, state and local governments, and the private sector) will grow from $184 billion in 2011 to $205 billion by 2014. The market will grow from $73 billion in 2011 to $86 billion by 2014.
"The face of terrorism is constantly changing," insisted GovSec Director Don Berey in a GovSec press release. "As a result, it is critical that those on the front lines of homeland security understand where new threats may arise and how their strategies must be adjusted to remain ever vigilant." Adjusted, and paid for.
. They're shutting the trains. They're closing exits off the freeways. And they're creating a kind of culture of fear. We have police officers we—who are friends of ours, we run into in coffee shops. They've told us that the training is focused a lot on the danger of the protesters and how you should be careful when you grab one of them, because they might have some kind of poison spike in their sleeve or something. I mean, it really is quite nuts.
At the same time, they've denied permits, taken permits away, given them back, been very vague about making any agreement with the protesters…we insist that this is a family-friendly, nonviolent, permitted march. And all the kind of hysteria about what's about to happen is really brought on by the police. I don't think anything is going to happen, except that they are creating the conditions for a police riot, once again."
Reports on Monday morning indicated that 45 people were arrested and four officers injured, including a police officer who was reportedly stabbed during a dramatic clash with protesters on Sunday night. In his remarks to reporters Sunday, Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy blamed the "black bloc" for rushing the police and precipitating the violence.
In each of these instances, the police did not inform those detained why they were being detained."
And who knows how much these dynamics fueled the anxiety and hostility in the air between police and protesters before exploding late Sunday afternoon? They don't call it a tinderbox for nothing.
A massive crowd of activists was significantly outnumbered on Sunday by armed police, many in riot gear. They lined the march route. They swarmed off buses. They looked a little ridiculous as we marched nonviolently, just as we'd intended to do. The marching didn't harm anyone or destroy any accumulated riches or smash any of the windows that were not boarded up.
Police did not allow the day to end without any use of their training and weapons. Not long after I left, according to numerous reports, all hell broke loose. If it hadn't, think of how many of those people fearfully watching Sunday's march from their high balconies would have joined in the next one and invited their friends!"
The militarization aspect is uncanny and has been captured in numerous photos now circulating in places like Twitter. All we need to know is on Thursday, Chief McCarthy took to the airways to talk about his 12,000 officers doing "12-hour tours" instead of 12-hour shifts, as though policing parades and protests and keeping vigilant outside of this international gathering was indeed, going to war.
This is not surprising, given how much law enforcement now emulates the military and the military feeds on this, handing down a record $500 million in surplus equipment to local departments in 2011 alone.
This is a decade-old phenomenon, in which "the military surplus program and (police) paramilitary units feed off one another in a cyclical loop that has caused an explosive growth in militarized crime control techniques." Federal grants help the process along, leading "to a booming law enforcement industry that specifically markets military-style weaponry to local police departments," wrote Rania Khalek in an explosive 2011 report for Alternet, which begins with the story of a 7-year-old girl who was shot in the neck by police during a SWAT raid in Detroit.
Today, Mayberrys all across the country have tanks and M-16s, and according to one estimate, SWAT teams outfitted for convoy on Route Michigan to Ramadi are conducting some 40,000 raids a year across America. Sadly, though SWAT teams were once only used in emergency situations like a hostage crises, these paramilitary units are more inclined to use their fancy new gear to perform normal police work, like executing warrants, often resulting in botched raids and the death of innocent citizens.
An interesting map of botched SWAT raids by Cato's Radley Balko is here.
This year's Occupy protests have been instructive in many ways, not the least of which they have shown how police are employing their military stockpiles and all the latest crowd control devices and strategy, the result of this massive niche market that has exploded after 9/11. This industry not only hawks the latest in hardware (pepper spray, Tasers, flash grenades, smoke bombs, rubber bullets, cameras, GPS), but traffics in training and consultants that cost municipalities big bucks for the privilege.
"Why is it that the state is spending so much money on arming the police here supposedly in response to what is being planned as a peaceful protest?" said John Beecham, an anti-war protest organizer, in an interview about Chicago with The Guardian.
Turns out Chicago raised upwards of $55 million, including $19 million in federal security grants, for security, traffic control and sanitation for the summit. We know that at least $1 million was used to buy new riot gear, and $40,000 for two new Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD). Officials say they are using this "modern megaphone" as a "messaging device," and not to produce "high pitched alarm tones," that have been blamed for damaging the protesters' hearing when the LRAD was used at the Pittsburgh G8 summit in 2011.
We also note that some of the biggest corporate donors to Chicago's summit fund are Honeywell, Boeing Corp & Raytheon, all huge players in the nation's defense contracting industry.
Meanwhile, Tampa and Charlotte will each receive $50 million in federal taxpayer funding to secure their cities in anticipation of the zombie apocalypse RNC and DNC confabs respectively. That is in addition to whatever else the state and city fathers plan to contribute for the occasion.
"The (Tampa) city council agreed to spend nearly $237,000 on a Lenco BearCat armored vehicle, which will be used in conjunction with two aging armored vehicles the city acquired through the military surplus program. Tampa Assistant Police Chief Marc Hamlin told the Tampa Bay Times that the trucks are strictly for the purpose of protecting officers from potential gunfire, not for day-to-day patrolling and crowd control."
Whatever would be they doing in an armored vehicle during the convention if not engaging in some variation of "crowd control"? Are they truly expecting an insurgent attack in sunny downtown Tampa? It may feel as hot in August, but it is most certainly not Baghdad.
"Another $1.18 million is going toward new digital video communication technology that will allow police helicopters to transmit video to cops on the ground equipped with handheld receivers. Various news outlets report that an additional $2 million was requested to ramp up surveillance with the installation of 60 surveillance cameras in downtown Tampa, far more than the five traffic cameras the city currently has."
Meanwhile, according to Ray Reyes of The Tampa Tribune, the city has purchased $815,000 in riot gear, and $6 million for new two-way walkie-talkies. The $13.5 million already spent also includes four-wheel drive utility vehicles, and 200 bikes for patrol officers. The city is also expected to pay $25 million to train, house and feed 3,000 visiting police officers for the event.
Despite the hype, there has been no major terror threat associated with the national conventions since 9/11. Given this, it is safe to assume that not only is the massive security presence an extravagant vanity exercise for the quadrennial gathering of politicians, lobbyists and party delegates, but yet another way to justify the enormous annual budgets of the burgeoning homeland enterprise. And as someone who has been to the last two rounds of conventions, I can say the display has gotten more intense each time.
Meanwhile, instead of shrinking from it, the protest movement seems to be growing in proportion to the hyper-militarization nationwide. The gulf between "civilian" and "soldier" on the street widens, too. Bursts of violent skirmishes appear inevitable now, a self-fulfilling prophecy unfolding before our eyes. While this may be quite profitable for War Inc., the impact on the health of our society, much less the republic, may be incalculable.


Here's a video re-cap of Encounter 2010 and the news' coverage of our day of outreach!
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Have a happy Wednesday! I'll be back soon with a sneak peek of the project that is underway in our little home!
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And don't forget…you can still watch *ALL* of the week's events on video at the 'Parents Blog', including the New Year's Eve session where we start with worship, pray for several minutes as the New Year is kicking over, have our own countdown, watch the final conference video, and go wild & crazy with some New Year's worship!
These college students know how to start the New Year right!
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'Impossible Broadcasting' is the title of the new album by Transglobal Underground (TGU) and truly it is full of tunes which you'd normally not hear in a common radio show: Heavy head Dub, Sitar Drum&Bass, Bulgarian choirs on top of Trance-Funk, malian HipHop, greek-russian (?) Ska-Funk and more sound travels of a rather uncommon kind.
London based TGU's main producers Hamid Mantu and Tim Whelan have been upfront of these traces since the early 90s (and who reading these pages could say that about themselves) thus making them a little bit of the granddaddies of the scene, they are also responsible for the careers of Natacha Atlas and Temple of Sound .
So here we've got 12 new tracks, recorded in Sofia, Budapest, Paris, Prague, Cairo & London together with guest artists like Trio Bulgarka or the Mali hiphoppers of Tata Pound, and longtime members like the super relaxed jamaican MC TUUP. I honestly, don't miss the presence of Natacha Atlas on the new TGU album (released on the band's own fresh Mule Satellite label), as the gap is filled neatly with excellent sitar player Sheema Mukherjee and the backing voice of Doreen Thobekile from South Africa (with whom they are working on a complete solo album at the time, to be released later this year). The rhythms are always tasty, never a dull 4/4 House groove reaches your ears. As soon as things start to drift into static, dhol-player Gurjit Sihra takes it elsewhere.