When managers coach direct reports, organizations benefit. No wonder many companies include coaching as a key leadership competency.
Through coaching — a.k.a. collaborative development discussions — with their managers, direct reports can learn and grow in key ways. Coaching can help people gain greater self-awareness, increase their autonomy, reinforce strengths and skills, and take more responsibility for their own development and career path. Direct reports will also be more likely to agree with and implement their individual development plans and be more engaged in their work.
Unfortunately, not enough managers are taught how to coach. Coaching can be informal or formal. In either case, a good coaching outcome begins with a good coaching relationship.
A coaching relationship needs both boundaries and trust. To build relationships with your direct reports, it's important to know them well. You'll want to talk through your role as a coach, show genuine interest in their development and follow through on promises.
Of course, working on the relationship is an ongoing process. It's also just one element of effective coaching. CCL's RACSR coaching model includes Relationship, Assessment, Challenge, Support and Results.
You can learn more about CCL's RACSR coaching model and how to put it to use with your direct reports and members of your team in a brief CCL guidebook, Becoming a Leader-Coach: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Your People.
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Virat Kohli's success rate in reviews does have a significant difference depending on the bowler.
Virat Kohli is someone who operates with an aggressive mindset and has the ability to charge up his team-mates with his intensity on the field and is often times gets excited when they appeal. As a result, Kohli ends up asking for DRS in the head of the moment and most of them turn out to be unsuccessful. The reason behind Kohli's diminished success has to do with the players who help him make that decision in the longer format.
In the limited-overs matches, the influence and experience of MS Dhoni contain Kohli from making the 'T' sign in reflexive action. Virat Kohli as Indian captain has had a total of 23 Test matches where the DRS was in effect. He chose to challenge the umpire's decision on 93 occasions but was successful on as little as 15 occasions only.
He got his first taste of the UDRS during the 5-match home Test series in 2016/17 season where he opted to refer the on-field umpire's decision 27 times. The Indian skipper was successful on only six instances while seven of the remaining 21 unsuccessful reviews went in vain as it was umpire's calls.
During the home Test series against Australia, Kohli was successful only once out of 12 occasions and was unsuccessful all ten times during the 3-match Test series in Sri Lanka. The home series against Sri Lanka was slightly better, which also was the start of the retention of reviews in case of umpire's call. Kohli's record on overseas tours in 2018 didn't get any better which also had a lot to do with the umpiring quality. The Indian skipper made only one successful review each during the series in South Africa and England.
Kohli's success rate with referrals does have a significant difference depending on the bowler. The likes of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja manage to convince the skipper and force him to take a review but end up unsuccessful more often. While reviewing off Ashwin's bowling, Kohli had six successful calls from 34 appeals. Jadeja's ability to convince Kohli was visible during the second innings of The Oval Test where the left-arm spinner used up both the reviews with his consecutive overs. Team India had no reviews left after just the 12th over of the innings.


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Why do young adults start smoking?
by University of Montreal
The risk of becoming a smoker among young adults who have never smoked is high: 14% will become smokers between the ages of 18 and 24, and three factors predict this behaviour.
"Smoking initiation also occurs among young adults, and in particular among those who are impulsive, have poor grades, or who use alcohol regularly," said Jennifer O'Loughlin, a Professor at the University of Montreal School of Public Health (ESPUM) and author of a Journal of Adolescent Health study published in August. O'Loughlin believes smoking prevention campaigns should also target young adults aged 18 to 24.
A recent phenomenon
With smoking rates declining markedly in the past three decades, the researchers cited several studies suggesting that the tobacco industry is increasing its efforts to appeal to young adults.
In the United States, there is a 50% increase in the number of young adults who start smoking after high school.
This trend prompted O'Loughlin and her team at the ESPUM to identify predictors of young adults starting to smoke which may lead to avenues for prevention.
They analyzed data from a cohort study called "NDIT" (Nicotine Dependence in Teens), which began in 1999 in the Greater Montreal Area, in which nearly 1,300 young people aged 12-13 took part.
In this cohort, fully 75% tried smoking. Of these young people, 44% began smoking before high school; 43% began smoking during high school, and 14% began after high school.
Not all, however, continued smoking, but among the "late" smokers, the researchers found that smoking onset is associated with three risk factors: high levels of impulsivity, poor school performance, and higher alcohol consumption.
Explaining the three risk factors
Some late smokers showed greater impulsivity compared to the other participants in the study. According to O'Loughlin, it is possible that impulsivity is more freely expressed when one becomes an adult, since parents are no longer there to exert control. "We can postulate that parents of impulsive children exercise tighter control when they are living with them at home to protect their children from adopting behaviours that can lead to smoking, and this protection may diminish over time," she explains.
In addition, school difficulties increase the risk of becoming a smoker because they are related to dropping out of school and, seeking employment in workplaces where smoking rates are higher.
Finally, since young people are more likely to frequent places where they can consume alcohol, they are more prone to be influenced by smokers, or at least be more easily tempted. "Since alcohol reduces inhibitions and self-control, it is an important risk factor for beginning to smoke," warns O'Loughlin.
Toward targeted prevention campaigns
Smoking prevention campaigns usually target teenagers because studies show that people usually begin to smoke at age of 12 or 13. The phenomenon is well known, and numerous prevention programs are geared toward teenagers.
"Our study indicates that it is also important to address prevention among young adults, especially because advertizing campaigns of tobacco companies specifically target this group," says O'Loughlin.
"This is particularly important because if we can prevent smoking onset among young adults, the likelihood that they will never become smokers is high," she says.
Changing social circumstances influence smoking
More information: Jennifer L. O'Loughlin, Ph.D., Erika N. Dugas, M.Sc., Erin K. O'Loughlin, M.A., Igor Karp, Ph.D., Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Ph.D. Incidence and Determinants of Cigarette Smoking Initiation in Young Adults, Journal of Adolescent Health, Available online 29 August 2013 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.07.009
Journal information: Journal of Adolescent Health
Provided by University of Montreal
Citation: Why do young adults start smoking? (2013, September 17) retrieved 19 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-young-adults.html
Seeing others smoke encourages young people to smoke more
Smoking leads to five-fold increase in heart disease and stroke in under-50-year-olds
Stroke risk similar among men and women smokers worldwide
Children as young as seven affected by parents smoking
If parents ever smoked, teens may be more likely to light up
Daily coffee doesn't affect cancer risk
Marijuana use may not make parents more 'chill'

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Master & Dynamic MH40 headphones [review]
Newcomer is the only way to describe Master & Dynamic, which on Dec. 31, 2015 completed its first full year of revenue. Young or not, its audio gear is vintage and refined. Wanna see? You can find the MH40 headphones, which look like something World War II bomber pilots would wear, inside any Apple Store. Distribution partnership of that caliber from a near start-up says much about M&D earphones and headphones—design, price, and sound.
The signature sound is full, which is atypical in a market where booming bass ranks among headphone buyers' top priorities. But for those listeners who delight in the faintest tap of the symbol, warmest treble, and deep lows that reveal details rather than thump, thump, Master & Dynamic delivers. For Christmas I bought the company's MW60 wireless headphones, which I will review soon. Today's topic is the MH40, which are wired.
Both cans share obvious design heritage, and you could easily mistake one for the other. There are also many audio similarities, where both present rich range rather than pumping bass. I am super picky about headphones. The $549 MW60 are the best wireless cans ever to touch my ears. The MH40 are best-of-class in the price range—$399.
So I am surprised to hear CEO and founder Jonathan Levine's startling confession: "I have no prior professional connection to music or audio". He's not a music producer, audio engineer, or anything close to either. At age 16, Levine's oldest son started learning how to produce music and later to teach others how to deejay. So the dad put together a makeshift music studio. "I've had music studios in my businesses for years".
At 53, Levine stands at the generational divide from Millennials, which gap the home studios and audio company help bridge. About his two sons, Levine says: "They won't admit it, but they think I'm slightly cool now".
Levine's inexperience proved to be an asset and testimony to the concept that fresh ideas come from people with little or no preconceptions. What's that stereotype about hiring someone who hasn't developed bad habits, or in this case hires oneself?
In developing the first headphones, Levine wanted to "build something that is iconic and will last". He chose forged aluminum and leather as the principle materials. only to learn from M&D chief engineer Drew Stone Briggs, after developing the MH40, that aluminum has unique audio characteristics that are beneficial to producing pure sound. Levine then intuitively chose brass for the ME05 earphones. Think of all the musical instruments, like my middle school trumpet, that are made of brass.
I ask Levine how he chose Master & Dynamic, to which he asks: "Have you ever tried to name a company?" I have, and pretty much every good name is claimed. Being iconic is nomenclature, too—using a multiple name, Many grand old brands are such, he says, like A&M records, Arm & Hammer, Black & Decker, Johnson & Johnson, and Proctor & Gamble.
The name derives from several concepts. "In music there is dynamic mastering" Levine explains. "We love to engage with the masters in any endeavor. And we like to engage the up-and-coming dynamics in that particular field".
Behind the Jargon
Before moving to the MH40 audio and design characteristics, let's dispense with some technical talk—terms that are good to understand:
Soundstage is how instruments are spatially placed in audio recordings. The MH40 present dynamic soundstage, such that you often can visually place the instruments and singers, and even feel like you are in the room with them.
Active noise-cancellation uses microphones to capture and largely eliminate ambient, background noise. The MH40 use passive noise-cancellation by way of the closed-ear design. This approach gives purer, more balanced audio than does the active type.
Open-back headphones let in the most background noise or leak sound to those people nearby. Open-backs also typically present the best soundtage of headphone styles.
On-ear headphones are as named. They sit on the lobes rather than enclose them. Whether or not as comfortable as, or more than, over-ear is a matter of taste. Without active noise-cancellation, like open-back, the wearer will hear sounds in the room.
Over-ear headphones typically cover the ear, making a soft seal that improves the aural experience while blocking out most background noise. Many people find this style to be the most comfortable to wear, particularly for long periods of time. The MH40 are this type.
Impedance is a value you need to worry about. We'll skip the science and get to practical matters: If you're buying cans to listen to portable devices, like smartphones or PCs, you want lower impedance; I find 32 ohm to be just right. If impedance is too high, you won't jack enough volume to your headphones without aid of an amplifier. For stereo systems you want higher impedance, upwards of 600 ohm. The MH40 are designed to be used with portable devices like iPhones, iPods, or laptops.
Frequency response typically ranges from 20 to 20,000 Hz, with bass and treble at both ends, respectively. The extremes exceed normal human hearing range, but not necessarily perception: Below 20 Hz, the listener may more feel the bass than hear it.
Transducer creates the sound, and there are typically three types: Dynamic (most common); Orthodynamic; and Electrostatic. Think little speakers. See Headfonics' explanation for more.
Earily Good
As the newcomer in a crowded consumer category, where nearly two decades of digital compression and thumping bass define listening tastes, Master & Dynamic risked everything on audio balance and detail. The signature sound is distinctive and refreshing, but I emphasize this: You like the M&D sound, or you don't—and it's unquestionably not for everyone.
But the sound should be for everyone. If you put on the MH40 and don't like the presentation, use them for a week listening to CD, lossless digital, or vinyl. Then go back to your old cans and MP3s. The difference how quickly your tastes can change and ears be liberated from muddy, lows-blown compression may shock you.
"We purposely stayed away from the sound profiles found in other leading headphones and chose to develop our own genre neutral sound; something we are very proud of", Levine says. "We didn't tune with a computer; we tuned with our ears based on the music we love".
Authentic and immersive best describes the audio signature of the striking, retro-styled MH40. Soundstage is present—like you're there in the room with the musicians. Tonal range is balanced, presenting fine details. The lows ride the mids and highs, without being overbearing. Meaning: Your ears won't easily fatigue, which is an ailment not uncommon when the lows are too dominating.
While I suggest that some people will need to retune their ears, listeners who immediately like the M&D sound will be amazed by how good listening to compressed AAC and MP3 tracks can be. They are reborn—echoes of their former muddied selves, fresh and vital with renewed dimension. Whatever processing magic Master & Dynamic sprinkles into these cans, seemingly any sound source benefits.
Impedance is 32 ohm, which means even iPhone or iPod should pump out plenty of volume. I tested on several devices, including: Apple iPhone 6s and 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina; Google Chromebook Pixel LS, Nexus 6P, and Pixel C tablet. I got great output from all without cranking the volume up to the max, or anywhere near it. I primarily tested by streaming music in the 1411kbps Free Lossless Audio Codec from Tidal.
The MH40 driver is huge—45 mm—with Neodymium transducer. Frequency response—same as the MW60 (5Hz to 25kHz)—punches up the midrange, which balances well against the lows and highs. To repeat: Bass isn't overbearing but is present and clear rather than muddled.
Retro but Modern
The MH40 design is unmistakable, evoking strength and longevity—heirloom to bequeath to children or grandkids; cans that last a lifetime or more. Aluminum, lambskin, leather, and stainless steel combine in rugged style that evokes aviators of a bygone era. Wearing the headphones makes me feel, even for scant seconds, like the radio operator on an Air Force bomber. The design is both nostalgic and modern.
While looking and feeling rugged, the MH40 are surprisingly light (360 grams) and balanced to hold or to wear. The lambskin-covered memory foam cushions are immensely comfortable and they minimize sound leakage while blocking all but the loudest ambient background noise. This kind of passive noise-cancellation maintains the purity and authenticity of the sound.
Seven color-combinations are available, again for $399: silver metal and brown leather; gunmetal and black leather; silver metal and navy leather; black metal and navy leather; black metal and black leather; silver metal and white leather; gunmetal and black alcantara.
I mentioned at the start, the Apple Store sells the MH40, and Master & Dynamic dishes out iOS favoritism. There are two woven cables—one with mic and volume keys for use with Apple devices and another lacking controls for everything else. Android users can certainly connect the MH40 to their phones and listen, but on-cable mic and controls aren't available to them.
In what might at first be a confusing attribute, each earcup has an audio jack. That's one for you and another for someone else. Confusion comes from this: Sharing is from the Right jack.
The MH40 can daisy-chain along devices. Let someone else jack in and listen, too. It's a nifty feature that again shows the advantages of someone without audio device preconceptions founding the company and bringing the input of teenage boys with him.
Another nicety, but nowhere as clever as the two jacks: Mute button on the Right earcup. One more: The earpads magnetically attach/detach.
Wrapping up, the MH40 offer great style and sound for the price. Audiophiles should love them. Bassaholics probably will not. They should buy Beats, or something like them, instead. They also could boost bass using their music app's graphic equalizer.
Remember: Music listening is a subjective experience. To what sound you are accustomed and to what genre you prefer matters much. The MH40 can give great Rap or Hip Hop but you may find warmth given The Beatles will satisfy more. To my ears, punchier mids and subdued lows open a broader range of genres—from classical to electronic, folk to punk, jazz to metal, and more.
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Titan Aircraft, an aircraft kit manufacturer in Austinburg, Ohio, offers a scaled version of the legendary airplane that customers can purchase and help build.
More than seventy years after its maiden flight, the appeal of the P-51 Mustang fighter airplane continues to hold strong. A key fighter-bomber airplane for American forces in World War II, the P-51 Mustang was originally designed and manufactured by North American Aviation (NAA) in 1940. P-51 models served in WWII in both the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Air Force and later as a United Nations war plane during the Korean War. Following those two wars, these planes became a popular model for air race conversion.
The P-51 is often praised for its historical value and sleek visual appeal, meaning many of today's aircraft enthusiasts wish to add one to their personal fleet. Titan Aircraft, an aircraft kit manufacturer in Austinburg, Ohio, offers a scaled version of the legendary airplane that customers can purchase and help build.
What makes the Mustang so special?
And, it doesn't hurt that the Mustang is capable of flying at speeds of up to 200 mph and has a short takeoff – getting off the ground at about 300 feet.
Williams became enticed by the Mustang after flying one himself.
Williams designed the T-51 Mustang, a three-quarter scale replica, to appeal to the everyday airplane enthusiast. He wanted to create something with the appeal of the original Mustang – but without the $1 million-plus price tag of the now rare and desirable full-sized originals.
"Our airplane is very similar in handling qualities and characteristics to the original. It's a Mustang for the average guy rather than having to be a multi-millionaire to own one," Williams says.
Customers who buy a Titan T-51 Mustang kit typically assemble it through the fast-build method. In fast-build, the wings, cabin, and other essential components are crafted by the shop, leaving the customer to assemble them into a full airplane in order to comply with the regulations for amateur-built planes.
"We have to comply with the 51 percent rule, which means the customer needs to do at least 51 percent of the work in building the kit," Williams says.
Other customers opt for the builder-assist method, where the buyer visits the shop periodically to build the airplane, while the experts at Titan provide technical assistance and oversight.
In either method, Titan handles the critical parts of assembling the aircraft. They make sure that the most important airplane elements are addressed in the design process and offer these parts already assembled in their kits, ensuring that the finished products are safe, including paying careful attention to weld quality.
In total, Titan's six welders spend about 46 hours welding each aircraft, relying on a variety of Lincoln Electric welders, including the Precision TIG® 225 TIG Welder, to uphold their standards of weld quality.
"It makes it easier to employ the right techniques if you have the right equipment," he says.
When welding the Mustangs, high quality welds for the chromoly frame are especially important, as the chromoly frame is a trademark of the Titan-style Mustangs. Building the Mustangs with the half-sections around the chromoly makes it a completely strong, solid airplane.
"We've had several crashes where people should have been injured, but the construction of the fuselage and the welding in the chromoly cage offered a lot of protection," Williams says.
So what's next for Titan? First up is a full-size Mustang. The larger Mustang will be powered by the same engine found in the original Mustangs – the 1200 horsepower Allison 1710 V12 – but will also incorporate modern technology, making it lighter and offering better performance.
The company is working on a Super Cub bush-type airplane, as well as what they refer to as a "bull pup," which is a trainer for the light sport market. The company is also hoping to add some additional welders to its staff, as they try to meet the growing demand for their planes.
No matter what they're working on, it's clear that Titan will continue to provide safe, innovative airplanes for their customers and continue their dedication to customer satisfaction.


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Growers sample Cornell apples
Some of the more than 25 growers taste-testing Cornell apple varieties.
More than 25 New York apple growers gathered on campus January 9 to sample the latest pair of varieties released by Cornell, 'New York 1' and 'New York 2'. The varieties — whose branding names have yet to be determined — were developed by breeder Susan Brown, associate chair of the Department of Horticulture, and will be grown exclusively by New York orchardists through a licensing agreement with an industry group, New York State Apple Growers LLC.
The two new varieties have been under development for more than 15 years. The juicy snap of "New York 1" recalls its 'Honeycrisp' parent, but the trees produce more reliably and the fruit stores well. Sweet and tart "New York 2" is suited for baking and fresh use, and boasts the added benefit of higher levels of vitamin C, says Brown. (See Two new apple varieties released for NYS growers only, Cornell Chronicle, May 4, 2010.)
The apples, grown at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and in grower-cooperator orchards in western New York, were harvested at several dates through the fall and subjected to different post-harvest storage practices. "It's important to determine the best time to harvest and how to store these new varieties before they hit the market so that consumers always get the best these apples have to offer," says Chris Watkins, associate director, Cornell Cooperative Extension and post-harvest researcher in the Department of Horticulture.
To ensure retailers and consumers have sufficient supply, New York growers have committed to planting more than 950 acres of these two new varieties over the next several years, says Brown. The new varieties will likely be available with the fall 2013 harvest.
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What better way to turn your kids into binge watchers than by turning Netflix into a badge-collection scheme? That's apparently the thinking behind a new feature currently being tested on the video streaming service, which rewards children with stickers when they watch certain shows.
According to a report from Variety, those involved in the test see red padlocks on the top of TV shows that can earn them a badge. At the moment at least, that's all the reward that they get – there's no other incentive to race through a whole series of Paw Patrol.
It would seem that only a small subsection of Netflix users have the feature enabled for the time being, so it's by no means definite that this is going to roll out for everyone. Netflix is always keen for viewers young and old to spend as much time as possible on the platform though, so it would make sense.
Some parents have taken to social media to complain that the scheme is going to make it harder to pull kids away from their various screens, while others have reported that the introduction of badges is definitely working for Netflix.
Netflix recently introduced improved parental controls so moms and dads can block specific TV shows or movies they don't want their kids watching. Maturity ratings are also going to become more visible before a title starts playing, giving parents a better idea of what to expect before they start watching.


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Q: Read input multiple times Consider this small example:
2020-05-11--karli.txt:
Let me tell you what my sister's best friend told her last week about that Mr. Smith living in the little house next to the car park in that little village, what's it called, Br... no, Berekre... I don't know the name, but she said that Mr. Smith bought a budgie last week and it already flew away last Sunday! Isn't that funny?

shortenKarli.sh:
#!/bin/bash
inputFile=$1
shortenWords=4

numWords=`wc -w $inputFile | sed "s/^\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/g"`
introText=`cat $inputFile | cut -d' ' -f 1-$shortenWords`
outroText=`cat $inputFile | cut -d' ' -f $(expr $numWords - $shortenWords + 1)-$numWords`

echo "That were $numWords words, let me shorten it for you:"
echo "$introText... ...blah blah... ...$outroText"

Calling
shortenKarli.sh 2020-05-11--karli.txt

brings
That were 63 words, let me shorten it for you: Let me tell you... ...blah blah... ...Sunday! Isn't that funny?

as expected.
But how could I modify the script to read from stdin, like
phoneBot --callee=Karli --interruptions="Oh!;Mmh.;Well...;Really?" --speechrecognize=on | shortenKarli.sh

? It would need to read the same input 3 times.
I could write it to a temporary file, but is there something more elegant?

A: You could read it into a variable instead of a temporary file.
if [[ $# = 1 ]]
then
    inputData=$(cat "$1")
else
    inputData=$(cat)
fi

Then in place of $inputFile in the rest of the script, use <<<"$inputData"
numWords=$(wc -w <<<"$inputData" | sed 's/^\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/g')
introText=$(cut -d' ' -f 1-$shortenWords <<<"$inputData")
outroText=$(cut -d' ' -f $(expr $numWords - $shortenWords + 1)-$numWords <<<"$inputData")

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Q: wait till the previous function executes in angular so here are my functions
$scope.addToCartReturn = null;

$scope.addToCart = function() {
    $scope.addToCartReturn = false;
    $scope.cartProduct = {};
    angular.extend($scope.cartProduct, {
        "id" : $scope.product.dealDtoId
    }, {
        "optionsDto" : $scope.product.optionsDto
    }, {
        "qty" : 1
    });
    $http({
        method : 'POST',
        url : 'cart/addtocart',
        headers : {
            'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
        },
        data : $scope.cartProduct
    }).success(function(data) {
        if (data.string == "sucess") {
            alert("Sucessfully Added to Cart");
            $scope.addToCartReturn = true;
        }
    });
};

$scope.buyNow = function() {
    $scope.addToCart();
    if ($scope.addToCartReturn = true) {
        $state.go("App.Cart");
    } else {
        alert("Error Please Wait");
    }
};

what's actually happening is, when i call buynow function, the addtocart function is called. and before it finishes, the other lines are getting executed.
so my doubt is how to make it wait till that addtocart function is over.
and each function may be called separately so, i want the addtocart function also to alert a value on success
and now i am using a addtocartreturn scope variable to know the status, what is a better way to do this. such as returning a variable.
thank you in advance

A: $http returns a promise, you can wait for execution by using a .then() like so:
$scope.addToCart = function() {
    return $http({
        method : 'POST',
        url : 'cart/addtocart',
        headers : {
            'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
        },
        data : $scope.cartProduct
    })
};

$scope.buyNow = function() {
    $scope.addToCart()
        .then(function() {
            // Success function
            $state.go("App.Cart");
        }, function() {
            // Error function
            alert("An error occured !");
        })
};

More info about promises and $q here.

A: You can use either callbacks or promises. Promises are already explained by martijn. See Callbacks
var callBack = function(){
 if ($scope.addToCartReturn = true) {
    $state.go("App.Cart");
 } else {
    alert("Error Please Wait");
 }
}
$scope.addToCart(callBack);

Change definition
    $scope.addToCart = function(callBack) {

Then call the callback in success

A: $http is a asynchronous function, hence it would proceed with next statement in script, one way to execute the things which need to be processed after addToCart is executed can be done as below.
Pass a callback function as a function reference and execute it on successful call of ajax request.
 $scope.addToCart = function(successHandler,errorHandler) {
   $http({
     method : 'POST',
     url : 'cart/addtocart',
     headers : {
        'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
     },
     data : $scope.cartProduct
   }).then(
    successHandler,errorHandler // this will trigger the respective callbacks
  );
};

$scope.buyNow = function() {
  $scope.addToCart(successCallback);
};

function successCallback(successRes) {
    //add all the stuff here post "addToCart" processing
    $state.go("App.Cart");
}

function errorCallback(errorRes) {
   //handle error response here
}

Note:

*

*As mentioned by @charlietfl, replace .success with then. https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$http

*try to handle error responses as well returned from remote server[This is as important as handling successful responses]

*Before triggering ajax call try showing a loading icon to user and remove it once response is received from remote server, this way your page would be interacting & would not look stale.

A: use Deferred and Promise explained here
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NSW launches $50m grant program for pumped hydro projects
The NSW government has launched a $50 million Pumped Hydro Recoverable Grants Program, as it looks to add as much as 3,000MW of new long-term dispatchable storage capacity.
The NSW government has said that it is looking for pumped hydro projects that can deliver at least 30MW of generation capacity with a minimum of 8 hours of energy storage, with a preference for projects that can deliver at least 12-hours of storage.
The program will support projects that are able to make competitive bids for Long Term Energy Services Agreement, under the NSW government's recently legislated Electricity Infrastructure Safeguard, that will help underwrite new dispatchable energy projects.
The grants program is expected to be open for applications in the third quarter of 2021, with the first tranche of grants to be awarded before the end of the year.
The 'recoverable grants' are designed to assist projects to proceed through their pre-investment activities, with the grant to be repaid back to the NSW government once the project has reached financial close.
Unsuccessful projects that undertake their pre-investment works but do not reach financial close will not be required to repay the grant, with the program helping to reduce the exposure risk for project developers.
Through the program, the NSW government is aiming to support up to 3,000MW of new projects to commence operation before the end of the decade.
"Pumped hydro is recognised as the most established form of long duration storage. It provides large amounts of reliable electricity on demand by storing surplus renewable energy and releasing it into the grid when demand exceeds supply," the program's guidelines say.
The program forms part of a wider ambitious plan of the NSW government to support the addition of up to 12GW of new renewable energy generation capacity across the state, as it prepares for the exit of a significant proportion of the state's ageing fleet of coal fired generators over the next 15 years.
The ambitious Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap is expected to support up to $32 billion in new electricity infrastructure investment by 2030 while working to both lower energy costs and emissions in New South Wales.
Supporting this plan will be the creation of up to five dedicated renewable energy zones across New South Wales, which will coordinate the investment of new wind, solar and storage projects with the necessary network and grid support infrastructure.
This includes the New England Renewable Energy Zone, which was recently opened to expressions of interest, which is expected to attract up to 8,000MW of new project proposals.
The launch of the New South Wales program comes on the same day as the Queensland government announces that it will commit $22 million towards the completion of a feasibility study into a new pumped hydro plant in the south-east of Queensland.
New South Wales currently has just two operating pumped hydro projects, the Tumut 3 power station that forms part of the Snowy Hydro scheme and Origin Energy's Shoalhaven pumped hydro project.
Also, please check out RenewEconomy's newly released pumped hydro storage map here:
Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Map of Australia


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Philippines, Japan in talks for joint military exercise: Navy officials
Posted at Jan 29 2019 03:32 PM
The Japanese Navy destroyer Ikazuchi docks at the Manila port, Jan. 29, 2019. ABS-CBN News
MANILA - Manila and Tokyo are mulling joint naval exercises in a bid to boost defense ties and enhance regional stability, military officials said Tuesday, as a Japanese destroyer docked in the Philippine capital.
Once at war, the 2 Pacific nations are looking to take their bilateral relationship "to the next level," said Capt. Mardonio Navarro of the Philippine Navy.
A joint military exercise will improve ties and "contribute to the regional stability," added Capt. Ryoko Azuma, commander of the Japanese Escort Division One.
Azuma led the contingent that brought Japanese destroyer JS Ikazuchi to Manila on a 3-day goodwill visit, which includes a coordination meeting with the Philippine military.
Both the Philippines and Japan are locked in maritime disputes with China.
Beijing and Tokyo claim ownership of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
China also claims most of the South China and has built bases on reefs and shoals it reclaimed despite partial claims by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
A UN-backed tribunal, acting on a Philippine plea, invalidated Beijing's sweeping claims over the strategic waterway that has rich fishing grounds, as well as oil and gas deposits.
Duterte has, however, set aside the ruling, seeking instead loans and investments from China, as he pivoted away from US, a traditional ally, following the previous American administration's criticism of his deadly anti-narcotics drive.
Japan's visit and meetings with the Philippine Navy has nothing to do with China, said Azuma.
"[We have] no specific message to any nation. Japan is now committed to the vision of freedom and opening of the Pacific," he said.
"Japan and Philippines share a core value that emphasized free and open ocean based on rules of international law and freedom of navigation," he added.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's latest goodwill visit is the first for this year and the eighth since 2016.
On board the Japanese destroyer are 220 crew members. The ship carries 2 patrol helicopters.
Philippine and Japanese Navy officials were set to stage pre-coordination meetings and a shipboard tour.
The Japanese contingent will head back to Japan on Thursday.
With a report from Reuters
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When Irish words are smiling (in English)
Another favorite from the Glosso archives, posted again to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. What do galore, slew, hooligan and boycott have in common? Glossophilia celebrates 13* colorful words in common English usage that we got from the Irish.
Banshee: in Irish folklore, a type of female fairy believed to foretell deaths by singing in a mournful, unearthly voice, 1771, from the phonetic spelling of the Irish bean sidhe ("female of the Elves") from bean "woman" + Irish sidhe (Gaelic sith) meaning "fairy" or sid meaning "fairy mound".
Boycott: From Irish Land League ostracism of Capt. Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), land agent of Lough-Mask in County Mayo, who refused to lower rents for his tenant farmers. Quickly adopted by newspapers in languages as far afield as Japanese (boikotto). The family name is from a place in England.
Brogue: A type of Celtic accent, 1705, perhaps from the meaning "rough, stout shoe" (made of rawhide and tied with thongs), of the type worn by rural Irish and Scottish highlanders (1580s), via Gaelic or Irish, from Old Irish broce "shoe." The footwear was "characteristic of the wilder Irish" [Century Dictionary], thus the noun might mean something like "speech of those who call a shoe a brogue." Or perhaps it is from the Old Irish barrog, meaning "a hold" (on the tongue).
Galore: 1670s, from the Irish go leór, and equivalent Scottish Gaelic gu leóir, meaning "sufficiently, enough," from the Old Irish roar, "enough". The particle go/gu usually means "to," but it is also affixed to adjectives to form adverbs, as it is here.
Gob: slang for "mouth" 1540s, from the Irish gob, meaning "mouth".
Hooligan: 1890s, of unknown origin, according to OED, first found in British newspaper police-court reports in the summer of 1898, almost certainly from the variant form of the Irish surname Houlihan, which figured as a characteristic comic Irish name in music hall songs and newspapers of the 1880s and '90s.
Leprechaun: c. 1600, from Irish lupracan, a metathesis of the Old Irish luchorpan meaning literally "a very small body," from lu ("little, small"). The variant leithbragan is probably Irish folk etymology, from leith ("half") + brog ("brogue"), because the spirit was "supposed to be always employed in making or mending a single shoe."
Sheila: The Australian slang for "woman" comes from the Irish name "Síle", the Irish equivalent of Celia, a shortened form of Cecilia, the feminine form of Cecil. A standard Irish women's name since 1828; slang for "girlfriend, young woman" dates from 1839.
Slew: meaning "large number" 1839, from the Irish sluagh meaning "a host, crowd, multitude".
Slogan: 1670s, earlier slogorne (1510s), "battle cry," from Gaelic sluagh-ghairm meaning "battle cry" used by Scottish Highland or Irish clans," from sluagh ("army, host, slew" — see slew above), from the Celtic and Balto-Slavic slough ("help, service"). Second element is gairm meaning "a cry".
Tory: Colloquial name for a member of the British Conservative Party: 1566, "an outlaw," specifically "one of a class of Irish robbers noted for outrages and savage cruelty," from the Irish toruighe, "plunderer," originally "pursuer, searcher," from the Old Irish toirighim ("I pursue") from toir ("pursuit") from Celtic to-wo-ret ("a running up to"). In about 1646, it emerged as a derogatory term for Irish Catholics dispossessed of their land (some of whom subsequently turned to outlawry); in c.1680 it was applied by Exclusioners to supporters of the Catholic Duke of York (later James II) in his succession to the throne of England. After 1689, Tory was the name of a British political party at first composed of Yorkist Tories of 1680. It was superseded in c.1830 by Conservative, although it continues to be used colloquially. As an adjective from 1680s.
Shamrock: 1570s, from Irish seamrog, the diminutive of seamar meaning "clover."
Whiskey: 1715, from Gaelic uisge beatha "whisky," literally "water of life," from the Old Irish uisce, meaning "water". Note that the spelling distinction between Scotch whisky and Irish and American whiskey is a 19th-century innovation.
And here are two words that are commonly thought to be of Irish origin but probably aren't:
Dig? Some people think the slang word dig — meaning to understand or "get it" — comes from the Irish tuig. However, read Frank McNally's dig into the word dig in the Irish Times a decade ago: it's a complicated subject, and probably not of Irish heritage after all.
Hillbilly? It's commonly thought that the pejorative term for people living in rural areas of the U.S., especially around the Ozark Mountains (Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas) and Appalachia, initially came from 18th-century Ulster Protestant settlers in the Appalachian Mountains. However, as Michael Montgomery argues in his From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English: "In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect. … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development."
* Don't worry: we've got the luck of the Irish on our side.
This entry was posted in Etymology, Words, phrases & expressions and tagged Irish words in English language, St. Patrick's Day, words with Irish origins on March 17, 2021 by Louise.
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2 thoughts on "When Irish words are smiling (in English)"
Orla Clancy March 17, 2021 at 9:31 am
Other words in common use:
'boreen' – this means 'little road', and there are LOTS of little roads in Ireland. Apparently the word 'bothair' meaning road was originally 'pathway for cows' – bó is the Irish for cow.
'smithereens' – little pieces – the jug fell and smashed into smithereens'. From the Irish 'smideríní.
The word 'bróg' actually means 'shoe'. The word Brogue commonly used by Americans to describe an Irish accent is not really Irish at all. We just call an accent an accent.
'He's after losing his keys' – this is Hiberno-English dialect from a direct translation from the Irish. In standard English it would be 'He has lost his keys'.
Louise Post author March 17, 2021 at 9:35 am
Fascinating, Orla: thanks for adding these other Irish words. Especially "smithereens": that does sound incredibly Irish (and it's such a great word).


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Q: Does Google Cloud Spanner support compression? Our dataset has rows which are highly compressible with respect to adjacent rows.  As I understand it, Bigtable supports automatic compression (via SSTable block compression).  It would make a huge difference to us if Spanner can or will support similar compression at the database level.  We project this to make a 3-5x difference in our cost structure.  While we could consider trying to do so at the application layer, it isn't much fun at all...

A: Cloud Spanner charges for logical bytes -- the size of the data you send us. The sizes for types are listed here: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/data-types


State-owned aviation major, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has set a 2022 target for the first flight of the Light Combat Aircraft Mk-1A, an upgraded version of the Tejas. Eighty-three of this aircraft are being considered for induction into the Indian Air Force (IAF), although final approval is still awaited.
Buoyed by the Final Operational Clearance (FOC) for the LCA's weaponised version accorded on Wednesday, HAL Chairman and Managing Director, R Madhavan was confident that the delivery will happen in 2022. His remark at the Aero India 2019 airshow was apparently set to calm apprehensions about the company's capabilities to meet the rising demands of IAF.
HAL has orders for 40 aircraft of the Mk-1 version, 16 of them in Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) configuration and four in trainer configuration. "We are planning to deliver 16 in FOC configuration by the end of this year. The jigs will be loaded by October," Madhavan said.
At Aero India, the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) unveiled a model of the Tejas's Mk-2 version. But the Agency, which designed the first version, chose to call it a Medium Weight Fighter (MWF).
This aircraft is expected to fit into IAF's requirement for the Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA). If approved, the Tejas Mk-2 could potentially replace the fleet of Mirage 2000s, an upgraded version of which had crashed at the HAL Airport on February 1.
An enhanced version of LCA, the Tejas Mk-2 MWF is 14.6m longer with a wingspan of 8.5m. This would increase its payload-carrying capability. The aircraft will also be equipped with a compound delta wing with close-coupled canards. This would reduce drag in all angles of attack.
The longer fuselage will allow for more fuel behind the cockpit. The Mk-2 design also shows that it could carry more drop tanks. The engine, General Electric F414-INS6, will be an upgrade of the less powerful F404 that powers the Tejas Mk1 and Mk-1A.
The Naval version of the Tejas will also have an Mk-1 and Mk-2 upgrade. "Technical development of these is now with ADA. We will support them wherever required," said Madhavan.


A new information document detailing how London's road network will operate during the Olympic Games in 2012 was published yesterday.
The Olympic Route Network and Paralympic Route Network (ORN/PRN) involves designating 2.5% of London's roads so they will be roadwork free and subject to measures such as traffic signal timing changes. Most roads on the ORN will remain fully open for general traffic.
Ahead of further consultation, the document also sets out the location and extent of temporary Games Lanes. Recent Games including Beijing, Athens and Sydney have all used a system of temporary Games Lanes. They will only operate on the busiest parts of the ORN and under 1% of London's roads will have a Games Lane.
The total number using the ORN during the Games is 82,000.
There has already been extensive consultation on the ORN/PRN following the designation of the route and there will be further opportunities for those affected to have their say when local consultation continues later this year. The total core and venue specific ORN is 168km in London and 276km outside of London. The total lane length of the temporary Games Lanes is 97km (based on both directions).
Other measures on the ORN apart from lanes will include side road closures, banned turns, changes to traffic lights and pedestrian crossings, adjustments to bus and coach stops and the temporary suspension of bus stops.
London mayor Boris Johnson said: "The capital will be in the spotlight and temporary measures such as the Olympic Route Network will play a crucial role. But their contribution must also be weighed against a phenomenal investment in new transport infrastructure.
Getting rid of the fabric wrap for London's 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium is a "sensible" cost-cutting measure that will not hurt the athletes, Lord Coe has said.
Buildings and infrastructure costs for the London 2012 Games may go down by £29M to £7.2bn, according to official figures.
Consultant Atkins and architect Populous have revealed plans to transform the iconic Horse Guards Parade into a temporary Olympic venue for the Beach Volleyball competition.
Premier League footballers have delivered a proposal to 10 Downing Street to put the case for West Ham to make a new home at the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 London Games.
Pledges to transform the London 2012 Olympic Stadium into a 25,000 seater are "flawed" and efforts to secure the venue's long-term use have been hampered, it is claimed.
The Government wants to change a 132-year-old law to allow the construction of a temporary police headquarters on protected land near the Olympic Games site in London.
Transport for the North (TfN) has published its final £70bn strategic transport plan (STP) and investment programme in which it sets out its "ambitious vision" to transform the North's economy over the next 30 years.


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Q: How to properly close the UISearchBar dynamically? What is the proper way to dynamically (from code) to close the UISearchbar and to display it in its default state? (This is not a duplicate)
By default state, meaning it meets the following criteria:

*

*Removes the cursor from the search bar

*Removes the cancel button

*Searchbar loses focus

*There is no transparent grey backdrop/background

*The end result should look the same before the searchbar was clicked

I have tried the following, however the grey background overlay tint still remains.
        searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = false
        searchController.searchBar.searchTextField.endEditing(true)
        searchController.searchBar.endEditing(true)
        searchController.searchBar.backgroundColor = .none

Even setting isActive to false does not close the searchbar and remove focus:
 func searchBarShouldBeginEditing(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) -> Bool {
     print("searchBarShouldBeginEditing called")
     searchController.isActive = false
     return true
 }

On android, to achieve all this, we would just have to call one method:
searchView.clearFocus();

Is there a simple way to achieve this with Swift?

A: When your closing the UISearchbar then please add
searchController.searchBar.searchTextField.backgroundColor =  UIColor.clear

So the code will look like:
searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = false
   searchController.searchBar.searchTextField.endEditing(true)
   searchController.searchBar.endEditing(true)
   searchController.searchBar.backgroundColor = .none
   searchController.searchBar.searchTextField.backgroundColor =  UIColor.clear

May it helps you.


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Q: Unable to get the "whole" childprocess output when using Popen I'm trying to use a python script to automate an interactive console application.
(it's called BLEConsole and it's a microsoft store app https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/bleconsole/9p5662fdq58v , not sure if that's important. )
So I've been using os.popenX and subprocess.popen to launch and interact with it, and it's working fine... mostly !
inp,outp = os.popen4('BLEConsole.exe')
inp.write('ls\n') # this one work
inp.write('open #01\n') # this one don't generate any output for some reason
inp.write('format hex\n') # and it's working again ??
inp.write('quit\n')
print outp.read()

some commands work and print to stdout but some other don't.
they do work (the bluetooth device connects just fine) but i'm just unable to capture any output other than line breaks when executing this specific command. (yes it's supposed to output stuff, it does when I do it manually)
edit : yes I'm checking both stdout and stderr
Also I'm not able to capture the "BLE:" prompt using this method, I don't really need it but I don't understand why.
Thanks for your help


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The Mending
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May Newsletter The Mending
In The Mending, the final book in the series, the war is over but its celebration by Jessie and her family is half-hearted. They, like other Canadians, seek two things above all else: an end to the beleaguered state suffered during the war and a return to the innocence that preceded it. Neither is entirely possible.
Between 1918 and 1931, Jessie comes of age on the heels of the Spanish flu epidemic, in a time when skirt hems rose, marriageable men were in short supply, and compliance with temperance laws fell. As modern medical, dental, and training programs strove to restore the lives of the war's injured, Jessie is a student at the University of Toronto, a mourner in the fields of France, a tourist in European capitals, a love-struck guide in the hills of Caledon, and a devoted family member in her hometown of Brampton. Uncovering the secrets that have beset her since her earliest days, and others of more recent discovery, Jessie, her family, and her community begin to mend.
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As children and families in their community adapt to the challenging circumstances and stressors created by the pandemic, afterschool programs continue to be a source of support.
Programs have aided in the provision of meals, connections to the community, and support for essential workers.
As children and families in their community adapt to the challenging circumstances and stressors created by the pandemic, afterschool programs continue to be a source of support. Programs have aided in the provision of meals, connections to the community, and support for essential workers.
Afterschool programs across the country quickly adapted and maintain meaningful connections for children and families who had been separated from their peers during the school closure. These programs are a lifeline for many families as they continue to:
Provide childcare, academic tutoring, and other related services.
Support for social and emotional well-being; collaborate with schools on hybrid learning environments.
Create opportunities for project-based workforce and experiential learning opportunities.
Feed hungry children and connect families to resources available on the ground.
Besides providing essential services for youth and families, out-of-school time programs have helped children catch up on the learning they have lost as they prepared to reenter school and other activities after a year of isolation. According to Afterschool Alliance, afterschool and summer programs during the pandemic have helped to:
Close the achievement gap by providing students with more time for deeper learning and the extra help they need to recover from learning loss due to school closures and disrupted schedules.
Address student mental health by connecting young people with caring mentors who are trained to help youth build healthy relationships and heal from trauma.
Ensure child safety by partnering with schools to offer families a safe place for children to learn both during and beyond the school day, allowing parents to return to work or take time to seek employment.
Support nutrition by feeding hungry children. The pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity and out-of-school time programs are seeing a significant increase in hungry children.
Promote physical activity by encouraging physical health and wellness. Physical activity is especially important now as many students are in virtual or hybrid-learning and children have limited options for daily exercise.
Address Inequities: Access to out-of-school time programs is not always equitable. In the United States, for every child in an afterschool program, three are waiting to get in. School-age children spend more than 80 percent of their waking hours learning outside of school, making afterschool and summer learning programs key to ensuring kids reach their full potential. Out-of-school time programs are embedded in neighborhoods throughout the nation, uniquely positioning these programs to help families through this pandemic. These localized programs ensure young people have access to safe, quality programs that offer expanded learning opportunities and nutritious meals, and connect parents with health care, employment, and other resources.
According to Afterschool Alliance, 78% of parents, who have their child enrolled in an afterschool program, state that it has helped them to keep their jobs during the pandemic. A notable example of the power of afterschool programs to effect change during the pandemic at the state level is the SC Afterschool Alliance (SCAA).
The SC Afterschool Alliance has a network of over 1,400 afterschool programs impacting over 100,000 K-12 students.
SCAA's mission is to raise awareness, increase sustainability, and promote the importance of quality afterschool and summer learning programs. The overall goal of the SC Afterschool Alliance (SCAA) is to establish a statewide network of diverse stakeholders that will guide, support, and enable quality afterschool services and policies for all children and youth. The organization represents over 1,400 individual and diverse organizations.
The SCAA has four main priorities:
Education and Communication
I was able to speak with Zelda Waymer, President, and CEO of the SC Afterschool Alliance about the innovative programs and services the alliance and its providers have delivered to children and parents during the pandemic.
She shared that as the pandemic evolved and progressed, schools across South Carolina grappled with the massive and uncharted task of bringing our students back into school buildings safely and preparing for an uncertain year ahead. We knew there would be a need for more support, staff, resources, and spaces to help students catch up, re-engage, and recover from the learning loss and social isolation. But families were struggling too—moms and dads were not able to return to work because their kids were still at home doing remote school. Many working families could not find or afford care for their school-age kids during the day.
The SC Afterschool Alliance has a network of over 1,400 afterschool programs impacting over 100,000 K-12 students. These network programs and staff have longstanding relationships with families and schools in every community across South Carolina. Afterschool programs were ready to help and offer immediate resources—including their facilities, staff, and connections—to address challenges parents face in getting back to work. Many of our local afterschool programs pivoted to remain open, continued to serve students and families. Our network program providers offered support in the following ways:
Time – Afterschool programs expanded their time providing services all day. Afterschool and summer programs have always provided critical academic support and youth development services for K-12 students and their families outside of traditional school hours. When schools offered remote learning or a staggered schedule, these wraparound services were essential for allowing parents to work.
Space – Network programs operate in a variety of settings, often moving between classrooms and community spaces. Afterschool programs expanded learning and engagement to include community centers, parks, libraries, and more. Providing safe places for students to learn remotely was critical for helping parents especially essential works and first responders return to their jobs and feel at ease knowing their children are safe.
Staff – We provide additional staffing capacity, including professionals who are trained in positive youth development, online learning, and trauma-informed care. Having more staff was especially critical for keeping kids supervised and helping them recover from learning loss and the social isolation forced by the pandemic.
Engaging parents and families – Many families were in crisis, need additional supports, and struggled to stay connected. Because of our programs' deep relationships with families and community partners, and a long history of coordinating services to meet families' economic, health, food, and other needs.
Innovation – Afterschool programs were able to step in with flexibility and pivot quickly as school schedules and educational delivery systems shifted. Programs were able to offer safe, developmentally rich settings to provide new learning opportunities that engaged students in meaningful projects and activities correlated to academic achievement.
During the initial pandemic lockdown, The SC Afterschool Alliance reached out to the Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project at Winthrop University to address social-emotional development through the arts for the entire family. Every Friday, virtual dance classes, arts, and theater for all ages we hosted. In partnership with Claflin University, a Biomedical/Biomaterial Summer Internship was launched for rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. The program gave students an opportunity to live on campus for 5 weeks providing a true college experience. Students were also matched with a research scientist or chemist to work side by side in a research laboratory. Giving students a vision of someone that looks like them in the STEM field. The past two summers were virtual with several visits to Claflin's Campus.
A special partnership with the University of South Carolina will allow 8,000 college students across eight campuses to be trained and serve as volunteer mentors and instructors in local summer and afterschool programs and receive credit hours for their civic engagement. College students are trained to deliver the College and Career Digital Badges. We are excited about the positive impact college students will have on our younger students. Students participating in these programs will have a greater connection to caring adults, greater support academically, fun STEM, and greater possibilities to succeed in life.
The recent investment of $1.3 Million dollars by the South Carolina State Department of Education in partnership with The Riley Institute at Furman University in a new afterschool and summer leadership learning program called SCALE will certainly aid to bring support, access and equity in afterschool education.
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Antonio B. Boyd, Ed.D. serves as President and CEO of the Think Tank Consulting Group, LLC. A national management, development, and public affairs company specializing in the education, non-profit, government and public health sectors.
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Want to take your serger skills to the next level? PRE-REQUISITE: MUST HAVE TAKEN THE SERGER BASICS CLASS.
Learn to make characters using the cable stitch for "stacking cables." You will learn to follow a color plate and graph to create the design plate of your choice. We will also cover information on how to center and space designs as well as learning more advanced stitches such as bullion and herringbone. 3 x 2.5 Hrs.
Basic Operation I Basics of your machine will be covered.Threading, care and maintenance, basic sewing stitches. Blind hem, etc.
In this class you will learn the basic stitches (cables, waves and trellises). We will cover construction of the garment as well. 3 x 2.5 Hrs.
Bernina Club covers new products, techniques or new ideas in the general sewing area. Fun time of fellowship, show and share. Bernina Club meets every other month and alternates months with Artista/Embroidery Club.
Learn how to make a Quiltworx foundation-paper pieced quilt with this exquisite table runner.
CREATIVE OPTIONS Memory, Directional sewing, the set up of the machine.
Make decorative throw pillows for your home.
Learn all about the embroidery features of your machine. We'll cover stabilizers thread and hooping as well.
EMBROIDERY BASICS & BEYOND Learn all about the embroidery features of your machine. Stabilizers, thread, how to hoop, etc. We'll continue on past basic and go into editing and more advanced features of your Bernina.
Learn how to make a embroidery and make a hooded bath towel for either a boy or girl.
YES you can quilt your own quilt! Learn the basics of free motion quilting such as planning, marking, and starting and stopping in the middle of a quilt. You will also learn to quilt beautiful designs by using Golden Threads paper. Bring your sewing machine, free motion foot (#29C is the one preferred), and BSR (Bernina Stitch Regulator) if you have one. A kit will be supplied.
Learn the tricks and tools needed to make a fun Jelly Roll Rug from RJ Designs Popular Pattern.
Nancy will walk you through making a rulerwork sampler or two with your #72 foot and any quilting rulers you have. We will cover coordination, design, and marking tools. Let's get those #72 feet and rulers on the job!
No more fear. Serging beginners welcome. Sergers are for more than just overlocking. Come with a working serger, your owners manual, and fabric of your choice to make a basic clutch with magnetic snap and decorative stitches all on the serger. We will learn to overlock wide and narrow widths, rolled hem, flatlock, and mock pintuck using cordonnet thread.
Software Club covers all aspects of Artista Software, has a project, techniques and includes a CD with video instructions and project directions each month.
Learn to make the fun and useful "Cube Bag" in this one day class. Once you learn the technique you will be ready to make any one of the other available patterns from this designer. Come in the morning and take home your bag at the end of the day.
EDGE TO EDGE QUILTING on your embroidery machine. Achieve perfection in your quilting on every block. Also learn to use special designs on each block.
Choose a Laura Heine Art Collage Pattern and watch the magic happen as we build your collage into a beautiful art quilt! Bring scraps from your stash and all the wild fabrics you can find. We will tap into the creative side of your brain and build your one-of-a-kind collage.
The Berry Patch is a Kimberbell exclusive Dealer. Our newest Club will meet the first Saturday of each month and be lecture/demo. Every other month a sit and sew session will follow at 2-5PM.
Bring your shirts and make a fabulous t-shirt quilt! There are multiple designs to consider so no t-shirt quilt will be the same! Nancy can work with even the most timid quilter to finish this quilt. 2 x 3 Hrs.


Loyalty Program support for YouTube?
Read on the twitch loyalty program and think it'd be great for YouTube if it's possible to support.
Currently, we have to use a REST-like API to query Streamlabs. It would be great to expose the currently used websocket endpoint so we can get as little delay as possible.
API Scope for Donation Goal info.


Tomorrow morning the Flitetest and I will be leaving for South Eastern Flying Festival (SEFF). We will be attending the event Friday and Saturday, meeting fans and interviewing interesting persons.
Well if you see a guy in RCExplorer.se t-shirt be sure to say Hi.


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Luis Garcia: Qatar's stadiums a perfect balance between tradition and modernity
Luis Garcia has lifted the Champions League at club level, played for Spain at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™, and still calls two of the most legendary grounds in world football – Camp Nou and Anfield, his spiritual home. So it is safe to say he recognises what it takes to make a stadium great.
So on his recent visit to the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy's offices in Doha to see the progress being made for the 2022 tournament, the former Liverpool and Barcelona winger took a keen interest in the spectacular designs of the stadiums, highlighting the intriguing blend of tradition and modernity.
"I'm really very impressed with what I've seen here today, especially the unique Arabic designs of the Al Bayt Stadium and Al Wakrah Stadium. I've been visiting Doha for quite a while and been seeing the changes in the country and the city, and just to see how these futuristic stadiums are starting to grow is great," the former Spain striker told www.sc.qa in an exclusive interview.
"To arrive here and know you don't have to travel or fly and that you can rest, that is a fantastic thing to have. The facilities are very important when you are in a World Cup. When we were in the World Cup in 2006 we were in a small town, so we were far away from everything.
"That's not easy because even though you have to focus, life still goes on. You need places to clear your mind, rest, recover and watch a movie, go for a walk, so it is very important to have this. I can't wait to see the progress and to be at the World Cup in Qatar, I like what I have seen."
The Badalona-born player, who rose through the ranks in the youth teams of La Masia – F.C. Barcelona's iconic academy, also said he has also seen an outstanding passion for football in the entire Arab region on his numerous visits.
"Aside from regularly visiting Qatar, I have been to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and you feel the passion when you see the people watching the games, they are crazy about football," he continued. "I arrived the other day to my Doha hotel and on my bed there was 'You'll Never Walk Alone' written in rose petals, that shows you the passion of the city for football."
"It shows that the country and the region needs something like this World Cup, the players will come here, the league will get better, people will start hearing more about the country. Xavi has already arrived and Sergio Garcia arrived and people will start hearing about the World Cup. Millions and millions of people are going to be watching in 2022."
On the matter of the more immediate future, the former Atletico Madrid forward also said he favoured his former side to go all the way in the UEFA Champions League this year, highlighting the fantastic form of one player in particular.
"With Barcelona out, who were the favourites for me, I will go for Atletico Madrid," he said. "They are a very serious team, they know exactly what to do, and where you have to be. Right now all of the four are very good, but Bayern in one of the most powerful teams.
"I see Atletico Madrid very strong and confident in the way they play. It is one of the best defensive teams in Europe, and Bayern have to be very careful about Torres because he is very confident now, scoring goals again. There is also Griezmann who has been fantastic for the whole season, and many players in the team want to win that trophy which they missed out on two years ago."
#AMBASSADOR
More: www.sc.qa
Gracias Australia
Euro 2016 preview: Luis Garcia on why the stars in France make the Euro mission a strong contest


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Competieluik Berlinale completed
Three weeks before the start of the film festival is the official cover for the Berlinale completed. Ultimately, 17 films competing for the coveted Golden Bear. Today made the organisers the latest films known from the competitiegedeelte.
The already known list was supplemented with 'Synonymes' of the Israëlier Nadav Lapid and " Yi miao zhong of the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. The final list includes seven women directed films.
Outside of competition run movies like "Vice" of Adam MacKay, a movie about former U.s. vice president Dick Cheney, who earlier this month both a Golden Globe as the toponderscheiding of the Critics' Choice won.
The Berlinale opens this year on 7 February.


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Discovery of bed bugs prompts staff relocations at LCCC – Yahoo News
Recommended by Dikshit Aryal, Published on April 16th, 2021
Apr. 14NANTICOKE The discovery of bedbugs in several areas prompted Luzerne County Community College to temporarily relocate some staff this week.
According to a statement from the college, the Physical Plant Department was notified April 7 that bedbugs were found in the counseling office of the Campus Center building. Bed bugs were also identified in the lobby of Building 1 that same day.
The college's contracted exterminator was on site within two hours to treat the affected areas, but more bugs were found later.
"On Monday, April 12, an additional bedbug was discovered in the Student Success Center," according to the release. "As an additional measure, the College made arrangements to treat the entire first floor of the Campus Center on Tuesday, April 13." The exterminator recommended the areas that were treated remain vacant for four hours.
"As a precaution, all staff and services from the first floor of the Campus Center will be temporarily relocated to other buildings on Tuesday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 14," the release said. "This will allow the exterminator to have ample access to inspect and treat the entire area. The lobby of Building 1 also will be inspected and treated again if necessary."
Discovery of bed bugs prompts staff relocations at LCCC - Yahoo News
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Instilling integrity into athletes is a daily demonstration. Three main areas to focus on are: Fair play, good sporting behavior and character. Character development is not just an instruction, it is a consistent mind set.
Supplementation is to be used when an athlete is unable to get sufficient nutrients from their daily meals, or in some cases, add more calories when they cannot be consumed. Essentially, supplements serve to bridge the gap in one's diet. Supplements are used to pick up the slack if anything is lacking in the diet or to "shortcut" meal prepping and just taking nutrients directly. In addition, supplementation could help improve meal timing (i.e. meals before and after workouts).
Stated simply, Periodization is looking at the big picture and the end goal, and then breaking it down into actionable, day to day steps to reach that goal. When we create our programs for our athletes, we like to start from the end and work our way to the beginning. Every exercise and movement we program is designed to help our athletes reach their goals.


This slim-line minimalist style briefcase is handmade in London from 100% Italian full grain leather with a chic detachable handle, this leather briefcase can also be used as a simple leather document pouch.
Its divided compartments have zips to keep your laptop and documents secure, while its elegant design is sure to make you stand out from the crowd. With a sense of class perfectly suited to day-to-day business and a look stylish enough for a day out in the city, this luxury folio is ideal for the creative business professional.