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Housing associations L&Q and East Thames confirm merger
7 December, 2016 By Robyn Wilson
Foundry Mews, designed by RCKa and delivered by East Thames with construction partner Storm - 21 affordable new homes on the site of the former Wood Street Library car park in Walthamstow.
Patel Taylor's plans for a 3,000-home development on a derelict former Ford factory site in east London -a scheme backed by L&Q with Countryside Properties
Housing associations L&Q and East Thames have confirmed their merger and the completion of a £2.6 billion refinancing package to help deliver 100,000 homes
The combined organisation owns and manages more than 90,000 homes across the UK worth £22 billion. It will implement a 10-year financial plan, which will allow for £15 billion gross capital expenditure in building new homes, a £250 million community investment fund and £5 million a year for a new training academy.
Earlier in the year social landlord Hyde Group was also involved in talks to join London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) and East Thames, but the housing association dropped out of the dealin August.
The new company is intending to create a 6,600-home specialist care and support subsidiary, which will have an annual turnover of £47 million. It said it would have a continued commitment of 50 per cent affordable housing through shared ownerships and rent.
The organisation said that development through London and the South East would accelerate, including in the Thames Gateway corridor, which it called a 'long-term national priority for growth'.
It will also look to strengthen existing relationships and create new ones, largely in the South East, though it added that it was open to expanding into new regions where appropriate, such as with Trafford Housing Trust in the North West.
Under the merger L&Q chief executive David Montague will become the company's group chief executive while Yvonne Arrowsmith will remain as East Thames chief executive.
Among the practices who have already worked for East Thames and L&Q include RCKa and Patel Taylor.
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Raising bigger bucks for the Walk-a-thon!
The Magnolia 2013 Walk-a-thon is 2 weeks away. Your student's fundraising should have picked up steam by now. If not, now's the time to start.
A good approach is to start with your neighbors. Once your student has practiced their pitch, walk around with them to the neighbor's homes. Wait for them as they approach the neighbors & convince them on why they need the money. Remember the 3 C's: Charm (aka politeness & a smile) and Conviction (you believe in what you're selling), will Convert (make them buy in to your fundraising) most people!
Secondly, approach local businesses. Some of them may be willing to sponsor the student while they walk, as a flat pledge or a per lap contribution. They may make in-kind contributions.
Approach friends & family. They're a sure shot, so make sure to talk to uncles and aunts and grandparents, not just mom and dad!
A silent auction is similar to a live auction, except the bids are placed on paper. When you arrive at the auction, go to the registration table to get a number. (The number is how you bid anonymously). The Magnolia Silent Auction will be held inside the cafeteria on two long tables. Twenty baskets, each with a theme prepared by the parents and teachers will be auctioned. You will see an itemized list of every item in the basket. Each basket will have a paper with lines on it, and a minimum bid. If you would like to bid on the basket, place your number under the last bid, and wait . . . . to see if you are the highest bidder. You will need to return to your basket periodically to check to know how high the bids are and bid again if you are outbid.
The Silent Auction will include 20 themed baskets hosted by each classroom. Each homeroom teacher will be collecting the items donated by parents. A parent from each homeroom will prepare an itemized list of what is in the basket. On auction day, each basket will be auctioned to the highest bidder. MSASC PTO will accept check, cash, or PayPal on the day of the event.


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AT&T Reverses: You Can Use iPhone 5 FaceTime Without Wi-Fi (Updated)
Sam Biddle
After months of complaining, AT&T will now doing the right thing, unchaining customers with regular tiered data plans to use FaceTime on their LTE phones and iPads with nothing more than a cell signal. It's good, but definitely not enough.
AT&T says the change will take place within the next "8 to 10 weeks," and also provides a brief justification for dragging its heels on this:
"With the FaceTime app already preloaded on tens of millions of AT&T customers' iPhones, there was no way for our engineers to effectively model usage, and thus to assess network impact. It is for this reason that we took a more cautious approach toward the app. To do otherwise might have risked an adverse impact on the services our customers expect – voice quality in particular – if usage of FaceTime exceeded expectations."
One bummer: those grandfathered into "unlimited" iPhone data plans of yore will be excluded, AT&T confirmed to us.
Another bummer: this only applies to LTE devices, which means if you've got anything less than the latest iPhone or iPad model, you're also out in the cold.
But still, mostly good news! Soon we'll be able to FaceTime from the beach, sidewalk, or mountaintop. But don't forget, this will completely murder your (overpriced) data quota and bankrupt you if you aren't careful.
Update: Not an update on news, but of insight. Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood has the following to say about AT&T's decision, and I'm inclined to agree. This is good news, but it's not enough. Wood argues the following:
"The law is clear. AT&T cannot block FaceTime based on claims of potential congestion. There's nothing even remotely reasonable about that approach. AT&T simply can't justify blocking an app that competes with its voice and texting services unless customers purchase a more expensive monthly plan that includes an unlimited amount of those very same services. AT&T's course correction is a move in the right direction, but until the company makes FaceTime available to all of its customers it is still in violation of the FCC's rules and the broader principles of Net Neutrality .
Right on. This is a good step, but AT&T is still resisting the principle that matters most: we should be able to use the devices we buy the way they were designed, without hobbling that's cooked up to earn money for a corporation.

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Is there a sequel to A Land Remembered?
In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons.
1. Is there a movie of A Land Remembered?
1.1. Is A Land Remembered based on a true story?
1.2. What happens in a land remembered?
1.3. Who wrote A Land Remembered?
2. Is the MacIvey family real?
3. Is A Light in the Attic banned?
4. Who are the characters in A Land Remembered?
Is there a movie of A Land Remembered?
There has been strong interest in making A Land Remembered into a movie since it was first published. Individuals and organizations have bought the annual "option" to make it into a movie almost continuously since it was published in 1984, but for many reasons, nobody has gotten it off the ground.
Is A Land Remembered based on a true story?
A Land Remembered focuses on the fictional story of the MacIveys, who migrated from Georgia into Florida in the mid-19th century. After settling, this family struggles to survive in the harsh environment.
What happens in a land remembered?
A Land Remembered is a bestselling novel by Patrick Smith that tells the story of three generations of the MacIvey family. They rise from a dirt-poor Florida Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons in those three generations. Patrick's story covers the years from 1858 to 1968.
Who wrote A Land Remembered?
Patrick Smith is the author of seven novels: The River Is Home, The Beginning, Forever Island, Angel City, Allapattah, A Land Remembered, and The Seas That Mourn, and a story collection, A white Deer.
Is the MacIvey family real?
2) Are the MacIveys real people? No, the book is not based on any one family but is a blend of the stories and histories of many pioneer families. Patrick Smith explains this in his award-winning DVD, A Sense of Place, available here.
Is A Light in the Attic banned?
Shel Silverstein's book of poems – considered a classic by many readers – was banned in some Florida schools due to concerns that it promotes violence and disrespect.
Who are the characters in A Land Remembered?
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There's not too much to choose from vis-à-vis casinos in Luxembourg, with the Hotel Casino 2000 in Mondorf-les-Bains the sole gaming house in the nation-state – Hey, it's a small country and at least the 2000's open nearly every day of the year, right?
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Considering that Luxembourg has a total population of under 512,000, one shouldn't be too surprised that the choices are slim for those seeking land-based casinos in the tiny country. In fact, looking at things proportionally, things don't look too bad: Compare Luxembourg's ratio of one casino per 512,000 citizens to situations in Portugal (1:1.33 million), Finland (1:2.7 million) or Italy (1:12.1 million), just to cite a few examples.
The one land-based casino doing business in Luxembourg is the Hotel Casino 2000 in Mondorf-les-Bains. Naturally, this gaming house is as international as the city it's based in, with French, German and English widely used in the casino. Hotel Casino 2000 is open 364 days a year – the sole exception is December 24th – Sundays through Fridays 10am to 3am, Saturdays 10am to 4am. Note, however, that table gaming does not open until 7pm most nights and 6pm on Saturday evening.
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The following App spotlight is from seasoned Titan Fokke Zandbergen. Fokke is also the brains behind tidev.io, gitT.io, TiCons, among many other contributions. In this post he provides more detail about him, his work on the Mr. Movie app and the app's recent integration with Passbook to sell movie tickets.
What's your background as a developer, particularly mobile development?
So tell us a little bit about your app MrMovie.
In the Netherlands we have lots of different groups of cinemas. Some groups have their own app, but no app listed all movies playing in all theaters. MrMovie does, for both Android and iOS. It allows you to check movie details, watch the trailer and see when it plays in theaters around you or for any given location. If you want to give it a try, just search for "Amsterdam" and be amazed! Recently we added reservation and purchase of tickets, which of course can be downloaded via PassBook as well. At the moment they're working hard to get more and more theaters signed up for selling their tickets via MrMovie. With the app being free, the small fee for purchasing tickets is the main business model for the app.
Why did you pick Appcelerator for your app development?
MrMovie actually was my first Appcelerator app after doing 3 in Sencha and PhoneGap. I hated the bad UX. I already gave Appcelerator a try in 2010, but the poor state of the documentation at that time was probably the only reason I tried other solutions first. For me this really shows how important good documentation is. I heard someone saying a tech company should spent as much on documentation as it does on PR. I've never regretted switching to Appcelerator.
What were some of the highlights of Appcelerator development for you?
When I updated the app for iOS7 and ticketing a few months ago replacing the TableView by the faster ListView and some small adjustments to account for the status bar now being overlaid was really all I needed to update. That really demonstrates how Appcelerator has matured and really is rock-solid framework to build very nice apps with.
Can you elaborate on any of the technical implementation? What was challenging or unique about your app?
The whole ticketing process takes place in a webview and actually is part of the new website that is being developed by another party. I think together we did a pretty good job making it a seamless experience. The two big challenges we needed to overcome were pushing the passbook ticket from the webview to the app and returning the user to the app after paying for the ticket either trough a banking website or app.
For the passbook ticket we simply use "evalJS" to pick up an data object from the remote page that contains the link to the passbook ticket, which we can then download and present to the user.
The payment process was more challenging as the payment provider requires us to sent the user to the web browser so the return page is loaded in the browser as well. On this page we detect the OS and then use the app's URL scheme to sent the user back to the app. In order to prevent a new instance of the Android being opened as an activity inside the browser, we needed to set its launchMode to singleTop. This did mean the app practically re-launches so we can't re-use the webview like we do on iOS. Instead, we pass some stuff using the query string of the URL scheme so we can restore the app pretty much how the user left it. I know it sounds like a complex process, but if you give it a try I think you'll see for the user it is actually quite smooth.
For this last update I did the app and my brother did the back-end. The initial app took about 5 months to complete. This update took just a few days of coding but a month from start to finish because of all the testing.
What resources did you use to learn and develop with Appcelerator?
Well, as I said this originally was my first Appcelerator app, so really I used the app itself to learn Appcelerator. I just used the docs, watched all the videos and looked at open source examples.
Do you have plans for updates to MrMovie or future Appcelerator apps? Care to share some details?
There are plans for a big update which should make searching and browsing movies easier. Everything is really focussed around your location now and while of course that makes sense for a mobile app, you might also just want to watch some nice trailers right?
Any additional thoughts or notes on Appcelerator development?
What makes a user experience or design beautiful?
Stripping stuff always helps. And I really hope that we need less time getting over the idea that your app is just a copy of your website then we needed to learn a website should not be a digital version of your folder. You really need to think over your product from scratch and ask yourself what really adds value for your users in the context of that mobile app. The best apps don't try to do everything, but just do the stuff you need very well.
What is it about the mobile development community that makes them powerful agents for change?
It has changed us for both better and worse. It has hugely improved freedom of speech, but also enabled companies and governments to spy on us like never before. It allowed us to generate endless amounts of data, but also to filter and personalize. There are times when you are confronted with mainly downsides, but also times when we celebrate the many upsides. Mobile is powerful, and it's up to us all what we will do with it.
The same stuff that scares us all – the growing amount of data that is collected about us – is also what excites me most. In some years from now we'll have a continuous stream of data about ourselves, our lives and the contexts we live in. Different personal communication devices as well as smart devices all around us will use that data, together with other people's big data and open data, to act on behalf and communicate with us when needed. That's powerful stuff.
The other thing I think about a lot is what it will take to liberate data. Data needs to become a good we can trade-in, so that just like Facebook bought the data of all 435M WhatsApp users, I or a company like Telegram can also buyout just my data alone. We already pay with our data, but there's little ways to trade in it. This takes standardization and some kind of data marketplace. This is complex, but we do need this to happen. When I now decide to just leave WhatsApp, the data they have of me is worthless anyway. It's in both of our interest to liberate it.
I've thanked Fokke many times for TiCons& GiIT.io. He has provided a great contribution to the Ti community.
Fokke, thanks for sharing your experience with us. And congrats on the Mr. Movie app!


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