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Pakistan Needs a Full Time Foreign Minister
By Saeed Qureshi
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has two advisers to deal with the foreign affairs but not a full time foreign minister. The portfolio of this prestigious and delicate office is kept by the prime minister himself. And patently he is not deft in such a sensitive domain as dealing with Pakistan's external affairs. For that, one has to be knowledgeable and eloquent. Although he is an excellent businessman but truthfully he lacks both these traits.
There are two glaring flaws in the demeanor of honorable Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that make him inept for such a gubernatorial undertaking. What we have perceived from his postures and meetings is that he seldom speaks but listens most of the time.
First, genetically, he is not fluent or communicative particularly in English language that is the linga-Franca and is indispensable in international arenas. We have seen Mian Sahib sitting like a lame duck in his meeting with American president Barrack Obama. He had a sheet of paper in his hand caught from one corner and simply listening to a highly articulate president Obama.
If someone lacks the ability to effectively and forcefully communicate one's mind and point of view then how other countries would be convinced of the veracity or import of our perceptions, policies, needs and goals. Ironically on top of this, he had appointed spent-up dummies as his assistants and advisers to spearhead the bulwark of the foreign office.
I have no personal rapport nor any grudge with these two guys but let me express myself candidly that they are good for nothing as they are simply mouthpieces of the prime minister and convey what he has in his mind. Or else the prime minister spews out what they brief him then it makes the whole exercise of running foreign office as frivolously ludicrous.
Pakistan does not need the retired government servants to run the foreign office nor should this delicate office be dealt with by the prime minister himself. It is a full time job that needs acumen, intelligence, a vast knowledge and highly persuasive and eloquent tongue to put one views across with emphasis.
These gentlemen looking like proxies for a genuine foreign minister may not be befitting match and counterparts to the international diplomats and seasoned politicians. The basic and potent question that intrigues the mind is why the prime minister is not having a full time, competent, energetic and an elected member of assembly or Senate as the foreign minister.
My hunch is that he fears a kind of opposition or contradiction from a politically elected person as was the case between Asif Zardari as the president and Shah Mahmood Qureshi as the foreign minister.
The bane of contention was Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis on January 27, 2011 in broad day light. Shah Sahib turned down the request of Zardari Sahib to accord diplomatic indemnity to the heinous culprit.
Unlike the dummy or caretaker advisers, Pakistan must have a full-time foreign minister who ought to be shrewd, persuasive and an expert in foreign affairs. Between these two guys there could be a personality clash on policy matters and also on what to convey to the prime minister and who should convey.
If at all there should be an adviser (Sartaj Aziz) or special assistant (Tariq Fatemi), there should be only one and not two with divergent backgrounds. If there is a conflict of opinion between these highly senior people then it can negatively impinge upon Pakistan's relations with both friendly and not unfriendly countries.
The foreign office must have also been flabbergasted and rather averse to having two gentlemen hovering on their heads who may not be having an insight into the intricacies of bilateral relations between Pakistan and the rest of the world. It is not known who goes through of files sent from the foreign office to the prime minister secretariat.
Understandably the prime minster has neither time nor stamina and even inclination to read all those files and issue orders as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto used to do( while working myself in the foreign office I have seen the comments of prime ZAB almost on each file).
But ZAB was a wizard as far as the foreign affairs were concerned. No one can beat him in that domain. But presently at least Pakistan can have a full time person with a title of foreign minister who is aware of the art of diplomacy and the vision to run the External Affairs with confidence, authority and foresight.
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A Giant Leap for Pak-China Friendship
The People's Republic of China and Pakistan's long lasting friendship is unique and a laudable model between a small and a giant neighbor. Yet it is premised on mutual respect and equality. That inimitable friendship has always stood the test of time.
It has taken a giant leap with the two days historic visit (April 20-21) of the Chinese president Xi Jinping to Pakistan. This monumental visit that was postponed earlier has culminated into a phenomenal and far-reaching outcome for the two traditional friends as well as neighbors.
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would further cement and strengthen the existing bonds of unalloyed cooperation and mutuality of interests between the two neighbors. It would unfold an era of unprecedented prosperity and economic boom in Pakistan otherwise a poor country with obsolete and inadequate infrastructure.
The basic understanding on these projects was reached during the visit of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to China in July 2013 when eight watershed agreements were inked between the two countries. The CPEC was central to those agreements. The Prime Minister then said that "his vision was to extend motorways and communication links not only to Kabul but also to Central Asia and South Asian region".
The sworn opponents and defiant detractors of Mian Nawaz Sharif and his government should have the magnanimity to felicitate him for the dazzling achievements accruing from Chinese Prime minister Xi Jinping's visit. It is indeed one of those spectacular visits between the two states that we must relish and be proud of and which has laid down the robust foundations of renewed friendship and economic collaboration.
Lt us not obviate the stark fact that China is an emerging super power and not in distant future is going to be a counterpart of the United States thus far a sole super power. This future spectacle is betokened from Chinese galloping economic miracle and by the glaring fact that it is a lender to the United States that has been dominating the international arena economically and militarily since World War II.
During the Chinese Prime minister's visit, both the countries signed 51 agreements that cover all facets of speedy development in Pakistan. China has pledged $ 46 billion to modernize the primitive and ramshackle infrastructure of Pakistan. The Corridor package envisages $34 billion investment in energy sector and around $11 billion in infrastructure sector and communication.
On both sides of this Corridor, the industrial and economic zones would be created that in return would create countless jobs in Pakistan besides facilitating its entry into the fold of advanced industrialized nations with modern infrastructure of Roads and highways. Now these projects would be primarily built by Chinese engineers and Pakistani counterparts would be assisting in that huge venture. The Karakorum Highway connecting Pakistan and China would be further widened while the rail network between Karachi and Peshawar will be upgraded.
All the projects are scheduled to be completed by 2017 which is barely two years far away. The Chinese engineers and technicians have the reputation of completing the projects well within the prescribed time frame. With the projects to be completed by workforce of both China and Pakistan, the quality of work, accountability and meeting of the deadlines would be ensured.
Emphasizing the significance of the Gawadar project, the Minister of Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said in a press briefing that "The Gawadar Port Project is the center-piece of Pak-China strategic partnership with its strategic location and potential for becoming the future economic and energy hub".
The Gawadar Port (presently being operated by China) like other projects would be completed and modernized by 2017 at a cost of 622 million dollars. The coal, wind, solar and hydro energy projects would be launched at a cost $15.5 billion and thus 10,400 megawatts of electricity would be added to the national grid of Pakistan.
The CPEC would create some 3000 kilometer long stretch of roads, railway and pipelines and would connect Chinese Sinkiang province with Gawadar Port. A fiber optic cable would be laid between Sinkiang province and Pakistan's cities of Rawalpindi/ Islamabad. By 2017 a six lane motorway between Karachi and Lahore would be completed by the Chinese companies. Besides, public transportation would be upgraded in six major cities of Pakistan.
Thus far, this is the largest investment ever made by Peoples Republic of China in a foreign country. The overriding motivation for such an unprecedented financial commitment is driven by the Geo-strategic location of Pakistan and also by the fact that modernizing of Pakistan's infrastructure would be hugely beneficial also for China and would bring windfall economic benefits to her.
At present 60 percent petroleum for China is exported from the Persian Gulf to the Chinese port of Shanghai traversing a sea voyage of some 16000 Kilometers and the time period of several months. The ships carrying oil are always exposed to the vulnerability of attacks from pirates, inclement weather and similar unforeseen hurdles.
With the creation of the economic Corridor not only that the transportation of oil and other merchandise for China from Gawadar port would be entirely safe but would reach destinations within days with unstinted supply round the year.
With The gigantic network of infrastructure particularly the development of Gawadar and Highways, Pakistan's security and territorial integrity would be guaranteed. In case of an external aggression against Pakistan, China would protect the built up assets and the network to ensure the uninterrupted supply linkage between Gawadar and China.
Moreover the network would be extremely useful for both Pakistan and China to reach the Central Asian markets. Also in return the Central Asian countries and caucuses could use those facilities to reach the Indian Ocean and beyond.
Finally let me compare the CPEC with the Marshall Plan through which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the termination of the World War II.
That timely and mammoth aid helped the devastated European states particularly Germany to rebuild their destroyed cities, Industries and road network. Look at the astounding progress and prosperity and socio- political stability ever since in Europe. Hopefully the fruition of CPEC would enable Pakistan to follow in the footsteps of Europe. Pakistan will be richer and stronger.
The Muhajirs, the MQM and NA-246
For how long the immigrants from India,who opted to live in the newly Muslim state of Pakistan in August 1947, keep branding themselves as the refugees or Muhajirs. Now they are citizens of Pakistan and treat themselves as such. As a matter of fact no one compelled them in 1947 to immigrate to Pakistan. They could live in India like other 200 million Muslims are living.
It was their voluntary decision to move to Pakistan.
If they feel that they have been maltreated since 1947 then this argument is spurious as besides them a huge chunk of Pakistanis are living in more miserable conditions than the Muhajir community settled mostly in Karachi; the largest metropolis of Pakistan.
While MQM is a highly organized entity with enormous political clout and matchless cohesion, the downtrodden population in Pakistan neither has resources nor any party or platform to voice their grievances and abysmal conditions under which they lead their lives.
The grinding poverty, the degrading living environment, the yoke of serfdom for millions of farm labor families tied around their necks from generation to generation in a feudalistic society is abhorrent. It is a sordid testimony to the misery of a vast section of society living on the soil of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The majority of the people in villages and in eye sore city slums look like pigeons and parrots stuffed in cages. Most of the Pakistanis toil throughout their lives to survive and sustain on barest minimum foodstuff. The divide between rich and poor is as wide as the Pacific Ocean and no conscious policies have been mounted by any government since 1947 to narrow this gap.
The feudal, the plutocrats, the wealthy the bureaucrats, the top notches in business and manufacturing, the army big wigs both in service and retired lead such a glamorous life that eclipses the living of their counterparts even in posh and affluent societies.
If MQM has to wage a struggle and launch a mission for the poor and deprived classes of Pakistan then they will have to come out of the shell of MQM that in fact highlights their aloofness from the miseries of the rest of the scum of the earth. If they have to raise their voice for equal rights of all the people then no line should be drawn between the Muhajirs and non-Muhajirs, the immigrants and non-immigrants.
The MQM has remained confined to Karachi since its formation. The common impression about its functioning is that it is operating in Karachi more by coercion and fear and by playing the ethnic card focused on Muhajirs. It has been blamed, more often than not, for indulging in extortion, arm twisting, violence, grabbing of lands both of the state and the people.
Its image, unfortunately is, that for its political and economic survival and to keep Karachi under its tutelage, it has let loose a reign of perpetual terror and harassment not only against its own flock but the entire population of Karachi. It has been viewed as a mafia that survives on strong-arm tactics carried out through its militant and spying wings closely watching who was doing what.
Many assassinations both of high profile and of commoners are suspected to be the work of MQM's death squads for quelling the resistance and to silence opposition within the fold of MQM and out of it.
We have been hearing that the MQM adherents and the Muhajir families have stern and tacit instructions to attend the rallies of Altaf Hussain addressed from the safe confines of London. Those who may not come to such unusually huge gatherings for pressing reasons are harassed, probed and punished in various manners.
The semblance of cohesion and compulsion of attendance is so indispensable for the MQM community that they can sacrifice their personal pressing priorities and sit on the bare grounds for hours listening to Altaf Hussain's lengthy and occasionally funny and boring discourses.
The MQM entity is in dire need of being liberated and released from the coercion and strict regimentation that they have been subjected to for decades now. To thrust upon them to demonstrate ethnicity-based phony and forced solidarity is like a balloon which might burst at a certain point of time and result into a disastrous infighting with MQM echelons.
This murky and brutal image of MQM and its oppressive ascendancy and obsessive sway on the inhabitants of Karachi looks like assassins of yester years when they held the succeeding Muslim dynasties hostage to their dictates for several centuries to be ultimately decimated by Mongols under the command Hilaku Khan. In the case of MQM there are no invaders coming from distant shores but a tussle could erupt within the party ranks destroying its monolithic structure.
The rangers are doing a commendable job by releasing Karachi from the unremitting spell of lawlessness, target killings, kidnappings and mayhem of multifarious bounty hunters for money and for personal, clannish and political and other ferocious vendettas.
If MQM is not involved in all those nefarious activities then it ought to welcome the ongoing para military campaign to cleanse Karachi of thugs and bandits in order to bring peace to that city bedeviled for so long with incessant lawlessness.
The election contest in NA constituency 246 should not be treated as the exclusive preserve of MQM. The other contestants should not be resisted and barred from setting foot here. It should not be projected as no- go- area. The early furor and outrage demonstrated by MQM rank and file was certainly unwarranted and was aimed at facilitating a walk over by MQM. But in that case the victory of MQM would have always remained questionable.
The MQM, by all indications, would win this seat. But now when it has allowed PTI and JI to hold public meetings and rallies, its victory would look credible and well-earned. The conciliatory statements of Altaf Hussain welcoming the rival parties are well in time and demonstration of a positive outlook that if continued would foster political and social goodwill among the divergent political forces benefiting the MQM. This trend would help washing off its image of being a party stifling political dissent through show of force.
Altaf Hussain himself is locked in the eye of storm due to high profile criminal cases pending against him in the British courts. Back home in Pakistan there is also a plethora of similar cases registered against him. If he decides to return to Pakistan, he may remain ill at ease. His health is deteriorating too. His vigor and physical fitness seems to be dissipating.
It is time that once he tenders his resignation it should be the final call and he should not take it back. This exercise has been repeated many times and appears to be mere facade. He should prevail upon his followers and party workers to emphasize that it was high time for the change of the praetorian. He can still be a patron chief in an advisory position but should say goodbye to active politics.
This is How Urdu Ghar is Promoting Urdu Language!
An Urdu Mushaira was recently held under the auspices of the "Urdu Ghar" being run and founded for many years by Dr. Amer Suleman. The Mushaira (poetic symposium) was in honor of a famous poetess from California Rehana Qamar intimately known to such poetic stalwarts as Nadir Durrani, Qazi Masood and other senior poets from the DFW.
A strange and rather inexplicable condition was imposed on the participating local poets through a pre-scrutiny process. Out of a whole lot of local poets only five were selected for the unique honor of presenting their poetic genius on the evening of March 27.
This pre-screening or scrutiny of the poets had been unheard of for several decades I have been teaching literature and poetry and presenting my humble verses and ghazals (odes) in countless Mushairas in Pakistan. It is done in selection jobs and assignments but not in declamation of poetry verses or declamation contests.
What was the iron-clad criterion before those individuals who chose some poets and dropped the others? What personal credentials they had to judge if a poet is good or not good or whether he or she has a criminal record or is the enemy of Urdu and lover of Punjabi or Hindi? Or else the selectors were nincompoops and biased.
The pre-screening of poets itself reflects a despicable mindset and cuts across the very perception, doctrine and mission of the Urdu Ghar. If you start discriminating between the poets for any reason and on any grounds, it smacks of personal likes and dislikes and settling scores against the rivals. Or else these authorities or individuals resorting to a tradition of vetting are doing disservice to the very cause of Urdu Ghar (House of Urdu language) it was founded for.
Should we believe that those poets barred from presenting their reflections were buffoons or fools or crazy or enemies of public peace not to be allowed to enter the arena where this "rare and unique Mushaira" was being convened?
Dr. Amer Suleman sent me a message of invitation from for participation in the Mushaira. In response I asked if I was going to read my poetry and he confirmed by writing back the word "YES". But another message from him landed later in my cell phone directed me to get in touch with Mr. Rashid Dara who was once a president of the PSNT. Rashid Dara told me point blank that I was going to be in the Mushaira as an audience but was not allowed to read.
When requested to explain further he said that my name was not there in the list he received from the Urdu Ghar. Now I am confused that how come Rashid Dara being a technical and computer wizard was assigned the unpleasant task of telling the poets whether they were going to be called to the podium or not.
I have a straight and simple question from the founder of Urdu Ghar, "Why have you initiated this sordid tradition of pick and choose policy from among the poets to recite or not their compositions"? And what your honored guest might have thought that we are living behind the red curtain of the communism and there was a ban on our freedom of expression and that there was a disgusting rule being applied to send out a message that Urdu Ghar is not for everyone no matter how talented and gifted poet one was.
What message you have conveyed to your illustrious and famed guest poetess that here we are living in a closed society and only those can be on the stage whom we want to be. Isn't the negation of the mission you stand for and isn't it stinking?
And after hurting me with the diabolic disgrace you have the audacity of inviting me to the lunch at your residence. How could I face your distinguished guest who would think here is a man who was debarred from coming to the stage and despite that disgrace here he is for filling his stomach with the food of a person who cares shit for his poetic reputation and glowing literary background? It was like rubbing salt on the wounds.
So now I believe and it is my considered opinion that your, Urdu Ghar" is a hoax and a fake institution that though my be promoting Urdu but was influenced by petty considerations like race and personal preferences of some of your members of the executive body. I also guess that the old actors are back and thus this is the first demonstration of their conspiratorial mentality they have once again displayed.
You personally are a very decent and laudable person. May God save you from the sleazy characters around you who would get this prestigious house closed by their dirty designs. No doubt Urdu Ghar has been serving the noble cause of promotion of our national language? May God have mercy on you Dr. Suleman as because of your sincerity, simplicity and even innocence you are carried away by the dictations of others and do not have a faith in your personal opinion in making decisions. Amen!
Saeed Qureshi
Columnist/Analyst/ Former Diplomat. After obtaining my master's degrees in Urdu and English literature from Punjab University, I started my career by teaching in a college. Thereafter, I had a stint in the diplomatic service of Pakistan. Finally I landed in journalism, an occupation that I am wedded to for over 20 years now. I am a strong believer in a civil society and staunch opponent of exploitation in all forms.


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EVGA Releases a Video Card with Co-Op, Physics-Only GPU
News 11/3/2009 at 1:02 PM by Nick Puleo 6
While EVGA has had a CO-OP line of video cards for a while now, their latest edition to the dual GPU lineup is something a bit unique. Instead of allowing SLI on a single card like most of the other co-op cards, the GTX 275 CO-OP uses a GTX 275 GPU for graphics and a GTS 250 GPU for PhysX support. PhysX allows the GPU to do advance physics processing and effects.
The advantage of this in this case, is it allows EVGA to make a cheaper card with PhysX support, and not force people to get a much more expensive full dual GPU card. Still at $350 it's no small chunk of change. I vote they bundle in a solid co-op game with PhysX support like Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.

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The Lake Tomahawk Duplicate Bridge Group played at the Lakeview Center on Lake Tomahawk in Black Mountain on Aug. 21. Coming in first was the team of David Hirsch and Roger Fenna while Bill Abramson and Barbara Lilenfeld came in second. Larry Pearlman and Marti Saltzman finished third. The game is free every Tuesday night. Those interested in joining can email Ron Gibson at rongibson1@yahoo.com for information.
This is the last week to see Vietnam: Some of Its People by photographer Herb Way on display in the Upper Gallery at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. The show has drawn a diverse collection of viewers throughout its run, which ends Aug. 31. About 20 large format images will be on display which capture contemporary Vietnam through Way's lens. The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is located at 225 W. State Street. The Upper Gallery is free to the public and open Monday through Friday 10 – 5pm. For more information call 828.669.0930 or visit BlackMountainArts.org.
The Black Mountain Yacht Club will host the Region 3 Seawind Championship at Lake Tomahawk on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8 and 9. Skippers from eight states are invited to attend this regatta, with the reigning national and regional champion already commited to attend. The public is invited to come out and cheer on our local skippers as they take on some of the best skippers in the country.
Do your children like to garden? Come join us and bring your kids to Gardening with Children event held at Black Mountain Library at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8. Master Gardeners will be having free hands-on gardening activities for kids. Come learn something new with them. All kids are welcome, activities focus on age ranges from 5 to 12. This event will be an hour long and held in the Education Room. It's sponsored by Black Mountain Blooms Seed Lending Library. Questions, email blackmountainblooms@gmail.com. Come, grow and learn.
Black Mountain Presbyterian Church is looking for singers to participate in One Day One Choir, a Community Sing for Peace, at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21.
A global peace initiative which will use the harmonious power of singing together to unite people around the world for peace. Participate in singing songs for peace and listen to choral music offered as a witness for peace.
The public is invited to a fundraiser for the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry's, Hope for Tomorrow project, in memory of Pam Brown. Some of Pam's friends are hosting this fundraiser to remember their sweet friend who loved this community, people, and the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry.
Pam graduated from Owen High in 1974 and after graduating from Lenoir-Rhyne and Appalachian State, began her teaching career. She taught at Valley Springs Middle School for almost three decades before retiring. Upon retirement, she began working at Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry where she loved helping those in need. She loved serving others.
Pam also loved New York City where she went on several trips with friends, planning every detail. This fundraiser event consists of a NYC themed "Little Italy" dinner and a silent auction. It will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 5 p.m. at First Baptist Swannanoa. Suggested dinner donations are $20 for adults and $10 for children.
Reservations are required and must be made by Friday, Sept. 14. Visit the website, hopeforsv.com to make reservations or donations and for more information.
The Broad River Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department will host its annual craft and bake sale from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 44 Broad River VFD Rd., Black Mountain. To reserve a $10 table for selling crafts, please call Jeannette at (828) 329-3531 or Becky at (828) 388-0360.


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November 1, 1941 – Dawid Rubinowicz
The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz
Dawid Rubinowicz was 13 years old when he began keeping his diary. Through his writing, Dawid documented what life was like for Jewish people in Poland under Nazi rule. One thing that becomes clear from his diary entries over time is that conditions were getting progressively worse. In the beginning of the German occupation, some people thought it might be possible to go on with normal life. However, It quickly became obvious the Nazis were determined to impose ever-increasing restrictions on Jews that would eventually be impossible to overcome. Dawid wrote about confiscation of property and people being taken for forced labor. He also wrote about families losing their livelihoods and children no longer being allowed to go to school. One of the worst limitations came when Jews were required to move into a restricted area, known as the "Jewish Quarter."
THE "JEWISH QUARTER"
The Jewish Quarter, also known as the ghetto, was a place of deprivation and suffering from its beginning. The restrictions that Jews had already suffered only multiplied now that they were concentrated together. People often needed to search outside the ghetto in order to get enough food to survive. On November 1, 1941, Dawid wrote about the devastating end to that possibility. "Today notices were put up in Kielce that anyone who goes into and out of the 'Jewish Quarter' will receive the death penalty. Up till now people could go into and out of the quarter. This news made me very sad, and not only myself but every Israelite who heard it. These notices were put up not only in Kielce but also in all towns under the 'General Government' (that's the name of the area that used to be Poland.)"
It was a bitter blow for Jews to be threatened with death for simply leaving the ghetto. It would be impossible for all of the ghetto residents to survive using only the resources available in that small, restricted area. Of course, the Jewish people of Poland were marked by the Nazis for an even worse fate, though many did not know it yet. Less than one year later, the Jewish people of Dawid's area were sent to the death camp of Treblinka and murdered.
You may read excerpts from Dawid's diary in Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust by Alexandra Zapruder.
Learn more about the fate of the Jews of the Kielce region.


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This is the perfect location to unwind and leave all the hustle and bustle behind. The pace is very relaxed and the people are friendly.
We were very well taken care of during our stay. The room was great, large and comfortable. The owners were friendly and considerate. The breakfast was delicious and plentiful. Amazing stay. We will return.
Great location to tour the area, everything is within walking distance.
The owners were very friendly and knowledgeable. We added a few things to our travels under their directions. Only my 2nd B&B and I plan on more. Fun meeting and visiting with the other guests.
Our breakfasts are worth mentioning! We also have vegan and gluten free options such as pear apple baked oatmeal.
Each morning you awaken to the aroma of freshly brewed coffee.
Joining the other guests in the bright, cheerful breakfast room, you are treated to something home baked fresh from the oven. Sample Cinnamon Rolls, Blueberry Lemon Muffins, Jam Filled Buns or some other delicious treat.
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Adult, child ejected in crash on I-264 in Chesapeake
by: Kevin Green
Posted: Apr 16, 2018 / 09:47 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2018 / 01:15 PM EDT
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — An adult and a child were seriously injured in a crash Monday morning on Interstate 264 in Chesapeake.
Virginia State Police spokeswoman Sgt. Michelle Anaya said the crash happened on I-264 West near Greenwood Drive — this is at the Interstate 64 interchange in the Bowers Hill section.
Anaya said someone driving an Isuzu Rodeo overcorrected after going off the road, causing the vehicle to overturn several times and hit a guardrail.
The crash blocked all westbound lanes in the area for several hours during the morning commute. According to VDOT, the crash scene was cleared up around 10 a.m.
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Airline worker says she was told to keep bombing attempt quiet
June 14, 2002 — 10.00am
The American Airlines dispatcher who was monitoring a transatlantic flight when the captain reported that a passenger, Richard Reid, had a shoe bomb said that her supervisor tried to stop her notifying the authorities.
In a complaint filed with the Federal Aviation Administration, the dispatcher, Julie Robichaux, said her supervisor told her to "hold off informing the authorities because the flight would be remotely parked, and `it would be forever before we could get the plane out of there'."
"I strongly believed that this would be inappropriate," she wrote in her complaint. "As such, I did not comply with his instructions."
After a clash with management about how to handle security information, the airline had taken preliminary steps to sack her, she said.
She is seeking whistleblower status to protect her from "further discrimination". The agency said it was investigating her complaint.
American Airlines said the initial report from the aircraft was of an unruly passenger, and a supervisor might have made such a comment at that point.
A tape of air-to-ground communications would have clarified the situation but it was mistakenly erased after the airline's standard 31-day holding period, it said.
Under the FAA's rules, aircraft in flight are followed by a dispatcher, an aviation professional licensed by the agency, who provides weather updates and handles problems.
Reid faces charges of attempted murder, attempted homicide and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for allegedly trying to blow up flight 63 from Paris to Miami with bombs in his shoes last December.
After he was overpowered by flight attendants and passengers, doctors on board gave him three drug injections to sedate him.
This week a doctor testified that side-effects of one of the drugs - diazepam, commonly known as Valium - may have caused Reid to forget his legal right to remain silent after he was arrested. Dr Mark Dershwitz, an expert on anaesthetics, said this raised doubts about the validity of Reid's alleged confession.
His defence lawyer, Owen Walker, is trying to keep incriminating statements Reid allegedly made to FBI agents after his arrest from being used as evidence at his trial, which is due to start in November.
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I have nothing against Interface Builder per se, but as I've said before when developing with Visual Studio I shun the design surface (if you've used the Xaml preview feature prior to 2010 you'll understand why). I also think you get a better understanding of your environment (and a greater ability to customize your UI) if you can create it in code.
Autocomplete/Intellisense™ - the easiest and most obvious thing to try is reading through the properties and methods available to you via MonoDevelop. I got the UITabBarController (mostly) working this way.
Interface Builder - look closely at the IB Inspector windows to get some ideas about the properties exposed.
MonoTouch docs - last but not least, the documentation will help you. Bookmark it now.
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Craig, I see that I need to set controller.NavigationBar.BarStyle to UIBarStyle.Default to make the nav bar gray, but what do I have to set so the UITabBar itself is the default gray?
Mike, I'm not sure UITabBar has a grey version -- I've only ever seen it in black.
Thanks for posting these excellent examples, it's really helping me get started with MonoTouch.
I've added a ViewController class file and I want to create a search form on it. I can add controls on it such as a UILabel, but I want to format the layout. What's the best way of doing this with the UIKit? Should I use UITableView with UITableViewCells to hold each row of the form?
As you've stated, the most 'basic' way to build a form is just to use a UIView as a Canvas and start dragging controls on -- but then you do have a lot of formatting to make it "look nice" (adhering to the UI guidelines). So unless you've got a really complex/specific/non-standard layout in mind, the UITableView is a nice alternative.
See Apple's doco on Table View Cells (specifically, scroll down to the The Technique for Static Row Content section). That's one way to lay-out a form, and you'll see it a LOT in the built-in applications: the Contacts form is a good example. You don't have to draw all the cells in IB either, you can create them in code.
Before you go down that route I would strongly recommend you also give Miguel's Dialog project (example) a try for a very neat, MonoTouch/C# specific way to construct forms (and inputs). I'm not sure how 'style-able/customizable' the cells are in Miguel's solution (apologies Miguel - I haven't played with it enough yet!) but it would definitely simplify the creation of the majority of forms.
Finally - I'll just throw this in - you've mentioned a 'search form', so is there any reason why you can't express it with a single Search Bar? iPhone users are most used to seeing search in that format (from Maps and Mail to the core OS Search feature). I realise you might have 'advanced options' or something in mind -- but simplicity is the key to successful iPhone UIs so it's worth considering.


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Q: UITextView with border and floating placeholder using MDCMultilineTextField Im trying to achieve as in these images below

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here is my code
    @IBOutlet weak var commentTxtField: MDCMultilineTextField!  // Connected to storyboard

commentTxtField.textView?.delegate = self
        commentTxtField.textView?.frame = CGRect(x: (commentTxtField.textView?.frame.origin.x)!, y: (commentTxtField.textView?.frame.origin.y)!, width: (commentTxtField.textView?.frame.width)!, height: CGFloat(GenUtils.shared.getHeightForPercent(percent: 11.99)))
        commentTxtField.expandsOnOverflow = false
        commentTextFieldController = MDCTextInputControllerOutlinedTextArea(textInput: commentTxtField)
        commentTextFieldController?.placeholderText = "Comment"

        commentTextFieldController?.isFloatingEnabled = true
        commentTextFieldController!.characterCountMax = UInt(maxCharactersCount)
        commentTextFieldController?.characterCountViewMode = UITextField.ViewMode.never
        commentTextFieldController?.activeColor = UIColor.white.withAlphaComponent(0.6)
        commentTextFieldController?.normalColor = UIColor.white.withAlphaComponent(0.2)
        //        emailTextFieldController?.borderFillColor = UIColor.white
        commentTextFieldController?.floatingPlaceholderActiveColor = UIColor(red: 249/255, green: 249/255, blue: 249/255, alpha: 0.54)
        commentTextFieldController?.inlinePlaceholderColor = UIColor.white
        commentTextFieldController?.floatingPlaceholderNormalColor = UIColor(red: 249/255, green: 249/255, blue: 249/255, alpha: 0.54)
        commentTxtField.textColor = UIColor.white
        commentTextFieldController?.inlinePlaceholderFont = UIFont(name:"Avenir-Medium",size:16)

tried to set the textviewframe, but not reflecting on screen. And also not able to get floating placeholder on border line align.  What am i missing?

A: use **MDCTextField** as below:

class SomeVC: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {

    var textFieldControllerFloating = MDCTextInputControllerUnderline()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        let textFieldFloating = MDCTextField()
        self.view.addSubview(textFieldFloating)
        //place textfield where you want
        textFieldFloating.placeholder = "Some cool animating placeholder"
        textFieldFloating.delegate = self
        // This will animate the textfield's place holder
        textFieldControllerFloating = MDCTextInputControllerUnderline(textInput: textFieldFloating)
    }
}

also if you want an outlined textfield you to use "Outlined" text field
https://material.io/develop/ios/components/textfields/

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Will Celtics Continue Surge To NBA Finals?
The Boston Celtics put forward a fine performance to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in game two of the Eastern Conference Finals.
The Cavs responded from their loss in game one with a fine effort in the opening quarter. LeBron James led a counterpunch as the visitors took an early lead in the contest.
He scored 21 points in the first 12 minutes of the game and Tyronn Lue's men held a healthy advantage heading into the second half at the TD Garden.
However, the Celtics rallied through Terry Rozier, who was the integral part in their surge in the third. Boston scored 36 points to rock the Cavs before taking the lead.
From that point onwards Brad Stevens' side were in complete control of the game and were able to pull their men towards the end of proceedings.
Boston now hold a two-lead advantage in the series, putting them in a dominant position to reach the NBA Finals for the first time since 2010.
LeBron has not trailed by a two-game deficit in the Eastern Conference Finals since eight years ago when he and his Cleveland team-mates lost to the Celtics.
The 33-year-old's 42-point performance was not enough to get his team on the board, leaving them with plenty of work ahead of them at the Quicken Loans Arena.
The Celtics displayed their resilience once again to defeat the Cavaliers to take a commanding lead in the Eastern Conference Finals. Stevens' men have had to battle adversity throughout the campaign after losing Gordon Hayward in their opener and then again as Kyrie Irving was struck down just before the post-season.
However, Stevens has managed to keep his team on the level and playing outstanding basketball that has the club on the verge of the NBA Finals. Boston were expecting a response from LeBron and he proved them right with a destructive opening quarter. However, the Celtics took the blow and were only trailing by five points. They gradually grew into the game before Rozier was able to provide the spark that ignited their charge in the second half.
Rozier has typified the Celtics' season. He had underwhelmed after being drafted in the first round in 2015, but has come to the fore to replace Irving. His pace and skill with the ball have been a huge asset the club, while his shooting from deep has improved greatly. Rozier's performance allowed Jayson Tatum to take a back seat after his starring role in the opener. Al Horford and Jaylen Brown were their consistent selves, which has seen Boston play excellent complementary basketball.
Marcus Smart was equally impressive. His abrasive style of play is perfect for the post-season and he proved that he was not afraid of mixing it up with the power of LeBron. Smart is arguably the best defender left in the post-season and will have his sights set on another dominant outing. The Celtics struggled on the road against the Milwaukee Bucks, but were solid against the Philadelphia. Stealing a game from the Cavs on the road should put them on the path to the NBA Finals.
LeBron scored 42 points and even that was not enough to get the Cavaliers on the board in the series. He made 16 of his 29 shots from the field, including five of his 11 three-point attempts. The 33-year-old's fast start should have been a spark for his team to rally around. However, the support was not forthcoming. Only Kevin Love and Kyle Korver broke double figures, with the latter providing a decent foil for LeBron, although he struggled in his defensive duties.
Love has come the fore in the series and notched 22 points, displaying solid accuracy from the field. He has offered resistance to the Celtics on the court and held up defensively. However, the effort between him and LeBron alone is not enough, with further support needed from elsewhere. JR Smith was on song in the Conference Semi-Finals as the Cavaliers eased past the Toronto Raptors. However, his shooting from the perimeter has been putrid against the Celtics. In game two he failed to record a point, missing with all his seven attempts from the field, including four three-pointers. He also made the play that allowed Boston to see out the victory with ease by blatantly shoving Horford on an alley-oop.
He needs to find his rhythm at home otherwise Cleveland will be surely out of contention. George Hill and Jeff Green also had significant time on the court and failed to produce. The Cavaliers have to start hitting their shots from distance and competing to deny Boston free attempts at the rim. There appears to be an effort issue, which could be down the age of the side and the youthful nature of Boston. It remains to be seen whether Lue's men are capable of raising their game at home to keep their series alive.
The Celtics are in command of the series and Cleveland have to bounce back to stand a chance of reaching the Finals for the fourth year on the bounce. LeBron put forward an excellent effort with a 42-point performance, but now he needs his team-mates to provide the support. Boston have been impressive on defense throughout the season and will not relent. It's a question of how much Cleveland are willing to battle to get on the board.
The shooting will have to improve from the perimeter, with the onus on Smith, Hill and George all needing to reach double figures at the least. LeBron is not going to be able to carry the team as the series progresses as he puts greater exertion out on the court. The Celtics have youth on their side and a decent rotation to keep their key men fresh. With the NBA Finals in sight, Boston could put themselves on the brink with the Quicken Loans Arena. Back the Celtics for the win at 47/20 3.35 +235 2.35 2.35 -0.43 on BetOnline, while take the Celtics to cover the +5.5 spread at odds of 15/14 2.07 +107 1.07 1.07 -0.93 with 888Sport.
Tips Summary
Boston Celtics To Beat Cleveland Cavaliers Game Three
Saturday 19th May 2018 20:30 ET (Sunday 20th May 2018 01:30 BST)
Odds: 47/20 3.35 +235 2.35 2.35 -0.43
Boston Celtics To Cover +5.5 Spread
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Q: OpenCV BOW - too high histogram values I'm trying to implement BOW with OpenCV library in C++. I have extracted keypoints of images with SIFT method like this (for each image):
featureDetector->detect(image, keypoints);
descriptorExtractor->compute(image, keypoints, descriptors);
bowTrainer.add(descriptors);

then vocabulary is trained with bowTrainer.cluster() and stored into BOWImgDescriptorExtractor bowDE. After I've stored vocabulary a wanted to see at least one diagram for some of the images. This is implemented like this
featureDetector->detect(image, keypoints);
bowDE->compute(image, keypoints, histogram);
for (int i = 0; i < histogram.cols; i++)
    cout << histogram.at<unsigned>(0, i) << ",";

And the result has 1 row with k columns (k from k-means) values either 0 or sth around 980000000 I don't think this is correct, please tell me what am I doing wrong. This looks very bad when I want to show diagram.

A: Almost forgot... Solution was pretty simple. Line:
cout << histogram.at<unsigned>(0, i) << ",";

had to be changed to
cout << histogram.at<float>(0, i) << ",";

because generated histogram is normalized histogram. for more detailed answer see OpenCV forum answer


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Need For Speed: Shift Review
by R834, 2nd June 2011
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For me, Need for Speed is all about tearing through dark city streets in overly modified cars covered in ridiculous vinyls with nitrous flames spewing from their exhausts, complemented by an exciting, arcade driving style. Too much Underground, I guess.
Need for Speed: Shift is rather different from its predecessors (apart from the disastrous ProStreet) in that it takes the simulation approach, a move which I think is pretty bold considering the other sims out there, such as Gran Turismo, Forza, Project Gotham Racing, GRID and DiRT, just to name a few. With some big names to compete against, how does it fair?
Despite the new direction for the series, Shift actually does a lot of things very well: the graphics are simply brilliant; the cars are modelled in great detail, both outside and in; there's a good selection of 19 tracks to race around on (bumped up to around 40 if you count the different track variations); and, most importantly, a very decent line up of over 60 cars to race in, all of which can be upgraded, tuned and plastered with vinyls. Good so far.
With PSN currently down, I've only been able to play offline portion of the game (the online mode will be reviewed at a later date) which presents you with two options: Quick Race and Career. I like to do the 'story' modes on games, so I went straight into the Career option.
Starting Shift's Career mode for the first time, forces you to partake in a lap around Brands Hatch in a BMW. Having recently been to Brands Hatch, I was eager to see what its digital Need for Speed counterpart looked like, and sure enough, it was all as I remembered it. Convinced that Shift has managed to capture the feel of the real-life race tracks, I began my hot lap; however it all went downhill from here.
I watched in a mixture annoyance and mild disgust as my car skidded repeatedly off the track and into the gravel, reacting with amazing sensitivity to even the slightest stick push. At this point I proclaimed "this is rubbish" and paused the game to try and find a sensitivity option, to no avail. Needless to say, I finished my lap in an awful time.
What I didn't realise was that during this lap Shift was assessing how well I could cope with the default controls – the answer: I couldn't. At this point, it brandished me with Easy difficulty and every driving aid available. Of course, these can be changed, but I decided it probably knew what it was doing and kept the settings the same. Going into the next lap was like playing a whole new game – in a good way.
The Career mode itself doesn't really have a story behind it - it's just chains of events. I wouldn't normally mind a lack of story from a driving game, but Need for Speed generally does have a plotline, and, as the Need for Speed Wiki tells me, Shift is the first game to lack a plot since Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit II - I had that game years ago on my Gamecube!
Progressing through the Career mode allowed me to see that the developers have tried to cram a lot into this.
Players start off with an average car, such as my choice of Mazda RX-8, progressing through car tiers unlocking cars from Audi, Aston Martin, Lamborghini and Mercedes Benz (to name just a few) on their way to the top tier 4 cars, which include the Pagani Zonda R and the Bugatti Veyron. Cars are unlocked slowly through career progression and can then be purchased, if you have enough funds. The cars can all be upgraded, with both visual and performance enhancements, and yet again nitrous is featured, although this time more realistically, with less exploding exhausts and more subtle speed increases.
There are loads of different game modes. Often, events are just simple races, although there are a few variations: Endurance Races have a higher number of laps than normal; Knockout Races eliminate the last player to completer a lap, or exceed a set time, depending on whether you're doing a Lap or Time Knockout; Manufacturer Competitions force all drivers to use the same car, so the race is all down to driver skill; and Series Competitions are similar to tournaments from previous NFS games, where your position in each races counts towards your final tournament standing. There are also Time Trials, in which the player has a certain period of time in which to achieve the fastest lap, and Drift Races which does what it says on the tin, although these are, in my opinion, really, really diffcult to do well in.
One rather interesting new game mode is the Car Battle – a one-on-one best-of-three competition where drivers are given a choice between two competing cars and take turns racing as 'Leader' and 'Follower'. To win you need to get 5 seconds ahead of your opponent or cross the line first. As the Leader has a bit of an advantage, the third and final race (if it's required) begins with a rolling start with driver's side-by-side. There's an online variation of this mode entitled Driver Battle, where players choose which cars to drive, although, of course, I have yet to test this.
Actual driving mechanics are pretty good and realistic, and you are forced to slow down for corners in this game if you want to avoid totalling your car on the track barriers. Crashes cause some serious damage to your car, although if, like me, you're only on Cosmetic Damage mode, it won't affect the car's performance. Accidents cause visual effects too, blurring the screen, and sounding a short gasp of breath from the stunned driver, which is particularly intense when racing in driver view.
Races can be quite unforgiving; going off the track often results in losing a lot of positions, and cutting corners in any form is punished, even if it's accidental. Racing using the driver view is an intense experience, especially when in the middle of an accident.
Shift hands out rewards left, right and centre in a variety of ways, and with all these rewards being hurled at you it's unfortunate that the reward system is a bit disjointed, making it much more confusing than it really should be. When boiled down, players are rewarded in 4 ways: Driver Points, Stars, Badges and cold, hard cash.
The latter is simple to explain – do well in a race and earn cash to use on new cars and upgrades.
Driver Points reward players for performing certain actions during a race, and the points are totalled up to progress you through 50 Driver Levels.
With these Driver Points, Shift operates an two-way Karma-style system, which changes depending on the type of actions you perform to either Precision and Aggression.
As you may have guessed, Precision involves precise manoeuvres that include sticking to the racing line, and mastering corners, while the Aggression points reward you for performing 'dirty' over takes and spinning out opponents. While this sounds great, the system is slightly flawed in the fact that I set out to be the meanest, dirtiest driver in racing history, slowing down for corners by ramming others cars and hitting their tail-ends to spin them and allow me to get ahead, but still, still, I am classed in the Precision section, which leads me to believe that getting the precision points are rather a lot easier than acquiring aggression points. On top of that, I can't really figure out why earning points one way or another is beneficial – there doesn't seem to be an obvious difference between becoming a reckless Aggressive driver, or a careful Precise driver.
Stars are awarded at the end of events, which normally have three stars to be earned by placing on the podium position, and a further two for reaching a 'points threshold', which is basically means earning over a set number of Driver Points in a race. In some events there are also stars to be earned for completing certain challenges, such as performing a clean lap, beating a lap time, or, one of my favourites, spinning out several opponents. You may, like me, be thinking that there are an awful lot of things to be concentrating on during a race to earn all the stars, so you will be as happy as I was to learn that stars are maintained when retrying a race later on; that is, if you've already earned your stars for your podium finish, but dropped a star for performing a clean lap, the next time you attempt the race you'll only have to concentrate on performing a clean lap.
The Stars' main purpose is to allow you to progress up the 4 Tiers on the way to the Need for Speed World Tour. These Tiers separate car classes and AI driving ability, and with each Tier unlock comes new events and new, more powerful cars available to purchase. The trouble is, if you make sure to earn every star in each race along the way, you'll be unlocking the Need for Speed World Tour before you're out of Tier 2, which doesn't really work.
Finally, Badges are awarded for performing certain feats – for example, driving over a certain Distance in a Japanese car, or Trading Paint with a certain number of opponents. On average, each badge is split into 10 'sub-badges' each progressively more difficult than the last. To use an example, for the Trading Paint badge, the first sub-badge may require you to trade paint with 10 opponents, the second: 20, and the third: 50, etc.
A third of the way to the total the badge will turn into a Bronze Badge, which will be prominently displayed at the screen when you end an event. Completing more sub-badges will upgrade that badge to Silver, then Gold, and finally, when all sub-badges are complete, the Badge turns platinum colour and becomes an Epic Badge. Yes, Epic…
To keep track of these Badges, there is a whole little menu dedicated to them, which is rather lucky for any trophy hunter as, like many other recent games, earning these in-game rewards are necessary to unlock some of the trophies.
There you have it: Shift's reward system in a rather large nutshell; perhaps it could use some streamlining.
Shift is a brilliant game that I think is a lot of fun, and once I get it back out of my broken Playstation, I'll be playing it a lot more.
Overall, fabulous graphics, including an amazingly detailed driver view for each car and a good amount of vehicles, tracks and upgrade possibilities are spoiled slightly by Shift's steep learning curve, extremely tricky Drift system and an overly complex reward scheme.
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Glasgow Science Centre and the SEC win new city award
PICTURE CAPTION: (From left to right) Petra Wetzel, founder of WEST Brewery, is pictured alongside Tara Gibson from Glasgow Science Centre; Christina McGonigle and Kerry McNally from the Scottish Event Campus, and Craig Martin, Chair of Glasgow Welcomes.
Two of Glasgow's leading venues have been crowned the winners of a new award recognising exceptional customer service across the city's tourism and hospitality industry.
The Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) and the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) are the first ever award recipients through Glasgow Welcomes' Business Recognition Programme.
Launched last October, the initiative is geared at rewarding Glasgow businesses, large and small, which consistently go the extra mile to improve the city's visitor experience.
Glasgow Science Centre was recognised for its commitment to accessibility and supporting visitors with additional needs; particularly adults and children with autism. More than 100 staff have completed autism awareness training, while the centre's Autism Friendly Hours initiative ensures families can explore the space and participate in activities in a suitable environment.
Autism-friendly sessions run on selected Sundays from 9-11am and include tailored workshops, reduced sound and lighting on all floors of the centre, dedicated quiet spaces and the provision of sensory items, including weighted blankets and ear defenders.
Introduced in March 2018, the centre has welcomed more than 2,000 people to Autism Friendly Hours, however, Gerry McCann, Customer Experience Manager at GSC, says the success of the programme can't only be measured by the number of people coming through their doors.
Gerry said: "That would be counterproductive to our aim. We look for feedback from visiting families that they've had a successful outing; that we've achieved a relaxed environment and that their visit has had a positive impact on their children.
"We want a visit to Glasgow Science Centre to be an enjoyable experience with as few barriers as possible. As a team we're working hard to ensure GSC is inclusive to all.
"We're proud of our Autism Friendly Hours and Deaf Science Club projects, and we're delighted to be one of the first winners of Glasgow Welcomes' Business Recognition Award. We'll keep listening to our customers and ensure that our staff receive the best training possible to support all of our visitors."
Meanwhile, the SEC received its award for the venue's efforts in providing a safe and supportive space for visiting conference delegates who attended three of the world's largest medical meetings in 2018.
Glasgow is an internationally recognised conference destination and business tourism contributes significantly to the city's visitor economy. Hosting more than 500 conferences each year worth upwards of £130m, the majority of large conferences held in the city take place at the SEC.
Last year, the venue welcomed the World Federation of Haemophilia Congress; the World Down Syndrome Congress and the International Symposium on Motor Neuron Disease – which collectively brought 7,000 delegates to the city.
To ensure Glasgow provided a warm and appropriate welcome, Glasgow Convention Bureau partnered with Glasgow Welcomes and VisitScotland to launch the People Make Glasgow Welcome campaign; an initiative offering free educational sessions to the city's tourism and hospitality industry. Led by experts from each conference, alongside local people living with the conditions, the sessions were aimed at helping frontline staff to better understand delegates' needs.
More than 90 SEC staff attended these sessions and staff champions ensured the information was cascaded across the wider SEC team. The venue also produced a series of printed information guides for its employees detailing key information about each conference and how best to support visiting delegates. Recognising that some of the conditions would present mobility issues for attendees, the venue operated accessibility buggies throughout each conference to transport visitors around the campus.
Mark Laidlaw, Director of Operations at the SEC, said: "Preparing for what were three very different conferences, where delegates had very specific needs, was a really collaborative effort from all of our staff.
"Our customer experience team went above and beyond to ensure a positive experience for all visitors to our campus and we received feedback that delegates thoroughly enjoyed their time in Glasgow and felt comfortable and looked after throughout their respective meetings.
"We're really pleased to have won a Glasgow Welcomes Recognition Award, which reflects our staff's commitment to delivering world-class customer service and to looking at ways of continuously improving our customer journey."
Both winners received their awards at Glasgow Welcomes' 'Champions' event held at the city's WEST Brewery yesterday (Tuesday, June 25).
Bringing together 80 managers and leaders from across Glasgow's tourism and hospitality sector, attendees heard from WEST founder and guest speaker, Petra Wetzel about how she created one of Glasgow's best-loved brands, becoming a proud "Gerwegian" and the importance of supporting budding entrepreneurs in the city.
Craig Martin, Chair of Glasgow Welcomes and Head of HR at Glasgow Airport, said: "Every day in Glasgow, businesses like the SEC and the Glasgow Science Centre are delivering exceptional visitor experiences and world-class customer service; it's become the benchmark of our tourism and hospitality industry.
"I'd like to congratulate both of our winners and I hope their success will inspire other city businesses, with similar projects that have real impact and scalability for our sector, to participate in Glasgow Welcomes' Business Recognition Programme going forward.
"I would also like to thank Petra and all of her team for hosting us. WEST Brewery has become a much-loved Glasgow institution and her passion for the city and our industry is inspiring. I'm sure our delegates also enjoyed sampling WEST's famous beers!"
About Glasgow Welcomes
Glasgow Welcomes is an integral element of the Glasgow Tourism and Visitor Plan to 2023; working in partnership with tourism and hospitality businesses to help grow their bottom line and raise service standards across every touch point of the city's visitor experience.
With a focus on service excellence, leadership, skills, and training and development opportunities for staff at all levels – from frontline teams to senior hospitality managers and leaders – it is a unique industry-led initiative supported by principal funders Scottish Enterprise along with Glasgow Life, VisitScotland and Skills Development Scotland.
Held quarterly, Glasgow Welcomes Champions' events provide a valuable development opportunity for Glasgow's tourism industry managers and leaders: encouraging engagement and collaboration between businesses, building relationships, and sharing ideas and best practice across every aspect of the sector in support of the city's tourism plan.
For more information about Glasgow Welcomes, click hereand follow @GlasgowWelcomeson Twitter.
The Glasgow Welcomes Business Recognition Programme is open to Glasgow businesses of any size which engage directly with tourists and visitors to the city – from accommodation providers, venues and visitor attractions to bars and restaurants, retailers and transport operators.
Businesses can submit more than one project or initiative for recognition through the programme, but it must have been implemented within a 12 month period and demonstrate tangible success. Businesses must also meet certain eligibility criteria, including having participated in Glasgow Welcomes leadership or service excellence training and events. For more information about the Glasgow Welcomes Business Recognition Programme and the next opportunity to participate, click here.
About Glasgow's Tourism and Visitor Plan
Customer service excellence is a priority within Glasgow's Tourism and Visitor Plan to 2023 – the blueprint for continuing to build the city's global profile as a vibrant, must-visit tourist destination. Growing overnight tourism visits from two to three million annually and positioning Glasgow as a cultural powerhouse and the gateway to Scotland is at the heart of the plan, which aims to deliver an economic boost of £771m and create 6,600 new jobs in the city over the next five years. For more information about Glasgow's Tourism and Visitor Plan to 2023, click here and follow @GlasgowTourism on Twitter.
Craig Martin
Head of HR, Glasgow Airport and Chair, Glasgow Welcomes
13 Mar 2019 Awards
Glasgow named one of the world's best cities for 2019
20 Apr 2018 Awards
Kelvin Hall wins Gold award from Green Tourism Business Scheme
23 May 2017 Awards
The Fifth Annual Inspiring City Awards


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DARPA Awards PARC Contract to Accelerate Learning of Complex Skillsets Through Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality
AMIGOS program to enable real-time feedback and instructions for physical tasks.
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PARC, a Xerox company, announced today it has been awarded a $5.8 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work with the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Rostock and Patched Reality, an Augmented Reality company, to develop an Artificial Intelligence system that will guide users in complex physical tasks beyond their abilities. The system will convert text and video-based manuals to a format that can be processed by a computer and guide users to complete tasks using AR guidance while also monitoring task execution.
PARC will be the lead contractor on the project, known as "Autonomous Multimodal Ingestion for Goal-Oriented Support" (AMIGOS) for the Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance Program. The project will introduce new methods to extract procedural knowledge from content, perceive the environment, reason about physical tasks, and enable conversational and AR guidance that is personalized to an individual user's level of expertise. The goal is to enable mechanics, medics and other specialists to perform tasks within and beyond their skillsets by providing just-in-time feedback and instructions for physical tasks.
"Augmented reality, computer vision, language processing, dialogue processing and reasoning are all AI technologies that have disrupted a variety of industries individually but never in such a coordinated and synergistic fashion," said Dr. Charles Ortiz, the principal investigator for AMIGOS. "By leveraging existing instructional materials to create new AR guidance, the AMIGOS project stands to accelerate this movement, making real-time task guidance and feedback available on-demand."
The project will deliver two major systems to DARPA. The first will be an offline component that can learn from multiple modalities, such as language and vision, to extract the steps from unlabeled content required to complete a task, including text instructions from manuals, illustrations and instructional videos. The second will be an online component that uses a hybrid AI approach combining both symbolic and neural AI elements to create interactive AR guidance based on the information extracted by the offline component. The guidance delivered by the system will be personalized to the individual user's abilities and sensitive to the user's emotional state during performance.
Xerox and PARC continue making substantial investments in AR-enabled field service. Earlier this year, Xerox announced the formation of its software business, CareAR, A Xerox Company, which consolidates CareAR, Inc., DocuShare® and XMPie under a single holding company named CareAR Holdings. The CareAR service experience platform supports service workforces with the visual tools and access to data that are needed to consistently deliver high-quality service experiences for service employees and end-customers, all while lowering the operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions of service providers. The expertise gained from the AMIGOS project will help inform future product development for CareAR.
For more than 100 years, Xerox has continually redefined the workplace experience. Harnessing our leadership position in office and production print technology, we've expanded into software and services to power today's workforce. From the office to industrial environments, our differentiated business solutions and financial services are designed to make every day work better for clients — no matter where that work is being done. Today, Xerox scientists and engineers are continuing our legacy of innovation with disruptive technologies in digital transformation, augmented reality, robotic process automation, additive manufacturing, Industrial Internet of Things and cleantech. Learn more at xerox.com.
About PARC
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (PARC), A Xerox Company, is in the Business of Breakthroughs®. Practicing open innovation, it provides custom R&D services, technology, expertise, best practices and intellectual property to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, startups, and government agencies and partners. The company creates new business options, accelerates time to market, augments internal capabilities and reduces risk for clients. Since its inception, PARC has pioneered many technology platforms – from the Ethernet and laser printing to the GUI and ubiquitous computing – and has enabled the creation of many industries. Incorporated as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox in 2002, PARC today continues the research that enables breakthroughs for businesses.
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This page contains a catalogue of some of the better multi-media educational & informational materials freely available. Click on the specific links or on the logos of the sites referenced to visit them.
Stockbroker & wealth manager Killik & Co have published an extensive series of useful educational videos, under the banner "Killik Explains", here. ShareSoc has catalogued these materials for your convenience, here.
A range of webinars (scroll down the page for archived recordings) and video tutorials are available from Stockopedia. As might be expected, they do focus on applying the tools that Stockopedia offers its subscribers, to help them construct and manage their portfolios. Nevertheless, even if not a subscriber, many of the webinars offer useful surveys of important investment topics. The tutorials are more focused on how to use the tools Stockopedia provides.
Share Radio is a UK digital radio station, publishing a continuous schedule of investment related programmes. Listen out for ShareSoc director David Stredder, who appears regularly in Share Radio's Smallcaps feature.
Stockbroker A.J.Bell publish a useful series of webcasts, which include company, economic and strategy commentary.
Paul Scott's QualitySmallCaps site has a good selection of probing interviews with executives and with a few investing peers.
Private Investor World produces and publishes a range of videos of corporate presentations, including recordings of ShareSoc events. We would like to thank PI World for their support.
offer a wide range of videos from their corporate clients. It's worth searching their collection for material on any company you might be interested in researching further.
In addition to their research notes (mentioned here), Edison also have an extensive series of video interviews with directors on their "Edison TV" channel.
"Conkers' Corner" offers interviews with experienced investors, including interviews with ShareSoc directors David Stredder and Mark Bentley, and former director Leon Boros. The investor interviews are particularly useful in studying other investors' strategies, which can help you refine your own strategy. You can also subscribe to Conkers' YouTube Channel .


Would you consider yourself a generous person?
"I don't know if i'm generous but I really want to be a blessing to people."
You might be thinking, "What's the difference?" To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. When I think about generosity I think about someone sharing something they own. I can think of people who are generous with sharing the home, sharing their possessions, or sharing their money. But when I think about blessing, I think of someone who empowers someone else - they give them something more than a limited resource, they give away hope, they give away forgiveness, they give away love.
Not that anyone should expect anything in return when you give to someone else, but did you know in the last five years only two of those folks ever said thank you. So this year, I invited some other folks that felt like a better strategic move.
My immediate response was anger. Primarily I was angry at myself for not offering this blessing (Participating in the event) to these other folks who work in non-profit work just like me. Instead, I had left it up to someone else to be a blessing. But the more I encounter people who are considered generous for giving their money, I encounter people who fail to recognize their ability to bless verses their ability to give. And often those that are generous givers with something they possess are looking for something in return.
1. Typing Happy Birthday - This is going to be make me sound like a horrible person but in the past when I got birthday notifications in Facebook, if I felt like the person hadn't made an effort to know me personally, I didn't tell them Happy Birthday on their Facebook page. Sounds kind of trivial right. However, I asked myself what's at the heart of this? The answer I found was I didn't want to be a blessing. Ultimately, I wanted to be blessed first so I was withholding blessing from someone else. Makes me feel pretty shallow to hold back taking five seconds to type, "Happy Birthday!" So for the past few weeks I've been abundant in "Happy Birthdays!"
2. Being the donor I would want - When it comes to giving a donation I am refusing myself the opportunity to ask, "Do you think they will use the money wisely? Are they really doing with this money what they say they would? Are they telling me thank you enough? Are they listening to what I want them to do?" For me, the desire to bless is the root of being generous. For the folks receiving a donation I don't want them to hear, "Invest this money wisely and make sure you say thank you because this is an investment for me." What I want them to hear is, "I believe in who you are way more than whatever it is you are doing, plus, I trust you." Is there the chance my trust will get broken. Absolutely. But would I rather tell someone I trust them than create an expectation I want them to live up to; absolutely. If I choose the second option than I start wanting them to become what I want instead of giving them space to become what God wants them to become.
3. Being an encourager - What do you want people to say about you at your funeral? I want people to say, "Brad ruthlessly believed in me." Or, I would want my kids to say, "Dad was generous with the phrases - I love you, I'm proud of you, and I know you can do it." If those things are said about me, than I've lived the life Jesus called me to live. And you might have a different bar for what a successful life looks like but working with high school kids for my entire career has taught me it's easy to spot the kids who have grown up with encouragement versus those who have not. These kids become adults and you can see it in their life, how they love their spouses, and how they love their kids if they were blessed with words in their life by the people they valued the most.
4. Raising people up - What I've learned about being a blessing professionally is that it looks like raising people up to equal authority as me. Or maybe a better way to say it is I'm lowering myself in my mind. This, to me, is the clearest sign you are a blessing to someone else - you give them equal status. When I think I have authority over someone else or if I hold on to knowledge or a gift I think is specifically mine, I'm attempt to grasp to a blessing instead of giving a blessing away.
What do you think I'm learning from this?
I'm learning that blessed people know how to be a blessing. These people are really fun to be around. I'm not sure who you want to live life with but I want to live life with people who love others really well and often what keeps us from loving people well is our own need to be blessed. The longer we go without blessing the tougher our hearts get, the more inward focused we become.
To receive blessing we often have to practice blessing.
Find someone today to bless, you won't regret it.


The implementation of a more restrictive plan to protect the boreal caribou could cost thousands of jobs in affected regions, reminds the MEI.
On Tuesday, the Quebec government promised to put in place an action plan—without providing any details—to favour better habitat protection for the boreal caribou, a species that is said to be directly threatened by the forestry industry.
"The absence of details accentuates the climate of uncertainty that has reigned for too long in the industry, discouraging investment. Although the Minister is trying to be reassuring, it is unlikely that that the implementation of a more restrictive plan will be compatible with the electoral promise not to sacrifice one job over the caribou question," says Alexandre Moreau, Public Policy Analyst at the MEI.
The MEI demonstrated, in an Economic Note published in 2015, that if the government restricts forestry development even more to protect this animal, it risks sacrificing 2,931 jobs and $367 million of economic activity for the uncertain preservation of 96 caribou per year in Quebec.
A more restrictive plan to protect the caribou could significantly hurt a region like the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, where the forestry sector in 2013 accounted for 10% of total employment and 14% of the region's GDP. Losses attributable to this plan are estimated at 2,701 jobs and $339 million for the region.
A study commissioned by the Quebec government and recently made public is in keeping with this, confirming the loss of thousands of jobs in the event of more aggressive measures to protect caribou habitat.
"Moreover, even if we completely ceased all logging in the caribou's range of distribution, it is entirely possible that downward population trends would continue because of factors like climate change, forest fires, insect epidemics, and poaching," notes Jasmin Guénette, Vice President of the MEI.
The Economic Note entitled "The Economic Costs of the Boreal Caribou Recovery Plan" was prepared by Jasmin Guénette and Alexandre Moreau, respectively Vice President and Public Policy Analyst at the MEI. This publication is available on our website.
Never happen. Environmental movement is much better funded and have already established relationships with government and media. Rural workers are not in a position to overcome years of cultivating relationships with governments and media who are now advised by environmental groups.
The unions should have been ensuring the protection of their workers in rural Quebec and Canada but they have been silent with the exception of the IWA when they were in existence.
The unions and NDP worker party is now pretty much an urban white collar worker political party.


One of the most important skills every programmer needs to have is debugging! Ever since I've been working with Swift, I've been definitely off in my coding because Swift is different to debug than my usual Objective-C debugging flow.
So last week, I finally got around to watching the Advanced Swift Debugging in LLDB WWDC14 video. I really wish I watched it a lot earlier! I also got some tips from a few people, which have been very helpful.
What Type is It Anyway?
Type inference is nice while you're writing the code, but what type a variable or constant is can definitely be confusing looking back at your own code or at someone else's. In addition, Swift types are different than Objective-C types (String vs NSString for example), so that can confuse things further.
In the above example, I now know that my quotes variable is an array of Quote objects, which might not be as clear on first glance.
Putting in a breakpoint and seeing all the evaluated types is a great way to get a bird's eye view of what you're playing with.
As you can see in the debug view above, the indexPath variable does not give me the information I need – the actual indexPath! There are several ways to print out the variable.
Notice that po printed out the description of the object, which included the value of the indexPath, while p printed out the more raw representation of the object, including it's location in memory.
The -R argument prints out the Raw output of the variable. Notice that in this case, it's printing out the location in memory of the object, not the actual value as po or the i icon does.
Do you have additional Swift debugging tips? Let me know in the comments!


"I don't know how it happened exactly, but we got this gig at a club called Backfisch, that mostly had death metal bands playing. The club doesn't exist anymore, but I think the sign is still hanging there, the word spelled out with illustrated skeleton of fish.
The support band was called Autobaby, and I don't think they exist anymore. There was about 50 people in attendance, maybe less, one of them a guy called Jim Holm, who worked at a booking agency called Infrarouge (I think… something like that…) and he liked us and signed us on, and started booking shows for us at slightly more established clubs. Later on he became A&R at Exlibris, a Danish language only label, who in the mid-nineties suddenly decided to expand their field a bit. So that's basically why they ended up releasing A Triumph For Man.
Anyway, I don't remember much about the show, except being super nervous. We probably played a few of the songs that ended up on Triumph, probably Panda and Wherever and maybe Wheels and Web. But certainly also a bunch that were never released. And probably shouldn't be, haha.
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