Where to Eat in Kauai – here's a list of the places we ate while vacationing in Kauai and the food that really made me all warm and fuzzy inside!
A huge thank you to The Villas at Po'ipu Kai for providing us with amazing accommodations and to the food establishments below for providing us with meals.
One of the things I like best about traveling is eating.
Ok, I always like to eat, but it's fun to eat food that the place I'm in is known for. For example, NYC might be pizza, Memphis barbecue, Paris is pastries in Hawaii, it's fresh fish and Hula Pie.
I know every place in the world is known for something. What follows is some of the food a group of bloggers and I ate while we were vacationing on the island of Kauai for a week last month.
We were fortunate enough to stay at the The Villas at Po'ipu Kai, located on the southern end of the island and about a half an hour from the airport. Both the villas and the grounds were absolutely gorgeous and so well maintained. The villas were completely furnished with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, air conditioning, and a full washer and dryer! We were a group of 10 women, and stayed in two villas. Each had a gorgeous and fully furnished state-of-the-art kitchen with wonderful appliances. I fell in love with the lanai doors. They opened fully so that you could experience the wonderful Hawaiian breezes. It was so incredibly relaxing!
I loved the atmosphere of Hukilau Lanai. The restaurant was opened to the outside, but enclosed and during dinner it started to rain. It was so peaceful and relaxing. One of the highlights of the meal was Adam's Poke Nachos (pictured below). I also enjoyed the Sweet Potato Ravioli. Hawaiian sweet potatoes are purple and very flavorful.
When you're in Hawaii, you must also try a drink called the Lava Flow. It's like a frozen Pina Colada with some strawberry puree. It's outstanding and you can order them virgin if you'd like to forgo the alcohol.
While we were there, we were able to tour two farms. Chef Jaime and two employees of Keiko's Paradise joined us for the tour. Chef Jaime talked about how the restaurant likes to support the local community and showed us the fresh produce the farm provides for the restaurant. It also makes more sense to have the produce grown on the island instead of having it shipped in from the mainland. The quality is better and each diner will enjoy a much fresher product.
Top left going clockwise: farm on Kauai, HI, mango trees, growing white pineapple, fresh coconut cut open.
That night we had a lovely dinner at Keoki's Paradise which is also a short driving distance from The Villas at Poi'pu Kai. They serve a delicious Mai Tai and great appetizers including the Grilled Thai Shrimp (below). Of course, they are also known for that incredible Hula Pie. Keoki's Paradise is a sister restaurant of Duke's, so you know the food is going to be good.
What amazed me with many of the restaurants we went to was the view from where I enjoyed my meal and Merriman's did not disappoint. The restaurant looked out over the ocean making the view of that night's sunset spectacular.
I really enjoyed the Ono Organics Beets With Local Chevre and their Coconut Macadamia Shortbread cookies. I've tried on several occasions to remake them, but unfortunately have not been successful.
One of my favorite places we ate at was Kalapaki Joe's. I loved the food, the view, the atmosphere and there was a live band. It's the westernmost sports bar in the U.S., so if you're afraid you'll miss your team playing while you're vacationing in Kauai, head over to Kalapaki Joe's because they're sure to have it on.
The view was beautiful and it's only a short walk from The Villas at Po'ipu Kai, so very convenient when you stay there!
If you're not a fish eater, don't worry, Kalapaki Joe's has plenty on the menu to satisfy your hunger.
If you're going to set foot on the island of Kauai, you must and I do mean MUST (got that, must) make a stop at The Fresh Shave. Owners Priscilla and Dan create incredible Shave Ice treats using all-natural, fresh, local, and organic produce. Look for their cute little trailer with their mustache logo. When you follow them on Instagram you can also find out where they'll be located each day.
My favorite was The Fu Manchu topped with strawberry puree, but we tried quite a few and they were all quite delicious. The Chevron is their most popular and that was unreal as well. I loved the lime in it! Also, be sure to ask about their secret items. They offer some great ones daily that aren't on their regular menu.
Duke's Barefoot Bar not only serves absolutely delicious food, but a gorgeous view of Nawiliwili Bay and the Hoary Head Mountains. It is one place you NEED to put on your MUST-EAT list when in Kauai.
Now there are many times when you eat a meal and you know at the end you're going to want dessert. Then the time comes, but you're so full and completely content with your meal that you just can't do it. Well, that's when you order dessert first!
And that's exactly what we did when we ate at Duke's and I'm certainly glad we did. Those Hula Pies were out of this world delicious. The slices were huge, the ice cream so fresh, the hot fudge – AHmazing and the whipped cream definitely looked like a hula skirt.
For lunch I ordered the Pulled Pork Sandwich and it was soooooo good!! Those crinkle cut fries were delicious as well. All of the ladies really enjoyed their meals and the Korean Street Tacos received high ratings, too!
So, if you don't order dessert first at Duke's, make sure you save enough room to share a piece of Hula Pie with everyone at the table.
With any of these restaurants you won't be disappointed and I know when I go to Kauai again I'll be going back to each of them!
A HUGE thank you to all of the businesses listed for sponsoring our trip without which our trip would not have been possible. Also, thank you to my followers for supporting 365 Days of Baking and the establishments I have told you about in this post. I encourage you to visit them on the internet to familiarize yourself with them and while in Kauai. All opinions are 100% my own.
Stay away from Anuenue Cafe as much as possible.
The only restaurant owner we came across who insults his customers after 1hr and 30mins of wait and after the waitress' mistake. Got too many customers and so he just wanted to get rid of a few. Nice problem to have, right? Waitress accepted a mistake and still…… How stupid someone can be, go and see the owner of this cafe.
— The owner is very rude, staff follows him.
— Second, very expensive; we found even our Hyatt breakfast was cheaper.
— Any hotel you are staying, they will serve faster. Here you will have to wait surely more than an hour. No wonder the owner is so rude and doesn't care for any customer.
Olympic cafe is closed for some time, they are the only one there so really really rude. We asked the waitress if the togo is faster than sit in; she said it is the same. We said we will sit in then. The waitress gave us the table after 1hr 30 mins of wait and took our order.
When we started to eat, the owner came and said that ours is the togo order and we need to leave immediately. He said we jumped way before many.
THE WAITRESS SAID TOGO AND SIT IN IS THE SAME TIME THEN HOW OWNER SAID WE JUMPED UP?
How we jumped up after waiting for 1hr 30mins? I clearly told him that as per our initial conversation I had clearly told the waitress that if togo and sit in is the same then I would prefer sit in. She agreed and gave us the table. He refused to talk to the waitress and told us to leave immediately and never come again.
We pay tips for service and not for insults. We really feel sorry to pay them a huge tip for insults. Go anywhere else for the breakfast except this place. You will never know how busy they will get and how much miscommunication can happen and careless owner will come insult you and will try to ruin your day or trip. STAY AWAY!!!
Very very expensive, coffee you can get for $2, for the same you pay $4 here.
If you want to have a nice trip, stay away from Anuenue cafe at any cost.


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GSK opens new vaccines plant in Rockville
GlaxoSmithKline's vaccines business is buoyant at the moment, and the opening of its first vaccine R&D facility in the U.S. yesterday gave the company a chance to celebrate that success.
The unit in Rockville, MD, officially opened for business yesterday, and will house 450 researchers—including 200 new hires—and be backed by $50 million in funding over the next two years. It will sit alongside Rixensart in Belgium and Siena in Italy as GSK's three main vaccine R&D centers.
GSK said Rockville will be the base for 12 of its vaccine programs, including shingles vaccine Shingrix which was filed for approval in October and candidates for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), group B streptococcus and dengue fever, as well as its recently-announced Zika virus project.
The company has previously highlighted Rockville as an ideal location, thanks to its close proximity to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), PATH—which is already a GSK partner for malaria vaccine development—and the thriving bioscience hub in Washington DC.
It will also take the lead on GSK's biopreparedness model, which aims to develop new vaccines against emerging pathogens quickly and efficiently and make them available as cheaply as possible—with a "no profit/no loss" approach.
The opening underscores the importance of GSK's vaccine business, which was swelled last year by the purchase of Novartis' vaccine unit include meningitis B short Bexsero.
Under GSK's management the portfolio has grown strongly, with GSK's vaccines chief medical officer Thomas Breuer telling Bloomberg in the summer that the company expects to deliver nine times the 2016 sales levels predicted by Novartis ahead of the takeover.
Vaccines was GSK's standout business in its third-quarter results, with 18% growth £3.45 billion in the first nine months of the year on rising demand for Bexsero and strong flu vaccine sales.
"Our investment [in Rockville] signifies our commitment to discovering and developing new vaccines across a range of pressing public health priorities, including those important here in the U.S.", said Luc Debruyne, president of GSK Vaccines.
"We look forward to fruitful partnerships and collaborations in this community to advance the science of vaccines, and help improve health of millions of people around the world."
By Phil Taylor
Source: Fierce Biotech

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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(Libya)
Interpretative and visitation facilities
Management activities
Management systems/ management plan
Surface water pollution
a) Need to complete the Management Plan in order to co-ordinate actions in the short- and medium-term;
b) Need to provide a detailed map at the appropriate scale showing the boundaries of the property and buffer zone;
c) Threat to rock-hewn monumental tombs as a result of inadequate protection, leading to vandalism and the development of agricultural activities in the rural zone and urban constructions;
d) Inappropriate earlier restoration work;
e) Problem of discharge of sewage from the modern town into the Wadi Bel Ghadir;
f) Inadequate on-site security and control systems;
g) Need for a presentation and interpretation system for visitors and the local population.
Requests approved: 0
Total amount approved : 0 USD
January 2007: Joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission; August 2008: World Heritage Centre mission
During its 31st session (Christchurch, 2007), the World Heritage Committee requested the State Party to complete the Management Plan already under preparation, to provide a map indicating the precise boundary of the property and to inform the World Heritage Centre of any new project, in particular as regards the establishment of a new urban settlement adjacent to Shahat. The State Party was also requested to reinforce the staff of the Department of Antiquities at the property and to avoid all harsh cleaning treatments and over restoration of monuments which may have a negative impact on the authenticity and integrity of the property.
No report was transmitted by the State Party neither at the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee nor at the 34th session (Brasilia, 2010). At the time of drafting the present document, the State Party has not transmitted a report and no recent information has been received otherwise. The State Party not having participated in the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the Arab States, the World Heritage Centre possesses no information on the state of conservation of the property or progress in the implementation of the recommendations of the World Heritage Committee.
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 2011
The World Heritage Committee and the Advisory Bodies wish to highlight the absence of management measures for the property, including security and control for the protection of the monuments, the need for appropriate conservation and interpretation, as well as capacity-building in order to fully respond to the issues of conservation and management of the property.
Archaeological Site of Cyrene (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) (C 190)
1. Having examined Document WHC-11/35.COM/7B.Add,
2. Recalling Decision 34 COM 7B.58, adopted at its 34th session (Brasilia, 2010),
3. Notes that the State Party has not submitted a state of conservation report to its 31st (Christchurch, 2007), 33rd (Seville, 2009) and 34th (Brasilia, 2010) sessions;
4. Urges the State Party to implement its earlier decisions and the measures recommended by the joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS mission of January 2007;
5. Requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2012, a report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of its Decision 31 COM 7B.63, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 36th session in 2012.
Criteria: (ii)(iii)(vi)
Danger List (dates): 2016-present


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package org.apache.openwhisk.core.controller.test

import java.time.Instant

import scala.concurrent.duration.DurationInt
import scala.language.postfixOps

import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import org.scalatest.junit.JUnitRunner

import akka.http.scaladsl.marshallers.sprayjson.SprayJsonSupport._
import akka.http.scaladsl.server.Route
import akka.http.scaladsl.model.StatusCodes._
import akka.http.scaladsl.model.headers.RawHeader
import spray.json._
import spray.json.DefaultJsonProtocol._

import org.apache.openwhisk.core.controller.WhiskTriggersApi
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entitlement.Collection
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entity._
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entity.WhiskRule
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entity.size._
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.entity.test.OldWhiskTrigger
import org.apache.openwhisk.http.ErrorResponse
import org.apache.openwhisk.http.Messages
import org.apache.openwhisk.core.database.UserContext

/**
 * Tests Trigger API.
 *
 * Unit tests of the controller service as a standalone component.
 * These tests exercise a fresh instance of the service object in memory -- these
 * tests do NOT communication with a whisk deployment.
 *
 *
 * @Idioglossia
 * "using Specification DSL to write unit tests, as in should, must, not, be"
 * "using Specs2RouteTest DSL to chain HTTP requests for unit testing, as in ~>"
 */
@RunWith(classOf[JUnitRunner])
class TriggersApiTests extends ControllerTestCommon with WhiskTriggersApi {

  /** Triggers API tests */
  behavior of "Triggers API"

  val creds = WhiskAuthHelpers.newIdentity()
  val context = UserContext(creds)
  val namespace = EntityPath(creds.subject.asString)
  val collectionPath = s"/${EntityPath.DEFAULT}/${collection.path}"
  def aname() = MakeName.next("triggers_tests")
  def afullname(namespace: EntityPath, name: String) = FullyQualifiedEntityName(namespace, EntityName(name))
  val parametersLimit = Parameters.sizeLimit
  val dummyInstant = Instant.now()

  //// GET /triggers
  it should "list triggers by default/explicit namespace" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val triggers = (1 to 2).map { i =>
      WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), Parameters("x", "b"))
    }.toList
    triggers foreach { put(entityStore, _) }
    waitOnView(entityStore, WhiskTrigger, namespace, 2)
    Get(s"$collectionPath") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[List[JsObject]]
      triggers.length should be(response.length)
      response should contain theSameElementsAs triggers.map(_.summaryAsJson)
    }

    // it should "list triggers with explicit namespace owned by subject" in {
    Get(s"/$namespace/${collection.path}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[List[JsObject]]
      triggers.length should be(response.length)
      response should contain theSameElementsAs triggers.map(_.summaryAsJson)
    }

    // it should "reject list triggers with explicit namespace not owned by subject" in {
    val auser = WhiskAuthHelpers.newIdentity()
    Get(s"/$namespace/${collection.path}") ~> Route.seal(routes(auser)) ~> check {
      status should be(Forbidden)
    }
  }

  it should "reject list when limit is greater than maximum allowed value" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val exceededMaxLimit = Collection.MAX_LIST_LIMIT + 1
    val response = Get(s"$collectionPath?limit=$exceededMaxLimit") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(BadRequest)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.listLimitOutOfRange(Collection.TRIGGERS, exceededMaxLimit, Collection.MAX_LIST_LIMIT)
      }
    }
  }

  it should "reject list when limit is not an integer" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val notAnInteger = "string"
    val response = Get(s"$collectionPath?limit=$notAnInteger") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(BadRequest)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.argumentNotInteger(Collection.TRIGGERS, notAnInteger)
      }
    }
  }

  it should "reject list when skip is negative" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val negativeSkip = -1
    val response = Get(s"$collectionPath?skip=$negativeSkip") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(BadRequest)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.listSkipOutOfRange(Collection.TRIGGERS, negativeSkip)
      }
    }
  }

  it should "reject list when skip is not an integer" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val notAnInteger = "string"
    val response = Get(s"$collectionPath?skip=$notAnInteger") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(BadRequest)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.argumentNotInteger(Collection.TRIGGERS, notAnInteger)
      }
    }
  }

  // ?docs disabled
  ignore should "list triggers by default namespace with full docs" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val triggers = (1 to 2).map { i =>
      WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), Parameters("x", "b"))
    }.toList
    triggers foreach { put(entityStore, _) }
    waitOnView(entityStore, WhiskTrigger, namespace, 2)
    Get(s"$collectionPath?docs=true") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[List[WhiskTrigger]]
      triggers.length should be(response.length)
      response should contain theSameElementsAs triggers.map(_.summaryAsJson)
    }
  }

  //// GET /triggers/name
  it should "get trigger by name in default/explicit namespace" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), Parameters("x", "b"))
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Get(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      response should be(trigger)
    }

    // it should "get trigger by name in explicit namespace owned by subject" in
    Get(s"/$namespace/${collection.path}/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      response should be(trigger)
    }

    // it should "reject get trigger by name in explicit namespace not owned by subject" in
    val auser = WhiskAuthHelpers.newIdentity()
    Get(s"/$namespace/${collection.path}/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(auser)) ~> check {
      status should be(Forbidden)
    }
  }

  it should "get trigger with updated field" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), Parameters("x", "b"))
    put(entityStore, trigger)

    // `updated` field should be compared with a document in DB
    val t = get(entityStore, trigger.docid, WhiskTrigger)

    Get(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      response should be(trigger copy (updated = t.updated))
    }
  }

  it should "report Conflict if the name was of a different type" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val rule = WhiskRule(
      namespace,
      aname(),
      FullyQualifiedEntityName(namespace, aname()),
      FullyQualifiedEntityName(namespace, aname()))
    put(entityStore, rule)
    Get(s"/$namespace/${collection.path}/${rule.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(Conflict)
    }
  }

  //// DEL /triggers/name
  it should "delete trigger by name" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), Parameters("x", "b"))
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Delete(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      response should be(trigger)
    }
  }

  //// PUT /triggers/name
  it should "put should accept request with missing optional properties" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname())
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut()
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      deleteTrigger(trigger.docid)
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      checkWhiskEntityResponse(response, trigger.withoutRules)
    }
  }

  it should "put should accept request with valid feed parameter" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), annotations = Parameters(Parameters.Feed, "xyz"))
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut(annotations = Some(trigger.annotations))
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      deleteTrigger(trigger.docid)
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      checkWhiskEntityResponse(response, trigger.withoutRules)
    }
  }

  it should "put should reject request with undefined feed parameter" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), annotations = Parameters(Parameters.Feed, ""))
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut(annotations = Some(trigger.annotations))
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(BadRequest)
    }
  }

  it should "put should reject request with bad feed parameters" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), annotations = Parameters(Parameters.Feed, "a,b"))
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut(annotations = Some(trigger.annotations))
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(BadRequest)
    }
  }

  it should "reject activation with entity which is too big" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val code = "a" * (allowedActivationEntitySize.toInt + 1)
    val content = s"""{"a":"$code"}""".stripMargin
    Post(s"$collectionPath/${aname()}", content.parseJson.asJsObject) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(PayloadTooLarge)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.entityTooBig(
          SizeError(fieldDescriptionForSizeError, (content.length).B, allowedActivationEntitySize.B))
      }
    }
  }

  it should "reject create with parameters which are too big" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val keys: List[Long] =
      List.range(Math.pow(10, 9) toLong, (parametersLimit.toBytes / 20 + Math.pow(10, 9) + 2) toLong)
    val parameters = keys map { key =>
      Parameters(key.toString, "a" * 10)
    } reduce (_ ++ _)
    val content = s"""{"parameters":$parameters}""".parseJson.asJsObject
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${aname()}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(PayloadTooLarge)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.entityTooBig(SizeError(WhiskEntity.paramsFieldName, parameters.size, Parameters.sizeLimit))
      }
    }
  }

  it should "reject create with annotations which are too big" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val keys: List[Long] =
      List.range(Math.pow(10, 9) toLong, (parametersLimit.toBytes / 20 + Math.pow(10, 9) + 2) toLong)
    val annotations = keys map { key =>
      Parameters(key.toString, "a" * 10)
    } reduce (_ ++ _)
    val content = s"""{"annotations":$annotations}""".parseJson.asJsObject
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${aname()}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(PayloadTooLarge)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.entityTooBig(SizeError(WhiskEntity.annotationsFieldName, annotations.size, Parameters.sizeLimit))
      }
    }
  }

  it should "reject update with parameters which are too big" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname())
    val keys: List[Long] =
      List.range(Math.pow(10, 9) toLong, (parametersLimit.toBytes / 20 + Math.pow(10, 9) + 2) toLong)
    val parameters = keys map { key =>
      Parameters(key.toString, "a" * 10)
    } reduce (_ ++ _)
    val content = s"""{"parameters":$parameters}""".parseJson.asJsObject
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}?overwrite=true", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(PayloadTooLarge)
      responseAs[String] should include {
        Messages.entityTooBig(SizeError(WhiskEntity.paramsFieldName, parameters.size, Parameters.sizeLimit))
      }
    }
  }

  it should "put should accept update request with missing optional properties" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), Parameters("x", "b"))
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut()
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}?overwrite=true", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      deleteTrigger(trigger.docid)
      status should be(OK)
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      checkWhiskEntityResponse(
        response,
        WhiskTrigger(
          trigger.namespace,
          trigger.name,
          trigger.parameters,
          version = trigger.version.upPatch,
          updated = dummyInstant).withoutRules)
    }
  }

  it should "put should reject update request for trigger with existing feed" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname(), annotations = Parameters(Parameters.Feed, "xyz"))
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut(annotations = Some(trigger.annotations))
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}?overwrite=true", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      deleteTrigger(trigger.docid)
      status should be(OK)
    }
  }

  it should "put should reject update request for trigger with new feed" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname())
    val content = WhiskTriggerPut(annotations = Some(Parameters(Parameters.Feed, "xyz")))
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}?overwrite=true", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      deleteTrigger(trigger.docid)
      status should be(OK)
    }
  }

  //// POST /triggers/name
  it should "fire a trigger" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val rule = WhiskRule(namespace, aname(), afullname(namespace, aname().name), afullname(namespace, "bogus action"))
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, rule.trigger.name, rules = Some {
      Map(rule.fullyQualifiedName(false) -> ReducedRule(rule.action, Status.ACTIVE))
    })
    val content = JsObject("xxx" -> "yyy".toJson)
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    put(entityStore, rule)
    Post(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(Accepted)
      val response = responseAs[JsObject]
      val JsString(id) = response.fields("activationId")
      val activationId = ActivationId.parse(id).get
      response.fields("activationId") should not be None
      headers should contain(RawHeader(ActivationIdHeader, response.fields("activationId").convertTo[String]))

      val activationDoc = DocId(WhiskEntity.qualifiedName(namespace, activationId))
      org.apache.openwhisk.utils.retry({
        println(s"trying to obtain async activation doc: '${activationDoc}'")

        val activation = getActivation(ActivationId(activationDoc.asString), context)
        deleteActivation(ActivationId(activationDoc.asString), context)
        activation.end should be(Instant.EPOCH)
        activation.response.result should be(Some(content))
      }, 30, Some(1.second))
    }
  }

  it should "fire a trigger without args" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val rule = WhiskRule(namespace, aname(), afullname(namespace, aname().name), afullname(namespace, "bogus action"))
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, rule.trigger.name, Parameters("x", "b"), rules = Some {
      Map(rule.fullyQualifiedName(false) -> ReducedRule(rule.action, Status.ACTIVE))
    })
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    put(entityStore, rule)
    Post(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      val response = responseAs[JsObject]
      val JsString(id) = response.fields("activationId")
      val activationId = ActivationId.parse(id).get
      val activationDoc = DocId(WhiskEntity.qualifiedName(namespace, activationId))
      org.apache.openwhisk.utils.retry({
        println(s"trying to delete async activation doc: '${activationDoc}'")
        deleteActivation(ActivationId(activationDoc.asString), context)
        response.fields("activationId") should not be None
        headers should contain(RawHeader(ActivationIdHeader, response.fields("activationId").convertTo[String]))
      }, 30, Some(1.second))
    }
  }

  it should "not fire a trigger without a rule" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname())
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Post(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status shouldBe NoContent
    }
  }

  //// invalid resource
  it should "reject invalid resource" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = WhiskTrigger(namespace, aname())
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Get(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}/bar") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(NotFound)
    }
  }

  // migration path
  it should "be able to handle a trigger as of the old schema" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val trigger = OldWhiskTrigger(namespace, aname())
    put(entityStore, trigger)
    Get(s"$collectionPath/${trigger.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      val response = responseAs[WhiskTrigger]
      status should be(OK)
      checkWhiskEntityResponse(response, trigger.toWhiskTrigger)
    }
  }

  it should "report proper error when record is corrupted on delete" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val entity = BadEntity(namespace, aname())
    put(entityStore, entity)

    Delete(s"$collectionPath/${entity.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(InternalServerError)
      responseAs[ErrorResponse].error shouldBe Messages.corruptedEntity
    }
  }

  it should "report proper error when record is corrupted on get" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val entity = BadEntity(namespace, aname())
    put(entityStore, entity)

    Get(s"$collectionPath/${entity.name}") ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(InternalServerError)
      responseAs[ErrorResponse].error shouldBe Messages.corruptedEntity
    }
  }

  it should "report proper error when record is corrupted on put" in {
    implicit val tid = transid()
    val entity = BadEntity(namespace, aname())
    put(entityStore, entity)

    val content = WhiskTriggerPut()
    Put(s"$collectionPath/${entity.name}", content) ~> Route.seal(routes(creds)) ~> check {
      status should be(InternalServerError)
      responseAs[ErrorResponse].error shouldBe Messages.corruptedEntity
    }
  }
}

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If we do anything as leaders, then we must be about our primary objective. That is, to be of service to others. And in doing so, we must stay focused.
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Frederick Treves, né le  à Dorchester, dans le Dorset et mort le  à Lausanne,  baronnet, est un chirurgien britannique des ères victorienne et édouardienne. Il est connu pour avoir traité le patient Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), surnommé , devenu son ami, et pour avoir été en Angleterre le premier chirurgien à effectuer une appendicectomie en 1888. Il sauve la vie du roi Édouard VII, grâce à cette opération, en .

Biographie

Frederick Treves est le fils d'un  tapissier nommé William Treves et de sa femme Jane, née Knight. Dans son enfance, il fréquente une école dirigée par le poète William Barnes, qui utilisait dans ses œuvres le dialecte du Dorset. Il devient chirurgien et se spécialise en chirurgie abdominale au Royal London hospital où il exerce à la fin du  et au début du . Il réalise la première appendicectomie d'Angleterre, le . Il épouse Ann Elizabeth Mason en 1877. En 1884, Treves examine pour la première fois Joseph Merrick, connu sous le nom d'Elephant Man, qui était exhibé par un montreur de foire du nom de Tom Norman dans une boutique située de l'autre côté de Whitechapel Road, en face du London Hospital. Vers 1886 Treves fait rentrer Merrick au London Hospital, où il restera jusqu'à sa mort survenue en . Dans ses mémoires Treves fait une erreur dans le prénom de Joseph Merrick, qu'il appelle John Merrick ; cette erreur sera ensuite répandue par d'autres biographes de Joseph Merrick.

Durant la Seconde Guerre des Boers (1899-1902), Treves se porte volontaire pour soigner les blessés dans un hôpital de campagne du Transvaal. Il publie par la suite le récit de cette expérience dans Le Conte d'un hôpital de campagne (The Tale of a Field Hospital) sur la base d'articles rédigés sur le terrain pour le British Medical Journal.

En , Treves est nommé chirurgien-sergent () du roi Édouard VII, dont le couronnement doit avoir lieu le . Mais le , le roi tombe gravement malade, victime d'une appendicite. Avec la caution de Lord Lister, Treves réalise l'intervention chirurgicale, une appendicectomie, radicale pour l'époque, consistant à drainer l'appendice infecté à travers une petite incision. Ce traitement audacieux a lieu en un temps où l'appendicite n'est pas traitée chirurgicalement et comporte une mortalité élevée. Le roi commence par refuser de subir l'intervention, mais Treves insiste en déclarant que s'il n'est pas autorisé à opérer, il y aura des funérailles à la place du couronnement. Le lendemain de son opération, Édouard est assis dans son lit et fume le cigare.

Treves reçoit en récompense le titre de baronnet (ce qu'Édouard VII avait décidé avant d'être opéré) et la chirurgie de l'appendicite entre dans la pratique médicale courante. Treves se voit aussi garantir l'usage de  dans Richmond Park et peut ensuite prendre sa retraite anticipée. De 1902 à 1910, il est le chirurgien-sergent de la Maison Royale. Il est aussi l'un des fondateurs de la Croix-Rouge britannique, et le premier président de la  (Société des Gens du Dorset).
Vers 1920, Sir Frederick s'installe en Suisse où il meurt, à Lausanne, le  à l'âge de 70 ans. La cause de sa mort est une péritonite, une affection qui, de manière ironique, résultait fréquemment d'une rupture de l'appendice avant l'apparition des antibiotiques. Ses funérailles ont lieu en l'église Saint-Peter de Dorchester, dans le Dorset, le . Le Roi et la Reine y ont été représentés par Lord Dawson. Son ami de toujours Thomas Hardy participe à la cérémonie dont il choisit les hymnes. Il compose pour l'occasion un poème qu'il fait publier dans le Times et qui commence par ces mots : « Le soir, quand le monde sut qu'il était mort...  » (. Ses cendres reposent au cimetière de Fordington dans le Dorset.

Œuvres
Treves est l'auteur de nombreux livres, parmi lesquels
 The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923) (L'Homme-éléphant et autres souvenirs)
 Surgically Applied Anatomy (1883) (Anatomie appliquée à la chirurgie)
 The Highways and Byways of Dorset (Routes et chemins du Dorset, son comté d'origine
 A Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations (1892) (Manuel des opérations chirurgicales pour les étudiants)
 Uganda for a Holiday (Vacances en Ouganda)
 The Land That is Desolate (Le Pays désolé)
 The Cradle of the Deep (1908) (Le Berceau des profondeurs).
Ce dernier volume est un récit de ses voyages aux Antilles, entrecoupées de fragments de leur histoire relatant (entre autres) la mort du pirate Barbe Noire, l'éruption de la Montagne Pelée qui détruisit la ville de Saint-Pierre en Martinique, et un puissant tremblement de terre à Kingston (Jamaïque), où il était arrivé peu après cette catastrophe.

Le personnage de fiction

Treves est l'un des personnages principaux d'une pièce de théâtre de Bernard Pomerance intitulée The Elephant man  (1977) sur la vie de Joseph Merrick, ainsi que d'un film de David Lynch, Elephant Man (1980) où il est interprété par Anthony Hopkins. Dans ce film, l'acteur anglais Frederick Treves, le petit neveu homonyme de Sir Frederick Treves, interprète le rôle d'Alderman.

Annexes

Liens externes

Bibliographie

Notes et références

Chirurgien britannique
Médecin militaire
Baronnet
Chevalier grand-croix de l'ordre royal de Victoria
Personnalité de l'époque victorienne
Compagnon de l'ordre du Bain
Membre de l'ordre des compagnons d'honneur
Naissance en février 1853
Naissance dans le Dorset
Décès en décembre 1923
Décès à Lausanne
Décès à 70 ans
Mort de la péritonite
Personnalité de la seconde guerre des Boers

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Interview: CPJ's Carlos Lauría on Press Freedoms in Venezuela
AS/COA Online spoke to Carlos Lauría, the senior Americas program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists about press freedom in Venezuela, how media restrictions affect the presidential campaigns, and violence against journalists.
"Whether Chávez is re-elected or Capriles is elected as president, the challenge will be to restore a climate of tolerance, a climate of dialogue, where all journalists will be able to do their jobs without government interference, harassment, and pressure."
Over the course of his term in office, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has taken steps to undermine the country's private media outlets, which provide a voice for the critics of the government and offer an alternative to state-run media outlets. Prior to Venezuela's October 7 presidential election, AS/COA Online's Nathaniel Parish Flannery spoke to Carlos Lauría, the senior Americas program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). He discussed some of the steps the Chávez administration has taken to limit press freedoms, how media restrictions affect the presidential campaigns, and violence against journalists.
AS/COA Online: During this year's election in Venezuela, press freedom is an important issue, but what are specific challenges the country faces around freedom of the press?
Carlos Lauría: It's very important for the upcoming election. Why? Because an array of legislation, the use of regulatory bodies to target critical outlets and journalists, and systematic government harassment have debilitated the press in a way that has basically diminished its capacity to be able to perform its work in a way that will help Venezuelans access diverse information and make informed decisions. In-depth reporting is needed in this critical moment, in this critical election. Since Chávez took office, several media outlets have been taken off the air. RCTV is probably the clearest example. It was the largest TV network and very critical of the government. That network had been on the air for more than 50 years, but its concession was not renewed because the government decided that they wanted it off the air. It was a political decision. There were several other stations that suffered through a similar process and are now off the air. At the same time, the government created a massive network of state media outlets, which basically transmit propaganda and are used to smear critical journalists who launch verbal assaults against them. All this has created an environment where the media is not able to fulfill its role. Citizens are being deprived of important information. And clearly, it's affecting the way Venezuelans are receiving information. The government, for example, is not providing statistics on some of the main issues facing Venezuelan this election.
When it comes to the issues that concern Venezuela the most—crime, for example—the government's not providing information. The government hasn't provided official statistics on crime since 2004, and has tried to hide this information from the public and from the media. Another example is the prison crisis, which has led to dozens of inmates killed in riots. It's something of concern for Venezuelans: people, inmates, getting guns and drugs into prisons. All this information, it's gone unreported.
Prison Minister Iris Valera said in May that they won't provide any information on the prison riots in El Rodeo, because the media was engaging a campaign to attack the president. Information on inflation, on the economic crisis, about the oil refinery explosion, water contamination: all these issues are critical for Venezuelans facing the election but are going unreported. There's no in-depth reporting that will allow Venezuelans to make informed decisions.
This problem is probably one of the main challenges for the next administration. Whether Chávez is re-elected or Capriles is elected as president, the challenge will be to restore a climate of tolerance, a climate of dialogue, where all journalists will be able to do their jobs without government interference, harassment, and pressure.
AS/COA Online: In the last few weeks, there have been several attacks on individual journalists. Is this a new development that is specific to the election cycle?
Lauría: It may be related. These most recent instances may be related to election coverage, but there were periods in Venezuela, for example after the coup, when pro-government protests and opposition protests where on multiple occasions journalists were attacked and physically assaulted. This is not new. These latest incidents may be related to the fact that we're in a period of rising political tensions, but this has happened before in Venezuela.
AS/COA Online: Some watchdog groups have claimed that Chávez has an unfair advantage in the media. How has state-run media impacted this campaign?
Lauría: The fact that the state has invested heavily in media aimed at discrediting the opposition and critical journalists will probably have an effect. The government knew after the failed coup of April 2002 that in order to challenge the influence of private media, they needed to build a powerful conglomerate that will compete with private media. They've been very successful at that. State media allows the president to be omnipresent in the media and gives him the ability to transmit broadcasts simultaneously on all channels, both private- and state-run. He's had 1,600 hours of TV broadcasts since he took office in 1999.
I think the president has an advantage. There's only one critical broadcaster remaining in Venezuela; we're talking about Globovision, a station that goes on the air only in Caracas and the state of Carabobo. This situation allows the government to have a huge presence. I think this may be one of the reasons behind the decision by Capriles to go door to door on these extensive visits and try to be everywhere in order to reach all Venezuelans.
AS/COA Online: Are Chávez's health issues preventing him from taking full advantage of this state media monopoly?
Lauría: The fact that he's being less visible in the campaign obviously hurts, but the propaganda is still there. He may not be as present in this campaign, but the propaganda machine is working well and I think it gives him a clear advantage.
AS/COA Online: How does the rise of social media make this election different from previous elections?
Lauría: Social media is allowing many people to use other vehicles of communications. It's already having an impact. We have documented attacks against journalists, activists, writers who are active on social media. According to Espacio Público, in the last two years, there have been more than 40 attacks against these people.
Emails and Twitter accounts have been hacked. Compromised accounts have been used to transmit messages that favor the government and insult and attack journalists or members of the opposition. There's a group which has been attributed to some of these attacks called N33. Apparently they have aligned themselves as being pro-government, and have said they've been responsible for some of this hacking of websites and Twitter accounts of critical journalists.
AS/COA Online: How does the level of violence against journalists in Venezuela compare to other countries in the region, specifically to Mexico?
Lauría: There's no level of comparison between Venezuela and Mexico. The problems in Venezuela are completely different from the problems in Mexico. I usually try not to establish comparisons between countries, because even countries that have perennial violence are different from each other because of the political context. So I think there are no parameters to compare what's going in Venezuela and what's going on in Mexico.
Mexico has clearly become one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world, not only in the Americas. Almost 50 journalists have been killed or disappeared since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006.
Biden Promises a New Era with Latin America and the Caribbean. How Much Can He Really Do?
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Review: Royal Kludge RK84 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard
by Cliff Wade
Home » Latest Posts » Review: Royal Kludge RK84 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard
We live in a tenkeyless world. For a long time, the mechanical keyboard market has been dominated by a few big names including Logitech, Razer, Corsair, etc; building standard full-size keyboards. Then they started embracing tenkeyless form factors and keyboards have continued to shrink. Even Razer offers a 60% keyboard now.
There's also been a rise in keyboards that act as a canvas for your own personal expression. While keyboards from larger companies, including many of the best wireless keyboards, carry their specific design aesthetic, smaller companies offer keyboards that are meant to be changed. The $79.99 Royal Kludge RK84 is one of those models, offering wired and wireless connectivity, a sizable internal battery, a 75% keyboard design, and hot-swappable switches.
Switches: MX-compatible Red, hot-swappable
Lighting: RGB backlighting
Onboard Storage: Yes
Media Keys: Secondary FN keys
Connectivity: USB-C Wired, Bluetooth, 2.4GHz dongle
Cable: 5.6 inch USB-A to USB-C cable
Additional Ports: 2x USB 2.0 passthrough
Internal Battery: 3750mAh
Keycaps: ABS Double Shot
Software: Royal Kludge software
Measurements: (LxWxH)12.5 x 5 x 1.75 inches (315 x 125 x 40mm)
Weight: 1.77lbs (803.5g)
Right out of the box, the Royal Kludge RK84 makes a statement about stark simplicity. The entire keyboard is cast in white plastic (also available in black), with the only breaks being the transparent characters on the keycaps and the black Royal Kludge logo. On the rear, there's a single USB-C port and two USB-A 2.0 ports; the former is for charging the internal battery and wired connections, while the latter keys are for data and charging other devices.
Because this is a tenkeyless model, the numeric keypad is gone, leaving us with a total of 84 keys. Royal Kludge calls this its 80% keyboard, but the layout is really a 75% model. There's no space between any of the keys, and the right Ctrl key has been cut in half to make space for a Function key. At 12.5 inches across and 5 inches wide the RK84 is pretty small, but it's 1.75 inches thick and weighs around 1.77 pounds. That means it has a bit of heft to it, making the overall construction feel solid.
On the underside of the RK84, you'll find four rubber feet, an on-off switch, the Bluetooth / 2.4-GHz wireless toggle, and a slot for the wireless dongle. The rear feet don't pop out to change the height of the keyboard. Instead, it comes with two magnetic feet that just snap over the existing feet and add 0.375 inches of height. One problem here is there's no storage spot for the feet, so if you're traveling you'll need to stow them in a separate bag.
The model I reviewed had cloned RK-branded Red switches that mirror the standard Cherry MX Reds, but Royal Kludge also offers Blue and Brown switches as an option. However, the RK84 is built for customization. It comes with a keycap puller and switch puller, in addition to four additional switches. The keycaps are ABS doubleshot keycaps with the familiar cross pattern connector on the bottom. The switches are plate-mounted, 3-pin models, but the board looks to have holes allowing the use of PCB-mounted switches.
Both new and veteran keyboard enthusiasts will appreciate the Royal Kludge's design. The compact 75% format saves desktop space and makes it perfect for carrying around. Its multiple connection options allow you to pair it with multiple devices and switch among them with a flick of a switch or a couple of key presses.
For example, I can connect the keyboard to my desktop computer via the wired USB-C connection and my laptop via the 2.4GHz dongle. I can then connect it via Bluetooth to my smartphone, iPad, and PS5. So, without leaving my desk, I can instantly switch to any of my devices.
The power switch must be off to use the keyboard in wired mode. It will shift to wireless mode and connect via Bluetooth or the 2.4 GHz dongle when you switch it on. You can then move the mode switch between B and G modes. G connects to the USB dongle while B activates Bluetooth.
You have to note that the dongle doesn't have much range; only about five feet. If solid objects block its line of sight, you might suffer from an unreliable signal. Thankfully, the Bluetooth 5.0 baked into the keyboard more than makes up for this shortcoming.
One more great thing about the RK84 is that it works with Windows, Mac, Android/Chromebook, and iOS. So no matter what device you use, you won't run into any issues with this keyboard. Unfortunately, though, it doesn't include keycaps for Mac and iOS, so you're likely stuck with the Win key for your Command key.
For me personally, while I don't mind using a 75% keyboard, I don't just game from my PC, I also work from it. So having a full-sized keyboard is important for me especially one with the 10-key. My wife, however, has smaller hands and she much prefers smaller keyboards such as the Royal Kludge RK84. Her biggest compliment about this keyboard is while it is a 75% keyboard, all of the keys are fairly close together giving her the feel of a 60% keyboard with regards to overall size. This is something she really likes due to having smaller hands. So, if you're like her and you have smaller hands, this is certainly a keyboard worth considering for that very reason.
Since the Royal Kludge RK84 is a wireless keyboard, it has a built-in 3,750mAh battery. This is the biggest capacity battery among Royal Kludge's wireless offerings. Furthermore, it's also the only one offering both Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connections.
Royal Kludge assures the keyboard will have up to 200 hours of battery life on 2.4GHz with no backlight, which is more than decent. Even if you're typing or gaming eight hours a day, the keyboard will last for nearly a month before needing a recharge.
However, you can expect this to drop significantly when using the backlight, as LED lights consume a lot of power. Nevertheless, the lighting will automatically power off after five minutes when the keyboard's not used.
Recharging the keyboard takes about six to seven hours via the USB-C port. But you can still use the device as you're charging it, so you don't lose functionality.
However, there's no easy way to monitor the keyboard's battery level. It doesn't have a battery indicator, nor does it have a low battery warning sign. The only signs you get are the following: the space bar will blink thrice when you plug it in via USB-C and it's charging, then the spacebar flashes five times once charging is complete.
I haven't fully tested actual battery life compared to what Royal Kludge states how the battery should perform mainly because I do game from my PC, just as my wife does, and we much prefer to play with a wired keyboard.
With that said, I can tell you that we've used the keyboard in wireless mode, with backlighting enabled, and battery life seems really good. While I can't provide an exact number, I feel it's very comparable to most any other wireless keyboard when it comes to the battery life.
The RK84 features 22 built-in lighting effects, which is a good number of different effects especially considering how cheap the price is for this keyboard. Those lighting effects include the following:
Ripples Shing
Rotating Windmill
Rainbow Roulette
Stars Twinkle
Layer Upon Layer
Rich And Honored
Marquee Effect
Rotating Storm
Serpentine Horse
Retro_Snake
Diagonal Transform
Shadow_Disappear
Flash Away
Royal Kludge Software
This is the biggest drawback of the RK84. While you can perfectly use the keyboard without downloading the app, you need it if you want to unlock custom key settings, macro commands, personalized lighting effects, and update your keyboard's firmware.
The first significant issue is it doesn't have a Mac app; you must have a Windows PC to run it. Another thing is the app itself doesn't feel well built. It feels like a half-baked solution made just so that people can customize their devices. While there's not necessarily anything wrong with this, for me personally I want a really nice looking, easy to work with piece of software that I can quickly go in and make any changes that I wish to make.
You also have to spend considerable time figuring your way around making macros, assigning custom functions, and even disabling keys. Furthermore, creating custom lighting effects isn't easy to understand. It took me a lot of time to get my desired pattern through trial and error.
Thanks to the awesome folks over at Royal Kludge for allowing me to review this product and others that they have sent over in the past. They have also provided me with a special discount code that anyone can use to save a total of 10% off of your entire purchase across their site. So if you're interested in purchasing the Royal Kludge RK84, you can manually input DECRYPTED as the code during check out and then you should see your 10% discount applied immediately.
The Royal Kludge RK84 stands up to some serious competition. While most established brands like Corsair and Logitech offer mechanical keyboards way above this price point, models from boutique brands like the Keychron K2 offer an almost similar alternative at the same price.
However, the RK84's 2.4GHz wireless dongle, removable frame, and unique white design make it an excellent option. This is despite its customization software, which lacks polish and feels like a half-baked effort to have advanced features for keyboard enthusiasts and professionals.
At less than $80, you're getting a fully-featured 75% wireless mechanical keyboard with a load of customization options. Its low price lets you have extra cash to spend on custom switches, keycaps, and USB-C cables. This makes the Royal Kludge RK84 an excellent entry-level mechanical keyboard for those new to the bespoke keyboard hobby.
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Sofia Vergara Looks Hotter Than Ever In Racy New Lingerie Campaign
The 45-year-old Colombian bombshell has definitely still got it.
(Photo: EBY Underwear)
As legend has it (or at least as she has said on The Ellen Show), Sofia Vergara was discovered on a beach in Colombia prancing around in a tiny bikini.
It's not hard to see why she attracts attention whenever she bares some skin. The Modern Family star is featured in a new campaign for EBY Underwear, and the little-known lingerie maker should expect sales to soar through the roof.
There's good reason she has held onto her title as the highest paid actress on television for a sixth year in a row, earning $42 million in the last 12 months.
See what we mean with some of her hottest Instagram shots, below.
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import React from 'react';
import { Route, IndexRoute } from 'react-router';

import App from './components/App';
import TaskPlannerPage from './containers/TaskPlannerPage'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-named-as-default
import FlightInformationContainer from './containers/FlightInformationContainer'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-named-as-default
import IgcMapPageContainer from './containers/IgcMapPageContainer'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-named-as-default
import BarogramPageContainer from './containers/BarogramPageContainer'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-named-as-default
import CombinedViewPageContainer from './containers/CombinedViewPageContainer'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-named-as-default
import SettingsPageContainer from './containers/SettingsPageContainer'; // eslint-disable-line import/no-named-as-default

export default (
  <Route path="/" component={App}>
    <IndexRoute component={CombinedViewPageContainer}/>
    <Route path="task" component={TaskPlannerPage}/>
    <Route path="flightinfo" component={FlightInformationContainer}/>
    <Route path="igcmap" component={IgcMapPageContainer}/>
    <Route path="barogram" component={BarogramPageContainer} />
    <Route path="combined" component={CombinedViewPageContainer} />
    <Route path="settings" component={SettingsPageContainer} />
    <Route path="*" component={CombinedViewPageContainer}/>
  </Route>
);


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I am a strategic planner. If you tell me what you intend to accomplish, then you need to tell me how you are measuring your progress toward that goal. If your vision and mission statements talk about a goal of student "success", shouldn't you measure how many of your graduates acquire post-secondary degrees? A high school degree alone, unless accompanied by skills training for a trade, is not a guarantee of a living wage – clearly a threshold measure of "success".
In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education Beckie Supiano analyses a report from the Pew Research Center on "The Rising Cost of Not Going to College". The economic disparity between younger workers with a college degree and those without is growing. The number of college graduates with career building jobs is also much higher than for those with a high school diploma.
I know that as a superintendent with less than five years in the job, you are measuring the success (or lack thereof) of your predecessor. Nonetheless, if your vision is the success of all of your students, one measure must surely be how many of those students graduate from college. If your graduates are not making a living wage, how can you claim they are successful?
Remember the 1965 Tom Lehrer satire?
Aren't we subject to a similar satirical criticism by claiming success is just high school graduation?
Ever thought about designating a specific make-believe activity for recess at your school? Jerome and Dorothy Singer have. In this blog in Scientific American they talk about the need for pretend play to promote child development. They also mention the Root-Bernstein research indicating that Nobel prize winners and MacArthur geniuses participated more frequently in childhood games about make-believe worlds than a control group.
Perhaps the idea of a built-in 'pretend play recess' during the regular school day—where children can get together and explore an infinite amount of possible combinations of ideas, emotions, and perspectives—will one day be just as acceptable as traditional, but no less important, forms for recess and play.
Indeed if creativity and innovation are critical to our world, then we must create opportunities for our students to use their imaginations.
Thanks to Barbra Esham for making me aware of this piece in SA!
Lots of talk recently in the Ed Press decrying the high turnover rates among education professionals. If you add the number of teachers who leave the classroom for administration, the numbers are horrific.
Liz Ryan in her recent post in Forbes talks about the ten ways companies drive away talent. Is your district ten for ten?
People who teach others to read or to navigate a library, who don't give up on slow or challenged students, will get the best seats in heaven. I don't know a lot, but I know this to be true.
My brother teaches special education at a local high school. I think he will be seated near the Godiva chocolate fountain on the other side of eternity.
RISD's in great shape. At the [MIT] Media Lab, one of my mentors was a man named Stephen Benton. He once told me, "John, the role of someone in a job is to make the job more attractive for the next person." I'll never forget what he said to me. In that spirit, I have worked to make this job a better job for the next person.
How many of us can say we have done this? How many teachers, principals, superintendents that leave for a promotion, or another career, or another challenge have worked to make their current job better or easier for the next person?
Although they require a living wage, teachers unlike baseball players are not motivated by money; if they were, they wouldn't be in education.
The real measure of a high quality educational organization should be how many of their minor league teachers can they turn into major league all-stars. Hiring effective teachers that someone else has trained is cheating. Buying the Red Sox just before the World Series, doesn't make you the world champion.
Most educational organizations put their rookies into the starting lineup from day one. Most baseball organizations carefully cultivate their minor league players make sure they are ready for the big dance.
Even the best professional baseball player doesn't win the world series every year, and the best teacher doesn't dramatically improve their students' test scores every year. In fact some excellent teachers don't even teach tested subjects!
You can't predict the winner of a baseball game by knowing which team had the highest income. And yet, academic performance and a students' family income are very closely correlated. You can even predict ACT and SAT scores based upon this.
Just like in baseball, disruptive innovation in education will not come from the big money organizations. There are thousands of highly capable general managers (public school superintendents) in this country with low-budget educational teams in small revenue markets just like the Oakland A's. These educational leaders will be the source of innovation. Not because they are flush with cash from grants, but precisely the opposite. There were no baseball teams using sabermetrics until Billy Beane came to Oakland.
Baseball is now a statistically rich game, education (though surely more important) is statistically anemic – almost all of our performance conclusions are based upon the annual results of three to five standardized tests. This too shall pass.


If you follow a lot of fashion related accounts on social media, then you have probably seen this bamboo bag by Cult Gaia often. It is nothing short of fabulous and yes, it is everywhere. But when something is this good you expect it to be everywhere right? Its unique shape and design has definitely caught the eye of many in the fashion industry, and it is making its presence known! I know I love it!
I was shopping recently and my sales associate told me something that I loved. He said, "your outfit is like a story...you have a main character and supporting characters." At first I was confused by what he said, but it quickly began to all make sense. If you have a statement bag, it serves as your main character. In this case, the rest of your outfit would be supporting characters. This means, they are not the star, the bag is. They should complement the bag and allow it to stand out on its own. Support the main character. I love this because it could be said for any item of clothing, or accessory and in this case, my Cult Gaia bag is the main character. It is fun and perfect for summer. My casual outfit allows your eye to be drawn immediately to the bag, supporting it and allowing it to stand out on its own. This bag is definitely a star!


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Q: Add a menu item to Wordpress 3.5 Media Manager How can add a new menu item underneath the "insert From URL" on the left sidebar in the new Wordpress 3.5 Media Manager?
I've been looking at the backbone js and tried my hand at hooking into it with my own JS but without success.
Edit 2:
This seems to do the trick:
http://sumtips.com/2012/12/add-remove-tab-wordpress-3-5-media-upload-page.html
It should do for simple stuff, but I guess its also possible to do the same thing in Javascript. Would be nice if there was a tutorial/explanation on how the new media manager internals work.

A: You can hook into the media_upload_tabs filter to add the tab. This is the method used by the Network Shared Media plugin:
function wpse_76980_add_upload_tab( $tabs ) {
    $newtab = array( 'tab_slug' => 'Tab Name' );
    return array_merge( $tabs, $newtab );
}
add_filter( 'media_upload_tabs', 'wpse_76980_add_upload_tab' );

You can then hook to the media_upload_tab_slug action (where tab_slug is as used above) to display the tab contents:
function wpse_76980_media_upload() {
    // display tab contents
}
add_action( 'media_upload_tab_slug', 'wpse_76980_media_upload' );

A: I have not a solution, but hints. The strings get from a array. You can filter via hook media_view_strings. The modal box after click is a javascript, build with backbone.js since WP 3.5. See in /wp-includes/js/media-views.js for a solution. Backbone is also new for me and the scripts have many lines of source.

A: OK, I think that I have something that is really close to be an answer:
I put my code in a gist
Here is the result :

I built several Backbone object to respect the MVC pattern : the controller.Custom is in charge of doing all the logic, the view.Toolbar.Custom deals with toolbar buttons, and the view.Custom display the inner UI.

A: I'm working on adding a button to the "router menu" (adding something right of "Media Library"), but the system is the same.
<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(window).on('load', function() {
        var media   = window.wp.media,
        Attachment  = media.model.Attachment,
        Attachments = media.model.Attachments,
        Query       = media.model.Query,
        l10n = media.view.l10n = typeof _wpMediaViewsL10n === 'undefined' ? {} : _wpMediaViewsL10n,
        NewMenuItem;

        jQuery(document).on( 'click', '.insert-media', function( event ) {
            var workflow = wp.media.editor.get();
            var options = workflow.options;
            if( undefined == NewMenuItem ) {
                NewMenuItem = new wp.media.view.RouterItem( _.extend( options, { text: 'New Item!' } ) );
                workflow.menu.view.views.set( '.media-menu', NewMenuItem, _.extend( options, { add: true } ) );
            }

        });
    });
</script>

Now, it doesn't do anything yet. That's the next step!

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Azure Active Directory Integration - NEW!
Organimi now has integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to assist you with the import of members of your organization! All of the member's information including their Picture, Name, Title, Department, Email, Manager's name, etc. can be imported into Organimi. The Manager's field information on a User's AD profile will be used to build the structure of your org chart for you automatically!!!
Note: You must be an "Administrator in Active Directory" to be able to use this feature of importing members into Organimi from your Active Directory.
Click on Azure Active Directory at the left, then click Users.
Select the first user profile and ensure the Manager field is populated.
Continue to check all of the user profiles to ensure all appropriate fields are populated, such as Name, Picture, Email, Job Title, Department, and Manager, etc.
Log in to Organimi, and select A. the Organimi logo at the top left to get to the main dashboard, B. select the Integrations tab, then select C. Configure.
From chart view or the dashboard, click Bulk Import. Choose A. Integrate with another system, then B. Configure.
Click to sign in to your Microsoft account.
Enable the checkbox Consent on behalf of your organization, then click Accept.
You are then returned back to Organimi.
Note: In Active Directory each user can have a 'Manager' set. If "Manager Data" exists is defined (populated), the "Automatically Build Chart" option will appear.
Choose A. Active Directory Users, then B. *Automatically Build a Chart.
Click Next. The system reads all the data from Microsoft and makes/validates the chart data to ensure a complete chart structure. An error message about the chart structure is displayed if there is a problem with the structure. If there is, you can uncheck "Automatically Build Chart" and import just the member profiles, or you can go back to Active Directory and correct as needed.
The org chart names and other roster information including photos are imported.
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Book Review | Today Tonight Tomorrow (ARC)
On August 4, 2020 September 4, 2020 By Jenny A
I received an advance reader's copy (ARC) of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won't quote directly and will keep my comments general.
Today Tonight Tomorrow takes place over the course of 24 hours, during the last day/night of high school for the main characters. Rowan and Neil have been rivals their entire time in high school, competing in everything from debate to student council. Now, with graduation coming up and senior year ending, Rowan is faced with lots of life changes—including the fact she will never have to talk to her worst frenemy again. But the last night of high school features a city-wide scavenger hunt for the graduates, and circumstances force her and Neil together one last time. As the night goes on, though, their rivalry starts to shift as they learn things about each other they have missed. Perhaps they aren't as different as they thought.
I thought this book would have slightly weak character development, considering how short a span of time it covers. I've never read a book like it, so I misjudged it, because it really worked! The protagonists Rowan and Neil are both well written and relatable, fun and interesting, and they both had great character arcs. Seeing them get to know each other in new ways, seeing their attitudes shift as preconceived notions are dismantled, was so satisfying.
It helps that Rowan and Neil have known each other for years. You feel their familiarity in the way they banter and tease, so the way their bond evolves feels organic rather than forced. It's like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, which, since that's the epigraph, must be deliberate. And I love it.
The side characters like Kirby, Mara, and the parents are also good. They don't feel clichéd or like caricatures, and add depth to the core pair's relationship.
I also really enjoyed the scavenger hunt aspect of the plot. It keeps the action moving forward, gives the characters chances to bond in new ways, and features aspects of life in Seattle I knew nothing about. It was fun!
The subplot about romance books is beautifully done. Rowan's desires warring with insecurity was well described, and seeing her learn to defend and embrace her passion for a genre too-often mocked, despite being one of the only genres to deliberately uplift women, was wonderful. Give me a book about books, and I'll eat it up, apparently.
In the end, I liked Today Tonight Tomorrow way more than I thought I would. I underestimated the character development, the depth of theme, the witty dialogue, and the romance. This is a brilliantly executed book with a strong set of leads, an enjoyable plot, and an all-around feel good story about people's hidden depths. It's adorable and lovely.
Quick note: There are some themes that might not be well suited to young readers, such as brief recreational drug use, language, and mild sexual content. There's also a couple discussions of anti-Semitic micro-aggressions. The latter especially is handled with sensitivity, but these things probably this book more for older teens and adults than for younger teens.
Overall rating: 8.7/10
Looks like the pub date for this got pushed back slightly from its original June date due to the virus, but it's out now!
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G7 Caps Price of Russian Oil, India Likely to Bypass It; Instead of Withdrawing Food Security, Minimum Income Guarantee Needed
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India tightens belt after festive season, Ivy League campus recognises caste discrimination, environment minister denies link between air pollution and health, 1,000 crocodiles headed Ambani's way
A newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas | Contributors: MK Venu, Seema Chishti, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sidharth Bhatia, Sushant Singh and Tanweer Alam | Editor: Pratik Kanjilal
Snapshot of the day
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While Hindu extremists today see Indian Muslims as aliens, South Asia's first mosque bears witness to over a millennium of communal diversity and harmony. Seema Chishti on the tale of two mosques, one demolished in Ayodhya by Hindutva goons on December 6, 1992, and the other standing ― indeed, restored ― in Kerala, South Asia's first.
The banality of horror: a vegetable vendor in Kanpur, lost both his legs on Friday after being hit by a train. He was collecting his weighing scale and other belongings thrown on the railway tracks by a police team during an anti-encroachment drive. The UP Police have suspended a head constable for negligence.
The jury is out ― in the open. "It saddens us greatly to see the festival platform being used for politics and subsequent personal attacks on Nadav," IFFI jury members Jinko Gotoh, Pascale Chavance and Javier Angulo Barturen said in a joint statement against the demonisation of the jury chair for calling out The Kashmir Files. The Israeli ambassador revealed that pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic hate messages were in his inbox. The episode has exposed India's ingrained majoritarian intolerance.
Nirupama Subramanian @tallstories
Dear Ambassador Gilon, you may know this already, Hitler has many admirers in this country among the same lot who saw in a bad film an opportunity to push communalism, bigotry, prejudice. Sorry to say, your apology empowered them. MeinKampf is India's perennial top seller. https://t.co/vqT0PlS8f4
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Brown is the first Ivy League campus to recognise caste discrimination, adding "a new provision to its nondiscrimination policy that explicitly prohibits caste oppression." Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity Sylvia Carey-Butler, who developed the policy change, said that as the South Asian population in the US increases, caste discrimination is a growing issue on campus.
The families of the eight ex-naval officers in custody in Qatar were told yesterday by officials of the company where they worked that their custody has been increased by one more month at a court hearing. The former Indian Navy officers have been in solitary confinement since August 30, and there is no public information of the charges against them. Their families have been urging New Delhi to secure their release.
The Taliban's Head of Political Office Suhail Shaheen has said that a Taliban delegation met with the head of mission of the Indian Embassy in Kabul and invited its teams to help build and sustain infrastructure in the country. The relationship between the Taliban administration and India remains undefined and India, which has not recognised it, is hesitant to acknowledge contact. An Indian technical team was sent to reopen the embassy a few months back. Engaging the Taliban is good statecraft, but it's "all tactical, and in the absence of strategic engagement, they raise serious questions about India's long-term goals", writes Sushant Singh in The Morning Context.
Polling will end in Gujarat today, with 93 Assembly constituencies across 14 districts of north and central Gujarat voting. Ajoy Ashirwad looks at how important the 'communal question' still is in the state. Important by-elections in UP, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Odisha are also on today. Narendra Modi turned the casting of his own vote into a televised spectacle lasting nearly two-and-a-half hours, prompting complaints from the Congress about the blatant violation of elections laws which prohibit campaigning and advertising on polling day.
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State Bank of India economic research report Ecowrap finds that the rising cost of living since September 2021 in India matches that of the US, but is lower than European countries affected directly by the Ukraine War. In rupee terms, if the household budget/cost of living was Rs 100 in September 2021 across all countries, it has now increased by Rs 12 in the US and India, but by Rs 20 in Germany and Rs 23 in the UK.
CAG data reveals that the pension bill has exceeded salary and spending on wages for the Centre and three states, including Gujarat.
An Oxfam India report titled 'India Inequality Report 2022: Digital Divide' finds that while 61% of men owned mobile phones in 2021, only 31% women had access. Digital technologies remain limited to urban, upper-caste and upper-class men. While 8% of the 'general' caste have access to a computer or a laptop, less than 1% of the Scheduled Tribes and 2% of the Scheduled Castes can afford it.
The government has controversially opened yet another week-long window for electoral bond sales starting today, less than a month after it amended the Electoral Bond Scheme to enable an additional fortnight of sales in years when states and Union Territories with legislatures have polls. The 29th tranche will be sold till December 12.
Planned regulation of online gaming in India will apply to all games involving real money, after the PMO overruled a proposal to only regulate games of skill, not chance. A Modi adviser in a meeting stated that "online gaming may be considered as one activity/service", reports Reuters.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, will conclude on January 26 in Kashmir, after covering 3,500 km. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi was to end the yatra by hoisting the tricolour in Srinagar on February 20, but the event has been pulled back to Republic Day. Mallikarjun Kharge will be approved as Congress president in a plenary session before February 7, and the new Congress Working Committee will be formed. Long-overdue organisational changes will be carried out.
The Telegraph reports on a campaign in BJP-governed Uttarakhand for over two months "in pursuit of an uncommon demand: make public the names of the VIP clients of a prostitution racket" that allegedly led to the murder of a teenaged receptionist at a resort owned by the son of a BJP leader. On Saturday, 500 people marched to Raj Bhavan in Dehradun and were lathicharged.
Singapore's amendment to its Constitution to "protect" the heterosexual definition of marriage and shield the constitutionality of this definition from legal challenge has partly been justified by the government "citing the increasingly liberal stance the Supreme Court of India has taken on issues of marriage and familial structure since it decriminalised homosexuality in 2018."
Unregistered (and unscrupulous) financial advisors (Finfluencers) have become so successful that "Sebi's onerous regulations for registered advisors look hopelessly ineffective, and those who follow them feel like losers."
The Bhopal gas disaster anniversary just went by. The flight of specialists from the Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, set up to treat victims of the tragedy 38 years ago on the night of December 2, 1984, is an indicator of the state of healthcare in Madhya Pradesh. Over 60% of posts in faculties and for Specialist Grade doctors are vacant ― 41 out of 68. Of the 18 departments, five (medical gastroenterology, surgical gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology and endocrinology) have been closed for long due to the failure to recruit personnel. In November, the High Court had directed the Indian Council of Medical Research to fill vacant posts within 14 days.
Environment minister Ashwini Choubey said in Parliament that there is no conclusive data to establish a direct correlation between air pollution and health. Factchecker.in finds that "his own ministry's peer-reviewed research contradicts the claim."
Did an RTI reveal that Rs 30 crore were spent on Modi's visit to Morbi? Evidently not, as per a fact-check. Like many others, we at the Cable were taken in by the fake news, and we apologise.
India tightens belt after festive season
Rural demand for FMCGs in November dropped after the festive season. Urban demand is also affected,
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This is small and dim Comet 209P/LINEAR, as captured by Ido of Baraket (Emerald) Observatory in Israel last night (May 21, 2014). We won't see this comet with the eye alone. What's exciting here is that calculations of the orbit of 209P/LINEAR indicate that – on the night of May 23-24, 2014 – Earth will sweep through debris trails from this comet. Debris left behind by the comet may enter our atmosphere and burn up, creating a new and perhaps very strong meteor shower!


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Ben is currently a design director at Blink UX and heads up Blink's Boston studio. He leads a team of multidisciplinary designers, strategist, and researchers on design system and brand projects with ambitious partners including Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and NASA. Ben is also a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University teaching design process.
With over a decade of design and creative leadership experience, Ben's strengths encompass championing a human-centered design process with collaboration at the core, transforming concepts into product vision, and designing at the delta of interaction, visual, and motion design.
Prior to Blink, Ben was creative director at Tectonic leading a team of hybrid designers on envisioning projects for Bang & Olufsen, Conservation International, HBO, and Rhapsody. Prior to Tectonic, he worked on future concepts at Microsoft's Envisioning Lab and as an exhibit designer at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.
Ben has an MFA in design from the University of Washington in Seattle where he studied and practiced graphic design, design theory, data visualization, and exhibit design while developing an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving. When given the chance, he'll gladly talk about design workshops, grid systems, typography, and Murphy beds.
This is Design School Podcast Interview
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Plans to turn street lights in Coventry off at midnight to save cash
It would save £250,000 a year
Tom DavisLocal Democracy Reporter
Street lights in Coventry could be turned off at midnight under plans to save money
Residential roads in Coventry could be plunged into darkness under council plans to turn street lights off at midnight to save cash.
Plans were revealed as part of the city council's budget setting process as it looks to plug a £16.7 million funding gap in 2020/21.
But the authority has now confirmed further details of the proposals, which would see street lighting cut from midnight to 5.30am.
Main traffic routes and the city centre would be unaffected, and lights across the city would remain on on Friday and Saturday nights under the plans.
The proposals are hoped to save £250,000 in 2020/21 and the same amount in the next three years – taking the total saving to £1m.
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The proposals will need to go through scrutiny from councillors as well as a public consultation before approval next year.
A council spokesman said: "The council will be consulting on potential street lighting savings which would involve an overnight switch off/dimming of lighting in residential areas (not main traffic routes or city centre) midnight to 5.30am.
"This would not apply Friday and Saturday nights when the lights will remain on."
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Cabinet member for finance, Cllr John Mutton, added: "Savings on street lights would need to be done without compromising the safety of traffic users."
It is one of a number of cost-cutting measures proposed by the authority as it looks to balance the books.
Around £5.5m in 'service savings' have been found with Cllr Mutton admitting the authority is "having to make difficult decisions" this year, citing a reduction in government funding.
Discussing the wider plans, he added: "We have to balance the budget somewhere.
"All local authorities are having to make similar decisions because of the funding position that we are in.
"It's councils that need to keep delivering services in these difficult circumstances but we want to involve local people in helping us target our services."
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