The background is that for a long time we have recommended the Oracle Java virtual machine and this is what we have used for the majority of our internal testing. However, Oracle has recently changed their support licensing rules and this has made us change our plans. See https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-se-support-roadmap.html for the details of the change, but essentially the support going forward will no longer be free of charge.
As a result of the changes we have moved to OpenJDK as our recommended Java distribution and OpenJDK is what we now will use in the majority of our internal testing of RTist.
Remember that RTist only supports 64 bit Java 8, so when downloading from any of the links above choose this version of the Java virtual machine.
Note that we made the move to Open JDK for our internal testing already in sprint 2019.11 so this is already live. Also note that if you want to check the details of our recommendations look in the system requirements documents that is available in every release of RTist.


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Tennis Ledger
Grand Slam Coverage of Tennis
Dave "The Koz" Kozlowski
Derek Felix
Lloyd Carroll
Rich Pagliaro
Richard Kent
Playing Tennis at Night: What You'll Need
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The College Conundrum
September 21, 2010 by Richard Kent Leave a Comment
Professional tennis players and especially American professional tennis players face the decision at some point in their careers. Men and women. To go to college or not go to college?
Players from outside of the United States like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal invariably choose to turn professional at an early age. There is less pressure on young tennis stars to attend college in many foreign countries than there is in the United States. There is also less precedent.
As early as 30 years ago, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors had to make the decision. Mac attended Stanford for two years and won the NCAA's. He has never regretted his college decision.Same with Jimmy Connors at UCLA. He went for one year and also won the NCAA's.
Three years ago, John Isner and Sam Querry burst on the scene.Isner went to the University of Georgia for four years and led his team to an NCAA crown.He finished second in singles. He wasn't ready as a player to turn pro out of high school.Sam Querry, on the other hand turned down a full scholarship at USC. They are both about equally ranked now.
The college scene has changed dramatically over the past decade or so. More foreign players are attending colleges in the States and that makes the competition better for Americans who continue on with their educations. Benjamin Becker is a prime example. He attended Baylor and is now No. 50 in the world.
The US Open Junior Finals this year pitted Jack Sock against Denis Kudla. Sock won the event and is torn between college and turning pro. Kudla has already turned pro. Sock and his family were approached by countless agents at the Open.
In our opinion, players should take a page from the James Blake playbook. The former Fairfield, Connecticut high school star attended Harvard for two years and then turned pro. He honed his skills at Harvard and picked up many valuable life tools in the process.He rose to as high as no. 6 in the world and was an endorsement guru. College did not hurt him a bit.
Jesse Levine turned pro after one year at the University of Florida. He stated, "You can always go back to school but not to pro tennis." That is true but Levine has had a somewhat undistinguished pro career and probably wasn't ready physically to turn pro when he did. Perhaps four years in college would have made Levine a better pro and a more well rounded individual.
Clearly, there is no easy answer to this conundrum facing many young tennis players.
Richard Kent is the autor of Inside the US Open and The Racket.
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I have this Arch Linux based ODROID-U3 I use as DLNA server, local web server…etc…and also as local DNS caching server.
For some strange reason pdnsd doesn't seem to start correctly on Arch Linux.
Jan 01 20:02:06 server systemd: Started proxy name server.
Jan 01 20:02:07 server systemd: Unit pdnsd.service entered failed state.
Adding "After=network-online.target" and "Wants=network-online.target" in the Unit section of the startup script doesn't seem to make any difference.
So far the only workaround which really works is adding the line "After=multi-user.target" in the service script.


The 416 Fire hasn't exhaled its last column of smoke yet, but steady rainfall Saturday did help tame the 16-day-old wildfire and allow firefighters to increase containment lines around the 34,161-acre blaze.
Another quiet day also allowed La Plata County officials to lift evacuation orders for 284 homes and two businesses in the Haviland Lake, Electra Lake and Lakewood Meadows subdivisions. Beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday, evacuated residents and businesses on both sides of U.S. Highway 550 from the Glacier Club to Needles can return to their homes and businesses.
Additionally, U.S. Highway 550 will reopen to all lanes of traffic at 8 a.m. Sunday with no law enforcement escorts or restrictions.
Fire officials had been concerned about the threat of floods that could occur, but the light rain allowed the soils to absorb the moisture. A flash-flood watch is in effect until 6 a.m. Sunday.
"We got a lot of moisture on the ground at this point. By Monday, we'll dry up fast, so that's when I expect to see a little more smoke developing again," Colton said.
The system was a result of Tropical Storm Bud and not the monsoons. The monsoons won't arrive for two to three more weeks, Colton said.


Our Year 6s and 7s have been working hard for the NAIS Young Enterprise Challenge. Their first task was to formulate a company, then they had to complete market research and find out more about the people they were going to get to buy their product. Here are some photos of the teams at work over the last week – they were busy designing posters, taste testing products, marketing their product and they have been selling all week. What a busy week it's been for our budding entrepreneurs!


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The more you do, the more you'll get.
We encourage you to get involved at Lakeside in whatever way you choose! Here are some suggestions. Contact the Lakeside Office if you don't see an idea of interest below.
Administrative. Volunteer in the temple office.
Adult Learning. Attend a congregational event or program (such as Saturday Torah study, Sunday morning Adult Enrichment, or an evening class).
Join Lakeside's Adult Choir. Love to sing? Get involved in our Adult Choir.
Mitzvah Day Planning. Have an idea for a mitzvah project for Mitzvah Day? Become a project captain or join a current project team.
Rosh Chodesh (women only). Take part in our monthly communal gathering in partnership with the Women of Lakeside. Contact Judy Cohan for more details.
Social Action Committee. Lakeside's Social Action Committee is one of the most robust groups in our congregation. If you have a passion for social justice, this might be the perfect fit!
Women of Lakeside. The Women of Lakeside gather for special programs, sponsor annual events (such as our Break-the-Fast meal and an annual Women's Shabbat), and much more. To get involved or to join, contact the Lakeside Office or Mary Solof.


In advertising, an insert or blow-in card is a separate advertisement put in a magazine, newspaper, or other publication. They are usually the main source of income for non-subscription local newspapers and other publications. Sundays typically bring numerous large inserts in newspapers, because most weekly sales begin on that day, and it also has the highest circulation of any day of the week.
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Ignite React components/styles/containers etc the Infinite Red way.

## Install
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## Use
`ignite new MyApplication` creates a new base application.
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Advisian seals exclusive partnership with Professor Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University
Cost overruns and delays are no strangers to large infrastructure projects. Recent mega-projects such as the
Kuala Lumpur Airport, Singapore MRT Circle Line and the Hong Kong Express Rail Link, to name a few, have experienced cost overruns and delays that attract public attention.
Although cost estimation practices and tools (e.g., BIM) have been improving significantly, unknown risks and inherent biases always exist and present challenges to developing truly accurate cost forecasts for mega-projects. Indeed, most mega-project cost overruns are driven primarily by over-optimism and strategic misrepresentation during early planning phases.
Reference Class Forecasting (RCF) was introduced by Professor Bent Flyvbjerg of the University of Oxford to eliminate forecasting bias, enabling governments and mega-project developers to better understand the potential impact of their project risks, forecast outcomes, and make better informed decisions.
Advisian is proud to partner exclusively with Professor Flyvbjerg to bring RCF to clients across the Asia Pacific region.
What is reference class forecasting?
A theory originally developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky postulates that project developers are too optimistic in their forecasts, due to overconfidence and an inability to intuitively understand all possible outcomes – especially adversities a project might face in the future. As a result, project developers tend to underestimate costs, completion times, and risks, and overestimate the benefits of those same actions; a condition known as 'optimism bias'. Kahneman's work earned him the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, specifically for his "integrative economic analysis with fundamental insights from cognitive psychology".1
Professor Flyvbjerg has expanded upon Kahneman's theory and successfully introduced practical applications of RCF into project management to achieve greater accuracy by basing "forecasts on actual performance in a reference class of comparable projects and thereby bypassing both optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation"2. In practical terms, RCF is applied by first examining cost and schedule data from a reference class of several similar projects at various stages of their development. "Statistical uplift curves" based on comparisons between the original forecast data and the actual outcomes of each of these projects can be produced. The curves can then be used to adjust the base estimate of a project in a top-down, non-biased way to adequately cover cost and time budget contingencies according to the risk appetite of decision makers. This data is also internationally benchmarked against data contained in a multi-thousand strong global project database.
What value does RCF bring?
With RCF, project developers are provided with greater certainty about their project's cost and schedule. By being able to have greater reliance on the accuracy of forecasts, interventions can be made earlier if required, or variations incorporated as needed, saving clients both time, money and reputation. This can benefit a number of large project stakeholders in several ways:
Government bodies can make better informed forecasts at project inception which will help with project definition and save potential time-consuming and reputation-damaging requests for extra funding
Private developers can use RCF to reduce uncertainties around contingencies to better enable internal portfolio/project funding and to make projects more "bankable" to external investors
Funds and financiers can use RCF as part of project or portfolio due diligence
Large public project portfolio owners, e.g. highway agencies and departments, can use RCF as a tool to re-group individual projects into programmes based on project risk profiles or potential costs
RCF in action
In Hong Kong, when infrastructure projects have cost overruns or delays, the Government has to declare this to the public and ask for extra funding. Such cost overruns or delays often cost billions of Hong Kong Dollars and have the potential to erode the public's confidence in the Government's overall cost and schedule forecasting abilities. In 2010 Advisian teamed up with Professor Flyvbjerg to bring RCF to Hong Kong. In 2012, the Development Bureau formally engaged Advisian and Prof Flyvbjerg to look into the possibility of applying RCF to Hong Kong's large-scale public works projects, with major roadworks projects as a pilot reference class. The study was completed with practical uplift curves to determine contingencies at different confidence levels. It also explored the potential of applying a portfolio management approach to government projects for better allocation of public funding through balancing exceedance and under-use of project budgets.
Since then Advisian, in collaboration with Prof Flyvbjerg, has completed and delivered assignments for the Development Bureau (including the Highways Department and the Civil Engineering and Development Department), and has been doing similar studies with the Drainage Services Department, the Architectural Services Department and the Water Supplies Department.
Since February 2016, the exclusive partnership between Advisian and Prof Flyvbjerg to provide RCF services has been extended from Hong Kong to the entire Asia Pacific region. For more information on RCF and how it might be able to benefit you, please contact:
WH Fok | Hong Kong
Tel no. +852 3556 7356
Email wh.fok@advisian.com
1 Daniel Kahneman - Facts". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Mar 2016. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/kahneman-facts.html
2 http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk/Publications2006/Nobel-PMJ2006.pdf
Khi Solar One 50MW solar power tower plant
Creating the optimal asset
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Mariana Gheorghe
Romania: New CEO for OMV Petrom as of May
Scottish manager Christina Verchere will take over as President of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OMV Petrom on May 1, 2018. She replaces Romanian Mariana Gheorghe, who will end her mandate at the helm of OMV…
Romania: Fuels demand up by 6.7 pct in 2017
The fuel demand increased significantly in 2017, by 6.7 percent due to economic growth of Romania and the supplementation of Romanian auto park by 630,000 cars, said Mariana Gheorghe, CEO of OMV Petrom. "The most important factor was the…
Romania: OMV Petrom negotiating regional deals for Black Sea gas
Oil major OMV Petrom is exploring the region to sign export deals for the gas that will be extracted from the Black Sea as the company estimates that the demand on the Romanian market might not be enough to cover the supply. "Without an…
Romania: OMV Petrom to sell 60 oilfields
OMV Petrom, the largest oil and gas producer in Southeastern Europe, continues to sell several assets in its portfolio this year, so it will transfer 50-60 less profitable oilfields and will sell three motels, Mariana Gheorghe, CEO OMV…
Romania: OMV Petrom doubles profit in this year's first quarter
OMV Petrom, the biggest oil&gas company in Romania, posted a net profit of RON 619 million (EUR 136 million) in the first quarter of this year, up 113% compared to the same period of 2016. The group's sales went up by 27%, to RON 4.65…
Romania: French retailer opens proximity stores in Petrom gas stations
OMV Petrom, the biggest oil and gas group in Romania, has signed a partnership with the local subsidiary of French retailer Auchan, under which the retailer will open 15 proximity stores in Petrom gas stations by the end of 2017. The new…
Romania, Petrom's Gheorghe: Competitive fuel market in Romania, among lowest prices in Europe
Fuel market in Romania is competitive and prices in our country are among the lowest in Europe, said on Thursday, Mariana Gheorghe, CEO of OMV Petrom, in a press conference. She noted that the data on the website of the European…
Romania: OMV Petrom returns to profit, pays dividends, aims for regional expansion
OMV Petrom, the biggest oil and gas group in Romania, controlled by Austria's OMV, recorded a RON 1.04 billion (EUR 232 million) net profit in 2016, after posting EUR 152 million losses in 2015. The group's Executive Board proposed a RON…
UK court freezes $145 mln in Nord Stream dividends from being paid to Gazprom


Broadcaster Tim Ryan asked if Baalke was in favor of a franchise "re-set." The team hasn't had a winning record in three seasons and will finish with the second-worst mark in the NFL this year. Along with Baalke, Chip Kelly is expected to be let go after meeting with CEO Jed York later today.
On 49ers: Will the team pick from Ron Wolf's tree of GM candidates?


AP exam season will be here soon. As they have done for the last five years, C-SPAN Classroom will be hosting a live Cram for the Exam session on May 4th. It's free and open to any student who is taking the AP Government exam. That's not the only AP Government review resource that C-SPAN offers. This year they're offering five units of Quizlet and Kahoot activities that students can use in your classroom and or independently.
C-SPAN Classroom's AP Government Key Review Terms lesson contains five units aligned to the AP Government and Politics course and exam. In each unit you will find links to the aforementioned Quizlets and Kahoots. The lesson also includes charts, Google Docs, and suggested review activities.
To access C-SPAN Classroom's lesson plans you do have to have a C-SPAN Classroom account. Fortunately, accounts are free and take only a minute or two to create. Additionally, you can probably find the Kahoot activities by searching Kahoot's gallery of public games.
Flippity's Spelling Words is a free Google Sheets template that you can use to create individualized spelling games for your students. To do this you simply have to make a list of words that you want each of your students to practice. You'll then put those lists under your students' names in a Google Sheets template that is provided by Flippity.
To get started you can either go to Flippity.net and select the Spelling Words template or use Flippity's Google Sheets add-on and select Spelling Words.
Once you have made a copy of the template you then have to write your students' names across the second row of the spreadsheet.
Below each student's name you will enter the list of words that you want them to practice spelling.
If you would like to, you can enter a sentence along with each spelling word in order to provide students with some content for its use.
There is an option to have students' results emailed to you. To do that you enter your email address below each student's name in your spreadsheet.
Once you have completed the steps listed above, select "publish to the web" from the "File" drop-down menu in Google Sheets and then click the "get link here" tab that appears at the bottom of your spreadsheet. That link is the one that you will give to students to play the games.
Flippity Spelling Words games has three primary modes for students. The first is "list" which simply reads each spelling word aloud to students. The second mode is "practice" in which students hear a word read aloud and then have to type it. The third mode is "quiz" mode in which students again hear the words read aloud and have to type them. It is quiz scores that you can have emailed to you.
For students to play a Flippity Spelling Words game they have to go to the URL that you generated in the last step of the creation process outlined above. They then have to select their names from the list of names that appears on the screen. If a student chooses the wrong name, he/she can simply hit the back button to choose a different name. Students can progress through the games at their own pace.
If your students master the spelling games that you have created for them through Flippity Spelling Words, they can choose the "more" tab on their games and see a set of related activities that are based on the same set of words. Those additional games included a memory/ matching game, a snowman/ hangman game, a word scramble, and a word search.


IFTTT is an abbreviation which stands for "If This, Then That". It is a condition based program which you can customize as per your individual need to perform specific tasks when the prerequisite defined requirements are met with.
The internet is filled with premade tools which one can simply pick up and start working on it. There are sources available with various applets which allow one to integrate it into their current software to achieve a higher level of automation. IFTTT services are one such example of the applets available online. We shall be looking into what IFTTT is and how it functions, its various applications, as well as how one can use them in their business practices to gain a substantial boost through an IFTTT app.
IFTTT is an abbreviation which stands for "If This, Then That". It is a condition based program which you can customize as per your individual need to perform specific tasks when the prerequisite defined requirements are met with. A lot of business-oriented people make use of this service which is available for free in the form of an applet to automate specific areas of their business processes. To mention some IFTTT examples, one can use it to enable syncing of their two email inboxes or calendars with each other.
How To Use If This, Then That Services?
Using IFTTT is quite simple. All one needs is to visit its official website and sign up there using your email id and password. One could also use their social logins of Facebook or their Google ID. Once logged in, you can then easily access the applets available which suit your needs the best.
IFTTT can be used with Gmail to automate some business tasks such as saving labelled emails to Google Drive, saving attachments received in emails directly to your Dropbox, and make a copy of all the receipts and payment emails received in a text file and save it in your Dropbox.
One can get really busy at work and often tend to miss some calls. Hence, it becomes quite a task to keep tabs on the people who tried contacting you. But with IFTTT you can make Google Calendar save all the missed calls to your calendar so that can you can refer to it and reach back to the people whom you wish to contact.
Sharing notes with your team at work has become easier with IFTTT. You can enable notes from Evernote to be shared with your team by just tagging a team member in it. The best part, you do not have to tinker with any of the sharing or privacy settings to share the notes.
When new entries to Salesforce are made, it becomes easier to track the customers and their subsequent follow-ups. One has to manually check if the follow-ups are conducted and then to schedule the follow-ups. With IFTTT, Salesforce can be programmed to create a follow-up schedule in the calendar itself as an alert so that one cannot miss out on it.
We have discussed this example before for individuals, but for businesses, especially the digital marketing agencies and the likes, they can make use of IFTTT to ensure the posts from one social channel gets duplicated on other social channels as well with ease and allow compile all the feedback in terms of likes, comments and shares in a spreadsheet.


West Michigan Woman is the perfect publication to reach local influential, professional and dedicated women. The magazine is a bi-monthly resource for local women who want to connect with their community, improve their relationships, focus on personal development, and still have fun. For this reason, West Michigan Woman has a broad spectrum of departments and features for the upcoming year giving advertisers many great opportunities to put their ad dollars to work properly and effectively.
10,000 influential and professional West Michigan women receive West Michigan Woman magazine including members of: inForum, Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, Holland Area Chamber of Commerce, Muskegon Area Chamber of Commerce, and Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs. Our circulation is a mailed magazine so you can be sure that your advertisement is getting into the right hands.
West Michigan Woman magazine has the following departments: Wellness, Relationships, Entertainment, Spaces, Career, Family, Style, Financial, Restaurant, and Special Report. You can download a media kit to see the slated features for each department per publication.
Your printed advertisement will stand out in our high-end printed magazine and reach your target audience of local, influential women. Ad space ranges from full page to classified and one time to an annual campaign.
West Michigan Woman has a budding online community and can offer the following three digital opportunities for your advertising: weekly eNewsletter, Digital Magazine, and space on our web site.
West Michigan Woman understands the need to get the most bang for your buck. We have established great value added benefits for all of our advertisers. Benefits are based on frequency of your campaign. Some of the benefits include: Digital Magazine exposure, Social Spotlight, Web & eNewsletter profile, Guaranteed editorial, and Sponsored e-mail.
If West Michigan Woman lines up with your marketing goals and target audience, we welcome you to download a media kit for all of the information. Our account executives are available to help you create a marketing plan that works the best with your budget and your needs.
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Government says Sotloff video is real
By: Andrew Beaujon
Good morning. Here are 10 media stories.
Steven Sotloff video is real: National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden says a video showing the journalist's execution by Islamic State "is authentic." (AP) | Sotloff "began many of his articles with personal anecdotes and sprinkled his reporting with mundane details like the precise price of bread, reminding readers that faceless forces like Syria's civil war and Egypt's military coup were fundamentally altering the lives of real people, in divergent but no less devastating ways." (The Atlantic) | President Obama: "His killers try to claim that they defend the oppressed but it was Steven who traveled across the Middle East risking his life to tell the story of Muslim men and women demanding justice and dignity." (Politico) | Time Editor Nancy Gibbs: Sotloff "gave his life so readers would have access to information from some of the most dangerous places in the world." (Time) | "It appears from chatter on ISIS forums that the initial video release was an unintentional leak from within ISIS circles" (Vocativ)
Fred Ryan meets Washington Post newsroom: The news organization's new publisher declined to say how he got the job, said "a key for Wapo is winning the morning." (@erikwemple) | Washington Post reporters figure out how he got the job: He told Jean Case he was interested, and she introduced him to Post owner Jeff Bezos. (WP) | Ryan "likewise preferred to remain vague about his vision for the Post, saying it was too early to get into strategy specifics." (Capital)
News orgs ask oversight board to investigate effects of government surveillance: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 24 signatory news organizations "have asked the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) to investigate whether journalists' confidential sources and other newsgathering is being compromised by widespread national security surveillance programs." (RCFP)
AOL content shakeup: Susan Lyne steps down from running brand group. Luke Beatty will "get the tech, automobile and entertainment brands," Kara Swisher reports, and Maureen Sullivan will continue to run "AOL.com and the various lifestyle and money content brands." Also: "no shockeroo, Arianna is still in charge of Arianna." (Re/code) | "When I asked if the brand group is being scaled back as AOL invests more on the ad-tech side of the business, another AOL spokesperson on the call jumped in, saying that even though AOL has shut down some existing sites (and it spun out hyperlocal news effort Patch), it's investing more in its existing brands." (TechCrunch)
Florida International University credentials Miami Herald reporter after all: David J. Neal "attended Saturday's 14-12 loss to Bethune-Cookman with a ticket and sat in the stands, but did not write a game story or post-game blog, as he would have were he credentialed." (Miami Herald) | "What good is a football team nobody covers? Chances are, FIU didn't want to find out." (Deadspin)
Boston Globe launches site covering Catholicism: "The problem with the Vatican as a beat is it's too far away, too weird, and utterly unlike any institution people cover," John Allen says. "It's hard to penetrate and it's expensive to have someone who has the luxury to focus full time on that beat." (Nieman)
Dept. of Irony: Study about how misinformation spreads becomes the star of a poorly informed story. (CJR) | Related: The Huffington Post is running a multipart series on V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email. "Huffington Post is either not disclosing a paid-for series of posts (which would be a massive ethical breach) or they've been taken for a ride." (Techdirt)
New York's shield law protects another journalist: Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman won't have to deliver his notes to Sue Ann Hamm, who is divorcing Harold Hamm. (Village Voice) | The Hamm divorce "appears it will be the most expensive divorce in history." (CNN)
Newspaper front of the day, selected by Kristen Hare: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel fronts the murder of Steven Sotloff, who was from Pinecrest, Florida. (Courtesy the Newseum)
Job moves, edited by Benjamin Mullin: Fred Ryan has been named publisher of The Washington Post. Previously, he was president of Allbritton Communications Company. (Poynter) | John Reiss is now executive producer of "Meet the Press." Previously, he was executive producer for "Hardball with Chris Matthews." (TV Newser) | Emily Bazelon will be a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Previously, she was a senior editor for Slate. (New York Times) | David Weigel is joining Bloomberg Politics. Previously, he was a political reporter for Slate. (Slate) | Chuck Culpepper will be a college football reporter for The Washington Post. Previously, he was a staff writer for Sports on Earth. (The Washington Post) | Susan Lyne will join AOL's venture division to run the Build Fund. Previously, she was CEO of AOL's brand group (Recode) | Craig Silverman will be a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. He is an adjunct faculty member for Poynter. (Poynter) | Zach Wolf is now managing editor for digital at CNN Politics. Previously, he was managing editor for news at Politico. (Fishbowl DC) | Job of the day: Women's Wear Daily is looking for a copy editor. Get your résumés in! (Journalism Jobs) | Send Ben your job moves: bmullin@poynter.org.
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Businessman Jason Kerr, founder of Spoke Phone, talks about his history starting new ventures and mentoring start-ups in Silicon Valley.
We turn mobile phones into business phone systems. In the old days, companies used to have to buy a phone system; desk phones, wires, landline numbers, all of those kinds of things, and now all they need is an app on their mobile phone.
We wanted to make life simple for small businesses. The second motivation was that we noticed in our company that people were talking less and less, we're texting more, emailing, and what we saw were some problems were much better solved by voice. As companies employ more people who work remotely, that whole talking and solving problems, got less and less as people started relying on email, so we wanted to put a system in place where companies can easily talk internally.
I like solving problems with technology. I started the latest business primarily because we believe that you can solve more in a two-minute call than you can in back and forth emails.
We have a team of 14 but hope to have 30 people next year.
We have about 150 customers right now across Australia and New Zealand, we only started in February and we're aiming to have 380 customers by the end of the year and these customers are mostly between five and 100 employees, companies that have a portion of their workforce who are mobile and remote.
The smallest pack we have is $79 a month, that includes five users and all calls, are prices are typically under a third of the cost of anything else out in the market.
What are your long-term plans for the business?
Our long-term plans are to build a community of small businesses who all talk to each other, their customers and their employees, without cost being a barrier.
Have you had any other businesses in the past?
This is my fifth business and I have had several kinds. My first business was an aviation software business that was sold to Accenture in the 90s. The second business was a cellphone text messaging platform that was sold to AT&T in the US. The third business was a voice messaging platform that was floated on the MA secondary index in London and then the last business was a recruiting technology business that was bought by a private equity company in Silicon Valley in 2012.
How much competition are you facing in this space?
We're tackling a very crowded space with a product that we believed is going to be right for the space and where the space is going to be in two years' time. Right now, we're seeing companies still want desk phones but I think in the next two years this is going to be something that isn't top of mind. In the New Zealand market, we are probably 18 months too early. We are finding customers but I think in the next two years we will see people really question why they aren't just living off their mobile, even at larger companies.
In the phone systems space, there are hundreds of options, but we're the only company focusing on mobile workers. All of the other mobile systems have a mobile app but really it's for when you leave the office you can forward your calls to it, like a little adjunct. We're only mobile so our entire enterprise-grade phone system is in an app on your mobile phone. We're aiming at the small businesses sector and no one else is aiming in that area.
What's the biggest hurdles you've had to overcome?
There's been a series of hurdles. I've had businesses with 10 people through to 550 people, and depending on the size of a business and the maturity there are different problems.
Interestingly, across all businesses, the problems are largely the same in each stage of growth. I don't know if there is "a biggest hurdle", but I think there's probably about five main hurdles of any business: you have to get early traction, early validation, early market validation for your product and customers to fund your growth.
In this business, the biggest problem is going to be getting consistent call quality. If you think about what's happening, we are mobilising - there are no wires plugged into the wall so you get interference. Our challenge is technical. How do we deliver global call quality? If you ask me in another year's time I'm sure the problems will be different.
You do mentoring here and in the US - how did you get involved with that?
When I sold my private equity company I ended up working for them so for the past three years I've probably looked at about 500 companies of all shapes and sizes and through that you meet lots of people and I have ended up doing a bunch of mentoring for start-ups and people we meet through the private equity process.
The biggest piece of advice is to build something people want, we all have ideas about what we think people want but you've really got to talk to the customer and you have to tune your own views based on feedback that you get.


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Activision's logo traditionally features prominently in all Call of Duty marketing, but it was noticeably absent from Vanguard's debut trailer, which was released last month. Curiously, the video also opened with "Call of Duty presents" instead of 'Activision presents'.
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Charlotte Hollings, Calm Waters Rowing
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To the inexperienced eye, rowing looks so easy. I've heard many stories of people deciding to row after seeing boats gliding across the water only to find it is much harder than it looks. Rowing is a very technical sport and the more you learn about it, the more you realize there is to learn. A rower can go for years rowing in an 8 or a 4x never making the technical changes that will turn them into a really efficient rower.
As we get older, we're not getting stronger, but we can get faster if we learn to row more effectively. Pretty much every high school and college rower has a full time coach who is with them every practice, but as adults, that coaching can be sparse to nonexistent, especially for scullers.
So how to get better with little feedback? Row the single.
Do you find that the set is off in most team boats you're in? That the boat doesn't go straight? That short pieces work well but longer pieces don't? In an 8 or a 4x, it can be easy to place the blame on someone else, but in a single, there's nowhere to hide. There's a reason so many of the top collegiate programs have a fleet of pairs that are used frequently for practice though rarely on race day. The coach can see clearly who the boat movers are. We like to say that as a single sculler, you need to become your own best coach, and the single will help you do that.
If you're new to the single, don't jump right into a racing boat. It's important that you can be relaxed and if you're on the verge of falling in every stroke, it's pretty difficult to relax! The boat will give you enough feedback initially. Once you get reasonably competent in a wider boat, move up to one that is more challenging as you don't want to start getting away with things. You want to remain sensitive to what the boat is telling you. I encourage our guests to listen to the boat, to try and keep the catches and finishes reasonably quiet. You can also, for a short stretch, close your eyes to help you become more aware of your other senses.
You'll be able to feel where the set is off so you can adjust your hand heights, and immediately, the boat will readjust. Keep playing with the hand heights to find out where they need to be to set the boat. While you might have them in the right spot for good balance at the catch, they may be off at the release. Keep adjusting. To get more feedback, look at the shaft of the oar occasionally to see how high the water line is on the shaft. It's very easy to dig the blades in the middle of the drive - water half way up the shaft is a clue that your blades are too deep.
How do they hold onto the oar?
You'll also be able to see if the boat is going straight. When you first get in the single, there's a good chance it won't, but as you spend more time, your timing should improve which will help with the steering. However, if you're still veering to port or starboard, you'll want to figure out why. If either oar gets caught at the release, that will pull the boat to one side. If you pull a longer arc with one oar, that will also affect the steering. Figuring out you have a problem is the first step to resolving it.
The other nice thing about the single is that you can stop whenever the boat doesn't feel right. Maybe your grip is off. Don't keep going; stop, readjust and get your muscle memory working on remembering what is right, not wrong.
Going into this, hopefully you have an idea of how you want to row. There are lots of photos and videos on row2k where you can analyze the technique of the elite rowers.
How far are they going at the catch?
At the release?
How far are they going at the release?
What kind of progression are they doing on the recovery? On the drive? What posture do they have?
It's hard to figure all of this out on your own but it will be easier in a single than a team boat. And if you can row a single well, you'll take that skill into a 2x or 4x and even into a sweep boat.
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The European Union's antitrust watchdog has cleared a 7.7 billion-euro ($10 billion) takeover of Germany's biggest cable operator by British telecoms firm Vodafone PLC.
The European Commission, the 28-nation bloc's executive arm, said on Friday its investigation found the two companies' businesses were mainly complementary and there was no risk they might gain price-setting dominance in their markets.
Kabel Deutschland Holding AG has an extensive cable network in Germany that the London-based cellphone giant could use to expand its fixed-line, broadband and television business in the country.
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Day 1 - Cortez & Pizarro
Okay, let's hit the road! Our first day's drive takes us to…Mexico (whoa)! "Cortez & Pizarro" is a song that answers the musical question, "Flamenco guitar vs. Marshall stacks - who wins?"
Read on for the answer to this question, more about where this song came from, and why I owe the whole thing to cheap guitar glue...
So, a few years ago, I took a road trip with my friend K. from San Francisco to…Honduras. Yeah, the one in Central America. We took 30 days to get there, and if you look at a map, you won't be surprised to learn that we spent most of that time driving through Mexico
It was not a smooth ride. The purpose of the trip was to carry supplies from California to Honduras for Ken's new business - a combination traveller's hostel and parrot farm, near a national park on Honduras' northern, Caribbean coast. We had two trucks stuffed with very unusual items, like 1000 feet of steel cable, and this meant we were the opposite of inconspicuous as we traveled through little towns far off the usual gringo trail in Central Mexico.
Things went wrong right from the start. Due to our odd cargo, we were refused entry at the first two border crossings we tried, in Tijuana and Nogales. Then our driver's licenses were stolen as we crossed from El Paso over to Ciudad Juarez, leaving us with nothing more than library cards for IDs.
This left us defenseless against corrupt law enforcement officials of all stripes, and so when they demanded bribes in exchange for not locking us up during routine traffic stops (which happened nearly every day, again because we stood out so much with our California license plates and yards of steel cable), we had to comply.
We gave up our cameras, CD players, boombox, and other gear, and lived in terror that they'd discover the laptop we had hidden in the stuffing of the driver's seat
We came very close to being carjacked by Zapatistas in Chiapas as well, just barely escaping a stretch of potholed highway notorious for bandit attacks, and reaching the safety of a huge caravan of 18-wheelers before night fell. It all got to be pretty nerve-racking, and we were both suffering from severe paranoia by the time we finally made it to Honduras.
On the plus side, we also got to marinate in Mexican culture a little more than tourists usually do, since we were able to visit many friends Ken had made on previous trips to Mexico and get a sense of their lives.
Growing up in California, and studying the history of the American West in college, I'd always been aware of the Hispanic influence on the region. My home state is full of Spanish place names, Spanglish slang is part of everyone's lexicon, and the names of Spanish explorers and conquistadores are as familiar as those of Revolutionary War heroes back East.
Hanging out with Mexicans in their home towns got me thinking more deeply about some of this history. A narrative of the dark side of conquest is a foundational part of Mexican history and culture, especially as it relates to Hernando Cortez, who deposed the Aztec king who ruled over most of Mexico when the first Spaniards arrived.
I had known that the conquistadores, and Cortez & Pizarro in particular, were cruel, greedy men who spearheaded the European colonial project, but something about traveling at length through the first land they had conquered really brought the depth of the damage done by them and their compatriots into sharper focus
On a more musical tip, the sound of Spanish guitar was everywhere in the air. Many of K.'s friends were musicians, and without exception they shredded on nylon-string guitars, a sound which I loved prior to this trip and got even more into during the drive. The beginnings of a song started to take shape in my mind, and I might have written the song earlier than I did, had I not had to give up the little travel guitar we'd brought to a corrupt federale who stopped us along the highway north of Zacatecas.
When I got back home to El Norte, I had the beginnings of the song in my mind. I knew the title was "Cortez & Pizarro", and had a basic idea of what the verses would be about, but the actual music for the song wasn't coming. Then something weird happened to my acoustic guitar, my main writing instrument: the glue that held the bridge to the top of the guitar partially dissolved, and the bridge began to come away from the body. Why is this relevant? Because at that point, I couldn't tighten the guitar strings all the way up to concert pitch (or else the tension would've pulled the bridge completely off the guitar), so it was tuned to a much lower pitch that gave the guitar a cool, throaty tone.
Suddenly, all my usual, boring chords and riffs were giving me intriguing new sounds and tonalities, which was super-inspiring. It put my head into enough of a new space that the same approaches and patterns that I'd been trying with "Cortez & Pizarro", which hadn't been getting me anywhere, suddenly felt right and appropriate for the song, and after that the music came pretty quickly (along with the remaining words for the verse). So I really owe this song to cheap glue!
When I finally got my guitar fixed, I was a little nervous that the song wouldn't work with the strings tuned up to normal pitch, but that turned out not to be a problem (phew!). In fact, it might have sounded better at that pitch, and even BETTER on really loud electric guitar - which came as a welcome surprise. In fact, the transition of this song from acoustic to electric was really the catalyst for transforming my music from old-school singer/songwriter to something…louder. And more interesting.
Before I wrote "Cortez & Pizarro", I'd been tracking acoustic demos and playing solo singer/songwriter sets in coffeehouses in San Francisco. After plugging in for this song, I recruited a band and started doing shows at rock clubs, and was determined to record a fully-produced, full band album. This track was really a watershed moment in the formation of Radio Nowhere.
I'll tell you more about heading into the studio for this album tomorrow (today's Road Trip story is already too long!), but I did want to mention the issues I had with tracking the guitars for this song. From the minute I finished writing it, I'd envisioned starting and ending the song with flamenco guitar - it was gonna sound awesome! Only problem? I can't play flamenco guitar. At all.
So in the studio, I tried all kinds of different guitar styles for the intro and outro (and for the solo as well). I tried folky fingerpicking, bluesy slide guitar, metal riffing, atonal skronk…but none of it was working. We were starting to get discouraged when I finally remembered a classical guitar teacher named Michael Telle who'd worked at a music school in San Francisco that I'd also worked at.
He played classical, could he maybe play some flamenco too? We brought him into the studio, and it turned out that he could. A lot. Turned out that Michael could straight shred on flamenco guitar, and he came in and dropped the nylon-string brilliance that you'll hear on the track in just one or two takes. Unbelieveable.
well a long long long long time ago
before I was born / that's all I know
there were two young cruel young brave young men
their king said hit the road and come back again
well the king said he thought they had what it took
and the aztecs shivered and incas shook
they saw the sails and muskets long
and thought these are gods / but they were wrong
to the native peoples' sorrow / here come cortez and pizarro
hernando and francisco / hacked their way to heaven
men of god in spain / they worked for someone else
in mexico
well they burned their ships upon the shore
said we ain't goin' back to spain no more
in the smoking embers on the sand
lay the future of the land
well gifts were gave
and hands were shook
but men are men
and man they took
well the thing that brought this on for me
was my cool earring and new goatee
the mirror shows a 16th century caballero
and I thought I'd get my armor and grab my steed
and ride down across the border and over the seas
and apologize from atop my palomino
for the native peoples' sorrow / here come cortez and pizarro
Cortez & Pizarro - Original Demo
Check out the original demo for "Cortez & Pizarro"! My super-shaky flamenco efforts and caveman drum machine programming are front-and-center, but hopefully the heart and soul of the song still come through...the only real hint here of the aggression unleashed in the final version is in the guitar solo, which is interesting.
Cortez & Pizarro - Mini Concert
This one is a little difficult to pull off without the services of an actual flamenco guitarist on hand. I settled for my best gringo approximation instead...hopefully that works well enough for rock'n'roll.
This tune is actually just as much fun to play on acoustic as it is on electric; you don't get to make as much of an unholy racket, but there's kind of a hypnotic drive that you can get from just pounding that E chord that really feels good.


On 2 June, UNIS Vienna hosted a symposim on "Promoting Financial Global Partnerships" in honor of the International Year of Microcredit. The symposium was held in cooperation with the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) at the Vienna International Center. The purpose was to discuss the issues facing Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the developed and developing world. The symposium gave an insight into microcredit as one effective tool out of a variety of instruments for achieving the Millennium Development Goals in the context of the United Nations Secretary-General's report In Larger Freedom and in preparation of the UN Summit to be held in September. Panellists and participants also discussed the benefits of microcredit and microfinance in different economic and political environments, and elaborated on best practices and innovative approaches. The morning session was chaired by Franz Baumann, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV); the afternoon session was chaired by Christian Strohmann, OiC UNIS Vienna.
Kathryn Imboden, Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), introduced the International Year of Microcredit as it relates to the Millennium Development Goals, while Hermann Spirik, Director of Programmes and Planning of the Development Cooperation at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, explained the role of his Government as "niche player" looking for development of new financial products to alleviate poverty. Further talks were given by Hanns Martin Hagen, Vice President and Senior Financial Sector Specialist, KfW Entwicklungsbank, who discussed the role of development banks in supporting microfinance also in crisis and post-conflict areas; and Florian Grohs, Oikocredit International, who analyzed the role of NGOs in promoting global partnerships – lessons learned from South East and Eastern Europe. Mamadou Wane of North-South Solidarity Net explained how microfinance supports young people in his native Senegal to establish their livelihoods and turns them away from migrating to Europe or to the US.
Following the panelists' discussion the audience was invited to participate in a question and answer round.
More than 80 participants and six panellists representating non-governmental organizations, government officials, staff members of the Vienna International Center, and the media were present for the symposium. The audience was able to approach the speakers on an individual basis after the discussions.
Participants in the Symposium were then invited to attend one of two seminar sessions. The first seminar was about Mainstreaming Microfinance, and the second concerned Microfinance Investment Funds, reaching to topics such as "Ethical Investment – A Tool for Supporting the Poorest of the Poor". Participants in the Symposium suggested during the closing session to also liaise with the "Global Marshall Plan" – a European initiative to further the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals; for governments to take on the role as facilitator of knowledge transfer from commercial banks to microfinance institutions; and to better integrate the provision of microloans and other financial tools for the poor in the work of central banks and commercial banks.
The Symposium was held in context of the United Nations General Assembly's resolution declaring that 2005 be the "International Year of Microcredit", in order to emphasize the significance of microfinance in the global fight against poverty. Various media ( including Austrian Radio Ö-1, Die Presse, IRNA, Wiener Zeitung, APA) covered the event.


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How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
October 18, 2018 | 6:00 p.m. | Friendly House
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Organizations and communities are working to invite broader groups of people to engage in their work as employees, patrons, board members, and donors. Having a statement at the end of a job announcement to encourage communities of color, queer people, and women to apply can be a start, but how do policies, environment, and culture support this invitation? How do they fail to support it? How do you know if a space is inclusive and accessible for all, and is such a goal even possible? What do you do about the tension between people who have different needs to feel included? Join Rachel Bernstein to explore what it takes to make the shift from invitation to inclusion. Read more.
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Big Red Barrel is a family of volunteers united by our passion for gaming, other fabulously geeky pursuits and our appetite for sharing our independent opinions via our podcasts and the BRB blog. We like to have fun with what we do, but we are serious when need be and aspire to be as professional as possible in the presentation of our content.
The Podfather that is the one and only, Jeremy "Doc" Adams. Started many of us of in our dark arts of blogging and podcasting. Also the founder of the highly successful charity event, Extra Life – a cause we still like to show strong support for every year and encourage others to do the same. Play games. Heal kids.
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By Lance Venta	 On Mar 28, 2018
Entercom Classic Hits 104.3 WOMC Detroit has revealed that former WXYZ-TV news anchor Stephen Clark will join the station on Monday, April 2 to lead its new morning show.
Clark retired at the end of February after 40 years in television including the last 16 years at WXYZ as their 6 and 11pm weekday anchor. He previously worked in Colorado Springs, San Diego, Washington DC, and at WCBS-TV New York before coming to Detroit. A co-host for the new "104.3 WOMC Mornings with Stephen Clark and…" will be revealed on Thursday, April 5.
Bobby Mitchell and Stacey DuFord exited the morning slot at WOMC at the end of 2017 with former WKLB Boston morning host Jeff Miles filling in until a new permanent show was announced.
Entercom, the #1 creator of live, original, local audio content in the United States, today announced the launch of a new morning show on 104.3 WOMC (WOMC-FM), Detroit's heritage classic hits radio station, debuting Monday, April 2, 2018. The new weekday morning show will feature former TV news anchor Stephen Clark and a second co-host that will be revealed on Thursday, April 5. The "104.3 WOMC Mornings with Stephen Clark and…" show will air from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. ET.
"Stephen is an integral part of the fabric of Detroit and we are thrilled to have him open this new chapter in the station's rich heritage," said Debbie Kenyon, Senior Vice President and Market Manager, Entercom Detroit. "Stephen's connection with our local community, his personality and love of music make him a great fit to take the helm of the new WOMC morning show."
"I am thrilled to be returning to my radio roots where I began my broadcast career and only the legendary WOMC could have brought me out of retirement," said Clark. "I have a unique relationship with the Detroit community from my time on television and I'm looking forward to deepening that connection via daily conversations and direct interactions with listeners every morning on 104.3 WOMC."
Stephen Clark recently retired from WXYZ after 16 years as anchor of the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts. Clark began his media career as a newspaper photographer, and also worked as a radio reporter and DJ before taking the TV anchor chair. Clark is also a singer-songwriter who performs around the Detroit area.
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Digital communication is great. However, one of the inherent problems with any kind of communication that isn't in real time is the fact that messages, text, notes, voicemail, etc., can get lost, misplaced, avoided, blocked, or any other number of things that result in the communication not getting across. And that can be real trouble.
So how do you avoid this? How do you make sure that your digital communication is received at the other end? Five tips specifically for making sure that messages get to where you want them is to understand how read receipts work, use present confirmation codes with people, use multiple media checks, understand timestamps, and always have a backup plan of some sort.
There are a few main places where read receipts occur. You can get them set up for email, which is a big one, and then you can have them set up for text messages through certain apps. The cool part about these systems is that they're automatic and easy to check back on. If you sent something on a Friday at 5pm and got a read receipt on Saturday at 11am, then you know exactly when a text, message, or email was officially looked at with an app. This is great for both the sender and receiver in terms of organization.
Confirmation codes are a bit more casual between people, but are just as useful. When you get a communication of some sort from someone, by replying with something like 'roger' or even the single 'k', or 'yes' or 'no', you're completing the feedback loop. The only tiny problem with this is that if your return message doesn't go through, they may not have received your receipt. See what digital communication gets sloppy sometimes!
If you're not sure if a message went through, a good thing to do is do a multiple media check. This means if you don't know if a text went through, then call a person directly. If you don't know if an email went through, leave a text. The more avenues you have to prove that you were sending a message, the better off you'll be. It means people can't plausibly deny or ignore you.
Time stamps are a big part of making sure digital communication goes through. Almost all digital messages are stamped when they leave your device (some of them even professionally and legally) when they get to someone else's device, and then when they're read. These are the three most important parts of the communication puzzle.
And finally, if for some reason, a type of communication goes down that's your primary way of talking to important people, make sure that both parties know what the next line down the priority list is. This is particularly important in case of emergencies.


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Q: Is CodeIgniter suitable for large intranet applications that do not use MySQL? I don't really plan on using active record or any of the built in database constructs native to CodeIgniter for database access.  I have Oracle, SQL Server, and others.  I want to use PHP PDO (unless anyone thinks that's bad) because of the universal aspect of it.
I mainly want CI because of some of the built in libraries and MVC.  I also like that it is small and easy to work with.
2.x if it matters.
I did see other questions but none exactly about databases.
Thanks.
edit:  It's not that I don't think CI and PHP can take it with large websites.  This is solely about using multiple databases of varying companies.  I have mostly seen MySQL used with it.  I know I can use other databases but again, I don't know if it is more trouble than worth or what.

A: MySQL is the default just because of how widely-adopted it is, especially in the PHP world. Almost everyone has a *AMP stack to work on so it ends up being the main driver used in almost every example out there.
If you're not planning on using the database class, then it really doesn't matter what type of database you are using, just don't load the class. You can still use routing, helpers, libraries, and other CI features.
So yes, I do think it is suitable for your purposes.

A: CodeIgniter was built with the idea of being the framework closest to native PHP that doesn't tell you what to do. The entire framework is modular and you are not required to use any single component.
Yes, it is absolutely suited to what you are doing. You can plug and play whatever DB driver you want and CI will not complain one bit.
I think CI is more suited for this role than any other of the 'big' frameworks.


Why have you removed the pop up notice/reminder for saving the updates??
Also the new visual appearance is very dissappointing.
I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue!
I can confirm that this functionality has not been removed. Here is screenshot of what I'm seeing within my browser, which is Google Chrome.
We would like to investigate your experience though, can you please confirm the browser you are using and which Operating System you are using.
We are sorry to hear about your experience with the new User Interface in the Sitebuilder.
The browser I use is Google Chrome (latest version) and my operating system is Windows 10.
For what I can see in the new Yolasitebuilder, the reminder to "save your updates" pops up only if you click the "preview" button . But if you change page, the reminder doesn't pop up, and you can lose your updates.
Thank you for reporting this. I can confirm the problem using the description you provided.
This is not intentional and will be escalated to our engineering team. We will provide you with an update once it is resolved.
This problem has been corrected. Thanks again for reporting the issue.
We fixed this problem the day you reported it and a dialog menu does now appear reminding you to save changes when moving between pages. If this is not working for you, please try our initial troubleshooting tips here and and let us know how it goes.
UPDATE: Francesco, I'm so sorry. I see now that while the save prompt does appear, the page was already changed and my updates were lost. I missed this in my test because I have a large banner image that's the same on all my pages. I have updated the status of this problem again to "In Progress."
The save prompt that was implemented when we last spoke is no longer working as expected. The team are looking into the problem and I will update this thread once it is resolved.
Until then, please be sure to save your work when switching pages.
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The Tigers finished the 2020–21 season 12–6, 11–0 in SWAC play, and were SWAC regular season co-champions alongside Prairie View A&M. In the SWAC tournament, they defeated Arkansas–Pine Bluff in the quarterfinals, but were upset by eventual champions Texas Southern in overtime in the semifinals.

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Another Democracy in Mideast, UAE to Hold Elections!
Crossroads Arabia, an excellent blog on Middle Eastern and Saudi Arabian news, is reporting that the United Arab Emirates will hold democratic elections.
The pro-western Sheikh who is seen as a modernizer also said that there would be no restrictions on the participation of women in the elections.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan announced on Thursday that the oil-rich Gulf state is to hold its first elections, in a move towards reforms.
"We have decided to boost the role of the consultative council by electing half of its members through councils in each emirate," Sheikh Khalifa said in an address marking the national day of the seven-member federation.
He said the process of choosing the new council would start early next year and there would be no restrictions on the participation of women. Candidates will be able to campaign on radio and television and put up billboards.
DUBAI, 2 December 2005 — The United Arab Emirates yesterday announced partial elections to the Federal National Council (FNC). The announcement was made on the eve of the country's national day and 13 months after the founder of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan, passed away.
This article from the Arab News is interesting in several ways. First, it is acknowledging that US pressure on Middle Eastern governments to develop their own forms of representational government is actually producing results.
Second, a Saudi paper's running this article is more than simple reportage; it's also an endorsement of the idea.
Finally, I note that only half of the positions will be elected, with the other half appointed. This is the same half-and-half model that the Saudi government used in the municipal elections held earlier this year. While the governments are willing to take a step forward, they are not willing to take a step off a cliff–or perhaps it's Kierkegaard's "blind leap of faith"–that a newly elected government, with no experience and no precedent, will know how to do the right things simply through being elected.
Hopefully the UAE elections will go better than the elections in Egypt, where the desire for democracy is so strong that voters will climb up ladders into buildings being blocked by police out front,… just to vote!
Rantings of a Sandmonkey has more on the violence and disruptions during the latest rounds of voting in Egypt.
Freedom for Egyptians is still hopeful for Egypt.
Big Pharoah explains why the Muslim Brotherhood fared so well.


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Share this Story: Rachel Cliff revs up for Poland, hoping world half marathon helps her get to Tokyo Olympics
Rachel Cliff revs up for Poland, hoping world half marathon helps her get to Tokyo Olympics
Cliff explained: "I do better if I race more often. I'm always learning when I'm racing. I'm happy to have this race coming up in that regard."
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Rachel Cliff of Vancouver, who admits training during a pandemic that has wiped out the local race calendar, has been challenging. But she has made some adjustments and will compete next month at the world half marathon championships in Poland. She's also trying to secure a spot on the national team that will compete in the rescheduled Toyko Olympics. Photo by Francis Georgian /Postmedia News
Rachel Cliff is looking to get her racing game back up to elite speed.
The Olympic distance running hopeful from Vancouver was earlier this week named to Canada's team for the world half marathon championships, which roll Oct. 17 in Gdynia, Poland.
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Cliff ran a half marathon with her B.C. Endurance Project teammates in Courtenay on Sept. 13. Her last race against international competition took place on Jan. 19 at the Houston Half Marathon.
That was before the novel coronavirus pandemic had taken hold. That was back when everyone thought the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics were going to take place July 24-Aug. 9 of this year.
The Olympics were postponed because of the COVID-19 outbreak. They'll still go under the Tokyo 2020 banner, but the Games have been rescheduled to July 23-Aug. 8, 2021. Cliff continues to train and aim to take part.
This race in Poland is the latest "next step" for the 32-year-old Cliff.
"It honestly seems a little bit surreal to imagine competing right now. Just getting on a plane right now is something that's tough to get my head wrapped around," said Cliff.
"I'm supposed to speak to an Athletics Canada doctor. I imagine I'll get some good insight on how things should look from that conversation. I do suspect that the competition will be at least a little bit different than what I'm used to."
Rachel Cliff of Vancouver is training for next month's world half marathon championships in Poland, hoping her performance will eventually earn her a berth on the Canadian team for the Toyko Summer Olympics.
The half marathon worlds were originally scheduled for March, but were postponed. Several countries, including the United States and Japan, aren't sending teams to Poland next month, citing safety reasons.
Cliff clocked a 1:15:24 in Courtenay, but she boasts a personal best half marathon of 1:10:06, which she established on Dec. 15, 2019 in Okayama, Japan.
"It was just our group," Cliff said of the Courtenay event, "but the act of getting out and having people out on the roads supporting us helped make me realize how much I miss competing.
"And we've found that I'm someone who always responds to competing. I do better if I race more often. I'm always learning when I'm racing. I'm happy to have this race coming up in that regard."
Cliff set a Canadian women's record in the marathon with her 2:26:56 effort in Nagoya, Japan in March, 2019. That also gave her the Tokyo 2020 Olympic standard.
Kelowna's Malinda Elmore bettered Cliff's record at that Houston race in January, finishing with an impressive 2:24:50.
Neither Cliff nor Elmore ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon last October, which doubled as the Canadian championship. Vancouver's Dayna Pidhoresky was the first Canadian woman across the finish line and did it in 2:29:03, which was also under the Olympic standard.
According to a press release, Athletics Canada will nominate three men and three women for Tokyo 2020, based on either having met the Olympic standard or where they sit in the world rankings, and the 2019 national champions, like Pidhoresky, have priority.
The Canadian Olympic teams will be announced next summer.
"I'm just trying to put my best foot forward," said Cliff, who's also been a regular standout in The Vancouver Sun Run for years. "I can try to think about where my mind was at in September, 2019, when we thought the Olympics were going to be the following summer, but things have changed so much. There's just so much uncertainty in everything in the world right now.
"I'm trying to take everything one day at a time right now. I have some work to do. COVID-19 has created some new challenges, but it's created new challenges for everyone. It's just so important to have this race coming up on my calendar. I have three weeks to do all the work I can and we'll see where we end up."
Cliff is the lone female competitor from Canada going to Poland. The Canadian men's contingent at the event will feature Calgary's Trevor , 28; Surrey's Justin Kent, 28, Ben Preisner, 24, of Milton, Ont.; and Tom Toth, 28, of Lakefield, Ont.
Hofbauer was the top Canadian man at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon last October so he is also an early qualifier for Tokyo 2020.
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The single most mysterious thing about Republican opposition to bailing out the automakers has been the repeated insistence by G.O.P. lawmakers that the bridge loan would not really help either the automakers themselves or the economy as a whole, and that the money would therefore simply be wasted. What's mysterious about this is that Republicans, generally speaking, pay a great deal of lip service to the intelligence of the market (sometimes even in the face of strong evidence to the contrary). They stress the way the market is able to aggregate lots of dispersed pieces of information to produce judgments that are superior to those that any government, for instance, could come up with.
Yet in the case of this bailout (as in the case of the original $700 billion plan to stabilize the financial markets), Republicans are, in effect, saying that the market is wrong, and that investors actually have no idea what's good for the economy. Between midday on Thursday, when it started to look like the bailout bill would not pass, and the point Thursday night when it became clear the bailout was dead, the value of the S.& P. 500 (at least as measured by the S. & P. 500 futures contract) fell by almost seven per cent, erasing hundreds of billions of dollars of company value. That decline has been stemmed this morning by rumors that the Treasury Department will do the sensible thing, and use money from the original TARP fund to tide G.M. over until a new Congress is elected. But the market's precipitous fall on Thursday was a strong sign that investors collectively think the bailout is a good idea, not just for the automakers themselves, but for the economy as a whole.
Even if the bailout was going to work, of course, you could make a principled case against it, arguing that government should not interfere with the workings of the market, and that if hundreds of thousands of workers end up losing their jobs, so be it. I think this argument is a mistake, but it is principled. But for the most part, Republicans have not made that argument. Instead, they've insisted that the bailout can't work, and that the benefits of a bridge loan are nonexistent. Investors seem to be telling them they're wrong. It's quite a time for the G.O.P. to decide that actually the market doesn't have a clue.


The Carson City Library will kick off its "Libraries Rock" Summer Learning Challenge on Sunday with a food truck, yoga and other family-friendly activities.
The challenge includes age-appropriate assignments for participants from birth to old age, with raffle prizes for those who complete the challenge.
More than just exciting the next generation to love books, Loyd said, adults who read create a stronger community.
In addition to reading assignments, the library will also host an array of workshops and presentations throughout the challenge.
Representatives from the Conservation Ambassador's Amazing Amazon's program, which rescues wild animals that have been illegally bred or raised in captivity, will put on a presentation 6 p.m. Tuesday.
The activities during the challenge serve as supplemental teaching devices.
The Summer Learning Challenge Kickoff will be noon-3 p.m. Saturday at the Carson City Library, 900 N. Roop St. Free food from the King of Kings food truck will be available to all participants who sign up for the challenge. Raffle tickets for prizes will be awarded at each activity attended.
The library's coding camp will allow participants to code a musical instrument. Rock painting will be available during the kickoff party and lunar rocks and meteorites will be on display in August.
"It's pretty exciting," Loyd said.
The challenge will end with a party 6-7:30 p.m. Aug. 14 where grand prizes will be drawn.
For more information, registration or a complete list of activities, go to www.carsoncitylibrary.org.