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Tachyon can be launched on EC2 using the [Spark EC2
scripts](https://github.com/mesos/spark/wiki/EC2-Scripts) that come with Spark. These scripts let
you launch, pause and destroy clusters that come automatically configured with HDFS, Spark, Apache
Mesos, Shark, and Tachyon.

# Launching a Cluster

To run a Tachyon cluster on EC2, first sign up for an Amazon EC2 account
on the [Amazon Web Services site](http://aws.amazon.com/). Then,
download Spark to your local machine:

    $ wget https://github.com/downloads/mesos/spark/spark-0.6.0-sources.tar.gz
    $ tar xvfz spark-0.6.0-sources.tar.gz

The `ec2` directory contains the scripts to set up a cluster. Detailed instructions are available in
the [Spark EC2 guide](https://github.com/mesos/spark/wiki/EC2-Scripts). In a nutshell, you will need
to do:

    $ spark-0.6.0/ec2/spark-ec2 -a ami-691d9100 -k <keypair-name> -i <key-file> -s <num-workers> launch <cluster-name>

Where `<keypair>` is the name of your EC2 key pair (that you gave it
when you created it), `<key-file>` is the private key file for your key
pair, `<num-workers>` is the number of worker nodes to launch (try 1 at
first), and `<cluster-name>` is the name to give to your cluster. This
creates a cluster on EC2 using a pre-built machine image that has
Tachyon, Spark, and Shark.

Login to the master using `spark-ec2 login`:

    $ ./spark-ec2 -k key -i key.pem login <cluster-name>

Then, config Tachyon in `tachyon` folder

    $ cd /root/tachyon/conf
    $ cp tachyon-env.sh.template tachyon-env.sh

Add the line `TACHYON_HDFS_ADDRESS=hdfs://HDFS_HOSTNAME:HDFS_PORT` to the `tachyon-env.sh` file.

Add each of the worker nodes' IP addresses to the `workers` file and sync the configuration to all nodes.

    $ cd /root/tachyon/conf
    $ /root/mesos-ec2/copy-dir .

Add the following lines to `/root/spark/conf/spark-env.sh`:

    export SPARK_CLASSPATH+=/root/tachyon/target/tachyon-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
    SPARK_JAVA_OPTS+=" -Dtachyon.hdfs.address=hdfs://HDFS_HOSTNAME:HDFS_PORT -Dspark.default.parallelism=1 "
    export SPARK_JAVA_OPTS

Add the following lines to `hdfs-site.xml`:

    <property>
      <name>fs.tachyon.impl</name>
      <value>tachyon.hadoop.TachyonFileSystem</value>
      <description></description>
    </property>

Sync Spark's new configuration to all nodes:

    $ cd /root/spark/conf
    $ /root/mesos-ec2/copy-dir .

Put some file X into HDFS and run the Spark shell:

    $ ./spark-shell
    $ val s = sc.textFile("tachyon://tachyon_master_host:9999/X")
    $ s.count()

Take a look at `MasterMachineHostName:9998`. There should be a dataset info there. Tachyon will have
loaded `hdfs://HDFS_HOSTNAME:HDFS_PORT/X` into the system.

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Place, planning and how to recover from COVID-19
By Robin Hambleton
16 Oct 2020 / International / Blog
The RTPI aims to promote a wide variety of views in its blog section. The views expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the RTPI.
The government's mishandling of the latest round of lockdown measures is driving a growing number of local leaders to distraction. This is not surprising - they have been saying for months that the government's over centralised approach to decision making is failing the country.
Largely overlooked in Westminster-centric policy debates, some cities and communities across the world have been responding with great imagination and foresight to the COVID-19 pandemic.
More than that, planners are playing a critical role in shaping post COVID-19 recovery. This is because they understand not just the importance of place in people's lives, but also the power of place.
It is useful to examine international examples of effective civic leadership as this can enhance our understanding of how to bring about progressive change. In my new book, Cities and communities beyond COVID-19, I provide examples of inspirational community leadership and, just as important, new thinking tools that can help planners and other civic leaders co-create imaginative solutions.
Civic leaders need to address three major challenges at once: post COVID-19 recovery, the climate change emergency and the disastrous growth in social and economic inequality in many countries. The good news is that many cities and localities are already doing just this.
Inspirational civic leadership in action
Take Copenhagen, a city already recognised as the healthiest capital in Europe. Lord Mayor Frank Jensen and his colleagues are now aiming for the city to be the world's first carbon-neutral capital in 2025 – yes, that's in five years.
Interestingly, the city is promoting cycling as an effective way of responding to the COVID-19 emergency. Political leaders know that, while the city already has more bicycles than cars, much more can be done. Their strategy recognises that cyclists incur a lower risk of infection and that promoting cycling is a good strategy for reducing obesity levels in the population.
Freiburg, Germany's southernmost city, has established itself as a world leader in relation to good city planning and urban design. As in Copenhagen, citizen participation in decision-making is highly developed and this promotes an approach to civic leadership that is both collaborative and community-based.
The Freiburg hält zusammen (Freiburg holds together) digital network, launched in April, bundles together numerous citizen-oriented information services and activities designed to help local people recover from the COVID-19 calamity.
Over the last four years Bristol, in the UK, has developed a truly innovative 'One City Approach' to urban problem solving. Instigated by Mayor Marvin Rees in 2016, this inclusive way of governing, orchestrated by a small city office, has built trust, strengthened the civic capacity of the city and led to the co-creation of a 'One City Plan' setting out a 30 year strategy for the city. This approach has brought into being what Mayor Rees describes as 'a readiness to move'.
This readiness has enabled civic leaders from the public sector, business community, trade unions, third sector, universities and others to interact effectively right through the lockdown, and new strategies have been co-created – for example, the innovative Bristol One City Economic Recovery Plan, due to go live later this month.
My recent research on post COVID-19 urban strategies suggests that Copenhagen, Freiburg and Bristol are not alone in providing inspiring examples of how imaginative civic leadership can change our future for the better.
What lessons emerge from this analysis?
First, while place clearly matters a great deal in public policy, it is seriously neglected by ministers in Westminster. The current super-centralisation of decision-making in Downing Street, as many Members of Parliament and most local authority leaders already recognise, needs to be reversed.
The international evidence shows that empathetic local leadership, not top-down edicts, can provide numerous routes forward for post COVID-19 recovery. The remarkable upsurge in compassion and caring that we have witnessed in recent months in communities across the country provides the lodestar for societal recovery.
These inspirational efforts are place-based, they stem from local understanding and are rooted in rich social networks that, in many cases, are hyper-local.
Second, values matter. The window of political possibilities needs to move towards caring for people and the planet and away from unregulated markets and individualism. It is clear that the core value of caring – for each other, for ourselves, and for the environment on which we all depend – should now take centre stage.
Third, planning matters. This is a key finding from the disaster studies literature. Cities and localities that look ahead, develop a far-sighted vision for their area, and have firm strategic plans in place are far better placed to respond to a crisis. Having a vision, preferably a well-known vision that enjoys public support, enables leaders to move swiftly from being reactive to being proactive, even as disaster strikes.
Professor Robin Hambleton BA MA PhD MRTPI FRSA FAcSS
Robin Hambleton is Emeritus Professor of City Leadership at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol and Director of Urban Answers. He has been an advisor to UK local government ministers, to Select Committees of the UK House of Parliament, and has worked on place-based leadership with cities in many different countries. He was the founding President of the European Research Association (EURA) and was the Dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2002-07).
For more information on his book, Cities and communities beyond COVID-19, visit: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/cities-and-communities-beyond-covid-19
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Lents fair highlights positives in area plagued by homelessness
Organizers had been planning the fair for months and were glad to see it serve as a sharp contrast to the sights and events that normally draw news cameras their way.
Author: Maggie Vespa
Published: 2:14 PM PDT August 6, 2017
Updated: 5:16 PM PDT August 6, 2017
PORTLAND, Ore. — A part of Portland plagued by, what some deem, the worst of the city's homeless crisis flipped the script Sunday, hoping to put the spotlight on the best their neighborhood has to offer.
The Lents Founders Fair started near Southeast 88th Avenue and Steele Street, stretched east for more than two miles, and featured more than 100 vendors, live music and other attractions.
Organizers had been planning it for months and were glad to see it serve as a sharp contrast to the sights and events that normally draw news cameras their way.
"In Lents we see homelessness, theft, drug addiction in spades," said Robert Schultz, a neighborhood advocate who helped organize the event. "We see gentrification, people getting pushed out, can't afford the rent. So, we need events like this."
Food at the Lents Founders Fair on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (photo: KGW)
The fair comes almost a year after the historic sweep of homeless campers from the Springwater Corridor.
A large portion of that trail runs through the Lents area, and for months leading up to the sweep, residents called on city officials to do something about rampant tent camping.
Back in April, Mayor Ted Wheeler told a townhall meeting full of Lents residents, the city had let them down.
Since then, Schultz said the city is paying more attention to the plight of both the housed and houseless in Lents.
Sunday, though, he said neighbors were happy to focus on their party, rather than the plight.
Livestock at the Lents Founders Fair on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (photo: KGW)
"This is a community," said Schultz. "We are all neighbors who can come out and be together."
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GLOBAL ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE OF INDIAN ORIGIN GOPIO, the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin, was formed in 1989 at the conclusion of the five-day Global Convention of People of Indian Origin, held in New York from August 28 to September 3, 1989.
Since its inception, GOPIO has been at the forefront to network the globally spread overseas Indian community and to advance that objective, GOPIO has been regularly organizing conferences in various parts of the world. These conferences and conventions help bring the Indian Diaspora closer to mother India and strengthen the inherent bond between India and its Diaspora. After all, the destiny of India's Diaspora, in many ways, is intertwined inextricably with India.
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UITV is embracing the fast paced change and is making the technology available on one easy to use platform. UITV stands for United Indians Television, the global full-screen high definition Internet Television network.
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Video streamed through ten individual channels will form the centre of the UITV's content offer, mixed with a high level of technical functionality encouraging users to comment on, upload and share their own content with other users on the platform. The initial content for the platform is aggregated from rights-owners, with further developments being to pro…
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UiTV aims to inform, educate, entertain and connect the 30 million people of Indian origin living around the world with the 1.2 billion people in India. UiTV intends to create a long lasting and powerful global community where the audience are active participants. At UITV, users can watch various channels and socialise, network and even do business through the ten exclusive channels [News, Sports, Culture & Art, Music, Movies, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Business-to-Business, Travel and UITV Link - the Social Network Channel]. As a media entertainment business, UiTV has been created to fill a gap in the worldwide market for Indian centric entertainment and social interaction online.
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Q: Javascript List-like Datastructure What data structure is this in JavaScript? Is seems like a list, but then why does it have a curly brace and not the standard "[]"?
    var states = {
      "California": {
       "Monterey": ["Salinas", "Gonzales"],
       "Alameda": ["Oakland", "Berkeley"]
       },
    "Oregon": {
      "Douglas": ["Roseburg", "Winston"],
      "Jackson": ["Medford", "Jacksonville"]
      }
    }

I am interested in creating some sort of array that has a structure like this:
Colors: Red, Green, Blue, Orange, Yellow
Food: Bananas, Oranges
People: Me, You, Us, Them
...
Does something like this exist in Javascript?
Thanks!

A: One of the main tools available to you in Javascript is objects. They're hash maps, or dictionaries, or key-value pairs, or whatever you'd like to call them. The key is a string (or symbol) and the value can be anything, including other objects.
To create the kind of relationship you're talking about, you could write something like this:
var obj = {
  colors: ['red', 'green', 'blue'],
  food: ['bananas', 'oranges'],
  people: ['me', 'you', 'us']
};
console.log(obj.colors);
console.log(obj.food);
console.log(obj.people);

A: Answer of first part of your question is this is an object. We can declare object like that. for practice Object you can use this link.For the second part  There are many way by which you can add elements to an object. In my example I declare an object an then add attributes in the object.

var obj = {};
  obj.Colors = ['Red', 'Green', 'Blue','Orange', 'Yellow'],
  obj.Food = ['Bananas', 'Oranges'],
  obj.People = ['Me', 'You', 'Us','Them']
  console.log(obj.Colors);
  console.log(obj.Food);
  console.log(obj.People);

A: This is an object. It can have as many nested data types as you like

A: <script>
var arrayObj = [];

var obj = {};
var innerArray = ['Red', 'Green', 'Blue', 'Orange', 'Yellow'];
var secondArray = ['Me', 'You', 'Us', 'Them'];
obj['Colors'] = innerArray;
obj['People'] = secondArray ;
arrayObj .push(obj);
</script>

You can do like this

A: Should be an object with nested objects array.
Somewhat similar with this.
var countries = {
    "USA" : {
         "Alabama" : {
                "Birmingham" : 371,
                "Montgomery" : 8771 },
         "Alaska" : {
                "Anchorage" : 9918,
                "Nome" : 8171 },
          "Wyoming"  : {
                "Casper" : 718,
                "Cody" : 888 }
        },
    "Canada" : [
        "Alberta" : {
              "Calgary" : "Z871" },
        "British Columbia" {
              "Vancouver" : "B88C",
              "Victoria" : "C99A" },
      ...
};

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You're absolutely right about that my friend and thank you for your kind words.
Oh Yes, like it Rob !!
Thank you my friend very much appreciated.
Beautifully written inspiring and powerful.
No Man Is Island, No Man Stands Alone.
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Thousands of people flocked to Wimbledon this summer to see Andy Murray take home the title. Murray, who is the first British man to win the singles tournament in 77 years, beat world number one Djokovic in three straight sets. Many have credited his success to his determination and to his Tennis Coach Ivan Lendle. So what exactly does a Coach do? And what does a career as a Tennis Coach involve?
Jobulo spoke to Tom Stevenson, a Tennis Coach for Dallington Juniors, to find out more about the job.
When I was 14 I began assisting coaching lessons and I went on to playing in my spare time with some of the more advanced players at my club, before taking my first Coaching Assistant qualification when I was 16. I took my full coaching qualification two years later before going to university. I continued with coaching during my time at university so I didn't let my regular clients down. This did mean driving home every weekend, but the commitment was worth it to continue developing my coaching relationships. I graduated in 2011 and I now coach full time, mainly at Dallington Lawn Tennis Club in Northampton, as well as doing work in schools and other local clubs. I've also represented Northants County Tennis and played for the Birmingham University Men's first Team.
Did You Have a Lot of Experience in Playing Tennis before Becoming a Coach?
I started playing tennis when I was eight years old, just going to one group lesson a week. After some one-on-one lessons and developing my skills, I began playing matches and went on to larger tournaments. I played for Dallington Lawn Tennis Club in junior matches and eventually joined the adult teams.
I always enjoyed the sport when I was growing up but coaching wasn't something I ever really thought about as a future profession. It was only when my coach asked me to do some assisting in lessons that I realised how much I enjoyed the teaching side of things, and from there on I helped more and more until eventually I was taking groups on my own. I went to Wimbledon for the first time when I was 10 and every year since I always look forward to going back. I watched Federer playing there before he hit the big time and just thought he was incredible, so I think it's fair to say that he's a big inspiration. But the more experience I had with coaching, the more I realised how much I enjoyed it as opposed to actually playing professionally.
What Skills Are Required to Work as a Tennis Coach?
Obviously you need to have knowledge of the game but personal skills go a long way. Positivity, compassion, patience and confidence are all traits that are needed on a daily basis. You need to be able to deal with stroppy children, shy children, competitive adults and sometimes older adults who need techniques adjusting to suit their physical needs. It's about adapting.
If a Candidate Wants to Work in this Field, Where Do They Start?
I'd say to firstly go down to your local tennis club and see if there are volunteering opportunities available, either assisting with group coaching or working on children's summer activities for example. Also have a look on the LTAwebsite, there's loads of information there about where to start and how best to progress.
What's a Day in the Job Like?
No day is ever the same – that's one of the things I love! My typical day usually starts at a school for an early morning junior group lesson, followed by a few adult individuals mid morning, a pre-school group around lunchtime and then a break before after-school classes begin. I may finish the day with an adult individual lesson. Obviously the weather plays a big part in outdoor lessons, so living in England makes it even more unpredictable!
What Are Your Main Responsibilities When it Comes to Coaching Players?
Making sure the player always enjoys themselves, making sure they are safe, coaching to the very best of your ability in order for them to achieve their potential and giving them a good understanding of the game.
Seeing how well a player has progressed is always really fulfilling. Seeing someone go from having very basic knowledge and skill to playing matches and winning tournaments is fantastic. It's a great feeling to see someone who never thought they would be able to play well hit a brilliant shot and be proud of it.
Days can be very long and you don't have the most sociable work hours!
In Your Opinion, What's the Most Important Thing to Include on a CV If You Are Applying for a Job as a Tennis Coach?
Being able to demonstrate that you can/have worked with a variety of people is useful, from young children to older adults – it demonstrates that you are adaptable and have no limits. However if you're looking for work at a tennis club, the work does tend to be mainly with juniors, so building up that experience will likely get you further than just adult coaching. And obviously showing that you have a personal interest in tennis, but that goes without saying!


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Literature is subjective. So it goes. / La literatura es subjetiva. Estos comentarios también.
Andrew Porter, "Azul"
Andrew Porter's "Azul" (One Story 72, March 30, 2006) is a very good story. It was later published in Porter's acclaimed short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter, and it's no surprise it was chosen as one of the 100 most distinguished stories of 2007 in the BASS 2007 volume.
The story is narrated by Paul, a man who's married to an English professor called Karen (she's on her second marriage). They're in their forties, and are childless because Paul is sterile. Paul's condition put a strain on the marriage, but they chose to stay together. Years later, as a way of having an "adventure" or a "distraction," they decide to host a foreign exchange student from Belize for a year. His name is Azul. Azul's high school friends don't know it, but Azul is gay, and Paul drives Azul regularly to meet his lover, Ramon Cruz. Paul is troubled by this, but Karen convinces him not to worry too much.
These moral qualms are constantly set aside during the story. Paul pinches off some weed from Azul's private stash, instead of confronting Azul for having one. Karen and Azul go for drinks, and sometimes they drink a bit too much. When Azul breaks up with Ramon, Karen and Paul throw a party at home to cheer him up. They allow the kids to drink, and in the dark living room floor, Paul has "no doubt that there is much groping, if not worse" (22). Paul says something to Ramon that he shouldn't have, and the party has a bloody ending. As the story closes, with paramedics on the scene, Paul says that he and Karen "finally turn around and look at what we've done" (28).
The rising tension is well handled. There are points where you see Paul slipping—what's he doing winking to the teenagers who hold a tray of shots?—but it seems so harmless. Then the end hits you, and you share Paul's realization that small omissions led to the messy conclusion.
There are other tensions, too. Karen appears to be about to lose her job to the dazzling intelligence of a 28-year-old upstart, an expert on Old English. She's not even on tenure track after teaching for ten years. She's afraid to finish the book that might get her on track.
We are not told how Karen's story ends. But the tension is handled so well that I wasn't disappointed when I didn't find an ending that addressed those worries. We know that, with one careless slip after another, things turned into an avalanche. We saw it with Azul, and that casts an ominous shadow on Karen's job. I also liked that something actually happened in the story, something chaotic and out of the ordinary. A very good story, indeed.
In the One Story interview, Porter says he took several years to complete this piece, while he usually takes a few weeks to write a "polished draft."
Andrew Porter One Story
C. N. Adichie, "Transition to Glory"
Let's begin a trip through One Story stories with an oldie, published in 2003. I'll leap up to the present shortly, after a couple other detours to the past. By the way, last year I published my first note on a One Story piece, here.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Transition to Glory" (One Story 27, September 30, 2003) is a story of an affair ("In her better moods, she liked that word, affair, liked the decadent affectation that clung to it, affair" [7]). It takes place in Nigeria. One party is a radio talk show host called Ozioma; the other is a powerful and wealthy man called Agha. Her name means "Gospel"; his means "War" (11). Ozioma is much younger than Agha, almost as old as the oldest daughter Agha has with Didi, his wife.
The story jumps back and forth from descriptions of the affair to scenes that are set after Agha's death. Agha dies in a car crash not too long after the affair had begun. One of the most poignant moments in the story is when Ozioma puzzles at a crumpled newspaper …
Nam Le, "Meeting Elise"
Nam Le's "Meeting Elise" (One Story 93, June 30, 2007) is another oldie worth mentioning. I've discussed Nam Le's fiction before, with a story I liked and a story I disliked. "Meeting Elise" stands in between.
Henry Luff, the narrator, is a famous painter who fell for a nude model called Olivia. His wife ran away with their one-year-old daughter, Elise, to Russia. Luff lived with Olivia for years, until she became a heroine addict, left him, and died. Luff followed Elise's progress from afar, while Elise became a famous musician. When she was eighteen, Elise invited Luff to a concert in New York. They scheduled a dinner in which Luff was going to meet Elise's fiancé, her manager. They canceled at the last minute, while Luff was already sitting at the table. Still, Luff tried to approach Elise repeatedly, and failed to meet her every time. He walked in late to the concert, and waited outside at the end, where he saw Olivia in every woman that passed by. He was anxious, in part, because …
Reading (and) Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (The 50th Anniversary Edition). New York: Picador (1998), 190 pp.
So how do you get kids to read? I read a stray article written by a well-known novelist who shrugged off the problem. This concern has been blown out of proportion, she said. Thanks to steep literacy levels, more people are reading now than at any other time in history. Numerically, this is true. But I think the rebuttal misses the point: as I see it, people are worried because those who got an education used to be deeply committed to reading; many of those who get an education today are reading-averse. I've had quite a few former students confess that they read one or no books before college; and I've talked to several educated adults who admit that they haven't read a full book in, say, a decade (or more).
So back to square one: how do you get kids to read? If you ask Ray Bradbury, as you can see in the interview that accompanies the 50th Anniversary Edition of Fahrenheit 451, this is such …
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The undersigned African and international non-governmental organisations would like to update the Commission on the conflicts in the Sudanese border states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile and their impact on civilians, including refugees who have fled to South Sudan. We believe it is now more critical than ever that the Commission demand that all parties to the conflict agree to a ceasefire and allow unimpeded humanitarian access to the two areas. It is also imperative that the Commission urgently authorise a fact finding mission to Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States to assess the human rights situation, and ensure that its findings are reported to the concerned regional institutions without delay.
Following the Joint NGO Statement on Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States (24 October) and the Commission's adoption of a Resolution on the General Human Rights Situation in Africa (Res. 207 (L) 2011) at the conclusion of its 50th session in early November, there has been a serious escalation in the conflict in the two areas that has caused new displacements and an increase in refugee flows to neighbouring states. The most recent figures from the United Nations (OCHA Weekly Humanitarian
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So, is there a way to work with arrows keys in FreeBasic?
Also consider using Multikey, it's the FreeBASIC evrsion of old Milo's multikey we all loved in QB.
and then you have the keycodes defined Check FreeBASIC/inc/fbgfx.bi for some other constants defined for you.
Thank you Chaos for your input!
But it's a shame I never heard of Multikey before! Please tell me more about it. Is it faster or take less memory than CHR$(255) + "Insert Character here"? If not, why did people love it in QB?
The main benefit is that it allows multiple keypresses, where INKEY only allows one at a time.
Thank you Zack! It is definitely a good benefit indeed!
The reason people didn't use it in QB as much is because it wasn't included in QB.
Inkey is good for like, typing in a line, multikey is better for real-time input handling, like using an arrow key to move a character.
Multikey is faster, because inkey uses strings, which does introduce some overhead. Multikey is integer codes.
Also, multiple keypresses are somewhat limited, due to standard keyboard drivers, you usually can't hold more than 3 keys down before new ones simply won't register. Not a FB bug, a keyboard driver limitation.
I will definitely use MultiKey in my RPG Engine!


I've been struggling with that concept ever since. Then, a while ago, a couple of kindly souls removed that worry from me. It's ok that it's this short… it's all I want/need to say to her/you – all the other bits I've tried to add over the years distract from it.
This year I sat down to record it… This is the song that I was about to record, and the mood that I was in, when "Anyway" popped out of nowhere. Writing and recording that put this one on hold for several months.
Uploaded September 22, 2012 6:57pm .
This is a pretty intense listen for something written 25 years ago! You have a wonderful gift for making every word sound completely in the moment and real.
Love it. What a vocal on this. You always connect the listener with the song. Another beauty added to the catalog.
You have acomplished what many can not; Offer a complete thought in a succinct manor.
Nice going Andrew! You make it sound easy.


Wanting to be among the first vendors and "wedding" in the space that opened just two months ago, this very talented team of popular NYC vendors came together to create this Jackson Pollock inspired, vibrant inspirational shoot.
"Dobbin St is the hottest new venue in New York City, located in a very trendy area of Brooklyn on in Williamsburg." Leah told us. "The color palette was chosen to play off the already amazing curated art and colors in the venue: black and white with pops of yellow, mauve, green and blue ("Yves Klein blue" particularly on the front exterior statement wall, a color first mixed by this famous artist around 1960.) Everything in the shoot played off those colors, with an addition of Pollock-like splatter paint throughout particularly on the dinner plates, cake and guest book paper. Two other well known artists are highlighted at the venue including Christine Gedeon who created the mural on the back wall out of tape, inspired by an aerial view and side view of the Manhattan/Brooklyn landscape as seen from the venue's rooftop, and custom wallpaper by Brooklyn native Sarah Merenda." She continued.


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Mark Simonson put together this little sampler of his lettering work.
Gaskell's Compendium of Forms -- Social, Educational, Legal and Commercial. Penmanship, Correspondence, Etiquette, Poetry. -- "George A. Gaskell (1844-1885) was one of the most famous calligraphers in America. Gaskell's Complete Compendium of Elegant Writing (1873) was a bestseller, with over 250,000 copies sold in ten years. It inspired a whole generation of penmanship students, many of whom became prominent calligraphers later on (Louis Madarasz, for example). Gaskell was also the author of The Penman's Hand-Book (1883), another excellent calligraphy manual, and he was the editor of what was almost certainly the first monthly journal dedicated to calligraphy and penmanship. [Note: However, Gaskell was perhaps most famous as the author/compiler of a book called Gaskell's Compendium of Forms, Educational, Social, Legal and Commercial -- a massive tome on etiquette, etc., that no self-respecting Victorian gentleman or lady could do without reading.]"
Penmanship machine from the 1950's for sale on eBay. "This is antique penmanship machine that is from the 1950's. It is made of cardboard and wooden knobs that when you turn them you can see the item that you are spelling and the correct penmanship of how its written. Very cool vintage item. The item was made by Mastercraft Toy Company in New York."
Half-length portrait of A. N. Palmer, handwriting expert, standing outside a building in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Palmer developed a new method of handwriting that was adopted by the board of education for instruction in Chicago schools.
Notes This photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper.
I found the image while searching for "handwriting" in the American Memory site from the Library of Congress.
Poor handwriting may result in fines - "Doctors with chicken scratch for handwriting who write illegible prescriptions could face discipline and up to $500 in fines per episode under a bill endorsed Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee."
Thomas Gourdie MBE; born May 18, 1913, died January 6, 2005. "If Tom Gourdie had a mission in life, it was to make the world write -- to produce writing styles that possessed clarity and fluidity, that were legible and a delight to the eye. In his 92nd year, he was Scotland's doyen of calligraphy and grand old man of handwriting..."
»Obituary by Gordon Casely in the Glasgow Herald 14.Jan.2005.
»Obituary by Alasdair Steven in The Scotsman 12.Jan.2005.
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But there are plenty of signs made out of the scraps of siding which bear the carefully lettered names of the items the family sells. In turn, you get a chance at winning the quilt! They bought raffle tickets and purchased lunch and baked goods. And as always, thanks for reading! Slutty Asian girl gets gangbanged in the bus by perverts. They are not so concerned with being Americans, or influenced by the media. But it made me think about the different Amish communities, how they vary, and how we perceive them.
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Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Grimes, G.)
WASHINGTON – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Cpl. George T. Grimes, 19, who was killed during the Korean War, was accounted for Aug. 2, 2022.
In July 1950, Grimes was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit was forced to retreat from the vicinity of Taejon, South Korea, on July 20. Due to the fighting, his body could not be recovered at that time, and there was never any evidence that he was a prisoner of war. The Army issued a presumptive finding of death on Dec. 31, 1953.
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Genki made a big fuss about how their 3D engine for this battlefield action game allowed them to have "65,535" units onscreen at once. And, I mean, I can't count that high, but there are definitely a ton of dudes/monsters running around the screen. Automatic best game ever?
Well, you know, it seems all right. There's actually a lot of story and little text interruptions throughout the battles, and I don't have much idea what those are about, but in battle you rip around with this super-powered wolf-headed demigod samurai guy, who has all kinds of nifty moves that allow him to mow through those 65,535 enemies like a freight train with a school of piranha mounted on the front.
You'll find pretty quickly that it comes down to energy management. Your demigod has an energy meter, and his big splashy power attacks drain that energy. On the other hand, killing certain enemies or something like that can restore his energy, as can having his troops construct little party pillar things at specific points on the map.
There seem to be other kinds of pillars he can have them construct, too. I've got a second kind so far, which act as defense turrets against the hordes of monsters. Not very effective ones, but hey, they try.
In general it seems like the goal for a map will consist of leading your troops, or maybe just certain troop leaders, to a spot on the map guarded by tons and tons of respawning enemies. So you put your troops in follow mode, run on ahead, toggle on your power-draining glowy sword mode, and carve through the enemy, sending whole platoons of them skyward with every single sword stroke. It's pretty neat, even if you can't always tell what's going on.
There's a zoomed-in camera mode, but it's pretty impossible to see what's going on when you're in it. The zoomed out mode gives a pretty good view of the action, but you can't always tell the difference between your troops and the littler enemies. Your troops fire brightly colored arrows, though, so that helps.
Still, I can see this kind of thing getting a little boring after dozens and dozens of battles like this. I've read that they vary things up later on with time limited objectives, and multiple simultaneous waypoints per map, but will that be enough? There's the occassional extra-large boss type monster, but these aren't really all that impressive, and are just as dumb as all the other 65,535 monsters: they move in a straight line, for the most part, and then stop and chew on their target repeatedly.
Also, wading through all your troops and pillars can be a little annoying; they don't absolutely block your progress, but they kind of slow it down a bit.
On the other hand, when you beat a stage (might require a certain score), you seem to get a new sword. There are 99 swords, so does that mean 99 stages? I'm not sure that they behave very differently.
So, the jury's still out on this, as to whether or not it's something that can sustain itself for a while. I like the feeling of cutting massive swaths of destructive energy through 65,535 monsters, but is that by itself enough to hold my dangerously low attention span?


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863 983-5797 manager@ccwcdfl.com
ABOUT CCWCD
CCWCD Board Members
Description of area served
Official Purpose
About Taxes, Fees, Assessments
SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT MEETINGS
Approved meeting minutes
Agendas and associated backup materials
Adopted CCWCD policies and procedures
Audits and Related Matters
Budgets and Related Items
VIDEO MEETING AUDIO
DISTRICT CLUBHOUSE
IMPORTANT NOTICE! Please read.
Central County Water Control District
Location of District Office
475 S. Cabbage Palm Street
Clewiston, Florida 33440
Dumpsters no longer available.
District Manager, primary contact person for CCWCD
Herminio Bussott – Manager
Clewiston, FL 33440
manager@ccwcdfl.com
Phone: 863/983-5797 | Fax: 863/983-9693
District Attorney and Registered Agent
John J. Fumero
Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A.
750 Park of Commerce Boulevard, # 210
jjf@nasonyeager.com
District Treasurer
John B. Boy, CPA
Boy Miller Kisker & Perry, P.A.
401 S WC Owen Avenue
Larry Bennett, P.E., P.L.S., C.G.C.
H.L. Bennett & Associates, Inc.
241 E. Yeomans Avenue
hlb@hlbennett.org
CCWCD Offices
CREATED VIA SPECIAL ACT OF FLORIDA LEGISLATURE
Chapters 2000-415 (Codified), 2007-315 and 2013-263, Laws of Florida.
Full Text of District Charter
CCWCD's Charter was created via Chapter 2000-415, Laws of Florida. The following represents CCWCD's Charter in its present form as established via Chapter 2000-415, Laws of Florida, unless otherwise noted.
Section 1. District created; boundaries; validation.(Amended by Chapter 2013-263, Laws of Florida, to read as follows)—
(a) For the purpose of reclamation, drainage, irrigation, water control, and development of lands hereinafter described and to protect said lands from the effects of water by means of the construction and maintenance of canals, ditches, levees, dikes, pumping plants, and other drainage, irrigation, and water control works and improvements, and to make the lands within said district available and habitable for settlement and agriculture, and for the public convenience, welfare, utility and benefit, and for the other purposes stated in this act a drainage district is hereby created and established in Hendry County to be known as the Central County Water Control District, the territorial boundaries of which shall be as follows:
Sections 13, 14, 15, the West 1/2 of Section 18, Sections 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27, the North 1/2 of Section 34 except the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of said Section 34 and all of Sections 35 and 36 in Township 44 South, Range 32 East; and all of Sections 19, 29, 30, 31, 32, and a portion of Section 7 described as that portion of the Woodland Subdivision recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 1 of the Public Records of Hendry County, Florida, Township 44 South, Range 33 East in Hendry County, Florida.
(b) It is hereby determined, declared, and enacted that said lands in their present condition are wet and subject to overflow, and at times subject to drought, and that the drainage, irrigation, water control, reclamation, and protection of said lands from the effects of water, and thereby the making of said lands available for agricultural and settlement purposes by drainage, irrigation, water control, reclamation, and improvement, and the creation of said district with the powers vested in it by this act, are in the interest of and conducive to public welfare, health, and convenience.
(c) The proceedings had in the circuit court of Hendry County in the cause styled "In re: Central County Drainage District," being Case No. 68-14, wherein a judgment was entered on February 6, 1968, creating Central County Drainage District under the provisions of chapter 298, Florida Statutes, known as the general drainage law, and a judgment extending the boundaries of said district which was entered on April 10, 1970, are hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed.
Section 2. Provisions of other laws made applicable.—The Central County Water Control District hereby created shall be a public corporation of this state. The provisions of the general drainage laws of Florida applicable to drainage districts or sub-drainage districts which are embodied in chapter 298, Florida Statutes, and all of the laws amendatory thereof, now existing or hereafter enacted, so far as not inconsistent with this act, are hereby declared to be applicable to the Central County Water Control District. The Central County Water Control District shall have all of the powers and authorities mentioned in or conferred by chapter 298, Florida Statutes, and acts amendatory thereof, except as herein otherwise provided.
Section 3. Powers of the district.—The district shall have the power to sue and be sued by its name in any court of law or in equity; to make contracts; to adopt and use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; to acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation real and personal property, either or both, as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this act, and chapter 298, Florida Statutes; to construct, operate, and maintain canals, ditches, drains, levees, and other works for drainage purposes; to acquire, purchase, operate, and maintain pumps, plants, and pumping systems for drainage purposes; to construct, operate, and maintain irrigation works, machinery, and plants; to construct, improve, pave, and maintain roadways and roads necessary and convenient for the exercise of the powers or duties or any of the powers or duties of said district or the supervisors thereof; and in furtherance of the purposes and intent of this act and chapter 298, Florida Statutes, to construct, improve, pave, and maintain streets, roadways, and roads necessary and convenient to provide access to and efficient development of areas made suitable and available for cultivation, settlement, urban and suburban, and other beneficial use and development as a result of the drainage, irrigation, and reclamation operations of the district; to construct, acquire by donation, or purchase recreational facilities and areas, including related facilities, and to construct, operate, and maintain such recreation and related facilities for the benefit of district residents. The powers and duties of said district shall be exercised by and through the board of supervisors thereof, which board shall have the authority to employ engineers, attorneys, agents, employees, and representatives as the board of supervisors may from time to time determine, and to fix their compensation and duties. Provided, however, that in addition thereto, the district shall have all of the powers provided for in chapter 298, Florida Statutes.
Section 4. Taxes; levy; apportionment; collection.—
(1) Installment taxes.
(a) Taxes shall be levied and apportioned as provided for in the general drainage laws of Florida (chapter 298, Florida Statutes, and amendments thereto), except that the provisions of section 298.41, Florida Statutes, and amendments thereto, shall not be applicable to the district. In lieu thereof the following provision shall apply to the district.
(b) The board of supervisors shall determine, order, and levy the amount of the annual installments of the total taxes levied under section 298.36, Florida Statutes, which said annual installment and levy shall be evidenced to and certified by the board not later than July 1 of each year to the tax assessor of Hendry County. Said tax shall be extended by the county tax assessor on the county tax roll and shall be collected by the tax collector in the same manner and time as county taxes, and the proceeds thereof paid to the district.
(2) Maintenance tax.
(a) The provisions of section 298.54, Florida Statutes, and amendments thereto, shall not be applicable to the district. In lieu thereof, the following provision shall apply to the district.
(b) To maintain and preserve the improvements made pursuant to this act and to repair and restore the same, when needed, and for the purpose of defraying the current expenses of the district, the board of supervisors may, upon the completion of said improvements, in whole or in part as may be certified to the board by the chief engineer, levy annually a tax upon each tract or parcel of land within the district, to be known as a "maintenance tax." Said maintenance tax shall be apportioned upon the basis of the net assessments of benefits assessed as accruing for original construction, and shall be evidenced to and certified by the board not later than July 1 of each year to the tax assessor of Hendry County, and shall be extended by the county tax assessor on the county tax roll and shall be collected by the tax collector in the same manner and time as county taxes and the proceeds therefrom paid to said district.
(3) Taxes and costs a lien on land against which taxes assessed. All taxes provided for in this act together with all penalties for default in payment of the same and all costs in collecting the same shall, from the date of assessment thereof until paid, constitute a lien of equal dignity with the liens for county taxes, and other taxes of equal dignity with county taxes, upon all the lands against which such taxes shall be levied as is provided in this act.
(4) Compensation of tax assessor, tax collector, and clerk of the circuit court. The tax assessor, tax collector, and clerk of the circuit court of Hendry County shall be entitled to compensation for services performed in connection with taxes of said district the same as now provided by law for special drainage districts.
(5) Levies of taxes on land less than one (1) acre. In levying and assessing all taxes, each tract or parcel of land less than one (1) acre in area shall be assessed as a full acre, and each tract or parcel of land more than one (1) acre in area which contains a fraction of an acre shall be assessed at the nearest whole number of acres. A fraction of one-half (1/2) or more to be assessed as a full acre.
Section 5. When unpaid taxes delinquent; penalty.—All taxes provided for in this act shall be and become delinquent and bear penalties on the amount of said taxes in the same manner as county taxes.
Section 6. Enforcement of taxes.—The collection and enforcement of all taxes levied by said district shall be at the same time and in like manner as county taxes, and the provisions of the Florida Statutes relating to the sale of lands for unpaid and delinquent county taxes, the issuance, sale, and delivery of tax certificates for such unpaid and delinquent county taxes, the redemption thereof, the issuance to individuals of tax deeds based thereon, and all other procedures in connection therewith, shall be applicable to said district and the delinquent and unpaid taxes of said district to the same extent as if said statutory provisions were expressly set forth in this act. All taxes shall be subject to the same discounts as county taxes.
Section 7. Quorum for landowners' meetings.—At any landowners' meeting, the owners of land in the district present in person or otherwise properly voting shall constitute a quorum.
Section 8. Proxy voting eliminated.—Proxy voting is prohibited in elections of the district board of supervisors.
Section 9. Board of supervisors; membership and qualifications; terms; election procedures. (Amended by Chapter 2007-315, Laws of Florida, to read as follows:) —
(1) Membership; qualifications.—There shall be five members of the district board. Three board members shall be elected by district landowners pursuant to chapter 298, Florida Statutes, on a one-acre, one-vote basis. Two board members shall be elected by qualified electors, as defined in section 97.041, Florida Statutes, who are residents of the district. Board member seats shall be numbered 1, 3, and 5 for board members elected pursuant to chapter 298, Florida Statutes, by landowners, and numbered 2 and 4 for members elected by qualified electors.
(2) Terms.—Board member 1 shall be elected at the annual landowners' meeting to be held in April 2007 and shall hold office until the general election in November 2010. Board member 2 shall be elected at a special election to be set by the board and conducted by the supervisor of elections in 2007. Board member 2 shall hold office until the general election in November 2008 or until a successor is elected and seated. Thereafter, the term of board member 2 shall be 4 years. Board member 3 shall be elected at an annual landowners' meeting held in October 2008 to a term of 4 years. Board member 4 shall be elected at the general election held in November 2008 to a term of 4 years. Board member 5, who would have been elected in 2009, shall hold office until 2010. Board member 5 shall be elected at an annual landowners' meeting to be held in October 2010. Thereafter, all board members shall serve terms of 4 years each from the date of election, which terms shall expire 10 days after the election of a successor supervisor.
(3) Election procedures.—Following the effective date of this act, all landowners' meetings shall be held annually in October. Landowners' meetings held in October of even-numbered years shall elect supervisors pursuant to chapter 298, Florida Statutes, as specified by this act. Supervisors to be elected by qualified electors shall qualify and run as nonpartisan candidates pursuant to general law. Elections shall be conducted by the Hendry County Supervisor of Elections and held on the general election day in November of even-numbered years. Candidates elected by qualified electors shall be elected by a plurality of the vote.
Section 10. Effect of conflict with other acts.—In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this act and the provisions of any other act, the provisions of this act shall control to the extent of such conflict.
Reclamation, drainage, irrigation, water control, and development of lands within CCWCD and to protect said lands from the effects of water by means of the construction and maintenance of canals, ditches, levees, dikes, pumping plants, and other drainage, irrigation, and water control works and improvements, and to make the lands within CCWCD available and habitable for settlement and agriculture, and for the public convenience, welfare, utility and benefit, and for the other purposes stated in CCWCD's Charter.
Construct, operate, and maintain canals, ditches, drains, levees, and other works for drainage purposes; to acquire, purchase, operate, and maintain pumps, plants, and pumping systems for drainage purposes; to construct, operate, and maintain irrigation works, machinery, and plants; to construct, improve, pave, and maintain roadways and roads necessary and convenient for the exercise of the powers or duties or any of the powers or duties of CCWCD and the Board of Supervisors; and in furtherance of these purposes and the intent of CCWCD's enabling legislation and chapter 298, Florida Statutes, to construct, improve, pave, and maintain streets, roadways, and roads necessary and convenient to provide access to and efficient development of areas made suitable and available for cultivation, settlement, urban and suburban, and other beneficial use and development as a result of the drainage, irrigation, and reclamation operations of the district; to construct, acquire by donation, or purchase recreational facilities and areas, including related facilities, and to construct, operate, and maintain such recreation and related facilities for the benefit of CCWCD residents.
Statutory Authority
Chapters 189 and Chapter 298, Florida Statutes
Date Established
Establishing Entity
Florida Legislature
INSTALLMENT TAX / ASSESSMENTS
Current rate/amount: $220 per acre
Authority: Chapter 298, Florida Statutes, and Section 4, CCWCD Charter.
MAINTENANCE TAX
Current rate/amount: N/A.
Authority: Section 4, CCWCD Charter.
The District's current Fiscal Year is October 1, 2018 until September 30, 2019.
Authority: Chapter 298, Florida Statutes, and Section 4, CCWCD Charter
The District's current Fiscal Year is October 1, 2018 until September 30, 2019
Department of Financial Services – Local Government Financial Reporting
VISIT (external page)
Benito Alvarez
Seat #1 Vice-Chair
475 S. Cabbage Palm St.
seat1@ccwcdfl.com
Elected by Landowners, 2018-2022
Seat #4
Daniel Santiago Jr.
Elected by qualified electors, 2020-2024
Seat #5 Chair
Juan Carlos Santana
YEAR 2020 – 2021
Please be advised the regular monthly meetings of the Board of Supervisors of the central County Water Control District ("the District"), Hendry County , Florida will be held on the following dates at 6:00 pm EST or as soon thereafter as deemed appropriate to conduct the business of the district at the District Office, 475 S. Cabbage Palm Street, Clewiston, Florida 33470.
May 26, 2021 – BUDGET
June 23, 2021- ADOPTION OF TENTATIVE BUDGET
July 28, 2021 BUDGET
August 25, 2021 – Final Budget
October 23, 2021 at 9: 00 am – LANDOWNERS' ORGANIZATION AND REGULAR MEETING
THIS NOTICE FURTHER ADVISES THAT IF A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE DISTRICT, WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT THESE MEETINGS, YOU WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE MEETING, WHICH INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH ANY APPEAL IS BASED.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MAY CONDUCT ANY OTHER SPECIAL MEETINGS OR WORKSHOPS AS REQUIRED. SPECIAL MEETINGS OR WORKSHOPS WILL BE ADVERTISED SEVEN (7) DAYS PRIOR TO THE MEETINGS.
ANY INTERESTED PARTY DESIRING TO APPEAR BEFORE THE BOARD MAY DO SO ON THE DATES AND PLACE LISTED ABOVE.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE OR SERVICES, PLEASE CONTACT THE DISTRICT OFFICE AT (863) 983-5797 NO LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS PRIOR TO THE ABOVE STATED MEETINGS.


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Visual Production Innovator disguise Delivers State-of-the-Art User Experience via Responsive, Modern Help Website Using MadCap Flare
www.disguise.one/en
Visual Productions
Replace legacy CMS software with solution for delivering a modern Help website.
Support customers at their design studios and while working on location via a responsive website that adapts to users' desktop and mobile screens.
Streamline the process of creating and delivering disguise's documentation through content re-use and single-source, multi-channel publishing.
Design a Help site that aligns with the disguise corporate website and creates an intuitive, appealing experience for users.
MadCap Flare native XML single-source, multi-channel content authoring software
Enhanced User Experience: Flare's top navigation, responsive design, and embedded videos, provide an interactive web experience with easy-to-navigate content.
Easy Customization: Snippets and native XML functionality in Flare enable disguise to customize the Help site with minimal effort.
Efficiency: Flare's topic-based authoring, single-source publishing, and conditional tags maximize content reuse—cutting the time to make updates from hours to minutes.
Brand Alignment: Flare's stylesheet mediums and responsive layout tools allow disguise to match the look and feel of its state-of-the-art corporate website.
disguise works with some of the world's most talented visual designers working in: concert touring such as U2, The Rolling Stones, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran; Californian music and arts festival Coachella; several West End and Broadway shows such as Frozen and Harry Potter; a growing number of Hollywood films and live TV broadcast settings, as well as numerous other corporate and entertainment events.
The company provides the first fully integrated visual production suite that supports video professionals throughout all stages of production, from initial concept to show time. disguise is now recognized as a leader in solutions for designing, sequencing and controlling the some of the world's most progressive events and installations.
Creating an attractive, state-of-the-art experience for the video professionals that use its suite has been a top priority—from its real-time 3D stage simulator, timeline-based sequencer, video playback engine, and content mapper to the online Help that supports the software. Recently, disguise extended this commitment by delivering its online Help via a new intuitive and interactive HTML5-based online user guide.
The custom-built disguise Help website was created using the single-source authoring, multi-channel publishing, and modern web design capabilities of MadCap Flare. Taking advantage of features, such as top navigation, responsive design, and support for multimedia, it gives customers up-to-date, easy-to-access information whether they are in the design studio or on location.
Evolving Business Spurs New Content Delivery Demands
In mid 2017, disguise rebranded its main website to go along with its new visual identity and name change. As part of the rebranding exercise, the marketing team wanted to revamp the Help website to match the brand experience of the main site and deliver an improved user experience for customers.
At the time, disguise was producing online user guides via ProProf's content management system (CMS), but the company realized it would not support the new demands for online Help. Not only did the CMS have limited capabilities; it also didn't allow the team to control how content looked or was presented to the extent that they wanted.
"Because our CMS had an outdated traditional, tri-pane layout with no single-source authoring functionality, we knew it wasn't going to work for the scalability of the business," recalled Joe Bleasdale, Training Manager at disguise. "We needed a solution that would let us go multi-output and multi-language, as well as give us full control over the source code."
Bleasdale also wanted an open, scalable and reliable tool that would allow him to custom-build the new site, enable full single source authoring, and facilitate easy ongoing maintenance. Having worked with MadCap Flare in the past, Bleasdale knew that the software could deliver these capabilities, and he recommended that disguise move to MadCap Flare.
Responsive HTML5-based Topic Page, Created with MadCap Flare
"MadCap Software is the industry standard, with its open, native XML architecture, immensely powerful out-of-the-box features, and large user base," Bleasdale notes. "Since we're growing globally so quickly, we needed to think five steps ahead, and MadCap Flare is the obvious solution to help us hit the ground running."
Migrating to MadCap Flare
Once disguise selected MadCap Flare, Bleasdale enlisted Matthew Ellison and Dave Lee, two well-known UK Flare developers, to assist with the design and implementation. They worked extensively with the disguise branding team and helped design template topics that could be applied to the project, categorizing all existing topics into six different types. Then, using the Zeplin collaboration tool, the design team mocked up each topic with content and images from the live project and the Flare developers made real test topics to ensure the design was deliverable.
"We were able to come up with great-looking topics that were achievable with minimal effort and could be easily maintained by one person," Bleasdale says.
View of Topic Page in Online Help
In addition to the comprehensive MadCap Flare capabilities and UK Flare developers, MadCap's technical support and user community also contributed to disguise's success in delivering the new Help website.
"The MadCap user community is amazing and very similar to ours. We would have struggled with the project if we didn't have this community," Bleasdale notes. "What ultimately makes the MadCap product so great is that you can bring in external consultants who have deep knowledge of the product. In this way, MadCap and disguise are totally aligned."
Customizing Online Help to Match the Main Website
Today, disguise delivers a modern Help website, which offers both interactive online Help and the ability to download supporting documentation as PDFs. The online Help has been customized extensively to align with the look and feel of the company's main website. To enable this customization, Bleasdale has relied on a combination of the stylesheet mediums, snippets, responsive layout tools, and XML editor in MadCap Flare.
"Flare snippets were a big part of the initial prototyping phase. We built blocks of stuff as snippets, dropped them into different topics to see how they looked, edited the source snippets, and then dropped the block into all of the other topics," Bleasdale explains. "The process is much more streamlined, and it is easier to condition out that particular block for the PDF target."
Meanwhile, the ability to combine the stylesheet mediums and MadCap Flare's built-in responsive layout tools helped Bleasdale to easily style and customize the look and feel of the online Help to align with the corporate website and provide a consistent user experience.
Without Flare's robust out-of-the-box capabilities, we wouldn't have been able to do all the customizations to our Help site and carry out our vision of creating a high-quality user experience.
Joe Bleasdale
Training Manager,
Additionally, Bleasdale relies on a combination of MadCap Flare's XML editor and text editor to support the highly customized requirements of the Help website. The text editor makes it possible to view and modify the true code in order to add custom content or strip out legacy content that would take too long to do in the XML editor.
"Without Flare's robust out-of-the-box capabilities, we wouldn't have been able to do all the customizations to our Help site and carry out our vision of creating a high-quality user experience," Bleasdale says. "The combination of Flare's XML editor and text editor is highly useful and powerful for people working on complex projects. And the XML structure bars are a breeze to work with when moving around large chunks of content or selecting specific chunks of content to edit."
Making Help a Modern Web Experience
We love that with Flare's top navigation, we're able to experiment with the interface of the site. It's another great example of how Flare's advanced built-in capabilities save us so much time while allowing us to innovate.
To ensure that customers have a modern web experience when they visit the Help site, disguise takes advantage of MadCap's functionality for top navigation and mobile devices, as well as responsive design.
Home Page of disguise one's HTML5-based Help Site
"We love that with Flare's top navigation, we're able to change the navigation interface of the site, depending on whether the user is on mobile or a full browser and adding a search icon at the top right corner of the menu makes it that extra bit usable," Bleasdale observes. "It's another great example of how Flare's advanced built-in capabilities save us so much time while allowing us to innovate by adding our own custom code."
Meanwhile, the media queries built into Flare's responsive design enable Bleasdale to design a customized responsive layout without having to write everything from scratch.
"Thanks to Flare's responsive design feature, the layout of the entire Help site automatically adapts to any screen size. This is key because roughly a third of our users access the Help via mobile devices and expect the same consistent experience as viewing it from a desktop," Bleasdale explains.
If all the functionality wasn't built into Flare, it would've taken us so much longer, and we would have needed a whole team of people spending a couple of weeks just to come up with the layout.
Notably, while disguise has employed responsive design, the company also wants to provide more tailored support for customers using mobile devices. To do so, disguise has used the mobile medium in MadCap Flare to create a mobile version of the Help that has its own interface instead of simply a micro version of the main Help interface.
"In our mobile version, the search bar is inside the top navigation header, enabling quick and easy access to the Help pages no matter where you are on the site," Bleasdale notes. "This is extremely important because users often view the mobile help site in a critical, time-sensitive show environment and can't be searching through a 1,500-page PDF to find one paragraph."
Bleasdale adds, "If all the functionality wasn't built into Flare, it would've taken us so much longer, and we would have needed a whole team of people spending a couple of weeks just to come up with the layout. But the power of Flare made this easy."
Serving Multiple Markets via Multimedia and Google Analytics
MadCap Flare also has enabled disguise to better serve global markets through the use of multimedia and Google Analytics, which have been integrated into Help site using MadCap Flare. For example, Bleasdale is embedding looping GIF images into the Help pages. These videos, which visually explain how the software works, help to provide a consistent learning experience for customers no matter which language they speak.
Having the flexibility to include universally understood videos via Flare helps us deliver cutting-edge documentation that aligns with people's expectations of our products.
View of Topic Page in Mobile Output with Quick Search Functionality
"It's important to make our resources and Help guides the clearest they can be, and we have many customers that don't speak English," says Bleasdale. "Having the flexibility to include universally understood videos via Flare helps us deliver cutting-edge documentation that aligns with people's expectations of our products. This wouldn't have been possible with the old site. There was no functionality to do any kind of interactive activity at all."
To further optimize the web experience, disguise uses Google Analytics built into the Help site to obtain real-time insights into what customers search for on the site, the top countries people are viewing from, and the ratio of desktop to mobile users, among other statistics. This has allowed the company to tweak content to better serve customers' needs, such as creating topics around new terms searched by users and adding Madcap keywords to improve search results.
"From Google Analytics, we know how many sessions we've had year to date, which is the number of times people have interacted with the Help site. We've also learned that, among viewers, the second most popular language behind English is Chinese," Bleasdale observes. "As a result, we have started a project to make the site available in Chinese. This kind of deep insight is critical for the ongoing development of both our product as well as the technical documentation we produce from Flare."
This project wouldn't have been possible without Flare's amazing single-source functionality. The content we're producing is worlds ahead of what we were doing before.
Efficient Content Development via Single-Source Publishing
The new disguise HTML5-based Help website contains software user guides, along with hardware reference documentation and topic-specific implementation workflow guides. By taking advantage of MadCap Flare's topic-based single-source publishing, Bleasdale has been able to cut the time it takes to author and publish this content from hours to minutes.
"This project wouldn't have been possible without Flare's single-source functionality," Bleasdale notes. "With Flare, it's really easy for one person to write, go through changes, and manage the whole thing. As a result, the content we're producing is worlds ahead of what we were doing before and has been extremely well received by our community."
Bleasdale has also gained significant efficiencies through content reuse via snippets and conditions, helping to avoid repetitive efforts when updating documentation with similar content.
"The related content section was built as a snippet, dropped into every topic and then converted to text to make it unique to that topic," Bleasdale explains. "If I was to write all that content manually, it would've taken me ten times as long. So being able to write all this stuff in snippets that we can use as 'presets', has saved me a huge amount of time."
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