In this lengthy post we'll feature some key considerations to have in mind when making a decision brand v independent from an ecommerce point of view, and then going on to select your ecommerce partner assuming that you have a choice in that regard. Please note that ecommerce doesn't just refer to the website booking engine, it covers the whole on line 'central reservation system' (CRS), importantly including IDs, GDS, and channel management and channel connect considerations. We will aim to be as brief as possible, flagging up all the key issues – this is a huge subject with many areas worthy of individual treatment, we may in fact do this in later posts.
Not all brands are created equal. This is particularly important when assessing your choice of brand, while you will be committed in whole or in part to the brand CRS, the extent to which this applies may well differ dependent on the brand. If you are e.g. IHG or Hilton branded, you and your whole CRS will be almost totally ruled by the brand system and its rules and standards(especially re e.g. best rate guarantee)- and its channel management rules procedures and opportunities – whilst with e.g. Best Western, you have more latitude and can usually choose your own ecommerce system although even they are striking direct agreements with on line travel companies and therefore bringing these within their rate and channel management guidelines. BW also expect you to comply with their rates strategy so that you are not underselling them. Whereas the likes of IHG, since they provide the CRS, know your rates strategy and can audit you to ensure that you are fully brand complaint with eg their rate strategy currently in force.
The two single most important things a brand can give you in the ecommerce arena is rooms business, and a loyalty scheme, which can normally be used at any brand property anywhere in the world. Almost every other element of brand compliance is a COST. It is very rare too for the brand cost of sale (commissions and booking fees) to be less than that of an independent CRS, and the brand CRS is said by many to be a very poor, clunky and clumsy customer booking experience(and may not allow dynamic packaging and flexibility of selling/upselling products to the extent that an independent CRS can).
Find out what locally and nationally negotiated room rate positions the brand has that would bring you unique business – brands usually have preferred rate agreements with the big national and international agencies like Carlson Wagonlit, Amex, First Option, JTB &c which are very expensive, almost prohibitive, for the smaller independent hotel to participate in. Furthermore brands will have direct agreements directly with the main corporate bookers in your area.
Independent has choice s – – notably the choice of ecommerce system provider (CRS). Be warned, this MUST have CRS/IDS/GDS, and ideally channel manager capability – what we would call a PMS vendor booking link is almost inevitably the WRONG CHOICE. PMS companies are exactly that, they're not specialist ecommerce companies, but increasingly recently they are trying to steal into the ecommerce spaace, and selling strongly on the basis of the integration of your reservations system with your online booking system. This is the wrong way round. The ability of your chosen ecommerce supplier/partner to integrate with your chosen cms is an important feature, granted, especially foe as of reservation management and the important ability to sell down to the last room across your distribution landscape, but AS MOST OF THE LEADING ECOMMERCE COMPANIES CAN IMTEGRATE WITH A NUMBER OF PMS SYSTEMS, your ecommerce decision can, and must, be made independently of your PMS decision if you are going to maximise your position. And the CRS decision should never be c ompromised by the choice of PMS. This freedom of informed choice is a very important asset to the independent hotel as against the brand, and allows you to control and manage your own rate, inventory and cost of sale in a way not possible via a brand ecommerce system, and also get full analytics reports also not always available via a brand system. You see, a brand usually doesn't really want you to have an independent website from brand.com, and therefore is likely to resist attempts to gain information about bookings which emanate from your web site and not from brand.com. This a ridiculous practice and should be strongly resisted.
The Right choice of booking engine, remembering mobile/tablet rendering too. It is said that we're now a '3 screen society'. So at the outset, brand or independent, your booking interface must render perfectly on PC's/laptops, tablets and mobile phones/smartphones. In our experience, some of the brand.com mobile booking engine solutions are a poor user experience. Whilst some independent ecommerce providers have very smart and nifty systems which integrate perfectly with hyour own website in a continuum,. Thereby not disrupting the process one bit. With brand.com, if you have your own mobile website, it will have to link to the brand.com booking engine and this will clearly show to the travel shopper that thyey have left one site and gone on to another. Also the big brand beasts are forever altering their integration codes so you need to be very mindful of this or you may find that suddenly your mobile booking engine link will stop working.
Leading ecommerce international specialists include Sabre, IHotelier (travelclick) and Fast Booking. These giants have a formidable array of technical and market intelligence and user experience k now how and their world class technologists are con tenuously upgrading and re-engineering their CRS's to endeavour to be best in class. All of these solutions are surprisingly inexpensive to set up and very cheap to run, given the ,massive array of bells and whistles you can avail yourself of nowadays. We particularly like the new Guest Connect Flex by Sabre which we think iis the very best on the market currently and is scaleable and suits virtually any size of hotel. Most of the big providers are now offering free or very cheap channel management solutions built in. Furthermore the best providers will have a glittering array of corporate and leisure agency relationships, formidable GDS marketing skills, and a host of other benefits and statistics reports and analytics, allowing you not only to be in full control of your ecommerce, but to give a customer a booking experience at least comparable with, if not better than, the major OTA's and merchants such as booking.com and hotels.com.
Remember too that if you are currently a branded franchisee, or an independent under the Best Western brand (which in effect means you are branded not independent!) you have the option to change brand, or debrand. It may interest you to know that we have had some amazing results and revenue growth from hotels which have DEBRANDED (especially from Best Western), and the ecommerce system partnership has created new opportunities and revenue growth areas hitherto not thought possible, thereby minimising the risks associated with the debrand.
Another big issue more recently affecting your choice of ecommerce partner are the real time rate display opportunities on Trip Advisor and Google Hotel Finder. It is already essential that your partner/supplier can feed your rates into these systems.
Never let the commission cost dictate the choice of ecommerce provider/partner – this means you don't understand the CRS/ecommerce concept properly. You must assess the value added opportunities available only from the very best providers, and some of which can help you offset the marketing and channel management advantages a brand/affilliated hotel may be perceived to have. A world class ecommerce company such as Sabre can open many doors to new channels, new business, better yielding business – at direct costs of sale in the low single figure %'s, a very low composite marketing and cost of sale cost to get these new business and revenue opportunities. And gets you at very low cost into areas and channels where you can really give the brands a run for their money.
Right choice of ecom support – with a branded solution it is a WYSIWYG solution, theses mega systems are pretty robust, and you have to trust the brand technical team at all times. Anyway you'll be bapying for it thro' the franchise fees &c, nothing comes free with a brand. With independent hotels, and BW properties (they don't have their own proprietary booking system), the quality of ongoing support from your ecommerce partner is ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL.. because an outage or worse still a major downtime or corruption (heaven florbid) impacts immediately and directly on your revenue. Most of the major ecommerce companies do not charge independently for monthly support, the booking fess/commissions fund that, giving the impression that monthly support is in fat 'free'. Our advice is to choose an ecommerce provider where the support is in your country, and is support by voice, by online ticket, by email i.e. a number of different options and choices. Speak to other hoteliers and get their testimonials of the great support they've achieved. For UK hoteliers, the Sabre solution is our preferred choice because the Sabre solution is superbly supported by the friendly English speaking team at Navarino Services in Oxford UK (details of their services and service levels are at www.navarinoservices.com ). A drawback of IHoteier in particular is that the support function is overseas and often very hard to access and understand!
Again be a little wary of these promises/service offerings, and ask other franchisees aout their experience with the brand, many brands offer with one hand, and restrict or take away on the other. Remember they're CONTRIOL FREAKS.
Right choice of GDS service provider – if you are an independent, you can in fact really score on GDS business, if yours is a destination which attracts a lot of inbound GDS derived revenue. So your ecommerce partner, dependent on your destination gto a degree, needs to be chosen with proven GDS marketing expertise and experience in mind, as they will market and sell you property by giving you their brand of GDS representation. We believe that this can tip te balance in favour of independents over brands, as often travel agents using the GDS search by location &c rather than brand. This channel needs to be carefully managed as it is high cost but the yield is usually very good. Sabre, once a GDS company, is supported in the UK by Navarino Services, giving an excellent quality of GDS representation and marketing.
Right channel management solution – this will also depend on the size of your hotel. If you are a brand, your choice of channel management system will probably be dictated by the bran d (e.g. IHG use Merlin). In the case of independents, most ecommerce partners are now in-housing channel management and integrating CM successfully within their CRS's and other systems, for little, and in some cases very low cost. We would recommend independents use the system recommended by their ecommerce partner, with the proviso that if you want/have to bolt a channel manager onto an independent system, be prepared for extra costs and technical complexities, and in our opinion, performance is compromised when compared with a perfectly integrated system.
Small independent hotels with few distribution channels may not need a channel management solution, but can manage their key channels manually thro' supplier extranets. This has to be done very carefully so as not to risk overbookings. It's cumbersome, but often all the business can afford the cost and time for. However always check this issue out with your ecom provider, because for very little cost the service can be introduced, and your ecom system integrated with your pms so tha you can sell down to the last room, and meaning that you only need to input business generated from outwith that environment eg a walk in or phone booking. The two way integration will then ensure that the wider distribution landscape always knows the current availability position. Remember too that even within the channel management system, you can individually channel manage so that you may e.g. only want your most expensive channel and cheaper rate lines open at key specified times &c and manage your cost of sale.
Right distribution landscape – OK, very dependent on the size of your hotel. If you are a branded property, then you'll be able to avail yourself of the more advantageous commission rate agreements between the brands and the OTA's. Some years ago now, IHG fell out with Expedia and oels.com and pulled their inventory from these suppliers. The OTA and merchants cam crawling back because of the huge volumes lost by this action. Subsequently there was a softening of the relationship brand.com and OTAS.com, and this in exchange for the major brands usually having fixed rate agreements with the OTA's for guaranteed levels of exposure on TA.com sites – for example IHG currently pay booking.com 15%.
Independent hoteliers need to treat OTA's with caution. Three things firstly, don't give yourself unnecessary fruitless work by signing up with every on line travel company on the planet. The paltry amounts of business you'll get from most of them don't merit the massive management time to manage these interdependently, especially if you've no technology to support this – the Pareto principle applies – 90% of your OTA business will probably come from 3 or 4 suppliers so focus on managing them effectively. Secondly, if you screw up, you're on your own to resolve it, YOU'LL GET NO HELP OR SYMPATY FROM THESE ON LINE GIANTS. Thirdly, a room sold to an on line travel company is one room less to sell direct from your website/over the phone, so you must manage your rates/inventory smartly to maximise your yield/reduce cost of sale.
A word of warning at this point –NEVER DEAL WITH A FLASH SALES COMAPNY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. This is the quickest route to financial disaster and customer dissatisfaction in today's marketplace. Especially if they go mainstream with you, which happens in many cases, they'll destroy you, and send a demographic mix thro' your door that will alienate your good clientele.
Make sure that you are always able to sell your full product range on line. Independents should try to minimise the number of rate lines they offer, and use flexing to keep these in proportion, making foe ease of everyday management. Better to have more products and upselling opportunities, than a heap of rate lines for what is fundamentally the same product. Use your historical experience, analytics, and booking engine stats to learn how to fine tune your products and rate lines going forward. Independents are in a unique position to do this, branded hotels/franchisees are deprived of that level of analytic from their brand superiors.
Upselling and incentivising on line can be more actively and effectively managed by an independent hotelier. As well as offering complimentary upgrades for guests who book direct, you should also be offering incentives to direct bookers. Some properties choose to create a 'club' or a direct deals structure/service for direct and regular bookers. By booking directly, guests are able to get free services like airport transportation, free breakfast, or discounted on-site services spa, fitness centre, etc.). These incentive programs should be displayed prominently on every page of your website because you want potential guests to remember to book direct when they are ready to book.
Rates and channel management – get the best mix of technology and hands on operational /revenue management which suits your property, expertly managing a few good prod cuing channels is far smarter, don't do everything, do the things that matter, remember you don't have access to the resources a brand/affiliation can bring.
Brand websites and marketing efforts are not created equal. With an independent hotel, the sky's the limit to what you can do with on line marketing, local, regional and national – but you don't have the support of brand.com – and that's where the catch is re choice of brand, different brands market better/worse than others online, and hence drive more/less bookings and revenue dependent partially on that performance. You pay a princely sum to a brand for marketing, and therefore you expect nothing but the best. Take a large destination like e.g. Glasgow or Mancherster, and use th Google keyword tool to find out just how much traffic each brand is generating to brand.com, you'll see big fluctuations, with Premier Inn/Hilton coming out consistently on top, Holiday Inn Express among the worst.
The local rates and destination landscape and the need for local management – everything is going 'local' these days, especially with the advent and manic growth of mobile. All other things being equal, a well managed independent hotel can be a much more potent local resource, guest satisfaction and revenue machine than a brand. And the good news for independent hoteliers is that some of the big brands are set to dispose of the 'local' website, whilst even now they are not properly supporting the success of the property locally if at all, preferring to do everything thro' centralised channels, so that the branded hotel risks being poorly promoted at local level, and often is. Brand.com doesn't know what's going on in the area you're in, so they'll never be able to suggest how you can team up with local events &c to produce good quality packages for sale throughout the year.
Mcommerce – much is being speculated in this area. Brands are pressing on with mega investment in this area, on brand mobile websites and booking systems. Tablet commerce is currently growing faster than mobile phone/smartphone commerce, the latter being used largely for impulse/last minute bookings whilst on the go, and on booking/buying other local services. The brand v independent comparison issues here are similar to the brand.com v local unit hotel website. The big brands want to centralise the mobile commerce infrastructure, whereas the hotels would prefer more local control which can also embrace local m-concierge and the showcasing and selling of local area attractions &c. The independent doesn't have such constraints and it is already imperative that independent hotels, no matter their size, consider an urgent investment in a mobile optimised website. The level of on-device commerce is not yet that substantial, but the click to call button use is, and usually means the customer at that point is a hot prospect so the telephone reservations desk at then hotel must be prepare and honed up for this opportunity. Please also ote that on tablet devices, whilst the ideal is a very image rich visually optimised experience, your PC website may well render more effectively on a tablet than a mobile website – do check.
Social media and f- commerce – more has been written about social media and its role in travel commerce than on just about any other subject and even more so since the Facebook IPO. For non travel specific social media, read Facebook, and for f (facebook) –commerce, read virtually zero commerce. Ll the hotel data/survesy in this are suggest that less than 1 in 100 hotel bookings has been influenced at any stage by social media. Here is a ton of hype in this area which is making hotels of all shapes and sizes over-react to erroneous signals. If you are a small to medium sized independent hotel in particular, you just can't afford the time and effort on this. For branded and affiliated properties, the brands are developing a social media presence of sorts, there is no immediate advantage in revenue terms to be gained by duplicating any of this effort right now.
What is important to ecommerce however is what some call travel social media i.e. review sites, and way out ahead, Trip Advisor. There is currently an ecommerce opportunity on TA for both branded and independent hotels to display their own rates on the site alongside other main OTA rates for the same room for the same stay and conditions. The major brands have agreements with trip Advisor to pull rates form the individual hotels for this purpose, make sure if you are an independent, that your ecommerce e provider can do the same for you. Other than that, do the maths, there is a fairly expensive PC rate for clickthro's to your rates, an there are varying Reports from 1 in 7 to 1 in 20 of these clicks that will actually convert. Clearly the lower down you property is in the Trip Advisor rankings, the less attractive the proposition becomes as it is heavily reliant on page impressions. THE GOOD NEWS FOR INDEPENDENDT SI THAT THEY PERFORM FAR BETTER ON A GENERAL ANALYSIS OF TRIP ADVISOR POSITIONING THAN THE BRANDS DO.
Roomkey – an advantage to the brands, created by the brands – well perhaps, but not guaranteed, and now the concept is being extended to include major CRS's and the independent hotels they represent, so that this is no longer an exclusive to the brands ecommerce and distribution platform.
Failure to be represented with your own rates on this program is handing a channel shift free gift to the OTA's, the very thing independents in particular need to fight all the way.
No ecommerce solution is complete without comprehensive, reliable, real time performance analytics and reports. For most hotels Google Analytics has all the power and capability you need, coupled with your webmaster taking a keen interest in your site's technical and operational performance on Google Webmaster Tools, perhaps supplemented by Woorank, SEOMoz, Webtrends and other tools should your budget permit.
One huge advantage the independent has over the brand is in the area of ecommerce stats in particular. Google Analytics can easily be applied by a consultant who has expertise in this area, to the whole booking process from source and entering your website, right thro' to conversion and booking, and with the assistance of sale/purchase funnels and goals, can measure extremely accurately how much your website is producing in room revenue (nb not ancillary revenue from e.g. weddings, restaurant), from what room and package sales, and also tell you where the customer abandoned the process if that visit to the site didn't ultimately result in a conversion/booking.
Analytics are at the bedrock of ecommerce and the brands let themselves and their affiliates down massively in this area.
To close on analytics, more advanced tools – Omniture &c are usually way too expensive for the relatively inaccurate information they produce, and consultants and brands which use them are very reluctant to part with a lot of the information contained therein.
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Object number 3039
Date (1964)
Dimensions 330 x 500 cm
Medium Acrylic on canvas
Copyright © SABAM
Alechinsky and the End of Days
It takes a moment before you notice them. The ducks and the snakes. The owls and the fish. Artfully 'hidden away' here and there in a strange world of twists, planes and colours. The painter and printmaker Pierre Alechinsky combines abstract elements in The Last Day with recognizable figures. The title leaves little to the imagination. The Last Day refers to death, to the end of time. And it is a grandiose ending. The canvas measures more than three metres by five.
In the spirit of Cobra
The style of this painting is fully in line with Cobra – the artistic movement founded in 1948 in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, whose initial letters spell its name. Alechinsky and fellow members like Karel Appel and Corneille believed that abstract and figurative art could blend perfectly within the same work. A vision that Alechinsky would pursue throughout his career.
Calligraphy in Japan
In 1955, Alechinsky travelled to Japan with Christian Dotremont, another important Cobra member. During his time there, he studied Eastern calligraphy, enabling him to develop an 'inner handwriting' and encouraging bolder brushwork. The experience also improved Alechinsky's concentration. From that moment on, his works assumed a more personal character.
Alechinsky and Ensor
Alechinsky was a great admirer of Ensor's work. The Last Day is widely seen as a tribute to the Ostend master. Both artists filled their canvases from edge to edge. Ensor with people and masks, Alechinsky with creatures and twisting lines. Some experts think it is no coincidence that the work is so colossal. Alechinsky might have wanted it to outdo Ensor's work Christ's Entry into Brussels. That painting too hung in the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in the 1960s and measured 'just' 2.5 x 4.5 metres. Christ's Entry in Brussels can be found nowadays at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Increasingly imaginative
Alechinsky let his imagination run wild as his career progressed. His use of colour also became increasingly rich. And he began to work highly intuitively. Beginning without a plan in mind. He started The Last Day by laying out patches of green on the canvas. He then applied pink and white on top. Next he added lines and accents in blue, yellow and red, allowing recognizable creatures to emerge.
Cartoonish notes
The Last Day was the final work Alechinsky did in oil paint. In 1965, he discovered acrylics in New York, which allowed him to work even more supplely and rapidly. He also began to fill up the edges of the canvas artistically, adding comments and explanations. These notes around the edges expanded on the central image, a little like speech balloons in cartoon strips. Alechinsky also collaborated regularly with writers like Hugo Claus.
Jean Brusselmans Spring
Alexandre Cabanel Cleopatra
Auguste Rodin Pierre de Wissant

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The Boxer's Soliloquy – An Interview With Author Matt Lucas
August 26, 2014 By Laura Dal Farra 1 Comment
Matt Lucas with his new release, The Boxer's Soliloquy
Matt has hit the nail squarely on the head with his depictions of the life of a foreign fighter in Thailand, writing with an authenticity that could only come from someone that has experienced it first hand. It makes for a very engaging and entertaining read!
-Rob Cox, Muay Thai Focus
American author and nak muay Matt Lucas' first release, The Boxer's Soliloquy is a collection of fifteen interconnected short stories that follows the lives of muay thai boxers in Bangkok. Matt has made a considerable amount of trips to train muay thai in Thailand. He's fought at the esteemed Rajadamern Stadium in Bangkok, in addition to other locations across Thailand and the U.S.
The first time I met Matt was in Bangkok in early 2009. We were both contributing to MyMuayThai.com, the muay thai website that Matt currently holds the position of Assistant Editor at. Back in 2009, Matt was studying Thai language, training muay thai, and was passionate about writing.
With the advent of his first release, I thought it was more than appropriate to catch up with Matt and discuss his book.
Hey Matt Lucas. First off, thank-you for taking time to do this interview. Now please give everyone a bit of a rundown of your path in muay thai.
I got involved in Muay Thai through a friend. He'd been doing Muay Thai for several years and had trained with Bunkerd and Nuengsiam at Fight and Fitness in San Francisco. He taught me some basics and I warmed up to the sport. I moved to Las Vegas where I irregularly attended Master Toddy's gym for about a year.
After an overly long period of boozing and hanging out in karaoke bars I moved back to the Bay Area. I started working at a local microbrewery/bar where booze flowed easily into my liver. Not wanting to waste more of my life, I signed up at Pacific Ring Sports in Oakland. I started going to the gym six days a week and focusing on training.
I saw a local inter club fight/smoker and being of the 'Fight Club' generation, I decided to give it a try. I fought, I did okay, and I decided to keep fighting and to travel to Thailand. After participating in more smokers, and amateurs fights, along with studying Thai at a local Wat, I traveled to Thailand for a few months. I trained, I fought, and I decided that Muay Thai was something I wanted to pursue. I've returned to Thailand an additional 3 times and fought over a dozen times here in the States and four times in Thailand.
How does this all tie into The Boxer's Soliloquy?
My own training and fight experience ties gave me the inspiration for writing the stories. A lot of the things that occur in the novel were developed while I was training and especially when I was running, during which to avoid boredom, I usually daydream.
Please allow us a peak into the plot line.
The book opens up with a story of one of the lead characters, Bryan, visiting Ayutthaya, the former capital of Bangkok. While touring the ruins of the city with his visiting western girlfriend, the two experience a growing divide. What follows is Bryan, and the other characters in the novel, attempts at pursuing their dreams and finding out the costs of those dreams.
Do we find you in there at all?
Like any type of writing there are elements of myself, things that I've specifically seen or heard in there but this is not a biographical novel. The fighters don't necessarily fight at Rajadamern like I have, nor have I opened a gym like one of the characters in the book does for example. That said, I think it's difficult to fully separate yourself from any type of creative project so there is a little bit of me in each character. My hope is that there will be a character in the novel that each reader can see a little of themselves in.
What was your process of writing the book? Is there any specific ritual you follow?
I started writing short stories when I began training about five or six years ago. I wrote them very occasionally, when ideas came to me or when I felt like writing. I was not very disciplined. I was however, and continue to, write regularly- journal, letter writing, do sports journalism and free lance writing for blogs. However, some of my stories, such as Rounds, were written while training in Thailand, during which I kept a very regular routine of writing, editing, training, eating, and sleeping. As I wrote the stories, I would send them to friends for feedback and I was actually lucky enough to workshop a few pieces in writing classes I was enrolled in as I finished my degree in English with a creative writing major.
How long did it take to complete – from idea generation to publication?
So I had no intention of doing a book from the outset but rather I realized one day that I had enough material to create a book. The first story was probably completed about five years ago with the last one finished about a year ago. After that I had to tie the stories together, as originally they were all disconnected, and establish overall themes and plot lines. In addition I had to get the work copy edited several times, laid out, and reviewed. This whole process from the completion of actually writing a first draft to publication took about a year. It is a lot more work than I originally anticipated but I am glad that I went through the process.
How does it feel to have The Boxer's Soliloquy finished and on the market?
I feel really accomplished. I've written a book, and what I believe to be a good book. In addition there really isn't a lot of literature based on Muay Thai. There is a ton of great western boxing material but for Muay Thai, not so much. I'm really happy that I can contribute something for a sport that I love and that has changed my life in such a positive way. I think that growing the sport includes not only training and fighting but also participating in the culture of Muay Thai. I think The Boxer's Soliloquy is a part of growing the sport and culture.
Lastly, where can we pick it up?
The book is available on Amazon and Create Space. Additionally it is available as an ebook off of iTunes, Kindle, and Nook. I am currently shopping the novel out to local gyms for sale on site so ask at your local Muay Thai gym for a copy or to carry it.
I was immediately drawn into Boxer's Soliloquy. Matt has a way with words that brings you up close and personal with all of the characters. You can imagine yourself right there with them.
-Kevin Ross, WBC Muay Thai Super Lightweight Champion
Filed Under: Muay Thai Tagged With: Ayutthaya, Bangkok, Interview
Good interview. I loved this in particular: "There really isn't a lot of literature based on Muay Thai. I'm really happy that I can contribute something for a sport that I love and that has changed my life in such a positive way. I think that growing the sport includes not only training and fighting but also participating in the culture of Muay Thai."
This looks like a really interesting book and I'm going to order a hard copy next time I go back to the US. Actually really looking forward to reading it!


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SAS fell back into net loss in FY2014 and its operating profit margin was only 1.0%. It is achieving its cost reduction targets and moving towards a more effcient operation. Moreover, product and network initiatives have helped to stimulate load factor improvements and growth in the number of frequent flyer members using the airline.
However, in a highly competitive market-place characterised by capacity growth and downward price pressure, unit cost did not fall enough to offset the drop in unit revenue. SAS has now announced further cost savings plans and is reorganising its regional flying activities.
SAS has achieved much over the past two years, streamlining the group and cutting costs. It has lowered its CASK by 10% since 2012, bringing it more in line with other European FSCs. The problem is that the main competitive threat comes from the LCCs and SAS' cost base is still much higher than theirs. It seems it must always work harder just to tread water.
SAS reported a net loss of SEK719 million in FY2014 (year to Oct), compared with a profit of SEK1,358 million last year. As ever, there were a number of non-recurring items and the result was also weighed down by interest costs and charges related to a cancelled credit facility. The operating result before all non-recurring items and capital gains/losses remained in profit, but fell by 80% year on year to SEK377 million, with the operating margin falling by 3.4 ppts to 1.0%.
Revenue dropped by 10% to SEK38,006 million, although much of this reduction reflects the sale of Widerøe one month before the end of FY2013. Adjusting for the sale of Widerøe and just looking at like for like results of SAS, revenue fell by 1%.
More encouragingly, SAS' 4Q FY2014 operating result improved by 15% year on year, the only quarter in the year to see an improved figure.
Although profitability has taken a turn for the worse, SAS' balance sheet improved during the year, thanks to the issue of SEK3.5 billion of preference shares in Feb-2014. This gives it some breathing space to pursue further restructuring.
Gross cash increased by SEK2.7 billion to stand at SEK7.4 billion at the end of FY2014. This is equivalent to 71 days of revenues. The Group's financial preparedness, which is its cash and liquid assets as a percentage of the past 12 months' fixed costs, was 37% at the end of FY2014, up from 26% a year earlier and comfortably ahead of its target of 20%. Year end net debt fell by SEK3,465 million over the year to SEK1,102 million at the end of FY2014.
SAS increased total ASKs (scheduled and charter traffic) by 4.4% in FY2014, with RPKs growing by 5.9% and load factor gaining 1.1 ppts to 76.6%. In 4Q, load factor improved by 2.0 ppts to 79.0%, with capacity growth slowing to 3.5%.
Scheduled ASKs were up 4.5% and load factor gained 1.3 ppts to 74.9% in the scheduled traffic segment, which accounted for 91% of SAS' capacity in FY2014. Capacity growth was highest on routes in Europe/Intra Scandinavia (ASKs +4.9%) and lowest on domestic routes within the three SAS home countries (+3.3%).
In our analysis of SAS' FY2013 results in Dec-2013, we noted that, for FY2014, SAS was then planning to increase ASK by 3.4% in spite of what it referred to as "over capacity in certain markets and continued competitive yield pressure". We suggested that its capacity growth plans might need to be lowered.
In fact, ASK growth in FY2014 was increased to 4.4% and this had a predictable impact on SAS' unit revenues.
Passenger unit revenue (passenger revenue per ASK, PASK) fell by 5.8% on a currency-adjusted basis, as a yield decline of 7.4% was only partially offset by higher load factor. This reflects the strongly price competitive nature of SAS' markets. CEO Rickard Gustafson told analysts on a conference call to discuss the FY2014 results that the yield environment was most challenging on the Europe/Scandinavian market, where capacity growth was also strongest (both competitors' and SAS' capacity).
Overall, Mr Gustafson said that the yield outlook was more stable due to reduced levels of capacity growth in the market. Indeed, in 4Q FY2014 (when capacity growth was a little slower), SAS' currency-adjusted yield decline narrowed to 3.1% and its PASK was almost flat (-0.1% year on year). SAS plans a capacity cut of 1% to 2% in FY2015, which should have a beneficial impact on yields.
SAS' currency adjusted unit cost (cost per available seat kilometre, CASK) fell by 2.8% in FY2014, reflecting management's cost focus and the restructuring programme launched in Nov-2012. This programme aimed to achieve SEK3 billion of cost savings by 2015. By the end of FY2014, it had achieved SEK2.7 billion of savings and SAS expects to make the remaining SEK 0.3 billion of savings to reach the full target in FY2015.
SAS' overall unit cost reduction since Oct-2012 is around 10%. The number of full time equivalent staff in the SAS Group fell by 17% from FY2012 to FY2014 and the use of outsourcing has increased the flexibility of the cost base.
Although, in 4Q, the 2.7% drop in unit cost was performing better than the 0.1% fall in passenger unit revenues, unit cost reduction in FY2014 as a whole did not match the fall in unit revenues, leading to the drop in operating profit. This reversed the favourable relative performance of the two indicators in FY2013, when the fall in CASK was faster than the fall in RASK.
The weakness of yields and the slower rate of decline in CASK has prompted SAS to announce new and incremental cost reduction targets for 2015-2017, with a cumulative total earnings impact of SEK2.1 billion. Together with the SEK0.3 billion of savings still due from the previous cost programme, SAS is now aiming for SEK2.4 billion in savings by FY2017.
" ...make life easier for Scandinavia's frequent travellers"
Under Mr Gustafson, SAS has done much to achieve its aim to "make life easier for Scandinavia's frequent travellers". The introduction of new fare categories SAS GO and SAS PLUS, changes to the EuroBonus FFP, improved lounge facilities, new fast tracks and increased self service processes have all combined with network changes, improved punctuality and an increase in daily departures per route to drive up load factors and increase revenues from EuroBonus members (+19% year on year in 4Q FY2014). It is also now planning a new long haul route, Stockholm-Hong Kong, from Sep-2015.
However, Scandinavia's frequent travellers are increasingly accustomed to paying low fares as a result of LCCs from within the region (Norwegian Air Shuttle) and from elsewhere in Europe. Ryanair's announcement that it will establish a new base in SAS' main hub at Copenhagen from Mar-2015 and Norwegian's continued expansion will ensure that price pressure remains an ongoing feature of SAS' markets, even with planned capacity cuts by SAS itself.
SAS' unit cost reductions since 2012 have brought it into line with the FSC trend curve on a plot of CASK against average trip length for European airlines (see chart below), a very creditable achievement.
However, although it has a similar average trip length to that of many European LCCs, its CASK is still two thirds higher than that of Norwegian and 1.7 times the level of Ryanair's. Given this ongoing huge unit cost disadvantage, of course SAS is trying to emphasise its product and service superiority and its long haul network.
*Nearest financial year to calendar 2013.
Nevertheless, it is far from clear that this superiority will sustainably justify the price premium necessary to cover its much higher costs, particularly as LCC and ultra-LCC rivals improve their service quality and appeal to business travellers (Ryanair) and extend their long haul networks (Norwegian).
SAS is right to seek further cost efficiencies through its new cost programme and initiatives to increase further the flexibility of its cost base. These initiatives include the recent acquisition of regional operator Cimber, which has competitive labour agreements, for its CRJ900 operations, and the use of its Blue1 subsidiary as a wet lease provider to SAS following its restructuring through new union agreements and the divestment of its 717 aircraft by the end of FY2015. SAS has contracted Flybe to operate ATR turboprops on short haul routes from Stockholm under wet lease and also plans to resume talks with Swissport over the sale of its ground handling activities.
SAS has come a long way in recent years. It is more streamlined and is showing some signs of a shift towards a more cost-focused culture.
However, as the slim and declining FY2014 profit margin demonstrates, there is very little room for straying off course on either costs or revenues. With unit revenues more in the hands of market forces, the number one priority must continue to be unit costs.


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Q: How to update the status automatically after 5 days? I have sent_date and status column in my database table.currently status of the post is = Sent/Received. All I want to change the status = Aborted after 5days automatically.
What I tried:
CREATE EVENT reset ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 day DO
    update barter_proposals
       set proposal_status="Aborted"
     WHERE `sent_date`>=DATE_ADD( CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 day )
       AND proposal_status = "Sent/Received"---------Not worked

CREATE EVENT rot ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 day DO
    update barter_proposals
       set proposal_status="Aborted"
     WHERE DATE_ADD(sent_date, INTERVAL 1 day )>=NOW()
       AND proposal_status = "Sent/Received"---------Not worked

CREATE EVENT rot ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 day DO
    update barter_proposals
       set proposal_status="Aborted"
     WHERE sent_date=CURDATE()
       AND proposal_status = "Sent/Received"-----------Not Worked

How can I update the status automatically after 5 days? sent_date can be anything.
If sent_date is 26/03/2018 then on 01/04/2018, the status should update to Aborted automatically. How can I write the logic?

A: try CURDATE()-5
CREATE EVENT rot ON SCHEDULE EVERY 1 day DO
    update barter_proposals
       set proposal_status="Aborted"
     WHERE sent_date=DATE(CURDATE()-5)
       AND proposal_status = "Sent/Received"

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I really dig the comment below about Hosoi Bros' new album, Abuse Your Allusion III from Severin Allgood. First of all, he's right, the record is easily the most professional-sounding thing the Memphis-based heavy punkers have done — if you caught onto it last year, think of a less metal incarnation of Bloodcow's Crystals and Lasers as a comparison point — but it's also interesting the way Allgood brings up how technology has changed the way we interact with music in our day-to-day. He names names: Bandcamp, Soundcloud, iPhone, Macbook, Spotify, your earbuds.
Hosoi Bros, who release Abuse Your Allusion III Sept. 23 on Typhoon Killer Records, already have it up and available to order from Bandcamp, so it's not like they eschew this technology. I'm not sure a band could and reasonably expect anyone to hear their music. And Allgood isn't necessarily the first to bring up the idea of making a full-album as opposed to a collection of single tracks, but I guess I haven't often thought of streaming technology in terms of having a hand in leveling the playing field from a production standpoint, or how that might be used as a drive to surpass the status quo, as Hosoi Bros do with their latest.
Please find the video below, followed by the aforementioned statement from Allgood. Abuse Your Allusion III (note: it's the first one) is out Sept. 23.
We got super weird with this album. There's gongs, bells, synths, and tree frogs. Alan Burchum did an amazing job with the production. It feels like an album. And by that I mean, it feels like when I was a kid and would bring home a new cassette and throw it on my stereo. Bandcamp and Soundcloud have decimated the playing field. Every idiot with an iPhone or a Macbook now has a demo available for download. We set out to make a polished, cohesive, and complete thought. We spent a lot of time adding layers and playing with track order. This album is designed to be played loud on your stereo. It was not made with the idea of individual tracks for Spotify radio. Take out your earbuds and crank up your speakers.
For today's lesson in obscure pop culture history, we turn to Memphis four-piece Hosoi Bros, and their new video for the track "Hands of Stone." It's been a couple years since we last heard from the heavy punk rockers, who've got two 7″s under their collective belt in the form of 2012's Snorlokk (video here) and earlier 2012's Wine Witch (review here), but they're set to issue a debut long-player and are currently in the somewhat harrowing process of finding a label home. For a band who occupy a kind of sonic nether region between tonally weighted groove and punkier roots, it can be difficult, but if time has proven anything about Hosoi Bros, it's that they know how to blow off some steam.
Which brings us back to where we started: that lesson in obscure pop culture history. "Hands of Stone," the new song and video from Hosoi Bros' upcoming full-length, refers to professional wrestler Ron Garvin who, in a 1980s feud with Ric Flair, was called "The Man with Hands of Stone." So be it. The song's lyrics make numerous references to classic professional wrestling, from Dusty Rhodes to the Legion of Doom, but even if you didn't happen to be an '80s kid, I think the point comes across in the catchy hook of "Hands of Stone," and Hosoi Bros reinforce the charm and will to not take themselves too seriously that they showed on their initial singles.
Needless to say, charm abounds. "Snorlokk" comes from a Typhoon Killer Records 7″ of the same name that you can hear in its entirety and purchase via Hosoi Bros.' Bandcamp page.
Something about Severin Allgood's delivery of the chorus lines in "Wine Witch" – the cadence of, "She's the wine witch/Purple teeth/Six-six-six" – reminds me of Suplecs at their most fun-loving, but I can't quite figure what it is. Backed on vocals by his fellow guitarist Shawn Apple, Allgood fronts Memphis, Tennessee, four-piece Hosoi Bros for the course of their brief Wine Witch debut 7", ripping quickly through the aforementioned title-track and "Yellow Fever," which follows an even speedier course. The band formed in 2010 has shared the stage with the likes of The Sword, Skeletonwitch, Red Fang and Totimoshi, and though they come off young as a unit, Allgood, Apple, bassist Drewbie Crenshaw and drummer JimmyJames Blasingame seem to have all been kicking around Memphis as members of various projects and bands. Hosoi Bros – one must resist the temptation to put a "The" before the band's name – are cohesive across their first two tracks, however, and have a clear idea of where the core of their sound lies, and that's mostly in their riffy punk influence. Wine Witch is pressed to a limited-to-300 edition of glow-in-the-dark vinyl, and shows immediately that the band – whose logo is remarkably similar in shape to that of Danish thrashers HateSphere – threatens nothing when it comes to taking themselves too seriously. Their Red Fang-esque video for "Wine Witch," included below, confirms this as well.
What Hosoi Bros most have going for them is the energy in the material. Both "Wine Witch" and "Yellow Fever" teem with an unforced quickness of pace that only further highlights the excitement conveyed. The stuff is fairly basic stylistically, but that's the point of it. Even with the two guitars, Hosoi Bros aren't looking to make Wine Witch a prog record; they keep the formula simple and get right to the point. Bolstered by the humor in the lyrics – lines like "Merlot: Steals your soul" from "Wine Witch" – the songs are all the more memorable as a debut showing from the band. I don't know if they'd be able to keep it up for a full-length without presenting some shift in sound, but a first 7" is certainly no time to worry about such things, when what Hosoi Bros are clearly trying to do is punk out and have a good time. They do it. Both "Wine Witch" and "Yellow Fever" – which is, near as I can tell, a variant on that of the jungle – are a lot of fun in their immature way, and delivered with a strength of performance from the band that shows they're not just jokes. Crenshaw's bass has its work cut out for it in keeping up with Apple and Allgood on guitar, but he more than manages, and Blasingame adds consistent snare rolls to "Wine Witch" while laying back more to ride the groove on "Yellow Fever" to show a bit of diversity and give a sense of adaptability. "Yellow Fever" borders on offensive, but stays on the side of cheeky, which is where it belongs, and its chorus of "I'm young/I'm ready/Yellow fever's got the best of me" is undeniably catchy, while the verse – seemingly shouted by both Allgood and Apple – is harder to discern.
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Q: Downgrade Graph Neo4J I have a Neo4J Server running in a Linux VM hosted in Azure.
I used version 3.1.3 and I just upgrade to version 3.2 with setting dbms.allow_format_migration=true
Sadly, I can't access anymore to the Neo4J browser cause I am facing the same problem as this one : https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-browser/issues/511
I tried to go back to version 3.1.3 but get the following error :

UnexpectedUpgradingStoreVersionException : Not possible to upgrade a
  store with version 'v0.A.8 to current store version 'v0.A.7' (Neo4j
  3.1.3)

Do you know if it is actually possible to adapt the database to an anterior version ?
Thanks for helping!

A: According to the upgrade guide it is not possible to reverse this.
See here (section: Is the Store Upgrade Reversible?).
Did you back up the data before the upgrade?


Right after the Laval Virtual show, I wanted to see all these artistic films and documentary in 360 °, so I went to 4 sessions at the VR theater on Sunday, April 8, at the Forum des images. I watched a total of 12 VR works – (2 hours).
Thomas Pesquet's training is impressive, and we have the chance to reach unusual places. Thomas sometimes addresses us (thus addressing the camera) and guides us through the various stages of his training. The subject is hot, interesting, exciting, everyone wants to live such an adventure alongside this idol. Qualitative 360 ° images enhance the scope of the mission. The spatialized sound is effective, it reinforces the immersion and the feeling of proximity with Thomas Pesquet. There are some interesting staging ideas, including the astronaut's kid's room. But, because unfortunately it resides a but, I found the editing and transitions of images not well thought and made. So I imagine it hasn't been an easy adventure, given all the circumstances and possible problems (timing, accessible places …) but it's unfortunate that we feel the unperfect post-production. It's a privilege though to be embarked on such an adventure, and that's one main attraction of VR: giving such possibilities.
A creative film, completely folkloric. We follow a little girl who meets a lot of phantasmagorical characters, strange or almost monstrous. I salute the originality of the work, for cons I regret the lack of scenario. The film apparently pays homage to the Senegalese myths. I do not know if the frequent placement of black albino people in monstrous postures and costumes are voluntary, because historically on the African continent, the story of black albinos has not been simple: Often sacrificed and killed because different. The acting is a bit ransacked and the movements are very theatrical. It makes the work quite hybrid but I'm still happy to see a 360 ° film produced in sub-Saharan Africa that is not a documentary on misery. I hope this film will open the gap of original African productions.
The first 30 seconds are magical: We are immersed in a version of Taiwan that is half fantastic, half realistic, we hear people speak Taiwanese, we see women disguised as in our imagination of European. Very quickly, it becomes too much, the effects that superimpose the real 360 shots are too numerous. In particular, there were a lot of stitching problems (when a cut is visible in the image) so they multiply the effects to hide them. It becomes ridiculous and annoying. Here again, in the manner of Another Dakar, there is a certain creative effort that is refreshing, but it is also terrible lack of scenario. It's super creative but the production was sloppy, too bad!
Laurent Ballesta takes us to the Pacific to follow him on a rare underwater expedition. The film begins with breathtaking aerial views. Laurent and his crew prepare their expedition in surf gear, among the palm trees. They often talk to us (the camera) explaining that we are a new diver in the expedition. Simple narrative tip that works well and sometimes comes back as a kind of running gag. The southern accent of Laurent, who is our guide and our narrator, makes our journey even more exotic. He has a way of pressing on certain words worthy of a great storyteller. To follow up on sound topic, we have a faultless among the chosen music and sounddesign. Once underwater, the images speaks for themselves. Probably the best 360 ° aesthetic documentary I've ever seen (with The Real Thing) The filmmakers understood everything about the media, the storytelling, the emotion and the spectator's involvement.
A comedy well done and well produced in stereoscopy. Mr. Chang, whom we incarnate, calls on his guardian in the afterlife to arrange the disorder of his conjugal and financial life. We are in a very messy little apartment, and behind us through a window appears the real world with "our" wife who "waits" for us. The staging is interesting, between window showing a different timeline, elements of retro gaming and a buffoon character, the adventure of Mr Chang in his spiritual temple quickly becomes a fiasco, and "Our" wife "does not" wait "so wisely … The story is well tied, and the 10 minutes in this adventure pass very quickly. I found it fun, original and well done. 360 ° comedies are rare, so to see one with perfect technical mastery, effective and beautiful shots, and very random elements makes the film even more funny.
Two costumed characters dance in the middle of a forest. They simulate a couple quarrel. Visually it's a disaster, the "cuts" between the images are violent. What was to be a poetic work quickly becomes a nightmare. The voiceover is quite boring, using a monotonous tone. In short, you'll understand, not my trip at all.
This film consists of two still shots. We are first threatened by guests arriving from far in the desert (too) slowly. With graphic elements amounting we are a kind of a robot, or a human equipped with a computer system. Then, in the background we are in a room where our attackers are addressing us. Technical mistakes are very numerous (lights, stitches) which is a shame and spoil the game of the good actress who turns us around. We can clearly guess the moralistic side, long before it is said and written, "What would you do if you were not welcome in a world of black men and women?" It could have been interesting, but the staging is too little qualitative for it to be.
We see the suffering of south Sudanese who are in victims of local war and Charia. We are in holes or caves with many children to avoid bombing. In particular, we follow the commander of People's Liberation Army of North Sudan. The images are sometimes rustic, as are the living conditions of the Sudanese in this area. It is a journalistic documentary and not aesthetic like 700 sharks or The Real Thing. The subject is poignant and only the 360 ° allows an immersion like this one and an adhesion to the cause, because we are really in "camera embarked" in the heart of the subject. A poignant and alarming documentary.
The only animated film within this festival has a very arty graphic paw. It is very innovative in what it offers and how it uses VR. It does not use the 360 °, you have one different film in front of each of your eyes. It is a stereoscopic film. In this Vaysha story we embody the blind, she has a left eye that sees the past, and a right eye that sees the future. Sometimes we have to choose what we want to see by closing an eye (otherwise it's too unpleasant, sometimes the narrator imposes a choice on us) This story is very well told and illustrated and allows us to experience visual discomfort. something powerful and unusual.
This documentary takes us to 3 Chinese cities that copy the architecture of 3 European cities: London, Paris and Venice. The architectural feats are filmed in drones in each city, but also on the ground where we follow the adventure of one person by city: A restorer for the false Paris, an antique dealer for the false Venice and a photographer for the false London. The introduction of the film is animated graphic images with a poetic voice over, style used again in the end credits. Everything is very neat in this film where each image, thought, interview, sequence seems very picky and prepared visualy. This documentary is extremely well done and highlights places and an intriguing culture. There, no character is addressed to the camera, but it is a choice that is assumed: We are only guests in a culture visually close to ours, and yet so far away. The only but I would talk about is that the characters are not endearing enough, I imagine a less close and sincere relationship given the logistics of the film.
In addition to the bad stereoscopy, the story that seemed to be a curveball of a comedian's role is fizzling out. The beginning gives hope, the result is not up to the announcement. Another idea poorly implemented.
Discovering street art, musicians, painters and cultural events in West Africa at 360 is pretty cool. We wander between different artistic events, sometimes intelligently filmed, sometimes awkwardly staged. But to show the cultural turmoil of Ghana, blunders are forgiven. The sound of the voice-over goes out almost sometimes behind the ambient noise. The means had to be modest for the sound work, just as for the rest so it is not a masterful work, but a small cultural film not so uninteresting.


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Васи́ль Сергі́йович Косе́нко — солдат, Збройні сили України, учасник російсько-української війни.

З життєпису
Народився 1993 року у селі Багате Новомосковського району.

Стрілець-помічник гранатометника, 39-й батальйон територіальної оборони «Дніпро-2».

11 липня 2014-го загинув під час обстрілу терористами зі стрілецької зброї блокпосту на північний захід від Кутейникового.

Похований в Багатому. Вдома лишилися батьки та брат. Після смерті, дівчина солдата Круть Яна дізналась, що встигла завагітніти. Народила дочку. Тривав процес із визначення батьківства.

Нагороди
За особисту мужність і героїзм, виявлені у захисті державного суверенітету та територіальної цілісності України, вірність військовій присязі під час російсько-української війни
 нагороджений орденом «За мужність» III ступеня (4.6.2015, посмертно).

Джерела

 Косенко Василь Сергійович
 Небесна Гвардія

Уродженці Новомосковського району
39-й окремий мотопіхотний батальйон «Дніпро-2»
Померли в Амвросіївському районі
Поховані в Новомосковському районі

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DescriptionNumerical computations have always played an important role in the development of the theory of Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, more and more so as the availability and power of computer has increased dramatically over the last few decades. At the same time, the limitations of computer-assisted numerical calculations have also become increasingly apparent. Notwithstanding their enormous power, the intrinsic finite resolution of computers can lead to significant errors, especially as a result of a large number of calculations through which small errors can accumulate.
An important and growing approach to certain mathematical problems consists of developing rigorous numerical techniques in combination with more classical analytic methods in order to obtain rigorous qualitative and quantitative results. In some cases this leads to the proof of deep mathematical theorems and in other cases to quantitative, and thus more concrete and applicable, versions of abstract existence results.
This workshop will bring together experts in Dynamical Systems and experts in the theory of Computability to exchange ideas and results, and promote collaborations in view of significant developments in the field over the next few years.


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Q: What's this site all about, anyway?
A: As its title implies, it's about domain names. I aim to give lots of information on this subject, including practical tips on how to obtain and use them, news and information about changes and conflicts involving domain names, and a few rants giving my own opinions about how domain names ought to be handled and how various people are grossly violating this.
Q: Why did you decide to create it?
A: To give myself a chance to make some more of those opinionated rants, of course! But also to try to be helpful. Actually, I started out by writing sections of my personal website devoted to web tips and politics, each of which ended up having a page regarding domain names: in the web tips section it was to give hints on how to obtain and use domain names for websites, while in the politics section it was to give news and commentary on various ongoing domain name disputes. Finally, I decided the subject was worthy of a website of its own. Then I procrastinated for weeks and months at actually creating this, but finally took the stuff I'd written for the other sites, expanded and rearranged it, and added some more items to yield the first version of this site.
Q: Since this site is about domain names, why doesn't it actually have a domain name itself? What's the deal with this domains.dan.info address???
A: Technically, it does have a domain name. It's just a third-level domain beneath dan.info rather than the more common second-level domain beneath com. I did it to make a point, that the domain name system is hierarchical and that there's no need to register loads and loads of separate second-level domains for every last website or marketing gimmick, when the use of subdomains within an existing domain often expresses the nature and structure of the site in a more logical and elegant way. In this case, the name indicates that it's a subsidiary site to my main site at dan.info, devoted to domain names. See my notes on domain name structure for more information.
Q: And why is it in a .com domain instead of something else like .org? It doesn't seem commercial to me. And I thought you were such a stickler for those distinctions.
A: You must have accessed it by an old link; I'm using domains.dan.info as the main address now, though the domains.dantobias.com address still works too. I originally put it in a dot-com address as a "lesser-of-evils" choice, but have switched it now that other options are available. See more of my comments in the structure section.
Q: Who's the "you" and the "me" here, anyway? Aren't you just writing all of these questions and answers yourself?
A: Sure, but the "question-and-answer" format seemed to be the best way to communicate my message here, even if it really meant I was having a conversation with myself.
Back to the front of the site!
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Café Libro: Red Salmon Arts boasts the longest running literary venue in the city of Austin. Continuing the multi-decade tradition of open-mike series such as the Eastside/Southside Poetic Action and Canto Libre, Café Libro provides a forum for emerging and established proponents of spoken word. These readings feature talented writers ranging in ages from 9 to 80. Café Libro offers local writers/artists an opportunity to build self-confidence and performance skills by presenting their work to the communities of Austin.


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UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION
PROJECTS AND ISSUES
2nd Annual Student Writing Competition launched by the UCCLF
For Immediate Release (Calgary, Ottawa)
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) Friday launched its second annual student writing competition.
"After awarding $1,500 last year during the 75th anniversary of Ukraine's Famine-Genocide - the Holodomor - the Foundation is once again encouraging students to actively engage in and do research on a civil liberties theme and to commemorate victims of genocide," said Andriy Harasymiw, scholarships director for the Foundation.
Two separate awards are being offered. The first, the High School Civil Liberties Award, is valued at $500, and will go to a Canadian student aged 13 to 18 who submits the winning essay of up to 1,500 words based on a Holodomor theme. The winner will be determined by a selection committee derived from the Ukrainian Canadian community. Judging will be based solely on the quality of research essay?s content. Submission deadline has been set at Oct. 30, 2009.
The Civil Liberties Opinion-Editorial Award will go to a high school or post-secondary student whose Holodomor-based opinion-editorial appears in print in a major Canadian newspaper prior to the Nov. 30, 2009 deadline. The value of this award has been set at $1,000. However, this amount is subject to change in the event that an op-ed from more than one student is published in a major Canadian newspaper.
"We're very pleased with the number of applications we received last year," said Harasymiw. "The Foundation looks forward to receiving just as many high-quality submissions in the upcoming weeks."
Last year, Antin Stowell of Winnipeg won the High School Civil Liberties prize on the merits of his paper, while University of Toronto student Christina Dykun won the Civil Liberties Opinion-Editorial Award with her opinion/editorial on the Holodomor, published in the Calgary Sun.
Online Presentation: Bow Valley Internment Camps - A Ukrainian Perspective
Online presentation: What Mendel Osherowitch saw: Ukraine during the Holodomor
Remembering the 100th year since the end of Canada's first national internment operations


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Făt-Frumos
For the publication, see Făt Frumos (magazine).
Romanian stamp depicting Făt-Frumos.
Făt-Frumos (from Romanian făt: son, infant; frumos: handsome) is a knight hero in Romanian folklore, usually present in fairy tales.
Akin to Prince Charming, he possesses such essential attributes as courage, purity, justness, physical and spiritual strength, cleverness, passion, and unshakable love. Făt-Frumos also displays some minimal abilities in performing miracles, as well as total commitment to the word given and to the monarch he serves. In some tales, he is so precocious as to be able to weep before he is born.[1]
Făt-Frumos is usually the youngest son of a king. In the Romanian folk stories it is common that all the sons of a king try to defeat the Zmeu or the Balaur, the older sons failing before the younger one succeeds.
Făt-Frumos has to go through tests and obstacles that surpass ordinary men's power. With dignity, he always brings these to a positive resolution. He fights demonic monsters and malevolent characters (zmeu, balaur, Muma Pădurii, etc.). He travels in both "this land" and "the other land" (tarâmul celălalt) on the Calul Năzdrăvan ("The Marvellous Horse"), who also serves as his counsellor.
In his journeys, Făt-Frumos often has to overcome a major dilemma related to the correct route he is to follow, and is bound to decide between two equally nonsensical choices. Asked about the right way, an old woman gives Făt-Frumos an obscure answer: "If you turn right, you will be in sorrow; if you turn left, you will be in sorrow as well". (Compare to Russian fairy tales, where in Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf and The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life, where the hero is also offered a choice, but though all the paths have unpleasant aspects, they are distinguishable.)
According to Victor Kernbach, this lose-lose situation evokes the historical condition of the Romanian people whose homeland had been constantly crossed and attacked by foreign powers, as the native population was always forced to decide between two equally unfortunate choices: ally with your enemies or fight them.
Făt-Frumos is also a commonplace figure of the Romanian culture and literature. He appears as a character in stories and poems by famous writers, such as Mihai Eminescu, Tudor Arghezi, or Nichita Stănescu. As a symptom of the Romanian people's self-irony, Făt-Frumos can be encountered even in contemporary Romanian jokes, yet less frequently than Bulă or the political personalities of the moment.
Culture of Romania
Religion in Romania
^ Julia Collier Harris, Rea Ipcar, The Foundling Prince & Other Tales: Translated from the Roumanian of Petre Ispirescu, p xii, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York 1917
‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Kernbach, Victor (1989). Dicţionar de mitologie generală. Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, pp. 183–184.
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17 Reasons Why You Need To Buy 'MAD MAX: FURY ROAD' Tomorrow
This piece originally ran on VeryAware.com where it lived, died and now lives on again to ride shiny and chrome at FreshFiction.tv.
If you bought a ticket to director George Miller's insanity-driven epic masterpiece MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, there's a good chance you were blown away by all the spectacle. If you didn't, first, what's wrong with you? And secondly, let me try to convince you to see it. In the intense actioner, laconic former cop Max (Tom Hardy) and war rig driver Furiosa (Charlize Theron) attempt to restore order to a desolate, depraved dystopia ruled by despot Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne).
While I'll try to keep this spoiler-free, if you want to remain the utmost surprised by everything this cinematic exploration of a post-apocalyptic world has to offer, then stop reading and GO BUY THE MOVIE ALREADY!
For all others that maybe still need convincing, here are a few of the film's highlights.
17. The marching band that plays the soldiers off to [vehicular] war[fare] – specifically The Doof Warrior, a.k.a. the guy in the red long johns playing the guitar that shoots fire. Akin to in the past when marching bands would play the soldiers to the battlegrounds in order to control and entertain the troops, Miller does this too – of course in the most wild, rock n' roll way possible.
16. The War Boys' insane silver spray paint death ritual. Valhalla plays a big part in this movie and it's referenced during a few key moments during the film before characters attempt kamikaze-like deaths. Though it's (blessedly) not explained, this ritual of spraying their teeth silver is to truly be chrome when meeting their fallen warriors.
15. Car culture. You'll be sitting on 2,000 horsepower machine when you buy a ticket to this momentum driven movie. War Boys are post-apocalyptic gearheads who dream of chrome and high-octane thrills behind the wheel. Their prayer? "By the gods, I worship Him, V8." The guys in this film make the cast of FURIOUS 7 look like a bunch of go-cart racers. It also seems Miller is giving a shout-out to fellow Aussie director Peter Weir with a few of the cars inspired by THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS.
14. Yellow and blue color theory. Let's face it. Even if this was a full Technicolor extravaganza, it would still make our eyeballs explode. While red of blood and green of crops do pop, Miller and cinematographer John Seale primarily stick with a yellow and blue color palette. From Nux's wrecked navy blue car buried in the orange sands, to Hardy's piercing blue eyes against a yellow-orange background, to the warm yellow glow of the lantern in the backseat of the big rig against the enveloping blue night cast over all else, fans of this color theory will be giddy.
13. Furiosa's gear grease war paint. Badass.
12. Immortal Joe's breathing apparatus. It's a menacing oxygen mask that one-ups Bane's DARK KNIGHT face hardware. Joe's turns into a breathing apparatus hoodie that's sure to be a covetable at Hot Topics near you.
11. Rosie Hungtington-Whiteley's hundred-yard model stare. Guys, I think she smizes.
10. The chastity belts on "The Dag" (Abbey Lee) and "Cheedo the Fragile" (Courtney Easton). Ain't nobody messing around with Immortal Joe's assets.
9. The nipple-clipped war monger boss with fat feet from Gastown, The People Eater (John Howard). It's a blink-and-you-might-miss-it moment in the third act. Instead of twirling a moustache, he tweaks his nip clips.
8. Crazy character names. People who are naming babies: please take note. This world needs more Furiosa's, Slit's, Nux's and Rictus Erectus'. For humanity sake.
7. Tom Hardy's perfectly un-chapped lips. #NuffSaid
6. Nicholas Hoult's chapped lips. They are probably branded that way versus being chapped but you get it.
5. Equality between the sexes. Which, as most of us know, is the real definition of feminism. Furiosa is Max's equal in every way. They can both kick ass and outsmart their enemies. She saves the day just as many times as he does. Also both have put up walls in order to survive the harsh times.
4.The fact that not everything has to be explained. Screenwriters! Take note. Not every prop, act or character back story has to be verbally beat a dead horse. Here, scripters Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris allow for things to be shown minus overly verbose clarification.
3. Themes and symbolism. Maybe it won't hit audiences until their second viewing, but Miller's real-life parallels to today's society are absolutely terrifying. Water, gasoline and bullets are the currency of this cinematic world. All three leaders of the cities represent our current zeitgeist figureheads; there's the corporate fat cat banker (The People Eater), a war lord with a bullet for a tooth crown who literally goes blindly into war, guns ablaze (The Bullet Farmer, Richard Carter) and a controlling dictator (Immortan Joe). Not only that, but resources like land, livestock and crops are being depleted. Droughts and climate control are a very real thing. This could be our future dystopia, or rather, it's our current one.
2. Multi-layered narrative. On the surface, the film's story is rather simple. But it actually runs deeper than this. Furiosa, Nux and Max are all on a redemptive journey. "The breeders" are rebelling against being commodities.
1. Because you love ballsy, bombastic, bloody brilliant bad-assery on a widescreen scale. And if you don't vote with your dollars to make this wholly original adventure a hit, Hollywood won't take chances on filmmaking as bold as this.
Post-screening ponderable:
What would it be like to spend a day in George Miller's head?
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD is available tomorrow on DVD/ Blu-ray. Order here.
Abbey Lee1 Brendan McCarthy1 Charlize Theron11 Courtney Easton1 George Miller2 Hugh Keays-Byrne1 John Howard1 Mad Max: Fury Road5 Nicholas Hoult5 Nico Lathouris1 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley1 Tom Hardy7
'STEVE JOBS' Poster Touts Clean Design And A Pensive, Troubled Genius
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A Igreja de Santa Maria a Virgem é uma igreja listada como Grau I em Yielden, Bedfordshire, na Inglaterra.

É um bom exemplo de igreja de aldeia, principalmente no estilo Decorado.

O cemitério contém os túmulos de guerra da Commonwealth de um soldado do Regimento de Norfolk da Primeira Guerra Mundial e de um aviador da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Igrejas anglicanas de Bedfordshire
Património histórico do Reino Unido


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blog, Weekly Round Up | May 22, 2018
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… New Research Shows Ads in Trustworthy Environments Are Becoming Significantly More Effective New research backs up the contention that ad campaigns perform better when they're viewed in a high quality and trusted editorial environment. The research was released by World…
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… Publishers Find Presumed Ally in Apple News Apple has always been something of an outlier when it comes to publishing and advertising dollars. It has shown little-to-no interest in advertising over the years, focusing more heavily on software and hardware…
Google Chrome Suggestions: A New Mobile Traffic Source you Can't Ignore
blog, Google | May 9, 2018
The shift towards digital content consumption has propelled traffic channels like search engines, AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, Google Newsstand, Flipboard, etc., to prominence. These channels have become the digital evolution of the newsstands and magazine racks where publishers had to appear to find readers. Logically, publishers must complement direct traffic…
blog, Weekly Round Up | May 7, 2018
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… Snapchat Ends Licensing Fees for Publishers Snap is no longer paying licensing fees to publishers for their Snapchat Discover channels, leaving those publishers instead to live off advertising. Over the past several months, Snap has been notifying Snapchat Discover publishing…
blog, Weekly Round Up | April 30, 2018
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… Unskippable Six Second Video Ads Coming to Snapchat Snapchat is going to start testing non-skippable ads in its TV-like shows, according to Snap, parent of the messaging app. A Snap spokesperson confirmed that the company will test a new ad…
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… New Audience Measurement Tool for Publishers Launched The Published Audience Measurement Company (PAMCo) has launched the industry's new audience measurement "currency", which enables users to look at audience delivery across all publisher platforms for the first time. It uses the…
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… What Marketers Need to Know about Facebook's Updated Business Tools Terms Facebook has introduced new terms around the use of customer data, tracking and measurement. The company has reiterated that Facebook will, in effect, apply the EU's General Data Protection…
A look at how last week's news affects mobile publishers… Google's Answer to Header Bidding is now Generally Available Google header-bidding solution Exchange Bidding has exited beta and is generally available to all publishers who use Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP), the company said Wednesday. Google also said it is alpha…
Facebook's Fresh Context Feature Could Be Good News For US Publishers
blog, Facebook | April 4, 2018
After initial tests in locations across the US, Facebook announced yesterday that it is ready to roll-out its "context features" to all Facebook users in the country. Created to push back against the tide of fake news and misinformation on the platform, Facebook hopes the feature will empower users to…
Marfeel Round Table Recap: How do you ensure an optimal reader experience across platforms?
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What are the most pressing issues facing digital publishers today, and how will those issues evolve to shape the future of digital publishing? This question framed an illuminating round table session recently hosted in Marfeel's Barcelona offices. The round table was hosted by Forbes Contributor Steve Olenski, and benefitted from…


The Doctoral Training Unit on Enforcement in Multi-level Regulatory Systems II (REMS-II) is opening 1 funded PhD position in Economics and 1 funded PhD position in Management with focus on Accounting.
For information on this training programme see here.
Each doctoral candidate will conduct research under the guidance of a Professor and an Associate Professor (respectively, in Economics and in Financial Accounting) with the aim of studying towards a PhD in Economics or Management.
The doctoral candidate working under the supervision of the Professor of Economics will conduct studies on the economics of the law enforcement in public private partnership, government sponsored firms and public infrastructure investments. The thesis is intended to mix law and economics concepts using various strands of the Industrial Organization literature on contract theory, contract enforcement, law and economics (see Nobel Prize Tirole).
The doctoral candidate working under the Associate Professor of Financial Accounting will conduct quantitative empirical research on the capital market perception of voluntary disclosure (e.g., corporate social responsibility reporting) and mandatory regulatory disclosure.
The doctoral candidates, depending on their background in either Economics or Management, are expected to enrol in the Doctoral School in Economics and Finance or in the Doctoral Programme in Management, and in the broader research program of REMS-II. They are expected to make links between the perspectives from the disciplines of Law, Economics, Accounting and Finance.
The doctoral candidates will publish research results and present them at conferences, workshops, etc.
They shall contribute to the teaching of classes ranging from one to three hours per week, of small group teachings and tutorials.
Degree in Master in Economics and/or Finance and/or Accounting (Quantitative orientation, Research Track, MSc, MPhil); additional education in Law disciplines is an advantage.
Have the linguistic skills to evolve in a multilingual environment: fluency in English.
Proof of language proficiency in English if this language is not the mother tongue of the applicant.
The University of Luxembourg aspires to be one of Europe's most highly regarded universities with a distinctly international, multilingual and interdisciplinary character.


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Reminder: Alaska Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 Scheduled for Dec. 30
On Nov. 28, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced that it would offer approximately 958,202 acres off Alaska's southcentral coast for an oil and gas lease sale on Dec. 30, 2022.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 directed BOEM to hold the Cook Inlet Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 258 by Dec. 31, 2022, for the purpose of oil and gas exploration and development. Further, as indicated in the Final Notice of Sale, the lease is specific for oil and gas exploration and development, not other uses.
BOEM is accepting sealed bids for oil and gas leases until 10 a.m. Alaska Time on Thursday, Dec. 29. Bids may be submitted BY MAIL ONLY through any parcel delivery service (FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL) to:
ATTENTION: REGIONAL SUPERVISOR
OFFICE OF LEASING AND PLANS
BOEM ALASKA REGIONAL OFFICE
3801 CENTERPOINT DR STE 500
ANCHORAGE AK 99503-5823
The lease sale will be held publicly via a live webstream and will be accessible beginning at 9 a.m. Alaska Time, with the bid reading beginning at 10 a.m. Alaska Time.
Totals for the sale will be announced as soon as the bids are tallied at the end of the webstream.
For more information, including instructions for submitting bids and for accessing the Dec. 30 webstream, see: www.boem.gov/ak258.
-- BOEM --
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for America's offshore energy and mineral resources. The bureau promotes energy independence, environmental protection and economic development through responsible, science-based management of energy and mineral resources on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf.


What clubs are available? When do they meet?
How much do clubs cost? How do I join?
When clubs are organised, we send out information with the children once details are finalised.
These details will be updated regularly on this page.
If there is any detail you are unsure about or you wish to be placed on a waiting list please contact the School Office. Fees apply for certain activities and not all activities are available to every year group.
The list below shows details of our clubs by the days on which they run. If you are interested in any of them, please go to SIMS Pay using this link where you can book online.
(or you can download the app to your phone).
It contains direct booking details of how to book clubs that are run at school by external organisations and which need to be booked direct with them.
This club is for children in Year 1 and Year 2. It runs from 3.05pm to 4pm in Class G. Runs from 29th April for FIVE weeks. There is a fee for this club.
Ms Crolle along with Crystal Palace Football Club run football coaching sessions for children from Year 2 to Year 6 on Monday afternoons from 3.15pm - 4.25pm. Runs from 29th April to Monday 8th July (9 weeks) in the Back Playground or Top Hall. There is a fee for this activity.
For children in Reception, Year 1, and Year 2: This club runs from 3.05pm to 4pm in the Tulip Room and is from 29th April to 8th July (9 weeks). There is a fee for this club.
For children in Key Stage 2: This is from 3.15pm to 4.15pm from 29th April to Monday 8th July (9 weeks). There is a fee for this club.
Breakfast Tennis Club with All Stars Tennis is in the Top Hall from 8am to 8.50am: by invitation only for KS1 children. Starts Tuesday 30th April.
For children in Year 1 to Year 6 and runs from 3.15pm to 4.15pm in Class 1I) from 30th April to 9th July. There is a fee for this club.
Using a large range of materials we explore art through sculpture, drawing, printing and have fun. This club is for children in Years 3 to 6. Runs in the Lilley Suite from 3.15pm to 4.20pm from 30th April to 9th July (10 weeks). There is a fee for this club.
This club is by invitation only for Years 5 & 6 and runs on Tuesdays from 3.15pm to 4.25pm from 30th April to 9th July (10 weeks). In the Back Playground. There is no fee for this club.
This club for children in Year 3, 4, 5 & 6, runs from 3.15pm to 4.15pm in the Middle Hall from 30th April to 9th July (10 weeks). There is a fee for this club.
For children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 is in the Bottom Hall from 3.05pm to 4pm. This club runs from 1st May to 10th July. There is a fee for this club.
This club has not yet been confirmed for the Summer Term.
This clubs is for children in Year 3 to Year 6 only. Digital Arts Club is a great opportunity for children to use a range of digital tools to engage and explore their artistic creativity.There is a fee for this club.
Details for Summer Term Eco Club are currently being finalised.
This club is for children in Years 2 to 6 and teaches fencing in a fun and safe way. The classes take place in half hour sessions at lunchtime on Wednesdays from 16th January to 3rd April (11 weeks). There is a fee for this club.
For Year 1 children and is in the Middle Hall from 3.05pm to 4pm. It runs from 1st May to 10th July. There is a fee for this club.
For invited children from Year 3 only.
It takes place in the Lilley Suite from 3.15pm to 4.30pm.
For children in Year 3, 4, 5 & 6.
This club runs on Wednesdays from 3.15pm to 4.00pm in the Back Playground or in the Top Hall from 1st May to 10th July. There is no fee for this club.
This club is for children in Years 3 to 6 and is run by Professor Bubbleworks in Class 2I from 3.15pm to 4.15pm from 1st May to 10th July.
This club for girls in Years 5 & 6 and is by invitation only. It runs on Thursdays from 3.15pm to 4.25pm in the Back Playground or Top Hall.
There is no fee for this club. It runs from 2nd May to 11th July.
For Reception children in the Middle Hall from 3.05pm to 4pm. There is a fee for this club. It runs from 2nd May to 11th July.
All Star Tennis Mini Tennis Club is for children in Year 1 & 2 and runs from 3.05pm to 4pm in the Top Hall.
This music club is for children in Reception up to Year 6 and has sessions which run in half hour slots between 1pm to 3.30pm in the Tulip Room.
For Years 2 to 6 is on Friday mornings at 8am. Start date Friday 3rd May.
Children need to bring a piece of fruit and a (nut-free) cereal bar to eat afterwards.
Children from Year 3 to Year 6 take part in ½ hour sessions (approximately 4 to a group) between 12pm and 3pm. Lessons run from 3rd May to 12th July. There is a fee for this activity.
Spanish Club is run by La Jolie Ronde and there is a fee for this club.
Run dance classes and drama lessons at Swaffield on Saturdays from 10am to 1pm.
To find out more about PSSA and their classes, please click on their logo to visit their website.
This class, run by Muslimah Sports female coaches is on Wednesdays from 6pm to 7.30pm term-time only and costs £3 per session. There's no need to book, just turn up.
Reclaim Body Pilates run sessions for Adults on Mondays and Tuesdays.
If you miss a class you can catch up for your missed session in any of the other classes. Please see www.reclaimbodypilates.com for the full timetable.
We host Zumba classes for adults on Wednesdays- 7.30pm to 8.30pm in the Lilley Suite.
The cost is £5 a session and pay as you go.


AI Tech North 2019 is first of its kind AI conference in the North. AI-Tech is a platform to bring like-minded, passionate and AI-enthusiasts together. It's a forum for AI expression and innovation, welcoming decision makers to decision influencers along with the hustlers, enablers, thinkers and disrupters all under one roof talking about the new trend - Intelligence!
For those who have attended SQLSaturdays, the format will be very similar i.e. with a keynote speech(s) followed by series of tech-talks in parallel venues.
Please mention under which category you will be presenting.
Ted Talk Style; 18 mins (15 mins - Delivery with 3 mins for Q&A ) ideally al level 100-200. We would like speakers to - Engage the audience - Decision Makers, Influencers and Developers. - Share their experience, lessons, and success stories from their AI journey. - Exchange Ideas and answers to current AI challenges within Industries. - Talk about AI strategy and being AI ready.
Hackathon: Duration 50 minutes, at 300-400 level (intermediate-advanced) Goal: - Demonstrate AI capabilities. - How to get hands-on with AI, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics tools and services. - AI workshops or hackathon.