text
stringlengths 20
163k
| meta
dict |
|---|---|
According to Welch, a business leader is obligated not only to create vision, but also to make sure employees are living that vision at every level of the organization. To Welch, one of the most crucial aspects of being consistent and following up is making sure that he delivers the identical no-nonsense message to everyone.
As Welch pounded his message home over the years, he won the hearts and minds of the GE workforce and converted critics into believers.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T07:02:50",
"url": "https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Jack-Welch-and-the-Ge-Way-PKH4NHKDRTA",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The Cruxial Core Standard 42u, Linier Series Standard Server Cabinet, Rack Basics, and ERK Standard Server Cabinet, are excellent values on a tight budget. These standard server racks typically ship same or next day and provide the same great features as your high end server cabinets for a fraction of the cost. The variety of standard server cabinets below includes shallow depth, extra depth, skinny frames, multiple door styles, and extra strong. This provides an excellent selection of standard server racks. Need custom? We can also design something for you.
Call 1-800-352-6631 or Chat with our in-house expert IT solutions team.
The Cruxial Core Standard Server Rack is a 19" wide 42u server rack built with high-end features at a budget friendly cost. With multiple built in, this rack mount enclosure is prepared for cable to exit the top, bottom, or to be tied down the provided cable management rail. The vertical mounting rails are adjustable and pre-labeled for simple installation for multiple depths of equipment. This standard server rack includes a 50 piece set of cage nuts and screws, casters and levelers, as well as split locking side panels.
What Makes the LINIER Server Rack Series the Best?
These 19" server cabinets are made in the USA to provide a cost effective, flexible and reconfigurable rackmount solution while maximizing your investment. Available with glass or perforated front door and perforated rear door.
Designed around EIA universal standards, and compatible with OEM manufactured servers, from the leading vendors such as IBM, HP, Dell and Sun, as well as all 19" rack mountable products.
This server cabinet provides advance storage flexibility while ensuring that multiple cooling requirements are met. The SR Series achieves significant cooling efficiency through a number of outstanding design and engineering features. The expanded steel design of all rack mount enclosure doors give 80% perforated area that ensures an ultimate air flow pattern.
Linier cabinets provide a simple, versatile cabling pathway throughout the rack frame. The rack framework, consisting of end frames, verticals, horizontal panel mounting brackets, and reducing cable channels, give multi-directional cable pathways and numerous efficient cabling options for easy passage of large quantities of cables.
If you need more versatility in sizes and options, our standard Server Rack series, made in the USA, will meet your needs.
With Hammond's Rack Basics Server Cabinets you have multiple height options with extra depth at 37" of usable space. Constructed of 16-gauge steel and featuring locks on all sides, this PCI compliant server rack is an excellent choice for your IT needs. Also included with your choice of 24u, 42u, or 48u rack, is a starter pack of rack screws, two toolless PDU cable trays, and perforated doors providing 65% of additional airflow. Need to join multiple cabinets together? The RB-DC Series also features the ability to gang together with the joining kit. Talk to a sales rep today about ordering this along with your other accessories. Call today at 1-800-352-6631!
The ERK Server Cabinet series is made in the USA. Seismic rated to satisfy the UBC seismic zone 4 and IBC seismic use group III upper floor requirements for 600 lbs of essential equipment with optional ERKZ4 floor anchor brackets.
This 19" server cabinet series includes a grounding/bonding stud in the base of rack which facilitates proper grounding and bonding of electronic equipment, as per NEBS and NEC standards.
The server cabinets have one front set of 10-32 tapped rack rails, which are pre-punched for built-in cable management. Multiple lacing points and slotted rail brackets add vertical or horizontal cable management convenience. The ERK server cabinet series have removable rear plates which allow cable bundles to be easily passed over or under the standard key-locking rear door. Add a rear set of rack rails if you need to four point mount AV, security or IT equipment.
PCI Compliant for security if you add an optional locking front door.
The ERK is not suitable for all rack servers at 23.5" usable depth. If you need more versatility and options, our standard Server Rack series, made in the USA, will meet your needs.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T06:47:35",
"url": "https://www.rackmountsolutions.net/server-racks-cabinet/server-racks/economy-standard-racks/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
It didn’t take long for the bank to call after Dale deposited the check from Ottimo for $500,000. They asked Dale to a meeting with Rick Petrie the following day.
There was the usual friendly exchange of greetings, avoiding the immediate concerns of the bank.
“How’s the wife and kids?” asked the bank manager, Petrie.
“Ha, never as easy as it looks.” Then they got down to business.
Dale wondered how far Petrie would go in admitting he knew of the Mafia connections. They had accepted the deposit and ignored the ugly details, so he probably wouldn’t admit too much.
“Rick, I’m shocked you would even suggest anything like that from me!” Dale faked an exaggerated expression of outrage.
Petrie nodded and wished he could have done more. He didn’t like to see good clients resort to loan sharks like Ottimo. He hoped he could get Dale out of their dirty claws before too much damage was done. The meeting ended with more friendly small talk and a reassuring firm hand shake. Dale left knowing they still liked and trusted each other enough to get past this challenge together.
What he did not know was that he now had new enemies that were plotting to do him more harm than any bank could save him from.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T02:47:19",
"url": "https://delvinchatterson.com/excerpt-easy-money/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Just thought I'd pass this along, Iceman passed away this week. Scott fought a courageous fight but finally was taken after a long battle with cancer.
Sad loss for his family as well as the sim racing community...he impacted many of us.
A very tough loss. Dedicated member and contributor to our humble little sim community for many years. So glad he's free of pain and suffering now. Rest In Peace.
Very helpful to me in the 3dmax stuff. Rest in peace Scott!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T14:12:09",
"url": "https://www.racingrafix.com/forum/index.php?topic=16642.0",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy in its weekly podcast, Managed Care Cast, posted Feb. 10 highlights some of the recent happenings in health care.
The podcast delves into President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address, which included an update on the health care industry, as well as the administration’s recent proposal to reform the drug rebate system.
AMCP members can listen to the podcast here.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T12:53:48",
"url": "https://www.healtheconomics.com/government/amcp-spotlights-recent-managed-care-news",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
A robot tax is a legislative strategy to disincentivize the replacement of workers by machines and bolster the social safety net for those who are displaced. While the automation of manual labour has been contemplated since before the industrial revolution, the issue has received increased discussion in the 21st century due to newer developments such as machine learning.
Assessments of the risk vary widely with one study finding that 47% of the workforce is automatable in the United States, and another study finding that this figure is 9% across 21 OECD countries. The idea of taxing companies for deploying robots continues to be controversial with opponents arguing that such measures will stifle innovation and impede the economic growth that technology has consistently brought in the past. Proponents have pointed to the phenomenon of "income polarization" which threatens the jobs of low-income workers who lack the means to enter the knowledge-based fields in high demand. Bank of England economist Andy Haldane has called the rise of automation "a regressive income tax on the unskilled".
Tax law professor Xavier Oberson has called for robots to be tax-compliant so that government spending can continue even as the pool of taxable income for human workers decreases. Oberson's proposals suggest taxing robot owners until robots themselves have the ability to pay, pending further advances in artificial intelligence.
In a 2015 Reddit discussion, Stephen Hawking criticized machine owners for initiating a "lobby against wealth resdistribution". Following Elon Musk's statement that universal basic income should offset the employment effects of robots, Bill Gates gave an interview in favour of a robot tax. Support for an automation tax by American politicians can be traced back to 1940 in which Joseph C. O'Mahoney tabled one such bill in the Senate. In 2017, San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim made these strategies the subject of a task force, stating that income disparity attributable to robots is widely visible in her district.
Critics including Jim Stanford and Tshilidzi Marwala have discussed the futility of a robot tax given the malleability in the definition of "robot". In particular, autonomous elements are present in many 21st century devices that are not normally considered robots. Economist Yanis Varoufakis has discussed the additional complication of determining how much a human worker would have hypothetically made in a labour sector that has been dominated by robots for decades. He has instead proposed a variation of universal basic income called the "universal basic dividend" to combat income polarization.
Robotics companies including Savioke and the Advancing Automation trade group have fought robot taxes, calling them an "innovation penalty". ABB Group CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer compared taxing robots to taxing software and pointed to the fact that countries with a low unemployment rate have a high automation rate. EU Commissioner Andrus Ansip rejected the idea of a robot tax stating that any jurisdiction implementing one would become less competitive as technological companies are incentivized to move elsewhere. The 2019 World Development Report, prepared by Simeon Djankov and Federica Saliola of the World Bank, opposed a robot tax arguing that it would result in reduced productivity and increased tax avoidance by large corporations and their shareholders.
On August 6, 2017, South Korea under President Moon, passed what has been called the first robot tax. Rather than taxing entities directly, the law reduces tax breaks that were previously awarded to investments into robotics. A robot tax had previously been part of Mady Delvaux's bill imposing ethical standards for robots in the European Union. However, the European Parliament rejected this aspect when it voted on the law.
^ "In the Future, Will Everyone Be Unemployed?". 4 August 2014.
^ Censky, Annalyn. "What 0% unemployment looks like". cnn.com.
^ Thompson, Derek. "A World Without Work". Retrieved 14 March 2018.
^ Carl Benedikt Frey; Michael Osborne (September 2013). "The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?" (publication). Oxford Martin School. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
^ Arntz, M., T. Gregory and U. Zierahn (2016), "The Risk of Automation for Jobs in OECD Countries: A Comparative Analysis", OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 189, OECD Publishing, Paris, http://dx.doi.org.mutex.gmu.edu/10.1787/5jlz9h56dvq7-en.
^ McKinsey Global Institute (December 2017). Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained: Workforce Transitions in a Time of Automation. Mckinsey & Company. pp. 1–20. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
^ a b French, Sally. "Bill Gates says robots should be taxed like humans". Retrieved 4 March 2017.
^ Oberson, Xavier (1 November 2017). "Vers une imposition des robots ou de leur usage ?". Expert Focus, EXPERTsuisse: 896.
^ Oberson, Xavier (1 January 2017). "Taxer les robots?, L'émergence d'une capacité contributive électronique". Pratique juridique actuelle, Dike Verlag AG: 232. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
^ Oberson, Xavier (4 April 2017). "Taxing Robots? From the Emergence of an Electronic Ability to Pay to a Tax on Robots or the Use of Robots" (PDF). World Tax Journal. 9 (2).
^ Bolton, Doug. "Stephen Hawking says robots could make us all rich and free – but we're more likely to end up poor and unemployed". Independent. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
^ "Elon Musk: Robots will take your jobs, government will have to pay your wage". CNBC. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
^ Robinson, Melia (2017-05-02). "San Francisco is considering a once unthinkable measure to offset the threat of job-killing robots". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
^ Marwala, Tshilidzi. "On Robot Revolution and Taxation" (PDF). arXiv. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
^ Dunlop, Tim (2017-03-12). "What is a robot exactly and how do we make it pay tax". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^ Varoufakis, Yanis. "A Tax on Robots?". Innovation & Technology. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
^ Said, Carolyn (2017-12-06). "San Francisco to robot: Don't crowd our sidewalks". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^ Cousins, Steve (2017). "Is a "robot tax" really an "innovation penalty"?". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^ Cutmore, Geoff; Rosenfeld, Everett (2017-03-18). "Bill Gates wants to tax robots but one robot maker says that's 'as intelligent' as taxing software". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
^ "EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea". Retrieved 17 June 2017.
^ "The Changing Nature of Work". World Bank. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
^ McGoogan, Cara (2017-08-09). "South Korea introduces world's first 'robot tax'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
^ Sung-won, Yoon (2018-08-07). "Korea takes first steps to introduce 'robot tax'". Korea Times. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
^ "European parliament calls for robot law, rejects robot tax". Reuters. 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
This page was last edited on 4 February 2019, at 06:52 (UTC).
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T23:52:40",
"url": "http://www.let.rug.nl/~gosse/termpedia2/termpedia.php?language=dutch_general&density=7&link_color=000000&termpedia_system=perl_db&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRobot_tax",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Writers just can't have holidays.
We all know the value of time off. Do something refreshingly different, have a rest, recharge the creative batteries, all that kind of thing.
One of the great joys of writing is that there's so much of the kingdom to explore - fiction or non fiction, genre, short stories, novels, poetry etc etc.
When I was away teaching in the summer, I popped in on a short story course and thought I'd give it a go. I'd never tried it before and always enjoy something new, so I set myself a challenge - one a week in the run up to Christmas.
Like many I love travelling, but for a writer there are journeys even more important than the ones that take us around this amazing world.
I'm talking about the travels within.
Of course, by exploring the wonders of Planet Earth we get to see so many sights and meet so many people that it can inspire and broaden our writing.
But the real travels are the ones in our imagination. Those where we go on an adventure of the mind with the people born of our creativity.
Books have a magical power beyond even that which we know so well - the ability to transport you to far off lands of the imagination, to learn, to escape and to enjoy.
For me, books are also a physical companion.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T12:58:33",
"url": "https://www.thetvdetective.com/blog/archive/2014/December",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Image by Eireen, legalese at the bottom of the page.
My parents are Mwangi tribes people. They say that they found me on a beach afloat in a small wooden boat. It is obvious that I am not of the tribe but they lovingly cared and protected me. The others of the tribe thought it a bad omen to bring me into the tribe but they soon learnt that I would be the thing that saved the tribe from desolation.
From the moment that I could walk my parents were forever finding me in the darker parts of the forest amongst the creatures that inhabited the jungle. At the start it was the small cute ones but as I began to grow so did the creatures. There were the wolves, then the dinosaurs and finally a griffon. The tribe threatened my parents that they had to leave or leave me behind. There was no other option that they were willing to entertain.
That following day I awoke to find that the camp had moved on without me. I was confused and scared but the plants told me which way they had travelled and I chased them thinking that they had made a mistake in leaving me behind. It was not long before I caught up to them and the group had been surprised by walking into the middle of a Basildrond patch. The beautiful flowers were already consuming some of the tribe when I found them. I leapt into action and forced the plants to retreat from their action and slowly moved the remaining tribe one at a time from the clearing, blowing the pollen away with the aid of some air spirits.
I did not hear the full story of that day until I reached my naming day. My parents were ashamed of their actions and the tribe themselves also repentant as I grew in age and power. Nature taught me so many things and I am now gladly there to keep the balance. I do keep an eye out for my tribe where I can but the greater landscape of nature now fills most of my waking hours. A balance must be struck and maintained and I am she who acts to ensure that this is the case.
Brachiation (2 rounds/day) (Ex) Free, gain climb speed and a bonus to Acrobatics.
Improved Lightning Reflexes (1/day) Can re-roll a Ref save, but must take the second result.
Spontaneous Casting The Druid can convert stored spells into Summon Nature’s Ally spells.
Wild Empathy +3 (Ex) Improve the attitude of an animal, as if using Diplomacy.
Woodland Stride (Ex) Move through undergrowth at normal speed.
Hero Lab and the Hero Lab logo are Registered Trademarks of LWD Technology, Inc. Free download at http://www.wolflair.com Pathfinder® and associated marks and logos are trademarks of Paizo Publishing, LLC®, and are used under license.
The image above was created by Eireen and is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non Commercial , No Derivative Works License.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T11:16:33",
"url": "http://rpgknights.com/pathfinder-npcs-willer-rainfern/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Listed below are the percentage distributions of marks from the 8162 students who sat the Higher Level Chemistry exam in 2018.
Listed below are the percentage distributions of marks from the 1306 students who sat the Ordinary Level Chemistry exam in 2018.
Chemistry exists everywhere, not just in laboratories, but in every living thing on land and sea and in our bodies. Chemistry is often described as 'the central science' containing a lot of formulas. So, if you enjoyed Junior Cert Science and have done well in it, and in Maths, you should be a good candidate for Leaving Cert Chemistry.
This subject aims to provide a relevant course for students who will complete their study of chemistry at this level while, at the same time, providing a foundation course for those who will continue to study chemistry or related subjects following completion of their Leaving Certificate. Chemistry is considered most useful for careers in Pharmacy, Ag Science, Medicine, Engineering, General Sciences and Biotechnology.
What kind of student would Chemistry suit?
If you enjoyed Junior Cert Science and you have done well in this and in Maths, you should be a good candidate for Leaving Cert Chemistry.
If you apply attention to detail and are able to describe the procedures of experiments and understand vocabulary.
It is recommended that a student undertaking the chemistry course has a good understanding of Junior Cert Science at Higher level.
Each student should have an aptitude for and an interest in laboratory work.
For Leaving Certificate I did the usual English, Irish, Maths, then Physics which I loved, Chemistry which I wasn’t great at (kept breaking stuff in the practicals), French, Geography and Music as an extra. I really enjoyed English actually, and even though a lot of my job involves computer programming and some hard maths and physics, I still rely heavily on my writing skills.
As important as it is to have technical ability in my job, it is still crucial to be able to communicate any results I find. One of the main tasks for me is to write papers for scientific journals, and occasionally to write articles for a more general audience.
My French is also useful because I collaborate with several people from a lab in Paris and they like if I make an effort to speak a bit of French, even though my accent is very embarrassing!
Biology and Chemistry were my favorites. Another which I found useful was Woodwork. Unfortunately, I gave up Woodwork, which is a good practical subject too early. The subjects I really enjoyed the most were Biology and Chemistry. Other practical subjects like Metalwork or Orienteering have been helpful. Biology is most important for anyone going into Horticulture as it covers propagation and helps with the identification of plant names, species and families through the universal use of Latin. Chemistry is also helpful as the use of various chemicals is a constant in horticulture. The chemical content and dangers of fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides in use in Amenity Horticulture needs to be understood anyone going into this business.
For my Leaving Cert. I took Maths - higher, Applied Maths - higher, Physics - higher, Chemistry - higher, Music - higher, English - higher, German - higher, Irish - ordinary As you can see my abilities and interests were more in the maths+science sphere than anything else.
I was very lucky that at the time Mt. Temple had very capable maths+science teachers, which certainly made things easier for me. To be honest, in school I didn't really think about 3rd level or careers or anything until I was in 6th year (by which stage I'd already picked my subjects). I just picked the subjects I enjoyed and felt I had a natural knack for.
For the career I'm in now I don't think I could have picked better school subjects. It might have helped me to know a bit more about business-related subjects, but I had no interest in accountancy or commerce at the time.
I am considering taking an evening course in the legal+financial aspects to running a business to make up for this. However, as a teenager I think I was better off studying subjects that I had a genuine interest in, otherwise I would have found it very hard to motivate myself to study.
Irish, English, French, Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Latin (I failed Latin(!) but only concentrated on 6 subjects because, at least at that time, all colleges only counted up to 6 subjects when calculating entry points). I stayed in Honours Maths and choose Physics in order to not rule out opting for engineering. I would not have done anything differently in hindsight.
We had no Physics, Chemistry and other technical subjects in the school I attended, which would have been useful for my career development. I did however have the opportunitiy to study Honours Maths in preparation for my current career.
In hindsight I would have looked for the opportunitiy to at least study Applied Maths, which would have made it easier to go through first year in college.
I am delighted I went to UCD, where it was possible to do one common year before choosing the Engineering discipline.
For my Leaving Certificate I studied the three compulsory subjects: English, Irish and Maths. I had a great interest in science so I chose to do two science subjects - Biology and Chemistry. I wanted to keep as many options open as possible as I wasn't 100% sure what I wanted to do on leaving school so I chose one business subject - Economics and I chose a language - French, in order to keep all the universities open also.
In hindsight I think this was a good selection of subjects as it kept a lot of doors open while also allowing me to chose subjects I liked and did well in. I eventually went on to do a science degree so my 2 Leaving Certificate science subjects came in handy. Once I had my degree this allowed me to teach and subsequently do my postgraduate in Guidance Counselling.
The subject aims to provide a relevant course for students who will complete their study of chemistry at this level while, at the same time, providing a foundation course for those who will continue to study chemistry or related subjects following completion of their Leaving Certificate.
The Leaving Cert. course follows on directly from Junior Cert Science, and deals with more topics in a lot more depth. The course includes 28 mandatory practical experiments which must be completed in the lab, as well as a written paper including questions on the experiments and examining the theory and applications of chemistry. There are an amount of calculations involved. Chemistry has been the second most popular science subject for some time now.
The syllabus consists of approximately 70% pure chemistry; the remaining 30% deals with the social and applied aspects of chemistry.
There are eleven questions in total on the exam paper, each carrying 50 marks.
Chemistry is considered extremely useful for a wide range of career areas such as: Pharmacy, Ag Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Science, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Engineering, General Sciences, Dietician, Nursing, Food Science, Biotechnology and Medical Laboratory Technology.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-26T01:58:59",
"url": "https://careersportal.ie/school/lc_subject_detail.php?school_id=53§or_id=30&course_name=Chemistry&search1=chemistry&search2=&course_id=8&lc_subject_group=2",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The Warren Township Lions Club would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all who have supported our efforts and projects during the year. We loved your attendance and feedback at our summer “Concerts in the Park” season as we tried our best to provide a variety of music and concessions. We especially thank our performers and concession operators for their time, effort and talents. A very special thanks goes out to all of you in the public who attended regularly and found our little park, so pleasant and inviting. We are looking forward to a program for next summer that will have something for everyone. Since we use no public funding or grants, your contributions enable us the means to provide this wonderful entertainment.
During the past year, the Warren Township Lions Club also supported our community by providing the following: free breakfast with Santa for children and adults; sponsoring a girl for Girl Scout Camp; birthday book for all students at Buckeye South Elementary; two $500 scholarships for seniors at Buckeye Local High School; dance pad at Warren Township Park; picnic tables at Buckeye South Elementary; glasses for those in need; support for the “Back to School Bash;” Christmas stockings for Buckeye Local Junior High and Angel Tree gifts for students at South Elementary, as well as support for Valley Hospice. Other activities include: collecting old glasses to be refurbished for use; picking up trash on Route 7 from Rayland to Yorkville, including the ramps; and participation in the YTR Christmas Tree Program and Christmas parade.
To support our endeavors, we are currently selling tickets for our Holiday Cash Giveaway. Some lucky people will win $1,000, $500 and $250 to be given away at our Nov. 8 Lions meeting. If you would like to serve your community and enjoy the company of others, we always are looking for new members. Come and join us!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T14:10:08",
"url": "http://www.timesleaderonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2018/10/lions-club-thanks-supporters/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Meditations on aspects of life as a journey, realised in metal. In these pieces Nicola explores themes such as origin, continuity, entanglement, choices and crises. Journeys can be public or private, individual or collective. The journey’s end may not always be apparent—or even distinguishable from its beginning.
This exhibition includes jewellery and small-scale sculptures in copper, stainless steel, silver, gold and gemstones; and explores the broadly used term of Journey.
Nicola Bannerman is a local Sydney artist and jeweler. Nicola’s jewellery and sculpture have been displayed in Australia in group and solo exhibitions. Featured in local and international magazines, some of her pieces have been purchased for private collections in Japan, USA and Europe.
Free workshop September 8th 2-3pm Drawing with wire, bookings essential.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T07:54:07",
"url": "http://bridgetkennedy.com.au/journey/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Thanks for your interest in the Operations Supervisor position. Unfortunately this position has been closed but you can search our 663 open jobs by clicking here.
Effective interpersonal skills – able to develop positive working relationships with people at all levels, both with SGS colleagues and external clients/partners.
Able to adopt a flexible approach to work and react effectively to a rapidly changing environment.
Working knowledge of effective people management techniques.
Previous experience of operating in a co-ordination or supervisory role within a successful team.
Relevant professional qualification/membership of industry body e.g. IFIA, Deck Officer.
GCSE Maths & English (grades A to C) or equivalent.
Ability to deploy to various Ports/Terminals in south West region.
In-depth technical knowledge of inspection activities within the petro-chemical industry.
Understanding and knowledge of H&S procedures such as risk assessments, chemical handling and confined space entry, etc.
Safety Passport and First Aid experience.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T12:15:28",
"url": "https://jobs.sgs.com/jobs/operations-supervisor-35359",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Venison backstrap is one the best cuts to cook on a grill (whether it is a gas or charcoal grill).
Before the cooking process starts, make sure that the meat is completely thawed and at room temperature.
If you want to brine your meat, it can definitely be done with this recipe. Brine your meat for 24 hours in a salt and sugar mixture. This will add moisture and flavor to the meat.
Remember to remove the silver skin from the venison backstrap before cooking.
Mix olive oil, ground pepper, steak seasoning, garlic and lemon juice in a mixing bowl.
Remove excess fat and silver skin from backstrap.
Place backstrap into mixing bowl with the other ingredients and rub thoroughly.
Let the backstrap marinade for 30 minutes.
Grill Backstrap for 15 to 20 minutes (or until it has cooked to your liking), venison taste better when cooked medium rare.
Remove backstrap from grill and let it rest for 10 minutes.
Serve with garden vegetables or a side salad.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T12:49:13",
"url": "https://www.huntersfreedom.com/recipe/grilled-venison-backstrap/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
We are living in the most persecuted times. Ever.
I think even our grandparents would be able to testify that the lack of analysis of that statement. And before them, even more so.
This age is so smart because of the technology we have.
America is the greatest country. Ever.
Um, sure. Let me know if you think so after traveling abroad. By analyzing other countries, we can better see that other cultures may do certain things better than ours.
Each generation and culture falls into the habit of thinking they know more than all the others. They fail to analyze the fullness of truth. But the truth is, our opinions and thinking are influenced by our surroundings. And we tend to forget more than we remember.
As part of my effort to deepen my Ancient Greek fluency, I have expanded my reading literature. In my Greek class, we read a fictional narrative about a man by the name of Dicaopolis, a Greek farmer. Each chapter’s prose became increasingly difficult, growing in richness and using grammar learned from that chapter.
Despite being so new to the language, I am able to read certain books of the Greek New Testament without needing to refer a dictionary more than once or twice a paragraph (I’m reading through John’s gospel the original Greek right now, for example).
Reading in the original Greek has allowed me to understand and analyze, albeit in small increments, how the writers thought, by following the grammar directly instead of through translation.
But while expanding my surrounding by learning to read in the original Greek, I was still reading a text that was familiar. The New Testament.
Much of my thinking is biased by reasoning, analysis, and exegesis from today’s great thinkers.
But how are today’s theologians compared to those of the early church? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to take a time machine back to the first or second century and listen to some of their conversations?
This weekend I had the chance to do just that!
I had ordered a copy “The Apostolic Fathers.” This is a collection of writings from various writers who had very close contact with the original apostles.
So on one hand, their writings are not considered to be scripture, but on the other hand, they offer a direct window into the conversations that were taking place during the first generation of the church.
One example that came up was in regards to taking communion. In today’s day, open communion is all the rage. Churches want everyone to feel included and fear offending anyone by turning them away.
As a result, everyone is invited to take part in the Lord’s Supper.
In the past, I had read a few verses in the New Testament about some early Christians not being serious about the Lord’s Supper, or getting drunk off the wine. But I never thought too much of who was allowed to take part.
Turns out the early fathers took this very seriously. Directly written about by the early church fathers, one had to be a baptized Christian in order to be allowed to partake in communion.
Somehow, many today have watered down (no pun intended) communion to just a symbolic ritual that no longer involve the body and blood of Jesus Christ. They have made it just a thing that is done, if it is even done at all. I’m learning of more churches that do not even offer communion, despite Jesus telling us to observe it.
The Lord’s Supper has become neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm. Something we are warned of in Revelation.
Are all the apostolic fathers right in their thinking? Not at all. The fact that their writings are not canonical (scripture), means they are not the inerrant, infallible words of God.
But by taking a step back, a step away from our current worldview, and understand the analysis from someone else’s point of view, we often challenge our own views and even change our own analysis.
My own views have already been challenged during the reading of 1 and 2 Clement as well as the Didache.
I can’t wait to hear what the other apostolic fathers have to teach me.
I challenge you to take a step outside your comfort zone this week.
Have you never read any writings on the Koran? It is a striking analysis to disregard what we hear in our social media feeds and actually read a man’s writings from 6 centuries after Christ to give us a peek into Islamic thinking.
Or have you never read a foreign newspaper (most have English versions) for analysis of daily events? In today’s digital age, reading from the Times in England or listening to the BBC. Maybe even watch Al Jazeera.
Instead of complaining of Trump, watch news from South America to understand what is happening in Venezuela right now with their democracy. Today was an important day for Venezuelans. Much bigger than anything going on in American politics. People literally dying for their freedom.
But no matter how you do it, step outside your comfort zone and expose yourself to a wider analysis.
Jesus taught this often. The Samaritan was someone a Jewish person would never want to help. There was hatred for Samaritans. Yet Jesus goes out of His way to help.
Go out of your way so you can better understand our global neighbors and be a light to the world.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T20:14:32",
"url": "https://sullysbrain.com/stepping-outside-perspective-for-a-better-analysis/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
'Dino-Buddies Volley Ball' Design features 8 Dino-Buddies enjoying an exciting game on the seashore. These happy 'Dino-Stars' laugh as they play in a non-competitive game. The Dino-Buddies logo and slogan are shown in the upper area.
The shirt is a made by Gildan 6.1oz. 100% Cotton, White, 16 silkscreen colors !!!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T01:07:38",
"url": "https://dinobuddies.com/collections/all-products/products/volley-ball-t-shirt",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Winter 2018 in New York City is loaded with cool theater for families, including the debut of three super buzzed-about Broadway productions: Disney's Frozen the Musical, Tina Fey's musicalization of her hit movie Mean Girls, and the two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from London. But you don't need to shell out big bucks to give your kids a memorable live entertainment experience in NYC—plenty of engaging family productions are playing off Broadway for a lot less.
This winter there are wonderful options for toddlers to teens, including interactive shows created specifically for the preschool set (A Book of Hours and Waves, All That Glows Sees ), stage adaptations of popular picture books such as A Sick Day for Morris McGee and Owen & Mzee the Musical, and eye-popping spectacles for the whole family (Bromance and Marvel Universe Live!).
Best of all, most of these nearly two dozen shows cost $25 or under, so you can take the whole family for less than the price of one Broadway ticket.
Click through to our listings for all the details, including prices, schedules, and locations.
Celebrate Martin Luther King and his legacy with the real-life story of Lynda Blackmon Lowery, one of the youngest participants in the historic Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965. Based on Lowery's memoir of the same name, this solo show (adapted and directed by Hollywood Brat Packer Ally Sheedy!) is filled with civil rights songs and chronicles the incredible life of the teen activist, who was jailed nine times before her 15th birthday. An inspiring story for politically minded tweens and teens. For an extra dose of jubilation, attend on weekends or MLK Day, when the Riverside Church Inspirational Choir will open the show with a joyful noise.
No sitting on the sidelines at Symphony Space. The Experiential Theater Company is behind this stage adaptation of Frank L. Baum's beloved stories, which is heavy on imagination and audience participation. The small cast conjures the fantastical characters but often requires assistance from kids in the audience, and they're always happy to oblige. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, and the Lion can't thwart the Wicked Witch without you!
Don't let the slight name change confuse you: This preschooler-aimed puppet show from Israel's Train Theater is indeed based on Philip C. and Erin E. Stead's Caldecott Medal-winning picture book A Sick Day for Amos McGee. At just an hour long, this charming performance centers on a creature-of-habit zookeeper and his doting animal friends, who come to his aid when he gets the sniffles. Two-dimensional tabletop puppets, original music, and a single puppeteer bring this simple tale to life at the New Vic's New 42nd Street Studios.
Why should Eric Carle get all the theatrical glory? This hourlong music-and-puppet-filled production gives another beloved children's book author-illustrator his due. Four of Ezra Jack Keats' tales—Whistle for Willie, Goggles!, A Letter to Amy, and his iconic Snowy Day—are translated to the stage in this preschooler-friendly show that celebrates the joy of being a city kid.
New York City Children's Theater presents an encore run of this multisensory romp for the sippy-cup set, which we just loved when we reviewed it last year. Inspired by Lindsay Ward’s picture book of the same name, it's about a little girl and her special bond with a certain carousel animal. Throughout the 30-minute adventure, audiences are invited to dance, shake maracas, fly, create their own balloons, and even have a fake snowball fight. It's completely interactive, making it a great option for first-time and very young theatergoers.
We've all fantasized about finding that ideal BFF who totally gets us. In the latest original musical from TADA! Youth Theater, young science geek Sybil takes that yearning to its logical conclusion: She decides to make her own perfect pal in her basement. But à la Frankenstein, not all goes smoothly. Whatever shall she do with this gang of flawed friends? As with all TADA! productions, The Perfect Monster stars talented NYC-area tykes ages 8 to 18, and features relatable themes, catchy tunes, and a positive, non-preachy story line.
Brooklyn-based Spellbound Theatre specializes in shows for very young theatergoers, so if you've been meaning to introduce baby to the magic of live entertainment, this half-hour performance at the Old Stone House is a great bet. A honey-voiced hostess opens an oversize storybook and invites tots to gather round. Soon they're off on an imaginary adventure filled with sing-alongs, puppets, and nursery rhymes.
Edith Nesbit's century-old children's novel of the same name is brought to the stage by avant-garde multimedia darlings Manual Cinema at BAMkids. A nine-year-old coping with familial loss and change conjures a rich fantasy world of found objects, which is realized onstage via toy theater, shadow puppetry, music, and live actors in silhouette. Will she ever be able to face reality? Every performance includes a pre-show workshop, where kids can get a behind-the-scenes peek at this company's process, and a post-show Q&A.
The gang from Sesame Street is throwing a party, and you and your preschoolers are VIP guests! Families can sing and dance along with Elmo, Abby Cadabby, and Cookie Monster. Even Oscar the Grouch gets down at this shindig hosted by live emcees Casey and Caleb. But while everybody loves a party, people (and Muppets!) have different ways they like to celebrate. Can everyone cooperate to make this the best bash ever? Interactive bits abound in this brand-new show at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Three gravity-defying acrobats take to the New Victory stage, drawing on their talents in parkour, martial arts, circus, and break-dancing to wow audiences with stunning feats and daring tricks. For children with sensory sensitivities, there's an autism-friendly performance on Saturday, February 10.
Vital Children's Theatre's brand-new musical is based on the heartwarming true story of a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee. After surviving a tsunami in Kenya, Owen was rescued by villagers and brought to a nature park where he met Mzee. After some initial reluctance, the two formed an unbreakable bond. Filled with colorful costumes, charming puppets, and African-inflected music, Owen & Mzee reminds preschoolers that friendship can transcend superficial differences.
Atlantic for Kids presents this feminist fairy tale about three abandoned young sisters who take very different paths: one seeks adventure, another purpose, and the last builds a home. Yet when they reunite as women, they find all of their lives have meaning. This modern-day coming-of-age fable with music should resonate with everyone in the family.
If your kids (or you!) are counting down the days until Avengers: Infinity War comes out in May, you can get your superhero fix early at this live spectacle filled with all your favorites. Spidey, Thor, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Black Widow, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the rest of the Avengers all assemble to fight Loki's latest plan to take over the universe. I saw a previous incarnation of Marvel Universe Live! a few years back and it's exactly what you'd expect: amazing stunts, cool special effects, dumb (and often inaudible) dialogue, a silly story, and overpriced merch. But despite its flaws, my Marvel-loving family and I had a blast. For fans, it's high-tech, low-brow fun.
The walls have stories! This multimedia show uses masks, puppets, and actors to bring the tales of 19th- and early 20th-century Italian, Irish, and Jewish immigrants to life. When an old NYC tenement is slated for demolition, 40 layers of wallpaper unpeel to reveal these strivers, who faced great hardships as they struggled to make it in America. This innovative and educational show was developed in the New Victory Theater's prestigious LabWorks program.
The Bard gets bawdy at the New Victory! This fast-paced, comedy-filled satire is perfect for tweens who will love the outrageous humor, outlandish scenarios, and rapid-fire antics in this mash-up of Shakespeare's 39 plays.
This dystopian adventure comes from the fantastical mind of playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer, who penned the wonderful The Boy at the Edge of Everything which played at Lincoln Center Kids a few seasons ago. His new LCK offering is set in a not-too-distant future when language is rationed, yet young Orhan realizes you don't need a lot of words to make a point. A great way to teach kids about the power of speaking out but choosing your words carefully!
It's vaudeville meets velociraptor! Hudson Vagabond Puppets' revue features oversize dinosaurs singing, dancing, and even telling jokes about what life was like during their time on Earth. This Tribeca Performing Arts Center presentation is a must for aspiring paleontologists.
No need to don bathing suits for this immersive experience at Lincoln Center Kids, which takes place inside a magical tent where a storyteller transports audiences to the seaside via evocative visuals, stories, and songs. It's a beach day in the dead of winter!
Head to Symphony Space to catch the eye-popping Lightwire Theater of America's Got Talent fame in this high-tech stage spectacle, which brings the extinct creatures to life via illuminated costumes and puppets. My daughter and I saw this show a few years back and were wowed by the special effects and simple wordless storytelling.
Queens Theatre presents Theatreworks USA's rollicking, hourlong musical based on Rick Riordan's YA novel The Lightning Thief, which we loved when we saw it back 2014. Kids don't even need to know the book to follow the adventures of a modern-day tween demigod who overcomes challenges both mythical (Medusa, Hades, the Furies) and earthbound (dyslexia, ADD) with a little help from his powerful pals.
The tot-centric Spellbound Theatre adapts the classic children's poem "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" for the stage. Shadow puppets and animation help young audiences explore the concepts of sleeping and dreaming in this 40-minute show at Symphony Space, which is perfect for first-time theatergoers.
Acrobatic clown Jamie Adkins champions the importance of friendship in his slapstick-filled solo show, which explores the pitfalls and pratfalls of loneliness. This wordless comedy at BAMkids is punctuated by live tuba music. Now that's old-school!
Top photo courtesy of Marvel Universe Live! Catch the show at Barclays Center in Brooklyn this February.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T08:19:42",
"url": "https://mommypoppins.com/new-york-city-kids/shows/best-winter-shows-for-nyc-kids-2018",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Where public, governments, NGOs and corporations interact.
We all live in our Facebook bubbles and watch or listen to the news that reinforces our point of view, so it is a shocker most elections when those other guys win. No one I know voted for them! How can it be?
I was looking for ridings that might possibly go Green.
Any riding that had voted more than 20% Green made the list. Then any riding where the variation in BC Liberal or BC NDP was greater then 20% was added. My thinking was that ridings that are solidly Liberal or NDP through multiple elections are unlikely to change, but those with large swing votes are uncommitted and could be up for grabs.
This is a lopsided fight from the start.
There are 13 ridings that have large swing votes—my uncommitteds—that appear in play, and another 30 or so that are mushy but with no Green presence.
None of this discounts the unpredictability of the electorate, nor the seething anger towards Christy Clark and what that might do. But it is a dose of reality for those hoping for change.
*This is out of a total of 87 ridings. Some have been redrawn over the years, but you get the idea.
Corrupt or incompetent—Why is government so bad?
Copyright © 2018 Vancouver PublicAffair Inc.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T23:12:15",
"url": "http://publicaffair.ca/bursting-bubble-lopsided-fight/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Victor James Jadoo, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida paramedic, was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly shook his 4-month-old son, news sources report. The child had to be air-rushed to a nearby hospital following the alleged attack. Jadoo, 35, was booked into the Broward County Main Jail on two counts of aggravated child abuse and one count of child neglect. He was later released on a $16,500 bail bond amount. It is unclear whether he has hired a defense attorney.
Jadoo is a registered pediatric paramedic in South Florida, sources say. He reportedly worked in the pediatric unit at the West Boca Medical Center until the hospital terminated his employment in November 2012 for unspecified reasons. Three months prior to this latest incident, Jadoo discovered a fracture to his son’s rib cage and took him to the West Boca Medical Center, reports say. It is currently unclear how the child sustained the fracture; physicians never reported the fracture as abuse.
According to reports, this latest incident occurred in July 2012. Paramedics received a call about a convulsing baby at Jadoo’s home and, upon arrival, found that the infant was suffering from a seizure. The child had to be air-rushed to a nearby hospital, where the pediatric staff found the infant was suffering from a skull fracture, severe bleeding in his eyes and head, and swelling in his brain, reports say.
Jadoo told detectives that the injuries showed up after his two-year-old daughter threw a plastic toy at the infant. Doctors, however, determined the injuries were too extensive for a two-year-old to have inflicted. Instead, the physicians said the injuries were consistent with those of an infant who had been subjected to violent shaking. Jadoo turned himself over to the police on Tuesday, though it is unclear whether he admitted to shaking or otherwise abusing the infant.
Jadoo was not the only Broward County man to be jailed for child abuse recently. Edward Joseph Hoover of Oakland Park was arrested this past week after he allegedly whipped his two children with a cable, news sources report. Hoover, 33, was booked into the Broward County Main Jail on five counts of child cruelty. He is also being held on charges of burglary and drug possession from an unrelated case. His bail was set at $50,000 on the charges of child cruelty. It is unclear whether he has hired legal representation.
According to reports, Hoover regularly beat his 10-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son whenever they misbehaved or pestered him. The 11-year-old reportedly claims Hoover once used a belt to whip his legs and back, and, on another occasions, punched him in the leg and back. Both children allege that that their father would beat on them whenever he was in a bad mood. Taking too long to get ice or shower would also provoke a beating, the children claim.
This latest incident occurred on January 8 when Hoover allegedly used a cable to whip both of the children in the back. It is unclear what provoked that alleged whipping or whether the children sustained any major injuries. It is also unclear who reported the abuse to the authorities.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T04:38:41",
"url": "https://www.briansilber.com/victor-james-jadoo-fort-lauder/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Please take time to check out our Upcoming Events and Bulletin Board (to the right) and also our additional pages (under the Westmoreland heading above).
The Westmoreland District is the Northwestern most district of the Greater Alabama Council. Serving The Shoals metropo area and surrounding communities. The district gets its name from Camp Westmoreland, The oldest continous use camp in Alabama and one of America's oldest Boy Scout camps.The district offers many small to medium sized Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops, and Venturing Crews.
Click Here to request to be added to the Westmoreland District email group.
The Westmoreland District pages are dedicated to the memory of Terry Patrick Fethe who first created a Westmoreland District website as a Wood Badge project in 2002.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T16:29:27",
"url": "http://westmoreland.1bsa.org/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Anyone accepted an LLM place at Uppsala University for the coming year? I'm accepted a place onto the LLM in International/EU Tax Law. Would be cool to meet some other people in a similar position to chat about the university, the courses, and accommodation etc.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T13:59:51",
"url": "https://llm-guide.com/board/europe/uppsala-universitet-llm-2017-2018-208480",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
How Can Dental Technology Improve Dental Appointments?
Caesy Patient Education Videos: these helpful video tools will help you understand any recommended treatment, and put your mind at ease.
If you would like to learn more about how these technologies can help you improve your dental health with less discomfort, give us a call!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T00:39:32",
"url": "https://www.dentistinchattanooga.com/blog/how-can-dental-technology-improve-dental-appointments",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
After helping Wigan Athletic avoid relegation from the Premier League, manager Roberto Martinez’s next task is to convince Victor Moses that his future lies with the Latics.
The former Crystal Palace starlet, who will hold contract talks with Martinez after enjoying a superb season at the DW Stadium, is being linked with a summer switch to the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.
Moses’ last game for Wigan could be against already relegated Wolves this weekend. It is a match that the Latics are 7/1 with bookmaker to win 2-1, while Moses is 6/1 to open the scoring.
Martinez insists: “Sometimes we forget that Victor is only 21. The potential is incredible. From technical and tactical aspects he’s improved a lot. But there is still a long way to go.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T22:08:44",
"url": "https://www.poland2012.net/soccer-martinez-plans-moses-talks/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
If you have any questions please contact our friendly staff.
If you would like assistance or to discuss your situation, please complete an enquiry form using the button below. This information will enable us to provide the best advice when we have an initial meeting.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T06:54:39",
"url": "http://www.vcsnb.org.au/contact-us/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The Minister may, by gazette notice, declare a project to be a 'prescribed project'.
A prescribed project is one which is of significance, particularly economically and socially, to Queensland or a region.
Declaring a prescribed project enlivens the Coordinator-General’s powers to ensure timely decision-making in relation to prescribed processes and prescribed decisions.
A prescribed process is a process required to be undertaken under a law of the state including, for example, a process in a stage of the development assessment system under the Planning Act 2016 (Planning Act).
A prescribed decision is a decision required to be made under a law of the state, for example, a development approval under the Planning Act.
Proponents seeking a prescribed project declaration must apply in writing to the Coordinator-General. The application should address the prescribed project application guidelines to provide the Coordinator-General with sufficient information to make a recommendation to the minister.
Proponents are encouraged to seek a pre-lodgement meeting with the Office of the Coordinator-General prior to making an application for a prescribed project declaration.
A prescribed project declaration enables the Coordinator-General, if necessary, to intervene in state and local government approval processes to ensure timely decision-making for the prescribed project.
facilitating discussions and information exchanges between the proponent and other stakeholders (e.g. local authorities and state government agencies).
A prescribed project declaration is most effective when used to obtain the final approvals after preliminary approvals have already been provided by the Coordinator-General or another authority.
another project the minister considers is economically or socially significant to Queensland or the region in which the project is to be undertaken, or affects an environmental interest of Queensland or a region.
subsidiaries whose shares are wholly owned by the abovementioned corporations.
The declaration of a prescribed project lasts for two years from the declaration date, or at a later date specified in the gazette notice.
The minister may, by gazette notice, extend the declaration end date if it is considered necessary or desirable. However, the extension cannot be longer than the initial period of the declaration.
The Coordinator-General may give notices to a decision-maker responsible for making a decision on the development of a prescribed project, to ensure that the assessment process proceeds without undue delay.
This decision-maker may be a state government agency, local government or a government-owned corporation responsible for providing approvals, permits or authorities.
The Coordinator-General cannot issue a notice relating to a decision to be made by the Governor in Council or a minister, or decisions outside the jurisdiction of the Queensland Government.
progression notice, which requires the decision-maker to 'progress' the administrative processes necessary to complete the assessment process.
notice to decide, which requires the decision-maker to make the relevant decision within a specified timeframe.
step in notice, which allows the Coordinator-General (with the minister's approval) to 'step in' and assume responsibility for assessing and deciding on a project, in place of the decision-maker.
The step-in power is similar to the ministerial call-in power under the Planning Act. Unlike the ministerial call-in power, the prescribed project provisions apply to a wider range of decisions and processes including under the Planning Act.
Once a step in notice has been issued, the Coordinator-General's decision on a prescribed project cannot be appealed against under the SDPWO Act or other relevant legislation.
Also, the Coordinator-General's decision to declare a critical infrastructure project cannot be reviewed under the Judicial Review Act 1991.
The Coordinator-General must provide a written 'notice of decision' to the applicant and decision-maker, including the reasons for, and any conditions attached to, a decision made following a step in notice.
The Coordinator-General must also prepare a report on the step in notice, which the minister must table in Parliament within 14 days of the notice being given.
The minister may, by gazette notice, declare a project to be a ‘critical infrastructure project’, at the same time as declaring it a prescribed project, if the minister considers the project is critical or essential for the State for economic, environmental or social reasons.
Declaring a critical infrastructure project enlivens the minister’s powers to register a ‘critical infrastructure easement’ (CIE) over existing public utility easements.
While the registration of a CIE does not extinguish the existing public utility easement, the existing public utility easement holder cannot exercise any rights that would interfere with the rights given under the critical infrastructure easement.
The Office of the Coordinator-General requires a written request from proponents to declare their project a critical infrastructure project, together with an application for a prescribed project declaration that addresses the prescribed project application guidelines.
The Coordinator-General may, with the approval of the minister, enter into a voluntary environmental agreement with the prescribed project applicant.
conserve, maintain, rehabilitate or enhance aspects of the environment.
The Coordinator-General must not enter into an agreement without the prior consent of the owners, lessees and/or other parties who have an interest in the affected land.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T14:25:55",
"url": "http://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/infrastructure-delivery/prescribed-projects.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The applied torque of the head bolts depends as much on the metallurgy of the head as anything else.
A quick lesson in why you can't get lots of power from a little engine at low revs.
The definitive guide to high performance tailshafts - otherwise known as prop shafts. Here we take a look at the different types available, modifications, custom fabrications, balancing and tailshaft safety.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T10:22:26",
"url": "http://www.autospeed.com/issue_434/cms/issue.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
While there are more than 100 million social and technical community members, only a small portion are selected to be recognized as MVPs. This year Microsoft awarded 1,062 exemplary community leaders around the world with the MVP Award. Candidates are rigorously evaluated for their technical expertise, community leadership and voluntary community contributions for the previous year. They come from more than 90 countries, speak over 40 different languages, and are awarded in more than 90 Microsoft technologies.
“One of the personal goals in my professional career has always been to share knowledge and evangelize technology with my peers, customers, and the IT community at large. Receiving MVP recognition from Microsoft tells me that those efforts have been effective and it allows me to continue that contribution to the IT community in a more official capacity moving forward. I proudly look forward to continuing this trend throughout the next year and beyond,” said Syrewicze.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T00:22:23",
"url": "http://kalamazoo.wzzm13.com/news/business/301843-trivalent-group-inc-engineer-honored-2014-microsoft-mvp-award",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Expair International, aviation consultant, listed under "Aviation Consultants" category, is located at 2085 Rte 203 RR 2 Howick QC, J0S 1G0, Canada and can be reached by 4508250505 phone number. Expair International has currently 0 reviews.
Browse all Aviation Consultants in Howick QC.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T05:10:52",
"url": "https://ca.showmelocal.com/profile.aspx?bid=16077068",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Check out the local happenings and events for September 2018 in Dunnellon, Gainesville, and Ocala. There is so much to offer for all ages. If you are a horse lover, check out the H.I.T.S event this month. And for wrestling fans the WWE visits Gainesville for Summerslam! There's something for everyone no matter your interest. We also discuss a local charity, and the hosts share a little bit more about their background.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T17:21:31",
"url": "https://www.spreaker.com/user/10737590/september-2018-local-happenings",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
When it comes to Commercial properties, J&D has it all. As a licensed, bonded and fully-insured General Contractor, J&D Plumbing and Heating utilizes the most appropriate equipment for each situation to mitigate the secondary damage that can result from an emergency property loss. In addition, for specialized tasks, J&D Plumbing and Heating maintains a network of highly qualified technician that are available day or night to assist in an emergency.
Today's bathrooms feature an array of shower and tub designs. Most are conventional tub & shower combinations; others are ornate with a variety of water jets, showerheads and faucet designs.
J&D Plumbing and Heating's licensed plumbing specialists are masters of all shower repairs, bathtub drain repairs, water pressure issues and even installations/replacements. We are the experts to call for your bathroom plumbing solutions.
Shower and tub drains present their own challenges. The clog culprit is usually hair and soap buildup in the trap and drainpipe. When you're taking a shower you should never see standing water in the stall or tub. Properly functioning drains should carry the water away almost instantly. If water covers the shower floor and your feet, you have a clogged shower drain, which will eventually become completely blocked. We can cleanse the drain of any and all debris, restoring it to new condition.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T12:55:26",
"url": "http://jdplumbinglongbeach.com/ph/shower_c.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
(Dec 15) Missional Living: How Do We Start?
As we begin to realize the magnitude of what Jesus did for us upon the cross, we cannot help but realize that life is not about our selfish gain. As we become less and Jesus becomes more, reaching others becomes a passion that we cannot contain. And that call, to spread the name of Jesus, is one that we all share as children of God.
So where do we start? How do we begin to live from a missional mindset, not just keeping our relationship with Christ for our own enjoyment or within the Christian community, but rather spreading the life and the freedom in Him to everyone we meet?
There are two thoughts we can consider: 1) What fruit is my spirit producing? 2) Do my actions align with and outshine my words?
As believers, we have the Spirit of Christ inside of us. Therefore, our spirit has the ability to live out the fruits of the Spirit, found in Galatians 5, if we choose to walk in Christ’s footsteps. As we walk closely with him, we see bitterness changing to joy, hate transforming into love, anger changing into gentleness. This takes an active choice to live out of the essence of our new creation, one with Christ versus the world.
Actions speak louder than words. James 2:14-26 talks all about how faith without deeds is dead. We all know that person whose actions and the way they treat other people remind us of how Jesus walked. They love people the way God would love them. But here’s the best part. It’s not done out of a heart that’s pressured towards perfection. It’s one that is full of grace. It’s done by walking with grace in our own weaknesses. This grace and recognition that it’s not in our own strength is what gives us a pure walk full of actions that point people to Jesus.
What fruit is my life producing? Do my actions align and outshine my words?
God, thank you that I have your spirit in me. I pray that you would open my eyes to the world around me. Help me to see others as you see them, and may my actions be a daily overflowing of your spirit. May others know you by your presence in me.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T09:51:37",
"url": "http://www.northwestudevo.com/dec-15-missional-living-how-do-we-start.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Kit arrived on September 16th. Kathy helped me inventory and put away the contents. Only a few minor missing items - some backordered and a few minor small parts missing. I emailed Van's and they will send the missing parts. Today I finished the first page of section 6 - basically fabricated the front spar for the vertical stabilizer. Using PVC, plastic sheeting, and "plastic hardware cloth" I built a paint table that allows me to prime parts outside (may use in the garage with door open - if so will wear full respirator and protective gear). For now I'm using SEM primer. About 3 hours of build time today.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T14:55:23",
"url": "https://turnerb14a.blogspot.com/2016/09/kit-arrived-on-september-16th.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
1918 House Bill 1062. An Act Relative To The Reinstatement Of Daniel J. O'Sullivan In The Public Works Department Of The City Of Boston.
Title 1918 House Bill 1062. An Act Relative To The Reinstatement Of Daniel J. O'Sullivan In The Public Works Department Of The City Of Boston.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T06:22:24",
"url": "https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/309121",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Compact underground waste container equipment. The most economical and reliable solution for the collection of municipal solid waste (MSW).
These containers have a capacity of 3.000, 4.000 or 5.000 litres and are made of galvanized steel (ensures high resistance to corrosion). There is an option in which the container of 3.000 litres is made of HDPE high-density polyethylene.
The reception bin is made entirely of stainless steel and it has a capacity up to 125 litres and it is designed for the required type of selective collection.
Made entirely of stainless steel and it has a capacity up to 125 litres.
The reception bin of each equipment is designed for the required type of selective collection, thereby ensuring that the waste go to the corresponding container.
Industrial reception bin with a capacity de 160 litres. Plate design for each reception bin to be chosen by the client.
or 5.000 litres and is made of galvanized steel (ensures high resistance to corrosion).
The bottom has one or two stainless steel trays to collect the leachate which allow emptying it directly to the truck.
Painted lid made of carbon steel with imprimatura. The top part is made of aluminium grid plate (non-slip) and it is joined with the container. The structure base is built with rectangular profiles, which makes a compact and shock-resistant container.
Lid ready to be paved.
Manufactured with vibrated and armoured concrete which allows housing the compact container equipment inside. In order to facilitate the assembly, the equipment includes a galvanized framework that delimits the end of the civil work.
Anchor point on the top of the reception bin for the extraction of the equipment.
120 kg of weight). Made of galvanized steel. This platform includes an inspection input to access the bottom of the concrete precast in case it is necessary to do any maintenance or cleaning work.
Entirely mechanic system without electricity or hydraulic mechanisms.
on the model and the containers used.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T18:35:01",
"url": "http://mangraeco.com/products/compact",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
As part of its ongoing effort to improve mitochondrial disease patient care, MitoAction — a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults, and families living with mitochondrial disease through support, education, outreach, advocacy, and clinical research initiatives — in collaboration with the organization’s Medical Advisory Committee and the University of Virginia, will host the 2015 Mitochondrial Disease Clinical Conference to be held March 21, at the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mitochondrial disease is an inherited chronic illness centered in the mitochondria — tiny organelles found in almost every cell in the body that are responsible for creating more than 90 percent of cellular energy and which are necessary in the body to sustain life and support growth. Mitochondria are composed of tiny enzymes packages that transform nutrients into cellular energy. Mitochondrial failure causes cell injury that leads to cell death. When multiple organ cells die there is organ failure. Mitochondrial disease, which can be congenital or develop later in life, causes debilitating physical, developmental, and mental disabilities, its symptoms including poor growth; loss of muscle coordination; muscle weakness and pain; seizures; vision and/or hearing loss; gastrointestinal issues; learning disabilities; and organ failure.
According to MitoAction, about 1 in 2,000 people will develop the disorder, which is progressive with no currently known cure, by the age of 10 years. U.S. disease incidence is estimated to be about 1 in 3000-4000 individuals in the US, and one thousand to 4,000 children per year in the United States are born with a type of mitochondrial disease — similar to cystic fibrosis incidence among caucasian births. In adults, many diseases of aging have been found to be associated with mitochondrial function defects, including, but not limited to, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, atherosclerotic heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer. In addition, many pharmaceutical medicines or other toxic substances can potentially injure mitochondria and trigger mitochondrial disease, which can present very differently from individual to individual. In families, there may be one member or many affected over a number of generations. There is no reliable and consistent means of diagnosis.
The conference, “Managing Mitochondrial Disease: Current Trends & Perspectives,” is a concentrated one-day CME course highlighting the most clinically relevant case studies and practical approaches to managing mitochondrial disorder patient led by expert mitochondrial medicine clinicians. The course is designed to increase knowledge of mitochondrial disorder among primary care physicians, pediatricians, nurses, and healthcare providers who are not mitochondrial specialists, but fill active roles in care coordination and and symptoms management for mitochondrial disease patients. Clinical recognition and timely diagnosis by community clinicians is critical to management of mitochondrial disease patients.
Conference program areas of emphasis will include genetics, coordinated care and community health management, gastrointestinal issues, and the dual diagnosis of mitochondrial disease and autism.
The conference is being planned and implemented in accordance with the University of Virginia School of Medicine , which is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education for the continuing medical education for physicians and healthcare providers.
Course faculty include: Amel Karaa MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital; Fran Kendall MD of VMP Genetics; Richard Frye MD PhD, of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Dmitriy Niyazov MD, of the Oschner Health Center for Children in New Orleans LA; Jose Garza MD, of GI Care for Kids, Atlanta GA; David Marcus PhD, a pediatric neuropsychologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia; William Wilson MD, of the, University of Virginia Pediatric Genetics department; and Ms. Balcells.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T00:50:41",
"url": "https://huntingtonsdiseasenews.com/2015/02/16/mitoaction-hosts-4th-mitochondrial-disease-clinical-conference/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
ASKOM mission is to integrate control, automation and management systems with the aim to achieve a Total Plant Automation.
ASKOM know-how covers all pyramid levels and enable us to deliver reliable solutions of all kinds, starting with classical autonomous command & control nodes serving single processes/machines, through integrated coherent computerized MES systems (monitoring, maintaining current opertions, production control), all the way up to systems integrated with plant management system modules responsible for manufacturing process logistics. The ASKOM company may be described as a Software House, a Control System Integrator and a Value Added Reseller who delivers solutions based on instrumentation, PLC controllers and DCS systems supplied by global manufacturers.
Instrumentation in our solutions is based on devices of such suppliers of repute as ABB, Endress-Hauser, Siemens, Emerson Process Management, Phoenix Contact. We reached partnership agreements with these suppliers that guarantee authorization of deliveries and distributor price level.
Process control systems in our solutions are predominantly based on the SIMATIC family of controllers made by SIEMENS, and on the GE Intelligent Platforms controllers made by General Electric, but also on controllers supplied by other manufacturers, e.g. Beckhoff, Wago, Allen-Bradley, Schneider Electric. The world-class controllers are always selected for the best available price/capability ratio in any given application with the Investor preferences taken into account. We broadly apply distributed control systems with intelligent I/O modules based on the Profibus DP, Profibus PA, CANbus and Safety systems; advantages of such solutions have been appreciated by many of our Customers who consequently follow that approach.
Computerized supervision systems are frequently based on our proprietary asix package. However, we are also technically prepared and ready to implement a visualization system supplied by another manufacturer, e.g. WinCC made by Siemens, iFIX made by Intellution, or InTouch / IAS ArchestrA made by Wonderware. As a Siemens partner and Solution Provider of GE Intelligent Platforms – producer of Proficy and iFIX systems we can receive full support necessary to develop any particular application and/or to integrate various systems. The visualization system is always selected by the Investor.
Distributed Control Systems. Very large objects that must be constantly expanded/ upgraded and/or objects that need to meet special requirements are usually controlled by DCS systems, which by their nature may be continually developed without a need to withdraw from operation the so far used equipment. DCS systems feature intelligent I/O processors, built-in redundancy that provides the highest reliability level, integration of design/visualization/process control software tools in a coherent environment of an engineering workstation. ASKOM offers the PCS7 and Teleperm systems made by Siemens as well as the MetsoDNA system made by Metso Automation (since April 2005 we have the VAR status).
System Integration. Various manufacturing execution/production management tasks must access information on production processes. At large diversity of industrial control and automation systems typical for many plants, ability to exchange data between various systems becomes the key issue. ASKOM has collected vast experience in integrating diverse systems. That know-how has been verified by many objects from our reference list and may also be confirmed by a rather extensive list of communication protocols supported by our asix software. Our knowledge helps to transform diversity at the manufacturing process level into an uniform, coherent system that supervises production and presents bird’s-eye view information to managers. The system is based on asix historian and SQL database servers. Information may be accessed within the AsTrend program environment or from a standard Internet browser. Internet makes our solutions barrier-less. Our experienced team of software developers may also easily integrate such a manufacturing execution/production management system with an ERP enterprise management system used by the Customer.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T20:03:35",
"url": "https://www.askom.pl/en/firma/o_firmie_en.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Vice President of Platform Technologies, Andreas Wendker. Good afternoon.
Welcome to WWDC. As you heard this morning in the keynote, this is a year with a strong focus on technology fundamentals and refinements across all Apple product lines.
We're introducing numerous APIs that enable new use cases for your apps, covering a broad spectrum that ranges from machine learning to augmented and virtual reality, to access to the music, to the Apple Music Library. We're also making improvements to many of our core technologies. For example, our new modern file system, APFS, is now even more powerful. That created a new, much faster version of method, and we helped define and adopt a new high-efficiency image format with advanced compression. Now, most of these technologies and APIs apply to all our operating systems across the board, so they're moving forward together.
But let's also take a look at some specific highlights that affect you as software developers. iOS 11 has a huge number of incredible features, but perhaps most importantly, it is the biggest iPad release ever, and it turns iPad into a major productivity device with a new Dock, drag and drop, find management, and enhanced multitasking. In macOS, we really took the time to broadly clean up performance and animations. And for the additional support for Fusion Drives and for disk encryption, APFS is now ready to come to the Mac as a fully supported file system.
We also laid the groundwork for turning the Mac into a virtual reality powerhouse.
And for watchOS, we made our UI components more flexible so that you can create more custom user experiences. New modes for navigation and audio recording allow your apps to continue processing data and providing feedback to the user, even when running in the background. And the new unified app runtime keeps your apps more responsive.
We also added support for Core Bluetooth so that you can now directly connect to BTLE devices and display data from them right on the user's wrist. And in tvOS, we implemented a wide variety of enhancements that you can take advantage of for rounding out your apps' functionality for all your users, including right-to-left support for the appropriate languages. And beyond our operating systems, we're also hard at work on improving our general developer ecosystem and the support we give you for marketing and shipping apps. We increased the number of users you can have, when you ship beta versions of your apps in TestFlight. And the App Store now allows you to rule out updates to your apps over a period of several days. You'll be able to respond to user feedback, user reviews of your apps. You'll be able to post promotional materials on your Store pages and much, much more. And we are modernizing the content in our App Stores. We've been working for a while now on getting all iOS software to take advantage of the power and performance for our 64-bit processors.
With iOS 11, we're completing this transition. We're going to thin iOS 11 to be 64-bit only, and 32-bit apps are not going to be supported anymore.
And with that, it's now time to turn our attention to doing the same with macOS.
The transition to 64-bit-only Mac apps is going to take place very similarly to how we handled it on iOS. Most importantly, High Sierra is going to be the last macOS release to fully support 32-bit apps without compromises. In the next major release after High Sierra, we're going to aggressively start warning users if apps are not compatible for 64-bit. We're updating the Mac App Store rules accordingly.
In about six months, we'll require that all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store will be 64-bit capable and, in a year from now, we'll require all new apps and updates to existing apps to be 64-bit only when submitted to the Mac App Store. So for the next 90 minutes or so, we're going to go deep on the most important APIs and technologies that we're announcing today. We're also going to cover our developer tools in depth.
In fact, we're going to start with Swift Playgrounds. I'm going to hand it over to Matthew Firlik for that. Thank you, Andreas.
Swift Playgrounds has brought something new and important to education -- teaching programming to kids in a fun way using real code. And the response has been tremendous. After less than ten months on the App Store, over one million people have started to code with Swift Playgrounds. And these users are from all over the world, as we made the app and content available in six localizations.
In fact, almost two-thirds of these users are from outside the United States, making Swift Playgrounds an international success. Since our first release last year, we've added a number of new features to the application, such as line-by-line highlighting of your code as it's running, content notifications when new content's available, and the ability to add new Playground pages. These features and others alongside new content has given Swift Playgrounds fantastic momentum.
Now, as you may have already heard, today we're making a new version of Swift Playgrounds available, version 1.5. And in this release, we're making it easier for users to connect to Bluetooth robots, drones, and devices. And this takes Swift out into the real world, venturing even outdoors. And it harmonizes naturally as your programming skills evolve. Now, with this release, we have worked with some amazing partners who also wanted to design great experiences for their devices using Swift, like Parrot with their mini-drones who can fly and flip, UBTECH with their buildable and programmable MeeBot, Sphero with their dynamic Sprk+ robotic ball, Wonder Workshop and the racing and talking Dash, Skoogmusic and their Tactile Musical cube, and MINDSTORMS EV3 by LEGO. The limitless possibilities you can build with MINDSTORMS make it a perfect pairing with Swift Playgrounds.
In fact, all of our partners have truly embraced the interactivity of the app, designing intuitive APIs you can drag and drop and presenting up-to-date device and sensor data in the live view. And this combination is truly captivating as you see your thoughts become code and bring devices to life. Now, all of our partners have designed Playgrounds to work with their devices, and you can find them in the new Accessories tab of the app, where there are samples to play with and templates to create your own file. And we are truly eager to see how users of all ages take advantage of the new Swift Playgrounds because we believe it is the best way to control robots and drones with code you write yourself. The new version of Swift Playgrounds is available today for free in the App Store, and you can find many of the Bluetooth accessories from our partners at an Apple Store near you.
Now, there's another version of Swift Playgrounds I'd like to share with you today, and that's Swift Playgrounds 2, shipping later this fall. Today, we have engaging content, like our Learn to Code series, challenges, and the new Playgrounds from our partners, but we also know that you have many inspired ideas too, so this fall, we're going to make it easy for everyone to share Playgrounds. With Swift Playgrounds 2, we will support feeds of third-party content that users can subscribe to.
And this content makes it really easy for schools to host curriculum, developers to post API explorations, and friends have a simple way to share ideas.
This release will also include an integrated documentation experience, support for Swift 4 in the iOS 11SDK, and enable the use of camera and augmented reality APIs.
And we're going to extend global reach of the application by adding in localizations for eight additional languages. Beta versions of Swift Playgrounds 2 will be made available via TestFlight, and you can sign up at developer.apple.com to try out these releases. So two big versions of Swift Playgrounds for you.
I'd like to switch topics and start talking about Xcode 9. Xcode 9 is a major release.
We have made significant investments in our foundations, work flows, and performance across the tools with some pretty substantial results. I'd like to start today by talking about our Source Editor. In Xcode 9, we have completely re-implemented our Source Editor. It's been rewritten from the ground up in Swift.
And I agree. It's a pretty big deal.
So at first glance, you'll see the familiar crisp presentation of multiple fonts and weights, but now with more options for line spacing, cursor types, and more.
And we took the notion of semantic presentation and didn't stop at source code because we now have an integrated Markdown editor as well. In addition to stylized editing, you'll find the familiar editor experiences, like using the Jump bar for navigation, Command-clicking on links, even using Edit All in Scope to change references. Now, when you start working with your source code, you'll find that issues now display smartly, no longer adjusting the layout of your code.
Issues now include more detail -- yep. Issues now display with more detail and have the Fix-it work flow integrated right alongside, including the ability to apply multiple Fix-its with a single click.
And this new issue presentation is the perfect canvas for the over 300 new diagnostics, analyzers, and Fix-its we've added to help you all write great code. Now, performance is also important, and in this release, you'll find the editor opens files three times faster, you'll find smooth scrolling at 60 frames per second as you move about the file, and jumping to lines is 50 times faster than before. To put it simply, everything happens instantaneously. Now, the editing experience is also new in Xcode 9.
Our editor now has more semantic awareness, and we've brought over the tokenized editing experience from Swift Playgrounds. As you move about your source, we're going to highlight the structure underneath. And when you click on one of the tokens, we're going to present an Action menu full of symbolic transformations to help you evolve your code. And I'm guessing some of you know where this is going next. And yes, it is true.
Xcode 9 has a brand-new refactoring system for it. Indeed. Our refactoring system works with Swift, Objective-C, C, and C++, so you can use it throughout your projects. And the refactoring work flow takes advantage of the new tokenized editing experience to present contextual actions, like Extract and Rename, and all of these actions are bindable, so you can set key equivalents for ones you use frequently.
And we also have a gorgeous presentation to help you review changes.
And to show you what this is like, I'd like to bring up Ken Orr to give you a demonstration of the new Source Editor with refactoring. Thanks, Matthew. So Xcode 9 has a brand-new Source Editor rewritten from the ground up to be fast, and I think speed is one of the very first things you'll notice.
Scrolling in this 10,000-line file is super smooth all the way down to the bottom, and I can just instantly right back to the top. And of course, code, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Let me make that a little bit bigger so it's easier for you to see. I'll just press Command+ a few times for you.
It's the little things, right. So my project here is an iOS app, and it lets users explore our solar system. And I want to add a little bit of code. I'm going to jump over to this Objective-C file, and this bit of code that I just added, it has a small problem. So first off, you can see the brand-new issues presentation, and it's got Fix-its built right in.
Now, this particular issue is new in Objective-C, and it's warning me that I'm using iOS 11 API, but my project here, it deploys back to iOS X, where this would crash [applause].
And this issue has a Fix-it, which I'll accept. And when I do, Xcode wraps my code using the new Objective-C keyword, atAvailable. So now, that little bit of code, it'll only run on iOS 11. There's another new Fix-it I want to show you. I'm going to jump over to this SWF file here.
This is the class that represents a moon in our solar system, and I'm going to adopt the physics body protocol. It's got a few different methods.
Whoops. It's got a few different methods that I need to implement.
Of course, I haven't implemented them yet, so I get an issue. And now, with just one click on the single Fix-it, it'll add all the methods that I haven't yet implemented.
So Xcode 9 can also help me transform and refactor my code.
So let me show you that. I'm going to jump over to this solarsystem.swf file and I'm going to hold down the Command key and move my mouse. And when I do, Xcode shows me the structure of my code. When I click, I get a set of options and transformations that are specific to the expression that I clicked on. So here I clicked on an expression that's creating a moon object and then adding that to the Earth.
And, you know, I actually personally prefer to capture all the objects I create in variables, so I'm just going to extract this out into an expression, and I'll use Edit All in Scope to give this a better name, Luna. And, you know, while we're at it, actually, I like my methods to be short and to the point, so I think I'm going to pull out this If block into its own method. And when I do, Xcode creates a new method for me, adds all of that code to it, and then leaves me with a call to that method back where we started. Let's give that a new name too. So those are a couple local transformations, but a lot of times what I want to do, I want to refactor the name of something that's used throughout my entire project.
In fact, I've got a great candidate for that here -- this position method.
That's kind of a generic name. I think I could come up with something a little bit more descriptive. So I'm going to hold down the Command key, click, say "rename," and when I do, Xcode folds down the file that I'm in-- Folds down that file and it pulls in slices from across my project where I'm using that method. So I'll pick a new name here.
Let's go with something like "orbital position." As I type, it updates live across all those slides. I can rename parameter names too.
First parameter name, that seems OK. Instead of "date" for the second one, I'll with something like "moment in time." Click Rename, and that's it.
So rename factoring works great for methods like this. Also works for classes too.
So up here I've got this class, "trans-Neptunian object." That's kind of a mouthful, so let's give that a little bit simpler name. I'm going to rename this guy "minor planet." So refactoring, it works for everything you'd expect.
In my project here, that means SWF files, Objective-C files, and even storyboards.
When I'm done, click Rename, and that's it.
Really simple. Really powerful. That's the new Source Editor and refactoring in Xcode 9. Matthew? Thank you, Ken. I told you it was gorgeous. So new refactoring is a great way to evolve your code. In addition to the rename refactoring, we're also going to include a number of local transformations, like extract, adding missing overrides, and working with localized strings. But this is just the beginning because we're going to be open sourcing the refactoring engine as part of the Apple, Clang, and Swift compilers.
Xcode will automatically pick up transformations you build in local toolchains, so you have a great way to prototype new transformations.
So our new Source Editor -- great look and feel, awesome performance, and now with refactoring. A great start to Xcode 9. And we also have some big news in Swift, and for that, I'd like to bring up Ted Kremenek to tell you more.
With Swift, we set out on a mission to make programming easier, faster, safer, and more modern. And in a little less than three years, the pace of adoption remains phenomenal. In that time, over 250,000 apps have been written in Swift and submitted to the App Store. And it's not just the number of apps that's exciting. It's that companies are building apps in Swift that they really do depend on. And beyond the App Store, enterprise and business have also embraced Swift. IBM has authored more than 100 of their MobileFirst iOS apps in Swift, and both IBM and SAP have released SDKs that allow Swift developers to take advantage of their services infrastructure. So we're thrilled at how Swift has been doing, but Swift, of course, isn't standing still. Xcode 9 includes a new release of Swift, Swift 4, and we're excited about what it brings. Now, the focus of this release really is on the core fundamentals, getting those rock solid, because we want Swift to be a great foundation for everyone to build their software upon. And so just, I'll be able to touch on just a few of the things in this release, but we think these are just great improvements across the board. The first thing I want to talk about is a vastly improved string. String is, string processing is a fundamental aspect of just writing software, right. We work with strings all the time.
And we've always had the goal that string processing in Swift is first in class without compromising on Unicode correctness. And so we've made three important strides towards this goal in Swift 4. First, you want to make the API a lot easier to use, right, because you're using string all the time.
We also wanted to double down on improving fidelity with Unicode. This is something that string has been good at, but it's not entirely where we wanted it to be, and we wanted to make strings really fast. So it's not hard to look at it for opportunities of how we wanted to make string easier to use, right. So here's some fragments of code that you may have written in Swift 3 when you're working with string, like iterating over the characters, or querying to see if a string has a given character, or stitching strings together. And what we've found is that we were frequently reaching down for this characters view, right. I mean, you want to get to the underlying characters, but it's one step removed. It also creates this unnecessary friction.
So in Swift 4, we have vastly simplified this by removing all this impedance, and now strings are range-replaceable collections of characters. Not only does the code, you know, read and write exactly as you would expect, but you have all the power of generic algorithms on the collections directly on working with strings.
We've also added great syntactic [inaudible] such as multi-line string literals, which include, you know, support for white space. String slicing is even more lightweight with the support from one-sided ranges. So you could just very nimbly specify the fragment of the string you want in a slice. Now, these improvements to the core ergonomics also must be accompanied with improvements for our Unicode support.
And if, when you were working with strings in Swift 3, you may have noticed some oddities like this just kind of leaving you wondering, what is going on? And it really comes down to the richness of Unicode. Our concept of the character is actually a composition of multiple Unicode scalar values, and decomposing these correctly is critical to getting that fidelity with Unicode, the characters, and the string API. So in Swift 4, we've moved to the Unicode 9 Grapheme Breaking algorithm. It now properly separates these strings out or these characters out as you would expect, giving you full fidelity with the underlying character set. And this is also really important since we're now, strings are collections of characters. Now, this improvement to Unicode support has not come at a cost to performance. We've actually finely-tuned strings implementation. So for most string-processing operations, for English, French, German, Spanish, and really any language using a Latin-derived script, you'll see about a three-and-a-half times performance improvement for String.
And similarly, you see huge improvements working with simplified Chinese and most modern Japanese texts [applause].
And that is the improved String -- faster, much easier to use, and more powerful.
The second feature I want to talk about has, is about giving you the ability to easily convert Swift types to encodable formats, like JSON and property lists, while adding, providing powerful opportunities for customization. In Swift, we use both value and reference types, and while NSCoding supports classes, it doesn't work at all with structs or enums. This new feature works beautifully with all of them.
Let's see this in action. So here I have a simple value type.
This is a struct. It's a form. It's got some properties.
And I want to make this encodable and decodable to JSON, property list, whatever.
I could easily do this by adding conformance to a new protocol called Codable.
And if the properties of this type have types that also conform to Codable, this is literally all the code I need to write because the conformance to this protocol is synthesized by the compiler. So works as you would expect.
I can construct a value of this type, and with a single line of code, I can serialize this out to JSON. And once I have the JSON value I can simply reconstitute it back with a single line of code, back into a foreign value, and this is also 100% type safe. So simple, easy to use.
We think you're going to enjoy it. Now, there's a lot of great features in Swift 4, and we've also been excited about the adoption of Swift.
And so another key goal in Swift 4 is we wanted to make all the features easy to adopt.
And that's why in Xcode 9 you can take your Swift 3 projects, open them up, and build them with no modifications. This means you can be on the latest OS, tools, and even make use of many of the new language features in a release without having to convert your code.
So how does this work? In Xcode, there is a build setting Swift language version.
It has two values, Swift 3.2 and Swift 4.0. What this is is there's one compiler here that supports these two different language modes.
And what you can do is you could have a single project that can mix and match targets that are built, it's either 3.2 or 4.0. It also means you could have an app that's written using all the new Swift 4 features but uses a package or framework that's built using Swift 3.2.
So it's this extremely easy on-ramp to taking advantage of the latest features in Swift.
So what is Swift 3.2? It's a language mode. You can basically build your projects pretty much with no modifications. You can access pretty much all the new language features -- String, codable, all of them. You can access all the new APIs from the SDK. The only thing you don't get is any Swift-related improvements to existing APIs that you may have been using before. That's what gives you that easy onboarding without having to modify your project. To get those benefits, there's a Swift 4 mode. You have access to essentially all the new stuff.
There's also some new opportunities to further improve the performance of your app, including reducing the size of your binaries. There's a lot of great improvements in the SDK for Swift developers, but to take advantage of those, there is some migration of your code required. But these are refinements.
These are very evolutionary changes. And compared to moving from Swift 2 to Swift 3, moving from Swift 3 to Swift 4 is very simple.
Now, we've been thrilled about the investment everyone has been making in Swift, and as we've seen that investment grow, so have the size of large Swift projects, right.
People are writing more code in Swift. And we recognize that this is an important area for us to focus our efforts on the tools. And so we've focused on two key areas to reduce build times for large projects. The first is mix-and-match Objective-C and Swift projects. By pre-compiling the bridging header, we've seen up to about a 40% improvement in built times, particularly for debug builds.
And we saw this ourselves on our, compiling our own music.app.
And similarly, if you're using whole-module optimization, we've vastly improved the utilization of parallelism across the compiler and the build system, and you can see up to a 2x improvement in build times. Now, this optimization was so important that we didn't want to hold it back for Xcode 9, and so we actually aggressively released it in the Xcode 8.3.2.
And so many of you have already been experiencing the benefits of this build improvement.
And for those of you who haven't been using whole-module optimization, I encourage you to give it a try, given the huge wins here. And that is just a taste of some of the things in Swift 4. We think you're going to enjoy it.
With that, I hand it back to Matthew. Thank you, Ted. Another key area of Xcode 9 is our core technologies, and I'd like to start with our indexers. Our source and text indexes provide the back end for many work flows, like navigation, searching, and refactoring. And in Xcode 9, we have re-architected them to store richer data and have improved performance.
In fact, you'll see work flows, like Open Quickly runs 35 times faster across your projects.
And searching in large projects is up to 50 times faster. So our new indexers make a huge difference. Additionally, Xcode 9 will include indexing while building. Xcode will still index in the background-- Xcode will still index in the background but, when you're building, will take advantage of work already being done to generate and update the index.
So when you're done building, your index is up to date and all the associated functionality is available to you quicker than ever. Now, our build system is also a key component and one we've made significant investments into to improve performance, add features, and support future goals.
And I'm excited to share with you today we have a new build system.
Written in Swift, our new build system layers on top our open source lower-level build system, llbuild. It uses a modern, forward-looking architecture that has delivered some major improvements. Our new build system uses process separation, has a unified dependency graph, and has improved configuration analysis. And we've used our new architecture to improve parallelism and caching to reduce overall build times. I'd like to dig into this for a moment. The build process involves two main pieces.
There's the build system that manages and coordinates tasks and the build tools like compilers and linkers. Together, these make up the total build time.
Now, the work for these components grows with the size of your project.
The larger the project, the more work there is for each component.
Now, this view represents a full build. But most of the time, we are incrementally building our projects, only changing a few files at a time.
While there is a less work in these cases for the build tools, for larger projects, there are still a number of details to manage. This is an area we've focused on with Xcode 9. In our new build system, we've made the build operations two-and-a-half times faster than they were before. And if you add on top of this -- yep, it's fast [laughter] -- and if you add on top of this the 40% improvement we've seen in compilation with mix-and-match projects, then you can see a marked improvement with Xcode 9 in the build, new build system compared to the previous release.
Now, the new build system is designed to be compatible with your projects, and we've made a preview available in Xcode 9. You can opt in in the Workspace Settings to try it out, and we'll be making it the default build system coming soon. Now, another core technology area we've invested in is source control, and I'm curious. A show of hands.
How many of you have GitHub accounts? All right.
Craig raised his hand. So you are in great company because our good friends at GitHub let us know that on the desktop, two-thirds of all pull request related activities happen from a Mac. So we thought we could do something special here, which is why we have integrated GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise with Xcode 9.
After you add your GitHub account, you can use Xcode's new cloning work flow that presents all of your projects and search results from GitHub.
You can add stars, review project details, even check out ReadMe's before you access the project. Once you clone a project, you can use Xcode's new source control navigator, and this presents all of your working copies, including details like branches, tags, remotes, even push and pull counts. And this is just the start of some of the amazing new source control work flows we have for you.
And to show you more, I'd like to bring up Mike Ferris to give you a demonstration.
Hi. Thanks, Matthew. Hello. I'm going to show you today some of the great new ways to work with source control in Xcode.
Let's get started with GitHub. I'm already c1nnected, and here in the new clone window, all of my GitHub repositories are front and center. Today, I actually want to find the Swift Foundation Project, so I'm going to search GitHub. Great. There it is.
Let's go ahead and clone it. Once the clone completes, Xcode opens the project.
Now, my friend Felipe has been telling me about some recent changes to the data class, and I wanted to take a look. The new source control navigator allows me to explore a project.
I can select the current branch to show its history, and I see all of the commits, including avatars for the commit authors and annotations for things like tags.
I can filter commits by author or commit message, so I'll start by finding Felipe's commits, and then I'll narrow it down a little bit more to just the commits that have to do with beta. This is the one that I was looking for.
When I double-click a commit, I go to the new commit viewer where I can see the actual source changes. It's really easy to browse history and to find specific commits. Now, I can also seamlessly use source control while I'm making changes, and I have another project that needs a little work that I'll open now.
Before I get started, I want to make a branch. In the new source control navigator, I'll use the Context menu to make a new branch for "master." And, OK. I'm all checked out on my new branch, and I'm ready to go.
In my projects, I like the groups to match up with the folders, and this project is already set up that way. But it's been bugging me that these two camera model classes are in the wrong group. It's OK, though, because now when I move these files to the correct group, Xcode finally also moves them to the correct folder.
So in projects where the group and folder layout are the same, Xcode will now keep them the same. And when I commit, all the changes will be recorded, so I'll go ahead and commit this now, and I think I'm ready to land this branch. Back in the source control navigator, I'll select the destination branch and again use the Context menu to merge in the changes for my working branch.
And that's it. I can see that my new commit is now on the master branch, and I think I'm ready for my first beta release. So I should probably make a tag.
I can use the Context menu here to make a tag from any commit. OK, I think I'm ready to share this. Now, this project isn't on GitHub yet, but I can easily put it there. I'll just choose to create a new GitHub remote.
All these defaults look pretty good, so let's go. Xcode is now creating a project on GitHub and pushing up my repository with its entire history.
And now, my project is hosted on GitHub. I have a new origin remote.
And from there, I can jump directly to the Project page on GitHub.com.
Here it is. Now, we've worked really closely with the GitHub folks on all this integration, and GitHub.com has a great new feature as well. Xcode users can now directly clone and open in Xcode using this new Open in Xcode button. Yeah. And that is Source Control and GitHub in Xcode 9. Matthew? Thank you, Mike. Xcode 9 also includes some advancements in our debugging and runtime analysis tools. I'd like to start with the view debugger. View controllers play an important role in UI development, so we're going to incorporate them into the view debugging experience.
Captures will now include view controllers in the hierarchy and draw them on the canvas above the views they manage. Together, these will help you navigate and give you a sense of your view controller boundaries. The view debugger will now also include details from SpriteKit scenes, and the view debugger is a perfect way to expand and rotate your scenes, scope ranges, even look at clipped regions. We'll also include support for SceneKit scenes as well. And here you can use the familiar SceneKit editor to rotate the camera, navigate, and inspect objects. So view controller's SpriteKit and SceneKit are now great additions to our visual debugging.
Over the last few years, we've added runtime sanitizers to our debugging experience, and they have been wildly successful at helping track down issues.
In addition to advancements in our two existing sanitizers, this year, we're adding two new runtime analysis tools, the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer and the Main Thread API Checker.
Programming languages have some undefined behaviors, such as what to do with misaligned pointers or when encountering signed integer overflows. When these situations occur, they are very difficult to debug. The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer catches many of these cases and displays details to help you investigate.
Now, the Main Thread API Checker is one you're all going to love. Calling UI-related APIs from a background thread is a common mistake and can lead to visual defects and random crashes.
The Main Thread API Checker catches AppKit and UIKit APIs not called from the main thread and then surfaces issues for you to investigate. We love this one so much that we've enabled it by default. So when you start debugging with Xcode 9, you're going to get this behavior for free. Now, our two new runtime sanitizers are available in the Diagnostic Options of your scheme, and all of our diagnostic tools are available for the Run and Test actions, making them perfect for use with continuous integration, which is also a perfect segue into our next section.
We believe that continuous integration is an essential piece of developing great software, so we're making it easier to use Xcode Server by including all of the functionality in Xcode itself. You no longer need to install the macOS Server app.
A new, simplified UI in the Preferences takes just a few clicks to get started, and we've integrated new provisioning work flows, including automatic and manual code signing to streamline your configuration. Now, on the testing side, a popular request we've integrated is support for testing multiple applications.
Your UI tests can now branch out into many other apps, which is a great improvement for working with app extensions, settings, and other integrated work flows. Additionally, you'll find that we've focused on performance for UI testing as well. UI testing queries run three times faster than they did before. And if you adopt new query APIs, your own tests can run up to ten times faster than before. But we didn't stop there because you'll also find testing with xcodebuild now defaults to running in parallel for multiple destinations. This means your command-line testing and your Xcode Server bots can evaluate tests on many devices and simulators all at the same time. And speaking of the simulator, the simulator app now supports multiple booted devices for iOS, tvOS, and watchOS all in one app. Multiple simulator sessions is a huge productivity win when testing different configurations and when evaluating multi-client scenarios. You'll also find the simulator has a new experience.
We've added in a bezel around the side to give you familiar access to hardware controls and enable interactivity, such as swipe gestures from the edge. And we've also made the simulator fully resizable. So there's one more feature in Xcode 9 that I'd like to share with you, and it starts by something that we're taking away, and it's the need to use one of these. You know, I was going to say, I know you all love your USB cables, but that's apparently not true [laughter]. But it doesn't matter because in Xcode 9, it's no longer necessary. We are adding in wireless development.
With Xcode 9, you can use the connection type best suited for your needs -- USB, Wi-Fi, or Ethernet -- when connecting to your iOS and tvOS devices.
All of the development work flows are supported with wireless development.
In fact, you can also use wireless development with other apps, like Accessibility Inspector, QuickTime Player, and Console. So this will be a natural addition to your development work flows. So that's just a taste of what we have for you in Xcode 9 -- a new Source Editor with refactoring alongside Swift 4; a new indexer, build system, and source control work flows integrating GitHub; and advancements in our debugging, analysis, and testing tools to go alongside wireless development. All that and more is in Xcode 9, and that's our tools update for today. Next, we'd like to share with you some of the new APIs we have for you, and for that, I'm going to invite up Josh Shaffer.
Thanks, Matthew. I'm really excited to tell you about so many of the new and enhanced APIs in iOS 11. There's a ton of new things, so let's start with the most important new API, drag and drop.
Drag and drop is simple to use, with consistent interactions across the system, and of course, it's also really easy to add to your apps as well. While simple, it's also incredibly flexible and customizable, and it takes full advantage of iPad's multi-touch capabilities. And of course, it's secure by design, allowing access to the data being dragged only once a drop occurs. Adding drag and drop to your apps is almost as easy as using it. It's completely automatic for standard text and web controls, so your apps may actually already support it.
Existing apps like Slack can already participate -- for example, by accepting drops of text in their existing text views. For other cases, you'll need to do a little work. Now, if you're displaying your content in a table view or a collection view, new delegate methods make it really easy to add drag-and-drop support with just a few lines of code. Beginning a drag is as easy as providing the data, and accepting a drop is just as simple. For everything else, there's an easy-to-use, standard API that can integrate with all of your custom views.
By default, the API provides standard gestures and animations, but it's fully customizable. You can customize the lift animations that occur at the start of a drag, add multiple items to an already in-progress drag, generate custom preview images for each item, choose the badge to display on the dragged item to indicate that it will be moved or copied, and even provide fully custom set-down animations to play when the drop occurs. The API is flexible enough that even the really custom, gesture-based event creation and reordering in the Calendars app was able to be re-implemented on top of the drag-and-drop APIs. And the flexibility doesn't just end with the appearance.
The data model is incredibly flexible as well. It can work with any type of data that your app uses, allowing you to support really rich interactions.
For example, locations dragged out of maps include rich location information and really detailed drag previews. Now, with drag and drop, even existing interactions get better. Reminders uses UITableView's built-in reordering support to allow you to quickly reorder and organize your tasks. You can begin a drag to drag an item, to move it to a different spot, and now even pick up multiple reminders and move them between lists so that you can really quickly organize all of your tasks.
Because all of this is built on top of a common API, it works seamlessly together as well.
You can bring out Calendar, and begin dragging one of those events, and drag it over into Reminders, where you can drop it to quickly add it to your to-do list.
Now, while a drag is in progress, the system handles that touch, leaving your app fully interactive and free to respond to any other touches. This makes it really easy to support even complex interactions that require navigation within your app, such as moving photos between albums. Now, on the iPad, the entire OS remains fully interactive, allowing you to pick up multiple items in one place and then navigate freely around the system, even switching apps, bringing those dragged items with you so that you can use them somewhere else. During all this navigation, the data behind the drag is being protected from unintended access by any other apps that you're dragging it over.
Until a drag is completed, only metadata is made available to potential drop destinations.
When a drop does occur, the data is quickly made available to the receiving app.
Now, the security provided by this lazy delivery doesn't have to come at the cost of performance either because even really large files can be transferred almost instantly with APFS cloning. Now, this is all just the beginning.
To show you some other exciting use cases and to give you an idea of how easy it can be to add drag and drop to your apps as well, Eliza Block will now come up and give us a demo.
So I'd like to begin by showing an improvement that we've made to the iOS Home screen by leveraging the drag-and-drop API. So here on this iPad, I can press and hold to begin reordering my apps. For example, I could create, I could drag reminders over the Calendar to create a Productivity folder.
Now, in iOS 11, we have completely rewritten app reordering using drag and drop, and we've made it a whole lot more powerful. Let's find some more productivity apps to add to this folder. Here's Pages.
I'll begin dragging it, and as I do, the Home screen remains fully interactive, so with my other hand, I can swipe between pages, navigate in and out of folders, and the best part is I'm no longer limited to dragging a single app at a time. I can tap Keynote to add it to my ongoing drag, close the folder, and let's look around and see if we can find Numbers.
There it is, so I'll tap it, grab it, and now I can drag all three of these apps back over to the first page and drop them into my folder in one fell swoop. So that's app reordering with drag and drop, and you can do this kind of thing in your own applications too.
To see an example, let me launch this app called Byte Swap that my team has written to help me view and organize my Swift Playgrounds trading cards. So it's composed of a Swift, sorry, a split-view controller, and on the right here, you can see that my cards are displayed in a collection view using a basic flow layout. Now, I think it would be cool if I could pick up these cards and drag them around to reorder them, move them between my different albums, and so let's actually go ahead and implement that now.
I'll switch over to Xcode, where I have the Cards View controller open.
Now, because Table View and Collection View already contain built-in support for drag and drop, adding drag and drop if you're using one of these classes is really simple.
I'll start by just declaring conformance to the new UICollectionView drag/delegate protocol. When I do that, Xcode helpfully informs me that I have not yet implemented one of the required methods in that protocol, and I can tap the issue and accept the Fix-it to add the protocol [inaudible]. So this method, Items for Beginning Session, is prompting me to package up the data for the item being dragged, and I'm going to do that by calling out to a helper method that I wrote before, which just packages up the data as an image and makes it draggable. That's actually all I have to do to get the bare bones of drag working in this application, but I also want to make it possible to tap to add items to an ongoing drag. So I'm going to add a second method to do that, and then we'll go ahead and run this. I'll switch over to my iPad.
Whoops. And here it is. As you can see, now I can pick this guy up and drag him around.
But I can't reorder yet because I haven't implemented drop in this application.
However, I still can freely interact with the app and I can pick up a second item to add it to my existing drag, and this is actually more useful than it looks because, in addition to being able to drag these arounds, I can interact with other apps which may have implemented drop already. For example, Mail. So I can go into Mail, tap to compose a message, and then drop these two cards in the message just like that.
So that's with only two delegate methods added to my existing application.
All right, switching back over to Xcode, let's go ahead and implement drop.
So I will start once again by declaring conformance to a new delegate protocol, UICollectionView drop delegate. And Xcode will once again offer to fill in the missing protocol step. So this perform drop method is a little bit more involved.
I have to update my model for the, to, by receiving the new drop data, and, also, I'm customizing the animation here a little bit with a helper method. And there's one other method I need to add as well, which is called as I drag my finger over one of the drop targets, and it, that's what causes the Collection View to open up a gap so that I can reorganize within a particular list. So switching over to my iPad again, this time when I pick up a card, the other ones move out of the way, and I can still switch between lists, grab a couple more, and then I can drop them all together in my Favorites album.
So easy. So that's adding drag and drop to your applications. And switching gears, we've been working with a number of partners who have been working on getting drag and drop in their applications. And one partner that has really stood out for their creative use of this API is Adobe. So now, I would like to invite up Brooke Francesi from Adobe to show you what they've built. Thanks, Eliza.
I cannot wait to show you what drag and drop can mean for the creative professional.
This is Adobe Photoshop Sketch, and it's a focused painting and drawing app with some of the best natural media brushes, including all of My Photoshop Brushes.
I've been working on this illustration, and before I finish it up, I want to add a few elements to the background. And in order to do that, I'm going to open another Adobe app called Capture. Capture is an app that allows me to capture inspiration from the world around me to create things like patterns, color themes, and even custom brushes, which I've been using to work on this project. Now, in order to add some elements to the background, I need to load the color theme into my toolbar in Photoshop Sketch. In the past, I would've had to go find all those colors, manually load every single one of them into my toolbar, go back, find the brushes.
You get it. It's a pretty long and arduous process.
But with drag and drop, I can select all five colors at once, navigate to my Brushes tab, select the two brushes that I've been using to work on in this project, and simultaneously drag them over into my toolbar. Pretty awesome, right? Something that would've taken me a ton of steps before took me just seconds.
We even took advantage of the API to create our own custom animations.
Once we got our hands on the new drag and drop, we were amazed at how simple and straightforward it was to implement. Within just two days, we had one engineer who had the basic API feature working in one app, and so we just decided to keep going.
The possibilities with drag and drop are literally endless. The cool thing is is I'm not limited to just images, and brushes, and color themes. I can actually drag and drop layers between multiple apps. Now, I want to see what this is going to look like in Context.
Actually, let me draw a little bit on here. I want to see what this is going to look like in Context, and so I'm going to take these layers that I've been working on by selecting them, I'm going to open up my Dock, and I'm going to drag them into another Adobe app, Photoshop Mix, which is an image compositing tool. Now, what's really cool is once I'm in here, I have options. I can target any specific coordinates on my canvas if I know exactly where I want those layers to be, or I can just drag them right into my layer stack.
That's pretty awesome, right? I never get tired of seeing that happen.
Now, in case you've all been asleep for the past two minutes, I just dragged three completely different types of assets between three completely different applications. And that's why drag and drop isn't just saving steps in my process. It's an entirely new mobile work flow for creative professionals on the iPad. Thank you. Thanks, Brooke. Drag and drop is a really exciting, new API, and we can't wait to see what you're all going to do with it, but there are a number of other enhancements in iOS 11 that you should be aware of as well. So let's start with some updates to the user interface. The top level of most applications now features a large title featured prominently in the navigation bar, along with a new integrated search field design. You'll find this at the top of most applications, including Messages, Mail, the new App Store, Photos, and many more. And enabling this appearance in your own apps couldn't be any simpler. With just a few properties, you can adopt and control the appearance of the new large title and adopt the new integrated search field. You'll also find that in iOS 11, UITableView has now enabled self-sizing cells by default, helping to make it even easier for you to have great support for dynamic type. This has also helped to make iOS 11's UI more responsive to text size changes than ever before. And with a wide range of dynamic type sizes available, your users are going to choose the size that's most comfortable for them. Dynamic type is a really commonly used user preference, so you definitely want to make sure that you test with it and respond to it well.
And don't forget to design for everyone. Tests with a larger accessibility size is enabled as well because in these instances, your table view rows will get even taller, so you'll want to make sure that your content lays out well and remains legible, even at those really large sizes. Next, let's talk about files.
File management has been completely revamped in iOS 11. Now, of course, you can access files from the new Files app that you heard about this morning, but, even better, a new document browser with all of the same capabilities can be brought up and displayed right within your own apps. You can filter the types of files that will be displayed within the browser. Excuse me, add custom actions right into the navigation bar, and even allow the creation of new documents right from within the same interface.
And of course, you can also customize its appearance so that it best fits in with the rest of your applications. The document browser also offers really quick access to iCloud Drive's new document sharing support, enabling easy collaboration across iOS and macOS. Using NSFileCoordinator, you can easily find out about changes to these documents as they occur, even if the changes are made by another user.
And on macOS, NSDocument includes built-in support for file sharing right within your apps. Finally, let's talk about iOS 11's new multitasking features, enabling your apps to participate in the new multitasking work flows enabled by the new floating Dock, slide-over apps, pinned apps, and the brand-new App Switcher is really straightforward. If you've adopted size classes, flexible layouts, and default storyboards over the last few years, then you're actually already done.
iOS 11 builds on top of these existing technologies to enable a whole bunch of new work flows.
Now, if you haven't adopted them yet, there's never been a better time.
That's all just the start. There's a ton of other new and enhanced APIs available in iOS 11. For example, password autofill makes it really quick and secure to get login credentials out of iCloud Keychain and right into your apps, which can really streamline the login flow for your applications. It's really great [applause].
Named color assets and vector assets can now be stored in your asset catalogs, and UIFontMetrics make it really easy even to have your own custom fonts participate in dynamic type. In addition to all of this, there's also some really great enhancements to APIs for various Apple services, so let's talk about just a few, starting with iMessage. With the new app strip in iOS 11, Messages apps are now more discoverable and they're a lot more powerful as well.
Your apps can now render live content in the message bubbles right in line in the conversation. And with the new direct send API, you can remove a common point of friction for your users, making it possible to really easily send messages with just a single tap from right within your app extensions. Next, SiriKit.
The list of supported domains has expanded to include a number of new domains, including payment accounts, lists, notes, QR code display, and more. And if you missed it, earlier this year, we greatly simplified SiriKit development with the addition of simulator support for both iOS and watchOS. And finally, Apple Music. With MusicKit, adding music playback to your apps has never been easier. Your users can now play any of the 40 million songs available to Apple Music subscribers right from within your apps.
This is especially great for fitness apps, now enabling full access to songs, playlists, and radio stations without ever interrupting your workout. Now, these are just some of the enhancements to the APIs for Apple's various services. Next, to tell us about some of our exciting new photo and imaging APIs, Sebastien Marineau-Mes will come up to the stage. Seb? Thank you, Josh. Thank you. Really excited to be here.
I've got a lot to cover today, so let me get started. First, let's talk about our new photos project extension on macOS. You're now able to bring creative, project-based features directly to photos. Users can easily discover your new extension through a Mac App Store. And once you've got that wired up, users can select photos, memories, or albums and then choose your extension from the Create menu. The Photos app [inaudible] extension to not only images, but also the rich context so that project creation feels completely natural.
Additionally, we allow you to persist your own project data. Now, your extension runs within the Photos application, so it really feels like a seamless experience.
We, of course, designed it to support print products. Here's a great example of this.
But you could do a lot more with this. Here's an example of someone that's built a web publishing application or even directly ordering framed prints from your favorite photo. So we think our users are really going to love the new extensions that you're going to create with this extending photos. Next, let's talk about Camera.
In iOS 11, the camera has a lightweight QR detector, and all you need to do is point your camera at one. The QR code is automatically decoded and will offer to open a deep link into the appropriate app. There you go.
Now, it's really simple to use as a developer.
You simply need to adopt Universal Links, and we even support common QR formats, such as location, contacts, and Wi-Fi networks. Next, let's talk about compression and formats. We've, we're making really big advances here this year.
Now, of course, JPEG is ubiquitous and has served us really well over the last 25 years, but today we know that a number of technologies offer better compression and flexibility. And similarly for H.264, which is over a decade old.
Now, compression's important, but we must consider other requirements, so let's look at some of these. So for example, today the line between photos and videos is blurred, and a lot of what we capture is actually a combination of both of these types of assets. We also have new sensors that capture much richer images and display them, displays that bring them to life. And finally, whatever we choose has to keep pace with ever-increasing resolutions. And so for the codec, we've selected HEVC because it meets all of these requirements. It offers up the 2x compression at equivalent image quality, and when you add up the billions of photos and videos, or trillions I should say, that adds up to a lot of saved space. HEVC is also hardware accelerated across many of our devices. And finally, it supports photos, videos, 4K and beyond, and a number of new technologies for capture and display.
We've also selected a new image container called HEIF, or, as I like to call it, "heef." You can repeat after me, "heef." HEIF supports the concept of compound assets, so in a single file, you can have one or more photos or one or more images. You can have videos.
You can have auxiliary data such as alpha and Depth. It's also highly extensible.
It supports rich metadata, animations and sequences, and other media types, such as audio. And finally, HEIF is an ISO standard, which is critical for ecosystem adoption. Now, our standard APIs provide direct support for HEVC and HEIF. And generally, it's transparent. No opt in is required.
But there may be cases where you want to explicitly control the format.
So for example, if you're trying to play a high-resolution movie on an older device that doesn't have hardware acceleration, in this case, we'd provide you an API that you can use to determine whether a given file -- in this case, an HEVC movie -- would play well on this device. And if it doesn't, we can automatically fall back to one of the older formats to maintain a great user experience. So now, within our ecosystem, we automatically use HEVC and HEIF as we share between all compatible devices.
But where, when we're unsure that the recipient can decode these new formats, we'll err on the side of compatibility and automatically transcode the JPEG and H.264.
An example of this would be putting photos in an email attachment.
I'd really encourage you as you adopt these new formats to be thoughtful about compatibility as you build this into your apps. So that concludes compression, and let me now talk about another new topic, Depth. Now, we've all see Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus, which generates the Depth effect using the two cameras.
Here's how we do it. We capture simultaneous images from both cameras and we then use stereoscopy to compute Depth. This is the same as human vision. We store this in what we call the depth map.
So in Portrait Mode, we take the photo, the depth map, and then we use this to blur the objects that are in the background. But what's really cool is that in iOS 11, we're now storing the depth map as part of what we capture, and we're giving you and your app access to the photo and the depth map. So you can load it up and then you can use this to do your own creative effects. And let me show you a couple of examples of this.
So I might take this photo and I might decide to turn the background into monochrome, really highlighting the subject. I might apply a more artistic effect.
Maybe I'll replace this with this pumpkin patch with blur effect.
And you can imagine even more creative effects. In fact, these are just examples. The possibilities here are endless.
Now, this is Depth for still images. We're also giving you access to a lower-fidelity, real-time Depth stream using the Camera APIs.
And this lets you build Camera-based applications that will use Depth in a novel way.
So Depth is really a simple extension to both our still image and Camera capture APIs, and we look forward to everything that you're going to be building on top of these new APIs. Really, really exciting. Next -- yeah.
There you go. Next, let's talk about our new Vision APIs. Now, of course, computer vision and machine learning already underpin many of the features in Apple's products. You saw that this morning.
You've also seen apps in the Store that use computer vision. One of them is the hot dog detection app that was featured in HBO's Silicon Valley. But of course, these apps have all had to roll computer vision, the computer vision technology on their own.
And what we're doing this year is bring all of our great built-in capabilities and making them available to all of you. So things you can do -- face and landmark detection.
We've seen the rectangle detection. Text. Here's another one with barcode detection. And object tracking. And many, many more things.
And one of those is actually the integration between Vision and Core ML.
And that allows you to bring your own machine learning and computer vision models and run them as part of Vision's imaging, image processing pipeline so that we can extend our vision framework in very novel ways. And to show you an example of this, I'm going to invite Emily Kim up on stage that will show you, show us a great demo app.
Emily? Hi. I'd like to show all of you a demo app that we've written to showcase three of the new technologies in iOS 11 -- Core ML, Vision, and Depth. Now, I've asked Seb to help me out a little bit in this demo, so it looks like he's just about ready. All right.
So first, we're going to launch the application. You can see here that the app has recognized that Seb is holding a piano keyboard, and we've placed a speech bubble next to his mouth with a little piano emoji inside. Now, let's take a quick photo.
And, well, I guess that's a picture of Seb holding a keyboard.
I hate to break it to you, Seb, but you look a little boring. Can we maybe try something else? All right. I mean that in the kindest way possible.
All right. Let's see if our app can recognize something that's not piano. So we'll go back. All right.
We can see now that Seb's holding a guitar. The app knows this and has placed a little guitar emoji in the speech bubble next to his mouth.
So we'll take another photo. Whoa, Seb, you look way cooler than you did before.
You've got some-- Yeah, if you'll notice, he's got some cool rock star sunglasses and some cheering fans behind him, so before we jump over to Xcode to take a look at just how easy it was to write an application that can make even Seb look cool, let's please give a round of applause for Seb for being a good sport. All right.
So this was a pretty standard UIKit and AVFoundation application, so I'm not going to go over the details of that. Instead, I'd like to focus on the three new areas that you saw: object classification, face landmark detection, and Depth. So first, let's take a look at object classification. Using the power of Core ML, you can now integrate trained machine learning models into your app. Now, many of you will probably be rolling your own. However, we wanted to show you just how easy this was, so we simply took an off-the-shelf model and dropped it into our project.
Super easy. You can see here that all we had to do was load this model file in Core ML and then pass that along to Vision so that we could run this against images.
Now, as the frames come in from the Camera preview, we simply create a Core ML request to run on each of these frames. Once we recognize an object -- for example, the guitar -- the results come back from this request indicating that it's found a guitar in the scene, and then we can place that little guitar emoji inside the speech bubble.
Now, if you also recall from the demo, the speech bubble was placed right next to Seb's mouth. So how did, how exactly did we know where to put that? Let's take a look at the face landmark detector. Using Vision, you can now find the face landmarks, which include for each of your eyes, your nose, and what we're interested in, which was the mouth. So again, we simply create a face landmarks request and run that on the frames that are coming in from the camera.
When the request comes back and says that it's found landmarks on a face, we simply ask for where the mouth was and then we can anchor the speech bubble appropriately so that it looks like it's coming out of Seb's mouth. We also used face landmarks to find each of Seb's eyeballs to figure out where to put the sunglasses on his face in that cool guitar photo. Now, also in that photo, if you remember, we replaced the background and put it in front of his adoring fans. So we used Depth to do that, and let's take a closer look. So it's really easy to get Depth data now when you capture images on the camera, so all you have to do once you've captured the image is extract that Depth information, and then we wrote a custom kernel to simply apply that Depth information to the captured image in order to teleport Seb into his rock star universe.
So I hope you've seen just how easy it is to incorporate Core ML, Vision, and Depth into your applications. Back to you, Seb. I have to say that rock star universe was pretty exciting for the couple minutes I got to live in it. So thank you, Emily. That was really great.
Now, let's look at Core ML more closely. Core ML is really about helping you create new experiences in your app by making it easy for you to incorporate machine learning models. And so your application can make use of domain specific frameworks. We've seen Vision. We also have natural language processing. Or directly use the machine learning framework.
Now, all of this is powered by Accelerate and Metal Shaders to really give you the best possible performance. Core ML itself provides a rich set of primitives to integrate state-of-the-art machine learning models into your apps. We've seen some of those this morning. So in addition to supporting extensive deep learning models with over 30 layers, it supports standard machine learning models, like tree ensembles, SVMs, generalized linear models. Really, the point of this is to allow you to target a broad variety of applications, from handwriting recognition. We talk about image classification, music tagging, handwriting recognition, and much, much more.
Many, many other domains are available to you. Now, how do you get the models? Well, we give you access to this great machine learning community with tools such as Turi, Caffe, or Keras, which is a popular library for TensorFlow. Now, what does your work flow look like as a developer? Well, let's say that you train your own models using Caffe, or perhaps, as Emily did, you pick a pre-trained model that's available on the Internet.
You then take that model and run it through the Converter tool, and that Converter tool will produce a Core ML compatible format. You take that, you drag it into Xcode, and then you simply start using it in your application. Now, we're also open sourcing the Core ML Converter tool so that we can get even broader community adoption over time.
We're also focused on performance so that it runs great on device.
Examples of what we do: graph optimizations and fusing multiple operations together automatically. And we also automatically analyze your neural network to make best use of hardware acceleration. So when you bring all of this together, Core ML really allows you to easily leverage the power of machine learning to create truly intelligent applications. It's simple to use, it delivers great performance and efficiency across all of our platforms, and it really lets you target your next-generation intelligent app at all, at hundreds of millions of devices that are Core ML enabled.
So we really can't wait to see what you're going to create with this along many of the other APIs that we've talked about today. So with that, I'd like to call up Jeremy Sandmel up on stage to talk about Metal and graphics. Jeremy? Thanks, Seb. Thanks, Seb.
So we developed Metal to be the fastest and most efficient way to drive the incredibly powerful GPUs in our iOS, macOS, and tvOS products. And since its introduction, we've dramatically expanded Metal to support the advanced rendering, graphics, and compute features most requested by our developers. And the results have been amazing. There are more than 143,000 Metal apps in the iOS App Store created by our developers who are directly calling the Metal API.
But we're also building our own system frameworks on top of Metal.
You've heard about a number of them today. For instance, if you're drawing your user interface with UIKit or your maps with MapKit, you're also using Metal.
In fact, over 1.7 million apps are in the App Store using Metal through Apple system frameworks and benefitting from Metal's performance and power efficiencies automatically.
Developers are using Metal in truly awe-inspiring ways, such as the professional image and photo editing in the new Affinity Photo for iPad from Serif Labs.
And 3D modeling and rendering in MAXON's upcoming Cinema 4D with AMD's Metal accelerated ProRender technology. The gorgeous sci-fi adventure game Obduction from Cyan, the legendary creators of the game Myst. And the truly stunning F1 2016 racing game from Feral Interactive. In fact, Ian Bullock of Feral has said that, "Metal's richer feature set and lower overhead have allowed them to bring cutting edge games to the Mac with frame rates and effects that simply weren't possible before." Metal is broadly supported across i, our iOS devices since 2013 and our Macs since 2012. And this means there are more than 900 million products supporting Metal across macOS, iOS, and tvOS. This is truly stunning, and that's why we're so incredibly excited today to announce the next generation of Metal, Metal 2. Now, Metal 2 is made up of six key advancements that we're going to describe to you today. The first is GPU-driven rendering.
This means that we're continuing to reduce the amount of work required by the CPU in order to execute your GPU commands. Now, you may recall that the overhead of OpenGL could often steal a major portion of your app's per-frame rendering time, significantly limiting your application's performance. And Metal dramatically reduced that CPU time, giving it back to your application. Well, with Metal 2, we're going even further.
We've introduced a number of new features designed to off-load the CPU as much as possible and to allow the GPU to much more efficiently schedule its own work.
One of these features is called Metal argument buffers. Now, as a little bit of background, Metal render passes are made of graphic state and references to resources, such as textures and buffers. And these resources traditionally needed to be specified individually with each draw call. With Metal 2, you can assign your resources to argument buffers once during your app's initialization, and then you can rapidly switch between these argument buffers that you've already set up with each draw call, which can be dramatically more efficient. In fact, the more resources you use, the more complex your rendering, the greater the savings can be.
And in this example using Metal argument buffers, we reduced the CPU time required for our draw calls by more than 10x. Next, Metal 2 has taken major steps forward towards a common feature set across our product families. We've strongly emphasized compatibility across our platforms while still providing developers with access to hardware specific features required for optimal performance.
We're bringing key features from macOS to iOS and vice versa. One of these examples is called Metal Resource Heaps. This can provide a much more efficient way of managing your Metal textures and buffers without requiring you to become an expert in how each individual GPU manages and allocates memory. Traditionally, each Metal texture would require a separate, individual memory allocation from the OS.
Now, this was simple to use. It's simple to understand but could be quite expensive.
But with Metal Heaps, you can allocate a single memory buffer and then store multiple textures within it. You can also do incredibly fast reallocations and you can reinterpret existing memory for a new texture. Interestingly, Metal Heaps also allows you to reuse previously allocated memory from textures you don't need simultaneously, which can save you significant amounts of memory per frame. This is all very simple and easy and doesn't sacrifice any performance. Now, Metal is not just for graphics. The Metal Performance Shaders Library provides an optimized set of image processing, linear algebra, and other compute operations.
And Metal 2 extends this support for accelerating machine learning.
We've included a number of GPU-accelerated machine learning primitives and new graph API for convolutional neural networks, and it can all be efficiently integrated into your Metal graphics and compute code. Machine learning kernels such as LSTMs, convolutions, and neuron layers are included as well as an expanded set of matrix math operations.
And most importantly, MPS also enables everyone using the powerful, new Core ML framework that Seb just described to get the full performance of the GPU for machine learning automatically. Next, we're very excited to talk about VR in Metal 2.
With Metal 2 and macOS High Sierra, we're enabling VR content development on the Mac for the first time with optimized support for 360-degree video editing and 3D content creation. And we've added support for low-latency stereoscopic rendering on head-mounted displays and powerful, new developer tools to optimize your VR app's performance. We're incredibly excited to say we've been working closely with Valve, and they've announced they're bringing their full SteamVR runtime and SDK to the Mac with beta versions available today. Yeah.
This also includes support for the HTC Vive headset and controllers. And as you saw this morning, we've also been partnering with Epic Games, who's announced macOS VR support in Unreal Engine in their upcoming release later this year with early access available from GitHub starting in September.
This includes support for Epic's immersive VR Mode Editor that you saw this morning, allowing you to step inside the VR environments as you're creating them.
We're also very excited to be partnering with Unity, who has announced they too are adding macOS VR support to their incredibly powerful engine and editing environment behind many of the most popular games. This has enabled the developer I-Illusions to use Unity to bring the addictive and exciting VR space game Space Pirates Trainer to the Mac in just a matter of just a few days. Now, a word about performance, which is incredibly important for building compelling VR apps. Many developers are familiar with optimizing their applications to fit within 60 frames per second, and this would mean you would have a fairly generous 16.7 milliseconds per frame all devoted to your application's rendering. However, to create an immersive VR experience, you need to render a full stereoscopic pair of views at 90 frames a second, which can leave you only about 11 milliseconds per frame. But actually, you don't even get all of that quite all to yourself because there's a VR compositor in the mix, which uses the GPU to combine the left- and right-eye images to compensate for HMD lens distortion and for head movement. And this leaves you only about ten milliseconds per frame.
In other words, you need to target your VR app to achieve 100 frames per second.
Now, this can be very challenging, but Metal 2 provides some awesome, new tools for optimizing your VR app's performance. We've include built-in support for SteamVR's compositor tracepoints within the Metal system trace.
This allows you to see exactly where the GPU time is going and precisely when your frames will hit the glass. With Metal 2 and the powerful, new GPUs in the latest iMacs that we announced that we're shipping today, we fully enabled VR content development on your Mac desktop. Now, many professional content creators love the mobility of working with our MacBook Pros, but intensive VR development can require powerful GPUs that don't always fit in the thinnest and lightest laptops. This is why Metal 2 is bringing first-class support for external GPUs to your MacBook Pro and to macOS High Sierra.
Yeah, thanks [applause]. So you could very easily add support to your app for external GPUs. It takes just a few lines of code, and you register for external GPU device connection callbacks and identify which GPUs in your system are removable. This enables the best of both worlds -- the GPU horsepower for building immersive VR applications on our most mobile Macs -- and we're really excited about it. So to get you started, we're offering an external GPU Developer Kit through our Developer program. It includes everything you need for VR content development on your MacBook Pro, including a discount on the HTC Vive head-mounted display, and it's all available today from developer.apple.com.
And last but not least, Metal 2 enables and provides our most advanced graphics developer optimization tools yet. We've added the top-requested tools and features to enable rapid debugging, analysis, and optimization of your GPU performance bottlenecks.
And it's all integrated directly into Xcode and Instruments. We've included powerful, new GPU hardware performance and software performance counters, giving you deep insight into the GPU's operation and automatic bottleneck detection that can take you exactly to the source of your performance problems. It's all very powerful. And to show you a demo of Metal 2 Developer tools in action, I'd like to invite Eric Sunnel [phonetic] to the stage.
Hi, everyone. Today I'd like to show you a couple of the new features in Metal, like our GPU profile counter tool in Xcode. So what I have here is a Metal application rendering thousands of asteroids on the screen. And it's, all is individual draw calls, and it's important to note that each of these draw calls is using a number of unique Metal resources all chosen at runtime. So now what I'm going to do here is add a couple more asteroids to the scene. All right, that's not performing quite as well as I want, so let's exit out of full screen, and take a GPU capture, and see if we can get a better idea of what's going on. So not only is it taking a GPU capture and analyzing all of our shaders, but now it's also capturing all of the hardware performance counters and actually on a per draw call basis.
It'll be able to visualize that in a second. All right, so now on the left-hand -- actually, let me change my system editor here. And on the left-hand side, now I have access to a GPU report that now brings up in the standard editor a summary of all the performance counters on the timeline for all of the draw calls.
And on the right-hand side, I have all the detailed performance counters as well.
So if I select a particular draw call -- let's say this one for instance -- all of the right-hand side updates with all the detailed performance counters that we've captured.
If I hover over the vertices row, here I can get an idea of, OK, what's the summary for that draw call for the vertices submitted to the scenes? Almost 8000.
Seems pretty high. If I look at the pixels stored, it looks like I'm only storing about 11 pixels for that draw call, which seems a lot lower in comparison.
So now, if we look in the upper right-hand side, we can see some of the recommendations provided by Xcode. The top one here, pixels per triangle ratio, is very low.
Seems about right. Now, if we disclose this, we get some of the recommendations made by Xcode. So we can see here it says, "Consider reducing the number of triangles and consider reducing the work in the vertex shader." Now, if we click on the top one and click on the link here, it'll take us right to all the bound resources for the draw call. We can see here that we're actually loading our high poly model of the asteroid, which doesn't make much sense for this scene.
So we're going to go over here and make a source code change. Get rid of the editor.
All right. And let's change this to the reduced model that I've prepared ahead of time. All right. Now, let's make one more change in this project. Let's see if we can make useful argument buffers.
So what I have here is our for loop that's making, that's doing the per draw call for each asteroid. And above each draw call, I'm setting a number of resources.
So with argument buffers, I can remove this code and, instead, insert a call to binding our argument buffer ahead of time and basically allow the GPU now to make the dynamic selection of which resources to use. So with these two simple changes in place, let's run and see where our performance is now. All right. OK, that's looking good.
Let's add some more. OK, that's looking a lot better. That's exactly what I like to see. All right, so the, yeah, with the new features in Metal 2, we hope you get deeper insight into where your application is spending time, and we'll offer even more code from the critical path. Thanks very much.
Back to you, Jeremy. Well, thanks, Eric.
So that's Metal 2 -- GPU-driven rendering, a unified feature platform, machine learning acceleration, support for VR content development on your Mac with support for external GPUs, and our most advanced developer optimization tools to date. We can't wait to see what you're going to build with Metal next. Thank you very much. And now, I'd like to invite to the stage Vice President of AR and VR Technologies, Mike Rockwell.
Thanks, Jeremy. So I am incredibly excited to talk to you about ARKit, Apple's new framework that enables the creation of augmented reality apps on iOS. One of our primary goals in creating ARKit was to make sure we could support a broad range of devices from day one. We didn't want to require specialized hardware, and I'm happy to say that we achieved that.
ARKit runs on iPhone 6s or later and iPad Pro and later. That means it will run on hundreds of millions of devices from day one. It makes iOS the largest AR platform in the world. So what do you need to do to create great AR? The first thing you need to know is where the camera is in space and where it's looking.
We use a technique called visual-inertial odometry to do that.
Let's see how that works. So we've got our scene and we've got our camera.
And the camera's looking at the world. We identify feature points in the world and we track them from frame to frame. From that, we are able to back-calculate the location of the camera, and create a coordinate system, and then give you that location in real time at 60 frames per second. Now, if we were going to do that calculation at 60 frames per second, it would take a lot of CPU horsepower.
What we do instead is we fuse the data from the accelerometer and the gyro with that tracking information and we're able to reduce the compute load dramatically.
In fact, to get this information only takes a fraction of a single CPU.
That leaves the GPU available to you to do fantastic rendering of 3D objects.
The second thing you need is to be able to understand the scene. So what's in there so that you can put things in there and have them integrate and feel natural. We use those feature points that we tracked earlier to identify major planes in the scene. We look for ones that coplanar, and then we find the extents of those planes across the scene. That allows you to integrate objects and have them be completely natural. So I can, for example, set that vase on the table, and it feels like it's in the scene itself. Now, if you didn't know what the size of the table was, your vase might come out and be gigantic. So in addition to identifying those planes, we make sure that the coordinate system is accurate.
In fact, it's accurate to within 5 percent, so your objects feel like that they're natural in the scene. The final thing you need in order to enable those objects to feel right in the scene is to have the lighting be accurate. So we provide accurate light estimations so that as the scene would darken, you can darken your objects as well.
If you don't have that, then objects appear to glow in the scene and they won't appear natural. So let's look at how you can access this incredibly powerful framework. It's really very easy. All of this is available through ARKit. All you have to do is create a session configuration, include things like whether you want to have plane estimation, whether you want to have a light probe, and then you start an AR session. Once that's started, your frames will be either delivered to you in the AR session delegate or you can access them as a property off of the AR session. Each one of those frames contains things like a time stamp, the captured image, the camera direction and position, the major planes in the scene, and the light probe. So now that you've got your scene set up, you're ready to render. And ARKit supports a broad range of options for rendering.
You can use Metal 2, as Jeremy just talked about -- that incredibly powerful low-level engine for accessing the GPU -- but you might want to use a higher-level framework because that's what your abstraction would like. So we've optimized both SceneKit and SpriteKit to work with ARKit, and it's very efficient. In addition, we've been spending the last few months partnering with the large 3D engine providers to make sure that their engines were optimized for ARKit. And I'm really happy to announce that Unity is releasing an open source plug-in this week that works just like ARKit, so it's incredibly easy to use. In addition, Epic is releasing support in the Unreal Engine so that, in a developer preview today, and they'll be shipping it later on this year.
So that's a little bit of a preview, a look at ARKit. I'd like to invite Martin Sanders from LEGO to the stage to give us a little demo of some of the fun things they've been working on. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Great to be here. At LEGO, we've been using ARKit to develop some fun, exciting experiences that can bring your LEGO creations to life in real-world environments. So it all begins with the automatic plane detection.
So as that helicopter moves around, it gives us that surface, and we know we have that surface to start building. So let's go ahead and add some sets from our recent collection and The LEGO Batman Movie. So here we have Arkham Asylum, and with those realistic shadows and that dynamic lighting, it really adds that sense of realism.
And on top of that, when we put in things like animations and effects, it really adds that sense of magic and life to them. And with size estimation, all of the sets that we bring in come out one-to-one scale, so we know that they're actually matching LEGO sets.
So this is looking like a cool Gotham City scene, but it definitely feels like something's missing, doesn't it? So let's go ahead and add the one and only LEGO Batmobile.
And the man himself, the Caped Crusader, LEGO Batman, of course.
Now, it's a really cool model to check out. There's no doubt about it.
But we can go a little further here. We can start investigating how models are actually constructed and made by exploring it in this view.
Now, Batman doesn't look too happy about this, so let's put that back together for now, I think. Now, we also have the power to scale up our models.
Now, imagine what it's like when you can go inside your LEGO creations and explore and view them from new perspectives. And with the Batmobile at this scale, who wouldn't want to go inside and check out all the cool gadgets and cockpit things from there? [applause] And maybe even involve some friends in there as well.
I don't know. Get some selfies. It's fun stuff.
So as our LEGO sets start to come to life and animate, we can even then take on the role of being the moviemaker. So imagine now capturing all of those scenes and those epic shots as we go into [inaudible]. Full time.
At LEGO, we've been looking into augmented reality for quite a few years.
Yeah, yeah. Pretty epic shot, right? [inaudible] time.
And we've had plenty of ideas in this space for sure, but it's only recently with the power and ease of ARKit that we can finally turn them into reality.
So later this year, we are really looking forward to bringing some of those experiences to life for you and everyone else in the App Store. Thank you very much.
That was a great demo. OK, so if you would like to get more ideas for how you can leverage AR in your own apps, I recommend that you walk over to our Hands On area that is open now and will be open until 7:00 p.m. tonight. You'll find many more demos there from partners we've been working with on AR. And that already brings us to the end of this session. There are a ton of new technologies and APIs here that you should get your hands on. We are enabling entirely new types of applications and we're providing you with building blocks for forward-looking technologies like machine learning and augmented reality. So go take a closer look and see how we can leverage these for creating even more compelling apps. Now, downloads for our developer previews for all our operating systems and developer tools will be available from the WWDC Attendee Portal this afternoon, so you can take a whole, get a hold of them right away and learn about all the things we announced. And yes, of course, many sessions here at the conference that will cover many of these topics more deeply, and I also recommend that you make good use of the many labs we organize. You can meet the Apple engineers right here on site to answer your questions. And with that, I hope you have a great conference, and I'll see you around this week.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T11:14:40",
"url": "https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/102/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday proposed reinstating the death penalty for mass murderers and those who kill police officers –– putting on record a package of public safety reforms that he can tout to voters ahead of a heated November election.
It was one of a series of sweeping changes the Republican governor attached to an amendatory veto. And a move deemed “political” by a key sponsor of the legislation.
With an election some six months away, the branding of a comprehensive package — even if it goes nowhere — shows voters that Rauner has a public safety plan.
Its evolution, however, is a little murky. Some legislators in the governor’s bipartisan Public Safety Working Group said just two of Rauner’s proposals were discussed within the group: the 72-hour holding period legislation for gun purchases and the use of revenue to add school resource officers or mental health workers.
The governor’s office said Rauner didn’t attend those meetings. His chief of staff Rodger Heaton, a former U.S. Attorney, attended instead.
There are six elements to the amendatory veto: reinstating the death penalty provided the suspects are found “guilty beyond any doubt”; extending the 72-hour period to all gun purchases; banning bump stocks and trigger cranks; using restraining orders to disarm dangerous individuals; making judges and prosecutors explain why charges are reduced in plea agreements for violent gun offenders; and the use of revenue to add school resource officers and mental health workers when needed.
And anticipating a challenge from Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, Rauner said the speaker can choose to pass legislation that’s identical to his amendatory veto instead.
Rauner has always been on board with the death penalty, but there have been no meaningful efforts to try to reinstate it in Illinois.
The governor said he’d consider other groups of defendants to be included in that.
“I’m very open to considering protections like this for additional individuals,” Rauner said.
But the state abolished the death penalty in 2011, and opening the door to one classification would mean opening it to others. Former Gov. George Ryan stopped all executions in Illinois in 2003 over concerns of the wrongful convictions of Death Row inmates.
Rauner said he put his pen to an amendatory veto of House bill 1468 to place a 72-hour holding period on all guns. The bill contained language specifically about assault weapons. Under current Illinois law, there is a 72-hour waiting period to buy a handgun, but just a 24-hour window to purchase a long gun, rifle or shotgun.
Madigan spokesman Steve Brown said he has yet to see the governor’s recommendations.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T21:49:23",
"url": "https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/in-amendatory-veto-rauner-pushes-death-penalty-for-cop-killers-mass-murderers/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Lanham, MD 20706, two Letters of Recommendation : These two letters should come from academic references who know you and can speak to your academic qualifications in relation to your field of study. To..
Thanksgiving holiday is very not a really marvelous getaway. This is the reason it is crucial that you only choose the best essay composing support online when you dont wish to clutter your chances..
Strict privacy, our clients' personal information is kept confidential, so rest assured that no one will find out about our cooperation. Order now, our achievements 37 684, delivered orders 763, professional writers 311 Writers..
by hosing down the garbage cans and scraping gum off the cement. View document Healthy Fast Food in America 1872 words - 7 pages A person is hungry, they need a quick fix, lo and behold they happen to see those bright golden arches not too far in the distance. A b Brownell, Kelly; Harris, Jennifer; Bargh, John (December 2009). 12 Technology edit To make quick service possible and to ensure accuracy and security, many fast food restaurants have incorporated hospitality point of sale systems. In Canada the majority of fast food chains are American owned or were originally American owned but have since set up a Canadian management/headquarters locations such compare and contrast essay introduction help as Panera Bread, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Five Guys, and Carl's. Exactly, we have already heard much of the harm about eating fast food, not only on physical but also on mental. Fast food restaurants are typically part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation that provides standardized ingredients and/or partially prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels. There are several aspects that can be compared between fast food and home cooked meals. The story begins with these men who started as passionate and smart businessmen just trying to get a break. Fast Food 600 words - 2 pages In the mood for a quick bite or a night out.
40 There have also been court cases involving start-up businesses during attempts to alter the halal-certified method by machine killing, which is against the beliefs of some Muslims. "McDonald's targeted in obesity lawsuit". Strawberry Fields by Miriam Wells Why People Become Corrupt: Conformity, Obedience and the Power of Situation America Needs Legal Immigrants Antimicrobial Resistance, Resistant Nosocomial Pathogens and Molecular Diagnosis of Emerging Infectious Diseases Key Characteristics of Gothic Architecture Exploring the Meanings and Morals of Fairytales Hitlers.
Junk food, advertising and Publications Research Papers Index Page Research Papers write me zoology article 201011 fast food are the mainstays of advertising which. When a person is presented with a choice of different restaurants to eat at, it is much easier for them to stick with what they know, rather than to take a gamble and dive into the unknown. "The Food Marketing Defense Model: Integrating Psychological Research to Protect Youth and Inform Public Policy". In a study of selected US locations, Morland. Catering trucks (also called food trucks) often park just outside worksites and are popular with factory workers. On the other hand, though it is not fine dining but that could be your second choice. The True Cost of America's Diet. There are many small local fast food chains that serve pizza, hamburgers, sushi and local foods such as hummus, falafel and shawarma. While fast food restaurants give the impression of offer healthy food, nutritionist studies show the healthy alternatives are not as nutritious as advertised and can lead to calorie underestimation and overconsumption. Quick food does not mean nutritious food. View document Fast Food Profit 2300 words - 9 pages Fast Food Profit The American economy relies upon competitive exchange: a process where opposition within a market creates standards for quality and price valuation. Louis Reasoning Research Paper Ethnic Conflict in Afghanistan Mandatory Drug Testing for Student Athletes Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Lesbian Feminism The United States: Albert Fish: Serial Killer The Jazz Age World gurpurab essay in english War I Social Mobility in the United States Nicholas Sparks: His Life, Literature, and.
E non essay photo read fast food restaurant? 10 pages research paper on oleanna graduation essays about global assignment.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T07:47:20",
"url": "http://taekwon-do-academy.eu/60733-fast-food-restaurant-research-paper/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Take your window measurements and your siding renovation ideas with you and please pay us a visit. We would love to ‘quote’ you!!
Buy from your local contractor -- Jack’s Aluminum Ltd. We are here to stay, Since 1976.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T18:33:28",
"url": "http://www.whereisjack.ca/where-is-jack-now/test",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
I think the fanfictions she might upload them on the writing board, no??
I'm dragging two people in. Eventually.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T18:31:17",
"url": "http://tatiiart.activoforo.com/t112-inviting-friends-contest",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Are you a digital guru? We want to hear from YOU!
Do you want to be apart of something really exciting? Do you want the prestige for working for one of the best creative agencies in Australia? Do you like the flexibility of freelancing but want more regular work? Is this you? AQUENT have heard you!
Strong knowledge and experience with Programming languages C++ (VC++) and C# .NET is a must.
To be successful in any of these roles, you will ideally have a minimum of 4 plus years experience in a similar role, have impeccable interpersonal skills and have a high attention to detail. Experience in Advertising / Media agency would be seen as advantageous.
In return, this employer of choice will reward you with A grade clients, work variety and a friendly and dynamic team culture, and an opportunity to work with one of Australia’s most respected and Award winning Advertising Agencies.
To apply for any of these roles, please contact either Samia Mohsin on 03 9244 9910 or Kimberley Hayes on 02 8288 8218 or [email protected] with your resume.
follow Aquent Australia on Twitter. You can also download our free iphone/andriod app.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T18:25:41",
"url": "https://aquent.com/our-expertise/job-description-library/Are-you-a-digital-guru-We-want-to-hear-from-YOU-400015094",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Happy Sunday everyone! August already! Seriously! where is this year going?
It’s time for a new challenge over at AAA Cards and our theme this fortnight is friendship. Our sponsor is CAS-ual Fridays.
There are so many ways to reflect this theme, aren’t there? In the end I decided to do some simple stamping and colouring using the Altenew Ditsy Print stamp set. I love that pretty pattern – and even though Altenew included layering stamps in the set, I wanted to use my Prismacolor pencils to colour it. I must confess, I got a little carried away when colouring this image – I lost track of time and burnt my dinner! Oops! At least it was still edible…. just!
My teammates have shared some gorgeous CAS cards on the AAA Cards blog and we are also joined by Sandie from London Days as our Guest Designer. She has some fabulous creations – you must pay her a visit!
Beautiful! Love the fresh and summery look of your colours, obviously been raining in that garden!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T09:08:44",
"url": "https://luciegcards.com/2018/08/05/better-with-friends/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Kolkata is a city in the state of West Bengal. Every single year, huge quantity of people likes to go to the city just not for their holidays but for the sake of employment as well. Now these days, Relocating residence or workplace from one particular place to yet another location is becoming fairly hassle-free of charge and is deemed as an effortless activity. Packers movers Kolkata are also there to aid you outThey offer high-class solutions to their customers. Relocating your property or office from 1 spot to yet another spot is as an effortless job as Kolkata movers packers are ready to help you by supplying their higher-class services to the consumers.
Be positive to verify the customer-advocacy sites Each of these has a blacklist of businesses with a history of customer complaints, as properly as guidelines and common information about the moving sector. You can also do a search making use of the firm name at Rip-off Report ( ).
We sat there. Four-thirty in the morning, out of gas, with no way out in sight. My boyfriend named roadside help, and they presented us some hope, so he took a nap whilst I pondered the issue. Do I know anyone in Georgia? Yes, but I never have the telephone numbers on me, and I actually had no thought how far away that individual was from exactly where we were. Sunrise came, and concepts were brewing. Possibly an additional gas station would be open now that it was morning.
Avoid unfortunate moving day chaos by producing a comprehensive moving program. Recruit the acceptable staff to support plan the timeline, investigation enterprise moving businesses, get the office organized, and develop a method to hold organization flowing uninterrupted. That includes your tech team, who requirements to be positive that all wiring in the new workplace is appropriately installed and functioning. Be certain you contemplate when to move — avoiding times when massive projects are coming to a close, or client activity is at a peak.
There are 4 stops along the tracks every single complete with entertaining sounds and play. At the station you’ll a snack bar with eating region, flower shop with removable flower basket and ticket counter where you check your luggage. When the train passes the station, it stops and you are going to hear entertaining train sounds and the Working on the Railroad tune.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T16:31:57",
"url": "https://www.congtyxedulich.com/household-goods-mover-search.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
[Y]ou are an untrained popular Catholic apologist. . . . As far as I know you hold no graduate degrees in philosophy, theology, history or any other relevant field. Noting a fact is not an expression of personal animus. At most it is an expression of indifference. . . .
[P]eople wishing a quality dialog go to Michael L[iccione] or Bryan Cross rather than your blog.
By all means, [Name], go dialogue with fellow academics like Michael or Bryan. That’s the world you are in. No one would expect any differently. It’s part and parcel of the academic enterprise. Some academics (like Michael, and also Bryan and many other Catholics online) also care about talking to (and educating) non-academics, too, and I’ve always appreciated that more democratic and egalitarian attitude (over against the ivory tower mentality). That is the essence of a teacher: educating those who know less. I thank God for those people. I immensely admire their efforts outside of the colleges and universities and seminaries.
I must say I was surprised to hear that educated people supposedly avoid my site, since I have more than 650 [now probably at least 900+] dialogues posted on it, including many dozens with professors (in addition to lots of pastors, and those with graduate degrees, too). But in a dream world these edu’m’cated folks supposedly never engage me in dialogue. They account for probably one-sixth to one-fifth of my total dialogues.
I’ve noted many times, and it is appropriate and necessary to do so again, after an avalanche of posts critical towards me (surely I am entitled to have my “say” too): the most successful Catholic apologists have been those who did not have a theological degree (not even an undergraduate one). My own category of “popular lay apologist” is of this nature.
G. K. Chesterton: the most successful and influential “popular apologist” of the first third of the 20th century, not only had no theological degree; he had no degree whatever, in anything. He took a few art classes at a college. That’s it. Yet a noted Thomist like Gilson said that his book on St. Thiomas Aquinas was better than any that he had written himself, and had more insight into the topic, and very profound wisdom.
C. S. Lewis was the most influential Christian apologist of the next 30-year period. He was (as most know) a Professor of English Literature: not theologically trained, that I know of. He had some training in philosophy.
Frank Sheed: a lay apologist of great influence, was a lawyer. Thomas Howard is another English professor. Malcolm Muggeridge was a journalist (like Chesterton). Peter Kreeft is a philosophy professor. Karl Keating is a lawyer (though I believe he has taken some theology courses). There are some exceptions: Scott Hahn: a theology professor who also does popular-level stuff and has had tremendous influence. But by and large, it is as I have said.
Thus, we see that there is nothing unusual whatever in this; nor is it somehow frowned upon by the Church (quite the contrary!). Chesterton (high school education and no theological training) was greatly honored in the Church, and that was 100 years ago. So was Sheed.
I don’t claim to be anything I am not. There is no pretense here. I’m in this proud tradition of lay apologetics, that doesn’t necessarily require advanced degrees in theology (though the more education the better). There is nothing whatever to be ashamed of in that. If someone thinks I am deficient in technical areas of theology because I haven’t read 35 books on one narrow topic (as academics do) — in the original languages — , no skin off my back. I never said that I did read that much on some fine point; nor do I wish to. More power to those who do!
But I’ve read virtually all of, for example Cardinal Newman and Chesterton (that’s no small number of books!), in order to produce (“officially”) published quotations books devoted to them. I’ve even done the same this year with John Wesley, and now St. Augustine. I learn and read what is helpful to my particular task: lay apologetics, and explaining and teaching how to defend the Catholic faith to the masses. I’m a successful author, with eight books put out by mainstream Catholic publishers, and lots more to come before I depart this earth. That is not insignificant, nor is it at all easy to do.
I’m happy to occasionally take some arrows and insults. Let ’em fly. That is nothing compared to the multiple hundreds of letters received, of folks saying they are coming into the Church or returning to it, due in part (on a theological, intellectual, human level) to my writings. The Holy Spirit ultimately draws men in, by His grace, of course. It’s all due to Him; all glory to God.
We apologists mostly just remove roadblocks. That’s what I am here for; what God has called me to do in my life, so let the insults fly if you (or anyone else of like mind) must, about my education and credentials (and far worse). They’re wrongheaded and miss the mark entirely.
And any fair-minded person reading this can surely see that.
"If you claim to be docile to the living magisterium of the Church, why *don't* ..."
"You're quite the name-caller, aren't you? Reminds me of grade-school.The day will come when (the ..."
Why We Should Fully Expect Many "Bible Difficulties"
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T13:13:04",
"url": "https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2019/03/reply-to-an-academic-snobs-insults-of-my-apologetics.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Sweet California plum mousse | Sencor - Let's live!
Pour plums with wine, then add honey. Boil and keep on a low heat for about 1 hour. Cool down, put into the fridge so that flavours combine together. Boil on the low heat the next day. When you notice that you can't stir it any longer, you can add a litte of hot water. Put everything into a blender and blend until smooth.
Boil jars as well as lids. Put mousse into a pot. You can use up hot water left from boiling jars to clean the blender - it will be much easier to clean. Dry jars and lids. Keep mousse on a low heat. Put into jars, twist and put them upside down until cool. You can lick the pot!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T20:33:59",
"url": "http://www.sencor.eu/sweet-california-plum-mousse",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Lisandro made it 2 bracelets in a single World Series of Poker. He won Event #37, the 10K Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo split, making it 2 career bracelets in stud....insert Lisandro=Stud jokes here.
Please tune in to www.tv.pokernews.com for all the latest updates in the highest video quality.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T22:11:49",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUlT6koQ13Q",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Specialist in Plasturgy, MICROTECHNIC designs, develops and manufactures high precision parts and assembled units.
We favour an interdisciplinary and global approach, by covering the different steps starting from the design of the parts and tools till the processing of plastics and the assembly of the units and sub-units.
MICROTECHNIC responds to customer issues by offering turnkey solutions and ensuring optimum implementation.
Recognized player in the automobile sector, MICROTECHNIC also generates a significant portion of his turnover in the field of electrical applications, domotics and leisure.
Finally, we also develop and commercialize a range of own products.
With over 300 employees worldwide, spread over 3 continents, MICROTECHNIC is among the globally recognized plastic industrial manufacturer.
Each site meets specific requirements. Their cohesion allows us to offer a wide range of services and quality while maintaining the responsiveness and flexibility of a small structure.
Since 1955, MICROTECHNIC has been plastic industrial partner. These years of experience give MICROTECHNIC technical mastery and expertise needed to meet the ambitious technical challenges and meet high quality standards.
The company focuses most of its efforts in the manufacture of parts with high dimensional requirements, combining technical materials with complex shapes.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T02:54:34",
"url": "http://microtechnic.mc/en/le-groupe/presentation",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Note: This recipe is adapted from one by chef Nicholas Petti at Fort Bragg's Mendo Bistro. It won the annual Mendocino crab cake cook-off so many times that it is now retired. Petti serves this with a simple tart cabbage slaw.
Step 1Make the aioli by processing the egg yolks, garlic, lemon juice, one-half teaspoon salt and Tabasco sauce in a food processor or blender until thoroughly mixed. Add the water and process 15 seconds. With the machine running, slowly drizzle in the olive oil until the mixture comes together and thickens. Transfer it to a bowl and stir in the tarragon. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use, up to 2 days.
Step 2To make the crab cakes, combine the crabmeat, breadcrumbs, green onions and one-half cup of the aioli. The mixture should hold together. If it doesn't, add a little more aioli. Season with salt to taste.
Step 3Form the mixture into 6 (3-inch) cakes. Sprinkle some more breadcrumbs on a plate and dip one side of each crab cake in the crumbs.
Step 4Using a skillet big enough to hold the cakes comfortably (or cook the cakes in batches), heat the oil over medium-high heat until just smoking. Add the crab cakes, crumb side down, and cook until golden brown, about 4 minutes. Turn the cakes, reduce the heat slightly and cook until golden brown and heated through, about 4 minutes. Drain on paper towels. Serve with the remaining tarragon aioli on the side.
961 calories; 28 grams protein; 14 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram fiber; 89 grams fat; 13 grams saturated fat; 157 mg. cholesterol; 655 mg. sodium.
The 100-year-old white clapboard walls of the Portuguese Assn. Crown Hall seem almost to bulge outward, swelling with the sheer joy inside on this late January evening.
A couple of hundred happy eaters are packed around long trestle tables laid with long sheets of white butcher paper. Every so often -- but not nearly often enough -- someone brings over a cafeteria tray heaped with cooked Dungeness crab.
This is crab as it was meant to be eaten. There are no fancy preparations. It is boiled plain and served straight up, with no distractions except for melted butter. Save the elaborate dipping sauces for another time. Crab cakes, salads, soups or gratins? Those are for leftovers. The menu here is elemental in the extreme: salad, cracked crab, garlic bread and for dessert -- as if you'd have any room after having torn through two or three Dungies -- a little tub of vanilla ice cream like you used to get in the elementary school cafeteria.
When a tray is brought to the table, those closest to the landing point fall on the crab in a feeding frenzy, pulling it apart, cracking legs and claws, tearing open the shells and sucking out the sweet, minerally meat.
Their faces and hands grow sticky with juice, but the more they eat, the hungrier they seem to get. Dungeness has that effect on people. The din is practically deafening, a happy hubbub of neighbors and old friends reconnecting over some of the most delicious food in the world.
If ever there was a single moment that would capture the magic of Dungeness crab, this is it. An annual feast that marks the end of the holiday crab rush, it always sells out months in advance.
What makes the dinner even better is that so many of those celebrating are the people who know the crab the best -- the ones who depend on it for their living. Indeed, Crown Hall was built in 1901 as the Catholic church for the area's Portuguese fishermen.
Dungeness crab is much more than a winter treat up here on California's North Coast. It is a major industry, a vital part of the local economy. From Crescent City in the north to Half Moon Bay south of San Francisco, crabs mean cash -- and lots of it. And on the North Coast, where the beauty of the scenery is matched only by the bleakness of the economy, that is crucial.
The Dungeness harvest, which for all practical purposes lasts only from the middle of November until the end of January, is either the first- or second-richest fishery in California, depending on the year and the vagaries of nature.
It accounted for more than $35 million in 2003 (a huge year), dwarfing squid, the state's second-leading product, at $25 million and leaving king salmon's $12 million in the dust.
But this is anything but easy money. Dungeness are only found from Monterey north, and in winter the Pacific Ocean up here is rough, the color of dirty pavement. The water is icy, with temperatures in the 40s and low 50s. When you're out on the crab boats, the weather is often so overcast that it is hard to determine a horizon line between the dark gray of the water and the slightly lighter gray of the sky.
Sometimes you might almost believe that's a good thing, as boats sink and rise on enormous swells. If you could actually see how rough the ocean was, it might seem even worse. It's bad enough straining to catch a glimpse of the fog-shrouded headlands that appear and disappear less than a mile away.
There are no pleasure boats out on this water. The only company is a couple of passing whales and a half-dozen other fishermen.
The competition for Dungeness crab is fierce, partly because the fishery is so extremely efficient. Biologists estimate that 80% to 90% of the eligible crabs (basically, sexually mature males) are caught each season. To get their share, fishermen race in a dead sprint to take as much as they can as quickly as they can before the crabs become so scarce that it costs more to catch them than they can be sold for.
"You want to know what it's like?" says one crab industry expert. "Pile $35 million in $1 bills in the middle of the floor. Jam 600 fishermen in a circle around it and then blow a whistle and say, 'Go!' "
Actually, there are two California Dungeness crab seasons. First, starting Nov. 15, comes the so-called city season from San Francisco south. Starting Dec. 1, the rest of the state starts fishing. Between 70% and 80% of the California catch comes before New Year's Day, even though the season technically runs until mid-July.
Oregon and Washington have winter seasons that usually begin about the same time as California's and run a little longer. There is also a spring fishery in British Columbia and a summer harvest in Alaska that keep Dungeness in the markets pretty much all year round. But the bulk of the sales are done by Super Bowl Sunday.
The fishery is remarkably sustainable: It is on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch's "green list" as a "best choice" seafood. To protect the population, the season is closed when females are carrying eggs. Furthermore, regulations allow fishermen to take only male crabs that are bigger than 6 1/4 inches across. These will be at least 4 years old and will already have a year or two of reproduction under their belts.
To ensure that only crabs of legal size are caught, the traps have been specially designed. Big, round chicken-wire containers the size of truck tires, they have an opening in the center that allows any crabs smaller than the legal minimum to escape. Furthermore, the main trap hatch is tied shut with special twine that deteriorates in seawater, so if a trap gets lost any crabs it contains will eventually be freed.
The average boat works 250 to 300 traps, hauling them in every day in the early season. When fishing slows, that might go down to once every two or three days.
The traps are attached by long ropes to brightly colored buoys that bob on the surface. Each boat has its own distinctive color scheme so it can recognize its buoys from a distance.
When a buoy is spotted, a crewman catches the rope and attaches it to a winch, which hoists the trap up from the bottom. The trap is lifted aboard, and a deckhand inspects each crab. First he flips it over and checks the "apron" on its belly -- a wide apron means it's a female, and it will be chucked back into the ocean. Then any crab that is close to the legal minimum is double-checked with a set of calipers.
In this way, California crabbers took more than 22 million pounds of Dungeness in 2003. Oregon crabbers caught a little more, almost 23.5 million pounds, and Washington fishermen were rewarded with a bumper 33.7 million pounds -- almost half again as much as the previous season.
That kind of fluctuation is normal in the crab business, and that's just one more reason crabbers push so hard so fast to get their share.
Ironically, while this frenzied fishing doesn't seem to harm the crab population, it is extremely hard on the fishermen. Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world, and that is particularly true in the rough, icy waters of the Pacific Northwest. It's a rare year that goes by without a serious accident.
Even on the calmest of oceans, the very nature of the Dungeness fishery can cause accidents. In their rush to catch their limits quickly, fishermen can overwhelm their boats -- loading aboard so many crabs and traps that the slightest crosswise wave turns the whole thing right over. They can also overwhelm themselves: Exhaustion is a leading cause of accidents as crabbers push to fish around the clock to get the most out of the early season.
This is the same kind of dangerous "derby" fishing that led to the 1995 reforms in the Alaskan halibut industry. Today, each boat has an allotted share of the catch, which it can take at its leisure. This has improved safety, extended the fresh season and increased the price the fishermen get for their catch.
But even though almost everyone in the crab industry agrees that something similar needs to be done, a recent University of California survey of crabbers regarding various management options found the most popular choice was maintaining the current system.
The California Legislature passed a bill that would limit each boat on the Central Coast to 250 traps on an experimental basis (the second-most popular solution). But at the urging of processors and large boat owners, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it.
Once the crabs are caught, they are unloaded at the boats' home ports and then trucked to central processing plants like Caito Fisheries at Noyo Harbor, a tiny port hidden in a cleft in the land between Mendocino and Fort Bragg. Small as it is, more than half a million pounds of Dungeness crab pass through Noyo every year.
As at other fishing ports along the coast, you can buy whole crabs here straight off the boats and at a couple of small seafood markets. But at Noyo that is pretty much window dressing for tourists. Almost all of the Dungeness landed here is cooked and cleaned for meat (as are about 60% of all the crabs caught on the West Coast). In an industrial setting like Caito, a crew of 30 workers can clean 10,000 pounds of live crab a day.
In Southern California, we can't just run down to the docks to pick out our crabs (they aren't caught south of Monterey). But we do have an even more convenient alternative. Asian markets, such as the widespread 99 Ranch chain, usually have whole tanks filled with live Dungeness. Think of them as landlocked crab boats. Indeed, in some ways they're even better.
Last week at the 99 Ranch market on Pioneer Boulevard in Artesia, they had two separate tanks of Dungeness crabs, having separated out the biggest and fattest ones to sell for an extra $1 a pound ($5.69 versus $4.69).
This is the way to go. While you can buy whole cooked crab, clusters (cooked leg sections) and even cleaned meat, crabs as regal as the Dungeness deserve the very best treatment. That means carefully choosing and cooking them yourself and then serving them in the simplest possible manner so you can appreciate the full natural savor of the crab. Save the fancy preparations for whatever crabmeat you have left over after a cracked-crab feast, or just buy an extra crab or two to cook alongside the ones you're going to eat right away.
Call it the Mendocino menu: Arrange the crab pieces on a platter. Slice a loaf of crusty bread. Open a bottle of white wine. Make a green salad. Then call your family and closest friends to the table and let the frenzy begin.
This year's Dungeness crab harvest promises to be one of the biggest in quite some time, and thanks to a quirk of nature this wealth of crabs should last much longer than usual.
Dungeness seasons vary crazily. One year it seems there are no crabs to be had; the next year there's a glut. No one really understands why. What's uncontested is that we're in the midst of a boom. In 2001, California's total Dungeness harvest was 3.5 million pounds. In 2002 it more than doubled to just over 7 million pounds. Last year it nearly tripled to more than 22 million pounds -- the state's biggest in 25 years -- and this year's appears to be at least as big.
The same scenario is playing out in Oregon and Washington, but with an important twist: Fisheries managers found that crabs in northern Oregon and Washington were very slow to come out of the molt this year, and so the opening of the season was pushed back from the normal date of Dec. 1 to Jan. 15.
Last year Washington led the nation in Dungeness caught, and Oregon was second. With both fisheries seeing plenty of crabs in the water, consumers will probably enjoy bargains in late January and early February.
Cooking and cleaning Dungeness crab is easy.
Start by choosing a good crab. It should be well filled out, with a hard shell around the legs. And it should be full of fight. Reject any that seem light or lackadaisical.
In polite company, allow half a crab per person. If it's just family, make it a whole one. If you're by yourself, use your own discretion. Dungies yield about 25% of their live weight in picked meat. With an average weight of 2 to 2 1/2 pounds, you'll get a little more than half a pound of pure meat per crab.
Put the crab or crabs (you'll want to invite friends) in a big pot and cover with generously salted cold water. Bring to a boil, and 15 to 20 minutes after the first big bubbles appear, the crabs will be done. To verify, pull off one of the little back legs -- there should be little feathers of body meat attached.
Drain the crabs and set them aside until they are cool enough to handle (there is some disagreement whether Dungeness are best served still slightly warm or well chilled, a question worthy of extensive investigation).
To clean the crab, pry off the top shell, lifting from the back hinge, and rinse out the fat and viscera (die-hards may want to collect this; it is heavenly with mayonnaise). Pull off the gills on either side, the jaws and the "apron" underneath.
Pull off the legs and crack each large section using the back of a large knife. Cut the crab body in half lengthwise, then cut each half in sections between the leg joints. Put them on the platter and you're ready to feast.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T14:29:57",
"url": "https://recipes.latimes.com/recipe-dungeness-crab-cakes-with-tarragon-aioli/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Discussion in 'The Late Night Cafe (off-topic)' started by chefrobin, Dec 14, 2009.
You sound so proud !!!! Well a big Congratulations are in order. I am very happy that all went well. Due on the 24th ? Might , could, the 25th ?
Wow, Robin! Sounds like you whelped a bunch of rampant breeders!
Congratulations, and maybe you can adjust the next one to be a Christmas baby. Despite the disadvantage of getting one present to cover both occasions!
Make sure you spoil this one just like the rest.
London is an interesting name - they weren't on holiday in England 9 months ago?
Congratulations Robin. I love the name London Noel.
Thanks to all, she is such a laid back baby and sleeps four hours at a time, so mom and dad are getting some rest. Wish dad had done that when he was a baby!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T15:27:43",
"url": "https://cheftalk.com/threads/new-grandma.57736/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Between 24-25 March 2018 members of CCFT along with Greek and Turkish Cypriot artists, architects, activists and academics engaged in a series of creative interventions and events within the abandoned village of Ayios Sozomenos and the surrounding area.
Ayios Sozomenos lies in the Republic of Cyprus, just a few kilometers south of the UN brokered demilitarized Buffer Zone, and some 30 kilometers east of the City of Nicosia. Initial interests regarding the locality resulted from fieldwork undertaken by CCFT, and related researches made by architecture students (University of Nicosia) in the area in 2016.
Given the historic significance of the area (it has proved a rich source of archaeological remains), the village's more recent political history (its abandonment its in 1964 and present proximity to the UN Buffer Zone (established in late 1974)), and its current status as an environmental resource it provided a powerful, multi-layered and poignant location and focus for creative inter-communal and ecological research.
- 'Woodlands, Charcoal and Copper', Agios Sozomenos, 2018 (Site specific sculptural installation).
- 'One River – Two Walks: Potamia-Kirklar', Potamia, 2018 (site specific text installation and performed reading).
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T21:20:47",
"url": "http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/6596/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Heung-min Son 손흥민 is a professional Football player from South Korea, currently playing for Tottenham Hotspur F.C..
So far, we didn't write any stories about Heung-min Son 손흥민. Until we do, check out the stories on our homepage.
Heung-min Son 손흥민's team mates at Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T06:05:54",
"url": "https://ohmygear.net/en/player/heung-min-son-sonheungmin",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Green Glass Backsplash Popular BENJAMIN MOORE MISTED GREEN Benjamin Moore Kitchens And Farmhouse Throughout 1 | Effectcup.com green glass backsplash kitchen tile. blue and green glass backsplash tiles. green glass tile backsplash ideas.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T10:52:15",
"url": "http://effectcup.com/green-glass-backsplash/green-glass-backsplash-popular-benjamin-moore-misted-green-benjamin-moore-kitchens-and-farmhouse-throughout-1/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Bookollective are delighted to welcome two new members to the team; Harriet Martin as our first intern and Lauren Noding as a freelancer! We are thrilled to have Harriet, a languages graduate, join us for the summer to learn the publishing ropes and be an extra pair of hands and eyes as we edit and promote throughout July and August; preparing for the September window of new book launches, and Frankfurt Book Fair in the Autumn. Lauren will also be joining us throughout the summer to cover workload during Aimee's maternity leave, and we look forward to helping her find her footing in the industry as a freelancer.
Harriet regularly wrote and edited for University publications and has a passion for literature. She said: "I am so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the wonderful Bookollective team. I cannot wait to develop my editing skills, work with some exciting authors and learn more about every stage of the book publishing process."
Lauren was born and raised in London, but spent eight years living in the coastal county of Dorset. She has written for two online magazines, 'The Jupital Newspaper' and 'Writing Times'. Meanwhile, she runs her own blog 'A Writers Desires' to share her love of YA/Fantasy literature. Now working in the book industry, she relishes sharing great books with the world. She has work experience with two major publishing houses and an indie press and keeps herself well up to date with all the new social media trends.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T17:15:01",
"url": "http://www.bookollective.com/blog/4593175197/tags/publishing%20news",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
In a search for a medium to express my artistic visions I have concentrated the past twenty years on the art of jewelry design. I’m a graduate of the metal arts program from American Jewelers Institute in Portland, Oregon.
I make jewelry because it not only defines how I make my way, but also allows me creative expression & serves as a marker for my growth. The more in tune I become with the world around me and my place in it, the more involved and evolved my medium becomes. The materials I use must be the best I can acquire. My workmanship must constantly push the limits of my ability. It is in this way that I pay homage to this life and to the world around me. To me it is all precious. Each piece I create is truly a part of me.
I see making jewelry as an expression of beauty and appreciation for life’s many gifts. It is a way to elegantly blend color, form and style together in adornment that will be worn in celebration of life’s beauty.
I hope wearing our jewelry will bring you a smile as you’re reminded how beautiful you truly are.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T01:08:43",
"url": "https://www.ragjewelry.com/rachel-ii",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The last few weeks have been challenging and difficult for everyone involved in synagogue life. The tragic shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, as well as the uptick in anti-Semitic crimes, have put us all on edge. Many of our kehillot have held emergency meetings to look at security plans, decide on possible security upgrades and determine what could be done to make their synagogue communities safer. Our staff has received dozens of calls from kehillot looking for guidance regarding security, on such topics as low-cost ways to enhance synagogue safety, how to create an emergency plan and how to form a synagogue security committee.
As synagogue safety is an ongoing issue, we are dedicated to being at the forefront of timely and relevant resources and advice. This will include scheduling webinars and trainings on security-related topics in the upcoming weeks. We will also include a regular column dedicated to security in our bi-weekly leadership newsletter, Leadership Matters.
Assign a primary contact person. It’s important to designate and publicize a contact person that the police, FBI or anyone else could reach in case of an emergency.
Assess your communication systems. What system do you have in place in the event that you need to reach your community members?
Review your building access policy. One of the primary issues we face is the ease of access. While it might involve a change in culture, it is worthwhile to limit access to the building to just one door.
Connect with your local Jewish Federation. Many local Federations have a security liaison for the community and work directly with local law enforcement, DHS, and the FBI. Make sure you take advantage of any briefings, trainings, etc. that they may provide.
Meet with your local police department. Make sure they are aware of and working your kehilla. How can your local police force help you assess your security needs? Do they have up-to-date blueprints of your building?
We encourage you to reach out to Barry Mael, USCJ's Senior Director of Kehilla Affiliations and Operations, with any questions related to safety and security.You can also join the conversation with other synagogue leaders in the Synagogue Security Forum on USCJ’s digital community platform, The Commons.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T18:33:21",
"url": "https://stage.uscj.org/blog/synagogue-security",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
I have the Workflow Designer open for one of my workflows and I noticed that its workflow variable 'emailToList' has a Current value that IS NOT associated with this workflow. I use this variable name in many workflows but they ARE NOT THE SAME. I do not want the CEO of the company getting emails meant for development and vice versa.
Please assure me that they are not 'shared'!!!!!!!!!!!! and explain why the value from another workflow is being displayed in the Current column for this one.
I see this all the time too in our environment. It seems that if you commonly use shared variable names across workflows, the designer will show the current value for a shared variable as the value from another running workflow that shares that variable name. It is indeed annoying, but has never actually caused unexpected behavior for us.
I agree this does need to be fixed, though.
I haven't been able to reproduce this behavior. Do you know exactly how to get it to happen?
I have two Workflow Designers open. Both have a shared variable with the same name and each sets a different value. I'm then running the workflows, either one by one, or together. I'm not seeing the values ever be incorrect. Is there steps I can take to get this to happen?
There are currently 422 guests browsing this forum, which makes a total of 422 users using this forum.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T15:25:26",
"url": "http://forums.networkautomation.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=104&threadid=15079&enterthread=y&STARTPAGE=1",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
A renovated two bedroom first floor apartment is available for rent at $1500 per month. Hardwood floor is through out the apartment. Tenants pay their own light and gas. Nice kitchen and bath.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T22:35:20",
"url": "http://www.mynewplace.com/apartment/2br-1-0ba-in-1428-e-102nd-street-brooklyn-ny-2g2341078149",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
MatureXEsther . EviaMystery. Salomonx. marIrreplaceable.
LeoTestracelGwenItsBabyYippee .YlyanaAHot3SomeXshadoweyessAlanaReed .katasex2016AkiraLeenTrio4Pleasureeekatasex2016 .AilynVerashadoweyessAkiraLeenAliceTiny .LaurieBlondeericatEmeraldKathieracel .AliceTinyShanno77MaliardaSindeeSquirt .JuliaNoLimitshotissisHotCoupleLatTwinkSebastian .CristixAishCutieKathyNJoenastysia .Trio4PleasureeePepperAndFloydDEREKWYLERJosySweet .EmmaDreamsHolynJayhotyoungbottomCrystalJJ .racelPlayfulGraceCristixhotyoungbottom .
AilynVeramickeymarxTestZilahiRickWillson69 .RoxanneParkLeoTestLeoTestRoxannePark .1HotWoman1TestZilahihotissisYrLady .sexGuardian099AilynVeraLorainSophieAishCutie .YrLadyRoxanneParkGenevINDIANSUGAR20 .69DreamCOmmanderSophieeLynnkatasex2016AilynVera .DominikbunnyJuliaNoLimits2BestCUMSHOOTERxANDHYHOT .LaurieBlondeMilaMurphyAishCutiehotyoungbottom .INDIANSUGAR20HotCoupleLatYippeemickeymarx .SaraikymaitANDHYHOTKinkyCouple3ChadTroy .Ylyana69DreamCOmmander8incYoungCLASSICmickeymarx .
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T18:39:02",
"url": "https://www.wordpressoftheday.com/MatureXEsther",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
I received a note about this place and thought I'd join because I dislike really big already established forums.
I'm the best at GFX or drawing. But on the other gfx forum I'm on I'm 2nd in the 1vs1 so I'm doing something right.
I hope I learn some stuff here and have some fun! I prefer my CnC as hard as you can get!
You check my works on my DA. "Flyingginger". I specialize in Smudge. As most people like my smudges most.
I shall try get a little bit of the ball rolling.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T22:59:30",
"url": "http://roguegfx.forumotion.com/t7-cirno-s-introduction",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Two‐Way Radio Communications has evolved throughout the years. As the technology has advanced, the versatility and durability of two-way radios have also increased, which makes it ideal for a number of purposes and we now find radios in a wide range of industries including industrial, commercial and personal usage. The first true mobile two‐way radio is accredited to Frederick William Downie, an Australian policeman who introduced sets to patrol cars in 1923. Many attribute the first official walkie-talkies to the invention of Canada native Donald Hingins in 1937. Others say it was Alfred Gross, Hingins’ fellow countryman who patented the technology a year later in 1938.
Today we have Diga‐Talk Plus, a nationwide push‐to‐talk two‐way digital communication system that allows the users to connect locally and across long distance just like having a cell phone with no distance limitations. The technology is more advanced, clear, reliable and dependable when you most needed.
SO, WHAT IS IT BEST SUITED FOR?
For businesses, it’s the best two‐way digital communications technology available to keep in contact with staff and workers in the field. Have you found yourself in an area where no communication is near and having to walk a long distance to communicate with another worker? How about using expensive cell phone service to communicate with the main office? It becomes difficult at times and time-consuming. Diga‐Talk Plus offers competitive two‐way digital communication and a powerful workforce management solution with extensive nationwide coverage.
Diga‐Talk Plus provides quick and reliable access to communicating with others on the spot, especially during emergency situations. Sometimes crucial information is needed at the present moment and time is of the essence in those moments. At times we must communicate the need for more help or information to help a customer. Delays can be financially costly! A business of any kind can benefit greatly from the Diga‐Talk Plus communication system with no distance limitations and an added benefit for businesses of any kind is the ability to carry out a PC Console dispatching system that includes one to one call, one to many calling and the ability to send short messages. With this system, you can also multi‐group monitoring and have GPS tracking.
For personal use, cell phones are great for communicating with friends and family members. But, at times that communication is lost or limited. Moments at events, family outings or camping requires constant communication. As well, moments of emergencies will need reliable and dependable communication with family members. Unlike a cell phone, you have instant communication available with Push‐To‐Talk feature and you even have group communication known as group-call. You can talk to more than two people at the same time. This is not your typical walkie-talkie. Staying connected with family and friends is of great importance and with Diga‐Talk Plus two‐ way digital communications you can have a clear and reliable connection no matter the distance. We’ve got you covered!
The Diga‐Talk Plus App (DTP+) on Android and soon on iPhone. Yes, we are in the works in creating an App to connect from your Smartphone to the two‐way digital communication network with your Diga‐Talk Plus radios. More information will be provided soon on our website.
The newest technology in two-way communication just got better.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T17:02:31",
"url": "https://www.digatalkplus.com/business-use-or-personal-use/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Collectible Automobile is a cars magazine that celebrates automotive history by featuring mainly the American gems of the 1930s to 1980s.
Since 1984, Collectible Automobile has delighted readers with comprehensive looks at the vehicles Americans have known and loved -- from the Packards, Fords, Studebackers and Plymouths of the 1930s, to the Chevrolet Camaros, Ford Thunderbirds, Pontiac Firebirds and Ferrari Testarossas of the 1980s.
The editorial focuses mainly on American vehicles of that time period, but does include pivotal foreign cars from time to time. Collectible Automobile's informative content comes from the experts. They truly know what they're talking about when it comes to restored or well-maintained collector cars and trucks. Each publication contains both vibrant photography from today as well as classic archival pictures from manufacturer files and/or collectors. Collectible Automobile provides articles on featured vehicles, auto industry figures, scale-models, future collectibles, market values, collectors and much more. Readers also appreciate the absence of outside advertising.
Collectible Automobile is respected in the industry and has won many awards for overall content, writing and graphics from the SAH and the IAMC.
Vintage car collectors and enthusiasts will enjoy a subscription to Collectible Automobile.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T09:45:07",
"url": "https://www.magazines.com/collectible-automobile-magazine-41743.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
One of the hardest tasks for graphic designers, multimedia designers and interior designers alike, is getting the client to buy into your vision when they’re wired differently and battle to visualise your design concept.
In the architecture world, one firm in Oslo Norway, have started creating full-scale floor plans in the parking lot behind their offices to walk clients through their design process and explain their vision for the projects they’re tasked with.
This is a clever way of helping the client conceptualise space and layout in a 1:1 scale, creating a fun, interactive and real experience of the designer’s vision. The ultimate goal of course, is for the client to buy into the project – what better way to convince them than showing them exactly what it would look like spatially?
This is a great example of how innovative ideas can be applied practically to the working world and is inspiring an evolution between client and designer relationships.
We wonder what innovative solutions our graphic design, interior design and multimedia design students could come up with in the future.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T04:35:28",
"url": "https://designcenter.co.za/news/full-scale-floor-plans-help-architects-walk-clients-designs/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Pointe Santo Luxury Rental - Welcome!
• Luxurious condo on the Gulf of Mexico.
• Large ground floor corner unit with 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths..
• King size bed in the master bedroom & queen plus twin beds in the guest bedroom.
• Savor Gulf views while eating lunch on the lovely screened lanai.
• One minute walk to the beach or pool.
• Just renovated. New kitchen and baths.
• Built in wet bar, wine rack and computer desk.
• Deluxe new Bosch washer & dryer in unit.
• Large HD flat screen TV in living room; 3 DVDs and 3 televisions with cable.
• Free Wireless web throughout condo, at pool & clubhouse.
Enjoy Sanibel's best kept grounds lush with native, tropical plants.
Pointe Santo features 10 beautifully groomed beachfront acres, clubhouse, heated pool, spa, 2 tennis courts with free loaner racquets, supervised recreation programs for children, new stainless steel BBQ grills, shuffleboard, picnic areas & onsite security.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T16:10:54",
"url": "http://pointesantorentals.com/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Heat a large fry pan or dutch oven (something that has a lid) over medium-high heat. Add olive oil. When hot, place garlic halves, cut-side down, into the pan and leave to brown. Remove from the pan and set aside. Add fennel wedges to hot pan and allow them to brown. Transfer to the plate with the garlic.
Season chicken thighs with a sprinkling of sea salt. Place skin-side down in hot pan and leave to brown. Turn and brown the other side. At this point, add garlic and fennel pieces back to the pan, tucking everything in together. Turn the heat up, add white wine, bay leaf, sea salt and pepper. Top up the pan with a little water (not quite to cover ingredients, just about halfway up) and bring to a boil. Lower heat a little, cover, and leave to simmer away until chicken is cooked through, about 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile, make the lentils.
Heat olive oil in a small pan over medium heat. Add shallot and stir. When shallots begin to soften, add vinegar and bring to a boil. Add dried cranberries, lower heat, and stir. When ready to serve, stir in lentils and top with a crumbling of blue cheese.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T22:52:27",
"url": "http://lovefood.tv/season-1/1-2/1-2-spanish-braised-chicken/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
In March 2000, just prior to the formation of the DA, the Democratic Party released a document titled ‘All Power to the Party’. There is a strong case to be made it constituted one the most important pieces of political analysis in South Africa’s post apartheid history.
It did two things: First, it identified and articulated for the first time what cadre deployment was and how its consequences were profoundly undemocratic (where it came from, how it had conceptualised and adopted by the ANC in 1997 and how its underlying motivation was the creation of a parallel authority to the constitution – ANC cadres were accountable first and foremost to the ANC NEC); second, it demonstrated cadre deployment’s practical effect, by tracking a range of appointments that were clearly made to bring the country’s “key levers of power” under the ANC’s control.
It represented one of those profound conceptual insights which require civil society – at the time completely seduced by President Mbeki’s spell – to detach from all it took for granted and re-access its position. That, however, proved to be a bridge too far for most and the DP was derided and maligned for its analysis.
The editorial below is from the Business Day, in which it accused the DP of McCarthyism, an fundamentally fails to understand or accept the democratic principles that cadre deployment threatened to erode.
Things have changed fundamentally since then (Financial Mail journalist Carol Paton recently described cadre deployment as “perhaps the biggest disaster of the transition period”) but it serves as a healthy reminder that the truth will out, and a well-founded and carefully reasoned opinion, even when it runs against convention, will outlast that which is merely politically correct. Many desperately wanted to believe Mbeki’s ANC not an increasingly centralized and autocratic machine, so much so they refused to accept that which was before their eyes.
Last week the Democratic Party published its ‘All Power to the Party’ document on the appointment to senior government and parastatal posts trusted ANC cadres of the last few years. The DP seized this is an attack on the doctrine of separation of party and state, and paints a picture of a Leninist-inspired ANC attempt to ‘extend its hegemony’ over society.
Should we all be terrified of a tyrannical regime’s pervasive tentacles? Or should the DP be embarrassed at a McCarthyist effort to paint a false picture of the post apartheid state. Perhaps the DP is being too clever, seizing on the Leninist jargon the ANC uses to discuss strategies, including its ‘cadre deployment’ strategies. The jargon is a feature of ANC policy literature; it even uses Leninist terminology to explain its growth, employment and redistribution strategy, described by detractors as Thatcherite.
An ‘apolitical’ public service is part of the Westminister tradition. But there are many democracies where senior public service appointees openly support the incumbent. The prime example is the US, where even supreme court judges tend to share the political outlook of the president who appointed them. The attorney-general is a cabinet-member, though he or she is expected to avoid political partisanship. Senior administrators change jobs as president’s come and go. Similar standards apply in European democracies. An exception tends to be the post of central bank governor; it is not an exemption in South Africa.
South Africa hardly has a long tradition of apolitical public service. With a the bulk of skilled being ANC supporters, the trend the DP identifies was always going to be an aspect of South Africa’s peaceful revolution. So the DP must be pronounced guilty of McCarthyism.
That does not mean we can afford to be complacent. Not all political appointees are up to the jobs they get. All must be watched to ensure they do not take partisan decisions that go against national norms and interests. Fortunately South Africa is a democracy, so we have the ability – and duty – to maintain our vigilance.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T21:59:23",
"url": "https://inside-politics.org/2012/02/12/vigilance-and-mccarthyism/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
EMMA participated at the first two Living Labs organized in Pisa by Confesercenti Toscana, that is a network of private companies working on the regional area.
Living Lab is a format of event that adopts participatory approaches with the purpose of transferring digital competencies, engaging the audience through non-formal activities, co-design workshops and learning by doing.
The two training events took place in Pisa on 27th February and 6th March 2018. They represented an important occasion to directly meet small groups of tourism operators, inviting them to put their hands on the EMMA platform and give our team immediate and useful impressions and feedback.
VisitTuscany.com is the new official tourism branding of Tuscany region, developed by Fondazione Sistema Toscana. It consists of a new portal, a new digital ecosystem aimed to the promotion of the Tuscany destination. The staff of Fondazione presented the new portal and its new functionalities, especially focusing on the digital communication tools, technologies and strategies that the portal makes available for the tourism operators.
In the days before the Living Labs, together with the team of VisitTuscany, we have created two promotional stories, powered by EMMA with the hints and contents of VisitTuscany.com. The stories shown during the Living Labs helped the operators to explore with our guidance the power of contents in the destination promotion and experience the features and operating methods of EMMA. Following an explanation of the EMMA platform and a live demonstration about how easy it is to create and edit stories and make them part of an existing Wordpress website, the participants of the living labs got themselves the chance to use EMMA. While some participants chose to simply explore the interface others even created stories and explored the content available for materials related to the region they were coming from.
The two stories we prepared for the event were devoted to the Pisa and Norther coast of Tuscany, since the larger part of operators attending the events came from those areas. Don't you know those areas? Please find here below Pisa and the north coast of Tuscany by following the link.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T01:17:46",
"url": "https://emma.in-two.com/EMMA/post/47049765",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Join the award-winning content management system (CMS), the default platform for most of the dynamic websites today.
The most efficient and simple alternative for robust content management system (CMS) for dynamic websites.
Download and learn more about the most popular server-side scripting language for web applications today.
Project repository of the most popular open-source RDBMS platform for web applications today.
Join Java's Developer Network and download the latest SDKs, toolkits and white papers of the first really platform-independent programming language.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T21:59:23",
"url": "http://www.c4i.gr/xgeorgio/j15r2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=154",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
This is a 100% gluten-free and dairy-free, almond-based biscuit.
The legend of massepain dates to 1,800 BC in ancient Egypt where villagers blended crushed almonds and honey together. The French believe that the Crusaders carried it back from Persia to their homeland during the Dark Ages where nuns in France carried on the traditional recipe. During the Renaissance, the kings of France cherished this delicacy; baking it into small cookies called “massepains.” Lightly baked, it gives a crusty outside and remains chewy on the inside.
An ideal accompaniment to coffee, tea or hot chocolate.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T23:48:16",
"url": "https://asteriskkitchen.com.au/collections/sweet-biscuits/products/massepain",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Ladies Bulgari stainless steel wristwatch. Integrated stainless steel bracelet. Fixed bezel engraved with BVLGARI logo. Black dial with silver-tone hands and stick hour markers; Arabic numerals at the 12 and 6 o'clock positions; date aperture at the 3 o'clock position. Sapphire crystal. Quartz movement. Solid caseback. 26mm case diameter. Reference #: BB26BSSD/N.
Ladies Bulgari stainless steel wristwatch. Integrated stainless steel bracelet. Fixed bezel engraved with BVLGARI logo. Black dial with silver-tone hands and stick hour markers; Arabic numerals at the 12 and 6 o'clock positions; date aperture at the 3 o'clock position. Sapphire crystal. Quartz movement. Solid caseback. 26mm case diameter. Reference #: BB26BSSD/N. Good Condition. Accompanied by the original box and papers. Also including a one year Van Rijk warranty.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T16:18:37",
"url": "https://www.vanrijkestatejewellers.com/luxury-watches/mens-womens-watches/bvlgari-ladies-stainless-steel-black-dial-26mm-quartz-watch",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Even as social media presents new business opportunities, many organizations are still struggling to embrace it for fear that it puts their reputation at risk. Social media policy creation is touted as one way to manage online reputation risks, but in reality a social media policy isn't full-proof.
A social media policy does define brand standards and voice to ensure consistency across online platforms, but it's not the same as a brand guide.
A social media policy is a set of guidelines or principles for "appropriate" conduct on social media. The objective of a social media policy is to mitigate risk by minimizing employee confusion about what is harmful to the organization and what is not.
If you want to direct and control the conduct of employees on social media, be aware that you are also assuming responsibility and liability for what they say or post. If a social post can be shown to somehow be within the scope of an employee's job at work, your organization could be held liable. But think about that, in how many circumstances is a social post within the scope of your job? Cyberbullying or defamation against co-workers, those would be examples.
Rather than indicating that you have to approve posts and profiles made by employees in your policy, state how your organization will not tolerate discrimination, hurtful comments, and the like.
How strict you make your social media policy will indicate whether you will need to create a role for someone to full-time monitor all social media activity. Sure you could ask your social media team or social media manager to do this on the side, but monitoring is actually more time consuming than you might think. Ask yourself, is it worth policing your employees? The bigger question is, how much do you trust your employees?
A social media policy does not give an organization the right to reprimand or fire an employee over what they say on social media willy nilly. Speech on social media is protected speech. The First Amendment extends to the internet, so an organization cannot dictate what or how employees communicate online. Your employees are a reflection of your brand, but your employees have the right to privacy and a space separate from their work for free expression.
You can clearly define and make clear the consequences for discussing trade secrets or other confidential information, but if you have a social media policy that dictates what and how your employees communicate, you could end up with fines and a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board.
To make sure your social media policy isn't violating any privacy rights or other laws, hire a legal counsel who specializes in organizational policy creation.
What's more, employees have the right to discuss their working conditions online because The National Labor Relations Act gives all employees the right to engage in ‘protected concerted activity for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection.' The National Labor Relations Act also protects employees from retaliation by their employer for discussing pay, hours or working conditions. Interesting to note, cases where employees were not protected from termination were instances where the NLR saw social posts as "venting" and ruled in the favor of the employer.
Also, an employee cannot be terminated or disciplined for social media activity that relates to a protected status: their race, religion, marital status, national origin, gender, pregnancy, age, a disability and more. Again, I recommend you enlist the help of a legal counsel to help you in the creation of your organization's social media policy.
Social media policies are based on fear, fear that employee online conversations and behavior will damage the reputation of the organization. If you would rather dispense with fear and opt for a more positive approach, take this approach: involve your employees in your social media strategy.
Create a 'Social Media Best Practices' document that equips your employees with how to best serve your social media brand initiatives. Offer training opportunities so they can learn how to use social media better in their personal life and as an employee. Include them on social media campaigns you're running or events you would appreciate them to share.
Rather than police, censor, and instill fear in them, show your employees you value them and trust their judgement. In the process you are fostering a feeling of connectedness and collaboration, strengthening your organization from the inside out.
As much as your customers are a big part of your reputation, so too are your employees. Why wouldn't you want your employees to be advocates of your brand? It makes managing your online reputation that much easier when your employees have your back.
Need help figuring out your social media strategy? Contact us at Geoffresh for your social media strategy needs.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T10:23:17",
"url": "https://www.geoffresh.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-before-drafting-a-social-media-policy",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Denis Horvat returns to world-renowned Afterlife for a second EP "Miracle Of The Rose"
Super talented Techno DJ and producer, Denis Horvat returns to world-renowned Afterlife Recordings for a second EP of distinctive, dancefloor productions.
A year after his first release ‘Modelo’ on Tale Of Us‘ label Afterlife comes ‘Miracle Of The Rose’, an evocative and authentic development of Denis Horvat’s sound. On ‘Noise’, the vocals of Lelah give way to a stripped-down, reverberant groove.
The title track rises with a free-flowing melody before dropping a tough, angular beat. ‘Divin’ is the EP’s deepest cut, before digital only track ‘Royale’ rounds off this diverse release with flair.
Available on 12” vinyl and digital from March 22, 2019.
Listen to the EP below and enjoy!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T18:54:10",
"url": "https://www.ravejungle.com/2019/03/22/afterlife-denis-horvat-ep/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Thefts can turn violent if the thief is caught, leading to potential fights, injury or death. This risk cannot be justified.
There is stealing that goes below the radar, or is not forbidden by law. Enter state corruption and inner circle deals. Politicians aiming for a good position in business after pushing laws favorable to this said business. Stealing just for greed is morally wrong. Stealing to survive is justified.
The risk is taken by the perpetrator of the theft, and the thief MUST have a reason (otherwise he wouldn't steal), thus it is always justified in essence.
If a thief is starving and risks dying, there is no greater risk to their life/survival than inaction. Survival justifies the risk.
This is reasonably rare; most stealing is rather petty.
In the event that it does turn violent, then a whole new crime has occurred, violence. Which means that at the core, the claim is not about theft, but about violence.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T16:13:40",
"url": "https://www.kialo.com/thefts-can-turn-violent-if-the-thief-is-caught-leading-to-potential-fights-injury-or-death-this-risk-cannot-be-justified-14447.8?path=14447.0~14447.1_14447.8",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Abraham says to get into the Vortex of Creation before writing—or doing any work you care about, but don’t have to do right then. I can see why. So I won’t write today. I’ll relax and rest, enjoying the thunderclouds and rain. Also beautiful ideas, images, words, and music like these.
The words of Alan Watts show why we needn’t worry about having days and moods like this. They are a part of human existence.
That softly flowing music was by Max Richter.
As I lay on the cold cement ground, my back pushing between the cracks, my arms spread like an angels wings, so heavy I can’t lift a finger, my heart spread across my sleeve and the colour in my eyes fading as I numbly stare into the darkening clouds building mass, a couple of rain drops spill, hobbling down my paling cheeks, replacing the tears these ducts dried up of a very long time ago and I begin to forget why I’m here, my sadness still there but the reasons behind it already vanishing, my dreams, my passions, the person I wished to become, all distancing at once, I finally realise, it wasn’t death I wished for this entire time, no the agony hadn’t disappeared along with the rest of my essence, It’s at that point, when the world turns into a blurry haze, I realise what I had actually wished for. I had wished in the moment of fearing death that I might, for a brief instance, experience for the first time, what wanting to stay alive felt like.
Do I wish you farewell… or should I curse you for my terrorizing pain? Who knows. I haven’t decided yet. I don’t care enough to.
I see nothing before me, yet I’m aware of what I’m expecting, as though you’re about to enter a room you haven’t yet opened the door to but you’ve already seen what’s inside. It’s the place where you entrust your tears, where your emotions become sight, the sound, the smell, the taste and the touch, it’s like reliving your favourite memory for the first time, over and over again. It’s not as delusional as Heaven, or as scary as Hell, simply… It’s the place where you need to be most.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T04:01:05",
"url": "https://newearth.blog/2014/08/03/on-the-nature-of-daylight/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
When Google announced the expansion of the Android beta program to non-Pixel/Nexus devices, the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S was one of the eligible devices for the same. It has been offering the Android P beta versions since then now, Xiaomi has officially confirmed that the team has started preparing for the Mi MIX 2S Android P upgrade.
The announcement was made by Xiaomi on the official forum where it did not mention any specific timeline. But it is now official that the Mi MIX 2S will be the first Xiaomi smartphone to receive Android P. Since the device is already part of the Android beta program, it should not take much time for the team to release the stable version once Google releases the same.
Google has plans of unveiling the Android P stable version sometime during Q3 2018 which is also the time when we will get to know the official name for the version. In a recent leak, the Android P release date is said to be August 20th which is one day earlier than the release date of Android Oreo last year.
Like it usually happens, the name of the upcoming Android version is still a mystery. Google will be revealing the same on the same day when it will be releasing the stable version. Considering the leak and track record, we can expect it to become official any day during this month.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S isn't still available. To be notified when it becomse available click here.
Being the part of the Android P beta program, it's cool to know that the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S will be the first phone from Xiaomi to get Android P.
Now that Xiaomi is preparing for the Android P for its Mi MIX 2S, it'll also become one of the first phones overall to get the Android P.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T02:56:24",
"url": "https://www.mobilescout.com/android/news/n107405/xiaomi-preparing-mi-mix-2s-android-p-upgrade.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Schedule an hour totally dedicated to you.
Visit us in our beautiful location or we can visit you in the privacy and comfort of your home.
This is an excellent choice for many people! Whether you are currently active or have never participated in a fitness program, our trainers are here to inspire, educate and hold you accountable! Perhaps you have a demanding schedule, or you are dealing with an injury and/or recovering form a surgery. Our trainers can accommodate your every need so you get the most out of each and every session.
Do you suffer from a neurological disorder or some health issue that challenges your quality of life? If you answered yes to any of those statements, Studio e can help.
You will receive a personal training session tailored to fit your health and wellness goals and needs.
We also offer at home sessions! We will be happy to come to your home or boat house and give you a personal session. We are more than happy to do what ever works best for you and your lifestyle!
We have trainers available to meet with you between the hours of 5:30 am - 7:00 pm (Monday - Sunday) in our Tiger or Lakemont location - so no excuses!
You will experience a well rounded workout that will challenge you, leave you feeling empowered and will improve your quality of life!
As always, there are no memberships fee and payments are by session not per month.
Experience what Studio e has to offer in our two locations or at your own home!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-26T01:45:57",
"url": "http://www.studioetiger.com/personal-training/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
A ship and a lighthouse have a nighttime assignation that starts off sweetly but ends rather badly (hilariously so) in Meredith Miller's "I Wish You Love," her entry in this year's Sketchbook, the annual festival of short plays curated each year by Collaboraction.
Now in its 11th year, Sketchbook has been one of the more reliable places in town to see the kind of experimental but entirely winsome ultrashort theater pieces such as Miller's, which plays out wordlessly over a video backdrop of open water and the sounds of Bing Crosby singing of romantic heartbreak in "The Moon Got in My Eyes." Miller (who plays the ship) has a face like Betty Boop, which just solidifies the retro sensibility of this cracked-out little play. It is a major standout and also one of the shortest pieces in the fest, which unfortunately this year is weighed down by too many plays that feel considerably longer than the proscribed 8-minute limit.
As expected, Collaboraction's high-energy zeal is in full effect — the night, which includes eight performances, has a loose vibe, with live music or a DJ filling the aural space between setups. It is the kind of environment where even a few technical snafus (and a busted A/C) couldn't dampen the spirit of things. But the quality of work seems remarkably flat this time out, which is unfortunate because, across town, Theatre Seven has its own short play roundup (The Landmark Project at The Greenhouse) currently running to rave reviews and providing some stiff competition for audiences. This was not the year for Collaboraction to drop the ball.
To be fair, a few duds show up at each year at Sketchbook — but not quite to this extent. "Evolution" is the overarching theme, but ironically too many of the selections are hampered by good ideas that are left undeveloped, including Mat Smart's "I and My iPhone" (a literal piece about teens and texting); Ken Urban's "Termination of Species" (an alien race that plans to wipe out all human life); "Doppleganged" (a teenage girl is haunted by another version of herself) and "It Came From the 3rd Dimension" (riffing on the influx of 3-D movies, a concept with lots of potential that just sort of lays there).
A total of 16 plays rotate on a constantly shifting schedule (with eight performed a night), so be sure to check the company's website for a full calendar. Here's a quick look at some of the stronger works in the lineup.
"The Franchise," by Andry Grigg: Parodying the seemingly endless supply of movie sequels that Hollywood churns out, Grigg's comedy about a firefighter action franchise feels like an early draft, but you can appreciate the idea behind it. Best title of the bunch: "Blazing Hearts IX: Space Burns Too."
"Suspect Politic," by Meida McNeal, Felicia Holman and Abra Johnson: Part police interrogation, part poetry slam, the piece features some of the wittiest writing in the festival as it tears down stereotypes concerning the "highly accomplished, often angry, typically lonely, usually God-fearing, Essence magazine-reading Black Woman. What makes her tick? What ticks her off? What are her hopes and dreams? And what in God's Name is that on her head? Is it a wig? Is it a lace front? Are they tracks?"
"Evolution," by Kristoffer Diaz: "Direct address, as it is called in the trade, has become the kudzu of new playwriting," New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood wrote earlier this year, citing as an offending example Diaz's "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," which had a strong run in Chicago before moving to New York. "Evolution" is Diaz's ticked-off response, and though it is wildly entertaining as a gossipy piece of inside baseball (a playwright publicly trashing a critic!), it feels tossed-off and lacks the kind of spirit that made "Chad Diety" such a fun ride. That said, Diaz's rant (as performed by actor Peter Sipla) has more energy and swagger than anything else in this year's fest.
Where: The Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T18:17:54",
"url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2011-06-07-ct-live-0608-sketchbook-review-20110607-story.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Last Sunday we had a "cold" front go through. Here in Tampa that means it got down to 59 degrees during the day for about 2 hours. Even this little cold snap got me excited. Unlike most Floridians I love the cold. We lived in North Dakota for 3 years- that was a little much but I do miss seasons and some serious cold.
The kids and I enjoyed the festive weather Monday afternoon outside.
They raced on their bikes (notice Kota looking back to heckle).
They raced on foot (Kota still trying to heckle).
Dakota picked some flowers for me.
And Aidric continued his obsession with heavy machinery. Notice the trucks in the background adding fuel to the fire.
I took advantage of the cool weather to make some fantastic vegetable based soup. I made this with the slim pickins' in my veggie drawer. I didn't have much left in the way of fresh veggies but thanks to Sam's I did still have quite a few organic baby carrots. This soup is creamy and warming and is good for you so help yourself to more than one bowl!
Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large pot.
Add carrots, apple and garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes.
Add broth, water and miso and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
Pour soup into blender and blend on high until smooth.
Sprinkle green onions and serve.
I would recommend eating this with a spoon but Aidric used a different method.
And Kota decided to focus her energy on her gluten free noodles.
Hey Laura! I love this blog! So fun! So, I fully agree with you! I love the cooler temperatures. Okinawa, like Florida, is too hot for my taste. ND was too cold... but there's that middle ground of chilly, or even cold as long as it's above 10 degrees that I LOVE!
Thanks Staci! I think you guys are headed for some colder temperatures soon right?
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T05:03:13",
"url": "http://www.thespinachspot.com/2012/03/miso-carrot-soup.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
We offer private instruction on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass guitar and bluegrass banjo.
If you have used the services of Bob Lucas Guitar Studios we'd love to hear from you! Use the form below to review and comment on your experience.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T08:43:33",
"url": "http://instrumentlessons.org/guitar/missouri/bob_lucas_guitar_studios_mo.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
We congratulate you on your hard work, salute your discipline and follow-through, and celebrate your imagination.
You did something amazing this month, novelist. We couldn’t be prouder.
Can you imagine a world WITHOUT the National Novel Writing Month challenge??
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T04:36:11",
"url": "https://writefromkaren.com/2008/11/29/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
I bought this guitar about 3 years ago at a shop in Seattle. I paid about $175.00 for it, and in the under $200.00 range, it was the best guitar available. I had played bass in a band during my high school/college years and I wanted to learn how to play guitar. I thought an acoustic was a pretty good place to start.
The guitar does have a very nice bright sound and seems to be made very well. In this price range, it is almost impossible to find anything buit this well. It has a lifetime guarantee, which was one of the selling points for me. I didn't know much about the Alvarez name when I bought the guitar but I have since found out that it is a very good one. This guitar stays in tune very well, which is an important consideration for a beginner lacking the ear skills to discern such things.
When I bought my guitar, the action was set by the factory very high, which may be why it sounded so good in the store. It was so high that I found it very difficult to play. I ended up bringing it to a shop and they lowered the action considerably and made this guitar much easier to play, especially for a beginner. The problem with doing this is that the sound isn't quite as good as it was before, as it has a bit of a low end buzz that doesn't sound right. Once I get stronger, I will probably have the action adjusted again.
This is a very well put together guitar. It looks to be much more expensive than it really is, and it seems to be a very rugged guitar, able to take a lot of punishment without even so much as getting out of tune.
For a beginner who wants to learn how to play, I would recommend this guitar highly. Once you become more of an accomplished player, it might be a good idea to upgrade to a better guitar, however. For a beginner's guitar, I don't think there is a better value in the market. That said, once you are no longer a beginner, you will probably want to invest in a better and more expensive guitar, because of the sound and increased playablity found in higher end guitars.
Rick in New Hampshire rated this unit on 2003-01-28.
I got it as a Christmas present from my parents. It was my first guitar, and they didn't realize at the time that by getting it for me, they were starting me down a path which would ultimately end in my playing grunge rock on a cheap stratoclone at two in the morning. In 20/20 hindsight, they'd probably have given me a flute. I think they paid around $200.
Pretty much everything. The guitar has a really nice, bright sound, and reasonably good sustain. The tuners are fantastic, as I can play for a few hours running without any trouble.
The finish could be better, I think, but that's really the absolute last thing on my mind while I'm playing. The pack-in LCD tuner was a joke, but that's nit-picking. I just really hate that tuner.
Very good. It held up very nicely under a totally new guitarist who didn't know how to take care of it. Any knicks it's sustained were entirely my fault, and I did a lot of stupid stuff I expected to really hurt the guitar, but it didn't even suffer a mark. A word of caution from a stupid punk rock kid who tried to cheap out; The guitar comes with a set of very nice strings, and tossing some cheap bulk strings on later will really hurt the sound quality of this (or any) guitar. Spend a few bucks more; it'll be worth it in the short and long runs.
Alex Steven Dixon rated this unit on 2001-07-31.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T10:42:46",
"url": "http://www.musicgearreview.com/reviews.php?man=Alvarez&cat=Acoustic_Guitars&mod=RD10",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The YMCA of Northwest Florida has been a leader in youth development, adult wellness and community support in the Florida Panhandle for nearly 130 years. The Y's strength lies in their ability to unite people of all faiths, races, ages, abilities and incomes. Through YMCA programs, our community’s children and families grow strong in spirit, mind and body. At the Y, everybody belongs!
Our Partnership: The YMCA and Running Wild have a 10+ year history of support and community involvement. The two organizations have worked and continue to work together on multiple projects and health efforts. Both entities share a complete commitment to community, serving and health.
Our Partnership: Page & Palette shares Running Wild’s passion for endurance sport and encouraging a healthy lifestyle. The bookstore hosts numerous events and books signings that feature famous and inspirational athletes. After creating The Good Life, a foundation which promotes biking and athletics for all ages, Running Wild and Page & Palette collaborate on events to get folks of all ages out and active.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T04:13:43",
"url": "https://www.werunwild.com/about/partners/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
'Life' Photographer Showed Africa Through A New Lens : The Picture Show In the years after World War II, Eliot Elisofon traveled from Capetown to Cairo in a mobile photography studio. The pictures he took for Life magazine helped reshape Americans' understanding of the continent. Susan Stamberg takes a look at an exhibit of Elisofon's photos, currently on display at the Museum of African Art in D.C.
It's been a bitter cold winter in Washington, D.C., as in so many parts of this country. But our special correspondent Susan Stamberg found a place that is warming and enlightening. It's an exhibit at the Museum of African Art on the National Mall.
SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: Before World War II, most Americans got their ideas about Africa from movies, filmed on Hollywood sound stages.
STAMBERG: "Tarzan, the Ape Man," in the African jungles. After the war, thanks in no small part to the work of a Life magazine photographer named Eliot Elisofon, a new light was shed on what had been viewed as the Dark Continent.
AMY STAPLES: He redefined Africa in a new and a complex way for American audiences. And he brought Africa into their living rooms in Life magazine.
STAMBERG: Curator Amy Staples, she created this exhibit from an archive of 60,000 prints and negatives Elisofon gave to the African Art museum, which he helped to found. In the late 1940s, he converted an old ambulance into a studio and drove it from Cape Town to Cairo.
STAPLES: He came in early. He was probably one of the first photographers to travel extensively in Africa after World War II.
STAMBERG: He came upon a Sudanese woman and got her on the cover of Life.
STAMBERG: Another woman wears a pendant with etchings of Sudanese village life.
STAPLES: These are made out of aluminum that came from a downed airplane.
STAMBERG: He bought the pendant. He liked showing how traditional mixed with modern in African design and crafts. Amy Staples says Eliot Elisofon got the Africa bug in 1942 as a combat photographer with General George Patton.
STAPLES: He photographed the first action pix of World War II from Tunisia. That was an important trip for him. He actually became interested in Africa because of the '42 trip. And then he went back to Africa for Life to cover visit of King George VI.
STAMBERG: Traveling with the British king, in 1947 Elisofon encounters a King of the Congo and asked to take his picture for Life. The king shows up bedecked in full coronation regalia, an outfit passed down from father to son.
STAPLES: This costume is beautifully decked out with cowry shells and beads and brass wire, he's wearing medals, a headdress.
STAPLES: People really hadn't seen that kind of detail and that kind costume, and that kind of beauty and dignity before.
STAMBERG: He holds a spear in one hand, a lance in the other. Oh, and on his head, a helmet with a handful of feathers stuck on top.
STAPLES: It took him three hours to get dressed for the photograph. And the costume, itself, weighs over 300 pounds.
STAMBERG: Once he was ready, the king made a request of Elisofon.
STAPLES: The king wanted a full-length mirror brought out so he could see how he looked. And Elisofon said: The only other time that happened to me was with Ginger Rogers.
STAMBERG: Regal, dignified, but the caption Life put with the picture was disparaging.
Elisofon hated that caption and spent much of his career as a photographer and filmmaker providing evidence to the contrary; evidence for all America and the rest of the world to see.
I think what he did is he created a more intimate view of Africa - there was a humanity there. He was really trying to educate audiences in the United States about how he perceived the real Africa to be.
Today, tourists visit Africa regularly - in planes, not pokey pre-war ships. Their exposure to what was only viewed as a remote, exotic, often fearful place, was launched by the photographs Eliot Elisofon started taking there almost 70 years ago.
I'm Susan Stamberg, NPR News. Washington.
INSKEEP: And you can see some of Eliot Elisofon's work at NPR.org.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T04:52:43",
"url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=272041622",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The structural integrity of a roof is how much weight or pressure it can withstand before it is susceptible to collapsing, bending or breaking. It must hold its own weight and additional weight, which can include ice or snow accumulation.
FAQ from Mattoon roofing company: How can homeowners identify hail damage?
There are certain signs a homeowner can look for after a hailstorm to see if damage has occurred to his or her roof. There are many types of shingles, and each type of shingle will display unique signs of damage. Asphalt shingles will have dark spots, which resemble bruising, where the roofing granulates have been knocked loose. Wood, metal or tile shingles could become cracked, split or torn due to hailstones.
Hailstorms are a natural occurrence that every homeowner should be prepared for because hail damage can be costly to repair. When hailstones are more than 0.75 inches, which is about the size of a penny, then they are large enough to cause considerable damage to homes.
It can be difficult for a homeowner to identify when hailstones have damaged his or her roof, which is why it can be helpful to consult a Mattoon roofing expert. If a homeowner is not sure his or her roof has been damaged, then a roofing professional can easily identify problems.
When shingles become damaged by hailstones, then it can cause water to leak through the roof. If left untreated, then this will lead to additional problems that can include damage to a roof deck, interior walls, support structure and windows.
When a homeowner has an asphalt roof, then hailstone damage can appear as dark spots on the roof. There are also cases where a homeowner can see missing shingles, holes or cracking that has occurred from hailstone damage. When an asphalt roof has damage from hailstones, then there is an increased risk for water leaks as well as mold growth due to excess moisture. There is also a risk of wood rot that can have a negative impact on the structural integrity of a home and eventually cause a roof to collapse.
Have a question regarding gutters or siding? Please ask a roofing expert from Roofs By Rodger of Mattoon IL.
Tile shingles are becoming popular among homes because of their strength and durability, but they are also susceptible to hailstone damage. Tile shingles are made of concrete or clay, which typically makes them stronger than asphalt shingles. During a severe hailstorm, tile shingles can become cracked and will leave the underlying roof exposed. In a case where there has been hailstone damage to a tile roof, it is recommended that a homeowner stays off of the roof to prevent further damage. A homeowner should contact a roofing professional as soon as possible so that the damage is dealt with properly.
The size, shape and angle of impact of hailstones can determine the degree of damage that can be caused to a roof. It can be difficult to identify if hailstones have caused damage to a roof, but it is important to inspect a roof carefully after a hailstorm has passed. If a homeowner is not comfortable inspecting his or her roof, then a roofing professional can determine if any damage was caused and repair the damage quickly.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T12:03:38",
"url": "http://www.bestrooferil.com/mattoon-roofing/hail-damage-to-roofs.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
After a long hard day travelling on the road to Ollal Asari a quite market town to the west of Imyh Asari the capital city of Lys Edhil where the great Dyamo Fachur Oru a fair but firm leader of mainly human inhabitants with a few elven, dwarven and Halfling clans on the outskirts.
As Raven came up to an opening on the side of the road he decided with it being late afternoon and with a further two days travel ahead this would make a good spot to make camp . After setting up camp Raven built a pit and lit a fire , sitting down to eat Raven noticed he didn’t have many supplies left after having to leave the last town in such a hurry leaving his horse and most of his supplies behind, but Raven used to be one of the best rangers in the Vanitor corps, so finding food and water has never been a problem.
After a meal which would have only just about filled a small child. Raven decided to get some sleep hoping for it to be undisturbed. As he lay down to sleep the images of his mother and where he was brought up began to flash before his eyes why did she have to die, she was one of the only people he had ever cared for.
As the images flowed Raven found himself hearing a name he hadn't heard in a long time .
"Kiendor" he heard his mother call "kiendor come on your tea is ready". "coming mother" he replied , "what have you been up to" his mother asked. "I was out in the fields with Nac Frinn and Ras Fildriwea" replied Kiendor. "Oh" replied his mother " and what was you up to in the fields may i ask" Kiendor bowed his head and sighed "we was talking about our fathers and did you know they don't see their fathers either." Mierla's heart sank as Kiendor didn't know that being half elf meant he could never see his father and at the age of thirteen Mierla decided it was time to tell her son. "Kiendor please sit down, we need to talk about your father."
She sat down at the table with her son. "You see Kiendor your a half elf and your father is an elf of very high standing, his name is Elderan Oathseer and there is a rule elf’s are not allowed to see their children if they are not full elf ." she explained "As a rule most half elf babies are killed at birth" she continued. "Your father brought us here in secret. But he told me he would never see us again." she sobbed. "But why" cried Kiendor “what did I do wrong." "Nothing" sobbed his mother " Kiendor Fell you are an amazing boy and you are soon to be a man." Raven woke suddenly hearing footsteps he hoped he didn't have to fight as he felt mentally drained but knew if he had to fight he could muster up the strength. As he reached for his sword he heard a gentle male voice say. "You wont need that I bid you no harm I only wish to share your fire and campsite." Raven sat up and looked across at the elderly gentleman stood before him. " And what do you have to offer in the sharing of my camp and fire" replied Raven. "I can offer food and mead and a good ear for listening. I saw you sleeping you looked very troubled." replied the man.
" Sit " said Raven. The elderly man smiled thankfully " My name is Xiridh Abe. I come from a large city in the south named Offanas. Its a nice place, i met you many years ago Raven in that city when the rangers of vanitor helped in the battle of Imva Aiqua against the catfolk king Prauktum and his armies." Raven looked stunned he had put that battle to the back of his mind it lasted two long years and he had lost many good friends " I remember that battle." he replied "but your name doesn't ring a bell " appologised Raven. "No i wouldn't expect it would" replied Xiridh " i was but a simple councilor to lord Urod Khozel. But you certainly left your mark on my memory." smiled Xiridh. Raven returned the smile still seeing the memory of the day he decided to turn his back on his elven herritage and started to concentrate on his sword play, archery and fighting skills.
"Would you like a bottle of mead "asked Xiridh. " Please " Raven replied as he took the bottle "how comes your so far away from home " aaskerd Raven. "i had a divine calling in my sleep telling me to come to this place and here i am sat with you" replied Xiridh.
Raven smiled "do you think i am your divine calling Xiridh."
Xiridh laughed " i am not sure but you certainly are a troubled soul and i may be able to help in some way."
Raven smiled " i believe i may be beyond help" he said.
"Lets have a bite to eat " Xiridh said whilst pulling bread, bacon and sausages from his bag. Raven felt his stomach start to rumble as his eyes fell upon the food it had been days since he had eaten a proper meal just to make sure his rations lasted.
As the bacon sizzled they spoike a little until Xiridh asked " so what you Raven ? what makes the Vanitors finest ranger a sword for hire". Raven shifted his gaze from Xiridh to the floor " there is a lot the troubles me Xiridh i have been through alot just recently alone. I have been dreaming about my younger years alot recently since the death of my mother". "oh my condolences to you" Xiridh replied sadly . " Thank you" replied Raven. " You see Xiridh if you know me as Raven how do you know me about my days as a ranger?" questioined Raven. " Well until i actually saw you all i knew was that i was to meet a man named only Raven ut as soon as i saw your face, which by the way hasnt aged much i knew Kiendor had become Raven somewhere, somehow i am only here to listen and help in anyway possible."
"Im not sure you can help Xiridh things just seemed to spiral after my fourteenth birthday i turned my back on my elven herritage for many years and turned very bitter during my teenage years there was many fights." said Raven as he remembered his first fight when he was just fourteen years old and he fought one of his best friends over a girl he couldnt even remember the name of, but thge beating he took at the hands of Ras Fildriwea was embarrasing he studied even harder with his hand to hand combat, his sword fighting abbilities and the long bow. By the time he was sixteen he demanded a rematch with Ras and a long battle their other friend Nac Frinn had to pull Kiendor off of Ras which then caused Kiendor to attack Nac out of blind fury, As the punches flowed Kiendor stasrted to tire when he stopped Nac was unconcious and bleeding quite badly. Kiendor saw what he had done and fled only returning to Vanitor each year on his mothers birthday until he reached twentyone. During his late teens whilst on the run Kiendor noticed his elven looks was getting him alot of attention from young girls and women alike which ended getting him in alot of trouble, but the anger inside of him which deep down was aimed at his father for not being there for him to teach him how to become a man, but due to his father not being around his anger was bottled up and this made him rash and got him in alsorts of trouble, He remembered one particular battle in an inn a small town called Winas. Whilst staying in the inn named The Hogs Head he was being very flirtasious with a lovely young barmaid at the time he didnt know she was courting and even when he found out it didnt seem to faze Kiendor he wanted this girl and he decided he was going to have her, the young barmaid refused and kiendor got mad he started shouting at the girl Ensa Vgigr he thinks her name was he certainly remebers her gentleman friend Zelgu Drangi he was a good foot and half taller then Kiendor and a larger build aswell but that didnt stop Kiendor he moved slowly towards Zelgu watching Kiendor his every move, watching how he held himself, how he took a stance and how he felt for his machette which looked like a knife in his hand. Kiendor attacked with a right knee to the kidneys Zelgu dropped but blocked Kiendors next attack shoving Kiendor backwards at least 8 feet as Zelgu stood Kiendor came in with another attack this time with a right hook to Zelgu's ribcage and then a left foot to the side of the neck. Zelgu stumbled backwards but soon got his footing and as Kiendors left foot came at Zelgus face he grabbed it and threw Kiendor over the table and through the door , Kiendor attacked again this time knocking zelgu to the floor and having the higher ground Kiendor stepped back and asked Zelgu "Do you yield" "Never" yelled Zelgu as he pulled thge machette from his side and lunged at Kiendor, Kiendor side steppederlgu's momemtum carry him past him as Zelgu passed Kiendor he threw a solid punch into the back of Zelgu's skull. Kiendor knew he could end this at anytimeelgu was fighting angry and was not in control of his actions. Kiendor drew his sword as Zelgu turned and attacked again, Kiendor parried each attack away with ease and decided if Zelgu refused to yield kiendor would finish it quickly.
"I'm warning you Zelgu if you do not yield i'll be forcved to kill you i am the better swordsman by far and you dont even carry a sword bnut a machette " Kiendor warned, as Kiendor finished his warning Zelgu attacked screaming " you dishonoured my betrothed, you dishonour me." Kiendor parried away the attacks again " I'm not playing Zelgu, i mean what i say."Kiendor warned again.
As Zelgu started to attack again Ensa tried to get between them both and as she did Zelgu pierced her heart with his machette as she dropped to the floor Zelgu creamed in anguuish his heart breaking as Ensa's eyes started to dull he dropped to his knees sobbing. Kiendor sheathed his sword and bowed his head this wasnt what he had wanted. "i swear to you stranger i will have my revenge one day, one day i will watch your eyes dull as the life pours out of you " screamed Zelgu. " I await that day Zelgu and untiul then offer youy my condolances and inform you i am Kiendor Fell of Vanitor".
Raven looked up at Xiridh taking a sip of his mead with tears in his eyes.
Xiridh instantly responded "Her death was not your fault Kiendor, I believe it was her time and she acted blindly out of love."
"But it was my doing if i had just left her alone she would have lived a full and healthy life with her beloved." cried Raven.
"You dont know this for a fact Kiendor if it was her time to leave this life for the afterlife it would have happened anyway." soothed Xiridh, Raven sniffed back a tear " its not the only thing that weighs down my heart Xiridh, I have done many a bad thing before becoming a ranger and since leaving the corps."
"But you have done many good things aswell before and after joining the Rangers, Kiendor you must realise this" Xiridh exclaimed "Kiendor yo...." " I must stop you there Xiridh why do you insist on calling me Kiendor, i go by Raven now days and have done for many years now" asked Raven. " Because Kiendor is your true self and you go by Raven because you are lost and alone in the dark, you mustbring balance to yourself by uniting the two halves of your self you will only then be able to accomplish anything you set your mind too. tell me Kiendor what else troubles you" asked Xiridh and no sooner did he finish his question Raven falls into another memory this time it was on hes way to visit his mother on her birthdayin Vanitor he was eighteen now and he's features had matured, His elvish looks made him quite handsome as he entered the road his mother lived on he spotted his old friend Nac Frinn, Kiendor pulled his hood of his cloak further down across his face hoping Nac wouldn't notice him, but to Kiendor's dismay Nac had already spotted him Kiendor stopped deadlooking straightat Nac now.
"Move aside Nac i'm not here to fight, i'm here to see my mother!"
" I will not move aside not until you explain why you did what you did to myself and Ras" screamed Nac. "I cant explain it and i am truely sorryfor what i did to you Nac, i lost my temperbut as far as Ras it was for the beating he gsave me years earlier" Kiendor replied, " you shouldn't have got involvedNac but i am sorry for what i did to you, you was never ment to get hurt" Kiendor exclaimed.
" To little to late Kiendor, you could have kiulled meonce you have visited your mother be on your way and you better hope Ras doesnt see you as he will kill you kiendor"Nac replied. Kiendor took his leave and carried on to his mothers house. "I wish i could see more of you Kiendor" his mother cried "How have you been my dear son" she asked. Kiendor smiled " I've been good mother and i have missed you how have you been hows your health".
they talkrd for a few hours before they heard a commotion outside the house "Its Ras Fildriwea" exclaimed his mother. "I will deal with this mother " replied Kiendor as he stepped out the door.
"Kiendor Fell you have some nerve showing your face round here take you leave now or taste the steel of my blade" Ras shouted as he drew his sword. "Ras please dont do this im here to see my mother on her birthday ill be gone tomorrow evening"Kierndor pleaded.
"Not going to happen, you needto leave now or like i said i will kill you Kiendor". Kiendor smiled " Ras i have beaten you once before please i dont want to have to kill you ." Ras now red in the face with anger screamed"I have also beaten you in the past Kiendor and now i am a better warrior." Ras smiled "You are looking at the Captain of the Vanitor Guard if you do this Kiendor i will destroy you in front of your mother "."No" meirla screamed " Please just leave my son be" she cried.
"Hush mother" Kiendor stated " Ras please not infront of my mother, please just leave ill be gone tomorrow evening " Kiendor said.
By this point Ras had drawn his sword fully and was pointing it towards Kiendor " If you refuse to leave then draw your sword." Ras was screaming his face turning an even darker shade of red.
Kiendor stepped out into the garden hissword still sheathed " Again Ras i beg you dont do this." Kiendor begged as Ras charged forward Kiendor side stepped and ducked as Ras's sword flew over his head. Kiendor the leaped forward rolled in the dirt and jumped upto hes feet he was now a good seven feet away from Ras now. "Please Ras i dont want to do this, you should never attack in anger that is something i learnt when i first left here." Kiendor begged again. "Anger i'll show you anger."Ras replied as he swung his sword again and again. Kiendor side stepped and jumped backwards out of the way of the violent swings. " Ras i am showing you up without using my sword , please leave now and sleep on it if you still wish to kill me tomorrow i shall meet you on the fields we used to playon when we was but boys." Kiendor replied.
Ras stopped looked at his pregnant wife and agreed "tomorrow then Kiendor enjoy your final night because tomorrow i will end you."Ras then turned and walked away his wife and family following him.
"No mother i will spend ythe rest of today with you and i will leave tomorrow like i said." Kiendor replied "Believe me mother i have no intentions of dying tomorrow. Now off to bed with you ill do the pots." Kiendor smiled. " good night son."meirla smiled at her boy " good night mother." Kiendor smiled back.
By the time meirla got up the next morning Kiendor had already left he had left her a note saying he was sorrybut he had to leave early there was also a second note as she bent over to pick it up she heard loud banging on the front door , She expected the Vanitor Guard to bve there waiting to arrest her son when she opened the door she found a very angry Ras stood there. " Where is he the coward" Ras asked angrily.
"I dony know Ras i thought he had gone to meet you out on the fields one minute" she exclaimed returning to the dinning table she grabbed the other letter and handed it to Ras " i'm guessing this is for you" she said, Ras took the letter and read it.
As Raven remembered the last words he wrote in that letter all those years ago he returned to the now, "You see Xiridh there is so much hurt in my life and i have caused so much pain in my life time awell."Raven stammered holding back the tears. " Kiendor do you not see what good you have done aswell. Look at what you just told me you let people possibly look at you as a coward then harm someone you called friend even though they didnt see you in the same way. That is not cowardice that is compassion. Has Ras lived a full and healthy life" Xiridh asked.
" yes he has, he has five children and been happily married for many years." Raven replied. " so you see Kiendorif you hadn't shown compassion your friend wouldnt have lived his the same way as one oif you would have died." Xiridh reasoned. "I guess so." Raven replied "But i have done so much more aswell." Xiridh smiled "And Kiendor i bet you will show me more love and compassion aswell." " I dont know about that." Raven replied.
Raven took another swig of his mead and was once again wisked off into another memory. This time he was somewhere he knew all too well as soon as he saw the memory his heart started to ache as he knew this particular memory was about his sister Trina his fathers daughter, She wass a few years younger then he was. She had sought him out traveling for eight months tracking him. She had told him she wanted to meet her elder brother after her mother had died. At gfirst he had been so angry that his father had never even bothered with him but had gone on to have atleast one other child, the anger flowed through him like lava it burned away at him for weeks but nhe still let Trina tag along but his temper was very short with her, Hoping that she would leave but she took all the abuse he threw at her, after a few weeks she had started to grow on him and he decide to teach her how to use a long bow he didnt want her any where near any battles. One morning after breakfast Trina asked Kiendor "why wont you teach me how to use a sword ." Kiendor just smiled "Because Trina your safer away from the battle. You have started to grow on me these past few weeks and i dont want anything to happen to you." Trina bowed her headbut had a slight smile curling her lips "I am glad your starting to warm up to me brother, but i still wish you would teach me how to use a sword I could assist you in battle if needed." Kiendor looked at Trina sternly "You can assist me from a distance with your long bow sister there is no need for you to be in the thick of any battle." Trina bowed her head again "Ok ok brother i understand what your saying and accept your arguement " she replied "good" replied Raven "clean up your pots we're leaving soon." Kiendor said he wanted to leave Rehlond and make his way to Milve Thalas it was a four day hike but with Trina he expected it to take six days as she really did slow him down. on the third days traveling he was starting to get annoyed with Trina it was taking too long to get anywhere they was still one day away from Nmemel and Milve Thalas was an extra three days from there plus they would have to stop off to rest and resupply. Before he knew it Trina was complaining again"Please Kiendor can we stop we've been walking for five hours now i need to rest."
"Ok we'll stop but only for dinner its around midday." replied Kiendor. They stopped in a clearing in the road and started a fire to cook up some food. "Remember Trina check the perimeter make sure there is an exit if we need one and as always if i tell you to run you run and dont look back." he said. "Yes Kiendor i know what to do just make sure i get some sauges amd bacon this time." she replied.
While the bacon was cooking a man approached and asked if he could sitwith him for a bit as Kiendor was about to turn him away the man threw his cloak to the ground and shouted "now" and as Kiendor looked up he saw around fifteen men surrounding the campsite , Kiendor noticed that he was surrounded by a small regiment of elven soldiers all Kiendor could think was he had hoped Trina had gotten out and was safe but then to his dismay he saw her stood with the soldiers. "Please let my sister go she has done no harm once she is free and away from here we shall discuss what the charges are and why you are here." The elf bellowed out a laugh "we shall do no such thing you are to be apprehended and Captain Oathseer will be the one who asks the questions half breed scum." retorted the elf . "And who is Captain Oathseer may i ask" questioned Kiendor the name seeming all to familiar to him. "that would be me brother " replied Trina " i am Captain Katrina Oathseer and i have been reporting back to our father Elderan Oathseer on what you have been upto he is unhappy with the way you conduct yourself and the way you left your mother to fend for herself he has asked me to report backto him on you and the type of man you have become he also believed you would have been a farmer or something of no importance keeping you and us unlinked nut you are making quite a name for yourself as a thug and he doesnt want any rerprocussions considering you should have been killed at birth."Trina informed Kiendor. Kiendor hadnt felt this foolish since the beating he had took at the hands of Ras many years ago but then the anger kicked in and before he could move Trina shouted " bound him and chain him to the cart we make our way back to Allsasari where he will stand trial."
after two weeks travel they arrived at Allsasari and Kiendor was thrown in a cell. Noone knew who he was or where he had come from or even why he was here all they knew was he was to be watched very closly. As Kiendor sat in his cell he noticed someone weas sat in there with him hiding in a corner." what you in for boy "the person called to Kiendor "honestly" replied Kiendor "i think its because im half elf " "oh is that all" replied the other person " yes as far as i can gather. And who might you be." asked Kiendor "i am Fonin Stillcoin im a halfling with a particular gift people see me as just a petty thief but my light fingeredness has gotten me quite a few jobs where ive been paid handsomly for items people have required " Fonin said. "And is it your particular gift that has got you locked up in here." asked Kiendor .
"You might say that. i was minding my own business when this rather snobby elf pushed me out of the way and into the dirt like i was nothing so i decided to pay her back for her kindness by relieving her of her purse and jewels but that rat guard out there was on his way for duty and caught me ive been in here for three weeks now and they havent even bothered with me i actually think they have forgotten about me." "interesting " said Kiendor"what have you been eating and drinking for the past couplke of weeks." asked Kiendor Fonin smiled "i have a deal with the prisoner next door that as soon as i can escape i will free him aswell and he has been sharing hes food and water with me."Kiendor sat thoughtfully for a few minutes and then he said " right when the guard comes next to bring me my food ur going to lift his keys nwhile i distract him and then we will get out of here the three of us. what is your nfriends name." Taken back a bit Fonin smiled and replied "he's a half dwarf by the name of Mutashi i dont know what hes in for."
"Well Fonin and Mutashi are you ready to get out of here because i have no intentions of staying in here for how ever long they decide to keep me here." they both agreed and Kiendor went over the plan in detail.
when the guard came to give Kiendor his food Fonin was in the corner hiding and easily lifted the guards keys but the guard noticed as he was leaving that the keys were missing before he could shout the other guards Kiendor knocked him out with the dinner tray he grabbed Fonin and ther keys released Mutashi and they crept as far up the hallway as they could ,only to see there was no more guards there. They grabbed their gear and made way glad to be free now all they had to do was make it out of the city without being caught. As they made their way out of the city Kiendor thought about his father and sister and hes blood boiled how dare they play him like this he hoped he never crossed the path of another Oathseer ever again.
Xiridh just smiled and replied "Kiendor even this question shows your regret and your compassion, you truly are a good soul and a good person."
Raven smiled "why is it so imprtant to you to redeem me Xiridh, I don't understand why all this should matter. I'm not rejoining the Rangersor any other armed force, i no longer want that life" Xiridh looked at Raven for a moment not sure on how to procceed he smiled back and replied "No Kiendor i am not here to get you to rejoin anyone,there will come a time when you and your particular skills will be needed and you need to be in balance with yourself to succeed." Raven looked confused" what do you mean i will be needed". Xiridh seemed to think it over for a moment and then stated "Never mind that now, what else do you want to tell me Kiendor". Raven looked for a minute and for some reason took a big gulp of his mead and started to remember yet another memory.
"you see Xiridh, Mutashi didnt believe we were half breeds but the best of both" Raven said. Xiridh looked at Raven stroking hes whiskers "i believe we are getting somewherenow, do you feel the burden starting to lift Kiendor?"
"It does feel better to talk but i still think there is more bad then good in my life". Xiridh looked back at Raven "And were back to the self pity Kiendor you need to dig deep and remember all the good you have done i know you have experienced some hard times but you have been such an insperation to many and all the good you did as a Ranger please remember Kiendor ." Raven sat there contemplating what Xiridh had just said. "please explain what you mean Xiridh i need to know why im needed so muchand whats about to happen?"
"all in good time Kiendor before i explain what is about to happen i need you in the right frame of mind and at the moment your not quite there."Raven sat there staring into Xiridh's eyes trying to figure the man out what could he know why was he so determined to help Raven out and why did i have to relive all these memories to be up to this job he keeps going on about. Raven had some more of his mead and before he knew it he was whirling off into another memory. This time he was back in Vanitor but this time it wasn't to visit his mother he was here to help find the missing guards along with Mutashi and Fonin at hes side as he walked up to the guard house he saw Ras he seemed scared Kiendor grited his teeth and walked up to Ras "im here to help Ras nothing else"
"At the moment we will except help from anyone and everyone so that includes you and your friends Kiendor." Ras replied. "Whats happened Ras what has gotten you so freaked out over some missing soldiers?"Kiendor asked he had never seen Ras so shaken up before, "Its not just some missing soldiers it a missing regiment thats two hundred and fifty men vanished without a trace not even a single weapon discarded on the floor. so now you can see why im so shaken plus Nac was the commanding officer of that regiment so that makes it personal to me and hopefully you aswell Kiendor."Ras explained.
"That Kiendor was Nac's wife and you would have known that if you was around more your friends and your mother have been suffering lately we've been getting attacked and we dont know who or what they are. I need you to join up with the rangers and help find our friends and find out whats going on." Ras replied "But of course Ras i'll do what i can to help but i can only speak for myself and not my friends if they help its by their choice only." Kiendor stated. "But of course Kiendor i understand and respect your answer i expected to have to argue with you over this but i am glad to be on the same side for once."Ras said.
Mutashi pulled Kiendor to one side for a quiet chat " Kiendor this is not my fight nor is it fonin's but if you need me i will fight at your side."
"thank you my friend i appreciate your honesty i would very much like you by my side but only if you want to i dont want you risking your life for me if you dont want to be here." Kiendor said.
Kiendor looked up at Fonin "Is that what you think Fonin that im on the run from being scriopted into the local army i went on the run as that man that asked for our help i nearly killed him and another man in anger the other man has been taken by what ever this thing is and i intend to do all in mhy power to help as i told you before you dont have to do this." Kiendor stated rather angrily. "Fronin please dont act so dishonourably" Mutashi said " i never thought you would act like thisyou have always been on a very thin line but i never thought you would act so dishonourable when a friend needs your help."
Fonin sat there with his head held low sulking "No matter what he says Kiendor i am always by your side and i will be till the end if neccessary." Mutashi stated.
They settled down for the night and Kiendor wondered what lied ahead.The next morning they awoke bright and early ready for the the day ahead they had sword training which Mutashi and Kiendor finished top of the class then hand to hand combat which again Kiendor finished inside the top five. After dinner they had long bow training and then stealth training which Fonin excelled in and came top of the class.
The last training of the day was tracking and again Kiendor and Fonin came top of the class and Mutashi finished inside the top six, after tea they bathed and settled down for the night exhausted. "I never knew it would be so grueling." Mutashi stated tiredly " Grueling are you kidding me you and Kiendor breezed most of the classes today think about the rest of us that struggled nearly everytime" Fonin added.
" You didnt do so bad yourself Fonin." Kiendor said tartly. Mutashi laughed aloud " Yeah Fonin stop looking for sympathy it does't suit you."laughed Mutashi. After two weeks training Ras decided thery had waited long enough and gave all of Vanitors forces their orders. Kiendor and Mutashi was given their own Rangers to command and Fonin joined Kiendor's regiment and was lead tracker as vanitors vast armies marched north towards Galnelenor, to where Nac and his regiment disappeared. After two days travel they reached an opening in the road Mutashi couldnt see Kiendor or his regiment where could they be. He hoped they hadnt been kileld or captured.
As they came to the opening up ahead Kiendor pulled his regiment back a bit "right lads lets hope were half as good at stealth as Fonin is up into the tree tops i want a better view of the area and i want you all safe until its time to attack" Kiendor said. and at his command all of his rangers disappeared into the trees. As Ras and the rest of the Vanitor army came into the clearing they saw nothing at all but then out of no where hoards of soldiers just started appearing in the opening, but Ras couldn't see where they were coming from and neither could his officers "sir what do we do where are they coming from." shouted one nervous liutenent. "I dont know men but stand your ground we dont move until i give the word." Ras replied.
"There Kiendor there coming from that hidden cave mouth." whispered Fonin. "Right men i need a volunteer to go to mutashi and let him know what we have found and to tell him we need him to distract them as long as possible and then get your tail back here cos we're going in to get our friends and family back and then we will attack from behind and trap them."Kiendor commanded. "i'll go " informed fonin "im the smallest quickest and quietest so im the only one who should go."Kiendor smiled he had never seen Fonin so determined and honourable and with that Fonin disappeared. A few minutes later Fonin was at Mutashis side "Fonin where did you come from and is Kiendor and the rest ok." Mutashi questioned " Yes yes we're all safe we have found where they are coming from its a hidden cave not far from here Kiendor said to tell you to hold them off as long as possible cos we're going in after the missing regiment and then we will attack from behind so be ready."Fonin answered "ok my little friend be safe i await the time to attack should i inform General Ras" said Mutashi.
"Yea sure trhing the more who know the plan the better co-ordinated the distraction can be." Fonin replied and with that he was on the move and soon disappeared. Just as Kiendor was starting to worry where abouts Fonin was and if he made it to Mutashi he suddenly appeared at Kiendors side "All done chief Mutashi is going to inform General Ras so they can do a co-ordinated attack to give us time to get in that cave." Fonin reported Kiendor smiled " well done Fonin right men we need to wait for the break in thier charge someone keep an eye on our men aswell just incase they need any help. Remember boys we're Rangers of Vanitor the best of the best now lets get our friendsd back." kiendor said and with that they made their way towards the cave mouth waiting for their chance to get inside.
As the enemy force lined up ready to attack Mutashi realised these were very scruffy looking humans but they were now dressed in Vanitor armour ." do you see that general i hope our men are still alive" Mutashi stated. " That i do Mutashi i sincerly hope that our friends are still alive also." Ras replied "Ready men" "ATTACK" and with that command the armies of Vanitor attacked the scruffy looking human army.
As the two armies started to battle Kiendor and his men sneaked over to the cave opening just listening for a minute to seeif any one else was coming but there wasnt they sneaked inside expecting a few men to keep the missing soldiers in line but there was none the soldiers were all locked away in some sort of cage and as soon as Kiendor saw them he raced over to the cage drew his sword and broke the bounds that held the door shut the men looked in shock and kiendor saw who he was looking for "Nac" he cried "its so good to see you alive" Kiendor called to his friend "Kiendor Fell as i live and breath in a rangers uniform aswell what have i missed" Nac replied. Kiendor smiled " come my friend we have a battle to win" but as soon as the words left Kiendors mouth he heard i loud gasp and turned round to see a knife sticking out of Fonins mouth," No " cried Kiendor as Fonin slumped to the ground and before he could move two of his rangers swung their swords and split the the scruffy looking human in half. Kiendor felt the sudden burn of anger and Nac reconised it so he grabed his friend by the arm but this time announcing " Kiendor it me Nac we need to get out of here and support the rst of the army." Kiendor seemed to snap back into the present . " Your right old friend lets finish this if for nothing else for fonins honour." and with that they charged out of the cave.
" Formation" yelled Nac "right men this is where we go out and win this battle for Vanitor and for Fonin "cried Kiendor and with that they charged and started their attack from behind the scruffy human army didnt know what had hit them and the battle only lasted a few hours with not many casulties for the Vanitor army but total loss for the scruffy humans after the battle was won kiendor told Mutashi what had happened to Fonin and that he did honourably, Mutashi bowed his head " its a good job he has no family to tell they would never belive us." Mutashi said with a slight smile "who would have guessed that Fonin of all people would have been here to the end as he promised when we was locked up in that cell." Kiendor chuckled and with the last of the chuckle ringing in he’s ears Raven looked up to see Xiridh sat in front of him with tears in his eyes Raven said to him "no more tonight i cant take anymore." and with that Raven readied for bed.
Raven awoke to the smell of food sizzling on the fire xiridh was awake and was cooking breakfast "smells good Xiridh, what we having this morning". Xiridh looked up with a smile "not alot this morning kiendor I think we may need to stock up on supplies". "Not a problem my friend its time to move on anyway I've been in one place to long now your free to join me if you like but somehow I reckon I already know your answer." Raven started to pack things away while xiridh carried on cooking.
By the time breakfast was served Raven had already packed most of the camp away. They sat down to eat in silence and when they was finished the packed the rest of the camp away and put the fire out and set off north towards the nearest village to stock up on supplies. They walked along an uneven dusty road leading to a small village named hedgerow, it was a very small village with only a few shops one was a grocery shop and the other was a very small armory it only had the basics. They stocked up on food, drink and Raven topped up his arrows for his longbow and then they were on their way moving further north staying off any main roads.
They walked in silence for a while before they came across a ruckass at the side of the road there was 4 human males ganged up on a young woman teasing and tormenting her pushing her over then pulling her back up and pushing her around between themselves. Before xiridh had chance to say anything or do anything Raven shouted "leave that poor girl alone and I will let you leave with your lives if not you will find a whole new world of pain". The 4 men turned looked at Raven and xiridh and laughed but before they could carry on with their amusement Raven let an arrow fly and took one of the gang members ear clean off, the men realised this elf and his human compatriot were not to be messed with and took off at speed.
"Are you ok my dear?" Xiridh asked gently, the girl just stood there in silence looking at the severed ear laying in the dust on the side of the road "please don't hurt me I'm nothing but a servant girl with no money or anything worth ewt please let me pass." Raven looked sadly at the poor girl and just waved her on and carried on north. They had walked maybe a mile and a half before Xiridh looked over at Raven and was about to speak when Raven said "that's the sort of reaction I get most places I go either people are happy to see me or fear me there is never a happy medium". "well kiendor that's the way life goes sometimes, if its the limelight your after you should have stayed with the Rangers." For a moment Raven stood staring at his friend rather angrily but didn't say anything to him. They carried on for another mile or so before Raven turned to his companion " we need to get off this road we're being followed I think it could be those men and the rest of their gang, I don't feel like killing anyone today that's why I only took his ear off instead of killing him." Xiridh smiled "As always Kiendor your compassion shines through maybe we should head for that Forrest over there that way we can lose them easily without having to fight." They pushed on towards the Forrest moving quickly but not so to make it obvious that they was trying to get away.
As they reached the edge of the Forrest Raven drew his sword he had already noticed a few of the gang was hiding in the tree line." I guess we have no choice to fight Kiendor they are right behind us and I have spotted at least 3 in the Forrest." Raven looked sadly at his friend "there is at least 5 in that Forrest my friend I really didn't want to fight today I was hoping for a peaceful trek without any incidents." Xiridh looked at Raven with a smile "my friend sometimes you have to fight and sometimes you can walk away this time it looks like we may have to fight." Raven started a sigh which he stooped halfway through "no Xiridh f we cut through those big bushes over there we may be able to get round them without a fight hopefully what do you think." Xiridh scanned the area quickly and smiled "there is a reason you were the best Ranger about if you think its possible then we should go for it."
They shot off at full sprint into the bushes area and made it just before being seen by the gang behind them the moved swiftly through the under growth and got ahead of the gang members that were in front of them they pushed through the Forrest for a few hours before deciding to make camp for the night. After they set up camp they sat down for a cold meal as a fire would attract unwanted attention, Raven looked round keeping his eyes out for anything suspicious "ill take first watch my friend you rest up ill wake you up when its time to swap." Xiridh smiled thankfully "thank you my friend I'm exhausted I don't know how you have the energy to stay awake" Raven smiled as his friend lay down to sleep. Raven woke Xiridh around 3 am "its your turn to keep watch my friend I need to get some rest if you spot anything wake me immediately." and with that he lay down to sleep hoping for a restful night without any of his usual dreams.
As Raven slept Xiridh kept a close eye on his friend as well as the area he prayed that no one would come across them he was never any good in a fight it was one of the reasons he went into politics and served under the Dyamo Fachur Oru, fighting was just something he could never seem to grasp he was terrible at it he prayed that Kiendor slept well so if someone did try to attack he'd be rested enough to fight if needed. Raven woke suddenly around mid morning to see Xiridh sat with another man sat with his back to Raven as he stood up Raven reached for his sword "Ya not be needing that ma ol' friend." The stranger said sincerely and turned to Raven, Raven couldn't believe his eyes it was Dylan Bolderwield a bounty hunter Raven had teamed up with for a while after leaving the Rangers " Dylan what are you doing here?" Raven smiled. "ya were men' Ta meet me a day ago a wer startin' Ta think ya got yaself killed or summit worse captured. I found ya friend ere keepin watch an almost fell bout laughin wen he try ta defend ya." Xiridh frowned annoyingly " Like I told you master Bolderwield I have never been trained in any combat I'm a politician but I would have died defending my friend." Raven nodded gratefully to Xiridh pleased to know he had made another friend as they were in short supply these days. " you know me Dylan things change all the time and its not like you to have come looking for me so what's wrong." before Dylan had chance to answer Raven put his hand up he signalled Dylan as he drew his sword Raven was poised in attack position while Dylan stood protecting Xiridh just as one of Dylan's associates came trudging out of the bush like he had no cares in the world "Hold up ther Raven that be Morkin one o' ma associates." Raven lowered his sword but didn't put it straight away " come on raven me old mukker ya know me for years." raven smiled "that's why I've lowered my sword Morkin I do know you too well what's he doing here Dylan?"
Dylan looked at his feet "Morkin works for me 'es one o' ma best trackers that be how we foun' ya two afer we bump into' ya friends yesterdee nice shootin that mans ear was a mess."
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T12:15:14",
"url": "https://tablo.io/james-d-yates/becoming-raven",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Many of our valued patients ask why Martinick Hair Restoration has moved from Bondi Junction to Man Cave Sydney in the central business district.
The January opening of Man Cave Sydney marks the realisation of a long held dream to open a male focused exclusive practice offering a complete range of medical and non-medical aesthetic cosmetic services in the one location.
Conveniently located at Suite 704, 5 Hunter Street, Man Cave Sydney offers a comfortable, discreet environment for men to regenerate their appearance.
Man Cave Sydney brings together the experience, passion and dedication of cosmetic physician Dr Sara Kotai and Martinick Hair Restoration’s renowned hair restoration specialist Dr Jennifer Martinick.
Having earned global prominence for her work in researching, developing and refining undetectable hair restoration, Dr Martinick has been entrusted by thousands of men to permanently restore their hair.
Dr Kotai, through her work in anti-ageing medicine in Australia and Brazil, has specialised in providing anti-ageing treatments tailored for men’s physiology, facial and body structures.
Both Man Cave Sydney and Martinick Hair Restoration are recognised for providing Gold Standard treatments which regenerate a man’s appearance in a natural and undetectable way.
Along with surgical hair restoration, Man Cave Sydney offers an extensive range of non-surgical treatments tailored for men.
Offering rapid results with minimal recovery time, the walk-in-walk-out treatments include surgery free permanent fat reduction with CoolSculpting®, painless laser hair reduction, non-surgical facelifts and anti-sweating injections.
Unlike the many feminised cosmetic medicine clinics, the comfortable surrounds of Man Cave Sydney, with its walnut panelling, custom designed leather furniture, bar and mini-golf, bear more of a resemblance to an exclusive men’s club than a cosmetic practice.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T07:00:52",
"url": "http://martinickhairnews.com.au/why-martinick-hair-restorations-sydney-clinic-has-relocated-to-man-cave-sydney/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The purpose of the prayer ministry is to enable people to pray for and with one another, bringing to the Lord petitions for his mercy and blessing. Members and friends of Faith Lutheran Church are encouraged to participate.
The prayers of the church include those requesting healing from sickness and struggle, comfort in grieve and trouble, and thanksgiving for blessings given. Contact the church office at 296-0672 to add to these petitions in weekend worship.
Prayer chain members respond to prayer requests, sharing these requests with others on the prayer chain. Contact the church office at 296-0672 to add a petition to the prayer chain.
On Sunday mornings at 7:30, all are invited to join the pastors for prayer.
Communion is offered after every Sunday worship service, when communion is not served during the time of worship. Afterward, worshippers are invited to share any need or blessing and have someone pray with them.
The Mission and Service Ministry Team puts the benevolence dollars of Faith Lutheran Church to work in local, regional, and global missions. Through their leadership, our congregation supports local, regional and global mission and outreach projects throughout the year. This team welcomes new members and new ideas. Contact Kirsten Wilder in the church office at [email protected] or 296-0672 for more information.
The Military Support Ministry Team provides deployed military personnel with monthly care packages as well as letters of encouragement and support. Contact Kirsten Wilder in the church office at [email protected] or 296-0672 for more information.
Members of the Ambassadors Ministry Team assist at the Information Counter in the Centrum to members and visitors on Sunday mornings. The ministry of an ambassador is to welcome, direct, and provide information. A monthly potluck for ambassadors is followed by discussion and announcements of upcoming events and information. Contact Katarina Nagy in the church office at [email protected] or 296-0672 for more information.
The Rock at NoonDay campus is a Homeless Day Shelter. Tuesday – Friday they provide breakfast, lunch and a variety of care services to those in need. Sunday they provide worship followed by a fellowship lunch. Contact Kirsten Wilder in the church office at [email protected] or 296-0672 for more information.
Now STEELBRIDGE, the Albuquerque Rescue Mission has served the homeless, hungry, and struggling for over 60 years. Since 1954, the Mission has provided meals, shelter, and medical care often leading to participation in residential programs that offer men and women the opportunity to transform their lives. Beginning in 2017, STEELBRIDGE provides meals four days a week at The Rock at NoonDay campus, provides community crisis care at their Resource Center campus, and offers, to all those who participate in their residential renewal programs, a bridge from brokenness to wholeness. Contact Kirsten Wilder in the church office at [email protected] or 296-0672 for more information.
Our church holds a blood drive in our Gymnasium several times each year. If you are a blood donor, you are a hero to someone, somewhere who may receive your gracious gift of life! If you are able to donate blood, look for announcements in the weekly bulletin, just prior to the event and register in the Fellowship Hall for a specific time to donate.
Stephen Ministers are members of our congregation who listen, care, encourage, and provide emotional and spiritual support to people who are facing a crisis or going through tough times. Stephen Ministers are members of Faith Lutheran, who receive special training to provide one-to-one Christian care to people in our congregation and community who are experiencing grief, loneliness, divorce, hospitalization, disability, job loss, and many other life difficulties. The care you will receive is confidential, free, and very helpful. To learn how you (or a friend, neighbor, coworker, or relative) can receive care, contact the church office at 296-0672.
Through our partners at East European Missions Network (EEMN), Faith members volunteer to serve as missionaries in eastern Europe. Founded in 1992, following the fall of communism, EEMN is a conservative, evangelical, inter-Lutheran Christian mission organization that partners primarily (though, not exclusively) with indigenous Lutheran Christians living in former Soviet Bloc nations. Introducing the Gospel to people who have never learned about the saving grace, love, and mercy of God in Christ Jesus; and partnering to teach and equip a new generation of Christ-centered leaders, EEMN is committed to rebuilding communities in obedience to the Great Commission. For more information, go to http://www.eemn.org.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T14:49:20",
"url": "http://www.faithabq.org/impact/volunteer/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
We are a family owned and operated business who have been servicing the Elmvale area for over 25 years. This means we've become a part of the community that our customers can trust.
Our AC went out Sunday PM, we contacted you that evening (July 8). The tech was scheduled to come Mon PM, he came at 11 am and we were up and running by noon! Fantastic service, Thank You!!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T09:07:27",
"url": "https://www.customcomfort.ca/service/Elmvale.php",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Designed to be the perfect hybrid between a shirt and a jacket, this style is cut from a khaki cotton-blend fabric light enough to layer under a parka, but substantial enough to wear on its own over a cami or dress. It's detailed with buttoned cuffs and epaulettes and utilitarian-style patch pockets, and is intricately embroidered with rich burgundy and green florals. Model is 5'10in and wears a UK size 8. The length from side neck point to front hem measures 72cm/28in.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T06:38:51",
"url": "https://www.mintvelvet.co.uk/product/floral-embroidered-shacket/16691",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
05/01 H Effective date: 06/30/2018.
05/01 H Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 6.
04/26 H 33 Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
04/25 S 23 Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
04/23 S 9 Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
04/18 S 32 Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
03/21 S 6 Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
03/20 S 5 Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
03/20 H 12 Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
03/14 H 8 Reported favorably (10-0).
03/12 H 13 Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
02/22 H Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-23T13:54:27",
"url": "http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=18RS&b=HB109&sbi=y",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
1.1 What is this Notice about?
This notice outlines the customs procedures which apply to the importation of goods into the United Kingdom from places outside the Community, from the time of their arrival until they are entered to free circulation or another customs procedure.
It also describes the rules governing the liability for customs debt and the procedures for collecting and recovering those debts.
This latest version has been restructured but only the technical content of sections 7 and 9 (previously 5 and 6) have changed from the February 2002 edition. A new section 8 on repayments and remissions has been added.
You can access details of any changes to this notice since January 2004 on our Internet site at www.hmce.gov.uk or by telephoning the National Advice Service on 0845 010 9000.
This notice and others mentioned are available both on paper and on our website.
When you bring goods into the Community through the United Kingdom (UK), you must take them without delay to a place approved by us, that is an approved office of destination, and then present them to us.
2.2 What places are approved in the United Kingdom?
Goods imported by sea must be landed at an approved wharf. Contact our National Advice Service for details of approved wharves around the coast.
Goods imported by air must be landed at a Customs and Excise approved airport. These are listed in paragraph 2.3. At the airport, goods must be taken to the approved examination station.
For goods imported by pipeline or similar means, you must arrange the procedures through your local customs control officer.
When goods are cleared inland, they may be removed to an approved temporary storage premise, namely, an Inland Clearance Depot, Transit Shed, Remote Transit Shed or Enhanced Remote Transit Shed. Alternatively, goods may move under local clearance procedures to an authorised importer’s approved premises.
2.3 What are the designated Customs and Excise airports?
If your goods arrive in another Member State but you intend to put them into free circulation in the UK, they will need to travel under a transit procedure. Transit rules apply until they reach an approved office of destination. You can put the goods under an international transit procedure, for example TIR, before they enter the Community or under the Community Transit Procedure when they enter the Community.
3.1 What is required when the goods first arrive?
Imported goods from third countries must arrive at a designated place and must be presented to us by the person who brought the goods into the Community. Presentation means informing us in the required manner that the goods have arrived.
Once you have presented goods to us, you must lodge a summary declaration with us no later than the first working day following the day of presentation.
3.2 Who should present the goods?
The person, or the person representing them, who has brought the goods into the Community, or the person who assumes responsibility for their onward carriage, should present them.
3.3 How do I present the goods?
lodging form C1600A at the designated Customs office, the address of which will be advised by the port or airport concerned.
You should present goods which have been moved under a transit procedure to us under the rules applicable to that regime. After presentation, the rest of this notice will apply to these goods.
3.4 Are there time limits for presentation?
Yes. Goods must be presented within 3 hours of their arrival at the place of unloading. If the Customs office is closed, presentation must be made within an hour of it reopening.
3.5 Can presentation be waived?
3.6 Who should make the summary declaration?
the representative of any of the above.
3.7 What is the summary declaration?
The summary declaration is form C1600. We may accept commercial documents or computer records instead if they contain the necessary details.
consignment records (on computerised inventory systems).
If you want to use commercial documents, first contact the Customs office at the place of unloading to agree which commercial documents are acceptable.
Where goods have travelled under the Community or common transit procedures, the copy of the transit document retained by the Office of Destination will be the summary declaration. This applies to manifests used under the Community transit simplified procedures for transport by air or sea.
3.8 When should the summary declaration be made?
A summary declaration must be made within 24 hours of presentation. If the goods are entered or re-exported from the Community or destroyed before the time when the summary declaration has to be made, we may be prepared to waive lodgement. You must contact the Customs office at the place of unloading to see whether we are prepared to do this.
3.9 Can I combine presentation and summary declaration?
Yes. Contact the Customs office at the place of unloading for advice.
4.1 Where can I unload goods?
You may only unload goods from a ship, aircraft or vehicle after presentation and with our permission at places approved by us. In emergencies, goods may be unloaded for safety reasons without permission. However you must inform us immediately of their arrival once the goods have been unloaded.
You must also unload goods if we so require, so that the goods and the means of transport may be examined.
4.2 Are lightering or lightening operations allowed?
Yes. Where it is necessary for cargo to be transferred at sea from an importing ship at deep water anchorage to smaller vessels, for example barges for delivery ashore, we may give our permission for these operations. You should contact the Customs office at the place of unloading to agree procedures for transporting the goods to an approved wharf. We shall impose conditions and specify the route the goods must take.
4.3 Are there restrictions on the movement of goods after unloading?
Yes. After presentation, goods have the status of being in temporary storage until they are assigned to a Customs approved treatment or use. While in temporary storage, goods may not be removed, opened or examined without our permission and may only be handled in a way which preserves them without changing them. They may only be stored in places which we have approved. These are called temporary storage facilities in Community law.
For goods imported by sea, wharves and transit sheds may be approved as places for temporary storage purposes subject to conditions being met. At airports, transit sheds will be approved. Premises, including those away from ports and airports such as Enhanced Remote Transit Sheds or Inland Clearance Depots will only be approved subject to certain conditions being met. The restrictions on movement of goods in temporary storage also apply to goods brought into a free zone.
4.4 What are the conditions for Customs approval of temporary storage premises?
provide security for the goods.
Operators of Customs approved temporary storage facilities have obligations under the Community Customs Code and the Implementing Regulations which must be observed in addition to the specific terms of any written conditions of approval.
You can obtain more information about temporary storage facilities and general conditions of their approval from our National Advice Service.
4.5 What happens if goods are removed without permission?
A customs debt will arise if the conditions of temporary storage are breached. If the goods are removed unlawfully, we may hold the person holding the goods personally liable for any customs debt incurred. In addition, the person removing the goods and others may be guilty of an offence (see section 10).
4.6 Are there any other conditions?
We shall require operators of temporary storage facilities to provide some form of financial security, usually a Deed of Undertaking. For further information, contact your local Entry Processing Unit.
5.1 What can be done with the goods?
Goods presented to us must be assigned to a Customs approved treatment or use.
their abandonment to the Exchequer.
5.2 Are there any time limits for disposal?
20 days of the summary declaration for goods imported by other means.
all other information necessary for identifying the goods.
When an application is granted, we shall write to you giving a date by which the goods must be entered. You must pass a copy of this letter to the operator of the temporary storage facility.
5.3 How do I declare goods for free circulation or another customs procedure?
You can make a declaration on the SAD at a Customs office when the goods to which it relates have arrived at that office. We may allow a declaration to be lodged before the arrival of the goods but it will only be accepted when the goods have actually arrived and been presented as described in section 3.
You can find out more about how to declare goods by consulting the Integrated Tariff of the United Kingdom. You can purchase it from the Stationery Office and by mail, fax and telephone only from them at PO Box 29, Norwich, NR3 1GN. Telephone orders/general enquiries 0870 600 5522. Fax orders 0870 600 5533. E-mail [email protected].
5.4 Where can I declare the goods?
A declaration is normally made where the goods can be physically presented to us. This may take place at an approved airport, port, approved temporary storage area or Local Clearance Procedure premises.
5.5 Can I examine the goods before I declare them?
5.6 How do I place goods under a transit procedure?
You should present the goods together with the appropriate transit document to us at the office of departure where the transit movement will start.
5.7 How do I place goods in a free zone?
The procedure is outlined in Notice 334 Free zones.
5.8 How do I destroy goods?
You should pass a copy of our authorisation, which will set out the conditions which must be met, to the operator of the temporary storage facility. Destruction of the goods must not entail any expense to the Exchequer.
5.9 What happens if the goods are not declared or otherwise dealt with within the time allowed?
If the goods are not assigned to a Customs approved treatment or use within the time allowed, including any extensions granted, we are required without delay to take measures, including sale of the goods, to ensure that they are properly disposed of. We may take them to a Queen’s Warehouse.
Storage charges are the responsibility of the person in possession of the goods, unless the goods have been formally seized. In the latter case, we are not responsible for accrued charges prior to seizure.
These include the need for veterinary or other health checks to be carried out before temporary storage status is ended. The production of import licences, certificates etc may also be required when the goods are entered.
6.1 Does this notice apply to any Community goods?
Yes, it applies where Community goods have to be presented to us under Community regulations.
6.2 Which goods are affected?
6.3 How are these goods identified?
They will travel to the UK under the internal Community Transit Procedure (T2). The Office of Destination copy of the T2 will act as the summary declaration.
6.4 Are any other goods affected?
placed under a suspensive procedure when they have been brought into the customs territory of the Community.
If the status document is not available at the port or airport of destination, the goods will be treated as goods of third country origin until their status is established.
7.1 What is “customs debt”?
“Customs debt” is used in this section to refer to import duties (customs duties, anti-dumping duties, CAP charges) which become payable upon importation of goods to the Community. HM Customs and Excise must ensure that the correct import duties are paid on imports into the UK, by the person who is liable to pay them. Import VAT is covered in section 9.
7.2 Who is liable for the customs debt?
If you are the declarant and use an agent to make the customs declaration as your representative, the agent may also become liable for the customs debt. This depends on whether the representation is “direct” or “indirect”. These terms are explained below in paragraph 7.4.
If you make a declaration for another person but do not declare the representation on the form C88 (SAD) indicating either direct or indirect, you will be considered to be representing only yourself and liable for the customs debt.
7.3 Who is a declarant?
A declarant is the natural person (an individual) or legal person (company, partnership, public body etc) who either makes the declaration in his own name or in whose name a declaration is made by a representative. Often this is not the same as the individual who signs the form as, for example, a limited company has officers or other employees to do this on their behalf. When this happens, the individual who signs on behalf of the legal person is not the declarant, the legal person is.
You can be the declarant if you are able to present the goods and the relevant documents to Customs and make a customs declaration for the goods. However, if the acceptance of a customs declaration imposes obligations on a particular person, then you can only be the declarant if you are that person.
To be the declarant, you must be established in the Community. Individuals who are normally resident in the Community are regarded as established in the Community, as will any company that has a genuine permanent place of business or its registered office in the Community. However, if you are making a declaration for transit or temporary importation, or only declare goods on an occasional basis, you do not need to be established in the Community.
7.4 What are the types of representation?
indirect, where you act in your own name but on behalf of another person.
If you make a customs declaration in your own name, but for a potential customer, you will be liable for any customs debt that arises upon the acceptance of the declaration by Customs.
If you do not state the representation on the customs declaration or you are not empowered to be a representative of another person, then you will be deemed to be acting in your own name and on your own behalf.
If you delegate a task to a sub-agent, then the sub-agent is bound by the type of representation you have agreed with the principal.
When you make a customs declaration acting as a direct representative on behalf of a principal i.e. the declarant, the principal will be liable for the customs debt. You and any sub –agent will have no liability for the customs debt.
The agreement between you and the principal must provide, either implicitly or explicitly, for the delegation of tasks to a sub-agent in order for the sub-agent to be empowered to represent the principal. If such a provision is absent, then the sub-agent will not be empowered to represent the principal in making a customs declaration. If he does nevertheless, the sub-agent may also become liable for customs debt.
When you make a customs declaration acting as an indirect representative on behalf of a principal, both you and the principal will be liable for the customs debt. We will be entitled to seek payment from either you and/or the principal.
If you delegate the making of a customs declaration to a sub-agent, then the sub-agent will become liable for the customs debt along with the principle, but not you. This is because you have not made the declaration nor have you the responsibility for performing the acts and formalities required by customs rules.
The scope of your authority to act as a direct/indirect representative can be inferred from circumstantial evidence and formal written authorisation by the principal is not a legal requirement. However a formal written authorisation stating that you are empowered to be a direct representative or indirect representative, (whichever is agreed between you and the principal), will avoid any doubt regarding who is liable for the customs debt.
If you do not hold written authorisation, you risk of being regarded as acting solely on your own behalf. If the authorisation does not confirm the type of representation, you could be regarded as an indirect representative. In both cases, you would be liable for the customs debt. You should therefore consider obtaining confirmation of your empowerment to act for a principal as a direct or indirect representative in writing.
The statement on a customs declaration indicating that you are acting in direct representation or indirect representation will normally be accepted unless we need to check the accuracy of the statement.
If you are an authorised CFSP trader making declarations on behalf of your principals (clients), this can only be made by way of indirect representation. The declarant has to be the person who has the CFSP authorisation. Therefore, if you are that person making a customs declaration on behalf of another, it is being made indirectly.
7.5 How should Box 54 of the SAD be completed?
If you are making the declaration, insert your original hand-written signature. If you are an officer or other employee of the legal person making the declaration, such as a limited company, you should print your full name and your status/job title after your signature.
the status of the person completing the form (e.g. clerk) (both direct and indirect representation).
In signing box 54, a legal declaration is being made that the details shown on the declaration and any continuation sheets are true and complete and that the requirements of any national or EC legislation have been met.
7.6 Who is to be pursued for the customs debt?
This depends upon whether representation is involved and the type of representation agreed between the parties concerned.
If you are acting as a direct representative, that is you are making a customs declaration on behalf of a principal in their name, the principal is the declarant and liable for the customs debt, not you.
If you are acting as an indirect representative, that is you are making a customs declaration on behalf of a principal in your own name, then you are the declarant. However, both you and the principal are liable for the customs debt. Therefore we will pursue both you and the principal for the payment of the debt. If one of you is insolvent, the debt will be claimed in the insolvency. If only one of you is established in the Community, we will pursue that debtor.
If you make a declaration in your own name on your own behalf, you are the declarant and liable for the customs debt.
7.7 In VAT Groups, which company is the customs debtor?
The debtor will be the member company which makes the customs declaration.
7.8 How is the debt (underpayment) notified?
We issue a post clearance demand note (C18) to the appropriate person that a customs debt is due. This includes any voluntary disclosures that have been made to us.
7.9 Is interest due on the debt?
We will charge interest on the customs debt if it is not paid by the due date. The due date is ten days from the date of issue of the C18. Interest will however be waived if payment is received within five days of the due date.
The rate of interest charged is the same as that charged for all UK departmental duties and taxes, and is subject to a minimum charge of £25.00. Any interest charged will be notified separately.
The rate of interest is available on the internet.
7.10 Is there a time limit for recovery action?
We have 3 years from the date the customs debt was incurred, usually the date the original declaration was accepted by Customs, to notify you of the customs debt. However, if the customs debt was the result of an act that has or could have given rise to criminal proceedings, we can notify you and pursue the debt after the 3 year period.
7.11 What about payments on deposit?
A payment can be made at importation as a security for duty before the customs debt is properly established. We refer to this as a payment “on deposit”. Therefore it is a form of security for duty - not payment of the duty. If the deposit is not sufficient to cover the customs debt once established, then the balance will be due from the customs debtor or debtors.
Any deposit remaining once the customs debt has been established, will be repaid to whoever provided the original deposit.
8.1 What are repayments and remissions?
been asked to pay additional amounts of import duty which you do not think is your responsibility to pay and want to ask for remission.
These procedures are subject to legal requirements which specify when a repayment or remission of import duties can be made.
8.2 What is the legal basis of the conditions and procedures for a repayment or remission?
These are contained in Council Regulation 2913/92 (the Community Customs Code), Articles 235 to 242 and in Commission Regulation 2454/93, Articles 878 to 909.
Repayments and remissions are defined in Code Article 235.
Repayments: the total or partial refund of import duties or export duties which have been paid.
Remissions: either a decision to waive all or part of the amount of a customs debt or a decision to render void an entry in the accounts of all or part of an amount of import or export duty which has not been paid.
In general terms, remission is where the customs debt has not been paid and is either no longer legally due or we have decided not to pursue the debt after re-considering the relevant circumstances.
8.3 In what circumstances may there be a repayment or remission of a customs debt?
Code Articles 236 to 239 state the particular circumstances that may justify a repayment or remission claim.
situations result from circumstances in which no deception or obvious negligence can be attributed to the person concerned but there is evidence that a special situation may exist (Article 239).
8.4 Is there a time limit for claims?
For a claim under Article 238 and 239, it is normally twelve months from the date the debt was notified, usually the date of the declaration. This can be extended if it is an exceptional case.
8.5 How do I apply for a repayment or remission?
For remissions, the application should be sent to your nearest Customs Business Centre.
8.6 Is there any other forms of application that could apply?
Article 239 claims covered by the specific situations listed in Notice 266 paragraph 3.1 (a) to (o).
You should use form C&E 813 or C&E 823 for claims for refunds under Inward Processing Relief (IPR) (Drawback), as explained in Notice 221 Inward processing relief.
8.7 What if I do not have the complete information/supporting documentation and the time limit to a claim is near?
if appropriate, details of the next intended customs procedure you wish to apply to the goods and whether you want authorisation to do this before a repayment decision has been made.
We will indicate the time period within which you will be required to provide the additional information/documentation to complete the claim.
8.8 Is there a way to make protect a future claim against the time limits?
We will consider accepting a ‘protective’ claim if you can show that you may have a claim in the future but it depends on the result of a future event. An example is where a classification decision is being challenged at the European Court of Justice and if the decision results in a lower duty liability, it could apply to you.
A protective claim can be incomplete as shown in paragraph 0. You should mark the claim indicating it is a protective claim. It should state the future event on which the claim depends and how this could justify the remission/repayment claim.
Documentation that supports the claim should be retained in case we need to refer to it at a later date. When the future event has occurred, you should inform us so that we can process the claim in the normal way.
8.9 Is there a minimum amount for a repayment or remission claim?
The amount of import duty claimed on an individual customs declaration must exceed €10. However, we will accept a “bulked” claim covering several import consignments where the same reason for the remission/repayment applies. These can include declarations where the duty concerned is €10 or less as long as the total duty which is finally to be repaid or remitted exceeds €10.The appropriate exchange rate to reach the current amount in sterling is published on the CHIEF Noticeboard and on the internet.
8.10 Are all repayment/ remission claims decided by Customs?
All applications for repayments and remissions have to be made to us in the first instance and usually we make the decision. However, we are required to refer certain cases to the European Commission for their decision. These include special situations not covered by existing legislation or precedent where the amount of customs debt involved exceeds €500,000.
If we decide to submit your case to the Commission, we are legally required to consult you on the form and content of the submission. During the Commission’s consideration of the submission, we must consult you concerning any further information that we are asked to provide. The time taken from sending the submission and the Commission reaching a decision can vary depending on the complexity of the case but it can be over a year.
8.11 Are there other reasons for not accepting claims?
successive sale values are being revised and based on an earlier sale.
8.12 Is there any specific provision for mail order goods?
the goods have been exported to the original supplier’s address, or to another address indicated by the supplier.
both the catalogue and the contract clearly inform the consumer of his right to return goods to the trader within a period of not less than seven days of receipt or otherwise to cancel the contract within the period without obligation of any kind other than to take reasonable care of the goods.
8.13 Can interest apply to a repayment claim?
Following the receipt of a valid claim, if we fail to issue a repayment within 30 working days, you may request payment of interest from customs. Interest is payable on the number of days above 30 that it took to repay your claim. A claim for interest must however be made in writing at the same office the original claim was made, and within 3 years of the date repayment was issued.
The rate of interest paid is the same as that paid for all UK Departmental duties and taxes but less than that charged under section 7 The rate of interest is available on the internet.
Generally, import VAT is treated the same as customs duty including who pays it and when, the recovery of debts not paid at importation and who is entitled to repayment/remission.
Notice 702 Imports contains more information on import VAT.
Notice 702/9 Warehouses and free zones contains information on import VAT on goods entered for warehousing or to a free zone.
10.1 In what circumstances might an offence be committed?
you will be committing an offence which could result in prosecution and a fine.
10.2 What will happen to the goods for which an offence has been committed?
Any goods in respect of which an offence has been committed may be seized by us as liable to forfeiture. If we seize the goods in the presence of you or your representative, we shall give you a copy of form C156 which, amongst other things, sets out your right of appeal against the seizure. If we seize the goods in the absence of you or your representative, we shall send you a formal Notice of Seizure which will also set out your right of appeal against the seizure.
If we subsequently decide not to offer you restoration of the seized goods or we only offer to restore them on payment by you of a sum of money with which you are unhappy, you can appeal against this decision. Full details of how you should go about this, and the time limits on making your appeal, are set out in Notice 990 Excise and Customs Appeals.
it on the spot with our officer. If you are unable to do so, or have a suggestion about how we can improve our service, you should contact one of our Regional Complaints Units. You will find the telephone number under ‘Customs and Excise - complaints and suggestions’ in your local telephone book. Ask for a copy of our code of practice ‘Complaints and putting things right’ (Notice 1000). You will find further information on our website at http://www.hmce.gov.uk.
If we are unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction you can ask the Adjudicator to look into it. The Adjudicator, whose services are free, is a fair and unbiased referee whose recommendations are independent of Customs and Excise.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-20T11:02:55",
"url": "https://www.ukpandi.com/ja/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%81%A8%E5%87%BA%E7%89%88%E7%89%A9/article/imported-goods-customs-procedures-and-customs-debt-191/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
The EMMC STEPS is promoted by a partnership led by the University of Oviedo (ES), together with the University of Nottingham (UK), the University of Rome (IT) and the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (PT). Prestigious international universities, as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois (USA), the University of Santa Maria (BR) and the University of Yeungnam (KOR), and 16 global leading companies in energy and transportation sectors are associated members. Companies will be offering internships, and some senior staff will be teaching courses.
Department of Electrical, Electronical, Computers and Systems (DIEECS) has got a strong specialization in the field of Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, AC drives and Energy Generation and Conversion. DIEECS has got over 100 research teachers and administrative staff, including 6 Full Professors, 53 Associated professors and 17 part-time professors. DIEECS' research output in Energy Conversion amounts to 43 indexed publications in the last 5 years, and another 18 accepted; 10 research projects in competitive terms; 20 PhD thesis and 5 patents in cooperation with other companies and institutions. The Department PhD programmes have been labelled since 2006 with the Quality Mention by the National Agency for Quality Accreditation.
DIEECS is one of the University leading departments by the amount of contracts and joint projects with companies and industry. It has attracted over EUR 5 million in research activities in the field of Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, AC drives and Energy Generation and Conversion within the last 5 years. Projects have been funded by Spanish government, EU and national and international companies. Besides, some of the researches in the department are actively involved in the International Campus of Excellence –"Cluster of Energy and Environment" from the University of Oviedo.HC Energía, Arcelor-Mittal, Alstom Transport, AZSA, Duro Felguera, Gamesa Electric, EdP, Iberdrola Renovable, Schneider Electric, Ford Motor Company are among their key partners. Some of them will be associated members to the EMMC STEPS.
Power Electronics, Machines and Control (PEMC) Group is one of the largest research groups in its field worldwide, and has world leading research activities across a range of fields including Power Electronic Energy Conversion, Conditioning and Control Power Electronics Integration, Packaging and Thermal Management Motor Drives and Motor Control, and Electrical Machines. As of January 2011 the Group has 9 academics, and a research grant portfolio of over £16M earned from UK government, EU, national and international industry, and UK and US defence bodies. The PEMC Group has very strong links with industry, both nationally and internationally, ranging from component suppliers to OEMs, The Group plays key roles at University level within the Energy Technologies Research Institute (ETRI) and the newly formed Aerospace Research Institute, and has recently opened new experimental facilities - the Aerospace Research Centre.
MOET, CleanSky (JTI), Scarlett, UniFlex are among their EU key funders in their research field. Besides, the PEMC has participated in some knowledge transfer partnerships with Cummins, Alstom and Dynex, and their international funded research includes collaborations with Boeing, US Army laboratories, Eon, ABB, TRW and Zytec.
Department of Astronautical, Electric and Energetic Engineering is composed by 22 full professors, 17 associate professors and 27 assistant professors. The Department is in charge of 2 BS, 3 MS and 4 PhD degrees. The Department activity and vitality is testified by about 200 publications in indexed journals in the last five years and by about EUR 4 million in research funds, granted by the EU, the Italian Government, several public and private companies.
Department of Electrical Engineering (DEE) has more than 30 years of experience in advanced technical training in the areas of electrical and electromechanical engineering. It has 13 fully-equipped laboratories for teaching and researching purposes and 3 full professors and 35 associate professors. The department has been intensively involved in ERASMUS mobility programs. The Department has bilateral agreements nearly 40 universities from Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Italy, Holland, Norway, Poland, England, Czech Republic, Romania, Estonia, Belgium and Denmark. They also collaborate with Universidade Federal da Uberlândia from Brasil and University of Sakaya and University of Namik Kemal from Turkey.
DEE professors are member of several R&D Units of the Portuguese Plurianual Funding Programme and Associate Laboratories, and are actively involved in several fields of research, namely, Electric Power Systems, Renewable Energies, Energy Management, Power Electronics, Electrical Motor Driven Systems, Electric Vehicles, Robotics and Communications. They have supervised over than 150 M.Sc. thesis, published more than 50 indexed papers and participated in more than 35 European and Portuguese research and development projects, most of them in cooperation with Portuguese and international companies, and other R&D institutions. Active Space Technologies, DKM Control, MAHLE, Martifer, Minimenergy, Olympus, Optieng, and Sramport are among the Department key partners. Some of them are associated members to the EMMC STEPS.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T09:01:03",
"url": "http://www.emmcsteps.eu/consortium/partners",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
A magnificent halo design ring, the gorgeous piece has been adorned with an oval shaped Australian Boulder Opal with an outer frame of Natural Cambodian Zircons. Additionally, the ring has been finished in shiny, long lasting and sturdy Platinum Overlay Sterling Silver and can be expediently resized 3 sizes up and 3 sizes down. The royal style halo ring offers quite a regal look to the hands.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-22T14:53:53",
"url": "https://www.tjc.co.uk/rings/australian-boulder-opal-ovl-natural-cambodian-zircon-ring-in-platinum-overlay-sterling-silver-M3078224.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Emergency Event Manager (EEMS) is an accountability solution that enables Emergency Management Agencies to track First Responders and manage an emergency incident scene on-site electronically. EEMS automates the process of tracking an incident by electronically capturing data as first responders and volunteers move in and out of divisions, create assignments, time stamp all activity, have access to crucial personnel information including certifications and specialties and issue secure FIPS 201 color IDs.
Command Centers can be setup and operational within minutes of arriving on scene using EEMS. First Responders and Volunteers can be badged, issued assignments and begin setting up checkpoints quickly and efficiently. Electronically capturing data during the event allows the EOC and Command Center on-site to view event data during or after an event. This automated process makes performing audits and grant reimbursement requests easy and more accurate than manual processes.
Instantly issue positive IDs anywhere.
Track & manage personnel & volunteer data.
An interoperable system allowing other dept/organization credentials to be integrated at an event.
Tells you who’s on-site and who’s not on-site.
An affordable solution for departments large & small.
Generate accurate reports quickly for federal reimbursement.
Choose from multiple card designs & print IDs.
Ability to work online & offline.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T22:33:24",
"url": "https://diamondbusiness.net/product/emergency-event-manager/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Airborne training devices -- a jump tower and aircraft-- at this installation near Pushkin reveal that it housed the Soviet 3rd Airborne Brigade. The brigade, formed in 1932, was the first such unit in the Red Army. The unit most likely used the airfield at Pushkin.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T02:36:58",
"url": "https://www.ww2aerialreconstudies.com/leningrad-airborne-brigade.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
btw, I just know your blog from the linkback.. your blog is amazing... thanks..
yeah.. I was thinking about it too. the concentration level gets to almost zero after lunch. What a great idea they've adopted!!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-18T11:05:45",
"url": "http://www.thinzaroo.me/2007/12/blog-post_27.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Communities across the U.S. continue to develop short-term rental regulations that threaten the vacation rental management industry. Unfortunately, there are often cases in each community that warrant regulation. Due to these cases, policymakers often blur the lines between a professionally managed vacation rental property, home share and other rental structures. Professional vacation rental managers must do a better job educating policymakers about the key differences between these types of short-term rentals to ensure the rights of property owners and the businesses that manage them. The VRMA Board began implementing new strategies this past fall to counter the onslaught of burdensome regulation and will be unveiling the new tools throughout the year.
One of the first steps taken by the VRMA Board and the Government Affairs Committee, to fight back against overregulation, was the creation of the advocacy coordinator position. This position is designed to build an advocacy program to assist the association in becoming a greater voice in the travel industry. The board and staff moved quickly to fill the position, and I was hired in December. This opportunity was an exciting way to utilize my background as a former elected city council member, town clerk and district representative for a member of Congress in order to facilitate communication with local, state and federal governments. In addition to my work in the public sector, I have also helped nonprofit organizations foster relationships and leverage assets to enhance their strategic initiatives. The major issues our industry currently faces are localized, and we need the support of other organizations, businesses and individuals to support our message. I will bring what I have learned from my experiences in the public and nonprofit sectors to help us gather this support.
The first component of the new strategy is the development of a strategic plan for the new advocacy program. The plan will specify goals and a timeline for our advocacy efforts. While still in the early stages, the plan focuses on strengthening the influence of the VRMA as a recognized industry expert, developing cross-organizational relationships, and enhancing advocacy communication and engagement. The plan will allow the board, members and staff to focus their efforts and optimize legislative opportunity.
A major goal for this year is to produce a national policy agenda to demonstrate the policy objectives of the VRMA. The Government Affairs Committee has been assessing the legislative and regulatory landscape to determine priorities for the upcoming year. The analysis will help us produce a professionally designed communication instrument to engage conversations with other industry leaders and to express a more cohesive message. The national policy agenda, a key component of the emerging toolkit, will help us achieve our objectives as outlined in the strategic plan.
The toolkit will focus on educating members on advocacy methods and best practices that address government regulatory issues central to short-term rentals. It will provide communication tools to enhance our public relations program to teach the public, the media and interested parties the importance of the vacation home rental industry and the impact of regulations on local economies.
The second major component of the toolkit includes issue tracking at the local, state and federal levels of government. Staff will track legislative actions across the country and develop communications to encourage our members to get involved locally.
Member participation will be crucial to achieving success in advocating for professional VR managers. We need to tell our story in a cohesive voice. We need to explain how property management helps to integrate our properties into their local communities. The tools we are currently developing will help engage our membership and develop new supporters. The current landscape suggests that there are many opportunities for members to achieve success if, and when, local regulations appear in their communities. We have seen battles lost, but we have also seen communities reverse or loosen their regulations once they realize that the enforcement of onerous regulation is difficult and not yielding results. Policymakers and enforcers receive their orders from local participants. That is why your participation as an advocate is crucial. Look for these new tools to be presented throughout the year and know that the VRMA is here to assist you in your endeavors.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-21T09:04:36",
"url": "http://arrival.vrma.org/blog/speaking-with-a-clearer-voice",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
A great gift idea! This doll is made of beautiful metallic material and is perfect for cuddles. Her tutu has eye catching sparkles and layers of tulle.
This ballerina doll is sure to put a smile on any one face and brighten any ones day.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-25T02:15:59",
"url": "https://kogdirect.com.au/products/cute-azz-collectable-ballerina-dancer-rag-doll-pink-ragdoll-60cm-tall-hw-100",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Leadership in These Times Facing Reality | Claiming Leadership | Restoring Sanity.
To be up close and personal with someone whose books has had such an impact and influence on me over the years was pretty awesome.
Meg shared her latest thinking in her new book ‘Who do we choose to be?’ in which she develops the idea that modern culture has power over and on us, and to stand apart from this is a choice. Her prognosis is bleak… things will continue to fall apart, especially in America where she feels that there is a “war going on for the human spirit”.
I live in America – its a terrifying time – we are in an age of destruction.
Power and greed seems to be more powerful than common good.
Politics seems to be about creating fear. When people are fearful, we become savages.
We need leaders who recognize what harm is being done to people and planet through practices that dominate, ignore, abuse, and suppress the human spirit.
We need leaders who are willing to sacrifice self for others. Sacrifice means to make something ‘scared’.
We need to work in small groups, create islands of sanity, that generate generosity and grace.
Following a discussion about whether these were too propositional, too judgemental, too binary and therefore unrealistic/simplistic, Meg was adamant that this was a helpful frame from which to make sense of what’s going on in the world today. And that, there was a need to take an ethical stand.
She put forward the idea that one way to take a position is to create “islands of sanity” where we are – where those committed to serving others use their power and influence to co-create relationships that bring about generosity, contribution, community and love, no matter what. Inspirational stuff.
The question is not what should we do, but rather who do we want to become.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-24T14:05:07",
"url": "https://gohbyname.com/2017/11/10/when-patrick-met-meg/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
For helpful information and advice on the rules and regulations applicable to learner drivers please go to Directgov Motoring Section and the Driving Standards Agency website.
To find out how to apply for you provisional licence, click here for more info.
When you decide to learn to drive, there are various laws and rules you will need to adhere to enforced by the DVLA (The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency). There will be restrictions on the type of vehicle you can learn to drive in according to your age along with other factors such as who can accompany you when you are driving. According to the latest RAC reports, there are more than 30 million drivers who regularly use the British roads and every year more than 1 million learners take their driving test hoping to become licensed drivers. Getting a driving licence is an important milestone, but learning to drive requires time, effort, and dedication, as well as solid knowledge of what is expected from every driver.
How old do I have to be to get a provisional licence?
In Great Britain and Northern Ireland you must to be 17 years old to hold an official provisional licence. You can apply for the provisional licence up to 3 months before your 17th birthday, bear in mind that won't be valid until you actually turn 17. If you are only applying for a provisional licence to drive a moped, the minimum age is 16 years old.
Who can accompany me when I am practising driving?
Once you have your provisional drivers licence, you need to be accompanied by a driver who is more than 21 years old and who has held a full licence for a minimum of three years, in the relevant vehicle category. Many new drivers start learning with the help of friends or relatives, and while this is perfectly legal, your chances of success will be much higher if you take your first steps behind the wheel with a qualified driving instructor.
No, there are different age restrictions for different vehicles; you must check first that the one you are planning to drive is appropriate for your age. You must also ensure that the vehicle is properly taxed, insured and roadworthy.
Are there any other rules for learner drivers?
Yes, you must display your "L" plates on the front of the vehicle you are driving, in a prominent position. (In Wales this is "L" or "D" plates). Once you have your licence and before you get behind the wheel, you will need to pass a theory test. Tests are taken at authorised centres and cost £25. You can book your test online through the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency.
The theory test features 50 multiple-choice questions. You will have 57 minutes to go through them and you will need to get at least 43 questions right to pass. To prepare for this multiple choice test you will need to read and understand the rules contained in the Official Highway Code. You can access it online or print it and study it in your own time. You can also buy a printed copy from major online retailers and bookstores. The next thing you will need to familiarise yourself with is the Know Your Traffic Signs booklet. Lastly, you will need to study the car or motorbike Essential Skills guide, which can be bought from the Safe Driving for Life online store.
You can practice online by taking mock tests at the Safe Driving for Life website. There are also several smartphone and tablet apps available to help you get used to the test format.
You will also need to take a hazard perception test. During this part of the test, you will be presented with 14 one-minute video clips and you will need to identify the hazards as soon as possible. You will have to score at least 44 points to pass. You can prepare for this test by watching the official DVD.
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T22:14:15",
"url": "https://www.drivingschools.co.uk/how-to-drive.html",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Check out these unsolicited customer reviews about Learn & Grow, my hands-on preschool curriculum!
YOUR curriculum is special. It will always be remembered as a favorite part of our younger years.
Plans are broken into weeks. Each week has a special theme. Really, really fun themes! Whales and apples and pets and healthy foods and nursery rhymes and quilts and springtime just to name a few. Every theme has incredible, simple activities to do with your children.
The projects and activities are easy to put together, no difficult or hard-to-obtain supplies necessary. While there are a few pages in the back of the book to copy for the child to complete, most of the activities are hands-on. Activities that encourage your child to touch, smell, listen, think – experience new things! If you have noticed that this website is called ‘Homeschool Your Boys’ and you happen to have GIRLS, take note that this curriculum is absolutely written for both girls and boys alike! She just has extra resources on her site specific to boys.
Take a peek at some sample pages from this book, which give you just a tiny glimpse into the treasure that this book is. I promise that if you held this book in your hands, you would be filled with excitement over all the great experiences you could have with your preschooler!
This curriculum is good stuff! Malachi and I will be having a blast together as we work through this book. And I am thinking his bigger brothers will even want to join us. Learn and Grow is perfect for home schooling parents; but, even if you do not home school and just want a great go to resource of activities to help your child learn new things, you would find this book very useful!
I just wanted to drop a note to say THANK YOU!!! We have been using your preschool curriculum for a month now, and my boys (4 and 21 months) are LOVING, LOVING “school”!! I was previously using Before Five In A Row, with groans and screams. My 4 year old BEGS me to do school! What a blessing!! We are also using the Teach Me About God, and my 4 year old adores that too!
I am in love! This is perfect. I can alter it slightly for my oldest and also for my 19 month old and they are having so much fun doing these lessons together.
I LOVE your emails/newsletters and Ryan (my 3 year old) and I are enjoying your preschool Learn and Grow curriculum this year. Thank you for sharing, encouraging, and supporting all of us – home schooling families.
Thank you so much, Michelle! I am leaving my corporate job to be home with my two boys ages 2 1/2 and 3 months. I can’t wait!!! I saw the sample lesson plan and almost started crying. It is perfect!
I have been a Family Childcare Provider for the last 6 years and I have excelled in every aspect of my business. However, the one thing that I have struggled with was finding a curriculum that I felt was building good learning skills for the children I taught.
I flipped flopped back and forth with purchasing or designing my own curriculum and it was never a good fit. The purchased kits taught about things I wasn’t interested in, and it’s hard to teach something that you don?t like yourself. And honestly, I didn’t have a lot of time to build a curriculum myself and found myself much of the time unprepared.
Until, I stumbled across Learn and Grow, BINGO I think I’ve got it! When I heard Michelle mentioned in her introduction about her search and not finding a curriculum that gave the “Meat and potatoes” for learning, I knew I was on to something.
Currently school is out in GA so I will not start using the curriculum until August however, I have had the pleasure of looking over the lessons and I can hardly wait. I have been looking so long for a curriculum that taught lessons based on the alphabet and I know the kids are really going to enjoy the activities. This is truly a God send!
Thank you Michelle for being so kind and generous in sharing the knowledge that God has given to you and helping others give the gift of learning.
Thank you so much for your books “Learn and Grow” and “Teach me about God.” It’s been 2 1/2 weeks into our homeschooling adventure, and my son and I both enjoy our homeschool activities.
You serve as an inspiration for me to continue homeschooling my son. Thank you for giving me a window into the world of homeschooling and how boys are so different from girls. I would’ve been really discouraged otherwise. I had put him into a local playgroup of 15 kids and the teacher would label him a “problem” for not being able to sit still. Armed with your homeschooling curriculum, I can provide him with fun activities tailored for his attention span and be able to enjoy his learning process every step of the way.
May the Lord bless you and your family abundantly!
Learn and Grow is Wonderful! I have homeschooled for 19 years. I’ve graduated our first 5 homeschooled children and have 3 boys ages 5, 3, and 1 to go. I never used a preschool curriculum (for long) because I couldn’t find one that was flexible enough, yet academic enough, and doable without tons of preparation along with teaching other grades. Oh, I’ve tried them all! But the first few lessons would be as long as it would last. Learn and Grow is so different! My 3 year old LOVES it! And my 5 year old doesn’t miss a lesson, even though he is doing his own first grade curriculum. He says, “Mom, I didn’t get to do that when I was three!” to every activity!
The lessons are laid out so well. I love the way each activity has the “materials needed” listed, and they are seldom things I need to purchase that aren’t normal items in our homeschool closet already.
Each activity is clearly labeled for its academic content. There is not much if any preparation. They are very fun and enjoyable to a three year old. They don’t take much time, are to the point, but very thorough. And there is so much variety! We go to bed with the suggested reading books that I am able to place on hold on-line through our local library. All I do is place the hold and pick them up! Learn and Grow is just the most exciting part of our school day. My boys always ask for more. I have never seen a curriculum so complete, yet easy to use, and enjoyable all at the same time! Even my husband adds to what we are learning in every-day activity!
You have done a great job with Learn and Grow! I cannot say enough to give it justice. Every aspect with the way it is set up and the content is wonderful! Thank you for your time and work and for sharing it with us so we can have a successful and enjoyable homeschool preschool! My boys LOVE it!!!
I wish I had Learn and Grow for my older children when they were three or four.
I’ve enjoyed the Learn and Grow Curriculum. The variety of activities is great! My sons (there are two using the curriculum, a 3 year old and 2 1/2 year old) seem to like the alphabetical order of the lessons. I’m especially thrilled with the physical, coordination building activities and the science things: these seem to be activities that kids do not acquire simply reading a book and skills worth developing while they are so very young. Many of the craft projects have been enjoyed by our older boys also (5 + 6 year olds).
Thanks again for the hard work! Your curriculum has been a real time saver and I have enjoyed using it with my preschool boys.
Learn and Grow is a fantastic program. My little boy especially likes decorating the Big Letter Cutouts at the beginning of each week. My favorite part is that you have incorporated easy activities into the day to “just get all the sillies out”.
I just wanted to let you know that I started teaching my daughter. We both love your activities. I am a Secondary School Teacher and very thankful for your incredible amount of great ideas for younger children.
I do have trouble finding the suggested library books as I live in Austria, but I am substituting them with German and French books I have access to.
Thank you again for providing such an inspiring curriculum.
I just had to tell you how impressed I was with the book you wrote! What talent the Lord has given you! I hope it is extremely successful and I feel it will be!
I just want to thank you for the wonderful collection of ideas in your Preschool Curriculum. Sarah (2) and I have arrived at the letter D and so far, she has liked almost every activity. It is such a good feeling to know that I have lots and lots of activities ready when I come home from work.
Whenever I say the words: Sarah, ich habe ein Spiel für Dich vorbereitet (I have prepared a game for you), she runs to her little table and waits for me to do the activities with her.
We even took a trip to a farm like you suggested (for letter C) and had a GREAT time there. It all ties in so nicely!
Thank you again for all your trouble to send the files to me.
Thanks so much for your fast response! I have been telling everyone I know about this book! I am so excited about purchasing one! Thanks for the simple methods!!! And thanks for blessing the public with such a neat resource for training toddlers!
Hello. I received your book last week. It is so well written you are inspiring me to do something like that for what I specialize in! Monday is our first day of school and I’m so excited! Thank you soooo much – it’s a wonderful book. Please let me know if you ever make one for higher grades.
As you can see, customers who have purchased Learn and Grow: Hands-On Lessons for Active Preschoolers have been very satisfied. So don’t delay. Order your copy of our hands-on preschool curriculum today!
|
{
"timestamp": "2019-04-19T17:26:33",
"url": "https://www.homeschool-your-boys.com/customer-reviews-hands-on-preschool-curriculum/",
"language": "en",
"source": "c4"
}
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.