The Bethlehem Education Association has endorsed or strongly endorsed 34 goals on the list of 68 originally proposed for the Bethlehem Area School District by Superintendent Thomas J. Doluisio.
The BEA wants a say in the development of some of the goals and is proposing three goals of its own. Doluisio's initial list has already grown to 70, with the inclusion of two goals proposed by the Bethlehem Area School Board.
- Increasing the per-pupil monetary allocation for instruction in the 16 elementary schools.
- Revising the elementary book report policy.
- Revising elementary report cards.
- Eliminating the "Philosophy for Children" program in fifth grade.
- Developing the bilingual education and peer counseling programs.
- Establishing a staffing philosophy that will allow lower pupil-teacher ratios for certain remedial classes, particularly on the high-school and middle-school levels.
- Establishing a procedure for spending district-wide capital funds.
- Developing an academic recognition program.
- Developing an evaluation program for administration - management by objective.
- Reviewing the child study center procedures.
- Conducting a redistricting study to determine the impact of increasing enrollment on individual schools.
- Establishing a suicide prevention/crisis intervention program.
- Creating general-purpose aide positions for the elementary schools.
- Establishing a centralized instructional materials production program so that elementary teachers can be freed from time-consuming clerical chores.
While these 14 goals apparently were given the BEA's highest priority, the association's Representative Council also "endorsed" 20 other goals. In some cases, comment was provided to support the BEA's position, and it was explained that any endorsement carried a qualification that was outlined by BEA President Robert G. Frey.
On the proposal to revise the elementary book report policy, for example, the BEA said the number of book reports required of each child should be reduced.
"The present policy stresses quantity over quality. Although all association members believe that children should be encouraged to read, this encouragement must not 'turn off' children to reading by requiring an excessive number of book reports. Reading should be a pleasurable experience and not 'work,' " according to its summary.
Frey said, "An integral part of the association's endorsement is its desire to be represented in the decision-making process for the development of all such goals.
"Many goals involve developingplans, studying the feasibility of new programs and procedures, and evaluating existing programs. Association representation should include involvement of committees or panels, as well as co-chairing such groups when appropriate."
The BEA stamped "not endorsed" on three goals. It rejected a proposal to establish a silent, sustained reading period in the elementary schools, saying that this should be optional.
A goal calling for "warm-up" activities in the middle schools - a planned five- to six-minute review at the start of classes - did not meet with favor.
"The association believes that such warm-up activities would take valuable instructional time from daily lessons. Teachers would also be required to prepare an additional 180 yearly activities for children. Such preparation time should be spent on planning to meet varied student needs through regular daily lessons," the BEA said.
The third rejected goal was the one calling for a revision in the middle schools' band trip policy so that overnight trips would be eliminated. But Doluisio himself has revised this goal since it was first published. He now proposes allowing an overnight trip, but with some new guidelines.
- Review and expansion of medical services on the elementary-school level so comprehensive services provided by school nurses are available in each of the schools.
- Evaluation of the status of the arts and placement of emphasis on providing classroom or total school instruction by poets, writers and artists.
- Evaluation of custodial services, as well as the district policy for assigning substitute custodians.
While Frey was presenting the School Board with copies of the BEA's reaction to the goals, he used the opportunity to speak in favor of the instructional portion of Doluisio's proposed 1987-88 budget that comes up for adoption on Tuesday.
Although the budget offers no new programs, Frey said, it does not represent a retreat either. "I urge the board to make no reductions," he said.
For his part, Doluisio thanked the BEA for taking the time to evaluate the goals.


Hola amigos! They will always judge you, no matter what. So it's that easy; do not care anymore. The Sun still shines, the deep blue tides are still here and that's what really matters. Just watch the plants. They don't care less if they are growing wild. They just...grow. So stay hungry, stay foolish and grow. And here they are, sweet Monday favorites full of extraordinary, spot-on goodness.
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I see red a lot of times and we all miss your voice Reg. Anger management is going nowhere, when I hear vile and mysogynist comments towards women. Can I punch these sort of people?
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The Ardhowen, situated on a lakeside setting in Ireland's only island town, Enniskillen, is just the ticket for your business meeting, conference, training seminar or event.
The Main Auditorium is a 290 seat theatre with fixed, raked seating while the Studio can accommodate up to 40 people and can be configured to suit your needs. The Studio is used extensively for dance classes, music, local drama and stage musical rehearsals, workshops and meetings.
Both the Main Auditorium and Studio are equipped with state-of-the-art lighting and sound facilities and we can provide full AV facilities, Data Projector and laptop.
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If you would be interested in hiring the theatre please feel free to make an enquiry.


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Q: RoR: form_for is printing the activerecord at the bottom of my page? I am creating an extremely basic CMS for my team to enable them to change out page titles and things of that nature. I have cms_pages and cms_pieces. cms_pages indicate what page you will be creating cms_pieces for, therefore cms_pieces belongs_to cms_pages.
From the cms_pages index page I am creating the pages, which I then click through to get to the their show page. On the show page I have created a create form for cms_pieces.
Once cms_pieces have been created I loop through them with an .each method and they are populated below in the form of; their name as the title and its value applied within an input element that will allow my team to update as they like.
This iteration of cms_pieces forms is causing me trouble. Mind you, these cms_pieces update forms are within the view name-convention of cms_pages.
I had tried different rails form helpers to accomplish it, like form_with, but it takes too few arguments to make it accurate like I needed it to. Perhaps I dont understand fully how to use it? From my research it seemed like the new all encompassing way to make rails forms, but I experienced limitations.
So I researched how to aim this form to cms_pieces controller from a cms_pages view and this is what I came up with. It works, but it prints each of the cms_pieces records at the bottom of the page is very ugly and not wanted in the least bit.
*Note, this is within my "Backend" namespace.
<%= @cms_pieces.each do |piece|%>

 Edit <%= piece.name %>

    <%= form_for(backend_cms_piece_path(piece), url: backend_cms_piece_path, :method => :patch) do |form| %>
      <% if piece.errors.any? %>

<%= pluralize(piece.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this cms_piece from being saved:

          <% piece.errors.full_messages.each do |message| %>

<%= message %>

          <% end %>

    <% end %>

      <%= form.label :input %>
      <%= form.text_field :input, value: piece.input  %>

      <%= form.label :cms_pages_id %>
      <%= form.text_field :cms_pages_id, value: params[:id] %>

      <%= form.label :id %>
      <%= form.text_field :id, value: piece.id %>

      <%= form.submit %>

  <% end %>
<% end %>

and then it prints this at the bottom
[ # CmsPiece id: 13, name: "banner title", input: "Banner Stuff?!", cms_pages_id: 12, created_at: "2019-08-23 02:24:24", updated_at: "2019-08-23 03:00:13", #CmsPiece id: 14, name: "banner sub text", input: "Sub Texting up in here", cms_pages_id: 12, created_at: "2019-08-23 03:05:17", updated_at: "2019-08-23 03:05:17" ]
Does any one know whats wrong with my form that its spitting this out in my html??? Or even guide me to a more elegant form helper? I feel like I what I have in the arguments of my form is reduntant, but its the only way I had found to accomplish what I needed.
The reason I have my form set up like this is so that I can pass along the page_id and the piece id to the pieces controller to properly fill out the pieces data. I realize that passing the piece into the form argument should keep the update method straight but it wasnt being passed along so I worked around it by just submitting it with the form fields.

A: In the first line of code you have used <%= >. So it will print each record in loop, please use <% > instead of <%= >.
Remove = from iteration statement will solve the issue.

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Travel & Expense Trends
Products in Action
Invoicing & Spend Management
cloud technology
NEWSROOM ARTICLE
Concur Partners with Didi Chuxing in China to Simplify Global Travel and Expense Experience
SAP Concur Team
|August 8, 2016
Concur, the world's leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, today announced a new partnership with Didi Chuxing, the world's largest mobile transportation platform, to further simplify the expense management process in China. Concur users who request a ride using Didi Chuxing can now link ride transactions to their Concur account with just a click, creating a seamless experience.
With this integration, Didi Chuxing users can simply connect their account with Concur, select their trip type and begin booking rides. Once travelers arrive at their destination, an e-receipt will be automatically sent to the linked Concur account, where they can directly manage ride expenses and submit for reimbursements.
"China is the third largest international market when it comes to Concur business traveler spend, and we're seeing a dramatic increase in Didi Chuxing usage which is contributing to that spend," said Mike Eberhard, president of global distribution at Concur. "This integration not only simplifies the expense reporting process for the growing number of Concur users booking rides with Didi, but also helps travel managers and administrators effortlessly keep track of employee spend."
"Didi Chuxing Enterprise has a systematic and data-driven ride hailing and management service in China, while Concur is the leader in enterprise travel and expenses management. This partnership will increase the international recognition of Didi Chuxing's convenient and efficient transportation solutions and enhance Concur users' travel experience," said Mr. Derek Du, vice president and general manager of enterprise business unit at Didi Chuxing.
Didi Chuxing is currently available in the Concur App Center.
About Concur
Concur, an SAP company, imagines the way the world should work, offering cloud-based services that make it simple to manage travel and expenses. By connecting data, applications and people, Concur delivers an effortless experience and total transparency into spending wherever and whenever it happens. Concur services adapt to individual employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to large, so they can focus on what matters most for their businesses. Learn more at www.concur.com or the Concur Newsroom.
About Didi Chuxing
Didi Chuxing is the world's largest comprehensive one-stop mobile transportation platform. The company offers the full range of mobile tech-based mobility options for close to 300 million users across over 400 Chinese cities, including taxi hailing, private car hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As many as 16 million rides are completed on Didi's platform on a daily basis in Q2 2016. A total of 1.43 billion rides were completed on DiDi's platform in 2015, making DiDi the world's second largest online transaction platform next only to Taobao.
As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to work with communities and partners to solve China's transportation and environmental challenges using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resources allocation. By continuously improving the user experience and creating social values, we strive to build an efficient, collaborative, and sustainable transportation ecosystem. DiDi was named one of the Worlds Smartest 50 Companies by MIT Technology Review in 2016, and a Davos Global Growth Company in 2015.
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Talking White
"Ebonics" is the name given to the way many Black people speak. Basically, it means "Black English." Black English is another dialect of Standard American English, just like American English ain't the same as British English or Australian English. But hey, it's Black, so it's not acceptable in America.
Excerpted from How to Hustle and Win Part One: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding
"Ebonics" is the name given to the way many Black people speak. Basically, it means "Black English." Black English is another dialect of Standard American English, just like American English ain't the same as British English or Australian English. But hey, it's Black, so it's not acceptable in America. Anyway, all Black people don't speak Black English. In fact, there's always a few kids in any Black school that get ridiculed and picked on for "talking white." Everyone can tell that they're speaking differently, and it sounds a lot like the way white folks talk on TV.
Usually these kids were raised in a house that didn't allow "that ghetto talk," or the parents were either very educated…or very white. But the kids that "talked white" didn't just talk differently. Their whole style was different. And it showed. So let's not get it twisted. People who speak proper English didn't get dissed just because they talked proper. They were usually also pretty lame. But guess what? They usually became pretty successful.
Why? Well, they learned a very basic principle without knowing it. If you want to be successful in France, then you need to speak French. I've met tons of people over the years who say they want to own their own businesses, but they can't speak proper English. Sometimes, it's hard to understand them if you're not from the exact f*cking neighborhood where they're from.
There's nothing wrong with speaking how you're comfortable when you're home. Trust me, when I'm with people I'm comfortable around, I cuss, I use slang, I might even say a few words that don't exist. But when I step in that office, or that presentation room, I know how to speak the language of business.
I'll tell you about an old business partner of mine who had $10,000 to invest into a small business opportunity. I'll just tell you how it went, and you try to put yourself in his shoes. Two people come in with their business proposals, hoping to get your money. Here's how it goes.
Joshua Jones comes in wearing a suit, but it looks like his pants are sagging for some reason. Why the hell are his suit pants sagging? His tie isn't tied correctly, so it just looks like an ugly knot. He hands you his proposal, gives you "dap" because you're Black and he assumes you're "cool," and says to you:
Okay, homeboy. We got the connect from a dude overseas. Straight drop. He got like fitty cases of fresh Ones waitin, just waitin, for me to say the word. He want thirty, Ima give him twenty-fie tho – we gon let em go for sixty. It ain't gon cost but like fie extra each to set it up cause niggas want em. Tell me I ain't workin with something!
Next, Henry Henderson comes in with a simple suit, but it looks like it fits him well. And either he knows how to tie a tie, or somebody did it for him. He shakes your hand limply, and you can tell he's fresh from the suburbs. He begins:
According to market analysis, there's a great deal of interest in the urban market for Nike Air Force Ones. I've found a wholesaler in China who's willing to sell them to me at a significan't discount of thirty dollars per pair. If we factor in costs for marketing and distribution, we can sell them at sixty dollars retail for a profit of about twenty dollars per pair, which would give us a gross return on your investment of $15,000.
Who would you rather do business with? Most likely, you'd trust Henderson with your money. Why? He's obviously got some mastery of the language of business, the language of money, and he's comfortable in that world, no matter what else he might do outside of the office.
But…if you have a keen eye for business, and you could look past how he said what he said (which most people can't do), then you'd know Joshua Jones had a better proposal. How much better? Do the math. He would have made almost $20,000 instead of the $15,000 Henderson promised.
People rarely just look at what you're saying; they are usually looking at how you say it.
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A monument builds on the tomb of the pious and people with great piety, people who take Allah as their friends and are of great virtue. Building a shrine or a dargah and visiting such places for spiritual upliftment is completely haram in Islam because they are polytheistic in nature and are derived from pagans. Historically speaking Prophet Muhammad (صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم) destroyed all the shrines in Mecca and there is no denying this fact.
All these hadith are authentic and point out that it is clearly forbidden to visit the shrines or pray around them yet people often contradict and visit the graves of the pious and righteous and build buildings over them and claim that these people will intercede for them on the day of Ressurection. Wallahi my dear brothers and sisters, they don't have that power! They don't have that power!
The grave worshipping came into existence during the time of Prophet Nuh (as).
A pious man passed away and Shytan (DEVIL) convinced the townspeople to build a shrine over his grave, to pay due respects to him. He urged them to make his idols to keep his memory. And convinced them to pray to him and hence started the phase of idol-worshipping.
Iblees misguided people into shirk. They started with respecting the pious and ended up asking him for their needs and forgetting Allah. Indeed indulging in shrik.
It's never too late my brothers and sisters to think logically and reasonably and avoid visiting shrines.
It is not permissible and leads to shrik.
Who will be the followers of the Dajjaal?


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Q&A: Martha producer on the state of doco
27 November 2019 By Caris Bizzaca
Producer Daniel Joyce on Martha: A Picture Story, the importance of festivals for documentaries, plus commissions vs acquisitions.
Daniel Joyce, Martha Cooper
Producer Daniel Joyce says a 10-minute sizzle reel became "the single most important bit of pitch material" they had for Martha: A Picture Story.
The documentary marks the debut feature for director Selina Miles and follows New York photographer Martha Cooper, who captured some of the first images of graffiti and subway street-art in the late 70s and went on to co-author a landmark book in 1984. Decades later, now 75, Martha realises the extent that her images have had on street art across the globe.
Joyce, who also produced the feature documentary Barbecue that Netflix released in 2017, says Miles brought a wealth of material to the table that helped them moving foward.
"It was a project where the director Selina Miles had spent about a year interviewing the main subject (Martha Cooper)," he says. "So we had a really great source of core footage to build a 10 minute sizzle reel from and that [created] a really rich, beautiful pitch material."
Director Selina Miles
From that reel, the financing fell in place.
"Anybody who saw that could see how the film was going to attract an audience, and very clearly see the style Selina was cutting in. That meant that very quickly we were able to bring on an executive producer, a distributor, an international sales agent, and then ultimately the agencies which came on board, who were last to the party to some extent."
After making its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, Martha: A Picture Story won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sydney Film Festival, travelled to film festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane, and to Cinefest Oz, and releases nationally in cinemas on 28 November.
"It's inspirational," Joyce says. "It's an epic story about a woman who finds a new lease on life, just when people think that she's done and dusted. I think people are going to get that same feeling of hope and determination out of the film that is often really needed in documentaries."
Called "eighty of the happiest minutes documentary-lovers are likely to spend in a theatre this year" by The Hollywood Reporter, if would appear Joyce isn't alone in his assessment. But as with any project, it came with its ups and downs. Read on to hear more about producing Martha: A Picture Story and Joyce's thoughts on documentary going forward.
From a producing point of view, what were the hurdles for Martha?
The challenging thing with this project and I think with many projects going forward is the producer has to keep the shoot rolling while they're putting the finance plan together. Everyone wants to see a rough cut before they put money in and even the funding agencies are becoming more conservative in taking early risks. So we had to independently cash flow the production through private investment and personal investment to just keep it going so that we could hit festival deadlines while we were cobbling together a finance plan. And that can be really stressful and not all producers are in a position to do that. But I think it's something that you have to consider when you're embarking on a project where you might not have all the money to make it at the start, and [you'll need to] find ways to shoot key material as you go forward.
What role did film festivals play for the film?
Martha was fortunate enough to play at Tribeca Film Festival in New York. We only completed the film a week before we screened there. We literally flew in with the file. And the thing to realise about feature documentary festivals is that festivals are the main place you sell the documentary. It all happens at the world premiere. And after that, it's really diminishing returns for anything else you do sales wise. So you have to make sure that the world premiere is big and at a great festival and really prioritise that early. And that can mean that it can be very difficult to sometimes accept funding from Melbourne Film Festival or Adelaide Film Festival because you really want to preserve that world premiere.
Martha: A Picture Story
What are the benefits of developing in-house at your production company?
I think in Australia we're better positioned for development than a lot of other places in the world. Build[ing] a business where you've got some funding available to support government agency funding means that you can shoot for longer before you have to get a project financed. [It means] you can put together a better package and hopefully you can even take a film partly or finished to market. And that means you're going to be in a better negotiating position than if you were just at the very start of the process trying to pitch. So [if] we try to move towards a business model that has some profit at the end of it – that can be reinvested back into development. Otherwise, we're just fee based kind of hand-to-mouth existing. And I don't think that's a comfortable position for anyone.
What kind of development materials do you need to take a project to market?
More and more the trend today is shooting enough for a 10 or 15 minute reel of footage before you even pitch to the market. And that might mean $100,000 in development costs in shooting half a film before you've even got it financed. So that does put a lot of strain on the producer. I think partly it's looking to the funding agencies like Screen Australia and the state agencies to recognise that. And rather than just treatment writing, development (money) really goes into shoot. Also producers can go overseas to organisations like Cinereach or some of the other philanthropic funders to find ways to keep that shoot rolling as you get enough material to start pitching competitively to market.
[Editors note: This interview was conducted prior to the release of Screen Australia's documentary funding Discussion Paper, which does include proposed changes to development.]
When working with streaming services, what are the benefits of getting a commission to make a documentary vs the acquisition of a completed project?
As a producer, I don't mind some risk and a little bit of a gamble in terms of financial opportunity. I think the people tend to want commissions because it feels secure and it feels safe, but the upside of those projects can be limited as well. If you can fund a project and then have it acquired out in an open market, then it can be worth a lot more than if Netflix or Amazon or whoever pays for it upfront. I think the biggest change that's going to happen that we all have to be really mindful of, is that right now there's a lot of SVOD companies competing for content, and that's going to change soon. They're going to consolidate and they'll also start turning in-house so they can be more secure about the content that they get. So we have to make sure that we use our really privileged position right now where we have funding to ensure that we're at the at the forefront of working with those companies.
What advice do you have for Australian documentarians?
What I'd say to any emerging producers or documentary filmmakers is just to be really ambitious. Think as big as possible and then convince people to help you realise that vision. I think the market is really rewarding bold visions at the moment and there's no point in aiming small, because no matter what you do, it's going to take up the rest of your life for the next few years. So be as zealous as possible.
What do you see for the future of Australian documentaries?
I think there's a huge opportunity for Australian producers to pitch to and make projects with some of the largest companies and talent in the world… I just hope that I can take advantage of it and I'd love to see just more positivity in the industry. I think that for all the difficulties and flaws of the system we have here, it still can be used to create really strong projects and give us the competitive edge over almost anyone else in the world.
Martha: A Picture Story releases in Australian cinemas through Umbrella Entertainment from 28 November. Watch the trailer here
Praise for Martha: A Picture Story
"A joyous look at a career devoted to witnessing everyday life." – The Hollywood Reporter
"Directed with infectious zeal, it's a photographer bio-doc that always feels to be in motion, especially given its excellent editing, fascinating subject, and narrative ambition." – RogerEbert.com
"Thoroughly engaging." – Sydney Morning Herald
"Well-constructed and visually-sumptuous." – TheAuReview.com
"One of the most joyous 80 minutes you will experience in a documentary." - Moviehole
Online documentaries to watch right now
We take a look at some fabulous (and free) online documentary titles funded by Screen Australia that are available to watch now.
Georgia Hing
Podcast – documentary funding
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By Caris Bizzaca
Celebrating 2019 + 2020 preview
By Scott Gillies
Hear from the experts
Blackfella Films: Total Control and stories that resonate
By Georgia Hing


Get set for an incredible marathon which draws competitors far and wide. The Bravehearts 777 – 7 marathons in 7 states in 7 days, is a heart-pounding, exhilarating challenge which will see competitors run marathons in Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart, Bilambil and Gold Coast.
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Our resort features complete facilities to make your holiday relaxing and enjoyable. We have a solar-heated salt-water pool so you can start your day with an invigorating morning swim. After a fun-filled day of exploring the different attractions around the Gold Coast, enjoy the comforts of a relaxing soak in the spa. If you plan on having a barbecue, feel free to do so with your friends in our barbecue area. Treat yourself to a good old barbecue with your loved ones. We also have a half-sized tennis court. Play an exciting game of tennis with your friends! Stay fit and have fun while you are working out.


23 year old Matthew Parr is arriving in Sochi today to get ready to compete in the figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Matthew first starting skating at Whitley Bay Ice Rink when he was just 7 years old.
Since then he's become a four-time (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) British national champion.
Matthew now does most of his training at Dundee Ice Skating Club under the watchful eyes of his coaches Debi and Simon Briggs.
"I start my journey from Edinburgh on Sunday to London, then I fly to Moscow on Monday and then finally into Sochi on Tuesday.
I'm feeling good. I'm an amateur athlete so the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of what any athlete aims for so to have been selected for my country I'm absolutely ecstatic.
Once I arrive on Tuesday I'll get straight into the rink and have a practice session.
Then I'll have another practice on the Wednesday and then I actually compete on Thursday, so i'm straight into the action.
Then the opening ceremony is on Friday, so I'm competing in my first event really early on. So I'll be done early and then I feel very fortunate that I'm then staying out to support the rest of the team and take in everything I can."
"I think London made people more aware of the talent that we have in this country and I hope it's made people more interested in sport in general.
I'm hoping the lasting effects of London will certainly carry on into Sochi and the nation will get behind their athletes again."


Poorti Arya is a young actress who is associated with the TV and film industry.
She has appaered in the Hindi TV serials like 'Singhasan Battisi', 'Life Sahi Hai', 'Internet Wala Love', etc.
In 2018, Poorti worked in the Bollywood movie 'Jalebi' in which she played the role of 'Renu' (Dev's sister).
She has worked in many TVC ads and print shoots.


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Q: Windows Store App, VPN, RAS Api Our windows store app allows user to manage (create or dial) VPN profiles.
For this functionality we use
RAS Api (create and dial VPN profile)
RAS Api
Wlan Api (listen to wifi networks) - will be changed to classes with Windows.Networking.Connectivity in windows8
Wlan Api
We face following troubles for Windows Store application:

*

*RAS API functions don't work properly under windows store application template (as example RasEnumDevices return error code 5 - Access Denied).
However it works good from desktop application launched on windows 8.
Question: how we could get RAS API to work under window store applications? If that is absolutely impossible - is there any other way to create VPN connection in app developed for Windows Store?

*All user's VPN profiles stored by Windows OS in "..\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk", file could be found on file system manually, but we don't have access to this file via API, either we can't access it directrly. Current workarround uses own created PBK file located in users profile folder.
Question: how we could get access to system VPN connections stored in OS.
Thanks.

A: Hotspot Shield VPN for Windows offers private browsing to ensure the privacy of your web session.
Check it out here: http://www.anchorfree.com/hotspot-shield-VPN-download-windows.php


May 25th 1:30 pm.-3:00 pm. Bring your picnic basket and family to the pool to join the fun honoring our United States servicemen and women. Active Duty and Veterans alike we will celebrate their sacrifice for our country. Music, drinks, snacks and activities will be provided. Also, dress in your patriotic best and capture the memories in our American theme photo booth!


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DANSETTE: THE FERNWEH
The Fernweh reveal some of the inspirational records that were key touchstones for the band in the making of their debut album
Issue 85 / February 2018 Words: Bido Lito!
Jamie Backhouse, Austin Murphy and Ned Crowther of THE FERNWEH have put together a playlist of songs that were key touchstones for the band in the making of their debut self-titled album. Set to arrive later in the year – with first single The Liar out now – you can find out a little more about the songs that made them tick and listen to their full playlist below, as well as check out the video for The Liar, which sees John Wadsworth's vintage footage effortlessly looped together to soundtrack their shimmering guitars and synth.
Giles, Giles And Fripp
Why Don't You Just Drop In (i)
Voiceprint Records
Rich vocal harmonies and raunchy, fuzzy guitar courtesy of Robert Fripp's pre-King Crimson group. As well as the sounds, the self-recorded aspect drew me to this song. It's inspiring to find that you can achieve great sounds from such simple equipment. Revox tape machine in their case – a laptop and a cheap microphone in ours. It's something that is really exciting about the current state of music making. Reminds me of when we took our entire 'studio' to Robin Hood's Bay to record the album. AM
Archie, Marry Me
Transgressive
There are lots of heavy folk and psych references in the Fernweh camp, but we're also pretty big fans of a good pop song. And this is one of the best that's been written for a while. Lovely sentiment, huge chorus, proper middle eight. And the stop before the final chorus is something every song should have. JB
I can vividly remember Austin putting this song on the van stereo towards the end of a particularly gruelling bit of a tour all three of us were on years back. It was just a moment. Everyone was silent, half-asleep and emotionally fried. Then suddenly this beautiful, healing music came out as we pounded some British motorway in the middle of the night. NC
Those dreamy, trance-like elements were definitely an influence on the synth/keys sections on our first single, The Liar, and Dressing Up Box. Rhythmically, that motorik drum machine was a big influence on The Liar too. Mesmerising stuff from Herr Rother and co. AM
The phrase 'fernweh feeling' came up a few times whilst writing this record – a kind of shared reference for something that we felt lurking in our music. A bit like the word 'fernweh' itself – a place that you couldn't necessarily name, but get pulled towards. Danny Kirwan's music has something similar in there. Especially Dust. Most people think of Peter Green or Rumours with Fleetwood Mac, but somewhere in the middle is Danny Kirwan. There are three or four pretty odd, off-the-beaten-track albums they made in the early 70s that no-one really cares about… except for The Fernweh! This song is from an album called 'Bare Trees'. Words by Rupert Brooke. Quite haunting. Very English. Love it. JB
Anne Briggs
Living By The Water
Anne Briggs is known (if you can use that term) more as an acapella singer of traditional English folk song. But the stuff she writes is incredible. 'On the lonely sands of the western strands, it was there I made my way.' Simple words, simple melody, but again it takes you somewhere. This time to the water – which seems to be a reoccurring theme on our album. Only one of The Fernweh is from 'by the water' but the rest are keen to get there. JB
High Tide or Low Tide
I love the vocal blend of Bob Marley, Pete Tosh and Bunny Wailer. It's just so natural sounding, not overworked. They always seem to get that balance between righteous anger and heart-breaking sensitivity spot on and here is a good example: a hymn to love and friendship yet the sound of his mother praying for protection points to the danger and injustice in all Marley's songs. NC
I've struggled to think of anything I don't like about Ronnie Lane and I really can't do it. He's a force of nature. There's just a soul in his music that fills you with joy and optimism. Anniversary makes you want to dance, laugh, cry or, perhaps, tell an old mate you love them. A gem. NC
Basil Kirchin
Trunk Records
Such simple instrumentation (harpsichord and recorder), but what an intense emotional effect. Both melancholic and nostalgic, but it resolves beautifully. Themes we have definitely aspired to bring to our record. AM
Austin Murphy,
Dansette,
Jamie Backhouse,
Ned Crowther,
Skeleton Key Records,
The Fernweh
DANSETTE: DAN CROLL
DANSETTE: HOWIE PAYNE
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There's a movement going on around the world.
We don't have a name for it, though.
Gov2.0, e-gov, e-democracy, open gov–these are all names that get applied to what is happening. And they are great for describing a certain aspect of this movement, the aspect that actually deals with government.
What's really going on right now is much bigger than that. Open gov is a big part of the story, but not the whole story. On top of Open Gov, there are organizations like The Open Planning Project (TOPP), or Front Seat, or my own DIYcity, working alongside these open gov groups, trying to make the whole civic system work better. Or there is Robin Chase, CEO of GoLoco and founder of ZipCar, singlehandedly trying to reinvent the way transportation works in cities. Or there is the subway alert I just got in my inbox, courtesy of New York City's MTA, notifying me that the F train has delays due to mechanical problems. All of these entities–TOPP, Front Seat et al, plus the open gov groups–are interrelated, and together create a new, emerging ecosystem of information, user activity, and possibility. But that ecosystem doesn't fit neatly under the hood of "Gov 2.0" or any of the other "gov" labels.
Recalling my post last week about the four pillars of an open civic system, these "gov" names–e-gov, gov2.0, open gov–focus on the G2C aspect of what is going on, to the exclusion of the other aspects of this open civic system that is emerging.
And this new civic system should have a name, because it is a real ecosystem. It is also a movement, with more and more people focusing on it around the world every day. It is also increasingly becoming an industry.
So what do we call this new thing?
I was talking with Micah Sifry, co-host of this week's Personal Democracy Forum, a while back, and he suggested the name "civic software" for the apps that come out of this space. Riffing off that, I have been talking about the "open civic system." Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, who recently posted on this movement, thinks that name is too long, but also thinks "civic software" doesn't quite do it justice.
What should this new space be called?