On the day Splatoon was first revealed, I was there, watching the E3 direct. I was excited for its release but, funnily enough, I never really got into it and only really put about 20 hours into it. Yet, the impact of a game like Splatoon, was far bigger than you would think it would be and its success soon paved the way for games like Arms to come along and this is what I am going to talk about today.
For the purpose of this piece, we need to go back into context to understand why its success is important. The Wii U was a struggling console, it had major titles like Mario 3D World and Super Smash Bros and each of these titles, performed well for a console not owned by many. In my opinion, the Wii U and 3DS saw a lot of old and top Nintendo franchises on them, with very little new IPs. It was the continuation of Mario or Donkey Kong we kept seeing along with revivals of old franchises like Kid Icarus, Luigi's Mansion or Fire Emblem (which translated into becoming a major for Nintendo, but that's another article for another day). When you talk about major Wii U games up until 2015, there was no new IP from Nintendo. For clarification this is not a story about the Wii U, it's about a new IP that changed Nintendo and proved they were capable of doing new things.
Splatoon encompasses what Nintendo has been doing lately with Mario and Zelda. Take something familiar and remaking it, to make it new and fun. Splatoon took the shooter genre and instead of varied goals of getting kills, fill an arena with your team's ink. The kill or "splat" part takes a backstage (while still remaining important). Your score is determined by how much you've inked the terrain and of course the splats you've done. This a major rethinking of the shooter genre, and it applies to the family audience (what I mean is that Nintendo's audience at one time, was kids and their families). This is a shooter, kids could play while still being fun for all. That is Nintendo at their best in 2015 and their strategy at the time, make games the whole family can enjoy.
The game was well received. It was a success in three ways making it a global success: it had good sales, had good critical reception, and had good implementation and acceptance by fans (proof is in characters appearing in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe). Splatoon is a big part of Nintendo nowadays and some forget it's less than 3 years old. It has its own dedicated following and any Nintendo fan can find enjoyment in it.It's also heavily supported what with Nintendo adding free updates and Splatfests. This kept the community alive and Nintendo never let it die. That's dedication right there.
During the Switch trailer, Nintendo showed footage of Splatoon on the Switch. We didn't know whether it was a port or a new game. Most predicted a port like the Mario Kart 8 footage shown. Fast forward to the Switch Presentation in January. Nintendo blew everyone's mind with the Splatoon game being a sequel. Not only that, but it was to release in the first year of Nintendo's newest console along the likes of Mario and Zelda. Splatoon 2 currently has an install base of 3/10 of Switch owners owning it. That's big for a sequel of a new IP from 2015 years ago (around 3 million copies sold for the sequel). With a big and packed year (what can be called be the greatest first year for a new console, again another article for another day ) Splatoon 2 did well. This is good and important. The likes of ARMS followed Splatoon and Nintendo aren't afraid of making new IPs anymore. They know some fail, some work (ARMS, its nothing spectacular but still a success) and some become a legend like Splatoon. In a few years, you'll probably forget about ARMS (unless it takes off like in the future) but you'll definitely remember Splatoon. Why? Because I know for a fact that Nintendo will support it. Us, the fans will support whatever is next for the franchise. If it's not good then we'll let Nintendo know and they'll fix it. The young franchise has a future and it's up to Nintendo and us to decide where it goes. Remember just tweeting at Nintendo saying you love Splatoon helps. They may not like or respond to it but they may see it. If they do then you're telling them you want it to stay! Look at Metroid Prime. Our voices were heard. Even Pokémon, they took a new direction with Sun and Moon and the sales let them know it was right.
Thanks for reading and comment! I encourage a debate and I hope to get conversations going. As always, stay fresh!!!!


We've all seen the reality tv shows and shock current affairs stories about Bali. Usually they're based on people behaving badly – and all too often it tends to be about a mix of alcohol and stupidity and a disregard for the local customs. Mostly these stories are centred around Australians behaving badly in Kuta. As an aside, not all of Kuta is as it's depicted in these shows either – but that's for another post.
Shows like these and behaviour like that leaves an impression about Bali on potential holiday-makers and it leaves an impression on the Balinese about Australians.
But, just like most Australian tourists are unlike those in the reality shows, the real Bali is not like that little pocket of Kuta. The real Bali has a way of creeping in under your skin and before you know it you'll be planning your next trip.
I first visited the Island of the Gods in March 2011 – and have been another six times since. I love it so much that I've (partially) set two books there – Baby, It's You and Big Girls Don't Cry.
Why do I keep coming back? I'm glad you asked.
It's everywhere you look and tread.
The daily offerings are the most obvious – the beautiful little palm baskets that are left around shrines, statues, doorways, roadsides, paths, steps…wherever.
Some are elaborate, most are not. Some contain a few petals, maybe some rice, a cigarette, a couple of tiny crackers, an incense stick. There's something so peaceful and mindful about watching the (mostly) ladies as they carry their baskets of offerings on their heads, and then carefully place them, saying a little prayer as they complete the mini ceremony.
Who are the offerings to? The Gods of course – and there are many. The tributes are designed to both thank and appease. It's also a sort of proactive if I give you this will you leave me alone and go away type of thing.
These days, as life is busy, this too can be outsourced – well, at least the construction phase can be – as complete offerings may be purchased at local markets.
It's not just offerings though, religious ceremonies can be seen all throughout Bali on any day at any time with the whole family – from the oldest to the youngest – participating with pride.
One time on a walk through the ricefields in Ubud we followed the faint sound of a bell to a temple in the middle of nowhere and watched the ceremony taking place. Just beautiful.
Oh my goodness, the scenery. It's jaw dropping – but you'll need to venture out of your resort to see it. From the rice terraces at Tegagalang near Ubud, or Jatiluwih near Tabanan to the lush green in the foothills of Gunung Agung in East Bali. And yes, that's the volcano that's grunting and groaning at the moment.
You can hire an English speaking driver in an air-conditioned car for between $50-$80 a day, so why wouldn't you get out and about?
Sure it's about nasi goreng and satay, but it's so much more than fried rice and chicken on a stick. There's the fabulous babi guling, or suckling pig flavoured with spices that taste like the island (and yes, I used that line in Baby, It's You), and bebek betutu – roast duck.
There's also soto ayam, a flavourful turmeric spiced chicken noodle soup, and beef rendang – the Indonesian version is a tad different to the Malaysian. My favourite, though, is nasi campur. Essentially this is a mound of steamed rice surrounded by small portions of a meat dish, some vegetables, perhaps egg or satay, sambal. There's no rhyme or reason to it – and it will differ from place to place.
Oh, I'm almost forgetting my favourite salad – sayur urab. It translates loosely to mixed vegetables. I like it so much I'll post the recipe separately.
There's a fabulous restaurant scene in Bali now – especially around Seminyak and Ubud, but my favourite is still Bali Asli. Owned by an Aussie expat, the menu changes daily depending on what's in the garden or what's come out of the sea that day. It's traditional food, prepared traditionally.
Located near Amlapura in East Bali, it's a couple of hours from Legian and Kuta, but only about 30 minutes from Candidasa – and is well worth the trip.
I've written about it a few times – here, here and here.
Temples are such an integral part of Balinese life. I could do an entire post on temples. I love them. Of course there's the biggies like Pure Tanah Lot, but there's so much charm in the temples you find in family compounds and in villages.
Pura Luhur Batukau, in the central mountains west of Kuta etc is one that's worth seeking out. For a start there are no touts, but the serenity is what it's all about. I've written about it here.
Take the time to read the signage. I was particularly taken by the extensive list of warnings that this temple in Sanur came with. I have no idea what crossed streak is – and hope that I'm not afflicted by it any time soon. Speaking of which, according to the Lonely Planet guide, Sanur is one of the "few communities still ruled by members of the Brahmana caste"…and is a centre for black and white magic. Perhaps I'll refrain from flirting – and ranting.
Yes, Ubud. Sure, it has all the Eat, Pray, Love connotations (and I'm absolutely a fan), but Ubud is like a great big exhalation. Don't just stop at Monkey Forest, stay a while and feel your stresses melt away to the faint sounds of the gamelan.
I'm having difficulty transferring my travel posts across from and anyways, so for the next few weeks, I'll be re-hashing them here.
It certainly does get under your skin.
That would a place that I would love to go to.
It makes perfect sense. I need the luxury to come back to after a day of exploring.
I've been to Bali a couple of times (living in WA makes it an easy trip) our daughter had her wedding there in a beautiful chapel overlooking the sea in Ulawatu. I'm not a huge fan of the heat and humidity and Bali belly but it is a wonderful place to experience tropical island life and the people are so friendly and kind.
The people are lovely. Hubby has had the dreaded Bali belly once, but (touch wood) I've managed to avoid it. I envy you guys being able to get there so quickly – and be in the same time zone.
Yeah, I truly believe there is a Bali to suit everyone. Down on that coast is lovely. I fantasise about seclusion and places like that, but it would be my husband's worst nightmare!
Bali would be on my round-the-world itinerary, hopefully in 2019. I loved the time I spent traveling in and Asia. Every country is so exotic and different.
That's what I love about travelling in Asia – the differences from one country to the next.
I agree, there is something magical about Bali that keeps us coming back – despite all the bad press. Sometimes I think the bad press is just sour grapes because the Balinese do tourism so well – but there are misadventures, and misfortune and idiots which tarnish the golden goose. The culture, the scenery, the food, the smells, the temples, and the anticipation of something different and exciting – it's got it all.


I don't know anyone who doesn't love a gooey, warm chocolate pudding. There is nothing more satisfying than sticking your spoon into the pudding and seeing chocolate lava ooze onto the plate. This was not an easy recipe to master. Most chocolate molten puddings are either 95 per cent chocolate and butter and contain half a dozen eggs, but this recipe is so different in its ingredients, yet just as gorgeous (if not more so). Nobody will believe this is high in antioxidants and good for you, but I assure you, it is!
Grease 4–6 ramekins with 1 teaspoon vegan butter.
Place the ramekins on baking paper, and draw a circle around them. Cut out the shapes and press the paper into the bottom of each ramekin. Set aside.
Put the chocolate chips, coconut oil and plant-based milk in a double boiler. Gently heat until the chocolate has melted. Stir until smooth, remove from the heat and set aside.
In another bowl, put the flour, baking powder, salt, cacao and stevia. Stir together. Add the soy milk and mix until combined. Gently fold in the chocolate mixture.
Divide the mixture into the prepared ramekins and place on a baking tray. Bake in the oven for 5–10 minutes until the edges and top are just cooked – you still want the middle to be gooey as it will keep cooking once removed from the oven.
When ready to serve, gently run a knife around the edge of the ramekins to loosen the puddings, then turn them out onto a plate and serve with coconut cream and a light dusting of cacao.


Personal Grading: "D" (on a scale of "A" to "F") – Comment: Large stone with unique color zoning!
This blue sapphire is a large 100% natural blue sapphire from world renown sapphire source – Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Price is very reasonable for this gemstone as we have acquired a few years ago when gemstones price were a lot cheaper.
The stone has been treated through normal heat treatment process (not the new treatment chemically-diffused or glass-filled) which is normal for 95% of gemstones in the corundum family. The cut grade is excellent which brings out the luster & fire plus the shape & symmetry is ideal for an oval cut. Color-zones is also presented in the stone which is additional proof that this blue gem is 100% natural — Gemology evidence: the lines are linear and angular. With these features, this gem is perfect for any gemstone collector or gem enthusiast.
Based on origin, carat weight and price this gem is definitely an excellent buy.


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package com.oculusinfo.tilegen.datasets

import scala.reflect.ClassTag

import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
import org.apache.spark.streaming.dstream.DStream
import org.apache.spark.streaming.Time

import com.oculusinfo.tilegen.tiling.analytics.AnalysisDescription

trait StreamingProcessor[IT, PT, DT] {
	def processWithTime[OUTPUT] (fcn: Time => RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => OUTPUT,
	                             completionCallback: Option[Time => OUTPUT => Unit]): Unit
}

abstract class ProcessingStrategy[IT: ClassTag, PT: ClassTag, DT: ClassTag] {
	def process[OUTPUT] (fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => OUTPUT,
	                     completionCallback: Option[OUTPUT => Unit]): Unit

	def getDataAnalytics: Option[AnalysisDescription[_, DT]]

	def transformRDD[OUTPUT_TYPE: ClassTag]
		(fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]): RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]

	def transformDStream[OUTPUT_TYPE: ClassTag]
		(fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]): DStream[OUTPUT_TYPE]
}

abstract class StaticProcessingStrategy[IT: ClassTag, PT: ClassTag, DT: ClassTag] (sc: SparkContext)
		extends ProcessingStrategy[IT, PT, DT] {
	private val rdd = getData

	protected def getData: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])]

	final def process[OUTPUT] (fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => OUTPUT,
	                           completionCallback: Option[OUTPUT => Unit] = None): Unit = {
		val result = fcn(rdd)
		completionCallback.map(_(result))
	}

	final def transformRDD[OUTPUT_TYPE: ClassTag]
		(fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]): RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE] =
		fcn(rdd)

	final def transformDStream[OUTPUT_TYPE: ClassTag]
		(fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]): DStream[OUTPUT_TYPE] =
		throw new Exception("Attempt to call DStream transform on RDD processor")
}

abstract class StreamingProcessingStrategy[IT: ClassTag, PT: ClassTag, DT: ClassTag]
		extends ProcessingStrategy[IT, PT, DT] {
	private val dstream = getData

	protected def getData: DStream[(IT, PT, Option[DT])]

	private final def internalProcess[OUTPUT] (rdd: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])],
	                                           fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => OUTPUT,
	                                           completionCallback: Option[OUTPUT => Unit] = None): Unit = {
		val result = fcn(rdd)
		completionCallback.map(_(result))
	}

	def process[OUTPUT] (fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => OUTPUT,
	                     completionCallback: Option[(OUTPUT => Unit)] = None): Unit = {
		dstream.foreachRDD(internalProcess(_, fcn, completionCallback))
	}

	def processWithTime[OUTPUT] (fcn: Time => RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => OUTPUT,
	                             completionCallback: Option[Time => OUTPUT => Unit]): Unit = {
		dstream.foreachRDD{(rdd, time) =>
			internalProcess(rdd, fcn(time), completionCallback.map(_(time)))
		}
	}

	final def transformRDD[OUTPUT_TYPE: ClassTag]
		(fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]): RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE] =
		throw new Exception("Attempt to call RDD transform on DStream processor")

	final def transformDStream[OUTPUT_TYPE: ClassTag]
		(fcn: RDD[(IT, PT, Option[DT])] => RDD[OUTPUT_TYPE]): DStream[OUTPUT_TYPE] =
		dstream.transform(fcn)
}

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Bob Maffei is resigning after 20 years as Trumbull's football coach.
The news was first reported by Doug Bonjour of Hearst Connecticut Media.
Maffei said he had a meeting yesterday with Mike King, the school's athletic director, as well as Trumbull principal Marc Guarino, superintendent Dr. Gary Cialfi and assistant superintendent Dr. Michael McGrath.
Maffei had a record of 122-70 as head coach. The Eagles were 2-7 this year, with another win in a non-sanctioned CIAC game. Under Maffei, Trumbull won the FCIAC championship in 2005 and was the runner-up in 2010. The Eagles lost twice in state finals.
Maffei is a former player at Fairfield Warde, where he got his start as an assistant coach. He then went to Fairfield Prep and Trumbull, as an assistant to Jerry McDougall, who he ended up succeeding.
Maffei said he has no bitter feelings.
Maffei, a retired physical education teacher, said in the coming weeks he will consider his future. He said he might be willing to become an assistant coach at another school.


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Ola Ola Pounded yam flour is made from yam which is pounded into a powder form. Pounded yam is a special african food. This Pounded yam is very popular in West Africa. Ola Ola Yam can be used to make the doucgh for the popular west african food Fufu, which can be eaten with African soup like Egusi soup or other West African soups.


Freight management is crucial for companies around the globe. Effective freight management reduces delays for consumers, helps companies offer Amazonesque shipping benefits and much more. Shippers that wish to succeed in 2019 need to know the top trucking and freight management trends for 2019 and how they will affect shipping practices, global trade, last-mile , and even drivers. How To Determine Freight Class: Density Calculator & Printable Resource.
Although this sounds great for most industries, it represents a major problem for the freight trucking industry. Freight Forwarding Will Undergo Digital Transformation. Freight forwarders will have great opportunities in 2018 to take advantage of the increased demand on shippers.
The freight industry of today is evolving rapidly. It is no longer bound by the traditional constraints of the economy, and Amazon is gearing up to begin expanding to be the best of the global freight shipping providers. As a result, your company needs to think about these freight shipping trends and how you can prepare to respond to them as soon as possible. 8 Freight Shipping Trends Shippers Must Know for 2017. Freight Rates Will Increase.
The Logistics Trend Behind The Latest Trend. Are You Up With The Trends? Rapidly emerging trends demand a flexible supply chain that can harness new technology and find new efficiencies. More Than A Trend. Keeping Up With The Trends?
As a freight broker , you know the importance of staying ahead of trends in your business. 2014 was a dynamic year for shipping and freight, and 2015 might present us with some surprising changes as well. What does this mean for freight?
When it comes to the manufacturing space, many of the predictions for 2015 are dominated by technology – what else? Group, which operates Manufacturing.net , Industrial Distribution , Manufacturing Business Technology and other manufacturing publications.
As we head into a new year it is a good time to take a look at the coming year and see what it may hold in the way of trends. We have already covered the top 6 trends for 2016 in manufacturing. 2016 Supply Chain Trends: The First 7 of 12.
This will allow shippers to reduce freight spend, gain control over logistics, and offer better customer service. However, shippers must first understand the shipping technology trends affecting the industry and.read More. Shipping tech integration is the future.
In today's blog post we continue our look at the logistics technology trends that will shape 2018. In this post, will go to how shippers and logistics providers will lean on 6 more trends to make gains in the months to come.
In addition, the continued rise of freight trucking rates, as explained by James Jaillet of Overdrive Online , will demand newer, faster and more efficient transportation management systems (TMS). Fortunately, shippers can prepare for increasing prices by understanding these 5 top transportation management trends. The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018. Scalable Technology at the Heart of Transportation Management Trends.
Now is the Time for Manufacturing to Look at Logistics Efficiency. The source pointed to several trends that are encouraging the adoption of TMS, including better control of data, more comprehensive analysis and the need to support omni-channel supply chains.
Cerasis is excited to announce the release of an all new, exclusive, & educational resource "The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018" white paper! This white paper, "The Top Supply Chain Trends that will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018" is the second in our overall industry trends white paper series. We hope you enjoy this white paper & learn a few trends that will prepare you for excellence this year.
Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies. The results show some of the biggest supply chain management trends in supply chains for 2015.
Furthermore, some data may be of minimal use without comparison to and identification of trends and collaborations between data from other transactions within a given warehouse or transportation system. We hope you enjoy this comprehensive look into data, business intelligence, metrics, and the CORE KPIs every shipper and manufacturing or supply chain professional should know in order to continually improve business practices and reduce overall costs.
The staff at Supply Chain Network (SCN) writes, "With rising customer expectations, changing business models, cut-throat competition and the influx of technologies, it's critical that you prepare your supply chain to address challenges such as the capacity crunch, last mile strategies, balancing of costs, digital freight market opportunities and navigating the ecommerce maze.". Trends affecting supply chain operations. We live in hectic times. The U.S.
We will feature our 5 main categories all week: Logistics , Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Transportation , and Freight. Our goal is and will always be with the Cerasis blog to provide as much value through informative and education blog posts in several categories that are pertinent to those in the manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and freight industries. 5 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts of 2016.So 9 KPIs to Track for Proper Freight Management.
Fortunately, your organization can get ahead of the learning curve by knowing what trends in logistics to watch for this year. The Top 6 Trends in Logistics Impacting Shippers in 2016. The election is over, but the race is just starting for logistics providers.
Freight volumes (demand) and active supply (trucks, drivers, trains, and containers) seek balance, but often fall somewhere across the balance spectrum. As such, there are several trends to keep an eye on as 2019 progresses. Carriers accepting freight strategically.
Those 5 key categories are: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Freight, and Transportation. For the Manufacturing Blog Posts, we saw a bit of a deviation from that starting trend. For these manufacturing blog posts, it seems that technology, future trends, and a focus on manufacturing process improvement was the focus. If you want to read all of the manufacturing blog posts on our blog, check out the manufacturing blog category here. .
Now, it's easy to think of technology as being a manufacturer-only realm. Let's take a look at what logistics technology trends will become the dominant factors of the logistics industry for 2016. GreyOrange Butler Robot - Logistics Technology Trend for 2016.
We've already hit 3 of our 5 main categories by featuring the most popular blogs for the logistics blog posts, manufacturing blog posts, and supply chain blog posts. As we round out the 5 categories, we come to the place of our expertise: Freight and Transportation Management. As a third party logistics provider squarely focused on freight and transportation management, we also understand that if we only talk about those two categories, we are not thinking well rounded enough.


Our chapter is renting office space in the new Tyler Street Lab at 730 Tyler St. in Pittsfield. In addition to dedicated office space for small meetings, we will be able to use the larger gathering space for our general meetings and other programs. Watch this website and our Facebook page for an announcement of open office hours.
The Tyler Street Lab, a project of the Morningside Initiative, is one of the efforts to build community in this Pittsfield neighborhood. The Berkshire County NAACP is proud to be part of this initiative.


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namespace Google\Cloud\Talent\V4beta1;

use Google\Protobuf\Internal\GPBType;
use Google\Protobuf\Internal\RepeatedField;
use Google\Protobuf\Internal\GPBUtil;

/**
 * Device information collected from the job seeker, candidate, or
 * other entity conducting the job search. Providing this information improves
 * the quality of the search results across devices.
 *
 * Generated from protobuf message google.cloud.talent.v4beta1.DeviceInfo
 */
class DeviceInfo extends \Google\Protobuf\Internal\Message
{
    /**
     * Type of the device.
     *
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    private $device_type = 0;
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     * A device-specific ID. The ID must be a unique identifier that
     * distinguishes the device from other devices.
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    {
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Tuesday night is whiskey night. Your favorite whiskey shots are 4 dollars all night long. Come in and see what we are talking about.
It's time again for our annual McCarthy's Potluck! Whether you can't afford to go home to see your family, or just don't want to...all are invited to come eat! We always do this on the day of Thanksgiving, so even if you are attending a Thanksgiving dinner, come by and have a drink with your McCarthy's family! If the amazing food and camaraderie weren't enough we have NFL network and will be showing all three games that day! Seriously, if you haven't been though, the food is amazing and all homemade.


FOOTBALL'S EUROPEAN governing body Uefa have appealed their own sanctions that they handed out after England Under-21s were racially abused and assaulted against Serbia on October 16.
The match, which was a UEFA European Under-21 Championship play-off second-leg, ended in chaos as Serbian players manhandled England players following a winning injury time winning goal by the latter.
Several players, such as England's Danny Rose, were also subjected to monkey chants throughout at the Mladost Stadium in Krusevac.
Uefa originally fined the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) £65,000 for racist behaviour from their fans, ordered them to play one game behind closed doors and handed out bans to four of their players and to two of their coaches.
Two England players, Steven Caulker and Thomas Ince, also received bans.
These sanctions were widely criticised by both players and by the FA.
However, Uefa have decided to appeal the decisions imposed by their own disciplinary panel.
A statement on their site said: "Having reviewed the motivated decisions for the sanctions imposed in this specific case, which have also been provided to all parties, the UEFA disciplinary inspector felt it necessary to immediately confirm his intention to appeal on UEFA's behalf.
"The UEFA disciplinary inspector now has until January 8 to lodge the appeal, the same deadline also applying to both the FSS and the FA should they wish to appeal the sanctions imposed."
Piara Powar, executive director FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe), was pleased with Uefa's decision.
"Uefa's decision to appeal is very welcome. We had been lobbying for it and like a lot of other people within Uefa felt this was the right thing to do," said Powar.
"Uefa now have an opportunity to send out a message and it takes a lot of honesty and self-reflection to admit that one arm of the organisation got it wrong.
Powar hoped that a stricter punishment would now occur.
He continued: "We'll wait to see what the next hearing brings and what the outcome of appeal is, but we always felt that the initial punishment was an opportunity to lay down a marker that wasn't taken.


Private bank C Hoare & Co has announced that Steven Cooper will be its new chief executive officer.
He will join the bank from 10th January 2019 from Barclays Bank PLC.
At Barclays, Steven has most recently served as CEO at Barclays Personal Banking UK and Europe, and CEO at Barclaycard Business.
During his time with the high street bank, he worked across a wide range of product lines, including retail and business banking, payments, data, digital and fintech.
At C Hoare & Co – which was founded in 1672 and provides current account and mortgage services – Steven will report to Lord Macpherson, chairman of the private bank.
"We are very pleased to welcome Steven as our new CEO," said Lord Macpherson.
"His deep and extensive banking experience will help ensure that we continue to provide our customers with the highly personal private banking service that sets us apart from our peers.
How do brokers feel about private banking?
Alexander Hoare, partner and director at C Hoare & Co, said that Steven's banking expertise and leadership abilities made him the perfect fit for the role.
"Steven exemplifies our core values and philosophy, which have served us and our customers well for nearly 350 years.
"I am pleased to welcome him to C Hoare & Co's executive team and look forward to working with him.
Meanwhile, Steven added: "I feel delighted and privileged to be joining such an outstanding institution.


The Bulk Technik designed dosing feeder is suitable for micro dosing of granular products. The dosing feeder essentially consists of a tubular screw flight that is driven by a geared motor and feeds product at the required rate into the discharge adaptor. A mechanical agitator arm, turns in the feeder housing above, thereby gently mixing the powder to ensure that it flows freely into the feed screw and thereby providing a constant product flow for accurate dosing. The agitator arm is driven via a gear wheel that is coupled to the screw feeder.
Both the screw flight and the agitator arm have stuffing box-type seals and are mounted with outboard plummer block bearings. The dosing feeders are manufactured from mild steel components, however, we can offer an option where all wetted surfaces are manufactured from stainless steel.
The geared motor can be supplied with a VSD so that the feed rate can be varied for a specific conveying range. The dosing feeders are usually supplied with custom sized screw flights as well as a geared motor selected to provide the correct dosing capacity. Typically these vary from 10 kg/h up to 500 kg/h, however, other feed rates can be custom designed.
Bulk Technik offers complete dosing stations complete with a de-bagging unit that incorporates a dust filter and access platform to elevate the discharge of the dosing feeder so that it can, for example, gravity feed into a mixing tank. The systems are typically used when product is supplied in 25 kg bags.


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<?php

use \InterExperts\BalanceCalculator\Year;
use \InterExperts\BalanceCalculator\Calculator;
use \InterExperts\BalanceCalculator\UsedBalance;

class CalculatorTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase{

	public function testGetQuotum(){
		$this->doQuotumTest(dirname(__FILE__) . '/balance-testdata/testGetQuotum/');
	}

	public function testGetQuotumExtra(){
		$this->doQuotumTest(dirname(__FILE__) . '/balance-testdata/testGetQuotumExtra/');
	}

	public function testGetQuotumUsedDays(){
		$this->doQuotumTest(dirname(__FILE__) . '/balance-testdata/testGetQuotumUsedDays/', true);
	}

	public function testGiveQuotumAddBalanceActions(){
		$directory = dirname(__FILE__) . '/balance-testdata/testGiveQuotumAddBalanceActions/';
		$testFile = 'balance-01.csv';

		$filename = basename($testFile);
		$fh = fopen($directory . $filename, 'r');
		$header = fgetcsv($fh);
		$calculator = new Calculator();
		while($inputYear = fgetcsv($fh)){
			$calculator->addYear(new Year(new \DateTime($inputYear[1]), $inputYear[2], $inputYear[4], $inputYear[3], $inputYear[5]));
		}
		fclose($fh);

		$fh = fopen($directory . 'used-days-'. $filename, 'r');
		$header = fgetcsv($fh);
		while($testDate = fgetcsv($fh)){
			$calculator->addUsedBalance(new UsedBalance(new \DateTime($testDate[0]), $testDate[1]));
		}
		fclose($fh);

		$fh = fopen($directory . 'expected-remaining-'. $filename, 'r');
		$header = fgetcsv($fh);
		while($testDate = fgetcsv($fh)){
			$actions = $calculator->getAddBalanceActionsForDate(new \DateTime($testDate[0]), new \DateTime($testDate[0]));
			$found = false;
			foreach($actions as $action){
				if($action->expirationDate->format('Y-m-d') == $testDate[2]){
					$this->assertEquals($testDate[1], $action->remainingBalance);
					$found = true;
				}
			}
			if(!$found){
				$this->fail("Expire date not found. {$testDate[2]}");
			}
		}
		fclose($fh);

	}

	protected function doQuotumTest($directory, $usedDays = false) {
		$filenamePattern = 'balance-*.csv';
		$testFiles = glob($directory . $filenamePattern);

		foreach($testFiles as $testFile){
			$filename = basename($testFile);
			$fh = fopen($directory . $filename, 'r');
			$header = fgetcsv($fh);
			$calculator = new Calculator();
			while($inputYear = fgetcsv($fh)){
				$calculator->addYear(new Year(new \DateTime($inputYear[1]), $inputYear[2], $inputYear[4], $inputYear[3], $inputYear[5]));
			}
			fclose($fh);

			if ($usedDays) {
				$fh = fopen($directory . 'used-days-'. $filename, 'r');
				$header = fgetcsv($fh);
				while($testDate = fgetcsv($fh)){
					$calculator->addUsedBalance(new UsedBalance(new \DateTime($testDate[0]), $testDate[1]));
				}
				fclose($fh);
			}

			$fh = fopen($directory . 'expected-'. $filename, 'r');
			$header = fgetcsv($fh);
			while($testDate = fgetcsv($fh)){
				$this->assertEquals($testDate[1], $calculator->getBalanceForDate(new \DateTime($testDate[0])),
					"Calculated balance does not match expected balance.\nFilename: {$filename}\nTest date: {$testDate[0]}"
					);
			}
			fclose($fh);
		}
	}
}


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Mia goes to medical school to get close to a professor she suspects had a hand in her past family tragedy and gets tangled in the world of biohacking.
Director: Christian Ditter
Networks: Netflix
Ruby is living a humdrum existence when one day she gets a text inviting her to fulfill a youthful pact, promising true love and self-reinvention, by stepping out of her…
Hook up with Finn and Jake as they travel the Land of Ooo searching for adventure. But remember, adventure isn't always easy. Sometimes you've got to battle fire gnomes that…
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
After saving the universe, Steven is still at it, tying up every loose end. As he runs out of other people's problems to solve, he'll finally have to face his…
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for…
Each Challenge pits numerous cast members from past seasons of reality shows against each other, dividing them into two separate teams according to different criteria, such as gender, which show…
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District…
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding…
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The Innocence Files
The personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn.
Trailer: Biohackers

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You've probably heard about "the blockchain" recently. A lot. The technology underpinning bitcoin has attracted billions in venture capital funding, the interest of almost every global bank, and the attention of governments around the world.
Essentially a digital distributed ledger that anyone on the internet can access, the system has the ability to keep information secure, create a permanent record of transactions to avoid fraud, and instantly transfer assets. But for all the talk, it's simply not that useful yet. For now, the technology is stuck in the back offices of financial firms, an area that the average person doesn't care about or really benefit from.
A new book, Blockchain Revolution, envisions a future where the technology doesn't just change finance, but bring more people into the global economy and disintermediate startups like Uber and Airbnb. Quartz spoke with Alex Tapscott, the founder and CEO of blockchain advisory firm Northwest Passage Venture, about some of the more novel ideas in the book he coauthored with his father Don, and how blockchain could shape our future. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Central banks—the People's Back of China, for example—are interested in exploring the idea of using digital currency to cut down their own currency costs, etc. What kind of value do central banks get out of currency tied to the blockchain?
To answer that question you need to understand what central bankers do in the economy. Broadly speaking, they perform three roles: they manage monetary policy, which involves managing interest rates and the money supply in the system. So take monetary policy for example. If the yuan, or the dollar, or the euro were represented on a blockchain, you'd be able to know with much greater accuracy whether or not a decision to cut interest rates had any impact on the economy. So let's say you cut interest rates because you want to increase spending, spur lending, increase consumer confidence, and see greater investments in non-yielding assets like stocks. Now, you have to rely on random samples from retailers and other lagging indicators to figure out whether or not the move had the desired effect. If your currency was represented on the blockchain, you could watch in real time as value moved through the system. You wouldn't be able to see who was spending, but you'd be able to see how they spent. And that would enable you to manage your policy much more effectively.
When it comes to financial stability, if regulators like the Federal Reserve or the People's Bank in China, could get a window into the dealings of large financial firms and see the same shared ledger that the banks did, they would know whether or not too much risk was being taken in the system, whether or not there were liquidity crunches in the system, whether or not there were troubled banks or shadow banks that needed support or a slap on the wrist. You'd be able to have more information and a much clearer picture to do your job better. That ties into financial stability. If you're connected to the same records as everyone else, then you don't need all of the resources to go into the individual banks and vet their siloed transaction records to determine whether or not they're acting within the law. And that could allow you to cut costs and do your job better. So in each role of the central bank, there's an opportunity to do that job better.
Let's talk a bit about the non-financial uses of blockchain. Can blockchain spur the creation of new industries or does it more reinvent existing industries?
I think one of the biggest opportunities here is to solve the parity paradox in the world. We've had wealth creation, but we haven't had prosperity. And despite all the value that was created in the first generation of the internet, it's been captured asymmetrically by powerful forces like big corporations. Could this technology give us another kick at the can? To create the conditions for prosperity to happen rather than focusing on redistributing wealth, we can focus on pre-distributing wealth, or pre-distributing the conditions to create wealth.
So what does that mean in concrete terms? Well 2.5 billion people in the world don't have access to financial services. Reason being, they don't have an identity to prove to a bank or a financial institutions they are in fact who they say they are, and they don't have the balance to justify an account. Could blockchain technology enable us to create new forms of identity and lower the barriers of people getting access to financial services? Anybody who's out of the system is basically prohibited from participating in the global economy and this could change that equation dramatically.
So it's a lot about democratizing things that are traditionally very complex, opaque, and out of reach for everyone but wealthy people.
Consider land title registries. So, 70% of the people in the world who own land have a flakey title to that land. So if you're living in Honduras and you have a piece of paper that says you own land, the government could say oops, sorry, our computer servers say I own the land or their friend owns the land, and you are getting kicked off your property to build a beach mansion. This actually happened in Honduras, which led to the former president being ousted in a coup. It's happened in Rio de Janeiro, where people living outside of Rio were evicted without notice from their land. Some of them even had pieces of paper claiming they own the title, but the government said, sorry, that title's not enforceable. Without having an enforceable title to your land, you lack the preconditions for any sort of meaningful wealth creation.
The home is more than just a shelter. It's a source of savings, the way they access credit to pay for education or to start a business, and without one it's very hard for people to move up in the world. If you had a land title registry built using the blockchain, then what people owned would be available for all to see and couldn't be altered by a single person or a corrupt government. It would act as a source of truth that would be more easily enforced. And that's happening today in Honduras, where the government is working with a company called Factom, and it's happening in Georgia, where they are working with Bitfury to build land registries. Imagine if a country like India were able to get their act together and build something like this. It could create the preconditions for India to finally fulfill its promise as an emerging economy and make them much more prosperous.
In the book, you say that companies like Uber and Airbnb can get disrupted by blockchain. Can you run through that scenario?
So Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Taskrabbit, these companies are part of the so-called sharing economy, which is a word that is incredibly misleading. They have nothing to do with sharing. Sharing is about the free exchange of information and value. What these multibillion dollar corporations do is that they're service aggregators. They aggregate excess capacity. In Uber's example, they aggregate cars and drivers to a centralized platform and resell them to people who are looking for a ride. And they perform a really good service. But it has its limitations. Drivers have been known to be erratic or abusive. Everyone's subject to surge pricing. The driver's have no collective bargaining power. Uber captures an asymmetric value of what's created, they take 20%. In the process, they also capture all this data on people—who they are, where they're going—and that's stuff that can undermine privacy in future commercial exploitation.
So you don't need Uber to build Uber on the blockchain. You can have an app that's built on the blockchain, let's call its Super Uber, or SUber. And everyone can get a copy of SUber like they have Uber, they log into SUber just like they do with Uber. SUber knows what kind of car you want, where you're going, how fast you want to get there. And it matches you automatically with a car that matches that criteria. SUber has a native payment system built into it, like Ethereum and Ether or bitcoin in the Bitcoin network, so you don't need a centralized intermediary to process payments. You also don't need a centralized intermediary to organize capabilities because the distributed application can do it instead. And even things like paying for fuel, negotiating liabilities, buying insurance, and automating itself is all something that the cars and drivers can do on their own. In the not-too-distant future, this could just be autonomous vehicles not owned by anyone but existing in a common app that performs this service.
So that's a big risk to Uber. The disruptors are going to be disrupted, we think. But it also has a lot of positive social implications. The obvious one is that drivers get to keep more of the value, and maybe that translates in lower fares for individuals. But also in a lot of parts of the world, transportation is a big civic issue. Cities like Toronto, where I live, are looking to build new subway lines that cost billions of dollars a mile. It could also mean that people's data isn't stored in central repositories like at Uber, but rather encrypted and controlled by them.
That brings up an interesting point. A really compelling part of blockchain to me is that it puts the power back into the user's hands. So instead of everyone asking me for my information and then doing whatever they want with it, I give the information whenever I feel like it. Can you talk a little about the effect blockchain has on data and how it's shared?
This asset class that's been created from the past 25 years, called data, has become the most important asset in the modern economy. Just like industrial equipment was the most important asset in the industrial age, and land was the most important asset in the agrarian age. And the funny thing about this asset is that we all create it. Individuals create the data that's used to build lots of value. But we don't get to participate in that value. What that means is that there's a virtual Ian out there. It's not owned by you. It's owned by Facebook, your government, your bank, Visa, PayPal, Venmo. And the virtual you knows you better than you know you. You might not know that two years ago, you got in an Uber and drove somewhere and liked a post on Facebook or searched for something.
Yeah, I like a lot of things on Facebook. I probably forgot about them all by now.
Yeah, I forgot what I did yesterday! But the virtual you knows. This is a tradeoff that we've made. And we've made these tradeoffs to receive services like the ability to search on Google, or access social media sites, but I don't think that that's a tradeoff we need to make anymore. These services can be built on blockchain and rather than the intermediary owning the data, you own the data in your own personal avatar. And you decide what data you want to release in certain situations. So when you go to the store to make a purchase, the store doesn't care who you are, where you live, what you do for a living. All they care is that you have the money to satisfy the payment.
When you go buy a hot dog from a stand, the guy doesn't ask you for your driver's license. There are lots of situations where you only need to provide a small sliver of evidence of who you are to satisfy the basic requirement. And that could mean that you want to provide more information to receive more services, like getting a loan. Right now the bank uses a FICO score, which you don't control and is lagging and full of errors. But what if you could use all of the previous experience you have making payments, using blockchain, or your own social capital from Facebook to prove you're a worthy investment for a bank to make. That could help you get access to a lower interest loan. But the key thing is that you would control that information and decide how it got used.


Nigerian Canada based multi-talented self-acclaimed Afro juju pop act, Ezekiel Temitope Odubanjo, popularly known as #T-Classic, is set to shine and change the music game in the entertainment industry world-wide.
He brings his multiple talents into his music giving lovers of music reasons to vibe.
T-Classic is multilingual and this is evident in his single titled "Winner" where he employed English, Yoruba and French languages.
Checks show that the rave of the moment in Canada brings a fusion of Juju, Pop and Fela's Afro style to thrill his fans and good music lovers.
He has been in the music game for a while but has just recently dived into the scene professionally. He sure has a lot to deliver.


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La aulaga enana   (Genista pumila) es una especie fanerógama de planta de la familia de las fabáceas.

Descripción
De ramas gruesas y rígidas, las flores cortamente pediceladas. Forma matas almohadilladas, hemisféricas o algo deprimidas, fuertemente espinosas.

Hábitat
Frecuente en las parameras y altiplanos con suelo calizo, en lugares expuestos y venteados, principalmente en zonas continentales sometidas a fuertes heladas.

Distribución
Se extiende por el centro y mitad oriental de la península ibérica.

Taxonomía
Genista pumila  fue descrita por (Debeaux & É.Rev. ex Hervier) Vierh. y publicado en Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 69: 181. 1919.
Citología
Números cromosomáticos de Genista pumila (Fam. Leguminosae) y táxones infraespecíficos:  2n=36

Etimología
Genista: nombre genérico que proviene del latín de la que los reyes y reinas Plantagenet de Inglaterra tomaron su nombre, planta Genesta o plante genest, en alusión a una historia que, cuando Guillermo el Conquistador se embarcó rumbo a Inglaterra, arrancó una planta que se mantenía firme, tenazmente, a una roca y la metió en su casco como símbolo de que él también sería tenaz en su arriesgada tarea. La planta fue la  llamada planta genista en latín. Esta es una buena historia, pero por desgracia Guillermo el Conquistador llegó mucho antes de los Plantagenet y en realidad fue Godofredo de Anjou que fue apodado el Plantagenet, porque llevaba un ramito de flores amarillas de retama en su casco como una insignia (genêt es el nombre francés del arbusto de retama), y fue su hijo, Enrique II, el que se convirtió en el primer rey Plantagenet. Otras explicaciones históricas son que Geoffrey plantó este arbusto como una cubierta de caza o que él la usaba para azotarse a sí mismo. No fue hasta que Ricardo de York, el padre de los dos reyes Eduardo IV y Ricardo III, cuando los miembros de esta familia adoptaron el nombre de Plantagenet, y luego se aplicó retroactivamente a los descendientes de Godofredo I de Anjou como el nombre dinástico.

pumila: epíteto latino que significa "peluda".
Subespecies
Genista pumila subsp. pumila del cuadrante sudeste de España. En matorrales xerofíticos, sobre calizas, yesos o margas; 400-1700 (2130)  . Provincias de Alicante, Albacete, Almería, Ciudad Real, Granada, Jaén, Murcia,  Toledo y Valencia.

Genista pumila subsp. rigidissima  (Vierh.) Talavera & L. Sáez. Páramos calcáreos; 900-1300 (1650) msnm . Centro de la península ibérica. Provincias de Castellón, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Soria, Teruel y Zaragoza.
Sinonimia
 Genista baetica subsp. pumila (Debeaux & É. Rev. ex Hervier) Fern. Casas
 Genista baetica var. pumila Debeaux & É. Rev. ex Hervier
 Genista gadorensis Uribe-Ech. & Urrutia
 Genista lobelii var. pumila Degen & Hervier
 Genista mugronensis subsp. rigidissima (Vierh.) Fern. Casas
 Genista mugronensis Vierh.
 Genista rigidissima Vierh.
 Genista versicolor subsp. pumila (Debeaux & É. Rev. ex Hervier) Fern. Casas

Nombre común
Castellano: aulaga almohadillada, aulaga enana, escambrón.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Greuter, W. et al. (Eds.) (1989) Med-Checklist Vol. 4 (published)

Enlaces externos

 http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?genus=Genista&species=pumila

pumila
Flora de la península ibérica
Plantas descritas en 1919
Plantas descritas por Debeaux
Plantas descritas por E.Rev.
Plantas descritas por Hervier
Plantas descritas por Vierhapper

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Create dramatic mood lighting in your interior with the gorgeous Crawford Candle Holder from Eichholtz.
The stunning candelabra is made from crystal glass and features a round base plate with long stem structure that holds five candle holders in place, each with intricate glass detail.
The gorgeous accessory exudes modern designer style and will make a refined addition to your home interior.
It will make a wonder centrepiece on the dining table or can be placed in the hallway or bedroom for a stylish addition around the home.


You might be wondering about the possibility of less-painful root canal therapy without medications. There are some techniques that can help. You may still want to be numbed for the procedure since a root canal involves work in close approximation to the nerves in your gums and teeth, but pre- and post approaches to any pain you might feel can lessen it significantly.
Wearing loose-fitting clothing and avoiding caffeinated beverages at least three hours before your appointment also helps.
Once the novocaine has worn off, you may begin to feel some pain. If you truly want to avoid ingesting or using pharmaceutical pain relievers, you should allow your body to develop its own response to pain. The body's natural response to any wound or type of pain is to release endorphins, which when left uninhibited to work on their own, effectively decrease pain and cause you to forget that something hurts. This is witnessed in natural childbirth when mothers refuse medication and their bodies respond by releasing endorphins in order to help them get through the labor and delivery process. Endorphins are calming and pain-relieving hormones the body naturally produces when dealing with pain.
Ergo, the best way to feel less pain after your procedure is to let the body do what it naturally does- relieve its own discomfort. It may be momentarily excruciating, but after a little while, you will not feel much pain at all in the area of your root canal. When combined with pre-surgical calming techniques, the all natural post-surgical technique results in a drug-free and less painful root canal.


Should Your Parent Be Thinking about Their End of Life Now?
Planning for the future can be one of the most difficult things you do as a family caregiver, but also one of the most important. You don't want to think about the end of your parent's life, but making it a part of your planning now is vital for helping both of you feel more confident and secure as you move forward with your care efforts.
Homecare Mooresville NC – Should Your Parent Be Thinking about Their End of Life Now?
Taking away the "mystery" feeling of this issue. Confronting it honestly, openly, and without hesitation takes away the fear and taboo of this topic. Opening up about it allows both of you to talk about this issue honestly, express your thoughts and emotions, and make decisions confidently.
Talk about treatment options. The end of your parent's life may involve the need to make many treatment-related decisions. From hospice to resuscitation to life support, these are very personal decisions and it is important to know what your parent wants so you can honor those wishes when the time comes. This also makes it easier for you to make the decisions so you don't have to worry during this already difficult time.
Make legal arrangements. Depending on what your senior is dealing with as they age, there may be the need for you to make sensitive decisions when the end of their life arrives. Talking about this situation now allows them to make legal arrangements to allow you to handle these decisions legally and easily. Wills, living directives, health directives, and even power of attorney can all come into play in different situations. Go to a lawyer together to discuss these needs, and make the decision that is right for both of you.
Starting homecare can be one of the most nurturing and meaningful decisions you make as a family caregiver. Introducing a homecare services provider into your usual care routine with your aging parent does not mean you don't want to care for your parent, or that you don't care about the quality of care they receive. Instead, having this homecare as a part of your approach is a way to show your parent how much you love them, and that you want them to have everything they need, and enjoy their life as they age in place.
Customized services from a homecare provider can include safe and reliable transportation, meal preparation, physical assistance to manage mobility issues, medication reminders, assistance with housekeeping tasks, and more.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Homecare Services in Mooresville NC, please contact the caring staff at TenderHearted Home Care today. (704) 612-4132.


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Iran's Rouhani Says 'Ball In U.S. Court' Over Nuclear Dispute
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FCC set to finalize '988' as the new National Suicide Prevention Hotline phone number – TechCrunch
by frank June 23, 2020, 5:41 pm 1.5k Views
The FCC said Tuesday it will vote next month to designate 988 as the new three-digit U.S. nationwide number to reach the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
In a notice, the federal regulator overseeing U.S. internet and phone providers said it will vote on the proposal on July 16 to make the number change official. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said the three-digit number, if passed, "will save lives."
Once approved, U.S. phone companies — including internet calling providers — will have two years to transition 988 calls to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline.
Even after the transition, callers will still be able to reach the hotline through its regular phone number.
Lawmakers and advocates have spent years advocating to shorten the hotline's 10-digit phone number to just three digits to make it easier for those in a mental health crisis to reach help. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
In December, the FCC voted unanimously to push ahead with the plans to issue the three-digit number, calling it an "echo" of 911, the national number to reach emergency services, recognizing the importance of easy access to the hotline.
Sam Brinton, vice president of advocacy and government affairs for The Trevor Project, a non-profit dedicated to suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ+ youths, welcomed the news.
"Suicide remains the second leading cause of death among young people, and LGBTQ youth are at increased risk," said Briton. "Americans in crisis cannot wait. We also applaud the FCC's continued support for specialized services for LGBTQ youth."
If you or someone you know is struggling with depression or has had thoughts of harming themselves or taking their own life, get help. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) provides 24/7, free, confidential support for people in distress, as well as best practices for professionals and resources to aid in prevention and crisis situations.
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The Children of Dennis Lindsey (abt. 1755-1795): Dennis Lindsey (1793-1855/1860) (2)
March 7, 2020 June 22, 2020 William D. Lindsey
15 May 1828 federal patent to Lindsay Allen, Franklin County, Alabama, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office, Credit Volume Patent Bk. 127, p. 238
Or, Subtitled: Entering the Thicket of Allen-Woodruff Kinship Ties
Dennis Lindsey Family Settles in Franklin County, Alabama
As I noted in my last posting, after Dennis Lindsey (1793-1855/1860) sold Benjamin Goodman 100 acres on Ferguson's Creek in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, on 22 February 1827, he dropped out of Spartanburg County records. It seems likely to me that the land he sold was his homeplace and that he moved his family to Franklin County, Alabama, not long after this land sale. In an article on the Lindsey family of Franklin County in Olden Times of Colbert and Franklin Counties in Alabama, Beatrice Russell states that the Lindsey family came to Franklin County, Alabama, from South Carolina and settled in the Crooked Oak-Frankfort area of the county.[1] This is in the north-central part of Franklin County, near the Colbert County line.
Not far across the county line in Colbert County is Crooked Oak Baptist church, near the intersection of highways 49 and 75 — known in this part of the county as the Frankfort and Crooked Oak roads. Attached to the Crooked Oak church is an historic cemetery in which descendants of Dennis Lindsey and Anna Woodruff, including their youngest daughter Amanda, are buried.[2] About 8 miles south of the Crooked Oak cemetery is another historic cemetery nearer Russellville in Franklin County, the Hovater cemetery, in which other Lindsey family members, including Dennis's and Anna's daughter Melissa and husband William Henry Hester, and Melissa's brother Robert D. Lindsey and wife Martha Susan Hester, are buried.[3]
Map of township 6, range 12 west, Franklin County, Alabama, from communities and maps page of Alabama Genweb page for Franklin County
The earliest record I have found for Dennis Lindsey in Franklin County seems to confirm that he brought his family from Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to this area of Franklin County not long after he sold land to Benjamin Goodman in 1827. This record is a 15 May 1828 federal patent of 80 acres to Lindsay Moore (see the image at the head of this posting). The patent states that the 80 acres had been assigned to Lindsay Moore by William Moore, assignee of William Moore and D. Lindsay. It also indicates that the land was in township 6, range 12 west, section 14.[4] As the helpful map above shows — it's from a communities and maps page of the Franklin County page at the ALGenWeb site — this tract is southeast of Frankfort, just west of Russellville. The map is a map of township 6 range 12 west with section numbers included.
Family names that appear on this map — Hester, James, Malone, Sparks — are ones closely associated with the Dennis Lindsey family for generations. The Sparks family, in fact, came with Dennis and Anna Woodruff Lindsey to Franklin County, and descends from Anna's sister Eunice Woodruff, who married William Sparks.[5]
I have not been able to identify William and Lindsay/Lindsey Moore, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that they are related to the William Moore of Spartanburg County who was closely connected to the Woodruffs through his marriage to Hannah, daughter of Moses and Phebe Marsh Woodruff, and also to Dennis Lindsey's grandfather William Lindsey. Whether the William Moore patenting land with D. Lindsay (who is, it's clear to me, Dennis Lindsey) in Franklin County is that same William Moore or from a younger generation, I don't have enough information to conclude.
I also don't have specific information about the relationship of William Moore to Lindsay/Lindsey Moore, but I suspect it's likely a close connection. Nor does the 1828 patent tell us how D. Lindsay and William Moore had acquired this land, and when they acquired it. The page at the BLM-GLO site providing information about the patent states that the "patent record [is] imperfect." A search of BLM-GLO patents turns up no other patents by Dennis Lindsey in Franklin County.
What the patent does show us, I think, is that Dennis Lindsey likely moved to Franklin County not long before early 1828, and that he may well have come there with some of his wife's Moore relatives of the line of William Moore and Hannah Woodruff. It also places his family, from the earliest record we can find for them in Franklin County, in exactly the part of the county in which we know from other records that Dennis settled. As I noted in my last posting, Franklin County's early records were almost totally destroyed in a disastrous courthouse fire in 1890, making it difficult to discover information about this family in its first several generations in Alabama.
I have not been able to locate Dennis Lindsey anywhere on the 1830 federal census. I do find a William Moore in Franklin County on that census, enumerated next to a Moses and Joshua Moore on the same page with members of the Hester and Malone families who have long been very much linked to the Lindseys in Franklin County.[6] Biographies of Moses Moore's grandson Joshua Burns Moore (1826-1897), a Russellville attorney who opposed secession and represented Franklin County at the 1865 constitutional convention in Montgomery, state that Joshua's father William Moore was a soldier of the War of 1812, and that William's father Moses came to Franklin County from South Carolina.[7]
Records of Dennis Lindsey Following Move to Franklin County, Alabama
Beyond the initial 1828 land patent mentioning Dennis Lindsey, I find very little other information in Franklin County records, which are, as I've just noted again, simply not there, for the most part, from the county's formation in 1818 up to 1890, when the courthouse burned.
Dennis Lindsey, federal land patent, Franklin County, Alabama, 30 September 1839, Alabama Land Office records now held by Alabama Archives (US/Canada film 1769330 of Family History Library, Salt Lake City)
Records of federal land patents in Alabama from the Alabama Land Office (these are now held by the Alabama Archives) show Dennis receiving two land patents in Franklin County on 30 September 1839. The first patent was for forty acres in township 6, range 13 west, section 13. The second patent was for 20 acres in the same coordinates. On 12 October the same year, Dennis's oldest son Miles R. Lindsey filed a federal land patent in the same location for 20 acres.
Dennis is enumerated on the 1840 federal census in Franklin County, with a household containing a male 10-14, a male 20-29, a male 40-49, a female under 5, and a female 30-39.[8] On the same page are John Hester, brother to William Henry Hester who married Dennis's daughter Melissa, Patillo Woodruff, son of Dennis Lindsey's brother-in-law Caleb Woodruff,[9] M.D. Kimbrough, and Blackwell Malone. The families to which Marmaduke Kimbrough and Blackwell Malone belong have had multi-generational connections to the Lindseys in Franklin and Colbert Counties, Alabama.
The older male in Dennis's household in 1840 is Dennis himself. The age of the older woman in the household is somewhat under what should be Anna Woodruff Lindsey's age in 1840. The 1850 census will show Dennis with a wife Amanda, born in 1830, but she is clearly too young to be the older woman on the 1840 census, so it seems likely that the older female in the 1840 census is Anna Woodruff Lindsey, that the census record has her age off by a few years, and that Anna died in Franklin County between 1840-1850.
The male in his 20s is Dennis's oldest son Miles R. Lindsey, who was born about 1820, and the younger male is Dennis's next son Robert D. Lindsey, who was born in 1829. The young female in the household is Dennis's daughter Amanda, who was born in 1839. His daughter Melissa married in 1840 to William Henry Hester and is evidently in her husband's household on the 1840 census.
The family of Dennis Lindsey appears again on the 1850 federal census in Franklin County.[10] Dennis is listed as Dinnis Linsey, 57, a farmer born in South Carolina. Wife Amanda is 20. The census states that the couple had married during the year (that is, in 1850). Amanda, too, was born in South Carolina. No children are in the household. By 1850, all of Dennis's children had married except his daughter Amanda, who is found in the household of her sister Melissa Hester in 1850.
Living next door to Dennis Lindsey on the 1850 census is his son Robert D. Lindsey with wife Martha Susan Hester, whose name appears as Mary on this census. On the same census page is the family of Dennis's brother-in-law William Sparks, who married Eunice Woodruff, with several members of this family listed between Dennis Lindsey and William Sparks.
Dennis Lindsey also appears on both the 1850 and 1855 state census of Alabama. The former shows him with a white male over 21, a white male over 45, and a white female over 21.[11] On the same page are Dennis's brother-in-law William Sparks and several members of the Sparks family.
The 1855 Alabama state census lists Dennis Lindsey with a white male over 21, a white female over 21, and 1 white female under 21.[12] This is the last record I have found for Dennis Lindsey. Since he is not listed on the 1860 federal census, it seems to me that he likely died in Franklin County, Alabama, between 1855 and 1860.
Final Notes about Dennis Lindsey's mother Mary and Husband William Lindsey Allen
As I stated in my last posting, Dennis Lindsey's stepfather William Lindsey Allen last appears on the federal census in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in 1820, and seems to drop from county records following his witness to a deed by John Pearson to Thomas Pearson on 23 March 1827. A number of researchers have suggested that he and Dennis's mother Mary moved to Franklin County, Alabama, along with Dennis and Anna Woodruff Lindsey around 1827-8. I do not find any traces of William L. Allen and his wife Mary in Franklin County records, however, unless Mary is the Mary Allen found on the 1830 and 1840 federal censuses in Franklin County. The 1830 census shows this Mary aged 40-49, and in 1840, she's aged 50-59.[13]
I have no proof that this is Mary, mother of Dennis Lindsey. In order to have had a son born in 1793, Mary would have had to have been born by or before 1780, it seems to me. Allen researchers report William Lindsey Allen and wife Mary with a daughter Nancy born 4 August 1819, their last child. To have had a son born in 1793, and still to be of child-bearing age in 1819, seems to me to imply a birthdate for Mary by 1780 but not much before that date — so the ages given for Mary Allen on the 1830-1840 federal censuses in Franklin County, Alabama, would seem roughly to fit the expected age of Dennis Lindsey's mother Mary.
If the Mary of these two censuses is Dennis's mother, then it appears William Lindsey Allen died between 1820, when he appears on the federal census in Spartanburg County, Alabama, and 1830, when a Mary Allen appears on the federal census in Franklin County, Alabama — and Mary would have died, it seems, between 1840 and 1850 in Franklin County. A problem to be faced in identifying the Mary of the 1830-1840 federal census in Franklin County, Alabama, with the mother of Dennis Lindsey, however, is that Allen researchers show William L. Allen and wife Mary with four children born between 1814 and 1819, who would have been minor children in 1830, and should be enumerated in Mary's household in 1830. The household of the Mary Allen found on the 1830 federal census in Franklin County contains only the free white female aged 40-49 and two enslaved persons.
It's possible, of course, that these final four children of William L. Allen and wife Mary died before 1830; Allen researchers report only their birthdates, in fact, and seem to have no further information about any of them. One of William L. Allen and Mary's children, a daughter Susan, who married Thomas Bragg, son of Peter Newport Bragg and Abigail Bruton, did move from Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to Franklin County, Alabama, where the couple are found on the 1850 federal census.[14]
Allen researchers list the following children for William Lindsey Allen and wife Mary, all born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina — and, as I have noted in my last posting, it is not clear to me what document is the source for these names and birthdates: Mary C. (b. 25 December 1796); Nancy Jane (b. 11 November 1798, d. 1880, Lawrence County, Alabama, m. Zachariah, son of John Basil Leatherwood and Priscilla Calvert); Susan (b. 26 August 1800, d. 1850-1860, Franklin County, Alabama, m. Thomas, son of Peter Newport Bragg and Abigail Bruton); John W. (b. 15 February 1802); Sarah (b. 11 November 1804); William Shackleford (b. 20 March 1807, d. 9 November 1889, McLennan County, Texas); Elizabeth (b. 18 March 1809); Nathaniel (b. 17 June 1812); Hiram C. (b. 6 January 1814); James P. (b. 14 Marcy 1817); Spencer Bobo (b. 4 August 1819); and Nancy (b. 4 August 1819).
As my previous posting also stated, a number of researchers of this family have indicated that Mary, wife of Dennis Lindsey (abt. 1755-1795) and William Lindsey Allen, was the daughter of Spencer Calvert and Nancy Jane Leatherwood. In a query she placed in the publication Family Puzzlers in 1996, Marie Hand of Nacogdoches, Texas, a descendant of William Shackleford Allen, states that William's mother Mary was née Calvert.[15]
After having read Marie Hand's query, I wrote her to ask for further information about Mary's maiden name and sources for the information that she was a Calvert. On 27 June 1997, Ms. Hand replied, telling me that her source for this information was a family group sheet compiled sheet Ms. Berchie Cross of Courtland, Lawrence County, Alabama. In November 2005, I received an email from a Leatherwood researcher, Sharon Engle, who told me in this email, "I want to tell you that the widow of Dennis Lindsey who married William Lindsey Allen was Mary Calvert, daughter of Spencer & Nancy Leatherwood Calvert. Nancy Leatherwood, mother of Mary Calvert, is daughter of Zachariah Leatherwood and Mary Stone."
Ms. Engle pointed me to an online family tree maintained by John Michael Allen, entitled "The John Allen Family," which was at the FamilyTreeMaker site, but appears not to be online any longer. This site also reported that William Lindsey Allen's wife Mary was the daughter of Spencer Calvert and Nancy Jane Leatherwood. The site focused on the family of John Allen and wife Elizabeth Lindsey of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the parents of William Lindsey Allen. As it noted, John and Elizabeth came to Spartanburg County from Surry County, North Carolina, along with the Woodruff family, with which the Allens were intermarried. Minutes of Jamey's Creek/Bethel Baptist church at Woodruff, South Carolina, show John being received by that church as a member on 18 September 1788.
John Allen's estate file in Spartanburg County shows him dying with a will dated 8 June 1822, proved 15 March 1823.[16] The will and estate documents show John with heirs William L. Allen, John Allen, Mary Woodruff, Susannah Pace, John Allen, Micajah Allen, Caleb Allen, Matthew Allen, Lucretia Allen, and Elizabeth Allen.
Three of John Allen's children married children of Joseph Woodruff and Anna Lindsey, who were siblings of Anna Woodruff, wife of Dennis Lindsey (1793-1855/1860). John's son James Allen married Mary Woodruff; John's daughter Mary married Samuel Woodruff; and John's son Caleb married Elizabeth Woodruff. These Allen-Woodruff marriages were, of course, first-cousin marriages, since Elizabeth Lindsey Allen and Anna Lindsey Woodruff were first cousins.
I have not been able to document that Mary, widow of 1) Dennis Lindsey and 2) William Lindsey Allen, was the daughter of Spencer Calvert and Nancy Jane Leatherwood. This certainly seems plausible, since Spartanburg County records show this Calvert family living near the Lindsey, Woodruff, and Allen families after Spencer Calvert moved to that area following the Revolution. County records show Calvert involved in transactions with the Bobo and Wofford families, both of whom appear in the records of the Spartanburg County Lindsey family from which Dennis Lindsey descends.
In his Revolutionary pension affidavit given in Caldwell County, Kentucky, on 20 May 1833, Spencer Calvert states that he was born in Prince William County, Virginia, served in the Revolution from that county, and then ten years following the Revolution, he moved to South Carolina, where he remained for twenty years before relocating to Caldwell County, Kentucky.[17] Spencer Calvert's tombstone in the Calvert cemetery near Farmersville, Caldwell County, Kentucky, indicates that he was born in 1759 and died 10 May 1839. His wife Nancy Jane is buried in the same cemetery with a stone stating that she was born 12 April 1822, aged 62.[18]
In my next posting, I'll provide information about the children of Dennis Lindsey and Anna Woodruff.
[1] Beatrice Russell, "Lindsey Family," in Olden Times of Colbert and Franklin Counties in Alabama, comp. Joyce Dawson Mitchell, vol. 3 (May 1993), pp. 48-49.
[2] See the Crooked Oak cemetery page at Find a Grave.
[3] See the Hovater cemetery page at Find a Grave. On the Hester family, see Betty Jean Hester, "Hester Family," in Historical Source of Colbert and Franklin Counties in Alabama, vol. 1 (Russellville: Franklin Printing), 1997, pp. 146-153.
[4] Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office, Credit Volume Patent Bk. 127, p. 238.
[5] See the biography of William and Eunice Sparks's son Riley Sparks in Robert Leslie James, Distinguished Men, Women, and Families of Franklin County, Alabama (n.p., abt. 1930), p. 15. This source states that Riley Sparks (1811-1892) and his family came to Franklin County as early as 1820. According to Beatrice Russell, "Woodruff Family," Historical Source of Colbert and Franklin Counties, p. 81, and "Sparks Family," Historical Source of Colbert and Franklin Counties, p. 83, William and Eunice Woodruff Sparks are buried in the Sparks cemetery in Franklin County, Alabama. See also Patricia Cooper's history of Sparks cemetery at the USGenweb site for Franklin County, which states, "William Sparks was born May 1, 1782 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. His family came to Franklin County, Alabama in a caravan in the 1800's.The Sparks family settled near Frankfort. William applied for bounty land. In 1850 he received a tract and another in 1855, near Frankfort, Alabama in Franklin County. He gave land for the Sparks cemetery, where he is buried along with a number of other relatives."
[6] 1830 federal census, Franklin County, Alabama, p. 43.
[7] See Thomas McAdory Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, vol. 4 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1921), p. 1232; Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. 1 (Madison, WI: Brant & Fuller, 1893), p. 696; and Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical (Birmingham: Smith & De Land, 1888), p. 431. Numerous records, including the files of the Southern Claims Commission, indicate that members of the Lindsey, Hester, Hovater, Sparks, and other families tied to the Lindseys were Unionists during the Civil War, though some men in these families were pressed into service and appear in Confederate records for that reason.
[8] 1840 federal census, Franklin County, Alabama, p. 252.
[9] Patillo Woodruff is probably the P. Woodruff on the 1830 federal census in Franklin County (p. 29) listed near members of the Malone family. He's buried in the Hovater cemetery in Franklin County.
[10] 1850 federal census, p. 223, dist. 6, dwelling and family 774, 1 Jan. 1851.
[11] 1850 state census, Alabama, unpaginated,
[12] 1855 Alabama state census, p. 18.
[13] 1830 federal census, Franklin County, Alabama, p. 54; 1840 federal census, Franklin County, Alabama, p. 248.
[14] 1850 federal census, Franklin County, Alabama, dist. 6, p. 232 (dwelling and family 842).
[15] See Family Puzzlers 1463 (2 November 1996), pp. 16-17.
[16] Spartanburg County, South Carolina, estate file #292; Will Bk. B, p. 30.
[17] Revolutionary War pension application S30312.
[18] See the Find a Grave memorial page for Spencer Calvert, maintained by a user named Midnight Believer, who has uploaded a photo to the page; the page links to Nancy Leatherwood Calvert's page.
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Mentors' Corner: How does mentoring "work," and under what conditions does it work best?
March 9, 2013 /0 Comments/in Content for Mentors, Contributors, Expert Corner /by Justin Preston
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Question 6. How does mentoring "work," and under what conditions does it work best?
Based on the seminal research of Jean Rhodes, we know that mentoring is a mediated process in which the relationship itself serves as a development tool (Rhodes, 2002, 2005). This means that mentoring works through the vehicle of the unique relationship that develops between a particular mentor and a particular mentee: in other words, through the relationship that develops between you and your mentee. It also means that mentoring works when your relationship works. Since the mentor-mentee relationship stands at mentoring's core, it is vital to understand three things: what a good mentoring relationship looks like, what helps to create productive mentoring relationships, and what is likely to do the opposite.
This is an area where researchers have a great deal to offer current and aspiring mentors. Compelling research tells us that a meaningful relationship between a mentor and mentee is one marked by trust and mutual regard and understanding (Rhodes, 2002, 2005). Our experience tells us that productive mentoring relationships have another essential ingredient, namely, opportunities to have fun. Very few enduring mentoring relationships seem to last without it. There is also a strong and growing body of knowledge telling us that mentoring relationships are more likely to take root and thrive if (1) mentor-mentee expectations are aligned; (2) mentors and mentees are well matched; (3) mentors have access to a support system that can help them prepare for the mentoring experience; (4) mentors are able to adopt a good mix of authority and friendship in their relations with their mentees; and (5) mentors have a source for and ongoing access to "advice and counsel" from those with the experience and expertise to help them employ best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and handle any rough spots that emerge.
In contrast, factors that we believe thwart the development of good working relationships relate to the most practical of considerations (Are you reliable?) and the decidedly personal (Are you mentoring to help a young person succeed or to direct his development?). Good working mentoring relationships rarely result when mentors find it hard to be where they say they will be . . . when they say they will be there. No doubt about it, reliability is key. Even more rarely do strong relationships result when mentors simply don't enjoy the company of young people or fancy themselves as drill sergeants assigned to shape kids up. Good mentoring is unlikely to be the product of a relationship in which the adult doesn't appreciate that young people are young people, with all the hopes, anxieties, energy, and routine highs and lows that attend the passage from childhood to young adulthood. In contrast, the mentors who are considered most successful are those characterized as "accepting young people on their own terms" (Philip & Hendry, 2001).
So, it's important to reflect upon your inclinations before plunging in. It is equally important to note that research and our longtime experience both indicate that good mentoring relationships are a product of two things: doing and accomplishing things together (Hamilton & Hamilton, 2010) and time. In fact, the duration of a mentoring relationship may be the single best benchmark of mentoring effectiveness (Rhodes, 2002). Mentoring relationships that last less than a year generally produce few benefits for young people. But, of course, there are exceptions. These include beneficial mentoring programs that make it clear from the start that the mentoring relationship has a definite start and finish date or are quite narrowly focused, for instance a mentoring initiative designed to help a young person successfully navigate the college application process. This is so because researchers are finding that program intent and whether relationships last as long as intended from the start seem to play a key role in outcomes (Keller & Pryce, 2010; Larose, Tarabulsy & Cyrenne, 2005). Nonetheless, because of the centrality of the mentoring relationship, we devote a full chapter to the subject. Head to chapter 2 if you'd like to explore more detailed thinking now. Otherwise, read on.
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