text:
Get The Most Out of QuickBooks
Unlock more of the software's power to track your business's finances.
If maintaining your business's finances is sometimes challenging or time-consuming, you're not alone. That's why we want to help! You might want to consider QuickBooks®, a market leader in small business accounting software.
"A lot of owners aren't necessarily focused on accounting at first, but typically after they've been using the software for two or so years, they become curious about ways to get more out of QuickBooks," says certified QuickBooks consultant Scott Gregory.
Here's some time-saving, helpful information to get up to speed with QuickBooks, so you can focus on bigger goals on the horizon.
Generate Custom Reports
What it does: QuickBooks can serve up a wide array of customized reports to help you keep close tabs on your company's pulse. What's more, the software can home in on both the big picture and the granular details of your business.
How to use it: For starters, Gregory, who is also the author of "27 Power Tips Every QuickBooks User Should Know," suggests running monthly profit-loss reports, a feature that is readily available in the Reports pull-down menu.
For a closer inspection, activate a lesser-known feature that helps you break out specialized reports for every one of your company's units, locations or product and service lines. The trick is to follow a few additional steps to sort by different groupings or what the software labels as "classes." Pull down the "Edit" menu and scroll to "Preferences." There, click on "Accounting" and finally the "Company Preferences" tab at the top of the window. Once there, you'll find boxes to check off for "Use Class Tracking" and "Prompt to Assign Class." Voila: What you've done is now equipped your QuickBooks to break out everything from invoices to reports for each facet of your business you want to track.
Customize Your Icon Bar
What it does: QuickBooks' default settings can be changed to better suit your needs — and save time by providing rapid access to functions you frequently use such as "Income Tracker," "Calendar," "Customers," or "Employees."
How to use it: Click "View" and then "Top Icon Bar" to move QuickBooks Icons to the top of your screen. Next, click "View" once again and afterward "Customer Icon Bar." You'll see a list of icons. To remove those of which you don't want, click on the icon name and then the delete bar that appears on the right of the menu window.
Gregory says a second nifty trick is then to add icons for reports you'll want to run regularly. Open the report you want to add to your icon bar menu. Next, click "View" and then "Add . . .," and then a prompt with a label and description for the report will appear. Click "OK" and you'll have an icon shortcut in no time.
Set Up To-Do Lists and Reminders
What it does: One QuickBooks feature in the program's "Company" menu can help you stay on top of clients' needs: To-do lists not only nudge you with individual messages, but they can be added to a list of reminders.
How to use it: Open the "Company" menu and scroll down. You'll see it's also possible to organize to-do lists and reminders by customer, vendor, or employees. You can also draft lists of tasks including e-mails, appointments and calls. Finally, QuickBooks lets you have reminders appear whenever you open individual client or company files.
With a little time and effort, you can unlock QuickBooks features to stay both attuned to trends and ahead of the curve come tax season. "QuickBooks can provide valuable financial insights for a business that can help you find deductions, straighten up your finances, or even stop fraud in its tracks," Gregory says.
Related Topics: Business Growth , Marketing , Finance
How to Avoid Burnout: A Guide for Small Business Owners
You may risk burnout when working hard to run your small business. Learn why it's beneficial to take a break through insight from author Rachael O' Meara.
How to Protect Vacant Commercial Property: 14 Tips
Your commercial properties are most vulnerable when they're unoccupied. Learn how to protect vacant business property with these smart security tips — from American Family Insurance.
How to Reduce Business Costs With the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (Iot) is becoming a big thing for small businesses — it's evolving and becoming more relevant in our everyday lives and helping small businesses get ahead. Are you ready to become one of those businesses? Here are some ways the IoT can improve your company's bottom line.
Should You Invest in This Rental Property?
When looking for a rental property, it's key to know when to invest or when to walk away. Learn about the purchasing rules that can help you to vet a real estate opportunity.


individual functional enhancements by employing scripts, importing or exporting mass data, e.g.when translating project texts externally or easy migration of project data in order to secure investment. Openess after all is also a perequisite for a comprehensive Runtime simulation.
Normally, screens, links and dynamic processes are configured via simple and user-friendly dialogs. For individual, flexible expansions, VBScript provides a powerful and easy to learn script language based on Visual Basic. A user-friendly editor and code templates also facilitate the programming. The Auto complete function permits high-speed programming of the accesses to runtime objects and a simple creation of control sequences in the script. Debugging is possible in the simulator during the engineering and, if required, also at runtime.
For WinCC Runtime Professional, there is also the option of integrating ANSI-C scripts. The scripts themselves have access to the properties and methods of all WinCC graphic objects, to ActiveX Controls and to the object model of applications from other manufacturers. This allows the dynamic behavior of objects to be controlled, and it also allows a connection between WinCC and applications from other manufacturers to be established easily (e.g. Microsoft Excel and Microsoft SQL databases).
Machine manufacturers normally supply customers from around the world. The localizability of user interfaces has long been an indispensable feature in terms of global competition. At the same time, the customers of machine manufacturers and plant constructors are becoming increasing multinational in their structure, but for reasons of productivity and quality assurance they insist on the global standardization of production processes in their plants. The service personnel of a machine manufacturer provide support to plants in several countries and the capability of being able to switch over to a familiar interface language supports both the teleservicing and onsite service. Finally, it is no longer unusual that the operators of a plant have varying degrees of proficiency in various languages, which makes it a good idea in terms of operational safety to have the capability of switching over to the respective mother tongue. All of these are reasons for deciding on HMI software that is not limited in terms of language diversity.
WinCC supports up to 32 languages for creating multi-lingual configurations, up to 32 of which can be selected during operation depending on the target system. Asian and Cyrillic character sets are also supported. In engineering, selectable views allow multi-lingual text entry directly in the context of the configuration objects (e.g. operating screens or alarms). Language-dependent texts can also be accessed centrally. The central project text editor allows access to all of the texts and thus provides the capability of conveniently and quickly translating the texts in the engineering system. All language versions of an HMI application can be implemented in a project. Changes to the project are immediately updated in all of the created language versions.
An import and export interface with the open XLSX format (also supported by Microsoft EXCEL) allows the project texts to also be further processed in Unicode outside of the engineering system using external tools, e.g. for translation by a service provider. This is of particular interest, for example, if a global machine builder would like to have his WinCC project translated into Asian pictographic languages (e.g. Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese) for export.
Country-specific features, however, are not only available for texts. There are many instances when it is also necessary to adapt graphics to country-specific conditions, which might, for example, rule out the use of certain colors or which take regionally established operating symbols into consideration. For this reason, the central graphic collection of the system also supports the management of multi-language graphics.
Implemented solutions and configurations and applications that have been created using a great deal of expertise and effort are among the most valuable possessions of machine manufacturers and plant constructors or system integrators. Investment security therefore means that any innovation in the engineering software, however far-reaching and revolutionary it may be, must never lead to customers no longer being able to use their engineering efforts. SIMATIC software has always been developed in such a way that a migration is ensured to the greatest possible extent with the lowest possible outlay.
With WinCC (TIA Portal) it is possible to migrate WinCC flexible projects that exist in the WinCC flexible 2008 SP2 version. After the migration, the engineering data is available in WinCC. It is also possible to import the Runtime data such as logs and alarms during the migration. In this way, the history of a running system is not lost after a migration. For projects that have been created using WinCC V7, there will be a converter in a future version of WinCC (TIA Portal).
Data such as HMI tags, alarms, and text lists whose configuration data is already defined can easily be imported into TIA Portal projects. HMI configuration data can be easily created via this. HMI tags and alarms can also be exported. The Open Office XML, which is provided by various applications, is used as a format for import/export.
Texts that were stored in the shared text library of a project can also be exported. This is helpful for translating them independently of the engineering software. The format of the exported data is also Open Office XML, an open standard. When exporting the texts, the point of usage and, for example, the name of the corresponding screen or alarm is also exported, so that the text can be translated in context. After the translation, the XML file can be re-imported into the TIA Portal project and the translated texts are available in the configuration data.
Simulation systems provide effective support with the development of programs and the actual application.
The testing of the configuration without a connected controller or without a running process via the tag simulator cost-effectively checks an HMI project for inner consistency. In the simulator, the configured tags are simulated; for example, do the configured color changes agree with the value pattern of a tag? The configured tags can be manipulated, activated and deactivated in the course of simulation. The simulator provides various kinds of simulations for this (sine, random, increment, etc.).
For testing the interaction of a WinCC configuration with the PLC, the project can be tested on the engineering PC in combination with a simulated controller (PLCSIM). The PowerTags are directly provided with the values of the simulated PLC program.
The simulation of a WinCC configuration in communication with a real controller provides the greatest degree of integration and accuracy. In this case, the WinCC simulation connects directly to the PLC in the plant via PROFIBUS, Ethernet, or PROFINET. The PowerTags are directly provided with the values of the real process in the plant.


We hope you find it interesting and stimulating, and hope you will join the Association and swell the numbers of Britain's Naturalists.
Join the BNA the national body for naturalists, founded in 1905, and extend your interest in the British countryside by taking part in a wide range of activities together with fellow enthusiasts of all ages. With the help of our experts, you will be able to learn more about our native flora and fauna and develop an in-depth understanding of how our natural world develops and changes increasingly important in view of the changes in our climate.
At national level, the BNA organises lectures and exhibitions, publishes "Country-Side", British Naturalist, the BNA website and the BNA holds occasional conferences and Field Trips at a different location each year.


text:
Kennedy McMann Reflects on Her First Year as 'Nancy Drew' & Hints at What's Next
Damian Holbrook April 15, 2020, 10:01 pm
Miller Mobley/The CW
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Nancy Drew, "The Clue in the Captain's Painting." If you haven't seen it yet, head over to The Claw for some hangtime with Ace and come back when it's safe... if there is anywhere safe about Horseshoe Bay.]
The sea may be calling out for justice on Nancy Drew, but as the iconic gumshoe (Kennedy McMann) wrapped her first season this evening, it was a very land-based baddie who faced the music for the murder of Owen Marvin (Miles Gaston Villanueva): Joshua Dodd, the half-brother of Dead Lucy, who we now know to be Nancy's real mom with Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith).
What that means for Nancy and Carson Drew (Scott Wolf), the man who raised her after Lucy fell to her death 19 years ago, remains to be seen, since the season ended production earlier than planned due to the Coronavirus. And that is not the only mystery we're left hanging with. The sea-spirit known as the Algeaca is still wreaking havoc, Bess (Maddison Jaizoni) is only just learning about the secrets of her ancestors and Ryan's family has yet to learn that Nancy is a Hudson. Juicy!
Kailey Schwerman/The CW
So in honor of the fantastic first season, with its scares, surprises and immensely likable ensemble, we chatted up star Kennedy McMann about life as the legendary literary detective and why it's no mystery that fans have fallen so hard for this freshman hit.
Hey there, how are you?
Kennedy McMann: I'm great. I'm so happy to be talking to you!
I know. This is great. You survived your first season!
I know. It is, technically I guess, the whole thing, but you know...
TV Insider Podcast: 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' 'Lodge 49' & More Picks for Comfort TV
Plus, more comedy and drama shows to check out while staying at home.
Yeah, it's a little different than the normal first season, but you got through it and you guys did great.
Thank you so much. It was such a blast. I really miss it already. I was so tired at the end, but now I'm like, "Can I get back to work?"
I'm sure. This whole season gave you so much great stuff to do, all of you, but you got a ton of great emotional stuff, especially near the end.
Oh my God, yeah. Which is just the biggest treat for an actor. I mean, that's sort of why I do what I do...I just feel fascinated with human emotions and playing with them. So, it was the greatest gift ever to be given scenes like that. Yeah, it was a great challenge.
And that scene between you and Scott.
I know! It was the worst to have to shoot that kind of stuff with Scott because I just love him so much. We have such a great relationship so that was devastating and so sad to look at him like that.
I spoke with Riley Smith last week and he said that he'd known all along about Ryan being Nancy's father. Did you know going in?
I knew. I had figured out during the pilot about Lucy [being the mom]. I didn't know for sure about Ryan, but as their romance sort of unfolded and as we kind of learned more about Lucy and Ryan's relationship, then I put the pieces together.
Since the season is abbreviated, we don't get to see any sort of closure or reconnection between Nancy and Carson, but this episode still works great as a season finale.
Yeah, I thought so too. That's the nice thing about a lot of our episodes, most of them can kind of play like a season finale. But this one in particular I think sets it up really nicely for the rest of the Agleaca storyline and by kind of having all of the loose ends meet...
And reminding us that Nancy has more family than just the Hudsons. Once you brought Josh back in, I was like, "Oh God, that's right. She comes from really twisted families."
[Laughs] Oh, yeah. Totally. That's a whole other can of worms. And they've kept it really hush-hush, but I'm incredibly fascinated by it because obviously they have the Sables, so Lucy's mom and I guess the dad? Definitely Lucy's mom and Joshua. And then the whole Hudson family. It's going to be very interesting thing once they—or if they do—find out about Nancy. I'm really interested to see where they're going to go with that.
And the scenes you have with Martin Donovan are so funny because Everett is so dismissive of her. Wait 'til he finds out that she's his granddaughter.
Yeah, those are always really fun because I feel like there's something there. Obviously he's so terribly evil, right? Just kind of point blank. But then, I think there's something that he sees in Nancy, like, "You know what? Damn, that girl is good." And I think that could come into play in a really interesting way if you were to find out.
Riley wants to see you two team up against him.
Oh, that would be great. I think that'd be great way for Ryan's storyline to go. Because that character is so incredibly dynamic, too. He has so many places to go, both progressing and regressing in character growth. That could be very cool.
Riley Smith Breaks Down That 'Nancy Drew' Reveal & Hints at New Mystery
Daddy Dearest? 'Well, he's been implicated in every murder on the show in some way, shape or form,' laughs the actor.
And now Owen (Miles Gaston Villanueva)... it's a CW life-lesson: Never get too attached to anyone because they're always really good looking and they'll probably end up dead.
[Laughs] You just never know! I think his death is the perfect triple whammy for Nancy because she's an escaper. When she has these sort of incredible emotional experiences or trauma, she runs from them or escapes them in whatever that may be. And that's what Owen was for her, somebody separate from the group. Somebody she didn't know all the details about and didn't have to. And she could just run there and shut her brain off and feel good for a little bit.
So I think that being removed from her, him being gone now, that kind of escape room's gone. It kind of forces her to deal with things. But it also sets it up nicely for her to remember just how much her very closest friends care about her and are willing to support her no matter what. And that is also a really wonderful journey for all of them. You really see her friends kind of stepping up for the rescue. And then you saw that Ace (Alex Saxon)...
Oh my god, we love Ace. And how honest she was about her habit of avoid things. That's a level of self awareness that people need to have sometimes.
Yeah. For real. And she's really developed that level of trust with Ace, which is kind of more trust than she has with anybody else in the friend group. Because he's just been so consistently there for her and has given her a chance, too. That's just a great part of Ace's character, I think, that he's a listener and I think that's what she needs. She'll open up on her own time instead of people poking and prodding and saying, "Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me." That's not really the way to get to Nancy, I think.
Your executive producers Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor spoke with us about the fact that George (Leah Lewis) is now with Nick (Tunji Kasim), but they don't have any intention of playing this like a girl-fight. They want it to be a look at two very modern women dealing with that on a level of where this is happening, but they're not enemies.
I was so happy about that. When that whole storyline came up, I was so worried—not that I have any reasons to not trust our writers—that it would become this big thing where it's like, "You stole my boyfriend." I would hate that! It would make me so sad to have to play out that storyline. And so, when we got the scripts, it was so nice to see these young women just be like, "You know what? That's great. That was something that didn't work out for me for now, it's working out for you, and you both are so happy." And that's what I care about because it's about friendship first and valuing other people's happiness. And it's just so beautiful and so refreshing. Thank God.
Had you seen any other advance scripts before production shut down? Did you guys know how the season was originally supposed to end?
Actually no. That was the last one, we didn't get the next script. So who knows?
It's kind of perfect because usually shows following that pattern of "This will be our mystery for this season and then we're going to end it in the finale." But the Lucy mystery ended a few weeks ago and then they led right into another one.
Yeah, it's so funny. I remember reading probably the interview you did with Melinda and Noga about how they're sort of subverting expectations when it comes to storytelling and when to expect certain things to happen. So it's funny that this has happened this way, that we have this sort of early ending because of exactly that. It's like, you just never know when these things are going to come to pass and it keeps everybody on their toes. It's really fun that there's such freedom to the mysteries that are in our world and that there's always more and more coming.
'Nancy Drew' EPs Break Down the Mystery of the Sleuth's Surprising Backstory
Nothing will ever be the same after tonight's bombshell.
Did you realize it was going to be this scary?
Yeah. I had no idea that it would get to what's happening lately with all of the Agleaca stuff. Frankly, I never thought it would be this disturbing. This is really, my God, I think it's awesome. I never expected that, and it's really fun to dive into that as an actor. I wish I could watch the show without knowing exactly what happens. I've never been scared by the show because I know everything about it. [Laughs]
I mean, some of these things...when you coughed up the teeth, and then the wreath? That was horrifying to me because it wouldn't stop!
[Laughs] I know! When I read that in the script, I was like, "That is so awesome!" It was probably the most intimate thing I've ever done in a room full of people. I think even I said to the crew when we finished, "And that is the most intimate I've ever been with you all."
It is such a hoot to watch the show on Twitter because everyone was so into it. And the writers have really serviced all of you in the cast with great storylines. And so much comedy!
Yes. Yes. It's such a unique balance. There's a buoyancy. I mean, if you'd describe an episode to somebody, they will be like, "Whoa, that's really heavy." But you watch it and there's just a bounciness to it. There's a lightness to it. Everybody on the show is so funny and that humor is the key to the success of our show, in my opinion, because it just keeps so refreshing to watch.
Monday, January 18 Worth Watching: A '9-1-1' Combo, an 'Abishola' Triangle, 'How It Feels to Be Free'
Worth Watching: A '9-1-1' Combo, an 'Abishola' Triangle, 'How It Feels to Be Free' Yesterday, 7:00 am
Ty Pennington on Things Getting Real With HGTV's 'Ty Breaker' Yesterday, 9:00 am
Gina Torres Reports for Duty in '9-1-1: Lone Star' Season 2 (VIDEO) Yesterday, 10:00 am
'The Expanse': 7 Reasons Why We Love (& Fear) Camina Drummer Yesterday, 11:00 am
FBI Agent Starling Deals With Trauma (Hers) & a Puzzle of a Mystery in 'Clarice' Yesterday, 1:00 pm

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
BBC Radio 4 Analysis, 'what's the point of street protest?'
East London primary sources
The Cuckoo Cage at Womad 2022
MERL OSS lantern slide exhibition now online
Frow lecture at the WCML: trespass and enclosure
Histories of privacy
Pavements bibliography
review of Stevenage for Tribune
new: Dan Snow's HistoryHit podcast on 'enclosures'
Political Meetings Mapper
British Library Labs project Political Meetings Mapper
London political meetings sites
Political meetings in Manchester
Political meetings in Sheffield
Individual maps of political groups
Old database of political meetings, 1776-1848
Open Spaces Society lantern slides map
Map of commons and wastes
history of public space
definitions of public space
Royal Historical Society lecture
sources and data
Why I am tired of turning, 2011
OSS Fellowship at MERL
Aims and findings of the OSS project
Exhibition of Open Spaces Society lantern slides held at the MERL
OSS-MERL project maps
a history of public space
contested public and private spaces in England, by Prof Katrina Navickas
OSS lantern slides – some initial data on land ownership
Here are some initial findings from summary data on the landownership of the sites represented in the Open Spaces Society lantern slides: https://images.oss.org.uk/ at the Museum of English Rural Life. *
For more on the project and the slides, go to: https://historyofpublicspace.uk/my-oss-fellowship-at-merl-2021/exhibition-of-open-spaces-society-lantern-slides-held-at-the-merl/
Dates: Many of these images were taken in the year that they were purchased on behalf of the public or the nation. I could only find this out once I researched the history of their acquisition. So these lantern slides are meant as much as a celebration of their acquisition and preservation as they are just recording the sites.
So for example, Norbury Park in Surrey was bought by Surrey County Council in 1931 (most likely as part of their ambition to establish a Green Belt). The pictures in the OSS collection are dated 1930. https://images.oss.org.uk/photos/norbury-park-surrey-1930/
Selsdon Woods in Surrey were purchased after a campaign by the National Trust in 1927. The images in the OSS are dated 1927: https://images.oss.org.uk/photos/selsdon-wood-surrey-1927/
Landownership:
NB I haven't yet filtered the database to individual sites, so the counts are of percentage of total images, and e.g. there may be multiple images of the same site.
20% of the images are sites now owned by local councils or parish councils, or 23% if we include the streets. I need to do a bit more research on what percentage of the sites were under council ownership at the time that the photographs were taken, but it will be less than that.
14% of the images of sites are still in private ownership today.
8.5% of the images now are owned or managed by the National Trust.
The Church of England own 6.6% of the images depicted, though note this is skewed by the numbers of images of Canterbury Cathedral and the abbey at East Malling.
CL = City of London Corporation. Many of the metropolitan commons are included in the images, purchased or acquired after the 1893 Metropolitan Commons Act.
concentrations of landownership: this is obviously replicating the concentrations of the sites in the south East, and is skewed by the categorisation of 'river' for rivers. But it clearly shows the Corporation of London's purchase of Surrey commons in the 1890s.
Concentrations of types of landownership:
The impact of the Commons Preservation Society (now OSS) and the wider movement to 'save' metropolitan commons by purchase is really evident in the map around London:
London, OSS images mapped by ownership
Chronology of acquisitions:
Chronology of acquisitions of the 294 images of sites that I can date as acquired by councils, National Trust or other public bodies:
*Caveats:
Please note that it is very difficult, without comprehensive land registration and access to the Land Registry database, to establish the landownership of all the sites.
There are also some categories that I have used because I am still trying to work out the landownership. For example, I have just for now categorised all images of rivers as simply 'river', and streets as 'street'. There are many generic images where I have not been able to establish location or landownership.
Note also that I have generally classified the landownership according to who owns the sites today (2021). There are several images where the site was private at the time of photographing, but may have been purchased by e.g. the local council, later in the 20th century.
Uncategorized knavickas landownership, MERL, OSS
Prof Katrina Navickas contact details
Katrina Navickas (c) Please ask for permission to reproduce content Faster Theme by Seos Themes


Some of our policies are below. They are regularly reviewed and changed by our Governing Body. If you wish to have a paper copy of any of these policies, please request them at reception.
Policies that apply to the whole of the Hawkswood Group can be found on the main 'Hawkswood Group' page.
We review our Safeguarding Suite of Policies annually to ensure compliance with current guidance but the important thing is implementation and the impact of our policies. Therefore, we constantly check compliance and evaluate the impact of what we do. Our Policies have also been cascaded out to all staff and governors.
Schools handle a large amount of personal data. This includes information on pupils, such as grades, medical information, images and much more. Schools will also hold data on staff, governors, volunteers and job applicants.
Schools will also handle what the GDPR refers to as special category data, which is subject to tighter controls. This could be details on race, ethnic origin, biometric data or trade union membership. This data is already governed by existing DPA regulations, which ensure personal data is handled lawfully. However, the new GDPR has gone further and requires organisations to document how and why they process all personal data, and gives enhanced rights to the individual.
From 25th May 2018, any data subject (that's someone whose data the school holds) can exercise certain rights with regards to their data. This means that a parent could ask for a school to produce all data it currently holds on their child, or a job applicant could ask you to erase all their details. Under the new law an individual could ask for their data in a portable form so they can pass it on to another organisation.
The school would be legally obliged to carry out these requests within 28 days of the request being given.
Demonstrate compliance: schools need to document every system used to process personal data. They also need to map how this data is transferred to other systems or any third parties.
Schools must appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) to ensure that their school is fully compliant to the new regulations.
Processor agreements: for any third-party processors the school must have contracts in place stipulating that personal data is handled in compliance with the GDPR.
Reporting a data breach: if personal data has been put at risk, schools may be required to inform the ICO, and in some cases, the individual at risk. This would be done within 72 hours of the breach being discovered.
Staff training: despite the best efforts of the DPO in using compliant processes, these are only as secure as the people using them. Making sure staff are trained and there is a culture of data compliance is crucial.
We now have secure records for holding and distributing data and all data taken off sight is recorded and monitored.
All third-party processors now have contracts in to ensure that personal data is handled in compliance with the GDPR.
All data breeches will be reported within 72 hours of the breach being discovered.
All of the Hawkswood Primary staff have already or will be receiving training over the next few weeks. This will be an on going process to ensure all staff are up to date with expectations and changes regularly.


text:
The Chaubunagungamaug Reservation refers to the small parcel of land located in the town of Thompson, Connecticut, close to the border with the town of Webster, Massachusetts and within the bounds of Lake Chaubunagungamaug (Webster Lake) to the east and the French River to the west. The reservation is used by the descendants of the Nipmuck Indians of the previous reservation, c. 1682–1869, that existed in the same area, who now identify as the Webster/Dudley Band of the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck. Together with the Hassanamisco Nipmuc, both have received state recognition under the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs.

The reservation only consists of 2.5 acres (1.0 hectare), and does not support a permanent population.  It does serve as a meeting place and cultural center for Webster/Dudley Band of the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck. The land is also used as a place for the reinterment of local Native American remains. The tribe, and its reservation, are recognized in Massachusetts, but both lack recognition in Connecticut and at the federal level.

History

Praying Town of Chabanakongkomun

The first attempt at providing land for the Indians was the 'Praying towns' established by the missionary John Eliot, starting with Natick in 1651.  Eliot petitioned the Great and General Court to provide land for the formation of townships, which the colonial government awarded in 1651, in response to the growing population of English settlers, which had doubled through natural increase and large-scale migration.

Eliot, who had already been instrumental in learning the language, translating the Bible, advocating for the Indians and teaching them literacy, settled Indian converts, known as 'Praying Indians,' in these communities.  The Praying towns fell under colonial jurisdiction and laws, and the Praying Indians were forced to adopt many English customs, civil systems Christianity, but were self-governing with most administrative positions filled by the tribal elite, operated in their own language and were able to maintain Native customs.

In 1672, Joseph, son of the Hassanamessit (Grafton, Massachusetts) sachem Petavit (Petuhannit), also known as Robin, began preaching to the Indians of Chabanakongkomun, as Eliot referred to it.  Eliot and Major-General Daniel Gookin, representing the colonial government, visited the area four times between 1668 and 1674.  In 1673, Gookin installed Willymachin, also known as Black James, the sachem of Chabanakongkomun as Constable over four new Praying towns being established nearby.  They returned in 1674, to officially recognize the Praying town with Joseph as its teacher.  The new town did not receive an official land grant as it was still far from English settlements and due to the outbreak of King Philip's War 1675-1676 during Metacomet's uprising against the English.  Chabanakongkomun was abandoned, as many fled to join Metacomet, others served the English as scouts and guides and those that remained were forcibly marched to Deer Island where many died of exposure, starvation and illness.

See also
 Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck
 Nipmuc
 Nipmuc Nation
 Native American tribes in Massachusetts
 State-recognized tribes
 List of Indian reservations in the United States

References

External links
 Webster man keeps Nipmuc tradition alive - Worcester Telegram
 "Proposed Finding Against Acknowledgment of the Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck" - Bureau of Indian Affairs
 "Through songs and artifacts, tribe revives a long-lost culture" - Boston
 "Living in Two Worlds" - Boston Harbor Islands
 "Nipmuc History" - First Nations
 "Nipmuc say BIA got the facts wrong" - Indian Country Today
 "Nipmucs will appeal US tribal rejection" - Boston
 "Nipmuc group adds to T&G Santa's gifts" - Telegram & Gazette

American Indian reservations in Massachusetts
Geography of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Native American tribes in Massachusetts
Nipmuc
Webster, Massachusetts

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


The Iris Brammer Public Library can be found just up from the Duck Pond in the charming town of Narrows, Virginia. Librarian Felecia Bowman welcomes everyone Monday through Friday from 9am until 5pm to the Iris Brammer Library. Although note, they close for lunch from 12-1.
The rich history of the library includes opening originally in the Givens Funeral Parlor as the Narrows Woman's Club Library in 1935. For 36 years Mrs. Iris Brammer served as librarian and after her retirement in 2000 the community library changed its name to reflect her long time service.
Now the Library hopes to continue on the good work from the past and continue to be an impactful organization within the community. Did you know if you live in Narrows or surrounding areas, you can get a library card at any time and enjoy the benefits of the library? Librarian Felecia wants everyone to know that the library can be a place for assistance with social media, basic faxing, and computer assistance.
The Iris Brammer Public Library will be soon releasing summer program details and more information about future adult and teen programming, as well as information on Virginia Tech partnerships. The Library is located at 109 Mary Street, Narrows, VA and can be reached by phone at 540-726-2884 or on Facebook.com/IrisBrammerLibrary. You can also get to them via the Town of Narrows website, https://townofnarrows.org.


Gold War Machine (MVC) - Shoryuken Wiki!
This move fires a single rocket at the enemy. It takes off a bit more damage than War Machine's Shoulder Cannon and stops projectiles. I'm still looking into the difference between the various punches with this move.
This move is the same as War Machine's. You can control the range with the joystick. You should use this move so that you can attack from overhead without getting hit with anything. Also, if you super jump over a beam super, you can hit your opponent with this and knock him out of the super. A good followup to this move is the knee dive.
Use this move a lot, but don't get predictable.
This move is the same as War Machine's, but instead of a large beam, many missles fly out of the cannon. The missles hit high, so they may miss smaller characters completely. It seems to deal more damage than War Machine's Proton Cannon. This is Mega Armor War Machine's Team-up super as well.
This super is the same as War Machine's War Destroyer, but it seems to do more damage as well. It combos after the launcher too.


Summer is a simply remarkable time for flowers. Roses, gladiolus, Stargazer lilies and so many more are beaming with color this time of year. Bring that color indoors with a beautuful arrangement of summer flowers for yourself or a loved one. Let Max Stacy Flowers Inc. help you choose the perfect summer blooms to make any occasion blossom.
Max Stacy Flowers Inc. captures the essence of the autumn harvest with their colorful fall flower arrangements. Radiant reds, rustic browns, and golden yellows are all perfect for this season. Having a party or get-together? Nothing adds more to a room than a festive fall arrangement. It's the perfect coversation starter! Whether you want to send as a gift or keep for yourself, Max Stacy Flowers Inc. can help with any type of fall flower arrangement!


Alvin Slaughter will be in Ghana for a thanksgiving, and the concert will be featuring Ghanaian musicians Joe Beecham, Tagoe Sisters, Amy Newman, Danny Nettey, OJ, No Tribe, Koda and Joe Mettle. The concert will also feature South Africa's Patrick Duncan. Details below.


Hotel Du Vin Poole is a charming 38-room hotel located in one of England's most beautiful seaside towns, creating a relaxing and romantic environment for your special day. All rooms have soft Egyptian cotton bed linen, huge custom-made beds, hand-sprung mattresses, fluffy towels and robes, drenching monsoon showers or roll-top baths – providing you with a luxurious stay.
When booking with Hotel Du Vin Poole you have the option to gain exclusive use, turning the venue into a blank canvas ready to be tailored to your requirements.
The hotel has four rooms available for hire. The Port room which can hold 32 guests for dining, the Starboard room which has a capacity of 18 for a wedding breakfast and 25 for a reception, the Crow's Nest which has a capacity of 30 for a wedding breakfast and 40 for a reception, and finally the Bistro which can hold 100 for a wedding breakfast and 150 for a reception.
There are currently no reviews for Hotel Du Vin Poole yet.
Sunday weddings at Hotel du Vin Poolel for £55 per person.
Hotel Du Vin Poole details have been saved to your shortlist.


text:
Fifa revives controversial Saudi Arabia-backed plan for Club World Cup
Martyn Ziegler, Chief Sports Reporter
October 23 2018, 12:01am, The Times
Real Madrid won the Club World Cup in its current format last year — the new version could include 12 leading European clubsREUTERS/AHMED JADALLAH
A controversial plan for a global club competition backed by Saudi money is set to be revived by Fifa this week.
It is understood that proposals for a 24-team Club World Cup will be discussed at Fifa's council meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, on Thursday and Friday. The meeting will focus attention on the close links between Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, and Saudi Arabia. Fifa had shelved talks on the proposal but it is back on the agenda, as well as a proposed global Nations League, run along similar lines as Uefa's competition, which started this season.
A consortium led by Japan's SoftBank and backed financially by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, which has invested $45 billion (about £34.7 billion) in SoftBank, and the United…


The Ohio Revised Code requires certain school district employees to be bonded (treasurer, fiscal officer and business manager).
School districts also may opt to cover additional employees who handle money and enter into financial transactions under Employee Dishonesty Coverage.
The OSBA Bond Program offers schools an easy and direct method to purchase bonds and Employee Dishonesty Coverage.
The Public Official Bond for treasurers is a surety bond which guarantees a treasurer will perform the duties of office faithfully and honestly. In most cases, a surety bond is required in order to hold the position. While duties may vary by position and applicable law, a treasurer is obligated to act in the public's best interest at all times and may be held personally accountable for the duties and responsibilities of that position.
This bond assures the recovery of financial loss incurred by a school district that results from a treasurer's non-compliance with state regulations and ordinances.
Click here for Treasurer Bond application.
Click here for Public Official application and Indemnity Agreement.
The Public Official Bond for fiscal officers is a surety bond which guarantees a fiscal officer will perform the duties of office faithfully and honestly. In most cases, a surety bond is required in order to hold the position. While duties may vary by position and applicable law, a fiscal officer is obligated to act in the public's best interest at all times and may be held personally accountable for the duties and responsibilities of that position.
This bond assures the recovery of financial loss incurred by a school district that results from a fiscal officer's non-compliance with state regulations and ordinances.
The Public Official Bond for business managers is a surety bond which guarantees a business manager will perform the duties of office faithfully and honestly. In most cases, a surety bond is required in order to hold the position. While duties may vary by position and applicable law, a business manager is obligated to act in the public's best interest at all times and may be held personally accountable for the duties of that position.
The bond assures the recovery of financial loss incurred by a school district that results from a business manager's non-compliance with state regulations and ordinances.
Click here for Business Manager Bond application.
A Crime Policy issued with Employee Dishonesty Coverage and Faithful Performance of Duty guarantees the performance of covered persons in positions specifically scheduled on the policy, as provided by the school district on the application ( e.g. superintendent, board president, secretaries, cashiers, etc.; any employee except treasurer, fiscal officer, and business manager; excludes all volunteers such as PTA members).
Click here for Employee Dishonesty - Scheduled Position application.
Click here for Acord 141 - Crime Section application.
The State of Ohio requires a treasurer, fiscal officer or business manager to provide a surety bond in an amount set by the school district board. However, the bond is required to be written in favor of the State of Ohio. The district is not named on the bond. Therefore, a claim against a treasurer, fiscal officer or business manager must be made by the State, usually after the State audits the district's records and has arrived at a finding for restitution. However, the State Attorney General's Office gives the district 120 days to work with law enforcement and the prosecuting attorney to obtain restitution directly from the treasurer, fiscal officer or business manager. After 120 days the State Attorney General's Office will file a claim to the surety with the "audit finding" as evidence to support the claim. The surety will remit payment usually in 30 days to the State and the State will remit to the district about 30 days later. However, the bond may be inadequate to cover the loss, so a civil suit may be filed to recover the balance of the missing funds.
When a school district has purchased a Crime Policy which provides coverage against employee theft of money or property under a Scheduled Position Employee Dishonesty Coverage Form, with Faithful Performance of Duty, the district is the Named Insured and has the duty to report a claim under this policy to the insurer and to assist the insurer by providing full details of the loss. This can be accomplished by reporting the claim directly to the Insurer (Travelers) or to the Program Administrator (Hylant Administrative Services).
The OSBA Bond Program is administered by Hylant Administrative Services (HAS), a leading program administrator in the Midwest. HAS teams with highly rated insurance carriers, reinsurers and other partners to provide comprehensive products and services as a program manager and pool administrator. HAS employs experienced professionals with sound expertise, disciplined decision making and professional service delivery, all aimed at helping clients build financial strength and ensure long term stability.
The OSBA Bond Program is underwritten by Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America, which is consistently given high ratings by independent rating services including A.M. Best, Moody's and Standard and Poor's for financial strength and claims paying ability.


Please read these Terms of Service completely for using www.ahg.af which is owned and operated by Afghanistan Holding Group. This Agreement documents the legally binding terms and conditions attached to the use of the Site at www.ahg.af.
The Site and all of its original content are the sole property of Afghanistan Holding Group and are, as such, fully protected by the appropriate international copyright and other intellectual property rights laws.
Afghanistan Holding Group reserves the right to terminate your access to the Site, without any advance notice.
Our Site does contain a number of links to other websites and online resources that are not owned or controlled by Afghanistan Holding Group.
This Agreement is governed in accordance with the laws of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Holding Group reserves the right to modify these Terms of Service at any time. We do so by posting and drawing attention to the updated terms on the Site. Your decision to continue to visit and make use of the Site after such changes have been made constitutes your formal acceptance of the new Terms of Service.
If you have any questions about this Agreement, please feel free to contact us at info@ahg.af.


After Facebook announced on Thursday that it shut down and removed hundreds of pages and accounts that it vaguely accused of spreading "spam" and engaging in "inauthentic behavior," some of the individuals and organizations caught up in the social media behemoth's dragnet disputed accusations that they were violating the platform's rules and raised alarm that Facebook is using its enormous power to silence independent political perspectives that run counter to the corporate media's dominant narratives.
While it is reasonable to assume that some of the more than 800 total pages and accounts shut down by Facebook were engaged in overtly fraudulent behavior—such as the use of fake accounts and bots to generate ad revenue—numerous independent media outlets that cover a wide array of issues say they were swept up in the massive purge despite never using such tactics.
"Those who demanded Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants censor political content are finding that content that they themselves support and like end up being repressed. That's what has happened to every censorship advocate in history."
"Facebook has removed the pages of several police accountability/watchdog/critic groups, including Cop Block, the Free Thought Project, and Police the Police," Washington Post journalist Radley Balko noted in a tweet following Facebook's announcement. "They've also apparently severely restricted activity for the Photography Is Not a Crime page."
Activist, comedian, and political commentator Lee Camp argued that Facebook's purge is clear evidence that the "purging of anti-establishment thought is upon us" and described the account shutdowns as "full-frontal suppression of dissent."
Speaking to journalist Alex Rubinstein after they found out Facebook shut down their pages—some of which had hundreds of thousands of followers—the founders of Police the Police, the Free Thought Project, and other now-shuttered pages denied Facebook's hazy charge of "fraudulent" activity and accused the company of attempting to suppress dissenting voices that refuse to toe the corporate line.
"I can only speculate that these suspensions were a coordinated effort to stifle our message ahead of the coming elections."
"Our approach generally is to cover stories and angles that corporate media underreport or misreport and to amplify activist and anti-war voices and stories. All of our content is professionally fact-checked and edited," said Nicholas Bernabe, founder of The Anti-Media, a self-described "anti-establishment" website whose Facebook page was shut down along with hundreds of others on Thursday. "I can only speculate that these suspensions were a coordinated effort to stifle our message ahead of the coming elections."
While some of the pages Facebook removed on Thursday were affiliated with right-wing sites that were spreading patently false stories, censorship opponents have long warned of the "slippery slope" of empowering corporate giants to suppress certain kinds of content, given that the suppression almost always expands far beyond the original target.
"Those who demanded Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants censor political content—something they didn't actually want to do—are finding that content that they themselves support and like end up being repressed," noted The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald in response to Facebook's announcement. "That's what has happened to every censorship advocate in history."
Though Facebook has yet to release a full list of the pages and accounts it removed, several individuals affected by the purge have taken to other social media platforms to denounce the social media giant for squashing pages that took years to develop.
Because of people like you, another world is possible. There are many battles to be won, but we will battle them together—all of us. Common Dreams is not your normal news site. We don't survive on clicks. We don't want advertising dollars. We want the world to be a better place. But we can't do it alone. It doesn't work that way. We need you. If you can help today—because every gift of every size matters—please do. Without Your Support We Simply Don't Exist.
The Root of the Internet's Disrepute: Online Advertising!
The beginning of a social media war. You know who is behind this. I don't understand how folks are letting him get away with this. I do know it's about power and wealth as proof of the relationship with the Saudis. But everyday the fabric of our democracy is being torn away bit by bit....starting with the right to free speech not! Hate speech. Other social media founders are finding themselves behind the eight ball. Wonder why. But!


Some people have monitor lizards (I use to have one, too). I've also had monitor crabs, monitor whales, and, of course, a monitor cat. Atticus loved the warmth of CRT tubes. I suspect he'd hate my modern flat panel if he was still around.
Update: This picture made it into the Friday Ark.
There is one trackback on this entry.
There is one comment on this entry.
What a cutie he was! I think all cats are attracted to the monitor. As much for warmth as the fact that we sit in front of them all day. I used to have one that was the same way. Great blog, love the pictures!


text:
Q: Error in substring arguments when calling mapply with regmatches as argument [![enter image description here][1]][1]The following code compiles a data frame of reviews of businesses and aims to extract the business name from each row.  There are no matches with the regular expression in the first 14 rows, I've noticed, and there's no problem there.  As soon as I include the first row with a match (15 in this case), I receive the following error.
Error in substring(x[ind], so, eo) : invalid substring arguments

It seems like the problem is between regexpr sending the results to index.list, and regmatches being unable to use the index.list as the proper argument.
Note that when I run just the 15th row without the mapply, I obtain the proper result.  If there is a more efficient way to get the results of regmatches into a new column in lieu of mapply, please let me know.  I cannot use stringr or other packages (school assignment).
require("tm")
reviews <- VCorpus(DirSource("C:/...../reviews"))

all.reviews <-   data.frame(text=unlist(sapply(reviews,'[',"content")),stringsAsFactors=F)

data <- all.reviews[10:15,]

index.list <- mapply(regexpr, "(?<=Review of )(\\w+ )+(?=-\\s*   [A-Z])", data, perl=T))
rest.names <- mapply(regmatches, data, index.list)

I am unable to attach an image, so here is a sample from the 15th row of all.reviews data.frame (which has dim 90 X 1):
Via S.'s Review of Good To Go -Bronx (4/5) on Yelp. Good To Go 22 reviews Rating Details Categories: Restaurants American (Traditional)Restaurants Italian American (Traditional); Italian [Edit] 1894 Eastchester Rd Bronx; NY 10461 (718) 829-2222 http://www.good2gorestaurant.com Explore the menu Add Photos Hours: Mon-Thu; Sun 10 am - 10pm Fri-Sat 10 am - 11 pm Good for Kids: Yes Accepts Credit Cards: Yes Parking: Valet; Garage; Street;Private Lot Attire: Casual Good for Groups: Yes Price Range: $ Takes Reservations: Yes
The expected output for the function is a vector with 90 elements, where each element is the restaurant name (or a blank if nothing was extracted from the string, since there are other review formats that I will address with additional regexpr statements).  We would expect to see "Good to Go" in the 15th index.

A: A classmate of mine came up with an answer.  Turns out that the last argument of mapply should be a list, not a dataframe, so lapply does the trick:
data.mult <- all.reviews[1:15,]

index.list <- lapply(data.mult,function(x) {
regexpr("(?<=Review of )([A-z-'\\s*]+)+\\w+(?=\\s*-\\s*[A-Z])",x,perl=T)})

rest.names <- mapply(regmatches, data.mult, index.list)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Rolls-Royce Wraith have only one modification of doors quantity:2.
Car width is 77.0 mm.
Car height is 59.0 mm.
Car length is 207.0 mm.
Rolls-Royce Wraith was prodused only in 2015.
Rolls-Royce Wraith was equipped with only one option of the engine with 12 cylinders.
The new Rolls-Royce Wraith is basically a two-entryway variant of the Ghost vehicle, making it an ultra-extravagance fastback roadster. In spite of being a huge "gentleman's grand tourer" in Rolls-Royce's words, the new Wraith is blisteringly quick. A twin-turbo 6.6-liter V-12 is in the engine, producing 624 horsepower and empowering the auto to streak to 60 mph in only 4.4 seconds. A "GPS-upgraded" eight-pace programmed transmission will allegedly read the auto's position, bearing and rate, and afterward match it with the street ahead to preselect the fitting rigging. Moves Royce calls the innovation Satellite Aided Transmission, and it makes a big appearance on the Wraith.
The expression "wraith" implies ghost or phantom, a suitable decision for this shorter two-entryway variant of the organization's Ghost vehicle. The Wraith, in the same way as the Ghost, utilizes stage building design focused around the BMW 7 Series. Be that as it may with a 7-inch shorter wheelbase than the Ghost, the Wraith really alters course with more sharpness than a customary Rolls-Royce. Indeed the directing and suspension have been given a semi execution tuning.
With self-adjusting suspension, the Wraith is exceedingly created and sensibly exact when asked to make fast developments, yet additionally gives a calmly supple ride. Bringing that mass up to speed tumble to a twin-turbocharged V12. Other Wraith features incorporate auto-shutting entryways, a discretionary fiber-optic Starlight Headliner, rubbing seats and the mark winged Spirit of Ecstasy hood decoration (alternatively lit up and/or gold-plated) that vanishes into the hood when the auto is bolted.
We wouldn't be the slightest bit astounded if the Wraith's converse pivoted auto-shutting entryways turn into the following enormous thing. The same holds valid for the Starlight Headliner's 1,340 individual lights hand woven into the top liner. They're only two cases of how the Wraith's creators respected, "When it doesn't exist, plan it."
What's less noticeable, on the other hand, is that the Wraith additionally brags the biggest adjoining shares of wood in any auto. Discretionary book-matched Canadel paneling (canted at unequivocally 55 degrees) can beautify every entryway and proceeds all through the inside, giving the look of an extravagance yacht to the auto. Beginning with the most succulent delicate Rolls-Royce Phantom-evaluation calfskin seating surfaces, what feels like lower leg profound fleece cover and switchgear so significant that it has a feeling that it was rescued from the steerage of the QEII, the Wraith surpasses any desire of lavishness and how "the absolute best" should look and feel. No one will be let around the execution of the Wraith's inner part.
In view of the organization's relationship with BMW, a great part of the infotainment and route gadgets are subordinate of the by and large amazing and easy to use idrive interface. Notwithstanding, in the Wraith, the significant focal controller, fittingly enhanced with a Spirit of Ecstasy trim, adequately works through an extraordinarily British understanding of this now-natural framework including multilevel menus and a high-determination show. Indeed the auto's update toll has been supplanted with the sound of a harp strum.
Baggage space is liberal at 16.6 cubic feet, as is the back seat that effectively obliges grown-ups. At this value, notwithstanding, its interested that Bluetooth streaming sound, keyless ignition and foot-enacted programmed trunk opening and shutting are alternatives.
The Rolls-Royce Wraith is a huge four-traveler two-entryway car accessible in one trim level. Controlled by a turbocharged V12 motor, the Wraith floats not far off on an acclimating toward oneself air suspension and 20-inch wheels. Standard gear incorporates keyless ignition and section, force shutting back pivoted "mentor" entryways, a couple of full-size umbrellas put away inside the entryway supports, auto-darkening mirrors, programmed wipers, programmed xenon headlights, a force tilt-and-extendable guiding wheel, voyage control, calfskin upholstery and trim, warmed front seats, 10-way power front seats with lumbar changes, driver memory settings, a rearview cam, back stopping sensors, four-zone programmed atmosphere control, Bluetooth telephone integration, a route framework with constant activity and voice control, concierge benefits, a 18-speaker sound framework with a CD/DVD player, satellite radio, computerized music stockpiling, an assistant sound jack and an iPod/USB sound interface.
The Wraith is focused around the Ghost car, and shares its extents and numerous styling properties. Special is a fastback top that gimmicks a significantly inclined back window, heading down to a full trunk opening. The long car entryways are pivoted at the back, what most call "suicide" entryways however Rolls-Royce alludes to as "mentor entryways."
Wraith offers a 6.6-liter V-12 motor well for 624 pull, mated to an eight-pace programmed transmission that gets data from the auto's GPS-empowered route framework. It can recognize where the auto is heading, what sort of territory and movement it may confront, and can consequently preselect a rigging relying upon that data. The back wheel-drive Rolls-Royce Wraith is pushed by a twin-turbocharged 6.6-liter V12 motor wedded to an eight-pace "satellite-supported" programmed transmission. Representing crossing points, on-slopes and territory ahead on the foreseen course, the auto endeavors to utilize its area and current driving style to choose the most suitable apparatus for existing and expected conditions.
Creating 624 horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque, the recent unleashed as right on time as 1,500 rpm, the Wraith dashed to 60 mph from a halt in only 4.7 seconds in testing. The EPA's joined driving assessment is 15 mpg (13 city/21 roadway), yet we found the middle value of 18 mpg general, and 16.4 mpg on our 116-mile Edmunds assessment circle.
The auto peculiarities Rolls-Royce's Advanced Crash Management framework, utilizing sensors that can alter seat belts and airbags to best ensure tenants. Front, side drape, side effect and knee sacks are all standard. A head-up presentation is accessible, as is a night-vision framework that can distinguish street dangers, people on foot and creatures with a yellow cautioning triangle by means of the head-up showcase.
The Driver's Assistance Systems One bundle incorporates path flight cautioning, programmed high shafts and a head-up presentation. The Driver's Assistance Systems Three bundle further includes a night vision cam (with walker and creature identification and shade coded cautioning) and dynamic journey control (with unpredictable capacity). The Camera System comprises of side- and rearview cams with converse way expectation and top-view usefulness.


text:
namespace blink {

v8::Handle<v8::Object> v8IteratorResultValue(v8::Isolate* isolate, bool done, v8::Handle<v8::Value> value)
{
    v8::Local<v8::Object> result = v8::Object::New(isolate);
    result->Set(v8String(isolate, "done"), v8Boolean(done, isolate));
    result->Set(v8String(isolate, "value"), value);
    return result;
}

} // namespace blink

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Insurance valuations of buildings, plant & equipment.
Rushton International are leaders in the valuation of fixed assets for insurances purpose and provide reinstatement valuations both nationally and internationally.
A professional and independent valuation assists clients, risk managers and their brokers to accurately and confidently set sums insured for the property assets in their insurance programme.
Relying on incorrect insured values creates the twin risk of either paying too much premium for no economic benefit or losing out in a claim settlement due to the application of average.
Recognising the importance of good service to clients, we offer a bespoke valuation service after careful consideration of their insurance requirements. Please contact a member of our team for an informal discussion on your sums insured and/or a no obligation quotation.


It sounds funny and weird at the same time, but you might soon have to pay for using Android operating system. Recently, Google was fined $5 billion by the EU for Android antitrust violations and it is one persistence warning that most companies don't find amusing.
Google now says it will appeal the decision. And clearly, Google CEO is sounding the warning to every Android phone users, Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision.
European Union just want Google to remove, unbundle the Chrome and Search apps from Android, and Google said, it might have a unlikely effect on them, and may juxtapose the Android market future.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says "A typical Android user will "install around 50 apps themselves" and can easily remove preinstalled apps. But if Google is prevented from bundling its own apps, that will upset the Android ecosystem" As After all, Android P is drawing nigh and, the EU's Google fine could change phones forever.
We are all aware that Android is an open source software, which is free for everyone, customers and phone manufacturers, but if EU should press forward with this decision, then Android may no longer be free anymore. That is the message, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is trying to pass.
What is in talk here is all about, an unfair advantage with it's Search and Google Chrome apps, preventing competitors from creating modified versions of Android. That is what EU wants Google to focus on and pave the better response, as they are all considered illegal in EU's constitution.
"So far, the Android business model has meant that we haven't had to charge phone makers for our technology, or depend on a tightly controlled distribution model, But we are concerned that today's decision will upset the careful balance that we have struck with Android" Pichai wrote.
"In 2007, we chose to offer Android to phone makers and mobile network operators for free. Of course, there are costs involved in building Android, and Google has invested billions of dollars over the last decade to make Android what it is today.
Of course, customers (end-users) have the ability to remove any Google apps from their phones, but phone makers are required to show a little bit of commission by pre-installing the Google playstore app and other Android apps. If this works outs, then when starting up a new device, you might be asked a series of questions concerning your preferred app!


Doing the stream of consciousness writing I never had a chance to do before. Thanks for the opportunity!
Another welcome from RoseParks. We surely need someone with expertise on Probability and Statistics.
By the way, I'm signing the articles I create just to make it easier to locate them later. If signatures should be removed, so be it.----This is a co operative effort. Many people, and I am one of them, feel that signing one's name to a page is not appropriate to this medium. It makes them reluctant to alter these pages and they resent making corrections and additions that will be identified as your material, whille it is theirs. Furthermore, your signature links to your homepage which is partially commercial. This again is more like advertising and has no place here. I am politlely asking you to remove your signature from all pages. You seem to have provided enough clues to identifying material on Probability and Statistics without using a signature.
I does appear that you are advertising a bit. Not that there is anything intrinsically wrong with self-promotion in this most competitive day and age. But, I suspect the political and cultural inclinations of most wikipedians would regard such activity, if too conspicuous, as unseemly at best, and perhaps even in bad taste. Personally, if it offends me too much I will just edit it out! And welcome aboard!


Last August, Mojang announced that Minecraft will be coming to PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita. Since then, however, the company has been reluctant to share any launch date. However, we now have a more specific time frame for the game's release on PS4 and Vita, sort of. The developers of the popular sandbox builder have said that the release for the two platforms is expected sometime during the second or third quarter of this year. This means it could happen any day now or, you know, on September 30. And this is if it does not get pushed back even further. Although such an outcome is not expected, you never know in the gaming world. Just keep your fingers crossed.
The estimated release window for the PS4 and Vita versions of Minecraft were disclosed by Mojang in a recent PlayStation Blog post dedicated to the physical release of the game for the PS3 that will be available on May 16.
Owen Hill of Mojang has disclosed that the Vita version of Minecraft will be closer to the console experience rather than the Pocket Edition for mobile devices. He also said that players will have no problem transferring their PS3 saves to their PS4.
However, it is still unclear whether people who have upgraded to PS4 will have to pay again for the game. Here is what he said: "We're in the process of finalising cross-buy/upgrade/DLC things. More news soon."
Minecraft was initially released for PS3 last December as a digital download. An Xbox One version is also expected sometime this year, but no specific release date has been announced.


As a recognized company, we are manufacturing, exporting, importing and supplying exceedingly range of Custom 455 Stainless Steel to our valuable clients. Our provided stainless steel is present in various Specifications in order to suit the needs of our patrons across the nation. In addition to this, this stainless steel is stringently inspected on several parameters by our quality department in order to dispatch perfect range to the client's end. Moreover, our offered stainless steel can be also be modified as per client's stated requirements.
With the support of competent team of workers & professionals, we can offer a range of Aerospace Metals from us at reasonable prices. These highly corrosion resistance and tough aerospace metal which is specially processed by utilizing finest material and the progressive technologies along with set industrial standards. Our offered steel aerospace metal is regularly inspected on industry set parameters by quality department to ensure flawlessness and corrosion proof body to the client's end.


Our happy hour is featured Mon - Wed and Friday. From 5 pm to 6:30 pm and All night Every Monday.
We offer serveral Daily specials including: Monday all night happy hour, Tuesday Free Cold Sake bottle, Wednesday $1 Fresh Oysters and Thursdays All Roll All Night for $* each.


For many of us with a passion for customer experience, we work every day to answer the question: "How do we strengthen existing customer relationships and, as a result, accelerate growth?" This seemingly simple question is tricky to answer for several reasons. For example, take the issue of customer feedback and market research. We all understand that we need data and insights to inform our decision making with facts, ensuring we can optimize operations to meet customer requirements and market demand.
Gathering those insights through surveys and focus groups is a time-honored mainstay for research companies like mine. Yet there is a challenge we all face: How do we gather the information leadership needs in order to build the customer base without badgering those customers in the process of doing so?
I'm reminded of two situations in my own life that further illustrate this challenge—and the lessons we can learn from them. The first example involves a well-respected leader in customer experience that fielded a survey in the insurance industry. As someone who has worked extensively in the insurance and financial services arena, I was extremely interested in participating in the survey and seeing the results. (We research folks are avid consumers of data and insights.) As I dove into the online survey, my enthusiasm quickly dwindled as the "percent complete" tracker at the bottom of the screen stubbornly inched forward, with the 10th question revealing that my survey was roughly 10% complete. Realizing that I had unknowingly committed to participate in a survey that contained 100 questions, it did not take long to estimate that it was going to take me close to an hour to complete the process. Needless to say, I moved on to higher-priority activities—without completing the survey.
This anecdote should serve as an important reminder to researchers to help their clients think very carefully about the information they absolutely need versus the information that would be "nice to have." They should then balance the design of the survey questions accordingly to minimize the burden placed on respondents, recognizing that the feedback process is part of the very experience they are seeking to assess.
If you choose to outsource the collection of your customers' feedback, ensure that your vendors are going to conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with your brand. How your vendors handle your customers ultimately reflects upon your value proposition and the strength of your customer engagement. One important way to strengthen that ongoing customer relationship is to strike a careful balance between your need for insight and their need to protect one of their most valuable resources: time.


text:
Q: How to change the category in URL for posts in multiple categories? How can I change the category slug that appears in the URL of a post that's in multiple categories? I'd like to change the default WordPress behaviour of using the category with the lowest id.
I thought this would do it:
add_filter('post_link', 'mspc_post_link', 1, 2);
function mspc_post_link($link, $post) {
    if (strpos($link, 'bad-category-slug')) {
        $cats = get_the_category($post->ID);
        foreach ($cats as $cat) {
            if ("Bad Category Name" != $cat->cat_name) {
                $slug = $cat->category_nicename;
                break;
            }
        }
        $link = str_replace('bad-category-slug', $slug, $link);
    }
    return $link;
}

But while this kind of does work as expected, it doesn't change the URL visible to user.

A: Even though this question is pretty old, and you've probably long moved on, I figured I'd offer a solution anyway :-).
Check out http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hikari-category-permalink/, which allows you to do exactly what you're asking.
Cheers~

A: Similar plugin but compatible to latest wp version 3.5.2
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-category-permalink/

This plugin allows you to select a 'main' category for your posts, for better permalinks and SEO. It uses the same meta data as the "Hikari Category Permalink" and the "sCategory Permalink", but it has been rewritten using better and cleaner code.
Requires: WP 3.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5.2
Last Updated: 2013-4-18


Our CAT range of glasses is synonymous with with quality. Building on the brand initially developed for heavy engineering, CAT have become one of the world's leading brands of prescription glasses. Engineered to the core, every pair of CAT glasses is designed to take all that a hectic lifestyle has to throw at them. Sturdy, hard wearing and very resilient. They also feature exclusively designed hinges and unique pressure formed components.


Escape room or murder mystery? Which do you choose for your office?
In recent years we've seen an explosion of escape room / lock in rooms across the world. People who pay either individually or as a small group to be locked into a room within in a house with only 60 minutes to solve a puzzle to escape. Despite what it seems, it's not completely "new". It's actually an adapted live version of something we all knew as the "Crystal Maze" back in the 90s.
Puzzle solving is something we've enjoyed since "cosy" murder mystery fiction sprang into being back in the early 1900s, and crime fiction is still incredibly popular with both adults and children alike.
There has always been an element of the crossword puzzle about murder mystery novels. Clues left within the chapters leading you towards the inevitable outcome. With the reader trying to work out who killed who and why before they reach the final denouement. However, crosswords and novels are very much a singular pursuit, whereas games are much more about a collective experience.
Our adult murder mystery games are in essence a more accessible format of the escape room / clue quest style games. You can run them yourself at a fraction of the price of an escape room and there's no need to book! You can take part with more than 5 friends, in fact you can have up to 20 all taking a role, and they're even instantly deliverable which means you can decide at the very last minute to play a game with friends.
As a team building venture, murder mystery games are far more accessible than escape rooms, accommodating more people and without the limitations of time and space forced on a company with the modern day quest rooms.
We take corporate bookings each month for team building and corporate entertainment. Our clients use murder mysteries as a way of entertaining multi-national groups as the murder mystery genre spans the cultural divide much easier than a standard theatre production, and corporate groups use murder mysteries for team building to give their staff groups a real hands on experience to encourage them to work as a team, and give them a shared experience they will talk about for weeks to come.
We've worked with big multi-national organisations to provide event experiences in the UK and abroad, either fully cast, or using their own team as the suspects. With the ability to create games in-house we've provided custom kits to include plots from within a client's own industry and workforce, worked out how to run a murder mystery across continents over a conference call, and included some forensic hands on experience and SOCO suits to give a more authentic experience. We've written games for firms in the USA and even helped create a fundraising game for a charity who was hosting the Melbourne Cup during it's tour of Australia.
We've been hired by councils, teaching conferences, shipping and logistics firms, telecommunication providers, some multi-national companies you would probably never have heard of, and a few we can't mention by name that you would have! We've also worked with private schools and colleges looking for something educational to add to the student curriculum, and the general public looking for something special for a hen party, birthday, wedding and family get together.
If you're looking to see what sort of thing we can do when it comes to murder mystery team building experiences and custom writing of kits – why not check out the on-line murder mystery game created from a murder mystery we put together for the Museums at Night experience in 2014. That murder mystery game can be played individually and unlike the lock in escape room – is totally free to play! – Just click on the box below.


text:
The Last Days of Disco
by Serena Donadoni
If the title of writer-director Whit Stillman's third film has the ring of a serious examination of a lost civilization (akin to The Last Days of Pompeii), it's because he treats the decline of disco culture with the seriousness of a verbose, thesis-wielding academic.
Stillman's films, Metropolitan (1990), Barcelona (1994) and The Last Days of Disco, are a loosely connected trilogy portraying the privileged lives, troubled loves and insular attitudes of upper-class WASPs, a group for whom the phrase "I'm coming out" has more to do with cotillions than closets.
Set in "the very early '80s," Last Days follows two recent graduates of Hampshire College, the thoughtful Alice (Chloë Sevigny) and driven Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale), who find themselves working together in low-level "reader" jobs at a New York City publishing house. At night they gravitate toward "the club," a disco so hip and exclusive that its name is never actually spoken.
"Before disco, this country was a dancing wasteland," Charlotte smugly declares, anxious to distance her generation from the Woodstock baby boomers who, despite their influence on the political and cultural climate, just can't dance.
It's at the club that they connect with four slightly older Harvard schoolmates, whose camaraderie is tinged with tense rivalries: advertising agency go-getter Jimmy (Mackenzie Astin); Tom (Robert Sean Leonard), a lawyer gravitating toward environmental causes; Josh (Matt Keeslar), a dewy-eyed assistant district attorney with manic-depressive episodes in his past; and the smarmy Des (Chris Eigeman), who runs the club's backstage area when he's not dumping love-struck women by calmly informing them that he thinks he's gay.
Stillman choreographs an elaborate hustle for these six characters (with a sometimes dizzying array of secondary players mixed in), but the real focus is on the two women. The immensely self-centered Charlotte, who cloaks vicious put-downs as well-meaning advice, is all ferocious ambition. Alice, whose quiet rectitude gets her compared to a kindergarten teacher, is the film's moral center. Stillman admirably tracks the complexities and dependency of their friendship, but seems ill at ease with female sexuality, coming down hard on perceived promiscuity.
While Stillman's clipped, arch dialogue drives the film (a patois specific to these overeducated, pop culture-savvy, but quite unworldly characters), he's also developed a smooth, unobtrusive visual style that's perfectly in synch with people who occasionally need to just shut up and dance.
While not exactly a historical document, The Last Days of Disco is a pithy reminder that in their heyday, discos were often populated by preppies (morphing imperceptibly into yuppies) dancing side by side with flamboyant scenesters, and that even the stiffest white people can still shake their groove thing.
Serena Donadoni writes about film for the Metro Times. E-mail her at letters@metrotimes.com.
The Scene Film


text:
Bulford Henges
Latitude: 51.191 / 51°11'27"N
Longitude: -1.753 / 1°45'10"W
Mapcode National: GBR 4ZY.7N3
Mapcode Global: VHB5C.KBM9
Entry Name: Bulford Henges
Scheduled Date: 19 October 2017
The buried remains of a pair of Late Neolithic penannular henges which are encircled by later Bronze Age ring ditches situated at approximately 97m above ordnance datum near the crest of a hill overlooking the Nine Mile River.
PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS: the buried remains of a pair of Late Neolithic penannular henges which are encircled by later Bronze Age ring ditches situated at approximately 97m above ordnance datum near the crest of a hill overlooking the Nine Mile River.
DESCRIPTION: the henges survive as the buried remains of two penannular ditches with single causewayed entrances on their northern sides. They are encircled by later conjoining Bronze Age ring ditches.
The western henge has an diameter of approximately 17.5m and a causewayed entrance on its northern side approximately 4.6m wide. Partial excavation has shown that the ditch was constructed as a series of conjoined segments. Where excavated, the segments were approximately 4.2m wide and 1m deep on the western side of the henge, reaching a depth of approximately 1.2m on the east side. The segments were shown to have had sloping sides with flat bases, with their outer edges cut away by the later Bronze Age ring ditch which encircles the earlier ditches. To the west, fragments of a Grooved Ware bowl of the Durrington Walls type were found at the base of the ditch.
The interior of the western henge contained three pits which were located around the inner edge of the ditch. These pits were found to contain Late Neolithic Woodlands-type pottery with animal bone, flint tools and a fragment of a stone axe.
The outer Bronze Age ring ditch which surrounds the western henge was found to be approximately 1.5m wide and 0.9m deep at the excavated points, with a flat base approximately 0.5m across, and steeply sloping sides. Evidence from ditch sediments suggests that the outer ditch may have been constructed with an external bank. The outer ditch contained no finds.
The ditch of the eastern henge has an internal diameter of approximately 16m and a causewayed entrance on its northern side approximately 4.6m wide. This ditch was also shown during excavation to have been constructed as a series of conjoined segments. Finds included further Grooved Ware pottery. The interior of the eastern henge was not found to contain any features, aside from modern agricultural traces and tree throws.
The outer Bronze Age ring ditch which surrounds the eastern henge was found to be approximately 2m wide on its western side and approximately 1.5m deep. The ditch had steep sides and a narrow base approximately 0.5m wide. On the eastern side, the outer ditch was found to be approximately 1.5m wide and 1.3m deep.
A further ditch, which crosses the site and curves around a section of the western monument before extending to the east, was approximately 0.6m wide and 0.24m deep. This is thought to relate to a possible Romano-British field system, and suggests that the western henge remained at least partially visible at the time of the construction of this later ditch.
The Bulford Henges are scheduled for the following principal reasons:
* Rarity: henges are one of relatively few types of monument which characterise the later Neolithic period, and this example is one of few sites known nationally with a pair of henges side by side, both encircled by later Bronze Age ring ditches;
* Potential: despite agricultural use of the site and partial excavation, the henges are considered to retain important archaeological information relating to prehistoric ritual and funerary activities and the landscape in which they were constructed;
* Documentation: they have been well documented through aerial photography, geophysical survey and excavation, which enhances our knowledge of these monuments;
* Group value: the site has strong group value with the group of scheduled round barrows south of Bulford, and with the wider Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site landscape.
Wessex Archaeology, Archaeological Evaluation and Watching Brief Report, March 2015
Wessex Archaeology, Characterisation Report: Bulford Henges, December 2016
Wessex Archaeology, Detailed Gradiometer Report, August 2014
Bowl barrow: one of a group of round barrows south of Bulford


Legislative wrangling has produced frustrating outcomes for all parties.
Over the past few weeks, the Australian parliament has seen a decidedly high number of inconclusive and frustrating political setbacks – not only for the government, but for all political parties. The mining tax repeal, superannuation changes, and a raft of social spending cuts currently making their way through the Senate have all been discussed and debated at great length. But an obstinate opposition and reluctant compromises that have so often followed are not only allowing politicians to shift the blame for unpopular decisions (or the lack thereof) but also making it harder for voters to figure out whether the end results are actually in Australia's national interest.
On September 2, Prime Minister Tony Abbott at last succeeded in fulfilling one of his key election pledges when the Senate voted to repeal the Mineral Resources Rent Tax (MRRT), which taxes profits from Australia's non-renewable resources and was first introduced under Labor. The bill will now head back to the House of Representatives this week where it's certain to pass. The government bill, which reduces some of the spending measures that had been linked to the tax, will lead to savings of around $10 billion over the next four years. But the political wrangling required to secure the deal will still set back the government's goal of balancing the budget.
To secure the support of the crossbenchers in the Palmer United Party (PUP), the government agreed to maintain a raft of social spending items such as the schoolkids bonus, an income support bonus, and super contributions for low-income earners until at least 2016-7. This has proven to be a hugely expensive compromise. The deal will end up costing an estimated $6.5 billion, so instead of what was supposed to be $16.5 billion of spending cuts the government is left with decidedly less impressive savings of $10 billion.
This has led to a rather dysfunctional state of affairs in which the populist mining magnate Clive Palmer selectively champions the interests of poor, working class families all the while extracting a disproportionate number of concessions from a government, overeager to fulfill at least some of its election promises. The most telling example was the government's decision to delay an increase in the compulsory superannuation rate to 12 percent from 2022 to 2025 (the current rate is 9.5 percent). Abbott claims this will "keep more money in workers' pockets" but given the implications for government pension payments, the policy sits at odds with a government touting the importance of fiscal austerity and the need to balance the budget.
The problem, though, is that neither Labor nor the Coalition are dealing with the much larger issue of pension eligibility. As Adam Creighton, The Australian's Economics Correspondent, noted, "The age pension eligibility test is a joke, granting a part-pension to retirees with 'family homes' of any value and financial assets up to $1.134 million." He cites a National Commission of Audit report, which projects that although the proportion of people receiving a full pension will decline, this will be almost entirely cancelled out by an increase in people receiving a part-rate pension. The proportion of older Australians eligible for the Age Pension, the report concludes, will therefore remain constant at around 80 percent over the next forty years or so.
Dealing with these types of serious, long-term policy challenges in a measured and considered manner ought to be within the purview of parliament. But not this parliament, it would appear.
Australian voters are increasingly turning to micro and single-issue parties.