Does anyone have any experience or familiarity with building an airstrip on state land? I have a remote lot that is next to state land. I don't have room to land on my lot, but with a little bit of work there's plenty of room to land on the state land. The terrain is flat with scrub on it and I know it's probably ok to remove enough of the scrub by hand to get the cub in, but is it ok to barge in a piece of equipment and grade enough to land something bigger like a 206?
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DNR will tell you hand tools only and 4 feet wide only. Anything beyond that and you can get a nasty letter from DNR.
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New Wave, the Auteurs' first album, was truly a harbinger of a new wave of British guitar music. One of the essential albums of the burgeoning Britpop scene, New Wave has generally been overshadowed by its contemporaries. Suede's debut, Modern Life Is Rubbish, and Pablo Honey were all released the same year. The Boo Radleys, the Verve, and Manic Street Preachers all had memorable records out in 1993, as well.
The Auteurs' frontman, Luke Haines, is one of the sharpest and most acerbic personalities in all of Britpop. From its outset, he made his disdain for the scene and its key players well known. While his hostility may have alienated and repelled some of his peers, his cerebral writing style is captivating, commanding listeners to hang on his every whispered word. Haines' astute social critiques of British class culture is somewhat similar to Jarvis Cocker's meditations on the same. Lyrically, the songs are, in turn, spiteful, vaguely sinister, and wickedly clever. These gritty and foreboding narratives are woven together with lush chamber rock. The signature Auteurs sound has a sort of disconcerting irresistibility. All the songs ripple into each other, and together they make one glorious, unclear monologue.
'Show Girl' is one of the brightest openers to any album from the decade. It's a shimmery folk-pop tune with an ethereal chorus. Haines' delightfully sighed vocals completes this romance. This song perfectly prepares the listener for, not only the remainder of the record, but also their following three albums. 'Bailed Out' is a swelling haze that has the feel of a wild party that should have ended hours ago. 'Junk Shop Clothes' is enchanting with its delicate arpeggio tempered with Haines' minimalistic plunking piano. It sounds like twentieth-century chamber music. 'Don't Trust The Stars' would be at home on a British indie compilation sandwiched between the House of Love and Teenage Fanclub. 'Starstruck,' sharing its name with one of the best by the Kinks, opens with a jangly chord progression that would make Johnny Marr proud. The reverbed snare drums and Merseybeat bassline of 'Housebreaker' sets toes tapping. Everything's rhythm in the song, and it even includes a plaintive harmonica break. But, the epic highlight of the album is the sharp lyrics and sneering guitars that inform us of your 'Idiot Brother.' This is Haines at his derisive best.
Despite the early critical acclaim for the Auteurs, they and this spectacular melodic pop album, ultimately failed to spark the public's interest. They might have ushered in a new wave, but the year the album was released, the Auteurs famously lost the Mercury Music Prize by one vote to Suede. Perhaps having his music constantly overlooked has been a valuable catalyst in keeping the rest of Luke Haines' projects as stinging as the opening to this first album.


Pasta recién hecha en salsa de auténtico queso cheddar.
One of our original recipes. A favorite for over 60 years.
[Cultured Milk, Salt, Enzymes], Water, Salt, Annatto Color), Wheat Flour,(nbsp)Soybean Oil, Butter (Cream, Salt), Salt, Potassium Chloride. Cooked Pasta: Water, Semolina Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten.
3) Place tray on baking sheet, center rack. Cook 50 minutes.


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Summary: This is another on/off switch, and the plain physigram is just like the light switch push down/pull up. The interest here is that when the kettle boils it also can turn the switch off – system–initiated physical transition. Furthermore it does so the same way as you do yourself – compliant interaction.
In some ways an electric kettle on/off switch is just like a light switch: you press it down and the power goes on: you lift it up and the power goes off.
Indeed this is precisely the case for very old kettles (a long, long time back).
This diagram shows the physigram and associated power state for one of those early kettles. On the left of the diagram is the kettle switch as a simple toggle switch (with a little give), and on the right is the logical system state – power on or off. We can also see the one-to-one mapping – an exposed state device.
Of course old kettles would boil dry if left unattended … and maybe even set the house on fire.
Happily a modern kettle does not do that. If you leave it on eventually the water in the kettle boils and after a while the kettle will switch itself off.
The revised physigram below shows this. The kettle toggle switch has an extra dashed (system-initiated) transition. This is labelled 'system down'; however, while previous events have been generated by the user's actions, in this case the 'system down' event is triggered by the kettle itself.
On the right-hand side is the logical system state. There is still a one-to-one mapping between the visible (and tangible) switch state and the power on/off. However, the system state when the power is on has been revised to distinguish boiling from non-boiling water. Of course there are many possible water temperatures, not just boiling and non-boiling, and the temperature varies when the power is off as well as on; however, we have only distinguished the parts of the system state that are pertinent for the description.
The boiling state (within the power on state) is shown as triggering the 'system down' event denoted by the red lightning bolt.
Note that the kettle is not powered down by a separate relay (although many kettles also have a safety cut out which does operate invisibly like this); instead the switch physically springs back up into the 'off' position. In other words, the way the system controls the state is identical to the way the user does so – compliant interaction.
Also note that for some kettles the switch is actually maintained in the 'on' position using some form of electromechanical relay. When the user pushes the switch down is does no really stick in place physically, but instead the switch being down triggers the relay, and then the switch is held down actively by the electronics. The boiling of the water breaks the relay connection and the switch pops up. This is evident if the kettle is really disconnected from the power as it is then a bounce back switch. For this kind of kettle, the physigram shown above would still be valid, but as a depiction of feedback loop B.


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How many CPU cycles do you suppose are wasted on blogs that are generated every request? Wouldn't it make more sense to generate them only when they're updated? StaticGenerator is a re-usable app for Django that makes it easy to create static files for lightning fast performance.

## Fork

This fork from [mrj0's version](https://github.com/mrj0/staticgenerator) includes patches contributed and used by [2General Ltd](http://www.2general.com/).

The mrj0 version is itself a fork from the main branch in order to add patches from [bolhoed](https://bitbucket.org/bolhoed/mixedcase/src/tip/project/staticgenerator/). See the details at [mixedCase.nl](http://mixedcase.nl/articles/2010/11/16/serving-5000-pages-second-django/).

### Differences introduced by mrj0 and 2general

#### The ability to only cache for anonymous users and to exclude urls

Example `settings.py`:

    WEB_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'generated')

    STATIC_GENERATOR_ANONYMOUS_ONLY = True

    STATIC_GENERATOR_URLS = (
        r'^/$',
        r'^/(articles|projects|about)',
    )

    STATIC_GENERATOR_EXCLUDE_URLS = (
         r'\.xml$',
         r'^/articles/search',
         r'^/articles/feed',
         r'^/articles/comments/posted',
    )

Another way to always exclude a view from being cached is to use the `@disable_static_generator` decorator:

    from staticgenerator.decorators import disable_static_generator

    @disable_static_generator
    def myview(request)
        # ...

#### Mitigation of the dog-piling effect

Each page is cached as two copies. After invalidation, the stale copy is served until the page has been generated. This avoids the dog-piling (a.k.a. "thundering herd") problem.

There is still a small window at the start of the WSGI request when another request might arrive and not yet get served with the stale content. If the duration of this window isn't sufficiently short to prevent dog-piling for your traffic, you might be better of regenerating most visited pages instead of invalidating them.

#### Cache AJAX requests separately

AJAX requests are cached separately from other requests. This is useful for sites which return different content for AJAX requests than for normal requests. This feature can't currently be switched off, although it probably should.

#### Apache-friendly file names

Question marks in URLs are encoded as the string `%3F` in file names, because it's not possible to stop Apache from stripping out the query string out before finding files from disk. Also, a trailing `%3F` is included even if there is no query string. This allows for simpler rewrite rules.

#### More robust middleware

The middleware now works even if the request object has no `user` attribute. This can happen e.g. when using [mediagenerator's](https://github.com/2general/django-mediagenerator/) middleware in development mode.

#### Management command for invalidating the cache

You can run the `manage.py recursive_delete /` command to invalidate the whole cache.  Use subpaths to only invalidate a part of the cache.

## Download

You can get 2General's fork of StaticGenerator by cloning with Git or using `pip`:

    git clone git://github.com/2general/staticgenerator.git
    pip install -e git+git://github.com/2general/staticgenerator.git#egg=staticgenerator

You can get the official version of StaticGenerator without the mrj0 and 2General contributions using `easy_install` or `pip`:

    easy_install staticgenerator
    pip install staticgenerator

Or download from the [Python Package Index](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/staticgenerator/1.4.1).

## Usage

There are two ways to generate the static files. Both setups first require `WEB_ROOT` to be set in `settings.py`:

    WEB_ROOT = '/var/www/example.com/public/'

### Method 1 (preferred): Middleware

As of StaticGenerator 1.3, Middleware is available to generate the file only when the URL is requested. This solves the 404 Problem (see below).

First, add Regexes of URLs you want to cache to `settings.py` like so:

    STATIC_GENERATOR_URLS = (
        r'^/$',
        r'^/blog',
        r'^/about',
    )

Second, add the Middleware to `MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES`:

    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
        ...snip...
        'staticgenerator.middleware.StaticGeneratorMiddleware',
        'django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware',
        ...snip...
    )

**Note**: You must place the StaticGeneratorMiddleware before FlatpageFallbackMiddleware if you use it.

When the pages are accessed for the first time, the body of the page is saved into a static file. This is completely transparent to the end-user. When the page or an associated object has changed, simply delete the cached file (See notes on Signals).

### Method 2: Generate on Save

The second method works by saving the cache file on save. This method fakes a request to get the appropriate content. In this example we want to publish our home page, all live Posts and all FlatPages:

    # Passing url, a QuerySet and Model
    from staticgenerator import quick_publish
    quick_publish('/', Post.objects.live(), FlatPage)

Deleting files and paths is just as easy:

    from staticgenerator import quick_delete
    quick_delete('/path-to-delete/')

*Note: Directory deletion fails silently while failing to delete a file will raise an exception.*

#### The "404 Problem"

The second method suffers from a problem herein called the "404 problem". Say you have a blog post that is not yet to be published. When you save it, the file created is actually a 404 message since the blog post is not actually available to the public. Using the older method you'd have to re-save the object to generate the file again.

The new method solves this because it saves the file only when the URL is accessed successfully (read: only when the HTTP status is 200).

### Using Signals

Integrating with existing models is easy using [Django's signal dispatcher](http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Signals). Simply create a function to delete your models, and connect to the dispatcher:

    from django.contrib.flatpages.models import FlatPage
    from blog.models import Post
    from django.dispatch import dispatcher
    from django.db.models import signals
    from staticgenerator import quick_delete

    def delete(sender, instance):
        quick_delete(instance, '/')

    dispatcher.connect(delete, sender=Post, signal=signals.post_save)
    dispatcher.connect(delete, sender=FlatPage, signal=signals.post_save)

Every time you save a Post or FlatPage it deletes the static file (notice that I add '/' so my homepage is deleted as well). What happens when a comment is added? Just delete the corresponding page:

    from django.contrib.comments.models import Comment, FreeComment

    def publish_comment(sender, instance):
        quick_delete(instance.get_content_object())

    dispatcher.connect(publish_comment, sender=Comment, signal=signals.post_save)
    dispatcher.connect(publish_comment, sender=FreeComment, signal=signals.post_save)

## Configure your front-end

### Sample Nginx configuration

This configuration snippet shows how Nginx can automatically show the index.html page generated by StaticGenerator, and pass all Django requests to Apache.

    # This example configuration only shows parts relevant to a Django app
    http {

        upstream django {
            # Apache/mod_python running on port 7000
            server example.com:7000;
        }

        server {
            server_name  example.com;
            root   /var/www/myproject/generated/fresh;

            location / {
                default_type  text/html;

                if ($http_x_requested_with = XMLHttpRequest) {
                    set $is_ajax ",ajax";
                }

                if (-f $request_filename/index.html%3F$args$is_ajax) {
                    rewrite (.*)/ $1/index.html%3F$args$is_ajax;
                    break;
                }

                if (!-f $request_filename%3F$args$is_ajax) {
                    proxy_pass http://django;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }

## It's not for Everything

The beauty of the generator is that you choose when and what urls are made into static files. Obviously a contact form or search form won't work this way, so we just leave them as regular Django requests. In your front-end http server (you are using a front-end web server, right?) just set the URLs you want to be served as static and they're already being served.

## Feedback

Love it? Hate it? [Let me know what you think!](http://superjared.com/contact/)

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The Pupil Premium – a financial lifeline for schools in deprived areas
The Pupil Premium is an invaluable resource which has lifted the progress and achievements of some of the most deprived in our country. The government has informed schools what they will receive in the next financial year, i.e. 2015/16, under this heading, when the total allocation will be £2.545 billion. The breakdown is as follows.
£1,320 per (eligible) pupil of primary-school age (rising from £1,300 this financial year)
£935 per (eligible) pupil of secondary-school age
£1,900 for every pupil who has been looked after for one day or more or has been adopted from care or has left care under a special guardianship order, a residence order or a child arrangement order
For the first time, pupils in nursery schools and classes will also attract this funding if they and their families qualify under at least one of the following criteria.
income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
income-related Employment and Support Allowance
the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
Child Tax Credit(provided they're not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
Working Tax Creditrun-on, which is paid for four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
Where a child has been looked after for one day or more
Where a child has been adopted from care
Where a child has left care under a special guardianship order or residence order
A child must be eligible for free early education in order to attract Early Years' Pupil Premium (EYPP) funding. Children become eligible at different points in the year depending on when they turn three. Details of the dates when children become eligibleare available.
The funding is being used with varying levels of success mirrored in different parts of the country. Fifteen of the 25 parliamentary consistencies where children in low-income families read with the greatest felicity and competence are in London. These include Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Hampstead and Kilburn, Holborn and St Pancras, Kensington, Lewisham, Poplar and Limehouse, Vauxhall and West Ham.
None of the bottom (reading performance-wise) 25 parliamentary constituencies in which children in low income families live is in London. Three are in seaside towns – Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Scarborough and Whitby – and the rest being in other towns and cities and in the shire counties.
According to the Reading England's Future report, Read On, Get On, while one in four pupils leaves primary school unable to read well enough, the figure rises to four in 10 in "town and country".
Something is going seriously awry and causing the government and Ofsted to experience a sense of jitters.
It's worth recalling what Ofsted's findings were two years ago about the success or otherwise of how schools used the Pupil Premium.
Where schools were successful they
carefully ring-fenced the funding so that they always spent it on the target group of pupils;
never confused eligibility for the Pupil Premium with low ability, and focused on supporting their disadvantaged pupils to achieve the highest levels;
thoroughly analysed which pupils were underachieving, particularly in English and mathematics, and why;
drew on research evidence and evidence from their own and others' experience to allocate the funding to the activities that were most likely to have an impact on improving achievement;
understood the importance of ensuring that all day-to-day teaching meets the needs of each learner, rather than relying on interventions to compensate for teaching that is less than good;
allocated their best teachers to teach intervention groups to improve mathematics and English, or employed new teachers who had a good track record in raising attainment in those subjects;
used achievement data frequently to check whether interventions or techniques were working and made adjustments accordingly, rather than just use the data retrospectively to see if something had worked;
made sure that support staff, particularly teaching assistants, were highly trained and understood their role in helping pupils to achieve;
systematically focused on giving pupils clear, useful feedback about their work, and ways that they could improve it;
ensured that a designated senior leader had a clear overview of how the funding was being allocated and the difference it was making to the outcomes for pupils;
ensured that class and subject teachers knew which pupils were eligible for the Pupil Premium so that they could take responsibility for accelerating their progress;
had a clear policy on spending the Pupil Premium, agreed by governors and publicised on the school website;
provided well-targeted support to improve attendance, behaviour or links with families where these were barriers to a pupil's learning;
had a clear and robust performance management system for all staff, and included discussions about pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium in performance management meetings;
thoroughly involved governors in the decision-making and evaluation process; and
were able, through careful monitoring and evaluation, to demonstrate the impact of each aspect of their spending on the outcomes for pupils.
In contrast, inspectors found where schools were less successful in spending the funding, they tended to have at least some of the following characteristics. They:
had a lack of clarity about the intended impact of the spending;
spent the funding indiscriminately on teaching assistants, with little impact;
did not monitor the quality and impact of interventions well enough, even where other monitoring was effective;
did not have a good performance management system for teaching assistants and other support staff;
did not have a clear audit trail for where the funding had been spent;
focused on pupils attaining the nationally expected level at the end of the key stage (Level 4, five A* to C grades at GCSE) but did not to go beyond these expectations, so some more able eligible pupils underachieved;
planned their Pupil Premium spending in isolation to their other planning, for example, it was not part of the school development plan;
compared their performance to local rather than national data, which suppressed expectations if they were in a low-performing local authority;
compared the performance of their pupils who were eligible for free school meals with other eligible pupils nationally, rather than all pupils, again lowering expectations;
did not focus their pastoral work on the desired outcomes for pupils and did not have any evidence to show themselves whether the work had or had not been effective; and
did not have governors involved in making decisions about the Pupil Premium, or challenging the way in which it was allocated.
About two years ago, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Ofsted supremo, warned that "some schools still lacked good enough systems for tracking the spending of the additional funding or for evaluating the effectiveness of measures they had put in place in terms of improving outcomes.
"We will continue to take an active interest in this issue in the coming months. Where we find funding isn't being spent effectively on improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils, we will be clear in our criticism.
"It is vital that schools get this right. Every child who leaves school without the right qualifications faces a far more difficult path to fulfilling their potential and finding employment."
However, other siren voices are calling for schools to do much, much more than concentrate on the narrow disciplines of English and mathematics – which appears to be the focus in using the Pupil Premium well. The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, led by Alan Milburn, the former Labour Minister, who resigned from Tony Blair's government to spend more time with his family, said that narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor would take decades. In his latest report he called for ambitious targets to solve the issue of stagnant social mobility.
His report urged the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) to consider a new pay band for teachers prepared to work in the toughest areas. He goes further. The report that his task force wrote, Cracking the Code, proposes that the government launch a pilot of a new "Teachers' Pay Premium" offering a 25% pay rise to 2,000 top teachers to entice them to move to challenging areas.
In an examination of what successful schools do, his task force identified four strategies.
Use the Pupil Premium strategically to improve social mobility.
Establish a culture of high expectations and inclusivity.
Incessantly focus on the quality of teaching.
Prepare students for all aspects of life, not just for exams.
For most people in education – especially in schools where work is a labour of love – this will be received in the same vein as advice given to grandmothers asked to "suck eggs".
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< Back to LIFESTYLE < Art + Culture
How A Pivotal Museum Visit Shaped This Artist's Life
By SHAWN GAUTHIER
Austin-based artist Helmut Barnett kneels in his studio.
Austin-based artist and painter Helmut Barnett's story isn't the oft-told narrative of an artist born with paintbrush in hand. Although he enjoyed doodling in the margins of his school notebooks as a child, it wasn't until he visited Boston's Museum of Fine Arts at age 20–while serving as an Air Force radar technician stationed on Cape Cod–that he discovered his true calling. When his eyes locked on Dutch painter Jan Asselijn's The Threatened Swan, it ignited a deep-seated desire in him to become an artist, no matter the odds. "My resolve coalesced into an unshakable drive," says Barnett. "Nothing was going to stop me."
After that pivotal museum visit, Barnett began painting copiously, learning what he could from library books. Eventually, he studied art at the University of Texas, where he discovered his penchant for abstract. "I didn't want to paint like people before me," he says. "I wanted to be a modern painter, creating work that was distinctly my own." More than 50 years later, Barnett now works out of a studio located in a century-old house. Light streams in through a large northern-facing window, illuminating a lifetime of work that is constantly evolving: abstract paintings, drawings and sculptures comprised of fluid lines and ethereal shapes.
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Strewn across Barnett's studio are works in various stages of completion.
Barnett stores completed drawings in a flat file cabinet.
The artist often sketches while having lunch in his studio kitchen.
Strewn across Barnett's studio floor are paintings in various stages of completion–he often hops from one to the next, allowing them to breathe and his mind to stew. His process is deeply intuitive: he first draws lines in rapid succession, his charcoal pencil guided by pure instinct. As shapes emerge, he colors them carefully in acrylic paint. It's not until the piece is almost finished that he steps back and refines the composition, resulting in work as viscerally complex as it is expertly controlled. "It's very important to me to create art that is well done and intelligent," he says. "Little changes–a line here, a shape there–make all the difference."
Barnett's time in the Air Force continues to inspire him today. He spent his downtime between 16-hour flight missions voraciously reading art and ancient history books, and Greek pottery imagery and figurative form often weave organically through his work. He also credits his 1,600-square-foot studio as a source of inspiration. "This is my sanctuary," he says. "When I'm here, I'm in my element and undisturbed–it's a breeding ground for ideas." In fact, it's difficult to pull him away, as Barnett often works a 50-hour week, including weekends–although he does enjoy swimming laps midday for exercise and often heads home early during the winter to build a fire for his wife, Shelby.
Against his studio's walls now tower several large empty canvases. Their size is imposing, but Barnett isn't concerned. After decades of honing his craft, he's reached a place of unwavering confidence. "I don't worry about where the work will be tomorrow but instead let it carry itself," says Barnett, who is represented by Wally Workman Gallery. The artist, who honed his talent through passion and hard work, adds, "The essence of what I do is a love of the act of drawing and painting–lines, form and color, in all their infinite possibilities."
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Texas Instruments Educational Solutions
I attribute my time at TI to software pioneer Jerry Weinberg, with whom TI consulted to re-engineer their development process. He recommended hiring a usability manager, HR found my resume on Monster, and a few months later I was building the human centered design competency within TI Educational Solutions. I managed a team of interaction and visual designers, and integrated UX into the product development process which was engineering and feature-function driven at that time. I also spent some time working in marketing, managing the scientifically-based research program initiated with federal education policy.
Methods: Business Process Re-engineering, Planning, Ethnography, Observation, Surveys, Interviews, Contextual Inquiry, Personas, Storyboards, Scenarios, Design Workshops, Wireframing, Paper and HTML Prototypes, Typography, Icon Design and Development, Visual Design, Cognitive Walkthrough, UI Specification, Heuristic Evaluation, Collaboration, Ideation, Experience Mapping, Usability Testing, Experimental Design, Product Strategy, Managing, Mentoring.
TI Nspire:
Challenge: re-invent the school graphing calculator
While still a market leader, the TI-83 graphing calculator is a 'DOS' type interface, a throwback in our GUI world. We wanted to use the 'power of visualization' to create a teaching and learning tool to help every student understand mathematics.
Working with leading educators and the SRI research group, our team of architects, product managers, developers, and UX professionals started with stories and scenarios to envision the future state. We arrived at the concept of dynamically linked representations — allowing students to visualize the connections between algebraic, graphical, geometric, numeric and written forms of mathematics. Students can graph a function to see a parabola, for example, then drag the parts of the parabola around on the screen to see how the equation changes. Instead of the typical 'drill and kill' of working problems, students can interact with the problems using dynamic worksheets from the teacher, wirelessly transmitted to their handheld. They can connect the handheld to their computer at home and get the document, work on it on a large screen, then email the homework back to the teacher or download it back to their handheld.
I came into the project after the previous UX designer left for another position — I had a short hiatus from UX, managing the Research Program, contracting with educational researchers to 'prove' our technology improved student learning. A lot of conceptual work had been done already, with some proof-of-concept applications, but there was a lot of concern about implementing a mass-market solution. I worked with the team to take early concepts and sketch out implementation alternatives, getting the product managers to align on a framework solution. A major theme of my work at TI was helping them visualize concepts in various peoples' heads, to work towards consensus and product implementation.
Through scenario-based design and research we defined use cases and personas for the customer base.
I defined the high-level UI architecture, and behavior rules, much like the Mac, Windows, and smartphone OS UX guidelines. This was done for the overall product framework, and for each individual mathematical 'app' — graphing, calculator, notes, statistics, spreadsheet, geometry, and data collection.
UI Architecture documentationEach app had a different product manager, so I had a task of reconciling each manager's issues to maintain a consistent look and feel across the applications. I had a good relationship with the development team as well, acting as liaison between development and strategy on an individual engineer level.
Multiple design specifications for documenting decisions going forward.Since we were developing our own handheld GUI, and didn't have an existing UI widget set from the embedded OS we were building on, I created and maintained pixel-specific guidelines for all the GUI controls and dialogs (way before Design Systems was a thing). Since the handheld was quarter VGA, I spent a lot of effort scrubbing every pixel, to maximize the amount of content available to the student work, and minimize the 'chrome' of the GUI. I remember having a breakthrough once, freeing up enough pixels to add another line to the menu, eliminating a scrollbar!
The interesting challenge of the TI-Nspire project was cross-platform work. An Nspire document could be created and shared between the Windows, Mac, and our proprietary handheld. I took pains to respect each OS' idiosyncrasies; Mac users especially noticed if a Cancel button was on the wrong side…
Since the handheld was grayscale and quarter-VGA, this led to experimentation to determine some default colors which were distinctive between grayscale and color. The other major challenge was working to create an equivalent to both free mouse pointer and directional input cursor (left-right-up-down keys) on the handheld. Getting 'Enter' and 'Cancel/Escape' working right took some time. It was a great collaboration between Industrial Design, Mechanical, Electrical Engineers.
With a beta release, and after first shipment, we spent a considerable amount of time doing customer research — running workshops with educational leaders, field studies observing classroom use, international pilot research, surveys, usability tests — and iterating on the design.
I have always had a Systems Thinking mentality, from my early Human Factors training. The 'thing itself' (calculator) doesn't succeed without the full ecosystem (think how do you charge 36 calculators that previously you'd have to swap 4 AA batteries each). The network capability, content management, and lesson plan marketplace were pieces of that.
Multiple applications that formed the TI-nspire ecosystem.
After release the work was just starting. We had a novel product and had the new product introduction challenges. I introduced the concept of 'customer experience mapping', or the customer journey, to the business. We created a cross-functional team of training, packaging, sales, support, development, product marketing, and branding (that systems thinking apporach) to ensure that our brand message was consistent across all the customer touchpoints. This led to some rude awakenings for some, like pulling out all the paper inserts we inserted into bulk packaging during an Out-of-Box-Experience activity (e.g. "we don't even use this form any more…").
The final product has received a lot of critical praise and some awards, including a WIRED magazine 8 of 10 rating.
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Live: Sixth semi final in Malta
by Marcus Klier January 13, 2010 10:59 pm 43 views
The sixth and last semi final of the Maltese selection for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest is about to be held. Another six acts will compete to be among the 20 that will reach the grand final on 20th February.
You can follow the show via webcast here.
The line-up
Composer/lyricist in brackets.
Ruth Portelli – Three little words
(Philip Vella/Gerard James Borg)
Roger Tirazona – Silver rain
(Paul Abela/Joe Julian Farrugia)
Jessica Muscat – Fake
Silver Clash – Broken
(Robert Parde)
Lawrence Gray – Stories
(Ray Agius/Godwin Sant)
Dorothy Bezzina – Moments
(Chan Vella/Alexia Schembri)
You can vote for your favourite song out fo the first five semi finals below. After the last song was performed tonight, another poll will be launched for the sixth semi final.
1st semi final poll here.
2nd semi final poll here.
3rd semi final poll here.
4th semi final poll here.
The performances are starting!
1. Ruth Portelli – Three little words
Ruth Portelli competed in the Maltese semi final last year with two songs but did not make it past the semi finals. Tonight, she performs a song by the familiar team of Philip Vella and Gerard James Borg, who already wrote the Maltese entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008.
Now what could those "three little words" mentioned in the title be? Have a guess, it's not too hard! Ruth Portelli performs a gentle ballad that creates a musical atmosphere on stage. The melody is not too memorable and the vocals are rather shaky, which should not make this effort a favourite to qualify. Ruth herself seems a bit uncomfortable on stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww0d7qqJZZ0
2. Roger Tirazona – Silver rain
Roger Tirazona competed three times as a soloistso far and another three times as part of Trilogy. The band achieved their best result in 2007 with Starlight when they came second behind Olivia Lewis.
While it is raining gold in Switzerland, Silver rain is a motto in Malta tonight. The song itself is a rather simple ballad which gains most of its dramatic atmosphere from the over-the-top (but flawless) vocal performance and stage performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XngS9mP-SyY
3. Jessica Muscat – Fake
Jessica Muscat already compete in the semi finals in 2008 and 2009 but never qualified for the final. She tries to be third time lucky with the first up-tempo song of the night. Fake is a classic pop/dance song with some customary sound effects but a rather catchy melody. The song obviously suffers from the low sound quality of the broadcast but could be more impressive in a high-quality studio version despite its simple structure. The singer delivers a confident performance although her facial expressions look slightly worried at some points.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmLF5vvcV4
4. Silver Clash – Broken
SilverClash try to follow in the footsteps of Bobbysocks, the only female duo to win the Eurovision Song Contest to date. Both ladies seem very nervous and the whole performance therefore suffers from the lack of exerience compared to the previous three acts. The song, which has a rather monotonous melody, could be classified classic girl group pop, a genre that has never done very well in the Eurovision Song Contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX9SH1-jfcw
5. Lawrence Gray – Stories
Lawrence Gray has already taken part six times, the last time in 2004. Half of his previous participations resulted in a
We are in for another ballad. While the song itself is not overly outstanding compared to the other ballads in the running this year (it could well fit in the Disney films The hunchback of Notre Dame), it might well gain popularity thanks to the operatic/musical-like vocals, which are flawlessly performed by the singer. The number of operatic entries in national finals has increased all over Europe in recent years, although those eventually selected for Eurovision have only received medium results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9gr_bTIoo
6. Dorothy Bezzina – Moments
This is the second time that Dorothy Bezzina competes for the second time. Last year, she finished 16th with Promises, performed as a duet with Vittorio.
We stay in the musical theatre. The song is not too different from the previous one, although the vocal performance is more in the pop genre. Dorothy delivers a confident performance with strong vocals. Although it is generally among the stronger efforts this year, it might need some more work to win the hearts of the jury members and the televoters in the Eurovision Song Contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8zhd61cswI
This concludes tonight's performances. As always, the televoting will be open until this Saturday, 16:30 CET. The 20 qualifiers will be announced next Wednesday.
You can now vote for your favourite in the sixth semi final here.
Marcus Klier
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While the chicken is cooking, heat the vegetable oil and 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Fry the shallots, ginger, and garlic in the oil until fragrant. Add cilantro and rice, and cook, stirring until toasted. Pour in chicken stock and season with salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until rice is tender and 'steam holes' appear in the surface of the rice, about 20 minutes.


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Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (Shout! Factory)
By Mark Keresman on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 4:00 am
Matthew Sweet Susanna Hoffs
It seems as if almost every rock performer eventually releases an album of covers or a tribute to an influential performer or genre. Such projects are often viewed as a sign that the well of inspiration's running dry -- but the bottom line is: Does the interpreter "personalize" the material, and are the versions any good? With Under the Covers, in which onetime power-pop prince Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs (ex-Bangles) take on '60s hits and semi-obscurities, the score's about 50-50. All the renditions are outstanding (accompanists include Van Dyke Parks and Richard Lloyd), although some arrangements are so similar to the originals (the Who's "The Kids Are Alright") that one might wonder what the point is.
But there are some fine renovations -- Hoffs' take on the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" comes from the heart, her vibrato-rich voice ringing with lost innocence and guarded optimism, the melody driven by a guitar's sighing sustain. Love's "Alone Again Or" features slyly compelling sand-and-honey harmonies that enrich the original's Mexican mariachi and Spanish undertones. Nothing historic, but for '60s enthusiasts or those curious about that era's enduring influence, Covers is a pleasurable listen.
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Ice Fishing...The ONLY way we'll walk on water!
With Mother Nature intent on dumping a bunch of snow on top of the ice; decided to make a smitty sled to make it easier to drag my Clam Kenai Pro. Wants to snowplow in deeper snow. This should make it a lot easier.
Long pull rope attached to a deer pulling harness makes it a breeze to pull a shanty. Saves the hands and shoulders.
I've got a long pull strap and Clam harness for it. Just didn't have it attached in picture. Bumper guard on front to keep from ramming back of ATV when I use it.
Nice looking I made a couple but they are a little taller. Mine are just tall enough to set on if I'm traveling light.
Jeff, will you sit on the sled as-is or take the sled off the smitty sled?i imagine the. Cover won't touch the ground with it on the smutty sled?
Can't speak for Jeff but mine will have to be removed. I put tie off loops on mine so I can put either a sled or shanty on mine. Also put straps across the middle and put a tub on one side, for holding buckets or other equipment.
The set up in the pic is just tall enough that I can sit on comfortably with out removing and can lift t the back up for a wind break. Doesn't quite touch when down on the sled. I have hooks on the sides to strap down when being pulled with my atv but the center supports are actually lower than the outside frame and line up with grooves in the bottom of the tub. No straps needed when pulling by hand. The new tub design on the Clam Kenai Pro Thermal is nice for storage but sure wants to snowplow when there is a few inches of snow on the ice.
... Made a Smitty last season (2017-2018) and absolutely loved it. It made pulling my Clam Nanook sooooo much easier. When the snow's are deep, I'll certainly be using it. Well worth the time, effort & money to have one.


NOT YOUR AVERAGE BIKER CHICK!
We had a rather illustrious visitor into our Guildford store the other day. Elspeth Beard is known by many people in the area as a renowned architect who specialises in what one might term slightly quirky properties.
Her most famous project, though, is the stunning water tower that spreads its rooms over no less than six floors, which Elspeth converted when she was still training to be an architect, and in which she now lives.
But amongst those in the know, Elspeth is even more famous as the very first British woman to ride around the world on a motorcycle.
She was just 24, and only halfway through her studies, yet she decided to put everything on hold to circumnavigate the globe on her trusty 1974 BMW R60/6.
Her travels took her first to America, then Australia where she replenished her funds working in an architects' practice. After Singapore, she travelled into Asia and then Pakistan, before riding back through Europe via Turkey.
The total trip, of course, was not without its trials and tribulations but, with 48,000 miles under her belt, she returned to London some two years after she had departed.
She still rides today and, as you would expect, Elspeth is no fair weather rider. She puts in serious mileage every year, and still finds herself putting a bike through its paces in some pretty demanding terrains.
But funnily enough, she's never had any real motorcycle gear. When she first took up motorcycling, there wasn't much on offer, and she's made do with a wide array of leather, wax cotton and textile outfits, many of which were never designed for wearing on a bike.
Elspeth Beard in the 1980's when she circumnavigated the globe on her trusty BMW.
She came in to see us to choose a couple of new outfits. We spoke to her about her current requirements, and it didn't take us long to home in on Halvarssons' Electra jacket and its matching pant as the perfect combination for what one might term her serious riding.
Hot or cold, wet or dry, we felt the Electra would do the business, but Elspeth was looking for more than mere functionality. It also had to look great on. Look at the photos of her when she was in her twenties, she was of model-like beauty. And even now, some forty years after her adventure, she still cuts a striking figure.
She's tall, skinny and has unfeasibly long legs, but whilst this has defeated her desire to find motorcycle gear in the past, Halvarssons makes the Prince in a long leg, so the pants fitted perfectly. As indeed did the jacket.
We tried several pairs of gloves, but eventually ended up, one more time, with Halvarssons. The Advance glove was perfect, in both weight and fit. Job done.
For a helmet, Elspeth went for Schuberth's new E1. She still rides a BMW R80GS PD, and so the adventure styling of the helmet was just right. This wasn't her first flip-lid, but with the miles Elspeth puts in, she needed something extra quiet. The E1 seemed to fit the bill. On her feet, she walked out with a pair of Daytona Lady Stars; perhaps the perfect boot for the serious lady motorcyclist.
Elspeth Beard in her new technical outfit... A Schuberth helmet, Halavarssons jacket and trousers, and Daytona boots. Click on the thumbnails to view these products.
We were pleased as pie to have found clothing to meet Elspeth's demanding requirements, but she wasn't satisfied with just one outfit.
She also wanted some gear that was a bit less functional; something she would wear in the summer when the sun was out. Something that she could feel safe in on the bike, but something that wouldn't make her look too much like a biker.
The pants were quickly sorted. Rokker's Diva jeans don't fit everybody, but they do look amazing on those who can fit into them. Elspeth fitted them.
For a jacket, we recommended a Belstaff Trailmaster. The ladies' version, with its six ounce material, is actually much nicer than the men's version in the summer.
Elspeth was initially sceptical; she still had the heavily waxed and well-worn Belstaff she took with her on her big trip. But we assured her that the modern Belstaff, with its D30 armour, waterproof membrane and removable thermal liner, was in a different league.
Once she put it on, that was it. She was smitten. Here was a motorcycle jacket that looked great, but which performs at the highest level.
She also wanted a pair of short black boots. Now Elspeth clearly has an eye for the finer things in life, and was hypnotically drawn towards Rokker's new ladies' boots. We were impressed. Their new boots are brilliant. You could walk around all day in them, but equally they're tough enough to ride around the world in, if Elspeth ever decides to give it another go.
For her summer clobber, Elspeth wanted an open face helmet. We'd just got in the new Shoei JO. It's not the cheapest open-face on the market, but it's probably the lightest, and almost certainly the most stylish.
Elspeth's second, more casual outfit... A Shoei helmet, Belstaff Trialmaster jacket, a pair of Rokker trousers, and some Rokker boots. Click on the thumbnails to view these products.
She walked out a happy lady. At last she had some proper, modern riding gear, and one couldn't help but wonder how much easier her trans-global adventure would have been if, back in the eighties, Elspeth had been able to equip herself with the type of high quality gear we all enjoy today.
Still, back then, bikers were a tougher bunch. Even the lady bikers!
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import de.zib.museum.museumdat.MuseumdatDocument.Museumdat;
import de.zib.museum.museumdat.MuseumdatWrapDocument;
import de.zib.museum.museumdat.MuseumdatWrapDocument.MuseumdatWrap;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Collection;
import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException;
import io.github.moosbusch.museum.document.museumdat.MuseumDatXmlDocument;
import io.github.moosbusch.museum.document.spi.AbstractMuseumXmlDocument;
import io.github.moosbusch.museum.document.museumdat.impl.DefaultMuseumDatObjectFactory;

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        extends AbstractMuseumXmlDocument<MuseumdatWrapDocument, T, MuseumdatWrap, Museumdat> implements MuseumDatXmlDocument<T> {

    public AbstractMuseumDatXmlDocument() {
    }

    public AbstractMuseumDatXmlDocument(InputStream in)
            throws IOException, XmlException {
        super(in);
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    protected abstract void addSchemaLocation(MuseumdatWrapDocument museumDatWrapDocument);

    @Override
    public MuseumdatWrap getRootElement() {
        return getRootWrapperElement().getMuseumdatWrap();
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    @Override
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Río Muleta es el nombre que recibe un río que drena hacia la parte sur central de la provincia de Bukidnon, en el sur de la isla de Mindanao, en la parte meridional del país asiático de Filipinas. Es uno de los principales afluentes del río Pulangi, que desemboca en el río Mindanao de Cotabato.

Véase también
Geografía de Filipinas
Geografía de Asia

Referencias

Ríos de Filipinas

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Q: Principle of least privilege vs Interface segregation principle What is the difference of Principle of least privilege and Interface segregation principle?
As much as I understand ISP is just the projection of PoLP on the OOD plain.

A: Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) is a security principle. As a security principle, it must be enforced. It cannot assume all participants are cooperating.
Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) is an API and service design principle. As David Amo pointed out in a comment, ISP is a way to facilitate the implementation of PoLP at the API and service level. However, there are some requirements:

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*As a precondition of implementing PoLP, users of the system must be authenticated as security principals. (Do not be confused by the spelling.)

*Each operation shall be identified with the security principal that requests it.

*For implementers of a client-side (a user which is also a piece of software), it must be designed to request the least level of privilege necessary to perform its own function.

*The operation shall not be granted if the user does not have authorization (privilege) for that operation.

*When implemented together with ISP, one could group together operations belonging to the same kind of privilege, and put each group of these related operations into separate interfaces.

To enforce PoLP, at least one of these, and preferably both, should be enforced:

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*Authorization check should be performed when a user requests an interface (following the design of ISP) at a different privilege level.

*Authorization check should be performed when a user performs any operation with any interface, every time.

The finer grain check is necessary because:

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*Authorization can be revoked at any time. It is possible that authorization is revoked after a user has gained access to an interface (following the design of ISP). Nevertheless, a user who tries to perform an operation with such interface after revocation must be denied.

*In certain architectures and programming environments, it is possible to circumvent interfaces, by using reflection (in programming languages) or by manually crafting a message resembling a legitimate service request.

To conclude,

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*ISP can make an PoLP system design easier to use, by grouping together of operations having related privilege levels.

*ISP can make an unintended privilege violation (e.g. a mistake by a programmer implementing a client-side) easier to detect and correct by raising the error at the time of interface request.

*ISP can enhance the ease of code maintenance due to the first two reasons. This benefit applies to projects that implement security principles.

*ISP alone does not meet the requirements of PoLP, or any security principle, as it is easily circumvented and therefore inadequate for any security purpose.

*PoLP has its own implementation requirements, along with a whole suite of other design patterns.

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City fines two mayoral candidates for late reports
Andrew Caplan @AACaplan
The candidates will be fined $50 a day until their campaign reports are filed.
The race for Gainesville's mayor came and went three months ago but records show there are still two candidates who haven't closed down their campaigns.
Candidates' final filing reports were due Monday. The reports show how candidates spent their remaining campaign contributions and officially end their campaigns.
In March, voters overwhelmingly re-elected incumbent Lauren Poe to serve as mayor with 62% of the vote over his three challengers. Candidate Jenn Powell came in second with about 18.5% of the vote total.
But Powell and fellow mayoral candidate Marlon Bruce have yet to file their reports, according to the city clerk's office. The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections website shows their campaigns are still active.
State law requires candidates be fined $50 for every day a report is late, including weekends and holidays. City Clerk Omichele Gainey said in an email that the candidates were reminded of the deadline several times. Letters notifying them of the fines will be sent out this week.
"It was an oversight," Powell said. "We should've filed in March. I completely forgot about it."
Powell had $2,700 left in her account, according to her last campaign expense report. She said she used all of it and that her final report had been completed for some time.
For Bruce, the $100 fine, as of Wednesday, surpasses the $50 he raised during his campaign. He received the lowest vote total among candidates with 478.
Bruce could not be reached for comment, despite multiple attempts.
Poe finished the campaign with an extra $15,000 in his account, $10,000 of which went to his two campaign managers. Another $200 went to the UF College Democrats, which hosted a forum for the mayoral race, and another $221 to the local not-for-profit Sister City Program of Gainesville.
In District 4, voters returned Adrian Hayes-Santos to the City Commission with 74% of the vote. He ended the campaign with $6,200 left over, most of which went to Alta Systems for campaign materials.
His challenger, Robert Mounts, had $1,314 remaining in his account. Mounts paid $420 to The Swamp Restaurant for his election watch party and paid the remaining $894 to the nonprofit Gainesville Fisher House Foundation to help veterans and families.


It's no secret that loyal customers are key to a business' success. The term "wallet share" has been around for decades, but I think some updating for the 21st century is in order. It's time to take wallet share to the next level.
In the past, wallet share meant providing so many services to customers that it makes it difficult for them to take their business elsewhere.
For example, it's easy for me to close out one checking account with a bank and open a new one at another; but if I've got a checking account, savings account, car loan, and home improvement loan, I'm less likely to transfer banks because it's more work.
For some businesses it's easy to take "increase wallet share" at its most shallow, and involve their customers in so many services or products that they remain customers—sometimes despite crummy customer service—simply because it would be too big a hassle to move.
If you want to increase wallet share, you need to be worthy of your customers' loyalty, not hold it hostage.
At the risk of sounding cliche, wallet share is less about getting into customers' wallets and more about getting into their hearts and minds.
I can talk theory all day, but actions speak louder than words. Here's four steps you can take to increase wallet share build relationships with your customers.
Make sure your company website is nicely designed and provides customers the information they want. Develop buyer personas, consider content marketing, and be available to customers via phone, email, and social media.
A website that does not give you a way to entice and capture leads is dead weight.
If you think your website needs a refresh, we're here to help.
Train every member of your team to provide great customer assistance — whether online, via phone, or in person.
For better or worse, today's consumers expect brands to go above and beyond for their customers. Doing so may mean less margin on a purchase, or less time taking orders from others, but happy customers are vocal ones, and will sing your praises to their friends and on social networks.
Nothing solidifies a customer relationship like repeated, positive customer service experiences.
As consumer trust in traditional advertising falls, there's a corresponding uptick in people who are relying more on recommendations from family, friends, and their social networks.
Content marketing centers around the idea that if you produce and share useful content—instead of traditional television or print ads—you are more likely attract new customers, keep existing ones, and have them recommend you to their connections.
Focus less on selling your product or service and more on providing valuable content and guidance to your audience. Build trust and you'll build your business.
Investing in a good CRM (Customer Relations Management) means you can automate things like lead scoring, nurture/drip emails, and marketing campaigns. You can target certain offers to the individuals most likely to sign up; members of your sales team can see at a glance which items specific customers have already purchased, and tailor their offers to related products.
Used correctly and to its fullest capabilities, a CRM will help you build relationships, cross-sell products and services, and give your customers a consistently pleasant experience.
Technology's rapid growth presents businesses with many challenges, but affords just as many opportunities for reaching new audiences and building relationships with current customers.
If you'd like to turn your website into a customer-friendly place, as well as create a marketing strategy that brings you even more business, it may be time for a redesign.
Background noise: Turn up the volume or whisper something significant?
I wrote about this same topic this week and I really feel strongly about it! It's so true - enough with "tying customers to you". It really does nothing but build resentment and that may work for big brands with little competition (or to whom the loss of a customer more or less wouldn't matter) but it's no strategy at all for small biz. Loyalty is not "I'm stuck here because it's too inconvenient to do anything else." Great points!
I would argue that tying customers to you is a bad move for any business, big or small. The loss of a single customer may not bother a big company, but if they've got a big social following, or their one complaint goes viral, guess who's going to get flamed about it?
Building wallet share is about being human, being kind. And that's something all companies should get behind.


Shearwigs (トビンコ?, lit.: "Flying Parrot") are enemies in the Pikmin games. The females of this species are never seen, as, according to Olimar's notes, they spend nearly their entire life underground, somewhat similar to cicadas. They also do not possess the males' wings. The males have a dark green shell, sporting simple wings and large, sickle-shaped mandibles. They are slightly more aggressive than Male Sheargrubs, and take leave off the ground to hover up high after having lost at least half of their health to allow it to steadily return. While up in the air, these creatures are still within the reach of a Pikmin throw, of which just one accurate button-press is enough to kill one.
Like other mandiblards, Shearwigs have an affinity for chewing apart stick bridges, and they lose health while in water, in the first two games. Because when they are being attacked they fly up, they will stop losing health as soon as they stop being submerged. On the ground, if they are hit in the back, they will die instantly, just like a Dwarf Bulborb.
The Shearwigs also appear in Hey! Pikmin, exclusively as part of the boss fight against the Queen Shearwig. In this game, they only fly around to serve as a line of defense, move towards a target while spinning, chomp on Pikmin, and eat them, all as commanded by the queen.
In Pikmin 3, Shearwigs fly almost all the time while fighting and swoop down to grab Pikmin and eat them. Instead of healing while in flight, they roost and go underground, and can fully heal in 30 seconds. They will go underground to heal when their health reaches 20% or lower, and will emerge after it reaches 50%, if there are prey nearby. This makes them easy to strike down and deal good damage to, and makes them easy targets for Winged Pikmin.
In Pikmin 2's 2-Player Mode, Shearwigs may sometimes pop out when the player digs up a yellow marble. In Pikmin 3, their only Story Mode appearance is in the Formidable Oak, so they cannot be carried back as they just disappear into plasm. They behave as normal in Bingo Battle and Mission Mode. In Hey! Pikmin, they serve as the Queen Shearwig's troops and attacks, similar to Scornets in the Scornet Maestro battle in Pikmin 3.
"Shearwigs are essentially Male Sheargrubs with wings. You can pluck a Shearwig from the air with a toss of a single Pikmin, then defeat it quickly with a small swarm. Although it takes some effort to aim and fire at the little bugs, they provide a good source of Pikmin sprouts."
"These creatures behave much like Male Sheargrubs, burrowing underground and waiting to attack unsuspecting prey. Once above ground, however, Shearwigs fly into the air and attack your Pikmin from above. When you encounter a group of Shearwigs, move out of range and attack the enemies from a distance. During prolonged battles, Shearwigs will shake their attackers by burrowing underground. Don't let your guard down until you're sure the area is clear of enemies."
For strategies against the Shearwigs in Hey! Pikmin, see Queen Shearwig#Strategy.
The best way to kill a Shearwig is to land a Pikmin directly on top of one; this will instantly kill it. Otherwise, the creature can be swarmed and, provided it does not die right away, the Pikmin should be called back when it attempts to fly upward. At this point it should be shot down by having a Pikmin of any type thrown at it.
In Pikmin, Shearwigs share the Male Sheargrubs' invincibility trick while grasping a Pikmin, so a Pikmin thrown directly on its back for a one-hit-kill is a safer method. This invulnerability is lost in Pikmin 2, making for an especially quick and easy kill through simple swarming. In Pikmin 2, Purple Pikmin may also be used to stun large groups of the enemies, which is quite helpful considering that a Shearwig is seldom found alone.
Another strategy for Shearwigs that appear near water (such as The Distant Spring in Pikmin) is to bring a group of about 30 Blue Pikmin and lead the Shearwig into the water, quickly swarming it before it can take off.
In Pikmin 3, Shearwigs gain a new form of attack wherein as soon as they emerge from the ground, they will immediately take flight rather than attempt to chase Pikmin on the ground. Once in the air, they will swoop down, grab Pikmin in their mandibles, lift them into the air and eat them. The same strategies from previous games are effective on the Shearwig. If in the air, they are also vulnerable to Pikmin being thrown at them to knock them onto the ground, or to get swarmed by Winged Pikmin while in the air. Rock Pikmin can also instantly defeat an airborne Shearwig.
To do: Move to the glitches article.
In Pikmin, there is a visual glitch that can happen when the Shearwigs in The Distant Spring by the Massage Machine are hiding underground. If they are hiding right on the ledge that leads into the water, they can be seen above ground, completely motionless.
In the same game, Pikmin that are thrown or ordered into an area where Shearwigs are under the ground attack the ground as if something were there (similarly to the way White Pikmin unearth buried treasure). However, the Shearwigs will not come to the surface unless Captain Olimar moves near enough. This is useful for when Pikmin need to carry objects through an area with Shearwigs or Sheargrubs (such as the Guard Satellite or the Extraordinary Bolt), as the enemies don't attack, and it can be used to indicate whether any Mandiblards lie ahead.
In Pikmin 2's 2-Player Battle mode, Shearwigs may sometimes pop out when the player digs up a yellow marble. Sometimes, the Shearwigs will move incredibly fast, and will eat Pikmin faster, and also move up and down faster when carried to the Onion. The latter oddity may also sometimes happen with Fiery Blowhogs in Pikmin.
Japanese name: トビヒメアギト?, lit.: "Flying Princess Jaw"
This creature's name is a combination of "shear" and "earwig" – a real-life insect that also has large mandibles and wings. In Japan, it is known as トビンコ?, which is a combination of とび? (lit.: "flying") and いんこ? (lit.: "parrot"). In its scientific name, Himeagea volaris, volaris is related to the Latin volare, which means "fly".
Internally, it is known in Pikmin has kabekuiC. The C in the name is what distinguishes it from the other mandiblards; in particular, the Female Sheargrub uses A and the Male uses B. In Pikmin 2, the internal name is simply tobi, which is part of its Japanese name (とび?, lit.: "flying"), and in Pikmin 3, it is the entirety of the Japanese name (tobinko).
A Shearwig in the enemy reel of Pikmin.
Artwork of three Shearwigs from Pikmin 2.
A Shearwig on the Piklopedia.
Two Shearwigs in Pikmin 2.
A Shearwig taking flight in Pikmin 2.
Two Shearwigs seen from below in Pikmin 3.
A Shearwig using the spinning attack in Hey! Pikmin.
A line of Shearwigs charging, commanded by the Queen Shearwig.
The creature's e-card, #46 (11th red card).
The female version of the Shearwig cannot fly, stays underground, and has not been seen in-game, but it has been mentioned in the Piklopedia.
The Shearwig and the Wollywog can inflict the most damage on leaders in Pikmin 2: 40% of their health without the Metal Suit Z, and 20% with the upgrade.
The Shearwig's exoskeleton covers its entire body in Pikmin and Pikmin 2, but only covers their mandibles and head in Pikmin 3.
On The Forest Navel, one can lure Shearwigs into the pathway leading to the Libra, or even to the part's island itself, and get it to fall into the abyss. This can be achieved by making it begin flight while near the edge; at times, the creature will end its flight stage above the pit, and plummet right down. This kills the Shearwig.
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Celebrated contemporary historian and playwright Francis Beckett presents A Modest Little Man, a comedy about Labour post-war prime minister Clement Attlee: the man who made the welfare state.
During his six year tenure, he changed the whole direction of public policy, transforming the lives of the next generation.
How can the insignificant, passionless little Labour leader Clem Attlee possibly compete with Churchill?
Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright and contemporary historian. His 20 books include biographies of four Prime Ministers, and he edited a series of 20 biographies, Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century. He wrote a highly praised biography of Clem Attlee – a new and updated edition is published by Haus Publishing (2015). His latest book is Jeremy Corbyn and the Strange Rebirth of Labour England (Biteback, 2018). Recent books also include Fascist in the Family (Routledge, 2017), a memoir of his own father, the Labour MP turned fascist John Beckett. His last play The London Spring enjoyed a three week London fringe run in 2012.
A Modest Little Man is at The Bread and Roses Theatre 15th to 26th January 2019.


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package com.linecorp.armeria.server.grpc.protocol;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;

import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtensionContext;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ArgumentsProvider;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ArgumentsSource;

import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.protobuf.InvalidProtocolBufferException;

import com.linecorp.armeria.client.WebClient;
import com.linecorp.armeria.client.grpc.GrpcClients;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.AggregatedHttpResponse;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.HttpHeaderNames;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.HttpHeaders;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.HttpStatus;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.SerializationFormat;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.grpc.protocol.ArmeriaStatusException;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.grpc.protocol.GrpcHeaderNames;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.grpc.protocol.GrpcWebTrailers;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.util.UnmodifiableFuture;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.Messages;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.Messages.EchoStatus;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.Messages.Payload;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.Messages.SimpleRequest;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.Messages.SimpleResponse;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.TestServiceGrpc;
import com.linecorp.armeria.grpc.testing.TestServiceGrpc.TestServiceBlockingStub;
import com.linecorp.armeria.internal.common.grpc.protocol.StatusCodes;
import com.linecorp.armeria.internal.common.grpc.protocol.UnaryGrpcSerializationFormats;
import com.linecorp.armeria.server.ServerBuilder;
import com.linecorp.armeria.server.ServiceRequestContext;
import com.linecorp.armeria.testing.junit5.server.ServerExtension;
import com.linecorp.armeria.testing.server.ServiceRequestContextCaptor;

import io.grpc.ManagedChannel;
import io.grpc.ManagedChannelBuilder;
import io.grpc.Status;
import io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException;

class AbstractUnaryGrpcServiceTest {
    private static final String METHOD_NAME = "/armeria.grpc.testing.TestService/UnaryCall";
    private static final String PAYLOAD_BODY = "hello";

    private static final SimpleRequest REQUEST_MESSAGE = SimpleRequest.newBuilder().setPayload(
            Payload.newBuilder().setBody(ByteString.copyFromUtf8(PAYLOAD_BODY)).build()).build();
    private static final SimpleResponse RESPONSE_MESSAGE = SimpleResponse.newBuilder().setPayload(
            Payload.newBuilder().setBody(ByteString.copyFromUtf8(PAYLOAD_BODY)).build()).build();

    private static final SimpleRequest EXCEPTION_REQUEST_MESSAGE =
            SimpleRequest.newBuilder()
                         .setResponseStatus(EchoStatus.newBuilder()
                                                      .setCode(StatusCodes.PERMISSION_DENIED)
                                                      .setMessage("not for your eyes")
                                                      .build())
                         .build();

    // This service only depends on protobuf. Users can use a custom decoder / encoder to avoid even that.
    private static class TestService extends AbstractUnaryGrpcService {

        @Override
        protected CompletionStage<byte[]> handleMessage(ServiceRequestContext ctx, byte[] message) {
            assertThat(ServiceRequestContext.currentOrNull()).isSameAs(ctx);

            final SimpleRequest request;
            try {
                request = SimpleRequest.parseFrom(message);
            } catch (InvalidProtocolBufferException e) {
                throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
            }
            if (request.hasResponseStatus()) {
                // For statusExceptionUpstream() and statusExceptionDownstream()
                assertThat(request).isEqualTo(EXCEPTION_REQUEST_MESSAGE);
                final Messages.EchoStatus resStatus = request.getResponseStatus();
                throw new ArmeriaStatusException(resStatus.getCode(), resStatus.getMessage());
            } else {
                // For normalUpstream() and normalDownstream()
                assertThat(request).isEqualTo(REQUEST_MESSAGE);
                return UnmodifiableFuture.completedFuture(RESPONSE_MESSAGE.toByteArray());
            }
        }
    }

    @RegisterExtension
    static final ServerExtension server = new ServerExtension() {
        @Override
        protected void configure(ServerBuilder sb) {
            sb.service(METHOD_NAME, new TestService());
        }
    };

    private static class UnaryGrpcSerializationFormatArgumentsProvider implements ArgumentsProvider {
        @Override
        public Stream<? extends Arguments> provideArguments(final ExtensionContext context) throws Exception {
            return UnaryGrpcSerializationFormats.values().stream().map(Arguments::of);
        }
    }

    @ParameterizedTest
    @ArgumentsSource(UnaryGrpcSerializationFormatArgumentsProvider.class)
    void normalDownstream(SerializationFormat serializationFormat) throws Exception {
        final TestServiceBlockingStub stub =
                GrpcClients.newClient(server.httpUri(serializationFormat),
                                      TestServiceBlockingStub.class);
        final SimpleResponse response = stub.unaryCall(REQUEST_MESSAGE);
        assertThat(response).isEqualTo(RESPONSE_MESSAGE);
        final ServiceRequestContextCaptor captor = server.requestContextCaptor();
        final HttpHeaders trailers = GrpcWebTrailers.get(captor.take());
        assertThat(trailers).isNotNull();
        assertThat(trailers.getInt(GrpcHeaderNames.GRPC_STATUS)).isZero();
    }

    @Test
    void normalUpstream() {
        final ManagedChannel channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forAddress("127.0.0.1", server.httpPort())
                                                            .usePlaintext()
                                                            .build();
        try {
            final TestServiceBlockingStub stub = TestServiceGrpc.newBlockingStub(channel);
            final SimpleResponse response = stub.unaryCall(REQUEST_MESSAGE);
            assertThat(response).isEqualTo(RESPONSE_MESSAGE);
        } finally {
            channel.shutdownNow();
        }
    }

    @ParameterizedTest
    @ArgumentsSource(UnaryGrpcSerializationFormatArgumentsProvider.class)
    void statusExceptionDownstream(SerializationFormat serializationFormat) throws Exception {
        final TestServiceBlockingStub stub =
                GrpcClients.newClient(server.httpUri(serializationFormat),
                                      TestServiceBlockingStub.class);
        assertThatThrownBy(() -> stub.unaryCall(EXCEPTION_REQUEST_MESSAGE))
                .isInstanceOfSatisfying(StatusRuntimeException.class, cause -> {
                    final Status status = cause.getStatus();
                    assertThat(status.getCode().value()).isEqualTo(StatusCodes.PERMISSION_DENIED);
                    assertThat(status.getDescription()).isEqualTo("not for your eyes");
                });

        final ServiceRequestContextCaptor captor = server.requestContextCaptor();
        final HttpHeaders trailers = GrpcWebTrailers.get(captor.take());
        assertThat(trailers).isNotNull();
        assertThat(trailers.getInt(GrpcHeaderNames.GRPC_STATUS)).isEqualTo(StatusCodes.PERMISSION_DENIED);
    }

    @Test
    void statusExceptionUpstream() {
        final ManagedChannel channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forAddress("127.0.0.1", server.httpPort())
                                                            .usePlaintext()
                                                            .build();
        try {
            final TestServiceBlockingStub stub = TestServiceGrpc.newBlockingStub(channel);
            assertThatThrownBy(() -> stub.unaryCall(EXCEPTION_REQUEST_MESSAGE))
                    .isInstanceOfSatisfying(StatusRuntimeException.class, cause -> {
                        final Status status = cause.getStatus();
                        assertThat(status.getCode().value()).isEqualTo(StatusCodes.PERMISSION_DENIED);
                        assertThat(status.getDescription()).isEqualTo("not for your eyes");
                    });
        } finally {
            channel.shutdownNow();
        }
    }

    @Test
    void unsupportedMediaType() {
        final WebClient client = WebClient.of(server.httpUri());

        final AggregatedHttpResponse response =
                client.post(METHOD_NAME, "foobarbreak").aggregate().join();

        assertThat(response.headers().get(HttpHeaderNames.STATUS)).isEqualTo(
                HttpStatus.UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE.codeAsText());
    }

    @ParameterizedTest
    @ArgumentsSource(UnaryGrpcSerializationFormatArgumentsProvider.class)
    void invalidPayload(SerializationFormat serializationFormat) throws Exception {
        final WebClient client = WebClient.of(server.httpUri());

        final AggregatedHttpResponse message = client.prepare().post(METHOD_NAME).content(
                serializationFormat.mediaType(), "foobarbreak").execute().aggregate().join();

        // Trailers-Only response.
        assertThat(message.headers().get(HttpHeaderNames.STATUS)).isEqualTo(HttpStatus.OK.codeAsText());
        assertThat(message.headers().get(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_TYPE)).isEqualTo(
                serializationFormat.mediaType().toString());
        assertThat(message.headers().get(GrpcHeaderNames.GRPC_STATUS))
                .isEqualTo(Integer.toString(StatusCodes.INTERNAL));
        assertThat(message.headers().get(GrpcHeaderNames.GRPC_MESSAGE)).isNotBlank();
        assertThat(message.content().isEmpty()).isEqualTo(true);
        final ServiceRequestContextCaptor captor = server.requestContextCaptor();
        final HttpHeaders trailers = GrpcWebTrailers.get(captor.take());
        assertThat(trailers).isNotNull();
        assertThat(trailers.getInt(GrpcHeaderNames.GRPC_STATUS)).isEqualTo(StatusCodes.INTERNAL);
    }
}


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Staff Software Engineer - AccSec
Bogotá - Bogota, Colombia
Remote First in Colombia or Brazil; Bogota, Colombia
Twilio is growing rapidly and seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation phases of cloud-based distributed systems built to seamlessly scale to several million transactions per day.
As a Staff, Software Engineer in the Account Security team, you will lead the design and implementation phases of cloud-based distributed systems built to seamlessly scale to several million transactions per day. Not only will you be responsible for tackling some of the most sophisticated and exciting technical problems in the industry, you will also be sharing your technical expertise with other engineers and leading them through an accelerated learning process.
You are intrigued by the intersection of the cloud, telecommunications and security spaces, how to harness the power of SMS and voice to enable millions of consumers to securely sign up and sign in every day using the services from the global brands they trust. You enjoy the challenge of owning a critical service and engineering it to work optimally in any circumstance.
You are also passionate about collaborating with multiple R&D and product teams, crafting together microservices and APIs that developers around the world will use to deliver new applications. You have strong communication skills, and a belief that team output is more important than individual output.
BE AN OWNER: Take full end-to-end ownership of your services, from designing to operations and monitoring in production.
EMPOWER OTHERS: Provide a safe work environment that embraces failure as a way of learning and inspires our engineers to be inventive and motivated.
NO SHENANIGANS: You always act in an honest, direct and transparent way and uphold our values.
WEAR THE CUSTOMER'S SHOES: Every minute of every day understand our customer needs and expectations from Twilio and align those with our strategies and plans.
WRITE IT DOWN: Evaluate opportunities, risk and technical strategies and provide key findings to internal partners.
RUTHLESSLY PRIORITIZE: Work in a fast paced environment. It is key for you to understand, document and define risks that drive and enhance the organization's ability to prioritize while advising the business of these priorities.
BE BOLD: Drive architecture and building systems for multiple orders of magnitude of growth. Every big idea starts small: open up the boundaries and keep raising the bar as solving small problems can bring big results. Never settle and keep pushing yourself and the teams forward.
BE INCLUSIVE: Coach, mentor and inspire engineering teams by building and ensuring a safe and inclusive environment where all voices can be heard.
DRAW THE OWL: Influence teams to continuously be improving while supporting progressive ways to solve problems; adopt new technologies and strategies where applicable.
DON'T SETTLE: Always look for the next opportunity for Twilio to improve our quality, reliability and security to continuously earn our customers trust.
Account Security Engineering is the founding team of our Bogota office. Our developers build the leading Authy multi-factor authentication app used by millions around the world. Every day we push the boundaries of web-scale service delivery, operating with utmost reliability the API services that secure the online presence of the biggest brands. We are passionate about crafting simple APIs that developers will love.
By joining us you will have the opportunity to work with a team of forward-thinking and supportive professionals who will care about helping you on a successful career path.Twilio is truly unique; we are a company committed to your growth, your learning, your development, and your entire employee experience. We only win when our employees succeed and we're dedicated to helping you develop your strengths. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion, and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.
This position will be located in either a remote location in Colombia or Brazil - or in our Bogota, Colombia office. With the latter, you will enjoy our perks: catered meals, snacks, monthly All Hands and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; that strives to balance work and home life, that understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves. We seek people who naturally demonstrate our values, who are challenged by problems, empower others to thrive, people who can draw the owl and not be beholden to one playbook.
Invest in weeks dedicated to taking on hard problems and creating your own ideas. We have a cultural foundation built on diversity, inclusion, and innovation and we want you and your ideas to thrive at Twilio.
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