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Two Virginia Tech online graduate programs among top in nation
France Belanger is a professor in the department of accounting and information systems in the Pamplin College of Business. She also is a faculty member in Virginia Tech's online master of information technology program.
Two Virginia Tech online graduate education programs are among the top in the country.
The university's online master's degree in information technology is the nation's second best, according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report's ranking of the Best Online Programs.
This is the fifth consecutive year that the program, the top among Virginia universities, landed at No. 2 in this annual ranking. It tied New York University for the No. 2 spot, behind the University of Southern California.
U.S News also ranked Virginia Tech's online graduate engineering program at No. 20.
The report assessed 1,490 online degree programs and evaluated select features, including student engagement, faculty credentials and training, peer reputation, student services and technology, and admissions selectivity. It considered only degree-granting programs offering 100 percent online classes.
Virginia Tech offers its online information technology degree collaboratively through the College of Engineering and the Pamplin College of Business. The program combines a variety of departments within these colleges, including the Department of Computer Science and the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, both in the College of Engineering; and the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, the Department of Business Information Technology, and the Department of Management, all in the Pamplin College of Business.
The graduate information technology program enrolls 549 students.
Enhancements to the program have been some of the keys to its success in the past few years, said Pamplin Dean Robert Sumichrast.
"Pamplin and engineering have improved the curriculum and student experience for the MIT [master of information technology] over the past four years by using top educators and addressing the needs of our professional students with an updated and expanded curriculum in areas such as cyber and healthcare analytics," he said.
The program represents an important joint effort between the two colleges, said Glenda Scales, who is associate dean for global engagement, chief technology officer, and director of engineering online programs at Virginia Tech.
"Our unique collaboration with the Pamplin College of Business is a model for delivering interdisciplinary degree programs to our students," she said. "We are fortunate to have dedicated faculty and talented students consistently choosing to participate in the masters of information technology program. It is exciting to be able to provide those students access to high-quality courses offerings, particularly in the area of cyber security, that are designed to meet the demands of the IT workforce."
U.S. News also ranked Virginia Tech's master of information technology program as the No. 1 Best Online Graduate Information Technology Programs for Veterans.
Additionally, the program picked up a national accolade from Cyberdegrees.org, which recently ranked it No. 6 among cyber security programs.
As for online graduate engineering programs, Virginia Tech's was second among Virginia schools, according to the U.S. News report. It ranked ahead of programs at several other state institutions, including Old Dominion University at No. 42 and George Mason University at No. 57.
It also landed higher than programs offered by the University of Florida and Ohio State University, according to the report.
There are 2,277 graduate students enrolled in the College of Engineering for its 2017-2018 academic year. The college offers a variety of graduate programs online or through interactive videoconferencing, including aerospace engineering, ocean engineering, and civil engineering.
Pamplin enrolls 1,025 graduate students, including Ph.D., MBA, and specialized master's programs.
Virginia Tech has offered online and distance-learning education for two decades. Its first online program was available in 1997.
Numerous graduate degree or certificate programs are available. Visit Virginia Tech Online for more information.
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BA International Management and Business Administration with Italian
Why study International Management Business Administration with a European Language at Henley
What is International Management Business Administration with a European Language?
This degree programme will provide you with a strong grounding in the major areas of business whilst developing your foreign language skills and your understanding of a major European business centre. This programme is designed to prepare graduates for responsible professional roles in the public and private sectors in the UK and internationally.
These internationally focused programmes examine the key themes and emerging challenges facing business in a global context. You will examine the internal and external factors that impact on business performance and drive strategic decision making in any organisation.
Progressive business focused modules span areas including marketing, finance, organisational behaviour and human resource management. You will also develop a high level of understanding of your chosen language - both spoken and written - and gain an awareness of the relevant country's culture and practices.
A study year abroad or a one-year paid work placement in year three provides you with an outstanding opportunity to both apply and further develop your business related knowledge and skills, as well as your language capabilities. In some cases, a successful placement may lead to the offer of a permanent role within the same organisation upon graduation.
The final year of the programme is designed to build on the professional and practical knowledge and skills you will have acquired and a range of optional modules allows you to tailor your degree towards your own interests and aims.
In an increasingly globalised business world multilingual employees are highly sought-after.
Graduates will find themselves more career mobile and better prepared to work in a multinational environment, and possess language and communication skills that will differentiate them from the majority of professionals. Graduates typically enter a wide range of careers including banking and finance, consultancy, management, accountancy, the civil service, sales and marketing, retailing and other service industries.
Professor James Walker
Head of International Business and Strategy
Henley Business School Director of Research
j.t.walker@henley.ac.uk
Dr Chul Chung
Assistant Professor of International Human Resource Management
c.chung@henley.ac.uk
Dr Denise Tsang
d.tsang@henley.ac.uk
Dr John Latsis
Associate Professor in Social and Organisational Theory
j.s.latsis@henley.ac.uk
Dr Lucy Newton
Associate Professor in Business History
l.a.newton@henley.ac.uk
Dr Lynn Thurloway
Subject Area Leader Management Challenge
lynn.thurloway@henley.ac.uk
Dr Peter Cook
Sessional Lecturer
p.r.cook@henley.ac.uk
Professor Peter Miskell
Professor of International Business and Media History
Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Henley Business School
p.m.miskell@henley.ac.uk
Course Overview Why Henley? Faculty & Staff
N2R3 (degree programme)
Four years full-time including a one-year paid work placement or university study abroad
Graduates can apply for exemptions from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), exemptions and/or credit for prior learning from the professional accounting bodies
GCSE: Mathematics and English grade B or above A Level: AAB-ABB from three A Levels.
Pass Diploma and achieve 34-32 points
Introductory International Financial Accounting A - AC105A
http://www.reading.ac.uk/module/document.aspx?modP=AC105A&modYR=1920
10 [5 ECTS credits]
Introduction to Management Accounting - AC106
People and Organisations - MM1F11
http://www.reading.ac.uk/module/document.aspx?modP=MM1F11&modYR=1920
Markets, Marketing and Strategy - MM1F12
Business Statistics - MM1F13
Students must take 40 credits of optional modules available in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, of which at least 20 credits will be made up of optional modules in Italian.
Management Accounting - AC201
Management Skills - MM256
http://www.reading.ac.uk/module/document.aspx?modP=MM256&modYR=1920
Business Strategy - MM276
In Management
Students must select 20 credits from a list of optional modules available in Henley Business School.
Part 3: University study abroad or work placement abroad (one year, full-time)
ML2YL5 Year Abroad Language 40 credits
ML3YSWA University study/Work placement/Assistantship abroad 80 credits
Advanced Italian Language III - IT3L6
http://www.reading.ac.uk/module/document.aspx?modP=IT3L6&modYR=1920
Italian Language for Management & Business - IT3LMB
http://www.reading.ac.uk/module/document.aspx?modP=IT3LMB&modYR=1920
Management Project - MM357
Remaining credits will be made up of optional modules available in the Henley Business School and modules from elsewhere in the University.
Work placement year or university study abroad
Students completing a 4 year degree programme with a 1 year work placement will be charged 15% of the full fee during their placement year. For students taking BA Accounting and Business, which contains placements in years 2, 3 and 4, the fee level will be set at 80% of the full fee in these years.
Please see further information on student finance or contact helpdesk@reading.ac.uk.
Our undergraduate degree programmes are designed for students with or without prior knowledge and experience of their chosen subject. Generally we don't ask for any specific A Levels but subjects like business studies, economics, geography, IT and mathematics may be relevant depending on what you choose to study.
BA International Management and Business Administration with French/German/Italian/Spanish
Applicants for BA International Management and Business Administration with French/Spanish are required to obtain a minimum GCSE grade B (or 6) or IB Standard Level grade 4 in a Modern Foreign Language.
Applicants for BA International Management and Business Administration with German are required to obtain a minimum GCSE grade A (or 7) or AS level grade B or IB Standard Level grade 5 in German.
BA International Management and Business Administration with Italian can be taken from beginner's level and no previous language qualifications are required.
Vicky Bostock
Upon graduation I joined Interserve as an HR Coordinator and I am now Group HR Business Partner. I think that my degree has had a massive impact on my ability to get the job I wanted and to progress in my career.

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The Place Game, a free service of Omaha by Design, is an organized way of brainstorming potential improvements to public spaces by listening to the people who use them. It was developed by the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities.
All places on the list can be accessed by the general public. Click on the links within each entry for more information. Got a place you'd like to share? Post your suggestions here.
The Old Market and Wholesale District is a City of Omaha historic landmark that's also listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district. It's significant to the commercial development of Omaha as a wholesale jobbing area, which mushroomed in the 1880s and continued well into the 20th century, serving as the distribution center for a variety of goods shipped on the Union Pacific Railroad and its branch lines all the way to the west coast. Comprised of former light industrial and warehouse buildings and wholesale jobbing houses, today it's a popular entertainment and residential district that's home to restaurants, shops and loft apartments.
This corner of the Dundee neighborhood is a great place to sit back and watch the events of the day unfold. The neighborhood was named one of the nation's 10 best by the American Planning Association in 2011. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was built at the end of a streetcar line in the early days of the 20th century.
Many a jazz great played at the Dreamland Ballroom. Today, the Dreamland Plaza serves as a community gathering space with seating areas and a spacious stage for musical entertainment. A bronze sculpture of three musicians, created by local artist Littleton Alston, pays homage to the area's rich history. Omaha Urban Neighborhoods provides walking tours of the N. 24th Street neighborhood – call 402.709.2486 to schedule a walk.
Tallgrass prairie once extended through much of eastern Nebraska. Due to the cultivation of the rich prairie soil, only scattered remnants remain today. The preserve, a reestablished grassland research area, was donated to the University of Nebraska at Omaha Department of Biology in 1959 by Arthur A. Allwine. In 1970, 130 acres were seeded with native tallgrass prairie species, and an additional seven acres were seeded with mixed grass species. More than 250 species of woody and herbaceous plants have been identified on the preserve.
Central High School opened as Omaha's first all-grades school in 1859, although it took 12 years for the district to construct a building. In 1869, the Nebraska Legislature donated the old capitol building to be used as a high school, but it was declared unsafe and was torn down in 1870. A new high school was completed in 1871 and featured a 150-foot spire that dominated the downtown horizon. In 1876, electrical engineers wired the school's tower to give Omaha its first demonstration of electric lights. President William Howard Taft visited the school in 1911 and climbed the tower for a better view of the city. Before the advent of air conditioning, locals would sleep on the school's lawn for relief from the heat on muggy summer nights.
Is your neighborhood a great place? Help improve the public spaces in your corner of the city by hosting a Place Game workshop. Omaha by Design offers Place Game workshops free of charge for neighborhood and civic groups from March through October. For more information, call 402.934.7055 or email info@omahabydesign.org.


A couple of weeks ago, I was listening to a powerful exchange of ideas between Pierre-Elliot Levasseur, the president of La Presse in Montréal, and Canada's foremost media critic, Jesse Brown.
Levasseur responds by emphasizing the role that large newsrooms have traditionally played producing enterprise reporting and investigative journalism – he proposes that this fact is often missed by those who believe that small upstarts will have much to contribute.
When a 14-year veteran of the media industry like Brown talks about these trends, it validates a lot of what a growing number of people in the "future of news" have been saying for years: It's time to reboot the media and start from the ground up.
Im looking forward to you adding some substance to the wishful thinking - that's not meant sarcastically- I'd love to know how these sentiments go beyond niche.
I don't want to sound hostile because I'm not - quite the opposite - but you say the current model is broken - I'd agree - but not sure how something like Der Correspondent ever gets to any kind of scale and is a new 'model'.
I guess I'm asking what works outside of Amsterdam and Vancouver.
What are the signals that this new media ecosystem will ever rise to a level that could replace the democratic functions of established news organizations?
And where can I find examples of these new, typically reader-funded, news operations that demonstrate that they can reach any significant scale?
I recently invested a couple of nights watching the Showtime documentary The Fourth Estate. The filmmakers go inside the New York Times just ahead of the November 2016 election and then follow a number of incredible stories that play out after the election and right up to events of this past year. It's an amazing piece of filmmaking. And it highlights the kind of work that large, established news organizations are able to do and the political forces that they are able to withstand.
I reference The Fourth Estate to say that I don't see a future without the New York Times or Washington Post in the U.S., or without the Toronto Star or Globe & Mail in Canada. I believe that NPR and the CBC will exist in some form also. The Associated Press and Canadian Press might even see a period of growth. All of the aforementioned organizations will play a significant role in the media ecosystem of the next decade. The size and scope of that role is what's hard to predict right now.
However, the last decade has signalled that the media ecosystem of the future might have a lot fewer midsize news organizations: regional papers, the small-town papers, local TV and radio. In Canada, for example, more than 200 local news outlets of all types have closed since 2008. Similar closures are happening across the U.S. as Margaret Sullivan described in her recent column, The local-news crisis is destroying what a divided America desperately needs: Common ground.
So the question remains: Where are the examples that prove that small news organizations can scale up?
The first two examples of scale I typically point toward (both are broken, but illustrative) are BuzzFeed & Vox. Both are roughly a decade old. It only took 10 years for these startups to scale to be global enterprises and household names. Current upstarts will need a bit of time to grow.
Arguably, Vice Media is a similar story, having started its shift away from a print magazine into digital around 2006. Coming from Montreal, Canada, and covering music and drugs, Vice is a great example of the unexpected places where innovation can come from.
Thankfully, there are more examples of what's working today at a slightly smaller or younger scale. And, to answer Charlie's question, there are also many examples outside of the names that are regularly covered in the industry press, like De Correspondent in Holland.
In the local news space, there are many emerging examples (like the one recently shared by my fellow JSK alum, Don Day, above). One I'm currently watching closely is The Colorado Sun: "a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet focused on investigative, explanatory and narrative journalism." So far, they've raised more than $150,000 on Kickstarter from 2,500 supporters. However, there are so many examples of digital upstarts in this space it's hard not to mention a few more to look at, for example: The New Tropic in Miami, TylerLoop in Tyler, Texas, or The Devil Strip in Akron, Ohio.
On the regional level, I like to point to Canadian examples like The Tyee, National Observer, and The Discourse. Each have very humble beginnings and proved that they could scale to do groundbreaking and award-winning reporting. Each has raised significant funding directly from readers.
Another powerful example and case study of a local online news startup starting small and scaling up is VTDigger in Vermont. Following the pattern highlighted in the previous examples, it took them roughly 10 years to reach scale. They break stories. They win awards. They've got sustainable revenue and don't have to repay VCs.
A final example is Mediapart in France. It has hit the 10-year mark and now has more than 140,000 members. It is believed to have an impact on the news cycle in France.
I mention the initiatives above because I believe that there are actually a surprising number of digital newsroom experiments underway right now and that we simply don't hear about them as much as we should. I also believe that some of these experiments will demonstrate that they can scale within the next few years. The simple truth is that journalism upstarts are getting better, getting faster, and their costs are coming down quickly.
It's a great thought experiment and one that I invite you to try at home: What would a network of "small is beautiful" news organizations that would be sufficient to fill the widening gap in coverage look like? How many newsrooms would there be? How much staffing would they need to have? What geographic area would they need to cover? What beats would they need to cover? Would a country like the U.S. need 300, 3,000, or 30,000 of these news organizations?
I believe a radically different future for the media ecosystem is not only possible, but is very likely. I believe that small digital upstarts will start to be the democracy-serving oases in a time of growing news deserts. But we have to start doing the work today to get new experiments underway, and we have to start paying more attention to the growing number of examples that already exist.
Have an opinion on this, or examples of your own to share? Please leave a comment below. And, if your passions overlap with any of the above, please get in touch and subscribe for updates.


"Be a leader, not a follower."
rivers, sewage, and storm water.
poisonous, heavy, metallic element that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.
trash some how finding its way into our oceans and rivers.
bacteria (as possible) out of the vital water needed.
i got the idea for this essay after writing a short paragraph on world problems and decided to look up water problems. I was very surprised to see just how many there were.


For no good reason, we are hoping to avoid making a decision about grading homework – it seems indicated that we should do it.
We don't have any recollection of any teacher ever assigning homework to someone with an autism spectrum disability. What is a school education without homework? So we have voluntary homework. The SAITO main plan form (shown above) had a new philleme added (red box top right). The characters say homework – we obviously could not find an image that was very inspiring.
One of the core functional areas in the SAITO software involves plans – these are typically either Individual Education Plans (IEPs; age 4 to 21) or Individual Behavior Plans (IBPs; age 22+). Initially, we imagined specifying just a page or two within someone's plan in order to include two hours per day of adapted physical education and exercise. We would just need to define transportation and a curriculum as well as specific class times and locations. Then there were aides and accommodations. Then a few months in it became apparent that genetic testing could be a powerful tool for parents and physicians: they might be able to discover how well genetically similar students were doing in terms of velocity of learning with emphasis on differences in diet, logistics, sleep and medications. We were (and remain) opposed to requiring that DNA testing be done ALTHOUGH we strongly favor it. Then dramatic differences (where we did not expect them) between a pair of students with Helmsmoortel-van der Aa syndrome (the ADNP gene) and, later, between two students with Fragile X syndrome made it clear that just knowing that a gene was different was not sufficient. We felt it was useful to know at the codon level what was wrong with the gene. Our base curriculum would remain WuJi sitting and standing, tai chi tools, Qigong and Chen Family style Tai Chi Chuan. But there was the challenge to provide individual daily homework for those who wanted it. Our assignments are quite different from the prevailing pattern in school where all students (well …) do the same work each night and the tasks change each night. In our arrangements the tasks can differ by student, but they rarely change night over night. So a student with cerebral palsy complicated by arthritis in the arms might do the same selected movements from Chen Family style warm-ups, Eight Brocades qigong, Tai Chi ruler and Chen Family style Silk Reeling for months or even years. But an autism spectrum student with an eating disorder could be doing different movements from Chen Family style warm-ups, Da Wu qigong, Tai Chi ball and other Chen Family style Silk Reeling exercises.
I had heard rumors that ex-49er Dwight Clark was being tested for ALS about a year or so ago. Among the former NFL players diagnosed with ALS are O.J. Brigance (diagnosed 2007; still alive); Steve Gleason (diagnosed 2011; still alive); Glenn Montgomery (diagnosed 1997; died 1998) and Kevin Turner (diagnosed 2010; died 2016). Golfer Jeff Julian was diagnosed in 2001 and died in 2004. I would be remiss not to mention Mark Laesch – he was not a professional golfer, but he did bring statistics into collegiate golf, and that was a significant achievement. He also had a sister, father and uncle all die of ALS. I wrote software called GGOLF specifically for Bruce Edwards, Tom Watson's caddie from 1973 to 1989 1992 to 2003. For reasons I never had the courage to ask about, Bruce declined rapidly from a diagnosis in 2003 to death in 2004.
One complication with ALS is there are two distinct classes – for lack of a better word – sporadic and familial. As things stand now, no (zero) genes associated with sporadic. There are currently 12 genes implicated in familial ALS: Cdorf72 (30-40%); SOD1 (15-20%); TARDBP (5%) and FUS (5%) are the heavy hitters. But there isn't general agreement about how many types of ALS there are. Given the apparent disparities among sufferers, it is hard to avoid concluding there has to be at least one co-factor: pesticide exposure is one suspect, and there are some flaviviruses that may be influential. To use an inadequate word, there are also super-tragic variants of ALS – one is a juvenile onset (10-15 years old) and the other is early adult (20s to early 30s).
Not sure what I would do if someone with ALS showed up and wanted to be a student. Since we are in the courage business, if they had the courage to show up, I'd teach. WHAT to teach is the hard part.
Individual homework for someone with mixed type cerebral palsy, level 2, no seizures but a painful arthritis-like condition in the arms and hands. Possible cause : HSPA4 gene (chromosome 5; region q31.1) copy number variation. He has been doing extra tai chi ruler exercises in the evening, and almost always sleeps holding the ruler. Concern was expressed by martial artists and doctors in China that tai chi ruler exercises are too yang and need some yin energy to balance. A light and brief workout was devised for the individual student. For the moment, it is to be done mornings and evenings in addition to regular class. The order is some Chen Family style warmups, selected exercises from Eight Brocades (Ba Duan Jin Qigong), tai chi ruler and silk reeling. Note: the double swords were a special request by the student, and are to be done mornings only.
In J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings Gandalf the Grey Wizard duels the Nine Black Riders, including the infamous Witch King, on the summit of a hill named Weathertop. One might say the October 3rd encounter was a draw BUT Gandalf leaves the scene, and five of the Nine attack Strider and the four hobbits three nights later at Weathertop. Whether Strider should have had the company go to Weathertop at all is debatable. There is probably something to be said for just Strider actually going to Weathertop, and having the hobbits and their pony keep going due east while remaining well north of Weathertop. Gandalf at the Council of Elrond (October 25) later remarks that four of the Black Riders had briefly followed him as he fled northeast. It is true that left only five to attack the hobbits, but five was more than enough to wound Frodo. Had the Black Riders simply slaughtered the four hobbits or even just wounded Frodo and Bill the pony it is likely the book would have ended very early. Later on January 15, Gandalf stands alone on a narrow bridge to save the Fellowship (the four hobbits plus Strider having been supplemented by Gimli the Dwarf, Legoslas the woodland elf and Boromir, man of Gondor) from a Balrog, which is a fire-demon about equal in power to Gandalf. It is not exactly clear when Gandalf dies in that encounter, but he is sent back (resurrected) with greater powers. Later on March 13 during the chapter titled The Siege of Gondor, Gandalf mounted on his horse Shadowfax drives off some (exact number hard to discern) of the Nine who by this time are flying on beasts that sound like pterodactyls. At the end of the chapter on March 15 the Witch King had cast a spell that helped the forces of Mordor shatter the main gate of the city of Minas Tirith. The Witch King is ready to ride through the ruins of gate in triumph but he is opposed by Gandalf mounted on Shadowfax. Just as it seems a magical duel is going to start a rooster crows. "And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindoulluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last." It is very tempting 75-odd years later to draw a correspondence with England (=Gondor) and especially London (=Minas Tirith) going through the Battle of Britain (Churchill's speech June 18 1940; actual combat July 10 to October 31) and the Blitz (dates depend on who is writing the history – perhaps September 7 to May 31 1941) and waiting for help from America (=Rohan). As far as I am aware, no one ever surveyed American politicians and asked if the failure to help the British had, in retrospect, any justification. Any. Any at all.
Under the heading of "free advice about playing poker" we can say the general rule of thumb is if you are dealt a small pair and the betting is light, pay to stay in. If you don't get a remarkable improvement, most times you should fold.
Unfortunately, away from the card table in real life, sometimes a pair of sevens is going to be all you have. So you have to play the cards you were dealt as best as you can.
A recent presentation – featuring some more advice about playing poker; some explanations of how DNA works (or doesn't) with relevance to autism spectrum disabilities in humans; and some details of what we think one solution is.
With apologies to Shakespeare, I had been gloomy because there were over 100 different genes (on all 23 chromosomes plus in mitochondrial DNA) involved in different kinds of autism. New genes were being discovered at the rate of 1 or 2 a month, but I had some vague hopes things would taper off. Usually (but not always) when any one of these genes has a problem you, the lucky gene owner, will be autistic.
That was really optimistic on my part because virtually no similar work was being done in western Asia (including India), Africa or South America.
The SAITO software detected big differences in a measure called velocity of learning. Two students both had defective ADNP genes BUT they had different mutations of the gene. So it matters not only which gene or genes is not right, but what exactly is wrong with it.
I have been forwarded some papers in pre-publication status. The autism gene count is now at 187. I expect it to climb again when the big papers from China show up later this year.
The general consensus was the tai chi ruler exercises were, by intention, too yang. A well-designed tai chi chuan set like Chen family style Lao Jia or sword is supposed to be balanced as far as yin and yang go. So the advice given was to provide individual homework for each student. The to-be-done-daily assignment would focus on some qigong exercises appropriate to the special needs of the student. In the particular case of the student mentioned the advice was first a few Chen family style warmups that exercise the arms, second some of the standing exercises from Ba Duan Jin (Eight Brocades), third the ruler exercises and fourth a few silk reeling exercises.
There were two very interesting additional comments (both from multiple people): (1) at some point in the future a liniment similar to dit da jow will likely prove useful if applied to the forearms, wrists, and and fingers. Normally, dit da jow is used when doing iron palm training to prevent injuries and speed recovery. The suggestion was to dilute the normal jow 50% with water and NOT rub it in past the base of the fingernails. It was also mentioned that dit dah jow would likely be helpful for people with arthritis-like pain in the knees. (2) according to a former member of the Beijing Wushu Team, at one time most students doing serious wushu training were assigned light sessions with specific exercises to either help condition them for what they were learning (to speed learning and lessen the chance of injury) OR help them rehabilitate from injuries. The idea was a light session before breakfast, then a heavy training session in the morning, lunch and rest, a heavy training session in the afternoon, supper, and then another light session before bed. On days with only one or even no heavy sessions a third light session could be added.


Update (April 5, 2018)-- Sasha Fletcher pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a syringe and a charge of possession of a narcotic drug was dropped. She was sentenced to 545 days with 126 days of jail credit, leaving 419 days in jail, which were all suspended.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. – The Little Caesers in Shelbyville remains open after officials investigated a claim of an employee and her boyfriend using heroin and preparing food with open sores.
The health department said Thursday they didn't issue violations because the staff was already cleaning the place when they arrived.
Sasha Fletcher, 31, and Joshua Parson, 34, were arrested Tuesday after authorities arrived to the restaurant in the 800 block of Harrison St.
At the restaurant, police observed Parson, who is not an employee, making a pizza barehanded, according to police. While speaking to the couple, officers say they appeared to be impaired on heroin.
"We were able to remove these individuals from a local eating establishment, just the heroin alone, we don't want that kind of stuff around our food and our kids and our families," Lt. Turner said.
Police said an anonymous source told officers Fletcher has hepatitis C and had open sores on her body while she prepared food.
"Anytime you have an open sore, the law clearly states you have to have an impermeable layer like a band aid and that would have to be covered like if it's on your hand, your face or any exposed part," said Robert Lewis, manager with Shelby County Health Department.
You can watch the entire press conference above.


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Q: GoogleMaps.oncameraChangedListener is never called I have an Activity (which inflates a map fragment) which implements the GoogleMap.onCameraChangedListener, and I have overriden the onCameraChange method.
The problem is that whenever I move across the map, i.e. the camera position changes, the onCameraChange method is never called.
What could be causing this?

A: Try this :
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    GoogleMap.OnCameraChangeListener{
    private GoogleMap googleMap;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.googlemap_layout);
        setUpMapIfNeeded();

     }

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    double latitude = cameraPosition.target.latitude;
    double longitude = cameraPosition.target.longitude;

}
private void setUpMapIfNeeded() {

    if (googleMap == null) {
        // Try to obtain the map from the SupportMapFragment.
        googleMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();
        if (googleMap != null) {

            googleMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
            googleMap.getUiSettings().setMyLocationButtonEnabled(true);
            googleMap.getUiSettings().setRotateGesturesEnabled(false);
            googleMap.getUiSettings().setZoomControlsEnabled(false);
            googleMap.setOnCameraChangeListener(this);

        }
    }
}

}
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Katie Cobb, one of few living WWI veteran widows, celebrated her 108th birthday last weekend surrounded by friends and family.
As a mother of three, grandmother of 13, great-grandmother of 34 and great-great grandmother to several, Cobb's 108 years of life have been filled with love and historic moments.
She lived through segregation and to see the first black president of the United States, grandson John Ross said.
"It's been an honor" and "a privilege" being her grandson, John Ross said, recalling on the times they would walk from east Jackson to downtown Jackson to eat at the Woolworth's lunch counter.
When he asked her why they always ate at that specific counter, she told him it was because she remembers a time when they weren't allowed to eat there.
"That was a life lesson for me – that we shouldn't take our rights and our privileges for granted," Ross said.
Years ago, Cobb was known as the "candy lady" and the "flower lady" in the Lincoln Courts neighborhood, Smith said, adding that she was among the first to move in there.
She would sell and give away candy to neighborhood kids and she loved planting flowers outside her apartment, often winning neighborhood beautification contests.
Both grandsons hope to live as long and good of lives as she has.
"I'm just amazed by the longevity of her life," Walnut Grove Baptist Church Clarence Williams said.


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A couple of years ago, over dinner, Charles Baxter told his friend Louise Erdrich about a book he was reading on the 1918 flu epidemic. One passage described a folkloric cure that involved placing a mirror into flowing water and then washing the reflected face.
"And I told Louise about that, and she said, 'Well, if you don't use that, I'm going to,' " Baxter recalled.
He didn't give her the chance — the mirror cure now appears in Baxter's new novel, "The Sun Collective," in one of the strangest and most magical scenes in a novel filled with strangeness and magic.
The novel — his sixth — is set in Minneapolis, where Baxter lives and where he taught for 18 years in the University of Minnesota's MFA program in creative writing. The nationally renowned writer and teacher retired rather quietly in May. COVID kept things low-key, but that was fine with him.
"I didn't want to make a big fuss about it," Baxter said. He was concerned that a retirement tribute might have a "pre-funeral quality." His preferred plan was to have some of his former students return and do readings from their own books to raise money for hunger relief — a cause Baxter has been involved with for years. But that idea was torpedoed by COVID, as well.
In the end, Baxter taught the last two months of his classes by Zoom from his home near Loring Park. Some of his books remain locked in his old office at the U.
"The Sun Collective" by Charles Baxter
In touch with the zeitgeist
"The Sun Collective" opens and closes on the light rail and it winds, just as the Blue Line does, through Minneapolis neighborhoods. The story follows a retired engineer named Brettigan, who is not very different from Baxter himself: smart, thoughtful, empathetic, nearly overwhelmed by the social problems of his city and country. The book is populated with hippies and charlatans and homeless people and people who start out earnestly hoping to do good but who end up doing harm.
In the novel, the gap between rich and poor is growing wider, homelessness is on the rise, and the country has elected a president who brags and berates and treats his job like a game show. Baxter started writing the novel about a year before Donald Trump was elected president, but he could see what was coming.
"You didn't have to be a prophet to notice that he was getting crowds and that a lot of people both on the left and the right — more on the right, I think — were unhappy," Baxter said.
"I gave a reading in a small Minnesota town that had once had a factory and the labor had been outsourced, and the people in the town were telling me how angry and upset they were. You put all these things together and try to find a story that will support the feelings that you're noticing."
That kind of noticing, he says, is a writer's job.
"I think fiction writers try to tell what it's like — what it feels like to be alive at any particular point," he said. "And I guess I was just starting to feel this upsurge of rage years ago when I started this book."
There are elements of magic throughout the novel — not just in the mirror scene, but in a surreal drive through a blizzard, and scenes where dogs and cats speak. (The dogs, as you might imagine, are kinder and more empathetic than the cats.)
Though the settings of the novel are instantly recognizable — the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minnehaha Falls, Como Park, Uptown, the Mall of America (here renamed the Utopia Mall) — the book itself teeters on the edge of realism.
"This novel, especially, is very close to the dream world," Baxter said. "It's running a low-grade fever. The feeling is more that of realism that sometimes bleeds into a slightly hallucinatory moment."
Writer, teacher of renown
In addition to his six novels, Baxter, 73, is the author of six collections of short stories, three collections of poetry (though he only likes one of them) and two books of essays, both published by Graywolf Press of Minneapolis. He also edited Graywolf's "The Art of …" series of books on the craft of writing and won a Minnesota Book Award for his contribution, "The Art of Subtext," a book that he dedicated to his students.
His work has been honored over the years with awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He's won the Minnesota Book Award twice, has been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology 12 times and in "Best American Short Stories" eight times.
His novel "The Feast of Love" was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into a movie with Morgan Freeman and Jane Alexander.
"He is a deeply creative, attentive, generous and open-minded reader," said Fiona McCrae, Graywolf's publisher, who is editing Baxter's next essay collection, "Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature," to be published in 2022.
"His craft talks and essays weave in personal material in such a way as to teach you something new about the nature of writing and reduce you to tears at the same time. Quite the combination!"
For more than 30 years, Baxter also taught in Warren Wilson College's long-distance MFA program in North Carolina, and taught most summers at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont. He is well-known for being a supportive mentor to his students, focusing on the structure of their work rather than passing judgment.
This care, he says, came from his own difficult experiences.
"I had a terrible time as a young writer," Baxter said. "I took a lot of abuse from agents and editors in those days. I wrote three or four novels that were not published. One of them went to an agent who called me up and said, 'You want to know what I think about your book? I hate it. Why do I hate it? You tell me. Tell me why I hate your novel. Is it the characters? The plot? What is it, Charlie?'
"I felt dizzy and my mouth went dry. My wife was pregnant, my mother was dying, and there this woman was, telling me to explain to her why she hated my book.
"To the extent that I have tried to help young writers it is partly because I had these traumatic experiences. I just felt nobody should have to go through this."
Writer Ethan Rutherford moved to Minnesota specifically to study with Baxter. "That was, and is, his reputation; people spoke of him so highly," said Rutherford, who graduated from the U's MFA program in 2009 and whose second story collection will be published in 2021.
"When I arrived here, he was welcoming, open, kind, and somehow I knew then — as I know now — that it would be my great good luck in life to have had him as a teacher. He didn't treat those of us in his classes like his students, he treated us like the writers we so wanted to be."
After Rutherford worked, in vain, on one story for three years, Baxter "gently put his hand on my shoulder and said: 'Sometimes art doesn't work out, sometimes you have to let it go.' I dropped that bomb of a story right then and there, and I'll be forever grateful to him for that. Not every idea is a good one."
Fighting hunger through art
Before COVID, Baxter rode city buses all over Minneapolis and took light rail each morning to the U. Anything he saw or overheard was fair game for his work.
"You use what's around you," he said. And what was around him was people. Conversations with panhandlers and street people found their way into his book, nearly verbatim.
"If somebody seems to want to talk to me, I'll talk to them," Baxter said. "It's not as if I'm always in conversation with the homeless. But sometimes they seem like they want to talk and so I do."
One man told him that he slept most nights on the light rail. Another man he encountered in the skyway was in distress, on all fours, unable to rise. Both appear in "The Sun Collective."
Hunger and homelessness have been important issues for Baxter for years. His annual U readings to benefit the Second Harvest food shelf raised more than $15,000 over 11 years.
Parts of "The Sun Collective" arose, Baxter said, "from the feeling of 'What should a person do. What should we be doing for these people?' It sort of arises from the first page of the novel and it just goes as preoccupation all the way through."
A life of 'lordly solitude'
Baxter was born in Minneapolis and grew up outside of Excelsior after his father, an insurance salesman, died and his mother remarried. It was a lonely place to grow up, he told Belt Magazine in a 2015 interview.
"We lived in lordly solitude," he said then. "My stepfather had these grand ideas of living out in the country on an estate. My brothers and I were the poor relations who happened to live there."
He attended the Blake School and Macalester College in St. Paul and later taught school in the small town of Pinconning, Mich., before earning a doctorate at the University of Buffalo. For years he taught in the MFA program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, some years running the program, before moving back to Minnesota in 2002 to become the Edelstein-Keller Professor of Writing in the U's MFA program.
"Hiring Charlie Baxter in 2002 gave our creative writing program a prominence it would otherwise never have gained; it lifted us from 'very good' status to the ranks of the very top," said Julie Schumacher, who also teaches in the program.
"There are a lot of excellent writers in the U.S., but very few of those excellent writers are also excellent teachers and generous mentors and colleagues. Charlie has been all of the above. We will miss him so much!"
Mirrors and chickens
Louise Erdrich doesn't remember the dinner conversation about the flu pandemic and the mirror. "Maybe it was pushed aside by Charles Baxter's knowledge of chickens," she said.
One of her daughters had rescued a rooster that had been abandoned in a park. It crowed every morning at 5 a.m., "and I was desperate to move it to the garage, but I didn't know how to keep it warm during a cold snap," Erdrich said.
"Charlie said to use a light bulb, one of the kind that warms up. I ended up using a string of old Christmas lights. Every night I fell asleep knowing that thanks to Charles Baxter I had a rooster in my garage enjoying colored lights in a coop beneath a blanket.
"This was the most useful bit of advice I'd ever been given by a writer, but more than that, Charles Baxter's work has given me quiet direction and infinite literary satisfaction."
Charles Baxter, renowned author, teacher, friend to the poor and savior of chickens.
Laurie Hertzel has worked at the Star Tribune for more than two decades as an editor and writer. Previously, she was a writer and editor at Minnesota Monthly magazine and at the Duluth News-Tribune.
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Stop complaining and appreciate how lucky you are every day.
Embrace loneliness and reinvent yourself in the process.
Say goodbye to the people that don't bring positive energy into your life.
Throw off the TV and set internet controls.
Pick one skill you want to cultivate and put all your effort into developing it.
Commit to the goals you set and never look back.
Sweat every day to boost your mood.
Fail Forward. Learn from every mistake you make.


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Top 10 Egyptian Food and Drink
By Amelia Stewart, 14th July, 2017 , Food & Drink
Falafel, mango juice and suprisingly tasty stuffed pigeon! Original Travel Egypt expert Amelia Stewart gives us the low down on her top 10 Egyptian Food and Drink...
Karkade
A refreshing pink drink from the hibiscus plant - hot or cold it's said to lower blood pressure. With a drop of lemon or a teaspoon of sugar it's a bit like a healthier Ribena and often given out on arrival at a smart hotel.
Falafel or taa'miya
The Egyptian style falafel is best eaten hot and fresh from one of the many street stalls. The best ones are moist and green on the inside and crunchy on the outside, and delicious dipped into tahini.
A great pick me up in the summer heat, this is completely addictive drunk cold at a street stall straight from an ice cold glass. It's a wonderfully frothy pale green colour and so fresh as the sugar cane is brought in straight from the field (make sure it's made with bottled water!).
Fooul
I love this - hot crushed oily beans, and with a lovely texture, this is another typical Egyptian dish often eaten at breakfast together with falafel and sometimes eggs.
The ubiquitous summer drink, this reminds me of Egypt so much. Little lemons are sold everywhere and in fact they look like limes being very small and green, however they do taste like lemon and this drink is much like a citron pressé in France - but less syrupy.
Koshiri
I love Koshiri! And so do the Egyptians - particularly children. The combination of crispy fried onions, lentils, and small pasta bits covered in a tart tomato sauce is a winning combination. I ate this for Eid with about 100 children in a koshiri restaurant in Aswan, however, I made the mistake of spooning a dollop of black chilli oil on top. I could barely breathe - avoid!
ahhhh the mango - you may think this is more a juice drink found in Asia however Egypt grows fine small green mangoes that are not too sweet. It's a popular Ramadan drink and mulched up and decanted into bottles to buy for about 10 LE (50p for 1.5L). It's thick but you can still drink it through a straw.
Chatshuka
I'm not sure if this is the correct spelling but it is how it's pronounced. This is a deliciously filling combination of eggs, tomato and onion - sort of like a scrambled egg mix, and is delicious with hot fresh flat bread either for breakfast or lunch.
A classic. Refreshing at any time of day any day of the year but must be made with fresh mint.
Stuffed pigeon
this is a surprisingly tasty bird - a bit like duck. And it's got a great Arabic name as well: hamam mashi
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Q: Laravel не могу использовать action Есть такой код:
    public function sendActivationMail() {
    $activationUrl = action(
        'UsersController@getActivate',
        array(
            'userId' => $this->id,
            'activationCode' => $this->activationCode,
        )
    );
}

Код вызываемого контроллера:
class UsersController extends Controller
{
public function getActivate($userId, $activationCode) {
    // Получаем указанного пользователя
    $user = User::find($userId);
    if (!$user) {
        return $this->getMessage("Неверная ссылка на активацию аккаунта.");
    }

    // Пытаемся его активировать с указанным кодом
    if ($user->activate($activationCode)) {
        // В случае успеха авторизовываем его
        \Auth::login($user);
        // И выводим сообщение об успехе
        return $this->getMessage("Аккаунт активирован", "/");
    }

    // В противном случае сообщаем об ошибке
    return $this->getMessage("Неверная ссылка на активацию аккаунта, либо учетная запись уже активирована.");
}

}
При попытке выполнения получаю ошибку:

InvalidArgumentException in UrlGenerator.php line 558:
  Action App\Http\Controllers\UsersController@getActivate not defined.

Подскажите пожалуйста, что я делаю не так?

A: Надо прописать данный маршрут в routes.php
Судя по названию метода, вы придерживаетесь такого подхода:
Route::controller('users', 'UsersController');

В противном случае, запись могла бы выглядеть как-то так:
Route::get('users/activate', 'UsersController@getActivate');

Собственно, причину исключения можно легко увидеть из кода UrlGenerator::action():
if (! is_null($route = $this->routes->getByAction($action))) {
    return $this->toRoute($route, $parameters, $absolute);
}

throw new InvalidArgumentException("Action {$action} not defined.");


Once, over dinner, I told the Canadian Auditor General that our Comptroller and Auditor General had reported that a woman was discovered to have been claiming benefits for 83 children.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the PAC "acted significantly" outside its terms of reference in a case taken by the former CEO of Rehab, Angela Kerins. But what is its proper role? Each year about €55bn goes into the State's Central Fund. There are only two ways to authorise its distribution: an Act of the Oireachtas (a law) or the annual budget process. It is on this flow of money and related assets that the PAC is meant to examine after the event, ie it has an audit related function.
The Scottish economist James Wilson (1805-1860) said: "Finance is not mere arithmetic; finance is a great policy. Without sound finance, no sound government is possible." This remains a truism over 150 years later.
The machinery on which much of the Irish governmental system of finance is based was established by William Gladstone in 1866, while he was still chancellor of the Exchequer. His legislation, the Exchequer Audit Departments Act, created the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and office of Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG).
The PAC is always chaired by a deputy from the largest opposition party and the comptroller and auditor general is appointed by the President, on the nomination of the Government (by recent convention, following consultation with the chairman of the PAC).
Because taxation and spending matters are a direct constitutional responsibility of the Dail, the PAC is a Dail (not an Oireachtas) committee. What gives this committee great status is that the C&AG reports directly to the Dail (not the government) and his reports are automatically referred to the PAC for their examination. Furthermore, the C&AG is permanently present at the PAC, as a witness, when other relevant witnesses are called to account.
The meat of the PAC's examinations is the C&AG's report on how each department of State has cared for the taxpayers' money and assets.
Gladstone provided that each spending department would have an accounting officer – the most senior permanent head… in Ireland's case almost always, with some exceptions such as the Garda Commissioner, the secretary-general of the department, not the minister of the day.
So, the PAC is meant to avoid policy (this is for ministers and the Dail) and to deal with regularity of spending, ie did the Dail approve such spending and did it come in on budget? And, since 1993, was value for money based on economy, efficiency and effectiveness obtained?
When I became chairman in 1987, there were huge arrears in PAC annual reports, some of them going back many years. I set about driving the clearance of this backlog (related to the number of elections in the period) and, at the same time, setting up the Advisory Committee on Public Financial Accountability, which I also chaired. This group recommended those new powers of Value for Money (VFM) auditing for the C&AG.
VFM can be explained as follows: if the Government bought, say, polio vaccines, at the lowest price consistent with quality (economy), if it said on the tin that a unit of vaccine should immunise 10 people, did we get 10 shots (efficiency), and did polio reduce to the levels expected (effectiveness)?
One former secretary general told me after he retired that appearing before his departmental committee made him prepare, but appearing before the PAC made him lose sleep. Sometimes there was good reason for this sleeplessness.
The Government has no money of its own. The Dail takes money from taxpayers and entrusts it to the Government. Therefore, the Government must answer to the Dail for that spending. In this process Gladstone described the PAC as "the last portion of the circle of control".
In the 1970s-1980s, much criticism was voiced about our system of public financial accountability. This included concerns raised by the Government's legal adviser, the attorney general.
That issue was comprehensively addressed by the Advisory Group Report (which took only six months to report) and by the legislation it recommended.
This was introduced in 1993 by Bertie Ahern TD as Minister for Finance, with the support of his departmental secretary general. It was in every way a co-operative outcome.
As chairman, I tried to make the committee more relevant and up-to-date. There is no doubt this resulted in some headline seeking, but we did our job and reformed the system at the same time. The late Brendan McGahon, TD, a man for whom I had great regard, told the PAC that sheep were so often moved, to claim grants twice, backwards and forwards across the border in high trucks, that they had vertigo. Things have moved beyond the humorous and there is some evidence that Dail proceedings are not always protective of citizens' rights – especially the right to a good name.
There are now departmental Oireachtas Committees to deal with policy. The PAC is our audit committee and is a great instrument of public accountability, but it must act within its quite powerful remit. Sound public finances require it.


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November is een nummer van de Nederlandse band Rowwen Hèze. Het nummer is gebaseerd op het oude Ierse volksliedje On Raglan Road.

Het nummer verscheen op het album Vandaag uit 2000. Op 9 februari van dat jaar werd het nummer uitgebracht als de eerste single van het album.

Oorsprong
De oorsprong van On Raglan Road is niet geheel duidelijk. De melodie is in ieder geval gebaseerd op een oud Iers volksliedje met de naam Fáinne geal an lae ("Het aanbreken van de dag"). Er zijn echter twee liedjes met deze naam; in de zeventiende eeuw schreef de Ierse bard Thomas Connellan het lied, terwijl in de negentiende eeuw de folkmuzikant Edward Walsh een lied met dezelfde titel schreef. De melodie van deze nummers is niet hetzelfde. Het folkliedje is veel simpeler, en net als veel andere Ierse volksmuziek pentatonisch. Dit geeft wel een overeenkomst tussen de nummers, men kan daarom aannemen dat de melodie van de versie van Walsh afstamt van die van de versie van Connellan. De versie van Walsh bleek uiteindelijk populairder en werd in 1847 gepubliceerd in het boek Irish Popular Songs. Later werd een Engelse vertaling gemaakt met de titel "The Dawning of the Day".

On Raglan Road
De tekst van On Raglan Road is geschreven door Patrick Kavanagh. In 1946 publiceerde hij een gedicht met de titel "Dark haired Miriam ran away". Later zou duidelijk worden dat Miriam de naam van de vriendin van zijn broer was, en dat hij vanwege privacyredenen de naam van zijn eigen vriendin niet gebruikte. Raglan Road is een bekende rijkeluisstraat in Dublin, de hoofdstad van Ierland.

Luke Kelly, lid van de Ierse band The Dubliners, kwam op het idee om de tekst van dit gedicht op de muziek van "Fáinne geal an lae" te zetten. Hij is waarschijnlijk niet de eerste geweest met dit idee; in een televisie-uitzending uit 1974 zong Kavanagh het nummer zelf op deze melodie. Buiten het metrum is ook het thema van de nummers gelijkaardig. Op 5 oktober 1986, twee jaar na het overlijden van Kelly, kwam de versie van The Dubliners uit op single. Het nummer is door vele bekende artiesten gecoverd, waaronder Roger Daltrey, Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison, Sinéad O'Connor en Ed Sheeran.

Rowwen Hèze
Jack Poels, zanger van de Limburgse band Rowwen Hèze, kreeg de inspiratie voor het nummer November toen hij On Raglan Road in Ierland hoorde. Het eerste wat in hem opkwam was de beginregel, waarin hij de locatie van het nummer van Dublin naar Venlo verplaatste. In het lied komt de zanger om twaalf uur 's nachts een oude liefde tegen, met wie hij de hele nacht praat. Als het ochtend wordt, gaan ze samen weg.

November behaalde de 41e plaats in de Mega Top 100 en behaalde in het jaar na uitgave de eerste plaats in de Limbo Top 100, de lijst van de 100 beste nummers uit Limburg. Sinds 2010 staat het nummer ook in de Radio 2 Top 2000, met de 217e plaats in 2019 als hoogste notering.

November staat ook op het compilatiealbum Kilomeaters uit 2005 en het livealbum Saus uit 2008.

Hitnoteringen

Mega Top 100

Radio 2 Top 2000

Single uit 2000
Nummer van Rowwen Hèze


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Our Post Card Set is perfect for pinning to your Vision Board and bringing you joy all year round. I love those little touches that remind you to stay positive throughout the day. Every time I see them they help me refocus, stay calm and be in the moment. I also keep the rest of the pack in my desk drawer so I always have the perfect postcard to hand to send to people. I love putting pen to paper and writing to loved ones to catch up rather than texting or emailing.
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There was only a soft groan, and she had successfully escaped!
"Oh shiznuts!" screamed Fu Jiu as he saw his master's "dignity" being held tightly in her hands. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat and worried that his master was going to perform a massacre.
Ye Chongyuan's handsome face stiffened for a few seconds. He raised his brows and looked at the impudent little wild cat.
This little girl would be dead for sure!
As Di Fuyao began to feel proud of herself, Ye Chongyuan comfortably groaned. He seemed to be enjoying the situation, and Fu Jiu was really confused.
Di Fuyao gave a faint smile, and clearly ignored his shamefulness this time. She used all of the strength in her hand and tugged hard.
"Little shrew, is this all the strength that you have?" Ye Chongyuan said with a brilliant smile. That smile from the demon made Di Fuyao gnash her teeth and use more strength.
Suddenly, the thing between them began heating up, and a burning sensation started occurring.
She didn't do anything to him! Why does she have to take responsibility?!
Di Fuyao rarely ever felt awkward. However, to get a win from this shameless demon, she had to be even more shameless.
As these thoughts filled her mind, her usually sharp and clear eyes began to become muddled.
"Look here mister, I don't get enough food, I sleep outdoors, and I don't even have a place to call home. I am already so poor that I have absolutely nothing of value. If you want to be touched, then look for someone else. Hey, look! Those two ladies in there have countless amount of treasures and riches. If you take off your clothes and lay in there, I promise you that you don't have to worry about food or clothing for the rest of your life," said Di Fuyao in a distressful manner as she pointed to the mother daughter pair inside. The more she spoke, the more excited her voice had become and even began to help Ye Chongyuan come up with a "sell his body for riches" plan.
"I don't care! My Little Ye will only recognize you!" yelled Ye Chongyuan and then began to act unreasonable. He gripped on to Di Fuyao's arm, refusing to let go.
"What is the three basic things of life that you lack as a person?" asked Ye Chongyuan as a sense of curiosity flashed by his eyes.
These two perched on top of the tree were engaging in a battle of wordplay and acting ability. Fu Jiu who was hidden in the shadows was beyond shocked by their arguments and acting. In particular, Di Fuyao's, she was simply too courageous! Not only that, but why did his usually quiet master who usually never spoke or even laughed have such swiftly calculated pitiful responses when he spoke to this girl?
Was this the same master who controlled and shook the world with terror?
Fu Jiu was very doubtful at this moment.
On the other hand, those two were still fighting with their acting skills. In the end, Di Fuyao was the one who ended up losing.
Her thoughts were very simple. They were men, so their face will always be more important than anything else in the world. They had only met today so there was no way this man was going to lower his head to her. Her goal was very simple, and it was to get him out of her life!
Fu Jiu's expression changed as he listened to her rules. What three rules and four virtues?! She was clearly insulting his master! He could barely restrain his anger, and was very close to confronting her to end her life.
Thanks for the chapter. Love at first site!!!!!
This is funny. Thanks for picking up this story.
Haha.. this should be followed by modern men as well haiz!
She's already founding her own family, all while trying to shake the would-be husband. Then again, he doesn't yet know he wants to keep her, does he?


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In a previous post, we highlighted that advertising via over-the-top (OTT) platforms can be more effective than traditional TV advertising and boasts 98% ad consumption1. Ad consumption rates are high via OTT and have the potential to be more effective when the content is personalized for viewers. Market trends show a continued rise of ad views on OTT, which grew to 29% in Q2 2017.2 It's no surprise why advertisers are embracing TV programming through the internet.
The average U.S. household now has 10 connected devices,3 leading to a proliferation of audience fragmentation among screens and viewing habits. That said, viewers using OTT platforms tend to select a specific program that they are vested in and are less apt to multitask during the show or ad breaks. People who watch digital content online are not channel surfers. These emerging trends and viewing realities lead to new opportunities for advertisers to personalize ads for each individual viewing experience.
There are hundreds of channels and apps and OTT providers face an uphill battle in maintaining viewer retention as content and accessibility preferences vary by consumer. The challenge is especially true when advertising to millennials. This often talked about generation is diverse, independent, opinionated and a desirable audience.
With a deeper understanding of these viewers, OTT providers can better define sub-segments (e.g., demographic, behavioral, contextual) and deliver highly targeted, relevant content, which in turn, supports higher retention. OTT measurement capabilities, such as the ability to target viewers by a device ID, allow advertisers to weave in additional data to more accurately identify and reach intended audiences.
Finding strong data partners is an important first step in taking full advantage of OTT and digital media's targeting and measurement precision. To learn more about reaching millennials through OTT, take a look at this infographic, How to Reach Millennials: Go Over-the-Top.


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One of the most popular web programming technologies is ASP.NET web forms, which binds data to controls. Developer Extensions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 has a number of mechanisms that make it easy to build an ASP.NET web form that binds to Microsoft Dynamics CRM data.
The recommended practice for using Developer Extensions for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 is to run the CrmSvcUtil.exe code generation tool, with the Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CodeGeneration extension, to generate the service context and data transfer object classes that match your Microsoft Dynamics CRM entity model. The service context class includes an IQueryable interface for every CRM entity in your solution. The service context class can easily be used with the ASP.NET LinqDataSource control to facilitate declarative data-binding that doesn't need any code-behind. You set the ContextTypeName attribute of the LinqDataSource control to the type name of your service context and set the TableName attribute to the property name of the entity that you want to query. After the Microsoft Dynamics CRM data is bound to the data source control, you can use any ASP.NET data bound control to extract and display the data including repeaters and the GridView control.
The following code uses a LinqDataSource control to bind to the CRM contacts and display them with a GridView. This same example can be seen in Walkthrough: Build a web application that connects to Microsoft Dynamics CRM using developer extensions.
This shows the following results in HTML.
If you don't want to use the CrmSvcUtil.exe tool to generate a domain context and data transfer object, you can use the Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CrmOrganizationServiceContext.
The following example uses FetchXml to query Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the CrmDataSource control to bind to CRM data. The results are displayed in a GridView control. Note that the DataItem in the grid view is of type Entity. To bind to columns in the results, you can either cast the Container.DataItem to a Entity class or you can bind to the properties in the default indexer by using Eval("[attribute-logical-name]").
The CrmMetadataDataSource control allows for data binding to Microsoft Dynamics CRM metadata. The most useful purpose is to bind a drop-down list to a CRM option set that you use in a data form that is collecting data to store in CRM.
The following example demonstrates using the CrmMetadataDataSource control to bind to three separate option sets in the CRM case (incident) entity.
The previous examples used specific data source controls that implement declarative data binding. The XrmServiceContext class can also be used with data binding using code-behind techniques. The service context that is generated by the CrmSvcUtil.exe tool (with the Microsoft.Xrm.Client.CodeGeneration extension) has IQueryable properties for all CRM entities. You can write standard .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) queries or use expressions with these properties and bind them directly to your repeaters or DataGrid controls.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM has the ability to allow the customer to save a query or a view for later retrieval. The view has column order and definitions, sorting order, and filter options. It is a convenient technique to allow users to configure a view in CRM and then a developer can use the SavedQueryDataSource control to bind to that view and use a GridView control with AutoGenerateColumns property turned on. This allows a developer to drop a CRM view directly into a webpage and have the view contents be managed in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Business users can then change the contents of the view without having to work through a developer to make a webpage change and promote a new version of the website to the production server.
For an example of this, as well as an example of how to generate a data entry form from a saved query using the CrmEntityFormView control, see Walkthrough: Build a web application that connects to Microsoft Dynamics CRM using developer extensions.


To be published by Encircle Publications, LLC on June 23, 2019—the one-year anniversary of Hall's passing. Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, editor. Introductory tribute to Donald Hall by Wesley McNair, former Poet Laureate of Maine.
Seeking poems inspired by/in the spirit of Donald Hall (former NH and U.S. Poet Laureate) from established** New England poets***.
Send cover letter to Brackett-Vincent@encirclepub.com in the body of an e-mail.
• Attach 3–5 poems (a total of no more than five pages of poetry) in a separate Word document.
If an individual poem was inspired by a particular work of Hall's, note that in an epigraph.
Submission deadline: 12/18/18. The editor will acknowledge all submissions within 48 hours and will reply to all submissions by 2/18/19.
**Established poets: Poets who submit must have at least five poems published in recognized magazines or journals and/or have published a chapbook or book of poetry with a recognized press.
***New England poets: Poets who submit must reside in New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, or VT) for six or more months per year.
There is no fee to submit; published poets will receive one copy of the anthology (and a 50% discount on any additional copies desired) upon publication. 10% of profits from the Except for Love anthology will go to the American Cancer Society in honor of Hall's late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon (also a former NH Poet Laureate), who died from leukemia in 1995.


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