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I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
-- D. H. Lawrence
Blog Posts for March 2011
The Peril of Leadership
Unfortunately, we see polls almost daily about this politician's popularity and that politician's popularity. If we elect people to become leaders, it's impossible to lead and remain popular. A leader has to make hard choices. Someone will be hurt by the decisions made. The more decisions made, the greater the pool of those hurt, and the more unpopular the leader is.
That's inevitable.
It's no secret that I disagree with President Obama on many issues, but in the areas where he wanted to push change, it was change he pushed and change he got. He telegraphed many of the changes that have come to pass when he was a candidate, such as his plans for energy costs to "necessarily skyrocket."
Did that get a lot of play in the media in his campaign? No. But guess what - you're seeing that philosophy played out today in higher gas prices. His refusal to issue permits for offshore drilling constricts our ability to rely on ourselves for oil and gas, therefore we're at the mercy of others. He told us that would be his plan, he's executing that plan, and his choice to do so will upset those who are affected by it and disagree with it.
That's the nature of leadership - you make hard choices.
Similarly, in Wisconsin we see Scott Walker carry out the plans that he communicated in his campaign for governor. Are they unpopular? Increasingly so. But to achieve a balanced budget, he's doing what he believes he needs to do.
A leader has to make hard choices, or they're simply not leading. It is what it is. If you don't like the leader, then critique the leader, galvanize people against the leader, and seek to change the leader. For the time being, that person is in the position of leadership.
The final questions in the evaluation of any leader are:
Did the leader correctly assess the situation?
Did the leader take the appropriate action?
Did the leader succeed in implementing the appropriate action?
Polls are a really lousy way of conducting that evaluation. Skewed by samples, the way the question is worded, the answers allowed, and the choice of what to publish in the polling results leaves the results to be sketchy. Personally, I find it necessary to dig into a poll's methodology. That extra effort makes me disregard more and more polls.
Further, the outcome of the change sought by a leader is more important than the process.
Said another way, childbirth sucks, but the baby rocks.
What's important to understand is whether or not the change pursued has any historical or logical basis to recommend it as a course of action.
I know a lot of people who voted for Obama who are now shocked at the outcome he's producing. Gotta tell ya - he's pretty much doing what he said he would do, which is why I started talking about it way back then. To those folks, I've told them to pay attention next time.
Likewise, there are plenty of people in Wisconsin getting irritated with Scott Walker's process. But if the result is less debt for the state of Wisconsin and a balanced budget, I think most will have a hard time arguing with that outcome.
Some of our nation's most celebrated leaders were at times very unpopular. What spelled their ultimate recognition as great and good leaders were the long-term results of their leadership. Before election, what's important to know is what they intend to do and how they intend to do it. And then to understand that the process of change is often difficult and at times riddled with mistakes. Patience with that course is often hard for people who don't have the stomach for it.
Chief Listening Officer
I'm having some amazing discussions lately with people looking at 247Toolset. One guy said he wanted to buy it as his own personal LinkedIn. Kinda cool.
But going forward in the company, when I start adding employees, I'll migrate my role to that of Chief Listening Officer. Hearing how the market wants this platform to solve problems for them is riveting.
I've often thought that I might write a book on business listening. I have a title and a tagline in mind...
The dumbest business move in the world seems to me to be when you look at the market and you say "No." In this economy, who can afford that response?
Location is 90% of Success
If you want to have impact and influence, be where you need to be. No whining when you're away from the action despite having plenty of time to be in the thick of it.
Feet on the Desk
Today, I wrap up the RSVP functionality in 247Toolset's robust calendar of events / event management module. This going on while having to get two projects out for clients over the weekend...
But as I put this together, I have to consider every request I can recall from people about working with a calendar of events. The payments system won't come online until sometime in May, but other than that, there's the list of features requested:
Easy-to-enter recurring events
Cancellation management
Mass messaging attendees by email or text
Behind-the-scenes staffing and task management
Joining an organization's calendar to several others
Geographic and descriptive search
Restricting admin privileges to event entry only
Event capacity management
Allow for private and invitation-only events
All of that should be in the rollout on Monday.
In May, tiered payments will be allowed. Later, that payment system will work with the donation / fundraising module to be rolled out in August, which will integrate with events and email campaigns within 247Toolset.
To get to all of this - because it's a lot to consider - I have to do plenty of thinking. No coding, no anything - just what I call "feet on the desk" time.
To some, that might look like doing nothing. But in my head, scenario after scenario plays out, juxtaposed against the data schema, thinking through the usability of the system.
And I have to say that all of the effort is creating a mighty powerful calendar system. As I'm playing with and testing its capabilities, it does more than many calendars I've used. I'm excited to show off its features in future demos.
ETC: That was a thing. RSVP became pretty much a complete ticketing management system.
Off to bed, and early to rise...
Failure Entertains
If it bleeds, it leads...
...so goes the saying in the media.
Said another way, the media loves failure. Failure sells.
America's Funniest Home Videos and Wipeout chronicle the epic stumble. Most successful action movies showcase killing. When corporate titans and politicians fall from heights on high, it's front and center.
Failure is delicious. Kitchen Nightmares succeeds because you simply can't believe how filthy that walk-in cooler was. The nightly news covers disaster and mayhem more than anything else. YouTube loves Charlie Sheen and tsunami footage.
You gonna fail? Let me get my camera.
The better story is the climb to success. It used to be that we esteemed the person possessing competence and composure. Now we make heroes of those who make a peculiar "talent" of the public bellyflop and we shine unwanted light on victims of tragedy.
I wrote about something Frederick Douglass said long ago. His words are worth reading.
If you go here and click the Events button, you'll be able to see the first public version of 247Toolset's Event Calendar.
I've got more work to do on it, and some tweaks, but it works fine. And from the demos that I've been doing, the calendar and its RSVP system are moving sales forward at a strong clip. I had two sales yesterday, and I think in the next month I'll average one sale a day, which is almost enough to make this my full-time job. When I finish the work on the calendar and implement the email newsletter functionality, I suspect I'll have driven enough value into the platform to make that happen.
April is when I'll work on the payment processor (credit card, PayPal, Dwolla, and manual entry) and incorporate that with the calendar, which will give it the ability to handle tickets. It will allow the administrator to create multiple options for each event - such as attending the seminar ($100), or attending the seminar and the dinner ($150).
End of May is when I hope to the tiered options for events up and running.
And June is when I begin writing the donations / fundraising module. One non-profit and one politician that own 247Toolset have indicated that they want input into the development of that piece. Sat and talked with one of them yesterday for about an hour. I have a pretty good idea of what I need to provide.
All of that functionality for $19.95 a month. I just need to keep driving value into it.
Personally, I might argue for completely deaf, but really - golfing, going to Rio, and making a big deal of his Final Four choices.
She wrote the column two weeks ago, but the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus nailed it when she labeled Obama's presidency a "Where's Waldo" presidency.
Sad. Very sad.
4 Sales, 3 Days
Sales are indeed accelerating, and interest is picking up with almost every interaction I have with people.
I gave a demo last night to 15 people. Afterward, 5 stepped forward and asked for my card. "My high school's marching band needs this..." and "My new start-up needs this to manage the people we're bringing on..." and "I work with hospitals and we could really use this..."
I gave a demo yesterday to a woman who bought it for her organization. We met at Panera. After I finished my demo, the woman at the adjacent table said, "I'm sorry, but I overheard what you have there, and before you leave, do you have time to show me your product?"
Where will it be a month from now? Even bigger :)
Back in 1995, I attended a software conference in Manhattan and Jim McCarthy was the keynote speaker. In a sea of suits, he showed up in a Hawaiian shirt and jeans with holes in them.
He gave the best talk I've ever heard around software development.
His first topic has always stayed with me, which was "Don't Know What You Don't Know."
It is essential not to profess to know, or seem to know, or accept that someone else knows, that which is unknown. Almost without exception, the things that end up coming back to haunt you are things you pretended to understand but didn't early on. At virtually every stage of even the most successful software projects, there are large numbers of very important things that are unknown. It is acceptable, even mandatory, to clearly articulate your ignorance, so that no one misunderstands the corporate state of unknowingness. If you do not disseminate this "lucid ignorance," disaster will surely befall you.
Human nature is such that we dislike not knowing things that are important to our well being. Since there is so much we don't know in a software project, the nearly universal tendency among developers and their managers is to gloss over or even deny altogether the extent of their ignorance. You should reward and treasure those who consistently make themselves aware of the list of relevant things that are currently unknown. It requires mental and psychological strength to resist the normal human cravings for certainty and order. It especially difficult to believe in uncertainty when things have a veneer of orderliness, which is often the case. Pseudo-order is a maladapted defense against uncertainty.
The organization surrounding you will undoubtedly abhor uncertainty, would infinitely prefer pseudo-order and will make countless attempts to magically convert your ignorance to knowledge. Your job is to make uncertainty an unshakable fact, and to coerce the reshaping of the surrounding organization to cope with the uncertain situation. The organization must learn to thrive in an uncertain environment for its own well being.
You should expend a great deal of effort making sure that all the people on the project are aware of their ignorance rather than naively converting it to falsehoods. Bear down on them until they realize they haven't comprehensively assessed the unknowns. In the successful project, this is much easier in the early stages, or during times of change. This is no time for niceties. People ultimately prefer success even if disillusionment is a prerequisite.
Today, as I continue to marvel at what I'm learning from each demo that I do and the feedback that I hear, I realize how much I don't yet know about the solution people need. But I also realize that I'm pretty far along in understanding what's needed. It's funny how often they'll ask a question just as I'm getting to that feature, and how often they'll remark that it flows really well.
I can't take the credit for any of that. It's just me listening to a bunch of smart people telling me how I can help them succeed better.
Always beware working with the person who refuses to admit ignorance. You'll pay dearly for it later.
I've been wrestling with a need that's been expressed to me for some time, and today's development has led me to what I think is the answer. I won't say explicitly what the need is, but here's what seems like the answer:
A person should be able to create their own reality without the hindrance of others checking their homework. Because Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on have taught us one thing - which is at odds with reality - few people will publicly correct our homework.
Said another way, being part of a network shouldn't require that everyone agree with everyone's version of what's really going on. Everyone should be allowed their own version.
Today, after looking at 247Toolset, two people at the demo echoed comments that I've heard before - 247Toolset is like an organization having its own personal LinkedIn, but with functionality more targeted to an organization's needs.
It's got me thinking...
Right Things Right
Back in late January, I wrote this post, explaining that the secret to great writing is rewriting - as I learned in college.
It's become obvious over the past 3 weeks that I need to completely rewrite the permissions and approvals engine for 247Toolset.
When you first approach a problem to solve, you come at it with your best information and your best solution. As you think it through, you learn more, and you make your first implementation. But the strength of any system is its flexibility to adapt to new needs. As new information comes to light, and as the initial unknowns are flushed out, the model implemented will either allow for enhancement or limit the business.
At the point of limitation comes a decision: does the cost of limitation outweigh the cost of rewriting?
If the answer is no, then you handicap your business through the known limitation and create workarounds, where necessary.
If the answer is yes, then you embark on a rewrite and re-approach the problem with the new information you have.
I first wrote the permissions and approvals engine four years ago. Now that I have a few dozen clients using 247, and now that I'm smarter for having listened to and watched the way in which they use it, it's time to rewrite.
I've been involved in many organizations that encountered the rewrite vs. workarounds fork in the road. What I found is that companies almost never trust their own people to start from scratch and build it from the ground up.
That's just dumb.
I mean, it's one thing if you simply don't have the talent in shop to do it, as most small businesses do not. But for larger companies, they likely do have that talent in house. For whatever reason, they just don't trust that talent. So they end up buying into a system that meets most of what they need, and expend no small amount of effort squeezing that foot into the limitations of that new shoe.
The problem with that approach is that it is still a system that limits the organization. Every time. They convert the fork in the road to become workarounds in current limiting system vs. workarounds in new limiting system. Writing and owning the entire system is not an option, and limitation becomes a way of life.
Peter Drucker said: "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Ever since I heard that, I knew that the optimum is:
Do the right things right.
Why choose between doing things right and doing the right things?
In my experience, it is always better and more sustainable to solve the right problem in the right way at the earliest opportunity. In my experience, the only time that something is too costly to implement is when it is impossible, otherwise it's doable and the only challenge is choosing when and how.
The only way you know the right problems to solve is by being as close as possible to the market.
The only way to solve those problems in the right way is to implement as close as possible to the market.
See the pattern?
The problem with most of today's management is that they don't make a concerted effort to put themselves and their people close to the market.
Therefore, ineffectiveness and inefficiency ensue, which paves the way for disruptive innovators and fearless competitors - which always costs the existing players far more for the avoidance and can threaten their very existence.
That too is dumb.
Out: No-Fly Zone. In: Hypocrisy Zone.
I'm not going to post any links for this or even elaborate - it's just obvious on its face.
Telling the Story
In addition to writing a ton of code, I'm writing the user manual, and I would argue that every developer needs to write their own manual.
Not because it's for the user to read, but rather because it's for the developer to be forced into eating his own dog food, step by step. There is no better debugger than documenting your own path for others as they would use it.
That process has been helpful to me to figure out the best way to help a person manage their activity as a non-administrator in 247Toolset.
Beyond creating their initial profile, a person has three reasons to return to the portal:
Record their response to a request for engagement
Manage their current assignments
Manage their RSVP's to events
I've spent three hours so far this morning walking through this experience for the user again and again, clarifying my words and cleaning up the interface to give them what feels simple.
When on an assignment, the administrator can issue tasks for the person assigned, and the person can record their status on the task.
They can also record their time on an assignment.
This is not only applicable for the recruiters who use 247Toolset, but for non-profits as well, who have told me that they need an easy way to log a volunteer's hours - because sometimes the "volunteer" is compelled to be there because of a community service requirement.
Walking through it, I thought of the enhancements I'm sure I'll be asked to make down the road. That clarity in what exists and that vision for down the road wouldn't have come were it not for the exercise of writing it out.
Today, I sat with an organization that purchased my platform and walked them through the features and options.
I used to be able to do a pretty thorough demo in 10 minutes.
I'm not sure I could do it in an hour now.
I said last year that my primary purpose in life is driving value.
Driving value is an additive force in the economy. It creates purpose and use from nothing and makes it attractive to purchase, which increases the velocity of money around those driving value.
A few years back, the daughter of a friend of mine went to China, and being an excellent photographer, she took pictures of the communities she visited. Being an artist, she didn't focus on the "sights," per se... she instead took pictures of the small details of a well-crafted fence, or the ornate carving in a door, or the exquisite curve of a piece of glass blown into perfect shape. Over centuries, the community was improved by everyone, so that even the smallest of touches had great meaning.
I hope that can be said of my life - that I added great and beautiful value.
One of the best ways for an organization to gain members and promote its mission into the community is to attend the events of others.
It's impossible for an administrator to keep abreast of all of the events in the community that would prove beneficial to attend. But across all of its members, collectively, they might know all of them.
So this morning, I'm creating the ability for members to suggest an event to the administrators through the events calendar.
Honing the Features
Wouldn't it be great to be able to toggle between the calendar view and a list of the events through the month?
You betcha :)
I'm probably coding faster than I ever have, and this is likely my most productive week ever. That's kind of a crazy thing to say...
My Morning A-ha Moment
As I'm writing more functionality this morning in the events calendar, my own software caught me by surprise.
247Toolset has the ability to create private events that don't show up on the public calendar. When a person is logged into the system, they see the private events to which they have access.
I always thought of this as internal admin meetings among the group. But frankly, if I create a private event and issue no one access to the event but me, each person in the organization could use this as a personal events calendar.
Would they want to?
I had a conversation yesterday with someone who owns 247Toolset and they're looking at ACT as a contact management system in-house. She asked the question, "Could I just use 247Toolset for that?" Her reasoning, which has been a principle goal of the platform all along, is that it brings all of their information into one place.
There are a lot of cool tools out there, but never discount the beauty of simplified integration as a point of attraction.
Here's the thing: because 247Toolset actually allows those in my network to manage their own information for me, which makes it more accurate and less time-consuming, and because it's coming awfully close to a full-fledged contact management system, I think I have some interesting angles I can play here with just a bit more thoughtfulness as I code.
What's really blowing my mind: 247Toolset allows organizations to network their calendars together. That blend of personal calendars with organization calendars with niche community calendars... holy crap!
ETC: Here are some screenshots, if you'd like to see them. Just click.
For two days, I've been running through the scenarios for invitation-only events, and it's proven a lot more work than I expected, especially since everything for private events was so simple. But the workflow is quite different, and some of the scenarios raise some questions about how the rest is handled.
All I know is that I want to put this piece of it to bed tonight before I go to bed. It's getting in the way of my development timeline, dammit.
For the record, here's what led up to 247Toolset:
1999: I built a shareware application called Project Tracker and had a few hundred sales.
2001: Newsletter Ease, email newsletter software, was born.
2002: After a board meeting for NLE, Cindy Rockwell asked me what I was going to do next. I told her that a résumé is only a list of things that people have allowed me to do, but it's a poor indicator of what I want to do or what I think I'm capable of doing - so I wanted to work on something that would allow a person to showcase their skills and passions. At that time, I bought the domain TalentBench.com (which I still own). (As an aside, all of the tables in the 247Toolset database are prefixed "TB_" for this reason.
2004: After separating from Jackie, I started working on something I called Ezolo, which featured a geographic search engine. I then bought the domain EverybodysCalendar.com and built what become the prototype for the EverywhereCalendar technology that is in 247Toolset today. I stopped working on that in 2005.
2006: I approached John Myers of Paragon Employment Solutions and told him of the TalentBench concept and wondered how that might work for recruiters.
2008: Paragon and I worked out an agreement where I would build what then became known as the 247Toolset platform. I would own all of the IT, and they would share some of the revenue that they made through it. Unfortunately, it didn't really fit their model, and we parted ways later that year.
2009: I was one of the founders of the Des Moines Tea Party, and it occurred to me that all of these passionate people were dying for a way to get involved. I started retooling 247Toolset for volunteer recruitment, and released an early version in June that was reviewed by my good friend, John LaMarche, who also purchased the first portal for $2,500 (TalentNetIowa.com).
2010: Realized that my pricing model wasn't right for the market or for the economy, so I mothballed my sales efforts until I could arrive at the right model, which occurred 4th quarter in the year.
2011: Significant enhancements and 80-hour work weeks on it. Sales are regular and word-of-mouth is strong
I wanted to make two points in all of that.
1) Entrepreneurship isn't just an idea and financing and suddenly you're rich. It's evolving ideas and experiences and a service attitude and a lot of elbow grease. Everything rides on the single-minded belief that the effort will pay off. Whenever I read of people who think that business owners are just lucky folk who make their money off the backs of the poor, I'd love to sit down with them and share my story. Across the entrepreneurs I know, mine is not an unfamiliar story, and people who think "the rich" are just lucky people are deeply ignorant of the extraordinary work that makes successful folk "lucky."
2) I want my kids to know this story. I write my blog mostly for my family to have my history. Dumping stuff out of my head helps me to get ready for pulling more stuff into my head. But my chief reason is for them... someday, my kids and my grandkids will read through all of this.
Mo' Money
Via Prof. Reynolds:
THE STATE OF WISCONSIN HAS stopped withholding union dues from employee paychecks. And despite all the sound-and-fury, this is what the Democrats are really upset about. Plus this: "With the law now in effect and paychecks getting an increase since union dues are not being withheld, Democrats are the party arguing for a reduction in state worker paychecks."
If a person chooses to give their money to a union, more power to them. But forcing union dues deduction is theft, plain and simple. It's now up to the unions to prove that they're worth the freewill contribution, just like it's up to the rest of us to prove that our service or product is worth the money we ask.
Welcome to the free world, unions.
And as an aside, I wonder how many of those formerly-auto-deducted households will quietly be very, very grateful for the extra income.
When I first built 247Toolset, it was a tool for administrators to find people, and since there was no need for administrator to discover herself, she never filled out a profile.
But the market talks and I do my best to listen, and 247Toolset is becoming a CRM suite... which means more rewriting to make it clearer yet.
People aren't always explicit in telling you how a product isn't clear yet.
Vivian from Florida called me two days ago with this question: "How do I access organizations?"
I told her that it was on the People tab, but what her question told me was that the interface wasn't clear. So now it's not the People tab - it's the People and Organizations tab.
At the moment, I'm creating a Communication tab, which will house Conversations, Email Newsletters, Email Blast, and Text Message Blast.
The writer Stendhal said: "I see only one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, then my entire world crumbles into nothing."
Yep - pretty much. And universal clarity is hard work.


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Rodgers praises 'highly gifted' subs as Leicester go through
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has praised 'highly gifted' substitutes Jamie Vardy and James Maddison after they helped Leicester to qualify for the Europa League round of 32 with a 3-3 draw against Braga.
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Luke Thomas scored his first goal for Leicester in the 78th-minute to bring the English side level.
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Despite his effort, they found themselves behind for a third time as Fransergio Barbosa scored late in the game.
Jamie Vardy stepped up in the 95th-minute, scoring from a Marc Albrighton cross to level things up and send Leicester through to the round of 32.
Speaking after the late drama, Rodgers told reporters: "It's great to qualify, confirming qualification is obviously great for us. That was the objective at the beginning and now the next ambition is to go on and win the group, so that's what we'll look to achieve.
"With so many games coming up at least we now know we can manage the squad and maybe give players a rest, but we are still hungry."
Rodgers brought on Maddison and Vardy just after the hour mark to improve their attack.
Speaking about the subs, he said: "Our plan was to play the system we were in, and if we had to chase the game we would change the shape to 3-1-4-2 and those players would change the dynamic of the game. They are highly gifted players and they made a big difference.
"In the first half we were too slow in our movement, too static and we weren't aggressive enough. In the second half, we were outstanding. We changed our system, as we had talked about before the game.
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St Martin's Coffee House in Chichester City Centre is set in one of Chichester's charming historic buildings and specialises in serving home-cooked organic food. At St Martin's all meals are made on the premises, and only organically allowed certified ingredients that are nutritionally dense are used. St Martin's is a member of the prestigious Soil Association.
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The Hare & Hounds
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Le TBM 900 est un avion monomoteur conçu et assemblé par le constructeur aéronautique français Daher. Héritier direct du TBM 850, le TBM 900 est commercialisé comme le mono-turbopropulseur le plus rapide du marché.

Caractéristiques

Le TBM 900 est présenté officiellement le . Il atteint la vitesse de 330 kt () en croisière au niveau de vol 280 ().

Avec une distance franchissable de 1730 milles marins en vitesse de croisière, le TBM-900 peut parcourir 130 milles marins de plus que son prédécesseur avec la même quantité de carburant.

Le , une nouvelle version est dévoilée, baptisée TBM 930. Il dispose d'une avionique et interface de pilotage améliorées Garmin G3000.

Le , le TBM 910, utilisant le Garmin G1000 NXi, est présenté à l'occasion du salon AERO Friedrichshafen.

Le 7 mars 2019, Daher dévoile le TBM 940, équipé d'une automanette et d'un mode de descente d'urgence automatique en cas de dépressurisation de la cabine (descente sous 12 000 ft et virage à 90° pour sortir de l'Airways). Le premier exemplaire, le MSN 1281 immatriculé F-GKCJ entre en service le 28 mai 2019.

Le , Daher présente le TBM 960 doté d'un nouveau moteur Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6E-66XT.

Développement

Le TBM 900 est le fruit d'un programme d'optimisation ayant pour base le précédent TBM 850 et aboutissant à de nombreuses modifications :

Modifications extérieures :
 Capot moteur en fibre de carbone
 Logements des trains d'atterrissage
 Hélice à 5 pales en matériau composite
 Échappements moteur
 Winglets en fibre de carbone
 Entrée d'air
 Cône de queue

Modifications intérieures :
 Contrôle de pressurisation automatique
 Système d'avionique intégré Garmin G1000
 Mono-manette de commande moteur
 Finitions intérieures

Commercialisation
Le TBM 900 est l'aboutissement d'un programme ayant nécessité  de travaux de recherche et développement, et plus de  d'essais en vol. Certifié en décembre 2013, le TBM 900 est proposé au prix catalogue de . En mai 2014, quarante commandes avaient été passées depuis son lancement commercial en janvier 2014 et la livraison des six premiers exemplaires a eu lieu courant mars 2014.

En février 2021, la Direction générale de l'armement annonce l'achat de 4 TBM-940 pour 21,8 millions d'euros destiné au DGA Essais en vol. Le premier est réceptionné le 21 octobre 2021.

Records
Le 9 mars 2019, le TBM 930 immatriculé N444CD bat le record de la traversée de l'Atlantique Nord (New-York - Le Bourget) en monomoteur en 8 heures 36 minutes. Il aura été 4 fois plus rapide que le premier record de Charles Lindbergh sur ce parcours.

Annexes

Références

Articles connexes
 Liste des avions civils
 TBM 700
 Hubert de Malherbe

Liens externes

 Site officiel du constructeur
 Histoire et caractéristiques techniques (tous modèles)

Aviation légère
Aviation d'affaires
Avion monomoteur
Aéronef à turbopropulsion
Avion construit en France
Avion des années 2010

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How do I get rid of Bartholin gland cyst naturally?
I had one a couple of months ago,mine wasn't that painful but was there for weeks.I stuck tea tree oil on it twice a day. Finally plucked up the courage to make an appointment at Docs and the morning I was due to go it disappeared literally overnight. how to get certified to teach fitness classes Another excellent treatment is a little tea tree oil rubbed on the cyst area a couple times per day after your bath. In addition to making the treatment maximally pleasurable for yourself, I'd also recommend that you make it even more healing.
Tea tree oil sitz bath, tea tree oil applied directly to my BC for 3days now. Size doesn't change. Stays the same. Yesterday I have started taking serrapeptase 40,000 units (this is the only potency I managed to get) 2pills 3x a day on empty stomach.
Tea Tree Oil to getting Rid of Vaginal Cyst Tea tree oil has antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiviral and antifungal properties which help to reduce pain and inflammation due to the vaginal cyst. This remedy can be used for other types of cyst including Sebaceous Cyst, Ganglion cyst, Bartholin cysts etc.


Hospitals are invited to participate in a stakeholder call with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to discuss an important update as it relates to the Affordable Care Act. The speaker will be Jocelyn Samuels, director of the Office for Civil Rights. There will also be the opportunity for questions and answers.
Two federal judicial panels on Tuesday delivered conflicting rulings on how the government subsidizes premiums through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), creating more uncertainty over signature legislation that has been dogged by challenges from Republicans and other conservatives.
The rulings, handed down by appeals court judges in the District of Columbia and Virginia, could lead to a new showdown over the ACA before the U.S. Supreme Court, which in June 2012 narrowly upheld the Democratic president's health care insurance overhaul.
The cases deal with the federal government's ability to offer premium tax credits to people who purchase insurance through the federal insurance marketplace that serves the majority of the 8 million consumers who have signed up for private coverage for 2014.
On Wednesday, July 16, the Interim Joint Health and Welfare Committee met in Frankfort. Kentucky Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence Kissner spoke at the meeting to provide an update on Affordable Care Act (ACA) activities in Kentucky.
During his presentation, Kissner told the committee that the federal government has kept the disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments as they have been from federal fiscal year (FFY) 2009 to 2013 – the same as before the ACA. He stated that some hospitals have received more additional Medicaid payments from Medicaid expansion than others. He said that 78-79 hospitals are getting paid more in Medicaid expansion payments plus they are still receiving DSH payments (not counting UK Chandler Medical Center, University of Louisville Hospital and the psychiatric hospitals).
Over the past several months, the Department of Health and Human Services has been busy issuing rules and guidance for the 2015 plan year for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplaces and Medicare Advantage. These are complex rules and guidance, and the implications for hospitals and hospital systems as caregivers, employers and, in some cases, insurers will vary.
The American Hospital Association has issued a Regulatory Advisory which features a compendium of the key rules and guidance. It provides a brief summary, identifies key hospital-related issues and includes web links to associated regulatory documents.
According to Governor Steve Beshear's website, 321,932 Kentuckians have enrolled via the state health insurance exchange, kynect, as of March 21. Eighty percent of those enrollees (257,477) however will be added to the Medicaid program and not purchasing private insurance.
Only 64,455 people have signed up for private health insurance so far. Of those, the most popular plan level is Silver (41 percent) – the level of coverage tied to federal subsidies. The second most popular level is Platinum (28 percent), which provides the most coverage. Seventeen percent of enrollees chose the Gold level and 11 percent chose Bronze.
View the kynect Enrollment Data for details of individuals enrolled by county.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law March 2010. While most aspects of the law were not scheduled to begin until 2012, hospitals began feeling the effects early on due to the mandated reduction in Medicare payments. Hospitals are estimated to incur $155 billion in cuts over 10 years with Kentucky hospitals' portion estimated at $2.1 billion. The year 2014 marks the full implementation of the ACA with the mandate that individuals be insured by January 1, 2014, or incur a penalty. There are many questions as to how the ACA will play out in the coming years and what impact it will have on Kentucky hospitals.
AHA will host an ACA Enrollment Virtual Town Hall Meeting for Health Care Providers on Thursday, January 16.
9:00-10:00 a.m. EST 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST 4:00-5:00 p.m. EST 9:00-10:00 p.m. EST Hear about how individual providers, clinics and hospitals can play a central role in getting America covered.


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Improving access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Services for patients 16 years of age and older- Fact Sheet
A fact sheet to inform the public and the profession of improving access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services
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Improving access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services
The Australian Government believes all Australians should have access to an affordable, quality health care system regardless of whether they live in the city or in regional areas. This includes ensuring patients have continued access to affordable and convenient diagnostic imaging services such as Medicare-eligible MRI services.
Improving access to Medicare-eligible MRI items:
As of 1 November 2013, GP requesting rights for a small set of clinically appropriate MRI indications will be extended to all patients 16 years of age and older.
Extending MRI requesting rights to GPs is aimed at increasing access to MRI services for patients managed by GPs who would otherwise be required to be referred to a specialist or consultant physician in order to have access to a Medicare funded MRI scan. The availability of these items should also help to reduce patient exposure to unnecessary radiation associated with other types of diagnostic imaging like computed tomography (CT) scans.
Four GP MRI requested items for patients 16 years of age and older were developed with the assistance of an Expert Working Group which was established to provide advice to the department on the appropriate indications for the proposed new items. These items and explanatory notes can be found on the MBS Online website.
The four new GP requested MRI items for patients 16 years of age and older are for the following indications: scan of the head for certain indications, scan of the cervical spine for radiculopathy and trauma, and scan of the knee for specific clinical indications. These services can be provided on full and partial Medicare eligible units. There are currently 337 Medicare eligible MRI units nationally.
The Department of Health funded the Royal College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand Collage of Radiologists (RANZCR) to produce guidance material to support and assist GP's when requesting MRI GP requested items for patients 16 years and over. This guidance material can be found on the Royal College of General Practitioners (RACGP) website.
The Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) item numbers are:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Group I5
Subgroup 34 – Magnetic Resonance Imaging - For Specified Conditions
63551 referral by a medical practitioner (excluding a specialist or consultant physician) for a scan of head for a patient 16 years or older for any of the following:
-	unexplained seizure(s) (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
-	unexplained chronic headache with suspected intracranial pathology (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
Fee: $403.20	Benefit: 75% = $302.40	85% = $342.75
-	unexplained seizure(s) (R) (NK) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
-	unexplained chronic headache with suspected intracranial pathology (R) (NK) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
63554 referral by a medical practitioner (excluding a specialist or consultant physician) for a scan of spine for a patient 16 years or older for suspected:
-	cervical radiculopathy (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
-	cervical radiculopathy (R) (NK) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
-	cervical spine trauma (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
-	cervical spine trauma (R) (NK) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
Fee: $246.40	Benefit: 75% = $ 184.80	85% = $209.45
63560 referral by a medical practitioner (excluding a specialist or consultant physician) for a scan of knee following acute knee trauma for a patient 16 years or older with:
-	inability to extend the knee suggesting the possibility of acute meniscal tear (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.); or
-	clinical findings suggesting acute anterior cruciate ligament tear. (R) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
-	inability to extend the knee suggesting the possibility of acute meniscal tear (R) (NK) (Contrast) (Anaes.); or
-	clinical findings suggesting acute anterior cruciate ligament tear. (R) (NK) (Contrast) (Anaes.)
These items can only be provided on either a full or partial Medicare-eligible MRI unit. The complete list of Medicare-eligible MRI units is available on the Department of Health website.
Frequently Asked Questions -
Where can I find the details of the Medicare MRI items?
Details of the item descriptors and explanatory notes can be found at mbsonline.gov.au
Which MRI units can provide these four new Medicare rebated GP requested items?
Both partial and full Medicare-eligible MRI units can provide these services.
Can these items also be requested by a specialist?
No, these items are restricted to request only by medical practitioners excluding specialist or consultant physician. If requested by a specialist or consultant physician a Medicare rebate will not apply. Specialist and consultant physicians can currently request equivalent Medicare-eligible MRI services.
Are patients under the age of 16 years eligible for these items?
No, the patient must be aged of 16 years or older on the day the service is performed, not on the day the service is requested.
If a request is dated pre 1 November 2013 is it eligible?
Yes. GP requests dated prior to 1 November 2013 will be Medicare-eligible as long as the service is performed from 1 November 2013.
Overview of Medicare-eligible MRI items for MRI Providers
The following list provides a breakdown of which MBS MRI items can be provided on full or partial Medicare-eligible MRI units.
Item Range
Existing items
MRI items
·	Specialist; or
·	Consultant physician Full Medicare-eligible
Existing items (introduced 1 November 2012)
MRI items for patients under the age of 16
·	Medical practitioners other than specialist or consultant physicians Full Medicare-eligible; and
Partial Medicare-eligible
Existing Cancer staging & breast screening items
·	Consultant physician Full Medicare-eligible; and
MRI modifying items
·	All medical practitioners Full Medicare-eligible; and
Existing items (Interim listed items)
Interim listed PIP breast MRI
·	All medical practitioners Any MRI unit (eligible or ineligible) that have:
·	Practice Accreditation under the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme (DIAS); and
·	Operates a dedicated breast coil.
MRI items for all patients 16 years of age and older
Diagnostic imaging under Medicare
Improving access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Services Fact Sheet
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) unit locations for Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP) breast scans
Claiming from Medicare
Expansion of Medicare-eligible magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Medicare-funded diagnostic imaging services consultation - Regulation Impact Statement (RIS)
Diagnostic Imaging Services Table
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme (DIAS)
Diagnostic imaging quality assurance
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Health Insurance Act 1973
e-Health records Medicare data
Medicare safety net arrangements 1973 to 2016
MBS Online
Medical Services Advisory Committee
Medical Treatment Overseas program
Pathology under Medicare
Primary care (GP, nursing, allied health)
Radiation therapy under Medicare
Statistics under Medicare
Specialist video consultations under Medicare


this ones "lengthy" but pretty good // lots of long beach spots in the mix. masterfam has been holding it down for a little while now. this is probably a footage dump but theres some quality clips in here for sure.


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Does Shaw appear to be making fun of these characters, as he is often known to do? Higgins house Shaw when she is put in test of her language. If you really want to make an impression with your paper, you will have to get creative and try to develop a new outlook on some of the issues raised in the play.
Identify the situations where Higgins intentionally violates etiquette. Using the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion, who fell in love with his marble masterpiece, Shaw introduces phonetician Henry Higgins to the Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle.
Marriage between Higgins and Eliza. When his daughter is Pygmalion essay prompts a more regular income, he is resentful about it.
Shaw in several cases points out the importance of social class, manners, morality and proper language which almost never occur simultaneously. How many storylines will be altered without him?
Compare the four men, including their views and their actions. Shaw writes to expose the differences in the lifestyles of the social classes and how different characters react to their status.
What do you think Shaw is trying to achieve in highlighting the concept of the romance in the title? When his daughter is given a more regular income, he is resentful about it. Higgins, she was a dirty, improper, poor young girl. What is the role and significance of this character?
As the movie progress this barrier is being removed by educating Eliza about speech and manners which links back to the need for elementary education. The reception of the audience during the play was of utmost disappointment due to the non romantic ending of the play, even though that was Shaws initial intentions.
Nonetheless the language and manners codex in society has enormous power even on nowadays social class system and serves as one of our criteria based on which we many times mistakenly categorize people. Analyze the first act and determine what kind of dramatic role is played by this family.
While Eliza Doolittle is being remade, Victorian society itself can be said to be unmade. As the story progresses and Mr. Does this change the way we think about the "bet"? Or does he fail as a compassionate being in his absolutism?
For the fist few… Pygmalion Het verhaal draait om professor Henry Higgins, een deskundige op het gebied van fonetiek en het eenvoudige Cockney sprekende bloemenverkoopstertje Eliza Doolittle.Sep 14, · Suggested Essay Topics "I care for life, for humanity; and you are a part of it that has come my way and been built into my.
Pygmalion is one of the classic works of fiction that is definitely a must-read for everyone. Therefore, it's not surprising to be assigned a paper on this particular work of Bernard Shaw.
The problem here is the fact that the play is so popular that it's almost impossible to write a truly unique and original essay on it. - Pygmalion and Society at the Time In this essay I will be discussing Bernard Shaw's representation of Edwardian Society in 'Pygmalion'.
Suggested essay topics and project ideas for Pygmalion. Part of a detailed Lesson Plan by agronumericus.com Pygmalion study guide contains a biography of George Bernard Shaw, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a.
1. What is the dramatic importance of phonetics in all of the acts? 2. How is phonetics related to manners in all of the acts? 3. What is the dramatic function.


is because I like balance in life and so on.
It took about 1.5 hours to do, then I couldn't take it any longer, due to the pain.
So it's actually not done yet, haven't had the guts or money to fix it.
Then I have this tatto on my left wrist and it was my first.
Did it when I was 18 years old, three years ago that is.
It is my name written in one of the three japanese written languages; katakana.
I shall soon do the other wrist, that one will also consist of three japanese signs.


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Dec. 17, 2018, © Leeham News: Lion Air's co-founder is threatening to cancel an order for more than 200 Boeing 737 MAXes following what he says is Boeing's blaming the airline for the Oct. 29 crash of Flight 610.
All 189 people aboard the three month old 737-8 died when the plane plunged into the Java Sea 11 minutes after take-off from Jakarta.
Calling a Boeing statement issued Nov. 27 a "betrayal," co-founder Rusdi Kirana Dec. 3 threatened to cancel to big Boeing order. He amplified his remarks Dec. 11.
Lion Air has 229 MAXes scheduled for delivery between 2019-2026.
The carrier has 148 A320neos scheduled for delivery, believed intended for its leasing company.
Another source of A320neos is apparently available.


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Recommended Momentum 'How' and 'Why': Novartis (NYSE:NVS), Flamel Technologies (NASDAQ:FLML)
Gerard Bergeron December 18, 2016	Street Sector Leave a comment
Shares of Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS) [Trend Analysis] runs in leading trade, it surging 1.01% to traded at $71.78. The firm has price volatility of 0.95% for a week and 1.07% for a month. Its beta stands at 0.68 times. Novartis (NVS) declared that contract for the acquisition of Ziarco Group Limited, a privately held company focused on the development of novel treatments in dermatology. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Ziarco's lead investigational product, ZPL389, is a potential first-in-class oral treatment for moderate-to-severe eczema.
VasantNarasimhan, Global Head, Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer, Novartis. "We are proud of our dermatology capabilities shown by the recent successful launches of Cosentyx and Xolair. Now we're excited about a potential new medicine for people with eczema through the acquisition of Ziarco and the addition of a first-in-class oral H(4) receptor antagonist to our growing pipeline." Narrow down four to firm performance, its weekly performance was 5.13% and monthly performance was -1.17%. The stock price of NVS is moving up from its 20 days moving average with 3.35% and isolated negatively from 50 days moving average with -0.43%.
Flamel Technologies SA (NASDAQ:FLML) [Trend Analysis] luring active investment momentum, shares a loss -1.35% to $10.21. Flamel Technologies SA (NASDAQ:FLML) revealed that first patient has been dosed in its Rest-On Phase III clinical trial of FT218, a once-nightly formulation of sodium oxybate utilizing the Company's proprietary Micropump technology, for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy in patients suffering from narcolepsy.
Mike Anderson, Flamel's Chief Executive Officer, remarked, "This is an exciting milestone for Flamel. FT218 is our most important asset and has the potential to provide a number of benefits to narcoleptic patients, who suffer from debilitating quality of life issues. We are seeing important interest in this trial from both physicians and patients alike, and are excited to continue the screening and enrollment process as more sites are initiated throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S." The total volume of 152951 shares held in the session was surprisingly higher than its average volume of 112.58 shares. EPS estimates indicating constrictive facts, the current year from sell-side analysts, Price to current year EPS stands at 138.00%, and looking further price to next year's EPS is 104.30%. While take a short look on price to sales ratio, that was 2.84 and price to earning ratio of 33.17 attracting passive investors.
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Politics @ Surrey
The blog of the Department of Politics at the University of Surrey
Celebrating the Death of a Devil?
Yesterday, Colonel Gaddafi was killed in his final stronghold of Sirte. Details of his death have been confused, with initial claims of his capture slowly being replaced by suggestions that rebels had shot him in the head, and later reports of his demise in the crossfire of battle. What is known is that Gaddafi's final moments before capture were spent in a location and manner to which he would certainly not have been accustomed: 'cowering' inside an 'irrigation' channel.
Gaddafi's record of human rights abuses at home and criminality abroad is certainly not contested here. Instead the question that I would like to pose concerns the normative dimensions of NATO policy: Is NATO responsible for the death of Gaddafi, and is that responsibility morally acceptable? On the issue of responsibility, it is safe to suggest that NATO's role has been essential to the success of the rebel cause generally and the killing of Gaddafi specifically. French air strikes on Gaddafi's final loyalist supporters enabled the firefight that has apparently led to his death. Make no mistake; as in Afghanistan and Iraq, this was a policy of regime change. Unlike the 'Afghan model', let down in the battle of Tora Bora where bin Laden made his escape to Pakistan, this time coalition efforts to support local fighters appear to have worked: they have got their man. The question remains, however: is this right?
Following bin Laden's death, some Europeans were quick to remind jubilant Americans of Martin Luther King's words: I will not rejoice in the killing of another human, not even an enemy. Such sentiments have been less forthcoming this time around. Why? The perception that Libyans killed a hated, oppressive Libyan is important. But the role of Coalition forces cannot and should not be underplayed or forgotten. This was very clearly a war of choice for the US, UK and France. The possibility of the intervention in the first place, like the outpouring of public statements on Gaddafi's end, centre on his identity as an evil villain. Prime Minister Cameron joked last night that we could 'celebrate the death of a devil'. In May, I suggested that Americans were 'celebrating the death of evil', as it had been portrayed in the language of President Bush's foreign policy speeches and embodied in the satanic figure of Osama bin Laden. Once again we see that James Der Derian is correct: people go to war because of how they see, imagine, picture, perceive and speak of others. Language matters. And in this instance, once again, it will help to frame debates on the morality, legality and impact of Colonel Gaddafi's killing, as well as the broader intervention.
Despite Prime Minister Cameron's claims to the contrary, we should not be 'celebrating the death of a devil'. The devil is in the detail. And the details reveal that recent British governments have embraced Colonel Gaddafi as a friend and ally. They reveal the essential role that Britain, alongside NATO allies, has played in Gaddafi's killing. And, stitched together, they reveal an inconsistent and often hypocritical approach to intervention in Africa and the Middle East. British Prime Ministers have gone from embracing Gaddafi, via calls for the international community to 'manage' the uprisings of the Arab Spring to ensure 'proper democracy', to welcoming the death of another human being. Such actions do not suggest the 'management' of 'proper democracy', but rather the sad fact that imperial condescension and interventionism remain intimately linked. Cameron would do well to heed Nick Robinson's warnings that Blair too experienced early military victories. Developing a taste for intervention rarely works out well.
David Cameron has been interviewed on the death of Gaddafi this morning. He argued that "on a human level" Gaddafi's possible execution by rebel fighters is wrong, but "how many times has he allowed that fate to be met by others". First, however abhorrent his crimes, Gaddafi remained a human. Second, suggesting that by breaking the law you are literally out-lawed – beyond the protections of the law because you have broken it – returns us to notions of frontier justice far removed from the rule of law one might be expect the 'managers' of 'proper democracy' to defend. Whatever his actions, and whatever satanic identity he has been afforded, Gaddafi's life and its end should not be positioned as existing outside of the law and of moral considerations.
At the time of press, the cause and circumstances of Gaddafi's death remain unclear.
For further reading, see Jason Ralph's thoughts at: http://theamericanexception.wordpress.com/ Jason will give a talk on intervention at Cii on the 9th of November.
Jack Holland
"Critics of the Libyan intervention == or any intervention tend to dismissively proclaim that its important to "Let the Libyans decide it for themselves." That's a cop out."
I like Jon Western's work, and that he's talking about Pinker, but this blog post offers a strong counter-argument to what I'm talking about above.
http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/2011/10/qaddafi-intervention-and-r2p.html
Anti-capitalism protests across the globe: rebels with too many causes?
The Death of Gaddafi: An Interview with Jason Ralph


"Smoot Hawley" sounds like the name of some guy my Dad grew up with back in Tonica, Illinois.
I think life in an Australian electrolysis parlor would make a great setting for a sitcom, if only to see how many times and in how many ways the producers would find to use the words "down under".
Remember when Smoot Hawley and Pinky Shears put the cannon in the park up on top of the roof of the high school?
I was surprised at how much the late Natasha Richardson looks like Anne Meara in some of her photos.
Or the time Smoot got drunk and puked in the tuba?
It may be too late for a Christmas Baby, but maybe not for a tax deduction.
And remember when Smoot dipped all those rabbits in luminous paint and set them loose near the A-Bomb Research Facility?
I almost never drop comments, but i did some searching and wound up here Tom McMahon: Christmas Is Just Nine Months Away and Other Ramblings. And I actually do have a couple of questions for you if you do not mind. Is it simply me or does it look as if like some of the responses look like they are left by brain dead visitors? :-P And, if you are writing on other online social sites, I'd like to keep up with everything new you have to post. Could you list of all of all your shared sites like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?
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Thanks to Cine PR for the new poster for The Crucifixion.
From IMDb comes the new poster for the UK film The Party.
Thanks to The Film Stage for the new teaser poster for Lady Bird.
Just added the new poster for Jeepers Creepers 3.
Just received new posters for the 4K restoration re-releases of King of Hearts, The Official Story, and The Old Dark House.
Just added five new character posters for the remake of Flatliners.
Thanks to WildAboutMovies for passing along three new posters for Professor Marston & the Wonder Women.
P.S. It looks as if those crazy Chinese posters for Spider-man: Homecoming were fan made and not official designs.
Thanks to Live For Films for the new UK quad for Suburbicon.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the latest poster for The Lego Ninjago Movie.
Thanks to lu.is, Boomgers, and Blogbusters for two new international posters for Home Again.
Just added the new poster for Killing Gunther starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Just added the new poster for The Greatest Showman.
Thanks to Mike Markus for passing along international posters for The Crucifixion, Smart Chase: Fire & Earth, and Unlocked.
Just added new posters for Served Like a Girl, SPF-18, and Dina.
Thanks to Mathew for passing along US one sheets for Friend Request and Overdrive.
Thanks to Cine PR for the heads up on the new poster for The Houses October Built 2.
Just added the latest poster for Darren Aronofsky's Mother!.
Just added six new posters for My Little Pony: The Movie.
Here's the new UK poster for Borg vs McEnroe.
Just added nine more character posters for Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
Thanks to WildAboutMovies for passing along the new poster for Welcome to Willits. Also, we've just added the poster for the documentary Jamaica Man.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new French poster for The Emoji Movie.
Thanks to Mike Markus for two new character posters for Blade Runner 2049 and the one sheet for The Star.
Thanks to Mike Markus and WildAboutMovies for the new poster for Only the Brave. Also, from Rama's Screen comes the one sheet for Brad's Status.
Just added a second new poster for Blade Runner 2049. This one appears to be the domestic version while the previous one was international.
Thanks to Mike Markus for two new international posters for Thor: Ragnarok.
From Bloody-Disgusting comes the new poster for Dementia 13. Also, we've just received the new poster for the Canadian documentary Long Time Running.
Thanks to Blogbusters for the heads up on the new poster for Blade Runner 2049.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the latest poster for Proud Mary. Also, we've added the recent poster for Beyond Skyline.
From Joblo comes the new poster for Fighting the Sky.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new poster for Geostorm as well as the latest poster for Mother! which pays homage to Rosemary's Baby.
Thanks to JPosters for the new international poster for Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
Just added a new poster for The Lego Ninjago Movie.
Thanks to Bloody-Disgusting for the new poster for Brawl in Cell Block 99.
Just added the new poster for 4K re-release of Heat and Dust.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new international poster for The Foreigner.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new poster for 6 Below and the Japanese poster for Jigsaw.
Thanks to Mike Markus for new UK quads for Suburbicon and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature.
Just added the new poster for Human Flow. Also, thanks to WildAboutMovies for the new poster for Blood Stripe.
Just added the latest poster for the 40th anniversary re-release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also, we have the one sheet for The Work.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the latest poster for Logan Lucky.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new poster for Novitiate.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the latest poster for American Assassin.
Just added new posters for The Last Face and Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Just added the new poster for Boo 2! A Madea Halloween. Also, thanks to Female First for the latest poster for Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
Thanks to Rama's Screen for the heads up on the new poster for Vengeance: A Love Story. Also, thanks to Mike Markus for international posters for Wind River and American Made.
Just added the latest poster for Anabolic Life.
Just added new posters for Wetlands and The Limehouse Golem.
From IONCINEMA come two new posters for the US release of Kill Me Please.
Just added the new poster for Literally, Right Before Aaron.
Thanks to Live For Films for the new UK poster for The Snowman. Also, from Screen Anarchy comes the poster for Thirst Street.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new poster for Rememory.
Thanks to Live For Films for the new UK quad for the 4K re-release of Blood Simple. Also, we've added the latest poster for Good Time.
Thanks to WildAboutMovies for the heads up on the new poster for The Florida Project.
Just added the new poster for the documentary Spettacolo.
Thanks to Mike Markus for two new international posters for The Foreigner.
Visit The Playlist for a chance to win an autographed copy of this new poster for Logan Lucky.
Thanks to JPosters for passing along the new Japanese poster for Thor: Ragnarök.
Thanks to Mike Markus for passing along eight new character posters for The Lego Ninjago Movie.
From Yahoo! Movies comes the poster for In Search of Fellini.
Just added the new French poster for Mother!.
Just received the new poster for Wonder. Also, we've just added the poster for the theatrical release of Mudbound.
Just added the new poster for Rebel in the Rye.
Just added the latest artwork for It along with the new Mexican poster for The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature.
Thanks to Mike Markus for passing along international posters for The Hitman's Bodyguard and The Only Living Boy in New York.
Just added the new international poster for Coco. Also, from iTunes Movie Trailers comes the poster for Gun Shy.
Thanks to Live For Films for the new poster for The Death of Stalin.
Just received the new poster for the documentary Chavela.
Thanks to Rama's Screen for the heads up on the new US one sheet for Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the new Japanese poster for The Lego Ninjago Movie.
Just added the new poster for Super Dark Times.
Thanks to Mike Markus for the recent Comic-Con poster for Wonderstruck as well as new posters for American Assassin and Wind River. Also, thanks to WildAboutMovies for the new poster for Trophy.
Thanks to Mike Markus for international posters for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Captain Underpants, and War for the Planet of the Apes.
Thanks to JPosters, ShockYa, and Mike Markus for the new poster for Mother!.
From iTunes Movie Trailers comes the poster for the documentary Dolores. Also, thanks to Live For Films for the new UK quad for Pawn Sacrifice which is finally receiving a theatrical release there.


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Q: How to check few form fields are empty or not? I am using ExtJS 3.4.0
I have a form in "var new" variable that comes to Ext.Window().
I need to do code that checks between textfield and textarea is one of them empty or not.
I mean if textfield is empty and textarea is not then form data can be submitted vice versa.
This code must be placed to the code that starts like below:
newform
.getForm()
.submit(

A: I hope you can find in my example
Ext.onReady(function(){

var newForm=Ext.create('Ext.form.Panel',{

            title:"Form",
            items:[
                  {
                   xtype:"textfield",
                   fieldLabel:"Name"
                  },
                  {
                        xtype     : 'textareafield',
                        name      : 'message',
                        fieldLabel: 'Message'

                    }

                  ],
            renderTo:document.body
  });

              var win= new Ext.Window
                    ({
                     title:"Window",
                     layout:'fit',
                     height:250,
                     width:300,
                     items:[newForm],
                     buttons:[
                              {
                               text:"Submit",
                               handler:function(){
                                 var textFieldValue=newForm.items.items[0].getValue();
                                 var textAreaValue=newForm.items.items[1].getValue();
                                 if(textFieldValue!=""||textAreaValue!=""){
                                   alert("you can submit the data");
                                   }
                                   else{
                                   alert("you can't submit the data");
                                   }
                                }
                              }
                             ]
                   }).show();

});

A: The following example shows a form with textfield and text area. Both are mandatory.
allowBlank::Specify false to validate that the value's length must be > 0. If true, then a blank value is always taken to be valid regardless of any vtype validation that may be applied.
validate() : Boolean
Returns whether or not the field value is currently valid by validating the field's current value, and fires the validitychange event if the field's validity has changed since the last validation. Note: disabled fields are always treated as valid.
See an example in:http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/6.2.0/classic/Ext.form.Panel.html#ext-form-panel_example-usage
Ext.create('Ext.form.Panel', {
    title: 'Simple Form',
    bodyPadding: 5,
    width: 350,

    // The form will submit an AJAX request to this URL when submitted
    url: 'save-form.php',

    // Fields will be arranged vertically, stretched to full width
    layout: 'anchor',
    defaults: {
        anchor: '100%'
    },

    // The fields
    defaultType: 'textfield',
    items: [{
        fieldLabel: 'First Name',
        name: 'first',
        allowBlank: false,
        validator: function(val) {
            return (val.trim().length > 0) ? true : "This field may not be empty";
        }
    }, {
        xtype: 'textarea',
        fieldLabel: 'Last Name',
        name: 'last',
        allowBlank: false,
        validator: function(val) {
            return (val.trim().length > 0) ? true : "This field may not be empty";
        }
    }],

    // Reset and Submit buttons
    buttons: [{
        text: 'Reset',
        handler: function() {
            this.up('form').getForm().reset();
        }
    }, {
        text: 'Submit',
        formBind: true, //only enabled once the form is valid
        disabled: true,
        handler: function() {
            var form = this.up('form').getForm();
            if (form.isValid()) {
                form.submit({
                    success: function(form, action) {
                        Ext.Msg.alert('Success', action.result.msg);
                    },
                    failure: function(form, action) {
                        Ext.Msg.alert('Failed', action.result.msg);
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    }],
    renderTo: Ext.getBody()
});

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Rick Dusi
Eromosele Patrick Eidusi is a Fashion Designer/ Celebrity Fashion Stylist. He is the Creative Director/Founder of contemporary Minimal label RICKDUSI that designs for men and women who enjoy classic British tailoring. Eromosele has been a designer since 2015 and wishes to take RICKDUSI to global standards. Since his entrance into the Fashion industry, he's transitioned through Fashion writing, Styling, working with African designers, Actors, musicians, and in Fashion production for Fashion weeks like Lagos Fashion week, GTB Fashion weekend, Africa Fashion week Nigeria, Style By Zenith Fashion weekend, Bridal Fashion Week, Seun Ajayi, Ric Hassani, MI Agbaga, Eku Edewor, Arese Ugwu, Adesua Etomi, Niniola, and Kiss Daniels.
Rick Dusi became the First Nigerian Designer to Style a 2-time Grammy Awards nominee and one-time winner, Tim Kubart, in the 61st Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles on 10th February 2019. Eromosele Styled the American Actor /singer with a two-piece green, simple, yet classic shawl lapel bespoke western suit custom-made in Nigeria by his brand RICKDUSI.
He finds inspiration from his space, surroundings, travel, and the lack of proper governance in Nigeria in terms of politics. Rick endorses the use of his work for social change in Nigeria. He also defines his style as minimal with a bit of an edge.


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Home » 南京夜网 » Josh Childress unable to lift Sydney Kings in 100-90 loss to Melbourne United
Josh Childress unable to lift Sydney Kings in 100-90 loss to Melbourne United
Josh Childress scored 27 points in his comeback game for the Sydney Kings but was unable to single-handedly weave his magic and steer his side to victory as they went down 100-90 to Melbourne United.
Childress – returning from a fractured hand – was individually on song, scoring the most points of anyone on court, but a perfect shooting game from United captain Daniel Kickert proved the difference in front of 3,446 fans, many of whom deserve credit for sticking by the bottom-of-the-ladder Kings.
Kickert led from the front in the most emphatic fashion. He made eight from eight baskets in the first half for 20 points and continued his exemplary shooting, finishing with 26 points.
Marcus Thornton spoke during the week about how beating Melbourne in Melbourne a fortnight ago gave the squad belief they could do it again. That Thornton flew his parents out from the US for the game corroborated his comments and showed he was being deadly serious.
Childress is an infectious man. His teammates relish being alongside him, and to stick by the struggling squad when he could easily pack his bags for greener pastures, says a lot for what he adds and thinks of the guys he shares the court with.
Sydney have now won just one of their last nine games, and if their body language was anything to go by in yet another disappointing second half, they will do well to improve on that figure in their final nine contests left in the season.
It was déjà vu for Kings fans on the stroke of quarter-time when Ben Knight, an emergency replacement for the injured Julian Khazzouh, found himself under the hoop with no one around him.
He made the easy jump shot, offered a small smile, before having to run back and watch Nate Tomlinson slice through a flimsy Kings defence to put Melbourne up 28-23 at the first break.
Sydney weren't by any stretch of the imagination out of the contest – they lead briefly in the second quarter but poor shooting and some questionable refereeing decisions that didn't go their way saw them trail by two points at the end of a high-scoring half in which 106 points were scored.
Coach Joe Connelly is an animated guy at the best of times, but there were some calls that had him literally jumping up and down, questioning the men in charge. When things are going bad, everything, it seems like, goes against you.
The State Sports Centre is considerably smaller than the Sydney Entertainment Centre, but cramming more fans has resulted in a more lively atmosphere – similar to 15,000 people at ANZ Stadium, compared the same amount at a smaller ground, such as Parramatta Stadium.
Jason Cadee nailed back three-pointers in the warm up like they were going out of fashion. When it mattered though, Cadee, who is becoming a more reliable attacking weapon, missed his first four from range. When the fifth went in, he put his hands in the air – a look of exasperation appearing on his face.
Tom Garlepp was the Kings' equal best, with Childress, from the field, shooting at 60 per cent, but it was Kickert's sharp-shooting that got Melbourne, the second most proficient offensive side in the league, home in the end.
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This week we have enjoyed reading "No Dinner" by Jessica Souhami. It is a traditional Indian tale about how a clever old woman avoids being dinner for the wild animals of the forest by hiding inside a pumpkin shell. We have been getting to know the characters in the story by meeting them in some fun drama activities. We will then write a description of each character thinking about both their appearance and personality.
Next week we will look closely at the physical and human geographical features of the Kumaon region of India and compare it to our local area. Physical features are things that occur naturally, such as mountains and streams. Human features are things that people have put in the landscape such as roads and buildings. What similarities and differences can we see between the Kumaon region and Cheadle Hulme?
Please look out for the Mosque trip letter in your child's reading bag. Each class will need four parent helpers to make the trip possible. The permission slip needs to be returned to school by Monday 21st January.
Homework this week is a set of arithmetic questions. Please refer to the strategy sheet handed out at the beginning of the year if your child needs support with any of the questions. We will also be having a written 2x table test on the 25th January, so please keep practising with your child for that.


Meleagant (or Melyag(r)aunce or Melwas) is best known as the wicked knight who abducts Guinevere and is ultimately slain by Lancelot. The earliest form of the name, Melwas, has been interpreted as meaning "prince of death" or "princely youth." The classic account of the abduction story is in Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart, in which Lancelot, because of his great love for Guinevere, suffers the ignominy of riding in a cart, a form of transportation reserved for criminals so that he can continue his quest to free her. The story is, however, told by others both before and after Chrétien. It can be found in The Life of St. Gildas (c. 1130) by Caradoc of Llancarfan, who says that Melwas, ruler in the summer region ("in aestiva regione"), is attacked by Arthur because he carried off Guinevere. In this version, peace is restored with the help of Gildas. A Welsh poem, formerly thought to be a dialogue between Arthur and Guinevere is now titled the "Dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhwyfar." In addition to Chrétien's version, the story is found in French medieval literature in the Vulgate Lancelot, which is the source for Malory's "Knight of the Cart" episode. In the modern period, the story of Guinevere's abduction by "Melvas" is told by Thomas Peacock in The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829), in which the rescue is effected with the help of Taliessin. The slaying of "Mellyagraunce" by Lancelot is alluded to in Morris's "The Defence of Guenevere". Other versions of the story are found in the novels Galahad by John Erskine, The Once and Future King by T. H. White, and Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger; in the play Meliagrance and Guenevere; and in the film The First Knight.
Loomis, Roger Sherman. Arthurian Tradition & Chrétien de Troyes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949.
Rhys, John. "Gwenhwyvar and Her Captors," Chapter III (pp. 49-70) of Studies in the Arthurian Legend. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891.