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MVNO List Featuring The 9 Best And Most Unique
Joe Paonessa - Sep 13, 2017
2017 edition There are many options for you to consider when you are looking to save money on your phone bill or when you just want something different. In fact BestMVNO.com now tracks over 60 of these providers. In order to come up with a list of what I think
Google's Project Fi Ads European Partner
Joe Paonessa - Jul 13, 2016
Google's Project Fi, has added a 4th network partner in "Three." Three is the first official European wireless operator to partner with Fi, and 4th partner overall. The other partners include T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular. With the addition of Three, Project Fi users will now be able to use
Google's Project Fi Gets A Third Network Partner In US Cellular
Joe Paonessa - Jun 8, 2016
Google has announced that it has added a third Project Fi network partner which should further improve coverage for subscribers of the MVNO. The third network partner is US Cellular which is the nations 3rd largest CDMA wireless provider and 5th largest provider overall. US Cellular provides coverage in 23
Sign Up For Project Fi and Get Up To $150 Off A Nexus 5X
Joe Paonessa - Mar 9, 2016
Now that Google's Project Fi is officially out of Beta and open to all, the search Giant is offering a promotion to try and entice you to sign up for service. The pseudo carrier is offering up to $150 off of the Nexus 5X when you buy it directly from Google
First Annual BestMVNO Awards
With 2015 now in the rear-view mirror it's time to reflect back on the year as it pertained to the world of MVNO's and no contract cellphone plan providers. Welcome to the first annual BestMVNO.com end of the year MVNO and prepaid provider awards. (Disclaimer: Some links are affiliate links,
Google's Project Fi To Offer Data Only Plans
Joe Paonessa - Dec 15, 2015
Google today announced that they will be providing Project Fi (perhaps it's time to change the name of this service to something better Google?) with support for data-only devices. With the update, Project Fi users will be able to obtain a cellular connection with their tablet and other connected devices
MagicJack Launches Updated Android App Now Includes Texting
MagicJack Now Includes SMS Texting On Android Devices MagicJack yesterday announced that they've updated their Android app so that texting is now included to go along with talk. The app allows virtually unlimited calling and texting to any U.S. mobile or landline number, and unlimited talk to any number in
Signing up for Google's Project Fi will Severely Hinder the Functionality of Google Voice
Joe Paonessa - May 6, 2015
Invitations for Google's Project Fi wireless service have started going out to some of the people that have requested one. With the invitations have come a few unpleasant surprises. The first unpleasant surprise has to do with porting over Google Voice numbers. If you already have a Google Voice
Google's MVNO Officially Announced, Dubbed Project Fi
Joe Paonessa - Apr 22, 2015
Google Announces Prepaid Wireless Service "Project Fi" Today is the day many if you have been waiting for as Google officially announced the details and launching of its MVNO service which it has dubbed "Project Fi." It turns out many of the previously leaked details are true. The service will
FreedomPop Expands BYOD List
Joe Paonessa - Feb 5, 2015
UPDATED: 03/21/2015 For those of you that have been eyeing up FreedomPops's free phone service but have been turned off by the lack of phone selection or ability to bring your own device, well today I have some good news for you. FreedomPop has announced
Cablevision via Freewheel to Provide Unlimited Talk Text and Data via Wi-FI
Joe Paonessa - Jan 31, 2015
Has your Twitter timeline been hit with an advertisement for Freewheel? Mine has. Freewheel is Cablevision's attempt to branch out as a mobile phone service provider, all for the not so low price of $29.99 a month. The service will include unlimited talk, text and data
Freedompop Offers Unlimited Talk Text and Data over its Nationwide Wi-Fi Network
Freedompop expects to surpass one million subscribers over the next few months and plans to do so with the help of a new offering, a no contract plan that offers unlimited talk, text and data for $5/month. The plan will operate using Freedompop and its partners 10
Google to Offer Mobile Phone Service as an MVNO
Google reportedly is trying to shake up the MVNO and mobile phone world by soon becoming an MVNO itself. I would have to imagine how they accomplish this would be rather difficult, as Google typically likes to give away its products for free or on the
Call Ring Talk Provides a Free Phone Number and Free Phone Calls
Just the other day I wrote about RingTo as a provider of free SMS and voice calls to anywhere in America. Today I will present another company that you've likely never heard of that also offers free voice calls, although they do not provide sms integration as their
RingTo Free Calls and SMS For All
We've mentioned many times before that signing up for a plan with unlimited calls and texts isn't really necessary anymore these days, what's most important is to go for plans that offer the most data for the least amount of money and RingTo presents another reason to buy into


Invisalign Update from Ashley, a Clinical Assistant at Sugar Fix Dental Loft.
I can see the finish line! Here is a picture back in June on the day that my Invisalign box was delivered to Sugar Fix. I couldn't wait to get started!! I wrote a blog that day about my thoughts and feelings.
Ashley (back in June 2015) holding up her entire Invisalign treatment! She can't wait to get started!
I started my Invisalign treatment in the spring of last year and am now on my last tray. It has been an extremely easy process for me to go through. I am glad I chose to do Invisalign and finally did something about my lower teeth that were so crowded. It is very hard to clean teeth when they are crowded and now I notice that it is getting so much easier.
I am done with my treatment, but am going to do some refinement trays to get everything lined up perfectly. (I am such a perfectionist!) Sometimes this happens with Invisalign that at the end of treatment additional aligners are needed. I am thinking only about 3-4 more trays and I will be done by this spring!
My progress photo below shows how awesome my results are so far. At the very end of my treatment, I will post another picture so that you can see my final results. It is extremely important to wear the final tray or have an essix clear retainer made to make sure that the teeth do not relapse and go back to their old crooked ways. Dr. Emery recommends wearing them at night every night to ensure there is no reverse tooth movement.
Top picture shows Ashley's lower teeth BEFORE her Invisalign treatment, bottom picture shows her teeth currently.
After reading about my experience and seeing my before & after photos, do you feel like you have any questions about Invisalign? Give me a call at the office, I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you may have or talk to you more about my experience!
Stay tuned for my final results!


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Q: There is no any data showing into foreign key column TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS , TABLE_BLOCK_LIST
I have two tables which structure you can display in pictures. I made this table with below sqlite statements. The problem is when i add some data the foreign key named(fk_id_block_list) in TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS shown no any data but it should show ids of id_block_list column from TABLE_BLOCK_LIST. kindly help.
TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS
public static final String CREATE_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS
            + "(" + ID_BLOCKED_SMS + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT DEFAULT 0, "
            + MESSAGE_BODY + " TEXT,"
            + FK_ID_BLOCK_LIST + " INTEGER," +
            "FOREIGN KEY(" + FK_ID_BLOCK_LIST + ") REFERENCES " + TABLE_BLOCK_LIST + "(" + ID_BLOCK_LIST +"))";

TABLE_BLOCK_LIST:
public static final String CREATE_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST = "CREATE TABLE " + TABLE_BLOCK_LIST
            + "(" + ID_BLOCK_LIST + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT DEFAULT 0,"
            + ORIGINATING_ADDRESS + " TEXT)";

insert code:
 public boolean insertToBlockList(String originatingAddress,String messageBody){
        try {
            SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
            ContentValues value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST = new ContentValues();
            ContentValues value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS = new ContentValues();

            value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST.put(ORIGINATING_ADDRESS, originatingAddress);
            db.insert(TABLE_BLOCK_LIST, null, value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST);

            value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS.put(MESSAGE_BODY, messageBody);
            db.insert(TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS, null, value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.d("Insertion to Block list", " error is" + e.getMessage());
        }
        return true;
    }

delete code:
 public int delete(long id){
        SQLiteDatabase db = this.getWritableDatabase();
        return db.delete(TABLE_BLOCK_LIST, ID_BLOCK_LIST + " = ?", new String[]{Long.toString(id)});
    }

A: You haven't linked the ID of TABLE_BLOCK_LIST with foreign key of TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS
You probably need to modify your codes to look like the following statements:
        value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST.put(ORIGINATING_ADDRESS, originatingAddress);
        long insertId = db.insert(TABLE_BLOCK_LIST, null, value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST);

        value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS.put(MESSAGE_BODY, messageBody);
        value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS.put(FK_ID_BLOCK_LIST, insertId);
        db.insert(TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS, null, value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS);

One other note on the semantics of your code:
I assume that you have block list and you want to link blocked messages to your blocked list. What you are doing in your code is creating a separate entry in your TABLE_BLOCK_LIST table without confirming that if a relevant entry exists or not. I suggest to check the existence of the record before trying to insert a new one in your table. For example executing the following SQL first:
Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT "+ID_BLOCK_LIST+" FROM "+TABLE_BLOCK_LIST+" WHERE "+ORIGINATING_ADDRESS+"=?",new String[] {originatingAddress});

A: value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST.put(ORIGINATING_ADDRESS, originatingAddress);
            db.insert(TABLE_BLOCK_LIST, null, value_TABLE_BLOCK_LIST);
db.insert returns long id which is your primary key for inserted records. I guess you have to pass this key as foreign key value to your value_TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS under FK_ID_BLOCK_LIST key first before inserting it into TABLE_BLOCKED_SMS.
Also i'd recommend you to get familiar with using insertWithOnConflict() method rather then using simply insert()

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An owner of any storage place or repair shop who stores or repairs any property has a lien on that property in the amount of the bill for storage or repairs. Upon the completion of repairs or the expiration of the storage contract, if the owner of the property fails to claim the goods and satisfy his debt to the lienholder, the lienholder may have such property sold at public sale to the highest bidder. This can only be done after sending a thirty (30) day written notice of his claims, to the owner and/or any lienholders.
The Plaintiff must apply to the appropriate titling facility, including, but not limited to, the Department of Motor Vehicles, or the Department of Natural Resources for the name and address of any last known registered owner or lienholder.
The public sale must be filed with the court that has jurisdiction over where the property is located. The fee to file for public sale is thirty-five ($35.00) dollars. The Plaintiff must provide the Court a copy of the written notice that was sent certified mail to the last known registered owner and/or lienholders. The Magistrate will schedule a hearing to determine if the item can be auctioned at public sale. If the sale is granted then the Magistrate will advertise the property for fifteen days by posting the notice in three public locations. The property may then be sold by the Magistrate and the proceeds distributed accordingly.


THE PHYSICAL INGREDIENTS that made up James Chasse Jr.'s death on a Sunday afternoon in autumn are both well known and awful.
The police officers chasing an obviously terrified and mentally ill man. The tackle so forceful, witnesses could hear the "slap of bodies" bounce from Pearl District buildings. The kicks and punches and Taser strikes. The 16 broken ribs and the blood.
The indelicate handling of a mortally injured man, hogtied and hauled into jail like some kind of moaning deer carcass. The highway trip to a far-away hospital that never reached its destination.
But these have always been mere pieces of a tragedy that has haunted Portland and its police force ever since Chasse took his last breath in that patrol car in September 2006—and hardly the most outrageous. Because none of it gets to the lies about drugs, the ambulance ride that was waved off, the laughter, the lack of accountability. The things that really killed the 42-year-old, his family's lawyers say.
That stuff would have come out in court, if the city didn't agree to pay a record $1.6 million to Chasse's family. It hit a few news organizations in October 2010, but the complete story has mostly been hidden away in vast legal vaults. Until now.
Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse, a documentary and labor of love years in the making, will open this month at the Portland International Film Festival. From there, it will head to national festivals.
Of course, it's arguable that even people in Portland know what really happened. And why even a federal investigation that rapped the Portland Police Bureau for using an unconstitutional level of force against the mentally ill may not prevent it from happening again. Alien Boy wraps up that harsh truth in a 90-minute bow—drawing on little-seen, and some previously unseen, records and materials.
In depositions and in other testimony, Officer Christopher Humphreys—now sheriff of Wheeler County—numbly and carefully explains that he did a two-arm takedown of Chasse. Meanwhile, in footage captured while Chasse was at the county jail, Humphreys brags, to laughing guards, that he tackled Chasse. Humphreys also claimed Chasse was urinating on a building. He was not.
Witnesses—including Bret Burton, a then-Multnomah County sheriff's deputy partnered with Humphreys—wondered why bread crumbs in a baggy in Chasse's pocket were suddenly being called crack/cocaine. One cop, Officer Michael Bledsoe, lied to a witness that Chasse had 14 prior drug convictions. He had none.
Chasse can be heard pleading for a paramedic to "please don't go," but Sergeant Kyle Nice waves the ambulance away. Paramedics remembered being told about drugs, but were never told Chasse had been tackled, Tasered, and struck, or that he'd stopped breathing at one point while crumpled on the sidewalk—about the same time officers were milling about, blithely sipping on Starbucks. The state medical examiner said Chasse likely would have lived with prompt medical attention.
The investigation into Chasse's death sprawled for years. Nice and Humphreys were eventually punished in connection with Chasse's death, but not until 2009—and then were given only two-week suspensions, for failing to secure medical care.
Allegations of untruthfulness were never seriously probed. Same for the kicks and punches. A training division analysis, conducted not long after the death, found the initial police chase outside of training policy. But the report was sealed until the settlement in 2010 and internally disputed.
Former Portland Police Association President Scott Westerman—later fired from the bureau for untruthfulness—stars prominently as a reminder that union politics remain a strong deterrent to accountability. When Humphreys was taken off active duty in another case years later, after he fired a beanbag shotgun at a 12-year-old girl, Westerman led 600 union members in a march on city hall.
After Chasse's death, Portland police officers were all given extra training to help them better identify and respond to people in crisis. Federal reforms are supposed to further help the bureau refine how it reacts to those perceived to be ill. But the film plainly shows that the officers who chased Chasse recognized he was mentally ill and went after him all the same.
"Seeing mental illness won't save someone," says Tom Steenson, the attorney hired by Chasse's family. "Don't smash and beat someone and cover it up."
Alien Boy also reminds us of the "Jim-Jim" his loved ones lost and regained, and then lost again.
Friends and ex-lovers tell us all about the talented and androgynous artist and writer and musician whose youthful exuberance crumbled under the weight of schizophrenia that left him an ill runaway. The film draws its title from a song written about Chasse. He resurfaced as a young man, enjoying a quiet life of coffee and books and meals with his mother, but had drifted again, going off his medication, when he was killed.
Why did he run that day? His past was prologue.
At age 19, he was beaten by officers in Utah and wound up in a psychiatric hospital.
Two days before he died, Ela Howard, a Project Respond worker, came to the door of his fetid room and persuaded him to come outside. He did, but saw the cop she brought and ran. The fear had never left him. The officer wanted to chase him then, but Howard kept him back. She also begged him to flag Chasse as someone ill and in need of Project Respond. That never happened.
On Monday, February 4, Renaud screened Alien Boy for Police Chief Mike Reese and other senior staffers, as well as Mayor Charlie Hales' chief of staff, Gail Shibley, and Hales' public safety director, Baruti Artharee. Asked about their responses, neither office replied with substantial comments in time for the Mercury's deadline.
But the smiling brusqueness of Humphreys during the depositions says more than enough.
Asked if he'd do the same thing again, he pauses and then gestures toward the attorneys: "Assuming none of this would happen? Yes."


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Q: convert values in a javascript map to all strings I am looking for a good way to convert a javascript map values in a way that all be string type. Originally I have this dataObject :
dataObject:
errorCode: "notFound"
timeOutLen: 5
validUrl: false
numRequest: 0

which I converted to map by this:
const datamap = new Map(Object.entries(dataObject))

now for some reason down the line, the external code I am using is throwing exception because of some values like 0 or false in map values. I would like to change all the values in map to be string and be like this so I can pass this exception for logging purposes:
new dataObject:
    errorCode: "notFound"
    timeOutLen: "5"
    validUrl: "false"
    numRequest: "0"

Can you please help me to do that?
Thanks

A: The simple solution:
const dataMap = new Map();
for (const k in dataObject)
    dataMap.set(k, String(dataObject[p]));

The single-expression-solution:
const dataMap = new Map(Object.entries(dataObject).map(([k, v]) => [k, String(v)]));

A: I am using the String() function to convert values to String.
const dataMap = new Map();
Object.keys(dataObject).forEach(key => {
    dataMap.set(key, String(dataObject[key]));
});

console.log(dataMap);


Today Bernie Sanders released 10 years of tax returns confirming his millionaire status. In fact he's averaged more than 750K a year in income over the past three years.
At a Fox News Townhall he was asked if would pay the tax rate he's calling on others to pay, and he laughed at the idea.


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This photographic album showing the class 47 diesel locomotives has been compiled by a well-established author of similar titles, David Cable.
More examples of this class were built than any other design of modern traction. They also carried more varieties of colour schemes than any other type, and these are well portrayed in this volume.
The class 47 was truly the maid of all work on the British Rail system for the forty-odd years since their inception in the early 1960s, and certain members of the class are still in daily use.
All types of traffic from major expresses to coal trains were worked by these engines, and this full colour album illustrates many examples of an engine that could be seen in almost all parts of Great Britain from Inverness to Penzance and Dover to Holyhead.
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Co-operate: an online platform to bring communities together
May 30, 2019 benrieveley
We recently launched Co-operate, an online platform aimed at bringing communities closer together.
So far, our research has told us we should be designing something that makes it easier for people to:
start local groups and find others to team up with
find a community space
club together financially to reach a goal
come together and campaign for something they're passionate about
As always, we've started small. We've restricted Co-operate to one area for now: Stretford in Manchester.
This post talks about the research that's shaped the product, what we've done so far, and why Co-operate is so very 'Co-op'.
Community is part of what all co-operatives stand for
The Co-op shares many values with other co-operatives including 'self-help' (members joining together and making a difference) and 'self-responsibility' (every member supporting their co-op's activities and using its products and services and encouraging others to support it too).
'Concern for the community' is one of the Co-op principles. One of the ways we demonstrate this is by giving 1% of what members spend on Co-op branded products to a local community cause of their choice. Since we launched the new Co-op Membership in 2016, £31.7 million has been invested in around 4,000 community projects thanks to members' 1%. This has supported a range of community groups including adult literacy classes, youth clubs and schemes that bring isolated older people together close to where they live.
Our new Co-operate platform is an extension of these values and principles. It aims to help communities to make changes autonomously through co-operation – it's a natural fit for the Co-op.
Clarifying the problem
Last year Co-op started to look into communities. The previous exploration and tests showed us that the combination of people and technology can make it easier for people to co-operate. Over the years, we've interviewed volunteers, charity workers, social entrepreneurs and community leaders to find out what's stopping local communities from coming together to make themselves stronger.
Their research reaffirmed our assumption and we've recently been able to clarify the problem: People find it hard to connect and make things happen in their local community.
From this, we set our vision: Build the one place to go to make things happen in local communities.
Ambitious, bold and exciting.
Starting small and locally
As with all digital products we knew that we would need to start small, test, learn and iterate. We decided to do a series of hyper-local trials across Greater Manchester and build collaboratively with users in those areas.
We started in Stretford by assembling a small, multi-disciplinary team and behaving like a start-up. We wanted to build a lean version of the service so we could learn quickly, without wasted effort. By manually adding content ourselves rather than building an expensive content management system, we know what is useful.
Listening to users
We've been talking to community organisers in Stretford – the heroes who have managed to start groups that benefit the local area. They've told us about the challenges they've had to overcome and the ones they're still struggling with. Most told us:
promoting events time-consuming
finding more volunteers is hard
co-ordinating volunteers is difficult
getting access to funding is complicated
connecting with other organisers doesn't happen often
A lot of this is consistent with the research that was done last year. But we are now in direct contact with these people, and see them as an extension of our team. They are the subject matter experts – they're living and breathing life in a community every day and pushing to improve things for many.
First feature: a 'digital noticeboard'
As a result of listening and observing, we've built a product that pulls together local events and activities that benefit the local area in some way. It's a kind of digital noticeboard for Stretford called 'What's happening'.
We've set up a simple, flexible architecture using our Heroku prototype platform along with Contentful, Algolia and Gatsby.js. This lets us quickly try things whilst at the same time being secure and performant.
To get to this point we:
Took photos of all the noticeboards in the area.
Analysed the information and grouped it into categories.
Set up our content management interface and added in the information.
Tested it with users (Stretfordians).
Improved the UX and re-wrote some of the content to make it clearer for users.
You can see this at co-op.co.uk/co-operate.
Next time, we'll share why we started with a 'What's Happening' product and the next product that we are starting to develop.
If you want to get in touch, email us at co-operate@coopdigital.co.uk
We're particularly interested in understanding what you'd need to know before you would commit time to helping out in your local area.
Ben Rieveley
Co-operatecommunity, local causes, Membership
Karen Lindop: Agile Manchester plus work begins on personalised digital offers
May 11, 2018 May 11, 2018 Co-op
(Transcript) Karen Lindop: Hello, and welcome to our update on what's happened in the Digital team this week. It's been a short week, but there's no shortage of things going on in the team.
We're proud to have been a sponsor of Agile Manchester this week. As always it's been a brilliant couple of days, thank to the organisers who have done a great job. Also a massive thank you to Gillian MacDonald, Neil Vass, Ian Thomas, Danny McCarthy, Cara Bermingham who all presented, doing a fantastic job of representing the team and Co-op at the event.
This week our Membership 'join in' monthly email was released. This month we're focussing on pizza, neighbourliness and digital coupons – so there's something there for everyone. If you're interested in finding out more you can from our Membership website.
You may remember reading a few months ago a blog post about about the discovery work that some of the team did in partnership with our food colleagues to investigate personalised offers for our members. Well the team have reformed, with the aim of building an end-to-end test of personalised offers via digital channels, ready to test with real members in Q3, 2018.
They are made up of colleagues from our Food business, Retail IT and Digital, each bringing their own expertise to different parts of the service. If you're interested in finding our more they're based on the 13th floor of Angel Square.
This week we've had some new people join us. Tom Clegg, Daniel Cork, Paul Clarkson, Tom Simcox and Marianne Knowles all join our design community. We also welcome Dale Hudson and Michael Doyle as front-end developers. Welcome to Co-op everyone, it's great to have you here.
That's it for this week. Don't forget to subscribe for all our updates on our blog and follow us on Twitter. See you next week.
Karen Lindop
Head of Digital Operations
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What local cause data tells us about our members
February 19, 2018 February 20, 2018 Co-op
We're proud of the Co-op Membership scheme and what it gives back to our members and local communities. When members buy own-brand products or services from Co-op, we give 5% back to the member, and 1% to the Local community fund to support local causes as chosen by members. At the end of each funding period a new 'round' begins and members can choose from a new set of local causes.
Now that 2 rounds of payments have been completed, the Data Science and Community Engagement teams have been looking into the data and what it tells us about our members, the choices they're making and what those choices might say about us as an organisation.
Learning more about the Local community fund
We looked at data around causes across 10 different categories:
Using these categories we've been able to see the number of members choosing each cause, the popularity of each category, and the amount of funding each one received. We especially looked for significant or unusual data that provide specific insights and which can help direct our future campaigning.
Here's what we found.
Community payouts increased between round 1 and 2
Our members have raised £20 million for local causes through the Local community fund – £9,196,993 in the first round and a further £10,825,772 in the second round.
We saw a rise in the number of causes chosen, as well as in the income that was generated for each different cause category.
Young people and social inclusion received the most funds
It's unsurprising that our data shows members supporting causes that align with Co-op values. In fact the Local community fund is specifically targeted at causes benefitting members' local communities. However, clear favourites do emerge under each category.
For both round 1 and round 2, the category receiving the most funds was 'young people'. Causes relating to this raised nearly £5 million: more than £1 million more than the next category down, which was social inclusion. We have done a lot of work in this area, including through our partnership with the Red Cross.
Between the 2 rounds, the number of causes related to young people has increased from 882 to just over 1,000, showing that this remains a priority in Co-op communities. Social inclusion groups have reduced in number between rounds 1 and 2, but remain consistent in the level of support they receive.
Homelessness is an important issue to members
The high number of causes in the social inclusion category, and the many members choosing to support them, provide a clear indication that members share our appetite for tackling the problems facing communities.
Causes in the social inclusion category were amongst the most successful at encouraging members to support them – proving the most popular cause in 43% of all the communities where they were represented in both rounds.
In the case of causes that are working to address social issues, such as homelessness, this proportion can rise even higher. Across both rounds, causes supporting the homeless proved the most popular with Co-op members in 55% of the communities where they were represented.
Promotion works
As we approached the end of the second round of funding, more than 1,600 members were choosing a cause every day. This shows that interest in causes remains alive throughout the funding round, and messages about choosing causes were being received through friends and family, stores and across the media.
However we found that this number increases significantly when the Co-op, and causes themselves, begin to promote the Local community fund. The chart below shows that once social media is used, either by Co-op or by the charity, to highlight both membership and local causes, members respond by logging in and choosing.
Between 11 and 13 November, driven by social media activity, the daily number of members choosing a cause rose 78%. This then increased to a total of 35,000 on 14 November when we emailed our members encouraging them to select a cause, showing clearly that email is currently our most effective tool for mobilising people.
Round 3: hoping for even bigger payouts
If you're a Co-op member, you can now choose your next local cause by logging into your account. Alternatively, if you're involved with a local group or established charity, you can register your interest for the next round of the fund, and use social media to raise awareness. As we can see from our data, that can make all the difference.
Simon Kirby, Community data and insight manager
Charles Gordon, Senior community data analyst
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Steve Foreshew-Cain: the Funeralcare service exits beta and Design Manchester has begun
October 13, 2017 Co-op
(Transcript) Steve Foreshew-Cain: Hello and welcome to this week's Co-op Digital update.
Well since I last spoke, our Membership app trial with our colleagues has begun and over a thousand people have already signed up to join the trial. They've been giving us loads of feedback already and we're learning quite a lot from it so we'll be sharing what we learn on our blog.
Some other great news, the service that we've been working on with our colleagues in Funeralcare has exited its beta phase. There's been a lot of hard work since we did the initial inception back in April 2016, but as a team were really proud of the product that it has been built and the amazing job frontline colleagues have done to help us design a service that we have proven works and will give colleagues time back to care more. So big thank yous to all of those involved.
Now you may remember a few weeks ago I told you that The Federation had been nominated for an Inspired Places Award 2017. Voting opens today and we'll share the link on our blog and our Twitter account so please, please vote and remember if you'd like a tour of The Federation, get in touch with Victoria Howlett who can arrange that.
This week also saw the start of Design Manchester, Manchester's annual design festival. It runs until the 22nd of October and there'll be talks exhibitions workshops films and loads more across the city celebrating design in all its various forms. We'll be running and speaking at several events this year too so we'll be talking a lot about service design, something that's really relevant to what we do here in the team. Everyone's welcome so please once again, the links to register will be on our blog. Please take advantage.
Now, yesterday it was our pleasure to host the first Northern Data Governance Forum. It was great to welcome lots of organisations to share their thoughts and experience on data governance. Thank you to Catherine Brien and Ian Thomas from the team who were amongst the speakers there.
And finally this week Kate Towsey has joined us as a user researcher and she'll also be helping us build our very own user research lab in The Federation, so welcome Kate, it's great to have you onboard.
That's it for this week you'll find our latest vacancies on our blog and don't forget to subscribe for all of our updates and follow us on Twitter.
We'll see you next week.
Steve Foreshew-Cain
Group Digital Director
AnnouncementsData, Design Manchester, funeralcare, Membership, The Federation
The last 2 weeks in Co-op Digital
October 6, 2017 gailalyon
As always, there's been a lot going on over the last fortnight. Here are 8 highlights.
1. We put our app for members live on Monday and so far we've had 1,000 colleagues sign up, with 500 downloads. We're trialling it with colleagues and a handful of members at the moment to validate our assumptions. Users can give us their feedback through the app and we'll post more about what we're learning and where we're going next as the trial continues. You can read about our discovery into the app and our progress 2 months later.
2. The Leading the Way team went to a conference for Food store regional and area managers. We showed off our products How Do I and My Schedule and got some great feedback. We also ran sketching sessions with over 200 attendees! We asked the field teams to share their ideas on how life could be made easier in store which was a really useful exercise. We also got lots of validation on things we are already doing.
Sketching sessions with our field team, some gold out there! #LeadingtheWay @CoopDigital pic.twitter.com/0KX5w9xbab
— Kim Morley (@KimruscoeMorley) October 4, 2017
3. Congrats and thank you to data scientist Alex Waters who organised our first data hackathon. Around 50 folk from around the Co-op Group teamed up and worked with data that wasn't familiar to them and used tools they'd never used before. You can see highlights of this massively valuable event on #coopdatahack
4. Our Head of User Research James Boardwell and our old colleague Tom Walker have set up a meet up for user researchers, User Research North. Tom wrote a post explaining why they've co-founded this group and last night they held their first event at The Federation. Speakers included Gillian MacDonald, user researcher at Co-op Digital and major foodie, and Mark Branigan who worked with our Funeralcare team.
Great turn out for our very first meet up. Up first is the awesome @gilliancmacd #URNorth pic.twitter.com/es3zuV1XpN
— User Research North (@URNorth) October 5, 2017
5. We held our first show and tell for everyone who works in The Federation. Each organisation described what they do and what they're working on. Here's to more of these cooperative vibes please.
6. Danielle Haugedal-Wilson has been asked to join our Co-op Member Council. She'll help make sure that members' opinions and concerns are heard at the highest level in our business. Nice work, Danielle.
7. Alberto Brandolini came in to show us how to do some 'event storming'. Alberto says this technique helps teams "tame complexity with agility" and by helping them understand the bigger picture. Thumbs up to Gemma Cameron for organising this.
Immediately @ziobrando gets people involved and with almost no introduction they're eventstorming @CoopDigital pic.twitter.com/nAVONEaSx1
— Paul D'Ambra (@pauldambra) October 3, 2017
8. Lastly, hey there and welcome to our new starters. Digital Engagement Manager for The Federation, Rebecca Rae and quality analyst Paul Carey have joined us.
If you're interested in working with us, have a look at our work with us page. You can also follow the blog and follow Co-op Digital on Twitter.
Gail Lyon
Head of Digital Engagement
AnnouncementsData, leading the way, Membership, user research north
Dave Johnson: introducing 'Fed Talks' and more on our mobile app
August 4, 2017 coopdavejohnson4 Comments
(Transcript) Dave Johnson: Hello, and welcome to this week's Co-op Digital update.
You may have read our blog post last week about the mobile app that we're building to allow our members to scan their phones at the till and view their balances and transactions.
We've spoken to our store colleagues and customers and our members who've highlighted that a digital membership card could provide value to our members. We're building the first part of this new functionality to act as a platform to grow in the future and we're going to test it with our colleagues first in the support centre here at Angel Square.
We have show and tells every other Thursday, so come and join us. They're in the auditorium on the 6th floor at Federation House. The first one's on the 10th August at 2pm.
We also held a 'Fed talks' session in Federation House this week. The theme was food and agriculture. Thanks to Lawrence Kitson for organising and for Shirley Sarker and Abby Rose from Wool for spending their time talking with our colleagues. Thank you.
The lower floors of Federation House are also coming along with the coffee shop, events spaces and meeting rooms – they're all almost ready. If anyone would like a tour you can contact Victoria Howlett who will happily show both Co-op colleagues and anyone else who is interested the space at Federation.
In the last few weeks we've welcomed a few new faces to the Digital team. Paul D'Ambra has joined us as a software engineer and Hannah Horton joins us as a content designer.
Finally, congratulations to Karen Lindop who is now our Digital Head of Operations and also to Gail Lyon who has been acting in the role for sometime but is now our Head of Digital Engagement. Well done.
That's it for this week, don't forget to subscribe to our blog and follow us on Twitter. Thank you.
Director of Digital Engineering
AnnouncementsFed Talks, Membership, mobile app
Making the move to user research
July 11, 2017 Co-op
User research helps make products and services that work for the people who use them. It takes loads of different forms including lab sessions and interviews, onsite visits and analysing data but, regardless of its form, it must be present throughout the design process. And even after the thing is live.
Moving into a user research role
I've worked at the Co-op for just under 2 years. I originally joined the Analytics and Optimisation team, but for the last 10 months I've been a user researcher at Co-op Digital.
User research really appealed to me because it's about listening to users as well as looking at data. My old role was heavy on the quantitative side of things: I evaluated data collected from user journeys and improved the experience for users. Good user researchers consider both quantitative and qualitative research so I've been working on my qualitative research skills. Now I feel even better equipped to help teams design the right thing.
User research at Co-op Digital
I applied for a user research role after seeing the work that our now Head of User Research James Boardwell and the team were doing with wills. The multidisciplinary team was working in an agile way to build a digital service to make it simpler and quicker for Co-op customers to get a will.
I saw how both data and qualitative research fed into the design process. User research formed the basis for discussions and the team could test ideas, put them in front of people and iterate them quickly. The whole team came to user research sessions so that everyone saw first-hand how users behaved when we put prototypes in front of them and asked questions. The team analysed the themes that came out of the sessions together which meant that everyone had a similar idea about where the design was heading.
Everything moved so quickly and decisions were based on things that the team had seen or heard. At each show and tell the team knew so much more than the week before – they'd added another piece to the jigsaw. They'd started small and built the right thing, quickly. I loved watching their progress.
My first taste of user research
Supporting James was my first experience as a user researcher. I joined the Wills team during a sprint focused on increasing the number of people making it to the confirmation page. I already had good experience in this from my previous role but here I also got to see James talking to people, showing them the prototype and doing qualitative research in lab sessions.
The data I'd collected told us what was happening with real people using the website, and James' conversations with people told us why it was happening. The data showed that the exit rate from the 'Your details' page was disproportionately high. Qualitative research told us that people felt uncomfortable giving their personal details before knowing exactly what the service offered. Changing the order of the pages, so, giving the user more upfront information, resulted in more people completing the form.
The 2 kinds of insight complemented each other. You can read more about this in James' post, User research and sample sizes.
Learning how user research works in a product team
I spent 6 months working with the Membership team too. User research gives us the chance to test things to make sure we're doing the right thing for users. This way, any decisions we make are better informed.
Working on Membership opened my eyes to other ways of doing research too. It's not just about interviews. We:
used qualitative website feedback and quantitative analytics to compare what users told us with what they actually do
visited stores to find out what our members and customers talk to colleagues about
spoke directly to members
It's about analysing all available resources.
Leading my first project
For the last 2 months I've been leading the user research on a discovery in our Electrical business. This project has helped me learn a lot about how user research informs service design through techniques like customer journey mapping and service blueprints. Service design is a fairly new way of thinking at Co-op Digital so leading this project was sometimes challenging, but we've got a strong user research community at Co-op Digital and support and advice was always available if I needed it.
Hard work, but worth it
I think the biggest challenge for a user researcher is using all of their observations and data to find the need, and working with the team to translate these into things we can work on.
User research encourages teams to take a more balanced approach to design. It changes the way teams work and brings the business and digital sides of things together. It's a way to stop people jumping to conclusions about what's 'right' because we're using evidence to make decisions. And ultimately, that's going to work better.
If learning about how people behave and why sounds interesting and you want to help teams build the right thing, quickly and cost-effectively, get in touch with James Boardwell or leave a comment on the blog.
Vicki Riley
User researcher
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Mike Bracken: 4.5 million active members, Federation and thanks to Jamie
June 9, 2017 August 22, 2017 Co-op1 Comment
(Transcript) Mike Bracken: Hello, welcome to the Co-op Digital weekly update.
We'll start as ever with a big number, 4.5 million active members now at the Co-op, so those numbers keep growing and that's a huge change since September 21st last year, so well done to the team for that. And that work's being recognised. This week the team in Membership have been shortlisted for a Retail Week Technology Award for that program, so well done to them.
Other highlights of the week, we've opened our co-working space in Federation building, the Federation right over the road from Angel Square you can now go see that check out the details on the blog.
I'd like to welcome a few people Nassali Douglas has joined as a Member Pioneer Manager, Richard Shenton coming as a Finance Manager, they've come from other parts of the Co-op, Louise Nicholas has joined us as a designer welcome to the Co-op and I'd like to say goodbye to Jamie Arnold who's been brilliant leading our agile work as a delivery manager, he'll be much missed.
Thank you very much to him and see you next week.
Mike Bracken
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Speaking to our members about how their personal data is used
May 15, 2017 May 15, 2017 robmckendrick7 Comments
Last month, the data team blogged about how we want to become trusted with our members' data. We said that one of the pieces of work we're doing to help us strengthen our position of trust is around understanding how members feel about personal data. We wanted to find out what our members thought about their data being used and shared for various things.
A survey to start
We asked members to take part in a survey. 148 people completed it but not everyone answered every question.
Here are 5 things we've learnt so far.
1. 50% want more transparency around how data is used
Half of the people who took the survey said they'd like to know more about how personal information is used by organisations and businesses, but they don't know how to find out. To set the Co-op apart from the rest, we should be clear about how we're using this information and, if people want even more information, we should make that easy to find.
This leads us to our next learning…
2. Members would like to understand how their data is used
We asked members whether they thought they understood enough about how organisations use their personal information.
Three out of 10 members said they feel they know enough or everything about this. Which leaves 7 out of 10 wanting more information or having no idea about how personal information is used. That's good to know. It indicates we should be explaining more about what we do, and what we don't do, with member data.
3. What people do before trusting someone with their data
When it comes to thinking about trusting an organisation with personal details, only 2% of people said that didn't do anything before hitting the submit button.
We asked: "Which of the following do you routinely do before submitting personal information?" The most popular answer was: "Make sure I amend my marketing preferences." "Check for secure symbols/assurance marks on the website" was a close second.
Only 3 out of 10 people said that they read the terms and conditions or small print though. We think that we could go further in making our privacy notices easier to understand and more likely to be read and understood.
4. Members are happy to share their data for the right reasons
We asked our members if there were any reasons why they'd be happy for us to safely and anonymously share their data. Unsurprisingly for Co-op members, 70% said they'd be happy if it benefited the local community! Some of the comments around this were "Because the Coop is for local people", "Local community is important" and "Because it's for a worthwhile reason".
One respondent said that although they don't like the idea of their data being shared, the best reason to do it would be if it helped the local community. That person emphasised that their data must be safe and whoever has the data must be accountable. We completely agree and we'll continue to prioritise data safety. We will also continue to speak to our Member Council and Members as we go.
5. People trust us
Over three quarters (76%) of our respondents said that they trust us to keep their data safe and to use it sensibly (79%). This is also good news. However we can't sit back and relax on that one. We know that we must do the right thing, not the easy thing in order to bring our Co-op difference to data. We'll continue to work in the open.
Turning learnings into policy
We'll look at and analyse the feedback we got from the survey more closely to pick up more themes. But the conversation around whether we use and share member data, and how we do it, isn't closed now. We're still listening to your thoughts on this. Over the next few months we will start to discuss improvements to our policies around data and, with a lot more information and discussion start to make those policies real.
We're holding an event Shaping our Co-op: Data trust and transparency event at Federation House on Friday 19 May, 5:15 to 7:30pm. You can register for tickets.
We'd like to speak to members regardless of how much you know about how your data is and can be used, as well as people with an interest in data consent. The only prerequisite is that you have an interest in doing the right thing for members.
Rob McKendrick
Head of Data Engineering
DataMembership
Steve Foreshew-Cain: paying £9 million to local causes and hosting our first digital operations show and tell
April 21, 2017 Co-op
Steve: Hello and welcome to the weekly Digital update. Now the eagle-eyed amongst you will recognise that I'm not Mike Bracken but given that I have shaved my beard off for Easter this week you might also not recognise who I am. So, I'm Steve Foreshew-Cain and I'm the Chief Operating Officer for the Digital group.
As is the tradition in these updates we start with a big number and it's important big number this week because this week marked the day that we gave away £9 million to our community local causes nominated by our members.
And there's another big number associated with membership this week which is that we have welcomed 800,000 new members to the Co-op since we launched our renewed membership proposition. An impressive achievement by any standard.
The other important thing to call out for those of you who are interested in the community work that we do is an opportunity to get directly involved in that by joining as a Member Pioneer. The deadline for that, to sign up, for that is the 26th of this month so less than a week away, but if you're a colleague or if you're a member of the Co-op you still have an opportunity to join that important work.
Another important activity this week was the first of our digital operations show and tells where we talked about platforms, we talked about service management and we talked about security and how those capabilities form a part of the digital services that we deliver and we operate.
And as is also traditional in our weekly update we say a big hello to new members of the Digital Team to a big shout out to Ian Thomas and Michael Davis who've joined our data team and a big hello to Debbie Roycroft who's joined as a software engineer in our digital engineering practice.
And of those of you who are watching this because you're interested in the work that we're doing here at the Co-op as ever the opportunity to come and join us exists so please look at all of the opportunities that we have out there and get in contact.
Digital Chief Operating Officer
Announcementsdigital operations, local causes, Membership, show and tell
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President Donald Trump gave his strong support to a special commission tasked with uncovering voter fraud in the United States, telling the first meeting of the group that it's time to find out more about illegal votes possibly "canceling out the votes of lawful American citizens."
"Any form of illegal or fraudulent voting - whether by non-citizens or the deceased," Mr. Trump said, "must be stopped."
"Every time voter fraud occurs, it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen, and undermines democracy," the President added.
"Can't let that happen," Mr. Trump said.
"This commission is tasked with the sacred duty of upholding the integrity of the ballot box, and the principle of one citizen, one vote," Mr. Trump added.
The President also took a clear jab at states - controlled by both parties - which have refused to cooperate and turn over the voter information requested by this panel.
"If any state does not want to share this information, one has to wonder what they're worried about," Mr. Trump said.
"What are they worried about?" the President asked with a tone of skepticism. "There is something, there always is."
Critics savaged the panel even before the first official meeting occurred, charging it was nothing but an effort at voter suppression.
"This isn't a war on voter fraud. It's a war on voters – and it's only being waged by Republicans," said Democratic national party chief Tom Perez.


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Michael D. West (born in Niles, Michigan on 28 April 1953) is an American biogerontologist, and a pioneer in stem cells, cellular aging and telomerase. He is the founder and CEO of AgeX Therapeutics,
a startup focused on the field of experimental gerontology.

Early life and education
West was born in Niles, Michigan, to a wealthy family which ran an automobile leasing business. After graduating from Niles Senior High School, West earned a BS in psychology from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976. He then returned to Niles to help run the family business before resuming academic studies. He earned an MS in biology from Andrews University in 1982. That same year, he joined the laboratory of Samuel Goldstein, a molecular gerontologist at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and began to research the molecular biology of aging. Following a clash with Goldstein over a series of experiments in which he demonstrated that results which Goldstein had published in Cell were experimental artifacts, he transferred to the Baylor College of Medicine, where he worked in the laboratory of another molecular gerontologist, James Smith, and graduated with a PhD in cell biology in 1989. He did postdoctoral research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Career
Prior to joining BioTime, West was chairman of the board, chief scientific officer and CEO of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), another biotechnology company focused on stem cell research. ACT later changed its name to Ocata Therapeutics, and was acquired by Japanese pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma for US$379M or $8.50 per share in February 2016.

Prior that, West was founder, director, and chief scientific officer of Geron, for which he secured venture capital investment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock and Domain Associates. At Geron, West initiated and managed programs in telomere biology relating to aging, cancer and human embryonic stem cell technology.

West organized the first collaborative effort to isolate human pluripotent (embryonic) stem cells for the purpose of manufacturing products in regenerative medicine in collaboration with James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, John Gearhart at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Roger Pedersen at the University of California, San Francisco.

In their telomerase research, West and colleagues at Geron cloned the RNA component of telomerase and collaborated with Thomas Cech (winner of 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), with whom they cloned the catalytic component of the enzyme telomerase, and sponsored collaborative research in the laboratory of Carol Greider, then at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Geron published evidence of the role of telomerase in cancer and cell immortalization in collaboration with Woodring Wright and Jerry Shay at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

For the company's Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board, he recruited Günter Blobel (winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology), Leonard Hayflick, Carol Greider (winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine), James Watson (winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine), and others.

West has been a keynote speaker at events including World Stem Cell and is associated with 146 patents in the United States, Australia, Japan and elsewhere.

Bibliography

Books
West has authored and co-edited books on topics including animal cloning, aging, biogerontology, stem cells, stem cell biology, and regenerative medicine.

 2002 Principles of Cloning
 2003 The Immortal Cell, by Michael D. West, Doubleday
 2004 Handbook of Stem Cells: Volume 1 Embryonic Stem Cells
 2004 Handbook of Stem Cells: Volume 2 Adult and Fetal Stem Cells
 2006 Essentials of Stem Cell Biology
 2010 The Future of Aging
 2010 The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension

See also
 tissue engineering
 somatic cell nuclear transfer

References

External links
Dr. West's webpage
Audio: Dr. West interviewed on Bloomberg Radio's "The Hays Advantage" February 11, 2010

1953 births
Biogerontologists
21st-century American biologists
American technology chief executives
Living people
Life extensionists
People from Niles, Michigan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Andrews University alumni
Baylor College of Medicine alumni

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See photos taken during a recent tour of the Moto Guzzi Museum. Read more about the Guzzi Museum here.
Our man Melling evaluates a sharp-looking retro-styled bike, the 2015 Moto Guzzi V7 II. See photos here. Read the full review here.
Italian motorcycle manufacturer Moto Guzzi introduced two additions to its California 1400 line at EICMA, a classic styled model called the 2015 Eldorado and a racier, blacked-out version dubbed the 2015 Audace.
Check out the 2015 line of Moto Guzzi Street Bikes in this photo gallery.
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Among the most memorable occasions of my entire life was the week that I spent in Hawaii for my brother's wedding. The hotel on the shore, the sunshine, the warm weather, the mai tais and Lava Flows, morning swims in the ocean, sitting near a waterfall, watching the sunset as a grass-skirted man danced and chopped coconuts with a giant machete — it was all so serene and enchanting.
But maybe what finished the tropical experience most was the abundance of glistening koi ponds nearly anyplace I stepped. Glimmering white, orange and black fish the size of party subs were right at my hands. To that effect, for me anyway, I discover that the most peaceful, serene, relaxing and inspiring home landscapes are those that incorporate a fish pond.
So I wondered: What does it take to put a fish pond in a backyard? Harold Leidner was able to offer guidance. The Dallas landscape designer has assembled dozens of fish ponds in every shape and size, all the way up to a lavish $40,000 koi pond the size of a swimming pool.
The takeaway isalso, like indoor tanks, fish ponds aren't for the faint of heart. They take a lot of effort and time, love and care. They may be time consuming, budget draining and, at times, heartbreaking (losing some pet is tough). But just like most difficult things in life, the payoff is worth it. And if you've got time — even just one free weekend — Leidner says you can construct your own backyard fish pond for about $2,500.
Here is what you'll have to consider.
You are going to need a hole. A big one. It's free if you do it yourself. If you will need the dirt hauled away, you are going to have to pay. Prices typically range from a few hundred dollars to several hundred, depending on the quantity and other things.
Leidner prefers deeper holes, but it's up to you what aesthetic you are trying for. Both shallow and deep ponds have their benefits and pitfalls.
Less excavation means less work and fewer substances, so you are going to spend less on building costs and backaches.
At 1 foot to 18 inches, a shallow pond will allow you a better view of your fish.
Water plants like lily pads will flourish at this depth also. They can't increase in deep water.
Smaller ponds obviously take up less space and may lend themselves to little design flourishes that make a big statement.
Fish will grow only in relation to how big the space is they're in. In shallow water a koi fish, which may reach 3 feet in length, will not reach its entire potential, as it would in a 5-foot-deep pond.
Fish often get sicker in tiny ponds, since they're swimming around in water with higher concentrations of their waste. Deeper ponds imply more water quantity and cleaner water. The fish are fitter, which makes it easier to keep the perfect chemical equilibrium.
Deeper ponds make fish harder targets for predators like birds, raccoons and cats, which could quickly swipe, swoop and make dinner of fish in shallower ponds. Letting predators make dinner of your fish obviously wouldn't be cool, especially if you drop $5,000 on a single koi fish.
Surprise: Dirt holes don't retain water really nicely. You are going to have to line your depression. The three most well-known approaches are concrete spray, rubber liners and plastic bathtubs.
Gunite is a spray concrete commonly used to line swimming pools. Leidner used it for this particular expansive fish pond in Dallas, constructed for approximately $25,000.
Experts: Gunite is long lasting and durable. Creative lighting and other nifty design elements are easy to contain.
Disadvantages: Price. You're going to require a professional to set up gunite. Leidner says a viable budget for a professional setup of an average-size pond is $5,000 minimum, which includes pump parts and labour but not fish.
Rubber liners are also common. Strips are rolled out, sealed together and used to line the excavated hole. Rocks and other layout elements are added on the top and then filled with water.
Experts: They are common and quite inexpensive. You are able to purchase a prepackaged pond kit with rubber liners for $850 to $1,500, depending on the size and other aspects.
Disadvantages: Rubber liners are rather difficult to set up; not all homeowners will know how to paste and seam the liners together. A little mistake could lead to a big drainage problem, and you're going to lose your fish and water. Burrowing rodents also can nibble throughout the liner. "You would be surprised how fast a koi pond will drain in the ground," Leidner says.
Pro tip: Should you go with a rubber liner, Leidner recommends purchasing a few bags of concrete, poking holes in them and using the bags to line the hole. Then spray the bags with water and put the rubber liner on top. The tote will dissolve and the concrete will harden, making a barrier that rodents can't get through.
Premade plastic bathtubs are a good option. They start at about $800 but come in limited shapes and sizes.
Pump equipment can be purchased at most local pool and pond supply businesses, with full installation instructions. You may hide it under rocks or plants, or buy extensions to hide it on the side of your house.
Having a hole with water will not do anything for your chi. Make sure you budget for rocks, plants or decking. Once you've got everything looking pretty, add water. You'll want to confirm the chemical equilibrium and temperature before adding fish.
whilst Collars would be the most popular choice for fish ponds, Leidner recommends fancy goldfish. In addition to getting elaborate patterns and colors nearly similar to those of koi, they are less aggressive and less expensive.
Koi can range between $200 to $7,000 per, while fancy goldfish go for approximately $35 each.


Go to the Coffer Chasers Guild to let Kean know that you are hunting for the treasure.
Well, his face has always been scary.
But it's a lot worse today.
I suppose we can't do much about it.
So...what are you going to do?
I suppose I'm going to kill them all.
What? No. No! Bad idea!
and I'M the one overreacting!?
To hell with this. He's a dead man.
You sure you want to add murder to your resume?
I think you mean ANOTHER murder, son.
(Tristan throws the letter in the air.
I'm quite happy for you.
Perhaps I should come visit?
I'm...not seeing the problem here.
That's because the problem isn't the letter.
Coffer Chasers Guild branch in Rodluvan.
Surely you've heard of him, Kean?
Come to think of it, I have.
Well, we're not on the best of terms.
They have a habit of meddling in our work.
And we lose some good people that way.
It means they don't even take us seriously!
They consider us beneath them.
Tristan, you're not going anywhere!
What of my request, <Fiona>?
I hope it pays off.
Okay, let's go back to Enzo's.
Go back to Enzo and check if the buoy is being tracked properly.
Hey, did you give that buoy a proper send-off?
Chill, <Fiona> has got this.
Man, nobody has any faith in me.
You just wait, I'll show everybody!
...Oh, yeah, and is that tracking spell working?
Okay, I lied. The spell's broken.
Except I have no idea what went wrong.
You're a magician! Magic it back!
I keep telling you, I'm not an official magician.
I can't enchant things, remember?
You need a guy like Brynn for big magic.
Now it's a person and a power.
Oh yeah, you said you were from Colhen, right?
Yeah, same guy. Man, what a downer.
Never stopped complaining about the salty air.
It's nature, man! It's a beautiful thing!
Anyway, he and the old man came to Malina.
Reilly! That was the old guy's name!
Man, that just came to me.
Hey, I wonder if they could fix the spell.
I've never been to Colhen!
And I don't think you're going to, either.
You run off like that, Allysse will kill you.
What? No! How does she know about my collection?
Oh man... Sorry, <Fiona>. You'll have to manage without me.
Give my regards to Brynn.
You learned the Story: Brynn and Brynn.
You completed the Story: Idal's Letter.
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9 Reasons to Attend "How to Sell Historic Homes"
Picture this: it's Sunday afternoon and you're driving with your friends through one of Macon's many historic neighborhoods to grab a beer at Just Tap'd. "Wow. Look at the mansard roof on that beautiful Second Empire style house," you say. Your friends look at each other with raised eyebrows and exchange looks of astonishment. "Where did you learn that?" they'll ask. You'll smile to yourself and be thankful you attended Historic Macon's "How to Sell Historic Homes" because now you can properly describe the incredible buildings you see here in Macon on a daily basis. How's that for conversation starters?
If you're a supporter of Historic Macon, chances are you have heard and read this word more times than you can count. But at this point, you're afraid to ask what it actually means. Never fear! During "How to Sell Historic Homes" this term, and many others, will be defined in a simple and approachable manner. So next time you get into a riveting conversation about preservation incentives, you can understand and participate with ease.
So now you know what tax credit actually means, how do you actually apply it to your everyday life? Historic Macon staff will present on the numerous preservation incentives available to owners of historic houses and how those incentives can save you cash money.
You have an idea of how you want to improve the façade of your house but you need a little help if it's going to be completed and still be stylish. Sounds like you need a low-interest loan. Macon staff will explain who qualifies for low-interest façade loans, what work loans cover, and how the loan process works. If the paint is peeling on your historic home or you need a roof repair after recent monsoons, we highly suggest you pay attention to this part of the presentation.
DRB, or Design Review Board, is a board that advises what changes can be made to properties located in local historic districts. There are some misconceptions out there as to what changes can and cannot be made to your home if it is historic and if it is located within a local historic district or listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Clarification is on the way. A representative from Macon's Design Review Board will explain DRB's role in the renovation process. Meaning you'll know how to start your rehab project and who you gonna call when it's time to get started.
6. How to make your historic home warmer in the winter and cooler in the summerIn addition to Historic Macon's façade loan program, we also manage a low-interest energy efficiency loan program. Loans from this program improve the overall efficiency of your home, making it easier to heat and cool that beautiful Victorian you've had your eye on. During "How to Sell Historic Homes" you'll learn what properties and scope of work qualify for energy efficiency loans.
Okay, so maybe we're a little biased at Historic Macon in regards to historic houses and neighborhoods. But evidence shows that preservation boosts economic development and creates more vibrant communities. Not mention, historic neighborhoods often define the character and soul of cities. We think it's safe to say this course will teach you all about the many, MANY benefits of living in a historic neighborhood.
We know that by the time noon rolls around and you're ready to try some tasty El Camino tacos, you'll be convinced that buying a historic home and living in a historic neighborhood is the best. We know that, you know that, now you need to convince your clients of that. Or, if you're not a realtor, you need to convince all your friends who are still living in the 'burbs or haven't figured out how cool Macon is yet. This course will allow you to wax on eloquently about the numerous reasons to buy historic houses with numbers and anecdotes to support your claims.
And did we mention you get a sneak peek of El Camino, one of the future amenities of historic downtown Macon? I mean, come on, tacos.
Signing up is easy! Visit this page to register online or contact Kim Campbell at kcampbell@historicmacon.org or 478-742-5084 to sign up. We'll see you on January 15.


Faculty Cineposium is an event for screening and discussing Department of Theatre and Film Studio Experience productions directed by faculty and produced by student filmmakers. It is an opportunity to see films that have premiered on campus and gone on to festival screenings. It is also a chance to talk with student and faculty filmmakers about the pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution process.


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Who wrote the novel the picture of dorian gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: | netflixlogins.org: Books
The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in The story begins in the art studio of Basil Hallward, who is discussing a current painting with his witty and amoral friend Lord Henry Wotton. Henry also points out that beauty and youth are fleeting, and Dorian declares that he would give his soul if the portrait were to grow old and wrinkled while he remained young and handsome. Basil gives the painting to Dorian. A few weeks later, Dorian tells Henry that he has fallen in love with an actress, Sibyl Vane, because of her great beauty and acting talent.
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945)
How Oscar Wilde Painted Over "Dorian Gray"
Gray has good looks, like so many others. Doyle, Oscar Wilde says that all art is meaningless, and like a moth to a flame the boy can't resist. I think most people will agree that this kind of horror - the brooding, personal kind - is much more horrifying than anything that men with knives and any amount of jumpy moments can muster. In the preface.
It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, Mr, on the coloured canvas. Interestingly enough. Rating details. Lists with This Book.
The magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray was expanded from thirteen to twenty chapters; and the magazine edition's final chapter was divided into two chapters, the nineteenth and twentieth chapters of the book edition thhe The Picture of Dorian Gray Reuse this content. The portrait has become so hideous that Basil is only able to identify it as his by the signature he affixes to all his portraits. So, yeah.
Retrieved 30 May Retrieved 9 March. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Publication of the novel scandalized Victorian England, and The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence against Wilde when he was tried and convicted in on charges related to homosexuality.
This is probably the number one most requested book for me to read. Professor John Bowen considers some of the best-known Gothic novels of the late 18th and 19th centuries, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, including marginal places. By using this site.
The original magazine story, has all the familiar elements of the book version, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. Are ya happy now? My dear fellow. Would it teach him to loathe his own soul.
The wish is granted, particularly among those who were disenchanted by the strutting poses of the British Empire, but personal satisfaction is as elusive a commodity as it was for Dorian Gray. Over time, and Dorian pursues a libertine life of varied amoral experiences while staying young and beautiful; all the whi. Dorian Gray. Medicine prolongs life and slows aging.
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5 thoughts on "The Picture of Dorian Gray | Summary, Legacy, & Facts | Britannica"
Wigwestlockchi on 13.12.2019 at 11:34 said:
The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray is a novel telling the rather Gothic story of a young man whom the book owes its name to. Dorian is introduced to the readers as being the adored subject of a painter named Basil Hallward who paints his best work in the opening chapters — Dorian's portrait. However also present in these first scenes is a character named Lord Henry Wotton who encourages Dorian to seek a more hedonistic life, based on beauty and self fulfillment. It is at this point that Dorian exclaims his wish that the picture should take all of the knocks of the world and he himself should never age. Dorian's rather rash wish becomes true and what follows is a series of events that show how Dorian is living up to the debauched life Lord Henry has suggested for him. 🏌♂
Tenvollgestwall1997 on 09.12.2019 at 04:53 said:
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel.
Ralf S. on 11.12.2019 at 07:46 said:
Even in his Oxford days, in a page novel. Seriously, his witticisms were making their way beyond the university walls. His virtues are not real to him. He realises that beauty is finite.
Amelia B. on 16.12.2019 at 15:22 said:
Wilde mocked him terribly, and this new liaison with Raffalovich was another factor in Gray's rift with Wilde. The sub-plot about James Dorkan dislike of Dorian gives the novel a Victorian tinge of class struggle. The edition includes text that was deleted by J. Drama Romance.
Oliver G. on 08.12.2019 at 10:40 said:
His fatal love affair with the actress Sybil Vane alerts him to the secret of his eternal youth: he will remain untarnished while his portrait reflects the hideous corruption of his soul? Madawa possibly how we have an image of ourselves which we try to preserve, and are naked. London: Longmans, Green and Co. But their own souls starve, but its is our actions that defines us.🦸♀
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There's no place like home and nobody can say otherwise. But what makes a place feel like home? Well, it's all about the accessories. It's not the big things that give a space that cozy, homey feel but the little ones like the pictures on the walls, the fluffy rugs and the candles. So choosing the right accessories is very important.
The coffee table is the piece that makes the living room feel complete. Without it, the room would feel cold and empty. A modern or contemporary home needs a coffee table with clean, simple lines. A small living room needs a smart design, a table with built-in storage perhaps. The options differ with each case.
The reason why couches are always so comfortable is because of the cushions. They're the ones that make a bed, a sofa or a couch look and feel cozy and this makes the whole room look inviting.
Want to add some color to a room? How about using the blinds for that? Choose a design that stands out, like this one which is basically a map when rolled out. Great for the office or the kids' room.
Vases are very common interior design accessories. They can look just as beautiful when placed on the mantel, on a table or when filled with colorful flowers. Find a style that suits you.
Even though they're not exactly decorative elements, baskets can also have an aesthetic effect on the the room's décor. For example, use a knitted basket to store the firewood for your fireplace or to keep the newspapers.
If you want to give a room a glamorous and elegant look without necessarily making it look formal, try gold-leafed accessories like vases, lamps or wall décor.
Decorate the walls with artwork. If you want the room to feel casual and inviting, use framed family photos. If you prefer a more abstract approach, hang a colorful painting. Oversized artwork works great for rooms with high ceilings.
Take your time when choosing the light fixtures for a room. They have to fit just right into the décor. Depending on the mood you're trying to create, you can either choose a big chandelier, a sleek pendant lamp or a subtle floor lamp.
You can also make a room look complete with an area rug. Choose something fluffy and soft for the bedroom so it feels nice when you get up in the morning, something with a striking pattern for the living room and something simple for the dining room. The other rooms could also use a rug.
For the bathroom, there are a lot of small things you need to include, like the towel holders, the soap dish, the sconces and even the faucet. They all need to look beautiful together so be cohesive when decorating this space.
It's the same for the kitchen. You can add color to the room with themed wall décor like an oversized image of a fruit or you can combine style with function when choosing things like drawer pulls, the napkin holder, the knife rack, etc.


The hardy Mi 17 V5, it seems, will continue to rule the Indian skies as 48 of the choppers are likely to be procured under a repeat order.
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force has moved a proposal to spend $1.1b (Rs 6,980 cr) to acquire more mediumlift choppers from Russia in a move that would go against the grain of the 'Make in India' concept but offer a vital addition to its transport fleet.
The hardy Mi 17 V5, it seems, will continue to rule the Indian skies as 48 of the choppers are likely to be procured under a repeat order. The new choppers, which will serve in terrains ranging from the desert to high-altitude locations along the China and Pakistan border, will be added to the IAF fleet of 139 Mi 17 V5s that form the backbone of the IAF transport operations.
Sources said the Air Force recently moved the plan that includes maintenance facilities for the choppers as well as an offset obligation of 30%. The operationally proven choppers are much-needed replacements for the older Mi 8 transporters that have reached the end of their service life.
At least six of the new choppers being ordered are replacements for machines that were diverted to the Air HQ Communications Squadron last year for flying the President, Prime Minister and visiting dignitaries.


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Veterans and Gold Star families react to fall of Afghanistan
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Over the last two decades, more than 750,000 American service members have been deployed to Afghanistan. Amid the chaos in the country as the U.S. pulls out, many are wondering if their sacrifices were wasted.
"I'm on the verge of breaking down crying because this is just like we gave so much and just like that it's wiped out," said Juan Dominguez, who was a Marine lance corporal when he was sent to the Taliban heartland of Helmand Province in 2010.
It was there that his battalion lost 25 men. Dominguez, who lost both legs and an arm, said his thoughts are with the Afghans who helped the Marines and are now at the mercy of the Taliban.
"We have seemingly turned our backs on them and just pray, pray for them because our government didn't help them get that safe passage out," he said.
Retired Army Colonel Dave Brostrom lost his son, Jonathan, at the Battle of Wanat in 2008.
"It's a disgrace to this country to depart like this," Brostrom said. "This is very disheartening."
"You know, my son died trying to protect his fellow soldiers, but for the ultimate cause of stabilizing the country and establishing a good government, yes, it was a sacrifice that was for naught," he said when asked if it felt like his son died for nothing.
Over the past 20 years, more than 2,400 U.S. service members were killed and 22,000 wounded in the war.
Amid criticism of the U.S. withdrawal and its implementation, President Biden defended his decision on Monday. He acknowledged that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan "did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated," but said he would not ask more U.S. service members to risk their lives in a conflict that "should have ended long ago."
"I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president of the United States," he said. "How many more generations of America's daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan's civil war when Afghan troops would not? How many more American lives is it worth?"


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Aja Naomi King joins the L'Oreal Paris Family ??
Aja Naomi King joins the L'Oreal Paris Family ??
How to Get Away With Murder star Aja Naomi King has been announced as the newest L'Oréalista.
The esteemed roster of L'Oréalista's includes Julianne Moore, Eva Longoria, Elle Fanning and Camila Cabello among many other incredible women who represent the iconic beauty brand.
According to US Weekly, the actress' love of beauty was sparked at a young age by her mother.
In her statement released through L'oreal, she said:
Makeup became my armor growing up, it provided me with a sense of protection and gave me the power and confidence to face the world in the way I wanted. To now represent L'Oréal Paris is incredibly overwhelming. I am so excited to help others find and believe in the beauty of who they are because everyone deserves to know their own worth.
The actress also shared a photo on her Instagram page, saying she was honoured to be joining the family. She wrote:
Gratitude can't begin to describe this feeling inside. No words can capture it…but I hope to be one more face looking back at you showing you what IS possible!!!
Honored to be part of the L'Oréal Family ???
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As I try to reflect on the topic of (art) education, I actually end up stressing the importance of what one does when the academy is breaking up with you and it is time to move out to the first bachelor pad and begin dealing with reality.
It is no secret that I never officially studied in Vienna. I went there after graduating from the University of Tartu and my studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts were also behind me. Things often fall into my hands when somebody has to cancel and this is how I ended up being invited to Vienna. Ten days after hearing the news I was in my private apartment and sharing a studio, almost in the woods on the edge of Vienna, with a Polish guy and a totally lovable Montenegrian girl.
From then on it didn't matter much if it was Tallinn or Tartu, ceramics or painting. When no one around you knows or cares about any of that, sooner or later you rethink, question or reinvent your everyday rhythm, your practice and standpoints. I couldn't take myself too seriously anyhow as most people couldn't tell Estonia from Lithuania.
I think this empty stage is pretty much the scariest thing about moving to a new city with just two hands in your pocket because it is so easy to cool out and go into this fake Zen-state for months and never leave the house. But if you are bored with the old labels attached to artists in your home country – 'painter', 'applied arts', 'periphery' etc – then this lonely and out-of-sight status can be rather liberating.
What artists sometimes list as a part of 'education' in their CVs is residency experience. My stays in Vienna, Linz, Salzburg etc. have allowed me to witness how my peers from Hamburg, Berlin, Podgorica, Vienna etc materialize their ideas in a given period of time. I depend very much on my environment and the first thing I started working on after relocating to a new country and culture was my living conditions and the concept of home. No matter how much of human communication is said to be visual, I must admit being unable to speak German put me in a totally unexpected locked-out situation in Austria and I believe this has influenced my work. Especially in Vienna, where you see so many immigrants, being suddenly counted as one of them puts things into a different perspective. Long story short, this alien status has provided roots for my works, such as A Made-up Family History (2014) – part of the exhibition Castle – where I used found family photos with people hiking in the mountains, and a series of objects resembling stage maquettes or community buildings titled A Study of Homes (2011–2013).
Of course I never really cut my ties and still most of my bigger shows have taken place in Estonia, but the works were often partly seeded and realized in Vienna. That leads to the next characteristic aspect of my work. Although I painted museum-sized canvases in the painting dept. in Tartu, the reality is that while working independently on several shows with tight finances the works have to be easily (i.e cheaply) transportable. I have been pleasantly surprised to see how young painters in Vienna work with very small formats but have the ability to execute shows in big spaces with the help of flexible and ephemeral media. I totally fell in love with this approach and abandoned my six-meter wide paintings for a while. Even if I make such large works again, they will be dismountable.
Laura Põld (1984), born in Tallinn. She received her BA in Ceramics from Estonian Academy of Arts (2007) and her MA in Painting from the University of Tartu (2010). Her recent solo exhibitions were held at Showroom Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky in Vienna, Kunstkabinett Altes Rathaus in Bayreuth and Hobusepea Gallery in Tallinn. Over the last five years she has been included in numerous group exhibitions in Vienna, Moscow, Berlin, Carcassonne, Frankfurt, Warsaw etc. She is currently living and working in Vienna and Tallinn.


Having worked for both large corporations and small businesses has enabled Mr. McArdle to obtain a vast background of experience within the broad spectrum of commercial and residential surveys relating to A.L.T.A. / A.C.S.M. Land Title Surveys, Boundary / Lot Surveys, Land Divisions, GPS Surveys, Condominiums / Subdivisions, Topographic Mapping, Engineering Design Surveys, Architectural Surveys, Wetland Mapping, Telecommunication Surveys, GIS Mapping, Construction Staking, F.E.M.A. Flood Elevation Certificates LOMA's, State of Michigan Remonumentation, Engineering Site Plans...etc.