The true story of how the Prohibition era made Atlantic City, New Jersey, the birthplace of the organized crime syndicates that would rise to power in the mid-20th century. The history of the Mafia's hand in drugs and crime in Atlantic City explains how a cabal of greedy, violent men cornered the market on vice in the United States.
America's nostalgic love affair with crime stories often blurs the lines between life and art. Such is the case with HBO's critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire, which tells the true (if dramatized) story of how the Prohibition era made Atlantic City, New Jersey, the birthplace of the organized crime syndicates that would rise to power in the mid-20th century. The history of the Mafia's hand in drugs and crime in Atlantic City explains how a cabal of greedy, violent men cornered the market on vice in the United States.
After a boom period in the early 20th century, Atlantic City was set to make the most of Prohibition. While the rest of America groaned and broke the law in secret, Atlantic City made it quite clear that it was open for business of any kind. That was all due to Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the man who made Atlantic City his personal empire, and the breeding ground of the organized crime movement that would spread out into the country's biggest cities.
While the rest of America groaned and broke the law in secret, Atlantic City made it quite clear that it was open for business of any kind.
According to Foreign Affairs magazine, Johnson was a "monumentally corrupt" local politician, who made Atlantic City into a haven of illegal alcohol sales, gambling, and prostitution. His power came from his position as the boss of the Atlantic County Republican Executive committee, which gave him control of the governments of both Atlantic City and Atlantic County. His annual salary from the job was $6,000, but his connections with bootleggers, casinos, and brothels saw him pocket an estimated $500,000 a year (approximately $10 million in today's money).
Daily Mail explains how even though Atlantic City was understood to be a paradise of vice and pleasure, Nucky kept the entire operation under his thumb. Gangs in other cities made headlines by waging open warfare against each other, but Johnson had a strict no-violence policy. No one stepped on each other's toes, giving the police no reason to interfere with the business. When arrests were made, they were carried out with Nucky's approval, such was the level of power and influence he wielded. Not only did he have the final say over law enforcement's actions, he oversaw the appointment of every cop the city hired, ensuring that whoever donned a badge would turn a blind eye to the industries that made Atlantic City the hotspot of the Roaring Twenties. When Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, outlawing the sale and distribution of alcohol, Nucky Johnson had such sway in Atlantic City that he simply decided Prohibition would not be enforced in his town – no smuggling, no speakeasies.
Indeed, the series premiere of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire shows Johnson (renamed "Nucky Thompson" and played by Steve Buscemi) raucously celebrating the dawn of Prohibition (with the mayor of Atlantic City in tow), knowing that the ushering in of the "noble experiment" would create a fortune for men like him.
Even before the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, Johnson was already raking in the public goodwill for his decision to let Atlantic City establishments serve alcohol on Sundays, which was outlawed in most American states – including Johnson's own New Jersey. The move caused an instant boost in tourism.
Johnson wasn't exaggerating. Between 1926 and 1933 (the year Prohibition came to an end), around 40 percent of all the illegal alcohol brought into the United States came ashore in, or near, Atlantic City.5 Criminal elements were over the moon, but even legitimate businesses enjoyed themselves. Atlantic City's hotel industry threw its support behind Johnson's reinvention of what had once been a family-oriented summer beach town, making the most of the tourists, big spenders, conventions, and parties that would eschew other New Jersey resorts and instead come to the boardwalk.
Between 1926 and 1933, around 40% of all the illegal alcohol brought into the United States came ashore in, or near, Atlantic City.
Nucky Johnson's power stretched far beyond his boardwalk empire. While he was the go-to man for local vice and political machinations, even President Warren Harding owed Johnson a favor for the way Johnson had arranged for New Jersey Republicans to back Harding's presidential bid.
In February 1929, seven soldiers in Chicago's North Side Mob were killed on the orders of Al Capone, who was intent on controlling the organized crime scene in Chicago. The event became known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and drew widespread attention to the workings of the underworld.
Such vulgar displays of power were not conducive to the interests of the criminal underworld, who were more interested in reaping the profits from bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution than they were in going to war with each other. Atlantic City had a big role to play in aligning the numerous (and disparate) gangs in the northeast.
What became known as the Atlantic City Conference was also the height of Nucky Johnson's power. Johnson was not a mob boss and had no crew or gang of his own; but as he wielded unparalleled political power, and the conference was taking place on his turf, he became a central figure in the development of a national organization of crime.
Under his auspices, representatives of criminal establishments from New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City, Florida, Massachusetts, and Louisiana pledged not to get involved in the business of other territories, with a special focus on eschewing more gangland warfare. There were agreements to cooperate on the fixing of alcohol prices and discussions on other venues of enterprise in the event that Prohibition was repealed.
So influential was the conference in shaping the underworld vision for America that Luciano's use of the Italian phrase (la) Cosa Nostra, meaning "this thing of ours," or "our thing," to distinguish the American Mafia from its Italian and Sicilian ancestors, has become the de facto term for Italian-American organized crime in the United States.
Despite the Atlantic City Conference ostensibly being convened because of Capone's involvement in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, it was Capone himself who stressed the need to think of the bootlegging empire as a business, one that would have to be conducted peacefully if profits were to be maximized. "We finally decided to forget the past and begin all over again," Capone told a historian about the Atlantic City Conference.
The future looked brighter than the lights of Atlantic City, but things were about to change. In 1933, four years after the conference, President Franklin D. Roosevelt repealed Prohibition, helping himself to a drink as he did so.15 With that, Atlantic City lost its unique allure. Now, alcohol was freely available in any city in America that chose to serve it. Not only did the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment put a temporary dent in the machinations of organized crime, it put a permanent dent in Nucky Johnson's boardwalk empire.
Another setback came with the Great Depression. Faced with personal income, prices, and profits plunging, and unemployment soaring as high as 25 percent in America, people had more important things to worry about than going to Atlantic City to scratch their vice itch.16 With the city losing its sheen, Nucky Johnson could no longer count on his untouchability, to the point where the federal government felt free to conduct its own operations in the area. In 1935, FBI agents tracked down one of its four "Public Enemy Number One" targets, Alvin Karpis, to a hotel in Atlantic City. Karpis escaped the confrontation (however, he was personally arrested by J. Edgar Hoover in New Orleans the following year), but the shootout was indicative of the degree to which Nucky Johnson had lost Atlantic City.
Even as the New Deal moved the country out of the shadow of the Great Depression, Atlantic City was left behind. Las Vegas became the new home for gambling, prostitution, and 24/7 liquor service – all bankrolled by the mob.
Faced with personal income, prices, and profits plunging, and unemployment soaring as high as 25% in America, people had more important things to worry about than going to Atlantic City to scratch their vice itch.
As Atlantic City's fortunes fell, so did those of Nucky Johnson. He became embroiled in a feud with the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who allegedly encouraged officials of the Roosevelt administration to investigate Johnson's activities.
In 1939, Johnson was indicted for evading taxes and put on trial in 1941. He was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and served four. He died in an Atlantic County nursing home in 1968. By that time, Atlantic City was in decay, better known for its crime, poverty, and corruption than the glitz and glamor that made it the go-to destination for holidaymakers and pleasure-seekers. Even the iniquitousness of the automobile conspired to bury Atlantic City; visitors were no longer bound by train schedules to spend a week on the boardwalk. They could come and go as they pleased, spending only a fraction of the money than they would have been tempted to spend in the days when the railroad was the only way in and out of the city.
Four years before Johnson died, Atlantic City hosted the 1964 Democratic National Convention. NJ.com writes that the city was "consumed by blight" when the political and national media came to town. Despite President Lyndon B. Johnson being nominated for a full term in office, and Robert Kennedy passionately paying tribute to his slain elder brother, the media focus was on how far Atlantic City had declined since its days as the thorn in the side of Prohibition. Hotels, where once Nucky Johnson and his Mafia connections decided on how to partition the country among themselves, were now decrepit and dirty, with poor plumbing and worse room service. The press described Atlantic City as "rundown" and "shoddy," gleefully writing of the aura of failure that lingered over the boardwalk.
After the convention, the famed hotels of the Atlantic City boardwalk were either converted into low-income apartments or nursing homes, or simply demolished. Atlantic City, once the neon light in the bootlegging crown and the starting point of the Mafia's control of America, looked dead and buried.
In 1974, voters defeated a statewide gambling referendum but approved one for Atlantic City only in 1976.
But New Jersey wasn't prepared to give up on the city and once again looked to vice as a way to revitalize local fortunes. In 1974, voters defeated a statewide gambling referendum but approved one for Atlantic City only in 1976.
Scarfo's observation hints at an uncomfortable truth that Atlantic City will never be able to get away from, no matter how many times it reinvents itself: Its historical and contemporary allure of pleasure, indulgence, and vice (whether by way of alcohol, drugs, gambling, or prostitution) will always give it an underworld taint.
But Scarfo's ultimate fate – sentenced to life in prison in 1987, partly on the testimony of his nephew – also hints at an uncomfortable truth for the Mafia: things have changed. In writing about the state of "disorganized crime in Atlantic City," NJ.com quotes George Anastasia, who covered organized crime in Philadelphia and New Jersey for 35 years for the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying that, unlike the days of Nucky Johnson, and even "Little Nicky" Scarfo, there is no single player in Atlantic City today. Instead, the Mafia operates in the form of different families who continue to be on the fringe but will never be able to move into a central position of power.
One reason is because of the decline of Cosa Nostra in general. The rise of gangs from Russia and South America have chipped away at the pieces of the pie that the Mafia once considered their own, and the love affair between organized crime and the federal government has long since grown cold. In 2009, a report by the Philadelphia Police Department presented to the New Jersey Casino Control Commission showed that the local branch of the Mafia had only 20 members, down from about a strength of 80 in the 1980s. Of those 20 members, nine were serving prison sentences, thanks to the development of harsh new laws (especially the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), and scores of Mafia soldiers and leadership turning state's evidence in the hope of securing lighter punishments.
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission itself, which regulates casinos in Atlantic City and the legitimacy of their business, has also been vigilant in ensuring that people with connections to the mob are kept far away from the administration and management of businesses in Atlantic City.
In Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City, Nelson Johnson writes that Prohibition created Atlantic City, where some of the most ruthless and iconic gangsters in American history saw the American Dream in the neon lights and dollar signs of the boardwalk.25 Nearly everything the world came to know of organized crime in the United States originated from the Mafia's hand in drugs and crime in Atlantic City. And even with the decline of both Cosa Nostra and Nucky Johnson's empire, the two remain inextricably linked in memory and nature.
Atlantic City's eight remaining casinos took in $2.56 billion in 2015, but that figure represents a 6.5 percent drop from 2014, after some establishments closed their doors.
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The Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus), also known as the European horse mackerel or common scad, is a species of jack mackerel in the family Carangidae, the jacks, pompanos and trevallies. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off Europe and Africa and into the south-eastern Indian Ocean. It is an important species in commercial fisheries and is listed as a Vulnerable species on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Description
The Atlantic horse mackerel has quite a slender, quite compressed body with a large head in which the rear of the upper jaw reaches the front of the eye and the lower jaw projects beyond the upper jaw. The eye has a well developed adipose eyelid. It has two dorsal fins, the first is tall and has seven thin spines, with the final spine being much shorter than the others. The second dorsal fin is separated from the first by a narrow gap and is considerably longer than the first with 29-33 soft rays. The anal fin is about as long as the second dorsal fin and there are two separate spines at its anterior end. The moderately sized pelvic fin has a single spine and five soft rays and has its origin below the end of the pectoral fin base. A curved line of 33–40 bony scutes runs from the head to the tail, each having a small spine which increase in size and become bonier towards the tail. The lateral line has a total of 66–67 scales, of which 31–36 are scutes. It is dark blue in colour with silvery flanks and a white belly, there is a dark spot on the operculum. This species attains a maximum fork length of , although they are normally around  and a weight of .

Distribution
The Atlantic horse mackerel occurs in the north and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. In the Atlantic it is found from Norway to South Africa where it may extend around the Cape of Good Hope along the southern African Indian Ocean coast Maputo in Mozambique. However, if Trachurus capensis is considered to be a valid species then this species is restricted to the north east Atlantic. It has been recorded in Cape Verde but is thought to occur there only as a vagrant.

Habitat and biology
The Atlantic horse mackerel is a benthopelagic species which normally occurs over sandy substrates at depths of , although it has been reported as deep as  and it is sometimes found nearer the surface waters. It is a migratory species, moving northwards in the summer months and returning southwards when the sea temperature starts to fall. In the north east Atlantic two stocks are recognised, the western stock spawns in a wide area from Ireland to the Bay of Biscay in the early Spring and moves northward to the southern coats of Norway and the northern North Sea in the summer. The North Sea stock spawns in the southern part of the North Sea during the summer and then migrates northwards into the central North Sea, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. Off Mauritania this species has its main spawning season in November to January while the related Cunene horse mackerel (Trachurus trecae) spawns in June and August. Off Ireland spawning occurs irregularly during the summer from June to August reaching its peak in July. The females spawn in batches, each of up to 140,000 eggs and hatching larvae  in length. Spawning is indeterminate meaning that the total number of eggs a female can produce is dependent on factors which can change over the course of a spawning season. The eggs and larvae are pelagic.

The juveniles of thus species frequently often shoal with the juveniles of other fish species, mainly Atlantic herring (Clupea clupea) and with other species of horse mackerels such as the Mediterranean horse mackerel (T. mediterraneus) and blue jack mackerel (T. picturatus). Juveniles are also often encountered sheltering in the tentacles of jellyfish. In South Africa the maximum recorded age is 24 years while 40 years of age has been recorded in the northeast Atlantic. They are thought to breed from two to four years old for females. Off Mauritania, the juveniles are caught at depths of  while mature fish are taken in shallower waters of less than .The age and growth of the Atlantic horse mackerel vary across its extensive range and are affected by the levels to which stocks are exploited.

The diet of this species, in both juveniles and adults, is copepods, shrimps, small fishes and squids. An examination of the stomach contents of Atlantic horse mackerels caught in the Aegean Sea recorded a total of 60 different prey species which belonged to five major systematic groups, polychaetes, crustaceans, molluscs, arrow worms and bony fish. Copepods, Euphasids and Mysids made up the highest percentage of food eaten. Bony fish were the secondmost numerous food ingested, while polychaeta and arrow worms were infrequently recorded food items. The diet showed very little seasonal variation with copepods and mysids making up the largest proportion of prey throughout the year, with fishes being most frequent prey except in the spring. Larger fish – those over  – feed largely on the larvae of bony fishes. No less than 45 species of copeopod were identified in this study, and Acartia clausi and Oncea media were numerous and important throughout the year. Crustaceans were the most important prey to be eaten by this species in all seasons, however, bony fish were the most important prey items for larger fish.

Taxonomy and naming
The Atlantic horse mackerel is the type species of the genus Trachurus but when Constantine Samuel Rafinesque created the genus in 1810 he used Trachurus saurus as the type species but Carolus Linnaeus had used the name Scomber saurus and had already described Scomber trachurus so Rafinesque's name was invalid. The genus Trachurus is part of the subfamily Caranginae of the family Carangidae, which is the largest family in the order Carangiformes. The generic and specific names are a compound of the Greek trachys meaning "rough" and oura meaning "tail", this appears to be an ancient name for horse mackerels, presumably in reference to the spiny scutes on the caudal peduncle.

The common name horse mackerel has been said to derive from the belief that other fishes rode on its back but it may derive from the old Dutch word Horsmakreel which means a mackerel which spawns over a shallow or bank, a hors, and this was taken into English as "horse mackerel".

The Cape horse mackerel (Trachurus capensis) is considered to be the subspecies T. trachurus capensis of the Atlantic horse mackerel by some authorities and it is thought that there is no adequate series of these specimens of this taxa along the coast of Africa available to confirm the validity of this taxon.

Fisheries

The Atlantic horse mackerel is fished for commercially using trawls, longlines, purse seines (using artificial light), traps and on line gear. In 1999 the Food and Agriculture Organization stated that the total catch reported to it was 322 207 tonnes with the largest catches being in the Netherlands and in Ireland. There is a total allowable catch (TAC) in the North Sea for this species and landings have consistently been below this level but the TAC is not in line with the scientific advice. There have been calls to create a management plan for the Atlantic horse mackerel in the North Sea but currently there are no specific management objectives for it. The stock needs to be assessed and management objectives should be set before the fishery can be shown to be sustainable.

Conservation
The IUCN classify the Atlantic horse mackerel as Vulnerable because even if there has been no decline in the population in European waters there have been greater than ninety percent declines off the West African coast which means that this species will have undergone a decline of at least 35-40% over the past three generation lengths, which are estimated at 30–35 years. The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) classifies the population of this species as below the safe biological limit for exploitation. The populations are experiencing a slow decline with increased fishing pressure at the maximum sustainable yield since 2006 with low recruitment since 2004.

Human uses
The Atlantic horse mackerel is consumed fresh. It may be preserved by freezing, salting and drying, smoking and canning. It can be prepared by frying, broiling or baking. The flesh is said to have a pleasant flavour with an oily delicate texture which is a good source of omega-3 fatty acids. Nutritionally 100g of the flesh of the Atlantic horse mackerel provides 97 kcal of energy and is made up of:

Water: 77.4 g
Protein: 19.8 g
Fat: 2 g
Cholesterol: 64.4 mg
Total minerals: 1.3 g
Phosphorus: 224 mg

In Iberia it may be prepared as an escabeche while some are exported to Japan as aji to be used in sushi. They are also an important ingredient in Sicilian cuisine.

References

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Fish of the East Atlantic
Fish of the Mediterranean Sea
Fish of the Black Sea
Fish of the North Sea
Marine fish of Europe
Marine fish of Africa
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The Making of Little Love
Truly there's a lot of work that goes into making a children's book. So I'd love to give you the sneak peek behind how this book was created, who helped make it possible, and why we made the creative decisions that we did.
When I first met with Crystal, the illustrator, all I had was the written manuscript. We sat down at a little cafe in downtown Tacoma and began to discuss my vision for the characters and book. After our initial discussion, she came back with a couple of very quick sketches that helped lay out the whole book and explored both characters and different environments.
If you read the final, you'll see that we stayed pretty true to the original storyboard.
The shiny city
Little Love opening sequence
The theater
Beauty's first look
I remember seeing these sketches and already thinking they were so beautiful. In fact when I saw Little Love for the first time, I really was choking back tears because this little girl represented myself and everything I'd been through. To read about that story, check out this blog post.
Once we agreed on the original storyboard, then we began exploring more concrete versions of the characters. It was Crystal's idea to have Little Love's heart on the outside of her body. Her heart is really the focal point of the book because it shows her emotions. I thought this was brilliant. I also loved all the hearts she added into her pigtails and kneecaps. Below is a more high fidelity sketch of Little Love before we started adding color.
Beauty's look was the biggest challenge of all. How do you define beauty? If we made her blonde, does that mean only blondes were considered beautiful? We decided to make it more fantasmic by introducing colored hair. That way beauty could relate to everyone. We pulled in deeper red violets and magentas for Beauty, and more pinks and red for Little Love.
Another challenge was how could we include Beauty and Fame in the spread without actually having them physically be there? We decided to create "tokens," that each represented Beauty and Fame. Fame was his top hat, and Beauty was her boa and perfume bottle. The idea was that these tokens influence Little Love throughout the story. Sometimes she forsake them, and other times she clung to them. We added sparkle to show how much these things are sought after.
Little Love removing Fame's token or influence
We also spent a considerable time discussing the environments. We focused on architectural details from the French Baroque period to influence Beauty's dressing room, and the streets of Paris to influence the marketplace. We wanted these environments to feel rich and serve as an extension of the characters and what they aspire to.
Beauty's original dressing room
Final dressing room
The illustrations took about 9 months to complete. I liken this book to a pregnancy 🙂 Once the illustrations were done it was time to send off files to the publisher and begin setting the book up for distribution. Once I got the book in my hands it was an overwhelming and emotional experience. After a year and a half of working on this, I still felt in shock. Was this moment real? Somedays I still don't believe that this book is here, but I'm so grateful for Crystal, the publishers, and all the people who believe in Little Love as much as I do. If you'd like to share the story of Little Love, click here to purchase.
Crystal and I with the completed book in our hands
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How bad policy amplified the costs of globalization for American workers
July 13, 2017 by Michael Stumo
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In a new report, EPI Director of Research Josh Bivens explains the ways in which globalization has harmed the majority of U.S. workers and how policy decisions and trade deals have amplified this damage, and outlines a progressive response to globalization that would protect these workers' wages and give the manufacturing sector a chance to reclaim…
Press Release: CPA Study Finds 25.5% Dollar Overvaluation Spurs Trade Deficit
Washington~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released a paper today with an improved methodology for calculating exchange rate misalignment and its connection to the US trade deficit, stagnation in wages and living standards, and slower economic growth. Authors Michael Stumo, Jeff Ferry and John R. Hansen (former World Bank economist) also discuss an…
Media Coverage: Civilian Drone Industry: USA Is Missing the Boat HuffPo
Originally published in Huffington Post At last month's Paris Air Show, China showed off its latest military drone, an unmanned intelligent computer-controlled vehicle called the CH-5. By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Military experts were impressed. The CH-5 has a range of 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles), and can stay aloft for up to 50 hours.…
The Threat of U.S. Dollar Overvaluation: How to Calculate True Exchange Rate Misalignment & How to Fix It
CurrencyBy Michael Stumo July 13, 2017
This memo explains (1) the dollar overvaluation problem, (2) how to accurately calculate the dollar's misalignment against trading partner currencies, and (3) how the Market Access Charge (MAC) that CPA and others favor would fix this serious threat to America's future. by Michael Stumo (CEO)Jeff Ferry (Research Director)and John R. Hansen (Advisory Board) The foreign exchange…
Steel: Famous Economists Get It Wrong
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director When a large number of famous economists from all sides of the political spectrum agree on something, the odds are that it is wrong. A new letter on the subject of steel tariffs is a good example of that rule. In a public letter dated Wednesday July 12th, economists…


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Lake County Developments
More single-family homes and apartments approved for Johns Lake Landing
By Bill Zaferos
The apartments will be 2-stories with tuck-under garages. The exterior features a combination of lap siding, painted brick veneer and board and batten and two different roof materials to provide architectural interest. (G4 Design/Parkway)
Over the objections of some local residents, the final phase of the Johns Lake Landing development has received the go-ahead from the Lake County Board of County Commissioners. The move allows the development to convert 186 attached multi-family units and 425,000 square feet of commercial space to 300 multi-family units, 50 single-family units and 370,000 sq.ft of commercial development.
Parkway affiliate, PKY Clermont Owner LLC, had requested an amendment to the Planned Unit Development (PUD) Ordinance to reduce the commercial square footage from 425,000 to 370,000 in order to increase the number of single-family dwellings from 547 to 597 units and increase the multi-family dwellings from 186 to 300 units.
The development site is located between Johns Lake and State Road 50 between Hartle Road and Magnolia Pointe Blvd. and was already entitled for the 186 attached multifamily units and 425,000 square feet of commercial and retail use.
David Weekley is expanding its footprint within the Johns Lake Landing PUD near Clermont
David Weekley began developing single-family homes in the community in 2014. Today, the homebuilder has closed more than 200 single-family homes in the area.
Parkway Land Development Director Rich Toomey previously told GrowthSpotter the firm would commence construction soon after the rezoning was approved. Toomey said the apartment buildings would be an upscale, 2-story product with an extensive amenity and landscaping package. "They're going to look like townhomes. They're very high-end," he said. "We do everything site-specific to the area, so each multifamily project is designed from scratch."
The apartment community will employ a Modern Farmhouse aesthetic and will feature a large activity lawn, pool and clubhouse with fitness center, business center and private party room. There's also an outdoor kitchen, separate grilling area and a dog park with designated grooming station.
He said David Weekley Homes, which is building Phase 6 of the community, would be the homebuilder for the 50 single-family lots. Parkway also has deals in place for all of the commercial lots. An outdoor pool and patio store will lease lots 1 and 2; a fast-food restaurant will rise on lot 3; a childcare facility for up to 200 children is slated for lot 4; and a national furniture retailer will build an 80,000-square-foot showroom on lot 5.
The apartment community will be built overlooking a large activity lawn and Modern Farmhouse-style clubhouse. (Parkway)
Parkway will invest a total of $114 million over the next 3.5 years, according to the firm's economic impact study. That includes $60 million for the apartments and $35 million for the commercial buildings.
During a public hearing residents' concerns focused mainly on traffic and traffic flow in the area, particularly on Magnolia Pointe Boulevard and State Road 50, which border the project. Although multifamily housing is a permitted use in the Johns Lake Landing PUD, some neighbors expressed fears that the expansion would lead to more accidents on area roads.
But traffic engineers said that under the original PUD, the development could have generated 10,329 trips a day. The amended PUD would reduce the number of trips to 5,412.
Commission Chairman Sean Parks said later that he remained concerned about traffic on Magnolia Boulevard at peak hours. He had asked for a 30-day delay in approving the measure so that those concerns could be addressed. But he added that the access point on Magnolia Pointe is guaranteed because the PUD ordinance passed in 2005 granted it.
"I was hoping for a little more time to work with the adjacent landowner to gain cross access to Tiny Morse Boulevard," he said. "It would be ideal to have a signal constructed at Tiny Morse Blvd. I believe everyone wins in that scenario."
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Hotel and new senior living community slated for 153-acre Wellness and Technology Park in Lake Mary
Construction on the new projects will coincide with a new full-service hospital by Orlando Health, which already has an emergency center in the park.
By Mike Salinero
But, he said, the developers will be required to install traffic calming devices such as speed tables and an internal roundabout.
"I do believe the applicant has incorporated many good planning features and the overall intensity should be reduced," he said. "Despite my concerns, I do welcome the applicant to Lake County and look forward to helping them get open for business as soon as possible."
GrowthSpotter Editor Laura Kinsler contributed to this report.
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Cirque: a glacier-carved bowl or amphitheatre in the mountains. To form, the glacier must be a combination of size, a certain slope and more unexpectedly, a certain angle away from the sun. In the northern hemisphere, this means the glacier must be on the northeast slope of the mountain, away from the suns rays and the prevailing winds. Thick snow, protected in this way, grows thicker into glacial ice, then a process of freeze-thaw called nivation, chews at the lower rocks, hollowing out a deep basin. Eventually a magnificently circular lake is formed with steep sloping sides all around. Cirque Lake is a wonderful example of a cirque lake. Cirque Glacier: formed in bowl-shaped depressions on the side of mountains.


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Q: Cannot build asp.net website after svn checkout I am using AnkhSVN 2.5 to set up version control on my ASP.NET website.
I have a ready project, I installed AnkhSVN and then I added my solution to Subversion. When doing so I pointed out the repository where the project will be stored.
My working copy directory and my repository are on the same PC.
Now, on the same PC, I checked out the project in the repository to another working directory. The checkout was successful and I got all my source files correctly. However when I tried to build my project I get this error. I cannot build my project.
The type or namespace name 'AspNet' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft'
I tried to add a reference but I cannot find the assembly Microsoft.AspNet in the add reference list. In any case Microsoft.AspNet should be available by default. Why would I have to reinclude it?
I am using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate.

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In 2013 Colorado Construction completed a £1.5M central Edinburgh redevelopment, to extensively refurbish and fit-out the existing four-storey Apex House into a state-of-the-art business hub. The project incorporated several tenant moves and the renewal of the central power bus-bar, all while the building was fully occupied.
The project included the complete refurbishment of the open plan office areas, toilets, central corridors and the modernisation of the all of external entrances and approaches incorporating Irish Limestone and feature glass balustrades.
In the current phase Colorado will bring the landlord communal areas within Apex 1 to the similar superb standard of office blocks Apex 2 & 3.
Levels 3 & 4 being stripped back in its entirety and upgraded to CAT A standards ready for any potential tenants.
Work is being undertaken in a live environment and ensuring the safety and comfort of existing tenants and their visitors is always foremost in the way work is carried out.
Due to the success of the project further phases and tenant direct fit-out works were all negotiated.


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El Paso, Texas is one of a handful of American cities that has stayed true to itself and whose unique attributes are things in which locals take great pride. Located on the westernmost tip of Texas where three states and two countries meet, El Paso's history dates back more than four centuries.
Today, El Paso is the sixth-largest city in the state of Texas; 19th largest in the country; and has been named "Safest City in the United States," by CQ Press for four consecutive years. With a metroplex of more than 2.5 million people, El Paso is the largest binational metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and is composed of a variety of nationalities, with cultural influences ranging from Native American to Spanish and Mexican.
Visit El Paso (an operating division of Destination El Paso) is responsible for destination marketing for the 680,000-resident city, which has been recognized four years in a row as the #1 city in the U.S. (with over 500,000 residents) with the lowest crime rate, as well as the #1 most affordable city in the country.
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Tours & Directions
The city of El Paso welcomes millions of visitors every year. So when their visitor's centers began seeing less and less foot traffic, they noticed.
"More and more people are refraining from entering visitor information centers," said Leesy McCorgary, Tourism Marketing Manager for Visit El Paso. "The tools they need are available on their phone or tablet, so the information is right there."
Despite the decrease in visits to their two information centers, as well as a lack of visitor response to print materials, Visit El Paso still needed a way to connect visitors with their staff, as well as enhance in-destination experiences like walking tours and brand loyalty to keep them coming back. With a long-term goal of increasing the number of hotel stays and attracting conventions and large groups as a host city, El Paso turned to Bluebridge for a mobile app solution that would help them meet visitors where they were for the ultimate El Paso experience.
El Paso pioneered a unique experience for their visitors with the creation of the world's first FaceTime-integrated destination mobile app. Originally conceptualized by Destination El Paso's CEO/General Manager, Bryan Crowe, the FaceTime feature allows app users to connect with a real person whenever they need help with finding information, navigating to their next attraction, or getting a recommendation from an expert.
As a new idea for the mobile app feature set, Bluebridge helped craft the strategy of the Facetime interaction, turning the idea into reality by partnering with Visit El Paso on innovation and product roadmap.
"Our previous app served its initial purpose as our visitor guide in smartphone format, but we really needed a way to keep visitors engaged with our brand," said Bryan Crowe, CEO/ General Manager of Destination El Paso. "This dynamic new app created with Bluebridge is an excellent way to connect visitors to the resources we have, including personal face-to-face support via the unique FaceTime feature."
Visit El Paso also relies on a number of other innovative mobile app features to keep visitors engaged, including:
Virtual tours. The Visit El Paso app features tours with turn-by-turn directions for walking, biking, or driving through key city landmarks. Featuring audio commentary, photos, and venue contact information, tours in the app give El Paso visitors a way to experience the city at their convenience.
Event calendar. With postings featuring all the latest events and activities around the city, users can sync events to their device and get immediate directions through GPS. In addition, app users can create a custom itinerary by "favoriting" items throughout the app and viewing them in an aggregated tab.
Explore. Only have a day? Only have an hour? Visitors can experience El Paso in different ways based on their available time and preferences with the in-app concierge feature.
Integrations/feeds. With iCal feeds and streaming podcasts, Visit El Paso can automate content updates, making it easier to keep their messages fresh and engaging.
Among these world-class features, Visit El Paso also enjoys the ease of updating their app through the Mobile App Studio.
"It's one of the most user-friendly management systems I've used," said McCorgary. "The content is easy to update, and it has increased engagement with our material."
APP LAUNCH & PROMOTION
With the arrival of 60,000 bowlers and visitors for the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships—the largest participatory sporting event in the world at 128 days long—Visit El Paso's app launch couldn't have come at a better time. With a dedicated user center on-site at the conference, attendees were able to download the app and get important destination information in-hand for navigation or leisure purpose.
Visit El Paso has advertised their app in print with table tents at restaurants, window clings in stores, and ads at the airport. The ads, featuring the slogan "You Better El Paso Up," have garnered some downloads, but Visit El Paso places greater emphasis on digital.
"Destination marketing organizations are getting away from traditional print collateral," said McCorgary. "People are planning trips, booking travel, and traveling with their smartphones. Our goal is to provide experiences and information to improve and enhance their visit immediately."
After decreasing the number of print ads they ran, Visit El Paso now posts regular digital campaigns ads in target markets, directing people to their website and social media pages to get the word out about the app and keep the message in front of visitors. With so much digital promotion and emphasis on visitor experience, the app has also helped El Paso secure more spots as a host city for conferences and groups. By using the app to pitch, the Visit El Paso can promise better, more engaging experiences in the destination to potential visitors.
$5,000 saved in international mailing costs of visitors guides
$5,000 saved in brochure printing costs
International recognition for best practices in tourism technology
5,200+ downloads
1,000 FaceTime calls per year
20% return rate to the app from previous users
35,000+ user sessions
National attention and media coverage


One of the most common gripes I hear is that the finderscope supplied with the telescope is not very easy to use, most commonly this dissatisfaction is with the red-dot finders, which a number of people find difficult to use. I will also add that a number of experieced astronomers swear by them, but having said this these astronomers often use a combination of two types of finders to locate their object, using the red-dot finder for the initial targeting, and then a another to home in on the object.
There are a number of choices when you want to change your finder-scope, first of all you need to get one that will fit your scope and also one that can be attached and detached easily. Sometimes, with some telescopes such as Sky Watcher you have a standard fitting so that the new finder can easily fit into the 'shoe' you already have fitted to the telescope. This makes life easy, of course. Finderscopes come in different magnifications and my advice is to always go for the larger. Two common sizes are 6 x 30 and 9x 50, the latter being the better if your budget will allow, they both have cross-hairs to accurately target your object.
If you already have one of these, you can improve on this and get a 'right-angled and right-way-up side corrected finderscope' like the one in the illustration opposite which greatly improves your comfort when viewing and will save time if like me you always nudge the scope in the wrong direction because the view through a reflector telescope for example is back-to-front and upside down, it makes life so much easier!
You will often find that different makes have a standard fitting, so you can, for example, fit an Orion finderscope to a Sky Watcher telescope (as I have done), but always check with the retailer first.
•Compact design lets you use both eyes.
•Aiming your telescope is easy with its wide-open right-side-up view.
•Projects 1/2 and 2 degree red circles onto the night sky - what you see in the red circles is what you get in your telescope.
•Pulsed or continuous illumination of the reticle is a standard feature on the QuikFinder.
•Includes two baseplates, one for apertures around 5", the other for larger apertures. Easy clip on/off mounting to baseplate (no screws to fumble with).
Other Features: Rugged construction, an ultra-efficient LED and lithium battery (included) for long life. QuikFinder attaches without drilling and is easily removed from its baseplate for storage. Additional baseplates are available for using QuikFinder on more than one telescope.
The Telrad can be employed as the sole or primary sight of a telescope to help you "star hop" using visible stars to find and center objects that would be invisible to the naked eye or in other small finder telescopes. Or, you may choose to use a Telrad in combination with a second conventional magnifying finder telescope. The Telrad is the innovative, dominant choice of finder sights by the amateur astronomy community, and it is not uncommon to find a Telrad on professional observatory telescopes too!
It is a particular favorite among experienced amateurs using deep sky telescopes (particularly larger "Dobson" style telescopes) where aperture and the ability to find faint deep sky objects are concerns. . The Telrad is often the choice to replace economical finders sights provided on telescopes.
This finder is often the most commonly desired finderscope.
Notes on using a Telrad can be found HERE and also HERE!
Another upgrade that is frequently considered is an upgrade on the focuser of your telescope, upgrades can be done on Newtonians or refractors, the only disadvantage is sometimes the prohibitive cost of the upgrade, but well worthwhile, as a standard rack-and-pinion focuser is often unsatisfactory for fine adjustment and especially so for astro-photography.
The example opposite is one of many on the market, this is dual-speed focuser for a Newtonian telescope with a compression ring eyepiece clamp. The beauty of an upgrade like this is the smooth fine adjustments that can be made, but this comes at cost. Equally, upgrades can be obtained for refractor telescopes of similar quality and price!
Please note that prices for various upgrades vary greatly, but all tend to be expensive!
Dual-speed Crayfords seem to be the most commonly desired upgrade and can greatly add to your enjoyment of astronomy, especially if you are a deep-sky observer. Always discuss an upgrade like this with the retailer to ensure you get the right upgrade for your type of telescope.
Many new premium grade telescopes now come with these as standard.
If you only get one filter this is the one to buy as it suits all telescope apertures, the UHC has good transmission and can be used in any aperture.
The UHC filter permits superb views of objects like the Orion, Lagoon, Swan and other extended nebulae. It performs well in smaller aperture instruments owing to its greater light transmission than the O-III, yet still suppresses light pollution well.
The UHC filter is the best all-round dark-sky nebula filter.
O-III filters are suited to telescopes with of any aperture 90mm and above and can produce near-photographic views of the Veil, Ring, Dumbbell, Orion and many other nebulae in larger apertures.
This is a suitable upgrade from a standard ND96 Moon filter, though it would not and should not replace it altogether, as it is important to have a Moon filter that has a standard one-off density that you can rely on and place in your eyepiece quickly. However, many amatuer astronomers say the 'variable' is the best thing since sliced bread and it is therefore worth looking at this clever little filter.
This variable polarizing filter made from anodized aluminium and optical glass allows you to progressively reduce the amount of light entering your eyepiece.
Reduces glare whilst increasing contrast so perfect for observing bright objects such as the Moon or certain planets.
Light transmission can be varied from 40% down to as little as 1%.
Will not change the colour of the object being viewed.
Prevents eye fatigue and loss of night vision.
Each filter set consists of two polarizing filters, one which can be rotated in its cell to adjust the brightness.
The filters, used as single elements, can also be used for daytime terrestrial use for reducing sunlight glare from lakes oceans or window glass.
Available in two sizes, threaded to fit either standard 1.25" or 2" astronomical eyepieces.
A collimating eyepiece is essential, and not just an accesory, if you own a reflector telescope. The reason is that the primary and secondary mirrors need aligning from time to time and a collimating eyepiece allows you to correct the angle of the mirrors.
There are several types available, the main two are the manual (Cheshire) collimater, reviewed here, and the laser collimator.
This collimating eyepiece is a combination of a sighting tube and Cheshire eyepiece. The sighting tube's narrow field of view and crosshairs provide a centering reference for the telescope's optical elements. The Cheshire eyepiece has a means of providing illumination to a target face (set at 45 degrees to the illuminating hole) that will be used to collimate the primary mirror.
See Links Page for tutorials on collimation.
In summary, if you can, always talk to other amatuer astronomers about thier experiences, you can learn a lot from talking to other people, or join the Stargazers Lounge, a huge resource of information!
There are a number of ways you can improve your stargazing experience either by uprading your original telescope eyepieces or by buying accessories that improve or aid better viewing of the night sky. Just one or two simple measures can sometimes make a lot of difference.
This page offers a few ideas on how to upgrade and improve on what you already have.
By way of introduction the most common upgrade is eyepieces, and that is dealt with on a separate page, so here we will concentrate on other ways to assist you in your stargazing.


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Yavapai softball bringing in lots of familiar faces
Art Preuss February 16, 2010
Yavapai College is planning to get back to the softball World Series and is apparently looking to lots of local talent to get there.
The Prescott community college announced its 2011 softball recruiting class and it's loaded with players from high schools scattered throughout the state. Ten of the 11 recruits are local.
The Roughriders won the first NJCAA Softball National Championship in the history of the 51-year-old school last year as it ran up an impressive 60-8 record. They enter the 2010 season as the No. ranked JUCO team in the nation.
Yavapai is off to a 7-5 start on the new season and open their conference play today against Paradise Valley Community College.
The local players included in the 2011 recruiting class just announced by head coach Stacy Iveson include the following pitchers and catchers: Mel Willadsen, a right-handed pitcher from Red Mountain HS (Mesa); Stella Pinon, another righty, from Sunnyside HS (Tucson); Tessa Fanning, a catcher from Mingus Union HS (Cottonwood); Ashleigh Seipl, a catcher from Highland HS (Gilbert).
Also on the list: Sierra Rodriguez, a utility infielder from Basha HS (Chandler): Alexis Lawton, a utility outfielder from Mesquite HS (Gilbert); Brittney Gant, an infielder from Casa Grande HS; and Nicole Rascon and Miraya Montiel from Salpointe Catholic HS (Tucson). Ranscon is an outfielder and Montiel an infielder.
The help on the mound should be significant with this group. Willadsen led her high school team to the state championship game as a junior and pitched her ASA team to the 16U National Championship game over the summer. Pinon also helped her high school team to a state championship in 2007. They will be joined by a recruit from Denver, Colo., Alyse Harris, who threw a no-hitter in the quarterfinal game in the Colorado State championships.
Yavapai's rise on the softball scene has been meteoric. In the program's first year, in 2008, the Roughriders won the regular-season division I conference title and the Region I championship, earning a trip to the World Series. Last year it was the national championship.
It will be interesting to see where they end up in 2010 – and then have to wait to see what surprises await from the 2011 recruiting class.
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Battered & bruised, Pac-10 hoops is taking a beating this year
GCU swimmers set records enroute to qualifying for NCAAs


Grayson and Tina Haver Currin counter-protested outside an abortion clinic and got an incredible response to their photos.
Some couples spend their Saturday mornings going to brunch or marathoning their favorite TV shows. Grayson and Tina Haver Currin of Raleigh, N.C., take part in a different couples' activity: counter-protesting the anti-abortion protesters who gather in front of a nearby women's health clinic. Grayson, a music writer for a local independent newspaper, and Tina, a copywriter and creative strategist, use humor to defuse the protests and document their activities on their blog, Saturday Chores, which went viral this week. They talked to Cosmopolitan.com about political activism, egalitarian marriage, and what you should bring with you when you bust your wife out of jail.
Grayson: We met almost four years ago through mutual friends in the music community. Tina added me as a friend on Facebook so we started talking and met at a metal show. We go to a lot of concerts. We're vegetarians. We're both runners. We're best friends. We can't leave each other alone.
Tina: I was just graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill. I got an apartment in downtown Durham and didn't know that many people. A friend who's a record store clerk suggested that I friend Grayson. Later that same friend married us. We got married in June 2013.
Did you have politics in common when you met?
Grayson: I was raised to be fairly liberal. I thought I was sensitive to politics and gender issues, and when I met Tina, there were times she really challenged me. We're both very progressive, and I don't think we would be together unless that were the case. But Tina's played a pivotal role in me trying to understand these issues. I think I'm still learning.
Tina: We had two fights — well, disagreements, while we were dating. I've been a vegetarian since I was 12. And he was a Bojangles'-eating dude. When we got into the morality and the ethics and the politics of it, we had a tiff about it. The second one was about Grayson using gender pronouns. I asked him why does he always use the male pronoun. I asked why he thought "he" was a substitute for gender-neutral, and it was a debate.
Grayson: When we got married, I felt that it was unfair to ask Tina to change her last name and me to be the same dude I've always been. So my name was Daniel Grayson Currin, and now it's Grayson Haver Currin. Haver was her maiden name. We have the same middle and last names. I think it surprises people. I recently got called a woman [in the comment thread on an article I wrote] because I had that name. People make assumptions about it. People mock stories I wrote. Someone said "woman" in a very pejorative way.
What inspired you to start protesting the protesters outside the clinic and start your blog?
Tina: The title of the blog is quite literal. I got a gift card to Home Depot for my birthday, and we went to [the neighboring town of] Cary to do chores on a Saturday morning, buy some cleaning and gardening supplies. We passed the clinic, and that was the first time that we decided to make the [counter-protest] sign. It became part of our routine housework and chores we do on Saturday morning.
Grayson: I captioned the first photo "Saturday chore" on Instagram. It just stuck around. Our friends asked "Are you doing your chores today?"
Why did you make this a joint activity?
Grayson: Anything you do as a couple, you get closer. We don't do anything separately from each other. The only weeks we haven't done it are weeks when one of us is out of town. Or our anniversary.
How do the protesters react?
Tina: They talk at us constantly. Constantly! The first time we went, I asked four times, with increasing quiver in my voice, for them to please leave me alone. They finally obliged, only after Grayson stepped between us and asked a little less politely. They tell us we're terrible sinners, we're going to hell, we secretly love God, etc. They ask how many abortions I've had — none, actually — if we're atheists — yeah, totally — and why we're even bothering — because it bothers you, duh!
One of the funniest interactions happened when Protester No. 1, a twentysomething white male, said that the clinic workers actually support what they're doing. We told him it seemed unlikely that you could work at the clinic and also support shaming the women who use their services. He responded, "I do work at this clinic." Grayson and I just started laughing. You work at this clinic? He fumbled around for a minute and then said, "I mean, I've talked to people who work here." It's totally nonsensical, knee-jerk reaction stuff like that. I bite my tongue so hard I'm afraid it might slice it in half.
We've been told on multiple occasions that the reason we feel compelled to join them on Saturdays is because we secretly wish we were on their side. Like, God has drawn us to this place to be exposed to them, and we'll eventually flip. In the Crystal Pepsi photo, they're all praying for me. Well, I'm not sure if they're praying for me or for "Grayson's Wife." They don't call me by name. I'm property of my husband, of course, and shall be referred to as such. So yes, I consider that a pretty intense gender insult.
Was this your first experience demonstrating or getting involved in politics?
Tina: I was part of the Moral Monday protest [a regular, organized protest held in Raleigh] and got arrested the day after Grayson and I got back from our honeymoon. I was part of active peaceful civil disobedience. I was upset about voter ID laws, reduction of education funding and social programs, and restrictions to abortion rights. All of my family is out of state, so they just see these headlines and ask, "What's up with this?" I wanted to be a drop in the bucket of change.
What was it like when Tina got arrested?
Tina: I got arrested around 7 p.m., and I was bummed out because we had been seeing commercials for this show Under the Dome. I thought I was going to miss the premiere. Believe it or not, I was in and out of jail in time to catch the season premiere. Grayson picked me up from jail at 9:45 with a pizza.
At first, Saturday Chores was just you two. But now there's a Google doc helping organize more volunteers who wanted to join you. Was expanding always part of the plan?
Tina: People weren't leaving us alone about it. We didn't like to hang out in front of the clinic very long because I don't think it's a good look to make more commotion out there. In a perfect world, everyone would leave these people [going into the clinic] alone. Our goal was to point out a little absurdity, but at some point it's just not enough. Some people were asking, so we decided that this weekend we'd get there before the pro-life people do, show up with enough people to crowd them out, and do it the whole time. We'll be there probably five hours and have enough people that [the anti-abortion protesters] don't have a chance to show their signs. We would love to see this more humorous take on combating these hateful things spread.
Grayson: People reacted to it so strongly. North Carolina politics right now are a pretty bad situation. People are feeling like people they didn't vote for are making life hard, and this is some way to engage in combating that in a small way. It's really nice for people to be talking about something from North Carolina that's not "Here's what the governor did this week." It's something positive and progressive and is about empowering people, not taking their rights.


From the Bridge: Is This A Great Year to Cruise Europe? It Might Be.
If you could score a Europe cruise for under $60 a day, would you snap it up? Or just say no?
At Cruise Critic, we're seeing bargains aplenty on cruises in and around Europe, including the Baltic, Western Europe, rivers, and both the Eastern and Western Mediterranean. In the past, we've considered any fares under $100 per person per day for mass market cruises to be a fine value in Europe.
This year? The game's changed. In June — the nicest month of the year in Europe — we found the newly refurbished Norwegian Epic, sailing 7-night Barcelona roundtrips, for $399, available all four weeks. That's a $57 per diem. The usually premium priced Celebrity is offering sailings on Equinox, from Istanbul to Rome, for $599 or $81 a day. $75 a day is an outstanding deal on a line like Holland America; a 12-night Civitavecchia to Rome run is priced at $899.
Still want to stay home this summer?
Of course, it's not that Europe itself has suddenly lost its allure as a cruise destination. Geopolitical issues, from the refugee crisis in Greece to terrorist activity in Paris and Belgium, have affected demand, particularly from North American travelers (interestingly, European lines like MSC and Costa, which typically source most passengers from Europe, are offering fire sales at this point). Istanbul (as we wrote a few weeks ago) is seeing the most challenges as some cruise lines and others — Delta Airlines has announced that it's canceling summer flights between New York's JFK Airport and Istanbul — have pulled out of the region due to threat possibilities.
So should we be concerned about traveling in Europe just now?
I'm among those travelers who aren't canceling and am flying to Barcelona this week to check out Oceania's new Sirena. Still, Europe this year presents both challenges and opportunities, and here are six things to keep in mind if you're on the fence about a cruise in Europe this year.
In conversations with cruise line executives over the past couple of weeks, we've learned that, understandably, the Eastern Mediterranean isn't as popular as usual. The Brussels' bombings have slowed down bookings, slightly, for Western European itineraries. And France's river cruises — the Seine, Rhone and in the region of Bordeaux — are soft sellers, at least at the moment.
Europe's cruise appeal is robust in other spots. River cruises on the Rhine and Danube are reasonably busy, and on the oceans, Baltic cruises are on an uptick.
We're not seeing Mediterranean cruises priced at bargain basement fares (rule of thumb, if you see a cruise-only deal for less than $40 per person per day, that qualifies as an insanely good price). What we have seen is cruise lines bundling more value into fares. Among them: Free airfare; eliminating or significantly reducing the dreaded single supplement for solo travelers; added perks such as onboard spending money; and even, from a couple of cruise lines, a hugely unusual «cancel for any reason» promotion.
One caveat to that rule: Cruise lines may well resort to more drastic price cuts if ships are still pretty less-than-full about a month or so before the departure dates.
Protect your vacation investment. We always recommend that travelers planning a cruise should buy travel insurance once they book. This year, we add this tip: Select your policy carefully. Read the fine print and look for more inclusive policies, such as those that offer compensation for canceling-for-any-reason. We also suggest booking through a travel agent, on the off chance that trips are impacted by unforeseen events. «There's nothing better than having a concierge on the road and that's what a travel agent does,» ASTA's Michel Jones says.
In port, be aware of your surroundings. «I don't care if you are in Times Square or Istanbul,» Lanotte-Day tells us. «Everyone needs to be vigilant and pay attention to what's going on around them.» As well, ships can move from place to place, and if there are concerns about port safety, cruise lines can cancel calls.


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T.H.E. News Update :: May 28, 2008
Case Study: Data Warehousing at Hillsborough County Public Schools
One of the country's largest school districts has found great success in managing student records through a customized data warehousing, reporting, and analytics package. Teachers and administrators are extremely pleased with the tool, which helps them track the large and often transient student populations they serve in rapidly growing Hillsborough County, Florida....
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Microsoft To Adopt ODF, Take Role in Format Development
Microsoft Wednesday posted plans for expanding file format support in the next major revision of Office 2007. The move follows charges from the ODF Alliance and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) that Microsoft has been stifling options for users by favoring its own OOXML format....
Northern CA District To Upgrade Student Data Management
Santa Cruz City Schools in Northern California is replacing its student information system (SIS) with Infinite Campus in a deployment that's expected to be completed in early 2009....
Student Hacker Breaks into PA District Network and Steals Data
A Pennsylvania school district will be hosting a community-wide "cyber information session" in the wake of an early May computer breakin. On May 9, a student hacked into the Downingtown Area School District network from a classroom computer and copied files that included dated personal information and Social Security numbers of school employees and community members....
Colorado District Invests in Enterprise Resource Planning
Greeley-Evans Weld County School District 6 in Greeley, CO announced this week that it's deploying Infinite Visions Enterprise Edition ERP software from Windsor Management for financial systems and human resources....
Pueblo SD Rolls Out WiFi for 1:1 Program
Pueblo School District No. 70 in Colorado has deployed a WiFi network across three of its schools to support the district's 1:1 computing initiative and to support various mobile devices used in the district. The deployment was handled by WiFi developer Xirrus....
Washington District Ramps Up High-Speed Access
In an effort to bolster its technology infrastructure for teaching and learning, Highline Public Schools in Burien, WA is rolling out high-speed services in 35 locations. The new network services, which include Qwest GeoMax and Qwest Metro Optical Ethernet, are being funded through E-Rate....
Van Dyke Public Schools Deploys NetOp Software for Master Control in Classroom
After two years of working with NetOp School, the Van Dyke Public School System in Michigan has gone public with details about its installation of the software, which lets teachers control and interact with classroom computers....
ASTD International Conference & Exposition 2008
http://astd2008.astd.org
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David Lindsay Donald (20 July 1933 – 3 October 2016) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Northern Districts from 1957 to 1961.

An opening batsman, David Donald had his best season in 1958–59, when he scored 382 runs in the Plunket Shield at an average of 38.20. Only two players scored more: the Test captain John Reid and Northern Districts' number four, Bruce Pairaudeau. Donald made his only first-class century in the match against Canterbury, which was one of only four centuries in the competition that season. Considered for the Test team,  he was selected for North Island in the trial match against South Island towards the end of the season, and although he made 71, the highest score of the match, he was not selected in the two-match Test series against England that followed.

Donald also played Hawke Cup cricket for several North Island teams in the 1950s and 1960s, including Waikato during their championship defence in 1957–58.

He and his wife Margaret had two sons.

References

External links

 David Donald at CricketArchive

1933 births
2016 deaths
New Zealand cricketers
Northern Districts cricketers
Cricketers from Palmerston North
North Island cricketers


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Q: catch sytem("cls") by child QProcess I am trying to capture the text output and input of child QProcess, now I need that whenever child use system("cls") I get notified so that I can clear my QTextEdit for displaying and taking child output
editProcess.h
#ifndef EDITPROCESS_H
#define EDITPROCESS_H
#include <QPointer>
#include <QProcess>
#include <memory>

class QPlainTextEdit;

// a Process with plainTextEdit as output and input window
class EditProcess : public QProcess {
  Q_OBJECT
public:
  explicit EditProcess(QWidget *parent = nullptr);
  QPointer<QPlainTextEdit> edit() { return m_textEdit; }
  ~EditProcess();
signals:

public slots:

private:
  QPointer<QPlainTextEdit> m_textEdit;

protected:
  bool eventFilter(QObject *, QEvent *event) override;
};

#endif // EDITPROCESS_H

editProcess.cpp
#include "editprocess.h"
#include <QDebug>
#include <QKeyEvent>
#include <QPlainTextEdit>

EditProcess::EditProcess(QWidget *parent)
    : QProcess(parent), m_textEdit{new QPlainTextEdit}
// zm_textEdit(std::make_shared<QPlainTextEdit>(parent))
{
  QObject::connect(this, &EditProcess::readyReadStandardOutput, [this]() {
    m_textEdit->insertPlainText(readAllStandardOutput());
  });

  QObject::connect(this, &EditProcess::readyReadStandardError, [this]() {
    m_textEdit->insertPlainText(readAllStandardError());
  });

  QObject::connect(
      this,
      static_cast<void (EditProcess::*)(int, QProcess::ExitStatus)>(
          &EditProcess::finished),
      [this](int exitCode, QProcess::ExitStatus) -> void {
        m_textEdit->insertPlainText(readAllStandardOutput());
        m_textEdit->insertPlainText(
            QString("\nProgram Finished with exit code: %1").arg(exitCode));
      });

  m_textEdit->installEventFilter(this);
}

EditProcess::~EditProcess() { kill(); }

bool EditProcess::eventFilter(QObject *, QEvent *event) {
  if (event->type() == QEvent::KeyPress) {
    auto keyEvent = dynamic_cast<QKeyEvent *>(event);
    if (keyEvent->modifiers() == Qt::CTRL && keyEvent->key() == Qt::Key_C)
      kill();
    else
      write(keyEvent->text().toUtf8());
  }
  return false;
}

mainwidow.cpp
MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
    : QMainWindow(parent), ui(new Ui::MainWindow) {
  ui->setupUi(this);

  auto p = new EditProcess(parent);
  p->edit()->setParent(centralWidget());
  p->setProgram(
      "test.exe");
  p->start();
  qDebug() << p->errorString();
}

if I call system("cls") from child process now, nothing happens, QTextEdit remains same, I didn't notice any change