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Margaret Spellings: Back In The Heart Of Texas
Just announced from Texas: Former White House Domestic Policy Advisor and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is leaving her consulting firm and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she leads the education work, and heading back to Texas to become President of the George W. Bush Institute.* From this morning's press release:
"Spellings will oversee all aspects of Bush Foundation activities, including leadership of the George W. Bush Institute, management of George W. Bush Presidential Center business operations, and collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
The appointment of Spellings, one of the nation's premier thought leaders in public policy, marks a new stage of development for the Bush Center's policy arm, the Bush Institute."
It's a significant move, both because of what it means for the direction of the institute and also because Spellings has been a big presence on education policy in Washington since arriving in 2001. I caught up with Spellings to discuss the move, what it means for her, the institute, and Texas footwear:
You've been doing a lot of impactful work with the Chamber of Commerce and through your consulting firm, why the move?
All good Texans eventually get back to Texas and this is the perfect way to do that. It is terrific to work with the President and Mrs. Bush to advance the issues we care so deeply about — education, economic growth, global health and human freedom to name a few. I am also thrilled to be making my next professional home on the campus of an outstanding university in SMU.
What are your goals in this new role?
The fabulous new facility — library, institute and museum — give us amazing convening power to draw attention to our core work and to the major issues of our day. My goal is to make the Bush Center the "go to" source on our key areas and to have people see the programming we develop as reasoned, serious and compelling. I hope we will contribute in positive ways to informing key issues and develop serious thinking on the areas of our work around the core values of freedom — freedom from tyranny, freedom from illiteracy and freedom from disease as well as the freedom to pursue the American dream.
President Bush has pretty much stayed out of policy and political debates since leaving office, but you're a pretty influential policy player, does this signal a shift?
We are all known more by our acts than by our words and I hope our record with our work will speak for itself. Folks in public service like the President and me do so because we want to make a difference in the world and I believe this forum is a great way for both of us to do that.
Speaking of politics, you're heading back to Texas, should we look for your name on a ballot at some point?
Well, first I want to get my name on a voter registration card. Right now my bandwidth will be fully spent on my new assignment.
What will you miss most about Washington?
I will miss the many friends and colleagues I have had the chance to work with on both sides of the aisle and in many disciplines. I love the pace and intensity of Washington and will miss that too.
What will you miss least?
The traffic!
And now that you're back in Texas you won't be able to dodge debates like this: When it comes to boots, is your choice Lucchese or the Justin brands?
Whatever boots are made for walkin…
*BW's Sara Mead has done a small amount of consulting for the institute on school leadership and BW has done several research projects on ed policy questions for the U.S. Chamber.
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The Valley of Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry and the Aldudes comprises five municipalities : Ossès, Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry, the Aldudes, Banca and Urepel.
Only 10 mins from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, this valley offers the opportunity to discover the region's traditional gourmet cuisine. Its proximity to Spain also offers breathtaking panoramic views that can be enjoyed along the many hiking trails.
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The Valley of Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry and the Aldudes is made up of the municipalities of Ossès, furthest to the west, Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry, Banca, Aldudes and Urepel. The Nive des Aldudes river runs through the valley, over 34 km before joining the "big" Nive (the main river) in Saint-Martin-d'Arrossa.
Renowned gastronomy
The Valley of Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry has achieved the remarkable feat of regrouping 3 of the 4 Protected Designation of Origin labels (AOP in French) that exist in the northern Basque Country. The entire valley is part of the AOP Ossau-Iraty sheep's milk cheese area. The cheese produced by valley farmers is made from the milk of the Manex red head or Manex black head sheep. The village of Aldudes is home of the AOP Kinto ham. This ham is made from the Basque "pie noirs" pigs, commonly found in the valley. Last but not least, the village of Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry is the land of the AOP Irouléguy wine cooperative. The AOP Irouléguy label covers 15 municipalities between the valley of Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry and the Pays de Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
The valley's villages
The village of Ossès, like others in the valley, is known for preserving its beautiful "Bas-Navarrais" style houses. In Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry, you will find the Etxauz Château, a reminder that the village once belonged to the Kingdom of Navarre. From the roman arch bridge, you can admire this stronghold of the Etxauz lords from the 11th to the 19th century. The villages of Banca, Aldudes and Urepel have the particularity of being founded by the youngest sons of families from Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry. Originally land only used for summer grazing, the young men decided to turn the "bordes" (shepherds' huts) into year-round dwellings.
Border villages
The Valley of Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry and the Aldudes possesses many roads into Spain. The Ispéguy Pass, above Saint-Etienne-de-Baïgorry, provides access to the Spanish valley of Baztan. There are many traditional villages to discover, such as Arizkun, Erratzu, and Elizondo. From the Eznazu quarter, in the Aldudes, or from the village of Urepel, you can take the road to Pamplona. Make sure to stop at the village of Eugi, to admire its lake.
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Copper and iron mines in the village of Banca were exploited from Roman times up until the middle of the 19th century.
Goicoechea artisanal Pottery
Goicoechea artisanal Pottery in Ossès is one of the must-visit places. The pottery made by rope is particularly impressive.
Goicoechea Pottery
Banka Trout
The Banka Trout fish farm was founded by two of the village's inhabitants. Still today, the breeding and processing of the fish is done using traditional methods.
The Pays Quint
This pastoral zone, above the village of Urepel is THE place to go if you want to wander through the summer pastures of the Manex sheep.
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Luxury private guided tour. Experience a luxurious stay in the Icelandic countryside, a private tour combining adventure and relaxation. Stay at the 4 star Hotel Rangá resort in the south of Reykjavík for 2 nights and explore the surrounding area with private jeep tours. Take a journey off the beaten track with an expert guide to spot the must-see features of our homeland's majestic landscape and of course with hope of catching a glimps of the Northern Lights.
Arrival from the UK in Keflavík. You will be picked up at the airport by your private driver who will take you to Hótel Rangá.
The Aurora Borealis are an enchanting spectacle in Iceland's skies. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Northern Lights dancing across the night sky, and is just as amazing as you can imagine. The Northern Lights are best seen between 9 pm and 2 am at night. After an exclusive dinner at the hotel, go hunting for the lights outside. The hotel is ideally located, away from the city lights, so you have a much better chance to seeing the Lights as vividly as possible. You can even enjoy the end of the evening in the outdoor Jacuzzi.
Explore the South of Iceland by taking a whole new path! Pick up from the hotel in the morning for a private Super Jeep tour along the South Coast with your expert guide. You will see wonderful views of the Icelandic mountains and stop by many amazing natural wonders, our local guide will find the best place for the day depending on weather and road conditions. Depending on weather you will visit some off the beaten track locations like Landmannalaugar, Þórsmörk, Hekla or Eyjafjallajökull volcano with stops at Seljarlandsfoss, Skógarfoss and Dyrhólaey Peninsula if time allows. You will have packed lunch somewhere along the road. On your way back to the hotel, look out for the Northern Lights in the evening.
Enjoy dinner at Hótel Rangá.
The Golden Circle is a fascinating experience. You can walk around the world-famous Geysir geothermal area, a geothermal field where hot springs are in abundance. You will also stop by the magnificent Gullfoss waterfall and visit Þingvellir National Park, the original site of the oldest existing parliament in the world, and where the Mid-Atlantic rift is clearly visible.
After a day of sightseeing your guide will drop you off at your hotel in Reykjavík in the evening where you will spend your two nights in a luxury 4 star hotel.
The day is yours to explore Reykjavík. Reykjavík is an exciting modern city with lots to see and do. Relax in one of the many spas and swimming pools or book one of our fantastic day tours such as whale watching, snorkelling and caving. We will send you plenty of suggestions of what to do with your free day including the "must see's" in the city.
You will be picked up by the private driver in the morning to go to the airport. On the way you will stop by the Blue Lagoon for a relaxing spa, before you head to the airport for your trip back to the UK.
Note: If you have an early morning flight back you may be able to visit the Blue Lagoon on your arrival day instead. We will advise of where this can be fitted in to suit flight times.


Banco Santander, S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides various retail and commercial banking products and services for individual and corporate clients worldwide. The last earnings update was 56 days ago. More info.
BSD2 outperformed the Banks industry which returned -25% over the past year.
BSD2 underperformed the Market in Germany which returned -4.5% over the past year.
Banco Santander is good value based on earnings compared to the DE Banks industry average.
Banco Santander is good value based on earnings compared to the Germany market.
Banco Santander is good value based on assets compared to the DE Banks industry average.
Banco Santander's earnings growth is expected to exceed the low risk savings rate of 0.2%.
Banco Santander's earnings growth is positive but not above the Germany market average.
Banco Santander's revenue growth is expected to exceed the Germany market average.
Banco Santander's earnings growth has exceeded the DE Banks industry average in the past year (16.5% vs 5.5%).
Banco Santander used its assets more efficiently than the DE Banks industry average last year based on Return on Assets.
Current annual income from Banco Santander dividends. Estimated to be 5.42% next year.
If you bought €2,000 of Banco Santander shares you are expected to receive €87 in your first year as a dividend.
Banco Santander's pays a higher dividend yield than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in Germany (1.44%).
Banco Santander's dividend is above the markets top 25% of dividend payers in Germany (3.67%).
Banco Santander has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years and during this time payments have been volatile (annual drop of over 20%).
Banco Santander has only been paying a dividend for 9 years, and since then dividends per share have fallen.
José's remuneration is higher than average for companies of similar size in Germany.


This double-slipper Glass Mosaic Copper Bathtub is truly a work of art. The antique copper finish contrasts beautifully with the mirror mosaic pieces that are intricately inlaid into the exterior. The detailing on this piece ensures that it will be the shining focal point of any bathroom.


Websites usually contain graphics and visual elements that make the web pages look more user-friendly and easy to use. Buttons, Arrows, Icons, and many other design elements use images in order to give the website a certain desired appearance.
The problem is that each image on the website is loaded through a standalone HTTP request, and each request needs some time in order to be established, send the request metadata, wait for the server to process the request, and eventually receive a response from the server. This is done in a matter of milliseconds, but when the page contains many files and images to load, those milliseconds add up and cause a longer page loading time.
Image Sprites is a technique used in CSS in order to reduce the number of HTTP requests on a page. It's simply done by combining most of the static background images on the website in one big image that's called Image Sprite!
For example, some sites have buttons that have different icon backgrounds that change shape or color whenever the user hovers over them; this is a common CSS styling task. So, instead of styling each button with a separate background icon image file, those icons can be placed in a bigger image sprite that would serve as a common background image for all these buttons. The idea of image sprites is to simply align images in one big image sprite, whether horizontally or vertically, whatever makes sense to you. In the CSS, the same image sprite will be loaded for different selectors and classes as a background-image, and each element will be set to different background-position X and Y values.
Fewer HTTP requests, which means less server overhead.
Fewer HTTP requests also means reduced page load time on browser.
Images appear faster (Especially the hover state images) because the Image Sprite is loaded once and for all.
More development time for slicing images, combining them, and programming background positions in the CSS.
Less SEO friendly. Some images are better be placed in the HTML rather than being backgrounds. HTML images can contain Titles and Alternative texts that are more beneficial to SEO, while CSS backgrounds cannot.
If you have any comments or questions about Image Sprites or reducing the HTTP requests on a page, please leave them in the comments section below.
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We worked with TriCrest Homes, LLC of McLean, VA to create the kitchen and bath cabinets in this beautiful new home. Every amenity is included, and the builder's attention to detail is clearly on display.
Kitchen renovation featuring La Cornue range, Decor Cabinetry, and 42" Sub Zero.


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Madison Charney (* 5. Oktober 1994 in Brooks, Alberta) ist eine kanadische Skeletonpilotin.

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Madison Charney stammt aus Brooks (Alberta) und spielte Eishockey, ehe sie auf Rat ihrer Mutter Skeleton ausprobierte. Sie gab im März 2011 ihr internationales Debüt beim letzten Saisonrennen im Skeleton-America's-Cup 2010/11 in Lake Placid und wurde dort Elfte. Bereits in ihrer zweiten Saison erreichte sie bei ihren sechs Starts (von acht Saisonrennen) im America's Cup 2011/12 ausschließlich Platzierungen zwischen 2 und 4 und wurde damit in der Gesamtwertung Dritte hinter Cassie Hawrysh und Randee Brookes. Bei den Juniorenweltmeisterschaften 2012 in Igls wurde sie Zwölfte. Auch in der Folgesaison startete sie im mittlerweile umbenannten Nordamerikacup und konnte in Whistler ihren ersten Sieg feiern. Sie belegte zudem zwei zweite Ränge und sonst Platzierungen zwischen 5 und 9, womit sie beim Gesamtsieg von Jane Channell den zweiten Platz im Endklassement erreichte. Auch 2013/14 startete Charney im Nordamerikacup und wurde nach einem dritten Platz auf ihrer Heimbahn in Calgary und Rängen zwischen 4 und 9 in den übrigen Rennen erneut Gesamtzweite, dieses Mal hinter Elisabeth Vathje. Bei der Junioren-WM 2014 belegte sie den neunten Rang.

Zu Beginn der Saison 2014/15 wurde Madison Charney erstmals kanadische Meisterin. Nach einem Sieg im dritten Saisonrennen des Nordamerikacups gab sie mit einem 19. Rang in Lake Placid ihr Weltcup-Debüt. Trotz Platz 10 im zweiten Saisonrennen in Calgary nahm sie nicht an den weiteren Weltcuprennen in Europa teil, sondern startete in der Folge im Intercontinentalcup, wo sie bei den letzten beiden Saisonrennen in Calgary zweimal Zweite wurde. Bei der Junioren-WM in Altenberg belegte sie den elften und vorletzten Platz.

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 Ergebnisse bei the-sports.org (englisch)

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Military electronics is a comprehensive umbrella term that covers a wide range of systems.
Casualties are an inevitable part of any military conflict, as Americans have constantly been reminded by this country's involvement in Iraq. Effective military electronic systems can help to minimize those casualties, however, by providing what at times may be just a split-second edge, but enough of an advantage to save a life.
Military electronics is, of course, a comprehensive "umbrella" term that covers a wide range of systems, from the traditional ground-based, airborne, and shipboard radar systems that are the roots of this industry to advanced communications and surveillance equipment and electronic-countermeasures (ECM) systems that provide early detection and response mechanisms to an enemy's presence. The armed forces have long supported the development of such systems as separate entities creating, for example, communications systems that would not always network effectively between branches of the military. More recently, however, the different services have recognized the need for teamwork in the form of joint development programs.
One of the more ambitious of these joint development programs is the joint US Army/DARPA program known as Future Combat Systems (FCS) that would be networked across all military services. The basic concept of the FCS is to provide a soldier with access to a total of 18 different systems, including advanced manned vehicles and unmanned robotic reconnaissance vehicles/sensors, so that the soldier's own senses are effective extended into hostile regions without putting that soldier into harm's way. Simply put, the program intends to wage future battles with robots rather than humans. Obviously, the program's advanced systems will heavily leverage proven RF/microwave technologies for remote control and communications within the network.
DARPA is current managing the FCS Concept and Technology Development phase of the program. Once the program enters into the System Development and Demonstration phase, the US Army Program Executive Officer for Ground Combat Systems will take responsibility for systems integration, production, fielding, and sustaining the systems.
The program represents a true practical application of electronics technology to the military in that it should increase the mobility and tactical capability of the individual soldier while fulfilling the "prime objection" of keeping casualties to a minimum. Although the cost of the project was originally estimated at about $92 billion, a reassessment of system needs has added about 25 percent more to this total. Still, the loss of a robot or unmanned vehicle will always be insignificant compared to the loss of a single human life.


Eleven people have filed Petitions seeking the Democratic nomination for Mayor.
Eliot Spitzer may be the only man in the history of Albany ever to pay for it, but compared to Anthony Weiner that doesn't seem pathetic at all.
The other day I saw a couple of guys with a Weiner sign carrying nominating petitions in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall.
"You want me to sign that thing?" I asked. "Yes" they replied enthusiastically.
Apologies for the staleness of some of the items. If it gets any worse, not even C-Town will stock them.
I've been otherwise occupied, and it's been nearly three weeks since I've cleaned out my Facebook posts—not that there are many of them. FWIW, I'm doing it for posterity, since many have probably gone stale.
You gotta hand it to Dubya's eye for talent.
After reading Andrea Peyser's latest falafel-bash disguised as a screed against "political correctness," I was tempted to joke that she may be the most successful developmentally disabled person in the State of New York.


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Leicester Riders' Josh Ward-Hibbert in action at the Morningside Arena (Image: Joe Pinchin/Leicester Riders)
Leicester Riders and LeicestershireLive are giving you the chance to win two tickets to the next home game against Cheshire Phoenix.
The three-peat British Basketball League champions are preparing for an important run-in towards the end of the season including on March 29 at the Morningside Arena against the Phoenix.
And you could be there to support them.
Just answer the five questions on the form below about the most recent home game against Newcastle Eagles on March 15 and general knowledge on the Riders players to be in with a chance of winning.
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Entries close at 12pm on 20 March with the winner contacted shortly after and if no response is received by 22 March, a new winner will be chosen.
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Barb and I first met in a spin class in 2009. She was the instructor and I was the sweaty, out-of-breath student attempting to get in shape for my wedding. At the time she also owned and operated a PR/Marketing firm. I coveted her knack for entrepreneurship and natural ability to maintain a high RPM. However, neither of us could have predicted how her perseverance or steely determination would set the course for events yet to come.
Jude was first diagnosed with ALL at 18-months, around the same time that Barb also found out she was pregnant with her second child. As a parent, I can't even begin to imagine the devastation, heartbreak, and uncertainty associated with this disease. If my little boy scrapes his knee, the easiest fix is a colorful band-aid and a kiss. For Barb, the fix is not so easy. Jude's diagnosis means transfusions, spinal taps, bone marrow biopsies, chemotherapy, and endless hospital stays.
Barb and family are troopers through it all and somehow manage to maintain high-spirits. Despite successfully battling cancer, Jude had a relapse in early January of this year. As a result Barb and her family recently relocated from Tucson to Minnesota to ensure that Jude could obtain the best care possible.
Jude received a bone marrow transplant in late May of 2015 (in addition to numerous other prior treatments) and since then, she and her family have been doing all they can to ensure his comfort and recovery. In between hours spent in the hospital away from her husband and younger son, Barb takes the time to manage her own business and keep everyone apprised of Jude's progress. Somehow she's also found time to build awareness for Be the Match, an organization dedicated to finding marrow donors.
If anyone understands the weight, importance, and beauty found in every hour, minute, and millisecond of life, it's Barb. It's impossible to properly describe in a blog post all that she has gone through and all that she continues to sacrifice for the health and well-being of her family. All I know is that Barb seeks out or makes a break every chance she gets. It's time she actually received one.
I dedicate my #BreakYouMake moment to Barb and family. Anything I can do to lighten the load they bear would be time well spent.
Who would you nominate for a break?


This paper describes the determination of the levels of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), calcium (Ca) and iron (Fe) in the toenails and fingernails of children under the age of six years in urban and rural areas in Kenya by atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Lead levels in urban areas ranged from 8.0-49.0 μg/g in fingernails and 7.0-62.0 μg/g in toenails as compared to those in rural areas (5.0-36.5 μg/g and 5.5-31.5 μg/g, respectively). A similar trend was observed for Cd where significantly high levels were found in children in urban areas than those in rural areas. The Fe and Zn levels were significantly higher in children in rural areas than those in the urban areas. The levels of all the metals studied were higher in the toenails except for Fe and Ca where the levels were higher in fingernails; however, the difference in the levels was not significant. These results indicate that either the toenails or fingernails can be used as a reference for levels of metals environmental exposure.


A stunning wedding proposal this was. Happening on the Pincian hill in around sunset. The conditions were perfect as we arrived and soon after the big question was being asked in front of a stunning view of the roman rooftops. Such a big surprise followed by so much joy and happiness!
This great feeling of bliss followed us all through the engagement session which followed by car around the city. After capturing some nice photos around Parco del Pincio we moved over to Piazza di Spagna and continued photographing as we walked over. The Spanish steps were so bright and sunny and provided some nice backdrops to our photography session.
We then hopped in the car and headed to Giardino degli Aranci to continue our photo shoot. First we captured some nice pictures by the water fountain found at the entrance of the park. As we were walking along we also noticed some nice shadows on the wall and used them to compose a nice set of photos.
Then the stunning view of the cityscape from the terrace which was left mainly to ourselves. On our way out we drove by the Knights of Malta doorway to capture a quick glimpse of Saint Peter's dome in the distance.
We reserved the last rays of light for the Roman Colosseum. A majestic location which completed this wonderful engagement photo shoot. Ending with a ride to dinner planned at the Taverna dei Quaranta in Rome. But not before capturing the last image of the engagement ring!
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The big question popped in Rome Italy. On the beautiful Pincian hill overlooking the city skyline. A stunning wedding proposal followed by an elegant engagement session around the surroundings.


Wow---the past couple months have just flown by for us as we've been so busy! Like many homeschoolers, we school year round---but we don't usually get a good start until about May. Summer and Fall are our best seasons for doing some really fun schooling, so I've been busy preparing new lessons and ordering new books to get us ready to jump in here soon! In the meantime, we've been taking fun field trips and hanging out with some of our homeschooling friends. All these busy, running-around days are fueled by a nutritious breakfast. One thing our family enjoys for a healthy breakfast is Carnation Breakfast Essentials.
I found Carnation Breakfast Essentials in the breakfast cereal aisle at Walmart. It comes in Classic French Vanilla and Rich Milk Chocolate. Make sure to grab some milk to mix it into.
Lynzie or Michael often makes breakfast in the mornings and they like to do special things to make their siblings smile. These are quick and easy for them to surprise everyone with, and they're also great for the younger kids to make themselves, as they just need to open one up and mix with milk. When I'm making this for the whole family, it's easier to mix up a pitcherful.
Our Carnation Breakfast Essentials fuels us for fun days like our trip to the fish hatchery last week, and staves off morning hunger while the kids are hitting the books. With all the things I have to do each morning to get prepared to start our day, it's nice to have a quick and convenient breakfast drink to get me going, also.
Are you familiar with the Carnation Free Breakfast promotion? Carnation is celebrating 50 Years of Breakfast Across America by giving back to their customers. Just buy any two Carnation Breakfast Essentials products, take a clear photo of your entire receipt, and text with keyword BREAKFAST to 811811. You'll get a message back with submission instructions and then, after submission, a code to share with friends and family for free breakfast!
You can also email your receipt to redeem@CarnationFreeBreakfast.com or upload your receipt to http://cbi.as/7qnt. Even better, Carnation will donate $25,000 to Feeding America to help those in need through June 30th. It's a win for all of us!
How do you get your mornings off to a good start?
I am always looking for quick, easy, healthy breakfasts. Thank you!


There's a tremendous backlog in enterprises for developing mobile apps, and it's only getting worse. A Gartner survey warns that by the end of 2017, "demand for mobile app development services..
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Clegg's 'kingmakers' will do more harm than good for more than a million
17th April 2015 by Spear's
The Lib Dems want to strike at a 'series of distortions, loopholes and excess reliefs' – landing SMEs, investors and shareholders with significantly higher tax bills, say Hugo Smith and Guy Broadfield
After holding the balance of power in the 2010 election, Nick Clegg has, in launching his party's manifesto, boldly asserted that the Liberal Democrats may again become 'kingmakers' on 7 May and announced that a Lib Dem government would 'ensure those on the highest incomes make a fair contribution' to society. Two of their key manifesto pledges are likely to have a major impact on small and medium sized business owners (SMEs), as well as ordinary investors.
The Lib Dems are proposing to increase the rate of tax on dividends for higher rate and additional tax payers by 5 per cent, up to a top rate of 47.5 per cent. The proposal will affect more than a million shareholders and raise an additional '1.2 billion each year.
While not only being an increased tax on investment income (an apparent return to the investment income surcharge of the 1970s), the apparent aim of the policy is to reduce the tax saving available to business owners who pay themselves through dividends rather than by way of salary. This would limit a significant advantage for smaller, owner managed businesses. It would also discourage the creation of family investment companies.
This possible rise in income tax is matched by a reduction in capital gains tax reliefs. Possibly most concerning for business owners is a proposal to scale back entrepreneurs' relief, which allows business owners on exit to pay capital gains tax at a rate of only 10 per cent (rather than 28 per cent) on profits of up to '10 million. This is one of the most valuable reliefs for SMEs, and has increased significantly in recent years.
Finally, it is reported that a Lib Dem government would also attempt to raise '700 million more each year by reducing the capital gains tax annual exemption from '11,100 to '2,500, impacting not just SMEs but all investors and shareholders who will face higher capital gains tax bills.
The Lib Dems view these rules as a 'series of distortions, loopholes and excess reliefs that should be removed', but in reality they have been valuable tax reliefs for owners of SMEs. These manifesto pledges come at a point when SMEs have weathered difficult economic times and with the upturn in the economy owners may now wish to exit, but could now be faced with significantly higher tax bills.
Given these proposals are designed to fund the Lib Dem promise to increase the personal allowance to '12,500 by 2020 (a key manifesto commitment), such tax changes will be likely if the Lib Dems are to return – in one form or another – to Number 10.
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Game Design Deep Dive: The Spinning Plates approach of Bomber Crew
November 28, 2017 | By Dave Miller
More: Console/PC, Indie, Programming, Design, Video, Deep Dive
Deep Dive is an ongoing Gamasutra series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game, in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren't really that simple at all.
Check out earlier installments, including maintaining player tension levels in Nex Machina, achieving seamless branching in Watch Dogs 2's Invasion of Privacy missions, and creating the intricate level design of Dishonored 2's Clockwork Mansion.
Who: Dave Miller, Co-founder of Runner Duck Games
My name is Dave Miller; I'm a co-founder of Runner Duck Games, a two-person indie studio based in Brighton, UK. I handle the artwork, half the design and a tiny bit of programming. We've been going since the beginning of 2017, and have recently released our first title, Bomber Crew on PC.
I've been developing games since I was a kid, starting with Deluxe Paint and AMOS on the Amiga. I was a massive fan of Cannon Fodder by Sensible Software, fascinated by how attached I felt to these sprites that were just 16 pixels tall. I used to practice making simple clones in the same art style but with Star Wars or Akira characters.
Jon (The other half of Runner Duck) and I met in 2011 while working at Relentless Software. A few years later, we found ourselves working on F2P mobile puzzle games, which we felt was an uninspiring experience, and far from what had originally attracted us to making video games as kids. So we built a prototype of Bomber Crew in our free time and sent out a simple 30-second pitch video and a brief email to every publisher we could find. Soon after that we signed with Curve and made the jump to being indie developers!
What: Keeping the player engaged with decision making
While Bomber Crew may have a cute, sugar-coated appearance, the heart of the game is inspired by the incredible and somewhat brutal experiences of aircrews in WWII.
On a typical sortie, the crews may have had to endure hours of steady cruising and scanning the skies for threats, before sudden moments of intense action and crisis, as an enemy aircraft appears out of nowhere and rakes the bomber with gunfire. While the latter part of this scenario makes for engaging and exciting gameplay, the prolonged waiting around part doesn't, so we had to think of ways to keep the player occupied continuously.
Another challenge we faced was keeping the core focus of the game on the experiences and stories of the individuals in the crew. The temptation to allow the player to jump in and aim the gun turrets or steer the aircraft was present, but that would have reduced the crew to mere vessels for the player, rather than living, breathing characters that the player would grow attached to through their triumphs and tragedies.
We addressed these problems by implementing various systems that provide the player with quick and straightforward interactions to maintain all the 'spinning plates' that they're presented with. The intention was to keep the focus on the decisions made by the player both before and during the missions, rather than simply relying on the player's skill in a particular mechanic.
Crew Station Controls
We needed a simple way to allow the player to make decisions without making the crew redundant. For the most part, we achieved this by putting any controls for the aircraft behind a station that must be occupied by a member of the crew. For instance, to call for a Spitfire escort over the radio, the player must have a crew member at the radio operator's station in order to access the button that does so. Likewise, the landing gear can only be raised by selecting the crew member occupying the pilot's station. This approach increases the challenge if a crew member is incapacitated, as the player must begin to move the remaining crew around the aircraft - which in turn reinforces that the crew is the focus of the game.
While a crew member will operate any station at a basic level (aim and fire guns, fly the aircraft level), we always give the player decisions to make for each station, for example, a gunner can be ordered to use incendiary ammunition which, when timed right will make quick work of a group of attacking Messerschmitts. It was important that any control we give to the player is achievable in a few clicks, so their attention is not taken away from the crew as a whole for too long.
The Tagging Mechanic
In our initial prototype, the gunners in the crew were almost entirely autonomous, firing on enemies as soon as they can in range. While more realistic, this made the player feel helpless and removed from the threat of attacking fighters. Allowing direct control of the turrets would break the core of the game's design, so we needed another solution.
We devised a system that would allow the player to feel more engaged by the combat element of the game. Our solution was the tagging system. By hitting a button, tagging mode is toggled – a slightly zoomed-in view with a large reticule, which when hovered over an incoming threat for a few moments, will tag it and therefore order the crew's gunners to open fire on it. It feels a bit like aiming a gun, is a quick and simple interaction, and importantly doesn't take away the glory of shooting down an enemy ace from your crew!
Once we had this system in place, we found it as a great way to give orders to other members of the crew. For example, once you spot the bomb target, tagging it using tagging mode will order your pilot to turn the aircraft towards it and begin the bomb run. Its also used to direct the pilot towards headings that are plotted by the navigator.
The depth of gameplay during missions comes from learning how the systems of the bomber and the systems of the environment interact. Once these are understood, the player is continually given tough compromises to make, such as:
'Shall I order my tail gunner to stop a spreading fire in the tail, or leave him to defend against a pursuing fighter and put the rest of the crew at risk?'
'Should I order my pilot to fly beneath the clouds into heavy flak so the navigator can get his bearings, or risk wandering off course with insufficient fuel to return to Blighty?'
'My outer port engine is damaged! Should I send my engineer out onto the wing, risking a fatal fall in order to save the rest of the crew?'
As all the bomber's systems are controlled through the crew members, it was critical that we had a simple interface to allow them to be ordered to move between the various stations in the bomber.
Our solution was to allow crew members to be selected with a mouse click, then sent to a different part of the aircraft, or a particular station with another single click. To give the player feedback on where their brave engineer was about to jog off to, we show an orange line offering a preview of their route. If the player hovers the cursor over a station or equipment, we provide a highlight to show they will interact with it.
Over the first weekend after the game had launched, we received tons of great feedback from the community of players. From this, we were able to improve the crew management system by adding hotkeys for specific actions such as sending a crew member to the rest bed to recover health. We also added a 'slow time' function, so when the action gets too hectic for some players, they have the option of a little more time to think. The community's feedback has been invaluable for helping us focus on the right areas to improve.
The result of these systems is that Bomber Crew maintains its focus on the development of the crew, and the decision making abilities of the player. Our intention was always to create a game where the player becomes attached to the characters they recruit and train so that every moment of every mission matters.
In taking direct control away from the player and giving it to the crew, they remain relevant throughout the gameplay. The real challenge in doing this is to provide the player with the means to easily execute all the little choices that quickly stack up to make the difference between glorious victory or fiery disaster.
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Q: How to with CPack generate the WIX package? I used cmake 3.12.0. There are exists one cmake project that creates one console application. I add the ability of package generation to that cmake project:
# ... above cmake code for one console application creation
# below code that I add:

# pack
set (A_PACK_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY "${PROJECT_NAME} - CMake Assistant Solution")
set (A_INSTALL_PREFIX Consolas)

set(CPACK_WIX_PRODUCT_GUID "F9AAAAE2-D6AF-4EA4-BF46-B3E265400CC8")
set(CPACK_WIX_UPGRADE_GUID "F9AAAAE2-D6AF-4EA4-BF46-B3E265400CC7")

set(CPACK_GENERATOR "WIX")

include(CPack)

With other generators (NSIS, 7Z, ZIP, DEB) all works fine but with WIX appears followed error:

...path\files.wxs(11) : error LGHT0091 : Duplicate symbol 'Component:CM_C_EMPTY_INSTALL_ROOT' found. This typically means that an Id is duplicated. Check to make sure all your identifiers of a given type (File, Component, Feature) are unique.

Why it happens and how to fix it?

A: This appears to be caused by this bug
Basically you use add_subdirectory(xxx EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL) where the subdirectory has a install(... COMPONENT ...) call. The installed files are excluded from the subdirectory, but still creates COMPONENTs, which are now empty and break wix.
As a workaround, you can add:
set(CPACK_COMPONENTS_ALL Unspecified)

in CMakeLists.txt to exclude all the empty components.

A: If it helps any, I had this problem and found that I had INSTALL commands that specified only Release Configurations but then tried to build the package using the Debug build configuration. By just switching to building the package specifying the Release configuration all went as expected (Wasted most of an afternoon before I figured this out!)

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Q: Freebsd 7.2: View firmware version for disks? I'm running FreeBSD 7.2, with Seagate Cheetah (Model ST####) drives.
We are having some problems with the SCSI drives on these machines. Our vendor says that updating the firmware on the drives may fix the problems, and a firmware update did seem to fix some SCSI problems on another FreeBSD host.
How can I view the firmware version of these drives? I tried some tips from nixCraft, but nothing has worked so far. In dmesg, I see the Make and Model, but no firmware revision.
In Linux, this information is often in /var/log/dmesg (Although /var/log/dmesg is sometimes out of date), or I often find this information with something like sudo lshw -class disk, lshal or dmidecode.
Update: Wed May 26 12:00:09 PDT 2010
Well, turns out I was wrong. Or a little misled. 'dmesg' will show the firmware version, provided that the files at /var/log/dmesg.today and /var/log/dmesg.yesterday haven't been clobbered by the log rotation. I also didn't recognize that '0003' stood for the firmware revision.
# grep -i seagate /var/log/*
/var/log/dmesg.today:da2: <SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
/var/log/dmesg.today:da3: <SEAGATE ST3300655LC 0003> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device

The fields listed here are <"Make" "Model" "Firmware">.

A: Much like on Linux this data may be in your dmesg output (depending on your disk controller: a hardware RAID controller may not pass the firmware data through for an array).
If it's not you can install dmidecode from ports (sysutils/dmidecode) - that should get you what you need.  ipmitool is also an option, but probably less likely to get you the data you're looking for.
If you're using a hardware RAID controller your controller firmware will probably tell you what firmware the drives are running, but flashing the drives would be a different can of worms...


What Will You be Watching on Superbowl Sunday?
While many of us will be getting together with friends to watch what should be a great game between the Raven and 49ers, Pennsylvania police will be watching-YOU.
You can expect a heightened police presence on the roads this weekend with police anticipating drunk drivers, especially on game night. One of the problems caused by these law enforcement efforts is many innocent people get swept up in the wave. With the officers on "the lookout" for DUI, anybody who they suspect, even if the driver is simply sleepy rather than drunk, will most certainly get arrested.
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This week, I was lucky enough to have a thirty-minute window when I could pop into my favorite independent bookstore in Los Angeles. They have a large children's section on the second floor that I love perusing because they do an excellent job at getting new books.
On one of their displays sat El Deafo by Cece Bell. Intrigued first by the illustration of a superhero bunny and second by the title, my immediate thought was "What is this book about and who is this written for?" As if by fate, a children's book worker looked up from her task of stocking new books and said "Oh that's a really cute story. I highly recommend it." I inquired about the reading level and she said it could be from fourth grade to middle school. Opening it, I was stoked to find out it was a graphic novel. Sold. It may be one of the best impulsive $20 I've spent of late.
I read this book in two days. It follows the author's childhood experiences of being deaf, and specifically highlights her experiences in school. What captured me was the depiction of how people treated her and, since it's from Cece's point of view, how she felt. Her emotions come through strongly in the text and illustrations, and made me stop and think about how I treat people even if my intention is good. I connected with Cece's superhero persona, "El Deafo." Cece uses El Deafo to imagine the ideal way to handle tough situations, even if that doesn't play out in real life (something I did as a kid too). What I really loved about this book was how the author depicted her friendships with the other kids (the good and the bad). It reminded me that children can sometimes do really mean things but that most of the time they mean well and can be really amazing friends to each other. It's a lesson I need to carry for the school year.
Cece's journey starts at the age of four and ends in fifth grade, so as a fifth grade teacher, I'm very excited to bring this graphic novel to my classroom. I think the students will enjoy this book and learn a lot from it. I believe that it will carry lessons of tolerance and respect for those who are hearing impaired, and prepare my students with tools (Don't cover your mouth while someone is lip reading! Don't assume all deaf people can sign!) to create meaningful and comfortable experiences with someone who can't hear well.
EL DEAFO is one of the best books I've read all year. Everyone I know who's touched it has loved it!
I really enjoyed this book. I'm so glad I have been hearing about so many people who are discovering it! I've already recommended it more than once.


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The four members of the Auner Quartet met in 2013 during their studies of chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The strong chemistry between Daniel Auner (violin), Barbara de Menezes Galante Auner (violin), Nikita Gerkusov (viola) and Konstantin Zelenin (violoncello) led the four to continue their concert activities after completing their studies. And with great success. Driven by the desire to further explore and expand the sonic possibilities of this formation, the fixed line-up of the Auner Quartett was formed after several concerts in Vienna. Auner Quartett have been selected as NASOM "New Austrian Sound of Music" act 2020-21.
Evgeny Sinaiski, piano
Born into a distinguished musical family in St. Petersburg in 1973, Russia, pianist Evgeny Sinaiski has carved a unique niche as one of the most sought after and highly respected chamber music partners and pedagogues in Europe. Professor of chamber music and an official accompanist at the Vienna Conservatoire.
Concert program:
Joseph Haydn: String quartet Op. 33, No. 3 in C major ("The Bird")
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
online concert
online concert was recorded in the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna
Auner Quartet
Evgeny Sinaiski
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Learning Disabilities and Dementia: Providing Effective Care for Those with More Complex Needs
The Elder Interview
Emma Killick – Director of Adult Services, MacIntyre
MacIntyre is a national charity that has been supporting people with learning disabilities for over 50 years. With research indicating that people with a learning disability are more likely to develop dementia, and earlier, there is a challenge to understand how best to provide effective care. We talked to Director of Adult Services Emma Killick about the importance of healthcare organisations and charities working together, rather than in specialist silos, to improve diagnosis and support for those living with learning disabilities and dementia.
What is MacIntyre's aim in supporting people with learning disabilities?
MacIntyre is a voluntary sector organisation set up in the 1960s by Kenneth Newton Wright, who had a son with Down's Syndrome. This was a time when people with learning disabilities were regarded as "ineducable" which I think is about the most damning thing you can say of any human being, and Ken Newton Wright was fundamentally opposed to that concept.
He believed that everybody could and had the right to learn, so the charity started life as a school. Over time our remit expanded to adults as well – but the essence that everybody should be supported to be all that they can be has always remained.
How has MacIntyre's work expanded to meet challenges of dementia in those with learning disabilities?
People's life expectancy, including those with a learning disability, is a lot longer now than it used to be, but along with that comes challenges regarding health issues – of which dementia is just one.
It wasn't something that we or indeed any other learning disability focused provider had ever really thought about, because it had not been an issue.
We support about 1000 adults across England and Wales, and about six years ago it started to come to my attention that there were people around the country asking for help because somebody that they were working with or knew was either receiving a diagnosis or suspected to be on the dementia pathway.
Local managers were saying, "We don't really know what to do here" and would ask health professionals, "Can you help us?" Invariably, those professionals would turn around and say, "I'm sorry, but we don't know anything about people with a learning disability so we don't feel that we can help you."
It became more and more apparent that we'd got ourselves into such a silo mentality that vulnerable people were falling through the gaps, and we had to do something about that.
I'd like to see us continue to develop our relationships with organisations whose primary focus is around supporting older people and those with dementia because working together is key. The country cannot afford to continue to work in silos.
What is different about dementia in someone with a learning disability?
One of the main challenges is actually getting a diagnosis. Typically one of the first things that people will notice is that somebody is forgetful, or getting confused. Or perhaps the person themselves will have insight, whether they admit it to other people or not, that something's not right.
Those things are difficult with someone with a cognitive learning disability because subtle memory loss and confusion isn't so apparent – and somebody might not necessarily have the ability to communicate that they forget things.
So, the things that need to get picked up on with a person with a learning disability and dementia are much more around behavioural or functional changes – in that somebody is no longer able to do something. This means though that their dementia has often progressed a lot further by the time it's picked up.
What is important in assessing those with learning disabilities for dementia?
What's key is that there is a baseline of what is normal for someone, so that changes can be plotted over time. If somebody is living at home with family, there's a consistency of knowing how somebody used to be and how they are now.
However, if you live with somebody, in any setting, you do subtly adjust to changes – and it might only be when something happens, or somebody comes to visit and makes a comment, that you think, "This is different."
And of course, we have a high turnover of staff in the care sector, therefore often that history is lost unless it is very clearly recorded somewhere.
You have to understand why a baseline is important and be able to track whether someone's moved away from that. Otherwise, GPs and memory services are not going to be able to help if you can't say, "This is what this person was doing six months ago, a year ago, two years ago. And this is what they're doing now."
I think my proudest achievement is that dementia isn't a taboo word within MacIntyre, whereas before it was something that people were concerned and anxious about, and didn't really want to talk about.
What kind of support does a person with a learning disability and dementia need?
Our staff have to slightly flip their way of thinking because what they will usually be looking to do is to increase somebody's independence so they can take as much control as they can over their life.
When somebody has dementia there's deterioration, and sometimes it's fairly slow and gradual, and sometimes it can be like somebody's fallen off a cliff edge. All of a sudden, they've lost skills and abilities that they had, and everybody has to adjust to a new reality.
Our staff have to shift towards less facilitative, and more caring support in that sense, but in a way that still enables someone to do as much as they can.
Therefore, we have to work with staff on things like using pictures and symbols to show what's inside that cupboard or behind that door. The member of staff might say, "But the person knows what's behind that door." However, they might not know what's behind the door next month or in six months, and therefore, need to learn that the photograph represents what's behind the door while they are still able to.
That can be hard for staff who can feel that it's disrespectful. But we have to be able to positively plan for the future even when that future might mean that somebody's losing certain skills.
It means getting over some of the barriers and myths. I think my proudest achievement is that dementia isn't a taboo word within MacIntyre, whereas before it was something that people were concerned and anxious about, and didn't really want to talk about.
For more information, follow MacIntyre on Twitter HERE.
To follow Emma on Twitter, click HERE.
What percentage of the people that you help have a dementia aspect to it?
Because of the age of the charity, we have a bulge in our demographic of people in their 40s and 50s, who are at risk. We know this because we know people with a learning disability are more likely to develop dementia and to develop it earlier. The relationship and correlation between having Downs Syndrome and risk of developing dementia are well-documented.
The number of people who actually have a diagnosis is slowly increasing, but it is still a tiny number, the number of people with suspected dementia is higher than that, but the amount in the at-risk category is quite huge. I would say it's probably about a third to half of the adults that we support.
We're trying to raise awareness across the board that from 30 onwards, you really need to be thinking about this baseline assessment, especially if you're supporting somebody who has Downs Syndrome.
When someone has a learning disability, will they always understand what a dementia diagnosis means?
There's a spectrum when we talk about people with a learning disability from people with profound and complex needs, who are not going to understand the concept of dementia – to others who actually have quite a mild learning disability, and do understand if we put it in a way that rings true.
These conversations have to happen on some level though. We can't ignore this because people notice things. Whatever their level of learning disability, people are attuned to changes within themselves, and in other people.
We've created easy read materials as has the Alzheimer's Society, but the key will be how it's used. It makes so much more sense when somebody else talks you through it, and diagrams and photographs are important.
There are also books out there to help. Karen Watchman, for example, has created some great stuff, and Books Beyond Words are also useful – we use Ann Has Dementia quite a lot, just as a means of having a conversation.
And if you live with somebody and their behaviour is changing, the responses are going to be those you would expect if you don't have an understanding of why they're changing – perhaps upset or annoyed that they're no longer doing their share of the housework. Or you might be embarrassed by some of the things that they do or say, so we have to talk about those too.
What would you like to see in the future?
I'd like to see us continue to develop our relationships with organisations whose primary focus is around supporting older people and those living with dementia because working together is absolutely key.
The country cannot afford to continue to work in silos. So, while there's always going to be something beneficial in the specialisation around supporting people with a learning disability, mental health issues or older people, there is valuable cross-learning and sharing that can be done.
That should mean that somebody with a learning disability gets an accurate, timely diagnosis and will then be welcomed in dementia services because people aren't going to say, "We don't know anything about that. I'm sorry, we can't help you."
If you start excluding particular groups of people because you don't think that you can meet their needs, then that's a dangerous path to go down. There are lots of groups of people where professionals could say, "Oh, that's new to me. I don't feel comfortable supporting that." We can't afford to do that, never mind the moral argument about whether it's okay or not.
This interview was part of a series brought to you by Elder, the company who can take care of all your loved one's live-in care costs. If you are looking for a live-in carer in the UK, Elder can help.
To help MacIntyre provide support to those with learning disabilites, you can donate HERE.
by Anna, Features Editor
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Dementia 2020 Citizen's Panel: Making Britain the Best Place in the World for Dementia Care
Commissioned by the Department of Health the Dementia 2020 Citizen's Panel gives people with dementia and their carers a chance to discuss the experience of living with dementia. We talked to Gareth James from the Dementia and Disabilities Unit about the aims for and importance of this wide-ranging initiative.
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We talked to Dr Julia Botsford about the questions and issues that cultural and ethnic differences can raise in the provision of support and the creation of services for those living with dementia and their families.
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Offering sight earns Oak Bay man award
CNIB volunteer recognized for more than 20 years of giving
Christine van Reeuwyk
Sep. 5, 2012 10:00 a.m.
Bob Carter of Oak Bay will get a queen's diamond jubilee award this September after more than two decades working with the CNIB.
The CNIB (formerly Canadian National Institute for the Blind) office on Richmond Road has a library named for Bob Carter. The annex is called Carter-Ainsworth. It's a tribute to Carter and his partner of 45 years Frank Ainsworth.
The weather drew them to Oak Bay from Toronto 22 years ago. They moved in July, and by November both were signed up with Oak Bay Volunteer Services. "When you're retired and relocate you don't have the friends you left, so you go looking for contact," Carter said.
Not long after, he was inspired by a longtime friend losing her vision to add the CNIB to his volunteer duties.
"Volunteering is a two-way thing," he said. "You meet so many people and get to understand their happiness and problems."
He started reading books onto tape – despite not being big on reading – and progressed to being a right hand document man for Phil Crowson.
"He's done a lot for me," said Crowson, who's in charge of intake and referral for Vancouver Island Regional District of the CNIB. "He'd read things from client files to me and helps fill in the client form."
As a sighted aide, he set up a file system and continues to organize those files for the busy Crowson, who nominated Carter for the award.
"It makes you appreciate your own situation. That you have your sight," Carter said. "Now they're changing the computers and systems so there isn't quite the need for sighted help there used to be."
There's still work for the sighted volunteers in creating welcome packages for the increasing clientele.
"He comes in now and helps me do mailouts and other things for clients," Crowson said.
"It gives me the opportunity to provide the best client services I can in a short period of time. … When I promise a client something I try to deliver it as immediately as I can, and Bob coming in on a regular basis allows me to do that."
The two decades of giving spurred Crowson to nominate Carter for the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
"He's very meticulous and very orderly, which is good because I am too. He's patient as far as working with me. … After 21 years, he knows what my expectations are and it's almost like we can read each other's minds sometimes. It's kind of scary really," Crowson said with a chuckle.
Carter's artwork of Egyptian eyes hangs at the CNIB office where he'll get the award in a Sept. 5 ceremony. It's a twofold honour for him.
"I'm a monarchist, I believe in the system. I believe it has purpose," he said. "The other thing is, it's just nice to be recognized."
More about the jubilee medal
The new commemorative medal was created to mark the 2012 celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal serves to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.
During the year, 60,000 Canadians will be recognized.
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Q: pagination and factory in laravel4 Consider this code taken from here.
 public function getIndex()
 {
     $posts = Post::orderBy('id','desc')->paginate(10);
     // For Laravel 4.2 use getFactory() instead of getEnvironment() method.
     $posts->getEnvironment()->setViewName('pagination::simple');
     $this->layout->title = 'Home Page | Laravel 4 Blog';
     $this->layout->main = View::make('home')->nest('content','index',compact('posts'));
 }

As I understand it, pagination limits the number of rows, so I think paginate(10) means select first ten rows in the database. But I absolutely don't understand this.
     // For Laravel 4.2 use getFactory() instead of getEnvironment() method.
     $posts->getEnvironment()->setViewName('pagination::simple');

or
     $posts->getFactory()->setViewName('pagination::simple');

And everything below. Mainly I don't understand what factory means and how it relates to pagination. I went to the laravel docs  on Illuminate\Pagination\Factory and Illuminate\View\View but I can't find the meaning of factory. Can anyone explain the code above?

A: You are essentially setting how the pagination is output in HTML by selecting a specific paginator view, this allows you to have more than one type in an application or use different to the default.

Using multiple pagination types in the same application
Sometimes, you may want to use different pagination types across your
  application. By default, Laravel will use the type specified in your
  app/config/view.php file, so you need to override this setting when
  you wish to use another type. Here is how to do so.

// This code should be in a controller or a route Closure.
// Let's use the good old example of a list of blog posts.

$articles = Article::paginate(5);

Paginator::setViewName('pagination::simple');

/*
Alternatively, you could also use this to achieve the same result:

$articles->getEnvironment()->setViewName('pagination::simple');

For those who would like to know what's happening under the hood, here is a more
detailed explanation:

1. Calling paginate() on an Eloquent model or a query builder will return an
   instance of \Illuminate\Pagination\Paginator

2. Then, we need to get the related \Illuminate\Pagination\Environment of this
   paginator via the well-named getEnvironment() method.

3. Finally, we can specify the pagination type we need. The default value is
   'pagination::slider'.

The pagination types that are available by default are located in the
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pagination/views directory.
*/

Source: http://laravel-tricks.com/tricks/using-multiple-pagination-types-in-the-same-application


With Memorial Day approaching we are gearing up for wedding season! This is the time to bring out the nautical dresses! I have included 10 options below from casual daytime to more formal evening dresses. Whether you are going to a small wedding on the beach or a big formal wedding at the country club there is a nautical dress for every summer wedding!
1. Lilly Pulitzer Sloane v neck maxi dress, $198 | 2. Kate Spade Tropez dress, $248 | 3. Kate Spade mariella dress, $398 | 4. J.Crew pleated knit dress in stripe, $128 | 5. Persifor Kilpatrick dress in baja sea fan, $198 | 6. Kate Spade Corley dress, $398 | 7. Donna Ricco Belted stripe matte satin dress, Nordstrom, $138 | 8. Kate Spade Elza dress, $448 | 9. Kate Spade Fiorella dress, $358 | 10.
Stripes Stripes and More Stripes YES PLEASE!
Don't they just scream SUMMER?!
I am in love with that ninth option! Wonderful picks!
Ugh so gorgeous! I am LOVING the Kate Spade Fiorella one!
I have number six and I absolutely adore it!
Jealous!!! It's the perfect dress for 4th of July too. Red, white, and blue!
I love anything nautical! Great post!


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I have spent the past two Sunday lunchtimes at the Curzon cinema in Soho, which is rapidly becoming one of my favourite places. They have been screening the Oscar nominated short films – live action last week, animated this week.
Considering each lasted no more than half an hour, and most came in under 15 minutes, I have a surprising amount to say about some of them… more than many "full length" films.
Click the titles for IMDB entries.
Pentecost – a funny and well acted story of an Irish altar boy in the 70s, obsessed by Liverpool FC and tasked with putting in the performance of his life at a high profile mass. Enjoyable, but very WYSIWYG.
Raju – a German couple travel to India to adopt an orphan. In a highly predictable scene the boy disappears in a busy market, plunging his adoptive parents into turmoil. What happens next does however surprise, and leads to an impossible dilemma. The director successfully captures the chaos of the situation, both physically and emotionally. This was my choice for winner on every count – story, significance and film-making.
The Shore – a tale of a broken friendship through the Northern Ireland troubles. One of them is back in town and looking to reunite…. I wonder what might happen? Highly predictable, though in an engaging and at times amusing way. For me this was the weakest of a strong field. What's that? It won the Oscar? Shows what I know.
Time Freak – the only American entry and (I'm sure coincidentally) the most accessible, the "Freak" of the title has invented a time machine but becomes obsessed with perfecting his role in minor day-to-day encounters. A simple idea that certainly spoke to this obsessive compulsive perfectionist… I definitely wouldn't cope with time travel!
Tuba Atlantic – Oskar is told he has days to live and wants to send a message to his disowned brother on the other side of the Atlantic. Helped along by his personal angel of death. Who is still in training. And he's got a thing about seagulls. Utterly bonkers, but kind of sweet.
Dimanche / Sunday – I loved the "flat" style of the animation, but that's all I did love. To be honest I didn't understand what was happening, and neither did my two friends. Could all three of us have just been a bit thick?
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore – a hurricane sweeps Morris to a mysterious house inhabited by flying books, for which he becomes custodian. I spent the first half thinking "this doesn't really make sense", but then was utterly charmed by the second half. The animation of the books was spot on and couldn't fail to make me smile. It reminded me a lot of Up, but there are many other influences that those more cine-literate than me would spot. Hardly complex, but my favourite… and this time the Oscar judges agreed with me.
La Luna – Pixar have done some amazing shorts over the years, most notably the hilarious For The Birds. Oh, and the one with the clouds…. I might need to get the Pixar DVDs out. But La Luna… sorry, didn't do it for me. Young boy taken to work with his father for the first time, and it turns out his dad does something clever with the sky. Technically excellent, and probably works well for kids, but not much more.
A Morning Stroll – the only British nominee, and as the screening was introduced by its director/producer who seemed like a nice chap I was probably pre-disposed to liking it. A chicken and a New Yorker go for the Morning Stroll of the title – actually they go three times, with each stroll altering our view of what is really happening. The use of animation is the best of the nominees, and if I weren't a sucker for the charm of The Flying Books it would, and perhaps should, have been my winner.
Wild Life – something to do with an Englishman moving to Canada and his struggle to settle in, plus some kind of metaphor involving a comet. I didn't get this one at all… answers on a postcard.
This has really opened my eyes to shorts… Given I come out of almost every cinema trip thinking "that could have been 20 minutes shorter", it's probably fair to say I have a short attention span. But not every story or idea needs two hours, as these nominees demonstrate perfectly.
Ten films, almost all worth the short amount of my life they consumed (just under 4 hours total), for two £7 tickets. A pretty good return on investment in my book.
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Ifill tops up for two more years
WELLINGTON Phoenix FC has received a huge boost ahead of its match against Perth Glory on Sunday with confirmation that star striker Paul Ifill will remain in black and gold till at least the end of the Hyundai A-League 20011/12 season.
The British-born Barbadian international has been a revelation for the Phoenix this season after joining the Wellington club from Crystal Palace, stamping his mark on the Hyundai A-League with a series of sublime performances that have propelled the Phoenix into a playoff position.
The 30-year-old has scored four goals in 12 matches for the Phoenix - the most recent in his side-s 3-0 midweek demolition of the Newcastle Jets - and has laid on plenty more for his teammates with his canny skill and high work rate.
Ifill said the decision to activate his one-year option and to extend his contract by a further year was a simple one.
"It was very straight-forward and there was very little to talk about. It wasn-t a case of more money; it was more about securing more time in Wellington and I-m really pleased that it-s done.
"There were other clubs in the market but the Phoenix showed faith in me and, given my injury record in England, brought me here. I want to reward the club for that faith by staying in Wellington and playing a role in getting the team into the playoffs this season. When the club let me know they wanted me there was only one place I was going to be."
Ifill felt the move to Wellington and the Hyundai A-League had reinvigorated his game and his passion to play top-flight football.
"I-ve not enjoyed football like this for years. The last time would have been back in 2004 when I made the FA Cup final with Millwall. We-ve got a great bunch of lads here in Wellington and I-m one of the elder statesmen. It-s nice being able to help the younger guys like Costa Barbarouses and Marco Rojas. You can see the ability the young guys have got and it-s great for players like myself and Greenie (fellow British striker Chris Greenacre) to help in their development."
Making the decision even easier for Ifill was how well his partner, Elle, and their three-year-old daughter, Romy, had settled in the New Zealand capital.
"They love it here and that makes my life so much easier. Elle looks after everything at home and all I have to go out and do is play football, so it-s not much to ask. The club-s made it so easy for us and I was conscious that if I moved I might not find a great bunch of people were have here, from the players and coaches to club management and the fans .
"From top to bottom, the club and everyone involved with the Phoenix been brilliant."
With his playing future secured, Ifill is now looking forward to continuing the Phoenix-s superb run of form at home with a win against Perth. Victory will propel the Phoenix into the top four and cement their title aspirations.
"Now I want to concentrate of getting us into the playoffs. I-m pleased with my own form and the team is playing really well. We-ve got 14 games left, so lets push into the finals."
Phoenix chief executive Tony Pignata said Ifill was a player in demand by other Hyundai A-League clubs but that his decision to re-sign was testament to what the Phoenix had to offer as an organisation.
"To be able to bring a player like Paul here and to see him enjoying playing in the Hyundai A-League is fantastic for the club and the competition. We had identified Paul as a recruitment target before the start of this season and (coach) Ricki Herbert and I spoke to him when we visited the United Kingdom.
"It took plenty of work but it was great to get him over here and he-s clearly shown his worth. Paul-s a player with that special X-factor, he-s settled extremely well and he-s shown what he can do - every time he gets the ball he-s exciting."
Ifill gets his chance to continue his league-leading form when the Phoenix host Perth Glory at 5pm NZDST (3pm AEDST) at Westpac Stadium on Sunday.


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Socialist Fight statement on Israeli massacre at Great Return March.
01/04/2018 by Ian
Socialist Fight condemns the massacre of 17 Palestinians and the wounding with live ammunition of a further 773 as at the time this statement is written. This massacre is being directed at unarmed civil rights marchers on the Great March of Return, an initiative from below of many Palestinian refugees imprisoned in the Gaza open air giant concentration camp, to break out and return to the homes that they or their parents were driven out of in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that has been underway in the ongoing Naqba since 1947.
We welcome that Jeremy Corbyn was able to at least tweet that the massacre was 'appalling' after being challenged by Socialist Fight supporters among others on why he had said nothing for a day and a half while the killing went on. Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, for instance, tweeted to condemn the massacre 15 hours before Corbyn. The reason why is obvious: the vicious campaign to smear the Labour left and comrade Corbyn himself as anti-Semitic has had the intended effect of intimidating some on the left into reluctance to stick their necks out to condemn Israeli crimes.
Particularly as the aim of the march was for Palestinian refugees to claim en masse a right that the United Nations, in particular, says they are entitled to by law. The right to return to the homes they were driven out of at the time of Israel's creation through mass pogroms and ethnic cleansing, that drove out more than two thirds of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine and produced an artificial Jewish majority by the simple expedient of expelling the rightful majority.
What Corbyn did not do, however, was defend the right to return. Nor did he call for any actions against Israel to try to help the civil rights marchers achieve their aim. He just called for a new 'peace' initiative. But sparse as it was, it was better than the disgusting statement of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which said that Israel was defending its borders against HAMAS and their use of 'human shields'. A disgusting excuse for a massacre, as many pointed out. Video footage has emerged showing teenagers being shot in the back by snipers while running away, and even women crossing fields in full Islamic dress being shot down without mercy by long-distance snipers.
Meanwhile, within Labour, neither Progress, the Jewish Labour Movement, nor Labour Friends of Israel have said anything to condemn the massacre, nor anything about it at all. It is obvious why, since they all defend the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, when Palestinians seek to peacefully reverse this by returning to the homes that were stolen from them, the only answer they have is shootings.
Blairite MP Stella Creasy is one of the few on the right who have said dared to say anything about the killings. She complained that the violence was not 'proportionate' but also that 'nations have the right to defend borders'. But that is what this march is about; denying Israel's right to exclude refugees driven into exile in pogroms from returning the homes they were driven away from. Israel has no right to defend any border against its victims. This is a mass based march of the victims of ethnic cleansing to do what the United Nations says they have the right to do: return to their homes.
So the result is that Creasy, along with the entire pro-Israel contingent in the Labour Party, ultimately must support the use of deadly force to keep the Palestinian people out of the parts of Palestine the Israelis stole by force. Which is all of it. Creasy is actually more honest than for instance Emily Thornberry, who herself has said that anyone who denies Israel's right to exist has no place in the Labour Party.
Thornberry's statement, as Shadow Foreign Secretary, is bland and evasive, merely calling for Israel to show 'restraint' and avoid 'further loss of life'. But she also appeals for 'both sides', and the 'international community as a whole' to 'come together' and 'end the cycle of violence' through the 'two state solution' which of course would deny the Palestinians the right to return that they seek and which they are entitled to according even to the UN. Apart from the fact that everyone knows that Israel will never agree to allow any sovereign Palestinian state to exist.
As Marxists, and even as consistent democrats, we are fully behind the demand of the marchers for the Palestinian right to return. Anything less is a betrayal of simple democracy. Israeli hands off the Gaza marchers! Bring the killers to justice! Critical support to the BDS campaign that seeks to mobilise international solidarity with the Palestinians' struggle for equality! For permanent revolution and a multi-ethnic workers state of Palestine from the River to the Sea, part of a socialist Middle East.
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Viriato says:
Many people commenting on the news of the massacre denounced this horrible crime and pointed out the responsibility of Netanyahu and those who support him, the imperialist power's, first of them, the US imperialism.
Among them, a certain number of Jews who denounce both "the extreme right-wing Israeli government as the far right drift of the CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France) and its militia, the LDF (Jewish Defense League)".
Among the politicians who protested were:
The french version of J.Corbyn, Jean Luc Mélenchon who has made the following statement by Tweet.
"Condolences to the families of the Palestinian marchers murdered in #Gaza. The boundless violence and cruelty of the Israeli government deliberately ignites an unlimited fire. Blue helmets must be deployed."
Coquerel MP of Les Insoumis has declared
"Israeli army kills 16 Palestinians and injures hundreds in #Gaza? The UN says "moved" & France "worried". This molesse of reactions to a government that flouts international law, oppresses and massacres a people, is an indignity and a fault."
Another "Insoumis" MP, Clémentine Autant, has declared
"More murders of Palestinians. Netanyahu's impunity must end!
The path to peace for Palestinians and Israelis implies an end to the colonization and oppression of the Palestinian people."
Nathalie Arthaud of Fight Struggle (LO) has tweeted:
"#GreatMarchReturn #Gaza : The State Army of #Israel responds with massacre to the legitimate protests of the #Palestinians : Spoliations, #colonization, repression.#Zionism is a bloody dead end for both peoples !"
and even Benoît Hamon, ancient candidate for President and today head of "Generation S" a group around himself, has tweeted:
""Tragic escalation of violence against Palestinians. The "march home" mourned by the death of 12 demonstrators shot dead. The Israeli right and far right continue their policy of the worst."
Philipe Poutou of the NPA blames the "Israel State" of the "massacre".
Crissy says:
Son of a gun, this is so hefulpl!


Drawing after a photograph in a New Scientist article about the archaeological discovery in Turkey of game tokens from the early Bronze Age, 5,000 years ago. I wonder about whether this marks a significant shift in the production of artefacts away from the utilitarian or ritual manufacture of individual objects towards the production of multiple, identical artefacts for a system of exchange. Here the exchange is abstract and playful, but these tokens seem to predate money (Wikipedia dates commodity money to 3,000 years ago and representative money significantly later)? Game pieces as tokens in a ludic pre – economy.


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Q: Pyinstaller distributing opencv from Windows 10 to Windows <10, missing ucrt dlls api-ms-win-crt I have a Python 3.5 64 bit program (required by tensorflow for Windows) that uses OpenCV. I am distributing it with pyinstaller.
I built my program with Windows 10
/c/Python35/Scripts/pyinstaller -c DeepMeerkat.spec

On my computer, the .exe builds and runs perfectly. On any other non-Windows 10 machine
On
import cv2

Returns

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

I can see a huge amount of discussion on this on pyInstaller thread,
but I can't quite tell how to put it into practice. Dependency walker says I'm missing a number of DLLs
api-ms-win-crt-**.dll

Okay, from the pyInstaller threads, I know that these DLLs exist
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt\DLLs

Under multiple subfolders base on architecture.
I tried adding to my .spec file
pathex=["C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Redist/ucrt/DLLs/"],

Or for my particular architecture
pathex=["C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Redist/ucrt/DLLs/arm"],

Which is what I thought was being suggested here

"Install the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10 and
  expand the .spec-file to include the required DLLs, see "Distributing
  Software that uses the Universal CRT" in the above-mentioned link,
  number 6."

That did not have any effect. I am getting hundreds of errors like
121472 WARNING: lib not found: api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll dependency of c:\python35\DLLs\_ssl.pyd

But I can see that DLL here
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt\DLLs\arm

So then I literally copied posthoc the entire folder
cp -r "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Redist/ucrt/DLLs/" dist/Lib/

But it's not clear how to connect these to the .exe. Clearly, letting pyInstaller know beforehand is preferable.
I also tried
/c/Python35/Scripts/pyinstaller --path "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Redist/ucrt/DLLs/arm" -c DeepMeerkat.spec

And it still did not find them
I've also tried adding that folder to PATH. Any ideas?

A: If you would have provided your spec file I'd could see what's going on. From here its likely your not including files.
There is two methods to go from here:

*

*Create "one" single file that includes all dll's, pyd files and more... a large exe-file as result.

*The other way is to have it as file + folder filled with dll files, etc... you get a small exe-file.

Check add binary (incl. dll) files here the pyinstaller documentation about including files manually.
Check add data files here the pyinstaller documentation about including files manually.
An example spec-file that includes dll files from your dll folder.
block_cipher = None
     a = Analysis(['minimal.py'],
                  pathex        = ['/Developer/PItests/minimal'],
                  binaries      = [ ( 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt\DLLs', '.' ) ],
                  datas         = [ ('helpmod/help_data.txt', 'helpmod' ) ],
                  hiddenimports = [],
                  hookspath     = None,
                  runtime_hooks = None,
                  excludes      = None,
                  cipher        = block_cipher)
     pyz  = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data, cipher = block_cipher)
     exe  = EXE(pyz,... )
     coll = COLLECT(...)

A: I need to do this myself but haven't yet.  I'll try to post my full solution when I do.  In the mean time...
I think you may have to explicitly request they be included instead of just expanding the search path.
https://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/spec-files.html#adding-binary-files
Probably using the Tree class they mention to collect all the files for you.
https://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/advanced-topics.html#the-tree-class

A: I've seen PyInstaller and Py2exe fail to pickup dlls countless times.  Personally, I wrap my uses of them in batch or bash for a number of reasons to extend what they do.  Logically, I see an argument for wrapping them in py scripts themselves...
Anyway, it may be easier to just copy the dependencies into your installation package through a wrapper script rather then fight with this.
Typically, you'll get a dll missing error thrown at you when try to run something it's missing.  Add each one manually to the directory, noting what you needed to include yourself.  Then script that.