If you're like me, you're constantly coming up with ideas that you think could make a great app.
And if you're like me, you don't have the skills to turn those ideas into actual code.
Today's AAAD post is something new - it's a guest post, provided by Michael Kordvani, Chief Editor at Fueled.com.
Full disclosure - this is NOT a paid post.
I don't have any relationship whatsoever with Fueled.com - not an employee, or a client.
I'm just a lawyer/tech blogger who is interested in the idea of app development.
In today's age of technology and devices it's no wonder that so many people and businesses are turning towards app development. The benefits are endless, as it allows you to not only expand your business but to also create one using apps.
It's not just businesses who can benefit from app development. Having your very own app - whether that's a tool, a game, a camera filter and the rest, will only serve to help you earn money or expand your current venture.
Once you've decided that you do indeed require an app for whatever it is you're doing we can move to the very important question.
How do you get an app developed?
There are many different ways but the main three are explained below. Of course you could be a brilliant computer programmer in which case you could write and develop your very own app yourself. If you're not a master coder then let's look at the different routes you can explore.
Freelancers are gaining a lot of popularity due to the flexibility of being able to outsource work on a contract to contract basis. This is especially useful for small startups or individuals who require work done but can't afford a full-time employee.
You can find freelancers for just about anything you could need, including a wide range of skilled people who have the skillset and title of being an app developer. Simply go to a website such as Upwork or Freelance and you can post adverts for your requirements. You'll then get a list of applicants that you can interview and filter out until you have someone you want to progress your project.
It's worth agreeing a fee ahead of time rather than opting for hourly payment as costs could quickly spiral out of control. Setting up milestones and having a fixed-price is the best way to ensure you don't pay more than you should.
App development is big business. For some; it is their business. You can find dedicated companies who have a team containing graphic designers, an app developer (or three), marketing experts etc. These companies will usually offer different packages depending on your needs but you can rest assured knowing they are experts in their field.
By choosing to work with dedicated app development companies you can pitch them your idea, get feedback and discuss different features and growth potential and then relax as they do all the heavy lifting. You might end up spending more than you would for a freelancer but the peace of mind from working with a reputable, respected company is worth the extra money.
The last option you can look into is buying source code. This practice is frowned upon by some app developers and if you have absolutely no coding or graphic design skills then you'll still need to go the freelance or dedicated company route.
The idea is that you purchase the source code for an app. This means that you have the backbone of an idea which you can install onto a device. The next aim is to speak with app developers to discuss changing and adding features, completely editing all of the graphical elements and then eventually having an app which reflects your vision.
The benefit of doing it this way is that you'll save a lot of time and money with the initial development stage. Rather than hiring an app development team to build your app from the ground up; you can give them a working template which can be pulled apart and rebuilt accordingly.
There is no right or wrong way of getting an app developed. A lot of it all comes down to your needs and the idea you want implementing. You might find it much better to talk to a dedicated company that specializes in app development or perhaps you only need to tweak a few things here and there.
The app industry is still growing and evolving with a huge emphasis now on virtual reality. Despite a saturated market; there has never been a better time to get involved with app development.


Over the course of 12 years, Bold Print Design Studio created all of the Home Tour magazine covers. Additionally, we created all new ads for new clients. In all, we created hundreds of designs from business card sized through two page center spreads for the local real estate magazine. In 2018 Home Tour's owners retired and the magazine is no longer produced.


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21:08:39 Beware the Blunted Needle Track 1 Haunted
21:09:07 Up and Up Have Your Fill S/T
21:13:42 Mose Giganticus Bluff and Cover The Invisible Hand
21:15:21 Hostile 17 No Action 54 Whoa
21:18:41 Evan Greer and Friends Never Surrender Never Surrender
21:23:37 Agent Ribbons Chelsea On Time Travel and Romance
21:26:02 Paper Crocodiles Moonshiner Paper Crocodiles
21:29:30 Squirrel Nut Zippers Bad Businessman Hot
21:31:43 Hot Club of Detroit On The Steps It's About That Time
21:36:32 John Zorn Rokhev Bar Khokhba
21:39:12 Matthey Shipp String Trio Expansion Expansion, Power, Release
21:42:20 Jack Rose Linden Ave Stomp Two Originals Of
21:45:51 John Fahey City of Refuge III City of Refuge
21:53:35 Ravi Shankar Raga Shudh Sarang Rare and Glorious
21:59:12 The Two Funerals We're Still Alive Tell Yr Story 7"
22:03:28 Anna Copa Cabana New York Anna Copa Cobana Tour CD
22:05:16 Buzzcocks Sick City Sometimes Buzzcocks
22:08:15 The Damned Smash It Up Sessions of the Damned
22:12:16 The Gits Sign of the Crab Enter: The Conquering Chicken
22:16:57 L7 Time Bomb Hungry for Stink
22:18:52 Sonic Youth Teenage Riot Daydream Nation
22:25:57 Pixies Gouge Away Doolittle
22:28:17 Lungfish You are the War Feral Hymns
22:31:17 Joy Division Disorder Unknown Pleasures
22:34:47 The Fall Words of Expectation Kimble
22:44:06 The Ex and Tom Cora State of Shock Scrabbling at the Lock
22:51:47 The Lyres 100 ccs (bootleg version) Happy Now
22:54:54 7 Year Bitch M.I.A. Viva Zapata
22:57:26 Violent Femmes I'm Nothing New Times
23:00:49 Snuff Blue Gravy Blue Gravy
23:02:23 Man or Astroman Theme from Eeviac Man or Astroman
23:05:59 Sleater Kinney All Hands on the Bad One All Hands on the Bad One
23:07:53 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists The 11th Treble In
23:12:04 Bratmobile Yeah, huh? The Real Janelle
23:14:06 The Evens On the face of it The Evens
23:16:35 Against Me! Rice and Bread As the Eternal Cowboy
23:18:44 Screeching Weasel Teenage Freakshow My Brain Hurts
23:21:04 MISSION OF BURMA WOUNDED WORLD ONOFFON
23:24:56 Archers of Loaf All Hail the Black Market vs The Greatest of All Time
23:28:30 Alice Donut The Son of Disgruntled X-Postal Worker Reflects on His life While Getting Stoned in the Parking Lot of a Winn Dixie listening to Metallica Untidy Suicides
23:31:59 Mekons Never Been in a Riot Punk Rock
23:33:08 Q and Not U X-Polynation Power
23:35:52 NomeansNo Body Bag The People's Choice
23:40:38 The Donnas Police Blitz Turn 21
23:42:31 The Boredoms Anarchy in the UKK Chocolate Synthesizer
23:48:13 Melt Banana Iguana in Trouble Scratch or Stitch
23:50:31 Minutemen History Lesson The Punch Line
23:51:02 The (International) Noise Conspiracy Assassination of Myself The Cross of My Calling
23:54:33 The Cramps Creatures from the Black Lagoon Stay Sick
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The newest Batman animated movie will be called "Gotham by Gaslight." and it's based on the groundbreaking comic of the same name. Published in 1989, Gotham by Gaslight was an alternate timeline that threw Batman back in time 100 years, to crack the case of Jack the Ripper.
Right as Jerry is about to cry himself to sleep, Rick breaks down the door and drags a naked, confused Jerry out of bed, for the thing nobody thought would happen, a Rick and Jerry episode.


DD is essential in that he can easily sniff out the soldier inside the heavily-guarded base.
The highly-skilled soldier is located on the left side of Gate 2 at OKB Zero. He is heavily guarded and surrounded by three other soldiers (and more outside his area). You will be able to identify the soldier by the balaclava mask and helmet he's wearing. If you do go loud, be careful you don't kill your target.
If you approached from the western side of the gate (the secret path), you can approach and neutralize the soldiers that are behind him and grab the target.
If you have the Wormhole upgrade, extract him directly from the area then quietly exfiltrate the area using the red containers to fly out of there.


This year, the annual ACM conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), was held in Toronto, Ontario. The conference serves as a global summit of researchers, academics, and industry professionals in fields related to computer science, software development, user research, and interaction design.
At the conference, the HCI Games Group was involved in the organization of both a workshop and a special interest group revolving around the role of games and games research in the field of computer-human interaction.
You can find more information about the conference on the CHI 2014 website.


I am looking for a logo...Technologies Pvt Ltd. It is a complete IT Solution Company including Software Launch, Software/Website/Application Development, Digital Marketing, Graphic Design. Do not use any logo making software to create the logo, that person will be disqualified immediately. We are looking for pure creativity. All The Best.


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Q: Generic classes and Class Imagine we have a factory that creates object by its class. Question is - how to declare such factory for generic classes? For example, generic factory that can create Map<K,V> or List<T> or any other type. Of course, <K, V> Map<K, V> create() is not an answer.
If it is not possible, i'd like to know why from language design perspective.
EDIT: As mentioned by Marko, this question is really about compile-time type safety. How can i declare such factory to avoid warnings and manual casts?
Example:
import java.util.Map;

class Factory {
    public static <T> T create(Class<T> clazz) {
        return null;//some implementation here
    }
}

class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //works perfectly
        String s = Factory.create(String.class);

        //Type safety: The expression of type Map needs unchecked conversion to conform to Map<String,Integer>
        Map<String, Integer> map = Factory.create(Map.class);
        //How can we specify that T is Map<String, Integer> ?
        //Factory.<Map<String, Integer>>create(Map.class); - does not work
    }
}

A: A class literal expression only represents the raw type. You cannot post-hoc parameterize its referent because it is a constant whose type is already fixed. Therefore there is no way for you to transfer the type parameter information you would need to have the compiler infer the fully parameterized generic type.
A workaround which works for APIs such as Jackson is to have a TypeReference and capture all the type parameters by creating an actual subclass with the params specified, such as
new TypeReference<Map<String,Integer>>() {}

When you pass this to a create method, the compiler will be able to infer its generic type parameter. Reflection will even allow you to retrieve the parametrization at runtime—type erasure isn't as pervasive as often presented.

A: This is not possible - and the reason why, is that generics were implemented via erasure, rather than being reified.  The short version of this is that "generics don't exist at runtime"; they are essentially just used for type-checking during compilation.  So there's no such thing as Map<String, Integer>.class or Map<Long, List<String>>.class - there's just the object Map.class.
But on the plus side, an object can also only really be of class Map, because of erasure.  So if you construct an object of the raw type Map.class via reflection, and cast it to a Map<String, Integer>, then it is a Map<String, Integer> with all the same properties as if it had been created in the normal way.
The warning is correct, in that it's saying you're asserting generic bounds that cannot be automatically checked by the compiler.  This is unavoidable for the reasons above, and is not a problem in this case.  I would add a comment here, suppress the warning and continue.  I'm not aware of a better/cleaner way to achieve what you're doing here.

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Spencerio's letterforms are inspired by Spencerian-style calligraphy – which are usually written at a slope with a pointed pen. The natural state of each Spencerian stroke is a thin hairline; when the calligrapher wants to make a line thicker, she adds pressure to the nib. Sound easy? It takes years of practice for calligraphers to master the Spencerian style! Fortunately, designers can use this font instead. Spencerio helps make monogram design easy, and the font is a good selection for any application where a formal script is necessary, such as calling cards, diplomas, or wedding invitations. Spencerio's character set offers 673 glyphs, including ligatures and alternates for initial and final letters.


I am curious as to which version Mr. Savall recorded. I assume it I Süßmayr's?
It is the Sussmayr, although he reorchestrates much of Sussmayr's music, presumably on the grounds that he thinks he can do better himself.


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Very bad performance. I was asked to pay extra to the person who was providing me call through phone. He told me not to trade with SMSs received from Stocktaj. I lost Rs 23500/- plus 2500/- subscription.


Hi, have merged plasma 5.8.0, and while most things works as expected I cannot unlock the desktop again after locking it. It simply returns the message "Unlock failed", even when I enter the correct password. I do not use systemd. Any advice?
won t fix, i have read about it yesterday here in another post.
...a response which is wrong. It's not a bug specific to non-systemd use, there is just no graceful way to solve it when it happens (and it happens on systemd as well).
One thing that can trigger this is updating Qt, Frameworks or Plasma from within a running session. If this does not unlock ever for you, there's a different setup issue though - normally it would work, regardless of your init system.
KDE, working software. Pick one.
Btw, you mention emerging Plasma 5.8.0, yet we have 5.8.2 already as of yesterday.
It's certainly not the way it should be, but the fallback solution for kscreenlocker on systems without PAM.
Some people have issues with >=sys-libs/pam-1.2.1-r1 (filecaps does not work in some cases).
Does not change the fact that the screensaver is broken or with flaws.
Regarding your screensaver issue and back to your topic.
The xscreensaver is a basic packag which works usually. It has many features or more features compared to gnome / kde years ago. I have not used installed recent screensaver packages from these desctop environments. PErsonally I see those additional screensaver packages as lint / useless packages as the xscreensaver package is already provided and integrated.
I know the bug very well, the cause is not in kscreenlocker, but in the underlying stack. You keep talking about a screensaver where there is no screensaver. It's fine if you use xscreensaver, just be aware of its security issues.
If you had read the above messages, you would have seen that the issue is actually solved.
...you do read your own messages?


Design doesn't have industry-wide fixed costs for certain projects. But, you're likely reading this because you're considering hiring a Chattanooga graphic design agency and I want to make the quoting process more transparent for you. So, first I'll discuss what factors impact a quote and second I'll discuss average price ranges for 5 common design projects.
The size of the client. Agencies distinguish between three tiers: (1) global or national clients, (2) regional clients, and (3) local clients. As a client ascends those tiers, so too does the pricing. In other words, if you're a local Chattanooga business, you should expect fees substantially smaller than an international business.
The expertise of the designer. Many agencies employ graphic designers with a range of experience. The more senior a designer, the more we'll charge for their work. For local clients, agencies typically charge $50 per hour for junior designers and between $75 and $150 per hour for senior designers.
The complexity of the work. A good example is the difference between designing a brand new website and making tweaks to a website through ongoing maintenance. Most agencies will charge less for ongoing maintenance because it's not nearly as complex.
Estimated hours to complete. This one is a little tricky because very few agencies quote a project simply by tallying how many hours we think it will take and multiplying by an hourly rate. But, our time investment is still a consideration.
The value you'll get. Ultimately, design is a service industry (hence our name -- Serve.) The service we provide is to help your business overcome its challenges and grow. Thus, quotes are often impacted by the potential value you will receive from the completed project.
Cost of materials or outside services. In the course of the project, your agency may purchase font licenses, hire an illustrator to provide spot illustrations, or order custom tablecloths for your conference booth. Those expenses should be considered at the beginning of the project and included in the quote.
Just by looking at the list above, you can see why it's difficult to come up with fixed prices for projects. There are so many ways a project can get impacted by something unique that alters the quote. Still, there are average price ranges that can serve as a jumping off point so that you can know if the quote you received is generally in an acceptable range.
Web design project for a local architect.
Of all the projects we'll discuss, website pricing will vary the most. That's because each website is unique in its scope of work. How many pages does it include? Is it a static brochure site or does it include a dynamic content management system? What features does it include? How complex will the layout be? But, there is a general pattern websites tend to fall into.
One-page brochure site. One page websites are popular solutions for events (like conferences), landing pages for digital campaigns, and as a simple online "brochure" for small businesses. For local clients, estimate between $1,500 and $3,500 for design and development.
Five-page business site with CMS. For small businesses that don't need a lot of interactivity, a 5-page site is usually a great fit. Pages usually include (1) the home page, (2) about page, (3) services page, (4) contact page, and (5) a news or blog page. For local Chattanooga businesses, estimate between $5,000 and $10,000 for design and development.
Larger, interactive website. Due to the size of these projects, prices escalate quickly. It's likely that outside services will be required, like a copywriter, videographer, illustrator, or specialized developers that can integrate advanced features into the site. Estimate $10,000 - $20,000.
E-commerce websites. There are a lot of options when it comes to e-commerce. You can work with vendors like Shopify or BigCommerce and use a template for a fraction of the cost. But, using a template can restrict your site to a very limited range of options. Here, I'm speaking specifically about a totally custom e-commerce experience. For a regional business, estimate $6,000 - $25,000.
Logo design project for a local Charlotee Mason inspired school.
For local Chattanooga clients, estimate $1,200 - $10,000.
Nowadays, you can use online services like 99Designs or Fiverr to generate quick and cheap logos. However, the designers who participate in those services are often beginners and they're working under tight deadlines. I say that from personal experience. When I launched my graphic design career in 2013, I competed in over two hundred 99Designs contests in a year and a half. I just wanted the practice with real clients.
But, as designers gain experience, they will often leave services like 99Designs simply because it's not a system that benefits the designer and it's not a system conducive to professional logo design.
Go through a thorough discovery phase in which the agency gets to know you, your business, your goals, and your target demographic well. As I mentioned in my article on evaluating logo design, a logo is the visual identifier for your business. So, it's important to make sure the logo is meaningful and representative of who you are.
Work with an experienced designer who is well versed in fundamentals like color theory, typography, hierarchy, and composition. They will conduct thorough research of your industry, your competitors, and any meaningful references.
Evaluate highly validated logo concepts. Your agency will use mockups of real world applications to vet their ideas and only present you with the options that prove to be effective.
Receive high quality assets and an implementation guide. If you don't have a background in graphic design, some of the technical aspects can get confusing. Your agency will make sure to provide all the necessary files and a helpful style guide so that you can implement your brand consistently.
Print design project for a local home builder.
There are a lot of projects that would fit in this category. So, like we did with websites, let's discuss some of the common items design agencies produce. Keep in mind estimates are for design only and don't include printing costs.
Business Cards. Some clients don't need a full stationery set and just need a professional business card design. Locals should estimate $150 - $500.
Postcard/Direct Mail Campaign. To be effective, direct mail campaigns need to be done consistently for a long period of time -- usually a year. The design requirements may include variations of a postcard. Or, they may require an outer envelope, letter, reply card, and a reply envelope. Estimate $850 -$7,500 for a comprehensive campaign design. Estimate $150 - $500 for a single postcard.
One page flyer. If you need a web-ready PDF flyer or a flyer for print, the cost should be about the same. Estimate about $250 - $1,000.
Brochure. Brochures come in various sizes and folds. To keep things simple, let's consider a classic tri-fold brochure with 6 panels. Chattanogoa business should estimate $850 - $3,000.
For local clients, estimate $300 - $1,000.
Infographics have become a popular SEO tool. People are more likely to engage with and share about an infographic than they are about a long article. That sharing produces backlings, which signals to search engines like Google that your website is highly regarded. They then push up your site in organic search results.
Infographics can be space savers when you need to include a lot of content in a small space. This is especially true in the print world -- on brochures or on packaging -- where space is limited.
The pricing for icon design depends heavily on how large the set. But, for a basic set of 12 icons, estimate $500 - $1,500.
Immediate recognition. Because they're small and may or may not be paired with a label, icons should leverage universally shared visual language to communicate quickly (this may not be possible with abstract ideas). For example, a shield generally means protection or security.
On brand. One of the key values of custom iconography is that it matches your brand and reinforces it to the user.
Work as a set. Icons are typically designed as a set of multiples. So, it's important for them to feel cohesive with repeating patterns or rules. For example, the line widths or corner radius should be the same on most of the icons.
Simple. Most icons are range from 18, 24, 32, 48, or 64 pixels square. Even the 64 pixels is still very small. So, it's important to keep the icons as minimal as possible while still being recognizable.
Wow. Thanks for reading. This is a long article and I so appreciate the time you invested in it. I hope the estimates brought some clarity to the project you're considering. If it did, reach out and let us know about it. We'd love to work with you to get it completed.


Pick up from your Nairobi hotel or Airport in the morning at 7.30am and depart Nairobi for Lake Nakuru National Park through The Great Rift Valley arriving with game drive around 9.45 am until Lunch time at Flamingo Hill Camp where you will have your lunch.
Lake Nakuru is Kenya's most visited National Park. Located 160km and 2½ hours from Nairobi, the park is an important Ramsar site and home to thousands of different bird species.
Lake Nakuru is now the best place in Kenya to see the highly protected black and white rhino. Other animals found in the park include lion, leopard, flamingos, Egyptian goose, water buck, giraffe, hyena, buffalo, baboons, velvet monkeys, gazelles.
After lunch game drive until 3.30pm . Leave Lake for Nairobi arriving late in the evening. Drop off at your respective hotel or Airport.


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Loaf of bread costs $7 in Labrador | CBC News Loaded
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Loaf of bread costs $7 in Labrador
People in some Northern Labrador communities are paying more than $7 for a loaf of bread – at least one woman fears it's an indication that food prices are too high in northern Canada.
Politicians say federal Nutrition North Canada Program isn't working
CBC News · Posted: Apr 12, 2012 9:44 AM EDT | Last Updated: April 12, 2012
A loaf of bread in Rigolet, Labrador, for $7.09, this April. (CBC)
People in some Labrador communities are paying more than $7 for a loaf of bread, once again raising concerns that food prices are too high in northern Canada.
Charlotte Wolfrey, who paid $7.09 for a loaf of bread in Rigolet this week, is worried the cost of other food may also rise.
"Goodness, if a loaf of bread costs three dollars more, imagine what a dozen apples would cost?" she asked.
Wolfrey said she was told the bread cost more than usual because it was shipped in from Winnipeg.
Federal food program under fire
In February, politicians from across northern Canada, including Labrador, wrote a scathing letter to the federal government criticizing its Nutrition North Canada program.
They said the program, which is supposed to make healthy food more affordable in remote northern communities, has contributed to increased prices for many goods, has made it more difficult for people in the North to make personal food orders and has diminished consumers' ability to choose what they eat.
Politicians from Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Quebec and Labrador wrote the letter to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister John Duncan and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq.
"It is our view that the NNCP is not meeting its objectives in their entirety to ensure that nutritious foods and essential household products are more accessible and affordable to northern communities, homes and families," said their letter.
The Nutrition North Canada program (NNCP) replaced the Food Mail program, which gave transportation subsidies to lower the food prices to communities without regular road or marine access.
Under the new program, the subsidies go to retailers who negotiate freight rates for lower costs. Those savings are supposed to be passed on to consumers.
Since the change, prices for certain items have skyrocketed in many remote northern communities.
Nutrition North advisory board chair resigns
Nutrition North food subsidy program under fire
PHOTOS: $29 Cheez Whiz? High Arctic food costs


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For Novak Djokovic, a season that got off to a gloomy start is heading for a brilliant finish after he dismissed Juan Martin Del Potro 6-3 7-6(4) 6-3 to win the U.S. Open on Sunday and earn back-to-back Grand Slam titles.
But in the last eight weeks the 31-year-old has resembled the Grand Slam machine that held all four major titles at the same time in 2016, wining three of his last four events including Wimbledon and U.S. Open.
"If you told me in February this year when I got the surgery that I'll win Wimbledon, U.S. Open, and Cincinnati, would be hard to believe," said Djokovic, after pushing his career total to 14 Grand Slams to sit equal third with Pete Sampras on the all-time list.
"It's truly incredible when you think about it. I watched him win one of his first Wimbledon championships, and I grew up playing and thinking that one day I'll be able to do what he does.
Djokovic and Del Potro walked onto Arthur Ashe Stadium court with the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center still buzzing over the controversial women's final on Saturday, won by Japan's Naomi Osaka after Serena Williams incurred three code violations.
Del Potro's sole Grand Slam title came at the U.S. Open in 2009 and he said it had been an emotional journey back to the Flushing Meadows final.
"I was playing almost at the limit all the time, looking for winners with my forehands, backhands, and I couldn't make it because Novak were there every time.


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Until the end of 1996, most of the specifications related to HTML were elaborated and discussed in a single group, the HTML-ERB. As the workload was too high for a single group, it was decided to create three new, more focussed groups at the beginning of 1997: HTML working group, CSS&FP working group, DOM working group.
It was then felt necessary to create a structure that coordinates the work done in these groups and in some others which address related topics. Hence the Coordination Group, created in April 1997, confirmed by AC ballot in January 1998. The charter of this initial Hypertext CG expired in December 1998. During this period of time, the scope of the group broadened to encompass other activities such as XSL or I18N, not derived from HTML but related to other coordinated groups.
As the work in the coordinated working groups developed and the specifications produced by these groups matured, the need for coordination became stronger and a new charter was submitted to the Advisory Committee in December 1998 to continue the coordination work.
In July 2000, the second charter was extended for another 18 months. The charter has also been updated to take into account the creation of some new groups as well as some changes in existing groups.
In February 2002 the charter was extended again until the end of 2002 without any other change.
In December 2002 it was updated and extended until August 2004.
This working group develops the next generation of HTML as a suite of XML tag sets with a clean migration path from HTML 4.0.
Following the release of CSS2 as a W3C Recommendation, this Working Group seeks to extend and enhance CSS to provide greater accessibility, reusability, device independence and descriptive power for authors and users, and to track and maintain CSS implementations.
The XSL Working Group is chartered to develop a style sheet language for XML and other structured markup languages.
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Manitoba ER wait times hold steady, but still longer than Canadian average: report
Emergency room wait times at Winnipeg's hospitals held steady over the past fiscal year, according to the latest update from the Canadian Institute for Health Information — but waits at the now-shuttered ER at Concordia Hospital remained well above average.
90% of people waited 4.4 hours or less in Manitoba ERs in 2018-19, compared to 3.9 hour Canadian average: CIHI
Aidan Geary · CBC · Posted: Nov 27, 2019 11:02 PM CT | Last Updated: November 28, 2019
The latest report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information says Manitoba held steady in the last fiscal year on emergency room wait times. The Canadian average increased, but remained lower than the Manitoba number. (Darren Bernhardt/CBC)
The CIHI report shows ER wait times in Manitoba were consistent from 2017-18 to 2018-19, coming in at 4.4 hours in both years.
That compares to the Canadian average of 3.9 hours for 2018-19, according to the report.
At Concordia, waits were down to 5.5 hours in 2018-19 from 5.7 hours the year before. That was the second-worst ranking among reporting hospitals outside of Quebec — a province that includes 15 of the 20 hospitals with the longest wait times in the country.
This was the first year Quebec's hospitals were included in the CIHI report.
The 2018-19 numbers for Winnipeg include Concordia Hospital's emergency room, which was closed and converted to an urgent care centre in June, and the Health Sciences Centre, which moved from Winnipeg Regional Health Authority oversight to that of Shared Health in the spring.
Krista Williams, chief nursing officer and chief health operations officer of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, said emergency room wait times at the city's hospitals are considered on-par with the Canadian average for the first time since CIHI began reporting national numbers. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)
CIHI's figures are expressed as "90th percentile times," which peg how long it takes 90 per cent of ER patients to receive an initial assessment by a physician.
The overall Canadian average ER wait of 3.9 hours was up from 3.2 hours in 2017-18.
That increase helped narrow the gap between Manitoba's score and the Canadian average, which were close enough that the health organization ranked Manitoba this year as "average" compared to the Canadian figure.
CIHI's report ranks provinces' performance on key indicators as "same as average," "below average" or "above average."
Krista Williams, chief nursing officer and chief health operations officer of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, said this year is the first since CIHI started reporting that Manitoba has reached the "same as average" ranking, rather than "below average."
"This is good news, and I want to recognize the people who have been doing work across our system to make improvements in wait times," Williams said at a technical briefing for media on Wednesday.
"But I also want to recognize that we've got room to improve."
New numbers show rise in wait times at Winnipeg ERs, urgent care centres
Williams said she's confident the WRHA is on track to achieve its goal of meeting or improving upon the Canadian average by 2021.
How do the WRHA hospitals rank out of 230 reporting facilities for longest ER wait times?
Concordia Hospital — 16th-longest wait.
Grace Hospital — 32.
St. Boniface General Hospital — 39.
Seven Oaks General Hospital — 40.
Health Sciences Centre — 56.
Oct. wait times up compared to 2018: WRHA
The WRHA also released its latest monthly emergency room and urgent care centre wait times Wednesday.
In October, the health authority reported a 90th-percentile wait time of roughly five hours.
That's an improvement on the 5.3 hour wait in September, but worse than the 4.18 hours reported in October 2018.
At St. Boniface Hospital, the 90th-percentile wait jumped to 6.15 hours in October, compared to 4.42 hours in the same time period last year.
The time was, however, once again an improvement over September 2019, when St. Boniface reported a 6.78 hour wait.
Winnipeg ER wait times improving but still lag behind most Canadian hospitals: report
Williams said the increase in wait times Winnipeg hospitals saw earlier this year, compared to the numbers for the previous fiscal year, was likely due to nursing vacancies and major changes over the summer.
Those changes included the closure of the Seven Oaks and Concordia emergency rooms, which were both converted to urgent care centres.
"We have struggled with our wait times. I'm going to be honest with that," Williams said Wednesday.
"But we have the teams that are focused to make improvements, and I'm confident over the next several months that we are going to meet our target in 2021, and achieve or exceed the Canadian average for [emergency deprartment] wait times."
Here are the 90th-percentile wait times at Winnipeg hospitals in October 2019, according to the WRHA:
Concordia Urgent Care Centre: 5.3 hours (down from 5.78 in October 2018).
Grace Emergency Department: 4.87 hours (up from 4.53 in October 2018).
Health Sciences Centre — Adult Emergency Department: 5.42 hours (up from 4.13 in October 2018).
Health Sciences Centre — Children's Emergency Department: 3.53 hours (up from 3.1 in October 2018).
Seven Oaks Urgent Care Centre: 4.53 hours (up from 3.88 in October 2018).
St. Boniface Emergency Department: 6.15 hours (up from 4.42 in October 2018).
Victoria Urgent Care Centre: 4.9 hours (up from 3.39 in October 2018).
The health authority also released up-to-date information on nursing vacancies in the system. The overall nursing vacancy rate at all Winnipeg hospitals (including HSC) was 15.7 per cent as of Nov. 17, the health authority said.
The vacancy rate at all Winnipeg emergency departments and urgent care centres (including HSC) is 17.2 per cent.
WRHA below average on 10 indicators
Manitoba Health Minister Cameron Friesen said the province has hired 200 new nurses since June.
He also argued that maintaining steady ER wait times from 2017-18 to 2018-19 is a win, in the context of increased visits to ERs.
Emergency rooms and urgent care centres in the WRHA saw more than 337,000 people in 2018-19 compared to 284,097 in 2017-18, according to the health authority's annual report for the past fiscal year.
"Clearly, there is evidence in this latest data that Manitoba continues to go in the right direction," he said. "We know there is much more work to do. We accept the challenge of doing that work."
Health Minister Cameron Friesen says the province has set targets for improvement on the 10 indicators measured by CIHI where Manitoba performed below the Canadian average. (Austin Grabish/CBC)
NDP MLA Uzoma Asagwara said the numbers show there's been no improvement in Manitoba ER wait times.
"We're not seeing an improvement in those wait times, and that's disappointing and certainly concerning for those who are simply trying to access the best care possible in our emergency rooms," the Opposition health critic said.
Friesen said province has set targets for improvement on the 10 indicators measured by CIHI where Manitoba performed below the Canadian average. Those include a worse-than-average "hospital standardized mortality ratio."
The metric is used to track how successful hospitals are at reducing death. It compares the number of deaths in a hospital with the average Canadian experience after adjusting for factors including patient age, sex, diagnosis and length of stay.
Manitoba reported an ratio of 109. Hospitals in the WRHA reported an average hospital standardized death rate of 115, compared to the overall Canadian average of 97.
Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre had the second-highest HSMR among all reporting hospitals at 131, and was one of only three hospitals that reported a ratio of over 130.
The WRHA also ranked below average on these indicators:
Avoidable deaths from preventable causes: 147 per 100,000 people (Canadian average: 130 per 100,000).
Avoidable deaths from treatable causes: 88 per 100,000 people (Canadian average: 68 per 100,000).
Life expectancy at birth: 80.8 years (Canadian average: 82 years).
Life expectancy at age 65: 20.2 years (Canadian average: 20.8 years).
Improved physical function in long-term care: 29.9 per cent (Canadian average: 31.4 per cent).
Falls in the last 30 days in long-term care: 17.5 per cent (Canadian average: 16.7 per cent).
Experiencing pain in long-term care: 8.5 per cent (Canadian average: 6.7 per cent).
Obstetric patients readmitted to hospital: 3.1 per cent (Canadian average: 2.2 per cent).
Restraint use in long-term care: 10.1 per cent (Canadian average: 5.2 per cent).*
* The WRHA says Manitoba defines "restraints" more broadly than other jurisdictions, resulting in a higher provincial rate.


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The Fire Horse Girl
Kay Honeyman
Scholastic Inc
Chinese Folklore
Jade Moon is a Fire Horse - the worst sign in the Chinese zodiac for girls, said to make them stubborn, willful, and far too imaginative. But while her family despairs of marrying her off, she has a passionate heart and powerful dreams, and wants only to find a way to make them come true.
Then a young man named Sterling Promise comes to their village to offer Jade Moon and her father a chance to go to America. While Sterling Promise's smooth manners couldn't be more different from her own impulsive nature, Jade Moon falls in love with him on the long voyage. But America in 1923 doesn't want to admit many Chinese, and when they are detained at Angel Island, the "Ellis Island of the West," she discovers a betrayal that destroys all her dreams. To get into America, much less survive there, Jade Moon will have to use all her stubbornness and will to break a new path . . . one as brave and dangerous as only a Fire Horse girl can imagine.
A Coming-Of-Age Masterpiece
May 05, 2016 (Updated: May 05, 2016)
A captivating gem of a story—an absolute treasure. I hated having to put it down to attend to 'real life,' and relished the joy of picking it back up again.
"I could feel the beginning of the story gathering in her throat. Stories are that way, like storms. If you pay attention, you can sense them in the air."
Fire Horse Girl is a highly accessible (and subtly informative) YA historical, steeped in 1920's Chinese culture, integrated folklore, deft wit, and poignantly beautiful prose.
The tale is told entirely from the 3rd person perspective Jade Moon, a 17-year-old girl whose gender and birth year (according to the Chinese zodiac) leaves her shunned by her village and family—a pariah in a culture that openly considers her "cursed." When a family business arrangement gives her the opportunity to go to America, Jade Moon is enchanted by the hope of a fresh start in a country where people seem free to make their own luck. But immigration proves difficult and dangerous. Jade Moon's hopes run aground on the obstinate will of her both her father and Sterling Promise—the young man she's grown to care for but cannot trust. And her only remaining option may be to defy everything she knows to carve out a place for herself in a world she doesn't yet understand.
This reader connected with Jade Moon almost immediately. She is what Americans would generally deem a classic 'Tomboy'—an innately willful, indelicate, opinionated, big-dreaming, and brash young woman. In short, a force of personality to be reckoned with. And of course, none of these traits were considered desirable of a female in Chinese culture at the time. But though she is hurt and isolated by her immediate world's inability to accept her, her spirit isn't completely crushed—and she grabs fiercely at hope for change the moment it comes near.
Jade Moon's personality in an internal monologue nutshell:
"Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better."
While some readers may not have as much sympathy for a more aggressive female character, I understood her so deeply it hurt. Jade Moon is every girl who has ever felt like they were too much for anyone to handle. She is every girl who knows they are too bold or temperamental, yet can't seem to help it. She is every girl who would rather risk the consequences of breaking the socio-cultural mold than to allow the mold to break them.
Obviously, one needn't be Chinese to be a Fire Horse kind of girl.
Then there's Sterling Promise… whose name couldn't be more fitting.
While his personality is nothing like Jade Moon's, his hopes and goals are very much the same. He is an orphan, forced to grow up working in a sweatshop before being adopted by a man who'd estranged himself from his own family. Like Jade, he belongs nowhere and to no one. Like Jade, he sees America as his chance to start life anew. He's a level-headed, silver-tongued survivalist—skilled at talking his way in and out of situations.
And while he comes to care for Jade, he remains an enigma for much of the story—a wild card. Both Jade and readers are never quite sure if will do the right thing in the end… or if he'll go no further than doing what is right for himself.
The Plot:
The first sixty or so pages take place in a small village in Guangzhou, China—where readers are given a vivid look at the rural life of our heroine. Jade Moon's oppressed state is palpable, but her story unfolds with no easy answers. For every constraint she attempts to shed by leaving China, she is confronted with a new obstacle or artifice in an unwelcoming America. All the while, readers are treated to a matter-of-fact look at events and policies that seem largely overlooked in most U.S. History textbooks: An in-depth look at the prison-like conditions on Angel Island, the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco and the subsequent fire that destroyed citizenship records, the concept of "paper children," the infamous "Hatchet Men," and non-graphic yet plain-faced look at prostitution in 1920's Chinatown…
This book hit literary happiness buttons I didn't even know I had.
I'm always excited about a strong female MC and cultural/historical insight that's done well enough I don't notice how much I'm learning… but I'd forgotten how much I appreciate co-experiencing the challenges of a female who is compelled to cross-dress (for survival, not fun), or a romance that initially doesn't work because one or both parties realizes that, while the other does love them, they don't love them enough.
Though there is a thread of hate-to-love romance, it takes a far backseat to the greater storyline. The ending is balanced and satisfying. While the book stands perfectly on its own, it also leaves open the possibility for more of Jade Moon's story at some later date.
Thank you, Kay Honeyman, for such a remarkable work of heart. Books like this remind me why I love to read.
"You can love someone as many ways as water falls from the sky. Sometimes it falls with thunder and lightning; other times it falls silently. Sometimes it falls as cool snow, and other times hard balls of ice beat down. If you want the water, you don't get to choose how it falls."
Angela Blount, Staff Reviewer Top 50 Reviewer 268 reviews
Originally reviewed at Daydreaming Bookworm
Originally posted at: http://perrytheplatypus1102-3daydreamer3.blogspot.com/
** A huge thanks to Scholastic for sending a review copy of this book,and to my cousin in NY for forwarding it to me.This review would not have been in existence if it weren't for you guys!**
-Recommended for children above the age of 12.
The premise of The Fire Horse Girl might have been beyond my usual comfort zone,but I still decided to take my chances when asking for a review copy since I absolutely love discovering new titles.And being a book blogger/reviewer,I get to do that A LOT.
The story of The Fire Horse Girl is basically based on the immigration of the Chinese to America around the 1920s and about how one Chinese girl's fiery and temperamental personality helped her survive there.Most men in America,especially the Chinese ones,were not at all respectful towards their female counterparts during that time do being a Chinese female and surviving in America took a lot of guts.And it seemed that our protagonist had just that;tons of it.
The Fire Horse Girl is one of those books that you will keep wanting to hold on to,with an unforgettable premise,admirable characters,and a well-paced storyline.While it went perfectly as a stand-alone,if it ever had a sequel I would gladly welcome it with open arms.The thing which felt most surreal to me was the fact that this was the author's debut.I know a lot of well published authors who still have yet to write a book as good as this one.Kay Honeyman definitely has a bright future ahead of her.Can't wait to see what else she's got in store!
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– Colonel Brian Laidlaw (325th Fighter Wing Commander)
There were several structures that were torn apart by Hurricane Michael and many of the aircraft housed in them took the hits. Tyndall Air Force Base is home to 55 F-22 Raptors and the USAF has reported that 17 of them were were left behind to ride out the hurricane and all of them were damaged.
I updated the post with some of the images showing F-22s inside damaged hangars on base. Two sources have said 17 F-22s were still there, but I cannot confirm this and there could be confusion with other aircraft, but it would not surprise me either. https://t.co/JikiO65eny
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) October 12, 2018
Images of an overturned F-15 from nearby Veteran's Park circulated around the internet. Officials claim that it will take years before normal operations resume at Tyndall Air Force Base. Despite the damage, the US Air Force is confident that the F-22s will be restored to flying condition.
"All of the F-22s from Tyndall will fly again. As an update, we began moving some F-22s from Tyndall to Langley this week. Additionally, aircraft maintainers are on-station repairing other F-22s that received minor damage and assessing a few others that may require additional engineering support and analysis before they return to flight status."
– Ann Stefanek (Air Force Spokesman)
(Photo by Michael Ammons/USAF via Getty Images)
The extent of the damage at Tyndall Air Force Base can be seen this in flyover video.
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Total or partial screen printing on the glass panels gives a touch of elegance to the rooms, in the example of compositions, screen printed partitions, sliding doors and inside modules for storage units inserted in the glass partition that separates two adjacent rooms.
Example of double-glazed partition wall. The glazed panels are inserted in aluminum frames available in different Ral colors. In the setting, the proposition of office, meeting and waiting environments that, thanks to the walls, can be expressed in a coordinated and coherent manner, favoring the identity of the company.
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Transparency that helps, useful separation.
The use of front walls in mixed glass with blind panels in melamine, laminate or with wood paneling, allows to exploit the aesthetic and environmental advantages of glass at the same time as the accessibility and practicality of the blind panels. In the example frontal layout transparent, while in the adjoining rooms the blind panels allow you to insert shelves, cover the back of the bookcases, and to store technical and wiring.
Partitions in etched or sanded glass.
Keep on the path of natural light, stop the indiscreet gaze. Particularly recommended to hide the "mess" of administrative workstations that in many companies are translated into a lot of paper material filed on the work plans.
Glass walls with frame, opaque panels on the left, transparent on the right. Different solutions in one layout. The walls with these construction features can carry wiring, albeit limited to the inside of the tracks, they also guarantee greater solidity and resistance to loads.


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Q: Shiro will not login in if I am on web root but will if on index.jsp IDE: Netbeans
When I start my app it displays the login.jsp page but the URL is /. All logins fail on / but will work if I type in login.jsp in the address bar.
Could anyone explain why this is so?
Can I force the system to always display the login.jsp
shiro.ini
[main]
authc.loginUrl = /login.jsp
user.loginUrl = /login.jsp
authc.usernameParam = username
authc.passwordParam = password
authc.rememberMeParam = rememberme
authc.successUrl = /index.jsp
logout.redirectUrl = /login.jsp

jdbcRealm=org.apache.shiro.realm.jdbc.JdbcRealm
jdbcRealm.authenticationQuery = SELECT password from user where username = ?
jdbcRealm.userRolesQuery = select role from userroles where userID = (select id FROM user WHERE username = ?)

ds = com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource
ds.serverName = localhost
ds.user = responseablees
ds.password = responseablees
ds.databaseName = evaluationdb
jdbcRealm.dataSource= $ds

passwordMatcher = org.apache.shiro.authc.credential.Sha256CredentialsMatcher
credentialsMatcher = org.apache.shiro.authc.credential.HashedCredentialsMatcher
credentialsMatcher.hashAlgorithmName = SHA-256
credentialsMatcher.storedCredentialsHexEncoded = true
credentialsMatcher.hashIterations = 5000

[users]
guest = guest,admin

[roles]
;admin = *
[urls]
/login.jsp = authc
/index.jsp = authc
/questionSetup1.jsp = user
/logout = logout

A: If you want to secure your application as a whole, this should work for you:
[urls]
/questionSetup1.jsp = user
/logout = logout
/** = authc

The statement /** = authc covers all resources provided by your application. The mistake in your configuration is protecting your resources explicitly. Only login and index has been covered by your authc filter implementation, leaving other resources exposed.
Keep in mind, "Order Matters!". URL path expressions are evaluated against an incoming request in the order they are defined. The first match wins. Means: Define exceptions (/rest/cars) before generalisations (/rest/**).


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Is there anything left to say about the saree that has not been talked about, dissected, and explored ever before? Traditional yet trendy, this is rightly acknowledged as the social fabric of the nation. Be it a party or occasion of festivity, the saree is the choice every Indian woman makes without much thought into the decision-making for a handloom designer saree is what she looks most attractive in. A fabric of allure, elegance, comfort, and confidence, the saree is easy-going on the body and can be carried through the day. Few garments can match the saree in terms of the many advantages that it has to offer.
From ancient times, the Indian saree has been much explored and experimented with, transforming from a traditional attire of need into a fashionable fabric of appeal. The delightful variety that it offers is one of the many aspects that sets a designer saree apart from the crowd – from the plain and simple colors to the lightly adorned cotton and silk blends that many women wear as part of their daily routine, and the jazzy stylish variants with heavily decorated silk complete with all sorts of finery and additive features meant for special fashion wear on exclusive occasions.
A saree could be made from cotton, rayon, satin, nylon, jute, silk, or a blend of different fabrics. Traditional varieties are available in plenty while modern art silks and current tastes have encouraged awe-inspiring fusion experiments to evolve a new range of splendid trending designs and patterns that have never been seen before getting incorporated into the conventional handloom weaves for a puja special saree.
Silk saree has always been a favorite for the women because of the rich look, airy comfort, and exclusiveness in price when compared to some of the other fabrics in the market. The costly variants of silk designer saree that can cost close to a lakh is especially guarded as a prized possession, worn with caution, and carefully treaded in at every step. These are set aside exclusively for the grandest of social occasions.
Cotton saree gets more of the preference in hot summer weather conditions and also when they have to be worn for long and continuous spells. Lightweight, airy, and comfortable, a cotton saree can be found in light shades as well as medium colored hues. These get preferred for the casual outings as well as office and daily wear since they do not cost as much as a silk handloom designer saree. Cotton sarees have caught up with the modern trend, being available in zari and multi-color thread works along with a host of other decorative features that have made these fabrics extremely attractive and beckoning to work with.
The idea of Indian katan silk first originated in Persia and traveled to India via the Mughal Emperors. This fabric was a popular choice among the royal ladies who would buy it for getting their clothes woven but hand the unique work to the servants after just one wear. The working class would in turn preserve this elegant work of labor to be work on momentous occasions. The strong nature of the fabric and its longevity gave it a good name and gradually its prominence spread to other parts of the country. Today, katan silk is still a popular option among Bengali women who wish to wear something that sets them apart from the rest during the puja season.
Another puja special saree to try this festive season would be one featuring applique work. A mélange of utterly fascinating patchworks sewn together, this is a potpourri of striking Indian embroidery and other captivating patterns. The end result is an artistic blend of everything beautiful that can be flaunted as something chic and arty. Draping an applique work saree this festive season will surely give you the feeling of embracing a six-yard wonder with lovely mottled effects.
No list of Bengali sarees to wear for Durga Puja would be complete without a mention of the Murshidabad silk sarees which are light and airy, and printed in an array of pleasing colorful designs that also features the batik print style. Be it casual get-togethers or bigger, more glamorous occasions, you simply cannot live without them!
Another name that deserves mention on this list is the Jamdani saree, a weaving tradition that is both time and labor intensive as it has to be carried out by handloom weaving. Jamdani handweaving is a necessary accompaniment for most Bengal sarees, taking on the form of cotton and gold thread weaves to create elegant geometric motifs and improve the aesthetic appeal. The sarees are termed differently based on the variations of the jamdani weave.
Other variants of designer saree and puja special saree can also be found, those that originated in other parts of India such as Orissa Handloom and Muga silk. However, the appeal of the handloom designer saree from Bengal is something unmatched and there cannot be a better option to consider for the festivities of Durga Puja.


TULSA, Okla. – Spencer Henson hit a grand slam and Nick Rotola added three singles in an 11-10 loss to Nebraska splitting a mid-week series Wednesday afternoon at J.L. Johnson Stadium.
Henson helped his own cause as the starting pitcher by hammering a grand slam in the fifth inning to even the score 6-6 after the Huskers struck for an early advantage. The Golden Eagles continued the rally by taking an 8-6 lead with two runs in the sixth before the visitors scored five times late to climb back for the victory.
ORU doubled up on Nebraska in hits, 14-7, but walked 10 batters and hit two proving the difference in the ballgame.
Nebraska scored three times in the top of the seventh to erase the Golden Eagles' 8-6 advantage. The runs came via a wild pitch, sacrifice fly and a balk as ORU could not protect the lead on its home turf.
- Henson continued to dominate opposing pitching as he hit a 3-1 fastball clear of the batter's eye in straight away center field for a grand slam. He matched his career high with four RBI for the second-consecutive game and has 14 in his past five games.
- Rotola tied his season best with three hits and reached base a fourth time on a walk, while Nick Roark scored a team-high three runs and extended his hit streak to 13 games.
- Gibson had a breakout day at the plate going 2-for-5 recording his first collegiate hit on a RBI single in the second inning.
- Jared Montoya and Riley Keizor also tallied multi-hit performances for the Golden Eagles with two hits apiece.
- Eight of the 11 runners that scored for Nebraska reached base via a free pass.
ORU hits the road for its first Summit League series away from home heading to Omaha March 23-25. The three-game set starts Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. with game one at Seymour Smith Park with live audio coverage available on the ORU Sports Network.


This Thank You Card is part of the geometric wedding invitations set, 'Kaleidoskop'. Clean lines, blue and green colours and a clear font make for a modern impression. The handwritten element adds a touch of romance, and the illustrations will keep things playful. Perfect for the no-nonsense couple who love simple design and subtlety. This design is available in letterpress & digital.
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HomeFundingLondon-based insurtech startup Wrisk lands €5.3 million to scale its platform
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London-based insurtech startup Wrisk lands €5.3 million to scale its platform
Wrisk today announced an approx. €5.3 million investment led by QBN Capital, with participation from investors Guinness Asset Management and Cell Rising Capital. Wrisk will be using the investment to grow its team and further scale its platform to support client demand.
Wrisk (founded in 2016) aims to create flexible, frictionless and personalised insurance experiences. The startup partners with leading insurance companies to provide the customers with mobile-first insurance at the point of sale, providing insurance that's fit for purpose for today's customer needs. For example, its unique 'WriskScore' allows homeowners, renters and motorists to understand exactly how their insurance premiums are calculated.
Just last month, Wrisk launched a first of its kind flexible monthly subscription-based car insurance product allowing people to pay for the miles they drive, in partnership with the RAC, one of the UK's most progressive motoring organisations. As new mobility trends like electric and autonomous vehicles arise, and different car ownership models and driving patterns gain momentum, Wrisk intends to become an indispensable partner to the automotive industry by solving the ensuing insurance implications of these changes.
Nimeshh Patel, Wrisk's CEO, said: "Wrisk has come a long way on our journey from creating a contents insurance app to becoming a strategic partner to large automotive brands by building and operating mobile-first insurance experiences that their customers engage with.
We're constantly looking ahead to what the future of buying, working and traveling behaviours looks like, to ensure that insurance delivers on the evolving protection needs of customers. We create products that have the customer at the core and are adapting to their lives, and I think investors have clearly recognised that, as well as our ability to quickly adapt to difficult market dynamics. I am extremely proud of the work put in by the team over the past year to get us to this fundraise, which I hope is the start of an exciting scaling path for our product offering. We are restless to scale our vision but with better trust in insurance as our endgame, we are equally determined that none of this doesn't come at the expense of a considered and thoughtful approach."
"We are excited to invest and work with the Wrisk team supporting them to refine and perfect their offering, always staying ahead of customers' tastes and the industry's own evolution", said Philea Chim, Senior Vice President at QBN Capital. "They have shown an incredible amount of grit during this tough period and have come out the other end, making us all the prouder to lead this round. The insurtech market is a highly competitive one, with headline grabbing fundraises being announced every week – but we believe Wrisk has the right team, values, technology and approach to change the industry from the inside and build one of the most sustainable offers out there."
"We couldn't be more pleased to invest in Wrisk" said Malcolm King, Fund Manager at Guinness Asset Management. "We believe Wrisk's unique approach to deliver personalised insurance at the point of sale will bring huge benefits to the world's largest brands and their customers. Wrisk already has an amazing track record and a prestigious client list in the automotive sector, and we think there is huge potential for them to develop that offering further. We look forward to working alongside our co-investors and management to help Wrisk realise the next phase of their growth and are very happy to be part of the journey."
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