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New Crime City (1994)
Directed by: Jonathan Winfrey
Stars: Rick Rossovich, Stacy Keach, Sherrie Rose
Language: English
Country: Usa | Dvdrip
Also known as: Angeles 2020, Ciudad del nuevo crimen, Nea taxi vias
Description: Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the prisoners are put into and allowed to do as they please. Ricks soon meets up with Darla and they search the prison city for the psychotic Ironhead and his virus that he plans to unleash on the city of LA.

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After my last bout with Memoir '44 online, I turned back to a game that at least is fair, Battle Academy.
It had been awhile since I played and when I looked in on things I saw that the much anticipated BA2 was just around the corner (Sept. 12th!). I eagerly anticipate the upgrade and taking on the Eastern battlefields of history. Battle Academy has been great to play and I expect that BA2 will advance that even further!
Of course, a century ago in August was the start of the Great War. As usual, I always have a draw to that massive conflict. So again, I turned to Battle Academy as it allows for some great modifications. One of which was done by Tim1966 of those forums which happened to be all about WWI. So I went to work building some scenarios there. Vimy was the first one and it turned out well especially given how rusty I was on design with that editor. I've now added some additional scripts based on work of other great BA designers (like Enric and thanks too to CaveHobbit)…so I've managed to include a preliminary bombardment, German and British Officers and barbed wire that actually stops infantry. On top of that, a second scenario (2nd Ypres) and am considering a third. So if all goes well, the Great War BA mod should be a fun package.
Lastly, I've finally joined a BA tournament! CaveHobbit is hosting his France '40 maps and while it took some time to get used to the beefed up units, I played some of the maps before the tourney and they are fun! Looking forward to playing that out as far as I can…good luck on that everyone! (note; at the time of writing, we are still looking for one more player…and they will be in my pool…so come on in, the water's warm!).
Until next time, Ubique!


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Don't be shocked, millennials are now the largest living generation in America. No need to be surprised by how many walk into your office looking to purchase their first homes. The time has come to start learning how to talk to them, and how to effectively help them understand the mortgage process. Below are some tips on how to best convey the terms of potential mortgages to your new young clients.
- A mere 15% of "old" millennials (aged 25-34) have more than $10,000 saved. That requires a bit of sympathy to relate to these clients. While a majority of them are forced with living at home with their parents, 90% would love to move out into their own place. Rising rates have made them incredibly skeptical, so they are extra wary of not having enough for large down payments. A shocking 71% of mortgages in 2016 were set up with less than a 5% down payment. Don't be surprised when your millennial has very little up front.
- Teach them what it's worth, and how their net worth rises as they purchase equity. The purchase of a home can easily be more cost effective of the rent they are currently paying. Putting this into perspective can help make their decision easier. In 2014 the Federal Reserve stated that the average net worth of a person raises by 36% when they purchase a home.
- Turn those random rates into physical money. By showing millennials exactly what interest payments they will be making helps them properly plan and will help secure them see the urgency in the lower rate. Consider using usmortgagerate.com to get quick figures and show how minimal rises in a mortgage rate can result in large expenses.
- Show them historical rates so they can grasp what you mean when you say there was an average of 4.15% interest in January of this year. That will mean very little to them, so by showing them the interest rates through the years, you can show them that in the past rates have been much higher. Presenting the rates as low in a way they will understand can help them see the bigger picture.
- Recommend they look into the buy now vs wait calculator so they can see what kind of money they will be saving by purchasing their first home now, as opposed to waiting. Show them the uncertainty that lies in waiting to save the 20% for a down payment, and they'll be far more likely to realize how lucky they are for being a millennial.
They are skeptical and mistrusting of financial institutions, but that's something you can put at ease. Teach them that there is nothing to fear with a new mortgage, and that you are working to get them the best possible deals out there. They are ready and willing to move, they just need a little guidance to get there.


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Tradeteq and Pragma win American Financial Technology Awards
We're delighted that two of our clients, Tradeteq and Pragma, have been recognised in this year's American Financial Technology Awards, run by Waters Technology.
Tradeteq, the electronic trading platform for institutional trade finance, picked up the award for the 'Best Collaboration Initiative'. The accolade recognises their efforts to work with over 20 banks, financial institutions and trade associations to close the $1.5tn trade finance gap through the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFD Initiative), for which it is the distribution technology provider.
Additionally, Pragma has won the 'Best Front-Office Initiative' accolade for its innovative multi-asset, broker-neutral algorithmic execution platform, Pragma360. The platform enables front-office professionals to create a unique algorithmic trading suite under their own corporate brand.
Christoph Gugelmann, CEO of Tradeteq, commented: "Winning this award recognises the transformative change Tradeteq is bringing to the trade finance market. By partnering with some of the leading trade finance banks, we hope to transform this market into one that is operationally efficient, scalable and easily distributable. Through the use of our credit scoring AI and electronic trading platform, the TFD Initiative's members can boost trade finance distribution and contribute to closing the trade finance gap."
David Mechner, CEO of Pragma, was extremely pleased to win the award, stating: "In recent years, the front-office has focused on regulators' calls for more transparency around execution quality and market impact. Winning this award is recognition of Pragma's efforts to help front office professionals respond to this mandate using the most-advanced trading and execution tools."
For more information about some of the great work we do for our clients, click here: https://www.chatsworthcommunications.com/work/


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Under Armour's Big Digital Play
The sports brand is making savvy moves into the wearables market, surpassing misguided apparel giants with software plays. Is an overthrow imminent?
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Having recently surpassed Adidas, Under Armour is now the second largest fitness apparel brand in the U.S. and is clawing at the heels of Nike.
And if we're talking wearable devices, it's taken a massive step forward as the Swoosh has stumbled. Last year, Nike axed its FuelBand. Then just last week Nike announced that users can use the Nike+ Fuel app—without the brand's hardware. The move tacitly acknowledges what we already knew: Nike misfired on wearables and is ditching the hardware space entirely in favor of integrating its app with Apple's HeathKit.
In the meantime, Under Armour has adopted a completely different approach.
At the start of February, the company bought MyFitnessPal for $475 million and Endomondo for $85 million. That purchase balloons Under Armour's digital user base of athletically inclined people to over 120 million when you combine the 30 million MapMyFitness subscribers, which Under Armour acquired in 2013.
That's when Robin Thurston, chief digital officer at Under Armour, joined the apparel giant. The former head of the MapMy brands brought his entire team to Under Armour because he was excited about the resources the big company could bring to the development table. "There are thousands of trainers, physiologists, behaviorists at Under Armour," Thurston says. "Imagine what happens when they start to design apps and products around user experiences."
The end game is to harness the company's research on athletic performance to build better apps, wearables, and even apparel, says Thurston. Under Armour will be able to collect a broad range of data from sports including skiing and snowboarding (Under Armour makes whole lines of snowsports apparel, including a new three-layer GoreTex outerwear set), running, soccer, football, and CrossFit. As for wearable hardware to track all these activities, Thurston says there are products in the works.
"There are thousands of trainers, physiologists, behaviorists at Under Armour. Imagine what happens when they start to design apps and products around user experiences."
While Under Armour won't use an individual's personal metrics, it will want to know—broadly and anonymously—how users exercise and even the gear they use, says Thurston. Because beyond making better apps, Under Armour wants to make better gear.
Currrently, "the feedback loop is a little sloppy," he says. Under Armour doesn't know, for example, whether CrossFitters are working out in running shoes and runners are running in CrossFit shoes. With the app, users could opt to share the products they use and why. "We don't care if it's not made by us. We think we can learn a lot from this information we're not learning now," says Thurston.
Of course, Under Armour's goal is to sell equipment and make money. One way to push app users into the company's apparel is to reward them with coupons or points that count toward Under Armour purchases. Another way: to use the platform as a way to get gear ads to consumers.
And that gets us to one of the company's main challenges: not alienating the loyal communities who already use the apps it has purchased.
Phil Beene, co-founder and president of the fitness app Nudge, says Under Armour needs to understand its users before making any changes to their data or inundating them with ads. Outdoor athletes tend to use multiple platforms, depending on their sport, he says. Maybe Snocru for skiing, a Garmin head unit for cycling, MapMyRun for running, and Strava to share PRs and post to Strava. Under Armour would do well to recognize its role as a fitness app platform that has an open sharing environment compatible with third-party apps. If there's any question that a brand isn't dominant on all fronts, the best hedge, according to Beene, is to let users share and use data broadly.
You just have to think back on the uproar Instagram caused in 2013 when it launched McDonalds ads in user newsfeeds to understand what he's talking about. The backlash against the marketing content was fierce, and evidence of what happens when a rabid app user base gets fired up about a change of ownership. "Community is really hard to get right," Beene says. He speculates users will rebel if Under Amour's apps get invaded by a flurry of Under Armour ads.
According to Thurston, the company has no current plans to advertise on the platform or restrict users' data. "We're not going to advertise to you, we're not going to say you can't share your data with other apps. And we're not going to tell you that because you're being more active you should buy a bunch of Under Armour shorts."
In the near term, Thurston says the company's goal behind the new fitness app acquisitions is simple—get people to work out more frequently.
"The more we can inspire them personally, with apps, then we've got this huge pool of people exercising more, and there's a massive social benefit in that."


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Comfort? Good looks? Interesting design? Check, check, check. iSkin's DuoBand ($40) combines an intriguing two-strap adjustable armband with a two-piece case for the third-generation iPod nano, creating what's probably the single nicest-looking exercise armband we've yet seen for the device. Though expensive relative to other options we've tested, and limited somewhat by its open-faced approach, DuoBand has the virtue of offering two pieces that look and work well separately or together.
The core of DuoBand is a variant on iSkin's earlier Duo for iPod nano, oddly stripped of a couple of protective elements that would have worked somewhat well here—Click Wheel and Hold Switch protection—as well as parts such as a belt clip and lanyard necklace, which might have been nice to transform DuoBand into something akin to Marware's SportSuit Convertible.
Instead, what you get is a combination hard and soft case, the front shell either red or black hard plastic, and the rear black soft rubber, capable of covering every part of the nano except for the controls. By iPod nano armband standards, this case is really sharp-looking and generally protective; its integrated headphone and Dock Connector port covers come open to let you plug in the Nike + iPod Sport Kit and most headphone plugs, save for oversized ones.
The lack of control coverage can be a positive and a negative for those with slippery fingers. Moisture on iSkin's typical rubber Click Wheel covers can inhibit control sensitivity, but without protection, the nano isn't as safe to take in the rain as it would be inside a standard Duo. You can decide whether your intended use is indoor or outdoors; if you're expecting either heavy sweat or typical water intrusion, you might be better off with a more fully sealed enclosure.
iSkin's armband is similarly somewhat of a double-edged sword. The band itself is black, with breathable perforations originally used in Apple's iPod nano Armbands, as well as a heavy clear plastic mounting frame that holds the nano in place without any sign of instability. Soft and with rubber on the inside, this armband is extremely comfortable so long as it fits your arm. Rather than using a single Velcro seal, iSkin uses two separate adjustable Velcro-styled bands to tighten the loop on your bicep. The band's length is on the short side—around 16 inches—and thus isn't as well-suited to bigger arms as some of DuoBand's competitors, which average 17 inches, and sometimes go upwards from there. That said, if your arms aren't wrestler-level huge, DuoBand will be fine. For average-sized male and female arms, it'll be perfectly snug and stable.
Overall, DuoBand is a solid two-piece armband set that works equally well as a pocketable iPod nano case and as a workout-ready companion. For a lower price, Marware's aforementioned Sportsuit Convertible offers more protection and versatility, but then, the base iPod nano case you get isn't as attractively designed or impact resilient as the hard plastic-enhanced shell in DuoBand. If style is your key decision-making criteria, DuoBand is definitely amongst the nicest-looking iPod armbands we've seen, and perhaps worth the price premium you'll pay for it.
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Company and Price
Company: iSkin
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BRISTOL, Va. – After weeks wrapping up close games to win the Appalachian League's Eastern crown, the Pulaski Yankees (41-23) let one get away Friday night, as the Bristol Pirates (28-32) notched a 10-9 win with a four-run eighth inning.
A total of 833 fans watched the game in DeVault Memorial Stadium. Second baseman Gosuke Katoh and left fielder Nathan Mikolas each had two RBIs for the Yankees.
The teams will play the final game of their series at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Yankees will then head to Johnson City for a three-game series to finish the regular season.
Pulaski's Tony Franklin was named Manager of the Year by the league, while Katoh, who is hitting .289, and lefty Nestor Cortes, who is 5-3, 2.34 in 11 appearances (nine starts) were named to the Appy All-Star Team.


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Diagnosis of the Disease (Vyadhivinischaya) from Ayurvedic Perspective
Signs & symptoms of :-
- Malignant Wounds / Ulcers (Dushta Vrana)
- Malignant Nodes (Dushta Granthi)
- Malignant Tumor (Dushta Arbuda)
- Spreading Cellulitis (Dushta Visarpa)
- Malignant Abscess (Dushta Vidradhi)
- Malignant Sinuses (Dushta Nadivrana)
- Malignant abscess of Vitiated Mansa Dhatu (Dushta Mansapradoshaja Vikara)
Signs & Symptoms of & of Their Stages :-
- Embedding in deeper and deeper tissues & vitiating them (Dhatugata)
- Loss of tissues (Dhatupaka)
- Unripped (Aama)
- Semi – ripped (Pachyamana)
- Ripped i.e. Acutely Tender (Pakwa)
- Malignant Sinuses (Dushta Nadivrana)
- Malignant abscess of Vitiated Mansa Dhatu (Dushta Mansapradoshaja Vikara)
These diseases show similie with Solid Malignant Tumour. They can occur at any site or any organ of the body. e.g. Malignant tumour in Lung, Stomach, Liver etc. (Arbuda) in Phuppusa (Lung), Stomach (Aamashaya), Liver (Yakrut) etc. In this process they produce structural as well as functional abnormalities in these organs. Thus, the disease also exhibits the symptoms of vitiated srotasa, to which that organ pertains.
Signs & Symptoms of :-
- Rasagata Jwara
- Raktagata Jwara
- Raktadhatu Paka
- Anaemia (Pandu)
- Bleeding disorders (Raktapitta)
- Worms (Kaphaja & Purishaja Krimi)
show similarity with signs & symptoms of Leukaemia.


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Episodic abuse drinking is mainly a current issue of public health with severe consequences including road accidents and the setup of alcohol dependence, causing number of diseases. A problematic alcohol use was identified among young students during their campus life. This study aims to set the following objectives, to determine the prevalence rate of hazardous drinking, alcohol dependence and to identify factors that foster this trend among students at the University of Majunga. A cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical survey study was conducted among medical, Biology&Earth Sciences students at the University of Mahajanga, on May 2017. The AUDIT questionnaire was used to assess the alcohol use. Male students in number of 464 were recruited for the study. Eighty point four percent of them had already experienced alcohol drinking. The average AUDIT score was 6,42 ± 6,4. Hazardous drinking was encountered in 16,5% and alcohol dependence in 19,4% of case. Some factors were associated to alcohol uses as the accomodation at the university student residences andparents with alcohol use history. A significant relationship was associated between high AUDIT scores and the following criteria: year of study, paternal alcohol use history, age of early onset of drinking, alcohol drinking and smoking antecedent. This study provided an insight on alcohol consumption among students and established the need of raising awareness.


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Eating sustainably can make a huge impact on our planet.
We all know that eating sustainably, and eating local is good for the planet and good for the economy. Now that your New Year's resolutions to eat better have come into effect, check out your local bookseller for seven recycled titles that will help bolster your New Year's food resolutions. These titles are largely published before 2012 but still relevant. Dig in.
1. Eating Animals (Penguin, 2011)
Part memoir, part science: novelist Jonathan Safran Foer's takes a philosophical look at how we justify what we eat . Prepare yourself for an epiphany.
2. Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed (South End Press, 2007)
Food activist Vandana Shiva edits a collection of papers from advocates of the slow food movement, organic farming and local eating. A choppy ride, but in the end these varied views (from the likes of Prince Charles and Michael Pollan) make a solid case for food deindustrialization.
3. Animal Vegetable Miracle: Miracle of Our Year of Sustainable Eating (Faber & Faber, 2007)
A chronicle of the year that author Barbara Kingsolver and family went to the woods, unlike Thoreau, to eat deliberately. Their radical experiment to "go locavore" explores my mom's old gem "you are what you eat".
4. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin Press, 2006)
Michael Pollan explores modern American eating: dubious trends with far-reaching influence. If you like your wake-up calls loud and clear, crack this binding.
5. New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Alfred E. Knopf, 2000)
Claudia Roden's original 1973 classic updated and expanded. Culled from 30 years of extensive Middle East travel, she's concocted simple prep methods for over 800+ regional recipes from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Read it for the recipes, but also for the riveting stories behind this extraordinary food.
6. Book of Jewish Food (Alfred E. Knopf, 1996)
Oy, Claudia, again with the 800+ recipes?
Here's the story of the Jews told through the story of their cooking, with emphasis on development of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic cuisine. Ms. Roden's stories are as delicious as her recipes.
7. Appetites (Counterpoint Press, 2003)
It's sad to tag this as an "anorexia" book. Sadder still that its author died before publishing more of her sagacious take on the modern female experience. Caroline Knapp's memoir of her war with self-image expands to explore wider cultural messages. It's a powerful call to all women to learn what it is to "feed both the body and the soul".
Top image of books on a bun by Shutterstock


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Melbourne-based Studio Edwards turned to cargotecture to minimize the impact of a sustainably minded getaway on the Surf Coast in Victoria, Australia. Raised atop stilts on a steep slope, House 28 was fashioned from a trio of 20-foot shipping containers sourced from nearby Port Melbourne. The green-roofed holiday home uses a rainwater catchment and filtration system to gather water, and it features double-glazed windows and doors to increase energy efficiency.
Set overlooking the Wye River and Australia's Otway Coast, House 28 is securely anchored to the hillside by steel stilts and deep concrete pile foundations. The architects joined two of the containers to form one long module housing the entrance, a spacious living area, and open kitchen with dining, while the other container comprises two bedrooms and a bathroom. The containers were angled towards one another and connected with a blackbutt timber deck.
Related: Shipping container delivers heightened drama to a modern island home
For a rugged finish, the containers were externally insulated and clad with galvanized steel sheeting. In contrast, the minimalist interiors are lined with marine-grade plywood for a warm feel. Full-height doubled-glazed windows and doors overlook the ocean to the south and keep the narrow buildings from feeling constrained. A garden of native dichondra covers the roof providing extra thermal insulation and rainwater filtration.
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Julie Christie started out as a newspaper journalist, before moving into television in the late 80s. In 1991 she set up her own company, Touchdown Productions; fifteen years later she sold Touchdown to Dutch media group Eyeworks, lthough she stayed on as CEO of Eyeworks New Zealand until late 2012.
Growing up in Greymouth, Christie was one of nine children; her mother was widowed when she was five. Christie's first television job was with production company Communicado, as PA to company boss Neil Roberts. Soon she was one of the company's most prolific producers, starting with TV series Mud and Glory: Great Rugby Stories. That was followed by one-off documentary Rachel Hunter: Cover Girl, for which Christie managed to persuade rocker Rod Stewart to do an interview.
After the documentary rated highly, Christie went and asked for a pay rise, but was turned down. So she went and formed Touchdown Productions; within a few years she had grown it into New Zealand's largest producer of entertainment TV, with a thriving business in exporting programme formats. Christie told Her magazine that she became "a lot more staunch" about retaining intellectual property rights after "three programmes I had created were taken from me to be produced in-house at TVNZ". She also took on the long-running This is Your Life, winning two New Zealand television awards in the process.
By the time Eyeworks bought the company, Touchdown shows had been franchised to 29 countries. Breakthrough quiz show The Chair was one of its most successful exports.
Many of Christie's programmes became staples of local television schedules — Changing Rooms, nine seasons plus of My House My Castle, Whose House Is It Anyway, export Treasure Island, DIY Rescue, Trading Places, and eleven years of Game of Two Halves. The company has also retooled overseas formats for local audiences, including time-travelling reality show Pioneer House, Captive and Dragons' Den, in which Christie was one of the those who decided which entrepreneurs to invest in.
Touchdown's shows made stars out of a number of presenters, including Matthew Ridge and Marc Ellis (Fresh-up in the Deep End) and April Ieremia. Some shows failed to find success (eg The Player, starring Nicky Watson); others dared to turn reality television on its head (Living the Dream, in which all the contestants but one were actors).
In 2001 Touchdown began to exploit its formats overseas. Its first American pitch — and sale — resulted in High Country Dance (which Christie directed, wrote and produced) screening on the Fox Network under the title Looking For Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska. "The US market is wonderfully open to ideas from outside," she has said. "They have a voracious appetite and unscripted television is a vital part of everyday life to them."
Further international success followed with productions of Treasure Island for RTE Ireland and Australia's Channel 7. Then came 2002 quiz show The Chair, which Touchdown produced in two versions that year: a Kiwi version hosted by Matthew Ridge, and one for ABC in America, led by tennis legend John McEnroe. Although the American version lasted only one season, the format went on to sell to 29 countries including the BBC, VOX in Germany and TF1 in France.
In later years Touchdown expanded cautiously into drama, with 2008 dead husband series Burying Brian, and feature films The Tattooist and The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell.
Christie has won two NZ Television Awards for Best Entertainment Programme, two Qantas Media Awards for Best Lifestyle series, and People's Choice Awards for Game of Two Halves and DIY Rescue. In 2012 she was annointed best director, for launching the Kiwi version of renovation show The Block. She was the recipient of the WIFT 2004 award for international television achievement, and chaired the Government's Screen Production Industry Taskforce. She was also the first Kiwi recipient of the prestigious global Veuve Clicquot Award, which celebrates female entrepreneurship.
In 2007 Christie was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for Services to Television; she became a Dame Companion of the Order in 2017, for her contributions to television, and her time on the boards of both the 2011 Rugby World Cup board and the NZ Story Group, which protects the intellectual property of the Silver Fern.
Christie spent four years on the board of directors at MediaWorks, owners of TV3. Her business interests include pay TV channels, Living and Food, investments in restaurants and bars, and a resort in Fiji.
Sources include
Eyeworks website (broken link). Accessed 16 March 2015
Karen Tay, 'Small screen queen' (Interview) - The Sunday Star-Times, 29 November 2009
Matthew Theunisson, 'Queen's Birthday Honours: Reality TV queen Julie Christie is now a Dame' (Interview) - The NZ Herald, 5 June 2017
Diana Wichtel, 'Reality queen' (Interview) - The Listener, 10 June 2006, issue 3448
Unknown writer, 'Julie Christie' (Interview). Her magazine website (broken link). Accessed 16 March 2015
'Minister congratulates honours' recipients' (press release) National Party website. Loaded 5 June 2017. Accessed 6 June 2017


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U.S. Air Force Plans To Save $50 Million By Purchasing 18,000 iPads
In an interview with James Rogers of The Street, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command said that using lightweight iPads instead of heavy paper flight manuals will amount to $750,000 annual savings on fuel alone, according to AppleInsider. The U.S. Air Force is now planning to save more than $50 million over the next 10 years by purchasing 18,000 iPads for use as electronic flight bags, he said.
Rogers, who was embedded recently with the U.S. Air Force and got to see Apple's iPad in action, added that AMC will no longer have to print those hefty flight manuals, which will save another $5 million per year. Major Brian Moritz, manager of the AMC's electronic flight bag program, revealed the Air Force expects the iPads to help save $5.7 million per year.
We're saving about 90 pounds of paper per aircraft and limiting the need for each crew member to carry a 30 to 40 pound paper file," Moritz said. "It adds up to quite a lot of weight in paper."
The Air Force spent $9.36 million a year ago on 18,000 iPad units for use in the military arm's cargo aircraft. The 32-gigabyte Wi-Fi-only version of Apple's touchscreen tablet was purchased with bulk discount from Apple, at a price of around $520 per unit.
About 16,000 third-generation iPad with Retina display units are now in use by AMC crew, according to Rogers. The remaining 2,000 units are said to have been deployed across other Air Force units.
Last year, American Airlines became the first commercial airliner to receive FAA approval to use Apple's iPad as an electronic flight bag.


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When Guild Wars 2 first launched, players flocked to the game in swarms at an insane pace, which of course had to have made ArenaNet very happy. As those players continued on their quests they eventually reached max level, and needed more content to play through. ArenaNet came up with the Living Story to not only add more content, but to constantly evolve the game world. While the Living Story may help keep players occupied, is it enough to quench our thirst for new content, or is it time for an expansion?
The Living Story is actually a great idea that over the course of the next year, ArenaNet will be able to hopefully fine tune. It currently uses events to change the game world, which is its primary purpose. Thanks to the new story, it also adds a bit of new content. Sounds like a great idea! You can add new content without using expansions. But the Living Story events only add a tiny amount of content, which isn't even close to what many players are wanting.
The game's launch was a very intense time.
Sure we have seen one large dynamic events open up a whole new zone, but we need more than just one new zone (especially since no one likes it or visits it regularly). We need more of everything! ArenaNet has done an expansion in the past, so this concept isn't new to them. I think they are more interested in maybe replicating what they did for the original Guild Wars series which was made up of three games that took place in the same world, at the same time, and were connected through story. Storytelling was a huge feature in the games, which is where I think the Living Story comes from. Still Factions and Nightfall were just as big, if not bigger, than Prophecies, so even though the Living Story continues to use the art of storytelling to change the world, it still falls short in order to replace the need of an expansion.
Does this mean Guild Wars 2 will receive huge installments that will double the size of the game? I wouldn't count on that, just because the game is already massive. But a true expansion that opens up whole new maps, offers new personal stories, brand new dungeons, and hopefully adds in a ton of new skills, is greatly needed. ArenaNet is smart however, using the Living Story to introduce some of these new features into the core game.
It also comes down to the pace of the Living Story. Just look at how long the Scarlet story arc is taking. In order to add in as much content as an expansion, it would take the Living Story years and years. They would have to focus each story arc within a new zone in order to unlock the rest of the world. And that would take a long time! I'm not sure a lot of players are willing to wait that long to see the rest of the map.
Am I saying the Living Story content needs to be released faster? Absolutely not! When it comes down to it, the Living Story is a great idea, and ArenaNet just needs some more time to polish it. But it will never be enough to replace the need for an expansion. The Living Story is a great supplement to the core story of the game, not the main attraction. I believe they just want a way to expand on the game without forcing players to wait a couple of years for new content. To be honest I think that's exactly how ArenaNet plans to use it. I have a strong feeling an expansion is on the way.
I know I won't be waiting that long to see the rest of Tyria.
2014 is going to be an amazing year for MMOs, and Guild Wars 2 is going to need something in order to retake the spotlight. All of these great new offerings are right around the corner, like WildStar and ESO, so ArenaNet is probably planning their next move. While we've heard that there are no plans for an expansion a billion times, ArenaNet has always been very quiet about what they're up to. It's possible they have been working on it this entire time. For now, I'm going to go play some WvW while I wait for an expansion announcement.
Is it time for an expansion? Do you feel the Living Story eliminates the need for a traditional expansion? Tell us what you're thinking in the comments below.
David North / David North is a freelance writer for MMORPG.com. David loves to play and makes games, but now he writes about them! If you want to creep on him and make fun of his ability to draw, follow him over on twitter @David_the_North.
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Flatiron School is a great place to learn Web and iOS Development. Expect to start learning even before the first day of the bootcamp. You will be asked to complete 50+ hours of prework before starting either program. You can see the prework online to get a feel for it. As a caveat, expect to pay a little bit extra outside of tuition to complete the pre-work.
Both programs are full-time and are broken out into three units. The first unit teaches you fundamentals. Expect to learn these fundamentals by doing lots of pair programming and group programming (though there may be some solo pieces in the iOS class). The second unit consists of building projects to reinforce the fundamentals. The final piece is either a specialization in the Web Development course or a Capstone Project in the iOS course. Specialization simply refers to picking something you want to master and going for it. The Capstone project is working with a team to build an app for a startup. In addition to just teaching the language, Flatiron School teaches you best practices and gets you integrated with the tech community. They fundamentally believe that you should learn how to learn, not just learn a skill.
They are also very passionate about providing the highest quality curriculum. All of their teachers have all been TA's with their program first. They also take 4-6 weeks in between sessions to work on teacher training and curriculum development.
Admission for the school is done on a rolling basis so the earlier you apply the better.
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Flatiron School programs
|Program: iOS Program
|Cities: New York
|Duration: 12 weeks
|Cost: $15,000
The iOS course is a 12 week, full time, intensive program, designed to give you the equivalent skillset and experience of an entry-level iOS Objective-C developer. There is no prior experience necessary. Due to the amount of material covered and our focus on collaboration, you are required to be on campus Monday thru Friday, 9AM-6PM throughout the duration of the program. Outside of class there is plenty of work to be done, but that's the minimum.
Graduates of the Flatiron School's iOS development bootcamp have landed jobs at prestigious companies such as The New York Times, Etsy, and Boeing. The on- campus curriculum includes Git, custom interfaces, and test-driven development. Flatiron School iOS development students also keep blogs and give technical presentations at Meetups.
|Program: Full Stack Web Development
|Cities: New York
|Duration: 12 weeks
|Cost: $15,000
The Ruby program is a 12 week, full time, intensive program, designed give you the equivalent skillset and experience of an entry-level Ruby developer. Because we focus heavily on collaboration, you are required to be on campus Monday Thru Friday, 9AM-6PM throughout the duration of the program. There is certainly a fair amount of work to be done beyond those hours (many students choose to stay late and come in on weekends), but that's the minimum.
Prior to arriving to campus, you'll also complete 4 weeks (80-120 hours in total) of prework assignments at home. This, plus the following 12 weeks of on-campus learning, amounts to a 16 week commitment.
The Flatiron School prepares students for its web development bootcamp with 150 hours of pre-work, which can be completed remotely before beginning the intensive. The pre-work prepares even those without any web development experience to spend their time on campus studying more advanced topics such as Ruby. The Flatiron School's web development curriculum also includes plenty of intensive career counseling and interview training.
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I did the cyber program If you sit for 16 weeks just staring at the wall, you will learn more and save 20k. Don't make the same mistake that I did.
DO NOT GO HERE!! This place is a scam, do not waste your time or money. I had a non-responsive instructor which caused me to leave the program and they just sent me a bill for $4k. Huge waste of time and money, save it for a real college.
MY EXPERIENCE AT FLATIRON (JULY 2020) Full Time Software Engineering I would not recommend Flatiron to anyone, period. My Student/Admissions Rep had terrible communication skills (which is not acceptable) and would take days and days to answer 1 email after asking again after 2 or 3 days and then CC'ing the general info@flatiron email to try to get an answer. This went on the entire 3 months of correspondence leading up to the class and even after, when I tried to switch to Self-Paced (more on that later). I voiced this concern to the Senior Manager of Admissions and Enrollment, Marquise Martin, after my Student rep emailed me (for the first time to tell me) at 2 PM that my Enrollment Agreement had to be signed THAT NIGHT. I was literally in the middle of driving a 26' Uhaul truck full of my possessions with my car on a tow dolly on the back driving halfway across the country when I saw the email later that afternoon. Marquise at first seemed interested in my concerns only to quickly brush them aside and just say sorry that I have concerns. (The great customer service continues) I feel for you if you get Tiwanna Hamilton as an Admissions/Student Rep, she seems unorganized and lacks responsiveness and the communication skills needed to be a Rep. They have what's called a First Mile, which is just your first 2 weeks of school, and it has requirements to complete before time is up or you fail and have to be placed in the next Cohort (if it's your 1st time failing). Unfortunately, due to my wife contracting the Coronavirus, that left me beginning my First Mile while taking care of her and our 3 kids. This caused me to get behind, so behind that I spent days on Iterations and had to ask a Teacher's Assistant (TA) for help on every lab. By the time I got it, I was out of time to complete the rest of the curriculum. The curriculum is a joke. I am not exaggerating when I say it is a few paragraphs, sometimes with a video, as the lesson. The videos are poor quality, it just shows a screen capture and the narration sounds like it was recorded on a laptop mic from 2008. To say it's poor quality is an understatement. The curriculum, more often than not, does not teach you how to do what they then ask you to do in their labs, which, as you can imagine, makes things very difficult. (Why did you guys wait until after iterations for ANY code-alongs??) You will either be Googling Ruby syntax to try to piece together the code yourself from Quora, or you'll be copying/pasting former student's code from repl.it, or asking a Teacher's Assistant to help walk you through it. Though others were offered help via screen share, this was not offered to me until 3 days before the First Mile ended. (I didn't even know it was an option) Most of the TAs are not great at teaching, they were not skilled at breaking things down in a simple-to-understand manner. This made (most of) them almost useless. My instructor, Annabel Wilmerding, was a former (2018) Flatiron student (her only coding education and experience, apparently), now teaching her first Cohort with absolutely (apparently) zero experience coding outside of Flatiron. This led to many confusing Lab demos where she would go 'chasing rabbits' that weren't helpful, having students correct her and ultimately made the videos of little help. Call me crazy, but I kind of want someone who has actually coded for companies outside of the Flatiron school bubble, teaching others how to code for the first time. She was a nice person. However, according to Flatiron instructors are supposed to assist students via Slack. The entire 2 weeks, she helped 0 students via Slack. She ONLY posted once a day in Slack, a morning update with how many assignments should be completed by the end of day and what they are called. That was the extent of the "Instruction" at Flatiron. I voiced this concern to Tana Glenn at Flatiron (not sure what she does because her email signature doesn't say and neither did she), which disregarded my experience for a canned response about methods for getting help with curriculum. Again, see lack of customer service skills and poor communication. Upon not completing the First Mile, my instructor Annabel contacted me about whether I wanted to continue with the program and be put into another Cohort or withdraw and receive a full refund. I was confused as to why your instructor, especially a now former instructor, would be responsible for this part. It seems like Tana or even the Admissions rep should be responsible for handling all of this. Regardless, I emailed Tana and asked her when the next Cohort would be, only to be told that she didn't know, but that it could be as early as mid-late August or early September, an entire month to 2 months later. Not being satisfied with this huge of a delay, I asked if I could switch to Self-Paced. That way I could pickup where I left off, I still got TA support, didn't have a useless Instructor, saved $6k versus Full Time and might could even still finish on time as the original Full Time program as I wanted. She said it was against policy to allow me to switch. I asked if I could withdraw and reapply for the Self-Paced one instead and she said yes, but it could take weeks to be accepted again (no kidding with Tiwanna as a Rep), trying to force me into staying Full Time at the $15k. So I withdrew and reapplied 3 days later. I was told by Hannah M. I would be contacted by "finance" to discuss the refund and everything. I withdrew July 22nd, it's been weeks now and I still have not heard anything from "finance." I had to email Hannah and ask about whether I would receive my $500 seat deposit back, whether they tell Climb Credit or I do, whether they refund Climb Credit or me for me to pay them back. (Again, see poor communication skills) I wrote her on Aug 5th asking for an update regarding finance or Climb and still haven't received a response after weeks now. Then I receive and correspond to Tiwanna again as she (much to my utter disappointment) is assigned again as my Admissions Rep for my July 25th application, it went like this: "Jul 29 @ 12p, me to Flatiron: Hi, I applied last week (Jul 24) and haven't heard anything back. Jul 30 @ 9a, Tiwanna: Did you previously withdraw from the program? <<Do they not communicate with each other??>> Jul 30 @ 9a, me: Yes. Jul 31 @ 2p, me: Hoping to hear back about my application before the weekend. Aug 3 @ 10a, Tiwanna: It is our understanding that you recently withdrew from the program. <<Um, duh, we just stated that, it's like she's implying something here but won't communicate what it is she's implying.>> Aug 3 @ 10a, me: Yes, I withdrew from the full time program after not completing the curriculum within the First Mile allotted time. I am re-applying for the self-paced program since I was not permitted to switch to self-paced. Aug 5 @ 10a, me to Tiwanna and info@flatiron since she wouldn't respond: Can I please hear back about this? It's been almost 2 weeks since I applied. Aug 7 (FRIDAY) @ 5:00p (she waited until close), Tiwanna: Appreciate the follow up. At this time we have decided not to proceed with your enrollment in the self-paced program." Imagine my surprise. I guess they are doing well enough that they don't want $9,600 (they don't even refund it because it's self paced so they are literally just butthurt because I didn't submit to their greedy Policy for preventing students from switching Paces based off of what the student needs). Flatiron is not interested in your success, they are not interested in your best interest, they don't care if you or your spouse have had the Coronavirus and needed to switch paces because of it. They just want your $15k+ and nothing less. Flatiron has switched to entirely online due to the COVID panic generated by the government and media. However, they have not provided an equivalent product to the Immersive experience and yet want to charge the exact same price. They have claimed to do just such a thing, which makes them dishonest and unethical. Having used Treehouse for a couple of years, Flatiron's curriculum is pathetic compared to Treehouse, leaps and bounds in terms of video production and instruction quality. They are equal in educational support. Treehouse is $25/month. TL;DR: Tiwanna sucks, as does the rest of the staff have poor communication and slow responsiveness and there is zero accountability for the staff, the instructor graduated Flatiron and started teaching others, they won't let you swap Full Time to Self Paced, curriculum is basically $15k to Google search to pass the Labs that they don't teach you how to do. How Flatiron can sleep at night charging $15,000 for this pile of junk that they call a school is beyond me. Terrible staff, horrible curriculum, overpriced Google searching for what they call an "education," and the worst part is they just literally don't care about the students.
Avoid! I couldn't complete the course and left after the first week, they charged me 1k?! Even after knowing I couldn't keep up with course, had a newborn baby and mortgage and bills! Heartless company! I'm 34, working in finance. I wasn't happy in my career and looked for a career change. I tried the sample course on a few sites and enjoyed the flatiron course and the way the website looked as well as the job guarantee. after speaking to the admin team at flatiron I joined up. 1k deposit and 9k loan for a career change seemed great. But...I struggled at the end of the pre course work. Speaking to admin about this they pushed me to join the full immersion course before I was ready/confident. They informed me that I made enough progress to get through it. I was going to take a career break, knowing I can return to my current job and if it didn't work out with flatirons job guarantee, that I have a job already so risk wasn't too bad. Upon joining I was told I was people were being made redundant. I had to take calls during the course and attend meetings. The stress caused me to fall behind. I struggled to keep up with the course material. I was told I was keeping my job but had to return sooner than expected and to a further location and different job. I had to drop out. I begged the team to help but had no help. I have a new born baby, mortgage and bills. Redundancy would give 2minths pay so had no choice but to keep the job. I couldn't risk my families future. I had to make a choice to leave the course after the redundancy. Flatiron showed no compassion whatsoever, pointing me to generic terms and conditions and disregarded my personal circumstances. They kept 1k even though I had not used 1k worth or resources or tutors time. Utter shameless company! Begged them to return our savings as 1k is a lot of money as I am the only one working. They said, tough and that they won't return it
Flatiron is a life-changing experience where all the students and staff are committed to excellence. The preparation in their bootcamp prep and the prep work they require for students to complete before entering the campus are unparalleled. In addition, the job placement team is legit!
Flatiron is a life-changing experience where all the students and staff are committed to excellence. The preparation in their bootcamp prep and the prep work they require for students to complete before entering the campus are unparalleled. In addition, the job placement team is legit!
It was a great experience. I learned an enormous amount, and have a successful career in software development since then. The skills I learned at Flatiron are instrumental to that success
@FlatironSchool = by far the best educational experience I've had. Great culture. Great team. Solid student body. Solid outcomes. Recommend.
Really great teachers and excellent support. Offered weekend tutoring which was helpful with some more difficult to grasp subjects. Received lots of job interview prep/resume help at the end of the course and was set up with quite a few job interviews. Landed a job through them but did not receive the $4,000 tuition reimbursement they advertise. When I asked about it I was told it's actually up to the employer to decide if they want to pay it, which I found weird. Wouldn't most employers just opt out of paying? I'd advise prospective students to get some clarification on how the reimbursement works before enrolling. I landed a job 2 months after graduation (starting salary of $50,000) and learned A LOT. Overall, I'm definitely happy with the experience and opportunities Flatiron School provided.
It provides an excellent foundation, but prospective students should keep in mind that it does not make you fully employable (despite what they say!). Flatiron will get you well on the way to employability, but you need to do the rest yourself and/or find an employer who's willing to make an investment in you.
My experience at the Flatiron School was quite positive and I am glad I became a part of the community. The TA's and head instructor were very knowledgable and I felt like they were invested in my success, but I also didn't feel like they were overbearing. I did come in with a background in CS so at first, I felt like the course was not terribly difficult but soon enough I was challenged by the content. Some of the non-coding extra-curriculars they do are silly and you just have to grin and bear it. Also, the final group project was hard because I feel like we were not given enough direction. But I learned a lot and was able to gain employment after it was all over.
It was a great experience in terms of learning and developing as an individual. As important as it is to learn how to learn (and by default, how to learn how to code), it's also important to remain balanced and humble. I really learned how to break down problems thoroughly and assess timely solutions.
Great school. Provides a diverse environment where one has the ability to reach his/her full potential around people who are equally as passionate and motivated as you.
Overall I think it's extremely well-rounded and easy to understand. I highly recommend the Learn-Verified online program (which is where I'm enrolled), but I have friends who took the in-person intensive program and I've only heard good things as well.
I think it's an awesome program! Their teaching philosophy is amazing and the instructors are great. Highly recommended. The learning is very hands on. Not relying too much on lectures rather on hands on coding with a stress on TDD using real world tools.
Awesome school way better than a college degree program and I really loved every moment of it. I would recommend this school to anyone who can afford it. You just won't get the algorithms and data structures of a CS program but you'll learn how to code and that is powerful in 12 weeks.
I learned a ton and my instructor was fantastic. The students were fantastic, too - driven & intelligent & engaged. I would definitely recommend it.
Greatest opportunity of my life. The school is through and through amazing. Everyone from the people who are selected to attend, the staff and curriculum I couldn't be happier. The Flatiron School truly changed my life.
Best decision I've ever made. Flatiron opened doors for me professionally and intellectually that would have taken me many confused years to try and pry open on my own. They start their students on a path of programming greatness on the shoulders of giants like Kent Beck, Uncle Bob and Sandi Metz, unlike other experiences that try and cram syntax into your head to get you a job and out the door. On top of the stellar programming training, it's also a unique life experience that is hard to come by as an adult: nearly half a year of singularly-focused immersion in which you can literally _feel_ your brain changing every day. It's exhilarating!
Great experience, knowledgeable and caring instructors. Definitely gave me the base I needed to move on to find a job in the industry straight out of school, but you definitely only get out of it what you put in.
This is an intense and immersive program that makes you dive right in with real-world tools like Git and Atom with the potential to contribute to open source curriculum and begin building an impressive portfolio.
Overall it was a good experience. I came out of school with enough knowledge under my belt to get a new job as an iOS developer. This was not the case for many of my peers who are still looking for jobs. I think sometimes the course was disorganized and lacked structure for students who needed it.
I learned a lot within the 3 months and feel pretty confident with my web development skills. I attribute this largely to the Learn.co curriculum and my instructor, Jeff Katz. There were a few moments that reflected poorly on the school: namely due to campus management issues and a preoccupation with the school's image and $$$. But I have to say that overall it was a pleasant experience.
Pretty great environment to learn how to code. Teachers were great, sources were fine, but I think the most important thing is being able to learn in group, together with other students.
Highly recommended. The Flatiron education fosters a love of code and learning that extends beyond the skills you'll need on the job -- you leave with both a solid foundation of skills, but also a lifelong passion. Friendly, encouraging culture; superb teachers; great cohorts -- it's everything you could want. Only negative is the fast expansion, which makes campus crowded.
Best experience of my life! The pervasive atmosphere in one caring and collaboration. The people (employees/instructors and students alike) really want you to succeed and will help you in any which way. I was most impressed by the curriculum and the methodology they use to teach you full stack web development from ground up - covering the basic ground level principles, then building on that in a layered manner to give you a thorough low level to high level grasp of the concepts. The Job placements team is in touch with you throughout and are really there for you and are plain superb. Honestly the greatest thing I've ever done. (Slight disclaimer is that I now work there, but that has only made me love them more - seeing the behind the scenes care and passion expressed by the company throughout)
It was an amazing, intense bootcamp, where we had passionate instructors who cared about our success and colleagues who were always willing to peer program and/or do a code review.
It was an amazing experience. You learn a ton and the environment is incredibly supportive. My classmates were hardworking, smart, and hilarious which made the experience that much better. I am so happy I went.
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They were great. Avi was the main instructor when I was at the school and his passion for development in general and Ruby specifically really showed in his style of instruction. The additional instructors/TAs were also great, and readily able to provide assistance and point students in the right direction
Flatiron Instructors are super cool, capable and clear people. Each of my instructors had a special blend of technical knowledge, empathy, and cultural competency. It was clear that I was learning from people who believed in themselves, the mission of Flatiron, and me. There's no shortage of ego in the startup community. It was great to see the real difference between the "Ego" I see in a lot of space, and a confidence in the value of being a great teacher / student. The instructors were confident in themselves, in the process and in me. That confidence made all the difference, especially during a moment when my own confidence waned. The environment really matters in those moments.
My instructors were the best part of the whole experience - they are absolutely wonderful people, and they really do personally care about everyone learning as much as possible and enjoying the process. Two years after graduating, I'm still in touch with them and continue to learn from them.
The main instructor was a bit of a rambler and he would go off on odd tangents, but he was kind and knowledgable and always good for a laugh. The TA's were friendly and help when they could but were often swamped. Help was easy to come by though. Peers were always there.
They were effective in creating the eagerness to continue learning and personal development. There's very little hand holding, which I liked a lot.
Very effective. They gave you the ability to be as curious as you liked. Thats all you need to be able to succeed as you want. The ball is in your court.
The staff is very responsive and helpful. They e-mail back within a few hours and scheduling Skype meetings to discuss any issues is also an option. You can also visit the campus even if you're enrolled in the online school. They're really doing a great job!
They are great. They work really hard to find the right balance between being helpful on the one hand and not spoonfeeding on the other, rather guiding you so you can find the solution on your own.
They were great! A little more hands off than I would like but learning with the students really came together and crushed the labs that were assigned. In hind sight the hands off approach is a lot more reflective of the work world.
My main instructors Blake, Steven and occasionally Avi are by far the most amazing individuals I've had the opportunity to learn from. They each have their own styles, but everything flows together well and made learning a true pleasure.
Highly effective!! I collected a long list of quotes from Avi Flombaum (my cohort was lucky to have the dean as our main instructor) ranging from the deeply insightful about the core tenets of programming, to the hilariously silly, off-the-cuff mid-lecture jokes. Additionally, all of the TAs and other instructors were equally brilliant and patient and always there when you needed them. (Including a little after the semester ended while people were getting on their feet).
The instructors were great. TAs are often former students who know what it's like to go through the same process, and the instructors are very good at taking something complex and boiling it down to something you can understand.
Lead instructor wasn't super effective, but there is a different one now. The TA's were always available and explained things well/walked you through any issues you had.
The lead instructor was great but the other instructors weren't that helpful. This is due to the fact that they commonly hire instructors who recently graduated from the school and don't have much experience in the field.
They get the job done.
They were very effective and would always work though a problem with us if we were struggling or didn't understand the problem. Their passion was contagious.
Very. When choosing a bootcamp, I thought I needed a teacher who was an expert in the industry and had been programming for 20 years. My instructor had not been programming for 20 years but he was extremely knowledgable, a great teacher, and he could give us really valuable perspective on what to expect in the workforce when starting out. Both my main teacher and the TA's were incredible. The TA's have taken the course themselves, so they have a great perspective on what your questions might be during each phase of learning.
The culture at Flatiron is very welcoming. Students are given the run down of the schools 'no assholes' policy on day one, and people work to be friendly and helpful in general. Since most of the work is collaborative, this is crucial to the success of the program
The environment really lives up to its mantra: "Learn. Love. Code." In brief, I would say the culture creates space for all three, and for a unique combination of them at times. My favorite parts of the culture are: 1) Getting all students to code from Day One 2) Integrating Soft Skills & Special Guests into the Curriculum 3) "Feelings" Friday as an intentional space to both emotionally respect and process the rigor of the program.
It was definitely a much more outgoing culture than I'm used to. Lots of fun but occasionally the vibe felt a little pretentious to me (a fellow student called it "cultish", which I could also see).
Laid back, a touch bro-y but not in a terrible way. The instructors at Flatiron are really really invested in everyone's success, and they will move heaven and earth to get you where you need to be!
Friendly and calm. Everyone is supportive. There is some underlying competitiveness but it is not the main feeling you get when you're there.
The culture is extremely oriented around pairing and clear communication amongst the faculty as well as the students. There is a real sense of community.
Diverse and Open. Good culture that provides the ability for one to learn. 24/7 office space that provides the opportunity for one to lack sleep also.
Even though it's online, making it more difficult to have a sense of community, I think the Flatiron School has done a really great job. You can create study groups with other students and ask each other questions, and they've incorporated a mandatory blog option to record your learning process and read those of others as well.
Very cooperative and community oriented. Students are encouraged to help each other out and be part of a community. Students really form a bond of friendship. Whenever I get stuck late at night when no instructors are available I know I can count on a fellow student to help out.
Very friendly coding culture with encouraging smart people that are happy to see you succeed. I was a computer science major for 3 years in college and learned nothing. I learned how to program in Flatiron School.
Relaxed but nurturing environment. Very start-up kind of culture, but in only the good ways. Everyone that manages to be apart of the Flatiron school be it staff or student all contribute towards building a great environment for learning and growing both technically and socially.
The overwhelming atmosphere at Flatiron is one of fostered learning and encouragement. Whether we were learning to TDD a Ruby app or learning to tie complex sailing knots (that happened), the foremost focus was on learning HOW to learn. This is invaluable for a developer because so much of your professional life is spent learning new things and allowing yourself to grow and change with the industry. It also just makes you a better person :)
Very friendly. In actuality, most of the learning occurred through working with other students on projects and learning from each other. I still keep in contact with many of my classmates.
The culture is supportive with a focus on solving problems, building connections, and getting involved with the greater developer community.
Very friendly, comfortable and self motivated environment. The higher ups at the school are fairly standoffish if they don't know you, but the professors and TA's are super helpful and relatable when walking you through something.
It tries to build this through weekly rituals like Flatiron School Presents and Feelings Friday, but I would say it fails at building a good culture.
Strong community. Great teams, nice people. all in all awesome experience.
Very much one of collaboration and a real focus on 'being reasonable and being nice'. Students are there for each other, and everyone is really motivated to work hard and succeed.
The culture was fun and vibrant. Everyone there wanted to have a better future for themselves and were willing to put in the time to master their craft.
The culture is one of curiousity, respect, and self-reliance. There are people around to help you, including your classmates who turn out to be some of the best resources, but you are also expected to lean how to learn and solve problems on your own.
If you can get in, do it. The school has an amazing, ever changing curriculum that is improved based on past results. The job placement program is also stellar
As I said previously, get some clarification regarding the rules of the $4,000 tuition refund. Besides that, I'd say you should probably throw yourself more into the social aspect of it than I did, even if you're introverted. Don't just stick with one group -- try and get to know as many of your classmates as possible. Oh, and definitely don't slack on the pre-work.
Quit your day job, say goodbye to your friends, and start winding down any personal relationships you may have. This program can work for you, but you have to work for it. This is a 24/7 endeavor, and if you're willing to give it 100% of yourself it will pay you back in kind. However, you cannot coast through this. If you refuse to do the homework and doze through class, you will get nothing out of it.
You get what you put in. Don't do this if you're not ready to change your life. This is a huge time and money investment and if you're not ready to commit, don't bother.
To not get bogged down by not learning things as fast as your peers - there will be things you'll access at that your peers won't and vice versa.
Work hard. Sacrifice and always remember that you get out what you put in. And oh yea never doubt yourself. It will be hard but always push.
Even if you're not sure whether or not you want to pursue a career as a programmer, I think what the Flatiron School has to offer can only be beneficial to you and your future. Learning to code does not only help you develop a creative and strategic way of solving problems, but there is so much room for individual and collective empowerment and you will feel that the more you continue to learn. Just have fun and stay disciplined!
Work from 9am to 12am and on the weekends because you will never get a chance to take 12 weeks of just learning again. Work on side Projects as well you learn the most from projects in the bootcamp. It's kind of like the boss stage in a game, it encompasses everything you learned from the labs.
Do as much prep work as possible before the course, and take some time to learn some CS fundamentals on your own before the course, too. You have to really love computer science - maybe obvious, but not always the case for bootcamp students.
Make sure this is actually what you want to do and not something you think will get you a easy paycheck. If you don't care and invest you will not experience how fruitful this opportunity can be.
Normally I advocate skepticism and independent thought, but I'd say "willingly drink the Flatiron Kool-Aid!". I had a moment when I realized that Flatiron's mission and approach is definitely very heavy-handed and I could either criticize it and get creeped out by it, or put all my faith in their experience and syllabus design. I did the latter and I feel that that was the way to get the most out of the school. They know what they're doing and it's in your best interest to go with their flow.
Prepare to spend most of your time coding or thinking about coding. It's a lot of work, and to make the most of the program, you need to put the effort in. But if you do so, it'll be very rewarding.
Work outside of class and do as many side projects as you can. Get an app or two into the App Store on your own outside of the class assignment. In the end just make sure you have multiple apps, some in objective-C and some in swift, on your GitHub. Attend meet ups throughout the entire bootcamp.
Try to stay ahead of the curriculum and don't be afraid to ask the instructors for extra support. There will be some weeks that feel slow-paced and others that feel overwhelmingly fast. Try to grasp the essentials while you're there; enough to land you a job.
Even though it's an amazing school, it definitely does worth 15k. None of the bootcamps do. You can take course online. You can attend couple of meetups and talk to people. They'll be happy to help.
Don't give up! The process of learning to code can be excruciatingly hard at times. but you really reap what you sow, and the reward way outweighs the pain. Learning to program had without a doubt been the most enriching experience I've ever had.
To seek understanding first. If a coding problem is difficult, I recommend they break down the problem into its smaller components and solve what they can.
Enjoy your time, try to learn as much as you can. It flies by and is such a rare opportunity to focus 100% on learning something new. Realize that, even if you feel like you know nothing, you know more than you think. It sneaks up on you. Plan to limit social time with friends and family outside of the bootcamp. There can be balance, but I usually just found that having social commitments stressed me out since I would rather be studying/going to a meetup/etc.


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Father of controversial blogger, Kemi Olunloyo has publicly denounced her following her numerous unfounded attacks at him and other notable individuals in the society.
Kemi's father, Omololu Olunloyo is a Second Republic governor of old Oyo State and a respected elder statesman.
In an emotion laden statement released on Thursday, Omololu revealed that his daughter had a history of mental illness and had refuted efforts by family and friends to get help for her.
As he apologised to everyone who has been attacked by his estranged daughter, the heartbroken father described the statements credited to her as "utterly irresponsible", "libellous" and "repeatedly painful."
Omololu, who was a governor under the umbrella of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), in his apology stated that even he and his family are not protected from the scathing attacks of the blogger.
He tendered an unreserved apology, "I would like to apologise without reservation to all persons affected. I hope and pray they would graciously accept the apology."
He extended his apology to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, the General Oversea of Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, the founder of the Synagogue Church of all Nations, Temitope Joshua and former President Olusegun Obasanjo among others.
He said, "There seems to be a curious pair of writers, an Aboderin resident in Ireland and Kemi Olunloyo, who sometimes curiously act separately and sometimes in union. Some of their most unfortunate victims are their half siblings.
"Others of higher status in the society (like) ex-president Obasanjo and quite recently, clergy men with large respectable following, such as the General Oversea of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A Adeboye, a brilliant fellow mathematician, an inspired Bishop Oyedepo, the inimitable Reverend T.B Joshua, all learned men.
"She includes me, her father. All four of us she dubs ritualists. Of course, none of us, as far as I know, is anything of sort. She has gone so far as to accuse us of various sexual crimes and gone too far to give social media itself a very dubious name, in term of uncontrolled freedom to assault others."
Furthermore, he condemned the attack by Kemi on veteran Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko following the death of his wife, Henrietta on June 6.
Kemi had called Kosoko a ritualist following the tragic passage of his wife.
Omololu revealed that Kemi's behaviour had several times put her in trouble with the law in Ireland and in the United States even adding that the late Ooni of Ife, Okunade Sijuwade, once bailed her out of jail.
"Of Late, in the last four weeks or so, she had had the audacity to pass irrelevant and hopeless comments on one of our national talented artists, prince Jide Kosoko, whom I admire so much, calling him a black widower as he has unfortunately lost three wives.
"I had thought at 52, Kemi will further train her mind and cease to be an embarrassment to herself and member of her nuclear, extended family and to the general public. I thank pastors and psychiatrists like Dr. Lasebikan, who had gone to great lengths at their own personal cost to restrain her from excesses and recklessness. I dissociate myself entirely form her conducts and statements.
"She must accept responsibility for her actions and utterances as well as the consequences. My condemnation is total and not in any instance defensible. My position is absolutely clear. She has gone too far and needlessly so," he wrote.


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Current Productions –Look out for:
November 21st, 2011
Kate Brennan - T'is pity she's a whore - The Project Theatre from December 9th
Kerrie O'Sullivan - Dearbhla Dillon- in Fair City.
Louisa Harland and Peter Coonan, who will be featured in Love/Hate on RTE Television
Also Delphi Morris and Mia Murphy, featuring in "Ainsprid" November 17th TG4
Zara Lynn -Ghostlands dir. Joseph O'Malley
Adam Fogarty - Vodafone commercial TV
David Browne - Vodafone commercial TV
Chelsea O'Toole - Eircom commercial - TV
Caoimhe Doyle - Emobile commercial - TV
Nathan O'Toole - "Borgias" Created by Neil Jordan
Toni O'Rourke - Element Pictures Film" What Richard did"
Mary Martin, "My Phone Genie" TV Series -Telegael
Eoin McCormick -Short film directed by Stewart Lambert
Lauren Murphy - "Fair City" RTE Television.
Matthew Boyle, "Nikko" animated Film - Magma Films
Carley Baker, Nikko animated Film - Magma Films
Ella Flanagn, Hannah O'Grady, Zara Lynn, " Princess Word Exhibition" TV commercial
Aoibheann Reddy - "Sing" RTE 2 Television
Louisa Harland, "Love Hate"- RTE Television
Ciaran Gallagher and Caoimhe Doyle O'Malley - "Camelot" RTE Television
Romey Farrelly- Gate Theatre- " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
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