text: Get Hired Calling all final year students – we want to help you get hired! Get Hired is here to help you get your next steps sorted before you graduate and answer that question – what are you planning after graduation? Deciding what to do after graduation will be unique to you; perhaps you already know what you want to do, possibly you've changed your mind from when you first arrived, or, perhaps you know what you're good at and where your passions lie but are unsure what career will be right for you. Now's the time to take those important first steps and get hired! Find a job, get recruited Whether you are looking for summer internships, interested in graduate roles or want to get a part-time job, check out 'Jobs Online' on the Careers Portal – we advertise up to 2,000 jobs every week with more than 50 graduate scheme opportunities. Log on, go to the 'Jobs' tab and select 'Job type' in the drop-down menu. Attend our events We runs a range of events throughout the year, from informal workshops that help you master an aspect of the job hunting process like CVs or interviews, to our large-scale careers fairs, sector-focused weeks which see dozens of employers visiting campus to recruit students. Explore our upcoming events. Discover your options during our sector-focused careers weeks. Careers Consultant appointments and CV/Application check appointments Whatever stage you're at, the Careers and Employability team can support and advise on the choices available to you. We can help you evaluate your skills, explore career ideas and enact a plan that will get you started on a journey towards career success. Log onto the Careers Portal, go to the 'Appointments' tab, select the type of appointment and an available timeslot. You can also pop to our helpdesk in the Davison Building, email us or phone the team at +44 (0) 1784 443 073. Meet visiting employers Hundreds of alumni and employers visit our campus every year to speak about student and graduate career opportunities, and to offer career coaching and top tips. With previous employers including PwC, the Civil Service, BBC, Deloitte and many others, these visits are an invaluable opportunity for you to network with potential future employers and get ahead of the crowd. Students can book to speak with visiting employers to explore their options in different sectors and for advice on applications in a relaxed, informal environment. Depending on demand, this may be one-to-one or in a small group. Our Employer in Residence scheme enables you to meet visiting employers in our dedicated employer area in the Careers Centre. Find out more. Skill up and prepare to get hired online There are also many online resources where you can research and prepare for your options at a time and place that works for you: Check out our Moodle pages where we have helpsheets, online training and extensive resources Discover your prospects! Prospects is a useful website, where you can explore the variety of roles in different sectors on their job profiles page. It's a really good starting to evaluate what's involved in specific roles and how your skills matter in different industries. Your career starts here We know that your journey to deciding what to do after graduation is unique to you. There are lots of activities across the College to help you plan what you want to do in your future career. Your degree from Royal Holloway will demonstrate your academic qualities and achievements to potential employers. However, employers are also looking for you to demonstrate how you expanded your skills outside of the classroom. Our graduates tell us that taking part in activities such as volunteering, a placement, working a part-time job alongside their studies or joining a sports club or society has both enriched their experience at university and also provided them with skills that employers are looking for. Here are just some of the ways for you to evaluate, explore and enact your career options alongside your studies. Find out more. Header Here Text here


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The night sky is fascinating, beautiful and always changing. All cultures have been using the night sky to navigate and to tell stories for thousands of years. This chapter describes how astronomers find their way around the night sky and measure sizes and distances in space.
Star in a Box Explore the lifecycle of stars with this interactive app
Educational Resources Our collection of online activites, print resources, and observing tips.
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Here are the answers to some of the most common questions we receive. If you have additional questions, contact us.
» How long will my Morrell target last?
It will last for thousands upon thousands of shots. Each target is designed with a specific purpose in mind. Our Super Duper Target is designed specifically for field points and should last the average shooter for years. It even boasts a two-year warranty. However, other targets may be designed for both broadheads and field points alike, so they might not last as long once you begin shooting broadheads into it, because of the extreme damage done by the blades.
» How do I take care of my target?
All Morrell targets are designed with your shooting comfort and enjoyment in mind, which means we design them to withstand the elements of weather (so you can leave them outside). On our bag targets, as long as you keep a good cover on them, they should maintain excellent performance. On our broadhead targets, little extra care is required. For ultimate longevity, keep both broadhead and bag targets covered when not in use, in order to shield them from the sun and rain.
» Will my target stop carbon arrows at high speed?
Yes! Our targets are manufactured with today's speed bows in mind. They can take it!
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Our Elite Series Targets & Double Duty 400 FPS Targets boast an incomparable two-year warranty. Our targets are the only targets on the market today that can make that guarantee. Read more about our two-year warranty here.
» Can I shoot field points into my broadhead target?
We recommend shooting field points into a bag target, strictly for the purpose of your enjoyment. Arrows will pull out of bag targets with one finger. That's nice! However, many people are looking for a target that works well with broadheads and field points. In this case, we recommend our new Vital Signs Combo Target. Shooting both broadheads and field points is very acceptable with this target. Arrow-removal is extremely easy, and you can shoot all six sides of the target, meaning you will have more square inches of target to use.
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An awards ceremony was held at the conclusion of the recently held Leeward Islands 50 overs competition, which was hosted in Montserrat.
The following awards were presented:
The Auckland Hector Best Wicket-Keeper – Mr. Jaison Peters (Montserrat)
The Robert Jeffers Most Discipline Team – Team St. Kitts
The Haycene Ryan Batsman with the Highest Individual Score – Mr. Rahkeem Cornwall (Antigua & Barbuda 118 not out vs Montserrat.)
The Austin White Bowler with the Most Wickets – Mr. Deno Baker (Montserrat) &
Mr. Daniel Doram (Smarten) 10 wickets each.
The Keith Arthurton Best Fielding Team- Team St. Kitts
The Davon Williams Batsman with the Most Runs- Mr. Rahkeem Cornwall (278 runs Antigua & Barbuda).
The Lesroy Weekes Bowler with the Best Bowling Figures Mr. Deno Baker (Montserrat 6/23 vs St Maarten.)
The Bertrand Osborne Batsman who scored A Century in the Tournament-
Mr. Rahkeem Cornwall (Antigua & Barbuda 118 not out.)
Mr. Chesney Hughes (Anguilla 104)
The Jim Allen Most Valuable Player of the Leeward Islands Men's 50 Overs Championship 2018- Mr. Rahkeem Cornwall (Antigua & Barbuda)
Batsman with the Most Runs for Each Country:
Anguilla – Mr. Chesney Hughes (190 runs)
Antigua & Barbuda- Mr. Rahkeem Cornwall (278 runs)
St Maarten- Mr. Akeem Charles (75 runs)
Nevis – Mr. Adelvin Phillip (193 runs)
St Kitts – Mr. Akeem Saunders (176 runs)
Montserrat – Mr. Jaison Peters (213 runs)
Bowler with the Most Wickets for Each Country:
Anguilla – Mr. Chesney Hughes/ Mr. Yannick Leonard (7 wickets each)
Antigua & Barbuda – Mr. Karima Gore (7 wickets)
St Maarten Mr. Daniel Doram (10 wickets)
Nevis – Mr. Nelson Bolan (7 wickets)
St Kitts – Mr. Jeremiah Louis (9 wickets)
Montserrat – Mr. Deno Baker (10 wickets)
Most Valuable Player for Each Country 2018:
The Lanville Harrigan M.V.P for Anguilla- Mr. Chesney Hughes
The Sylvester Joseph M.V.P for Antigua & Barbuda- Mr. Rahkeem Cornwall
The Imran Mc Sood M.V.P for St. Maarten- Mr. Daniel Doram
The Stuart Williams M.V.P for Nevis- Mr. Adelvin Phillip
The Shane Jeffers M.V.P for St Kitts- Mr. Terrance Warde
The Bennette Roach M.V.P for Montserrat- Mr. Jaison Peters
Final Country Standings for the Leeward Islands 2018 Men's Championship:
Champions – Team St Kitts
Second Place- Team Antigua & Barbuda
Third Place- Team Anguilla.


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The European Union (EU) has modest but promising capacities to assist member states overwhelmed by disaster through its Civil Protection Mechanism. The EU also routinely sends civil and military missions to hotspots outside EU territory. But these capacities do not suffice in the face of transboundary crises: threats that cross geographical and policy borders within the Union. Examples include epidemics, financial crises, floods, and cyber terrorism. Nation states cannot cope with these threats without international collaboration. In this article, we explore the EU's efforts to develop transboundary crisis management capacities. We describe these budding capacities, explain their policy origins, and explore their future potential.
The world of crises and disasters is changing rapidly. We are witnessing new types of adversity. In addition, modern societies have become increasingly vulnerable to disruptions, new and old. This new world demands new types of responses, which nation states cannot produce alone. Nation states will have to cooperate to protect their citizens from these threats. This article investigates the role of the European Union in the development of new safety and security arrangements. It identifies conceptual building blocks for a new security paradigm and offers design principles that can facilitate a shared way of thinking and acting in the safety and security domain
One key question for the European security community is whether today's confrontation between the EU member states and Russia is the end of its spread to the Baltic Sea region, including Russian districts, and the beginning of a return of geopolitical rivalry in the region. This article investigates the possibilities of avoiding such a negative downward spiral by drawing on security community theory and discussing two different methods of security community building – "top-down" and "bottom-up". It points to the need for the EU institutions to return to the Monnet method to find a way out of the geopolitical "zero-sum" game increasingly played by the governments in the region. This implies not putting restrictions on participants from the north-west regions of Russia in strategically chosen areas of cooperation, and a more pronounced bottom-up, long-term and macro-regional approach built on joint problem-solving projects and people-topeople contacts that generate "win-win" games.
European states may no longer expect inter‐state violence, but they do expect complex threats emanating from storms, epidemics, terror attacks and earthquakes. The EU has answered these threats through the rapid and far‐reaching institutionalization of European security cooperation. However, member states hesitate to use their common capacities. While both intergovernmental and constructivist approaches treat this pattern as evidence of weak integration and as unimportant to the European security community, we examine this cooperation through the lens of practice theory and reveal how the growth of EU capacities is fully compatible with a critical and cautious approach to activating these resources in the everyday work of national officials. Using unique empirical data retrieved through participant observation in the first multisectoral crisis management exercise held by the EU, the findings of this analysis sketch the contours of a new type of security community.
Security Sector Reform (SSR) is increasingly becoming a cornerstone in international security and development cooperation. Indeed, the concept has often been seen as a panacea for many of the biggest threats to the world such as failed states, terrorism and poverty. In particular, this book focuses on the complexities of implementation of SSR across the globe and the actual and potential role for the European Union (EU) to play in SSR. As suggested in the title of the book, this involves not only opportunities, but challenges to be overcome as well. There are three core themes to this book: Policy, Policies and Practice. By presenting the themes in this particular order, a greater appreciation of the influences on the process of SSR, from conception to implementation, is relayed to the reader. This volume appeals to audiences interested in the EU as a global actor and the interrelationships between foreign, security, defence and development policies.
The Norwegian state has a long-standing tradition of protecting its citizens from a range of threats from natural disasters, infectious diseases, industrial accidents, critical infrastructure failure, to terrorist attacks. This case study provides a broad and detailed description on the main features of the modern Norwegian civil security system. It explains how it functions, it describes the system's political and cultural context, and it addresses the changes that have occurred since the Oslo bombing and the Utøya shootings in 2011 July 22. The coordination of human and material resources to prevent, prepare, respond to, and recover from, various crises is constructed along three guiding principles of responsibility, decentralization, and conformity. This not only means that responsibility for crisis management should be at the lowest possible level, but that the state and its society must also operate under normal standards, regardless of the type or extent of a particular crisis. As this study shows, most areas of the civil security system are infused with these defining principles. This can be seen, for example, in the discussion on the cultural elements that inform Norwegian society, the production of legislation, or in operational procedures used in responding to crises. In addition to these areas, this study also provides detailed descriptions on Norway's administrative and legal traditions, its external cooperative endeavours, as well as the way in which the private sector and citizens interact with civil security system. In order to further understand the system, this study investigates three quality measures based on the extent to which the system is effective, efficient, and legitimate. An annex is also included that depicts the principal descriptive features of the study, as well as a case study on the H1N1 virus. Set within the dark shadows of the events that took place on July 22 – that could have been avoided through existing security measures according to Norwegian state authorities – this study concludes by highlighting the need for an increase in vigilance and efficiency of the Norwegian civil security system.
This case study provides a comprehensive description of cooperation in the Barents Euro Arctic Region (BEAR). Regional cooperation in this area includes two inter-related organizations. The first is the Barents Euro-Arctic Regional Council (BEAC), which is as an intergovernmental forum that consists of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and the Russian Federation. The second is the Barents Regional Council (BRC), which is an interregional forum that consists of 13 counties or provinces from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland and northwestern Russia. In the last 20 years this unique institutional framework has expanded to include cooperation not only on economic and social development, but also in the area of civil security. Building on and complementing existing cooperative endeavours in the field – such as cooperation in maritime and aeronautical search and rescue, existing bilateral agreements on emergency cooperation, and the 1986 Convention on Assistance in Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency – the members of the BEAC and the BRC institutionalized emergency management cooperation in 2008. This includes inter alia notification of emergencies, the establishment of a joint manual, simulation exercises, the exchange of personal, and training. While still young, this form of cooperation shows much promise in an increasingly important region of the world. This study describes civil security cooperation within the BEAR. In particular, it provides an overview of the regional organizations' cultural, legal and institutional design and it describes the relationships between BEAR and its member states, citizens and stakeholder. The final section of this article also assesses the current state of play by analyzing the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of BEAR in relation to its civil security activities.
This study describes the current state of play and historical context of intergovernmental cooperation through the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and its engagement with civil security. It addresses the organizational, institutional, and cultural frameworks of the CBSS, as well as the international context within which it is embedded. This provides an important backdrop for describing the civil security system, which the CBSS has fostered for over 20 years. Beginning with the establishment of an expert group on nuclear and radiological safety in 1992, the CBSS now participates in a wide range of cooperative endeavours, such as information exchange on forest firefighting and environmental pollution. This study also assesses CBSS civil security along three indicators that highlight the extent to which the system is effective, efficient and legitimate. It is argued that the CBSS is a regional organization that finds its strength as a platform for facilitating and encouraging cooperation on civil security; however, its actual capacity as an actor in civil security area remains low.


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The following videos show the process of assembling a 12 camera Optitrack Flex 13 system. We originally got the system little over a year ago at which time I created a number of videos showing the process, see the following blog post.
This blog post follows on from my previous post which included quite a number of photographs showing the process of assembly.
The first video below was recorded at 1fps, hence is running at 25x real-time speed. It shows the mounting of the cameras, the wiring of the up to the capture workstation and their repositioning with respect to the capture volume. You may also spot the setting up of a 5.1 Speaker System (Logitech Z906), that can output 500 watts of auditory bliss.
Two days later I got around to tidying some things up and calibration of the system. With the system fully operation and tested out all that was remaining was to tidy up the cables and make everything good and neat.
If you want to see a faster version of the first video above then this one below run at about 60x real-time and is a little under 3.5 minutes in length.
This very first assembly video created in September 2012 has received 1812 views to-date. As you can see it was setup in a much smaller room than in the videos above. Consequently the effective capture volume was limited to a cylinder of just a feet. If you like a spot of Vivaldi with your time-lapse videos this you may enjoy taking a look.
The following playlist includes over 40 videos documenting the process of setting up the MoCap system.


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North Shropshire has excellent golfing facilities for the casual player or even the keen sportsman or woman. One of our courses was even recentley voted as being amongst the best courses in the world - some award! And it was here at Hawkstone Park that Sandy Lyle learnt his craft on a course designed by his father.The Terrick Hall Hotel adjoins the Hill Valley Golf and Country Club at Whitchurch and offers a variety of Golf packages and guaranteed starting times.
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Vera City Council clarifies that it is not cutting down trees in the picnic area
Given the misinformation interested in some managers of Neighborhood Associations, primarily Vera Beach, and its dissemination to the Media with the aim of confusing the public opinion regarding veratense logging on municipal land, Vera City Council wants to make clear the following points:
1º. HE. Vera City Council is not holding out felling of trees in the plot of municipal property known as the "Merendero", with access from the Av. Alicante City.
2º. In the adjacent plot to "Merendero", in front of Av. Ciudad de Murcia, and is a building plot of residential and privately owned since 1989, is being performed clearing, land clearing and removal of existing shrubs and trees, as it communicated to the City Council by the private owner thereof, by the usual procedure in such cases, by electronic filing of 22/10/2017, which also reported the start of this work from 30 October.


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I'm interested in finding out how many people manage to make time for breakfast everyday! And if you do manage to, how do you fit it in?
If you don't have it everyday, how often do you manage to have it?
And what would be your ideal breakfast?
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Posted on: 15th Feb 2014
Fay says: Every morning i make my kids there breakfast and make mine while im there and we all have breakfast together we always have breaky before we go out. For breakfast we either have weet-bix, coco pops, toast, pancakes or bacon and eggs along with glass of cordial or orange juice. I cant not eat breakfast when i have kids.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent cabinet rejig bears a clear reflection of BJP's run-up into election 2019. However, it also divulges how closely he has been monitoring and evaluating the ministries and the ministers, both the state and the union, in his cabinet.
The cabinet rearrangement is highly significant in multiple ways. Inductees have been picked up wisely keeping in mind his ambitious vision for the New India 2022 and the other by-polls going to be held before 2019 in several politically important states including Uttar Pradesh, Himachal, Karnataka and Odisha.
Much has been said on the induction pattern of the nine new faces in the cabinet. Nine new ministers who have got space into PM cabinet include four former bureaucrats and Rajya Sabha MPs.
Modi's dependency on the bureaucrats is not new but a replica of the model he strictly adhered to during his chief ministerial tenure in Gujarat state. He is quite popular for his reliance and trust on the ex-diplomats with the long term proven administrative skills who, he believes, can easily handle the government rope and can bring out the government from the present morass.
The four former civil servants have been given independent charges in the ministries of state. However, I am not fully convinced with the charges having been allotted to some of them. Hardeep Puri, who was retired as India's representative to the United Nations, gets an independent charge of Urban and housing affairs ministry. Should that have been given to someone with expertise in smart cities and housing affairs like K J Alphons aka Alphons Kannanthanam, and Hardeep Puri should have been allowed to use his world affairs knowledge and skills in strategic affairs.
I find no reason to why Alphons, the former IAS officer, has been given the tourism department. Alphons once was famous as Delhi's demolition man when he ordered to demolish several illegal buildings in Delhi.
He hogged headlines for his activism and anti-corruption policies in IAS service. Indeed he is not an MP but got a berth in MoS, and it is a sending out loud and clear messages. This should be viewed in the backdrop of BJP's efforts to expand base in Kerala. Two, it has put an end to the long-term speculation over the state's representative in the cabinet. Also, he is the lone Christian face in the cabinet from the state.
Raj Kumar Singh from Arrah district in Bihar is a lawmaker with more than four decades administrative work experience. He is a former home secretary and gets an independent charge of power and renewable energy sources ministry, vacated by Piyush Goyal. It's quite interesting to know that he is the same man who was assigned the task of arresting the senior BJP leader L K Advani, under the then Chief minister regime of Lalu Prasad Yadav, during his Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya. Another ex-bureaucrat Satya Pal Singh, a former Police Commissioner of Mumbai is a new minister of state in HRD and water resources department.
The choice of new inductees also complies with the caste-religion equations that are essential to be maintained in a secular democracy. With choosing three Brahmin faces, two Rajputs, one Christian, one Dalit and one Sikh, it was a well balanced and calculative restructuring of the cabinet.
Obviously, Nirmala Sitharaman was the top gainer who has been elevated to the cabinet rank. Giving the defence ministry to Sitharaman was an out of box decision and it was for the first time a lady given this key portfolio after Indira Gandhi who managed the defence ministry once. It is a welcome decision and I am glad that an approachable and honest lady politician like Nirmala Sitharaman got rewarded. I see this as a sign of gender equality and women empowerment which received the boost. But till the time women reservation bill passed in the parliament gender equality and empowerment to women will be a work in progress.
Let us take a look at the groupings of the junior ministers in the minister of state category. Anant Kumar Hegde, eight-time Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka state is a choice mooted with political intentions keeping in mind the upcoming state polls next year.
BJP kept loyal to RSS by induction of Hegde who is a close aid of the RSS. Ashwini Chowbey, senior leader from Bihar, got a junior minister rank in the cabinet. Shiv Pratap Shukla, four-time Rajya Sabha MP from Gorakhpur, gets finance department, an old rival of UP CM Yogi Adityanath who was imprisoned during emergency under MESA. Rajasthan gets Gajendra Singh Shekhawat hailing from home turf of senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot.
The ruling BJP government has great performers which include Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Smriti Irani, Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal. This team is the face of Modi government.
The recent reshuffle has also exposed the underperformers, be it Rajeev Pratap Rudy or Uma Bharti for lackluster work. Some of the light weight lifters have been shown the door while others have been ruthlessly demoted from their respective ministries.
Overall, PM Modi has now made a good compact team still that mesmeric ingredients were missing and BJP needs to spread its political canvass enough for accommodating an array of talents. This team can surely win 2019 election for building New India 2022 but yet to say on account of delivery and governance.


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Nowadays, we always can hear some successful stories about online crowdfunding. Therefore, many people thought crowdfunding and social media made fundraiser to raise money more easily, but few of people tried it by themselves in real life. Two weeks before, I received a challenge assignment from my Social Entrepreneurship class. Students need to form groups of three and each group has one week to raise as much money as possible and bring the cash earned to the next class. There were no rules to restrict the challenge and teams can either choose to fundraise for a particular charitable organization or to just raise money for a general social cause.
I realized this is the perfect time for me to test the efficiency of social media for fundraising. First, my group decided to choose the cause related to nutrition and healthy eating. So we picked the Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative, which is a program of University of Pennsylvania's Netter Center for Community Partnerships to create healthy communities in West Philadelphia. Then, we created a crowdfunding page to raise money for our cause. We also planned to spread the page through our personal social media and send it individually to our friends and family members.
We posted the webpage on Sunday evening, Superbowl Sunday, when everyone was on social media commenting on the football game. Social Media is an interesting microcosm. While everyone may be watching and liking posts, not everyone is engaging in commentary or fully understanding the content in the post. At the end, really few of money were from Social Media and almost all of our donations were from people who we sent the individual emails or texts to. More interestingly, just six hours earlier, one of my group members had posted a memorial post for her mother who had passed away 9 years ago. Over 165 friends liked the post and provided comments. She thought that perhaps if she had combined this meaningful post with the fundraising campaign, to add a personal touch to raising money, it would have garnered more attention. However, she insisted on keeping the posts separate, to see if those same people who had posted for her mother would also see the great work of AUNI and donate. Unfortunately, only three people liked the post and two people shared it. She received only one donation from a Facebook friend who viewed the post and went to the crowdfunding website. This only proves that social media, which can reach so many people very quickly, does not necessarily connect people to important causes. Having a personal touch is important and had we combined our Facebook posts with the crowdfunding page to personal stories on why we were fundraising, it is possible that we could have garnered more interest. All in all, I think crowdfunding on social media is not that easy.


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Becker County Coalition of Lake Associations (Becker County COLA)
Howe Anderson
Our Bad Medicine Lake Area Association is one of several dozen Lake Associations in Becker County. In order to protect our lakes, and have our voices heard on issue that confront us as lakeshore owners and residents, we join with the other lake associations. In matters of County, State or Federal government actions and policies. Becker County COLA gives us a much stronger voice in calling for protection of our most precious resource in the county, our lakes. Its primary purpose is to "facilitate cooperation among member Lake Associations, to protect and enhance the quality of lakes and their shore areas." COLA is in close touch with staff people who deal with important issues like Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS), lakeshore issues, political decisions which impact lakes and education of the public about water quality issues. Becker County COLA sponsors or co-sponsors educational events such as the recently held AIS Summit in Detroit Lakes and the earlier AIS Summit held in St. Paul, with top experts from all over the state and even the world sharing the latest research in our battle with the spread of aquatic invasive species.
We rely on COLA to magnify our voices in defense of our lake, and COLA relies upon BMLAA and our Foundation to forge new strategies in shoreline acquisition and preservation and in areas like our water quality research with Bemidji State University. Each Lake Association is asked to send one representative to serve on the COLA board. COLA meets each month from May to October where speakers share important information, the various lakes compare notes and strategies and COLA finds out where its member Lake Associations priorities lie. These meetings are open to the public and are fun and informative. Please consider attending and become more active in our Lake Association.
Upcoming COLA meetings, are held the third Thursday of the month from May to October, at 5:30, at the Detroit Lakes Holiday Inn. These dates are:
July 19
August 16
September 20
October 18
Use the link to access an interesting report financed by COLA about lake quality in Becker County and steps needed to protect the lakes. 2012 Becker County Lake Protection Report


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Information Security Management ISO27001
DataSpace UK Ltd is certified with ISO27001:2013 this means that you have the peace of mind that any documentation – physical or digital that DataSpace UK handle for you, is secure and processed in line with any regulatory requirements. The official title of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is 'Information Security Management'
ISO27001:2013 is all about controlling the risks to your company information. Identifying and recording potential risks that could occur, where and how and why. This could include risk assessments, job procedures, planned maintenance procedures or company policies.
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 provides disciplines and a framework that ought to be thought about when looking at keeping company information secure.
- What problems could arise regarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information security within your company?
- What could you do to prevent this happening?
- What would you do to fix if it did happen?
- What would you put in place next time to make sure it never happens again?
Even though this may seem to be common sense and good business practice many companies still don't implement even the simplest of information security disciplines. DataSpace UK Ltd have been formally audited by British Standards Institute (BSI) Auditors and have been awarded certification as evidence of compliance to all requirements set out within the standard.
Additionally ISO27001:2013 proves evidence of the following…
- Conformance to various legal requirements for information security.
- Reduction of risk of a data breach & prevention of security incidents.
- Documented procedures in place, all your employees will know what to do at all the various stages within your business operations.
If company information and data is handled correctly it will allow your business to grow, improve operational procedures and provide your clients with the confidence that their information is being processed compliantly and securely.
DataSpace UK Ltd are Document Management Specialists we provide Compliant, British Standard certified bespoke solutions to businesses of all industries and all sizes.
For further information please do not hesitate to call us today on 0800 028 8956 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, we look forward to hearing from you.


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Fast, efficient food delivery in Abbottabad
Perched 4000 feet above sea level, Abbottabad is a student town and also a major tourist destination, its mild summer weather attracting visitors eager to escape the the torrid 45 °C heat of the Punjab. As a gateway to the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush, it's influenced by a wide range of regional cuisines. At the same time there are lots of continental and fast food options, just as you'd expect from a city with such a cosmopolitan heritage. Whether you're ordering takeout food for a group of friends or organising a last minute business lunch, with foodpanda you can arrange an online food delivery without working up a sweat.
Why order a delivery in Abbottabad with foodpanda?
Tired of collecting takeout flyers and browsing restaurant websites? Thanks to foodpanda, you can now order a fast food delivery in your local area through one streamlined, easy to use platform. It's available on your computer and smartphone, so you can use it in the office or on the go. Just sign up and select your address, and you'll be able to browse a wide selection of nearby eateries. Our clear, simple layout makes it easy to select between dining themes, and members can also reap the benefit of our exclusive offers. There's even an app that lets you track the progress of your order, so you'll know exactly how much time you have to wait before your meal arrives.
Where to find good takeout in Abbottabad
Some of the best restaurants in Abbottabad serve pizza, whether it's the authentic big city slice of The New Yorker, with its toothsomely thin, crispy dough, or the traditional Italian sauces and toppings of Pizza Originale. Either one is a great option for casual weekend get-togethers. Or if Asian flavours are more to your liking, try Triple One, which rustles up some perennially popular chicken dishes, from hot and spicy Szechuan style to tangy sweet and sour. For Indian dishes, you should see what's cooking at Mom's Kitchen. In the meantime, Mr Cod is a trusty go-to for healthy fish dishes and seafood platters. All of these options are just a few clicks away via foodpanda.
What's good to eat in Abbottabad
Abbottabad is a prime location for ordering an array of signature Pakistani meals. The region's recipes are known for their heat, especially slow-cooked stews like beef or mutton nihari. In particular, spice lovers shouldn't pass up a chance to try chicken kahari, a fiery wok-fried dish. For a taste of some time-honoured local fast food, you might want to begin with a chapli kebab, a tender, seasoned patty served with naan bread and chopped onions. Or sample a helping of shami kebabs, made with ground chickpeas for a melt in the mouth texture. Plus there's no shortage of sandwiches, wraps and burgers at your fingertips too.


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. . . but you can't kill the dream.
"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
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After being out of Atlanta for a decade, Ashley Sno returns to a safe and familiar place, putting her dream of being a full time musician to the test. Hailing from the DMV (the DC, Maryland, Virgina area for the uninitiated) but now calling Atlanta home, her journey is one that includes stops in California, Hawaii and Australia — places she's showcased her hooping skills and finished her degree in communications. Though while in Hawaii, Ashley realized that she needed to exercise her talent somewhere more nurturing.
She got her initial taste of the ATL while attending high school in Lithonia, and for the young Ashley Sno, Atlanta has been an early-on and once-again saving grace. She says, "Atlanta was [both] my launching pad and how I was able to turn my life around and refocus."
Since returning, singer, songwriter and musician, Ashley Sno has been working away furiously in her at home studio and testing her music on stage at festivals and venues around Atlanta. Passion for music shines through as you listen to her describe the music she wants to share with the world — a mix of hip hop, R&B and acoustic guitar.
Ashley recently launched an eleven week SoundCloud series to give listeners a chance to get familiar with her music. She'll release two songs every week, one each Tuesday and another each Friday.
The first of these songs, Ashely Sno's "Let it Rain", was released three weeks ago on September 11th. She says about this song penned last year…
"When you open up to people, show them your scars and they let you down, it gets difficult to be vulnerable. It's already difficult. But this is a story I'm sure you've heard. The lesson I learned is to cry your tears in front of people who care . I let it rain. I didn't hide the tears. I didn't disguise the pain. I gave of myself honestly."
— Ashley Sno
On Tuesday, October 2nd, Ashley Sno will be releasing song #7 in her SoundCloud Series, "All Night." This sexy hip-hop jam has sultry soulful vibes you can add to your baby-making playlist. If you are feeling grown, sexy, and in love, this song is for you. Hear it first, here on Libro Musica.
This Friday Ashley Sno will be release song #8 in her SoundCloud Series, "Don't Wanna Give Up", about the other side of passion — when your lover wants to end things. What's a girl to do when they aren't ready to give up on a relationship? That shit hurts, and sometimes music is just the salve to help soothe a longing broken heart.
Five Favorite Libro Musica Questions, with Ashley Sno
What was the first album that you added to your music library?
Brandy's Never Say Never. Classic!!!
What was your most recent addition to your personal music library?
My friend and sound engineer, David Jonathan's song, "Stressed". It's not out anywhere but it's a dope song and I asked him to send it to me.
What was your first live music experience?
BET Teen Summit. 12-13 years old, I was a "posse member" and there was a musical act on every show.
If you could cover one album in your music library which would it be?
I really don't like to do covers but if I had to pick an album to cover… it would be Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
What artist do you wish more people had in their music library?
Sting and Weekend Players
More Ashley Sno
The Ashley Sno SoundCloud Series is just the beginning for this talented artist. She has a few albums in the works Sticks (R&B), Stones (hip hop), Diamonds (acoustic), and an eclectic mix of music entitled Sticks, Stones & Diamonds.
See you every Monday right here from now into mid November as we preview the songs for that week's Ashley Sno SoundCloud series drop. Check out all the songs in the Ashley Sno SoundCloud series so far right here.


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Community invited to be part of Brimbank Collective Action Committee
Do you live or work in Brimbank and want the opportunity to join with others, including social, health and local business networks to tackle local health and social issues?
Brimbank City Council is calling on community members to be part of a new Collective Action Committee to help address these important issues.
Mayor of Brimbank, Cr Lucinda Congreve said the establishment of the Brimbank Collective Action Committee will help to lead and initiate projects to bring about better health and wellbeing outcomes.
"The Committee will be involved in identifying local projects and working together on actions that will make a real difference to improve health and social outcomes within the Brimbank community.
"Council has already identified an opportunity as we move towards designing and constructing the Health and Wellbeing Hub that will replace the St Albans Leisure Centre.
"There are possibilities to identify short term projects and community driven actions to start tackling difficult health and social issues through this project.
"There's a range of health and social issues to be considered such as early childhood vulnerability, social isolation, obesity, physical inactivity, or diabetes.
"I encourage community members to put in an Expression of Interest if they're interested in being part of this Committee," Cr Congreve said.
Selection criteria
Committee members will be selected for their expertise, lived experience, or interest in improving the social and health outcomes of the Brimbank community.
The Committee will act in an advisory capacity to Council, will be guided by Council's values and behaviours, comply with Council's Employee Code of Conduct and accept the Terms of Reference.
Participation in the Committee is on an honorary basis.
An information session will be held at the Brimbank Community and Civic Centre, 301 Hampshire Road, Sunshine on Wednesday 30 January 2019 at 10am.
A form can be submitted online, or hard copy forms can be posted to: Collective Action Committee, Growing Brimbank Program Facilitator, PO Box 70, Sunshine 3020; or emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Applications close Friday 1 February 2019.


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Have you heard of Small Business Saturday?
On November 30th of each year, consumers around the country are encouraged to shop local. On this day, consumers flock to local businesses to take advance of amazing deals and stimulate the local economy.
Small Business Saturday is a wildly successful operation, but you don't have to wait until this day to shop at your local small businesses. Shopping locally has many benefits both for yourself and your community.
Keep reading for 5 reasons to start shopping local today.
1. For the Local Economy
Shopping at locally owned businesses in your community keeps that money in your local community.
Local businesses are part of a community and tend to support each other by purchasing supplies from other local businesses. This helps both businesses and the residents of the local community.
When you purchase from a local business and when local businesses purchase from each other, taxes that are collected stay in the local community. As the local tax base grows, local businesses can grow as well.
If a community has a strong tax base, they can improve things that use local taxes. This includes infrastructure like roads, schools, and local police and fire departments.
Local businesses have a tendency to donate significant portions of their profits to local non-profits within their communities.
While big businesses often donate to charities and non-profits as well, the money does not go back to the community where you live. When funds are donated directly to non-profits in the community, they go directly towards helping you and your family, friends, and neighbors.
2. To Create Jobs
Along the same lines, shopping locally creates jobs in the community.
When local small businesses open up, they create tons of jobs. Small businesses are known to be big employers.
When these businesses create jobs where people live, community members like yourself, your friends, your family, and your neighbors can get jobs closer to home. This cuts back on commute time which keeps employees happy and improves employee retention and job performance.
This also means that more money stays in the community.
3. Increased Competition
Local small businesses create competition, unlike mega-corporations.
They can and do compete with these big businesses and are serious contenders in the marketplace. Part of the reason for this comes down to simple economics.
The more choices there are to choose from, the lower prices consumers will pay. Businesses will offer better deals to compete with one another.
The introduction of local businesses in a community offers consumers more flexibility. Local businesses are able to offer better deals than corporations.
As a consumer, you can find more unique goods and services at local businesses than at big corporations, and usually at a better price. Big businesses tend to only offer a small selection of items that usually come with low quality and a high-profit margin.
When you shop local, you have the option to choose from unique items that are locally made or serviced and aren't offered in national stores, including fair trade products.
One of the reasons many consumers are hesitant to shop locally is that they think they won't find what they are looking for in a local store. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
In reality, owners of local businesses are willing to special order items that their customers want.
4. Customer Service
Customer service is usually significantly better at local businesses than at big box chain stores.
There are several reasons for this. First, local business owners and employees usually know their customers and want to do right by them. Maintaining positive relationships with community members is important to them.
Second, large chain stores often operate like a bureaucracy. Local employees usually have little power, especially when it comes to resolving customer complaints.
It can take time to be put in touch with someone who has the authority to help you with your problem. This is understandably frustrating. At local businesses, the owner is active in the business and easy to get a hold of.
Finally, local businesses have more incentive to keep their customers happy than big box stores. Big chains can let customer service go by the wayside when they are the customer's only option.
Small businesses know that they need to impress their customers because they have other options and will do everything they can to keep them coming.
5. For the Community
We discussed above how local businesses help the economy, but they also help the community as a whole.
Small businesses help keep communities green. Their central location and easy access help reduce habitat loss and sprawl. Community members also use less gas driving to and from the store.
The money you invest in small businesses will come back to you through a ripple effect. Small towns with thriving small business bases do better in economic downturns than those without local businesses.
This helps keep communities safe and even stabilizes the value of homes. Shopping locally makes a huge impact on your community.
By taking the first steps and starting to shop local, you will encourage others to get in the small business shopping mindset and initiate the ripple effect.
Shop Local Today
The first step to improving your community by shopping local is to get in the right mindset.
Now that you know some of the reasons to shop local, you can take the next steps. Visit some local businesses and we are willing to bet you will be impressed by the personal touch.
Check out the business and marketplace sections of our site for related articles.


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CBO Details Costs Of Future Iraq Peacekeeping
With so much attention focused on the short term future of Iraq, there has been little discussion about what would happen if the United States maintained a long-term peacekeeping operation in the country.
In some GOP circles, the Korean model, in which U.S. troops maintain a peacekeeping presence along a tense but peaceful border, has been discussed as a long term solution. So Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) asked the Congressional Budget Office to conduct a study to determine the actual cost of a long-term presence of about 55,000 troops in Iraq.
Under the "combat" scenario, the cost would run $25 billion a year, while a peacekeeping operation would cost $10 billion a year. Conrad appears to have asked the CBO to conduct the study not because he supports the idea of a long-term troop presence but to highlight the trillion dollar cost over the next 50 years if the Korea scenario is actually followed.
"President Bush has repeatedly drawn an analogy between the Iraq and Korean wars and his administration has suggested that our ongoing presence in Korea could provide a model for Iraq," Conrad said. "The American people deserve to know that they are going to be handed a multi-trillion dollar bill from this President to cover the cost of his misguided policy in Iraq."
Sounding a more hopeful note, the CBO did say that if Iraq's infrastructure were to improve and the violence decreased in the long run, the costs could fall significantly over time.


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Tamara O'Flaherty is an associate in the New York office of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP where she focuses her practice on litigation with an emphasis on matters relating to antitrust, employment, insurance, commercial, and securities litigation. Her practice includes compliance counseling, government investigations, internal investigations, and securities and regulatory enforcement.
Tamara also advises companies in connection with FCPA diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and other investments in jurisdictions with high corruption risk and works with clients to implement effective post-acquisition compliance programs.


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We adore this neutral tone vest! Quilted detailing throughout, pockets, and a zipper closure in the front! There are so many different ways to style this adorable vest and it will easily carry you into Spring!
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One cannot reduce the number of children living on the streets without also engaging with the problems at home or in school that could explain their situation. A child who faces the risk of being trafficked, may also be disabled, in conflict with the law and experience violence in the home. Understanding the underlying causes and addressing this interconnectedness is key. Child protection systems seek to address the full spectrum of risk factors in the lives of all children and their families. Along with partners, including governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society actors and the private sector, UNICEF promotes the strengthening of all components of child protection systems - human resources, finances, laws, standards, governance, monitoring and services. Depending on the country context, child protection systems may cut across part of the social welfare, education, health, and security sectors.
UNICEF and its partners support the mapping and assessment of child protection systems. This work helps build consensus among government and civil society on the goals and components of such systems, their strengths, weaknesses and priorities upon which to act. This then translates into improved laws, policies, regulations, standards and services protecting all children. It also leads to the strengthening of these systems with the financial and human resources necessary to deliver results for children.
Over the past decade, UNICEF has also supported the informed understanding of social norms that result in violence, exploitation and abuse and has promoted change in a number of countries. To promote positive norms to bring about an end to harmful practices, UNICEF engages in advocacy and awareness raising and supports discussions, education programmes and communication for development strategies at community and national levels, within villages, across professional and religious groups and within diaspora communities. When combined with effective legislation, policies, regulations and services, this process that focuses on community values and human rights leads to positive and lasting change such as the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting, decreases in child marriage and domestic violence.
Changing social norms related to forms of violence, exploitation and abuse that are socially condoned is time and resource intensive. Yet, this work is crucial for sustained improvements in children's lives.
This focus on the prevention and response to violence, exploitation and abuse cuts across the life cycle of the child. It is a critical part of realizing the Millennium Development Goals to ensure that children grow up in a safe and supportive environment. This work not only applies in development contexts but also in humanitarian settings and is in line with the recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General's study on violence against children (2006), the United Nations report on the impact of armed conflict on children (1996) and the Machel study 10-year strategic review children and conflict in a changing world (2006).
Though devastating, emergencies provide opportunities for UNICEF to work with governments and civil society to renew and strengthen the laws, policies, regulations, services and practices that protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse while also addressing the negative social norms underlying some forms of violence.
UNICEF is committed to protecting children from the immediate and long-term effects of natural disasters and armed conflicts, which expose children to heightened risks of violence, abuse and exploitation. In such contexts, UNICEF supports children's caregivers and arranges for safe spaces for children to play, learn and receive support for their psychological and mental well-being; identifies, reunites and cares for children separated from their families and caregivers; supports holistic assistance for children and adults who have suffered gender-based violence; actively works to release children associated with armed forces or armed groups and supports their community reintegration; promotes integrated case management of vulnerable children; helps to coordinate humanitarian actors working on child protection, gender-based violence and mental health and psychosocial support of children; monitors, reports on and responds to grave child rights violations; and actively works to put in place measures that reduce the risks of and prevent children from being harmed.
As programming must be grounded in robust data and evidence to demonstrate results, UNICEF also supports research, data collection and analysis to broaden the evidence base on child protection. For example, UNICEF recently completed a study on child disciplinary practices at home. Data and evidence are also used to inform programme and policy interventions, and monitoring and evaluation to ensure that interventions are reaching their goals and having a positive impact on the lives of children.


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The recent ComiCONN in Stamford, Connecticut goes to show that you can't keep geeks down. Despite an impending hurricane, the show still went on and the geeks came out to enjoy it. The only thing that the bad weather did scare off was the 1960's Batmobile. Still, it's a legend, it has a right to pull the diva card every now and then.
The show however was a success. There were many vendors and a handful of wonderful guests. On hand were artists Michael Golden, Matt Busch, Mark McKenna and many more. Bill Diamond who has worked with Jim Henson on projects such as 'The Dark Crystal' and 'Labyrinth' was also on deck. Another neat sight to see were the life size statues of Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein brought by the Witch's Dungeon, a classic film museum in Connecticut. There was also Michael J. Citak who plays three different zombies in the movie 'Remains'.
There was a definite Star Wars theme as well. Of course when Luke's Landspeeder is there, R2-D2 is making the rounds and Anthony Forrest is having a meet and greet what else could anyone expect? If you wanted to fight back the Empire there was even the local chapter of the Rebel Alliance looking for new members. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, you do know which part Anthony Forrest played in the Star Wars saga. In the original trilogy Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Anthony Forrest was the Storm Trooper that stopped Luke and Obi Wan at Mos Eisley. Remember the scene?
"These are not the droids you are looking for."
"These aren't the droids we're looking for."
Sure you may laughing right about now. You may even be thinking, "Now there's a claim to fame to have. 'I was the Storm Trooper that Obi Wan played Jedi mind tricks on.' Seriously?!"
Yet, every single person knows that scene. So it's actually not a bad claim to fame to have. To have been a key part in one of the most memorable scenes in the entire Star Wars saga isn't exactly a bad thing.
Still, what is a comic show if you can't get your hands on some good quality comic gear and toys? Well there was plenty of that to be had too. Several tables had action figures and comics galore. Looking for a Meglo Indiana Jones figure? Yep, got that right over here. Need a back issue of Alpha Flight? Right this way please. There was anything and everything to make every any geek heart go pitter patter with delight.
Of course what is a comic show without people in costumes? There were also plenty of geeks on hand showing geek pride dressed at their favorite characters. Walking about the show could be seen Deadpool, Batgirl, Storm Troopers, several Jedi Knights, Black Cat, and one very convincing looking Professor Snape among others.
For more information on ComiCONN and the guests and vendors that were there visit their website at: http://www.comiconn.com/
To see more pictures from the show visit our website: www.comicaddicts.com


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Components are reusable objects that can be put on a design panel. There are two types of components: visual and non-visual. Visual components are components that have a visual appearance on the rendered form. Examples are edits, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. Non-visual components are do not have a visual representation. Instead, they are used for 'invisible actions.' Examples are database components for the connection, query component, email component, etc.
Components have properties. These too can have a different meaning. Some properties are only used to present the design form. Examples are 'top, left, height and width.' They are only used within the IDE and NOT in the PHP environment. Other properties are static and are, for instance, used to generate classes and styles which are being used to generate CSS files. Some properties are used to generate static HTML. Some properties are dynamic and being used within the generated PHP code. I.e., the color of the component.
Below you will find the explanation of all components that you will find in the PHsPeed IDE. Some properties, however, are elements of (almost) every component and to avoid repetitive explanation these are described first. Same issue for server-events.
Generic properties
|This property aligns a component on the design panel. This property controls the position and thus the order of creating components. The creation sequence of the components are determined by its top and left position.
|alNone, alLeft, alTop, alFull
|Height of a visual component on the design form. This does not affect the space used on the generated HTML form as this is to be decided by Bootstrap. Nonvisual components do not have a height property.
|Left position of the component on the design form
|Name of the component. This is also the main id as used within the generated applications. In the HTML form this variable will be called 'name="name"; id="id-name". In the PHP code, the bound variable will be $app→moduleid→name. All variables will be generated as lowercase variables. So a MyVariableName will become myvariablename. Use undercast to make your names readable like my_variable_name.
|string (change only if you have to..)
|Owner of the component. This property keeps the components together in a tree structure. Is important for generating HTML forms.
|The upper position of the component on the design form
|The width of the visual component on the design form. Non-visual components do not have a width property.
|The number of units (1..12) to be used of the parent

|Valid for visible components like panels, edits etc.
|The number of units (1..12) to be used of the parent

|Valid for visible components like panels, edits etc.
|The number of units (1..12) to be used of the parent

|Valid for visible components like panels, edits etc.
|The number of units (1..12) to be used of the parent

|Valid for visible components like panels, edits etc.
|The number of units (1..12) to be used of the parent

|Valid for visible components like panels, edits etc.
Generic server events (PHP based events)
|Triggers when the form becomes active
|This event is triggered after all components have been created. So it is safe to reference other components and properties.
|Triggers when the component is created
|If you write code in this event, then do NOT reference properties of other components as you can never be sure that this component is (already) created. Use OnActivate instead.
|Triggers when the component is destroyed
Basic components (visual)
Each application must at least have a few basic components to work well. Depending on the type of application this is a root with form, module (with optional form), (or API).
Form Component that represents a form design area
Lay out components
Layout components are used to design your gui form. Not applicable to API applications.
- Area Component that defines a standard design area
- BuildingBlock Component that embeds a building block (i.e. for master-detail)
- Column Component that defines a column within a row
- Panel Component that defines a panel-type design area
- PanelHeader Component that defines a header on a panel component
- Row Component that divides a form into rows
Standard components
Additional components
Non visual / database components
- Root Root component that declares your module als a runnable module
- Module Module component that declares your php module as reusable (being used as header or footer)
- DBConnection Component to setup a PDO database connection.
- DBTable Component to setup a database table.
- DBQuery Component to setup a database query.
- Datasource Component to connect and distribute database data to data-aware database components.
- DBCrud Component to setup queries for create (insert), read (select), update and delete.
Database (data aware) components
- DBGrid Component to display your datasource data in a grid
- DBEdit Component to connect an edit field to a datasource.
- DBCheckbox Component to connect a checkbox field to a datasource.
- DBCheckgroup Component to connect a group of checkboxes to a datasource.
- DBRadiogroup Component to connect a group of radiobuttons to a datasource.


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Jason has over two decades of Washington experience as a federal lobbyist and congressional staffer.
Jason began his career in Washington serving in a variety of capacities on the staff of former Congressman Ed Whitfield of Kentucky from 1996 to 2003. As the Congressman's Legislative Director, Jason assisted primarily with the Energy & Commerce Subcommittees on Health and Energy & Air Quality.
Joining Merck & Co., Inc, in 2003, Jason spent the next 11 years as a federal advocate. He was responsible for identifying important legislative opportunities and threats to the company, analyzing their potential impact, ensuring the timely development of appropriate policy positions, and developing and implementing strategies to advocate for and achieve the desired results. He focused primarily on health care, tax, trade and congressional oversight.
Joining Novartis in 2014, Jason continued working on health care and tax with a particular focus on oncology. For the second year in a row, he is serving as a co-chair of the Prevent Cancer Gala.
Jason graduated with a B.A. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the College of William & Mary School of Law.


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It's all about opinions
I love Laguna Seca. It's such a great track and Monterey and the surrounding area is a great place to visit. Life is a little less stressful for photographers here as there is only the Superbike class on the program out of the regular race schedule. I always shoot a few laps of the MotoAmerica Superbike class just for my library but generally there is a bit of a relaxed vibe around the whole weekend. I also have Jamie Morris working with me so between us we get everything covered and still have time for the odd coffee and doughnut.
That said; I had a shocker on Sunday. I have been to Laguna so many times I decided to try something different, to shoot the race from a couple of new locations. Unfortunately some of it didn't work. Thankfully Jamie was on his game and in the end we had a pretty decent selection of images from the race.
It's always a challenge to come up with new and interesting angles but ultimately each racetrack only has so many corners and they never change from year to year. I reckon I have pretty much seen it all in the 20-or-so years I have been shooting motorcycle racing but from time-to-time I see something that I hadn't thought of and it keeps me pushing to produce as high as standard of work as I can. Sometimes it all goes wrong and this weekend highlighted one of the things that I spoke about earlier this year in that there is very little track time now to recover the situation if something doesn't work.
With a 40 minute session (or the race only lasting 30 minutes) if I go to a location on track and it doesn't work it can take 10 minutes to move somewhere else and get set up again, by which time in a Free Practice session, the riders you are shooting are in the pit box. It can mean that I am only getting 15 minutes of usable time to shoot what I need from that period so it increases the pressure to get it right first time. Having Jamie alongside means that there is a bit of a safety net and it ensures that between us we are pretty much always able to deliver the work.
Aside from my own little dramas on Sunday, there was a much bigger drama playing out in the paddock.
The tension in the Kawasaki team had been cranked up a notch after Eurosport interviewed both Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea about their 'racing incident' in Brno. The clip didn't air until Saturday afternoon in Europe, just ahead of the start of race one. Sykes' comments, however, overshadowed any incidents that happened in the race.
He was still critical of Jonathan but went on to focus his ire on Rea's crew chief Pere Riba, blaming him for what he viewed as a long standing level of discontent within the team.
It puts Tom in a really precarious position as he considers his future options. It has been widely reported – since before the Donington Park round – that he will move on from the team where he has been for eight years and where he won the championship in 2013. After the weekend's interview many people in the paddock now view his position as untenable and that he has given himself no option but to find another ride.
I had to shoot some pictures with him on Saturday night and we subsequently had a long chat about many things. At that point I hadn't seen the Eurosport interview, only a headline from an online publication so I therefore didn't really have a view either way over his comments. I managed to catch up with the interview on Sunday evening after the race and it echoed what he had said to me but one of the things that always comes across when you speak to Tom is that he is trying to be as honest as he can. Some would say too honest.
Lots of people have lots of different opinions on the recent events but one thing I have learned in my ripe old age is that in situations like this there is never really a right or wrong when it comes to someone's opinion or how they feel. It is wrong therefore to be critical of Tom's views as that is how he himself feels. What can be called into question is the merit of airing those feelings in public.
He is very quick to acknowledge his team-mate's achievements over the last three and a half years and firmly believes that the changes to the technical regulations in the Championship, and how Kawasaki have subsequently developed the ZX-10RR, have hampered his own ability win the championship. He has no doubt over his outright speed, which is abundantly clear in his Superpole performances. He is still more than capable of putting in a blisteringly fast lap but is currently struggling to maintain that pace over the course of a full race distance.
It is similar to where he was in the initial development curve of the race machine at Kawasaki. When Paul Bird Motorsport was running the team Tom would regularly claim pole position or one of the other front row slots, shoot into an early commanding lead in the race, only to fall back to finish fifth or sixth. It wasn't until 2012 and 2013 that he, and Kawasaki, worked out how to set the bike up to give him a full race distance at that speed. He still feels he has that in him but the way he has to ride the current iteration of the ZX-10RR means he can't sustain that outright speed.
It must be incredibly hard on a rider when you have been a world champion with a team and a new athlete arrives and eclipses everything you have achieved. However, we mustn't forget that Sykes has been a consistent top three finisher in WorldSBK since 2012 and has been an integral part of how Kawasaki achieved three manufacturers titles in a row. It seems a shame that a potential end to the relationship should be tinged with a degree of acrimony.
If he has passed the point of no return with Kawasaki, where will he be riding in 2019? I obviously asked him what his options were and he was naturally very guarded but was happy that there was more than one possibility in the paddock should he end up deciding to move. All he would say is that he had a couple of irons in the fire, one of which was a bit of a risk but which had huge potential. However, he did stress that he was in no hurry to put pen to paper at the moment.
The possible options for Sykes seem to be wide and varied. If BMW return with a full scale race programme again, they are expected to run with current Superstock rider Markus Reiterberger, but there would be a second seat available. Could this be the long term potential that he talked about? BMW never do things by half so if they did return he could be assured of the full backing from Munich. Another option is at Yamaha. It is likely that Van Der Mark and Lowes will be confirmed in the Crescent team again for 2019 but Yamaha are keen to have a second team on the grid, which could either be with the current GRT Racing Supersport squad stepping up, or with another team. Shaun Muir is considering his options on which manufacturer to choose for the Milwaukee team for the next few years.
There are also options at Honda. Leon Camier is expected to continue but the choice of rider on the second Fireblade berth may come down to whether or not Red Bull will continue as a sponsor with the Ten Kate run team.
The question also remains as to who would fill Sykes' seat at Kawasaki. Most of the top riders in the championship have been mentioned as possible replacements but my understanding is that Kawasaki are lining up current BSB front runner Leon Haslam as team mate for Rea. This would re-unite the pair who were teammates at Pata Honda in 2013 and 14 and who will race together for Kawasaki in the Suzuka 8Hr next month.
Personally I hope that Tom finds a good seat for 2019. He is definitely a race winner on the right machinery and maybe a change of team and surroundings is just what he needs. His character is also something that is needed in the paddock and that straight-talking means there is always something for the armchair racers to get their social media fingers firing. It's all about opinions after all.
By Graeme Brown
Photos by GeeBee Images @GeeBeeimages


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Vanuatu's first president takes stock of country's development
Vanuatu's first president takes stock of the country's development as it marks 33 years of independence.
Vanuatu's first president, Ati Georges Sokomanu, says the country has come a long way since independence 33 years ago, but there are still changes needed.
Speaking on Tuesday after an Independence Day address by the prime minister, Moana Carcasses, Mr Sokomanu told Hilaire Bule several key areas need improvement.
ATI GEORGES SOKOMANU: Politically, we need to sort ourselves out. But as far as social and economic development are concerned, I think these are the two main areas where the government should put more projection on it and put more money into it so that the country can move along. The tourism sector, people outside have branded us 'the best place on Planet Earth', but it remains to be seen how we develop our tourism sector, because we can't bring lots of people in the country without having enough food for them. It is a double-edged sword and we need our government to really concentrate on these two sectors - the economy and the social side.
HILAIRE BULE: The prime minister has predicted an increase in economic growth this year. What do you think?
AGS: We see all these figures, but the thing is you are seeing thing physically, not spiritually. And when we see things physically we tend to see what really is happening in our country. I think the forecast that he has made, I think there is a lot more to be done. But, as I said, we have come a long way. We move, I think, in the right direction, but for the next 33 years we need to do a little bit more than what we are doing now.
HB: The prime minister has also raised concerns, he's worried about the continuous motions of no-confidence, and you were one of the people last year that advocated for political reform by introducing a presidential system. Do you think it is time now to change the Westminster system to a presidential system?
AGS: Yes, Hilaire. There's no doubt about that, to cut all these rigmaroles in the parliament, you know? The only answer to that is let's go for a new system, and the presidential system is the only way out.
HB: Do you think the chief can also help to minimise criminal activity in Vanuatu?
AGS: Yes, very much so. You set up the Great Council of Chiefs in Vanuatu. What sort of power do you give them? They can only rule in the village. They can rule here in Port Vila, in central. But out in the islands I feel that the chiefs would be given a chance even to go as far as the parliament to set up a house for them so that they can play their part, so that they can legislate and make laws so that the government can govern well in Vanuatu. At the moment our chiefs do not have that power, and every time they have to refer back through the legislature. I think the only thing now is slot them in, and have a lower house and an upper house in parliament and let the chiefs play their part in the development of Vanuatu.
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Day 1
Breathing is one of the most natural things a person can do and an automatic reflex that is hard wired in our brains. It changes energy from tension to relaxation. It does this by turning off our sympathetic nervous system that produces stress hormones. This then turns on our parasympathetic nervous system, which turns off the stress hormone pump.
So, deep breathing relaxes the body, decreases the heart rates lowers the blood pressure and creates the feeling of calmness. In addition, the deep breathing ensures the essential extra oxygen the brain needs for optimal function
Teaching children fun and active breathing exercises will help them control their emotions and calm themselves down in situations that make them extremely happy and hyper and in situations that make them very mad and upset.
Snake Breathing
When snakes are coiled and resting, they look around calmly, and when they move, they are slow and smooth.
– Have your child sit up tall.
– Take a deep breath in, filling up their whole body.
– Pause
– Breathe out slowly and smoothly, making a hissing sound for as loud as they can.
– Repeat for three to five rounds, letting them slow down and become calmer each time.
– Afterwards, discuss with them about how their body is feeling and what they are noticing following the breathing exercise. Many children enjoy being told the science of breathing and understanding why this does help them calm down.
Repeat at least five times today, especially at any point of getting angry, upset, or overly excited.
Don't forget to share your child's #mindfulmoment and successes in the comments, on Twitter @Ed_Tmprince or on Facebook at Education's Voice – Mindfulness ( https://www.facebook.com/educationsvoice/ ).


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So it is. Sensations triggering fear will continue appearing here and there. The habit of an existing self is such that it will return in certain situations.
We already know these are thoughts, but the question is, what is there to have a purpose? If the purpose is just for a character, a person, what is underneth all the stories of the self? What is there that is never affected by all those stories?'if i don't have a purpose I might feel lost'


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Monday, October 15, 2007
The Webbs' Firestone Store
The color slide was made in 1970. I played around with the density, contrast, and saturation. The location was also the site of Soperton's first fire station --- a shed of corrugated metal, covering the hose wagon, a few of those pointed-bottom buckets and a few other items. In my child's mind I believed that the store was named Firestone because it was the Firestation. The building once housed Fisher and Lowrey's mule business. Maybe one day when I'm in a better writing mode, I will say more about the great couple who gave Soperton one of its best businesses.
Now, a collection of fun stuff:
The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season or dove season. Both are holidays. You can get pancakes, cane syrup, and sausage before daylight at the church on either day.
So every person in every pickup waves? Yeah, it's called being friendly. Understand the concept?
If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the smallest accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store.It doesn't matter whether you need anything or not. You just have to go there.
Do not be surprised to find that 10-year olds own their own shotguns, they are proficient marksmen, and their mammas taught them how to aim.
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather.
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Don't believe the directional markers on highways: I-285 is marked East and West but you may be going North or South. The locals identify the direction by referring to the "Inner Loop" and the "Outer Loop."
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Tower building and the careful removal of pieces will hone dexterity and problem-solving abilities making this traditional game a great way to challenge children's minds and hands as they play. Wooden blocks are so versatile - these pieces can also be used for building houses, creating patterns and as counting aids too.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
I don't remember when my fascination began. I must have been very young because I can not remember a time when I wasn't enchanted with India, or at least the idea of India. Elephants, tigers, jewels, silk saris, golden brown skin, heavily incensed air, these images fill my mind when I try to think of the first time I loved India . Perhaps it was when I first read A Little Princess, or maybe it was something else, something I saw when I was very young. When I was around 10 there were some books my grandmother wanted me to have "When I was a little older." I took the books and was free to read them when I wanted to, I read the king Arthur story within a year or so but the book about India I still have, unread.
I have read many books set in India, I love to eat Indian food, I have made several trips to the Sari store to dream about wearing saris. I gently pepper my Indian friend, Renu about the land of her birth, once, she dressed me in a sari, it was so fun. Lately I have been watching Indian movies, mostly dramas about India but a few Bollywood things.
I don't think I will ever travel to India. I would like to but Moose is very adverse to the idea and to be honest there is a long list of places I would like to go before India.
Last night I read a book that I couldn't put down, it was called Sister of My Heart. Finally at 4:15 am I cried defeat and went to sleep. All night I dreamt of henna, curry, bindis and rubies.
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- Gardners Glad Tidings said...
I will read it - sister of my heart! A little princess is one of my favorite movies ever...can't get through it without crying. India is stunning. Kent went there last fall for a while for school. We have some picture you might just love! It is a diverse stunning country.
- Keira said...
I read "The Secret Garden" first so the whole death-of-Mary's-family thing didn't endear me to India. I admire it from a distance but know my travel requirements:
Trustworthy food
Bacteria free water
Plentiful refuges from the local culture
Shallow perhaps but honest. But I do love the bread--they have beautiful bread.
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