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God gives people a second chance. Jesus revealed the "Gospel of a Second Chance" in Luke 13:6-9.
Jesus said, "A farmer planted a tree in a choice spot." He carefully tilled the soil. But, the tree bore no fruit!
"Cut the tree down and plant another," the farmer said. However, the caretaker (who represents God) said "Let it be one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down." (Luke 13:8-9) God gives people a second chance, since He knows people can change.
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Dunkirk, New York Passport Office Information
Residents of Dunkirk in Chautauqua County, New York have only a single location from which they can get a passport application sealed at. The passport agent in Dunkirk can provide you with passport forms or witness your signature and seal your passport documents (if you don't need your passport application sealed then you do not need to visit an acceptance agent). Besides the 1 location there are 801 other locations in the state of New York from which you can get a passport application sealed at. If you are not needing a passport in Dunkirk for a least (3) weeks, you can visit the sole passport acceptance agent listed below the map on this web page. If you need it faster than (3) weeks we have provided the closest regional passport offices to Dunkirk, New York and Expedited Passport service options for Dunkirk.
Regional Passport Offices Close to Dunkirk:These are passport issuing facilities. You will need to make an appointment and present proof of upcoming travel but in most cases, you will be able to get passport renewal, new passports, child passports, or a lost passport replacement Same Day or Next Day.
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Other Passport Offices Near Dunkirk, New York:Listed below are additional passport offices that are located within 50 miles of Dunkirk New York:
Fredonia Post Office - Fredonia - 2.4 Miles
Forestville Post Office - Forestville - 6 Miles
Cassadaga Post Office - Cassadaga - 8.1 Miles
Portland Post Office - Portland - 9.3 Miles
Stockton Post Office - Stockton - 9.9 Miles
Sinclairville Post Office - Sinclairville - 13.1 Miles
Versailles Post Office - Perrysburg - 14.3 Miles
Cherry Creek Post Office - Cherry Creek - 14.6 Miles
Westfield Post Office - Westfield - 14.8 Miles
Town of Evans - Angola - 15.5 Miles
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Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana (LIC) {GST Effect, Apply And Claim Procedure}
Life insurance schemes are not new in India. The most popular institute, offering such policies is the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). This time, the institute has joined hands with the central government and introduced a new life coverage policy that has been named LIC Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana or the LIC – AABY. It will provide financial assistance to the needy in case of accident or death.
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Key features of the scheme
- Providing financial security to the needy – The LIC – AABY has been announced and implemented as a social security program. It will provide life coverage to the poor and landless farmers in case of any accident or accident.
- Type of scheme – Like most other life insurance or accidental insurance policies, the LIC – AABY falls under the category of Social Security Program.
- Low premium amount – The premium policy of the policy has been set at very low levels, so that all poor and needy people can enroll under the social security scheme.
- Targeted beneficiaries – The implementation of the social security scheme has been done to provide financial assurance to the people who belong to the backward or poor level. The same benefits will be provided to those farmers who do not have any land of their own.
- Establishment of premium fund – The central government has already established an Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana Premium Fund. The central government will deposit its financial contribution into this fund for the payment of claims.
- Nodal agencies – Each candidate will have to get the approval of the nodal agencies. These nodal agencies will consist of the state government ministries, union territory authority offices or other such government offices.
- Nominees will be benefited – In case the original policy holder dies, the entire coverage amount will be transferred in the name of the nominees or other selected family members.
- Scholarship benefit for the children – If the policy holder dies or meet with an accident, then a maximum of two children in the family will stand a chance to acquire a scholarship benefit of Rs. 100 on a monthly basis. The payment of the scholarship grant will be done on a half yearly basis.
Eligibility features of the scheme
- BPL candidates – Only those people will be allowed to enroll under the scheme who fall in the category of below poverty level. They must not have a good income on a monthly basis.
- Age related criteria – There is also an age requirement that the candidates need to meet. The enrolling candidate must not be less than the age of 18 years and he/she must also not be above the age of 59 years.
- Head of the family – The candidate who is interested in getting the policy must be the head of the family. If not this, then the enrolling individual must be the only person in the family who is employed.
How to apply?
- Any candidate who is interested in gaining the benefits of the scheme will have to go to the nodal agencies and get the application form.
- Then the candidate will have to fill up the application form and then attach the photocopies of the required documents before submitting it.
- The application must be submitted at the respective office and the verification will be done by the officers.
- Once all verifications have been completed, the papers will be forwarded to the office of LIC and respective government departments for documentation.
Documents required for the scheme
- Aadhar card – To be a part of the scheme, the candidate will have to produce the unique identification code. For this, the application form must be attached with the photocopy of the Aadhar Card.
- Voter ID card – For meeting the verification requirements, the person will also have to attach a photocopy of the Voter ID card with the application form.
- Ration Card – The attachment of a copy of the ration card is also important for assisting the verification procedure.
- BPL card – As the scheme has been designed for providing life coverage and insurance benefits for the people who are under the poverty line, the enrolling candidate will have to attach the BPL certificate.
- School certificate – Any document that has been provided by the school must also be attached with the application form. It will assist in verifying the age of the person.
- Birth certificate – As there is an age related criteria that needs to be fulfilled, the candidate will have to attach a photocopy of the birth certificate.
- ID card issued by government – For the purpose of identification, the person can also attach any ID card that has either been granted by the central or state government. The same card, issued by the employer will also be granted valid.
- Bank account details – The insurance money will be deposited and transferred to the policy holder or to the nominees via the bank account, the details of the account must also be provided by the candidate.
Aam Aadmi Bima coverage rules
In case of natural death –
If the holder of the policy dies in a natural manner, then the nominee or the members of the family will be given a onetime amount of Rs. 30,000.
In case of accidents –
There are two separate categories of claiming the policy money, if the policy holder meets with an accident. If the accident causes death of the policy holder or brings about permanent damage in both eyes of limbs, then the person or nominees will get an amount of Rs. 75,000.
In case the accident does not cause death but brings about a permanent damage to any one of the two eyes or limbs, then the person will be provided with an amount of Rs. 37,000.
Premium rate
It has already been mentioned that the scheme was designed for the benefit of poor and needy section of the society. Thus, it was necessary that the government made sure that the poor people will be able to pay the monthly premium. If the premium amount was quoted too high, then it will not be possible for the poor to avail the benefits. Thus, it has been announced that the premium amount will be only Rs. 200 on a yearly basis. 50% of the premium will be provided state government or the UT authority, if the policy holder falls under the landless farmer category.
Mode of payment
All the payments will be made via the bank accounts. The government will not provide the policy amount in cash. Thus, the presence of an active bank account will come in handy. Once the claim verification process ends, the money will be transferred in the respective account of the policy holder.
Maturity period
The person will be able to get the insured policy coverage amount when they turn 60 years (in case they do not meet a serious accident or die.)
The policy holder will be able to nominate a person as the nominee. This person will be given the coverage money in case of death. If the policy holder has not mentioned any nominee, then the amount will be handed over to any kin.
Claim Process For Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana
- Claim in case natural death – If the policy holder dies a natural death, then the members of the family or the nominee will have to fill the claim documents and attach the required documents, along with the death certificate. The application must be submitted to the nodal office and once the approval is made, LIC will transfer the money.
- Claims in case of accident or accidental death – In case the policy holder meets with an accident and suffers the damages that have been mentioned in the draft of the scheme, then appropriate medical documents, and police FIR papers need to be attached with the claim form. If the policy holder dies due to the impact of the accident, then the claim papers must be attached with the police conclusion report, FIR report, and postmortem report for getting the insurance money.
- Scholarship claims – If the policy holder has children who fall under the scholarship program, then the application form must be filled and submitted every six months. The papers will have to be placed in the nodal office. These scholarship papers will be verified and then it will be forwarded to the office of LIC. It will then be the task of the LIC to transfer the scholarship amount into the bank account of the policy holder.
GST effect on the Yojna
Normal calculation states that the implementation of the GST act by the central government of India will make the premium amount expensive. It means that the policy holders will have to pay more money as the premium. The central government has announced that 18% GST will be applicable on the scheme from the of July, 2017.
The implementation of the scheme has proved to be beneficial for the people, especially those who belong to the poor strata. The central government has contributed about 569.10 Cr towards the Social Security Fund and Scholarship Fund for settling the claims.
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FILE - In this In this July 22, 2011, file photo, citizen journalism file image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian anti-regime protesters gather during a rally in al-Assy square in the western city of Hama, Syria. It was sparked by an act of brutality, the detention and torture of schoolchildren who spray-painted anti-government graffiti in a southern city. In the three years since, the brutality of Syrias civil war has seemed to reach new levels every day. Arabic on the banner reads, "we will never forget our martyrs and prisoners." (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File)


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Avet® 2-speed models include industry-leading features unlike any other reel on the market. They feature an adjustable strike pre-set lever drag system, precision machined 6061-T6 aluminum and stainless steel components, eight rubber sealed stainless steel ball bearings, stainless steel gears and Avet's smooth, powerful Avedrag dry drag system.
The simple, yet reliable gear shift mechanism built into the 2-speed models is so easy to operate that it becomes second nature almost immediately. The push button located at the center of the handle arm permits shifting between the high and low gears without your hand ever leaving the handle knob, and can be shifted with or without pressure, so you can shift while cranking, or when a fish is running.
The M.C. Cast control system incorporates Avet's Adjustable Intensity Polar Amplification Technology to create the most efficient and easy to use cast control system for a conventional style reel. From the lightest bait to heavy lures, the M.C.Cast Control System is simple to use, even if you have never before cast a conventional style reel. Simply place your thumb on the spool to cast, swing, remove your thumb from the spool and let it fly! You will only need to thumb the spool when the lure hits the water.
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Shortest Possible Time to Getting NBA 2K16 Runes While Making Profit
Recently, I was able to help myself and a few friends to get all their runes within a few hours and make NBA 2K16 MT doing it. I realized today that I should be sharing this with the community! Just so you know, this tutorial is pointless unless you have a MINIMUM of 10-15K MT.
Okay so first you need to know how to snipe, and the rules of runes.
Snipes come out every 15 minutes (give or take) on the auction house. To snipe, you set your filters on the search area, and then repeatedly refresh until cards come up. You then proceed to try to buy them before anyone else can.
Runes are symbols that appear on cards, that give access to the black market. For more info on this, check out ReadySetDiego's black market guide. You find them by rotating the card all directions under the, "view card" menu. Finally, you should now that each player has approximately 31 runes, that can be any player card.
So now the guide:
1. First you need to set your sniping filters to all player cards, minimum buyout of 500, maximum buyout of 750. Then you wait until these bronzes are released and buy as many as possible, avoiding duplicates.
2. Redeem the cards you won and check them for Runes in your collection.
3. After you have THOROUGHLY checked every card, send them to your auction house, and list them at 850 MT a piece buy it now. They will all sell relatively quickly. Because you lose 10% of your selling amount, this means you lose 85 coins. That means that you make 765 coins per card, meaning you make 15 MT. Though this is minimal, you get many of your runes in this process.
4. Now continue this process, making sure to keep track of who you have purchased in order to avoid runes. To help, you may choose to take pictures of those cards you have already checked.
5. This is Very Important: DO NOT GET TOO FRUSTRATED! This took me about 7 hours of snipes. The fact that each player has 31 runes means that roughly 1 in every 50 players will be a rune, and that's if you are lucky. Generally, this process takes a long time and can be very boring so have something to do while you wait for snipes (in addition to selling your cards)
6. If you think you have gone through all the bronzes, and haven't gotten 5 runes (very uncommon), try doing silvers. Change your maximum buyout to 900, and make sure, "silver players only" is selected. Sell these for 1,000 minimum once you have checked them.
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These enchiladas are just wonderful! You must try sometime soon!
Apple Enchiladas
Cherries or peaches can be substituted for apples.
1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
6 (8 inch) flour tortillas
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup water
Spoon about one heaping quarter cup of pie filling evenly down the center of each tortilla.
Sprinkle with cinnamon; roll up, tucking in edges; and place seam side down in prepared dish.
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar and water. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes.
Pour sauce over enchiladas and let stand 45 minutes.
Bake in preheated oven 20 minutes, or until golden.
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There have been suggestions among some in the media that the Haqqani Network (who were the terrorists Bowe Bergdahl was with) is somehow a separate entity from the Taliban. Al Qaeda is not even being mentioned in this regard, which is a grave error.
Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal, which tracks developments on the battlefield for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported in 2011:
Claiming that the Haqqani Network is not part of the Taliban is like saying that the US is not part of NATO. The Haqqani Network is one of many Taliban subgroups, or, put another way, part of the Taliban's "coalition." The organization happens to be one of the more powerful subgroups, operating freely in areas it controls with a degree of autonomy; but at the same time, it coordinates its activities with other Taliban factions and groups like Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin.
Roggio quotes a 2008 interview Jalaluddin Haqqani did with Al Somood Magazine in which Haqqani is asked about how "western news agencies report that your Jihadist movement is independent and outside the organization of the Islamic Emirate. What prompts these claims and what is the truth of them?"
Haqqani answers:
All of these claims are baseless. Praise be to Allah, all the Mujahideen wage Jihad under the leadership of the Ameer ul-Momineen Mullah Mohamed Omar Mujahid against the American invaders and their lackeys. There is no crisis (of division) under the names moderate or extremist among the Mujahideen. They all fight under a unified leadership, according to the glorious aya: "Strong against the unbelievers (but) compassionate amongst each other". I myself am a member of the High Council of the Islamic Emirate.
Another senior Haqqani Network leader, Mullah Sangeen Zadran, declared in 2009 that: "Al Qaeda and the Taliban all are Muslims and we are united by the brotherhood of Islam. We do not see any difference between Taliban and al Qaeda, for we all belong to the religion of Islam."
One of the terrorists traded for Bergdahl was a member of the Taliban's Supreme Shura during their time pre-2001 time in power. This 10-man council was the predecessor to today's Quetta Shura (so named because it is based in the Pakistani city of Quetta) of which Jalaluddin Haqqani is a part.
That he was released gives new kick to CBS News reporter Lara Logan's mocking remark in 2012 in which she explained how it was nonsense for those in Washington DC to believe that the Taliban of today "don't really want to take us back 3,000 years into that terrible terrible place I witnessed in 2001 when I went with the Afghan soldiers who retook Kabul from the Taliban."


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The first Davis Classic Quiz Bowl Tournament for High School teams will be held on Saturday, December 16. Registration will begin at 8:30AM and we plan to start round 1 at 9:00AM. All teams will play in one division; we will not have separate JV and Varsity divisions. The field cap is 16 teams.
Location: This tournament will take place at Davis Senior HS, 315 W 14th Street, Davis, California.
Questions: 2017 Maggie Walker GSAC set; more details about the set can be found here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 09&t=20214
Eligibility: All high schools (public, private, charter, religious, homeschool, etc.) are eligible to play in this event. Schools are encouraged to enter multiple teams, but please note that participants must play for the same team throughout the tournament.
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Hamacher expands its data management team to manage growing database
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Hamacher Resource Group on Wednesday welcomed Janine Petragnani as data assets coordinator.
Petragnani joins the company in a newly created position that oversees the team of content experts at HRG. Her staff is responsible for data integrity and product package content in HRG's databases of more than 65,000 health, beauty and wellness products.
"With her previous experience in customer service, operations management, human resources and information services, Janine has a broad skill set that has helped her lead the team and establish a new structure as they added to their capabilities," HRG director of operations Julie Bonnell said. "We are increasing our database to include approximately 6,000 home health care products, and Janine's team has adapted to capture an expanded amount of information for these more complex products. Utilizing her strong project management, procedure development, and process improvement skills, she has helped lead the team as methods and practices have evolved to manage this new workflow."
CMS utilizing OTC card network to cover self-care; private plans next
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — The use of over-the-counter medicines as a cost savings tool is catching on, of all places, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Certain plans under Medicare are utilizing a new prepaid card of sorts to allow members to pay for their OTC medicines. Medicaid administrators, meanwhile, are employing that same card to incentivize healthier behavior among its members.
"A member can take one of our cards into a CVS or Rite Aid, swipe our card, and the card will only be authorized [to pay for] a list of eligible [OTCs] approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid," Medagate CEO Devin Wade told Drug Store News.
Medagate has created an over-the-counter healthcare benefit called OTCNetwork, in partnership with prepaid-card marketer InComm, that now is being presented to private health insurers as a way to conveniently cover OTC medicines as a potential plan benefit. Many health plans already cover OTCs as a pharmacy benefit, Wade said. But the purchase pattern is not instinctual — patients still have to take those nonprescription items, identify them as covered expenses, and have those purchases adjudicated by the pharmacist in a separate transaction. "This would allow [insurers] to really expand that benefit and have that front-of-store normal purchase behavior," Wade said.
Even though retailers have sophisticated point-of-sale systems capable of identifying and netting out those eligible products, especially since the inclusion of OTCs as eligible flexible spending account expenses in 2003, Medagate is the first to coral that functionality into a customizable payment card solution that plan members can use at the counter.
The myriad possibilities in utilizing this card is almost as numerous as the number of potential OTCs that the card can be used to purchase. For example, while no precedent exists today certainly, the card could be used as the kind of technological enabler switch expert Steve Francesco characterized to help drive more complex Rx-to-OTC switches over the next five years (to read that report, click here). For example, health plans could issue these cards to all plan members, and restrict sales of a particular OTC product to only patients on a specific medicine regimen — patients identified by a healthcare professional as eligible for statin therapy, for example. "That's a perfect scenario for our network, absolutely," Wade told Drug Store News. The card can authorize or restrict a sale based on any number of criteria, including diagnosis. The card can also restrict the amount of product purchased by month.
Medagate and InComm earlier this year launched a card that Medicare patients can use to pay for OTCs under Medicare Part C. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services allow health plans to issue payment cards to seniors for the purchase of OTC items at drug and grocery stores, but only if the retailer can identify the eligible items and limit the payment card to those items. Wade identified Medicare plans in Florida, New York and Texas as some of the early adopters of Medagate's OTC payment solution. For the 2012 plan year, another 20 Medicare plans nationwide are planning to utilize the OTCNetwork, he said.
Medagate utilizes InComm's point-of-sale card activation retail network, which reaches some 225,000 retail outlets, as the behind-the-scenes driver of Medagate's OTCNetwork benefit. "We partnered with InComm to use that network [as a tool] to authorize spend at these retailers," Wade said. "We wanted to be able to create rules around what the card could be used for. We have the ability to restrict the spend on our cards down to the product level."
Medagate also launched its OTCMedicaid card platform earlier this year, a program developed to help Medicaid Programs improve Health Effectiveness Data Set scores through administered OTC benefit and health incentive programs. Due to new Health Care Reform mandates, Medicaid programs nationally are seeking to improve compliance with HEDIS-based wellness as a measure of program success and funding. The OTCMedicaid Card enables Medicaid Programs to more efficiently provide and administer OTC benefits for use in member self-care, and also provide cash incentives for OTC items to influence behavior around routine health maintenance, such as smoking cessation, for example.
In May, The Health Plan of San Mateo leveraged the OTCMedicaid Card to offer health incentives to its 52,000 Medicaid members in Northern California for the completion of routine health screenings.
"A core area of focus for our plan is encouraging our women members due for mammograms and Pap tests to participate in these potentially life-saving health screenings and exams in a timely way," said Mary Giammona, medical director at The Health Plan Of San Mateo, at the time of the announcement. "The OTCMedicaid card gives us the ability to offer incentives that can be used only for OTC Medicaid eligible items like vitamins, first aid products and OTC medications upon completion of health screenings and well visits — a strategy we believe will not only improve health outcomes, but also reduce our overall program costs," added Ron Robinson, director of Financial and Administrative Services.
New survey sheds light on top supermarket customer service
TORONTO — Safeway and Wegmans ranked highest across all customer service elements, according to a survey by Empathica.
Empathica, a customer experience management solution-provider, polled more than 16,000 consumers, and found that operations and merchandise were the two most important elements in grocery shopping versus other elements, such as promotions, people and technology.
While Wegmans had the highest scores across all service elements, Trader Joe's, Publix Super Markets, Harris Teeter and Whole Foods Market also ranked high across 4-out-of-the-5 service areas, yet fell short with promotions. The promotions category took into account loyalty programs, availability of coupons, as well as pricing, availability and frequency of promotions.
"In light of current economic conditions, grocery stores must pay attention to all service areas in order to preserve customer loyalty," Empathica VP grocery Brian Jones said. "Promotions are no exception."
Although 48% of respondents consider electronic offers to be important, one-third felt those offers did not always meet their expectations, Jones said.
In Canada, Safeway had the highest score in meeting customer expectations across all service areas. Wal-Mart Stores ranked near the bottom of the list for operations, people and promotions among Canadians. In the United States, Wal-Mart ranked among the lowest in those same service areas, in addition to merchandise. A&P, C&S Wholesale Grocers and Unified Grocers also ranked among the lowest across all five service areas.
More than 85% of surveyed consumers indicated they would spend more or the same at grocery stores and supermarkets within the next three months. Additionally, more than half of consumers reported spending more than half of their grocery dollars at their primary supermarket.
"According to the survey, a considerable number of U.S. consumers shop at Walmart for their groceries. In fact, more than one out of every four consumers shopped for groceries at Walmart," Jones said. "This is largely indicative of their prices."
In the Midwest, the top five grocers based on overall customer experience were Giant Eagle, Meijer, Kroger, Hy-Vee and Aldi. The Northeast was topped by Wegmans, Delhaize America, Ahold USA, Wakefern Food Corp. and Giant Eagle.
In the south, Harris Teeter, Publix, Kroger, H-E-B and Safeway were the top five. And in the west, it was Kroger, Safeway, Supervalu, Costco and WinCo.


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Example Study 2: Leisure Centre
This example considers a small office building in Southern Alberta. Given the facility energy consumption data (shown right), the cost for grid electricity and natural gas, we computed the size of CHP that maximizes the ROI to be a 500kW solution.
The ROI is shown as a function of CHP size in the bottom right chart (red), demonstrating a maximum ROI at 500kW. At 500kW, the CHP does not generate sufficient electricity nor heat to provide for all the facilities electricity needs as shown in the left charts (facility demand in red and CHP production in blue). Further cost reductions (top right chart) can be achieved with CHP's up to 750kW which would provide almost all the facilities needs. However, the ROI would drop by 5%.
At 750kW, the CHP would provide for most of the electricity needs and would accommodate the base thermal load. However, the CHP would need to modulate down from 750kW to as much as 300kW for a total of 29% of the time. As this would decrease efficiencies and increase maintenance costs, a 750kW solution would be considered to be too large.
If the surplus electricity could be exported to the grid, a 750kW CHP could run at peak efficiency and improve the ROI.


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Welcome to the current tournament portal for the East region! The upcoming East tournament will be at Nikola Vaptsarov FLHS in Shumen on December 10-11. Registration for the tournament has ended. Coaches, you should receive an invitation to register for this tournament on Speechwire. If you don't receive the invitation, or if you are a coach in a different region and would like to bring your team to this tournament, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Scholarship Application
- Letter of Invitation
- Press
- Schedule
- Judging
- Team Roster Spreadsheet
- Food
- Hotels
- Transportation
- Debate Motions
Scholarship Application
Scholarship Applications for the tournament are now closed.
Letter of Invitation
You can download the official letter of invitation in Bulgarian here. If you want a customized letter mailed to your school, e-mail us at email@example.com.
Here you can read our pre-tournament press release in English and Bulgarian.
Here you can read our post-tournament press release and awards list in English and Bulgarian.
Tentative* Schedule
Saturday, December 10
9:30 – 11:00: Team Check In & Judge Check In
10:00: New Judge Training Session 1 (required for new judges)
11:00: Opening Ceremony
11:30: Round 1 Flight B: Oratory, Prose, and Duo
New Judge Training Session 2 (required for new judges)
13:30: Round 1 Flight A: Debate (prepared) and Poetry
14:30: Lunch
15:00: Round 2 Flight B: Oratory, Prose, and Duo
16:30: Round 2 Flight A: Debate (impromptu) and Poetry
18:30: Round 3: Novice Oratory
Quarterfinals: Varsity Oratory
Semifinals: Prose & Duo
19:30: Round 3: Debate (prepared)
Quarterfinals: Varsity Poetry
Semifinals: Novice Poetry
20:30: Semifinals: Varsity Oratory
Sunday, December 11
8:30: Round 4: Novice Debate (impromptu)
Semifinals: Varsity Poetry & Varsity Debate (impromptu)
10:30: Finals Flight B: Oratory, Prose, and Duo
11:30: Finals Flight A: Debate (prepared) and Poetry
13:30: Closing Ceremony
*Note that the schedule is subject to change based on registrations.
We welcome all high school graduates with C1 or higher English to judge at our tournaments. If you are new to BEST and our tournaments, visit our Judging Basics page!
We will reimburse all judges for their transport if they use trains or buses, but we strongly encourage taking the most affordable option when possible (usually trains). Please purchase one-way tickets and leave them with us and we will reimburse you for the round-trip cost. We will provide food at the tournament site, and we will also cover one night of hotel accommodations for regional tournaments. In exceptional circumstances when a judge can't make it to the tournament site before 11am on Saturday, we will cover two nights of hotel accommodation.
Judge signup for the tournament is closed.
Team Roster Spreadsheet
Registration for the tournament is now closed. Please contact Team BEST at firstname.lastname@example.com for any edits to team rosters.
For the restaurants below we recommend that you call and make dinner reservations as soon as you know the size of your team.
* places marked with an asterisk do deliveries
Klasik restaurant (open until 12:00am) – 089 887 7720
Primo Bar & Grill (open until 11:00pm) – 089 795 0162
Address: 47 Simeon Veliki boul., 9700 Shumen
Joia Pizza & BBQ (open until 11:00pm) – 089 797 2147
Mehana Chiflika (open until 2:00am) – 088 664 4369
Popsheytanova Kushta (open until 11:30pm) – 054 802 222
Pizza & BBQ Shumen (open until 12:00am) – 089 763 2929
Vienska Gradina* (open until 12:00am) – 089 012 1333
The first tournament hotel is Hotel Madara.
The address of Hotel Madara is 1 Osvobozhdenie Sq., 9700 Shumen.
The price of Hotel Madara is 23 leva per person per night.
The second tournament hotel is Hotel Shumen.
The address of Hotel Shumen is 1 Oborishte st., 9700 Shumen.
The price of Hotel Shumen is 23 leva per person per night.
The third tournament hotel is Hotel Prolet.
The address of Hotel Prolet is 11 Marin Drinov st., 9700 Shumen.
The fourth tournament hotel is Hotel Zoti.
The address of Hotel Zoti is 15 Gerila st., 9700 Shumen.
The price of Hotel Zoti is 25 leva per person per night.
The fifth tournament hotel is Hotel Central.
The address of Hotel Central is 8 Osvobozhdenie sq., 9700 Shumen.
The price of Hotel Central is 25 leva per person per night.
If you are in need of taxi transportation, here are two numbers:
089 855 5765 – Elfi Taxi
089 799 0099 – Metro Taxi
Here are directions on how to get from the Bus and Train Stations to the tournament site – Nikola Vaptsarov FLHS:
Here are directions on how to get from the tournament hotels to Nikola Vaptsarov FLHS:
Debate Motions
Prepared motions
- This house believes that acts of violence are sometimes necessary to advance social movements.
- This house believes that biotechnology is a justified means for achieving equality among humans.
- This house would support efforts to fund the creation of self-driving cars.
Impromptu topics
The themes for the Fall Impromptu rounds are below. The motions for these rounds will be related to these general themes, and they will be announced right before the thirty-minute preparation period begins.
- Education
- Childcare


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On Wall Street annually honors the industry's top 40 advisors under age 40. This year's honorees, ranked by their production, are leaders in their fields. See which advisors ranked numbers 31 to 40, and hear their success stories.
Later this month, On Wall Street will also unveil the top ten regional advisors under age 40.
Read about advisors numbered 31 to 40 below or view with images here.
No. 40: Josef Najar
- Firm: Credit Suisse
- Production: $2.877 million
- AUM: $344 million
- Age: 35
Since he started as a financial advisor, Josef Najar has "focused on a narrow investment philosophy.
His mantra is "cash flow and dividends, the New York-based financial advisor at Credit Suisse says.
Given the recessionary environment shortly after he began in 2007, Najars approach made sense.
"Our clients otherwise would have been their own worst enemy because they would have sold at the bottom of the market," he says.
But because Najar could point during that period to dividends, which were going up, he calmed clients. When stock prices rebounded, clients benefited and stayed with him.
With the subsequent rise of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Najar hasnt forsaken his "dividends matter" theme because it still works, he says.
Najar also builds his book by helping his clients with financial planning, not directly related to investing their portfolio with him. He even helps some clients, many of whom own companies either in the real estate or shipping industries, connect with other investment banks if his own isnt providing underwriting services.
Najar offers those extra services free of charge because he knows that kind of guidance, given generously, pays off when his clients sell a company or otherwise have a liquidity event.
"You have to be hanging around the hoop to get the ball passed to you. You have to have discussions that dont necessarily have immediate revenues attached to them," Najar says.
No. 39: Guillermo Eiben
- Firm: Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management
- Production: $2.929 million
- AUM: $150 million
- Age: 34
Latin America ranks as Guillermo Eibens go-to region for developing and fostering client relationships.
That geographic focus contributed to his impressive numbers this year.
Why did the multilingual Argentinian, New York-based Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management financial advisor attract more Latin American clients and more of their assets in 2014?
Two reasons, according to Eiben.
First, his firm enjoys a reputation in his clients countries for having a leading role in U.S. securities markets, he says.
"Morgan Stanley has done a tremendous job of achieving name recognition in that part of the world," Eiben says.
But also the advantages of marketing a U.S.-based firm to Latin Americans multiplied this year when the economic prospects in their part of the globe dimmed. Many South American investors sought U.S. investment alternatives, given the slide in their countries currencies.
The Dow Jones Industrial Averages buoyancy marks a stark change since 2009 when Eiben started training, and market indexes continued to plummet.
He had worked as an analyst in an Argentinian outpost of a U.S.-based consulting firm before getting his master's degree at the University of Virginia and entering the retail side of the financial services industry.
Eiben recognized then that "if I was going to be able to sustain myself I was going to have to create revenue."
He began with that goal, and now, with one associate, Eiben, who appeared for the first time on this years list of 40 under 40, generated $2.9 million in production.
No. 38: Dan Rothenberg
- Firm: UBS
- Production: $2.937 million
- AUM: $2.38 billion
- Age: 33
Dan Rothenbergs endowment clients have grown at a faster rate than those in other categories this year.
That trend is no accident.
"Im spending more of my effort trying to build up that business," says Rothenberg, a Los Angeles-based advisor with UBS.
"I tend to enjoy that a little bit more," he says about advising those institutions, a task that typically requires meeting with their boards and committees.
The challenge of helping the endowments governing bodies develop investment goals allows Rothenberg to use "my nerdy economics number-crunching" qualities, says the Harvard graduate, who placed 10th in last year's 40 Under 40 ranking.
Typically, his endowment clients have $50 million to $100 million in assets and a variety of objectives set by their founding documents. Some have even begun to consider staying away from stranded assets.
The old adage requiring investors to choose between making money and doing good is beginning to reach its expiration date, Rothenberg says.
Rothenberg, who works with a five-person team, enjoys both using his people skills at board meetings and then closing the door of his office and poring over financial statements to find the right answers for the endowments investment needs.
"Its a perfect mix," he says about the required diplomacy with board members and closeted calculating.
No. 37: Butch Safyurtlu
- Firm: UBS
- Production: $2.944 million
- AUM: $227 million
- Age: 39
Never expect to find Butch Safyurtlu surrounded by a marketing team.
The Newport Beach, Calif.-based UBS financial advisor relies on no such services.
"My clients are my marketing team," says Safyurtlu, whose production was generated almost 99% from advisory fees and who moved up a notch from 38 in last year's ranking.
He begins initial conversations with clients by volunteering an unvarnished assessment of his and their interests.
"Everybody wants to make money, get rich and retire. The way Butch gets rewarded is a client refers a new client," Safyurtlu tells the new clients.
"The biggest compliment" a client may offer him is "referring a family member," he says.
When he started working in the financial services industry, Safyurtlu clocked slavish hours while attending and graduating from a night law school program.
Such a persistent work ethic has helped him earn referrals of clients siblings, he says.
Safyurtlu offers his clients a full complement of financial planning services, and he never rests on his laurels with his asset selections.
"If you are not changing things, you are not doing the things you should be doing," he says about asset management.
With those practices and philosophy, Safyurtlu not only attracts new clients but also retains existing ones, even when he switches firms.
In 2010, Safyurtlu moved from another investment bank to UBS. Within 90 days, more than 90% of his clients had moved with him.
"It was an incredible statement of confidence. I was blown away by the overwhelming support," Safyurtlu says.
"The firm put me in a position of power, and I have much more latitude" Safyurtlu says.
No. 36: Allen Saunders
- Firm: UBS
- Production: $2.950 million
- AUM: $781 million
- Age: 38
The bulls dominated the 2014 market, but even that upswing failed to make Allen Saunders stray from his long-term focus.
"We want to make sure we are buying companies that will continue to reward our shareholders. We are not looking for short-term performance," says the New York-based advisor, who slipped from his 32nd place finish last year.
Saunders expresses certitude regarding the mix of assets he chooses for his clients portfolios and his steadfast avoidance of trendy distractions, such as the equity buy of the day, week, month or even year.
If a client calls with an extra $500,000 in cash to invest, Saunders says he has no expectation or intention of casting about for a "good deal."
Rather, Saunders will allocate that addition into the clients existing portfolio because the financial advisor has already carefully chosen and balanced those assets.
Saunders pairs a no-gimmicks approach to investing with reliable service.
"We really make a point to do what we say we are going to do, and we dont have too many clients. We are very selective in terms of who we work with," Saunders says, though he declines to cite an exact number.
"We have a process for everything we do, and the clients know that," he says.
Even though his clients "sometimes get sick of hearing the word process," Saunders credits his allegiance to deliberate and orderly actions for bolstering his practice because "our clients would never expect to be guided blindly," he says.
No. 35: Peter Huffman
- Firm: Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
- Production: $2.969 million
- AUM: $620 million
- Age: 35
Peter Huffman reflects back on when he got his start in the industry working for Merrill in 2008 and realizes his timing couldn't have been better for a young advisor.
It proved to be the most rewarding time of his career so far, says Huffman. "Going through the 'Great Recession' as I entered the industry and working closely with so many families in the ensuing years to minimize the impact of the market's volatility," he recalls.
Huffman previously worked for The Clinton Foundation, which had him working in Africa for 5 years. He managed several health efforts aimed at building up local HIV and AIDS care and treatment programs. He left convinced he wanted to continue serving others, and saw opportunity within the private sector, working as an advisor.
At Merrill, Huffman advises a varied client base of young CEOs in Silicon Valley to a 111-year-old retiree. "Most of my clients have a net worth in the range of $10 million to $50 million. "Albeit there are many on both ends of that range," he says. "Nearly all of them are self-made, and my client base resides in 39 states."
His business has grown consistently since the crisis, and as Huffman notes, he's managed to maintain the service model of "supporting every client at every level," over those years. His goal is to continue providing a "level of support that our clients deserve. His ambitions also continue, with plans for growing his business with another $100 million in new assets.
No. 34: Matias Cohen
- Firm: UBS
- Production: $2.985 million
- AUM: $350 million
- Age: 37
For many of Matias Cohens clients, the majority of whom reside in South America, 2014 qualified as a challenging year due to the regions economies and declining currency values.
So his clients appreciated his "rational" approach more than ever this year, says Cohen, a UBS advisor in Miami, who moved up the ranks from 40th last year.
His production is about 60% from transactional fees and 40% from advisory ones.
What principles serve as the bedrock of Cohens "rational" approach?
"Realistic expectations and risk avoidance," he says.
"We are not trying to be the best performers. We instead are trying to hit close to the rate of returns we target, Cohen says.
We are more concerned with risk than with returns," he says.
Cohen, who studied economics before moving to the United States and UBS, tells clients that "not many people are going to do better than the S&P [500]."
His success hinges on keeping low volatility in his clients portfolios, he says.
"We believe our business is wealth preservation, Cohen says.
We dont have clients that want to be rich from the market. They are rich, Cohen says.
They just want to be sure they dont take risks," says Cohen, who works with a team of two other financial advisors and three assistants.
When he started at UBS in 2003, steadiness "differentiated" his team from the competition, Cohen says.
Early on, he learned that pairing consistent returns with a high level of service worked.
Cohen opts not for flashy but rather predictable.
"We are not Gordon Gekko," Cohen says, referring to the fictional character from the movie, "Wall Street."
No. 33: Daniele Conci
- Firm: Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management
- Production: $2.986 million
- AUM: $336 million
- Age: 39
Pasta, gelato and Daniele Conci.
What do they have in common? Italians loyalty.
"My niche is Italians," says Conci, a financial advisor, who works for Morgan Stanley Private Wealth in Miami, and who has roster full of Italian clients who reside in South America and Europe, including, not surprisingly, Italy.
That is the country where the bilingual Conci once launched an Italian private bank.
He transferred to the United States to start the banks branch operations, "the beginning of my American adventure," Conci says about the move.
Once in the United States, he first switched to a U.S. branch of BNP Paribas before starting in 2011 at Morgan Stanley.
"Amazingly most of my clients came with me," Conci says about when he shifted to Morgan Stanley, where he has continued to help build his largely transactional business.
Despite his own firm-switching career path, he recommends that advisors avoid hopping from employer to employer.
"Everybody should stay where they are and concentrate on the relationship with clients. Be close to the clients, close to their families," Conci says.
"Your move makes their life difficult, he says. The last you want to do is complicate your clients life."
When advisors move simply for money or situational reasons, they strip their clients of the one thing they usually seek: stability, Conci says.
"You need to put clients needs in front of any other because your service to them goes well beyond the performance of the portfolio," he says.
No. 32: Gregory Cash
- Firm: Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group
- Production: $3.029 million
- AUM: $2.2 billion
- Age: 39
Gregory Cash recognizes that his success this year in deepening his client relationships has hinged in part on his age.
The Merrill Lynch financial advisor, based in Charlotte, N.C., identifies most of his clients as 50-somethings, who have created fortunes of $10 million or more.
Those clients offspring are typically 20-somethings, and they are the likely beneficiaries of those fortunes, Cash says.
He falls squarely in between the ages and financial demographics of his clients and their adult children, and his understanding of both their world views "is key," Cash says.
It helps qualify him as a useful resource and advisor for clients and their families who need work through wealth and generational issues.
Cash, who was 26th in last year's ranking, solidifies his relationships with clients using his strength at providing intergenerational advice.
"We are known for helping families," he says. "Wealth creators usually have concerns about how their children and grandchildren will be responsible with the money they have made.
At the same time, the wealth creator, often the father, "may not have been around that much when the kids were growing up, so gulfs might exist between the generations, Cash says.
His team of 12 has developed tools to help the clients families "move through those issues," and Cash says he uses those to coordinate multigenerational meetings with discussions about income distributions, work incentives and philanthropy.
The help that Cash has provided his clients families has also made him think about his own.
He and other firm members join a monthly scheduled conference phone call to talk about raising children who are "not entitled," he says.
No. 31: Justin Ryan
- Firm: UBS
- Production: $3.089 million
- AUM: $526 million
- Age: 37
If clients inquire about his team providing additional services, Justin Ryan knows his answer before they ask.
A UBS financial advisor in Atlanta, he says, "We are very service-oriented. Whatever the client asks, the answer is going to be yes from a service standpoint."
Ryan moved up the ranks from 37th last year, and generated all his production from advisory fees. He makes such a no-limits-on-service approach possible by limiting his teams number of clients.
"Our goal is to never have more than 40 clients. We want every client to think they are our only client, Ryan says.
We often hear from them, We cant believe you have other clients," he says.
Ryan is a hands-on asset manager.
"We dont [use] third-party separately managed accounts and very little mutual funds," Ryan says.
He operates a tight-knit team with two senior associates and an administrator.
Each team member knows that Ryan has set his expectations high, he says.
No one is surprised to get a call during scheduled vacation time to handle a work matter. Team members rise to the occasion.
"Each person on our team is a strong leader," Ryan says.
Motivating them is the knowledge that "as hard as it is to get a client, its very easy to lose a client," he says.
When a client walks from an advisor, "usually its over a service issue that is a fringe issue, says Ryan, adding that "I would never want that to happen to us."
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Tollcross Millennium Banner - Celebrates the History of Tollcross and Fountainbridge
The history starts at the left-hand side with the green fields of the market gardens that used to be the 'bread basket' of Edinburgh. It moves on to the industrialisation of the area showing the canal, rubber works and brewery.
The famous Tollcross Clock is depicted in the middle of the banner and it is showing 5 to 7 because that was the time the rubber works hooter sounded every morning to call the workers. The three arches of the Edinburgh Meat Market and the crane at the end depicts the present developments as Tollcross changes once again to become the financial centre of Edinburgh.
The banner also shows the cultural roots that still abound in Tollcross, both theatre and cinema. The King's, Lyceum and Cameo etc. are shown.
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A few days ago a friend read a newspaper editorial to me arguing that Donald Trump was a classic case of a person with an inferiority complex. It compared him, unfavorably, to Obama.
That made no sense at all. But it was funny, so there's that.
The argument appeared to be that if someone appears to be self-confident, he is hiding an inferiority complex. So, um, does that mean that a timid, meek person actually has a superiority complex?
But this nonsense did cause me to think about leadership and Trump. To my great surprise, the name that popped up in my mind was … Moses! Yes, THAT Moses. Moshe Rabbeinu. BTW, the link provided is a bit iffy. I suggest reading Exodus, et seq.
Before you go away shaking your head, consider these parallels and possibilities:
- Moses had some failures and issues as a young man. He killed a guy who was mistreating a Hebrew slave. Moses had to get out of Dodge in a hurry.
- Trump had some companies that went bankrupt. He had to revamp his approaches to real estate deals in a hurry.
- Moses' life style, as a man who had grown up in Pharoah's court, was quite different from his fellow Hebrews. A life of ease and luxury, no doubt.
- Trump's life style has been, to say the least, very different from about 99.9% of the American population. No ease, since Trump is famously hardworking, but certainly luxurious.
- Moses' first difficult job was to confront Pharoah and win.
- Trump's first job as a presidential candidate was to confront the Republican and Media Establishments and win.
- Moses then had to convince the Hebrews to get out of Dodge, i.e., leave Egypt and slavery for a life of independence and free will.
- Trump has to convince most Americans to vote for him in order to gain a life of independence and free will.
- And for a bit of Gematria: both men have five letters in their names, though the consonants in Hebrew MSS for Moses and TRMP for Trump, sum to quite different amounts. Moses = 640, while Trump = 1440. I have no idea what that may or may not mean, just thought you would be interested.
Here is when it gets interesting. Let's say Mr. Trump becomes the President. For a possible look back into the future, note what Moses had to go through.\
- The were really happy when they got out, but almost from the very beginning, the Hebrews complained and whined. Often during their 40 years in the desert, they said they would be better off back in Egypt! "At least we'd have food!"
- Moses, and G-d, too, nearly lost patience with them more than once, but always relented. The Hebrews were their children, after all!
- The Hebrews had a terrible time learning how to be free. Eventually Moses told them that not a single person who had lived in Egypt would not enter the Promised Land. Only their children would be allowed to enter.
- They also had a hard time obeying the 10 Simple Rules (Commandments) Moses and G-d wrote for them, including having only on god and observing the Sabbath. One time they went so far as to collect gold from themselves and make a Golden Calf! Boy, were their leaders mad! Many of the idolators came to a very sad end.
Well, what do you think?
N.B. Obama's name, with a weak two consonants, only sums to 42 – a famous number to Douglas Adams fans, but otherwise meaningless.


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The Visual Vocabulary of Education
Sep 3, 2014 | By: Evanleigh Davis
Team Through My Window has always had a specific demographic in mind, of course. And it's easy to say, 'I'd like to teach children so-and-so.' The question that arises directly afterward, and that lingers around like a bad smell, is precisely how.
I mean, everyone's been a kid at one point. Hopefully. Yet we, as 20-something undergrads and well-established industry professionals, look back on our younger years and find we're craning our heads. Kids like… basketball, right? Kids like Harry Potter…? They do, don't they? Well, that's a relief, because our necks have started cramping. Somehow our early years elude us, because nostalgia is easy and memory is fickle.
I'm not going to pretend I thought much about what kids like to look at before I set pencil to paper. I doubt kids have any one aesthetic, and besides, I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. The realm of education handles the younger generation very delicately—it's a necessary precaution, I guess, since education is so monumentally important and lasting. But with narrative, with the visual language, where we are sculpting not with clay but with human emotion, I thought—and still think—that children understand. The visual vocabulary is easy for them … I still find it a shame that, as one grows older, the realm of the visual is surgically removed from stories, as if illustrations were shameful or pedestrian. But I can still speak the language here, to kids. It's the language of lines and colors—the speech of the cartoon.
There's a theory that exists about the cartoon, actually, and pertains to child education. It seeks to explain why a child seems to gravitate so strongly to the simplistic forms of Mickey Mouse, Superman, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokémon, Cinderella, etc. The theory states that the cartoon face reflects our own face—not the one we see in the mirror, but the simpler, more scattered mental image that everyone has of themselves and of the world around them. When a person says, 'my bike', they're not imagining their bike—not really. What's in their heads is for more simple—two wheels, the cool splash of red on the side, the big plush handlebars, the nice basket their mom installed for them in the front. What they see is what the bike means, not what it appears to be. The same can be said of the cartoon.
In other words, a cartoon is an image of what we are, not what we look like. The photo-realism of a movie, a photograph, or a still-life is not nearly as interesting to children because it represents what we already see, in vivid clarity, with no room for the imagination. In a way, it represents the stranger, the foreign, the unknown: something that does not reside within our own heads and thus, something we cannot control. It is irrevocably, solidly, scarily real … This is the reason cartoons are so often associated with escapism. Yet it's good to remember that cartoons can speak profoundly through its simple, immediate empathy. Cartoons aren't real; but that's not important. They feel real. And so they affect us.
My goal when creating the art and style of Through My Window—if there ever was a finite goal—was to create a balance between these two extremes. The empathy and simplistic beauty of a cartoon meshed with the asymmetry, imperfection and wildness of real life, to form something as bizarrely, truthfully human as I could get it. I don't think I succeeded, though. Honestly, if I ever succeeded, I don't think there'd be a reason for me to make art anymore.


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If you are developing a web site using ASP.NET MVC it's possible that you are using razor in your views. And it's possible that you have some presentation logic in that views. This code is hard to test. We love testing our code, so probably you'll end up coding some Selenium or CodedUI tests. As you may know, UI tests are more fragile, harder and slower to execute than unit tests and therefore we execute them less. UI tests are good in some cases but if we could replace them with a more reliable suite of tests, that would be great.
And here is where RazorGenerator extension and NuGet packages (created by David Ebbo) come to rescue. What does this extension? It pre-compiles locally your views (the same code that is generated by IIS when you load a page is generated locally) so mainly you win three things:
- The initial loading of your website will be faster because the view is already compiled.
- You can test your views.
- You don't need to deploy your cshtml files.
The first step is to install the extension, so go to the Extensions and Updates section of Visual Studio and search for RazorGenerator.
[caption id="attachment_219" align="alignnone" width="1024"] RazorGenerator extension[/caption]
With the extension installed you are already able to pre-compile your views, but if you want to use them in your site, you should install RazorGenerator.Mvc NuGet package in your web project.
To generate the code version of your view you must set RazorGenerator as the custom tool of the views.
[caption id="attachment_220" align="alignnone" width="1023"] RazorGenerator custom tool[/caption]
And that's all. The extension you've just installed will generate the compiled version of the view.
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Now you have a code version of your view, so you can test it. Go to your test project and install the RazorGenerator.Testing package. A typical test could be this one:
[TestMethod] public void TestUsingRoutes() { // Instantiate the view directly var view = new UsingRoutes(); // Set up the data that needs to be access by the view MvcApplication.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); // Render it in an HtmlDocument var output = view.RenderAsHtml(); // Verify that it looks correct var element = output.GetElementbyId("link-using-routes"); Assert.AreEqual("/Home/UsingRoutes", element.Attributes["href"].Value); }
Where UsingRoutes is the name of the view we want to test. As you can see, the package provides us with an extension method for the view called RenderAsHtml (and another one called RenderAsString). This method returns an HtmlNode object of the HtmlAgilityPack library that we can query easily to verify if the view is correctly rendered.
It's possible that you will need to setup an HttpContext object (using mocks) to simulate some behavior. The library provides us a simple builder called HttpContextBuilder that you can use for this purpose. Let's see an example:
[TestMethod] public void TestMockHttpContext() { // Instantiate the view directly var view = new MockHttpContext(); // Set up the data that needs to be access by the view var mockHttpRequest = new Mock<HttpRequestBase>(MockBehavior.Loose); mockHttpRequest.Setup(m => m.IsAuthenticated).Returns(true); // Render it in an HtmlDocument var output = view.RenderAsHtml(new HttpContextBuilder().With(mockHttpRequest.Object).Build()); // Verify that it looks correct var element = output.GetElementbyId("user-authenticated"); Assert.IsNotNull(element); }
As you can see we are setting up a mock of the HttpRequest object to specify that the user is authenticated. We can pass an HttpContext created with the builder as the first parameter of the RenderAsHtml call.
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No Oz buyers for Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's bronze statueApril 9th, 2009 - 2:40 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Apr 9 (ANI): Late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's bronze statue has failed to interest any buyers in Australia, and it now seems fated to be sold off overseas.
The statue, made by controversial sculptor Mitch Mitchell, will now be offered to Oprah Winfrey and the Discovery Channel to see whether they are interested in buying it.
Mitchell, who is at the centre of an Easter row over his sculpture of a naked young woman on a crucifix, was left bewildered by the lack of Aussie interest in the statue.
"He's a Melburnian and he's the most famous Australian there's probably ever been," News.com.au quoted him as saying.
"It should stay in Melbourne. It's the place of his birth and he deserves to be honoured, but nobody here wants to buy it," he said.
The 2m clay sculpture, priced at 85,000 dollars, is currently stored at a Richmond studio. It shows Irwin crouching in his trademark khakis and holding a small crocodile.
Mitchell, who is waiting to find a buyer before he does the finishing touches, and cast the statue in bronze, had hoped that Moonee Ponds, where Irwin spent the first eight years of his life, would buy it.
However, Moonee Valley Council rejected the statue last year.
Graeme Smith, who helped Mitchell sell statues, including Don Bradman, said that he spent 12 months trying to find a buyer for the Irwin sculpture.
"It's unbelievable. I'm bewildered with the lack of enterprise shown. If you put that in a central position, the tourism, particularly from Japan and America, would be huge," he said.
"We're talking millions of people. It could be very enterprising and educational," he added.
Smith said he was negotiating with overseas interests, including Harpo Studios, owned by Irwin fan Oprah Winfrey, but he would prefer the statue stayed in a prominent Melbourne location. (ANI)
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House committees probe pandemic vaccine decisions
November 18, 2009
by Lisa Schnirring
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Good marks from TFAH
The government's handling of the pandemic vaccine got relatively high marks during today's hearing from Jeffrey Levi, PhD, executive director of Trust for America's Health, a health advocacy nonprofit group based in Washington, DC. He said vaccine developments moved forward with remarkable speed and the vaccine is a good match with the circulating strain.
"Whatever our concerns with production capacity are today, had the federal government not made the multi-billion-dollar investment in enhanced vaccine production capacity since 2005, we would be in far worse shape," he said. "We are depending on an inherently unpredictable technology and we are, unfortunately, still a few years away from US approval of newer, more reliable technology."
The federal government has been transparent about the vaccine and has made appropriate adjustments when supply issues have come up, Levi said. "While I cannot speak to when senior administration officials should have known about serious supply problems, when they did become aware of them, they adjusted policy and messaging appropriately," Levi said.
Though some of their responses have led to confusion and frustration, "it has reflected an honest attempt to reflect the current state of knowledge," he said.
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A Sense of Home: The Art of Richard Stout
May 18 - September 2, 2018
A major retrospective of works by Houston artist Richard Stout. The show features the artist's abstract expressionist paintings and sculptures.
Target Texas: What Inspires
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Los Tejanos: Chicano Art from the collection of Cheech Marin
An exhibition featuring Chicano art from the collection of writer and entertainer Cheech Marin. The show combines works from Marin's collection with pieces from the museum's collection...Read More
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: 50 Works for 50 States, from The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
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A minister in Japan with the Protestant, United Church of Christ, late in 2001 received a special award.
The Nagoya Bar Association awarded the Human Rights Award, begun in 1989, to 53-year-old Rev. Makoto Sugimoto. The Association presented the award to Rev. Sugimoto in recognition of his work in helping over 350 people to leave Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity also known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification - see TACL Nov/Dec 1997 over a 14 year period.
Rev. Sugimoto acknowledged acceptance of the award: 'I accept this award on behalf of all others who are doing the same work as me.'
When Rev. Sugimotobegan to speak on the manipulative practices of cultic groups in 1987 hebegan to receive a variety of threats in an effort to silence him. As a result of this the media exposed what was happening and he began to receive requests for help and information regarding cult groups in Japan.
Those who threatened Rev. Sugimoto now probably wished that they had left him well alone.
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Three Dollar Bill Cinema Welcomes Back Kathleen Mullen As Festival Director For 23rd TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival
Three Dollar Bill Cinema is thrilled to welcome Kathleen Mullen back this season as the Festival Director for the 23rd TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, which runs October 11 – 21, 2018. Mullen previously served as Festival Director for the 2014 and 2015 festivals. The position was previously held by Danny Tayara who left Three Dollar Bill Cinema at the end of May.