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Burros' athletic director shifts focus after 24 years coaching hoops
After more than two decades coaching basketball at Burroughs High, Robert Campbell is shifting his focus outside of the Burroughs Barn. Campbell stepped down from the position of Burros' girls basketball coach following the 2013-14 season — mostly to concentrate on his duties as BHS athletic director.
"I want to make things better, and I have some things I want to get done — to do that I felt it was time to make this decision," Campbell said. "If there's ever a time where I need to be just in one job or the other, it would be now."
The 55-year-old Campbell stepped down after one of the best girls basketball seasons in Burroughs' history. The 2013-14 Burros won the Desert Sky League championship and advanced to the CIF-SS Division 3A quarterfinals, finishing with a 21-4 overall record.
"I really enjoyed this team — there are some players in this group that are going to be some of the best girls players to come out of this school," Campbell said. "The fun thing about this team was that we accomplished some goals that we had never been able to accomplish. We knew that this team — by the time that group was seniors — could be pretty special, and they were."
Campbell waited until after the Burros' girls basketball banquet to announce his resignation. Twenty-four seasons and 516 games since his first season coaching BHS boys basketball in 1988, he is stepping away from the hardwood.
"I decided 24 years was enough and it was time for someone else to bring in some new ideas and different things," Campbell said. "I'll miss the fun times — the summer was always fun going different places with the kids — and I'll miss the winning. I won't miss the games that we lost, because I hate losing."
At Burroughs, Campbell went 161-144 in 15 seasons coaching boys and 103-108 in nine seasons coaching girls for a combined .516 winning percentage. Though he hasn't indicated this is the end of his high school basketball coaching career, Campbell said that the feeling is different this time than when he didn't coach varsity basketball during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons.
"I'll never say no, but I feel better about it this time than I did last time," Campbell said. "I probably won't do it again unless something weird happens."
Reflecting on basketball
Campbell said his favorite seasons at BHS were the ones he spent coaching with his brother, Bill Campbell. The siblings shared head coaching duties for the Burros' boys program for seven seasons.
"When we were coaching together it was the best times because we had it down to a pretty good science — he did the defense and I did the offense," Campbell said. "There's no better thing than coaching with your brother — we had a great time."
With 305 boys basketball games in the memory bank, Campbell reflected a pair of his most memorable victories. The first game he mentioned is one that earned the nickname "The Mira Costa Miracle" — a CIF-SS Division 2A second round playoff game on the road against Mira Costa that Burroughs came back to win 67-66.
In that game, Scott Hanson scored five points in the last eight seconds to erase a seemingly insurmountable two-possession deficit and help the Burros advance to the next round. Mira Costa missed the front end of a one-and-one opportunity with 12 seconds left, setting the stage for a BHS comeback.
"He misses it, we go down and hit the three — they didn't have to take the ball out because we didn't have any timeouts left. But they threw it in, and we steal the ball and knock it to Scott, who made a layup at the buzzer and we won the game," Campbell said. "They had this annoying pep squad behind us the entire game screaming and hollering — I turned around and looked and they were silent."
The other boys game Campbell has fond memories of was a 68-67 comeback win against Palmdale during the 1994-95 season highlighted by Jerome Davis, whose brother Eddie had died from stomach cancer earlier in the week. The Burros trailed by 25 points in the first half and rallied to within a point in the closing seconds of the second half behind Davis' torrid outside shooting.
"We had to go the length of the floor. (Davis) came up to me and said, 'Get me the ball,' so I diagrammed a play for Jerome to take the ball and score — he did that and we won," Campbell said.
Davis drove the length of the floor and was fouled — and converted the free throw with two seconds left to secure the victory. One of the biggest comebacks in the history of the BHS boys basketball program coincided with an emotional evening, and is Campbell's most memorable game that he coached at the Burroughs Barn.
""You could just see it in his eyes that night — he was not going to be denied and it was a neat thing for him," Campbell said.
On the girls side, Campbell said the game that stood out the most came this past season when the Burros beat Silverado 62-47 in their DSL opener on Dec. 10. The victory was Burroughs' first against the Hawks during Campbell's nine-year tenure coaching the girls team and was the first big victory of the Burros' landmark season.
"We did some things this year that were pretty special for the girls' program — we never went that far, we had never won a league title with the girls and there were a lot of firsts that were pretty fun," Campbell said. "If I had to end it on a good note, that was probably a good way to end it."
When he started his coaching career at Burroughs, Campbell said he took his philosophy from his college coach, Point Loma Nazarene University's Ben Foster, former Burroughs boys basketball coach Larry Bird, and his brother. During his career, he had the help of a number of assistant coaches, including current Burros boys head coach Doug Hayes and last year's girls assistant coach Laura Larson.
"To me, the most fun part about coaching is taking a group of kids in the summer and starting to figure out what works and doesn't work — and then by the start of the season realizing what you're going to do and then seeing if you got it right," Campbell said.
Shifting his focus
Campbell will now give his full attention to his job as Burroughs' athletic director, a position he has held for the past four years. The longer he worked as the Burros' AD, the longer Campbell realized it would be in the best interest of the school if did it in lieu of — not in addition to — coaching basketball.
"I had no idea what this job entailed — it's a job that never stops and some of the goals that I have with this job require me to be here all the time," Campbell said. "I thought it worked out pretty good for a while, but the longer I kept in this job the more I decided it was pretty full-time."
Burroughs' move to the Mojave River League from the Desert Sky League in the 2014-15 school year is one of the main factors that influenced Campbell's decision. As athletic director, Campbell said he wants to make the move as smooth as possible.
"There will be changes that we won't foresee until they happen next year," Campbell said. "There will be some good changes and changes that people will be frustrated about, so I thought this might be a good time."
In addition to a seamless transition into the Mojave River League, where Campbell will be in charge of scheduling and running rotating league finals in various sports, he has other goals. One of those objectives is to establish a Burroughs Hall of Fame for coaches and athletes, and the other is to have coaches at school work together and share athletes to achieve the mutual success similar to that which netted BHS the 2012-13 DSL All-Sports Award for overall athletic success.
"We're in a small school, and sharing athletes is one of my big goals," Campbell said. "I want the kids to be able to do more than one sport if they can."
Burroughs plans to name Campbell's replacement to take over the Burros girls basketball team by the end of the month. From his 24 seasons coaching basketball at BHS, he left a relatively straightforward blueprint for success.
"When it comes down to the Xs and Os, you have to play defense, you have to put the ball in the basket and you have to play together as a team," Campbell said. "If you don't do those three things, you don't win games — those three have to happen."
In many of Campbell's seasons at Burroughs, those things tended to happen. More importantly, something else happened.
"Most my teams when they left, whether they won or lost, enjoyed playing basketball for the team and for me," Campbell said. "That was my big goal — I wanted them to enjoy the sport. We weren't going to win every year, but we were going to have some fun."


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Once the beacon of a brave new future for Germany's publicly-owned regional banks, HSH Nordbank is now a focal point of concern over the sector.
The Hamburg and Kiel-based bank earned its trail-blazer status by attracting 1.25 billion euros from US investor J.C. Flowers in 2006 and touting plans to list a significant minority of its equity on the stock market.
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Now it is blazing a very different trail - the first Landesbanken to return to the European Commission for approval after it regretted a 2011 decision to hand back some of its original post-crisis bailout and asked for it to be re-instated.
Two of the bank's shareholders told Reuters they were concerned about the prospect of the European Commission (EC) imposing future restructuring measures on the bank, whose core shipping market is in a recession that may last two more years.
"We are riding the razor's edge - and it will stay like this for a while," one shareholder said, voicing fears that the ECJ would not be satisfied with Ash's business plan and would order the bank to be closed.
The bank's shareholders are the City State of Hamburg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein (85.4 percent), the Savings Banks Association of Schleswig-Holstein (5.3 percent) and J.C. Flowers, whose stake has fallen to 9.3 percent from 26.6 percent after it was diluted by state-funded bailout.
HASH itself is more optimistic about its ECJ prospects. "The bank is confident that the measures from the European Union will not be changed," said a source familiar with Ash's position. "The ECJ understands that the earlier measures were substantial."
HASH has already reduced its balance sheet from 210 billion euros in 2008 to 120 billion euros at June 2013, a speed of delver aging unmatched in Germany.
Its refocused core business includes a regional corporate bank, lending for real estate, energy and infrastructure and some shipping business, and serving the savings banks.
That core generated pre tax profits of 131 million euros in the first half of 2013, against a pre tax loss of 30 million euros a year earlier.
"(When the decision comes) the bank will have proven for almost two years that the business model is working," said a second source familiar with the bank's position. "There is a client base we can build up."
The ECJ said the investigation, which was announced in June, is ongoing and declined to comment further.
Despite the uncertainty, a third source close to HASH told Reuters it was still a "normal functioning bank". Job applications continue to flow in from graduates and executives at other big banks. The Christmas party still takes place.
"If there are more (EU) measures, that could change everything," he admitted, adding that the situation at HASH "is not the easiest one". HASH has already shed more than 2,000 staff, with many who remained only kept after reapplying for their positions.
The model ships that adorn the lobby of Ash's low-rise Hamburg headquarters serve as a constant reminder of the losses that halted the bank's onward march and set it on a very different course.
In 2009, largely because of the poor performance of its shipping loans portfolio, HASH found itself with a massive capital hole and succumbed to a 3 billion cash injection from its majority state owners, plus an extra 10 billion euros in guarantees against future losses on certain types of loans.
The bailout carried a hefty cost - so far 3 billion euros has been paid back by way of interest and other charges - but it allows HASH to meet its capital requirements without needing direct equity injections, since the guarantee reduces the bank's risk weighted assets (which capital is measured against).
The cost influenced the 2011 decision to reduce the guarantee, a controversial choice, even now. One person familiar with the situation terms said management was too fixed on telling a 'good story' and failed to appreciate changes that were coming down the line.
Two others disagree. "There's a difference between a bad decision and a bad outcome," said a source familiar with J.C. Flowers' position. "Based on the information at the time, the chances of what happened happening were very low."
What happened was "The shipping industry deteriorated surprisingly," said the first source familiar with Ash's position. "The regulatory requirements changed, not in a way the industry expected, the hurdles went up."
How to solve the guarantee problem proved divisive. J.C. Flowers put forward a proposal for a private sector solution, led by its investors, that would not have triggered a mandatory state aid review. The bank instead decided to go with a proposal from its two state shareholders.
The first source familiar with the bank's position said J.C. Flowers' proposal would not have eliminated the prospect of a new ECJ investigation, since the bank has fallen behind on its Disapproved business plan and could be reviewed on that basis.
Another European headwind could come from the European Central Bank's asset quality review. On August 30, HASH chief executive Chief Executive Constantine von Overstretch told Reuters he "presumed" the review would lead to the bank having to make extra loan loss provisions.
His staff are not too concerned about the extra day-to-day demands of ECB supervision. Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that German supervisor Baffin was already holding a daily liquidity call with HASH.
"We were always under special watch in the last year," said one of the sources. "I don't know how it could be tougher."
If there are any further capital demands, the chances of HASH trying to fill them with private cash seem remote. "It knows today, much more than before, that this bank belongs in the publicly-organised structure," said the first source familiar with the bank.
(Additonal reporting by Andreas Kroener in Frankfurt; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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If you notice there is another guy at the U-Turn, whom they will likely receive their next clue from.
I think it might there for this season only as part of the final memory task. On I believe all but one leg they have received a clue from a person as part of a route info
There are six green flags and Nicole got the first one? So they might be the first at the Detour.
Quote from: paradoxinee on November 10, 2013, 09:40:28 PMThere are six green flags and Nicole got the first one? So they might be the first at the Detour.I do think it's the Roadblock and our last task. Here's my thought:Nicole/Travis used their EP at the Detour and avoided the U-turn, when they came back, Amy told to Nicole "I hope they don't U-turn us". It means (might be) Leo/Jamal who's still doing the Detour at the fort (but they already wasted the U-turn, so it doesn't matter).
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Every Thursday night, the cats at the Mixoloseum host a chat-room event in which folks get together to share original drink recipes. Cunningly named Thursday Drink Night, this event draws a good crowd each week. This past week's Thursday Drink Night was sponsored by Martin Miller's Gin. Now, I've written about Miller's before. It's a delicate, pot-distilled gin with notes of citrus and cucumber. It's a favorite at Chez Dietschyblossom, and I love mixing with it.
I don't often participate in TDN. Usually, Jen and I are catching up on our day right when it tips off, but because of the Miller's theme, I wanted to participate last week. We had bought some beautiful flowering thyme from the farmer's market, and I chose to infuse some of it into a small bit of the Miller's. If you don't want to take the time for thyme, you can get a similar effect by either muddling a couple sprigs of thyme into the mixing glass, or rubbing it against the inside of a chilled cocktail glass, to release its oils, before pouring the drink into the glass.
I hate naming drinks; coming up with something original is usually difficult. However, I've mentioned before that I think naming drinks for famous people is a "great and longstanding tradition" and it's one I chose to uphold. Who better than the singer, songwriter, former model, and current French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy? (By the way, if you've never heard her sing, and I'll bet you the first round you haven't, you should. She's got a smoky, torch-singer voice.)
(drink photograph by Jennifer Hess)
Carla Bruni
2 oz. thyme-infused gin
¾ oz. Lillet
2 dashes maraschino
2-3 dashes absinthe (be very careful with this, lest you overwhelm the drink)
Thyme sprig, for garnish
Lemon peel, for twist
Stir over cracked ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass, twist lemon peel over surface of drink and discard, and garnish with a thyme sprig. Sip while enjoying this video of Carla Bruni singing her own song, "L'Amoureuse," from her third album, Comme si de rien n'était.


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Bizarre Traveler Behavior
Security officials at borders and airports see some strange things. How strange? Let us count the ways.
A cold-blooded crime
A California man returned from Australia with 11 skinks, 2 monitor lizards, and 2 geckos—all of them strapped to his chest. By our count, that's 15 more lizards than you're legally allowed to attach to your torso and bring into the country. Officials nabbed him at Los Angeles International Airport with the illicit reptiles, which were worth more than $8,500 to exotic-animal collectors.
Don't point that at me!
After passing through security gates at the Baltimore-Washington airport, a man took off running to the nearest restroom—barefoot, not even taking the time to put his shoes back on after walking through the X-ray machines. When security officials caught up with him, they discovered that he had hidden a can of Mace pepper spray in his body cavity. No word yet on what he was trying to protect himself from—or how he intended to take aim.
Taking it from the streets
After a visit to Boston, a tourist flying out of Logan Airport was stopped by TSA agents who discovered a massive, 15-pound piece of cobblestone in the passenger's carry-on luggage. The passenger explained that he'd picked up the loose chunk near the Union Oyster House and wanted to bring it home because it looked so historic. A TSA agent on the scene replied, "For crying out loud, if every visitor did that, we'd have no more history!"
Please don't flirt with the septuagenarians
A 71-year-old woman was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon after she attempted to get through airport security in Tampa with a small leather club known as a blackjack. When asked why she had the item, the confident passenger replied, "To smack men's hands when they get fresh."
Smells like sausage, looks like…
A 21-year-old woman received a $300 fine after she was caught smuggling 5.5 pounds of chorizo from Mexico into the U.S. She had safely stowed the brown pork sausage in baby diapers for the trip. Take this tale into consideration the next time you're thinking of buying black-market chorizo: You really don't know where it's been.
Is that a monkey in your pants, or…
Actually, it was two live pygmy monkeys, smuggled into LAX in the pants of a California man. He also carried what amounted to an entire biodiversity exhibit, including four exotic birds and 50 rare orchids he had taken from Indonesia. How was he caught? During an inspection in L.A., a bird hopped out of his bag and flew around the terminal. The man, who claimed to be a concerned environmentalist hoping to deliver his finds to a wildlife sanctuary in Costa Rica, was eventually sentenced to 57 days in jail and fined $15,000. The monkeys were released from the man's pants and sent to more expansive quarters at the Los Angeles Zoo.
It's the dairy, stupid
Something must have smelled fishy—or rather, cheesy. And given the size of the stash, it's no surprise. A man towing a U-Haul across the U.S. border from Mexico was stopped at a traffic checkpoint in Falfurrias, Tex., where agents seized 3,664 pounds of Mexican white cheese (a weight heavier than a Ford Mustang) valued at about $8,000. It's a little excessive, but, hey, people overpack for trips all the time.
An inadvisable response to the "no liquids" rule
Strange incidents aren't limited strictly to U.S. airports, of course. At a security checkpoint in Nürnberg, Germany, agents told a 64-year-old man carrying a liter of vodka that they wouldn't allow the booze in his carry-on. Instead of pouring it out or paying to check the bottle in his luggage, the man promptly dispensed of his problem by chugging it all down. Soon enough, he could neither stand nor function and had to be treated for alcohol poisoning. Which explains the tiny bottles handed out by flight attendants.


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A recent workshop in the Sixaola River watershed, located on the Caribbean side of the Costa Rica-Panama border, highlighted the vulnerability of communities to increasing climate change impacts.
The climatic hazards to which the communities are exposed include rainfall variation, extreme temperature fluctuations and high winds. These can result in landslides, floods, soil erosion, river sedimentation, loss of crops, damage to agricultural produce and housing infrastructure.
The recent IUCN led workshop identified the impacts of climate variability and change on communities' livelihoods as significant, and exacerbated by poverty, limited transport access and few development options.
Within the Sixaola River watershed, a region with an estimated population of 33.500 inhabitants, the Yorkín River sub-basin was selected to take part in the implementation of CRiSTAL, a tool used to identify threats of climate change impacts on community livelihoods. The tool is aimed at empowering communities through lessons and practices at the local level in order to promote collective understanding and action to increase resilience to climate change impacts.
The Good Water Governance for Adaptation project (BMU) aims to strengthen the adaptive capacity of communities in this region by strengthening practices that preserve the ecosystem goods and services people depend on. In addition, the project will raise awareness about the need to adopt and implement frameworks for good water governance.
Based on the workshop findings, IUCN and partners are now developing a workplan and intervention strategy to promote local water governance and to reduce the communities' vulnerability to climate change impacts.
For more information, please contact:
Ing. M. Sc. Carlos R. Rosal Del Cid
E-mail: [email protected]


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Right Wing Freaks Out Over 20-Year Old "Motor Voter" Law
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Right-wing media fabricated a conspiracy that "pro-Obama groups" will be able to steer health care reform insurance applicants to register to vote as Democrats, ignoring a 1993 law that requires programs offering public assistance to include questions about voter registration.
Right-wing media outlets like The Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller and The Washington Times reported that a draft application for health insurance through the health care reform law twice asked if an applicant wished to register to vote. They claimed that organizations who may register Americans for health insurance through health care reform may steer applicants "to register with the Democratic Party."
On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson similarly fearmongered over "the bigger concern" for health care reform insurance applicants that "pro-Obama groups...would steer them to register as Democrats":
In fact, such voter registration questions on the draft application are required under law. A portion of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, otherwise known as the "Motor Voter Act," requires that programs that offer public assistance benefits, like the Medicaid benefits and tax credits contained in the draft health care reform insurance application, must offer voter registration:
Section 7 of the Act requires states to offer voter registration opportunities at all offices that provide public assistance and all offices that provide state-funded programs primarily engaged in providing services to persons with disabilities. Each applicant for any of these services, renewal of services, or address changes must be provided with a voter registration form of a declination form as well as assistance in completing the form and forwarding the completed application to the appropriate state or local election official.
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Curved needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 124 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Harvest Hall Coupon Company
Harvest Hall is a technology startup company with an innovative social marketing system. We give consumers extra savings at the brick and mortar stores they visit every day and marketers detailed information about their customers.
Our most important values are:
* Community
* Life experience
* Honesty
We will be interested in working with the contest winner on future design projects for our web and mobile applications.
The primary market our brand aims at is consumers looking for a way to get better value out of the things they buy every day. The brand needs to resonate well with a broad swath of America, and should remind viewers of values that are close to home.
Attached is the placeholder logo we are using, and it is a good place to start. Red and orange are the colors to use. I would like the logo you design to include gradients and details, but it needs to be highly recognizable in monochrome black and white.
Fruit is a symbol of abundance and health, and the apple represents the town where we are founded, which is famous for its apple harvest. The apple should remain an important stylized element.
While researching, I found many famous designs used a square logo with the text boxed in. Home Depot and State Farm represent similar logo styles. However, I would like you to find a way to make our logo extra recognizable, and if that means going "outside the box", give it a shot!
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Causes of Hearing Loss
There are many causes of hearing loss that are beyond our control, such as those caused by heredity. We can't pick our parents and our genetic make-up - though with continuing advances in gene research, clinical applications, this may be changing. But for now, we have to deal with the hand that heredity has dealt us.
In Some Cases, Hearing Loss Can be Prevented
Ototoxic Drugs
These are medications that are toxic to the ears and can cause hearing loss, sometimes accompanied by tinnitus. We may have some options; however, about the medications we take. It is always a good idea to ask a physician if a hearing loss is one of the possible side-effects. If it is, and there is a substitute medication that would work just as well, then that would be the one to take.
Examples of Otoxic Drugs
- some over-the-counter drugs such as aspirin in high doses
- some antibiotics
- some chemotherapy drugs
- loop diuretics
- some anti-inflammatory drugs
Signs of Ototoxicity (in order of frequency)
- Development of tinnitus in one or both ears
- Intensification of existing tinnitus or the appearance of a new sound
- Fullness or pressure in the ears other than being caused by infection
- Hearing loss in an unaffected ear or the progression o an existing loss.
- Development of vertigo or a spinning sensation usually aggravated by motion which may or may not be accompanied by nausea
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss – Completely Preventable
- A major cause of hearing loss in our society is noise exposure. Tiny hair cells in the ear are damaged when assaulted by loud noise. Once those hair cells are destroyed they cannot be replaced.
- A noise-induced hearing loss is the most common cause for its occurrence in our society and it's completely preventable.
- Repeated and lengthy exposure to loud sound – whether is it music or a jackhammer - will eventually produce a sensorineural hearing loss.
- See the NIDCD Fact Sheet about noise-induced hearing loss
See the Noise Pollution Infographic to Learn how to Protect Your Ears! Infographic courtesy of ZocDoc.com.
Damage Risk Criterion
As the sound level increases, the time span one can be exposed to it is reduced. Each day we create more hearing losses in our society with our tolerance of the ear-shattering cacophony that surrounds us.
One in Five Adolescents Has Hearing Loss: Ear Buds May Be to Blame
- According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, August 17, 2010, "Listening to loud music though ear buds – the tiny electronic speakers that fit into ears – is probably the main reason that more adolescents are losing some of their hearing."
- "Once you have a hearing loss, there's a greater risk of that hearing loss progressing as you get older." (Dr. Slattery, USC, Los Angeles)
- "Hearing loss may affect teens' social development and education." (Gary Curhan, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School)
- Parents can begin monitoring use of personal listening devices by their children. A good rule of thumb is that if the child is wearing ear buds and the parent is able to hear the sound while standing next to them, then the music is too loud.
Protecting Kids' Hearing: Why it Matters
Get your children involved in their own hearing health. For more resources, go to:
- It's a Noisy Planet: Protect Their Hearing, NIDCD, National Institutes of Health
- Listen to Your Buds, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Turn it to the Left, American Academy of Audiology
Musicians are particularly at risk. It is their job to listen to the sounds that they and their group are producing, and these may be as high as 135 dB. They have no choice to do this as often as daily; this is their career and their livelihood.
Musicians earplugs are available that can help. The newest and best version reduce the sound equally all across the spectrum, from low to high frequencies. Everything sounds just as good as it did before, only softer.
A less expensive, though still effective earplug, can be obtained for the students in a school music program.
How to Reduce the Damage to Hearing from Noise
Your ears can be your warning system for potentially dangerous noises. The noise is too loud when:
- You have to raise your voice to be understood by someone standing nearby
- The noise hurts your ears
- You develop a buzzing or ringing sound in your ears, even temporarily (indicates some hair cells have died)
- You don't hear as well as you normally do until several hours after you get away from the noise.
How to Protect Yourself When Around Loud Noise
- Block the noise (wear earplugs or earmuffs)
- Avoid the noise (put hands over ears if you can't walk away)
- Turn down the volume
Decibel Loudness Comparison Chart
- 150 dB = fireworks at 3 feet
- 140 dB = firearms, jet engine
- 130 dB = jackhammer
- 120 dB = jet plane takeoff, siren
Extremely Loud
- 110 dB = maximum output of some MP3 players, model airplane, chain saw
- 106 dB = gas lawn mower, snow blower
- 100 dB = hand drill, pneumatic drill
- 90 dB = subway, passing motorcycle
Very Loud
- 80–90 dB = blow-dryer, kitchen blender, food processor
- 70 dB = busy traffic, vacuum cleaner, alarm clock
- 60 dB = typical conversation, dishwasher, clothes dryer
- 50 dB = moderate rainfall
- 40 dB = quiet room
- 30 dB = whisper, quiet library
Decibel Loudness Comparison Chart source: From It's a Noisy Planet: Protect Their Hearing


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Pre-occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy employs "occupation" or purposeful activity to help people of all ages with physical, developmental, or emotional dysfunctions and assists people to prevent, lessen, or overcome disabilities.
Occupational therapists direct the patient's participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce, or enhance performance and learning of those skills and functions essential for daily activities. Working cooperatively with other members of the health team, occupational therapists help patients improve their basic motor skills, reasoning, and functional abilities, while utilizing purposeful activity in a variety of settings to reduce physical and psychosocial disability.
Occupational therapists find employment in:
- Hospitals
- Nursing homes
- Schools
- Private offices
- Rehabilitation centers
- Health maintenance organizations
- Home health
- Sports organizations
- Health clubs
- Corporate fitness centers
- Public health clinics
- Home health
- Industry
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On September 22, 2009, Torence "Lil Boosie" Hatch plead guilty to a third-offense marijuana charge. While awaiting trial, Boosie was placed on a probationary house arrest while he awaited his date to turn himself in.In his last days before November 9th, his life was documented. In this 9-part candid series, we will offer a visual documentation of his last days of freedom.
Follow @letterstoboosie on twitter and send in your personal messages or you can also send letters to Lil Boosie to firstname.lastname@example.com and watch to see if they post on letterstoboosie.com launching Sept. 2010.


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What we do to help with employment
At Bredin we will work closely with you to identify your work experience and job interests. An action plan will be developed that will outline the type of job you are looking for as well as the wage you require to support yourself. Our employment Counselors can help with your job search needs.
Our facilities have many resources available for you that include:
- Reception desk to greet you and direct you to resources in the room or to staff
- Current print resources on job search techniques, resume writing, hidden job market,
- Interview skills, stress management, job retention, etc.
- The publications produced by Career and Workplace Resources of Alberta Human services including occupational profiles and tip sheets
- Job board with current job openings the Bredin staff has found that give a breakdown of the position requirements, wages and hours, what the employer is looking for in a resume and what they want to see in an interview as well as directions on how to apply
- Job search materials such as industry guides and employer directories
- Materials on government programs such as Child Care Subsidy, Employment Insurance, Income Support, etc.
- Information on community resources and agencies
- Training and educational institution calendars
- 10 computers equipped with high speed Internet, telephones, fax machine, and photocopier
Job Search Work Shops Available
Numerous workshops are offered through Bredin. In addition, workshops are presented off site to high school,
post-secondary institutions and community organizations.
Resumes and Cover Letters - You will learn how to create a positive first impression through writing a strong resume and cover letter that is tailored to the jobs you are seeking.
Interview Skills - You will be guided through the purpose and types of interviews as well as the do's and don'ts of the interview process. Information will be provided about the most commonly asked interview questions and how to answer in an informative and professional manner.
Job Search - This workshop is designed to assist you in developing an effective work search strategy. You will be guided through a variety of work search methods to access the hidden job market and will be encouraged to try a variety of options.
Job Maintenance - With the help of Alberta Employment and Immigration published resources such as Job Smart: Tips for staying employed and Let's Talk: a guide to resolving workplace conflicts, you will learn the skills necessary to be an effective employee.
Workplace Health and Safety - You will learn how to identify health and safety hazards on the job, how to conduct a hazard assessment and how to speak to their supervisor about workplace safety (including worker's right to refuse unsafe work).
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Jaguar entered the SUV scene with the F-Pace in 2017. It managed to be practical yet sporty and introduced some neat features such as the activity key – a bracelet that doubles as a key and is both water proof and shock proof.
For 2018, Jaguar adds a second SUV to its fleet with the flirty, fun-to-drive and compact E-Pace.
While there is a bevy of interesting features on this all-new vehicle, here are five key items of note.
A pair of 2.0-liter engines
E-Pace will come to the U.S. with a pair of 2.0-liter Ingenium "petrol" engines. The base engine will deliver 246 horsepower, and the up-level engine, which is available in the R-Dynamic models, will deliver 296 horsepower. Each will be mated to the 9-speed ZF transmission.
While there will be a diesel engine available in Europe, Jaguar has not announced plans to bring it stateside. However, big brother F-Pace has a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder diesel, so we have hopes the E-Pace might get the diesel eventually.
Standard AWD
The only drivetrain available on E-Pace is all-wheel-drive. While this system is generally front-biased, the interesting thing is the system can transfer almost all the engine torque to either the front or rear axels in extreme conditions. When a change is detected in driving conditions, AWD can re-engage in 0.3 seconds.
The competitive set
Jaguar has set its sights on the compact Germany SUVS, and it considers E-Pace's key competitors to be the AWD versions of the BMW X1 ($35,900) and X2 ($38,400), Mercedes-Benz GLA ($35,400) and Audi Q3 ($35,000).
E-Pace easily tops all three of these vehicles in terms of interior and exterior design. The German vehicles tend to be more austere, and the E-Pace has flair.
I'd also argue that E-Pace handles better than the A3 and the GLA, with a quicker engine response and better connection to the road.
Priced under $40K
The base price for the E-Pace is $38,600, which might seem a bit high compared with the base prices of Q3, X1 and GLA, until you consider that the E-Pace comes standard with Lane Keep Assist and emergency braking. The Q3 does not offer these features, and when equipped appropriately, the GLA and X1 hover around $40K.
We like that there are a lot of options and levels on the E-Pace. You can keep it simple or you can check every box – including an up-level engine -- and top $65K. Only the GLA offers an up-level engine and allows you to lux-out your vehicle to the max.
A touch of whimsy
During the design presentation, the execs said E-Pace is meant to be the fun one in Jaguar's SUV bunch. The compact size and peppy engine lend itself to sportier handling and fun-to-drive dynamics.
So it only seems fitting that Jaguar would take a page out of the Jeep handbook and embed a little design "Easter Egg" on the windshield.
If you'll look closely at the driver's side windshield, you'll see a mama bear and her cub in the lower right-hand corner.
The significance? E-Pace's code name during development was "Cub."
The Bottom Line
We had a blast during our first-look drive of the all-new 2018 E-Pace. It's practical and up-scale with some nice design flair and excellent high-tech options.
Plus this cat's got bite if you opt for the sexy red leather interior and 296-horsepower engine – meee-ow!
We think E-Pace will compete well with its German competitors – even if the X1 does handle better, the E-Pace holds its own and looks nicer in our book.
Looking for more information on the E-Pace? Be sure to catch our full first-look review from our drive in Corsica, France.


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Create a Fiori for iOS app in 45 minutes
How-To Details
In this small How-To tutorial, you will create a Fiori for iOS application which will show tracking info for purchased packages. This application has the following characteristics:
- Connects to an SAP HANA MDC (Multi-tenant Database Container) XS OData service. It contains records of packages and their delivery status.
- Use simplified OData querying with the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
- Implement SAP Fiori for iOS controls to show timeline data
When you are ready, your SAP Fiori for iOS application will resemble the following:
Before you start, make sure you:
- have a trial account on SAP Cloud Platform. See Sign up for a free trial account on SAP Cloud Platform for more information.
- enabled SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations. See Enable SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations for more information.
Open the SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations cockpit at
https://hcpmsadmin-<your user id>trial.dispatcher.hanatrial.ondemand.com/
After logging in, you should see the cockpit's landing page:
Click on the big Plus sign in the tile Create new app. In the dialog that appears, you define a new mobile application definition. Enter the following details:
|Configuration Templates
My Deliveries
For the purpose of this demo, fields Description and Vendor can be left empty.
Click Save when finished. You are now in the "My Deliveries" Application Details screen:
In the Assigned Features panel on the right, click the Connectivity row. This opens the Connectivity Page:
Click the Add New Connection icon. In the wizard that appears, enter the following details:
Mobile Destination
|Destination Name
Click Next. In the next page of the wizard, enter the following connection details:
|Proxy Type
|Maximum Connections
|Rewrite Mode
Rewrite URL
Click Next. In the next page of the wizard, set the SSO Mechanism to
No Authentication:
Click Next. In the final page of the wizard, leave everything empty but have the checkbox for Use Default JDK Store checked:
Click Finish. The application's connection to the SAP HANA MDC XS OData service is now configured. You may click the Ping button to check whether the destination is reachable.
In the breadcrumb navigation on top, click the My Deliveries link to go back to the Application Details:
In the Assigned Features panel on the right, click the Security row. This opens the Security Page.
Set the Security Configuration to
By specifying
Noneyou enforce Guest access to your application, which works best for the purpose of this demo.
By default, a newly created application definition uses
SAMLas the default authentication mechanism. By changing it to
Nonethe following notification appears:
This message is crucial if you would have developed an application which uses a certain authentication mechanism, and by changing to a different authentication mechanism, previous user registrations may become invalid. However, since we didn't yet develop an application which uses the former specified authentication, you can simply ignore the message and click OK.
Click Save to store the configuration.
Note: If you have already configured the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant, you can skip this step and proceed with "Step 6 - Run the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant".
This step provides simplified steps to configure the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant application using the SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations cockpit.
In SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations, click the Important Links tab in the lower left bottom. The Important Links section opens:
Locate the tile SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant and click the Importing URLs directly into Assistant link. You should now see the following pop-up:
Click the Open SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant button. The SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant application will start. The New Account settings dialog will open, and both Admin API URL and Admin UI URL parameters are pre-populated automatically:
Provide the following additional details:
|A descriptive name for the configuration, for instance
SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services
|Authentication Type
Basic Authentication
|Your trial account user
|Password for your trial account user
Click Save when finished, and click OK to dismiss the Settings dialog.
Note: If you went through "Step 5 - Configure SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant", the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant is already running and you may continue to "Step 7 - Create an Xcode Project".
On your local machine, navigate to your
./<SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS> folder.
Double-click the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant icon to start the application.
Click the Plus button on the top-right of the SDK Assistant. The first page of the Xcode Project generation wizard lets you define the Project Properties.
Enter the following details:
|Product Name
<your name>
|Organization Name
<your company name>
|Organization Identifier
<choose a local destination>
Make sure the "Organization Identifier" matches the value of "Application ID" you entered in Step 2
Click Next to advance to the SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations Configuration step.
In the SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations Configuration page, select the Use Existing tab button.
Click the Select from SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations button next to Application Identifier.
Select the
com.sap.wwdc.codejam data source and click OK.
The selected data source is now pre-filled in the SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations Configuration page:
Click Next to advance to the OData Services step.
In the OData Services page, the primary OData service connection you have specified in Step 3 - Add a back end connection is displayed.
Click Next to advance to the Optional Features step.
In the Optional Features page, you have the option to generate a Master-Detail Application, enable logging and log uploads, and enable remote notifications.
Make sure the checkboxes Generate Master-Detail Application, Enable Logging and Enable Log Upload are selected and click Finish to complete the wizard.
Most likely the checkbox for Remote Notifications is disabled. This happens because no APNS endpoint is configured for the application definition in SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations. Once configured with a valid certificate, this option becomes available.
After you have clicked Finish in the previous step, the SDK Assistant now loads the OData service's metadata. This metadata describes the data model, and can be accessed via
<service URL>$metadata. For your service, the metadata URL would be
After the SDK Assistant has finished, Xcode will launch and open the just generated
MyDeliveries project.
Main.storyboard shows split-view setup for the generated Master-Detail views.
MyDeliveries/Model/Constants.swift holds constants for the SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations environment as well as an
enum with the OData collection types.
MyDeliveries/Model/DeliveryServiceDataAccess.swift has convenience methods for accessing the OData entities.
MyDeliveries/TableDelegates holds the delegate classes for the Master and Detail table views.
Proxy Classes contains the OData proxy classes generated from the OData service. File
DeliveryService.swift acts as a data service provider to gain access to the OData entities. The two files
PackageType.swift and
DeliveryStatusType.swift are classes for the OData entities
Package and
DeliveryStatus, respectively. These classes give access to the various properties of the OData entities.
Click the Run button to build and run the generated application.
The app starts with an overview of the available Collections of the OData service:
If you click on the
Packages collection, you navigate to a Master list with all available
Package entities:
If you click on one of the
Package entities, you navigate to a Detail page which lists all the properties for the selected entity:
The generated application demonstrates the OData proxy classes are working, browse their properties, and demonstrates push notifications and the various authentication mechanisms. For productive use, it is recommended to start with a new, empty project, and use parts of the generated app into your own project.
However, to show how to access backend data via OData in an object-oriented way, we will extend the generated application.
Examine the OData service's metadata, which can be accessed via
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<edmx:Edmx Version="1.0" xmlns:edmx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/06/edmx">
<edmx:DataServices m:DataServiceVersion="2.0" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">
<Schema Namespace="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2008/09/edm" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata">
<EntityType Name="DeliveryStatusType">
<PropertyRef Name="DeliveryStatusID"/>
<Property MaxLength="36" Name="DeliveryStatusID" Nullable="false" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property MaxLength="36" Name="PackageID" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property MaxLength="256" Name="Location" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property Name="DeliveryTimestamp" Type="Edm.DateTime"/>
<Property MaxLength="16" Name="StatusType" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property Name="Selectable" Type="Edm.Int32"/>
<Property MaxLength="128" Name="Status" Type="Edm.String"/>
<EntityType Name="PackagesType">
<PropertyRef Name="PackageID"/>
<Property MaxLength="36" Name="PackageID" Nullable="false" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property MaxLength="256" Name="Name" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property MaxLength="256" Name="Description" Type="Edm.String"/>
<Property Name="Price" Precision="10" Scale="2" Type="Edm.Decimal"/>
<NavigationProperty FromRole="PackagesPrincipal" Name="DeliveryStatus" Relationship="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService.PackageDeliveryStatusType" ToRole="DeliveryStatusDependent"/>
<Association Name="PackageDeliveryStatusType">
<End Multiplicity="1" Role="PackagesPrincipal" Type="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService.PackagesType"/>
<End Multiplicity="*" Role="DeliveryStatusDependent" Type="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService.DeliveryStatusType"/>
<Principal Role="PackagesPrincipal">
<PropertyRef Name="PackageID"/>
<Dependent Role="DeliveryStatusDependent">
<PropertyRef Name="PackageID"/>
<EntityContainer Name="DeliveryService" m:IsDefaultEntityContainer="true">
<EntitySet EntityType="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService.DeliveryStatusType" Name="DeliveryStatus"/>
<EntitySet EntityType="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService.PackagesType" Name="Packages"/>
<AssociationSet Association="codejam.wwdc.services.DeliveryService.PackageDeliveryStatusType" Name="PackageDeliveryStatus">
<End EntitySet="Packages" Role="PackagesPrincipal"/>
<End EntitySet="DeliveryStatus" Role="DeliveryStatusDependent"/>
As you can see, it is a fairly simple data model containing two Entity Sets (or tables) called
Packages and
DeliveryStatus. Each entity in the set (or record) is identified as a
PackagesType and
DeliveryStatusType, respectively.
There is also an association between
PackagesType and
DeliveryStatusType, where a single
PackagesType can have related
DeliveryStatusType's with a
0..n cardinality.
We will now show for each
PackageType its related
DeliveryStatusType's, shown in a timeline in ascending order (newest on top). The timeline will be build using SAP Fiori for iOS controls.
Using the SDK's
SAPODatacomponent, you can create OData queries in a really simple way. Instead of executing SQL statements, the SDK provides a 'fluent interface' or 'method chaining' approach to constructing queries, which makes the code much more readable.
A query to get all
DeliveryStatusentities for a particular
Packagewould then be something like this:
swift // Method 1 let query = DataQuery() // SELECT * FROM DeliveryStatus .from(DeliveryServiceMetadata.EntitySets.deliveryStatus) // WHERE DeliveryStatus.packageID == <selected package ID> .where(DeliveryStatusType.packageID.equal((currentEntity?.packageID)!))
The result of this query is an array of
With OData, you can even have greater flexibility. Since there is a one-to-many association (or 'Navigation Link') between
DeliveryStatus, you could also load the
Packageobject and all related child
DeliveryStatusentities at once:
swift // Method 2 let query = DataQuery() // SELECT * FROM Packages .from(DeliveryServiceMetadata.EntitySets.packages) // WHERE <primary key> = <selected package ID> .withKey(PackagesType.key(packageID: currentEntity?.packageID)) // LEFT JOIN DeliveryStatus ON <abstracted, defined in association> .expand(PackagesType.deliveryStatus)
Using the generated OData Proxy classes, you can then simply access the
However, since the SDK Assistant generated app by default does not support OData Navigation Links, it takes a bit more effort to enable this. Furthermore, sorting an expanded entity set is only supported in OData V4, and this tutorial uses an OData V2 service. Therefore, in this tutorial we'll simply query the
DeliveryStatusentities for each
To list the tracking info for each package using SAP Fiori Timeline controls, the most simple approach would be to create a new Table View Controller and implement the code needed to display the statuses.
In Xcode, drag a Table View Controller object from the Object library onto the Storyboard, next to the Detail Scene.
With the just added Table View Controller selected, give it the name
Tracking Info in the Attribute inspector:
Right-click the
ViewControllers folder in your project, and from the context menu choose New File….
In the dialog, select Cocoa Touch Class and click Next.
Provide the following details:
|Subclass Of
Click Next. In the next screen, make sure the new class file is stored in group
ViewControllers and click Create.
In the newly created file
TrackingInfoViewController.swift, replace the
import UIKit statement with the following import statements:
import SAPFoundation
import SAPCommon
import SAPOData
import SAPFiori
Just below the line
class TrackingInfoViewController: UITableViewController {, add the following declarations:
private let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
private let logger: Logger = Logger.shared(named: "TrackingInfoViewController")
private var _entities: [DeliveryStatusType] = [DeliveryStatusType]( )
var entities: [EntityValue] {
get { return _entities }
set { self._entities = newValue as! [DeliveryStatusType]
This adds a reference to the
AppDelegate class, a reference to the SDK's logging mechanism, and fields to set/get the selected
DeliveryStatusType entity.
Switch to the Storyboard and select the Tracking Info Table View. In the Identity inspector, set the Custom Class to
To avoid a "prototype table cells must have reuse identifiers" warning, you can provide an identifier for the table view's prototype cell, or alternatively, set the Prototype Cells value to
Drag a Table View Cell onto the Detail Table View, and set the following properties in the Attribute inspector:
Disclosure Indicator
Control-click the just added Table View Cell and drag it onto the Tracking Info Scene. From the Segue pop-up, choose Show.
With the segue selected, go to the Attributes inspector and provide the name
showTrackingInfo as its Identifier:
Open file
Locate method
tableView(_ tableView:, numberOfRowsInSection section:). Currently it returns 4 rows, the total number of properties the
Package entity has. However, since you added an extra Table View Cell to navigate to the Tracking Info scene, you want to make this extra cell visible.
Set the return value to
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return 5
Next, locate method
tableView(_ tableView:, cellForRowAt indexPath:).
It contains a
switch statement which, depending on the
indexPath.row value, displays the property and corresponding value for the selected
To display the added Table View Cell, add an extra
case statement, just above the
default: switch:
case 4:
let navigationLink = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "NavigationLink",
for: indexPath) as UITableViewCell
navigationLink.textLabel?.text = "Show Tracking Info..."
return navigationLink
Now the 5th row in the table will return a Table View Cell matching identifier
NavigationLink, and it will display the static text
Show Tracking info....
If you now run and build the application, the newly added table cell is displayed:
However, if you click on it, nothing happens… You will solve that in the next step.
In the previous step, you have noticed the navigation to the Tracking Info scene did not happen. That is caused since the
DetailViewController.swift file has turned off its ability to select table cells.
Open the file
In method
viewDidLoad(), locate the line:
self.tableView.allowsSelection = false
To enable navigating from this view to the Tracking Info view, set this property to
Next, scroll down, and just above the method
cancel() add the following function:
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "showTrackingInfo" {
if (self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow?.row != nil) {
let trackingInfoView = segue.destination as! TrackingInfoViewController
let currentEntity = self.selectedEntity as? PackagesType
let esDeliveryStatus = DeliveryServiceMetadata.EntitySets.deliveryStatus
let propPackageId = DeliveryStatusType.packageID
let propTimestamp = DeliveryStatusType.deliveryTimestamp
// Load all related DeliveryStatuses for the current Package,
// latest first.
let query = DataQuery()
.orderBy(propTimestamp, SortOrder.descending)
do {
// Perform query and store the results
trackingInfoView.entities = try self.deliveryService.service.deliveryStatus(
query: query)
catch let error {
With this code, you create a query to load all
DeliveryStatus entities for the selected
Package entity, and store the results into the
You now have enabled navigation, as well as created a query to load all related
DeliveryStatus entities. However, you haven't bound the results to table cells yet.
Since we want to display the
DeliveryStatus items in a timeline, the best way to achieve this is to use the SDK's
FUITimeline table view cell control. A great tool for exploring SAP Fiori for iOS controls and help implementing these into your project is the SAP Fiori for iOS Mentor app. This is a companion tool to the SDK, and can be downloaded for iPad from the Apple App Store.
Open the SAP Fiori for iOS Mentor app on your iPad. Upon opening, the app shows an overview page:
Click on the See All link next to the UI Components section, and scroll down until you see the Timeline Cell tile:
Click the Timeline Cell tile. You now see a page wit a representation of the SAP Fiori Timeline cell, and a couple of preset styles to change the look and feel for the control.
You can also customize the look and feel on a more granular level. Click the button with three dots in the lower right corner. This will bring a pop up where you can specify different settings for the control. The control's look and feel is instantly updated, giving you an idea of the final result:
When you're happy with the final result, click the Code button (the one labeled
</>). This will bring a pop up with a sample
UITableViewController class, and all the properties you have set or enabled in the Control Settings pop-up are reflected in the generated code:
To use the generated code in Xcode, click the Share button in the top-right, and use AirDrop to transfer to your Mac:
Open the downloaded text file:
The generated code can now be implemented into the appropriate places in the
TrackingInfoViewController.swift file.
NOTE Since it may take a bit too long to go through the steps of copying and pasting the code, adding the control binding to the Proxy Classes' properties and format the data properly, you don't need to do this yourself. The code to implement will be provided in the next steps.
In this step, you implement Fiori Timeline cells to show the
DeliveryStatus entities in a logical way.
Open the file
./MyDeliveries/ViewControllers/TrackingInfoViewController.swift and locate the method
Replace the commented-out part with the following code:
tableView.register(FUITimelineCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "FUITimelineCell")
tableView.register(FUITimelineMarkerCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "FUITimelineMarkerCell")
tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 44
tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor.preferredFioriColor(forStyle: .backgroundBase)
tableView.separatorStyle = .none
NOTE The above code originated from the SAP Fiori for iOS Mentor app, but has been slightly modified to show both
Next, locate method
numberOfSections(in tableView:).
Change it so it returns 1 section:
override func numberOfSections(in tableView: UITableView) -> Int {
return 1
Now, locate method
tableView(_ tableView:, numberOfRowsInSection section:).
Change it to return the number of loaded entities:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
return self._entities.count
Finally, remove the remaining commented-out methods and replace them with these methods:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView,
cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let deliverystatustype = self._entities[indexPath.row]
if deliverystatustype.selectable != 0 {
return self.getFUITimelineCell(deliverystatustype: deliverystatustype,
indexPath: indexPath)
else {
return self.getFUITimelineMarkerCell(deliverystatustype: deliverystatustype,
indexPath: indexPath)
private func getFUITimelineMarkerCell(deliverystatustype: DeliveryStatusType,
indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "FUITimelineMarkerCell", for: indexPath)
guard let timelineCell = cell as? FUITimelineMarkerCell else {
return cell
timelineCell.nodeImage = self.getNodeImage(statusType: deliverystatustype.statusType!)
timelineCell.showLeadingTimeline = indexPath.row == 0 ? false : true
timelineCell.showTrailingTimeline = indexPath.row == self._entities.count - 1 ? false : true
timelineCell.eventText = self.getFormattedDateTime(timestamp: deliverystatustype.deliveryTimestamp!)
timelineCell.titleText = deliverystatustype.status
return timelineCell
private func getFUITimelineCell(deliverystatustype: DeliveryStatusType,
indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "FUITimelineCell", for: indexPath)
guard let timelineCell = cell as? FUITimelineCell else {
return cell
timelineCell.nodeImage = self.getNodeImage(statusType: deliverystatustype.statusType!)
timelineCell.eventText = self.getFormattedDateTime(timestamp: deliverystatustype.deliveryTimestamp!)
timelineCell.headlineText = deliverystatustype.status
timelineCell.subheadlineText = deliverystatustype.location
return timelineCell
private func getFormattedDateTime(timestamp: LocalDateTime) -> String {
let formatter = DateFormatter()
formatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd HH:mm"
return formatter.string(from: timestamp.utc())
private func getNodeImage(statusType: String) -> UIImage {
switch statusType {
case "start" : return FUITimelineNode.start
case "inactive" : return FUITimelineNode.inactive
case "complete" : return FUITimelineNode.complete
case "earlyEnd" : return FUITimelineNode.earlyEnd
case "end" : return FUITimelineNode.end
default : return FUITimelineNode.open
The first method
tableView(_ tableView:, cellForRowAt indexPath:) decides based on
DeliveryStatus property
selectable which specific timeline cell to render. This rendering is done via two private methods
getFUITimelineMarkerCell(deliverystatustype:, indexPath:) and
getFUITimelineCell(deliverystatustype:, indexPath:).
These two private methods are implemented based on the code from the SAP Fiori for iOS Mentor app, but the code from the Mentor app has been split into two separate functions and control binding has already been implemented for easier implementation in this tutorial.
The final two private methods are helpers to format the timestamp into something more readable, and to get the correct
FUITimelineNode image indicator based on the
DeliveryStatus property
Build and run the application. Navigate to the
Packages master page and select a package. If you now click on the Show Tracking Info… cell, you'll navigate to the Tracking Info scene, and the
Package's related
DeliveryStatus records are now shown in descending order using two flavors of the Fiori Timeline cell control.
Step 1: Open SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations cockpit
Step 2: Create a new application definition
Step 3: Add a back end connection
Step 4: Add security configuration
Step 5: Configure SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant
Step 6: Run the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS Assistant
Step 7: Create an Xcode Project
Step 8: SAP Cloud Platform mobile service for development and operations Configuration details
Step 9: OData Services
Step 10: Optional Features
Step 11: Upload metadata.xml file
Step 12: Examine the generated Xcode Project
Step 13: Build and run the generated application
Step 14: Examine the generated application
Step 15: Enhance the generated application
Step 16: Create a new Table View Controller
Step 17: Create new subclass of a UITableViewController class
Step 18: Add navigation Table View Cell to Detail Table View
Step 19: Implement Table View Cell for Packages
Step 20: Implement navigation logic
Step 21: Explore SAP Fiori Timeline cells with the SAP Fiori for iOS Mentor app
Step 22: Implement the SAP Fiori Timeline cells
Step 23: Run the application
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Best/Worst of 2003?
December 24, 2003, 02:05 AM »
Well someone has to start one of these threads and I figure since this was something I was thinking about earlier today I'd kick things off. A slight disclaimer though, I am including anything that was officially released in the year 2003 from the Saga line and it's Clone Wars subline, whether or not it was meant for 02 and came late, or meant for 04 and arrived early.
Best 3.75" action figure
: Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker - I'm just a huge mark for Jedi Luke figs and this looks to be the ultimate Jedi Luke. A great sculpt, a copious amounts of articulation, and great accessories, top notch all around.
Runner-Up: Clone Wars Clone Trooper - If the Jedi Luke would have waited just a few more weeks to be released, the Clones would have definitely been the best to me.
Worst 3.75" action figure
: Acklay Battle Obi-Wan Kenobi - A horrible sculpt, pathetic looking action feature and no waist articulation make this the worst of the worst.
Runner-Up: Total Control Mace Windu - Aka Lollipop Mace, while I'm sure a fun little toy to play with, it has a horrible implementation and up to this point they had yet to get an AOTC Mace head sculpt to look remotely good.
Best Deluxe action figure
: Durge w/ Swoop - Now this IS a deluxe figure, a splendid sculpt with all the articulation one should expect from a $10 figure, all those bada$$ weapons and a swoop to boot!
Runner-Up: I can't say, none of the other deluxe figs this year struck me as being amazing, some were decent like the Spider Droid, but overall just a paltry deluxe year.
Worst Deluxe action figure
: Destroyer Droid Launcher Set - Since it's not technically an army builder set, it has to be a deluxe set, and man does this thing just stink. We get the same old Droidekas (standing and rolled up) from different sets and a poorly functioning launcher. Plus the damn things are still clogging shelves 4-5 months after their release.
Runner-Up: Clonetrooper w/ Speederbike - While I like the concept, the poor sculpt on the figure makes him look like he's a pinada and the cheap plastic used on the Speederbike causes severe warping of the front vane. Hasbro was best left to just re-release the set they had in 2002 instead of resculpting parts.
Best Vehicle
: Imperial Shuttle - It's the Imperial Shuttle, the ultimate cool in Star Wars ships. Outside of the issues revolving around its supposed exclusivity and price, this toy is just outstanding, especially as its a direct re-use of the 1984 mold, it shows how great Kenner was and how great toys can still be today. It just looks so great in either a landing mode surrounded by your Imperial troops or flying about as you make those engine sounds we're all prone to making now and then.
Runner-Up: Hailfire Droid - This is just a great toy, fun to put together, fun to look at, and most definitely fun to play with and looks true to the model in AOTC. All those rockets launching can be a blast, and the big wheels moving about your dining room floor just harken back to a simpler time of playing with toys.
Worst Vehicle
: To me there aren't any, despite several repaints, the offering of vehicles this year from Hasbro was top-notch stuff and proves that vehicles can still sell and get the job done with kids and collectors alike.
Best Subline
: Screen Scenes - A great concept, if not a bit high-priced based on the amount of toys received. But where else would we get such obscure characters as San Hill or Yaddle. Mostly great sculpts, with a couple of questions on articulation (namely Mace Windu, but hey at least they got his head sculpt right for once!) and a great set of accessories. Hopefully more will come down the line now that the Xmas rush has cleared most away.
Runner-Up: CW Army Builder 3-packs - Sure the lack of articulation is questionable, but for the average of $10, you get 3 nicely sculpted figures that will look great in any diorama you make. Due to them being placed in the same assortments as the aforementioned Droideka Launcher sets, its been hard to find them for many, but its apparent everyone wants them.
Best Move By Hasbro
: Getting rid of the action features and putting an emphasis on detailed sculpts and articulation.
Runner-Up: Adding extra accessories and/or stands to the basic figure line.
Worst Move By Hasbro
: Using cheaper and softer plastic on their toys has caused many to become easily warped and damage, i.e. the Clonetrooper Speederbike.
Runner-Up: Continued wackiness in case assortments. Continuously putting out Droideka Launcher sets (yeah I keep harping on it, but it's such a good example) with successive army builder cases had for months covered the pegs with stuff no one will buy until xmas when its a late push for gifts. Same thing goes for the CW Anakins and Yodas.
Well those are my thoughts on the Best and Worst for 2003, what about you? Anything else catch your eye that maybe most others have overlooked?
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3.75" Basic:
Squeaking in under the wire it's the Super articulated Clone.
This figure proves Hasbro is capable of much MUCH more with their modern line then they have been putting out, and hopefully the Super articulated Clone is a sign of good things to come for "action figures" in this line.
Close second are the Imperial Officer Head variants. I love thems army builders.
3.75" Deluxe/Ultra:
I'm going with the General Riekean figure on this one... Not because of any great attributes to the figure itself, and honestly I think this could've been a regular carded figure for all the more you get, but I am just happy to get Riekean and his tactical screen finally. I mean, I'd buy t he screen alone in bulk I think. $10's pricey but for something you REALLY want it's worth it. Even if it's not even an eye-popping figure or accessory.
Easily the A-Wing Fighter... This Target Exclusive came in at a low $20 pricetag, and it was made WIDELY available initially as an online exclusive throught Target.com, and later released to mass retail. A smart move by Target as they were able to estimate their needs better on this toy.
To top it off, the ship is a wonderful EU repaint, and it accentuates one of the few vintage molds that truly held up over time as accurate. It's one of the only to-scale vehicles in the entire line, and that's not shabby for a 20-ish year old mold.
The pack-in even added variety to our pilot ranks, and this was a no-brainer to buy. I got 3 myself and will buy a 4th or 5th if I see them drop in price.
3.75" Basic:
Jedi Throne Room Duel Luke... Good God, this thing is everything WRONG with Saga's early incarnation all rolled up into one craptastic figure.
-Terrible action feature that DOES ruin the figure
-Terrible action pose that equally helps ruin the figure
-Terrible face sculpt that takes its share in ruining this figure
-Terrible accessory (the base) that doesn't work, typical of the features of the Saga line
His only redeeming feature was a nifty metal Jedi Luke sabre. That's it.
3.75" Deluxe/Ultra:
Not a whole lotta Deluxe's out really, but I'm going with the Escape Pod C-3PO.
The Pod sucks because it's so underscaled, and an item this size really should have just been done properly scaled and pay the extra $5 it would've taken to make it that way. I'm not fond of underscaled things, and the pod 3PO comes with is just way too small.
3PO himself is also a rehash, and while I like that sculpt, I think for $10 you should get a little better than a rehash they couldn't vac metalize due to the plastic used, and an escape pod accessory that sucks.
Bacta Tank Luke is how to do an ultra accessory. The Escape pod however, is not.
Hmmm, t his one's tough since not that many vehicles have been put out really.
I'm going to go with the re-release of the Republic Gunship and Jedi Fighter though. Even with the popularity of Clone Wars, this re=release duo suck. Both still sit stagnant, though the fighter moves somewhat.
They just weren't needed so soon after their original incarnations shipped and some even sat on clearance still in stores like KB (I can still get their exclusive Obi/Fighter set for like $10 there I think).
A close second though is the TIE Fighter. A true kick to the collective balls of the Star Wars fans, this fighter featured a corrected cockpit rear-end, but the solar panels were left untouched (The one thing most everyone WAS asking to see changed).
Sure, we wanted a cockpit change too, but WTF was up with screwing us on the solar panel issue? And now ANOTHER TIE is rumored? WTF again!? Bit of a crappy deal on that one.
Hell, I'd almost put that TIE above the Clone Wars rehashes now that I think about it.
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Re: Best/Worst of 2003?
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January 4, 2004, 12:14 PM »
This thread deserves a little more attention. I'll try to spice things up with my
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for 2003.
Winners are
Best Accessory 2003:
A category I love, this year had a great new wrinkle with the inclusion of bases. This year's contenders are:
Clone Wars Yoda's hoverdisk
Mynock Hunt Chewie's Mynock
Carkoon Boba's flames
Wat Tambor's console
Obi Wan's Outlander Bar
Best Vehicle 2003:
A category usually dominated by rehashes, this year there were quite a few brand-new standouts. The nominees are:
Anakin's Swoop Bike
TIE Bomber
Anakin's Jedi Starfighter
Hailfire Droid
Best Multipack 2003:
A new category, as the deluxe line was dropped in favor of multipacks. I'm including all multipacks to heighten the competition:
Battle of Hoth giftset
Jedi Council I (Mace Windu , Oppo Rancissis and Even Piel)
Imperial Forces giftset
Clone Army Builders (any color)
Geonosian Warroom I (Poggle the Lesser, San Hill, and Count Dooku)
Best EU Figure 2003:
another pet category of mine. With the Clone Wars, things really broke open here this year:
Concept Stormtrooper
ARC Trooper
Asajj Ventress
Best Basic Figure--Resculpt:
I break the Best Figure category down some to highlight the updated figures, as opposed to those we've never seen before. A very tough field this year:
Super Articulated Clone Trooper
Boba Fett--Pit of Carkoon
Hoth Han Solo
Droid Factory Chase Padme
Camp Ambush Tusken Radier
Best New Basic Figure:
prize of the Muftak Awards. This year's nominees are:
Aayla Secura
Ashla & Jempa
Bail Organa
Wat Tambor
Janus Greejatus
And there you have it!!
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Re: Best/Worst of 2003?
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January 9, 2004, 06:04 PM »
Worst figure in the 3 3/4 line has to be EMPEROR!!!!!
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