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Quad Infotech Inc. recently completed installation of the [QMOS] MES system at Nucor-Berkeley, Nucor's beam mill in Huger, SC, to manage the facility's Roll Shop.
The [QMOS] system will be used to coordinate efforts related to Roll Shop and Stand Building functions. All Roll Assembly, Turning and Scrapping activity will be recorded. Scheduling of rolls for the mill is handled, with allowance for the intricate details related to Universal Stand rolling and setup. New detailed Roll Inventory management features is key to the installation. Location Management has been enhanced in order to eliminate lost time spent searching for and retrieving rolls. Mill Setup Shop operations will also be coordinated by [QMOS]. The system will also facilitate setup of shop processes by providing better tracking for use of chocks and bearings.
Nucor-Berkeley produces carbon steel wide-flange beams, manufactured housing beams, standard I-beams, and miscellaneous and standard channels. Nucor-Berkeley joins other Nucor operations in Seattle, WA, Norfolk, NE and Decatur, AL as part of the QMOS family.
Nucor Corporation is the largest manufacturer of steel products in North America. In 2009 more that 14 million tons of steel were produced at Nucor's approximately 200 operating facilities. Nucor has operating facilities in 22 states. Products produced are: carbon and alloy steel in bars, beams, sheet, and plate; steel joists and joist girders; steel deck; cold finished steel; steel fasteners; metal building systems; and light gauge steel framing. The Nebraska facility produces carbon steel in special bar quality; merchant bar quality; and reinforcing products in the following shapes: angles, channels, flats, and rounds.
Quad Infotech is a software engineering and design company that specializes in the development of industrial computer software for the steel industry. Quad's unique combination of steelmaking and rolling process knowledge, combined with computer software design expertise, renders Quad's Level-2 and Level-3 software products unique in the global steel minimill market. [QMOS] has been operating in numerous steel plants throughout North America and Europe since 1994.


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- I'm not entirely sure who you are;in fact, I'm almost ready to believe you are the White Angel ... well, thanks for settling the score ... Marc.
- -- Joshua Mendossi, to Moon Knight
Appearing in "White Angels"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- White Angel of Death (Only appearance; dies)[1]
- kidnappers in skeleton costumes
- Zuvembie
Other Characters:
- Joshua Mendossi
- Loa (Only in flashback)
- St. Lucien, a Caribbean island
Synopsis for "White Angels"
Moon Knight returns home from a night on patrol. Samuels hands him a telegram that reads, "I'm calling the marker ~ Joshua, St. Lucien." He greets Marlene, changes to Lockley, and goes to Gena's diner. He invites his amateur detectives (Crawley, Ray, and Ricky) to go to St. Lucien with Grant. They, Gena, and Marlene take the next flight.
At the hotel, Grant tells Marlene he's going "sightseeing." She has the telegram and demands his true motive. He confesses that Joshua Mendossi, an old friend of Spector's, needs help. They go to see Mendossi, who is director of police on the island. He has several missing persons cases, and the natives suspect a voodoo priest named le ange blanc;the White Angel of Death. Even worse, the White Angel is turning these people into an army of zombies. Mendossi can't give the cases the attention they deserve because they involve the poor, he doesn't have the manpower, and his primary job is protecting the tourists. He wants Spector to do what he would like to but can't.
Marlene stays behind and asks Mendossi about Spector: "Was he ever really ruthless? A heartless killer?" Mendossi answers, "Yes and no," and tells her about an incident during a rebel uprising in South America. Government forces came upon Spector and his group in a cemetery, and Spector used a grave marker for cover. A soldier tried to catch him in a crossfire, but Mendossi shot the soldier, thus saving Spector's life. Spector promised to return the favor someday.
Spector goes to see Mendossi's sister, who tells him the same thing Mendossi did. She tells him he must leave before dark. Spector changes to Moon Knight. Down the road he finds a man in a skeleton costume herding men into a truck. His truncheon takes care of the skeleton, but the men in the truck think he's the White Angel and refuse to get out. Three more skeletons appear, but Moon Knight makes quick work of them and drags the victims out of the truck. The four skeletons get away in the truck. Spector walks back to his hotel. He complains to Marlene that he's gradually lost the extra strength that moonlight used to give him, although he calls it the "werewolf virus."
Grant gives Ricky and Ray a transmitter and asks them to pose as bait for the skeletons. Frenchie and Crawley, doing their own reconnaissance, find a poppy field on a plantation owned by Norman Vidal. A group of skeletons finds them.
Ricky and Ray encounter skeletons loading a truck with victims and sneak aboard. After an hour's ride, they emerge in a clearing, where Frenchie and Crawley hang from a tree. The White Angel (a white man) tells the new arrivals that they will become zombies and must kill the prisoners to prove their loyalty. When he prepares to give Ray an injection, Ray radios Moon Knight and manages to give a location before someone breaks the transmitter. Spector, driving in the area, realizes they're at Vidal's plantation and tells Marlene to send Mendossi.Moon Knight glides in across the bonfire just as the new zombies charge at Ricky and Ray with spears. A skeleton exclaims, "Papa Doc! It is the real White Angel!" Vidal confesses that the "zombies" are slave labor for the poppy fields. The skeletons go after Moon Knight. Ricky and Ray try to rouse the zombies, then get loose and free Frenchie and Crawley. The police arrive.
Vidal flees to his house for guns. Moon Knight and Mendossi follow. Mendossi gets trapped behind a column in the barn, and Vidal is circling behind him to get a clear shot. One of Moon Knight's darts knocks the gun out of his hand; Mendossi turns and fires; Vidal falls against the bullet-riddled column, which breaks. The floor above, packed with bags of heroin, collapses, burying Vidal.
- The Comics Code Authority did not allow use of the word zombie, so in this story they are called zuvembies.
- There is no Caribbean island named St. Lucien, but there is a St. Lucia, where St. Lucien is the native language.
- The villain's name apparently is meant to suggest Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal.
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Moon Knight Vol 1 6 on the forums
- 8 Image(s) from Moon Knight Vol 1 6
- 1 Reprints of Moon Knight Vol 1 6
Recommended Reading
- Moon Knight Vol 2
- Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1-60
- Moon Knight Vol 3
- Moon Knight Vol 4
- Moon Knight Vol 5
- ↑ First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks
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WCM-Q is part of Cornell University and shares the tripartite mission of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York of dedication to excellence in education, patient care and research.
The six-year program in pre-medical and medical education leading to the M.D. degree will be granted by Cornell University upon completion of all graduation requirements.
Promote educational endeavors, which extend beyond the undergraduate program.
A Center of Excellence in Basic, Translational and Clinical biomedical research with a world-class infrastructure and outstanding scientists.
In unison with the goals and mission of the college, the initiatives of the institute are organized in the three broad areas of education, research, and community care programs.
Welcome to Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Alumni, an entity developed to allow WCM-Q graduates to reacquaint themselves with old friends, fellow students and most importantly stay up to date with all that is scheduled at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and the opportunities the university has to offer.
Ways to enhance self care, personal health and wellness were explored during a six-day, two-part immersion course hosted by Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar's (WCM-Q) Institute for Population Health (IPH).
WCM-Q invited The Wellness Enhancement Learning Course (TheWEL), a health and wellness organization based in Glasgow, Scotland, to Doha to help participants manage stress, nurture their own happiness and wellbeing, practice self-compassion, and promote good physical health.
Designed and delivered by Dr. David Reilly, an internationally recognized physician, academic and teacher, the course helps participants to understand and overcome the personal challenges they face in their day-to-day lives, helping them to cope more effectively and then flourish. The course, which takes a holistic view of wellness, also aims to empower people to make healthy lifestyle choices in terms of food, exercise and sleep, to manage their social relationships, and to find peace of mind through meditation and mindfulness practices.
A total of 14 people took part in the course, which was held at Doha's Hilton Hotel. The course will enable the participants to embark on a wellness enhancement journey to see how they can begin to make meaningful change in their lives. After the conclusion of the two-part course, the hope is that participants will be able to make sustained change for the betterment of their physical and emotional well being.
Dr. Reilly said: "TheWEL is predicated on the acknowledgment that the current model of healthcare, while it has made incredible advances over the years, is not proving sufficient in the face of the rising modern epidemic of non-communicable diseases, such as chronic stress, obesity, diabetes and heart disease. TheWEL aims to address this gap by empowering people with the ability to create self-sustaining growth in compassion-based self-care. These are very powerful attributes which, if developed, provide a strong foundation upon which we can all build our own health and wellness, giving us the opportunity to flourish and experience joy in our lives."
Dr. Sohaila Cheema, Director of the IPH, was influential in bringing the program to Doha. She also completed the course herself. Dr. Cheema said: "This IPH initiative provides participants with an opportunity to stop and examine some of the emotional and lifestyle-related factors in their lives which might be leading to poor health and wellness. The course material and the exercises practiced are extremely effective at encouraging participants to think clearly about the changes they can make to bring about positive changes and to then act upon those ideas in their day-to-day lives."
Research carried out by TheWEL indicates that 88 percent of participants report long-term benefits in the five years after the course. Participants also report enhanced ability to deal with health problems, improved capacity to cope with challenges, and improved self-compassion.
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani, Senior Associate Dean for Population Health and Capacity Building, said: "We are extremely pleased to have been able to welcome Dr. Reilly to Doha to deliver this extremely beneficial course to our participants, all of whom have given us very positive feedback. This innovative course encourages participants to unlock their own potential to make healthy choices in the long-term, giving each of us the best possible chance of avoiding conditions like obesity, diabetes, stress and heart disease."


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Better Call Saul Q&A – Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut)
Jonathan Banks, who plays Mike Ehrmantraut on AMC's Better Call Saul, discusses his favorite things about playing Mike and the ways in which Mike's world in Better Call Saul is different from his world in Breaking Bad.
Q: How did you react when you first learned Mike would be a part of Better Call Saul?
A: I was really up for it. That was my reaction. I felt good. I got to play this character and I love this character. There are a lot of favorite things about playing Mike. He's beaten down, but as soulless as he's become, he still has a great deal of honor.
Q: Before it was definitively established in Better Call Saul, did you have any ideas of your own about how Jimmy and Mike first met?
A: No, quite honestly, I did not have any ideas. Vince Gilligan is wonderful and loves the character of Mike. He writes wonderful stuff for me. I've worked with both Vince and Peter Gould for years. I really enjoy working with all of the writers, but I also really enjoy them as people. We're friends at this point. Do we always agree with each other? Maybe not, but you know what? I trust them completely.
Q: Jimmy and Mike have a humorously contemptuous relationship right from the start. Do you sometimes find it hard not to break when you're filming your scenes opposite Bob Odenkirk?
A: Both Bob and I have been around long enough that we don't do a lot of breaking. Bob is a good actor, and I enjoy the relationship a lot. Mike and Jimmy have a contentious relationship, and one where they're irritable with each other. The fun thing is that when you're acting with someone who's your friend, I think you have more fun doing it.
Q: You previously stated, "When you play Mike, you live in Mike's world." How would you describe Mike's world? What are some of the ways in which his world in Better Call Saul is different from his world in Breaking Bad?
A: Mike's world is a world of violence, simply put. He has committed himself to a lot more violence. I look at it through new eyes, because Mike is just arriving in Albuquerque. The familiarity from the Breaking Bad days for Mike is not yet there. Mike is pretty stoic about when he enters someplace. He takes it in, adjusts to it, and uses it.
A: Without being coy, I don't need to look back. [Laughs] The writers are so good to me and they like the character so much that I'm almost always pleased with what I see and what I get.
Q: Some of Mike's backstory is revealed in Episode 106. Are you enjoying how the show is peeling that onion a little bit at a time?
A: I love that we go back and learn about Mike's son. We learn about Mike's life, and we learn about Mike's pain. It's wonderful. I'm going to really enjoy Episode 106.
Q: Talk more about that seldom-seen softer side of Mike. Do you prepare for such scenes differently, since they're so different from the typical gruff Mike scenes? How?
A: I try to prepare for everything I do. Obviously, any actor is going to bring whatever life experience they have or whatever knowledge they have to a scene. That's what I do. Those are my things. I bring my life to it. There's a part of Mike that we would all like to be, and god knows Jonathan Banks is not that strong or noble in many ways. I put out there what I can, and hopefully the audience enjoys it and takes away something.
Q: As a veteran actor, you've played a wide variety of roles. Is there any other type of role or character you haven't played but have always wanted to?
A: I always love characters with some substance and some mystery about them. There are a lot of different roles I'd like to play as they come. Hopefully, I still have enough life in me to play a few more!
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Watch for this: The time is coming'—GOD's Decree—'when I will keep the promise I made to the families of Israel and Judah. When that time comes, I will make a fresh and true shoot sprout from the David-Tree. He will run this country honestly and fairly. He will set things right. That's when Judah will be secure and Jerusalem live in safety. The motto for the city will be, "GOD Has Set Things Right for Us." –Jeremiah 33:14-16, The Message
Anyone who knows me knows that the season of Advent is my favorite time of year. I put up my tree early in November, and it doesn't come down until February. I listen to Christmas music before it's even on in the stores. I buy eggnog the second I see it in the grocery store. I keep my eyes out for that perfect gift way before the last minute. The Sundays in Advent are probably the best worship services of the whole year.
There is so much I love about this season. I'm one of the few that love the dwindling daylight. I love the darkness coming at 5pm on my commute home. For some, this season speaks of hurriedness and running from one event to another. To me, it speaks of something more.
The closing of one year.
The hope and anticipation of the coming year.
Advent is about waiting. Waiting for Christmas. Waiting for the coming Messiah. Waiting for the coming hope. It is in the slow, unhurried darkness where we have time to contemplate. Time to wait. To hope. Waiting for hope and the coming of a new day was illustrated to me most clearly this year through experiencing my first hurricane this past October. As Sandy arrived in NJ, the strongest point of the storm came through during the
evening. I sat in my little apartment as winds blew hard against the walls that protect and guard me from the outside elements. I hoped the walls would hold up this time too.
As trees creaked and fell, and as the power went out all around me and darkness surrounded me, I prayed for a new day and the rising of the sun more than I ever had before. As I write this, I am looking at a mailing for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy and other disasters. And their catch phrase is "Out of Chaos, Hope."
More than anything else, many of us need hope. Hope through the storms of life. Disaster. Divorce. Disease. Disruption. Death. In the midst of this darkness, we can push it away with hurriedness, distraction, one more event. Or we can sit in it and wait expectantly, with attentiveness, for hope to break through.
Christ broke into our world.
Light in the midst of darkness.
The hope of all nations.
God has set things right for us.
A reflection by Angie Rines.
Angie is the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry at Presbyterian Church in Morristown. Angie tweets from @AngelaRines and blogs at http://angierines.wordpress.com


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The Most Prized Lateral of 2015 Wasn't a Partner William Henderson and Christopher Zorn | The Am Law Daily February 1, 2016
In the United Kingdom, one of the most heralded lateral moves of 2015 occurred when a four-person team from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), a U.K. Silver Circle firm, departed for Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), a U.K.-Australian powerhouse firm that is currently No. 16 on the Global 100. HSF issued a press release, and the story was covered by Legal Business, Legal IT Insider, BigLaw, Legal Week, and The Lawyer. That level of fanfare surrounding a lateral move is usually reserved for an M&A or private equity partner with a large and prestigious client following. Yet this four-person team had no clients of their own, and thus had no portable book of business at all. They were all professional staff. This vaunted four-person team was led by Cathy Mattis, BLP's Head of Process Improvement, who began her career over 15 years ago as a solicitor in the corporate finance area but soon departed the partnership path to join BLP's fledgling knowledge management group. Mattis eventually became a Project Manager, and later rose to Head of Process Improvement. For several years, we have been studying the lateral partner market. Much of what we have learned has appeared in the annual February Lateral Report (see Of Partners and Peacocks (2014) and A Rx for Lateral Heartache (2015)). We believe that the lateral hiring of the Mattis team by Herbert Smith Freehills reflects a gradual sea change in the market for elite legal services, one that will, in the long-run, shrink the strategic importance of lateral partner hiring. Herbert Smith Freehills hired Mattis and her team to augment its global Legal Project Management (LPM) offering. HSF is an international law firm whose clients need and want seamless, high-quality legal services across multiple jurisdictions. To be sure, such clients are not uninterested in price. But a much more important threshold requirement is consistency of service delivery and results. Partners at large law firms may find this surprising, but such consistency is not best achieved by hiring dozens of smart, highly credentialed (and expensive) lawyers. Rather, it requires skilled technicians who can design and build, elegant, flexible legal processes and experienced teams skilled in project management. Perhaps not surprisingly, before being hired by HSF, Mattis had just completed an MBA in process and operations management. Although Mattis and her team brought no clients with them to HSF, they deliver strategic value to the firm in two ways that are destined to grow in the years to come. First, Mattis and her team are often client-facing, and can speak with great clarity and credibility on how project management and process improvement can be harnessed to create win-win relationships for the clients and the firm. While at BLP, Mattis and her team were increasingly involved in client pitches. Their knowledge and experience were especially important in complex technical sales that can grow client relationship and also win new business from prospective clients. Second, project management and process improvement deliver value and quality of service that cannot be easily replicated by rival firms, primarily because execution depends upon systems and teams of interdisciplinary professionals.
We believe that the lateral hiring of the Mattis team by Herbert Smith Freehills reflects a gradual sea change in the market for elite legal services, one that will, in the long-run, shrink the strategic importance of lateral partner hiring.
As a result, Mattis and her colleagues are uniquely able to turn successful engagements into large institutional clients whose loyalties flow to the global HSF enterprise. These two dynamics—increased topline sales and stickier client relationships— are wonderful news for law firm leaders. But as this practice spreads to the U.S.— and it's already happening in at least a handful of AmLaw 200 law firms—it's bad news for the independent-minded, territorial lateral partner. It is virtually certain that Cathy Mattis and her team departed for HSF for a compensation package that was much closer to an equity partner's than that of a non-partner professional. But we doubt that even 5 percent of partners in the U.K. or the U.S. appreciate the magnitude of the change that is beginning to take shape. CEMENTING LOYALTIES TO THE FIRM The emergence of world-class process specialists means that large corporate law firms are, for the first time in several decades, creating firm-specific capital. Simply put, it is the creation of a resource that will produce its highest economic value only within the specific firm. If a lawyer leaves, the underlying resource remains, with the result that client loyalties flow primarily to the law firm rather than the lawyer. When it's working well, lawyers spend their days augmenting the firm's firm-specific capital. Why? Because doing so offers the highest expected return and lowest risk-reward ratio over the short, medium, and long term. Created a century ago, the Cravath system is a classic example of creating firm-specific capital. The contours of that system were simple: Cravath offered young lawyers top-of-the-market salaries to focus on specific groups of corporate clients using a detailed work system. Those clients, in turn, pay the firm a premium price for work they cannot buy elsewhere. A subset of those young lawyers become partners and share in the profits of the enterprise, but all of them receive training that has substantial resale value to the clients and to other law firms. As a result, those lawyers knew that if they cast their lot with Cravath, they would fare very well over the long run. The result of that system was predictable: Highly talented people joined the firm and worked tirelessly for the enterprise. Those efforts grew the firm-specific capital and wedded clients ever more tightly to the firm. (It is worth noting that McKinsey is entirely based on this same model.) By the 1980s and 90s, large U.S. law firms were two or three generations removed from their founding partners. They were also highly profitable, a fact that became widely known through the advent of the legal press. Meanwhile, within large corporate clients, general counsel were increasingly taking on trusted advisor relationships with their CEOs. They were also put in charge of hiring and managing outside counsel, and developed the mantra "we hire the lawyer, not the firm." The result of that practice has been very bad for law firms, as it gave individual lawyers with strong client followings the ability to lateral (or threaten to lateral) to another firm while retaining the full value of their marginal contribution to the firm. It was this dynamic that caused Larry Ribstein, in 2010, to write about The Death of BigLaw. THE U.K.'S HEAD START On the application of people, process, and technology to the practice of law, U.K. and Australian law firms are significantly more advanced than their U.S. counterparts. The origins of this lead lie in two interrelated factors. The first is compensation: U.K. and Australian firms have remained much closer to their lockstep roots, which tends to incentivize greater collaboration and longer time horizons among partner-owners. Second, both U.K. and Austrialian firms outgrew their home markets about twenty years before U.S. firms, which caused them to become pioneers in client-friendly alternatives to the billable hour. Stated another way, necessity—the mother of invention—visited the U.K. and Australia first.
Partners/ Owners
Associates Number of Lawyers ORIGINAL CRAVATH SYSTEM: "BUILD MODEL." Under the Cravath system, associates were either elevated to partner/owner, or moved out to the market with substantial resale value.
It is possible to characterize the process revolution as something that was crafted at the very highest levels of U.K. and Australian law firms, but that would far from the truth. Mattis's career is a wonderful case in point: she became a professional support lawyer primarily to create flexibility for her family life. At the time, knowledge management as a field within the legal industry was still in its infancy; Mattis was part of the first generation of project managers in law firms. From that perch, she saw the enormous potential for applying process principles to obtain gains in quality, efficiency, and cycle times. So she instructed herself on the topic, both through formal education and via practical implementation. At BLP, her team's initiatives were regularly in play for the annual FT Innovative Lawyer Awards. TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS What makes Mattis and her team so valuable on the lateral market is that they developed, built and managed a best-in-class process team at a major U.K. law firm; as a result, it was not unreasonable to think that they could, if properly resourced, do it again. Although Mattis and her team had no portable clients, they had a track record of successful execution. From a distance, project management and process improvement may look like arcane, technical specialties, but successful execution turns primarily on effective change management skills: picking low resistance starting points, getting early wins, avoiding jargon, embracing simplicity, and making the change process enjoyable and non-threatening. In the years to come, as firms like HSF siphon away market share, law firm leaders are going to be scrambling to find more professionals like Cathy Mattis. At their best, such non-lawyer professionals are going to enjoy market power that rivals equity partners with large client followings. So what is the end game for the lateral partner market? We foresee a day when clients come to expect the benefits that flow from sophisticated project management and process improvement; to be at a firm without these capabilities is to risk losing the client. Knowing this, high-performing partners will seek out such firms, even as it becomes clear that those firms' clients are loyal to the system, not the individual lawyer. Thus, for many law firm partners, the very last move on the lateral chessboard may be to a firm that will transform their personal book of business into institutional clients. Although this move may appear altruistic to the clients themselves, the motivation will in fact be supplied by the lawyers' own financial self-interest. Industry Insights is an ongoing series of papers on the trends driving the legal industry, authored by members of the Lawyer Metrics Team.
"Tomorrow's legal world, as predicted and described here, bears little resemblance to that of the past. Legal institutions and lawyers are at a crossroads, I claim, and are poised to change more radically over the next two decades than they have over the last two centuries. If you are a young lawyer, this revolution will happen on your watch." Susskind, R. E. (2013). Tomorrow's lawyers: An introduction to your future. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. (cited in Henderson, W. D. (2014) Living Through a Paradigm Shift. NALP Bulletin.)
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On news of the lateral move of a process improvement team, this article suggests that a sea change in the market for legal services is occur...
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On news of the lateral move of a process improvement team, this article suggests that a sea change in the market for legal services is occur...


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Now that we have some of the basic types and pattern matching under our belts, I thought it high time that we learnt a bit about how to organize our own code. Throughout some of the posts we have already been through I have been referring to modules such as the "List module". In this post we will see not only how to create our own modules but also why they are important. We shall also see how to organize files/type definitions, and see why this is important.
Organizing Types
Lets start with a simple example, as simple as it gets in fact, suppose we have this code (screen shot this time sorry)
It can be seen that we already have an issue. This is down to the fact that in F# any types/functions/values that are needed by the current type/function etc etc are needed to be defined before usage. This in stark contrast to C# say where this would have been totally fine:
void Main() { var doubled = doublerFuction(12); } private int doublerFunction(int x) { return x * 2; }
This simple case is very easy to fix, we just need to swap the order of the lines in the F# code, so it would end up being like this:
Happy days, no more issues. That is however a very short term, and not very long sighted win. Surely there must be a better for us to organize our code in F#. Well yes there is.
Help comes in the form of files and modules.
A file in F# is a simply a F# source code file, that may contain arbitrary code, it could contain a mixture of any of the following
- functions
- type definitions
- let bindings
- modules
But a F# file get special treatment by Visual Studio, an even comes with its own set of Visual Studio context menus. Which are shown right here:
Now you may be wondering why you would need to move files up and down. Well it is for the same reason the type definitions did not work earlier, the files have to be in a certain order too. That is to say if you have a function declared in File2.fs that is needed by File1.fs, File2.fs MUST appear before File1.fs in the visual studio IDE.
The Visual Studio IDE even stops you from
- adding new folders to projects
- copy + past an existing file in the solution
- dragging and dropping files to alter their positions in the solution
These things (like them or not)are done to encourage you to organize your F# files in a correct way.
We will see later on that this quite strict enforcements are not actually as bad as they seem, as we can use a few other organizational things to help us out such as:
- Namespaces
- Modules
- A nice auto open feature
Modules in F# are a way to logically group functions/types and let bindings. According to MSDN it is implemented as a common language runtime (CLR) class that has only static members.
You can declare a module like this:
Which in actual code simply looks like this:
module SachaPrintingModule = let prettyPrint x = printfn "The value of x is %A" x let somePrintFunction x = prettyPrint x
A module can contain many types, and functions. It can even contain sibling / nested modules. Though it should be noted that as soon as your F# project grows beyond one file you will need to also include namespaces, but more on this later.
Here is an example of sibling modules which are within a single *.fs file (as I say this is only as long as you have less than 2 *.fs files in the project)
module SachaPrintingModule = let prettyPrint x = printfn "The value of x is %A" x let somePrintFunction x = prettyPrint x module SachaRandomModule = let doublerFunction x = x * 2
Well we have seen lots of example of using modules already such as List/Sequence/Print etc etc, but we have yet to see how to use our own. Well to use our own all we need to do is use the following syntax to import the types/functions contained within the module "open FULLY-QUALIFIED-NAME-OF-MODULE", which once done will allow you to use the types/functions within the opened module. Here is a complete example for a F# project that contains a single F# file (again since it is a single F# file based project we can get away without including namespaces):
module SachaPrintingModule = let prettyPrint x = printfn "The value of x is %A" x let somePrintFunction x = prettyPrint x module SachaRandomModule = let doublerFunction x = x * 2 module MainModule = open SachaPrintingModule [<EntryPoint>] let main argv = somePrintFunction 12 0
The above example shows 2 sibling modules, and a main module (which has the main entry point for the project). The main module opens the "SachaPrintingModule" so it is then able to make use of the contained functions from the "SachaPrintingModule"
Namespaces allow you to organize your code into related functionality by enabling you to add a name to a grouping of elements. if you decide to use namespaces they must be the first element of a file, and everything else in the file will become part of the namespace.
Namespaces have a few rules such as:
- They can not contain values and functions
- They can contain types, and modules
So if you find you want to use more than types then you will need to start to look at namespaces that contain modules. As I have also stated, once you go past that magical limit of 1*.fs files, you will need to worry about namespaces too.
Though this sounds like a PITA it really isn't that bad, all you need to do is add a namespace declaration and make sure to fully qualify your module imports with the namespace name where you need to import the module.
Here is an example of a couple of namespaced modules in a multi *.fs file project (this is the actual order they appear in within the project as well). As you can see File1.js /File2.js simply contain function definitions, whilst File3.js makes use of the File1.js and File2.js functions, which it does by opening the modules, where the module name is fully qualified.
The last file in the project Program.fs makes use of the File3.js functions, which as before it does by opening the module.
namespace ConsoleApplication1 module SachasDoublerModule = let doublerFunction x = x * 2
namespace ConsoleApplication1 module SachasTriplerModule = let triplerFunction x = x * 3
namespace ConsoleApplication1 module SachasRandomModule = open ConsoleApplication1.SachasDoublerModule open ConsoleApplication1.SachasTriplerModule let randomFunction x = (doublerFunction x) + (triplerFunction x)
namespace ConsoleApplication1 module MainModule = open System open System.IO open System open System.Linq open System.Collections.Generic open ConsoleApplication1.SachasRandomModule [<EntryPoint>] let main argv = //use the ConsoleApplication1.SachasRandomModule functions printfn "The random value of 2 is %A" (randomFunction 2) Console.ReadLine() |> ignore 0
There is a special attribute that can help you with modules, which is the AutoOpenAttribute, which can be applied to modules, which makes the contents of the module available to other modules in the same namespace.
You can read more about this at MSDN : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee353721.aspx
Here is the example we just looked at re-written to take advantage of the AutoOpenAttribute
This now makes use of the AutoOpenAttribute to share the module with anything in the same namespace:
namespace ConsoleApplication1 [<AutoOpen>] module SachasDoublerModule = let doublerFunction x = x * 2
This now makes use of the AutoOpenAttribute to share the module with anything in the same namespace:
namespace ConsoleApplication1 [<AutoOpen>] module SachasTriplerModule = let triplerFunction x = x * 3
See how this one no longer needs to open the ConsoleApplication1. SachasDoublerModule / ConsoleApplication1.SachasTriplerModule
namespace ConsoleApplication1 [<AutoOpen>] module SachasRandomModule = let randomFunction x = (doublerFunction x) + (triplerFunction x)
I have not changed the Program.fs code, so that is as previously shown. This was just to show you that you could shared modules using the AutoOpenAttribute
Cyclic Dependencies
So far we have seen how we can use files/modules/namespaces to help us organize our code. However there is one final element I wanted to mention which is actual dependencies in our code. What I mean by that is what would happen if we had a type (say Person type) that depends on another type (say Manager type), and the Manager also depends on the person. That is what is known as a cyclic dependency, which when written down could look something like this:
As you can see from the screen shot above, the following hold true:
- The Person type is not compiling as it has a dependency on the Manager type, which is doesn't know about due to the position of the Manager type in the F# code file. Ok we could move the Manager type up, but then it would start complaining as it has a dependency on the Person type.
- Right now the Manager type is ok, as Person is declared above it, so it knows about the Person type.
Mmmm what a pickle. What can we do about this. Luckily F# has a way out of this sort of thing, it is called the "and" keyword, which would allow us to write the above cyclic code in a non cyclic way. Here it is re-written using the "and" keyword:
namespace ConsoleApplication1 [<AutoOpen>] module SachasDomain = open System; open System.Collections.Generic; type Person(manager : Manager option, name : string) = member this.Manager = manager member this.Name = name override this.ToString() = match this.Manager with | Some(Manager) -> String.Format("Person {0} has Manager {1}", this.Name, (Option.get(this.Manager).Name)) | None -> String.Format("Person {0} has NO Manager", this.Name) //********************************************** // use the "and" keyword to break the cyclic dependency between // "Person" type and "Manager" type //********************************************** and Manager(name : string) = let underlings = new List<Person>() member this.Underlings = underlings member this.Name = name
Which has this code that makes use the above code:
namespace ConsoleApplication1 module MainModule = open System open System.IO open System open System.Linq open System.Collections.Generic open ConsoleApplication1.SachasDomain [<EntryPoint>] let main argv = let manager = Manager("manager1") let p1 = Person(Some(manager), "person 1") manager.Underlings |> ignore manager.Underlings.Add(p1) printfn "Manager %A has (%A) underlings\r\n" manager.Name (manager.Underlings.Count) let c = manager.Underlings.Count printfn "Person details\r\n%A" (p1.ToString()) Console.ReadLine() |> ignore 0
Which when run will give the following results:
Now as I stated at the very beginning of this series I am a mere fledgling when it comes to F#, I am not a guru at all. There is however a fabulous series of post by someone whom I do consider to be a F# guru, that person is Scott Wsaschin, who has a truly excellent F# blog http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com, I just wanted to draw your attention to these 3 posts in particular as Scott goes into some very nitty gritty detail about "cyclic dependencies" and how to get rid of them. If you are interested in learning more about F# and in particular "cyclic dependencies" you owe it to yourself to read these 3 posts:
- http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/cyclic-dependencies/
- http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/removing-cyclic-dependencies/
- http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/cycles-and-modularity-in-the-wild/


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I would like to send a big thumbs down and a boo to madison seating for misleading advertising. They sent me an e-mail yesterday advertising their big sale on Aeron chairs. My current Aeron is almost a decade old and squeaks / creaks / groans when I sit down - so I figured this would be a great time to get a new one! I jump on their site configure the chair and place my order for a couple chairs.
Look – free shipping, ships to Canada and a great price!
This morning I awoke to find my order cancelled with no explanation. When I called to enquire I was informed that their system did not understand that I was from Canada (funny how that little dropdown box in which I chose "Canada" – twice was not a dead give away) and that they would not honor my order for free shipping.
So sadly, my chair will continue to complain for now whenever I sit down…


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A healthy homemade stir fry sauce is guaranteed to be far lower in salt and sugar than a shop bought version, and the cashews in the recipe add some healthy fats, extra protein and a delicious little crunch!
INGREDIENTS (serves 2):
1 x large chicken breast, chopped into strips
1/2 x courgette, cut into strips
1 x small red onion, thinly sliced
1 x medium red pepper, thinly sliced
1/2 x aubergine, cut into chunks
1/2 x bag beansprouts
2 x large mushrooms, sliced
1 x red chilli, sliced
1 x dice sized cube fresh ginger, grated
1 x tsp Chinese five spice
1 x tsp soy sauce
1 x tsp honey
1/2 x tsp sesame oil
1 x tsp coconut oil
1 x handful cashews
Heat a dry frying pan and place the cashews in the pan. Leave to heat, tossing every minute, until the cashews start to brown. Turn off the heat and put to one side to cool.
Heat the coconut oil in a wok, then add the onion, chilli and ginger and cook until starting to soften but not brown. Add the chicken strips, sprinkle the five spice on top, and cook, turning regularly, until browned.
Add all the vegetables except the beansprouts and 2 tsp water to the pan. Mix well and let the whole lot cook for a few minutes, until the water has soaked up.
Drizzle the soy sauce, honey and sesame oil across the stirfry and mix well.
Cook for a further 4 – 5 minutes, stirring regularly, until the vegetables just start to soften.
Add the beansprouts and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Serve up into two big bowls, and sprinkle the toasted cashews across the tow dishes to serve.


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Bunches of bright, shiny smiley face balloons, cameras, and even the "big boss" were there to welcome hundreds of children back to the Belmont Street Community School today. "Good morning Belmont Street Community School," said School Superintendent Melinda J. Boone. "Isn't this a great first day of school?"
Bunches of bright, shiny smiley-face balloons, cameras, and even the "big boss" were there to welcome hundreds of children back to the Belmont Street Community School today.
"Good morning Belmont Street Community School," said School Superintendent Melinda J. Boone. "Isn't this a great first day of school?"
It was hard to tell who was most excited to be back in the school, less than a week after it was severely vandalized: the children, the superintendent, acting Principal Michele Sullivan or the teachers and staff at the elementary school. Ms. Sullivan introduced Ms. Boone as the big boss.
"I am so excited to welcome you back to the new and improved Belmont Street Community School," Ms. Sullivan said.
The children went to the gymnasium for a short pep rally when they arrived at school just before 8 a.m., right where they left from Monday.
Ms. Boone asked the children to give a big cheer, because she said, "You all are the best kids in the world. I'm so happy to see the smiles on your faces." She told them she learned from her mother that "when you do good things for others, good things come back to you."
She pointed to the fifth-grade class as an example. The fifth-graders held a bake sale last week to raise money for the victims of Haiti, and sent $849 in donations to the American Red Cross.
"You all gave unselfishly," Ms. Boone said. She told the students that there was a "lot of love" for them — not only here in the city, but beyond. Ms. Boone said there has been an outpouring of concern from the community, as well as an offer to donate materials and money to the school from individuals, businesses, colleges and organizations.
Several people apparently broke into the school at 170 Belmont St. over the weekend. The vandals left a wide path of destruction in every classroom on all three floors, the library, hallways, and the cafeteria in the basement. Police believe more than one person was involved because of the scope of the destruction.
Upon arrival at school Monday morning, children were assembled in the gymnasium, and then taken by bus to Worcester Technical High School, the designated evacuation site.
"The kids were great," said art teacher Colleen Fish. "Kids just thought they were going on an unscheduled field trip Monday."
Most of the children did not know their entire school had been trashed. Officials had initially estimated that it would take at least a week to reopen the school, but the district's custodians, school shop and staff, worked nonstop to restore order to school so children could return to classes as quickly as possible.
"Everybody's worked 24-7 to get all of this done," said Kathleen Srimgeour, speech language pathologist for the school. "Even the floors are waxed to a high sheen — it looks better than before."
Mayor Joseph C. O'Brien, who also serves as the chairman of the School Committee, went around the gym, crouched down and shook hands with the children. He told them that he was there to welcome them back on behalf of city and school officials. Mr. O'Brien also thanked all Unum company officials in Worcester who donated the balloon bouquets. City Manager Michael V. O'Brien could not be at the rally this morning, but said his office had also been flooded with calls with offers to help. Mr. O'Brien said city officials would work closely with school officials to help coordinate the donations.
School Committee member Brian A. O'Connell and John Monfredo, who served as principal of the Belmont Street Community School for 20 years, were also in the school with school officials to lend support.
"It's amazing the kids are in here today, the school shop and custodians did an utterly fantastic job. How on earth could they possibly clean it up so fast?" Mr. Monfredo said. "We also want to thank the police detectives, especially Sgt. (Gary) Quitadamo, for going above and beyond in making sure the public was made aware of the devastation."
The school day quickly went back to the normal routine for the children beginning with the Pledge of Allegiance. Before they knew it, the students were back in their classrooms learning to read, write and do long division.


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The square $ABCD$ has sides of length 1 unit and it is split into three triangles by the lines $BP$ and $CP$. If $P$ is the midpoint of $AD$, find the radii of the inscribed circles of these triangles.
Now suppose the lengths $AP$ and $PD$ are $(1- p)$ and $p$ respectively. Find the radii of the three circles $r_1$, $r_2$and $r_3$ in terms of $p$ and plot, on the same axes, the graphs of $r_1$, $r_2$ and $r_3$ as $p$ varies from 0 to 1. Can the ratio of the radii $r_1 : r_2 : r_3$ ever take the value $1:2:3$?


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Challenges come disguised in many forms, like setbacks, disappointments, failures, and roadblocks.
What matters most when those uninvited challenges occur is how we respond to them. Our response is what defines us and gives light to our character.
Successful people understand that once the challenge is in front of them, all they can do is respond to it in an effective manner. When a challenge comes up, successful people do three things:
- They ACCEPT them, because they know the past cannot be changed and all they can do now is deal with the chalenge head on.
- They LEARN from them, every challenge can teach us a lesson or two and make us wiser.
- Move FORWARD despite them, they look for the best course of action to resolve them, mitigate them and move past them.
There is no reason to fight challenges or feel down because you are having a challenge, that is waste of time and energy- once you are confronted with a challenge, you can't change the past all you can do is move forward and respond to them effectively.
I would venture to say that challenges are sometimes what makes life more interesting and overcoming them will definitely make life more meaningful.
Maybe, challenges are an important part of our journey. Maybe they are essential to achieving success. And just maybe challenges make you stronger and set you up for bigger things later on in life.
When you encounter your next challenge, setback, failure or disappointment – DON'T React. Instead, ACCEPT that the challenge has occurred and focus on finding the best solution to resolve it or mitigate it. Find the lesson hidden in every challenge and then move FORWARD despite them. Life goes on and all you can do is the best you can do and the best you can do is always enough.


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It's the end of the year, there are 22 a million different lists out there, but we figured what does DICE know best? Going out and getting stuck in with the crowd at a sweaty gig or heavy club. So we asked our Music Team to pick their best of the year and write a few sentences explaining why.
In no specific order, and with an album and track thrown in for prosperity, here's what they chose. Press play to the right and get scrolling.
Lee Vincent - Master Of Heavy
Show Me The Body at The Alibi, London
Having already seen one of Show Me The Body's first three London shows, I knew they were something special. Despite not being able to make their daytime show at Visions Festival, I got word of their late night show at The Alibi and ducked out of a wedding party early to catch their ten-thirty stage time (yes, they're that good).
Ten-thirty turned into eleven. Eleven turned into one. The band finally picked up their instruments in the tiny back room of the Alibi at one-thirty in the morning and proceeded to lay waste to the room and everyone in it for the next twenty-five minutes.
Show Me The Body can only exist now. They seamlessly blend genres that, in the past, have always been rammed together with little charm. They are a ferocious hardcore band and they are a rowdy hip hop crew. They attract the most beautifully diverse crowd I've ever seen at a punk show, and that to me sums up what it's all about.
Album of the year
Ex-Cult - Negative Growth
Track of the year
Desiigner - Panda
Michael Baskerville - The Accounts Hound
ANOHNI at The Barbican, London
Not really knowing what to expect for a gig is pretty normal, but with the first UK performance of Hopelessness - the audience knew before the show it was going to be something special. The show starts with a video, twenty minutes of Naomi Campbell dancing to an almost non-existent but hypnotic soundtrack.
The lights gradually dim - enter ANOHNI, flanked by Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke on live electronics, to brilliantly deliver her examination on gender equality and modern imperialism. The visuals throughout compliment the lyrics, messages, and ANOHNI's veiled presence herself generates the kind of atmosphere that most gigs could never achieve.
Album of the year
Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
Track of the year
Whitney - Polly
Will Richards - Editorial Team
LCD Soundsystem at Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury this year was a tough one - a fatality on site before the festival started, the muddiest year on record, and the news of Brexit to wake up to on the Friday morning. The music connected more than at possibly any other Glastonbury in history as a result though, and LCD Soundsystem's closing set on the Sunday night was the joyous celebration everyone needed.
A small (by the festival's standards) but fiercely passionate crowd saw the band play their first UK show of their reunion tour as the rain finally relented and the crowd found some tiny scraps of energy to dance through the mud. Thousands of lungs yelling out All My Friends to end the festival sent everyone home with a tiny scrap of hope.
Album of the year
Mitski - Puberty 2
Track of the year
Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny
Phil Hutcheon - CEO
Whitney at Unit G, London
Sometimes the best gigs are the ones that at the time don't make any sense. Whitney had just played their first UK show at MOTH Club and announced a Sunday date in Hackney Wick. I hadn't heard of the venue before, but they completely blew away MOTH Club and I loved their single No Woman.
So we turn up and it's clear it's not a venue, it's someone's house. And it's someone's house with 200 people inside of it. And there are six people in Whitney and they can barely get to the stage. Hang on, there is no stage. It's getting tense. The £2 cans of beer are warming up. People are shoving. Where's the toilet? Bye Jen. The singer apologizes that no one can see him. We're squashed like sardines. It's hot. Oh, Jen still can't get out.
Eventually she does and soon afterwards the band starts. The trumpet comes in and it's utter wonder. It kind of makes sense. The tiny hot room packed. And it's fucking amazing. Best gig of 2016.
Track of the year x 3
David Bowie - Blackstar, Konstantin Sibold - Mutter, Weeknd/Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming
Cal McKinney - Callocations
Robag Wruhme at Watergate, Berlin
The title speaks for itself. It was everything you'd expect from one of house music's more idiosyncratic practitioners, a set that was as emotional as it was euphoric. Delving between Mike Dehnert rollers to Aphex Twin deep cuts, with one of Berlin's most notorious clubs as the backdrop it felt more of a masterclass in storytelling than anything else.
His re-edit of Coma's 'Lora' was a personal highlight, and was just a boss way of starting a weekend away in my fave city. Danke Robag.
Album of the year
Show Me The Body - Body War
Track of the year
Konstantin Sibold - Mutter
Caoibhe Cochlain - Musician in Residence
Kelsey Lu at The Waiting Room, London
I'd grabbed a last minute ticket to make my Monday a little more bearable. I knew almost nothing about Kelsey Lu so I really didn't know what to expect.
I headed down early to catch the support act and to everyone's surprise the support act was Sampha, which was expressed quite accurately by the guy in the crowd that yelled out, "Oh my god, Sampha's playing!?"
There was me thinking my mundane Monday had peaked, until Kelsey Lu's set came. Armed with her cello, loop pedals, and guitar, she blew me away. Her vocals were stunning and every note she strung was flawless. She pretty much made the entire room fall in love with her.
Album of the year
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Track of the year
Frank Ocean - Seigfried
Phania Dalrymple - Account Manager
Pumarosa at Village Underground, London
Pumarosa at Village Underground was always going to be my gig of the year. At one of my favourite venues in London, my standout band of 2016 took to the stage with a sound that's a cross between PJ Harvey and The Knife, and a haunting setup that left frontwoman Isabel Munoz-Newsome in control of a transfixed audience.
Their set was only 9 songs, and as Isabel spins her way through the penultimate song Priestess, filling the room with her raw vocals, a screen behind her shows an animation of figures replicating her movements. This is a band you cannot miss, make sure you catch them in 2017.
Album of the year
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Track of the year
Christine and the Queens - Tilted
Josie Robs off Twitter
Adele at The O2, London
It really didn't take much thought to claim Adele as my gig of the year. I felt pretty chill leading up to the show, but as soon as the lights went down and I heard that iconic "Hello…", it was safe to say I was no longer in control of my thoughts and feelings. I teared up a lot. I sang a lot. I swayed a lot. I laughed a lot.
Not only is she an incredible singer who can have an entire arena in the palm of her hand, she is also a comedian, apparently. I don't know how she does it, but Adele is one of the greatest human beings on this earth and we are #blessed to have her.
Album of the year
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Track of the year
Lapsley - Operator (He Doesn't Call Me)
Olivia Ellenger - Allocations Team
James Blake at Glastonbury Festival
Saturday Night at Glastonbury and the worst clash of the festival, up against Adele. Waiting in the pouring rain for the gig to start, West Holts had never felt so empty. The intro to Life Round Here started and suddenly there was this huge crowd. A huge James Blake fan already, I'd been waiting for him to do something big since Coachella a few years ago where I watched him bring out RZA. He seriously delivered, bringing out people like Vince Staples and Trim with some incredible new visuals to an on point set list.
It was nearly over. We assumed maybe there was just one song still to come. Then Justin Vernon appeared and the crowd went fucking mental. Ending with I Need A Forest Fire, Retrograde and Wilhelm Scream, it defined what a headline slot at Glastonbury is all about.
Album of the year
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Track of the year
Kaytranada - Track Uno
Pat Mills - Editorial Team
Dixon at Space, Ibiza
Dixon all-night-long at Space. It doesn't get much bigger than that in the dance music world. The booth was in the centre of the discotheque and the room was full. For the next six or so hours the enigmatic German blended a selection of melodic techno rollers in a stupendously good set that featured Rampa's haunting Necessity and Acid Pauli's euphoric Nana. A perfect farewell to Space as we know it.
Album of the year
DJ Koze - Pampa Vol 1
Track of the year
Midland - Final Credits
Jen Long - Music Editor
The Maccabees at Latitude Festival
I'd heard a few rumours approaching Latitude this July that the boys could be calling it a day, but seeing them on stage and the affirmation and abandon with which they delivered what I believe was their first major festival headline set, it was clear something was different. There was just a strident air of emotion to the proceedings. Perhaps I'm being overly sentimental in retrospect, but it felt like a living accomplishment, a real career high.
The band were nothing short of majestic, playing a show full of energy, poise, and beauty. Silence was devastating, I could feel a lump sticking hard in my throat and tears heating as Hugo took the lead vocal. Toothpaste Kisses and Precious Time had the entire crowd word for word over Orlando's gorgeous tones, while Pelican had Felix thrashing like he might throw his guitar into the clouds. An absolute stunner of a gig on every level and what a way to bow out. It felt a privilege to be part of it.
Album of the year
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Track of the year
Glass Animals - Life Itself
Lewis Wilde - Account Manager
Spencer Parker B2B Ryan Elliott at Patterns, Brighton
Since seeing Spencer Parker's Boiler Room in Berlin a couple of years back I'd always wanted to see him play live but had never had the chance. First Floor, Brighton's best promoters for proper house and techno, booked him and Ryan Elliott to play B2B all night long at Patterns in Brighton and it was unbelievable. I ended up losing my mates halfway through the night but didn't care, the energy and atmosphere were unreal right till the end. I need to see these two again.
Album of the year
DJ Koze Presents Pampa, Vol. 1
Track of the year
Rampa - Necessity
Shamin Kisakye - Allocations Team
ABRA at The Jazz Café, London
With her minimalist edge present both in her style and music, ABRA took centre stage at The Jazz Café with nothing else but a mic, huge fan, and sample triggers. With little ceremony, she jumped onto the dark stage into complete silence, not at all phased. She took a minute setting it all up then immediately launched into her set reeling off song after song seamlessly, fiercely commanding the space with every.single.dance.move.
Her energy, so effortless and masterful, was just as infectious as her music. The whole audience mirroring her vibe dancing, singing back to her, transfixed by this single raw superstar.
Album of the year
A Seat At The Table - Solange Knowles
Track of the year
Isaiah Rashad - What's Wrong ft Zacari & Kendrick Lamar
Molly King - Music Team
Joey Bada$$ at Other Voices, Electric Picnic
Joey Badass and his crew stormed the two-hundred-and-fifty cap tent, coming straight from playing to seven thousand people. It was one of the wildest shows I've seen in a long time - ferociously energetic. Joey Badass' rhythm and rhymes are second to none, and the crowd followed his every word. Eventually, after he refused to finish up, the power was cut off. Unperturbed, the entire crowd roared a rendition of Olé Olé Olé, to cap off the final song of the night - 95 Til Infinity.
Album of the year
Solange - A Seat at The Table
Track of the year
BadBadNotGood - Time Moves Slow
Russ Tannen - Head Of Music
At The Drive In at The Roundhouse, London
2000. I turned on the TV and I saw THIS. It completely changed my life.
2001. I bought tickets to see them. They cancelled. They rescheduled. I waited. Then they split up two days before the show.
2012. They reformed, I had waited ten years so I travelled to Coachella to see the first announced show. It was epic but there was something not quite right. Omar was there, but he wasn't there.
2016. Back again. The Roundhouse. Bank Holiday. They explode onto the stage and it is exactly the band my fourteen year old self had seen on TV. There is absolutely no way another gig can match it this year. It was perfection.
Album of the year
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Track of the year
Joey Purp feat Chance The Rapper - Girls @
Silas Gray - Allocations Team
Ata Kak at Moth Club, London
My summer anthem of 2015 was undoubtedly Daa Nyinaa by Ata Kak, at the time an unknown artist from Ghana. After rinsing the record all summer and beyond I stumbled across an article depicting the story of the record's release, re-release, and the epic manhunt for Ata Kak. The story concluded that he was found working an ordinary job in Canada and that he and Brian Shimkovitz (Awesome Tapes from Africa) had formed a band and were doing a European tour.
Tickets sold out imminently for the first show at MOTH Club. At the event, MOTH Club was overpopulated and intensely hot and sweaty. Ata Kak was phenomenal. As an old man whose hips don't move as they used to, he still made every effort to dance freely throughout the set. Everyone sang along to the most popular songs at the top of their lungs as if England had made it to the World Cup final. Ironically, no one understood a word he or we said. For someone not familiar with the back story, on first impressions, the act would seem like a gimmick. For me however, the gig was one of the most viscerally pleasing experiences of my life.
Album of the year
Steven Julien - Fallen
Track of the year
Batu - Bleeper Feed
Andrew Foggin - UK Manager
Skepta at Alexandra Palace, London
Just in the nick of time for the gig of year, Skepta absolutely smashing it at Ally Pally. Two years on the trot for me choosing Skepta, this gig just topped Dixon playing all night long on the terrace at Space in Ibiza.
You knew it was going to be a special show given the year he's had and the fact it was in North London. The production was immense, the whole show was synced to perfection.
Amazing visuals throughout, fireworks going off in time with the "Pop like the 5th of November" lyric, so many good touches.
In typical Skepta fashion he wasn't trying to hog the limelight, he used it as an opportunity to include all of his closest peers bringing out Giggs, Kano, Wretch 32, Novelist, D Double E; the full BBK crew and a host of others.
The atmosphere was incredible. Everything was working. I witnessed #greatness.
Album of the year
DJ Koze Presents Pampa Vol 1
Track of the year
Audion - Mouth To Mouth (Dense & Pika Remix)


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Marques has created several excellent screencasts for us in the past. This time, he wanted to show off how fast and stable the latest beta release of Google Chrome is. He feels that it's the fastest browser to date. Additionally, Marques loves that the Extension integration has been made much simpler to use, and is instantaneous when you install or remove them.
There is quite a large collection of Extensions available. You'll find categories for web development, blogging, shopping, sports, fun and accessibility. They install to your browser instantly with just one click, and remove themselves even faster. All you have to do is click on the little wrench icon at the top right of the browser, and choose Extensions.
The Acid3 Test is a fantastic way to test your browser's speed and capability. It works with any browser you might have installed. It will determine not only the speed of the browser, but also how well it renders things. As you saw in the screencast, this version of Google Chrome rated 100 out of 100. The rendering wasn't perfect… but again, it's still a beta release. Apparently, my assistant Kat tested her Firefox browser, and only received a score of 94/100. That should tell you something, folks, about how much better this iteration of Chrome really is.
Thanks, Marques, for another great screencast.
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Under the Banner of Heaven
Here's one that people all around me seem to be reading: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer. It's an in-depth look at the world of Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS). These are folks who have returned to the original teachings of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, especially with regards to "The Principle" of plural marriage (polygamy). They accuse the "official" Mormon church/cult of having abandoned the genuine faith of Smith.
Krakauer himself is not a Christian, and sometimes he makes blanket statements against religion in general that rub me wrong, but he has done his homework thoroughly on the origin of the Mormon church/cult and current FLDS groups, which is beyond helpful. I couldn't possibly get into a comprehensive review of this book without spoiling it for you, so I strongly recommend you pick up a copy for yourself. I promise you will be floored when you read about the communities and practices of the FLDS groups Krakauer examines.


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With just a few swipes, our smartphones allow us to check the latest sports scores, deposit a check and even start a car.
There's no question consumers are in the mobile fast lane, and that they're increasingly relying on their mobile devices to make decisions about what car to buy and where to buy it. These three stats are clear indicators that mobile is gaining speed with consumers.
Mobile on pace to exceed desktop
According to estimates from eMarketer, time spent engaging in non-voice activities via mobile devices (e.g. texting, browsing the mobile web, using mobile apps) is expected to surpass desktop usage for the first time ever in 2014. As more and more consumers trade in feature phones for smartphones and purchase tablets, expect to see this number continue to tilt toward mobile.
Increased time spent on device
For many consumers, using a smartphone or tablet can be both a primary and secondary activity. Because of this, smart devices have a place in nearly every aspect of day-to-day life. Whether a consumer is using their phone to look up directions or their tablet to shop while watching TV at home, deep integration of smart devices has led to a significant increase in time spent on device.
Smartphone and tablet shopping habits
More than three quarters of consumers have used a mobile device to shop, according to a recent report from Nielsen, a trend that's even more pronounced within automotive. With free access to online resources and an ability to conduct research using a mobile device throughout the entire car shopping process – including while on the dealership lot – dealers must ensure that their mobile presence connects with car shoppers across every channel consumers may find them.
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What's your best Bitcoin investment strategy for 2018? We have seen this year a huge increase in people joining the cryptocurrency train, or rocket I should say, as Bitcoin that was at $800 last year on Christmas Day increased to $14,500 in one year. Seeing Bitcoin reach $19,000 this month, and then going back to $12,000 might have caught your attention.
How can you invest safely in cryptocurrency without suffering a huge loss, what are the best strategies to invest for 2018? The market cap of Bitcoin and also other main cryptocurrencies has increased dramatically as more and more people jump in, a lot without a clue on what they are doing and consequently loosing a lot.
What's your Best Bitcoin Investment Strategy for 2018?
Jerry Banfield has made a video about his experience with cryptocurrencies and it is what I'd like to write about in this post.
Jerry suggests that you have to know yourself first before investing. Do you have time to follow the market for a multi cryptocurrency investment if you choose diversification? Do you have time to trade cryptocurrencies or do you want to just hold them? Would it be simpler for you to just go all-in in one single cryptocurrency?
It's what Jerry Banfield did, he went all-in in May 2017 with Steem and it's going to be that way in 2018. He explains in the video that you have to research and find a cryptocurrency that you want to be a part of and get all-in with it. It's like buying stock, if you like your Mac, you are going to buy Apple, not Microsoft.
Jerry started to be all-in with a Bitcoin investment a couple of years ago because this was mainstream, and then he moved onto Dash buying a masternode for $11,000, which he sold later at $85,000. During his time with Dash he promoted it heavily and this contributed to its increase in value, but unfortunately he realized that the Dash community was not the one he wanted to be. So, it's not a question of only making money, but pursuing what you believe in.
Dash is now at $1,192 and if he had kept his Dash masternode, it would be worth $1,192,000 today. There is no regret to have because when you invest time and money in something you believe in, not only it will be more fun, but it will increase in value the same. He started investing all-in in Steem after researching it and starting his blog on Steemit.
He used what he earned selling his Dash masternode and got a total of 30,846 Steem to start with, which was about $30,877 at the time. Then, he blogged daily on Steemit, set-up a server to become a witness, a voting bot and was very active this year to promote Steem. Now his account is worth 100,000 Steem, for an estimated value of $311,481.
As you can see going all-in can be very rewarding.
Jerry does not say that you should join Steem as your all-in currency, because you might find something else that resonates better with you. If you do not know about Steem, learn about it, because it is more than a cryptocurrency and there are many ways you can earn Steem, compared to having a Bitcoin investment sitting in a wallet and earning nothing more.
Jerry also talks about the risks of going all-in on an exchange and the importance of diversifying on different exchanges, also the risks to hold coins on your own computer and forgetting the password.
I recommend to watch Jerry's YouTube video, where he share his experience with cryptocurrencies and gives you valuable tips on how you can play it safe and not repeat his own mistakes.
Best Bitcoin Profit Plan?
Published on Dec 9, 2017
How do we make the best profit investing in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? Which wallets and exchanges are the safest to keep our money in? Where do we cash out our digital currency to fiat currency like USD? Why is going all in preferable for many compared to diversification? When will the cryptocurrency market show the best time to buy and sell?
This is Jerry Banfield's Steemit blog: https://steemit.com/@jerrybanfield
You may also be interested to take these courses for Free:
- Earn Steem with Steemit! https://u.jerrybanfield.com/courses/steem17?coupon=jbfree
- Cryptocurrency Investment and Retirement Planning with Bitcoin/Altcoins on Poloniex and Bitfinex! http://u.jerrybanfield.com/courses/cryptocurrency?coupon=jbfree.
- Bitcoin Trading Basics with Poloniex. http://u.jerrybanfield.com/courses/poloniex16?coupon=jbfree
- How I Buy Bitcoin at 101% and Sell at 111%! http://u.jerrybanfield.com/courses/btc111?coupon=jbfree
You may also be interested to read this post: Best Bitcoin Investment Strategies for 2018?
And this one: Cryptocurrency Investment Strategies
I hope this is useful for you.
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On the window of our tour boat! We went on a Loch Ness cruise last night and the owner of the boat is absolutely convinved there are... not just one monster in the Loch - but over 20! He had all this scientific equipment and sonar and ultrasound machines and we didn't see anything.... But he did have some home movies handy of when he saw them. It was entertaining non-the-less and we did get pictures of the Loch Ness Monster sticker on the window - because after all - he did guarantee that would see Nessie - so he had to some through!
This is our fifth day of our six day Highland tour. So far we have seen Skye, Inverness, Sterling, Port Williams, and many other smal Scottish towns and villages and castles. The Isle of Skye was wonderful. We had great views of the Old Man of Storr and plenty of sheep and coos to watch out the window. The weather here in Scotland is very strange. One minute the sun is shining and the sky is as blue as you've ever seen it. Not five minutes later the clouds could be rolling in and the rain comes down in buckets. One almost all of the daily hikes - we have experienced both extremes. We hiked up a HUGE mountain to see the Old Man of Storr - I made it most of the way :) We also hiked halfway to england and back to see some caves on the side of a cliff. I didn't go in the caves since you had to slither on your belly like a snake to get inside! But the views were gorgeous and we followed a stream and waterfalls the whole way. If anything - I'll definitely be in better shape after this trip!!
We had a nice wee stroll through the Caledonian forest - one of the last remaining original forests in Scotland. It seems one of the ways Scxotish people fund their retirement is to buy some land in the Highlands - plant trees on it and then cut them all down for lumber in about 30 years. This has been going on so long - that there are little plots of trees here and there - but not much else. So you drive along and see rolling hills, rolling hills, small plot of trees, rolling hills, rolling hilss, small plot of dug up tree roots... etc. The worste part is that they don't bother to do anything with the land after they harvest the trees. The stumps and roots and cut off branches are still laying around.
One particularly nice view was at a gorge near Inverness. We hiked down to this suspension bridge and had a jolly time jumping up and down on the bridge - (holy heights!) and after experiencing what can only be described a near death experience - we made it across to view the gorge and waterfall below. One guy on a tour threw a rock down and we counted nearly 5 seconds before it hit the bottom!
Those Scots are extremely proud of their country and hate teh |English almost as much as they love thier own country. SO - of course we heard countless stories about how the |English suck and saw the battle grounds of almost every battle between the Highlanders and the english. We heard about poor Braveheart and all the poor highland men who believed in Bonnie Prince Charlie - only to be slaughtered by the brits.
We ended up in Loch ness last night and today we will be going who knows where to see more highlights of Scotland. more to come soon!


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Membership gives you a voice in directing the future of Ballarat and the region. Thank you to new and ongoing members for your continued support.
Mercure Ballarat Hotel and Convention Centre is a four star hotel and conference venue. Boasting regional Victoria's most comprehensive conference and event facilities with variety of function rooms from 10 to 1000 guests, Mercure Ballarat is the perfect venue a residential conference, business retreat, social event or wedding celebration. Hotel facilities include 71 well-appointed guest rooms for corporate and leisure travellers, a bar and bistro and on-site day spa.
In operating an iconic Ballarat property we look forward to engaging with the people of Ballarat and its vibrant business sector and public sector. Plans to further develop the property to ensure the facility remains one of regional Victoria's leading hotel and convention centres is a long term commitment.
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The symptoms of simple type schizophrenia
In schizophrenia, the simple type schizophrenia is a common, but this type that occurs mainly in children's body, so they bring on the greater damage. But sometimes parents will misunderstand children lazy or other reasons, delay the disease treatment. The following describe. Simple type schizophrenia symptoms are evident, the patient will appear memory drops, willing to communicate with people and other obvious symptoms. When the symptoms, and people often will be mistaken for child behavior problems, and to be reprimanded, but did not expect is mental, psychological problems, extremely easy to delay treatment. Disease continue to develop, make the emotion, speech, thought, behavior and other aspects of the disorder are more serious, the external environment of no interest, neither sad nor happy, action stereotypy, monotonous, repetitive, sometimes without destination excited, suddenly hit, destroying property, sometimes with stupor sitting, speech decreases with each passing day, silent, sometimes flared type that some incomplete, monotone sentence, make gestures, movements droller. But this type of schizophrenia rarely hallucinations, delusions and nervous symptoms, without loss of insight. Therefore, belonging to the light of schizophrenia.
Therefore, parents should pay attention to the child were observed, if found to be correlated with symptoms should suspect possibilities in schizophrenia. In the home if the children, parents should as soon as possible and the psychiatrist contact, not because the old habit of influence, being laughed at, look for the treatment of children. In addition to the application of the necessary medical treatment, the simple type schizophrenia for psychological treatment is necessary, and the effect is very significant. Psychological therapy should be under the guidance of a doctor.
Therefore, the simple type schizophrenia is a occurs mainly in children with schizophrenia, but also easy to be ignored by parents. So parents can not for child's action stereotypy, aimless excitement condition were ignored, should actively take the children at diagnosis.


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text: The Basilica di Santa Croce, also known as the Temple of the Italian Glories because of the number of famous Italians entombed there is located on the Piazza di Santa Croce 800 meters south of the Duomo. It is the principle Franciscan Church in Florence, has 16 chapels, and was probably started in 1294. There are a total of 16 tombs and monuments of famous Italians such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Dante, and Rossini. The neo-gothic façade dates 1857-1863 however, and the campanile 1842. Some 19 artists have contributed to the artwork.