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RoodMicrotec Appoints New CEO to Lead Growth Fuelled by Rise of "Internet of Things"
RoodMicrotec, the Dutch semiconductor supplier of advanced microchips critical to communication in the rapidly expanding electric automotive, industrial and medical sectors, has promoted Chief Technical Officer Martin Sallenhag as new CEO, replacing ...
Martin Sallenhag said: "RoodMicrotec sits at the centre of the web of the smart technologies that are driving the evolution of the Internet of Things, particularly the potential offered by electric cars. We are on the brink of an exceptional period of growth in the company's history and in the pivotal position of enabling truly futurist ideas to become reality. I would like to warmly thank Philip Nijenhuis for everything he has achieved in steering RoodMicrotec to the market leading role it occupies today."
Sallenhag has previous experience in engineering, applied technology and product marketing, among other sectors, at Ericsson Mobile Phones, Dialog Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics. He joined RoodMicrotec in March 2015.
His appointment, part of a proposed management re-structuring plan, was approved at the company's Annual General meeting in early June. Philip Nijenhuis is stepping back to join RoodMicrotec's Supervisory Board as a non-executive director. The restructuring involves a transition to a single unified Board from the existing dual Supervisory and Management Boards, subject to final approval by an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to be held at the earliest opportunity. Reinhard Pusch has also been appointed Chief Operating Officer, from his previous roles as Vice President and CSO.
RoodMicrotec supplies chips to 'fabless companies' (companies that design, but do not manufacture) and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and is primarily focused on the automotive industry (growing at 11% per year) as well as the manufacturing of industrial and medical equipment (growing at 6% per year). The expansion of these sectors is expected to be given further momentum by the predicted tectonic shift in global markets towards the Internet of Things (IoT).
The IoT refers to networks of physical objects, including devices, vehicles, buildings and other items, which are embedded with electronics and software that enables them to collect and exchange data. Worldwide, the market in IoT applications is still in its infancy but is predicted to grow strongly given demand and new capabilities for comprehensive, intelligent interaction of physical objects.
In particular, the automotive industry that sits at the core of RoodMicrotec's activities, is on the verge of an IoT breakthrough. Historically, automotive product enhancements have centred around engine performance and design, but as production of electric vehicles scales up, the potential to link cars to other goods and functions such as energy, healthcare, retail and financial services through the Internet of Things grows exponentially.
Norway, where 24% of all new cars sold are already electric, is now discussing a total ban on the sale of fossil fuel-powered cars by 2025. Globally, as the range and reliability of electric cars improves, and their cost becomes competitive, their share of the total vehicle market will surge. Associated developments include self-driving vehicles for commercial, industrial and private use. RoodMicrotec expects this to trigger an explosion in demand for smart microchip expertise, which will eventually lead to a standardisation of industry protocols.
Philip Nijenhuis, who has been CEO since he joined RoodMicrotec 12 years ago, will continue to have significant input into all aspects of the business to ensure continuity within the new management structure.
Philip Nijenhuis said: "RoodMicrotec started 40 years ago as a basic testing house. By the time I joined it had grown into a typical sub-contracting company with a specific role supplying parts to the industry. Now we are a high-end 'bespoke' semi-conductor company co-designing sophisticated devices for a range of partners, with a strong presence all along the industry's value and supply chains."
About RoodMicrotec
With more than 45 years' experience as an independent value-added service provider in the area of micro and optoelectronics, RoodMicrotec offers Fabless Companies, OEMs and other companies a one-stop shop proposition. With its powerful solutions RoodMicrotec has built up a strong position in Europe.
Our services comply with the industrial and quality requirements of the high reliability/space, automotive, telecommunications, medical, industrial and electronics sectors.
Certified by RoodMicrotec concerns inter alia certification of products to the stringent ISO/TS 16949 standard that applies to suppliers to the automotive industry. The company also has an accredited laboratory for test activities and qualification to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard.
Its value-added services include (eXtended) supply chain management and total manufacturing solutions with partners, failure & technology analysis, qualification & burn-in, test & product engineering, production test (including device programming and end-of-line service), ESD/ESDFOS assessment & training and quality & reliability consulting.
RoodMicrotec has branches in Germany (Dresden, Nördlingen, Stuttgart), United Kingdom (Bath) and the Netherlands (Zwolle).
For more information visit //www.roodmicrotec.com
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Apparently the Court accepted Copsey's assurance. In their order issued on September 11, the Court unanimously found the Legislature in contempt of court: but they withheld a decision on sanctions until after the 2015 Legislative Session. While the Court may have believed Copsey's pledge regarding the Legislature's commitment to find the needed revenue, not all legislators seemed to disagree.
"Sen. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, disagreed, saying the court was 'way out of its lane' and is interfering with the Legislature's role as the state's budget-setting authority." He went on to say that "he doesn't think that the contempt order … will influence the Legislature's negotiation process next year" (The Tacoma Tribune). Clearly, the notion of finding new revenue to fund McCleary will be hotly debated in the upcoming legislative session.
Another statement by Copsey stretched credibility to the breaking point when he said there wasn't any disagreement about the cost of full funding of K-12 education. That was the whole reason for the Court's contempt hearing. Until the Legislature defines that cost and creates a plan to provide the funds, it is nearly impossible for the Court to measure their progress in meeting that mark. Superintendent Dorn has provided an estimate that totals nearly $7 billion in new funding per year by the 2017-18 school year. That plan was referenced during the hearing by one of the Justices, and while Copsey didn't question the credibility of Dorn's number, legislative estimates have been more in the range of $1 to$3 billion per year.
That brings me to the State Board of Education meeting on September 10. One of the topics on their agenda was a report on the Educational System Health Performance Indicators. These indicators were created by the Legislature in 2013 with ESSB 5491. They include Kindergarten Readiness, 3rd Grade Literacy, High School Readiness, High School Graduation, and the Quality of the High School Diploma.
In addition to identifying the indicators, the legislation also specified that Washington should be measured against the top 10 percent of states as well as a group of peer states. The peer states are the "global challenge states" that were specified in the 2005 Washington Learns Report. Since the global challenge states aren't a new concept, I wasn't surprised to see them used as a bar to measure Washington's progress. The reference to the top 10 percent of states as a measure of our effectiveness was a surprise.
Since the Legislature is on record for using the top 10 percent as an appropriate benchmark, perhaps the Supreme Court should use it as an expectation for the Legislature's funding of that system. According to the latest report from the Education Counts Research Center, Washington isn't even close to the top 10 percent in education funding–we're currently in the bottom 20 percent. To meet the goal that the Legislature feels appropriate to impose on the education system, they would need to increase K-12 funding by over $8 billion per year. That may seem like a tall order, but as the old saying goes, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."

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A plush doll of Grover from Sesame Street maintains a permanent residence on a shelf in Andrew Davis' home office. The fact that Davis worked during the '90s at the Jim Henson Company might explain this, but he'll be the first to admit that a Sesame Street plush doll is not necessary in an adult's office—unless, of course, that adult has fallen in love with the character.
And that tells you really all you need to know about Davis and his approach to content marketing: good content—be it an endearing Muppet or a video for mutual fund products—forms emotional connections with its audience, creates brand advocates and increases revenue for the client. The key is the content needs a hook.
And that's what Davis set out to do 15 years ago when he co-founded Tippingpoint Labs agency. After selling his share of the company a few years ago, Davis now evangelizes full time on the topic of content through books ("Brandscaping: Unleashing the Power of Partnerships") or at one of the 40+ conference presentations he delivers annually, for which he travels more than 300,000 miles, and performs with his signature caffeinated gusto.
Content: How should agencies be thinking about how they measure the value of the content they create?
Andrew Davis: I think agencies need to focus on just one number: how are they increasing the market for the client they serve? Everybody's offering content marketing services these days and the more people that offer it the harder it gets to actually provide a quality service that doesn't get boiled down to the list of content you're going to provide to a client. I think that the companies who are making higher margins on the content that they're creating are really focused on quality over quantity and the impact it's going to have from a revenue standpoint for the clients they're working for.
What's the one key piece of strategy that agencies need in order to pitch their services to win more accounts?
I think they should think less about pitching branded content and pitching what I call "content brand"—the difference being that branded content is created for the company and "content brand" is created specifically for the audience, and puts the brand, really, in the background. The idea of "content brand" is that you can actually build a subscriber base, people that make a commitment to regularly scheduled programming, who make an appointment with that content to consume it. You can leverage that relationship then to inspire demand for your products over time.
You're talking about developing audience more strategically. How?
That's one of the other problems with the way agencies approach the marketplace: they're creating content for a giant audience with the expectation that they're going to get lots of engagement. And the client comes to expect that too. But successful agencies are really targeting high quality audiences instead of high quantity. If you can get 3,000 people to watch your video or consume your content on a regular basis, that's a high quality relationship. You just need a clear distribution strategy that's designed to build momentum in and out of each piece of regularly scheduled programming, so that your next valley is never as low as the valley before it and you're constantly getting new subscribers that are building that base. The simple distribution strategy boils down to starting with your loyalty base. Distribute the content to them first. If they hate the content, then why keep going, right? You want to wait until that loyalty subscription base has consumed the content and the spike starts to plateau or even drop; and then the next step might be to do some paid promotion for the content and pick some targeted channels, to see if you can leverage the momentum you've got, to drive some new interest in it. Agencies are really well positioned to do this kind of thing.
You say that agencies should "Feed client's needs instead of gratifying their wants." Please explain.
From an agency perspective this is one that always bothered me—and I've run my own agency. Many times there's been a giant difference between what the client says they want and what they actually need to accomplish the goal they have at hand. You actually should be challenging them. If a client says "We want to start a blog and we think we need 57 blog posts a year in these five categories so we can populate our blog," there are a lot of agencies that will take that business and they'll do a great job but, at the end of the day, are they really adding value? That client could probably do with lots less content and take a much more strategic approach that builds a real relationship with the audience.
So, say a potential client does want 57 blog posts over the course of a year. How would you challenge them on that?
I'd want to know what they're actually trying to do with those 57 blog posts. As an agency, if I'm not able to attribute my efforts to revenue, that's something I'm not really interested in doing. So, if they want 57 blog posts just because they decided 57 was a good number and maybe they even have their own editorial calendar, I would challenge them to say, essentially "I think we can have bigger success with much less content if we can focus on the revenue; so let's boil it down to revenue per subscriber. How many subscribers do you have to your blog today? Zero? OK, that means if we can get 100 subscribers who all spend 1,000 dollars with your company in the next year, would that be a successful blog? Yes it would. OK then. Let's just create one piece of content a month, which means we only need 12; and let's focus on building the right kind of content brand. Let's focus on the right distribution strategy and the right kind of content to ensure we can build a relationship with the right people who are going to spend that kind of money."


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Cascadia Wine Country Colloquy
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Wherecontact Carolyn to confirm location for any particular meeting
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Carolyn Johnson, convener
The clergy and other folks in ministerial leadership in the Cascadia District gather in geographically arranged sub-groups several times during the year to be in conversation together about ministry, administrative details, what's new and what never changes, and to be in supportive relationship with one another.
The Colloquy groupings in 2019-2020 are arranged geographically. There are 7 groups.
To see all the groupings, membership and full schedule, go to www.umoi.org/cascadiacolloquy by clicking here.


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Doing PiCA Proud….
Justin Thomas and Unmesh Kelkar received the University of Mumbai Meritorious Achievement Award at the B.Arch. (Term II) Examinations, 2015.
NIASA Masters Thesis Award (national award) won by PiCA M. Arch. Urban Design graduating student Dishan Soni.
Our M. Arch. Urban Design graduating student, Dishan Soni has won the runner up award for his thesis at the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Architecture (NIASA) Masters Thesis Award organised by Council of Architecture in Delhi on 26th August 2015. Both student entries (Dishan Soni and Madhavi Patil) that were sent from the UD department were shortlisted in the final 9 entries from across India and across all disciplines of post-graduate architecture programs.
Our 4th year B.Arch. Student, Unmesh Kelkar, has won 2nd prize in Design Competition at the Workshop on Earthquake Resistant Design Practices for UG Students of Architecture, held during 7th – 12th July, 2013 at IIT Kanpur.
Our 4th Year student, Enid Gomez has won the Raighad District Level Badminton Tournament, organized by Badminton Organization of Raighad (BOR).


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Plans to introduce VAT to free-trade zone companies are proving controversial in Costa Rica.
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Coca-Cola adds fizz to Costa Rica's decentralisation plan
US drinks giant Coca-Cola is moving production to north-western Costa Rica, boosting a government plan to develop areas away from the capital.
Costa Rica backs people power as Industry 4.0 challenges loom
Costa Rica has transformed its economy from one based around agriculture to a much more diverse offering. However, the challenges presented by Industry 4.0, and the automation of jobs that will come with it, pose a whole new set of questions for the country, as Jacopo Dettoni reports.
Costa Rica president looks to job and tax overhaul
After a tight electoral battle, Carlos Alvarado emerged victorious in Costa Rica's 2018 presidential elections. As he assumes office, he tells Jacopo Dettoni how he is planning to fix the country's employment and fiscal issues.
Costa Rica plays to its strengths and develops talent
Jorge Sequeira, managing director of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency, CINDE, spoke to Courtney Fingar about its strategy of concentrating on the business and IT sectors, developing life sciences and manufacturing, and cooperating with businesses to ensure it can offer them the right skills.
Costa Rica president looks to build on clean reputation
Costa Rica is enjoying a reputation for sustainability, low inflation and robust economic growth. But president Luis Guillermo Solís tells Natasha Turak he is committed to improving education and opportunities for his citizens before stepping down in 2018.
Costa Rican president welcomes Panama Canal expansion
The expansion of neighbouring Panama's canal will boost business in Costa Rica and shore up the development of the Caribbean basin as an integrated trade hub, Costa Rica president Luis Guillermo Solís tells Jacopo Dettoni.
Central America enjoys stable FDI inflows in 2014
Figures from 2014 show that FDI flows into central America remained consistent with 2013 levels.
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For FDI projects to have a positive impact on a region, the investing company may need to connect with local supply chains, something that, as Michal Kaczmarski finds out, economic developers are well placed to help with.
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I tell my wife all of the time, "I live a fast paced life and you better keep up." Well the truth behind that is that I do. I am always on the go, doing something. If it's not one hurdle, it's something else. Sometimes I feel like I am just living on a shoestring, just threading along. My wife and I raise eight children, with one on the way out the door. Still, it's bigger than your average American family and we love it. It's never been a problem for us to throw our all into our children. Between the doctors, dentists, teachers, and coaches; we're out all of the time and in some cases we've become the adults of the neighbor.
Of course this doesn't have it's drawbacks. I wear at least 3 different hats and that's not including knocking down my own hurdles. I have obligations and sometimes, I may even get frustrated that there aren't enough hours in the day to get things done. I know some you out there are the same way, because you've told me! So for a busy and gainfully employed parent here is what I would suggest. Get started early in the day. No, not the typical 6am early. I am talking about looking at your clock for what it is. 24hours. That's a very long time. Something I've done before was wake up at 4 a.m. It may sound crazy, but the day for me went by even faster when I started at 4 a.m. Think about it, 6am is halfway towards noon! By the time you actually wake up as a "normal person" almost half your day is gone. It waking up early has a multitude of benefits:
- You have more energy to get things done
- You have more time to accomplish/work toward your goals
- Most the world is still quiet. So you can actually hear yourself think. When everyone else is awake you're stuck with dealing with other people's emotions and personalities.
I did some research and every successful person that I have read about, gets up at 4am. The Rock for example, wakes up at 4am everyday to do his morning cardio BEFORE doing his 12 hour shoots. But, hey don't take my word for it, try it and let me know what you think. Just a little incentive for you to cut out that TV time and actually get to work.


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Faculty Handbooks and Policies
Faculty and staff at Kansas State University are required to follow the guidelines set by the university handbooks and policy manuals. For more information on any of these policies, please contact your department head, the dean's office, or the K-State Human Resources department.
College of Education Handbooks
- College of Education Policies and Procedures Handbook (PDF)
- College of Education Orientation Guide for Faculty (PDF)


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Blue Jackets Sign Vinny Prospalby Blue Jackets Staff / Columbus Blue Jackets
Prospal, 36, has registered 227 goals and 453 assists for 680 points with 513 penalty minutes in 978 career games with Philadelphia, Ottawa, Florida, Tampa Bay, Anaheim and the New York Rangers during his 13 NHL seasons. He has also appeared in the Stanley Cup Playoffs nine times, tallying 10-25-35 and 26 penalty minutes in 65 games. In 2010-11, he collected 9-14-23 and eight penalty minutes with a +4 plus/minus rating in 29 games with New York and added one goal in five playoff games.
"Vinny Prospal is a proven top six forward in the National Hockey League and we look forward to him playing that role for our hockey club," said Howson. "We are very pleased to be able to add a player of his caliber to our team at this late date in the free agency process."
Philadelphia's second pick, 71st overall, in the 1993 Entry Draft, Prospal made has NHL debut with the Flyers in 1996-97 and has gone on to register five 20-goal seasons and eight campaigns with 50 or more points. He missed just 13 games in eight seasons from 2001-10, appearing in 643-of-656 contests during that span.
After spending nearly five years in the Flyers organization, Prospal joined the Senators in 1998 and in 1999-00 registered his first 20-goal, 50-point campaign with 22-33-55 and 40 penalty minutes in 79 games. He split 2000-01 between Ottawa and Florida before joining the Lightning in July 2001. He would spend six of the next seven seasons with Tampa Bay, where he tallied 14 or more goals and at least 54 points each season from 2001-02 to 2007-08.
Prospal tallied a career-high 25-55-80 in 81 games in 2005-06 and then combined for a career-high 33 goals, while adding 38 assists for 71 points in 80 games with Tampa Bay and Philadelphia in 2007-08. He added 3-10-13 in 17 games during the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs after joining the Flyers late in the regular season. He returned to Tampa Bay in 2008-09 and collected 19-26-45 and 52 penalty minutes in 82 outings before signing with the Rangers prior to the 2009-10 campaign. In his first season in New York, he notched 20-38-58 in 75 games in 2009-10. He served as an alternate captain, ranked second on the club in assists and points and was fourth in power play scoring with 6-13-19.
The Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic native has represented his country in international competition on several occasions, including at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. He played in the 2004 and 2005 World Championships, winning the gold medal in 2005, and in the 2004 World Cup of Hockey tournament. Prospal also represented the Czech Republic at the 1994 and 1995 World Junior Championships.
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Why bother with Real Estate Photography?
The first question I'm sure many persons especially realtors have on their minds is, why bother with professional real estate photos?
Let me tell you a story. I have a friend, lets call her Jane, and as realtors you know that females in the Bahamas tend to purchase land quicker than males so you understand where I'm coming from. Jane was ready to purchase a duplex, she had saved for a while got pre-approved from the bank and all she needed now was to find the property that suited her best. She had decided to avoid the headache of building she would purchase and renovate instead. Plus her job kept her working late hours and made it difficult to be flexible to go out and view properties.
She searched the newspapers like everyone else but in there about 10% have images. She called realtors and companies and told them what she was looking for. The problem there was she was only able to visit the properties on the weekend. Some agents were smart to take photos with their cell phone and post on facebook and she was able to see them but her complaint was that she couldn't make out the lay of the property and the images were either too dark, too bright or the angles made no sense. Who knows she could have found her property online but again images were a major part in her finding a place or rather not finding one.
Well if you have to ask that que
stion then you may not be a top seller at your firm or you don't sell very high priced properties. There is a notion in the Bahamas that it all depends on the economy and the market at the time. If the economy is down then so will be the real estate market. Well I have news for you, when it comes to slower times there are people called impulse buyers who tend to purchase items to make them feel better about their present situation or the economy. Would you also believe that there are persons that are capable of purchasing real estate in any economy that are impulse buyers as well?
That is just an easy example of the persons willing to purchase properties but their biggest turn off are the images posted to real estate websites, in the news papers and on social media. To put it bluntly, they are horrible.
So the next excuse i often hear is "oh its to expensive to hire a professional photographer to photograph all the properties i have under my listing" So persons resort to using their smart phone or they purchase a camera and decide to take images themselves. There is a problem here.
Just because other agents, property owners or managers use their phone or a camera to take photos does not mean they are good. You want results don't you? or are you just in the real estate business to say your an agent?
It seems as if real estate photography in the Bahamas is non existent. Its ridiculous to call your cousin john john who has a camera to take a few pictures for you. That's just so silly. John john takes pictures of girls on the beach in bikinis for his personal enjoyment and to post on line, how can you equate that to the skills required to advertise and sell a $250,000 property?
Lets take a look at what others are saying about this. I dont want you to take my word for it. Why You Might Need Professional Photos to Sell Your Home
6 reasons why a professional home photographer is worth the price
These Photos Prove Exactly How Much Real Estate Photos Matter , Because no one is going to pay $2,000 a month to live in your overexposed and out-of-focus apartment.
New Study Highlight Importance of Photography in Real Estate Listings
Back Away From the iPhone and Hire a Photographer
These are but a few persons who have done the research or have encountered horrible real estate photos and wanted to inform the public.
So lets just cut to the chase, here are some benefits of having sensible photos of your property.
- Good photographs make good first impressions on line
- People are busy, they will skim images faster than reading a property description.
- Properties are sold faster, good images allow buyers to imaging themselves in the space. Usually after one physical walk through the house they are ready to buy.
- Professional photographs can be used in multiple places such as on the company website, a personal website and in social media, as well as in brochures, fliers, blogs, postcards, editorials and a variety of print advertising, marketing.
- Can demand higher price points based on the images alone.
- Impress your seller and attract new clients.
- Saves realtors time in showings by persons that may not be truly interested.
- 80% of your calls will be persons truly interested in the property.
- Sales increase because persons can view it from their computer or mobile phone and make a preliminary decision before they meet with you.
There are many more reason how good real estate photography is beneficial to real estate agents, Sellers and even Vacation Rental Host.


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August 17, 2016 · 0 Comments
By Jake Courtepatte
To the words of "Over the Rainbow," the Neville-Lake children's favourite song, four doves were released on Sunday to honour the four lives lost in a tragic drunk driving accident last September.
Daniel, Harry, and Milly Neville-Lake, along with their grandfather Gary, all received permanent memorials in the forms of trees and park benches.
"Overwhelmed" by support, parents Jennifer and Edward could not attend the event held at King City's Wellesley Park, but gave a written statement.
"From the bottom of our hearts, we want to thank you for the love and support you have shown us and our family," the statement read, "We truly wish that we were all together for any other reason and our children could be playing with yours today."
"It means so much to us that (the bench and trees) were placed in a playground that our children were so anxious to see and play on."
The day included many family-friendly activities for the public to enjoy.
In March, 29-year-old Marco Muzzo pleaded guilty to four counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm in connection with the crash in Vaughan. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and will be subject to a 12-year-ban on driving following his release.
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The cast of The Wolverine recently got posters in the style of Japanese sumi-e art for the upcoming movie, and they are gorgeous. I'm reasonably confident Wolverine will be entertaining, but I have a hard time believing it's going to produce anything better than these things.
Check out (in order) Logan, Jean Grey, Viper, Yukio and Silver Samurai! (Jean Grey is my favorite. Damn.)
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2014 Xmas dinner at Panchos Mexican restaurant Perth, West Australia.
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Building A Podcast Kingdom with Rex Factor: Season 1 Ep. 3
Jul 19th, 2016
This week on Podcasting Smarter, Jen talks to Graham Duke of the Rex Factor Podcast. Rex Factor is a light-hearted podcast reviewing all the kings and queens of England & Scotland. On each episode, Graham and Ali determine if the monarch has the mark of greatness, known as the Rex Factor!
It all started with a pub conversation and a friendly debate about great monarchs. That conversation is now a weekly, award winning, themed podcast with over a million downloads. Graham shares with us how they created a community as well as financial support for the show through their creative crowd funding efforts.
Podcasting Smarter Tips from Rex Factor:
- Use your crowdfunding reward levels to create community. Rex Factor patrons become members of the special Privy Council and get access to premium episodes.
- Your fans will want to financially support your show and you can do more for them with their funding.
- Have fun with your audience. Rex Factor top level patrons get to commission an episode which becomes the premium content available only to the Privy Council.
- They started an "insider" hashtag that fans use that references an episode about a monarch with a less than memorable mark in history. #RememberAed
- Make sure you have good audio quality from the beginning.
- Take the time to set up your website, determining your format, your work flow process, tone, and branding of your show before jumping into.
Must Listen To Episode: 44. Charles II (Restoration)
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From the moment Joe Padilla sent them low-quality cellphone footage of him singing an LCD Soundsystem song in a bar, high school friends and previous bandmates Ryan Lammers (guitar/production), Craig Schwartz Jr (keyboards), Dean Sinclair (drums), and Cale Singleton (bass), knew they were onto something special. Beginning when Lammers and Sinclair first met as long-haired pre-teens competing in a local talent contest, the pieces of August Hotel slowly fell into place as its members moved through adolescence. Padilla's grainy audition videos were the final bit of the puzzle and, just over a month later, August Hotel was in the studio working on what would become their new EP, Charms.
Reflective yet euphoric—with pulsating synthesizers, shimmering guitars, and Padilla's rich baritone weaving through it all—the EP's first single, "12AM," depicts August Hotel's unique take on the indie pop genre. This track showcases their keen ability to effortlessly emulate both the pulsing dance floor and the quiet, lonely night. Shortly after its release, "12AM" received airplay on Chicago's 101WKQX and was declared "an indie pop giant," as well as "one of the coolest things that we've ever seen or heard" by popular London blog Killing Moon, which later featured the song on their compilation New Moons, Vol. VII.
Charms both upholds and diversifies beyond the feel established on "12AM," as evidenced by the driving groove of its follow-up and EP opener "Michigan Again." Self-produced and meticulously crafted, Charms draws on the influences and experiences of all five members to serve as a testament to August Hotel's deep passion for the music they create and perform. Ultimately, it is a story of youth and what it means to be faced with the uncertainties of love and life. As much as the record forces you to pause in contemplation for a moment, there exists an inherent urgency to move—and move fast.
Live, August Hotel has shared stages with the likes of Urban Cone, Nightly, Vesperteen, The Kickback, and Knox Hamilton, as well as headlined clubs around Chicago and the Midwest.
This band and this EP have been a long time coming, but make no mistake that this is only just the beginning for this dynamic group. In the words of Vox Magazine, August Hotel is "a band on the cusp of a breakthrough journey."


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Economic Impact
BayCare - A Powerful Economic Engine
As the second largest private employer in the Tampa Bay region, BayCare Health System is a vibrant economic engine that generates $6.6 billion in annual impacts in Florida. Through our hospitals, physicians' offices, ambulatory care facilities and other sites throughout West Central Florida, we employ 26,900 people -- many in high-wage, high-skilled jobs. Our economic impact extends beyond our own operations, however, attracting other high-skilled industries that cluster around our facilities.
As a community-owned, not-for-profit health system, we understand that economic and human impact go hand-in-hand. We reinvest in our communities and estimate an outlay of $1.7 billion over the next five years to continually modernize our facilities and add state-of-the art equipment. We measure our scale by greater convenience and access to a variety of health care services for patients and communities in four counties.
BayCare's 2016 Economic Impact in West Central Florida


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Licensees are required to comply with obligations set upon them by the licenses issued to them with respect to their billing systems. The TRA, in its Decision 32/2009 issued "The Billing Accuracy Guidelines" to provide guidance to Class I and Class II licensees on how to meet their license obligations, namely billing accuracy.
The Authority then conducted an audit of Class I & II operators in the year 2012 to ensure a 100 percent accuracy of their billing systems. The audit helped verify the compliance of licensees in respect to their obligations and guidelines issued by the TRA in the accuracy of their billing. The auditors performed varying tests to ascertain that the billing systems of licensees were accurate and the subscribers are and will not be overcharged at any time.
The discrepancies noted from the audits were informed to the licensees in order to take remedial measures.


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- ―Natalie, Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Natalie, or Natz for short, is a magician and a playable character throughout the Epic Battle Fantasy series, appearing in every game up to date. Along with her friends: Matt, Lance, and Anna, she often saves the world from destruction and similar events.
Natalie is depicted as a teenage girl with blue eyes, fair skin and fiery ginger hair. She is quite voluptuous, and her large breasts are constantly discussed and joked about by her teammates. She wears a variety of equip-able attire, but her signature outfits include a standard White Mage Dress with a crystal-tipped wooden staff and a flower or star in her hair, a Red Dress with matching roses and ribbons in her hair, and a holy-themed costume consisting of a Pope's Hat, Dress and the Seraphim staff.
Based on her general appearances in the series, it appears that Natalie's "official" outfit may be the Red Dress/Red Ribbon/Dark Tooth combination; it is the outfit she wears in Epic Battle Fantasy 2, Adventure Story, and the cutscenes of Epic Battle Fantasy 4.
Natalie portrays a stereotypical cutesy, tree-hugging girl, yet despite this she is still knowledgeable on any number of things. She is often at odds with the guys of the group over moral grounds, but not being the de-facto group leader (Matt), she has little effect. As she explains to Anna, she has learned to tolerate his less-than-moral quirks over the years. Though occasionally naive, she is more thoughtful compared to Lance and Matt, often trying to prevent them from unwise actions that could result in their death, and is often annoyed by their stubbornness and idiocy. Prior to Anna becoming part of the group, Natalie was the most righteous member of it, and probably the wisest (though that is not saying much given the wisdom levels of Matt and Lance).
In EBF5, Natalie reveals that she is a straight-A student at an illustrious university, making her the smartest of the group by far. When challenged by Lance as to why she's traveling with them instead of staying there, she admits that she was caught writing smutty fanfiction involving one of her lecturers and she couldn't bear to face her class afterwards.
In combat she is both a powerful healer and devastating spellslinger. Her AoE Healmore usually keeps the whole party near full health, while Heal can pull someone from the brink of death. She can inflict or endow status conditions to affect the battle and her many elemental offensives can always exploit a weakness and hit very hard. Despite her offensive capabilities, prior to EBF4 she was almost always reduced to an area-of-effect heal spammer in boss battles and other difficult battles. If taught Heal More in EBF4, she references this, saying that she feels this will be the most important spell of the game upon using it for the first time.
Since Anna can learn healing spells in her place in EBF4, Natalie may instead be used as a purely offensive spell caster, even in boss battles.
- "Bonk!"
- ―Natalie upon using Normal Attack, Epic Battle Fantasy 3
Being a mage, Natalie's Normal Attack is a useless smack with her staff (though it is a little more useful in the later games, thanks to on-hit effects), but her magic more than makes up for it. In first three games her repertoire of spells is divided into two schools: White and Black magic.
Black Magic focuses on elemental spells (though she can deal non-elemental damage in the form of Lucky Star and, in later games, Star Shower.) For the Ice, Fire and Thunder elements, Natalie can use either a single target attack of varying power, or a less powerful multi-target attack. She can also use single-target or area-of-effect Dark magic.
Her holy spells are much the same. She has a basic healing spell, a party-wide heal, a dispel that removes status conditions, a revive, and other abilities befitting the healer of the group. She can also use Barrier to reduce magical damage on the party. As of EBF4, Anna and Natalie can both learn all those spells (but only one of them at a time). Natalie's White magic school has some powerful damage spells as well, like Shine and Judgement, though those have no area-of-effect versions.
Natalie's signature Limit Break is Kyun. With a fan service-like gesture and a jiggle of her breasts, Natalie uses a very powerful party-wide heal that also places a variety of status buffs on the party. She can also unleash Genesis, a massive angelic beam of holy energy reaching all the way into the skies, that deals Holy damage to all enemies and revives members of the party (or places Auto-Revive status on those who are alive). On the darker side, she can also use Black Hole, a very powerful, but dangerous Dark Limit Break that damages both the foes and the party and may kill both foes and players instantly. (In EBF4, Lance can learn this move as well).
She uses staffs to increase her powers and can unleash a special attack that changes, depending on the weapon. Also, attacking with the right staff will inflict status effects, anything from Silence to Doom.
Epic Battle Fantasy 5 Emotes
- Natalie's nickname, "Natz", originated as a fan nickname. Matt Roszak officially adopted the nickname in EBF2.
- Her personality is oftentimes pessimistic, as proven in EBF3 when she is teased by Matt and Lance numerous times, and in EBF4 when Matt says that he and Natalie "are a team". Afterwards she assumes that Matt friend-zoned her in Ashwood Forest.
- A running gag/secret in the series is that clicking on Natalie's breasts makes them jiggle. In EBF3 and EBF4, you can earn the "Pervert" medal by clicking on them ten times. The achievements' descriptions hint of Matt Roszak's Humility, a heavenly virtue.
- In her appearance in Brawl Royale Natalie has heterochromia, with one of her eyes being green instead of the usual blue.
- Her "Kyun" Limit Break could be a reference to the anime Lucky Star. The position of her fingers is also the devil's horns, a symbol of rock music.
- Natalie is the earliest EBF character created by Matt Roszak; she appeared in his early animation series Attack of the Black Mages as the generically-named "White Mage". According to Matt Roszak, he re-purposed the White Mage's design for the EBF series because he didn't feel like making more unique characters.
- Building on the above, Natalie/White Mage could be inspired by the "White Mage" character from the popular Final Fantasy web comic, 8-Bit Theatre; both are admired for their beauty, their breasts, and their healing skills.
- The above character also shows forgiveness after Black Mage flirts with her multiple times, which enrages her.
- Although many fans speculated about Natalie's relationship with Matt, Matt Roszak has repeatedly stated that they are "just friends". However, EBF4 provided hints that Natalie might like Matt as more than a friend:
- Near the beginning of the game, she reacts in a flustered manner when Anna confronts her about her relationship with Matt, especially when Matt declares that they are "more than friends". Additionally, she appears disappointed when Matt clarifies that he and Natz are "a team", along with No Legs and Lance, thinking "So that's all I am to you, after all this time?" to herself.
- In many of the cut-scenes, she appears to be close to Matt, such as being horrified when Anna "kills" Matt, hugging him when they are reunited, and clinging to him when they enter the dark part of the Crystal Caverns.
- In the ending, she states that she would have liked more romance in the game's story, and then goes on to say that it would be left to the fans, and that she does not trust them.
- In Bullet Heaven 2, when Anna assumes that she has had any romantic implications with Matt, Natalie quickly tells her off, while thinking "She knows too much. I'd better be careful" to herself shortly afterwards.
- Natalie is implied to be afraid of the dark, shown in the Crystal Caverns cutscene in EBF4. She also has a crippling fear of insects and spiders.
- Natalie is fond of cats, as she believes that they should nurture NoLegs' talents, and adores the snowman in Whitefall town that look like cats.
- While she can eat food such as bacon and ham, she displays a skull and crossbones as an emote in EBF3. This could imply her formerly being a vegetarian.
- This is confirmed in EBF5 when she comments on how she was surprised that she ever tried being vegetarian.
- She has a sweet-tooth, as implied by her emotes in EBF3 when she eats Muffins, Ice Cream, Cupcakes and Ice Cream Sundaes. Also, her personal set of Steroids in EBF5 consists solely of sweets.
- Natalie is also shown to be too sheltered at some points, especially from the wilderness. This is disapproved of by Anna in EBF5, as evidenced by when the two get into a fight about Natalie being underexposed to the wild. They try to resolve the argument later, and Anna suggests that they go camping sometime. Natalie says they'll be fine if they have running water and WiFi, after which Anna thinks to herself, "She's hopeless!".
- She also dislikes going to beaches because other beach-goers took pictures of her in her swimsuit and uploaded them to the Internet.
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Google has patented a new voice search system that serves up different results based on the accent of the person searching.
If someone searches for "movie" in a French accent, the newly patented system suggests returning specifically French results - "La Mer" and "French Movie" as well as, for some reason, "Horror Movie".
As Google explains it, "For example, if English-language speakers with a French-language accent show a preference for a particular result for the query terms "restaurants in Scranton" than do English-language speakers with a Russian-language accent, a search engine will be more likely to select that particular result for another user who provides a voice query in the English language with a French-language accent. The preference for that particular search result would not be reflected in search results that are generated for other users that do not have that particular accent."
While the granting of a patent does not mean the system will ever see the light of day, we are ready to be offended by the results/spend hours tricking it and offending our friends with our flawless international accents.


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2. "Nagada Nagada"
Geet and Aditya arrive at her home, where she discovers that her family has decided to go ahead with her marriage to Manjeet. A celebration takes place, with both families in attendance. Aditya, who hasn't revealed his true identity to the family, has said he's a musician. The mischevious Geet insists he provide the entertainment:
"Nagada Nagada" is an awful lot of fun, and it's one of my favorite picturisations. Shahid Kapoor is a terrific dancer and he gets to show it off here, and I love the contrast of him in black against an amazingly colourful background — your eye is constantly drawn to him, which, of course, is the point.
Or, one of the points. Because the song serves to underline a couple of things. Aditya has revealed to Geet that his mother is Punjabi, so it doesn't surprise us that when pushed by Geet, he's able to come up with a song that so beautifully fits into the moment. And this is when we begin to see how comfortable Aditya becomes with Geet's family, which will stand in stark contrast with Anshuman later in the film. Aditya appears to be an outsider, but this song serves to tell us that really, he belongs here in ways that will become more apparent as the film unfolds.
The song is also a tribute to Geet, a beautiful girl with eyes like daggers. However, what is most important here is that the song serves to underline what really is happening in Geet's life. The girl of the song is betrothed to someone, but in love with someone else. One story will end, the song tells us, and another one will start.


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Is Your Favourite Digital Influencer Lying to You?
Quick question; who is your favourite Instagram Fashionista? Okay maybe that's a little too specific; who is your favourite blogger/Snapchat Queen/Facebook Aficionado/Twitter Fashion Pundit? Because, like it or not, if you consume fashion in the 21st century, you have one.
Fashion has migrated from the glossy pages of high fashion magazines to the apps on your mobile phone. We are just as likely to spend an hour on our favourite social media star's platforms as we normally would leafing through a magazine. While this migration happened organically over the last decade we are only starting to grasp the consequences it has for fashion as a multi-million-dollar business and as a creative and artistic outlet and especially for the savants of this new medium; the digital media influencer.
It truly is unprecedented the changes that advancing technology has had on the once stoic and guarded fashion industry and its elite. It truly democratized fashion, taking a huge chunk of the power out of the hands of mysterious and reclusive fashion and magazine editors and put it in the hands of the consumers of fashion, it has allowed them decide who is 'cool' and who is not. Digitizing fashion was supposed to take the establishment out of decision making, and celebrate style over the fleeting, trend driven machine that fashion has become.
Before the digital influencer, there was the 'it-girl'. Chosen by fashion editors for their 'rebelliousness' or 'non-conformity', it-girls were watched constantly, their sartorial choices dissected and aped by designers and editorials alike. But the it-girl always fell into a certain niche; thin, white, young and rich, and many women simply did not see themselves in this mold. They began to search for alternatives, and they found them on social media.
What then is a digital media influencer?
A person with a sizeable following on one of the many digital platforms that dominate conversations globally, able to directly or indirectly through updates on their platforms. American reality TV star Kylie Jenner's entire career as a beauty entrepreneur is built around 70 million Instagram followers, mostly women between ages 15 and 40. For perspective, Ghana has a population of about 30 million people total. Every single one of Kylie Jenner's updates on Instagram immediately reaches approximately four times the entire population of women in Ghana, women with disposable income. To bring it closer home, fashion It-girls Zainab Balogun and Bolanle Olukanni have seen their professional profiles rise significantly with their growing digital fan bases. Beauty blogger Lola Oj just recently released a bath soap in collaboration with beauty brand Bath Kandy solely on the strength of her digital reach.
However, there is an implicit agreement between the enthusiast and the influencer. We follow the digital influencer because they are unallied to any brands, they do not conform to the whims of some shadowy magazine editor. They aren't told to wear, what to like, how they choose to present themselves. We love them for their independence and try to emulate them. But influencers are people too, and creating the gorgeous images and editorial work we love is time and money consuming. And our independent influencers are starting to mislead us to make a quick buck.
We have all seen the new 'Slimming Tea' testimonials on your favourite fashionista's Instagram feed. Or maybe it's Waist Trainers, or hair extensions. They swear it is the most revolutionary thing they have ever 'discovered' and swear it will give you some miraculous effect in no time. You're not wrong to wonder why a person who is already a size zero needs slimming tea or why an avowed natural hair lover is peddling bone straight hair extensions. This is advertising and when a person is paid to advertise something to you, no matter the platform, they are required by law to inform you that they are being paid to endorse the product. But brands understand that a paid for opinion holds less water than a genuine, enthusiastic one, they encourage your run off the mill influencer to smudge the truth with cash incentives.
The Nigerian fashion industry is young enough that this deliberate misleading of consumers is minimal but in a few years, it will. And as a consumer looking for authenticity in an industry where everything is staged we need to ask for accountability from everyone, including digital influencers.


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Next TV: EPIX Chief Greenberg Implores TV Industry to 'Get Back Into The Disruption Business'
The TV industry needs to "be brave enough to disrupt ourselves before others disrupt us," EPIX topper and cable industry veteran Mark Greenberg said in a rallying cry keynote presentation Thursday morning at the B&C/Multichannel News Next TV Summit in New York City.
Pointing to failures of the music industry to thrive in the digital age as a cautionary tale and the result of "arrogance, ignorance and indifference," Greenberg called upon the TV industry to return to its roots of breaking the rules.
He noted the "aha moment" for the music industry came when the top CEOs searched Napster and found everything was available on the service – even unreleased tracks. In a follow-up Q&A with Multichannel News editor-in-chief Mark Robichaux, Greenberg shared that when he started with EPIX, he sat with the board and Googled "I want to watch Iron Man" and saw hundreds of illegal sites pop up. "I thought [Paramount Pictures chairman-CEO] Brad Grey was going to have a heart attack," said Greenberg, who is president-CEO of Studio 3 Partners, the parent company of the new premium entertainment cable channel EPIX, which is a joint venture between Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM.
Greenberg said the path forward for TV is to embrace change, competition, as well as consumer choice and control in order to be relevant to new generations.
Change is a way of life for millennials, he said, illustrating the pace of change by presenting a couple of comparative images on a large screen: One, an image of the crowd gathered in 2005 to see the naming of Pope Benedict and the other an image of the crowd gathered for Pope Francis last week. In the 2005 image, the people had no devices in hand. In the 2013, a lit-up mobile device appeared in nearly every hand held up in the air apparently recording the event.
Greenberg called Internet TV a fourth platform in a long history of disruptive TV platforms that started with cable, followed by satellite and then by telcos.
The mantra of the digital age has been "adapt or die," Greenberg said. But the real mantra should be "disrupt or be disrupted" and now is the time to "get back into the disruption business."
Greenberg said one thing that needs to be discussed today in a real way is cable cord cutting – not to ignore it: "There's no facilities-based MVPD, there isn't an operator out there, who isn't freaked out about changes."
And while competition has made the industry better, he said, adversarial relationships are not productive, calling on industry members to improve relationships between programmers and distributors: "We've grown together, we've succeeded together and we want to do more together."


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|ISS028-E-017253 (17 July 2011) --- This is one of a series of photographs recorded from the International Space Station showing the docked space shuttle Atlantis' port side backdropped against the blackness of space. Part of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, connected to the remote manipulator system or robot arm, is at frame center. At the very bottom of the frame can be seen a faint line, representing airglow over Earth.
Curator: JSC PAO Web Team | Responsible NASA Official: Amiko Kauderer | Updated: 10/30/2012


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Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 is coming.
by Eagleseye on , under Astronomy Blog
Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 is heading northwards. Currently located in the constellation of Puppis, it is heading towards Columba and Lepus.By the 22nd of the month it should just about be visible from the UK. Currently estimated at just under 6th magnitude, it is almost a naked eye comet already, and should get brighter.
Image of Comet Lovejoy taken by Gerald Rhemann from Austria using a remote control telescope in Namibia.
Click on the maps for a full sized view.
Path of Comet Lovejoy during late December.
As it heads northwards it passes close to the globular cluster M79 in southern Lepus on the 28th of December.
Map of Comet Lovejoy as it passes Globular Cluster M79.
The comet will head northwards passing to the west of Orion the second week of January, brightening all the time. On the 7th of the month the comet is at its closest to the Earth. The comet should be at its brightest for a week either side of this date.
Path of Comet Lovejoy. 2nd – 16th of January.
By the middle of January the comet will be to the west of Taurus, passing through the Bulls legs.
Path of Comet Lovejoy. 10th- 28th of January.
On the 19th of January the comet will be almost exactly due west of The Pleiades Star Cluster.
Path of Comet Lovejoy. 22nd January -29th March.
By the end of January the comet will be to the east of Triangulum, reaching perihelion on the 30th. It's intrinsic brightness should increasing as it recedes from Earth.
It will pass very close to Gamma Andromedae (Alamak) on the 3rd of February.
The comet will have faded somewhat by then as the distance from Earth increases.
The pace of the comet slows down as it heads further north its brightness fading all the time.
It will pass close to Delta Cassiopeia on the 16th of March.
It spends the next couple of months heading northwards, passing close to Polaris on the 30th of April and then takes a long time to pass close to Beta UMi (Kocab).


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On 16 June over 100 people attended a short-notice demonstration called at Brixton's Ritzy cinema, in protest at the sacking of three trade union reps. Three reps for the Bectu union at the Ritzy were sacked for failing to report to management the contents of an email sent from a Bectu branch email address to members' private emails, which mentioned actions that community supporters of cinema workers' strikes planned to undertake. One other rep remains suspended and awaiting disciplinary.
The implication is chillingly feudal: that workers should be compelled to report everything to their employers, that the distinction between work time and workers' private lives can be dissolved at the whim of the bosses. Bectu plans further strikes at five Picturehouse sites on 1 and 7 July. The long-running dispute to win living wages, maternity and paternity pay, better sick pay, and union recognition has now seen 50 strikes. Activists are pushing for Bectu to escalate the action, and organisers are undertaking a tour of Picturehouse sites across the UK in an attempt to spread the dispute.
Community campaigns in support of the dispute and in defence of sacked and victimised reps have been formed in south London and Hackney. A Picturehouse striker told Solidarity: "Picturehouse have chosen time and time again over the course of our nine month long dispute to resort to intimidation tactics, rather than negotiate: first by legal threats and now by dismissing our reps.
In spite of this the strike has continued to grow throughout, with more workers across the chain joining our union. "We remain confident that with the continued support of the labour movement, we will win."
Support the victimised reps:
• Send messages of protest to Cineworld
• Send messages of support to Ritzy Living Wage, twitter: @RitzyLivingWage and @HPHLivingWage
• Donate to the strike fund
• Sign the petition
• Find out more about the dispute
Held back by the anti-union laws
Today (14 June) we received the disappointing news that the ballot for action to win reinstatement for Lee Cornell, and justice for Dave Sharp and Saeed Sioussi (the "London Bridge 3"), had failed to meet the 50% turnout threshold required by the Tories' Trade Union Act. Despite returning a majority of 80% in favour of action, the 35% turnout is not enough for the union to call a legal strike, meaning cross-combine action in this dispute is impossible without a re-ballot that does hit the thresholds.
This is the Tories' anti-union laws — not just the 2017 Act but previous legislation — doing their job. They are not designed to promote democracy, but to shackle unions and prevent workers from fighting back. The thresholds demanded of unions (50% turnouts, and 40% of all those balloted voting yes in certain "essential services", including transport) are not applied to any other area of democratic life. Previous legislation, which forces unions to conduct ballots postally, also has an effect.
The fight to get Lee back to work must go on. His Employment Tribunal will go ahead, and should be supported by solidarity demonstrations. RMT still has a mandate for local action at London Bridge, and further strikes there should be called. The union can also picket in support of the ongoing action-short-of-strikes, which will maintain the profile of the dispute and be a thorn in the company's side. This outcome is undoubtedly disheartening, most of all for Lee, Dave, and Saeed, and for the reps and activists who have worked so hard to try and leap the Tories' arbitrary hurdles. While we should learn from this disappointment and redouble our efforts in future to make sure we do hit the thresholds, we should not sink into recriminations and bitterness at colleagues who didn't return their ballots.
The "blame" for this setback lies with the Tories who imposed the laws, and the employers who lobbied for them. The whole trade union movement, which met the imposition of the laws with only the most token levels of opposition, must start fighting back, calling demonstrations and rallies against the laws, and looking for ways to subvert and defy them. Politically, getting involved in the Labour Party and campaigning for a Labour government — now a real possibility for when the Tory/DUP lash-up inevitably collapses — is a key priority.
A Labour government will repeal the Trade Union Act, and should be pushed to go beyond that and legislate for genuine trade union freedom: restoring the right to workplace meetings, workplace ballots, and to take solidarity action.
Fight at Forest Hill School continues
Forest Hill School in Lewisham, south London will strike again on Tuesday 20 June, and then again the following week on 27, 28 and 29 June. The strikes are the latest in a long running dispute against swingeing cuts at the school, after a hiatus for the exams. Kevin Courtney, National Union of Teachers (NUT) General Secretary, has pledged to join the picket line on the 20th.
The intransigence of the so-called "Labour" Lewisham council and the school leadership in this dispute are shocking. Unlike, the neighbouring borough of Greenwich, where the council has utilised various methods including using other funds and extending deficit budgets to support schools with a shortfall, Lewisham has not even entered into meaningful negotiations. This was shockingly highlighted when the newly elected MP for the area, Ellie Reeves, invited the council, the school leadership, the parents and the unions to a meeting to discuss Forest Hill. Paul Maslin, the cabinet member responsible for schools on the council and Mike Sullivan, the head-teacher, didn't even deign to respond to the invitation. This demonstrates their contempt not just for the teachers, the pupils, the local community but also their elected representatives.
Forest Hill teachers and Lewisham NUT more broadly are discussing how to continue the campaign. Meanwhile, the school now needs to recruit a large number of teachers as the existing staff have voted with their feet, and many will be leaving before the new school year.
BA blacklisting workers
Mixed Fleet cabin crew at British Airways have called a two-week strike for Saturday 1 to Sunday 16 July. As previously reported in Solidarity, workers in the mixed fleet had been striking over poverty pay levels, but strikes had been suspended for talks. Strikes were called for 16-19 June when British Airways attempted to victimise those who took part in earlier strikes, but were called off for talks. The workers′ union Unite says that British Airways has formed a blacklist of strikers which it is using to take away bonus payments worth hundreds of pounds and staff travel concessions.
UoL security guards strike
Security officers at the University of London will strike for the third time, and fifth day, on Thursday 22 June. Workers are demanding that outsourced contractor Cordant pays them a pay rise promised six years ago, ends the use of zero hours contracts and gives workers itemised pay slips. During previous strikes the University of London has brought in unlicensed and untrained replacement workers.
The workers′ union, the IWGB, is investigating the legality of this strike breaking. On 22 June, security officers will join with SOAS cleaners, caterers and their supporters for a joint demonstration.
Southern overtime ban
Train drivers' union Aslef has announced an indefinite overtime ban on Southern from 29 June, after talks over pay and conditions broke down. The move marks a welcome return to industrial action from Aslef, whose members have twice rejected deals from Southern management aimed at resolving a dispute over the imposition of "Driver Only Operation". Larger rail union RMT, which organises guards on Southern, is still in dispute over the same issue. The overtime ban could lead to the cancellation of dozens of trains.
Unite sacks Coyne
Unite has sacked West Midlands regional organiser Gerard Coyne after an investigation concluded he had misused data. Right-winger Coyne had stood against Len McCluskey for the general secretary position, losing by just under 6,000 votes.
Coyne was suspended after the ballot had closed but before results were announced. Whether or not Coyne had misused data, the handling of this by McCluskey supporters has some of the elements we criticise in right-wing undemocratic union bureaucracies. It is not OK that Andrew Murray, McCluskey′s chief of staff, who had been seconded to Corbyn′s office during the general election, was the investigator.


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JavaServer Faces was developed with IDES and rapid development of Web applications in mind. But is JSF living up to its promise? Can an IDE built around JSF potentially improve our productivity? Can such a tool help us create and deploy functioning Web applications faster than currently available options? The best way to answer this question is to test-drive one of the current IDEs that support drag-and-drop JSF development and attempt to develop a real Web application, a task I describe in this article.
My experiment includes the following particulars:
- The tool selected:Sun Microsystems' Java Studio Creator (JSC), a choice that, of course, is debatable. Reasons for this selection include fairly good reviews on the Web, its selection as runner-up for Developer.com's 2005 Development Tool of the Year (behind Eclipse, so it's perfectly understandable why it was only a runner-up), and, price ($99). There are a number of other tools in this space, many of which, based on a quick review, are worthy of deeper exploration. Some don't provide drag-and-drop functionality, but have other nice features. These IDEs include:
- Borland JBuilder Enterprise Edition 2005
- Eclipse with Exadel Studio Pro
- Eclipse with Nitrox JSF
- IBM Rational with JSF support
- Macromedia Dreamweaver with JSTL and JSF extensions
- MyEclipse with JSF Designer
- Oracle's JDeveloper
- The project:A simple Web application that searches an employee database.
- The developer: I am a reasonably competent developer with infrequent flashes of astonishing brilliance balanced by equally infrequent flashes of profound stupidity; lots of Java development experience; quite a bit of experience developing Web applications with servlets, JavaServer Pages/JSP Standard Tag Library, and Struts; and a basic understanding of JSF. I'm fairly skeptical about using IDEs for real software development. Before starting this project, I spent a few hours playing around with JSC to get somewhat familiar with its capabilities.
Now that the particulars are out of the way, I'm ready to start developing.
Time: 8:00 a.m. I fire up JSC on my laptop at the coffee shop. The first screen looks like this (it may look a little different on your machine, depending upon how you've configured your panels):
I select Create New Project. I type JSFExperimentfor the project name and click the OK button. The initial design project comes up and looks like Figure 2.
The window resembles the NetBeans IDE, of course, because JSC is built on NetBeans. In the bottom left panel is the actual page I'm working on, with tabs for a visual layout and the page source.
To the left is a panel that allows me to navigate through the pieces of my Web application, including the pages and the session and application beans. The top right panel has several tabs, which I explain in more detail below. By default, the project is created with a single JSP page.
The JSC download comes with the platform edition of Sun Java System Application Server, which eases the deployment and testing of JSF applications developed with the tool. Alternatively, we could install Tomcat and add/configure JSF support, but having a Web container included with the tool, with built-in JSF support is certainly helpful. There's also a SQL database server (PointBase) installed to support creation and testing of Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) functionality. In addition, a JDK is included along with plenty of documentation. All this makes for a large download, but the cost of a few (hundred) MB is offset by convenience.
I want my simple application to have two pages: a search page that sets up my query, and a results page. I go to the Project Navigator tab, right-click on Page1, and rename it search.Then I right-click on the Web Pages page, select New, then Page, and type resultsin the resulting dialog box. I now have a Web application with two pages. Now I will add some components and set up basic navigation between the pages.
In the search page, I want some text, a dropdown list for selecting search criteria, and a submit button. So, I select the Palette tab, then JSF Standard Components, and drag an Output Text, a Dropdown List, and a Button component to my search page. After placing the components, I select the Output Text and Button components, then select the Properties tab, and edit the Value property for each of the components to change the output text. After I complete these tasks, the page looks like this:
Figure 2. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image.
For the results page, I drag an Output Text component and a Data Table component. For the Output Text component, I change the Value property in the Properties tab under in the Palette window to edit the display text. You'll see how to customize the headers for the Data Table component below.
Now is a good time to set up basic page navigation. One approach is to right-click on the search page's design page anywhere outside one of the components and select the Page Navigation action. A graphical navigation editor then displays in the design panel. If I click on the search page, it will enlarge, and I can drag a navigation line from the Button component to the results page. Once I've done that, the name of the action is selected; this is a good time to rename it. I call it doSearch.The navigation editor now looks like this:
Figure 3. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image.
If I click on the Source tab in the design panel, I'll see the
faces-configfile display with navigation rules defined that are consistent with what I just completed in the editor. JSC also supports dynamically controlling page navigation, which I do not cover in detail here.
This has all been pretty easy so far–almost too easy. Could it be possible that I've created something that actually works? All I need to do to find out is select Build Project from the Build menu in the top menu bar, then Run Project from that same menu. Running the project will start the Sun application server with my built and deployed Web application, and fire up the default browser with the URL pointing to the Web application. Sure enough–I see this page:
Figure 4
Figure 5
Now things are going to get a little more interesting. I want my application to talk to a database. JSC comes with a PointBase database server installed, which is very cool. However, for this experiment, I want to connect to a different database. I want to use the Apache Derby open source embedded database. I also just want to connect to a database that's already been created. My database is simple and just contains one employees table. I won't debate the merits of this particular choice for this particular application; I just want to see how easy it is to use a relatively arbitrary database with JSC.
So, from the top menu bar, I select Data, then Add Data Source, add the JARs I want to use and JDBC driver information (after a bit of refreshing on how to set up the Derby URL to point to a specific place in the filesystem):
Figure 6. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image
Wow, that was easy. I wonder if I actually did anything. I hit the Test Connection dialog and receive:
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Figure 7
That's encouraging. I attempt to view the tables in my database (I actually only have one) from the Server Navigator tab and I see the following–even more encouraging:
Figure 8. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image.
Time: 9:00 a.m. I usually don't order the extra large black coffee–I usually just get wimpy mochas that don't have nearly the caffeine level. My head feels a little funny, but I am also feeling extremely productive. It's probably too early to tell yet whether that feeling is just an illusion.
I haven't covered (and won't in detail) support for page layout. However, JSC offers two options for page layout: grid layout, which places components at an absolute location on the page; and flow layout, which lays out components left to right on the page. I switch from the grid layout (the default, which uses absolute positioning on the page) to a flow layout, which seems a bit more adaptable and less Visual Basic-like. A couple of JSF components also support the laying out of subcomponents. This functionality and JSC's support for easily using stylesheets offer many options for controlling layout, a subject that could be the focus of a future article.
I start using the database by attempting to populate the dropdown list on the search page. When the page loads, I want the list to be populated with only those employees with a position equal to MANAGER. Then I want to allow searching by a particular manager and display attributes for those employees in that manager's department.
To do this, I select my results page, then go to the Server Navigator window, select the EMPLOYEE table, and select the Add to Page context action. Now I double-click on the employeeRowSet tab and get a panel that graphically displays the table rows. I can unselect the columns I don't care about (specifically, all except LNAME and DEPT). This creates a query that returns all the rows from the table with two columns in each row. I only want to return the employees that are managers, so in the query display panel I add the following criteria
Now the query editor looks like this:
Figure 9. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image
I right-click on my DropdownList in my JSP design page and select Fill List from Database. In the resulting dialog, I select EMPLOYEE.DEPT for the Value field, and EMPLOYEE.LNAME for the Display field. If this works correctly, an abcshould display in the dropdown list indicating that the data type is a string. This happens, and all seems to work properly.
OK, I can't wait. I haven't written a line of code yet, with the arguable exception of one WHERE clause. Have I produced anything that actually works? I select the File menu, then Save All to save my project; then, from the Build menu, I select Build Project. If there are no errors, there should be a dist/under a directory matching the project name containing a war file—which occurs as expected.
Now things get a bit tricky only because of my experimentation with my database of choice. The embedded Derby JDBC driver I selected allows only one connection to a given database, which I've already made in the course of working with the database within JSC. So, if I run the project (which would work fine with a typical database by just firing up the default browser from within JSC with our Web application URL), I'll receive an exception indicating that the page couldn't establish the database connection because it's already been established. Alternatively, I could shut down JSC, copy the war file to Tomcat or some other Web container that has JSF support installed, and start the Web application. I may need to remove the
db.lckfile to successfully establish a new connection (before I send this Web application to production, I'll make sure I invoke the Derby shutdown URL to properly clean things up).
If you don't have another server configured with JSF support yet, a reasonable (and quicker) option is to just use the Sun application server that comes with the JSC installation (there's a reason why it's such a big download). On a Windows box, from the Start Menu, select the Run submenu, then Sun, then J2EE 1.4 SDK, then Start Default Server to start the server. For a project named JSFExperiment, the URL should be: http://localhost:18080/jsfexperiment/.
It works! I now have a Web application with a dropdown that's actually populated with real data from a real database!
Now I begin working on the page that gives the results. For the Data Table component in the results page, I select the EMPLOYEE table from the Server Navigator, and drop it on to the Data Table (note the entire Data Table needs to be selected). In the query editor, I unselect all columns except for LNAME, MI, FNAME, and POSITION. Then, in the query string, I add WHERE APP.EMPLOYEE.DEPT=? as the criteria.
I want to customize this table a bit, similar to what I did earlier, by removing some of the rows and renaming the column headers. In the Application Outline panel on the left side of the screen, I right-click the Data Table component, and select Table Layout. In this dialog I can customize the display strings for the column headings:
Figure 10. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image.
I want to populate the Data Table based on the value of the dropdown selection. Finally, I'm at the point where I can write a bit of source code! But, it's not much.
I want to populate a value in the session bean (the current menu selection) to make it available in the next page. To do that, in the Project Navigator panel, I select Java Sources, then databoundcomponents, then SessionBean1, and then select Add, then Property from the Context Action menu. I name the new property departmentand give it a data type of string.
Now I want to populate this value when the dropdown list changes. To do that, I select the Page1.jsp tab and double-click on the Dropdown List component. This is interesting–the event-handler method stub isn't created for the
dropdown1_processValueChange()method until the first time you double-click on the Dropdown List component. The Page1 source code displays in the Editor area, and the cursor is placed inside the body of the
I add a bit of code to the method body:
try {
} catch (Exception e) {
log("Exception selecting departments", e);
error("Exception selecting departments " + e);
In the constructor for the results page, I use this value in my query:
try {
dataTable1Model.setObject(1, getSessionBean1().getDepartment());
} catch (Exception e) {
log("Exception selecting managers", e);
error("Exception selecting managers: " + e);
I rebuild the Web application and see this results page:
Figure 11. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image
It all works! The time is now 9:45 a.m. In less than two hours, I've completed a Web application with a deployable WAR that talks to a database and actually does something useful. Again, I believe the amount of time would have been much less if I weren't recording my steps along the way. Plus, people at a neighboring table have been distracting me with their proposed solution for world hunger.
A few conclusions from this experiment:
- To create a basic, functional Web application that queried to a database, I didn't write a single line of code!
- When I did get to the point of adding some code (to add the results of a database query to a session bean and make them available to the next page) I was working with generic Web application concepts and didn't need to know or care about the intricacies of JSF.
- If I had to produce this application immediately using JSC, without the chance to become familiar with its features, would I have developed faster than if I had just used some combination of servlets, JSP/JSTL, and Struts? Definitely not. Would I have developed faster the second time around? Absolutely.
I'd like to qualify some of the conclusions above. Many issues are being hotly debated in the JSF community, but most of these are related to JSF itself rather then the fact that a JSF application can be developed with an IDE. Some examples of these issues: Because of JSF's use of JavaScript and hidden form fields, some problems result when developing automated tests for JSF applications with tools like jWebUnit and WebTest from Canoo. Plus, JSF 1.1 isn't good at handling duplicate form posts (although that should be improved with JSF 1.2). Also being sorted out is the precise relationship of JavaServer Faces to Struts.
For my experimental project, I wanted to start with a static page mockup developed by an imaginary graphic design team in conjunction with imaginary informed representatives from an imaginary user community, and then populate that page with dynamic content. I've found this to be a pretty good way to at least start converging on UI functionality before wasting development time on something the users didn't really want. JSC documentation describes a fairly straightforward-sounding way to do this via the Add Existing Item option from the File menu. However, all the options under this selection appeared to be disabled. Was this feature just not quite finished in my JSC version? I don't know and couldn't seem to get the feature to work. The clock was ticking and I had to move on. I assume that in some future JSC version, this feature will be available and will be solid, because it's just too useful not to have.
For this article, I didn't have the chance to detail many JSC features. One feature that is particularly interesting is JSC's support for easily wiring up a JSF Web application to Web services. The quick-and-dirty application I developed doesn't attempt to hide database details. Being able to easily connect to Web services is going to be useful.
I didn't intend for this article to offer an endorsement of any particular IDE, but I came away impressed with JSC. Sun's had its share of hard knocks in recent years. It's nice to see them produce such a high-quality product. If the other tools in this space are anywhere close to this level of quality, things look promising for the future of JavaServer Faces


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