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If your new learning management system is going to become a central piece in your learning delivery approach, successful LMS implementation is crucial (to take full advantage of the cost you're paying for your LMS).
Modern learning management systems can be game-changers for teams and entire companies. The concept of a learning management system has become so much more than the university-only tool that many legacy platforms were designed to be. As Josh Bersin, founder at Bersin by Deloitte explains:
The modern learning world is filled with expert-authored videos, expert blogs and articles, Tweets, webcasts, and an ever-expanding marketplace of external (and internal) content. The Learning Management Systems must become a true 'learning system.
When a company is able to centralize all of this diverse content and use a Learning Management System to leverage it into a comprehensive – and consistent – learning delivery system, it takes a huge step toward a more efficient and effective workforce. Maybe that's why, as reported by Technavio, the global corporate e-learning market is expected to reach $31 billion in revenue by the end of 2020. That amounts to a whopping 11.41% compound annual growth rate over the next four years!
But in order to really take advantage of everything a Learning Management System has to offer, you need to understand:
- Why you are adopting a Learning Management System
- How to effectively execute an LMS integration that optimizes your operations
- How to use a Learning Management System to help foster a culture of learning at your company
This can be overwhelming, especially for a first-time Learning Management System user, so we've outlined everything you need to know below. In this guide, we'll cover:
- The top reasons people seek out a Learning Management System
- How to integrate your new Learning Management System
- A detailed explanation of proper LMS implementation
- Tips for using your Learning Management System to build culture
- Final takeaways
Top Reasons People Seek Out a Learning Management System
Before you start to wade through the literally hundreds of currently available Learning Management System solutions, you need to figure out exactly what you are expecting to achieve with your chosen tool. Ask yourself, "Why am I seeking out a Learning Management System in the first place? What problem or inefficiency am I trying to eliminate by implementing a Learning Management System?"
The answer is going to be different for every company, but here are four of the most common reasons why people turn to a Learning Management System.
1. Improving employee productivity and performance
As a manager, it's your responsibility to make everyone on your team better. Ideally, even the most experienced and well-qualified hires will improve their performance over time, and a Learning Management System can be a critical vehicle for that improvement. By enabling you to offer your employees the resources and opportunities necessary to engage in on-the-job-learning not only during on-boarding, but on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis, a Learning Management System helps build employee skills and align their business values. This increases the value of your human capital, but it also conveys to your team that you are invested in their growth, which itself is highly valuable, as people tend to work harder for bosses that show they care.
2. Increasing employee engagement
Many companies hope their Learning Management Systems will boost their employees' workplace engagement. According to Gallup, 70% of workers in the United States are not engaged at work, at least partially because they feel that they aren't personally getting anything out of their job. Using a Learning Management System to deliver frequent learning content geared toward the needs, interests, and skill-sets of your workers is a great way to counteract this feeling. This is especially effective with Millennial employees. Research shows that "training and development" is the most coveted job benefit among Millennial workers, surpassing even the likes of "cash bonuses" and "free private healthcare."
3. Gaining a clearer picture of what's going on
As Peter Drucker may or may not have said, "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." Attribution aside, it's indisputable that data play a huge role in the modern workplace. When it comes to employee learning, though, neither legacy systems nor in-person seminars have much to offer in terms of data analysis. As such, companies turn to Learning Management Systems in order to get a better idea of exactly where their employees are and how well they are performing on their learning assignments, as the best Learning Management Systems have powerful data collection and analytics functions built right in.
4. Reducing costs
Of course, in the end, a company isn't going to do anything unless it's financially prudent. If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make sense, as the saying goes. A good Learning Management System typically reduces the cost of corporate learning endeavors. Between on-boarding, re-skilling to accommodate for ever-changing technology, and general continuing education, corporate learning budgets can easily run out of control. By moving content online, streamlining content management, and facilitating informal on-the-job learning, a Learning Management System makes it considerably less expensive to provide the kind of in-depth learning that every company desires.
LMS Implementation Checklist (the nuts & bolts)
Below are the most high level, basic steps you should keep in mind for a quick and easy Learning Management System setup for your team.
Brand your Learning Management System. Implementing your brand guide into your Learning Management System is a great way to drive culture, draw employees in with a strong design experience, and make the adoption process more seamless overall. Look for a Learning Management System that allows for some level of customization and start here when implementing.
Select Categories. What are your key learning goals for your new Learning Management System? Determine which categories are most crucial for your team and begin building those out. Most Learning Management System platforms should accommodate custom categories and topics that, ideally, you'll already have defined before bringing your team onboard.
User Training. Get your Admin team on-boarded and educated! This is a critical step that will create a set of educators in your company who will help others get accustomed to the new platform too.
Content Migration. Start updating and adding your content onto the platform. Tip: it helps to have some content developed long before you begin Learning Management System rollout in your company.
Platform Rollout. Now that you're all set up, it's time to bring your team onboard. Hosting a workshop or training lunch can help to speed up the process and ensure some level of retention.
LMS Implementation Best Practices: How to Ensure Success
Beyond the basics, here are some important factors that will help you to successfully incorporate a Learning Management System into your operations. In order to guarantee successful Learning Management System adoption and ensure you get the most out of your new system, you need to keep the following five tips in mind.
1. Implement a measured roll-out, and keep the lines of communication open
The most important component of successful Learning Management System integration is communication. Your employees will likely be wary of your new software at first, as it is human nature to stick to what we know. As such, make a point of sitting everyone down and explaining why you've chosen to adopt a Learning Management System, how the adoption will make everyone's lives easier, and what the implementation process is going to look like. It is, of course, your prerogative – indeed, your responsibility – as a manager or executive to use whatever tools you think will improve your operations, but widespread acceptance among your employees is absolutely essential to an effective roll-out.
In addition to frequent and forthright communication, most situations call for a measured, piecemeal roll-out. Even if you're a great communicator, if you throw a paradigm-shifting platform at your team all at once, people are going to get overwhelmed. You can certainly activate all of your Learning Management System features and components from the get-go; just don't expect your team to be ready to use them all on day one.
2. Take advantage of senior staff and/or workplace role models
The insights and experiences senior employees have collected over years and years in the workforce can be invaluable to their younger counterparts, but many managers refrain from leveraging this expertise for fear of muddying the chain of command. When trying to get a Learning Management System up and running, this is a terrible mistake.
The best Learning Management Systems allow managers to create and refine interactive, engaging learning content in a matter of minutes, making it easy to incorporate suggestions from senior staff as they trickle in. Establishing this kind of collaborative relationship with your most experienced workers greatly increases the likelihood that they will embrace your company's new platform. Since these are the employees who most often serve as internal role models and thought leaders, if you manage to get them on board, chances are the rest of your team will follow.
3. Automate as much as possible
If you oversee more than a handful of employees, you're going to want to automate at least some of your LMS operations. The beauty of using a Learning Management System to execute corporate learning endeavors is that you can deliver highly personalized content to each employee without having to manually juggle dozens or hundreds (or thousands!) of employees' individual progress.
Not only does this facilitate "just-in-time" learning – that is, the right employee getting the right learning materials at the right time – it also serves as a way of improving supervisor-supervisee relationships. Without an automated delivery and progress-monitoring mechanism, managers have to constantly probe their team as to "how things are coming along" and "what materials have or have not been finished," a probing that frequently comes off as nagging. An automated Learning Management System offers managers the ability to orchestrate team growth, productivity, and efficiency all without having to micromanage employees' everyday operations, which constitutes something of a win-win.
4. Integrate your Learning Management System with all other existing workplace tools
As mentioned in our discussion of communication, workers are typically hesitant to change their routine. This stubbornness will only be exacerbated if your new Learning Management System fails to seamlessly integrate with the core tools already in use in your office. Whether it's alongside Slack, Salesforce, or G Suite, your Learning Management System needs to function well within your unique technological landscape or else it will become more of an impediment than anything else.
Adequate integrative capabilities should certainly be in the forefront of your mind while you are shopping around for Learning Management System, but it's also important to remember to set up any and all integrations prior to introducing your Learning Management System of choice into a live work environment. A bad first impression is never helpful, so you've got to make sure employees are able to easily access everything they need on day one.
5. (Eventually) go all in
While, as explained above, a measured, piecemeal approach to Learning Management System implementation is usually the way to go, this doesn't mean that you should refrain from going all in on your Learning Management System once your team has been acclimated. In fact, quite the opposite is true. If, after the requisite adjustment period, you relegate your Learning Management System to the periphery of your day-to-day operations, your employees are going to get the impression that you are not fully confident in its value.
To counteract this, it's useful to turn your Learning Management System into a centralized hub for all of your company content, learning related or not. If you make your Learning Management System the heart and soul of as many internal operations as possible, it can function as a powerful pillar toward which everyone will gravitate. This is the first step to forging strong company culture, one that is both unified and deeply rooted in an ethos of learning.
Tips for Using Your New Learning Management System to Build Culture
Ultimately, though its primary functions will always be on-boarding and continuing learning, part of the true value of a modern LMS is its ability to foster a thriving company culture. "Culture" is a difficult beast to pin down, but it pretty clearly begins with something we talked about earlier: engagement. You're not going to have much of a company culture without widespread buy-in, and employees aren't going bite unless they feel valued and remain interested in their work.
As a start, here are five ways that you can use your new Learning Management System to boost workplace and engagement and, in the process, solidify company culture.
1. Building community
We all hope to mold our team into a community close-knit enough to be entrusted with the work of collaboratively executing a grand corporate vision. Social-enabled LMSs not only promote cross-expertise and cross-team informal mentorships, they also enable learners to interact and communicate before, during, and after in-person workshops and meetings. Both of these outcomes reinforce the idea that "we're all in this together," which is a sentiment central to team-driven success.
2. Offering encouragement
Relatedly, social-enabled Learning Management Systems are tremendously effective at encouraging the "crowd-sourcing" of workplace recognition. The most effective employees are those who show up every morning excited about being at work, and acknowledging the small everyday successes that fall through the cracks between annual performance reviews and employee of the month awards is a great way to increase general enthusiasm. Whether it's coming from their direct manager, a C-suite exec, or a teammate, the average employee deeply appreciates when their hard work is recognized, even in a way as simple as a "like" or a share of their Learning Management System achievements.
3. Gamifying corporate learning
Speaking of trendy things like "liking" and sharing, gamification is all the rage of late, with many companies even employing game-based recruiting and job application assessments. Indeed, according to Ambient Insight, global revenues for game-based learning products surpassed $2.6 billion in 2016, and are expected to exceed $7 billion by 2021. Many experts argue that games engage long-term memory and stimulate mental modularity in ways traditional learning does not, making Learning Management System-based gamified learning a promising proposition indeed.
4. Personalizing the learning process
Perhaps because of the highly-customized digital landscapes in which we all operate, modern learners tend to prefer an educational experience that is tailored to their personal needs, learning speed, and unique learning style. Providing this level of personalization has long been all but impossible, but with an effective Learning Management System, managers can easily adapt every piece of corporate learning content to suit the needs of each team-member. Some might argue that this is over-indulgent, but regardless of what you believe, it delivers results.
5. Keeping everyone in the know
A versatile LMS can easily function as a replacement for your company bulletin board, and, given our increasingly virtual world, will usually offer greater visibility than the old corkboard and pushpin setups. If you provide on-site lunches on certain days, consider posting the weekly menu to your Learning Management System. Or, if you've taken community-building to the next level and have scheduled evening or weekend employee outings, list all the details in your universally-accessible Learning Management System location.
Final Thoughts
If you put everything outlined above into action as you begin to implement your Learning Management System, you should find yourself in a great position. In truth, if you've already done your due diligence and figured out which Learning Management System you're going to work with, then the hard part is over! To be sure, successful Learning Management System adoption is a methodical process, but as long as you take all of the appropriate steps, it need not be a painful one.
Time to full implementation will vary depending on a company's size and its access to internal support resources, but on average, it should take about a month from the time you select your platform to the time you get your employees up and running in the system.
We at Continu are passionate about Learning Management Systems and the incredible benefits they deliver, and we'd be glad to answer any questions you might have about Learning Management System implementation, especially if you're still trying to sort out which platform is right for you. Happy implementing!


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What Keller tries to get at is that the two sons represent two different kinds of people in the world. The older brother represents the legalistic, self-righteous and religious people. The younger brother represents the outwardly sinful. Both are separated from God and have no relationship with him. The father though wants to have a relationship with his sons, so as the father is representing God, we see how God made that possible through Christ. The sin of both kinds of people separates them from God and God wants to bring us back to himself because we were created for fellowship with Him. He accomplished that by clearing the sin away through Christ's death on the cross, making it so nothing stands in the way so we could have fellowship with Him, like we were created for.
Keller ends his story with the feast. Jesus talks about a feast. The Old Testament ends with a feast. Why a feast? "There is no better way to convey vividly what it means to live out a life based on [Christ's] saving work." (p. 106) The feast in the new Jerusalem on the new earth, depicted by the parable, is where we get to "taste" an understanding of the grace of God purchased through the gospel of Christ.
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Bryan Dabo hit a second half brace but it wasn't enough to prevent Rovers slipping to a 4-2 defeat at Villa Park.
The on loan midfielder grabbed two late goals but they were mere consolation on an evening where the home side took the lionshare of their chances and Rovers didn't.
After a closely run first half it was Villa who lead at the break, Graham Burke putting them in front with free-kick on 22 minutes.
Rovers should have levelled but Jordan Preston struck the underside of the bar, then the forward was denied when clean through.
But a poor start to the second half saw the home side grab three further goals as Jerell Sellars and Callum Robinson scored either side of a second for Burke.
To their credit Rovers never gave up and made a game of it with two late goals. Dabo sweeping home his first on 74 minutes from a Connor Mahoney free-kick before grabbing his second after good work from substitute Modou Cham.
Corry Evans got more minutes under his belt, the Northern Irishman playing for 74 minutes in a match that Rovers could have earned more from.
The match was slow to get going at a cold and wet Villa Park, the home side seeing more of the ball, but unable to break through a resolute Rovers.
There was little between the two sides for the first twenty minutes however it was Villa who opened the goalscoring at the midway point.
After Ryan Edwards was adjudged to have brought down Callum Robinson 20-yards out, forward Graham Burke took the honours and fired low and hard through the Rovers wall and beyond the despairing dive of David Raya. The ball nestling in the far corner.
Villa's pacy front line continued to cause Rovers problems, Robinson bringing out a fine save from Raya after cutting in from the left to shoot.
Rovers then created opportunities of their own that should have seen them level at the break.
After Corry Evans had seen claims for a penalty waved away. Connor Mahoney attacked well to feed Bradley Bauress on the left, the winger's centre was met first time by Jordan Preston but the young Scot was unfortunate to see the ball strike the underside of the bar and bounce away to safety.
David Raya was then called into action once more as play opened up for goalscorer Burke, but although he struck the ball with as much ferocity as done in scoring the opening goal, this time the Rovers stopper stood up well to tip over the bar.
Play was then quickly switched to the other end with Mahoney getting the better of defender Luke Kinsella, but his near post shot deflected behind.
However, sixty seconds later Rovers should have levelled. A ball in from the left by Bauress was nodded down by Bryan Dabo into the path of Preston, but the striker saw his saved by Villa 'keeper Benjamin Siegrist who got just enough on the ball to divert it behind.
It was a promising end to the half from Rovers but they couldn't carry that into the opening exchanges of the second period as Aston Villa soon added a second.
They had served notice when Callum Robinson had headed wide a Jordan Graham cross on 47 minutes, but two minutes later failure to mark correctly from a Robinson corner saw Jerell Sellars double the home side's lead with an acrobatic finish.
Just six minutes later and Aston Villa had a third, making full use of the space afforded to them, the quick forwards combined once more. Graham Burke converting for his second of the game from Jordan Graham's centre.
Unlike the home side, Rovers didn't take their early second half chances, as Jordan Preston, Bryan Dabo, Bradley Bauress and Ryan Edwards failed the trouble the Villa 'keeper.
Modou Cham came on for his first appearance at Under-21 level for Rovers but it was soon number four for Villa.
On 64 minutes live-wire Callum Robinson raced down the left before cutting inside onto his right-foot in the area to lash into the opposite corner.
Ten minutes later Corry Evans made way, the midfielder again working hard in the centre of the park, Robbie Cotton his replacement.
Moments later Rovers were celebrating a consolation goal, and a first goal for January loan signing Bryan Dabo.
Connor Mahoney catching the home side out with a low free-kick that Dabo swept home left-footed first time.
Mahoney then went close himself with a right-footed curling shot that just went beyond the far post.
Debutant Cham then played a key role in the closing stages. First he fired just wide after beating his man, before his work-rate earned Rovers a corner.
From it, Cham then tackled Daniel Johnson and that saw the ball break for Bryan Dabo and he bagged his second by firing home at the near post.
Rovers ended the match camped outside the Villa penalty area but they couldn't claim further goals that their play deserved, Hugo Fernandez with the last effort but his shot from outside of the box curled just over.
Like the Tottenham match seven days earlier, it was an encouraging display from the young Rovers with just the chances taken the difference between the two sides.
ASTON VILLA: Siegrist, Webb, Wildin (sub Calder 80 mins), Stieber, Toner, Kinsella, Graham, Burke, Sellars (sub Abdo 80 mins), Johnson (c), Robinson.
Subs not used: Watkins, R. Strain, T. Strain.
Goals: Burke 22, 53 mins, Sellars 49 mins, Robinson 64 mins.
Booked: Webb.
ROVERS: Raya, Fernandez, Beesley, Evans (sub Cotton 74 mins), Edwards, Tumwa, Mahoney, Lenihan (c), Preston, Dabo, Bauress (sub Cham 63 mins).
Subs not used: Pero, Urwin, Joel.
Goals: Dabo 74, 82 mins.
Booked: None.
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When you're on the hunt for good leads that will hopefully turn into sales, the process can be overwhelming. If you're not sure where to begin looking for business leads, using zip codes is the perfect place to start.
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Greek Mythology
of the gods appeared. The gods, as the Greeks knew them,
all originated with Father Heaven, and Mother Earth. Father
Heaven was known as Uranus, and Mother Earth, as Gaea.
Uranus and Gaea raised many children. Among them were
the Cyclopes, the Titans, and the Hecatoncheires, or the
Hundred- Handed Ones. Uranus let the Titans roam free,
but he imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hundred- handed
Ones beneath the earth. Finally, Gaea could not bear
Uranus's unkindness to the Cyclopes and the
Hundred-Handed Ones any longer. Gaea joined Cronos,
one of the Titans; and together, they overcame Uranus,
killed him, and threw his body into the sea. Aphrodite,
goddess of love and beauty, later rose from the sea where
Uranus's body had been thrown. Now Cronus became king
of the universe. Cronos married his sister, Rhea, and they
had six children. At the time of Cronos's marriage to Rhea,
Gaea prophesied that one of his children would overthrow
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Director & Producer Vetri Maran's Grass Root Film Company, along with Fox Star Studios are said to bankroll 'Annanukku Jai' .The film is touted to be a political satire of modern politics. 'Attakathi' Dinesh plays the lead with Mahima Nambiar as his leading lady. The film also stars Radha Ravi, Mayilsamy & Vaiyapuri in important roles. The film's Music is being composed by Aurole Coreli, Cinematography by Vishnu Rangaswamy & Editing by G.B. Venkatesh. The story, screenplay, dialogues & direction has been done by Rajkumar who previously worked as an assistant director to Vetri Maaran. As announced by the production company, the film will release on August 17 2018.
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Dario Franchitti recovering from frightening crash, wife Ashley Judd by his side
HOUSTON -- Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti will remain in Houston for the next few days as he recovers from a frightening crash on the last lap of the Houston grand prix over the weekend.
At least race official was also injured in what could have been a disastrous accident. A Houston TV station said 13 spectators were injured, according to Houston emergency response officials. Most of them were being treated for minor injuries at the scene.
Franchitti's car went airborne into the fence during Sunday's race. He broke his right ankle, fractured two vertebrae in his spine and suffered a concussion. He had surgery on the ankle Sunday night and was hospitalized.
Target Chip Ganassi Racing said Monday that Franchitti "will remain in Houston for a few days" and then be taken to Indianapolis for further evaluation.
MORE: Crash mars IndyCar race | Wreckfest at Kansas | Busch-Gordon at odds | Danica wreck
Franchitti thanked his fans for their support.
Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes. They mean a lot to me.— Dario Franchitti (@dariofranchitti) October 7, 2013
I would also like to send my best to all the fans involved in the accident and hope that everyone is alright.— Dario Franchitti (@dariofranchitti) October 7, 2013
The wreck also injured and IndyCar official and 13 fans, including two who were taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Franchitti, a four-time IndyCar champion, ran 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup and 18 Nationwide Series races in 2007-08 for Chip Ganassi Racing.
Franchitti's wife, actress Ashley Judd, rushed to Franchitti's side after the accident and thanked fans for their support. Judd was a fixture at NASCAR races while Franchitti was racing there, as she has been throughout his IndyCar career.
Franchitti and Judd announced their separation in January and there have been no announcements of a reconciliation.
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Swimming is so much fun--as close to flying as you can imagine. But lots of kids don't have instruction in swimming and water safety. And, btw, grown-ups, do you swim? Or do you just sit by the pool/lake/river/ocean and watch the kids have fun? Let's get with it! Just for safety's sake if nothing else. And girls and ladies, wet hair shouldn't deter you. There are caps, if desired. Sunburn shouldn't deter you--wear a tee shirt and waterproof sunblock, and watch the time. Find a cool summer hat. Too fat, too skinny? Who cares. And if you swim enough, it will give you a marvelous, smooth, muscular bod, and improve your physical and mental health amazingly. Mostly, IT IS JUST SO MUCH FUN! And we're not even discussing games, sports, and activities involving water. Here is some inspiration to learn:
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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes he had a 'close shave' when rejecting the opportunity to become Tottenham manager , according to the Daily Express.
Rodgers was approached by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy over the possibility of replacing Harry Redknapp in the summer of 2012, and claims he is happy he overlooked the offer in favour of becoming manager of Liverpool.
Tottenham went on to appoint Andre Villas-Boas, who was sacked on Monday following a 5-0 defeat at the hands of Rodgers Liverpool side.
Rodgers claims the prospect of working for owners who would allow him time to build his own team was what swung his decision.
When asked how he viewed events at Tottenham following the Villas-Boas's dismissal, Rodgers said: "A close shave.
"They are a great club and one of the things I looked at was their history. They'd had 11 managers in 18 years there.
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Liverpool could well find themselves top of the Premier League at Christmas if they manage to beat Cardiff at Anfield tomorrow, and Arsenal fail to get maximum points when Chelsea visit the Emirates on Monday night.
That would go a long way to justifying the faith shown in him by Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group, who stuck by their man after a difficult start to life in the Anfield hot seat.
"Never once have I ever felt under any pressure," said Rodgers.
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Viera girls were good last year, capable of being better in '18
Last year's Viera High girls cross country team was historically good. This year's team has a chance to be even better.
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On a team full of record breakers, the Viera High girls cross country team is built for success … this year, and beyond.
"The girls are really good and they're capable of being even better," Hawks coach Scott Baker said. "Right now, we're ranked No. 1 in our region and I think it's a very realistic goal, to win regionals."
Last year's team featured the five fastest freshmen in school history.
That trend has continued this season as sophomore Isabella Babilonia recently broke the school record with a time of 19:30 and No. 2 runner Moriah Ross ran a 19:58 to make her the fastest junior in program history.
Other top runners include sophomores Abigail Baker, Brooke Siviter, Elena Fentress and Alayana Thurner along with freshman Danielle Contreras.
The Hawks, who won the first district title in school history last year, are ranked No. 8 in the state after being No. 19 a year ago.
Babilonia said she learned a lot from her freshman season.
"I still didn't know what I was doing in terms of running," she said. "I didn't know about splits. I didn't know about the importance of holding pace from Mile 1 to Mile 2. But now I know. That can really affect your time."
After winning the district and regional titles last season, Babilonia would finish 72nd at the state meet, which said taught her that the big race is a "different animal."
"There are plenty of girls that run superfast at states," Babilonia said. "That was definitely an eye opener for me to see where I'm at. Hopefully, I can do better this year."
Baker said Babilonia has all the makings of a Division I runner.
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Midlands-based housing association, Midland Heart manages more than 33,000 affordable homes on behalf of 70,000 customers. Its IT team, which includes a team of 8 technical analysts and Technical Service Team Leader Rob Cross, supports more than 1,600 staff who manage this operation.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are rumored to be in talks for a fight in 2015, per Yahoo's Kevin Iole, and both of them sitting courtside at Tuesday's game between the Miami Heat and Milwaukee Bucks will only add fuel to the fire.
Although they weren't sitting near each other, the pair met and shook hands.
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A survey of the composing processes of seven working writers-columnist/ essayists Jim Fitzgerald and Kathleen Stocking, political columnists Tom Wicker and Richard Reeves, drama critic Walter Kerr, and film critics David Denby and Neal Gabler- Working at Writing offers rich and unique insights into how writing is actually done.
The book has three interlocking elements: edited transcripts of interviews with the writers about their composing processes and the composition of specific works, copies of the works discussed in the transcripts, and a series of chapters that analyze the interviews and articles in the context of current research into composing. Through this unusual structure, Root investigates both the ways in which the working practices of the seven writers relate to one another and to current models of composing and the ways in which such a discussion will be of value to others, particularly to student writers and their teachers.
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Better functional tests for WordPress in Codeception – 02
Some example usages of the new possibilities offered by the module combinations.
The test bed
The code I'm showing in this post is applied to the REST calculator plugin code.
The plugin ridiculous purpose is to expose a REST API users can use to resolve elementary mathematical operations.
Of course the plugin is completely useless but for its inner capacity to showcase interesting testing related "gotchas".
Divisions are for registered users only
The plugin currently allows anyone to hit a path like
/wp-json/calc/add/1/2 on the site and get a response of
I know because there is a functional test in place (and others really) to check for that (file here):
namespace Tests\Functional;
class AddRequestCest {
* It should store last operation result
* @test
* @example [5,4]
* @example [5,0]
* @example [5,-5]
* @example [5,-8]
* @example [0,0]
* @example [-1,-3]
public function return_the_correct_result( \FunctionalTester $I, \Codeception\Example $example ) {
$first = $example[0];
$second = $example[1];
$I->amOnPage( "/wp-json/calc/add/{$first}/{$second}" );
$I->seeResponseCodeIs( 200 );
$I->seeOptionInDatabase( [ 'option_name' => '_transient_last_operation' ] );
And now I want to add support for a second operation, the division, reserving this, but, to registered users only.
It's easy to add a second endpoint in the plugin main file that will handle requests sent to
/wp-json/calc/times/4/2; see the code here. I add a functional test to make sure users that are not subscribers will be negated access in the
tests/functional/TimesRequestCest.php file:
namespace Test\Functional;
use \FunctionalTester;
class TimesRequestCest
* It should return 403 if user is not subscriber
* @test
public function it_should_return_403_if_user_is_not_subscriber(FunctionalTester $I) {
$I->amOnPage( "/wp-json/calc/times/4/2" );
$I->seeResponseCodeIs( 403 );
The test will pass:
Time to write, now a passing test.
Factories in functional tests
The WordPress REST API supports a number of authentication methods, but the most common one is the one based on cookies.
For a user to be authenticated during a REST API request two things are needed:
- a valid nonce for the user and
wp_restaction couple in the request
X-WP-Nonceheader (or
_wpnoncerequest parameter)
- a valid login cookie set in the user browser
I've shown code to do this in my previous post but I'm showing another take on the same scenario focusing the attention, this time, on another possibility offered by the
WPLoader module
loadOnly use:
* It should return the result when the user is a subscriber
* @test
public function it_should_return_the_result_when_the_user_is_a_subscriber(FunctionalTester $I) {
// create a subscriber user
$userDetails = ['user_login' => 'user', 'role' => 'subscriber', 'user_pass' => 'secret'];
$id = $I->factory()->user->create($userDetails);
$I->loginAs('user', 'secret');
$I->haveHttpHeader('X-WP-Nonce', wp_create_nonce('wp_rest'));
In the code above I'm accessing the
user factory as I would do in integration or WordPress unit tests.
Factories are a functionality offered by the WordPress automated testing suite, and wp-browser by extension, in integration and unit tests.
While this is a functional test the updated
WPLoader module will take care, if the
loadOnly parameter is set to
true, to bootstrap the factories as well.
The factories are available on the
factory method of the
Tester class; similarly to integration and WordPress unit tests the available factories allow creating posts, pages, users, terms, blogs and all the other WordPress managed entities with little effort.
Since the WPLoader module is set to persist on the same database used by the other modules the WordPress methods and factories all will have a lasting effect on the WordPress environment under test.
functional suite configuration file has been updated to set up the
WPLoader module.
Using plugin defined functions
Similarly to how WordPress functions and classes are made available, in the context of the tests, by the
WPLoader function, functions defined by any other WordPress component are.
If a plugin, or theme, is loaded in the initial database dump used to scaffold the initial state of the functional tests, then the functions and classes it defines will be available in the tests too.
To try this out I'm adding a function to the
rest-calculator plugin that will take care of "hashing" an input string hitting the
/wp-json/calc/hash/<some value> endpoint.
The return value will be the same provided the same input every time. When testing the endpoints on a functional level I do not really care what that value is or how it is built; what I, instead, care about is that the value returned to the user is the exact same the underlying function produces.
To test for this "exact same" value the easiest thing to do is to use the exact same function the plugin uses to generate the hash: the
restCalculator_hash one:
function restCalculator_hash($value) {
return md5(ucwords(str_replace('a', '4', $value)));
Writing the functional test is now easier done than said:
class HashCest {
* It should return the correct hash
* @test
public function it_should_return_the_correct_hash(FunctionalTester $I) {
Now the sky is the limit for functional tests.
Isolation still applies
While the new feature allows for more powerful and less redundant testing there are still limits to what can be done in the context of a functional test thanks to the
WPLoader module.
The companion modules used to make requests to the the WordPress installation are, usually, WPBrowser, WPWebDriver or the WordPress one.
The first two will call the WordPress server while the latter will call the WordPress installation routing components (files like
index.php and
/wp-admin/index.php) to resolve the requests.
Each request handling will happen in a separate process that will not share any relation with the one running the tests.
I add a filter to the
restCalculator_hash function output and want to test it in a functional test; the proper context for this test would be an integration test yet I will concede for the sake of argument:
* It should return the filtered hash value
* @test
public function it_should_return_the_filtered_hash_value(FunctionalTester $I) {
add_filter('restCalculator_hash', function($value){
return $value . 'foo';
The test will, but, fail:
The reason is simple: the hash computation returned by the response is not happening in the same process as the test hence the filtering does not apply.
The reason for this is to avoid WordPress "polluting" the global scope with constants and globals that would create an impossible to reset testing environment.
The code
The code shown in the post is available on GitHub.


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No Reservations: An Evening with Anthony Bourdain
Holland Performing Arts Center
Saturday, September 11, 8PM
Tickets on sale Friday May 14 at 10AM
Anthony Bourdain, the internationally acclaimed chef, author, and host of Travel Channel's "No Reservations," has been dubbed "the bad boy of cuisine" for his rock star looks and blunt observations about the world of restaurants, chefs, and cooking. He will be appearing at the Holland Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 11 at 8pm. Tickets are $50.00 and $45.00 and can be purchased at the Ticket Omaha Ticket Office, ticketomaha.org, or by phone at 402.345.0606. A limited number of VIP tickets will be available for $100.00, which includes a post-show meet and greet and book signing with Mr. Bourdain. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 14th at 10am.
Bourdain, the executive chef at New York's famed bistro Les Halles, is the author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, a candid, hysterical and sometimes shocking portrait of his life in restaurant kitchens that has been translated into over 28 languages. His book, A Cook's Tour, published in conjunction with his series on the Food Network, was also a bestseller in the U.S. and the U.K. Other books include Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook, The Nasty Bits and No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach, an illustrated journal of Bourdain's travels.
A contributing authority for Food Arts magazine, his work as appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times and Gourmet. He has shared his insights about team building and crisis management with the Harvard Business Review.
"No Reservations," nominated for an Emmy Award and widely popular all over the world, is currently in its fifth season, Bourdain continues to travel to the farthest reaches of the globe, exploring destinations from rural Laos to New Orleans.


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From my manuscript about real people living in a real place at a real time (that is, a fictional account of the story of Elizabeth, Illinois).
The Black Hawk War wasn't really much of a war (unless you were in it, I suppose). It lasted from May to August 1832 and started when Chief Black Hawk crossed the Mississippi from Iowa into Illinois.
That's all it takes to start a war.
Abraham Lincoln was part of the story too, but even that doesn't amount to much (Lincoln mocked the 'War' and said, "I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes, and although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.")
The death toll includes 77 of the 7,000 of government forces, and 500 of the 600 warriors led by Black Hawk (so that's not funny).
Chief Black Hawk's Dreams
Dictated from the tongue of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, known to the white man as Black Hawk, Chief of the Sac, born on island Saukenuk of Rock river in the white man's year of 1767 in the Thunder Clan, but soon to die. –This written down by Antione LeClair, U.S. Interpreter for the Sacs and Foxes, on the tenth moon, 1838, but never published before.
Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak said:
When I was just a boy and not yet my people's Chief, the Great Spirit called me to lead my people, as my father had done bravely in more peaceful times. The hatchet was buried, the bow was at rest, corn was planted and taken-in, women had birthed many healthy children, and the land was quiet. The Great Spirit had given my father a dream that he spoke to the men before he departed. See the many blankets and the strong young men? he asked. The Great Spirit has told me, when I was just a boy and not a Chief, that a time of peace is not a time to lose courage, but a preparation for what is to come. The white man will come soon and drive the Thunder Clan from this home, across the river in time of snow. Women and young women will weep and men and young men will become brave warriors, some will take a scalp and dance for the first time. And a child will be called to lead the people. That was the dream my father spoke before closing his eyes to be with his fathers.
On another occasion, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak said:
The great warrior and leader of our nation was also my father who played with me when I was just a boy and not yet a Chief. He told me of his journey into the forest when a young man, without food or drink or company of his family he sought the Great Spirit who sought him. This is the way of our people. He dreamt of a deer approaching without fear. Their eyes met and it was as they were brothers. The Great Spirit made him ride through the land on the deer and he was shown the river, the forest, the hills, and the fields. He heard the sound of children at play, songs of gratitude, the smell of fires and roasting food but he did not desire the meat. He was told this land was given to the nation for a season of peace for good labor and hunting. But in the next season there would be crying and hunger.
When I was told this dream I asked what would come next, The next season, after rest and after hunger, what did you learn by the Great Spirit? My father said he was not told of this season, but the next leader of our people, a child who now laughs, would be Chief of a crying and hungering people. And the child would be met by the eagle. And like a boy and his father, we resumed our play together.
Seasons passed and we continued to enjoy peace, even while we fought with our ordinary enemies from across the great river, and I enjoyed the first taste of bravery and took my first scalp at fifteen years of age. But I learned the bravery of retreat as well as the bravery of attack, and I practiced the ways of my father who fought when attached, when our hunting grounds were taken, when our food and our home were threatened. We took no joy in this, but enjoyed the success that the Great Spirit gave to us.
But the time of rest seemed to be passed and enemies grew more numerous, and white men with guns who acted not with purpose but often after consuming alcohol threatened us without reason, and my father rested with his fathers and I will join them soon. I blackened my face, did not eat, and asked the Great Spirit about the seasons my father had spoken of; I hunted and fished, but I was not happy. I sought the Great Spirit then by taking no food, drinking no water from the streams nearby and went into the woods. I was looking for the deer that met my father, but I was afraid and the Great Spirit was wiser than a young brave. There was no deer, but I looked up and saw an eagle soaring above me, circling, waiting for me.
With the eagle I flew over the forest, above the trees, and I saw the hills descending into the valley of the great river, and I saw my people, our tents, our women and children but they were not singing or laughing –they were quiet and busy and there was no joy in their labor. In the distance I saw many faces, white faces, angered and cursing
I awoke from my dream and returned to my people to lead them from our home. I became the Chief of women who were crying and men who would be brave but had not taken scalps or tasted blood going against our enemies. But the enemies of my fathers were not to be our only enemies, and the ways of the white men were new to us and hard to understand.
When being transported from Fort Monroe to Iowa, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak said:
After returning to our home to the east of the great river, we found no peace (this was after being driven from our homes by the white man because of a treaty signed by some of our braves in drunkenness but not agreed upon by me or all the braves as is our custom). And after the invitation to plant corn and make a home once again in the lands of our fathers, I sought the Great Spirit and in my sleep I was met by the eagle again. I saw the grave of my father as we flew toward the sun rising, along the great river. There were white soldiers, riding horses and firing their guns as my people ran, hiding in the woods, children and women hunted by warriors. They were chased as a fish upstream in a river known by trees bearing apple fruits. They hid for one moon in a quiet place and prayed that this might be their home. But the white women and men had made this there home not being content to stay where the Great Spirit had placed them.
I circled with the eagle over the woods, watching over my people, and saw drunken men riding toward their hiding place. When they met there were threats but little bravery, and I was discouraged. The white women and men retreated to hide in a structure that surrounded them for protection while my people had only the trees and hills for their protection. There was no great battle but many noises from the white men, cruses and shouts that sounded much greater than their number. My people moved around the structure and the sounds grew louder, but there was no battle as my people were only looking for a home and passed by this pleasant place.
When I awoke I led my people as I had seen from the eagle, and it happened as I was shown. But I prayed that this place of conflict could be our home and not a place of hiding, but it was not so.
At Des Moines in the land of Iowa, just before his death, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak said:
This is the last moon I will see, and the Great Spirit made me to see the land that was once the home of my people. I was a brave Chief, but the white man had taken our home. The few women that are alive are crying, and our few children are weak with hunger. Many were killed by the white soldiers or chased into the great river as they escaped. I surrendered not to spare my own life, but to preserve the lives of my people. We were fearful for our weak, and a brave Chief must act not as his pride demands, but in compassion.
I dreamed and the eagle showed me the island of my birth, my father the brave Chief of my people, my mother and her kindness to me. I was shown the land we returned to and hoped to plant corn. I saw the river of apple fruits and good soil and my heart sank as I hoped this would be our home, but we were feared without cause and fled to escape. And when I awoke from my dream I was crying which surprised those with me, and they asked if a great warrior should cry or was my age the reason. I said that I was not crying for myself, but for my people who were driven from our home and starved and the season had become one of tears and bravery. I tried to save my people and the Great Spirit who shows the Chiefs the seasons stopped my plans.
But I did not tell them about the following season, about the season I asked my own father of, the season that eagle would show to the child who would lead my people. And I went to be with my father and my fathers and dreamed a dream with the eagle that did not end.


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Siblings, Legos and Other Desperate MovesPosted in General, Jane Kise, Kidtelligent, Web Connections on March 25th, 2013 by firstname.lastname@example.com – Be the first to comment
My children didn't always like playing together. Shocking? I hope not! Occasionally, siblings are a perfect match for each other, but mine had very little in common other than parents! Extravert, introvert. Boy, girl. Mr. Rogers, Barney. See what I mean?


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Where adults see challenges, kids see opportunities. Imagine what we could do if we all saw the world through a child's eyes!
Build the things you love – with or without instructions. LEGO® bricks are endlessly compatible with a child's imagination.
LEGO play helps kids develop a creative mindset as they experiment, break the rules, fail and try again.
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I know the print industry isn't probably changing as much as the web stuff nowadays but Im just wondering were do print graphic designers get their inspiration, latest news and that kind of stuff.
Are you designing for print? What websites/blogs/online stuff( including social media like twitter profiles,g+,facebook etc) do you follow ?
One example, I love the COLORS magazine, not specifically for print, but just for great photos and inspiration http://www.colorsmagazine.com/magazines


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Dao Sihanam or Ms. Dao creates some of the finest Thai dishes you will come across, especially here in Colombo.
Ms. Dao is married to a Sri Lankan and has lived in Sri Lanka for 16 years and what initially started as a catering service finally resulted in her opening a tiny (and I mean tiny!) restaurant in Kolpetty. Ms. Dao looks into every aspect of the food and makes sure everything is sourced fresh.
Yes, the food was delicious, perfect even but what really came through was the love, warmth and attention that went into everything she made. It is not your fancy up-market restaurant but a place you are meant to feel at home and we certainly did – It was as though the food was coming out of my mum's kitchen and we are bound to go back to get our home-cooked Thai Food Fix!
You can come as you are and indulge in mouth-watering food which tugs at your heartstrings. The idea behind this little, cosy restaurant is to serve up Thai Street Food and this is just what she does. With just six tables inside the restaurant, Dao's Thai Kitchen is ideal for a small group of friends, a fun night out with family or to simply indulge alone!
Drinks – 5 stars
Ms. Dao suggested we try her home-made Tamarind Juice (Rs 250) and Lemongrass Juice (Rs 250). The former with its perfect marriage of sour and sweet was easily my pick. It did help to know that Tamarind with its immunity boosting properties as well as its ability to aid heart health, manage diabetes and aid digestion is ideal to have while you have your Thai food fix at Dao's Thai Kitchen. The mild and refreshing Lemongrass Juice was sensational too and make note that lemongrass also aids digestion, is high in antioxidants and regulates High Blood Pressure. So quench your thirst away!
Food – 5 stars
Starters: We couldn't get enough of the crunchy, juicy and just downright delicious Prawn on Toast (Rs 650) which was complemented perfectly with a sweet and sour sauce which Ms. Dao makes from scratch. We also loved the refreshing, deep and smooth notes of the Stuffed Cucumbers (Rs 650). This dish which comes with five pieces of cucumber stuffed with peanut sauce is just dreamy.
Soups: What is a Thai meal without Tom Yum Soup? So here's saying you won't find a better Tom Yum Soup than at Dao's Thai Kitchen. Her Tom Yum – Seafood (Rs 670) is so well balanced while the heat from the chillies coupled with oodles of seafood, fresh lemongrass, coriander, mushrooms and well-seasoned coconut milk makes for a beautiful soup bound to clear up all your senses.
Salads: Ms. Dao also recommended we dig into one of her kochchi-packed dishes – Glass Noodles with Seafood (Rs 800). This delectable salad isn't short of juicy seafood while the lime and kochchi dressing will give your taste buds and senses a major kick.
Mains: Our dinner ended with her mouth-watering Pad Thai Noodles – Pork (Rs 750). We love Pad Thai and this was a fantastic option. This dry stir-fried noodle dish with peanuts and thin slices of pork was just scrumptious and left us stuffed and there was just no room for dessert!
What we recommend: It was tough to choose what we preferred but the Stuffed Cucumbers, Glass Noodles with Seafood and Tom Yum – Seafood were fabulous
Service: 5 stars
Parking facilities: 3 stars
Would we go again? Yes! We can't wait!
Tips/notes by author: Remember that this isn't your upmarket restaurant but a homely place serving up delightful food and they only accept cash.
Pix by Kanishke Ganewatte
618, Galle Road, Kolpetty
Opening Hours
11am to 4pm and 6 – 11pm (Tuesday to Sunday, closed on Monday)
Dine in/Take Away/Outdoor seating
Rs 250 to Rs 950
077-960-3760 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com