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Angular is a fantastic platform for building rich client side apps, but let's not forget about the back end. My choice for the back end is ASP.NET Core. If you're not shy about spending a bunch of time setting up Webpack, Angular and ASP.NET Core is a fantastic combination.
As for Andy, he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, he'd got Webpack to work. pic.twitter.com/3CHrD4ORTn
— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) October 29, 2016
However, I prefer to spend my time building applications, not configuring build tools. Angular CLI takes a lot of the pain out of using Angular, but it's a self contained command line tool. Fortunately, Angular CLI and ASP.NET Core can happily co-exist. In this post, we're going to build an application using these two technologies together. By the end, you'll be ready to have all the goodness of Angular and ASP.NET Core without spending a week setting up Webpack.
Make sure you have .NET Core, Node.js and Angular CLI installed.
npm install -g @angular/cli
Fire up Visual Studio (I'm using VS 2017) and create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application. Select the Web API Starter. This doesn't bring in any web stuff, which is ideal. We're going to use Angular CLI to generate the client files.
Then go ahead and disable automatic Typescript compilation. We want CLI to compile our Typescript, not Visual Studio. Do this by adding the "TypeScriptCompilerBlocked" line to your csproj file.
Head on over to the Startup.cs and add in the static files middleware. You'll have to install the "Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles" NuGet package. After that, add app.UseDefaultFiles() and app.UseStaticFiles() to your Configure() method.
After you get those setup, you'll want to add some middleware to redirect those pesky 404s to the root file. This will allow you to navigate the application without having to start at the root each time you hit refresh. For this app, api routes are prefixed with "api", so we're excluding those routes from the check. We're also excluding routes with a file extension since those are likely static assets.
To prevent the app from loading up the api/values endpoint by default, go to properties/launchSettings.json and change the "launchUrl" keys from "api/values" to "".
At this point, our .NET Core app should be ready to go. Let's move on to the Angular code.
We're going generate our Angular app on top of our ASP.NET core app. To do this, go to the command line and navigate to the directory of your solution file. Then run "ng new <your app name>".
You want the <app name> part to be the same as your .NET Core source folder. This will drop all of the CLI files into your ASP.NET Core root folder. It should look like this:
Angular has a default file structure, but it's not ideal for the existing ASP.NET Core application. Fortunately, Angular CLI has some options that will allow us to change this structure. We want the client side code to be in a folder called "client-src" and the client side build artifacts to go to the wwwroot folder. To do this, rename the "src" folder to "client-src". Then go to go to .angular-cli.json. This is the primary configuration file for Angular CLI. First, change "src" to "client-src". Then change the "outDir" attribute from "dist" to "wwwroot". This will drop all of the compiled assets into the wwwroot folder.
At this point, we can build the Angular application using Angular CLI. Navigate a command prompt into the main application folder and run "ng build". This command will build the client side part of the application, dropping the build artifacts into wwwroot. The wwwroot folder should look like this:
At this point we should be able to run the app by hitting the Run button in Visual Studio. Unfortunately, we still have a two stage build pipeline. The first step being "ng build" to generate the client side files and then running the .NET Core app. To fix this, we can drop in a post build script: "ng build — aot". This will compile the client side files (with ahead of time compiling) after the app builds.
If you're using git, you'll want to add the wwwroot folder to your .gitignore file. These files are generated, so you probably don't want to check them in.
All of the demo code used in this post is available here:
This demo includes a full Angular application on top of ASP.NET core. Feel free to use this as a template or something to look at while building your own. You now have everything you need to get started building shiny applications using Angular CLI and ASP.NET Core.
Ever find yourself in high stakes situations where even the slightest miscommunication can bring everything crashing into the ground? If so, Crucial Conversations has you covered. Crucial Conversations is a book about how to better navigate high stakes conversations. Unlike most business books, Crucial Conversations is packed with actionable information.
Why is this an important skill for developers? People think software development as a process where people in a windowless basement turn pizza and caffeine into software. The reality is that software development is more about communication than technology. We build software in teams. We build software for people. We need to figure out what those people want. We need to be able to have honest conversations when things don't go as planned (which is always). Creating a free flowing dialog is absolutely essential to creating valuable software.
Beyond building software. Developers who want a lucrative career find themselves in high stakes negotiations. These include, project scope discussions, salary negotiations, and job role discussions. Learning how navigate these situations can add thousands of dollars to your lifetime earnings. Not bad for a $10 book and a few hours of reading time.
Everyone has high stakes conversations. These include high pressure negotiations, impassioned arguments, and delicate interventions. Crucial conversations come in many different flavors. What links them together is that the results of these sorts of conversations have an out-sized impact on your life. Screw up one of these and you could be feeling the pain for years to come.
The key to navigating crucial conversations is to keep a free flowing dialog between the participants. To create free flowing dialog, maintain psychological safety. The primary goal of someone in a crucial conversation is to create and maintain a psychological safe space where both parties can express themselves without fear of anger or retribution. If everyone can get everything onto the table, you can usually figure out the correct path.
To cultivate psychological safety, you need to control your own emotions. Many people cast their own stories into "victim and villain" narratives. Playing the victim causes other people to get defensive. This defensiveness erodes psychological safety. Without psychological safety, people retreat to "silence or violence". They either shut down or defend themselves with hostility. Usually emotional and verbal hostility, but sometimes physical hostility. Responding to a conversation with silence or aggression is "the fool's choice". Avoid the fool's choice at all costs.
The book describes many techniques to maintain dialog. I'm not going to list them all out here, but a few include:
Shared Purpose
People generally have some shared goal in the conversation. Reminding people of that goal can inspire mutual cooperation.
Contrast and Clarification
Use contrast to clarify what you want. Prevent misinterpretation. Everyone has a plethora of cognitive biases. It's easy to misinterpret wants and needs in high pressure situations. Contrast what you actually want with what people think you want.
"Start with Heart"
Figure out what you actually want from a situation and take your ego out of the equation.
Radical Candor
Radical candor is where you are willing to challenge people directly, but with a high degree of empathy. It's the useful alternative to being a wimp or an asshole.
Find out more about it here: https://www.radicalcandor.com/about-radical-candor/
Cognitive Distortions
People have a variety of intellectual distortions. These are also referred to as cognitive biases. Watch out for cognitive distortions in yourself or others. There are dozens of these, but Psychology Tools has put together handy chart detailing some of the major ones:
Web site – http://psychologytools.com/unhelpful-thinking-styles.html
PDF – http://media.psychologytools.com/worksheets/english_us/unhelpful_thinking_styles_en-us.pdf
Ego is the Enemy
A big part of being a better negotiation is learning how to disarm your ego. Lots of people forget their mutual goal and try to "win" an argument. This is usually waste of time. Focus more on your goal and less on yourself. Ryan Holiday has a fantastic book about this.
Ego is the Enemy (Amazon)
Being able to successfully navigate tough conversations is an essential developer skill. Crucial Conversations has a variety of techniques to better navigate high stakes conversations. For the sake of yourself and everyone who has to work with you, work on your communication skills.
I recently went on a hunt for Angular (formerly known as Angular 2) profiling tools. Angular is a fantastic framework, but the component hierarchies can get a little crazy. Fortunately, there's a way to tame the complexity. After some Google searching, I came across Augury. Augury is a debugging and profiling tool created by Google and Rangle.io.
Augury is simple to install. First, install the Augury Chrome Extension (Sorry Firefox lovers, no soup for you.) There is no step 2.
Once installed, Augury shows up as a new tab in your Chrome Developer Tools. If you have an Angular app running in debug mode (it doesn't work on prod mode), the tab will show several visualizations of your application. The first one is the component tree, which lays out the components for whatever page you are on. Click a component to see the properties and events for it. You can also manipulate the underlying models and trigger events. Additionally, each component is has a link to its source code. If you want to set a breakpoint, just click and you'll be right there.
You can also get a visualization of injected services by clicking on the Injector Graph. It'll help you figure out where your dependencies come from.
If your application is using routing, click on the routing tree tab to get a visualization of the routing structure.You can click into the routes to see what url triggers them, along with other route information. If you happen to use lazy loading, those routes are marked as "lazy loaded" until you access them.
If you want to see a breakdown of your application's module structure, click the NgModules tab. This is a good way to get a high level overview of your application.
Overall, Augury makes it easier to reason about your Angular applications. By visualizing the component trees, routing, and module structures, you get a high level overview of your application's structure. Additionally, the extra debugging features add a layer of easy to the already fantastic Chrome Developer tools. I've added this to my day-to-day Angular tool belt and urge you to do the same.
There are lots of different ways to learn new things. Many of these methods are easy to integrate into your life. We all have a limited amount of time, so I like to use learning methods that capitalize on otherwise wasted time. My primary target is the time I spend in the car. Additionally, there's so many inexpensive ways to learn new skills. Here's a few of the ways you can learn some new skills.
The easiest one is to read books. Books are cheap and accessible. If you don't have a lot of time to read, get yourself an Audible subscription. Most books are also available in audio form.
College courses are nice, but there are better options. The Great Courses publishes classes taught by leading professors. I like to listen to them on my way to work. You can also access college level courses through moocs like EdX, Coursera, and iTunes U. Additionally, Udemy has a wide variety of inexpensive courses (wait for their $10 sales).
In order for your hard-won knowledge to be useful, you need to remember it. One method I use to learn better is to keep a commonplace book. A commonplace book is a collection of notes and quotations from the things you've read. This used be a common practice, but it's coming back as people discover how useful it is. I record notes on anything interesting that I read. I also collect scraps of articles and interesting quotations. I keep these in a OneNote notebook that I can refer to. I also review things I've read before and add to my commonplace file. This cycle of note taking and review helps me get more out of what I read.
Organizations / Clubs
There's a meetup for everything. Go find a group of people you can learn from. It's often easier to talk to someone than to scour the Internet for resources. I'm looking into more agile groups to expand my business skills.
Make Stuff
This is one of the best ways to pick up new skills. If it's a "maker" skill, like design or programming, build something. Side projects are a great way to learn something new. If it's not a "maker" skill, like psychology, make something with the knowledge. Write a blog post or a talk. I never feel like I'm proficient until I use my knowledge to make something.
If you want to be more successful, learn a new skill. Each new skill makes you a more useful person. If you want to be more creative, diversify yourself. Diverse knowledge gives you more resources to draw from. If you want to win at work, be a jack of all trades, master of one. There are lots of learning resources at your disposal. Put them to work for you.
If you want to improve it, you need to measure it. We use profiling tools to get the insight required to find and destroy application bottlenecks. I'm a big fan of local profiling tools that you can install and run from within your application. My favorites are Miniprofiler and Glimpse. Unfortunately, many of the tools that are available on regular ASP.NET are not available for ASP.NET Core. In this post, we're going to explore our options for local profiling in ASP.NET Core. Currently, it's slim pickings, but there are a few tools available.
For standard ASP.NET (non-core) Applications, there are a variety of profiling tools available. Some of those tools cost money and others are free. Unfortunately, most of them lack ASP.NET Core support. This is, in part, because ASP.NET Core is new. Additionally, our good friends at Microsoft have thrown the community a few curve-balls with the last few versions of the .NET Core. Most companies don't want to waste their time building tools if the framework is going to have a ton of breaking changes. This is especially true for free tools.
Here's the status of a few popular tools (as of January 2017):
The folks at Stack Overflow are waiting for a more stable version .NET Core to build their .NET core version of Miniprofiler. They said they will build a new version, but they only want to do it once.
JetBrains has not released a .NET Core version of dotTrace, though they claim some functionality with the current version. I've never tried this one, so I have no idea if it's worth waiting for.
I love Glimpse. It's one of my favorite profiling tools. The folks behind Glimpse put out a Beta version of Glimpse about a year ago. It lacked full functionality and no longer works. They appear to be working on the new version now. Their GitHub repo has recent check ins, so I'm hoping a new version appears soon.
Application Insights
This is Microsoft's default solution for application performance monitoring. It's meant to be used in conjunction with Azure, but you can run it locally and use Visual Studio to look at the results. Once hooked up to Azure, you can use this as a general application performance monitoring (APM) tool. It's installed by default in new ASP.NET Core Projects (look at the startup.cs), so Microsoft really wants you to use it. I kicked the tires a bit. Prefix is a competent option for ASP.NET Core.
Application Insights in action:
Stackify Prefix
Stackify prefix is a free tool you can install on your PC that monitors your ASP.NET applications. You'll need to also install it in your project, but once you do so, you get access to detailed information about your application's requests. They have a paid version of the Prefix and a related APM product, so there's some commercial backing here. I've tried out Prefix a few times and the tool is adequate for local profiling. It gives you the data you need, but I'm not a huge fan of the development experience. That being said, the tool gives you access to lots of data and works on .NET Core.
Stackify Prefix in action:
I'm still waiting for a new version of Glimpse (or Miniprofiler), but Stackify Prefix and Application Insights are good tools. I miss the easy to use inline monitoring of Glimpse, but Prefix and Application Insights have their advantages. Not only are they supported on .NET core, they also hook into more robust monitoring systems. You will be well served by either option. Go forth and monitor your apps, it'll save you a lot of pain down the road.
Usefulness should be your primary criteria.
Let's unpack that a bit.
Software is a tool. We use it to build things of value for people. Either our customers, our users, or ourselves. We build to provide valuable software for people. A lot of developers lose sight of this when they look into new technologies. They fall in love with a technology because it's shiny, or interesting, or scratches an intellectual itch. It's the old "golden hammer" antipattern. Find something shiny and use it to build everything, even if it's not the best tool for the job or doesn't really improve upon existing technologies. We can do better. By focusing on what's useful, we can skip the majority of new technologies and keep our sanity.
To figure out what's useful, we need to ask a few questions. Write down your own answers as you read through this exercise.
As developers, we serve one or more audiences. Each of these audiences has different needs. It's your job to figure out which audiences you serve (or want to serve) and what they need. Perhaps you are spending most of your time in a full-time job, but want to start your own business. Perhaps you just work for the man. Figure out which audiences you serve and their relative priority. If you want to serve a new audience, think about what you will need to learn for them as well. Additionally, look for synergies. If you have more than one audience, find overlapping technologies.For example, if you want to build your own business on the side, use a similar tech stack to the one you use at your job.
Here's a few audiences you can serve:
Public Code / OSS
Open source projects have different goals than enterprise shops. There's some overlap, but OSS is built differently. If you do OSS, figure out which projects you want to contribute to and focus on their tech stacks. Also think about what value you can bring to the developer community.
Small Business
If you run an app business or an ISV (independent software vendor), focus on technologies that create customer value. For example, while functional programming is cool, you're better off mastering digital marketing or product design instead. Focus on technologies that help you get products in front of customers quickly. This doesn't always mean new technology. There are a lot of Rails 2, jQuery, and ASP.NET Webforms apps out there still generating significant value for their customers.
It's OK to learn something just for fun. Lots of people write code as a hobby, but make sure you understand that the time you spend building robots or smartwatch apps is hobby time, not professional development time.
I have three audiences. I work on a team that builds data driven applications using .NET Core, Angular, TypeScript, and Spark. I also serve the broader technical community by speaking at conferences and blogging. Eventually, I want to build a small software product and sell it. I achieve synergy by focusing my community efforts on things that I either use in my day-to-day work (like Angular) or things that will serve me in business (innovation).
Now that you know what's useful for your situation, let's use that knowledge to make your life easier. You likely have a list of technologies that you're interested in or feel obligated to keep up with. I have a whole radar of them. Take that list and run it through the criteria you figured out. If the technology doesn't help you add value to one of your audiences, cross it off the list. Rank everything else based on its relative value. Use your criteria to combat "shiny object" syndrome when you encounter a new technology. You'll likely still have more things on your list than you can learn, but your list should be manageable.
If there is a developer hell, one of the circles will involve the JavaScript toolchain. The JavaScript ecosystem is awash in tools, choices, and configuration options. Combine that with spurious documentation and constant change and you have a jungle of pain awaiting any brave soul who dares build a modern JS application.
As for Andy, he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, he'd got Webpack to work. pic.twitter.com/3CHrD4ORTn
— I Am Devloper (@iamdevloper) October 29, 2016
Much has been done to ease JavaScript toolchain fatigue. There are templates and starter packs for most of the popular JS stacks. If you're using Angular 2, the Angular team has created a tool called Angular CLI. It encapsulates all the best practices into one handy command line tool. Angular CLI shortcuts most of the Angular 2 setup. Just run a few commands and you have a working application. In addition to the build tools, you also get a set of scaffolding tools. If you're familiar with the Ruby on Rails scaffolding tools, Angular CLI will feel right at home. In the interest of trying new things, I decided to kick the tires on Angular CLI and see if it lives up to the hype. I took my demo Angular 2/TypeScript/Webpack application (repo here) and ported it over to Angular CLI.
npm install -g angular-cli
Install the Angular CLI tool using NPM. Make sure to run the npm install as an administrator. Easy peasy.
npm install -g angular-cli ng new <my app name> cd <my app name> ng serve
These commands will spin up a basic app structure for you to use. This app structure has a lot of goodies included. Testing, linting, hot module loading, and a decent starter app all come with the basic template. CLI abstracts away the webpack setup, so you don't have to figure that out. It even includes a basic demo server for you to serve your application from. The only thing that the angular cli doesn't include is a style library. I'd love to see Angular Material or Bootstrap included with the CLI, but I'll live.
Here's what comes out of the box with a new Angular CLI Project:
I was curious about how up to date the basic setup is, so I ran "npm outdated". NPM packages change often. It looks like most of the packages are close to their most recent version, but the CLI used Angular 2.3 instead of Angular 2.4.
Boilerplate code sucks and Angular 2 has a bunch of it. There are lots of small files that need be built when you add a new component. Angular CLI has generators to help with that. I tried out a few of the generators. I found the component generator to be particularly useful. It builds out the template, code, and spec files. It also adds the component to its root module. This is a great time saver. The route generator was far less useful, however, as it didn't do anything. It looks like they're going to add it back in later.
The default template doesn't include any style libraries, so I pulled in Angular Material (currently in beta).
To install:
npm install --save @angular/material
Then you need to pull it into your app module:
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'; import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms'; import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http'; import { AppComponent } from './app.component'; import { CharacterBuilderComponent } from './character-builder/character-builder.component'; import { EncounterComponent } from './encounter/encounter.component'; import { NavMenuComponent } from './nav-menu/nav-menu.component'; import { StatsComponent } from './stats/stats.component'; import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component'; import { MaterialModule } from '@angular/material'; @NgModule({ declarations: [ AppComponent, CharacterBuilderComponent, EncounterComponent, NavMenuComponent, StatsComponent, HomeComponent ], imports: [ BrowserModule, FormsModule, HttpModule, MaterialModule.forRoot() ], providers: [], bootstrap: [AppComponent] }) export class AppModule { }
Finally, add a theme file to your site.css. There are several pre-built themes, but you can make your own if you want.
@import '~@angular/material/core/theming/prebuilt/deeppurple-amber.css';
After importing the styles I ported all of my demo code over into the angular cli project. This process was surprisingly easy. Unfortunately, the Material styles are not as robust as the Bootstrap styles. I'm sure I made a mistake somewhere, but I wasn't really going for maximum style, so I let it go. I'm looking forward to Material UI being ready for primetime, but I don't think it's quite there yet.
I wouldn't use Angular CLI in production (yet), but I think it's a fantastic tool for playing with and learning Angular 2. It takes the most painful part of setting up an Angular 2 project and makes it a breeze. You can get up and going faster than building an environment from scratch. I'm going to keep an eye on this project and see how it develops. If you build Angular 2 apps, I recommend you do the same.
Here's the final result:
The technology landscape is exploding. New technologies, platforms, and tools are being creating at an ever-increasing rate. VR, AR, and wearables give us new app stores to target and new experiences to create. Conversational UI (Alexa, Bots, Cortana API) is a totally new way to interact with users, and another dozen different platforms you can target. Even the web space is exploding. It feels like there's a new JavaScript framework roughly every ten minutes.
All of the new stuff is amazing, but also exhausting. There's so many new things out there. Finding your focus is hard.
Keeping track of all this new stuff is tough, but we have tools to help us. One of those tools is tech radar. A technology radar is a collection of new technologies and how important they are to you or your organization. You enumerate new technologies and assign them a value somewhere between "run away screaming" and "let's use this for EVERYTHING".
The tech radar was created by Thoughtworks. They publish their radar a couple of times a year. It's a great snapshot of what technologies they are using in their organization. I recommend you check it out.
While the Thoughtworks tech radar is great, it's more fun (and useful) to do it yourself. Neil Ford has a fantastic talk about building your own tech radar. Check it out here:
In his talk, Neil mentions two tech radars. One for your company and one for yourself. After viewing this talk, I was hooked by the idea and decided to give it a try. I've worked on both styles of tech radar and learned a few things along the way.
An organizational tech radar is a picture of the technologies used in your company along with recommendations for new things you should keep an eye on. Your team sorts technologies into one of four categories.
Adopt – Use when appropriate. This is a default best practice.
Trial – Use on non-critical projects. Good, but not 100% there yet.
Assess – Keep an eye on this. Use it for POCs and Demos.
Hold – Avoid using this on new projects.
To conduct a tech radar, get representatives of the different teams in your organization together and have them discuss some of the new technologies they are using or interested in using. Assign each technology to the proper category and record the highlights of each conversation.
Shoot for fewer than 30 people per discussion session. Try to get a diverse slice of your organization's tech users. If your organization has teams outside of generic enterprise app dev, make sure they get a seat at the table. (examples: designers, SharePoint Devs, Salesforce Devs, DBAs, DevOps, mobile devs, etc… )
I'm involved in two different organizational tech radars. One as the primary organizer and another as an observer. It's been an educational and useful experience. I've gained insight into some of the dynamics behind how technology is used in these two organizations.
One of the major benefits of doing a tech radar is that you deepen your understanding of how technology is used in your organization. You also gain insight into what different people are thinking. It can highlight blind spots in your own thinking and surface interesting technologies to check out. Another benefit is that it can make your organization more proactive about technology adoption. By knowing what's available, you can begin to plan earlier. You also gain consensus about which technologies to adopt. It's a lot easier than trying to campaign for new technologies on your own.
It's not all rainbows and puppy dogs though. I ran into several challenges while coordinating my organization's tech radar. First, I had to make a special effort to represent all the developer communities in my organization. We have a lot of practices and not all of them came to the discussion meetings. Next time, I may hold special meetings for each group.
The second hurdle I ran into was that everyone was very focused on things to adopt now, as opposed to future technologies. This issue was relatively easy to solve. We created a new category for "obvious best practices" and focused more on the "trial" and "assess" categories. Don't be afraid to make tech radar your own. You don't have to copy Thoughtworks verbatim. I found that making a category for things that aren't new, but part of your default tech stack, cleared up the "adopt" list and kept the radar future forward. It also provides you with a handy list of architectural recommendations for new projects.
The final challenge was dealing with all the conversations. It was easy to go off on tangents or get caught up in how you feel about a particular technology. It's tough to keep on track. One way we addressed the issue was by splitting up the meetings into small chunks. It's easier to schedule and no one gets burned out from a 4 hour meeting from hell.
Overall, I found this exercise highly beneficial. I learned a lot and picked up a few technologies for my tech radar.
If you're like me, you have "the list". Sometimes referred to as "the guilt list", because I never finish it. It's the pile of technologies you intend to research. If that sounds vague, that's because it is. "to research" doesn't really give you a finishing point. I built a personal tech radar to help clear up that ambiguity.
For me, a personal tech radar is a much less formal affair than the organization radar. It's also, by necessity, a smaller one. I changed the definition of the categories. Instead of focusing on adoption, my categories focused on how much effort I want to put into learning the technology. Here are my categories and a few examples for each one.
Agitate for use and learn deeply. This is for your core skills.
Examples: .NET Core, Angular 2, TypeScript, Azure
Seek functional knowledge on. Build a demo apps or POCs.
Examples: Python, Spark, R, Progressive Web Apps
Keep an eye on it, but don't worry about getting deep knowledge.
Examples: Hololens, Unity, Xamarin, Chatbots
Avoid using when possible. Don't waste a lot of time learning new things about this tech.
Examples: Old ASP.NET, Angular 1
I only had one challenge with my personal tech radar. I'm interested in everything, so I had a lot of trouble keeping my categories small enough to be doable. I consider this a feature, not a bug. Doing this exercise forced me to take a holistic view about what I'm interested in and edit accordingly. I also did some journaling about where I wanted to go in my career, which helped clarify my thinking. For example, I realized that learning data analysis is a better use of my energy than learning native mobile development. I'm still keeping an eye on mobile, but it's not a top priority for me. Overall, it narrowed my scope and helped me focus.
If you want to better deal with the ever-growing deluge of new technologies, consider doing a tech radar. Both the organizational and personal flavors offer insights that you can use in your daily developer practice. It's a great way to end the year.
PS – For some reason, I think of this song every time I bring up Tech Radar.
As technologists, we are the vanguard of innovation. We're at the forefront of technological innovation. Even if you're slagging COBOL in the basement of some bank, you're still dragging your organization into the future. Ever wonder how that process actually happens? What can you do to be more creative?
I'm fascinated by this topic, so I put together a talk about it. (abstract / slides) It distills what I've learned from reading dozens of books on innovation and the history of technology. To save you some time, I put together a list of my favorite innovation related reads. If you're curious about this topic, these books are a good place to start.
Sapiens is a highly entertaining, unorthodox view of human history. Not only is it informative, it challenges basic assumptions about ideas that most people don't realize they're making. It's a great description of early human history and how we got to the modern age. It'll really open up your mind.
Innovation is not evenly distributed. There are certain times and places throughout history that have "golden ages" of innovation. Geography of Genius explores a few of these places and tries to find what ties them all together. This book is very interesting and you'll learn about some places that you don't see much of in the classroom.
Unlike what the history books tell us, innovation is more bottom up than top down. Matt Ridley does a fantastic job describing how in Evolution of Everything. He covers a several major innovations including religion, money, and government. This book challenges many deeply held beliefs and illustrates how innovation is an evolutionary process.
This book offers a more tactical look at creativity. It's also a great guide to improving other aspects of mental performance. Charles Duhigg does a fantastic job mixing science with fascinating stories.
Creativity requires concentration. A commodity in short supply in the modern age. In Deep Work, Cal Newport makes a compelling argument for making "deep work" (focused work) one of your primary priorities. I changed several of my habits after reading this one.
While I enjoyed the Lean Startup, I felt like it treated innovation more like a roulette wheel than a process you can influence. "Just pivot until you make it big or run out of money." In Competing Against Luck, Clayton Christensen describes a fantastic intellectual power tool for building new products. The "Jobs to Be Done" theory of innovation. If you want to build a product, I highly recommend this one.
One of the most important things you can do to become more innovative is empathize with and learn from people whom you disagree with. We live in a society that's increasingly polarized, but this book the antidote. In the Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt explains the moral foundations for different political outlooks and makes a strong case for civility in political discourse. This is a must read if you have trouble dealing with people who don't share your beliefs.
Here are a few non-book resources to check out:
Kevin Kelly's concept of protopia (as opposed to utopia or dystopia) is really enlightening.
In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, cartoonist and business author Scott Adams describes his "success formula". Each area you master roughly doubles your odds of great success. This is a great case for diversifying yourself. You can either get his book or read this article:
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Reveals The Simple Formula That Will Double Your Odds Of Success
If you're looking to diversify yourself, here are two excellent resources:
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The Great Courses are a series of college level lectures that you can listen to in your car. Personally, I'm a big fan of their history selection. They also have courses on psychology, philosophy, and business.
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Innovation is partly a network effect. This article describes why cities with a higher population density have higher per capita rates of innovation.
Everything is a Remix is a video series about cultural innovation by Kirby Ferguson. I have yet to find a better description of how culture is generated by remixing other cultural elements.
This is a TED talk on how Google X (Google's own skunkworks company) takes risks and creates a culture that fosters psychological safety.
This list of resources will open your mind and help you become a better innovator. If you think I missed something, feel free to drop it in the comments.
I'm sure this is obvious to some people, but this issue threw me for a loop.
When building applications in Angular 2, it's best practice to divide up your application into feature modules. This keeps your code simple and easy to work with. You can lazy load these child modules to improve initial load times and keep people from downloading code for areas they don't have access to.
The Angular 2 website has excellent tutorials on how to set this up, but if you're using Webpack, those instructions (link) don't quite work.
Here's the code from the Angular 2 website.
export const routes: Routes = [
{ path: '', redirectTo: 'contact', pathMatch: 'full'},
{ path: 'crisis', loadChildren: 'app/crisis/crisis.module#CrisisModule' },
{ path: 'heroes', loadChildren: 'app/hero/hero.module#HeroModule' }
You could assume that this code isn't specific to using system.js as your module loader, but you'd be wrong. Webpack, by default, chokes on these lazy loaded modules. I spent more time than I'm willing to admit trying to figure out the arcane errors before I realized that the Webpack was the problem. Fortunately, this problem is easy to fix.
Like everything else in Webpack, there's a loader for that. In this case, you want the Angular 2 Router Loader (more info here). Be attentive to the instructions, because the module strings work different than they do with system.js. For example, the Webpack loader supports relative paths. (The Angular 2 docs say otherwise) Once you setup the loader, lazy loading in Webpack works like a champ.


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Nice and spacious room at Culmannstrasse 31, fully furnished (optional), 22m^2 big with: - Bed, wardrobe, desk, chair, night desk, light - Elevator - Shared kitchen, bathroom and toilet on the floor - Washing machine and tumbler for joint use All additional costs (such as heating, water and electricity) are included in the lump sum. Kitchen, toilets and shower will be cleaned once a week by the house administrator.

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Unanswered: Problem in Connecting to PostgreSQL using C++
Dear Friends,
I am in big trouble. Please help me.
Our server is running on linux and having PostgreSQL installed. I have written a C++ program to access programmatically using ADO concepts to that database (PostgreSQL). But I am encountering problems
The connection string I used like this :
"Provider=PostgreSQL OLE DB Provider;Location=bmc;Data Source=192.168.88.204,5432;UserID=postgres;Passwor d=postgres";
But the error I got is
"Provider cannot be found. It may not be properly installed."
Alternatively I have used like this also, PGOLEDB as the Provider name. But also useless. Same error message I got.
Could any one of you help me to find out solution how to connect programmatically to the postgreSQL using C++ ????
Thank you in advance.
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Do you have the OLE DB extensions installed for C++ with Postgresql ?
Do you have the OLE DB drivers installed?
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check out the third post in the VB FAQ. It's regarding building a utility to build your OleDB connection strings. (plus, the compiled utility is available for download as an msi file)Lou
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Thank you friends for you kind reply.
I installed the PGOLEDB.dll in my (Win-XP) PC and then tried connecting to the linux server (running Postgresql) again thru my C++ code, but now I got a different error like below:
"could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061)
Is the server running on host "192.168.88.204,5432" and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 5432?"
Please help me to resolve this issue .......
The connection string i used was :
"Provider=PostgreSQL OLE DB provider;Data Source=192.168.88.204,5432;location=bmc;UserID=pos tgres;password=postgres;timeout=3000";
I tried using the connection string with a colon in between IP and Port instead of comma like below:
"Provider=PostgreSQL OLE DB provider;Data Source=192.168.88.204:5432;location=bmc;UserID=pos tgres;password=postgres;timeout=3000";
also results in the same error
But when I removed the port number from the Data source, then I got a different error
"FATAL: invalid command-line arguments for server process
HINT: Try "postgres --help" for more information."
Please help me to resolve this issue
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IF you install that little utility I pointed out, you can use it to choose the provider, supply host info, credentials, and default database, and then test the connection. After which, the connection string used (and tested) is placed into the clipboard.Lou
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Try to use port argument
Perhaps you missing something in your connection string, try to use this one:
Provider=PostgreSQL OLE DB Provider;Location=posdbv2005;Data Source=10.10.10.27;Port=5433;UserID=postgres;Passw ord=d link5 17
instead of yours:
Provider=PostgreSQL OLE DB Provider;Location=posdbv2005;Data Source=10.10.10.27,5433;UserID=postgres;Password=d link5 17
Hope it works.


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Common Thyroid Problems
The thyroid gland can be prone to problems that may require surgery. Some of the more common thyroid problems include:
Thyroid Nodule
Sometimes the thyroid develops nodules or lumps which usually do not cause symptoms, but occasionally can be seen or felt in the neck. The occurrence of thyroid nodules increases with age and affects almost 10 percent of the adult population, most of whom are women. The great majority of nodules are benign.
Your physician will order tests to determine whether the nodule is benign or malignant. These tests may include:
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- Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the nodule
In addition, surgery may be recommended based on a nodule that is painful, slowly enlarging, obstructing another process or causes discomfort.
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Both FNA and pathologic evaluation of a removed nodule are used to establish the type of thyroid cancer present. There are four types of thyroid cancer (carcinomas): follicular, papillary, medullary and anaplastic. Regardless of type, the recommended treatment for thyroid cancer is total thyroidectomy with the removal of enlarged lymph nodes.
Papillary and Follicular Cancer
Approximately six weeks after surgery, patients with papillary and follicular cancers may be treated with radioactive iodine (I131) to destroy any remaining thyroid cells. I131 is readily absorbed by the cells, killing only thyroid tissue. Patients are then given oral thyroid replacement medication for life. This three-pronged treatment — surgery, I131 and thyroid replacement medication — is highly effective in treating papillary and follicular carcinomas and should lead to a normal life expectancy.
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Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is rare, and often seen in patients or families with multiple endocrine tumors. Treatment of medullary carcinoma is to remove the entire thyroid and any enlarged lymph nodes. Unlike papillary and follicular carcinoma, medullary carcinoma does not usually benefit from I131 therapy.
Anaplastic Cancer
Anaplastic cancer of the thyroid is very rare. It is a highly aggressive cancer and is difficult to cure. Treatment for anaplastic cancer consists of a combination of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
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The term goiter describes any enlargement of the thyroid gland. The causes of enlarged thyroids are not well understood. Patients with a goiter may have normal thyroid function, or sometimes produce too little or too much thyroid hormone. Many people live with goiters without any problem. However, some people may find them unsightly or have difficulty breathing or swallowing as the enlarged gland presses on the windpipe and the esophagus. Some patients complain of a pressure sensation or discomfort in the neck. The usual treatment for a troublesome or symptomatic goiter is surgical removal.
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- Price$1,250,000
- Beds5
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- Sq. Ft.4,640
- Acres0.58
- Built1994
1508 Wildhorse Parkway Dr, Wildwood
Exceptional brick & stone crafted 1.5 Sty in prestigious Wildhorse! Open floor plan features extensive millwork, arched entryways & gleaming wood floors that flow throughout the main floor. Dramatic 2-sty marble foyer leads to private study, elegant dining room & stunning great room with marble fireplace, wet bar & 2-sty wall of windows overlooking infinity pool & tree-lined grounds. State-of-the-art kitchen adjoins light-filled breakfast room & hearth room with dimensional ceiling & stone fireplace. Coffered master bedroom suite with luxury bath with Jacuzzi offers a relaxing retreat. Front & rear staircases access 3 additional bedrooms, 1 with ensuite bath & 2 with Jack n' Jill bath, plus loft sitting room. Walk-out Lower Level includes recreation room with entertainment center, game room, workout room, 2nd kitchen, 5th bedroom & full bath. Situated on a .58 acre lot with pool & 3-car garage. Neighborhood community with 2 swimming pools, tennis, walking trails & wildlife preserves.
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- Price$1,250,000
- Bedrooms5
- Bathrooms5.00
- Full Baths4
- Half Baths1
- Square Footage4,640
- Acres0.58
- Year Built1994
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- Basement TypeBathroom in LL, Fireplace in LL, Rec/Family Area, Sleeping Area, Walk-Out
- AmenitiesClub-Pool, Clubhouse/Facilities, Club-Tennis, Private Inground Pool
- FeaturesBurglar Alarm-Owned, Covered Porch, In-Ground Sprklr Sys, Patio, Smoke Alarm/Detec
- Parking Spaces3
- ParkingAttached Garage, Garage Door Opener, Rear/Side Entry
- # of Garages3
- Community Pool & Private PoolYes
- Lot DescriptionBacks to Trees/Woods, Fencing, Sidewalks, Streetlights
- Windows6 Panel Door(s), Atrium Door(s), Bay/Bow Window, French Door(s)
- ConstructionBrick/Stone Msn Pred, Vinyl Siding
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- Date ListedAugust 10th, 2017
- Days on Market105
- HOA Fees800
- HOA Fees Freq.Yearly
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- Address1508 Wildhorse Parkway Dr
- AreaLafayette
- SubdivisionWildhorse Village
- CityWildwood
- CountySt Louis
- StateMO
- Zip Code63005
- InteriorBuilt-In Bookcases, Coffered Ceilings, Special Millwork, Some Window Treatmnt, Vaulted Ceiling, Walk-In Closets, Wetbar, Some Wood Floors
- AppliancesDishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Range Hood, Range/Oven-Gas, Refrigerator, Trash Compactor, Wine Cooler
- HeatingForced Air
- CoolingCeiling Fan, Central-Electric
- BasementBathroom in LL, Fireplace in LL, Rec/Family Area, Sleeping Area, Walk-Out
- FireplaceYes
- # of Fireplaces3
- FireplacesGas, Woodburning Fireplce, Freestanding/Stove
- Stories1.5 Story
School Information
- DistrictRockwood R-VI
- ElementaryChesterfield Elem.
- MiddleRockwood Valley Middle
- HighLafayette Sr. High
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Commuters are set for more travel chaos as storm and snow prepare to batter Scotland.
The Met Office said there would be a "multi-pronged attack" of wind, rain and snow striking the country tomorrow. The heavy rain could lead to more flooding as downpours of up to 40mm (1.6 inches) could fall in just six hours, a spokesman said.
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Met Office forecaster Steven Keates said coastal regions could see gusts of 70mph.
In the highlands of Wales, northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the rain could turn to snow, with 5cm to 10cm (2-4 inches) falling above 300 metres and perhaps as much as 20cm (8 inches) above 400 metres.
The weather has already caused problems for commuters after Network Rail was forced to close part of the West Coast Maine Line yesterday due to high winds.
Windsor, Maidenhead and communities along the Thames in Surrey remain at high risk of flooding from the River Thames today and Friday, with significant flooding of homes and businesses expected.
The Thames has recorded some of its highest levels for 60 years, the Environment Agency said, and while water levels may fall today they are expected to rise again on the Thames and Severn, affecting places already experiencing flooding.
Flooding continues on the Somerset Levels and Moors, and there is still a high risk of coastal floods in Dorset.
Environment Agency chief executive Paul Leinster said: "We are continuing to see the very real and devastating impacts that flooding can have on communities and businesses. We know the distress that flooding can cause and are doing everything we can to reduce the impacts.
"Some communities will see a brief respite today, but unfortunately the risk of flooding will continue. We ask people to remain vigilant and take action where necessary.
"We expect to see river levels rising again with more rain forecast for Friday and Saturday."
In Winchester, Hampshire, Environment Agency teams have been creating a temporary flood storage area to cope with water levels on the River Itchen.
The agency has also been out across the country, ensuring blockages are removed from rivers, putting up temporary defences and supporting the deployment of sandbags by local authorities.
Christchurch Borough Council in Dorset has come under fire from ministers after it emerged they were charging locals £30 for four sandbags on the basis that the situation in the area was not an emergency.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg rejected calls for cash to be diverted from the UK's £11 billion foreign aid budget to help flood victims.
The Government will review flood defences after waters have receded, said Mr Clegg, promising: "I will make sure, as Deputy Prime Minister, that as we review things we do so in a way that makes lasting change, where we can make that change, where we can afford it and deliver it."
He said he backed dredging in rivers where it could make a difference, but warned that it should not be viewed as a "magic wand" solution.
The latest bad weather will compound the misery for communities who have seen rivers rise to record levels and prolonged flooding in what has been described by army chief Major General Patrick Sanders as an "almost unparalleled" natural crisis.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the chaos even threatened to derail Britain's economic recovery.
Since early December, 5,800 properties have been flooded across the country, with high winds causing further problems yesterday.
Wiltshire Police said a man in his 70s died in a suspected electrocution while attempting to move a tree which had brought down power cables near Chippenham.
A lorry driver was taken to hospital after high winds blew over his vehicle in Bristol, while another man received treatment after becoming trapped under a fallen tree in Chivenor, Barnstaple, Devon.
Road and rail travellers endured another miserable day, with wind and rain closing major routes and wrecking train services across the UK.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said the current conditions showed the "possible consequences of a world in which extreme weather events are much more likely".
At an event hosted by think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research, Mr Davey delivered a stinging attack on the fringes of the Conservative Party and Ukip for "parroting the arguments of the most discredited climate change deniers".
But in questions after the speech, he insisted that he worked very closely with Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, who has come under fire from green groups for his climate scepticism, on flooding, and that he had support from around the Cabinet table including from the Prime Minister.
The first priority was to tackle the consequences of the current flooding, power cuts and transport disruption, Mr Davey said.
But when it came to assessing the long-term causes of flooding, Mr Davey said he liked to listen to the scientists and pointed to the assertion by the Met Office in the past week that there was a link between climate change and the winter storms.
"Climate change scientists have been warning for some time there will be an increase in extreme weather events. I think we do need to take what the scientists are telling us extremely seriously."
He said there was a need to continue with investment to adapt society and the economy to the climate change that was already happening as well as being ambitious with efforts to stop global warming getting worse.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced in a written statement to MPs that councils would be able to reclaim emergency spending on flood relief until the end of May in recognition of "the extended nature of the weather".
"This vital extension will give councils the reassurance that they will have time to deal with the effects of the weather and still have time to properly assess local costs," he said.
Some 80% of payments under the Bellwin scheme, which provides emergency financial assistance to local authorities during exceptional circumstances, will also be made now, rather than forcing councils to wait until the situation has cleared up.
"This means that local authorities will have access to the cash they need right now to deal with the pressing problems caused by the weather.
"Local authorities simply need to put in a request to my department and we will pay up to 80% of spending which is eligible under the Bellwin scheme," said Mr Pickles.
He added: "For the avoidance of doubt, where local authorities issue sandbags as a result of an emergency the cost can be claimed through the Bellwin scheme. In that context, I wish to be clear that no local authority should be charging their residents for sandbags."
Prime Minister David Cameron has chaired the first meeting of a new Cabinet committee set up to coordinate long-term plans on flood recovery and resilience.
The committee agreed to review the Bellwin scheme, look at the resilience of the transport network to extreme weather, and review the investment guidelines on flood defences, which have come under fire for being too strict to provide needed protection.
Mr Cameron said that, while the country was in the grip of the severe weather, it remained the Government's immediate priority to do all it could to help affected local communities and coordinate the emergency response.
"We are doing everything we can to help people and businesses deal with the flooding and get back on their feet. And through this new Cabinet committee we are doing all we can to ensure resilience in the future," he said.
Hundreds of properties remain at risk of flooding, the Environment Agency has warned, as southern England prepared for another battering by the winter storms
With the Met Office warning of more heavy rain and high winds with gusts of up to 80mph, the EA said it could be weeks for inundated communities to get back to normal.
"I expect we will see hundreds of properties looking to flood," EA programme director Toby Willison told a Whitehall press briefing.
The Government's chief fire and rescue adviser Peter Holland said that 70% of the fire and rescue services in England and Wales were now involved in the flood relief effort.
"We are now seeing the largest deployment of fire and rescue service assets since the Second World War," he said.
Tony Glover of the Energy Networks Association said that 56,000 homes were still without power after yesterday's storm and that it was unclear when they would have their electricity restored.
"We are hoping practically everybody will be restored," he said.
"We are working very hard to get people back on in very, very difficult circumstances."


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Mary Ann Cooper
Montclair State University (MSU) has been making great strides to further develop their School of Communication and Media to reflect the exploding media industrial complex that it has become. Its Center for Cooperative Media is just one example of the way this university is embracing a high tech future. Another example is the hands-on community outreach done by the School of Communication and Media to inspire and encourage young budding journalists from minority neighborhoods to pursue careers in communications.
Earlier this year, Stefanie Murray was named director of the Center for Cooperative Media at MSU. She now is in charge of the Center that brings together over 150 news outlets throughout New Jersey in what is the nation's only formally organized statewide network of media entities. The Center is based within Montclair State's School of Communication and Media.
An award-winning journalist and editor, Murray was the recipient of an Associated Press News Writing Award in 2008 (public service) and in 2010 (breaking news) during her time as a reporter in Michigan. Most recently, Murray was the vice president/news and executive editor of The Tennessean and TN Media.
Murray, who has a Master of Science degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcasting and journalism from Central Michigan University, is a welcome addition to MSU. "She brings to the Center for Cooperative Media significant experience in the areas of local news reporting, information gathering, digital transformation, organizational development and business strategy," said Merrill Brown, director of the School of Communication and Media. "Over the course of the past three years, the Center has played a key leadership role in growing the New Jersey news and information ecosystems. We're confident that Stefanie will now lead the Center in new and exciting directions as we continue to focus on how we and our partners can best serve the people of New Jersey, and we further explore how this innovative model might be successfully applied to other media markets."
In addition to its various ongoing training, research and innovation initiatives, the Center for Cooperative Media is focused on statewide collaborative enterprise journalism projects. It recently partnered with various New Jersey news outlets to create "Dirty Little Secrets," a reporting project highlighting the lingering impacts of New Jersey's toxic legacy. The Center is currently developing "In the Shadow of Liberty," a collaborative project dedicated to in-depth reporting on issues surrounding immigration.
A great example of journalism projects from MSU's School of Communication and Media occurred this past summer when the school held its first Journalism Boot Camp to give New Jersey minority middle and high school students a chance to become a journalist for three days. The students were not only able to get some real-life experiences to practice their interviewing schools, they also got a taste of college life as residents of the MSU dormitories while completing the program.
The Montclair State University Summer Journalism Workshop for High School Students is a new program by the School of Communication and Media (SCM) and provides an all-expense-paid journalism and college preparation program for high school students. Students have the chance to engage in various forms of communication media and learn reporting skills across multiple platforms. This program targets high-performing North Jersey high school journalists and is designed to prepare students for college and potential fields of study within journalism and communications.
Students receive hands-on training and exposure to technology, cameras and other storytelling tools of the trade as they actively participate in filmmaking, broadcasting and multi-platform journalism. They learn from SCM faculty and invited working professionals about scripting, casting, photographing and editing, and ultimately presenting their projects. By encouraging high-performing students from diverse backgrounds to pursue careers in journalism, this program fosters deeper relationships and expanded civic engagement with neighboring towns, including Newark, Paterson, the Oranges and Montclair.
One of the camp's highlights was the chance for students to write about a historical first: the Professional Baseball team the New Jersey Jackals versus the Cuban National Baseball Team at Yogi Berra Stadium. This marks the first time a Cuban professional team has played on American soil since the Havana Sugar Kings in 1960. The Cuban National Team, which has won three Olympic gold medals and 25 World Baseball Championships, is the same team that played the Tampa Bay Rays in an exhibition last March following President Obama's historic trip to Havana. The team's visit to MSU was one of only three stops it made in the United States.
Reporting on the Cuban National Team's visit fits into a growing concentration that MSU's School of Communication and Media has been developing over the past few years. The school will be opening a new, state-of-the-art building, outfitted with 4K Sony technology in January of 2017. •


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All I truly want in this world is to leave it a better place. This is why The Women's Worldwide Web is such an important part of who I am and what I do. One of the most powerful aspects is the way in which we aspire to harness our collaborative edge so that everyone who is part of our community can play a part in the virtuous cycle of weaving the women's web.
One very touching and tangible way this manifested was through my 42nd birthday in 2012. Very much in the spirit of our collaborative edge, we sparked a virtuous cycle by connected W4, poetry and social marketing. I came up with 'Births for my Birthday,' a crowdfunding online-off line event to sponsor safe births through W4 Field Partner Birthing Project USA! What could be more poetic, activist and virtuous than ushering in safe births for both mothers and babies who would otherwise be at risk? By connecting my poetry family at The louderARTS Project with my social justice family at W4 and harnessing the connectivity of Facebook, I succeeded in partying like I have never done before. I matched the funds generated, and W4 matched the total matched funds! The results are amazing: 500 safe birth kits, that's 500 louderBABIES!
There are endless ways, all inspiring and empowering that we can all weave the women's web, and it is our hope to form a collective of change-agents who propel the virtuous cycle.
Bringing people together from all around the world, from all sorts of backgrounds, cultures and income levels, The Women's WorldWide Web (W4) is uniquely powerful in its capacity to generate change--REAL, SUSTAINABLE CHANGE. I'm proud to play any part I can in this endeavour to help the girls and women of the world to help themselves and their families. From the less glittery streets of New York City to the cemetery-slums of the Philippines or the most remote villages in Africa (where it can take several days to walk to the nearest hospital), W4 is working--through field partners and volunteers and donors/lenders--to make the world a safer, fairer place for everyone. I love the reach of this organization, on every axis, as it allows people to come together from anywhere and everywhere to have a hand in shaping the future of our world. For more specific details about W4's life-changing work and to discover what you can do to be a part of this commitment to making a fairer, more sharing world, please feel welcome to visit The Women's WorldWide Web on Facebook or at www.w4.org.
I first started working on W4's web platform 4 years ago with my classmates Lindsey and Isabelle. Little did I know though the extent to which it would grow and effectively affect women's and girl's lives throuhout the world. This comes through to me as reminder that with tenacity, dedication and passion for a higher cause, anything is possible. Today I am very proud to belong to this wonderfull organizartion.


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7/G Brindavan Colony Trailer (2013)
15 October 2013 Drama, Romance, Family 150 mins
Kathir (Ravi Krishna) is a young underachiever, frequently venting his frustrations through public outbursts. When a north Indian girl Anitha (Sonia Agarwal) moves into his neighborhood, he falls head over heels in love with her, and aggressively expresses interest. When she does not respond favorably, things get out of hand. Decent performances, though could have been paced better.
Watch the official 7/G Brindavan Colony 2013 trailer in HD below or find more 7/G Brindavan Colony videos on Vidimovie.


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Abercrombie & Fitch's Savile Row Plans Scuppered
American teen wear retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is facing further setbacks in its absurd attempt to open a children's store on Savile Row. Their latest application to Westminster Council was described as ÔÇťdeeply flawedÔÇŁ by one council official.
The sections of the plans objected to by the council centre around Abercrombie & Fitch wishing to make major structural changes to the Grade II-listed building they have bought at number 3 Savile Row. The company applied for permission to open a childrenÔÇÖs store last year and was allowed to move into the building, which comes under a Special Policy Area order designed to keep tailoring as the principal trading activity on Savile Row.
Other requests in the retailer's application that were refused included playing music loud enough to be heard on the street; allowing hordes of teenagers to linger on the pavement outside the store; vulgar celebrity-attended promotional events and pumping eau de cologne out of the windows to attract customers (and besmirch the clothing of customers visiting their tailors on Savile Row). A report by the councilÔÇÖs strategic director for built environment said a plan for fixed screens on the windows, shutting out light to create a nightclub feel, was ÔÇťdeeply flawedÔÇŁ and damaging to the character of the street. It also said the flagpoles that normally hang from Abercrombie & Fitch stores were ÔÇťhighly inappropriateÔÇŁ. Abercrombie & Fitch have appealed and a public inquiry is set for February 12.
When the proposed new store was announced last year, The Chap staged a protest outside number 3, Savile Row on 23rd April, chanting our slogan, "Give Three-Piece a Chance." It looks as though Westminster Council has either heard our voices, or has some very well-dressed councillors on the board.
25 Responses to "Abercrombie & Fitch's Savile Row Plans Scuppered"
Hip hip!
Blooody Marvelous! Don't drop the guard, thou. The punch-up isn't over yet..
Blimey, dropped an "L". Funny, it's usually the "aitches" wot I drops!
Truly fantastic news. Well done gentlemen, well done.
I say! Good show! But let's not get carried away with victory in one battle. There's a whole war to win, chaps!
Well done! Jolly good news!
We must put a bespoke in their wheels !
Their store has ruined the block of Fifth Avenue here in New York. Very good news to hear that you are winning the battle!
Abercrombie and Watsit! Pah! Well see hear you'll not have me wearing any extra tight fitting tweed undershirts. Oh no Sir. The old chap only just recovered after matrons last assault with this winters woolen undergarments. Bloody outrage. Pour me another Teachers, Potter!
Bien jou├ę. En effet, c'eut ├ęt├ę intol├ęrable.
Keep on with the good job!
Captain Cap
Top hole chaps!!
Top hole chaps. Up and at 'em!!
The only redeeming feature of having this emporium in Saville Row is that their clientelle might be persauded to use one of the other proper establishments.
They wouldn't, what was I thinking. Pass me a pipe before I come over all unnecessary.
Bloody good show chap bloody good show.
Smashing. Firm hand shakes and kisses all round. On second thought, no kisses. That's a bit French.
A splendid bit of Gunboat diplomacy now lets give 'em a full broadside and remind them that Britannia can still rule the fine tailoring industry.
See the bounders off!
The revolution will be tailored!
Sorry, that should have read "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, but it will be tailored", hit the enter key prematurely by mistake whilst reaching for the sherry glass
Right ho! Keep up the good fight, gents, but youÔÇÖre in for the tangle of your lives. YouÔÇÖll need some Jeeves-like maneuvering to keep these blighters down all right. Insidious rot! For us in the former colonies, itÔÇÖs a fait accompli IÔÇÖm afraid, but IÔÇÖm rootinÔÇÖ for you hard.
Wilberforce P. Chips
Chinese sweatshop clothing available in Savile Row!…who would ever have thought! What next..a Nandos or KFC?
We will fight them on the bleaches. Stand firm Chaps. Over the top at dawn..I trust I have bespoke for a number of others.
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I'm starting to see mint and other pastel colored manicures all over the city this week, so I took it to mean the beauty equivalent of groundhog day. I have a bit of an obsession with the color mint, and own a few accessories in this sweet, preppy hue. It's more refined than teal but not as uptight as royal blue, so really, it strikes a perfect balance. The bright cheery color just evokes a very spring-like giddiness in me that I cannot control!
The color I'm wearing is called "Turquoise & Caicos" from the 2010 resort collection by Essie ($8.50, Ulta.com), and it is perfect for spring. I always see mint worn so many different ways in the summer but spring really is the season for this gorgeous pastel. Unlike with eyeshadow or clothes keeping the mint limited to nails still lets you express your joy for the season but in a classy, grown-up way. Co-workers will see you in your otherwise typical outfit but your nails will carry a secret: Spring is here!
If you really want to have fun with this color, you can add a cute nail applique or design using one of the many nail design kits out there. Personally, I prefer to keep it simple and let this color speak for itself. A hint of mint on my hands and a neutral toned outfit to compliment is perfect for work, school, or even brunch with the in laws.
Tell Us: Do you change up your nail colors for spring? What color is your manicure this week?
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text: The character of the officers is not the issue in this case. Despite what seems to be a dislike of one another between the two officers, the fact remains that Bosetti's actions set the case for Takos to be sent for medical treatment without fear of charge on DUI and that Lucinski showed up too late to change the situation. Seems Lucinski still attempted to change the situation/facts. Isolated incident. Attacking character and judgement in this is useless. You would all make terrible lawyers.


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House cleaning is a dirty job and no one can deny that fact. However, some cleaning tools actually look pretty. Here are some of them.
Even if you consider yourself an organized person, you have to admit it that your kitchen is not always as spick and span as you want it to be. The issue gets even worse if you have the lack of space problem but you keep throwing stuff on the counters and buy more or less useful appliances. Decluttering the counters can be a bit challenging but once you complete the procedure, you will find out that you have much more space, not to mention the purely aesthetical aspect. Your kitchen will look tidy and cosy. Here are a few steps you have to take in order to make sure you have everything necessary and keep the useless stuff spread on the counters to the minimum:
Weird and wonderful hallways
If you are lucky enough to have a big hallway, then it's very easy to fit everything you have in mind. However, if you have just a tiny sized hallway you should be a lot more attentive and willing to play with different ideas. First, you have to look around and see exactly how much space you have and tо do your best. Well, here are some really clever ideas you can definitely use:
September 2016
"Curiosity keeps us moving, exploring, experimenting, opening new doors" - Walt Disney


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The King for Everyone
After every election, whether for British parliament or Venezuelan president or US Congress, there are always winners and losers. Supporters of victorious candidates feel vindicated and triumphant, while supporters of losing candidates feel rebuffed and defeated. Politics, bound as it is to flawed arrangements of power, always divides people. It always pits one's hopes and visions for the future against the hopes and visions of another.
Promises, Promises
Presidential elections take place around the globe on a regular basis. The campaign leading up to voting day can be long and laden with political promises. It appears that many politicians believe the key to winning is to make big promises.
Throne of God
When considering the amazing book of Revelation, I sometimes shudder as I contemplate the trials and tribulations the apostle John forewarns will occur prior to Jesus' return. Recently, however, I joined thousands of men and women around the world for an in-depth, yearlong study of Revelation.
Persecuted but Growing
There are few events of greater historical significance in the 20th century than China's Cultural Revolution. The Communist Party instituted changes at every level of society to enforce its ideology. These included the persecution of the nation's Christians, with many sent to labor camps. It's estimated that the Cultural Revolution resulted in the death of 30 million Chinese people and forced the church underground. But decades later, it turns out that the efforts to wipe out Christianity had the opposite effect. Experts believe that there are more Christians worshiping in underground churches in China than there are total believers in the US!
Rejoicing in Deep Need
I read an online obituary for a friend's father. My heart ached for my friend as I imagined how painful it would be to lose a parent. I sent him an email of condolence and was surprised by his quick response. "It's been a tough year, but I'm rejoicing in our hope in Christ." Even as he mourned, he spoke of hope and faith.
God's Love Revealed
When I speak at high schools, one question I'm frequently asked is, "If God loves us, why do so many people suffer in the world?" In responding to my listeners, I challenge the idea that God best expresses His love to us by giving us things and simply making our lives easy. This inaccurate way of viewing how He operates exists and persists both inside and outside of the church.
God with Us
The chorus from the Grammy award-winning song From a Distance gives the impression that God keeps His eye on us from a long way off.
On September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was one of 44 people who were killed when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after being hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists.
Life and Loss
Since the early days of human existence it's been a constant foe. Recently it came calling in a friend's life as she lamented her children not walking with Jesus. Another friend bemoaned the death of what had been a loving marriage. A family member looked at me with teary eyes, trying to form words that couldn't come due to dementia. Another family member, deep in the throes of grief because of her father's death, said softly, "I can't believe he's gone."
The Unhappy Sin
Essayist Joseph Epstein writes, "Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all." He goes on to say that envy makes us look "ungenerous, mean, and small-hearted." There's plenty of research to back up Epstein's statement. In fact, psychologists have found that envy decreases life satisfaction and diminishes well-being. It's correlated with depression and neuroticism, and the hostility envy breeds may actually make us physically sick.
Voice of Reason
Except for technological advances, the first century AD wasn't much different than the 21st. The human condition can be depressingly consistent: injustice, exploitation, oppression, violence.
When my sister left a high-paying government job after 14 years, many people were surprised. I believe God led her to the job (a long story), used it to train and equip her (another long story), and called her away from it (yet another lengthy tale). In fact, she had to leave her work with no new job in place. There wasn't time to ponder, because she had loads of projects to finish and hand over. Yet, by God's grace, she didn't fret. She was fully convinced that God her Shepherd would provide for her (Psalm 23:1).
Happy Ascension Day
Let me be the first to say to you, Happy Ascension Day! Today we commemorate when Jesus' disciples witnessed their risen Lord being "taken up to heaven" (Luke 24:50-51). It's understandable if you didn't know about this special date. Generally speaking, it's a day on the church calendar that often comes quietly and goes with little attention or fanfare.
Changing Our Tune
When my friend received a traffic ticket for speeding in a construction zone, he decided to contest it in court. As he put it, he was driving below the posted speed limit when another vehicle raced past him. The police officer's radar gun had recorded the other car's speed. But the judge would have none of it.
Certain Goodness
As my sister and I were growing up, our parents taught us about the love of Jesus and to enjoy intimate prayer with Him. As I grew older, sometimes life's varied challenges pressed hard on me, and my prayers became requests based on need rather than tender dialogues with the One who delights in giving to His children (Matthew 7:11). In other words, my prayers were based on circumstances rather than on God's character. Over time, I've learned to ask according not only to His will but also His goodness.


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April 23, 2011 BY Aaron Hope
Sneaker News just showed you one of the last pairs of Nike Tokis created with a cute little microdot pattern for ladies, and now here's one for the guys that's one degree different for just about every thinkable design element. First off, it's not a Toki but rather one of the original 'lifestyle' looks in the Nike Blazer Mid. These joints come in a darker navy blue (Obsidian, to be precise), and it's more of a denim than the Tokis' canvas uppers. These feature a similar dotted pattern but instead of tiny circles, these slightly larger squares offer a more masculine (or perhaps neutral) appeal and are nicely finished off with leather accents. Click through to get a better look and check back with us soon for updates on the US release. via Dunk
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