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Children's Memory Research Group
Deborah Connolly, Ph.D, LL.B.
Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies
The focus of my research is children's autobiographical memory reports, particularly reports of repeated events. Children's memory for repeated events is important both theoretically and practically and my research reflects both foci. Autobiographical memory is one of the first forms of memory to develop and continues to evolve throughout our lives. Often, when we think of autobiographical memory, we think about unique and exciting experiences. In fact, most of our autobiographical memory involves multiple experiences with familiar events. How this information is organized and what we can expect children to remember is a key theme for the Children's Memory Lab.
The practical importance of understanding children's memory for repeated events is particularly acute in the forensic context. Unfortunately, child abuse is often a repeated event. If a criminal investigation is initiated, the child will likely be asked to report details of a particular episode or a subset of episodes of abuse. Our research is meant to support the prosecution of such crimes without compromising the fundamental right of accused persons to be presumed innocent. We strive to understand better the strengths and weaknesses of children's memory for particular episodes from a series of similar episodes. We are similarly concerned with the perceived credibility of such reports. In legal settings, actual truth is not known, it is presumed from assessments of the believability of the allegation and the complainant, among other things.
Recently, in criminal jurisdictions throughout the Common-law world there has been a dramatic increase in prosecutions involving child sexual abuse that is alleged to have occurred in the very distant past. This presents tremendous legal challenges that we are studying, primarily, through analyses of legal decisions.
Jesse Elterman, M.A., Graduate Student
Jesse Elterman is a 3rd year PhD student in the clinical-forensic psychology program at SFU. His research interests are in children's involvement in the legal system. For his MA, he studied the role of race in perceptions of child credibility. For his PhD, he is examining whether children have the cognitive ability to malinger head injuries.
Jennifer Lucyk, B.A., Graduate Student
Jennifer Lucyk is a M.A. Candidate in the experimental Law and Psychology program at Simon Fraser University. She completed her B.A. (Honours) in Psychology at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, ON, in 2007, under the supervision of Dr. Laura Melnyk. She joined the Connolly Lab in 2007. Her research interests centre on children's memory and suggestibility, the effects of stereotypes of child sexual abuse (CSA) on judicial decision making, and the accuracy of witnesses' person descriptions of strangers. Her MA thesis examines the influence of event frequency and training on children's accurate responding and ability to retract initial false reports. Her research is supported by an AP-LS Grant-in-Aid.
Emily Slinger, B.A., Graduate Student
Emily Slinger is a M.A. candidate in the experimental Law and Psychology program. She completed her BA (Honours) in Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON in 2008. Emily's research interests include children's memory organization for repeated events, the effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) stereotypes on judicial decision making, and indices of social influence in mock juror deliberations. Her thesis applies a reaction time (RT) approach to the conceptualization of children's natural memory organization for details of a repeatedly experienced event. Her research is supported by the CGS Master's fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Current Graduate Students
Former Graduate Students
Heather Price, Ph.D
Heather Price is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina. After completing her Ph.D. with Dr. Connolly, she undertook concurrent postdoctoral fellowships with Dr. Peter Ornstein at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and with Dr. Kim Roberts at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her broad area of interest is in children as victims and witnesses. Specifically, she examines children's memory for instances of repeated and stressful events, and investigative interviewing of children.
Tristin Wayte, Ph.D
Dr. Tristin Wayte completed her PhD in the experimental stream of Law and Forensic Psychology in 2006. Her main area of research is child and adolescent mental health law, and her dissertation focused on comprehension of rights under the Mental Health Act. After graduation, she moved into her current role as Evaluation Consultant for BC Mental Health and Addiction Services, under the Provincial Health Services Authority. She uses her research background to develop and implement projects that monitor clinical and program outcomes expected from treatment protocols, from programs and policies across Riverview, Children's and Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals. The results of these projects are then looped back to the clinical and administrative teams in an effort to improve the quality of patient care.
Heidi Gordon, Ph.D.
Heidi completed her PhD in April of 2009. Her dissertation explored the influence of directed forgetting on children's autobiographical memory in an attempt to examine children's omissions, or failures to report details of an event. Heidi is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto studying children's moral development with Dr. Kang Lee. She continues to investigate omissions in the context of children's lie-telling behaviour and secret-keeping.
Jennifer Lavoie, M.A.
Jennifer A. A. Lavoie is a Ph.D. candidate in the experimental stream of the Law and Psychology Program at Simon Fraser University. She attended Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, where she completed her BA (Hons) in Psychology in 2001 under the supervision of Dr. Timothy Pychyl. Jen joined Dr. Deborah Connolly's lab in the fall of 2001 to begin a graduate program of research examining children, memory and deception. Jen completed her M.A. in Law and Psychology at SFU in 2004. Her Master's thesis, entitled
The Efficacy of Criterion-Based Content Analysis and Reality Monitoring in Discriminating between Reports of Single, Repeated and Fabricated Events,
investigated the capacity of two techniques in classifying the veracity of children's statements. Her dissertation work explores the role of situational stress and coping in predicting multiple adverse outcomes (e.g., violence, victimization) among mentally disordered persons living in the community. As well as lecturing at Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario, Jen has held a position as a research officer with BC Mental Health and Addiction Services. She currently works as a research consultant for the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Former Honours Students
Sara Cox
Sara is in her 5
year at SFU working on an honours in Psychology and a minor in Gerontology. She completed her honours research in Dr. Connolly's lab. Her thesis focused on memory for repeated events in an adult population. Specifically, she investigated memory for deviations and the recency and primacy effect using a series of children's stories. Right now, she is finishing up the last few courses for her minor and applying for graduate school.
Melissa Northcott, B.A.
Melissa worked with Dr. Connolly as a research assistant from 2003 until 2007, helping with several different studies testing children's memories for repeated events. She conducted a directed studies project with Dr. Connolly focusing on the credibility of victims of historical child sexual abuse. She was also co-supervised by Dr. Connolly on her Honours thesis, which focused on the effects of stereotypes on juror decision making in child sexual abuse trials. Melissa is currently completing her MA at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
Current Research Assistants
Cait Walker
Angelina Yiu
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The Jets pre-apologized for the Tim Tebow trade by giving quarterback Mark Sanchez more than $20 million guaranteed over the next two years via a new contract. They're now possibly apologizing after the fact by giving Sanchez's boyhood friend a job, again.
The Jets have re-signed Scotty McKnight, the team announced on Tuesday.
Originally acquired via a seventh-round pick in 2011, McKnight was among the final roster cuts in September. He later was added to the practice squad, and McKnight tore an ACL in November.
Sanchez and McKnight were ball boys at Santa Margarita High School when Carson Palmer played quarterback there. In 2011, Sanchez threw passes to McKnight at his Colorado Pro Day workout. Sanchez thereafter went on the record to sing his friend's praises.
"He's the best guy who didn't go to the Combine," Sanchez said regarding McKnight. "He didn't drop a ball [at the Pro Day workout]. He'd be a steal for someone."
And so, at a time when Tim Tebow apparently is intent on stealing Sanchez's job, the Jets have given the fourth-year quarterback a locker-room ally.
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Sometimes, Company, when I am in the car, I like to hear like other voices talking to me. Not so much the voices that are in my head, but other people...human voices. I had one of those times today, and since I like sports, I tuned my radio to sports radio on the AM dial. That is when I heard something freaking amazing. They were talking about some sort of football player who had hurt himself and was expected to be out for the rest of the regular season after getting arthroscopic knee surgery. That is not terribly impressive until you realize that there are only like three weeks left in the regular season.
Holy fucking shit! Do you realize how amazing that is? I mean, I understand that professional athletes are highly conditioned and in the best shape, and that they have medical coverage that is way beyond what even the Big Dave and Company HMO could ever dream of. And that is all well and good, but that is still impressive. They can take a person with an injury that in caveman times a.) probably wouldn't have happened and b.) probably would have killed the person and make two little holes, insert some tubes with cameras and little grabbers, and sew stuff up and make it good again. Then, in three weeks they could be back to playing PROFESSIONAL SPORTS like they were before. That is incredible.
Have you ever really thought of that? By the time they started to get some sort of medicine, by the start of the 20th Century or so, they would have put some braces on the guy and he would have been lucky to be walking again, but here we are and he is going to be not only walking but running and bearing a ton of weight and getting pushed on by fat sweaty guys? That is fucking nuts beyond nuts. One hundred years ago, fifty years ago, nobody would have been allowed to even think about something like that happening because it would have been so far fetched. But these days it happens routinely, to the point where it almost didn't register in my mind when I hear it come out of my speakers. How amazing. The miracles of modern medicine, hey?


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TERRADES, SPAIN—A vacationing French family of five fell or jumped off a seaside cliff during a desperate attempt to escape a raging wildfire, with the father and one of his children plummeting at least 20 metres to their deaths, authorities said Monday.
Flames forced the family and about 150 other tourists out of their cars Sunday night as most were returning home to France, and the group scrambled down hillsides toward the beach in the border town of Portbou to escape the blaze, said Deputy Mayor Elisabet Cortaba.
The family became separated from the rest of the group on their way down and ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff with only one way out as the fire fanned by heavy winds approached them, Cortaba said.
They couldn't climb back up because of the fire, so the mother tried to scale down the crumbly cliff-face, but lost her grip and fell, said Tony Buixeda, the town's port manager, who was at the scene in a boat and saw the desperate family atop the precipice.
The family's teenage daughter told other rescuers she jumped, but Buixeda said he did not know whether the rest jumped or fell because he was already swimming toward the mother.
Some witnesses "said they threw themselves off, others said they fell," Buixeda said. "The only thing they could do was go to the water."
The 60-year-old father died instantly after landing on submerged rocks, and his 15-year-old daughter drowned, Cortaba said.
The mother was in a critical condition Monday with a back injury, and the son and other daughter did not suffer life-threatening injuries. All were fished from the sea by Portbou boaters and their identities were not released, Cortaba said.
The fire in Portbou happened when wildfires elsewhere forced the closure of the main highway linking Spain to France. Traffic was diverted to a smaller road via Portbou, where lines of cars safely motored toward the border.
But police determined Monday that someone in the cars had almost certainly thrown a lit cigarette out of a window, which Cortaba said had then started a fire on the pavement. With parts of Spain enduring one of the driest summers in decades, the fire raged out of control before the cars could leave and officials could shut down the road.
Two other people were also killed by the weekend fires in northeastern Spain that have burned 90 square kilometres, including one man who had a heart attack dousing flames around his home. They were also French, said French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero.
Many of the tourists that made it to the beach in Portbou suffered injuries ranging from broken bones and burns in their dash down the hillsides with no well-used paths, Cortaba said.
The trip down the hillside was also complicated for those fleeing because of thick smoke that seriously reduced visibility. The French family of five "just had bad luck that they went down the wrong way," Buixeda said.
The fires that broke out Sunday in several parts of the Catalonia region forced more than 1,400 people to stay the night in shelters. Fires were still burning Monday in many places, with roads cut off because of the billowing smoke. In some areas farmers were helping firefighters by driving water tanker trucks to burning areas.
Train service in the region was suspended and several cross-border roads linking Barcelona with France closed because of the advancing flames, regional government spokesman Felip Puig said Sunday.
Santiago Villa, mayor of Figueres, which houses the famous Salvador Dali museum, said he had ordered the city's 44,000 residents to stay indoors until further notice.
The fire service said in a statement that more than 80 teams had been deployed to combat the wildfires.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement it had sent three specially equipped aircraft to dump water on the fires.
A north wind called the Tramontana is a regular feature in mountainous northeastern Spain, and its strong gusts that often exceed 160 km/h can spread fires rapidly across the heavily forested area.


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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Simple and easy stuffies for boys
Perhaps one of my favourites is this crocodile made from polar fleece.
Frogs turn out pretty fun from polar fleece as well (yes, I know he doesn't exactly have child safe eyes, but my son was past the age of pulling the eyes off his toys when I made this for him... actually he chose these buttons for the eyes).
A lizard made from animal print polar fleece is a novelty - the choice made by my son (and again with the eyes... he exhausted my supply of this style of button when he kept wanting them to be the eyes on the bevy of creatures I made for him).
These stuffies are the easiest kind to make. Simply draw the outline of the creature on paper, pin the paper to your two layers of fabric and stitch on the drawn lines (remembering of course to leave an opening for turning the creature right side out for stuffing). My sons began sewing this way and made some imaginative creatures while building some skills with a fun project. You've got to try this - especially with polar fleece (no fraying and it's every so soft to cuddle).
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Fantastic, I love the crocodile, specially the tooths :)ReplyDelete
These are so cute and cuddly! But still boyish - which is hard to do. And a great way to use up scraps of fleece! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Wonderful creatures!ReplyDelete
They are so cute!ReplyDelete
And good idea to begin sewing!
Great softies - I especially love the croc!ReplyDelete
I love your little animals. Very cute! I am in BC also.ReplyDelete
Love the croc. Excellent fleece, just like real croc skin!ReplyDelete
those are soooo cute! and what a great way to use up scraps of polar fleece. my boys would love these.ReplyDelete
Those are adorable! You are so talented.ReplyDelete
I especially like the crocodile.
Kimberly :)
That crocodile doesn't look in the mood to be cuddled! xReplyDelete
I love your little boy toys! They are all wonderful creations.ReplyDelete
Very cute animals. I'll bet the fleece makes perfect animals too.ReplyDelete
I loved the tiny teddies. My sister makes them. She picks up old minks from the thrift shops (really cheap these days) and makes adorable teddy bears.
They are really cute!ReplyDelete
I love these little animals. I am going to teach my grandchildren a few sewing projects this summer. This has gave me some great ideas.ReplyDelete
Animal cuties!!!ReplyDelete
I enjoyed visiting your blog! I do believe you have some of my childhood sheets!!! LOL!!! Kidding!!! Wow do they bring back a memory though!!!
Happy stitching!!
That's a great idea for getting the kids started sewing! They can draw the shape and sew it into a really cool toy! I love the crocodile!ReplyDelete
What a great idea! I'm want to try some of these...too cute!ReplyDelete
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An interview with Peter Phillips, CEO of Cambridge University Press
Please describe what it is like to lead Cambridge University Press. What do you like best about it? What are the challenges, the highs and the frustrations?
Cambridge University Press is an organisation full of highly intelligent and motivated people who believe passionately in what it stands for: furthering knowledge, learning and research around the globe. It's proud of its history as the world's oldest publisher and part of one of the world's greatest universities. So leading it is a privilege and full of highs. These include pleasure in the breadth and quality of our authors and content, from Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg's new book on quantum mechanics to unpublished poetry by DH Lawrence to Justin Yifu Lin's masterly insights into the Chinese economy; being part not only of the University of Cambridge but the global community of scholarship; and the excitement of taking our wonderful heritage into a completely new age.
Obviously leading any academic and educational publisher at the moment means facing some challenges. I would say that they include creating clear direction at a time of massive uncertainty over future technology, business models and customer needs; developing new products, skills and approaches at the same time as recognising that physical books remain important for many customers; and making the organisation more flexible and responsive while keeping things working.
But there are huge opportunities too. I am not aware of any major country that doesn't want to improve its competitiveness through better education at every level (including, in most countries, better English proficiency) and more impact through its academic research. That plays to Cambridge's strengths in all the areas of our business: in academic, in English language teaching and in schools.
What are your plans for the coming year?
The challenge for all academic and educational publishers is to speed up the process of transformation from the world of physical books we all know and understand to a digital one that is increasingly centred on providing services and solutions, rather than just content. We'll continue to do that, building on the successes we've already had: investing in our digital platforms in academic and ELT to meet our users' changing needs; making the Press more flexible by no longer owning the infrastructure (e.g., printing and warehousing) for physical books; and broadening the range of services and business models we provide for major customer groups, such as libraries, lecturers and learned societies. As part of a top research university, one approach we're embracing is Open Access, by creating new OA journals and adopting a liberal policy on institutional repositories. I expect those trends will all continue.
Cambridge University Press is a worldwide organisation with offices in many countries and customers worldwide.
How do you keep in touch with the different communities that you serve and understand their priorities and pressures?
Making sure we understand the changing needs of our customers is critical but not straightforward. In the academic sector, different countries and different institutions are changing at very different rates. And we have the added complication of multiple layers of customers: librarians, students, lecturers, researchers, distributors and so on. Market surveys are important, but there is no substitute for direct conversation with key customers in every market. Our global library panel is one crucial element of that, as libraries are our single most important group of academic customers. To regularly bring together a truly international group of senior librarians and understand their perspectives on their own changing world, their views on current services and how they want those to develop is absolutely essential for us, and I hope also brings value to them in sharing perspectives with their peers and a major publisher.
Where do you think that Cambridge University Press – and academic publishing generally – will be in 3 – 5 years' time?
This is the greatest time of change in publishing since Gutenberg, so we face lots of challenges. Some organisations are providing free access to educational material and academic research; much larger commercial publishers are investing heavily; and big West Coast players are looking for new educational markets. The world economy isn't exactly robust, either. But it's also a time of huge opportunity. Almost every country sees knowledge, education and research as the only route to an attractive future, so there are fabulous opportunities for a press with a top brand which exports 85% of its products, and whose fastest growing markets are in Latin America, India and China. Cambridge's name has terrific resonance. If we are prepared to invest and take risks, we have great prospects.
I want the Press to be the 21st century's most respected academic and educational publisher, providing authoritative knowledge and learning for the world. That means maintaining our quality, being focused on things we can do better than other organisations, reinvesting in the future and being responsive to a fast-changing and uncertain world.
Tell us a little about your previous career
I'm lucky enough to be leading the world's oldest publisher without having worked in the industry before I came to the Press two and a half years ago. I've been on the board of Ofcom, the UK's media and communications regulator, and worked as a strategy consultant, but the biggest chunk of my previous career was at the BBC. Like the Press, it is an organisation that combines public purposes and the need to operate successfully in a commercial world. For me, that blend represents the most important and interesting kind of challenge. There are a lot of similarities between the Press and the BBC: both are engaging with digital transformation; both are staffed by intelligent colleagues passionate about what they do; both are organisations widely respected around the globe.
What do you do in your spare time (if you have any!)?
With my wife, who's a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and a Yale and Thames & Hudson author, I have three children who are growing up fast. I treasure the time I have with them (mostly!). The boys and I waste rather too many Saturday afternoons at the Arsenal football stadium in London, hoping unrealistically that our team will start winning trophies again. I play the piano rather badly, but love to hammer away at Bach, Mozart and Chopin. Most summers we camp on the Isles of Scilly, which is just about the most beautiful place in Britain and feels light years away from work. I've been lucky in my life in all kinds of ways and it's great to be able to give things back through the work I have done pro bono with the arts, medicine and freedom of expression. I thoroughly enjoy my role as a Fellow of Wolfson College in Cambridge, too.
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Jabari Parker expressed caution with his words.
Still in a walking boot at practice Wednesday and far from optimal playing shape, Parker said as recently as Friday that he wouldn't rush his return because he didn't want to risk further injury.
The broken bone in his right foot had prevented him from playing since July, after all, so what's a couple more weeks?
Yet when it came time to put inaction into action, the Simeon star and reigning Illinois Mr. Basketball wasn't sitting on the bench.
He was winning the opening tip.
Rusty but effective and still a few pounds north of his pre-injury weight of 235, Parker played 11 minutes more than expected Saturday night, contributing six points and four rebounds to three-time defending state champion Simeon's 56-35 season-opening victory over Milton (Ga.).
"Trying to get a feel again was the biggest thing," said Parker, who gave his performance a D-plus. "I wanted to play because I missed the game so much. I worried about myself for once. I wanted to get out there with the guys and kick off my last year.
"My body feels good. I wasn't gasping for air. The foot feels all right."
When Simeon coach Robert Smith left UIC Pavilion following the Elite Classic's first session Saturday afternoon, he had no intention of putting Parker in the lineup.
But Parker worked out in the morning, felt fine and convinced his mother that he could play after "five to 10" phone calls, according to Smith.
Lola Parker wasn't the only one concerned.
"I asked him a couple times if he's sure," Smith said. "Even when we got to the arena, I wanted to make sure he's OK. Jabari understands what's going on. He wasn't going to play if it was going to jeopardize him long-term."
Simeon went to Parker in the post on its first possession, and he missed a turnaround jumper.
Moments later he turned a spin move into a three-point play, but not long after that, he fell trying to shake a defender off the dribble.
"I was rusty," he said. "Probably when I was 20 pounds lighter I could have done that."


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In this long awaited entry dear reader who is likely only me, I'll aim to educate thee with the above noted two design patterns. I'll highlight Model View Presenter and Model View Controller the latter most typically deployed as web applications and show a few examples of them in action within a windows forms project.
Our focus will be on separating behavioral and synchronization code away from the view into presentation class objects following the Single Responsibility Principal (SRP) coined by Robert C. Martin closely.
Applying these principles will result in the ability for us to test the design in smaller granular increments and also test behavior in isolation. I would recommend reading the views of Fowler on both of these patterns. When all code is self-contained behind the form developers will commonly duplicate common logic throughout the application. This is a definite anti-pattern and a maintenance nightmare.
Model View Presenter
According to the definition in Wikipedia the Model View Presenter is a UI design pattern engineered to facilitate automated unit testing and to improve the separation of concerns in the presentation logic. Furthering on from Wikipedia here are the definitions of each term in the pattern.
- Model – interface that defines the data that will be displayed and acted upon in the UI
- View – interface that displays the data and routes user commands (events) to the presenter for it to act on
- Presenter – acts upon the model and the view retrieving data from repositories (model), persists it and format it for display in the view. Known as the middle-man assuming the same role as served by the Controller in the MVC pattern
Pattern Variations
There are two main variants to this design pattern namely Passive View and Supervising Controller the latter appearing to be used mostly within web applications. With the Passive View interaction with the Model (data) is handled exclusively by the Presenter. The View is updated exclusively by the Presenter. With Supervising Controller the View interacts with the Model for simple data binding and the View is updated by the Presenter via data-binding.
Example – Supervising Controller
Here is a look at the project within Visual Studio. I have moved assemblies into separate projects.
The separation allows us to let the front-end be completely agnostic. We can easily re-use the assemblies easily within with a web project which is flexible and a good thing! This also allows us to freely test the Presentation layer and domain layer for meeting requirements. This example will focus solely on the Supervising Controller.
Here is a screenshot of what we are aiming for. This is not an overly complex UI.
We will send messaging upon the successful completion of a task. When the state is such that success occurs the edit panel will become hidden and the message panel will become visible to the user. This is all handled via a Boolean property contained within the view's interface.
Here is a simple class called Task that will become our Model.
public class Task{public string Name { get; set; }public bool Completed { get; set; }public DateTime StartDate { get; set; }public DateTime CompletionDate { get; set; }public void Save() {}}
Here is the interface that is passed into the constructor of our Presentation layer.
public interface ITaskScreen{string TaskName { get; }bool Completed { get; }DateTime StartDate { get; }DateTime CompletionDate { get; }bool IsTaskSaved { set; }event EventHandler<EventArgs> Save;}
Within the constructor we also wire up the data binding for our domain objects values stored in the form. The ViewSave method will set each of the properties in the Model to the values set in the form. After the save finishes we wire up our message and set the visibility of the two panels within the form to their respective required states.
public class TaskScreenPresenter{private readonly ITaskScreen _view;public TaskScreenPresenter (ITaskScreen view){_view = view;Initialize();}private void Initialize(){_view.Save += ViewSave;}private void ViewSave(object sender, EventArgs e){Task task;try{task = new Task{Name = _view.TaskName,StartDate = _view.StartDate,Completed = _view.Completed,CompletionDate = _view.CompletionDate};task.Save();_view.IsTaskSaved = true;}catch (Exception ex){System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);throw;}}}
The code in the view is very compact and easy to get your head around. Lets have a look at that. The view references only the Presentation layer. This provides us with clear separation of responsibility. The view implements the ITaskScreen interface through the Presentation layer. When the view is loaded we call into the constructor of the Presentation layer through a private instance. The IsTaskSaved property sends messaging back to the UI notifying a successful Save action result.
public partial class TaskUpdate : Form, ITaskScreen{private TaskScreenPresenter presenter;protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e){base.OnLoad(e);presenter = new TaskScreenPresenter(this);}public TaskUpdate(){InitializeComponent();}private void btnSaved_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){if (Save != null){Save(this, EventArgs.Empty);}}public string TaskName{get { return txtTaskName.Text; }}public bool Completed{get { return chkComplete.Checked; }}public DateTime StartDate{get { return Convert.ToDateTime(txtStartDate.Text); }}public DateTime CompletionDate{get { return Convert.ToDateTime(txtCompleteDate.Text); }}public bool IsTaskSaved{set{if (!value) return;pnlEdit.Visible = false;pnlMessage.Visible = true;}}public event EventHandler<EventArgs> Save;}


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Ahhhh vintage, my most fav. theme, and luckily it's Gery & Fiona's fav. theme too, so yes, we had a blast!!
Gery is the brother of one of our client, so we already had a lot of time to really get to know each other. So technically we're friends first before we really have a client-vendor relationship, and that's how we roll.
We don't have a list of clients, but a list of friends instead.
We really adore Gery & Fiona's long distance relationship how they coup with distances and survived all of that and planning to walk the aisle, holding hand together in the wish of having a great family and grow old together.
We wish you a great wedding day!! We'll be there to make sure you remember that day as it is for another hundred years.
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Professor Martin Sharp is visiting Montana State University March 6th. His seminar is at 4.30pm in Gaines Hall 243 in the Earth Sciences seminar series.
Martin is an internationally recognized glaciologist and is currently part of the IPCC Working Group on the Cryosphere. He has recent publications in Science and Nature on his research, see details at http://arctic.eas.ualberta.ca/publications.html
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Like the large ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, the larger ice caps in the Arctic are dynamically complex. They consist of a mixture of fast-flowing outlet glaciers, many of which
reach the ocean, and slower flowing interior regions that tend to terminate on land in cases where they extend all the way to the ice cap margin. Studies of individual outlet glaciers suggest that
they may contain up to 4 distinct "flow regimes", that are characterized by differences in ice temperature, flow mechanics, hydrology, bed properties, and surface morphology. Multi-year
measurements of surface velocity made with continuously recording GPS demonstrate that different flow regimes are characterized by distinct patterns of seasonal velocity variability that
can be explained in terms of differences in the extent to which surface meltwater penetrates to the glacier bed, and the processes by which penetration occurs. Depending upon which flow regime occurs in the terminus region of the glacier, outlet glaciers can differ enormously in terms of the sensitivity of their dynamics and geometry to external forcing. In some cases this may
allow large changes in geometry and dynamics to occur in response to forcings that are essentially undetectable while, in other cases, larger forcings may have no obvious effect. This
suggests that efforts to explain long-term changes in the behaviour of some outlet glaciers and in the rate at which they deliver ice to the oceans by "dynamic discharge" in terms of discernable variability in external forcing factors may prove to be fruitless.
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I remember the first CD that Mr. Dork let me borrow. He said if I ever lost it, he would be very very angry and those flames on the Album art will be my reality. That first Metal CD was the last of Pantera's works. How I treasured "Reinventing the Steel" even if it was for 48 hours.
The next CD that he let me borrow was Metallica's "Load" album. I was in Metal Heaven! Until it sleeps remained in my blood and that has and always will be my favourite Metallica song.
There used to be a radio show dedicated to Rock Music. The DJ always made a point of saying "lock your daughters away – let the hair down – it is time to bring Black the Sabbath". It took me years to decipher that but now I know better, R.I.P Ronnie James Dio. It is because of you I throw the Goat Horns when listening to Iron Man!
Over the years, I met wayward souls who bob their heads in unison and that is how I met the Live Music Society. That distinct group of people gave me something to be very happy about and my Metal knowledge expanded! Running to local Metal shows (Chromium at Die Taphuis!) and even attempting to manage a Metal Band – the Good Days indeed! It is primarily because of the Live Music Society that I have developed such passion for music and I have several people to thank for that including http://furiouslydancing.wordpress.com/
So, how did the Metal start for you?
Yours Truly – The Metal Goat
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.NET Controls: The Color Dialog Box
To provide the selection of colors on Microsoft Windows applications, the operating system provides a common dialog box appropriate for such tasks. The Color dialog box is used for various reasons to let the user set or change a color of an object such as the background color of a control or the color used to paint an object.
When it displays, by default, the color dialog box appears as follows:
This displays a constant list of colors to the user. If none of the available colors is appropriate for the task at hand, the user can click the Define Custom Colors >> button to expand the dialog box:
The expanded Color dialog box allows the user to either select one of the preset colors or to custom create a color by specifying its red, green, and blue values.
The user can change the color in four different areas. The top left section displays a list of 48 predefined colors. If the desired color is not in that section, the user can click and drag the mouse in the multi-colored palette. The user can also drag the right bar that displays a range based on the color of the palette; the user can scroll up and down by dragging the arrow. For more precision, the user can type the Red, Green and Blue values. Each uses a integral value that ranges from 1 to 255.
To support the color dialog box, the .NET Framework provides the ColorDialog class, which is based on the CommonDialog class that is the ancestor to all Windows common dialog boxes of the .NET Framework. To make this dialog box available to the user, you can declare a ColorDialog variable, use the new operator to initialize it. To display the dialog box to the user, call the CommonDialog.ShowDialog() method. Here is an example:
using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Windows.Forms; class Exercise : Form { Button btnColor; ColorDialog dlgColor; public Exercise() { this.InitializeComponent(); } private void InitializeComponent() { btnColor = new Button(); btnColor.Location = new Point(10, 10); btnColor.Click += new EventHandler(btnColor_Click); dlgColor = new ColorDialog(); this.Controls.Add(btnColor); } private void btnColor_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.dlgColor.ShowDialog(); } static int Main() { Application.Run(new Exercise()); return 0; } }
The most important and most obvious property of the Color dialog box is the selected color once the user has made a choice. When the user opens the dialog box, you can set the default color. To set the default color of the dialog box when it displays to the user, assign a valid known name of a color to the ColorDialog.Color property. This would be done as follows:
this.dlgColor.Color = Color.Green;
When the user has finished using the Color dialog box and clicks OK, you can find out what color was selected by using the ColorDialog.Color property.
By default, the Color dialog box comes up in its regular (small) size. This allows the user to select one of the preset colors. If the desired color is not available, as mentioned already, the user can click the Define Custom Colors >> button. If you want to control the user's ability to expand the dialog box, use the Boolean AllowFullOpen property. When this property is set to True, which is its default value, the dialog box appears in its regular size but with the Define Custom Colors >> button enabled. If you want the user to be able to select only one of the preset colors and not have the ability to expand the dialog box, set the AllowFullOpen property to False. With this value, when the Color dialog box comes up, it is in its regular size but the Define Custom Colors >> button is disabled:
As mentioned above, by default, the Color dialog box displays in its regular size. You can control the regular or full size of the dialog using the Boolean FullOpen property. When its value is False, which is the default, the dialog appears regularly. If you want it to appear in its full size, set this property to True.
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WESS Social Sciences and History Discussion Group Meeting
ALA Annual Meeting--Sunday June 26, 2005
1. Louis Reith stood in for David Duncan and called the meeting to order.
2. Announcements: There are two announcements.
WESS-SSH Web: Nothing new to report from the webmaster. Anyone interested in working on a subject page (Political Sciences, Statistics or Geography) should contact
David J. Duncan
Former Chair's addition:
Call for Papers: The "Topics in Medieval Librarianship" panel is looking for presenters. This session which is held at the
International Congress on Medieval Studies
(May 4-7, 2006) focuses on library and book history topics from across the medieval world (Europe, Middle East and Asia). Deadline for submissions is September 15, 2005. Any questions or proposals can be directed to
David J. Duncan
3. Election of Vice-Chair: The assembled members voted to conduct the election of the next vice-chair by email rather than at the meeting. Look for an email announcement on the WESS-SSH listserv.
4. Main Topic: The topic of European vendors was a spirited success as members shared insights, details and experiences
5. Louis Reith adjourned the meeting when discussion had ended.
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The time is here!! Tomorrow is the first day of school and I cannot wait to see my little kinder babies!
They are so excited and happy to be at school that it makes my exhaustion in getting it all ready totally worth it!
I'm linking up with Mrs. Wills Kindergarten for a Peek at my Week for my first week of school. We have a 4 full-day week (I know WHAT??)! So we are just going to do the best we can to truck on through but I know they are going to be so tired!
I try to start curriculum as soon as possible, to not only maximize our time together, but to also get kiddos acclimated to our routines/schedules as fast as possible!!
You can grab a copy of my lesson plans here!
I used a lot of practices from Whole Brain Teaching last year, and am definitely going to be using them even more this year. After meeting my kiddos at screening, I know that I have a loud, active crew and we will need to be engaged as much as possible.
But as you can see, pretty much starting Wednesday, we are into our curriculum! Obviously we'll adjust if necessary :)
Good luck to everyone else starting this week!


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Safety and Compliance is so important to the club that we have dedicated a whole section on this website to it. Indeed, compared to many other clubs, we have many rules in place but it is for this reason why we have been able to fly in Canungra for over 25 years, whilst still maintaining our core sites and a good safety record.
Whether a visiting member of a full time member, we encourage to peruse these pages and familiarise yourself with these rules to avoid disappointment, as we want to maintain minimal disruption to the local community, we want to maintain our high safety record and you going home safely after an epic flight, and we absolutely don't want to lose any of our sites.
Please be aware that in addition to the Safety and Compliance pages on this site, each individual launch site (Tamborine, Beechmont, Hincliffe's and Flying Fox) have their own additional safety notes. Please visit the pages before flying there.
It is up to you as pilot-in-command to establish the most up-to-date legal requirements for flying. This includes but is not limited to Airspace and HGFA restrictions.
Before a safety incident occurs, every member has a duty of care to fellow pilots to guide safety concern to prevent and avoid any safety incident.
For example: Get on the radio; "Hey buddy, you look a little low from here. Risk landing short. You better start heading out to a safe landing option."
If you can witness a safety incident, you have earlier the opportunity to take action to prevent it, and guide safety for everyones benefit. In a minority sport activity we have to stick together and support one another.
To ensure everyone's safety and minimise the risk of losing any of our sites, the CHGC enforces a landing-short Three Strike Rule. If you land in a No-Landing area the following consequences apply.
Please take note of the procedure you MUST follow, should you have a short landing at any of the CHGC sites and the consequences involved with short landings and not following procedure:
Three Strike Rule.
1st Safety Infringement- Incident Report within 7 days OR $50 fine:
You can avoid a fine by completing online form "Report a Safety Incident" OR emailing your respective SSO (Ken Hill – HG, Phil Hystek or Brandon O'Donnell – PG) within one week to explain your decisions that lead to this error. You can use the Report an Incident form on this website to do so.
2nd Safety Infringement in 12 months - written incident report to relevant SSO and a $50 fine paid to the club.
Mandatory one-off payment.
Note: if you do not report this short landing but you reported your first and this one is witnessed and reported by another member/s, you will receive a 2 month ban from flying CHGC sites
3rd Safety Infringement in 12 months - 2 month ban from flying CHGC sites.
If within 12 months of the first infringement, then a 2 month ban from all CHGC site during which time the pilot should seek further training/advice from a SSO or instructor.


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8 RV Parks near Dulles Town Center, Virginia
Countryside, Virginia 0.26 miles NE
University Center, Virginia 2.03 miles NW
Sugarland Run, Virginia 2.18 miles E
Sterling, Virginia 2.27 miles SW
Lowes Island, Virginia 3.75 miles NE
We did however find 8 campgrounds within 25 miles of Dulles Town Center. You can also find a list of cities with campgrounds or RV Parks near Dulles Town Center in the left hand column.
1400 Lake Fairfax Dr Reston, Virginia 20190 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 136 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 46 Reviews
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May 2018 - $40.00
This is a nice little park very conveniently located to DC. There is no water or sewer at the sites, so come prepared! We filled our fresh tank and made it 6 nights without an issue. As others have mentioned, the shower house has 6 individual rooms that are like private bathrooms, except that they're open above so you can hear everything. The fans were never on, but if they could be turned on it would probably help with the humidity. I suspect the showers are hosed down, but lifting up the "handicap bench" disclosed mucky black hair balls that could easily have been cleaned, and it was very slimy! An elevated mat in the dressing area would be nice so you don't have to stand in the water that comes out from the shower or is left from the hosing down. Also, check the water before you undress - some of the showers only trickle (#1) and the water never gets warm! On the other hand, the sinks spray with such force that you are basically showering there with your clothes on, and the water gets so hot you can't rinse your face with it! Seems like a couple of easy fixes are in order there. Overall it's a nice park, wish we could have explored the trails a bit more, but it rained the first 5 days we were there non-stop, so we only had one nice day. We were grateful the campground is on high ground! The dump station is near the shower house and seems easy to access, we'll use it on our way out. All-in-all, it was convenient for us and we would stay again. - Denise and Glenn
Nov 2017 - $42.00
Very convenient location for visiting the DC area. With the recently opened Metro Silver Line, there is a stop only a few miles away. None of the sites have water or sewer, and about half have 50A electric service. The sites are reasonably spaced, and there is little shade. Sat TV and cell service were good. The camping area is high on a hill about a half mile from the lake/water park. The place is quiet on weekdays, but the water park and picnic areas are packed on weekends in the nice weather. - NKA
Oct 2017 - $40.00
We had a large site with plenty of room for our dog to be outside. There were trails for hiking and lots of other activities in the park. People in the office were very friendly and helpful. Dish TV, AT&T cell phones and Verizon MiFi all worked well. We stayed here for a week and enjoyed it tremendously. It was a great base for sightseeing in the immediate area and in D.C. Will definitely stay here again if we are in the area. - Bobbi1948
14004 Shelter Ln Haymarket, Virginia 20169 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 165 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 53 Reviews
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Nov 2018 - $45.00
This was our fourth time to stay at Greenville Farm. It is by far the best RV Park in the DC area, though somewhat rustic. I would say very nice for a working farm. We like the farm setting with cattle, fields, and a pond. It also feels more secure being at the back of the farm. We have made this our home away from home while visiting family in Arlington, and taking in some of the sights in DC. We have learned that the even numbered sites in the first 16 are the most level for our RV. This area is not heavily shaded, so we are able to use our DirecTV satellite. AT&T works fine here even though WIFI is not available. We use the Laundry every time and find it adequate but it could use a little more attention. Washers and dryers all work well. - Texas E-S
Sep 2018 - $41.00
This was an OK campground but our site was not great. It's important to note that there are several sections which are vastly different. We were in the full hookup pull-through section which is just some gravel spots in an open field. The sites are very close together, they face in alternate directions (so you share your camping area with your neighbor), and are on a bit of a hill so it's pretty hard to get level front-to-back. Overall our site was not great but was OK for the few days we were there. There's another camping section further back that doesn't have full hookups, but feels more like a state park campground - heavily wooded, pretty, and natural. The long driveway from the main road to the camp office is narrow (one lane) but newly paved and smooth. We did run into an outbound car on our way in, so the car had to back up to the camp office so we could get by. The road from the office to the full hookup sites is in poor condition (narrow, uneven, and rutted) but manageable. We had good AT&T and Verizon signal, and found plenty of places to walk our dog thanks to the wooded camping area behind our area. We'd stay again in a pinch, but prefer a couple county parks in the area. - LifeRebooted
Oct 2017 - $38.00
Nice quiet park even though all the field sites filled up. When we went for a long walk around the whole campground there where many more sites in the wooded areas but few were full this mid fall weekend. The site appeared to slope a little front to back however I had no problem leveling as I was planning to disconnect anyway. - 2mainiacs
23705 Frederick Rd Clarksburg, Maryland 20871 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 91 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 19 Reviews
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Oct 2018 - $32.00
First of all the site we were given D69 was very unlevel. We are full time RVers and have never come across a site anywhere near that bad at a campground. Other than that the campground is very nice, clean, and quiet. They do however seem to have a very strict check out time as someone knocked on our door 6 minutes after 11, then came by again shortly after as we were getting ready to pull out. We have never had someone basically chasing us out of a campground like that before. - BrittanyFenn
Jul 2018 - $33.00
This is not a regular RV park it is a county park. Located in a forest full of very private places. Verizon WiFi receives good. Good and easy service in the office. Nice and clean place to stay for a longer time. - Obcy
Jul 2018 - $36.00
Roads into the park and inside the park are good. Check in was fast and friendly and they offered area information. The park is well maintained. There is a camp store with your basic needs. Lots of trails for hiking and activities for kids. We were in D-51, a gravel pull through with full hook ups. The site is VERY unlevel no matter where you pull in. We used all of our jack pads and our tires were far off the ground. We needed to buy additional sewer hose to reach the sewer connect. To turn the water on - there is a small ring under the faucet that needs to be pulled down - they didn't tell us this but luckily a neighbor knew what to do! The sites are very large and wooded. It was plenty long enough for our 37-foot Class A, tow-dolly and parking the car. Extremely quiet. It seems they are working on the leveling issues, which would give it a 10 star rating. The laundry room and bathrooms are clean. There is no WiFi. Our Verizon signal was good. We stayed May 28 - June 4, 2018 and paid $36 a night with our Passport America discount. - BarrettsHappyTrails
7700 Bull Run Dr Centreville, Virginia 20121 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 150 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 87 Reviews
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Apr 2019 - $48.00
We stayed two weeks in a 40 foot fifth wheel. This is our fourth stay here and we simply love almost everything about this park. Let's get the almost out of the way...we hate the shotgun range that is on the back side of the park. It seems a shame to have such a beautiful location for camping marred by full days of shotguns going off. Makes it difficult to enjoy sitting outside to watch the flora and fauna. You would be well served to call ahead of time for reservations to be sure you pick a site that will accommodate your rig and connections. Most sites on the full hookup road are pull thru along the road but your connections may be on the wrong side or behind your rig as is the case with site 123. We have been here twice in spring for bluebells and my what a beautiful trail this is. It is such a joy to watch the spring awakening. Also, all three of our bird feeders have visitors all day long. In the fall, you can find PaPas on the same trail. The White Trail is great for an evening stroll and we usually see deer along this trail and even on the back road of the campground. The Water Park is open in the summer. Access roads in the park are fine but they have a few potholes to work on. Do not let your GPS take you in the back way via the special events/shooting center unless the main entrance is flooded. The campground is higher and doesn't "usually" flood. Make sure you have plenty of water, sewer, and electric. Make sure you have appropriate hiking shoes, this is a forest flood plane and it is wet. Visit DC via the Fairfax Vienna metro just 14 miles (45 minutes) away. - Moe and Flo are on the go
Mar 2019 - $36.00
The stay wasn't horrible. Easy in and easy out. The only real negative thing that we experienced were the constant gunshots from the shooting range. - Cljoyce0704
Mar 2019 - $52.00
We stayed here as a jump off to see DC with a friend. Ur site was fairly level, with minor work we were good. The space was very large and was very quiet at night. Water pressure a okay, but did not need a reducer. We would stay here again. - D-Miller
14280 Gardner Manor Pl Gainesville, Virginia 20155 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 140 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 4 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $50.00
This is our second time staying at Hillwood, the first was a 3 year stay, and then this 2 night stay. The camping park is great. It's beautiful, green, and quiet from the minute you drive inside. Trees, a beautiful pond, and flowers make it feel so secluded despite being in the city. The camping park is so reasonably priced for the area. They provide a laundry room, bath house, and mail services. - skisqueen
Jun 2016 - $48.00
This was the worst place I have literally ever been. Filthy!!! Wouldn't recommend this place to anyone. The lady in the office is constantly talking bad about all the people staying at the park. Not a nice person at all and the owner takes no pride what so ever in this park. Lots of full time residents that have tons of old stuff hoarded around the outsides of their campers. This place was just gross! - Kelly from Ga
Sep 2014 - $40.00
This camping park is a blessing. It has the best staff, a beautiful location, and amazing prices!!! It caters to long-term tenants, which I love, no constant in and out. It doesn't have certain perks, pool or playground, but the surrounding area makes up for it! There is a water fountain, a water park, tons of playgrounds, bounce houses, tons for families to do! The sites are well maintained, considering the high level or rain and snow that falls there. The laundry facility does its job, cheap washers and dryers! The bath/shower house isn't perfect, but long-term residents don't need it to be, our campers provide it. There is no problem with security here, as a resident of 3 years, there was 1 incident. I recommend this park to the fullest, I couldn't have been happier anywhere. - skisqueen
7315 Ox Rd Fairfax Station, Virginia 22039 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 100 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 2 Reviews
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Aug 2018 - $28.00
Dry camping only with dump station near camp store and fresh water spigots at restrooms. Probably a great campground for tent camping but sites for RVs are very limited. The few that are level or long enough for an RV may or may not be available when you arrive, since you can't reserve specific sites ahead of time. Roads and sites are gravel/rock/dirt. Recent rains and poor drainage left some roads very pitted and with gullies running through them. Other than that, if you want to dry camp, have a small RV, and can grab an acceptable site (park literature says #'s C1,3,4,5,8 and B1,8,9 are good for up to 30' RVs) then this is really a beautiful place. Very heavily shaded. Near beautiful little lake. Nice walking trails. Lots of activities for kids in general park area (train, carousel, ice cream shop, putt-putt and disc golf). Verizon signal strong. Over-the-air TV antenna brought in plenty of channels. - aowcarol
Sep 2005 - $20.00
This is a nice, small, primarily tent campground that is well maintained by the park authority. We spent one night during Labor Day weekend and there were plenty of sites available. Everyone was tent camping. Smaller trailers could back into some campsites witout too much trouble. All sites are under trees. There are only a few lake side campsites with limited views of the lake. There's a small playground and grassy field. There are 3 fairly clean bathhouses which is plenty for this size campground. A camp store and dump station are at the cg entrance. The main park which is on the other side of the lake has Par 3 golf, mini-golf, frisbee golf, fishing, rowboat rentals, ice cream parlor, carrousel, small train rides, and a good hiking/biking/fitness trail. Private canoes and kayaks are allowed, but no rentals. There is no swimming. You can get to the main park by using the trail. I was the only one who noticed a lot of night road noise from a road outside of the park. Otherwise, the campground was quiet. I'm sure we will return for a full weekend stay. - crazy4sailin
40 Canal Towpath Road Brunswick, Maryland 21716 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 100 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 24 Reviews
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Jun 2018 - $59.00
We made reservations for a campground called Brunswick Family campground. It is located in Brunswick Md an we paid $59.00 for a premium site(well they call it premium) I call it full hook up because we have sewer(we can't use because I don't have 50ft of sewer hose). No cable,no wi-fi, and no over the air channels. To get to the campground you first have to go through the town that has a very narrow two lane road and the town allows parking on the street. Then you have to make a 90 degree right turn in the middle of town,go through the train station and the parking lot for the train station across 8 railroad tracks to the road and then you turn left on a dirt road and go about a mile past the towns water treatment plant. The road has pot holes large enough to have a class a lost in it. You come to the campgroudnd that looks like a cow pasture with water and electric. The sites are gravel and not level at all. The cancellation policy is "too bad" no matter when you cancel but you can stay some other time this year if you can't make it on the day you chose. In all honesty this place needs to be closed down. If I had to rate this I would give it a negative 4 stars I would go negative 5 but the Potomoc River is in the back of the campground. The campground did flood on June 4th and they are trying to clean it up but I the think they should have called the guests and offered to refund the money since it was sonbadly flooded. Oh well it is part of the adventure and live and learn. I guess I better pay more attention to the reviews - TRR
Aug 2017 - $50.00
Streets through town to get to park are very narrow. After you cross railroad tracks, be ready for a really dusty potholed road to campground. Check in was weird - we were given orange bands to display so staff could know we weren't "squatters". Finally got to "campsite" to find electrical and water hookups were at least 50 feet away. Campsite was on the edge of potential water hole if it rained any at all. Tried to get a refund as we decided we were NOT going to stay. Were told refunds had to be approved through general manager at main off-site office. Called and of course he had just left office for the day. We left to find something else. Refund was finally approved 3 days later. All we can really say is: JUST DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT GOING HERE unless you see it first. Best thing that can be said is that the campground is on the Potomac River. - gwvwadc
Apr 2017 - $50.00
My husband and I had planned to stay here for our first overnight stay in our new 26' TT. The drive to the campground was the first issue we ran across. The roads through town to get to the campground were very narrow and it was hard to make turns at stop lights without running up over curbs. Once we got through town and over the railroad tracks, we went down a very narrow gravel road, pass the sewage treatment plant and arrived at the campground entrance. I will say the lot we attempted to setup at had a very nice view overlooking the river. However, it was an extremely unlevel lot and we did not have very good success trying to setup the camper. After ruining one of our stabilizer jacks, we decided to pack up and go down the road to a different campground. - HappyCampers508
7589 Shields Dr Frederick, Maryland 21704 (map) | Click To View Phone
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Oct 2015 - $45.00
This park has easy access and is big rig friendly with level sites, concrete patios, good utilities but is mainly a trailer park with many permanents. As their website describes, $45.00 a night with a three night minimum. Basically the only game in Frederick and is okay if you want three nights. - RJourney
Jun 2011 - $30.00
As others have mentioned, this is not an RV park: it's a mobile home park that added spaces for RVs. It's not very tidy, but it was adequate for what we wanted: to be close to Frederick. Most RV sites are full of people doing contract work in the area for 4-6 months. All spaces are pull-throughs with concrete pads, which was nice as we got a lot of rain. No shade at all. The manager was very helpful and accommodating and he seems to keep a close eye on the park. Lots of restaurants and shopping close by. And while it's not an RV resort, if we return to the area we would stay here again. - mauigirl7254
Mar 2008 - $27.00
This 'park' is NOT a campground. This is a former Mobile Home park that has been 'transitioned' to an RV camp (not campground). The only amenities are a laundry room. No Restrooms, no showers, no playground, no pool, we even have to mow our own grass!! The rates are very high ($800/month) but it does INCLUDE Electric (I have only used my propane sparingly for cooking). The manager is only here on Tues and Thurs from 10:00am-2:00pm. He is a nice guy, but not educated as to how a 'campground' should operate. Everyone here is permanent to semi-permanent and working in the area (Mostly men, very few families). I plan to be here until Jan 2010, when my husband hopes to return to the US (from working in Abu Dhabi, UAE) and we can finally retire and take off! The one thing that attracts people to this camp is the location. It is in the heart of Frederick, MD close to EVERYTHING! Very convenient location. - onthecoach


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For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function.
Romans 12:4
"It's not my job." Often spoken as an escape from doing extra work, this expression can come from a positive perspective as well. If we interpret the 'members in one body' as a family, we learn that family members each have their own job to do. Romans 12:4 has a message for over zealous parenting: step aside when a child has work to do. Children's lives have purpose, and it's their own responsibility to live a life fulfilled.


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Year 9 Australia Exchange
The Australia Exchange programme has been running successfully for over twenty years. The school has well-established links with Carey Baptist Grammar School in Melbourne. At the end of Year 8, pupils are able to apply. The following are required:
- an application form
- a personal profile
- a letter (see below for details)
- a collage of photographs of you, your family and the outside and inside of your house
In addition, parents need to read and sign the Agreement and General Information.
For any pupil wishing to be considered, they must have an outward going personality, an excellent school record and good organisation to catch up with work upon their return.
The exchange takes place over two six-week blocks. The St. Aidan's pupils will go to Australia for six weeks in March/April and the Australians will return for six weeks in May/June.
Please note, all applications must consist of an application form, a letter of application and a personal profile and must be typed, together with a collage of photographs that is no larger than A3 size.
Letter Of Application
The letter must be written by the pupil applying for the exchange.
The letter should outline the reasons why the pupil wants to participate in the exchange. It should include personal qualities, any relevant experiences or travel, how he/she copes away from home, how to deal with a problem and what is necessary to make a reciprocal exchange successful.
The letter should be approximately 300 words. Please note that your letter and application form will be sent to the host school in Australia and your potential host family.


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Despite concerns over the health of the global financial economy, 2016 appears to be a growth and technology-centric year, especially for professional services such as medical practices, legal firms, accountancy companies, and mobile home improvement, among many others. Most households consume professional services rather often. Based on recent studies, the top 4 trends that are likely to shape the professional services sector this year are:
1. Technology
Technology has progressively adapted over the last few decades. Every year, new tools, platforms are discovered that help professionals such as doctors, lawyers, dentists, etc. cultivate more user-convenient service delivery platforms. In the 1990s, when the Internet appeared to be a complicated technology used by the Department of Defense and some highly technical firms, professionals rely had to rely on conventional marketing approaches to pitching their products. Nowadays, the majority of doctors, lawyers, and accountants have websites that they use to attract customers. Research suggests that over 70 percent of users will turn to the internet to check out a business before they engage it. Cultivating a vibrant online presence appears to be the way to go for service vendors. Particularly in the accounting industry, online cloud and mobile platforms are transforming the way things are done. Software is being used to do the heavy-lifting, changing how clients consult, and freeing up time for accounts to be true advisors. Over 95% of legal firms invested in IT to enhance efficiency in 2015. This year, more lawyer practices are adopting technology that allows them to securely share client information online.
2. Alternative Business Structures
These are an increasingly evident trend, perhaps motivated by the increase in technology use. At least 5 percent of legal services are no longer provided by traditional law firms today. Professional services firms are seeing the possibility of external investment. For instances, law firms that bring in outside investors are increasingly able to hire top talent, increase revenue, boost profitability and more so expand. Alternative business structures are making this happen, and changing the market in the process. Integrated client solutions are getting into the picture, where customers get a specific service as part of a wider offering.
3. Employee Engagement
Today, over 80 percent of professionals firms consider employee engagement and culture to be a major priority. In 2016, focus on this is likely to increase, given that committed and engaged employees are the core of workplace success.
4. The rise of Millennials
There's a notable trend in that millennials are beginning to dominate modern workplace culture. The new generation of professionals is bringing in unique business knowledge and other skills to help the client at another level. Skilled young professionals are moving into more leadership roles.
These trends depict a positive year for the professional sector. Continued growth, increase in the advancement of technology and the weight of millennials continuously attract positive energy to this industry. Individuals and firms who are in this sector can learn a few things from these developments, and adapt accordingly to make their businesses more competitive.


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[REVIEW] Professional Android 4 Application Development – Reto Meier
I have just finished this wonderful technical book about android programming and I think that can be a good idea sharing personal my impressions with you.
In the past two years I have red some Italian books written by Massimo Carli, finding them useful for a base approach. Growing my thirst for knowledge I have encountered Reto's work that in my opinion offers a more complete and wider view about this powerful platform.
The book is structured in 19 chapters those present to you a deep overview on all platform features. The most important feature that I have found particularly interesting is the attention provided by the author in teaching step by step through examples. This is a very important point that many teachers and writers forget when they have to write a book because they think that's better talking in a smoky enchanted way than educate easily and directly the readers.
The author during these chapters provide a full set of examples, related in most of case to an app that reports earth quakes, that grows in page by page involving features, concepts and abstractions like:
- Intents, IntentFilters and Pending Intents
- Activities, Services and Receivers
- Maps and Geolocation
- Threads and AsyncTasks
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In just 21,84€, a very competitive price for the contents, you can purchase an ebook that's too intuitive and expressive for new developers but at the same time for the more expert ones. I have personally bought my ebook on Amazon but if you prefer you can find it on other stores like Wrox or directly in Google Play.
See you next time, maybe with a tutorial 🙂
[REVIEW] I love my Kindle Touch
Two weeks ago I have received my first Kindle Touch that I had pre-ordered on Amazon in the middle of the past month. I was so curious and so tired to use my laptop or phone to read books that I have used some of my savings to buy this new instrument.
It has immediately started to amaze me for its simplicity and elegance in the design but at the same time in reading. The ink touch screen is one of the best screen that allows readers to read as on a real book but with some advantages those make this E-book read fantastic. These are the main features of the Kindle Touch version those increase the pleasure of read books and magazines:
- Pinch to zoom to increase or decrease text sizes
- Interline and font style choice
- A fast way to add notes with a touch keyboard
- A nice translator and extracts sharer
- Fast scrolling between pages and chapters
- Inner prototype browser
- Mp3 player to relax your readings
- Up to two months of battery (I hope :P)
I think that it's a great device not only to read but also to write and to annotate your books. Many people say that it's so uncomfortable and different reading on a pc or laptop but I'm sure that with a Kindle you'll found a good compromise. I didn't choose the basic Kindle version because on my books I usually put a lot of notes and highlits: for those reasons the touch version with touch keyboard is more useful.


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Here at Scrap Car Sockburn we collect vehicles free of charge throughout Sockburn (DL1), North Yorkshire. Having a car that is a non runner can be a real problem you will still be expected to keep the vehicle taxed if it is still on the road. You don't have to pay to have your car collected. We will tow your old car for free!
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How to scrap your car
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The car scrappage scheme
The car scrappage scheme may at first seem like a fantastic idea. However, you are limited in what type of new car you can buy. You can't just go out and purchase any vehicle you want This can cause people a lot of misery as you might have your heart set on a particular car only to be told that, "the vehicle is not in the scrappage scheme".
Reasons to scrap your car
There will be many reasons for you to scrap your car. In our experience the most common reason of all is that the vehicle has failed its MOT and the required work to repair it is simply too expensive. Your car may not work but if it is on the road it still needs to be taxed, costing you a lot of money
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Bitcoin has big challenges ahead, but it also has big promise. While the economic rationale from leveraging Bitcoin commercially is sound, the success of Bitcoin will ultimately be driven by its traction in a single market – the Black Market.
Many speculate that Bitcoin will gain mass adoption in volatile economies. That said, the largest economy that has a pain point Bitcoin can address is the one you don't see every day. The Black Market may seem like the stuff of movies, but it's real. And it's big. From narcotics to software piracy, a lot of money is exchanging hands without governments being involved. Economists have long debated the size of this market. Author Robert Neuwirth estimates this market to be $10 Trillion in size. That's trillion – with a 'T'. The largest national economy in the world by nominal GDP, the United States, is valued at $15.7 Trillion dollars. That would make the Black Market economy the second largest in the world.
By definition, the participants in this economy need anonymous currency. Today, they use mediums like cash and gold. Wouldn't it be great if they had a digital equivalent? Enter Bitcoin. If Bitcoin can capture 10% market penetration by making life easier for System D residents, that will make the market for Bitcoin nearly $1 Trillion US. This is nearly 1000X times the size of the existing market for Bitcoin today. More interestingly, perhaps, is that market would be almost as large as the sum total of all US Dollars in circulation today.
According to Neuwirth, this shadow economy – sometimes called System D – employs over 1.8 billion people world-wide. This is nearly half of the working population. If you assume that the participants in System D will interact with other folks in the 'light economy' that means Bitcoin will also have a lot weight behind it from legal vendors hoping to cash in from customers 'living' in System D. This could push Bitcoin over the edge and make the market for these digital bits larger than that of the US Dollar.
It will be interesting to watch how Bitcoin adoption plays out in this market. Today the Bitcoin market is nearly $1.4 billion – roughly the size of the economy of Belize. It has a ways to go in value before it hits the mainstream, but if I were Ben Bernake, I'd definitely keep an eye on it.


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A new section in the Windows Azure technical library called "Real World Windows Azure Guidance," which features articles written by MVPs and other members of the community is introduce. The articles provide useful information based on real-world experience with Windows Azure.
The first article in this section Real World: Startup Lifecycle of a Windows Azure Role was written by Cory Fowler, a Windows Azure MVP. Cory's article explains how role startup works in the Windows Azure so that you know what to expect when you deploy an application.
[Source: Windows Azure team blog]


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